Daphne Millbrook
| Daphne Millbrook | |
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| Portrayed by | Brea Grant |
| First appearance | Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, Part 1 |
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| Known ability | Super speed |
| Formal name | Daphne Millbrook |
| Nicknames | The Speedster, Nemesis |
| Gender | |
| Home | Lawrence, KS |
| Residences | Paris, France |
| Occupations | former Agent of Pinehearst Company, former thief |
| Significant other | Matt Parkman |
| Parents | Mr. Millbrook, Mrs. Millbrook |
| Grandparent | Daniella |
Daphne Millbrook is a thief who was recruited into Pinehearst Company. She is an evolved human with the ability to travel at super-sonic speeds.
Character History
Graphic Novel:Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, Part 1
Daphne Millbrook uses her ability to run really, really fast to shoplift. She runs away with sunglasses and several pairs of shoes. After stealing a crêpe, Daphne meets Samir Mellouk, her employer, at his shop. Daphne steals items from museums and Samir sells them back to their original countries.
After quickly completing a job and returning to Samir's shop, Daphne heads to a museum. While there, Daphne decides that she wants to steal the Mona Lisa and enlists Samir's help. Daphne runs up to the Mona Lisa so quickly that they cannot be seen and Samir uses his ability to phase to take out the real painting and replace it with a fake. Afterwards, Daphne leaves while Samir walks home.
A few days later, Daphne returns to Samir's place to find that he is gone. A bald man in glasses meets her there and says that Samir was always working for his group. In exchange for keeping her name from being mentioned, he offers Daphne a job in Japan and hands her a folder containing a picture of Kaito Nakamura.
Graphic Novel:Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, Part 2
Daphne races through a New York shipping yard and past a security guard unnoticed. She then breaks into Kaito Nakamura's shipment container and steals a military prototype. After hearing some noises, she leaves the yard.
Daphne then goes to Tokyo and meets with Yoji Hayata, a high ranking executive at Yamagato Industries who has been steeling the company's secrets. Daphne offers the prototype that she stole in exchange for information on how to get into Kaito Nakamura's safe. Yoji, enraged, tells her that he wouldn't be able to get her in the safe even if he wanted to. He then calls for his men to capture Daphne but she quickly outsmarts them and then reaches Yoji, who tells her that only a Nakamura can enter the safe due to biometric locks. Daphne then flees Yoji's office to regroup, racing through the building to the roof, then leaping to the next building.
Two weeks later, Daphne over hears a newscast stating that Hiro Nakamura is maned the new CEO of Yamagato Industries. Moments later, Yoji sends Daphne a tip to a camera feed with information on how to get to the safe. She watches the feed at Harajuko Station and dashes off as she hears Hiro and Ando talking about the safe.
The Second Coming
After Hiro opens his father's safe, Daphne speeds through his office and snatches one half of a formula from his hands in a blur. Hiro quickly stops time, and, following a streak she left behind, catches up to her. She appears to be frozen in time, but when the wave vanishes from behind her, her eyes shift, revealing that she can in fact move, even when time has stopped, but not in enhanced speed. Daphne, confused, asks Hiro how he caught up to her, asking if he's also a speedster. He explains that he can stop time, and tells her that she stole something from him. Holding up the paper with half of the formula written on it, she stops him from snatching it from her and questions him about his ability. When he doesn't give an answer, she punches him, unfreezing time before she speeds away.
The Butterfly Effect
Daphne comes home to discover that Hiro and Ando have broken into her apartment and stolen her mother's high school track gold medal. She tries to get it back from Hiro, but he keeps teleporting away. Eventually she agrees to a trade with Hiro for the half of the formula she stole from him, saying that her boss won't be happy, but that she was just on her way to steal the second half of it. Handing the medal to Ando to trade with her, she runs forwards and is just about to snatch the medal when Hiro stops time again. She asks him if it's worth his friend's life, holding a knife to Ando's neck and cutting him. Hiro gives back the medal and Daphne darts away with both the first half of the formula and her medal.
