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This is true. It's also true that Sylar wasn't too put off by Peter's regeneration - he seemed pretty sure he could figure out how to defeat it.
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Just an interesting point from the previews for tonight's episode(or or at least an upcoming episode this season), Hiro apparently catches up with Sylar and freeze-frames him... Sylar's just standing there... But then Sylar seems to be able to counter Hiro's ability. My point is, in Future Hiro's timeline, he actually stabbed Sylar but couldn't kill him. In this timeline, I think Hiro won't be able to even get to Sylar. Thus, Sylar's survival and eventual participation in Peter's detonation seems to be inevitable one way or another. However, now that he's able to be killed, they will have a chance to off him at some point.
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We're also assuming there's only one of everyone. We haven't seen anything yet to indicate that each person's power is unique...and Sylar's and Peter's are certainly similar (in effect). I think it's perfectly possible there's another regenerator out there that Sylar got, and maybe even another Hiro- or Haitian-similar power he got his hands on to counter Peter's being able to freeze-frame him.
Also, some Heroes have more than one power that are seemingly unrelated. The Haitian can remove memory and also block other powers (although I spose you could argue he can, from a distance, cause them to temporarily 'forget' how to use them). Peter is a copycat but he also had dreams of Flyboy's power, so maybe a psychic link there. So, maybe Sylar not only understands how things work, but has another power to help him resist other's powers. Or, and this just occurred to me, maybe he understands how these powers in general work well enough that he can counter some of them.
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We also do not know the limits of some people's powers. Fallout Boy only recently discovered he was able to create an EMP in addition to raw alpha radiation... Bennett has run into many of these people, so it follows he may have run into someone with similar radioactive powers, thus clueing him in on how to escape.
quote:Also, some Heroes have more than one power that are seemingly unrelated. The Haitian can remove memory and also block other powers (although I spose you could argue he can, from a distance, cause them to temporarily 'forget' how to use them). Peter is a copycat but he also had dreams of Flyboy's power, so maybe a psychic link there. So, maybe Sylar not only understands how things work, but has another power to help him resist other's powers. Or, and this just occurred to me, maybe he understands how these powers in general work well enough that he can counter some of them.
I think all the Haitian's abilities fall under "mind mamipulation". We know from Sylar that key to the powers are in the brain (don't ask me how that works with radioactive man or Claire) so I imagine he can block the part that controls them. It's not clear where Peter's dream came from, but I suspect it has something to do with wots-her-face's father who he was looking after before he died. Perhaps he had the power of projecting dreams.
As for Sylar countering Hiro, do we know that Hiro can actually STOP time? We know he can reverse it, speed it up, so perhaps when he "freezes" time he just REALLY slows it down - therefore all Sylar has to do it learn to think and move faster. I'm trying to remember; back in one of the early episodes Hiro "stops" time to save the little girl from being run over. Does anyone remember if everythign was frozen, or were certain things moveing very slowly? If so, that might give a clue.
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Everything was frozen. He even shoved a thing or two out of the way.
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Yeah, giddily poking things around in the air that stopped moving when he stopped touching them. I'm gonna make another comment about this at the thread for the next ep in case people haven't seen that yet.
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