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This is a '''list of ]''' in the ] ''''']''''', the ], and the ''Heroes'' webisodes. This is a list of fictional characters in the television series '']'', the ], and the ''Heroes'' webisodes.


== Main characters == == Main characters ==
{{see also|List of Heroes cast members}}
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===Character duration===
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{| class="wikitable"
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! rowspan=2 | Character
! rowspan="2" | Portrayed by
! colspan="5" | Appearances
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! ]
! ]
! ]
! ]
! ]
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| Isaac Mendez
| ] || {{cMain|Main}} || colspan="2" {{cNone}} || {{cGuest|Guest}} || {{cNone}}
|-
| ]
| ] || {{cMain|Main}} || colspan="4" {{cNone}}
|-
| ]
| ] || colspan="2" {{cMain|Main}} || {{cGuest|Special Guest}} || {{cNone}} || {{cRecurring|Recurring}}
|-
| Matt Parkman
| ] || colspan="4" {{cMain|Main}} || {{cRecurring|Recurring}}
|-
| ]
| rowspan="2" | ] || colspan="2" {{cMain|Main}} || colspan="3" {{cNone}}
|-
| ] || colspan="2" {{cNone}} || colspan="2" {{cMain|Main}} || {{cNone}}
|-
| ]
| ] || colspan="4" {{cMain|Main}} || {{cRecurring|Recurring}}
|-
| ]
| ] || colspan="4" {{cMain|Main}} || {{cGuest|''Archive footage''}}
|-
| ]
| ] || colspan="4" {{cMain|Main}} || {{cNone}}
|-
| ]
| ] || colspan="4" {{cMain|Main}} || {{cGuest|Special Guest}}
|-
| Peter Petrelli
| ] || colspan="4" {{cMain|Main}} || {{cNone}}
|-
| ]
| ] || {{cMain|Main}} || {{cGuest|Special Guest}} || colspan="3" {{cNone}}
|-
| ]
| ] || colspan="5" {{cMain|Main}}
|-
| ]
| ] || {{cNone}} || {{cMain|Main}} || {{cGuest|Special Guest}} || {{cGuest|Guest}} || {{cNone}}
|-
| ]
| ] || {{cNone}} || {{cMain|Main}} || {{cGuest|Special Guest}} || colspan="2" {{cNone}}
|-
| ]
| ] || {{cNone}} || {{cMain|Main}} || colspan="3" {{cNone}}
|-
| Ando Masahashi
| ] || {{cRecurring|Recurring}} || colspan="3" {{cMain|Main}} || {{cNone}}
|-
| ]
| ] || {{cNone}} || colspan="2" {{cMain|Main}} || colspan="2" {{cNone}}
|-
| ]
| ] || {{cRecurring|Recurring}} || colspan="3" {{cMain|Main}} || {{cNone}}
|-
| ]
| ] || colspan="2" {{cRecurring|Recurring}} || colspan="2" {{cMain|Main}} || {{cRecurring|Recurring}}
|-
| ]
| ] || colspan="3" {{cNone}} || {{cMain|Main}} || {{cNone}}
|}


In its inaugural season, ''Heroes'' featured an ] of twelve main characters. During the first season, the NBC ''Heroes'' cast page listed ten characters among the cast; ] arrived later, and ] was promoted to series regular as of ]. In its inaugural season, ''Heroes'' featured an ] of twelve main characters. During the first season, the NBC ''Heroes'' cast page listed ten characters among the cast; ] arrived later, and ] was promoted to series regular as of ].


For the second season of the show, ], ], and ] left the main cast. ] For the second season of the show, ], ], and ] left the main cast. ] and ], who were recurring characters in the first season, were added to the main cast, and were joined by new cast members ], ], ] and ]. Anders was meant to be a recurring character, but was promoted to a series regular prior to the start of the season. He is credited as a guest star for the first four episodes of season two.
and ], who were recurring characters in the first season, were added to the main cast for the second season, and were joined by new cast members ], ], ], and ]. Anders was originally to be a recurring character, but was promoted to a series regular prior to the start of the season. He is credited as a guest star for the first four episodes of season two.


For the third season, ], recurring in the first two seasons, was promoted to series regular. ], ], and ] were no longer regulars and became guest cast. Additionally, ] was no longer part of the main cast as scenes involving her in the third season were cut. For the third season, ], recurring in the first two seasons, was promoted to series regular. David Anders, Kristen Bell, and ] were taken off the main cast and become special guest stars. Additionally, Dana Davis was no longer part of the main cast, with scenes involving her in the third season being cut.


For the fourth season, a new character Samuel Sullivan (portrayed by ]) was added as a series regular. Cast as a recurring part, the part had been changed to a starring role.<ref name="Knepper01">{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/News/Knepper-Heroes-regular-1008514.aspx?imw=Y|title=Robert Knepper's Villainous Heroes Role Is Supersized|last=Mitovich|first=Matt|date=2009-07-29|publisher=TV Guide|access-date=2009-09-19}}</ref> Dania Remirez left the main cast as well.
Unlike most series, each main cast member is only credited for the episode he/she appears in.


===Character profiles===
{| class="wikitable" {| class="wikitable"
! Name || Main cast</br>(seasons) || Guest cast</br>(seasons) || Played by ||Known special abilities
|- |-
! Name || Played by ||Special abilities
| ] || 1, 2, 3 || — || ] || ]
|-
| ] || ] || Rapid cellular regeneration
|-
| ] || ] || None
|- |-
| ] || 1, 2, 3 || — || ] || None | ] || ] || Electrokinesis
|- |-
| ] || ] || Adaptive muscle memory<ref name="The Line">{{cite episode | title = The Line | episode-link = The Line (Heroes) | series = Heroes | series-link = Heroes (American TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: Lesli Glatter, Writer: Joy and Melissa Blake | airdate = 2007-10-22}}</ref><!-- Do not add speculation! ANY power added without citation will be summarily reverted. -->
| ] || 2 || 3 || ] || ]
|- |-
| ] || ] || None
| ] || 2 || — || ] || ]<ref name="The Line">{{cite episode | title = The Line | episodelink = The Line | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: Lesli Glatter, Writer: Joy and Melissa Blake | airdate = 2007-10-22}}</ref><!-- Do not add speculation! ANY power added without citation will be summarily reverted. -->
|- |-
| ] || ] || Phasing <small>(intangibility)</small>
| ] || 1 || — || ] || None
|- |-
| ] || ] || ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.primatechpaper.com/AT_2.0/at_map_file.php# |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080819024719/http://www.primatechpaper.com/AT_2.0/at_map_file.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=2008-08-19 |title=Assignment Tracker 2.0 |publisher=Primatechpaper.com |access-date=2010-07-09 }}</ref>
| ] || 1 || 2 || ] || ]
|- |-
| Ando Masahashi || ] || Initially none; acquires power amplification and energy projection after injecting himself with a gene-altering formula
| ] || 2, 3 || — || ] || ]<ref>http://www.primatechpaper.com/AT_2.0/at_map_file.php#</ref>
|- |-
| ] || ] || ] <small>(expressed through visual art)</small>
| ] || 2, 3 || 1 || ] || Initially none; acquires power amplification after injecting himself with a gene-altering formula
|- |-
| ] || ] || ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/news/heroes-generations-finale/071204-01 |title=Exclusive: Tim Kring Explains Heroes' "Generations" Finale |access-date=2007-12-04 |publisher=TV Guide |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906221929/http://www.tvguide.com/news/heroes-generations-finale/071204-01 |archive-date=2008-09-06 }}</ref>
| ] || 1 || — || ] || ] <small>(expressed through visual art)</small>
|- |-
| ] || ] || Space-time manipulation <small>(allowing teleportation, time manipulation, and time travel)</small>
| ] || 2 || 3 || ] || ]
|- |-
| Matt Parkman || ] || ];<ref name="Fight or Flight">{{cite episode | title = Fight or Flight | episode-link = Fight or Flight (Heroes) | series = Heroes | series-link = Heroes (American TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: Lesli Glatter, Writer: Joy and Melissa Blake | airdate = 2007-10-22}}</ref> resulting in mental manipulation, ], mind control, ] and ]<small> (expressed through visual art)</small>
| ] || 1, 2, 3 || — || ] || Space-time manipulation <small>(allowing ], ], and ])</small>
|- |-
| ] || ] || Enhanced dreaming <small>(allowing ], ] dreaming, and dream manipulation)</small>
| ] || 1, 2, 3 || — || ] || ]<ref name="Fight or Flight">{{cite episode | title = Fight or Flight | episodelink = Fight or Flight (Heroes) | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: Lesli Glatter, Writer: Joy and Melissa Blake | airdate = 2007-10-22}}</ref>
|- |-
| ] || ] || Flight
| ] || 3 || 1, 2 || ] || Enhanced dreaming <small>(allowing ], ] dreaming, and dream manipulation)</small>
|- |-
| Peter Petrelli || ] || Empathic mimicry then tactile power mimicry (after a gene-altering formula) and multiple acquired abilities <!-- Mimicry has a citable source; the TV Guide article. Empathy or any other changes are speculation directly contradicting citable sources. -->
| ] || 1, 2, 3 || — || ] || ]
|- |-
| ] || ] || ]
| ] || 1, 2, 3 || — || ] || ] and ]<!-- Mimicry has a citable source; the TV Guide article. Empathy or any other changes are speculation directly contradicting citable sources. -->
|- |-
| ] || 1, 2 || 3 || ] || ] | ] || rowspan="2" | ] || Enhanced strength
|- |-
| ] || Cryokinesis; water transformation
| ] || 1, 2 || — || ] || ]
|- |-
| ] || ] || Terrakinesis
| ] || 3 || — || ] || ]
|- |-
| ] || 1, 2, 3 || — || ] || Initially none; acquires enhanced strength, agility, and senses after injecting himself with a gene-altering formula | ] || ] || Initially none; acquires enhanced strength, ] and ] after injecting himself with a gene-altering formula
|- |-
| ] || 2, 3 || 1 || ] || ]; empathic mimicry; ] | ] || ]|| Intuitive aptitude; ]
|} |}


== Other characters with special abilities == == Other characters with special abilities ==
=== Charlie Andrews ===
'''Charlene "Charlie" Andrews''', portrayed by ], is a waitress at the Burnt Toast Diner in ], where ] and ] stop to eat on their road trip to ]. After she reveals to Hiro that she had recently developed the ability to quickly memorize and recall any information with great accuracy in a seemingly unlimited volume, ] murders her in the diner's storeroom, removing her brain in the same manner as his other victims.<ref name="SevenMinutes">{{cite episode | title = Seven Minutes to Midnight | episodelink = Seven Minutes to Midnight (Heroes) | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series)| credits = Director: Paul Edwards, Writer: Tim Kring | network = NBC | airdate = 2006-11-13}}</ref> Hiro tries to prevent her murder by going back in time one day to warn her, but he accidentally goes back six months, to ] (Charlie's birthday). He convinces Charlie that both he and she have special powers by stopping time to make ]. After taking a job at the diner and dating Charlie, Hiro buys two tickets to take her to ]. Charlie ponders her feelings and tells Hiro that while she does not usually let people get close to her due to a ] in her brain that is killing her, he makes her feel happy and she loves him. However, when Hiro and Charlie are about to kiss, he inadvertently teleports back to present day ] and is unable to return.<ref name="sixmonthsago">{{cite episode | title = Six Months Ago | episodelink = Six Months Ago | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series)| credits = Director: Allan Arkush, Writer: Aron Eli Coleite | network = NBC | airdate = 2006-11-27}}</ref>


=== Bridget Bailey === ===Introduced in season 1===
'''Bridget Bailey''', portrayed by ], is an evolved human with the power to perceive the history of any object she touches, introduced by the BBC in its mirror of Heroes 360 information. Her exchanges with Mohinder Suresh were later included on NBC.com as part of Heroes Evolutions. Her first message, entitled "I need some advice", began on July 11, 2007.<ref></ref>


==== Charlie Andrews ====
The '']'' site, Assignment Tracker 2.0, was updated on August 5, 2008 to include a new interactive map which revealed Bridget to be a Company agent paired with Berk Donahue.<ref></ref> On the Evs Dropper blog, Bailey expressed regret that she was unable to aid in the war against Evs alongside her partner. In '']'', Sean Fallon asks Gael Cruz about the "Bailey case", implying that he was assigned to aid her. Gael told him to forget it. Angela sends Bridget to meet Sylar in "]", where she is killed as soon as Angela leaves the room and her ability is absorbed.
] (2009)]]


'''Charlene "Charlie" Andrews''', portrayed by ] (with ] playing an elderly Charlie in one episode), is a waitress at the Burnt Toast Diner in ], where ] and Ando Masahashi stop to eat on their road trip to ]. After she reveals to Hiro that she had recently developed the ability to ], ] murders her in the diner's storeroom, removing her brain in the same manner as his other victims.<ref name="SevenMinutes">{{cite episode | title = Seven Minutes to Midnight | episode-link = Seven Minutes to Midnight (Heroes) | series = Heroes | series-link = Heroes (American TV series)| credits = Director: Paul Edwards, Writer: Tim Kring | network = NBC | airdate = 2006-11-13}}</ref> Charlie and Hiro's relationship is the subject of the novel '']''. During ''Six Months Ago'', after accidentally traveling back in time six months while trying to save her life, Hiro steadily falls in love with her and she with him and she teaches him English. However, Charlie has a blood clot in her brain that will eventually turn into an aneurysm and kill her making her death inevitable no matter what Hiro does. He is unwillingly returned to his own time, depressed over his inability to save Charlie which affects his powers for the rest of the season. In season 4, after learning that he is dying, Hiro becomes determined once more to save Charlie, referring to her as his true love and seeing his failure to save her as his biggest mistake. In ''Once Upon a Time In Texas'', Hiro returns to the day of Charlie's murder to attempt to save her despite ] warning against him messing with time as that day and time is a confluence of important events. Hiro is able to stop Sylar and send his past self back six months to ensure their relationship. However, after the two are reunited, Charlie's blood clot starts to develop into an aneurysm and she comes close to dying. Desperate, Hiro enlists Sylar's help to save her in exchange for information on his personal future. Sylar removes Charlie's blood clot through her left eye, saving her life, but Charlie is horrified by what Hiro tells Sylar of his future and that he'd save her instead of all those other people Sylar killed. Charlie storms out, but eventually returns to Hiro. She is then kidnapped by Arnold on the orders of Samuel Sullivan and displaced in time to force Hiro to cooperate. In "Brave New World", Hiro is finally reunited with Charlie, now an old woman who is dying of old age. She reveals the location and date she was transported to, but refuses Hiro's offer to go back in time and retrieve her as she has lived a wonderful life. Accepting this, Hiro says a final goodbye to Charlie and teleports away with Ando to stop Samuel.
===Baron Samedi===
'''Baron Samedi''', portrayed by Demetrius Grosse, is a powerful warlord in the jungles of ], and is the half-brother of ].<ref>http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18984</ref> He is a posthuman who possesses impenetrable skin, which grants him a degree of invulnerability from trauma such as fire, knives, and bullets. He shares a ] with a ] and an ] from 1973 ] film '']''. After escaping Level 5, he returns to Haiti and retakes control, though the Haitian follows after him.
When ] and ] fly to Haiti to find the Haitian, Baron Samedi is warned of their presence by ], and he manages to capture Nathan. Due to the effects of the eclipse, Baron Samedi temporarily loses his powers, and is knocked unconscious by Peter and the Haitian as he is about to rape a girl. However, he later confronts them after regaining his ability, but is mind-wiped by the Haitian.


===Bob Bishop=== ==== Charles Deveaux ====
] (2007)]]
'''Robert Bishop''', portrayed by ], has the ability of ], allowing him to change the chemical properties of objects into material such as gold. Known as '''Bob''' to his colleagues, he is one of the twelve members of the group established by ] thirty years prior to the events of Kirby Plaza. He directs much of the tracking and capture of targets of the Company, and he is their financial source, using his ability to create unlimited amounts of gold and other "resources". He is ]'s father, and though she was trained to work for the company from birth, he constantly berates her actions.


'''Charles Deveaux''', portrayed by ], is the ]y father of ], and one of the founding members of the Company. He owns the Deveaux Society, which opened with the goal to "fund causes that bettered the world", and the Deveaux Building, the rooftop of which is a frequently visited location in the series.<ref name="Deveaux">{{cite web | title = Interview with Tawny Cypress| publisher = myFanbase | year = 2006 | url = http://www.myfanbase.de/index.php?mid=1492&pid=2665 | access-date = 2007-03-08}}</ref> At the beginning of the series, he is under Peter Petrelli's care due to his failing health, and he has recently lapsed into a coma. Charles believes that Peter is "like a son" to him, and that Peter's love and compassion can change the world, as opposed to his former partners' methods.<ref name="Deveaux" /> In "]", Charles and Peter telepathically share a dream in which they fly. After he awakens, he tells Simone about the dream and dies soon after. In "]", Peter has a dream where he witnesses Charles discussing the explosion with his mother, seemingly shortly after Peter became his nurse. Charles then addresses Peter directly, telling Peter he can save the world because he can love. He then calls to Peter's past self who takes him away, telling the past Peter to call him Charles rather than Mr. Deveaux. In "1961", a younger Charles appears at Coyote Sands with Bob Bishop and Daniel Linderman. The trio meet and befriend ] and Charles is revealed to be telepathic. The group flees before the massacre at Coyote Sands and vow to form a Company to protect people like them from that ever happening again.
=== Stephen Canfield ===
'''Stephen Canfield''', portrayed by ], is an escapee from Level Five who can open "vortexes", temporary holes in the fabric of space-time that act much like miniature black holes, drawing all nearby matter out of reality itself. He was captured by the Company after accidentally killing his neighbor. After his escape, he is confronted by Claire and later Noah Bennet and Sylar. He later attempts to find and reunite with his family, but they now fear him and don't show up. The Bennets find him again, and Noah tries to force him at gunpoint to suck Sylar into a vortex. Refusing to become a "monster", and believing he had nothing left to live for, he instead casts himself into one of his own vortices and disappears, which upsets Claire, who was the only person actually willing to help Canfield.


=== Echo DeMille === ==== Hana Gitelman ====
'''Hana Gitelman''' ({{langx|he|חנה גיטלמן}}) is introduced in a four-part arc of the ]. She made small, on-screen appearances in the ] (played by ]) during "]" and "]", but has primarily featured in supplemental material. Hana has the ability to act as a living electronic transmitter and receiver, capable of intercepting and interpreting virtually any form of electronic signal and transmitting coherent signals of any type through thought alone. ], ]s, and ]s are all simple for her to receive and reproduce if necessary.
'''Echo DeMille''', portrayed by ], is a prisoner of Level Five with the ability to manipulate sound. He was almost captured by the Constrictor and Howard, but used his power to escape. When the Constrictor later took his girlfriend hostage, Echo was forced to kill him. He took out another pair of agents making his escape. When trying to meet with his girlfriend, Echo used the ] to avoid two more Company agents. He arranged to meet her thirteen weeks later at his family's cabin only to be ambushed by Penny and Connie Logan, Elle Bishop, and several other paired agents. Using his ability, he incapacitated all but one - a posthuman with the ability to absorb sound. The agent captured him, and Echo was detained to Level Five, where Angela Petrelli implied a former connection to him.


==== Meredith Gordon ====
When Sylar later puts the Company facility into lockdown, Noah releases Echo and the other recaptured prisoners, offering them freedom if they can kill Sylar. Echo is subsequently killed by Sylar, his throat being slashed open.
'''Meredith Gordon''', portrayed by ], is the biological mother of ] and the older sister of ]. Like her younger brother, Meredith has ] abilities, which both enable her to create fire from her body and grant her immunity to the effects of it. Died in explosion by Sylar.


=== Charles Deveaux === ==== The Haitian ====
René, commonly referred to as '''The Haitian''' and portrayed by ], has the ability to erase peoples' memories as well as suppress the abilities of others' around him within a certain radius/area of himself. Noah Bennett uses his powers to his advantage as the Haitian works for him. For instance, in Season 1, Noah directs the Haitian to remove everyone's memories that are aware of his daughter Claire's ability to spontaneously regenerate. In the alternate futures of Seasons 1 and 3, the Haitian works for the enemy, helping Future Claire kill Future Peter in "I Am Become Death" and blocking Hiro's abilities so he cannot flee in "]" before being killed by Future Mohinder. In ''Heroes Reborn'', The Haitian is running a company called Lumiere Ophthalmology. Noah meets him and retrieves his old glasses, at which point The Haitian attempts to kill him, acting on what he told Noah with his dying breaths were Noah's own orders. Noah later discovers it was to hide the location of Claire's children. Noah later alters the timeline to prevent The Haitian's death and, in the revised timeline, he is a member of Hero Truther's group and working to take down Renautas.
'''Charles Deveaux''', portrayed by ], is the ]y father of ], and one one of the founding members of the Company. He owns the Deveaux Society, which opened with the goal to "fund causes that bettered the world", and the Deveaux Building, the rooftop of which is a frequently-visited location in the series.<ref name="Deveaux">{{cite web | title = Interview with Tawny Cypress| publisher = myFanbase | year = 2006 | url = http://www.myfanbase.de/index.php?mid=1492&pid=2665 | accessdate = 2007-03-08}}</ref> He is extremely sick at the beginning of the series while Peter's care. Simone believes that Peter is "like a son" to him, and Charles believes that Peter's love and compassion can change the world, as opposed to his former partners' methods.<ref name="Deveaux">{{cite web | title = Tawney Cypress and Richard Roundtree to return for heroes finale| publisher = heroesnet | year = 2006 | url = http://www.spoilerfix.com| accessdate = 2007-04-08}}</ref>


=== Eric Doyle === ==== Paulette Hawkins ====
'''Paulette Hawkins''', portrayed by ], is the mother of ], and ] grandmother. Her relationship to ] is tense, questioning her ability to raise Micah. In "]", she defends D. L. in front of Niki. Paulette is convinced that D. L. was framed for killing his crew. She is not seen again until "]" where it is revealed that she has the power to enhance other people's abilities and had become a thorn in the Company's side and was locked in one of the five levels.
'''Eric Doyle''', portrayed by ], has the ability of "Puppet mastery", which allows him to control the actions of other by manipulating them like a puppeteer. He is initially captured by the Company after causing people to commit suicide with his ability. He later escapes during the confrontation between Elle and Sylar and runs "Doyle's Marionette Theater." He has obsessive romantic feelings ], often using his power to make her bend to his will.


=== Hana Gitelman=== ==== Sanjog Iyer ====
'''Sanjog Iyer''', portrayed by Javin Reid, is an Indian boy whom ] had been observing prior to leaving for New York. Chandra's notes described Iyer as having a genetic marker allowing the boy to enter people's dreams, where he acts as a "]" of sorts. He appears in visions that ] experiences after returning to India with his father's ashes. After Mohinder finds Sanjog, he explains to Mohinder that he does not enter the dreams of others, but that they instead come to him. Sanjog subsequently appears in several ''Heroes'' graphic novels, showing visions of the past to various individuals. In an interview with Joe Pokaski and Aron Coleite, they state that Sanjog's character was considered for the storyline involving Molly and her nightmare man, Maury Parkman. However, the idea was scrapped for reasons they did not reveal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=12125 |title=Comic Book Resources – CBR News – The Comic Reel |publisher=Comicbookresources.com |access-date=2010-07-09}}</ref>
{{Main|Hana Gitelman}}


=== Flint Gordon Jr.=== ==== Daniel Linderman ====
] (2007)]]
'''Flint Gordon Jr.''', portrayed by ], is Meredith Gordon's younger brother, who also possesses the power of ]. He produces extremely hot blue flames as opposed to Meredith's more conventional orange flames. He is slow-witted, causing him to be more of a lackey than a leader, especially when around Meredith. He and Meredith are separated as children after Meredith accidentally uses her ability to burn down their abusive father's house. After being sent to different foster homes, Flint discovers his power, and Meredith later unites with him until they are both captured by the Company. They are offered positions as agents, though Meredith forces them to flee to avoid being manipulated. Flint is recaptured and placed into Level Five. He ends up being released during the conflict between Sylar and Elle, and he later joins under the Pinehearst Company.


'''Daniel Linderman''', portrayed by ], has the ability to heal the injuries and illnesses of living organisms; this includes healing the "scars" created by mental manipulation, thereby allowing him to restore lost memories and remove implanted thoughts.<ref>{{cite episode | title = Villains | episode-link = Villains (Heroes) | series = Heroes | series-link = Heroes (American TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: Allan Arkush | airdate = 2008-11-10}}</ref> He served in the ] with ], whom he ended up healing from the brink of death, in the ] under the ] "Austin". After the war, Daniel found himself living a nomadic, solitary existence. Though he occasionally drowned his sorrows in alcohol, nothing eased the pain of his war memories. Then he met Linda Tavara, whom he thought he could trust his secret with, but he ended up killing her in self-defense; Linda's list led him to reunite with Arthur. He eventually became a reputed ], and founder of Linderman Corporation under the guidance of ]. He acts as one of the main villains of ''Genesis'' before being killed by D. L. Hawkins for threatening his family. In the "spirit walk" of ''Villains'', it is revealed that Arthur was the one who ordered Nathan's accident, not Linderman and that Linderman was disturbed by Arthur's treatment of his wife. Despite his evil ways, Linderman still possessed a shred of decency inside him and healed the damage done to Angela's mind so she'd know the truth about what Arthur was doing.
=== Meredith Gordon ===
'''Meredith Gordon''', portrayed by ], is the biological mother of ] and the older sister of Flint Gordon. She does her best to watch over him, leading their abusive father to tell Flint, "God gave you an older sister instead of a brain." Like her younger brother, Meredith has ] abilities, which both enable her to create fire from her body and grant her immunity to the effects of it. The two are separated after she accidentally burns down her father's house, though they later reunite. She has an affair with ] at some point, which leads to the birth of Claire. They are soon hunted by ], and the chase ends with a large explosion, leading the Company to believe Meredith to be deceased and Meredith to believe Claire to be deceased. Claire manages to track her down after many years, though the two only meet briefly before separating.


=== The Haitian === ====Ando Masahashi====
{{nihongo|'''Ando Masahashi'''| 正橋安藤| Masahashi Andō}} is a fictional character on the ] ] ] series '']'', portrayed by ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Heroes Official Website |work=] |url=http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/cast/ |access-date=2008-11-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081031193421/http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/cast/ |archive-date=31 October 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The character was promoted to ] in the ].<ref>{{cite web | title= Exclusive Interview: James Kyson of Heroes | work= heroesrevealed | url= http://www.heroesrevealed.com/cast/james-kyson-lees-ando-masahashi-regular-character-on-heroes/ | access-date= 2008-11-17 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081013134831/http://www.heroesrevealed.com/cast/james-kyson-lees-ando-masahashi-regular-character-on-heroes/ | archive-date= 13 October 2008 | url-status= dead }}</ref> Introduced to television audiences in the ] "]"<ref>{{cite web | title= "Heroes" Chapter One 'Genesis' (2006) | work=]| url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0759572/ | access-date=2008-11-17}}</ref> as an employee at Yamagato Industries, Ando is a partner to his co-worker and friend ] on various ]s to save the world. He often has to overcome ] about being undervalued and being seen as a ] or liability due to his lack of ] in contrast to Hiro and ]. At the end of the third volume, "Villains", he acquires the ability to massively amplify the power of any posthuman he touches. Later, in the fourth volume, "Fugitives", Ando has learned to channel this energy into concussive blasts, projecting the energy outward to knock back any targets.
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Ando first appeared to the audience as a friend of ''Heroes'' protagonist Hiro Nakamura, watching an ] of ] ]. Ando did not believe that Hiro could ], even after Hiro ] into the women's bathroom of a ]. After the incident, he told Hiro to stop trying to be different and accept his lot in life.
=== Paulette Hawkins ===
When Hiro returned from the future in "]", he convinced Ando of his powers and Ando then traveled with Hiro to America to prevent the ] from occurring.
'''Paulette Hawkins''', portrayed by ], is the mother of ], and ] grandmother. Her relationship to ] is tense, questioning her ability to raise Micah. In "]", she defends D.L. in front of Niki. Paulette is convinced that D.L. was framed for killing his crew. She is not seen again until '']'' where it is revealed that she had become a thorn in the Company's side and she was locked in one of the five levels. She is brought out by the Kill Squad to augment the powers of Brenden Lewis so a crater created by a Guyanan local could be covered in forestry. She performs her duty under the impression that she will be taken to her grandson, Micah, afterward. Against the Company's orders, she is shot upon finishing.
Following an issue of a "9th Wonders!" ] they went to ] and visited a ], where Hiro used his powers to ] at ]. After being thrown out, they were attacked by some men that lost money to them.
They argued in the ] and Ando left Hiro to find Niki Sanders at her home, where he was apprehended by a group of police. He then reunited with Hiro in their journey to find ].


{{rquote|right|Every hero is on a journey to find his place in the world. But it's a journey. You don't start at the end, otherwise they can't make a movie about it later. |Ando to ] in "Better Halves"}}
=== Alejandro Herrera ===
'''Alejandro Herrera''', portrayed by ], is the brother of ]. He is very protective of her, even after the initial discovery of Maya's power, which kills their friends and his new wife. When she runs away, he tracks her down and discovers his ability to stop the progression of the poison she emits. Afterward, they try to escape from Mexico in order to go to New York, picking up ] along the way. While Maya trusts Sylar, he does not, and soon after, when he reveals his intention to force Maya to leave with him, Sylar kills him.


After contacting ], Ando and Hiro learnt about the latters ]. They were again confronted by the men they defeated in the ], and forced to play another round. Ando panicked during the game and rushed with Hiro to the bathroom. While in there, their opponents were ] and they fled. Ando later consoled Hiro, telling him he could perhaps change their deaths by time travel after their mission. While on the road, they happened upon a burning car, and helped ] save the life of the passengers. Ando called the police, which forced D.L. to flee with his son ]. Further along in their journey they stopped at a Diner in ], where they met a waitress named ], who had the ability to ]. When Charlie was killed in the storage room of the diner by an ] Hiro, despite Ando's pleading, traveled back in time to prevent her death. He failed to return within five seconds as he promised, leaving Ando alone. ] in the diner, Ando noticed a picture of Charlie and Hiro together, taken six months ago, and realized Hiro had traveled back there. Peter Petrelli called, and later met Ando at the diner. Ando protested against Peter going to find "the cheerleader" without the presence of someone with abilities, but Peter left.
=== Sanjog Iyer ===
'''Sanjog Iyer''', portrayed by ], is an Indian boy whom ] had been observing prior to leaving for New York. Chandra's notes described Iyer as having a genetic marker allowing the boy to enter people's dreams, where he acts as a "]" of sorts. He appeared in the visions that ] experienced after returning to ] with his father's ashes. After Mohinder found Sanjog, he explained to Mohinder that he does not enter the dreams of others but that they instead come to him.


], Hiro returned, having failed to save Charlie, and they continued onwards to Union Wells High School . When it became clear they had arrived too late, Hiro felt the world was doomed. As they left, they received a phone call from Isaac Mendez, whom they met back at the diner, with Isaac telling them of his ]. Later, he painted another of Hiro. In "]", Ando and Hiro finally arrived at ], and visited the Museum of Natural History looking for a sword like the one in Isaac's painting, and they find the Blade of Takezo Kensei, a legendary ]. They stole it, but it transpired that the sword was a replica, with the original belonging to a ]. They went to Isaac's loft seeking his help, and met ], who told them that Linderman resided in Las Vegas. When Ando and Hiro were kidnapped and brought to ] in "]", Ando became attracted to Hiro's sister, ] in the ]. In "]", Ando became infatuated with a woman named Hope, who convinced Ando to obtain a bag of hers from her 'ex-boyfriend'. When he returned with it, Hope convinces Ando to give her a ride. Hiro, who had been locked up by Hope, pursued them with her 'ex-boyfriend', a gaming commission officer. This led to a ] between Hope and the officer, and afterwards, Hiro told Ando to go home. Ando nonetheless followed Hiro, and saved him from arrest when Hiro was discovered stealing ] sword from Linderman's casino. Hiro teleported them away. In "]", it is revealed to the audience that Hiro has teleported them both five years into the future, were they encounter Hiro's future self. With "]", New York has been devastated by the ] predicted by Isaac. When Hiro is captured by ], Ando and Future Hiro escaped, and plotted to free him so he and Ando could return to their time and stop the bomb. Ando learned from Future Peter that he was killed in the explosion. They eventually manage to free Hiro, but Future Hiro was killed by ]. As he died, he handed to Ando a page of a "9th Wonders!" comic book.
In "]", the name on the file's label included a comma as a typo. On the NBC website, Suresh's map spells the name Sanjop Iyer. The episode "]" confirms the boy's name is Sanjog Iyer.


Ando and Hiro returned to the present, and traveled to Isaac's loft to consult him. They found him dead, killed by Sylar, and hid as the killer detected them. They escaped him and then followed him to his ]. Hiro did not want to kill Sylar, but Ando showed Hiro the "9th Wonders!" comic page which shows him dead. Hiro unsuccessfully attempts to kill Sylar. He and Ando teleport to safety, where they discovered that the sword has been broken. They try to have the sword repaired, and Ando and Hiro encountered Hiro's father once more. Kaito and Hiro spoke alone, and Ando, impatient, decided to seek out and kill Sylar himself. In the ], Ando went to Isaac's loft and found ]. The superhuman villain overpowered him and prepared to kill him. Ando dropped the "9th Wonders!" comic book in the process, revealing to Sylar that Hiro would kill him. When he started to kill Ando, Hiro arrived and teleported himself and Ando to the offices of Yamagato industries back in ], where their journey started. Hiro gives Ando ] sword, promised to return, before he finally teleported to Kirby Plaza to kill Sylar with Ando's sword.
In an interview with Joe Pokaski and Aron Coleite, they state that Sanjog's character was considered for the storyline involving Molly and her nightmare man, Maury Parkman. However, the idea was scrapped for reasons they did not reveal.<ref></ref>


In the graphic novel "Heroism is Found in the Heart", after Hiro was teleported back to ], Ando was reassigned by Kaito Nakamura to Hiro's former position. Ando became infatuated with Kimiko Nakamura and sought her affections. One night, he walked her home and they were confronted by a group of bikers. Ando learned that the leader, Fukazawa, was also pursuing Kimiko. Ando and Kimiko ran, but were eventually cornered. Ando promised to protect Kimiko and confronted the gang. When they ran away, Ando kissed Kimiko. Neither were aware that Kaito had scared the pursuers away.
Sanjog has appeared in several ''Heroes'' graphic novels showing visions of the past to various individuals.


In "]", Ando has returned to New York City following Hiro's disappearance, waiting for his friend's return with Kaito Nakamura. Kaito receives a ] and Ando leaves to get a sword for protection. He returns to see Kaito killed by ], though Ando does not see the killer's face.
=== Bianca Karina ===
'''Bianca Karina''' is an agent of the Company who can adapt her lungs to enable her to breathe in any environment, including underwater. She is partnered with Devin Patterson and engaged to Gael Cruz. She is first seen in "]" when she and Patterson capture one of Julien Dumont's rogue clones. She is next seen in "]", where she, Gael, and Devin are sent to capture the German. After Gael is incapacitated and Devin is killed, Bianca uses her ability to knock him out. With the help of Paul Harding and Ahlrich Dekker, they get the German to headquarters. At the end of the Evs Dropper arc, she defends Donna Dunlap from Gael, locking him in a cell. After Donna and Eric Thompson identify Connie Logan as Evs Dropper, she is leads those sent to fight her. Once the majority of agents are killed, Bianca shoots the root Julien Dumont and all clones are killed. In "]" and "]", she and Gael confront Sylar outside the Bennet house after he leaves having taken ]'s ability, and she is killed by Sylar after she and Gael attempt to capture him. However, Gael identifies himself as "special", so Bianca gets a quick death and her power is not taken.


Following Kaito's death, Ando is questioned by ] about the incident, but, besides telling him the meaning of the helix symbol, Ando is unable to answer his questions. In the episode "]", Ando discovers that Hiro has left messages for him, stored within the hilt of Takezo Kensei's sword. The messages, written while he was in the year 1671, detail Hiro's adventures with Takezo Kensei.
=== Knox ===
'''Benjamin "Knox" Washington''', portrayed by ], gains ] when others around him are frightened. He often uses the threat of becoming stronger to fuel the fears of others. His past was going to be featured in a storyline where he attempts to get out of gang life with the help of Matt Parkman, though he returns to his old ways after his power manifests.<ref>http://gregbeeman.blogspot.com/2008/11/beemans-blog-season-3-episode-8.html</ref> He is initially a Level Five prisoner, who escapes after the conflict between Sylar and Elle. He joins with the others to hunt down Noah Bennet, though he eventually ends up working for Arthur Petrelli.


Hiro returns in "]", to Ando's delight. While both are happy about the reunion, Ando sorrowfully tells Hiro about his father's death. At Kaito's ], Ando is dismayed at Hiro's decision to go back and time to save his father, but is unable to dissuade him. However, Hiro realizes that Ando is right and does not change history, instead using the opportunity to discover that Adam Monroe, who he knows as Takezo Kensei, was responsible. Hiro makes it his mission to stop Adam and confronts him at the Primatech Paper Facility. He returns to Ando with the assurance that Adam can never hurt anyone again.
In "]," Knox accompanies Flint to Mohinder's Pinehearst laboratory. They find Peter preparing to destroy the formula and find common cause: they want to make sure no one else can gain abilities and threaten their unique status. Knox goes to see Nathan and keep him prisoner until the formula is destroyed. Nathan attacks Knox and tries to incapacitate him, but Knox gains the upper hand. As Knox is about to kill Nathan, Tracy intervenes and freezes him, causing him to shatter.


