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Sylar
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| | AGE 29 HOMETOWN Queens, New York OCCUPATION Watch Repairman KNOWN POWERS Intuitive Aptitude Telekinesis Cryokinesis Enhanced Memory Liquification Enhanced Hearing Precognition Radioactivity ALSO KNOWN AS Gabriel Gray, Zane Taylor, Drew O'Grady, Isaac Mendez |
PERSONAL LIFE
| SIGNIFICANT OTHERS |
| None that we know about. (unless you count Mohinder) |
| FAMILY |
| Sylar's mother is a woman living by herself in Queens, NY, with an affinity for snowglobes. It is clear that there is some strange Oedipal thing going on between the two of them, as the identity of Sylar's father is currently unknown, and it is probable that Sylar was raised without a father figure in his life. However, Sylar murders his own mother (on accident? on purpose?) when struggling with her over a pair of scissors. His mother has a strange affinity for snowglobes, including one with a picture of a teenaged-Sylar inside. |
| FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES |
| Sylar appears to consider Mohinder as his closest thing to a friend, but this may just be because he has the ability to find more super powered people. Possibly also The Company, indirectly, as they kept him alive and prevented HRG from allowing Eden to make Sylar kill himself - perhaps seeing a greater purpose for Sylar As of Volume 2, Sylar assocites himself with Alejandro and Maya Herrera. |
| ENEMIES AND RIVALS |
| Pretty much anyone with superpowers. His deceased mother. Peter Petrelli, Hiro and Ando, Mohinder, Noah Bennet, Claire Bennet, Molly Walker, Matt Parkman, FBI, Patty Turner |
POWERS
| WHAT THEY MEAN |
| His original power was intuitive aptitude, being able to to analyze complex systems and intuitively understand how they work without special education or training. This ability makes it possible for him to detect and take other people's powers. For Sylar his powers are an evolutionary imperative, a term he drew from Chandra Suresh's book Activating Evolution. He believes he is killing people who do not deserve the power they have, and in killing them, and determining how their power works to use it to his own personal advantage, he is simply a living example of natural selection and survival of the fittest at work. |
| HOW HE GOT AND/OR DISCOVERED THEM |
| Intuitive Aptitude- This is Sylar's inherent power, which he apparently discovered seconds before he killed Brian Davis and obtained telekinesis. He also used this ability to recognize what is wrong with watches just by looking at them. Telekinesis - Killed Brian Davis Cryokinesis - Killed Molly Walker's parents (no direct evidence this is where the freezing power comes from, but the murder scene is the first evidence of this power) Enhanced Memory - Killed Charlie Andrews Liquefaction - Killed Zane Taylor Enhanced Hearing - Killed Dale Smither Precognition - Killed Issac Mendez Radioactivity - Killed Ted Sprague Future Sylar (subject to change if the future changes): Flying - Killed Nathan Petrelli (revealed in the fight with Peter at the end of episode 1.20) Illusion - Killed (Candice Willmer, he said the name in episode 1.20 Five years in the future) Phasing - Killed D.L. Hawkins (proven by reaching through a door in episode 1.20 to pull Peter Petrelli through the door) Healing - Killed Clair Bennett (in epidsode 1.20) He has killed more people that we know of and those powers have yet to be revealed and associated with either Sylar or the people that he killed. These people include : Eden McCain (who actually took her own life presumably preventing Sylar from "harvesting" her ability of persuassion) Molly Walkers parents - Mother had no ability because she was merely tortured by the entire family dining service set, but Father had his brain harvested after he was "Cryo'ed" (skull cap was frozen on the table so we might be able to presume that Mr. Walker was not the Cryo). At least two others based on the statement from F.B.I. agent Audrey Hanson when explaining to Matt Parkman that Sylar has killed at least eight people and we knew about Molly's parents (numbers 7 and 8), a man in Barstow (6) and five others that may or may not include the killings in New York City of Brian Davis and Suresh so that leaves five others (presumably) that we don't know of yet.. |
| HOW HE USES THEM |
| Intuitive Aptitude: Sylar obtains new powers by killing individuals with superpowers, slicing open their heads and studying (eating not confirmed!) their brains. Telekinesis: Sylar's most commonly-used power. He uses it to: 1) Pin people against walls and ceilings 2) Stop bullets 3) Throw a whole variety of objects (i.e. people, glass, lockers) 4) Slice open people's heads Cryokinesis: 1) Freezing Molly Walker's father 2) Creating an ice slick on a road to cause a car accident (graphic novel). 3) Creating snow for his mother (real life snowglobe). 4) Freezing Hiro's sword. Enhanced Memory: Truck manual (graphic novel) Liquefaction: Sylar has used this power when tricking Mohinder into thinking that he was Zane Taylor. He also liquified Dale Smither's wrench. Enhanced Hearing: Sylar has used this power to recognize Hiro and Ando's heart beat, and used it to spy on a conversation that led him to trap and kill Ted Sprague. Precognition: Sylar has used this power to draw the future - him blowing up NYC (actually appears to be Peter that does, but this can change to Sylar. This power is also used many more times in 1.23 as he appears to predict everything that occurs at Kirby Plaza.) Radioactivity: Possibly blowing up NYC if Peter doesn't do it. Fighting Peter in the future. |
| KNOWN VULNERABILITIES |
| Until he develops better control of his super hearing, high frequency noises. Also Sylar has demonstrated emotional vulnerability. First, his interactions with his mother prior to killing her show that he has a great desire for meaning and purpose, and wanting to be needed. His power, and his belief that the use his power is an evolutionary imperative, has driven him to find this meaning through his killing. However, his conversation with Mohinder during "Chapter 21: The Hard Part" reveals there is a limitation to his killing. He expresses hes hesitation and the lack of purpose in killing millions of innocent lives, and questions why he would do such a thing (showing he emotionally believes he is only doing what he does because he has no other choice). After killing his mother, Sylar begins to emotionally rebel against this wariness of being a mass murderer, as he realizes that perhaps, in that event, he will achieve his moment of true meaning, assuming, of course, Sylar is the bomb (as he believes himself to be). |
