History Videogame / Prototype2

* BadassNormal: Mercer decides to transform Heller mainly because the Sergeant fought his way to the center of the Red Zone ''alone''. To put that further into perspective: the average military squad can barely to manage more than a single Hunter. Heller was able to kill one ''with only a combat knife''. That takes some serious skills.

* DoNotGoGentle: Heller may have been a DeathSeeker, but he was still aiming to kill as many infected as humanly possible. When armed with nothing but a combat knife, he goes after Mercer (who's leading him on), stabs a Hunter to death, and when being choked by Mercer's whip-fist his immediate response is to stab the hell out of Mercer's arm repeatedly.

* PlayingWithSyringes: The GENTEK motto, or it may as well be. One experiment they're running: what happens when you put a dozen or so people in an enclosed area and then drop a Hunter/Brawler in with them. (It turns out the civilians scream, panic, and get torn limb from limb. Important data!)

* TooDumbToLive: Rottweiler, who is easily the dumbest Blackwatch commander alive. He speaks ill of Heller's mother, specifically [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor trying to goad Heller into fighting him.]] His death comes quickly, [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown painfully]] and with much collateral damage to Blackwatch.

* LighterAndFluffier: Compared to the first one, that is. [[BlackAndWhiteMorality The shades of good and bad are more clear-cut,]] making it so that Heller is more of a SuperHero than Mercer. [[TrailersAlwaysLie Despite the saddest trailer since]] VideoGame/DeadIsland, [[AngstWhatAngst Heller seems to embrace his power without being hung up on his past]] and [[CursedWithAwesome have fun with them to the point where it looks like he's legitimately enjoying murdering thousands]], as opposed to Alex's constant (though not unjustified) doubts about the rightness of his actions and his humanity. And finally, the game [[spoiler: ends on a very triumphant note, and also sees him reuniting [[NeverFoundTheBody mysteriously-alive daughter.]]

* CursedWithAwesome: Heller. He initially pretty annoyed about being infected, but ''very quickly'' decides he likes the powers. He meets others like him who have similar feelings.

* DeathSeeker: Heller was trying to get himself killed when he fought his way into the Red Zone.

-->'''Other Scientist''': You might be over thinking this a bit.

* HiveMind: Mercer intends to create one under him.

* ImAHumanitarian: Much like Alex Mercer, Heller can consume any human or virus derived living thing to increase his power and gain their memories and abilities. Unlike Alex Mercer, Heller is ''very'' enthusiastic about this and cracks jokes about it constantly. He also retains his human identity. The other Evolved and Mercer retain the ability as well.

** [[spoiler: Alex Mercer was always an AntiHero with emphasis on "anti", but in this game, he's full-on megalomaniacal villain.]]

* LighterAndFluffier: Compared to the first one, that is. [[BlackAndWhiteMorality The shades of good and bad are more clear-cut,]] making it so that Heller is more of a SuperHero than Mercer. [[TrailersAlwaysLie Despite the saddest trailer since]] VideoGame/DeadIsland, [[AngstWhatAngst Heller seems to embrace his power without being hung up on his past]] and [[CursedWithAwesome have fun with it to the point where it looks like he's legitimately enjoying it]], as opposed to Alex's constant (though not unjustified) doubts about the rightness of his actions and his humanity. And finally, the game [[spoiler: ends on a very triumphant note, and [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments also ends with a touching reunion with his]] [[NeverFoundTheBody not-dead daughter.]] ]]

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: The Shield power can now [[CatchAndReturn deflect rockets]], even.
** And if you get the upgrade, using it even heals you.

* MirrorScare: Rooks, alone, hangs up a phone call only to discover a reflection of Heller in his phone's screen. But just as he turns to look Heller changed into Riley.

* MoralMyopia: The first Orion SuperSoldier you fight calls James evil for killing his friend when said person was most likely just another [[KickTheDog dog-punting]] SociopathicSoldier like so many Blackwatch men, and what's to say the Orion wasn't the same before his improvement? Heller's utter glee in murdering Blackwatch and GENTEK for being evil also comes across as a little gratuitous considering the panic and terror he sows in their ranks.

* PragmaticVillainy: Rooks decides to solve the Heller problem by [[spoiler:finding Heller's daughter and then giving her to him (while making Heller work for it to cover his bases). Heller himself said he was only trying to get his daughter back so Rooks reasons this will get Heller out of his hair]].

