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* [[Barehanded Blade Block]]: Sylar does this when Hiro takes a swing at him in "The Hard Part."

* [[Batter Up]]: When Claire demands that Noah teach her how to fight, he starts her off with a block of wood.

Noah: "No, It's baseball." }}

* [[Bavarian Fire Drill]]: [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|"...and get us some coffee! Decaf!!!"]]

** It was so infamous it earned its own [[Fan Nickname]]: the Pasbeard.

* [[Because Destiny Says So|Because The Comic Book Says So]]

* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]: According to the online graphic novels, Benjamin Franklin had the ability to absorb electricity, which is how he survived his famed kite experiment.

* [[Berserk Button]]: If someone you had never met in your life that has no impact on your life and that might have only had one thing even slightly in common with you were to be killed, would you make a big deal out of it? Maybe not, but Samuel sure would. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Oh yes, he sure would.]]

** And variations on "I can be a hero!"

* [[Character Name Alias]]: We never do learn "Claude"'s real name.

* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Most notable with Ando, whose [[Stalker with a Crush]] behavior towards Niki was gradually dropped as he [[Ensemble Darkhorse|gained popularity]].

* [[Chaste Hero]]: Past-Noah manages to refuse the advances of a beautiful woman who he was working with at the time.

* [[Contagious Powers]]: The only remaining Muggle main character is Noah Bennet.

* [[Contemplate Our Navels]]: Mohinder's long and pointless [[Book Ends|opening and closing]] narration. Rumors persist that these monologues have something to do with [[Hollywood Evolution|evolution]] or [[Because Destiny Says So|destiny]] or something ''deep'', but are currently unconfirmed as [[Long Speech Tea Time|nobody gives a crap about Mohinder's ramblings]].

* [[Conveniently Coherent Thoughts]]: Generally the case with Matt Parkman's telepathy.

* [[Cooldown Hug]]: "Nathan? I need you to fight it..."

* [[Everyone Is Related]]: The number of major characters who have been revealed to be related to each other is getting a little silly at this point. For example, Claire is Noah's adopted daughter; she's also {{spoiler|Nathan's biological daughter}} and therefore, {{spoiler|Peter's niece and Ma Petrelli's granddaughter}}. Oh, and it was revealed that Sylar (maybe) and Flint (yes, cause why the hell not?) are {{spoiler|her [[Evil Uncle|uncles]]}} [[Tangled Family Tree|We half expect the writers to say, "What the hell, Adam "Kensei" Monroe is '''everyone's''' great-great-great-great-ect.-grandfather."]] He ''does'' have a [[Meaningful Name]]. [[All There in the Manual|At one point he took the last name Sanders. Also he had two sons in Italy in the 17th century]] and his heraldic crest ([[Arc Words|the symbol]]) is also the symbol of the Petrelli family law firm. And, of course, [[Justified Trope|superpowers are genetic.]]

* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: {{spoiler|Pa Petrelli has his first speaking line after draining Adam Monroe's power, [[No Ontological Inertia|causing him to age]] ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade|The Last Crusade]]''-style and crumble to dust. Those words?}}

* [[Evil Eyebrows]]: Sylar.

* [[Evil Foreigner]]: "The German," the psycho with <s>Magneto-type</s> totally original electromagnetic powers.

** Except that in Sylar's case, once he started donning the hair gel, he kept trying to go good.

* [[Evil Is Not a Toy]]: Whenever some erstwhile [[Chessmaster]] keeps Sylar alive or even ''feeds him powers'' while plotting to use him to further their own evil schemes, you ''know'' the main man is going to eventually turn around and make things end badly for them. Bennet even Lampshades this when confronting Danko.

* [[Evil Matriarch]]: Mrs. Petrelli, especially in the first two Volumes.

* [[Evil Overlooker]]: Both covers to the first graphic novel collection show Sylar looming over the Heroes. As does the Season 2 DVD cover. And the second graphic novel collection.