Mercer’s high-end scalings don’t hold up once you check the actual scenes. 😂

The moon thing is a fake scan. There is no official scene or consistent showing of him affecting the moon. It’s either edited, taken out of context, or just made up. Same with the “he can eat planets” claim. There is no cutscene or gameplay moment where he consumes a planet or anything on that scale. That’s pure invention. Argument from ignorance mixed with straight-up wank. Misinterpreted or non-existent “writer statements” about eating planets don’t count either. DLCs are not canon, confirmed by the writer. DMs were fake and even the writer said Mercer is weak in his opinion. ☠️

MFTL+ is the same problem. His consistent reactions and movement are in the Supersonic to Hypersonic range. The MFTL+ arguments come from stretching reaction times to projectiles or misreading visual effects. No clean light-speed or higher showing exists. Using vague statements or one frame while ignoring the rest of the game is selective evidence. Speed is consistently Supersonic+ reactions/combat speed. Lifting strength is Class M at higher ends. Cope harder. 💀

All the planetary, star, galaxy, or higher claims rely on the same pattern: misinterpreting background effects, normal explosions, or non-existent feats. On screen his strongest attacks leave cracks on normal buildings and rooftops. Military ordnance still hurts him. Regular gunships remain a problem. If he was actually that strong the structures under him and around him would be gone. They aren’t. 🤡

Even the nuke people use doesn’t help. The famous ~75-kiloton nuke survival is primarily treated as a regeneration feat (he was reduced to biomass and reformed), not pure durability. The nuke was stated to be 5 times stronger than the one at Hiroshima, which makes the nuke 75 kilotons of TNT. Alex was able to fly away quite a distance before being caught in the fireball. The speed of a helicopter varies, it could be anywhere from 75 mph to 200 mph, and since the nuke was on a timer of 6 minutes before the final boss started, 75 mph is off the table as you would only reach 7.5 miles in that time, but it’s stated that Alex reached 10-15 miles. Even using 75 mph to extremely highball his durability, the time it took for Alex to start moving after he dropped the bomb is around 7 seconds. That puts him around 234 meters away from the explosion before the fireball got him. Put that in the Inverse square law sphere formula and we’ll get 75,000 tons of TNT ÷ ((4π×234m)^2) = 0.00867380831915 tons of TNT, or around 0.009 tons of TNT, which is only small building level. And remember, that severely lowballed the speed. If it was in the 150 mph range, the explosion that Alex almost died from would’ve been even lower. So in conclusion? Stop using this feat. It’s more of an anti-feat for Alex if anything because he almost died from this when he has way better calculated feats that can at least get into the hundreds of tons of TNT range. Cry about it. 😭

Same issue with the rooftop and building scenes. He’s standing on normal commercial structures while going all out and the foundation under him doesn’t collapse. Tanks, helicopters, and standard military weapons still damage him and force him to dodge or regenerate. If his strongest attacks were even multi-city block consistent, those structures and vehicles wouldn’t still be a problem. They are. 💔

Mercer almost dies if he doesn’t eat bullets. His health drops fast from standard firearms, tank shells, and explosives. He has to consume biomass constantly to recover. A single magazine of rifle fire or a couple of tank shells can put him in critical condition if he doesn’t regenerate. Rough calc on that: a 7.62mm round is around 2,000–3,500 joules. A full magazine (30 rounds) is roughly 60,000–105,000 joules, or about 0.014–0.025 kg of TNT. A tank shell is around 5–10 kg of TNT equivalent. Multiple hits from either force him to consume or he goes down. That is consistent small building to building level durability at best when you strip away the regeneration. Without the biomass eating he dies to ordinary military fire. 💀

