Rebel

Rebel
First mentioned	Trust and Blood
In-story stats
Known ability	Unknown (Possibly Technopathy or Electronic Communication)
Formal name	Unknown
Aliases	Rebel, Libertad
Gender

A mysterious character known alternately as Rebel and Libertad sends messages to evolved humans.

Character History

Trust and Blood

After returning home from unfortunate events, Claire receives a text message. The sender pushes her to fight, and after she questions the senders identity, they reply with their name, Rebel.

Graphic Novel:Libertad

Rebel is revealed to be a mysterious person directing evolved humans to the Angry Skunk bar, where the traffickers there help them find new IDs and give them safety. Libertad sends Simon Bolivar to deliver a message saying "Viva Libertad! Rebel & Be Saved" to Harmon, who takes the message and shows it to the traffickers. When the traffickers doubt the message's authenticity, Libertad makes the same message pop up on the bar's TV screen. That night, when Harmon, Angie, and Maya's meeting is interrupted by Danko's capture squad, Libertad helps Angie and Maya to escape by tipping them off via text.

Building 26

Claire receives two messages when she is having her breakfast with the Bennet family and after she and Noah Bennet have an argument. Rebel needs her to warn Alex, an employee at Sam's Comics in Costa Verde, CA.

Exposed

While Matt and Peter are in Isaac's loft, a computer mysteriously turns on with a message from Rebel, telling them the address of Building 26, where Daphne supposedly is, and telling them that Nathan's agents are about to enter the loft.

After breaking into Building 26, Rebel sends Peter a video of evolved humans in orange jumpsuits and hoods being loaded onto the plane. Peter saves this video to a flash drive for use as a bargaining chip. Rebel also prevents them from being blocked from computer access and somehow cuts the power to the building temporarily allowing them to escape.

Eric Doyle breaks into Claire's house with a message from Rebel, saying that she would help him.

Shades of Gray

Eric Doyle displays a received message from Rebel to Claire. It tells him that Claire will help him.

While Danko tries to activate the bomb strapped to Matt's chest, Rebel interferes and buys Nathan enough time to disarm it.

Claire receives a message from Rebel that agents are closing in on Doyle nearby.

Claire and Eric mention that Rebel has deleted everything to do with "Eric Doyle", and that he is free to start over.

Graphic Novel:Puppet with No Strings

When being interrogated in his theater, Eric Doyle tells Emile Danko, Rachel Mills, and Jason that Rebel contacted him and told him that he could change after the explosion at Primatech. Doyle accuses them of being Rebel and tricking him, but they claim that there is no Rebel. Setting the building on fire, Danko, Rachel, and Jason leave Doyle for dead. However, Rachel gets a text message from Rebel telling her to save him. Without letting Jason or Danko notice, Rachel teleports into the building and frees Doyle. Handing him her cell phone, she tells him that Rebel wanted him to have it. After escaping from the building, Doyle receives a text message from Rebel telling him to find Claire Bennet because she will save him.

Heroes Evolutions

The Agent

In chapter 2 of The Agent, Rebel contacts Rachel Mills via text messages after she discovers hidden messages from Rebel on various websites. Rebel sends Rachel a video file showing Rachel using her ability at Pinehearst, then warns Rachel not to tell Danko what she just discovered. In an additional text message, Rebel claims to need Rachel to do something.

In chapter 3 of The Agent, Rachel does something for Rebel the day before Peter Petrelli breaks into Danko's apartment. What she does causes her to be late to meet up with Danko and her partner, Jason.

A couple days later, while Danko informs Rachel and Jason of an upcoming mission in Costa Verde, Rachel again receives text messages she assumes are from Rebel. However, after Danko and Jason leave her by herself, she throws her cell phone into a trash can without reading them.

While waiting for a security camera footage to be streamed to Jason's cell phone in Costa Verde, Rachel gets a text message from Rebel on Jason's phone and deletes them after reading them. The message is "DONT DO THIS RACHEL.". Afterwards, Rebel deletes security camera footage showing Alex's car and a passenger that Rachel thinks might be Claire off Jason's phone. Rebel then texts "STOP NOW OR ILL HAVE TO TELL", and Rachel deletes that message just as Jason reaches and grabs his phone back. Jason then discovers that the video file has been deleted off both his phone and their organization's server as well.

Later, Rachel is in the front room of Liliane's house, and she spots Rebel scrolling a message in caps on the bottom of a TV screen in the living room while a kid's movie continues playing on it. The message contains the word "RACHEL" and it gradually begins scrolling faster. Rachel leaves before the family questions her about the message.

In Alex's apartment, Rachel finds a laptop that loads Alex's e-mails when Jason boots it up. However, Rebel begins deleting the messages. Rachel then spots what she thinks is a webcam on the laptop and says hello to Rebel. Rebel responds by sending a new e-mail to the in-box with the subject line "Leave now Rachel!". Jason then turns off the laptop and ejects the battery before Rebel can completely erase everything.

In chapter 4 of The Agent, Rebel replaces a message sent from headquarters to Rachel's and Jason's mission laptop with a different message asking for help and warning Rachel that a man might give away her secret. Jason then grabs the laptop before Rachel can stop him, but the message have been changed into a bunch of garbled text. After showing Rachel the garbled text as well, he gets the message resent. While the laptop is still pointed towards Rachel, new messages then appear at the bottom of the screen instructing Rachel to "BREAK EACH LINE AT 60 CHARACTERS" in order to read the latest message. When she does that, the garbled text becomes an ASCII photo of Eric Doyle. A second message, "GET TO HIM FIRST RACHEL", can be found by putting together the lowercase letters in the garbled text, but it is unknown as to whether Rachel realized it existed.

Notes

• Libertad, another name used by Rebel, is Spanish for "Freedom".
• Micah Sanders hacked corinthianlasvegas.com and found a poster advertising Richard Drucker's political writings bearing the title Libertad.

Gallery

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  Rebel texts Claire.
  (Trust and Blood)
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  Rebel sends a message to the TV screen...
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  ...then Rebel texts Maya...
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  ...and Angie.
  (Libertad)
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  Rebel asks Claire for help...
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  ...to warn Alex.
  (Building 26)
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  Rebel texts Matt and Peter.
  (Exposed)
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  Rebel sends messages to Eric Doyle that he can change, via computer...
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  ...and to electronic billboard...
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  ...and a TV appliance storefront...
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  ...and later tells Rachel to help save Eric...
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  ...and then tells him to seek out Claire for help.
  (Puppet with No Strings)

See Also

• For other uses of Libertad, see Libertad (disambig).
• Rebel's messages

Fan Theories

Please refer to Theory:Rebel for fan-created theories and other speculation.