History Characters / Prototype

* MakeMeWannaShout: In her boss fight, one of her attacks is a scream that sucks the color from the screen and sends shockwaves over the battlefield that will knock you down to critical health if you don't move your butt.

* DistressedDamsel: A few missions revolve around rescuing her from peril. Pretty understandable, since she's not the one with superpowers or military training.

* AloofBigBrother: [[spoiler:The real]] Alex only cared about Dana as a tool for his purposes. However, [[spoiler:after Heller consumes Alex at the end of ''Prototype 2'' and absorbs his memories,]] Dana can be heard remarking that they used to play games, skate, and watch scary movies together. So, apparently, he wasn't always like this.

* MonstrousHumanoid: After TheReveal, [[spoiler:it is revealed that [[TomatoInTheMirror he]] is a human-shaped pile of TheVirus that took the original Mercer's memories, name and form. You've been playing as TheVirus all along, with it ''thinking'' that he was Mercer. However, even after this revelation, he still wears Mercer's form and remains protective of Dana despite him not really being her brother.]]

[[folder:Colonel Ian Taggart]]

!!Colonel Ian Taggart
!!!Voiced by: Richard [=McGonagle=]

The leader of the Marines in Manhattan and Randall's second-in-command.

* TheBrute: Although he doesn't look muscular...
* DirtyCoward: Or at least Randall and Alex think so [[spoiler:when he finally snaps and tries to withdraw]]. [[ZombieApocalypse But it's hard]] [[PersonOfMassDestruction to blame him]].
** Not that they're wrong, mind you. He orders an evacuation immediately after Greene is killed, causing military positions to collapse despite Greene's death weakening the Infected. Then he attempts to brute force his way out of the quarantine zone despite this possibly spreading the virus.
* GetBackHereBoss: He spends most of the time running away from you in his tank, while occasionally stopping to take potshots with its thermobaric cannon.
* OnlySaneMan: In contrast to the above, he realizes right off the bat that both Blackwatch and the Marines are in no position to handle this threat, but Randall won't let him retreat.
* TooDumbToLive: If you don't consume him in time, he'll try to drive straight through a Blackwatch quarantine barricade and get blown to smithereens.
* VillainousBreakdown: As the situation deteriorates, he tries to get Randall to deal with the problem at a distance. When Mercer comes for him, he panics and places his men between himself and the pissed-off HumanoidAbomination coming to eat him.
* WeHaveReserves: He begins throwing his troops into Mercer's path and certain death to gain time to escape himself. It fails, only succeeding in making [[HorrifyingHero Mercer]] [[BerserkButton really, really angry]]. [[spoiler:He also wanted to perform [[NukeEm Operation Firebreak]] on Manhattan from the very beginning in order to wipe out the infection from a distance, thereby exhibiting this trope for the ''entire population of Manhattan and other soldiers operating there''.]]

!Infected

[[folder:In General]]

!!The Infected:

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* EliteMook: Downplayed with the Walkers or advanced infected. They are much stronger than the regular zombie, but within the game that only translates to them dying from two basic hits instead of one.
* TheGoomba: The Regular Zombies are among the weakest enemies in the game, and the protagonists can destroy them by the dozen with ease.
* WaterTowerDown: The Hunter variant of the infected is incubated in water reservoirs. Since they are at their most vulnerable before "hatching", the easiest way to get rid of them is to destroy the whole water tower, often during helicopter-hijacking missions. You are left with scraps of metal, a tank covered with infected organic matter, and a Hunter's corpse. The alternative is to kill them with Alex's blade or a grenade launcher.
* ZombieApocalypse: They unleash this in both games.
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A [[SemperFi marine]] who [[DeathByOriginStory lost his family to the infection]] while he was away on duty. He returns to Manhattan, [[DeathSeeker runs a series of suicide missions in the Red Zone]], and is eventually mortally wounded. Mercer is impressed by his skill, however, and [[NiceJobFixingItVillain infects Heller]] [[EmergencyTransformation with his unique strain of Blacklight.]] Now a [[EmpoweredBadassNormal newly]] [[HumanoidAbomination super powered Heller]] [[IHateYouVampireDad vows to kill Mercer.]]

!!The Infected

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:His betrayal of Heller? "Send more men."]]

