James Heller (Prototype)

James Heller is a male video game character who features in Prototype.

Biography

Heller received a call from his wife, who informed him of the outbreak and told him that Blackwatch had quarantined the area. Heller assured them that he would return the next day and not to worry, but when he returned to the city he discovered that the Blacklight infection had ravaged all of Manhattan and his family had been killed. When Blackwatch claimed that a former scientist named Alex Mercer was responsible for the outbreak and had been spotted in the Red Zone, Heller volunteered for patrols in the infected Red Zone, hoping for a chance to find Mercer and kill him for the deaths of his family. Patrols into the Red Zone were more suicide missions than legitamate military operations, as such Blackwatch tended to delegate such missions to the United States Marine Corp and volunteers. On one such mission, Heller and his unit were on patrol through the Red Zone, but their Armored Personnel Carrier was hit by a car. Heller emerged from the wreckage as the only survivor. Mercer dropped into the wreckage without noticing Heller and started to inspect the corpses. While he had his back turned, Heller slit his throat, but Mercer shrugged him off without so much as flinching. Heller recovered and managed to stab him again only to be thrown back easily. Impressed by his tenacity, Mercer slowly retreated deeper into the Red Zone, seemingly amused by Heller's frenzied pursuit. During the chase, Heller had to dodge one of Blackwatch's patrol helicopters as it crashed after Mercer kicked it out of the sky. Eventually Heller was confronted by a rampaging Goliath, which he managed to evade only to be cornered by a Brawler Hunter. Heller managed to defeat the Brawler using his knife. Alex Mercer, who had been watching the whole time, confronted Heller again who blindly charged him only to be pinned to a wall by Mercer. Mercer then infected Heller with his strain of the Blacklight virus and departed just as another helicopter arrived on the scene to extract the now infected Heller. After his encounter with Mercer, Heller was taken into custody by Blackwatch, where Dr. Koenig attempted to learn how Heller had survived despite his body being flooded with the virus. As Heller struggled to gain consciousness, Col. Rooks and Lt. Riley ordered Heller's destruction through immolation. Koenig tried to delay the order by insisting on a few tests to collect data. Heller awoke surrounded by infected Walkers. When he displayed signs of abilities similar to Mercer, Col.Rooks once again ordered him burned. However, Heller survived fire and escaped the facility.

After Heller freed himself from the lab, Mercer confronted him once again. Mercer explained the reason he had chosen to infect him. He forced Heller to consume one of the Blackwatch soldiers that knew about the viral outbreak from Hope, Idaho and Blackwatch's part in the virus' development. Mercer claimed that he was not responsible for the outbreak, that it was Gentek and Blackwatch conducting bio-weapons test. Reluctantly, Heller agreed to foil Blackwatch's operations throughout New York. After escaping from Gentek's facility Heller was confronted by Blackwatch soldiers in the Yellow Zone. During this skirmish, Heller discovered his ability to use other humans as a disguise to escape. Due to his familiarity with the zone, Heller was able to track down Luis Guerra, a church Father who was familiar with the Heller family. James explained what he had been through the previous night and requested Guerra's assistance in fighting Blackwatch. Unfortunately, Father Guerra had lost all hope of resisting Blackwatch's hold in the zone. To restore the father's faith, Heller foiled one of Blacktwatch's operations to study a Brawler's behavior and considerably reduced Blackwatch's hold in the Yellow Zone. Guerra was rejuvenated by Heller's actions and agreed to help him. Guerra then aided Heller in his hunt for Colonel Rooks by helping him hack into Blacknet, which allowed Heller to eventually track down Rooks, however Heller decided not to kill him because he realized that he could get information from Rooks without him knowing and use it to disrupt Blackwatch operations. After consuming many scientists, Heller eventually found Dr Koenig, who convinced him that he wanted to help and directs Heller to Project Orion, a Blackwatch super soldier program. Heller successfully stopped Project Orion but after consuming the lead scientist he discovered Koenig was trying to get him killed. Koenig contacted Blackwatch to evacuate him, but Heller managed to destroy the soldiers guarding the base where he was hiding. During the evacuation, Koenig boarded one of the gunships and ordered the pilot to attack Heller instead of evacuating. However, Heller destroyed the gunship and tried to consume Koenig, only for the scientist to display superhuman abilities and announce himself as one of Mercer's Evolved.

