What "Save the cheerleader. Save the world." means..

[Marvelman]

I suspect that Claire will somehow save Peter and thereby save the world.

[FUZZYWOOKIEE]

I think it means:

Save the Cheerleader
THEN
Save the World

not:
Save the Cheerleader
and
Save the World

The proof of this is in the last preview trailer where it is said, " They've saved the cheerleader, now it's time to save the world."

[jdh_randomrambler11]

yeah, i agree, it was saying, Save the Cheerleader. Save the World. It wasn't one thing.

they were saying save the cheerleader, then, in turn, save the world!!

im SO excited to finally see this episode. GR. April 23rd can't come fast enough. =/

lol


jdh. :rotfl:

[DiscoDyslexic]

I think they are related, It would seem vague and pointless for someone to tell you to save the world, If you see a chance to save the world and you don't take it then you're just lazy.

Peter and clair dont know thier related yet, but obviously have a connection they both feel. It seems appearant that Peter is going to have to do something, seeing as he, and he alone, was told to save the world, and based on the way he seems to be losing hope maybe he needs clair in another way.
Like to give him Charisma, like only a cheerleader can.

[chrisxs5]

Give me a P
Give me a E
Give me a T
Give me a E
Give me a R
Whats that spell?
Yeeaaaah Peter!

[DiscoDyslexic]

haha, Exactly.

[angeloo]

all it meant is that peter would get claires ability therefor not dying to sylar and making peter unstoppable and not sylar

[Shadow1324657]

Maybe they needed to save the cheerleader because Peter needed her power?

If he hadn't saved her, he wouldn't have known her power... and thus been unable to tap into it. Speaking of which, can Peter tap into the powers of a dead Hero?

[chrisxs5]

Hiro and Ando had the same conversation in the episode after Homecoming. I think its Fallout.

[gerdt]

Originally posted by angeloo
all it meant is that peter would get claires ability therefor not dying to sylar and making peter unstoppable and not sylar

I agree. "Safe the cheerleader. Save the world" means that if Peter wouldn't have safed Claire, Sylar would have gained the self-healing ability and therefore would become unstoppable. The fact that Peter gained this ability is in my opinion a side-effect.

Now Sylar is not unstoppable and there is still a chance that Sylar _can_ be stopped. The one who's (almost) unstoppable now is Peter. (let's hope he doesn't turn into a bad guy ... )

[DiscoDyslexic]

What would an unstoppable Sylar have to do with "saving the world"? Oustide of that, Sylar killing Claire wouldn't prevent Peter from gaining the regeneration ability. Things would be almost like they are now, except Sylar would be Slightly more powerful, and claire would be dead. I don't have much to substatiate my belief really, but I still think that the statements are related, and that Claire has more to do with saving the world and Peters story than just the contribution of her power.

[gerdt]

Originally posted by DiscoDyslexic
What would an unstoppable Sylar have to do with "saving the world"?
Everthing! I'm not for sure how exactly, but I can come up with different scenarios:
1.- An unstoppable nuclear Sylar.
2.- A unstoppable Syler who's killing al the heroes, so now Sylar is really unstoppable for getting rid of his 'resistence'.

EDIT: If Sylar become unstoppable, knowing he is a bad guy, this could have very bad results for this planet. So by preventing Sylar from his self-healing ability, he is still stoppable and therefore he is less of a thread to our world.

[DiscoDyslexic]

I know for certain that Sylar poses a grave threat to those with powers, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that he poses a great threat to the world as a whole, though I see youre point. A nuclear Sylar is Scary, But he's a serial killer, not a mass murderer.
It seems then that the cheerleader needlessly draws attention away from the true crisis, which would lead me to question Hiro why he didn't tell Peter, "Stop (or prevent) Sylar, Save the world"
It's the fact that Hiro didn't mention any body but Claire that makes me think that she is more that just her ability.

