I didn't admit that it wasn't a fatal, just that... It's ironic to consider a large gaping wound on the head as non-fatal. I mean, if it were any other character rather than Mercer, it would definitely be considered a fatal wound (and by this site's standards, regenerating from brain damage is more impressive than merely regrowing limbs, with healing from brain damage being considered as Mid Regenerationn and growing new limbs being Low-Mid Regenerationn). And I mean, by that logic, even reducing Mercer into a puddle wouldn't be a fatal damage either as there would still be likely chances for him to recover from it (and yes, I'm aware of the plot about Mercer pretending to be someone else such as taggart), but fair enough.
I mean, for characters like Mercer who can evidently operate even with a large hole in their head and are capable of absorbing targets even in a more vulnerable state as a puddle, I wouldn't really consider that as being "knocked out" in the conventional sense (being "knocked out" means loss of consciousness by definition. If a character like Mercer can operate even with his brain not being entirely intact, the Supreme Hunter evidently being able to move their hand after reforming it while at a puddle state, an infected such as a Hunter being capable of operating even with their entire brain being absent... I wouldn't consider it likely that they can be put into unconsciousness at that point). I already stated my point about Regenerationn given enough time, so we can just agree to disagree on this point.
I mean, that was only going under the assumptio (keyword being assumption) that if the Supreme Hunter somehow manages to absorb biomass from Mercer's boot ― despite not being supported by the visuals and Mercer not being aware of it ― it would benefit the Supreme Hunter even less than the Crow did to Mercer (which is already little to begin with). But as far as Occam's Razor and the visuals are concerned, the Supreme Hunter has never consumed anything to help it regenerate due to the lack of visuals supporting such after it got stepped on by Mercer, so the visuals suggests that the Supreme Hunter are capable of Regenerationn even without consuming biomass. And from what I can see, most of these regenerative anti-feats are from the PIS-littered Prototype 2 anyways, with the only regenerative antifeat for the Supreme Hunter being that it suffered an unknown death after Mercer decapitated it in Prototype 1.
Alright.
I mean, nobody here disagrees about the Regenerationn having a limit, but we don't how far those limits are in regards to regenerative speed if we exclude PIS from Prototype 2 outside of what we can estimate. Mercer's regenerative feats in Prototype 1 are shown to be superior to his regenerative feats in Prototype 2, and between being able to reform an entire body with just a small tendril supported by a crow's worth of biomass (Mercer regenerated when the crow flew away to a bench when that small tendril clung to it, and the crow got consumed when it was at the bench due to the small tendril clinging to it earlier... So he technically wasn't even an already pre-existing puddle that reformed an entire human-sized body, he was that small tendril + a crow's biomass that reformed an entire human-sized body when he was at a state that's possibly even smaller than the puddle that the crow made contact with) and Prototype 2 Mercer no longer regrowing any more arms by the end of the Prototype 2 final fight... The Prototype 2 regenerative showings are contradicted by Prototype 1's, and it doesn't help that PIS are more prevalent within Prototype 2 in general than in Prototype 1. Also, we don't know what happened to the Supreme Hunter after it got decapitated ― just that it died without any explanations for how it died ― but fair enough.
We can agree to disagree then.
