Dec 15 2008
The Top Ten Heroes Characters I Want to See Dead
It’s probably not a good sign for Heroes that I want the vast majority of the cast dead, and wouldn’t feel a bit of sadness if any of them bit it tonight. It’s kind of like if I said that Friends sucks and they need to kill off Joey, Monica, Phoebe and Ross to make it good. But Heroes has far too much dead weight it’s been hauling around for too long now, and the plot holes caused by some of the characters are turning into bottomless plot chasms.
Here are 10 characters that I think the show could do with out, ranked on a scale from “they’re a minor annoyance” to “they should be shot into the sun.”
10) Nathan
Why he deserves it: Look Nathan, it’s time to sh*t or get off the pot. He needs to choose whether to be good or evil, and he better make up his mind quick. I’d rather see him dead than watch any more of his flirting between the light and dark side of the force. His ability sucks (flying is pretty useless without strength or invulnerability), but his real power lies in his public image, an angle they need to play up more, or get rid of him completely.
How it should happen: Have Sylar cut his head open, I’m sure he’d make much better use out of flight than Nathan does.
9) Meredith
Why she deserves it: This picture is pretty much the only reason I want her dead. Everytime she walks into a damn room she has to do the “flame on” trick. What, no “Hi Claire, it’s so nice to see you again”? Nope, just walk right in and open that palm to remind everyone what you do in case they ****ing forgot. They made her slightly more relevant by making her brother that blue-flame doofus, but she’s more or less useless. Maybe if she dies Claire will get her act together and start kicking some ass.
How it should happen: Claire dives to take a bullet for her, but it’s such a high calibur it rips through her and kills Meredith anyways. Irony!
8 ) Hiro
Why he deserves it: Calm down, calm down. I love Hiro too, everyone does. But I’m putting him here because if killing him means a stop to time-travel, I think it’s worth the sacrifice. 90% of all plot holes found in Heroes can be attributed to time travel. For example, Arthur is this season’s bad guy. Why doesn’t Hiro just zap to when he was lying sick in bed, freeze time, and skewer his face with a katana? Because that would have made for a really short season that’s why. Either kill Hiro or kill his power, but time travel absolutely must stop on this show.
How it should happen: He miscalculates a time jump and ends up getting stomped on by a brontosaurus. At least it’d be giving the show’s comic relief a humorous death.
7) Noah
Why he deserves it: The creepiest scene of the entire season as far as I’m concered is when Noah has Sylar and Elle making out in the crosshairs of his sniper rifle and then the episode ends. OK. Cut to next episode where the two lovebirds are naked on the floor wrapped in blankets. And then Noah starts shooting! Did he seriously just sit there watching the entire escapade through his sniper scope? Ewwww. But really, I don’t want him dead because he’s a perv, I want him dead because he’s a one trick pony that hasn’t done anything remotely interesting in a season and a half. His only job on the show seems to be to “protect Claire,” but considering she’s proven to be thoroughly immortal, that makes him pretty useless doesn’t it?
How it should happen: Another Sylar victim, Bennett’s been such a dick to him he more than has it coming. Unfortunately he’ll get no powers from his brain besides possibly poor eyesight.
6) Maya
Why she deserves it: How much damn time did we waste with this chick in season 2? Her entire subplot with Sylar and her brother was completely useless and she keeps popping up like a really hot, large chested bout of herpes that just won’t go away. As much as I appreciate her aesthetically, I really never want to see her again unless they somehow end up injecting her with a power that doesn’t suck, like tits that shoot lasers or something. And she’s much too hot for Mohinder anyways.
How it should happen: Mohinder gets her pregnant and about six months in a demon spider baby bursts out of her stomach. Wicked.
5) Angela
Why she deserves it: Can someone tell me what the hell Angela’s power is exactly? Something about the future. Something about dreams. Something about future dream traveling. I have no idea. Now with Arthur dead, she’s the only memeber of the old guard left, which sucks considering all of the other old heroes were way, way better than her. She’s allegedly behind the “good” movement this season, but I’ll be damned if she’s done one useful thing I can remember. Off with her head.