[gerdt]

I must say that I'm confused. There are so many questions and so few answers...
I still believe that part of the "Safe the cheerleader. Save the world" meaning is to prevent Sylar from becoming unstoppable.
But thanks to this thread I've been rethinking my theories, and I am starting to believe that the second part of the meaning of saving the world is that Peter needs the self healing ability in order to save the world.
But I believe there is a third meaning to this frase, which I haven't figured out yet: Peter didn't need to safe Claire in order to gain the self-healing ability, he only needed to be close to her for a few moments in order to gain her ability. So "Safe the cheerleader. Save the world" cannot mean that Peter needs to become self-healing and then safe the world. Because if that was the case, the frase should be something like: "Go to/See the chearleader. Save the world"
So the third meaning of this frase has to do something with Claire. Her meaning in life cannot only be to transmit her powers to Peter. Her not dying is something too important, otherwise Hiro would have said another frase. Apparently, her life is too essential to the saving of our world.

[chrisxs5]

You know as of right now Claire is the only third generation Hero that we know of!

[gerdt]

Originally posted by chrisxs5
You know as of right now Claire is the only third generation Hero that we know of! (I don't recall Claire's grandmother/Peter's mother to be a hero. If so, please remind me in which episode we found out.)

The only thing we know is that we now know who her grandmom is, but we don't know _if_ her grandmom is a hero. I suppose we have to assume she is not a hero, she just knows about the existence of hero's. I believe she only knows about Peter's abilities, but not about Nathan's.
If her grandmom is not a hero, then Claire is a second generation hero instead of a third generation.

[chrisxs5]

True, I am assuming that at least one of the Petrelli parents had a power. She does however have to know about Nathans powers. The Haitian works for her, and he has seen Nathan fly.

[rheo]

I suspect that mrs. petrelli's powers have to do with visions similar to what peter has sometimes.

if peter's one power it to absorb the powers of others then he must have picked up the vision ability somewhere.

[parajay]

Yeah, and .07% pretty much confirmed, although without actually SHOWING anything, that Mrs. Petrelli knows MUCH more than she's letting on. My guess would be that she has the prophetic vision ability, somewhat akin to what Isaac's power was.

[DiscoDyslexic]

This whole save the world thing confuses me completly, What are they going to save the world from? and why did they need to save Claire? in the clips for the next episode, they supposedly failed, yet Claire and Sylar are both alive and healthy.

Future Hero told Peter to save Claire, but in the Timeline he came from, Claire is still alive.

Though this Timelines' Peter has a scar. A scar he could receive if he had never had contact with the cheerleader. Without Peter there though, Claire would most likely have died.

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I don't get it. I just read the Online comic, Appearantly Sylar Explodes in the future Heroes timeline, Hiro tried to stop him but Sylar had taken the regeneration ability from Claire.

So now I speculate, that While Hiro intended on averting this future he succeded only in saving Claire and changing the component of the explosion from Sylar to Peter.

This could explain why Future Hiro has not seen an immidiate change in his present timeline. But would explain why Claire is alive in the future, and why you can hear Peter say he was the explosion

I'm trying to express my theories clearly, but it gets a bit cloudy, sorry if it ends up sounding a bit confusing. But this whole thing is.

[chrisxs5]

As confusing to you as the rest of it. I think you said it yourself, the Peter with the scar is a Peter of another timeline where Claire died and Sylar was the bomb. The Peter we know today is one where CLaire lives and Peter is the bomb.

[smallville/hero fan#1]

I agree with all the theories for save the cheerleader.save the world but it might mean just that save the cheerleader and that way sylar cant get her power and peter can absorb it or she just might be essential in peters nuclear transition. When present hiro goes to future hiros loft(Isaacs former loft) theres a picture of claire that says "Save the cheerleader?" like it was a factor. so maybe future hiro was exploring the possibility that if sylar didnt get her power they might have been able to stop him that maybe stops the explosion because for some reason sylar caused it. still doesnt explain saving the world though if only .07% die unless sylar is a big threat to the world. but thats my theorie sylar winning was just because of the factor of claires power but now that they saved her