| Name | Described as... | by... | Quote
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| Hiro Nakamura | Hero | Himself | Several occasions, e.g.:
- "Don't worry. I stop it. Am hero." (Hiros)
- "I am a hero!" (Cautionary Tales)
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| Villain | Adam Monroe |
- "Only to have you become a villain." (Powerless)
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| Himself |
- "Now I'm a villain like you. (Dying of the Light)
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| Daphne Millbrook |
- "You're supposed to be the good guy!" (Dying of the Light)
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| Ando Masahashi | Hero | Hiro Nakamura | Several occasions, e.g.:
- "You don’t have to have superpowers ... to be a hero." (Better Halves)
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| Himself | Several occasions, e.g.:
- "I am not a villain." (The Butterfly Effect)
- "I was a hero. And I didn't need powers to do it." (Heroism is Found in the Heart, Part 2)
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| Kimiko Nakamura |
- "Ando, you're my hero!" (Heroism is Found in the Heart, Part 2)
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| Isaac Mendez | Hero | Himself |
- "I'm gonna be a hero." (Collision)
- "I finally get to be a hero." (.07%)
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| Villain | Peter Petrelli |
- "You're not a hero, Isaac." (Unexpected)
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| D.L. Hawkins | Hero | Micah Sanders | Several occasions:
- "Dad, you saved her. Like a real hero." (Nothing to Hide)
- "You really are a hero." (Four Months Ago)
- "We need to be heroes. Like dad." (Truth and Consequences')
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| Paulette Hawkins |
- "My son, your husband, is a good man." (One Giant Leap)
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| Villain | Micah Sanders |
- "You're a bad guy." (Nothing to Hide)
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| Matt Parkman | Hero | Janice Parkman |
- "You're my hero. Don't you know that?" (Six Months Ago)
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| Himself |
- "I'm one of the good guys." (Don't Look Back)
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| Molly Walker |
- "No. It's my other hero." (Landslide)
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| Sylar | Hero | Himself |
- "Turns out you're the villain, Peter. I'm the hero." (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
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| Villain | Noah Bennet | Several occasions, e.g.:
- "He's a murderer!" (One of Us, One of Them)
- "A monster cares about my well being." (One of Us, One of Them)
- "He's a killer. He's a monster." (Angels and Monsters)
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| Hiro Nakamura | Several occasions, e.g.:
- "A very, very bad man is going to come here." (Six Months Ago)
- "I had the villain under my blade." (Landslide)
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| Matt Parkman |
- "He's a bad guy." (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
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| Angela Petrelli |
- "Letting out a dozen inmates. Who are just as bad (as Sylar) or worse." (The Butterfly Effect)
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| Sandra Bennet |
- "I am so angry to think that monster was in this house." (The Butterfly Effect)
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| Future Sylar |
- "It had turned me into a killer. A monster." (I Am Become Death)
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| Usutu |
- "These are the villains you seek." (Dying of the Light)
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| Mohinder Suresh |
- "I'll slay the monster." (Monsters)
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| Audrey Hanson | Several occasions, e.g.:
- "Would you come back to your own sick crime scene? Are you watching, like a pervert in a trench coat?" (Turning Point)
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| Peter Petrelli | Hero | Claire Bennet |
- "You're totally my hero." (Fallout)
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| Simone Deveaux |
- "No, you're a real hero to care for a perfect stranger like this." (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
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| Caitlin |
- "There's only good in you." (Fight or Flight)
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| Himself |
- "I'm not the bad guy. I'm the hero." (Super-Heroics)
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| Villain | Sylar |
- "Turns out you're the villain, Peter. I'm the hero." (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
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| Victoria Pratt |
- "Adam's a killer. And I guess since you're helping him, you're one too. Just like your parents." (Truth & Consequences)
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| Eden McCain | Hero | Noah Bennet |
- "And she was a good person." (Godsend)
- "Your daughter was a goddamn hero!" (Fathers & Daughters)
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| Takezo Kensei | Hero | Hiro Nakamura | Numerous occasions, e.g.:
- "And so he became a great leader. A hero." (Godsend)
- "You’re Takezo Kensei! My hero!" (Four Months Later)
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| Ando Masahashi |
- "It is the crest of Takezo Kensei, a famous hero in Japan." (Lizards)
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| Hope | Villain | Hiro Nakamura |
- "You are a bad person." (Run!)