In "]", Hiro, resigned to working in his father's office at Yamagato Industries, told Ando that he was bored without a quest. Suddenly Kaito's lawyer turned up with a recorded message from Kaito to Hiro. It instructed him to guard the contents of a safe, and never open it. Hiro curiously opened the safe and found one half of a ], which was stolen by an ] with the ability of ]. When Hiro travelled to the future to learn more about the formula, he saw himself be killed by Ando, who had a power. Ando then took the formula before ] was devastated by an unexplained ]. After that in "]", they travelled to Paris in search of the thief, identified as Daphne Millbrook, and Hiro explained to Ando that in the future he saw Ando kill him. Ando was shocked and told Hiro he could never do that when Daphne arrived. Events led to Hiro freezing time while Daphne held a ] at Ando's throat. Hiro saved Ando by allowing her to leave with the formula.
=== Daniel Linderman ===
They continued to follow Daphne in ], and she tried to drive Hiro and Ando apart by undermining Ando. Hiro and Ando noticed ], and discovered he was in possession of the other half of the formula. Ando knocked the Haitian out.
'''Daniel Linderman''', portrayed by ], has the ability to ] the injuries and illnesses of living organisms; this includes healing the "scars" created by mental manipulation, thereby allowing him to restore lost memories and remove implanted thoughts.<ref>{{cite episode | title = Villains | episodelink = Villains (Heroes) | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: Allan Arkush | airdate = 2008-11-10}}</ref> He served in the ] with ], whom he ended up healing from the brink of death, in the ]. After the war, Daniel found himself living a nomadic, solitary existence. Though he occasionally drowned his sorrows in alcohol, nothing eased the pain of his war memories. He eventually became a reputed ], and founder of ] under the guidance of ]. In person, he is persuasive, gentle, and unfailingly polite, though he has no qualms about extortion or assassination. During the first season, he manipulates various events in order to ensure that the Company controls the United States, including talking Nathan Petrelli into wanting to become president, manipulating the lives of ] and ], kidnapping ] to alter election polls, and planning on letting the explosion kill six million people. He is later killed by D.L. during a standoff.


Daphne managed to steal the other half from them, and before they can give chase, the Haitian awoke and apprehended them both, taking them to the Level 2 prisons of the Primatech Facility. ] showed Hiro and Ando arguing, with Ando claiming that Hiro did not value him as a partner. While trying to escape, Hiro realized he did need Ando. They almost escape, but are caught by the Haitian. He takes them to ], who claims that Hiro has the "key" to solving the whole issue of the formula. Ando then helped Hiro dig up the key: Adam Monroe. In "]", Adam begrudgingly took Ando and Hiro to a bar that was a gathering place for "specials for hire", and caused a fight. This led to Hiro being knocked out, and Adam escaping. Ando proclaimed them "the worst heroes ever", before Daphne and ] entered the bar, wanting to recruit Hiro to the Pinehearst Company. Knox said that to prove himself, Hiro had to kill Ando, handing him a sabre sword.
During the third season, McDowell returns as a guest star, as an illusion created by Maury Parkman in the minds of Nathan Petrelli and Daphne Millbrook. He tells Nathan to become a politician again, and tells Daphne to recruit others for the Pinehearst Company. McDowell also plays the real Linderman in a flashback in "Villains".


Hiro ], but in ] it was revealed that Hiro froze time. After that, he acquired a collapsible sword and fake blood, then traveled slightly back in time to tell Ando that, when the time came, he had to pretend to be dead. He returned to the correct moment, and stabbed Ando. When Daphne and Knox left, Ando stood up again. They travelled to Africa on their first assignment in search of ], a man who could ]. Ando expressed doubt over their situation, saying they were working for the bad guys. Hiro reassured him it was simply to infiltrate Pinehearst. They were unable to capture Usutu through Hiro's time traveling abilities, so they tried to do it by hiding and waiting for him. He congratulates them for using their heads as opposed to Hiro's power, and in "]", offers Hiro and Ando the chance to take a spirit walk for guidance. Ando refused, and watched over Hiro as he slept in "]". In "]", he tried to save Hiro from ], but was tossed aside by Arthur's ]. When Arthur became distracted, he and Hiro escaped.
=== Eden McCain ===
'''Eden McCain''', portrayed by ], is a Company operative with the power to ] control others bythorugh verbal communication. Born "Sarah Ellis", her father leaves her to live with her stepmother at an early age, which causes her stepmother to blame her for her father's actions and abuse her for it. She discovers her power after saying "I wish you'd just die!" to her, which causes her heart to instantly stop beating. She heads west, adopts her new name, and begins living selfishly until being taken in by ] and ], who persuade her into working with them.


Hiro though, had regressed back into his 10-year-old self, and Ando tried to help him reclaim his memories in a bowling alley. Hiro then teleported them to a comic book store, where Ando spotted a new issue of "9th Wonders!" and saw an opportunity to help Hiro become normal again. In the first part of "]", Ando was taken by Hiro to ]'s apartment to meet Matt Parkman, and the three followed the speedster after she fled to her childhood home. Hiro and Matt were shocked to discover their powers gone. While Matt attempted to talk to Daphne, Ando and Hiro left, with Hiro claiming to know a way to regain his power. Hiro takes him to a comic book store, and with the help of two comic book geeks Sam and Frack, the four search through copies of 9th Wonders! to learn of Hiro's fate and any possible way to repair his memory. After Frack discovers a scene depicting Hiro and Claire Bennet hiding as Kaito Nakamura gives baby Claire to her father ], Hiro teleports away without Ando.
=== Daphne Millbrook ===
'''Daphne Millbrook''', portrayed by ], is a thief with the power of superhuman speed. She can move both herself and others at speeds fast enough to just barely outrun a nuclear explosion. She becomes acquainted with ], who refers to her as "nemesis," after stealing his half of a chemical formula that gives ordinary people super powers. She works for the Pinehearst Company under the direction of ] (who appears to her as Mr. Linderman), charged with recruiting members. One of the people she is to recruit is ], whom she is married to in "]". Parkman, having seen this future, tries to convince her to quit instead, since it will eventually get her killed. She sees that he is actually a good person and reveals to Parkman that although she is very conflicted about her work and the people she works for, she doesn't have a choice. In "It's Coming", she tells Matt she loves him and defects to ]. In "]", it is revealed that Daphne suffers from ] and relied on crutches and braces to walk before gaining her powers.
With the help of Ando's power (gained through the formula) it is possible for Daphne to travel back in time (as such with Einstein's Theory of Relativity) by being 'supercharged' by Ando.


Parkman and Daphne find Ando in the comic book store, and they try to figure out how to follow Hiro's adventure. Sam tells them that there is only one last copy of 9th Wonders!, given by Isaac Mendez to a bike courier before his death. Daphne takes Ando and Parkman to New York in "]" to track the comic book down. They find the last copy, and discover that Hiro is stuck 16 years in the past as Arthur Petrelli has taken Hiro's powers. The three come to the conclusion that the only way to save Hiro is to find another time-traveler. Ando volunteers himself to take an experimental formula to give him the ability to manipulate space and time so he can save Hiro. In "]", Daphne steals a dose of the formula from Mohinder, and gives it to Ando. Ando manifests the ability to "super charge" the abilities of others, which he uses on Daphne to allow her to run faster than the speed of light, enabling time travel per Einstein's Theory of Relativity. They rescue Hiro from the past, saving Hiro from death at the hands of his father but likewise preventing Hiro from destroying the formula. Nevertheless, Hiro is able to steal the formula in the present with Daphne's help and the group celebrates as he destroys it.
=== Jesse Murphy ===
'''Jesse Murphy''', portrayed by ], is a former prisoner of Level Five. He is described by Knox as having no friends. He and Knox were captured by Noah Bennet and the Haitian after the two used their powers in an attempt to take over a neighborhood.


In "]" Hiro and Ando are back in Japan. Hiro has bought an abandoned fire station as their headquarters. Ando leaves Hiro frustrated after Hiro is injected with a GPS device, and so Ando feels that Hiro is trying to live through him, since Hiro has lost his powers. Later, Ando hears Hiro being kidnapped by Nathan's agents through the phone.
Years later, an alternate, future version of Peter Petrelli puts the present-day Peter in Jesse's body to keep him safe. However, present-day Peter is forced to leave with the other Level Five prisoners when Elle Bishop accidentally releases them. Peter accompanies a group of them on a bank robbery to make sure that no innocents are hurt. However, Knox figures out the truth and attacks, causing Peter to trigger Jesse's ability. Before Peter can stop the villains, though, the future Peter releases him and takes him to the future. Jesse, now free, attempts to kill Noah Bennet with Flint and Knox, but Sylar incapacitates them and takes Jesse's power, killing him.


In "]", using the GPS device Hiro injected himself with, Ando figures out that Hiro is in Arkansas. Daphne arrives in Japan to find Hiro and Ando to talk about Matt's disappearance. Daphne and Ando go to Arkansas and see the plane's crash site. After Daphne appears to have been killed and Claire uses herself as a shield, Ando, Mohinder, Matt, and Hiro escape and meet up with Peter. Then he and Hiro realize that they must travel to India as seen in one of Matt's paintings.
According to executive producer ], Jesse's power was originally "Earthquake-stomp", but was changed to a sonic scream due to budget constraints.<ref> - Director's blog on the filming of this episode</ref>


In "]", once in India, Hiro and Ando realize that they must save a local girl, Annapoora, from being married against her will. At first Ando uses his red glow as the sign she was looking for, but he "steals" Hiro's chance to recover his powers and also he ends up being kidnapped by the groom to force Annapoora into marriage. Finally, Hiro realizes that he does not need powers to be a hero, as he saved the girl without them, getting Ando back too. Later, Annapoora gives them a message "Rebel" sent them: to find Matt Parkman in ].
=== Ishi Nakamura ===
'''Ishi Nakamura''', portrayed by ], was the wife of Kaito Nakamura and mother to Kimiko and Hiro. She was shown as deceased when Hiro was eight years old when he went back in time with his father in an attempt to convince him to escape his death. It was revealed that she had an ability in an interview with Aron Coleite and Joe Pokaski,<ref></ref> which is shown to be the ability to heal living organisms in "Our Father". She revives Hiro's sick bird and restores the future Hiro's lost memories.


As seen in "]" and continued in "]", Hiro and Ando arrive ] where they find that the Matt Parkman "Rebel" was referring to was only a baby, also named Matt Parkman. Later they discover that this is actually the son of the Matt Parkman they know, and also discover the baby possesses the ability to touch things and make them "go." While Hiro and Ando are convincing ] that Matt Sr. is not a terrorist and that his baby is in danger, agents take Janice away and break into the house. Ando shows that his acquired ability can also be used as an offensive weapon when he channels the energy outward to hit one of the pursuing agents, before Hiro manages to stop time with his partially restored ability (Matt Jr. used his powers to restore part of Hiro's). Hiro carries baby Matt and a paralyzed Ando to safety as he is unable to teleport, having only regained the ability to stop time.
She carried the Catalyst, also referred to as "the light". Prior to her death, she originally transferred it to baby Claire, but the future Hiro intervenes and convinces her to transfer it to him instead.


In "]", Hiro and Ando have the mission to take baby Matt to Matt Sr., but Matt Jr. keeps inactivating any vehicle they are on due to the noise they make, until Ando comes with a funny face to entertain the baby, so Hiro convinces him to keep it so the "cube" can go. They finally manage to track down Matt Sr. who has gone to confront Danko. Hiro ends up saving Matt, and then he meets his son for the first time, giving Matt a reason to live again.
=== Kaito Nakamura ===
'''Kaito Nakamura''', portrayed by ] and ] (in a flashback), is a stern and powerful businessman in Japan and the father of ]. He is the CEO of Yamagato Industries, and he is described as a man with "real power" by his underlings. He is initially very disappointed with Hiro, who does not show any sort of drive, though he eventually comes to respect his son as he develops into a hero. He is one of the founders of the Company, and he has an unknown power.<ref name="kaito">Weiland, Jonah, (October 1, 2007) "", ]. Retrieved on December 31, 2007.</ref> The season two DVD boxset features a deleted scene, which shows his ability as being able to analyze the probabilities of a situation and determine the outcome, though the scene is not part of the official storyline.


In "]", after failing to convince Matt to join them, Hiro and Ando go to Reed Street Laboratories to set up a trap for HLS agents, using Ando as bait. Although he refuses, as Hiro manages to not freeze him, Hiro still keeps his plan going on, unfreezing the agents so they can take down Ando, and then freezing everybody again so he can take an agent's place as they carry Ando to the "Building 26". Once in motion, Ando is awoken by Hiro so he can be ready for action, but when an agent realizes Hiro is not one of them, Ando shoots a big blast of red lightning, affecting everyone and saving Hiro. As plan B, they use the GPS signal of the agents to track the place, and once they are ready to fight, Hiro tries to freeze time, but instead he receives a strong headache and nosebleed as they realize he cannot use his ability anymore. Ando is then seen aiding Hiro.
=== Maury Parkman ===
'''Maury Parkman''', portrayed by ], is ]'s father, having abandoned Matt when he was thirteen. He is one of the twelve founders of the Company, and like his son, Maury is a ]; however, his powers are much more developed than Matt's. Instead of just reading surface thoughts, he can read people's memories and manipulate their perceptions of reality, allowing him to trap people in nightmares based on their deepest fears and insecurities. He can either render a person unconscious and manipulate their dreams, or he can induce "waking nightmares" that allow the person's real body to move. He is also able to detect Molly Walker, who calls him "the Nightmare Man" attempting to locate him using her power, and he does not require close proximity to affect a person's mind. He is one of several people swayed into believing that those with abilities are superior to humans by ], whom he loyally served. Maury subsequently works for ] after Adam's imprisonment, having pledged to do so to save his son's life. When this arrangement became inconvenient, Arthur snapped his neck, presumably killing him.


In "]", because of Hiro's condition, Ando plans to enter "Building 26" by himself, but Hiro recovers and insists on continuing with the plan despite the danger. Hiro stops time and both break in to free the trapped prisoners, including Mohinder, Noah and Danko, and replace the drugged evolved humans with all of the "Building 26" staff. Once time is going, Hiro and Ando show the freed prisoners the way out. Ando asks Mohinder to check out Hiro, finding out his body is rejecting his powers and he should stop using them. As Hiro faints after saving Noah from Danko, is apparently taken to a hospital by Ando and Mohinder. Later, Ando, along with Hiro, witness the burning of Sylar's (really ]) body and then both decide to return home.
=== Arthur Petrelli ===
'''Arthur Petrelli''', portrayed by ], is the husband of ], the father of ] and ], and the biological ] of ]. Angela has stated that she and Arthur have gone through "great lengths" to protect Claire.


In "]", Ando and ] have opened a hired hero business called "Dial-A-Hero" in a conference room at the Yamagato Building, which enrages ]. On Ando insistence to visit a doctor, Hiro reveals that his headaches are caused by a terminal illness, and he is dying. Attending their first mission, saving a girl's cat, both Ando and Hiro realize their abilities are not fitted to the situation, but still Ando is forced by Hiro to help the cat. Once he catches the cat, Ando loses balance and falls. Hiro stops time saving him, but Ando notices Hiro remains frozen while time is resumed. Ando then takes Hiro to Yamagato where he unfreezes. While talking, they remember the carnival they attended 14 years before, where a fortune teller directed Hiro on his path to being a hero. Ando remembers as he accidentally spilled a drink over Kimiko, causing her to hate him despite he was in love with her. While remembering this, Hiro's time travel manifests teleporting him to the carnival 14 years in the past.
Arthur fought in the ] under the alias "Dallas" alongside ]. After the war, Petrelli and Linderman "were brought together" into a group of twelve by Adam Monroe, with a mission to help save the world. Linderman tells Nathan that Arthur became disillusioned and gave up trying to save the world, resulting in his alleged suicide. It is revealed in the third season that Angela actually poisoned Arthur because of his attempt on Nathan's life. He secretly survived, but was left paralyzed due to nerve damage from the poison.


In "]", while Hiro is at the carnival in the past, a young Ando is seen together with a young Kimiko in the carnival. The young Hiro rushes into them making Ando spill a Slushy in Kimiko's direction, but ] pushes adult Hiro in the way to show him past can be changed, so he gets wet instead of Kimiko. This event avoids Ando to be hated by Kimiko, and when adult Hiro teleports back to the present, he finds out the two of them felt in love at the carnival and have dated since.
He is the primary antagonist of the third volume, "Villains," where he is first revealed to be alive. He is in charge of the Pinehearst Company, recruiting various humans to assemble a new group of villains, as well as arranging for ] to be brought to him in order to absorb his powers, healing Arthur's paralysis and killing Adam. He is shown to be ruthless in this endeavor, killing any who oppose him. For example, he snaps ]'s neck without hesitation when he protests the order to kill Matt.


In "]", Kimiko reveals to Hiro that she and Ando have gotten engaged. Ando is concerned about Kimiko wanting Hiro to give her away in the wedding a year from now, knowing that he may not be alive by that time, so he talks Hiro into confessing the truth to Kimiko. Hiro's ever-lasting mission to save a man makes him hear this speech from Ando over and over again, and finally understands the picture. Ultimately, Hiro tells Kimiko the truth about his illness, and then suffers a headache; Ando rushes in the office to help him, but Hiro teleports away in front of Ando and Kimiko, leaving her extremely shocked.
Arthur is presumably killed during a confrontation with Sylar, Peter, and the ] in "]". Peter tries to shoot Arthur in the head, but Sylar stops the bullet. After Sylar uses his ability of ] to discover that Arthur is not really his father, Sylar drives the bullet into Arthur's head, killing him. Though Arthur possesses Adam Monroe's healing ability, the injury inflicted is one thought capable of killing someone with such powers regardless, and he shows no apparent signs of healing in the following episode.


In "]", as Hiro travels back in time 3 years to ] to save ], he meets past-Ando waiting for past-Hiro to teleport back ('']'' timeline). Hiro convinces past-Ando to stay at the diner to avoid making too many changes and preserve history.
Arthur has the power to take the abilities of other posthumans through physical contact. Once he takes an ability, he cannot return it.<ref>http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18602</ref> The known powers he has taken are telepathy from an unknown source; the regenerative abilities of ]; Peter's empathic mimicry and the powers he absorbed as a result, including ]'s mental manipulation;<ref>http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18984</ref><ref>http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18984</ref> ]'s poison emission; and ]'s time and space manipulation.


In "]", a brain-addled Hiro is brought to Ando by the police after they find a business card on him. Ando reveals that Hiro has been missing for six weeks and figures that Hiro's referring to himself and everything else as fictional characters (with Ando being Sancho Panza) is a side-effect of his brain tumor. Ando does not understand what Hiro means by they have to save ] at "Arkham" in the land of the "swamp dragons", but decides to check Hiro's comics to try to figure it out. Ando eventually realizes that Hiro is referring to Florida when Hiro mentions Curt Connors and realizes that the "swamp dragons" are alligators and that Arkham refers to an insane asylum though he still does not understand the Doctor Watson reference. Ando searches on the web and finds that there's an asylum on Arkham Road in Florida and realizes that Hiro means Ando is his sidekick when he refers to him as Sancho Panza. Ando admits this, but Hiro refers to him as the best sidekick he knows.
=== Daniel Pine ===
'''Daniel Pine''', portrayed by ], is a Vietnam veteran with the ability to transform parts of his body into metal. He is introduced in "Villains", being captured by Agent Thompson and Meredith Gordon as the latter's first assignment in the Company. He is placed in Level Five, but escapes when Elle Bishop accidentally sets all the Level Five prisoners free. From there, he returns to his old home, and ends up killing his ex-wife. He is then recaptured by Meredith and Noah Bennet.


In "]", Ando checks Hiro into the asylum Hiro keeps referring to, but is reluctant as Hiro in his addled state cannot stop time or use his powers. Hiro points Ando to "Watson's" room as he's led away, and after Ando uses his power to bypass a lock, he finds out "Watson" is ] and realizes that Hiro wants to save him. Ando, realizing that Mohinder cannot use his powers due to the drugs the orderlies are giving him, switches Mohinder's pills with ] to stop that, but accidentally swallows Mohinder's pills and enters into a drug-induced daze. Hiro hides him in a closet and later that night frees Mohinder, but the two are forced to wheel Ando out in a wheelchair as he's still in a daze. As the three are found by orderlies, Ando snaps out of it and uses his powers to blast open a door leading out, creating enough of a distraction that Mohinder is able to overpower the orderlies and allow the three to escape. Running through a swamp chased by orderlies and dogs, the three are forced to hide behind a tree and Mohinder suggests Ando use his power like electro-shock therapy to restore Hiro's mind so he can teleport them away. Ando is reluctant as his future self killed Hiro using that power, but Mohinder convinces him to try. Ando shocks Hiro and it does work, restoring Hiro's mind back to normal. With Hiro back to normal, he teleports himself, Mohinder and Ando to Noah Bennet's apartment, seconds before orderlies and dogs find their hiding place. When the three teleport in, they interrupt Noah and Lauren Gilmore kissing and Hiro asks the two for their help.
When Sylar later puts the Company facility into lockdown, Noah releases Pine and the other recaptured prisoners, offering them freedom if they can kill Sylar. Pine is subsequently killed by Sylar, his twitching severed arm found in a corridor by Meredith.


In "]", Ando and Hiro watch as Mohinder creates a compass for Noah to use and suggests Ando or Hiro as the ones that use it as only someone with powers can use it. After Mohinder leaves, Hiro collapses due to his brain tumor and Ando has him rushed to the hospital. There, Ando watches worried as the doctors prepare to perform brain surgery to try to remove the tumor and save Hiro's life. In Hiro's hallucination, Ando acts as his lawyer during his trial and his young self acts as a witness for the prosecution. In the real world, Ando watches the surgery and when Hiro crashes makes a rousing speech that gives Hiro strength in his hallucination. The doctors manage to revive Hiro and remove the tumor. Ando later visits Hiro as he recovers from the surgery.
=== Claude Rains ===
'''Claude Rains'''<ref></ref>, portrayed by ], is the identity used by a former employee of the Company. He was Noah Bennet's partner, also trained by Ivan Spektor. When the Company discovers that Claude is hiding the identity of a powered person from them, they order Bennet to kill him; during the assassination attempt, however, an injured Claude turns invisible and escapes. He then spends many years invisible, hiding from the Company. He is eventually found by Peter Petrelli, who had seen him in a dream. Having previous experience with empaths, Claude is convinced by Peter to help him master control of his ability so that he will not eventually lose control and explode. With Claude's help, Peter is able to recall powers that he had previously absorbed, but before the training can be completed, Bennet and the Haitian track them down with the help of Isaac Mendez. They barely manage to escape, and an angry Claude abandons Peter to avoid any future capture attempts by the Company.


In "]", Ando is happy to see Hiro awake and has him test his powers which Hiro now has full control of after his tumor was removed. Ando and Hiro are shocked when Hiro receives a note from Charlie and Ando watches as a now old Charlie and Hiro reunite. When Hiro plans to travel back in time to get Charlie after she arrived in the past, Ando thinks Hiro is being selfish to try to do that as Charlie is clearly happy and leaves the room. He receives a call from ] who wants him and Hiro to come to the Carnival in ] and Ando goes to get Hiro. Hiro has changed his mind about going back in time after talking to Charlie and now feels he has lost his purpose and has finished all of his missions, but Ando reminds him of Samuel and informs him of Noah's call. Hiro teleports himself and Ando to the Carnival where Claire asks Hiro to teleport all of the carnies away. Hiro tells them all to hold hands, but is unsure if he can teleport them all as there are over a dozen, so Ando offers to use his powers to supercharge Hiro's to teleport everyone. Hiro agrees to try and thanks to Ando supercharging his power, Hiro successfully teleports everyone away which results in Samuel's defeat as the removal of all the special reduces Samuel's power significantly.
"]" showed Claude and Noah attempting to capture ]. The '']'' series showed Claude and his previous partner Haram attempting to capture ]. In "Sum Quod Sum, Part 1", Elle finds Claude in London, hoping that he will assist her in regaining control of her ability; when he runs away from her, she uses her ability during a rainstorm, knocking them both out. Claude's friends find them and take them back to their home, where Claude attempts to help Elle with her problem. However, he is unsuccessful, and she leaves after he uncontrollable ability injures one of them.


==== Eden McCain ====
In "Villains", an invisible man is said to have captured Flint Gordon. Producers Aron Coliete and Joe Pokaski have confirmed that this is a mistaken reference to Claude, who was hiding from the Company at that time.<ref>http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18984</ref>
] (2007)]]


'''Eden McCain''', portrayed by ], is a Company operative with the power of persuasion, to control others through verbal communication. Born "Sarah Ellis", her father left her to live with her stepmother at an early age, which caused her stepmother to blame her for her father's actions and to abuse her for it. She discovered her power after saying "I wish you'd just die!" to her stepmother, which caused her heart to instantly stop beating. She headed west, adopted her new name, and began living selfishly until being taken in by ] and ], who persuaded her to work with them. On Noah's orders, she moved in near ] and befriended him in order to remove Claire Bennet's name from the list of posthumans. She later attempts to kill Sylar during his imprisonment, but he's able to subjugate her. With no other choice Eden kills herself before Sylar could steal her powers.
Claude's power is limited to the visible spectrum; it does not make him inaudible,<ref name="CBR Eclipse Week 11">{{cite web | last = | first = |title = Behind the Scenes: "Heroes" Week fourteen | publisher = Comic Book Resources | date = 2007-01-22 | url = http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=9570 | accessdate = 2007-02-09}}</ref> nor does it mask his body heat or other such emissions, allowing him to be tracked through thermal imaging or similar methods. Claude has the ability to see others using the same power; Peter, having copied Claude's power, can see him when they're both invisible as easily as any normal person can when he's not invisible. Claude's power extends to his clothes and other personal effects in his immediate vicinity, as demonstrated when Claude grabs a woman's purse and hands it to Peter, which becomes visible as Peter holds it in his arms; Claude also demonstrates the ability to render other people invisible through physical contact.


==== Kaito Nakamura ====
The Characters namesake is ], who played the title role in the 1933 movie ].
] (1996)]]


'''Kaito Nakamura''', portrayed by ] and ] (in a flashback), is a stern and powerful businessman in Japan and the father of ]. He is the CEO of Yamagato Industries, and he is described as a man with "real power" by his underlings. He is initially very disappointed with Hiro, who does not show any sort of drive, though he eventually comes to respect his son as he develops into a hero. He is one of the founders of the Company. It is revealed in a deleted scene (in the season two DVD boxset) that he has the power of studying a situation and predicting its outcomes, though in the series he never uses this ability.<ref name="kaito">Weiland, Jonah, (October 1, 2007) "", ]. Retrieved on December 31, 2007.</ref>
=== West Rosen ===
'''West Rosen''', portrayed by ], was abducted by Mr. Bennet and the Haitian and taken to Primatech Paper in Odessa prior to the start of the series. There, he escapes a lab by discovering his flying ability for the first time. He flies into a vent, where he sees Claire. Both West and Claire are very young at the time. Claire and West exchange words, until the Haitian comes to recapture West and wipe his memory clean. West is then released back home, with his newly discovered ability to fly.


==== Claude Rains {{anchor|Claude}}====
West is a student at Costa Verde High School and classmate of ]. He first notices Claire when he almost hits her with his car. The two strike up a friendship in Biology class.<ref name="4months">{{cite episode | title = Four Months Later... | episodelink = Four Months Later... | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: Greg Beeman, Writer: Tim Kring | airdate = 2007-09-24}}</ref>
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West has a philosophy that people are either 'Aliens' or 'Robots'. <ref>{{Cite comic | Writer = Christine Boylan | Penciller = Tom Grummett | Title = ''''''| Volume = 1 | Issue = 52 | Date = '''2007'''}}</ref> 'Robots', in his opinion, are those who act normal and question nothing &ndash; the kind of people who do not "look up". 'Aliens' are unafraid to be different.
'''Claude Rains''', portrayed by ], is a former employee of the Company and agent alongside ]. His real name is unknown; his ], first used while working for the Company,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.primatechpaper.com/AT_2.0/assignmentTracker.php?subject=e0fafa02e5bd7adc5fa94a776d4654fa |title=Password: CRnop07in |publisher=Primatechpaper.com |access-date=2010-07-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090923150549/http://www.primatechpaper.com/AT_2.0/assignmentTracker.php?subject=e0fafa02e5bd7adc5fa94a776d4654fa |archive-date=2009-09-23 }}</ref> references ] who starred in '']''. A posthuman, he has the ability to turn himself, any personal objects he touches, and other people ]. Claude's power is limited to the visible spectrum; it does not make him inaudible, nor does it mask his body heat or other such emissions, allowing him to be tracked through thermal imaging or similar methods.<ref name="CBR Eclipse Week 11">{{cite web |title = Behind the Scenes: 'Heroes' Week fourteen | publisher = Comic Book Resources | date = 2007-01-22 | url = http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=9570 | access-date = 2007-02-09}}</ref> Claude guides Peter Petrelli and teaches him how to use his power, however, several powers then begin to overwhelm him at once, until Claude knocks him unconscious. Peter rescues the unconscious Claude by using the power of flight absorbed from his brother Nathan. Later, Claude is so apprehensive of the threat posed by Bennet that he ends his partnership with Peter.


==== Ted Sprague ====
He asks Claire in which category she belongs, wondering where she fits in the social hierarchy of the school. He sees that she makes a point of not being noticed, and is intrigued.
'''Theodore "Ted" Sprague''', portrayed by ], has the ability to generate and manipulate radiation, which he only discovers after being abducted by the Haitian. At first, he has very little control over his power and is extremely destructive, causing such harmful side-effects as ], which ends up killing his wife. When he gains better control over his ability, Ted realizes he is also able to produce an ] when necessary. He was eventually brutally killed by Sylar and his corpse left behind after Sylar caused a car accident that killed his captors and left him hanging upside down by himself.


====Brian Davis====<!--appeared in 3 episodes-->
West possesses the power of flight, and uses it to hover outside Claire's bedroom window, observing her. In "]", while observing her through a window, West learns of Claire's ability when he witnesses her regrow a severed toe.
'''Brian Davis''', portrayed by ], is an evolved human who has the ability ]. Sylar, who stole Davis's contact information from Chandra Suresh, called up Davis and gave him an alias, choosing "Sylar" from the brand name of a watch that he was working on, telling him he can fix his problem. When he revealed his ] to ], Davis asked Sylar if he could remove it. Sylar, driven by his aggression and hunger for power killed him and stole his ability, making him the first of several victims.


==== Zane Taylor ====
Claire and West strike up a relationship in the episode "]". She is angry at his behavior towards her during biology class, but West literally sweeps her off her feet and flies them both to a beach, where they share a kiss.
'''Zane Taylor''', portrayed by ], is the first person to respond to Mohinder's calls when Mohinder resumes his father's research. Zane leaves a phone message on Mohinder's answering machine, inviting him to ] to talk; however, Sylar arrives first and impersonates Mohinder. After an anxious Zane displays his ability to liquefy objects, Sylar kills him. When Mohinder arrives later on, Sylar impersonates Zane and demonstrates Zane's power to liquefy the toaster instantly. According to the article reporting his death, Zane is a musician; he is even seen wearing a ] T-shirt, which Sylar then wears while impersonating him.


====Molly Walker====
West has a mark on his neck similar to the one found on ] and Claude made by ]. During a surprise visit to the Bennet home, West sees Claire's father and Claire tells him her father is the man that abducted him. West leaves in a frightened rage, flying away before Mr. Bennet can notice him.
Molly Walker, portrayed by ], possesses the ability to locate any person in the world using a pin and a map just by thinking of them. She first appears in Episode 2 when her parents are brutally murdered by Sylar when Molly was a young girl. She is then taken into custody by The Company, where it is revealed that she has the same medical condition that killed Mohinder's sister Shanti, which prevents her using her powers. Mohinder treats Molly with antibodies from his own blood, realizing this is the cure. Molly shows that she is healed by locating Matt Parkman on a map. Later, she explains how her power works, and when mentioned, she refers to Sylar as "the ]". She then locates Sylar, giving his location as Isaac's loft. Later, Matt, who went to find Sylar, calls Mohinder to warn him that Sylar may be on his way, though Molly, using her power, says "he's already here". The two escape the building with the help of Niki, D. L. and Micah. In Kirby Plaza, they all witness the bout between Sylar and Peter Petrelli. As paramedics take the wounded Matt away on a stretcher, Molly runs up and asks him not to die, that says that he is her hero.


Molly returns in Season 2, having been adopted by Parkman and Suresh; as a favor to Matt, she locates his father Maury, despite fearing him as the "Nightmare Man" who torments her, she then collapses in shock. Mohinder delivers her to the Company, thinking it would be better for her there. In the Season 2 finale, she is menaced by Sylar, but escapes unharmed; she makes a few brief appearances in Season 3, but eventually disappears from the series without explanation. In the graphic novels, she is shown as having been sent to live with Mohinder's mother in India, hopefully out of harm's way.
In "]" it is revealed that West's last name is Rosen. He captures ] and asks him if Claire is in league with Noah. Noah replies that Claire lied to him about West, so she must care about him. Later, West helps Noah trade ] for Claire. The episode ends with West holding Claire while she mourns the death of her father.


In ''Heroes Reborn'', Molly played by ], reappears as a young woman who is being used by Erica Kravid to track "evos" after Claire's reveal of their existence. While she is eventually rescued by ], Molly seems to be mentally unstable and refuses to tell Noah anything more than that Claire is dead and that she was part of a group that was doing anything to protect "them", later implied to be Claire's children Nathan (a.k.a. Tommy Clark) and Malina. She then committed suicide to shut down an evo tracking system. In the episode "June 13 — Part 1", she is encountered by Mohinder at the Odessa Peace Summit and he gives her a copy of his research on a coming disaster in case something happens to him. Molly survives the bombing and attempts to help Caspar Abraham locate Claire while Noah is distracted by chasing his own future self. Killed herself while her body was strapped.
In "]", West confronts Claire about her decision to reveal her power and Claire breaks up with him after a heated argument.


====Dale Smither====<!--2 episodes-->
=== Scott ===
'''Dale Smither''', portrayed by ], is an auto mechanic with the ability of enhanced hearing; she constantly listens to rap music in order to drown out all the sounds which she is exposed to. In "]", she is contacted by Mohinder and Sylar (posing as Zane Taylor), and is subsequently murdered by Sylar.
'''Scott''', portrayed by ], is a Marine recruited by Pinehearst Company. Wanting to be more than human so that he can make up for his fellow Marines that died, he is the first person to try the newly-perfected formula, which grants him the ability of enhanced strength. However, as he is about to go stop Flint Gordon and Peter Petrelli from destroying the lab and the formula in "Dual", his neck is snapped by Knox.


=== Dale Smither === ==== Candice Wilmer ====
'''Candice Wilmer''', portrayed by ], is an agent of the Company who has the ability to create illusions. She appears in the first two volumes, Genesis and Generations. She can manipulate her own body and a large area around herself, effectively trapping someone if she wishes, and change any detail instantly. She is originally paired with Noah Bennet and is seen using her powers to taunt multiple characters. After Noah's betrayal of the Company is revealed at Candice's hands, she is seen operating on her own. She aides Mr. Linderman in the kidnapping of ] in "]", and watches after Micah in "]". In "]", Candice is confronted and knocked out by ] who, with ], came to New York for Micah. She is seen hinting at her true obese self in the episode "Landslide". In "]" Candice had assumed the form of a beautiful red-head under the alias of Michelle and is revealed to be tending a wounded and powerless Sylar, who she maintains constantly trapped under her illusions. She reveals to him that she works for the Company and it was she who pulled him off of Kirby Plaza. She is soon afterwards nevertheless attacked and murdered by a frustrated Sylar, who attempts to absorb her illusion's power, but it does not work. After her death, her form reverts to its original self of the overweight woman.
'''Dale Smither''', portrayed by ], is a middle-aged woman working in a garage near ], where Mohinder and Sylar (impersonating Zane Taylor) meet her to discuss her ability. She describes her super hearing, saying that she can hear a rain storm from 40 miles away, a cockroach walking along the floorboards in her next-door neighbours' house and the slightest change in someone's heart beat. Dale listens to rap to drown out many unwanted sounds, saying that it helps her to nullify her power. She is murdered by Sylar shortly after their meeting.


Candice Wilmer's origins are later revealed in the "Betty" graphic novel where it is shown that Candice's true name is actually Betty, a rather plain-looking person in high school, usually dressing in black and hanging out with her friend Ren Metzger. They were bullied by classmates, including cheerleaders and football players. As she endured these emotions, Betty discovered she had the power to create horrific illusions. She first started by growing large pimples on the face of a rival girl gossiping about her in the bathroom. Her friends became horrified only to realize that it vanished. She then targeted Arthur Campbell, creating the illusion of a demon in the form of his father, which drove him to insanity. Immediately others planned to retaliate against the alternative crowd and some of the players beat up Ren. Ren became hospitalized and when Betty showed him her power of illusion, he went into shock and died. Betty retaliated against the entire school during a pep rally when she create the illusion of people melting and exploding into flames. On the road, Betty decided to change her appearance, from an obese "]" kid to a tall thin lady with a fair complexion, taking on the name of "Candice".
=== Ted Sprague ===
'''Theodore "Ted" Sprague''', portrayed by ], was mistakenly arrested by ] and Agent ] under the belief that he was the notorious serial-killer, ]. In actuality, Ted had the ability to generate and manipulate radiation, which he only discovers after being abducted by the Haitian. At first, he has very little control over his power and is extremely destructive, causing such harmful side-effects as ]. He subconsciously emits a small amount of radiation constantly which, although not dangerous in small quantities, caused his wife (Karen Gallagher Sprague) to fall into a ] and die from continuous exposure. When he gains better control over his ability, Ted realizes he is also able to produce an ] when necessary. After release from the police, Ted disappears into the Nevada desert to get a handle on his power. He is only brought back by ] who points him and Matt Parkman to Noah Bennet.


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Matt Parkman and Ted Sprague team up due to their anger over their capture which they both believe is the source of their ability. They seek revenge against Noah Bennet only to find that Bennet is "middle management" and is currently in the process of overturning the company, himself. Adding Bennet to their team, Ted, Matt, and Noah head to New York City to destroy a "system" that can track people with abilities. In the meantime, characters with the ability to see the future have been having visions of a man blowing up in New York City, killing millions.


