History WMG / Prototype

*** Physically, Alex is very powerful, but actually no more so than a lot of middle-tier superheroes - Franchise/{{Superman}} could probably take him to school, for instance. Also, threats don't have to be lone supervillains; they can be conspiracies, impersonal forces, natural disasters, all kinds of things. And [[NinetiesAntiHero Nineties Anti Heroes]] often have no worse an enemy than ''themselves'' - which goes particularly for Alex, a creatures whose goals in-game, protecting humans and destroying the infection, run contrary to his very nature. ''He has ten thousand voices in his head continuously screaming in agony''. If you can't make a plot out of that, you just ain't trying.

And Alex is Franchise/{{Superman}}. Take a look at [[http://comics.ign.com/articles/111/1117734p1.html another alternate DCU]], and tell me you don't see the similarities.

It explains why, when Alex is leaping over buildings, Marines say "Fucking New York!". They've probably seen footage of Franchise/SpiderMan, [[Series/{{Heroes}} Peter Petrelli]], or any other New York-based superhero. As for why said superheroes never show up, they're either dead or in hiding.

[[WMG: PARIAH is [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]].]]

* So all those crossover FanFics between Prototype and Franchise/AssassinsCreed that have Mercer and Desmond getting together mean they're having [[KissingCousins a vaguely incestual relationship]]? And I do mean vaguely, considering [[spoiler:Mercer's not even human]].

[[WMG: Dr. Challus Mercer from ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' is related to Alex Mercer [[spoiler:the original]]]]
Apart from the surname, both of them are involved in research to turn normal people into monsters. Maybe Alex left a secured log that would be found and decrypted a long time later by a distant descendant The Hunter regenerator is merely a stepping stone in Challus's attempt to recreate the powers of Alex Mercer [[spoiler:the player character]]. It would be... fascinating if the TrueFinalBoss of the ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' sequel was a CaptainErsatz of Alex Mercer [[spoiler:the player character]]. [[GodModeSue Oh wait]], [[OhCrap crap.]]

* However, [[BadassBookworm Isaac Clarke]] is pretty capable of [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punching out Cthulhu]]. The battle could go either way. As for the theory; both Mercers do share a disregard for even basic human decency, so it may be possible Challus is [[spoiler:real, non Virus]] Alex's great-great-great-etc-grandson, assuming sociopathy ForScience is a genetic trait.

** Or, the Blacklight virus was engineered based on Uroboros recovered from [[spoiler:Wesker's body after the FinalBoss fight of [=RE5=].]]

* No, it doesn't fit, at the time of NY outbreak [[spoiler:Wesker's still alive, well and hiding]] and Uroboros isn't done yet. Anyway, they are from different uneverses, otherwise the fight between Mercer and Chris (who became a worcaholic after [[spoiler:Jill's death]]) would be inevitable and one of them would be killed in it before Prototype2 and [=RE5=] - temporal paradox, people.

With the theory that Alex Mercer is the Beast, why not? They don't tell you about Cole's past. He could be a 'recovering amnesiac' and not know of his past as a test subject who somehow escapes. And since he stopped using his naturally born abilities due to it, they began to wither away (apart from the ones that can't be explained by electricity, perhaps, such as his enhanced endurance and impact falling), before getting a jump-start via the Ray Sphere, [[spoiler:or in Kessler's case, figuring them out at some point (explains how he got his abilities in the future).]] The main problem with the theory is that from what has been seen, the virus' abilities have been biological. But since Pariah was suppose to be the 'next step', electricity may well be Humanity's next evolution!

* ...That has to be one of the best ideas I've heard, excellent! That probably means, however, that in [[spoiler:Kessler's time, Mercer was killed before they could team up]]. Doesn't explain some of Cole's abnormalities. But hey, there are other explanations...

* That's not a "theory", that's pretty much canon. During one of the cutscenes, [[spoiler:the soldier Alex is talking with, who we later discover is Specialist Cross, who we later discover is the Supreme Hunter]] even says something in the lines of "A sentient cancer parasite. Do you have any idea how he felt being torn away from his host?". Mutant parasitic cancerous vengeful biological abomination with daddy issues? Yeah...

