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== The Sixth Season is the First Season ==
Being as [[This Is Reality]] after Clare outs people with powers Television networks clamor to produce shows about the supers lives. The most popular is an innovative Documentary that features no Confession cam the Show Heroes, which chronicles the lives of the heroes most influential in bringing the existence of Supers to the public and the disasters they averted while the world fell for the Masquerade.
== Ghost Linderman was not a creation of Muray Parkman ==
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== Sylar will be defeated by Ando. ==
Ando uses his ability to amplify Sylar's "Intuitive Aptitude" ability into full blown Omniscience, And Sylar's mind, and very consciousness, will be destroyed, Rendering him a permanent Vegetable. I know Sylar is good now and everything, But what if Ando has a [[Face Heel Turn]] sometime in the future?
== "Save The Cheerleader" refers to Jackie Wilcox, the character who takes credit for Claire Bennet's actions ==
Her presence in a variety of events is completely irrelevant to the main plot of the series, but it will be later revealed that she will save the world from alien invasion. Or at least she would have, if her brain hadn't been eaten. As it is, the main characters screwed it all up, and the world will die.
* "Five Years Gone" would seem to clarify Future!Hiro's instructions referred to Claire. (Granted, Future!Hiro never ''did'' meet Claire ''or'' Jackie, and for that matter was confused about who blew up New York anyway. But his objective was clearly to prevent the explosion by keeping Sylar from regenerating.)
** Except that we see that Claire is still alive and in hiding even in the future, and Sylar doesn't get to eat her brain until AFTER he becomes president. Something else kept him alive. That he still wanted to catch her and steal her powers shows that he couldn't have eaten her earlier and she just regenerated her brain afterwards.
*** That was ''after'' the first future was altered. Wasn't it?
*** The future changed so that Claire was still alive ''but'' Hiro never stabbed Sylar. Both things needed to happen to save the world.
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Jackie is killed by Sylar, who believes she is Claire. But Sylar's "real" power is analyzing complex systems (for example, superhuman physiologies); as depicted in "Six Months Ago", he seems able to fuzzily "see" the presence of powers in others' brains even before he kills them. Yet he never suspected Jackie was a mistake until he saw Claire regenerate. {{spoiler|Sylar survives being stabbed in a vital area by Hiro.}} Jackie may have had powers similar to Claire's, albeit latent. Somebody check those pom-poms for phlebotinum!
** Debatable - {{spoiler|after the stabbing, Sylar was almost immediately picked up by the Company, who worked on him and kept him alive. That, and Candice makes specific reference to the stitches in Sylar's chest}} in the second episode of Season Two. If Jackie had regeneration powers, even latent ones, {{spoiler|Sylar's sword wound would have healed of its own accord.}}
*** Also, Sylar didn't eat Jackie's brain. She had a cut in her forehead. Then Sylar realized Claire was regenerating, and Jackie said "Run" before dying of exsanguination.
== Hiro is his own ancestor. ==
After ending up in feudal Japan, Hiro will fall in love with a Japanese noblewoman and father his ancestor, and leave his sword in the past, becoming his own descendant and ancestor in a temporal loop.
* So does this mean that he's the only one who can [[Futurama|save the world from giant floating brains]]?
* [[Jossed]].
** We don't know that yet. It's long-range [[Time Travel]]
== Takezo Kensei is "Dallas" Petrelli and the mysterious "Hooded Man" ==
Kensei seems to have the same power as Claire, and powers seem to be passable genetically. Both the Petrelli brothers and Nathan's daughter Claire have powers, and Claire's is the same as Kensei's. But Angela Petrelli has no apparent powers thus far; therefore, the brothers get their powers genetically from their father...
...who is (or rather, was once) Takezo Kensei, who has lived so many years because his healing power, which seems the same as Claire's, leaves him effectively immortal. This also means he's one of the original members of the Company. Kaito Nakamura was {{spoiler|killed by a mysterious hooded man who was able to fall off of a building and survive, and was also an original member of the Company}}
** Angela Petrelli definitely has powers! We just haven't seen what they are. That's why she was singled out, just like Kaito.
*** Confirmed in Season 3: prophetic dreams, as correctly deduced by the fandom. It was the only power demonstrated by Peter that was not otherwise accounted for.
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Not counting Claire, Peter and Adam, there are several characters that have recovered surprisingly easily:<br />Sylar: survives being captured and tortured by the company and then {{spoiler|survives being stabbed through the chest.}}<br />Matt: survives {{spoiler|being shot ''four times'' in the chest.}}<br />Claude: survives being shot twice and falling off a bridge.
** That's just your standard [[Hollywood Healing]]. Comes with the job. Plus, Matt received prompt medical attention.
*** No. Niki seemed to have no ill effects after D.L. phased into her chest and stirred her guts a bit. Everybody else seems to die, or at least be severely hurt after Niki punches somebody. However, Sylar takes the beating with a smile. It seems consistent that evolved humans can take more punishment than regular ones, regardless of their ability.
*** DL wasn't ''trying'' to kill her, just hurt her so she'd let him go. And Sylar has the grab-bag of powers, who knows how much he can withstand?
*** Messing with people's organs is risky business if you're trying to incapacitate somebody. Maybe he knows of their own invulnerability?
*** We don't actually know what he ''did'' to her organs, so we have no way of knowing how dangerous or damaging it is. He might have done something completely different than the brainsquish he gave Linderman.
*** There's also glass. Matt was thrown out of a window, and it appeared to be [[Soft Glass]]. However, Sylar, who was still under the effect of the Shanti virus and thus had no powers at all, had several gashes on him after Elle blasted him through a glass door.
*** Again, that's just standard [[Hollywood Style]] injury. Glass windows in Hollywood love good guys and hate villains.
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== Adam is Patient Zero. ==
In the first season, the charts and maps of the senior Dr. Suresh seemed to be describing the spread of a
* Maybe not all, but many. The superpower gene is recessive, and for a long time it was very rare. Even if two people with the gene married, if they had no powers, then the chances were only one in four that any given child would. But Adam has been
* And, as a corollary theory, Sylar has the potential for so many different powers because Adam got into his bloodline more than once, and the accidental inbreeding also predisposed Sylar to insanity.
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And we have no idea of the limits of his technopathy. We saw him use it to rig Nathan's election at the end of Season 1 by just touching ''one'' voting machine. Could he use any normal computer connected to the Internet to hack into the nearest bank and empty it, or crack into the government's encrypted files or, worse, its nuclear arsenal? That's a fearsome power for a child to have, risky even in a stable environment. Now that he's {{spoiler|an orphan}}? Season's 3's first arc is called "Villains"; and for all the nasty supers we've seen locked up in Section 5 and whatnot, what would be worse then a child filled with grief and rage at a world that betrayed his beliefs, with the power to potentially grind civilization to a halt just by being near a computer?
* Well, he did start talking about "fixing" Monica (or possibly her life), and we've all seen where that leads.
** Until exact details of Tracey Strauss' origin and her link to Niki/Jessica are confirmed, it's safe to assume that Micah is going to turn into a major villain at some point, if he hasn't already: after all, we haven't seen Monica, the girl who {{spoiler|inadvertently killed his mother}}, again yet...
* Micah {{spoiler|has not only NOT become a villain, but has become the hero known as Rebel for Volume 4. Apparently, he's made of sterner stuff...or hasn't had his proper [[Start of Darkness]] yet...}}
== Mama Petrelli has the power of super-persuasion via touching people. ==
Simple: she frequently starts touching or rubbing people's arms and shoulders, and they suddenly start agreeing with her. Particularly Nathan (in the "being presidential" scene, among others), as well as his wife in "Four Months Ago". And in the [[Dystopia
* Except that she repeatedly tried to convince Nathan to let New York get nuked, being touchy-feely with him all the time, but he ends up flying Peter away anyway. Regardless, [[Word of God]] denies it.
* [[Jossed]] by Season 3; she's a precognitive.
** Not necessarily true... according to Volume 4 ([[Discontinuity/Live Action TV|now don't start with that]]), she's had her powers since the tender age of 16 or so. Presumably she's had over 40 years of practice refining control over her ability, and it's not too much of a stretch to say she could trigger dreams about how she convinces people to agree with her.
