Heroes (TV series)
| Television series | |
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| German title | Heroes |
| Original title | Heroes |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English , Japanese , Spanish |
| Year (s) | 2006-2010 |
| length | 42 minutes |
| Episodes | 78 in 4 seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Drama , science fiction , mystery |
| idea | Tim Kring |
| music |
Wendy Melvoin , Lisa Coleman |
| First broadcast | September 25, 2006 (USA) on NBC |
| German-language first broadcast |
October 8, 2007 on SF two |
| main actor | |
| supporting cast | |
Heroes is an American mystery - and science fiction - television series , which until February 8, 2010 of 25 September 2006 on the transmitter NBC ran. It consists of four seasons with 78 episodes and is about different people, each with a special supernatural ability. In German-speaking countries she was shown on SF Zwei (Switzerland), ATV (Austria) and RTL II (Germany).
After the series was discontinued in May 2010, the 13-part miniseries Heroes Reborn appeared as a sequel in 2015 .
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1st season
The series is about people who independently discover that they have extraordinary abilities. Their offspring also have special powers, which can, however, differ from those of their parents. There is the policeman Matt Parkman, who apparently inherited his mind-reading ability from his father, but his son has a completely different gift in season three. The cheerleader Claire realizes that she has self-healing powers and the young Japanese employee Hiro Nakamura develops the ability to influence space and time.
In addition to a powerful group that initially remains hidden, Dr. Mohinder Suresh, a young Indian genetic researcher , whose father (also a professor of human genetics ) proposed a theory about the "heroes" for the extraordinary people. Both parties quickly clash. The motives of the powerful group with the vague designation "the company" remain unclear for the time being. She doesn't even seem to shy away from murder and has great resources and helpers who also have extraordinary powers. Another conflict arises from the watchmaker Sylar, who is on the hunt for the "Heroes" to kill them and take over their powers.
All characters try to understand their traits and learn to control, which is not easy for some of them, especially Peter Petrelli. A prophecy by Isaac Mendez, who is able to draw the future, says that a gigantic explosion will destroy New York . In the course of the series, the prevention of this event becomes the aim of the heroes: “Save the cheerleader, save the world!” (In German: “Save the cheerleader, save the world!”)
It turns out that the destruction of New York is part of a plan by gang boss Linderman. He believes that he would give humanity an impetus to improve through this catastrophe; Angela Petrelli, the mother of Nathan and Peter, is also involved in this plan. Nathan also joins as Linderman's plan is to make him an important political leader.
Hiro Nakamura believes the explosion was caused by Sylar and can eventually knock him down with a sword. However, the danger does not come from Sylar, but from Peter, who does not have his powers under control and is therefore on the verge of an explosion. Nathan, who finally decided against Linderman's plan, flies out of town with his brother, saving New York City.
2nd season
In the 2nd season there are several threads that are only connected in the last episode:
Plot thread Adam and Hiro
400 years ago: In the 17th century, Hiro met the hero of his youth, Takezo Kensei, who turned out to be a drunkard. However, it also turns out that Takezo has regenerative abilities just like Claire. With Hiro as a mentor, Takezo succeeds in becoming a hero. However, when Takezo watches Hiro kiss the princess he was in love with, Takezo swears revenge.
30 years ago: Takezo Kensei calls himself Adam Monroe in the meantime. He persuades Bob Bishop (Elle's father), Daniel Linderman, Maury Parkman (Matt's father), Angela Petrelli (Nathan's and Peter's mother), Kaito Nakamura (Hiro's father) and other people with special skills to start a company whose job it would be supposed to use their superpowers to make the world a better place. But secretly Adam wanted to develop an active ingredient with which he could exterminate humanity. The other company founders found out about his plan and imprisoned him.
Present: Adam gains the trust of Peter, who has also been imprisoned by the company, and escapes with his help. Adam kills some of the company's founders in revenge. Hiro learns that while he was in the past, his father was murdered. He decides not to save his father in order not to upset the space-time structure, but nevertheless to travel back in time to at least unmask his father's murderer. He finds out that it is Takezo alias Adam.
Meanwhile, Adam convinces Peter, who was in the short term in the future and could see the extent of the Shanti epidemic, to break into the company's research center and destroy the virus. Adam breaks into the research center with Peter while Hiro, Matt, and Nathan try to stop them.
Story thread Peter After Peter exploded over New York, he saves his brother, who flew away shortly before the explosion, but didn't make it far enough to completely avoid the consequences. Shocked by the danger he poses to humanity and that he has so badly disfigured his brother, he lets the company "instruct" him. There he meets Adam, who convinces him that the company is evil and persuades him to break out. However, they are discovered on the run. Adam escapes while Peter is tracked down by the Haitian. The Haitian does not want to bring Peter back to the company, but instead erases his memories and chains him to a container.
Some time later the container is broken into by a gang of crooks who find Peter there. They quickly notice that Peter has special skills and persuade him to help them with a raid. Peter agrees and falls in love with the crook boss' sister. He later travels with her to the future, where a large part of the population has been wiped out by the Shanti virus. He himself comes back to the present, but has to leave his girlfriend behind in the future. His goal is therefore to save the world from the Shanti virus. Shortly afterwards, he gets to know Adam again, who helps him to regain his memory. To gain Peter's trust, the two visit Nathan in the hospital, where Adam demonstrates the healing powers of his blood to Nathan: Nathan was disfigured by the explosion. Adam's blood heals all wounds without scars and Nathan is physically the same again. Then Adam and Peter find out where the Shanti virus is stored and travel there.
Story thread Sylar and Maya
The company saves Sylar's life and injects him with the Shanti virus so that he can no longer be dangerous. But Sylar kills his guardian Candice (also a "hero") and escapes. On his escape, he meets Maya Herrera and her brother and notices that she also has a supernatural talent. Since he cannot use his powers at the moment, he decides to let her live, to gain her trust and to go to Mohinder's with her. Maya also quickly gains confidence in Sylar, who introduced himself by his real name Gabriel, but her brother remains suspicious the whole time. During an argument, Sylar kills the brother, but manages to keep it a secret from Maya. It is only when they finally meet Mohinder that Maya realizes that Sylar is an unscrupulous murderer. Sylar manages to escape with an antidote to the Shanti virus he stole from Mohinder: the blood of cheerleader Claire.
Storyline Matt Parkman and Molly Walker
Molly Walker has been adopted by Matt Parkman. During his investigation into a murder case, he comes across a photo that shows everyone who was murdered, as well as his father. It turns out that his father is the nightmare man Molly fears. Molly initially refuses to find the Nightmare Man for him, but Matt convinces her to do it anyway, upon which she faints (a Nightmare Man's ability). Matt meets with his father and finds out that he has the ability to lock other people in their nightmares. He then uses this ability to flee from Matt. In a later confrontation between Matt and his father, Matt's father gets caught up in and remains trapped in one of his own nightmares. Matt later finds that he is slowly developing his father's skills and that he can telepathically give commands to people. (This ability doesn't work against others with the same ability, however, as he later finds out.)
Story
thread family Bennet Noah Bennet reunites with the Haitian and they decide to destroy the company together with Mohinder Suresh. Noah and the Haitian do not shy away from murder either.
Claire meets West Rosen at school and learns that he can fly. The company becomes aware of Claire through a school prank that the two organize to annoy a cheerleader. An escalation ensues in the course of which Mohinder Suresh changes sides, Bob takes Noah's daughter Claire and Noah Bob's daughter Elle prisoner. Noah and Bob agree to an exchange. During the exchange, Noah is shot by Mohinder. However, the company succeeds in resuscitating Noah with the help of Claire's blood, which the company hides from Noah's family. Claire wants to blow up the company in revenge for the alleged murder of her father and is even willing to reveal her own secret. The company and Noah conclude an agreement: Noah convinces Claire not to publish the secrets and he will work for the company again in the future. In return, they release him and his family alive.
final
Hiro, Nathan and Matt meet Peter and Adam in the Primatech store, Peter defeats Matt and Hiro, but is convinced by Nathan that Adam really wants to set the virus free. He manages to prevent this, Hiro takes Adam with him and locks him in his father's coffin (using his teleportation ability). Peter destroys the super virus. In the end Nathan tries to prove his ability at a press conference, but is shot twice by an assassin shortly before the decisive words and apparently dies in Peter's arms.
