Will Alex Mercer Turn Good Again
History
Alex Mercer originally worked for Gentek, furthering the corporation'south inquiry into weaponizing the Blacklight virus. When he learned that the virus is derived from a human who was intentionally infected, he attempts to leak the information to the outside earth. General Randall, frustrated by the security leak of the company'due south top secret piece of work, orders the scientists to exist executed. Alex Mercer received word of his dangerous position and steals a vial of the Blacklight virus as insurance. Fleeing to Penn Station just cornered by security, Mercer threatens to shatter the vial, unleashing the virus upon the city. The guards practice not back down, nonetheless, and open fire, killing Mercer but breaking the vial in the process, exposing the contents to Mercer's carcass.
Alex Mercer'southward torso is and so transported to the Gentek morgue, but the scientists' do non realize that Alex has been infected by a weaponized grade of the virus. The pathogen secretly consumes every jail cell in his body, replacing information technology with a viral replica. When the process is complete, the resulting abomination awakens, a six-foot-tall mass of full-bodied Blacklight that has taken on a default form of a perfect replica of the body of Alex Mercer, complete with a partial re-create of his memories, to the point where it genuinely believes it is Alex Mercer. The indistinguishable awakens to a baffled autopsy team, and makes his escape. Soldiers open fire, just "Alex" realizes, to his great surprise, that bullets suddenly have petty touch on on him. With super forcefulness, speed, and agility, as well as a speedily-evolving set of shapeshifting abilities, he evades the military and seeks out his sister, Dana.
With the aid of his sis and other allies, Alex Mercer fights to terminate the virus from consuming the residue of Manhattan, contesting the infected and the soldiers of Blackwatch.
Prototype
Alex woke upwardly in a morgue on a slab just equally ii scientists were about to cutting open his torso with a scalpel for an autopsy. The 2 men panicked and fled, terrified of Mercer. Alex didn't sympathise why they were and then frightened and had no recollection of his previous life. He ran after the scientists in an effort to escape.
Though Alex was now an amnesiac, he was sufficiently aware to realize that the Blackwatch soldiers were certainly not friends when he saw them impale the two scientists equally they tried to escape the facility. The soldiers noticed him, but his body regenerated the impairment acquired by their fire instantly. Surprising both the soldiers and himself, Mercer cleared the several stories high fence around the facility in a single leap.
After escaping, he establish himself trapped in Manhattan, being pursued past the military. He soon discovered that he had the ability to eat others and take on their appearance and memories, along with their special skills.
With no recollection of his own past, Alex decided to track down those responsible for his state of affairs and consume them in order to uncover the truth behind what has been done to him, caught betwixt the Blackwatch Special Forces and an ever growing population of civilians infected by the virus he released.
On consuming Lt. Charles Perri he learned the whereabouts of his sister. Mercer hoped that his sister, Dana, would accept some information regarding what happened to him, so he attempted to make contact with her. Still, when he arrived at her apartment, he saw soldiers stationed around the building. He consumed a Blackwatch commander and, taking on his appearance, easily infiltrated their perimeter. When Alex entered he saw Dana being held past a Blackwatch soldier. Dana headbutted the Blackwatch soldier just as Alex impaled him with his fist. Dana was terrified having witnessed this, but Alex convinced her to help him.
Dana told Alex that she knew there was something wrong going on at Gentek. She did not know what had happened to Alex either, merely was able to tell him what he had told her prior to his retentiveness loss. She told Alex that he had her researching the Gentek arrangement for weeks. When she went looking for him to relay her findings, he had already disappeared. The conversation incited a flashback, in which Alex remembered seeing the ID carte of Dr. McMullen. Dana then lead Alex to a new safe house, the home of Dana's friends, who were out of town for the yr. Dana already had all of the files she could get on Gentek stored in the apartment
Dana wasn't able to tell Alex what it all meant, simply insisted that the 2 of them work together to uncover whatever conspiracies were at work. Dana told Alex that since Blackwatch was waiting for her at her apartment, they must as well be waiting at his. Alex arrived at his apartment and uncovered further hints of his past life. He saw a photo of himself and Dana with a graduate certificate from the University of New York. He also saw a photo of himself with a blonde woman. When he touched the photo he experienced a flashback in which he saw himself with the woman, his ex-girlfriend Karen Parker. When the flashback was over, information technology was apparent that the onset of these flashbacks was painful to him. As he was recovering, Blackwatch detonated a bomb that had been planted in the flat, meant to kill him. He astonishingly survived without a scratch, despite having been thrown out of a window and down to the streets several stories below. Alex hunted down and consumed the human who gave the order to detonate the bomb.
