| Hiro did not kill Sylar because he used Ando's sword |
None. |
+ Issac's comic showed Hiro stabbing Sylar with the Kensei sword.
+ Isaac's paintings did not always come true because of changes made by the characters.
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| Matt will be killed off. |
Matt is left near death after Sylar turned his own bullets against him. While he is still barely alive and on the way to a hospital at the end of How to Stop an Exploding Man, it is possible he may die off-camera before Season 2 formally starts. |
+ Greg Beeman stated in his blog that some main characters were indeed killed in How to Stop an Exploding Man.
- These characters could be Thompson, Nathan, and possibly Peter, Sylar, and D.L. Linderman was killed off at the end of Landslide but his death was shown in the "Previously on Heroes" section.
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| Nathan might have impregnated Niki when they met in Collision. |
None. |
• Nathan is Claire's father, so he has impregnated an evolved human before.
• The child of Nathan and Niki might have powers.
- No child was evident in Five Years Gone.
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| Nathan might still be alive after flying Peter to the upper atmosphere (How to Stop an Exploding Man) |
None |
+ Nathan can fly at supersonic speeds; it would be plausible that he could fly faster than a nuclear explosion.
+ Peter had gained Niki's power of enhanced strength; it is possible that he also gained her "ability" to rescue her sister's soul from death, if indeed that is the cause for Jessica's presence in Niki's mind. Nathan, despite dying, could have "jumped" into Peter in a similar fashion.
+ Nathan could have flown really high, dropped Peter, and flown away before the explosion even occurred.
+ Nathan can fly at supersonic speeds without having his body/skin torn apart by the heat and radiation that supersonic flying caused. Thus, he might be able to withstand Peter's radiation.
+ Peter is capable of passing on his power to those that he touched. It's likely that he can extend his regeneration to Nathan as long as he hold onto his brother.
+ In the latest Behind the Eclipse (link contains spoiler about both Petrelli brothers), some Heroes writers provided a clue in regards to Nathan's fate in season 2. This information comes a few weeks after Greg's post in the blog, which suggests that it's a more recent development.
- Peter had to focus all his power on containing the explosion, which was why Nathan had to do the flying in the first place. He didn't know exactly when he was going to explode, so he couldn't just let Nathan fly away a few seconds before it happened.
- • It is at least theoretically possible, however, that once Peter and Nathan got to a high enough point where they knew that even if it took him a few more seconds to explode, the city would be safe, Nathan let go and flew off.
- Greg Beeman stated in his blog that some main characters, whose deaths were implied though not seen, were indeed killed in How to Stop an Exploding Man.
- • In the May 23rd edition of Ask Ausiello at TVGuide.com, Ausiello is asked if either Peter and Nathan are returning next season, and he provides a direct answer. (I am not stating the answer to avoid inadvertently spoiling something on the show.) The above link will take you to the column, and the question is the 4th one from the top.
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| Nathan has some sort of enhanced hearing. |
None |
+ When Peter is on the verge of exploding, Claire points her gun at him and says tearfully "Please tell me there's another way!" to which Peter responds "There is no other way." Nathan then flies in from some several miles above the ground (and was presumably several blocks away when Peter said his line) and says to Claire "Yes there is, Claire." (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
- This is likely there for the dramatic effect.
- The episode commentary for this scene suggests that the shot of Nathan flying into the city was not scripted or storyboarded, meaning that the scene was originally to play out with Nathan simply appearing in front of Claire such that he could've heard her. The shot of Nathan flying in was a "safety shot" to ensure the audience knew how Nathan had arrived from out of nowhere and almost assuredly wasn't meant to set up an advanced hearing power.
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| Peter is Linderman's son, through an affair with Angela Petrelli. Linderman is likely unaware of this, and believes Peter to be a full Petrelli. |
None. |
+ Peter went into nursing, when none of his other relatives did so. Austin/Linderman was also a medic and has the power of healing.
+ Nathan and Peter look little alike and from what we have seen of Mr. Petrelli, we know that he looks a lot like Nathan.
- However, Peter and Nathan share the same dark hair. The other dissimilarities between Peter and Nathan could simply be explained by the fact that Milo Ventimiglia and Adrian Pasdar are not related.
+ The discovery of his wife's affair with Linderman, could have been the initiative it took Mr. Petrelli to go against the company and attempt to testify against Linderman- and it may have been the root of his depression.
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| Peter's power is empathy. This would give him the ability to channel powers and would explain his prophetic dreams about Nathan, and explain how he knows what he felt. |
None. |
+ According to Tim Kring: "Peter’s [power] is based on his empathy and his ability to connect with people and when he’s around them."
+ This would also match the theory that their abilities are based on their personalities...or personality on abilities. Peter became a nurse to help people, so gaining empathy would just further his wanting to help.
+ Claude said that Peter was an Empath.
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| Peter has some unknown additional power that is or causes these dreams and blackouts. |
None. |
- According to the writers, each character has only one innate power.
+ The dreams could come from another person whose ability Peter absorbed without realizing it.
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| Peter's dreams come from his mimicking his mother's power. |
None. |
+ Since it looks like the first ability he has mimicked, it would have to be from someone that is always around him. Angela would fit the bill.
- There is no solid evidence yet that Angela Petrelli has a power.
- + Ask Ausiello revealed that she has a power.
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| Peter's dreams come from mimicking the powers of Charles Deveaux. |
None. |
+ Peter was getting prophetic dreams before he encountered many others. He shared a "goodbye dream" with Charles, where Peter showed him he could fly. (Nothing to Hide)
- Peter's first vision occurred six months ago, long before he began working for Charles Deveaux. (Six Months Ago)
+ Charles Deveaux's affiliation with Angela indicates that he may have been around Peter long before Peter became his nurse, though Peter may not have known it at the time. (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
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| Peter's prophetic dreams come from his empathy mixing with Isaac's power. |
None. |
+ Before meeting Isaac, Peter's dreams were limited to sensing the feelings of people Peter was close to, such as Nathan and Charles Deveaux. After meeting Isaac, Peter began to dream of people he had yet to meet.
- Peter's dreams had premonition qualities before he met Isaac.
- Peter's dreams and Isaac's ability have very dissimilar characteristics.
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| Peter can share his duplicated powers with non-powered people, through an empathic connection. |
None. |
- Simone would not be dead if this was the case.
+ In Landslide, Peter grabs Claire and is able to render her invisible, despite her not having that ability.
- - This may be a function of the power being duplicated, though, as Niki is phased by D.L. during the same episode.
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| Peter's vision of himself exploding may not be a prophecy; it may be form of empathic communication, like some of his other dream experiences seem to be. |
His dream about Charles Deveaux was not prophetic. (Nothing to Hide) His dream about Nathan and Heidi's accident occurred at the same time Peter was asleep. (Six Months Ago) |
+ If so, Peter is wrong to think he will be the cause of the explosion.