== Sylar is the Father of the Shadows, and Peter Petrelli is the Father of the Vorlons, from ''[[Bablyon 5]]'' ==
At some point, Sylar will kill and "examine" either Daniel Jackson's or Jack O'Neil's mind, gain the Ancient knowledge, and ascend. Sylar decides to force his evolutionary theory upon the rest of the universe by becoming the shadows and 'kicking over the anthills' to force the races to evolve. Peter at some point walks past the Stargate character that Sylar didn't kill, also ascends, and tries to stop Sylar by becoming the Vorlons.
== Mr. Muggles is an [[Animorphs
He is always confrontational of those who are plot-important, showing an above-dog IQ of thing. For instance, he ran up to Matt and Ted as they entered the house. He was drinking Claire's spilled blood in an attempt to heal himself back to human form. This didn't work.
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== Sylar is an alternate possible crazy non-[[Anime]] version from the future of Shirō Emiya from ''Fate/Stay Night''. ==
Think about it. [[Fate/stay
== There is at least one unknown active time-traveler. ==
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Hiro attacked Sylar in his own house. The most accepted theory is that this made Sylar get off his ass and go to Kirby Plaza.
In the timeline when Hiro did not attack Sylar, Sylar probably waited until morning or midday to go to Kirby Plaza, as seen in the second episode where it was daylight, and spent the night mourning his mother, sleeping, etc. Thus, in that timeline, D.L. and Niki still went upstairs and killed Linderman, Noah tries and fails to kill Molly, and Claire gets shipped off to France, etc. all at night without Hiro's interference. Logically, they would've all left that building and gone home by late night, avoiding the fight between Peter and Sylar; the only characters left behind at the time of detonation (which would've been in daytime) would have been Micah and Ando, for some strange reason.
== Mohinder has a power; he just hasn't manifested yet. ==
His sister died from the Shanti virus; she named the Shanti virus. If the earlier strain of virus killed her, she must have had powers. If Shanti had a power, then her parents had the power gene. Her parents are Mohinder's parents, which means he has the gene too. He could be hiding this power in Five Years Ago, given Nathan's/Sylar's apparent hatred of evolved humans.
* Alternatively, Mohinder has the same power as Sylar, knowing how things work. Mohinder uses his power for genuine study, not to crack open people's heads to steal their power. It explains why he's such a good doctor and why the company was so nice to him when it's possible, and indeed likely, that they have other scientists with less morals that they could have gotten. As for his curing blood, they could have just knocked him out and taken the blood by force.
* [[Word of God]] says that he will {{spoiler|gain super strength and 'spidey' powers}} by the end of season three.
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== Peter has mental health issues ==
This was played rather nicely in the first season, but people seem to have forgotten it in the second. Just because Peter was right about the powers doesn't mean he doesn't have issues, and Nathan knows this. In the second season, this explains why Peter often acts in a way that would seem 'idiotic' to most people; he isn't perceiving reality as clearly as one might hope. From his point of view, it all makes perfect sense.
* But everything he believed was completely true. His lying bitch of a mother made up the whole "Delusions of Grandeur" thing about him AND their father (who wasn't suicidally depressed, just power hungry and vicious, and who DIDN'T take his own life, but was murdered by Angela). We can't prove that Peter has mental health problems. He's just stupid sometimes.
== In a variant on the above, Peter's power ''causes'' mental health issues. ==
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== Niki doesn't have Multiple Personality Disorder; Jessica's power was to astral-project herself into other people. ==
Jessica and Niki were both mutants. Niki's power is super strength. Jessica could astrally project herself into the bodies of others and wrest control of them. While her father was killing her, Jessica mind-jumped from her body into Niki's; they've been forced to share ever since.
* The appearance of 'Gina' in season 2 seems to have [[Jossed]] it.
** Ok, then, Jessica is the one with MPD. Niki's not crazy; she's just got a crazy person in her head.
** Or Gina is another dead spirit. Jessica's ability is, most inconveniently, a two-way street.
* Further evidence from Season 3: Future!Peter's ability to put Present!Peter in Jessica's body had to have come from somewhere - Perhaps from Jessica and/or Niki?
== Niki, Jessica, and Tracy are all the same character. ==
There is no Jessica, and no Tracy. They are all Niki. Niki's real power is the ability to regenerate (kinda like [[Doctor Who
== Superpowered or not, Claire will die young. ==
Matter for regeneration has to come from somewhere, and every cell division uses up telomeres (the terminal sequences on DNA that protect them from damage during mitosis, due to the imperfect ability of DNA to replicate). So, unless she has [[Required Secondary Powers|the ability to generate telomerase]], she faces the same problem as [[Naruto|Tsunade]], namely, that she shaves lifespan with every use of her power, putting her ever closer to her [
* For an example of the Hayflick Limit in action, read up on [[Cloning Blues|"Dolly"]]. She was born at the age of six (biological) years.
* She can grow new flesh from nowhere without ingesting additional mass, so creating new telomeres should be no problem. It's already possible in canon to avoid the problem, and there's no sign she has any such condition. Also, in [[Real Life]], certain lifeforms can extend or regenerate their telomeres.
* It's been stated by the writers that she'll live forever because she was the catalyst. So this one's been jossed.
** Which didn't make any sense as Hiro's mother was also the catalyst, and Peter's father
** Plus, she ''wasn't'' the catalyst!
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* Hiro's desire is more like "to be the ideal hero". Thus, he is given gamebreaker powers that must be kept in check by firm heroic morality.
== Sylar's power would work like Peter's if he weren't an [[
The first empowered person he meets is Davis. He doesn't try to use Davis' TK power until ''after'' killing him, but he could have. Thus, the killing and messing with brains has become superstitious/operant behavior, which didn't start out as necessary, but now is due to a mental block on Sylar's part.
* As of Episode 3.9, it appears that Sylar IS an empath. * headdesk* Or, more specifically, his powers CAN function that way - if he can overcome the hunger. {{spoiler|Which he chose not to do in the end.}}
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A shaky theory at best. However, this time traveler with multiple powers also possesses the illusion power, so it's possible that Future!Peter's scarred face is just another illusion. (See Candace, whose base appearance isn't seen until she is killed). If it isn't Peter, it could be another empath or maybe Sylar. At any rate, this Peter seems to care for the same people that Present!Peter cares for and is also concerned with saving the world. Perhaps this person had his memory wiped and was "programmed" to think and act like Peter.
* At the least, this would obviate any messy [[Time Paradox]] issues about what happens to him if he wipes out the future he supposedly came from. [[Cough Trope Cough|(cough* Caitlin* cough)]]
* Jossed. He was killed, and he still had the same appearance. There would be nothing to keep the illusion up if his brain functions were terminated.
** Un-Jossed. Candace's illusion power must be continually kept active by the brain, but this isn't true for actual shapeshifting. In season 3 there was a character who could shapeshift, and he was used to provide the fake Sylar body. Dying didn't change his shape back. It's like the guy who melted
== Sylar isn't Peter and Nathan's brother; Angela Petrelli is jerking his chain to gain his loyalty. ==
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== Claire is going to pick up an [[Evil Mentor]] at some point. ==
Claire asks Peter to train her to fight and then asks her dad to bring her along as his villain-hunting sidekick. Both of them brush her off, much to her dismay. She clearly wants to take control rather than always being the [[Damsel in Distress]]. Since the "good guys" refuse and continue to treat her like a kid, in her despair she's going to end up apprenticed to a villain, kicking off her much publicized [[Face Heel Turn]].
== Ando will help Adam. ==
Angela's vision clearly shows Adam out of the grave that Hiro put him in. Hiro's continued suspicion towards Ando will cause Ando to start viewing his former best friend with bitterness and contempt. Ando goes to Kaito's grave seeking whatever wisdom he can glean. What he finds instead is Adam, buried alive by Hiro. Now fully believing that Hiro is walking down a dark path, he teams up with the extremely charismatic Adam to try and stop him. Adam, further incensed by Hiro's actions, uses Ando as an unwitting pawn to get revenge. Following this...
