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** 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.}}

** Interestingly averted with {{spoiler|Sylar}}, where it may actually work out.

* [[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.

* [[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 {{spoiler|Claire sticks a pen in his eye}}, with similar audience reaction.

** to be fair, it is to show that Sylar, without his menancing, is still that gawky Gabriel Gray underneath.

** {{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".}}

** 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 {{spoiler|Sylar wasn't the direct cause of the explosion}}, preventing Sylar from absorbing Claire's ability wasn't actually necessary to stopping it.

** Volume Three seemed like a Shaggy Dog Kennel, specifically where Peter and Sylar are concerned (and ESPECIALLY the latter's ludicrous redemption arc) Tell me, Peter absorbing Sylar's power was supposed to save the world HOW? Not that it matters since Peter was completely depowered shortly afterwards.

* [[Shapeshifting Seducer]]

* [[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...

* [[Ship Sinking]]: Volume Three crushed Matt/<s>Mohinder</s> Audrey shippers with a forced romance between Matt and {{spoiler|new character Daphne Millbrook}}, and Sylar/Elle shippers {{spoiler|could not have been happy when Sylar kills off Elle in a painfully transparent attempt to get rid of Kristen Bell's character.}}

* [[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 episode "Chapter Eighteen 'Parasite'"

** 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.

** Mr. Claremont, the swordsmith from Episode 22, Landslide, is named for [[Chris Claremont]], who wrote one of the most successful arcs of the comic book X-Men.

** 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.

** Simone may be named after comics writer Gail Simone.

** Best of all, the bits in the Volume Three premier that suggest the writers are aware of ''us''! For example, Claire asks "[[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|What Kind Of Lame Power is Healing Anyway?]]"

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

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

** Sylar's original use of his power to [[Watchmen|fix watches]].

*** Not to mention that the big plan in Volume One is to {{spoiler|destroy New York to unite the world}}...

** 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.}}

*** 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 neccessary. Sound like Magneto's origin? Well it's also Angela Petrelli's as per "1961".

*** The cake is a LIE!

**** [[Incredibly Lame Pun|The cake made them DIE]].

*** [[Badass Longcoat|Also the "5 Years Gone" wardrobe.]]

** Also, one [[MacGuffin]] is a [[Pirates of the Caribbean|compass that doesn't point north.]]

** [[Marx Brothers|Lydia the tattooed lady]] has eyes you'll adore so & [[Toplessness From the Back|a torso even moreso]].

** 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.

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

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

** 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.

** Not only do we get a children's choir singing the theme from ''[[The Greatest American Hero]]'', but William Katt, Ralph Hinkley himself, plays one of Traci's victims. Believe it or not.

** Mr. Linderman's casino is [[Las Vegas|the Montecito]].

** 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..."]]

* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: Both Mr. Bennet and Sylar seem to have something of a legendary reputation amongst the superpowered community; Bennet as the guy who comes when superpeople misbehave to kick their ass, and Sylar as the unstoppable power thief who hunts you down and steals your brains.

* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]

* [[Signature Sound Effect]]: Sylar has his clock ticking whenever he is being particularly evil, and in Volume Three, Mohinder's more...erm...interesting actions are accompanied by the sound of June Bugs.

** 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.

** "The Deveaux Building? Really? Everyone and their mother goes there! Literally!"

* [[Slipping a Mickey]]: "Cold Wars" has Bennet unknowingly ingesting a roofied drink and he's hauled back to a hotel room by Peter, Mohinder, and Matt to be interrogated. Especially ironic when Bennet does the same thing to Parkman in the first season. Mohinder pulls this on Sylar in the first season as well.

* [[Snow Means Cold]]: Alice Shaw makes it snow in the desert as a test of her weather-manipulation powers.

* [[Soaperizing]]

* [[Spike Shooter]]: Perrin Crocker from the comic books has this ability.

** 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

* [[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.

* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: Sylar.

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Angela.

* [[Steven Ulysses Perhero]]: Hiro, again.

* [[Stock Super Powers]]: For a while, they seemed to be going down the list -- then they jumped to things like "Ability to Talk To Machines".

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

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

* [[Superpower Meltdown]]: Ted, Peter, {{spoiler|Gabriel/Sylar (in an alternative future)}}.

** This is what kills Meredith at the end of Volume Three.

* [[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 Senses]]: Dale Smither from Volume One had super hearing.

* [[Sword Fight]]: Hiro and his father, Hiro and Kensei

* [[Take Your Time]]: With some rather [[Squick|Squicky]] 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]].}}

* [[Taxidermy Is Creepy]]: Sylar's biological father, Samson, turned to taxidermy to keep his hands busy after he stopped killing people.