===Introduced in season 2===
The prophesies of the "exploding man" begin coming true when Ted's powers are accidentally mimicked by ]. When Peter becomes excited, he loses control of Ted's power and glows, repeatedly threatening to explode from the power.


====Bob Bishop====
While trying to bring down the company who captured him, Ted and his comrades are confronted by the police. Ted purposely draws the police to himself, allowing Peter and Claire to escape. Subsequently, Ted is arrested and transported in a van which the rest of the characters believe will shepherd him from the city, removing one of the two bomb possibilities. Instead, ] tracks him down and uses his telekinesis to flip the van and steal Ted's power, killing him in the process.
'''Robert Bishop''', portrayed by ], has the ability of ], allowing him to change the atomic properties of objects into materials such as gold. This can also be used as an offensive weapon; in one instance he turns a man's arm into gold, not only rendering it useless but also causing great pain. Known as '''Bob''' to his colleagues, he is one of the twelve members of the group established by ] thirty years prior to the events of Kirby Plaza. He directs much of the tracking and capture of targets of the Company and he is their financial source, using his ability to create unlimited amounts of gold and other "resources". Following the death of Linderman at the end of Volume One, he takes over as head of the Company. He is also ]'s father, and though she was trained to work for the Company from birth, he constantly criticizes her actions. Bob is killed by Sylar at the beginning of Volume Three. It is revealed in "]" that he met ], ], and ] while a "prisoner" at Coyote Sands.


===Tracy Strauss=== ==== Alejandro Herrera ====
'''Alejandro Herrera''', portrayed by ], is the twin brother of ]. Alejandro has the ability to absorb and neutralize his sister's poison emission; to do so, he must make physical contact with Maya and calm her down. He is very protective of her even after the initial manifestation of Maya's power kills their friends and his new wife in his native ]. When she runs away, he tracks her down and discovers his ability to stop the progression of the poison she emits. They flee the police through Mexico, trying to get to New York in the hope that Mohinder can cure her. Along the way they meet ], who joins them. Maya trusts Sylar, but Alejandro does not, and when Alejandro reveals his intention to force Maya to leave with him, Sylar kills him.
'''Tracy Strauss''', portrayed by ], has ] abilities which enable her to freeze anything that she touches. Introduced in the third season, she is an adviser to the governor of New York who recruits Nathan Petrelli as a senator. She is the triplet sister of ] and Barbara, all three having been genetically modified by Dr. Zimmerman and separated at birth. She has no knowledge of her origins and ability until Nathan mistakes her for Niki and a reporter shows her evidence of Niki's sexual endeavors. Her emotional reaction to the reporter causes her to inadvertently freeze and kill him. Tracy eventually visits Niki's funeral in New Orleans. There, she meets Niki's orphaned son ], who helps her discover that she and Niki were born on the same day to the same mother, Kelly Sullivan, and delivered by the same doctor, Dr. Zimmerman. After visiting Dr. Zimmerman, who tells her that there is no way to remove her ability, Tracy returns to New York where she tries to commit suicide, only to be saved by Nathan. The two visit Angela Petrelli, where they learn more about the Company's experiments, and Mohinder Suresh, who captures them as part of his experimental research. In "]," Tracy meets ], Nathan's ex-girlfriend, and ] when they arrive at Mohinder's lab, and learns about the relationships all three of them have with ]. Meredith assumes that Nathan and Tracy are dating, but Tracy says otherwise. Tracy and Claire meet face-to-face when ] is being cared for, and Claire mentions Pinehearst, of which Tracy apparently possesses knowledge. In "]", Tracy accompanies Nathan to Pinehearst, and watches as he confronts his father. As they leave the building, Nathan tells Tracy to return to Washington to cover for him while he heads to Primatech. After he leaves, Tracy goes back into Pinehearst and tells Arthur that she thinks she can get Nathan to side with him. She is shown among the others of Arthur's team, indicating that she has joined the villains.
In the Season Three Finale, Dual, she saves Nathan's life by freezing Knox as he attempts to spear Nathan with his fist. She tells him that they can get the formula and start over. At this Nathan fires her. She is last seen taking the formula from the safe in Arthur's office, where Hiro punches her and steals it so he can destroy it.
According to writers Joe Pokaski and Aron Coleite, Niki was written out of the series and replaced with Tracy so that Larter could play a different role, as they realized that they could not go further with the character. The change also allowed them to tell an origin story, where the character discovers that she has powers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18343 |title=Behind the Eclipse: Week 2 |accessdate=2008-11-04 |author=Pokaski, Joe |coauthors=Coliete, Aron |date=October 6, 2008 |publisher=]}}</ref>


===Molly Walker=== ==== Maury Parkman ====
'''Maury Parkman''', portrayed by ], is Matt Parkman's father, having abandoned Matt when he was thirteen. He is one of the twelve founders of the Company and, like his son, Maury is a ]; however, his powers are much more developed than Matt's. Instead of just reading surface thoughts, he can read people's memories and manipulate their perceptions of reality, allowing him to trap people in nightmares based on their deepest fears and insecurities.
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=== Candice Wilmer === ==== Victoria Pratt ====
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'''Victoria Pratt''', portrayed by ] and ], was a founding member of the Company and biological engineer. In 1977, she met ] and began to do research on the ]. On Company orders, she experimented on the virus, and weaponized it, creating Strain 138, which is capable of killing 93% of the world's population, including both humans and posthumans. When Monroe attempted to steal the strain, Pratt insisted that the program on the virus be stopped, and the strain destroyed. Kaito Nakamura and the other founders did not agree and locked the virus away at Primatech Paper in Odessa, Texas. Pratt was not happy about the decision. She is killed by Monroe in her house.
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Missy Peregrym formerly worked with executive producers ] and ] on '']'' and was excited to be able to audition for the role because of it. However, she felt her first audition was "one of worst performances" and was surprised to get another reading the following Monday, after which she felt she did "a little better."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.herosite.net/mpinterview.htm |title= Heroes' Newest Heroine: HeroSite Interviews Missy Peregrym |publisher=HeroSite.net |accessdate=2008-01-19}}</ref> While filming, Peregrym stayed around set while the other actors played the illusions Candice cast in the show. The visual effects necessitated her to follow the other actors' exact actions as they filmed: from the parts where the viewer would see the illusion, to the parts where the viewer would see Candice or vice versa.<ref name="trailer park">{{cite web|url=http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/2007/05/04/trailer-park-interview-missy-peregrym/ |title=Trailer Park Interview: Missy Peregrym |publisher=Quickstopentertainment.com |accessdate=2008-01-19}}</ref>


==== West Rosen ====
For Season 2, however, it became more difficult for Candice's character to be involved in the show. Peregrym was never contractually bound to ''Heroes'' for the second season,<ref name="trailer park" /> and after being cast in the show '']'' as a series regular, scheduling interfered with her availability to shoot her remaining scenes as Candice. This resulted in the writers' original plan for Candice and Sylar to have a multi-episode story arc being scrapped and the character getting killed off in her next episode. The producers attempted to collaborate with the producers of ''Reaper'' on shooting dates for the final episode in which Peregrym would appear, but although she agreed to work on a weekend, schedule changes for ''Reaper'' made this impossible. Rachel Kimsey then came in and her performance made a strong enough impression on writers and producers that they attempted to keep Candice, but couldn't.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://gregbeeman.blogspot.com/2007/10/season-2-episode-3-kindred.html |title=Season 2 Episode 3- "Kindred" |author=] |accessdate=2008-01-19}}</ref>
] (2010)]]


'''West Rosen''', portrayed by ], has the ability to fly. He was abducted by Mr. Bennet and the Haitian for examination prior to the start of the series, though he tried to escape. He saw Mr. Bennet before being recaptured and having his memory wiped, though he still remembers Bennet's glasses. Years later, he and Claire become classmates at Costa Verde High School. They date in season 2 with West eventually learning the truth about his kidnapping. He and Noah Bennet later team up to save Claire, but West breaks up with her when she wants to reveal her powers. In "Let It Bleed", Claire tells Peter that she and West are now Facebook friends and she calls West so Peter can copy his power as a way of remembering Nathan.
=== Usutu ===
'''Usutu''', portrayed by ], makes himself known to Matt after he is teleported to Africa by the future Peter Petrelli. He had painted an image of the earth exploding on a nearby rock. This image appears several times in the episodes "The Second Coming" and "The Butterfly Effect", painted on various objects in various places. He also seems to have an extensive knowledge of Matt's life, having painted the major events of Matt's story arc in Volume One when he was just a child. Like the precognition demonstrated by ], this skill can be activated at will, though Usutu prefers to listen to music while he works. In a discussion with Parkman, Usutu reveals that he is aware of various changes in the timeline, specifically events that change his earlier predictions. As Hiro finishes his own spirit journey, Usutu is decapitated by ], but appears in Suresh's Loft with Ando, Hiro, Matt, and Daphne in "]".


===Introduced in season 3===
After his death, Matt Parkman experiences as of yet unexplained visions of Usutu in "]" and "]", although they do not speak to him, and he is unaware that Usutu is dead.


==== Bridget Bailey ====
In addition to his powers, Usutu is able to make a traditional food paste from tree roots and hyena dung which temporarily allows others to engage in a "spirit journey." In practice, this spirit journey roughly translates into a series of precognitive visions of future events or postcognitive visions of significant past events that are personally relevant to whomever consumes the paste. It is unknown whether or not this works on everyone. What is clear is that this paste has worked on two other characters with powers, though their powers did not involve precognition. Usutu freely shares the paste with ] and ], despite being a family tradition, and the two lapse into trances shortly thereafter.
'''Bridget Bailey''', introduced by the BBC in its mirror of Heroes 360 information and portrayed by ], has the ability of ]. Her exchanges with Mohinder Suresh were later included on NBC.com as part of Heroes Evolutions. Her first message, entitled "I need some advice", began on July 11, 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://heroeswiki.com/Bridget_Bailey |title=Bridget Bailey |publisher=Heroeswiki.com |access-date=2010-07-09}}</ref>


=== Trevor Zeitlan === ==== Luke Campbell ====
'''Luke Campbell''', portrayed by ], is a teenage boy with the ability to project ] beams from his hands. He embarked on a road trip with ] in order to find Sylar's biological father. The effects of his power vary from object to object. He is able to melt a figurine, boil liquid from a distance without damaging the mug, and burn a person to death from the inside out.
'''Trevor Zeitlan''', portrayed by Jeff Staron, is Sylar's second victim, who possesses the power to project kinetic energy by "shooting" at objects with his thumb and forefinger. Sylar learns of him through Chandra Suresh's list of posthumans, but resists the temptation to go after him. However, on Noah Bennet's orders, Elle has the two of them meet so that the Company can have footage of him acquiring an ability. Trevor reveals his power by shattering several glasses, and astonishes both Gabriel and Elle.


==== Eric Doyle ====
When Elle keeps commenting on how "special" Trevor is, Gabriel becomes overwhelmed and cannot control his hunger, so he starts to attack Trevor. Elle tries to stop him, but is forced to flee to safety, leaving Trevor to get killed by Gabriel.
] (2007)]]


'''Eric Doyle''', portrayed by ], has the ability of "puppet mastery", which allows him to control the actions of others by manipulating them like a puppeteer. In the webseries "Nowhere Man" he displays control over inanimate objects by closing a door without touching it. He is initially captured by the Company after causing people to seemingly commit suicide with his ability. He later escapes during the confrontation between ] and ], and returns to running "Doyle's Marionette Theater". He has obsessive romantic feelings for ], which are renewed after she goes to him fearing that Claire is going to attempt to capture him. Doyle is eventually recaptured after forcing Meredith, ] and ] to play a variation of ], not knowing about Claire's ability. In "]", he is freed by ] along with two others and offered freedom for killing Sylar. He attempts to save Meredith, but Sylar breaks free of his control and incapacitates him. During "Redemption" he goes back to his old ways and forces Emma Coolidge to use her powers to draw thousands of innocent people to the Carnival to be murdered by Samuel. Following a prophetic dream by Peter, Sylar confronts Eric to save Emma, but falls under his control. However, Eric makes the mistake of partially releasing his control over Emma to taunt her about her deafness and she hits him with a sonic blast, breaking his control over Sylar. Sylar pins Eric, but ties him up in lights rather than kill him as he has now turned to the side of good with Peter's help.
== Additional family of the main characters ==


==== The German ====
This list includes every non-powered relative of the main characters to have been seen either in the TV series or in the graphic novels.
'''The German''', portrayed by Ken Lally, has the ability of magnetism manipulation, allowing him to control ferrous objects and materials. He is originally introduced in the graphic novel "]", where he is captured by the Company. He subsequently escapes Level 5 in "]" along with a dozen other prisoners, and joins a group of them in robbing a bank. In "]", he is killed by Knox after disagreeing with his plan.


=== Lyle Bennet === ==== Flint Gordon, Jr.====
'''Flint Gordon Jr.''', portrayed by ], is ]'s younger brother, who also possesses the power of ]. He produces extremely hot blue flames as opposed to Meredith's orange flames. He is slow-witted, causing him to be more of a lackey than a leader, especially when around Meredith; nevertheless, he is gleefully violent, cruel, and sadistic, and openly revels in using his powers to hurt people. He and Meredith were separated as children after Meredith accidentally used her ability to burn down their abusive father's house.
'''Lyle Bennet''', portrayed by ], is ]'s younger brother and the son of Noah and Sandra Bennet. Lyle finds out about his sister's ] by watching a videotape showing her quickly recovering from such otherwise deadly experiences as being hit by a car and falling nearly thirty feet. He confirms his realization by stapling Claire's hand and watching it heal, though Claire convinces him to keep the secret and to hand her the tape.<ref name=NothingToHide>{{cite episode | title = Nothing to Hide | episodelink = Nothing to Hide (Heroes) | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series)| credits = Director: Donna Dietch, Writer: Jesse Alexander | network = NBC | airdate = 2006-11-06}}</ref> After Claire tells her father that Lyle knows about her powers, ] has ] remove Lyle's memories about her healing abilities.<ref name=Fallout>{{cite episode | title = Fallout | episodelink = Fallout (Heroes) | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series)| credits = Director: John Badham, Writer: Joe Pokaski | network = NBC | airdate = 2006-12-04}}</ref> but later he becomes aware of her powers again. Four months later he began a new life with the surname 'Butler', along with the rest of the family.<ref name=4months/> Lyle's actual parentage has been questioned, after isolated instances of him being referred to as adopted; upon being questioned about it, one of the creators declined to answer directly, instead saying "for now, consider Lyle's true parentage undetermined."


=== Sandra Bennet === ====Samson Gray====
] (2009)]]
'''Sandra Bennet''', portrayed by ], is ]'s adoptive mother and the wife of Noah Bennet. She has great affection for her pet ], Mr. Muggles. She does not seem to be aware of ]'s activities or her daughter's powers, and ] has wiped her memories several times on her husband's orders.<ref name=Fallout/> However, after Claire met ], Sandra told Claire that she and Mr. Bennet had tried unsuccessfully to find her biological parents when she was a baby because they thought she might have a rare chromosomal disorder.<ref>{{cite episode | title = Better Halves | episodelink = Better Halves | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: Greg Beeman, Writer: Natalie Chaidez | airdate = 2006-10-30}}</ref>


'''Samson Gray''', portrayed by ], is the biological father of ] (Gabriel Gray). Like his son, he possesses the ability of intuitive aptitude, allowing him to steal the abilities of other super-powered humans. He is responsible for the death of Gabriel's mother back in 1980. Appearing in "]', he is old and dying of terminal ], hiding from Nathan's agents in an old trailer in the woods of ].
] tries to murder her, but she is saved by Mr. Bennet and ].<ref name=distractions>{{cite episode | title = Distractions| episodelink = Distractions (Heroes) | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: Jeannot Szwarc, Writer: Michael Green | airdate = 2007-02-05}}</ref> They also, once again, erase her memory of the event, which becomes evident to Claire when Sandra does not recall allowing her to skip school. After this erasure, her memory continues to degrade, as demonstrated by an event where she does not recognize Mr. Muggles or Claire, and then a few minutes later has no recollection of the episode. She complains of headaches and sees a ]. She collapses and is taken to the hospital, where she is diagnosed with a ].<ref name="unexpected">{{cite episode | title = Unexpected | episodelink = Unexpected (Heroes) | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: Greg Beeman, Writer: Jeph Loeb | airdate = 2007-02-19}}</ref> Upon her return to the house, she is held hostage with the rest of her family by ] and ], and witnesses her daughter's regenerative powers.


==== Knox {{Anchor|Benjamin "Knox" Washington}} ====
After the hostage stand-off, she and her family stay at a hotel. She reveals to Bennet that he had told her everything the previous day, including what happened to Claire. Under her husband's orders, she only pretends that she has lost her memory. However, the illusion-casting Candice Wilmer impersonated her shortly afterwards in order to trick Mr. Bennet into revealing that he'd sent Claire away, and it is not clear at which point the impersonation actually began.<ref name=parasite>{{cite episode | title = Parasite | episodelink = Parasite (Heroes) | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: Kevin Bray, Writer: Christopher Zata | airdate = 2007-03-04}}</ref>
] (2012)]]


'''Benjamin "Knox" Washington''', portrayed by ], gains enhanced strength when others around him are frightened. He often uses the threat of becoming stronger to fuel the fears of others. His past was going to be featured in a dropped storyline in "]" where he attempts to get out of gang life with the help of Matt Parkman, returning to his old ways after his power manifests;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gregbeeman.blogspot.com/2008/11/beemans-blog-season-3-episode-8.html |title=Beaming Beeman: Beeman's blog - season 3 - episode 8 |publisher=Gregbeeman.blogspot.com |date=2008-11-10 |access-date=2010-07-09}}</ref> it was later released as the webseries ''Hard Knox''. He is initially a Level 5 prisoner who escapes after the conflict between Sylar and Elle. He joins with the others to hunt down Noah Bennet, though he eventually ends up working for Arthur Petrelli. He teams up with Peter and Flint to destroy the Formula, killing a Marine guarding Nathan and keeping him captive to buy Peter time. However, Nathan attacks him and during the fight, Tracy Strauss freezes Knox solid and shatters him, killing Knox.
She wasn't seen again until "]", in which she has begun a new life with the surname 'Butler', along with the rest of the family.


====James Martin====
In the alternate future portrayed in the episode "]", it is revealed that she leaves Mr. Bennet. Claire also used the name "Sandra" as an alias in this episode.
'''James Martin''' possesses the ability to ] into the form of anyone he touches. He is responsible for killing three of Danko's agents, who were hunting him. Using his ability, he makes his way into Danko's office to touch him in order to "borrow" his form.


==== Daphne Millbrook ====
When Claire later goes after Eric Doyle, Sandra doesn't object and in fact goes as her partner. Their plan fails but during a twisted game of Russian Roullette, Claire has Sandra shoot and apparently kill her tricking Doyle and allowing Claire to knock him out freeing Sandra and Meredith Gordon. Noah arrests Doyle and takes him back to Level 5 later.
] (2009)]]


'''Daphne Millbrook''', portrayed by ], is a thief with the power of ]. She can move herself at speeds fast enough to just barely outrun a nuclear explosion, move fast enough to be at normal speed when Hiro Nakamura slows down time to the point where time appears to have stopped, and can extend her ability to those she is in contact with. She suffers from ] and relied on crutches and braces to walk before gaining her powers. She first becomes acquainted with ], who refers to her as "nemesis", after she steals his half of a chemical formula that gives ordinary people super powers. She works for the Pinehearst Company under the direction of ] (who appears to her as Mr. Linderman), charged with recruiting members. Daphne eventually switches sides and helps rescue Hiro from the past. Afterwards, she and Hiro steal and destroy the Formula and she tries to make a life with Matt Parkman. During "Trust and Blood", Daphne is shot and apparently killed. She is revealed to be alive, though seriously wounded during "Cold Wars". She is rescued in "Cold Snap" and taken to the hospital where she is treated for her gunshot wound and an infection. She apparently recovers and takes off to Paris, but quickly realizes it's a dream where Matt is giving her a happy ending. Knowing she will die, she asks Matt to fly her to the Moon. He does so in the dream as she dies of her injuries in the real world.
=== Damon Dawson ===
'''Damon Dawson''', portrayed by ], is ] younger brother. When ] comes to live with the Dawsons, Damon initially bullies him. But when Micah uses his ] to tune in pay-per-view television, Damon starts to accept his cousin. He gets Micah's backpack stolen, which eventually leads to Niki Sanders' death.


=== Nana Dawson === ==== Jesse Murphy ====
] (2013)]]
'''"Nana" Dawson''', portrayed by ], is Micah Sanders' Great Aunt and grandmother of ] and ] Dawson. She lives with her grandchildren in New Orleans after her daughter, Monica and Damon's mother, is killed during Hurricane Katrina. ] leaves Micah in Nana's care when she leaves to join the Company.


'''Jesse Murphy''', portrayed by ], is a former prisoner of Level 5 with the ability to produce powerful sonic waves with his voice. According to executive producer ], Jesse's power was originally "Earthquake-stomp", but was changed due to budget constraints.<ref> - Director's blog on the filming of this episode</ref> He is described by Knox as having no friends. He and Knox were captured by ] and the Haitian after the two used their powers in an attempt to take over a neighborhood.
=== Virginia Gray ===
'''Virginia Gray''', portrayed by ], is ]'s adoptive mother. When Sylar visits Virginia, she constantly pushes Sylar to "be special," even saying that he could become President if he wanted to. Sylar reveals his powers, accidentally injuring her, and confesses his guilt since he thinks he will be the exploding man and kill many people. Both instances only alienate the two, and Virginia demands that Sylar leave her house and give back her son Gabriel. She brandishes a pair of scissors at Sylar, but is accidentally stabbed in the heart when they struggle for the scissors.


==== Ishi Nakamura ====
{{-}}
'''Ishi Nakamura''', portrayed by ], was the wife of Kaito Nakamura and mother to Kimiko and Hiro. She was shown as deceased when Hiro was eight years old when he went back in time with his father in an attempt to convince him to escape his death. It was revealed that she had an ability in an interview with Aron Coleite and Joe Pokaski,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18343 |title=Comic Book Resources Behind the Eclipse: Week 2 |publisher=Comicbookresources.com |access-date=2010-07-09}}</ref> which is shown to be the ability to heal living organisms through kisses in "Our Father". She revives Hiro's sick bird and restores the future Hiro's lost memories.


=== Kimiko Nakamura === ==== Matt Parkman, Jr.====
'''Matthew "Matty" Parkman, Jr.''' is the infant son of Matt Parkman and his ex-wife ], and the grandson of ]. He has the ability to activate and deactivate objects, whether they are electronic, mechanical, or even human, earning him the nickname "Toddler Touch-And-Go" from Hiro. He is first mentioned in the episode "]", his father working to capture other posthumans in exchange for the protection of him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=20604 |title=Behind the eclipse: Week 19 |publisher=Comic Book Resources |date=2009-03-30 |access-date=2010-07-09}}</ref> Matt Parkman, Jr. later appears in the main timeline, living in ] with his mother. Matt Senior divorces his wife because they initially believe Matt Junior is the son of the man she cheated on him with, but it turns out they were wrong. He restores ]'s powers when they meet and the truth of his parentage brings his parents back together.
'''Kimiko Nakamura''', portrayed by ], is the daughter of Kaito and older sister of Hiro. She is very intelligent and motivated, and wishes to advance in her father's company, Yamagato Industries. She accompanies her father to New York to retrieve Hiro.<ref name=distractions /> She gets along with her brother, in comparison to his and their father's strained relationship, as evidenced by the way Kimiko's pleas and reasoning get much further than Kaito's authoritative tactics (up to and including ]). Hiro convinced his father that Yamagato has a successor in Kimiko.


==== Arthur Petrelli ====
Kimiko is present with Ando and Hiro at Kaito's funeral.
] (2009)]]


'''Arthur Petrelli''', portrayed by ], is the husband of ], the father of ] and Peter Petrelli, and the biological grandfather of ]. Angela has stated that she and Arthur have gone through "great lengths" to protect Claire. He has the power to take the abilities of other evolved humans through physical contact. Once he takes an ability, he cannot return it.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18602 |title=Behind the eclipse: Week 5 |publisher=Comic Book Resources |access-date=2010-07-09}}</ref> The powers he has taken are telepathy from an unknown source, though hinted at being ];<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web|url=http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=20883 |title=Behind the eclipse: Week 22 |publisher=Comic Book Resources |date=2009-04-20 |access-date=2010-07-09}}</ref> the regenerative abilities of ] (which killed Adam, as he immediately aged 400+ years and crumbled into dust); Peter's empathic mimicry and the powers he'd absorbed as a result (including ]'s mental manipulation);<ref name="comicbookresources.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18984 |title=Behind the eclipse: Week 9 |publisher=Comic Book Resources |access-date=2010-07-09}}</ref> ]'s poison emission; and Hiro Nakamura's time manipulation. Arthur's range of powers is such that he can overcome the Haitian's dampening powers after a short period, though not without significant effort. Hiro eventually learns through a "spirit walk" that Arthur was actually the one who'd ordered Nathan's accident, not Linderman, and that Arthur had repeatedly manipulated Angela's mind throughout their marriage, to get her to do what he wanted. After Linderman revealed the truth to her, Angela tried to kill Arthur by poisoning him, but he was saved by Nathan arriving home and calling 911. Arthur survived the poisoning attempt, but was completely paralyzed and could only communicate through telepathy, so he faked his own death. After stealing Adam Monroe's regenerative powers, Arthur was able to heal the damage the poison had done to his body, recovering completely. In "Our Father", Peter and the Haitian confront Arthur with the intention of killing him. Arthur offers to use the Formula to restore Peter's powers if his son comes with him, but Peter refuses. As the Haitian loses his grip on Arthur's powers, Peter fires a gun at Arthur who is only saved by the timely intervention of Sylar. However, Sylar only saved him to discover if Arthur is actually his father or not. Using his new lie detection abilities, Sylar is able to tell that Arthur in fact lied to him. Telling Peter "you're not a killer, Peter...but I am", Sylar telekinetically shoves Peter's bullet through Arthur's head, destroying the spot that controls regeneration and killing Arthur. The Formula's catalyst dies with him.
=== Janice Parkman ===
'''Janice Parkman''', portrayed by ], is the ex-wife of ] police officer ]. Their marriage has been troubled for some time, with both becoming increasingly distant. Janice blames their problems over his jealousy of her prospering career while his has been stalling. However, when Matt disappears for a day, she is truly worried about him. Matt then tries to fulfill her every need by reading her thoughts to improve their marriage. Matt discovers that she had an affair with his ex-partner. Two weeks later, after Matt tells Janice of his ability to read minds, the pair's marriage and relationship begins to mend. When Matt gets a six-month suspension for his rogue actions at work, she provides him with emotional support and reveals that she is pregnant. Four months later Matt and Janice are divorced, and Matt later reveals to ] that the child his wife bore is not his, but rather the man with whom his wife cheated.<ref name=4months /> Matt Parkman saw a vision of his wife in a dream sequence or illusion created by his father (Maury Parkman), in which he was a holding a baby and saying that Matt left his son just like his father left him.


==== Daniel Pine ====
In the future of "]", it is revealed Janice and Matt bore a son whom they named Matthew and who presumably also has special powers. In the alternate future, Mr. Bennet had been running a relocation program for people with special powers, and had been in contact with Janice and Matthew Jr., as part of some arrangement with Matt Sr.
'''Daniel Pine''', portrayed by Franc Ross, is a Vietnam veteran with the ability to transform parts of his body into metal. He is introduced in "]", being captured by Agent Thompson and Meredith Gordon as the latter's first assignment in the Company. He is placed in Level 5, but escapes when Elle Bishop accidentally sets all the Level 5 prisoners free. From there, he returns to his old home, and ends up killing his ex-wife. He is then recaptured by Meredith and Noah Bennet.


=== Heidi Petrelli === ====Baron Samedi====
'''Baron Samedi''', portrayed by ], is a powerful warlord in the jungles of ], and is the half-brother of ].<ref name="comicbookresources.com"/> He possesses impenetrable skin, which grants him a degree of invulnerability from trauma such as fire, knives, and bullets. He shares a ] with a ].
'''Heidi Petrelli''', portrayed by ], is ]'s wife and is involved with his strategies for his bid for congressional office. She uses a ] for mobility after being paralyzed in a car crash in the episode ] caused by ] accomplices while Nathan was driving. Nathan, while trying to control the car, suddenly found himself flying for the first time. Tragically, he couldn't figure out how to get back down to his car and the car crashed into a highway barrier. During a brunch set up by her mother-in-law, an invited journalist implies that Nathan may have cheated on her with ] during his trip to ] to see Mr. Linderman. She doubts Peter's story with an innocent explanation of the woman, but when Nathan confirms it in private, she tells him she believes him. Heidi says that she is determined to recover but only if Nathan is true to her. Heidi remained unseen for most of the season. She did, however, return to the Petrelli mansion in Manhattan with her and Nathan's two sons, Monty and Simon.<ref name="hard">{{cite episode | title = The Hard Part | episodelink = The Hard Part | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: John Badham, Writer: Aron Eli Coleite | airdate = 2007-05-07}}</ref>. Heidi has yet to meet Claire and is currently unaware that she exists and that she is Nathan's illegitimate daughter. Even though his men reportedly put her in this condition, Linderman heals Heidi, who now can walk again.<ref name="landslide">{{cite episode | title = Landslide | episodelink = Landslide (Heroes) | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: Greg Beeman, Writer: Jesse Alexander | airdate = 2007-05-14}}</ref>


==== Scott ====
When Nathan drives Heidi away,<ref name=4months /> she moves to Washington D.C.<ref name=Kindred>{{cite episode | title = Kindred | episodelink = Kindred (Heroes) | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series)| credits = Director: Paul Edwards, Writer: J.J. Philbin | network = NBC | airdate = 2007-10-08}}</ref>
'''Scott''', portrayed by ], is a Marine recruited by the Pinehearst Company. Wanting to be more than human so that he can make up for his fellow Marines that died, he is the first person to try the newly perfected formula, which grants him the ability of enhanced strength. However, as he is about to stop Flint Gordon and Peter Petrelli from destroying the lab and the formula in "Dual", his neck is snapped by Knox.


=== Simon & Monty Petrelli === ==== Alice Shaw ====
'''Alice Shaw''', played by ] in flashbacks and by ] in the present, is the estranged younger sister of ], the aunt of ] and Peter Petrelli, and the great-aunt of ]. She has the ability of weather manipulation. Her powers are seemingly linked to her emotions as she is able to summon ] force winds when frightened, or generate ] bolts or ] when angered. She first appears in the flashback in episode "]".
'''Simon''' and '''Monty Petrelli''', portrayed by ] and ], are the juvenile sons of ] and ], seen participating in the Petrelli campaign during the 2006 election. Following the presumed death of ], Nathan's depression and heavy drinking caused Heidi to leave Nathan, taking their sons with her. As of the second season episode "Kindred", they live and attend a private school in Washington D.C.<ref name= Kindred />


=== Hal Sanders === ==== Usutu ====
] (2009)]]
'''Hal Sanders''', portrayed by ], is the estranged father of ]. When the girls were younger, Hal was an abusive alcoholic. While both of them were beaten, Jessica took the brunt of Hal's abuse to protect Niki. When Jessica was ten or eleven years old, Hal strangled her to death. Niki somehow lost recollection of her childhood and only remembered that Hal eventually left her. Years later, Hal attempted to reconnect with his only remaining daughter, who was now a wife and mother. He offered much of the money he had made in the ] to help Niki and her husband, ], raise their son, ]. However, Hal later showed himself to be the same short-tempered man he has always been (after Micah took apart the laptop that Hal had given him) and was not accepted into the family's life. Later Niki's alternate personality, calling itself "Jessica", beat Hal up, gave him back the money he offered and told him never to come back.{{-}}


'''Usutu''', portrayed by ], makes himself known to Matt after he is teleported to Africa by the future Peter Petrelli. He had painted an image of the earth exploding on a nearby rock. This image appears several times in the episodes "The Second Coming" and "The Butterfly Effect", painted on various objects in various places. He also seems to have an extensive knowledge of Matt's life, having painted the major events of Matt's story arc in Volume One when he was just a child. Like the precognition demonstrated by ] (which is also why Hiro refers to him as "Mr. African Isaac"), this skill can be activated at will, though Usutu prefers to listen to music while he works. In a discussion with Parkman, Usutu reveals that he is aware of various changes in the timeline, specifically events that change his earlier predictions. As Hiro finishes his own spirit journey, Usutu is decapitated by ], and later appears in a ] in "]".
=== Chandra Suresh ===
'''Chandra Suresh''', portrayed by ], was born in ] and is ]'s late father, as well as the author of ''Activating Evolution'', a book which appears to explain the reason so many people with powers are suddenly appearing. He found a means of tracking and locating potential powered people. He was also connected with ], whom he referred to as "]". On a taped telephone conversation from shortly before Chandra's death, however, he said he wanted nothing to do with Sylar, and insisted the man stop calling him. Before his death, Chandra kept a male ] named Mohinder.


==== Alex Woolsley ====
According to a dream Mohinder had, Chandra was killed while sitting in the driver's seat of his cab by a man wearing a watch, which was stopped at ], a watch which Sylar is often seen wearing. ], Chandra's one-time neighbor, claimed Sylar was his murderer. Sylar later claimed that Chandra became very close to him at one time and shared things he felt Mohinder was too "fragile" to know, including information on his sister.{{-}}
'''Alex Woolsley''', portrayed by ], is an employee at Sam's Comic Book Shop with the ability to breathe underwater. He first discovered his ability while on his high school's swim team. He is rescued by ] on orders of the mysterious Rebel, and secretly took up residence within the Bennet household. Eventually, Claire's mother finds out about his hiding in their house and she helps him change his identity to protect him. During his stay at the Bennet household, Claire and he develop a mutual romantic interest, culminating in a kiss while they hide from government agents underwater in a pool (thus also allowing Alex to transfer air to her thanks to his ability, removing the need for them to surface to breathe). In the graphic novel "]", he is rescued again, this time by ] and Claire's ex-boyfriend ], and both boys are advised to lie low.


=== Mrs. Suresh === ===Introduced in season 4===
'''Mrs. Suresh''', portrayed by ], was born in ] and is ] mother and ] widow. Following Chandra's funeral, she told Mohinder of his sister Shanti, who died prior to his birth. She expresses wishes that Mohinder would give up his father's research and return home to ] to reunite with his former girlfriend Mira.


=== Shanti Suresh === ==== Arnold ====
'''Arnold''', portrayed by Jack Wallace, has the ability of space-time manipulation. Introduced in "]", he is shown as a member of the "Sullivan Bros. Carnival", and as any member, is considered family. He is asked by ] to send him 14&nbsp;years back in time so he can meet the adult ], which he is capable of doing despite his bad health. He is shown as an old and dying man, and it is implied that Samuel intends to replace him with Hiro. In "]", Arnold once again sends Samuel back in time to find Hiro; after Hiro saves ] from Sylar and her aneurysm, Samuel orders Arnold to take her to the carnival in present and then to hide her somewhere in time away from Hiro so he will stay with them. This final effort killed Arnold. In the graphic Novel "]", an altar is seen in honor of Arnold as the carnies discuss about Samuel forcing Arnold to use his ability without any concern about his health. Hiro eventually reunites with an old Charlie who tells him that Arnold took her to Milwaukee on January 26, 1944. Though Hiro offers to go back and retrieve her after Arnold leaves, Charlie refuses as she had a life there and Hiro respects her wishes.
'''Shanti Suresh''' is ] daughter, also born in ], ]. In the episode Seven Minutes until Midnight ]'s mother tells him that she had died at the age of five, two years after he was born. But in the later episode, The Hard Part, he states that he never got to see her because she died before he was born. His blood actually possessed the antibodies she needed to survive, but he was born just a few months too late. Chandra Suresh said she had a genetic anomaly.<ref name=sixmonthsago>{{cite episode | title = Six Months Ago | episodelink = Six Months Ago | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series)| credits = Director: Allan Arkush, Writer: Aron Eli Coleite | network = NBC | airdate = 2006-11-27}}</ref> Her death, along with several other factors, prompted Chandra Suresh to begin his investigations into people with special powers. ] also knows about Shanti from his time working with Chandra.<ref name=parasite /> Mohinder was not aware of her existence until his mother told him.<ref name=SevenMinutes />


==== Bowman Family ====
== Additional season 1 characters ==
The '''Bowman Family''' consists of '''Chris Bowman''', portrayed by Daryl Crittenden, with his wife '''Gail''' and daughter '''Jenny''', who are workers at the "Sullivan Bros. Carnival" as part of the fire-breathing family. The three of them exhibit the ability to breathe fire; Chris and Gail exhibit orange flames, but little Jenny exhibits blue ones (''in main series she exhibits orange flames as well''). Although seen in background as member of the "family" since "]", they are shown mainly in iStories ('''''Faction Zero''' and '''Slow Burn'''''). In "]" ('''''Slow Burn iStory''' chapter 5'') they are told by ] to show their ability to ] so she will feel comfortable at the carnival, but she felt the other way around so they stop. In the graphic novel "]", ] watches as the Bowman family practices their fire-breathing act making her want to be a Bowman herself.


==== Emma Coolidge ====
This list includes every character not listed above, that appeared in three episodes or more of the first season. The characters are listed in the order they first appeared on the show.
'''Emma Coolidge''', portrayed by ], is a deaf woman working in the same hospital as Peter. Dialogue indicates that she is trained as a physician, but prefers to work archiving patients' data instead of treating them. In the episode "]", she discovers that she can perceive sound as a form of colored light; the louder the sound, the more intense and colorful the light. Her doctor (also her mother) suggests that this is a form of ] (mixed signals from the different senses). At the park, she sees the music a ] player produces, and then starts playing it herself, producing beautiful music. She constantly uses headphones in public to avoid being asked anything, so people will not notice that she is deaf. In the episode "]", Emma discovers that she is able to convert sound into physical force after damaging her apartment walls while playing a cello once more; the cello was in a box with the "Sullivan Bros. Carnival" label on it. In "]", she is afraid of her power and seeks Peter to help her ultimately ] helps her understand that her ability is a gift, and once she knows what she can do, she can use it to do good things. As Peter and Emma learn that Hiro is dying, Emma makes him promise he will stay in bed, although he constantly tells Emma he feels alive when he uses his ability and he will ] like ] intended to do.


