@Poppduder said:
He just wants his daughter back.
I laffed. When will those villains ever learn to stop stealing daughters?
Secondly, what's with all this talk about Alex Mercer being crazy evil? It's an open world game; you can't take every single action as canon. Otherwise, John Marston, Niko Bellic, Cole MacGrath, and even Nathan Drake are all crazy, crazy homicidal. So many bodies pile in their wake!
The way I played the game, I kept the civilian casualties to an absolute minimum, and while Human Alex Mercer did unleash the virus, it was only because his back was to the wall with a dozen guns pointed at him. He was trying to escape Gentek when he realized they were experimenting on unwilling subjects, not volunteers as he had been informed. Stealing a sample of the virus was his form of insurance against the company, but they called his bluff, which wasn't a bluff after all.
Then there's Virus Alex Mercer, who throughout the story keeps his viral instincts under control. His only goal is to stop the virus and the company that created it. The end of the game sees him saving island from nuclear attack, willing to sacrifice himself in the process (he personally flies the helicopter holding the nuke). Relatively heroic for a guy (who isn't even human) who could have just walked away from it all.
TL;DR - Mercer's cannonical actions are at best heroic and at worst understandable. He's not some insane killer, and he'll likely turn out to be not so bad in Prototype 2.
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