Heroes (TV series)/Characters

Characters that appeared in Heroes. Be warned Loads and Loads of Characters here. Also unmarked spoilers.

Peter Petrelli
A (fairly Emo) hospice nurse who starts to feel that he's meant to do something special in life, which leads him on a journey to understand his developing superpowers, and ultimately use them to try and make a positive difference in the world (although he spends most of Volume Two actually doing the exact opposite, thanks to being a Genre Blind Unwitting Pawn with the Idiot Ball superglued to his face). A highly empathic person, with the ability to passively absorb the superpowers of others around him through their emotional connection, which (according to his own mother) makes him potentially the most powerful of all supers. After his Volume Two Unwitting Pawn tenure, his Drama-Preserving Handicap ineffectiveness continues in Volume Three where he goes on an evil kick for a few episodes after absorbing Sylar's ability of understanding (and its corresponding compulsion towards killing) in order to understand the show's plot so he can prevent yet another prophesied apocalyptic future. He finally gets Brought Down to Normal when his Big Bad Evil Overlord father steals all of his abilities and becomes a Physical God (Nice Job Breaking It, Hero), forcing him to spend the rest of the Volume opposing his father's master plan without any powers. In Volume Four, he returns with a Nerfed version of his powers courtesy of a stolen batch of his dad's Super Serum; now he can only copy one power at a time and must absorb it through touch. Though in a writing trade-off, he appears to have started getting smarter.

Associated Tropes: "Peter: I don't have to do anything! Claude: ...except fly. * throws him off a skyscraper*"
 * Alliteration
 * Back From the Dead: Several times in Volume One.
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Beat Them At Their Own Game: In Volume 5, thanks to his Discard and Draw ability, Peter now mainly fights by copying an enemy's power then fighting them with it one-on-one. Including a superspeed knife fight with Edgar early in the season, and his climactic Earthbender vs. Earthbender battle with Samuel Sullivan in the season finale.
 * He also does this to Sylar during the Volume 4 finale, with even quicker success: since Sylar has so many powers, it was totally unexpected that he'd use shapeshifting to beat him.
 * Beware the Nice Ones: As Isaac  find out the hard way.
 * Sylar learns this too.
 * Black Sheep / White Sheep: The Petrelli family are ruthless, corrupt, scheming, and ambitious. Peter is sweet, idealistic and Genre Blind. He chose to become a nurse (and later, a paramedic) because he'd rather help people instead. However, Peter is also not above using the same manipulative tactics if he has to, judging by his future self's actions and his behavior towards Isaac Mendez.
 * Boring Failure Hero
 * Boring Invincible Hero / God Mode Sue: Subverted, because when he had such powers stupidity was the only option.
 * Call to Adventure: "Be the one we need."
 * Criminal Amnesiac: That brief Oireland subplot with the Irish mob.
 * Contractual Genre Blindness
 * De-Power
 * Discard and Draw: His new power runs on this principle.
 * Drama-Preserving Handicap
 * Dull Surprise: Occasionally.
 * The Dragon:
 * The Dulcinea Effect
 * Forgot I Could Fly
 * Forgotten Fallen Friend: Poor Caitlin. He's probably not coming back for Simone either.
 * Future Badass
 * Hand Behind Head
 * Hospital Hottie
 * Hot-Blooded
 * How Do I Shot Web?
 * I Did What I Had to Do: Covers most of the crap he pulls in Volume 3, which would otherwise come off as Moral Dissonance. Otherwise the Earth was going to go boom.
 * I Just Want to Be Special
 * Idiot Hero: Is there such a thing as Dangerously Genre Blind? Because the best way to describe him is "a wet match in a dark cave"
 * Immortal Life Is Cheap
 * Jumped At the Call
 * Long-Lost Relative: Turns out that "cheerleader" is his.
 * Meaningful Name: Alliterative, Biblical, and both his first and the last name mean "Rock"
 * Also, Peter shares his first name with a certain boy who can fly (also known as "The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up"). This is especially significant in the first episode, where we are led to believe that flight is Peter's primary ability.
 * The Messiah: In Volume 5, Peter finally seems to have gotten over his various Emo, Idiot Hero, and Darker and Edgier kicks, and has finally become the empathetic idealist that he was originally envisioned as. Hell, he even manages to redeem Sylar, for crying out loud.
 * Morality Pet: For Nathan.
 * Mr. Fanservice
 * Nice Guy: Before his Flanderisation, Peter was depicted as the kind-hearted young man from a (mostly) ambitious family that just wanted to make the world a better place. He was a hospice nurse, for God's sake, and he first risked his life for Clair just because he wanted to. Thanks so much for the attempts at darker and edgier that made him a moron, Kring. Finally brought back full circle in Season 5 (see The Messiah).
 * Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He was tricked into giving his evil father all of his powers.
 * This trope is basically a lifestyle choice for Peter. In Volume Two, he released Adam Monroe from the Company's prison. In Volume Three, his assassination attempt on Nathan changes history and puts the planet on track for an Earthshattering Kaboom. And in Volume Five,.
 * The Not-Love Interest: For Nathan.
 * Not So Different:.
 * Sylar even mentions that he can see Peter's ability is similar to his own. So he tries to cut Peter's head open.
 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
 * Peek-a-Bangs: In Volume 1. He ditched them in Volume 2, but they're back with a vengeance in Volume 5.
 * Perma-Stubble: Grew this in Volume 4, but maintained an off and off presence throughout the show.
 * Plot Induced Stupidity
 * Power Incontinence
 * Power Parasite: More specifically, a Power Sponge, where stealing abilities was his default power.
 * All Your Powers Combined: Potentially.
 * Combo-Platter Powers
 * Dreaming of Things to Come: From Ma Petrelli
 * Flight: From Nathan
 * Healing Factor: From Claire
 * Intangible Man: From D.L.
 * Invisibility: From Claude. It works like a Somebody Else's Problem Field.
 * Master of Disguise: From Sylar
 * Mega Manning: Has to study their powers in order to copy them.
 * Mind Over Matter: From Sylar
 * Personality Powers: His personality seems to shift a bit whenever he takes on a new power. He becomes notably Darker and Edgier whenever he plays around with powers he acquired from resident villains Sylar and Elle.
 * Person of Mass Destruction: From Ted
 * Playing with Fire: From Flint, possibly from Meredith in the 5 Years Gone future
 * Powered by a Forsaken Child: His brief dark period playing with Intuitive aptitude. For about a week. Still it Could Have Been Messy if he had killed anyone in the present instead of a future time-space that doesn't exist anymore.
 * Shock and Awe: From Elle
 * Super Strength: From Niki. Super-Powered Evil Side not included.
 * Telepathy: From Matt
 * Teleporters and Transporters: From Hiro
 * Walking Wasteland: From Ted
 * Red Oni: To Nathan's blue. Also to Sylar's.
 * Repetitive Name
 * Samaritan Syndrome
 * Stupid Good: "Adam's my friend! I won't let you hurt him!" and Stupid Evil when playing with intuitive aptitude for two episodes.
 * Superpower Lottery
 * Superpower Meltdown:.
 * This Is Your Brain on Evil:
 * Took a Level In Badass
 * Took a Level in Jerkass: In "Unexpected", possibly justified as it appeared to him that Simone eventually chose Isaac and he's feeling bitter.
 * Training From Hell


 * What Have I Become?:
 * Why Couldn't You Be Different?: The Black Sheep of the family who rebelled and became a nurse instead of a lawyer.
 * Wide-Eyed Idealist
 * Workaholic: By Season 4, Peter becomes extremely devoted to his job, ignoring his mother who's been telling him he works too much, and only takes powers that he would find useful at work such as speed or super strength. He even attempts to pull another double shift after getting off of one, but is dissuaded by his partner and told to go home instead.
 * You Are Grounded:

Nathan Petrelli
A highly ambitious politician, self-described "shark", and Peter's brother. Nathan has the ability to fly, but has absolutely no interest in his superpowers, instead wishing to gain power via the political process. Something of a Manipulative Bastard, he finds himself torn between his ruthless political ambitions and his genuine affection for his idealistic brother. He reluctantly joins The Company's plan to unite mankind by destroying New York City, but at the last moment The Power of Love motivates him to perform a Heroic Sacrifice at the end of Volume One to save everyone instead. He spends most of Volume Two acting as The Atoner... then spends most of Volume Three back to being a Jerkass again, first siding with his Big Bad Evil Overlord father in the hopes of helping mankind by giving everyone superpowers, then when that plan goes down the crapper he cooks up his own scheme to round up and render comatose all existing supers to "protect" normals from them... before finally becoming The Atoner yet again when his own status as a super is exposed and he's ultimately hunted and finally forced to confront his own hubris and self-hatred. Damn this guy gets around.... Tends to get assassinated Once A Season.

Associated Tropes:


 * Aloof Big Brother
 * Anti-Hero: Type IV
 * Arbitrary Skepticism: For a man who can fly under his own power, he sure is quick to dismiss Hiro's and Isaac's abilities in Volume One.
 * The Atoner: Twice!
 * Back From the Dead:
 * Beard of Sorrow: In the first couple of episodes of Season 2. Its ugliness was lampshaded in-universe, as his kids tell him they don't like it and he should shave. Ouch.
 * Big Ol' Eyebrows
 * Characterization Marches On: He was a pretty big Jerkass in Season 1. He grew out of it, though he does have some jerkass tendencies occasionally.
 * Dropped a Bridge on Him
 * Death Glare: Deployed a lot, especially against his little brother Peter, Danko (... all the damn time), Ma Petrelli, Parkman, even Noah Bennet (to no effect).
 * Even Evil Has Standards: Not only did he not know that Tracey Strauss's escape was orchestrated to manipulate a government official into keeping the division up and running instead of shutting it down, but as soon as he found out about it, he told off the guy who orchestrated it, Danko.
 * Flight: His ability, and unlike other flying characters, he's able to do it at super-speed. Ironically, the most stick-in-the-mud character gets one of the most fun powers.
 * Handsome Lech
 * Heel Face Revolving Door: Good God.
 * Hero with an F In Good
 * Heroic Sacrifice
 * I See Dead People: Well, one dead person (Linderman). Who just wouldn't go away during Volume 2.
 * In-Series Nickname: FLYING-MAN!!!
 * Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Season 1, until the finale.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Every subsequent season.
 * Luke, You Are My Father:
 * Manipulative Bastard: Again, mostly in Season 1. Then subverted as he gets manipulated to hell and back by everyone in subsequent seasons.
 * No Party Given: Enforced to the extent that, when we see the ballot for his congressional election in Volume One, no parties are listed for any of the candidates.
 * The Not-Love Interest: For Peter.
 * Papa Wolf: He tries to be this with regards to Claire Bennet but... kind of fails miserably and manages to screw everything up. As he tends to do. Not exactly the poster boy for fatherhood, our Nathan.
 * The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: He's the Senator who never votes or attends committee meetings!
 * Puppy Dog Eyes: Uses them on everyone - Peter, Heidi, Claire, even Noah in a couple of scenes.
 * Put on a Bus: Not him, but his family: his wife Heidi and his two sons disappeared and were never mentioned again after Season 2.
 * Justified since they divorced and she moved Out of Focus with the kids, but they're briefly glimpsed
 * Rage Against the Reflection: In Volume 2.
 * Blue Oni: To Peter's red.
 * Only Sane Man: Starts out as this (throughout most of Volume 1), in contrast to his characterisation in subsequent seasons.
 * The Stoic
 * The Straight Man: To Peter. Also to Hiro.
 * Unwitting Pawn: Especially from the end of Season 1 onwards. Seriously, it gets depressing.
 * Waistcoat of Style
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Season 3.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Season 3.

Claire Bennet
An "invincible" teenage cheerleader with the ability to regenerate from all injuries, meaning she essentially can't die. (She also has the ability to appear in more episodes than any other character with superpowers - and, along with her adoptive dad, more episodes than any other character period. Which may not be unconnected to her being played by the rather Fan Service-y Hayden Panettiere.) She's quite disturbed by her powers at first, fearing that they make her a freak, and spends quite a good amount of time angsting about this. It doesn't help matters that her manifesting powers make her family life incredibly unstable, thanks to her dad turning out to be a Secret Agent Guy doing everything possible to hide her existence from the Company (which he works for). It's clear she inherited her uncle's Angst genes. Thankfully Took a Level In Badass in Volume Three where she (eventually) stops wangsting, takes an active role in the fight against the Level 5 Supervillains and later Pinehearst Industries, culminating in a showdown against arch-villain Sylar where she helps save her father and grandmother. This continues in Volume Four where she aides the resistance against the Government's superhuman roundup.

