List of Heroes characters
This is a list of fictional characters in the television series Heroes. The article details with major, recurring and minor characters.
Main characters
Minor characters
Lyle Bennet
Lyle Bennet, played by Randall Bentley, is the younger brother of Claire Bennet. He has a stereotypical dislike for his sister. His mother, Sandra Bennet, implied in "Better Halves" that Lyle is a hypochondriac. In "Nothing to Hide", he finds out about his sister's healing factor by watching a videotape showing her quickly recovering from such otherwise deadly experiences as being hit by a car and falling nearly thirty feet. After confirming his realization by stapling Claire's hand and watching it heal, Lyle overreacts and locks himself into a car with the tape. Only after Claire says that she would have to be taken away if her parents found out does Lyle finally exit the vehicle and grudgingly hand her the tape.
Sandra Bennet
Sandra Bennet is Claire Bennet's adoptive mother, played by Ashley Crow. She has a pet dog, "Mister Muggles", whom she has tried, with little success, to have win a dog show. In "Better Halves," she discusses her efforts to breed Mister Muggles but says the dog doesn't want to mate with any species with "poo" in its name. She does not seem to be aware of her husband's activities or her daughter's powers. However, after Claire met her biological parents, Hank and Lisa, Sandra Bennet told Claire that she and Mr. Bennet tried unsuccessfully to find her biological parents when she was a baby because they thought she might have a rare chromosomal disorder.
Charles Deveaux
Charles Deveaux is played by Richard Roundtree. He is the father of Simone Deveaux and a former patient of Peter Petrelli. Simone believed that Peter was "like a son to him" and that Charles improved under Peter's care. In "Nothing to Hide", Charles converses with Peter in a dream in which the young nurse claims to have 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.
The Haitian
The Haitian,[8] played by Jimmy Jean-Louis,[9] is one of Mr. Bennet's associates and has the power to remove another person's memories. First seen in a bar by Matt Parkman in "One Giant Leap," the Haitian was involved in the kidnappings of Matt Parkman, Ted Sprague, and Sylar, as well as the attempted kidnapping of Nathan Petrelli. In addition to wiping out Matt and Ted's memories of their captures, the Haitain also follows Mr. Bennet's order to "hollow out" Claire's attempted rapist, Brody Mitchum, in "Hiros", after which Brody no longer recognizes even his own name. Mr. Bennet claims that the Haitian can also block Matt's telepathy in "Collision", although this is quickly proven false. The Haitian wears a necklace with a strange symbol seen throughout the series.
Audrey Hanson
Audrey Hanson is an FBI agent played by Clea DuVall. While at the scene of a murdered family, she witnesses Officer Matt Parkman find the only survivor, Molly Walker, in a hidden room. Hanson becomes suspicious of Parkman for discovering the little girl so easily and arrests him when he reveals that he also knows the name of her prime suspect, Sylar. However, when Parkman convinces Hanson that he learned of these things through his telepathy, she asks him to help the FBI find Sylar. Later, a man in a baseball cap unsuccessfully attempts to seize the girl from FBI custody. During his escape, Audrey is almost forced to shoot herself by the man's apparent metaphysical abilities, but is saved when Parkman intervenes.
In "Nothing to Hide", Audrey again requests the aid of Officer Parkman in following a lead when it is suspected that Sylar has killed again. Hanson takes Parkman to the morgue, where they examine the body of a dead oncologist who was burned alive. She is exposed to a dangerously high amount of radiation while investigating the house of Theodore Sprague, whom Audrey believes to be Sylar. She and Parkman find Sprague in the hospital with his dying wife, and in the following episode, they interrogate him briefly before he is taken away by Homeland Security, where she learns more about both his and Matt's powers.
Mr. Linderman
Mr. Linderman, an unseen character, is a reputed mobster who has made several unscrupulous deals with a few of the main characters. In the series premiere, Linderman sends two thugs to Niki Sanders' home to collect on a money loan which she cannot repay. When the thugs are killed, he sends a corrupt police officer to retrieve her in "One Giant Leap". In "Collision", one of Linderman's subordinates gives Niki the opportunity to repay her debt by helping to blackmail Nathan, and she eventually complies. Nathan, however, realizes that Linderman needs him to win the congressional seat he is running for if Linderman was willing to set up such elaborate entrapment and uses this to his advantage. Working out a deal through Linderman's associate, he persuades her to "donate" $4 million to his campaign (rather than the originally agreed-upon $2 million) and suppress the tape. Linderman has also purchased a painting made by Isaac Mendez, which Nathan inquired about, but Linderman said it went "straight to gallery" and Nathan realized the man wouldn't part with it.
Ando Masahashi
Ando Masahashi, played by James Kyson Lee, is a co-worker of Hiro Nakamura. At first skeptical of his friend's powers, he becomes convinced after watching Hiro stop time to save a schoolgirl from a traffic accident and agrees to accompany Hiro on his travels to "fulfill their destiny." Although Ando is an asset because he knows how to drive a car and speaks better English, the pair run into trouble in Las Vegas when he convinces Hiro to use his powers to cheat at gambling, and the two are later beaten up by their victims. After an argument, Ando leaves Hiro to visit Niki Sanders, whom he has watched back in Japan strip online, but when he realizes that he and Niki didn't have a real relationship, he returns to accompany Hiro on his hero's journey. The two separate again in "Seven Minutes to Midnight", when Hiro fails to return from traveling back in time to save a waitress killed at the diner they were at.