- In Godsend, more of Peter's vision is seen, including scenes with Claude laughing while stealing money. These portions of Peter's vision, at least, have definitely proven to be prophetic.
- Peter's dream of him jumping off a building had premonition qualities.
- In an interview, Tim Kring states, "he's had dreams before, and they've had premonition qualities to them."
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| Future Hiro contacted Peter because Peter is the only person who can hold a conversation with him while he has stopped time. |
By duplicating Claude's invisibility power, Peter made himself immune to it. (Godsend) |
+ Peter's experience with Claude supports the theory. Duplicating Hiro's space-time manipulation power may have a similar effect.
- Claude is able to see an invisible Peter, so it's not Peter's power that allowed him to see an invisible Claude.
• It is still unclear whether Future Hiro has enough control of his power to exclude other people from the time-stopping effect, although he has shown that he can teleport other people with him, suggesting that he may well be able to allow others to move when time is stopped as well.
- + If Hiro was able to selectively exclude others from the time-freeze, then keeping time frozen during the jailbreak in Walls, part 1 would not mean he and Peter would "have to drag out a lot of stiff time-frozen bodies".
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| Peter mimicked the power of suggestion from Eden McCain. |
While Peter visited Mohinder Suresh's apartment while Eden McCain was present, there is no indication that he duplicated her suggestion power. However, they were in the same room for some time. (Collision) |
+ Eden could use her power at her discretion; it's possible Peter duplicated it and simply didn't know how to activate it.
+ Additionally, the fact that Peter was able to convince Mohinder to visit Isaac, but later fail to do it again may suggest that Peter tapped into Eden's power, but later did not.
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| Peter is the character who is killed off this season. |
None. |
+ Tim Kring mentioned that one of the main characters would be killed off, and that Peter was a possibility.
+ If this is so, and the explosion is caused by an overload of powers that Peter can not control, then the sword that Hiro needs may be a way to stop it—by killing Peter.
+ Claude punches Peter during his vision, indicating that Peter's powers can be rendered useless if he is unable to focus on them. (Distractions) If he is overloaded and can not control them, he would not be able to regenerate after being killed.
+ Peter "dies", but "not in the way you think" because he is resuscitated when Claire removes the glass shard from the back of his head.(.07%)
- Peter may have died during How to Stop an Exploding Man but his mother seemed to believe that, thanks to Claire, he would be able to survive The Explosion. It is possible that Peter may survive into Season 2.•
- • In the May 23rd edition of Ask Ausiello at TVGuide.com, Ausiello is asked if either Peter and Nathan are returning next season, and he provides a direct answer. (I am not stating the answer to avoid inadvertently spoiling something on the show.) The above link will take you to the column, and the question is the 4th one from the top.
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| Peter absorbs personalities as well as powers as a result of having to "feel" another person's presence in order for absorption. |
None. |
+ In his fight with Isaac, Peter displays an "evil", aggressive nature to him when he uses his telekinetic abilities, which likens to that of Sylar. Peter, being empathetic, needs to experience another person's "essence" in order to use their abilities. Being around Sylar invoked fear and chaos, so using Sylar's powers would inevitably cause Peter to have violent tendencies.
- Peter, when stopping Claude's broomstick or dropping the taser gun's darts, did not have a violent outburst.
- • Peter was getting angry because of all the hit he got from Claude and he did had a angry look on his face when he finally blocked the staff.
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| Peter can mimic non-superhuman abilities of others. |
None. |
+ Peter initially seemed only able to draw stick figures, but is able to paint similarly to Isaac when close to him.
- In How to Stop an Exploding Man, when Sylar uses Isaac's power he sees the event on the canvas in the form of a picture already - the painting takes no exceptional skill, it is just tracing the lines and filling in the colors.
• If this is the case then Sylar must be able to absorb non-superhuman abilities as well, as he can paint as well as Isaac or Peter.
• If this was the case surely Sylar would be killing good writers or watchmakers or other skilled people, to gain their abilities.
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| Peter's abilities reside in the long-term memory portion of his brain and are not a part of his genetic code. His empathic powers are therefore susceptible to the Haitian's ability. In contrast, Sylar changes his genetics with each power theft. |
None. |
+ By the end of Unexpected, Peter demonstrates he has the power to dominate any foe. Unbridled, his powers will only increase. Peter's powers must be abated for there to be any suspense in a Peter vs. anyone duel.
- However, just like all powers, it seems an individual cannot use their own power against themselves. If Peter were around the Haitian, he would mimic his ability, meaning he would be immune to his powers, similar to the way in which he can see Claude when Claude is invisible.
- Mohinder has explicitly said to Peter that his ability comes from his DNA's ability to re-sequence itself to mimic that of others, almost like an "automatic" version of Sylar's genetic manipulation.
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| Peter Petrelli has absorbed all of Sylar's obtained abilities. |
None. |
+ In an interview with the show's creators and writers, they stated that Peter has absorbed all of Sylar's abilities.
• He is probably unaware of these powers because he has to concentrate on a power to use it and he does not know what powers Sylar has stolen apart from telekinesis and liquefaction.
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| In the original timeline (Nov 8, 2007), Peter Petrelli mimicked density manipulation from one of the Moab prison ambush agents. |
Graphic Novel snapshot:
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+ In this scene from Walls, Part 2, everyone is accounted for except for Peter and the agent with enhanced speed.
+ The agent looks to be stepping backwards (not running), and the silhouette for Peter resembles the image of the larger ambush agent.
+ If Peter was using enhanced speed, the artist would have drawn jet-trails to indicate this.
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| Peter Petrelli's name is a reference to the many Marvel characters having first and last names that begin with the same letter. |
None. |
+ Many of the Marvel comics characters have names beginning with the same letter (e.g. Peter Parker, Reed Richards).
+ The show's writers have referenced popular culture with other character names: Claude Rains is a reference to the original actor to play a character who was invisible.
- Tim Kring does not read comics.
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| Peter did not die when he exploded. (How to Stop an Exploding Man) |
None. |
+ Nathan definitely believed it, as he said exactly that several times.
+ Heroes have been shown to be immune to their own powers. Ted was immune to his own radiation. Peter would be immune to the explosion.
+ Peter still has Claire's regeneration.
• Peter's survival would require him to either regain consciousness and fly, consciously use Telekinesis to slow his fall, teleport, or land in such a way as to avoid injury to or the obliteration of his skull and brain.
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| Claude taught Sylar how to control his powers. |
When Peter Petrelli asked Claude if he had trained anyone else, Claude gave him a look and then blew off the question without providing an answer one way or another. (The Fix). |
- It is unlikely that Claude taught Sylar, since Sylar would have simply killed Claude to gain the power of invisibility.