One of Us, One of Them
Hiro and Ando follow Daphne to a moviehaus in Berlin, Germany. She tells them that she is there to get the other half of the formula, which will be presented at an exchange in the middle of the film. She tries to get away by running very fast, but only runs at normal speed, because of the Haitian's presence. Once inside the cinema, Daphne, Ando, and Hiro wait for the right moment to steal the formula. While they do, Daphne asks Ando if he's a "sidekick". Hiro tells his friend not to listen to her.
Later, the Haitian puts the other half of the formula away in a briefcase and Hiro and Ando almost successfully steal it, but Daphne nabs it in a flash.
Angels and Monsters
Daphne speaks to Linderman, who asks her about her opinion about recruiting for Pinehearst. She agrees that she will help him as long as she's paid. He shows her folders containing information on Knox and Mohinder, two targets for recruitment. Stating that she doesn't want to get her hands dirty due to the fact that they're dangerous people, Linderman eases her mind by stating that they've merely lost their way. Later, Daphne, now working with Knox, finds Hiro and Ando in an abandoned bar. She tells Hiro that she's considering recruiting him, but that he must prove himself to be worthy. She is shocked when Knox tells Hiro to stab Ando, but stands by as Hiro does so to show that he is "bad ass". Daphne then goes to meet with Linderman in a courtyard, where she is told to use precaution when finding her next target: Matt Parkman. Before leaving, Daphne reveals her suspicions about Linderman. By waving Matt's folder through him, she discovers that he isn't really there before speeding away.
Dying of the Light
Daphne assigns new Pinehearst Company member Hiro to retrieve Usutu in Africa. At JFK airport, Maury Parkman (as Linderman) instructs Daphne to recruit Matt Parkman. Matt and Daphne discuss the information she knows from his file and the information that he learned about her from his vision of the future. Daphne leaves and attempts to recruit Sylar at Level 5, and successfully recruits Flint. Daphne then attempts to recruit Mohinder at his lab, and barely escapes after discovering his hive. Daphne returns to Matt at JFK airport and tells him that he is not a good fit for Pinehearst. Matt attempts to convince Daphne to leave Pinehearst, but she refuses his offer of protection. Daphne is present at the Pinehearst Building (with Maury, Knox, and Flint) when Arthur steals Peter's abilities.
Graphic Novel:Sum Quod Sum, Part 1
Daphne is in London hoping to get Elle Bishop to join Pinehearst. She follows Elle onto a subway, gives her a Pinehearst card and runs off.
Eris Quod Sum
Arthur sends Daphne back to Matt to recruit him for the Pinehearst Company. Knox follows her, and when he hears Matt and Daphne talking about going to The Company instead, he comes in and kills them after a showdown with Matt. After Knox leaves, Matt and Daphne come back into the room, revealing that Knox had only killed them in an illusion created telepathically by Matt. Daphne phones Arthur and tells him that the ruse worked, and that Matt thinks that she is on his side.
It's Coming
Daphne accompanies Matt to Primatech Research to seek help in stopping Arthur. Daphne enters the room after Matt has discovered Angela in a comatose state, she then tells Matt that she will find a nurse but instead runs to Pinehearst to update Arthur with the recent events. Daphne asks Arthur if he did that to his wife and what should she do if Matt tries to help her. As Daphne returns to Primatech, Matt tells her that he will try to help her by using his telepathy to get inside her head. As Matt enters a trance like state she asks if he can hear her, but he does not reply. After seeing Matt in discomfort she notices that he is bleeding and attempts to wake him. Realizing that her attempts are futile she tells Matt to let her in, grabbing his hand, she is then pulled into the telepathic prison which holds Angela. Matt immediately tells her to "get away" believing that she stabbed him until he realizes that it was Arthur. Arthur then informs Matt of Daphne's treachery, to which she immediately confesses and tells him of her confusion of who to trust and also the love she has for him.
