Theory:Claire Bennet

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Theory	Citations	Notes
Claire cannot age.	In Five Years Gone Claire does not look noticeably older than normal, despite being about 16 in 2006.	+ Aging is caused by tissue damage and degradation--if Claire's body heals all damage done to it she will presumably forever look the same as she does now. • Most likely, Claire did not look much older because the actress was not actually any older, and the makeup artists did the best they could. If this theory is true, Claire will most likely stop aging in about a decade, because right now she is still growing. - Peter looks slightly older in Five Years Gone despite having Claire's power, though as with Claire the time frame is too short to be certain. + This may be because unlike Claire, Peter does not possess regeneration as a core ability: it is only active for him either while Claire is nearby, or while he is consciously keeping it active. Likely, he would not find it necessary to keep it active constantly, and he may not have considered the anti-aging effects of the power. - Since Claire's power heals damage after it occurs, if it healed the effects of aging, it would reverse all of its effects, "resetting" Peter's age whenever he turned it on. It is very unlikely that he would go five years without activating regeneration. - Claire's power is akin to Wolverine's healing ability in X-Men: it heals physical damage and slows cellular decay but does not stop it. Claire does age. For her aging to stop, the rate of cellular decay would have to be stopped althogether, and thus would make her almost invulnerable and immortal.
Claire's power shows a mythological theme in the inheritance of powers.	None.	+ Claire is the daughter of Nathan, whose gift is the power of Flight, and Meredith, whose gift is the power of Pyrokinesis. A mythological creature with both these attributes is the Phoenix, which also has the power of rebirth, not unlike Claire's rapid cell regeneration. - This theory does not seem to generalize to all evolved humans.
Claire will not die if Sylar cuts open her head, because her power of cell regeneration means that her cells grow back, even if they are brain cells.	None.	+ In Don't Look Back, Claire is prevented from regenerating when foreign matter is present in her brain. Since that wound healed when the stick was removed, it's clear she can regenerate at least some wounds to the brain. - However, the fact that the wound didn't heal until the stick was removed indicates that the brain is in some way essential to her power functioning. Removing her brain entirely might prevent her from healing just like the presence of the stick did.