A former airplane pilot who lost his license for smoking pot spends most of his time wondering which way is up. Literally. In a small brawl, the former pilot finds himself standing quite naturally on the wall. When he meets up with some of the other main characters, he’s covered in bruises and small cuts since, while exploring his superpowers, he constantly falls all over the place up walls, across ceilings and off of floors.
Once he finally gets a grip on ‘which way is up,’ he can control which way is down for himself. This lets him fall across the sky from building to building to escape danger or run across the facade of a structure and “jump off.” Pursuing enemies gets easy when you can realign which way is down and fall in their direction at speeds up to 120MPH and consider the dazzling Labrynth (movie)-like photography as the good-humored pilot swings his gravity to stay around walls.
One plot device widely cosidered to be a, “bad move” was killing off the only psychic on the show. A junkie painter from New York painted the future and painted characters in their moments of superpowerness. His own superpower was so important to good stories that his artwork was brought back in the Second Season as a lost collection recently found and needing to be completed to unravel events leading to the less-than-stunning season conclusion. Heroes needs another seer.
Albinos are mostly registered as legally blind. Viola! How about an albino seer and her invisible-at-will albino kid? Since people without pigmentation don’t really categorize well in today’s society (White non-hispanic?) and are mostly shunned like leppers, they probably feel both like freak shows and invisible members of the culture. Being legally blind (it’s a biological anomoly that seems to pair naturally with their pigmentation) gives us a character who sees people’s colors or true or future selves which is something the writers erred in writing out.
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