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The Company is a clandestine espionage organization created after a single or series of terrible incidents involving one or more specially powered. Because of this, they seek out powered agents who they believe are not too dangerous or out of control, especially those they can maneuver into a place where they feel accepted and indebted to the organization. To this end they take all measures to follow and monitor those who may be special. They are also likely trying to develop a program to create these gifts.	The Company employs several agents with powers: The Haitian (One Giant Leap), Eden McCain (Better Halves), Claude Rains (Company Man), Hana Gitelman (Wireless, Part 2), and Isaac Mendez. (Distractions) The Company is conducting research into evolved humans by kidnapping and evaluating subjects. (Collision, Nothing to Hide)	+ The Company uses a pneumatic needle to inject a tracking isotope into people with powers leaving a mark on the neck. (How Do You Stop an Exploding Man?) + Mr. Bennet's boss insists on keeping Sylar alive to be studied. (The Fix) + With the apparent resources available to The Company and the knowledge of many of the people who have abilities (sometimes even before the people themselves know about their abilities), they could most likely kill most of them before they developed abilities or reasonable control over them.
The Company is the American branch of an international secret organization that exists for this purpose. Yamagato Industries is simply the Japanese branch.	None.	+ This could explain Yamagato Industries having a biotech division, if Yamagato were also a part of this group. - Biotechnology is a booming industry; many large multinationals have some presence in the field. + Kaito Nakamura was, at least at one point, influential enough in the company to give orders to Mr. Bennet and Mr. Thompson. (Company Man) - Kaito Nakamura tells Hiro that his former companions have lost their way. This may indicate that Kaito has separated himself from Linderman and the company by the present time, perhaps starting a rival company. + Heroes is a TV show. The chances of the company headed by an evolved human in league with The Company, which also happens to have a biotech division not being some sort of Japanese branch of the company is very low, especially considering the large amount of coincidences present in most TV shows.
The Company is a secret agency of the US government.	A file related to The Company is found in the Pentagon, the headquarters of the US military. (Graphic Novel:War Buddies, Part 1)	- It seem unlikely any of the major powers would be unaware of such individuals particularly if the phenomenon has been going on since at least the 1970s. The resources available to Mr. Bennet seem to beyond the capabilities of anything but government. + He seemed to have had prior warning of the police raid. He is interested in tracking evolved humans, not killing or capturing them. Sylar is kept alive, possibly because his ability to harvest those of others means he could be an effective weapon in a war involving evolved humans. In World War 2, Nazi Germany engaged in scientific programs to produce superior humans. Many of these scientist were taken to USA or USSR to continue their research, and just as German rocket science lead to man landing on the moon, these evolved humans could represent the fruition of this research. - In an interview, Joe Pokaski and Aron Coleite stated that the Company is not affiliated with any government.
The Company is an agency of the UN.	None.	+ Mr. Bennet operates without regard to national borders. For example, Eden's body is found in Canada, he recruits Hana in Israel, and he searches Chandra's apartment in India. Most intelligence agencies operate extra-nationally. - In an interview, Joe Pokaski and Aron Coleite stated that the Company is not affiliated with any government.
The Company is some manner of medical organization or corporation, akin to the Center for Disease Control.	Examples of this are Bennet's unwillingness to shoot an escaping Nathan despite having a gun drawn on him (Hiros), Bennet's superiors ordering him to study Sylar despite his suggestion that Sylar is too dangerous to live (Fallout), and Hana's mission to secure information on a biological weapon. (Wireless, Part 3)	+ Mr. Bennet and company seem to have been more interested in studying evolved humans and preventing medical disasters than anything else.
The Company's mission is to protect the human race from evolved humans with special abilities. Their main priority appears to be the studying and understanding of these new powers. The Company firmly believes that any means they use to achieve this mission are justified. They do this through "bag and tag" operations where people with special abilities are captured and tagged so that they can always be located. When captured the powers of the "special" are evaluated and a threat assessment is made. Specials whose powers are judged to be a threat are not released. The Company then studies the powers of these evolved humans to determine how their powers work. This final mission explains why Sylar was so important to The Company and why he was not killed in spite of the dangerous nature of his powers.	Mr. Bennet and Thompson discuss the company's mission. (Company Man)	+ There were references to vivisection in Company Man. Vivisection is basically dissecting a living being. This is not standard procedure, but is simply one of the "morally gray area" behaviors that must be done to accomplish their mission. The end justifies the means. + Mr. Bennet's said that Ted emitted only low levels of radiation when his powers were assessed and that he was judged to be harmless and released. (Company Man)
The Symbol marks evolved humans that work for The Company. Since this symbol is of Japanese origins, this points to a Japanese origin for The Company.	Ando recognized the Symbol as a combination of two Japanese symbols.(Godsend and Great Talent)	- A tattoo appears on Niki's right shoulder when she turns into Jessica, and she doesn't work for The Company. • Japanese symbols are common tattoos. + Due the nature of the tattoo and how it vanishes, it is possible that it is not a normal tattoo, but maybe an experimental tag. • The symbol is found in several places around the world.
