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* [[Jacob and Esau]]
** Early in the series, it's made clear that Nathan [[Like Father Like Son|takes after his father]] while Peter is his [[
** Also applies to Hiro and Kimiko.
* [[James Bondage]]: Peter Petrelli in a container, Nathan Petrelli in Haiti, Hiro on the loading trolley at the beginning of Volume 5.
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* [[Just Think of the Potential]]: Mohinder at the start of Volume Three regarding the [[Super Serum]]. Nathan, too, near the end, but before his (final) [[Heel Face Turn]].
* [[Karma Houdini]]: It seems that the universe is bending over backwards to let Sylar be his dastardly brain-and-power-stealing self. In Volume Three, {{spoiler|he worked for The Company. Because the Company has shown itself in the past to not associate with dangerous psychos at all...}}
** Later, he was {{spoiler|working with the "villains", and somehow this only makes him more of a good guy}}. Sylar is the moral equivalent of a [[Timey
** [[Lonely At the Top|You could argue that his constant]] [[Emo]] [[Lonely At the Top|counts as a consequence.]]
** {{spoiler|Six weeks after mind-wiping Sylar, Angela Petrelli seems thus far to have escaped full retribution...}}
** {{spoiler|As of episode "The Wall," we can probably remove Sylar from the Karma Houdini list. Several years (relative time) of complete and utter isolation? When solitary confinement can be used as a means of torture just over the course of days? And when you add in the fact that they listed his single worst fear as being alone forever and then having his arch-rival stuck in his head? Yeah, we can argue Sylar is getting his payback.}}
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: The sword of Kensei. As an aside, it is never outright stated that it is a [[Infinity
** [[Magic Feather]]: Or so Hiro chose to believe.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: {{spoiler|Though considering it twice(!) involved someone willingly giving Sylar someone to steal a power from, [[Your Mileage May Vary|it may count as]] [[Moral Event Horizon]] instead.}}
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* [[Kryptonite Is Everywhere]] - Happens to Hiro in Volume Three.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]:
** When Arthur tries to recruit Mohinder's services, the latter replies that there's always some shady organization looking for his help for diabolical ulterior motives. [[What an Idiot!|This doesn't stop Mohinder from helping Pinehearst]].
** Claire asking "Why is it always me?" is a ''spectacular'' lampshade hanging.
* [[Landslide Election]]
* [[Laser
* [[The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort]]: Sylar, Adam.
* [[Lawful Stupid Chaotic Stupid]]: Peter Petrelli and Hiro Nakamura are the worst offenders.
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* [[Let Us Never Speak of This Again]]: Parkman and Nathan agree never to tell anyone about the former riding piggyback on the latter to get from New York to Texas.
* [[Level Five Onix]]:
** There was [[Anti
** Then there's the Nightmare-man {{spoiler|Maury Parkman}} who was implied in Volume 1 to be even worse than Sylar, but all he ever did was give a little girl nightmares.
*** Since it was that particular little girl who described him that way, we can excuse her.
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** Yeah, how many people remember that Ando's power was initially just super-charging other people's powers?
*** Ando's ability is not really lightning, even if it is referred to as 'red lightning' and looks like it sometimes. The energy he produces supercharges people, at least evolved humans, so it makes sense it could be used to overload electronic devices and be used offensively to send people flying. Also, the FIRST TIME we saw Ando's ability used (by Future-Ando), it was used as an energy blast.
* [[Line
* [[Lingerie Scene]]: Ali Larter has several, spread over the series. Not quite enough to dub her [[Ms. Fanservice]], but still.
* Living Legend: Hiro goes to medieval Japan to meet his hero, Takezo Kensei. Hiro then does everything he can to make Takezo live up to the legends about him, making him into the legend Hiro [[Time Travel Tense Trouble|willen haven onen]] learned about.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: All the "heroes," and their friends, family, colleagues, etc. It's easy to get lost.
* [[Long
** Turns out Claire Bennet is {{spoiler|Peter Petrelli's niece}}.
** Early in Volume Three, Angela reveals {{spoiler|Sylar}} may be the third Petrelli brother neither Peter nor Nathan was aware of. Noah later states that she might be a damn liar.
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* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: Kensei/Adam, Angela Petrelli.
