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Mohinder has lived in the US prior to Genesis.	Mohinder has a license to drive a taxi cab. (Genesis).	+ To acquire such a license in the 36 hours the show leaves him is impossible. Therefore he must have acquired the license, or at least its prerequisites, at a previous date. + After seeing Chandra's taxi drivers license among his personal effects, Mohinder goes to the Chelsea Cab Company. The boss offers him a job and he accepts. (Monsters) - Mohinder may have been awarded the license illegally. Mohinder's license expires on a day that doesn't exist. It could be a fake, but this most likely a production gaffe or an in-joke. + Many people who study English choose to spend a few years in an English speaking country. - India is an English-speaking country. • If the accent is an intended trait and not an acting variable, then it would seem as if Mohinder has spent a good amount of time in a primarily English speaking country, probably in Europe.
There have been two Mohinders. The Sureshes tailored the fetuses of their children after Shanti, so it would cure her. The first Mohinder died before it was old enough to survive having it's blood taken and used, so a second identical fetus was made to cure Shanti afterwards.	Two different times of birth (one where he was born while his sister was alive, one he was born after) have been given.	- Why make two fetuses, when the first would have been able to cure Shanti? What would the purpose of the current (second) Mohinder be? How would they have been 'tailored?' • Only Mohinder's antibodies seemed to be the cure for Molly and Shanti's sickness. If he was not tailored in some way, wouldn't anyone's antibodies do? - Mohinder says that 'sometimes, when a mommy and daddy have a sick child, they have another baby, a healthy baby, with healthy antibodies' (The Hard Part). Seeing how the disease started with Shanti, even though there have been EH's around since the 16th century (Takezo Kensei), there is a high probability that only Mohinder (and perhaps Chandra and Mohinder's mother too, unless Mohinder is an EH himself and only EH relatives of Shanti's have healthy antibodies) can cure the virus. Furthermore, it is improbable that anybody's (EH or not) antibodies would work, else there would be no need to fear this virus spreading over to the general population.
Mohinder began morphing into a cockroach after using his serum.	None.	+ In the past, powers have been somewhat related to the users needs or desires. Based on Mohinder's lectures on the cockroach and its use as a symbol of evolution in the show, it would follow that Mohinder's power would be based on the cockroach. + His abilities shown thus far (agility, clinging to walls, enhanced strength) are characteristics of the cockroach. + When Mohinder turned on the bathroom light, it made him recoil, similar to how a cockroach reacts to light. - He had just woken up. + He closed the curtains of his place in episode 4 Season 3. + The cockroach has been a prominent figure in the show in the past, and Mohinder made it a part of his speech in the opening scene on the first episode of heroes, stating that the Cockroach has reached the pinnacle of evolution likening it to god. + In the second episode, Mohinder's seduction of Maya could be because of pheromones, which he now has the ability to use. This would make sense because in previous times when he displayed affection towards her she pulled away. + He now has a sudden urge for sugar (He was drinking chocolate milk a lot. Which if I'm not mistaken is the first time we have seen him eat.) + A cockroach crawls over the voice recorder Mohinder used to record his notes about the genetic modification formula he created. This could be a "sign".
Mohinder is related to Takezo Kensei.	None.	- Mohinder is of Indian descent, while Kensei is of European or Western descent. + After so many generations it is very likely that any obvious trace of descenty should have be "washed" through the generations. + Takezo has traveled the world, he might have gone to India on his way to Japan. • If Mohinder is related to Kensei then it is unlikely that he wouldn't inherite an ability. Though his sister had an ability so it may have skipped his generation. • None of the wives that Kensei mentioned were Indian. Though he could have slept with an Indian women without marrying her. - The only thing that supports this theory is the fact that Kensei has been around for a long time. As Evan and Khufu prove, there were other evolved humans before, or at the same time as Kensei.
Mohinder began morphing into a spider after using the serum.	None.	+ His enhanced human capabilities including super strength, super speed, wall-crawling, and webbing are similar to that of Spider-Man. + Additionally, his abilities pre-transformation seem similar to those of Spider-Man's nemesis, the Green Goblin. It could be an homage of some sort. - The writers would not likely take ideas from a very popular comic book. + It looks like the writers have already done so, taking the idea of metamorphosis from [[1]] movie?
Mohinder is morphing into a lizard after using the serum.	None.	+ Those things on his back could be scales. + Chandra's pet lizard was also named Mohinder. The writers could have used that as foreshadowing as to what human Mohinder would become.
