Last night, Greg and I had a very interesting discussion based off of one of our new favorite shows, NBC’s Heroes. Greg wants to be Siler and I want to be Peter Petrelli, who seems to be starting to do the same things Sylar is, except without killing people and for good purposes. We started talking about what super powers we would want the most.
So correct us if we’re wrong, fellow Heroes watchers, but it seems that here are all of the powers that have been referenced on the show so far:
- Hiro-time travel
- Isaac-paints the future
- Peter Petrelli-absorbs other powers
- Nathan Petrelli-flies
- Claire-Indestructable and able to sustain a substantial role since Ally McBeal child star days
- Matt-reads minds
- The Haitian-Erases minds
- Micah-runs electronic interferance causing him to get free unlimited phone calls and unlimited usage of the ATM
- Micah’s dad-walks through things
- (As J-Lo calls her) PMAT-telepathically manipulates minds
- Bubbly waitress-memorizes stuff instantaneously
- British dude-Invisibility and can talk to birds (okay, maybe not, but what is up with his pigeon coop?)
- First victim of Sylar-Some weird, Jedi-mind-thing where you don’t need to reach across the table for a coffee cup anymore
- Claire’s real mom-human matchstick
- Sylar’s latest victim-melts things into puddles
- Sylar-started off with heightened analytical powers
- Radioactive Man-Uh…is radioactive
- Nikki/Ikkin/Jessica-We were stumped by her. Split personality disorder doesn’t seem like a “power” per se, but maybe that they are starting to be completely independent of each other? Or maybe her power is that she’s super hot.
- Clay Aiken-not really on the show but sings “If I were invisible” and creeps people out.
Greg has always been a complete sucker for manipulating time (we own Click) and there was no question that Hiro’s power is his favorite. And I’m fascinated by invisibility (we spent good money on Hollowman), but not in the creepy Clay Aiken kind of way. I think my next favorite is Isaac’s power, if for anything, so that I could be a better painter. And we can’t decide if being Claire or Matt is a curse or a blessing.
Either way, we’ve agreed that some powers are just plain useless. Like Melty Man and Radioactive Man.
What was Claire on Ally McBeal? I remember her as the coach’s daughter on “Remember the Titans.” It’s strange now that I’m so used to seeing her as serious Claire, and then you see her being all giggly and teenagery in the Neutrogena commercials.
Greg, would you really want to be a serial killer????
And yes, Ali Larter is ridiculously hot. Like Addison on Grey’s Anatomy. They’re both on my “other list” these days.
I still think I’d go for flying or some kind of instant transportation thing. But Hiro’s power is cool, and I loved Google Girl. You’re right, Melty Man is the worst. You have to wonder how he and Micah would ever interact – would they just cancel each other out? Too bad we’ll never know. Alas, poor Melty Man, we hardly knew ye.
I probably don’t acually want to be Siler cause the whole mass-murder thing is pretty difficult to rationalize. But, I really enjoy Siler as a character, he’s a great vilian, well-developed with a purpose behind his evil ways, and stronger and more dangerous than nearly any villian ever.
The other part of the conversation was if you could have three powers what would they be? I said with Hiro’s time travel, Micah’s free ATM transactions and Waitress chic’s ability to become super smart, I could take over the world, or at least be able to retire in about 20 minutes and live quite contently.
Selena said she would want British’s guy’s invisibility and Painter guy’s painting the future. To which I had to ask, “What the hell good does becoming an invisible painter get you?!?”
I always wanted Gambit’s power of charging objects and making them explode. Not to mention wanting the Green Lantern’s ring.
“Some weird, Jedi-mind-thing where you don’t need to reach across the table for a coffee cup anymore”
That’s called telekinesis.
Gambit=Hottest X-man of all time.
I had a Wiccan friend in college who was totally in love with Longshot, a character in the X-Men comic books.
The fact that she was Wiccan isn’t really relevant to the story, it just makes it sound mor interesting.
Green Lantern also comes with the lame ass weakness of being beaten by the color yellow, you lose to A COLOR! That means you cringe at yield signs and traffic lights and your arch-enemy is Big Bird.
Telekenesis would be pretty kick ass. I cant’ think how many times I am on the couch and the remote is over there and I try to see if I’ve suddenly developed telekenesis. Sadly, I’m not a hero yet.
I guess people would say I’m a lot like Jessica/Nikki with my whole split personalities, remember the Christmas party? Who was that?
However, I would like the whole stop time, mind control and flying.
I almost said invisibility, or Micah, but with the first two it sort of cancels both of those abilities out. Plus, I’ve always wanted to fly.
Claire was also on Malcolm in the Middle as the puffy hair babysitter.
I’m just saying….
AND, Claire is a popstar that has a single on one of those Disney compilations CDs with Hilary Duff, Hannah Montana, Ally and AJ…
(Am I exposing too much about my knowledge of Disney Channel popstars?)
The British guy is Chris Eccelston aka Dr Who aka object of my current crush. Invisbility is cool, but I think that Peter has it made since he can absorb others powers and use them simply by remembering the person.
I used to think that Claire’s dad had power, like he neutralized another hero’s power when he was around them, but that theory was ruined by last weeks episode. Boo hoo hoo.
I am loving Eccelston. I so would not want to paint the future, especially if my eyes turned white like that. I think the mind reading thing is cool but too many other shows (*cough* buffy *cough*) have shown it to be a bad thing when you end up not being able to hear your own thoughts. Flying would be good but I would be afraid of the birds. Seriously, being a geek, I think Micah’s is my favorite. Think if he could go wireless. He could hack into anything from anywhere.
I found this silly parody of Heroes. Hopefully it works.
http://break.com/index/zeroes_a_heroes_parody.html