Alex Mercer

## The Character

> "*My name is Alex Mercer. I'm the reason for all of this. They call me a killer, a monster, a terrorist... I'm all of these things*"
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> "*One virus, three weeks, millions dead... and I was there. My name was Alex Mercer, and my work is almost done*"
> ― Alex Mercer
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   Summary: Alex experienced a brutal childhood spent in abject poverty; his first nine years were spent in foster care. When he turned 10, he was finally returned to his mother, who had spent the last nine years in prison. He was the only parental figure for his sister Dana Mercer as they would play and watch movies together. Alex was unsocial and didn’t care for friends or what anyone thought about him he found peace in his work. Alex shows signs of being a sociopath. After earning a doctorate degree in genetics at Columbia University, Mercer was hired by Gentek and became the head of the Blacklight project at Gentek. After launching a self investigation with the help of his sister on Gentek found that Blackwatch soldiers were silencing/killing members of the Blacklight team he took a vile for insurance but was cornered at Penn Station with his back against the wall the threw the vile onto the ground breaking it and unleashing the Blacklight virus Blackwatch shot and killed Mercer. After he awoke he had amnesia and powers. He grew to be the most wanted terrorist in history even making his own army of evolved and settling off the Virus in Manhattan once again.

Name: Alexander J Mercer, Zeus, The Prototype

Age: Human 28, Blacklight 2

Birthday: 16th of July 1979

Height/Weight: Depends on what form and what person he decides to be, Weight depends on forms can be anywhere from 50+Kg to 1-2 tones

Origin: Prototype

## Tiering

Weakness: Weaponised Blacklight virus (His adaptability should take care of this as it will eventually become tolerant if not immune with repeated exposure)

Lifting Strength: With one arm can effortlessly throw a 32 ton Bradley APC all the way to the Cloud District

Striking Strength: Should be comparable to his lifting strength, A jab can kill a armoured Blackwatch soldier, A full punch or kick without muscle Mass can send full grown humans flying down a street

Speed: Travel Sound+ (should be faster then Roland a evolved who can break the sound barrier), Low Hypersonic (can outrun Elizabeth Greene's Biomass shockwave), Hypersonic to Hypersonic+ (P2 Alex should be vastly superior to P1 Alex), Reaction Transonic to Supersonic (can dodge sniper fire and Gatling gun fire), Low Hypersonic (can dodge Elizabeth Greene's Biomass shockwave), Hypersonic to Hypersonic+ (should be vastly superior to P1 Alex)

Durability: Town to Small City (survived the explosion of an Atomic Bomb that was 5\* more powerful then the Little Boy dropped on Hiroshima during WW2, 18\*5=90 kilotons), By P2 should be higher

Destructive Capability: Building (Hammerfist attacks are capable of downing buildings) City (After James Heller absorbed him his tendrils were capable of covering every street in the Green, Yellow and Red zones)

Range: Several Km with Whipfist

Stamina: 2/4

Tier: Low Rank 2F-G

## Powers and Abilities

**Adaptability**: Because Alex is the Blacklight virus if he is exposed to something long enough he'll become extremely tolerant if not immune

**Blade**: Powerful and deadly cutting and thrusting weapon that can cut through the toughest armor (like tanks and helicopters)

**Claws**: These claws are great for cleaving through horde of infected and humans

**Groundspike**: Sticks his claw into the ground and massive spikes erupt out of the ground impaling the enemy wherever they are located on the ground

**Shield**: This shield can block bullets and can run with it like a battering ram once it breaks it needs to regenerate before it can be used again

**Armor**: Covering himself in extremely hard Biomass bullets and tank shells bounce off it vastly increases defence but sacrifices movement and speed but he can flip cars just by running into them

**Hammerfist**: Shifts biomass to his forearms sacrifices speed for power where he can one shot tanks

**Hammerfist Elbow Slam**: Drops an elbow drop onto the enemies where if he gets the right height he can one shot tanks

**Hammertoss**: Sprints into a self throw. It's still dangerous if it misses and deadly if it hits

**Whipfist**: Thin, flexible blade edged arm that can be used to hit or grab people from a distance

**Musclemass**: Increases his strength two fold

**Thermal Vision**: can see heat signatures through smoke and debris

**Infected Vision**: can see who is infected with the Blacklight virus

**Airdash**: Dash mid air where he looks like a blur

**Glide**: Can glide

**Critical Mass**: Allows for the use of devastators and can hit harder when full

**Adrenaline Surge**: If he is about to die he will enter a state of temporary invulnerability and even access to a final devastator