Associated Tropes:


 * Action Survivor: Getting there.
 * Badass Adorable
 * Back From the Dead
 * Beware The Cute Blond:Just ask Brody Mitchum. Hell, ask Sylar!
 * Bookends: Her first and last on-screen scenes both involve her demonstrating her power.
 * Break the Cutie: Volume Three
 * Cat Fight: With Elle.
 * Cute Bruiser: Once she starts acting more proactive in Volumes Two and Three.
 * Daddy's Girl: Noah and to a lesser extent, Nathan, will do anything to protect her. Zigzagged as their actions tend to strain their relationships with her.
 * Death Glare: Renders her immune to psychological warfare, and can cause Noah to undergo a Heel Face Turn.
 * Death Seeker
 * Face Heel Turn or Knight Templar: In Dark Future version 3.0 & 4.0, depending on how you look at it.
 * Fallen Princess
 * Fan Disservice: How can anyone played by Hayden Panettiere provide this, you ask? Well, reviving in a morgue with your chest cut open will do that to you.
 * Fan Service: Oh yeah.
 * Feel No Pain: Volume Three.
 * Future Badass: Volume Three, Dark Future version 3.0 & 4.0
 * Good Thing You Can Heal: Especially bad in Season 1, where she had to have been the most fatally accident-prone teenager ever.
 * Girls Love Stuffed Animals: A large collection of teddy bears can be seen in her room and she brings a teddy bear with her when she goes off to college.
 * Happily Adopted
 * Hair of Gold: In the first season, Claire's hair was styled with ringlets to emphasize her youth and innocent personality. As the seasons progressed, the ringlets were ditched for a more manageable hairstyle as she began to cope having an ability.
 * Healing Factor
 * I Have Boobs - You Must Obey!: How Claire gets into the drinking contest in "Into Asylum."
 * I Just Want to Be Normal
 * Idiot Ball: Mainly in Volume Two
 * Immortal Life Is Cheap
 * Immortality: Type III.
 * Long-Lost Relative:.
 * Luke, I Am Your Father:
 * Made of Plasticine
 * Muggle Foster Parents
 * The Not Love Interest: For HRG. Also for Peter at times (the whole "Save the cheerleader..." thing).
 * Suddenly Sexuality: Arguably one of the reasons why Volume 5/Season 4 ended up being the last Heroes-related thing ever, nevermind its last season, was due to this. In prior seasons, Claire, in regards to orientation, was at best implied to be heterosexual, only interested in the opposite sex. With Volume 5/Season 4, however, for some reason, they decided to change her orientation to either become a lesbian or bisexual, a move that was controversial at best.
 * Actually it was more a problem with Gretchen than anything else.
 * Sweeps Week Lesbian Kiss
 * Teens Are Short: At 5'1", Claire is the shortest character on the show throughout its entire run. Micah and Molly are the only exceptions as they are still below the age of puberty.
 * Took a Level In Badass: Defusing a Sadistic Choice scenario and taking out one of Volume Three's first genuinely menacing villains. And to top it off, in the Volume Finale she's the one who gets to have the big final showdown with Sylar (after coming thisclose to killing him in the season opener, as Sylar himself admits ). Her actions in Volume Four continue this.
 * Too Dumb to Live: In season 2 she willfully endangers her family and blow their cover when they were actively being hunted down by a ominous Criminal organization because... she wanted a normal high school life, a boyfriend (whom she knew was nearly hunted by her father) and was doing what amounts to a 4 year old pout. A suicidal pout. It was painful.
 * Blows the lid in the final episode that there are people with abilities on live television. Yes, Claire, because when people discovered Evolved Humans in at least 3 Dark Futures everything worked out splendidly.
 * And how exactly is she supposed to know about said Dark Futures, since she can neither see into the future (with or without drugs) or travel through time without help from Hiro and the late Arthur Petrelli?
 * By paying attention to everything that has ever happened to her? Claire has encountered at least three organisations in the present who became aware of those with powers and then decided to routinely imprison and experiment on them. Not to mention that she knows Nathan told the American Government about them and their first move was to attempt to round them up.
 * Well, Sylar did say it was a brave new world...
 * Well, Sylar did say it was a brave new world...

Noah Bennet
A.k.a. HRG (Horned-Rimmed Glasses) for his iconic spectacles. Initially (and falsely) identified as the Big Bad in the first few episodes, before the plot really got rolling. A Badass Normal agent of the Company, whose job is to track down and tag superpowered individuals. This is complicated by his own daughter being just such a "person of interest", a fact which he is hiding from his superiors. After being pushed too far, he ultimately decides to screw his job and take down the entire Company himself (it doesn't turn out too well). In the 3rd season he's revealed to have been the Company's number one operative in the fight against supercriminals and directly responsible for the capture of most of the Level 5 Supervillains, making him something of the Heroes universe's version of Batman. He's reinstated by the Company in Volume 3 to help re-capture the escaped villains (including a very awkward brief partnership with a seemingly reformed Sylar that quickly degenerates into the two attempting to off each other), and later in Volume 4 is hired to help co-head Unit 26 in it's crusade against all supers (although it quickly turns out he's acting as a Reverse Mole loyal (in his own roundabout way) to the interests of supers, particularly daughter Claire and his real boss Ma Petrelli).

Associated Tropes:


 * Ascended Extra: Kind of. He was originally only supposed to be in a few episodes in the first season, but he proved so popular they wrote him in full-time.
 * Anti-Hero: Type IV
 * Back From the Dead: As if he wasn't hard to kill already, the one time it was successful they used Claire's blood to revive him.
 * Badass Bookworm
 * Badass in a Nice Suit: He mostly dresses like this.
 * Badass Normal: Oh yeah. It's like his special ability.
 * Batter Up
 * Click Hello
 * Combat Pragmatist
 * Handguns
 * Improvised Weapon User
 * Instant Sedation
 * Revolvers Are Just Better
 * Short-Range Shotgun
 * Sniper Rifle
 * Batman Gambit
 * Byronic Hero
 * The Captain: "Do as I say."
 * Combat Pragmatist
 * Cultured Badass: He can kick Your ass and recite Shakespeare perfectly.
 * Crazy Prepared
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Eye Scream:.
 * Four Eyes, Zero Soul
 * Heel Face Turn: Though by Volume Four, it's more of a Heel Face Revolving Door
 * Heroic Sacrifice
 * Iconic Item: His horn-rimmed Glasses.
 * I Did What I Had to Do
 * In Harm's Way:
 * Just Following Orders
 * Knight Templar Parent
 * Muggle Foster Parent: Of Claire.
 * Meaningful Name: Possibly. He shares his first name with an ark-building Biblical character, and also with a famous dictionary-compiler. What do they have in common? They all collect things.
 * Moral Myopia
 * The Not-Love Interest: For Claire.
 * Offstage Villainy
 * Papa Wolf: Try to hurt Claire. See how long you last. Which made many fans wonder whether he'd been lobotomised during the Volume 4 season finale.
 * Properly Paranoid
 * Scary Shiny Glasses
 * Would Hurt a Child: He's willing to shoot eight-year-old Littlest Shanti Virus Patient Molly Walker.

Niki Sanders
A financially distressed single mother, who owes a considerable amount of money to the mob. Further complicated by her super-strong Super-Powered Evil Side Jessica, a ruthless split personality who has absolutely no qualms about slaughtering everyone in her path (including her estranged husband) that threatens the well-being of her and her son. She ultimately manages to gain control over her split personality, but joins the (kinder, friendlier) Company to try and set things right, and ends up seemingly being Stuffed Into the Fridge by the end of Volume two. Later confirmed to be dead in Volume 3.

Associated Tropes:


 * Action Mom
 * Butt Monkey
 * Fan Service
 * Heroic Sacrifice
 * I Did What I Had to Do: Jessica "I did what had to be done."
 * : Although
 * The Killer in Me
 * Lady of War
 * Love Makes You Evil: It was implied that the Jessica personality came about as Niki willing to do whatever it takes to protect Micah.
 * Mama Bear
 * Mirror Scare
 * The Not-Love Interest: For Micah.
 * Psycho for Hire: The "Jessica" personality
 * Send in the Clones: Turns out she had two sisters she didn't know about...
 * Single Mom Stripper
 * Split Personality
 * Strong as They Need to Be: Her level of strength constantly varies from above human strength to bending reinforced metal like wet paper.
 * Super-Powered Evil Side
 * Super Strength

Micah Sanders
Niki and D.L.'s son. A child prodigy and comic book fan, with the ability to communicate with technology. From comic books he's gotten the notion that he and his family should be using their powers to help people, but mostly he's just caught in the tug-of-war between his flighty ex-con father and his mother's possessive psychopathic split-personallity. He finally finds a kindred spirit in his superpowered cousin, but their first attempt to fight crime goes horribly wrong.

Associated Tropes:


 * The Cast Showoff: Noah Grey-Cabey is an accomplished pianist. Guess what we see Micah doing in Volume Two?
 * The Chessmaster
 * Kid Hero
 * The Messiah
 * The Not-Love Interest: For Niki and D.L.
 * Technopath
 * Pre-Teen Genius
 * Took a Level In Badass: As "Rebel"
 * And his actions on the show are nothing compared to the Graphic Novel. He forms a team of bad asses (Including former Scrappy Wes) and proceed to lead them into battle where they kick the ass of every single one of Danko's agents, rescue people from Building 26 and, in the most recent graphic novel when Micah is tied up and at the mercy of Thompson Jr (Son of Bennet's old boss), manages to destroy the entire building with a remote control crane, summon his super team to beat Thompson senseless and then put Thompson's name on the top ten most wanted lists...all while TIED TO A CHAIR. Yes it IS a huge Crowning Moment of Awesome.
 * True Companions: Micah forms these when his wish to form a Super-Team comes true

D.L. Hawkins
A former thief with the ability to phase (become intangible), which he uses to escape imprisonment for a murder he didn't commit. He mostly just wants to have a normal life and be a good father to his son, which isn't easy considering his wife's Super-Powered Evil Side wants him dead, and the leader of the Company/mob boss is gunning for him due to a misunderstanding over a buttload of money.

Associated Tropes:


 * Bald of Awesome
 * Dropped a Bridge on Him: In the stupidest way imaginable, and just as the fans were starting to really like him.
 * Intangible Man
 * Tragic Hero
 * Reformed but Rejected: As Jessica points out, life is tough for a Black ex-con, even without a psycho assassin trying to kill him.
 * Scary Black Man: A total subversion of the trope. Initially described as a bloodthirsty felon, he turns out to be a cuddly, devoted, hardworking dad.

Hiro Nakamura
A Japanese Salaryman and geeky Otaku who discovers he has the ability to bend time and space (which includes stopping/rewinding time, teleporting, and time-travel). Unlike all the other heroes, who spend several episodes just trying to figure out what the hell is going on, thanks to years of learning from comic books, Hiro knows he's got superpowers, and almost immediately and eagerly sets out on a quest to use his powers to Save the World from the impending nuclear destruction of New York City, dragging his non-powered lifelong buddy Ando along for the ride. After learning of his destiny to help save New York by stopping arch-villain Sylar, Hiro ultimately succeeds in his quest but in the process sends himself back to Feudal Japan. Here he meets his childhood idol, legendary hero Takezo Kensei, only to discover the man is a cynical, drunken, and rather goofy British mercenary more concerned with gold than helping to free the populace from the resident Evil Overlord. Hiro spends Volume Two attempting to tutor him into becoming the great hero of legends, but the two have a falling out over a girl, leading to Kensei's transformation into the Volume's immortal, humanity-hating Misanthrope Supreme Big Bad (Nice Job Breaking It, Hiro). After returning to the present Hiro learns of Kensei's (read: Adam's) scheme and stops him too. Hiro spends Volume Three attempting to prevent the prophecized destruction of the world caused by Pinehearst Industry's distribution of Super Serum, only to have his abilities stolen during his first confrontation with Physical God Big Bad Evil Overlord Arthur Petrelli. He spends Volume Four coping with the loss of his powers while trying to stop Building 26's crusade against evolved humans; he ultimately recovers a partial version of his original powers back (which he ultimately uses to pwn Danko and Building 26 once and for all), but it seems to take a major toll on his health as the new version forces him to Cast From Hit Points.

