Hiro Nakamura (explosion future)

Hiro Nakamura
Portrayed by	Masi Oka
First appearance	Collision
In-story stats
Known ability	Space/Time Manipulation
Formal name	中村広 Nakamura Hiro
Nicknames	Future Hiro, Mirai no Hiro
Gender
Age	at least 29
Date of birth	circa 1982
Date of death	November 8, 2011
Residence	Isaac's loft
Occupation	former office worker
Significant other	formerly Charlie Andrews (deceased)
Parents	Kaito Nakamura, Ishi Nakamura
Sibling	Kimiko Nakamura (older sister)

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Hiro Nakamura returns from the future with a message for Peter. After the explosion he becomes a terrorist, opposing the government's treatment of evolved humans.

Character History

Hiros

"Future Hiro" travels back in time approximately five years to visit Peter Petrelli while on a subway train with Mohinder. Right before he arrives, time stops for everyone on the train except for Peter. Speaking fluent English, "Future Hiro" says he must hurry as he risks creating a rift. He tells Peter (who, according to Hiro, looks different without the scar), that he has an important message: Peter must save the girl in order to prevent "it all" from happening. As he leaves, he reiterates, "Save the cheerleader, save the world." He also tells Peter that when the present-day Hiro calls, he must tell Hiro where they meet.

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Hiro and Ando, five years in the future, enter Isaac's apartment. Hiro hears a sword being drawn and draws his own sword, only to meet his future self face-to-face.

Graphic Novel:String Theory

In 2011, America is a police state where evolved humans are persecuted. Hiro saves Sparrow Redhouse from the police, then goes to Isaac's old apartment, where he has set up a web of strings that represent many different lives integral to the explosion. For years, Hiro has been working on the strings, hoping to find a way to change the past and prevent the explosion. Hiro thinks about what had originally occurred in the past, where he stabbed Sylar before he exploded, but Sylar lived because he had stolen Claire's power to regenerate. He goes back in time again to get Peter to save Claire, hoping that will change history, but nothing seems different when he returns. Seeing a light in the apartment, he goes there to find his past self and Ando inside.

Five Years Gone

Hiro Nakamura of the future is America's most wanted terrorist, whose purported crimes include prison breaks and the destruction of a science facility in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is also a master of the sword-based martial art Battojutsu. After explaining the nature of the timeline to his past counterpart and Ando, past Hiro is captured by Matt Parkman and the Haitian and Homeland Security. Hiro and Ando teleport to Las Vegas in order to seek out Peter Petrelli, who is the only man powerful enough to penetrate the Department of Homeland Security's defenses and rescue Hiro.

In Las Vegas, Hiro and Ando visit Peter's girlfriend, Niki Sanders, who works at a strip club. Niki is not pleased with their arrival, reminding Hiro that the battle for evolved humans had been lost. She does not reveal Peter's location, claiming that he would not be interested, but she does direct them to Mr. Bennet, who Hiro knows can also provide assistance.

Hiro goes to Mr. Bennet at the old Primatech building in Odessa, TX, requesting several evolved humans to aid Hiro in infiltrating Homeland Security. Bennet refuses at first, seeing that helping them would betray those he vowed to protect. But he seems to comply when the two reveal their knowledge of Claire's survival.

As Hiro and Ando wait for Bennet, Ando wonders about where he is in the future. Hiro refuses to answer, and even makes a joke, like his old self, to the pleasure of Ando. But after some thought, Hiro decides to tell Ando something, but they are then ambushed by Homeland Security, with Matt tazering Hiro and knocking him unconscious. They manage to escape however thanks to Peter's timely arrival.

Back at the strip club, Hiro awakes to see Ando examining his sword, and realizes that Ando is now aware of the fact that he is dead in the future. Ando is despondent, but also sees that Hiro behaves the way he does and works hard to change history all because of Ando. The two bond, and then goes with Peter to Homeland Security's facility to rescue the other Hiro.

