The Company and The Company Founders
The Company is first introduced in season one of the series as a fictional covert international organization whose primary purpose is to identify, monitor and study those individuals with special genetically derived superhuman abilities. In season one, Noah Bennet and Primatech Paper Co. are the face of the Company. It is later revealed that Bennet takes orders from Thompson, who in turn, takes orders from the company founders. In season one, the ongoing story-arc of the New York City explosion was derived and plotted out by the Company and some of its founders, most notably Mr. Linderman and Angela Petrelli. Hiro Nakamura makes it his destiny to stop New York from exploding. Hiro's father Kaito Nakamura, was also a founder within the Company, although he and Company co-founder Charles Deveaux do not support the plans.
It is revealed in season two that Adam Monroe founded the Company with twelve other founders. A photo of the group is later shown, revealing who the twelve were, including Arthur Petrelli, (father of Peter and Nathan Petrelli and husband of Angela Petrelli); Angela Petrelli; Maury Parkman, father of Matt Parkman; Victoria Pratt, who experimented on and mutated the Shanti Virus; and Bob Bishop, who takes over as head of operations for the Company following Linderman's death. The four remaining founders, Paula Gramble, Suzanne Amman, Harry Fletcher, and Carlos Mendez (confirmed to be Isaac Mendez's father), have yet to appear within the series, except in photographs. Kring has confirmed that these characters have been cast by the same actors in the photograph, and will eventually appear in the series.
Adam Monroe, also known as the legendary warrior Takezo Kensei, was the one who brought the Company founders together, and attempts to kill several of the founders in an act of revenge after he was locked up for trying to release a deadly strain of the Shanti Virus. He has only been confirmed to have killed two founders: Kaito Nakamura and Victoria Pratt.
In volume three, Angela Petrelli takes over as head of operations following the death of Bob Bishop at the hands of Sylar.
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