List of Heroes characters with special abilities

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This is an alphabetical list of characters with special abilities appearing in the television series Heroes as well as the Heroes graphic novels. A more extensive list of Heroes characters can be found at List of characters in Heroes.

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[edit] Main characters

Name Portrayed by Special ability
Claire Bennet Hayden Panettiere Rapid cellular regeneration
Elle Bishop Kristen Bell Electric manipulation
Monica Dawson Dana Davis Adoptive muscle memory[1]
D.L. Hawkins Leonard Roberts Phasing/intangibility
Maya Herrera Dania Ramírez Causes a deadly disease in people around her
Isaac Mendez Santiago Cabrera Precognition
Adam Monroe/Takezo Kensei David Anders Rapid cellular regeneration
Hiro Nakamura Masi Oka Space-time manipulation (allowing teleportation, time manipulation, and time travel)
Matt Parkman Greg Grunberg Telepathy
Nathan Petrelli Adrian Pasdar Flight
Peter Petrelli Milo Ventimiglia Power mimicry
Micah Sanders Noah Gray-Cabey Technopathy
Niki Sanders Ali Larter Superhuman strength
Sylar/Gabriel Gray Zachary Quinto Intuitive understanding of how things work

multiple acquired abilities (see also Sylar's powers and abilities)

[edit] Recurring, secondary, and guest characters

Name Portrayed by Special ability
Charlie Andrews Jayma Mays Enhanced/Eidetic memory
Bridget Bailey Unknown Clairsentience
Bob Bishop Stephen Tobolowsky Transmutation
Claude Christopher Eccleston Invisibility
Brian Davis David Berman Telekinesis
Hana Gitelman Stana Katic Digital communication
Meredith Gordon Jessalyn Gilsig Pyrokinesis
The Haitian[2] Jimmy Jean-Louis[3] Memory manipulation / power negation
Alejandro Herrera Shalim Ortiz Can cease and reverse the effects of the disease Maya causes.[4]
Sanjog Iyer Javin Reid Can enter one's dreams and alter one's perceptions
Daniel Linderman Malcolm McDowell Healing others
Eden McCain Nora Zehetner Vocal persuasion
Kaito Nakamura George Takei, Eijiro Ozaki (young) To be revealed[5]
Maury Parkman Alan Blumenfeld Telepathy, Mental manipulation
Angela Petrelli Christine Rose To be revealed[6]
West Rosen Nicholas D'Agosto Flight
Dale Smither Rusty Schwimmer Enhanced hearing
Ted Sprague Matthew John Armstrong Radiation manipulation
Zane Taylor Ethan Cohn Liquification
Molly Walker Adair Tishler Clairvoyance
Candice Wilmer Missy Peregrym

Rachel Kimsey and others

 Illusion-casting

[edit] Charlie Andrews

Charlene "Charlie" Andrews 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.[7] Hiro tries to prevent her murder by going back in time one day to warn her, but he accidentally goes back six months, to April 24 (Charlie's birthday). He convinces Charlie that both he and she have special powers by stopping time to make one thousand origami cranes. After taking a job at the diner and dating Charlie, Hiro buys two tickets to take her to Tokyo. Charlie ponders her feelings and tells Hiro that while she does not usually let people get close to her due to a blood clot 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 Japan and is unable to return.[8]

[edit] Claude

Claude has the power to render himself invisible to the naked eye. This power is limited to the visible spectrum. It does not make him inaudible,[9] nor does it mask his body heat or other such emissions, allowing him to be tracked through thermal imaging or similar methods. In addition, Claude has the ability to see others using the same power; Peter, having copied Claude's power, can see him as easily as any normal person when invisible.

Claude's power also extends to everything in his immediate vicinity, namely his clothes and other personal effects. This is exemplified 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.

Claude seems to have complete control of his power. In the episode "Company Man", Claude claims to Mr. Bennet in a flashback that he was present during several meetings but could not be seen. It is worth noting however that he stated to Peter Petrelli that he has been invisible for quite some time in order to hide from Bennet and The Company, implying that his constant invisibility is his choice.

[edit] Bridget Bailey

  • Played by: Unknown
  • First appeared in: BBC.com version of Heroes Evolutions
  • Special ability: Clairsentience

Bridget Bailey is an evolved human, with the power of clairsentience, 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.[10]

[edit] Brian Davis

Brian Davis, who does not want his ability, reveals his telekinesis to Sylar. Brian then asks Sylar to make it go away. He is then killed by Sylar, making him the first of several victims.

