All the powers I can remember that Peter can do must have been used when he was near them for him to "learn" them.
i.e. 1. Healing when clare heals at homecoming next to him.
2. When Parkman tries to read his mind in jail
3. When Nathan flies up to catch peter
4. When the invisible man is stealing stuff in front of peter
5. When Issac paints in front of peter
I can't think of one that he has that wasn't used infront of him first, I know it might be because he doesn't know he has there power but maybe not.

from my memory, i dont think he did.

no not that i can remember.

No, he didn't. He only gets his powers when other heroes are near him.

None that I can remember of either. One more thing, since peter got close to sylar as well, wonder if peter can have 'intuitive learning' ability of sylar as well?

yeah i don't know.. but he should, shouldn't he?

6. Telekinesis when Sylar attacked him at the homecoming event,

He could also learnt all the powers Sylar had absorbed previously ( freezing ...)

But when he thought he could fly, he didn't know his brother could and Nathan never used his power in front of him.....

Has he ever learned any from the graphic novel? I've not paid any attention.

correct me if i'm wrong, but was claude ( the invisible man ) near peter when peter 1st saw him, cuz i think they weren't even close to each other, but peter was able to see him, what episode is this, need to rewatch

I read all the graphic novels so far except for last weeks' but I dont remember seeing Peter learning any new abilities in the graphic novels... Cant confirm though.

If Peter has Sylar's intuitive learning ability why did he struggle to control Ted's powers last season hmm... lol I think I'm going too far back haha..

I think they were. Peter had just got out of the hospital and he caught Claude stealing something and then he turned invisible and then they knocked over that stand.

Geez, I remember too much of this show.

I am not sure that this is a "special power" of Sylar's for sure, because remember when he is imprisoned by the Company, the only power they could find evidence of was the Telekinesis (even though we know he has many more).

I think that it is central to Peter's power that the person's power that he absorbs has to be near him in order for him to obtain it, otherwise he would get way too many powers way too fast.

He absorbed Ted's Power, though he didn't even see him coming.

Yeah, he doesn't have to see the person to absorb their power, he just has to be near them.

Ok but then why did he get only telekinesis from Sylar in this case. Like being near Ted grants him the ability to create/manipulate energy, so being near Sylar should have granted him the intuitive learning ability and nothing else...
Am I wrong?

awwww man that sucks
i hope he dosent need it used in fromt of him
i was hoping he was gonna have the girls
"persuasive" power
and Mollys "tracking" power aswell as Sylars "seeing how things tick" ... power
etc.
although they did refer to him as a sponge
and i suppose sponges only absorb things that are thrown at them in the first place
i mean just because its near a glass of water does it absorb it?
noooope
the water need to be poured on it
in effect i think peter is the same

I always thought he had to actually see the power, but if I remember rightly he just absorbed the powers of Claude and the like, which raises an interesting question, if he doesn't know he has the power, how can he use it?

for peters power im pretty sure it only works if hes around another hero

That's right. And later with Claude he learns to controle the powers on his own. Except Ted's power. Why??? Maybe (I hope) we'll get the question awnsered in the 2nd serie.
I think Peter is still alive, cause in the episode where the where in the possible futere, peter was also the one who had exploded, but still lived.

We'll see.......

because for some reason when they tested Sylar the intuitive power than Sylar supposedly has was not sensed to be present, only telekinesis. I think it might be because that was the first power Sylar stole and is therefore the one he is most accustomed to. Also, I am not sure that Sylars understanding of how things work is actually being classified as a power, and if it was, it would have shown up on the tests that the company did on him when they had him imprisoned. ( I did actually mention this in my other post above)

I just there would be more usage of the powers he has instead of just dissapearing and healing but more experimenting

even he can do, there is no way that he could discover that skill. he has to concentrate to be able to use skills i think.

