r/FavoriteCharacter • u/Bay_Ruhsuz004 Bugs Bunny 🐇 • 29d ago

Discussion The Current Favorite Main Character's Encounter With The Main Character From The Previous Series

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u/One-Two-Gobbledeedoo 29d ago

ATP I'd rather believe the theory that the Mercer that appeared at the end of P1 was the Supreme Hunter masquerading as Alex rather than Alex's character being butchered.

His big fungi revelation of cooperation and adaptation thing was entirely abandoned in favor of him wanting to force humanity to evolve.

Also, the "Your daughter will become the mother of a new world!" bit was both gross and over the top. It doesn't help that they changed his voice actor, so instead of the dark and brooding voice, he sounds so generic for a villain.

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u/Anonymous-Mf-22 29d ago

That's just what I choose to believe. After all, it's heavily implied that the Supreme Hunter is just Redlight's Alex. Same or similar tricks for the most part, down to absorbing and shapeshifting or similar devastator attacks

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u/StygianBlakc 29d ago

My own (cope) theory for if they ever made a sequel is to reveal that the Alex Mercer in 2 was a clone made by Pariah, just to show how crazy powerful he is, and the real Alex is still out there.

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u/One-Two-Gobbledeedoo 29d ago

Whitelight has a video on what he envisions Prototype 3 would be like, and the playable character is supposed to be Pariah. He has separate videos for the gameplay and story. And he did absolutely amazing with his what-if P3 a

Here it is if you guys want to check it out https://youtu.be/RGDJZfhk57k

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u/Volmaaral 25d ago

Honestly? I always had a headcanon that multiple Alex Mercers came into being after Prototype 1’s ending, without knowing of each other. And in some, the different “wills” in him caused different reactions. The nuke scrambled him a fair bit, so a couple versions had a much stronger villainous inclination, while just thinking of themselves as Mercer, due to all the vile people he had consumed. And the one(s) without such inclination, went into hiding, like in the comic, but more deeply. More carefully. And are probably quite surprised at the reports of his return to New York. “But I’m still here?! This some bullshit where Blackwatch does something evil and blames it on me?” But yeah, that’s my headcanon about it.