when hiro goes to destroy the warehouse that contains white beard's weaponry, and encounters adam, how is it possible that even after the place blows up adam manages to survive? because i recall in another episode where peter and adam go to the creator of the virus's house, she says that 'id better shoot you in the head, to be sure' i.e. if adams head is destroyed then he can never regenerate

and come in, surely an explosion of that magnitute would be enough to take off his head? (the entire warehouse blew up!! how could even any part of him remain?)

Agreed. We didn't really see what happened. Just a big explosion. He fell around the center of the warehouse tent...thing. It might have exploded around him and he was consumed in flames. We don't know if the explosion erupted right at his head and could have blown his head off.

All we know is Adam went on to be genocidal self in the 21st century.

hiro was giving adam a chance to repent and come back to the light side
he intended to kill adam in any other case

well, let's be fair here.
being trapped in a claustraphobic coffin deep underground , isn't exactly Hiro being 'nice'
killing him with a bullet to the head would surely have been a far more humane way of punishing him by ending the life without further ado or suffering??

hm, that's debatable.. so you think being trapped in a coffin for a year is better than being shot.
although unless your david blaine, i wouldnt reccomend trying it out.. and even he only managed to go seven days

yeah , but adam doesn't know how long he has to stay there..
anyway just remember the look on hiro's face when he , talking about adam to ando, says that 'he can never hurt anyone again'...

he was clearly being serious and wanted, with a personal hatred, to make adam suffer as a vengeance for killing his own father, as well as the other crimes .it wasn't some joke, oh, "stay inside the naughty-kid-box for x amount of time, then ill let you out if your good again"

not really. hes been evil for 400 years, why would 1 single year of isolation suddenly change him to being good?? and , even when the company locked him up in a prison for 30 or so years, it had ABSOLUTELY NO EFFECT. he was just as evil as ever

why for all we know, he could have a whole stash of other strains of the virus he is just waiting to release.. 'bwahahahaha!!' who knows what horrendous mutations of plague exist hidden within the company's deepest vaults..

anyway, you think that the foiling of one mere plan is enough to stop adam monroe, immortal tyrant of 400 years' evil deeds, in his tracks?? enough to make him 'rethink his lifestyle choices'?? adam is evil to the bone, there is no question about it.. after all, he has still has an eternity of lifetime left to come to formulate another plot which will destroy the world, and it could be just as crazy if not worse than the original plan.. given another couple years who knows what he is capable of

did HITLER stop when churchhill gave him austria?? hell no he didnt. did Freeza end his corrupt ways when goku offered him a chance for redemption? nope. will Adam stop when hiro gives him another chance at being good? definately not

yes, its possible, but over the 400 years that have already passed adam hasnt given teh slightest inclination of changing. the chance is about 1:999999999999999 lol

Well lets just start at the top shall we. Churchill did not give Hitler Austria. I believe what you are referring to is the policy of appeasement undertaken by the then Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain prior to the outbreak of the second world war. It could be argued that Chamberlain gave Hitler parts of Germany proper back, eg the Rhineland, and certainly parts of czechaslovakia (sp) as he all but signed away that poor little country, but the whole Anschluss(sp) incident was more of Hitler propoganda victory, (ie they all speak German, what do we care, do an archive search and see how little the western media cared) and anyway at that point Hitler's military was strong enough to require a massive mobilization of troops to stop him. Something that the Brittish at the time just didn't have(neither did you yanks by the way)

More terrifying than your complete ignorance of history however is your whole notion of good and evil. If you want to rabble on about your religious beliefs do it elsewhere please, this is a forum for discussion about a television program, not a platform to ram so-called established beliefs down peoples throats.

Adam's views are alarming only when you realize that they are entirely sensible and logical. What Adam doesn't seem to understand is that the human race, and morality aren't.

WOW! excuse me i just came for a little discussion about heroes

I found a picture in Heroes Wiki that showed how Kensei was after the explosion. I don't know if this really happened, but it did, then Kensei ca't just regenerate his cells, his immortal!! His head was kind of... off... or I'm not spotting it...

Here's the picture...

ok just give me a straight answer ppl: is it or is it not possible to kill adam, once and for all?

That's the point! We don't know, as you don't! We'll have to wait for volume 3...

Adam is cool

if you can really kill someone with ability to heal by blowing up his head, then in season 1 final, when peter exploded, didnt he blow his head??? how can he survived that? how do you explain that??!!!

oh yeah....
forgot about that...

The part of his brain that controls his ability would need to be pierced. If his head blew off, he'd probably be able to regenerate it.