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Peter Petrelli, the character of the series "Heroes": history and interesting facts

Since its appearance on television, the series"Heroes" was a real hit. Unfortunately, in subsequent seasons, the audience began to lose interest in him, and after four years of showing it was closed. Despite this, the characters managed to gain the status of cult. Among them is Peter Petrelli, a character. "Heroes" - the series, known throughout the world. Peter is one of the most difficult personalities in the plot and at the same time one of the most beloved by the audience heroes. At the same time, his fate was far from simple.

Peter Petrelli - character in the series "Heroes"

Born the future hero in the family of Arthur and Angela Petrelli. He had an older brother, Nathan.

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Mother Peter and Nathan had a uniquethe ability to see the past and the future in your dreams. Knowing the gifts and the probable future of her sons and granddaughter (Claire Bennet), Angela skillfully used this to achieve her goals.

All early years Peter Petrelli felt hisinferiority against the background of an almost perfect older brother. Despite the fact that there were close relations between the brothers, at a mature age the boy ceases to use family ties and gets a job in the hospice as a nurse.

Peter's abilities

Having learned about the heroes, the younger Petrelli beginssuspect that is one of them. To test his guess, he jumps from the top of the building and nearly dies, but Nathan, who turns out to be able to fly, saves him.

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For a long time Peter Petrelli cannot understand, inwhat are the features of his gift. However, he gradually learns that he has empathic mimicry. In other words, he is able to accumulate in his memory the abilities of other superheroes with whom he had contacted in the past.

Learning to control and activate thesetalents, over time, Peter gathered a whole "bunch" of superpowers (depict the future in drawings, fly, see prophetic dreams, move in time, regenerate, become invisible and read the thoughts of others, etc.).

Faced with maniac Sylar, PeterPetrelli took over his talent to understand the device of things, but the guy got the devouring thirst for new knowledge and murder of this man. Because of this, the hero became a real threat, and his father took action, depriving the younger Petrelli of all his talents.

A little later, Peter was able to restore the gift, but he was much weaker than before. Now he could only copy one foreign talent at a time and only in the presence of his “donor”.

First season

At the beginning of the events, Peter Petrelli is trying to figure out his gift and how to use it for the common good.

Got acquainted with painter-addict IsaacMendez, the guy takes over his ability to paint the future and learns about the impending atomic explosion in New York. Later, when he meets Hiro from the future, he realizes that he must save Claire Bennett from the hands of Sylar.

Peter Petrelli

Despite the fact that he is destined to die, Peter saves the poor thing and as a reward receives her gift for self-healing, thereby surviving.

Having fallen in love with Isaac's girlfriend, Simon, Peter starts a love affair with her.

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However, during a quarrel with a painter guybecomes an unwitting cause of her death. Trying to shoot Peter, who became invisible, Isaac mortally wounds Simon, and she dies in the arms of his lover.

Научившись контролировать свои способности с with the help of the invisible man, Claude, the younger Petrelli learns that Sylar, who wants to get his gift, actively hunts him. Only thanks to the help of researcher Mohinder and Claire (who turns out to be an illegitimate daughter of Nathan Petrelli), Peter manages to escape from the hands of Sylar.

Пытаясь найти этого злодея и обезвредить его, the guy accidentally adopts the ability to emit radiation and is aware that he should be the cause of the predicted nuclear explosion in New York. Angry after the fight with Sylar, Peter begins to ignite, unable to control himself. However, Nathan helps him by taking his brother high into the sky, where he explodes.

Second season

After the explosion, Peter manages to survive, but he does not remember anything about himself.

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Once in Ireland, he lives there for sometime and starts a relationship with a girl named Caitlin. Accidentally immersed in a trance, the guy draws his girlfriend in Montreal. To understand what all this means, they go to Canada.

Using the ability to travel through time copied from Hiro, Peter finds himself in the future and learns about the shanti virus, which has destroyed almost all the inhabitants of the planet.

Returning to the present, the hero triesto stop this fatal event, but unknowingly it becomes a tool in the hands of the cruel immortal Adam Monroe. This person convinces Peter that he also wants to stop the spread of the virus, while in reality he intends to release it into the world. Through the efforts of Peter and Hiro Adam and the virus can be eliminated.

At the end of the season, the Petrelli brothers decide to tell the world about their talents, but Peter appears from the future and hurts Nathan.

Third season

Герой попадает в будущее, где случайно перенимает Sylar's main ability. Tormented by a thirst for murder, Peter cannot control himself. To stop him, the boy’s father deprives his son of all his abilities and imprisons him in one of the laboratories. From there, Petrelli saves Sylar.

Peter Petrelli

Having quarreled with his brother, Peter, along with a Haitianopen the hunt for Arthur Petrelli, but he is helped by Nathan and Sylar, who considers himself the son of Arthur. When the psychopath finds out at the end that the head of the Petrelli family lied to him, he helps Peter and the Haitian kill Arthur.

Fourth season

Nathan began working for the state special forces, hunting heroes. Petrelli himself skillfully manages to hide his abilities from them.

Peter and several other heroes are in the hands of the unit. The captured are sent to a specialized prison, but Claire manages to save them.

Trying to understand why they are hunted andTo stop this, the guy will learn the history of the Company, which has been studying heroes for many years. In addition, he makes peace with his brother, and together they fly to Washington to catch Sylar, who has devised a cunning plan. Having managed to deceive the vigilance of a maniac, Peter neutralizes him.

Peter Petrelli - Actor Milo Ventimiglia

The charming actor who dreams of saving the world and helping people was played by an American actor of Italian origin, Milo Ventimiglia.

peter petrelli actor

At the time of filming, Milo’s television series wasalready 29 years old. Despite the fact that, before the “Heroes”, Ventimiglia starred in such famous film and television projects as “Sabrina is a little witch”, “It's all she”, “Staying Alive” and “Law and Order”, he became popular with the charming bad boy. Jess Mariano in "Gilmore Girls".

After the close of “Heroes”, Milo Ventimiglia abandoned his career in television, acting in small roles in the films “Rocky Balboa”, “Chaos Theory”, “Pathology”, “Papa dosvidos” and others.

Starting in 2013, he returned to television and starred in the television series City of Gangsters, Whisper, Gotham.

Among the latest works of the actor the main role in the 2016 television series - "This is us."

Interesting facts

  • His name is one of the most important characters of the project "Heroes" Peter Petrelli was in honor of the Apostle Peter. It is noteworthy that many of the heroes of the television series are named after different characters of the Bible.
  • Peter’s mimicry is similar to Roag’s talent from People X.
  • Like his entire family, the younger Petrelli is Catholic.
  • In the initial script, Peter and Nathan were twins.
  • At first the screenwriters wanted to call the younger Petrelli Harrison or Ethan. And his surname was supposed to be Campbell.
  • The hairstyle that this hero wore in the first season was later named after him - “Petrelli”.

An example of courage and sacrifice was formany fans Peter Petrelli. The series "Heroes", despite the huge number of characters and parallel storylines, puts this guy in the center of the most important events. Thanks to this, Peter has become one of the most popular characters of the project, with which the fans of “Heroes” did not want to say goodbye even after the closing of the television series. For this reason, the network publishes numerous fan fiction, telling about the past and future of Peter and giving answers to those questions about which the script writers of the project were silent in the "Heroes".

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