Associated Tropes:


 * Adjusting Your Glasses: he has the character tic of pushing his glasses up by the bridge of the nose in a way that straddles the line between the western 'dork glasses' and eastern 'serious moment.' This is also Lampshaded from time to time, like when Hiro meets his younger self, and they both adjust their glasses at the same time.
 * Ascended Fanboy
 * Beware the Nice Ones: Defeats the immortal Adam Monroe by burying him alive!
 * Cast From Hit Points: Hiro gets a weakened version of his power back from Matt Parkman Jr.'s power, only to find out that every time he uses it takes a toll on his body and brain and is slowly killing him.
 * Catch Phrase: "Yatta!"
 * Cool Sword / Katanas Are Just Better
 * Crimefighting with Cash:
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
 * De-Power
 * Did Not Get the Girl: Happens early in Volume One with . , and
 * Hiro just can't get the girl.
 * Discard and Draw
 * The Ditz
 * Drama-Preserving Handicap
 * The Dulcinea Effect: Though he eventually gives up.
 * Future Badass
 * Future Me Scares Me: The Trope Namer.
 * Genre Savvy: And since he is about the only Genre Savvy character, it gives him a pretty big advantage
 * I Just Want to Be Special
 * Idiot Hero
 * Improvised Weapon: The baguette.
 * Japanese Pronouns: "Boku" for regular Hiro, "Ore" for his future self. It's another major show of the differences between them when they first meet (aside from the shiny ponytail, pitch black wardrobe, broody exterior, and tiny beard, of course).
 * Jumped At the Call
 * Kid Samurai
 * Meta Guy
 * The Nicknamer
 * The Not-Love Interest: For Ando.
 * Otaku
 * Plot Induced Stupidity
 * Plucky Comic Relief
 * Psychic Nosebleed: As of Volume four, it appears using his partially restored powers is causing Hiro some sort of brain trauma
 * Rebel Prince: He doesn't want to take over Yamagato Industries and pointedly tells his father that Kimiko would be a better fit.
 * Steven Ulysses Perhero: His first name is a homophone for "Hero", and he's named after the city of (Hiroshima), which was destroyed in a nuclear explosion, calling back to his Volume One quest to stop New York from being destroyed by a nuclear explosion.
 * Stupid Good or Lawful Stupid: "I can't kill someone begging for forgiveness. It's not part of the bushido code."
 * Super Dickery: Killing Ando in Volume Three to infiltrate Pinehearst. (but not really)
 * Like You Would Really Do It
 * Superpower Lottery: The ability to bend the fabric of space and time to your will...
 * Time Master
 * Bullet Time
 * Teleporters and Transporters
 * Time Stands Still
 * Time Travel
 * Trademark Favorite Food: For the waffles!
 * Why Couldn't You Be Different?: His father was disappointed that Hiro didn't want to conform to traditional roles as heir to Yamagato. Hiro points out to him that he already has an ideal heir in his sister Kimiko.
 * Wide-Eyed Idealist
 * Wrong Genre Savvy: Sadly, Hiro's behavior towards Daphne and Ando seems to show Volume Three is his turn to hold the Idiot Ball). (He bounces back to Genre Savvy pretty quickly, though, so props to him.)

Matt Parkman
A put-upon L.A. beat cop who discovers he has the ability to read minds. His powers put considerable strain on his family life when he learns his wife cheated on him with his partner. His life is further complicated after he's briefly kidnapped by the Company, and later he is recruited by the FBI to help track down superpowered serial killer Sylar. In Volume Two, he ends up divorced from his wife, adopting Molly alongside Dr. Suresh, discovering his deadbeat dad is a founder of the Company, and ultimately developing the ability to control people's minds. Volume Three saw him on a "Spirit Walk" where he gains prophetic powers which lead him to fall in (puppy) love with speedster thief Daphne(His vision of the future shows the two of them were married). He spends the rest of the Volume attempting to reform her away from Pinehearst Industries (to his credit, at least he manages to avoid the evil/dick phase that all the other characters save Hiro were going through at the time). He instead goes dark in Volume Four, where he goes on a revenge kick against Danko after the Building 26 leader denies Daphne medical treatment, leading to her death. He gets saved at the last minute by Hiro, who helps him recounsel with his enstranged family from Volume One(now including his new son, Matt Parkman, Jr.). The season finale sees him arriving in Washington D.C. just minutes too late for either final showdown (vs. Building 26 or vs. Sylar), although he does play a role in the finale as a walking Deus Ex Machina thanks to his ability to reshape minds. Even so, he is still a fan favorite.

Associated Tropes:


 * Berserk Button/Beware the Nice Ones: He loses it in Volume Four when Daphne gets killed. He starts using his powers to kill and torture people to get revenge.
 * Just ask Sylar. He certainly learns his lesson about messing with Parkman and his family.
 * Book Dumb: Sometimes. In Volume Three, he is able to lecture the other characters on how the Theory of Relativity posits that Daphne should be able to Time Travel if she can go fast enough.
 * Butt Monkey: Especially in Volume One, but he can never quite catch a break at any point in the show.
 * By-The-Book Cop: Until his powers cost him his job.
 * Calling the Old Man Out
 * The Chosen One: In Volume Four, he learns that he has been "chosen" to be a prophet, although who or what chose him is never quite explained.
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Say what you want about his personality, at least he knows what to do when the bullets start flying...
 * Dating Catwoman: His (attempt) at romancing Daphne.
 * Dirty Mind Reading: How he learned he was being cuckolded.
 * Disappeared Dad: Played straight with his own father, then Parkman himself towards Baby Matt until Volume 4.
 * Dogged Nice Guy: To Daphne.
 * L Is for Dyslexia
 * Left Hanging: The subplot about his sudden development of precognitive powers is completely dropped in Volume Five and the powers themselves are never mentioned.
 * New Powers as the Plot Demands: After Volume Three, they needed a new precognitive artist, so he suddenly developed the power. Even though he can't even draw. Which gets lampshaded.
 * Both Word of God and the show itself have stated that he controls every aspect of the mind. Full mind control over himself and others. The implication being that he can potentially develop every possible psychic power that exists.
 * Papa Wolf: Against Maury, in order to rescue Molly from her nightmare. It's badass.
 * Threaten Janice and Baby Matt, get trapped inside a nightmare in your own head. Matt even goes as far as to build a brick cell around Sylar's comatose body.
 * Perma-Stubble
 * Psychic Nosebleed
 * Psychic Powers:
 * Charm Person
 * The Empath
 * Jedi Mind Trick
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia
 * Living Lie Detector
 * Lotus Eater Machine
 * Master of Illusion
 * Mind Probe
 * Seers
 * Telepathy
 * Potentially anything else you can stick "Psychic" in front of
 * Superpower Lottery: Excepting Sylar, Peter, and Papa Petrelli, he's probably won it.

Mohinder Suresh
Professor Suresh is the series' narrator, an Indian geneticist whose father theorized the evolution of superpowered humans in response to impending global and environmental crisis. After his father's murder, Suresh travels to America to follow in his father's footsteps and investigate his theory of superpowered humans. Although he early on discovers he has an enemy called "Sylar" (the murderer of his father), he mostly ends up running face-first into dead ends, being the Chew Toy of the Company, falling in love with The Mole, and ultimately ending up as an Unwitting Pawn for Sylar himself. In Volume Two he helps Mr. Bennet infiltrate the Company with the intention of bringing it down, only to be seduced by their "kinder, gentler" new image and ultimately joining them in earnest, killing Mr. Bennet for them (he gets better) and ending up as their Unwitting Pawn. Volume Three saw him crossing the Moral Event Horizon by engineering his own superserum for the Big Bad and experimenting on himself. Volume Four saw him trying to atone for this. Associated Tropes:


 * The Atoner: Credit where credit is due -- Mohinder's every bit as hard on himself as the fans are. He spends most of Volume 4 feeling rotten about Volume 3, for instance.
 * Beware the Nice Ones: In Volumes Two & Three, his allies often remark that Suresh is absolutely trustworthy and completely harmless, just a few minutes before he shoots them in the face, cocoons them in spiderwebs, or simply beats them up.
 * Bollywood Nerd
 * Boring Failure Hero
 * Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: A rare non-Magnificent Bastard example. Suresh's constant betrayals towards his allies are more out of confusion and desperation rather than any master plan, and the only reason he keeps getting away with it seems to be the show's unusually high Idiot Ball quotient.
 * Disappeared Dad
 * Even the Guys Want Him: He is a sexy beast...
 * For Science!: The cause of many a poor move in Volume 3. Lampshaded by himself in Volume 4
 * Genius Bruiser: The superserum results in him gaining super strength and agility, but...
 * Going Native: Mohinder works with Mr. Bennet to take down the Company from within, but eventually becomes convinced that the Company is really the heroic organization and Bennet was misleading him.
 * Heel Face Revolving Door: He changes sides and trusts the wrong people far too often
 * Horrible Judge of Character: Oh dear God. Where to even begin?!
 * Hot Scientist
 * Idiot Ball: He loves playing with it in Volume Two
 * Ignored Expert: For the extremely brief moment at the beginning of Season 2 when he holds the Smart Ball, Mohinder is the first person to warn about the Shanti Virus. He's regarded as a crackpot.
 * The Immune: In the first season, his blood contains the cure for the Shanti Virus which killed his sister.
 * Improbable Weapon User: He has attacked people with tuning forks, syringes, microscopes, rolling chalk boards, elephant sculptures, and taxi doors with an astonishing rate of success.
 * Lovecraftian Superpower
 * Super Strength
 * Wall Crawl
 * Though it's reduced to Super Strength after he takes the catalyst.
 * Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In Volume Five, he is directly responsible for Samuel discovering the true nature of his powers, thus triggering the A-plot of the season.
 * Opening Narration: Almost every episode of Season 1 and 2, although at this point he's toned it down to a couple per season
 * Papa Wolf: Whatever else you can say for Mohinder, at the end of Season 1 he does manage to single-handedly take down Matt Parkman and holds HRG off at gunpoint in order to protect Molly Walker.
 * Professor Guinea Pig: In Volume 3. Hilarity Ensues (if you think Body Horror is hilarious)
 * The Philosopher
 * The Professor
 * Put on a Bus: He's largely absent from Volume 5, due to having been . In his last appearance, he waves goodbye to everybody and walks off, stating that he can't participate in the upcoming final battle against Samuel because he has to go home and patch things up with his girlfriend (although he is good enough to build them a compass to locate Samuel with).
 * Too Dumb to Live: The number of instances is painful. Mohinder is not alone in this category by any means, but he stands out the most and warrants mention.
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy
 * What Have I Become?: A side-effect of the serum includes scales and gradual mutation (in one of the future timelines)

Sylar/Gabriel Gray
"The Face of Evil", Sylar is a manipulative serial killer who hunts down and kills other superhumans to steal their abilities, due to a drive to be "special". Formerly a New York watchmaker named Gabriel Gray, his initial ability to "understand how things work" allows him to steal superpowers by extracting the brains of his victims and study "what makes them tick". He ultimately attempts to destroy New York City in a complicated bid to become President of the United States (it actually does make sense), leading to a climactic showdown with the Heroes. In Volume Two, he's been stripped of his powers by the Company, and spends most of his time attempting to get them back, while manipulating the twins Maya and Alejandro to achieve his goal. After getting his powers back, Angela manipulates him so that he spent Volume Three as The Atoner (with foot stuck in the Heel Face Revolving Door) partnered with Noah Bennet and protecting his "family" (believing Angela to be his mother, and Peter to be his brother). He is shown reformed with a family in a possible future. We learn from a flashback episode that before he became Sylar he was dating Elle and that the Company pushed him to become Sylar. He rekindled his romance with Elle only to kill her afterwards when he realized that it was all based on a lie. He then proceeds to give Big Bad Evil Overlord Papa Petrelli a fatal case of cranial intrusion (granted, Peter and The Haitian were about to kill the guy anyway), then goes after Mama Petrelli, leading to a final showdown against Claire, Mr. Bennet, Meredith Gordon, and the remaining Level 5 Supervillains. He spends Volume Four searching for his biological family on a search for self that only leads to disappointment when he learns that he really takes after his real dad, a once feared power-stealing supervillain who's now a broken old man dying of lung cancer. Determined not to end up like his old man, he joins forces with Danko in order to capture and consume all evolved humans, which leads to him taking on a shapeshifting power that he tries to use to achieve World Domination but which ultimately leads to him losing his sense of self...

