Are You a Hero?

Are You a Hero?
First mentioned:	January 8, 2007
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During the Season One mid-season hiatus, NBC.com offered an online abilities quiz titled Are You a Hero?. Users could navigate through a list of choices, and were rewarded with HTML for a banner image that they can place on their personal web pages identifying a best match with a Heroes character.

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Introduction

Additional research has enabled the development of this new personality inventory to help determine whether you possess heroic abilities. But always remember, however powerful you be as an individual, we are more powerful together than we could ever be apart.

Quiz Questions

Do you believe you have unique or special abilities?

Yes
- How would you best describe your feeling of being "Unique"? I have above average...
  - Intelligence
    - Intelligence comes in many forms. Define yours as based on either:
      - Logic
        Logical people are often good at fixing things or solving Problem. Would you say this is true of yourself?
        Yes
        Go to When fixing something...
        
        No
        Which statement is truer?
        I learn through hard study
        Go to Do you believe that things typically considered "supernatural"...
        
        I just pick things up
        Is it like you've always known a particular fact, or when you hear something once, does it just embed in your mind?
        Always known
        Go to Is your sense of intuition so keen...
        
        Embeds in mind
        Go to Does it feel like it comes from some kind of "guiding force"?
      - Instinct
        Are instincts unconscious thoughts or unconscious feelings?
        Thoughts
        Go to Which word describes your sense of intuition?
        
        Feelings
        Go to Does your mind and body work well together as a harmonious whole...
      - Imagination
        Witch do you have more frequently?
        Nightmares
        Go to Finish this statement. When body dominates mind...
        
        Dreams about flying
        Go to Why do you think this is? Do you enjoy the feeling of:
  - Physical Agility
    - How would you best classify your physical agility?
      - Technical
        Do you prefer making things or fixing things?
        Making
        What's most appealing about making something?
        The creative process
        During the creative process do you feel as if something is guiding you?
        Yes
        Does it ever feel like you can close your eyes and let someone else, some unseen force, "take control"?
        Yes
        Niki Sanders, NU58 End
        
        No
        Standard End
        
        No
        Standard End
        
        The finished product
        Have you always been good at fixing or making things or is this a skill you had to learn through experience?
        Always
        Micah Sanders, NU60 End
        
        Experience
        Standard End
        
        Fixing
        When fixing something, do you need the manual?
        Yes
        Standard End
        
        No
        What types of things are you best at fixing?
        Mechanical electronics, clocks, (etc)
        Go to Have you always been good at fixing...
        
        Biological
        When you injure yourself, do you heal more quickly than the average person?
        Yes
        Claire Bennet, NU50 End
        
        No
        Standard End
      - Athletic
        What type of athletic activities do you perfer?
        Team sports
        Do you feel like you can intuit the movements/strategoy of others around you?
        Yes
        Would you call your ability to anticipate others' movements:
        Intuition
        Classify "intuition" as:
        Just a feeling
        Standard End
        
        Deja vu
        Hiro Nakamura, NU59 End
        
        An absolute certainty
        Matt Parkman, NU61 End
        
        No
        Do you ever feel especially powerful, like you have unlimited energy coiled within you?
        Yes
        Does it sometimes seem to you that this "energy" is uncontrollable?
        Yes
        Theodore Sprague, NU55 End
        
        No
        How does this energy feel to you? Do you feel like you can:
        Share it with others
        Standard End
        
        Absorb it from others
        Sylar, NU57 End
        
        No
        What kind of energy do you feel when you are engaging in physical activities?
        Protective
        Go to When you injure yourself, do you heal...
        
        A guiding force
        Go to Does it ever feel like you can close your eyes...
        