Eden McCain
Eden McCain, played by Nora Zehetner, is an associate of Mr. Bennet, assisting him to gather information on some of the other characters. She initially claims to be a former neighbor of the late Chandra Suresh, in order to befriend his son, Mohinder, when he visits New York to attend to his father's affairs and retrieve his ashes. When Mohinder decides to return to India, she makes romantic advances in order to get him to stay, or at least to quickly return. She relays to Mr. Bennet second-hand information from Mohinder about Peter, and his claims about Isaac and Hiro.
Eden is then ordered to bring Isaac in. She claims to be a fan of his artwork and gains access to his apartment, somehow getting him to a secret area in Bennet's workplace in Texas. The show implies that Eden uses a power to persuade Isaac to use heroin to paint an image of Sylar killing Claire for Mr. Bennet, and later, to detain Sylar long enough for the Haitian to capture him.
Brody Mitchum
Brody Mitchum,[10] played by Matt Lanter, is a quarterback on the football team at the fictional Union Wells High School and is a classmate of Claire Bennet. He first appears in "Don't Look Back". During a celebratory bonfire in "One Giant Leap", Brody and Claire wander off to the bleachers, where Brody attempts to rape Claire. He accidentally kills her during the struggle, but 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 rams the car headfirst into a brick wall. The on-line comic story for the episode reveals that Claire only wanted to frighten Brody into thinking twice before hurting anyone else, and she drags his unconscious body from the car when it catches fire and ultimately explodes.[11] When he wakes up and sees Claire unharmed, he realizes that she isn't a normal human being. After learning of the attempted rape by his daughter, an enraged Mr. Bennet has his assistant, the Haitian, wipe out Brody’s memory.
Janice Parkman
Janice Parkman, portrayed by Elizabeth Lackey, is the 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. At first she thinks that he must have been cheating on her for him to be so attentive, but she is ultimately delighted by his efforts. In "Nothing to Hide", Matt discovers that she is having an affair with his ex-partner. In "Seven Minutes to Midnight" Janice admits to the affair, which she says is over. She asks Matt if he wants to end the relationship, but he says he doesn't know whether he does or not.
Angela Petrelli
Angela Petrelli, played by Cristine Rose, is the mother of Peter and Nathan Petrelli. In "Genesis" she is still not quite recovered from her husband's death six months ago, and has been doing odd things like shoplifting ever since. In "Don't Look Back" she confesses to Peter that he is her favorite son. She also reveals that Peter's father suffered from depression and had delusions of grandeur before he actually committed suicide, causing her to worry that Peter has inherited the condition. When the opportunity presents itself in "Nothing to Hide", Angela sets up a family brunch with a journalist as an invited guest. She insists that Nathan and his family pretend that brunches are a family tradition as an attempt to put on airs.
Heidi Petrelli
Heidi Petrelli is Nathan Petrelli's wife and is involved with his strategies for his bid for congressional office. She first appears in "Nothing to Hide", played by Rena Sofer. She uses a wheelchair for mobility after being paralyzed from a car accident where Nathan was driving. 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 Mister Linderman. Nathan's brother Peter, who interrupted the brunch and invited himself, claims the woman was a doctor helping him with his mental problems. Doubting Peter's story, but hoping it is true, Heidi later asks Nathan directly about the incident; she says that she can recover if she has a reason in Nathan. Nathan claims Peter wasn't lying, and Heidi appears to believe him.
Sanjog Iyer
Sanjog Iyer, played by Javin Reid, is an Indian boy who Chandra Suresh had a file on, in which he described Iyer as having a genetic marker allowing the boy to enter people's dreams as a spirit guide. He appeared in the visions that Mohinder Suresh experienced after returning to India with his father's ashes.
- Note: In "Seven Minutes to Midnight", the name on the file's label included a comma as a typo. The episode "Homecoming" confirms the boy's name is Sanjog Iyer.
Theodore Sprague
Theodore "Ted" Sprague, played by Matthew John Armstrong, is a man, originally thought by Audrey Hanson to be Sylar, with the power to emit radiation. He accidentally kills Dr. Fresco, the oncologist treating his wife's cancer, when he found out there was nothing more the doctor could do to save her. The doctor's corpse was charred black and heavily irradiated. Sprague's fingerprint was left imprinted on the bones, leading Matt Parkman and Audrey Hanson to discover his identity. When they investigate his home, they find it heavily burned and similarly irradiated. When Matt and Audrey come to arrest him in the hospital, Sprague threatens a nurse in order to stay with his wife and says that he might explode if he was shot. Matt convinces him to surrender by telepathically relaying his dying wife's forgiveness for causing her cancer. When Sprague is interrogated at the FBI's Los Angeles office by Matt and Audrey, he becomes so agitated that he boils a glass of water he is holding in his hands. During the interrogation, he reveals that, like Matt, he blacked out for two days just after seeing the Haitian, and when he awoke, he had two mysterious marks on his neck. However, before Matt can learn more, agents of the Department of Homeland Security takes custody of Sprague, who tells Matt to "find the Haitian." Sprague later escapes from custody, leaving the car he was transported in a burning wreck. During the pilot, and subsequently the second episode, a painting[12] can be seen relating to Sprague's abilities.
