Peter

Name: Peter Petrelli (played by Milo Ventimiglia)
What\'s the dealio? Peter is a former hospice nurse who has the ability to mimic the superpowers of others once he has come into contact with them. In Heroes season 2, Peter very nearly entered villian territory after joining forces with Adam. Will he be able stick to the path of good in season 3?

Superpowers: He\'s got all the powers in the superhero encyclopedia and more! 

Good or evil? He\'s a good un. But even if he went bad we\'d still love him.

Nathan

Name: Nathan Petrelli (played by Adrian Pasdar)

What\'s the dealio? Peter\'s brother Nathan is a New York lawyer. In Heroes season one, Nathan decides to run for congress but only acheives his goal after being seduced by the underhand tactics of enigmatic businessman Daniel Linderman. In season 2, Nathan finally saw the error of his ways and decided to tell the world about his special abilities. Before he could do so however, he was gunned down by a mystery shooter.

Superpower: Nathan can fly! 

Good or evil? Although Nathan\'s intentions are generally good, there is no doubt he could potentially be drawn to the dark side.

Angela & Kaito

Names: Angela Petrelli (played by Christine Rose)
What\'s the dealio? Peter and Nathan\'s mother Angela is a strange old bird. Having formed part of the original group of Heroes who set up \'The Company\', Angela seems to hold the keys to many secrets.
Superpowers? Angela can see into the future through her dreams.
Good or evil? Angela Petrelli is something of an enigma. In Heroes season 1 and 2 her character appeared to be both good an evil.

Claire

Name: Claire Bennet (played by Hayden Panettiere)

What\'s the dealio? Claire is a high-school cheerleader who discovered that
she was totally indestructible. In season one of Heroes we found out that Noah Bennet was actually Claire\'s adoptive father and that her real dad was in fact Nathan Petrelli. In season 2, it was revealed that Claire\'s blood can cure pretty much anything, including death!

Superpowers: Has the power to regenerate. 

Good or evil? She\'s as pure as the driven snow... Isn\'t she?

West

Name: West Rosen (played by Nicholas D\'Agosto)
What\'s the dealio? This cute loner takes an interest in Claire when she starts her new school. She\'s been spending her time trying to keep her superpower a secret from him, only to find out that he has a secret of his own. West was kidnapped by The Company and tested on when he was younger and in Heroes season 2, he discovered that his kidnapper was in fact Claire\'s father, Noah Bennet.
Superpower: Has the ability to fly
Good or evil? West seems like a good boy - he even helped out Noah after finding out who he was.

Mr Bennet

Haitian

Bob

Name: Bob Bishop (played by Stephen Tobolowsky)

What\'s the dealio? Another Company lacky - Bob\'s job is to find and monitor people with special abilities.

Superpower: The lucky chap can make gold.

Good or evil? He works for the Company, which is never a good sign.

Elle

What\'s the dealio? Daughter of Bob Bishop, Elle is also an agent of the Company. In Heroes season 2 Elle found out that her father had experimented on her when she was a child.

Superpower: Can manipulate electricity.

Good or evil? She\'s far too mentally unstable to ever be good.

Hiro

Name: Hiro Nakamura (played by Masi Oka)

What\'s the dealio? The star of the show, Hiro has the ability to bend time through sheer willpower alone. With the help of his trusty friend Ando, Hiro is constantly looking for ways to use his powers for good.
Superpower: Hiro can teleport anywhere in the world as well as travel forwards and backwards in time.

Good or evil? So good it hurts.

Kaito

Names: Kaito Nakamura (played by George Takei)
What\'s the dealio? Hiro\'s father Kaito was part of the original group of Heroes who came together to form \'The Company\'. Sadly, Kaito was murdered by Adam in Heroes season 2, leaving Hiro to take over the family business.
Superpowers? In a deleted scene from the episode Four Months Later, Kaito reveals to Ando that his special ability is to "see the variables of any situation and predict the outcome".
Good or evil? Like father like son - good.

Ando

Name: Ando Masahashi (played by James Kyson Lee)
What\'s the dealio? He may not have any special powers but he is definitely a hero! Ando is Hiro Nakamura\'s right hand man and best friend. At the end of season one, Ando was nearly killed by Sylar but Hiro managed to save him in the nick of time and teleport him back to the safety of Japan.
Superpower? None.
Good or evil? His heart is most definitely in the right place.

Takezo

Name: Adam Monroe/Takezo Kensei (played by David Anders)

What\'s the dealio? We heard a lot about Takezo Kensei in season one from Hiro. Kensei is a real life 17th Japanese hero. In Heroes, Hiro talks a great deal about the legend of Takezo Kensei and his great swordsmanship. When Hiro managed to accidentally transport himself back in time to 1671 and meet his hero face to face in Heroes season 2, who could have known how bad things would turn out for the would-be pals. Adam was last seen buried alive.

Superpower: It turns out that Adam can heal himself which also means he\'s immortal.

Good or evil? He started out good, but boy did he go bad.

Matt

Name: Matt Parkman (played by Greg Grunberg)

What\'s the dealio? Matt is an ex-cop who can hear peoples\' thoughts. In season one of Heroes, Matt\'s new-found talent set him on the trail of the elusive and sadistic serial killer Sylar, who turned out to be the Heroes arch nemesis. In season 2 Matt had to take on his own father Maury, who also has telepathic powers.

