What's Your Skylar Theory?

[Spider-Fan83]

depends on how they handled it

sounds, alil to "Jeepers Creepers" to me

 

[DarkBeast]

I like the "eat their brains to get their powers/memories" theory. There are some cannibalistic tribes in Papua New Guinea that believe they inherit a person's strength and memories if they eat them.

Really, it's not that much of a stretch considering we have a people flying, growing back hands and so on.

 

[Mixairian]

yes, and he just happens to remove people's brains because he's a brain collecter.. *eyeroll* seriously, think about it. he has all of mohinder's father's knowledge, greather than what was in his own apartment. he removed the artist's brain. that makes sense, being able to predict the future would be a valuable power.

and if he stopped the bullets with his telekinesis, then how come he got knocked down? it looked more like he need to recover, like he has invincibility but still felt the impact, or had to heal himself. But whatever. I guess we'll find out.

Telekinesis. It's possible he stopped the bullets with telekinsis before they did any vital damage but the fact that he's stopping so many small projectiles going over 3k MPH (the approximate speed of a bullet) was enough to cause strain on him. Or he was only able to create a telekinetic wall in front of him and it wasn't enough to full stop them from hitting him.

Right now, with the information we have, the most feesable option is he has a psychological compulsion to consume human brain tissue. As for having Mohinder's knowledge, he was the first one to be contacted by Mohinder, the man could have been very trusting with his first subject before discovering what kind've man he was. Sylar could have also very easily broken into Mohinders apartment and copied the information.

Absorbing powers, memory and such through consiming brain tissue seems possible but the show seems to have a relatively good grasp or science and logic when it comes to such abilities. If he did have such an ability, the gains would only be short term (as in when the brain tissue is fully consumed and removed from his system once his body had every nutrient from it).

As for cutting open and eating Isaac's brain. There were too many variables in that scene. For one thing the gun that happened to be lying there, the well timed arrival of the police. It was a setup of sorts.

As of now the pyschological compulsion to consume human brain tissue seems most fitting. With Mohinder's knowledge that some people are genetically different, it may have provided a further evolutionary outlet for his mental ailment...

Another way to look at it is treat it as a phsyical issue. Telekinesis is a mental ability and could apply strain on one's cerebral cortex. Thus he may need brain tissue to fuel his ability---or at least he thinks he does.

 

[Spider-Fan83]

I like the "eat their brains to get their powers/memories" theory. There are some cannibalistic tribes in Papua New Guinea that believe they inherit a person's strength and memories if they eat them.

Really, it's not that much of a stretch considering we have a people flying, growing back hands and so on.

no, I was talking about Substance D's demon theory (being to Jeepers Creepers) not, Skylar (being a person) who eats brains to gain knowledge and or powers
I don't know if he was joking or not, but, I don't see it working

 

[DarkBeast]

no, I was talking about Substance D's demon theory (being to Jeepers Creepers) not, Skylar (being a person) who eats brains to gain knowledge and or powers
I don't know if he was joking or not, but, I don't see it working

I agree, my post was general to the topic more than a response to a post. I don't think the demon theory is so valid either, it's a little to "mystical" for this show. The show IMO is like Unbreakable in that they try to depict super-powered people as a realistic possibility. Who knows, maybe in the distant future we will evolve to read minds and so on, I just don't think demons will walk the earth regardless of evolution.

 

[Spider-Fan83]

^ oh, misread your post, thought you were talking about what I posted, sry

 

[sc12een17am3]

just watched the 3rd episode, i guess its offical that its spelled Sylar.

 

[StorminNorman]

I think that Sylar (as has been stated before) is a telekenetic serial killer who eats brains. I am not exactly sure though what (if anything) the brain eating really does for him (he may just be a psycho).

I think Mr. Glasses is apart of a Government movement to surpress the "heroes" and is apart of the same organization that swarmed Hiro. I think that their main mutant they want is Slylar.

What I am not sure of is who the black guy who the Cop couldn't read. Is he Slylar? Is he another baddie? Is he a government agent? Is he another hero? Is he just a normal guy?

I also am not sure that any of these groups will have anything to do with the Novemember 8th disaster - though I could be wrong.

 

[Mixairian]

just watched the 3rd episode, i guess its offical that its spelled Sylar.

Was official in the first episode when Suresh finds the tape with the name on it.

I think that Sylar (as has been stated before) is a telekenetic serial killer who eats brains. I am not exactly sure though what (if anything) the brain eating really does for him (he may just be a psycho).

