'Heroes: Reborn' news: new heroes on the way; new trailer shows time traveler Hiro Nakamura returns

(Official Facebook)

Five years after the hit show said goodbye, "Heroes" has been reborn with a new plot and new heroes. 

NBC's "Heroes: Reborn" is the continuation of the science fiction drama "Heroes." When the series ended in 2010, Claire Bennett jumped off a Ferris wheel in front of the press, exposing her power to regenerate and showing the world what people with special abilities like her can do.

The new series is set five years after the finale and the whole world is now aware that there are individuals who are born with or who develop special abilities. While there are people who accept and welcome them, there are also those who think they are aberrations that should not be allowed in society, especially after a terrorist attack that decimated Odessa, Texas was blamed on them.

"Heroes: Reborn" will introduce new characters and new heroes, like Tommy (Robbie Kay), a teenager who just wants to be normal and Malina (Danika Yarosh), another teenager who has been told that she will do great things. There's Miko (Kiki Sukezane), a woman looking for her missing father and Carlos (Ryan Guzman), a soldier with latent powers.

These new heroes will soon cross paths with noteworthy heroes of the past like Noah Bennet (Jack Coleman), Matt Parkman (Greg Grunberg), the Haitian (Jimmy Jean-Louis), Mohinder Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy) and Hiro Nakamura.

Viewers recently got a look at some of the new characters in the trailer "The Extraordinary Among us." The first trailer shows scenes of a devastated city interspersed with images that ask the question "where are the heroes?"

But it is the second trailer that has made people sit up and take notice as fan favorite Hiro Nakamura makes an appearance. The time traveler looks so different from the dewy-eyes nerd he portrayed in "Heroes." Now Hiro looks jaded, tired and ready to fight.

"Heroes: Reborn" is coming to television screens on September 24, 2015.

Copyright © 2015 Ecumenical News