3rd season
Chapter villains
Peter's future self is trying to change the future that has been thrown into chaos by a formula that gives normal people indefinite superpowers. This formula has been split in half in the past. One is owned by Kaito Nakamura and the other half is owned by Angela Petrelli. In the course of the plot, the heroes learn that Peters and Nathan's father Arthur Petrelli is alive and wants to usurp the formula. When Peter tries to stop him, his father robbed him of his strength, while Nathan defected to his father during the season. Sylar appropriates Claire's invulnerability and thus becomes an invincible opponent. To complete the formula, Arthur enlists the help of Dr. Sureshs, who comes to superpowers himself through research, but which has a side effect. A solar eclipse also shows unexpected consequences for the superheroes and supervillains. At the end of the season, Ando also acquired an ability through the formula that enables him to save Hiro from the past, as he lost his ability there, also through Arthur Petrelli. After Sylar kills Arthur, Nathan pursues the goal of creating an army of "super soldiers". In the finale, the Pinehearst company, which also includes Peter and Nathan, explodes. Peter injects the serum and regains a skill. He saves himself and Nathan by flying out of the window at the last moment.
Chapter refugees
After Arthur Petrelli's death and the destruction of the formula, Nathan Petrelli turns on his family and former hero friends believing that the world will be safer without people with superpowers who can do evil. He hires an obsessed agent and Bennet, who reluctantly agrees, to protect his daughter Claire, with the president's approval. Far too late, Nathan realizes that he is destroying the lives of others. On the ensuing escape, they get unexpected help from the mysterious rebel, who finally turns out to be Micah Sanders. Sylar uses the situation of persecution to finally become president with the ability of a shapeshifter. Nathan and Peter can prevent this, but Nathan dies. On behalf of Angela and Noah, Matt uses his powers to convince Sylar that he is Nathan. It assumes its shape and function.
4th season
While everyone is recovering from the aftermath of the past few months and devoting themselves to new tasks, Matt Parkman grapples with Sylar's consciousness that he accidentally picked up. Suresh discovers from his father's old recordings that there is a person who has unimaginable powers when several people with special abilities are around him. He then visits Samuel Sullivan and thus triggers a chain of tragic events. Samuel then begins to build his power in the fair and to gather people with superpowers around him, very cleverly using his ability to deceive people and address their fears. He literally walks over corpses to achieve his goal of becoming the most powerful person in the world. The heroes try to stop Samuel. With the end of season 4 and at the beginning of "Volume Six: Brave New World" (which no longer appears because Heroes was previously canceled), Claire demonstrates her ability to several TV reporters by jumping off a Ferris wheel and then herself heals.
continuation
Between September 2015 and January 2016, a 13-episode miniseries ran on NBC that continues the story. In addition to numerous actors from Heroes, u. a. Jack Coleman , Masi Oka and Greg Grunberg , new characters were also introduced.
Characters
main characters
Claire Bennet
Claire is a 16-year-old high school - cheerleader that their adoptive parents lives. One day she discovers that all of her injuries heal in a matter of moments. She injured herself in several test runs and had her schoolmate Zach document this with a camera. In the course of the series, she learns of her birth mother Meredith Gordon, who masters the element of fire, and Nathan Petrelli, her birth father. In the second season, she finds out that even severed limbs grow back on her. Her extraordinary ability gives her a key role, as Sylar is just looking for her invulnerability and does not want to accept his multiple failures. After acquiring her ability at the beginning of season 3, Sylar leaves her alive on the grounds that she could never die. After this attack, however, she no longer feels any pain, which makes her feel like she is no longer human. That changes again after the next solar eclipse . In the finale of Villains , Claire, Noah, their birth mother Meredith and their grandmother are taken hostage by Sylar. With the hostage-taking Sylar wants to show that everyone can turn into a monster under certain circumstances, so he gives Claire the task of killing her grandmother so that she and the other hostages can stay alive and go. However, Claire does not agree to this deal, but tries to escape with the other hostages. Claire overwhelms Sylar when Sylar attacks her grandmother by ramming a piece of glass in the back of the head, the only way to prevent the body from regenerating. In season 4, Claire tries to organize her life further and begins studying. Shortly after their arrival, however, her roommate dies under mysterious circumstances and when Claire is observed by her new friend Gretchen in the effect of her self-healing powers, she confides in her the truth.
Noah Bennet
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Noah Bennet is Claire's adoptive father. He is part of a secret organization that has knowledge of people with special powers. This secret organization is camouflaged from the outside world by a paper mill with the code name Primatech Paper Company . At the beginning it is still unclear which side Bennet is on, most of the time he is just “Mr. Bennet ”or (appropriately translated)“ the man with horn-rimmed glasses ”. Bennet adopted Claire on behalf of Primatech because her mother possessed pyrokinetic powers and Primatech assumed that she would "manifest" at some point. Her father is now torn between the duty and the responsibility to Primatech to extradite Claire and the love for his family and especially for his adopted daughter. Together with the "Haitian" who works for Bennet, he tries again and again to destroy any evidence of Claire's ability in order to hide it from Primatech's eyes . However, this fails within the first season and Primatech demands Claire, but she can escape with the help of the Haitian. At the end of the first season, Bennet breaks away from the company and flees from town to town with his family, which is particularly stressful for Claire. At the end of the second season, he is shot dead by Suresh in a fight, but is resuscitated with a sample of Claire's blood. He agrees to work for the company again if they stay away from Claire. After the prisoners fled level 5, he was forced to work with Sylar to recapture them. In truth, he is also looking for a way to kill Sylar after learning what he did to his daughter. Part of the reason why Sylar became who he is is part of his fault, and Sylar pays back when he holds Noah, Claire, Angela and Meredith hostage. Noah then releases the prisoners to kill Sylar. But he locks Noah in a cell with Meredith, who no longer has her powers under control, and gives him the choice of taking his life or that of Claire's mother.
Elle Bishop
Elle Bishop is the daughter of the head of sales at the front company Primatech Paper and the company's boss, Bob Bishop. Her extraordinary ability is that she can generate and manipulate electricity. She is therefore able to give other people electric shocks. At first she worked self-sacrificingly for the company, but when she heard from Noah Bennet that she was the reason why he kept Claire a secret from the organization, she distanced herself from her father and initially acted on her own. Sylar kills her over the course of the third season, although he has since learned to take on hero skills without having to kill the owner of the skill.
Emma Coolidge
Emma Coolidge works in the same hospital as Peter Petrelli. She has the ability to see and manipulate sound waves. She cannot hear them because she is deaf.
Monica Dawson
Monica Dawson is an employee of a fast food chain . She is the cousin (and daughter of the host mother) of Micah Sanders. Her ability consists in the fact that she can carry out actions that have already been seen through pure observation and without practice.
Simone Deveaux
Simone is an art dealer who sells her ex-boyfriend Isaac Mendez's paintings without initially believing that they show the future. She has a brief affair with Peter Petrelli, who nursed her father Charles Deveaux ( Richard Roundtree ) on his deathbed. Because of this affair there are several violent arguments between Peter and Isaac. She is later accidentally shot by Isaac during an argument between him and Peter because he had made himself invisible.
Maya Herrera
Maya and her twin brother Alejandro appear from Season 2. You are from South America . After Alejandro's wedding, Maya sees her brother's bride cheating. Out of anger, she unconsciously uses her powers for the first time. Her gift is that her eyes turn black and that she takes the air to breathe from everyone in the vicinity, so that they usually suffocate in agony. This power is triggered as soon as Maya panics or gets angry. But if her brother holds her, the black eyes are transferred to him and he brings this dangerous force under control. After killing everyone at the wedding, she and her brother flee to the USA to find Dr. Finding Suresh who she hopes can cure her. She cannot control her strength at the beginning and unconsciously uses it in emotional events, whereby Alejandro repeatedly helps her to stop her abilities. On the way to the border, they pick up the injured Sylar and continue on with him, as he tells them he is a friend of Dr. Suresh and can lead you there. On the way she is warned again and again by her brother about Sylar, but she does not listen to him, as Sylar manipulates her and tells her he can teach her how to control her powers. Sylar has plans to steal her skills, however. He manages to break up the siblings and eventually kills Alejandro, which Maya only learns later. After visiting Dr. Reaching Suresh, Sylar shoots Maya so he can try the serum that is supposed to cure him on her. With this serum she survives the fatal shot and Sylar disappears with the serum. In the third season, she tries to get rid of her ability with Mohinder's help. However, it is later Arthur Petrelli who drains her ability.
Ando Masahashi
Ando Masahashi is Hiro's best friend. Despite some doubts about his newly won strength, he travels with him to the USA to prevent the explosion there. In the second season he tries to read Hiro's scrolls from the past together with a laboratory assistant . In the future of Season 3, Ando appears to kill his friend Hiro with red lightning bolts that he hurls from his fingers, as he acquires the ability to reinforce other skills that he can also use to a limited extent offensively to throw opponents away. To save Hiro, he takes the serum during the third season, which also gives him strength. He can increase the strength of other people enormously, whereby he can make "Speedster" Daphne so fast that she can travel back in time and bring Hiro out of the past, in which he was stuck because Arthur Petrelli took his strength from him. In season 4, he mentions that he heats things up with his ability too. Furthermore, he manipulates a door lock twice in the same season and heals Hiro of his confusion.