Associated Tropes:


 * Abusive Parent: His adoptive father neglected him a few times, and his mother seemed to be domineering towards him, wanting him to be perfect, even ascending to the Presidency (which evidently contributed a lot to his character). In addition, when she discovers his powers she reacts like Carrie's mother in Carrie and tries to kill him, but Sylar inadvertently does so by embracing her.
 * They were pretty bad, but they had nothing on his biological father, who sold him to them for pocket money and then murdered his biological mother right in front of him.
 * Adorkable: Arguably, Gabriel before he became Sylar. Just look at those glasses...
 * Alliterative Name
 * Amnesiac Dissonance: In Volume Five.
 * Angry Eyebrows: He does this thing with his eyebrows when he's particularly pissed off. Combine with the Kubrick Stare for an especially angry Death Glare.
 * Arch Enemy: To pretty much every main character on the show.
 * Ax Crazy: He even says as much: "I really do want to change. But I'm insane, remember?"
 * Anti-Villain: In season 3.
 * Badass Bookworm: In Volume One, his apartment is shown filled from floor to ceiling in books. In Volume Five, his "living space" in his mental prison was shown to have piles and piles of books and clocks.
 * Badass Longcoat: Especially in Volume One.
 * Berserk Button: Don't ever tell him that he's not special, lie to him about it, or exploit his issues for your own plans; that's just asking for it.
 * Beta Test Baddie: Sylar's desire to know how everything worked and his need for validation as special influenced his every decision. However, since he received nothing but constant rejection, it eventually drove him from mentally unstable to homicidally insane.
 * Big Bad: Volume One, along with Linderman. Steals the spotlight from Danko towards the end of Volume Four.
 * Big Damn Villains
 * Big Eater: He's often seen snacking on something and once ate an entire pie by himself. This video even rounds up how often he's around food or mentions it. His desire for more abilities is explicitly described as a "hunger".
 * Big Ol' Eyebrows: It's his most distinctive characteristic. Aside from the psychotic serial killer thing.
 * Body Horror: Never mind the lobotomies. It seems Sylar's new shapeshifting power has a few side-effects... like extra teeth, uncontrollable shifting, and mental instability because The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body.
 * Brain Food: Heavily implied in the first season. Debunked in a later season.
 * Brainwashing for the Greater Good: Applied to him by Parkman on Angela's orders. He manages to break through it, albeit at the price of being thoroughly confused about himself by the end of the series.
 * Breakout Villain: Thanks to a strong showing in Volume One, he's become the Face of Evil for the show.
 * Brooklyn Rage
 * Brought Down to Normal: Throughout Volume Two.
 * Card-Carrying Villain: He's very upfront about being an unrepentant, sadistic monster.
 * Changeling Fantasy
 * The Chessmaster
 * Chewing the Scenery: Occasionally.
 * Chronic Villainy: "Rehabilitation doesn't happen overnight. I AM trying."
 * Cold-Blooded Torture: To Mook Daniel Simmons, screwdrivers through the hand. "Someone... isn't... paying... attention!"
 * Creepy Monotone
 * Dark Is Evil: He has a head of jet black hair and dresses almost exclusively in Dark clothing.
 * Deadpan Snarker: The more evil he gets, the sharper and dryer his wit becomes.
 * Dead Person Impersonation: Through most of the last few episodes in Volume Four. And then we get to the final episode and...
 * The Determinator: With copious amounts of Badass and Villainous Willpower; he won't stay dead and he just keeps coming.
 * Do Not Call Me Paul: Calling him Gabriel is a good way to shorten Your life expectancy dramatically.
 * The Dreaded: The very mention of his name makes even the most hardened individual scared.
 * Easily Forgiven:
 * Mr. Fanservice
 * Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Twice!
 * Even Evil Has Standards: Sylar is horrified when he learns he might be the one to blow up New York. "They're innocent. There's no gain. So why would I do it?" He gets over it pretty quickly after his mom dies though.
 * Also around the time he decides he doesn't want to work with Danko anymore because killing a scared, lonely orphan is low even by his standards.
 * Evil Counterpart: To Peter. Explicit in Volume Three.
 * Evil Eyebrows
 * Evil Mentor: To Maya in Volume Two, as well as Luke in Volume Four (although that one doesn't last too long).
 * Evil Is Not a Toy: Every Big Bad who has ever tried to use Sylar to fulfill their own agenda has had it blow up in their faces. Often with fatal results.
 * Evil Sounds Deep: Occasionally in Volume One.
 * Evil Tastes Good: It's no wonder people thought he ate brains.
 * Exact Words: When Sylar meets the person who uses Telekinesis, he offers to help him get rid of the power he has. He certainly meant it when he said that he'd help him get rid of it. What he doesn't tell him is that the way he's going to help him is by bludgeoning his head with a crystalline paperweight.
 * Fascinating Eyebrow
 * Faux Affably Evil: He's a psychopathic serial killer who delights in stealing abilities, but he likes pretending to be nice.
 * Finger-Poke of Doom: He loves this trope to pieces.
 * For the Evulz: Quite a few of his actions have no logic aside from pure sadism.
 * Friendly Enemy: Much to Peter's annoyance since Volume Three. He's also this to Mohinder, Bennet, Parkman, and Angela.
 * From Nobody to Nightmare: Lampshaded: "I could've been a nobody."
 * Gender Bender: The first thing he does when he gets the ability to shapeshift.
 * The Gift: Rapidly masters all acquired powers, whereas most original owners (including our intrepid heroes) have to go through a long period of How Do I Shot Web? and Power Incontinence.
 * Good Thing You Can Heal: When he took Claire's abilities, he basically stops trying to avoid getting hurt. Snap his neck? He sets it right back. Go ahead, shoot him, he'll get right back up. And when Elle blasts him full of all the electricity she can muster, all that gets destroyed are his clothes. This got especially glaring since up until he had her power he was a very good fighter and deflected bullets with ease so he never got hit in the first place. Jamming a shard of glass into the back of skull would've never happened to pre-regeneration Sylar. Now he treats his body like a meat shield.
 * Heel Face Brainwashing:
 * Heel Face Revolving Door: He switches sides every other episode in Volume Three, before finally settling down back to his old villainous self.
 * Hero-Killer: Has by far racked up the show's highest count of both main character and supporting character kills. Every hero knows that when Sylar shows up, they're in for the fight of their lives. It's a credit to the heroes that by Volume Five most of them have become powerful enough in their own right to successfully fight against him.
 * At this point it's less that they have become more powerful (though they have), and more that it seems Sylar has Fallen A Level In Badass, especially because he doesn't quite know what he wants, and either can't or doesn't want to kill.
 * Hijacked By Sylar: Has a habit of backstabbing the season's Big Bad then taking over right at the beginning of the season finale. Evil Is Not a Toy, after all.
 * Hollywood Nerd: As Gabriel Gray.
 * Horror Hunger
 * The Hunter
 * I Just Want to Be Loved: Its shown quite often that Sylar really just wants a real family, which is why he seems willing to believe that Peter is his brother.
 * I Just Want to Be Special: This is the foundation of Sylar's entire characterization. No matter how erratic he is, it's all because of his pathological need to be genuinely acknowledged as special.
 * Identity Amnesia: In Volume Five.
 * Immortal Life Is Cheap
 * Improbable Weapon User: He likes nailing people to walls and ceilings with common household objects.
 * In the Blood: Looks like the Hunger runs in the family.
 * Informed Flaw: For all the show's talk about "the Hunger", Sylar seems perfectly capable of interacting with other supers without the uncontrollable urge to kill them and eat...err..."study" their brains. Notably, he has spared both Luke and Micah, and also refrained from snacking on Doyle despite dragging him across the country for more than a day.
 * It's All About Me: He normally couldn't care less about the intentions behind blowing up New York or the rounding up of specials to lock them away; it's when his severely disturbed mental issues are exploited as tools that he gets really pissed.
 * Joker Immunity: Sylar was supposed to die in Volume One but had become far too popular by the end. The writers have been trying, with increasing desperation, to justify his role on the show ever since. Volume Four briefly continued the trend by introducing yet another villainous father figure in his biological father, Samson Gray.
 * Jumped At the Call: A big part of his fanbase comes from his absolute joy at having superpowers, especially when compared to someone like Claire who does nothing but complain about it.
 * Just Between You and Me: Sylar tells Alejandro that he plans on using Maya as a toy after he gets her to harness her plague power. It's justified in this case, as he is perfectly aware that Alejandro won't understand a thing he says anyways, as Alejandro does not speak nor understand English.
 * Kubrick Stare: Especially creepy with his Big Ol' Eyebrows and is his default expression when he's not suffering from a mental breakdown or employing the Paper-Thin Disguise tactic.
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia/Fate Worse Than Death: In the Volume Four finale, Matt mind wipes him (overwriting his memories/personality with Fake Memories) into believing he's Nathan.
 * The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort
 * Lean and Mean
 * Lighter and Softer: In the future, he is a happy suburban dad who genuinely loves his son Noah and Peter whom he believes to be his brother.
 * Line-of-Sight Name: He got the name Sylar off the watch he was fixing when he killed his first victim.
 * Lonely At the Top: In Volume Five, after receiving a kickass "The Reason You Suck" Speech from Hiro and being haunted by the absorbed memories of family, love, and brotherhood from Matt and Nathan, Sylar finally realizes that being the Ultimate Evil may have allowed him to become the most powerful man on the planet, but it's also completely cut him off from all human connections, making him destined to spend eternity alone.
 * The Aloner: Spends 3 years alone in a world where he is the only person alive, and an additional several years alone with only Peter Petrelli to keep him company, all thanks to being trapped in his worst nightmare by Matt Parkman.
 * Love Martyr: He let's Elle kill him repeatedly because he loved her.
 * Manipulative Bastard: Is currently taking it to new extremes while he's . It bordered on Mind Rape eventually.
 * Meaningful Name: Gabriel Gray: Alliterative, Biblical, and "Gray" can mean boring, neither good nor evil, or even "gray matter". Don't forget that the color gray is what you get when you mix all the colors of the spectrum.
 * Misapplied Phlebotinum: Has the ability to "understand how things work," which could potentially be used to crank out Nobel Prizes on a weekly basis, and all he can think to do with it is steal brains.
 * Justified by "The Hunger," which for some reason forces him to want to eat brains (or whatever it is he does).
 * "The Hunger" is his need to know more. Humans are naturally curious creatures and Sylar is still human, if he understands how everything works except for abilites, it makes sense that he would have "hunger" to figure them out.
 * My God, What Have I Done?: Briefly during Volume Three, in a flashback to his days as Gabriel Gray, shortly after his murder of Brian Davis when a horrified Gabriel tried to hang himself.
 * And again in Volume Five, when he suffers from amnesia and begins to relearn his memories.
 * My Hero Zero: He was Chandra Suresh's "patient zero."
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast
 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
 * Papa Wolf: In one alternate future, Future!Sylar has reformed, apparently, and is trying to be good. And then they kill his kid. BOOM!
 * Paper-Thin Disguise: Done several times.
 * Parental Abandonment
 * Perma-Stubble
 * Powered by a Forsaken Child: The slice and dice method of power acquisition.
 * Power Parasite: Another Power Sponge-type. Throughout the series, he has collected the following powers (several of which were lost after Volume One when he was infected with the Shanti virus):
 * Alchemy: From Bob Bishop.
 * All Your Powers Combined
 * Awesomeness By Analysis: His original power. Good for stealing superpowers, fixing watches, and gathering material for Hannibal Lectures.
 * Combo-Platter Powers
 * Disintegrator Ray: From Tom Miller.
 * The Empath: From Lydia.
 * Faux Death: In Volume One, when captured by the Company, he tricks them into taking off his restraints by stopping all of his vital signs.
 * Flight: From Nathan.
 * Healing Factor: From Claire.
 * An Ice Person: From James Walker.
 * Immortality: Type III, also from Claire.
 * Living Lie Detector: From Sue Landers.
 * Make Me Wanna Shout: From Jesse Murphy.
 * Master of Illusion: From Candice, but only in "Five Years Gone."
 * Mega Manning: He uses his power of "intuitive aptitude" to study the powers of others, which allows him to steal them. Initially, he does this by cutting open their heads and actually physically examining their brains (and not, as was previously believed, by eating them). Later, he learned how to do it without the slicing and dicing, but he still prefers that method anyway.
 * Mind Over Matter: Favorite / most used power and first acquired through the slice and dice method from Brian Davis.
 * People Puppets: Possibly from Eric Doyle, possibly just an application of Mind Over Matter.
 * Personality Powers: Like Peter, his personality seems to shift a bit whenever he takes on a new power. The actor has said that this is intentional on his part and that Sylar has been absorbing parts of his victims' personalities when he steals a new power
 * Person of Mass Destruction: From Ted.
 * Photographic Memory: From Charlie, but only until Hiro changed the timeline to prevent it.
 * Psychic Powers: Psychometry, from Bridget Bailey.
 * Psycho Electro: From Elle.
 * Seers/ProphetEyes: From Isaac.
 * Super Senses: Super hearing from Dale Smither.
 * Voluntary Shapeshifting: From James Martin.
 * Walking Wasteland: From Ted.
 * You Will Be Assimilated
 * President Evil: In "Five Years Gone." And he is narrowly prevented from becoming one in the main timeline in the Volume Four finale.
 * Psychopathic Manchild: Type C. Sylar is extremely powerful and is more than capable of holding his own in a fight. He also loves messing with people using toys and other typically mundane objects, and has a tendency to make childish comments or play up an innocently childish demeanor. Sylar is shown to treat abilities as a toy collection and has referred to Maya and other specials as new toys. All of this emphasizes how deeply unhinged and extremely dangerous he actually is.
 * Psychotic Smirk
 * Really Gets Around: Hooked up with Elle, Maya, and ostensibly Lydia, and has kissed Claire and Angela. Except that he later kills Elle, shoots Maya, Claire jams a pencil in his eye as retaliation, and he kissed Angela just to mess with her. (Lydia managed to escape his wrath, but she ends up being killed by Samuel and Eli.)
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Mohinder's blue and blue to Peter's red.
 * Redemption Demotion:
 * Reformed but Rejected: For ten minutes.
 * Replacement Goldfish: Mind wiped Sylar becomes one for Nathan.
 * Serial Killer
 * Sealed Evil in a Can: At the end of Volume Four, where Nathan, or at least Nathan's identity, is the can.
 * Self-Made Orphan: Albeit by accident. (Maybe.)
 * Signature Move: Using his telekinesis to slice through a victim's forehead. Originally, he did this in order to get at the brain. Eventually, he started doing it to everyone, powered or otherwise. In Volume Four, he uncovers a repressed memory and learns that he picked it up from his biological father, who used it to murder his mother.
 * Slouch of Villainy: Done in Volume Five, as he torments Parkman at home and at work.
 * Social Darwinist: His initial justification for snacking on supers, although unlike most examples of this trope he doesn't seem to have any ill will towards normal, un-evolved humans... as long as they don't get in his way.
 * Sociopathic Hero: In between Villainous Breakdowns.
 * The Sociopath
 * Stalker with a Crush: For Claire.
 * Sort of makes sense, since they're both immortal and he'll essentially be forever alone without her there...
 * The  doesn't really help.
 * Staying Alive: He's Sylar, for crying out loud. Of course he always survives.
 * Stupid Evil: In Volume Three, when he falls off the wagon and kills again, Hilarity Ensues when he goes out and does it in broad daylight, not even trying to hide all that blood. (...cake?) Particularly glaring considering how stealthy he was back in Volume One.
 * Stealth Hi Bye: Does this almost as much as Jason Voorhees.
 * He even manages to do it from sitting in the back seat of an occupied car. The most ridiculous part is none of this has ever been explained by any of his abilities either.
 * A case of nensha-based Super Dickery which is All There In The Webcomics.
 * In Volume One, it was heavily implied that he could levitate using telekinesis, which could explain most of his stealthy appearances and disappearances.
 * Superpower Meltdown: In an alternative future.
 * Sweet Tooth: Every time Sylar is seen eating, it's always something sweet or some kind of junk food. He lights up at the sight of a cake, except for the fact that his hands were soaked in blood. Sylar loves pie so much that he ate an entire one by himself.
 * Tall, Dark and Snarky: He can take a scene where he's holding a mother and son hostage in front of a tortured soldier...and make you LAUGH during it. That's talent, boys and girls.
 * Terrible Ticking: The ticking clock sound effect that plays whenever Sylar's up to his old tricks evokes this trope. Even though it's not literally a ticking he can hear, it symbolizes that he can see how everything works in a way no one else can, which drives him insane.
 * This Is Your Brain on Evil
 * Villainous BSOD: Sylar suffered from it thrice: Once was when he learned about his potential role in destroying New York City. The second is shortly after he gains his chameleon abilities, where it becomes apparent that he is losing touch with his memories and especially his sanity, where he is forced to write "I Am Sylar" in such a way that would potentially expose his survival just to ensure he held onto his sense of identity. The third (and presumably final) time he experienced this was when he is sealed off. Sylar also was implied to have suffered one after Hiro meddled the timeline.
 * The Watchmaker
 * Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Where that need to be special comes from.
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Apparently, "understanding how things work" also comes with an uncontrollable drive to poke around inside people's brains. Okaaaaay, then.
 * Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Sylar didn't kill Molly Walker, spares Luke's life, and outright saves Micah from Danko. He did messily kill the Alpha Bitch and made a good-faith effort to snack on Claire's brain, though.
 * Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Sylar didn't kill Molly Walker, spares Luke's life, and outright saves Micah from Danko. He did messily kill the Alpha Bitch and made a good-faith effort to snack on Claire's brain, though.