**Healing factor**: Can heal from several deadly wounds like when he has a gun shot wound to his head

**Cannonball**: Tuck and rolls in mid air and collide with the target it can track and down helicopters

**Bulletdive Drop**: After dropping from a glide he experiences more then 8Gs and walks off more then 10Gs

**Groundshatter**: By punching the ground can send infected and humans flying in the air

**Groundspike Graveyard Devestator**: A cascade of Groundspikes erupt out of the ground impaleing everyone around you

**Tendril Barrage Devestator**: Tendrils erupt from his body to impale all near by enemies can also be used into the air

**Critical Pain Devestator**: Fires biomass in front of himself it inflicts untold damage upon any in the line of fire

**Consumption**: Can consume a biological life form taking on its appearance, memories and skills

**Shapeshifting**: Can transform into anyone he's consumed

**Tendrils**: can use these to rip people apart

**Spikes**: can turn his biomass into long spikes covering his body

**Summons**: Can summon Brawlers and Infected birds to fight alongside him

**Father Form:** Giant mass of biomass that can fire large amounts of concrete and green homing attacks

**Biomass Shockwave**: In his Father form unleashes a massive shockwave of biomass

**Biomass Bomb**: Unleashes a Black Light bomb that infects the surrounding area and kills and turns biological lifeforms hit by it

#### ***(Now these powers are DLC so we don't know if they are canon)***

**Warp Vortex**: By kicking or throwing something he can cause a vortex that sucks up light objects (like humans)

**Anti Gravity Field**: Anything he comes into contact with instantly losses its gravitational hold to the earth

**Medusa's Wrath**: Eye ball lasers that can kill anything with one hit even setting infected and humans on fire

**Air Time**: Infinite gliding (does slow down)

**Shockwave**: When he jumps causes a shockwave that can kill near by people

## Feats

### **PROTOTYPE 1**

Graduated from University with a doctorate in genetics

Was the lead scientist for the Blacklight project

Survived releasing the Blacklight Virus (the Blacklight virus has a 99.999% chance to kill and turn anyone infected)

Survived getting riddled with machine gun fire

Can outrun helicopters

Can catch and lift cars with ease

In bass can tank a speeding truck without moving

Can consume people from a distance by turning his biomass into liquid and then hardening it at will turning it into spikes and turn other living organisms into liquid

In one night became the worlds most wanted terrorist

During Bullet Drop can endure more then 8Gs of force and walk off more then 10Gs of force

Fast enough to dodge a sniper bullet

With just a touch he can consume people

Absorbed the skills, powers and memories of anyone he consumes

Tanked his apartment getting blown up with him inside

Smashed through a 2.5 foot steel door

Survived a building falling on him and fuel tanks explosions

Survived having the Blacklight cancer parasite (it took up a good portion of his upper back)

Consumed an Alpha Hunter and learned where Dana is being held

Able to react and move faster then Elizabeth Greene's Biomass shockwave

Consumed Elizabeth Greene

Quick enough to react to a grenade launcher from a couple of meters away

Tanked a shot from an RPG and showed no damage or pain

Hammerfist can decimate tanks with one or two hits

Can tank hits from Thermobaric tank shells (the explosion sucks in surrounding oxygen making a vacuum to produce a intense hight temperature explosion)

Consumed 131 scientists, Blackwatch soldiers, Military and Marines and has all their knowledge and skills

Survived being shot in the head

Killed and consumed the Supreme Hunter (which is like Alex except stronger, faster and more durable) and took an atom bomb out to sea in less then 3 minutes

Survived the explosion of a atom bomb 5x as powerful as the Little Boy (18 Kilotons) dropped on Hiroshima in world war 2 (usually if an animal or human is caught in an atomic blast they will leave a shadow of their incinerated corpse but Alex was in chunks so his body was able to withstand 83,333,315.6 Degrees Celsius that's 15,151.51 times hotter then the surface of the sun) (the bomb would measure to 18x5=90 Kilotons)

### **COMICS**

Killed a west Africa warlord

Freed a town from the hold of a drug cartel

While in a cabin was able to hear the crunch of snow

Quick enough to dodge Gatling gun fire

Went for a dip in the Antarctica and didn't notice the temperature change

### **PROTOTYPE 2**

Has an army of Evolved

Strong enough to casually toss a tank

Turned James Heller into an Evolved

## Notes

By the event of P2 he should have consumed more soldiers and scientests then by the end of P1

Alex didn’t need the crow to regenerate from the Atomic bomb as Supreme Hunter was extremely confident that after he absorbed Alex he would be able to survive the point blank blast of the bomb and seeming Alex absorbed him it shouldn’t be any different as the Supreme Hunter revived from a pool of biomass so Alex wouldn’t need the crow his healing factor would have kicked in the crow just speeds up the process

With the amount of people he has consumed he should be the most intelligent and best fighter who ever lived on the planet

Do not add electricity as one of his weaknesses as there is more evidence going against that argument then for it (I know someone who worked on the game said it was but that’s contradicted by P2 as it’s never mentioned or shown) it’s like Superman and magic for a comparison it can hurt him but it’s not his weakness

Respect Thread https://comicvine.gamespot.com/alex-mercer/4005-58219/forums/remastered-alex-j-mercer-respect-thread-1705459/

## Notable Wins

Albert Wesker (Resident Evil)

Good ColeMacGrath (Infamous)

Shinichi Izumi (Parasyte)

Ken Kaneki (Tokyo Ghoul)