I hated the portrayal of Sylar until about halfway through his big arc in the first season, complaining that the character was "inconsistent." Over the midseason break it dawned on me that he was constantly tailoring and retooling his projected personality to suit his environment. —Tabby
At the beginning of the third season, when Claire tries to shoot Peter, I never understood why she would try to do that. He can walk through walls, teleport, heal, and do pretty much anything. Then, I realized that they were probably in the same alternate timeline where Peter lost his original ability and gained a new one. So Claire had no idea what power he had, making her attempt a lot more reasonable.
The infamously non-sequiturical Storyboarding the Apocalypse of season 3 was made significantly more sensical from the revelation that the season 4 Big Bad is a Dirt Disher that gets exponentially more powerful the more he surrounds himself with the super powered.
Yeah, even the scene when Hiro went forward and got to see the huge tidal wave of rock and dirt sweeping over Japan makes sense if you put Samuel together with a superpower serum giving EVERYONE powers...eventually, he reached ultimate critical mass and split the Earth in two by sneezing or something.
Not to mention Sylar's redemption arc in Season 3, or his depiction in it as being reformed in the future and unwilling to kill. Or him and Peter as "brothers." Then, they made it happen for a very different reason in Season 4. Suddenly, "I Am Become Death" doesn't appear to have been such a horrible episode after all.
Actually, his full name was Claude Raines. If you like the Classic Universal Monsters or The Rocky Horror Picture Show, you'll know that "Claude Raines was the Invisible Man."
You've misunderstood the joke. Naming him Claude was his personal joke, not the show's. Rather than use his real name, he adopted the name of the Invisible Man.
In Season 1 we are told by Hiro the story of "Kensei and the Dragon" where the Dragon is a kind of Mentor. In Season 2 we have Hiro taking the role of the Dragon. During this time Kensei keeps referring to him as a Karp, seems like a simple nickname until you find out about a Japanese legend where a Karp that swim up a waterfall can become a Dragon. Something I got after looking around this site.
I got the reference the first time around, thanks to Pokémon.
When I first saw the end of season 4, I thought Claire's insisting on revealing supers was stupid considering what they just went through in season 3. But then I realized that Claire is immortal, and as ditzy as she is, she must realize they can't stay hidden forever. There might be some fear in the beginning, but humanity will adapt like it always does. That's why Claire and Sylar were pretty much the only ones so nonchalant about revealing themselves. They're immortal, and after the proverbial dust settles, they will still be around.
Becomes Fridge Horror in Heroes Reborn when Claire has died because of her children unintentionally stealing her power and Sylar is unaccounted for.
When an amnesiac Sylar was confronted with his memories and he's freaked out about it, it's not Sylar who's freaked out...it's Sylar who believes he's Nathan.
Watching Season 4, some of the powers of the carnies seem oddly specific or esoteric, much more so than previous characters overall - Samuel, on top of his earth powers, seems capable of controlling the inkblot that manifests in Lydia's tattoos, at one point torturing Edgar with it. But this makes sense if you think of it from the perspective of genetics - Samuel explains that the carnies are gypsies, who tend to breed mainly with each other, therefore creating a somewhat limited gene pool and relatively little genetic diversity. So, maybe their powers are more complex and esoteric in response to this.
Sylar pretending to be Sandra to destroy Noah's credibility makes a lot more sense when you realize that it's Noah who manipulated Elle to string Gabriel along and set him on his dark path. Sylar wanted Noah to feel what it's like to lose their significant others through manipulation.
Maya being a Horrible Judge of Character makes more sense because after learning of her ability to kill people through her tears, no one else besides Sylar and her brother treated her like a normal person, which is all she ever wanted. Of course she'd be willing to listen to Sylar; he's simply treating her like a normal person, albeit with his own motives. And then after "Powerless", she latches onto Mohinder because he also treated her normally and because she has no one left in her life.
It only 'makes sense' because she's a stock telenovela character. A real person with a background involving constant betrayal of family would develop a habit of being suspicious almost immediately, but she's from a genre where her entire purpose is to heave her bosom and be shocked at the last dramatic twist, whether the twist itself or the reaction makes any sense or not. Essentially she's an in-universe Canon Immigrant who has horrible things happen to her because she's Wrong Genre Savvy and thinks that all she has to do is wait for the next twist to bring back the status quo.