Isaac Mendez
Isaac is a heroin addict painter. Under the influence of drugs, he paints pictures and comics that show the future. Since he cannot remember creating the paintings, he is afraid of himself and thinks he is crazy. He was with Simone for a long time. In the course of the first season he learns with the help of Eden and Mr. Bennet to use and control his powers without drugs. He is later killed by Sylar. This ends the comic series he created, which predicts what will happen around the Heroes. Towards the end of Season 3, we learn that shortly before he was murdered, he entrusted a bicycle courier with a package of sketches that would continue the comic series. These fall into the hands of Matt and Ando, so they can later save Hiro.
Adam Monroe
Adam Monroe aka Takezo Kensei is a legendary swordsman from 17th century Japan - the legendary swordsman whose sword Hiro steals. But in the reality of the 17th century, he turns out to be a not so brilliant Englishman, but who has the ability to heal himself. In the beginning, he and Hiro work together to make him the hero Hiro knows from his famous stories. However, one day Takezo notices that Hiro has fallen in love with the princess, whom he also loves and who is actually meant for him. He sees Hiro and the princess kissing. The friendship between the two then breaks, Takezo changes sides and makes a pact with the enemy. Hiro initially believes that Takezo was killed in a violent explosion, but he survived. Because he can get extremely old through this ability to regenerate, Adam / Takezo has survived to this day (he is around 400 years old, but externally he has not changed). Ultimately, he uses Peter Petrelli, without his first knowing it, to set free a dangerous virus that is supposed to cleanse and "save" the world. However, this plan fails at the last second when Peter realizes the truth. In order to make him "harmless", Hiro puts him in a coffin while he is alive. In the third season he is freed by Hiro, but killed a short time later by Arthur Petrelli. The figure is probably based on William Adams . This is supported by at least the similarity of the name, the historical point in time and the fact that William Adams was later given a Japanese name (Miura Anjin).
Hiro Nakamura
Hiro is a Japanese office worker who is able to bend the space-time continuum and thus travel through space and time. In this way he manages to go to Times Square in New York a few weeks into the future . At the last moment, he can avoid the consequences of an atomic explosion by traveling back to Japan through space and time. He considers himself a hero and tries everything to prevent this explosion. His work colleague and friend Ando Masahashi does not believe him at first, but is convinced by a rescue operation in which Hiro proves his strength. So he follows him to the USA to help him. Hiro Nakamura is based on the stories of a comic strip drawn by Isaac Mendez. It is also he who comes from the future in a later episode to convey the message “Save the cheerleader, save the world” to Peter Petrelli. In the English version, the Japanese characters speak Japanese with English-language subtitles. Hiro himself is a staunch Star Trek fan in the series , who initially greets people with the Vulcan salute known from Mr. Spock. The role of Hiro's father is played by George Takei , who is best known for his portrayal of Mr. Sulu in Star Trek. Hiro's father is also involved with Primatech . In the penultimate episode of the third chapter (first part of the third season) Hiro is deprived of his skills by Arthur Petrelli. Hiro remains trapped in the past. In the further course of the third season he is rescued by Ando and Daphne and returns to the present. He then goes to Pinehearst with Daphne, gets the formula and destroys it in order to fulfill his destiny to save the world. His ability is later reactivated by Matt Parkman's child, who can turn things on and off, even without power.
Matt Parkman
Matt is a simple cop who finds himself in a marital and professional crisis. During a mission he hears the thoughts of a girl (Molly) who is hiding and can find her this way. Because of his gift he is called to the FBI , because the ability to read the minds of others and thus distinguish between truth and lies makes him the perfect investigator. Regardless of this, his professional problems persist, as the dyslexic fails the detective exam again and again. As Season 2 progresses, Matt realizes that he can control people by "putting thoughts in their heads". He probably inherited this gift from his father, who developed his skills to such an extent that he can plant illusions in other people's brains and keep them trapped in them. When Molly Walker falls under this spell and lies in a coma for days , Matt saves her by locking his father in one of these illusions. In the third season he is teleported to Africa . There he has a vision of the terrible future, but also of his future wife (Daphne) and his children. When he returns to America, he meets Daphne and falls in love straight away. Matt, Daphne and Ando help Hiro fulfill his destiny and save the world by destroying the formula. Later, Matt is put on a plane with many other Heroes, which is crashed by Claire and Peter. Matt, Hiro and Mohinder survive and meet Daphne, who is shot and appears to be dead. Matt, Peter, and Mohinder go to a hotel where Noah Bennet is. Matt penetrates his mind and sees that Daphne is not dead, just badly injured. In the fourth season he is back with his wife and raises his son with her.
Angela Petrelli
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Angela Petrelli is the mother of Nathan and Peter and thus also the biological grandmother of Claire Bennet. She is a founding member of the company. Her goal in the first season is to destroy New York. As it turns out later, she works with the Haitian and knows more than is initially assumed. It is believed that it has the power to induce others to perform certain actions, but this has not yet been clarified. In the third season you learn that she has the ability to dream about the future. It is also revealed during this season that her husband Arthur Petrelli, who was believed to be dead, did not die of a heart attack , but was poisoned by Angela because he was planning to kill her son Nathan. Furthermore, Sylar learns at the beginning that she is his birth mother, but this turns out to be a lie in the course of the third season. She is then held hostage by Sylar.
Nathan Petrelli
Nathan is an ambitious politician for whom professional success is initially more important than family considerations. He can fly but hides this ability from the public. Mr. Linderman ( Malcolm McDowell ), a man of great financial and political power, provides Nathan Petrelli with the funds for his election campaign in order to retain him. Nathan is thus forced to legitimize every political act of his patron. He is the biological father of Claire Bennet. He has two sons and a wife named Heidi who was in a wheelchair . Despite his cool demeanor, he loves his brother very much and in the end comes to Peter 's help when he threatens to explode. He is gunned down by an unknown assassin at the end of Season 2 as he tries to tell the world his ability. It later turns out that the assassin was Peter from the future. However, he is brought back to life, then decides not to tell the world anything about the Heroes and finally resumes his political career. He has visions of Mr. Linderman, whom he can see as the only one. He becomes a senator and meets Tracy Strauss. In the future he is the president and Tracy is the first lady. Eventually he finds out that his ability to fly can only be improved by DNA manipulation by Dr. Zimmermans has. His visions of Linderman are generated by Maury Parkman, who works for Nathan's father (a powerful hero). Towards the end of Season 3, Nathan tells the President of the United States that there are people with skills and that they should be placed in a special facility for everyone's safety. This request is granted and people are arrested one after the other. As the season progresses, he admits that his project was a mistake, and it is also discovered that he also has skills. At the end of the season, he is killed by Sylar, but transferred to Sylar's unconscious body by Matt Parkman. In the fourth season, he commits suicide, because Sylar's mind is deserted and in Nathan, who is now fighting with Sylar for the body. Sylar survives, Nathan dies in the process.
Peter Petrelli
Peter is a male nurse from New York. His gift is to copy the abilities of other Heroes when he is around them. His body takes over these forces over the long term. Thus Peter is able to fall back on all abilities of those with whom he has already had contact. He discovered his ability at the beginning of Season 1 near his brother Nathan. At first he mistakenly assumes that he has the same gift as his brother. Then he notices in Isaac Mendez's apartment that he can paint the future like him. However, he has difficulty controlling his abilities. Claude, a former Primatech employee, acts as a mentor here but leaves Peter before he fully learns to control his powers. There is a lot of speculation as to how he will adopt and use the skills, such as having to remember the feeling he had when meeting the person. It is never fully clarified, but the thesis contradicts that he can use some skills in the second season when he loses memory, especially since he does not always use all his powers consciously. He is locked into the body of Jesse Murphy by his future self at the beginning of Season 3. Then the future Peter takes over his role. After he is freed from the body of Jesse, the future Peter shows him the future, in which all people can get skills through a certain formula. After the future Peter is shot by the future Claire, Peter escapes to Sylar because he should go to see him. Once there, he wants to take the original ability of Sylar to understand everything better and thus to stop the decline of the world. However, his ability also gives him the uncontrollable hunger that keeps Sylar killing. After he finally kills the future Nathan, he goes back to the present to confront Sylar. There he almost kills his mother until he is finally overpowered by Sylar. When he makes his way to Pinehearst some time later , he meets his father, who was believed to be dead. This robs him of all his abilities. When Sylar comes to rescue Peter at his mother's behest, he is influenced by Arthur and throws Peter off the seventh floor. As Sylar slows his fall, Peter survives the fall and is found by Claire and Elle, who hope to get help from Pinehearst as their skills have gotten out of hand. Towards the end of the third season, Peter injects the serum, developed by Mohinder, into his arm to save his brother Nathan from death, and he regains a similar ability. This new ability lets him copy an ability by touch.
