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== [[Fridge Brilliance]] ==

 

 

* Why do Alex's clothes shapeshift along with him? In a nutshell, they ''too'' are organic. Seriously; cotton sweatshirt, denim jeans, leather jacket. {{spoiler|It makes even more sense once you find out 'Alex' is an experimental sentient strain of the Blacklight Virus.}}

** Also, have you ever wondered why the front of Alex's jacket flaps about in sync while walking, even in places where it's hypothetically impossible to experience wind? Probably related to the point above, remember that as a shape-shifter, every part of Alex can essentially be voluntarily manipulated. Just as much as one would swing both arms while walking/running, Alex could be subconsciously flapping the front of "jacket" while walking, simply out of habit!

** Is it still Fridge Brilliance if the game itself explains the organic-ness of Mercer's clothing? One Web of Intruige states that his clothing is Biomass...

*** That Biomass would be the organic thing. Just like other organic things and their own '''bio'''logical '''mass'''.

** Doesn't the game explicitly tell you what Alex died from though... making it relevant to what happened on screen?

* Soldiers will run over to investigate any loud impacts you make but don't seem particularly alarmed by seeing you run up walls or leap 20 feet in the air the same way they do if you display any other powers. This may seem like an AI oversight, until you encounter the Super Soldiers and realize that you're not the only one who can leap tall buildings in a single bound. The Marines most likely assume that you're one of them based off of that. Though it is true Super Soliders aren't deployed until the late game, there's plenty of evidence that their existence is known before that point.

* Alex repeatedly states that revenge is the only thought he considers his own. That's because literally the final thought of Alex Mercer before {{spoiler|he was shot and killed, releasing the Blacklight Virus, was something along the lines of "If I'm going down, I'm taking you all with me."}} The same goes for Elizabeth Greene. She was {{spoiler|pregnant when her body was taken over by the virus, so it not only copied her form down to the genetic level but also replicated her maternal instincts and thoughts. Thus, the state of their previous selves at the moment of infection make Copy!Alex a revenge-driven sociopath and Copy!Elizabeth a brood mother}}.

* Alex immediately going after Dana as soon as he remembers her in order to save her from Blackwatch, not only because he needs her, but because she's his sister -- naturally, he loves her. From the very beginning, whatever other faults Alex has, it's clear that he cares about her safety. {{spoiler|Which seems totally normal, until you realize that ''the real Alex is dead'', and he ''never'' cared about Dana beyond [[It's All About Me|what she could do for him]]. In other words, this is the first sign that the [[The Virus|Blacklight Virus]] is already developing beyond the [[Complete Monster|monster]] that the original Alex was. Granted, it takes a chunk of time for anything resembling a conscience to develop beyond that, but considering that Blacklight-Alex isn't even ''human'', even though he doesn't know it yet, that's a pretty big plot point}}.

* Massive, ''massive'' one here: You keep hearing people saying that {{spoiler|ZEUS/}}Alex is something ''else''. He's not under the [[Hive Mind]] influence of Elizabeth Greene, and he's not a "Runner" (an infected carrier that is independent of the hive and highly intelligent) either, because all Runners are female. You then hear a WOI node explaining that the Redlight virus and both its derivatives and first form all have such a high mortality rate (99.999%, with Greene being the only known exception) because it introduces radical mutations in the body which are incompatible with life. ''Then'' you find out that Alex Mercer improved the virus' effectiveness tenfold during his work at GenTek. ''Finally'' you find out that Alex {{spoiler|died and fell over the shattered Blacklight vial he was carrying, and the virus found its way into his dying body}}. Then it ''hits'' you: {{spoiler|Mercer was already dead or dying when he hit the ground, but not completely, and since the virus was 10 times as effective, it had ''just'' enough time to infect his body and reanimate/clone it with his final memories and thoughts intact, just before it died completely}}. Similarly, {{spoiler|Greene was a one-in-a-million case of compatibility with the virus, her biology allowing the virus to achieve it's full potential, the effects of which manifest in the next generation (the "Hope children" manifested mutations, while the parents were unaffected at first). Thus, ''her'' child, PARIAH, was a manifestation of the virus' true potential, established in a new generation, and that is why he's so powerful}}.

* You know those "War" segments, where you join one side for the sake of thrashing the other? {{spoiler|It's for keeping the conflict in balance. If either side wins, they'll be able to concentrate on you.}}

* We're used to [[Super Drowning Skills|games restricting areas with water]], sometimes with [[Super Drowning Skills]], sometimes by adding some threat to the water so the player doesn't reach any areas where the developers stopped shaping the world. No surprise Prototype does something similar right? Then you realize {{spoiler|it's due to him being the virus and the virus can't cross bodies of water - which also keeps the setting in one place}}.

** This troper always saw that as a completely different moment of [[Fridge Brilliance]]. He's been absorbing the biomass of all these people (and at least 2 by the time you get to water), so his mass would be incredibly high. He would simply WEIGH too much to swim. -Arzeef

** And you know why you can only absorb pure genetic material if you destroy the water tower before the hunter is born? Yeah...

* How is it possible for Alex Mercer, a single man (to some degree), to be able to drive a tank while normally it requires 4 operators? Then you remember some of Mercer's more [[Combat Tentacles|'interesting']] attacks, and then you realize that he probably just mildly shapeshifts himself while he's inside to do everything at once.

** Several of the Web of Intrigue cutscenes mention that the virus inside Mercer is highly contagious. Now, it can be inferred that it has to be spread through some other means by air, otherwise Dana and Ragland would have been infected as well. However, he can probably spread infection through ingestion. Now, consider that the military, in their desperation to kill Mercer, constantly shoots him whenever they notice him. Often this is in highly-populated areas. Think about it: their bullets, grenades, and rockets are constantly shaving off pieces of Mercer's biomass, ''flinging parts of the infection into the environment and people around him.'' One has to wonder how many people were infected, how many previously 'clean' areas were compromised because of this.

*** Alex actually has to actively try to infect people, so I doubt that's much of a point. However, it does explain why the infected can evolve so fast: There are bits and pieces of Alex's biomass, infected with the superior virus, that they could very well use to build their hives... -[[I Am Not Creative Enough]]

** It wasn't a hospital, it was "in military custody". Possibly a surgical instrument of some sort.

 

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