Mr. Daniel Linderman
A Las Vegas businessman/mob boss, Linderman is in fact a ruthless puppetmaster and the leader of the Company during Volume One. An affable old man with the ability to heal via touch, Linderman is sick and tired of human suffering, and after realizing that healing one person at a time simply isn't doing the job, wants to unify the world and create a utopia by... staging a massive national tragedy. Namely destroying New York City with an exploding superhuman. He spends much of Volume One attempting to seduce Nathan to his cause and harassing the Sanders family to play their part in his scheme, which ultimately backfires on him when the Sanders family tracks him down and caves his head in. Returns in Volume Three as a ghost,

Associated Tropes:


 * Anti-Villain: Given what he was like in the War Buddies chapter, as well as his implied guilt about causing the Petrelli's accident and attempting to make amends by healing Heidi, its hinted by Volume 3 that he was this.
 * Affably Evil
 * Beard of Evil
 * Big Bad: Split between him and Sylar in Volume One
 * Big Eater: He's a man of incredible means but seems to enjoy cooking most, believing that people are at Their happiest when eating.
 * The Chessmaster
 * Cool Old Guy
 * Dark Messiah
 * Even Evil Has Standards:
 * He also began to have doubts about doing a second assassination attempt on Nathan from Arthur.
 * Linderman also did not like it when his accountant took the money from DL Hawkins and made it seem as though he wasn't closing the deal and stole the money to buy diamonds for himself.
 * It was Linderman's money that was stolen. That's not standards, that's just punishing betrayal.
 * He was also horrified that Arthur was planning on murdering Nathan to begin with, appalled that anyone could be so heartless about Their own children.
 * Evil Brit: Kind of. Linderman was portrayed by Scottish actor Malcolm McDowell, but the character's last name as well as his reference to concentration camps in Volume 4's flashback implies that he hailed from Germany or at least was descended from Jewish Germans.
 * Evil Old Folks
 * Friend to All Children: He takes a real liking to Micah and helps him use his gifts for what he believes to be the greater good.
 * Freudian Excuse: Malcolm McDowell implies that Lindermann's motivations stemmed from a bad childhood in an interview. Given what was shown in Volume 4, its likely that his "bad childhood" was being placed in Warehouse 8 (the former Warehouse 8 from the 1950s), and given his reaction and deduction about what the camp actually was, its also likely that he may have spent some time in a Concentration Camp, or at least was descended from people who were put in the Concentration Camps.
 * Good Powers, Bad People
 * Healing Hands
 * Large Ham
 * Loan Shark
 * Manipulative Bastard
 * Save The Enemy: Subverted, He intended to heal a Vietnamese girl who could manipulate plants after Arthur Petrelli shot her, but Arthur stopped him before he could.
 * Visionary Villain
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist
 * You Said You Would Let Them Go: Subverted: When DL Hawkins gives Lindermann's Amoral Attorney Lindermann's fees, the Amoral Attorney implies that Lindermann was backing out on the deal. However, the next episode has Jessica killing the Amoral Attorney for stealing the funds to buy diamonds for himself, implying that Lindermann actually intended to keep his word.

Elle Bishop
A young, self-described sociopathic thrill killer and agent of the Company with the ability to generate lethal bolts of electricity from her hands. She's the daughter of Bob Bishop, the new leader of the Ancient Conspiracy following the death of Mr. Linderman. At the end of Volume Two, she starts showing doubts about her path in life after Mr. Bennet reveals to her that her screwed-up personality is largely due to painful experiments conducted on her by her father throughout her entire childhood, and ends the Volume saving Mohinder, Molly, and Maya from Sylar, for which they call her a "hero". After her father is murdered by Sylar at the beginning of Volume Three, Elle is fired from The Company and spends some time searching for a purpose in life (even briefly teaming up and bonding with Claire over their mutual Superpower Incontinence) before finally falling back into bad habits alongside the other supervillains over at Pinehearst Industries. Has a Pet the Dog moment when its revealed that she indulged in a pie eating/soul saving session with proto-serial killer Gabriel Gray and then later does an Evil Is Sexy turn when she gets it on with Sylar. Beforehand she gives him advice: do what he wants for himself, which ultimately leads to her getting Sylared.


 * Adult Child
 * Axe Crazy
 * Big Damn Villains
 * Break the Cutie: If Mr. Bennet is to be believed, Elle's entire childhood was one, long cutie-breaking.
 * Broken Bird: Especially her monologue in 2x08.
 * Daddy's Little Villain
 * Dark and Troubled Past
 * Electra Complex: She does it all for daddy.
 * Electric Torture
 * Elemental Powers
 * Even Evil Has Standards:
 * Evil Counterpart: To Claire
 * Freudian Excuse: Most, if not all of her sociopathic tendencies were the result of her father subjecting her to very painful experiments while she was very young.
 * Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Elle is 5"1" and was in a relationship with 6"2" Sylar.
 * Love Martyr:
 * Perky Female Minion
 * Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She's only about five feet tall.
 * Psycho Electro
 * Psycho for Hire
 * Psychopathic Manchild: "He's not a toy, Elle."
 * Shock and Awe
 * The Sociopath
 * Stupid Evil: I'm bored... I know, let's kill a rental car guy!
 * Superpower Lottery: Has anyone realised that she never has to pay the electricity bill?
 * Sweet Tooth: She has a fondness for Slushos and pie and the comics depict her as being a lover of junk food.
 * Tyke Bomb: Raised/tortured/experimented on by the Company from an early age
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy: Rare female version

Adam Monroe/Takezo Kensei
The oldest, first known superpowered human. Adam Monroe was a British mercenary fighting in Feudal Japan under the identity of Takezo Kensei (a legendary hero and childhood idol of Hiro's) who discovered he had the ability to regenerate from all wounds, effectively making him immortal. Although initially a rudderless drunk, he was inspired by a time-traveling Hiro to become a legendary hero. However, the two had a falling out over a girl, leading to Adam Monroe pulling a Face Heel Turn, spending the ages fighting in constant wars and growing to hate mankind more and more. He ultimately comes to think of himself as a god, founds the Company by seeking out 12 like-minded disciples(Most superpowered), and ultimately attempts to wipe out 99% of the human race with a super-virus to end hunger, poverty, and war and allow him to rule over the remaining survivors as their "hero". Adam returns in Volume Three when Hiro needs information about the Company's superserum. He makes a break for it and is ultimately caught by Arthur Petrelli's Legion of Doom and has his immortality stolen by Arthur, "aging" him to death.

