# Heroes 4/30 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 30, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-4-30/402217 "2007-04-30T21:42:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-4-30/402217/161 "2007-05-05T20:58:47Z")
You know, that’s something that keeps confusing me. Everyone keeps referring to it as “the bomb,” but then they talk about it being Sylar or Peter, then they go back to calling it “the bomb.” So which is it, a person blowing up, or a bomb blowing up? What was it about Linderman planning this whole thing? Doesn’t that suggest a bomb, and not a person, or is Linderman working off Isaac’s paintings? ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-4-30/402217/162 "2007-05-05T21:26:13Z")
Given that the person ends up exploding, the main defining trait of a bomb, it’s straightforward metonymy to refer to the person himself, in his exploding capacity, as “the bomb”. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-4-30/402217/163 "2007-05-05T21:57:12Z")
[QUOTE=Indistinguishable] Last edited by Indistinguishable : Today at 04:27 PM. Reason: Actually, you’ve misheard: Peter is just so cool, all his friends call him “da bomb” [/QUOTE] Actually, I think you’ve misheard. Up until his fight with Sylar, Peter’s friends called him “Da Bang.” ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-4-30/402217/164 "2007-05-06T01:27:23Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Actually, I think you’ve misheard. Up until his fight with Sylar, Peter’s friends called him “Da Bang.” [/QUOTE] Ye gods. That pun alone could kill three million people. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-4-30/402217/165 "2007-05-06T05:15:41Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Actually, I think you’ve misheard. Up until his fight with Sylar, Peter’s friends called him “Da Bang.” [/QUOTE] Heh - now I have to go listen to the Prince song of the same name. We’re not putting too much thought into the future stuff, are we? That was all what-if blue-skying, right? ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-4-30/402217/166 "2007-05-06T16:33:09Z")
[QUOTE=CaerieD] Mainly because they’ve written themselves into the corner that I’d been worrying about since Peter’s powers were first revealed. They’ve got a demi-god on their hands. When you can do anything, where’s the tension? And so to keep the tension they have to have Peter conveniently “forget” things he could do with his powers. [/QUOTE] That’s why I feel certain Peter’s not going to survive this season of the show. Possibly not Nathan either. They’ve so meticulously crafted Nathan’s morally conflicted interiority over the season that a heroic act of self-sacrifice would be the perfect end to his character arc. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heroes-4-30/402217.md?page=8)