=== Zach === ==== Damien ====
'''Damien''', portrayed by ], is a carnival worker at "Sullivan Bros. Carnival", introduced in "]", with the ability to restore, heal and distort other people's memories. By orders of ], he takes ] to the center chamber of the ''Hall of Mirrors'' and touches his head using his ability on him. Then, he leaves Sylar alone while he sees his real memories reflecting in every mirror. In "]", he is present during Thanksgiving dinner; after Edgar's escape, he surprises ] while talking to Samuel, disrupting his memories, but apparently in a way he did not expect (''which is also seen in the graphic novel "]"''). In "]", he helps Samuel to step over the dying ].
'''Zach''', portrayed by ], is a ] classmate of ] and one of the first people to know of her powers. He ]s Claire using her abilities.<ref name=genesis>{{cite episode | title = Genesis | episodelink = Genesis (Heroes) | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series)| credits = Director: David Semel, Writer: Tim Kring | network = NBC | airdate = 2006-09-25}}</ref> He tells Claire that he helped her win the Homecoming Queen election by campaigning for her amongst the "unpopular" crowd. He also gives her a book written by ], which he says details information on her power.<ref name="homecoming">{{cite episode | title = Homecoming | episodelink = Homecoming (Heroes) | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: Greg Beeman, Writers: Adam Armus and Kay Foster | airdate = 2006-11-20}}</ref> Claire is overwhelmed and later punches ] when she makes homophobic comments towards Zach. After Claire is grounded, Zach enters her bedroom using a ladder and convinces her to come to the Homecoming game.


==== Edgar ====
After Claire tells ] that Zach knows about her powers, Mr. Bennet has ] make him forget about his relationship with Claire and her powers. When Claire approaches him the following day, Zach doesn't remember having even spoken to her since sixth grade. Nevertheless, Claire convinces Zach to videotape her again and is able to rekindle their friendship.<ref name=godsend>{{cite episode | title = Godsend | episodelink = Godsend (Heroes) | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series)| network = NBC | credits = Director: Paul Shapiro, Writer: Tim Kring | airdate = 2007-01-22}}</ref> Zach subsequently helps Claire track down her biological parents while also helping to keep her actions secret from her adoptive parents.
] (2011)]]


'''Edgar''', portrayed by ], has the ability of enhanced speed and works at the "Sullivan Bros. Carnival". Introduced in "]", he is sent by ] to kill ] in order to retrieve a mysterious compass. At first he refuses, stating that he does not kill unless absolutely necessary. Samuel chokes him (with a tattoo hand controlled by his power), but releases him with a promise to not force Edgar again after he does this task. Edgar fails once, as Danko does not have the artifact with him and ] manages to freeze his knife and arm; he fails again when Peter Petrelli mimics his ability. He goes after ] and finally takes the ] to Samuel, leaving Noah badly wounded. After Lydia learns the truth of Joseph's murder with the help of ], Edgar tries to expose Samuel who frames him as the murderer. Samuel tries to kill Edgar, but Hiro saves him and convinces Edgar to flee rather than kill Samuel to help stop him later. He's eventually captured by Noah who Lauren Gilmore gets to talk to Edgar rather than torture him. Edgar initially agrees to work with Noah to stop Samuel, but after Noah shows little care for the other carnies, Edgar takes the information he gave Noah and takes off. Edgar returns after Lydia's murder and rejoins the Carnival, but while he's seemingly accepted back, he remains aware of what Samuel is capable of and is disturbed by what Samuel is planning. In "Brave New World", he kidnaps Noah Bennet in ] and tells him he wants to stop Samuel, but can't just kill him in front of everyone. Edgar figures Noah has a plan and he aids Noah, Claire and Eli in exposing Samuel's actions to the carnies. Afterwards, Edgar helps the carnies leave and is teleported away by Hiro to safety, rendering Samuel effectively powerless.
Though it was originally intended for Zach to be ], Dekker’s manager "didn’t want him to be playing a gay character" for career reasons, and his storyline was later changed.<ref name="Post-Gazette">{{cite news | last = Owen |first = Rob |title = Tuned In: Can 'Heroes' continue to save the day for NBC? | publisher = Pittsburg Post-Gazette | date = 2007-01-19 | url = http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07019/754940-237.stm | accessdate = 2007-01-26}}</ref><ref></ref><ref>{{cite web| first = Brian | last = Juergens | publisher = AfterElton.com | url= http://www.afterelton.com/TV/2006/12/heroes.html | title=''Heroes'' straightens up its gay character | date = 2006-12-11 | accessdate = 2007-01-26}}</ref> As producer Bryan Fuller detailed,
{{cquote|e were definitely going down a route of making him the gay character and having him have a big role in life and sort of teaching her to come out about her ability and embrace herself and actually using the coming out metaphor and the gay metaphor in that instance as a fun piece of storytelling.


==== Eli ====
There was an unfortunate miscommunication and when the script arrived that had the line in it, 'I would take you to ] but you have to know that I don't like girls that way.' The actor 's, manager threatened to pull him from the show because he was up for the John Connor role in '']'' and she didn't want him playing a gay character because it might affect ]'s interest in hiring him. It got really ugly.<ref></ref>}}
] (2015)]]


'''Eli''', portrayed by ], is a thief and diamond-mine owner who is found by ] (''following orders from ]'') in a cruise in the southwestern coast of Africa in the graphic novel "]". Tracy interrupts his way into a girl and accidentally reveals the money he has stolen from a tourist, and then Eli takes out a gun. When Tracy recognizes Eli, he gets angry and distrustful to hear she knows his real name, and creates many clones to surround Tracy. Unknowing what she meant about the carnival, "they" shoot Tracy, also unaware that her abilities will allow her to survive and fight back. The original Eli is already in a boat escaping, and Tracy knows she must follow him to the open sea. In "]", Tracy is tracking down the root Eli at ] and in the process ends up killing many of his clones. After understanding how Eli and clones move around, Eli surprises her at his diamond mine where his clones work. Instead of killing her when having a chance, he decides to receive her and show her the place. In "]", Tracy is seen fighting against a horde of clones while the root Eli stands quietly. After learning Samuel is the actual leader of the carnival, he agrees to return, as it was ] who exiled him but always was loyal to Samuel. Upon his return to the Carnival, he acts as Samuel's right-hand man with the power of cloning, but displays the weakness that if the original is knocked out or killed, the clones will all disappear. His clones lack a mind of their own as well, making Matt Parkman's telepathy useless on them. In "The Art of Deception" he murders Lydia to enable Samuel's plans. In "The Wall" and "Brave New World" Eli is sent to kill Matt Parkman, Peter Petrelli and ] to stop their interfering in Samuel's plans. Dialogue between Eli and Matt indicates that while Eli will go along with Samuel's terrible plans, he knows it is wrong. The Eli clones nearly kill Matt, but Peter and Sylar are able to overpower the clones sent after them and knock out the real Eli, saving Matt. Peter then reads Eli's mind to learn Samuel's plans and he and Sylar take off to stop them, leaving Eli with Matt who proceeds to use his powers to brainwash Eli against Samuel. Eli then returns to the Carnival and aids Edgar, Noah and Claire Bennet in exposing Samuel for what he really is, admitting to his murder of Lydia along the way. Eli's support of Claire's claims breaks the carnies faith in Samuel and causes them to leave him.
=== Tina ===
'''"Texas" Tina''', portrayed by ], is the romance-novel-loving confidante of ] who frequently takes care of Niki's son, ], and attends ] meetings with Niki. When Niki confides in Tina about having blackouts and possibly an alternate personality, Tina tells her that her troubles stem from psychological damage as a result of her dealings with the mob. In "]", Tina finally meets and flees from Niki's alternate personality, Jessica, after Micah is taken away by ].{{-}}


=== Audrey Hanson === ==== Ian Michaels ====
'''Ian Michaels''', portrayed by Adam Lazarre-White, is a ] man introduced in "]" who has the ability to control, manipulate, and accelerate plant growth. Originally, he was terrified by his ability and opted to hide in seclusion in ]. He was soon found by ] and Emma Coolidge and shown the benefits of having an ability. He is now part of the "Sullivan Bros. Carnival".
'''Audrey Hanson''', portrayed by ], is an ] agent pursuing ]. Three months after Sylar begins his murder spree, Audrey catches sight of him in ], but he eludes her by escaping on a subway after giving his cap and trenchcoat to an elderly man, whom Audrey shoots, mistaking him for Sylar.<ref name=TurningPoint>{{Comic book reference | Writer = Christopher Zatta | Penciller = Micah Gunnel | Copencillers = Marcus To | Inker = Mark Roslan | Title = Heroes | Story = | Volume = 1 | Issue = 10 | date = November 2006 | Publisher = Aspen MLT, Inc.}}</ref>


==== Jeremy Greer ====
While investigating the murder of ]'s family in ] three months later, Audrey initially gets to know Officer ]. He reveals to her his ability to read people's minds and she asks him to help the FBI find Sylar. Later, Sylar unsuccessfully attempts to seize Molly from FBI custody. During his escape, Audrey is almost forced to shoot herself because of the man's telekinetic abilities but is saved when Parkman intervenes.<ref name=OneGiantLeap>{{cite episode | title = One Giant Leap | episodelink = One Giant Leap | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series)| credits = Director: Greg Beeman, Writer: Jeph Loeb | network = NBC | airdate = 2006-10-09}}</ref>
'''Jeremy Greer''', portrayed by ], is an evolved human introduced in "]", a teenager with the ability to control the life force of living creatures, so he can either heal them or kill them.


==== Lydia ====
Audrey again requests the aid of Officer Parkman when she suspects that Sylar has killed again. She takes Parkman to the morgue, where they examine the body of a dead oncologist who was burned alive. Audrey is exposed to a dangerously high amount of radiation while investigating the house of ], whom she believes to be Sylar. She and Parkman find Sprague in the hospital with his dying wife, but Parkman persuades him to surrender.<ref name=NothingToHide>{{cite episode | title = Nothing to Hide | episodelink = Nothing to Hide (Heroes) | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series)| credits = Director: Donna Dietch, Writer: Jesse Alexander | network = NBC | airdate = 2006-11-06}}</ref> However, Sprague escapes after being taken into custody by Homeland Security, and she again enlists Parkman's aid in hunting him down.<ref name=SevenMinutes>{{cite episode | title = Seven Minutes to Midnight | episodelink = Seven Minutes to Midnight (Heroes) | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series)| credits = Director: Paul Edwards, Writer: Tim Kring | network = NBC | airdate = 2006-11-13}}</ref> Audrey begins to bond with Matt, to the extent of giving him advice on his relationship with his wife, and she looks to become attracted to him.<ref name=Fallout/> Two weeks later, Audrey and Matt have the FBI raid Primatech Paper Company.<ref name=godsend /> However, they find nothing. Audrey's superior then threatens her position with the bureau. Disheartened, Audrey harshly tells Matt their partnership is over. Audrey re-appears in the penultimate episode for the season and arrests Sprague on a tip from Sylar (posing as Isaac Mendez). After Sprague is killed by Sylar, she is seen at the accident site. When a police officer remarks on how the top of someone's head falls off, she walks by and replies, "You don't want to know."
'''Lydia''', "]", is portrayed by ]. Her ability is backfiring, making her susceptible to anyone else's desires, such as running away when her boyfriend wanted her to, and Carol's desire for Amanda to be hers, which led Lydia to abandon her baby with Carol. Lydia serves as the main ], but not ], of the Webseries: '''Slow Burn'''. While reluctantly trying to manipulate ], he copies her powers harmlessly. Growing more and more suspicious of Samuel's activities, Lydia offers to help ] find his lost love Charlie through her powers though she is unsuccessful. After learning of Samuel having Hiro return before he killed ] but not to save Joseph Sullivan, Lydia asks Hiro to take her back in time eight weeks so she can see what really happened to Joseph. Though Hiro is reluctant, he eventually takes them back though he indicates Lydia may have triggered this with her own powers. The two witness Samuel confront Joseph about the full extent of his powers and then murder him in a rage. Lydia's gasp of shock draws Samuel's attention, but she is able to help Hiro transport them back to their own time. There, she reveals the truth to Edgar, resulting in Samuel pinning the murder on him and trying to kill Edgar. Hiro saves Edgar to Lydia's relief and she agrees to keep the truth secret to protect Amanda. Samuel later has Eli murder her to pin the crime on ] and drive the Carnival into a frenzy after his destruction of a nearby town causes them to start to falter. Under Matt Parkman's brainwashing, Eli later admits to her murder and this, along with Edgar revealing what Lydia told him about Joseph's murder causes the carnies to abandon Samuel, allowing Peter Petrelli to defeat him.


==== Joseph Sullivan ====
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'''Joseph Sullivan''', portrayed by ], was the leader of the "Sullivan Bros. Carnival", until his mysterious death. Seeing his burial in "]" and being mentioned so many times, mainly by his brother ], ] and ], he is referred to as a kind and fair leader, with visions of family and peace far from Samuel's. As his rightful successor, Samuel tries to fill his void by adding new members to the family, although Lydia and Edgar say it was not Joseph's will ('']''). In the episode "]", Samuel reveals he and Joseph once lived and served at a mansion while kids. In the episode "]", Samuel chooses ] from a list of evolved humans as the one who will fill the void left by Joseph's death, although is unknown what ability Joseph held. In "]", Samuel states ] is the one who killed Joseph and that's why he kept a compass hidden, Joseph's. In "]" Joseph meets with ] about his interest in Samuel eight weeks before the present of the episode. He asks Mohinder to forget the whole thing and to burn the film he has of Samuel's powers. However, unbeknownst to him, Samuel overhears part of the discussion and grows interested. In "]", a suspicious Lydia has ] take her back in time eight weeks to witness Joseph's murder and discover the truth. The two witnesses Samuel and Joseph go into a field where Joseph reveals that Samuel's powers grow exponentially when surrounded by evos which is why he has limited the number of people in the Carnival. Knowing that Samuel is out of control, Joseph sent the compass to Danko so he could find them and arrest Samuel. Demanding to know more, Samuel propels a rock through Joseph's throat in a moment of rage, mortally wounding him. Joseph dies in his repentant brother's arms while Lydia's gasp nearly reveals herself and Hiro. Hiro manages to return them to the present in time to avoid the past Samuel, but the present day Samuel realizes what happened and pins the murder on Edgar who escapes with Hiro's help. During "Brave New World", Claire reveals the murder of Joseph to the carnies while trying to turn them against Samuel as an example of how out of control he's gotten. While Samuel denies the claim, Edgar backs Claire up and combined with Eli's confession to murdering Lydia on Samuel's orders, Joseph's murder causes the carnies to leave Samuel.


=== Jackie Wilcox === ==== Rebecca Taylor ====
'''Rebecca "Becky" Taylor''', portrayed by ], possesses the power of ]. She is first introduced in "]" as a pledge master for a ] on ]'s college campus. She is connected to the Sullivan Bros. Carnival by way of her "Uncle ]". It is revealed that she is the one responsible for the death of Claire's first roommate, Annie, and for fueling Claire's suspicion of ]. When Claire and Gretchen are exploring the slaughterhouse as part of the hazing process, an invisible Becky attempts to kill Gretchen twice, but is thwarted by Claire at both turns. Becky exhibits her power in front of all four girls being hazed and is forced to flee after Claire hits her. It's revealed in "]" that Becky has an unpleasant past with ] as he killed her father during a bag and tag mission for the Company; her fear towards Noah activating her invisibility.
'''Jacqueline "Jackie" Wilcox''', portrayed by ], is a cheerleader and high school classmate of ]. Although she claimed to be "BFF" (best friends forever) with Claire and once revealed plans to run for class president with "good deeds" as her platform, Jackie is an obnoxious rival and ] for Claire. Jackie repeatedly taunts ] about his sexual orientation. She is also apparently jealous of Claire and ], who described Jackie as a gossip. Jackie is eager to be the center of attention and takes credit for a fire rescue Claire performed in "]". Sylar mistakes Jackie for Claire after having read of Jackie's faked heroism and kills her by telekinetically slicing open her skull. Jackie's last word to Claire is "run".


=== Brody Mitchum === ===Introduced in graphic novels===
'''Brody Mitchum''', portrayed by ], is a classmate of ] and ] on the ] at the fictional Union Wells High School. During a celebratory ] Brody and Claire wander off to the ], where he attempts to ] her.<ref name=OneGiantLeap /> He accidentally throws her head on a tree branch and considers her dead. In "]" he is shaken to see her alive again. After Claire discovers that Brody has raped at least one other girl, she convinces him to let her drive them both home in his car but then, in an attempt to scare him, rams the car headfirst into a brick wall. She drags his unconscious body from the car when it catches fire and ultimately explodes.<ref>{{Cite comic | Writer = Joe Pokaski | Penciller = Micah Gunnel | Inker = Mark Roslan | Title = ''''''| Volume = 1 | Issue = 4 | Date = '''2006''' | Publisher = '''Aspen MLT, Inc.'''}}</ref> When he wakes up and sees Claire unharmed, he realizes that she isn't a normal human being. After learning of the attempted rape of his daughter, an enraged Mr. Bennet has his associate, ], wipe out all of Brody’s memory. Brody, severely injured, is later seen in a wheelchair attending Homecoming.{{-}}


=== Hank and Lisa === ==== Bianca Karina ====
'''Bianca Karina''' is an agent of the Company who can adapt her lungs to enable her to breathe in any environment, including underwater. She is partnered with Devin Patterson and engaged to Gael Cruz. She is first seen in "]" when she and Patterson capture one of Julien Dumont's rogue clones. She is next seen in "]", where she, Gael, and Devin are sent to capture the German. After Gael is incapacitated and Devin is killed, Bianca uses her ability to knock him out. With the help of Paul Harding and Ahlrich Dekker, they get the German to headquarters. At the end of the Evs Dropper arc, she defends Donna Dunlap from Gael, locking him in a cell. After Donna and Eric Thompson, identify Connie Logan as Evs Dropper, she is leads those sent to fight her. Once the majority of agents are killed, Bianca shoots the root Julien Dumont and all clones are killed. In "]" and "]", she and Gael confront Sylar outside the Bennet house after he leaves having taken ]'s ability, and she is killed by Sylar after she and Gael attempt to capture him. However, Gael identifies himself as "special", so Bianca gets a quick death and her power is not taken.
'''Hank''' and '''Lisa''', portrayed by ] and ], claim to be a former couple and ]'s biological parents in "]". ] tells Claire that he has arranged through an adoption agency for Hank and his former girlfriend, Lisa, to meet Claire and answer her questions. Hank and Lisa tell Claire that they were high school sweethearts who split up before her birth. Hank wanted to keep Claire, while Lisa wanted to give her up for adoption. Hank tells Claire that he has a family history of heart disease and cancer, while Lisa tells that she has diabetes, but neither tell Claire anything that explains how she got her healing powers.


===Introduced in webisodes===
It is revealed that Hank is actually a doctor working with Mr. Bennet, who later performs tests on ]<ref name=godsend/>. Hank is killed by Sylar, who then escapes from containment at ].<ref>{{cite episode | title = The Fix | episodelink = The Fix (Heroes) | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: Terrence O'Hara, Writer: Natalie Chaidez | airdate = 2007-01-29}}</ref>{{-}}


=== Aron Malsky === ==== Caleb ====
'''Caleb''', portrayed by Dusty Sorg, is a worker at the "Sullivan Bros. Carnival" and loyal lackey of ] who seems to monitor the activities within the "family", as he is seen spying and informing Samuel in webisodes and iStories (and even to ] in '']''). He is introduced in '''Slow Burn''' webisodes as he spies on ] and ]. Later, he befriends Lydia's daughter, ], once she gets to the carnival.
'''Aron Malsky''', portrayed by ], is a lawyer formerly under the employ of ]. He is first seen visiting D.L. Hawkins to retrieve the case of money stolen by Niki/Jessica. He later visits Niki in the psych ward to notify her of her release, due to someone else supposedly confessing to her crimes.<ref name=distractions /> ] becomes his personal bodyguard for the day while he's in ].<ref name="run">{{cite episode | title = Run! | episodelink = Run! (Heroes) | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: Roxann Dawson, Writers: Adam Armus and Kay Foster | airdate = 2007-02-12}}</ref> Malsky then uses the two million dollars he retrieved from D.L. to buy diamonds for himself. He is finally murdered by Jessica who was sent by Mr. Linderman.{{-}}
He has the ability to produce eight giant spider legs from his back that can be stretched. His eyes also shone green.


==== Echo DeMille ====
=== Thompson ===<!-- This section is linked from ] -->
'''Echo DeMille''', portrayed by Kiko Ellsworth, is a prisoner of Level 5 with the ability to manipulate sound. He was almost captured by the Constrictor and Howard, but used his power to escape. When the Constrictor later took his girlfriend hostage, Echo was forced to kill him. He took out another pair of agents making his escape. When trying to meet with his girlfriend, Echo used the ] to avoid two more Company agents. He arranged to meet her thirteen weeks later at his family's cabin only to be ambushed by Penny and Connie Logan, Elle Bishop, and several other paired agents. Using his ability, he incapacitated all but one - a posthuman with the ability to absorb sound. The agent captured him, and Echo was detained to Level 5, where Angela Petrelli implied a former connection to him.
'''Thompson''', portrayed by ], is an associate of ] at ], which is a cover for his position as Bennet's superior in The Company. The character is first mentioned in "Wireless, Part Two", and introduced in the graphic novel "How Do You Stop an Exploding Man?, Part Two". In the episode "]", he is mostly seen in flashbacks of Bennet's past dealings with ], but he also gets a brief cameo at the end of the episode where he is seen shooting ] in the shoulder, causing him to lose control of his radioactive powers, and expressing interest in ]'s complete recovery from her exposure to Ted's overload. Due to Bennet's betrayal of The Company, Thompson informs him that he is on death row and that he is just waiting for the order to kill him. His later appearances show him recruiting ] into the Company, and informing Mohinder of ]'s condition.<ref name="07pc">{{cite episode | title = .07% | episodelink = .07% | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: Adam Kane, Writer: Chuck Kim | airdate = 2007-04-23}}</ref> In Kirby Plaza, he dies when he is shot twice by Noah Bennet while attempting to kill Matt Parkman.<ref name="landslide" />


He also appeared in the TV series at the episode "]", wherein Sylar later puts the Company facility into lockdown, Noah releases Echo and the other recaptured prisoners, offering them freedom if they can kill Sylar. Echo is subsequently killed by Sylar, his throat slashed open.
Thompson is portrayed as a man who plays by the rules and takes his orders very seriously. He gets his orders from Linderman. During a conversation with ], Thompson reveals that he knows and approves of the plans to blow up New York.<ref name=hard /> When Nathan implies that Linderman doesn't have the situation under control, Thompson reassures him that Linderman does.


====Rachel Mills====
In the Volume Three episode "Villains", a flashback is shown revealing that Thompson had wanted to train Meredith and Flint Gordon to be agents for the Company. However, Meredith betrays the Company and tries to escape with her brother. After a heated battle on a train, he captures Meredith and asks her why she hates the Company. Meredith replies that the Company killed her daughter, Claire. Upon hearing this, Thompson lets Meredith go, hinting that Claire is still alive.


'''Rachel Mills''', portrayed by ], is the daughter of Leona Mills and a father with the ability to ]. Rachel, as time passes, goes on a journey of self-exploration and is gradually drawn into the secret world of people with special powers, all beginning with the trauma of her mother's apparent suicide, which she never recovered from and eventually drove her to join the ]. After an experience in an unusual biological experimentation lab while serving as a USMC ] in ], Rachel found her career at an end, and so was recruited by Pinehearst as part of their "super-soldier" program, agreeing to accept injections of Mohinder Suresh's experimental formula to fight a war against dangerous specials. During this she discovers she already has a power, having unknowingly developed her teleportation ability that she inherited from her father.
== Additional season 2 characters ==
=== Ricky ===
'''Ricky''', portrayed by ], is an Irish mobster, first appearing in the season premiere while searching for a shipping container with his partners Tuko and Will. They believed it to contain ]s, but instead found a half-naked Peter Petrelli handcuffed inside the empty container. Subsequently, Peter has been both Ricky's prisoner and part of his team, including a recent romantic liaison with Ricky's sister Caitlin. Ricky was murdered by Elle after refusing to tell her where to find Peter.<ref name="Fight or Flight" />


=== Bryan Fuller === ==== Amanda Strazzulla ====
'''Amanda Strazzulla''', portrayed by ], is the daughter of ] who abandoned her because she was too young to raise her. She lives in New England with Lydia's sister Carol Strazzulla, and months ago manifested spontaneous combustion, the ability to explode things with the power of her mind, which caused her aunt to fear her, and also lured ] and ] while they worked together for the Company during the ''Villains' arc'' ('']''). She is introduced in the main series in the episode "]" as part of the carnival family during the Thanksgiving dinner.
Detective '''Bryan Fuller''', portrayed by ], is Matt Parkman's partner in the NYPD. He and Matt are currently investigating the murder of Kaito Nakamura and the attack on Angela Petrelli. He is also Parkman's superior, as he promoted Parkman and made him detective after a successful training session<ref name=4months>{{cite episode | title = Four Months Ago... | episodelink = Four Months Ago... | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series)| credits = Director: Greg Beeman, Writer: Tim Kring | network = NBC | airdate = 2007-11-12}}</ref>. He arrested Angela Petrelli after her false confession to Kaito Nakamura's death. He is named after the writer/producer Bryan Fuller who worked on Heroes during season 1.


== Additional family of the main characters ==
=== Yaeko ===
'''Yaeko''', portrayed by ], is the swordsmith's daughter in the legend of Takezo Kensei. She lives in Feudal Japan, 1671. In the stories, she is the love interest of Takezo Kensei, though ]'s time travelling reveals that it is actually Hiro whom she loves. Initially, Hiro enamors Yaeko to Kensei by posing as him and rescuing her. This led to Yaeko eventually falling in love with Kensei, but upon discovering that it was actually Hiro who saved her in the first place, she concludes that she was actually in love with Hiro the entire time. Upon witnessing Hiro and Yaeko kiss, Kensei feels betrayed and turns Yaeko, her father (the swordsmith) and Hiro over to Whitebeard and his army. After they escape and Hiro scatters Whitebeard's army, Yaeko spreads his tale under Kensei's name.


This list includes every non-powered relative of the main characters.
In historical context ('']''), Yaeko was known as the Princess. She asked Kensei to protect Japan from Whitebeard, and Kensei did. This eventually lead to their wedding, which was interrupted by the "Dragon of Kiso Mountain." The Dragon was looking to take Kensei's love, the Princess. As a response to the Dragon's demands, Kensei cut out his own heart and gave it to the Dragon. What happens next is a bit of a mystery. Legend says that Kensei may have died, or that he was brought back to life by the Dragon, and he and the Princess went away together. However, according to legend, Yaeko is said to be the princess in question, and also the creator of the Takezo tapestries.


=== Kate Bennet ===
In the ] "]", it is revealed that Yaeko had a granddaughter named Yumi, who married ]. Adam became bored with her and faked his death by drowning.
'''Kate Bennet''', portrayed by ], was ]'s first wife in 1985, seen in "]", introduced as she revealed to Noah she was pregnant. That night both were assaulted by a telekinetic man named Richard who ended up killing Kate. This event triggered Noah's psychotic depression, paranoia and having investigations about posthumans and finally put him in the Company's way.


=== Debbie Marshall === === Lyle Bennet ===
'''Lyle Bennet''', portrayed by , is ]'s younger brother and the son of Noah and Sandra Bennet. Lyle finds out about his sister's healing powers by watching a videotape showing her quickly recovering from such otherwise deadly experiences as being hit by a car and falling nearly thirty feet. He confirms his realization by stapling Claire's hand and watching it heal, though Claire convinces him to keep the secret and to hand her the tape.<ref name=NothingToHide>{{cite episode | title = Nothing to Hide | episode-link = Nothing to Hide (Heroes) | series = Heroes | series-link = Heroes (American TV series)| credits = Director: Donna Dietch, Writer: Jesse Alexander | network = NBC | airdate = 2006-11-06}}</ref> After Claire tells her father that Lyle knows about her powers, ] has ] remove Lyle's memories about her healing abilities,<ref name=Fallout>{{cite episode | title = Fallout | episode-link = Fallout (Heroes) | series = Heroes | series-link = Heroes (American TV series)| credits = Director: John Badham, Writer: Joe Pokaski | network = NBC | airdate = 2006-12-04}}</ref> but later he becomes aware of her powers again.
'''Deborah "Debbie" Marshall''', portrayed by ], is the head cheerleader/captain of the cheer squad at Costa Verde High School. She has had negative interactions with both Claire and Martha. She does not want Claire on the squad. She also sees West in disguise come from the sky and seemingly kill Claire but when Claire is proved to be alive, the police think that she is seeing alcohol-induced hallucinations. She was suspended from school and cheerleading after having a blood alcohol of .13.


=== Will and Tuko === === Sandra Bennet ===
'''Sandra Bennet''', portrayed by ], is ]'s adoptive mother and the ex-wife of Noah Bennet. She has great affection for her pet ], Mr. Muggles. She is at first unaware of ]'s activities or her daughter's powers, and ] has wiped her memories several times on her husband's orders.<ref name=Fallout/> However, after Claire meets ], Sandra tells Claire that she and Mr. Bennet had tried unsuccessfully to find her biological parents when she was a baby because they thought she might have a rare chromosomal disorder.<ref>{{cite episode | title = Better Halves | episode-link = Better Halves (Heroes)| series = Heroes | series-link = Heroes (American TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: Greg Beeman, Writer: Natalie Chaidez | airdate = 2006-10-30}}</ref>
'''Will''' and '''Tuko''', portrayed by ] and ], are two associates of Ricky's. They reside in ], ]. They work with Ricky in some of his illegal ventures. Will betrays Ricky but is stopped by Peter<ref name="Kindred">{{cite episode | title = Kindred | episodelink = Kindred (Heroes) | series = Heroes | serieslink = Heroes (TV series)| credits = Director: Paul Edwards, Writer: J.J. Philbin | network = NBC | airdate = 2007-10-08}}</ref>. Will later reveals information to Elle about the whereabouts of Peter Petrelli. Tuko was on scene at the Wandering Rock Pub when Caitlin arrived to view the destroyed body of her brother.


=== Caitlin === === Martin Gray ===
'''Martin Gray''', portrayed by ], is Sylar's adoptive father and biological uncle. He abandoned Sylar and his mother, Virginia, when Sylar was very young. In the third volume, Sylar learns that Martin is not his biological father, prompting him to track Martin down in "]". Martin reveals that his brother, Samson Gray, is his real father, and that he adopted Sylar to appease Virginia and their marital problems. Samson sold Sylar to Martin for an undisclosed amount of money.
'''Caitlin''', portrayed by ], is Ricky's sister and a love interest of Peter Petrelli. As a worker at the Wandering Rock Pub in Cork, Ireland, she watches over Peter when he is taken captive by her brother. After Peter uses Isaac's ability to paint a picture of Caitlin and Peter standing outside of a cathedral in Montreal, she goes with him to Montreal, her motivation being that she wants to avenge her brother's death by killing Elle in return. At the end of "The Line", she and Peter accidentally travel one year into the future to find New York evacuated due to a deadly virus, and the country under martial law. In "Out Of Time", Peter returns to the present alone, accidentally leaving her stranded in the future being deported to Ireland. By eventually preventing the release of the virus, Peter stops that future from coming to pass.


=== Virginia Gray ===
Caitlin's fate was originally intended to be revealed in the cancelled volume "Exodus", but due to the ], it may never be known.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2008/09/interview-heroe.html|title = Interview: 'Heroes' Creator Tim Kring |accessdate = 2008-09-21|author = Rick Porter | publisher = Zap2it}}</ref>
'''Virginia Gray''', portrayed by ], is Sylar's mother. When Sylar visits Virginia, she constantly pushes Sylar to "be special", even saying that he could become President if he wanted to. Sylar reveals his powers, accidentally injuring her, and confesses his guilt since he thinks he will be the exploding man and kill many people. Both instances only alienate the two, and Virginia demands that Sylar leave her house and give back her son Gabriel. She brandishes a pair of scissors at Sylar, but is accidentally stabbed in the heart when they struggle for the scissors.


=== Victoria Pratt === === Kimiko Nakamura ===
'''Kimiko Nakamura''', portrayed by ], is the daughter of Kaito and older sister of Hiro. She is very intelligent and motivated, and wishes to advance in her father's company, Yamagato Industries. She accompanies her father to New York to retrieve Hiro.<ref name=distractions>{{cite episode | title = Distractions| episode-link = Distractions (Heroes) | series = Heroes | series-link = Heroes (American TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: Jeannot Szwarc, Writer: Michael Green | airdate = 2007-02-05}}</ref> She gets along with her brother, in comparison to his and their father's strained relationship, as evidenced by the way Kimiko's pleas and reasoning get much further than Kaito's authoritative tactics (up to and including ]). Hiro convinced his father that Yamagato has a successor in Kimiko. It is unknown if Kimiko has any abilities.
'''Victoria Pratt''', portrayed by ] and ], was a founding member of the Company and biological engineer. In ], she met ] and began to do research on the ]. On Company orders, she experimented on the virus, and weaponized it, creating Strain 138, which is capable of killing 93% of the world's population, including normal and enhanced humans. When Monroe attempted to steal the strain, Pratt insisted that the program on the virus be stopped, and the strain destroyed. Kaito Nakamura and the other founders did not agree and locked the virus away at Primatech Paper in Odessa, Texas. Pratt was not happy about the decision.


=== Janice Parkman ===
In the present, Matt Parkman began to investigate the remaining Company founders. After discovering that most of them were dead, he used his abilities on Angela to persuade her to give him information on who Pratt was. Angela resisted, stating that Pratt was in hiding and wanted to be left alone. Matt was however able to get her name. Pratt was discovered in the present, hiding in ] by ] and ]. Fearing that she would be the next to die after hearing about the death of Kaito, she attempts to kill Monroe with no avail. After Peter uses his telepathy to find out where Strain 138 is hidden, Monroe and Petrelli attempt to release Pratt and set her free. However, after she attempts to shoot Peter in the head, Monroe kills her and leaves a death-threat photo on her body.
'''Janice Parkman''', portrayed by ], is the ex-wife of ] police officer Matt Parkman. Their marriage has been troubled for some time. Janice blames their problems on his jealousy of her prospering career while his has been stalling, but she had been cheating with his ex-partner. After awakening his powers, Matt then tries to fulfill her every need by reading her thoughts to improve their marriage. Matt discovers that she had had an affair and punches his ex-partner. Two weeks later, after Matt tells Janice of his ability to read minds. When Matt gets a six-month suspension for his rogue actions at work, he reads in her mind that she is pregnant, and he starts working as a bodyguard. Four months later Matt and Janice are divorced, and Matt later reveals to ] that the child his wife bore is not his, but rather the man's with whom his wife cheated. It is later revealed that the child, named Matt Parkman, Jr, was in fact his. In the episode 'Cold Snap', the infant displayed the ability to control energy (turning on a TV and activating several electronic toys), which also allowed him to jump-start/reactivate an evolved human's ability (by touching Hiro, baby Matt immediately restored Hiro's lost ability to "stop time" and eventually his teleporting and time-travel abilities).<ref name=4months>{{cite episode | title = Four Months Ago... | episode-link = Four Months Ago... | series = Heroes | series-link = Heroes (American TV series)| credits = Director: Greg Beeman, Writer: Tim Kring | network = NBC | airdate = 2007-11-12}}</ref> Following this revelation, Matt reunites with Janice and they apparently get remarried and are now raising their son together.


=== Heidi Petrelli ===
== Additional season 3 characters ==
'''Heidi Petrelli''', portrayed by ], is ]'s wife and is involved with his strategies for his bid for congressional office. She uses a ] for mobility after being paralyzed in a car crash in the episode "]" caused by Linderman's accomplices under the orders of Arthur Petrelli while Nathan was driving. Nathan, while trying to control the car, suddenly found himself flying for the first time. She is able to walk in the episode "]" after being healed by Mr. Linderman.
=== Dr. Zimmerman ===
A former employee of the Company, '''Dr. Zimmerman''', portrayed by ], helped create the formula that grants synthetic abilities. Under Company orders, he delivered ] and ], as well as their third sister Barbara, and gave them their abilities. After his tenure with the Company was over, however, many of his memories of employment were erased.


=== Mr. Millbrook === === Simon & Monty Petrelli ===
'''Simon''' and '''Monty Petrelli''', portrayed by Justin Evans<!-- The link to Justin Evans is to the soccer player, NOT the actor--> and Jackson Wurth, are the juvenile sons of ] and Heidi Petrelli, seen participating in the Petrelli campaign during the 2006 election. Following the presumed death of their uncle, Peter, Nathan's depression and heavy drinking caused Heidi to leave Nathan, taking their sons with her. As of the second-season episode "Kindred", they live and attend a private school in Washington, D.C.<ref name=Kindred>{{cite episode | title = Kindred | episode-link = Kindred (Heroes) | series = Heroes | series-link = Heroes (American TV series)| credits = Director: Paul Edwards, Writer: J. J. Philbin | network = NBC | airdate = 2007-10-08}}</ref>
The father of ], portrayed by ], meets ] at Daphne's home, and attempts to prevent him from speaking with her.


===Frack=== === Chandra Suresh ===
] (2009)]]
Frack, portrayed by ], is a comic book nerd who works at Sam's Comics; he and Sam try to help Hiro Nakamura regain his memory by examining back issues of ''9th Wonders!''. Frack finds a picture depicting ] giving baby ] to ], and spots present day Hiro and Claire hiding in the background.


