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Heroes is a show that aired on NBC for four seasons from 2006-2010. After 77 episodes, over 170 online comics, numerous webisodes, and many other stories told over various media, NBC decided not to review the show for a fifth season. A followup series, Heroes Reborn, aired on NBC from 2015-2016.

Welcome to /r/Heroes!

Heroes is a show that aired on NBC for four seasons from 2006-2010. After 77 episodes, over 170 online comics, numerous webisodes, and many other stories told over various media, NBC decided not to review the show for a fifth season. A followup series, Heroes Reborn, aired on NBC from 2015-2016.

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  • HeroesWiki.com, the number one source for information on everything Heroes, including exclusive interviews and events

  • Heroes Wikia, filled with hundreds of pages of Heroes content

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Which plot hole in the series do you find yourself making fun of the most?

For me, I know it's a TV show but it would be how overpowered Hiro is considering he is a time traveler.

21 Comments
2024/04/25
20:04 UTC

25

Who is the Pink Lantern?

Maury Parkman is our Yellow Lantern, using his psychic abilities to turn people’s worst fears into an inescapable reality. Now the next question remains:

#3 is Pink Lantern! Powered by love, it is the ultimate expression of the fight against hate and fear! Those who possess one fight for the sake of those who mean most to them.

32 Comments
2024/04/25
19:16 UTC

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Sylar Season 2 Finale

So I noticed this error in the show but I guess I can see why they did it. The company had infected Sylar with a strain of the Shanti virus which took away his abilities. This made him lose all of the abilities he previously acquired as well as blocked his intuitive aptitude. After he steals the cure mixed with Claire’s blood he heals from his wounds and he is able to move the soda can. The issue is telekinesis was never one of Sylar’s original abilities, he stole that from Brian Davis. He should not have had this power. I’m sure they did that to show that he got his power back but it doesn’t make sense.

13 Comments
2024/04/24
23:14 UTC

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Am I the only one that genuinely liked Heroes Reborn?

Mostly what the title said, but hear me out. I wasn’t a big fan of the storyline for the twins, and its entire convoluted mess. But I really did like the story of the father and mother who lost their child during the EVO attack, and turned to hunting EVOs. It’s a horrible thing to do, but it’s a really accurate depiction of what grief can look like when they don’t process correctly. And I loved how the father ended up getting solar based powers after his son was allergic to sunlight, because it really reinforced the idea that powers aren’t random but are developed based off of need or want. He couldn’t stop grieving for his son, and that’s why his power manifested how they did.

I also really liked that storyline of the guy whose brother died, I think? It was awesome to see a mechanic with no special powers find a way to fight the bad guys in the name of his loved ones.

The SFX was bad, true. The plot was glossy, overdone, really just incomprehensible in its lack of believability and cohesion. Like they tried to go with the textbook, comical doomsday and somehow failed. But I still love the failed Reboot for those reasons I listed, not because of but in spite of the plot. Is it just me?

33 Comments
2024/04/24
22:04 UTC

3

Peter’s Future

now i know it doesn’t matter since we will most likely never see the character again. I always thought about how in the future it shows peter with his original abilities (pre stolen powers) so u think eventually peter gets his old powers back somehow. it wouldn’t be that crazy if someone had the power to do that or maybe matt’s son somehow helped with that cause we saw how he helped hiro. idk just had a thought and wanted to share

6 Comments
2024/04/24
21:12 UTC

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Who is the Yellow Lantern?

Hiro won as the Green Lantern by a landslide, due to his conviction in sticking to his goals despite any challenges he faced(including a tumor of all things).

#2 is the Yellow Lantern! A person who is most capable of instilling fear in others, and knows the value of the power of fright!

(Same rules apply)

34 Comments
2024/04/24
18:52 UTC

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Is the upcoming reboot more likely to retcon Heroes Reborn or stay in the same continuity?

I never finished Heroes Reborn but I am aware of Claire's fate in that show, so I'd be perfectly okay if they decanonised that so they could bring Hayden Panettiere back to reprise the role.

7 Comments
2024/04/24
15:45 UTC

3

There’s “down bad” then there’s what Samuel did

0 Comments
2024/04/24
13:34 UTC

11

Noticed something new about Hiro while rewatching

I'm on my 3rd or 4th rewatch of the show currently. This is a little detail, but it just occurred to me that the reason Hiro refers to Isaac Mendez as "Mr. Isaac" is possibly because he isn't aware that surname and given name are reversed in Japanese, as opposed to how they are in English.

At the start of the series, Hiro's English is very lacking, with Ando having to speak for him a lot of the time. He clearly knows a handful of words or phrases ("Hello, New York," etc), enough to understand that calling someone "Mister" is the rough equivalent of the "San" suffix in Japanese. But I think it's likely that he doesn't initially have a good enough understanding to grasp that "Isaac" is Isaac's given name, not his family name, so he thinks that he's using the proper form of formal address.