* [[Jossed]] by {{spoiler|Adam's (very likely) permanent death}}
** The writers have stated that Adam may show up again and didn't clarify if they meant in flashbacks/time travel or resurrected in the modern era. So this is still possible. (Though not likely, given Ando and Hiro patching up their differences.)
== Ando will die. ==
Either Adam will kill him to get revenge on Hiro (which will culminate in Hiro finally killing Adam off for good and cementing his transition to his [[Future Badass]] self), or Hiro will kill him in a showdown between Ando and himself.
* {{spoiler|Hiro killed Ando.}} Whether it will stick is another matter. If it doesn't, now we know why {{spoiler|Future!Ando wants to kill Hiro.}}
** Nope, {{spoiler|Hiro used time muckery to just pretend to kill Ando}}
== Somebody gave Nathan ownership of a [[
Linderman is the shinigami attached to it, which is why only Nathan can see or hear him.
* Perhaps a Death Note would be able to kill Adam or Sylar?
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* After all, powers are housed in the brain - if the brain's constantly keeping a power (or more than one) active, fewer neurons are available to think with. This further explains Peter - his brain is constantly picking up everyone else's powers; thus, with each new metahuman he meets, his IQ drops. Sylar, although [[Ax Crazy]], knows how things work; it wasn't so much his willpower he was using in the future, but exercising enough control over his brain to counteract the effects to an extent.
** This is all but proven when it turns out that only being able to have one power at a time made Peter at least twice as intelligent as he was before.
* Alternatively, it isn't the nature of the powers but how often they are used that determine the severity of their effects on people's minds. Sylar, a complete psychopath, is obviously the most seriously affected because he has been unconsciously using his powers long before he became a supervillain while working as a watchmaker. Meanwhile, Nathan, despite being a morally ambivalent politician, made little use of his powers and was generally less idiotic or psychotic then most of the other cast with powers. Finally, the result of severe abuse of one's powers not only has a negative effect on one's brain but ultimately {{spoiler|gives it a fatal tumor,}} as in the case of Hiro, whose Time-Space warping abilities unwittingly accelerated the process.
* On the other hand, Micah has demonstrated how powerful technopathy can be, and he's probably the smartest character on the show.
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== The Turtle and Mr. Muggles are arch-nemeses. ==
...the Turtle wants to force Dark Future v. 3.0. In this future, Matt marries Daphne, which brings him, her and Molly Walker together, which reveals Present!Peter and Sylar's location, cascading into a chain of events that causes Sylar to go nuclear and kill everyone in Costa Verde, which includes a certain spunky Pomeranian. The Turtle wants nothing less than to be the only "magical pet" in the Heroesverse. Leading Matt to Daphne is the first step in this scheme, which is so horrendous it would put Light Yagami to shame.
* Notice how {{spoiler|Usutu is "alive" at the end of Volume 3.}} Does this prove anything? NOBODY KNOWS. WHAT A TWEEEEEEST!
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== Canfield's vortex-creation power is a two-way street. ==
That is, he is able to open vortices back into the "real world" from wherever it is he sent himself. In various other 'verses, there tend to be two kinds of teleportation - the direct, instantaneous transmittance between two places, and the traveling through some other kind of space or dimension. Hiro's seems to be the first; it's possible that Canfield might be capable of the second.
== The reason Parkman has the same power as his father is... ==
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How else is it possible for Hiro to so quickly turn around and stab Ando, especially after having just reconciled with him for being a bad friend? And the whole "I must make sacrifices" speech was ''in English'', which it wouldn't have been if he just wanted to talk to Ando; the speech was likely for Knox and Daphne's benefit. Finally, it's been shown before that Hiro's more than willing to make hidden plans and not tell Ando about it. So, he has a plan to somehow either bring Ando back, ([[Death Is Cheap|not that that's all that hard]]), or to fake having killed him in the first place.
* Possible for the death to be faked, as Hiro was seen buying fake blood and a prop sword from a novelty shop beforehand. Maybe this is one of the plans Hiro's come up with that Ando is let in on...
* Another
* Confirmed! Hiro {{spoiler|used his time travel powers to fake Ando's death, which Ando knew about in a basic sense: the look was probably surprise mixed with some acting.}} As for Daphne, she either wasn't paying attention or, with her character having been revealed to have {{spoiler|[[Even Evil Has Standards|limits on what she'll condone]],}} perhaps she "wasn't paying attention" in that sense.
* Hiro {{spoiler|teleported before Daphne and Knox arrived.}}
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== The formula is [[The 4400|Promicin]]. ==
This would create a great way to have a [[Fully
== Adam Monroe isn't being recruited into the [[Legion of Doom]]; Pinehearst simply wants his blood so they can revive Arthur Petrelli. Afterwards, he'll have [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|Outlived His Usefulness.]] ==
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== "Sylar" will become a [[Legacy Character]] ==
As noted on the main article page, Peter and Gabriel are [[Shadow Archetype
* Alternatively, {{spoiler|Arthur Petrelli will assume that mantle, since he stole all of Peter's powers and rendered him depowered.}}
== The writers are trying to remove all "power mimic" abilities from the show ==
* Sylar has seemingly given up his, and Peter loses his just in time for the viewer to learn of an ability to synthetically induce powers in a person. Arthur has some sort of power-vampire ability, but he's a villain, so ''clearly'' his chances of sticking around are slim to nil.
== Maurie, Matt's Father, is the big bad, not Arthur. ==
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The writers did.
* More to the point, it just feels like the characters are shoving this theory down our throats. If it was just Claire's [[Lampshade Hanging|comment about Peter's unlikely survival]], then it'd be okay. But then we had Peter elaborating on it further, and Arthur mentioning the unlikelihood as well. All this could be setting us up to ''expect'' Sylar to be the one who saved him so they can throw in the twist that it wasn't.
** Either way, mentioning that ''three times in a row'' is a case of [[Viewers
== Arthur didn't actually kill Maury. ==
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== Nathan Petrelli is Lindermann's son. ==
It appears that similar powers tend to run in the family. Matt & Maury Parkman have mind-reading and control abilities. Arthur, Gabriel and Peter all have "power-soaking" abilities. Nathan's flying ability doesn't fit. But Lindermann can heal others and Claire, Nathan's daughter, can heal herself. Claire therefore got her healing ability from Grampa Lindermann. It also explains why Lindermann was so interested in Nathan. Angela is not a very nice person, and it's hardly a stretch to think that she fooled around with another elder super or two.
* That, or inheriting abilities skip a generation. Nathan's ability was synthetic. (Or Angela is lying).
** Er... if it skipped a generation, Peter and Sylar wouldn't have them, either.
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== The end of "Villains", with Usutu dead and Hiro about to lose his powers, is actually a vision from the time-travelling dreams ==
Hiro seems to be used a lot lately for did-that-really-happen endings (cf. "killing" Ando). Also, this storyline would be incredibly pointless (even for a Hiro storyline) if Hiro just loses his powers right after learning what he needs to fight Arthur.
* It's comparable to the end of Season 1's "Parasite" where Pete goes into Mohinder's apartment and gets his head cut open by Sylar just as the "to be continued" pops up on screen.
* Ando is going to charge up and hit Arthur with a rock or something. Not only is it in-character for him to attack like that (see "I'm being awesome!" from a couple episodes back), but this pure-normal, not even Badass guy running up to save his friend from the most powerful man on the planet... that doubles as [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] ''and'' [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]. Those two are a ''team'', through and through.
** This turns out to be mostly true. {{spoiler|Arthur easily shrugs off Ando's attack, but while Arthur's distracted by one of Usutu's paintings, Ando bounces back, grabs Hiro, and manages to get him to teleport them the hell outta there before Arthur can finish sucking out Hiro's brains.}}
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And he, not being fully transformed yet, is susceptable to them. Hence the Moya. Even he himself is not aware of this aility, which is why it hasn't been mentioned on the show; he's not going to get many more chances to be happy, and so it might not show up again. He was, of course, only 'happy' in the first place because of his new abilities.