I don't think he has learned an ability that hasn't been used near him

Concentrate, or use the powers unknowingly out of fear.. he seems to go in that direction way more.

yeah..
kinda like when he saw that dead guy charles

That could be him using Hiro's power to go back in time? Though he didn't seem to do it voulantarily, had he met Hiro by that time? I dont remember when it was

i think that peter can do any power executed infront of him, even if he does not know, because of the way he acts at the end of the chapter when he blast off some guys

I think he has to "experience" or "deal with" a hero before he can use their powers. He never knew that Isaac had powers but he was able to draw himself flying (while he was confined in the hospital).

he has dl's power in episode 2 right?

he uses ted's powers when it was never used in front of him, but he doesnt even need to have a power used in his prescence, he just needs someone near by to absorb their powers

That´s not true becouse when he gets atom powers, the other wasnt using his power. The real question is how far can he absorb new abilities or how long does it take to fully absorb them

I think Peter needs another hero close to absorb its powers, if Peter could absorb powers from distant heroes he should have blown New York a lot earlier.

another point, Peter doesnt need to think about the power or the person to be able to use it anymore

Before Peter fell on the taxi in an episode, he thought of Claire, and claire's powers saved him..
though in the crate, he didnt know anything when he shot out his lightning bolt

The confusion in this thread is ridiculous. We already know Peter needs to be near the Hero to absorb their power, the question is whether he needs to see it used. I can't think of a single power he's got that he hasn't seen used. But if he hasn't seen it, then he wouldn't know it existed, and therefore couldn't use it. We need to wait for an instictive power, perhaps?


Did he see Ted radioactive? I can't remember.

actually he did gain a power before anyone used it....

The name slipped my mind, but the nuke guy (if you know who i mean) didn't use his power although peter consumed it.

maybe he should travel around america to gain more abilities hehehe.
but he's now in ireland eh?
i wonder what makes him in ireland. i havent watched the second one yet hehe

Would he have absorbed the powers from sylar that he had absorbed though, if used in front of him? Seeming not the case, but curious to think about.

I think he has to know that the power exists first and absorb it from it being used around him.

Peter only gets new powers if the people are near him. It would be crazy if he just could learn any power he could think off

yea i think he absorbed all of sylar's powers.

My opinion is that Peter absorbs peoples' powers as long as he has been in contact with them somehow. But unless he refines his control of his own power, it seems that there's no way he can figure out what powers he can use. Some he will use out of reflex, but mostly I think he will only use powers he *knows* he has absorbed.

Hmm, if he cud use the powers out of reflexes, than do u think, that he could jus phase himself out the crate he's trapped in. I mean DL was there when he was gonna explode, he doesnt know he has it, but he jus uses it naturally

I agree HRGangsta. During the final fight in Season 1, many characters were in the vicinity of the fight. From what I understand, Peter's power is like that of Synch of Generation X. They both get the powers of those nearby. The difference is, Peter gets to keep em.

What power did he use at the end of the Four months later?

DP

That's what everyone has been wondering since last week, actually... It looked like an electric shock, which would be a bit odd since we haven't really come across a Hero with this ability. But it may also have been a special use of Ted's power (since he can blow nuclear and EMPs, perhaps he can also create shock waves or something).

Peter clearly doesn't need to see the power used.

• When Peter first met Isaac, he didn't see Isaac paint. Yet he sketched the scene of him and Nathan on the roof.
• Peter didn't see Claire heal in Texas.
• Ted was not using his ability when Peter met him and starting emitting radiation immediately.
• Peter may have used Eden's ability (unclear, but I think so) in Isaac's loft, right before Simone is shot.
• When future Hiro appeared to Peter, he was mimicking the power to even see him.
• Same with Claude, Peter immediately was mimicking the ability, no learning time.
• In S2 D2, he used DL's power after only being several feet away from him.

As far as his memory, that's how he first was able to use Claire's ability without her around, but it had to become passively part of him, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to heal from being dead. (How would he remember then?).

As for the power at the end of S2 Ep 1, I think Ted's (provided learning more control) is possible, but unlikely. We don't know all of the abilities he got from Sylar (we know Sylar had 8-9 early in the season, of which we only saw telekenesis, plus the ones he picked up along the way). I'm guessing he was exposed to someone else.

A couple other thoughts on Peter and his powers... If he picked up DL's, he would also have picked up Micah's and Molly's. (Wow, knowing where someone is and being able to teleport!) He would also have other abilities we've not seen - such as both of his parent's abilities (neither of which is even known).

Wow in that case, wouldn't he be a sort of uberhero? Imagine him having the summation of all powers

He didn't knew he had powers, he lost his memory.

When they found them he had the same necklace as "The Hatian", maybe he delete all his memories, and maybe, just maybe, The Hatian was sick, i dunno.

Yeah his memory was totally wiped. I was pondering this before and I think he can use all the powers he's absorbed instinctively. But the ones he HAS seen, he can use consciously.

Thats what i reckon

If someone would only tell him that he has Eden's ability of persuation as well! That would come in handy!