* [[Love Martyr]]: {{spoiler|Sylar and Elle}}
* [[Luckily, My Powers Will Protect Me]]: Knox seems compelled to mention in ''every single scene he's in'' that other people's fear gives him [[Super Strength]]. The Crazy Eye look he gives while saying this may count as well. It gets to the point where it must be asked, what kind of power does other people's annoyance give him? He also has the amazing ability to fail to notice a very tall woman with bright blonde hair enter a small room.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]/LukeYouAreMyFather: See [[Everyone Is Related]].
* [[Made of Plasticine]]: Claire is a comparatively mild version of this trope, but still prone to dying or breaking bones in completely ridiculous ways. Some fans claim she has a secondary power: causing herself unlikely and violent accidents.
** In the first half of the first season, she was on a football field, a football player tackled her or maybe just ran into her by accident, and she broke her neck when she fell. Not sprained her ankle or dislocated her knee, but broke her neck. This was used mainly just to show off her [[Healing Factor]] for the benefit of her friend (the one person who happened to see it) and the viewers.
** Also in the first half of the first season, a [[Jerk Jock]] is trying to rape her, but she falls down and gets stabbed through the back of her head with a sharp stick, killing her instantly. That happened to hit her [[Achilles Heel]], so she remained dead until the stick was [[Waking Up At the Morgue|removed in the morgue]] several hours later. This death drove her plotline for the next few episodes.
* [[Magic Feather]]: In Volume One, Hiro convinces himself that he needs to steal Takezo Kensei's katana in order to reactivate his powers, while Niki believes that she can only access her [[Super Strength]] when her [[Super
* [[Magical Negro]]: Dying African American Charles and his inspiring speech to Peter. The Haitian can also sometimes be considered as fitting this role, being a mysterious, usually mute, plot device. Usutu, the African [[Trickster Mentor]] character was almost literally this -- though he had a neat little subversion where what Matt assumed to be ancient African mumbo jumbo was a quote from Carl Jung.
* [[Mama Bear]]: Niki/Jessica will put anyone who dares to try and hurt Micah through a '''world of grief'''.
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* [[Man On Fire]]: Elle sets Adam on fire as he's escaping Primatech.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Adam Monroe in Season 2, Angela Petrelli in Season 3.
* [[Mass Super
* [[Matter of Life and Death]]
* [[McLeaned]] : Arguably {{spoiler|Adam Monroe. Of all the character deaths in Volume Three, his was the most spiteful. David Anders left to film Children of the Corn very shortly afterwards. The interviews he gave shortly before Adam was killed off seem to hint at this as well. And Elle for sure.}}
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* [[Mind Rape]]: Frequently, using the Haitian's powers. Also <s>Freddy Krueger</s> Maury Parkman the Nightmare-man... and then {{spoiler|Matt does this to Sylar in the Volume 4 finale.}} {{spoiler|As of the beginning of Volume 5, it looks like Sylar's giving Parkman a taste of his own medicine.}}
* [[Mister Danger]]: Kensei again.
* [[Mister Muffykins]]: Mr. Muggles came so darn close to being the [[Trope Namer]]. Note that he fails utterly in being an [[Evil
* [[Mobstacle Course]]
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: Bullying is unforgivable. Traumatising someone and getting them suspended from school is A-OK! Claire and West have clearly been taking lessons from Yu Gi Oh Abridgeds Pharoah Atem.
** Peter believes in [[Wide Eyed Idealist|Love and Compassion for everyone]]. Unless your name is Isaac Mendez, in which case he believes in [[Mind Over Matter|throwing paint cans at you]] and [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|telling you what a loser you are]]. The inconsistency between Peter's [[Informed Attribute|personality]] and [[Out
* [[Morality Chain]]: Future!Sylar and his son. {{spoiler|Does he ''ever'' get pissed when his son is accidentally killed!}}
* [[Morality Pet]]: Claire for HRG, Peter for Nathan, Luke Campbell for Sylar, Noah Grey for Future!Sylar. Aileena is a subversion of the trope. Around her Danko is a far kinder, gentler individual than the cold blooded killer we know. But then when Matt holds him and Aileena hostage Danko reveals that at the end of the day, unlike with HRG, he will choose the mission over his loved ones.
