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Accept all cookies Customize settings. Ever since Ando gained his powers I have wondered what kind of effect they might have on Sylar, and if Sylar took that ability, could he boost himself? Sylar has the ability of empathic mimicry, like Peter. But he didn't know of this ability until Arthur showed him how to use it. Even though he has this ability, Sylar still prefers to kill people for power. Sylar's powers are intuitive and adaping: specifically his neurological and anatomical connectors.
I think the power mimics are excessive and boring. Bring back ! Super-Buster said:. Please Log In to post. Samuel uses this to try and convince Sylar that he is a protector of the circus, and must remove threats such as the officer who attempted to capture him the night before. Sylar is told the officer is at the house of mirrors, and goes there to tell the man to leave.
However, the officer shoots at Sylar, forcing an uncontrolled electric blast. Here, Sylar's killer instinct begins to take hold, but Sylar stops himself just in time for Edgar to cut the man into pieces. Later, Samuel formally makes Sylar a part of the circus family, baptizing him and letting him mingle with the others.
Sylar and Lydia leave arm in arm for the night, much to Edgar's dismay. In "Shadowboxing", the persona of Nathan returns, causing him to shapeshift back into Nathan's form while sleeping. Panicking upon finding himself at the carnival, he flies away, and is later shown arriving at Peter's door, asking for help. Arriving for work at his office, Peter and Nathan discover that no one has been looking for Nathan, as he had been on 'vacation' according to Angela Petrelli.
The brothers are further surprised when the Haitian appears, and tells Peter to go see a storage facility for the truth of the situation. They head to Texas to see Matt, who is at the hospital, in a coma. Meanwhile, Matt Parkman, regretting his actions, is haunted by Sylar, who claims to have lingered in Matt's mind after Matt "sucked" all his memories and replaced them with Nathan's. Though Matt had resolved not to use his powers anymore, Sylar eventually tempts him into using them again.
Following this, Sylar escalates his tormenting of Matt, using his own telepathy against him to force Matt to use his powers to save himself. Sylar then gives a defeated Matt an ultimatum: either continue to live with Sylar in his mind or return Sylar's mind to his body.
Matt decides to keep Sylar in his mind, which begins to have consequences when Sylar's control over Matt advances, where Sylar has sex with Janice while Matt was asleep.
Scared of what Sylar could do to his family which Sylar himself alludes to , Matt tells Janice the truth, and Janice agrees to let Matt try to exorcise Sylar by leaving the house.
During another conversation, Sylar appears pained whenever Matt drinks alcohol, giving Matt the idea to drink into a stupor. Sylar appears successfully removed as he fades from Matt's mind, and Matt remains conscious long enough to see his partner and Janice return. In actuality, Sylar simply tricked Matt into knocking himself out. Now much more powerful, Sylar takes full control of Matt's body, leaving Matt trapped in his own head.
Despite his control over the body, Matt's personality constantly hampers Sylar from reaching his body, including being arrested. In response, Sylar threatens to murder innocent civilians if Matt doesn't cooperate. Faced with an ultimatum, Matt attempts to commit suicide by cop.
The attempt appears to almost work, but 'Nathan' and Peter arrive to revive Matt. Once revived, Matt is surprised to see Nathan and Peter, as is Sylar. Desperate to return to his original body, Sylar forcefully takes over Matt's body, only needing to touch Nathan in order to jump back into his own body.
While 'Nathan's' confidence in who he is is shattered Matt reveals that 'Nathan' is Sylar , Sylar uses Matt's telepathy to bring Nathan closer to him, with intuitive aptitude forcing Nathan to throw Peter telekinetically and proceed to get closer, to understand who he is. Although the event is temporarily stalled by an incoming guard, Nathan brushes hands with Matt, freeing Matt from Sylar's hold, and leaving Nathan fearful that Sylar will soon take over his body once more.
