A New Hero for a New Season

The third season of NBC’s Heroes will kick into overdrive – literally – with a new super-fast villain: Daphne, a.k.a. “The Speedster” (Friday Night Light’s Brea Grant, pictured at right with Masi Oka).

In the show’s season premiere on Sept. 22, Daphne steals “something Hiro [Oka] needs for his quest.”

Grant says that when Hiro stops time, Daphne slows to regular speed.

“It’s a Batman-Joker thing,” she said. “We cancel each other’s powers.”

I wonder if this new character will become a love interest for Heroes’ loveable time traveler…or if she will be well-received by fans, for that matter.

Photo: EW.com.