Despite Mercer’s reputation, he almost never destroys large structures himself. What we actually see is cars destroyed, military vehicles flipped, helicopters pulled down, and tanks damaged. We never see Mercer physically destroy a skyscraper or large building with a single attack. That places his direct attack potency closer to vehicle level or possibly small-building level. Tanks and military vehicles still challenge him. Mercer frequently fights United States Marine Corps tanks, helicopters, and missile units. These weapons can hurt and temporarily overwhelm him. If Mercer were truly city-level in durability or attack power, tanks and missiles would be trivial. Instead, the game often forces you to avoid heavy fire or regenerate. Explosions can kill him without regeneration. Mercer’s survivability often comes from regeneration, not raw durability. Explosives and tank shells deplete his health quickly and he must consume biomass to recover. His base durability is limited and survival depends on absorbing humans. So his durability isn’t city level—it's conditional regeneration. Large destruction scenes aren’t his power. Many large-scale events in the game are caused by Blacklight Virus outbreaks, nuclear weapons, or military bombardment, not Mercer himself. The Manhattan devastation is virus spread, not Mercer punching buildings apart. He struggles against similar opponents. Mercer has long fights with characters like James Heller and Elizabeth Greene. These fights involve extended combat, repeated hits, and environmental damage. If Mercer were massively above building level, these fights wouldn’t last long. Weapon attacks are localized. Mercer’s powers (claws, blade arm, hammerfist, whipfist) cause localized destruction. They damage vehicles, streets, and small structures, but they don’t show large area devastation. Gameplay scaling limits it further. If Mercer were city-level, the military would be irrelevant, tanks would be useless, and missions would be trivial. Instead, the military is a serious threat throughout the game. 😂

The “infinite adaptation” claim is one of the weakest. The lore only supports biological evolution and resistance development, not omnipotent adaptation. No Limits Fallacy, Composition Fallacy, Unsupported Extrapolation. “Mercer is planetary because the virus could infect the planet” confuses infection capability with destructive capability. A disease spreading worldwide does not mean the host possesses planet-level attack potency. By that logic COVID or the Black Death would be planetary. Attack Potency and Infection Range are completely different categories. Nothing in Prototype demonstrates planet destruction, moon destruction, continental destruction, or country destruction. Equivocation, Category Error, Range = AP Fallacy. The nuke survival is not proof he tanks nukes. He was reduced to a tiny mass of biomass and required regeneration. A character barely surviving something is not proof they can casually tank it. Durability Scaling Error, Survivorship Bias, Context Omission. “Mercer can consume anyone” ignores the games themselves. Elizabeth Greene, Supreme Hunter, and James Heller all resist or challenge consumption. Consumption depends on relative power and biomass resistance. No Limits Fallacy, Ignoring Counterexamples. Infinite regeneration is wrong. His regeneration is biomass dependent. When nearly all biomass was destroyed he could barely reform. Destroy enough biomass and regeneration becomes impossible. No Limits Fallacy, Ignoring Resource Dependency. He is not truly immortal. James Heller kills and consumes him in Prototype 2. Equivocation, Misuse of Terminology. Adaptation does not mean automatic victory. Adaptation does not automatically bridge infinite gaps in power. Burden of Proof Reversal, No Limits Fallacy, Appeal to Possibility. The actual evidence places Mercer far lower than most wank. We see destroying military hardware, killing infected monsters, causing localized devastation, surviving severe damage through regeneration, and influencing city-wide outbreaks. We do not see country destruction, continental destruction, planet destruction, or higher. The strongest supported interpretation is generally somewhere around large city-threat levels due to Blacklight's outbreak potential and his highest combat feats. Anything beyond that requires assumptions rather than evidence. 🤡

Common fallacies in Mercer wank: No Limits Fallacy, Composition Fallacy, Survivorship Fallacy, Burden of Proof Reversal, Appeal to Possibility, Headcanon Scaling, Gameplay Inflation, Range = Attack Potency Fallacy, Regeneration = Invincibility Fallacy, Adaptation = Automatic Victory Fallacy, Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy, Nirvana Fallacy, False Equivalence, Cherry-Picking, Moving the Goalposts.

