Jason

Bex

("sister")

Fight Skills

**Jason Westin Hernandez** is one of the five original main characters in the series Heroes. He is the leader of the Heroes and possesses super intelligence and knowledge rushes. He also contains the ability of fighting skills and throughout the show, he discovers more hidden abilities starting after Season 1. As of Season 6, Jason is currently 20 years old.

## Biography

### Season 1

In the first season, Jason is shown to be a bright student and a very caring friend but also a very hesitant person. After discovering that he is a part of a group who has received newfound powers, he struggles to come to terms with the idea of being a superhero and saving the city. After the pilot movie, Jason is elected leader of the Heroes despite his doubts of being a good leader. Later on through the season, he starts to learn more about his knowledge rushes and he takes advantage of it by researching more on the Heroes' powers with the help of his best friend, Gem. After finding out about an upcoming enemy a few episodes back, Jason struggles as a leader to come face to face with the enemy and stand his ground along with dealing with Caleb receiving powers. Towards the end of the first half of the season, Jason decides to build more courage and he leads the team to unmask a villain that turns out not to be who they wanted to unmask.

In the second half of the season, Jason shifts his focus on the recent unmasked villain, Andy, whom he also confronted back in Juggling Two Lives in the air. As Jason continues his research on Andy, he gets himself in a little bit of trouble ending up in the hospital in critical condition after being stabbed by Andy. After getting released from the hospital, Jason is forced to take a break from the Heroes and is replaced temporarily by Sean who is later made a co-leader of the Heroes when Jason returns to work. Finally, at the end of the season, Jason goes on a big mission with the Heroes to face off against Krane and Andy and is finally proven wrong by Caleb who showed exemplary progress in the mission as well. Jason realizes that the Heroes' secret was accidentally revealed to Dean and he makes a compromise with him to get him to keep the secret and he finally decides to train Caleb as an honorary member of the Heroes.

### Season 2

Jason starts off Season 2 fresher and a little bit grown as he begins sophomore year with a lot of mixed feelings after everything that has happened in Season 1. A few episodes into the season, Jason lets his powers get the best of him as he ends up in a prank war with the boys and he tries to fix his mistakes as a leader. Jason finally stands his ground against Andy after being confronted and warned by him and finds a new focus: destroying Andy. Later in the first half of the season, Jason ends up butting heads against Sean for the first time after a disorganized mission and is challenged as a leader of the Heroes by Sean. Jason begins to find another focus to research on, immortality, and enlists Gem to help him with his research. As they both research more on the idea of their immortality, they find shocking information that they really didn't expect to find but are later interrupted by trying to save Sean and Caleb from Andy and the Masked Villain. Towards the end of the first half, Jason receives an unusual dream about the Masked Villain and tries to figure out what it means. Along with that, Jason continues to fight with Sean about who leads the team better and discovers that Sean is his frenemy. In the end of the first half, Jason ends up getting hurt by one of Andy's androids and helps Gem discover a new power: Blast Waves.

In the second half of the season, Jason goes on to increase his training a little bit after realizing he has gotten hurt too many times on missions and asks Celia and Gem for help. Jason is encouraged by Gem to take a compatibility test for Valentine's Day in A No Good Valentine's Day but struggles to understand why he doesn't want to take one. A little bit throughout the season, Jason finally has had enough of leading the team after feeling like no one takes the team seriously and decides to give himself some time away from being a Hero. As Jason takes some time off, he is confronted by one of Andy's androids and is turned into an android to take out the Heroes under Andy's command but is later saved by Sean. Later in the second half of the season, Jason's feud with Sean grows bigger after an incident as co-leaders and Gem tries to fix the feud even though Jason and Sean refuse to solve anything. Jason finally finds another focus on A-1 to see if he can find out where the androids come from. As Jason conducts his research on A-1, he finally finds that A-1 was created by Andy and the Masked Villain. Along the way, Jason is defeated as a leader after failing to defuse a bomb in time in one of the missions. Towards the end of the season, the Rise of the Androids (Event) brings Jason to the test as a leader of the Heroes. Jason continues to conduct more research on the Human Androids and starts to worry that they'll be much harder to beat. In the season finale, Jason struggles to make a decision about what to do with the Android Army and decides to go up against them to save the city, let alone the world. As he ends up in a showdown with the androids, he discovers a new power, healing/regeneration, and he finally stops the android army from achieving their mission to take over Riverside before the world and he finally decides on a new mission: **come back stronger than ever.**