'''Chandra Suresh''', portrayed by ], was born in ] and is ]'s late father, as well as the author of ''Activating Evolution'', a book which appears to explain the reason so many people with powers are suddenly appearing. He found a means of tracking and locating potential powered people. He was also connected with ], whom he referred to as "]". On a taped telephone conversation from shortly before Chandra's death, however, he said he wanted nothing to do with Sylar, and insisted the man stop calling him. Before his death, Chandra kept a male ] named Mohinder.
===Sam===
Sam, portrayed by ], is a comic book nerd and the proprietor of Sam's Comics; he and Frack try to help Hiro Nakamura regain his memory by examining back issues of ''9th Wonders!''. Sam helps direct Ando, Matt, and Daphne to a bike courier to whom Isaac Mendez gave his sketchbook.


== Webisode characters == === Shanti Suresh ===
'''Shanti Suresh''' is ] daughter, also born in ], ]. In the episode "Seven Minutes to Midnight", ]'s mother tells him that she had died at the age of five, two years after he was born. But in the later episode, "The Hard Part", he states that he never got to see her because she died before he was born. His blood actually possessed the antibodies she needed to survive, but he was born just a few months too late. Chandra Suresh said she had a genetic abnormality.<ref name="sixmonthsago">{{cite episode | title = Six Months Ago | episode-link = Six Months Ago | series = Heroes | series-link = Heroes (American TV series)| credits = Director: Allan Arkush, Writer: Aron Eli Coleite | network = NBC | airdate = 2006-11-27}}</ref> Her death, along with several other factors, prompted Chandra Suresh to begin his investigations into people with special powers.
Characters with special abilities who only appear in the webisodes.


=== "The Constrictor" === === Damon Dawson ===
'''Damon Dawson''', portrayed by ], is ] younger brother. When ] comes to live with the Dawsons, Damon initially bullies him. But when Micah uses his ] to tune in pay-per-view television, Damon starts to accept his cousin. He gets Micah's backpack stolen, which eventually leads to Niki Sanders' death.
'''The Constrictor''', portrayed by Mark Steger, is sent with Howard to capture Echo DeMille. After their first attempt fails, leaving Howard dying on the ground and bleeding from his ears, the Constrictor finishes Howard off and goes after Echo himself. However, he is killed by Echo after using his ability on Echo's girlfriend in an attempt to force him to surrender.


===Edward=== === Nana Dawson ===
] (2013)]]
'''Edward''', portrayed by Jose Yenque, is the father of Santiago and the husband of Iris, and is a former agent of the Company. He has the abilities of both accelerated probability - allowing him to slow time, determine which action to take, and do so at a superhuman speed - and electric manipulation. With his family threatened, he was forced to work as an assassin for the Company, but eventually faked his death to leave that life. Upon learning that the Company is going after his family, he returns and attempts to kill S.L.W. by electrocution.


'''"Nana" Dawson''', portrayed by ], is ]' great-aunt and grandmother of ] and Damon Dawson. She lives with her grandchildren in ] after her daughter, Monica and Damon's mother, is killed during ]. ] leaves Micah in Nana's care when she leaves to join the Company.
===Iris===
'''Iris''', portrayed by Norma Maldonado, is the wife of Edward and mother of Santiago. She has the ability of ].


== Additional Season One characters ==
===Rachel Mills===
'''Pvt. Rachel Mills''', portrayed by Taylor Cole, is a Private in the ] recruited by Pinehearst as part of their super soldier program. She is an evolved human with the ability of instantaneous ].


This list includes every character not listed above, that appeared in three episodes or more of the first season.
===Santiago===
'''Santiago''', portrayed by Roberto Urbina, is a posthuman living in Peru with the ability of accelerated probability, which allows him to slow down time, analyze which action to take, and then do so at a superhuman speed.


== Graphic novel characters == === Hank and Lisa ===
] (2006)]]


'''Hank''' and '''Lisa''', portrayed by ] and ], claim to be a former couple and ]'s biological parents in "]". ] tells Claire that he has arranged through an adoption agency for Hank and his former girlfriend, Lisa, to meet Claire and answer her questions. Hank and Lisa tell Claire that they were high school sweethearts who split up before her birth. Hank wanted to keep Claire, while Lisa wanted to give her up for adoption. Hank tells Claire that he has a family history of heart disease and cancer, while Lisa tells her that she has diabetes, but neither tell Claire anything that explains how she got her healing powers.
This list includes every character not listed above, that has appeared in a graphic novel, and has a superhuman ability.


It is revealed that Hank is actually a doctor working with Mr. Bennet, who later performs tests on ].<ref name=godsend>{{cite episode | title = Godsend | episode-link = Godsend (Heroes) | series = Heroes | series-link = Heroes (American TV series)| network = NBC | credits = Director: Paul Shapiro, Writer: Tim Kring | airdate = 2007-01-22}}</ref> Hank is killed by Sylar, who then escapes from containment at Primatech.<ref>{{cite episode | title = The Fix | episode-link = The Fix (Heroes) | series = Heroes | series-link = Heroes (American TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: Terrence O'Hara, Writer: Natalie Chaidez | airdate = 2007-01-29}}</ref>
=== Anya ===
When Claude meets his first partner Haram he also learns about Rollo Fusor, a criminal whom the Company believes is killing people by dehydrating them. Haram considers Fusor his first failed case, and bears a solid hate against him.


=== Audrey Hanson ===
In 1990 the Company sends Claude and Haram to France to catch Rollo. However, when they are to arrest him, Rollo himself is dehydrated, and the real criminal is revealed to be his partner, '''Anya'''.<ref></ref> While Haram and Claude are to arrest the unnamed woman, she attacks Haram, nearly killing him. Claude manages to stop her, and she is killed by Haram.
'''Audrey Hanson''', portrayed by ], is an ] agent pursuing ]. Three months after Sylar begins his murder spree, Audrey catches sight of him in ], but he eludes her by escaping on a subway after giving his cap and trenchcoat to an elderly man, whom Audrey shoots, mistaking him for Sylar.<ref name=TurningPoint>{{Cite comic | Writer = Christopher Zatta | Penciller = Micah Gunnel | Copencillers = Marcus To | Inker = Mark Roslan | Title = Heroes | Story = | Volume = 1 | Issue = 10 | date = November 2006 | Publisher = Aspen MLT, Inc.}}</ref>


While investigating the murder of ]'s family in Los Angeles three months later, Audrey initially gets to know Officer Matt Parkman. He reveals to her his ability to read people's minds and she asks him to help the FBI find Sylar. Later, Sylar unsuccessfully attempts to seize Molly from FBI custody. During his escape, Audrey is almost forced to shoot herself because of the man's telekinetic abilities but is saved when Parkman intervenes.<ref name=OneGiantLeap>{{cite episode | title = One Giant Leap | episode-link = Heroes season 1#ep3 | series = Heroes | series-link = Heroes (American TV series)| credits = Director: Greg Beeman, Writer: Jeph Loeb | network = NBC | airdate = 2006-10-09}}</ref>
=== Abu Aswan ===
'''Abu Aswan''' is a descendant of the Egyptian pharaoh ] who, after discovering that he can manipulate the weight of objects, suspects that his ancestors used similar abilities to build the ]. Visiting him in a dream, Sanjog Iyer tells him that the pharaoh had one of his kin stoned for publicly demonstrating the same ability, and persuades him to keep his ancestors' secret. His name was originally seen in the list by Chandra Suresh.


Audrey again requests the aid of Officer Parkman when she suspects that Sylar has killed again. She takes Parkman to the morgue, where they examine the body of a dead oncologist who was burned alive. Audrey is exposed to a dangerously high amount of radiation while investigating the house of ], whom she believes to be Sylar. She and Parkman find Sprague in the hospital with his dying wife, but Parkman persuades him to surrender.<ref name=NothingToHide/> However, Sprague escapes after being taken into custody by Homeland Security, and she again enlists Parkman's aid in hunting him down.<ref name=SevenMinutes/> Audrey begins to bond with Matt, to the extent of giving him advice on his relationship with his wife, and she looks to become attracted to him.<ref name=Fallout/> Two weeks later, Audrey and Matt have the FBI raid Primatech Paper Company.<ref name=godsend /> However, they find nothing. Audrey's superior then threatens her position with the bureau. Disheartened, Audrey harshly tells Matt their partnership is over. Audrey re-appears in the penultimate episode for the season and arrests Sprague on a tip from Sylar (posing as Isaac Mendez). After Sprague is killed by Sylar, she is seen at the accident site. When a police officer remarks on how the top of someone's head falls off, she walks by and replies, "You don't want to know".
=== Felicia Brooks ===
'''Felicia Brooks''' is a Company agent who was trained by ]. She vigorously trains Donna Dunlap to be an agent herself, and is not seen with a partner. She rises up against Gael when she overhears him talking about the posthuman agents, and fights Penny Logan until Eric Thompson knocks everyone out with tear gas. She comments annoyance at other agents who blast discussions without questioning their importance first, and is extremely angered at Connie Logan's betrayal. She, Penny, and Connie had trained together, and it was implied that they were friends. She is among those sent to deal with Evs Dropper, and is killed in the process.


=== Au Co === === Aron Malsky ===
'''Aron Malsky''', portrayed by ], is a lawyer formerly under the employ of Mr. Linderman. He is first seen visiting D. L. Hawkins to retrieve the case of money stolen by Niki/Jessica. He later visits Niki in the psych ward to notify her of her release, due to someone else supposedly confessing to her crimes.<ref name=distractions /> Matt Parkman becomes his personal bodyguard for the day while he's in ].<ref name="run">{{cite episode | title = Run! | episode-link = Run! (Heroes) | series = Heroes | series-link = Heroes (American TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: Roxann Dawson, Writers: Adam Armus and Kay Foster | airdate = 2007-02-12}}</ref> Malsky then uses the two million dollars he retrieved from D. L. to buy diamonds for himself. He is finally murdered by Jessica who was sent by Mr. Linderman.
'''Au Co''' was a Vietnamese girl killed by ] on a mission during the Vietnam War. Arthur Petrelli and ] were on a mission to locate an airplane. They found it too late and there were no survivors, but "Dallas" decided to carry on with the airplane's mission to destroy Au Co. They presumed that it was a nearby farming village, but later realized that it was a young girl with the ability to make plants grow at a rapid rate. She was shot and killed by Arthur despite Daniel's efforts to stop him. This event, and those leading up to it, eventually resulted in a close bond between Linderman and Petrelli.


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=== Leonard Cushing ===
'''Leonard Cushing''' is an agent of the Company who can secrete a highly potent corrosive from his hands. Cushing is Eric Thompson's partner until one mission where they are trying to find Evs Dropper. Thompson finds Cushing in a room with a fellow agent's dead, acid-burnt body. Thompson believes that Cushing is responsible. However, when Cushing is about to reveal something about Evs Dropper, Devin Patterson comes in and shoots him. With his final breath, he warns Thompson that Evs Dropper is always watching.


=== Dennis === === Brody Mitchum ===
] (2014)]]
'''Dennis''' is a Level Five prisoner who, along with fellow escapees Michael Fitzgerald and Tina Ramierez, goes to his girlfriend's house after Elle Bishop accidentally frees everyone in Level Five. The Company sends agents to deal with them, but the trio kills them. Sylar, who had been doing surveillance, intervenes, and kills Dennis.


'''Brody Mitchum''', portrayed by ], is a classmate of ] and ] on the ] at the fictional Union Wells High School. During a celebratory ] Brody and Claire wander off to the ], where he attempts to ] her.<ref name=OneGiantLeap /> He accidentally throws her onto a tree branch and considers her dead when a branch impales the back of her head. In "]" he is shaken to see her alive again. After Claire discovers that Brody has raped at least one other girl, she convinces him to let her drive them both home in his car, but then, in an attempt to scare him, rams the car headfirst into a brick wall. She drags his unconscious body from the car when it catches fire and ultimately explodes.<ref>{{Cite comic | Writer = Joe Pokaski | Penciller = Micah Gunnel | Inker = Mark Roslan | Title = ''''''| Volume = 1 | Issue = 4 | Date = '''2006''' | Publisher = Aspen MLT, Inc.}}</ref> When he wakes up and sees Claire unharmed, he realizes that she is not a normal human being. After learning of the attempted rape of his daughter, an enraged Mr. Bennet has his associate, ], wipe out all of Brody's memory. Brody, severely injured, is later seen in a wheelchair attending Homecoming.
=== Richard Drucker ===
'''Richard Drucker''' was an evolved human recorded by the Company. He is described in Evolutions as having hatred towards the founding members of the Company. He also attended college with Charles Deveaux, and they were friends before the start of the Company. They were both associated with an unidentified group, described as "like-minded individuals", but Drucker left the group in 1977 and moved to Bangalore. His physical body was destroyed in Bangalore in a plane crash. He is a distant relative of Hana Gitelman. The Company has extensive information on Drucker in its files.<ref>http://www.samantha48616e61.com/popups/GNI.shtml?mea=190838</ref><ref>http://www.samantha48616e61.com/popups/GNI.shtml?mea=193700</ref>


===Mira Shenoy===
He continued to exist within computers, like Hana, until they were both deleted while trapped in the Company's mainframe.
'''Mira Shenoy''', portrayed by Kavi Ladnier, is a geneticist and love interest of ], first seen in "]", during the funeral of ] in India. Mira offers Mohinder a job in her company so he could return to Madras and forget about his father's research, but he ultimately refuses and returns to New York. In "]" is shown that Mohinder returned to Madras and lived together with Mira until he was drawn by Project Icarus and left following the compass. In the graphic novel "]", Mira is abducted by someone interested in Mohinder's research. With the help of ], Mohinder finds Mira and saves her, and they end up sharing a kiss.


=== Julien Dumont === ===Elisa Thayer===
'''Elisa Thayer''', portrayed by ], is an FBI agent investigating ]-related murders who appears in several first-season episodes beginning with "]". The character also appears in the unbroadcast version of the pilot episode.
'''Julien Dumont''' was an agent of the company supposedly monitoring a bag and tag mission of several of his duplicates who had gone rogue in Antarctica, Australia and the Congo (though a holding room filled with more indicates that there were even more). While the duplicates in Antarctica and Australia are captured, the third jumps from a cliff and dies. When his partner and girlfriend, Sabine Hazel, reports back, Julien says he can still sense the third one alive, making her suspicious.


=== Eric Thompson, Sr. ===
Following a tip from someone known only as Evs Dropper, Sabine realizes that the Julien she knows is really another duplicate, and demands to know what's happened to the real Julien. The duplicate claims that she's never met the real Julien, it's been him all along. Infuriated, she kills the duplicate and takes his keycard, using to access a Company holding cell where she finds the original Julien, kept in a coma and hooked up to machinery that activates his cloning powers involuntarily. The Company had been using him as an agent factory for years, producing an endless supply of clones to recruit while keeping the original alive and protected, as it is believed that if he dies, all his clones would die as well. Sabine proceeds to disconnect and extract Julien, even understanding he's not the Julien she loved, and the two flee from the Company. They are rescued by another Julien, who takes them to a safe house where Sabine finally meets Evs Dropper in person.
'''Eric Thompson, Sr.''' or commonly referred as '''Agent Thompson''' or simply '''Thompson''', portrayed by ], is an associate of ] at Primatech, which is a cover for his position as Bennet's superior in The Company. The character is first mentioned in "]", and introduced in the graphic novel "]" tracking down ]. He is also seen recruiting a young Haitian (''"]"''), and in a failed attempt to recruit ] (''"]"''), prior to "]".


In the episode "]", he is mostly seen in flashbacks of Bennet's past dealings with The Company, but he also gets a brief cameo at the end of the episode where he is seen shooting ] in the shoulder, causing him to lose control of his radioactive powers, and expressing interest in ]'s complete recovery from her exposure to Ted's overload. Due to Bennet's betrayal of The Company, Thompson informs him that he is on death row and that he is just waiting for the order to kill him. His later appearances show him recruiting ] into the Company, and informing Mohinder of ]'s condition.<ref name="07pc">{{cite episode | title = .07% | episode-link = .07% | series = Heroes | series-link = Heroes (American TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: Adam Kane, Writer: Chuck Kim | airdate = 2007-04-23}}</ref> In the Primatech building, he dies when he is shot twice by Noah Bennet while attempting to kill Matt Parkman.<ref name="landslide">{{cite episode | title = Landslide | episode-link = Landslide (Heroes) | series = Heroes | series-link = Heroes (American TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: Greg Beeman, Writer: Jesse Alexander | airdate = 2007-05-14}}</ref>
She is told by Evs (Connie Logan) that they were married and that Penny is their daughter. Gael asked for Julien to be tested but tells her he was killed two years later. At the end of the battle, Bianca shoots Julien to kill the oncoming clones.


Thompson is portrayed as a man who plays by the rules and takes his orders very seriously. He gets his orders from Linderman. During a conversation with ], Thompson reveals that he knows and approves of the plans to blow up New York.<ref name="hard">{{cite episode | title = The Hard Part | episode-link = The Hard Part | series = Heroes | series-link = Heroes (American TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: John Badham, Writer: Aron Eli Coleite | airdate = 2007-05-07}}</ref> When Nathan implies that Linderman does not have the situation under control, Thompson reassures him that Linderman does.
=== Donna Dunlap ===
'''Donna Dunlap''' was merely an everyday dental receptionist who happened to have telescopic, microscopic, and nocturnal vision. She went on a date with a disguised Eric Thompson. After receiving a mysterious warning from someone known as Evs Dropper, she left and stayed at her apartment. She later found out she was being watched by Thompson and ]. As she tried to escape, she was stunned by Elle and taken into captivity. She is taken to the Company infirmary where she recovers next to Noah. Bob sees her exposure to Bennett as a risk and orders her memory of that day erased with hopes of later convincing her to help The Company. Evs Dropper reveals the erased events to her as proof of what was done and convinces her to fight against the Company. She is trained by Felicia Brooks and sees a picture of her death painted by Isaac Mendez. She becomes suspicious of Evs and renounces her allegiance, uncovering the truth of Cushing's murder in the process. She and Eric capture a rogue Julien clone and soon after try to stop an escaping Sabine and Julien. She and Eric are later dispatched to recapture Brenden Lewis, but both are knocked out and the support must capture him. She is interrogated by Gael later on, who thinks she is still working with Evs so she escapes with Eric (with Bianca's help) to a hotel where she is incapacitated and replaced by Penny Logan. She is captured by Connie, who nails her feet to a board and binds and gags her to a chair strapped with enough explosives to destroy a metal bridge. Eric tries to save her, but she pushes him over and falls into the painting's position as the bomb detonates.


In the Volume Three episode "]", a flashback is shown revealing that Thompson had wanted to train ] and ] to be agents for the Company. However, Meredith betrays the Company and tries to escape with her brother. After a heated battle on a train, he captures Meredith and asks her why she hates the Company. Meredith replies that the Company killed her daughter, ]. Upon hearing this, Thompson lets Meredith go, hinting that Claire is still alive.
=== Evan ===
During the Revolutionary War, ], working as a mercenary for the British Empire, learned of a man who destroyed an entire town single-handedly, and claimed he could not be killed. Adam initially assumed the man had the same regenerative ability as he did, but upon meeting this man, '''Evan''', Adam killed him on the spot. His crew was immediately attacked by an unseen army, and Adam soon found himself fighting another Evan... and another, and another. It turned out Evan had the ability to duplicate himself, effectively making him a one-man army. Adam attempted to track down and kill the original Evan, believing this would stop all the duplicates; however, this proved futile when he found that the duplicates can also duplicate themselves, and Adam was hopelessly outmatched.


In the episode "]", seen in flashbacks, Eric approaches Noah in 1987 to recruit him into the Company after seeing what he is capable of. He later informs Noah the will of the Company for him to get married, suggesting the waitress (]).
=== Michael Fitzgerald ===
'''Michael Fitzgerald''' is a Level Five prisoner who goes along with fellow escapees Tina Ramierez and Dennis to the apartment of Dennis' girlfriend after Elle Bishop accidentally frees everyone in Level Five. The Company sends agents to deal with them, but the trio kills them. Sylar, who had been doing surveillance, intervenes, and kills Dennis with a sonic scream. He prepares to kill Tina and Michael, but Dennis' girlfriend convinces him to spare their lives.


In the graphic novel ], Thompson is assigned a mission in ], ] during the ] along with ], in which they must catch or terminate a KGB agent named Sylvia with the ability of mass manipulation. Sylvia ultimately turns into a giant defeating both agents, leaving Claude near death; meanwhile Thompson completes the real mission. Once Claude wakes up at the Company, ] reveals the real target; Eric brought a tracking device (isotope pneumatic injection) from Germany which will allow them to track posthumans, starting with Claude.
=== Benjamin Franklin ===
''']''' conducted experiments on electricity an held a kite with a key out during a storm where he was electrocuted, but discharged the remaining energy through his cat. He writes this in his diary which ] thinks must stay hidden.


* His full name is revealed in the graphic novel ] as ''Eric Thompson Sr.''
=== Manuel Garcia ===
* It is revealed in the graphic novels that he has a son also named Eric Thompson, and referred to as '''"Thompson Jr.,"''' who also works for The Company. He sees in Noah Bennet the face of treason as he killed his father. He also appears in '''''Faction Zero'' iStory.'''
'''Manuel Garcia''' had connections to Evs Dropper, and with her help, he managed to evade the Company by teleporting. He was eventually captured by Connie and Penn Logan while acting as agents and not as Evs Dropper. They managed to get close enough to him by Penny impersonating his girlfriend with Connie's ability. His name was revealed on the Assignment Tracker's interactive map. He was recruited into the Company after his capture and was killed while fighting Evs Dropper.


=== Howard Grigsby === === Tina ===
'''"Texas" Tina''', portrayed by ], is the romance-novel-loving confidante of ] who frequently takes care of Niki's son, ], and attends ] meetings with Niki. When Niki confides in Tina about having blackouts and possibly an alternate personality, Tina tells her that her troubles stem from psychological damage as a result of her dealings with the mob. In "]", Tina finally meets and flees from Niki's alternate personality, Jessica, after Micah is taken away by ].
'''Howard Grigsby''' is a man with the ability to emit blinding amounts of light. He thinks he is the light of God, and is the reason that ] must get his famed glasses. After he is captured, he is sent to a Level Five detention cell. However, he later escapes after Elle Bishop accidentally releases all the Level Five prisoners.<ref>http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18765</ref>


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=== Guillame ===
'''Guillame''' is ]'s father and a leader in their village in Haiti. He is known as the Houngan, the Priest, and his power to manipulate people's emotions has been able to protect his village from attack. He dies when jumping off a mountain.


=== Paul Harding === === Jackie Wilcox ===
'''Jacqueline "Jackie" Wilcox''', portrayed by ], is a cheerleader and high school classmate of ]. Although she claimed to be "BFF" (best friends forever) with Claire and once revealed plans to run for class president with "good deeds" as her platform, Jackie is an obnoxious rival and ] for Claire. Jackie repeatedly taunts ] about his sexual orientation. She is also apparently jealous of Claire and ], who described Jackie as a gossip. Jackie is eager to be the center of attention and takes credit for a fire rescue Claire performed in "]". Sylar mistakes Jackie for Claire after having read of Jackie's faked heroism and kills her by telekinetically slicing open her skull. Jackie's last word to Claire is "run." She appears again in "]", as Hiro travels back in time before Sylar gets to ]; Jackie is seen along with Claire and other cheerleaders celebrating the outcome of the homecoming football match. Ultimately, Hiro teleports Sylar to Odessa so he will not harm Charlie, but it is hinted that Jackie and later victims will have the same fate they once had. She appears again in "]" in Hiro's mental trial as the main Sylar's victim Hiro could save besides Charlie.
'''Paul Harding''' was listed on the assignment tracker map. Before the map was created, it was mentioned that he and his partner helped Bianca and Gael bring the German to Primatech Research. He left a discussion on Evs Dropper's blog about mysterious blue water, traveled with his partner, Ahlrich Dekker, to Calgary to capture an unidentified posthuman and angrily commented on being ordered back from the battle with Connie Logan by Bob Bishop while Dekker was sent on his own. He eventually arrived by himself and was killed in the subsequent battle.


=== Brendan Lewis === === Zach ===
] (2012)]]
'''Brendan Lewis''' was captured once and it was suspected that his ability would mutate. When it does, granting him further plant-like abilities, he escapes and knocks a partnership unconscious and kills most of a support team before being recaptured. He is sent to a crater the size of a village in Guyana caused by a local manifesting his ability. Paulette Hawkins augments his power to cover the crater with forestry, and he is killed in the process.


'''Zach''', portrayed by ], is a ] classmate of ] and one of the first people to know of her powers. He ]s Claire using her abilities.<ref name=genesis>{{cite episode | title = Genesis | episode-link = Genesis (Heroes) | series = Heroes | series-link = Heroes (American TV series)| credits = Director: David Semel, Writer: Tim Kring | network = NBC | airdate = 2006-09-25}}</ref> He tells Claire that he helped her win the Homecoming Queen election by campaigning for her amongst the "unpopular" crowd. He also gives her a book written by ], which he says details information on her power and others.<ref name="homecoming">{{cite episode | title = Homecoming | episode-link = Homecoming (Heroes) | series = Heroes | series-link = Heroes (American TV series) | network = NBC | credits = Director: Greg Beeman, Writers: Adam Armus and Kay Foster | airdate = 2006-11-20}}</ref>
=== "Liquid Man" ===
A man with the power to transform his own body mass into a water-like liquid, who was apprehended by Ivan, Maarten, and ] when they trapped him in a train's freezer car.


Though it was originally intended for Zach to be ], Dekker's manager "didn't want him to be playing a gay character" for career reasons, and his storyline was later changed.<ref name="Post-Gazette">{{cite news | last = Owen |first = Rob |title = Tuned In: Can 'Heroes' continue to save the day for NBC? | publisher = Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date = 2007-01-19 | url = http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07019/754940-237.stm | access-date = 2007-01-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=10021 |title=CBR News - The Comic Reel |publisher=Comic Book Resources |access-date=2010-07-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Brian |last=Juergens |publisher=AfterElton.com |url=http://www.afterelton.com/TV/2006/12/heroes.html |title=''Heroes'' straightens up its gay character |date=2006-12-11 |access-date=2007-01-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070127101132/http://www.afterelton.com/TV/2006/12/heroes.html |archive-date=2007-01-27 }}</ref>
=== Connie Logan ===
'''Connie Logan''' was an agent of the Company, who was considered an invaluable asset for her ability to mold and reshape other people's faces as if they were made of clay, and to change their hair and eye colors as well as their vocal cords to precisely mimic the appearance and voice of another person, creating perfect disguises. The effect only lasts 24 hours, and she could not change her own appearance. She often worked with her non-powered daughter, Penny Logan.


== Additional Season Two characters ==
The graphic novel ''Into the Wild'' reveals that she is the mysterious "Evs Dropper", and is working to bring down the Company alongside an army of Julien Dumont clones. She is also married to the original Julien. She and her daughter are killed by the Kill Squad in the ensuing battle along with the rest of her forces, though the Company suffered heavy casualties.


=== Maarten === === Caitlin ===
'''Caitlin''', portrayed by ], is Ricky's sister and a love interest of Peter Petrelli. Caitlin aids Peter in rediscovering his abilities, but after being transported to the future where the Shanti Virus has devastated the world, Caitlin gets separated from Peter to be deported back to Ireland. Peter tries to teleport back to the present with her, but accidentally leaves her behind. Her ultimate fate is unknown but when Peter destroys the Shanti Virus in the present, the future she was trapped in is erased, most likely erasing her from existence as well.
'''Maarten''' was Ivan's partner at the time when ] was Ivan's protégé.


=== Marcus === === Kyle Dilman ===
'''Kyle Dilman''', played by Brian Kimmet, was ]'s manager at Copy Kingdom. Dilman returns as the main ] of the Webseries: '''Nowhere Man''', where he has been promoted to a corporate position at Copy Kingdom Headquarters.
While en route from Texas to California, ] learns of a couple of murder victims whose bodies were unnaturally bent out of shape. Realizing the killer must be one of his early cases &ndash; '''Marcus''', a man with the power to alter the plasticity of any object his fingers are touching, allowing him to easily bend or crumple them &ndash; he takes it upon himself to apprehend the man and turns him over to the Company.


=== Samir Mellouk === === Bryan Fuller ===
Detective '''Bryan Fuller''', portrayed by ], is Matt Parkman's partner in the NYPD.
'''Samir Mellouk''' worked with Daphne Millbrook to steal rare artifacts from around the world. He is captured by Julien Dumont and Sabine Hazel.


=== Michael === === Debbie Marshall ===
] (2014)]]
'''Michael''' is a Company agent who can fire powerful laser beams from his fingertips. He befriends the incarcerated Eric Doyle, in whom he confides that he hates working for the Company but does so in order to be on their good side. During the escape from Level Five, Eric Doyle uses his ability to force him to kill himself with his own power.


'''Deborah "Debbie" Marshall''', portrayed by ], is the head cheerleader/captain of the cheer squad at Costa Verde High School.<ref>{{cite news|last=Andreeva|first=Nellie|date=June 20, 2007|title=Six actors join "Heroes" lineup|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/television-heroes-dc-idUSN1833698920070620|access-date=September 23, 2020|archive-date=January 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115071935/http://www.reuters.com/article/television-heroes-dc-idUSN1833698920070620|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=July 2, 2007|title=Dianna Agron, Dominic Keating|url=https://variety.com/article/VR1117967956.html?categoryid=28&cs=1|website=Variety|last=Dodd|first=Stacy|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070705192455/https://variety.com/article/VR1117967956.html?categoryid=28&cs=1|archive-date=July 5, 2007}}</ref> The character was described as both a kind of "princess" and "cutthroat", serving as an antagonist to Claire;<ref>{{cite web|title='Heroes' Reborn: All You Need To Know About Season 2|url=https://www.accessonline.com/articles/heroes-reborn-all-you-need-to-know-about-season-2-60300|access-date=October 27, 2020|website=Access|date=July 28, 2007}}</ref> in "]" Claire seeks to get revenge by terrifying Debbie, which '']'' found "too macabre, especially because looks genuinely devastated."<ref>{{cite web|last=Sims|first=David|title=Heroes Recap: Season 2, Episode 6, "The Line"|website=] |date=31 October 2007 |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/tv/heroes-season-two-episode-29-the-line/|access-date=2021-01-23}}</ref> Initially, Agron auditioned for the nice cheerleader role, as she had previously been typecast as the "nice girl", but a producer in the casting told her: "No, that's not so interesting. I want you to read this character."<ref>{{cite web|last=Radish|first=Christina|date=February 4, 2011|title=Dianna Agron Interview I AM NUMBER FOUR; Plus an Update on the GLEE Super Bowl Episode|url=https://collider.com/dianna-agron-interview-i-am-number-four-glee-2/|access-date=October 7, 2020|website=Collider|archive-date=January 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200105193114/https://collider.com/dianna-agron-interview-i-am-number-four-glee-2/|url-status=live}}</ref>
=== Matt Neuenberg ===
'''Matt Neuenberg''' was a high school student who had difficulty fitting in and making friends, feeling that people are only ever interested in him for his ability to quickly memorize and recall vast amounts of information with great accuracy. After demonstrating his ability at a talent show, he encountered ] and was taken to the Company, where he was subjected to painful experiments. Later, Elle told him that this was for his own protection, and that he and she want the same things.


=== Ricky ===
Matt was eventually used by the Company to guard their computer from hackers. Through his efforts, an attempt to hack the Company computer by Hana Gitelman and Richard Drucker is stopped by downloading the information to his head before destroying the computer. However, he died when the Company downloaded the information from him.
'''Ricky''', portrayed by ], is an Irish mobster, first appearing in the season premiere while searching for a shipping container with his partners Tuko and Will. After finding Peter, Ricky holds him captive until Peter defends Caitlin from an attack by rival mobsters. Ricky threatens to burn the box of Peter's personal possessions to force Peter to help them with another robbery and refuses to believe Peter when Peter tells him that Will is planning to betray him, having accidentally read the man's mind. Peter turns out to be right, but overpowers Will using his abilities and saves Ricky. In gratitude, Ricky gives Peter back his box and gives him a tattoo, telling him that Peter was now a part of his family. Upon finding ] was searching for Peter, Ricky works to protect him, especially after finding out that Peter and Caitlin are now romantically involved. Elle murdered him for his protection of Peter, prompting Peter to stop running and start searching for the truth about his past.


=== Piper === === The Swordsmith ===
The '''Swordsmith''', portrayed by ] is Yaeko's father and the creator of ]'s sword. He first appeared in "]". He made the guns for Whitebeard's army. He is rescued by his daughter Yaeko and ] who proceeded to destroy Whitebeard's guns and effectively defeat him.
'''Piper''' is a girl with the ability to bend her joints to superhuman limits.


=== Whitebeard ===
Piper keeps having haunting dreams, causing her to not sleep. One night when she does fall asleep, Sanjog Iyer shows her a vision of the past where she was supposedly abducted by aliens. She finds herself on an examination table, but she uses her powers to escape. A girl named Debbie shows Piper to a window, through which Piper leaves the building. Debbie reveals she is Piper's sister who was separated from her at birth and taken by the Company. The "aliens" that abducted Piper long ago were actually Mr. Bennet and the Haitian. Piper wakes up and screams out Debbie's name. Piper's mother calls the doctor about Piper's "delusions of having a sister". The "doctor" is really Mr. Bennet who says he'll be right over.
'''Whitebeard''', portrayed by Kurando Mitsutake, was a warlord in 17th century Japan. He first appeared in "]". For most of season 2, ], Takezo Kensei and Yaeko plot against him. Whitebeard forces Yaeko's father to build him an arsenal of guns and he has a massive army. After Kensei betrays him, Hiro sets out to defeat Whitebeard by destroying his arsenal of guns. Hiro succeeds and Kensei is apparently killed in the blast though it is later revealed he survived due to his regenerative powers. The destruction of his guns destroyed Whitebeard's camp and scattered his army, defeating him.


=== Tina Ramierez === === Will and Tuko ===
] (2007)]]
'''Tina Ramierez''' is a Level Five prisoner who goes along with fellow escapees Michael Fitzgerald and Dennis to the apartment of Dennis' girlfriend after Elle Bishop accidentally frees everyone in Level Five. The Company sends agents to deal with them, but the trio kills them. Sylar, who had been doing surveillance, intervenes, and kills Dennis with a sonic scream. He prepares to kill Tina and Michael, but Dennis' girlfriend convinces him to spare their lives.


'''Will''' and '''Tuko''', portrayed by ] and ], are two associates of Ricky's. They reside in ], Ireland. They work with Ricky in some of his illegal ventures. Will betrays Ricky but is stopped by Peter.<ref name="Kindred"/> He later tells ] what he knows about Peter.
=== Sparrow Redhouse ===
'''Sparrow Redhouse''' was on Chandra's list, as well as the Gabriel Gray's list. In 2011, in the possible future in which the destruction of New York City in 2006 isn't stopped, Future Hiro rescues Sparrow from police. When he scolds her for not obeying her curfew, Sparrow criticizes the government.


=== Sebastian Shell === === Yaeko ===
'''Yaeko''', portrayed by ], is the swordsmith's daughter in the legend of Takezo Kensei. She lives in Feudal Japan, 1671. She acts as the love interest of both ] and Takeso Kensei, but Hiro has to leave her behind in the end and return to his own time.
'''Sebastian Shell''' was on the assignment tracker map. He was partnered with Julia Ryan and both were killed in the battle against Connie Logan and the other members of the Evs Dropper persona. In Evs Dropper's blog, he questioned the intentions of tracking agents (Bianca Karina), helped Ahlrich Dekker identify Calgary, helped crack a code as a training exercise and commented on Connie Logan's identification as Evs Dropper.


== Additional Season Three characters ==
=== Linda Tavara ===
'''Linda Tavara''' had the ability to see and absorb the ]s of other people by touching them. Her hand glowed with a blue light when she did this. If she absorbed the life force of another evolved human, she also gained their power.


=== Emile Danko ===
Linda first discovered her ability in her teens, during the ]. It is implied that her parents knew of it too, and fearfully took measures to keep her isolated. Despite this, Linda was enthralled by her power, and went out into the city to fully experience it. After some time, she spotted Ida Walker, an elderly woman whose aura glowed brighter than most people's. Though she seemed to understand ], she continually felt to urge to steal life forces. Thus, she absorbs Walker's aura and obtained the woman's ability to see the dead.


'''Emile Danko''', portrayed by ], also referred to as "'''The Hunter'''", is a senior agent of the ] who served as the leader of a team of soldiers hunting and imprisoning people with abilities on behalf of his superior, Senator ]. He is one of the central antagonists during ''Volume 4: Fugitives''. He is later killed by the speedster Edgar.
In her adulthood, she worked as a ] and possibly ]. However, she would routinely continue stealing the life forces of powered people, even if she was assigned to bring them to authorities. This led to suspicions from others, and these misgivings force her employer to fire her. Afterward, she is approached by a mysterious woman who hires her to locate certain individuals for her, all implied to have powers. After turning in two such people, Linda is tasked to find a man named Jason Welkes, but she instead absorbs his life force and disposes of the body. When asked, she repeated her previous habit of claiming she was unable to find the person. This leads the informant to question her competence, and threaten to take away her next assignment. In response, Linda absorbed the informant's life force, and stole a notepad regarding the next targets, which included Daniel Linderman and Arthur Petrelli.


=== Hesam ===
Linda introduced herself to Linderman at a gas station, and he traveled with her while she gains his trust. After Linderman demonstrated to her his ability to heal others, Linda attempted to absorb his power. However, Linderman killed her with a stick before she successfully did so.
] (2007)]]


'''Hesam''', portrayed by ], is a paramedic in New York City, friend and co-worker of Peter Petrelli, introduced in "]". He is of middle-eastern descent, and so he is at first concerned about ]'s speech about minorities, not knowing that he was talking about posthumans instead. He acts as Peter's partner in ''Redemption'' and is angry about his running off all the time to save people and leaving Hesam behind. He tells Peter he is nothing but Peter's chauffeur, not knowing of Peter's powers.
She was originally seen on Chandra Suresh's list.