- It is also unlikely that Sylar could have been able to see Claude, as it seems the only way to see him is to posses Claude's powers.
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| Claude was part of a former generation of heroes from the seventies and eighties. Because of this, he has trained or been trained by members of the last generation. |
None. |
+ Claude appears to be in his 40's which is far beyond the ages of the other heroes (all of whom are between 11 and 35).
+ His comment "Oh, one of those" may indicate that he has experience hunting down and training someone who has empathic power absorption- and as a possible former hunter, knows what's at stake if Peter doesn't control his power.
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| Claude trained the Haitian in how to use his abilities better. |
None. |
+ It appears Claude may have trained other evolved humans in how to use their powers.
+ Claude's history with The Company is confirmed in Company Man.
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| Claude is Patient Zero. |
None. |
+ Chandra Suresh was looking for Patient Zero, two days before he was murdered by Sylar. Claude appears to have had a power far longer than any other character. This could indicate he was the first person to have developed powers. Chandra was looking for Patient Zero in New York, and Claude's invisibility would make him hard to find.
- Chandra's journal indicates that he had tracked more than five persons he believed to have powers; at least one of them, the Bangladeshi woman, was much older than Claude.
- The term "Patient Zero" indicates that this is some sort of infection, rather than a genetic mutation. For there to be a patient zero in this case, taking into account the incredibly high number of people and families from across the globe who are discovering super-powers--not to mention the fact that this is a cross-generational phenomenon--that person would need to be hundreds of years old and intertwined in the lives of each family. While this could be Linderman, it is unlikely, seeing as we have seen him age from being young to old.
- Sylar dossier states that Chandra termed Sylar his "Patient Zero."
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| Claude removed the tissue containing the tracking mechanism that was planted in his back by the Company. |
None. |
+ Claude may have had an "old school" device rather than a radioactive isotope. Technology has bound to have changed. The radioactive isotope used to track could be a relatively new method adopted after Claude dropped off the grid.
+ His scar looked like a crater, as if something had been burned out of his body.
+ Claude says that Peter led them straight to him.
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| The evolved human Claude was protecting was a character with whom we're already familiar. |
Claude was shot for allegedly protecting an evolved human. (Company Man) |
+ It seems likely given the show's penchant for character connections, that whomever Claude was protecting is one of the current roster of characters.
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| Claude was protecting a young Sylar. |
Claude was shot for allegedly protecting an evolved human. (Company Man) |
- It seems unlikely that Gabriel Gray's initial ability would have been detected so early, especially when Chandra could not detect it using modern medical equipment that can detect telepathy (such as the equipment measuring the resting rates of Matt).
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| The evolved human Claude was protecting was either Charles Deveaux or his daughter, Simone. |
None. |
+ Claude showed no interest in training Peter until he mentioned in passing that he had taken care of Charles Deveaux. Claude's hangout is on the roof of Deveaux's building.
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| Claude was protecting Meredith. |
None. |
+ Tim Kring said Claude and Meredith would have a connection, and it's possible that he found her later after the fire or was even him who suggested Meredith to create the fire and play dead.
+ It has been stated by the writers that the person he was protecting is "...someone we know."
- Claude was sent to bag and tag Meredith (Trial By Fire).
- + Bennet was sent to bring Claire in to the Company, and arranged to have the Haitian stage a attempted murder and kidnapping. This does not rule out that Claude could have Meredith do the same thing.
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| One of the pigeons on the Deveaux's building roof is an animorph, and the evolved human who Claude was protecting. |
None. |
+ The only thing that worried Claude were the pigeons.
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| Claude trained the man who Molly called worse than the boogeyman. |
None. |
+ We know Claude trained someone who he considered dangerous.
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| Claude was invisible at the Kirby Plaza and he took a moribund Sylar with him into the sewer. |
Claude appears among the other heroes in Peter's vision of his own explosion. (Godsend) |
+ All the heroes from Peter's vision happen to be seen at the Plaza when he is about to explode (How To Stop An Exploding Man), except for Claude, and all of Peter's dreams have something prophetic about them.
- Isaac and Simone also appear in Peter's vision, but are dead by the time Peter really explodes, so Claude is not the only one "missing" there.
- Molly didn't appear in Peter's vision but appears in the real explosion scene.
• Sylar may have been the person Claude was protecting.
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| Claude Rains is not his real name. |
None. |
+ When Peter Petrelli asks him who he is, he states, "I'm Claude Rains, the invisible man." Now, for someone who doesn't want to be found, doesn't it seem unlikely that he would right away divulge his full name to a complete stranger? It seems more like he was being witty and referring to himself as the actor who played the Invisible Man in the original 1933 film.
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| Sparrow Redhouse will be a regular in season two. |
None. |
+ Season Two will feature an Asian woman and she has some Asian features in String Theory.
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| She will be Hiro's love interest for Season Two. |
None. |
+ She seems to know Hiro well in String Theory.
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| Micah is not exceptionally intelligent like his mother claims. She just assumed he was because he was so good with computers due to his power. |
None |
- Micah was smart enough to know something was up when Candice was pretending to be his mother. He also saw something was wrong with Niki before anyone else and saw through his father's lies fairly easily for a ten-year-old of ordinary intelligence.
- He was not fooled by Jessica trying to impersonate Niki over the phone. (Nothing to Hide)
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| Micah likes Molly and they will date in season two. |
None |
+ Micah and Molly smiled to each other after Micah used his powers to use a shutdown elevator. (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
• They probably like each other, but it seems unlikely that they would be dating at such a young age.
- Molly may have been smiling because Micah saved them from being caught and possibly killed by Linderman's guards.
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| Micah will build a cybernetic limb, like Forge and Cable; a time machine like Forge and Cable; an evolved human tracking or detecting device. |
None. |
- There's no evidence that Micah's abilities extend to building new technology. He's only been shown repairing existing technology.
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| Micah will become a first-class computer hacker. |
None. |
- His abilities shown to date could all be hardware, not software, related.
+ However, his abilities, as shown hacking the ATMs in The Fix, could have involved influencing the software of the ATM machine.
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| Micah is unusual because he exhibits powers as a child. This is because both of his parents are also evolved humans. |
Micah used an out-of-order pay-phone to call his mother. He places his hand on ATMs and they dispense money. (The Fix) |
+ The next youngest character to have powers is Sanjog Iyer -- who seems to be Micah's age -- followed by Claire Bennet, who is 16. Both of Micah's parents are evolved humans; both of Claire's biological parents are evolved; nothing is known about Sanjog's parents.
+ All other powered characters did not become aware of their abilities until well into adulthood. It also seems likely considering that the abilities have to do with genetics. As such there would theoretically be greater odds that two evolved parents produce an evolved child.
