Loyalty vs. treachery

Loyalty vs. treachery
Kensei sees Hiro and Yaeko kiss.

The loyalties of characters on Heroes are disparate and varied.

Episodic Recurrences

Loyalty

Parasite

• Mohinder attempts to kill Sylar to fulfill his duty as a son.
• Ando returns to Hiro, just in time to help Hiro get his powers back.

How to Stop an Exploding Man

• Hiro proclaims to his father that he will not abandon Ando.
• After Sylar calls Hiro "a silly little man", Ando defends Hiro by saying that he is not silly.
• Niki stays with D.L. and doesn't leave him.
• Noah Bennet stays with Peter because he saved his daughter's life.
• Nathan is loyal to Peter as his brother and prevents him from destroying New York.

Four Months Later...

• Even though Kaito Nakamura tells him he is going to die, Ando stays by his side.

Kindred

• Maya comes back for Alejandro after he's arrested breaking into a car.

The Kindness of Strangers

• Even though Molly is frightened of the nightmare man, she wants to help Matt Parkman find his father because of all he's done for her.

Fight or Flight

• Because his sister loves Peter, Ricky promises to handle the woman looking for him.

Four Months Ago...

• Even thought Maya has just murdered his bride and all the guests at his wedding, Alejandro runs away with her.

Cautionary Tales

• Even though Noah Bennet assumes a painting of Mohinder firing a gun is linked to a painting of Noah's death, he tells Sandra that Mohinder is a "good guy".
• Hiro goes back in time to save Kaito Nakamura from dying, but listens to his father and uses the opportunity to, instead, find out his killer.
• Determined to rescue Elle, Bob Bishop puts himself in danger. Noah Bennet does the same for Claire.

Truth & Consequences

• When Victoria Pratt tries to kill Adam Monroe, Peter Petrelli saves his life. When Victoria tries to kill Peter, Adam returns the favor.
• Monica finds out where Micah's comic books are and goes to retrieve them, despite the danger.

Powerless

• Even though her powers are gone, Niki Sanders goes to rescue Monica.
• To win over Bob's approval, Elle Bishop tries to kill Sylar.
• Nathan makes alternative plans from Angela's to save Peter's life.
• Despite wanting to take down The Company, Claire Bennet withdraws her plans upon Noah's request.

The Second Coming

• Claire Bennet offers to fly from California to New York to try and save Nathan.

One of Us, One of Them

• Sylar rescues Noah.

Angels and Monsters

• Sylar rescues Claire.

Dying of the Light

• Claire and Sandra stage a rescue for Meredith.
• Instead of killing Ando for real, Hiro uses his powers to set up a fake murder.
• Daphne warns Matt about Pinehearst.
• Sylar wakes Peter in order to save Angela.

Eris Quod Sum

• Sylar attacks Pinehearst in order to rescue Peter Petrelli.
• Maury Parkman dies for his son.
• Sandra Bennet promises to keep Claire's crime fighting activities secret.
• Daphne puts her own life at risk by refusing to kill Matt, even with Knox monitoring her.
• Peter comes back for Sylar.
• Sylar makes sure Peter escapes alive, even after deciding to side with Arthur.

Villains

• Daniel Linderman restores Angela's memories, even though the man he's saving is trying to ruin him.
• Meredith gets caught so that Flint can escape. Twice.
• Thompson lets Meredith go free after learning what lies she's been told about her daughter.

It's Coming

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The Eclipse, Part 1

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The Eclipse, Part 2

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Our Father

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Dual

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1961

• Alice Shaw stays in a bunker at Coyote Sands for fifty years because her sister promised her she'd be safe.

Treachery

One Giant Leap

• In his speech, Nathan humiliates Peter in front of a crowd for the benefit of his campaign.
• Isaac looks at a sketch of Simone kissing Peter under a red umbrella.

Collision

• Nathan sleeps with Niki.

Six Months Ago

• Jessica threatens her father.

Unexpected

• Peter believes that Isaac betrayed him by telling the Company his location.

Five Years Gone

• Noah turns in Candice and D.L. to the government.
• Niki threatens to break Future Hiro's neck if he says the name "Sylar" again.
• Matt double-crosses Bennet and kills him after discovering Claire's location.
• To help Hiro undo the explosion, Peter grabs his coat and leaves Niki.

The Hard Part

• Virginia Gray disappointingly tells her son that he is damned.

