Hiro is an idiot. Determined, but still not able to follow through. He was shut inside a tiny box. I wonder if that's ever happened to him before, and if it is that panic that is making him freak out. I bet that is one of the worst ways to die; I brought it up in one of my fics, that Adam tested himself in different ways, but this one wasn't his choosing, and someone he cared about, was fond of, did this to him, knowing that he would never die, that he would be lying there for possibly all time. If Hiro thinks that this won't come back and bite him- he is still frightfully naive.

Adam has never known kinship; he may have had companions, perhaps, but nobody has last long enough for him to be truly attached to them. He knows that everyone else is mortal, so what is the point in making himself vulnerable to their eventual loss? He needs a brother, someone to stand with him and sometimes swat him over the head.

The villains are so very intriguing. They are not just bad, they have motivations that are as complex if not more so as those of the heroes, and with these sorts, there is the possibility that their goals may intersect with a larger good at some point, but that doesn't mean that they will abandon their own schemes and goals.

Adam wants to save the world, Sylar wants to fulfill his destiny. Both of them are very much interested in the concept of what people deserve, and right now, much of the population hasn't prove that they know how best to handle their resources, be they extraordinary talents or their environment.