Induced Radioacticity

Ok, what I wanna know is, if you get this power, are you basically destined to die? Cos in S1 they kept going on about how Peter would only survive cos of Claire, but Ted never got burnt from his power - Bob's Law - and neither did Peter. Therefore, where the characters just assuming that Peter would only survive cos of RCR - including "all-knowing" Angela - or where they correct? Would Ted have died, if he had exploded?

well originally in s1 a terrorist was meant to have this ability and his hands were all burnt

but i think that you shouldnt be affected by your ability because ted wasnt, but the thing with peter is that he was going to BLOW UP as ted never didthat, ted just let out all of his radiation.

Yeah, but if ur not harmed by ur ability, then it doesn't matter, right?? Hang on!!! Wait!!!!!! Did we see Sylar after Costa Verde went "Ka-Boooom!"

Yup but he would of healed wouldnt he

I know. Which confused me, too. Maybe he was sooo cute, Claire couldn't torture him!!!

Ted's law isn't applicable to all abilities - electro, for example. I think that, in the smaller cases anyway, it was meant to burn originally but they changed their minds. Idk whether a full explosion would harm the person or not, or maybe the regen was just regarded as a kind of insurance just in case it did harm him.

I wasn't sure. I dont think it would really b fair to get an ability that gave you about a month to live. It's unfair!!!! I mean, most abils safe ppl.

Yeah, it'd be a bit detrimental even worse than Maya's

Totally. It would b well depressing!!

Like use ability = suicide

Hmmm! It'd really suck!!

Yes i think he would die because its not just him letting out radiation. I think that if certain abilities become overpowered with emotion/adrenaline/too much of whatever the heck causes abilities then the abilitiy can outburst. e.g. tracy's cold snap, peter's would be explosion/ meredith's company implosion. All of which are supposedly immune to their abilities.

Wouldn't he have burned in small doses, then, like originally shown? Meh, they probably just decided they cba to give Ted those burns every time he used the ability.

But Ted seemed to have pretty good control over his ability, until his emotions got too bad.

He didn't have enough control not to give his wife radiation poisoning

But he could activate it when he wanted. Just not deactivate it when he didn't.

But he could activate it when he wanted. Just not deactivate it when he didn't.

He was also activating it more whenever he got angry, even if he didn't want to

He managed to almost blow up the police...

Because he was angry and scared?

and getting shot

No, he wasn't. When he was in the building with Matt. He was pissed, sure. But not out of control.

He was pissed at himself because he'd just basically killed his wife

but at the bennet household