Heroes

" It's time to save the world "

NBC's new prime time tv series, telling a story about ordinary people who possesed incredible abilities. These people thought they were like anybody else, until one day the woke up and realized that they can time travel, fly or start a fire with your hand. These people soon realize what they are meant to be and that is to save the world from a catastrophe. Unlike any other superheroes movie such as Superman or Spiderman, these superheroes have the ability which is more human. Their abilities came from evolution of DNA. According to Mohinder Suresh this evolution leap forward from time to time, thus caused their superpower abilities. The caracters also have to fight within themselves to deny that they are different from others because they are afraid of what people might think. They try to pretend that there is nothing wrong with them until they can't escaped their destiny. The main cast (not all of whom have been shown to have powers) consist of:

• Mr Bennet, a father who works for the Primatech Paper Company, which is actually a cover operation for an organization that investigates people with superhuman abilities.
• Claire Bennet, Mr. Bennet's adopted daughter, who lives in Odessa, Texas, and has a healing factor.
• Simone Deveaux, an art dealer and galery owner whose skepticism and complicated romantic life are tested.
• D.L. Hawkins, once an escaped criminal, he has the power to alter his physical tangibility and phase through solid objects, both inanimate and organic.
• Isaac Mendex, an artist living in New York who can paint future events during precognitive trances. He also writes and draws a comic book called 9th Wonders which has also been shown to depict the future.
• Hiro Nakamura, a programmer from Tokyo with the ability to manipulate the space-time continuum.
• Matt Parkman, a Los Angeles police officer with the ability to hear other people's thoughts.
• Nathan Petrelli, a New York Congressional candidate with the ability of self-propelled flight.
• Peter Petrelli, a former hospice nurse and Nathan's younger brother. He is an empath with the ability to absorb the power of others he has been near and can recall any ability he has used in the past by focusing on his feelings for those from whom the abilities originate.
• Micah Sanders, D.L. and Niki's son and a child prodigy, Micah is a technopath, allowing him control of electrical signals, which gives him control of machines and electronic devices.
• Niki Sanders, the wife of D.L. and mother of Micah. A former internet stripper from Las Vegas who exhibits superhuman strength when her alternate personality, Jessica, surfaces.
• Mohinder Suresh, a professor of genetics from India who travels to New York to investigate the death of his father. Through his investigations, he comes into contact with people his father listed as possessing superhuman abilities.
  

* All materials compiled from NBC's website and Wikipedia