Staying over at Peter's apartment, the brothers are surprised by Angela, who springs a Thanksgiving dinner on them. Nathan wakes up in time to hear Peter and Angela discussing the discovery of Nathan's body. Although they press her for information, Angela threatens to simply leave if they do not sit down and eat. During the dinner, Angela finally confesses that she had Matt Parkman place Nathan's mind into Sylar's body.
During dessert, however, Nathan begins to act oddly, and transforms back into Sylar, happy to be controlling his body once more. He telekinetically traps Peter and Angela, relishing his ability to control himself.
After taunting Peter, he begins to scalp Angela, only to have the 'Nathan' persona fight back. Losing control, Sylar transforms back into Nathan, who flees the building to protect his family.
Peter devises a plan to eliminate the 'Sylar' persona leaving just Nathan using the ability of The Haitian to erase Sylar's memories. On a rooftop however, "Nathan" confesses to Peter he is not himself and cannot keep fighting off the 'Sylar' persona.
Nathan tells Peter how proud he is of him and tells him to look after their mother, Angela, and his daughter, Claire, before jumping off the building and landing on a parked car. Peter then sees Sylar heal, get up and wave as he walks away.
Sylar returns to the carnival to face Samuel, but Sylar finds that while he wants to kill, he is unable to make himself do so. His identity in crisis, he makes a deal with Samuel.
After absorbing Lydia's power, he tells Samuel to give him a tattoo, and that he would do whatever it said. When he sees the tattoo, he decides that he does not belong at the carnival. The next scene shows him floating outside of Claire Bennet's dorm room window, and his tattoo is a picture of her. Now aware of Nathan's death, an enraged Claire furiously vows to Sylar that she will kill him because he killed her father.
Sylar feels like they are very similar: they've never felt in place, they both lost their parents, and they are both immortal. Claire ends up stabbing Sylar in the eye with a pencil.
She makes him tell her where Gretchen is and finds her tied up, and they hide in a closet. Claire confides in Gretchen that Sylar thinks they are alike and fears that they might be. Gretchen comes to the conclusion that Sylar's powers have isolated him from ever having any relationships.
Giving them up might be the only way he could have any connections. Gretchen then shape-shifts back into Sylar. He then goes to Matt Parkman and asks him to take away all his powers away. Matt attempts but fails.
Sylar threatens Matt's family and forces him to keep trying. Instead, Matt traps Sylar and his powers deep within the confines of his mind, "somewhere you'll never find them," and he is left alone to live out his worst nightmare: Being all alone. Matt then attempts to seal up Sylar within the walls of his basement. However, Peter Petrelli arrives after having a vision that Sylar will save Emma. Using Matt's power, Peter attempts to bring Sylar out of his nightmare, but ends up trapped in Sylar's mind along with him The Art of Deception.
In "The Wall", Sylar is repairing endless watches in the empty city when he hears banging. Searching for the source of it, he finds Peter using a pole to get his attention by banging it on the concrete. Sylar is shocked to discover that Peter is real and says there's no way out - he's been searching for three years. Peter reveals that it's actually been three hours and that Sylar is trapped in a nightmare, which he is skeptical to accept, and runs back to his shop. Peter tries to convince him of the truth and tells him he must save Emma.
He tries to pull them out of the nightmare but is unsuccessful. Peter avoids Sylar for a month while trapped, and Sylar tries being friendly by giving him a 9th! Wonders comic. Peter, determined to find a way out, does not understand why Sylar is so resistant to find a way out, and realizes that Sylar really doesn't want to be free.
They come across a massive brick wall, the same one Sylar's body is actually trapped behind in Matt's basement. Peter realizes that the two need to break the wall in order to escape. At first Peter tries to break it alone, but fails.
Sylar compares his determination to a memory of Nathan's he possesses which angers Peter. Sylar apologizes for Nathan's murder, but Peter refuses to forgive him and Sylar finally joins Peter in attempting to break down the wall. After years of attempting and failing to damage the wall in the slightest, Sylar is surprised when Peter gives him a copy of The Pillars of the Earth as a gift as a to thank him for keeping him sane all the years of their imprisonment.
