Heroes Article: Heroes vs X-Men: Characters' Powers

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posted by cressida

I enjoy watching Heroes. I truly do. It's a great Zeigen 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, Lesen 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 Filme -- so I apologize if I managle comic book lore.)

No bullets can stop this man!

Instant Healing
X-Men: Wolverine, Deathstrike
Heroes: Claire, Kensei

Reading Minds
X-Men: Professor X, Jean Grey
Heroes: Matt

Cut off her toe -- she won't mind.

The Power to Find Anyone
X-Men: Professor X
Heroes: Molly

Absorption of Others' Powers
X-Men: Rogue (Marie)
Heroes: Peter

Power of Persuasion/Make People See What Du Want
X-Men: Stryker's Son
Heroes: Candice, Eden

Leech/Jimmy will stop all your powers!

Ability to Fly
X-Men: Jean Grey*, Rogue* (*in the comic books)
Heroes: Nathan

Prevention/Blocking Others' Power
X-Men: Leech (Jimmy)
Heroes: The Haitian
-Main Difference: Leech blocks all mutants' powers; The Haitian can selectively prevent powers from working.

The Haitian can CHOOSE to stop your power (and erase your memories for good measure)!

Can Pass Through Walls
X-Men: Kitty Pryde
Heroes: D.L.

Fire Powers
X-Men: Pyro (John Allerdyce)
Heroes: Claire's biological mother (Meredith Gordon)
-Main Difference: Pyro can only manipulate fire, not create it (without his lighter) whereas Claire's mother can create feuer without a prompt.

Metal Powers
X-Men: Magneto
Heroes: Dude who melted metal. (Can't recall his name)
-Main Difference: Magneto can Bewegen metal, Heroes Dude can melt it.

These are a few of the X-Men/Heroes power parallels that I came up with. Maybe y'all know of a few more. The Frage of who's kühler with their superpowers? Now that's for Du to decide.

Peter vs Rogue: just don't let them touch Du

Peter vs Rogue: just don't let them touch you

John (Pyro) vs Meredith (Claire's Bio Mom): and let there be fire!

D.L. vs Kitty Pryde: no walls can stop them

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hekissedmyhand I would say that Candice is more of a shape shifter like Mystique Gambit VS the guy with the bomb (I can't remember his name) and hiro vs nightcrawler (both can teleport) oh and apocolypse vs sylar? it's kind of a strech tho. :D

cressida Thanks! I too originally thought of Candice as a shapeshifter, but remember when Micah tried to escape the apartment? Every time he opened a door (or ran down a hall?) he ended up in the same place. So she has the power to change the external environment's appearance...and thus is more than a personal shapeshifter like Mystique.

sweetmonkeytoes Wasn't Eden the name of the girl who had the power of persuasion?

cressida Yeah, I guess she's the one with persuasion. Candice makes you see what she wants you to see. I combined both categories and forgot to re-add Eden's name. Thanks for pointing that out.

johnminh Great article! you bring out the geek in me! Um ... marry me? Ahahahaha! ;-)

dave Awesome article Cressida!

alexmcneice Nice one...i like how you have drawn parallels but you're not knocking heroes!

PkmnTrainerJ Wicked article. I do love the parallels between the two and the fact that Stan Lee made a minor appearance seems to prove he agress with it too.

harold Refresh my memory: when did the Haitian exhibit selective blocking? He has a secondary ability of memory wiping, which is selective, but his nullification field seems to be on all the time. Isn't it?

harold This article got me thinking a bit more about who Maya and Alejandro reminded me of, and I figured it out: http://www.fanpop.com/spots/heroes/forum/post/4792

ktlady good connections. I was thinking about this the other day. :) Also, Adam West can fly too.

Kirsty Zane Taylor is the name of Melting Man. Really well written!

dramallama56 I saw this one guy in one comic...his code name was Detonator I think, and his power was to blow up at will. And still live. I think that's kinda like Peter and Ted in a way, but not really. And this is great, I've been making these connections all along. And X-Men so PWNS :P But I love Heroes anyways.

alibabanoob whos Eden??

cressida She was the one who lived across the hall from Mohinder. Plus a whole lot of other things (power to suggest, killed herself so Sylar couldn't) but that's how I primarily remember her. Looked kinda like Audrey Tautou (from Amelie).

FGFan great article!

Utherlad I must say when I first heard of Heroes I thought it was just a knock off of X-men, and after watching it I come to realize I was right. I mean its a great show, and it doesn't have the same feel as the X-men did. ok I'll admit the powers are Parallel not Copied as I first thought, and 'omfg, wtf, ftw, and all the others' Stan Lee being in the show, greatest thing ever :) Major problem with Season 2 though...and this proves its a knock off...ok so the "Shantee" virus stops the powers of a person is capable of killing said person... and in the future it infects the General population as well. Now to the X-men, The "Legacy" Virus stops the mutants powers and slowly kills them, until it mutates itself forming "legacy 2" which still prohibits use of power and kills the mutant, just in a different way, finally it becomes "Legacy 3" which can infect and kill regular humans, however a cure is found before any real harm can be done come on, they can come up with a better scenario than that, how about a Regular vs Powered war...oh wait thats Marvel too...oh wait the Government makes a Super Hero Registration Act and Starts a Civil War between the Heroes...lol ok all said and done I love the show

naynayakarenee i think "Heroes" could be an earlier time before the X-men. Bcos Xmen is based in the future and Heroes is based on the present day. So maybe the writers of Heroes did this deliberately. Who knows? Maybe Matt could be Xavier's grandfather?

hawlkseyes I am a die hard x-men comic fan and I think all of the x-men charactors would school the hero's cast. that is just because I am a really big comic book fan.

pitt the similarities really are becoming TOO obvious now: -the whole sylar/peter/nathan thing=vulcan/havok/cyclops -cyclops is a natural leader whos always in control of his powers and the eldest brother- same with nathan -havok is the powerful younger brother, sometimes losing control of his powers- same with peter -vulcan is the long-lost evil brother with immence powers whos name is also gabriel- sylar and another similarity i discovered recently Mr Bennet is just like henry gyrich... both have got the rimmed brown glasses and no powers and both were involved in some way with capturing mutants, they even have the same hairstyle!

evamie ahm!!well i relly like this movie..both HEROES and X-MEN... i've watch heroes but the first season only..it's sad bcoz i can't look for the tapess of the 2nd and 3rd seasons.. for the X_MEN it so cool and fantastic. thank u s much for all the staffs, actors/actresses, directors, and all for making both HEROES and X-MEN..

evamie for all the poppers cud u add me up??

GambitFan_7 It's awesome but if u saw season 3 of heroes you can remember that there were 4 prisoners were mr bennet worked and the episode when sylar was about to attack the prison 4 more powers they mr bennet introduced the prisoners to claire and one of them who had glasses had a similar power to magneto So u should check that out ;) JohnnyBoy

GambitFan_7 P.S. If u can compare someone of heroes to gambit from x-men origins wolverine to a heroes character... That be preety cool

theflash6342 i think its funny i just signed up to comment on this, there are people from each side to match the other, with all the characters from the comics instead of the movies you open yourself up to so many more characters, enough to match all 4 seasons of heroes. i'd love to help if you needed it.