7 Video Game Heroes Who Made Better Villains

7. Alex Mercer - Prototype 2

Oh Alex, you silly sausage. What are you like eh?

I get that you're technically from the "anti-hero" Argos catalogue rather than an out and out goodie-two-shoes, but you almost had the crowd won over thanks to your "I'm an !*$% but watch me take down a bigger !*$%" gimmick. We could have parted ways with you sitting in that lovely moral grey area in which some of the all-time greats exist, but no you had to try and one-up the masterpiece that ran rampant through the first game and give yourself over to the Blacklight virus.

From here it was all doom gloom and killing wives and kids, the latter of which drew considerable ire from both the community and the protagonist of the second game James Heller. Now to be fair to Mercer, he did actually have some reason for turning his back on humanity, mainly because everyone he'd met up until that point tried to stab him in it.

This gave rise to his villainous desire to rid the world of humankind and begin anew with his race of underlings, and in turn, actually gave him a purpose seeing as he was languishing a lot come the end of the first game without purpose. Now I'm not saying his choice of career path was a good one, but hell if he didn't seem a lot more committed to this villainous role.