Talk:Cole MacGrath VS Alex Mercer/@comment-30870165-20191117032402/@comment-5035900-20191117084041

Computer crashed several times while reading what you wrote, and NotePad crashed, so I had to write this response twice, but anyway:

You made a lot of great points. There were things I hadn't thought of, such as Kessler's reaction speed, and several points and factors I did cover could've been done so much better.

I do have two points I wish to argue:

Cole isn't shown taking any explosive attacks from the Beast. In their first encounter, Cole is defeated by the Beast gripping him in his hands and draining him of most of his power. In-game, aside from projectiles, creating a field that Cole could glide on, pulling him closer with a vacuum, and gripping him to drain Cole of his life, the Beast uses no explosion-type attacks on him. If Cole were in the vicinity of one of the Beast's city-destroying attacks, I couldn't see Cole surviving that.

Cole's ice attacks aren't on a Sub-Zero "inducing full body frostbite in seconds" level of power. In-game, aside from solid projectiles, the freeze-type attacks are only shown covering and trapping human-sized enemies with them being unconscious, if not, dead when the ice is broken. If Evil Cole had been shown using ice attacks to freeze people ala Sub-Zero, I would've included it for canon Cole as I could perceive it as being akin to Delsin's evil powers simply being him not holding back and going with lethal intent. As Cole has never showcased his ice attacks to such a capacity himself, I couldn't begin to give it to him any more than I could assume Alex could deflect projectiles like Heller could as Mercer isn't seen doing so in Prototype 2. Now to better explain the super-brief point I made for Alex regarding him versus Cole's ice, if he were entrapped by it, I could perceive his body as being better-suited to it (not losing consciousness or being killed by the temperature inside of it) and being able to break out of it with his strength or shape-shifting. And thanks to you pointing out how I didn't really explain this point, I will now add to that section of the results.

Regardless, what you had to say on my take of Cole VS Alex was valid. I greatly appreciate the depths you explored in your arguments and I hope you have a nice day as well. Cheers.