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Noah Bennet- also known as the man in Horn-Rimmed Glasses (aka HRG) appears as businessman who works for a paper company in Odessa, Texas. However, he and his associates have actually traveled the world for years tracking and sometimes imprisoning posthumans. He deeply cares for his family and will do anything to protect them, his loyalty to his job and family knows no boundaries, and he always puts them above all else. However, he, later tries to bring the company down in order to protect his adopted daughter, Claire after they try to bring her in for study. He is also Angela Petrelli's "go-to man" when a job needs to be done because he is known to be comfortable in the "morally gray" department. Most of his storyline consists of protecting his family and trying to lead a normal life for them.

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Emma Coolidge- a deaf woman working in the same hospital as Peter, she is trained as a physician, but prefers to work in the filing room instead of treating them. She discovers that she can perceive sound as colors, with the louder the sound, the more intense colors she is able to see. Her ability manifests in the fourth season, and Peter helps her accept her ability instead of rejecting it. She feels guilty about her nephew's death because she was unable to hear his cries for help when he begins to struggle while swimming and eventually drowns. This event causes enough pain that it triggers Emma's ability to evolve into a sound blast instead of just seeing the sound. She is able to forgive herself, however, after saving a little girl in the hosptial hallway that is left unattended and causes her to rethink practicing medicine

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Isaac Mendez- is a struggling artist living in New York City. Mendez is addicted to heroin, and has had little success quitting permanently. Isaac realizes he can see future events and paint them, but only when high on heroin. He first believes the paintings to be "evil" and tries to destroy them, but his art dealer sees them as impressive and refuses him to allow it. At one point, Issac overdoses and his girlfriend calls Peter Petrelli because he is a nurse. Peter then realizes that Isaac has painted a picture of him without having previously met him and with Peter's help, Isaac survives the overdose. He then paints the basic theme of the rest of the season. "Save the Cheerleader, Save the World" and his paintings serve as an outline for the rest of the first season and most of the second, even though Sylar kills him for his ability in the middle of the first season.

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Hiro Nakamura- an office worker at Yamagato Industries, living in Tokyo, Japan who one day discovers he has the power to manipulate time and space. Hiro is fan of superheroes and science fiction. He is the one character that aspires to the pure heroism of comic book crime fighters; he swears to a responsibility to use his powers for good. His best friend and usually sidekick is Ando Masahashi, who is always skeptical of Hiro's abilities. Every season Hiro has a new "quest" and uses his heroic attitude to complete it at all costs.

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Angela Petrelli- She is the mother of Nathan and Peter Petrelli. She wishes to make her son (Nathan) President or a leader at any cost. She has the ability to see into the future and the past through dreams, and can also enter and manipulate other people's dreams. This wasn't revealed until the show's third season premiere. She uses her ability to manipulate the people around her and fulfill her hidden agenda

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Nathan Petrelli- He is a New York lawyer-turned-senator with the power of flight. Nathan, ambitious and pragmatic, has a villain type streak in most seasons, which worsens his complex relationship with his brother, Peter. During the third volume, he finally accepts his ability and tries to fight the villains, but later turns around in the fourth volume (third season) and he leads a government campaign on rounding up posthumans. Sylar eventually kills Nathan, and Matt Parkman infuses Nathan's mind into Sylar's body during the season finale. The struggle between Nathan and Sylar is most of the storyline for those two characters.

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Peter Petrelli- He is a hospice nurse-turned-paramedic in his mid-20s with the power to absorb and mimic the powers of other people with special abilities, or powers. Empathetic and compassionate, Peter was initially defined by his complex relationship with his older brother, Nathan. He is seen as "the most powerful of all" and is often used for his abilities by villains such as Adam Monroe and his mother. His geniuine love for others results in him using his abilities to help people and stop the villains, much like Hiro.This current season he is investigating Sylar's "death" and discovers Nathan is actually dead with his mind in Sylar's body.

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Micah Sanders- He is the son of Niki Sanders and D.L. Hawkins. He is a child prodigy and a technopath. During the first season, he is kidnapped and used to rig the senate race and make Nathan Petrelli win by a landslide. He then becomes a hero to those hunted in volume four. Known as "Rebel", he uses technology to help other posthumans escape pursuit.

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Niki Sanders- the wife of D. L. Hawkins and mother of Micah Sanders. Niki, a victim of Dissociative Personality Disorder, displays superhuman strength. Initially, she is able to access this power only when her alter ego "Jessica" is in control. She eventually gains control of herself and most of storyline consists of fighting her psychological disorder and protecting her son, Micah. She is killed in a fire in the season 2 finale.

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Tracy Strauss- She has the ability to freeze anything that she touches. As the series progresses, her ability evolved to include water mimicry. Introduced in the third season, she is an adviser to the governor of New York who recruits Nathan Petrelli as a senator. She is the triplet sister of Niki Sanders and Barbara, all three having been injected with a power inducing formula and seperated at birth by the Company. That makes her the biological aunt of Micah Sanders. She returns to her job with the governor and later decides she cannot live her old life with her ability and goes on to live at Sullivan's Carnival in the fourth season.

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Samuel Sullivan- has the ability to control earth and other minerals with his mind. The mysterious leader of a carnival ring, "Sullivan Bros. Carnival", he is introduced in "Orientation" while eulogizing his deceased brother, Joseph. He continues to recruit posthumans to join his "family" (the carnival) because it is later revealed that the more posthumans surround him, the powerful his ability becomes. He is the main villain of the fifth volume, Redemption.

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Mohinder Suresh- is from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India and is a genetics professor at the University of Madras who holds a PhD in parapsychology. He is attempting to find the truth behind the sudden death of his father, Chandra Suresh, and to continue his father's research finding the posthumans on Earth. Suresh also provides many episodes with opening and/or closing dialogue, mostly philosophical inquiries regarding events that take place during the episode. He usually serves as the moral compass of the cast, however changes to a villain type character in the third season when he injects himself with a formula that gives him abilities. When he realizes his wrong doings, he isolates himself and isn't seen for most of this current season. However, it is later revealed he discovered Samuel's plan to enhance his power and he is murdered because of it. Hiro goes back in time and saves Mohinder to bring him back to the present and help stop Samuel.

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Sylar- is a superpowered serial killer who targets other posthumans in order to steal their powers. He was primary villain of the first two seasons, and had begun the road to reconcilation in "Villains" before returning to his evil ways. He is always after people with abilities, however now he is trapped in the mind of Matt Parkman after murdering Nathan Petrelli in the season three finale. He has now escaped Matt Parkman's mind and is battling for his body with Nathan Petrelli.

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