=== Teenage patient === === Robert Malden ===
] (2008)]]
At an unnamed New York City hospital, Mohinder meets a dying man who shows symptoms of the same blood disorder that Shanti and Molly shared. Mohinder tells the man that he can cure him by giving him a blood transfusion. Following the transfusion, it appears to Mohinder that it was unsuccessful, and while he is wondering why it worked for Molly but not this individual, the patient suddenly erupts with electricity. After witnessing one of the patient's seizures, Mohinder realizes that he does not have Shanti's illness; his own uncontrolled power is damaging his health each time it manifests. A Company agent arrives in the patient's hospital room to take him into custody, but another of the patient's seizures incapacitates the agent with electrical arcs. Mohinder gets the patient out of the hospital and attempts to drive him out of town, but another seizure disables the car. The patient explains that he had been at peace with dying because of the guilt he felt over the deaths caused by his seizures. Mohinder directs him to a secluded lakeside cabin where he can live in peace and learn to control his power.


'''Robert Malden''', portrayed by ], is the governor of the state of ] by the time ] was shot during a press conference in ]. He is introduced in "]".
=== Traveler ===
'''Traveler''' answers a call from Hana Gitelman and is asked to deliver a message to Richard Drucker in ]. He enters the country and easily adapts to his surroundings thanks to his command of languages. While traveling on foot, he falls down an incline and injures himself. He shouts for help before passing out. When Traveler awakens he is in a Bhutanese temple, being tended to by Buddhist monks. A man who appears to be Drucker asks for his message. Traveler informs him that his message is from Hana Gitelman, to whom Drucker is related.


=== Dr. Jonas Zimmerman ===
'''Dr. Jonas Zimmerman''', portrayed by ], is a former employee of the Company. He helped create the formula that grants synthetic abilities. Under Company orders, he delivered ] and ], as well as their third sister Barbara, and gave them their abilities. After his tenure with the Company was over, however, many of his memories of employment there were erased. It is later revealed in the episode "]" that he was working with ] at Coyote Sands, conducting research on posthumans for the government, ''Project Icarus''.


== Additional Season Four characters ==
=== Unnamed deaf agent ===
Recruited by The Company especially to capture Echo DeMille, his body absorbs all sound, effectively making him permanently deaf.


=== Unnamed man === === Gretchen Berg ===
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A man who emits nerve gas when he sweats was captured by Penny Logan for the Company.
'''Gretchen Berg''', portrayed by ], is a college student of Arlington University who befriends ] in "]". She recognizes Claire as the survivor of the cheerleader massacre in ] ("]"), and ultimately becomes friends with her, which makes Claire's roommate Annie jealous. She is revealed to be bisexual and she has a crush on Claire. They become roommates though they have some issues after Becky Taylor tries to kill her.


=== Ida Walker === === Lauren Gilmore ===
] (2012)]]
'''Ida May Walker''' was one of Linda's first super powered victims. She said that she could see "angels" since she was little, though this was due to her power. Linda was drawn to her due to the fact that her aura glowed stronger than most. Her power was stolen by Linda and she was killed.


'''Lauren Gilmore''', portrayed by ], is a CIA agent who previously worked as ]'s closest co-worker. She is introduced in "]" working with Noah at Primatech Paper as the events of Volume One "Genesis" unfold, more as a confidant outside of the home when Noah cannot tell his family about what his job really entails.
According to Heroes Evolutions, she is Molly Walker's grandmother.

=== Vanessa Wheeler ===
'''Vanessa Wheeler''', portrayed by ], is a cellist living in Los Angeles and old flame of Samuel Sullivan, who constantly draws her picture using his ability. Although mentioned before, she is first seen in the episode "]", when ] and Matt Parkman track her down and telepathically convince her to talk about Samuel.

== Webisode characters ==
Characters with special abilities who only appear in the webisodes.

===Bartell===
'''Bartell''', portrayed by Luke Massy, was the leader of Knox's Los Angeles gang and the main ] of the Webseries: '''Hard Knox'''.

In Part 1, Matt Parkman tries to convince Knox to leave the gang Bartell is running. They part ways, and later the gang are planning a job and selecting guns. When Knox mentions he wants to "sit this one out", Bartell does not comply. Bartell does a "confidence check" on each member (by holding a gun to their throats), except Knox, who begins sensing their fear, which allows the surprised Knox to effectively bend a steel crowbar into a pretzel. When no other gang member asks to skip out on the heist, Knox reluctantly agrees to participate.

In Part 3, Bartell confronts Knox about talking to a cop. Bartell begins punching him, and then threatens him with a gun. He then prepares to beat Knox up with a baseball bat, but Knox, empowered by the fear of the other gang members present, breaks the bat in half. Knox proceeds to throw Bartell around the room, before punching a hole through his chest; killing him. One of the gang members, in shock, tells him that he killed Bartell, with Knox answering that he is "the main man" now.

In Part 4, When Matt asks what happened to Bartell, Knox merely replies that he heard he "got eaten by a shark". This may imply that they threw Bartell's remains in the ocean.

===The Constrictor===
'''The Constrictor''', portrayed by Mark Steger, served as the main ] of The Webseries: '''Going Postal''', and has the power of ]. He is sent with Howard to capture Echo DeMille. After their first attempt fails, leaving Howard dying on the ground and bleeding from his ears, the Constrictor finishes Howard off and goes after Echo himself. However, he is killed by Echo after using his ability on Echo's girlfriend in an attempt to force him to surrender.

===David Sullivan===
'''David Sullivan''', portrayed by ], is a Sergeant in the ] recruited by Pinehearst as part of their super soldier program. The goal of the program is to inject the marines with an experimental serum to aid in the apprehension of people with special abilities by granting them abilities themselves. He is shown working at a Pinehearst facility alongside ] and Ryan Hanover. During the explosive disaster there, he is severely injured by falling debris. In an attempt to save him, Rachel injects him with a vial of the serum. The serum augments his strength and speed, makes his eyes glow red-orange, and also causes him to behave in a violent, animalistic fashion. After attacking and killing Ryan, he also turns on Rachel. However, she stabs him to death with a pair of scissors.

===Edward===
'''Edward''', portrayed by ], is the father of Santiago and the husband of Iris, and is a former agent of the Company. He has the abilities of both accelerated probability - allowing him to slow time, determine which action to take, and do so at a superhuman speed - and electricity manipulation. With his family threatened, he was forced to work as an assassin for the Company, but eventually faked his death to leave that life. Upon learning that the Company is going after his family, he returns and attempts to kill the character listed in the credits as Serious Looking Woman (S.L.W.) by electrocution.

===Elisa===
'''Elisa''', portrayed by ], is a Company agent with the ability to turn her body into water. She is partnered with S.L.W., and the duo is assigned to capture Santiago and convince him to be an agent. However, Elisa develops feelings for him, and releases him so that he will not end up like her.

===Iris===
'''Iris''', portrayed by ], is the wife of Edward and mother of Santiago. She has the ability of pyrokinesis.

===Leona Mills/Linda Niles===
'''Leona Mills''' is the long-lost mother of ]. Leona is a childhood friend of ] (affectionately referring to her as "Angie"). Leona is also an evolved human with the ability to absorb life-force from both living and inanimate objects (such as the ground around her); with such a degree of control Leona can age herself to make herself look extremely old or relatively young at will.

===Serious looking woman===
A '''serious looking woman''', portrayed by ], served as the main ] of The Webseries: '''Destiny'''.

===Santiago===
'''Santiago''', portrayed by Roberto Urbina, is a posthuman living in Peru with the ability of accelerated Perception, which allows him to slow down time, analyze which action to take, and then do so at a superhuman speed. He believed for years that his father was dead, but finds out the truth after being captured by S.L.W. and Elisa that his father was an assassin for the Company. He refuses to follow in his father's footsteps, and eventually escapes with Elisa, to whom he is mutually attracted.

== Graphic novel characters ==
This list includes every character not listed above, that has appeared in a graphic novel, and has a superhuman ability.

===Julien Dumont===
'''Julien Dumont''' was an agent of the company who was able to duplicate himself, supposedly monitoring a bag and tag mission of several of his duplicates who had gone rogue in Antarctica, Australia and the Congo (though a holding room filled with more indicates that there were even more).

===Donna Dunlap===
'''Donna Dunlap''' was merely an everyday dental receptionist who happened to have telescopic, microscopic, and nocturnal vision.

===Sabine Hazel===
'''Sabine Hazel''' is a medical professional (specifically a biologist) in the employ of the Company who was selected by Bob Bishop to become an agent and partner of whom she believed was the real (or "Root") Julien Dumont. Initially only together to protect him, eventually, Sabine succumbed to her desires and became his lover. Secretly, Sabine had been contacted by the mysterious Evs Dropper, who claimed Dumont was an imposter. Sabine, however, did not believe the warning.

It is revealed in "]", in a conversation between ] and Eric Thompson Jr. that her baby has already been born, and is considered to be as dangerous as his posthuman father, Julien Dumont, although is never revealed if he has any ability.

===Sparrow Redhouse===
'''Sparrow Redhouse''' was on Chandra's list, as well as the Gabriel Gray's list. In 2011, in the possible future in which the destruction of New York City in 2006 is not stopped, Future Hiro rescues Sparrow from police. When he scolds her for not obeying her curfew, Sparrow criticizes the government. The ] reveal that she was the prisoner who was sucked out of Flight 195 in "]", and survived by breaking her fall using her power of terrakinesis.

===Linda Tavara===
'''Linda Tavara''', originally seen on Chandra Suresh's list of posthumans, had the ability to see and absorb the ] of other people by touching them.


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From left to right: Micah, Niki, Nathan, Peter, Noah, Claire, Hiro, Mohinder, Matt, Sylar

This is a list of fictional characters in the television series Heroes, the Heroes graphic novels, and the Heroes webisodes.

Main characters

See also: List of Heroes cast members

Character duration

Character Portrayed by Appearances
Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Reborn
Isaac Mendez Santiago Cabrera Main Does not appear Guest Does not appear
Simone Deveaux Tawny Cypress Main Does not appear
Micah Sanders Noah Gray-Cabey Main Special Guest Does not appear Recurring
Matt Parkman Greg Grunberg Main Recurring
Niki Sanders Ali Larter Main Does not appear
Tracy Strauss Does not appear Main Does not appear
Hiro Nakamura Masi Oka Main Recurring
Claire Bennet Hayden Panettiere Main Archive footage
Nathan Petrelli Adrian Pasdar Main Does not appear
Mohinder Suresh Sendhil Ramamurthy Main Special Guest
Peter Petrelli Milo Ventimiglia Main Does not appear
D. L. Hawkins Leonard Roberts Main Special Guest Does not appear
Noah Bennet Jack Coleman Main
Adam Monroe David Anders Does not appear Main Special Guest Guest Does not appear
Elle Bishop Kristen Bell Does not appear Main Special Guest Does not appear
Monica Dawson Dana Davis Does not appear Main Does not appear
Ando Masahashi James Kyson Lee Recurring Main Does not appear
Maya Herrera Dania Ramirez Does not appear Main Does not appear
Gabriel "Sylar" Gray Zachary Quinto Recurring Main Does not appear
Angela Petrelli Cristine Rose Recurring Main Recurring
Samuel Sullivan Robert Knepper Does not appear Main Does not appear

In its inaugural season, Heroes featured an ensemble cast of twelve main characters. During the first season, the NBC Heroes cast page listed ten characters among the cast; Leonard Roberts arrived later, and Jack Coleman was promoted to series regular as of the eleventh episode.

For the second season of the show, Santiago Cabrera, Tawny Cypress, and Leonard Roberts left the main cast. Zachary Quinto and James Kyson Lee, who were recurring characters in the first season, were added to the main cast, and were joined by new cast members David Anders, Kristen Bell, Dana Davis and Dania Ramirez. Anders was meant to be a recurring character, but was promoted to a series regular prior to the start of the season. He is credited as a guest star for the first four episodes of season two.

For the third season, Cristine Rose, recurring in the first two seasons, was promoted to series regular. David Anders, Kristen Bell, and Noah Gray-Cabey were taken off the main cast and become special guest stars. Additionally, Dana Davis was no longer part of the main cast, with scenes involving her in the third season being cut.

For the fourth season, a new character Samuel Sullivan (portrayed by Robert Knepper) was added as a series regular. Cast as a recurring part, the part had been changed to a starring role. Dania Remirez left the main cast as well.

Character profiles

Name Played by Special abilities
Claire Bennet Hayden Panettiere Rapid cellular regeneration
Noah Bennet Jack Coleman None
Elle Bishop Kristen Bell Electrokinesis
Monica Dawson Dana Davis Adaptive muscle memory
Simone Deveaux Tawny Cypress None
D. L. Hawkins Leonard Roberts Phasing (intangibility)
Maya Herrera Dania Ramirez Poison emission
Ando Masahashi James Kyson Lee Initially none; acquires power amplification and energy projection after injecting himself with a gene-altering formula
Isaac Mendez Santiago Cabrera Precognition (expressed through visual art)
Adam Monroe David Anders Immortality
Hiro Nakamura Masi Oka Space-time manipulation (allowing teleportation, time manipulation, and time travel)
Matt Parkman Greg Grunberg Telepathy; resulting in mental manipulation, illusion, mind control, precognitive dreaming and precognition (expressed through visual art)
Angela Petrelli Cristine Rose Enhanced dreaming (allowing precognitive dreaming, postcognitive dreaming, and dream manipulation)
Nathan Petrelli Adrian Pasdar Flight
Peter Petrelli Milo Ventimiglia Empathic mimicry then tactile power mimicry (after a gene-altering formula) and multiple acquired abilities
Micah Sanders Noah Gray-Cabey Technopathy
Niki Sanders Ali Larter Enhanced strength
Tracy Strauss Cryokinesis; water transformation
Samuel Sullivan Robert Knepper Terrakinesis
Mohinder Suresh Sendhil Ramamurthy Initially none; acquires enhanced strength, agility and reflexes after injecting himself with a gene-altering formula
Gabriel Gray / Sylar Zachary Quinto Intuitive aptitude; multiple acquired abilities

Other characters with special abilities

Introduced in season 1

Charlie Andrews

Jayma Mays (2009)

Charlene "Charlie" Andrews, portrayed by Jayma Mays (with K Callan playing an elderly Charlie in one episode), is a waitress at the Burnt Toast Diner in Midland, Texas, where Hiro Nakamura and Ando Masahashi stop to eat on their road trip to New York. After she reveals to Hiro that she had recently developed the ability to quickly memorize and recall any information with great accuracy in a seemingly unlimited volume, Sylar murders her in the diner's storeroom, removing her brain in the same manner as his other victims. Charlie and Hiro's relationship is the subject of the novel Heroes: Saving Charlie. During Six Months Ago, after accidentally traveling back in time six months while trying to save her life, Hiro steadily falls in love with her and she with him and she teaches him English. However, Charlie has a blood clot in her brain that will eventually turn into an aneurysm and kill her making her death inevitable no matter what Hiro does. He is unwillingly returned to his own time, depressed over his inability to save Charlie which affects his powers for the rest of the season. In season 4, after learning that he is dying, Hiro becomes determined once more to save Charlie, referring to her as his true love and seeing his failure to save her as his biggest mistake. In Once Upon a Time In Texas, Hiro returns to the day of Charlie's murder to attempt to save her despite Samuel Sullivan warning against him messing with time as that day and time is a confluence of important events. Hiro is able to stop Sylar and send his past self back six months to ensure their relationship. However, after the two are reunited, Charlie's blood clot starts to develop into an aneurysm and she comes close to dying. Desperate, Hiro enlists Sylar's help to save her in exchange for information on his personal future. Sylar removes Charlie's blood clot through her left eye, saving her life, but Charlie is horrified by what Hiro tells Sylar of his future and that he'd save her instead of all those other people Sylar killed. Charlie storms out, but eventually returns to Hiro. She is then kidnapped by Arnold on the orders of Samuel Sullivan and displaced in time to force Hiro to cooperate. In "Brave New World", Hiro is finally reunited with Charlie, now an old woman who is dying of old age. She reveals the location and date she was transported to, but refuses Hiro's offer to go back in time and retrieve her as she has lived a wonderful life. Accepting this, Hiro says a final goodbye to Charlie and teleports away with Ando to stop Samuel.

Charles Deveaux

Richard Roundtree (2007)

Charles Deveaux, portrayed by Richard Roundtree, is the wealthy father of Simone Deveaux, and one of the founding members of the Company. He owns the Deveaux Society, which opened with the goal to "fund causes that bettered the world", and the Deveaux Building, the rooftop of which is a frequently visited location in the series. At the beginning of the series, he is under Peter Petrelli's care due to his failing health, and he has recently lapsed into a coma. Charles believes that Peter is "like a son" to him, and that Peter's love and compassion can change the world, as opposed to his former partners' methods. In "Nothing to Hide", Charles and Peter telepathically share a dream in which they fly. After he awakens, he tells Simone about the dream and dies soon after. In "How To Stop An Exploding Man", Peter has a dream where he witnesses Charles discussing the explosion with his mother, seemingly shortly after Peter became his nurse. Charles then addresses Peter directly, telling Peter he can save the world because he can love. He then calls to Peter's past self who takes him away, telling the past Peter to call him Charles rather than Mr. Deveaux. In "1961", a younger Charles appears at Coyote Sands with Bob Bishop and Daniel Linderman. The trio meet and befriend Angela Petrelli and Charles is revealed to be telepathic. The group flees before the massacre at Coyote Sands and vow to form a Company to protect people like them from that ever happening again.

Hana Gitelman

Hana Gitelman (Hebrew: חנה גיטלמן) is introduced in a four-part arc of the Heroes graphic novels. She made small, on-screen appearances in the series (played by Stana Katic) during "Unexpected" and "Five Years Gone", but has primarily featured in supplemental material. Hana has the ability to act as a living electronic transmitter and receiver, capable of intercepting and interpreting virtually any form of electronic signal and transmitting coherent signals of any type through thought alone. E-mail, text messages, and phone calls are all simple for her to receive and reproduce if necessary.

Meredith Gordon

Meredith Gordon, portrayed by Jessalyn Gilsig, is the biological mother of Claire Bennet and the older sister of Flint Gordon. Like her younger brother, Meredith has pyrokinetic abilities, which both enable her to create fire from her body and grant her immunity to the effects of it. Died in explosion by Sylar.

The Haitian

René, commonly referred to as The Haitian and portrayed by Jimmy Jean-Louis, has the ability to erase peoples' memories as well as suppress the abilities of others' around him within a certain radius/area of himself. Noah Bennett uses his powers to his advantage as the Haitian works for him. For instance, in Season 1, Noah directs the Haitian to remove everyone's memories that are aware of his daughter Claire's ability to spontaneously regenerate. In the alternate futures of Seasons 1 and 3, the Haitian works for the enemy, helping Future Claire kill Future Peter in "I Am Become Death" and blocking Hiro's abilities so he cannot flee in "Five Years Gone" before being killed by Future Mohinder. In Heroes Reborn, The Haitian is running a company called Lumiere Ophthalmology. Noah meets him and retrieves his old glasses, at which point The Haitian attempts to kill him, acting on what he told Noah with his dying breaths were Noah's own orders. Noah later discovers it was to hide the location of Claire's children. Noah later alters the timeline to prevent The Haitian's death and, in the revised timeline, he is a member of Hero Truther's group and working to take down Renautas.

Paulette Hawkins

Paulette Hawkins, portrayed by Tina Lifford, is the mother of D. L. Hawkins, and Micah's grandmother. Her relationship to Niki is tense, questioning her ability to raise Micah. In "One Giant Leap", she defends D. L. in front of Niki. Paulette is convinced that D. L. was framed for killing his crew. She is not seen again until "The Kill Squad, Part 3" where it is revealed that she has the power to enhance other people's abilities and had become a thorn in the Company's side and was locked in one of the five levels.

Sanjog Iyer

Sanjog Iyer, portrayed by Javin Reid, is an Indian boy whom Chandra Suresh had been observing prior to leaving for New York. Chandra's notes described Iyer as having a genetic marker allowing the boy to enter people's dreams, where he acts as a "spirit guide" of sorts. He appears in visions that Mohinder Suresh experiences after returning to India with his father's ashes. After Mohinder finds Sanjog, he explains to Mohinder that he does not enter the dreams of others, but that they instead come to him. Sanjog subsequently appears in several Heroes graphic novels, showing visions of the past to various individuals. In an interview with Joe Pokaski and Aron Coleite, they state that Sanjog's character was considered for the storyline involving Molly and her nightmare man, Maury Parkman. However, the idea was scrapped for reasons they did not reveal.

Daniel Linderman

Malcolm McDowell (2007)

Daniel Linderman, portrayed by Malcolm McDowell, has the ability to heal the injuries and illnesses of living organisms; this includes healing the "scars" created by mental manipulation, thereby allowing him to restore lost memories and remove implanted thoughts. He served in the U.S. Army with Arthur Petrelli, whom he ended up healing from the brink of death, in the Vietnam War under the code name "Austin". After the war, Daniel found himself living a nomadic, solitary existence. Though he occasionally drowned his sorrows in alcohol, nothing eased the pain of his war memories. Then he met Linda Tavara, whom he thought he could trust his secret with, but he ended up killing her in self-defense; Linda's list led him to reunite with Arthur. He eventually became a reputed mobster, and founder of Linderman Corporation under the guidance of Adam Monroe. He acts as one of the main villains of Genesis before being killed by D. L. Hawkins for threatening his family. In the "spirit walk" of Villains, it is revealed that Arthur was the one who ordered Nathan's accident, not Linderman and that Linderman was disturbed by Arthur's treatment of his wife. Despite his evil ways, Linderman still possessed a shred of decency inside him and healed the damage done to Angela's mind so she'd know the truth about what Arthur was doing.

Ando Masahashi

Ando Masahashi (正橋安藤, Masahashi Andō) is a fictional character on the NBC superhero television drama series Heroes, portrayed by James Kyson Lee. The character was promoted to series regular in the first season. Introduced to television audiences in the pilot episode "Genesis" as an employee at Yamagato Industries, Ando is a partner to his co-worker and friend Hiro Nakamura on various quests to save the world. He often has to overcome insecurities about being undervalued and being seen as a sidekick or liability due to his lack of special abilities in contrast to Hiro and other characters. At the end of the third volume, "Villains", he acquires the ability to massively amplify the power of any posthuman he touches. Later, in the fourth volume, "Fugitives", Ando has learned to channel this energy into concussive blasts, projecting the energy outward to knock back any targets.

Ando first appeared to the audience as a friend of Heroes protagonist Hiro Nakamura, watching an internet video of online stripper Niki Sanders. Ando did not believe that Hiro could manipulate space and time, even after Hiro teleported into the women's bathroom of a bar. After the incident, he told Hiro to stop trying to be different and accept his lot in life. When Hiro returned from the future in "One Giant Leap", he convinced Ando of his powers and Ando then traveled with Hiro to America to prevent the explosion from occurring. Following an issue of a "9th Wonders!" comic book they went to Las Vegas and visited a casino, where Hiro used his powers to cheat at gambling. After being thrown out, they were attacked by some men that lost money to them. They argued in the next episode and Ando left Hiro to find Niki Sanders at her home, where he was apprehended by a group of police. He then reunited with Hiro in their journey to find Isaac Mendez.

Every hero is on a journey to find his place in the world. But it's a journey. You don't start at the end, otherwise they can't make a movie about it later.

— Ando to Hiro in "Better Halves"

After contacting Peter Petrelli, Ando and Hiro learnt about the latters future self. They were again confronted by the men they defeated in the poker game, and forced to play another round. Ando panicked during the game and rushed with Hiro to the bathroom. While in there, their opponents were killed and they fled. Ando later consoled Hiro, telling him he could perhaps change their deaths by time travel after their mission. While on the road, they happened upon a burning car, and helped D.L. Hawkins save the life of the passengers. Ando called the police, which forced D.L. to flee with his son Micah. Further along in their journey they stopped at a Diner in Odessa, Texas, where they met a waitress named Charlie Andrews, who had the ability to instantly memorize things. When Charlie was killed in the storage room of the diner by an unknown man Hiro, despite Ando's pleading, traveled back in time to prevent her death. He failed to return within five seconds as he promised, leaving Ando alone. Later in the diner, Ando noticed a picture of Charlie and Hiro together, taken six months ago, and realized Hiro had traveled back there. Peter Petrelli called, and later met Ando at the diner. Ando protested against Peter going to find "the cheerleader" without the presence of someone with abilities, but Peter left.

Eventually, Hiro returned, having failed to save Charlie, and they continued onwards to Union Wells High School . When it became clear they had arrived too late, Hiro felt the world was doomed. As they left, they received a phone call from Isaac Mendez, whom they met back at the diner, with Isaac telling them of his prophetic paintings. Later, he painted another of Hiro. In "Godsend", Ando and Hiro finally arrived at New York, and visited the Museum of Natural History looking for a sword like the one in Isaac's painting, and they find the Blade of Takezo Kensei, a legendary samurai. They stole it, but it transpired that the sword was a replica, with the original belonging to a Mr. Linderman. They went to Isaac's loft seeking his help, and met Simone Deveaux, who told them that Linderman resided in Las Vegas. When Ando and Hiro were kidnapped and brought to Hiro's father in "The Fix", Ando became attracted to Hiro's sister, Kimiko in the next episode. In "Run!", Ando became infatuated with a woman named Hope, who convinced Ando to obtain a bag of hers from her 'ex-boyfriend'. When he returned with it, Hope convinces Ando to give her a ride. Hiro, who had been locked up by Hope, pursued them with her 'ex-boyfriend', a gaming commission officer. This led to a shoot-out between Hope and the officer, and afterwards, Hiro told Ando to go home. Ando nonetheless followed Hiro, and saved him from arrest when Hiro was discovered stealing Takezo Kensei's sword from Linderman's casino. Hiro teleported them away. In ".07%", it is revealed to the audience that Hiro has teleported them both five years into the future, were they encounter Hiro's future self. With "Five Years Gone", New York has been devastated by the atomic explosion predicted by Isaac. When Hiro is captured by Homeland Security, Ando and Future Hiro escaped, and plotted to free him so he and Ando could return to their time and stop the bomb. Ando learned from Future Peter that he was killed in the explosion. They eventually manage to free Hiro, but Future Hiro was killed by Matt Parkman. As he died, he handed to Ando a page of a "9th Wonders!" comic book.

Ando and Hiro returned to the present, and traveled to Isaac's loft to consult him. They found him dead, killed by Sylar, and hid as the killer detected them. They escaped him and then followed him to his mother's. Hiro did not want to kill Sylar, but Ando showed Hiro the "9th Wonders!" comic page which shows him dead. Hiro unsuccessfully attempts to kill Sylar. He and Ando teleport to safety, where they discovered that the sword has been broken. They try to have the sword repaired, and Ando and Hiro encountered Hiro's father once more. Kaito and Hiro spoke alone, and Ando, impatient, decided to seek out and kill Sylar himself. In the season finale, Ando went to Isaac's loft and found Sylar. The superhuman villain overpowered him and prepared to kill him. Ando dropped the "9th Wonders!" comic book in the process, revealing to Sylar that Hiro would kill him. When he started to kill Ando, Hiro arrived and teleported himself and Ando to the offices of Yamagato industries back in Tokyo, where their journey started. Hiro gives Ando Kensei's sword, promised to return, before he finally teleported to Kirby Plaza to kill Sylar with Ando's sword.

In the graphic novel "Heroism is Found in the Heart", after Hiro was teleported back to Japan, Ando was reassigned by Kaito Nakamura to Hiro's former position. Ando became infatuated with Kimiko Nakamura and sought her affections. One night, he walked her home and they were confronted by a group of bikers. Ando learned that the leader, Fukazawa, was also pursuing Kimiko. Ando and Kimiko ran, but were eventually cornered. Ando promised to protect Kimiko and confronted the gang. When they ran away, Ando kissed Kimiko. Neither were aware that Kaito had scared the pursuers away.

In "Four Months Later...", Ando has returned to New York City following Hiro's disappearance, waiting for his friend's return with Kaito Nakamura. Kaito receives a death threat and Ando leaves to get a sword for protection. He returns to see Kaito killed by Adam Monroe, though Ando does not see the killer's face.

Following Kaito's death, Ando is questioned by Matt Parkman about the incident, but, besides telling him the meaning of the helix symbol, Ando is unable to answer his questions. In the episode "Kindred", Ando discovers that Hiro has left messages for him, stored within the hilt of Takezo Kensei's sword. The messages, written while he was in the year 1671, detail Hiro's adventures with Takezo Kensei.

Hiro returns in "Out of Time", to Ando's delight. While both are happy about the reunion, Ando sorrowfully tells Hiro about his father's death. At Kaito's funeral, Ando is dismayed at Hiro's decision to go back and time to save his father, but is unable to dissuade him. However, Hiro realizes that Ando is right and does not change history, instead using the opportunity to discover that Adam Monroe, who he knows as Takezo Kensei, was responsible. Hiro makes it his mission to stop Adam and confronts him at the Primatech Paper Facility. He returns to Ando with the assurance that Adam can never hurt anyone again.

In "The Second Coming", Hiro, resigned to working in his father's office at Yamagato Industries, told Ando that he was bored without a quest. Suddenly Kaito's lawyer turned up with a recorded message from Kaito to Hiro. It instructed him to guard the contents of a safe, and never open it. Hiro curiously opened the safe and found one half of a molecular formula, which was stolen by an unidentified person with the ability of super speed. When Hiro travelled to the future to learn more about the formula, he saw himself be killed by Ando, who had a power. Ando then took the formula before Tokyo was devastated by an unexplained disaster. After that in "The Butterfly Effect", they travelled to Paris in search of the thief, identified as Daphne Millbrook, and Hiro explained to Ando that in the future he saw Ando kill him. Ando was shocked and told Hiro he could never do that when Daphne arrived. Events led to Hiro freezing time while Daphne held a knife at Ando's throat. Hiro saved Ando by allowing her to leave with the formula. They continued to follow Daphne in the next episode, and she tried to drive Hiro and Ando apart by undermining Ando. Hiro and Ando noticed the Haitian, and discovered he was in possession of the other half of the formula. Ando knocked the Haitian out.

Daphne managed to steal the other half from them, and before they can give chase, the Haitian awoke and apprehended them both, taking them to the Level 2 prisons of the Primatech Facility. The next episode showed Hiro and Ando arguing, with Ando claiming that Hiro did not value him as a partner. While trying to escape, Hiro realized he did need Ando. They almost escape, but are caught by the Haitian. He takes them to Angela Petrelli, who claims that Hiro has the "key" to solving the whole issue of the formula. Ando then helped Hiro dig up the key: Adam Monroe. In "Angels and Monsters", Adam begrudgingly took Ando and Hiro to a bar that was a gathering place for "specials for hire", and caused a fight. This led to Hiro being knocked out, and Adam escaping. Ando proclaimed them "the worst heroes ever", before Daphne and Knox entered the bar, wanting to recruit Hiro to the Pinehearst Company. Knox said that to prove himself, Hiro had to kill Ando, handing him a sabre sword.

Hiro appeared to do so, but in the next episode it was revealed that Hiro froze time. After that, he acquired a collapsible sword and fake blood, then traveled slightly back in time to tell Ando that, when the time came, he had to pretend to be dead. He returned to the correct moment, and stabbed Ando. When Daphne and Knox left, Ando stood up again. They travelled to Africa on their first assignment in search of Usutu, a man who could paint the future. Ando expressed doubt over their situation, saying they were working for the bad guys. Hiro reassured him it was simply to infiltrate Pinehearst. They were unable to capture Usutu through Hiro's time traveling abilities, so they tried to do it by hiding and waiting for him. He congratulates them for using their heads as opposed to Hiro's power, and in "Eris Quod Sum", offers Hiro and Ando the chance to take a spirit walk for guidance. Ando refused, and watched over Hiro as he slept in "Villains". In "It's Coming", he tried to save Hiro from Arthur Petrelli, but was tossed aside by Arthur's telekinesis. When Arthur became distracted, he and Hiro escaped.

Hiro though, had regressed back into his 10-year-old self, and Ando tried to help him reclaim his memories in a bowling alley. Hiro then teleported them to a comic book store, where Ando spotted a new issue of "9th Wonders!" and saw an opportunity to help Hiro become normal again. In the first part of "The Eclipse", Ando was taken by Hiro to Mohinder Suresh's apartment to meet Matt Parkman, and the three followed the speedster after she fled to her childhood home. Hiro and Matt were shocked to discover their powers gone. While Matt attempted to talk to Daphne, Ando and Hiro left, with Hiro claiming to know a way to regain his power. Hiro takes him to a comic book store, and with the help of two comic book geeks Sam and Frack, the four search through copies of 9th Wonders! to learn of Hiro's fate and any possible way to repair his memory. After Frack discovers a scene depicting Hiro and Claire Bennet hiding as Kaito Nakamura gives baby Claire to her father Noah Bennet, Hiro teleports away without Ando.

Parkman and Daphne find Ando in the comic book store, and they try to figure out how to follow Hiro's adventure. Sam tells them that there is only one last copy of 9th Wonders!, given by Isaac Mendez to a bike courier before his death. Daphne takes Ando and Parkman to New York in "Our Father" to track the comic book down. They find the last copy, and discover that Hiro is stuck 16 years in the past as Arthur Petrelli has taken Hiro's powers. The three come to the conclusion that the only way to save Hiro is to find another time-traveler. Ando volunteers himself to take an experimental formula to give him the ability to manipulate space and time so he can save Hiro. In "Dual", Daphne steals a dose of the formula from Mohinder, and gives it to Ando. Ando manifests the ability to "super charge" the abilities of others, which he uses on Daphne to allow her to run faster than the speed of light, enabling time travel per Einstein's Theory of Relativity. They rescue Hiro from the past, saving Hiro from death at the hands of his father but likewise preventing Hiro from destroying the formula. Nevertheless, Hiro is able to steal the formula in the present with Daphne's help and the group celebrates as he destroys it.

In "A Clear and Present Danger" Hiro and Ando are back in Japan. Hiro has bought an abandoned fire station as their headquarters. Ando leaves Hiro frustrated after Hiro is injected with a GPS device, and so Ando feels that Hiro is trying to live through him, since Hiro has lost his powers. Later, Ando hears Hiro being kidnapped by Nathan's agents through the phone.

In "Trust and Blood", using the GPS device Hiro injected himself with, Ando figures out that Hiro is in Arkansas. Daphne arrives in Japan to find Hiro and Ando to talk about Matt's disappearance. Daphne and Ando go to Arkansas and see the plane's crash site. After Daphne appears to have been killed and Claire uses herself as a shield, Ando, Mohinder, Matt, and Hiro escape and meet up with Peter. Then he and Hiro realize that they must travel to India as seen in one of Matt's paintings.

In "Building 26", once in India, Hiro and Ando realize that they must save a local girl, Annapoora, from being married against her will. At first Ando uses his red glow as the sign she was looking for, but he "steals" Hiro's chance to recover his powers and also he ends up being kidnapped by the groom to force Annapoora into marriage. Finally, Hiro realizes that he does not need powers to be a hero, as he saved the girl without them, getting Ando back too. Later, Annapoora gives them a message "Rebel" sent them: to find Matt Parkman in LA.

As seen in "Shades of Gray" and continued in "Cold Snap", Hiro and Ando arrive Los Angeles where they find that the Matt Parkman "Rebel" was referring to was only a baby, also named Matt Parkman. Later they discover that this is actually the son of the Matt Parkman they know, and also discover the baby possesses the ability to touch things and make them "go." While Hiro and Ando are convincing Janice that Matt Sr. is not a terrorist and that his baby is in danger, agents take Janice away and break into the house. Ando shows that his acquired ability can also be used as an offensive weapon when he channels the energy outward to hit one of the pursuing agents, before Hiro manages to stop time with his partially restored ability (Matt Jr. used his powers to restore part of Hiro's). Hiro carries baby Matt and a paralyzed Ando to safety as he is unable to teleport, having only regained the ability to stop time.

In "Turn and Face the Strange", Hiro and Ando have the mission to take baby Matt to Matt Sr., but Matt Jr. keeps inactivating any vehicle they are on due to the noise they make, until Ando comes with a funny face to entertain the baby, so Hiro convinces him to keep it so the "cube" can go. They finally manage to track down Matt Sr. who has gone to confront Danko. Hiro ends up saving Matt, and then he meets his son for the first time, giving Matt a reason to live again.

In "I Am Sylar", after failing to convince Matt to join them, Hiro and Ando go to Reed Street Laboratories to set up a trap for HLS agents, using Ando as bait. Although he refuses, as Hiro manages to not freeze him, Hiro still keeps his plan going on, unfreezing the agents so they can take down Ando, and then freezing everybody again so he can take an agent's place as they carry Ando to the "Building 26". Once in motion, Ando is awoken by Hiro so he can be ready for action, but when an agent realizes Hiro is not one of them, Ando shoots a big blast of red lightning, affecting everyone and saving Hiro. As plan B, they use the GPS signal of the agents to track the place, and once they are ready to fight, Hiro tries to freeze time, but instead he receives a strong headache and nosebleed as they realize he cannot use his ability anymore. Ando is then seen aiding Hiro.

In "An Invisible Thread", because of Hiro's condition, Ando plans to enter "Building 26" by himself, but Hiro recovers and insists on continuing with the plan despite the danger. Hiro stops time and both break in to free the trapped prisoners, including Mohinder, Noah and Danko, and replace the drugged evolved humans with all of the "Building 26" staff. Once time is going, Hiro and Ando show the freed prisoners the way out. Ando asks Mohinder to check out Hiro, finding out his body is rejecting his powers and he should stop using them. As Hiro faints after saving Noah from Danko, is apparently taken to a hospital by Ando and Mohinder. Later, Ando, along with Hiro, witness the burning of Sylar's (really James Martin) body and then both decide to return home.