### Season 3

In the beginning of Season 3, Jason tries to live a happy villain-free life while he still can after all that has happened in sophomore year. Jason later tries to master his healing/regeneration power but still ends up struggling to use the power. Jason is finally hit with the realization that the Masked Villain and Andy are alive through their first confrontation of the season. Throughout the beginning, Jason also struggles to deal with Dean's eagerness of being a part of the Heroes and he tries not to let Dean's hopes down. Along the way, Jason, as well as the Heroes, find the Masked Villain's lair and tries to stay one step ahead of the Masked Villain. Jason tries to put the feud with Sean aside and begins working with him to decipher every meaning they can decipher to unmask the villain. Later throughout the first half of the season, Jason meets two new superheroes, Jack and Nick, and discovers that they share one thing in common with the Heroes: the Masked Villain. Shortly after meeting Jack and Nick, Jason connects with Jack instantly after bonding more and receives a feeling he's never felt before. Jason ends up comforting Celia through her heartbreak after her break-up with Sean and ends up in an awkward position as a leader of the Heroes. Just after the awkward confrontation with the Heroes, he receives a painful rush finally discovering what the Masked Villain and Andy are planning. Towards the end of the season, Jason decides to take a break for a day or two before things get crazy and tries to get Dean off his back about being a part of the Heroes. As Jason takes a day off, he starts to worry that things won't go great with the Heroes without him as a leader and tries to put his faith in Sean but unsurprisingly can't seem to do so. In the mid-season finale, Jason finds out he is one Hero short with Sean having quit the team and receives a panic attack with the school in lockdown because of the Masked Villain and Andy. Later, Jason calms down and works with Sean to save the Heroes and Riverside High from Andy and the Masked Villain.

In the beginning of the second half, Jason decides to help Sean realize a few things and has a talk with him regarding his resignation from the team and later initiates Jack and Nick into the team. Jason is surprised with a birthday bash hosted by Gem and Sara and later plants a kiss on Jack feeling entirely humiliated thereafter. In the one hour special, This Is Me, Jason battles his inner demons and isolates himself from everyone after discovering something completely new to himself and Gem tries to be a great best friend by helping Jason figure out what's wrong. Jason finally realizes that he has had feelings for Jack all along and that he is gay thus making him the first LGBTQ+ character on the show. After Jason's recent discovery, he decides to distance himself from Jack to give himself time to process what he's feeling and Jack tries to interfere with Jason's need for space. Throughout the four-part special event, Invasion, Jason receives another painful rush and discovers that the Masked Villain is powerful than he was before. Jason comes to find that he would sacrifice himself for Jack after witnessing him get hurt in a battle against the Masked Villain and Andy. Jason later works with Sean and tries to get every piece of intel out of Sara to discover what happened to Dean and why it happened. After investigating the incident, Jason is struck with the worst news he could ever receive: Dean has passed away. In the memorial episode, Jason starts to turn into an emotionless person and doesn't know what to do as a leader for the Heroes now that he believes he has betrayed the Heroes' trust. In the end of the season, Jason continues to explore his chemistry together with Jack and they start to discover new things about their newfound relationship. As the Heroes attend their prom, Gem tries to encourage Jason to make a move on Jack but he can't help but feel shy to do so. In the season finale, Jason and the Heroes are confronted by the Masked Villain who wrecks havoc on the prom and he shifts his focus to getting Sara and Seanna to safety. As Jason and the Heroes go into battle, Jason ends up fighting alongside of Jack and as they defeat some of the soldiers, they finally share their first kiss passionately after almost losing each other. Jason ends up working with Sean and finally unmasks the villain leaving himself and the Heroes to discover the impossible... the Masked Villain is apparently Dean.