Alex returns to the rubber business firm where Dana shows him his laptop, stored on which are photographs of a girl.
Alex recognizes the daughter. Dana tells him that the file has but two names in it: Alex Mercer and Elizabeth Greene, the girl in the photo. The file also says that she is beingness isolated in the Gentek building. When Alex went to free Greene, she cryptically told him that "The time for waiting is over" and threw him across the room. Greene then disintegrated a wall by touch and sent Hunters after him as he escaped. She and so took charge of the infected. He as well located his ex-girlfriend,Karen Parker.
Dana continued to help Mercer in locating his targets, while Karen promised him a cure for his affliction. She first claimed that he needed to find her different samples of the virus destroying Manhattan, just one time he arrived inside a nearby Hive, Alex was ambushed by Blackwatch specialist Helm Robert Cantankerous who useed both the infected and his own soldiers as cannon fodder while he tried to accept Alex down. Mercer concluded up defeating him, but Cross turned the tables by distracting Alex by mentioning'Penn Station' and triggering a painful flashback. He injected Alex with a biological weapon while he was distracted.
Due to the parasite Cross had injected him with, Alex couldn't use his special powers aside from his superhuman strength and speed. He even so managed to escape from Blackwatch.
Alex returned to Dana who showed him that Blackwatch was keeping an center on a physician for McMullen, Dr. Bradley Ragland. Dana and so told Alex that if he finds him, Ragland tin aid them go to McMullen. Before Alex left, she showed him what she institute about Hope, Idaho and Greene bu Alex said Hope was an experiment. She asked how he could know that, forcing Alex to admit that he had killed a great number of people and their minds and memories were now within him. Dana was shocked by what her brother has become.
All the same, with the help of Dr. Ragland, Mercer was cured, restoring his abilities and gaining him the armor and blade powers every bit a result. During all of this, Mercer was placed equally the number one terrorist threat in the unabridged United states due to treasonous activities against the Usa and her allies.
During i of Alex and Dana's meetings, Dana was kidnapped by a Leader Hunter, a larger and stronger version of the normal hunters. Alex pursued this Leader Hunter across the city, merely was ultimately unable to rescue Dana. With the assistance of Dr. Ragland, Alex located and consumed the same Leader Hunter that kidnapped Dana, learning of her location in the core hive in the center of the urban center. Alex was eventually able to penetrate the hive, where he confronted Elizabeth Greene.
Elizabeth Greene told Alex that Dana was "with us now". During a struggle, Greene seemingly bests Alex, but he was able to inject Greene with a syringe containing the parasite as it had been extracted from him. Greene's body rejected the parasite immediately and she vomited up a large amount of biomass, from which the Supreme Hunter was born. Alex defeated the Supreme Hunter and saved Dana. As he left, a sinister clawed paw began to regenerate and rise from the remain of the hunter, showing the the Supreme Hunter was far from done
In 1969, the government had tested a virus codenamed Redlight in Hope, Idaho. This virus was designed every bit a biological warfare agent, targeting those of a predetermined race. The virus unexpectedly mutated into something far deadlier, infecting the whole population of Promise. Elizabeth Greene was the sole survivor of the incident; her trunk welcomed the virus rather than dying from it and it had rewritten her genetic code, forth with that of her son, who was taken from her by Blackwatch and codenamed Pariah. This inspired the government to continue enquiry into the virus, cooperating with the Gentek corporation. Scientists at Gentek locked Greene in a cell which had been used to research Blacklight, the new virus nowadays in Greene. They continued to study the different strains of the virus that formed throughout her arrangement equally a means of accelerating the biological weapons program.
Earlier long, the military began to deploy a new biological agent, Bloodtox, engineered to impale the virus and its hosts.
He then attempted to face McMullen, the Head of Enquiry and founder of Gentek. After a grueling battle with Marines and Blackwatch betwixt him and his target, Alex confronted Mcmullen and moved to consume him to discover out what Mcmullen kneww. McMullen committed suicide before Mercer had the chance. It became apparent that Randall planned to nuke Manhattan to destroy the virus. The mysterious contact, revealed to be Captain Cantankerous, then guided Mercer to consume Colonel Taggart, who was attempting to flee the metropolis. Cross had been ordered to capture Taggart and had Mercer impersonate him in club to get onto the USS Ronald Reagan where the flop was being held.
Cross betrayed Mercer in one case on the ship, and was revealed to exist the Supreme Hunter having consumed Cross at some indicate and taken his form. It battled Mercer on the deck of the Reagan and was after decapitated by Mercer. Mercer boarded a helicopter and dropped the nuclear bomb into the Atlantic Ocean, assuasive it to detonate at sea only leaving himself well within the nail radius. His remains done upwards on the city shore every bit lumps of blood-red tissue, merely he was able to take human later consuming a crow that attempted to devour him.
