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==R==
* [[Rage Against the Mentor]]: Matt and Nathan spend much of the second Volume interrogating and browbeating (and [[Mind Rape]]ing) each
* [[Random Events Plot]]: About everything in Volume
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: Or... doesn't. Due to the writers' strike.
** Sylar gaining
* [[Really Dead Montage]]:
**
* [[Really Gets Around]]: Sylar.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Seems to have become Sylar's signature move in Season 3 (Volume 3
** Also Adam Monroe caps off the final episode of Season 2 with a magnificent diatribe against humanity's petty nature, successfully arguing in the process that Hiro Nakamura, the man who has come to stop him, effectively turned him into the man he is today.
* [[Rebellious Princess]]: Claire Bennet.
* [[Recap Episode]]: At least
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Ted calms down and finally gets off his revenge kick, just in time to be <s>snacked on</s> brain-
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]▼
** Also,
** Peter and Nathan▼
** Volume 5: Redemption seems to be taking this as literally as possible. Victim #1:
** Peter and Sylar▼
** Ted and Matt▼
* [[Redemption in the Rain]]
** Flint and Meredith▼
▲* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]:
▲* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Ted calms down and finally gets off his revenge kick, just in time to be <s>snacked on</s> brain-fingerbanged by Sylar. And later {{spoiler|Maury Parkman}} gets swiftly executed for defending his son.
▲** Peter and Nathan.
▲** Also, {{spoiler|Nathan Petrelli in the Volume 4 finale, during a "face" portion of his [[Face Heel Revolving Door]].}} Fandom was [[Ruined FOREVER|NOT amused]].
▲** Peter and Sylar.
▲** Volume 5: Redemption seems to be taking this as literally as possible. Victim #1: {{spoiler|"Nathan", who attempts to atone for a Ted Kennedy-esque incident from his past where he accidentally caused the death of a young woman, which only results in him being murdered by the young woman's mother... which also incidentally pops open the lid on the [[Sealed Inside a Person Shaped Can|Person Shaped Can]] that was keeping Sylar sealed away. Nice going there.}}
▲** Ted and Matt.
▲** Interestingly averted with {{spoiler|Sylar}}, where it may actually work out.
▲** Flint and Meredith.
▲* [[Redemption in the Rain]] / [[Happy Rain]]: "Into Asylum." Angela and Peter in one scene, Sylar in another.
* [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]
** Sylar deserves special mention , because it seems like his first "superpower" (
* [[
* [[Repetitive Name]]
* [[Replacement Goldfish]]:
** Thus far, it seems Volume 5's main plot involves Samuel Sullivan screwing with the Heroes in order to find which one is a suitable [[Replacement Goldfish]] for his dead brother Joseph. He seems to have finally settled on ''Sylar''. [[Evil Is Not a Toy|Yeah, that's going to end well...]]
* [[Retcon]]: In Volume One, Chandra Suresh's theory about the existence of "specials" is just that: a theory. He has no firsthand experience with metahumans and he is as giddy as a schoolboy to discover Sylar. Fast-forward to Volume Four, in which we are informed that {{spoiler|he was the chief medical officer at Coyote Sands, a concentration camp for metahumans built in the American Southwest in the early 1960s}}.▼
** Sylar's reason for being a a serial killer: Complexes thanks to his (adoptive) mother, being a victim to his own power, being manipulated by the Company, having it [[In the Blood]], having lost himself because of his many powers (Clair's theory)...▼
* [[Ret-Gone]]: Daniella Parkman and Noah Gray.
▲* [[Retcon]]: In Volume
▲** Sylar's reason for being a a serial killer: Complexes thanks to his (adoptive) mother, being a victim to his own power, being manipulated by the Company, having it [[In the Blood]], having lost himself because of his many powers (Clair's theory)...
* [[The Reveal]]: Warning, SPOILERS ahead. Swipe at your own risk.