Mohinder Suresh is becoming Uluru.	Mohinder injected himself with his experimented serum. It was shown in the first episode of Season 3.	+ Mohinder woke up scaly, having a rocky back and slimy hands after making love to Maya. Before that, he had his own powers. He was super enhanced. - At the 2007 San Diego Comic Con, Tim Kring said that Uluru only exists in the pages of the comic book. + Tim Kring may have changed his mind.
Mohinder's ability includes spinning web or something of that sort.	None.	+ Maya and his neighbor are cocooned in some kind of white substance.
Mohinder Suresh may be a name variation of the semi-mythical "Beast of the Middle East", Sirrush, and possibly be the monster in which he is transforming into.	None.	+ The Sirrush beast's appearance was that of a dragon-like creature that was covered in scales (much like those on Mohinder's back) a head like a snake's with folds within the skin, one horn protruding on its head, a forked tongue, long neck with a slender tail and the front legs of a lion and the back legs of an eagle. + This creature was mentioned in the apocryphal Bel and the Dragon, an addition to the Book of Daniel of the Old Testament, further suggesting the connection between main character names and biblical names i.e. Peter, Gabriel, Noah, etc.
Mohinder has the power of a butterfly, and needs to pupate at which point he will evolve to become a superhuman being, but doesn't realize this.	None.	+ Mohinder is producing silk, which caterpillars do when they need to pupate. + Butterflies have sometimes been mentioned in the series, such references to stepping on too many butterflies when time traveling. + Mohinder has not necessarily killed the people he has attached to his wall, at least one of them was still alive when Maya found him, so he might not be evil and feeding on them like a spider would. + When Peter traveled into the future, Mohinder did not seem to have changed form all that much, such as growing 8 limbs, so if he needs to pupate like a caterpillar, he probably still hasn't realized it at this point and is fighting the impulse to do so, thus remaining in a form similar to his current one. + Butteflies have scales on their wings, Mohinder has scales on his skin, and spiders do not have scales. + The worst of the peeling of Mohinder's skin is around his shoulders, so he might be growing wings under there. + Butterflies have bright colors for the same reason birds do, to attract mates, which is why Maya may have suddenly been attracted to Mohinder when she never was before. + Everyone other than Mohinder has either gotten their powers at conception, or been injected with them by the company shortly after birth, so perhaps pupating into a new form is necessary for someone who is injected with an ability granting serum at an older age. - His form in the future is far more insidious than a butterfly or catepillar. One would think he'd have transformed by that point seeing as he was in seclusion. + Mohinder's future form did not look all that 'insidious'. And he may not have transformed or pupated either because he doesn't realize he should, or is frightened of the prospect and actively resisting it with his will, or with medication of some kind. In addition, the ugliness of his appearance in the future might specifically be due to NOT making a cocoon for himself and transforming when he should.
Mohinder's formula works just fine, its just that his power (When the formula interacts with "his individual biochemistry") has the 'drawback' of making him a monster, similar to the drawbacks we have seen for other powers (Sylar, Claire, Elle)	None.	+ As mentioned, there are a variety of characters in the show that have powers that come with drawbacks, Mohinder's power could simply have side effect such as a 'hunger' (analogous to Sylar) and unfortunate physical changes.
Mohinder will marry Maya in the future.	None.	+ He loves her, and she loves him. She never really left him permanently. - Maya has left the US and went back to the Dominican Republic, after Arthur removed her ability. - Maya telled Mohinder to stay away from her, after what he did.
Mohinder can fly as a result of his new ability.	In Eris Quod Sum, he may have flown through the roof window in Isaac's loft with Maya to get away form Nathan and Tracy.	+ The extent of Mohinder's ability is unknown, and he could still have many more hidden traits. - Mohinder could have just jumped really high due to an enhanced strength aspect of his ability.
Mohinder is turning into a beast.	"My senses are heightened. I'm stronger, faster, more agile. I have boundless energy. I'm a new man!" Mohinder (The Butterfly Effect).	+ Mohinder first seems to demonstrate simple super strength: he crushes a gun with one hand, he jumps from a prone position to his feet, and he fights off two muggers (The Second Coming). His body is overall stronger, he can easily hang upside down, and he can fall from a height and land on his feet without getting hurt. He also claims to have heightened senses, and he is able to climb a wall without any need for handholds. Mohinder's ability has advanced even more, granting him the ability to jump great bounds, as seen when he jumps straight through a window in the top of his lab with Maya in tow (Eris Quod Sum). • In Marvel Comics, The Beast, Wolverine, Hulk and Thing powers like Mohinder. + Mohinder is drinking a lot of milk. - Scaly skin instead of fur, although Hulk or Thing don't have fur. - Cocooning people and strange skin secretions. + The Beast from the X-men was a scientist. - Suresh displays his new 'bug-like' powers not powers of Apes, Lions or werewolf kind of Beast.