How'd Peter get the scar that Hiro talks about?

discuss (rampant speculation welcome)

Most likely a battle cut.

Boring Theory: He got cut by a knife on his face by a bad guy during a giagantic battle.

Maybe Peter gets a scar in the shape of the mysterious S-symbol. Nah.

I gather Peter will acquire this 'scar' during some battle or other. Or it was an In-Sink-Erator that did it. I honestly have no idea.

Maybe Sylar "will" give him the scar.

with Hiro carrying a sword on his back makes it seem like maybe the future wasn't so good...so if he saves the cheerleader he may never even get the scar..things may change..lets hope!

c'mon guys ... let's say that he gets attacked by Eden herself. Perhaps the scar has something to do w/ his mimic abilities...maybe he injects other heroes DNA in his brain.

Or maybe...he is an almost victim of Sylar...a huge scar around the brain would be very obvious.

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Maybe he attempts to fly thinking he may still be able to, and fails to do so..then he tries to use Claire's powers to heal his wound but is only half successful, leaving a scar on him?

Props for the HIMYM reference!

he probly got the scar muff diving on the fine black girl.

No.

Like I said in the other thread..

I think he will get the scar from fighting Hiro..(because one of them will turn bad..most likely Peter).

a lightning bolt scar maybe

c'mon guys...

Hmmm I honestly think that... once Hiro teleports out of there... the train will start moving, and Peter (who's standing still) will end up flying back from the jolt and smackin' his cheek on the "L" door! lmao
K... Has to be from a future battle. All I know is.. Hiro is definately a good guy.. and if he cared enough to go back in time to send Peter a message, that means Peter must be good too.

I'm gonna keep quoting this until someone thinks about it.

Why would Hiro not recognize him, it's not likely to be a small scar (a mere battle wound).

If peter fights sylar and somehow sylar is a piece of him from then on...peter will have sylar's powers + mimic abilities.



you guys need more hints?

His brother decides he's a liability he can no longer afford, especially after receiving a blackmail notice from sleeping with Nikki...

Or he wants to stop him from being bad..

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man does no one think my theory is plausible? jeeezus h christ.

Not dramatic enough.

I agree with the other poster who said it will not be a small scar. It would have to be a scar that would in a dramatic way chage how Peter looks. "I did not recognize you without your scar"..

So, Clair(e) gets chased (via the artist painting) Sylar maybe?

the poster that just mentioned this...this is my theory

i just thought of thi,s what about a scar or the cheek or around the eye, in the shape of an eclipse?


or maybe a complete disfiguration

moheevi, i like your theory, and it sounds good, but that sort of scar would not prevent you from recognizing someone, they would just look different. The sort of scar that would hinder recognition would be one on the face, and as we saw on the frozen dude the cut for the brain comes above the eyebrows. It might still be true and just be bad continuity, but im not sure its completely plausible based on the choice of words. Of course, I conveniently have no counter-suggestion, just this dismissal of yours : )

i am not so sure they stop the nuke blast, massive scarring from trauma from surviving a nuclear blast would completely change someones looks- seems the most obvious to me. maybe hiro and the others were unable to stop it after all.

That's exactly what I thought as soon as Hiro said that.

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Maybe Peter doesn't get a scar in this timeline?

maybe its just the Mysterious S shape. Maybe since he absorbs everyones powers he absorbs there S also so his could be gigantic. *unsure*

Well, I wouldn't have any clue as to what the scar is or where Peter would get one, but I wanted to mention one thing here. Perhaps I'm wrong in my thinking.

It COULD be a large disfiguring scar of some sort that would completely render a person unrecognizable.

It could just as easily be some small scar. Now, maybe I'm just thinking on it wrong or am completely missing a point somewhere, but when it was said it never occurred to me that it would be a massive scar.

After I digested the episode a bit, I was thinking it was more..hmm..I don't know how to say it...picture this (and this is completely fictional rubbish, but will hopefully convey what I am trying to say). In the future at some point Peter receives a scar - nothing major, just a minor scarring - perhaps from an important battle or simply over something that will further come to define his character.

Hiro and Peter come to know one another in the future in some way and of course this scar - though minor - would be an important part of what Peter is.

In the past, future Hiro sees Peter and takes a moment to remember that the mark future Peter carries is not present in the..uh..present?

And Hiro makes mention of it. (All that time travel stuff has to mess with the guy's head eventually haha). So..i guess what I am saying - and I'm sorry for taking so long to say it - is that for Hiro to make the comment the scar would not have necessarily had to be massive, simply of significant importance to Peter's character.

Or maybe I'm completely wrong. In which case I apologize for wasting your time with my nonsense.

hey man, we're all just speculating here.

i don't wanna say this, but one extension of my theory (the brain scar) is that Peter is somehow imbued w/ sylar's power PERMANENTLY...making him Sylar (w/ whatever his abilities have) + the mimic abilities.

i don't have the links but we have heard from execs that Peter has to choose b/w good and evil while dealing w/ his great power.

just a thought.

nice insight btw, nice first (or one of the first posts). register and you will be lauded by angels

We've seen that people get the tops of their heads lopped off. I'm leaning towards Peter getting captured and killed that way...but is then able to heal himself while Claire is around, but it's only long enough to heal the insides completely.

Technically we'll never know. Because apparently in this future the Cheerleader is dead/gone. Otherwise there'd be no scar.

