Hiro

[targis]

Hiro's body is rejecting his power. What did the baby do to him?

[Melekith]

Ooh good call targis about Hiro. This episode had more character development for Hiro than the rest of the season combined...yet as the B plot it's almost forgotten about. I don't think Hiro's struggles are baby-related. I'd like to believe that Mohinder's explanation was the most logical.

[kevin_video]

Hiro's body is rejecting his power. What did the baby do to him?
I think it was only a matter of time. Hiro's been kind of using and abusing his power since he first got it. I say it's retrobution for going back into the past and screwing things up. The baby didn't do anything. His body's just wanting a time out.

[superjjf]

Maybe his powers need to be whole. As a partail DNA fix, his body is rejecting the foreign, damaged, imperfect DNA.

[Melekith]

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying superjjf? Hiro was never given any injections of "foreign DNA" that I'm aware of.

[RedPhoenix23]

Arthur ripped away Hiro's power's and made him a regular everyday human. Then "touch and go" baby only partially fixed his powers, making the dna incompatable with his regular non powered body.

[Melekith]

I still don't see how the baby had any negative effects on Hiro. Hiro's DNA never changed.

[targis]

He was bleeding out of his ear. How bad is he hurt?

[RedPhoenix23]

I still don't see how the baby had any negative effects on Hiro. Hiro's DNA never changed.

According to Mo' the peeps the power's lay in their DNA make-up. Hiro's changed when Arthur took his powers and his body changed to accomadate that. Baby Matt somehow partially "reactivated" the DNA that held Hiro's powers. But since it was only a partial reactivation, Hiro's body hasn't changed enough to accomadate the powers.

[targis]

One thing to look forward to is that Hiro and Ando went back to Japan so they will probably bring Hiro's Sister back on the show. It would be weird not to have Hiro interact with her when he goes back home.

[Leo]

Hiro needs to regain his powers, otherwise TPTB should have just killed him instead of Nathan.

[kryptonhero25]

I don't think the baby had negative effects on Hiro. The problem is that his powers were completely stripped by Arthur so therefore he shouldn't have them in the first place. The power is written on his DNA but Arthur basically made Hiro unable from using it. The only thing baby matt parkman did was resurface the power in some way. Like I said, Hiro is not to supposed to have the power in the first place because of Arthur so his body is rejecting it like a virus, like what Mohinder said and what many of you have cited above.

[targis]

So how do you fix him?

[RedPhoenix23]

Either you can't.... which sucks.

Or maybe give him a dose of Claire's blood every now and again to heal the damage of using his abilities...

Or maybe give him a dose of that formula and hope for the best...

Or maybe baby Matt can touch him again and "poof!" problem solved, Hiro's normal again.

[kryptonhero25]

The only thing that might work is to have Ando supercharge his crimson arc power and force it into Hiro which would be potentially dangerous because we've seen that it just doesn't amplify abilities.

[ChrisB85]

Either you can't.... which sucks.

Or maybe give him a dose of Claire's blood every now and again to heal the damage of using his abilities...

Or maybe give him a dose of that formula and hope for the best...

Or maybe baby Matt can touch him again and "poof!" problem solved, Hiro's normal again.
The formula probably wouldn´t work, Peter was injected with the last one that survived the destruktion of his dads "company", and with the light gone there may be no chance in making any new one that wouldn´d have the same sideeffects like the one Mohinder injected himself the first time and turned him into an monster.

Claire´s blood could do the magic, but how many blood should he cary with him?
I mean hero even freezes time to walk over a red trafficlight!
And I think baby Matt did all he could when he reenabled Hiro´s timefreeze as part of his original Power, maybe another touch will even make this disapear again, but in this case Hiro wouldn´d try to use his power just for fun and kill him self in the process ;-)

[j-kent]

The genetic sequence for his power is incomplete...it's like he's mutated only a certain codon for his powers and his body sees it as foreign. A really incoherent idea, but it's either all or nothing with powers I suppose..

[LOONEY]

Arthur ripped away Hiro's power's and made him a regular everyday human. Then "touch and go" baby only partially fixed his powers, making the dna incompatable with his regular non powered body.

it was never clearly stated that Arty took ALL of Hiro's power away...i mean he took petes and he didn't turn into a 12 yr old so Arthur had complete control of his power and can turn it up or down as he choose to.
I would like someone to find where it said he took all of his power. I know HE said his power takes every trace, but he only touched Hiro shortly and maybe didn't take 100%

[LILVILLE]

he took all of it arthur said im going 2 take your power or somthin like that...who knows if he will get his og back i wuld rather him not and become a bad ass swordsman like he was in 5yg..the way he is know is stale and useless

[Novak Fan]

I think it was only a matter of time. Hiro's been kind of using and abusing his power since he first got it. I say it's retrobution for going back into the past and screwing things up. The baby didn't do anything. His body's just wanting a time out.

I agree with kevin. Maybe it's not because what Arthur did (or bb Parkman) I think that it's just Hiro's body that without reason couldn't hold the power anymore. Every human body is different.

[RedPhoenix23]

it was never clearly stated that Arty took ALL of Hiro's power away...i mean he took petes and he didn't turn into a 12 yr old so Arthur had complete control of his power and can turn it up or down as he choose to.
I would like someone to find where it said he took all of his power. I know HE said his power takes every trace, but he only touched Hiro shortly and maybe didn't take 100%

When Arthur wiped Hiro's memory, he hadn't snatched his powers away - it wasn't until several eps later AFTER Hiro's memory was restored that he did that. So at that point, what he did to Hiro wasn't the same as what he did to Peter, or Maya, or Adam/Kensei.

[CompanyMan]

Arthur did take away Hiro's power completely. He was in no hurry when he did so, and therefor he had no reason to rush or to do a half-arsed job when doing so. After all, Arthur had travelled back to the past to do so and was able to return to whatever time he needed to to complete his task.

It has never been explained at all how Matt Jr.'s turn-on/turn-off power works on people. All that we know is that the baby was able to turn on one of Hiro's powers by touching him. Okay, we know one other thing -- the child is too young to fully comprehend what he is doing when he uses his power. We really do not know why Hiro is having physical problems other than a statement by Mohinder that his body is rejecting the ability. So at this point we are at the mercy of the writers, of whom we can only hope will explain what's going on with him in a future episode.