Peter Petrelli: Theories [Spoilers...newcomers plz read]

Overheal

Okay I assume anyone that reads this will have watched the pilot and the 2nd episode. dont worry, I won't spoil anything for you if you don't highlight the voodoo stuff

I do have a little homework assignment for all of you though, if you're interested. We all saw

Peter Fly[/rspoiler]right? Well, I was hoping you would keep tabs on this, because as it is uncovered a little bit later he

can use the powers of anyone he comes in proximity with.

My theory:

Peter requires direct physical contact with someone before he can mimick a power.

So I'm asking viewers to keep an eye out to see

Who Peter interacts with and how

As far as I can recall, this is the tally:

Nathan Petrelli: Flight; via touch (Nathan saves him while flying..duh)

Isaac Mendez: Precognition; unverified

anyone really wanting to find out stuff themselves stop reading here.

Hiro: Time Manipulation; touch (unverified; suspected shoulder touch)

Eden: Persuasion; touch (unverified)

Claire Bennet: Tissue regeneration; touch (running from Sylar: Peter pushed her)

Sylar: Telekenisis (at least*); touch (falling from building)

Matt Parkman: Mind Reading; can't recall

Claude: Invisibility; touch (held against a street post)

I'll keep updating this as time goes on.

As for this lad

Sylar: I think Peter only absorbed the one power (telekenisis) from him: the power that Sylar had active at the time. that will take more time to confirm, but another thing to look out for.

Eyes peeled lads!

Ivan

Wow, an most excellent theory you have going there. I like it.

thelordofcheese

Overheal wrote:

Peter requires direct physical contact with someone before he can mimick a power.

not too sure about that, mainly because

Peter could see claude before he touched him, and from the training sequence, we know that they can see eachother when invisible, so i don't think direct physical contact is needed, just proximity.
But i'd love to see if the rest of the theory holds up, or if it's ever fully explained.

Overheal

Curses.....I just watched that clip again.

However

it may have been due to Peter's unexplained clairvoiance that he is able to see him?

Remember when Claude leaves in e16; he just disappears as if normal and then hes gone.

Maybe it wasnt just added for effect?

iguana

But we've already been told that Peter is an

empath. In 6 Months Earlier Nathan's wife talks about how empathic Peter is, which is the first clue as to the nature of his power. And in The Fix Claude tells him that he is an empath. It's also why he was such a good hospice nurse.

sprinkles

As said by thelordofcheese,

I think he just needs to be close to them to mimic their powers. He hadn't touched Hiro when he stopped time to talk to him. He's power is very interesting, he can consume and keep any power he comes in contact with.... nice little twist

im...LOST

Sorry if I sound completely stupid but I have a few questions about Peters ability. Note that I have only seen to episode 11 so I obstained from reading the spoilers here.

Ok

so he can absorb powers of people and then he can use them, correct?
How come whenever he tried to fly off the climbing frame after he and his brother 'flew' he fell in a lump on the ground?

Right, but whenever he recovers from the fall after the struggle with Sylar he recovers while Claire is not around. What's up there?

If the answers come about in later episodes, I would appreciate if you could tell me if it is so that I can watch it. If no answer can be found then discuss it here!

thelordofcheese

Yeah, it becomes clearer later, starting around episode 15 i think.

sprinkles wrote:

As said by thelordofcheese,

I think he just needs to be close to them to mimic their powers. He hadn't touched Hiro when he stopped time to talk to him. He's power is very interesting, he can consume and keep any power he comes in contact with.... nice little twist

Uber Nerd time, but

i'm pretty sure that Rogue had a similar ability for a brief time in the Xmen comics, where she could recall any powers she'd ever absorbed. I wonder would there be a way for Peter to do something similar to rogue and sylar and to take someones abilities permanently

thelordofcheese

Stupid double posting

Overheal

im...LOST wrote:

Sorry if I sound completely stupid but I have a few questions about Peters ability. Note that I have only seen to episode 11 so I obstained from reading the spoilers here.

Ok so he can absorb powers of people and then he can use them, correct?
How come whenever he tried to fly off the climbing frame after he and his brother 'flew' he fell in a lump on the ground?

Right, but whenever he recovers from the fall after the struggle with Sylar he recovers while Claire is not around. What's up there?

If the answers come about in later episodes, I would appreciate if you could tell me if it is so that I can watch it. If no answer can be found then discuss it here!