[edit] Meredith Gordon

Meredith Gordon is the biological mother of Claire Bennet. She first appears in "The Fix", in which she exhibits pyrokinetic abilities. According to a newspaper article found by Zach and Claire, Meredith and her 18-month-old baby were reported to have died in a fire 14 years before the episode's events. The backstory is revealed in the 22nd graphic novel, Hell's Angel: in 1992, Mr. Bennet and Claude came to retrieve her, and it was Meredith who started the fire. Bennet leaves holding the baby Claire and later adopts her. After the fire, Meredith lived in Mexico for a while before moving to Kermit, Texas.

In "Distractions" Claire skips school to meet with Meredith for the first time since she was a baby.[11] Afterwards, Meredith contacts Claire's biological father, Nathan Petrelli, to notify him of their daughter's survival. Claire meets with Meredith again, wanting to see her father[12]. Meredith tells her not to rely on her father for anything other than money, "because it's easy". Meredith says that Nathan is giving them $50,000, with Claire entitled to half; however, she actually made a deal with Nathan for $100,000. She later tells Nathan that Claire had come hoping that he would take her away. Nathan agrees with her about sending Claire away before the meeting, which Claire overhears.

[edit] Alejandro Herrera

Alejandro Herrera is the brother of Maya Herrera. 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 virus she creates. Afterwards, they try to escape from Mexico in order to go to New York, picking up Sylar along the way. While Maya trusts Sylar, he does not, and soon after, when he tries to leave with Maya, Sylar kills him.

[edit] Sanjog Iyer

Sanjog Iyer 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 appeared in the visions that Mohinder Suresh experienced after returning to India 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.

In "Seven Minutes to Midnight", 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 "Homecoming" confirms the boy's name is Sanjog Iyer.

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.[13]

Sanjog has recently appeared in the Heroes graphic novels showing visions of the past to various individuals.

[edit] Eden McCain

Eden McCain was born as Sarah Ellis and raised in a small town. Her father frequently argued with her stepmother and left them when she was young. She was forced to do housework immediately after school for most of her childhood by her stepmother, a stereotypically cruel woman. Over time, her stepmother began to blame the girl for her father abandoning them. After years of this treatment, in response to a particularly violent tantrum, Sarah shouted "I wish you'd just die!" and caused her stepmother's heart to instantly stop beating. The house then caught on fire as a result of her stepmother's cigarette falling to the ground. After escaping, Sarah asked a passerby to take her west, and later adopted the name "Eden McCain".[14]

Afterward, about six months before most of first season's events, Eden was a criminal doing any selfish thing she wanted. This changed when she was taken in by Noah Bennet. Bennet and his partner the Haitian pacified Eden's powers so that Bennet could persuade her into working with them. Her first assignment was to move in near Chandra Suresh and befriend him, so that she could remove the name of Bennet's daughter from a list of superhumans Chandra had made.

At the end of "Homecoming", Eden uses her power to put Sylar to sleep with the Haitian present. Later, in "Fallout", she suggests killing Sylar by using her power to make him kill himself. When Mr. Bennet disagrees, Eden takes matters into her own hands. She approaches Sylar outside his holding cell with a gun, then explains that she is going to give him the gun and he is going to commit suicide. During their conversation, Eden reveals that she was the next door neighbor of Chandra Suresh. Before she has a chance to invoke her power of persuasion, Sylar telekinetically jerks Eden through the glass wall of his cell, breaking her concentration. He then grabs hold of her throat and begins to choke her while she struggles to try and shoot him. Sylar claims that a gun will not work on him and that he will kill her and take her power. Eden quickly decides to put the gun to her own head and fire, taking her own life before Sylar can steal her power.[15] Her body is later found in Sudbury, Ontario, having been dumped into Lake Ramsey.[16]

[edit] Kaito Nakamura

Kaito Nakamura is a stern and powerful businessman in Japan and the father of Hiro Nakamura. He is the CEO of Yamagato Industries. He is described as a man with "real power" by his underlings. Mr. Nakamura does not want Hiro going around the United States trying to fulfill his "destiny". In reference to Takei's role as Hikaru Sulu in the original Star Trek television series, the license plate on Mr. Nakamura's limousine has the same number, NCC-1701, as the registration number of the Starship Enterprise.

This characterization of a strict Japanese patriarch is promptly turned upside down. In "Company Man", he is shown working with Thompson for the organization behind Primatech nearly fifteen years before the events of the series' present. He ordered Noah Bennet to adopt Claire on the provision that if she exhibits any abilities she is to be turned over to The Company. It is revealed that not only had he been waiting for someone on the Nakamura line to manifest and has known of Hiro's powers for a long time, but that he once had allies who also had powers. Mr. Nakamura is on Hiro's side in the attempt to stop Sylar, in direct opposition to the Linderman group. He spends some time training his son in swordsmanship using wooden bokken, revealing that he was once a part of a group of heroes. In 1977 as part of the 'Company Founders' he was influential in protecting strain 138 of the Shanti virus from being released in an attempt by Adam Monroe to 'start the world anew'.