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/prototype_mercer.png]][[caption-width-right:390:"''They call me a killer. A monster. A terrorist... I'm all of these things.''"]]

* AGodAmI: Debatable in the sequel in accordance with his plan. He even tells his sister that the viral monsters are "no longer bound by life and death", and his MotiveRant includes a proclamation that he will create a perfect "new world".

* [[HiveQueen Hive King]]: In ''Prototype 2'', he has taken Elizabeth Greene's place as the leader of the Infected.

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/prototype_heller.png]][[caption-width-right:390:"''My name is Sgt. James Heller, and I will destroy Alex Mercer.''"]]

* TheUnfettered: In his own words, he's not being paid to "feel" nor is concerned about the "amorality" of his work. All that matters to him is engineering the Red Light virus into something more and preserving his own life when Blackwatch comes around to kill off any liabilities, even if innocent people, including his younger sister, get caught in the crossfire.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: While WordOfGod does confirm him as human, Cross is notably very quick and durable to be able to take hits from ''Alex Mercer'' of all people and '''not''' be ripped apart like every other normal human in the game. This allowed fans to theorize that he may be partially Infected himself in a similar manner to the [[SuperSoldiers D-Code Soldiers]] but with a strain from the Redlight virus.

The current leader of Blackwatch, directing their movements in Manhattan. He has been in the organisation long enough to remember Hope, Idaho, and the methods used to contain it.

* GeneralRipper: Randall wants to fight the virus however he can. If that means shooting innocent people, sending his men to die in a hopeless war, slicing his own infected arm off with a butcher's knife, [[spoiler:''[[NukeEm nuking Manhattan]]'' and [[TheScapegoat blaming the]] [[SemperFi United States Marine Corps]], or putting the virus in a position where it would do a huge amount of damage when it escaped to learn how to engage it properly]], he will do it.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Randall believes that deliberately putting [[{{Plaguemaster}} Elizabeth Greene]] in a major population center and waiting for her to do her thing is a necessary sacrifice in order to understand how to fight the infection properly. But the fact that he could have simply shut her away in a remote black site like her son, far enough away from human civilisation and secure enough that even if Greene did escape her restraints, she wouldn't have been capable of nearly as much damage as she ended up causing in Manhattan makes his comment ring extremely hollow. Not helping is the fact that [[spoiler: he tried to nuke the joint after Mercer kills [[HiveQueen Greene]], then doubles down on his decision even when it's obvious that the infection has been placed at a major disadvantage [[KeystoneArmy with Greene no longer around to guide it]]]]. All in all, despite the claims of altruistic intent that he hides behind, his actions reveal him to be a [[AxCrazy delusional lunatic]] that caused the unnecessary deaths of an untold number of innocents ''for the sake of a wargame'', and then tried to kill the rest out of spite.

* BaldOfEvil: He's one half of ''Prototype 2'''s BigBadDuumvirate and has not a hair on his head.

* DirtyBusiness: He's not a very good person, at one point sanctioning rape since to do otherwise would waste man-power and supplies. However, the game leaves him a somewhat sympathetic figure and surprisingly the LesserOfTwoEvils, without denouncing his underlying mission of sterilization and control.

* KarmaHoudini: Despite being in charge of Blackwatch operations, sanctioning very shady activities, Heller lets him live.

** Avoids [[ShootingSuperman shooting Heller]] when alone with the man himself, well aware that such an act would lead to a quick death and Heller, at the moment, has no real interest in killing him.

* NotAsYouKnowThem: [[spoiler:InUniverse. Rooks manages to figure out that something is wrong with [[DeadAllAlong Riley]] because he acts... off after his [[KilledOffForReal encounter]] with Heller, and assumes he's a traitor. The truth is, in Rooks' opinion, [[TheInfiltration much]], ''[[DeadPersonImpersonation much]]'' [[HumanoidAbomination worse]].]]

MissionControl for the military in both games. In the first game it's the callsign for the military command, mostly in the form of a handful of officers who send those endless strike teams after you. In the sequel Red Crown is the code name for Blackwatch's mysterious radio commander.

* CommunicationsOfficer: What they are in the first game, at least. There's a few of them, and you can find out a bit about them by turning on subtitles:
** The female officer is "Marine Headquarters Communication Officer."
** The deep voiced male is "Marine Headquarters Officer."

