Man In The Dark Images... Not Hrg!

Sylar = Man from "Green Mile"?????? Maybe.

See..i say 'fixed' for a reason. Lets say u kno how to fix clocks (hehe) for example. After understandin how a particular clock works, it'll be easier to understand the principles of other clocks. So ur right in that he didnt fix Brian, but he fixed the problem Brian had for general use..and somehow applied it to himself.
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Wow... you totally created a lot of sense from what happened in that episode. That's probably the best we're gonna get until we see more of what he does.

Perhaps Sylar can rewire/rebuild areas of his brain to integrate whatever powers he wants, but it requires that he sees/studies the others' brains in order to change his own wiring. Almost like a psychic surgery... Who knows? Maybe he can change others' wiring as well once he understands how and why it works? Then again, if he could do that... then he probably would have figured out what he could do a long time ago, and could fix someone's watch without opening/tinkering with it. Though he obviously can tell that they're broken immediately.

The other thing is... since Sylar sees the heroes as broken, and since technically any mutation is just a flaw in the human design, then perhaps it can be seen as creating the same flaws once he sees exactly what they are. Well, similar flaws, anyway. Sylar's telekinesis, once he acquires it, is way more advanced than Brian's. So maybe what I just said is a bunch of crap. I think you're right, Chaotica. He probably just saw Brian's power as what was broken, since it was so weak.
Man, I don't know what to believe anymore...

I think Gabrielle Sylar's ORIGINAL powers has something to do with his hearing.

I wonder IF we start speculationg on Sylar's original Power?

I think Gabrielle Sylar's ORIGINAL powers has something to do with his hearing.

I wonder IF we start speculationg on Sylar's original Power?
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If one were to speculate, I would offer that his power ins't hearing precisely, but more of (and forgive me for lack of better wording) super-anal retentiveness. What if Sylar just knows how things are supposed to work? Humans and Machines. He spent all those years as the bitter son of a watchmaker. All the graphic novels dealing with histories show that the heroes developed their powers because they were in situations where they needed some kind of edge to pull through a particularly adverse situation. Sylar became attuned to the world's workings. Watches were the only example provided for the time allowed, but I really think Sylar just has that innate understanding of the "what's" of society. The how's and the why's? who knows.

It seems to me that Sylar does gain or absorb others powers, probably through some intuitive knowledge of how things work, machines and humans. Then he is able to make a similar genetic alteration in himself.

I also think he believes he is a messiah of sorts. He believes it is human nature to kill the weak. A bit of a Neitzchean. But he also believes he is eliminating genetic abnormalities by taking them for himself, and thereby is a living matyr, or a christ figure taking on the sins of others.

Mr. Sinister

if sylar takes peoples powers after he cuts there heads off. does that also mean the more times he stopped from killing someone that he loses that power? sorry just over thinking that alot

[Hiro Nakumara]

No, i believe once he consumes the brain in whichever banner he does he takes it and holds it forever. His powers always stay the same *ones he learned to control them*

Ok. So I've been reading everyone elses theories and I have all the episodes TiVo'd so I went back and have been watching everything over and over and something occured to me..

Here we go, Sylars power..
Most people will stop reading this when I tell you what I think it is but please read my validation first. I think that Sylers power is simply to know how "things work." In 6 Months Ago, he was looking at Bryan David or whatever his name was and then it went to that quick clip of him looking through his glasses, and he suddenly had a revelation and said something along the lines of: "Suresh is right, it is in the brain." He realized exactly how it worked, and that was his motive to kill Bryan David, because he knew how to make that power HIS. Also, while Bryan David is lying on the floor you see Sylar smile and put on his glasses as the camera focuses on Bryans' head. Then he went back to Suresh, showed him this new power, and ultimatly probably just wanted the map to locate more heroes and become more powerful, as we see his character is very into being... different. It also explains his job. And why the brains are missing... as Suresh said : "Its in the brain." This could also turn into a twist later in the series as someone else figures this out, maybe someone without powers... and tries to become powerful. Or it might turn some heroes against each other as they figure this out... like a schism and they choose sides.. of course everyone would want to be with Peter or Hiro :]

UPDATE:
Bryan Davis who said he had known about his powers for a while showed Sylar and the cup was shaking...stopping now and then. The next day (when him and Suresh were talking he said sorry for my attitude the other day) Sylar showed Suresh and the cup moved perfectly across the table. This shows he analyzed how the powers worked and gained control of it ultimatly fast. 6 months ago as people were realizing they had powers, they had very limited control over them. 6 months later... Some of them are still struggling to use their power..or to control it completely...like Hiro said "This power is bigger than me" and it is evidently a WHILE till Hiro can travel to the exact time in the past that he wants (when he visits Peter, his hair is long and he can speak quite good english) this could also have been maybe because he was scared of trying again...but still. How could Sylar have had such great control in a day. And even now, 6 months later if you want to go with the whole "Telekenisis is the only power he has managed to harvest" you are saying he can make people point guns at themselves and manipulate the energy underneath him for a quick escape when Matt had shot him. Or, too agree with some more theories simply to argue my point more, that he could slow down a bullet? At the speed a bullet travels... the control he would have to have over that telekenesis is insane.

Also, to counter an argument ahead of time... the glass smashing against the wall really fast might be proof of someone elses theory I remember someone saying something about Hiro not being able to teleport when he was in Japan because of his emotions knowing Charlie was dead and that was temporary beacuse his brain couldnt concentrate or something. Well that could have been because of Sylars either overwhelming hapiness of being different or him realizing exactly what he could do now that he understood how this worked, not beacuse of lack of control.

[Hiro Nakumara]

Very good thinking. I'm not gonna tell you're wrong or youre right because honestly noone but god and the writers know what the "real" story is. This idea is valid in my opinion but im sure someone will post saying that you're stupid and you'e wrong.

Very good thinking. I'm not gonna tell you're wrong or youre right because honestly noone but god and the writers know what the "real" story is. This idea is valid in my opinion but im sure someone will post saying that you're stupid and you'e wrong.
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Thanks.. I was just downstairs and realized I had more validation...
Bryan Davis who said he had known about his powers for a while showed Sylar and the cup was shaking...stopping now and then. The next day (when him and Suresh were talking he said sorry for my attitude the other day) Sylar showed Suresh and the cup moved perfectly across the table. This shows he analyzed how the powers worked and gained control of it ultimatly fast. 6 months ago as people were realizing they had powers, they had very limited control over them. 6 months later... Some of them are still struggling to use their power..or to control it completely...like Hiro said "This power is bigger than me" and it is evidently a WHILE till Hiro can travel to the exact time in the past that he wants (when he visits Peter, his hair is long and he can speak quite good english) this could also have been maybe because he was scared of trying again...but still. How could Sylar have had such great control in a day. And even now, 6 months later if you want to go with the whole "Telekenisis is the only power he has managed to harves" you are saying he can make people point guns at themselves and manipulate the energy underneath him for a quick escape when Matt had shot him. Or too agree with others simply to argue my point more.. that he could slow down a bullet? At the speed a bullet travels... the control he would have to have over that telekenesis is insane.


Also, to counter an argument ahead of time... the glass smashing against the wall really fast might be proof of someone elses theory I remember someone saying something about Hiro not being able to teleport when he was in Japan because of his emotions knowing Charlie was dead and that was temporary beacuse his brain couldnt concentrate or something. Well that could have been because of Sylars either overwhelming hapiness of being different or him realizing exactly what he could do now that he understood how this worked, not beacuse of lack of control.