Heroes Reborn: Breaking Down That Teaser Trailer

While the teaser trailer that aired for the upcoming Heroes Reborn miniseries from NBC only lasted 15 seconds tonight, it actually gave fans a fair amount to talk about.

We'll try and break it down quickly, since going into too much crazy depth for a 15-second teaser just seems excessive.

...Let us know if we miss anything.

Who's the kid?

Obviously, it's probably either a new character, or just a symbol: youth, a new generation, hope, all that. In any event, that's a question worth asking in and of itself: will this setting -- probably Alaska -- be the setting for the series? That would be a wild divergence for the mostly urban original series.

Is Zachary Levi the bad guy?

He certainly seemed kind of menacing and Sylar-ish from a distance...but he was identified as the series lead when he was cast.

Of course, making a villain the lead of Heroes could be an interesting, fun twist.

It's pretty unlikely, though; it didn't seem that HRG was all that confrontational with him in that little peek over his shoulder. But is Levi his new partner in (some iteration of) The Company, or is this a freelance gig HRG is undertaking?

...Of course, they could be intentionally obfuscating whether HRG is an unquestioned good guy again. They did that a lot last time around.

The Eclipse

Does the aurora have anything to do with the eclipse, or is it just a sign of the girl's powers? Obviously the eclipse was tied to people developing their powers last time around, so our guess is just that this is a manifestation of the girl's powers...but it's hard to be 100% certain what was going on there in the silence.

Weather manipulation

Of course, weather and environmental manipulation isn't exactly an uncommon power in the Heroes universe. Besides Hiro's ability to freeze time and space, you've got the final season's big bad, played by Arrow and The Flash villain Robert Knepper, who had the whole seismic control thing.