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| The early manifestation of Micah's abilities may be related to his intelligence. |
None. |
+ It has been quasi-demonstrated that Micah is smarter than most children his age, and he is often referred to by Niki as "my little genius". It has also been stated that the abilities are dependent on the brain. It's not a far jump to assume that Micah is a genius, and as such, if the abilities are in fact dependent on the user's brains, then Micah's increased cognitive abilities might contribute to his early development.
+ Sanjog is a wise boy and his powers developed early as well.
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| Micah is the one who distorted the recording of Niki and Linderman's thugs in the video camera. |
None. |
- Micah was at Tina's house when Niki first watched the video and saw that it was scrambled. Since his power seems to require physical contact with the device he would have no way to scramble it.
• The Camera was connected to Niki's computer for her internet porn show, and Micah was able to influence all the district 12 voting machines because they were networked, since he knew his mom was "Not right" and he knew what she did in the garage, he could have accessed the camera remotely to clear the video footage so she was not implicated in a crime.
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| Niki and Jessica are not merely split personalities in the psychological disorder sense, but a temporal anomaly, trapped between near identical temporal paths. When Niki has control in one reality, Jessica is in control in the other reality. This alternate reality is different only in what the other alter has accomplished in that reality. |
None. |
+ They can see one another through mirrors. Neither alter has described what it's like when not in control, suggesting there is no jarring difference in environment for the recessive personality.
+ If this theory is true, this means both realities exist simultaneously, and Niki and Jessica are experiencing things very differently from how we've been perceiving them.
+ Jessica's tattoo not existing on Niki's back may mean a temporal connection between the characters.
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| Niki has Dissociative Identity Disorder and Jessica is her alternate personality. For some reason, only Jessica is able to tap into her powers for now. |
Evolved humans' abilities are derived from the brain. (Chandra's research) |
+ Since the power is in her brain, not her muscles, it is plausible for only one personality to be able to access it.
+ Niki's psychiatrist has diagnosed her as a classic case of Multiple Personality Disorder, the older term for DID.
- However, in Godsend Niki snaps a guard's baton in half with her bare hands.
- • It should be noted this observation is questionable, but it appears to most that it is Niki who, in fact, snaps the baton.
- In Run!, Matt Parkman is able to hear Niki and Jessica conversing with his telepathy. This seems to suggest that there really are two separate people living inside Niki's head.
- In Five Years Gone, Niki seems to be in mourning for Jessica, counting her among all the loved ones she has lost. It seems doubtful this would happen were Jessica simply an aspect of Niki's personality.
- • The fact that Matt Parkman is able to hear two separate voices does not necessarily mean that there are two separate beings; it is not uncommon for personalities to converse, especially if the patient also suffers from schizophrenia.
+ Niki does seem to have been exposed to a number of the causes associated with MPD: overwhelming stress, and lack of nurturing in childhood to name a few. In addition, studies have shown that 85% of MPD sufferers were abused as children. However, Niki does demonstrate some of the common symptoms, but not all; for example, she demonstrates depression, anxiety, time distortions and amnesia, substance use and abuse (she is a recovering alcoholic), but she does not show any visible signs of phobias, panic attacks, fluctuating levels of function, sexual dysfunction, eating disorders, suicidal preoccupation, or episodes of self-mutilation.
- • It is also possible that Niki separated her ability from her own personality for any number of reasons.
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| Niki had control of her powers at one point, but Mr. Bennet captured her, and had the Haitian wipe her memory. The old personality might not have been fully erased, which explains her alter-ego. |
None. |
- This hypothesis does not explain why all of her friends/family know her as Niki and not as Jessica.
- This theory does not explain how the tattoo visible when Jessica is in control disappears when she is not.
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| Niki's other personality is actually her sister Jessica, who may have had an ability before dying and somehow came to take over Niki's body so she could continue protecting her. |
None. |
+ The Jessica persona definitely believes it's the dead sister. In Six Months Ago, the way the Jessica persona speaks is as if she is Jessica.
+ A dead twin still being able to talk to or influence their "other half" is a common idea in many stories involving twins.
+ In Run!, Matt Parkman is able to hear Niki and Jessica conversing with his telepathy. This seems to suggest that there really are two separate people living inside Niki's head.
+ In Five Years Gone, Niki seems to be in mourning for Jessica, counting her among all the loved ones she has lost. It seems doubtful this would happen were Jessica simply an aspect of Niki's personality.
- • It is possible that Jessica was also an evolved human who could transport her mind to different bodies and did so to Niki when she died. Niki is actually the personality with super strength.
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| Niki is a medium. She can talk to the dead and channel spirits, but has so far only had contact with her sister Jessica, who takes over Niki's body when she has things to take care of. |
None. |
+ Spirit communication or channeling is a common power claimed by many real-world mystics, along with levitation (or flight), telekinesis and space-time manipulation.
+ In Run!, Matt Parkman is able to hear Niki and Jessica conversing with his telepathy. This seems to suggest that there are two separate people living inside Niki's head instead of one entity able to control the body.
+ In Five Years Gone, Niki seems to be in mourning for Jessica, counting her among all the loved ones she has lost. It seems doubtful this would happen were Jessica simply an aspect of Niki's personality.
- Niki is able to use super-strength. (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
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| Jessica is a sleeper agent for the Yamagato Corporation's Genetic Research Division, which is headed by Hiro's father, Kaito Nakamura. |
None. |
• Niki Sanders is the quiet little web-stripper from Las Vegas whose marriage has gone sour and has left her stranded, alone and desperate...or is she? Niki Sanders may be a sleeper agent for the Yamagato Corporation. Since it is possible that Hiro receives his katana from his father, it is also likely that the symbol on the handle of the sword is the Corporation's Genetic Division logo, who has a hand in the creation of the evolved humans, or at least funded Suresh's research and used the logo after it appeared in repeating patterns in the results. The logo also appears on Suresh's book, which supports this theory, since the financial backers would probably want themselves included on the cover.
+ When Jessica appears, the same symbol appears on Niki's back, tying her to the source of the symbol in some way. The ink used to make this tattoo could be temperature controlled, and when the personality switch occurs as an identifying mark, Niki's body temperature increases or decreases causing the mark to appear. Like all sleeper agents, Niki likely has a trigger that switches her from suburban stripper mom to super hero assassin. Someone like Niki should have no knowledge of where to find or how to operate military hardware. Jessica, however, was precise in her shooting of D.L. Hawkins - she knew where to find and buy weapons off-the-market and how to conduct herself on a hunt. If Niki were exhibiting schizophrenic behavior, there still would be no way for her to know about all these things.
