Explosion future

Explosion future
A destroyed New York City in the future.
Date of event:	Multiple possible futures

The Dark Future is a glimpse of what will occur if the heroes fail to prevent the explosion.

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Graphic Novel:Walls, Part 1

These events occur one year after the explosion in New York City.

• The government imprisons numerous evolved humans in the Moab Federal Penitentiary
• Informed of a window of opportunity when many of the guards will be away, Hiro recruits Peter to raid the penitentiary and free the inmates.
• During the raid, Peter meets Niki Sanders, one of the prisoners.
• Hiro and Peter are confronted by three Homeland Security evolved human agents.

Graphic Novel:String Theory

The events that occur prior to this graphic novel are presumably similar to those that occur before Five Years Gone (see below), with the following differences:

• The Explosion occurs on November 8, the day after Nathan Petrelli is elected to congress. Sylar is apparently the cause of the explosion.
• Hiro Nakamura attempted to prevent the explosion by killing Sylar, but Sylar had previously stolen Claire Bennet's power; he regenerated and exploded, anyway.
• Hiro, in the future, decides to travel back to October 4, 2006 to instruct Peter to "save the cheerleader", changing the future.

Five Years Gone

The timeline in this episode includes the effects of Future Hiro's actions in String Theory and is consistent with the events of all previous episodes. Prior to the events of this episode, the following events occur between November 8, 2006 and November 8, 2011:

• The Explosion occurs on November 8, the day after Nathan Petrelli is elected to congress. Peter Petrelli causes the explosion, but Sylar is blamed.
• Sylar murders Candace Willmer and gains the power of illusion.
• Sylar gains the power of phasing from an unknown victime, presumably D.L. Hawkins.
• Sylar murders Nathan Petrelli, gains the power of flight, and becomes President of the United States by impersonating Nathan.
• Homeland Security enforces draconian policies of registration and monitoring for evolved humans. These policies grow out of the Linderman Act, which was passed in the wake of the explosion.
• Peter absorbs the power of pyrokinesis, presumably from Meredith Gordon.
• Mohinder Suresh becomes the President's advisor of evolved humans. He has been trying to discover a way to "cure" evolved humans, without success.
• Ando Masahashi dies in the explosion.
• Micah Sanders dies in the explosion.
• Niki Sanders has entered a relationship with Peter Petrelli. Although she uses the name Jessica, she has not experienced any personality conflicts since the explosion.
• Claire Bennet has been in hiding. By 2011, she is living in Midland, TX, using the first name Sandra, and working at the Burnt Toast Diner.
• Matt Parkman has become estranged from his wife, Janice Parkman. They have a son named Matthew who is a "person of interest" to Homeland Security. Matt is a high-level agent for Homeland Security.
• The Haitian is a high-level agent for Homeland Security.
• Mr. Bennet operates a sort of "underground railroad" from the old Primatech Paper Co. building in Odessa, TX. This operation helps low-threat evolved humans hide from the authorities, with the complicity of Matt Parkman.
• Hiro Nakamura becomes a terrorist who fights the government's campaign against evolved humans.

During the episode (Five Years Gone), the following events occur that did not or probably would not happen had Future Hiro not gone back in time to tell Peter to "Save the Cheerleader, Save the World.", and thus are changes affected by Hiro's time travel:

• Peter saves Claire from Sylar. (Homecoming)
• Peter explodes instead of Sylar.
• Future Hana is killed by Homeland security/Matt Parkman.
• Matt Parkman kills Mr. Bennet, uncovers the hiding Claire Bennet, and kills Future Hiro.
• Sylar kills Claire Bennet.
• Mohinder Suresh kills or at least injects the Haitian to save Hiro.

Fan Theories

Please refer to Theory:Explosion future for fan-created theories and other speculation.