Is Peter really the atomic man? He absorbs the powers of others around him. Wouldn't he have to absorb the powers of the guy who becomes radio active? In one episode he talked about "going off like an atomic bomb," so is Peter really the cause of the explosion?

TED CANNOT EXPLODE!

I refuse to believe Peter will explode!

I think the painting is a new Hero that is a human torch..
I think the bomb is a bomb..

Yes, he is the human bomb.

I hope he`ll survive though.

I'm not really sure what to make of his premonition. I think that it's not peter, I think he may be seeing out of someone else's eyes, due to the way everyone reacted to him. They all looked at him with fear in their eyes, and they were all trying to run away from him, not how they'd look/react to a friend in danger.
Besides this whole vision was sybolic IMO, and not to be taken literally, so it's hard to know what was really going on.

I think it's possible that it's Ted, I mean he has so much energy coiled inside him that when he starts to lose emotional control it starts to leak out, and it's enough to boil water, burn people to the bone, destroy his home, imagine what would happen if he were to die, he's lose control totaly, all that energy would be released at once, and who knows what could happen.

Amolion in one of your posts in another thread you say Ted cannot explode because "He is like a peice of plutonium" and plutonium doesn't explode on it's own, I think it's a lot more complex than that, he's more like a neuclear reactor, and look what happens when one of those loses containment.

I think it's just a dream of his worst fear!

I believe the painting is just another Hero. Probably, the Radio-Active Hero at full capacity!

As much as we all adore Peter, let's face it: the guy's a self-centered expletive. When he was getting premonitions about flight, he was assuming he could fly. When he got the warning about saving the cheerleader, he felt he had to be the one to do it, and when he gets the premonition about a living bomb, naturally he puts himself in the lead role. He keeps wanting to 'be' somebody.

It's not Peter. It's Ted. However, if Peter gets near Ted, Peter'll get that power too, and being unable to control the power Ted has, Peter will himself also risk exploding. What Peter sees are possibilities, like Issac.

The beauty of Peter's power is that he's nothing without the people around him; then he can support them but alone he's just another regular ordinary guy. He doesn't have a power until after he meets someone else with that power. I'm hoping what he'll learn in the coming weeks is that once he's been exposed to a power, he has it. It's not a proximity thing. He just has to remember how to access it. If I'm right about that, Peter will become quite the formidable hero. Until then, he's no one without someone.

He wants to be in the spotlight, but at best all he'll ever do is support someone else in the spotlight. I think that's perhaps why many feel endeared towards Peter more than some other characters. His exclamation that "It's time for me to be somebody, Nathan!" falls on the deaf ears of the gods like distant thunder of a storm far away. He already is somebody. He just can't see it, but we do.

Before all this began he was helping to make life less painful for the unfortunate. I'm sure Simone's father saw Peter as a hero long before Peter saw that hope in himself. Being a nurse made him a hero. Being there for people in pain. Being there for the sick. He was already a hero. He left being a hero behind and for what? To almost die saving one cheerleader while another lay bleeding? To possibly explode and kill thousands?

He was better off as a nurse. As Erma Bombeck once said, "the grass is always greener over the septic tank."

What's perhaps going to be more significant than we know now is that while everyone else ran from Peter, Nathan walked toward him. I don't know why, but that is significant.

Peter woke up before he saw any explosion. For all we know, he was just gaining all kinds of powers and he was just using them all at once. The explosion could just be a bomb set off in new york. Peter has yet to explode and until I see him exploding, it isnt him.

i really dont belive peter is the bomb, beceuse if he does hiro would be told him when he came from the future, and even he does, he's not gonna be anymore because he can chance his future, so he'll never allow it.

not truen... Ted CAN explode... his body isnt destroyed by the explosions he causes... look at the NBC comics if you dont believe me...

Hmmm. What would happen if he met Sylar? Oh, wait, he did. Why didn't he gain Sylar's abilities? If it's not a proximity thing (he was able to fix his leg long after Claire had gone) why didn't he absorb Sylar's powers when he was next to him on the ground after the fall and still have them when the cops arrived?

If he met the Haitian he could stop himself (or whoever it really is from exploding) assuming the Haitian really can cancel out other's powers, which I doubt. (Was the Haitian there? I can't remember.)

Also, Claire seems to say "I'm Sorry" to Peter. Why?

His control is still waaay off. It comes and goes depending on what he's thinking about. He only learned to control it after he met Claude, and he probably hasn't thought much about Sylar. (because face it, Peter isn't really the brightest crayon in the supernatural crayon box)

I don't think he's met the Haitian yet, and the way the Haitian's powers work is a little unclear--I don't think he can cancel out his OWN powers, just other people's--so that might not really work.


Not really sure... but this is an interesting one. Probably because she is afraid of him or pities him... or maybe because she "gave him" her ability, and they are both indestructable. That means that they have to keep on living when Peter's home (New York) and his family (Nathan and Mama Petrelli) are gone.