Cross repeatedly shows that he can fight on even terms with Alex, yet is presented as a normal human (albeit with years of military training and the best equipment the military can give him), which seems a stretch, given that Alex could easily crush normal humans with 1 or 2 blows, regardless of armour (Alex can crush tanks, what makes the military think any kind of personnel armour would stand a chance?). However, if Cross is Pariah, it explains a) what happened to Pariah: Blackwatch kept him and raised him as a son b) how Cross is capable of fighting Alex on even terms (he's got a similar virus boosting his abilities) and c) [[spoiler:Cross becoming the Supreme Hunter: during Cross's last stand, his Redlight powers awaken, and starts fighting like Alex to survive. However, consuming that many Infected causes Cross to connect to the Redlight hivemind, and he fills in the blanks as to his past and what Blackwatch did to his mother, thus causing him to betray Blackwatch, and willingly consume the Supreme Hunter (or possibly let himself be consumed by the Supreme Hunter, though it seems unlikely that Elizabeth would let her only son be consumed by the Supreme Hunter).]]

[[WMG:The FinalBoss of Prototype 2 will turn out to be [[spoiler:Dana]]]]
Maybe [[spoiler:Dana]] was too horrified by Alex's true nature or [[spoiler:found out that he wasn't really her brother]], and decided to work with the government against him. Or maybe [[spoiler:she was infected in the first game]] and so has joined forces with [[spoiler:Pariah]] to fight Alex. Either way, Alex will be forced to kill [[spoiler:Dana, the only person he ever really cared about in his existence]]. The loss and betrayal of his MoralityChain will lead to Alex's true StartOfDarkness. Then he will embark on a path of destruction across the globe that, in one timeline, claimed Cole Macgrath's wife [[spoiler:which will lead him to become Kessler]], and cause people to name Alex [[spoiler:The Beast]].

* More like he becomes New York's Manga/{{Guyver}}. Powerful, destructive, [[spoiler:inhuman]], and capable of killing hordes without a thought, yet [[EvilVersusEvil still better than the alternative]].
** Come on, you know [[spoiler:Blacklight]] would make an awesome codename.

Well, the Armor upgrade looks like G1, and [[spoiler:taking over Alex's dead body/appearance]] could be seen as an equivalent to [[spoiler:taking over for Sho in the fight with the Enzyme.]] That's... all my evidence. I just thought it'd be [[RuleOfCool pretty cool]], and make for a good crossover.

* He outright states that he's the last possible leader of the Infected to [[spoiler:Cross/the Supreme Hunter]].

* Half-right, half-wrong it seems. [[spoiler:Turns out Alex is likely to be the boss, but the new Runner is just some random grunt.]]

*** Personally, I ''am'' inclined to believe that [[spoiler:Karen]] is still alive, but I just wanted to mention a possible counter-argument to the "fade-to-black" thing. Yeah, there's been a ton of violence and bloodshed up to that point, and a ton of it afterwards -- however, that scene, to me, was about ''psychological'' horror rather than visual. It really played up on Alex's ability to be anyone, anywhere, without a single person knowing. The game definitely shows it, but that scene really jacked up the paranoia level for me. Personally, if he ''did'' kill [[spoiler:her]], I think that simply fading to black, with the player ''knowing'' exactly what's going to happen to [[spoiler:her]], is more horrific than simply being shown the same kind of murder-consumption we've seen a thousand times before. In short, Alex could very well have killed [[spoiler:her]], and the fade out was just for dramatic effect.
'Nother minor addition: [[spoiler:Karen Parker]] never wanted to betray Alex in the first place. Given the Web of Intrigue nodes that feature her, I get the impression she was strong-armed into working for Blackwatch and GENTEK against him. At the very least, two nodes that feature Blackwatch operatives mention that [[spoiler:she]]'s wanted for [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique "questioning"]], and the one where [[spoiler:she's actually being questioned and admits that she doesn't know where Alex ran off to]] features a shot of a Blackwatch soldier's memory: him standing over a handcuffed/tied-up woman with bruises all over her back. The woman in the shot is blonde with short hair, just like [[spoiler:Karen]].

* [[AllThereInTheManual According to the section]] of [[StrategyGuide the official strategy guide]] that includes [[WordOfGod commentary by the creators]], [[spoiler:Karen]] is dead:
---> '''[[spoiler:Parker]]'s Character Bio:''' ''[[spoiler:Parker uses Alex's memories of her and his fragile emotional state to keep him in check, something which becomes more and more difficult to achieve as time goes on. Parker is interested only in saving herself, and understands Alex's odd predicament fully; she knows, for instance, that "Alex" is dead, and that the virus has replaced him. As such, she is both amazed and repulsed by the creature she is forced to work with. Eventually, that fear will cost her life]].''

