Arthur Petrelli

Arthur Patrelli is in the NBC and BBC show heroes. He is the husband of Angela Petrelli, the father of Nathan and Peter Petrelli, and the grandfather of Claire Bennet. He has the ability to steal powers from other people. He is the primary antagonist of the first half of Season 3.

Arthur's Story...
Arthur wasn't a very good father or husband leading Angela Petrelli to poison him. He managed to survive this but was left in a very weak state and presumed dead by the her and her sons. The first thing he did in the series was steal Adam Monroe's (who had the ability power to heal from any injury) powers which restored Arthur to full health and turned Adam to dust. Arthur had recruited some henchmen to work under him which included Knox, Flint, Daphne and Maury. They witnessed Arthur take all of Peter's powers leaving his son powerless after Peter confronted his father. Later he killed Maury Parkman (Matt Parkman's father) by telekinetically snapping his neck for refusing to kill his son. Arthur then learned of Hiro's spirit walk in Africa and killed the man who had helped him. Arthur then stole Hiro's power to time travel and erased his memories leaving Hiro with the mind of a child. Arthur used his ability remove Maya's power to poison people at Mohinder's request causing Mohinder to work with Arthur. He teamed up with Nathan and Seresh to try to make artificial super-powers. He also persuaded Sylar that he was father. Angela (Arthur's wife with the power to dream the future) found a way to kill Arthur (a gun with a special bullet) and asks Peter to kill Arthur. At that point, Sylar kills a person with lie-detecting powers (on her birthday). Then, while Peter's going to kill Arthur, Sylar telekenetically halts the bullet from Peter's gun and asks Arthur if he's his father. Arthur says "I am your father.", but Sylar detects this lie. Sylar then releases the bullet, killing Arthur and walks away leaving Peter awestruck.

Powers
Arthur had the ability to steal a person's ability by simply touching them. This made him one of the series most powerful characters after Sylar or Peter. Unlike Peter who had to learn how to control the abilities he acquired Arthur demonstrated great control of the abilities he took from people.

The following is a list of powers he stole:


 * Accelerated healing


 * Telepathy


 * Electrokinesis


 * Poison Emission


 * Telekinesis


 * Precognition


 * Time Travel


 * Pyrokinesis


 * Flight


 * Super Strength


 * Phasing


 * Radioactivity


 * Super Speed


 * Intuitive aptitude

Some of these abilities were not demonstrated on the show but he had the potential to use all of them after stealing Peter's powers.