== [[Marvel Comics]] [[Executive Meddling|Executively Meddled]] with one of their [[Shout
In "It's Coming", Hiro was in shock about some of Marvel's recent big plots: [[Captain America (comics)]]'s death, [[Spider-Man]]'s unmasking in ''[[Marvel Civil War]]'', and the mysterious "Red Hulk" character. Of the three, Spidey's was already resolved as part of the much-hated ''One More Day'', and Hiro should be griping about that story's dissolution of Spidey's marriage instead. One suspects Marvel didn't want to get more backlash from people hearing of that, and somehow pulled rank to have the writers use a slightly outdated reference. (Out of curiosity, what ''was'' Spidey's marital status eighteen years ago when Hiro was 10?)
* Peter and Mary Jane would've been newlyweds in 1990. (The wedding occurred in Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21 in 1987.)
* Hiro couldn't have summed up "One More Day" as quickly as the other things. Also, he seemed to be grabbing comics at random. It's not obvious at a glance that a post-OMD Spidey story is all that different (which was the point), but comics between Civil War and OMD were ''all about'' his identity being public. The Red Hulk bit is more
** Then again, there's another question which we haven't brought up yet. Back when Hiro was just starting to use his power, he was notorious for leaping back and forth through time as well as space. Could it be possible that Hiro and Ando have been displaced a few months back in time, which is why we have the slightly-dated references? (This also explains why there would be another Ninth Wonders comic out, even though Isaac told the delivery guy that the unfinished one was the "last".)
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== The Catalyst is Ando. ==
Ando is a [[Muggle]]
* On the other hand, there were plenty of obvious hints that Sylar was the one who saved Peter. Then, it turns out, he did.
** In the end, {{spoiler|it WAS Hiro.}} For a minute anyway.
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== Hiro will accidentally kill Gabriel Gray in 1991 ==
Because it's the only way to painlessly deal with the sheer mountain of retcon bullshit this season. As for what to do with Zachary Quinto, since EVERYONE loves him so much, they could always re-do that whole "The guy that who looks like Sylar is actually his long-lost identitcal twin" plot twist * coughAliLartercough*
== The Writers of Heroes are reading this page ==
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Otherwise, why would he have acted so unconcerned about his death when that death apparently destroyed the brain for his uses? He didn't even make an attempt to recover it. Arthur is probably the only person above Sylar on the scale of power, and it seems unlike him to allow something like that to go to waste.
== Sylar is a displaced [[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons character]]. ==
Let's see: an amusing sociopath who is frequently given to homicidial tendencies (how else do Springfeldians start riots at the drop of a hat?) that is completely immune to [[Character Development]]...
** He should just show up on ''[[The Simpsons]]''. Mr. Burns would make him Vice President of Communications or something. Claude should, too, since he's a crabby misogynist who would probably spend a fair amount of time at Moe's, when he's not randomly helping Bart get out of a fix because he just likes the kid for some reason.
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== The Heroes have been given their powers for some greater purpose. ==
To repel a [[
== Powered-up Ando will die very soon after bringing Hiro back to the present. ==
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== Ando will restore Hiro's powers with his own. ==
Either permanently or through ocassional zapping, Ando will be able to use his "super charger" abilities to allow Hiro to access his now dormant powers. Additionally, while he will be able to restore most of Hiro's powers, he won't be able to give him back his time travelling abilities. With Peter having lost this abiliy as well when his powers were taken, there will be no more regular time travel in the Heroes universe (except when Ando and Daphne combine their own powers).
* Jossed. Through Matt Parkman Jr. (aka, "Baby Touch-&-Go"), Hiro got his time-freezing back.
** Sorta...
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== [[Jesus]] is an empath ==
He could change water into wine, heal the sick, was persuasive, could see the future and rose from the dead after being "killed." Peter, Sylar or Arthur could all be distant descendants of Jesus who stole powers from common folk he laid hands on.
* Or hell, take it a step further: Peter goes back in time and ''becomes'' Jesus. Or better yet, Peter accidentally teleports himself back to [[Bible Times]], where he meets the real Jesus, who doesn't live up to expectations. Peter tries to get him to become the savior he knows he can be, only to fall in love with Mary Magdalene, causing Jesus to swear revenge and seemingly be killed. Peter [[But Now I Must Go]]'s, so Mary promises him that he'll grow up with the stories of the messiah he always wanted. Then, back in the present day, the second coming happens and Jesus is
** Thus, Peter Petrelli becomes Simon Peter.
** A scarier, weirder, and much more awesome possibility: '''Sylar steals Hiro's powers, goes back in time and becomes Jesus.''' [[Mind Screw|Figure that one out.]]
** We have a trope for this: [[No Such Thing
== The Writers have started relegating character twists to coin flips ==
In particular, if the coin comes up heads, the character changes Petrelli-parity (someone who was a Petrelli now isn't or vice versa). If the coin comes up tails, the character switches sides (Good/Evil doesn't apply anymore, so we'll say they switch between "Team A" and "Team 1"). If the coin lands on its side, both occur. At this point, we can conclude that the thickness of the coin is about three times the diameter.
== Usutu is not dead ==
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== Vampire legends were started after Medieval Europeans were exposed to superhumans. ==
Specifically, the legends on how to kill them. Now, it's been through some [[Adaptation Decay|Adaption Decay]], but the original was a stake through the heart, decapitation, and then burn the remains. Let's compare that to regeneration. If a regenerator were staked through the heart, the implement being left in them would keep them dead, because the heart couldn't heal through it - but, on the other hand, once the stake was removed, they'd just get back up again. Decapitation is a bit more permanent, and people seem to think it's the be-all, end-all killing mechanism... but how do you know for sure that you can't just put the head back on, and then let the power take care of the rest? Lastly, burning. Decapitation may be thorough, but there'd be no coming back from being turned into ash and then scattered in three different directions.
* Much of Sylar's appearances in Season 1 were influenced by the old silent film ''Nosferatu''. This is especially true of his presence in Isaac's paintings, including the grasping shadow that menaces Claire in the depition of Homecoming and the claw-like hands of the figure in Sylar's version of "The President Stands Alone" (Future!"Nathan" in the Whitehouse). In the first season his ability itself was hinted at as being vampire-like. Though this was ret-conned in Season 3 during his conversation with Claire, the vampire motif was hinted at again when Angela introduced the concept of Sylar's ability causing a "hunger". Though it is possibly more of a stretch, vampires in some of the original folklore display a few quirks, such as an obsessive-compulsive nature and the need to prey on family members. The first could be said to apply to Sylar's ability of Intuitive Aptitude, while second could be explained that, since abilities run in families, others with his ability would likely be compelled by their Hunger to make victims of their own super-powered relatives... Which would in turn lead to a unique set of acquired abilities that might explain the incredibly varied set of powers displayed by vampires in mythology. It also offers a possible, more palatable explaination for {{spoiler|Samson's motive in giving his son up in the first place}}, if he wanted to avoid this.
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His new ability seems to be different from the old one (he needs to touch the other person for one thing), and so far we have only seen him use the power of the last Hero he touched. Flight would definitely have been useful at the end of the first episode of season 3.5, but Peter made no attempt to use it.
* This is almost certainly the case, since he went from owning the guards using Mohinder's power to getting smacked around after brushing against Tracy.
* While it may be wishful thinking, it seems like Peter had touched most of the people he had gotten powers from the first time around, and it would be decently safe to say that some people's powers may "radiate" around them, causing Peter to absorb them. Also of note is that in season one, unless he consciously thought about using another power, he generally used the last one he had gotten if still in their presence..
* Confirmed.
** Well, at least until the writers decide that it would be a ''brilliant'' decision to let Hiro get his time travel back so that Peter can copy it. Naturally, he'll meet up with Past!Peter, and copy his ability. So Peter gets his original power back and his brain decides to just commit [[Seppuku]] this time, leading to him regaining his [[Idiot Ball]]... and the writers will have wasted ''and'' ruined his [[Character Development]] at the same time!
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The serum? ''It's a placebo''.
