Isaac Mendez

Isaac Mendez
Portrayed by	Santiago Cabrera
First appearance	Genesis
In-story stats
Known ability	Precognition
Gender
Age	28
Date of death	November 2006
Home	New York, NY
Residence	Isaac Mendez's apartment
Occupations	Artist, Author
Significant other	formerly Simone Deveaux

Isaac Mendez was an artist and comic book author living in Manhattan. He had a loft studio in Lower Manhattan. His art dealer and former girlfriend was Simone Deveaux. Isaac was addicted to heroin, although he had been through rehab twice. Many of his works of art are prophetic, accurately depicting events of the future.

About

Urged on by his instructor, Dominick Cabalo, Isaac honed his art skills and took various summer classes to help develop his craft. It wasn't until high school when he began winning illustration contests. With even more classes in illustration and comic design courses under his belt, Isaac moved to New York and soon after high school took various courses in college for comic book illustration. It wasn't until the annual New York comic convention that he caught the eye of Camacho Comics and they hired him on the spot. He worked there for 3 years, all the while learning the ins and outs of the business. Then in 2002 he self-published his own line of comics under his old uncle Burk's name--one of the few people in his life who supported his love of comic books. (9th Wonders!, Issue #14)

Character History

Season One

For an episode-by-episode summary, see Isaac Mendez: Season One History.

Isaac finds that his paintings of seemingly innocuous events begin to occur, starting with a suicide bombing in Israel. Realizing that he can paint the future while high, he attempts to go cold turkey to stop making "evil" paintings. After nearly overdosing on heroin, Isaac paints a disturbing image of an explosion in New York City. He realizes that he must stop the explosion to save New York.

After his fight with his girlfriend Simone, Isaac is approached by Peter Petrelli, who needs Isaac's help to save a cheerleader that he painted while high. His ability is relayed by Eden McCain to Mr. Bennet, who realizes the cheerleader is his daughter, Claire. Isaac is brought to Odessa to help the Company stop the killer Sylar from attacking Claire, where he paints another disturbing image.

After returning to New York clean of his addiction, he begins to rekindle his relationship with Simone. After a conflict with Peter, Isaac accidentally kills Simone, and in his grief, returns to drugs and paints his most frightening paintings. Realizing his fate, he sends out images of the future to help stop Sylar and help save the world.

Powers

Isaac has the ability to "paint the future."

When Isaac is in a trance, he seems to be actually perceiving the future. His eyes become milky white and he sees the future events visually as if he's present. He also seems to have little awareness for sounds around him.

It's also worth noting that 9th Wonders! might depict present or past events in addition to future events. Since Issue #14 was released in the future timeline, and since Simone mentioned that the comic was late in the present, then it's possible that the events depicting Hiro before his journey to New York and after his return to the present occurred before or as Isaac drew them. This potentially means that his ability includes present-time or past clairvoyance in addition to precognition.

Isaac also paints a picture of Peter standing in his room, seemingly the same time Peter becomes visible behind him (Unexpected). This may indicate that Isaac is able to paint present events as well. However, Isaac could have merely painted the event a few seconds before it happened.

Initially, Isaac had only painted future events while high on heroin. After going through rehabilitation under Eden's care, and with encouragement from Hiro and Ando, Isaac finally succeeded in painting (and sketching) events without the heroin, but with intense concentration instead. However, after Simone's accidental death, Isaac relapsed.

While the events portrayed in Isaac's paintings appeared to be random at first, Isaac has begun to show the ability to focus his paintings on a particular person. (Distractions)

According to the 9th Wonders! comics, Isaac's power may include some form of translation of foreign languages.

Equipment

• Art supplies--used to produce paintings
• Gun--given to Isaac by Mr. Bennet; used to accidentally shoot and kill Simone
• Heroin--initially used by Isaac to access his powers
• Paintings--the product of Isaac's prophetic visions
• Primatech security keycard--given to Isaac by Eden McCain; presumably used to leave Primatech Paper Co.

Memorable Quotes

"This city took me in. Everything important that ever happened to me happened here. Good. Bad. You. And now it's all gonna be destroyed because I can't stop it."

- to Simone Deveaux (Distractions)

"It's all right. I finally know my part in all this--to die, here, with you--but not before I show them how to kill you and stop the bomb. I finally get to be a hero."

- to Sylar (.07%)

Notes

• Isaac had an encounter with Uluru after getting high. This was right before his first exhibit in a while at the Deveaux Gallery, in which he painted a prophetic depiction of a woman being hit by a bus. (Isaac's First Time)
• As of Distractions, Isaac appears to be working with Mr. Bennet, possibly as an agent of the Company.
• Isaac is on the list.

Trivia

• Isaac lived at 215 Reed Street, Apartment 7, New York, NY 10010 (Genesis).
• In early versions of the script Isaac's name was originally Diego Medina and Isaac Borolo.

See Also

• For articles related to Isaac, see Related Articles:Isaac.
• For images of Isaac, see Images of Isaac Mendez.
• See Isaac's paintings for a gallery of Isaac's work.
• See Prophecy for a side-by-side comparison of Isaac's predictions with real-life actualizations.

External Links

• Isaac Mendez Rap

Fan Theories

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

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