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And you thought Sylar was a mean bad guy!

According to Tim Kring, the main creative force behind the NBC show "Heroes," new villains are on the way that may make you forget Sylar.

Talking about the show's upcoming second season, Kring told reporters in a recent interview, "We're doing 11 episodes in a row that start on Monday, Sept. 24. And somewhere in that run of episodes we're going to introduce a very scary villain."

If you thought brain-eating, power-absorbing Sylar was fearsome, Kring said he may seem "tame" by comparison.

In fact, clues have already been laid for at least one of the new baddies.

"At the end of last season we gave in the season finale a premonition of someone who is a very scary villain out there, who has invaded the dreams and nightmares of this character on our show named Molly Walker, who can locate people just by thinking about them," Kring said. "We teased the idea that there was another villain out there. And the audience can expect to see him somewhere in the first run of episodes."

"Heroes" flies into new episodes starting Monday, Sept. 24, at 9 p.m.

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