I was randomly browsing pictures at the NBC website and I happened to find this pic.



The pic is lots clearer.

that is very nice thx for sharing.

Now see, that picture obviously shows Hiro showing off some flashy ninja-riffic swordplay, while the dinosaur looks on in delight and amazement at his awesome display of martial prowess...

I think the question people NEED to ask is "How many times is Hiro gonna screw up and jump farther into the past than intended?"

Next thing you know, he's gonna wind up on the Bayeux Tapestry, right next to William the Conqueror...

That looks like a production photo. They make several copies of the artwork. Looking at the left edge of the picture behind the main one, it is "more coloured in".

I've seen the fully coloured version, but I hesitate to put in a link to it since it's hosted by Tim Sale, the real life artist that does Isaac's artwork.

So it's likely, then, that the painting behind it is the one that shows little hearts floating above the dinosaur's head, indicating that she's hopelessly smitten with this daring yet conflicted little Japanese man?...

...Or that it is, at least, a more complete version of the one in front?

Aside from background and foreground colour (on Hiro and the dino) there's nothing hidden or missing (if that's what you're asking)

Well, I guess that shoots my theory out of the water...

Still looks like the dino was smiling and clapping, though...

OOOhhh! I got it!

He travels WAAAAAAY back in time, before there was even a 3rd dimension! Back to when everything was all cartoony!

Budgetary constraint solved!

I'm thinking Hiro finds his sword near a toy store and does a replay of his sword moves from when he was back in Vegas with Ando just learning that he'll have a sword. He makes a little swishy swishy, and the camera pulls back to reveal... a t-rex model set up in the toy store. Just like filming LotR, scale perceptions are at work here. Travelling that far back in time would require deep movie special fx pockets on a tv show budget.

I had a fun dream like that once.

Mark my words... the dino encountered will be as prehistorically accurate as a certain other purple dino loved by children and loathed by parents the world over.

However much I love the thought of a Heroes / Jurassic Park crossover, I'm not going to hold my breath.

okay, that's still not a dinosaur

Hiro has obviously been hit with a shrink-ray, and he's being menaced by Mohinder the 4" lizard

I really wonder if we see him fight the dino in this series. maybe it's just the thing to set him on this quest for this katana. Maybe he goes back and fights the dino way in the future.

BUT does anybody know on average how long after isaac paints one of his paintings does it come true? I think it can be as long as 6 or 7 weeks or as short as a couple days before..

No way! What if they add a character that can shrink and shrink other things! Okay, I don't know, I would think that would get out to us like other spoilers but who knows

I forgot whre I read it, or who wrote it but I think it was an interesting theory.
I read that it's not a real dinosaur. That it's at a museum and Syalr is hiding behind the Dinosaur exhibit. Hiro sees the sword haning in another exhibit, he picks it up and trys to fight off Sylar with it.

If it's in the museum, he could just be holding the sword in front of the dinosaur. Mabye a samurai exibit and a dinosaur one are next to each other.

makes more sense than the shrink-ray


but that's not saying much

XD

Whatever happened to Mohinder the Lizard anyway? Eden and Mohinder just kinda left him in that apartment alone and forgot about him. D:

I'm sticking with the exibit theory as well. Makes sense.

I've got a theory that challenges the fact that this is a painting of Hiro when he goes to the prehistoric era.

First, think about Isaac's powers. He can paint the future, but if Hiro went to the prehistoric era, then that would be the past. However, if time is completely linear, and even time travel can not escape the straight line that it goes in, then doesn't that make Isaac and Hiro's powers completely useless?

As it has been proven, Future Hiro has made a difference in the time stream, so Isaac wouldn't be able to paint what Hiro does with his powers. It seems that Isaac only paints the future if life continues the way it is (as in no one tries to change it), however, if you use some of the loop holes, like saying the shadow over Claire in the painting was actually Peter's, and that Peter was shown dead before Claire came to him, then it brings further to the point that Hiro did not travel back in time.

This is because, in the case I just stated, Isaac's paintings always come true, and they're always things in the future.

Anyway, sorry about the rant, but I just came up with this idea, so I felt like sharing it. Sorry if it doesn't make much sense to you guys!

Maybe its a female dinosaur and she'll end up like Donkey and the Dragon in Shrek?





That's a good one. Yeah, why else would they go to the trouble of even HAVING an iguana on the show?
Was the lizard Eden's pet or Chandra's?
When did she name it Mohinder? Isn't that kind of creepy?
Did she name it that right after meeting Mohinder?

I can just see Hiro in "HOney, I shrank the Ninja"

It should be noted that this isn't the first monster (creature?) that Isaac has drawn. The cover of the 9th Wonder comic that Micah was reading while Nikki was talking to his principal in episode 1 also had a monster on it. I don't know what the connection is, but it's hard to believe that's a coincidence.

I think the writer's planted the seed of Hero back traveling in time when in episode 1.10 he exclaimed "lunch for a T-Rex" after time hopping from Charlie. More smoke and mirrors on their part. Agree with maybe a museum encounter if anything, or maybe just somewhere between New York and Texas, there is an anamatronic dinosaur park.

Why do people think that Mohinder the lizard, a GREEN lizard pet previously owned by Chandra Suresh, is going to either grow very big and attack Hiro or attack a Hiro that has been shrunken by someone? Mohinder the lizard doesn't even have sharp teeth or the ability to rear up on his hind legs!
As for Sylar hiding behind it or controlling it, does that really seem like his style?
No, Issac is going to learn how to paint the past, present, and future (retrocoginition, remote viewing, and precognition, respectivily) and starts by drawing Hiro fighting a kick-a** dinosaur. Thats assuming you don't count the Charlie and Hiro pictures he apparently drew while they were happening.