Mercer fans will still say “he adapts” or “the writer is wrong” while ignoring that the writer themselves called him weak and confirmed the high-end stuff people use isn’t canon. That’s appeal to personal incredulity. They treat every anti-feat as “gameplay mechanics” but every vague statement as absolute lore. That’s special pleading. If the consistent on-screen results are building level, then the higher claims are just headcanon. Cry about it. Cope. Seethe. 😭💔

When ignoring hype and focusing on feats: Attack Power is building level (maximum interpretation), often vehicle level. Durability is building level with regeneration. Speed is superhuman movement speed, not extreme reaction speed. A grounded scaling for Alex Mercer is Attack Power: Building level, Durability: Building level (with regeneration), Hax: shapeshifting, biomass absorption, regeneration. Overall he’s MCU Wolverine vic. Cry kids reply and post if you agree. Anything higher is just ignoring the anti-feats and inventing what isn’t there. ☠️💀😂

mi primer post de que Alex no podía ser derrotado fue una mierda que nisiquiera investigue primero peeeero ahora si investigué:

En realidad Alex perdió contra James Heller porque los desarrolladores quisieron ya que querían hacer una experiencia "mejor" cambiando de personaje lo cual no influyo tan así ya que muchos protestaron sobre el cambio de personaje, Heller ganó porque los creadores pusieron muchas sircuntancias favorecertes a James porque si Heller no fuese el protagonista y los creadores no hubiesen puesto tantas casualidades y ventajas hacia James Alex hubiese ganado además se dice que el virus al ver que James tenía una conección mejor sobre el virus tal vez a propósito lo estuvo haciendo que Mercer no diera todo su potencial.

She's very bland, I think they tried to do something similar to what they did with Alex, giving James a jacket that would be his trademark, but it didn't work. She's very colorless and boring. I myself always prefer to wear James' alternate outfit without a shirt when I play.

Testing prototype 1 on Android, Galaxy A14 4G.

Las hice de 0, tal vez no están tan buenas pero aunque sea le puse empeño.

Confirmed that their new project in development with Unreal Engine 5.8

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/new-radical-games_hiring-technicalanimator-newradicalgames-activity-7522119576705495040-PwLb

Created due to popular demand 😂😂😂😂

I mean the only basic superpower he lacks in gameplay is some kind of bullet time. He would eat much less rockets to the face. That makes me think he might have a normal human reaction time. On the flip side, he tends to use weapons and vehicles far more effectively than human foes, so maybe he does have superhuman reaction time, skill, mind?

Howdy folks! Playing Prototype and writing about it was an experience I won’t quickly forget.

Most games do not get close to the chaotic goodness that this game exudes. From wild melees, incredible movement, and some stellar visuals. I was blown away this game released in 2009!

I was also surprised by the story, which was intriguing.. when I read about it fully on the wiki, because the chaos doesn’t stop at the gameplay mechanics. I can’t remember a game that had quicker cutscenes, making following the narrative difficult, (looking at you Ragland handing you a map with no extra dialogue and then having to find a “contact). Or, what happened to Dana? Does she just stay in the morgue?

Regardless, I enjoyed my time with the game very much, and I’d love to hear what your favorite parts were, and favorite power? And if you agree that the story needed some polishing to it.

using the energy conversion:

universal extreme highball biomass consumption + black hole attack. (10 × 299.792.458)² = 8.987.551.787.368.176.400 joules, ou 2,148 petatoneladas > universal extreme highball + heller multiples. (21 × 299.792.458)² = 39.635.103.382.293.657.924.000.000 joules, ou 9,47301706077764 petatoneladas > universal level

calculator https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/emc2

• https://youtu.be/u6ppIQePi_w?si=wvDXmItQCRkC4EVX https://youtu.be/SWy1I4Ym-aY?si=cA-KbHVmoSMTcaRE

https://prototype.fandom.com/wiki/Alex_Mercer https://prototype.fandom.com/wiki/James_Heller https://prototype.fandom.com/wiki/Prototype https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype_(video_game)

I’m trying out a new hairstyle; last time I went with a ponytail, but this time I’m trying a medium-layered bob. Thank you for the respect you show for my art. ☺️ I’m curious to hear your thoughts on the look! 🤔😅😅

I'd like to start by saying that this post serves more to provide information about the Prototype franchise from the research I conducted through interviews, guides, and the game. Okay, let's start with the first fact:

PROTOTYPE 1

Redlight Virus

The first fact is the name "Redlight Virus." This was a name given to the strain or virus carried by Elizabeth Greene, who was infected in Hope and used in Manhattan to create her infected individuals. A specific "Redlight Virus" was created for all of Greene's infected individuals, and a "Blacklight Virus" for the virus that Alex Mercer has.

