However, Flint's former business partner, Zurich , wanted the lands around Flint's lumber mill, and when it became clear that Flint would not sell, Zurich sent two thugs to kill him and Autumn. However, Mercer killed the thugs and decided to deal with Zurich himself. Realizing that he had developed feelings for Autumn, Mercer infiltrated Zurich's base and consumed him, discovering through his memories that Flint was once a criminal involved in many murders and extortions.
Enraged and disappointed, Mercer returned to Flint's cabin and, despite Flint's insistence that he had left his past behind, killed him. Still in disguise as Jack, Mercer returned to his cabin to find Autumn there and attempted to convince her to come with him, only to discover that Autumn had stolen his money.
Autumn promptly shot Mercer in the face and revealed that her father had taught her better and that she cared about herself above anything else. To her surprise, however, Mercer regenerated and consumed her, finally deciding once and for all that humanity was worthless and that it was his duty to destroy them and usher in a new and better world. Taking up residence within the city's Red Zone , Mercer proceeded to create several Evolved to infiltrate both Blackwatch and Gentek in order to destroy both, having one of them contaminate a newfound cure for the virus with his blood so as to transform even more people into infected.
There he met the man who would be his undoing, James Heller. The car struck it, flipped it violently out of control leaving Heller as the only survivor. Mercer then lured Heller further into the Red Zone until a helicopter arrived to pick up Heller. Mercer, hiding in a ruin, jumped out and destroyed the helicopter. Shortly after; Mercer sent a Goliath on Heller and oversaw him escape the creature.
Presumably to study Heller's athletic talent. After Heller managed to find cover behind a destroyed ruin, a Brawler pounced on on him, only to be killed by the Sergeant as Mercer watched.
Seeing Heller's potential, Alex infected Heller with his own virus. After this, Mercer vanished and Heller was taken by Blackwatch.
After he broke out of the lab, Mercer confronted Heller and tried to convince him to fight Blackwatch and Gentek while claiming that he wasn't responsible for Heller's family's death. Eventually, Heller discovered Mercer's plans and found the evidence that it was indeed Mercer who released the virus once more. Over time due to Heller ruining all of his plans, Mercer confronted Heller and attempted to kill him, though ultimately failing, and fled the scene, distracting Heller by sending a Goliath to release the Whitelight while he went to kill Heller's friend Luis Guerra.
Dana Mercer joined James Heller on his quest and the two of them managed to discover that Maya, Heller's daughter, was alive but locked up. Mercer then took Dana and Maya and locked them both in a bank vault. Before leaving, Dana told Mercer, that her real brother was dead. Mercer claimed he was now beyond Life and Death, as was Heller.
Heller demanded that Mercer give him his daughter back, but Alex scoffed and spoke of his plans to make more Evolved and replace mankind as he sought to do. Heller finally faced Mercer after the latter consumed his Evolved, including Sabrina Galloway, to become stronger and faster. Alex was able to regenerate from the wounds caused by Heller, even mocking him. But after several repeated major injuries, Mercer was beginning to weaken.
Defeated, but unconcerned by his impending death, Mercer welcomed Heller "to the top of the food chain" with a bemused tone immediately before Heller consumed him and gained a memory from him.
Heller, having become extremely powerful as a result, used an expansive mass of tendrils to destroy all the infected citizens in the surrounding area, saving Manhattan from the "Mercer" virus in the process. However, Heller appears to consume Mercer after a series of dismembering Mercer's limbs.
As seen in the first installment, Mercer has the ability to regenerate his entire person from a small sample of genetic material, depending on if the tissue sample comes in contact with a living organism. Therefore, Mercer has the potential to still be active but was seen defeated as a final event in Prototype 2. Once reanimated by the Blacklight virus, every particle of Mercer's form, including his clothing and equipment, becomes comprised entirely of viral biomass.
This substance can be manipulated at will. He can absorb the organic matter of other living creatures, converting it into more biomass. This process sustains and regenerates Mercer's health and is referred to as 'consuming'. In addition, Mercer can consume individuals, absorbing their knowledge, skills, and even their physical form, which he can call upon at will.
