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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3480370" data-attributes="member: 20741">When Sylar killed Charlie in the Texas diner's supply room in episode 8 "Seven Minutes to Midnight".His use of the super memory is confirmed in the online graphic novel. He most definitely has it. Note: "Wild Theories" are not spoilers - but they might be shrewd enough guesses to become so. Read at your own riskWILD THEORY: My theory is that it may well be that the problem is that the Exploding Man can be two people: Sylar or Peter. It can be either of them. I believe that's the subject of next week's episode.I think that it's both - and the problem is that the Exploding Man happens when you combine super-healing and Ted's "Nuclear power" in the same person and then seriously injure him. The super-healing allows the "nuclear rage" power when triggered to keep ramping up a la Ted-in-Odessa-Texas  for a HUGE boom. Otherwise, it would destroy the person with the "Nuclear power" too quickly for the explosion to become so large.  (Then you just get Ted in the Bennett's house in Texas - as he would have burned out before it got too big).If you look back to when Peter has the vision that he's the one who blows up - his mother's precog firing - that happens shortly after he gains the super healing power from Claire.  He saved the cheerleader and stopped Sylar from getting that power - which stopped Sylar from becoming the exploding man after he kills Ted (as he seems fated to do). But in doing so, Peter becomes the alternative trigger in "our" timeline for the same event. (Ted lives - Peter meets Ted - same result; or Ted gets killed by Sylar - Peter meets Sylar again - same result.)Save the world? Just kill Ted. Kill him now! Before Sylar or Peter ever meet him. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  (Further Speculation: HRG should know this or be able to figure it out. He can't do that though which is why he's bringing Ted to NYC. His memory which would tell him "Don't bring Ted to NYC and meet Petrelli" has been wiped. A memory of Peter Petrelli could lead the Company to Claire - and the Haitian was told to go deep and remove anything that would lead the Company to Claire. So HRG does not know that he's doing the wrong thing.)So - back to killing Ted....This will be tough for Hiro to do on moral grounds. I don't think he can do it. That is the Hard Part in ep 21 I'm guessing. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. Hiro needs another solution. He can't just kill Ted. But if he could cure Ted - that might work <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The needle in the Hiro in the future comic? It's Mohinder's cure. Bring it back from the future - using it can stop the Exploding Man.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> It could cure Ted;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> It could cure Sylar - (while letting him live for season two to "get better"); and,</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> it could be used by Claire on Peter as he is about to go boom.</li> </ul>Pick one (or more).Possible Spoiler here:[spoiler]Alternatively, it's Peter and it always was Peter - but in the future people are lead to believe that it's Sylar. And that's why future Hiro can't properly fix the past as he's fixing the wrong thing. His fix is what causes the explosion. Saving the cheerleader doesn't save the world. (paradox) I prefer the two alternative causes explanation. It hurts my brain less than the paradox explanation.[/spoiler]Absolutely. It appears to be a fairly common  - and well studied - Heroic gift.</blockquote>

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