The following fan theories are about Stephen Canfield.
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Theories
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| Stephen Canfield is not dead. |
According to Heroes Interactive, his vortices have a "dimensional pull". |
+ While being in another dimension, he may be able to create another vortex to come back.
- The hole he created is very small, and possibly, in the process of entering, his body was squashed in the hole.
- He may have been killed by the process of entering the other dimension, or something or someone waiting for him on the other side.
- He may not be able to return to the same dimension. If the other dimension is not in the same time-space continuum, he can be considered dead in terms of relativity if he cannot return before he dies of starvation, thirst or old age.
+ We exactly don't know what we can find inside a black hole.
- • The term "black hole" is more a poetic description than a scientific one. It's not a hole in any meaningful sense. Things don't "fall into" a black hole any more than we fall into the Earth. It's just a matter of density. Enough matter gets together and the pull is enough to curve light (and by definition everything else) back into it.
+ Canfield may be immune to his own ability. No one knows where the other end of a black hole can lead.
- • There's not "other side", there's no "inside". A black hole is an object.
- - The other end of a black hole is the black hole in itself, as it is not a hole but a super-dense ball. When a black hole cannot absorb anymore matter, it explodes.
- • Black holes don't "explode". They can, at best, theoretically evaporate due to the energy loss from Hawking radiation.
- + It could be a wormhole, which is similar to a black hole.
- • Black holes and wormholes aren't terribly similar. For starters black holes have been observed, wormholes are purely theoretical. Wormholes (as theorized) would provide a passage to somewhere/when. Black holes are just points in space.
• The way Canfield's ability works isn't related to any real-word phenomenon.
• A black hole's shape is indescribable by humans. It is a one-dimensional object with no length or width, but enormous depth. If Stephen's power made black holes, anything caught in them would be 'sphaghettified through the fabric of the universe'.
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| Stephen Canfield was the victim of a hate crime at some point in his past. |
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+ In stark contrast to all the other Level Five escapees, Canfield is very timid and non-confrontational, almost to the point of being reclusive. While not by itself evidence, the psychological behavior is telling when one considers that he spent a childhood as the only African American student in a wealthy prep school full of mostly Caucasians. Were a few childhood pranks the result of Canfield's evading personality?
- + His assignment tracker profile supports this.
- Stephen Canfield led a more or less normal life until his ability manifested. Then, he accidentally killed his neighbor, was captured by the Company, and locked up without trial or hope of appeal in a cell block full of murderers and psychopaths. The things he might have seen/heard in Primatech could easily have scarred him for life.
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