"Hiro: ...but that's fighting dirty! Kensei: That's fighting smart."
 * A God Am I
 * And I Must Scream:Once again, do not horribly betray Hiro.
 * Arch Enemy:To Hiro; made especially clear in Volume Five when he returns to serve as the prosecutor in Hiro's trial at the gate to the afterlife.
 * Back for the Dead:Volume 3.
 * Big Bad:Of Volume Two
 * Blond Guys Are Evil
 * Broken Pedestal: On, oh, so many levels.
 * Byronic Hero
 * Combat Pragmatist

"Hiro: Those are the 90 Angry Ronin.
 * Con Man:What he was before Hiro came along.
 * Consummate Liar:Hoo boy, yes
 * Cursed with Awesome:How he feels when he first discovers his regenerative abilities. He gets over it quick.
 * Dark Messiah:Especially his backstory founding the Company with the original 12 as his "disciples"
 * Disproportionate Retribution:His best friend seduced the woman he loved. So he decides to wipe out most of humanity.
 * That and living through a few hundred years of war.
 * Dropped a Bridge on Him:Poor guy
 * Evil Mentor:He plays this for Peter Petrelli
 * Fake Brit: David Anders.
 * Fallen Hero
 * Healing Factor
 * Humiliation Conga: He has his plan foiled, is buried alive, is brought back, captured and murdered by his old colleague. Thats a frakkin' Humiliation parade.
 * I Have Many Names:In the graphic novels he claims 'a few dozen names,' one of which is an alias with the same last name as one of the main characters
 * Immortality Begins At Twenty
 * Immortal Life Is Cheap
 * Immortality: Type III.
 * Implausible Fencing Powers:Seen all too briefly in the last episode of Volume Two, where he and Peter go on a Foe-Tossing Charge through Primatech Paper
 * In the Hood:He wears this so the audience will not recognize him when he kills Hiro's father.
 * Knight Templar
 * The Lancer:Briefly to Hiro's "The Hero"
 * Light Is Not Good:Light seems to be a theme with him, due to his Knight Templar motivation and his Fallen Hero status, so much so that the episode where he is killed is called Dying of the Light
 * Man of Wealth and Taste:Arthur Petrelli wishes he could make a suit look that good
 * Manipulative Bastard:and how!
 * McLeaned:Will probably never be confirmed, but it would certainly explain the rather spiteful way in which David Anders' character was killed off
 * Mighty Whitey: Deconstructed, because everything that makes him one causes him to jump off the slippery slope; thereby resulting in his Start of Darkness.
 * Misanthrope Supreme
 * Missed the Call: Double Subverted. He ignored the call until Hiro put him on the road to it, then pulled a Face Heel Turn and lost it.
 * Mister Danger
 * Nietzsche Wannabe: A rare combination of this and Knight Templar.
 * Not So Harmless:Over the course of Season Two, he goes from Hiro's goofy sidekick to the Season's main Big Bad.
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech:See his monologue in 'Powerless'
 * Rival Turned Evil
 * Sealed Evil in a Can
 * Seen It All
 * Serial Killer:He was systematically offing his 12 former disciples, leaving the "Godsend" / RNA symbol behind written in his blood.
 * Sins of Our Fathers:His quote to Peter Petrelli: "Parents sin, children suffer."
 * Training From Hell

Kensei: ...just how angry?

Hiro: Good luck, Kensei."


 * Who Wants to Live Forever?

Angela Petrelli
The mother of Peter and Nathan Petrelli, revealed to be one of the 12 leaders of the Company. A ruthless pragmatist who was highly involved in Linderman's plan to make the world a better place, even if it meant killing off 0.07% of the human population. Has the superpower of precognitive dreams, which was the first superpower her son Peter absorbed. Is also extremely adept at manipulating people to do what she wants. As of Volume Three and Four, while she isn't exactly a good guy, it's harder to call her a straight-up villain.


 * Batman Gambit
 * Big Good:In Volume 3.
 * The Cassandra
 * Consummate Liar: with a large helping of From a Certain Point of View and Didnt Mention It.
 * Cryptic Conversation: Whatever "Pandora's Box" was.
 * Dead Little Sister:Her Start of Darkness motivation.
 * Dreaming of Things to Come:Her power
 * Evil Matriarch
 * Evil Old Folks: Sometimes.
 * Humiliation Conga:The start of Volume Two, where she's apparently hit financial tough times after her plan to destroy New York went bust. She got better after assuming control of The Company after Bob's untimely Sylarfication, though.
 * I Did What I Had to Do
 * Kick the Dog:At Least
 * Knight Templar:She justifies all kinds of evilness by saying that its for the greater good or to save the world.
 * Love Makes You Evil
 * Luke, I Am Your Father:She revealed to be Sylar's mother, but was lying.
 * Mama Bear:She poisons her husband to stop him from killing Nathan. But also subverted in Volume 2 when Peter is being manipulated by Adam, she tells Matt to put a bullet in Peter's brain if he has to.
 * Manipulative Bastard: Sylar all but tells her that he is in awe of her level of manipulation and lying and even he would love to aspire to that level of evil.
 * Meaningful Name: This may be a coincidence, but Mama Petrelli shares her first name with the actress who plays Raymond Shaw's mother in The Manchurian Candidate. You know, the mother who Sound familiar?
 * Parental Substitute:
 * Power Hair
 * Stepford Smiler

Arthur Petrelli
One of the twelve founding members of the Company, Angela's estranged husband, and father to Peter, Nathan, and. Believed to have committed suicide prior to Volume One, Arthur reemerged in Volume Three as the head of Pinehearst, an organization acting in opposition to the Company, seeking the secret to creating artificial superhumans... a secret which the show's clairvoyants all agree will lead to horrible disaster.


 * All Your Powers Combined/Combo-Platter Powers/Mega Manning: Much like Rogue of the X-Men, he can steal powers with a touch. Unlike Rogue, his thefts are always permanent. He uses this ability to steal Adam's power, as well as all of Peter's accumulated powers up to that point, giving him:
 * Dreaming of Things to Come
 * Flight
 * Healing Factor
 * Immortality: Type III.
 * Intangible Man
 * Invisibility
 * Mind Over Matter
 * Person of Mass Destruction
 * Playing with Fire
 * Shock and Awe
 * Super Strength
 * Teleporters and Transporters
 * Time Master
 * Walking Wasteland
 * He also had Telepathy dating back to before his first appearance. It is unclear if this is his own naturally occurring power or if he stole it from someone else. He is shown to be able to use it to activate a Compelling Voice, create Laser-Guided Amnesia, and administer a Poke in the Third Eye.
 * Amoral Attorney: For Linderman, before the events of Volume One.
 * Big Bad: Of Volume Three.
 * Dangerously Genre Savvy: About the only good thing about him.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Evil Old Folks
 * Evil Overlord: Fits pretty much every item on the checklist.
 * Eviler Than Thou: In the two episodes following his introduction, he sucked the life out of Adam Monroe, killed Maury Parkman with a gesture, and overpowered Sylar without breaking a sweat. He's defeated more villains than any of the actual good guys!
 * Evilutionary Biologist: He's not a biologist, but this is his motivation.
 * Faking the Dead
 * Hoist by His Own Petard: His plan might have succeeded had he not made the mistake of pissing off Sylar.
 * It's All About Me: Everyone is expendable to Arthur if it can help him in his goals.
 * Jerkass: He was already a complete dick long before becoming a villain.
 * Luke, I Am Your Father: Sylar.
 * Manipulative Bastard
 * Offing the Offspring: He doesn't hesitate to try and kill Peter and Nathan at the first sign of trouble.
 * Orcus on His Throne: When he bothered to act, he accomplished his goal immediately. But he didn't do it very often, instead deligating most tasks to an increasingly incompetent series of superpowered minions.
 * The Other Darrin: In the famous group photo of the Company founders, his face is kept obscured from the camera, but the man identified as Arthur Petrelli is clearly not Robert Forster.
 * Physical God: Thanks to effective power stealing, including Peter's copying power, Arthur can basically do anything at this point. Go read the list of Physical God traits. He has most of them.
 * He has at least one power that is deemed too broken for most Physical Gods to possess, too
 * Clearly he is the Anthropomorphic Personification of Kick the Dog
 * Screw Destiny: He knows that all of the show's precogs and time travelers are predicting that his plan will end in an Earthshattering Kaboom, but he believes he can avert it. Which is not entirely unreasonable for a Time Master.
 * Smug Snake
 * The Sociopath
 * The Stoic: No evil laughter for this one, folks.
 * Too Powerful to Live: With all of Peter's former powers, most notably Hiro's ability, he pretty much had to die for the show to continue.
 * Superpower Lottery: Like Sylar, but he doesn't have to kill people. And now he has all of Peter's powers too... and unlike Pete, he seems to have perfect control over all of them.
 * Tempting Fate: He tells Peter he doesn't have the guts to shoot him. Needless to say, he was wrong.
 * Villanous Breakdown: When he realizes that his powers no longer work and Peter doesn't share Nathan's loyalty, he looks visibly panicked and tries to taunt and guilt Peter into not killing him.
 * Visionary Villain
 * We Can Rule Together: To Peter and Nathan. Peter doesn't fall for it. Nathan, on the other hand...
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: He believes that he can use the Super Serum to grant good powers to the best people and thus make the world a better place. Unfortunately, in the Heroes 'verse, Never Be a Hero is the order of the day.
 * Also, it is hinted that, had Arthur succeeded with his plans, it would have resulted in someone blowing up the planet (its unknown who, although Volume 5 implies that it is Samuel Sullivan).
 * Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Treats Peter like this long before he shows up as a villain.
 * Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Treats Peter like this long before he shows up as a villain.

Emile Danko a.k.a. "The Hunter"
The veteran leader of Nathan's government Black Ops team tasked with hunting down and capturing all evolved humans. A single-minded, ruthless, and somewhat unstable hardliner, he regards the supers as targets rather than people, and repeatedly expresses deep fear and hatred of them, seeming to believe that they should be killed off instead of merely detained. This attitude frequently leads him into conflict with Nathan and Noah Bennet, who advocate a more "humane approach" towards the superhuman roundup. His drive to be proven right and vindicated no matter what the cost leads him to attempt to fake a suicide bombing of Washington D.C. by a superpowered individual to turn public opinion in his favor. When that fails, leading to him being fired, he ends up shoving his boss Nathan out a window and taking total control of the operation himself. From there he gets crazier and crazier as the series progresses, to the point where he ends up secretly teaming up with Sylar, thinking that it's a good idea and he's got the situation completely under control. Sure, good luck with that...


 * Badass Normal
 * Bad Boss:Especially in the online comics and mini-series, where he's shown pushing his men to the brink and also sending them into potentially hazardous situations blind with poor intel. Plus it's implied that he's fed two of his men to Sylar so Sylar could assume their identities, as well as setting things up so that one of the personnel would end up killed by Tracey Strauss in an escape orchestrated by him to prevent an implied shutdown of the division by the government.
 * It should be noted that when push came to shove, Danko's men were completely prepared to believe that he'd cracked and shot his own men, rather than believing Danko's story of shapeshifting killers, despite knowing that such things are entirely possible. Apparently that's the sort of reputation you get amongst your co-workers when you enlist them to fake attacks on your own citizens by the enemy.
 * Bald of Evil
 * Big Bad:All set to be Volume Four's, although Sylar made a last minute steal.
 * Cape Busters
 * The Dragon:To Nathan. At first...
 * Enemy Mine: Danko was implied to have been called by Samuel Sullivan's brother to arrest Samuel. Considering the fact that he actually accepted an offer from someone who is implied to be a well known evolved human, its implied that things with Samuel are as bad as they are gonna get if he actually wishes to work with the very thing he hates just to get rid of another one.
 * A Father to His Men:Although he sometimes treats his men like dirt, he does seem to genuinely care about their lives. This is seemingly the only attribute of his that is in any way remotely positive... However, he did feed two of his men to Sylar so Sylar could assume their identities.
 * Humiliation Conga:
 * Knights Templar:And HOW.
 * Manipulative Bastard: In the earliest point of the season, he deliberately set things up so that Tracey Strauss would escape and eventually kill a guard who tried to restrain her so as to give a reason why the division shouldn't be shut down, an action that was not only something Nathan disapproved of, but was also implied to have been done behind Nathan Petrelli's back without Nathan's knowledge.
 * Morality Pet:His secret girlfriend, although since he was deceiving her and using her to fulfill his emotional needs, even that aspect of his life was pretty dickish.
 * Muggle Power:Pretty much his entire reason for existing.
 * Perpetual Frowner:His two main emotions seem to be deeply upset or completely pissed.
 * Smug Snake:Especially in "I Am Sylar", where he thinks he has Sylar completely under control. When he realizes this has been, in fact, a fatal mistake, the look on his face is priceless.
 * The Starscream:When he says he intends to take down all evolved humans, he means it, even if its towards his own boss.
 * The Unfettered:Will shoot whatever dogs and cross whatever Moral Event Horizons he has to in order to accomplish whatever objective he's given.
 * Villainous Breakdown:You can just see all the little psychological cracks in his brain get bigger and bigger as the season progresses. Not that it makes him any less dangerous, though.
 * You Kill It, You Bought It:Gains control of the government operation after throwing his boss out a window. It Makes Sense in Context. No, wait, actually it doesn't.
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Subverted: Danko attempts to kill Sylar once his usefulness is at an end by stabbing his sweet spot. It backfires horribly after it became apparent that said "sweet spot" moved as a result of his enhanced chameleon abilities.
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Subverted: Danko attempts to kill Sylar once his usefulness is at an end by stabbing his sweet spot. It backfires horribly after it became apparent that said "sweet spot" moved as a result of his enhanced chameleon abilities.

