WHAT?!?! A HEROES RE-BORN SERIES!

Helloooo everybody,

I'm sure some of you saw that Heroes, the NBC show from the late 2000's, is being re-vamped as a mini-series for 2015. Dubbed Heroes "reborn", the creator of the original series Tim Kring will head this separate 13 episode mini-series with a new story-line.

I don't know about you guys, but I really liked Heroes. Except for the last season of course (if you liked it than wow I don't like you), I thought it was a great series with little to no plot development and a whole lot of jumping around that ended up making no sense. It was entertaining above anything, and some of the characters had awesome abilities. So awesome in fact, that I had to rank them for yours and my pleasure. 

So here we go, the top 5 totally awesome abilities that cropped up in the original Heroes series. They aren't the 5 best, they're the 5 that I would most want to have.

5. Adoptive Muscle Memory - Monica Dawson

One of the minor characters in the series, Monica Dawson figures out she can repeat things that she sees other people doing. Most notably it's seen when she stops an attempted robbery at the fast food restaurant she works at by kicking the assailant in the face after swinging around a pole. Monica can learn to do virtually anything her body allows her to, making her ability incredibly useful in certain scenarios. When it comes to fighting people with abilities of their own however, she's pretty useless. If she's not in it for the fight, Monica's ability would be a great one to have.

4. Enhanced Memory - Charlie Andrews
A recurring character in Hiro's saga, Charlie is granted the ability of mega super-duper enhanced memory. She can recall things after a few seconds of glancing at it, shown most notably when she speak Japanese with Hiro. With no prior experience she's able to speak to an ability beyond what her phrasebook could have taught her, and she learned it in a matter of minutes. Being a waitress Charlie finds this ability very useful, and it's practicality for everyday use makes it pretty sweet. Dethroning Ken Jennings on Jeopardy would be a piece of cake.

3. Intuitive Aptitude - Sylar and Samson Gray
The baddest of all the bad guys, Sylar started out with just one single power. From that power he was able to systematically take other abilities and become the ultimate villain. The intuitive aptitude ability is described as: "The ability to analyze complex systems and intuitively understand how they work without special education or training." This ability gave Sylar the means of obtaining specific and useful powers form other the lead to his rise in power. While Sylar used it strictly for evil purposes, when put in the hands of someone who does good it can benefit society as a whole. Imagine fixing any electronic device that breaks? Correcting our national debt? Just don't let the hunger get to you.

2. Empathic Mimicry - Peter Petrelli
I know a lot of people think that this is the best ability because you could theoretically have ANY ability, and that's a good point. I rebut that later on, but for now...
Peter has a pretty awesome ability. Through proximity with another ability, Empathic Mimicry allows you to absorb and use that nearby ability without robbing the other individual of it. The only limitation is that you need other people with abilities to be near you, so without anyone else you're pretty much useless. With people, you could easily become the most powerful human on the planet (as seen in various other timelines where Peter was an absolute bad ass). It's similar to Sylar, minus the hunger and murder.

1. Space-time Manipulation - Hiro Nakamura
"The ability to alter the space-time continuum, including slowing down, speeding up, reversing, stopping, moving backwards and forwards through time, and moving instantaneously through space"
I fucking love Hiro's ability. Really, if people ask me what super power I want to have I answer with this one. I don't need it to fight crime, I need it to make my life easier. There is no more useful ability than space-time manipulation, if used carefully of course. It has the most practical use in our lives by far, and the reason it outguns Peter's ability is because you don't need to rely on anything to use it. 
Think about it: you're given something to complete and you have a strict deadline. FUCK IT. Do whatever you want, and then when it's time to buckle down just stop time. You have FOREVER to finish ANYTHING. I wouldn't even need the "going backwards or forwards in time" bit of it, just the stopping time and teleportation bit. Hiro used it to save the world, I would use it to make life easier.