Just check this out Yes Zachary Quinto fans, Sylar will be returning to Heroes in season two. We still don’t know why there is a little cockroach crawling around when ever Sylar is at his low points though, or do we? Rumors persist that Sylar’s return will include a mentor with a few things in common with Heroes’ brain gobbling baddie.

Access Hollywood confirmed with a rep for Zach Quinto that the actor would be returning next season to reprise his role as bad guy “Sylar.” This shouldn’t come as twoo much of a surprise, however; while Sylar’s hope for becoming the leader of a post-apocalyptic world may have been run through with Hiro’s katana, the ominous villain no doubt has not lost his lust for power.

On the rumor side of things, David Anders of Alias fame is all but confirmed to play the part of next season’s central villain Kane. Kane is apparently over a thousand years old and has a lust for power that is a little more elegant than Sylar. If you believe the word on the streets, the little cockroaches that we see whenever Sylar is in trouble, well they’ve been a little more helpful than we would have ever imagines.

An anonymous source is telling BuddyTV to pay careful attention to the bugs first appearance. Sylar was successfully subdued at the Primatech facility when we first saw a cockroach scamper by, then he wasn’t. In the finale, he was run through and bleeding out and what did we see crawling near the man hold cover where he apparently made his escape? A cockroach. Hmmm. Cause for the suspicion of course.

Aside from the alleged ability to control hordes of insects, a suitably biblical power for a villain named Kane, not much is known about the new character. The good thing is, unlike LOST fans, we’ll only have to wait a few more months to find out.

So that Kane guy might have something to do with the cockroaches?

Hey he can be like Roach Coach.

I can't believe I just made a Powerpuff Girls reference either...

I guess the cockroach won't just be a symbol like it was meant to be after all

There's loads of rumours on the net about Kane also being Takezo Kensei.
I'm not sure what to make of it but I think it could be interesting.

There's some info about it here >
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/conten...c2fd593586097e6
This site is usually quite reliable but they could be wrong.

Well they said which actor was playing Takezo didn't they? I'm a bit confused on that but I have to say I don't like the idea of the two characters merging

Yeah, it does sound a bit strange. The guy in the last episode was definitely oriental and
he had the Godsend symbol on his banner so I am assuming he was Takezo Kensei. The
first thing I read about David Anders was that he was going to be Kane, a 1000 year old
man who can control hordes of insects, now I've seen loads of different spoilers claiming
that he is also Kensei and Kane is the name he uses now. It does not sound right to me
but so far NBC have not come forward to dismiss it. I always assumed that Hiro's
father Kaito (George Sulu) was Kensei.

So did I and it's clearly him on the closeups of Kensei's face (the blue samurai)

I actually saw this video about a week ago and I must not of been paying much attention
because I totally missed the part were Masi Oka talks about David Anders and Kensei. He
may have got confused by the interviewers question but she mentions Anders being Kensei
and he doesn't correct her and he says that there is a good explanation for it. So if Anders
is Kensei, that means he is Kane as well, or Kane is another character that has yet to be cast.

http://www.heroestheseries.com/season-2-pr...deo-interviews/

The thing that bothers me about that though is that Anders doesn't look like he could be Kensei, he isn't even Japanese

I know what you mean. If it is true then the explanation would need to be a good one
otherwise it would just be silly. I got the impression that Kensei was a lone warrior so
the Japanese guy at the end with the Godsend banner could not just have been a servant
of Kensei who wore his colours, it was Kensei himself, I'm sure of it.

I agree with that completely and plus what reason would that other "army" be there if it wasn't Kensei

Well.. the story of Kensei is that he had to cut out his own heart. If Kane can live 1000 years and controls hordes of insects, that would mean he has multiple powers. Illusion could be one of them, making himself look Japanese. If Kane is an empath, like Peter, and can use abilities by remembering the people who had them, then cutting out his heart could be mean cutting out his emotion, which would allow him to retain his empath powers (hard coded in DNA) while at the same time becoming void of all feeling, making him evil.

Hmm an interesting theory, if Anders plays both characters, I could see this theory possible happening

In one of the latest interviews, tim kring got asked how he would explain that a blonder, blue eyed actor could play an old japanese Samurai (David Anders) and he seemed to do so as if it would be "normal" to have such a thing in a series like this.

So since it's confirmed that David is gonna be Kane in the series and he is 1000 years old, so I think that it wouldn't be surprising if he would have been in Japan somewhere in between "playing samurai" in such a long lifetime (remember Highlander and where he was? Almost everywhere around the world ^^ ).

That is definetly going to bug me next season

I can't wait for the explanation, it should be interesting. I have faith in the writers
but I just hope that they have not messed up with this.

