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Theory	Citations	Notes
Usutu did not have the ability of precognition. He gained it artificially.	None.	+ Matt seems to enter a trance after consuming Usutu's paste, and then listening to Usutu's Walkman. Usutu might use the same paste to make his drawings. (I Am Become Death) - Usutu has not been shown eating his own paste. + After death, Usutu seems to be 'passing on' his gift of precognition to Matt somehow. Thus, it is likely that Usutu originally got his ability artificially from an older precog.
Part of Usutu's ability is to allow others to experience his visions.	Matt has a vision of the future after eating Usutu's paste and listening to his walkman. (Episode:I Am Become Death)	- Since Usutu's visions have been mainly focused on Matt, perhaps only Matt is able to experience them. This might also only be possible because of Matt's telepathy. + The food and walkman may only be necessary to put Matt's mind in the right state of consciousness, much like Isaac's heroin, but Usutu is able to access his ability without them. Matt may have to be in Usutu's presence to channel his vision. - The turtle may be giving Matt his vision and not Usutu. • The turtle is not present in Trust and Blood when Matt has numerous visions. • The turtle may still be connected, as Matt hadn't been seperated from the turtle that long. Now that he's been away from the turtle, the power appears to be fading. Cold Wars was the last time Matt used precognition.
Usutu's mention of "the dark son rises" is a reference to Gabriel or Peter.	Usutu speaks this in Eris Quod Sum.	+ This is potentially double-speak, and literally could mean the "Dark Son" - He could have said "sun" and not "son", meaning an eclipse. - It could also refer to Nathan, who is Peter's brother, turning "dark". Nathan "rises" when he uses his ability to fly. - Or it could mean Nathan rising to power, not flying. (A Clear and Present Danger) - Nathan has turned good again. (Cold Snap) + It could be symbolic of Sylar (the dark son) rising to goodness, like an ascension to the ways of a hero. - Sylar is not the son of Arthur as previously thought, and he did not rise to "goodness". • Sylar may not be Arthur's son, but he is still someone's son and it's an important part of his character. + Sylar did take a path of redemption until Arthur (Eris Quod Sum) and Elle (The Eclipse) manipulated him and he decided he was meant for a path evil (The Eclipse). He even showed Peter and the Haitian mercy (also in the second part of The Eclipse), and spared Luke Campbell not just once, but twice more when it no longer visibly benefitted his goal. - Episodes Dual, Cold Snap and Turn and Face the Strange have all suggested that Sylar has embraced a path of evil permanently.
Usutu is not dead.	None.	+ Arthur could have been putting images in Hiro's and Ando's minds, just like Matt did with Knox. + Arthur wanted to recruit Usutu and use him for his own personal need. - Arthur saw Usutu as a threat. He probably did not want him alive. - Arthur already had precognition; he did not need another precog.
Usutu let Arthur kill him for a reason.	None.	+ Usutu can see the future. It would be possible that he can see that letting Arthur kill him would be for the greater good. + This would be parallel to Isaac in Season One, where he painted his death by Sylar's hand and so accepted it, seeing it through the scope of all the events he saw. - Why would he scream and be shocked? + So was Isaac. + Because he was having his head ripped off. - Arthur is much stronger than Hiro was. Usutu would need more than a shovel to stop him.
Usutu was a robot who was created by Mohinder Suresh after his dad died.	None.	+ Mohinder felt lonely, so he created Usutu to help him after Chandra died, and gave Usutu the ability to see the future so that Mohinder could see into it to see if anything else bad was going to happen to him or his family. - We probably would of heard of Usutu in season one. + There's a lot of things that happened in season one that we haven't heard of, like Sylar, Noah, and Elle, Flint and Meredith, etc. - Mohinder would have made Usutu look more like his dad because he has the stuff to do that. • No one is in any position to make definite statements about a character's intentions. - Usutu never mentioned Mohinder. • It's possible Usutu is not aware of this. - Usutu's decapitated head and neck were bloody. + Mohinder might have just made Usutu to be incredibly realistic. - Robots can't get abilities. • So a robot that can create fire or possess incredible strength is completely out of the question? - Those are not the same as precognition. A robot can make an educated guess about the outcome of certain actions using mathematical algerithms. They cannot, however, paint an image accurately depicting the actions of human beings down to every last detail. - Mohinder is a geneticist; it's unlikely he can create artificial intelligence.
Usutu is a spirit guide.	In Dual, Matt sees him after Daphne and Hiro return.	- Usutu was visibly beheaded by Arthur in It's Coming, suggesting a physical body. • Matt might have been telepathically connected to Usutu when he died, allowing him to experience Usutu's ghost through visions.
Usutu is still alive.	He was seen at the end of Dual.	- It could be a vision of some sort. - He had his entire head ripped off.
Usutu has some connection to Uluru.	None.	+ Their names are very similar. - So are Matt Neuenberg's and Matt Parkman's.
Usutu is actually a powerful telepath as well as a precog. He used this ability to stage his own death.	None.	+ He continues to appear to Matt even following his death, in a manner highly similar to how Linderman appeared to Daphne and Nathan. This Linderman was in fact a telepathically induced hallucination. + His ability to induce precognition in others is unexplained. Perhaps he 'places' these visions into their minds using telepathy. • Matt might have been telepathically linked to Usutu during his death, causing Matt to see his ghost in the form of visions.