Sylar admits he always worries Peter will attack him with the sledge-hammer which Peter admits he has contemplated. Sylar realizes that Peter won't let go of his anger out of fear of losing the last remnant of Nathan, and points out to Peter that he has truly changed.
Peter finally accepts this fact and afterwards the two are easily able to break a hole in the wall, which frees them from their mental prison. Once freed, Sylar uses telekinesis to free him from his physical one and he and Peter learn that they've only been trapped for half a day in reality. The experience seems to have changed both Sylar and Peter and the two head off to save Emma, but are stopped by Eli and his clones who want to prevent their plans.
Sylar tries to convince a furious Matt that he's changed, but fails and begins to leave with Peter who read Eli's mind and learned Samuel's plans. Matt tries to telepathically prevent Sylar from leaving, so Sylar asks Matt to read his mind to show him he has changed.
Matt is unable to, although he does let them leave. Peter and Sylar fly to New York where Samuel plans to kill thousands of people. Peter is reluctant, but Sylar convinces Peter to trust him and reminds him that the dream says that Sylar saves Emma. Sylar heads off to the tent to save Emma while Peter goes to defeat Samuel. He finds Emma playing the cello with bloody fingers, and tries to save her by taking the cello, but is taken control of by Eric Doyle, the Puppet Master.
Doyle, desperate to be better than Sylar, begins to taunt him. However, controlling and mocking Sylar distracts him from his primary focus on controlling Emma. Once Emma realizes he has loosened his control over her, Emma blasts Doyle with a soundwave through the cello, breaking Doyle's control over Sylar, and giving Sylar the chance to telekinetically grab onto Doyle.
Doyle begs him to stop, and asks, "What do you care about this girl, anyway? Confused, Doyle cries out, "That's not you! You're like me! I'm a hero. Fearing the worst, Peter heads into the tent to find Sylar admiring his new "masterpiece": a dazed Doyle trussed up like a puppet, clad in giant light-bulbs. Sylar plugs the lights in, deviously grins, and says, "I like it! Five years later, In" The Needs of the Many " while attempting to rescue Molly Walker from the confines of Renautas , Noah Bennett compares the company's agenda and modus operandi to Sylar's own brutal methods.
Sylar went into hiding after the Peace Summit blew up in Odessa. He assists with the likes of Mohinder Suresh, Peter Petrelli, Claude, and Micah Sanders in finding innocent and apprehended Evos and freeing them from the restraints of the Registration Act.
He was last seen rescuing a ferry load of Evos from Renautas, but once a freed Evo betrayed them to the Renautas, they had to go incognito. Peter, Sylar, and Claude all used Invisibility to stay well hidden from the world.
Sylar's innate ability is the power to determine exactly how things work. Sylar used this innate ability to discover how to take the abilities of other evolved humans. He determined that Chandra Suresh was correct that the abilities are based in the brain , and several of Sylar's victims have had their skulls opened and brains removed. By studying his victims' brains he is able to determine how their powers work and replicate those abilities himself.
For Sylar's original Assignment Tracker 2. For a linked facsimile of the file, including full text and images, see here. In , Trevor Mason mentions Sylar when discussing instances of evolved humans having access to more than one ability. She also finds Sylar's watch. Sylar's innate ability is the power to determine exactly how things work. Sylar used this innate ability to discover how to take the abilities of other evolved humans.
He determined that Chandra Suresh was correct that the abilities are based in the brain , and several of Sylar's victims have had their skulls opened and brains removed. By studying his victims' brains he is able to determine how their powers work and replicate those abilities himself.
Arthur revealed to Sylar that he can obtain the abilities of other people without killing them through empathy. Arthur left Sylar in a room with Elle, with whom he had a long talk, after which Sylar manifested her ability.
