List of Heroes characters
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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 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.
64.28.152.131 00:32, 28 November 2006 (UTC)Becky=== Sandra Bennet ===
Sandra Bennet is Claire Bennet's adoptive mother, played by Ashley Crow. She has a pet dog, "Mister Muggles", with whom she has tried, with little success, to 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. However, she usually seems oblivious of nearly everything happening, simply carrying on with her normal life.
Charles Deveaux
Charles Deveaux, played by Richard Roundtree, was the wealthy 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 Haitian 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, Sylar unsuccessfully attempts to seize the girl from FBI custody. During his escape, Audrey is almost forced to shoot herself by the man's telekinetic 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.
Sanjog Iyer
Sanjog Iyer, played by Javin Reid, is an Indian boy whom Chandra Suresh had been observing. Chandra's notes 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.
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 Petrelli, and Jessica, Niki's alternate personality, 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 from Simone Deveaux, which Nathan inquired about for his brother Peter Petrelli. Linderman sent it "straight to the gallery" according to Nathan's wishes.
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 the past, where he has gone to save Charlie, a waitress killed at a diner they stopped at on the way to New York. Ando is still waiting for Hiro's return at the diner when Peter arrives to save the cheerleader in "Homecoming", but Ando declines to assist, feeling that he isn't special without Hiro.
Eden McCain
Eden McCain, played by Nora Zehetner, is an associate of Mr. Bennet. She possesses the Voice, an extremely effective power of persuasion. This power manifested itself after years of childhood abuse from her stepmother that she endured in silence, and when she finally spoke, her words were so powerful, she was able to command her stepmother to die. She now uses her power to help Mr. Bennet acheive his goals, although she is reluctant to do so in unethical ways. Eden's work for Mr. Bennet includes befriending Mohinder Suresh to spy on his investigation into his father's death and research into other people with superhuman powers. This leads her to Isaac Mendez, whom she brings to a secret area in Bennet's workplace in Odessa, Texas and persuades to use heroin again to complete a painting of Sylar attacking Mr. Bennet's daughter, Claire. Later, Eden stopped Sylar by causing him to go to sleep for the Haitian to capture him.
Brody Mitchum
Brody Mitchum, played by Matt Lanter, is a classmate of Claire Bennet and quarterback on the football team at the fictional Union Wells High School. 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.[10] 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 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. However, Matt discovers that she had an affair with his ex-partner, leaving them both wondering whether their marriage is now over.
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 in order to use the journalist to create positive publicity about the family.
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 in which 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 by inviting 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 is determined to recover but only if Nathan is true to her. Nathan claims Peter wasn't lying, and Heidi appears to believe him.
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 were to be 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 take custody of Sprague, who tells Matt to "find the Haitian." Sprague later escapes from custody, leaving the car that was transporting him in a burning wreck. During the pilot, and subsequently the second episode, a painting[11] can be seen relating to Sprague's abilities. In the 9th episode, a painting of a burning man is seen created by Isaac.
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, named Mohinder.
In a dream, Mohinder saw his father's murder. While Chandra was driving his cab, the vehicle's doors were locked, and Chandra was killed by a man wearing a wristwatch stopped at 11:53. This watch is currently worn by Sylar.
Shanti Suresh
Shanti Suresh was Chandra Suresh's daughter. She died at a young age, before the series, and this severely affected her father, as the two were very close. Her death, along with other factors, drove her father into finding answers and pursuing the goal of finding people with special powers. It is yet unknown what Shanti's "special" abilities were. Mohinder Suresh was unaware of the existence and death of his sister until recently.
Sylar
Sylar, played by Zachary Quinto,[12] 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 when he kills a waitress named Charlie and a cheerleader named Jackie, believing both to have super powers. After realizing his mistake with Jackie, he seeks out Claire Bennet, has an altercation with Peter Petrelli, and is eventually captured by Eden and the Haitian.
Jackie Wilcox
Jackie Wilcox, played by Danielle Savre, is a cheerleader and high school classmate of Claire Bennet. Although she claims to be "BFF" (best friends forever) with Claire and once revealed plans to run for class president with "goood deeds" as her platform, Jackie is an obnoxious rival and dramatic foil for Claire. She also was apparently jealous of Claire and Brody Mitchum, who describes Jackie as a gossip. Jackie is eager to be the center of attention and takes credit in for a fire rescue Claire performed in "Genesis". In "Homecoming", Sylar mistakes Jackie for Claire after having read the news report of Jackie's faked heroism and kills her by telekinetically slicing off the top of her head; Jackie's last words to Claire are "run away".
Charlie
Charlie, played by Jayma Mays, is a waitress at the Burnt Toast Diner in Midland, Texas, where Hiro Nakamura 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 tries to go back in time one day but accidentally goes back six months in an attempt to prevent her murder. Mr. Bennet shows Isaac a photograph of her body without her brain to convince him to create a prophetic painting. Her birthday is April 24.[13]
Hank and Lisa
Hank and Lisa are a former couple who claim to be Claire's biological father and mother 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 reveals that she has diabetes, but neither tell Claire anything that explains how she got her healing powers. After the meeting, Mr. Bennet thanks Hank and Lisa for their assistance.
Tina
"Texas" Tina, played by Deirdre Quinn, is the romance-novel-loving confidante of Niki Sanders who frequently takes care of Niki's son, Micah. When Niki confided in Tina about having having blackouts and possibly an alternate personality, Tina told her that her troubles stem from psychological damage as a result of her dealings with the mob. In "Better Halves", Tina finally meets and flees from Niki's alternate personality, Jessica, 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's MySpace profile describes him as an 18-year-old sophomore who is a Wiccan and unsure of his sexual orientation, for which some of Claire's fellow cheerleaders tease him. In the premiere episode, he filmed a videotape of Claire 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 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.
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.
- ^ http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/novels/novel_004.shtml
- ^ Boiling Painting from 9thWonders.com
- ^ http://www.tv.com/zachary-quinto/person/65120/summary.html
- ^ A clip from "Six Months Ago" from Yahoo.com.
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