History Trivia / Heroes

** A particularly bizarre example occurred with Matt Lanter (Brody the rapist quarterback), who had previously been a regular on ''Series/CommanderInChief'', playing the President's teenage son. The weird part is that Hayden Pannettiere had a guest role on ''Series/CommanderInChief'', and the two of them ended up making out. Hopefully, their prior... familiarity... made filming the rape scene a little easier.

*** The Season 2 DVD had an AlternateEnding in which Peter failed to catch the virus viral that Adam had dropped. It was planned that the virus would have been unleashed, and the latter half of the season would have been dedicated to finding a cure.
** The writers were originally going to have a KillEmAll ending at the end of season 1 and have a rotating cast each season. They didn't anticipate the characters becoming popular and developing a fanbase or ExecutiveMeddling and it became increasingly diffucult to properly use the SuperPowerLottery winners like Peter and Hiro again.

** The writers were originally going to have a KillEmAll ending at the end of season 1 and have a rotating cast each season. They didn't anticipate the characters becoming popular and developing a fanbase or ExecutiveMeddling.

** Also, the {{Aborted Arc}}s caused by the writer's strike, which led to the SeasonalRot which the series never fully recovered from.

** [[{{Babylon 5}} Captain Sheridan]] appoints Nathan to the Senate.
** [[{{Glee}} Quinn Fabray]] as [[TypeCasting a cheerleader]]

** A particularly bizarre example occurred with Matt Lanter (Brody the rapist quarterback), who had previously been a regular on CommanderInChief, playing the President's teenage son. The weird part is that Hayden Pannettiere had a guest role on CommanderInChief, and the two of them ended up making out. Hopefully, their prior... familiarity... made filming the rape scene a little easier.

** A particularly bizarre example occurred with Kyle Secor (Brody the rapist quarterback), who had previously been a regular on CommanderInChief, playing the President's teenage son. The weird part is that Hayden Pannettiere had a guest role on CommanderInChief, and the two of them ended up making out. Hopefully, their prior... familiarity... made filming the rape scene a little easier.

** President Worf or Worfbama for [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent the President]], because he's played by [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Michael Dorn]] and he's kinda sorta an {{Expy}} of [[BarackObama Obama]]

** [[KingdomHearts Kairi]] can now never get hurt.

** [[{{Glee}} Quinn Fabray]] as...[[TypeCasting a cheerleader]]
** How often to do you see a show with [[{{Scrubs}} Franklin]] and [[MyWifeAndKids Another Franklin]]

* HeyItsThatVoice: [[StarWarsTheCloneWars Anakin Skywalker]] as the quarterback who tried to rape and accidentally killed Claire.

** Nobody has mentioned that the (9th) [[{{Doctor Who}} Doctor]] can now turn invisible?

** [[{{TheVampireDiaries}} Andie Star]] is the tattooed lady, and [[{{StarWars}}Darth Maul]] is the knife-thrower.

** How often to do you see a show with [[Scrubs Franklin]] and [[MyWifeAndKids Another Franklin]]

* [[{{Glee}} Quinn Fabray]] as...[[TypeCasting a cheerleader]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The obvious example is how volume 3 was cut short, with plot threads obvious to be related to the main story ending up going nowhere. A bigger example would be the entire style of the series: The original intent was to have a revolving cast, with most characters not returning in future seasons. What could have been, indeed, if after season 2 we didn't have to deal with most of the extended Patrelli family?

** Mohindrance, for the many, many times Mohinder steals the IdiotBall.

* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]: With initially half a page of references here, it's now [[HeyItsThatGuy/{{Heroes}} in a separate page.]]

* HeyItsThatGuy: With initially half a page of references here, it's now [[HeyItsThatGuy/Heroes in a separate page.]]

* FanNickname: There are several, but highlights include:
** Mystery Sock for Isaac
** Fryingmon for Nathan (based on [[{{Engrish}} Hiro's pronunciation]] of "Mister I-saac" and "Flying Man")
** [[MoeMoe Momo]], "Moe" (as in the Stooge), or Pretty-But-Stupid for Mohinder and/or Peter.
** Mohindrance, for the many, many times Mohinder steals the IdiotBall.
** [[TricksterMentor Rafiki]] for Usutu, the man Matt meets in the African plains.
** Pac-Man for Matt (based on Usutu's pronunciation of Parkman).
** HRG for Mr. Bennet (because of the glasses).
** Senator Bambi for Nathan Petrelli. (It's the eyes.)
** President Worf or Worfbama for [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent the President]], because he's played by [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Michael Dorn]] and he's kinda sorta an {{Expy}} of [[BarackObama Obama]]
** Pasbeard for the infamous, butt-ugly BeardOfSorrow sported by Nathan Petrelli (Adrian Pasdar) in the beginning of Season 2.
** Nuke, for Luke the [[PureEnergy microwave boy]].
** Hiro ando Ando [[IncrediblyLamePun (bilingual pun)]]
** [[spoiler: Sythan for Nathan!Sylar.]]
* HeyItsThatGuy: With initially half a page of references here, it's now [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HeyItsThatGuy/Heroes in a separate page.]]
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The obvious example is how volume 3 was cut short, with plot threads obvious to be related to the main story ending up going nowhere. A bigger example would be the entire style of the series: The original intent was to have a revolving cast, with most characters not returning in future seasons. What could have been, indeed, if after season 2 we didn't have to deal with most of the extended Patrelli family?