### Season 4

In the start of the fourth season, Jason decides to give himself the best summer ever with Jack before Jack goes off to college and he ends up breaking things off with Jack. While dealing with the break-up, Jason also takes on the responsibility of helping Sara and Seanna understand who the Heroes are despite Sean's concerns. In the one hour special episode, Heroes: Senior Year (3-4), Jason is told Caleb's secret by Gem and he tries to figure out what it means. Not only that, Jason is struck with the responsibility of having to figure out the most recent events at the source as Sara and Seanna have been struck by the green light. Along the way, Jason discovers that Sara and Seanna just might be the key to stopping Krane and Andy once and for all. Throughout the first half of the season, Jason conducts a new focus on the Heroes' powers and finds a new set of upgraded powers for everyone and finally begins to upgrade everyone as a Hero. Jason starts to get frustrated with the amount of times that Krane has caused chaos and he decides to maintain a permanent focus: destroying Krane and Andy for good. In the five-part special event, Saving the Nation, Jason decides to take Sara and Seanna under his wing and personally train them constantly before the trip to D.C. to meet the President of the United States. As soon as the Heroes arrive to D.C., Jason makes an agreement with Sean to put their feud aside so they can bring a good first impression as co-leaders for the president and they end up struggling to make a decision with the president's offer for the Heroes. Following the recent disappearance of some important country materials, Jason goes on to believe that Krane has something to do with the disappearance and ends up going after Krane by himself. As Jason does so, he ends up in a brutal confrontation that leads to the Heroes finally working together to save the nation from disaster and Jason is awarded a special medal for leading the Heroes into saving the nation.

In the second half of the season, Jason continues to struggle with the idea of being well-known to the world now that the country has been saved from Krane's control. Jason works together with Evan to build a new lair for everyone to conduct their Heroes' business in and Jason reveals that the lair is now the top-secret basement of his house due to the presidential grant the Heroes received. Jason begins to worry about Evan ever since Evan found out that Caleb, his best friend, is moving and he tries to encourage Evan to stop isolating himself so he can say goodbye to Caleb before it's too late. Throughout the second half of the season, Jason ends up having a few recurring dreams where Krane returns and Jason tries to focus on what it means and bonds with Gem more over deciphering the meaning. As Jason tries to figure out what it means, he ends up getting confronted by Krane again and is told to prepare for revenge coming his way. In another special one hour episode, What If? (16-17), Jason takes a road trip with Gem to give himself some time and a sense of peace away from being a Hero and gets knocked out after having a flat tire on the road. As Jason gets knocked out, he ends up in an alternate universe where he was never a superhero and never knew the others and gets a few surprises like Krane and Andy being his teacher and classmate. After waking up, he and Gem end up in another confrontation with Krane and the Heroes work together consciously to save Jason and Gem. Towards the end of the season, Jason aims to have a peaceful spring break on his senior trip with the others and ends up having to fight off Krane and Andy once again. As the last week of high school arrives, Jason, along with Sean, ends up encountering five sophomores and witnesses the sophomores discovering their powers. Jason begins to realize that the only thing to do is to guide them through it all and he begins to tell the sophomores everything they need to know and he starts to believe that they could be the next generation of Heroes. Jason conducts his last official team meeting as the sole leader of the Heroes and tries to make suggestions on the future of the Heroes to the others. As graduation day nears, Jason begins getting more and more nervous to recite his Salutatory Speech and worries that it won't go as planned. Throughout the graduation, Jason begins using every ounce of motivation he's got to finally destroy Krane and Andy to save his graduation and finally achieves what he and the Heroes thought was impossible. Before the season ends, Jason officially inducts the sophomores into the Heroes and makes them honorable Heroes.