* GeneralFailure: Red Crown is an utterly inflexible commander and her response to pretty much any situation on the ground is to ZergRush it no matter how untenable. [[MemeticMutation "Brah Soldier"]] is already questioning her commands near the beginning of the game, and towards the end her troops openly insult and defy her, at one point yelling at her to "shove it up your ass!" and evacuating when she demands they hold their ground and defend an explosives cache.
* GreaterScopeVillain: It's revealed in the penultimate mission that Red Crown's authority supersedes even Colonel Rooks, the ostensible commander of Blackwatch's New York forces - she determines what he knows and where he can go, when Rooks performs his HeelFaceTurn his ability to actually aid Heller is stymied by RC having other plans. But whatever those plans are, they extend beyond New York, don't intersect much with Heller, and she has no real connection to the story beyond sending mooks after you.

* OutOfFocus: Although they’re still around in the sequel as the lowliest of mooks, they don’t have any named characters besides Heller and disappear from the plot after the opening cutscene.

* EmptyShell: There's nothing human left in her any more; all that remains is the virus in an empty human host.
* EvilMatriarch: Her [[MeaningfulName appropriate codename]] of "Mother" as well as being the origin of the HiveMind invoke this.

* LatexSpaceSuit: Her clothing is outright modelled on fetish clothing and wet-suits, resulting in a skin-tight latex body suit with a lot of straps in weird places.

* MakeMeWannaShout: In her boss fight, one of her attacks is a scream that sucks the colour from the screen and sends shockwaves over the battlefield that will knock you down to critical health if you don't move your butt.

Of all the children born during Hope, Idaho's infection, only one did not suffer fatal defects within months of birth. Codenamed PARIAH by the military, the surviving child was forcibly separated from his mother, Elizabeth Greene, and moved to a secure facility for study and containment. He never appears in the game, but plays a fairly large part in the Web of Intrigue.

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: The original Alex Mercer was an amoral, sociopathic EvilutionaryBiologist that helped reverse-engineer a potentially world-ending bioweapon into a SuperSerum. [[spoiler: The amnesia that came with his infection, mixed with the shadow of a conscience that come with his IdentityAbsorption powers led to him becoming an (admittedly [[UnscrupulousHero unscrupulous]]) AntiHero with humanity's best interest at heart. By the sequel, however, he had since lost his faith in humanity and restarted the infection in New York with intentions of replacing mankind with evolved infected with him as their god.]]

* HoistbyHisOwnPetard: He really didn't need to take [[PapaWolf Heller's]] [[spoiler:daughter in order to fulfill his plan, and this was, in the end, what got him killed, not that his EvilGloating helped.]]

* TrainingFromHell: Justified. All of the Blackwatch soldiers are hand-picked from various special forces of the United States Military and undergo further training in a disciplinary system that is described to be "brutal" to the point that they result in either a SociopathicSoldier or encouraged their pre-existing traits. Of course, when going up against ''legions'' of Infected, you can't fret over the individual lives.

Officially designated the 1st Biological Warfare Command, US Army Project BLACKWATCH is the government military force in charge of containing viral outbreaks. Each soldier is chosen not only for their combat and training prowess but also for their innate belief that individuals must be sacrificed to protect the greater population. Combine that with a lucrative pay scale and a brutal disciplinary system and you get a pack of extremely loyal, fiercely idealistic and extremely ruthless killers.

* BadassCreed: ''We will burn our own to hold the red line. It is the last line to ever hold.''

* FacelessGoons: Literally and figuratively, Blackwatch troops have zero humanity. The sequel has some Blackwatch-aligned missions that puts a (figurative) human face on them.
* {{Flanderization}}: Blackwatch in the sequel are more or less a parody of their ''Prototype 1'' incarnation (and [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned extremists]] in general). Their first appearance post Heller's capture is a textbook war crime scene, lining up a group of civilians to be shot for the subversive crime of spraying graffiti. One soldier gets a medal for "consistent display and embodiment of the organization's core tenets" after he shoots a woman for no reason.

* GiantMook: Super-soldiers. As shown in the concept art, they are a head taller than the average soldier.

