Hiro has a tedious office job and like Peter Petrelli, he is convinced that he is destined for great things. When he manages to get a clock ticking backwards with the power of his mind he runs to tell his best friend Ando - who thinks he's mad.
Undeterred, Hiro decides to test his power again, this time on the Tokyo subway. Where should he go? A poster of New York provides the answer.

 

NAME:

Peter Petrelli

LOCATION:

New York

JOB:

Nurse

FAMILY:

Borther: Nathan, Mother: Angela

HERO POWER:

Absorbs the powers of other Heroes

 

 

Peter has grown up in the shadow of his brother, Nathan. So it's only too apt that while Nathan eagerly wades into the murky political waters of Congress, Peter, as a hospice nurse, decided to devote his life to caring for others. When we first meet him, he is looking after the dying father of Simone Deveaux. However, Peter is restless and believes he was destined for something bigger - namely, saving the world. He also believes he can fly.

 

NAME:

Nathan Petrelli

LOCATION:

New York

JOB:

Politician

FAMILY:

Borther: Peter, Mother: Angela

HERO POWER:

Ability to fly

 

 

His brother Peter might have got all the compassion, but the ambition belongs entirely to Nathan Petrelli. At face value, Nathan is a loving husband and father, and a devoted politician. In reality, he hides and suppresses his own secret ability, not to mention a ruthlessness and willingness to get the job done - at any cost.

 

NAME:

Niki Sanders

LOCATION:

Las Vegas

JOB:

Stripper

FAMILY:

Husband: DL Hawkins, Son: Micah, Sister: Jessica

HERO POWER:

Alter ego with superhuman strength

 

 

Niki lives in Las Vegas with her gifted son Micah. She is forced to make ends meet as an internet stripper, after her husband D.L was sent to prison for a crime he says he didn't commit. Loan sharks are after her and no one seems to be looking out for her. Or are they? When Niki gets in trouble, someone seems to step in. She becomes increasingly convinced that her reflection in the mirror has a mind of its own.

Niki's twin sister Jessica might be dead, but she's there every time Niki looks in the mirror. Moreover, whenever there's money to be made and lives to be taken, Jessica takes over completely - with a ferocity that borders on the superhuman.

 

Niki's troubled husband DL mysteriously escaped from prison. He was inside for stealing 2 million dollars something he insists he didn't do. At first, Niki is unsure whether to believe him. He is a tough man to lay hands on. This is as much to do with his shadowy dealings as it is to do with his own special abilities. But will being untouchable be enough to save him from the powerful enemies he's made, or from his own wife's dark side?

 

 

Isaac is an artist who lives in New York. He has the ability to paint the future during precognitive trances (primarily triggered by drugs). He also writes and draws the comic book '9th Wonders!' which similarly depicts future events. Initially Isaac is romantically involved with Simone Deveaux. She tries to encourage him to go into rehab but Isaac thinks he needs the drugs to help him paint. Simone finds his refusal to give up the drugs and his insistence that he can paint the future increasingly frustrating.

 

Matt is a Los Angeles police officer with the ability to hear other people's thoughts. However he can't control his telepathy so often hears everyone's thoughts at once. He feels inadequate next to his ambitious wife Janice after her latest promotion and the couple have been going to marriage counselling. Matt flunked his detective exams three times and his colleagues don't really take him seriously. When Matt makes an important discovery at a crime scene and he can't explain how he did it, he comes under suspicion. Telling people he can mind read doesn't seem like a sensible option at the time. But after proving his ability by reading an FBI agent's mind in the interrogation room, he is offered a position to assist in the investigation.

 

 

Mohinder is genetics professor at the University of Madras in India. He discovers that his father has been killed and starts to believe that he was murdered because of his theories on human evolution. He heads to New York and tries to work out what might have happened by searching through his father's research.

It becomes clear that people from all over the planet are developing astounding and unnatural abilities, and the knowledge of their whereabouts may well have got his father killed. Although Mohinder has no superpowers of his own, he plays a key role in the lives of the people who do.