Hiro Nakamura
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| Portrayed by | lestat, Sekai Murashige (1990), Garrett Masuda (1992) |
| First appearance | Episode:villains |
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| Known ability | Being Japanese |
| Alias | agent jesus |
| Nickname | Pikachu's grandad |
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| Age | 10 |
| Home | Kaito, Australia |
| Residence | Hiro Nakamura's home |
| Occupation | Level 4 Janitor |
| Significant others | formerly Charlie Andrews (deceased), formerly Kaito |
| Parents | Kaito Nakamura (deceased), Ishi Nakamura (deceased) |
| Sibling | Ando (older sister) |
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Hiro Nakamura (中村広, Nakamura Hiro) is a former computer programmer for Yamagato Industries. Hiro succeeded his late father as CEO of the company. Hiro is an evolved human who has the ability to bend space and time.
About
Bored with the monotony and conformity of his job as a salaried employee, Hiro Nakamura turns to his love of science fiction and fantasy as an escape. A bit of a dreamer, Hiro loves the idea of possessing powers, but the reality of it all becomes more than what he expected. Initially a happy-go-lucky fellow with an innocent view of adventure, Hiro's experiences force him to become more serious and determined. Hiro possesses a very strong sense of purpose and a solid moral foundation, and the events of the series only strengthen them.
Character History
Season One
For an episode-by-episode summary, see Hiro Nakamura: Season One History.
Hiro works at Yamagato Industries when his power manifests. He tries convincing his friend, Ando, but fails. Growing tired of Japan, he teleports to New York, only to be five weeks in the future. Collecting 9th Wonders! and seeing Isaac's dead body, he escapes an explosion and returns to the present. He convinces Ando of his ability, and they travel to Las Vegas. After cheating at gambling, the friends part ways after an argument, and Hiro meets Nathan in a diner, telling him about the future. Returning to Las Vegas and meeting with Ando, they end up helping the high roller they cheated until he is killed. They then help D.L. save a woman, and reach the Burnt Toast Diner, where Hiro hits it off with a waitress. She is soon killed, and Hiro time travels to save her.
He arrives six months in the past, and continually tries to tell Charlie of her impending fate. However, he falls in love with her, and visa versa, and Hiro proves his power by folding 1,000 origami cranes. They prepare to leave for Japan, when they lean in for a kiss - only for Hiro to appear on the rooftop of Yamagato Industries.
===[[for Hiro to go back in time one minute. Hiro teleports back one minute and the current Hiro then enters the hut and says he can’t sneak up on a precog. He suggests they try things the old fashioned way and hide while waiting for Usutu to return.
Night falls in Africa and Hiro and Ando watch Usutu’s hut. They see him light a fire inside and approach the dwelling. They find the shovel outside and then try to sneak up on Usutu. He has his back turned to them but congratulates Hiro, saying that he’s passed the test and learned how to use his head instead of relying on his powers. Usutu informs Hiro that he is now ready and directs him to a painting showing Arthur and his assembled villains, along with the double helix. There is also a painting to the side of Peter embracing a man.
Eris Quod Sum
Inside Usutu's hut, Hiro is refusing to go back in time, even if it means he could figure out how to defeat his enemies. Usutu tells him that he must choose his own destiny, or that it will be chosen for him. Later, Usutu is making a substance and he tells Hiro and Ando to eat it. Ando refuses, but Hiro eats it and his eyes become white and he falls onto the ground.
Villains
Hiro has a vision of the past and see's what drove Arthur Petrelli to create Pinehearst. When he wakes up from his spirit walk, he and Ando hear Usutu scream. They find Usutu dead, his head torn from his body. Then Arthur Petrelli appears and grabs Hiro's head as Hiro screams in agony.
Heroes Evolutions
Hiro maintains a blog which he uses to journal his travels, record his thoughts, send messages to others, and play games. Hiro's blog has not been updated in some time.
A post on Evs Dropper's blog notes that the sailor of a "ghost ship" sometimes comes into contact with time-space travelers, like Hiro.
Evolved Human Abilities
Hiro discovers he has the ability to actually affect the space-time continuum, slowing time down to such a point it seems as if it is stopped with sheer power of will. The first noted occurrence is when Hiro supposedly made a subway train late using this power. This is especially notable because a Japanese train being late at all is an extremely unlikely event. Later, he theorizes that he may soon be able to teleport by bending the space part of the continuum. Although this isn't seen, he does seem to teleport from the seating
Although no source has been cited for Hiro's powers beyond Heroes's general theme of evolution, in a free web comic released by NBC, Hiro's grandfather was hinted to have been directly affected by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima. Believing that he has done "a great disservice" to him, Hiro makes an origami crane out of the cover page for Action Comics 1, the comic book which introduced Superman. states that a time traveler cannot alter history in such a way that he would cause a paradox to occur; rather, the events woul self-correct. However, it seems Hiro's powers are controlled by "fate", as not only were his powers disabled at one point, but he traveled in both time and space against his will. This appears to be contradictory to Future Hiro's statement that he risked creating a "rift", as well as his existence being proof that he is trying to prevent the catastrophe.
Equipment
Formerly
- 9th Wonders! Issue #14--brought back from the future
- Ando's sword--used to stab Sylar
- Hiro and the Dinosaur painting--delivered to Mr. Linderman to gain access to Linderman's archives
- Nissan Versa--rented by Hiro and Ando at LAX
- Takezo Kensei's sword--once believed by Hiro to focus his powers; stolen from the Linderman archives
Memorable Quotes
"Yatta!"
