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Throughout Heroes, irony is used to underline themes, as well as to highlight comedic tones.

Memorable Quotes

"You gotta love the irony, c'mon its like a Greek tragedy or something."

- Eric Doyle (to Claire, Meredith and Sandra) (Dying of the Light)

Season One Recurrences

Genesis

Peter begins to believe that he can fly and tries to convince his skeptical brother of it. When he attempts to prove his ability, Nathan himself is the one who takes flight.
Peter says that it "might be a little awkward if I ever wanted to ask [Simone] out" because they treat each other like brother and sister. They later become a pair of lovers.

Don't Look Back

Brody states that Claire is "dainty". Soon afterward, she is accidentally tackled, has her neck broken and regenerates.

One Giant Leap

When Matt tries to explain that he can hear voices in his head, Audrey asks if the voices tell him to rob a store or kill the President. Matt later stops a man from robbing a store, and in a dark future, Matt works with the President who is actually a man he has been hunting hiding behind an illusion.
Paulette Hawkins tells Niki that her son, D.L., would never murder anyone. Later, he kills Linderman.

Better Halves

After long believing her husband guilty of murder, Niki discovers that she herself committed the crimes for which he was imprisoned.

Seven Minutes to Midnight

Charlie goes to the back of the Burnt Toast Diner. As she aggressively slices off the top of a can, Sylar aggressively slices off the top of her head.

Homecoming

Jackie is murdered by Sylar. She dies because she lied and took credit for Claire's heroism in Genesis.

Six Months Ago

When Chandra is testing Gabriel's brain activity to see if Gabriel has an ability, Gabriel asks him about the testing: "So... What? You're gonna cut me open?" Later, Gabriel Gray assumes the name "Sylar" and cuts open his victims skulls to examine their brains.
Unknown to Sylar, his talent at fixing watches comes from his intuitive aptitude. He later states that he wanted powers because he wanted to be more than an insignificant watchmaker.
Niki says that her life is "too much for one person." She later acquired a split personality.

Fallout

Peter, who is trying to prevent the explosion, has a dream in which he himself is the cause of the explosion.

Godsend

Peter is on his cell phone, trying to get a flight out of New York so that he won't wipe out the city. He suggests going to Nevada. However, if he goes to Nevada, he would be in the same area as Ted, whose power is the source of Peter's exploding problem.

Run!

Hiro and Ando find a woman called Hope — immediately after Hiro tells Ando that they "need to find hope" — and because of her hopeful name, they decide to help her. She turns out to be a thief who attempts to kill the duo.

Unexpected

While in Bozeman, Mohinder discusses the murder of his father. He states, "What does it matter. Even if I did come face to face with him, justice could never be served." At that moment he is talking directly to Sylar who is masquerading as Zane Taylor.

Parasite

After holding Sylar captive, Mohinder draws spinal fluid from Sylar and tells him he "might actually do some good before [he] dies". Later, Sylar escapes, then tells Mohinder that he "might actually do some good before [he] dies" before he assaults him and pins him to the ceiling.

The Hard Part

Sylar goes to his mother to try and figure out why he'd want to blow up New York, according to a painting he did. After accidentally killing his mother, Sylar decides to kill everybody.

Landslide

Despite having been working on Sylar's case for months, Audrey exchanges words with the killer without realizing who he actually is.

Season Two Recurrences

Kindred

Will says "Sláinte!" when he pulls his gun on Ricky. This Gaelic greeting means "to your health".
Sylar kills Candice with a Have a Nice Day mug.
After Sylar kills Candice, he comments that Candice was being something that she wasn't. Sylar doesn't want to be -- and ignores that he is -- an "insignificant watchmaker". In the future, Sylar uses Candice's ability to pretend to be President Nathan Petrelli.

The Kindness of Strangers

Sylar, a man who is on a hunt to acquire new powers, meets Maya, a woman who is trying to get rid of hers.

Fight or Flight

Peter and Caitlin talk about his past, and Peter says that anyone can try and find him -- it will not affect him. Ricky dies as a result.