* ResearchInc: Gentek, we're not playing God, we're just doing His work.

* ScaryBlackMan: ''Jesus Christ, man...'' James Heller can be terrifying sometimes!

* SirSwearsAlot: Perhaps to his USMC background and his grudge against everyone else that isn't sincerely helping his goals, Heller really expresses himself with ClusterFBomb, sometimes to hilarious effect.
** It gets commented on during the final boss
-->'''[[spoiler:Alex Mercer]]:'''... You're a very crude person, aren't you?

* StartOfDarkness: The Creator/DarkHorseComics tie in mini-series' first part, ''The Anchor'', shows Alex's [[BerserkButton issues]] with people turning on each other and betrayal driving him further and further out of touch with humanity. By the end, Alex has decided humanity isn't ''worth'' protecting, even from himself...

'''Heller''': Alt? There's no fucking alt. I got a fucking squiggly line key, I got a fucking key with a triangle on it... what the fuck kind of keyboard is this anyway?\\

* CursedWithAwesome: Heller.

** Mercer's other lieutenants do not seem to view it as a curse, apparently.

** After his infection, Heller is captured by GENTEK. During the cutscene, a character speaks part of the Lord's Prayer while Heller is strapped to a very crucifix-looking examination table, because being infected by a virus that turns you into cannibalistic mutant makes you exactly like Jesus.

* GeniusBruiser: Mercer and [[spoiler: the Evolved]]. Heller quickly becomes this the more BrainFood he gets, but it's {{downplayed}} on the genius part for him.

* BlackAndGreyMorality: You're a rolling ball of blades that eats people. On the other hand, you're a lot better as a person than most of the people you eat. Interestingly, the trope is not invoked to as great an extent as the last game. Once the Blackwatch, while completely without mercy in their campaign to destroy the virus, had shades of TheExtremistWasRight. Pretty much all their screen-time here involves [[KickTheDog punting dogs]] [[ForTheEvulz just because]]. The leader of the Infected, [[spoiler: Alex Mercer]], in contrast to the alien indifference of Greene/MOTHER, is smug, cruel, and megalomaniacal. The protagonist begins driven by revenge for his family rather than revenge for himself. It's still hardly BlackAndWhiteMorality, but it's closer to it than the first game.

* ButThouMust: Radical said they were trying to give Heller more initiative compared to Mercer, who (due to being amnesiac) mostly just received missions from [=NPCs=] and came across as easily manipulated due to it. Heller, by contrast, gets [=NPCs=] to help him by...[[ShootEverythingThatMoves force of personality]], and often comes up with plans on his own, though usually in the form of "blow stuff up to draw out the target". It feels more like the [=NPCs=] are actually helping ''him'' instead of him being led around.

*** During chase scenes with Evolved, be aware that they will do this to slow you down.
** Several times, the nearest high-damage ranged weapon will be either a car, or a [[GrievousHarmWithABody hapless civilian or soldier]] that can be grabbed and lobbed at a target - extra damage if you infect them with a bio-bomb first.

** One promotional trailer invokes this trope by demonstrating what was already possible in the original game: Catching debris thrown by a Hydra and hurling it back.

* ChekhovsGun: Rooks' line when asked by Riley[[spoiler:/Heller]] about [[spoiler: Maya's location. Not exact, but: "I'd sit her down in a corner, give her a lolipop, and wait for Heller to come to me."]] The hidden meaning? [[spoiler: He isn't saying it with threatening intent. He has a wife and daughter of his own, and it's Heller's drive to save Maya that actually prompts Rooks to help him.]]

-->'''Blackwatch Soldier:''' (referring to the TOW) Shit, dude.

** After his infection, Heller is captured by GENTEK. During the cutscene, a character speaks part of the Lord's Prayer while Heller is strapped to a very crucifix-looking examination table.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: Unexpectedly, Colonel Rooks. After hearing Rooks' end of a conversation by phone with his spouse and daughter (mirroring Heller's "When are you coming home?" conversation from the prologue), he stops within ''inches'' of killing Rooks. It turns out to be a wise move: Rooks not only retrieves Maya after Heller thinks he's lost her, but he kills two of his own men (as detailed below) in the process of handing her over.]]

* GovernmentConspiracy: Suggested. A lategame cutscene has an agent from some government agency say that the plan to [[spoiler: vivisect Maya Heller]] gets approval from Washington. Where exactly is unknown; however, [[StateSec Blackwatch]] was said in the first game to be so high up you had to look down to see the POTUS. The fact that Rooks with all his authority considers tangling with them unwise says that the rabbit hole goes really far down.