Micah Sanders
Micah is the son of Niki Sanders and DL Hawkins. He is a child prodigy and through his power he can communicate with and influence machines and electronic devices. Mr. Linderman wants to take advantage of this ability at the end of Season 1 by letting Micah manipulate the voting machine, so that it comes to a "landslide victory" for Nathan Petrelli. In Season 2, he lives with his cousin's grandmother, Nana Dawson, who is owned by Nichelle Nichols , better known as Lt. Uhura in the Star Trek series. In the 3rd season he is the mysterious "rebel".
Niki Sanders
Nicole is a single mother whose husband is on the run. She used to keep herself and her son afloat by doing striptease on an internet webcam . She has Dissociative Identity Disorder and imagines the ghost of her dead twin sister, Jessica, is taking hold of her. One day two thugs from Mr. Linderman, who she borrowed money from, appear at her apartment to remind her of her debts. The second, more ruthless personality, who died trying to protect Niki from her father, possesses supernatural strength and makes it his business to protect Niki and Micah. First of all, she kills the two uninvited guests in the most brutal way. Jessica takes control for the time being when Niki refuses to hurt her husband. After helping Mr. Linderman out of prison, she works as a hit man for him. When Jessica is faced with the choice between Linderman's money or her husband's life, she lets Niki go again. In the end, the two merge into a healthy personality when Niki knocks down the "real" Jessica (Candice Wilmer as an illusion). In season 2, she briefly develops a second personality: Gina, a party girl who is only interested in pleasures and men. At the end of the second season, while Micah and Monica are rescued from a burning warehouse, she is caught in the ensuing explosion and dies. At the beginning of season 3, it is revealed that Nicole had a twin sister who is called Tracy Strauss in the season and who can freeze people by simply touching them. Both are the result of genetic testing by a doctor who worked for Mr. Linderman.
Tracy Strauss
Tracy appears in the third season and is the assistant and lover of a US governor . She has the same physical appearance as Niki Sanders. It turns out that she, Niki, and Barbara were triplets whose DNA was tampered with and who were separated after birth. She is confronted with the fact that she is Niki Sanders, but has not yet known anything about her. In a burst of anger, she accidentally kills a reporter by freezing him completely and breaking him into a thousand pieces on the floor. Later she meets Nathan and goes with him on a search for the origin of the abilities of all heroes. They fall in love with each other. When the two ask Mohinder for help, he takes advantage of this to capture both of them for his experiments. You manage to escape. Then Tracy and Nathan Petrelli go to the Pinehearst company of Nathan's father Arthur, where they convince Arthur that Nathan would be the perfect face for the company and its public relations. In the course of the grand finale, she loyally stands by Nathan and uses her ability to save his life. He fires her after realizing that all of his plans don't work out. Tracy then steals the formula, but is stopped by Hiro and Daphne. After the explosion at Pinehearst, she forks up the healed Mohinder on the highway. Four weeks later, Nathan gives the president information about the evolved humans, including Tracy. After being captured several times by the government's new project, Tracy sacrifices herself to help Micah alias Rebel escape. At the end of the third season she reappears unexpectedly by manifesting herself again dripping from a tap.
Mohinder Suresh
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Mohinder is a professor of genetics at a university in India . His father was also a geneticist and wanted to find the "Heroes". After his death, Mohinder came to New York to study his father's research and to find answers, including, of course, his father's mysterious death. Little by little he meets more and more heroes, sometimes without noticing. His neighbor, who was his father's neighbor before, is Eden McCain and also a hero and a good friend of his father. She kills herself in Season 1 to prevent Sylar from taking over her ability. Its blood contains antibodies that can stop the virus. In the third season he injects himself with a substance that gives a person special abilities. He gains incredible powers, but side effects follow. Mohinder goes to Pinehearst and continues his research on the formula. After Arthur Petrelli brings him the catalyst , Mohinder can successfully finish the serum. However, the laboratory and all of the serum are destroyed and Mohinder is infected with the serum. Then his scales and deformities disappear, but his enormous strength remains.
Sylar (Gabriel Gray)
Gabriel Gray aka Sylar is actually a watchmaker and the first hero Chandra Suresh could make out. He has the ability to recognize how mechanisms or organisms work in their innermost being. His abilities are of a different origin than those of the other Heroes. While the abilities of the others are stored in their DNA, his cannot be recognized by the usual means. He kills other heroes, opens their skulls and looks at the brain structure. This allows him to adapt their abilities and control them better than his victims. At first he opens their heads with aids and tools, but later he gains an ability with which he can simply “saw open” the heads of his victims. Because he suffers from not being special in the eyes of the people, he thinks that the other heroes don't deserve their skills. Therefore, using Suresh's list, he goes on a hunt for other heroes and collects their gifts. Sylar was the one who killed Mohinder's father, Chandra Suresh. In an alternate future he has the power of suggestion , so he managed to impersonate Nathan and became President of the United States. He received this ability from an employee of the company who has mastered this ability. Sylar often uses telekinesis , the first skill he was given. He is also able to move noiselessly, to hear particularly well, to melt things, to become radioactive and he has a particularly good memory. At the end of the first season he is impaled with a sword by Hiro and is apparently dead. In the second season he is treated and cured by the company, but is injected with the Shanti virus, which robs him of his strength. A serum stolen from Mohinder Suresh allows him to regain his powers at the end of season 2. At the beginning of the third season he finally manages to acquire Claire's regeneration skills and learns that Angela and Arthur Petrelli are his birth parents. However, this proves to be a lie over the course of the third season after Sylar acquires the ability to tell when people are lying. He then kills Arthur Petrelli by shooting him in the head with a bullet from Peter Petrelli's pistol and takes Angela Petrelli hostage, among others. Towards the end of season three, Claire tries to stop Sylar by ramming a shard of glass in the back of his head. At the beginning of the 2nd part (volume) of the 3rd season you can see that Sylar survived. He goes looking for his birth father. In the first episode of the 2nd part of the 3rd season he meets his uncle, who runs a watch shop. After a short conversation, his uncle gives him the address of the house where his father is supposed to live. Sylar wants to kill his uncle after he has given him the address, but he spares him. When Sylar arrives at his father's house, he does not meet his father, but a special unit. This shoots at him with a new type of electric weapon, but due to his skills, Sylar manages to turn off the special unit. He's holding an agent hostage. With this he goes into the neighboring house opposite and begins to question him under torture . Sylar learns that a new secret organization has been founded (by Nathan Petrelli on behalf of the President) with the task of capturing anyone with skills and bringing them to a secret location. Just as Sylar is about to kill the agent, the owner of the house comes in with her stepson. Sylar uses his skills and holds both of them. It turns out that the stepson also has a special ability: he can emit a ray of heat from his hands that makes things boil or melt. When Sylar is arguing with the stepson, the agent frees himself and is killed by the stepson by heat ray. Together with the stepson, Sylar sets out to find his father. Finally he finds his father, who, like Sylar, was able to gather several powers. Since he is terminally ill and sees that Sylar has healing powers, he tries to take control of it, but Sylar is stronger and in the end leaves his father dying alone. In the course of the third season he gains the ability to copy someone's appearance by touching them. However, the attempt to copy the president fails. He kills Nathan Petrelli, but Matt Parkman instills the illusion that he is Nathan Petrelli and has adopted his memories and appearance.
Minor characters
Charlene "Charlie" Andrews
Charlene "Charlie" Andrews is a waitress at the Burnt Toast Diner . She has a perfect photographic memory and a supernaturally quick perception, which is why she is killed after a brief appearance on the series by Sylar, who tries to usurp her ability. Hiro, who fell in love with her, travels back in time to save her. When she reveals to the completely desperate Hiro that he is dying from an incurable disease of the cerebral artery anyway, he loses control of his abilities for a long time.
Lyle Bennet
Lyle Bennet is Claire's younger adoptive brother. After learning of her healing powers, he is brainwashed on behalf of his father .