How it should happen: Freddy Krueger shows up and they dream battle to the death.
4) Claire
Why she deserves it: Yeah I get it, hot jailbait attracts viewers, but do you have to make her so damn annoying? I mean really, her character development as seen through her high school years was pretty good, but “grown up” Claire is now more of a whiny brat than she ever was. She’s the centerpiece for every plot every season for some reason, but “save the cheerleader, save the world” is a pretty empty statement since it’s been proven you could feed this girl through a woodchipper and have her not die.
How it should happen: Since she can’t actually die, have one of the teleporting guys transport her to the moon, where she can whine in peace for the rest of her lonely existence.
3) Peter
Why he deserves it: You can’t have a person this powerful on the show and not expect him to be the center point of a million different plot holes. Peter has Hiro’s time travel skills AND Claire’s immortality, which makes it all but impossible that he can ever die on the show. How can you root for a main character like that? The show took away his powers this season, but you know that’s only temporary. Soon he’ll get them back and we’ll find a black hole where the plot used to be.
How it should happen: There is literally no possible way to do it. Though immortal, he can’t be teleported into exile like Claire, because he can just teleport right back. The only thing I can think of is have him sit in a room with the Haitian, shoot him in the head, and then have the Haitain wait there forever so he doesn’t heal.
2) Mohinder
Why he deserves it: Mohinder has become the definition of a useless character. He used to be pretty integral, discovering genomes and reaching out to heroes in season one. He got mildly interesting again this season when he went all “The Fly” for a little while, but now he just saunters around the lab looking like some sort of leprosy patient. They need him for whenever they want to talk about “science stuff,” but I swear if I hear one more five-minute voice over narration…
How it should happen: Shortly after birth, Maya’s spider baby jumps on him and bites his jugluar out.
1) Tracy/Jessica/Niki
Why she deserves it: I cannot believe this person is still on the show. She’s the character so utterly uninteresting, they felt they had to make three copies of her. One of them had no powers, the other was some sort of rage black out-having Incredible Hulk rip-off, and now this latest iteration has super freezing powers. Where the **** did that come from? I was dancing in the streets when they killed her off last season, and when I saw they brought her back this season for no earthly reason at all I almost lost it. Just kill her, for good, it’ll only be three seasons too late.
How it should happen: Heart attack, posioned, drowned, burned, suffocated, a large fall, shot, stabbed, hung, Sylar’d, cancer, car accident, plane crash, I do not care, just get her off the damn show.
As you can see I’m a still a fan of Sylar, Parkman, Daphne, Ando and the Haitian. But yeah, that’s just about it. I still can’t believe they killed Kristen Bell. And the portal guy. That guy rocked.
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About Maya’s death, you haven’t been reading a certain series about a certain “Dark Tower” by a certain “Stephen King” have you?
maybe the portal guys comes back ??
its a good plot hahaha the end of the world (the blackhole episode)
btw i hate mohinder to but if he looks like the guy from lost in space i will see this show 24/7 do you know who i mean ??
Lost in space the movie
Gary Oldman … Spider Smith
mohinder is a rippoff from this guy could not find any clips on youtube look at a video store for lost in space its an average movie but has some moments.
And the baby spiders is a have-too for mohinder if he wants to be bad ass
I think the point of having a star is so that you hide the swear word. Unless you meant to put “shi*t” on purpose. Then you’re clever!
man, this article is comedic legend, so funny yet so true. 10/10
Like with Matt, they should show Claire how she can use her powers in the reverse way…so she can inflict pain on people. Then, she could be useful…team her up with her dad and they would kick a$$. It would then be cool if she suffered periods of vulnerability after she inflicts pain on others. Right now, she’s useless, and pretty silly.
As for Mohinder…they should turn him into a monster and have him do sick experiments.