* InformedAttribute: They’re supposedly around in the first game because they’re elite troops who specialize in this sort of thing, but it’s never meaningfully shown and in practice they’re just reskinned cannon fodder who sometimes show up in missions and sometimes don’t with no rhyme or reason. Their {{Flanderization}} into a rogue agency of [[MadScientist evil scientists]] in the sequel actually goes some way to justifying their presence as they’re frequently shown conducting operations any conventional military force would balk at.

* MissionCreep: By the time of the second outbreak they’ve expanded from a couple battalions ([[RespawningEnemies supposedly]]) of specialists into practically their own branch of the military, to the point that they occupy New York outright and Blackwatch commanders are enforcing graffiti laws.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: While still cruel and extreme in their methods in the first game, they were largely in the right regarding their merciless, unforgiving attitude towards the outbreak considering that their enemy was just as intelligent, vicious and ruthless as they were. By the second game, however, their well intentions are almost completely gone, having more or less completely devolved into AxCrazy thugs with guns that happily serve as Gentek’s henchmen and regularly assist them in conducting "experiments"(aka, unleashing infected monsters on unarmed civilians or just plain up kidnapping, torturing and murdering them) for the fun of it.

* SuperpoweredMooks: Their super soldiers can go toe-to-toe with Mercer and Heller in fistfights.
* TookALevelInJerkass: While their ''Prototype 1'' incarnation were a thoroughly ruthless pack of killers, they were also {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s trying to prevent a Lovecraftian virus from destroying humanity. Their ''Prototype 2'' incarnation are a bunch of [[SociopathicSoldier sociopathic]], often AxCrazy goons who gleefully KickTheDog at every opportunity and care more about assisting Gentek in their experiments than protecting humanity from the Blacklight virus.

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/prototype_mercer.png]]

->''"They call me a killer. A monster. A terrorist... I'm all of these things."''

** The Hammerfist power enlarges his arms enough that they become heavier than the rest of his body, granting the capability to trash vehicles with ease.

* PowerFist: The Hammerfists power enlarges his fists with SuperStrength than can tear enemy vehicles.

* RoofHopping: Due to a combo of LeParkour and InASingleBound. Some optional events enforce this as you go around checkpoints scattered in nearby rooftops.

* TheSociopath: Mercer is diagnosed a [[ItsAllAboutMe narcissist]] and a [[SociopathicHero sociopath]] in one Web of Intrigue cutscene and the lack of a KarmaMeter - along with the sheer scope for destruction that his powers have and the way they're fueled - means he'll be doing some awful things in the name of his goals. He rarely displays so much as a flicker of regret for the murder, ''mass''-murder, mass-cannibalism, all kinds of destruction, collateral damage... [[spoiler:However, {{subverted}} in that he ''does'' have regrets, even if only Dana and Cross ever see them. That diagnosis was more likely for the ''original'' Mercer.]]

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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/prototype_heller.png]]

->''"My name is Sgt. James Heller, and I will destroy Alex Mercer."''

* AmbiguouslyTrained: Going by the way how Alex Mercer is able to perform parkour, is capable of some fighting moves, and even manages to catch a car on reflex after getting blown up by a missile ''before'' performing his first consume in the game, Alexander is implied to have some fighting experience or martial training given his DarkAndTroubledPast and former occupation as a head researcher to a company with ties to the paramilitary Blackwatch.

* BrokenAce: He was a very intelligent man who manages to forge his way into a respectable position as a head researcher in Gentek, but his DarkAndTroubledPast left him with a ''ton'' of issues.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Alexander's childhood isn't a pleasant one. He grew up in abject poverty and spend his first 9 years in foster care until his mother was released from prison and went back to her custody at the age of 10. Unfortunately, life with his mother was ''worse'' to the point that it would've been better if he stayed in foster care and forces him to be a ParentalSubstitute for Dana.

* DefiantToTheEnd: Even though he was cornered by Blackwatch and is unable to escape, Alexander decides to break the vial of Blacklight just before he gets gunned down.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only appears in flashbacks and died shortly before the events of the game, but his engineering of the Blacklight Virus and later releasing it upon the time of his death paves way for the events of the entire duology.

