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Adam Monroe || Heroes || 2/?
Adam goes to Whitebeard's camp to defeat him only to discover that he has guns, and Hiro knows they must destroy any trace of them in order to put History back on track. He tells Kensei to do just that, but when Yaeko is shot at he teleports her to safety leaving Adam on his own. After rescuing Yaeko's father, he goes to find them and find them he does. They are kissing under the cherry blossom trees and it is here Adam truly becomes a villain instead of merely a coward. He vows to destroy everything that Hiro holds dear and goes back into Whitebeard's camp, this time as his ally.
Hiro pursues him and they fight in a tent of gunpowder. It sets off an explosion and Hiro escapes, leaving Adam to die. He goes to Yaeko and tells her though he loves her, he must return to his own time. She says she understands, though she loves him too, and she will tell the stories of Takezo Kensei until her dying day. It is in this way that Hiro becomes his own hero.
When he does return to present day, his father has just been murdered. He goes back in time to reveal his father's murderer. It is none other than Adam himself. He didn't die in that explosion 400 years ago as Hiro had thought and his invulnerability has kept him from aging or dying for the duration.
The viewer discovers that Adam was one of the founders of the Company, along with Angela Petrelli and Kaito Nakamura. And of course, Linderman who is dead by this point in the series. After each one he kills, Adam leaves behind a picture of them cut out from the original Founders' photograph, the Symbol (which is also featured on his sword and the Petrelli's law practice among other things) drawn in red across their faces.
Because he can heal like Claire, his blood is a healing serum, and he uses it to save Nathan Petrelli after Peter goes nuclear and gives his brother terrible burns. This act of heroism leads Peter to trust Adam, even after he murders Victoria Pratt (another founder) right in front of him. Adam tells Peter of a strain of the Shanti virus (a virus the Founders created while trying to discover a cure for people with abilities) that will kill 93% of the world's population (as Peter sees it when he accidentally jumps ahead in time one year). Unbeknownst to Peter, Adam actually intends to release the virus as he tried 30 years ago and thus why he got locked up in the first place (how he meets Peter). He thinks that by wiping humanity from the face of the Earth and starting over with the 7% they have left, it will allow for the greater good and be akin to the flood of Noah's Ark. Or at least that's the reason he cites, it's much more likely he merely wants revenge and is generally evil.
However when Victoria Pratt lets slip (well, through telepathy) that Strain 138 is at Primatech, Adam and Peter travel there as Peter's the only one who can open the vault. He does so with telekinesis but Hiro, Nathan and Matt all meet the pair there. Matt attempts to stop Peter with telepathy and Nathan with simple, human empathy as his brother. Hiro stops time and tries to kill Adam, but Peter stops him. While Matt delays Peter outside the vault Adam makes his way inside and retrieves the vial. However, Hiro follows him in and teleports him back to Japan. As the vial falls through the air, Peter stops it and destroys it.
Hiro traps Adam in a coffin over the grave of his own father, who Adam murdered. I will be playing him from this canon point, and his dead phone will be able to access the Community.
Also in Adam's history, not on the show but considered canon nonetheless, is the legend of the Ten Brides of Takezo Kensei. Over his >400 year span, he has indeed had 10 wives and 2 children. While trapped in the grave, he says the eleventh will come for him. There is much speculation as to whether he was married or if this is merely a statement of the future. Either way, Adam dies before this is revealed.