List of characters and powers

* Niki - internet sex worker (alternate personality: brawler)

You forgot to add that Niki is smokin' hot.

Smokin' hot is definitely a superpower in my book!

Great list. I didn't think about Micah having any superpowers, but it would be pretty cool if he becomes the gadgetguy for a Heroes supergroup in the future.

I should add that Claire's stepdad is a *possible* villain - he hasn't actually been seen to do anything evil yet (though I think the show is not likely to go for that level of subterfuge, and that he is actually a heavy). Also, he seems to be in the employ of someone else, so he's not the main baddie if he is one.

OK, so I felt I should do a revised list of powers, now that several episodes have been seen.

* Mohinder - geneticist (no obvious powers, but may know best what's going on)
* Peter - nurse (power chameleon)
* Nathan - politician (flight)
* Hiro - office drudge (temporal manipulation)
* Niki - internet sex worker (Jessica, alternate personality: brawler)
* Claire Bennet - high school student (regeneration)
* Isaac - painter (precognition)
* Ando - no obvious powers, fan of Niki's, Hiro's coworker (no obvious powers)
* Lyle - Claire's brother (no obvious powers)
* Simone - Isaac's girlfriend, Peter's employer (no obvious powers)
* Mrs. Bennet - slightly vacuous dog breeder (no obvious powers, but may know some of what is going on)
* Mr. Bennet - conflicted secret agency executive (global resources/connections, probably knows most of what is going on)
* Micah - Niki's son (machine empathy)
* D.L. - Micah's dad (phasing)
* "the Haitian" - agent who reports to Mr. Bennet (memory leech)
* Matt - policeman (telepathy)
* Audrey - FBI agent (no obvious powers)
* Deidre - Niki's friend (no obvious powers)
* Eden - agent who reports to Mr. Bennet (persuasion)
* Jackie - cheerleader rival of Claire's (no obvious powers)
* Brody - date rapist, quarterback (no obvious powers)
* Ted - weaselly widower (pyrokinetic)
* Chandra Suresh - Mohinder's father, deceased (no obvious powers)
* Sylar - psychopath, familiar with Chandra (telekinetic)
* Soccer-playing boy in India - street kid (dreamwalker)
* Charlie - waitress (total recall)

nice exhausting list you have there. I'd only add the waitress memory girl to that list.

yeah, good list - what about the radioactive man that matt was investigating?

Ah, crap, sino, you're right. I knew I was leaving someone out. I've edited the list to include Charlie. Papa, you're thinking of Ted, whom I was listing as a pyrokinetic. But I think you're right - that's too general. He is more of a radioactive guy.

Note that I don't include all the characters, just the ones I think may be important to the story. I don't actually think that Matt's wife or the detective she's sleeping with are all that important to the larger story, but I could be wrong...

If you add the Radioactive Man (and you should), you have to add the waitress with the Enhanced Photographic Memory, after all, initially Sylar did kill her before Hiro went back.

hey mohinder says that there's only a limited number of "mutants" right? 32 or 36 or somethinng.

how about claire's real mother?? the snap-lighter-fingers

Invisible man needs to be added into the mix now.

I was assuming that Hiro's father might have some powers, but I guess the power his henchman alluded to was his money and business prowess.

Also - The Haitian's power in the list needs to be updated since it's become clearer since you originally posted this that not only does he have a memory leech ability, he also has a potent power leech/neutralizer ability.

You should add to Nathan that he is Clair's father, which I totally called BTW!

Great list too, it's sometimes hard to keep track of everyone.

Also, I think that Simone has a power we just haven't seen it yet. The reason I think that is because in Peter's vision of him blowing up, she is the only one in the vision without a power. I could be wrong, but you never know.

Hey Budgyrl, I had to create an account just to let you know that Mohinder is also in Peter's dream. Maybe he has a power, too. Something to do with narrating, maybe. :P Although I believe it was HRG's voice that said, "Previously on Heroes" for this weeks episode. Mohinder didn't even have any screentime. Oh well.

Time to update the list again!

Hana: Wireless travel, communication, data interception
Welding Lady (dead): Super Hearing
Zane Taylor (dead): Ability to "melt" solid material

Zane's power probably goes further had he been able to fully harness his ability.

very impressive list!

