Personally, I think the best way to introduce the death of Ryan Mercury into canon would be the following post:

"It's like how everybody remembers where they were when Haeffner was assassinated, or when Ryan Mercury died of autoerotic asphyxiation."

I should have the runners kill him. That would be fun.

I can't accept the idea of calling Ryan Mercury a Mary Sue if for no other reason than because Jak Koke did not before nor hasn't since shown any specific love for the character, who was in all likelihood imposed on him by the same person who brought us SURGE (namely, Mike Mulvihill).

It's not like he was Jak's first major PC, who became his editorial voice in a series of sourcebooks he wrote before coming back from the dead to star in a series of novels which further reinforce the fact that said PC/protagonist is a thinly veiled SR version of the author, complete with personality traits and biases. No, that would be the province of another author who shall remain namele... *cough* Steve Kenson *cough*
Excuse me. Damn cough.

I hate him because I am jealous that a hot older woman who shouldn't loves him.

But really, I don't particularly care about how much he sucks. He was a ninja who was through into a series of un-ninjalike situations and still lived. But he was also effectively a kid who was forced to grow up, and in spite of that fact did so when it would have been far easier to follow his impulses.

I've seen gamers whose characters never grew up so much in years, so yeah... He sucks. Okay.

Does he have sex with Nadja Daviar?

I was talking about Mr. Platinum's character.