** The game doesn't even try to justify why the Hunting ability can't track [[PlotArmor plot-relevant characters]] like Rooks and Maya. Heller just says he has no idea how it works and it's never mentioned again.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: Heller might've gotten his daughter safely and dealt with Mercer on his own terms or not at all if he had just been a little nicer to Galloway, instead of making it clear that he considered her disposable, refusing to trust her, constantly berating her, and driving her back to Mercer. Of course, Mercer would've sent another Evolved to kidnap Maya, or come himself, and Galloway might've gone to Mercer anyway, but alienating one's intelligence assets is almost ''always'' a bad idea.]]

* StealthPun: When Heller asks Mercer where [[spoiler: Maya]] is. Mercer's response is simply "Safe, for the moment." [[spoiler: It later turns out he locked her inside a bank vault...which is to say, a ''safe''.]].

* UnexplainedRecovery: A ComicRelief Blackwatch trooper named Starnes appears in multiple EnemyMine missions, all of which end with the soldiers turning hostile and attacking you (you don't ''have'' to kill them, but you probably will). Maybe they're just twins?

* AbortedArc: The foreshadowing from the original game that implies a confrontation between Alex Mercer and PARIAH [[{{Fauxshadow}} has no payoff]], as PARIAH is completely irrelevant to the plot of the sequel, and is never mentioned outside of a single FreezeFrameBonus on a Blackwatch document. Similarly, everyone just sort of forgets that [[spoiler:"Alex Mercer" is not actually the sociopathic Dr. Mercer but BLACKLIGHT in his body -- Dana, Heller, the Evolved and Alex himself all talk/act like he's just a human with unusual abilities who for no particular reason unleashed a horrible virus on New York, saved it from said horrible virus, then unleashed the virus again.]]

* HumansAreBastards: [[spoiler: As revealed in the comic tie-ins, Alex lost faith in humanity after the initial outbreak and traveled the world hoping to find reasons to believe in humans, only to become so disgusted by the selfishness and greed of mankind that he decided to remake the world with the Blacklight virus.

** Once Heller's meddling becomes more trouble than it's worth, [[spoiler:Mercer tries to consume him, only for Heller to instead consume Mercer's hand in the attempt.

* AbortedArc: The foreshadowing from the original game that implies a confrontation between Alex Mercer and PARIAH [[{{Fauxshadow}} has no payoff]], as PARIAH is completely irrelevant to the plot of the sequel, and is never mentioned outside of a single FreezeFrameBonus on a Blackwatch document.

* AngryBlackMan: [[TitleTheAdaptation The Game]]. James Heller is on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge to avenge his wife and daughter, and no-one is safe.

* AntiHero: Heller. At one point, Roland, one of the GENTEK scientists [[spoiler: and an Evolved working for Mercer]] mocks Heller for thinking he's a hero who is willing to kill thousands to get at him. Heller's response is "Did I say I was a fucking hero, you piece of shit?!" That said, Heller is still ''heroic'' in his own way; many of the missions he takes on involve stopping Blackwatch and GENTEK's sadistic experiments involving innocents, or at least ripping those responsible into tiny pieces.
* ApocalypticLog: Some of the Blackboxes are records of KickTheDog moments. The others are these.

* ArtShift: many cut scenes, including the opening, once again use stylized real-life photos instead of the in-game engine.

* BlackAndGreyMorality: You're basically a rolling ball of blades that eats people. On the other hand, you're a lot better as a person than most of the people you eat.
** Interestingly, the trope is not invoked to as great an extent as the last game. Once the Blackwatch, while vicious and completely without mercy in their campaign to destroy the virus, had shades of TheExtremistWasRight. Pretty much all their screen-time here involves [[KickTheDog punting dogs]] [[ForTheEvulz just because]]. The leader of the Infected, [[spoiler: Alex Mercer]], in contrast to Greene, is smug, cruel, and megalomaniacal rather than simply [[AxCrazy insane]]. The protagonist, on the other hand, has sympathetic motives. It's still hardly BlackAndWhiteMorality, but it's closer to it than the first game.

* BloodKnight: Blackwatch is full of them. One even admits to Koenig that the main reason he joined Blackwatch was to shoot people, and was disappointed he was instead shooting mutated populace.

