List of characters in Heroes

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

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

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[edit] Main characters

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, excluding the delayed arrival of Leonard Roberts and a promotion to series regular for Jack Coleman as of the eleventh episode.[1]

For the second season of the show, Santiago Cabrera, Tawny Cypress, and Leonard Roberts left the main cast. Zachary Quinto[2] and James Kyson Lee,[3] 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 David Anders,[4][5][6] Kristen Bell,[7]

Dania Ramírez[4][8] and Dana Davis.[4][9][10] Anders was originally to be a recurring character, but was promoted to a series regular prior to the start of the season.[6] He is credited as a guest star for the first four episodes of season two.

Unlike most series, each main cast member is only credited for the episode he/she appears in.

Name Main cast
(seasons)		 Recurring
(seasons)		 Played by Occupation Place of origin Known special abilities
Claire Bennet 1, 2 — Hayden Panettiere High school student, cheerleader Odessa, Texas Rapid cellular regeneration
Noah Bennet 1, 2 — Jack Coleman Primatech regional manager, member of the Company Odessa, Texas None
Elle Bishop 2 — Kristen Bell Agent of the Company Toledo, Ohio Electric manipulation[11]
Monica Dawson 2 — Dana Davis[9][12] Restaurant worker[13] New Orleans, Louisiana Adoptive muscle memory [14]
Simone Deveaux 1 — Tawny Cypress Art dealer New York City None
D.L. Hawkins 1 2 Leonard Roberts Construction worker, firefighter Las Vegas, Nevada Phasing/intangibility
Maya Herrera 2 — Dania Ramirez[8] Fugitive Dominican Republic [15] Causes deadly disease under stress
Ando Masahashi 2 1 James Kyson Lee[3] Programmer at Yamagato Industries Tokyo, Japan None
Isaac Mendez 1 — Santiago Cabrera Artist, comic book creator New York City Precognition
Adam Monroe/Takezo Kensei 2 — David Anders[5][16] Ronin, founder of the Company England, United Kingdom Rapid cellular regeneration
Hiro Nakamura 1, 2 — Masi Oka Programmer at Yamagato Industries[17] Tokyo, Japan Space-time manipulation (allowing teleportation, time manipulation, and time travel)
Matt Parkman 1, 2 — Greg Grunberg LAPD officer, private security, NYPD detective Los Angeles, California Telepathy[11], Mental manipulation
Nathan Petrelli 1, 2 — Adrian Pasdar Prosecutor, District Attorney, Politician New York City Flight
Peter Petrelli 1, 2 — Milo Ventimiglia Hospice nurse New York City Power mimicry that results in multiple acquired abilities
Micah Sanders 1, 2 — Noah Gray-Cabey Student Las Vegas, Nevada Technopathy
Niki Sanders 1, 2 — Ali Larter Agent of the Company, webcam stripper,[18] assassin for Mr. Linderman Las Vegas, Nevada Superhuman strength[19][20]
Mohinder Suresh 1, 2 — Sendhil Ramamurthy Genetics professor[21] Madras, India None
Sylar 2 [2] 1 Zachary Quinto Watchmaker New York City Intuitive understanding of how things work; multiple acquired abilities

[edit] Other characters with special abilities

Main article: List of Heroes characters with special abilities
Name Portrayed by Occupation Special ability
Charlie Andrews Jayma Mays Waitress Enhanced/Eidetic memory
Bridget Bailey Unknown Guide on BBC version of Heroes Evolutions Clairsentience
Bob Bishop Stephen Tobolowsky One of the founders of the Company; in charge of operations for the Company Transmutation
Claude Christopher Eccleston Company employee Invisibility
Brian Davis David Berman Unknown Telekinesis
Hana Gitelman Stana Katic Soldier; Company employee Digital communication
Meredith Gordon Jessalyn Gilsig Unknown Pyrokinesis
The Haitian[22] Jimmy Jean-Louis[23] Company employee Memory manipulation, Power negation
Alejandro Herrera Shalim Ortiz Fugitive Can cease the effects of the disease Maya causes.[24]
Sanjog Iyer Javin Reid Student Dream manipulation
Daniel Linderman Malcolm McDowell Casino owner, crime boss, Vietnam veteran; one of the founders of the Company Healing others
Eden McCain Nora Zehetner Company employee Persuasion
Kaito Nakamura George Takei One of the founders of the Company To be revealed[25]
Maury Parkman Alan Blumenfeld One of the founders of the Company Telepathy, Mental manipulation
Angela Petrelli Christine Rose One of the founders of the Company To be revealed[26]
West Rosen Nicholas D'Agosto High school student Flight
Dale Smither Rusty Schwimmer Mechanic Enhanced hearing
Ted Sprague Matthew John Armstrong Pharmaceutical sales representative Radiation manipulation
Zane Taylor Ethan Cohn Musician Liquification
Molly Walker Adair Tishler Student Clairvoyance
Candice Wilmer Missy Peregrym
Rachel Kimsey		 Company Employee Illusion-casting

[edit] Additional family of the main characters

This list includes every relative of the main characters to have been seen either in the TV series or in the graphic novels.