The Company's true intent is to take control of human evolution in order to create a hierarchical society, where people are designed to have the skills needed at their work level and where they have just enough natural intelligence to be satisfied with their responsibility in life (whatever that may be).	None.	+ When Claude first meets Mr. Bennet, he tells him that it's a "Brave New World." (Company Man) The phrase "Brave New World" is the title of a novel by Aldous Huxley. This novel is a dystopia with a great deal of intriguing potential parallels to the Heroes universe, but one significant potential parallel is the possibility of this mysterious company to have the goal of creating a world like that of the novel. Also, its possible that Claude figured out these were the Company's true intentions, which is why he was no longer comfortable with those motives and decided to hide a powered person. - The Company seems to be mainly concerned with studying the abilities of the powered individuals. While it accepts some of these individuals into its structure, it appears to be more focused on containing them than utilizing them.
The Company is actually divided into three parts: The Deveaux Society, Primatech Paper and The Linderman Group. Together these groups form the company and work together towards fulfilling the objectives of whoever is in charge.	None.	• Metaphorically speaking, the Deveaux Society would represent the super-ego of this triad, since it is philanthropic and presents a good face to the world. Primatech Paper works as the ego, a balance in the morally gray areas of the mission. And The Linderman Group works as the id (supported by Linderman's speech in Parasite where he talks about gambling, sex and food), who gets things done in what would possibly be a less than legal way. Together, these groups are able to tackle the same issue from different angles. For example, an emergent super-powered being who is a little darker by nature (such as Jessica) would fit better in Linderman's camp than with the Deveaux society. While someone like Hiro would likely work better with the Deveaux Society than Primatech Paper. They also appear to work against each other, evident by Mrs. Petrelli giving orders that go against Primatech's. It is also likely that the Yamagato Corporation is involved in this somehow, either as the umbrella company, or as an international branch of the Primatech division. - While the Jungian symbolism works very well on paper, in practice there is no evidence that the objectives and methods of the Linderman Group, the Company, and the Deveaux Society are at all different. - The line between Primatech Paper and the Linderman Group, at least, is very blurry. Mr. Thompson appears to take orders from Linderman, and Candice's mission for Linderman supercedes her work for Thompson. This strongly implies that Primatech is merely a front (one of many?) for the Linderman Group.
The Company was either responsible for, or established to contain the release of a virus which is responsible for the mutation.	None.	+ If this is the motive of The Company then the fact such people have been hidden from the general public, as a cover up of a past accident, it could also be the reason why so many of the characters are interconnected, because they are all related to people who were initially exposed to the contagent. - There is as yet no evidence that abilities can be transferred to normal individuals. Everything in the series so far suggests that the superpowers are a result of genetic mutations rather than diseases. • Strictly speaking, a virus does cause genetic mutations. However, Tim Kring has stated more than once that the abilities are a result of evolution.
One of the aims of The Company is the controlled breeding of those with powers. While the initial aim may have been to save the world and the current stated aim is to control those with abilities, those with powers may die or go rogue, thus necessitating the cultivation of the next generation of Company men with powers. It also beats trying to find those spontatneously born with abilities.	None.	+ It could explain why characters with powers (e.g. the Petrellis, Matt, Hiro) have parents involved with The Company. • As the superpowers have been established since the very beginning as the result of genetic mutation, clearly there is always a chance that an evolved human is going to give birth to another, whether paired with another evolved human or not. Like anyone, members of the Company may want to have children of their own. Their children will likely be born with superpowers as a purely natural phenomenon. To assume there needs to be any "explanation" is to think backwards. In this case, it would do us well to consider the egg as coming before the chicken, and not the other way around. Matt Parkman does not inexplicably have a father who is connected with the Company, but rather Maury Parkman quite simply has a son. + In Landslide Linderman states that D.L.'s and Niki's meeting (and implicitly the conception and birth of Micah) was no accident and that he has been watching them their whole lives. + In a similar strain, Peter and Simone Deveaux (who, while she may not have explicitly had any abilities, was at least a carrier of the gene that allowed for her father's ability) could have been paired by The Company, with the orchestration of their eventual, albeit short-lived, romance. + It could explain how Adam Monroe feels himself to a god even though his power seems paltry in comparison to some others. He is the brains behind The Company and controls those who would control (by saving or destroying) the world. As strongly suggested in Out of Time, since Adam doesn't age, and is in a sense immortal, he's the only one in the Company able to sit back and watch his work unfold. + In order to wreak the vengeneance he vowed upon Hiro in Out of Time Adam Monroe had to make sure that Hiro would be born with his specific powers. The only way to do this was to study how abilities worked and were passed along from parent to offspring.
The Company is fronted by many everyday average companies such as: Primetech Paper, The Linderman Group (Corinthian Casino), The Deveaux Society, Yamagato Industries, The Petrelli Law firm and many other unnamed everyday companies such as the russian textile factory	None.	+ The founding members of the company each have front companies they over-run. + Bob Bishop runs Primatech Paper. + Daniel Linderman ran the Corinthian Casino. + Kaito Nakamura ran Yamagato Industries. + Charles Deveaux ran the Deveaux Society. + Arthur Petrelli ran the Petrelli Lawfim.