When Ando Masahashi is teleported to Yamagato, Kaito informs him that his position has been filled and that he can take Hiro's old post. When Ando asks about Hiro's return, Kaito says that there is no need to cross a bridge before needed.

After receiving a marked photograph of himself hidden in his newspaper, he realizes that he is doomed to die. Upon sending Ando off to retrieve a sword, Kaito meets with Angela Petrelli, who had been similarly threatened. That evening, Kaito is thrown off the roof of the Deveaux building by a hooded individual whom he recognizes. Ando returns just as Kaito is thrown over, and sees his body in the street – but not that of his assailant. In "Cautionary Tales", Hiro goes back in time to prevent his death. Kaito is resigned to his fate, explaining to Hiro that their gifts cannot be used to play God. Hiro lets the murder play out, but uses his powers to learn that the assailant was Adam Monroe.

In a question and answer segment with writers/producers Joe Pokaski and Aron Coleite, they confirmed that Kaito absolutely has a power, but it will not be revealed for a long while.[5]

[edit] Maury Parkman

Maury Parkman is Matt Parkman's father, having abandoned Matt when he was thirteen. He is one of the twelve founders of the Company. Like his son, Mr. Parkman 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. He can either knock a person unconscious and manipulate their dreams, as he did to Molly Walker (and by so doing, left her physical body in a comatose state that lasted until Matt learned how to counter Maury's influence using his own powers), or he can induce "waking nightmares" that allow the person's real body to move, as he did to Matt and Nathan Petrelli, who were tricked into fighting each other while both were experiencing a nightmare scenario. He is also able to detect Molly's attempts to locate him using her power, and he does not require close proximity to affect a person's mind.[17] His use of this ability has led Molly Walker to give him the name "the Nightmare Man."

Maury was one of several people swayed into believing that those with abilities are superior to humans by Adam Monroe, and when Adam escaped from the Company's custody, he sent Maury to kill those founding members who disagreed with him. He is implied to have been responsible for the self-inflicted wounds of Angela Petrelli. When he attempted to kill Bob, he was stopped by Matt, who managed to trap Maury in his own nightmare.

[edit] West Rosen

Prior to the start of the series, West is abducted by Mr. Bennet and the Haitian and taken to Primatech Paper in Odessa. 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.

West is a student at Costa Verde High School and classmate of Claire Bennet. He first notices Claire when he almost hits her with his car. The two strike up a friendship in Biology class.[18] West has a philosophy that people are either 'Aliens' or 'Robots'. [19] 'Robots', in his opinion, are those who act normal and question nothing – the kind of people who do not "look up". 'Aliens' are unafraid to be different.

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.

West possesses the power of flight, and uses it to hover outside Claire's bedroom window, observing her. In "Lizards", while observing her through a window, West learns of Claire's ability when he witnesses her regrow a severed toe.

Claire and West strike up a relationship in the episode "Kindred". 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.

West has a tattoo on his neck similar to the one found on Matt Parkman and Claude made by Noah Bennet. 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.

In Cautionary Tales it is revealed that West's last name is Rosen. He captures Noah Bennet 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 Elle Bishop for Claire. The episode ends with West holding Claire while she mourns the death of her father.

In Powerless, West confronts Claire about her decision to reveal her power and Claire breaks up with him after a heated argument.

[edit] Dale Smither

Dale Smither is a middle-aged woman working in a garage near Bozeman, Montana, 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.

[edit] Ted Sprague

Real name Theodore Sprague, he was first mistakenly identified by Matt Parkman and Agent Audrey Hanson as Sylar. Ted has the ability to generate and manipulate radiation, which he first discovers after being abducted by the Haitian. At first, his power is very destructive, replicating harmful side-effects such as radiation poisoning. He subconsciously emits a small amount of radiation constantly, which, while not immediately dangerous, was responsible for his wife's cancer. As a direct result of prolonged exposure to Ted, his wife fell into a coma and died within a few years. He is also able to produce an EMP when necessary. Through his anger, he tracks down Noah Bennet for answers and comes to be friends with Matt Parkman.

His powers are mimicked by Peter Petrelli who is unable to control them and later explodes. When they are trying to bring down the company, they are confronted by the police. Ted draws the attention while Claire and Peter can escape. He is arrested and transported in a van, Sylar tracks him down, kills him and absorbs his powers.

