The Company

Before we go any further I just wanted to get this out in the open. Has a League of heroes - in this case the older generation that made up The Company (Hiro's Dad, Ma and Papa Petrelli, Parkman's Dad Maury, etc) - ever had a bunch of people with the most useless powers? What kind of crime/villain did they fight anyway? Most of them are dead which goes to show how inept and powerless they were. No one yet knows what Hiro's dad could do, but I don't think it was anything of value since he got taken down (in his case down several stories off the edge of a building) so easily.

And Bob Bishop (Elle's dad), that guy who had the Midas Touch as his power. If you had that ability would fighting evil be the first thing on your agenda? How exactly did he battle villains - offer them gold to go away? I could just picture the following exchange:

Bob Bishop: Hey guys, I was thinking for this next mission I could tag along with you and help battle that nasty group of bad guys we've been having problems with.

[Group looks down at their feet]

Ma Patrelli: Yeah, we're gonna need you to hand in those TPS reports soon, and then after that there's the trash dumpster outside that we need you to convert into gold so we can finance the repairs to the rec room so we don't think you'll have enough time.

What a waste of abilities.

Speaking of waste of abilities, this has nothing to do with the Company, but ponder this:

Papa Petrelli and Peter Petrelli both have the ability to take the powers of other people. But suppose they were the only two people on the planet to have any powers at all - would that not be an epic waste of a power?? That's like someone coming up to you and saying "my power is if I ever were to hold the horn of a golden unicorn - if such a mythical creature were to ever exist - in my hand I would have unlimited abilities and end all suffering for man forever."