* FaceFramedInShadow: Unlike the first game, nearly all of Mercer's appearances have the upper part of his face concealed in shadow. Which only enhances his villainous nature.

* ShoutOut: In the sequel, the similarities to long-standing ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' villain Albert Wesker (particularly his characterization in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'') are too numerous to ignore. Both are intellectual, with scientific backgrounds (though Mercer's are borrowed), who started an endemic with a weaponized virus, who wish to wipe the scourge of humanity with a bioweapon of mass destruction and are extremely dangerous warriors augmented with the same virus they plan to use to wipe out the planet, and all of the aforementioned viruses result in veiny, bulbous, tendril, organic shapeshifting monsters. Both have a FemmeFatale businesswoman associate whom they betray towards the end of the game. They even have a similar mode of speech and a tendency to keep their [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]] hidden.

* ZombieApocalypse: His goal, expanded worldwide.

* AbsurdlySharpClaws: The first power James acquires. In its base form it has serrations on its back edge like a combat knife.

* HopelessWithTech: Apparent in Mission 3, where he has trouble even ''reading'' the keyboard and doesn't bother logging off the computer he was using. While the keyboard did have a "triangle" key, and was thus no conventional computer, one gets the feeling that Heller's had similar experiences in the past.

* HorrifyingHero: [[spoiler:Really hits home when he's finally reunited with his daughter and she's just too terrified to even touch him, since he's currently in BladeBelowTheShoulder mode. She gets over it, though.]]

* LightningBruiser: [[spoiler:In the final fight against Mercer, he notes that he's just too fast for an enhanced and powered up Mercer to keep up with him. In the same fight, he also physically overpowers Alex.]] Also, in the first game, there were certain enemies who could catch Alex, like the Leader Hunter. Heller? Once he has all his speed upgrades, ''nothing'' can keep up with him.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: The Shield, which can now be [[DualWielding dual wielded]].

* ManipulativeBastard: Much like Mercer, Heller plays hail-Mary with Blackwatch command structure, and especially their field commander Rooks. Presumably, his own military experience facilitated his expertise with which he infiltrates Blackwatch. Likewise, he was able to milk Galloway for information for a long time, though that backfired badly when he stretched it too far.
* MeaningfulName: It's possible his surname of Heller relates to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa Hela Cell Line]] taken from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks Henrietta Lacks]]. The cells are notably [[{{Determinator}} durable, resilient, and constantly strive to multiply]]. Probably why Heller and [[spoiler: his daughter]] has, in Mercer's own words, "annoyingly resilient DNA."
* PapaWolf: The sheer amount of hatred directed at Mercer as a result is truly frightening to behold.

* ShootingSuperman: He goes after Mercer armed with nothing more than a combat knife, when Mercer survived a ''nuclear explosion''.

* SmarterThanYouLook: He's gruff as all hell and not always eloquent, which makes him seem a bit like DumbMuscle. However, he's at times witty (though he ascribes to BlackComedy) and the way he turns Blackwatch upside-down makes it clear that he's not unfamiliar with subversive tactics. Being a sergeant in the Marine Corps requires no little amount of intelligence. He also consumes a number of scientists throughout the game, gaining all of their memories.

* SuperiorSuccessor: Heller is in many ways superior to Alex at his peak, once you factor in all the upgrades. He's explicitly faster, stronger, and his powers are in some ways deadlier than Mercer's equivalents. About the only thing Mercer has on Heller is that Heller lacks Mercer's extremely jumping prowess.

* WolverineClaws: The Claws, which bear serrations on their outer edges, similar to a combat knife. They can be used to perform a DeadlyLunge.

!!!Voiced by: Creator/LakeBell (''Prototype 1''), Lindsay Ames (''Prototype 2'')

->''"Someone's gotta know what the fuck is going on here."''

Alex's younger sister and the first person he remembers after he awakes. A journalism student and spitfire with a sharp tongue and an inquisitive mind, she loves and idolises her older brother, despite not having seen him in five years, and acts as his intelligence gatherer and data analyst.

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: In ''Prototype 2'', a bunch of drunken soldiers call her and Heller up and insult them, calling Dana a "pasty hacker cunt." Afterwards, Dana gripes that she's "not pasty."