It is unknown whether this manifestation was related to empathic mimicry or just a different method of using intuitive aptitude to understand an ability. With this ability comes a 'hunger' for more knowledge and power. Sylar believes that it is this hunger that drives him to murder others and steal their powers. Twice he has been able to suppress this hunger. In one one future he battled to keep his hunger in check for the sake of his son , while in another he had acquired enough abilities to the point where he was comfortable eradicating every other evolved human and thus, destroying every other ability on the planet.
According to his assignment tracker file at primatechpaper. During their conversation, Sylar and Noah confirmed that Sylar has multiple abilities Fallout ; however, apart from telekinesis, the Company was unable to identify what these powers were Godsend. Based on Mohinder 's statement to the authorities Fallout that at least six people from his father's list have been murdered by Sylar prior to Zane Taylor , it's likely that Sylar had acquired at least ten abilities before he was infected with the Shanti virus in Kindred : the six Mohinder mentioned, plus four he acquired after Mohinder made his statement.
While he was infected, he attempted to take an ability from Candice Wilmer , but he was unable to use it. In an interview , the writers confirmed that Sylar was unable to acquire this ability while infected. After he cured himself of the virus Powerless he was once again able to use his innate ability in addition to the ability he had acquired from Brian Davis , which he retained due to his guilt over killing Brian [1].
He was not, however, able to use the other abilities he acquired before his infection confirmed here. He has acquired several new abilities since curing himself of the virus and continues to acquire more, although he now seems to pursue them less obsessively. He inherited intuitive aptitude from his father, Samson Gray. With Sylar's ability enabling him to take the abilities of others, he has acquired many abilities. Before he was infected with the Shanti virus Kindred , he had acquired the following abilities in chronological order :.
Thus, in the current timeline, Sylar never acquired the ability. When he was infected, his intuitive aptitude and telekinesis were suppressed, and his other abilities were permanently lost. He has since recovered from the virus using a cure in Powerless , and subsequently demonstrated his original ability and telekinesis.
Since that time, he has acquired the following additional powers:. Sylar killed Echo DeMille , severed Danny Pine 's metallic arm, and knocked out Eric Doyle Dual , but it is unknown whether or not he took their abilities ; Doyle is still alive, Echo's body showed no signs of brain removal , and Danny's body was missing.
Echo's ability is the same as Jesse Murphy 's, which Sylar had taken previously. Telekinesis is Sylar's most commonly observed acquired ability. Before his infection, he frequently used freezing as a secondary offensive ability and the passive enhanced hearing as well.
Since recovering from the virus and acquiring new abilities, he often uses the passive abilities of lie detection and rapid cell regeneration, and he also seems to favor electric manipulation, shape shifting, and clairsentience. He has demonstrated the ability to use at least two of his acquired abilities at the same time The Hard Part. Possibly because of his intuitive aptitude , Sylar's control over an acquired ability is often superior to that of the person from whom he obtained it.
It was originally unclear whether or not Sylar stole Nathan's flight in An Invisible Thread using the empathic part of his ability, as he had previously levitated using telekinesis alone. However, Shadowboxing confirms that he did in fact obtain flight from Nathan. While Sylar's mind was trapped within Matt Parkman 's brain, Sylar was able to manipulate him with his own telepathy. However, Sylar never possessed the ability himself. After acquiring the ability of shape shifting from James Martin , Sylar has altered his form to appear as the following people:.
Since becoming trapped in Matt 's brain and subsequently taking it over Strange Attractors , Sylar impersonated him for some time, before being transferred back into his original body. Prior to Heroes Reborn starting, an app was released with a video summary of Sylar's history.
The summary included:. They weren't bad people, they were just And I wanted to be different. I wanted to change. A new name; a new life. The watchmaker's son It is so futile. And I wanted to be Don't, it's just That's okay to just be a normal watchmaker. Can't you just tell me that's enough?
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