I enjoy watching Heroes. I truly do. It's a great hiển thị to watch and every week I tune in. But from the very beginning of season one, I had issues with Giải cứu thế giới and its very obvious character parallels to X-Men. Sure there are those basic powers one must hit for entertainment purposes: flying, instant healing, đọc 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 phim chiếu rạp -- so I apologize if I managle comic book lore.)

Most gần đây những thông tin cập nhập made on 7 December 2007.

This is an expansion of the diễn đàn thread, link, listing all the significant characters on the hiển thị and a brief mô tả of what we know about them as of the most gần đây episode. This means that this is chock-full of spoilers, and should not be read bởi anyone who hasn't seen all the episodes hoặc doesn't want to find out about character developments outside of the pacing of the hiển thị 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...