Four Months Ago...

A marvelous and joyful party is being celebrated for Alejandro and Gloria's wedding, until Maya got furious and killed everybody.

Cautionary Tales

Noah, who was so determined to get West out of Claire's life, ends up asking him for help.
Elle, who thought Noah had a death wish for kidnapping her, gets outsmarted by him and ends up shocking herself with her own power.

Powerless

Adam Monroe is buried alive in the same cemetery with one of his victims, Kaito Nakamura.
When West tells Claire revealing her power won't bring her father back, she turns around to see him standing in the doorway.
Peter Petrelli almost helped Adam Monroe to cause the Shanti Virus outbreak that he was intending to prevent.

Season Three Recurrences

I Am Become Death

When asked to choose a desk for his office, Nathan's aide chooses Robert Kennedy's, who was murdered like Nathan almost was.
Gabriel, who has renounced killing, explodes and kills 200,000 people.

Angels and Monsters

Nathan tells Tracy they can trust Mohinder to help them, and says he is completely harmless. Meanwhile, Mohinder has rendered Maya unconscious and seals her in a cocoon along with his other victims.

Dying of the Light

In a twisted game of Russian roulette, Claire is forced to pull the trigger on Meredith by Eric Doyle. However, the gun does not fire. Sandra's turn is next, and she is forced to shoot Claire. Eric even remarks about the irony, comparing the situation to a Greek tragedy.

The Eclipse, Part 2

Sylar kills Elle, the person who saved his life.

Our Father

Sue Landers is killed by Sylar on her birthday.
Sylar ignites Elle's cremation with her own ability.
Sylar says "No place I'd rather be than with family." to Arthur and Peter, but soon he knows that Arthur lied to him.

Dual

Nathan, once on the path of giving everyone abilities, now wants everyone with abilities to be captured and locked away.

Building 26

Sylar is not happy when Luke thanks him for coming back to help him; he just turns the radio on, only to hear "Psycho Killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?".

Cold Wars

Noah gets kidnapped by Matt, the same way he kidnapped Matt in Season One; made unconscious by a drugged drink.

Cold Snap

The door that Danko opens for Mohinder that contains all the sedated "specials" is labeled "Human Resources".

1961

Nathan states he's going to admit to his mistakes and speak to The President as Sylar, disguised as Nathan, holds a televised press conference to challenge the President to meet him.
Angela tells Alice a lie to make her stay at Coyote Sands. She discovers fifty years later that Alice is still there because of the lie.

An Invisible Thread

Danko, who framed evolved humans several times (Building 26, Exposed), is himself framed by an evolved human.
Earlier, Sylar stated that he almost wished Angela Petrelli was his mother. Now, Sylar is made to believe he is Nathan Petrelli, one of Angela's sons.
Sylar wanted to take over Nathan's life and was ultimately forced to do so.
Noah Bennet uses James Martin's body to convince Sylar, who believes he's Nathan, that Sylar is dead, much in the same way Sylar used it trick Noah.
Sylar attends his own "funeral".

Season Four Recurrences

Brother's Keeper

After seeing Samuel hanging on his bottle, Joseph says he tries to keep this genie in a bottle.

Graphic Novel Recurrences

Hana meets Mr. Bennet in a children's playground to discuss life and death situations. (The Death of Hana Gitelman, Part 1)
Betty, an obese female generally regarded as ugly, shares her name with a slang term for an attractive female. (Betty)
Betty calls the people at her high school "fakes", all the while creating fake illusions of her own. (Betty, Part 3)
Elle comments to herself that if she had to attend Homecoming, she'd have to shoot herself. Eden does just this after replacing Elle and capturing Sylar on Homecoming night. (Elle's First Assignment, Part 2)
Penny disagrees with her mom about using her appearance to get guys. But when her mom forces her to keep a beautiful appearance for a night, she has one drink too many and ends up using her looks to score a guy anyway. In addition, Penny's mom desires to show her daughter that an improved appearance can make her happy; but when Penny wakes up in bed having reverted to her normal self, Penny also realizes a different truth--that beauty doesn't last forever. (Faces, Part 1)
After sleeping with Thompson, Jr., Penny sneaks away, trying to hide from him that she used her mother's ability to alter her appearance to attract him. She is later forced to tell him that she did so and learns that he likes the idea of her going out with him as someone new every night. (Faces, Part 2)
Sylar while working for The Company visits a gallery in which are represented many of the Company's deceased agents (Bob Bishop, Candice Wilmer, Bianca Karina, Gael Cruz, Eden McCain and Bridget Bailey), all of which where his victims. (Viewpoints)
Sylar's cremation realizes the shot planned for Elle's cremation by Sylar. (The Natural Order of Things)