Superpower: Matt\'s can read and control other peoples\' minds.

Good or evil? He\'s a white hat all the way.

Molly

Name: Molly Walker (played by Adair Tishler)
What\'s the dealio? Way back at the beginning of Heroes season one, Molly was found by Matt Parkman. Using his power to hear people\'s thoughts, Matt discovered Molly hiding under some stairs at a crime scene after her parents were killed by Sylar. Molly was later taken by the mysterious Company and used as a tracking system to find Sylar. She is now living under the shared guardianship of Mohinder Suresh and Matt Parkman.
Superpower? Molly can find anyone in the world just be thinking about them.
Good or evil? She\'s all good.

Mohinder

Name: Mohinder Suresh (played by Sendhil Ramamurthy)

What\'s the dealio? Mohinder is a genetics professor from India who traveled to New York to investigate the death of his father. Through his investigations, he came into contact with people his father listed as possessing superhuman abilities.

Superpowers: None, yet.

Good or evil? The last time we checked, Mohinder was definitely a goody, but who can say what lies in store for him in Heroes season 3.

Maya & Alejandro

Names: Maya Herrera (played by Dania Ramirez) Alejandro Herrera (played by Shalim Ortiz)

What\'s the dealio? Maya and Alejandro are twins. When we met them in season two of Heroes they were wanted fugitives accused of murder. While trying to get across the border into America, Maya and Alejandro met Sylar. Although Sylar was still unable to use powers, the maestro of evil still managed to murder Alejandro when he got in the way of his plans for Maya. Maya was last seen seeking solace with Mohinder Suresh.

Superpowers: When threatened, Maya can kill anyone in reach of her with a mysterious virus, while Alejandro is able to restore anyone struck down by the virus back to health.

Good or evil? Although her powers are dark, Maya seems like a good person.

Sylar

Name: Gabriel Gray aka Sylar (played by Zachary Quinto)
What\'s the dealio? Possibly one of the best villains ever devised, Sylar took great pleasure in tormenting our Heroes for most of season one. Having turned psychotic thanks to his strange mother\'s parenting skills, Sylar went about searching for other \'special\' individuals like himself. Sylar\'s modus operandi was to either befriend and/or stalk said heroes, then somehow steal their superpowers by slicing their heads open and doing something ambiguous to their brain. After losing and later restoring his powers in Heroes season 2, we look forward to seeing what Sylar does next.
Superpower? Sylar\'s original superpower was his ability to see how things worked or \'intuitive aptitude\' as Chandra Suresh called it. Thanks to his killing spree Sylar now has the added powers of telekinesis, freezing, enhanced memory, liquification, enhanced hearing, radiation manipulation and precognitive painting.
Good or evil? He\'s bad to the bone people and make no mistake about it.

Isaac

Name: Isaac Mendez (played by Santiago Cabrera)

What\'s the dealio? Gone but not forgotten, Isaac was a gifted artist whose drug addiction enabled him to paint the future... Sadly for us, Isaac got his head chopped up by Sylar in Heroes season one.

Superpower: Isaac had the power precognition.
Good or evil? He died a hero. Sob :-(

Niki

Name: Niki Sanders (played by Ali Larter)

What\'s the dealio? In season one, Niki found our that she had an alternate personality, which turned out to be that of her dead twin sister Jessica. Eventually Niki learned to control her more homicidal alter ego, much to the relief of her son Michah and husband D.L. In season 2, Niki discovered that her super strength came from her, not Jessica, and with the help of The Company, Jessica and her other personalities were supressed. Niki was last seen trapped in a burning building and powerless - thanks to the Shanti virus.

Superpower:  Superhuman strength.

Good or evil? That all depends on which personality is driving Niki at the time... There\'s definitely potential there for Niki to be forced onto the dark side.

Micah

Name: Micah Sanders (played by Noah Gray-Cabey)

What\'s the dealio? Niki\'s son Micah is a child prodigy who has a technopathic ability - meaning he can communicate with machines and electronics.

Superpower: Can communicate with machines and electronics of all kinds.

Good or evil? Too cute to be evil - but who knows what his future holds?

D.L.

Name: D.L. Hawkins (played by Leonard Roberts)
What\'s the dealio? D.L. is Michah\'s father. Having escaped prison in series one of Heroes thanks to his new found ability to walk through walls, D.L. managed to clear his name, reunited his family, and help save the world. What a guy. Sadly in Heroes season 2, D.L. was shot and killed after racing to LA to save Niki from one of her many multiple personalities.

Superpower:  D.L. had the power to alter his physical presence and walk or rather \'phase\' through solid objects.

Good or evil? He was a good guy alright.

Monica

Name: Monica Dawson (played by Dana Davis)

What\'s the dealio? Monica is D.L.\'s niece from New Orleans. Her mother died during Hurricane Katrina, so now she lives with her grandmother. 

Superpower: As a copycat with photographic reflexes, Monica just has to watch something to become an expert. Mark our words, it will lead to a lot of trouble.

Good or evil? She\'s a good lass.

Caitlin

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