Talk:Mercury Black/@comment-27082610-20160429165515/@comment-410526-20160429184034

His legs had bloody bandages on them in that scene, which leads me to believe he had just gotten the robotic legs a short time before he killed his dad.

Either he lost his legs in a fight while on an assassination mission with Marcus or (tinfoil potato time)... His dad intentionally hacked his legs off and gave him the robotic prosthetics in order to make Mercury a stronger fighter (from what we've seen, they do appear to be better than normal human flesh 'n blood legs).

I think Marcus may have been intending to continue augmenting his son in this way so that Merc would be the "perfect assassin". Merc only went through with the surgery because he knew couldn't defeat his father without the robo legs.