I have been looking forward to this one for a ever since I started writing these articles. Sylar is my favorite character from the show Heroes. He is the main villain of the show as well as a guy you actually feel sorry for. He is well written and makes the show worth watching just because he is in it. With his ability to understand how other "Evolved Humans" abilities work he can take others abilities however most of the time it requires him to kill his victims. Sylar is played by a great actor named Zachary Quinto who I am actually afraid I will always see as Sylar. Zachary starred as Spock in the latest Star Trek movie and I just saw him as Sylar the whole time. I am going to keep the spoilers to a low level but keeping it to his powers through out but I might get into some events of later episodes. So let us look at Sylar before he slices your head open and steals your ability.
Sylar's real name Gabriel Gray who was just a simple watchmaker who always wanted to be special. He showed the ability to know when things are broken and how to fix them. Often times noticing a time piece is just a second slow and knowing how to fix it. He was approached by Dr. Chandra Suresh about having some sort of special ability. Gabriel was excited to know he could be special and does everything he can to help the Doctor. However when Gabriel finds out what he can do after killing a man with telekinetic abilities he shows the power off to Chandra who is impressed. However the Doctor finds out that Gabriel who is going by Sylar is killing people. Sylar ends up killing the Doctor which starts him down the path of Sylar.
Through out season one Sylar steals six abilities killing all of his victims. The first power he steals is Telekinesis from Brian Davis. This is the first time he uses his ability to take another special persons power. He then murders and steals the powers of Trevor Zeitlan who had the ability of Shattering. Which is used by forming a gun shape with the hand and can shoot things. He gains the ability to freeze things from James Walker who was the first person we see killed. He heads off to Texas to kill a cheerleader named Claire Bennet however he fails after Peter Petrellie. After this he is captured and taken to the company but ends up escaping He ends up killing a man named Zane Taylor who has the power to melt objects. Sylar uses this ability to impress Mohinder Suresh whose father Sylar killed. Mohinder was led to believe the Sylar was Zane and the two started helping each other. However after Sylar mutders Dale Smither he gains super hearing and ends up being found out by Mohinder to be a murderer. Mohinder tries to kill Sylar but fails and Sylar escapes after a confrontation with Peter. This however will lead to the murder of Isaac Mendez taking his precognitive abilities seeing himself destroying New York with a massive explosion. This leads to a confrontation with his mother and her accidental death. He decides he is going to do it and finds and kills the exploding man named Ted Sprague making Sylar a walking nuke who is going to blow up the city. However he is stopped and seemingly killed when he is stabbed by a sword. However he ends up escaping into the sewer.
Now I don't really want to spoil to much more then this (That being from the last episode of season one) However as time goes one he gains more powers over time including.
* Rapid cellular regeneration from Claire Bennet (The Second Coming)
* Alchemy from Bob Bishop (The Butterfly Effect)
* Clairsentience from Bridget Bailey (One of Us, One of Them)
* Sound manipulation from Jesse Murphy (One of Us, One of Them)
* Electric manipulation from Elle Bishop (It's Coming)
* Lie detection from Sue Landers (Our Father)
* Imprinting from Joe Macon (Out of Town... On Business)
* Shape shifting from James Martin (Into Asylum)
* Disintegration from Tom Miller (I Am Sylar)
* Flight from Nathan Petrelli (An Invisible Thread)
* Empathy from Lydia (Let It Bleed)
Now when it comes to Sylar and his development over the time is rather fun to watch killing the people who he finds have powers. He want to become the strongest person with abilities. His character is dark and creepy with the coolest looking eye brows. Now mote things have happened then this but I really don't want to spoil it. The first season is the best season of Heroes however Sylar kept me watching. His conflicts with Peter are always entertaining as for the most part they are equal in power (For the most part). However I am going to wrap this article up by saying that Sylar is one of my favorite television characters even if I did a top ten list he will be very high on the list maybe making it to the top three. He is an incredible character as well as very well acted making me a happy boy every time I see him as well as seeing Zachary Quinto in any role. So those are my thoughts on Sylar and I just love the evil creep.
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