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There is quite the issue with his Regenerationn being claimed to be Mid-High. I will not be using the Anti-Feats of him running out of biomass slowing down his Regenerationn nor the James Heller Fight. PIS or not that was already integrated here. But instead I'll be focusing on the reason why Alex Mercer got such a rating.
His rating comes from this-
https://youtu.be/hg74MpERlyw?t=609
Though it's an impressive feat debated numerous times before on whether Alex tanked it or not. But here we're using a single frame of a cutscene in order to base off a Regenerationn feat off of that. Though every other Regenerationn feat for Alex makes sense (The Supreme Hunter slowly regenerating from a puddle, his recovery from the nuke, and uh, that's about all the onscreen feats I remember).
But this one is a bit hard to use as a frame of reference for a feat.
We can barely make out the image and I doubt you can point out any body parts in there. We can assume that it's Alex and not just the seat on him but that's still a hard frame for reference and even if he were to burn up like that, what makes it Mid-high?
I see that there's statements about him basically burning out of existence (A bit of a hyperbole to be honest) but how can we be certain his body didn't just burn up and scatter/explode and scatter said biomass? This feat would be a lot more credible if we actually have a better shot but we're basing a big feat off of a literal frame and making some assumptions after.
A bit off topic but if I want Alex to regenerate from ashes and nothing else it would be better to have him just do that, appearing out of dust as if Thanos just undoed the Infinity Gauntlet effect but that's off topic.
Him washing ashore as a biomass is a bit more of an add on. Are we sure that all of him burnt up entirely? We're assuming that basically when there's already bits of him scattered about.
This basically means the Mid-High regen has to be nerfed to Low-High, or at least if we want to be very generous, give it a Possibly Mid-High regen considering the case around it. We're assuming too much on this one.
On another note...
The electric resistance feat.
https://youtu.be/oKspwSowaKQ?t=125
It comes from this. I can't find the main argument on why this was made but it's pretty clear. The Hydra is repeatedly exposed to electricity and adapted out of it... Except... Things are kinda not that.
The context of the scene has James Heller walking into the place and the scientists zap the Hydra. Suddenly the sedated Hydra begins to wake up and wreck havoc. What do the scientists say?
"Why is it agitated!? It's supposed to be sleeping!"
"I don't know! Must be an outside factor!"
"Call SCP! Call Lob Corp!"
Not literal of course but... there's an outside factor there. James Heller. They literally zapped the Hydra with a small cattle prod (seriously bro what are you doing with that anyway) and makes it convulse. And then it begins to wake up. Because James Heller is there.
I'm looking around if there's any more proof of electric resistance or repeated exposure but there's no other feats around. The only other times electricity is involved is when Cross was surviving against Alex Mercer in his fight, and that one Web of Intrigue I'm trying to hunt down where Cross hunts down Runners with that electric baton. There has been no other case of electric resistance and the current reasoning we have for that is kinda flimsy.
Thirdly...
I think Power Nullification stems mostly from the fact that Alex was manipulating something biologically. It is truly Power Nullification, but it's the same as me being injected with a paralyzing drug and being "Prevented/Nullified" from being capable of moving. Sure it was a parasite that shut down Alex but that's like an antivenom made to counterattack a being. We can't call all medicines like that. This would create kinda a misunderstanding with other actual power nullification such as something of non-biological means. Anything else is fine though but take note, this cure/parasite/Supreme Hunter was made to directly counter Alex Mercer.
So yeah, modify Power Nullification to note that it only works on Biological changes and powers.
TLDR
- Nerf Mid-High to Low-High and maybe put it as Possibly Mid-High due to the nature of the single frame feat and no other feats that are on similar level
- Remove Electric resistance since we don't have enough backings for it
- Power Nullification must be noted to only work on Biological means of nullifying powers
His rating comes from this-
https://youtu.be/hg74MpERlyw?t=609
Though it's an impressive feat debated numerous times before on whether Alex tanked it or not. But here we're using a single frame of a cutscene in order to base off a Regenerationn feat off of that. Though every other Regenerationn feat for Alex makes sense (The Supreme Hunter slowly regenerating from a puddle, his recovery from the nuke, and uh, that's about all the onscreen feats I remember).
But this one is a bit hard to use as a frame of reference for a feat.
We can barely make out the image and I doubt you can point out any body parts in there. We can assume that it's Alex and not just the seat on him but that's still a hard frame for reference and even if he were to burn up like that, what makes it Mid-high?
I see that there's statements about him basically burning out of existence (A bit of a hyperbole to be honest) but how can we be certain his body didn't just burn up and scatter/explode and scatter said biomass? This feat would be a lot more credible if we actually have a better shot but we're basing a big feat off of a literal frame and making some assumptions after.
Him washing ashore as a biomass is a bit more of an add on. Are we sure that all of him burnt up entirely? We're assuming that basically when there's already bits of him scattered about.
This basically means the Mid-High regen has to be nerfed to Low-High, or at least if we want to be very generous, give it a Possibly Mid-High regen considering the case around it. We're assuming too much on this one.
On another note...
The electric resistance feat.
https://youtu.be/oKspwSowaKQ?t=125
It comes from this. I can't find the main argument on why this was made but it's pretty clear. The Hydra is repeatedly exposed to electricity and adapted out of it... Except... Things are kinda not that.
The context of the scene has James Heller walking into the place and the scientists zap the Hydra. Suddenly the sedated Hydra begins to wake up and wreck havoc. What do the scientists say?
"Why is it agitated!? It's supposed to be sleeping!"
"I don't know! Must be an outside factor!"
Not literal of course but... there's an outside factor there. James Heller. They literally zapped the Hydra with a small cattle prod (seriously bro what are you doing with that anyway) and makes it convulse. And then it begins to wake up. Because James Heller is there.
I'm looking around if there's any more proof of electric resistance or repeated exposure but there's no other feats around. The only other times electricity is involved is when Cross was surviving against Alex Mercer in his fight, and that one Web of Intrigue I'm trying to hunt down where Cross hunts down Runners with that electric baton. There has been no other case of electric resistance and the current reasoning we have for that is kinda flimsy.
Thirdly...
I think Power Nullification stems mostly from the fact that Alex was manipulating something biologically. It is truly Power Nullification, but it's the same as me being injected with a paralyzing drug and being "Prevented/Nullified" from being capable of moving. Sure it was a parasite that shut down Alex but that's like an antivenom made to counterattack a being. We can't call all medicines like that. This would create kinda a misunderstanding with other actual power nullification such as something of non-biological means. Anything else is fine though but take note, this cure/parasite/Supreme Hunter was made to directly counter Alex Mercer.
So yeah, modify Power Nullification to note that it only works on Biological changes and powers.
TLDR
- Nerf Mid-High to Low-High and maybe put it as Possibly Mid-High due to the nature of the single frame feat and no other feats that are on similar level
- Remove Electric resistance since we don't have enough backings for it
- Power Nullification must be noted to only work on Biological means of nullifying powers