List of character appearances by graphic novel/Tally

The following is a tally of recurring characters in the graphic novels, including every character to have appeared in two novels or more.

Names in italics denote characters that have not appeared in any aired episodes.

16 or more appearances Noah Bennet (45 appearances) René (24 appearances) Claire Bennet (19 appearances) Hana Gitelman (17 appearances) Angela Petrelli (17 appearances) Eric Thompson, Jr. (16 appearances) 13-15 appearances Bob Bishop (15 appearances) Nathan Petrelli (14 appearances) Claude Rains (14 appearances) Sylar (14 appearances) Gael Cruz (13 appearances) Elle Bishop (13 appearances) Peter Petrelli (13 appearances) 9-12 appearances Donna Dunlap (12 appearances) Hiro Nakamura (12 appearances) Micah Sanders (12 appearances) Daniel Linderman (11 appearances) Tracy Strauss (11 appearances) Sabine Hazel (10 appearances) Matt Parkman (10 appearances) Samuel Sullivan (10 appearances) Mohinder Suresh (10 appearances) Bianca Karina (9 appearances) Eight appearances Penny Logan Ando Masahashi West Rosen Mr. Thompson Seven appearances Abigail Connie Logan Adam Monroe Kaito Nakamura Six appearances Emile Danko Julien Dumont Eli Sean Fallon Lydia Eden McCain Daphne Millbrook Arthur Petrelli Sparrow Redhouse Ted Sprague Amanda Strazzulla

Five appearances Sandra Bennet Felicia Brooks Evs Dropper clone Charles Deveaux Tom Drake Meredith Gordon Guillame Carlos Gutierrez Jose Gutierrez Luis Gutierrez Oscar Gutierrez Jamal Lee Farah Nazan Devin Patterson Molly Walker Candice Willmer Four appearances Eric Doyle Edgar Rollo Fusor's accomplice El Vengador's briber Elena Gutierrez Haram D.L. Hawkins Rachel Mills Mr. Muggles Kimiko Nakamura Jessica/Niki Sanders Joseph Sullivan Youssef Three appearances Arnold Charlie Andrews Lyle Bennet Black-haired cheerleader Black-haired jock Brown-haired cheerleader Caleb Mauricio Chavez Au Co Lloyd Collins Leonard Cushing Richard Drucker El Diablo Joseph Gallagher The German Mr. Gutierrez Phil Haas Hartsdale clone Maya Herrera Sanjog Iyer Brendan Lewis Ruth Meisner Ren Metzger Future Hiro Nakamura Matt Neuenberg Omar Jason Pierce Redhead cheerleader Ivan Spektor Carol Strazzulla Linda Tavara

Two appearances Agent Agent Ballou Brown-haired jock Arthur Campbell Perrin Crocker Cockroach Hampton Connolly Chris Coolidge Damian Monica Dawson James Dearing Deer Simone Deveaux Eden's stepmother Mr. Ellis Escape driver Donald Essex Evan Fumio Fukazawa Rollo Fusor Manuel Garcia Zahava Gitelman Flint Gordon, Jr. Kent Harper Helicopter pilot Alejandro Herrera Iggy Anna Korolenko Malina James Martin Samir Mellouk Isaac Mendez Mr. Millbrook Mohinder's grandmother Nathan's bodyguard Nathan's bodyguard Orderly Pelon Future Peter Petrelli Monsieur Pizet Primatech agent Prison ambush agent Ricky Rosetti The Russian Future Niki Sanders Ricardo Silva Casey Z. Smith Mark Spatney Support team member Sylvia Becky Taylor Teenage patient Benjamin "Knox" Washington Wade Winslow Alex Woolsly Zach

Trivia

• Noah Bennet appears in more graphic novels than any other character.
• René has the most graphic novel appearances by a non-main character.
• Out of the characters not appearing on the show, Thompson, Jr. is the one with the most appearances.
• Monica Dawson, Samuel Sullivan and Simone Deveaux are the only main characters who have not been the focus of a graphic novel. Although Niki Sanders has not been the focus of a graphic novel, both Jessica Sanders and Future Niki have.
• Eden McCain is the first character to make a return appearance in a graphic novel, as well as the first non-main character to be the focus of a graphic novel.
• Wireless, Part 1 is the first graphic novel to focus on a character previously not seen on the show.
• Walls, Part 1 is the first graphic novel occurring in a possible future timeline with no present-day character appearance. Following other such graphic novels are: Walls, Part 2, Quarantine, The Man with Too Much Brains, Hana and Drucker's Plot Discovered, The End of Hana and Drucker, and Resistance.
• Walls, Part 2 is the first graphic novel to only feature no new characters.
• Maya y Alejandro is the first graphic novel to not feature any characters that had, at that time, appeared on the show.
• The Last Shangri-La is the first graphic novel to only feature characters still not seen on the show. Subsequent novels that feature characters who never appeared in episodes include A Lesson in Electricity, Bounty Hunter, and Moonlight Serenade.
• Aftermath was the first graphic novel with just two characters; it was followed by Super-Heroics, It Takes a Village, Part 3, Flying Blind, Petrified Lightning, Revolutionary War, Part 1, Revolutionary War, Part 2, Pieces of Me, What We Have Wrought, One Good Hero, Prodigals, Part 2, and Prodigals, Part 3.