Heroes (TV series)/Tropes R-U: Difference between revisions

* [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]/[[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: Name a character. Literally any character.

** Sylar deserves special mention , because it seems like his first "superpower" (his ability to intuitively understand how things fit together) would allow him to, among other things, make a killing in business and on the stock market.

* [[Repetitive Name]]: Peter Petrelli.

* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: {{spoiler|Mind wiped Sylar becomes one for Nathan}}.

* [[Sadistic Choice]]: Sylar presents a number of these to Claire and Bennet in the Volume 3 finale. They each opt to [[Take a Third Option]].

** 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.

* [[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 3 introduced us to Benjamin "Knox" Washington, a black man who derives superhuman strength from people's fear. While technically he himself doesn't have to have ''caused'' that fear, it sure looks that way in most of the scenes he has appeared in. Some fans have thus dubbed him the King of the show's many [[Unfortunate Implications]].

*** Not to mention his constant exclamations of "[[Street Fighter|YATTA!!!]]"

** <s>Magneto</s> The German.

*** 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]]!?"

** 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's sister calls his and Ando's Dial-a-Hero service [[wikipedia:Heroes For Hire|Heroes For Hire]]

** "Objection, your honor! He's reciting the opening to ''[[Quantum Leap]]''!"

* [[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]]}}.

* [[Stop Trick]]: Some of Hiro's teleports are achieved this way.

* [[Storming the Castle]]: Matt and Bennet storming Primatech in the Season 1 finale.

** In Volume Four, Matt and Peter storm Building 26, armed only with the power to control minds.

* [[Story Arc]]

* [[The Straight Man]]: Nathan in any scene he shares with Peter or Hiro.

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* [[Take Your Time]]: With some rather [[Squick]]y implications. Noah learns that the eclipse temporarily neutralizes powers. Seeing this as his chance to kill Sylar for good, he grabs a sniper rifle and sets up where, through the scope, he can see Sylar and Elle kissing, fully clothed. End episode. At the opening of the next episode, Sylar and Elle are post-coital in a sleeping bag, and Noah's still out there aiming...

* [[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 {{spoiler|was teased for a bit as a [[Long Lost Sibling|third Petrelli brother]]; [[From a Certain Point of View|this was a lie]] but he's now Nathan's [[Replacement Goldfish]]}}.

* [[The Taxi]]: Mohinder's day job at the beginning of the series.

* [[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 1. And he should know. After all, [[Punch Clock Villain|he supervises the cutting]].

* [[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]]/[[The Hecate Sisters]]: They don't form a [[Power Trio]], but the three main female characters all have elements of these tropes. Claire is the [[The Three Faces of Eve|Child]], Niki is the [[The Three Faces of Eve|Seductress]]/[[The Hecate Sisters|Mother]], and Angela is the [[The Hecate Sisters|Crone]].

** 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.

** Matt seems to have taken at least half a level in Volume 4.

** {{spoiler|Micah apparently took one in Volume 3. In Volume 4, he's adopted the codename "Rebel" and is organizing a resistance effort against the government}}.

** 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.

* [[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]]

* [[Tragic Hero]]: <s>Mystery Sock</s> Isaac.

* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: Ok, ''Heroes''. I get it, you don't want to kill anyone. {{spoiler|But why put the last minute of the finale, featuring one Noah Bennet, in a finale promo trailer airing for weeks, if you are putting him in a situation that he could possibly die in a cliffhanger in the penultimate episode}}!?

** Not to mention Meredith's training Claire to teach her regeneration isn't everything...

* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: Peter, ESPECIALLY in Volume 3.

** 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 "magic baby". And it was the government who were shown to be paranoid of Specials, not mankind as a whole. We've seen several ordinary people on the show happy to be around evolved humans without being threatened.

 

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