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*** Ando is a particular victim of this trope. His power goes from power amplification to {{spoiler|multi purpose energy blasts}}. Subverted, in that we are given a preview of the latter form of his ability via time travel before we even find out if he'll even get one in the main timeline.
*** Sylar pulls off an even bigger [[Ass Pull]] than usual in Volume 4, when he inexplicably starts teleporting out of Danko's car. Sure, it was badass, but a little explanation would have been nice.
* [[Newspaper
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Nice Job Breaking It Hiro]]: Volume Two Hiro should be the posterboy for this trope.
** He broke HISTORY. Not even Superman over on Superdickery managed that.
** In Season 1, most of the characters are trying to stop a nuclear explosion in Kirby Plaza. Turns out, {{spoiler|The explosion is caused by Peter exploding after absorbing Ted's radiation power. But he only absorbed Ted's power because he was trying to find Ted in order to stop the explosion.}}
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** Interestingly, from what we've seen of him so far Volume 5 [[Big Bad]] Samuel Sullivan seems to be defining as a genuine [[Ubermensch]]; he doesn't seem to regard the lives of [[Muggles]] as holding any moral worth and happily offs them as needed, but at the same time he isn't going around killing folks just for shit and giggles, and seems to genuinely be trying to build a world of his own for evolved humans after he brings them around to his point of view.
* [[Ninety Percent of Your Brain]]: "Imagine what we could acomplish if we used one hundred percent of the brain." Massive seizures?
* [[No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine]]: "...breakfast?"
* [[No Sell]]: Peter and Sylar are/were/are immune to just about everyone else's powers.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Whatever it is that Luke's ability does to pacemakers.
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* [[Noughties Drama Series]]
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Although Mohinder is almost always carrying the [[Idiot Ball]], there are a few instances in which he's only ''pretending'' to carry it.
* [[The Obi
* [[Odd Couple]]: [[Ancient Conspiracy|Company policy]], [[Badass Normal|one of us]], [[Magic and Powers|one of them]]. [[They Fight Crime]].
* [[Official Kiss]]: Peter and Simone at the end of "One Giant Leap", under Simone's red [[Umbrella of Togetherness]].
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* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: Sylar does this ''a lot'', so much so that it's kind of become his signature move. Also, to a lesser extent, the rest of the cast seem to have the ability to make long cross-country trips in an abnormally short period of time.
* [[Oireland]]: Peter's subplot at the beginning of Volume Two. You know... maybe we [[Dork Age|shouldn't have brought it up again]]...
* [[Oh Crap]]: Mohinder {{spoiler|disables Sylar's superpowers in order to torture, [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|taunt]], and eventually [[You Killed My Father|kill]] him. After torturing him for an hour, Mohinder shoots him in the head, only for Sylar to telekinetically freeze the bullet in mid-air, undo his restraints, and rise up revealing his powers have been restored. Mohinder's deer-in-the-headlights expression is quite appropriate.}}
** Sylar on Kirby Plaza {{spoiler|after getting several super-powered punches to the face looks up just in time to see Hiro teleport in ready to stab him.}}
** In Volume 3, the look on Bennet's face {{spoiler|after he realizes that Peter is no longer possessing Jesse.}}
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* [[One Degree of Separation]]
* [[One Person One Power]] - strictly observed except for the power-borrowing/power-stealing characters.
* [[One
* [[Only I Can Kill Him]]: subverted on Kirby Plaza {{spoiler|when all the characters (without access to prophetic materials) believe that Peter will be the one to take down Sylar but its Hiro that delivers the coup de grace.}}
* [[Organization With Unlimited Funding]]: The Company has fit this trope to varying degrees throughout the seasons, most closely when it was run by Bob Bishop (who had the power to turn anything into gold) during Volume Two, who identifies himself as The Company's "financial source."
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* [[Ping Pong Naivete]]: Powers roughly 75% of the plot.
* [[Pineal Weirdness]]: Implied to be the source of superpowers.
* [[The Plague]]: Shanti's virus, which ''would have'' killed basically ''everyone''. Instead, it only led to {{spoiler|a new female lead [[What Happened to The Mouse?|getting written off the show]] by being trapped in a timeline [[Timey
** {{spoiler|But not the memory of her...well, until the following season, where she's [[Brother Chuck|never mentioned again]].}}
* [[Playing Drunk]]: Claire has to do this when playing a drinking game.
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