I enjoy watching Heroes. I truly do. It's a great montrer 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, lire 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 films -- so I apologize if I managle comic book lore.)

Most récent mises à jour made on 7 December 2007.

This is an expansion of the forum thread, link, listing all the significant characters on the montrer and a brief description of what we know about them as of the most récent episode. This means that this is chock-full of spoilers, and should not be read par anyone who hasn't seen all the episodes ou doesn't want to find out about character developments outside of the pacing of the montrer itself.

OK, with that caveat, here's the list, divided into three sections: characters with powers, characters without powers, and deceased characters. I've included only...