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Hiro Nakamura
An office worker who bends space-time, combining teleportation and time travel in one ability that degrades when he doubts himself.
First appearance: Heroes (2006), NBC
Powers
Key issues
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- debut · 2006
Heroes NBC
First appearance in the pilot, and the character the series was built around
On screen
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Has appeared with
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| Character | Where | Shared |
|---|---|---|
| Peter Petrelli | Heroes | 1 |
Commonly got wrong
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Commonly believed Hiro Nakamura's power is teleportation.
Actually It is space-time manipulation: he stops time, travels through it, and teleports as one ability rather than three. Describing it as teleportation alone misses the time travel that drives most of his stories.
The feat ledger
Teleportation and time travel are a single space-time ability that degrades when he loses confidence
Stops time and travels through it as two expressions of one space-time power
Stops time completely and moves freely while everything else is frozen
Travels across the world instantly, and across years as the same ability
Changing the past is shown to have consequences he cannot control, the series' standing rule
Continuities
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- Series canon — Events as depicted in the source series
Last updated 2026-09-06 · machine-readable version