** Still sounds like their the next step in evoloution. More so when you put it that way.
*** Only if [[Lamarck Was Right]].
== Our heroes crashes onto the Island from [[Lost]] ==
Real simple: at the begin of the current volume (Fugitives), {{spoiler|our heroes have been round up by Nathan and his buddies in the government, and are on the way to Gitmo when Claire hijacks the plane and helps free the prisoners and they fall out of the sky. They land onto the Island and [[Hilarity Ensues]].}} The monster is one of Matt's mind powers, the heroes produce the mysterious whispers, and they are the source of the Island fever and the Islanders' recent bout of {{spoiler|time travel}}.
* [[Jossed]]. {{spoiler|They're in Arkansas.}}
** Well, there's one awesome crossover opportunity wasted.
== Micah is [[Death Note
* The message Claire receives at the end of Episode 15, in addition to [https://web.archive.org/web/20151105194031/http://www.nbc.com/
** He was pretty much behind everything that everyone who wasn't Danko, Nathan, HRG or Sylar did in Volume 4.
== Ando's Abilities ==
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* Travel to alternate realities.
* (During a jump made with boosted power:) No risk of rift.
* Become a [[Doctor Who
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== Peter is now better able to control his power. ==
It now works by an act of will, like ''[[Mega Man (
== Volume 4 is a prequel to Volume 5 and the End of the World as We Know It. ==
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The Heroes-verse has some sort of an "energy field". The mutation gives the human the ability to tap into that field to accomplish a certain effect. The way that the character will tap into that power is shaped as explained by "Powers are at least partially influenced by subconscious desires" WMG, and once it is shaped, it's mostly locked in place.
Power copiers with this idea are simply characters who evolved even beyond that - they can retain multiple "shapes".
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* having people whom he thought were friends - including his own ''real'' brother - sign on with the bad team
* eventually, having to prepare himself to kill his own father
* killing his father, albeit indirectly
* ostracizing himself from his family and the brother he has always admired and respected
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== Usutu used the time Matt was in a trance to hypnotize him into being able to simulate the mental-pattern needed to see the future. THAT is how Matt gained precognitive powers. ==
It's been said that Matt can do anything with his powers involving the mind. Wouldn't it follow that, since most of the Precogs we've seen had to alter their consciousness through drugs or music, that Matt would be able to institute the same state in himself? Usutu even could have set up a "program" that would cause Matt to see him as a spirit guide after Usutu's death.
== Micah is Rebel. ==
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** Confirmed.
** Although this was confirmed, he wasn't the only already known character it could have been. Hana Gitelman would fit.
*** Technically, the graphic novels show Micah is not acting as Rebel alone: he is aided by {{spoiler|Sparrow Redhouse, [[The Scrappy|West]], and some random British woman.}}
== Danko is Rebel. ==
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== Mr Muggles is an animagus. ==
I'm not sure if this belongs in Grand Unifying Guessing, so I'll just keep it here for now.
Alright. The idea is this: all the super-powers we've seen in the series are actually an advanced form of the "accidental magic" from the Harry Potter universe, to the point whereby it actually begins to tailor itself to a specific person rather than purely random effect. Of course, the Ministry of Magic (and/or whatever the American counterpart is) are very interested in these strange, semi-magical abilities, so they decide to keep tabs on them - especially Claire Bennet, the one with the power to come back from the dead, which should be [[Magic
Even if this isn't the actual case in the show (and, let's be honest, it probably isn't) it would still make one ''hell'' of a fanfic.
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== Danko has a power. ==
Wouldn't be the first time [
* Wouldn't be the first time it happened in the show, either. Nathan, anybody?
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It seems highly unlikely that someone could be so fanatically against powered people with no motivation besides a ten-minute slideshow given by Nathan. Unless the writers are trying to recreate the same level of unmotivated jerkassness that characterized Pa Patrelli last season, it seems logical that at some point they'll give him a history with powered people. That its Sylar's dad who did it is just speculation.
== Las Vegas, [[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]], [[The X
Both KR and Heroes have a Montecito, the setting of Las Vegas. Linderman was apparently running the casino, which would fit with the Montecito's high owner turnover ratio. It's possible the Company was killing or persuading the previous owners, using people with powers, in order to get their hands on it. Also, the Shanti virus, in an alternate universe, is what kills everyone in Stephen King's ''[[The Stand]]'', except much earlier (This is supported by King himself, who said that [[The Stand]] universe was just an alternate version of ours). Possibly due to time-travel, or the Company experimenting with an early form of the virus. The Company coverups would also explain all the weird stuff that keeps happening to [[The X
** There's a running list for this on the [[Grand Unifying Guesses]] page.
== There's an odd quirk of physics and geography in the ''Heroes'' world... ==
...where, whenever you move more than a mile or so, time and space compress greatly. Most people aren't aware of this, but Sylar's ability lets him exploit it to great
** Primatech has an office in upstate New York, so (barring traffic) it isn't that hard to travel from New Jersey to there.
*** Apparently that ''was'' the office where Dual happened, I thought it was the Odessa facility. But the general idea is, it's really easy to travel in Heroes and maybe this is why.
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== Matt's son is [[The Messiah]]. ==
...Embodied in terms of a [[X
== Micah and Molly are Rebel. ==
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== Ando's supercharging can be used to give super seizures. ==
Ando's power unleashes hidden power. Both Mohinder and Sylar have mentioned [[
* Alternatively, Ando's powers act as [[Super Empowering]] on specials, and a [[Stargate SG
== Matt's son is the Catalyst. ==
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== Sylar and Danko weren't working together before (per previous WMG) -- but they're gonna start. ==
As of last episode, Sylar is waiting in Danko's room. But I don't think he's going to kill him. What's better for Sylar: heroes scattered all over the world with no easy way to locate them, or all in one place and ''restrained'' so they can't even put up a fight? He'll help Danko corral the heroes, and Danko will go along because he's been unable to kill Sylar anyway. Like Bennet did, he'll accept Sylar as a partner in the hope of finding a way to eliminate
** It looks like you got this one right on the money, judging from the promoes for the next episode.
== Each person's DNA has one superpower it's "meant" for. ==
Otherwise it's pure coincidence that Peter got a power so similar to his old one. Yes, this theory means Peter has his original power
* This one was explicitly stated by Mohinder: it's why he was able to use a serum made from Maya's power to give himself superstrength.
== Sylar's new goal is to assume the Presidency, Take Over The World, or something else along those lines ==
After spending a few episodes complaining about how merely acquiring abilities has lost its appeal and how he's hoping to find a new purpose after meeting his father, Sylar finally runs into his father, who accuses him of only going after "small game" and proclaims that if he were young again, he'd go after the "big game", acquire "real power" and "change the world" just because he can.
This ties in rather nicely with the Dark Future 1.0, where Sylar had used his powers to become President of the United States. A lot of other elements from that future are occuring in Volume 4 (most notably Nathan being the apparent Big Bad and Supers being hunted by the government).
I'm guessing Sylar is going to take Samson's words to heart, and will try to either obtain real power over the country or attempt to make his mark by changing the face of the Earth. This will no doubt precipitate Volume 4's climactic crisis. After <s> Nathan's</s> Danko's Nazis fail miserably to stop him, the Heroes will use their powers to save the world (for the Nth time), exposing themselves to the public and showing the world that abilities have the potential for great good as well as evil.
Alternatively, Sylar will try to bring down the entire U.S. Government (the "big game"), and it will be up to the Heroes the government has been persecuting to save the government's sorry ass from Sylar.
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== Tracy is still alive ==
This isn't particularly wild, but still needs to be on here. In X-Men, Iceman's abilities allow him to survive shattering and reform himself; Tracy's ability may be an homage or work similarly. Her eye blinked, and also, there was none of the viscera that she left whenever she froze
* I'm seconding this idea, and would have suggested it myself if I hadn't been beaten to the punch. I didn't see the eye blink, but the last shot of her broken face looked like she was crying, which reminded me of the Iceman thing. I'm thinking she'll come back somewhere on down the line as an ice woman, but in [[Shapeshifter Mode Lock]] due to having gone all the way and shattered, never again to be anything but a walking ice cube.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100128045007/http://scifiwire.com/2009/04/bryan-fuller-is-honest-ab.php Confirmed]:
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** {{spoiler|Confirmed! She's back for Volume 5, but now with [[Making a Splash|hydrokinesis]] and a liquid form, like [[Darkwing Duck|The Liquidator]] or [[Static Shock|Aquamaria]].}}
== Waffles are behind everything ==
See [https://web.archive.org/web/20140312105644/http://heroeswiki.com/Theory:Waffles this link] for more on this theory. (My favorite is that the eclipse was actually a giant waffle moving in front of the sun, although I also have a certain fondness for "Niki and Tracy's triplet sister Barbara is actually a waffle".)