Samuel Sullivan
The owner of a carnival, Samuel is the new villain on the scene, but his motives are, for now, shrouded in mystery.
 * Alliterative Name
 * Ambition Is Evil
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Berserk Button: Hurting one of the "family" members (although he himself has no qualms of doing so if it means framing a normal human, as evidenced by when he had one of his mutants kill another mutant and frame Noah Bennet for the deed).
 * Biblical Names/Meaningful Name: In the Old Testament, Samuel was the prophet who drove the Philistines from the Holy Land, formed the Kingdom of Israel, and anointed Saul as its first king.
 * Cain and Abel: He murdered his brother Joseph in a rage after the latter refused to tell him the truth about his power.
 * Dark Messiah: With more than a hint of The Antichrist.
 * Death by Childbirth: It's implied that his mother died in the massive earthquake that coincided with his birth. Might also fall under Self-Made Orphan, as it is also implied that the massive earthquake happened because of his birth.
 * Devil in Plain Sight: He looks and acts fairly sinister, but the only character who immediately sees his evil upon meeting him is Noah Bennet.
 * Dishing Out Dirt: With a twist. He apparently utilizes some sort of unseen energy that connects Powered Humans to each other. The more that are close to him, the greater the magnitude of his powers. And thus his single-minded determination to gather specials to him.
 * Disproportionate Retribution: After being turned down by his long-time crush, he wipes out an entire town and goes on to try and destroy New York City. This guy does not take rejection well.
 * Heck, in the second episode, he creates a giant sinkhole under the house where he was born, killing and maiming a dozen people (and maybe more). Why? Because the owner of the house gave him the brush off when he asked to have a look around.
 * Faux Affably Evil: He makes a big show of being a wise and caring Father to His Men, but inside he's a cold and manipulative Jerkass who cares only about satisfying his own selfish desires.
 * Fetus Terrible: He nearly destroyed Coyote Sands when he was still in the womb.
 * From Nobody to Nightmare: He used to be a drunk-off-his-rocker useless layabout assistant to his brother Joseph, a rather upright ring leader. It was only after accidentally killing his brother and learning more about his powers did he hijack the carnival, reinvent himself as a idealistic, charismatic messiah offering sanctuary, and claw his way towards Magnificent Bastardry.
 * Genre Savvy: Maybe he reads some X-men comics on the side, but the whole "sanctuary for people like us" schtick was something he had to come up with as a lure on his own. And it worked about as well as it does in the comics.
 * Gotta Catch Them All: He'll recruit as many "specials" as he can get, by hook or by crook.
 * Jumped At the Call: Possibly. He mentions something to the effect of, "I was free when I found I could move the very earth beneath my feet."
 * Kick the Son of a Bitch: His takedown of the police station and the cops who killed Jeremy.
 * Large Ham
 * Love Makes You Evil: Subverted. Although it is implied shortly after Vanessa breaks off the relationship with him that he decided to eliminate all of humanity because of her breakup, he later admits that his wanting to eliminate normal people's only relation to Vanessa was when she expressed fear of his powers, something he actually liked, meaning that her breakup had barely anything, if at all, to do with his next actions.
 * Magnetic Villain
 * Manipulative Bastard
 * Monster Clown: Technically speaking, as he runs a carnival that more often than not would have people you'd expect from the circus, he qualifies as a clown. And boy, is he monstrous.
 * New Era Speech: He really loves to give these to his "family," especially over their communal dinner table.
 * Omniglot: Despite having no formal education whatsoever, he is fluent in at least three languages (English, Japanese, and American Sign Language), which just happen to be the three languages he needs to converse with every one of the season's major characters.
 * Person of Mass Destruction: Without a notable power-up that he eventually intends to gain, he's able to level entire towns with a little concentration. If he gathers enough people around him, he'd probably rival Ted in sheer power, except Samuel would actually be able to control it. Supported by the many Volume 3 prophecies in which the earth is cracking open in a world full of specials.
 * Popularity Power: An in-universe example. The more "specials" he gathers around himself, the more powerful he becomes.
 * Self-Made Orphan: Sort of... His parents are never mentioned, but the closest to a parent is his brother, and he essentially murdered him after learning his brother called Danko to arrest him.
 * Also, as noted by the Death by Childbirth trope, his mom died while giving birth to him during an earthquake, and it is implied that the earthquake was caused by his birth.
 * Stalker with a Crush: To Vanessa.
 * Visionary Villain
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Subverted. His stated goal of creating a sanctuary where "specials" can be protected from Fantastic Racism would be a laudable one...but it's only a cover for gathering together enough "specials" to boost his power to godlike levels.
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
 * You Kill It, You Bought It: Despite the name, the Sullivan Bros. Carnival was really run by his brother Joseph...until he killed Joseph and took it over.
 * You Kill It, You Bought It: Despite the name, the Sullivan Bros. Carnival was really run by his brother Joseph...until he killed Joseph and took it over.

Ando Masahashi
Hiro's best friend and a fellow coworker at the same company. Despite his Deadpan Snarker personality, he is loyal to Hiro and is his almost-constant companion, though occasional feuds (such as the one caused when Hiro saw Ando kill him in an alternate future) do happen. More worldly than Hiro, often tries to rein his friend in, but he secretly enjoys their adventures sometimes. Recently gained some powers of his own from a Super Serum. Most of his dialogue with Hiro is in Japanese (though he speaks English better than Hiro.)


 * Characterization Marches On:back in Season 1 he was portrayed as Nikki's Stalker with a Crush who knows that The Internet Is for Porn
 * Cool Bike: The Ando-cycle
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Fake Nationality: Ando's actor is a Korean-American who doesn't speak any Japanese.
 * Heterosexual Life Partners:With Hiro
 * Kamehame Hadoken
 * Non-Action Guy
 * The Not-Love Interest: For Hiro.
 * Only Sane Man: he tries to keep Hiro out of full Stupid Good mode.
 * Power-Up Letdown
 * Secret Keeper
 * Sidekick
 * The Straight Man
 * Super Empowering
 * Translator Buddy: He becomes this to Hiro in Volume 3 when

Molly Walker
A young girl with the ability to locate anyone. She was orphaned after her powered parents had a run-in with Sylar. She was adopted by Matt and Mohinder, then unceremoniously Put on a Bus.


 * Has Two Daddies:Mohinder and Matt raise her together in Volume Two
 * Littlest Cancer Patient: When we first meet her.
 * The Little Detecto: She has the ability to locate anyone. Bennet referred to her as The Company's new tracking system until she was put in the care of Matt and Mohinder.
 * Token Mini-Moe
 * Waif Prophet
 * Put on a Bus:In Volume Three

Alejandro and Maya Herrera
Win the no-prize for being the most loathed new characters in Volume Two (and generally considered the most loathed characters of the series, though some campaign hard for Mohinder, Claire and anyone played by Ali Larter). Fans call them the Blessed with Suck Twins, which says it all.


 * Bad Powers, Good People: Maya.
 * Black Eyes of Evil: Maya has these when her power activates.
 * Cure Poison Hands: Alejandro
 * Honor Before Reason: Alejandro
 * Horrible Judge of Character: Maya
 * Killed Off for Real: Alejandro
 * Person of Mass Destruction: Maya with her anthrax tears.
 * Put on a Bus: Maya, after her power is removed.
 * Walking Wasteland: Maya again.

Monica Dawson
Micah's cousin who is able to mimic the (non-superpowered) abilities of anyone she sees. She was also introduced in Volume Two, but was much more well-liked by the fandom. She has also been unceremoniously Put on a Bus.
 * Awesomeness By Analysis
 * I Just Want to Be Special
 * I Know Mortal Kombat / Taught by Television Her power of adoptive muscle mimicry; she learns to do things by watchingn.
 * In the Hood: as St. Joan.
 * What Happened to the Mouse?

Isaac Mendez
A painter and comic book illustrator. He also had precognitive abilities -- the catch was that his ability was dependent on heroin. He was killed by Sylar about halfway through Volume one. That hasn't stopped him from being a fairly important supporting character though...
 * Because Destiny Says So
 * Commuting on a Bus: A subversion: His paintings/comics are a recurrent plot device until Volume Four.
 * Drugs Are Bad
 * Heroic Sacrifice
 * Psychic Powers
 * Prophecy Twist

Charlie Andrews
Waitress with an enhanced memory, who becomes Hiro's love after she dies.
 * Always Save the Girl
 * Diabolus Ex Machina: If she wasn't killed by Sylar, she would have died of a brain clot.
 * Family Versus Career:
 * First Girl Wins
 * Forgotten Fallen Friend: For three seasons, Hiro forgot she existed.
 * Heroes Want Redheads
 * I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Hiro even compares her to Gwen.
 * Kill the Cutie
 * Photographic Memory
 * Service Sector Stereotypes
 * Shaggy Dog Story
 * Stuffed Into the Fridge: Twice.

Claude Rains
A cynical fellow with the ability to make normal people not notice him, essentially making him invisible. He became a Trickster Mentor to Peter and is one of the most popular minor characters.
 * Actor Allusion: One of the first things he says is "fantastic" in a very sarcastic tone. This was the catch phrase of another of Christopher Eccleston's characters.
 * Badass
 * Character Name Alias
 * Cynical Mentor
 * Homeless Pigeon Person
 * Invisibility
 * Lovable Rogue
 * No One Could Survive That: The flashback sequence where Bennet shoots him and he seems to fall to his death. (Though he obviously did survive that since he's around to teach Peter.)
 * The Obi-Wan
 * Put on a Bus (Granted, it was an invisible bus.)
 * He's been appearing lately in the Graphic Novels.
 * Shout Out: His alias is the name of the actor who played the title character in the 1933 film The Invisible Man.
 * Training From Hell
 * Trickster Mentor
 * Trivial Pursuit
 * Zen Survivor

Sandra Bennet

 * Kindhearted Dog Lover
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia
 * Mama Bear:She drives out some Company agents threatening her family at gunpoint.
 * Muggle Foster Parent: Of Claire.
 * Team Mom
 * Suddenly Always Knew That:She knows how to make convincing fake I.D.s (from sneaking into Def Leppard concerts.)

Lyle Bennet
Claire's little brother with the uncanny ability to be ignored by everyone.
 * Annoying Younger Sibling
 * Badass Bystander: attacks Ted Sprague with a baseball bat when he breaks into their home.
 * Batter Up
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia
 * Muggle Foster Sibling: Of Claire.
 * My Name Is Not Durwood "What was it... Larry?"
 * Unfazed Everyman

Zach
Claire's friend, currently being chased by Terminators.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia
 * Non-Action Guy
 * Secret Keeper
 * Word of Gay

Ted Sprague
Some poor guy who just happened to have Radioactive powers, accidentally killed his wife, is hunted by the F.B.I. for crimes he didn't commit, and takes on the Ancient Conspiracy with Matt Parkman, Noah Bennet, and Hana Gitelman. He gets off his revenge kick just in time to be de-brained by Sylar.
 * Acquitted Too Late
 * Clear My Name
 * I Have Your Wife
 * It's Personal
 * Person of Mass Destruction
 * Power Incontinence
 * Redemption Equals Death
 * Revenge
 * Walking Wasteland

The Haitian
A walking, not-talking Deus Ex Machina.
 * Enigmatic Minion: To Angela Petrelli.
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia: His power allows him to do that.
 * No Name Given
 * Power Nullifier
 * Scary Black Man
 * Superpower Lottery: Not the most useful power for everyday life, but definitely the most useful for dealing with other superpowered people.
 * The Voiceless: For a while

Eden McCain
a.k.a. Sarah Ellis, The Mole for the Company that lived next door to Chandra Suresh. Temporary love interest for Mohinder.
 * Abusive Parents
 * Better to Die Than Be Killed
 * Compelling Voice
 * Heroic Suicide
 * Jedi Mind Trick
 * The Mole
 * Stuffed Into the Fridge
 * Temporary Love Interest

Hana Gitelman
Israeli soldier and technopath who was seeking revenge against the Company with Matt and Ted.
 * Action Girl
 * Badass Biker
 * Badass Family: Comes from one.
 * Cyberpunk
 * Femme Fatale
 * "Friend or Idol?" Decision: Save a child or get revenge...
 * Hell-Bent for Leather
 * (twice)
 * Hollywood Hacking
 * Revenge
 * Spy Catsuit
 * Technopath
 * Technopath

Sparrow Redhouse
Member of Micah's super-team REBEL and Terrakinetic (She controls the earth).
 * Action Girl: FINALLY Heroes shows that the ladies can kick ass just as much as the guys!
 * Badass Family: Not a biological family perhaps but it's how she and Micah view the team they've put together.
 * Dishing Out Dirt
 * Magical Native American: Averted. Despite being a Native American the only stereotypical facet to the character is her "One with the Earth" powers and they don't make a big deal out of it.

