Heroes

[Kane Knight]

Originally Posted by DS I believe Patrelli can only use the powers of those that he is around. I don't think he can use them otherwise. But I got the same sort of feeling from Sylar. I think he "takes apart" their heads and learns their powers and he wants to become as powerful as possible so he's finding everyone and learning from them.

Patrelli set his leg quite some time after the cheerleader left. I'm not sure if it was "just because," but it'd seem the duration is getting better.

People look at Sylar wrong. Sylar sees how things work. That's how he sees how things are broken. How that translates into being able to alter his own brain to adapt new powers, I'm not entirely sure, but he's apparently able to do so.

I don't think he needs to take things apart in any sense, I believe he has a natural understanding of what's right, and what's wrong.

Actually, I'm kind of hoping that he doesn't need to kill people to take their powers, because the "villain" from one of my series does the same thing...