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All bad things must come to an end and this is our final Hiro Meter. And I do mean final because chances are Heroes ain’t coming back.

So, how much did Masi Oka shame the Asian race in 4th season finale? Not too much actually.

Hiro is a Zero

1. Hiro has not learned a damn thing… -1. The whole season was about not going around effing up the time line, and what’s the first thing Hiro wants to do? He wants to go back in time… again. And mess things up… again.
2. Charlie just wants to be friends… -1. When old Charlie says she doesn’t want Hiro to go back in time and get her, she’s basically saying, “I’m sorry you misunderstood. I just want to be friends.” She didn’t even wait for Hiro to rescue her, she got busy in the past and she got busy hard, popping out little red head babies. If she thought of Hiro as her true love she would have had him go back for her, regardless of grand kids. He didn’t even get an old lady kiss, which would have been awesome in a Harold & Maude sort of way.
3. Hiro got his banana peel… +2. Did I call it, or what? I didn’t know exactly how Hiro was going to get his banana peel, but I knew he was going to save the world in the most insignificant way possible. Peter gets the big battle, even though Hiro was much more emotionally invested with confronting Samuel, but it was Hiro who ultimately saved the day through mostly shear goofiness.

And that’s all she wrote for poor Hiro.

Though, one thing that did bother me about Hiro this season was him saving Charlie to being with. A lot of fans wanted Hiro to save his “true love” Charlie, but the problem I had was Charlie was not his true love. Charlie died in season one, but it was made clear that she was going to die anyway, so going back and saving her from Sylar was an empty gesture at best.

Hiro’s actual true love was Yaeko, the blacksmith’s daughter, who was presumably raped and tortured by Adam Monroe the second Hiro went back to the future. That’s a far worse fate than death. But he leaves poor Yaeko to that and rescues Charlie instead… why? Because the actress who plays her, Jayma Mays, is on the show Glee. So, in the end, Hiro doesn’t really even get a real romantic connection, but just a little fluff around a cheap walk on.