Peter Petrelli

Peter Petrelli
Real Name	Peter Petrelli
First Appearance	Heroes, "Genesis"
Creator	Tim Kring
Team Affliation	The Company (on occasion)
Aliases	None
Location	New York City
Powers	Power Mimicry
Skills and Abilities	Skilled Paramedic
Tools and Weapons	None

 Peter Petrelli is one of the central characters on the TV series Heroes.

He is played by Milo Ventimiglia.

Origin

One of many super-powered individuals, Peter Petrelli was a nurse until the day he discovered that he had mysterious powers.

Biography

Childhood

Peter Petrelli was born in 1979 and was the younger brother of Nathan Petrelli and is the son of Angela and Arthur Petrelli, two super-powered individuals who had very different plans for the future.  After Arthur disappeared (it was believed by the public he was dead) Angela raised the boys on her own and followed different careers; while Nathan became a respected politician, Peter became a nurse.

Genesis (Season 1)

Later, Peter had a dream of Nathan getting involved in a serious car accident before (or at least as) it occurred, making him question how it happened.  Soon he began to dream he can fly and becomes convinced that he can.  Eventually, he was so convinced, he threw himself off a building, only to be saved by his brother Nathan, who does have that power.

However, Peter slowly learns that he does have a power; the power to absorb and copy the power of anyone he meets who also has powers.  Peter, looking for answers, begins searching for the author Mohinder Suresh, the author of the book Activating Evolution that deals with the very theories that Peter is experiencing.  When he meets him, they begin to talk, but while on a subway train, Peter sees that time has frozen and has a message from a Japanese man claiming "Save the cheerleader, save the world."

The man, Hiro Nakamura, is a time traveller from the future, who asks Peter to play the role of hero (also noting he looks different "without his scar").  He asks him to visit Isaac Mendez, a painter with powers of precognition, who he discovers has half-painted a picture of a woman who has been mutilated and murdered,  Peter copies Isaac's powers and finished the painting, revealing more about who may have killed her.

Some time later, Peter learns that the painting was sold to a rich man named Linderman in Vegas and Peter, believing the painting to be an important clue to solving the mystery of the cheerleader, feels that he needs to retrieve it.  Believing Nathan can help, he goes to his house hoping that he can convince Linderman into selling the painting.  However, when he gets to Nathan's, he discovered that Nathan had just escaped a kidnapping, and believes that he was targetted due to his super-powers.

Eventually, Peter is lead to Odessa, Texas, where he learns that the girl in the painting, Claire Bennett, is living as a high school cheerleader.  Peter then flew to Odessa (briefly meeting a man named Ando on the way, who he learns is connected with Hiro Nakamura) to save Claire and manages to protect her from Sylar, nearly dying, only to be saved by copying Claire's own powers; accelerated healing.

While unconscious after the confrontation with Sylar, Peter has a vision of himself exploding and destroying the city of New York.