Alex walked off thinking to himself "What have I get? Something less than homo, just also something more than..." Later, Manhattan is seen in a recovering state, with the virus almost completely destroyed.
Paradigm 2: The Anchor
Part 1
After surviving the nuclear boom at the finish of Epitome, Mercer found himself at an impasse. He considered himself still human being, but did not know where or how he fit into the earth, and due to the actions of himself and those he had fought against he had begun to lose his faith in humanity. He began to travel every bit a way to find himself, or to at to the lowest degree discover a purpose.
Later passing through, and killing a warlord, in Africa, Alex made his way to Moscow. It was here he realized that while humans may human activity kind and compassionate, it was in fact and human activity and all they always really cared about was themselves. He returned to the U.S., to a small southern town, and freed information technology from a local drug cartel. Though, even in their festivities they showed Alex the deplorable nature of Humanity. He began to caput north, merely cipher he saw did anything to change his mind. If annihilation, it pushed him farther from Mankind. Heading fifty-fifty further northward, seeking some solitude, he rented a small cabin with the money he'd taken from some drug dealers. With his new identity as "Jack", he introduced himself to two people he was renting his motel from, Flint and his daughter Autumn.
This brief moment of solace was interrupted, though, by Zurich, and ex-business partner of Flint's. Zurich demand the land surrounding Flint's lumbar mill, but Flint wouldn't relent told Zurich he'd never sell them. Afterward, Zurich sent two men over to kill the begetter and girl, merely Alex intercepted them and killed them himself. He then went afterwards Zurich.
Part 2
After consuming another of Zurich'south men, Alex learned where they were based out of. Making his way there, he attempted to infiltrate it. He was soon discovered by Zurich's hired security but they were no match for Alex'due south power. He and then makes his way to Zurich'southward office and consumes him, learning, horrifyingly, that Flint was once involved with a number of murders and extortion. Enraged and disappointed, Alex goes dorsum to confront Flint.
Flintstone tries to explain himself to Alex, that he was retired now, just Alex won't here of it. He so kills and consumes Flint in order to protect his daughter Fall, whom Alex had begun to honey. He and so returns to his cabin to find Autumn at that place. He asked her if she would go out with him if things got so bad at that place that she couldn't stay, all the while looking for the money he had stashed in the motel. He discovers, nevertheless, that Fall had already taken the money, and is shot before he can react. Autumn states that her male parent had taught her improve than that and all she cared to look out for was herself.
She was surprised, and then, when Alex transforms and consumes her. Alex then realizes, right and then, that humans are worthless and had grown brackish. He thought of it every bit his duty to usher in a amend world.
Epitome two
A little over as year since the first outbreak, Alex returns to New York City, now dubbed New York Zip, and bases the second outbreak, now started past him, out of Penn Station. Laying claim to the whole of the Cherry Zone, Alex went on to create the Evolved, highly evolved infected who went on to infiltrate both Gentek and Blackwatch.
His plans are interrupted, though, by James Heller. A human Alex himself had infected subsequently being impressed by the mans' actions in the Red Zone. Heller, blaming Alex Mercer for the death of his wife and kid, started hunting down the Evolved and halting all of Alex'southward plans; foremost of which was Projection Whitelight. In Project Whitelight Alex had had his Evolved contaminate all of Blackwatch's stock of Whitelight, a supposed cure for the virus, with a piece of his own Deoxyribonucleic acid. Upon release, the contaminated Whitelight would impale or infect any and all defenseless in its' mists. After halting this plan, Alex decided to get to Heller through his daughter, Amaya, who was yet alive, and utilise her as a "mother" to the side by side generation of Evolved. Aided by Alex Mercers' sister, Dana, Heller learned Alex was based out of Penn Station, the original outbreak heart, and went there to confront him.
Alex then consumed a number of his own Evolved to strengthen himself, and begun to boxing Heller on the roof of Penn Station. After a lengthy contest of power, Heller overpowered Alex and consumed him, and then destroyed the majority of the infection in the Ruby-red Zone with a Super-Devastator set on.
Powers & Abilities
After beingness reanimated by the Blacklight virus, every particle within Alex's class, including his vesture, was consumed and replaced past viral biomass. Able to control this biomass at volition, Alex could change his shape effortlessly only by showtime consuming them offset, which would too allow him access to their skills, knowledge, and memories. He could besides forcibly absorb the biomass of other entities to feed himself and could transform his shape into various weapons and defenses.
Physical abilities:
- Forcefulness - Due to his incredibly dense viral mass, Alex has a extraordinary corporeality of force. He'south able to readily throw cars, overpower Hunters, and downwardly helicopters with a single kick.
