History Headscratchers / HeroesPeter

I'm willing to accept that Peter can only hold one power at a time, and am happy to see how much less of an IdiotHero he's become now that they don't need to DeusExitMachina him all the time. But so far, we've only ever seen him use synthetic powers, without even attempting to absorb something from the always-more-powerful natural mutants... not even Claire, for cryin' out loud. And on the other [[IncrediblyLamePun hando, we have Ando]], who proclaims his ability "worthless"... even though we've seen him use it a grand total of four times, and one of those was just a demonstration of the pretty lights. We've never seen him even ''try'' to use it on a non-mutant, so we have no idea what kind of effect it could have.

* It's the writers' way of avoiding the BoringInvincibleHero trope from (further) ruining his character. That they couldn't make it look as anything but a cop-out is an entirely different matter.

** Its Peter killing Nathan. Fratricide is just how he rolls.

** Based on the power of the "vacuum" described below, and since it managed to rip a chair off the plane and throw it around, I'd think Peter would need Mohinder's power just to hold on ''at all''. After Nathan's contrived stupidity with Claire, this whole episode was a season(3.5)-starting WallBanger for me. I'm not sure there's any good reason to believe Mohinder's power necessarily confers any sort of toughness, especially looking back on the end of 3.0.

* So... is this about the character or the [[Main/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike writing staff]]?

Maybe it was just the choppy signal I got, but I could swear that in the "The Eclipse", Peter didn't have his face scar the whole time he was in Haiti.

** Shock from what? He very thoughtfully woke Mohinder and took his power when he was too slow to be up. He did this shortly after being woken. And if I was about to be sucked out of a crashing plane, you'd sure as hell bet I'd fly out of it.

** To say nothing of the problems if Homeland Security is monitoring his phone and he calls up his niece saying "Come over to my place. I need to touch you." (I know... I know... I'm ashamed of that joke too.)

* [[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail He could grip him by the husk. Of course that does bring up the problems of weight-ratio and the mean air-speed velocity of an unladen Petrelli...]]
* Based on what we've seen - and ignoring the theories about Peter only being able to absorb synthetic abilities - Peter's power requires skin-to-skin contact to work. As long as he was only touching Matt through his clothes, they were golden. He could easily have grabbed Matt fireman-style, slung him over his shoulder, and taken off in seconds.

*** No problem. It is just a theory - but it makes sense, since the only powered person Peter was likely talking to at that point was Claire, and she's probably the only person he'd trust to help him experiment at this point. True, Matt was in New York at the time and is probably about as trustworthy, but if Peter had telepathy, he would probably have read Nathan's mind to see what was going on. There's a bonus theory for you.
** And since Peter touched Nathan to hug him during that episode, odds are he had flight again anyway when he was captured.

*** That's a fair point - and I remember seeing Tracy's name flash on the screen as Rebel was accessing the records. Unfortunately, this does seem to reinforce the idea that Peter didn't care about saving Mohinder or Tracy specifically.

* Actually, it makes perfect sense if Peter was planning to pull a Rorschach - i.e. give the evidence to the media before going to meet with Noah to secure Matt and Daphne's freedom in exchange for the evidence - just in case Peter didn't make it out alive or uncaptured. Why bother negotiating for better terms if you're not going to uphold your end of the bargain anyway? Especially when releasing the evidence will put you one step closer to freeing everyone - not just two of your allies.

** Its Peter killing Nathan. Fratricide is just how he rolls.