* PluckyGirl: Not that it does her any good [[CrapsackWorld given the setting]], but this college-age girl with no combat training and no superpowers insults Blackwatch soldiers to their faces and actually ''headbutts'' one who put his hands on her. The fact that Alex splatted the guy a second later in no way lessens her sheer chutzpah. On the optimism count, she never turns her back on her brother, always helping him even when he's just gotten through explaining that ''he eats people'', in the sincere belief that he's still in there somewhere and knows what's right. [[spoiler:She's wrong on both counts -- about her real brother. Her fake one, oddly enough, is less of a bastard and genuinely cares.]] In the sequel, though she's hardened a bit, she's probably the nicest character [[spoiler:after Guerra's death]].

[[folder:Father Luis Guerra]]

!!Father Luis Guerra
!!!Voiced by: Creator/IvanBasso

A priest who runs the church in the Yellow Zone that Heller and his family once attended. He tried to meddle with Blackwatch's experiments, but failed and barricaded himself in his church. Heller snaps him out of his DespairEventHorizon and Guerra provides him with intel on Blackwatch supplied by a contact called Athena. Alex Mercer and a horde of Infected kill him after Heller becomes a threat to his plans.

* BadassPreacher: He's as compassionate as any priest should be, which does not mean he's averse to keeping an iron pipe close at hand should someone threaten his flock.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: The guy knows a lot more than he should oughta about guerrilla warfare. Apparently, he's had a lot of tattoos removed.
* MeaningfulName: "Guerra" is Spanish for "war".
* MentorOccupationalHazard: He's killed by [[spoiler:Mercer]].
* RevengeByProxy: Killed by [[spoiler:Alex Mercer and his Infected as revenge for Heller interfering with his plans for Whitelight]].

[[folder:Doctor Bradley Ragland]]

!!Doctor Bradley Ragland
!!!Voiced by: Creator/PhilLaMarr

->''"My medical opinion's not for sale."''

A pathologist who knows some uncomfortable secrets, content to run the morgue in a teaching hospital in New York. He once worked for GENTEK, but quit on ethical grounds some time ago. Dana sends Alex to him in the hopes that he can cure the parasite.

* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Good, but worked with [=McMullen=] in the past. Randall states that they have enough dirt on him to ensure he'd keep quiet.
* OnlySaneMan: The only ''other'' character with a working sense of ethics.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Alex leaves Dana in his care, and they both are not seen or heard from again afterwards. Unlike Dana, his fate is not alluded to in the sequel.]]

* {{Determinator}}: The Blackwatch only ever manage to slow him down, even once he becomes their biggest threat and they throw everything they've got at him.

* VillainProtagonist: While his methods are gruesome, it's debatable how much of a villain he actually is -- he acts initially in self defense against Blackwatch then pursues revenge rather than causing destruction just for the hell of it. Then again, you are in control of a walking biological weapon willing to devour innocent civilians to preserve his own life, so it goes both ways.

* WouldHitAGirl: A few Web of Intrigue targets are women, which naturally requires consuming them. There is no alteration to the violence he uses when doing so. When he finally get his hands on Elizabeth Greene, Mercer viciously beats her to death to consume her.

* BigBad: He's the guy that kicks off the whole plot and is trying to TakeOverTheWorld.

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Compare to the first game, it's far more noticeable here as whenever Mercer uses his Offensive Powers, they showcase bright red/orange veins. [[spoiler:That's also not getting into his OneWingedAngel form in his final fight with James Heller.]]

* SameCharacterButDifferent: Compare to the brooding and stoic NominalHero of the first game, Alex is now a full-on megalomaniac BigBad in the second game.

* SnarkToSnarkCombat: In [[spoiler:the final battle]], Mercer and Heller hurl insults back and forth.
-->'''Alex:''' Hey! ''I'm'' using that! [[spoiler:(said if Heller uses the same weapon as him)]]

* BadassNormal: Before his transformation, he fights his way to the middle of the Red Zone alone and kills a Brawler Hunter using only a combat knife. He also manages to land a few strikes on Mercer with no powers, though none of them actually harm Mercer.

* HurtingHero: He's clearly hurt by Dana's reaction upon seeing him killing a Blackwatch soldier, and then again to a greater (but more subtle) extent when he confesses that he can hear the voices of the people he's killed inside himself but believes that killing "feels right". He later apologizes and she tentatively accepts him again [[spoiler:right before a Leader Hunter bursts through her wall and kidnaps her]].