Maya should become a villain as well. Maybe a scorned villanese who uses her curse powers to kill off any who oppose her. Then she’s be this hot, scary chick instead of a eye candy useless girl.
Nikki should be done and done. Worst Character ever. If you have a super hotty to sell the show, fine. Give her super strength or ice powers and make her a positive female character who wants to help people. Otherwize, she’s just some stereotypical skank.
I can’t agree with all your choices, but without a doubt Tracy/Jessica/Niki needs to die! Maya’s death was probably the best though, if only it really happened, Heroes would instantly become the best series on TV.
Dude, they killed time travel. peters loss/restoration of power reset his abilities, making him less of a god-like super-jerk. also, hiro lost his powers, but will not disappear as comic relief because now ando has all the power of a Old-school nintendo power-up. watch out sylar, or ando will supercharge you. if it overloaded powers, would be fun. so now time travel is dead. thank god..
also, Haitian supress abilities, right? so he suppressed arthur’s ability to be the main antagonist, thus killing him xD
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c-mon… this is pure lack of ideas… the 2nd season was bit stupid… but this… and the three headed blondie… cmon…
lmfao.
dude, you are hilarious.
I don’t know if this was said before, but the portal guy didn’t actually die/get killed off. All he did was create a portal that portalled him somewhere. Of course, we don’t know where those portals led. If it is anywhere without oxygen and stable conditions, yes, he is dead. Other than that, I still doubt they’ll bring him back, he was a minor character.
Die MOhinder, Die
Sylar is one of the worst villians that has ever been on television.
HOW is daphne not on your list? She is the most obnoxious, whiny wench ever.
100% agree, incredible!
kristen bell ruled and sylar, ando and parkman too!
umm wait nikki had the super strength and jessica had some kind of mind insert/transfer power and used that in nikki. So um yea…
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my dad hates Sylar lol, but he still likes him. He says he hates him because no body can kill him now, that Peter’s lost his mimicry power.
You got your wish about that blond tramp finally biting it. Not a bad way to go, but when that little midget bastard turned on the sprinklers, she should have had the droplets turn into ice bullets and rip those people apart like cheese cloth. Still cool, except . .
WTF was with that damn wink?
And where is that nifty blond english samurai dude?
Notice how you’ve included all the remaining female characters - misogynist much???
Heroes is one of those shows I just can’t quit. I’ve watched since day 1 (back in the glory days that was season 1) and ever since then, I keep putting myself through the crappiness that it has become. The past 5 episodes have gotten better, but I completely agree that people have gots to go. Claire bugs the crap out of me, Mohinder was a little asshole, and Parkman is actually annoying now (I hate to say that because I loved Greg Grunberg on Alias).
Daphne and parkman no onscreen chemistry FTW
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Its not misogyny doug, its caused by the bad writing on the show.
Correlation isn’t causaility.
i dont know if youve seen every episode but theres one where tracy talks to the old company scientist guy and finds out jessica/nikky was her sister and they were genetically engineered when the company was looking for the formula, after they perfected it they put it in nathan
“About Maya’s death, you haven’t been reading a certain series about a certain “Dark Tower” by a certain “Stephen King” have you?”
EXACTLY what I thought of when I read that, LOVE The Dark Tower. I don’t really agree with this list as the show would basically suck without all these characters. Seems like the list was compiled awhile ago, wonder if the writer still feels the same way.
Wow, a lot of these deaths ended up happening, I guess the producers agreed with you!
Personally, a lot of the people on the list who were around for a long time on the show have the same essential problem: very little character development, or downright unpleasant character development. The writers need to learn that making someone whiny and depressed doesn’t make them a more compelling character, just a more annoying one. I mean, they do it with just about EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER on the show…
They should dump Sylar, pronto. He’s boringly ambiguous and his smugness is tiresome. Why can’t there be some new villains that have some interesting, avaricious schemes?
