Nathan Petrelli is the father of Claire Bennet and brother of Peter Petrelli. He possesses the power of self-propelled flight. He can fly at supersonic speeds. Nathan was mercilessly killed by Sylar. Sylar now believes he's Nathan because of a mindwipe, therefore carrying on his legacy and role as Senator.
Nathan was elected as a Congressman for New York but he resigned from Congress and his political carreer after saving his brother Peter Petrelli, from blowing up New York, but was severely scarred from radiation.
==Volume 2==
Four months after the incident in Kirby Plaza, Nathan had been mysteriously healed of his wounds, but he had became an alcoholic who sees his reflections as a severely injured monster who believes his brother Peter is dead and because of it he lashes out his at mother , Angela Petrelli calling her evil and kicking her out of Peter's apartment where he was using a his residence because of his divorce between him Heidi, who took away his two children Simon and Monty. After Angela is arrested under suspicion of the Kaito Nakamura death ,Maury Parkman attacks her mind causing her to attack herself while in an interrogation room, Nathan joins forces with Matt Parkman to help warn all twelve Company founders who were mostly all killed of by the murder of Kaito, Adam Monroe A.KA Takezo Kensei. After discovering his brother Peter is alive and has joined Adam Monroe in trying to stop a deadly virus from being released, but Adam really intended to release the fatal virus. After a brief debate about whos the villain in situation Peter tries to stop Adam by barely catching the virus vial. Nathan then decided its time for no more secrets and comes up with the idea to reveal to the world he has the ability to fly, but was interrupted by two bullets to his chest by an unknown assasin who does not every one in the world to know about evolved people.
==Volume 3==
After Nathan is shot in the chest he is rushed to the hospital and his condition is critical and he's on the verge of death. After being admitted in to the emergency room the surgeon's try to revive him but it is to late and they mark his death. After his brother Peter enters the room and tells him it was the only way and kisses him on the forehead. Nathan springs up alive. Nathan believes he saw god and believes he was resurrected to do his bidding for a greater good. Later that day Peter explains that he is not really who he say he is. He is actually a future version of Peter who came back to stop him from revealing the world to Evolved Humans. That night Nathan keeps seeing Linderman hanging around his room talkling to him even playing a game chest with him. The next day Nathan is visited by Tracy Strauss with proposition for him to step back in to the role of Senator. That night when he makes up his decision he calls up Tracy to tell her he gladly accepts. Linderman appeared to Nathan one night and told him to go save Tracy from committing suicide and he gets there right on time. When they returned to his office Tracy explains to him that she tried to kill herself because her power manifested and killed annoying news reporter by freezing him solid and shattering him. They both confide in each other about there powers and sleep together. The next morning Tracy tells Nathan how she got her powers from a doctor when she was just a baby, which causes Nathan want to go visit his mother who tells him he got his powers the same way, which causes him to develop a distate for his own mother. When he finds out that his father Arthur Petrelli still alive and he has taken Peter's powers away he is compelled to go see him out of anger. After a brief talk with him he finds Peter and they go to Haiti to find the Haitian to stop his father from giving everyone is the world powers. On there way Nathan loses his powers because of the second eclipse. He is later captured Baron Samedi the Haitian's impenetrable tyrant brother. After the eclipse is over everyone gets there powers back including the Haitian who is now able to shut down Samedi's powers destroy his mentality. That night Nathan chooses his father over his mother in giving everyone powers. When he joins his father he is informed that the super formula is almost completed and 50 marine test subjects are there by Tracy who went behind Nathan's back and joined Pinehearst as well. When his father returns with the key component to the formula to complete it he gives the first sample to marine he met earlier that day which gives the guy super strength. After finding out his father has been shot in the head by Sylar he is confronted by Peter who knocks him out cold. He is woken by the super strong marine who later has his neck snapped by Knox who says he's good guy now and is not letting Nathan leave until Peter destroys all of the formula. In a brief struggle Knox is frozen to death by Tracy who was trying to save Nathan. Nathan later fires her and procedes to the lab where his Peter and flame thrower Flint and Bugman Mohinder Suresh is at. He subdues Flint and Peter with a metal pole and continues to pound Peter until Flint regains consciousness and sets the lab on fire. Peter then grabs one last syringe filled with the superformula and flies him and Nathan out of the lab windows just before it explodes.
==Volume 4==
In the beginning of this season Nathan is in a car talking to thePresident of the United States about how Evolved Humans are dangerous and they must be caught, detained, and put into a facility where they can be no harm to the public. The President agrees and tells him he will get everything that he needs.
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| Super Name: | Nathan Petrelli |
| Real Name: | Nathan Petrelli |
| Aliases: |
Flying Man The Politican Senator Petrelli Congressman Petrelli Senator Skyboy |
| Publisher: | Wildstorm |
| Gender: | Male |
| Character Type: | Mutant |
| 1st Appearance: | # |
| Appears in: | 3 issues |
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