Robert Bishop
Robert Bishop takes over the management of Primatech Paper in the second season . He always introduces himself to everyone as “Bob” and always seems to have his fingers in the game. He has the ability to turn items into gold. He hires Mohinder Suresh to experiment with the virus or find an antidote for the virus. He was, along with Peter's parents, Hiro's father, Matt's father, Mr. Linderman, etc., one of the people who developed the virus at the time. Adam Monroe tries to have him killed, but this can be prevented. Mr. Bennet tries all the time to crush Bob's company, but in the end it seems like they both work together again. In the third season Bob is killed by Sylar who appropriates his ability.
Steven Canfield
It is on Noah Bennet's files and was once a Level 5 prisoner. It has the ability to create black holes . He accidentally killed his neighbor during a neighborhood fight. Claire tracks him down to bring him back to level 5, but then she realizes that he is a lovable family man who did not want to harm anyone and only wants to go back to his family, who are, however, afraid of him. At the same time, Mr. Bennet and Sylar track him down. Mr. Bennet tries to use his ability to destroy Sylar. When he asks him to kill Sylar, however, Sylar refuses and lets himself be sucked in by his own black hole.
DL Hawkins
Daniel Lawrence "DL" Hawkins is Niki's husband and Micah's father. He was innocent in prison and discovered that he can make his body permeable to solid surfaces and objects and thus, for example, go through walls. After his outbreak, he returns to Niki and tries to protect Micah from Jessica. After Niki reveals himself out of love for the two, he has to take care of the upbringing of his son on his own. In season 2, he is shot and killed in front of Niki's eyes by an angry bar visitor.
Luke Campbell
Luke is a teenager with the ability to send out microwaves . By chance, while interrogating an elite soldier, Sylar captures Luke and his mother in order to torture them in front of the soldier. When Sylar finds out that the teen is very similar in his feelings, Sylar agrees to take Luke with him in search of his father, but later leaves him alone.
Emile "The Hunter" Danko
He's an agent for Homeland Security who leads the state's operation to capture the evolved humans. A file Angela read says he was responsible for civilian deaths in the Angola Coup. After discovering that Nathan Petrelli also has skills, he works for a while with Sylar, who poses as one of his agents with his new ability to look after other people.
Echo DeMille
Echo DeMille only appears in the mini web series Going Postal . He has almost the same ability as Jesse Murphy: he can make extremely loud sounds with his voice. He is hunted by the company, but can take out the first agents by his ability. Later, however, he is caught and held in level 5. After Sylar has sealed off Primatech and holds Angela and Co. hostage, Noah releases him and the other prisoners to stop Sylar. Echo’s throat is cut shortly thereafter by telekinesis.
Eric Doyle
He is a fugitive from level 5 and a former puppeteer . He can force his movements on all people. He tries to force Meredith to love him. Claire and her adoptive mother try to rescue her. Claire manages to escape his control by getting shot and then overpowering him. He is then brought back to Level 5 by Noah and later released with the other prisoners to stop Sylar after he has held Noah, Claire, Meredith and Angela hostage in the Primatech building. When he confronts Sylar, Eric collapses under the strain of trying to control him. In season 3, he is hunted by the government's new program, but escapes with the help of Rebel and Claire. A short time later he is tracked down by Sylar, who learns his skills and gives him a gift, seriously injured, to Danko.
Meredith Gordon
She is Claire's biological mother and masters pyrokinesis. After an affair with Nathan Petrelli, she became pregnant and had Claire. Her apartment caught fire when the Primatech Company was attacked . She thought Claire, who was still in the apartment, had died in the fire. Later on, during a raid with her younger brother Flint, she is caught and captured by Mr. Thompson. Eventually she is persuaded by Primatech to train as an agent for the same company. When Primatech catches her brother, however, she escapes with him. She then lived in Mexico for some time and finally found out that Claire was still alive after all. In season 3, she works with Mr. Bennet. In the finale, she is pumped full of adrenaline by Sylar and locked in a cell with Noah. He has the choice of either killing her or dying himself. Claire saves them at the last moment. Shortly thereafter, Meredith loses control of her powers and the Primatech facility explodes.
Flint Gordon
Another prisoner in level 5. He can shoot blue flames from his hands. He is shot by Mr. Bennet after the bank robbery and can eventually be brought back to level 5. A short time later, however, he is freed again by Daphne and recruited by Arthur Petrelli and Pinehearst . He is Meredith's brother. After Nathan takes control of Pinehearst , he and Knox side with Peter. Flint and Peter then begin to destroy Mohinder's laboratory. Nathan knocks him down, causing Flint to explode the facility.
"The German"
Another level 5 prisoner who can control magnetic energy fields. After the breakout and a robbery on a bank, he is killed by Knox over a disagreement. He is in a photo in Dr. See Zimmerman's house.
Hana "Wireless" Gitelman
Hana Gitelman is a former Mossad agent who set out to take down Bennet and Primatech after they blamed her that she was working for the CIA on their behalf . Hana has the ability to understand, redirect or even change any data transfer that takes place on a wave basis. It is able to send e-mails or text messages without having to be in the immediate vicinity of a computer or cell phone. After Bennet decides to fight Primatech to protect his family, he turns to Hana for help. Together with Parkman and Sprague, they want to destroy the tracking systems used to track down heroes . While the three want to take care of the device in New York, Hana is supposed to destroy the satellite that Primatech has stationed in orbit . Disguised as an Israeli engineer , she manages to smuggle herself on board a Chinese space shuttle . Only this brings you close enough to the satellite to be able to manipulate it effectively. During her planned space trip, she begins her attack on its core, but notices too late that it is protected by a virus. Through her ability, Hana becomes infected with it and sees only one way to stop Primatech : She has to manually crash the satellite so that it burns up in the earth's atmosphere , even if its fate is hers. When Hana dies, she becomes a so-called "infomorph", that is, she does not die, but her consciousness passes over into the earth's data stream .
The Haitian
The Haitian is Mr. Bennet's assistant. He has the power to erase memories by touch and to block certain Heroes ' powers , such as mind reading. He is the right hand man of Claire's father, who is also a member of the company. But when Bennet asks him to partially erase Claire's memories, he reveals himself to her, while he lets Bennet believe that he has followed his command. He claims to have followed orders from a higher power in Claire's life at the time. At first he mutes himself , but later he shows that he can speak. In season 2 he is infected by the virus, but is cured by Mohinder Suresh. Then he works again with Mr. Bennet. In season 3 he is on the road in Haiti to recapture his brother Baron Samedi after he escaped from level 5. After doing this with the help of Peter and Nathan, he goes to Pinehearst's with Peter to kill Arthur. His father was a priest in Haiti and threw himself into his death after trying to kill his son. This can be found in comic book volume 2.
Audrey Hanson
Audrey Hanson is an FBI agent who is on the hunt for Sylar. During a homicide investigation in Los Angeles , Audrey meets Matt Parkman, with whose help she tries to catch Sylar. It is also she who makes Matt move to the FBI. She later arrested the escaped Ted in New York on behalf of the FBI.
Daniel Linderman
Funding Nathan Petrelli's campaign, he appears to be a very wealthy and influential man. He knows a lot about the Heroes and their abilities and it seems like he made Niki and DL meet. He himself apparently has the ability to heal living beings or to renew the cells of others. He cures the paralysis of Nathan Petrelli's wife so that she is no longer confined to a wheelchair. He is a power-hungry visionary who tries by all means to let the explosion take place in New York and thereby make Nathan Petrelli president . He claims his plan is "for the good of humanity". He has Micah kidnapped so that he can manipulate the voting machines in favor of Nathan Petrelli. Eventually he is killed by DL after Linderman tried to shoot Jessica aka Niki. Linderman "appears" to Nathan and Daphne in the third season. However, this is just a vision planted in Maury Parkman's minds.
Eden McCain
Eden McCain works for Mr. Bennet who got her off the street. Her power is to hypnotize other people with her voice . When she wants to kill the captured Sylar to protect Mohinder Suresh, he can catch her with his powers. To keep him from adapting her ability, Eden gives herself a headshot to keep Sylar from getting into her brain. Her real name was Sarah Ellis.
Daphne Millbrook
Daphne first appears in season three when she steals part of an important formula from Hiro. Her ability to move at supersonic speeds has made her a master thief. It's so fast that Hiro can't even "freeze" it. She has an apartment in Paris where she keeps all of her stolen property (including the Mona Lisa ). In Matt Parkman's vision of the future, he and Daphne are a couple and have a child. However, she dies trying to capture Peter. In the present, she is being manipulated by Maury Parkman to create an army of heroes . But when she meets Matt Parkman, the two fall in love and she changes to the side of the good guys. During the solar eclipse, it is learned that she suffered from almost total walking difficulties prior to the manifestation of her supersonic speed . Thanks to Ando's ability, she saves Hiro from the past after he has lost his skills. At the beginning of the second part of the third season, she is apparently shot by a military unit, but survives. Due to a lack of care during the arrest, her condition worsens and, despite an attempt by Matt to rescue her, she finally dies.