The extremely anticlimactic end to season 1 told me that it was indented to be a 1-season deal (with Sylar dying at the end of it) but got extended due to its popularity. The beginning of season 2 was going nowhere fast and my sense for detecting crap TV saved me from watching crap TV yet again.
@ Mark
I wish I had the will power. I quit on 24, but something about Heores keeps bringing me back. Probably just hope that the show can return to Season 1 form.
I defiently think Sylars character is getting old. I mean, I know there are other characters that have been on the show since season 1- but Sylar’s character has had nearly every possible story gone through, and I’m getting tired of hear him talk about his weird family and stuff. I loved him in season 1 and 2, but its just getting a bit predictable.
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I think Hiro is the most irritating character of all… KAWAII I am weird geeky japanese always happy and enthusiastic! KILL KILL
@ batiste
Hiro has become incredibly irritating. His joy has worn thin; nobody can be that optimsitc with so much death and danger around him.
if you’ve caught up with the rest of the seasons till the end of three, you’ll notice that these “suggestions” have made it’s way onto the show. haha.
nathan is now dead, replaced with a mind-warped sylar(uses of memory absorbtion and shapeshifting, mind-whammied courtesy of parkman)
meredith baked herself to death, irony right?
hiro! irony all around, his powers got sucked then touch and go toddler had a chance, and now–drumroll please! he can’t use his power or it’ll kill him.
noah did die in season two, he just didn’t stay dead. guys a cockroach, and as close to sociopathic as it gets without making him stoneage sylar
thank god they killed maya! what was the point of her ‘i’m evil, i must rid myself of these powers to repent!’ no point. probably because producers needed more viewers and a tragic ‘heroine’ with big boobs was the way to go.
angela hasn’t died yet, but has become more active. her power is dreming the future(sound familiar x-men fans?). near the middle of season three shows that very clearly. she’s a perfect metaphor though. all things come full circle, not to mention telling sylar that he’s her son, and now he is. irony.
claire. ugh. there have been so many characters telling her to ’suck it up’–however covertly, it’s hilarious. but the stereotype is proven true when they say ‘blondes are airheads’. can u get anymore naieve?
the blackhole is temporarily under construction. peter has half his power back, but it’s a ripoff of the rogue. can you say power infringement? (notice it’s the same power as his dad’s?)
mohinder’s epitaph will read “Definition of Useless” though good eyecandy, what praytell, is the reason for him to whine and have superstrength, while remaining the patsy he is? not to mention being a ’smart’ person? i think the writers were thinking pothead 101 when they designed him.
Nikki/tracy/jessica! for those who bother to watch the series and comprehend it, jessica was a split personality, just like gina. she was never actually a physical character on the show! nikki’s power was superstrength. tracy was bobby drake. these powers are starting to sound familiar, i wonder when stan lee is gonna sue the producers of Heroes, infringments and all. the last sister has yet to be named, but it’s clear she has some potential if you’ve seen the season 4 spoilers.
ha! daphne dies.
the little girl (miss i-can-find-anyone) has disappeared for good.
haitian is a no-show. i haven’t seen him since season two.
sylar got a bit stale after a while.
parkman may have stepped it up a notch by somehow getting isaac’s power (what were the writer’s smoking when they thought that up?)or have added a level of sucking useless tot he max, because he only uses the power when it suits the writers.
Ando, however is still hiro’s patsy. don’t get me wrong, the two together can never go wrong. but it makes u wonder, what do they do when they’re not trying to save the world together, does ando pick up more chicks and leave hiro to his comic books?
can’t wait till season 4
well I’m only at season 2 ep 9, but I can tell that you are a heroes fanatic and this is just useless. About your list now…I am also annoyed by Meredith, Suresh and Angela. Suresh can’t die, why? Cause he’s telling the story. And about the other characters if they really want them off they could find a way idk…and my favorite characters are Hiro and Peter, even though Hiro has this glitch with time-travel which is bullshit, cause u can’t actually go into the future cause that would mean you are no more in past, which is a paradox. and I like Peter cause he is the only one that can stand against Sylar without any help from others…and I hate Sylar cause he is pretty much a psycho murderer. I don’t know how can you like one that only knows deceit and betrayal. Maybe you think that if you “tic” like him he would be a friend right??