Just a tiny detail I noticed that I thought was cool.

3 Comments
2024/04/24
07:06 UTC

11

Any other young fans?

I am a freshman and the only people I know who have seen the show are all adults. Do any of you guys know young fans? I'm curious to see how old the fans are.

14 Comments
2024/04/24
02:23 UTC

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Currently rewatching and...is this guy Alex Ovechkin??

I recently got into hockey when I moved to Canada, so I wasn't familiar with Ovi in 2006, but I am now and this guy really reminds me of him. Obviously he's not him but I'm not gonna lie, I had to google it to make sure 😂.

21 Comments
2024/04/24
01:36 UTC

4

Heroes Seasons should've been shorter.

I believe this show, as good as it was suffered a problem that the show in its entirety had, Season 1 especially. The show was too long, as were many shows back in the day.

Before we had super expensive high budget streaming shows with 8 to 10 episodes, Heroes ran for 23 episodes long.

The show could have been cut down on many drawn-out scenes and subplots and ended with a tighter 12-16 episode count, but 23-24 was what kept the industry going. For better or worse.

Agree? Disagree? Somewhere in between?

15 Comments
2024/04/23
21:02 UTC

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Which lantern is each? UNBIASED VERSION

Because the other guy doesn’t actually state any rules and instead goes by whichever one they want, here are the rules. Look through the comments first, and if someone has already stated your person, upvote their comment. If they list more than one, it is invalid. If you write something someone else has said, it will not be counted. If you have already made a comment or upvoted a comment, do not also make a comment stating your opinion, because it won’t be counted. I am not making a separate one out of spite, but I am making a separate one to ensure the people are truly heard.

#1 is Green, or Willpower! Those who have demonstrated a remarkable ability to restrain themselves as well as to put the maximum of their power behind their actions. Who do you choose?

42 Comments
2024/04/23
18:13 UTC

5

I’m gonna preface this by saying I know this sounds like a stupid question, but I’m curious

If Peter touched two Evos at once, would he get both of their powers? Would he aquire whatever ability would be most useful (i.e if he was bleeding out, and he touched Matt and Claire, he’d get Claire’s healing)? Or would he get no powers at all? Could it potentially backfire? Again, I know this sounds stupid, but who knows?

14 Comments
2024/04/23
17:40 UTC

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Babygirl belongs in The Hague

10 Comments
2024/04/23
03:58 UTC

7

Bruh is the original wiki Gone Gone????

This wiki was so much more thorough than the one on Fandom!!! Does anyone have admin privileges on the old one, in order to access it and either update the mediawiki software or transfer the contents??

1 Comment
2024/04/22
23:45 UTC

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I got a Mohinder action figure

The other day my family went to a local comics/collectibles store to get a gift for my cousin, and I felt compelled to buy the one piece of Heroes paraphernalia there. Mohinder isn’t my favorite, but he’s probably my first choice for an action figure; frankly, I think the makers of the figures did the cast DIRTY with those face designs, particularly Peter, and Mohinder’s probably the least-off-looking. Either way, I think it’s back to sculpting Nemdoroid Peter.

19 Comments
2024/04/22
23:17 UTC

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Thinking about Peters Ability

okay so we all know when peter gets his power back with injecting himself with the stuff. i was just curious since he’s only allowed one power at a time now would he be able to take sylars power and just understand how to get anyone’s power like how sylar does ?

6 Comments
2024/04/22
15:58 UTC

5

When did DL figure out Jessica was in control?

Things seemed normal at first when she got out of jail. Did I miss a scene where he found out Jessica was pretending to be Niki? He started calling her Jessica out of nowhere as far as I remember🤷‍♀️

3 Comments
2024/04/21
16:38 UTC

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Reboot HEROES into a legimate Superhero property .

Heroes like smallville did a song and dance around superhero genre , of people looking normal but having special abilities .
It was ok idea in the beginning because it was all about the story , but things have changed and I think the next reboot of Heroes should be a retooling .
Marvel Cinematic Universe and The Boys ,has changed the game people want to see cool superpowers , costumes and fantastical stories of special people saving the world .

Get rid of the term for people with powers as EVO , call them Homo Especialis aka Special Humans or Specials for short .
Create a lore that goes back to World War 2 when the first few Specials emerged and used their powers to fight Crime as well some to commit crimes.
Lets create some characters who have actual superpowers they use for helping.

Here is some superheroic and supervillain, names and powers for certain character.
Superheroes a term copyrighted by Marvel & DC can't be used , so Special Heroes or Special Crusaders should be a common word used.