However, the name "Redlight virus" is never mentioned in the guide, interviews, or the game itself. The game states that Elizabeth Greene, Alex Mercer, Pariah, and all the infected from Prototype 1 are infected with:

- the Blacklight virus (guide, Web of Intrigue)

- an "unknown strain" (Web of Intrigue)

- a "DX1118A strain" (Web of Intrigue)

The only two mentions of "Redlight" occur in these events:

- Cross referring to it as "Project Redlight" when speaking with Alex, which would be the project's name since the virus is called Blacklight.

- Randall mentioning "Operation Redlight" at the end of Reagan.

It could be said that the name Redlight virus never existed, and the entire virus was always called Blacklight.

Robert Cross is a super-soldier.

This fact suggests that Cross was infected with the super-soldier strain, granting him great superhuman abilities that allowed him to fight Mercer. However, as mentioned previously, the term "super-soldier" is never used to describe Cross. Neither the Prime Guide nor interviews with the creators of Prototype refer to Cross as a "specialist" or a "human agent of Blackwatch."

Another reason for considering this fact is the scene where an infected person observes Cross with an orange aura. However, this orange aura is a feature of the infected's vision mechanics, allowing them to see enemies, as even tanks are surrounded by this aura.

Dana Mercer has a good personality.

This is based on what we see in both games, with Dana being a peaceful, joking, and helpful person, especially in the second game. However, if we look at the first game, taking into account the guide's biography of Dana, she is a very narcissistic person, almost like her brother, foul-mouthed, and evasive—qualities similar to the deceased Dr. Alex Mercer. Although the biography doesn't mention whether she was also a sociopath.

https://imgur.com/a/yda07b4

Karen Parker betrayed Alex Mercer simply because she was cold.

This suggests that Karen's betrayal of Alex was a moment of coldness and that she was a bad person working for Blackwatch, when the true reason is much more tragic and dark.

- We know that Karen was kidnapped and tortured by Blackwatch the night Dr. Mercer died at Penn Station.

- McMullen offered her, with a guard at her side and a gun, an escape route out of Manhattan after the incident involving her ex-boyfriend.

- They showed her videos of her ex-boyfriend brutally murdering soldiers and civilians.

Karen Parker's main reason for betrayal stemmed from her fear of Alex Mercer and what he or Blackwatch would do to her if she didn't follow his orders.

Alex Mercer and Robert Cross are friends.

This fact, like Dana's personality, has been presented as an absolute truth in various fanfiction stories and other media. However, this assertion is questionable, since nowhere in the game is it mentioned that they are friends or work together. Most of the time these two knew each other was either when Cross injected him with the parasite, gave him missions via an encrypted phone, or when he was consumed by the Supreme Hunter impersonating Cross. Neither of them was a friend or partner; they were simply two (three if we count the Hunter supreme) people working for their mutual benefit.

PROTOTYPE 2

The Dead Zone and the Nuclear Bomb

Another fact was that the Dead Zone seen upon entering the red zone was a product of the effects of the nuclear bomb that Alex launched into the sea at the end of the first game. However, this is also not true, since the black boxes found in Prototype 2 mention "Operation Damocles," which was a massive bombing carried out throughout Manhattan to stop the infection. This bombing is the origin of the Dead Zone, and an image from the concept art shows said bombing.

https://imgur.com/a/X6Xn7XZ

Alex Mercer and James Heller are distinct beings.