{spoiler}{/spoiler} next time please. keep it clean for people who don't want to know/ want to be selective about it.

This circumstance is better explained

in about 4/5 episodes from where you

are so just go with the flow.

as for your other question

My guess is flying takes a lot more concious thought than tissue regeneration: much easier for the body to heal itself than go flying off everytime you thought of it. Another example of this will happen later than episode 11 as well.

Sprinkles, did

Hiro touch him at all no? Anyone remember if there is another encounter between Hiro and Peter??

im...LOST

Sorry guys. I fixed my post so that the spoilers are gone. I'll just watch on then

Raphael

Overheal wrote:

Sprinkles, did

Hiro touch him at all no? Anyone remember if there is another encounter between Hiro and Peter??

More importantly with Hiro

time froze while future Hiro was still walking around on the roof of the train. So if touch isn't required to use the power, why would it be required to recall the power? Doesn't make much sense to me

radiospan

Does anyone know if this is Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia)?

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/Rogertron%20ZtH/wtf.jpg

And if so, what the hell is going on in this pic? (was sent to me a while back)

unreggd

plazzTT wrote:

Does anyone know if this is Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia)?

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/Rogertron%20ZtH/wtf.jpg

And if so, what the hell is going on in this pic? (was sent to me a while back)

where the fxck did ye get that photo!!!!!?

thats rotten!


Ok do we really need all the Spoiler caps, as this whole thread is one big spoiler....

sprinkles

Raphael wrote:

More importantly with Hiro

time froze while future Hiro was still walking around on the roof of the train. So if touch isn't required to use the power, why would it be required to recall the power? Doesn't make much sense to me

I don't think touch is needed at all, that's my point. I think he just needs to be in proximity of the person to use/absorb their power and

he just needs to remeber how he felt around them to use it again when they aren't there... this was said in E17

[ONLY READ SPOILER IF YOU HAVE SEEN E17 (not the late great pop band of the 90's )]

sprinkles

plazzTT wrote:

Does anyone know if this is Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia)?

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/Rogertron%20ZtH/wtf.jpg

And if so, what the hell is going on in this pic? (was sent to me a while back)

Wtf?

unreggd wrote:

Ok do we really need all the Spoiler caps, as this whole thread is one big spoiler....

I agree. Just change the title to warn of spoiler up to Episode 17 and we can leave them off. Works well in other forums

Overheal

fine, heres a spoiler: SIMONE DIES!!!!!












how do you like it now? I guarantee there is one person who has or will read this thread and this will have been spoiled for them.

So assuming Peter only met Hiro the one time in the subway I suppose that does throw my theory to hell. Else, there was little or no communication between the sound guy that put in the tazer noise and the writers

Good point about him being an Empath though.

that does raise a whole new question: how does Claude know he's an empath??? And more importantly what other empath has he met??????

Mahatma coat

Claude was Mr Bennetts first Partner, So claude knows a lot more about whats going on than most of the other characters. as for the whole touch question, the future Hiro on the train scene and the fact that peter 'caught' Claudes invisibility when he was still across the street leads me to think that proximity is all thats required.

Claude was taken out to the bridge to be killed for hiding one of them, I have me suspicions it Simone, we'll find out on monday.

iguana

Mahatma coat wrote:

I have me suspicions it Simone, we'll find out on monday.

ACTUAL SPOILER (I accidently watched a preview for Episode 18)

Simone isn't dead, she appears perfectly healthy and seems to know more than she has been previously letting on.

Mahatma coat

iguana wrote:

ACTUAL SPOILER (I accidently watched a preview for Episode 18)

Simone isn't dead, she appears perfectly healthy and seems to know more than she has been previously letting on.

Yep saw that meself but wasnt sure what to make of it, seemed very Claire-esque but shur tis hard to know

Johnny Bitte

The thing is if it is proximity does that mean that he has access to all of Sylars powers or just the Telekenisis because he used while being in range?

Ste.phen

Mahatma coat wrote:

Yep saw that meself but wasnt sure what to make of it, seemed very Claire-esque but shur tis hard to know

This is explained in Episode 18, it's Candace, who's a shape-shifter. She pretends to be Simone for some plot-related reasons, as well as to taunt isaac

Mahatma coat

I would say that peter can only use the powers he becomes aware of, like if someone explained sylars ability to see how things worked then peter should be able to search inside himself and find this ability, however without seeing Sylar use it or being told how it works he has no frame of reference for this skill, therefore it remains dormant.