+ With the stress of her sister's death, Niki's trigger seems to have been damaged, and the layers of mental conditioning and brainwashing that she has undergone has eroded, allowing her to switch from Niki to Jessica in moments of duress or pressure. Jessica knows about her powers, has had obvious combat training and knows about the Niki persona, while Niki had no knowledge of her alter-ego until recently- all of these things are characteristic of a sleeper agent. But why would Niki choose the name of her sister for her sleeper persona? It is possible that Jessica is the real personality, and used her twin sister's name as a cover- since Niki could get close to someone as an unassuming woman, where Jessica's name could be recognized.
- There is no indication that Yamagato Industries has a genetic research division.
- There is no evidence that the Symbol is in any way associated with Yamagato Industries.
- If the symbol is related to Yamagato Industries, Hiro or Ando would have recognized it on the sword as that and not as sai yo.
- Jessica seemed to believe herself to be Niki's dead sister when talking to Hal in Six Months Ago
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| Jessica (possibly Niki's twin sister) is a soul/spirit existing inside Niki's brain. |
Suresh once stated that if a soul does exist scientifically, it will most likely exist in the brain. (Six Months Ago). |
+ If Jessica is Niki's twin sister, and it is true that twins tend to have the strongest psychological links, Jessica's soul most likely exists within Niki's brain.
+ In Run!, Matt Parkman is able to hear Niki and Jessica conversing with his telepathy. This seems to suggest that there really are two separate people living inside Niki's head.
+ In Five Years Gone, Niki seems to be in mourning for Jessica, counting her among all the loved ones she has lost. It seems doubtful this would happen were Jessica simply an aspect of Niki's personality.
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| Jessica is a spirit. Her presence caused the interference on Niki's tape. |
None. |
+ Spirits reputedly cause static interference.
- Linderman's tape, showing Jessica committing adultery with Nathan, showed no static interference.
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| Niki's power is enhanced strength. Jessica's power is the ability to possess other bodies, like a symbiote. |
None. |
+ In Godsend, it appears that Niki snaps a guard's nightstick in half.
- • Although the cast commentaries on NBC.com indicate that Ali Larter believes this was Niki's first display of enhanced strength, it's also possible that Jessica took over to protect Niki.
• Niki's super-strength has been confirmed as of How to Stop an Exploding Man, but Jessica's power/existence is still in question.
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| As children Jessica had the power to jump into Niki's body and possibly visa versa. Through this the stronger willed Jessica could be the hero and always protect her vulnerable weaker sister by switching bodies. Being twins, their drunken abusive father never noticed the difference. Unfortunately when Jessica died, she out of desperation did one last instinctual attempt to body swap to save herself, but since there was no place for Niki to go she stayed in the body she was and Niki was trapped in the same body. It is also possible that the body that they are in is actually Niki's. |
In the episode Six Months Ago, Hal Sanders, Niki and Jessica's alcoholic father tries to reconnect with Niki. Jessica then takes over and goes to Hal's hotel room and tells him that he should be apologizing to her, not Niki, since she took all the beatings for her and wouldn't let Niki remember the abuse after Jessica died. |
+ This may mean the contempt that Jessica now has for Niki may be due to her alcoholism, weakness, and her getting to have a regular life.
+ Also many children of abusive or controlling relationships look at the aggressor and the victim, in this case Hal and either his wife, Niki, or both, and think the following: I care for all involved, but what the aggressor is doing is wrong and I will never be like that, but I will never let myself become the victim. They overcompensate trying not to be the victim, but they become more like the aggressor and don't see it. Jessica may have, and doesn't realize she is hurting people this way. When Niki was an actively drinking as an alcoholic, this was possibly self-medication pushing Jessica, who needs control, into a position of non-control for an extended period of time, turning her into what she could not stand being. When Niki became sober it would allow for Jessica to come out, and although she loves her sister, she would possibly be angry and resentful, especially if Micah is Jessica's biological son.
- - The likelihood of only one twin being the "Target of Opportunity" all the time of a drunken/ abusive parent is very unlikely, especially twins at the age of 10 to 11 years, the age on Jessica's Grave.
+ Jessica could have stayed in her own body when she was being abused while she "jumped" into Niki if Niki's body was going to be abused.
+ In Run!, Matt Parkman is able to hear Niki and Jessica conversing with his telepathy. This seems to suggest that there really are two separate people living inside Niki's head.
+ In Five Years Gone, Niki seems to be in mourning for Jessica, counting her among all the loved ones she has lost. It seems doubtful this would happen were Jessica simply an aspect of Niki's personality.
• As Mr. Bennet says that all patients (apart form Sylar) only have one power, it would seem likely that either: 1.Jessica power is to "jump" her spirit/mind/consciousness into another body and she jumped into Niki when she died - Niki's power is [super strength] 2. Vice-versa with Niki and Jessica's powers, though this would not explain how Jessica took the abuse for Niki 3. Jessica could swap bodies with people and it was actually Niki's body that died. Jessica was swapped at the time and was shunted back into her own body but without control as Niki still inhabited it, the transfer of Niki's spirit changed Jessica's brain so that her body now had [super strength] 4. Same as #2 but in relation to #3.
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| Either Niki or Jessica will "break out" of a mirror while the other is in control. |
None. |
+ At the end of Distractions, Jessica is in control and Niki pounds on the mirror from the "other side" and causes it to shake, which she shouldn't be able to do if she was merely a reflection.
- It's possible, though, that it was merely Jessica's perception that the mirror shook.
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| When/if Peter meets up with Niki in the future, he might absorb Jessica into himself, as well as her super strength |
None. |
- Peter doesn't have Jessica. (Five Years Gone)
+ While Peter doesn't use super-strength in Five Years Gone, that doesn't mean he doesn't have the power.
- Jessica seems to be confirmed as a mental disorder. (Five Years Gone)
- Although Niki's including Jessica among all the other people she's loved and lost while looking in the mirror suggests that 'Jessica' was more than a multiple-personality. (Five Years Gone)
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| Ted was impotent. |
None. |
+ The radioactivity in his body can only have an adverse effect on his reproductive system.
- Abilities do not appear to have an affect on the individual when the ability is an outward one, such as invisibility or mental manipulation.
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| The source of Ted's power is the natural production of deuterium and tritium. |
None. |
+ Ted Sprague's file (from the Heroes 360 experience]] suggests this.
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| Ted gave everyone near the Bennet house cancer and they will all die. |
None. |
+ Ted was emitting large amounts of radiation.
• It is possible that a hero will cure them all of their cancer before they die, such as Linderman.
• As of Landslide, Mr. Linderman is dead, and is not shown to have had any contact with anybody in the vicinity of the Bennet house explosion prior to his death.
- There is no guarantee that any given amount of radiation exposure will cause cancer.