Recurring Themes

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Character connections • Child vs. parent • Death • Faith and religion • Family • Fate vs. free will • Heroism • Irony • Logic vs. emotion • Loneliness • Loyalty vs. treachery • Moral ambiguity • One punch knockout • Pressure of responsibility • Revenge • Sacrifice • Secrets and deception • Special • Women in Refrigerators

See Also: References

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 =={{MQ}}==
-"''You gotta love the irony , c'mon its like a Greek tragedy or something.''"
+"''You gotta love the irony, c'mon its like a Greek tragedy or something.''"
 : - Eric Doyle (to [[Claire]], [[Meredith]] and [[Sandra]]) (''[[Dying of the Light]]'')
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 ===[[Episode:Homecoming|Homecoming]]===
-*[[Jackie]] is murdered by [[Sylar]].  She dies because she lied and took credit for Claire's [[heroism]] in ''[[Genesis]]''.
+*[[Jackie]] is murdered by [[Sylar]]. She dies because she lied and took credit for Claire's [[heroism]] in ''[[Genesis]]''.
-* [[Hiro]] [[Space-time manipulation|goes back in time]] to save Charlie, only to learn [[Episode:Six Months Ago|later]] that she had an aneurysm and was going to die anyway.
 ===[[Six Months Ago]]===
 * When [[Chandra]] is testing [[Gabriel]]'s brain activity to see if Gabriel has an [[abilities|ability]], Gabriel asks him about the testing: "So... What? You're gonna cut me open?" Later, Gabriel Gray assumes the name "Sylar" and [[brain removal|cuts open]] his [[evolved humans|victims]] skulls to [[intuitive aptitude|examine]] their brains.
-* Unknown to Sylar, his talent at fixing watches comes from his [[intuitive aptitude]].  He later states that he wanted powers because he wanted to be more than an insignificant watchmaker.
+* Unknown to Sylar, his talent at fixing watches comes from his [[intuitive aptitude]]. He later states that he wanted powers because he wanted to be more than an insignificant watchmaker.
-* [[Hiro]] goes to the phone to try to call [[Ando]].  When the call is answered, it is not Ando, but the Hiro of six months ago who picks up the phone.
 * [[Niki]] says that her life is "too much for one person." She later acquired a split personality.
 ===[[Fallout]]===
 *[[Peter]], who is trying to prevent the explosion, has a dream in which he himself is the cause of the explosion.
-*[[Eden McCain]] attempts to use her power to have [[Sylar]] commit suicide, however, her plan backfires and she kills herself in order to keep [[Sylar]] from obtaining her power.
 ===[[Godsend]]===
-*[[Peter]] is on his cell phone, trying to get get a flight out of [[New York, NY|New York]] so that he won't wipe out the city. He suggests going to [[Nevada]]. However, if he goes to Nevada, he would be in the same area as [[Ted]], whose power is the source of Peter's exploding problem.
+*[[Peter]] is on his cell phone, trying to get a flight out of [[New York, NY|New York]] so that he won't wipe out the city. He suggests going to [[Nevada]]. However, if he goes to Nevada, he would be in the same area as [[Ted]], whose power is the source of Peter's exploding problem.
-===[[The Fix]]===
-*Hiro and Ando are hiding under a car and Kaito's people aren't able to see them, on a wall is written "Blind".
 ===[[Run!]]===
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 ===[[Unexpected]]===
-* While in [[Bozeman]], [[Mohinder]] discusses the murder of his [[Chandra|father]].  He states, "What does it matter.  ''Even if I did come face to face with [[Sylar|him]]'', justice could never be served."  At that moment he is talking directly to Sylar who is masquerading as [[Zane Taylor]].
