Maya Herrera

Maya Herrera
Heroes character
Dania Ramirez as Maya Herrera
First appearance	"Four Months Later..."
Last appearance	"The Eclipse, Part 2"
Portrayed by	Dania Ramirez
Information
Ability	Poison emission (removed by Arthur Petrelli in Volume Three)

Maya Herrera is a fictional character in the NBC drama Heroes, portrayed by Dania Ramirez. Her first on-screen appearance was in the episode "Four Months Later...", though the character was featured earlier in the graphic novel "Maya y Alejandro".

Maya and her twin brother Alejandro are fugitives wanted for murder. In "Four Months Ago...", it is revealed she killed all of the people who attended her brother's wedding, except Alejandro, with her power. This happened when Maya discovered the bride was having an affair with a former lover, and the man threatened her, causing enough stress to activate her powers in her native Dominican Republic. She then became a nun and went to a convent in Venezuela to pray for God to help her. However, her brother found her and brought the police. Again stressed at the possibility of imprisonment, her power activated, but Alejandro, using his own power, stopped the damage and fled with her.

After discovering Chandra Suresh's book, they decided to go to New York City to find him, not knowing of his death. When Alejandro was kicked out of one transport they found, it results in the death of the occupants.

In "Lizards", Maya and Alejandro make it to the Guatemala-Mexico border where they meet with Nidia, a woman who they knew in their childhood and who arranged for them to sneak across the border. While resting at Nidia's, an unnamed curandera tells Maya that she is cursed with a horrible, incurable darkness, which she says could even kill the Devil; the healer then runs away in fear. While crossing the border, Alejandro gets separated from Nidia and Maya, who both make it across. Maya accidentally uses her power on Nidia, but Alejandro comes back in time to halt the effect allowing Nidia to recover. Nidia then runs away, saying that the twins are cursed, leaving the pair alone in Mexico.