The Haitian is the only non-Asian minority character on the show after three seasons that has not been written off or killed.

The writers have a poor track record when it comes to minority characters. Every Hispanic character on the show has been killed by Sylar: Isaac, Alejandro, Maya, and Jesse. Maya was revived at the end of Season 2 only to be used as a sex object and damsel-in-distress in Season 3. Every black character on the show, with the exception of The Haitian, has been killed, written off, or cast as stereotypical extras like thugs and uncivilized people.

I am sure that the writers don't do this intentionally:

  • Simone Deveaux, in the first season, was supposed to become involved with The Company in light of her heritage.
  • DL Hawkins, in the first season, was originally meant to be prosecuted by Nathan Petrelli - wrongfully convicted, he swears vengence on the man who sent him to prison. This would have established Nathan as more of a morally ambiguous character because DL was actually innocent of the crime of which he was accused.
  • Maya Herrera, in the second season, was originally meant to learn how to embrace her powers and finds a way to absorb the virus from others in the same way that Alejandro absorbed the effects of her ability from others.
  • Monica Dawson, in the second season, was originally meant to be pitted against Benjamin Knox. She, like Hiro, was a main character of the comic 9th Wonders! as a vigilante under the name of St. Joan.
  • Micah Sanders, in the second season, was originally meant to aid Monica Dawson in vigilante hunting. I think that it would have been cool if they got a brief story arc about going after the thugs who tried to leave Monica in a burning building resulting in Niki's death - who, also, was originally meant to survive the fire at the cost of regressing back into the Jessica personality or a new personality.


So, as you can see, these characters really were not able to build much of a fanbase due to internal or external events. I just find it annoying that we still have the same regular characters over three seasons and a rotating minority cast every season that seemingly gets thrown out for various reasons.