Thread:Whovianfan/@comment-5038193-20161016193241/@comment-5616350-20161017180739

Cole Macgrath and Alex Mercer's connection:

Connection: Both started the outbreak of a horrible disease that presented them with mutant powers, and were claimed to be terrorists because of it. While Cole chose a good path with his powers, Alex mercer became malevolent, claiming human life to be a waste because of how they were unable to change, spreading his own version of the virus that gives him his powers in the second game, and basically becomes the antagonist of the whole second game. In addition to all that, his codename is Zeus a.k.a. the Greek God of Thunder. There's the fact too both games came out in the same year and have a rivalry.