Amazing Man
A young Caucasian hetero male who discovers as a teen he has super strength, agility, durability, endurance, nigh-invulnerability, longevity and flight.
He does discover he has weakness to fire, mortar attack and being suffocated, the only way to gain access to his fluids is by his saliva or sperm (story later)
Amazing Man inherited his Special gene from his maternal grandfather a WW1 veteran who was the first Amazing-Man in the late 1930s and later served as a covert U.S. Spy in WW2 .
After his first wife and first-born child were killed in a explosion as a act of revenge by a archenemy in the late 1940s he vanished from being a Special Crusader .
Now a new generation of the Amazing Man appears inspired by comicbooks from 9th wonder comics and discovering his recently deceased grandfather private journal.

NYX
A young Hetero Bi-Racial female who has the power to manipulate dark matter to use in various ways from Dark matter energy constructs.
As well creating a forcefield in the radius up to 40 feet in width and height that block out light, that can withstand projectiles, mortar attacks and explosives but only for a short period.
Nyx doesn't know who she inherited her special gene from since she was adopted by her adopted parents when she was two years old.
NYX would turn to becoming a masked Special Crusader when in college after her boyfriend is carjacked and murdered, by a masked criminal who police never capture.

Senor Fuego
A gay Latino man who discovered in his youth can generate fire, is immune to fire or incendiary elements and can throw fire balls as a range attack .
He gained his special gene and abilities from his mother who also has the same abilities, she would help him master his abilities in his youth since it's also tied to his emotions.
His mother boyfriend is a champion mixed martial artist who also know of Senor Fuego and mother special abilities, he helps him train in martial arts to control his powers in his teens.
Later Senor Fuego would become a special crusader after his boyfriend is assaulted and left in a coma by a street gang, he dawns a luchador mask to hide his identity to exact revenge.
Senor Fuego begins to wage a war against this violent street gang called Hermandad de las bestias 666 but also commonly known as HDB666 .

Magic Man
A hetero blackman when he is a teen discovers he has the power of transmutation where he can alter material objects down to the subatomic level with his own mind.
Even alter his own physical structure on a genetic level as well for only a limited time , he would gain his special gene and abilities from his deceased maternal grandfather and mother.
Magic Man would be raised in the Innercity under his grandmother , he would use his powers early on as a hustler hustling people in three card monte.
He was a big fan of magicians and unlike them he actually had special abilities , which he used to become famous online doing tricks which went viral on social media.

He would soon grow to become popular that he would do tricks for daytime tv shows, leading to him getting his own residency in Las Vegas.
As years passed Magic Man became wealthy and famous, then his manager whose also his off and on-again girlfriend was murdered.
The police wouldn't go further except for one police detective who warned him of a covert clandestine criminal faction who is behind the murder due to evidence she had.
This would force him to seek out the truth of the corruption that got his manager and paramour murdered .

Add your fanfiction to this HEROES rebooted universe .

13 Comments
2024/04/21
02:15 UTC

42

Why were there so many instances of ADR dubbing in Heroes?

Some instances are more obvious than others, but dubbing seems to be a constant occurrence in the series. Is this something that was common in early 2000s shows, or something maybe behind the scenes?

14 Comments
2024/04/20
22:46 UTC

75

Which character from the original do you think NEEDS to be in the new show?

My top pick is Hiro. Hiro absolutely HAS to be a part of the show. The actor who played him hasn't had that much success compared to actors/actresses for Claire, Peter, Suresh, so cost shouldn't even be an issue getting him.

With his ability to move through time and space, it opens up so many possibilities of how to tie a new setup to the old one very easily, including multiverses.

51 Comments
2024/04/20
22:23 UTC

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Is there any fanfiction for original plan of season 2?

It always feel empty when I think about original plan of season 2. The idea had a lot potential. Sadly they cancelled it.

5 Comments
2024/04/20
12:33 UTC

21

What happened to Molly?

I’m about 4 episodes in to Season 4. And I just keep wondering who on earth is taking care of Molly this whole time?? Did I miss something? Matt is back with Janice and who knows where Suresh is. She was such a big deal for a while, and it looked like Matt had pretty much adopted her. This is my second rewatch, and I can’t remember if she comes back towards the end. But either way who is watching her?!🤔

16 Comments
2024/04/20
12:30 UTC

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Rewatching for the first time as an adult and Nikki's storyline is boring as hell.

I didn't have a big issue with it at first but I'm on episode 15 and the split personality thing isn't interesting at all. Do they ever even explain what power is it or even if it is a power . It's lame.

44 Comments
2024/04/20
07:19 UTC

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Apparently there’s a new show in the works…

I started a rewatch tonight after having the box set on my shelf for years. It was a show I watched with my dad and brothers, lots of memories there. I hope it’s aged well…

There was a mention about a third show on Wikipedia. What are your thoughts, hopes, concerns etc?

Btw, is Reborn worth a watch? It only lasted a single season so I’m kinda sceptical.

9 Comments
2024/04/20
02:43 UTC

699

It's happening! The wife wanted a rewatch so here we gooooo!!

55 Comments
2024/04/19
17:06 UTC

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Does anyone know the name of the track playing in Nathen's death scene?

2 Comments
2024/04/19
12:31 UTC

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