Jesse Murphy
A prisoner from level 5. He can manipulate sounds and also send them out himself. Peter from the future includes Peter from the present in his body. After Peter is freed from his body again, Jesse is overwhelmed, killed and robbed of his ability by Sylar.
Maury Parkman
Matt's father doesn't appear in person until Season 2. He gives Molly Walker nightmares over the course of the series , but can also read minds like his son. In addition, he is able to create illusions or nightmares for other people in order to confuse others. His son later uses the same skills to imprison him in his own imaginary prison that Maury "created" for Molly. However, he manages to break free and works on behalf of Arthur Petrelli to raise an army of Heroes . For example, he puts the image of a resurrected Mr. Linderman in Nathan and Daphne's head in order to manipulate them. When Daphne gets the order from Arthur Petrelli to kill Matt Parkman, Maury turns against Arthur Petrelli and is killed by him unceremoniously.
Arthur Petrelli
Arthur Petrelli is Angela's husband and father of Nathan and Peter and thus also Claire's grandfather. He has the ability to permanently deprive other heroes of their abilities through physical contact and then to use them himself. In the first season, Angela tells her sons that their father committed suicide, which is not true. In season 3, it is learned that Arthur Petrelli is the founder of Pinehearst and was behind Linderman's businesses. After Nathan tried to hunt down Linderman, Arthur gave the order to kill his own son. To save her son, Angela poisoned her husband with a poison that paralyzes the entire body. In the hospital, however, Arthur still managed to influence the doctor with his thoughts. The doctor faked Arthur's death and, because Angela wanted a cremation , had an unknown corpse cremated. Arthur, meanwhile, was being kept alive by machines in the Pinehearst Building. Some time later he tried to rally an army of Heroes with Maury Parkman, Daphne Millbrook and Knox . Eventually they could also capture Adam Monroe and bring him to Arthur, who withdrew his abilities and was able to heal himself from the paralysis. He also had Daphne steal the formula for creating skills from Hiro, robbed his son Peter of his skills, deprived Maya of hers if desired, killed Maury Parkman because of discrepancies, was able to pull Gabriel on his side, killed Usutu and erased Hiro's memory so far that he thought he was ten years old. After Nathan takes control of Pinehearst , Peter shows up to kill his father. He is then eventually killed by Sylar using the telekinetically stopped projectile from Peter after the latter learns that Arthur is not his father.
Claude Rains
Claude Rains has the ability to make himself invisible . He was a former agent of Primatech Paper and Noah Bennet's partner. However, when he kept the identity of a heroes secret from the company, Noah was commissioned to kill him. But after Bennet had shot him, the wounded Claude was able to hide himself in time and flee. After that he lived invisible for a few years until he met Peter Petrelli, who saw him in his dreams and who unconsciously took over the ability to be invisible when he was around Claude. Peter can persuade him to teach him how to control his abilities so he doesn't accidentally explode later. But after some time of training, Noah Bennet and the Haitian find the two with the help of Isaac's pictures. Pete and Claude narrowly escape, but Claude is angry with Peter that the company found him because of him and finally disappears without Peter. His ability can be transferred to other objects or people he touches. He can also see other invisible people such as Peter. However, in the invisible state it is neither invulnerable nor permeable. Noises it makes can also be heard. It can also be detected in this state with a thermal camera.
The character's name is obviously an allusion to the actor Claude Rains , who became known as " The Invisible Man " in the 1933 classic film of the same name.
West roses
Claire's classmate in the new school has the ability to fly. He finds out that Claire has the ability to heal herself, whereupon he demonstrates his ability to her. The two fall in love. As a young boy, like some other heroes , he was kidnapped and "tagged" by the Primatech Paper company . He has always known and feared “the man with horn-rimmed glasses”. In the course of the season he learns that this is Claire's father, whereupon he first escapes, but later finds out that he - like himself - only wants to protect Claire.
Theodore "Ted" Sprague
Theodore "Ted" Sprague was originally mistaken for Sylar by Audrey. Ted can emit energy, especially radioactive radiation, that allows him, for example, to heat water or blow up his own house. Since his strength is strongly guided by emotions, as long as he can not control them, he accidentally irradiates his wife during an argument, which plunges him into depression and longing for death. He blames the company for this misfortune after Gitelman put him on their trail. He is killed by Sylar during his transport to the prison at the end of Season 1.
Chandra Suresh
Chandra Suresh is the father of Mohinder Suresh and also a scientist who was mysteriously killed. Before his death he had put forward a theory about gradual evolutionary changes in DNA and made it his life's work to find the "Heroes" to prove this theory. To do this, he developed a computer program that can locate people with special abilities and wrote a book called Activating Evolution (which appears several times in the series) to explain the emergence of these abilities.
Shanti Suresh
Shanti Suresh was Chandra Suresh's daughter and died of a genetic abnormality at the age of five . Although Mohinder Suresh only recently learned of Shanti's existence, she had a major impact on his life, as her death was the trigger for his father's research. In The hard part , more is known about her life. She is also said to have had a special ability that, like Molly Walker, was blocked by a virus from which she eventually died before her father could complete a cure.
Tina
Tina is Niki Sander's best friend, who regularly takes care of Micah and accompanies Niki to meetings with Alcoholics Anonymous .
Mr. Thompson
Thompson is the head of Primatech . Like most of his agents, he is very pragmatic and merciless; so he demands that Bennet hand over his daughter to him. He works closely with Linderman. After Bennet opposes the company, he persecutes him stubbornly. But he is killed in the last episode of the 1st season by Bennet with two head shots.
Usutu
He is a "Precog", a hero who has the ability to see into the future. When Matt Parkman is teleported to the African desert , he saves him from dying of thirst and shows him his future. Later, Hiro and Ando teleport to him, originally with orders to take him to Pinehearst . However, they abandon their assignment and he then shows Hiro his future path. A short time later he is killed by Arthur Petrelli.
Molly Walker
According to Thompson, Molly is the only hero with the ability to stop Sylar. By thinking of a certain person, she can see or determine where that person is. She is infected with a certain virus that is blocking her powers. Mohinder Suresh hopes to use antibodies found in his own blood to correct her genetic abnormality and stop Sylar. Molly's parents were killed by Sylar, whom they have referred to as the "Boogeyman" ever since. She is later adopted by Matt Parkman and Mohinder Suresh also takes care of her. However, she is plagued by a "nightmare man" who turns out to be Matt's father in Season 2. He's the only hero who can see her in turn when she thinks of him.
Benjamin Washington aka "Knox"
One of the prisoners from level 5. He has the skills to absorb the fear of others and convert it into his own strength. Knox kills "The German" after a disagreement. He later works for Arthur Petrelli. He catches Adam Monroe and takes him to Mr. Petrelli, tells Hiro to kill his best friend Ando, and tries to kill Matt Parkman. When Nathan takes control of Pinehearst , Knox and Flint take Peter’s side. While the other two destroy the laboratory, Knox holds Nathan in his office. When the two fight, Knox tries to kill Nathan, but is frozen and splintered by Tracy shortly before.
Jacqueline "Jackie" Wilcox
Jackie is a former girlfriend of Claire. Over time, however, Jackie's ambition and her urge to be the center of everyone in the school between the two friends. For example, she claims to have saved someone from a fire, which was actually due to Claire. She does this primarily in order to be elected Prom Queen . To her disappointment, however, Claire is elected thanks to the votes of the outsiders mobilized by Zach. Therefore, she is killed by Sylar, because he thinks she is the cheerleader with the special skills.
Candice Wilmer
In the first season, Candice was the one who looked after Micah on behalf of Mr. Linderman. She has the ability to change her appearance and the entire environment according to her wishes. In doing so, she instills this idea in the heads of the people around her. So at the beginning you don't know what it looks like in reality. In the second season she is supposed to take care of the injured Sylar. Despite being injured and on medication in a storage room, Candice creates the idea that he is sitting in a deck chair on the beach in a beautiful place. However, she is later overpowered and killed by him. After all, you can tell her true appearance from her corpse.
Zach
Zach is a good friend of Claire Bennet's. Initially, he is the only person to whom Claire confides her secret. However, since becoming friends with Zach, she has suffered a lot from her fellow cheerleader Jackie Wilcox. When Claire tells her father that Zach knows her secret, his memory is erased and forgets his friendship with her. Claire later gets him back on her side when she lets him re-enact the videos.