[edit] Zane Taylor

Zane Taylor 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. When Mohinder asks for a DNA sample, Sylar swabs a sample from inside the cheek of Zane's corpse. 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.

[edit] Candice Wilmer aka Michelle

Candice Wilmer is an agent of The Company, first introduced in the episode "Company Man". In Season 1, she is paired, for a short while, with Mr. Bennet and is seen using her powers to taunt multiple characters. After Bennet's betrayal to The Company is revealed at Candice's hands, however, she is seen operating on her own. Aiding Mr. Linderman in the kidnapping of Micah Sanders in ".07%", Candice is seen watching after Micah in "Landslide", in which she also guides him through rigging a voting machine to make Nathan Petrelli win an election for Congress. In the next episode and season finale, "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.

Candice changing back from her illusion of Niki Sanders.
Candice changing back from her illusion of Niki Sanders.

During the summer hiatus between Seasons 1 and 2, a four-part graphic novel was published that revealed Candice's real name to be Betty, and that the slender appearance portrayed by Peregrym is another illusion she created.

Her next and final appearance is in the third episode of Season 2, "Kindred", in which she is portrayed by Rachel Kimsey. It is revealed in this episode that after she came to, Candice adopted another appearance and the name Michelle, took the wounded Sylar under someone else's instructions to a remote area, and cared for him there until she was killed by him. After she dies, she turns into her real self, a very overweight woman (illuminating an earlier exchange between her and Micah), leaving Sylar to insult her for trying to be something she isn't.

[edit] Casting

Missy Peregrym formerly worked with executive producers Greg Beeman and Jeph Loeb on Smallville and was excited to be able to audition for the role because of it. However, she felt her first audition was "one of [her] worst performances" and was surprised to get another reading the following Monday, after which she felt she did "a little better."[20] 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.[21]

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,[21] and after being cast in the show Reaper 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. To work another actress into Candice's part and to explain the appearance change in the show, writer J.J. Philbin used exposition in her following line to Sylar: “I used to go by Candice. But ever since I dragged you off of Kirby Plaza, police are kind of looking for my old self. So, I went for a new look. What do you think? Too generic?” 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.[22]

[edit] Graphic novel characters

Characters with special abilities who only appear in the graphic novels.

[edit] Abu Aswan

  • First appeared in: History of a Secret
  • Special ability: Levitation

Abu Aswan is a descendant of the Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu who, after discovering that he can manipulate the weight of objects, suspects that his ancestors used similar abilities to build the pyramids. 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.

[edit] Au Co

Au Co was a Vietnamese girl killed by Arthur Petrelli on a mission during the Vietnam War. Arthur Petrelli and Daniel Linderman 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 to death 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.

[edit] Leonard Cushing

  • First appeared in: Trust Issues, Pt. 1
  • Special ability: Acid secretion

[edit] Richard Drucker

  • First appeared in: The Last Shangri-La
  • Special ability: Electronic communication

Richard Drucker is an evolved human recorded by the Company. He is described in the Heroes 360 Experience 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. He apparently disappeared from Bangalore after crashing an airplane. He is a distant relative of Hana Gitelman. The Company has extensive information on Drucker in its files.[23][24]

[edit] Julien Dumont

  • First appeared in: Root and Branch, Pt. 1: The Big Bag and Tag
  • Special ability: Duplication

Julien is 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 reports back, Julien says he can still sense the third one alive, making her suspicious.

[edit] Donna Dunlap

  • First appeared in: Donna's Big Date, Part 1
  • Special ability: Enhanced vision

One day, Donna was merely an everyday dental receptionist who happened to have telescopic, microscopic, and nocturnal vision. Then she went on a date with a disguised 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 Elle Bishop. 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.

[edit] Evan

  • First appeared in: Revolutionary War, Part 1
  • Special ability: Duplication

During the Revolutionary War, Adam Monroe, working as a mercenary for the British Empire, learns of a man who destroyed an entire town single-handedly, and claims he cannot be killed. Adam initially assumes the man has the same regenerative ability as he does, but upon meeting this man, Evan, Adam kills him on the spot. His crew is immediately attacked by an unseen army, and Adam soon finds himself fighting another Evan... and another, and another. It turns out Evan has the ability to duplicate himself, effectively making him a one-man army. Adam attempts to track down and kill the original Evan, believing this will stop all the duplicates; however, this proves futile when he finds that the duplicates can also duplicate themselves, and Adam is hopelessly outmatched.

[edit] Felicia

Felicia is a Company agent who was trained by Noah Bennet.

[edit] Howard Grigsby

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 Noah Bennet must get his famed glasses.

