So Nathan absorbed Claire's power when he was in her womb and after being born he absorbed Hiro's. Then many years pass and he doesn't absorb any other powers. How did he do that? Does he absorb them by touch? If so, he isn't seen using gloves or anything to avoid touching other evos. Does he not touch a single evo during the other episodes? I can't recall. Can you? Considering his time-traveling/teleporting powers depended on him touching what or who he teleported, that's pretty amazing.
Thanks in advance.
- Tommy!Nathan's absorption power is dependent on touch (like Arthur's); otherwise, he probably would've absorbed Angela's power as well. Before Tommy!Nathan's penny amnesia, he was aware of how his absorption worked & was likely very careful anytime he was around other evos. In the episodes before regaining his memories, the only evo I can remember him touching is Luke (whose powers hadn't manifested yet), & that was just to teleport him away.
WARNING: Spoilers for "June 13th, Part One"
So Claire died in childbirth when Pheobe Fray's eclipse knocked out her Healing Factor, preventing her from recovering from the complications she was experiencing. Now, my question is this: Pheobe's eclipse was originally meant to have a limited range of effect. In an earlier scene, Erica tells her specifically that it has to be big enough to cover the whole summit, where she (Erica) is fully expecting all Evos to be, including Claire, who was clearly expected to show up. Erica couldn't possibly have known that, at the last minute, Claire was going to be rushed to the hospital, having gone into labor, so why have Pheobe extend the de-powering effect that far? Is she just Crazy-Prepared or is Pheobe just way more powerful than Erica imagined?
- Or one of the babies has the powers of their great-grandfather and great-uncle.
- Per "June 13th, Part 2": Tommy's (aka Nathan Petrelli II) actual power is sort of a hybrid between Arthur's permanent power theft & Peter's one-at-a-time mimicry. At birth, he absorbed Claire's power, then lost it absorbing Hiro's power.
- She could be one of those people who will limp in private but not in the presence of her subordinates or enemies.
- Who said he was experimented on? Maybe Hiro told him about the room (as he probably would've known about it considering who his friends are and his business seemed connected with Primatech/Renautus)and his imagination filled in the gaps.
- Erica Kravid also tells Tommy he was brought to Primatech.
- Per "Project: Reborn" Tommy was at Primatech as a kid, along with Malina. They were brought there by Angela and Rene to test their individual and combined abilities. That room was where the twins nearly died trying to combine their powers until a tech stepped in to separate them and became an unwilling conduit for the power discharge.
- She can. She just doesn't want to.
- When you consider all the crazy stuff that happened in the original show (and that Angela has spent most of her life dealing with stuff like that), it wouldn't be surprising if her older self sent her younger self some kind of message/sign that she would heed. Which could be why she so readily agrees to Noah's plan; she remembers the message/sign and realizes what had happened.
- Rene wasn't always around. There were times when he disappeared for large gaps of the show for no apparent reason (from what I remember anyway). And Angela probably told him about Tommy and Malina; he's probably one of the few people she could trust with a secret like that.
- For that matter, what was stopping Nathan from stealing Malina's (or that of any other evo he ran into, like Luke or Otomo) powers? Maybe the Hatian was exercising his mojo during the testing as kids (though can he only suppress part of someone's powers?) but Nathan shouldn't have retained Hiro's powers if he was touching his sister through the HELE.
- Nathan stole Hiro's power by accident because he was a baby who couldn't control it (just like Baby Parkman back in volume 4). When Nathan was older, he could consciously decide not to take a power, just like Peter & Arthur could. Also, yes, the Haitian can just suppress individual powers in people who have more than one (in the climax of volume 3, he was having trouble keeping all of Arthur's various powers at bay). The Wonder Twin Beam, however, has no justification at all; I'm just as confused as you guys are on that one.
- My assumption is that Nathan is capable of copying Malina's powers without stealing it, either as a normal part of his powers or because of her status as his twin sister, and so by linking up they saved the world with double Malina's powers, making Nathan's power a little more similar to Peter's second power.
- I have a theory: Nathan was able to use his time-manipulation abilities to recall the Earth's usual protection from before, which Malina was then able to imitate. It's probably far-fetched, but considering it's Heroes we're talking about, anything's friggin' possible.
- Nathan stole Hiro's power by accident because he was a baby who couldn't control it (just like Baby Parkman back in volume 4). When Nathan was older, he could consciously decide not to take a power, just like Peter & Arthur could. Also, yes, the Haitian can just suppress individual powers in people who have more than one (in the climax of volume 3, he was having trouble keeping all of Arthur's various powers at bay). The Wonder Twin Beam, however, has no justification at all; I'm just as confused as you guys are on that one.