        Individual sports (Tennis, running, etc)
        Why do you think this is? Do you enjoy the feeling of:
        Uninhibited movement
        When your adrenaline is flowing, do you feel as if you could escape the bonds of gravity with a good, running leap?
        Yes
        Nathan Petrelli, NU49 End
        
        No
        If not escaping from gravity's clutches, do you feel as if you ran a bit faster you could pass through walls or other objects?
        Yes
        D.L. Hawkins, NU56 End
        
        No
        Standard End
        
        That's impossible
        Disbelieving End
        
        Total dominance
        Go to Do you ever feel especially powerful, like you have unlimited energy...
  - Intelligence and Physical Agility.
    - Does your mind and body work well together as a harmonious whole, or do you feel that your mind and body often work in cross-purposes to each other?
      - Harmonious Whole
        Standard End
      - Cross-purposes
        This kind of friction is often symptomatic of a larger issue. Which best describes the friction you experience?
        Body dominates the mind
        Finish this statement. When body dominates mind, a person is more likely to be:
        Violent
        Go to Do you ever feel especially powerful, like you have unlimited energy...
        
        Impuslive
        Go to When your adrenaline is flowing...
        
        Controlling
        Through careful cultivation, is it possible for a person to develop such a high level of control that accepted laws of physics can start to bend?
        Yes
        Go to When your adrenaline is flowing...
        
        No
        If not bending the laws of physics, do you think it's possible to bend "internal" laws of the psyche?
        Yes
        Go to Do you feel like you can intuit...
        
        No
        Standard End
        
        Ridiculous
        Disbelieving End
        
        Mind dominates the body
        Do you believe that things typically considered "supernatural" can have a basis in scientific fact that has yet to be discovered?
        Yes
        Why do you believe this to be true?
        Intuition
        Which word describes your sense of intuition?
        Keen
        Is your sense of intuition so keen that it almost seems like foreknowledge of events that have yet to happen?
        Yes
        To access this knowledge, do you need to be doing something creative, like painting for instance?
        Yes
        Isaac Mendez, NU62 End
        
        No
        Matt Parkman, NU61 End
        
        No
        My instincts are most often:
        Wrong
        Standard End
        
        Right
        Go to Classify "intuition" as...
        
        Foggy
        Does it feel like it comes from some kind of "guiding force"?
        Yes
        Do you feel that deja vu is simply your brain having a temporary spasm, or that you really did experience the event that triggered it in some other place or time?
        Yes
        Go to Would you call your ability to anticipate others' ...
        
        No
        Standard End
        
        No
        Go to How does this energy feel to you...
        
        Experience
        Have you ever had an experience that could be considered paranormal?
        Yes
        Please categorize your experience:
        Auditory (Heard something)
        Go to Would you call your ability to anticipate others'...
        
        Physical (You did something) (sic)(/AZ)(/Q44)
        Go to What type of athletic activities...
        
        No
        Why do you think this is?
        It's impossible
        Disbelieving End
        
        It just hasn't happened
        Go to Do you feel that deja vu...
        
        No
        Standard End
No
- Everyone is unique in some way. Why did you answer in the way that you did?
  - Modesty
    - This test is not designed to evaluate attitude. Please choose how you would best describe your feeling of being "Unique"? I have above average... Go to question 2
  - It's the truth
    - Standard End

Quiz Results

Standard Ending

Not everyone has taken the next evolutionary step forward, but remember, everyone is connected in a global human network that makes us more powerful together than we could ever be apart.

This ending is associated with banner code "NU19", a non existent image.

Disbelieving Ending

A telling response and a common trap, all action is predicated on belief and if you believe such flights of fancy to be impossible, then you most likely have not take an evolutionary step forward. But remember, everyone is connected in a global human network that makes us more powerful together than we could ever be apart.

This ending is also associated with banner code "NU19", a non existent image.