** Volume 1:
*** "In His Own Image"
*** "Better Halves"
*** "Six Months Ago"
*** "Fallout"
*** "The Fix"
*** "Distractions"
*** "Parasite"
*** {{spoiler|"I'm your grandmother." Interestingly, the revelation here is not that Mama Petrelli is Claire's grandmother, but that she ''knows'' she's Claire's grandmother
*** {{spoiler|Speaking of Mama Petrelli, she gets a couple more this season}}. In
*** "Five Years Gone"
*** "The Hard Part"
*** "How to Stop an Exploding Man"
*** And throughout the season...
* [[Revealing Hug]]: HRG (Noah Bennet) has done it to members of his family more than once, and it happens with the Petrellis fairly often too. Even Sylar has done it at least once.
* [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]]: Hiro now owns Yamagato. The Petrellis have money. Otherwise it's pretty much a mystery how most Heroes off chasing their destiny [[Friends Rent Control|have money for groceries.]]
* [[Right-Hand Hottie]]: The Haitian, to Noah Bennet. Played by former Hugo Boss model Jimmy Jean-Louis, no less.
* [[Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory]]
* [[Rival Turned Evil]]: {{spoiler|Takezo Kensei/Adam Monroe
* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]]: What Claire and Gretchen seem headed for.
** They've officially become [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]].
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* [[Room Full of Crazy]]: Sylar's closet. Also Future!Hiro and Future!Peter's <s>string collection</s> timelines. And Mohinder's room full of cocoons.
* [[Rule of Scary]]: First Volume Sylar. Later on... not quite as much.
** Though in Volume 4 he managed to be properly terrifying, stalking around, on the edge of a nervous break down and giving up
* [[Running Gag]]: {{spoiler|Killing Nathan}} in each [[Season Finale]]
** Hugs always seem to turn disastrous for Peter. Peter finally turns the tables in one Volume 4 episode where he hugs Nathan, secretly absorbing the latter's flying ability, to make a quick and badass escape when Nathan tries to capture him.
** Hiro knows Nathan's name and how he feels about revealing his powers, but still insists on punching his fists in the air and shouting [[In-Series Nickname|"FLYING-MAN!!!"]] every time he sees him.
==S==
* [[Sadistic Choice]]: Sylar presents a number of these to Claire and Bennet in the Volume
** Doyle does this to Claire as well when he holds her, Sandra, and Meredith hostage and makes them play [[Russian Roulette]]. Luckily, Claire manages to knock him out.
* [[Salaryman]]: Hiro Nakamura,
* [[Sarcastic Confession]]: In the series premiere, Sandra Bennet asks her daughter what she did that day. Claire replies, with complete truthfulness, [[Healing Factor|"I walked through fire and didn't get burned."]] Sandra assumes she is being metaphorical and praises her for being "profound".
* [[Scary Black Man]]: Volume
** Subverted with DL who is suggested to be this at first, only to be revealed as a compassionate, kind man who wants to lead a good life and look after his wife and child, having completely abandoned his criminal past. Sadly he winds up dying in the second stupidest death on the show (
* [[Screams Like a Little Girl]]: In "Into Asylum", [[Master of Disguise|Fake!Sylar]] is about to be killed by the real one. Cue Zachary Quinto's high-pitched squeaky screaming like a little 'bitch', and the Internet busting a collective gut. Seen again in Pass/Fail, when
**
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: Volume
▲* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: Volume Two's [[Big Bad]], {{spoiler|Takezo Kensei aka Adam Monroe}}. {{spoiler|Volume Three went this way too with Level 5. And Adam. Again. For two episodes.}}
* [[Sealed Inside a Person
▲** {{spoiler|Mind-wiped Sylar. [[What an Idiot!|How long do you REALLY expect that to last?]]}}
▲* [[Sealed Inside a Person Shaped Can]]: {{spoiler|Sylar again. Although the twist is that the "can" seems to be ''Matt'', rather than "Nathan".}}
* [[Second Episode Introduction]]: Matt doesn't appear until the second episode.
* [[Seeking Sanctuary]]: Angela and Peter in "Into Asylum
* [[Seen It All]]: Claude.
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: Consider Noah's following comment about the events of
{{quote|'''Noah''': I'm sorry about the Sylar thing. We all admit it was a terrible idea.
* [[Self-Duplication]]: Eli, a carny from
* [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]]: Pretty much everything Peter does in Season 1 leads him ''closer to'', rather than further away from, becoming a nuclear bomb and blowing up New York.
* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: Sylar kills his {{spoiler|adoptive}} mother and later {{spoiler|finishes Arthur Petrelli as Peter was unable to do so
* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: Or ''will'' go wrong, as it were.
** Hiro uses this exact phrase and then some in his mental trial of himself. It might have worked... if David Anders hadn't called him out on simply "...saying the opening to ''Quantum Leap''!"
* [[Shadow Archetype]]: The Volume
** Also, Peter and Sylar. Both capable of [[Mega Manning]], but one kills to do it and the other tries to save people. And in Volume Three, they're claimed to be brothers. The Powers That Be also briefly mixed up who's the "shadow", with Sylar attempting to go straight and Peter gaining his [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|Great Power And Great Insanity]]. And then abandoned that plotline again.
** Danko is very clearly HRG's [[Evil Counterpart|dark counterpart]], a stark illustration of what Bennett would become without Claire and his family. While HRG may occasionally toe the Moral Event Horizon line, Danko gleefully leaps over it
* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: The whole [[Save This Person Save the World|"Save the cheerleader, save the world"]] thing was based on Future Hiro's faulty information about what caused the nuclear explosion in New York. Since
** On the other hand, an invincible Sylar would have been better able to
** Volume
* [[Shapeshifter Swan Song]]: Happens during
* [[Shapeshifting Seducer]]
* [[Shapeshifting Squick]]: Why are we so surprised that {{spoiler|Sylar}} would immediately use his newly acquired [[Master of Disguise|"Turn Into Anyone You've Met"]] powers to ''deeply'' [[Mind Screw|freak people out]]?
▲* [[Shapeshifter Swan Song]]: Happens during {{spoiler|Sylar's ultimate defeat in the Volume 4 finale, when he involuntarily undergoes a shapeshifting spasm through all his previous forms after Peter uses his own copied shapeshifter power to overload Sylar's}}.
* [[Shared Universe]]: With ''[[Las Vegas]]'' (because of the Montecito) and therefore with ''[[Crossing Jordan]]'' as well (due to those two shows having a [[Crossover]]). Although see [[Shout-Out]] below...
* [[Shipper on Deck]]: You wouldn't believe me even if I told you: In "Pass/Fail",
* [[Ship Sinking]]: Volume
▲* [[Shipper on Deck]]: You wouldn't believe me even if I told you: In "Pass/Fail", {{spoiler|'''Sylar'''. For '''Claire''' and '''Gretchen'''. "Subtext" indeed.}}
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: The entire main cast and often (although [[Hayden Panettiere|not often enough]] [[Kristen Bell|in some cases]]). In fact, Peter and Sylar have at least one per season.
* [[Should Have Thought of That Before X]]: In the episode "
{{quote|'''Isaac Mendez''': How am I supposed to pretend this didn't happen?
'''Candice Wilmer''': Maybe you should have thought about that before you shot her. Twice.
* [[Shout-Out]]: ''Lots''. Most are to comics, including specific title and issue references. [[Television Without Pity]] have commented that some lines and scenes seems like
** Although Hiro correctly cites Kitty Pryde in Days of Future Past from the ''[[X-Men]]'' comic book, he is a couple of issue numbers off.
*** When he meets Charlie the waitress with an [[Eidetic Memory]], he discusses the same storyline, and she corrects the issue number for him.
** Watch the scene where {{spoiler|Hiro incapacitates Adam Monroe
** Mr. Claremont, the swordsmith from Episode 22
** The license plate on the limousine belonging to Kaito Nakamura is '''NCC-1701''', the call sign for the original Enterprise starship from ''[[Star Trek]]''. It's probably worth mentioning that Kaito Nakamura is played by [[George Takei]], the actor who played Hikaru Sulu from the original Star Trek.
*** Similarly, the catalogue number for Kensei's katana in the private collection is CRM-114, the cipher for plane communications in ''[[Doctor Strangelove]]''.
** And when Claude first appears, he says "Fantastic!", which was Christopher Eccleston's [[Doctor Who|Ninth Doctor's]] [[Catch Phrase]]. It should also be noted that ''[[Doctor Who]]'' is Britain's equivalent of ''[[Star Trek]]''.
** It's also no accident that the climax of the first Volume winds up taking place at Kirby Plaza (as in, famed comic artist Jack Kirby
*** And Kirby is also the name of a video game character that devours his enemies and copies their abilities. Sound familiar?