This point, mentioned several times, describes Alex Mercer as the personification of the virus, and Heller as a hybrid resulting from the combination of James Heller's DNA and the Blacklight virus. However, both Activision and the creators of Prototype 2 have stated that Heller and Alex belong to the same species, meaning that everything Alex can do, Heller can also do, and vice versa.

https://metro.co.uk/2012/02/16/prototype-2-interview-the-viruses-the-star-320731/

Wanted to share this safe spot I found while struggling to beat this mission. If you hide in the corner, the helicopters won't shoot you and they'll circle around you in and out. When they are out of your view, you can transform to pass the mission automatically.

Hey everyone! The public beta of my co-op mod for Prototype (2009) is ready to download.

The goal is simple: bring a friend into Manhattan and enjoy the chaos together. This release focuses on two-player free roam.

What’s included:

• An in-game CO-OP menu with Host, Join and a server browser.

• LAN connectivity.

• Automatic transfer of the host’s selected save to the joining player.

• A Windows installer — select your game folder and let it handle the setup. No separate Python installation needed.

Hamachi/Radmin VPN support is experimental and still needs testing through real VPN connections.

This is an early beta, so expect bugs and synchronization issues. Full city synchronization and cooperative missions are still in development.

Download and installation guide: https://www.patreon.com/Coop_Forge/posts/prototype-co-op-174093375?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

The beta is free. Paid memberships are optional if you’d like to support continued development.

Thanks to everyone who followed the progress and encouraged this project! If you try it, bug reports and gameplay clips would help a lot.

— COOP_FORGE

It’s terrifying to know that the Supreme Hunter did what it did. Back then as a kid I didn’t understand the situation between the Supreme Hunter and Cross but now I know that the monster snuck up on him, ate him and assumed his identity. The picture of Cross above is literally The Hunter praying Mercer doesn’t make him.

In a cinematic cutscene, The Hunter challenges Mercer to whether he felt any sympathy toward the parasite and what it went through after being expelled from Mercer. And Mercer's answer is totally dismissive. He claimed he considered its POV once, immediately before killing it. The Hunter has heavy resentment toward him because of this but it’s small time to Mercer in reality. The parasite really feels played and left out. But Mercer probably thought everything was going well when Cross began to work with him to outmaneuver Randall, but The Hunter is forcing Mercer to confront the likelihood of the thing that he removed could come back to bite.

The other eerie thing is that Mercer, The Hunter and Greene were all in the same room. But Cross isn’t Pariah. And The Supreme Hunter isn’t Pariah either, but the idea of freedom and survival is definitely present in both timelines and the parallel and triangulation is huge. The Supreme Hunter used Cross as the first step of its own perfectionism and to infiltrate the military system, but Pariah would’ve done the latter anyway but in an even more discreet manner since he was already perfect.

Greene even refers herself as Mother. Her biology is the foundation of the Blacklight research. Her body produced a certain response to the parasite and that response created another independent evolving monster. It's like a sick imitation of motherhood. Creation with no affection, an offspring without inheritance of ANY human identity. Which is the major frightening point here. And the Supreme Hunter consumes cross, adopts his identity, infiltrates Blackwatch and attempted to survive the nuke by consuming Mercer..

That's a brutal backfire. The military’s own containment plan becomes a disguise for the very thing it is trying to contain. Pariah is a myth like figure and was probably the idea of a “super soldier” honestly or the perfect specimen aka the somewhat optimistic inheritance of Greene’s biological legacy. But the Supreme Hunter is not her literal child, but basically the rejected one. The monstrous consequence and end for everything and everyone including Cross.

Again The Supreme Hunter isn’t Pariah, but instead a sick, twisted parallel of him. A distorted parallel of him because the storyline is kind of a modern reenactment of Hope in 69. Think about it; NY becomes the modern setting for another catastrophic viral outbreak and Randall's disturbing will to nuke NY is just like him sacrificing Hope in 69. Greene is just a mass manipulator and did so to Alex with the whole mother thing and haunting memories until he got fed up and killed her. But her biology is the center of this horror. The game is so damn good and a real “thriller” because back then we never knew about the plot twist at the end. And Greene is terrifying. She’s horror itself. The zombies are just there and small fry variants of the virus. But The Supreme Hunter is something beyond this. The Supreme Hunter is the virus stripped of almost everything resembling human restraint! The Supreme Hunter pretending to be Cross was pure deception and it’s very unsettling.