Banner Ending

Name	ID	Name	ID	Name	ID	Name	ID
Nathan Petrelli	NU49	Claire Bennet	NU50	Theodore Sprague	NU55	D.L. Hawkins	NU56
Sylar	NU57	Niki Sanders	NU58	Hiro Nakamura	NU59	Micah Sanders	NU60
Matt Parkman	NU61	Isaac Mendez	NU62

These endings return an "Undefined" page in the Shockwave object with a "Try Again?" option to restart. They also trigger additional code that creates HTML in the browser that can be copied and pasted for inclusion in personal web pages
Major characters notably missing are Mr. Bennet, Mohinder Suresh, and Peter Petrelli
The application returns several banner codes that are ignored by the web browser: NU45, NU46, NU47, NU48, NU53, and NU54

Season Two

What aspect of you is the most unique?

Physiological
- Is your physiological uniqueness something you learned or something you inherited at birth?
  - Learned
    - Categorize your primary physical skill:
      - Athletic
        What is it about physical activities that appeal to you?
        Speed rush
        When your adrenaline is flowing, do you feel as if you could escape the bonds of gravity if you could just pick up more speed?
        Yes
        Nathan Petrelli, NU38 End
        
        No
        Standard End
        
        Superiority
        Standard End
      - Technical
        Do you prefer making things or fixing things?
        Making
        What is most appealing about making something?
        The creative process
        During the creative process, do you feel as if something is guiding you?
        Yes
        Niki Sanders, NU41 End
        
        No
        Standard End
        
        Seeing your idea come to life?
        In a general sense, is this indicative that you desire more control over life?
        Yes
        All that glitters is:
        Gold
        Bob Bishop, NU44 End
        
        False
        Why do you feel this way?
        Lack of sense of belonging
        Why is this?
        Born to wrong time/place
        Hiro Nakamura, NU40 End
        
        Prefer being alone
        Do you have conversations with yourself or do you prefer being quiet?
        Conversations
        Niki Sanders. NU41 End
        
        Being quiet
        Standard End
        
        Unachieved Goals
        Whats stopped you from full achievement?
        Forces beyond your control
        What kind of forces?
        Destiny
        Do you feel like future events, in some way we dont understand, have already happend?
        Yes
        Isaac Mendez, NU42 End
        
        No
        Standard End
        
        Conspiracy
        Is it like someone is watching you or a general feeling of dread?
        watching
        Are you afraid of something specific or intangible?
        Specific
        Would you say that youre afraid of both the thoughts in your head and the thoughts that other people have?
        Yes
        Matt Parkman, NU46 End
        
        No
        Go to: During the creative process...
        
        Intangible
        Does a sense of dread come from a feeling that bad things are about to happen, from your own thoughts and feelings, or neither?
        Bad things
        Go to: Do you feel like future events...
        
        Thoughts and feelings
        Go to: Would you say that youre afraid of both the thoughts in your head...
        
        Neither
        Go to: Would you say that youre afraid of both the thoughts in your head...
        
        dread
        Go to: Does a sense of dread come from a feeling that bad things are about to happen...
        
        Power of thought
        Go to: Would you say that youre afraid of both the thoughts in your head...
        
        Personal Issues
        Go to: Would you say that youre afraid of both the thoughts in your head...
        
        No
        Standard End
        
        Fixing
        How often are you sick?
        Frequently
        Why do you think this is?
        Mind/body disconnect
        Hiro Nakamura, NU40 End
        
        Lifestyle choices
        Why do you make these choices? Would you say that it is a form of escape?
        Yes
        Go to: Does a sense of dread come from a feeling that bad things are about to happen...
        
        No
        Standard End
        
        Genetic makeup
        Standard End
        
        Almost never
        When you do get sick or injured, do you heal wither greater speed than average?
        Yes
        Claire Bennet, NU39 End
        
        no
        Go to: Why do you think this is?...
  - Inherited
    - Have you had to train this special skill or did it work out of the box?
      - Trained
        Pick a word:
        Speed
        Do you learn new physical skills with great speed?
        Yes
        Pick:
        Accurate
        Monica Dawson. NU43 End
        
        Commensurate
        Standard End
        
        No
        Go to: How often are you sick?...
        
        Slow
        Does age matter?
        Yes
        Go to: Do you have conversations with yourself...
        
