Theory:Red

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Fan Theories

• The use of the color red is sprinkled thoughout the series in a very similar fashion to the way it was used in the the movie "The Sixth Sense" . In the movie, each scene containing red indicated the scene contained a ghost.

Examples

• School colors at Union Wells (lockers, signs, varsity jackets, football uniforms) (most common school color in the USA, since red is a national color)
  • Claire's cheerleader uniform
  • Brody's jacket
  • Claire's hooded shirt in Genesis
• Nathan's political campaign (Red and Blue are standard colors in USA politics)
  • Nathan's campaign signs
  • Nathan's tie
• People
  • Charlie's hair and apron (especially when depicted by Isaac) (Charlie is a red-head, hense the red hair)
• Clothing
  • Peter's hooded sweatshirt in Genesis
  • Hiros' shirt when he teleports to Times Square
  • Mohinder's mother's sari (Red is a common Indian color)
  • The sash on Mira's sari (Red is a common Indian color)
  • Niki's blouse
  • Micah's shirt
  • Charles Charles Deveaux's pajamas
  • Lori's outfit
• Objects
  • The tape on teleportation
  • Simone's umbrella when kissed Peter in the rain
  • Isaac's painting of the boiling water
  • The title of Hiro's 9th Wonders! comic book
  • The curtains behind Niki in her video
  • Matt's radiation detector badge when interviewing Ted (Red/Green is safety standard in USA)
  • The numbers on the clock when Hiro teleports from the subway (LCD displays use diodes that emit in the red spectrum, industry standard)
  • The stop sign when Peter punches Nathan (who is wearing a red tie) (In the USA, all stop signs are red)
  • The stapler Lyle uses on Claire in Nothing to Hide
• Blood (Hemoglobin in human blood makes it turn red when exposed to oxygen)
  • Blood in the Isaac's painting (especially Peter's depiction of Claire getting debrained)
  • The bloody footprints Hiro finds (in Don't Look Back) in Isaac's apartment where Isaac was murdered