[edit] Guillame

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

[edit] Liquid Man

A man with the power to transform his own body mass into a water-like liquid appears in one of the Heroes Novels. Ivan, Maarten, and Noah Bennet try to catch him and they end up trapping him in a train's freezer car.

[edit] Connie Logan

  • First appeared in: Faces, Part 1
  • Special ability: Appearance alteration

An agent of the Company, who is 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 cannot change her own appearance. She often works with her non-powered daughter, Penny Logan.

[edit] Maarten

  • First appeared in: Team Building Exercise
  • Special ability: Pyrokinesis

Maarten is Ivan's partner at the time when Noah Bennet was Ivan's protégé.

[edit] Marcus

  • First appeared in: Normal Lives
  • Special ability: Plasticity manipulation

While en route from Texas to California, Noah Bennet 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 – 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 – he takes it upon himself to apprehend the man and turns him over to the Company.

[edit] Matt Neuenberg

  • First appeared in: The Man with Too (Much) Brains
  • Special ability: Enhanced/Eidetic memory

Matt Neuenberg is a college student who has 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 encounters Elle and is taken to the Company, where he is subjected to painful experiments. Later, Elle tells him that this is for his own protection, and that he and she want the same things.

Matt is 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 dies when the Company attempts to download the information from him.

[edit] Piper

  • First appeared in: Different and the Same
  • Special ability: Elasticity

Piper is a girl with the ability to bend her joints to superhuman limits.

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.

[edit] Sparrow Redhouse

  • First appeared in: String Theory
  • Special ability: Unknown

Sparrow's name was on Chandra'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.

[edit] Rollo Fusor's partner

  • First appeared in: The Golden Handshake, Pt. 1
  • Special ability: Dehydration

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.

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, an unnamed woman. 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.

In an interview, Steven T. Seagle revealed that the woman's name is Anya.[25]

[edit] Linda Tavara

  • First appeared in: War Buddies, Pt. 7: Coming Home
  • Special ability: Aura absorption

Linda Tavara has the ability to see and absorb the auras of other people by touching them. Her hand glows with a blue light when she does this. If she absorbs the life force of another evolved human, she also gains their power(s).

Linda first discovered her ability in her teens, during the 1960s. It is implied that her parents knew of it too, and fearfully took measures to keep her isolated. Despite this, Linda is enthralled by her power, and goes out into the city to fully experience it. After some time, she spots Ida May Walker, an elderly woman whose aura glows brighter than most people's. Though she seems to understand right and wrong, she continually feels to urge to steal lifeforces. Thus, she absorbs Walker's and obtains the woman's ability to see the dead.

In her adulthood, she worked as a private investigator and possibly bounty hunter. However, she would routinely continue stealing the lifeforces 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. Afterwards, 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 lifeforce 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 absorbs the informant's lifeforce, and steals a notepad regarding the next targets, which include Daniel Linderman and Arthur Petrelli.

Linda introduces herself to Linderman at a gas station, and he travels with her while she gains his trust. After Linderman demonstrates to her his ability to heal others, Linda attempts to absorb his power. However, Linderman kills her with a stick before she successfully does so.

[edit] Teenage patient

  • First appeared in: Blackout, Pt. 1
  • Special ability: Electricity absorption

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.

[edit] Traveler

  • First appeared in: The Last Shangri-La
  • Special ability: Omnilingualism

Traveler answers a call from Hana Gitelman and is asked to deliver a message to Richard Drucker in Bhutan. 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 Bhuddhist 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.

[edit] Unnamed agents

In an alternate future, one year after the explosion, Peter Petrelli and Hiro Nakamura infiltrate a prison complex where many "special" people are being unjustly detained, including Niki Sanders, and attempt to break them out. As they attempt to escape, they encounter a team of agents who attempt to stop them, including a woman with the power of super-speed and a man with the power to generate and manipulate electricity. Peter absorbs the powers of the agents, who are soon knocked out by Niki.

[edit] Unnamed nerve-gas-sweating man

  • First appeared in: Faces, Part 1
  • Special ability: Nerve gas emission

A man who emits nerve gas when he sweats was captured by Penny Logan for the Company.

[edit] Unnamed teleporter

  • First appeared in: Faces, Part 1
  • Special ability: Teleportation

A man with connections to Evs Dropper, who has managed to evade the Company by teleporting, was captured by Penny Logan, who managed to get close enough to him by impersonating his girlfriend.

[edit] Ida May Walker

  • First appeared in: Moonlight Serenade
  • Special ability: Mediumship

Ida 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 then most. Her power was stolen by Linda and she was killed.

According to Heroes Evolutions, she is related to Molly Walker.

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