Sylar, whose neck Peter has snapped during a telekinetic brawl a moment earlier, pulls himself back together-another ill-gotten skill-just in time to save Angela’s life. “What other secrets are you hiding from me, mother?” Peter growls as, strapping and shirtless, he goes to work on his horrified mother’s cranium. So when he learns that he and Sylar are both sons of the mysterious Angela Petrelli, rage and desire quickly get the better of his moralistic posturing. But Sylar’s knack for understanding how things tick comes with a price-his hunger for knowledge compels him to steal the powers of other superheroes by slicing off the tops of their heads.īack in the present, Peter realizes he has seriously underestimated the intensity of the yearning that comes with Sylar’s ability. More recently in the “Angels and Monsters” episode, Peter Petrelli, one of the flawed heroes at the center of Heroes, has returned from a journey into the future, where he used his empathic ability to acquire the power of Sylar, his nemesis. The rivalry between the two gods, who are sometimes depicted as brothers, entails seduction, revenge, betrayal and a blush-inducing debate over who left his semen in whom to be settled by the other gods, including Isis, their mother. A scene from a recent episode of NBC’s Heroes unfolds like a PG-13 version of the X-rated Egyptian myth of Set and Horus.Īs that story goes, Horus-the Egyptian sky god-contends with Set, god of chaos and the desert, for control of all of Egypt.
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