James Heller

James Heller is the main protagonist of the 2012 video game Prototype 2. 
He is a former US Marine Sergeant and the second Blacklight being. Following his attempted suicide mission against Alex Mercer, Mercer infected Heller with his variant of the virus. Driven by a powerful need for vengeance, he set out into the city to uncover the truth behind Alex Mercer, Blackwatch and the second outbreak of the Blacklight virus.
He was voiced by Cornell Womack.
==Overview==
James is a marine who lost his family to the infection while he was away on duty. He returns to Manhattan, runs a series of suicide missions in the Red Zone, and is eventually mortally wounded. Mercer is impressed by his skill, however, and infects Heller with his unique strain of Blacklight. Now a newly super powered Heller vows to kill Mercer.
==Biography==
===Background===
Not much is known about James Heller's past, but he joined the United States Marine Corps and did tours in Afghanistan. At some point, he met and fell in love with a woman named Colette, whom he married and bore his daughter Amaya. While overseas, Heller was contacted by Colette of the second outbreak of the Blacklight virus in New York, but reassured her that he will would be home the next day. Upon returning home, he discovered the corpse of his wife and grieved the loss of his family. He later learned that the outbreak was supposedly caused by Alex Mercer, and Heller was one of the many volunteers to hunt down the former scientist since he wanted revenge against the man who took his fmaily from him.
==Powers & Abilities==
Prior to his infection by Alex Mercer, Heller was competent and skilled in battle as a result of his military training, demonstrated in his slaying of a Brawler using only a combat knife. He is proficient with the majority of military weapons, ranging from standard assault rifles and light machine guns to miniguns rocket launchers. The abilities granted by his viral infection are divided into 5 categories - Offensive, Defensive, Locomotion, Predator and Power-Specialist.
==Personality and Characteristics==
Before he lost his family, James Heller had a joyful life. His relationships with Colette and Amaya were close and loving. Upon their death, Heller became a changed man: he grew grim, rude, cynical and impatient—a dark shadow of his earlier personality. Heller’s goals rarely or even convincingly exceed his own personal desires to destroy those responsible for his family's death and protect his daughter. However unlike Mercer he does occasionally take the civilian cost into account, for example when he releases Brawlers from Blackwatch captivity he will attempt to kill them before they do what he calls the "wrong kind of damage". 
Another example is when Heller observed in disgust as Blackwatch troops forced captured Civilians into a base, where they would be killed and consumed by Juggernauts minutes later. Despite all this, he appeared to be quite willing to leave NYZ to Blackwatch as long as he was able to leave with his daughter. However, he developed sympathy for Colonel Rooks after he realized Rooks also had a family and daughter. He is also a technophobe, and seems to really hate computers, an example being in one of the early missions when he tried to access a Blackwatch Computer and began to grow more frustrated with each attempt to access it. Heller dislikes killing Marines or Civilians, if he consumes either he'd try to do it quickly and painlessly whereas by contrast he makes no effort to avoid making consuming Blackwatch or Gentek personnel painful due to his contempt for them.
== Trivia ==
* Alex Mercer had stated that he's evoled beyond both life or death, and that James Heller has as well. This is implayed that the virus that was Alex Mercer could have assumed the identity of James Heller or that he merged with the virus itself.
** The Fact that's different from James Heller, is that he was more heroic than Alex and was able to restrained the Virus that was Alex Mercer, as the fact that the real Alex Mercer was already dead as it already controlled his dead body and assumed his identity in the first Prototype game.
==External Links==
*James Heller on the Prototype Wiki.
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