Dr. Zimmerman
Dr. Zimmerman gave birth to Niki Sanders, Tracy Strauss and Barbara. He created Tracy by manipulating the company's DNA on behalf of the company. He also modified Nathan Petrelli's DNA to give him powers.
Alex Woolsey
Alex appears in season 3. He works at the Sam's Comics comic shop in Buford. After a text message from Rebel, Claire tries to save him. Noah Bennet was sent to catch him, but Claire managed to escape with him. Alex can breathe underwater. A romantic relationship develops between them. Claire hides it in her closet as her house is being watched by agents. With the help of her mother, the escape from the Bennets' house finally succeeds.
Cameo appearances
The well-known creator of some heroes of the Marvel universe, Stan Lee , completes a cameo in episode 1.16 Unexpectedly at the end by addressing the boarding Hiro encouragingly as the bus driver. Micah's grandmother is played by Nichelle Nichols , who played Lieutenant Uhura in Starship Enterprise . Michael Dorn , who played the Klingon Worf in Starship Enterprise: The Next Century and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , plays the President of the United States in the series and has guest appearances in episodes 3.13 and 3.25. George Takei from the Star Trek universe can also be seen as Hiro Nakamura's father (his limousine bears the serial number of the USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701 ) as a license plate) and Dominic Keating (episodes 2.1 - 2.3 and 2.5).
Backdrop and props
In the casino scenes during the action in Las Vegas , props and costumes from the television series Las Vegas , which is also broadcast by NBC , were used. These were, for example, tokens , page suits and other props, each with the words “Montecito” or a capital “M”, which stands for this.
In all other interior scenes, at least in the first season, the production uses large parts of the set by Crossing Jordan - Pathologist with Profile . A closer look reveals similarities between her office and the Suresh's rooms. The team filmed all of the scenes in Madras either on the studio premises or on beaches in California . Tim Kring draws attention to these similarities in particular in the audio comments on the DVD publications.
Among other things, the episode How to Stop an Exploding Man shows the fictional Kirby Plaza , the location for which is the Arco Plaza in downtown Los Angeles . The location for the Aoyama cemetery , where Ishi Nakamura, Kaito Nakamura and Adam Monroe are buried, was a golf course . The roof of Charles Deveaux's house, where pigeons are bred, was made in the studio, so house number 210 is pure fiction. The Times Square in New York City is in the episodes Genesis and back Do not look to see.
Cast and dubbing
| Role name | Main role (seasons) |
Guest role (seasons) |
actor | German voice actors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Petrelli | 1.01-4.19 | Milo Ventimiglia | Timmo Niesner | |
| Claire Bennet | 1.01-4.19 | Hayden Panettiere | Tanya Kahana | |
| Hiro Nakamura | 1.01-4.19 | Masi Oka | Tobias Müller | |
| Noah Bennet | 1.01-4.19 | Jack Coleman | Uwe Büschken | |
| Dr. Mohinder Suresh | 1.01-4.18 | Sendhil Ramamurthy | Viktor Neumann | |
| Nathan Petrelli | 1.01-4.13 | Adrian Pasdar | Thomas Nero Wolff | |
| Matt Parkman | 1.02-4.19 | Greg Grunberg | Marco Kroeger | |
| Gabriel "Sylar" Gray | 1.08-4.19 | Zachary Quinto | Daniel Fehlow | |
| Nicole "Niki" / Jessica Sanders | 1.01-2.11 | Ali Larter | Melanie Pukass | |
| Tracy Strauss | 3.01-4.19 | |||
| Micah Sanders | 1.01-2.11 | 3.03; 3.20; 3.24 | Noah Gray-Cabey | Konstantin Seidenstücker |
| Isaac Mendez | 1.01-1.19 | 4.08 | Santiago Cabrera | Tobias Kluckert |
| Simone Deveaux | 1.01-1.18 | Tawny Cypress | Melanie Hinze | |
| Daniel Lawrence "DL" Hawkins | 1.06-1.23 | 2.08 | Leonard Roberts | Michael Iwannek |
| Ando Masahashi | 2.01-4.19 | 1.01-1.23 | James Kyson Lee | Gerrit Schmidt-Foss |
| Elle Bishop | 2.01-3.02; 3.07-3.12 | Kristen Bell | Manja Doering | |
| Maya Herrera | 2.01-3.11 | Dania Ramírez | Carolina Vera-Squella | |
| Adam Monroe / Takezo Kensei | 2.01-2.11 | 3.04-3.06, 4.16 | David Anders | Norman Matt |
| Monica Dawson | 2.04-2.11 | Dana Davis | Anne Helm | |
| Angela Petrelli | 3.01-4.19 | 1.01-2.11 | Cristine Rose | Karin Buchholz |
| Daphne "The Speedster" Millbrook | 3.01-3.22 | Brea Grant | Natascha Geisler | |
| Samuel Sullivan | 4.01-4.19 | Robert Knepper | Bernd Vollbrecht | |
| Lydia | 4.01-4.19 | Dawn Olivieri | Ulrike Stürzbecher | |
| Emma Coolidge | 4.03-4.19 | Deanne Bray | Peggy Sander |
reception
The series received praise at its launch and was considered the most promising new series in 2006/2007. With over 14 million viewers, the first episode of Heroes was NBC's most successful series premiere in five years. Over the years and permanent continuation of the series, the euphoria subsided. It was found that: "The superhero theme [...] is not new," but "the consistent implementation of comic elements" would certainly captivate the viewer and it would also become clear into the fourth season that "Heroes '[have] lost little of its effect ”.
From the American Film Institute was Heroes voted one of the ten best series of 2006.
Criticism was expressed by viewers of the German dubbing , as the original (English) subtitled Japanese or Spanish conversations were transferred into German, which not only leads to irritation, but also hides the language barrier. This seems awkward, for example, when a police officer of Japanese origin is called in to interpret with Hiro at the beginning of season 1, even though Hiro did not try to communicate in Japanese in the German dubbing before.
Awards
A detailed list can be found in the IMDb .
Charisma
Overview
- In the US , the second season was broadcast from September to December 2007, season three began in September 2008. On March 6, 2009 it was announced that despite falling ratings in the US, a fourth season would be produced, which started on September 21, 2009 .
- In Switzerland , the series has been broadcast on SF Zwei since October 8, 2007 . The broadcast began with uncut episodes, while later, by postponing the broadcast at an earlier point in time, they are now shown in the same cut version as on German television.
- In Germany , RTL II began broadcasting the first season on October 10, 2007, the second ran from September to November 2008. The third season began on September 2, 2009 with the 35th episode, Die Wiederkunft . Due to bad ratings, the time slot was moved from 8:15 p.m. to 11 p.m. on November 4, 2009. The fourth and final season broadcast RTL II from September 1 to December 8, 2010; the last episodes from November were postponed to the night program due to further falling audience numbers. The series has also been available on the Amazon Prime Video streaming service since October 6, 2015 .
- In Austria , the station ATV began on June 10, 2008 to broadcast the first and later the second and third season as a German-language free TV premiere. The fourth and final season will air ATV from August 31, 2010.
According to seasons
Volume 1: Genesis
| country | Channel | First broadcast | Total audience |
|---|---|---|---|
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NBC | September 25, 2006 | 14.4 million (6.4%) |
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SF two | October 8, 2007 | 0.071 million (7.75%) |
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RTL II | October 10, 2007 | 1.72 million (9.8%) |
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ATV | June 10, 2008 | 0.11 million (2.97%) |
Volume 2: Generations
| country | Channel | First broadcast | Total audience |
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NBC | September 24, 2007 | 13.08 million |
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ATV | September 2, 2008 | 0.076 million (2.84%) |
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SF two | September 4, 2008 | 0.027 million (4.36%) |
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RTL II | September 17, 2008 | 1.13 million (3.7%) |
Volume 3: Villains
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NBC | September 22, 2008 | 8, 46 million |
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Volume 4: Fugitives
The second volume of the third season. (Episodes 14-25)
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NBC | February 2, 2009 | 7.0 million |
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Volume 5: Redemption
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NBC | September 21, 2009 | 6.538 million |
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RTL II | September 1, 2010 | - |
Heroes: Origins
The announced spin-off Heroes: Origins , in which new characters should be introduced, has officially been discontinued.
Episode list
DVD release
With the release of the first season in August 2007, Universal Studios were among the pioneers in the development of HDTV , as the first season was released on HD DVD . The only television series so far that were released in the same way at this point in time are: Smallville (Season 5) and The Sopranos (Season 6: Parts 1 and 2). On August 26, 2008, the second season was released as Blu-ray in the USA .