== Barbara will be introduced within the next few episodes. ==
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== Ando's power is not merely "supercharging", but generalised energy generation and manipulation. ==
The first time we saw it used, he was generating "Hero energy", which simply amplifies the powers of those who have them. When he tried to fight the agents coming to take Matt Jr, he turned it into the kind of [[Pure Energy]] you expect to find in [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]. Should he practice more with it, he'd be able to generate and manipulate ''all'' forms of energy - thermal energy to boil water, electrical energy to never need batteries again (without relying on Matt Jr), and so forth. Considering the "red lightning" nature of the power, it seems that electrical energy will be easier to master. Not to mention, it would be ''totally killer-awesome'' to see him and Sylar throw down, each with their own
== Hiro and Ando are ''already'' in a homosexual relationship. ==
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== Arthur Petrelli took Charles Deveaux's telepathy. ==
Not only would this explain where Arthur got the power from but it would also explain why Peter didn't/couldn't absorb that power from Charles during Season One, though he was already having prophetic dreams because of Angela.
* The number of telepaths on this show is unusually high, given that most abilities shown are generally unique. Arthur having stolen his telepathy from Charles would reduce this a little, and drop the number of "natural" telepaths down to just Charles, Maury, and Matt.
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** Not only did they miss him, but they let him publish a book and go on the lecture circuit! Surely that would bring unwanted attention to people with abilities that the company would rather avoid. He is also the one that unleashed Sylar onto the scene. This latest episode revealing the company's prime motivation really doesn't mesh with Chandra's backstory at all - that or the company is completely incompetent (which I don't think is an unreasonable conclusion to draw).
*** They didn't miss him. Word of God has stated they wiped all his memories of Coyote Sands but presumably allowed him to live because he was seen as harmless. And given that no one actually took his theories seriously the Company probably saw no reason to stop him publishing his book as he was dismissed as a crackpot
*** Given their history with Sylar, it's pretty clear the Company isn't the most well-run organization around.
*** Re: the company's prime motivation. Noah mentioned a few times in season 1 that the Company had "lost its way" and had been corrupted. But since at least three of the same people (Linderman, Angela and Bob) who were in that diner were still active in the Company's management, this might have been retconned (or it might refer to stuff like the internecine conflicts in the Company in the graphic novels, like the Kill Squad, the rebellious [[
*** Alternatively Noah just doesn't know what he's talking about. Given he didn't even know who was really running the Company despite working for them since the seventies, for all that he's a bad ass he clearly isn't as smart as he thinks he is. So the Company's purpose may well have always been warped but Noah was just too much of a "Company Man" to realise it until Claire came along and he started questioning orders.
== There's a big alien spaceship in orbit which activates and deactivates powers. ==
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Angela did say they erased minds in addition to killing people and buying their silence. Chandra being "blanked" would explain away a lot of the continuity problems caused by his working with evolved humans in the USA some 20+ years before he came up with his theories on superpowers based on the Human Genome Project and some 40+ years before he published a book, ruined his career as a serious geneticist and traveled to America where he was shocked to find a man who proved his theories correct (Sylar) before dying. All of his actions in Season One still fit the timeline if he doesn't remember Coyote Sands and what he did there - though the suggestion that he had reoccuring nightmares suggests that - on some level - he did remember.
So why did The Company just let him go? Angela probably suggested compassion, having seen in her visions that Chandra was a good man deep down and that he didn't want what would happen to happen. And The Company founders were probably naive enough at that point to believe that that would be the end of it and that there was no reason to keep an eye on him afterwards. He didn't come back on the radar until his book was published, at which point they sent Eden as a feeler to see what his intentions were and then brought Noah in to recruit Chandra.
* It also helps that Angela had no idea that Papa <s> Suchong</s> Suresh and his poor handling of the situation was most responsible for the military going nuts and mowing down the entire village. As a result she was probably more inclined to be charitable towards him, only thinking of him as the somewhat hapless scientist who was polite and reassuring to everyone.
** Word of God has confirmed that Papa Suresh was indeed mind wiped by Charles Deveaux.
== Peter's real power is 'plot perception' ==
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== Arthur is alive, but no longer in this universe ==
Between his sheer, undiluted comic-book evil, all of the abilities he had absorbed, and the stress inherent in having a gun fired at his forehead, Arthur Petrelli's mind pretty much folded in on itself. No longer willing or able to take it, he channeled everything he had into his twice-over power of space-time manipulation, left behind a copy of himself a la [[
== Hiro will die in the finale. ==
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== Sylar can shapeshift clothes because he is naked. ==
[https://web.archive.org/web/20121025045915/http://boards.9thwonders.com/ 9th Wonders Boards] came up with the Naughty Naked Sylar Theory to determine why he can shapeshift [[
* Have we ever seen him shapeshift clothes? When he was talking to himself as his mother, for instance, I think he was wearing his mother's sweater from the box of evidence, and he already had a trenchcoat on before he became Sandra.
** He was wearing the same clothes as Micah when he rescued him from Danko's men and his clothes shifted back and forth when he was "talking" to his mother.
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== Sylar is actually little Noah's ''[[Mister Seahorse|mother.]]'' ==
He can shapeshift now which includes full [[Gender Bender|gender swap]].
* Any leads on the father? Perhaps "Uncle" [[Foe Yay|Peter]]? (Yeah, they're separated now but still close. Future!Peter pays child support and comes home on the weekends.)
** It's gotta be [[Foe Yay|Danko]]. (Perhaps things got a little crazy at that night club...)
** [[Foe Yay|Noah Bennet]]? Sylar PRETENDS TO BE NOAH'S WIFE!
** Or he's a [[Truly Single Parent]] by way of a turkey baster.
== Sylar can use [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819130146/http://heroeswiki.com/Clairsentience Clairsentience] to learn a person's life story by touching a sample of their DNA. ==
This is the only way Sylar would have a chance of being able to fully "become" a person using his shape-shifting after touching an item that belonged to that person. His mother's favorite snowglobe and Nathan's jacket would have a fairly limited range of memories to access but if he could tap into the DNA left on such an item...
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* See also: every single Sylar-related plot development in season 3.
== Sylar is [[Knights of the Old Republic|Darth Revan]]. ==
...and once he gets his memories back he must find the missing pieces of the Starforge.
* ...wow. Even for a WMG... Ok. 1) The Star FORGE never had bits missing, the MAP did. 2)This would require some massive messing around with the past from Hiro, which I doubt he would accept. 3) Sylar would probably not fit in, with a bizarre language and biochemical makeup (the SW series happens far before the English language existed, and as we all know from Doctor Who, just because it looks human doesn't mean it is.)
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== Tracy's [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|hit list:]] ==
* Along with random Building 26 [[Mook
* Also, possibly Rachel, the (fairly ineffectual) agent tasked with keeping an eye on Claire and taking down Doyle, and she'll use her teleportation power (which she got from the formula in the webisodes) to escape. Not that Tracy has a grudge against her, specifically, but she might just be going after anyone associated with 26, and this might be a way to give Rachel the [[Ascended Extra]] treatment.
== "Nathan" will be revealed to not be Nathan when Tracy comes for her revenge. ==
* Things will start to [[Incredibly Lame Pun|tick, so to speak,]] when he [[Healing Factor|doesn't drown]] / [[Mind Over Matter|uses powers]] [[Shock and Awe|he's not supposed to have]] to save himself and Peter. (i.e. [[Berserk Button|Leave my brother alone!]] Zzzzzaaaappp!!) Expect much [[Wangst]] and [[Split Personality|the emergence of the body's original occupant to follow.]]