### Season 5

Jason opens the fifth season as one of the last few original members of the Heroes left standing and struggles to decide who the next leader of the Heroes will be. Jason decides to make a few changes to his office in the lair and unwillingly grants Sean his own office as co-leader too. Jason then reveals that he has a new focus, which is discovering an antidote to Dean's trance and worries that it might be too late to save him. After Dean's latest reveal, Jason calls in every Hero that he can to help them fight against Dean's army and save Dean from his trance and when Jack returns, Jason instantly connects with Jack once again. In the special 100th episode celebration, Saving Riverside (5-7), Jason works together with Sean to transfer Dean's trance energy into an energy transponder and Jason ends up in a severe confrontation with Dean giving Sean the opportunity to save Dean and stop the madness. Jason finally decides that the new leader of the Heroes is Anna and finally retires himself as the sole leader of the Heroes. Throughout the first half of the season, Jason is struck with the responsibility of trying to get Dean to wake up from his coma and he starts to overly stress himself out. Jason and Sean work together with the President of the United States to fix the city of Riverside after all the chaos that was made on behalf of the Heroes. Finally, Jason guides the new Heroes through their first mission but ends up having to save the day after the new Heroes mess up and later ends up working with Sean to figure out what the new source that Sara found in the forbidden forest has to offer. Towards the end of the first half of the season, Jason finds a lot of research on the other source and tries to figure out what it could all mean. With Dean's life on the line and running out of time, Jason tries many different methods to saving Dean, including his healing/regeneration power, but nothing seems to work. As Jason tries different methods, he ends up getting a knowledge rush about the cure to waking Dean up and works together with Anna who has had a premonition about the cure as well and finally saves Dean.

In the second half of the season, Jason fights to get back to the real universe along with the Heroes after being sent to an alternate universe by Krane and Andy due to their most recent confrontation. Jason decides to decrease his workload as a Hero and tries to get Chris to back off with his suspicions about Anna's new budding romance, Drew and tries to draft up new ways to train the Heroes over time. After finding that Anna has quit the Heroes, he decides to make Chris a temporary leader until he can convince Anna to come back and he tries to find Anna but realizes she's nowhere to be found. Towards the end of the season, Jason tries to work together with Chris and Ava to find Anna and he decides to take some time for himself to decide what to do and how to get Anna back. Throughout the hectic time, Jason also tries to be a good best friend and encourages Gem to apply for colleges to have her get her life started but Gem reveals she's scared to lose Jason. In the end of the season, Jason brings the Heroes on a mission to save Anna and he finds out that she's being used for an ultimate top secret plan that could result in the loss of everyone's powers. As the Heroes fight off against Krane and Andy once again, things end up going wrong and the Heroes are struck with a red light as Krane is struck with a green light and Jason is left broken after realizing what has happened.

### Season 6

In the beginning of the sixth season, Jason begins to struggle on what to do with the Heroes as they are all now powerless and he decides to disband the group until further notice after witnessing everyone turn on each other. A little bit into the season, Jason ends up going his separate ways from Sean with Gem and focuses on strengthening his best friendship with Gem. However, Jason discovers that the Heroes aren't talking to each other anymore and a part of him starts to feel like he is to blame. Jason decides to set up a long-term goal which is to get their powers back no matter the limits they face and aims to reassemble the Heroes in a matter of time and he decides to assist Derek and Ava into getting the Heroes back together during Halloween. Throughout the first half of the season, Jason begins his research on what has happened to the original source and how to get it back and he later makes a decision with Sean and Gem to begin reassembling the Heroes. Jason conducts an entirely fake mission to drag the Heroes together and get them to complete the mission and finally helps them realize that powerless or not, they are still destined to be Heroes. As the Heroes begin their mortal boot camp, Jason continues to do his research on the source and their powers and he finally finds out where their powers might be and he goes on a mission with Gem to find the powers. After ending up in an encounter, Jason tries to figure out a backup plan after losing the powers once again and he decides to bring in Sara along with Celia to make a full team to retrieve their powers again. In the mid-season finale, Jason leads the Heroes to a successful mission in getting their powers back and finally ignites the green light once again and gets the Heroes the powers they've wanted all along.