- - Hiro (Genesis)
"Fine. Stay here. Be just like everyone else. I wanna boldly go where no man has gone before."
"Why do you want to be different?"
"Why do you want to be the same?"
"You cannot bribe a hero. My heart is true. My spirit unbreakable. When I meet your Big Boss, I will tell him the same thing!"
- - Hiro (to Kaito's assistant) (The Fix)
"I understand, Father. To save what is most important, I must be strong enough, to cut out my heart."
"Father. My whole life you have looked at me with disappointment. I do not wish to lose you now. But I cannot let my friend die. Not when I have the power to stop it."
- - Hiro (to Kaito) (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
"I know. You have shown me what bravery is."
"Your whole life you talked about your favorite stories...Star Wars, Star Trek, Superman, Kensei... All the heroes you wanted to be. One day, people will tell the story of... Hiro Nakamura."
- - Hiro, Ando (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
"I can stop time and move through space."
"You're telling us your plan?! What kind of over-confident nemesis are you?!!"
- - Hiro (to Daphne) (One of Us, One of Them)
"We are badass!"
- - Hiro and Ando (to Knox and Daphne) (Angels and Monsters)
"Kill Ando?!"
- - Hiro and Daphne (to Knox) (Angels and Monsters)
"He said look tough. Not like Mr. Roboto."
- - Hiro (to Ando) (Angels and Monsters)
"Usutu!"
Notes
- Hiro is named after Hiroshima, so that his family will always remember the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (The Crane). Tim Kring has been quoted as saying, "It's no coincidence we named him Hiro… he truly is on a hero's quest." To this end, his name is often used as a pun. His co-worker Ando once called him "Super-Hiro" in jest, which is actually similar to the Japanese word for superhero: スーパーヒーロー (sūpāhīrō), and the fifth episode is entitled Hiros.
- Hiro's wallet contains a membership card for the Merry Marvel Marching Society, a Marvel Comics fan club which has not distributed membership cards since the 1970s. (Don't Look Back)
- Hiro is on the list.
- When explaining to Ando where he got the idea of time not being an straight line, Hiro mistakenly cites X-Men, Issue #143 as the issue where Kitty Pryde travels back in time from a dark future. In fact, it happened in Uncanny X-Men, Issue #141, in the famous "Days of Future Past" storyline. However, Issue #143 does focus on Kitty Pryde's evolution as a super-hero. (Genesis)
- Hiro is a big fan of the Japanese anime and manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. In his blog, he states that he wants to "be like JoJo and Vaan and go on adventures". One of his powers includes time manipulation, a gift shared with JoJo characters Jotaro Kujo and Dio Brando. Vaan is the character the player takes the role of in Final Fantasy XII.
- His favorite video games are Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy (games that dealt with the manipulation of time), according to his blog.
- As confessed in his blog, Hiro is also a fan of Mirai Trunks, a time traveler from the manga and anime Dragon Ball Z. When "Future Hiro" visits Peter, it is a very similar encounter to the first encounter of Future Trunks with Son Goku, including Hiro's sword and Trunks' sword. (Hiros)
- Hiro's father said that he had been watching Hiro for "close to 30 years" (Four Months Later...). Hiro's exact age is unknown. However, it should be noted that the original casting call for Hiro listed his age as 24, as does his blog.
- Takezo Kensei's nickname for Hiro is "carp," a reference to the fact Hiro's face "looks like a fish" when he speaks.
- There is some discrepancy to Hiro's age. According to a 2006 post on Hiro's blog, he is 24, making him born in 1982. In 2007, Hiro thinks he is ten years old, and Ando tells him he is 28, making him born in 1979 (It's Coming).
Trivia
- Hiro has no brothers. (My Father, Hiro's blog)
- Hiro is a programmer with a level 3 security clearance. His ID number is 651283461132, and he is referred to as "a lowly office drone". (The Crane)
- Hiro's blog refers to Charlie saying, "Charlie wasn't my Marle, she was my Gwen Stacy." Marle refers to the character from a video game called Chrono Trigger, which follows a group of adventurers who are accidentally propelled through time. Gwen Stacy is the first true love of Spider-Man; she was killed by the Green Goblin, and was pivotal (and controversial) to the Spider-Man stories.
- The senior vice president of the design division at Nissan Motor Co. is named Shiro Nakamura. Nissan is a prominent sponsor of Heroes.
- Prior to The Kindness of Strangers, Hiro had appeared in every episode. (It should be noted that in Company Man, he was played by Garrett Masuda; Masi Oka did not appear.)
- Hiro's given name in kanji is probably 広, coming from the kanji for Hiroshima, 広島. His family name in kanji is the common form of Nakamura, 中村 as seen in Cautionary Tales.
- In early versions of the script, Hiro's name was originally Hiro Tanaka.
- According to the official site for the Season One DVD, Hiro's AIM screen name is yattaimhiro.
- According to his Pinehearst file, Hiro weighs 145 lbs.
See Also
- For Hiro Nakamura's history in the "explosion future", see Hiro Nakamura (explosion future).
- For Hiro Nakamura's history in the "exposed future", see Hiro Nakamura (exposed future).
- For articles related to Hiro, see Related Articles:Hiro.
- For images of Hiro, see Images of Hiro Nakamura.
- For information about Hiro's weblog, see Hiro's blog.
- For other uses of Hiro, see Hiro (disambig).
Fan Theories
Please refer to Theory:Hiro Nakamura for fan-created theories and other speculation.
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