Caitlin
Oirish chick who is, as far as we know, still stranded in Bad Future Version 2.0.
 * Temporary Love Interest
 * What Happened to the Mouse?
 * Forgotten Fallen Friend

Daphne Millbrook
A speedy thief character introduced as a love interest for Matt Parkman. Unceremoniously squashed by a falling bridge.
 * Action Mom (in the exposed future.)
 * Fragile Speedster
 * Heel Face Turn:After meeting Matt.
 * Lovable Rogue
 * Outrun the Fireball:Subverted: even she can't

Bob Bishop
One of the twelve founders of the Company, who takes it over in Volume 2 after the death of Mr. Linderman. Killed by Sylar offscreen as part of the great season 2 character purge.
 * Abusive Parents: To Elle.
 * Alchemy: He has the power to turn anything into gold.
 * Affably Evil
 * Boring but Practical: Both his power and the man himself (unlike his Magnificent Bastard predecessor, Bob's sole motivation seemed to be to just keep the Company running smoothly and doing what it was created to do, instead of using it for his own utopian schemes).
 * Dropped a Bridge on Him
 * Real Life Writes the Plot: One reason for the above was that Stephen Toblowsky was injured in an accident and had to wear a neck brace.
 * Evil Counterpart: To Noah, just as Elle is Claire's Evil Counterpart.
 * First-Name Basis: He insists that everyone call him Bob.
 * Hollywood Nerd

Charles Deveaux
Peter's last hospice client, Simone Deveaux's father, and one of the twelve founders of the Company. He succumbed to cancer early in Volume One.
 * Cool Old Guy
 * Killed Off for Real
 * Magical Negro: His character basically exists to give Peter sage advice...even from beyond the grave.
 * Posthumous Character: He appears to Peter in a dream after succumbing to his cancer and later shows up in flashbacks in Volume Four.
 * Psychic Powers:
 * Charm Person
 * Telepathy
 * Retired Badass
 * Screw Destiny: The other founders believe that the destruction of New York is inevitable, but he thinks Peter can avert it through The Power of Love.

Kaito Nakamura
Hiro Nakamura's father, CEO of Yamagoto Industries, and one of the twelve founders of the Company. He was killed by Adam Monroe at the beginning of Volume Two.
 * The Atoner
 * Awesomeness By Analysis: A deleted scene shows that this is his power.
 * Badass in a Nice Suit
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive
 * Face Death with Dignity: He refuses to let Hiro save him and instead meets Adam with fists raised.
 * Killed Off for Real
 * Mundane Utility: In the aforementioned deleted scene, he mentions that he made his money by playing the stock market with his power.
 * Old Master
 * Posthumous Character: Thanks to the magic of Time Travel, flashbacks, and video wills, he's made more appearances after his death than he did before.
 * Retired Badass
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy: To both of his children. He withholds his approval from Hiro because he sees him as weak and from Kimiko because she's a woman. He finally does give Hiro his approval, and then is killed either shortly before or shortly thereafter, depending on how you look at it.
 * With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: He does his best to drill this into his son's head, so he won't become like some of his old friends.

Maury Parkman
Matt Parkman's father and one of the twelve founders of the Company. He acted as a minion for both Adam Monroe and Arthur Petrelli, until the latter killed him.
 * Archnemesis Dad
 * Con Man: Apparently, he was one before joining the Company.
 * Disappeared Dad: He walked out on his family some time in The Seventies and never looked back.
 * Dropped a Bridge on Him
 * Even Mooks Have Loved Ones: He was a terrible father, but he only worked for Arthur Petrelli on the condition that his son would be protected, and his objection to Arthur reneging on that promise is what gets him killed.
 * Evil Old Folks
 * Hoist by His Own Petard: In Volume Two, Matt traps him in the nightmare he conjured up to hold Molly.
 * In-Series Nickname: The Nightmare Man.
 * Killed Off for Real
 * Manipulative Bastard
 * Neck Snap: His cause of death.
 * Psychic Powers:
 * Charm Person
 * Lotus Eater Machine
 * Master of Illusion
 * Mind Probe
 * Telepathy

Scott

 * Ascended Extra: His character is a brutal subversion of this trope
 * Muggle Power: His discussion with Nathan
 * Neck Snap: The disappointingly anticlimactic way he was killed off. At the hands of Knox, no less...
 * Sacrificial Lion
 * Super Soldier: All set up in Our Father to become this
 * Super Strength
 * Survivor Guilt: His motivation for joining the Pinehearst super-soldier program
 * We Hardly Knew Ye: Poor guy
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Another subversion

Rachel Mills

 * Deep-Cover Agent: Infiltrated Building 26.
 * Super Soldier:
 * I Just Want to Be Normal
 * Teleporters and Transporters

Ryan Hanover

 * No One Could Survive That
 * Stay in the Kitchen: His attitude towards Rachel Mills

Tracy Strauss

 * Big Damn Heroine: In the Season 5 finale
 * Blonde Republican Sex Kitten
 * Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
 * Defrosting Ice Queen: Literally
 * Heroic Sacrifice
 * An Ice Person
 * Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
 * Send in the Clones
 * The Vamp
 * The Vamp
 * The Vamp

Meredith Gordon

 * Abusive Parents
 * Playing with Fire
 * Run for the Border: She hid out in Mexico for a while.

Flint
"Meredith: God gave you a big sister instead of a brain."
 * Abusive Parents
 * Attempted Rape
 * Axe Crazy
 * Bald of Evil
 * Big Damn Villains
 * Card-Carrying Villain
 * The Ditz
 * Elite Mook
 * Playing with Fire
 * Those Two Bad Guys: With Knox, with  (knocking over a liquor store) in a flashback. Whoever he works with he's obviously not the brains of the duo.
 * Too Dumb to Live: He makes Peter Petrelli look like a genius. It even gets a Lampshade Hanging!

Knox

 * Big Damn Villains
 * Card-Carrying Villain: Mainly because his backstory was cut from the show proper (though it is available in webisode format).
 * Disney Death: Possibly;
 * Elite Mook
 * Enigmatic Minion
 * Even Evil Has Standards: He did not like the idea of Arthur Petrelli trying to mass-produce supers (which also acted as the reason why he intended to destroy the serum).
 * Luckily, My Powers Will Protect Me
 * Scary Black Man
 * Super Strength
 * Those Two Bad Guys:with Flint.

Luke Campbell
Luke the Nuke is Sylar's sidekick that he picked up in Volume 4 who was helping him find his father. Luke hero-worships Sylar and considers him to be his bestest friend ever.
 * Creepy Child: "You should see what it does to pacemakers."
 * Hero Worshipper: Or rather Villain Worshipper
 * Irritation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
 * Kid Sidekick
 * The Load
 * Morality Pet: Sylar saves him and later spares his life.
 * Kind of a big deal for him.
 * Pure Energy: He microwaves stuff
 * The Renfield
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: With Sylar, of the annoying type 1 variety.
 * What Happened to the Mouse?: Sylar abandons him in the middle of the desert and tells him to go home to his mother. He may be showing up later in the Graphic Novels with some character development.]]
 * Why Couldn't You Be Different?:Luke runs off with Sylar to get away from his domineering mother.

Eric Doyle

 * Bad Powers, Bad People
 * My Name Is Not Durwood in the online series.
 * People Puppets
 * Reformed but Rejected
 * Terms of Endangerment "Hello Barbie."

Alex
An evolved human that Claire hides from the government mooks.
 * Hollywood Nerd
 * Put on a Bus
 * Temporary Love Interest:for Claire.
 * This Looks Like a Job For Aquaman

Alice Shaw

 * Crazy Survivalist
 * Elemental Powers:Weather Manipulation
 * An Ice Person
 * Blow You Away
 * Making a Splash
 * Shock and Awe
 * Left for Dead
 * Long Lost Sibling
 * Sis Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You
 * Superpower Lottery

Samson Gray
Sylar's biological father.
 * Addiction Displacement: His work as a taxidermist, which he took up to give him something to keep his hands busy.
 * All Your Powers Combined: He doesn't even remember all of what he has anymore.
 * Axe Crazy
 * Awesomeness By Analysis
 * Badass Biker: The photos at his place seem to suggest he was when he was younger.
 * Beard of Evil
 * Bored with Insanity: He quit being a villain when he realized that all the killing and power-stealing was meaningless and without purpose.
 * Chronic Villainy: He really did mean to quit being a villain and die in peace. And then along came Sylar and his Healing Factor...
 * Dying Alone: Sylar's punishment for what he did.
 * Evil Mentor: Very, very briefly.
 * The Gift
 * Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Evil, obviously.
 * Horror Hunger
 * The Hunter
 * Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: He loves his hunting metaphors.
 * Hypno Ray: The sedation ability kind of looks like this.
 * In the Blood
 * Luke, You Are My Father
 * Mind Over Matter
 * Nietzsche Wannabe
 * One-Scene Wonder
 * Retired Monster
 * Serial Killer
 * Smoking Is Cool: Subverted heavily as he is dying of lung cancer.
 * The Sociopath: Why did he kill Sylar's mother and sell him to his brother? He doesn't even remember, because it didn't matter to him.
 * This Is Your Brain on Evil
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
 * You Will Be Assimilated

Stephen Canfield
A guy with the power to create miniature black holes, who accidentally killed his neighbour and got locked up by the Company in Level 5 for it.
 * Bad Powers, Bad People: Subverted, almost to the point of being a deconstruction. Despite what the Company (and Claire, at first) think, and despite his having the perfect power for a legitimately threatening villain, he isn't a bad guy. He's very desperate to subvert this image, to the point of

Edgar
Samuel's right-hand man.
 * Ax Crazy: From what we've seen of him, this appears to be the case.
 * Badass
 * Hitman with a Heart: He wants out.
 * Knife Nut
 * Only One Name
 * Super Speed

Lydia
A woman who works at the carnival with Samuel and Edgar.
 * The Empath
 * Meaningful Name: Her power works through her tattoos.
 * Ms. Fanservice
 * Only One Name
 * Ship Tease: With both Samuel and Edgar. And possibly Sylar...
 * Single Mom Stripper: Kind of. She has a teenage daughter named Amanda and a job taking off most of her clothes.
 * Teen Pregnancy: She had Amanda as a teenager.
 * Toplessness From the Back: When she shows the others her tattoos.
 * What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?
 * What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?

Eli
Samuel's new right-hand man after Edgar.
 * The Dragon
 * Dumb Muscle
 * Jerkass
 * Me's a Crowd
 * Only One Name

Rebecca Taylor

 * Invisibility
 * Stepford Smiler
 * Revenge by Proxy
 * You Killed My Father: To

Gretchen Berg
Claire's roomate at college.
 * Bi the Way
 * Dogged Nice Girl: To Claire
 * I Just Want to Be Special: At least part of her attraction to Claire seems to be Claire's own specialness. Plus there was her desire to play Nancy Drew when
 * Its Not You Its Your Enemies:

Emma Coolidge
A deaf woman who works at a hospital office with a power of her own.
 * Disability Superpower: She's deaf, but can "see" sounds as intense colors.
 * Office Lady, to the point of being a Workaholic.
 * Office Lady, to the point of being a Workaholic.

Mr. Muggles

 * Evil-Detecting Dog:Subverted as he's happy getting pets from Sylar and Revenge!Ted
 * Meaningful Name: "Muggles" pretty well describes the Bennet family.
 * Mr. Muffykins
 * Right Hand Dog:
 * Team Pet