So, basically, FPeter can show and hide his scar? Why bother keeping the scar at all (besides to let the audiences to distinguish FPeter and PPeter). And if season 1's future's alternated, why the heck does he still have the scar? The scar has not purpose at all.

I'm pretty sure he has a Candice like ability, in which he can change how he appears. He changed himself to look exactly like present day Peter.

As to why he has the scar, I am sure we will find out (As we never did in the past)

As to why he wouldn't keep it hidden all the time...well...why don't you take that up with Mystique

I assumed he got it from Knox, the same way Peter was scarred and torn in Angela's dream, and why Clairre had her head severed. Their fear gave Knox the power to permanently wound even them.

I just dont understand how peter can get a scar, he can heal so the cut would only be there for a few seconds

We've already seen that Hiro's power can't stop time, he can only slow it down to the point where he might as well have stopped it. Perhaps there's some sort of similar limit to healing, a limit that only someone like knox can cross?

Still seems fishy to me though seeing as claire's scalp re-atatched itself...

orrrrrrrr he gets depowered for a time and gets the scar while he doesn't have the ability to heal.

I always thought it would be that way, yes. If there's a time limit to what sort of damage RCR can repair, it would explain why he keeps the scar. There are several power blockers around that could account for Peter temporarily losing powers - the Haitian, the Company's Haitian pills, the virus.

As for why he doesn't hide it using illusion or shape-shifting, first, he'd have to use that ability on himself all the time, which requires something of an upkeep. (Would he drop the illusion in the shower? What if somebody came round and he forgot?) I don't think fPeter is the type to bother with that sort of thing. It's his, for whatever reason. He got it at some point, and now it belongs to him. He'd change it as little as he would his eye colour, the size of his ears or the shape of his nose.

we dont know to what extent that would happen, if the powers were shut off, then when get get "turned on" again he might be able to heal whatever has been done to him

If old wounds didn't heal, that would explain neatly why Peter and Nathan still have the scars their actors have anyway. Especially noticeable with Nathan.

I think that a possible answer to how he got the scar is that someone who can time travel went back into the past, before Peter had met Claire and attacked him. I guess he gets injured (it looks like the result of a few sword slashes?) which gives him the scar. But because it hasnt happened yet in present peter's storyline he does not have the scar.

Thinking back to season one. The future had been blown up by peter exploding. I would assume the prisoners on level 5 never escaped and that the virus was never released. So perhaps from this and what we gained from episodes 1 and 2 of season 3, we can try to find why he has a scar.

For this to be true he would have had the scar in season 1.

I think it will be something simple... possibly the Hetian and Adam (or Hiro) teamed up and attacked him.

The future Peter of season one had a scar.

Just a guess but I'll bet it's going to have something to do with getting out of Jesse. Personally, I think that FPeter is carrying Peter's physical body with him because they both are an equal space. He had to park his consciousness somewhere else so he could pull it off. I don't think he has Candace's ability. I think both Peter bodies are there. I know there is a time travel rule that is breaking but that's my opinion for now.

Yes. But Season 1 Peter did not. For that theory to work, Season 1 Peter would've been scarred.

I have no theory, I'm just saying Future peter of season 1 had a scar..

He is just pointing out my vague explanation. I should have stated pPeter did not have a scar instead of being general about it.

No its my fault, I thought you quoted me.

As I stated in one of the countless posts about "peters scar" that can be found under the spoilers/theories section,
in the 5YG future was unknown how he got it so since he still has it, I assumed that knox gave it to him.
However, after I saw a preview from a episode that shows scenes from the future it is obvious that future claire gave him the scar. At least in this future timeline.

How is it obvious Claire gave it to him? She began to cut his chest with a scalpel... that is all we saw. That will heal just as his face would heal leaving no scar without some outside influence. There are no outside influence on the sneak peek so I don't see how it is obvious. I must be missing something?

O_o

Could you please mark such things as spoilers, guys?

You just answered your own question.

Clair's scalp didn't spontniously reginerate. Sylar had to put Clair's scalp back on.

HOWEVER,

She was still "alive" sans the scalp, and Sylar mentions that even HE couldn't kill her if he wanted too.

This takes us to the Knox scene were he beheads her.

Notice how he drags the body away from the head?

The BEST you can do to the Petrelli's at this point is incapasitate them.

They are immortal.

Didn't Sylar replace her scalp after he finished learning how her power works?

Losing the scalp is hardly the same as losing the head.

They've told us, from the people who have the only way of knowing (Angela, Victoria, Adam), that No Head=Permanently Dead.

I'm getting seriously confused about why this is so hard to understand.

I would like to see how he got it. Don't care that he has it and the other doesn't. I want to see how it happened. Because someone that can do permanent damage to someone that can heal that fast, that's impressive.

Maybe it's like the X-Calibur comic when the guy that had all the weapons from defeated X-Men foes hit Colossus while Colossus was in metal form and did severe damage to him. Someone with that kind of power would make me worry.

Pretty sure Peter get his scar this season. I read a spoiler that said:

Another eclipse reverses the activation of the heroes powers

Which would explain a time were his powers would be down and he could be scarred.

That is very interesting... reverse tho? Or disable... ?

Or maybe he still looks the same, he just uses his ability to change his appearance to have a super bada*# scar.


just joking.

Maybe he's got the scar so we can distinguish both Peters?



A scar is no wound, it has already healed. We might receive it a as a "flaw" but that's highly subjective.