Before he was Spock, Zachary Quinto was Sylar, the resident baddie of Heroes. Famous for his barbaric methods of harvesting superpowers, he used his telekinesis to saw open the tops of his victims' heads, before he extracted their powers and stole them for himself. But Sylar's original power wasn't actually telekinesis: he was implied to not naturally be that evil all along, as it was his ability's fault that he murdered. In the early episodes of the show, it was explained that the humble watchmaker had a gift for knowing "how things work": it was this intuitive aptitude that gave him the ability to meld super-powers to his own physiology. Sylar was so determined to be as special as everyone else, to know exactly how everyone else's powers worked, that it turned him into a vicious serial killer. When empath Peter, who absorbed powers, came into contact with Sylar's intuitive aptitude, he cried of the hunger he felt to acquire new abilities. Is that not horrifying? Sylar's power was basically that he had a determination to become the most all-powerful, god-like person on the planet, and it made him so hungry for power that he ended up murdering half of New York in his quest for greatness, including his own mother. More than that though, it made him kill useless special people; he stole the ability to melt toasters, and to hear things really well. Why would anyone want those ones?