Well they haven't screwed up too many times in the past so I guess I'll just have to wait and see

Well a few days ago I read on a german site(not allowed to link it -.- ) that in a interview was confirmed that David Anders will play the japanese samurai warlord it was talked about before and not Kane the main villain anymore. The role for Kane will be recasted and will be played by a other actor.

Hmm really? This is getting a bit annoying, I'd rather that they didn't report on it at all if they don't know so much about it

I bet Kensai is one of Kane's entities.

Hmm probably..I'm not really excited at all for this character..hope I change my mind

Here the confirmation I was looking for a long time now.
David Anders will be Kensei now.
Linky

That seems likely but is that link reliable?

well IF Kensei is Kane, then the only explanation is that he's an empath. When Hiro was first talking about Kensei, he described his fighting as if he had super-speed (at least that's what i thought of when he was talking about Kensei), then theres the ability to live 1000 years, look Japanese and (maybe) use cockroaches somehow. He has to be an empath. Plus, how else could you come up with a villain more powerful than Sylar?

I don't know, Peter is already an empath and his character has become so limited because of it..I wonder if they would do that again

They're gonna have to recycle abilities sometime before they get really specific. I also recall hearing that they'll show people with the same abilities. Not to mention Claude told Peter there were 'others', meaning there must be other empaths.

Yeah I know that they'll have to eventually but it's only the second season..ah well

Yeah, I kind of wish they held off on recycling abilities for at least another season too. Seems kinda lazy to do it this early in the game.

Glad to see you share my opinion

They already had stated in one of the previous interviews that we will see different people sharing the same power in the second season so I guess there we will be a few out there.

Yeah I know but still I wish they could have waited until at least the third season to start doing repeats but who knows maybe I'll eventually like that they are doing it that way

So Kane is the bad guy?....

travis, i think kane + sylar + the hooded guy if he isn't any of the two mentioned, should be interesting but i'm only interested in kane's abilities as they were rumoured to be biblical XD

I think the main villain of season 2 is going to be Kane/Kensei, but for the generations arc (1-11) the main villain is going to be Bob Parkman. Kensei being revealed in the present will probably be a cliffhanger right before the show goes on hiatus.

Hordes of bugs... "FOR THE WARCHIEF!" (Sylar)

Yeah I remember that quote now!!
I think he said 'oh your one of them' when he realised Peter was an empath which probably means
he's met other empaths or others with a similar ablility
would love to have claude back
anyway a badguy with a cockroach power is creepy no?

Who knows if he really does control the cockroaches though . I don't know lol

http://www.eonline.com/gossip/kristin/deta...0c-f6f82a661c98

From Kristen, this was posted like last week and I can't believe it wasn't spotted!!

i don't know really, people are saying that the same powers aren't neccessarily passed down to the offspring
so it could be that kensei is not related to claire
but for the sibling to have a power the parents need to have powers, so so in the case of Claire, her dad and mum had powers, maybe her great great grandfather is kensei

I still don't think that Claire has anything to do with Kensei for now. The powers almost seem random, I mean how does someone with Superstrength and Phasing get a kid with Technopathy? If it did get passed down wouldn't you think their powers would be related in some way? Like Nathan can fly, Meredith Gordan has the pyro power, yet Claire gets regeneration. None of those powers are related. And Nathan and Peters powers aren't exactly related either.

Recycling abilities could be more realistic, though. I think it would be far-fetched if we only saw people with different powers...
I also think Hiro is the Kensei of the legends but he will somehow unleash ''Kane'', the baddie of this season...

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i think hiro is kensei. kensei messes up yet again and so hiro takes over. the girl falls in love with hiro and he saves her dad and everything is good again. that's what i think....

So, when "Kensei" allegedly cut out his own heart. It would have grown back right?

Yawn.

His greed annoys me.

seems more like it, as he can regenerate, or he can survive without a heart and become emotionless as he is immortal

could be the serial killer in the present bu who is he the killer of, the paintings or the group photo

Maybe he cuts out his heart and that symbolises the loss of his emotions... would be a bit dramatic but hey! every character so far has had at least 1 overdramatic moment and some never stop being drama queens (i.e. claire )

I think Hiro will accidently make history a lot worse by showing Kensei his power... Being immortal has got to give you a bit of a god complex no?

thinking he is invinsible, No.1, over confident, better then everyone else

Well, maybe with Hiro there to set him straight he may learn a thing or two about humility... besides... Hiro was pretty good at reminding him of the limitations of his Immortality... like when he dropped him in front of the army of angry monguls! lol! I mean, just cuz you can't die doesn't mean you can't get your a** kicked!

I don't think the specific powers are passed down, more that if their parents have a power, they will, but not necessarily the same one.