Thats a good theory but what are the chances he'll be able to do that?

Good theory, but that picture does appear to have an interesting background with fire in it..Does the world blow up and Hiro is in a museum? Gonna be interesting to see how this all plays out..back in time would be the coolest, but I guess they dont have the money for it..

Well, the way I see it, all one has to do is change position in the fourth diminsion of time, and then they can see any event. In fact, judging from when we see Issac take heroin and paint the picture of Peter running after Claire while being chased by Sylar, Issac's power is like Hiro's, only its only his avatar that travels, so he can't influence anything, and his real body gets stuck with painting what his avatar sees.

Tell me if that made any sense at all.

And I still believe that Hiro goes back in time to fight a dinosaur 'cause he thinks it would be cool to practice using his new sword.

Nice thx!

That or Beast Boy is on the show!

This is why a mid-season haitus is bad - it makes people come up with all kinds of crazy ideas about what will happen next, and gives them lots of time to argue about who's right. Don't worry, I include my own among those crazy ideas.

Can't wait until we find out what happens and 20% of the population collectively screams "I told you so!" at the 80% who supported the wrong theories.

Though seriously, Mohinder the lizard v. Hiro...

Whoot! I just hit 20 posts! Why the h*** do half of them seem to be about this picture?

firstly, the pic is incomplete... ie. the perception is off. if the dinosaur were real, the pic shows (via the proportions) that the dinosaur is about to fall on hiro. based on rough size, the dinosaur is in the foreground of the picture... and if he is fighting someone, they are behind the dinosaur.

i posted this elsewhere, but the picture merely depicts hiro holding his sword up.

lol that that will be funny cause Hiro steals the sword for later he's so funny

endless speculation driving me mad. here's how it really goes down:

hiro makes a poor decision and drops some acid while watching land of the lost.

that's it.

We know Hiro gets his sword from a museum via a spoiler.

We also know Issac paints future not the past.

That painting is of Hiro in the museum...The End.

Anyone who thinks different should go back to watching Lost cuz this show is waaaay beyond you LOL.

i HOPE nobody thinks that. i made it up. it was a joke

=)

ahhh! godjilla! godjilla!

monday, if you had been the only peron to talk about Hiro v Mohinder the lizard, then I wouldn't have posted. If there had even been only a handful, I wouldn't have posted. I posted because there were lots of posts to that effect.

Either there are lots of jokesters out there, or the world is in dire need of intelligence.

I also don't want to see another post saying Godzilla. While the writers have put Godzilla in the episodes, it was to build Hiro up as the Japanese comic book junkie. If they had to make Godzilla a character, then they ran out of writing skills.

There is nothing as uncommon as common sense these days.

Whhaaaat!? You guys were just kidding about Mohinder the lizard vs Hiro?!? It was such a perfect theory!

Hey ive never posted before but two things were really driving me crazy anfd I just had to get in here and ask. The first is how come nobody ever mentions the obvious connection between the solar eclipse that happened 6 montyhs ago to evryones powers. They have to be connected but some have had there powers way longer than that so im confused as usual. Second is a new observation. It appears to me (tell me if im crazy) that this new clear pic of hiro and the dino shows that the dino seems to be metallic, note screws and plating possibly, dare I say robotic, makes sense if he is in the future right? Whaddaya think?

P.S.- Hiro also has on his glasses unlike "future" hiro and is not in his cool samurai gear. This must be in between now and the future in which he seems to be a "super"hiro. That was bad but I couldnt help myself.

hey dude whats wrong with godzilla!

Ooops, my spelling mistake. That's the dinosaur I meant. Maybe I should go back to playing with my little toys. Thanks for the catch, idallia.

First off, I will say that that is probably the best theory I have heard that I don't support. I can see where you're coming from, which is much better than most the other theories I see.

Now, why I think you are probably wrong. My first reason is the state of the picture. The picture at the start of this thread was incomplete and gave the impression of metal. In a more complete picture, the skin of the dinosaur looks less like metal. I'm having difficulties attaching the picture, but if you watch "Fallout", at the part where Hiro sees the picture, it doesn't look too much like metal. In addition, many dinosaurs were plated and knobby, giving a somewhat robotic appearance. This includes the Carntosaurus, which I had suggested as the type of dinosaur in a different thread.

Now, I could be wrong. Hiro could go to a distant future with very realistic looking animatronics or, a theory I haven't seen before, a futuristic Jurassic Park. However, I still hold with my old theory that Hiro travels way back in time.

Like I said, still one of the better theories I've read, but I'm still holding with my old theory, especially since that's the one Hiro and Ando come up with when they see the picture, so Hiro will expect it and subconciously make it happen.

And to you Godzilla advocates, Godzilla already has movies, TV shows, video games, books, toys, and so on. Not only is he probably copyrighted, I don't think the writers are going to be inclined to start airing him.

Did you mean carnotaurus? That was the inspiratation behind the art at any rate, according to Tim Sale.

Here is a coloured version of the image in the OP.

What is obvious to me from this picture is that Hiro needs to keep practicing... He's holding that sword like a baseball bat!

I'm sure he will get that practice too... but your right he has no leverage!

Seriously, in order to have any sort of control over the weapon, he needs to have one hand just under the tsuba than the other on or near the kashira... It's not like a Teutonic broadsword where the weight of the blade provides the necessary mass to hew through an opponent...

It's almost like he's holding it out to show it off...

Hiro "See my beautifuru sword?"

Carnotaurus: "Well heavens to Betsy! What a lovely sword! I'll use it to clean my teeth after I bite you in half!"

could this be a foreshadowing that he's not planning on fighting anyone... which means he doesn't feel that he's in danger?

naw probably just saw star wars too many times.

I really don't think that he is going to be fighting a Dino. Maybe in a dream perhaps?