I like the way your thinking about this.Your explanation even gives me more to htink about in relation to the X-Men...previously I had judt found the costumes a bit of a silly idea but if you look at the development of things it makes sence that after a while when you realise that using powers in public will give you away aas a mutant and lead to persecution you would concider a mask and why not go ahead and get the matching tights. If Heroes continues on and the anti "specials" idea takes hold in the government and general population I could see Peter as the first to put on a silly costume to preserve his identity while he goes out to do some good in the world...or maybe Hiro since he is just a comic book geek..and Im surprised he hasn't been running around in a costume half the time already.   See 26 other replies

You could see this as a sort of proto x-men, trying to show what would have happened before mutants became general knowledge, the realistic development of all the mutant racism, fear, established military institutions. X-men just drops you in the middle of it (at least current comics do, and I'm sure they wouldn't give it much thought in the 60s or whenever x-men started), and thus explores all those things I just named, rather than the development of those themes.So Heroes is a sort of reconstruction of x-men. The idea of the powers is similar to x-men, but so would any biological explanation for super powers on a large scale.   See 26 other replies

to be honest, in the first season, the powers were only vaguely given a scientific reason, and you could sort of half see that it was metaphysical as well as scientific. The show implied this as well.
Now it's pure sci fi, just really unbelievable.   See 26 other replies

And what exactly are the powers in Heroes other than mutations. Mutation is a change in genetic characteristics that can result in a favorable or unfavorable outcome. 6 fingers is a mutation and the xmens mutations were their abilities. Your post is kinda dumb. Strap Clair to table give her claws and metal frame she is wolverine.   See 26 other replies

Superman, super speed, super strength, flying, heat vision,
Superman is a combination of all the most powerful superhero powers and you can alwayse find a few of them in anything. Heroes has the speedster, Suresh has superstrength and so did Niki and of course Nathan and htat kid Clair dated had flying..so far no eye powers on heroes. Of course you can also cross it over that in X-Men Quicksilver has super speed, Rogue and Colosus have super strength..Rogue and Storm can fly..Cyclops of course has a similar eye power to heat vision.Heck if you relay want to get technical I suppose HRG (Noah) is heroes Batman..he is the typ that investigates and solves mysterys and so on and like Batman does it all having no powers himself..sure no costume or fancy car but of course thats what seperates everyone on Heroes fomr the comic book sort.Obviously the Flash is just another speedster...basicly being a redundant power even in the JL since Superman already has that and of course it is used in the other instances mentioned above. I suppose one could pick appart the Justice Leage and find an X-man with the same power...Hawkgirl is more or less Archangel wuth maybe a little superstrength. The Martain Manhunter is a bit more complicated since he has tons of powers but you can break him down to being like...Mysteq, Shadowcat, Profesor Xavier and a few others...Basicly it seems like every power one could have has been thought of...there are still some cleaver ways being come up with as to how they work but the basic powers have pretty much all been done at some point or other.   See 26 other replies