He can manipulate his physical form to create weapons to attack his enemies, generate armor to defend himself, and take on the appearance of another person to disguise himself. During his battle against James Heller, he displayed the ability to consume multiple of his Evolved soldiers at the same time in order to power up his abilities. Alex's shapeshifting powers grant him superhuman physical abilities well beyond that of a normal Human.
Sentient Biomass Physiology: After being infected by the Blacklight Virus, Mercer's body was converted into living biomass that carried the same Virus' very consciousness where it believed itself to be the amnesiac real Mercer until discovering the truth, an inversion to James Heller 's case where he still alive and even in control of his converted body thanks to his resilient DNA.
Mercer can form his biomass into a variety of weapons, mostly slicing or crushing tools. In combat, he either uses biomass to create various blades and clubs. Mercer can use two defensive powers, guarding him against enemy attacks and weapons. Mercer has two forms of defense, the Armor, and the Shield. Mercer has the ability to assume the physical form of any human he's consumed, though, for gameplay purposes, the player is limited to the last human they consumed.
In this manner, Mercer can infiltrate the military as one of them, duck out of sight and emerge as someone else to evade pursuit, and in general, avoid drawing attention by disguising himself as someone else. Alex can manipulate the Blacklight virus inside him for his own advantage such as instantly killing anyone in his immediate vicinity through viral gas or controlling the blacklight virus to create infected entities like that of the Redlight virus , a feat that is explored in Prototype 2.
In stark contrast of James Heller who utilizes this quirk offensively, Alex utilizes his Infection Power to spread the virus' various strains from either infecting others to affect the environment around him. Since he also consumed Elizabeth green and became the center of the hivemind it is safe to preume he can utilize the Redlight virus.
It is to be noted that Blacklight virus is an engineered and genetically modified version of the Redlight virus that was created to be vastly more powerful than that of its predecessor and has more potential and adaptability compared to its parent.
The Prototype Alex Mercer inherited much of his human self's personality, most notably his sociopathic and paranoid side. As with Dr. Mercer, he rarely takes human cost into account as shown throughout his journey to learn about his true identity, being able to murder scores of humans without remorse or hesitation.
The Prototype also inherited Dr. Mercer's deep emotional attachment towards Dana and Karen, leading him to seek their assistance in order to figure out what truly happened. Since Mercer believed himself and his creator Dr. Mercer are one in the same and even unknowingly behaved like the latter, neither of them suspected something off in him. However, Mercer changed after discovering that he is in fact, an entity born from Blacklight virus-infected corpse of the real Dr. Mercer and he had unknowingly masquerading his creator since the day he awakened at the morgue, leading him developing an identity crisis.
Putting that aside at first for the sake of stopping the first outbreak, it became apparent after the deed was done, since he didn't return to his human self's sister and opted to set out for soul-searching instead. At that point, he was uncertain whether he could fit in with humanity since he had stolen the identity of his creator.
Unfortunately, after repeated betrayals and mishaps during his time away from NYZ after the initial outbreak, Mercer's worldview became increasingly cynical and nihilistic.
He decided that stopping the outbreak was a mistake and started a new one himself to usher in a new race; he claimed he was making a better world by doing so. In his new role as the leader of the Infected, Alex pursued his goal of spreading the virus in a far more active and aggressive manner than Elizabeth Greene ever did, even inserting spies within both Blackwatch and Gentek and using their resources and scientists to do so.
Because he still retained his feelings for Dana, however, he opted to lock her instead when she turned against him. He was visibly hurt when Dana stated that "the Alex I knew died a long time ago", before eventually responded by said "I'm beyond life and death", leading her to realize her brother indeed gone on the day Blackwatch operatives executed him back then yet a surviving sliver of him became one with the virus who possessed his body and initially believed it to be its creator until discovering the truth.
While the virus itself can take anybody's form through consumption, in its typical form it looks identical to the deceased Gentek scientist Alex Mercer due to the Blacklight Virus recreating Mercer's body down to the genetic level. Appearance-wise, he is greatly identical to his human self Dr. Mercer albeit with paler skin tone due to Blacklight virus infection as well as having a sickly gray tinting around the eyes.
