Heroes Character Hiro Nakamura

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As Heroes season one begins, we see Hiro Nakamura, a level 3 programmer/office worker who is disappointed in his boring cubicle job. This is because Hiro is almost whacky over Science Fiction, Superhero and Legendary lore!

Hiro is an excitable guy and much too naive (everyone thinks) for his own good. He's idealistic, hyper, jubilant, and frankly - an awesome change from some of the brooding, cocky-type Superheroes from popular shows gone by.

The most prominent idea that Hiro has about Superheroes is that they must always use their powers for good.

Even if they don't want to.

He keeps telling this to his co-worker and best friend, Ando Masahashi, too! Ando doesn't start to take Hiro seriously until well into Season One.

And, for Hiro - Heroes must always use their powers for the good of all mankind - even if they don't even know what their powers are yet.

Hiro SOON FINDS OUT - and ends up teleporting himself to New York! Well, not at first he doesn't, but...

Making a clock stop for one second, one time, doesn't quite convince Ando that Hiro has got an extraordinary power...

Nor does stopping time and making a Japanese subway train 14 seconds late...

Not even when Hiro teleports himself from the main area of a Japanese bar and into the womens' bathroom - after side-kick, Ando, jests about super powers - does Ando realize the scope of Hiro's newly found extraordinary ability.

But then, Hiro teleports himself to New York...

A jubilant Hiro shouts (like a madman) "I DID IT" and "HELLO NEW YORK" at the top of his lungs!

Hiro's excitement quickly turns to anxiety when he walks around New York, passes a newsstand and sees HIMSELF in a publication called "9th Wonders!"

9th Wonders! is a comic book, and when Hiro flips the covers, he is INSIDE, doing exactly what he is doing in real life! Hiro is looking at the book - inside the book the cartoon Hiro is looking at the book.

Hiro flips the pages some more and finds the name of the artist who created the comic book...

Isaac Mendez...

Isaac's book keeps showing Hiro's future, minute by minute, if that is as often as Hiro opens to book to check...

Hiro has got to find out what's going on. He must find Isaac Mendez! (Hiro needs to get back to Japan, actually, because he left Ando without a word about where he was going)

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Heroes Actor, Masi Oka was born in Tokyo, Japan. He was raised in a single parent family (parents separated when Masi was just a month old), and his mother moved him to Los Angeles, California in the U.S. when he was just six years old.

* On the cover of TIME Magazine in 1987 at 12 years of age for the article, "Those Asian-American Whiz Kids"
* His IQ is reported to be 180 (wow)
* Graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Mathematics (1997)
* First job after graduation was with George Lucas' motion picture/visual special effects company, "Industrial Light & Magic"
* While on the job at the Lucas company, Masi dreamed of earning and Oscar for technical work on a motion picture!
* First major tech-effects project - on the film "The Perfect Storm." (Developed a program for water effects)
* His water effects program was later used in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"
* Also worked on Star Wars 'pre-quel' Trilogy
* Created computational fluid dynamics and surface-tracking programs which have been used in many productions
* First tried acting in 2000
* Recurring role as 'Franklyn' on "Scrubs"
* Featured, saying "Shinobi's Back" in the PS2 "Shinobi" commercial
* 2006 - Cast for the role of Hiro Nakamura in Heroes
* Multilingual - fluent in Japanese, English and Spanish
* Carries the rank of Shodan in the art of Kendo (Japanese martial art - fencing)

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Hub Page Article, "Squid Wraps Heroes Star Masi Oka In Tentacles"

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All over the world otherwise ordinary people are developing super abilities - and now you can join them through the pages of Heroes magazine. Uniquely presented in comic book style, Heroes magazine lifts the lids on the lives of these ordinary superheroes, from the actors and actresses thrust into the lime light as the stars of the hit show, to the back room special effects boffins who create the on screen superhero magic. A 6 issue subscription includes 4 regular issues and 2 specials. Your first issue will be delivered in the late fall 2007