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** 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-Wimey Ball]].

** [[Lonely At the Top|You could argue that his constant]] [[Emo]] [[Lonely At the Top|counts as a consequence.]]

* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: The sword of Kensei. As an aside, it is never outright stated that it is a [[Infinity+1 Sword|magic sword]], but it does focus Hiro's abilities somehow.

** [[Magic Feather]]: Or so Hiro chose to believe.

* [[Landslide Election]]

* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]

* [[Lawful Stupid Chaotic Stupid]]: Peter Petrelli and Hiro Nakamura are the worst offenders.

* [[Legion of Doom]]:

** In Volume Three, the team of villains being assembled by Pinehearst Industries a.k.a. {{spoiler|Arthur Petrelli}}.

** Seems to be what the new "carnival" is in Volume 5.

* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: Almost every season ends with geeky otaku Hiro Nakamura teleporting in and pretty much pwning the [[Big Bad]] in literally the blink of an eye. He takes out Sylar (twice!), Adam, Danko, and the entire Build 26 Black Ops unit (the last two defeated while Hiro was using a weakened version of his powers that are slowly ''killing him''). So far the only [[Big Bad]] who could beat Hiro was [[Physical God]] [[Evil Overlord]] Arthur Petrelli.

* [[Let's You and Him Fight]]: Season 2 had Matt vs. Nathan when Maury trapped them both in a nightmare and a Hiro vs. Peter misunderstanding fight thanks to Adam's manipulations.

* [[Line-of-Sight Name]]: Gabriel Gray gets the name Sylar from the brand of watch he's fixing when he kills his first victim.

* [[Lingerie Scene]]: Ali Larter has several, spread over the series. Not quite enough to dub her [[Ms. Fanservice]], but still.

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: All the "heroes," and their friends, family, colleagues, etc. It's easy to get lost.

* [[Long-Lost Relative]]:

** 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.

** {{spoiler|... and then there's Alice Shaw, Angela's long lost sister.}}

* [[Loud of War]]: Mohinder knows his [[You Killed My Father|mortal nemesis]] Sylar has absorbed the power of super-hearing. His hearing is so keen he can hear other people's breathing and heartbeats, and in fact suffered terrible headaches from the noise. So when Mohinder goes to torture Sylar, what does he do? He strikes a ''tuning fork'' and holds it up next to Sylar's ear in all of its shrill, discordant glory and lets Sylar scream for mercy.

* [[Love Floats]]: Though it's West using his flight powers, West and Claire do the classic embracing float scene.

** 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.

* [[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'''.

* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: Linderman and Angela Petrelli are behind the Primatech company in Season 1.

** And in turn Adam Monroe was [[The Man Behind the Man]] for Linderman, Angela, and the other ten founders.

** In a rare good version, Rebel/{{spoiler|Micah Sanders}} is [[The Man Behind the Man]] to our heroes in Volume 4.

* [[Man On Fire]]: Elle sets Adam on fire as he's escaping Primatech.

* [[Mass Super-Empowering Event]]: Inverted, the Eclipse mass ''depowers'' the cast.

* [[Matter of Life and Death]]

* [[The Mean Brit]]: Claude (ironically, one of only two British characters on the show played by [[Fake Brit|an actual Brit]]).

* [[Meaningful Echo]]:

** Peter can't have multiple powers anymore, but he can have one at a time from the last person with an ability he touched.

*** Therefore, Peter is actually more like [[Kirby]] than [[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]].

* [[The Men in Black]]: Noah Bennet, [[Badass Normal]] for hire, among others.

* [[The Messiah]]: {{spoiler|Micah Sanders}} aka "Rebel" gets promoted to this in Volume 4, being the driving force behind the Resistance Movement attempting to save all evolved humans from Building 26. He even (in the graphic novels) convinces Doyle to turn over a new leaf, and even tries to redeem ''Sylar'' (that last one doesn't turn out so well, though he at least convinced him to spare his life; as Sylar said to an unrelated character, that's "kind of a big deal" for him).

* [[Nerd Glasses]]: Gabriel Gray.

* [[Neurodiversity Is Supernatural]]: "Enhanced Synesthesia", though eventually shown to be an ability to manipulate sound and summon people, is initially demonstrated as like standard sound-to-color synesthesia and is played as a strange superpower.

* [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]]:

** Several characters demonstrate the ability to acquire new powers from other powered people. Peter Petrelli copies them, Dad Petrelli takes them, and Sylar rips them out of their heads (killing them, and he gets to use Peter's copying power later).

*** 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.

* [[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.

* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: Arthur Petrelli, though the keyword here is definitely 'wannabe.' Wannabe defines everything about Arthur Petrelli.

** 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.

* [[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.