History Heroes / TropesJToP

* PsychicNosebleed: Matt gets one when he over-exerts his mind-reading ability in order to overcome the Haitian's PowerNullifier field. In Volume 4, Hiro gets one, demonstrating that his new partially restored powers come at a significant cost.

* MeddlingParents:
** Mrs. Gray, the mother of watchmaker Gabriel Gray, who placed so much emphasis on her son being "special" that it drove him insane and turned him into the serial killer Sylar. So its kind of ironic that his 'specialness' ended up causing him to (accidentally?) stab her. [[spoiler:Angela pretended to be Sylar's real mom.]]

* {{Oireland}}: Peter's subplot at the beginning of Volume Two. You know... maybe we [[DorkAge shouldn't have brought it up again]]...

* PlayingGertrude: Cristine Rose, who plays Angela Petrelli, is only 14 years older than Adrian Pasdar. Mohinder's mother is played by Sakina Jaffrey, who's only older than Sendhil Ramamurthy by 12 years.

* OddCouple: [[AncientConspiracy Company policy]], [[BadassNormal one of us]], [[MagicAndPowers one of them]]. TheyFightCrime.

* TheMeanBrit: Claude (ironically, one of only two British characters on the show played by [[FakeBrit an actual Brit]]).

* KnifeNut: New villain for Season 4/Volume 5 Edgar, a speedster and member of the sinister Carnival that BigBad Samuel is running, apparently prefers to dispatch people with a well thrown blade when possible.
* KnightTemplar: Pretty much every major BigBad, really. Mr. Linderman, who desires to heal humanity at any cost. Rivaled solely by the Primatech organization, which systematically abducts, studies, and slaughters potential heroes in order to protect all the fragile, regular humans from... we don't know yet but it involves lots of StuffBlowingUp. Primatech's working for Linderman. So is just about everybody and everything else, for that matter. Then there's Adam Monroe, who wanted to wipe out 95% of the human race so the remaining 5% would stop fighting and get along.
** Nathan Petrelli.
** The Hunter.
** Indeed, the only BigBad who never bothered to put on pretentious airs about [[ShootTheDog Shooting The Dog]] in order to save the world is Sylar. He's just in it for the brains and the lulz.
** Arthur Petrelli, whose superdickery was motivated by the noble aspiration of -- proving he was better than everyone else.
*** His long-term goal was to make everyone a super however. All people would have powers, not just a lucky group. (Which also prevented the issue of FantasticRacism.) Of course, he still would be a PhysicalGod next to them, but the rest of Big Bads also envisioned themselves somewhere at the top of the new world order.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: Kensei/Adam, Angela Petrelli.
* LoveMartyr: [[spoiler: Sylar and Elle]]

** In general, the whole series operates this trope at a higher level. If the writers need a new power, they don't give it to an existing character, but introduce a new character with the desired ability. One of the benefits of LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters is nobody much notices a few more or less.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: All the "heroes," and their friends, family, colleagues, etc. It's easy to get lost.

** When Arthur tries to recruit Mohinder's services, the latter replies that there's always some shady organization looking for his help for diabolical ulterior motives. [[WhatAnIdiot This doesn't stop Mohinder from helping Pinehearst]].

* MoralDissonance: Bullying is unforgivable. Traumatizing someone and getting them suspended from school is A-OK! Claire and West have clearly been taking lessons from Yu Gi Oh Abridged's Pharoah Atem.
** Peter believes in [[WideEyedIdealist Love and Compassion for everyone]]. Unless your name is Isaac Mendez, in which case he believes in [[MindOverMatter throwing paint cans at you]] and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech telling you what a loser you are]]. The inconsistency between Peter's [[InformedAttribute personality]] and [[OutOfCharacterMoment actions in this scene]] leads to a jarring moment in the season finale, where Charles Deveaux extols Peter's kind-heartedness, and doesn't seem the least bit fussed about the role he played in [[spoiler: his daughter's death]].

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The Building 26 operation, [[FanNickname Nathan's Nazis.]]
** Of course, despite the fan nickname and Nathan creating it, he actually had little control over what his agents actually did: For an example, in a rather notable aversion to the trope early on in the season where Danko not only let Tracy go to kill a random member of the group, he did it without Nathan's knowledge until Nathan was accused by Tracy of setting her up to be released. As soon as Nathan found out what Danko did, he told Danko off for it. Danko also made it known to Nathan that he was spying on both him and Noah, explaining Nathan and Noah were compromised due to their protection of their daughter, Claire, and partiality to Nathan's brother, Peter. Then, the whole thing spun completely out of Nathan's control once Danko exposed his power (prompting the end of the free pass Nathan had given his daughter Claire from this operation), wherein Nathan rushed to save Claire from being captured, flew her to Mexico to protect her, and they had to go on the run from his own former agents.

* Living Legend: Hiro goes to medieval Japan to meet his hero, Takezo Kensei. Hiro then does everything he can to make Takezo live up to the legends about him, making him into the legend Hiro [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble willen haven onen]] learned about.

* MixedAncestry: Micah Sanders, the child of a black father and white mother.

* PowerHair: Ma Petrelli