+* While in [[Bozeman]], [[Mohinder]] discusses the murder of his [[Chandra|father]]. He states, "What does it matter.  ''Even if I did come face to face with [[Sylar|him]]'', justice could never be served." At that moment he is talking directly to Sylar who is masquerading as [[Zane Taylor]].
 ===[[Parasite]]===
-*After holding [[Sylar]] captive, [[Mohinder]] draws spinal fluid from Sylar and tells him he "might actually do some good before <nowiki>[he]</nowiki> dies". Later, Sylar escapes, then tells Mohinder that he "might actually do some good before <nowiki>[he]</nowiki> dies" before he assaults him and [[telekinesis|pins him]] to the ceiling.
+*After holding [[Sylar]] captive, [[Mohinder]] draws spinal fluid from Sylar and tells him he "might actually do some good before [he] dies". Later, Sylar escapes, then tells Mohinder that he "might actually do some good before [he] dies" before he assaults him and [[telekinesis|pins him]] to the ceiling.
 ===[[The Hard Part]]===
+*[[Sylar]] goes to his mother to try and figure out why he'd want to blow up New York, according to a [[precognition|painting he did]]. After accidentally killing his mother, Sylar decides to kill everybody.
-*[[Virginia Gray]] says that "if [Sylar] wanted, [he] could be president." [[Sylar]], in the [[Explosion future|future]], became the president under the disguise of [[Nathan Petrelli]].
-*Sylar goes to his mother to try and figure out why he'd want to blow up New York, according to a [[precognition|painting he did]]. After accidentally killing his mother, Sylar decides to kill everybody.
 ===[[Landslide]]===
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 ==[[Season Two]] Recurrences==
 ===[[Kindred]]===
-*[[Will]] says "Sláinte!" when he pulls his gun on [[Ricky]].  This Gaelic greeting means "to your health".
+*[[Will]] says "Sláinte!" when he pulls his gun on [[Ricky]]. This Gaelic greeting means "to your health".
 *[[Sylar]] kills [[Candice]] with a [[Have a Nice Day mug]].
-*After Sylar kills Candice, he comments that Candice was being something that she wasn't.  Sylar doesn't want to be -- and ignores that he is -- an "insignificant watchmaker".  In the future, Sylar uses Candice's ability to pretend to be President Nathan Petrelli.
+*After Sylar kills Candice, he comments that Candice was being something that she wasn't.  Sylar doesn't want to be -- and ignores that he is -- an "insignificant watchmaker". In the future, Sylar uses Candice's ability to pretend to be President Nathan Petrelli.
-*When [[West]] explains the [[mark]] on his neck to Claire, he mentions that the man in the [[horn-rimmed glasses]], Claire's father, [[bag and tag|abducted]] him.
 ===[[The Kindness of Strangers]]===
 *[[Sylar]], a man who is on a hunt to acquire new powers, meets [[Maya]], a woman who is trying to get rid of hers.
-*When [[Sylar]], who intends on killing [[Maya]], tells her his name, she compares him to the Angel Gabriel, who is said to be the angel of death.
 ===[[Fight or Flight]]===
-*[[Peter]] and [[Caitlin]] talk about his past, and Peter says that anyone can try and find him - it will not affect him. [[Ricky]] dies as a result.
+*[[Peter]] and [[Caitlin]] talk about his past, and Peter says that anyone can try and find him -- it will not affect him. [[Ricky]] dies as a result.
 ===[[Four Months Ago...]]===
-*A marvellous and joyful party is being celebrated for [[Alejandro]] and [[Gloria]]'s [[Alejandro's wedding|wedding]], until [[Maya]] got [[Poison emission|furious]] and [[:Image:Powers maya whoops.jpg|killed everybody]].