** The name Takezo Kensei is a [[Shout-Out]] to historical Japanese swordsman [[Miyamoto Musashi]], aka Shinmen Takezo (or Takezo Shinmen in the western order).
** Simone may be named after comics writer Gail Simone.
** Best of all, the bits in the Volume
** Hiro has now shouted "[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|MUDAMUDAMUDA!]]" twice. First while fighting samurai in "Lizards" (
*** Not to mention his constant exclamations of "[[Street Fighter|YATTA!!!]]"
** <s>Magneto</s> The German.
** Sylar's original use of his power to [[Watchmen (comics)|fix watches]].
*** Not to mention that the big plan in Volume One is to {{spoiler|destroy New York to unite the world}}...
** Hiro, {{spoiler|after getting mindwiped}}, is in shock at then-recent [[Marvel Comics]] plots: "[[Captain America (comics)]] is dead!? [[Spider-Man]] [[Civil War (Comic Book)|revealed his secret identity]]!? And [[The Hulk]] is [[Red Hulk|RED]]!?"
** Apparently, Ando is now capable of using the [[Dragonball Z|Kamehameha]].
** The Volume 4 episode "Into Asylum" has a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Se7en]]''. What's in the box? {{spoiler|A severed head
** [[Mind Over Matter|Telekinetic]] [[Big Bad]] [[Luke, I Am Your Father|Sylar is searching for his father]] with a semi-apprentice figure with daddy issues... called ''[[Star Wars|Luke]]''.
** Everyone loves Waffles... just like on that [[Dead Like Me|other show Brian Fuller worked on.]]
*** There once was this... ''frog'' who lived with her mother and father and brother and Mr. Muggles...
** As a child a person with powers is trapped in a "Relocation" camp full of people who are different. They survive but their family and countless others are killed by their captors in a mass wipe out. They go on to help form a group of people with abilities to protect their own kind against humanity by any means
** The [[Psycho]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|way]] Sylar deals with his mommy issues.
** ''[[Portal (series)|"...cake?"]]''
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** [[Pearl Jam|A troubled teen named Jeremy and "we could have saved him."]]
** [[Death Note|There's a kid with the power to kill people... and then there's Parkman's apple-eating invisible friend...]]
** [[Marx Brothers|Lydia the tattooed lady]] has eyes you'll adore so
** [[Chrono Trigger|"She's the Marle to my Chrono!"]]
** Mohinder watches [[Lost|a grainy film with lots of cuts in it that gives cryptic clues about a secret scientific society where everyone involved was killed]]. It might as well just be called the Orientation film for Coyote Sands, really.
** Claude Rains is ''[[The Invisible Man (film)|The Invisible Man]]''.
** Hiro ''Nakamura'' might have been named after Hiro ''Okamura'', the Japanese Toyman, most recently seen in ''[[Superman/Batman: Public Enemies]]''. Both are [[Ascended Fanboy
** Hiro's sister calls his and Ando's Dial-a-Hero service [[wikipedia:Heroes For Hire|Heroes For Hire]]
** "Objection, your
** [[Rain Man|Hiro and Ando in Vegas, descending an escalator in expensive suits they won by using Hiro's superpowers to gamble.]]
** It's been noted that Gabriel Gray looks eerily like [[Superman|Clark Kent]] and his watch shop has a crystal shaped like the Fortress of Solitude.
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** When he sees Isaac's painting of him fighting a dinosaur, Hiro's first response is, [[A Sound of Thunder|"What if I step on a bug? I could change history..."]]
** Can it be a coincidence when the woman who played [[Law & Order|Serena Southerlyn]] is taking pains to deny that she is "shoving my liberal agenda down your throat"?
* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: Both Mr. Bennet and Sylar seem to have something of a legendary reputation amongst the
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]:
{{quote|'''Sylar:''' From cheerleader to stone-cold killer! Who's the monster now?
''[Ka-chuck. BANG! Busy signal.]''
'''Claire:''' You are.
* [[Sigil Spam]]: The logo of The Company is either [[Sigil Spam]] or a [[Running Gag]].
{{quote|Given that it is visible in the Suresh's DNA program, which would make it way older than any possible conspiracy, it's more of a [[Running Gag]].
