Super Hiro of the day

Maybe it's because I've  just watched the Heroes Reborn- Dark Matters or maybe because I've downloaded the Heroes Reborn Ap or maybe because I just started watching the original series again, I dunno, but I am excited about the return of Heroes.

I am a moderate fanboy dork about many things and have been a supporter of Heroes since the Wizard World in Chicago when Jeff Loeb told me it was gonna be my new favorite show.  Jeff was right.

I am a big enough geek to follow the actors to other unrelated projects.  I own the "Band From TV" album.  Greg Grunberg is not only a fab drummer but he can sing.

But enough of the Fanboy gush.  This is supposed to be about Hiro Nakamura.  When Stan Lee uttered the words True believer he as talking about Hiro. If there was ever a character that embodied the faith, naïveté,and idealism it takes to be, not only a great hero, but a great guy, it is Hiro.

Unlike many of the other powered characters in the fantasy medium, Hiro is not so much concerned about his personal greatness or his personal happiness.  Sure, he wants to be a famous hero, but he really just wants. Help others.  Sometimes this help comes at the expense of his own happiness.

Get the ap, watch the original series.  Don't be critical, just watch the adventures of your favorite character.  This is not a show about powers.   It's a show about people, people who have powers and how that fits into a realistic world where that is a factor in people's lives.

Hiro Nakamura 

(中村 広 Nakamura Hiro^?) is a fictional character on the NBCscience fiction drama Heroes who possesses the ability of space-time manipulation. This means that Hiro is able to alter the flow of time. In the show, he was played by Japanese-American actor Masi Oka.^[

According to the online comic on NBC.com, Hiro is named after Hiroshima, so that his family will always remember the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Tim Kring has been quoted as saying, "It's no coincidence we named him Hiro... he truly is on a hero's quest." To this end, his name is often used as a pun. His co-worker and best friend Ando once called him "Super-Hiro" in jest.

Hiro was one of the last main characters to be created by Tim Kring; he was added to the pilot episode after Kring's wife noticed none of the existing main characters were happy about their powers.^[ During a panel session, Kring explained that he developed Hiro as a comic book geek "trapped in a life that was kind of not of his making". Thus, viewers were introduced to Hiro as an office worker in a sea of cubicles.  In an interview, Tim Kring noted, "I didn't start off by saying I want a guy who can teleport. I started off by saying I wanted a guy who felt trapped in a life that was not his dream and what could be a power that would be most wish-fulfilling for that character? And that was the ability to teleport out of that life."^[8]