• Even though he was apparently giving off enough radiation to turn Clair into something that looked like a Zombie from horror movies, he didn't kill all the plants around the house as he did when he was at his wife's grave, he may have been simply giving off heat and light and perhaps EMP as the heat and light would burn the house and Claire, but not give cancer to the neighborhood.
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| Ted's power - or, at least, some parts of it - do not affect things within a certain distance from his body. |
Despite releasing enough radiation to burn down the Bennets' house and severely char Claire, Ted's own clothing was undamaged. (Company Man) |
• If this is true, Nathan may have survived Peter's explosion simply by being within that radius.
- If this were true, Ted would not have been able to burn Nurse Jennifer through physical contact. (Nothing To Hide)
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| Sylar wasn't going to kill Molly Walker, rather, he was going to kidnap her and use her to find other evolved humans. |
None |
• Matt discovers that Sylar left no signs of physical contact when attacking his victims. Sylar causes a ruckus when he tries to drag Molly away when he could have easily killed her in the blink of an eye. (One Giant Leap).
- He could just have taken her power and used it himself.
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| Sylar's powers have something to do with emotion, due to what Chandra says to him and his intonation in Six Months Ago. |
None. |
• Sylar may have some sort of emotional power in addition to his others, but there's little evidence to support such a theory.
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| Sylar can alter his brain by studying the physical characteristics of other brains, which is why he is able to alter his own abilities. |
Sylar has the ability of intuitive aptitude. (Six Months Ago) |
+ Sylar's intuitive aptitude was confirmed in Fallout, but there's no clear evidence how he absorbs powers. Knowing how things work and being able to alter his own brain seem like two distinct powers.
• He has not yet fixed anything, mechanical or biological, other than manually.
+ Mr. Bennet said it was his DNA he was altering (Fallout).
+ Sylar was able to absorb Charlie Andrews's power despite only having a matter of seconds to look at her brain once it was exposed (Seven Minutes to Midnight, Road Kill).
- • The picture of the post-attack Charlie was quite unclear as to whether her brain was still there or not - Sylar might have taken it with him to study.
+ Sylar may have been performing telekinetic brain surgery on himself after studying the brains he removed from others.
- - This would not explain how he acquired Brian Davis's ability.
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| Sylar may also be a thematic foil to evolution itself. |
None. |
+ His profession of watchmaker is often used as an analogue to an intelligent designer. Rather than following an evolutionary imperative, he appears to be redesigning himself using existing powers as a template which he then improves upon.
+ Evolution requires reproduction of the fittest, not merely survival of the fittest. So, unless he starts trying to have babies, he can't affect evolution at all. In fact, by taking so many evolved people out of the gene pool, he is actually slowing down evolution.
+ However, with all the alterations to his DNA, it is possible that he will cease to be genetically human and will therefore be unable to reproduce.
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| Sylar is meant to be Peter's literary/thematic antithesis. |
None. |
+ He has a similar motivation (to be special), similar looks, (perhaps) similar powers, both have mothers that don't believe in them, and both men have even talked to a Suresh who ultimately gave up on him before he could prove that he was special. One major difference between them is that Sylar's main power depends upon logic and Peter's power depends upon emotion - a common theme in many literary conflicts.
+ In Five Years Gone, when Sylar and Peter fight, Sylar uses cryokinesis while Peter uses the power of pyrokinesis. In other words, Sylar is cold and emotionless ice, while Peter is hot and passionate fire.
- • The powers displayed seemed visually to more closely resemble Ted's radiation ability than cryokinesis (as shown in The Hard Part) or pyrokinesis (as shown in The Fix and Distractions). This would be consistent with "present-day" events, as both characters have now been shown to have acquired Ted's ability, whereas we have no evidence that Future Peter had ever come into contact with Meredith.
- + The cast commentary confirms that it was "fire and ice".
+ Peter and Sylar have the same initials as a well-known pair of comic book nemeses: Peter Parker (Spider-Man) and the Green Goblin.
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| Sylar may have unwittingly gained Charlie's blood clot when he killed her to acquire her power. |
None. |
- Given Sylar's ability to understand complex systems and repair them, he would probably have detected the clot and not duplicated it in himself.
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| Sylar is the anti-Chandra, much like he would be the antithesis to Peter. |
None. |
+ He finds the special people, much like Suresh did. He has a map like Chandra's. He even worked with him. While Chandra found the special people and helped them harness their own abilities, Gabriel would steal their abilities to become even more powerful.
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| Even if The Haitian were to remove the memories of Claire from Sylar, Sylar would not be effected because of the memory power he gained from Charlie. |
None. |
- There is no reason to think that Charlie's exceptional memory capacity would grant special resistance to the Haitian's power to erase specific memories.
- • It is, however, illogical to assume that someone who can't forget somehow forgets. In all likelihood, they would cancel each other out, which means the Haitian would have to be in continuous contact or else the effects of the memory wipe would be reversed.
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| Sylar has developed the power of Psychic Surgery. He has done this either through the combination of his intuitive abilities and telekinesis or by acquiring it from a victim. |
None. |
+ In the episode Godsend Hank, while running tests on Sylar, claims the only power they can trace in him is telekinesis, in spite of his victims show the signs of other abilities being used against them.
+ In One Giant Leap, Mohinder Suresh broke into Sylar's apartment and found medical books seeming to focus on medical procedures, primarily on the brain. This is perhaps a sign that his telekinesis is powerful enough and precise enough that he can use it to do intricate procedures on others and himself. Additionally, Sylar had to smash his victim's head open with an ornamental crystal to acquire his first stolen ability; now he seems to carry no tool or weapon.
- While this would explain how he gained other people's abilities after studying their brains, this would not explain how he gave himself Brian Davis's telekinetic ability in the first place.
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| Sylar has at least one brother who may have special abilities. Their special abilities may have made him or them shine and made Gabriel seem that much more plain, contributing to his pathological need to be special. |
The shop that Gabriel Gray worked at when Chandra Suresh found him was his family's business Gray and Sons. (Six Months Ago) |
+ Now while it may have had the same name for generations, it could also mean that Gabriel has at least one brother, maybe more.
• The store Gray and Sons may also lead us to believe that Sylar owned the store, and he himself had unmentioned sons, who he feels the need to be special for.
+ Gabriel was a second-generation watchmaker, meaning his father first owned the store. Gabriel must have brothers.
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| Sylar has no intuitive sense of whether a person has an ability or not, and must actually observe someone using their ability before he is able to understand how it works, and how to steal it. |
Sylar watched Charlie all morning before her ability became clear to him, and killed her soon after. Hiro was also present in the diner at this time, and Sylar was unaware that he had any ability. (Road Kill) |
+ Every time so far Sylar has stolen (or attempted to steal) an ability, he has waited for the evolved human to use their power before he kills them. (Seven Minutes to Midnight, Six Months Ago, Fallout, Run!)
