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This page covers the Wildstorm comicbook hero Peter Petrelli . If this is not the page you were looking for check here.
Peter is the brother of Nathan Petrelli. He has the ability to mimic and copy anyone's super powers. He can later recall and use these abilities. It hasn't been revealed how many he can copy.
Peter is an ex-house nurse. He lives in New York, along with his mother Angela and his brother Nathan.
Peter first started having visions of flying. When he told his brother, Nathan Petrelli, who was at the time, running for Congressman, he passed it off as crazy daydreams. Peter later calls Nathan to watch him fly. Peter jumps off a building, and Nathan flies up to catch him, but loses control, so Peter flies the rest of the way down. It was a nasty fall, and Peter was hospitalized. He had also gained Isaac Mendez's power of precognition. He drew a stick figure drawing of two people flying. Later, Nathan tried to explain to Peter that they both had flown, but Peter thought he was lying. Nathan then pointed out that Peter was already levitating off the ground, just like in the drawing.
Peter quit his job as a nurse, and ran to confide in Simone Deveaux, Isaac's ex-girlfriend, and daughter of the man that Peter was nursing. They spent the night together, leaving Simone unsure about her feelings towards Peter.
Later, on the subway, Hiro Nakamura time traveled back from the future to visit Peter. He told him that he was the one that they needed. "Save the cheerleader, save the world," was his message to Peter, and then he vanished.
Save the Cheerleader...
Peter later showed more of his ability of precognition when he finished a painting of Sylar killing Claire Bennet. Simone told Peter that she had sold that painting to a man in Las Vegas, named Linderman. Peter became convinced that this painting would help him save the cheerleader.
Peter later travels to Odessa, Texas, and meets Claire, the regenerating cheerleader. Sylar soon appears to kill Claire, but grabs the wrong cheerleader as Claire escapes. He catches up with her, but is tackled off the roof of the high school by Peter. Sylar gets up and walks away from the fall, but it appears that Peter is dead. When Claire comes to see if he is alright, Peter begins to heal himself. After he is conscious again, he tells her to call the police, but the police arrest Peter since he is covered in blood that they think is someone else's.
Fly me to the moon...
Peter eventually ends up in New York. He absorbed Ted Sprague's radiation powers and it looked as if Peter would be the cause of New York suffering from a nuclear explosion. Their mother and Nathan believed it was inevitable that Peter explode. As the newly elected Congressman, Nathan would be crucial in bringing together the survivors and using this to make his way to the White House. At the last minute, Nathan changed his mind and was there for his brother. Grabbing him, the two flew into the air. As the others looked on, a nuclear explosion could be seen.
After the explosion, Peter flew his unconscious brother Nathan Petrelli, to the hospital. Peter, was the attacked, and recruited by "Bob". He joined Bob's organization with the hopes of finding a cure for his powers to prevent hurting his loved ones yet again, but what he didnt know, is that he was actaully held there against his will. This was revealed to him by "Adam", who was also known as "Takezo Kensei". The regenerating english samurai from hundreds of years ago, when Hiro Nakamura traveled thorugh ancient china. Adam revealed that it was actually a prison, an that there has been a developing cure since he arrived there decades ago. After that revelation. Peter tested that theory, only to find out it was true. They then developed a plan to escape, in which Peter would fake taking his daily dose of "hatian pills", primarily to heal Peters brother of his wounds. He would allow Bob's daughter "Elle" to shock him, in order to distract her from his consumption of thepills. In order to escape, he waits for five days without the pills, and walks right through the facilities walls with Adam. After a successful escape, they visit Nathan, who is terribly scarred from his encounter with "Nucleur Peter". Adam injects his blood into Nathans IV drip, healing him in minutes. When they arrive outside of the hospital, the are confronted by Elle, and the hatian. They split up, and Peter is knocked into a storage container by the hatian. The hatian cuffs him, and erases his memories, in order to allow peter a better future.
Two Weeks Later...
With no sign of Peter, Nathan's political career doesn't go so well. He seems to have lost his motivation. Peter finds himself handcuffed in a storage container in Ireland. Some crooks had planned to break in and steal a shipment of iPods and found a, barely clothed, Peter instead. Peter has no recollection of how he got there. Peter eventually learns his identity, and travels to fill in the blanks of his mind. He again encounters Adam, who tells him that he may regain his memories by mimicing his power. He stares at a picture of himself and his brother Nathan as ispiration to heals his mind, and he regains all his memories.During all that Peter accidentally jumps ahead in time to june 14,2008 with Caitlin to desolate Times Square in New York City where they learn of a virus that wipe out 93 percent of the human population he later goes back to the present without Caitlin, where he meets with Adam Monroe. Adam tells him to think of something or someone close to him, and he'll remember, with the help of the healing ability. After remembering who he is, Adam manipulates Peter into going with him to "destroy" the virus, when actually Adam wants to realese it. Next, Peter and Adam go to find Victoria Pratt, a biological engineer, who created the virus. After she attempts to kill them, Peter pulls the location of the virus out of her head, and after she yet again tries to kill them, Adam kills her. When the arrive at Primatech Paper in Odessa, Texas, time is frozen by Hiro, and he and Peter fight. Peter takes him down pretty quickly and he and Adam go to get the virus. After straining himself by opening the vault, Nathan and Matt turn up and Nathan manages to convince Peter that Adam's evil, and Peter destroys the virus. We last see Peter cradling Nathan after he's shot.