== Peter will be the one to discover that "Nathan" is not Nathan. ==
Sylar never took Nathan's power. Therefore, the next time Peter is too cheap to pay for a cab (or is trying to avoid Mohinder, who apparently is the only cabbie allowed to pick Peter up), he will find that "Nathan" has entirely the wrong set of powers to be his brother. Peter may even recognise Sylar by his powers.
Peter will most likely react by yelling about how he's been betrayed and running off to become a terrorist. Claire may go with him.
* [http://img9.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sylarflying.jpg Sylar picked up flight in the Season finale], he just used the "empathy" method instead of the slice and dice method. But otherwise you're right, if Peter tries to swap out with "Nathan" he's [[This Is Your Brain
** Actually, its thought that he can fly through telekinesis. It explains away several problems such as the "No Footsteps" comment in season 1. He telekinetically lifts himself which is why in the seen he was all billow-y.
*** In that scene, however, the sound effect implied that he'd picked up Nathan's power through empathy. Of course, if he ''didn't'' have Nathan's power the [[Mind Rape]] thing would fall apart even more hilariously and quickly.
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== Alternatively... Multiple abilities may not give away "Nathan." ==
[[Idiot Hero|Remember who we're dealing with.]] Angela and Bennet may try to cover Nathan suddenly having multiple abilities by telling them that he was always a [[Mega Manning|power mimic]] like his dad and Peter, but just never accessed it before.
== Nathan/Sylar/Gabriel's memories will return but with a severe case of [[Amnesiac Dissonance]]. ==
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== Sylar is actually only evil because of his eyebrows. They call the shots. ==
* He always does this weird expression with them, the shots focus on them, once there was even a scene where he himself appears to be mesmerized by / communicate with them.
** I thought that was just your standard [[Angry Eyebrows]]. He did that a lot during that brief [[Heel Face Turn|"Saint Sylar" arc]]. Whenever he got pissed off he would [[Death Glare|glower]] and do that thing with his eyebrows.
== Angela's sister, Alice at one point met and worked with Adam Munroe. ==
* The newspaper clippings that Bob showed Mohinder when discussing Adam and his followers ("Snowstorm in Miami" that could have read “Tsunami Wipes out Eastern Seaboard") suggests that someone who can control the weather was involved.
== Alice will be the powerful new [[Big Bad]] for the next volume. ==
* Angela confronted Alice with the truth to set her on this course because she knew it would be necessary to bring everyone (namely her children and grandchildren including a certain [[Replacement Goldfish]]) together. (Using the same logic of blowing up New York was necessary to unite the world.)
== That's not Tracy in the teaser for Volume 5. ==
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== Linderman's brain was the one in the vault, slowly being healed into a full body by a combination of his own ability and Adam's blood. ==
This would bring back a convincing big bad and would be all kinds of awesome.
* Linderman's brain is currently plotting world <s> domination</s> healing with [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Lordgenome]] and [[Futurama|Nixon's head.]]
== Abigail the [[Barrier Warrior]] of the [[All There in the Manual|Graphic Novels]] is [[Invisibility|Claude's]] daughter. ==
* [[Fantastic Four|They have similar powers.]]
* Claude was "hiding one of them" and thought that since Bennet was raising "one of us" he'd understand.
** "I won't hunt my own people."
* She was living with him in London when [[Tyke Bomb|Elle]] showed up (and seemed jealous and upset that Claude was giving Elle advice. Both living and working at the [[Ancient Conspiracy|Company]] Claude probably got to know Elle better than any blood relatives he was hiding.)
* [[No One Could Survive That|She might be the reason Claude survived Bennet's attempt on his life. Her barriers might have lessened the impact of being shot and falling off a bridge.]]
* He's very protective of her (stays behind to fight off the Building 26 [[Mooks]]) and begins to explain by saying "She’s my…" cut off by explosion / mayhem / mooks storming in.
** And in a later issue, Claude tells Abigail that she's just like her mother. It's possible that he's her uncle, but it's more fun to imagine him as her father.
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== Powers make you stupider ==
This may have already been said but I'm gonna go for it. Mohinder suggests that if humans used more than 10% of their brain, they could be capable of incredible powers. What if the powers don't just use extra brainspace, they use up some of the brain usually used for thinking. It would explain the apparently omnipresent [[Idiot
== Peter is in a coma, and it's [[All Just a Dream]]. ==
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* And his father was a [[Complete Monster]] of a villain with [[For the Evulz|absolutely no other character other than being really, really evil]] because he has a ''really'' bad relationship with his father, and his subconscious reflected that.
* After season one, his condition deteriorated, which is the reason for the severe drop in quality since then.
* Yes, so funny we listed it twice! Might be good for a [[Mind Screw]] episode involving an [[Cuckoo Nest|illusionist or mind control villain]]. But otherwise (in case as per previous WMG the writers really ARE reading this page), [[Writer Cop Out|SERIOUSLY DON'T DO THIS.]]
** Or we'll find you.
** Don't even make an illusion of this type of thing, as it's a bit ripoffy. How? Person with special abilities gets illusions which may not be illusions of the entire world being fake, their friends being fake and the only people who are real are their family? Sounds like the plot of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Normal Again]]''
== Isaac's painings don't just predict future events, they [[Self
It's been a while since I saw Season 1, but I seem to recall that Peter found Claire from clues in the paintings, which cause him to be present at her homecoming dance. And in the graphic novels, a woman gets hit by a train after storming angrily out of an art exhibit in which Isaac painted her getting hit by a train. Except when people are trying to prevent one of his paintings from coming true, their reaction on seeing one is usually to go to the place/ find the person depicted. Hiro and Ando's comic-book road trip in Season 1 would be an extreme example.
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Not being able to cope with her sons being dead, Angela is now in a mental institution of some sort where she imagines a reality where her sons are still alive.
This explains the [[Aborted Arc
== "Nathan" is going to realise he's Sylar, and Angela and Matt are on his hit list of revenge. ==
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== A common power, perhaps secondary in Heroes is stupidity ==
This sounds crazy, but hear me out. We can infer that its not just high power levels making you stupid, or else Sylar and pre-superhug Arthur would be drooling vegetables (Peter... well, he's [[Idiot Hero|Peter]]. Some supers are perfectly capable of being rational and intelligent, or else the whole thing would have been obvious ages ago. However, the stronger, more unusual mutations (bending space and time to your will, mind control, etc.) often come with the brain being impaired, in the least. Peter's frequent bouts of [[What an Idiot!]] moments are due to him absorbing the stupidity powers of a ridiculous number of mutants. Sylar, meanwhile, is capable of plotting with his powers because he's probably the best super-neurologist in the world, so he knows about it, maybe using telekinetic surgery on himself or shapeshifting to temporarily set it back. This would explain why, among other things, Arthur Petrelli went from "Mastermind with a new Company" to "Idiot who [[Idiot Ball|stood in front of a hovering bullet while Sylar monologued]]" and why these people have never thought of really changing the world with some power like Ted Sprague's.
== Powers are NOT evolutionary in nature ==
Most of this theory comes from the eclipse in season 3, Uluru in the online comics, the Catalyst. Firstly, when the eclipse occured, Mohinder could find absolutely no (pseudo) scientific explanation for why it took away their powers. Admittedly, he didn't have much time to search, but the fact that he was utterly baffled is somewhat suspect, especially given previous methods of surpressing powers he could've looked into. Secondly, the recurring appearances of Uluru. Despite the creators stating that only exists in the realms of the comic, given that Isaacs power were precognitive, it seems to hint at some magma, rocky...thing actually existing, which again I can't find a suitable pseudo science explanation for. Thirdly, the catalyst. This doesn't seem to be a power, it's tranferable, it's not especially well-explained where it came from in the first place, and there are more than a few mystical connotations for it. Feel free to shoot the theory down if so you wish, but I resolutely refuse to believe that these powers don't have some kind of magic component.
* [[Eldritch Abomination|Uluru huh?]] You see we're all related to this family up in [[Lovecraft Country|New England...]]