In the mid-season premiere, Jason receives his first knowledge rush after a while and discovers that Krane is still alive somewhere and begins to research on where to reach Krane. As Jason tries to have a "person" fun-filled day with Gem, he continues to get distracted with his life as a Hero and keeps letting his superhero life get in the way of the day with Gem. Jason finally has his first puzzled moment as a leader and reluctantly goes to Sean for help in solving Anna's cry for help. As Jason tries to help Anna, he, along with Sean and Gem, arrive to the source in time to find Bex nearing the source but ends up trying to save her a little bit too late. Throughout the second half of the season, Jason overworks himself as a superhero to try and save his "sister" from the brink of death and finally saves her discovering that she has beginner's powers as a Hero. Jason finally grants Bex permission to go on her first mission but worries that he might've made the wrong decision. Jason then becomes the temporary leader of the Heroes and makes Gem and Sean his assistant leaders until he can get Anna to come back to the Heroes. While the new Heroes go on their senior spring break trip, Jason decides to go on another mission with Gem to find Krane and discover what his current plans are. As he continues his manhunt for Krane, he discovers a new enemy that Krane is working with and fears that it might be another big bad. Towards the end of the season, Jason, Gem, and Sean end up in another confrontation with Krane, Andy, and this time the Mysterious Masked Person and they end up getting themselves trapped. After getting trapped, Jason suddenly discovers a new power, Mind Linking, and takes advantage of it by sharing messages with the Heroes. In the season finale, Jason helps the new Heroes prepare for their graduation and makes a personal goal for himself: unmask the mysterious masked person. As Riverside High ends up in total lockdown, Jason discovers the ability to combine his powers with Anna and the Heroes to completely wipe out Krane and his soldiers and as they do so, Jason finally unmasks the Mysterious Masked Person and discovers that it's Nick. Towards the end of the finale, Jason makes a decision with Sean, Gem, and Celia and invites Anna and Chris to continue their positions as Heroes for bigger things coming in the future.

## Personality

Jason is a very caring person when it comes to family and friends, however, he knows how to draw the line whenever he believes he is right. As a leader of the Heroes, he can be a little bit too controlling and ends up making decisions for others. Aside from his position as a leader of the Heroes, he can be very laid-back and unsure of the right decisions to make. Not only that, Jason can be a little bit too crazy sometimes when he gets caught up in some wild adventures with his friends.

When it comes to being best friends with Gem, he tends to be very careful around her when he tries to read her emotions. When trying to read her emotions, he tends to make it obvious by asking a little bit too many questions. A few times in the show, Jason has shown himself to have a lot of doubts as to what to do or who he is and often lets his inner demons beat himself up leaving Gem to control those feelings. Later in Season 4, Jason turns out to be a little more jock-y and sentimental for others and builds up a deeper side of himself in the season. In seasons 5 and 6, Jason ends up maturing as an adult more as he starts to take on more of his responsibilities.

As an adult, Jason begins to shape himself into becoming a more responsible young adult and tries to change a little bit of his personality to put himself out there in the dating field hoping to finally meet someone other than Jack.

## Relationships

### Jack Woodson

*Main Article: Jasack*

Jason and Jack meet in the Season 3 episode, More Like Us (7) and they instantly connect and bond with each other. Throughout the series, Jack and Jason's relationship build up and becomes a relationship that nears the dating phase. In Surprise Birthday Bash, Jason accidentally plants a kiss on Jack. In Aftermath, Jack reveals to Jason that he feels something between the two of them. In Unmasked, Jason and Jack finally share their first passionate kiss together. Together, the two of them can be seen treating each other very kindly as if they are head over heels in love with each other.