* ButThouMust: Radical said they were trying to give Heller more initiative compared to Mercer, who mostly just received missions from [=NPCs=]. Heller, by contrast, gets [=NPCs=] to help him by...[[ShootEverythingThatMoves force of personality]], and otherwise has a lot more initiative than Mercer. It feels more like the [=NPCs=] are actually ''helping'' him instead of just being quest-dispensers.

* CrucifiedHeroShot: The bed Heller is strapped to after being infected has a pair of smaller tables that hold his arms out to the side.

* DeadlyLunge: My oh my, a handful of new foes WILL try this on you. [[PressXToNotDie Better be quick on upon the dodge prompt.]]
** Oh, you can also do the same.

** Not to mention that he was a solid badass even before being infected. If you pay close attention to the intro cinematic - it's difficult, between gray letters on a white background and the brief time it's onscreen this is very easy to miss - but Heller had been awarded a Purple Heart and a Silver Star while in Iraq. Then he proceeds to cut Alex Mercer's throat and actually last more than a few seconds in hand-to-hand combat with a HumanoidAbomination that had moments before tossed the remains of his [=APC=] to one side like it was a toy chair. It only gets more awesome from there.

** [[spoiler: Rooks doesn't like Heller at all, but he ''shoots his own men'' to cover for him to try to escape NYZ with his daughter if he leaves [[EvilArmy BlackWatch]] alone.]]

* EvilCounterpart: [[RogueProtagonist Guess who?]]

* FaceHeelTurn: Alex apparently. He wasn't impressed with what he saw of humanity between games.

** Though this is due to the fact that if you notice, the game starts off as if you have not completed the last mission. This clearly seen that there are still infected running around, despite the fact a CutscenePowerToTheMax showed him eliminating all of them.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Using Claws / Blade / Whipfist on any enemy will result in this. The Flesh Cleaver bonus reward also does this automatically human enemies.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler: Alex Mercer, as his sister Dana makes clear, during the video sequence that plays after Heller consumes him.]]

* HumansAreBastards: [[spoiler: As revealed in the comic tie-ins, Alex lost faith in humanity after the initial outbreak and traveled the world hoping to find reasons to believe in humans, only to become so disgusted by the selfishness and greed of mankind that he decided to remake the world with the Blacklight virus.]]
* IllPretendIDidntHearThat: Heller says this to Galloway when she orders him to stop Operation Firehawk "''Before anyone '''important''' is hurt.''"
* ImAHumanitarian: Sort of, like Mercer. Applies mostly to [[spoiler: Mercer and the Evolved]] rather than humanity, actually.

* InstantExpert: In addition to Heller's Marine skills, he can further improve his weapon abilities by acquiring the relevant BrainFood.
** Actually averted at one point. Despite Heller just having consumed a scientist, he could not operate the man's computer without help.

** "A heart a day keeps [[spoiler: Alex Mercer]] away." That means if you thought he was on your side early in the game...

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Blackwatch in the first game, under Randall, was at least attempting to contain the infection, if in a brutal, violent, and ruthless manner. By this timeframe, they've reached the point where they're deliberately kidnapping civilians just so GENTEK scientists can run "experiments" on them involving throwing Infected beasts at them and watching them get shredded. Dialogue from the Blackboxes also further underscores Blackwatch's expanding psychopathy, including a recording of a Blackwatch soldier shooting an autistic boy because he wouldn't speak, another Blackwatch soldier shooting a woman immediately after warning her he was authorized to use lethal force if she didn't step back, an officer threatening to discharge another Blackwatch trooper for ''saving a woman from being raped'', a recording from Colonel Rooks explicitly stating that it isn't their responsibility to police the refugees even when they start killing each other, and an officer berating a subordinate for shooting an entire family ''because he was wasting ammo''.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Rooks. He's the commanding officer of Blackwatch, who engage in dog-kicking left and right throughout the game, and who can be heard on audiologs berating a subordinate for ''preventing a woman from being assaulted and/or raped'' and ''letting botulism contaminated food be distributed to the civilian population''. Heller spares his life because he overhears Rooks talking to his daughter. He does shoot his own men to let Heller get his daughter, but it's not clear whether it's a HeelFaceTurn or he just wants Heller to take Maya and stop interfering with his plans.]]