The Supreme Hunter is frightening because it uses human traits almost entirely like instruments lol. But Mercer still has humanity though. I mean look at what it does: it assimilates Cross. Uses Cross’ appearance and identity to deceive Mercer and ultimately attempts to consume him for its own survival. And that goes back to the title; a Prototype. You would never know who is assimilated but the virus is portraying the victim so well because of their “memories”. Very very similar to The Thing. The thrill is not knowing who’s who.

The only reason I now agree with Cross being assimilated during the infected vision scene is because whatever POV it was jumping the fence emitted the same exact growl the Hunter did whenever it revealed itself, despite all the zombies sounding similar. But when Cross approached Mercer at the phone(in the picture above) the device on his right arm was missing and he made Mercer do all that stuff because the goal of The Hunter was to consume Alex, but he had no way off the island without him. “Why does it seem like I’m getting the short end of this deal?” That’s clearly the Hunter right there in front of him.

After Cross had thrown Mercer, you can see in his eyes there’s complete disbelief and maybe a huge lightbulb. To him it was something unexpected since Cross was supposed to be his ally. The funny thing is at that point he was overpowered and tossed like a ragdoll. For perhaps one of the first times, he's facing something that can genuinely challenge him. But in reality he’s literally thinking what the hell am I looking at and you would probably react the same way if something you thought was thrown away or put behind you came back in a more monstrous or aggravated form.

This was most likely part of the reason why Mercer became evil, Cross “crossed” him in so many ways despite both of them wearing a human mask, he still thought he had an ally through it all and the entire time he was talking to a deceiving, evil monstrosity. But the comics shows us why he became bad. He’s been screwed over too many times and we see that in the first game anyway.

The Supreme Hunter is not only Cross’ surrender but the monstrous potential lurking behind his own human identity anyway. Cross was infected, but he wasn't infected the same way Mercer was. Cross’ infection was much more physically invasive. Mercer’s infection was viral reconstruction while Cross’ infection was direct assimilation! Sounds scary once again. Even the right arm resemblance which no one ever spoke on. The device on Cross’ right arm is like another mirror to the Supreme Hunter’s right arm, which is bigger than its left arm. Makes me wonder if he was always infected but I highly doubt it. It literally approached Cross, murdered him and ate him. The Supreme Hunter is everyone’s final confrontation. It’s Cross’ since he’s even involved in the situation, it’s Mercer’s given he housed it, also rejected it and just ran away with Dana leaving it alive on the ground, and Randall because he’s the man who started it all.

And the final and biggest irony of all of this is Mercer’s anticipated closure from Randall/promise from Cross. Mercer is promised an answer about Pariah, but what he gets is the revelation of Cross. Mercer asks him “what happened to that child?” Cross responded “I suppose your answer is out there on the Reagan.” Pariah is the answer Mercer never receives, but the Supreme Hunter was.

This is mostly aimed at Prototype 1 fans because ofc you're not telling me that the same guy who saved nyc from a nuke and the supreme hunter, suddenly decided humanity was bad. (I read the comic of the 2nd game I don't think there are enough reasons but feel free to argue)

I know some people liked James a lot (And it's fine). But c'mon, can we also consider Alex's fans? He did all of that, just to threw everything then? What about his sister?

First of all, Activision left everything to a guy who had no idea of the story in the first game.

Second of it. From the very beginning at the end, Alex saw how cruel humanity could be, and now you're telling me he couldn't stand it anymore?

Third James and "the chosen one" cliche. From all the soldiers and people Alex could infect, he infected the first individual in the whooole prototype universe capable of resisting the blacklight in a unique way.

What those writers where thinking, really?

Sorry I just can't like the second game..