Tracy Strauss
| Tracy Strauss | |
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| Portrayed by | Ali Larter |
| First appearance | The Second Coming |
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| Known ability | Freezing (synthetic) |
| Nickname | Ice Queen |
| Gender | |
| Age | 32 |
| Date of birth | August 24, 1974 |
| Place of birth | Beverly Hills, CA |
| Home | Washington, D.C. |
| Residence | Tracy Strauss's apartment |
| Occupations | Former aide to Senator Nathan Petrelli, Former Pinehearst consultant, former political adviser to Governor Robert Malden |
| Significant others | formerly Nathan Petrelli, formerly Robert Malden |
| Parents | W. Strauss (father), Rebecca Rosenthal (mother) |
| Siblings | Niki Sanders (estranged triplet sister, deceased), Barbara (estranged triplet sister) |
| Other relatives | Brother-in-law: D.L. Hawkins (deceased) Nephew: Micah Sanders |
Tracy Strauss is a former political adviser to New York Governor Robert Malden. Upon Nathan Petrelli's appointment to Senator, she was hired as the Senator's advisor. Tracy then discovered that she is one of three triplets, her sisters being Niki Sanders and Barbara. She later joined forces with Arthur Petrelli at Pinehearst with Nathan in order to give people abilities. However, after Arthur's murder and the fall of Pinehearst, Tracy was betrayed by Nathan, who fired her and later revealed her special ability to the American President. She is an evolved human with the ability to freeze things.
About
Tracy is one in a set of triplets along with Niki Sanders and Barbara. After discovering her ability, Tracy joined forces with Arthur Petrelli's Pinehearst Company so as to give Nathan the opportunity to become President of the United States with her at his side. However, after Pinehearst's defeat, Tracy was fired by Nathan and later betrayed as he turned her information over to the US President.
Character History
The Second Coming
After hearing about Nathan on television, Governor Robert Malden tells Tracy that they may have found whom they're looking for. Tracy playfully reminds him that it's her job to find the person they're looking for. Seeing Nathan on television, she remarks that she likes him.
The Butterfly Effect
Tracy makes a suggestion to Malden for Nathan to serve as Senator for the state of New York. On the way to her car, a reporter stalks her with images from lasvegasniki.com. The reporter informs her that he will make an article about her, but she denies that that is her. However, the reporter's sources claim otherwise, and she makes her getaway.
When she gets to his hospital room, Nathan automatically thinks that Tracy is Niki. Tracy is confused about this. She offers him the Senate, leaving her phone number. Later, Nathan accepts on the condition that she be on his staff. The reporter returns, this time with the DVD of Jessica having sex with Nathan at the Corinthian. She gets so angry at him that her freezing ability manifests, and she accidentally kills him. She is shocked and runs away.
One of Us, One of Them
Alone, Tracy freezes a rose. Later, Nathan Petrelli visits her and asks why she did not attend his swearing in. Tracy shows him the video footage of him having sex with Jessica and asks who Niki Sanders was. Tracy says that the only information she found on Niki was an address in New Orleans. When Nathan only asks if she really is not Niki, Tracy leaves for New Orleans.
Arriving at the Dawsons' home, she finds a coffin containing Niki's body. Shocked and saddened by her death, she tries to leave but is confronted by Micah, who quickly recognizes that she is not his mother. Micah reveals that Niki had super strength and he the power of talking to machines, and then asks her if she has a power--leaving Tracy startled. Micah cross-references Tracy and Niki's information on his computer and finds that they were both born in the same hospital on the same day and delivered by the same doctor.
Tracy then leaves Micah (while spiritually "saying goodbye" to Niki) and visits Dr. Zimmerman, who at first mistakes her for a woman named Barbara. Tracy says he is mistaken and tells him her name, and he comes to the realization that she is "the one from Beverly Hills". When Tracy questions him on how he knew she was from Beverly Hills he claims that he "created" her.
I Am Become Death
Zimmerman reveals to Tracy that she was one of triplets, Niki, herself, and Barbara, and he gave each of them abilities through genetic manipulation. Tracy, overcome with rage, almost uses her freezing ability to kill Zimmerman, but is able to calm down before causing any harm.
Afraid of her ability and guilt-ridden over the death of the reporter, Tracy tries to turn herself into the police. However, her emotional state brings her power forth and she freezes the telephone. Later, Tracy turns in her resignation to Nathan and she then goes to the Francis Scott Key Bridge and attempts suicide. However, Nathan, warned of her intentions beforehand, flies Tracy to safety. Tracy then reveals her power to Nathan and they share a kiss.
Angels and Monsters
After spending the night with Nathan, Tracy goes to the Primatech facility with Nathan to visit his mother and Company leader, Angela Petrelli. Tracy explains to Angela that Dr. Zimmerman gave Tracy her ability to freeze objects and that she is a triplet.