+ In Road Kill, he speaks of not knowing Charlie's ability until she spoke about it, but knew she was special since she was on the map.
+ In addition he attacks Jackie rather than Claire out of mistaken identity, which would be difficult to explain if he could actually sense powers from Claire. This also helps to explain why Sylar needs the list from Mohinder so badly.
+ Sylar was able to tell Chandra's watch was broken without opening it, simply because his intuition allowed him to see that the watch's hands were moving slower than usual (or possibly allowed him to hear the slowed ticking).
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| Sylar is the half brother of Peter and Nathan Petrelli through an affair of Mr. Petrelli. |
Sylar states he used to wish that "some stranger would come and tell [him] that [his] family wasn't really [his] family" because they were so insignificant, and he wanted to be special. (Six Months Ago) |
• So far, neither of Sylar's parents are known to have had powers.
+ There are an incredible number of parallels and coincidences between Peter and Sylar. Both wanted desperately to be special, their powers are similar (though Peter's is born of emotion rather than logic), both men have talked to a Suresh who prematurely gave up on them being special, when Peter imagines himself as a bomb he is wearing a similar (but not identical) coat and watch to Sylar's, and when in the hospital Peter has a vision of his brother Nathan suddenly becoming Sylar (which may have been a mix of his recent trauma and a foreshadowing of their relationship).
+ These two characters are the only two to have alliterative initials, Peter Petrelli and Gabriel Gray.
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| Sylar can be identified with some supernatural harbinger of the end of the world. |
None. |
+ Sylar, as Gabriel Gray, refers to himself as "the son of a watchmaker." The notion of supernatural "watchmaker," setting the laws of science in place then letting them tick away, is one frequent symbol for God (a rather apt one for a show centering around apparently God-directed evolution).
+ Sylar, like the mythical Lucifer/Satan, became dissatisfied with his status in life, wanting desperately to be more important, more special. By acquiring more and more superhuman powers, he appears to be making himself God-like, an act of supreme hubris.
+ Also, "Gabriel" is the name of the archangel supposed to arrive immediately prior to the apocalypse.
• Additionally of note is that the first episode of the first season (Genesis) and the first episode after the mid-season break (Godsend) both had titles of religious significance, the first being "Genesis" and the next being "Godsend." Also, the Haitian associates these powers with being from God, Jessica's character flippantly rejects the need for God's help at the end of Godsend. Basically, there are many religious references (predominantly Christian) throughout the show, lending some believability to the idea that Sylar plays a significant role in a supernatural scheme. However, most indications are merely hints towards that interpretation, not solid evidence.
- • It should also be noted that both "Genesis" and "Godsend" begin with a G, as do both of Sylar's real names (Gabriel Gray).
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| Sylar's powers may be able to counteract those of Candice Willmer. |
None. |
+ Sylar's intuitive aptitude allows him mentally dismantle and quite simply "figure out" complicated things, such as the illusions used by Candice.
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| After murdering Isaac Mendez and stealing his power, an imprisoned Sylar will take over as the painter of future events in a Hannibal Lector-like role. |
None. |
+ Tim Kring has indicated that Sylar's story will continue into the second season.
+ The Company has also used Isaac's paintings to rely on their prophecies. It's possible that the Company could imprison Sylar and use him to replace Isaac. Meanwhile, Peter could simultaneously fill the same role for the other characters.
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| Sylar is Peter Petrelli's twin brother. |
None. |
+ Tim Kring said "Peter and Sylar are two halves of a similar coin".
+ Their abilities are both absorbing powers, although differently.
+ Both Zachary Quinto (Sylar) and Milo Ventimiglia (Peter) were born in 1977.
+ Sylar's comment about "brother against brother" in Five Years Gone would have been coincidentally accurate, making a dark joke out of Peter's reply that his brother can't phase through walls.
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| Future Sylar will gain Molly Walker's power. |
Hiro said that he brought Molly, Candice, and D.L. to Bennet. |
+ Candice and D.L. are both dead and Sylar has their powers.
+ Bennet turns the dangerous e.h. to Matt and since he turned over Candice and D.L., he presumably turned Molly over too.
+ Bennet considers Molly a threat to Claire since she could find her anywhere and could have turned Molly over, knowing the dangerous evolved humans were killed.
+ Sylar could have killed Molly and taken her power at the same time he took Nathan's, Candice's, and D.L.'s. (He goes to kill Nathan and Candice and D.L. are there [delivered from Matt] and he kills them all and steals powers.)
+ E.H.s are found a lot in the future and "Nathan" is the one condemning them.
- Had Sylar managed to gain Molly's powers he would not have needed Matt or anyone else to find Claire and would have acquired her abilities shortly after taking Molly's.
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| When Sylar is in his most evil form, he is modeling himself after the vampire Nosferatu. |
None |
Sylar is portrayed and described at times as being claw-like, and has at times, been painted in an Nosferatu style.
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| Sylar did not die in How to Stop an Exploding Man. |
None. |
+ Sylar's body disappeared, and there was a trail of blood leading to a manhole cover, possibly indicating he dragged himself there.
+ It has been indicated by the writers that Sylar's story will continue in the second season.
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| Sylar can recover from near-fatal wounds (such as being shot) by using his telekinesis to perform surgery on himself. |
None. |
+ There were many medical textbooks in Sylar's apartment, which he could have memorized once he gained eidetic memory.
+ In the graphic novel Road Kill, Sylar definitely shows bullet wounds where Noah shot him, and he mentions "These bullet holes wouldn't be a problem if I had just gotten to that cheerleader." However, he still manages to recover remarkably fast.
- - He probably healed like any normal person would. It only appeared to be a quick healing process because his telekinesis eased the impact of the bullets, which coincides with the writers words.
+ The writers have stated that much of Sylar's apparent invulnerability is due to his telekinesis.
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| Sylar killed Claude and stole his power. |
None. |
+ In How to Stop an Exploding Man, Noah and Peter go to Kirby Plaza, but they don't see Sylar. Peter says that he must be "hiding in plain sight." Sylar then seemingly appears out of nowhere behind Noah.
- Sylar was sneaky when Claude was still alive. It's more plausible to say that Sylar uses telekinesis to increase his speed.
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| Molly will be a character in Season 2. |
None |
+ Hiro Nakamura said in a coded email to Hana from the future that he "found Molly Walker and will find others" as part of the Heroes 360 Experience.
+ Molly seems to be the only one who knows about the man watching her, so it seems unlikely that the writers would just drop her from the series.
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| Sylar will kill Molly and take her power. |
None. |
+ Molly's ability to "find people" (The Hard Part) would be incredibly useful to Sylar's storyline, allowing him to find evolved humans without the list.