- Speed - The increase in density also affecting his muscles, Alex is able to expressionless sprint faster than most sports cars.
- Agility - He is able to perform incredible parkour feats and extreme climbing maneuvers with ease. He'due south able to run straight up the side of a building and glide through the air past lessen his mass ejecting small-scale amounts for propulsion.
- Endurance - No longer possessing bones or other vital organs, Alex is finer immune to nearly any injury, provided has adequate time to heal. He tin can survive falls from unimaginable heights, straight shots from tank blasts, and Hellfire missiles, and even the supernatural powerful attacks of Hunter, all without tiring.
- Healing Factor - While nourished, he has the ability tp heal from nearly any amount of harm within seconds. Should additional biomass be necessary though, he tin blot the mass of other living beings around him to farther quicken the effects.
- Enhanced Senses - Alex's hearing, sight, and smell have all also dramatically increased due to his new viral nature. He tin can see well past the visible light spectrum, allowing him to meet into the infra-crimson, and is able to detect even infinitesimal traces of the virus in other bodies besides. He can hear across incredible distances and has adult a fashion to tap into the hive mind of the virus and control it.
Offensive Abilities -Mutations to the virus that manifest equally physical weapons, such equally blades, whips, etc, that Alex can use in any instance.
- Claws - A prominent anti-personal ability that transforms Alex'south hands into large, three-fingered, ane-thumbed claws. Best used against man enemies, the claws are able to hands slice through flesh and bone.
- Blade - The near powerful cut and thrusting weapon, and Alex's signature weapon at that, the blade is perfect for cleaving through armored and unarmored foes alike. Information technology's large enough to be able to cleave through multiple foes, but not so large as to obstruct motion.
- Musclemass - As the name suggests, this mutation is a elementary, simply significant, increase in Alex'south muscle mass in his arms. Information technology greatly increases damage from all melee attacks and thrown objects; with this Alex is able to disintegrate smaller enemies in a single hit.
- Hammerfists - Primarily a anti-vehicular power, this mutation causes an immense amount of biomass to flood into Alex's hands, causing them to greatly enlarge and increment in weight. With these Alex can crusade what wait to be small earthquakes and is able to easily smash through the hardest of armor.
- Whipfist - A thin, nimble, blade-edged arm that can stretch to great distances allowing Alex to bifurcate enemies from afar. Due to the wide arcs the weapon goes through it makes an astonishing oversupply-controlling tool, able to slice through a number of enemies with every attack.
- Devestators - Incredible powerful attacks that act a sort of viral explosion and cause stupor-waves as well as large tendrils to shoot out in every management.
Defensive Abilities
- Shield - An incredibly stiff shield composed of biomass that tin can block virtually whatever attack. Attacks of significant value, though, can break information technology.
- Armor - A conform of armor composed of black plates of hardened viral biomass, the armor allows Alex baseline protection confronting almost enemy attacks. The only drawback existence that, due to the armors weight, it severally dampens Alex's maneuverability.
Appearance
While the virus allows Alex to take whatever grade he wishes, his favored appearance is that of the former Gentek scientist, Alex Mercer, due to the virus having copied his Deoxyribonucleic acid down to the genetic level. The former Alex had pale skin, brown, curly pilus, blue eyes, and grey tinting around them. The apparel the former scientist died in have also been included in this base-form, existence comprised entirely of biomass. The are a pair of jeans, plain black shoes, a button-up white brusque, a grey hoodie, and a black leather jacket with red tribal markings on the dorsum. Information technology'southward interesting to note that his clothing is merely as much a part of his anatomy as his mankind itself, and he is therefore unable to take his dress off without shape-shifting.
Quotes
"My name is Alex Mercer. I'thou the reason for all this. They call me a killer, a monster, a terrorist.... I am all of these things."
"I virus, three weeks, millions dead... and I was there. My name was Alex Mercer, and my work is almost washed."
"If I'm notwithstanding human...where practise I fit in now? How practise I rejoin the human race?"
Trivia
- Originally, Alex Mercer was suppose to have a black jacket with a white hoodie, simply was changed then it would differ from Altair in Assassinator'southward Creed.
- The Executive producer of Image, Tim Bennison, described Alex equally one of the well-nigh powerful video game characters of all fourth dimension.
- The two colors of Alex's jacket, black and red, signify the 2 main opposing forces in the game, the Infected and Blackwatch.
- In a certain Web of Intrigue node a Blackwatch scientist reveals that Alex is the first male Runner in the history of the virus.
- His personality traits, according to the official bio, are "terrifying, super-intelligent, distant, predatory, bare, and searching".
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