I was thinking about what the future Hiro said during the first season of Heroes in the context of the second season. When future Hiro appeared to Peter on the subway train, he told Peter to save the cheerleader (who turns out to be Claire Bennet), in order to save the world. It was pretty clear later on that the reason Claire had to be saved from Sylar is because if Sylar obtains her healing abilities, then he would be unkillable — thus Hiro’s thrust to his chest would not have done anything.
Now, in season two, we find out there’s an even bigger catastrophe that’s about to be unleashed into the world. The Shanti virus that strips Heroes of their abilities, as well as eventually killing them, will mutate and infect all human. This results in 97% of the world population being wiped out. And guess what? The only person, according to Bob from The Company, that can save the world from this epidemic is none other than Claire.
Maybe when future Hiro said to Peter, “save the cheerleader, save the world,” he wasn’t referring to the incident with Sylar and the NYC bombing. After all, preventing the NYC bombing isn’t really saving the world. At least from what we’ve seen the season one’s “future” episode, the bombing seem to be affecting the US, but we don’t know what happened with the rest of the world. But this new virus thing will wipe out most of earth’s population. And we also have rumors that the badass, future Hiro will once again make an appearance in season two. Maybe he’ll shed some light into what’s going on, and perhaps the future Hiro has seen a lot more than we thought he did in season one.
