A select number of unsuspecting people awake to find they have developed superpowers overnight. They become reluctant superheroes with unique powers, from regeneration to mind control, charged with saving the world. Heroes takes the comic book format and seamlessly incorporates it into a live action TV series.
These are all shows where character have been introduced as bad/mean/troublesome ones that you automatically hate but though time have become some of my favorite characters because of redemption or having gained my sympathy. This is mostly focusing on characters out side of the main ones.