The same goes to the latter's attire that he wore in his last moments along with plain blue jeans and black shoes; a button-up white shirt with a protruding collar kept partially buttoned, a plain gray hoodie, and a black leather jacket with a red interior, two horizontal white lines on each sleeve, and a red tribal design on the back. It must be noted however that said attire was Biomass -based construct and cannot be removed unless he shapeshifts since it was part of his very anatomy.
In Prototype 2 , when Mercer uses any of his Offensive Powers, his veins glow bright orange unlike the full black coloring in the first game. During his final battle with Heller, after he absorbed Sabrina Galloway and the other Evolved, Mercer's slender appearance changed into a muscular-sized build and he grew somewhat taller, his claws are always out throughout his fight with Heller, and both of his irises glow crimson red, as a result of his enhanced power.
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However, due to being consumed by the Blacklight Virus, Mercer eventually lost his faith in humanity and intended on infecting all of mankind, ultimately becoming the archenemy of James Heller, the main protagonist of the second game, who seeks to kill him for causing the death of his wife and daughter. Activision has shut down Radical Entertainment — the Vancouver-based studio behind the Prototype series. As reported by GameInformer, the finger of blame was pointed at lackluster sales of the open world action franchise.
Type of Villain James Heller is the main protagonist of the videogame Prototype 2. He was infected with Blacklight Virus by Alex Mercer. The Blacklight virus, dubbed now as the Mercer Virus by the general public, is an evolutionary chimeric mutation-causing infectious agent that can reproduce only inside the living cells of other biological organisms. However, since Mercer can regenerate completely as long as a little cell is left over, he lets Heller win.
Electricity: Alex can be locked into place by electricity. Needs Biomass to increase his stats: His powers will be completely ineffective against people if he has a small amount of biomass.
He also needs it to regenerate. After awaking at a Gentek facility with no recollection of his past, Alex Mercer escaped the building, and soon discovered his new powers and abilities, granted by the virus he unleashed….
Prototype 2 indicates Heller can absorb some traits, but not with perfect replication of powers. As a virus His body is shown being brought to Gentek for dissection. The virus, having merged with his body, became an independent being based on Alex, codenamed Zeus. Some argue that the first had a better story and that Alex was a more interesting protagonist, though — but overall the second one wins hands down.
Prototype is the fan-term used to describe individuals who have been infected by the DX C strain of the Blacklight virus. Alex literally gave Heller a piece of himself. There are no reasons why their bodies cannot meld together or consume each other.
Either that, or they could be two viruses in the same body fighting against each other. Showing 1 - 8 of 8 comments. Famix View Profile View Posts. Sapphire View Profile View Posts. Give him the whole jar. Originally posted by Sapphire :. Zanzkebar View Profile View Posts.
Very interesting hypothesis, just a shame that we're likely never going to get a Prototype 3 to potentially see it realised. Let me just make the first thing clear: Alex's victims don't remain concious in him, he just hears their memories and acquires their abilities, which he later uses. Him and Dana talking about how he hears them is just for the story's sake, to sound cool. They pretty much die and Alex uses what's left of them. As for why Heller doesn't ''hear'' them as well, swears all the time and is just annoying as a character, is Radical's fault.
Hell, they could have made James likeable. Remember how mysterious and awesome the Blackwatch were? Frightening, elite soldiers, many psychotic, as shown in the Web of Intrigue Marines talking about them was ust like the Wehrmacht soldiers talking about the SS, during the days of the Third Reich. Maybe it was corruption after Randall's death, but they don't explain it, which is poor story writing. Back to the topic, sorry. Yes, they decided not to keep the intriguing story parts from P1, even though the fans were theorising and talking about them.
I understand Alex's change of heart, but considering Radical's incompetence, they probably really killed him, just like they threw away the important story bits from P1. I really supported them, once, when I still thought the P2's story was somewhat good. The one and only time I prayed was for Radical to make P3 and bring Mercer back ha, ha.
That's how desperate and depressed I was. Our theories, which are more logical than the developer's thinking, don't matter anymore.
Radical Enterainment's out. They paid for their mistakes and we're left to pretend that disaster of a sequel never happened. It's still fun to talk about it, eh. I actually don't think James is that bad. He's funny to me; in an outrageous, over the top comic book character kind of way. And if you try hard enough, you can find the explanations for why he feels the way he feels, says what he says.
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