I have been waiting for Sylar's head to be cut off for years.

But you know that, given the history, his body will just regenerate a new head or something. In fact, it's entirely possible that his head will regenerate a new body. Then there's gonna be two Sylars running around and no one will think they can kill either of them but they'll talk about needing to kill The Sylars a LOT.

Has Claire ever completely lost an appendage? I mean, she's had fingers almost cut off, and she puts them back on and they heal, but has anything ever been completely cut off?

Maybe the Sylars would each be so power mad that they'd kill each other.

The top of her head was completely cut off. It's not an entire appendage of course.

Didn't Claire cut off her pinky toe?

Yes, Claire cut off her pinky toe while Stalker Boy watched.

I also think that Parkman could conceivably shut down the parts of Sylar's brain that give him his powers (even the regeneration he learned from Claire), and Peter could theoretically do the same. (Also, though he and Sylar are both immune to their own versions of Ted's radiation powers, we haven't seen proof yet of any particular resistance to the other's. Another Fat Man & Little Boy meltdown on Peter's part might leave Sylar as nothing but vaporized molecules incapable of reassembling.)

I'd favor encasing Sylar several feet deep in concrete, since as far as we know he still can't teleport.

Getting rid of Future!Peter might be a bit harder. The phrase "Nuke him from orbit. It's the only way to be sure" springs to mind.

waves to Theo and smonster

Oh, and another thing. When Nathan talked to Tracey about meeting Niki in Vegas, wasn't he neglecting a WHOLE bunch of subsequent meetings, including when they were all there and saved New York? Niki, DJ and Micah were there, weren't they?

I can't keep track of any of these meetings anymore, and who's alive or dead. There really are too many damn heroes.

I know you're thrilled that everyone** gets to be super now.

I'm ignoring your spicy footnotes, because now I can think of Mohinder as Syndrome. "And when everyone is super, no one will be."

What's always bothered me about Peter is that he has this annoying ability to gain everyone's powers and there doesn't seem to be any trade-off. So theoretically, he could pick up Molly's power, and flit from hero to hero until he has every freaking power out there. At least Sylar has to earn his powers, through head-slicing and whatnot. Peter doesn't earn shit and he'd be a god if he wasn't such a ginormous moron. Which is his weakness, I guess. Frankly, I just want him to ascend already.

Has there ever been a fictional character that was all-powerful that wasn't incredibly boring?

Has there ever been a fictional character that was all-powerful that wasn't incredibly boring?

Super-- um... Jes-- um... Captain Mar-- um, Hmm.

Have to get back to you on that.