        No
        Tortoise or hare?
        Tortoise
        Adam Monroe, NU45 End
        
        Hare
        Go to: Do you learn new physical skills with great speed?...
      - Out of the box
        Is this skill outside the realm of the normal?
        Yes
        Go to: Categorize your primary physical skill:...
        
        No
        Standard End
Psychological
- Do you feel like you are destined for something more?
  - Yes
    - How does this make you feel?
      - Afraid
        Go to: Are you afraid of something specific or intangible?...
      - Paranoid
        Go to: Is it like someone is watching you or a general feeling of dread?...
      - Hopeful
        Even though you feel hope, do you feel like you are being chased by something with great speed?
        Yes
        Are you sprinting from something that is unseen, external, or both?
        Unseen
        Is it possible that this internal thing is actually guiding/helping you in any way or are you conninced that you have to flee with great speed that there is no other option?
        Guiding
        Niki Sanders, NU41 End
        
        Flee with speed
        Hiro Nakamura, NU40 End
        
        External
        Go to: Does a sense of dread come from a feeling that bad things are about to happen...
        
        Both
        Go to: Would you say that youre afraid of both the thoughts in your head...
        
        No
        Go to: Pick a word:...
  - No
    - Would you say you have a high level of life saisfaction?
      - Yes
        Standard End
      - No
        Go to: Why do you feel this way?...

Results

Standard End

We are sorry, but you have not taken the next evolutionary step forward. Try again?

NU38 End

You are like Nathan Petrelli. Your soul longs to soar. Let go of your uncertainty and you just may sprint ahead with great speed into greater heights.

NU39 End

You are like Claire Bennet. They say that time heals all wounds, but in your case, wounds heal at a rapid speed that is well above the norm.

NU40 End

You are like Hiro Nakamura. You speed across time and space like they mean nothing, but using this ability with accuracy is something else altogerher.

NU41 End

You are like Niki Sanders. An alter-ego, a presence that is you and not you, is guiding your decisions. Exercise extreme caution, for these decisions may always not be in your best interest.

NU42 End

You are like Isaac Mendez. Through your creative powers, what has yet to be can be conjured into the here and now, but be wary of what you see... It just might be your own demise.

NU43 End

You are like Monica Dawson. Copycats are well and good, but its your own style that defines who you are.

NU44 End

You are like Bob Bishop. You can spin anything into gold with the speed of light, but its your uniquely persuasive style that truly sets you apart.

NU45 End

You are like Adam Monroe. Immortality isnt all it may seem to be, for those who live forever just might lose their head.

NU46 End

You are like Matt Parkman. You can pluck thoughts out of peoples minds at the speed of light, and push them back to bend them to your will.

Banners

Name	ID	Name	ID	Name	ID	Name	ID
Nathan	NU38	Claire	NU39	Hiro	NU40	Niki	NU41
Isaac	NU42	Monica	NU43	Bob	NU44	Adam	NU45
Matt	NU46	Nathan	NU49	Claire	NU50	Nathan	NU53
Claire	NU54	Ted	NU55	DL	NU56	Sylar	NU57
Niki	NU58	Hiro	NU59	Micah	NU60	Matt	NU61
Isaac	NU62

Notes

The game does not always work properly in Internet Explorer 6 or on Mozilla Firefox.
It appears that a number of Heroes banners were referenced by the game and later removed. Only 10 positive results are available.
The game was sponsored by Cisco, an electronics company whose main product line is Internet & communications network hardware

External Links

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Evolutions Other

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A Hero's Quest • Are You a Hero? • Assignment Tracker 2.0 • Assignment tracker map • Bridget's messages • Create Your Hero • Devin's PDA • Evs Dropper's messages • Global News Interactive • Habbo • Hana's messages • Heroes Reborn app • Heroes: Survival • Heroes Versus • Hiro's messages • Interactive map • MySpace.com • The Odessa Report • Pinehearst and Primatech messages • Rebel's messages • Survival messages • Sword Saint • Where Is Hiro?

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