Yes, you all are correct - it's time for an update. In the updated list below, I've marked the ones who have had powers for 15 years with an asterisk (*). All the others have "blossomed" just before the series begins.

* Mohinder - geneticist (no obvious powers, but may know best what's going on)
* Peter - nurse (power chameleon)
* Nathan - politician (flight)
* Hiro - office drudge (temporal manipulation)
* Niki - internet sex worker (Jessica, alternate personality: brawler)
* Claire Bennet - high school student, Nathan's bastard daughter (regeneration)
* Isaac - painter (precognition) DECEASED
* Ando - fan of Niki's, Hiro's coworker (no obvious powers)
* Lyle - Claire's brother (no obvious powers)
* Simone - Isaac's former girlfriend, Peter's girlfriend (no obvious powers) DECEASED
* Mrs. Bennet - slightly vacuous dog breeder (no obvious powers, but may know some of what is going on)
* Mr. Bennet - conflicted secret agency executive (global resources/connections, knows some of what is going on)
* Micah - Niki's son (machine empathy)
* D.L. - Micah's dad (phasing)
* "the Haitian"(*) - agent who reports to Thompson (memory leech/power nullification field)
* Matt - policeman (telepathy)
* Audrey - FBI agent (no obvious powers)
* Deidre - Niki's friend (no obvious powers)
* Eden - agent who reports to Mr. Bennet (persuasion) DECEASED
* Jackie - cheerleader rival of Claire's (no obvious powers) DECEASED
* Brody - date rapist, quarterback (no obvious powers)
* Ted - weaselly widower (radiation emission)
* Chandra Suresh - Mohinder's father (no obvious powers) DECEASED
* Sylar - psychopath, familiar with Chandra and Mohinder (telekinetic/power acquisition/cannibal?)
* Soccer-playing boy in India - street kid (dreamwalker)
* Charlie - waitress (total recall) DECEASED
* Janice - Matt's wife, pregnant adulterer (no obvious powers)
* Meredith Gordon (*) - Claire's biological mom (pyrokinetic)
* Hana - mystery woman appearing out of nowhere (mental wifi)
* "Welder" (*) - machinist/mechanic (enhanced hearing) DECEASED
* Zane Taylor - schlub (liquefaction) DECEASED
* Claude (*) - drifter, Mr. Bennet's ex-partner (invisibility)
* Kaito Nakamura - Hiro's father, mighest level operative in Mr. Bennet's organization (no obvious powers, but knows most of what's happening)
* Thompson - Mr. Bennet's superior in the organization (no obvious powers)
* Candice - Thompson's flunky (doppleganger)
* Mr. Linderman (*) - extremely wealthy, eccentric megalomaniac (growth/healing field)
* Angela Petrelli (*) - Nathan and Peter's mom, Claire's grandmother (no obvious powers)

rah! well done u had time. good clean cut list so far, until some1 brings up something u forgot lol.

After this last episode it seems that the Haitian is in the 15+ year category (or at least very close to it).

Amended, papa. I've also added Hiro's dad and the Eric Roberts character.

Shouldn't Sylar's abilities be written down, else than only acquisition?

Great list, harold. One small correction: Charlie is DECEASED.

Sylar has another power too-he can freeze things...we've seen him do it a few times in the beginning.

Correction SouthernNYCgal We've seen the people who were frozen never actually seen him do it.

I think that there's another Sylar, who in the future killed Hiro and stole his time travel powers, that he comes back with them to get some other powers he might have missed. So the sylar we see fighting Peter is current day Sylar, and there's a much harder Sylar out there somewhere with flight and regen, and freezing.

Time for another list update.

Angela Petrelli: Mother of Nathan and Peter, Grandmother to Claire - strong implication that she has powers, but power not yet revealed

Candice: agent who reports to Thompson, changeling

Linderman: mob boss, healer

And Isaac is now dead.

One interesting related thread topic, what are the known weaknesses of the above powers? Perhaps I will start that as a separate topic.

OK, thanks, folks. I've made the updates. I'm conflicted about describing Candice as a shapechanger, since she creates clothes and accessories, too, so I listed her as a doppleganger.