I think Mr. Glasses is apart of a Government movement to surpress the "heroes" and is apart of the same organization that swarmed Hiro. I think that their main mutant they want is Slylar.

What I am not sure of is who the black guy who the Cop couldn't read. Is he Slylar? Is he another baddie? Is he a government agent? Is he another hero? Is he just a normal guy?

I also am not sure that any of these groups will have anything to do with the Novemember 8th disaster - though I could be wrong.

Popular theory for the black bald guy is that he's Niki's husband and that he can phase through walls.

 

[sc12een17am3]

Was official in the first episode when Suresh finds the tape with the name on it.

Popular theory for the black bald guy is that he's Niki's husband and that he can phase through walls.

aww mybad totally 4got about that tape

yeah i was thinking that black guy is Nikis husband also. it make sense since they introduced him when Niki and her kid talked about him in this episode. if he is the one that can phase through the walls would that me he has more then one power? cause it seemed that the cop couldnt read his mind

 

[Salemdog]

A question if someone could clear this up. I know that Sylar has killed several people. But why leave the girl? Could Sylar be targeting the parents of the special kids. Could Claire's parents actually be dead and Sylar offed them. There is an obvious connection with Sylar and the man in glasses. If so he could have taken Claire in after Sylar killed her parents and this has been going on longer than we think with Sylar being the first one to come out?

I wasn't sure if the FBI agent (who was great in Carnivale btw) was specific on who Sylar was targeting. If someone has a bit more info that would be great.

And what if it wasn't Sylar going after the girl but the guy in the bar and him and Mr. Glasses were just trying to get the girl for themselves after what Sylar did?

Again..I might be reading too much into it.

 

[Spider-Fan83]

Popular theory for the black bald guy is that he's Niki's husband and that he can phase through walls.

aww mybad totally 4got about that tape
yeah i was thinking that black guy is Nikis husband also. it make sense since they introduced him when Niki and her kid talked about him in this episode. if he is the one that can phase through the walls would that me he has more then one power? cause it seemed that the cop couldnt read his mind

The black guy (from the bar) is not Niki's husband

that guy (Leonard Roberts) (the one holding the kids hand) is Niki's husband


this is the guy (Jimmy Jean-Louis) is the guy form the bar

just, cause the guy in the bar was black, you assume he has to be the husband

 

[The Question]

um, what hasn't been extreme about this show so far? a cheerleader who shoves her hand down a garbage disposal, gets a stick lodged into her brain, only to wake up dissected. a woman who guts mobsters and then finds their remains in her trunk. a cop who discoveres a woman pinned to the wall with kitchen utensils by a guy who runs around and cuts open people's heads. how is eating a brain any less gruesome or extreme than all of that???? seriously.

It just seems a bit much, is all.

gaining the knowledge/powers of those he consumes is scarey and badass and makes sense. and it's just as easy to say he gains new powers, than to explain to the audience that telekinisis can removes heat from a body a science teacher. it also explains how he is able to reproduce all of mohinder's father's work. sometimes the right explanation is the simplest one, the question. quit being a nerd.

Stop calling me a nerd. I just don't think he has multiple powers. No other character on the show does. Seems more likely to me that he has one power, TK, and has become highly skilled at it.

yes, and he just happens to remove people's brains because he's a brain collecter.. *eyeroll* seriously, think about it. he has all of mohinder's father's knowledge, greather than what was in his own apartment. he removed the artist's brain. that makes sense, being able to predict the future would be a valuable power.

I just don't think it's an actual physical hunger. He just enjoys mutilating the bodies. Also, the main reason I think he doesn't absorn powers is because Pete Petrelli already absorbs powers.

and if he stopped the bullets with his telekinesis, then how come he got knocked down?

Maybe he didn't react in time to do what Neo did in the Matrix and simply used TK to cussion the impact.

 

[NateGray]

It just seems a bit much, is all.



Stop calling me a nerd. I just don't think he has multiple powers. No other character on the show does. Seems more likely to me that he has one power, TK, and has become highly skilled at it.



I just don't think it's an actual physical hunger. He just enjoys mutilating the bodies. Also, the main reason I think he doesn't absorn powers is because Pete Petrelli already absorbs powers.



Maybe he didn't react in time to do what Neo did in the Matrix and simply used TK to cussion the impact.

I think you are stretching this TK theory way to thin IMO anyways.