+ In the dark future, Molly was turned over to Mr. Bennet. D.L. and Candice were also, and they were killed by Sylar, and Bennet may have thought Molly was dangerous because she knew where Claire was and presumed she would be killed if handed over to Matt. When Sylar killed Candice and D.L. Molly might have been with them and he would have taken her power.
- Killing off a kid would be shocking and probably too controversial.
- Sylar has shown himself to have some heart and may not be able to go through with killing a child. This may also explain why he didn't kill her when he had her at FBI Headquarters, instead of trying to escape with her.
- Had future Sylar managed to gain Molly's powers he would not have needed Matt or anyone else to find Claire and would have acquired her abilities shortly after taking Molly's.
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| Molly will be adopted by Niki and D.L. |
None. |
+ In the first season finale, Niki seemed to care for Molly affectionately in the Sylar vs. Peter confrontation. Niki was holding Molly in comfort as Molly began to cry after the bomb went off.
+ Molly has no parents and has no foster parents. She is an orphan and can be adopted.
- Mohinder has called Molly his "responsibility", and was also the one to ultimately take her away from Kirby Plaza; she may go under his care instead.
- Molly really cares for Matt so she may instead be cared for by Matt and Janice Parkman.
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| Sylar will kill Candice and go on to use her powers. |
None. |
+ This happened in the dark future. (Five Years Gone)
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| Candice could actually be a man. |
None. |
• She could simply be using an illusion all the time, even when she is in her normal form.
+ This may also explain why Matt yelled "Hey!" when Candice appeared to touch him sexually while tied down in the chair. (Parasite)
- - It could be because he's married that he does this. Or it could merely be because not all men want to be touched by some strange woman, and Matt clearly didn't. Or maybe Candice was mocking him, and his exclamation was in anger at Thompson and Candice for refusing to let him go.
- On "the list", Mohinder found the name Candice Willmer. If Candice were actually a man, her name would probably appear different (at least as a man's name and not a woman's).
- + Candice may be the name of another evolved human that she is impersonating.
- However, after being knocked out by Niki, Candice appears to be her cute brunette self. (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
- + In an interview, Joe Pokaski and Aron Coleite suggest that Candice was either still barely conscious or her subconscious so strongly desired to be thin that she was able to maintain that form.
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| Candice is actually fat, and possibly older than she appears. |
Micah comments that he has a huge cousin that eats like Candice does, and she replies that she is also overweight. (Landslide) |
+ When Candice is remarking about how people can be cruel, she says that people often judge by appearance, and then falls silent and seems to brood on that fact. (Landslide)
- Candice may have suffered a traumatic childhood from being overweight and received peer abuse. Her response to Micah about being huge may have meant that she still thinks of herself as a fat person because of her traumatic childhood. Such trauma could have contributed to her lack of faith in the world and subsequent connection with Linderman's beliefs.
+ When Candice assumes the identity of Mrs. Baker at the polling station, she hints to Micah that this could be her true appearance. Mrs. Baker was obese.
- - She may have just been teasing/taunting Micah, insinuating that he will never be able to discern her true form.
- Sylar said that he killed a girl named Candice, not a woman. (Five Years Gone)
• We might see the real Candice when/if Sylar kills her.
- However, after being knocked out by Niki, Candice appears to be her cute brunette self. (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
- + In an interview, Joe Pokaski and Aron Coleite suggest that Candice was either still barely conscious or her subconscious so strongly desired to be thin that she was able to maintain that form.
- + Alternately, Candice could have been using her "cute brunette" form for so long now that her body was used to it and automatically reverted to that form when knocked out, because it was like Candice's new default form.
- She may just be assuming she is fat.
- + There would be no reason for Candice to assume she is fat when she can see her true form.
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| The man who is able to see Molly is Uluru. |
None |
+ In an interview, the writers stated that "we would see a hint of Uluru before the season is over".
+ Molly states that, if she uses her power to see this person, he can see her back. While using his power, Isaac saw Uluru, and Uluru saw and spoke to Isaac. (Isaac's First Time)
+ Uluru has been hinted at as a villain for quite some time now. This could be a set-up to Season Two.
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| The man watching Molly plans to use Sylar's body in some way to achieve his evil means. |
None |
+ Sylar's body disappears mysteriously, with a trail of blood leading to an open sewer cover. The trail of blood indicates that Sylar's body was dragged, possibly by the man watching Molly. (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
- Sylar could have moved himself with the little strength he had left or with telekinesis.
- Tim Kring stated in an interview that Sylar "clearly somehow dragged himself into a manhole."
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| The man's power is power reflection, similar to Peter's mimicry (in earlier episodes, when the power was only available when another hero was using it). |
Molly says that when she thinks of him, he can see her. (How to Stop an Exploding Man) |
+ If he can reflect powers, he could possibly know where Molly is if she knows where he is.
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| The man's power is omnipresence or something similar. He can be present in every place at anytime. |
None. |
+ This might be how he can see Molly.
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| The man Audrey believed to be Sylar in One Giant Leap was actually this man. |
None |
+ Molly said to Parkman: "How could he find me?"
+ He didn't take her brain.
- He displayed Sylar's powers, such as telekinesis. He even had a baseball cap.
- Joe Pokaski and Aron Coleite stated in an interview that the man who was chasing Molly in the FBI building was Sylar.
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| The individual in question is the Haitian. |
None. |
• The Haitian's power is currently ill-defined, so some facet of his power may enable him to see Molly.
+ The Haitian has worked for a variety of individuals throughout the show's run. His true loyalties and intentions are still in doubt.
- In an interview, Joe Pokaski and Aron Coleite assured us that the man is not the Haitian.
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| Molly is talking about a still living Charles Deveaux. |
Charles knew Peter was there when Peter had his dream of the past. (How to Stop an Exploding Man) |
• The nature of Charles's ability is unknown. He may have a power that allows him to see Molly.
+ The old movie adage says that if you don't see the body, s/he isn't actually dead.
- Simone states that she was there when her father died. (Nothing to Hide)
- Charles, and even Angela, knew of his impending death. (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
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| Molly's villain and the dragon from Kaito Nakamura's story in Landslide are one and the same. |
None. |
• Since Volume Two opens with Hiro in the past meeting the Takezo Kensei, we may soon learn more about the legend of the dragon.
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| The man's power is Empathic mimicry. |
Molly says that when she "thinks about him", he can see her. (How to Stop an Exploding Man). |
+ This could be the result of mimicry.
+ Also, if the new villain were an Empath, it would not be difficult to be 'worse than Sylar' in the danger stakes. While Sylar needs to study your brain to take your power, an Empath only needs to meet you, once.
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