* [[Signature Sound Effect]]: Sylar has his clock ticking whenever he is being particularly evil, and in Volume
** Other good examples are the distinct sounds made by different abilities. Apparently, the Haitian's ability sound was given the name "Haitian Grab" by the production team.
* [[Sitting on the Roof]]: Peter in the early episodes. Also the roof of the Deveaux building is a popular meeting place.
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* [[South of the Border]]: The Maya y Alejandro subplot in Volume 2, Nathan and Claire's [[Run for the Border|getaway flight]].
* [[Spike Shooter]]: Perrin Crocker from the comic books has this ability.
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Invoked almost word-for-word with
** Sylar, who has stalked Claire since the beginning of the series, has started to show a sexual attraction towards Claire, beginning with the Volume 4 finale, when he suggested, in the creepiest speech in the show's history, that they get married and live together for, literally, the rest of eternity.
* [[Stalking Is Love]]: West. Just West.
** He got better and maintains his prior friendship with Claire via Facebook.
** West is a pretty vanilla example of this trope. Samuel takes it [[Up to Eleven]].
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* [[Staying Alive]]: Sylar. So much so that they don't even bother explaining how he survived seemingly being perma-killed by Claire then left to burn in the Volume Three final showdown (after several episodes they finally throw in some jazz about "melting glass"). He's Sylar, for crying out loud. Of course he survived.
** And as of the Volume 4 finale it seems not even attacking his weak point [[For Massive Damage]] works anymore, eliciting a well-deserved [[Oh Crap]] reaction from Danko.
* [[Stay in the Kitchen]]: Ryan Hanover, the sexist and
* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: Sylar.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Angela.
* [[Steven Ulysses Perhero]]: Hiro, again.
* [[Stockholm Shnozzing]]: {{spoiler|[[Evil Overlord|Arthur]] [[Shipper on Deck|ships]] Sylar and Elle by [[Locked in a Freezer|locking them together in a cell]]
* [[Stock Super Powers]]: For a while, they seemed to be going down the
▲* [[Stockholm Shnozzing]]: {{spoiler|[[Evil Overlord|Arthur]] [[Shipper on Deck|ships]] Sylar and Elle by [[Locked in a Freezer|locking them together in a cell]].}}
* [[Stop Trick]]: Some of Hiro's teleports are achieved this way.
* [[Storming the Castle]]: Matt and Bennet storming Primatech in the Season
** In Volume Four, Matt and Peter storm Building 26, armed only with the power to control minds.
* [[Story-Breaker Power]]: Peter, Sylar and Hiro have these. {{spoiler|Fortunately the writers
* [[Story Arc]]
▲* [[Story-Breaker Power]]: Peter, Sylar and Hiro have these. {{spoiler|Fortunately the writers realised this and [[Nerf|Nerfed]] Peter and Hiro in Volume 3. And those that are overpowered tend to [[Forgot I Could Fly|forget how insanely powerful they are at critical moments.]]}}.
* [[The Straight Man]]: Nathan in any scene he shares with Peter or Hiro.
* [[Strapped to An Operating Table]]
* [[String Theory]]: Both Mohinder's map of specials and Future Hiro's map of time.
* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: Many female characters (see [[Unfortunate Implications]] in the YMMV section). However,
* [[Stupid Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Nathan}} in the Season 1 finale. We all remember that Peter ''[[Healing Factor|can't die]]'', right?
* [[Subways Suck]]: Subverted -- [[Future Badass]] Hiro stops a subway train with his time manipulation powers.
* [[Super Empowering]]:
* [[Super Family Team]]: The Petrelli's... sometimes.
* [[Super Human Trafficking]]: The Company.
* [[Superhuman Transfusion]]: The effects of Claire and Adam's blood when donated.▼
* [[Superpowerful Genetics]]:
** Subverted With Niki, Tracy, and Barbara who are [[Cloning Blues|identical triplets]] (just go with it) with powers but got them artificially.
* [[Superpower Lottery]]: Sylar, Peter, Hiro, Eden, and <s>perhaps</s> definetly Matt now. Hopefully he won't be killed/depowered for it. {{spoiler|Arthur Petrelli, Alice Shaw
* [[Superpower Meltdown]]: Ted, Peter, {{spoiler|Gabriel/Sylar (in an alternative future)}}.