Koenig told Heller that he served Alex Mercer as an inside source at Gentek to get information. He then began to mock Heller, claiming that he wanted to prove to Mercer that he should be his second in command, and to do that, he had to kill Heller. Koenig then attacked Heller but the latter was able to overpower and consumed Koenig, gaining the knowledge that Mercer had spies in both Gentek and Blackwatch. An irritated Alex Mercer then confronted Heller and confirmed that he had people within Blackwatch and Gentek. He explained that he and Heller were to lead the attack on Blackwatch and Gentek in order to wipe them out. Heller noted that Mercer made no mention of the Virus' destruction, to which Mercer dismissively replied that it would be destroyed as well. however Heller realized that Mercer had lied to him and went to find Father Guerra in the Green Zone. In the Green Zone Heller met with Father Guerra who showed him a devastating truth, footage of Alex Mercer entering Pennsylvannia Station, the site of the first outbreak, and releasing the virus a second time. Heller was enraged as he realized that Mercer was responsible for the entire infection, including the deaths of his wife and daughter. However he realized that he have a lead on Mercer's plans. Using Kreonig's memories, he discovered that Sabrina Galloway, the CFO of Gentek, was one of Mercer's Evolved and set off to find her. When Heller first confronted Galloway, she bartered for her life with the locations of Mercer's other Evolved subordinates. Sabrina told Heller that despite her ability to detect other Evolved, only an Evolved named Roland and Heller himself could evade her senses. She assisted Heller on a mission to find Roland, notifying him that Roland was disguised a Gentek VIP in need of extraction and tracking him to a lair after his initial escape, where Heller successfully consumed him. Guerra discovered that Gentek was planning to release an apparent cure to the Virus and sent Heller to investigate as it seemed too good to be true. Heller discovered that the leaders of the project were all Evolved and hunted them down one by one. After consuming Dr. Archer he realized that the Whitelight cure had been contaminated with Mercer's DNA in order to spread the virus once it had been released. After seeing the effects of Whitelight on several Blackwatch soldiers, turning into Evolved, Heller was determined to foil the plot. Blackwatch, seeing the effects of Whitelight themselves, called off its release.

Guerra then located the Whitelight facility and Heller head there in order to prevent if from being released. Mercer confronted him and attempted to kill him. Surprisingly, his attempt to consume Heller only resulted in the loss of his own arm. Mercer fled the scene, distracting Heller by sending a Goliath to release the Whitelight. After Heller stopped the Goliath, he received a call from Guerra who told him that the infected were attacking him. Heller rushed to Guerra but was too late to save him. A grieving Heller then heard Guerra's contact Athena attempting to contact Guerra but when she saw Heller she realized that Guerra was dead and told Heller to come to the Red Zone, giving her name as Dana Mercer. She told him she had information about his daughter. Heller was shocked by the idea that his daughter might still be alive and went to the Red Zone as soon as he could. When he met Dana, Heller immediately wanted to find Amaya, however Dana managed to convince him to save the city from her brother and Blackwatch while she handled the search for his daughter. After disrupting the plans of both sides, Heller went to track down his daughter but he eventually lost his lead and reached a dead end. Rooks, having realized that Heller had been impersonating Riley and only wanted his daughter back, then contacted Heller and showed him that he had Heller's daughter. Ignoring Dana's warnings, Heller attacked the Gentek building head on. Once inside, he confronted Rooks and two Blackwatch soldiers. Surprising Heller, Rooks shot both Blackwatch soldiers and told Heller to take his daughter and leave the city as a "favor". However, Sabrina Galloway reached Amaya before Heller could get into the room and kidnapped her, delivering a challenge from Mercer in the process.

Alex Mercer and James Heller faced off on top of a destroyed building in the Red Zone. Alex's Evolved, including Galloway, accompanied him. Heller yelled at Alex to give him his daughter, but Alex refused and spoke of his plans replace humanity with one mind and one body and to turn Amaya into the "Mother of the New World". Heller finally faced Alex after the latter consumed his Evolved, including Sabrina Galloway, to become stronger and faster. After a brutal fight, Heller began to get the upper hand. Mercer used each of his mutated weapons, but each time Heller was able to sever or rip off his arms. Defeated, Alex, seemingly unconcerned by his impending demise, welcomed Heller to the top of the food chain immediately before Heller consumed him. Heller, having become extremely powerful as a result of consuming Alex, uses a great mass of tendrils to destroy all the infected citizens in the area, promptly saving Manhattan from the "Mercer" virus. After consuming Mercer, Heller was able to locate and rescue Amaya and Dana from the bank vault Heller had locked them in. Her father's infection made Amaya frightened of him, much to James' dismay. The three then looked over New York from a rooftop. James began to walk away from Dana and Amaya, feeling that he no longer had a place in Amaya's life. However, Amaya stopped him, apparently having gotten over her fear of his infection, and they embraced.

Notes

• James Heller was created by Radical Entertainment where he featured in the setting of Prototype where he was voiced by actor Cornell Wormack.

Appearances

• Prototype 2:

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