In "Orientation", Ando and Hiro have opened a hired hero business called "Dial-A-Hero" in a conference room at the Yamagato Building, which enrages Kimiko. On Ando insistence to visit a doctor, Hiro reveals that his headaches are caused by a terminal illness, and he is dying. Attending their first mission, saving a girl's cat, both Ando and Hiro realize their abilities are not fitted to the situation, but still Ando is forced by Hiro to help the cat. Once he catches the cat, Ando loses balance and falls. Hiro stops time saving him, but Ando notices Hiro remains frozen while time is resumed. Ando then takes Hiro to Yamagato where he unfreezes. While talking, they remember the carnival they attended 14 years before, where a fortune teller directed Hiro on his path to being a hero. Ando remembers as he accidentally spilled a drink over Kimiko, causing her to hate him despite he was in love with her. While remembering this, Hiro's time travel manifests teleporting him to the carnival 14 years in the past.

In "Jump, Push, Fall", while Hiro is at the carnival in the past, a young Ando is seen together with a young Kimiko in the carnival. The young Hiro rushes into them making Ando spill a Slushy in Kimiko's direction, but Samuel Sullivan pushes adult Hiro in the way to show him past can be changed, so he gets wet instead of Kimiko. This event avoids Ando to be hated by Kimiko, and when adult Hiro teleports back to the present, he finds out the two of them felt in love at the carnival and have dated since.

In "Acceptance", Kimiko reveals to Hiro that she and Ando have gotten engaged. Ando is concerned about Kimiko wanting Hiro to give her away in the wedding a year from now, knowing that he may not be alive by that time, so he talks Hiro into confessing the truth to Kimiko. Hiro's ever-lasting mission to save a man makes him hear this speech from Ando over and over again, and finally understands the picture. Ultimately, Hiro tells Kimiko the truth about his illness, and then suffers a headache; Ando rushes in the office to help him, but Hiro teleports away in front of Ando and Kimiko, leaving her extremely shocked.

In "Once Upon a Time in Texas", as Hiro travels back in time 3 years to Midland, Texas to save Charlie, he meets past-Ando waiting for past-Hiro to teleport back (Seven Minutes to Midnight timeline). Hiro convinces past-Ando to stay at the diner to avoid making too many changes and preserve history.

In "Upon This Rock", a brain-addled Hiro is brought to Ando by the police after they find a business card on him. Ando reveals that Hiro has been missing for six weeks and figures that Hiro's referring to himself and everything else as fictional characters (with Ando being Sancho Panza) is a side-effect of his brain tumor. Ando does not understand what Hiro means by they have to save "Doctor Watson" at "Arkham" in the land of the "swamp dragons", but decides to check Hiro's comics to try to figure it out. Ando eventually realizes that Hiro is referring to Florida when Hiro mentions Curt Connors and realizes that the "swamp dragons" are alligators and that Arkham refers to an insane asylum though he still does not understand the Doctor Watson reference. Ando searches on the web and finds that there's an asylum on Arkham Road in Florida and realizes that Hiro means Ando is his sidekick when he refers to him as Sancho Panza. Ando admits this, but Hiro refers to him as the best sidekick he knows.

In "Close to You", Ando checks Hiro into the asylum Hiro keeps referring to, but is reluctant as Hiro in his addled state cannot stop time or use his powers. Hiro points Ando to "Watson's" room as he's led away, and after Ando uses his power to bypass a lock, he finds out "Watson" is Mohinder Suresh and realizes that Hiro wants to save him. Ando, realizing that Mohinder cannot use his powers due to the drugs the orderlies are giving him, switches Mohinder's pills with aspirin to stop that, but accidentally swallows Mohinder's pills and enters into a drug-induced daze. Hiro hides him in a closet and later that night frees Mohinder, but the two are forced to wheel Ando out in a wheelchair as he's still in a daze. As the three are found by orderlies, Ando snaps out of it and uses his powers to blast open a door leading out, creating enough of a distraction that Mohinder is able to overpower the orderlies and allow the three to escape. Running through a swamp chased by orderlies and dogs, the three are forced to hide behind a tree and Mohinder suggests Ando use his power like electro-shock therapy to restore Hiro's mind so he can teleport them away. Ando is reluctant as his future self killed Hiro using that power, but Mohinder convinces him to try. Ando shocks Hiro and it does work, restoring Hiro's mind back to normal. With Hiro back to normal, he teleports himself, Mohinder and Ando to Noah Bennet's apartment, seconds before orderlies and dogs find their hiding place. When the three teleport in, they interrupt Noah and Lauren Gilmore kissing and Hiro asks the two for their help.

In "Pass/Fail", Ando and Hiro watch as Mohinder creates a compass for Noah to use and suggests Ando or Hiro as the ones that use it as only someone with powers can use it. After Mohinder leaves, Hiro collapses due to his brain tumor and Ando has him rushed to the hospital. There, Ando watches worried as the doctors prepare to perform brain surgery to try to remove the tumor and save Hiro's life. In Hiro's hallucination, Ando acts as his lawyer during his trial and his young self acts as a witness for the prosecution. In the real world, Ando watches the surgery and when Hiro crashes makes a rousing speech that gives Hiro strength in his hallucination. The doctors manage to revive Hiro and remove the tumor. Ando later visits Hiro as he recovers from the surgery.

In "Brave New World", Ando is happy to see Hiro awake and has him test his powers which Hiro now has full control of after his tumor was removed. Ando and Hiro are shocked when Hiro receives a note from Charlie and Ando watches as a now old Charlie and Hiro reunite. When Hiro plans to travel back in time to get Charlie after she arrived in the past, Ando thinks Hiro is being selfish to try to do that as Charlie is clearly happy and leaves the room. He receives a call from Noah Bennet who wants him and Hiro to come to the Carnival in Central Park and Ando goes to get Hiro. Hiro has changed his mind about going back in time after talking to Charlie and now feels he has lost his purpose and has finished all of his missions, but Ando reminds him of Samuel and informs him of Noah's call. Hiro teleports himself and Ando to the Carnival where Claire asks Hiro to teleport all of the carnies away. Hiro tells them all to hold hands, but is unsure if he can teleport them all as there are over a dozen, so Ando offers to use his powers to supercharge Hiro's to teleport everyone. Hiro agrees to try and thanks to Ando supercharging his power, Hiro successfully teleports everyone away which results in Samuel's defeat as the removal of all the special reduces Samuel's power significantly.

Eden McCain

Nora Zehetner (2007)

Eden McCain, portrayed by Nora Zehetner, is a Company operative with the power of persuasion, to control others through verbal communication. Born "Sarah Ellis", her father left her to live with her stepmother at an early age, which caused her stepmother to blame her for her father's actions and to abuse her for it. She discovered her power after saying "I wish you'd just die!" to her stepmother, which caused her heart to instantly stop beating. She headed west, adopted her new name, and began living selfishly until being taken in by Noah Bennet and the Haitian, who persuaded her to work with them. On Noah's orders, she moved in near Chandra Suresh and befriended him in order to remove Claire Bennet's name from the list of posthumans. She later attempts to kill Sylar during his imprisonment, but he's able to subjugate her. With no other choice Eden kills herself before Sylar could steal her powers.

Kaito Nakamura

George Takei (1996)

Kaito Nakamura, portrayed by George Takei and Eijiro Ozaki (in a flashback), is a stern and powerful businessman in Japan and the father of Hiro Nakamura. He is the CEO of Yamagato Industries, and he is described as a man with "real power" by his underlings. He is initially very disappointed with Hiro, who does not show any sort of drive, though he eventually comes to respect his son as he develops into a hero. He is one of the founders of the Company. It is revealed in a deleted scene (in the season two DVD boxset) that he has the power of studying a situation and predicting its outcomes, though in the series he never uses this ability.

Claude Rains

Not to be confused with Claude Rains.

Claude Rains, portrayed by Christopher Eccleston, is a former employee of the Company and agent alongside Noah Bennet. His real name is unknown; his pseudonym, first used while working for the Company, references the actor who starred in The Invisible Man. A posthuman, he has the ability to turn himself, any personal objects he touches, and other people invisible. Claude's power is limited to the visible spectrum; it does not make him inaudible, nor does it mask his body heat or other such emissions, allowing him to be tracked through thermal imaging or similar methods. Claude guides Peter Petrelli and teaches him how to use his power, however, several powers then begin to overwhelm him at once, until Claude knocks him unconscious. Peter rescues the unconscious Claude by using the power of flight absorbed from his brother Nathan. Later, Claude is so apprehensive of the threat posed by Bennet that he ends his partnership with Peter.

Ted Sprague

Theodore "Ted" Sprague, portrayed by Matthew John Armstrong, has the ability to generate and manipulate radiation, which he only discovers after being abducted by the Haitian. At first, he has very little control over his power and is extremely destructive, causing such harmful side-effects as radiation poisoning, which ends up killing his wife. When he gains better control over his ability, Ted realizes he is also able to produce an EMP when necessary. He was eventually brutally killed by Sylar and his corpse left behind after Sylar caused a car accident that killed his captors and left him hanging upside down by himself.

Brian Davis

Brian Davis, portrayed by David Berman, is an evolved human who has the ability to move things by the use of his mind. Sylar, who stole Davis's contact information from Chandra Suresh, called up Davis and gave him an alias, choosing "Sylar" from the brand name of a watch that he was working on, telling him he can fix his problem. When he revealed his telekinetic ability to Sylar, Davis asked Sylar if he could remove it. Sylar, driven by his aggression and hunger for power killed him and stole his ability, making him the first of several victims.

Zane Taylor

Zane Taylor, portrayed by Ethan Cohn, is the first person to respond to Mohinder's calls when Mohinder resumes his father's research. Zane leaves a phone message on Mohinder's answering machine, inviting him to Virginia Beach to talk; however, Sylar arrives first and impersonates Mohinder. After an anxious Zane displays his ability to liquefy objects, Sylar kills him. When Mohinder arrives later on, Sylar impersonates Zane and demonstrates Zane's power to liquefy the toaster instantly. According to the article reporting his death, Zane is a musician; he is even seen wearing a Ramones T-shirt, which Sylar then wears while impersonating him.

Molly Walker

Molly Walker, portrayed by Adair Tishler, possesses the ability to locate any person in the world using a pin and a map just by thinking of them. She first appears in Episode 2 when her parents are brutally murdered by Sylar when Molly was a young girl. She is then taken into custody by The Company, where it is revealed that she has the same medical condition that killed Mohinder's sister Shanti, which prevents her using her powers. Mohinder treats Molly with antibodies from his own blood, realizing this is the cure. Molly shows that she is healed by locating Matt Parkman on a map. Later, she explains how her power works, and when mentioned, she refers to Sylar as "the boogeyman". She then locates Sylar, giving his location as Isaac's loft. Later, Matt, who went to find Sylar, calls Mohinder to warn him that Sylar may be on his way, though Molly, using her power, says "he's already here". The two escape the building with the help of Niki, D. L. and Micah. In Kirby Plaza, they all witness the bout between Sylar and Peter Petrelli. As paramedics take the wounded Matt away on a stretcher, Molly runs up and asks him not to die, that says that he is her hero.

Molly returns in Season 2, having been adopted by Parkman and Suresh; as a favor to Matt, she locates his father Maury, despite fearing him as the "Nightmare Man" who torments her, she then collapses in shock. Mohinder delivers her to the Company, thinking it would be better for her there. In the Season 2 finale, she is menaced by Sylar, but escapes unharmed; she makes a few brief appearances in Season 3, but eventually disappears from the series without explanation. In the graphic novels, she is shown as having been sent to live with Mohinder's mother in India, hopefully out of harm's way.

In Heroes Reborn, Molly played by Francesca Eastwood, reappears as a young woman who is being used by Erica Kravid to track "evos" after Claire's reveal of their existence. While she is eventually rescued by Noah Bennet, Molly seems to be mentally unstable and refuses to tell Noah anything more than that Claire is dead and that she was part of a group that was doing anything to protect "them", later implied to be Claire's children Nathan (a.k.a. Tommy Clark) and Malina. She then committed suicide to shut down an evo tracking system. In the episode "June 13 — Part 1", she is encountered by Mohinder at the Odessa Peace Summit and he gives her a copy of his research on a coming disaster in case something happens to him. Molly survives the bombing and attempts to help Caspar Abraham locate Claire while Noah is distracted by chasing his own future self. Killed herself while her body was strapped.

Dale Smither

Dale Smither, portrayed by Rusty Schwimmer, is an auto mechanic with the ability of enhanced hearing; she constantly listens to rap music in order to drown out all the sounds which she is exposed to. In "Unexpected", she is contacted by Mohinder and Sylar (posing as Zane Taylor), and is subsequently murdered by Sylar.

Candice Wilmer

Candice Wilmer, portrayed by Missy Peregrym, is an agent of the Company who has the ability to create illusions. She appears in the first two volumes, Genesis and Generations. She can manipulate her own body and a large area around herself, effectively trapping someone if she wishes, and change any detail instantly. She is originally paired with Noah Bennet and is seen using her powers to taunt multiple characters. After Noah's betrayal of the Company is revealed at Candice's hands, she is seen operating on her own. She aides Mr. Linderman in the kidnapping of Micah Sanders in ".07%", and watches after Micah in "Landslide". In "How to Stop an Exploding Man", Candice is confronted and knocked out by Niki Sanders who, with D. L., came to New York for Micah. She is seen hinting at her true obese self in the episode "Landslide". In "Kindred" Candice had assumed the form of a beautiful red-head under the alias of Michelle and is revealed to be tending a wounded and powerless Sylar, who she maintains constantly trapped under her illusions. She reveals to him that she works for the Company and it was she who pulled him off of Kirby Plaza. She is soon afterwards nevertheless attacked and murdered by a frustrated Sylar, who attempts to absorb her illusion's power, but it does not work. After her death, her form reverts to its original self of the overweight woman.

Candice Wilmer's origins are later revealed in the "Betty" graphic novel where it is shown that Candice's true name is actually Betty, a rather plain-looking person in high school, usually dressing in black and hanging out with her friend Ren Metzger. They were bullied by classmates, including cheerleaders and football players. As she endured these emotions, Betty discovered she had the power to create horrific illusions. She first started by growing large pimples on the face of a rival girl gossiping about her in the bathroom. Her friends became horrified only to realize that it vanished. She then targeted Arthur Campbell, creating the illusion of a demon in the form of his father, which drove him to insanity. Immediately others planned to retaliate against the alternative crowd and some of the players beat up Ren. Ren became hospitalized and when Betty showed him her power of illusion, he went into shock and died. Betty retaliated against the entire school during a pep rally when she create the illusion of people melting and exploding into flames. On the road, Betty decided to change her appearance, from an obese "emo" kid to a tall thin lady with a fair complexion, taking on the name of "Candice".

Candice, changing back from her illusion of Niki Sanders

Introduced in season 2

Bob Bishop

Robert Bishop, portrayed by Stephen Tobolowsky, has the ability of alchemy, allowing him to change the atomic properties of objects into materials such as gold. This can also be used as an offensive weapon; in one instance he turns a man's arm into gold, not only rendering it useless but also causing great pain. Known as Bob to his colleagues, he is one of the twelve members of the group established by Adam Monroe thirty years prior to the events of Kirby Plaza. He directs much of the tracking and capture of targets of the Company and he is their financial source, using his ability to create unlimited amounts of gold and other "resources". Following the death of Linderman at the end of Volume One, he takes over as head of the Company. He is also Elle's father, and though she was trained to work for the Company from birth, he constantly criticizes her actions. Bob is killed by Sylar at the beginning of Volume Three. It is revealed in "1961" that he met Angela Petrelli, Daniel Linderman, and Charles Deveaux while a "prisoner" at Coyote Sands.

Alejandro Herrera

Alejandro Herrera, portrayed by Shalim Ortiz, is the twin brother of Maya Herrera. Alejandro has the ability to absorb and neutralize his sister's poison emission; to do so, he must make physical contact with Maya and calm her down. He is very protective of her even after the initial manifestation of Maya's power kills their friends and his new wife in his native Dominican Republic. When she runs away, he tracks her down and discovers his ability to stop the progression of the poison she emits. They flee the police through Mexico, trying to get to New York in the hope that Mohinder can cure her. Along the way they meet Sylar, who joins them. Maya trusts Sylar, but Alejandro does not, and when Alejandro reveals his intention to force Maya to leave with him, Sylar kills him.

Maury Parkman

Maury Parkman, portrayed by Alan Blumenfeld, is Matt Parkman's father, having abandoned Matt when he was thirteen. He is one of the twelve founders of the Company and, like his son, Maury is a telepath; however, his powers are much more developed than Matt's. Instead of just reading surface thoughts, he can read people's memories and manipulate their perceptions of reality, allowing him to trap people in nightmares based on their deepest fears and insecurities.

Victoria Pratt

Joanna Cassidy (left, 2007) and Jaime Ray Newman (right, 2009)

Victoria Pratt, portrayed by Joanna Cassidy and Jaime Ray Newman, was a founding member of the Company and biological engineer. In 1977, she met Shanti Suresh and began to do research on the Shanti virus. On Company orders, she experimented on the virus, and weaponized it, creating Strain 138, which is capable of killing 93% of the world's population, including both humans and posthumans. When Monroe attempted to steal the strain, Pratt insisted that the program on the virus be stopped, and the strain destroyed. Kaito Nakamura and the other founders did not agree and locked the virus away at Primatech Paper in Odessa, Texas. Pratt was not happy about the decision. She is killed by Monroe in her house.

West Rosen

Nicholas D'Agosto (2010)

West Rosen, portrayed by Nicholas D'Agosto, has the ability to fly. He was abducted by Mr. Bennet and the Haitian for examination prior to the start of the series, though he tried to escape. He saw Mr. Bennet before being recaptured and having his memory wiped, though he still remembers Bennet's glasses. Years later, he and Claire become classmates at Costa Verde High School. They date in season 2 with West eventually learning the truth about his kidnapping. He and Noah Bennet later team up to save Claire, but West breaks up with her when she wants to reveal her powers. In "Let It Bleed", Claire tells Peter that she and West are now Facebook friends and she calls West so Peter can copy his power as a way of remembering Nathan.

Introduced in season 3

Bridget Bailey

Bridget Bailey, introduced by the BBC in its mirror of Heroes 360 information and portrayed by Tehmina Sunny, has the ability of psychometry. Her exchanges with Mohinder Suresh were later included on NBC.com as part of Heroes Evolutions. Her first message, entitled "I need some advice", began on July 11, 2007.

Luke Campbell

Luke Campbell, portrayed by Dan Byrd, is a teenage boy with the ability to project microwave beams from his hands. He embarked on a road trip with Sylar in order to find Sylar's biological father. The effects of his power vary from object to object. He is able to melt a figurine, boil liquid from a distance without damaging the mug, and burn a person to death from the inside out.

Eric Doyle

David H. Lawrence XVII (2007)

Eric Doyle, portrayed by David H. Lawrence XVII, has the ability of "puppet mastery", which allows him to control the actions of others by manipulating them like a puppeteer. In the webseries "Nowhere Man" he displays control over inanimate objects by closing a door without touching it. He is initially captured by the Company after causing people to seemingly commit suicide with his ability. He later escapes during the confrontation between Elle and Sylar, and returns to running "Doyle's Marionette Theater". He has obsessive romantic feelings for Meredith Gordon, which are renewed after she goes to him fearing that Claire is going to attempt to capture him. Doyle is eventually recaptured after forcing Meredith, Claire and Sandra Bennet to play a variation of Russian roulette, not knowing about Claire's ability. In "Dual", he is freed by Noah Bennet along with two others and offered freedom for killing Sylar. He attempts to save Meredith, but Sylar breaks free of his control and incapacitates him. During "Redemption" he goes back to his old ways and forces Emma Coolidge to use her powers to draw thousands of innocent people to the Carnival to be murdered by Samuel. Following a prophetic dream by Peter, Sylar confronts Eric to save Emma, but falls under his control. However, Eric makes the mistake of partially releasing his control over Emma to taunt her about her deafness and she hits him with a sonic blast, breaking his control over Sylar. Sylar pins Eric, but ties him up in lights rather than kill him as he has now turned to the side of good with Peter's help.

The German

The German, portrayed by Ken Lally, has the ability of magnetism manipulation, allowing him to control ferrous objects and materials. He is originally introduced in the graphic novel "Berlin, Part 1", where he is captured by the Company. He subsequently escapes Level 5 in "The Butterfly Effect" along with a dozen other prisoners, and joins a group of them in robbing a bank. In "One of Us, One of Them", he is killed by Knox after disagreeing with his plan.

Flint Gordon, Jr.

Flint Gordon Jr., portrayed by Blake Shields, is Meredith Gordon's younger brother, who also possesses the power of pyrokinesis. He produces extremely hot blue flames as opposed to Meredith's orange flames. He is slow-witted, causing him to be more of a lackey than a leader, especially when around Meredith; nevertheless, he is gleefully violent, cruel, and sadistic, and openly revels in using his powers to hurt people. He and Meredith were separated as children after Meredith accidentally used her ability to burn down their abusive father's house.

Samson Gray

John Glover (2009)

Samson Gray, portrayed by John Glover, is the biological father of Sylar (Gabriel Gray). Like his son, he possesses the ability of intuitive aptitude, allowing him to steal the abilities of other super-powered humans. He is responsible for the death of Gabriel's mother back in 1980. Appearing in "Shades of Gray', he is old and dying of terminal cancer, hiding from Nathan's agents in an old trailer in the woods of Newark, New Jersey.

Knox

Jamie Hector (2012)

Benjamin "Knox" Washington, portrayed by Jamie Hector, gains enhanced strength when others around him are frightened. He often uses the threat of becoming stronger to fuel the fears of others. His past was going to be featured in a dropped storyline in "Villains" where he attempts to get out of gang life with the help of Matt Parkman, returning to his old ways after his power manifests; it was later released as the webseries Hard Knox. He is initially a Level 5 prisoner who escapes after the conflict between Sylar and Elle. He joins with the others to hunt down Noah Bennet, though he eventually ends up working for Arthur Petrelli. He teams up with Peter and Flint to destroy the Formula, killing a Marine guarding Nathan and keeping him captive to buy Peter time. However, Nathan attacks him and during the fight, Tracy Strauss freezes Knox solid and shatters him, killing Knox.

James Martin

James Martin possesses the ability to shapeshift into the form of anyone he touches. He is responsible for killing three of Danko's agents, who were hunting him. Using his ability, he makes his way into Danko's office to touch him in order to "borrow" his form.

Daphne Millbrook

Brea Grant (2009)

Daphne Millbrook, portrayed by Brea Grant, is a thief with the power of enhanced speed. She can move herself at speeds fast enough to just barely outrun a nuclear explosion, move fast enough to be at normal speed when Hiro Nakamura slows down time to the point where time appears to have stopped, and can extend her ability to those she is in contact with. She suffers from cerebral palsy and relied on crutches and braces to walk before gaining her powers. She first becomes acquainted with Hiro Nakamura, who refers to her as "nemesis", after she steals his half of a chemical formula that gives ordinary people super powers. She works for the Pinehearst Company under the direction of Maury Parkman (who appears to her as Mr. Linderman), charged with recruiting members. Daphne eventually switches sides and helps rescue Hiro from the past. Afterwards, she and Hiro steal and destroy the Formula and she tries to make a life with Matt Parkman. During "Trust and Blood", Daphne is shot and apparently killed. She is revealed to be alive, though seriously wounded during "Cold Wars". She is rescued in "Cold Snap" and taken to the hospital where she is treated for her gunshot wound and an infection. She apparently recovers and takes off to Paris, but quickly realizes it's a dream where Matt is giving her a happy ending. Knowing she will die, she asks Matt to fly her to the Moon. He does so in the dream as she dies of her injuries in the real world.

Jesse Murphy

Francis Capra (2013)

Jesse Murphy, portrayed by Francis Capra, is a former prisoner of Level 5 with the ability to produce powerful sonic waves with his voice. According to executive producer Greg Beeman, Jesse's power was originally "Earthquake-stomp", but was changed due to budget constraints. He is described by Knox as having no friends. He and Knox were captured by Noah Bennet and the Haitian after the two used their powers in an attempt to take over a neighborhood.

Ishi Nakamura

Ishi Nakamura, portrayed by Tamlyn Tomita, was the wife of Kaito Nakamura and mother to Kimiko and Hiro. She was shown as deceased when Hiro was eight years old when he went back in time with his father in an attempt to convince him to escape his death. It was revealed that she had an ability in an interview with Aron Coleite and Joe Pokaski, which is shown to be the ability to heal living organisms through kisses in "Our Father". She revives Hiro's sick bird and restores the future Hiro's lost memories.

Matt Parkman, Jr.

Matthew "Matty" Parkman, Jr. is the infant son of Matt Parkman and his ex-wife Janice Parkman, and the grandson of Maury Parkman. He has the ability to activate and deactivate objects, whether they are electronic, mechanical, or even human, earning him the nickname "Toddler Touch-And-Go" from Hiro. He is first mentioned in the episode "Five Years Gone", his father working to capture other posthumans in exchange for the protection of him. Matt Parkman, Jr. later appears in the main timeline, living in California with his mother. Matt Senior divorces his wife because they initially believe Matt Junior is the son of the man she cheated on him with, but it turns out they were wrong. He restores Hiro Nakamura's powers when they meet and the truth of his parentage brings his parents back together.

Arthur Petrelli

Robert Forster (2009)

Arthur Petrelli, portrayed by Robert Forster, is the husband of Angela Petrelli, the father of Nathan Petrelli and Peter Petrelli, and the biological grandfather of Claire Bennet. Angela has stated that she and Arthur have gone through "great lengths" to protect Claire. He has the power to take the abilities of other evolved humans through physical contact. Once he takes an ability, he cannot return it. The powers he has taken are telepathy from an unknown source, though hinted at being Charles Deveaux; the regenerative abilities of Adam Monroe (which killed Adam, as he immediately aged 400+ years and crumbled into dust); Peter's empathic mimicry and the powers he'd absorbed as a result (including the Haitian's mental manipulation); Maya Herrera's poison emission; and Hiro Nakamura's time manipulation. Arthur's range of powers is such that he can overcome the Haitian's dampening powers after a short period, though not without significant effort. Hiro eventually learns through a "spirit walk" that Arthur was actually the one who'd ordered Nathan's accident, not Linderman, and that Arthur had repeatedly manipulated Angela's mind throughout their marriage, to get her to do what he wanted. After Linderman revealed the truth to her, Angela tried to kill Arthur by poisoning him, but he was saved by Nathan arriving home and calling 911. Arthur survived the poisoning attempt, but was completely paralyzed and could only communicate through telepathy, so he faked his own death. After stealing Adam Monroe's regenerative powers, Arthur was able to heal the damage the poison had done to his body, recovering completely. In "Our Father", Peter and the Haitian confront Arthur with the intention of killing him. Arthur offers to use the Formula to restore Peter's powers if his son comes with him, but Peter refuses. As the Haitian loses his grip on Arthur's powers, Peter fires a gun at Arthur who is only saved by the timely intervention of Sylar. However, Sylar only saved him to discover if Arthur is actually his father or not. Using his new lie detection abilities, Sylar is able to tell that Arthur in fact lied to him. Telling Peter "you're not a killer, Peter...but I am", Sylar telekinetically shoves Peter's bullet through Arthur's head, destroying the spot that controls regeneration and killing Arthur. The Formula's catalyst dies with him.

Daniel Pine

Daniel Pine, portrayed by Franc Ross, is a Vietnam veteran with the ability to transform parts of his body into metal. He is introduced in "Villains", being captured by Agent Thompson and Meredith Gordon as the latter's first assignment in the Company. He is placed in Level 5, but escapes when Elle Bishop accidentally sets all the Level 5 prisoners free. From there, he returns to his old home, and ends up killing his ex-wife. He is then recaptured by Meredith and Noah Bennet.

Baron Samedi

Baron Samedi, portrayed by Demetrius Grosse, is a powerful warlord in the jungles of Haiti, and is the half-brother of the Haitian. He possesses impenetrable skin, which grants him a degree of invulnerability from trauma such as fire, knives, and bullets. He shares a name with a loa.

Scott

Scott, portrayed by Chad Faust, is a Marine recruited by the Pinehearst Company. Wanting to be more than human so that he can make up for his fellow Marines that died, he is the first person to try the newly perfected formula, which grants him the ability of enhanced strength. However, as he is about to stop Flint Gordon and Peter Petrelli from destroying the lab and the formula in "Dual", his neck is snapped by Knox.

Alice Shaw

Alice Shaw, played by Laura Marano in flashbacks and by Diana Scarwid in the present, is the estranged younger sister of Angela Petrelli, the aunt of Nathan Petrelli and Peter Petrelli, and the great-aunt of Claire Bennet. She has the ability of weather manipulation. Her powers are seemingly linked to her emotions as she is able to summon gale force winds when frightened, or generate lightning bolts or hailstones when angered. She first appears in the flashback in episode "1961".

Usutu

Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine (2009)

Usutu, portrayed by Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, makes himself known to Matt after he is teleported to Africa by the future Peter Petrelli. He had painted an image of the earth exploding on a nearby rock. This image appears several times in the episodes "The Second Coming" and "The Butterfly Effect", painted on various objects in various places. He also seems to have an extensive knowledge of Matt's life, having painted the major events of Matt's story arc in Volume One when he was just a child. Like the precognition demonstrated by Isaac Mendez (which is also why Hiro refers to him as "Mr. African Isaac"), this skill can be activated at will, though Usutu prefers to listen to music while he works. In a discussion with Parkman, Usutu reveals that he is aware of various changes in the timeline, specifically events that change his earlier predictions. As Hiro finishes his own spirit journey, Usutu is decapitated by Arthur Petrelli, and later appears in a vision in "Dual".

Alex Woolsley

Alex Woolsley, portrayed by Justin Baldoni, is an employee at Sam's Comic Book Shop with the ability to breathe underwater. He first discovered his ability while on his high school's swim team. He is rescued by Claire Bennet on orders of the mysterious Rebel, and secretly took up residence within the Bennet household. Eventually, Claire's mother finds out about his hiding in their house and she helps him change his identity to protect him. During his stay at the Bennet household, Claire and he develop a mutual romantic interest, culminating in a kiss while they hide from government agents underwater in a pool (thus also allowing Alex to transfer air to her thanks to his ability, removing the need for them to surface to breathe). In the graphic novel "The Scenic Route", he is rescued again, this time by Noah Bennet and Claire's ex-boyfriend West Rosen, and both boys are advised to lie low.

Introduced in season 4

Arnold

Arnold, portrayed by Jack Wallace, has the ability of space-time manipulation. Introduced in "Orientation", he is shown as a member of the "Sullivan Bros. Carnival", and as any member, is considered family. He is asked by Samuel Sullivan to send him 14 years back in time so he can meet the adult Hiro Nakamura, which he is capable of doing despite his bad health. He is shown as an old and dying man, and it is implied that Samuel intends to replace him with Hiro. In "Once Upon a Time in Texas", Arnold once again sends Samuel back in time to find Hiro; after Hiro saves Charlie from Sylar and her aneurysm, Samuel orders Arnold to take her to the carnival in present and then to hide her somewhere in time away from Hiro so he will stay with them. This final effort killed Arnold. In the graphic Novel "Smoke and Mirrors", an altar is seen in honor of Arnold as the carnies discuss about Samuel forcing Arnold to use his ability without any concern about his health. Hiro eventually reunites with an old Charlie who tells him that Arnold took her to Milwaukee on January 26, 1944. Though Hiro offers to go back and retrieve her after Arnold leaves, Charlie refuses as she had a life there and Hiro respects her wishes.

Bowman Family

The Bowman Family consists of Chris Bowman, portrayed by Daryl Crittenden, with his wife Gail and daughter Jenny, who are workers at the "Sullivan Bros. Carnival" as part of the fire-breathing family. The three of them exhibit the ability to breathe fire; Chris and Gail exhibit orange flames, but little Jenny exhibits blue ones (in main series she exhibits orange flames as well). Although seen in background as member of the "family" since "Orientation", they are shown mainly in iStories (Faction Zero and Slow Burn). In "Strange Attractors" (Slow Burn iStory chapter 5) they are told by Samuel Sullivan to show their ability to Tracy so she will feel comfortable at the carnival, but she felt the other way around so they stop. In the graphic novel "Smoke and Mirrors", Amanda watches as the Bowman family practices their fire-breathing act making her want to be a Bowman herself.

Emma Coolidge

Emma Coolidge, portrayed by Deanne Bray, is a deaf woman working in the same hospital as Peter. Dialogue indicates that she is trained as a physician, but prefers to work archiving patients' data instead of treating them. In the episode "Ink", she discovers that she can perceive sound as a form of colored light; the louder the sound, the more intense and colorful the light. Her doctor (also her mother) suggests that this is a form of synesthesia (mixed signals from the different senses). At the park, she sees the music a cello player produces, and then starts playing it herself, producing beautiful music. She constantly uses headphones in public to avoid being asked anything, so people will not notice that she is deaf. In the episode "Hysterical Blindness", Emma discovers that she is able to convert sound into physical force after damaging her apartment walls while playing a cello once more; the cello was in a box with the "Sullivan Bros. Carnival" label on it. In "Tabula Rasa", she is afraid of her power and seeks Peter to help her ultimately Hiro helps her understand that her ability is a gift, and once she knows what she can do, she can use it to do good things. As Peter and Emma learn that Hiro is dying, Emma makes him promise he will stay in bed, although he constantly tells Emma he feels alive when he uses his ability and he will die with dignity like Charlie intended to do.

Damien

Damien, portrayed by Harry Perry, is a carnival worker at "Sullivan Bros. Carnival", introduced in "Tabula Rasa", with the ability to restore, heal and distort other people's memories. By orders of Samuel, he takes Sylar to the center chamber of the Hall of Mirrors and touches his head using his ability on him. Then, he leaves Sylar alone while he sees his real memories reflecting in every mirror. In "Thanksgiving", he is present during Thanksgiving dinner; after Edgar's escape, he surprises Hiro while talking to Samuel, disrupting his memories, but apparently in a way he did not expect (which is also seen in the graphic novel "The Trip, Part 1"). In "The Art of Deception", he helps Samuel to step over the dying Lydia.

Edgar

Ray Park (2011)

Edgar, portrayed by Ray Park, has the ability of enhanced speed and works at the "Sullivan Bros. Carnival". Introduced in "Orientation", he is sent by Samuel Sullivan to kill Emile Danko in order to retrieve a mysterious compass. At first he refuses, stating that he does not kill unless absolutely necessary. Samuel chokes him (with a tattoo hand controlled by his power), but releases him with a promise to not force Edgar again after he does this task. Edgar fails once, as Danko does not have the artifact with him and Tracy manages to freeze his knife and arm; he fails again when Peter Petrelli mimics his ability. He goes after Noah Bennet and finally takes the compass to Samuel, leaving Noah badly wounded. After Lydia learns the truth of Joseph's murder with the help of Hiro Nakamura, Edgar tries to expose Samuel who frames him as the murderer. Samuel tries to kill Edgar, but Hiro saves him and convinces Edgar to flee rather than kill Samuel to help stop him later. He's eventually captured by Noah who Lauren Gilmore gets to talk to Edgar rather than torture him. Edgar initially agrees to work with Noah to stop Samuel, but after Noah shows little care for the other carnies, Edgar takes the information he gave Noah and takes off. Edgar returns after Lydia's murder and rejoins the Carnival, but while he's seemingly accepted back, he remains aware of what Samuel is capable of and is disturbed by what Samuel is planning. In "Brave New World", he kidnaps Noah Bennet in Central Park and tells him he wants to stop Samuel, but can't just kill him in front of everyone. Edgar figures Noah has a plan and he aids Noah, Claire and Eli in exposing Samuel's actions to the carnies. Afterwards, Edgar helps the carnies leave and is teleported away by Hiro to safety, rendering Samuel effectively powerless.

Eli

Todd Stashwick (2015)

Eli, portrayed by Todd Stashwick, is a thief and diamond-mine owner who is found by Tracy Strauss (following orders from Samuel Sullivan) in a cruise in the southwestern coast of Africa in the graphic novel "Prodigals, Part 1: Immersed". Tracy interrupts his way into a girl and accidentally reveals the money he has stolen from a tourist, and then Eli takes out a gun. When Tracy recognizes Eli, he gets angry and distrustful to hear she knows his real name, and creates many clones to surround Tracy. Unknowing what she meant about the carnival, "they" shoot Tracy, also unaware that her abilities will allow her to survive and fight back. The original Eli is already in a boat escaping, and Tracy knows she must follow him to the open sea. In "Prodigals, Part 2: Witch Hunt", Tracy is tracking down the root Eli at Cape Town and in the process ends up killing many of his clones. After understanding how Eli and clones move around, Eli surprises her at his diamond mine where his clones work. Instead of killing her when having a chance, he decides to receive her and show her the place. In "Prodigals, Part 3: Parched", Tracy is seen fighting against a horde of clones while the root Eli stands quietly. After learning Samuel is the actual leader of the carnival, he agrees to return, as it was Joseph who exiled him but always was loyal to Samuel. Upon his return to the Carnival, he acts as Samuel's right-hand man with the power of cloning, but displays the weakness that if the original is knocked out or killed, the clones will all disappear. His clones lack a mind of their own as well, making Matt Parkman's telepathy useless on them. In "The Art of Deception" he murders Lydia to enable Samuel's plans. In "The Wall" and "Brave New World" Eli is sent to kill Matt Parkman, Peter Petrelli and Sylar to stop their interfering in Samuel's plans. Dialogue between Eli and Matt indicates that while Eli will go along with Samuel's terrible plans, he knows it is wrong. The Eli clones nearly kill Matt, but Peter and Sylar are able to overpower the clones sent after them and knock out the real Eli, saving Matt. Peter then reads Eli's mind to learn Samuel's plans and he and Sylar take off to stop them, leaving Eli with Matt who proceeds to use his powers to brainwash Eli against Samuel. Eli then returns to the Carnival and aids Edgar, Noah and Claire Bennet in exposing Samuel for what he really is, admitting to his murder of Lydia along the way. Eli's support of Claire's claims breaks the carnies faith in Samuel and causes them to leave him.

Ian Michaels

Ian Michaels, portrayed by Adam Lazarre-White, is a homeless man introduced in "Upon This Rock" who has the ability to control, manipulate, and accelerate plant growth. Originally, he was terrified by his ability and opted to hide in seclusion in Central Park. He was soon found by Samuel Sullivan and Emma Coolidge and shown the benefits of having an ability. He is now part of the "Sullivan Bros. Carnival".