** This is what kills Meredith at the end of Volume
*** Meredith's death isn't confirmed. Until stated otherwise, she's [[Put on a Bus|MIA]].
* [[Super Senses]]: Dale Smither from Volume 1 had super hearing.
▲* [[Superpower Lottery]]: Sylar, Peter, Hiro, Eden, and <s>perhaps</s> definetly Matt now. Hopefully he won't be killed/depowered for it. {{spoiler|Arthur Petrelli, Alice Shaw.}}
* [[Super
* [[Super
▲* [[Superhuman Transfusion]]: The effects of Claire and Adam's blood when donated.
* [[Super Weight]]:
** Type -1: [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|Alejandro]], most people without abilities.
** Type 0: Sandra, Kyle, Caitlin, [[Unfazed Everyman|Ando (pre-
** Type 1: [[Badass Normal|Noah]], [[The Hunter|Danko]].
** Type 2: Most of the specials.
** Type 3: [[Time Master|Hiro]], [[Person of Mass Destruction|Ted]], [[You Will Be Assimilated|Sylar]], [[All Your Powers Combined|Peter]] (Volumes 1-3; he becomes a wild card in
* [[Sword Fight]]: Hiro and his father, Hiro and Kensei.
==T==
* [[Take Your Time]]: With some rather [[Squick
* [[Taking You with Me]]: The first battle between Peter and Sylar ends with them grappling and throwing each other off a 30
* [[Tangled Family Tree]]: The Petrelli's immediate family thus far includes Angela and Arthur, {{spoiler|Angela's sister Alice,}} sons Peter and Nathan, Nathan's wife and legitimate kids, and Claire. Claire, in turn, has the Bennets as her foster family as well as biological mother Meredith, making Meredith's brother Flint her uncle. Sylar
* [[The Taxi]]: Mohinder's day job at the beginning of the series.▼
* [[Taxidermy Is Creepy]]: Sylar's biological father, Samson, turned to taxidermy to keep his hands busy after he stopped killing people.
* [[Taxidermy Terror]]: Sylar steals a rabbit from his father's trailer and leaves it in plain sight at Danko's apartment. Danko is understandably weirded out.
▲* [[The Taxi]]: Mohinder's day job at the beginning of the series.
* [[Team Spirit]]: A recurring theme in Season 1 is that the characters get a lot more accomplished when they work together. Played fairly subtly most of the time, but made very obvious in the finale, where only by the combined efforts of Peter, Matt, Niki, Hiro, Claire, and {{spoiler|Nathan}} is Sylar defeated and New York saved.
** Made explicit in Peter's conversations with Claude. Claude maintains that relationships are distractions, but Peter eventually concludes that it is only by letting other people in that he can fully
** It's also worth noting that [[Divided We Fall|any time the characters]] ''[[Divided We Fall|don't]]'' [[Divided We Fall|work together]], the results tend to be... [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|not pretty]].
* [[Technicolor Fire]]: Flint's pyrokinetic fire burns blue because unlike
* [[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 batty.
* [[Christmas Special|Thanksgiving Special]]
* [[That Man Is Dead]]: Sylar pretty much refuses to answer to "Gabriel" most of the time, but goes back to it when he's repressing his "hunger".
** Subverted and made all the more intriguing by the fact that when he is Gabriel repressing the hunger, he takes the ''opposite'' stance, refusing to answer to Sylar. His little identity crisis is edging dangerously close to split personality disorder (now THAT would be awesome).
*** Makes one wonder what
**** {{spoiler|[[Knights of the Old Republic|"I'm not Darth Sylar anymore. I'm X now."]]}}
* [[That's What I Would Do]]: Nathan cites his belief that the government would capture and experiment on anybody with powers as exactly what he would do in the situation. {{spoiler|And then he does
* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: Sylar, Peter, and Spider-Mo
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: ...and that one time there was a therapist, she only survived for half an episode.
* [[There Is No Try]]{{context}}
* [[
** This is why HRG keeps Claire's abilities a secret for most of Volume
* [[Third Line, Some Waiting]]
* [[This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself]]: Kirby Plaza, Peter ([[Lady of War|to Niki]]): [[Honor Before Reason|Thanks, I've got this. Go back to your family.]]