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| Bob Bishop | Morally Gray | Mohinder Suresh |
- "Bob is morally gray at best" (Out of Time)
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| Arthur Petrelli | Hero | Nathan Petrelli |
- "My father was my hero." (Landslide)
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| Villain | Victoria Pratt |
- "Adam's a killer. And I guess since you're helping him, you're one too. Just like your parents." (Truth & Consequences)
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| Usutu |
- "These are the villains you seek." (Dying of the Light)
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| Nathan Petrelli | Hero | Tracy Strauss |
- "You're my hero." (Angels and Monsters)
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| Sheila |
- "It was an angel." (Trial By Fire)
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| Villain | Hiro Nakamura |
- "Villain!" (Landslide)
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| Nightmare Nathan Petrelli |
- "You're no hero." (Fight or Flight)
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| Noah Bennet | Hero | Himself |
- Hana: "(Bennet said) that we're both on the side of the angels." (War Buddies, Part 1)
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| Morally Gray | Himself |
- "I'm comfortable with morally gray." (Company Man)
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| Villain | Angela Petrelli |
- "You and Gabriel have more in common (as a murderer) than you care to admit." (One of Us, One of Them)
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| Claire Bennet |
- "Dad is a bad guy, Lyle!" (Cautionary Tales)
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| Angela Petrelli | Villain | Nathan Petrelli |
- "You're evil, Ma... Get out!" (Four Months Later...)
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| Victoria Pratt |
- "Adam's a killer. And I guess since you're helping him, you're one too. Just like your parents." (Truth & Consequences)
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| Daniel Linderman | Villain | Micah Sanders |
- "I just don't understand why you're working for such a bad guy." (Landslide)
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| Hana Gitelman |
- "[Linderman] has better encryption than the US government... It says you are a real shady bastard." (War Buddies, Part 6)
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| Claire Bennet | Hero | May |
- "You're kind of a hero to the girls in the squad.o." (The Kindness of Strangers)
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| Adam Monroe | Hero | Himself | Several occasions, e.g.:
- "I'm really a hero." (The Line)
- "And I'll be their hero." (Powerless)
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| Hiro Nakamura | Several occasions, e.g.:
- "He is good inside." (Out of Time)
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| Villain | Victoria Pratt |
- "Adam's a killer." (Truth & Consequences)
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| Kaito Nakamura | Hero | Hiro Nakamura |
- "Kaito Nakamura taught me right from wrong. What it means to be a hero." (Cautionary Tales)
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| Daphne Millbrook | Villain | Hiro Nakamura | Several occasions, e.g.:
- "She's the villain." (The Butterfly Effect)
- "Now I'm a villain like you." (Dying of the Light)
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| Arthur Petrelli |
- "The bad guys are here." (Dying of the Light)
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| Level 5 escapees | Villain | Angela Petrelli |
- "Letting out a dozen inmates. Who are just as bad (as Sylar) or worse." (The Butterfly Effect)
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| Noah Bennet |
- "Some people are just evil... They're villains, Claire." (The Butterfly Effect)
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| Claire Bennet |
- "There are bad people out there." (One of Us, One of Them)
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| Sandra Bennet |
- "They're monsters." (Angels and Monsters)
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| Stephen Canfield | Hero | Himself |
- "I won't be a monster." (Angels and Monsters)
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| Villain | Himself |
- "Maybe I am a monster. Couldn't put it better." (Angels and Monsters)
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| Claire Bennet |
- "You are a monster." (Angels and Monsters)
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| Mohinder Suresh | Villain | Maya Herrera |
- "You're a monster." (Angels and Monsters)
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| Flint | Villain | Arthur Petrelli |
- "The bad guys are here." (Dying of the Light)
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| Usutu |
- "These are the villains you seek." (Dying of the Light)
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| Benjamin Washington | Villain | Arthur Petrelli |
- "The bad guys are here." (Dying of the Light)
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| Usutu |
- "These are the villains you seek." (Dying of the Light)
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| Charles Deveaux | Hero | Peter Petrelli |
- "See, your father... he's the real hero." (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
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| Theodore Sprague | Villain | FBI Agent |
- "They'll probably gives us medals for taking down a terrorist." (How Do You Stop an Exploding Man?, Part 1)
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| Niki/Jessica Sanders | Villain | Las Vegas News |
- Micah: "Like when the Las Vegas News tells the entire city that your mom is a murderer." (Bully)
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| Frank |
- "Killer!" (Bully)
- "You belong in jail with your psycho killer mom." (Bully)
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