Genesis
Premiere Date: 9/25/2006
In Manhattan, Peter Petrelli is the younger brother Nathan Petrelli an overly ambitious and unscrupulous candidate for the next New York congressman, and he dreams and believes that he can fly. He decides to prove his theory and jumps from the roof of a building in an alley and his brother flies and saves him. In Texas, cheerleader Claire Bennet learns that she is literally indestructible and can not harm herself or die. She saves a fireman in a fire in a train, but does not take the credit. In Tokyo, Hiro Nakamura believes he can control time and space continuum. In India, Mohinder Suresh moves to the Brooklyn, New York, where his father, that was researching a secret project called Genesis about genome and DNA, is killed in a taxi cab. In Lower Manhattan, the painter Isaac Mendez paints pictures of the future. In Las Vegas, stripper Niki Sanders borrows $30,000 from a powerful local mobster to get her young son into school, and does not have the money to pay her loan. She sees a different image of her in the mirror, and when two gangsters come to her house to collect the money, one of them hits her and she faints. Later Nikki wakes up, and the two thugs are dead... literally torn apart by her evil alter ego. [Edit]
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Hiro Nakamura, a lowly Tokyo office worker, suddenly discovers his powers as a Hero.
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The issue of X-Men Hiro references, #143, does not actually contain the story he cites. He was referring to Days of Future Past, which appears in issue #141 and #142. Hiro later corrects himself in one of his blog entries labeled "Kitty Pride", compounding the error by misspelling the character's name. [Edit Info]- While Genesis was the pilot episode that aired, an expanded and slightly different pilot titled In His Own Image was originally shown at ComicCon 2006. Some of the material was deemed to be too controversial and was either cut or modified to produce Genesis. [Edit Info]In a press conference, Tim Kring said that the character of Hiro did not exist in the original script for the pilot. Kring, looking at the other characters who reluctantly discovered their powers, decided he needed a character who enjoyed his abilities and embraced them enthusiastically. [Edit Info]The scene with Claire and her mother at the dinner table, where Claire says, "I walked through fire and didn't get burned" was cut from the BBC2 showing. [Edit Info]In the original script for Genesis, Hiro was to exclaim "Bonsai!" after discovering his powers. According to a statement by Masi Oka on The View, he approached Tim Kring and informed him that "bonsai actually means 'little tree'", and that he probably intended banzai. Because Masi felt that banzai had wartime/old-fashioned connotations, he asked if it would be okay to use the more modern exclamation "Yatta!" instead. Tim Kring gave Masi permission to change the line by replying along the lines of, "Dude, go to town." [Edit Info]When Hiro and Ando walk into the bar to have a drink, two guys are singing karaoke on the stage to the Backstreet Boy's "I Want It That Way". This is a reference to a popular YouTube video that features the Back Dorm Boys, two Asian men doing a spoof performance of the same song. The men in the bar in Heroes are dressed in the same orange basketball jerseys, and one has a white sweatband around his head. [Edit Info]The reference Mr. Bennet made to the name "Suresh" being common like "Smith" or "Anderson" may have been a reference to The Matrix Trilogy of movies whose antagonist was called Agent Smith and whose protagonist was called Mr. Anderson (a.k.a. Neo), both of whom were special and had abilities above and beyond those of normal members of their kind. [Edit Info]Claire's encounter with the garbage disposal led Emerson, the unit's manufacturer, to file a product disparagement lawsuit. NBC's parent company General Electric is one of Emerson's chief competitors for garbage disposals. The writing around the plughole was removed from the DVD version. [Edit Info]
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Hiro Nakamura, a lowly Tokyo office worker, suddenly discovers his powers as a Hero.
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