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Theory	Citations	Notes
Matt actually has the ability of enhanced intelligence.	Matt excels in school.	+ Matt knows pi to at least twenty-five places. This might indicate that he calculated them in his head, something that enhanced memory would not allow (The Man with Too Much Brains). - Matt, his classmates, and the opening text all refer to memory. - Matt probably memorized pi a long time ago. • As there is an entire subculture (for lack of a better word coming to mind) devoted to memorizing pi (called piphilology), with a world record of 100,000 decimal places in the real world by someone without any super powers, a memory power causing someone to remember 25+ decimals is well within reason.
Matt will eventually appear in the TV series.	None	+ He may be one of the "younger generation characters" that has been mentioned for Volume 3. [1] + In one of the Volume Three trailers, Sylar is shown attacking someone who shares a resemblance to Matt. - It is unlikely that the writers would have Sylar meet another evolved human with enhanced memory since he already "met" Charlie. + That could be used as a plot device to make Sylar into pure evil--he no longer cares about gaining new abilities, but simply wants to rid the world of other evolved humans. + Matt could become one of the new villains. After all, he was humiliated, tested, and fooled by Elle and his classmates. He could want revenge. + If the character in the trailer who says "You can't hurt me" to Sylar is Matt, then this may be referring to Matt's ability of gaining all of The Company's information in the novel. Matt may be telling Sylar if he kills him he won't have the information to hunt down The Company, which seems to be his new agenda, not to mention that the Company's information likely had locations of more evolved humans which would be an added bonus for Sylar.
Matt's ability has to do with a second "higher" form of thinking.	None	+ The title of Matt's first graphic novel refers to having "too much" brains, perhaps the writers allude to Matt having "two" brains. (The Man with Too Much Brains) + In the graphic novel, Matt says to Elle "I thought you were supposed to protect me". One could claim that the Haitian erased the memory of Matt after the testing, but Matt still remembered it. - There is no proof that the Haitian used or tried to use his power on Matt. • A fellow student refers to Matt having a brain like a search engine, perhaps the writers are alluding to something.
Matt's ability is actually the ability to take all the information from a book just by touching it	None	- Matt, his classmates, and the opening text all refer to memory.
It's actually Matt's brain in the Company vault.	None	+ Elle states that the Company would find a way to retrieve the mainframe information stored in Matt's brain. (Hana and Drucker's Plot Discovered) - The events in The Man with Too Much Brains and Hana and Drucker's Plot Discovered take place in 2008, which is after the events in Powerless. • While the banner does indicate that it is 2008, the presence of the Haitian indicates that this may have occurred before Mohinder cured him in Lizards, unless he rejoined the Company off-screen since escaping them in that episode. If it did take place earlier, the banner may be a mistake on the writer or artist's part.