** Honestly, so am I; but it's the 'bonus' section where the Dev team, rather than the writers of the strategy guide, talk about the characters, their roles, and their development (along with some ''really badass art'') as well as their profiling. So I'm a little more inclined to believe it. Trust me, had the bit about [[spoiler:Karen]] just been thrown in the guide somewhere, I wouldn't have bothered to post it. *fistshake* [[ThatLiarLies I've been lied to before]].

* [[SincerityMode Yes.]] [[DescriptionPorn Yes you should.]] But, as far as this WMG is concerned, my guess is that the sequel will begin with a case of WideOpenSandbox GameplayAndStorySegregation, where Mercer recovers [[spoiler: FromASingleCell after being nuked]] to discover that [[BagOfSpilling he's lost all of his offense & defense powers]].

* Unless the developers are lying, this has pretty much been Jossed by the various interviews and previews they've released. [[spoiler: The virus wasn't re-released, it's the same outbreak from the first game only it's gotten worse over the 14 months between the games. The developers have explicitly stated that Mercer infected Heller on purpose and have even released concept art of it.]]

* According to interviews he infected Heller because [[spoiler: he wants to make Heller his lieutenant in "a plot to spread the virus beyond New York Zero".]]

* [[spoiler: Him being a villain is confirmed. The speculation on why exactly he went evil was mostly jossed.]]

[[WMG:The ending of ''Prototype 2'' will be [[spoiler:the death of Alex and Heller]]]]
The final mission [[spoiler:would be the boss fight between Alex and Heller fighting against the ''real'' Alex Mercer, the creator of the Blacklight Virus and the one who unleashed it to New York. The first part will be the real Alex using his much more powerful virus powers. After being defeated, the second part will be him doing an OneWingedAngel as he transforms into the giant monster virus. Being outmatched, Virus Alex has to have Heller be absorb so that he could be more powerful. Being a DeathSeeker for a long time, he allows that, and Virus Alex gains the power of tendrils and Biobomb ability. He faces his creator and wins. Unfortunately, because the real Alex could get more powerful in each defeat, Virus Alex [[TakingYouWithMe self-destructs himself to kill him]], bringing peace to New York City.]]

After hearing news of [[spoiler:her brother's death]], she woke up from her coma to investigate it.

* The ending would be [[spoiler:the death of Alex and Heller]].

He has the power of tendrils, right? What if this is the power used to spread the virus even more, [[spoiler:even beyond New York Zero]]?

Alex's plan is to [[spoiler:spread the virus beyond New York Zero]], right? Well, it looks like James has unknowingly have the power to spread the virus even further in his adventures rather than just stop it. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Way to go, James]].

Curious about her brother, she has decided to write down everything he does in the whole game. Well, Ragland will help her finish it [[spoiler:when she is comatose thanks to Elizabeth Greene]].

Somehow, before his death by Blackwatch, Alex has transferred his files about his work to Dr. Hans Klamp. He has instructed him to infect someone with the virus to a perfect and that is [[spoiler:Maya Breda]]. The next instruction is to implant donors to two individuals who will carry on the infection if [[spoiler:Maya]] dies: [[spoiler:Aya and Melissa]].

*** Physically, Alex is very powerful, but actually no more so than a lot of middle-tier superheroes - {{Superman}} could probably take him to school, for instance. Also, threats don't have to be lone supervillains; they can be conspiracies, impersonal forces, natural disasters, all kinds of things. And [[NinetiesAntiHero Nineties Anti Heroes]] often have no worse an enemy than ''themselves'' - which goes particularly for Alex, a creatures whose goals in-game, protecting humans and destroying the infection, run contrary to his very nature. ''He has ten thousand voices in his head continuously screaming in agony''. If you can't make a plot out of that, you just ain't trying.

And Alex is {{Superman}}. Take a look at [[http://comics.ign.com/articles/111/1117734p1.html another alternate DCU]], and tell me you don't see the similarities.

Specifically, Alex is trying to alter ''[[UpToEleven all]]'' of humanity into becoming something like [[PhysicalGod him]], and is using Heller as a [[TitleDrop Prototype]]. He's probably doing it so humanity can survive PARIAH, or the infection in general.

[[WMG: PARIAH is [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk Hulk]].]]

The only real difference between Alex and a Deadman is the blood transfusions (and even that [[NotSoDifferent isn't such a big difference]] - Alex still needs biomass, after all).