* LighterAndFluffier: Compared to the first one, that is. [[BlackAndWhiteMorality The shades of good and bad are more clear-cut,]] making it so that Heller is more of a SuperHero than Mercer. [[TrailersAlwaysLie Despite the saddest trailer since]] VideoGame/DeadIsland, [[AngstWhatAngst Heller seems to embrace his power without being hung up on his past]] and [[CursedWithAwesome have fun with it to the point where it looks like he's legitimately enjoying it]], as opposed to Alex's constant (though not unjustified) {{Wangst}}. And finally, the game [[spoiler: ends on a very triumphant note, and [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments also ends with a touching reunion with his]] [[NeverFoundTheBody not-dead daughter.]] ]]
* LightningBruiser: Orion soldiers, Brawlers, Evolved, Mercer, Heller... all of them pack some serious clout in the melee department at the very least and are extremely agile.
** Goliaths are the largest enemies in the entire game, but are surprising fast and agile.

* MaleGaze: In the scene where Heller first meets Sabrina Galloway, she bends over to show Heller something on a computer, and we are treated to a gratuitous shot of her "bony ass".

* MookChivalry: Is Heller on the phone? Expect nearby enemies to just linger around until after Heller hangs up.
** Compared to the first game, you can now consume minor enemies without getting interrupted.

* MoralityPet: [[BadassPreacher Father Guerra]] and [[spoiler: Dana Mercer after Guerra is killed by Alex.]]

* MoralMyopia: The first Orion SuperSoldier you fight calls James evil for killing his friend when said person was most likely just another [[KickTheDog dog-punting]] SociopathicSoldier like so many Blackwatch men, and what's to say the Orion wasn't the same before his improvement?

* OhCrap: The standard response on just about ''everyone''s part when they realize Heller is coming after them, save for [[spoiler: the Evolved]].
** Actually the Bio Bomb Evolved has an OhCrap moment when he spots Heller.
** Heller gets one as well when he is about to fight [[spoiler: Mercer]].

** Even some [[EvilArmy BlackWatch]] troops get this in the Audio devices. One has it to where he is getting awarded for his bravery in the field, another has it to where he was talking with a psychiatrist over having to kill people for the first time to protect his friend from a vicious mob, and even one where they stopped a [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape in progress]].

* PowerCopying: How Heller obtains his powers. Two of them are acquired by defeating specifically villainous enemies.
** Additionally, an upgrade for an existing power is based off a villain who can counter-attack in a similar fashion.

* PressXToNotDie: Entirely Optional. To even demonstrate that is one of the options stating to cancel (or dismount) it.

* PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo
* ProtectionMission: Like the dude in a crashed helicopter that even Juggernauts and Brawlers [[GameplayAndStorySegregation suddenly need considerable effort to wear down]].
** Any fight involving a Goliath turns into this; you have to kill it before it can destroy a given target.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: This to the point where even some troops of [[EvilArmy BlackWatch]] stopped one from happening.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler: Dr. Koenig]] shoots this right when Heller catches him. First time playing this through a player can't help but have an OhCrap expression when they see this.
** [[spoiler: Mercer gets these after he consumes his Evolved and is about to fight Heller]].

* RuleOfCool: A massive lot of what Heller can do is simply because it looks and plays like a satisfying meal. That means ignoring many rules and laws of real-world physics.

-->'''Alex Mercer''': And for God's sake, man, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments put some fucking clothes on.]]

---> '''Soldier''': "Holy fuck! RC, are you seein' this?!"
---> '''Red Crown''': "Stand by for orders."
---> '''Soldier''': ''"Stand by?!'' This thing's tearing up a whole city block!"
---> '''Red Crown''': "Stand by for orders."
---> '''Soldier''': "What am I supposed to ''do'', Red Crown?!"
---> '''Red Crown''': "Identify classification of infected."
---> '''Soldier''': [[AtomicFBomb "IT'S FUCKING GODZILLA!"]]
---> '''Red Crown''' [[BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible "...Stand by for orders."]]

-->'''Heller''': "Hell fuckin' yeah."

** In an inversion in the same fight, due to a total lack of things to consume, [[WhosLaughingNow so can Heller]] [[spoiler:an exception would be when fighting Mercer on Insanity mode]].

* MoreDakka: Compared to the first game, the tanks are now equipped with a [[GatlingGood multi-barrelled secondary weapon]].

* NoSell: Using a TOW launcher on the phase 2 Orion Soldier will result in the rockets just bouncing off.