This isn't unusual for Heroes characters. Hiro is a Canon Immigrant from a silver age comic setting, and most of his troubles stem from not realizing he's in a Crapsack World. Adam is from classical mythology where the trickster god can never be held permanently. Parkman is from a psychic detective show where the aforementioned psychic always mysteriously manages to keep his job no matter how much he has to lie to cover up his methods (which doesn't work out that well in the Heroes film noir setting). And so on.
Hiro's age is listed as 24 in 2006, but Ando tells him he's 28 in 2007. Assuming we aren't running on some odd form of Comic-Book Time or missed a four-year Time Skip, it's possible that Ando just tacked on all the time Hiro spent time-traveling. This would also clear up some of the trouble with his plot with Yaeko: rather than skipping off with Kensei's girl just weeks after Charlie was brutally murdered by Sylar, it would make far more sense if Hiro had spent a couple of (unseen) years there and slowly fallen for her despite his better intentions before finally deciding it was okay to risk completely screwing over the space-time continuum.
Is it just me, or does Hiro seem to run into his child self quite frequently, with little explanation to his earlier self of who he is? But then it hit me - of all the characters in the show, it would make sense that child Hiro would be the one to buy into the mythology that he will grow up to develop the power of time travel. Child Hiro may know exactly who this mysteriously-interested 20-something man is, and he's just going along with it because in his world of comics and superheroes, meeting your future self is entirely possible.
When Samuel killed Joseph, he had enough power from just his brother's presence to throw a rock with sufficient force to penetrate a human skull. By the end of the season, when there are only four other superhumans present at the carnival (Peter, Sylar, Doyle and Emma), Samuel is basically powerless. This actually makes sense if regarding his power boost from other superhumans as the equivalent of a performance-enhancing drug; just like how a person on steroids becomes much weaker once they initially go off the drug, Samuel has become so dependent on the boost from other supers that he's basically useless once the number of supers in his proximity drops below a certain number.
Adam Monroe had the exact same power as Claire, and he lived for close to 400 years. Claire may also share this fate with him, and only two other men on the planet share her ability; Peter, her uncle, and Sylar, a man that quite literally Mind Raped her, meaning, that unless Claire is willing to take the squicky option, the man she will be spending the rest of her eternity with a man who defines Nightmare Fuel.
Not necessarily. Peter isn't immortal unless he borrows her power (he can only use one at a time) and the end of the final episode implied that Sylar is going down the road Angel went after his self-pity phase.
And doesn't this kind of assume there's never going to be anyone else with the same power (or the ability to acquire said power) ever, even though two unrelated people managed it in canon (not to mention those like Peter who could mimic it).
Plus, she can use injections of her blood to keep her lovers around as long as she wants, and the average marriage only lasts a few decades anyhow so the point may be moot to begin with; she was born in the 1990s or later, so having multiple spouses over the course of her life is unlikely to faze her in the first place.
The unknown fate of Caitlin, Peter's brief love interest from season 2. Last we see, she was left behind in a horrific future where The Virus has decimated humanity. Though Peter later averted this future from happening, we have absolutely no idea where (or when) she is. She could still be there in plague-ravaged Oireland, she could have been blinked out of existence, or as one poster speculated, she could have been riding on the plane to Ireland when the timeline reverted, making the plane disappear. The Powers That Be have said that they're not bringing her back, in favor of totally leaving the Seasonal Rot of the last couple of years behind.
Angela Petrelli's sister.
How about everyone at the base? The US soldiers basically opening fire on civilians, including women and children, because a child got scared. Now think for a second about American troops slaughtering dozens of innocent kids.
Claire heals - which has to mean she will be a virgin every single time she has sex ... ouch.
Fridge brilliance - That might explain why she ended up preferring girls...
Because a man and a women can't be together without vaginal penetration and being with someone who doesn't have a penis means there's no chance of vaginal penetration occurring.
Two things: first, not all women have hymens that need to be broken; the so-called 'normal hymen' only covers part of the vaginal opening, and easily stretches out of the way without breaking. Other 'kinds' of hymen may cover even less. Second: If all else fails, ear-piercing? Pierced ears would heal, but we leave a stud in so that the flesh heals around it and leaves a hole. Just saying.
For that matter, her earrings themselves. You'd expect her power would close them up any time she takes them out (piercings are intentional creation of a scar, and her power apparently doesn't allow for scarring), but apparently not (or else she just stabs herself whenever she takes them out or wants to change pairs - not inconceivable, considering she threw herself off things, stuck her hand in a garbage disposal, and chopped off her toe just to see if it'd grow back).
