



The new, depressing, and frankly kind of dumb trailer for NBC's revival series Heroes Reborn (seen above) asks, "Where are the heroes?" It's supposed to be a dramatic tease (just listen to that cover of Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters," man!) that perhaps hints at a world in which our one-time world-saving champs have disappeared or gone into hiding, but what it really does is remind us of all the people who are not returning for the series because A) they are too busy starring on other shows, B) weren't asked back, or C) all of the above.

So, where are the heroes? I can't speak for every single one, but here's my best attempt to answer NBC's question.





Claire Bennet, Hayden Panettiere

The former cheerleader (of the "save the cheerleader, save the world" tagline from the show's first season), is currently starring as Juliette Barnes on ABC's nighttime soap Nashville. Panettiere previously told Cosmopolitan that she wasn't asked to be part of the new Heroes reboot, but who cares? Not only did she recently become a mom in real life, but she is the absolute best thing about Nashville. And yes I am including Connie Britton's hair in the list of things she's competing against.





Peter Petrelli, Milo Ventimiglia

Ventimiglia told Zap2It in April that he was not approached to return, and that's okay because he has approximately 900 other jobs at the moment (and that's a conservative estimate). The actor is currently starring on ABC's creepy new summer series The Whispers, had a guest-starring arc on Gotham last season, recently wrapped a film called Devil's Gate, and appeared on-stage with his former Gilmore Girls castmates at the series' 15th Anniversary Reunion in Austin, Texas. That doesn't even take into account his Crackle series Chosen, his work in comics, or all the time he spends perfecting his beard.





Sylar, Zachary Quinto

Quinto is a busy man, y'all. He played a corpse in the Season 3 premiere of Hannibal (and will appear in a future episode, too) and is currently filming the third Star Trek film. He told Buzzfeed that he spoke to Heroes creator Tim Kring when the revival was announced, but decided not to reprise his role as the villainous Sylar. He said he needed to "cultivate other outlets" for himself, and I support that. You go do you, Quinto.





Niki Sanders/Jessica/Tracy Strauss, Ali Larter

Larter has also spoken out about why she won't be appearing in Heroes Reborn and the gist is this: homegirl is busy working on another series a.k.a. TNT's Legends. She doesn't have time to deal with your nonsense. And also, do you really care about Larter's character(s)? I actually want to know: Do you care?





Adam Monroe, David Anders

Look, I don't even know what happened to Anders' character on the series because I stopped watching before his story could even get off the ground, but Anders is currently chomping scenery (and maybe sometimes brains) as the badass villain Blaine DeBeers on The CW's iZombie. In no way did I include him on this list to remind you that you should be watching iZombie. Nope. No way.





As for the people you will see stopping by Heroes Reborn when it premieres Thursday, September 24 at 8pm on NBC, look for Jack Coleman to reprise his role as H.R.G., Masi Oka as Hiro Nakamura, Sendhil Ramamurthy as Mohinder Suresh, Greg Grunberg as Matt Parkman, and Cristine Rose as Angela Petrelli.







Will you watch Heroes Reborn? Who would you have liked to see return?





