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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 anyones (EH or not) antibodies would work, else there would be no need to fear this virus spreading over to the general population.
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 Suresh may be a name variation of the semi-mythical "Beast of the Middle East", Sirrush, and possibly be the monster in which he was 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 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 told 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 have powers like Mohinder. + Mohinder is drinking a lot of milk. + The Beast from the X-men was a scientist. - Suresh displays his new 'bug-like' powers, not powers of apes, lions or a werewolf kind of beast.
Mohinder now has a normally functioning ability.	None.	+ When Mohinder was exposed to the formula serum, his "scales" disappeared. His ability is now not gone; rather it is "fixed". • But the monster inside him might still be there. Arthur hinted towards it in The Eclipse, Part 2. + In an article in the TV Guide magazine where the Heroes cast asks Tim Kring questions about where their characters are going, Sendhil Ramamurthy asks Tim Kring if Mohinder will ever get his abilities taken away. This implies that Mohinder does still have his powers. Besides, the formula does not take away people’s abilities; it gives people abilities.
Mohinder and Maya are brother and sister.	None	+ Maya might be Mohinder's sister Shanti, who did not really die but her powers were so strong poison emission for her parents and they probably gave her away to adoption. - The writers would never make siblings have sex. - Shanti was five years older than Mohinder. Maya is in her mid-twenties. Which means she cannot be his elder sister, and there's no confirmation Mr. and Mrs. Suresh had more children than two.
Mohinder's cocoon was meant to evolve him to the next stage, but the eclipse interrupted this, causing more harm than good.	None.	+ Mohinder's health deteriorates more quickly after the eclipse than it had before. + Mohinder's ability has been called "insect-like"; cocoons are part of the life-cycle of some insects.