* [[The Three Faces of Eve]]
* [[Time Travel]]: Hiro Nakamura multiple times. Peter, too, for some [[Story-Boarding the Apocalypse|apocalypse storyboards]].
* [[Timey-Wimey Ball]]:
* [[Title Drop]]: Ted Sprague in Volume 1: "If we can help ourselves, we could save others. We could be... heroes."
** If you count "hero", then there are ''lots''. Most of them ironic. A rare non-ironic example is said after Peter saves Claire from Sylar:
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** Of all people, Sylar does this in the series finale when Claire is about to reveal her ability to the world:
{{quote|'''Peter:''' "What the hell does she think she's doing? She's going to change everything."
'''Sylar:''' "That's right. It's a brave new world."
* [[The Tokyo Fireball]]: [[Big Applesauce|In New York in one timeline.]] Some prophetic paintings suggested one was up and coming for Washington D.C.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Claire edged dangerously close to this in Volume Two. She knows the kind of people looking for her family. She knows her flyboy has sworn a vendetta against her father. She's caught him spying on her ''at her house''. How certain are we that Sylar didn't steal her brain? However, the true champions of stupidity have got to be Maya and Alejandro, with Alejandro actually getting killed by Sylar and Maya trusting Sylar completely, even after she's found out that he was wanted in connection with his mother's murder. Also, Mohinder Suresh is an example of this most of the time, but ''especially'' in the
** Then there's Peter, who in the very first episode decides to test his theory of [[Flight]] by [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?|jumping off the roof of an apartment building]]. Peter, I think I've spotted a ''tiny'' flaw in your experiment design. Can you see it?
** Nathan too from time to time.
* [[Took a Level
** Matt seems to have taken at least half a level in Volume 4.
** {{spoiler|Micah apparently took one in Volume
** Peter does this, twice. First, by actually getting a grasp on his powers after his training with Claude. Later, when his DEPOWERING followed by his new NERFED ability, he becomes one of the most strategically intelligent characters of the show.
* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: One result of Peter's [[Training
* [[Toplessness From the Back]]: Lydia the carnie from Volume 5 has some sort of precognitive power that only works by displaying images of people important in the immediate future... on her back in Samuel's tattoo ink. She's topless in one scene to display the tattoos.
* [[Total Eclipse of the Plot]]
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Hiro loves waffles. Everybody else seems to love blueberry pancakes. Sylar prefers pie.
* [[Tragic Hero]]: <s>Mystery Sock</s> Isaac.
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: Ok, ''Heroes''. I get it, you don't want to kill anyone.
* [[Training
** Not to mention Meredith's training Claire to teach her regeneration isn't everything...
* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: Peter, ESPECIALLY in Volume 3.
* [[Trickster Mentor]]: Again, Claude, whose training methods involve gleefully whacking his pupil repeatedly with a pole and throwing him off a building. Given the circumstances, it's often hard to tell whether Claude sincerely cares about his pupil or hates his guts.
* [[Try Not to Die]]: Bob to Mohinder in Volume
* [[Turtle Power]]!: [[Misplaced Wildlife|He's actually a tortoise]], but Matt would, in all likelihood, respond, "[[Book Dumb|Wait, there's a difference?]]"
* [[Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty]]: EVERYONE!!!
* [[Twin Threesome Fantasy]]: Referenced, along with [[Screw Yourself]].
* [[Two Lines, No Waiting]]
* [[Tyke Bomb]]: Elle Bishop.
==U==
* [[Umbrella of Togetherness]]: Peter and Simone.
