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Heroes is an American science fiction drama television series, created by Tim Kring, which premiered on NBC on September 25, 2006. The show tells the story of several people who "thought they were like everyone else... until they realized they have incredible abilities" such as telepathy, time travel, flight and spontaneous regeneration. These people soon realize they have a role in preventing a catastrophe and saving mankind. The series emulates the writing style of American comic books with short, multi-episode story arcs that build upon a larger, more encompassing arc. Kring said "we have talked about where the show goes up to five seasons."

When the series premiered in the United States, it was the night's most-watched program among adults aged 18–49, attracting 14.3 million viewers overall and receiving the highest rating for any NBC drama premiere in five years.. The second season of Heroes will consist of 24 episodes, and the first season of a new spinoff, Heroes: Origins, will include six episodes. The second season premiered on September 24, 2007 with Heroes: Origins airing in April and May of 2008.

Characters

Season one

Season Two

* Monica Dawson[18] (Dana Davis),[15] described as a "young hero" who is willing to "give up everything to help the people around her." She is a relative of D.L. Hawkins.[19]
* Maya Herrera (Dania Ramírez),[16] a Honduran who is on the run from the police. Under stress, she can create a virus which is fatal to those around her.
* Takezo Kensei (David Anders),[14][20] a legendary warrior, with a spontaneous regenerative ability.
* Ando Masahashi (James Kyson Lee),[13] Hiro Nakamura's friend, coworker, and travelling companion. He is not known to have any superhuman abilities.
* Sylar (Zachary Quinto),[12] a former watchmaker with an intuitive understanding of how things work. He is a serial killer who seeks out superhuman individuals, killing them in order to take their powers. Sylar has multiple acquired abilities.

Plot

The plot of Heroes is designed to be similar to the stories of comic books. The series has large, overall plot arcs and minor story arcs within. No matter what characters exist and what events make up a season, each season of Heroes is planned to involve ordinary people who discover their abilities and their reactions to their self-discovery.

First season

Each episode reveals new answers and questions and progresses the story and/or the characters. The significant plot arcs in the first season are:

* The characters discovering the powers, and dealing with the resulting changes in their normal lives.

* Certain non-powered characters investigating the origins of the other characters' powers. This is developed by Noah Bennet and Mohinder Suresh, the former working for a secret organization called The Company, and the latter carrying on his father's genetics research.

* Police and FBI are hunting a serial killer called Sylar, who murders his victims in bizarre ways. This arc is initially carried by LAPD officer Matt Parkman.

* Nathan Petrelli's campaign for Congress. Niki Sanders and D.L. Hawkins are drawn into this when their son is kidnapped for the purpose of using his power to rig the election, on Daniel Linderman's orders.

* Sylar attempts to murder Claire Bennet at her Homecoming celebration. Thanks to a message from the future, "Save the cheerleader, save the world," by Hiro Nakamura, Peter Petrelli is able to stop him. The reason Claire needs to be saved is revealed in "Five Years Gone".

* The love triangle between Peter, Simone Deveaux and Isaac Mendez, which ends after the deaths of Isaac and Simone.

* Claire's search for her biological parents, which ends when she meets her father, Nathan.

* The heroes stopping an explosion of immense proportions that happens in the future. That arc is initially developed by Hiro and Isaac, the former having seen the event in the future and the latter having painted it from his visions. All surviving main characters have been drawn into this by the end.

Second season

The second season continues from where Volume Two - "Generations" - began, with Hiro Nakamura in feudal Japan. The season explores the events of the heroes' lives four months after the events at Kirby Plaza: Claire Bennet and her family have gone into hiding in California; a divorced Matt Parkman has adopted a troubled Molly Walker; Mohinder Suresh is working with Noah Bennet to infiltrate the "Company" and receive funds to cure the disease that killed Mohinder's sister, Shanti. Peter Petrelli and a bearded Nathan Petrelli are alive. Peter, handcuffed to the inside of a shipping container and suffering from amnesia, is found by a group of criminals in Cork. Nathan deals with depression and alcoholism, while Angela Petrelli and Kaito Nakamura have received death threats from a figure from their past. In an interview given to the G4 Network on Attack of the Show, it was revealed that the second season will focus on an older generation of Heroes. It was also noted that the theme for this season would not be normal people doing extraordinary things but extraordinary people doing normal things. Many of the Heroes must now return to their normal lives and blend in with the rest of the human population.