Jeremy Greer

Jeremy Greer, portrayed by Mark L. Young, is an evolved human introduced in "Tabula Rasa", a teenager with the ability to control the life force of living creatures, so he can either heal them or kill them.

Lydia

Lydia, "The Painted Lady", is portrayed by Dawn Olivieri. Her ability is backfiring, making her susceptible to anyone else's desires, such as running away when her boyfriend wanted her to, and Carol's desire for Amanda to be hers, which led Lydia to abandon her baby with Carol. Lydia serves as the main antagonist, but not villain, of the Webseries: Slow Burn. While reluctantly trying to manipulate Sylar, he copies her powers harmlessly. Growing more and more suspicious of Samuel's activities, Lydia offers to help Hiro Nakamura find his lost love Charlie through her powers though she is unsuccessful. After learning of Samuel having Hiro return before he killed Mohinder Suresh but not to save Joseph Sullivan, Lydia asks Hiro to take her back in time eight weeks so she can see what really happened to Joseph. Though Hiro is reluctant, he eventually takes them back though he indicates Lydia may have triggered this with her own powers. The two witness Samuel confront Joseph about the full extent of his powers and then murder him in a rage. Lydia's gasp of shock draws Samuel's attention, but she is able to help Hiro transport them back to their own time. There, she reveals the truth to Edgar, resulting in Samuel pinning the murder on him and trying to kill Edgar. Hiro saves Edgar to Lydia's relief and she agrees to keep the truth secret to protect Amanda. Samuel later has Eli murder her to pin the crime on Noah Bennet and drive the Carnival into a frenzy after his destruction of a nearby town causes them to start to falter. Under Matt Parkman's brainwashing, Eli later admits to her murder and this, along with Edgar revealing what Lydia told him about Joseph's murder causes the carnies to abandon Samuel, allowing Peter Petrelli to defeat him.

Joseph Sullivan

Joseph Sullivan, portrayed by Andrew Connolly, was the leader of the "Sullivan Bros. Carnival", until his mysterious death. Seeing his burial in "Orientation" and being mentioned so many times, mainly by his brother Samuel, Lydia and Edgar, he is referred to as a kind and fair leader, with visions of family and peace far from Samuel's. As his rightful successor, Samuel tries to fill his void by adding new members to the family, although Lydia and Edgar say it was not Joseph's will (Acceptance). In the episode "Ink", Samuel reveals he and Joseph once lived and served at a mansion while kids. In the episode "Hysterical Blindness", Samuel chooses Sylar from a list of evolved humans as the one who will fill the void left by Joseph's death, although is unknown what ability Joseph held. In "Shadowboxing", Samuel states Danko is the one who killed Joseph and that's why he kept a compass hidden, Joseph's. In "Brother's Keeper" Joseph meets with Mohinder Suresh about his interest in Samuel eight weeks before the present of the episode. He asks Mohinder to forget the whole thing and to burn the film he has of Samuel's powers. However, unbeknownst to him, Samuel overhears part of the discussion and grows interested. In "Thanksgiving", a suspicious Lydia has Hiro Nakamura take her back in time eight weeks to witness Joseph's murder and discover the truth. The two witnesses Samuel and Joseph go into a field where Joseph reveals that Samuel's powers grow exponentially when surrounded by evos which is why he has limited the number of people in the Carnival. Knowing that Samuel is out of control, Joseph sent the compass to Danko so he could find them and arrest Samuel. Demanding to know more, Samuel propels a rock through Joseph's throat in a moment of rage, mortally wounding him. Joseph dies in his repentant brother's arms while Lydia's gasp nearly reveals herself and Hiro. Hiro manages to return them to the present in time to avoid the past Samuel, but the present day Samuel realizes what happened and pins the murder on Edgar who escapes with Hiro's help. During "Brave New World", Claire reveals the murder of Joseph to the carnies while trying to turn them against Samuel as an example of how out of control he's gotten. While Samuel denies the claim, Edgar backs Claire up and combined with Eli's confession to murdering Lydia on Samuel's orders, Joseph's murder causes the carnies to leave Samuel.

Rebecca Taylor

Rebecca "Becky" Taylor, portrayed by Tessa Thompson, possesses the power of invisibility. She is first introduced in "Hysterical Blindness" as a pledge master for a sorority on Claire Bennet's college campus. She is connected to the Sullivan Bros. Carnival by way of her "Uncle Samuel". It is revealed that she is the one responsible for the death of Claire's first roommate, Annie, and for fueling Claire's suspicion of Gretchen. When Claire and Gretchen are exploring the slaughterhouse as part of the hazing process, an invisible Becky attempts to kill Gretchen twice, but is thwarted by Claire at both turns. Becky exhibits her power in front of all four girls being hazed and is forced to flee after Claire hits her. It's revealed in "Shadowboxing" that Becky has an unpleasant past with Noah Bennet as he killed her father during a bag and tag mission for the Company; her fear towards Noah activating her invisibility.

Introduced in graphic novels

Bianca Karina

Bianca Karina is an agent of the Company who can adapt her lungs to enable her to breathe in any environment, including underwater. She is partnered with Devin Patterson and engaged to Gael Cruz. She is first seen in "Root and Branch, Part 1" when she and Patterson capture one of Julien Dumont's rogue clones. She is next seen in "Berlin", where she, Gael, and Devin are sent to capture the German. After Gael is incapacitated and Devin is killed, Bianca uses her ability to knock him out. With the help of Paul Harding and Ahlrich Dekker, they get the German to headquarters. At the end of the Evs Dropper arc, she defends Donna Dunlap from Gael, locking him in a cell. After Donna and Eric Thompson, identify Connie Logan as Evs Dropper, she is leads those sent to fight her. Once the majority of agents are killed, Bianca shoots the root Julien Dumont and all clones are killed. In "The Butterfly Effect" and "Dreams Until Death", she and Gael confront Sylar outside the Bennet house after he leaves having taken Claire Bennet's ability, and she is killed by Sylar after she and Gael attempt to capture him. However, Gael identifies himself as "special", so Bianca gets a quick death and her power is not taken.

Introduced in webisodes

Caleb

Caleb, portrayed by Dusty Sorg, is a worker at the "Sullivan Bros. Carnival" and loyal lackey of Samuel Sullivan who seems to monitor the activities within the "family", as he is seen spying and informing Samuel in webisodes and iStories (and even to Joseph in Bloodlines, Part 1). He is introduced in Slow Burn webisodes as he spies on Edgar and Lydia. Later, he befriends Lydia's daughter, Amanda, once she gets to the carnival. He has the ability to produce eight giant spider legs from his back that can be stretched. His eyes also shone green.

Echo DeMille

Echo DeMille, portrayed by Kiko Ellsworth, is a prisoner of Level 5 with the ability to manipulate sound. He was almost captured by the Constrictor and Howard, but used his power to escape. When the Constrictor later took his girlfriend hostage, Echo was forced to kill him. He took out another pair of agents making his escape. When trying to meet with his girlfriend, Echo used the brown note to avoid two more Company agents. He arranged to meet her thirteen weeks later at his family's cabin only to be ambushed by Penny and Connie Logan, Elle Bishop, and several other paired agents. Using his ability, he incapacitated all but one - a posthuman with the ability to absorb sound. The agent captured him, and Echo was detained to Level 5, where Angela Petrelli implied a former connection to him.

He also appeared in the TV series at the episode "Dual", wherein Sylar later puts the Company facility into lockdown, Noah releases Echo and the other recaptured prisoners, offering them freedom if they can kill Sylar. Echo is subsequently killed by Sylar, his throat slashed open.

Rachel Mills

Rachel Mills, portrayed by Taylor Cole, is the daughter of Leona Mills and a father with the ability to teleport. Rachel, as time passes, goes on a journey of self-exploration and is gradually drawn into the secret world of people with special powers, all beginning with the trauma of her mother's apparent suicide, which she never recovered from and eventually drove her to join the United States Marine Corps. After an experience in an unusual biological experimentation lab while serving as a USMC Corporal in Iraq, Rachel found her career at an end, and so was recruited by Pinehearst as part of their "super-soldier" program, agreeing to accept injections of Mohinder Suresh's experimental formula to fight a war against dangerous specials. During this she discovers she already has a power, having unknowingly developed her teleportation ability that she inherited from her father.

Amanda Strazzulla

Amanda Strazzulla, portrayed by Sasha Pieterse, is the daughter of Lydia who abandoned her because she was too young to raise her. She lives in New England with Lydia's sister Carol Strazzulla, and months ago manifested spontaneous combustion, the ability to explode things with the power of her mind, which caused her aunt to fear her, and also lured Noah Bennet and Meredith Gordon while they worked together for the Company during the Villains' arc (Boom). She is introduced in the main series in the episode "Thanksgiving" as part of the carnival family during the Thanksgiving dinner.

Additional family of the main characters

This list includes every non-powered relative of the main characters.

Kate Bennet

Kate Bennet, portrayed by Sherri Saum, was Noah's first wife in 1985, seen in "The Wall", introduced as she revealed to Noah she was pregnant. That night both were assaulted by a telekinetic man named Richard who ended up killing Kate. This event triggered Noah's psychotic depression, paranoia and having investigations about posthumans and finally put him in the Company's way.

Lyle Bennet

Lyle Bennet, portrayed by Randall Bentley, is Claire Bennet's younger brother and the son of Noah and Sandra Bennet. Lyle finds out about his sister's healing powers by watching a videotape showing her quickly recovering from such otherwise deadly experiences as being hit by a car and falling nearly thirty feet. He confirms his realization by stapling Claire's hand and watching it heal, though Claire convinces him to keep the secret and to hand her the tape. After Claire tells her father that Lyle knows about her powers, Mr. Bennet has the Haitian remove Lyle's memories about her healing abilities, but later he becomes aware of her powers again.

Sandra Bennet

Sandra Bennet, portrayed by Ashley Crow, is Claire Bennet's adoptive mother and the ex-wife of Noah Bennet. She has great affection for her pet pomeranian, Mr. Muggles. She is at first unaware of her husband's activities or her daughter's powers, and the Haitian has wiped her memories several times on her husband's orders. However, after Claire meets Hank and Lisa, Sandra tells Claire that she and Mr. Bennet had tried unsuccessfully to find her biological parents when she was a baby because they thought she might have a rare chromosomal disorder.

Martin Gray

Martin Gray, portrayed by Ned Schmidtke, is Sylar's adoptive father and biological uncle. He abandoned Sylar and his mother, Virginia, when Sylar was very young. In the third volume, Sylar learns that Martin is not his biological father, prompting him to track Martin down in "A Clear and Present Danger". Martin reveals that his brother, Samson Gray, is his real father, and that he adopted Sylar to appease Virginia and their marital problems. Samson sold Sylar to Martin for an undisclosed amount of money.

Virginia Gray

Virginia Gray, portrayed by Ellen Greene, is Sylar's mother. When Sylar visits Virginia, she constantly pushes Sylar to "be special", even saying that he could become President if he wanted to. Sylar reveals his powers, accidentally injuring her, and confesses his guilt since he thinks he will be the exploding man and kill many people. Both instances only alienate the two, and Virginia demands that Sylar leave her house and give back her son Gabriel. She brandishes a pair of scissors at Sylar, but is accidentally stabbed in the heart when they struggle for the scissors.

Kimiko Nakamura

Kimiko Nakamura, portrayed by Saemi Nakamura, is the daughter of Kaito and older sister of Hiro. She is very intelligent and motivated, and wishes to advance in her father's company, Yamagato Industries. She accompanies her father to New York to retrieve Hiro. She gets along with her brother, in comparison to his and their father's strained relationship, as evidenced by the way Kimiko's pleas and reasoning get much further than Kaito's authoritative tactics (up to and including kidnapping). Hiro convinced his father that Yamagato has a successor in Kimiko. It is unknown if Kimiko has any abilities.

Janice Parkman

Janice Parkman, portrayed by Lisa Lackey, is the ex-wife of telepathic police officer Matt Parkman. Their marriage has been troubled for some time. Janice blames their problems on his jealousy of her prospering career while his has been stalling, but she had been cheating with his ex-partner. After awakening his powers, Matt then tries to fulfill her every need by reading her thoughts to improve their marriage. Matt discovers that she had had an affair and punches his ex-partner. Two weeks later, after Matt tells Janice of his ability to read minds. When Matt gets a six-month suspension for his rogue actions at work, he reads in her mind that she is pregnant, and he starts working as a bodyguard. Four months later Matt and Janice are divorced, and Matt later reveals to Nathan Petrelli that the child his wife bore is not his, but rather the man's with whom his wife cheated. It is later revealed that the child, named Matt Parkman, Jr, was in fact his. In the episode 'Cold Snap', the infant displayed the ability to control energy (turning on a TV and activating several electronic toys), which also allowed him to jump-start/reactivate an evolved human's ability (by touching Hiro, baby Matt immediately restored Hiro's lost ability to "stop time" and eventually his teleporting and time-travel abilities). Following this revelation, Matt reunites with Janice and they apparently get remarried and are now raising their son together.

Heidi Petrelli

Heidi Petrelli, portrayed by Rena Sofer, is Nathan Petrelli's wife and is involved with his strategies for his bid for congressional office. She uses a wheelchair for mobility after being paralyzed in a car crash in the episode "Six Months Ago" caused by Linderman's accomplices under the orders of Arthur Petrelli while Nathan was driving. Nathan, while trying to control the car, suddenly found himself flying for the first time. She is able to walk in the episode "Landslide" after being healed by Mr. Linderman.

Simon & Monty Petrelli

Simon and Monty Petrelli, portrayed by Justin Evans and Jackson Wurth, are the juvenile sons of Nathan and Heidi Petrelli, seen participating in the Petrelli campaign during the 2006 election. Following the presumed death of their uncle, Peter, Nathan's depression and heavy drinking caused Heidi to leave Nathan, taking their sons with her. As of the second-season episode "Kindred", they live and attend a private school in Washington, D.C.

Chandra Suresh

Erick Avari (2009)

Chandra Suresh, portrayed by Erick Avari, was born in Chennai and is Mohinder's late father, as well as the author of Activating Evolution, a book which appears to explain the reason so many people with powers are suddenly appearing. He found a means of tracking and locating potential powered people. He was also connected with Sylar, whom he referred to as "Patient Zero". On a taped telephone conversation from shortly before Chandra's death, however, he said he wanted nothing to do with Sylar, and insisted the man stop calling him. Before his death, Chandra kept a male lizard named Mohinder.

Shanti Suresh

Shanti Suresh is Chandra Suresh's daughter, also born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. In the episode "Seven Minutes to Midnight", Mohinder Suresh's mother tells him that she had died at the age of five, two years after he was born. But in the later episode, "The Hard Part", he states that he never got to see her because she died before he was born. His blood actually possessed the antibodies she needed to survive, but he was born just a few months too late. Chandra Suresh said she had a genetic abnormality. Her death, along with several other factors, prompted Chandra Suresh to begin his investigations into people with special powers.

Damon Dawson

Damon Dawson, portrayed by Carlon Jeffery, is Monica's younger brother. When Micah comes to live with the Dawsons, Damon initially bullies him. But when Micah uses his power to tune in pay-per-view television, Damon starts to accept his cousin. He gets Micah's backpack stolen, which eventually leads to Niki Sanders' death.

Nana Dawson

Nichelle Nichols (2013)

"Nana" Dawson, portrayed by Nichelle Nichols, is Micah Sanders' great-aunt and grandmother of Monica and Damon Dawson. She lives with her grandchildren in New Orleans after her daughter, Monica and Damon's mother, is killed during Hurricane Katrina. Niki Sanders leaves Micah in Nana's care when she leaves to join the Company.

Additional Season One characters

This list includes every character not listed above, that appeared in three episodes or more of the first season.

Hank and Lisa

Karri Turner (2006)

Hank and Lisa, portrayed by Colby French and Karri Turner, claim to be a former couple and Claire Bennet's biological parents in "Better Halves". Mr. Bennet tells Claire that he has arranged through an adoption agency for Hank and his former girlfriend, Lisa, to meet Claire and answer her questions. Hank and Lisa tell Claire that they were high school sweethearts who split up before her birth. Hank wanted to keep Claire, while Lisa wanted to give her up for adoption. Hank tells Claire that he has a family history of heart disease and cancer, while Lisa tells her that she has diabetes, but neither tell Claire anything that explains how she got her healing powers.

It is revealed that Hank is actually a doctor working with Mr. Bennet, who later performs tests on Sylar. Hank is killed by Sylar, who then escapes from containment at Primatech.

Audrey Hanson

Audrey Hanson, portrayed by Clea DuVall, is an FBI agent pursuing Sylar. Three months after Sylar begins his murder spree, Audrey catches sight of him in Chicago, but he eludes her by escaping on a subway after giving his cap and trenchcoat to an elderly man, whom Audrey shoots, mistaking him for Sylar.

While investigating the murder of Molly Walker's family in Los Angeles three months later, Audrey initially gets to know Officer Matt Parkman. He reveals to her his ability to read people's minds and she asks him to help the FBI find Sylar. Later, Sylar unsuccessfully attempts to seize Molly from FBI custody. During his escape, Audrey is almost forced to shoot herself because of the man's telekinetic abilities but is saved when Parkman intervenes.

Audrey again requests the aid of Officer Parkman when she suspects that Sylar has killed again. She takes Parkman to the morgue, where they examine the body of a dead oncologist who was burned alive. Audrey is exposed to a dangerously high amount of radiation while investigating the house of Theodore Sprague, whom she believes to be Sylar. She and Parkman find Sprague in the hospital with his dying wife, but Parkman persuades him to surrender. However, Sprague escapes after being taken into custody by Homeland Security, and she again enlists Parkman's aid in hunting him down. Audrey begins to bond with Matt, to the extent of giving him advice on his relationship with his wife, and she looks to become attracted to him. Two weeks later, Audrey and Matt have the FBI raid Primatech Paper Company. However, they find nothing. Audrey's superior then threatens her position with the bureau. Disheartened, Audrey harshly tells Matt their partnership is over. Audrey re-appears in the penultimate episode for the season and arrests Sprague on a tip from Sylar (posing as Isaac Mendez). After Sprague is killed by Sylar, she is seen at the accident site. When a police officer remarks on how the top of someone's head falls off, she walks by and replies, "You don't want to know".

Aron Malsky

Aron Malsky, portrayed by Kevin Chamberlin, is a lawyer formerly under the employ of Mr. Linderman. He is first seen visiting D. L. Hawkins to retrieve the case of money stolen by Niki/Jessica. He later visits Niki in the psych ward to notify her of her release, due to someone else supposedly confessing to her crimes. Matt Parkman becomes his personal bodyguard for the day while he's in California. Malsky then uses the two million dollars he retrieved from D. L. to buy diamonds for himself. He is finally murdered by Jessica who was sent by Mr. Linderman.

Brody Mitchum

Matt Lanter (2014)

Brody Mitchum, portrayed by Matt Lanter, is a classmate of Claire Bennet and quarterback on the football team at the fictional Union Wells High School. During a celebratory bonfire Brody and Claire wander off to the bleachers, where he attempts to rape her. He accidentally throws her onto a tree branch and considers her dead when a branch impales the back of her head. In "Collision" he is shaken to see her alive again. After Claire discovers that Brody has raped at least one other girl, she convinces him to let her drive them both home in his car, but then, in an attempt to scare him, rams the car headfirst into a brick wall. She drags his unconscious body from the car when it catches fire and ultimately explodes. When he wakes up and sees Claire unharmed, he realizes that she is not a normal human being. After learning of the attempted rape of his daughter, an enraged Mr. Bennet has his associate, the Haitian, wipe out all of Brody's memory. Brody, severely injured, is later seen in a wheelchair attending Homecoming.

Mira Shenoy

Mira Shenoy, portrayed by Kavi Ladnier, is a geneticist and love interest of Mohinder Suresh, first seen in "Seven Minutes to Midnight", during the funeral of Chandra Suresh in India. Mira offers Mohinder a job in her company so he could return to Madras and forget about his father's research, but he ultimately refuses and returns to New York. In "Brother's Keeper" is shown that Mohinder returned to Madras and lived together with Mira until he was drawn by Project Icarus and left following the compass. In the graphic novel "Second Chances", Mira is abducted by someone interested in Mohinder's research. With the help of Molly, Mohinder finds Mira and saves her, and they end up sharing a kiss.

Elisa Thayer

Elisa Thayer, portrayed by Stacy Haiduk, is an FBI agent investigating Sylar-related murders who appears in several first-season episodes beginning with "Don't Look Back". The character also appears in the unbroadcast version of the pilot episode.

Eric Thompson, Sr.

Eric Thompson, Sr. or commonly referred as Agent Thompson or simply Thompson, portrayed by Eric Roberts, is an associate of Noah Bennet at Primatech, which is a cover for his position as Bennet's superior in The Company. The character is first mentioned in "Wireless, Part Two", and introduced in the graphic novel "How Do You Stop an Exploding Man?, Part Two" tracking down Ted Sprague. He is also seen recruiting a young Haitian ("It Takes A Village, Part 4"), and in a failed attempt to recruit Daphne Millbrook ("The Caged Bird"), prior to "Genesis".

In the episode "Company Man", he is mostly seen in flashbacks of Bennet's past dealings with The Company, but he also gets a brief cameo at the end of the episode where he is seen shooting Ted Sprague in the shoulder, causing him to lose control of his radioactive powers, and expressing interest in Claire Bennet's complete recovery from her exposure to Ted's overload. Due to Bennet's betrayal of The Company, Thompson informs him that he is on death row and that he is just waiting for the order to kill him. His later appearances show him recruiting Mohinder Suresh into the Company, and informing Mohinder of Molly Walker's condition. In the Primatech building, he dies when he is shot twice by Noah Bennet while attempting to kill Matt Parkman.

Thompson is portrayed as a man who plays by the rules and takes his orders very seriously. He gets his orders from Linderman. During a conversation with Nathan Petrelli, Thompson reveals that he knows and approves of the plans to blow up New York. When Nathan implies that Linderman does not have the situation under control, Thompson reassures him that Linderman does.

In the Volume Three episode "Villains", a flashback is shown revealing that Thompson had wanted to train Meredith and Flint Gordon Jr. to be agents for the Company. However, Meredith betrays the Company and tries to escape with her brother. After a heated battle on a train, he captures Meredith and asks her why she hates the Company. Meredith replies that the Company killed her daughter, Claire. Upon hearing this, Thompson lets Meredith go, hinting that Claire is still alive.

In the episode "The Wall", seen in flashbacks, Eric approaches Noah in 1987 to recruit him into the Company after seeing what he is capable of. He later informs Noah the will of the Company for him to get married, suggesting the waitress (Sandra).

In the graphic novel From the Files of Primatech: 1988, Thompson is assigned a mission in East Berlin, Germany during the Cold War along with Claude Rains, in which they must catch or terminate a KGB agent named Sylvia with the ability of mass manipulation. Sylvia ultimately turns into a giant defeating both agents, leaving Claude near death; meanwhile Thompson completes the real mission. Once Claude wakes up at the Company, Angela Petrelli reveals the real target; Eric brought a tracking device (isotope pneumatic injection) from Germany which will allow them to track posthumans, starting with Claude.

  • His full name is revealed in the graphic novel From the Files of Primatech, Part 5: 1988 as Eric Thompson Sr.
  • It is revealed in the graphic novels that he has a son also named Eric Thompson, and referred to as "Thompson Jr.," who also works for The Company. He sees in Noah Bennet the face of treason as he killed his father. He also appears in Faction Zero iStory.

Tina

"Texas" Tina, portrayed by Deirdre Quinn, is the romance-novel-loving confidante of Niki Sanders who frequently takes care of Niki's son, Micah, and attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings with Niki. When Niki confides in Tina about having blackouts and possibly an alternate personality, Tina tells her that her troubles stem from psychological damage as a result of her dealings with the mob. In "Nothing to Hide", Tina finally meets and flees from Niki's alternate personality, Jessica, after Micah is taken away by D. L. Hawkins.

Jackie Wilcox

Jacqueline "Jackie" Wilcox, portrayed by Danielle Savre, is a cheerleader and high school classmate of Claire Bennet. Although she claimed to be "BFF" (best friends forever) with Claire and once revealed plans to run for class president with "good deeds" as her platform, Jackie is an obnoxious rival and dramatic foil for Claire. Jackie repeatedly taunts Zach about his sexual orientation. She is also apparently jealous of Claire and Brody Mitchum, who described Jackie as a gossip. Jackie is eager to be the center of attention and takes credit for a fire rescue Claire performed in "Genesis". Sylar mistakes Jackie for Claire after having read of Jackie's faked heroism and kills her by telekinetically slicing open her skull. Jackie's last word to Claire is "run." She appears again in "Once Upon a Time in Texas", as Hiro travels back in time before Sylar gets to Charlie; Jackie is seen along with Claire and other cheerleaders celebrating the outcome of the homecoming football match. Ultimately, Hiro teleports Sylar to Odessa so he will not harm Charlie, but it is hinted that Jackie and later victims will have the same fate they once had. She appears again in "Pass/Fail" in Hiro's mental trial as the main Sylar's victim Hiro could save besides Charlie.

Zach

Thomas Dekker (2012)

Zach, portrayed by Thomas Dekker, is a high school classmate of Claire Bennet and one of the first people to know of her powers. He videotapes Claire using her abilities. He tells Claire that he helped her win the Homecoming Queen election by campaigning for her amongst the "unpopular" crowd. He also gives her a book written by Chandra Suresh, which he says details information on her power and others.

Though it was originally intended for Zach to be gay, Dekker's manager "didn't want him to be playing a gay character" for career reasons, and his storyline was later changed.

Additional Season Two characters

Caitlin

Caitlin, portrayed by Katie Carr, is Ricky's sister and a love interest of Peter Petrelli. Caitlin aids Peter in rediscovering his abilities, but after being transported to the future where the Shanti Virus has devastated the world, Caitlin gets separated from Peter to be deported back to Ireland. Peter tries to teleport back to the present with her, but accidentally leaves her behind. Her ultimate fate is unknown but when Peter destroys the Shanti Virus in the present, the future she was trapped in is erased, most likely erasing her from existence as well.

Kyle Dilman

Kyle Dilman, played by Brian Kimmet, was Noah Bennet's manager at Copy Kingdom. Dilman returns as the main antagonist of the Webseries: Nowhere Man, where he has been promoted to a corporate position at Copy Kingdom Headquarters.

Bryan Fuller

Detective Bryan Fuller, portrayed by Barry Shabaka Henley, is Matt Parkman's partner in the NYPD.

Debbie Marshall

Dianna Agron (2014)

Deborah "Debbie" Marshall, portrayed by Dianna Agron, is the head cheerleader/captain of the cheer squad at Costa Verde High School. The character was described as both a kind of "princess" and "cutthroat", serving as an antagonist to Claire; in "The Line" Claire seeks to get revenge by terrifying Debbie, which Slant Magazine found "too macabre, especially because looks genuinely devastated." Initially, Agron auditioned for the nice cheerleader role, as she had previously been typecast as the "nice girl", but a producer in the casting told her: "No, that's not so interesting. I want you to read this character."

Ricky

Ricky, portrayed by Holt McCallany, is an Irish mobster, first appearing in the season premiere while searching for a shipping container with his partners Tuko and Will. After finding Peter, Ricky holds him captive until Peter defends Caitlin from an attack by rival mobsters. Ricky threatens to burn the box of Peter's personal possessions to force Peter to help them with another robbery and refuses to believe Peter when Peter tells him that Will is planning to betray him, having accidentally read the man's mind. Peter turns out to be right, but overpowers Will using his abilities and saves Ricky. In gratitude, Ricky gives Peter back his box and gives him a tattoo, telling him that Peter was now a part of his family. Upon finding Elle Bishop was searching for Peter, Ricky works to protect him, especially after finding out that Peter and Caitlin are now romantically involved. Elle murdered him for his protection of Peter, prompting Peter to stop running and start searching for the truth about his past.

The Swordsmith

The Swordsmith, portrayed by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is Yaeko's father and the creator of Takezo Kensei's sword. He first appeared in "The Line". He made the guns for Whitebeard's army. He is rescued by his daughter Yaeko and Hiro Nakamura who proceeded to destroy Whitebeard's guns and effectively defeat him.

Whitebeard

Whitebeard, portrayed by Kurando Mitsutake, was a warlord in 17th century Japan. He first appeared in "Four Months Later...". For most of season 2, Hiro Nakamura, Takezo Kensei and Yaeko plot against him. Whitebeard forces Yaeko's father to build him an arsenal of guns and he has a massive army. After Kensei betrays him, Hiro sets out to defeat Whitebeard by destroying his arsenal of guns. Hiro succeeds and Kensei is apparently killed in the blast though it is later revealed he survived due to his regenerative powers. The destruction of his guns destroyed Whitebeard's camp and scattered his army, defeating him.

Will and Tuko

Dominic Keating (2007)

Will and Tuko, portrayed by Dominic Keating and Adetokumboh M'Cormack, are two associates of Ricky's. They reside in Cork, Ireland. They work with Ricky in some of his illegal ventures. Will betrays Ricky but is stopped by Peter. He later tells Elle Bishop what he knows about Peter.

Yaeko

Yaeko, portrayed by Eriko Tamura, is the swordsmith's daughter in the legend of Takezo Kensei. She lives in Feudal Japan, 1671. She acts as the love interest of both Hiro Nakamura and Takeso Kensei, but Hiro has to leave her behind in the end and return to his own time.

Additional Season Three characters

Emile Danko

Emile Danko, portrayed by Željko Ivanek, also referred to as "The Hunter", is a senior agent of the Department of Homeland Security who served as the leader of a team of soldiers hunting and imprisoning people with abilities on behalf of his superior, Senator Nathan Petrelli. He is one of the central antagonists during Volume 4: Fugitives. He is later killed by the speedster Edgar.

Hesam

Assaf Cohen (2007)

Hesam, portrayed by Assaf Cohen, is a paramedic in New York City, friend and co-worker of Peter Petrelli, introduced in "A Clear and Present Danger". He is of middle-eastern descent, and so he is at first concerned about Nathan's speech about minorities, not knowing that he was talking about posthumans instead. He acts as Peter's partner in Redemption and is angry about his running off all the time to save people and leaving Hesam behind. He tells Peter he is nothing but Peter's chauffeur, not knowing of Peter's powers.

Robert Malden

Bruce Boxleitner (2008)

Robert Malden, portrayed by Bruce Boxleitner, is the governor of the state of New York by the time Nathan Petrelli was shot during a press conference in Odessa, Texas. He is introduced in "The Second Coming".

Dr. Jonas Zimmerman

Dr. Jonas Zimmerman, portrayed by Ronald Guttman, is a former employee of the Company. He helped create the formula that grants synthetic abilities. Under Company orders, he delivered Niki Sanders and Tracy Strauss, as well as their third sister Barbara, and gave them their abilities. After his tenure with the Company was over, however, many of his memories of employment there were erased. It is later revealed in the episode "1961" that he was working with Chandra Suresh at Coyote Sands, conducting research on posthumans for the government, Project Icarus.

Additional Season Four characters

Gretchen Berg

For the television producer, see Gretchen J. Berg.

Gretchen Berg, portrayed by Madeline Zima, is a college student of Arlington University who befriends Claire Bennet in "Orientation". She recognizes Claire as the survivor of the cheerleader massacre in Odessa, Texas ("Homecoming"), and ultimately becomes friends with her, which makes Claire's roommate Annie jealous. She is revealed to be bisexual and she has a crush on Claire. They become roommates though they have some issues after Becky Taylor tries to kill her.

Lauren Gilmore

Elisabeth Röhm (2012)

Lauren Gilmore, portrayed by Elisabeth Röhm, is a CIA agent who previously worked as Noah Bennet's closest co-worker. She is introduced in "Once Upon a Time in Texas" working with Noah at Primatech Paper as the events of Volume One "Genesis" unfold, more as a confidant outside of the home when Noah cannot tell his family about what his job really entails.

Vanessa Wheeler

Vanessa Wheeler, portrayed by Kate Vernon, is a cellist living in Los Angeles and old flame of Samuel Sullivan, who constantly draws her picture using his ability. Although mentioned before, she is first seen in the episode "Close to You", when Noah Bennet and Matt Parkman track her down and telepathically convince her to talk about Samuel.

Webisode characters

Characters with special abilities who only appear in the webisodes.

Bartell

Bartell, portrayed by Luke Massy, was the leader of Knox's Los Angeles gang and the main antagonist of the Webseries: Hard Knox.

In Part 1, Matt Parkman tries to convince Knox to leave the gang Bartell is running. They part ways, and later the gang are planning a job and selecting guns. When Knox mentions he wants to "sit this one out", Bartell does not comply. Bartell does a "confidence check" on each member (by holding a gun to their throats), except Knox, who begins sensing their fear, which allows the surprised Knox to effectively bend a steel crowbar into a pretzel. When no other gang member asks to skip out on the heist, Knox reluctantly agrees to participate.

In Part 3, Bartell confronts Knox about talking to a cop. Bartell begins punching him, and then threatens him with a gun. He then prepares to beat Knox up with a baseball bat, but Knox, empowered by the fear of the other gang members present, breaks the bat in half. Knox proceeds to throw Bartell around the room, before punching a hole through his chest; killing him. One of the gang members, in shock, tells him that he killed Bartell, with Knox answering that he is "the main man" now.

In Part 4, When Matt asks what happened to Bartell, Knox merely replies that he heard he "got eaten by a shark". This may imply that they threw Bartell's remains in the ocean.

The Constrictor

The Constrictor, portrayed by Mark Steger, served as the main antagonist of The Webseries: Going Postal, and has the power of constriction. He is sent with Howard to capture Echo DeMille. After their first attempt fails, leaving Howard dying on the ground and bleeding from his ears, the Constrictor finishes Howard off and goes after Echo himself. However, he is killed by Echo after using his ability on Echo's girlfriend in an attempt to force him to surrender.

David Sullivan

David Sullivan, portrayed by Brian T. Skala, is a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps recruited by Pinehearst as part of their super soldier program. The goal of the program is to inject the marines with an experimental serum to aid in the apprehension of people with special abilities by granting them abilities themselves. He is shown working at a Pinehearst facility alongside Pvt. Rachel Mills and Ryan Hanover. During the explosive disaster there, he is severely injured by falling debris. In an attempt to save him, Rachel injects him with a vial of the serum. The serum augments his strength and speed, makes his eyes glow red-orange, and also causes him to behave in a violent, animalistic fashion. After attacking and killing Ryan, he also turns on Rachel. However, she stabs him to death with a pair of scissors.

Edward

Edward, portrayed by Jose Yenque, is the father of Santiago and the husband of Iris, and is a former agent of the Company. He has the abilities of both accelerated probability - allowing him to slow time, determine which action to take, and do so at a superhuman speed - and electricity manipulation. With his family threatened, he was forced to work as an assassin for the Company, but eventually faked his death to leave that life. Upon learning that the Company is going after his family, he returns and attempts to kill the character listed in the credits as Serious Looking Woman (S.L.W.) by electrocution.

Elisa

Elisa, portrayed by Lina Esco, is a Company agent with the ability to turn her body into water. She is partnered with S.L.W., and the duo is assigned to capture Santiago and convince him to be an agent. However, Elisa develops feelings for him, and releases him so that he will not end up like her.

Iris

Iris, portrayed by Norma Maldonado, is the wife of Edward and mother of Santiago. She has the ability of pyrokinesis.

Leona Mills/Linda Niles

Leona Mills is the long-lost mother of Rachel Mills. Leona is a childhood friend of Angela Petrelli (affectionately referring to her as "Angie"). Leona is also an evolved human with the ability to absorb life-force from both living and inanimate objects (such as the ground around her); with such a degree of control Leona can age herself to make herself look extremely old or relatively young at will.

Serious looking woman

A serious looking woman, portrayed by Andrea Thompson, served as the main antagonist of The Webseries: Destiny.

Santiago

Santiago, portrayed by Roberto Urbina, is a posthuman living in Peru with the ability of accelerated Perception, which allows him to slow down time, analyze which action to take, and then do so at a superhuman speed. He believed for years that his father was dead, but finds out the truth after being captured by S.L.W. and Elisa that his father was an assassin for the Company. He refuses to follow in his father's footsteps, and eventually escapes with Elisa, to whom he is mutually attracted.

Graphic novel characters

This list includes every character not listed above, that has appeared in a graphic novel, and has a superhuman ability.

Julien Dumont

Julien Dumont was an agent of the company who was able to duplicate himself, supposedly monitoring a bag and tag mission of several of his duplicates who had gone rogue in Antarctica, Australia and the Congo (though a holding room filled with more indicates that there were even more).

Donna Dunlap

Donna Dunlap was merely an everyday dental receptionist who happened to have telescopic, microscopic, and nocturnal vision.

Sabine Hazel

Sabine Hazel is a medical professional (specifically a biologist) in the employ of the Company who was selected by Bob Bishop to become an agent and partner of whom she believed was the real (or "Root") Julien Dumont. Initially only together to protect him, eventually, Sabine succumbed to her desires and became his lover. Secretly, Sabine had been contacted by the mysterious Evs Dropper, who claimed Dumont was an imposter. Sabine, however, did not believe the warning.

It is revealed in "Rebellion, Part 5: Wanted", in a conversation between Micah Sanders and Eric Thompson Jr. that her baby has already been born, and is considered to be as dangerous as his posthuman father, Julien Dumont, although is never revealed if he has any ability.

Sparrow Redhouse

Sparrow Redhouse was on Chandra's list, as well as the Gabriel Gray's list. In 2011, in the possible future in which the destruction of New York City in 2006 is not stopped, Future Hiro rescues Sparrow from police. When he scolds her for not obeying her curfew, Sparrow criticizes the government. The graphic novels reveal that she was the prisoner who was sucked out of Flight 195 in "A Clear and Present Danger", and survived by breaking her fall using her power of terrakinesis.

Linda Tavara

Linda Tavara, originally seen on Chandra Suresh's list of posthumans, had the ability to see and absorb the auras of other people by touching them.

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