Hiro mentioning the scar makes me automatically think of three things. 1) He mentioned it to show he has an association with Peter and for shock value. 2) It is not a small scar and is quite dramatic making it hard to recognize him without i. 3) Hiro has known Peter for a very long time with the scar so while it's not huge it's just something he's very used to. Kinda like when your friend with long hair gets a hair cut. Or shaves a mustache (usually the male friends do this).

The way he got the scar could be interesting. Hiro could be coming from a place where things went wrong. He could be trying to prevent what scars him. He could be coming from a place where things went right but in that world Peter had had the visit. Perhap Isaac saw it in a vision. Maybe the writers have been reading too much HP. Maybe there is a big battle that maybe averts an apocolypse, if all of your characters come out unscathed it doesn't feel like a real war. There has to be a price paid and some sacrifice. Or maybe he tried to get in a cat fight with NikiB while hopped up on the power of Niki

Unless we're dealing with a predestination paradox. <Has seen waaay to much Star Trek>

Assuming the cheerleader was there he could have healed it.

I'm under the assumption that something in the future tipped Hiro off that this girl was needed. But at that point it was too late. So bounce back in time and inform the "Leader of the Resistance" that he needs to save this girl.

He's basically pulling the same stunt that he's doing with the bomb. It's very likely that this still has to do with the bomb.

So anyone notice his brother already has a scar on his face?
Just a coincidence?, hmmmm..

I actually agree with this. The scar would have greater importance than just a cut in battle. I think it will be quite significant in the evolution/advancement of Peter's powers and abilities. I can't wait to find out.

I was just reading through the thread to see if anyone had seen the scar on the left side of Nathan's face. It looks to be rather large. I'm not sure if the actor playing Nathan actually has the scar, or if they put it in with makeup. Any ideas?

I don't want to sound dismissive or condescending but is everyone here really watching this show? Peter clearly has a mimic type power that has to do with the precense of other heros. Most likely scenario is that this works in one of two ways. A) When he is in the general vicinity of that person and he has some storage capacity that allows him to Mimic this power for some amount of time afterwards (like a rechargeable battery almost) I would imagine though that how long he can mimic is based upon one of two things though either how long he is in contact with them or how much he is empathizing with them at the moment. Keep this in mind though. In the first accident Peter says to his mother when Nathan had his accident I knew it had happened. We know Nathan has a scar on his face and that his wife (yet to be seen) is paralyzed. Now I am not certain but this to me sounds like a car wreck. Now, last night was the first night Nathan's facial scar was so noticeable but if Peter can mimic would it not make sense that he could mimic Hiro too? So if he can mimic Hiro (which obviously he can because he too is unphased by the stopping of time (think of this as the pause button Hiro has access to on the time space continuum) then he could use Hiro's power to not only go forward in time but to go back as well. If he went back what could he do? He could take Nathan and or his wife's place in the accident and hence the scar. However, keep in mind that all of the things Hero sees can be coming from alternate paths in the time space continum and once he realizes he has a time traveler he can mimic Peter will realize he is actually the most powerful of all the Heros (or rather most versatile). In order for this all to work though he would have to be able to mimic the most important power of all though, invincibility, hence save the cheerleader, save the world.

I noticed it for the first time in #4, during a close up in
the hotel room(?) The scar was obvious --- However
IMDb mentions he got the scar in real life in an accident.
So it's most likely a coincidence.

this could also mean that peter and hiro dont meet until AFTER peter gets the scar. as in if you knew someone that had blonde hair all the time, but you saw a picture of them with black hair, it would be hard to recognize the if it was from the past.

It doesn't have to disfigure him, future Hiro could just have been looking for someone with the scar, and later realized that Peter wouldn't have it yet. Also, Peter would be older and possibly have a beard (or something) and, I don't know, maybe shaved off that blasted bit of hair that keeps falling into his eyes. After all, in a dangerous future he may not have time to repeatively fix his hair. He could be like Inigo Montoya, with his most defining feature being his scar, but hardly deformed by it.

It was just the scar from his mouth surgery so future Peter will be able to talk out of both sides of his mouth! Just kidding but it does get annoying.

I think it all boil down to a scar that someone can/can't recognize you because of.

If it was anywhere else in the body, it wouldn't really make too much difference in identifying someone. Evem if puture peter is missing an arm or both legs, when you meet someone, talk to him and get to know him, you look at their face.

Kinda reason why we have "face recognition" thing going. it is only part of body that is usually not covered and/or associate with identity.

So once we say it boil down to face, then a scar like sylar would leave, say a line above eyebrow would be easy to hide. Peter could develop sudden love for hats and bandana. easy and not too unusual change.

So we are left with face that is below eyebrow to the tip of his chin.

I'm thinking something like Phantom of Opera

Supposing it is a big scar and supposing they want a major-effect scene to give it to Peter, I'd say this: Inner-Nikki does work for HRG and is sent to retrieve Claire (not necessarily hurt her or anything). Hiro sends Peter to stop her, and Inner-Nikki fights Peter. Nikki has already mentioned one thug was ripped in half, well, thats a good way to stop Peter...

Inner-Nikki nabs Claire leaving Peter's corpse behind. Claire's power is still remaining within Peter for a short time -- he regenerates but leaves a scar as her remaining power doesn't completely heal him.

I must say I was thinking the same thing! I definitely think the scar is facial...as to what degree who knows? But I think that Peter receives the scar from Sylar trying to steal his brain.

maybe peter goes to las vegas to find his brother and finds out nikki was the last one to see him badgering her and threatening her til finally evil nikki comes out at the same time using his mimic power evil peter comes out and a scar resulting from their fight.

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