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Played by: Zachary Quinto

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AGE
29

HOMETOWN
Queens,NY

OCCUPATION
Watch Repairman
Company Agent

KNOWN POWERS
Intuitive Aptitude
Telekinesis
Freezing (lost)
Enhanced Memory (lost)
Melting (lost)
Enhanced Hearing (lost)
Precognition Drawing (lost)
Induced Radioactivity (lost)
Rapid Cell Regeneration
Alchemy
Clairsentience
Sound Manipulation

ALSO KNOWN AS
Gabriel Gray
Gabriel Sylar
Dr. Suresh
Zane Taylor
Isaac Mendez
Specail Agent Hanson
Boogeyman
Brain Man

PERSONAL LIFE

SIGNIFICANT OTHERS

Elle Bishop (deceased)

FAMILY

Adoptive Family
Virginia Gray - mother [biological aunt] (deceased)
Martin Gray - father [biological uncle]

Biological Family
Samson Gray - father

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

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

Telekinesis - Brian Davis

Freezing - unknown (Lost)

Enhanced Memory - Charlie Andrews (Lost)

Melting - Zane Taylor (Lost)

Precognition Drawings - Isaac Mendez (Lost)

Induced Radioactivity - Ted Sprague (Lost)

Rapid Cell Regeneration - Claire Bennet

Alchemy - Bob Bishop

Clairsentience - Bridget Bailey

Sound Manipulation - Jesse Murphy

Electric manipulation - Elle Bishop

Lie Detection - Sue Landers

Thoughtography - Joe Macon [Graphic Novel]

Shape Shifting - James Martin

Disintegration - Tom Miller

HOW HE USES THEM

Intuitive Aptitude: Sylar obtains new powers by killing individuals with superpowers, slicing open their heads and studying 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

Freezing:
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.
5) Figthing Peter in the future

Enhanced Memory: Truck manual (graphic novel)

Melting: 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: For a period he was believed to be the one that blew up New York, but the only actually use of this ability was him causing his hands to glow in a show offy manner just after gaining the power.Although, in the future, we witness Sylar blow up part of California after his son was killed.

Rapic Cellular Regeneration - Healing after suffering gun shots or other injuries throught out the series after gaining the ability.

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).

After gaining Claire's ability of Rapid Cellular Regeneration, his major vulurability became the spot on the back of his head that would shut down even those with Cellualr regeneration (seen on Claire and Peter previously). Unfortunatly, after Sylar gain the ability to shape shift, we learn that he was able to move the spot.

The desire to be special often results in unforseen plot twists. Example, in Season 3, Sylar, (at that time still trying to be Gabriel Grey) attempts to hang himself after killing Brian Davis, but is stopped by Elle, who comes in and cut's the rope with a burst of electricity, though she claim it to have broken by accident. Sylar is trying to be a good person and succeeds for a time. Unfortunatly, Elle is working with Noah Bennet, who want's to see how Slyar gains the abitities of others. Noah threatens to leave Elle in New York unless she helps. So Elle brings another person with abilitiesto see Slylar and goads him into taking his ability by commenting multiple times on how Special he is. Later, in Saeson 4, Sylar gets to Rebal before the Building 26 agents can. We have already discovered Rebal to be Michah. When we expect Sylar to kill Michah and take his ability, Michah says something about being special and Sylar has a change of heart. He then hides Michah for a period of time before chasing him off.

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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sxyAngel93

Sylar

Feb 9 2010, 5:30 PM EST by sxyAngel93

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Seeing the new episode and watching other ones it has become that Sylar finally turned out to be a hero after all even though i believe he was a hero from the start. Anyway it was shown last night that he didn't kill someone for once and I give props to Sylar for believing in himself that forn once he is a Hero

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Shadowsign

Freaky!!

Jul 29 2009, 12:28 AM EDT by Shadowsign

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I started watcing Heroes during season three. So I rented seasons one and two and pulled an all nighter watcing the first season. I only fell asleep once, for I period of time I thought was 20 minutes, turned out to be most of an episode!! I passed out just after we met Sylar's mom an dwoke up at the begining of the next episode. I had no clue that he had killed his mom until Alejandro tells Maya in season two!! I recently rewatched the first season and when I saw that episode, it was so weird to me, watching Sylar act not creepy when he was around his mom for a short period of time. It really definded the character more.

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