Notable Powers
Peter's power is the ability to copy the abilities of other super-humans, with no apparent ill-effect or power loss to the original owner. The range and limitations of this power have not yet been clearly defined, so most of what is known about can be best described by what has been observed.
His ability appears to be proximity based. The distance Peter needs to copy a power has not yet been demonstrated, however the abilities that he has copied have been from people who have come within the area of ten feet or less from Peter (or close enough for physical contact). From the point Peter copies a power he is able to continue using it, and there has been nothing to indicate that these powers will expire with time or frequency of use. Most of the super-humans from the "Heroes" universe are also new to their powers, where limitations have not been demonstrated, but Peter may be able to use the abilities he copies to the same extent as the original owner.
Originally Peter's powers operated largely on the subconscious level. Powers have been automatically copied, and even Peter doesn't realize that he has a particular ability until by some reflexive action the power is used (or he may know that he has a particular power by inference when someone near him is revealed to have a power). With practice Peter has been able to refine and improve his control individual abilities, however each of his copied powers also originally operated as a reflex or subconscious act (often in self-preservation).
The abilities that Peter copies may have some instability based on the powers themselves. When Peter copied the ability to generate radiation from his body, he was unable to control himself and worried that an explosion could result. At this point he was inexperienced with the use and control of his powers, and he had absorbed a number of varying abilities in a relatively short amount of time. This may have contributed to his temporary instability. As he learns to control his power this may not be an issue.
Peter has absorbed several notable powers from other unique individuals. Here is a list of some of the more notable powers that he possesses.
Empathic power mimicry - his original power, by absorbing the superhuman powers of others in a small radius and recall them at will on an empathic level.
Flight - absorbed from brother, Nathan Petrelli, Peter has the ability to fly by self-propulsion. He's even used his brother's ability to fly at supersonic speeds, which he demonstrates when he rescues his brother after having exploded.
Precognition - absorbed from Issac Mendez, a painter formerly addicted to heroin and his former girlfriend's ex, Peter has the ability to foresee the future but the only way he and Isaac can express this is to paint or draw future scenes out. Peter's eyes glow a cloudy white and sucuumbs into a trance-like state.
Time/Space Manipulation - absorbed from Hiro Nakamura, a good friend and ally, Peter can bend time and space to time travel, teleport, or control the flow of time.
Regenerative healing factor - absorbed from Claire Bennet, his brother's illegitimate daughter and his neice, Peter's body self regenerates and recovers from any trauma, injury or wound that comes to it. When he activates Claire's power, his blood has the ability to heal others and can be killed when the brain is pierced but can be brought back to life by being near her or receiveing a transfusion of her blood.
Telekinesis - absorbed from supervillain Sylar, the enemy of the series, Peter has the ability to levitate and manipulate objects with the power of his mind but not with the level of fine control as the villain
Telepathy - absorbed from police officer/detective Matt Parkman, Peter can read, project, and control thought and the mind but can only used this power to read minds and has not reached the same level as Matt's father, Maury Parkman, or, more recently, Matt himself.
Invisibility - absorbed from, Claude, the Invisible Man and his mentor, Peter has the ability to render himself invisible. With practice he was able to master the basics of this power, able to render other people and things invisible along with him but only in physical contact.
Radiation Manipulation - from the runaway fugitive, Ted Sprague, Peter can generate and manipulate radiation and radioactive energy, most notably as nuclear energy, electromagnetic pulses, or sheer heat and microwaves.
Superhuman strength and durability, Alternate personality - absorbed from Niki Sanders and her alternate personality of Jessica Sanders, Peter is superhumanly strong and durable able to punch through rock and withstand being punched in the face by a grown man with no ill effect, able to wield and control super strength better than the original possessor. There is potential for him to manifest an alternate (perhaps dark) personality like Nikki, a glimpse of which has been shown.
Intangibility - absorbed from D.L. Hawkins, Peter can become intangible to phase through solid objects but has not reached the level of mastery as D.L.
Electrokinesis - absorbed from Elle, Peter can generate electricity and fire lightning bolts from his fingertips but has yet to gain the degree of fine control Elle has.
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