Peter Petrelli

I'm not too proud of the picture I ended up using for this one. He looks sort of bad-ass, right? Not at all like the other 15 year old girl cream dream pictures of Milo Ventimiglia?

Due to the nature of Peter Petrelli's powers, I feel it is important for me to date this blog. Not in the sense of today's date, but rather where we are in the Heroes timeline since Peter gets more powerful with every episode. As I sit here typing, season 2 has ended and season 3 has yet to begin. This means that as of this moment, Peter has the following powers: flight, precognition, radiation manipulation, electricity manipulation, time/space manipulation, regeneration, super-strength, telepathy, telekinesis, invisibility, and phasing. Yes, I did get that list from Wikipedia.

But you know what? Only two of those powers mean anything. Space/time manipulation and cellular regeneration are all he needs. He might possibly be able to beat Superman with any conglomeration of his other powers, but cellular regeneration and space/time control are the real ponies to bet on.

These two powers enable Peter to overcome the Superman's real advantage against most foes, his speed. Superman is certainly very strong, but even he weren't it wouldn't matter much against a foe who is too fast for you to see. Superman would, barring a precongitive vision or visit from future Peter, get the first hit in, and with Superman's strength the first hit is enough to pulp a human skull. Peter does have super-strength, but not to the degree I believe it would be neccessary to survive a Superman punch. Luckily Peter doesn't really need his skull to stay intact. He can regenerate a pulped face. Adam Munroe survived exploding (so did Peter, come to think of it), so it's safe to assume Peter could regrow a head if he needed to.

Once said head is regrown, Superman doesn't get another hit in. Time freezes around him and he is basically at the mercy of whatever emo whim Peter decides to act upon. If it was me personally, I would drop Superman off in some dystopian future, then go back in time and make sure that future never happens, effectively wiping Superman out of the space/time continuum. Nothing stings like being erased from the space/time continuum! But Peter has lots of options really.

Next season Peter will probably get the power to de-atomize people just by looking at them. It's really the only way that guy could get more powerful. Of course if he meets up with Sylar again he may absorb Sylar's "super melting power," which might be just as good. Shouldn't he already have that power though? Maybe since he has never seen Sylar use it he just doesn't know he has it. But I digress. Peter wins!

Next week: Silver Surfer