Isaac Mendez
| Isaac Mendez | |
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| Portrayed by | Santiago Cabrera |
| First appearance | Genesis |
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| Known ability | Precognition |
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| Age | 28 |
| Date of birth | 1978 |
| Date of death | November 2006 |
| Home | New York, NY |
| Residence | Artist's loft in Lower Manhattan |
| Occupations | Artist, Author |
| Significant other | formerly Simone Deveaux (deceased) |
| Parent | Carlos Mendez (deceased) |
| Other relatives | Burk (uncle) |
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. After he predicted his own death, Isaac was murdered by Sylar.
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.
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Lizards
Noah Bennet shows Sandra one of Isaac's paintings, a depiction of Kaito Nakamura's death. Noah states that there are seven others, but does not know where they are.
Kindred
Mohinder Suresh arrives at Isaac's loft, and is surprised to find out that Isaac has been killed by Sylar. Later, Mohinder discovers the eighth painting in a series of eight.
Powerless
Sylar looks at the painting on the floor of Isaac's loft and tells Mohinder that he killed Isaac on that very spot.
Graphic Novel:Career Choices
Thompson, Jr. tells Donna that the painting in her file is by Isaac Mendez, who could see the future.
The Eclipse, Part 2
Sam tells Matt, Daphne and Ando that Isaac gave his last 9th Wonders! story to a bike messenger.
Our Father
After some initial difficulty, Matt, Daphne and Ando locate Isaac's last 9th Wonders! story. The story starts with a sketch of Hiro with a caption that says "Hiro Nakamura: Lost in Time". The sketch after that shows Claire on roof of the Deveaux Building, looking over the city. Later on, Matt and the others find a sketch in the book that shows Hiro clinging to a flagpole.
Graphic Novel:The Natural Order of Things
Isaac is remembered as a victim of Sylar's.
Once Upon a Time in Texas
Noah is getting a call and gets to hear that Isaac has made new paintings. When Noah is talking to him he gets to hear that the little girl that he has painted is Noah's daughter. Then Noah explains to him that he is not the only person with special abilities and that there is also someone who is assassinating them one by one. Isaac asks why Noah doesn't stop him if he knows who it is. Noah replies by saying that nobody knows how he looks, and that Isaac can help him with that.
Evolved Human Abilities
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."
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)
- Isaac is on the list.
- Per CBR's Oct. 6, 2008 Behind the Eclipse Q&A, Isaac's father is Carlos Mendez.
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 other uses of Isaac, see Isaac (disambig).
- For other uses of Mendez, see Mendez (disambig).
- For images of Isaac, see Images of Isaac Mendez.
- For articles related to Isaac, see Related Articles:Isaac.
- 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.
Fan Theories
Please refer to Theory:Isaac Mendez for fan-created theories and other speculation.