EXTRAS
| MOST MEMORABLE LINES |
| "Just a talent I have for the way things work, how the parts should go." "When I was a kid I used to wish some stranger would come and tell me my family wasn't really my family. They weren't bad people they were just ...insignificant and I wanted to be different, special. I wanted to change a new name, a new life." to Chandra Suresh in Six Months Ago "You're broken...Don't worry Brian I can fix it, it's an evolutionary imperative!" Sylar to his first victim Brian Davis. "My name is SYLAR!" to HRG while in captivity. "That was for the haircut." Sylar to HRG after slamming him into a wall and escaping his cell. "You shouldn't have built such a good cage." Sylar to HRG after trapping him at Primatech. Dale Smither: "That sound in your heart, what is it?!" Sylar (creepily): "Murder." "Help, find a way...give me salvation. Give me that damn list!! So i can - sink my TEETH in!" "I wasn't begging for my life. I was offering you yours." Sylar to Mohinder in Parasite as the tables turn. "But don't worry...*in a taunting sort of way* you might actually do some good before you die." Sylar to Mohinder. "You're like me aren't you? I'd like to see how that works." Sylar to Peter in Parasite/.07% "This is usually the part when people start screaming." before he begins to kill Isaac "I'm not most people" Sylar to Agent Hanson after tipping off the FBI about Ted Sprague. "Boom" (with an insanely evil face) "Looks you've dropped something. A comic book that predicts the future. What will they think of next." Sylar to Ando upon discovering the comic after pinning Ando to the wall. "You're kidding. Is this how Isaac thought I'd die, stabbed by a silly little man!?" Sylar to Ando regarding the 9th Wonders issue showing Hiro killing Sylar. "Please, what would I want with your brain?" Sylar to Ando in the finale. "Can you do your little trick before I can do mine?" Sylar to Hiro regarding his chances of saving Ando before he decapitates him. "Haven't I killed you before?" Sylar to Peter in the finale before their big face-off. "Looks you're the villain Peter, I'm the hero." Sylar to Peter once more after Peter's hands start glowing. |
| THINGS ABOUT HIM YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE NOTICED |
| Gabriel Gray chose the name "Sylar" after looking at his wristwatch, which was a "Sylar" brand watch. This plot element was the result of inspiration for the writers by the real-life Zodiac killer in San Francisco, who is believed to have chosen "Zodiac" as his name because that was the brand name of the watch his mother gave him for Christmas. Enjoys the use of creative media (i.e. his mother's blood) when painting. In one of the very first scenes of Book One, Mohinder talked about the cockroach and how resilient it is. In later episodes (when Sylar was captured by the Company and then again on the sewer cover in the last shot of Book One) the cockroach becomes a symbol used to represent Sylar. |
| HIS PLACE IN THE 'HEROES' UNIVERSE |
| The major villain of Book One of "Heroes"; on screen has killed Chandra Suresh, Brian Davis, Charlie Andrews, Zane Taylor, Dale Smither, Isaac Mendez, Molly Walker's parents, Virginia Gray (his mother), Ted Sprague and acquired at least seven, distinct powers as a result of his serial killing. In final parts of Book One, Sylar faced off against Peter Petrelli, Hiro Nakamura and Niki Sanders to some extent. So, he helped to further unite the once disparate heroes in going against him. Seemed to be trying to stop Peter by killing him before he can blow up, trying to be as he says himself, "the Hero". |
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| Zodiacchild | i love em | 0 | Jun 26 2008, 12:31 PM EDT by Zodiacchild | |
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Thread started: Jun 26 2008, 12:31 PM EDT
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sylar will always b my fav nomatter wat!!!!
anyone else obsessed with the hot physco? |
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| Anonymous | Sylar isn't dead? | 2 | Jan 13 2008, 8:28 PM EST by fableboy800 | |
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Thread started: Jul 21 2007, 6:27 AM EDT
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I didnt notice this at first but when I watched it several times,
I noticed where he lands after being killed, theres blood sweeping around his body. If you look carefully you will notice a huge blood patch, on the ground, and also the body is gone, and there is a sewer tunnel which had been moved/lifted from its hole. Did Sylar die? I think he got away o.O |
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| sanderslove | Sylar | 2 | Jan 13 2008, 8:25 PM EST by fableboy800 | |
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Thread started: Oct 1 2007, 8:32 PM EDT
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I love Sylar him & Peter are my favorites on the show!
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| Anonymous | precognition? | 2 | Jan 13 2008, 8:24 PM EST by fableboy800 | |
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Thread started: May 10 2007, 12:42 PM EDT
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What is the evidence for sylar having precognition (think: spidey sense)? I think this power should be removed from his list.
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| Anonymous | Yes, precognition. | 0 | Jun 11 2007, 8:49 PM EDT by Anonymous | |
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Thread started: Jun 11 2007, 8:49 PM EDT
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He killed Issac, remember? He is now able to paint the future, but in a less comic book, more Edvard Munch sort of way. Check out episode 19, ".07%", and you'll see if you haven't already.
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