[edit] Lyle Bennet

Lyle Bennet 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.[27] After Claire tells her father that Lyle knows about her powers, Mr. Bennet has the Haitian remove Lyle's memories about her healing abilities.[19] 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.[28] 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."

[edit] Sandra Bennet

Sandra Bennet is Claire Bennet's adoptive mother and the wife of Noah Bennet. She has great affection for her pet pomeranian, Mr. Muggles. She does not seem to be aware of her husband's activities or her daughter's powers, and the Haitian has wiped her memories several times on her husband's orders.[19] However, after Claire met Hank and Lisa, 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.[29]

Sylar tries to murder her, but she is saved by Mr. Bennet and the Haitian.[30] 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 neurologist. She collapses and is taken to the hospital, where she is diagnosed with a subdural hematoma.[31] Upon her return to the house, she is held hostage with the rest of her family by Matt Parkman and Ted Sprague, and witnesses her daughter's regenerative powers.

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.[32]

She wasn't seen again until "Four Months Later…", in which she has begun a new life with the surname 'Butler', along with the rest of the family.

In the alternate future portrayed in the episode "Five Years Gone", it is revealed that she leaves Mr. Bennet. Claire also used the name "Sandra" as an alias in this episode.

[edit] Damon Dawson

Damon Dawson 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.

[edit] Nana Dawson

"Nana" Dawson 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.

[edit] Charles Deveaux

Charles Deveaux is the wealthy father of Simone Deveaux and a former patient of Peter Petrelli. After finding success via the stock market, he founded the Deveaux Society to "fund causes that bettered the world."[33] He owns the Deveaux Building, the rooftop of which is a frequently-visited location in the series. Simone believes that Peter is "like a son" to him and that Charles has improved under Peter's care. Charles converses with Peter in the young nurse's dream about having the power of flight. After Peter wakes up, Simone tells Peter that Charles has passed away. Simone also tells Peter that, before dying, Charles said that he had flown with Peter, who said, "everything was going to be all right," and that there were heroes who were going to save the world.

Charles appeared, whether as a dream figure, as part of a time-travel journey of Peter's, or by some other mechanism is left deliberately unclear — and seemed able to see Peter while the latter is invisible to others in the "dream" (Such as his mother and Simone).[34]. Charles was part of a previous generation of "heroes", with Angela Petrelli, Kaito Nakamura, Linderman and others, who all were the founders of the Company. He was aware of Linderman's and Angela Petrelli's plans for New York, however, he opposed their plans and firmly believed that Peter's love and compassion, rather than Nathan's ambition, would save the world. [33]. It is revealed in the Heroes 360 Experience, that Charles was good friends with Richard Drucker while in college.

[edit] Virginia Gray

Virginia Gray is Sylar's mother. When Sylar visits her, 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 a lot of 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.

[edit] Paulette Hawkins

Paulette Hawkins is the mother of D.L. Hawkins, and Micah's grandmother. Her relationship to Niki is tense, questioning her ability to raise Micah. Paulette is convinced that D.L. was framed for killing his crew.

[edit] Kimiko Nakamura

Kimiko 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.[30] 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.

Kimiko is present with Ando and Hiro at Kaito's funeral.

[edit] Janice Parkman

Janice Parkman is the ex-wife of telepathic police officer Matt Parkman. 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 Nathan Petrelli that the child his wife bore is not his, but rather the man with whom his wife cheated.[28] Matt Parkman saw a vision of his wife in a dream sequence or illusion created by his father (Maury Parkman), in which was a holding a baby and saying that Matt left his son just like his father left him.

In the future of "Five Years Gone", 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.

[edit] Arthur Petrelli

  • Only appearing in photographs on the show, with additional appearances in official tie-ins.