+*A marvelous and joyful party is being celebrated for [[Alejandro]] and [[Gloria]]'s [[Alejandro's wedding|wedding]], until [[Maya]] got [[Poison emission|furious]] and [[:Image:Powers maya whoops.jpg|killed everybody]].
 ===[[Cautionary Tales]]===
 *[[Noah]], who was so determined to get West out of Claire's life, ends up asking him for help.
 *[[Elle]], who thought Noah had a death wish for kidnapping her, gets outsmarted by him and ends up shocking herself with her own power.
-===[[Truth & Consequences]]===
-*After killing [[Victoria Pratt]], [[Adam]] marks her photograph with the symbol in his own [[rapid cell regeneration|regenerative blood]].
 ===[[Powerless]]===
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 *When [[West]] tells [[Claire]] revealing [[regeneration|her power]] won't bring [[Noah|her father]] back, she turns around to see him standing in the doorway.
 *[[Peter Petrelli]] almost helped [[Adam Monroe]] to cause the Shanti Virus outbreak that he was intending to prevent.
-*[[Sylar]] shoots [[Maya]] at the same location where he killed [[Isaac Mendez]].
 ==[[Season Three]] Recurrences==
 ===[[I Am Become Death]]===
-* When asked to choose a desk for his [[Nathan's Senate office|office]], Nathan's aide chooses [[Wikipedia:Robert F. Kennedy|Robert Kennedy's]] who was [[Nathan's press conference|murdered]] like Nathan almost was.
+* When asked to choose a desk for his [[Nathan's Senate office|office]], Nathan's aide chooses [[Wikipedia:Robert F. Kennedy|Robert Kennedy's]], who was [[Nathan's press conference|murdered]] like Nathan almost was.
-* [[Gabriel Gray (exposed future)|Gabriel]], who has renounced killing, [[Induced radioactivity|explodes]] and [[Sylar's victims|kills]] 200, 000 people.
+* [[Gabriel Gray (exposed future)|Gabriel]], who has renounced killing, [[Induced radioactivity|explodes]] and [[Sylar's victims|kills]] 200,000 people.
 ===[[Angels and Monsters]]===
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 ===[[Dying of the Light]]===
 *In a twisted game of Russian roulette, [[Claire]] is [[Puppet master|forced]] to pull the trigger on [[Meredith]] by [[Eric Doyle]]. However, the gun does not fire. [[Sandra Bennet|Sandra's]] turn is next, and she is forced to shoot Claire. Eric even remarks about the irony, comparing the situation to a Greek tragedy.
-===[[Eris Quod Sum]]===
-*[[Elle Bishop]] starts a war on the Bennet's by [[electric manipulation|electrocuting]] [[Lyle]]. Lyle ends it by dumping a bucket of water on her, causing her to electrocute herself.
 ===[[The Eclipse, Part 2]]===
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 *[[Sue Landers]] is [[Sylar's victims|killed]] by Sylar on her birthday.
 *[[Sylar]] ignites [[Elle|Elle's]] cremation with [[Electric manipulation|her own ability]].
-*[[Sylar]] says "No place I'd rather be than with family." to [[Arthur]] and [[Peter]], but soon he [[Lie detection|knows]] that Arthur lies to him.
+*[[Sylar]] says "No place I'd rather be than with family." to [[Arthur]] and [[Peter]], but soon he [[Lie detection|knows]] that Arthur lied to him.
 ===[[Dual]]===
-*[[Scott]], who has [[enhanced strength]] is killed by [[Knox]], who also has enhanced strength.
-*Both [[Flint]] and [[Meredith]] blow up the [[Pinehearst]] and [[Primatech]] facilities, respectively, with [[pyrokinesis|fires they started]] and are engulfed in the flames themselves.
-*The night's events are similar to that of events that took place in ''[[How to Stop an Exploding Man]]'', in that one Petrelli brother [[flight|flies]] the other away from an explosive disaster.
-*[[Sylar]] is killed in the exact same way he killed [[Peter]] in ''[[.07%]]'': a shard of glass to the back of the head.