Angela explains that Zimmerman was a Company scientist and that it was under their orders that Tracy be synthetically injected with her ability, and also that Nathan's power was also synthetic. Angela tells Tracy that the process for synthetically giving powers cannot be reversed. After Tracy and Nathan head out to contact Doctor Mohinder Suresh, Angela has a precognitive dream in which Tracy, along with her two sons Nathan and Peter, is lying dead on the floor.
Dying of the Light
Nathan and Tracy arrive at Mohinder's lab, and Mohinder Suresh also mistakenly identifies Tracy as Niki Sanders. Tracy then reveals her freezing power and the two inform Suresh that their abilities were synthetically given to them by Dr. Zimmerman. Mohinder is stunned by this, and injects Tracy and Nathan with a drug that knocks them out. He then straps them to tables in his hive.
Daphne discovers them while attempting to recruit Mohinder for the Pinehearst Company, and escapes the lab using her super speed. After awaking from the drug, Tracy attempts to reason with Mohinder and then uses her freezing power to subdue Mohinder and escape from her bonds. She releases Nathan, and Mohinder recovers and uses his ability to prevent them from escaping.
Eris Quod Sum
After Mohinder escapes with Maya, Tracy waits with Nathan until the Company agents arrive. While waiting, Tracy attempts to free Mark Spatney from his cocoon, and the terrified man attempts to choke her to death. Fortunately, Tracy is saved by Company Agent Noah Bennet. Tracy and Nathan tell Bennet about their encounter, and also meet Meredith Gordon, the mother of Nathan's illegitimate daughter.
Tracy is confronted by Meredith, warning her of his track record. Tracy states that she and Nathan are not together. Later, when the name Pinehearst is brought up, Tracy recognizes it as the bio-tech firm. Tracy and Nathan then plan on journeying to Pinehearst to confront Arthur Petrelli.
It's Coming
Tracy and Nathan then go to Pinehearst and confront Arthur Petrelli. After Nathan's confrontation with his dad, he informs Tracy that he will be going to visit his mother. Tracy stays behind to talk with Arthur against Nathan's knowledge. He asks her whether she wants him to take away her power, and she says she is beginning to get used to it.
Tracy then offers her allegiance to Arthur and Pinehearst so as to get Nathan in the White House. Tracy says that she can get Nathan on Arthur's side, but in return he must help her sometime in the future. Arthur agrees, and Tracy is present as Arthur draws the upcoming eclipse.
The Eclipse, Part 1
In Angela's office at Primatech Research, Tracy looks at a picture of the Petrelli family as she discusses Nathan with Arthur. Once she tells him that Nathan has strayed, running off to find the Haitian, Arthur muses that it's a good plan. By Arthur's tone of voice, Tracy is seriously concerned for Nathan's life and refuses to follow his orders, reminding him of their deal; Tracy puts Nathan on his father's side while Arthur keeps Tracy out of harm's way. Arthur quickly nullifies her refusal by saying that without his help, Nathan won't get to the White House with Tracy. Tracy realizes that she is stuck with following Arthur's commands for the moment. She is ordered to go to Parris Island and use her connections to round up an army.
At that point, Tracy realizes she is being watched and turns to find Angela. Tracy hastily hangs up the phone and comes up with an excuse, saying it's a call from Washington. Angela excuses her politely but smugly has an idea what she's up to.
Our Father
Tracy returns to Pinehearst after recruiting several Marines, one of them Scott. When Nathan arrives, he walks in on a discussion between Arthur Petrelli and Tracy. Nathan is angered at Tracy's betrayal, but she claims that she was only doing her job by helping Nathan. Tracy is delighted to learn that in her absence Nathan had pledged himself to the company. Tracy remarks that though Arthur Petrelli has crossed some lines, his vision is right and that to synthetically give abilities to those who can do good with them is the future. She then shows Nathan her recruited marines, claiming that they are the future.
Once the formula is perfected, Tracy, Nathan, and Arthur Petrelli bring it to Pinehearst's doctor, Mohinder Suresh. Tracy requests that fifty doses be made for the marines, though Nathan suggests that they try it only on one first. Tracy agrees, and they inject the formula into Scott. Almost instantly Scott demonstrates his ability of super strength.
Dual
After Nathan goes to check on Arthur Petrelli and never returns, Tracy sends Scott out to find him, though Scott is soon killed by Knox. Tracy tries to stop Peter, Flint, and Knox from trying to destroy the formula. She manages to catch Knox by surprise as he is about to kill Nathan, and kills him. Tracy then tries to convince Nathan that they can get away and deny involvement in all of this and use the formula to start over, but Nathan refuses. Tracy insists that she is being a realist and doing her job, and so Nathan fires her.
Tracy freezes open Arthur's safe, but is confronted by Hiro and Daphne who arrive to take it from her. Tracy brushes them off and insults Hiro, causing him to punch her in the face and steal the document of the formula from her. Tracy leaves Pinehearst before it's destroyed by Flint, and later picks up a cured Mohinder on the highway and the two drive off together.
Three weeks later, Nathan explains to the President about evolved humans, showing him numerous files and records, one of which is on Tracy.