The Eclipse, Part 1
Feeling guilty over her constant betrayals, Daphne asks Matt if he trusts her. She detects his hesitation to answer and, offended, returns to her home, a corn farm in Kansas where she lives with her father. Her father asks her what she had been doing in her time away from home, but she refuses to answer. She also asks if he still has "them". When Matt tries to talk to her, she refuses to see him and her father orders him to leave. Later, after her father leaves in a truck, Daphne allows Matt to enter. She greets him while walking on crutches and tells Matt that she did not want him to see her that way, implying that she suffered from muscular dystrophy before the eclipse gave her her powers.
Graphic Novel:The Caged Bird, Part 1
While Daphne is sitting outside her home, she looks back on the life she has lead, from when she was a child to when the eclipse happened.
When Daphne is around three years old, she is walking in the cornfield with her mother while holding the medal her mother won in high school. People are constantly telling Daphne that she will be like her mother when she grows up, but those dream shatter when she is diagnosed with an illness that makes it impossible for her to walk without crutches.
24 years after she is diagnosed, Daphne's mother is trying to convince her daughter that there is still a chance for her to walk again, but Daphne refuse to listen. Soon after, Daphne's mother is told she has cancer and that she only has a few weeks to live.
Daphne did not make things easier for her mother and on the day that her mother dies, Daphne gets into an argument with her. Eventually, Daphne is sent to her room by her father. The next time that Daphne sees her mother, she is dead in her father's arms.
On the day of the funeral, Daphne gets frustrated by the people around her and decides to leave. Her father tries to stop, but it has no affect. A few feet away from the house, Daphne falls and is then visited her mother. Her mother tells Daphne that she is special and that she should stand up and leave this cage. Daphne listens to her and realize that she no longer needs her crutches. She then runs off.
Four hours later, Daphne returns home to her father. He ask where she has been but she doesn't answer his question. Instead she tells her father to turn around. When her father does turn around, he sees that Daphne is able to stand on her own. Moments later, he embraces her and tell her that he wishes that her mother was able to see this. They are soon interrupted by a knock on the door and Daphne's father goes to answer it. The man at the door tells Daphne's father that he was at the funeral earlier and offers his condolences. He then tells him that he is there to talk about his daughter.
Evolved Human Abilities
Daphne has the ability to move at superhuman speed. She has used her ability to steal things such as food and valuable items. It is currently unknown if Daphne is actually capable of running far past the speed of sound.
Memorable Quotes
"This whole time stopping thing, how does it work exactly, I mean, if you chase me to Bangkok, will time stay frozen in Tokyo?"
"I don't know."
"Well, something to think about when you get back on your feet."
"But... I am on my feet." (Daphne punches him out cold)
"Gotta go!"
- -Daphne, Hiro (The Second Coming)
"You're telling me your plan? What kind of overconfident nemesis are you?!"
"You're 0 for 2 against me, Pikachu. That's just regular confidence."
"Pikachu?"
- -Hiro, Daphne (One of Us, One of Them)
"Nemesis!"
"Stop calling me that; my name is Daphne!"
- -Hiro, Daphne (One of Us, One of Them)
Notes
- It seems that Daphne's name was originally "Joy", but was later changed to Daphne. Early news reports [1][2] about Brea Grant joining Heroes indicated the name Joy. The commentary for Dying of the Light also states this; no reason has ever been given for the name change.
- Also according to the commentary for Dying of the Light, Daphne was originally supposed to be French, but this was later changed. She does, however, reside in Paris, France. When she felt like a caged bird, she wished to leave her town and walk the Seine River in Paris.
See Also
- For Daphne Millbrook's history in the "exposed future", see Daphne Millbrook (exposed future).
- For images of Daphne, see Images of Daphne Millbrook.
Fan Theories
Please refer to Theory:Daphne Millbrook for fan-created theories and other speculation.