Chandra Suresh
Chandra Suresh is Mohinder's late father, played by Erick Avari, although a photograph of him and Mohinder seen in "Genesis" shows a different actor. Suresh was 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, however, he wanted nothing to do with Sylar and insisted the strange man stop calling him. Before his death, Chandra kept a male lizard. In a dream, Mohinder saw his father's murder at the hands of a man wearing broken wristwatch, stopped at 11:53. This watch is currently worn by Sylar.
Sylar
Sylar is a superhuman with the power of telekenesis who is killing other people with powers by removing their brains. The name Sylar first appears on the label of a cassette tape during the premiere episode. He later appears as a man shrouded in darkness, and wearing a baseball cap and a watch stopped at seven minutes to midnight. He is known to have been in contact with Chandra Suresh before the professor's death, and Mohinder experienced a vision of a man wearing the same watch killing his father in a taxi. Sylar's killing spree continues until Peter Petrelli knocks him off a wall during his attempt to murder Claire, after which he is captured by Eden and the Haitian. Sylar is played by Zachary Quinto.[13]
Charlie
Charlie, played by Jayma Mays, is a waitress at the Burnt Toast Diner in Midland, Texas, where Hiro and Ando stop to eat in "Seven Minutes to Midnight". After she reveals to Hiro that she has recently developed a near perfect ability to quickly memorize any information, she is murdered in the diner's storeroom while opening a can of peaches. While her body was not shown, it is implied that her brain was removed in the same manner as Sylar's victims. Hiro then goes back six months in time in an attempt to prevent her murder.
Jackie
Jackie, played by Danielle Savre, is a cheerleader and high school classmate of Claire Bennet. She is an obnoxious rival and dramatic foil for Claire and is described as a gossip by Brody. Jackie is eager to be the center of attention and takes credit in "Don't Look Back" for a fire rescue Claire performed in "Genesis". In "One Giant Leap" she reveals that she plans to run for class president with "good deeds" as her platform. Jackie is also apparently jealous of Claire and Brody Mitchum. In "Homecoming", she is mistaken for Claire by Sylar, who cuts Jackie's skull open.
Tina
"Texas" Tina is played by Deirdre Quinn. She is the romance-novel-loving confidante of Niki Sanders and takes care for Micah Sanders frequently. Niki has confided in Tina about a possible alternate personality she has and various blackouts she's experienced. Tina believes Niki's troubles stem from psychological damage as a result of Niki's dealings with the mob. In Better Halves, Tina finally meets and flees from Niki's alternate personality after Micah is kidnapped by D.L. Hawkins.
Zach
Zach is played by Thomas Dekker. He is a high school classmate of Claire Bennet and one of the few people to know of her powers. Zach has a profile on myspace.com, where he notes his sexual orientation as "Not Sure." Some of the cheerleaders heard rumors that Zach had an erection in the boy's locker room, mentioned in "Don't Look Back". On his MySpace page, Zach notes he is Wiccan.[10] In "Genesis", Claire had him make a videotape of her using her abilities. In "Homecoming", he reveals to have helped Claire win the Homecoming Queen election by campaigning for her amongst the unpopular crowd. He also gave her a book written by Chandra Suresh, which he says details information on her power. Claire is overwhelmed and later punches Jackie when she accuses Zach of being gay. After Claire is grounded, Zach enters her bedroom using a ladder and convinces her to come to the Homecoming game.
References
- ^ "Official NBC Cast Page" (Flash). The official NBC character description of Claire. Retrieved 2006-10-18.
- ^ "Official NBC Cast Page" (Flash). The official NBC character description of Simone. Retrieved 2006-10-18.
- ^ "Official NBC Cast Page" (Flash). The official NBC character description of Isaac. Retrieved 2006-10-18.
- ^ a b c Zepeda, Dana Meltzer (2006). "Everybody's Heroes". TV Guide (October 9-14): 30–31.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - ^ "Hiro's Blog" (HTML). Hiro's NBC Blog Page. Retrieved 2006-11-20.
- ^ "With 'Heroes,' NBC finds its own epic drama". 2006-09-25. Retrieved 2006-10-20.
- ^ "About the show". The official NBC Heroes website. Retrieved 2006-10-23.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ Comicbookresources.com. Q&A with Joe Pokaski and Aron Coleite @ comicbookresources.com. Retrieved 30 October 2006.
- ^ "imdb.com". Jimmy Jean-Louis. Retrieved 2006-10-12.
- ^ a b Zach's MySpace. myspace.com. Retrieved 18 October 2006.
- ^ http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/novels/novel_004.shtml
- ^ Boiling Painting from 9thWonders.com
- ^ http://www.tv.com/zachary-quinto/person/65120/summary.html
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