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Randall believes that deliberately putting [[{{Plaguemaster}} Elizabeth Greene]] in a major population center and waiting for her to do her thing is a necessary sacrifice in order to understand how to fight the infection properly. But the fact that he could have simply shut her away in a remote black site like her son, far enough away from human civilisation and secure enough that she wouldn't be capable of nearly as much damage as she ended up causing in Manhattan makes his comment ring extremely hollow. Not helping is the fact that [[spoiler: he tried to nuke the joint after Mercer kills [[HiveQueen Greene]], then doubles down on his decision even when it's obvious that the infection has been placed at a major disadvantage [[KeystoneArmy with Greene no longer around to guide it]]]]. All in all, despite the claims of altruistic intent that he hides behind, his actions reveal him to be a [[AxCrazy delusional lunatic]] that caused the unnecessary deaths of an untold number of innocents ''for the sake of a wargame'', and then tried to kill the rest out of spite.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Randall believes that deliberately putting Greene in a major population center and waiting for her to do her thing is a necessary sacrifice in order to understand how to fight the infection properly. But the fact that he could have simply shut her away in a remote black site like her son, far enough away from human civilisation and secure enough that she wouldn't be capable of nearly as much damage as she ended up causing in Manhattan makes his comment ring extremely hollow. Not helping is the fact that [[spoiler: he tried to nuke the joint after Mercer kills [[HiveQueen Greene]], then doubles down on his decision even when it's obvious that the infection has been placed at a major disadvantage [[KeystoneArmy with Greene no longer around to guide it]]]]. All in all, despite the claims of altruistic intent that he hides behind, his actions reveal him to be a [[AxCrazy delusional lunatic]] that caused the unnecessary deaths of an untold number of innocents ''for the sake of a wargame'', and then tried to kill the rest out of spite.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Randall believes that deliberately putting Greene in a major population center and waiting for her to do her thing is a necessary sacrifice in order to understand how to fight the infection properly. But the fact that he could have simply shut her away in a remote black site like her son, far enough away from human civilisation and secure enough that she wouldn't be capable of nearly as much damage as she ended up causing in Manhattan makes his comment ring extremely hollow. Not helping is the fact that [[spoiler: he tried to nuke the joint after Mercer kills Greene and doubles down on his decision even when it's obvious that the infection has been put on the backfoot with Greene no longer around to guide it]]. All in all, despite the claims of altruistic intent that he hides behind, his actions reveal him to be little more than a [[AxCrazy delusional lunatic]] that caused the unnecessary deaths of an untold number of innocents ''for the sake of a wargame'', and then tried to kill the rest out of spite.

* InexplicablyAwesome: There's no in-game indication that he is anything more than human, yet Cross is the only human so far in the entire series to go toes to toes with Redlight/Blacklight-enhanced beings. In his backstory, he even managed to kill an infected woman similar to Elizabeth Greene (albeit weaker) all on his lonesome as part of his initiation into Blackwatch.

* InexplicablyAwesome: There's no in-game indication that he is anything more than human, yet Cross is the only human so far in the entire series to go toes to toes with a DX-1118 C-infested being. In his backstory, he even managed to kill a being similar to Elizabeth Greene (albeit weaker) all on his lonesome as part of his initiation into Blackwatch.

* InexplicablyAwesome: There's no in-game indication that he is anything more than human, yet Cross is the only human so far in the entire series to go toes to toes with a DX-1118 C-infested being. In his backstory, he managed to kill a being similar to Elizabeth Greene (albeit weaker) all on his lonesome as part of his initiation into Blackwatch.

* InexplicablyAwesome: There's no in-game indication that he is anything more than human, yet Cross is the only human so far in the entire series to go toes to toes with a DX-1118 C-infested being.

* InexplicablyAwesome: There's no in-game indication that he is anything more than human, yet Cross is the only human so far in the entire series to go toes to toes with a DX-1118 C-infested being. [[spoiler:He does get killed off-screen by the Supreme Hunter later on, but the circumstances behind his death is unknown, making it possible that he was caught off-guard.]]