* OffWithHisHead: Brawlers, Goliaths, Super Soldiers, and Juggernauts(while using Claws) can suffer this fate when Heller consumes them.

* AuraVision: The Viral Sonar (as Heller puts it) reveals who is being watched and who is not.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The dialogue in this game is much more melodramatic and foulmouthed than the previous game

* DeathByRacism

* [[spoiler: DevourTheDragon: Alex does this to increase his strength against the final fight. It doesn't stop Heller from killing him.]]

* WantedMeter

* SwissArmyHero
* TacticalRockPaperScissors: The final battle with [[spoiler: Alex]] has shades of this: using the wrong kind of weapon on him and it'll just bounce off, using his current weapon gets you countered automatically, while using the right one ([[spoiler: the one he was just using]]) tends to stun him more effectively than other weapons.

* TimedMission: Those that involve retrieving scattered artefacts.

* LighterAndFluffier: Compared to the first one, that is. [[BlackAndWhiteMorality The shades of good and bad are more clear-cut,]] making it so that Heller is more of a SuperHero than Mercer. [[TrailersAlwaysLie Despite the saddest trailer since]] VideoGame/DeadIsland, [[AngstWhatAngst Heller seems to embrace his power without being hung up on his past]] and [[CursedWithAwesome have fun with it to the point where it looks like he's legitimately enjoying it]], as opposed to Alex's constant (though not unjustified) {{Wangst}}. And finally, the game [[spoiler: ends on a very triumphant note, and [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming also ends with a touching reunion with his]] [[NeverFoundTheBody not-dead daughter.]] ]]

-->'''Alex Mercer''': And for God's sake, man, [[FunnyMoments put some fucking clothes on.]]

** The Infected skins from the ''[[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120516222211/prototype/images/1/1e/P2_Infected_Heller_skin.jpg Colossal Mayhem]]'' and ''[[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120516221556/prototype/images/5/59/P2_Infected_Alex_DLC_fr_bc.jpg Excessive Force]]'' DLC packs are insanely gruesome.

** It's taken up to eleven later in the game, where Red Crown will be completely flummoxed and give out bizarre and generally uesless orders. Assuming she doesn't simply tell the troops to "Stand by for orders" as they get slaughtered by giant monsters. This has led fans to speculate that she might be an AI.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Most of the cutscenes are entirely in black and white with a [[SplashOfColor splash of primary color]] (such as red blood, blue back-lit screens, yellow flames) here and there. Think ''SinCity'', but with an even more limited palette, which is also used when Heller is low on health. Viral powers are always highlighted when in use.

** The trophy/achievement for unlocking the [[WolverineClaws Claw]] power is [[CrocodileDundee This Is A Knife]].

* AscendedMeme: The flying kick from PennyArcade is mentioned no less than three times, once in the opening when Alex kicks a chopper in the same fashion as in the comic, the second being one of Heller's new finishers which is compared to it, and the third for doing the standard one, which gets you the "arcade action" trophy.

** One of the achievements is called "Arcade Action" which is awarded by [[PennyArcade karate kicking a helicopter.]] Made particularly obvious by the icon for the achievement being a shillouete version of the strip in question.

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: The controls for glide and air dash have been swapped around from what they were in the first game. The charge-jumping present in the previous game and TheIncredibleHulkUltimateDestruction[[note]]For the [=PS2=] version of ''Hulk'' which uses the same basic PS controller[[/note]] has also been swapped for the far more common variety where holding jump causes Heller to keep ascending until he hits the apex or you release the button. Dodging is also now performed by quickly tapping the jump button and stealth consuming is done by default by just grabbing someone while undetected, which has an unfortunate side effect of blowing your cover both by accidentally pressing one of the shoulder buttons required to stealth consume in the previous game via having Heller ditch his disguise and raise his shields, as well as trying to grab someone too close to a throwable object which causes him to lift it up instead.

* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: Compared to ''TheIncredibleHulkUltimateDestruction'', ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'''s [[{{Pun}} prototype]], where the Hulk is a product of radiation.

* ImprovisedWeapon: Borrowing a move from this game's grandaddy, ''TheIncredibleHulkUltimateDestruction,'' Heller is able to rip missile turrets and miniguns off of tanks and helicopters and fire them ''manually.''

* FlockOfWolves: The grand total of Gentek/Blackwatch high ups you meet who ''don't'' work for Mercer is '''two'''. [[FromBadToWorse And then you consume and imitate one of them]].