How to Stop an Exploding Man

• Claire questions Nathan's loyalty as a brother.

Kindred

• Will betrays Ricky, threatening him with a gun, for the money they stole from Pinky's Sportsbook.

The Kindness of Strangers

• Seeing their pictures in a newspaper, Derek goes to report Maya and Alejandro even after they rescued him.
• Sylar convinces Derek to call the police and then follows him to kill him.

The Line

• Noah shoots his old friend, Ivan, to cover up his visit to Odessa, Ukraine.
• Hiro betrays Kensei by kissing Yaeko.

Four Months Ago...

• At their wedding party, Gloria cheats on her husband.
• The Haitian returns a debt to Angela Petrelli by creating Peter's escape.

Cautionary Tales

• Mohinder betrays Noah by shooting him.

Truth & Consequences

• After hearing how much money Micah's comics books could sell for, Damon steals them.
• In 1977, Adam Monroe betrays The Company by trying to release the virus.
• Sylar betrays Maya by killing Alejandro, and then kisses her outside of the murder scene.

Powerless

• Sylar reveals his true motives to Maya Herrera.
• Angela Petrelli gives Matt Parkman the mental command to kill her son, if neccessary.
• Bob Bishop tells Elle he wasted his time raising her.
• Adam Monroe betrays Peter Petrelli and tries to release the Shanti virus.

The Second Coming

• In the future, Claire tries to kill Peter.
• Future Peter goes to the past to shoot Nathan.
• In the future, Ando appears to kill Hiro.
• Maya offers her blood to find a cure for her curse, but Mohinder uses it to create abilities instead.

The Butterfly Effect

• Bob benches Elle and blames her for letting Sylar escape.

One of Us, One of Them

• Meredith Gordon takes Claire Bennet to teach her survival techniques, but instead tortures her to learn her true motives.
• Knox betrays and murders The German.
• After rescuing Noah, Sylar promptly betrays him and Angela by murdering Jesse.
• Hiro tells Ando that he doesn't need him.

I Am Become Death

• Peter Petrelli kills Nathan in the future and attacks Angela.

Angels and Monsters

• Noah Bennet yells at Sylar for rescuing Claire.
• Noah tries to convince Stephen Canfield to kill Sylar.
• Adam Monroe tells Hiro that they're going to a bar to find information, and tricks Milosh into knocking him out.
• Mohinder attacks Maya after she discovers his experiments.
• To prove to Knox that he's a "badass", Hiro stabs Ando.

Dying of the Light

• Daphne betrays Arthur Petrelli by warning Matt Parkman against helping him.
• Mohinder tranquilizes Nathan and Tracy.
• Peter betrays Sylar and drugs him.
• Arthur pulls Peter in for a hug only to steal his power.

Eris Quod Sum

• Daphne betrays Arthur Petrelli by warning Matt Parkman about Pinehearst.
• Arthur tells Sylar that Angela had visions of her son being a monster and tried to kill him.
• Sylar sides against Angela when Arthur reveals Angela's favorite son is Peter.
• Daphne calls Arthur to tell him that Matt fully trusts her now.

Villains

• Nathan Petrelli betrays his father by pursuing legal prosecution against Linderman.
• Elle saves Sylar's life and befriends him in order to gain his trust.
• After Linderman's attempt on Nathan's life fails, Arthur plans his own.
• Arthur controls Angela's mind.
• Elle pretends she thinks Trevor Zeitlin is special in order to make Sylar kill him.
• Elle goes back on her plan to trick Sylar and tries to stun him, revealing that she's been lying about everything.
• Linderman betrays Arthur by restoring Angela's mind.
• Angela poisons Arthur's soup in order to save Nathan.

It's Coming

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The Eclipse, Part 1

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The Eclipse, Part 2

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Our Father

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Dual

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Graphic Novel Recurrences

Loyalty

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Career Choices

• The Company takes Donna Dunlap off missions and combat exercises when an Isaac Mendez painting turns up that depicts her death.

Trust Issues, Part 2

• Donna helps the Company by trying her hardest to investigate Cushing's death.

Treachery

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Career Choices

• Donna Dunlap begins working as a double agent against the Company.

Trust Issues, Part 2

• When Donna finds evidence pointing to Thompson, Jr. as Cushing's killer, Thompson, Jr. takes Donna into confidence and explains the circumstances that led to Cushing's death.