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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wolff96" data-source="post: 3164018" data-attributes="member: 342">My personal favorite is that Sylar isn't just insane...  that he's eating the brains of people for a reason.Imagine if the first 'super' found by the professor has the ability to find other 'supers' and then gain their powers permanently by consuming their brains.  The show has already linked the brain with the seat of mutant powers -- Claire's power didn't work when the root was in her skull, her geeky friend even makes a comment about it -- so perhaps he is 'collecting' powers for lack of a better term.I think his most-used/base power is telekinesis.  There's the woman nailed to the side of the staircase, the FBI guard stapled to the ceiling by his chair, and his apparent flight or super-leap away after being shot.  (I also believe he stopped the bullets with TK, but the impact against his 'shields' knocked him down.)However, I think he's learned to absorb the powers of other 'supers' by eating their brains.  He seems to kill those who get in his way, but he only randomly eats brains.  Isaac (in the future), the man eating cereal (who was frozen), several others who were the victims referred to by the FBI...  and most importantly, Claire, in the painting of the future.  It would also explain why the guy eating the cereal was frozen -- Sylar used another power to keep him from getting away.</blockquote>