### Gem Rinks

*Main Article: Gemson*

Jason and Gem start the show off as best friends, or in other terms, as each other's person and they show a sense of a strong bond with each other more than any other best friend pairing has done in the show. Throughout the series, Jason and Gem's relationship continues to grow as they share a lot of moments together and work together a lot in research. Jason and Gem have also noted a few times in the show that they consider each other immediate family as they only have each other to go to for the majority of time. In the Season 2 episode, A Big Blast (12), Jason ends up getting hurt and causes Gem to discover a new power, Blast Waves, after Gem witnesses Jason getting injured. In the Season 5 episode, Return to the Other Source (19), Jason encourages Gem to apply for colleges giving her the message that it's okay to get her life started when she wants to.

## Abilities

### Powers

* **Knowledge Rush:** Jason has the ability to receive some rush of knowledge that tells him exactly what he needs to know or exactly what to do in the upcoming moments. As Jason discovers this power in Season 1 (Heroes: Rise of Five), he goes through a little bit of ups and downs with the ability as he struggles to master the pain it inflicts on him. Finally throughout the second season and so on, he starts to master his knowledge rushes despite the pain it can bring upon him. However, there are a few times where Jason has a very painful knowledge rush, so painful that he can't handle and he continues to struggle mastering the harder skill.
* **Super Intelligence:** Jason also has another main ability, super intelligence, where he is made incredibly knowledgeable and intelligent in many subject fields, more than you can imagine. As Jason receives this power, he starts to discover that he knows more things that he knows his normal self wouldn't know and begins to memorize a lot more things as well. Along with the super intelligence, Jason also has the mindset available to develop rough plans and problem-solvers when necessary. This ability also makes Jason very highly coordinated as he can overcome pretty much any obstacle that stands in his way.
* **Healing/Regeneration:** Jason discovers a hidden ability in the Season 2 finale, Rise of the Androids, and struggles to master it throughout the third season. However, throughout the third season, Jason begins to use the power randomly when he is ignited with some kind of emotion and finds that it runs on emotion. This ability gives him the power to heal wounds that range from minimal to very deep and it also gives him the power to regenerate others thus giving them more energy than they had before. Later on, Jason fully masters the power but rarely uses it because of how much his energy is drained from the usage of the power.
* **Mind Link:** Jason discovers another hidden ability in So We Reunite (Season 6, Episode 20) and immediately figures out how to use it. With mind-linking, Jason can share countless things with other Heroes as his powers are now connected to the Heroes. In order to use mind-linking, Jason has to enable his source of power to transfer messages and commands to other Heroes. Because of this ability, Jason's capacity in his brain storage has increased due to the high demand of his power.
* **Fight Skills:** Jason has a minimal, yet strong ability where he can fight and adapt to different forms of fighting with anyone or anything that stands in his way. Not only that, it also gives Jason some sort of flexibility that he's never received before. He masters this ability right away in the beginning of the first season.

## Appearances

### Season 1 (24/24)

* First seen: Heroes: Rise of Five (1-2)
* Last seen: Showdown (23-24)

### Season 2 (23/23)

* First seen: A New Year (1)
* Last seen: Rise of the Androids (22-23)

### Season 3 (24/24)

* First seen: Stronger (1)
* Last seen: Unmasked (23-24)

### Season 4 (23/23)

* First seen: Right After (1)
* Last seen: Graduation Day (22-23)

### Season 5 (22/22)

* First seen: A New Generation (1)
* Last seen: Fight For Our Powers (21-22)

### Season 6 (22/22)

* First seen: A New Normal (1)
* Last seen: We Move On (21-22)

## Trivia

* Jason is the first leader of the Heroes.
* Jason has been in all seasons of Heroes so far.