10.28.07
Through the Eyes Of-Gabriel Gray A.K.A. Sylar
This is a new little thing I’m gonna start doing where I describe one main character from Heroes’ adventure throughout Season 1 and on into Season 2. And I thought who better to start off with than Sylar?
Well, Gabriel Gray’s story started way back when 6 months prior to Genesis. He was a humble watchmaker, who was approached by the then-alive Chandra Suresh, a geneticist who was discovering the Heroes at the time. He told Gabe he had a power, and, just like a little boy at Christmas, Gabe got excited. Turns out he got socks. Chandra told him he didn’t, however he did, the power of super-observance, knowing how things work by looking at them. Anyway, Gabe found a file on a Hero Chandra was going to meet with later, pretended to be Chandra, and killed the Hero because he thought he was unworthy. His first power-Telekinesis/Levitation. He then picked up the name Sylar from a watch brand and began his killing spree. Right before Genesis he comes and gets revenge by killing Chandra. Sylar began to chase down those he remembered from the list. This led Audrey Hudson and Matt Parkman to begin chasing him, but not before he could kill James Walker and his wife, parents of Molly Walker. He obtained James’ unknown power. Sylar then went to Texas where he found and killed Charlie, who was very close to Hiro Nakamura. He obtained super memory. Sylar then hit the money when he went to Claire Bennet’s high-school homecoming, where he accidentally killed Jackie Wilcox instead. Claire escaped. And after failing to kill Peter Petrelli, he was captured by Noah Bennet and the Company. He later escaped and tried to kill Noah’s wife. After escaping from Noah again and running from the police, he pretended to be Zane Taylor, killed him, and stole his power-Melting. While pretending to be Zane, he tagged along with Mohinder, Chandra’s son, to find new Heroes in order to warn them of Sylar. Ironic. They meet a woman with super-hearing, whom Sylar kills and steals her power from. Mohinder then saw the light and poisoned Sylar, beginning to experiment on him, but Sylar once again outwitted him and killed Peter Petrelli, who later revived thanks to his absorbing power ability. Sylar is knocked out by Mohinder. Mohinder and Peter escape, when Sylar finds Issac Mendez’s address. Sylar finds Issac and kills him. He obtained the power of painting the future. He later paints a picture of Nathan Petrelli in the White House, which turns out to be him using Candice’s power of Illusion that he obviously stole. Sylar then paints a picture of him killing Ted Sprague, a man with radiation powers, and then notices the picture of the exploding man that kills all the people in Peter’s dream. Sylar panics, and wonders why he’d kill all those people. He calls Mohinder, but when he hears him dialing 9-1-1, he hangs up. He meets up with his Mom, but shortly after kills her in an accident. Hiro Nakamura comes in to kill Sylar and stop the bomb, but he loses focus and Sylar freezes and breaks Hiro’s sword. Sylar then paints a picture of New York exploding with his mother’s blood. Sylar later listens in to Ted, Claire, Peter, and Matt’s conversation, so he turns Ted into the police, whom he later steals a power from and kills. He obtains radiation powers. In the Season Finale, he paints a picture of him fighting Peter, which he plans to do and kill Peter. He meets up with Peter in Kirby Plaza as his painting suggests, and fights him. He is beaten down by Peter with the help of Niki Sanders, but as Peter’s hands start to glow, Sylar maniacally laughs and says Peter will be the villain. Hiro then appears and crucially wounds Sylar. Sylar falls to the ground, and sees a vision of all those he’s killed, then goes unconsious. At the end of the episode, we see a bloody trail leading to a sewer, with a cockroach crawling around. Turns out, Candice Wilmer saved Sylar and put him through surgeries, and he later kills her. One thing, his powers don’t work due to his wounds. He escapes her warehouse after killing Candice and taking her power. He meets up with Maya and Alejandro Herrera, where he kills one of their friends and lies to them. But that’s in Season 2. In the alternate future where Sylar killed Claire and received invincibility, he had taken Candice’s and Nathan’s powers and pretended to be Nathan as president.
Overall, Sylar is one of the coolest villains ever on a TV Show that you would expect from a Movie villain. His mortal struggles and behaviors make the show much more enjoyable.