* [[Uncomfortable Elevator Moment]]: Sylar in Volume Three after {{spoiler|acquiring the ability to sense truth.}} Sylar is utterly casual in the elevator, as is his fellow passenger... albeit for different reasons given Sylar is drenched in blood.▼
** Another memorable one happened all the way back near the finale of Volume One, where Matt, Niki, HRG, and D.L all find themselves sharing an elevator (the last time Matt saw Niki, she was throwing him out a 10 story window... which she outright reminds him of just prior to getting into the elevator). Complete with cheesy muzak in the background.▼
* [[The Unfavorite]]: A staple of Petrelli family dynamics. Also Mohinder was the unfavorite to his dead little sister.▼
* [[Unflinching Walk]]: Volume 5 [[Big Bad]] Samuel gets a totally badass one; after some corrupt cops brutally murder an evolved human, Samuel uses his earthbending ability to level the police station, then walks towards the camera as the station collapses behind him.▼
* [[Underwater Kiss]]: Claire and Alex in a pool.▼
* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: {{spoiler|Now that we know Linderman was a hallucination, [[Fridge Logic]] means that, for the time being, we must assume this is how Nathan recovered from being shot, twice. Then again, it worked for Matt and he got shot ''four times''. Sucks for D.L., I guess. Although, given sudden religious streak Nathan embarks on shortly after his death, there are certain implications that he was either miraculously saved or just got really, really lucky.}}▼
** Future!Peter kissed him on the forehead just before he revives, so it is always possible he had gained Hiro's mother's power at some point in the future, through judicious time travel.▼
** {{spoiler|It seems Nathan's luck has run out, as his character is [[Killed Off for Real]] (with his pseudo-personality residing for a while in a mind-blanked Sylar).}}▼
** Tracy Strauss had this after being frozen-shot by Danko in Volume 4: come Volume 5, she's a water-toting ice queen with a score to settle with Building 26's remaining occupants.▼
* [[The Un-Reveal]]: HRG's first name. Of course, eventually we find out that it's {{spoiler|Noah}}.
{{quote|'''Sandra Bennet''': It is so funny how all of y'all call him Mr. Bennet over there. I've always just known him as – ''(Sees Mr. Muggles chewing on Sylar's shoelaces.)'' Stop that, you!}}
** Happens a few times with [[The Ghost|Linderman]] in Season 1. One of the characters is all set to meet with him - only to be confronted with a middle-man instead. Nathan eventually comes face to face with him in "Parasite".
▲* [[Uncomfortable Elevator Moment]]: Sylar in Volume
▲** Another memorable one happened all the way back near the finale of Volume
▲* [[Underwater Kiss]]: Claire and Alex in a pool.
▲* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: {{spoiler|Now that we know Linderman was a hallucination, [[Fridge Logic]] means that, for the time being, we must assume this is how Nathan recovered from being shot, twice. Then again, it worked for Matt and he got shot ''four times''. Sucks for D.L., I guess. Although, given sudden religious streak Nathan embarks on shortly after his death, there are certain implications that he was either miraculously saved or just got really, really lucky
▲** Future!Peter kissed him on the forehead just before he revives, so it is always possible he had gained Hiro's mother's power at some point in the future, through judicious time travel.
▲** {{spoiler|It seems Nathan's luck has run out, as his character is [[Killed Off for Real]] (with his pseudo-personality residing for a while in a mind-blanked Sylar)
▲** Tracy Strauss had this after being frozen-shot by Danko in Volume 4: come Volume 5, she's a water-toting ice queen with a score to settle with Building 26's remaining occupants.
▲* [[The Unfavorite]]: A staple of Petrelli family dynamics. Also Mohinder was the unfavorite to his dead little sister.
▲* [[Unflinching Walk]]: Volume 5 [[Big Bad]] Samuel gets a totally badass one; after some corrupt cops brutally murder an evolved human, Samuel uses his earthbending ability to level the police station, then walks towards the camera as the station collapses behind him.
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: As one editor joked during one episode (and this is but the most spectacular example of many), "Wouldn't you know it? That's the second time in as many years the corpse of a cute blonde girl suddenly vanished off one of our operating tables!"
** A truck driver who picks up a hitchhiking Hiro and Ando learns that the baby the two of them are carrying has the power to shut down machinery (i.e. the trucker's truck) when upset (which is pretty much all the time). His only reaction is to politely ask them to remove their "magic baby" from his truck so he can continue on his journey. It's especially notable that this polite nonreaction occurs in the middle of a plot arc about how normals would be so threatened by the existence of supers that they would commit mass genocide against them if they ever learned about them. There's either something very profound there, or it's just a funny piece of dissonance in a comic relief scene.
*** He most likely didn't know how to react to a "
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: This is basically the mantra of all of the show's [[Big Bad
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