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| Part 1: January 31, 2008 Part 2: March 27, 2008 Complete (DVD): September 4, 2008 |
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| season 2 | A total of 484/482 minutes of running time on 4 discs. |
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Recurring elements
Six different mysterious elements (symbols) appear again and again in connection with the Heroes at irregular intervals in different situations.
Helix
The helix is a symbol that appears again and again in the series, which carries the meaning of great ability, a gift from God . This was announced by the author and co-producer Aron Coleite. The symbol visually represents an S with two dashes to the left and one to the right, a stylization of the DNA double helix. The symbol appears again and again on various objects. The symbol used to be the sign of the Samurai Kensei aka Adam Monroe. Adam later draws the symbol with his blood on the photos of those he murders. The Helix can also be seen on the titles of the comics appearing in the series and the covers of the comic chapters; the fictional comic publisher is also called Helix Comics.
Scar
Scar , in English scar , a designation consisting of two parallels that was created during an operation to implant a radionuclide . This implant allows the location and tracking of the heroes. This marking carried out the organization to which Noah Bennet and the Haitian belonged.
Several Heroes have this mark:
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Solar eclipse
The solar eclipse is the logo of the series, which is shown at the beginning of each episode and also the cliffhanger between the first and second season. During the episode Out Of Time of the second season the subtitle was exceptionally green and not orange / yellow. In the third season, three episodes deal with the effects of the solar eclipse on the Heroes.
Virus
The virus is neurotropic and mixes with the forces of the person affected, who becomes a victim of the virus through his forces. When Mohinder Suresh first appeared, the company commissioned him to develop an antidote, but this has not yet been successful, which is why the antibodies in his blood are the only protection against death so far. This virus ensures that the person can no longer use their ability.
So far, five heroes have been infected with the virus:
- Shanti Suresh (deceased)
- Molly Walker (cured)
- the Haitian (cured)
- Niki Sanders (died but not from the virus)
- Sylar (healed).
During the second season a serum will be developed from this virus, which the company would like to use to remove the special powers. Mohinder fears that applying this serum could spread the virus to the entire population. His premonition solidifies when Niki injects himself with the virus and his blood no longer helps - the virus appears to have become immune to it.
The Formula
The "Formula" appears for the first time in Season 3. Shortly after Hiro became the keeper of one half, it was stolen by Daphne. Hiro's father says the secret of the formula could destroy the world. The “formula” is able to give people skills. In addition to the two halves, the “catalyst” is required for completion. The formula is destroyed by Hiro at the end of Villains .
People who received the serum:
- Niki Sanders - Increased Strength (Three of a Kind, injected as a baby; 1st version of the formula)
- Tracy Strauss - Freeze , can turn into water (Triplet 2, injected as a baby; 1st version of the formula)
- Barbara - Unknown (three of a kind, injected as a baby; 1st version of the formula)
- Nathan Petrelli - Flying (His father was disappointed that he was born without skills; 1st version of the formula)
- Mohinder Suresh - Mohinder's ability / increased strength (imperfect tense: led to insect-like mutation; final: mutation healed, increased strength remained)
- Mohinder's Test Subject - Unknown (Batch 36: died as a result of the mutation)
- Ando Masahashi - Supercharger Skills (injected to save Hiro; final version)
- Scott ( Chad Faust ) - Increased Strength (US Army soldier / Pinehearst recruit; final version)
- David Sullivan - David's ability (US Army soldier / Pinehearst recruit; final version)
- Ryan Hanover - Unknown (US Army soldier / Pinehearst recruit; final version)
- Peter Petrelli - copying a skill (injected after losing his skills; final version)
Cockroach
The cockroach , in English common cockroach , has so far appeared in a wide variety of situations, including deaths and suspected deaths. The cockroach has appeared in four different people so far, including three times with Sylar. In the first season, Dr. Suresh gave a lecture on genetics, mentioning, among other things, that if there was a genetic code according to God's standards, it would be the common cockroach, as it is perfectly adapted to its environment.
Activating Evolution
Activating Evolution to German Evolutions trigger is a book written by Chandra Suresh book that, too, but mostly throughout the series in the graphic novel is shown. Excerpts from the book can be viewed on the website of the same name. In total, the book was shown ten times in the course of the series.
Graphic novels
The Heroes Graphic Novels were published as web comics , which usually consist of seven to nine pages per issue. The dialogues are written by the authors of the series, the visual implementation is carried out by Aspen MLT . The comics always contain various Easter eggs , which often answer questions, but also raise new ones. The free comic is financed by the first page on which a car from sponsor Nissan is shown. It was published every Tuesday on the homepage of the television station NBC .
The first 34 chapters of the comic were published in print, on November 7, 2007 in the USA by WildStorm , a DC Comics label , and on May 26, 2008 by Panini Verlag in Germany. Chapters 35–80 appeared on November 19, 2008 in the USA and on May 22, 2009 in Germany as a second printed edition.
background
→ See also: Heroes Unmasked
In order to bring the series closer to British and American viewers, the broadcaster BBC Two, in cooperation with NBC, produced a documentary series called Heroes Unmasked . This provides viewers with background information on the filming and actors of Heroes.
In the twelfth episode of the first season there is a short conversation between Noah Bennet and Mohinder Suresh, in which Bennet asks Suresh for help. On the business card that Suresh receives after the interview, the viewer can clearly see the internet address primatechpaper.com . If you called it up, you came to the website of Bennet's company, which was created for the series and then left there for some time. The site also had a password-protected area with fictional files about individual heroes. In the meantime, NBC has redirected to the Heroes Reborn page, the spin-off that has been running since 2015.
Ando watches videos of Niki in several episodes of the first season. The website lasvegasniki.com can be seen in these videos . If you called up this page, you got to a form with the possibility to register for a newsletter of the series.
A website was also created for the fictional company Pinehearst . The last two links mentioned have also been redirected to NBC.
Web links
- Heroes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official site (English) with the graphic novels
- Heroes on RTL2.de
- German Heroes Wiki
- Illustrated review of the DVD release of the Steelbox 1.1 on dvdmancias.de
- Cut reports for broadcast on RTL 2
Individual evidence
- ↑ Natalie Abrams: NBC Cancels Once-Mighty Heroes . In: TVGuide . May 14, 2010. Retrieved May 15, 2010.
- ↑ Jürgen Schmieder: You are not normal at sueddeutsche.de, accessed on November 21, 2015.
- ↑ Thomas Ays: Heroes (TV series) - Season 4 at moviesection.de, accessed on November 21, 2015.
- ↑ AFI.com: AFI AWARDS 2006
- ↑ Space View : Hiro Nakamura, Sprachgenie - Why so many viewers are very different when it comes to the German “Heroes” synchronization , issue 02/2008
- ↑ Awards ( English ) Internet Movie Database. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
- ↑ space-view.de: 4th season of "Heroes" decided
- ↑ Serienjunkies.de : Heroes: Series start in Switzerland
- ↑ RTL2.de: Heroes - Die Sendung ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Schnittberichte.com: Heroes and online film database: Version for Heroes
- ↑ Fernsehserien.de: Heroes broadcast dates
- ↑ Alexander Krei: RTL II shows "Heroes" much later from now on. Reported by DWDL.de on November 4, 2009.
- ↑ Manuel Weis: "Heroes" comes to an end in the night. Report to Oddsmeter.de .
- ↑ Uwe Mantel: "Heroes" is heading back towards the witching hour. Reported by DWDL.de on October 19, 2010.
- ↑ Heroes Reborn: Broadcasting. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Serien.ioff.de: Quota check: "Heroes" 1st season SF two ( memento of the original from December 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Wettenmeter.de: Oddscheck: «Heroes»
- ↑ TV ratings at ATV ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Abcmedianet.com: ITRS RANKING REPORT 01 THRU 160 (OUT OF 160 PROGRAMS) DAYPART: PRIMETIME MON-SUN FROM 09/24/07 THROUGH 02/03/08 REGULAR PROGRAMS LIST RANKED BY: VIEWR 2+ (000) ( page not more available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Nellie Andreeva: Full Series Rankings For The 2009-10 Broadcast Season. Deadline Hollywood, May 27, 2010.
- ↑ fictionbox: Spin-off officially died
- ↑ amazon.com: Smallville released on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray
- ↑ amazon.com: Sixth season of Sopranos released on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray
- ↑ Digitalfernsehen.de “Heroes Season 2” as the first Blu-ray in Europe
- ↑ Emmett Furey: WWLA: LOEB & CO TALK "HEROES"
- ↑ http://www.activatingevolution.org/ WARNING: This page contains a wiki that has been captured by spammers. The site has been partially restored, but still contains many links to dangerous sites.
- ^ Primatech Paper Company. ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ lasvegasniki.com. ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ pinehearstresearch.com .