** ...and my own Uluru theory was just a [[Dishing Out Dirt|earthbender]] creation.
* This is what I've always been thinking. One more thing: the genetic component (that Papa Suresh used to make his list, that the Company found when they analyzed Sylar in season 1, etc.) isn't the ''cause'' of the powers, they're a side-effect. Some sort of chromosomal damage inflicted by the presence of magic in their bodies.
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== There is no "empathy" aspect to Sylar's power ==
Sylar simply uses clairsentience to gain enough knowledge about the person to copy their abilities without cutting open their heads. This method takes longer, and is less accurate, but it works. This is how Sylar was able to steal Nathan and the shapeshifter's ability without cutting their heads open.
== All "evolved humans" have the same ability. ==
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== In Volume 2/Volume 3, Peter never had a chance to save Caitlin from The Plague Future ==
It's worth noting that the events of the last few episodes of Volume 2 and the first few episodes of Volume 3 took place over a matter of days. During that time, Peter was either preocupied with stopping the plague from being released in the present, investigating the assassination attempt on Nathan, trapped in the body of a locked-up on Level 5 convict, on-the-run pretending to be said convict in order to stop other super-powered criminals from causing trouble and, finally, being kidnapped by his future self and dragged to an alternate future where things had changed for the worse AGAIN.
Basically, there was one long chain of events and disasters which didn't give Peter any time to stop and think about saving his girlfriend.
* It's worth noting that for most of that period, Peter didn't have the power to time-travel. And once he did have his powers back, he was more concerned about stopping the new crisis in front of him... which lead to him losing his powers completely.
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== In Chapter Two, Peter DID try to save Caitlin from The Plague Future off-camera, but failed to do so. ==
At the start of Episode 210: Truth & Consquences, Peter did travel back to the future, at the same point that his past self and Caitlin were getting captured. He managed to stay just long enough to grab an evacuation notice before forcibly being returned to the present.
There is a suggestion that a day or two has passed since Peter regained his memories and that he has been trying to go back to the future to save Caitlin but that he hasn't been able to for some reason and getting to that point was the closest he could come.
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== Peter will finally wise up and use the Haitian's power to neutralize Sylar ==
...because really, that's the only way outside of a hallucination that Peter could get anywhere near Sylar. Unless, of course, Sylar's in one of his [[Immortal Life Is Cheap|masochistic]] moods.
And, to prove he's still an idiot, Peter'll absorb the Haitian's power, losing his healing ability forever, instead of just dragging the Haitian along.
* Confirmed to the full extent. Except one thing, Peter already lost healing a few episodes back for flying. I do agree, an idiotball move.
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== Sylar is a [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|stand-in for mankind]] ==
Think about it: What is the special power of humans? We can't run as fast as cheetahs, aren't as strong as gorillas, can't swim as well as fish, and don't have impressive claws and fangs as lions. Let alone greater powers like electricity, as electric eels have, or natural poison, or the ability to fly. But thanks to our brains, we can ''understand'' how things work. And thanks to our opposable thumbs, we can create tools more sophisticated any animal can use, and construct mechanisms as intricate as, for example, watches. Sylar was a watchmaker before he became Sylar. And yes, while this means that [[Humans Are
== All Powers can be trained and evolved, one way or another ==
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Lydia already wanted Peter to become their new leader. When Samuel's out of the way, there will be a power vacuum, and I doubt many of the carnies will want to step up. The Carnival needs to stay in operation for the carnies to be truly happy, so a new leader will be needed. On the one hand, Peter would take the job, since it's more or less the right thing to do, and Peter always does the right thing. On the other hand, Edgar certainly has experience with the Carnival, plus the trust.
== Stuff happened off-screen between Peter and Sylar during ''The Wall.'' ==
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== There is neither an idiot ball, nor glass skin ==
A lot of WMG's on this page seem to explain the idiot ball some of the heroes seem to carry. But what if the normal human in the heroes universe is actually this stupid. In the first episode with Parkman and Molly, the police knew there was a girl not accounted for. Yet somehow they didn't find her, even though she was in the closet closest to the entrance, with the close door being barricaded. Yet for some reason, the trained detectives can't seem to find her, even though they have been searching the house for a while now.
Another theory here mentions Claire being far too prone to damage, receiving deadly damage from situation that would normally dead non-lethal damage. But look a bit further in the series. In episode 9 Claire manages to strike a fellow cheerleader unconscious in a single blow. And while cheerleading is a good exercise for arms and legs, it is not enough to strike someone unconscious in a single blow. It's also why everyone panicked when the quarterback hit Claire while running, in the heroes setting, everyone expected to break every bone in her body.
== The reason Earth would have exploded if synthetic specials had been created... ==
...is entirely because of Samuel. He grows in power based on being surrounded by other specials, thanks to absorbing the 'magnetism' these people generate. Mohinder's use (and creation!) of the compass prove that synthetic specials generate the same magnetism. Thus, the 'everybody has a power' world would absolute saturate the atmosphere with the power. With power of that magnitude, Samuel could easily have broken Earth in half, intentionally or accidentally.
[[WMG: Nathan & Peter Petrelli are really the grown-up versions of Jack & Bobby from the WB's [[Jack&
Here are the clues: Lack of father figure in their lives (as referenced in "Upon This Rock"), an all-important controlling mother, the older brother becoming the father figure for the younger son, an affinity for politics, the older brother involved in the military, lots of sibling fighting, the younger brother always being kept down by the older brother who was just trying to build him up stronger, the younger brother survives longer, and (possibly most importantly) the Jack & Bobby episode with the hunting deer incident was almost EXACTLY played out in a graphic novel involving Nathan, Peter, and Arthur. The facts are there... though if Peter is to become our President, we are ALL doomed.
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Going with the 'Abilities make you stupid'-theory, there is actually someone with the power of being really stupid. Peter unknowingly met this person prior to or during Season One. When Arthur absorbed Peters powers, he took this one too, which explains his later actions. Peter, however, being freed by this burden, has beaten Sylar {{spoiler|and also Samuel}} with his newly functional brain.
== If NBC does a two-hour special to close out the series, it will have one of two endings
Ending 1: An idealized version of the Volume 3 future, with some changes- humans and specials will live together in harmony, with specials in hiding now free to come out. The world will be fine, aside from the usual bad apples who use their powers for evil, who will be placed in Company 2.0's version of Level Five. Company 2.0 is a government-funded agency, headed by Bennet, Lauren, Mohinder, Matt, Tracy, and Angela. Peter now runs the Carnival.
Ending 2: Peter or Hiro hit the [[Reset Button]] and send us aaaaallllllll the way back to Season 1, resulting in the biggest cop-out in television history.
== Not only do [[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]] and [[Lost]] take place in the same world, they are two parts of the same story. ==
* As seen in the ledger (which is probably fake, but fits nonetheless), Adam Monroe is on the Black Rock when it crashes on the island. Magnus Hanso is also aboard and is killed either by the Man in Black or by the crash itself. Adam finds a way off the island and Richard Alpert is left behind. Richard is granted a copy of Monroe's ability by Jacob (possibly the first "special").
* Alvar Hanso, looking for the remains of Magnus, stumbles upon stories of the exploits of Takezo Kensei. He determines that Kensei and Monroe are one and the same. Shocked by the finding of people with supernatural abilities, Alvar meets with Chandra Suresh. It is here that he picks up the habit of ending his conversations with "Namaste". Alvar and Chandra together create the Coyote Sands Station. The first station of the Dharma Initiative. They begin experimenting on specials as the government begins to be concerned about the coming apocalypse and hires Enzo Valenzetti to create the Valenzetti equation.
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== Simone had a power but it was never revealed ==
* All of the other children of the company founders had abilities so there was no reason why she wasn't born with one or given an ability like Nathan was.
== Future!Ando ''didn't'' kill Future!Hiro. ==
He killed [[Chrono Trigger
== Hiro's time powers ''always''' {{spoiler|gave him tumours}}. ==
His teleportation just counteracted this by {{spoiler|teleporting them outside his body, or alternatively just not reconstituting them at his destination.}} This is an extension of a theory above that Hiro needs all of his powers to be active for them not to hurt his brain.
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