Arthur "Dallas" Petrelli[35] is the deceased father of Nathan Petrelli and Peter Petrelli, and through Nathan, the biological grandfather of Claire Bennet. Under the alias "Dallas" He fought in the Vietnam War alongside Linderman and was the first of his unit to know about Linderman's healing powers. After the war, Petrelli and Linderman "were brought together" with a group of twelve, with a mission to help save the world. Linderman reveals to Nathan that Arthur became disillusioned and gave up trying to save the world, resulting in his suicide. Angela has stated that herself and Arthur have gone through "great lengths" to protect Claire. It was said by Bob in the webcomic "Elle's First Assignment, Part 1", that Arthur Petrelli was a power player on a level with Linderman.

[edit] Heidi Petrelli

Heidi Petrelli 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 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 a blonde during his trip to Las Vegas 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.[36]. 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.[37]

When Nathan drove Heidi away[28], she moved to Washington D.C.[38]

[edit] Simon & Monty Petrelli

  • Played by: Justin Evans and Jackson Wurth
  • First appeared in: "Nothing to Hide"

Simon and Monty Petrelli are the juvenile sons of Nathan and Heidi, seen participating in the Petrelli campaign during the 2006 election.

Following the presumed death of Peter, Nathan's depression and heavy drinking caused Heidi to leave Nathan, taking their sons with her. They currently live and attend a private school in Washington D.C.[38]

[edit] Hal Sanders

Hal Sanders is the estranged father of Niki and Jessica Sanders. 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 stock market to help Niki and her husband, D.L. Hawkins, raise their son, Micah Sanders. 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.

[edit] Chandra Suresh

Chandra Suresh 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.

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 11:53, a watch which Sylar is often seen wearing. Eden McCain, 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.

[edit] Mrs. Suresh

Mrs. Suresh was born in Chennai and is Mohinder's mother and Chandra Suresh's 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 India to reunite with his former girlfriend Mira.

[edit] Shanti Suresh

  • Only appearing in photos

Shanti Suresh is Chandra Suresh's daughter, also born in Chennai. She died at age five while Mohinder Suresh, whose blood actually possessed the antibodies she needed to survive, was only two. Chandra Suresh said she had a genetic anomaly.[39] Her death, along with several other factors, prompted Chandra Suresh to begin his investigations into people with special powers. Sylar also knows about Shanti from his time working with Chandra.[32] Mohinder was not aware of her existence until his mother told him.[40]

[edit] Additional season 1 characters

This list include 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.

[edit] Zach

Zach 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.[41] 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.[42] Claire is overwhelmed and later punches Jackie 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.

After Claire tells her father that Zach knows about her powers, Mr. Bennet has the Haitian 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.[43] Zach subsequently helps Claire track down her biological parents while also helping to keep her actions secret from her adoptive parents.

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.[44][45][46] As producer Bryan Fuller detailed,

“ [W]e were definitely going down a route of making him the gay character and having him have a big role in [Claire's] 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.

There was an unfortunate miscommunication and when the script arrived that had the line in it, 'I would take you to homecoming but you have to know that I don't like girls that way.' The actor [Thomas Dekker]'s, manager threatened to pull him from the show because he was up for the John Connor role in The Sarah Connor Chronicles and she didn't want him playing a gay character because it might affect Fox's interest in hiring him. It got really ugly.[47]

 ”

[edit] Tina

"Texas" Tina 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.

[edit] Audrey Hanson

Audrey Hanson 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.[48]

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 power 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.[49]

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.[27] However, Sprague escapes after being taken into custody by Homeland Security, and she again enlists Parkman's aid in hunting him down.[40] 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.[19] Two weeks later, Audrey and Matt have the FBI raid Primatech Paper Company.[43] 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."


[edit] Jackie Wilcox

Jacqueline "Jackie" Wilcox 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".

[edit] Brody Mitchum

Brody Mitchum 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.[49] He accidentally throws her head on a tree branch and considers her dead. 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.[50] 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, the Haitian, wipe out all of Brody’s memory. Brody, severely injured, is later seen in a wheelchair attending Homecoming.

[edit] Hank and Lisa

Hank and Lisa 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 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[43]. Hank is killed by Sylar, who then escapes from containment at Primatech.[51]

[edit] Aron Malsky

Aron Malsky 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.[30] Matt Parkman becomes his personal bodyguard for the day while he's in California[52]. 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.

[edit] Thompson

Thompson is an associate of Mr. Bennet at Primatech. This is a cover for his position as Bennet's superior in the as yet unnamed organization which investigates superhumans. 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 "Company Man," mostly seen in flashbacks of Mr. Bennett's past dealings with "The Company," but also getting 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 explosive power, and expressing interest in Claire Bennet's complete recovery from her exposure to Ted's overload. Thompson is portrayed as a man who plays by the rules and takes his orders very seriously. Thompson informs Mr. Bennet 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.[53]

Back at Primatech, Matt Parkman is able to extract the name Linderman from Thompson's head. When Parkman questioned Mr. Bennet as to whether or not Linderman was who they worked for, Bennet seemed totally oblivious to the fact that Linderman had any connections to the company. During a conversation with Nathan Petrelli, Thompson reveals that he knows and approves of the plans to blow up New York.[36] When Nathan implies that Linderman doesn't have the situation under control, Thompson reassures him that Linderman does. Thompson gets his orders from Linderman.