Graphic Novel:Stuck in the Middle
Tracy and Nathan argue about their upcoming injection session - she wants to inform the marines what they're signing up for, whilst Nathan doesn't. Nathan dismisses Tracy and she claims that they're changing their DNA, while Nathan states they are making them better.
Graphic Novel:What We Have Wrought
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A Clear and Present Danger
In the two months following the catastrophe at Pinehearst, Tracy journeyed back to Washington and returned to her service as Malden's aide. All contact to the world she had recently been exposed to was cut- including her relationship with Nathan Petrelli.
However, two months later, Tracy returned home to find a window in her house open. Malden called and Tracy, ignoring the window, informed him how Nathan Petrelli had recieved a lot of press in the past weeks. After changing and ending the conversation, Tracy bumped into a soldier dressed all in black who had mysteriously made his way into her home. She attempted to freeze him but somehow it was not able to penetrate his suit, and she was thrown to the floor in her living room.
Tracy remarked that if the men surrounding her wanted her to beg, they would be dissapointed. The leader of the group, the Hunter, shoots her in the chest with a tranquilizer and she is shipped off. The Hunter then contacted Nathan Petrelli and informed him that 'the first one' had been captured.
After being forced out of her home, Tracy was drugged and placed in an orange jumpsuit and put on a transport plane by Nathan Petrelli to be taken to a holding facility. Unbeknownst to her, beings such as Hiro Nakamura, Mohinder Suresh, and Peter Petrelli were also being transported on the plane, and that beings around the world with special abilities were being targeted by the government.
Unable to move or defend herself, Tracy was left defenseless on the plane. However, Claire Bennet managed to escape capture from Nathan and stopped the drugs being placed in Tracy, as well as doing the same for Hiro, Mohinder, Matt Parkman, and Peter. Peter was able to get free and absorb Tracy's ability. Unfortunately, he lost control of it and Tracy's freezing power damaged the plane and sent it crashing into the ground below.
Heroes Evolutions
Operation Bad Blood
In chapter 2 of Operation Bad Blood in the iStory, the Pinehearst contracted player passes Senator Petrelli and Tracy Strauss as they leave Pinehearst Headquarters together and head towards the parking lot. Later, the same player encounters her again when the player enters an elevator to head up to Priscilla's office. The elevator momentarily loses power, but Tracy plays it cool and comments that they must have gotten their wires crossed.
In chapter 5 of Operation Bad Blood in the iStory, Tracy stares at the Pinehearst contracted player in the warehouse at Pinehearst Headquarters that contains a platoon of military soldiers.
Evolved Human Abilities
Tracy possesses the ability to freeze objects which allows her to reduce the temperature of matter at will. She is capable of freezing human beings as well as inanimate objects including a rose, a telephone, and glass.
When using her power, Tracy appears to absorb the heat from an individual instead of emitting cold. Also, while she is able to create sub-zero temperatures, Tracy herself retains body heat.
Notes
- According to Dr. Zimmerman, Tracy's ability is the result of receiving the formula rather than a naturally inherited ability. (I Am Become Death)
Memorable Quotes
"You don't pay me for the sex, Governor, I do that for free."
- - Tracy Strauss (to Governor Malden) (The Butterfly Effect)
"I'm running this story with or without your comment."
"You run this story and I will hunt your ass down and destroy you."
- - Jim McCann, Tracy Strauss (The Butterfly Effect)
"Let me guess...you want me to take away your power."
"No. I'm actually getting used to it."
- - Arthur Petrelli, Tracy Strauss (It's Coming)
"For your plan to succeed, you need a public face. Now, normally that would be you. Problem is, the world thinks you're dead."
"A thorny issue, I admit."
"But I think Nathan can be that face. The bad news: he's on the fence. The good news: I can push him over. You scratch my back, and I will make sure he lands on the right side."
- - Tracy Strauss, Arthur Petrelli (It's Coming)
"You want me to beg, screw you! I don't beg for anyone."
- - Tracy Strauss (A Clear and Present Danger)
Trivia
- Tracy's Social Security number is 2856-34-6343.
- According to the birth certificate Micah found on his computer, Tracy weighed 6 pounds 14 ounces when she was born. She was born August 24, 1974 at 12:56 am in Beverly Hills at Our Lady of Perpetual Faith Hospital, and she was delivered by Dr. Zimmerman.
- As of yet, Tracy has never been seen without pearl jewelry.
- Tracy, along with Mohinder and Nathan, gives marine Scott abilities, which ends up being enhanced strength. This was also the power given to Niki Sanders, Tracy's sister.
See Also
- For other uses of Tracy, see Tracy (disambig).
- For other uses of Strauss, see Strauss (disambig).
- For images of Tracy, see Images of Tracy Strauss.
- For articles related to Tracy Strauss, see Related Articles:Tracy.
- For Tracy Strauss's history in the "exposed future", see Tracy Strauss (exposed future).
Fan Theories
Please refer to Theory:Tracy Strauss for fan-created theories and other speculation.
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