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* [[Jacob and Esau]]

** 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.

** And then there are the not-so-hidden meanings of Elle (who controls '''ele''ctricity), Flint (who can start fires), and Echo (with, of course, sound powers). The other obvious one is Adam Monroe, who predates all other known "evolved humans" (this would come under Biblical names too).

** In an interesting bit of irony, the character of Danko is a complete inversion of his counterpart in the Russian folk tale publicized by Maxim Gorky (the folk hero Danko ripped out his heart to bring fire to his people, whereas Emile Danko is attempting to "extinguish" the fire of evolved humans from the world).

** Volume 5 brings us Lydia, whose powers involve tattoos.

* [[Meanwhile in The Future]]: Gets a [[Lampshade Hanging]] on the UK DVD covers.

* [[Must Make Amends]]: Sylar in Volume Three. {{spoiler|It doesn't take.}}

* [[Mutant Draft Board]]: The Company.

* [[A Nazi By Any Other Name]]: The Building 26 operation, [[Fan Nickname|Nathan's Nazis.]]

** Of course, despite the fan nickname and Nathan creating it, he actually had little control on what they actually did: For an example, in a rather notable aversion to the trope early on in the season where not only was Danko the one who let Tracy go to kill a random member of the group, but he did it without Nathan's knowledge until Nathan was accused by Tracy of setting her up to be released, and as soon as Nathan found out, he told Danko off for it.

** Volume Three Peter{{spoiler|s}}. Just Peter. Angela gets one of these too.

** ''Everything'' bad that happens in the series is the fault of one or more of "the good guys." ''Everything.''

* [[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.

** In the Volume 5 preview, {{spoiler|[[Replacement Goldfish|Sythan]] looks at a clock and remarks on how it's going a few minutes fast, with Angela Petrelli waiting for him at the door so they can go to lunch. The "''FUCK''." expression on Ma Petrelli's face is a classic.}}

* [[One Degree of Separation]]

* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: John Glover as {{spoiler|Samson Gray, Sylar's biological father}}

* [[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.}}

* [[Pet the Dog]]: The Volume Three flashback episode "Villains" was one big [[Pet the Dog]] moment for most of the series' major baddies: Sylar, Linderman, Angela Petrelli, Elle, and even Thompson all got to have sympathetic and humanizing moments. The only exception is [[Big Bad]] Arthur Petrelli, who was revealed to have been a grade A [[Jerkass]] even back then.

** Danko, who's made a living out of hunting people with powers, gives some fatherly advice to Sylar when his shapeshifting power becomes too much for him to handle. Danko also lets Sylar examine a watch that his father had left to him.

* [[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-Wimey Ball|that quite possibly negates her existence]].}}