@ pak
Things are only going to get worse as you continue watching. Heroes peaked with Season 1, unfortunately.
i totally agree with all of this stuff. Claire’s a big baby. all she does is whine until she gets her way. Ali Larter just keeps coming back. how many times are we gonna have to see her get killed before she’s off this show completely? Peter Petrelli… Way too powerful for this show. always has to save the world from Sylar. Maya… Come on! She’s annoying and a terrible actress! Angela Petrelli is annoying too. Just like both her sons. Nathan needs to die. It’s so stupid that now they have Sylar being Nathan. either keep him or kill him. Choose between good or evil while you’re at it! dang! Mohinder… He just gets old after a while. he just doesn’t know if he should be good or evil, who to trust and who not to trust. Mr. Bennet (Noah) he’s kinda perverted if he watches Sylar and Elle making out. that’s a little much. he needs to go as good as Claire does.
The worst part about Heroes is… It just goes on. I swear, they’re just making it up as they go along. what was with the, “Sylar will be good.” thing anways? they sucked! i didn’t watch this show (trust me… i’m a huge fan of this show) until i knew Sylar was back to his normal, serial killer self. he’s my top favorite character and they killed some of him with the “good” phrase of his life. after a while… you just want to puke from this show? right? Claire crying in the first season, then whining about not being able to find people from level 5 in season 3. this show’s just getting dumb. i can’t believe that NBC picked them up for another season. how lame do you get?
I was glad to see my favorite character, Ando, didn’t make the list. He’s been the bomb since day one.
I’ve been watching clips, and based on what I’ve seen, Sylar comes off as a bit too powerful, and it seems out of everyone on the show, he doesn’t have a weakness. Kind of like Jason from Friday the 13th. It’s like he keeps showing up with no injuries.
If I had powers like Maya’s, I’d be depressed and whiny too.
They need to turn Peter into someone like The Sentry. Almighty but vulnerable inside. Not like the pussy momma’s boy that he is right now.
You are the one who deserve to die…
Oh, my god, I know!! The portal guy was so freaking chill, why the heck did they have to kill him off?! I totally agree with all of the above, though… Heroes is just really boring now.
I have an idea!! let’s kill off all of the characters that are central to the plot of the show and then dick around with all of the secondary characters who have no ability for plot advancement!! I’m really interested in the chick who can see sounds, you could film a whole season around how cool and pretty it is!! since when did synesthesia become a super power?
maybe after that we can kill off the cast of Lost and move the focus of the show to the people who helped build the huts on the beach.
all you people who are complaining about the characters who can decide whether to be good or evil: NEWS FLASH!! thats what makes them (and the show by proxy) interesting. if you want static personalities go watch care bares or some shit, dont watch the show and be all “BOO HOO! i have to think for once”
Characters who really need to die:
Parkman aka the self-righteous bastard who thinks he can control the only truly interesting character in the show
Emma Coolige aka bitch who can see sounds but has no real power and serves only as a nice ass and a pair of boobs
The Haitian aka the recycler of old characters. hey! why invent new personalities when you can reuse old ones?
ttfn
They should bring back Eccleston as the Invisible Man. They have a new character with that ability, but he’s a better character.
Claire needs to go, or become a side character status that shows up every 3rd episode or so. Every season they give a cheesy, 1-2 episode love affair with her, flying boy or water boy or now the female stalker roomate. They find decent ways to use the character Sylar, which is good but the fact he still has all of the powers makes him too powerful. Shape-shifting, regeneration and the dozens of others they show him taking but never, ever using.
They usually under-use, under develop or kill off the actual interesting characters, such as in my mind Michah’s cousin(Name?), Daphne, Adam Monroe, Doyle, The Haitian (Underused)