 *[[Nathan]], once on the path of giving everyone abilities, now wants everyone with abilities to be captured and locked away.
 ===[[Episode:Building 26|Building 26]]===
-* [[Sylar]] is not happy when [[Luke]] thanks him for coming back to help him, he just turns the radio on, only to hear "Psycho Killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?".
+* [[Sylar]] is not happy when [[Luke]] thanks him for coming back to help him; he just turns the radio on, only to hear "Psycho Killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?".
-* The way that Noah Bennet was abducted by [[Matt Parkman | Matt]], [[Mohinder Suresh | Mohinder]] and [[Peter Petrelli | Peter]] was the same way he and [[The Haitian]] abducted [[Matt Parkman | Matt]] in [[One Giant Leap]] (e.g. A drugged drink that knocked him unconscious).
 ===[[Cold Wars]]===
-* [[Noah]] gets kidnapped by [[Matt]], the same way he [[Bag and tag|kidnapped]] Matt in Season 1; made unconscious by a drugged drink.
+* [[Noah]] gets kidnapped by [[Matt]], the same way he [[Bag and tag|kidnapped]] Matt in Season One; made unconscious by a drugged drink.
-===[[Exposed]]===
-* [[Peter]] uses the hug with [[Nathan]] to [[Ability replication|replicate]] [[Flight|his ability]], just like [[Arthur Petrelli|his father]] used the hug to [[Power absorption|steal]] [[Empathic mimicry|Peter's powers]].
 ===[[Cold Snap]]===
+* The door that [[Danko]] opens for [[Mohinder]] that contains all the sedated "specials" is labeled "Human Resources".
-* [[Eric Doyle]] is tied up like a puppet in Danko's apartment.
-* The door that [[Danko]] opens for [[Mohinder]]  that contains all the sedated "specials" is labeled "Human Resources".
 ===[[1961]]===
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 ===[[An Invisible Thread]]===
 * [[Danko]], who framed [[evolved humans]] several times (''[[Building 26]]'', ''[[Exposed]]''), is himself framed by [[Sylar|an evolved human]].
-* [[Angela]] discovers that her dream was not about saving Nathan, but was about Sylar, whom killed Nathan.
 * [[Episode:Dual|Earlier]], [[Sylar]] stated that he almost wished [[Angela Petrelli]] was his mother. Now, Sylar is [[telepathy|made to believe]] he is [[Nathan Petrelli]], one of Angela's sons.
 * Sylar wanted to take over Nathan's life and was ultimately [[Telepathy|forced]] to do so.
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 * [[Sylar]] attends his own "funeral".
-== [[Season Four]] Recurrences ==
+==[[Season Four]] Recurrences==
-===[[Orientation]]===
-* Minutes after [[Emile Danko|Danko's]] life is spared by Tracy, he is killed by [[Edgar]].
-===[[Ink]]===
-* [[Samuel]] asks [[Peter]] if he has ever lost [[Nathan|a brother]]; he says he hasn't.
-===[[Acceptance]]===
-* The baseball cap that bears [[Nathan]]'s memory of [[Kelly Houston]]'s death looks like the one by which [[Sylar]] was first known. {{epp|gn10}}
-===[[Hysterical Blindness]]===
-* The situation where Sylar awakens mirrors that to the same situation as [[Peter]] in [[volume 2]] wherein; he has no idea who he is, is befriended by a young woman, and is surprised by his display of abilites including [[RCR|spitting fired bullets from his abdomen]], [[telekinesis|tossing someone across the room]], and [[electric manipulation|generating electricity in his hand]].
 ===[[Brother's Keeper]]===
-*When [[Claire_Bennet|Claire]] finds [[Tracy_Strauss|Tracy]] in her house, she screams "Freeze!", which ironically is [[Freezing|Tracy's power]].
 *After seeing [[Samuel]] hanging on his bottle, [[Joseph]] says he tries to keep this genie in a bottle.