Most of "The Company's" interactions took place at Primatech paper. However, its current operations are taking place at Kirby Plaza in New York, including Micah Sanders' project and Molly Walker's project. In Kirby Plaza, he dies when he is shot twice by Noah Bennet while attempting to kill Matt Parkman.[37]

[edit] Additional season 2 characters

[edit] Ricky

Ricky 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 iPods, 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.[11]

[edit] Bryan Fuller

Detective Bryan Fuller 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[28]. 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.

[edit] Yaeko

Yaeko 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 Hiro Nakamura'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 lead 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.

In historical context (Heroes Evolutions), 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.

In The Ten Brides of Takezo Kensei graphic novel, it reveals that Yaeko had a granddaughter named Yumi, who married Adam Monroe. Adam became bored with her and faked his death by drowning.

[edit] Debbie Marshall

Debbie 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.

[edit] Will and Tuko

Will and Tuko 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[38]. 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.

[edit] Caitlin

Caitlin 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. Due to Peter's altering of history by destroying the virus, her fate is unknown.

[edit] The Swordsmith

Yaeko's father and the creator of Takezo Kensei's sword. He made the guns for Whitebeard's army.

[edit] Whitebeard

[edit] Victoria Pratt

Victoria Pratt 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 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.

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 Maine by Adam Monroe and Peter Petrelli. 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.

[edit] Graphic novel characters

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

Name Special ability First Appearance Notes (Connections to Main/Supporting Characters)
Abu Aswan Levitation History of a Secret
Au Co Plant manipulation War Buddies: Part Four Killed by Arthur Petrelli in Vietnam. This was an assigned murder by the government.
Leonard Cushing Acid secretion Trust Issues, Part 1 Former partner of Thompson Jr.
Richard Drucker Electronic reception / Cyberpathy The Last Shangri-La Working with Hana Gitelman to extract information on the Company and Daniel Linderman from the Corinthian Casino website. He is a relative to Hana Gitelman and was a classmate of Charles Deveaux in college.
Donna Dunlap Superhuman vision Donna's Big Date, Part 1
Evan Duplication Revolutionary War: Part One Encountered Takezo Kensei in the Revolutionary War in 1777
Felicia Disintegration touch Donna's Big Date, Part 2 Agent of the Company who was trained by Noah Bennet.
Howard Grigsby Bioluminescence Blindsided His power damaged Noah Bennet's eyes, causing him to require glasses.
Guillame Emotion manipulation It Takes A Village: Part One The Haitian's father, deceased.
Liquid Man Self-Liquification Team Building Exercise An evolved human whom Noah Bennet was assigned to capture during his training for the Company
Maarten Pyrokinesis Team Building Exercise Helped train Noah Bennet and Claude with his partner, Ivan Spector, when they first joined the Company
Marcus Plasticity manipulation Normal Lives One of Noah's early cases that he encountered while moving his family to California.
Matt Neuenberg Enhanced memory/Eidetic memory The Man with Too (Much) Brains A high school student who was captured and experimented on by the Company.
Piper Elasticity Different and the Same
Rollo Fusor's Partner Dehydration Golden Handshake: Part One Used to work with Rollo Fusor until she killed him at a Paris hotel in 1990.
Linda Tavara Power absorption War Buddies, Pt. 7: Coming Home
Teenage Patient Electricity absorption Blackout: Part One Mohinder helps this teen after the events of Kirby Plaza, when he begins his campaign on the Shanti Virus
Traveler Omnilingualism The Last Shangri-La Used by Hana Gitelman to deliver a message to Richard Drucker.
Sparrow Redhouse Unknown String Theory On Chandra Suresh's list. First met five years after the events of Kirby Plaza, in an alternate timeline where the bomb destroyed New York City.
Nameless Agent 1 Superhuman speed Walls: Part One Agent of Matt Parkman, five years into an alternate future, where the bomb destroyed New York City.
Nameless Agent 2 Electric manipulation Walls: Part One Agent of Matt Parkman, five years into an alternate future, where the bomb destroyed New York City.
Ida May Walker Mediumship Moonlight Serenade First human victim of Linda Tavara.

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