Hiro, Peter, and Ando nonchalantly enter the building, dispatching all the guards with relative ease. But they cannot do the same for the upper floors, as the Haitian would negate their powers. Still, they manage to avoid Matt and his men with a diversion, giving Hiro the opportunity to find his past self. When he finds the other Hiro, he almost kills Mohinder Suresh before seeing that he is an ally, having killed the Haitian and released past Hiro. Peter and Ando also arrive, and Hiro tries to take the two time travelers back to their own time, but is shot down by Matt Parkman. As Peter holds off Homeland Security, Hiro gives Ando a part of the comic book he kept to himself, and dies in his arms.

Graphic Novel:Walls, Part 1

Roughly one year after the explosion, Hiro recruits Peter Petrelli's aid in freeing the near 200 prisoners of Moab Federal Penitentiary, many of whom -- if not all -- are evolved humans. Using their shared ability to stop time, they get past the guards and open the cells. However, before they evacuate all the prisoners, they are confronted by three agents.

Graphic Novel:Walls, Part 2

Hiro breaks free from the prison ambush agent's grasp, and tells Peter that his power is being blocked. He is then attacked by the agent again, although he dodges the punch (which breaks the wall). Niki defeats the agents, and the prisoners are released. Hiro leads them to an escape route, using the origami he placed, which will lead them to a special facility in Odessa, Texas.

Powers

Like the present-day Hiro, future Hiro can manipulate space and time in a number of ways. It's likely that he has far better control of his abilities than does present-day Hiro. It's also unclear whether Peter was not frozen because of Hiro or whether he was mimicking Hiro's abilities himself. If this is the case, that could explain why Hiro chose Peter as the recipient of the message. However, it's likely the former situation--that Hiro somehow included Peter in the time freeze--as Hiro was not present for a few moments before he appeared to Peter. If so, then future Hiro has displayed an ability which present-day Hiro has not.

Memorable Quotes

"Peter Petrelli..."

"How is this happening?"

"I'm sorry if I scared you. You look different without your scar."

"I don't know you, buddy."

"Not yet. My name is Hiro Nakamura. I'm from the future. I have a message for you. I don't have much time. I'm risking a rift just by coming here. The girl. You have to save her."

"What girl?"

"The cheerleader. It's the only way to prevent it."

"Prevent what?"

"Everything. Listen to me. She must live. The painter, Isaac. Go to him. He will know. When I call you, you must tell me where we meet. You told me many times how lost you felt before it all started. This... is what you've been waiting for. Be the one we need."

"Wait...Hiro!"

"Save the cheerleader, save the world!"

- Future Hiro, Peter (Hiros)

"Tell him about the guy from the future."

"He is the guy from the future!"

- Isaac, Peter, (about Hiro) (Better Halves)

"You."

"Me?"

- Future Hiro, Hiro (.07%)

"Save the cheerleader..."

"...save the world."

- Future Hiro, Hiro (Five Years Gone)

"There's only one person who's powerful enough to get us through. Peter Petrelli. We're going to Las Vegas."

- Future Hiro (to Ando) (Five Years Gone)

Notes

• Future Hiro's appearance is markedly different than present-day Hiro. He is wearing a black coat instead of a business suit, no longer wears glasses, and has a sword strapped to his back. His attitude is much more self-confident than his present counterpart and his English is fluent and without accent. Future Hiro also sports a ponytail and a small, "soul patch"-type beard.
• Future Hiro's appearance resembles Takezo Kensei's -- both have a "soul patch" and a ponytail.
• Future Hiro mentioned studying battōjutsu rather than kendo. Battōjutsu is the art of drawing and cutting with the samurai sword where kendo is the modern sport version sans drawing and only using bamboo swords. Supposedly he studied in the Tōhoku (Northeastern) region of Japan, where legendary swordsman Hayashizaki Jinsuke Minamoto no Shigenobu is enshrined. This would infer that Future Hiro studied either Musō Jikiden Eishin-ryū or Musō Shinden ryū, both tracing their lineage back to this same swordsman.
• Future Hiro bears a resemblance to the character Future Trunks from the anime Dragonball Z. Both use a sword obtained from a legendary hero, and both travel back in time to prevent a dark future from happening.

See Also

• Hiro Nakamura
• For articles related to Hiro, see Related Articles:Hiro