Even discounting the fact that many people would feel revulsion at having to kill a kid, Heller used to have a young daughter. Having to kill PARIAH may even make him realize that he and Alex are NotSoDifferent after all.

Specifically, this is an altverse origin story for [[SpiderMan Venom]], as he develops from murdering sociopath to Anti-Hero of New-York. Alex shares many properties and powers with Venom, shape-shifting, CombatTentacles and strongly associated with the color black.

It explains why, when Alex is leaping over buildings, Marines say "Fucking New York!". They've probably seen footage of {{Spiderman}}, [[Series/{{Heroes}} Peter Petrelli]], or any other New York-based superhero. As for why said superheroes never show up, they're either dead or in hiding.

[[WMG: Alex in Prototype 2 is acctually the supreme hunter]]

[[WMG: Alex is a TimeLord.]]

* The Marvel theory is lent additional credence by ''SpiderManShatteredDimensions''; where Ultimate Spider-Man (wearing the symbiote suit) shares quite a few similarities with Alex in terms of attack animations, and Ultimate Carnage fights sort of like a combination of Greene (He spends a lot of time inside a fleshy, tendrilly blob; and the people he drains to husks turn into Carnage-allied zombies) and the Supreme Hunter (Out of his blob, he uses groundspikes, claws, and tendrils)

[[WMG:The Blacklight Virus is based on the [[NinjaBlade Alpha Worm]].]]

[[RuleOfCool Plus, who wouldn't play a Prototype game in which you were Alex Mercer versus the Matrix and Skynet at the same time?]] Possible with lots of sequences of Alex fighting [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Sentinel-like]] giant robots. Also, dividing the enemy factions into Human Military, the Infected, and Machines would inject a lot of much-needed diversity and some other playable characters if need be. And thematically, pitting a protagonist who is a giant mass of shapeshifting biological components versus a nanomachine monster would work like a charm.

[[WMG: Blacklight is [[{{Gungrave}} Seed]]]]

* Alternatively, Alex ends up creating the Bydo when the [[{{Quake}} Strogg]] invade Earth.
[[WMG: Blacklight is an AlternateUniverse [[{{Guyver}} G-Unit]]]]

* More like he becomes New York's {{Guyver}}. Powerful, destructive, [[spoiler:inhuman]], and capable of killing hordes without a thought, yet [[EvilVersusEvil still better than the alternative]].

[[WMG: At some point while rampaging around the City, Alex accidentally absorbed the powers of [[KatamariDamacy The Prince of All Cosmos]]]]

[[WMG:[[{{Crackdown}} The Agent]] is a prototype for the Supersoldier.]]

* God bless you, {{Facebook}} / Website/YouTube addicts. May your vigilance never falter, even in the face of a ZombieApocalypse.

I am calling this one right now, since I don't see them throwing away a character so casually after taking so long to build him up. For one, we don't SEE him get consumed in the cutscene, which as mentioned in the Karen Parker issue seems highly suspicious indeed, though slightly less so than the aforementioned example. Secondly, we don't know how powerful consuming is or at least how far it can go. Do you have to eat the entire person in order to impersonate them, uniform and all? Could it work with just a hand or other disposable body part? And Cross may be mortal, but he IS still DangerouslyGenreSavvy. In Prototype 2, he will be back sans one natural arm (which he cut off in a Randellesque attempt to escape) and more dangerous than ever.

* Which means Alex will no doubt be fighting [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquer the Scrin]] and [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Skynet.]] He will be aided by a [[TheSarahConnorChronicles naked Summer Glau robot]] sent back from the future, along with [[VideoGame/InFamous Cole's]] future form. Therefore creating the single most awesome game ever.

* Which means Alex will no doubt be fighting [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquer the Scrin]] and [[{{Terminator}} Skynet.]] He will be aided by a [[TheSarahConnorChronicles naked Summer Glau robot]] sent back from the future, along with [[VideoGame/InFamous Cole's]] future form. Therefore creating the single most awesome game ever.

** Now, if you had a [[{{Terminator}} nanomorphic mimetic poly-alloy]] cyborg...

[[WMG:Alex Mercer is a prototype of a [[TheTerminator T-1000]].]]

** Yeah, but that's a Devastator and you really can't make consistent use of it. Imagine having something like the Slam Cannon in GeneratorRex only fueled by ''people''. How awesome would that be?