I enjoy watching Heroes. I truly do. It's a great show to watch and every week I tune in. But from the very beginning of season one, I had issues with Heroes and its very obvious character parallels to X-Men. Sure there are those basic powers one must hit for entertainment purposes: flying, instant healing, reading minds. But just for my sake of drawing the character parallels because this stuff interests me, here are some of the instant X-Men/Heroes connections (nine-tenths of my X-Men knowledge is based on the movies -- so I apologize if I managle comic book lore.)
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No bullets can stop this man!
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Instant Healing
X-Men: Wolverine, Deathstrike
Heroes: Claire, Kensei
Reading Minds
X-Men: Professor X, Jean Grey
Heroes: Matt
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Cut off her toe -- she won't mind.
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The Power to Find Anyone
X-Men: Professor X
Heroes: Molly
Absorption of Others' Powers
X-Men: Rogue (Marie)
Heroes: Peter
Power of Persuasion/Make People See What You Want
X-Men: Stryker's Son
Heroes: Candice, Eden
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Leech/Jimmy will stop all your powers!
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Ability to Fly
X-Men: Jean Grey*, Rogue* (*in the comic books)
Heroes: Nathan
Prevention/Blocking Others' Power
X-Men: Leech (Jimmy)
Heroes: The Haitian
-Main Difference: Leech blocks all mutants' powers; The Haitian can selectively prevent powers from working.
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The Haitian can CHOOSE to stop your power (and erase your memories for good measure)!
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Can Pass Through Walls
X-Men: Kitty Pryde
Heroes: D.L.
Fire Powers
X-Men: Pyro (John Allerdyce)
Heroes: Claire's biological mother (Meredith Gordon)
-Main Difference: Pyro can only manipulate fire, not create it (without his lighter) whereas Claire's mother can create fire without a prompt.
Metal Powers
X-Men: Magneto
Heroes: Dude who melted metal. (Can't recall his name)
-Main Difference: Magneto can move metal, Heroes Dude can melt it.
These are a few of the X-Men/Heroes power parallels that I came up with. Maybe y'all know of a few more. The question of who's cooler with their superpowers? Now that's for you to decide.
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Peter vs Rogue: just don't let them touch you
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John (Pyro) vs Meredith (Claire's Bio Mom): and let there be fire!
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D.L. vs Kitty Pryde: no walls can stop them
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Gambit VS the guy with the bomb (I can't remember his name)
and hiro vs nightcrawler (both can teleport)
oh and apocolypse vs sylar? it's kind of a strech tho. :D
I too originally thought of Candice as a shapeshifter, but remember when Micah tried to escape the apartment? Every time he opened a door (or ran down a hall?) he ended up in the same place. So she has the power to change the external environment's appearance...and thus is more than a personal shapeshifter like Mystique.
And X-Men so PWNS :P But I love Heroes anyways.
I mean its a great show, and it doesn't have the same feel as the X-men did. ok I'll admit the powers are Parallel not Copied as I first thought, and 'omfg, wtf, ftw, and all the others' Stan Lee being in the show, greatest thing ever :)
Major problem with Season 2 though...and this proves its a knock off...ok so the "Shantee" virus stops the powers of a person is capable of killing said person... and in the future it infects the General population as well. Now to the X-men,
The "Legacy" Virus stops the mutants powers and slowly kills them, until it mutates itself forming "legacy 2" which still prohibits use of power and kills the mutant, just in a different way, finally it becomes "Legacy 3" which can infect and kill regular humans, however a cure is found before any real harm can be done
come on, they can come up with a better scenario than that, how about a Regular vs Powered war...oh wait thats Marvel too...oh wait the Government makes a Super Hero Registration Act and Starts a Civil War between the Heroes...lol ok all said and done I love the show
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