Odds are he may have TK but if he does it is coupled with other powers again IMO anyways.
I have a theory he may not have TK so much as telepathy and controlled the FBI agent's mind to point the gun at her own head regen to get up from being shot and flight when he flew away.
While that is a thin excuse its just as viable as your TK theory since both have holes the real odds are he has TK coupled with multiple other powers that I sepculate he gets from other hero's whose brains he has consumed.

Guess we will have to watch and find out good thing I love this show

 

[GhostPoet]

Sylar has AT LEAST 2 powers...possibly more.

We know almost certainly he has super strength (in order to life the woman up against the wall and stick her there with knives)
We also know he can freeze people...which is what he seems to like to do before taking out their brains. Or at least in the case of the last guy.

 

[paulyfknt90]

my theory on sylar is

each of the heroes we know of are geneticaly altrerd humans, all created by sylar and a group of scientists

he out them in the real world to see how they can function but something goes wrong as he wants them all back.

there are more heroes that we dont know of, possibly hundreds more, but the key people are the ones we know of

peter,nikkie,mohinder,isaac,clair,matt, and so on


if you noticed in the last episode sylar has the abilitys of each of his experiments wich makes him indistructable and near hard to catch.

so far his powers are telekanesys,healing power, mind manipulation, and flight ability



theres soo many things about sylar that we dont know of yet, such as why hes soo interested in that little girl, my guess on that is shes yet another experiment.

o and lastly he dosn't eat brains, he takes them for reaserch to find the information that dr. mohinder was looking for genes and dna for human evolution

im soo into this show, its rly kickass!

 

[Eddie Brock]

my new theory is that he has all the powers of the other heroes
doesn't explain the telekinesis, but it explains the bullets and flight

 

[paulyfknt90]

^ i just said that


and he has more powers than we know of because there are more heroes out there in the world that we dont know of yet.


didnt you pay attention to sylars map in the last episode when mohinder said

girl: there are strings on the map like yours

mohinder: yes but there is more strings, dozens more


well point is all those stings represent locations for the heroes, there are more heroes out there. sooner or later well see em

 

[Eddie Brock]

^ that may be true, but it doesn't explain HOW he got the powers either...

 

[paulyfknt90]

The black guy (from the bar) is not Niki's husband

that guy (Leonard Roberts) (the one holding the kids hand) is Niki's husband


this is the guy (Jimmy Jean-Louis) is the guy form the bar

just, cause the guy in the bar was black, you assume he has to be the husband

actualy that guy from the bar is one of sylars lackys

he can block matt parman from reading his mind, and eventualy casued matt to faint, we dont know what happend after that tho, i assume D.L took him

 

[paulyfknt90]

^ that may be true, but it doesn't explain HOW he got the powers either...

sylar got his powers from papa suresh


mohinders father was the original finder of the "hero" dna
all that reaserch on his computer was a way of finding or creating the dna, how he came to discover it, we wont know till later in the season

sylar is simply mr.surshes experiment gone wrong sylar now wants to capture all the heroes so he can destroy/take over the world

dr. suresh created the other heroes in order to stop sylar

why do you think he killed mr. suresh

 

[8atman]

Don't know if anyone saw my post in the thread about Peter, but I believe Skylar is Peter's brother Nathan.

 

[paulyfknt90]

nope SYLAR has no realation to anyone


peters brother is realy peters brother, not sylar

 

[8atman]

nope SYLAR has no realation to anyone


peters brother is realy peters brother, not sylar

What facts do you have to support your theory or that contradict my theory? You didn't put why you think that it's not peter.

 

[aphro666]

I think I figured out the whole thing.

Spoiler

sylar is the Indian guy's father, the one who was doing all the research. he developed the powers he has, and wanted to know why.
The reason he cuts out the brains is do reserach them, and he gave himself the code name Sylar so as to differentiate the two. if you listen to the message machine tape, both voices sound very similar, as if he was talking to himself, only vaguely disguising teh voice of Sylar.
What might have happened is he went mad after senslessy killing these people, and developed a split personality. And, he was leaving clues, as he knew his son woudl be coming to finish his work. He felt Sylar was taking over, so he had to leave clues here and there for someone to stop him.
The HRG guy knows he was Sylar, and is trying to stop him before he gets to his daughter. he also knows he is not dead.
They were planting the bug thinking the son knows his father is still alive, and wanted to get an idea of where this man is, being as it woudl be pretty logical for the m to be in communication..