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The protagonist of the first game, an American of rural origin who ended up in a plane crash over the Atlantic ocean in early 1960. {{spoiler|He is later revealed to have been Andrew Ryan's bastard son by way of Jasmine Jolene, donated to Dr. Suchong, who engineered Jack to be a [[Laser Guided Tykebomb]].}}. Voiced by Adam Sietz.

* [[Heroic Mime]]: (Aside from grunts of pain, he speaks a grand total of 19 words in the entire game, all of them in the opening cutscene. {{spoiler|So, surgically altering himself to sound like a Big Daddy may not have been that bad for him after all.}}) {{spoiler|He is also heard as a child, in one of the audio diaries.}}.

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: If the player chooses to be a [[Sociopathic Hero]], but still decides to rescue all the little sisters. Jack could be this; (even if the player isn't a lunatic, Jack has to take many measures to get through the game, and kill ''a lot'' of people ([[Asshole Victim|crazy murderous people]], but still).

** [[Brainwashed]]: Hypnotize Big Daddy, which makes the Big Daddies protect Jack.

** [[Mind Over Matter]]: Telekinesis.

* [[Younger Than They Look]]: {{spoiler|An audio diary says he has the body of a fit 19 year old. He was only a year old at the time of the recording. Probably due to genetically-programmed [[Rapid Aging]]. His passport lists his birthday as 1936, meaning he had the appearance of a 24 year old in game [http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Jack\].}}.

The creator and ruler of Rapture. Ryan fled from society after becoming dissatisfied with America and its 'parasites'. Voiced by Armin Shimerman / [[Unsho Ishizuka]].

* [[Big Bad]]: {{spoiler|Subverted. While he's certainly a villain, it turns out that Fontaine is the true [[Big Bad]] in the game.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Disc One Final Boss]],: thoughThough you don't fight him directly.}}.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: He's personally disgusted by the Little Sisters. In the sequel, he's shown as disturbed by Ryan Amusements, but accepts the fact that it puts fear of the surface world into children. Well, he still sees the Little Sister as [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|an excellent business plan]]... He also says he could never raise his hand against {{spoiler|Jack, after realizing Jack is his son}}.

* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: Twice over. His [[The Fettered|ideals]] and [[Determinator|determination]] built a business empire unheard of in reality, and Rapture itself was a true Objectivist Utopia... for a time. [[Hidden Elf Village|Isolating Rapture from the surface]] created Fontaine -: his own personal [[Al Capone]] to run the resulting smuggling black market; worse still, after Fontaine was killed, he nationalized his business in an outright betrayal of Rapture's guiding philosophy, and rushed ADAM onto the market without bothering to regulate its sale or use-... thus leaving the blame for the many thousands of addictions and the civil war squarely on his head. All downhill from there, but he ''might'' have been able to salvage things if he hadn't taken {{spoiler|[[Manipulative Bitch|Sofia Lamb's]]}} bait and thrown her in prison with all his other enemies -... giving them a leader, his own personal Bolshevik.

* [[Lack of Empathy]] / [[The Unfettered]]: He sees ''nothing'' wrong with {{spoiler|murdering a woman in cold blood for selling his unborn child}} or with {{spoiler|gassing a scientist who was trying to save Acadia from his poisons}}, or with {{spoiler|decorating the entrance hall to his office with the grimly mutilated corpses of his would-be assassins}}.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Not only does his name contain all the letters to spell out [[Ayn Rand]], you can also get the joke by transposing the first letter of his last name-: Rand[rew], Yan (pronounced the same as Ayn).

* [[Older Than They Look]]: According to the [http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Andrew_Ryan Bioshock''BioShock'' wiki], Ryan was born in 1892, which would make him 67 or 68 at the time of the first game. From his pictures on the audio diaries, he looks like a healthy man in his mid-forties, and while he seems older when you meet him at the end, he certainly doesn't look nearly 70. It's justified. In Rapture, you will often see ads for a gene tonic that makes you look 'twenty years younger!' Apparently, they actually work.

* {{spoiler|[[Suicide by Cop]]: What his controlling Jack to test whether he's a man or a slave, according to his binary thinking, turns out to be.}}.

An Irish fisherman who guides Jack over his shortwave radio. He brought his wife and son to Rapture in search of a better life, but is now desperately trying to get them out. He is gradually revealed to be the leader of the Anti-Ryan rebellion. {{spoiler|'Atlas' is later revealed to be a persona adopted by Frank Fontaine, who has been manipulating Jack even before the game begins.}}. Voiced by Karl Hanover.

* {{spoiler|[[Line-of-Sight Name]]: He names his fake son and his fake wife "Patrick and Moira". It is the title of a musical by Sander Cohen, for which the player finds some posters in two places : Fort Frolic and the Atlas Headquarters.}}.

* [[Germanic Depressives]]: (A rather justified case).

An infamous New York mobster and former business rival of Andrew Ryan's whose rise to prominence and power through the marketing of plasmid technology proved instrumental in provoking Rapture's civil war and downfall. Voiced by Greg Baldwin {{spoiler|and Karl Hanover (in ''Bioshock 2'')}}.

* [[Bald of Evil]]: Quite a shiny dome he's got there. {{spoiler|One wonders how he was able to pass so well as the fully-haired Atlas}}. ''[[BioShock: Rapture]]'' reveals that he shaves his head because "the ladies like him bald."

* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Con Man]]: Both as Atlas and as the runner of ''Fontaine's Home for the Poor'', where he turns the poor into an army of splicers.}}.

** He mentions {{spoiler|having spent six months as a [[Master of Disguise|chinaman]] once}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Dead Person Impersonation]]: ''[[BioShock: Rapture|Bio Shock Rapture]]'' reveals that he murdered and stole the identity of the real Frank Fontaine in order to take over Fontaine Fisheries and gain access to Rapture. While his real name is in fact Frank, his real last name is unknown (and it's stated that only a handful of people in the world know it)}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Faking the Dead]]}}

* [[Functional Addict]]: {{spoiler|Prior to the boss battle, Fontaine has clearly been using ADAM, but only enough of it to survive the dangers of Rapture. Unfortunately, when Jack corners him, Fontaine splices up with all the ADAM he's been able to gather, driving himself mad in the process.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: He had Jack created to kill Andrew Ryan... only for Jack to turn on him when Fontaine showed his hand and tried to kill him. He was also partly responsible for creating the Little Sisters, a group of whom swarm him to deliver the killing blows.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[The Man Behind the Man]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[One-Winged Angel]]: He confronts you after splicing himself into a hulkish superman with multiple [[Elemental Powers|plasmids]] and more than a passing resemblance to the [[Irony|mythical Atlas]]. It's twice as ironic when you realize that in the end, he's defeated by a bunch of little girls}}.

* [[Posthumous Character]]: As one of the main instigators of the uprisings against Ryan, Fontaine was gunned down by Ryan's men prior to the game. {{spoiler|Except not. He used that opportunity to fake his death and return as the [[Rebel Leader]] Atlas.}}.

* [[Super Strength]]: {{spoiler|One of the few gene-tonics he's been willing to use before the final boss battle; during the climax, he uses it to create obstacles that can slow Jack's pursuit.}}.

[[Renaissance Man|Artist, writer, actor, director and composer]], famous for writing Rapture's national anthem, "Rise, Rapture, Rise", as well as many other strange and eccentric works. Notably hostile towards those who question his art and/or closeness to Andrew Ryan. Jack first encounters him in Fort Frolic, after Cohen jams Atlas' radio transmission and blocks the exists; welcoming Jack as a fellow artist, he gives him the task of killing his former disciples and photographing their corpses..

* [[Berserk Button]]: Just try questioning his art. {{spoiler|[[Good Bad Bugs|He could even rise from the dead to attack you if you hit his Quadtych.]]}}.

* [[Depraved Homosexual]]: If the audio diaries [[Tie-in Novel|and the novel]] are to be believed;: rumors about young men 'never returning from his dressing-room' circulate pre-Rapture, not to mention his 'living sculptures' of scantily-clad proteges portraying ''Caligula''. Splicing and post-Rapture drugs don't help.

* [[White Dwarf Starlet|White Dwarf Star]]: His reputation has already waned by the time Ryan recruits him for Rapture, with his comeback production receiving less-than-stellar reviews; Cohen, of course, talks of nothing but his "projects" and his admirers. Being the only headliner in Rapture helps get him to prominence again.

Before Rapture's societal collapse, J.S. Steinman was one of the city's most famous medical professionals;: already a highly innovative plastic surgeon, he used ADAM to sculpt his patients to the highest possible standard of beauty. Unfortunately, he also tried a few of these new techniques himself. As such, by the time Jack meets him, Steinman has degenerated into a splicer, and now sees his patients as little more than human-shaped canvases on which to practice his skills as an artist-: specifically, cubism.

* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Unlike many of the splicers, Steinman's audio diaries clearly show his descent into lunacy, beginning with his feelings of dissatisfaction in spite of his success, then his thoughts on cubist art as applied to surgery, and finally his hallucinations of the goddess Aphrodite... though she apparently encouraged him to go to Rapture in the first place. ''BioShock: Rapture'' explained this by revealing that Steinman had a drug habit on the surface which caused his first hallucinations of the "Goddess".

Dr. Yi Suchong was one of the leading scientists in Rapture, who worked for Fontaine on plasmid tests, as well as designing Little Sisters and the first of the Big Daddies. {{spoiler|He and Dr. Tenembaum were also responsible for creating Jack and the mental conditioning that would be used to control him.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Karmic Death]]: After going into so much detail as to how much he despised children and how responsible he was for the creation of the Little Sisters and the Big Daddies, Suchong finally dies as a direct result of slapping a Little Sister in the face and angering her Big Daddy.}}.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Suchong has a very literal example in one of his audio diaries. {{spoiler|While Jack was still being prepared, Suchong gave him a puppy to play with; after seeing that the boy had gotten quite attached to it, he activated Jack's mind control and ordered him to break the dog's neck.}}.

== Bioshock''BioShock 2'' ==

The protagonist of ''[[BioShock (series)|BioShock]] 2'' and the [[Player Character]], a [[Super Prototype]] Big Daddy.

* [[Elemental Powers]]: sameSame as Jack:

** [[An Ice Person]]: Winter Blast.

** [[Blow You Away]]: Cyclone Trap.

** [[Shock and Awe]]: Electro Bolt.

* [[Made of Iron]]: Subject Delta endures a lot, even by the standards of most Alpha Series. In the cutscenes alone, he's hit by a wall of high-pressure water when a Big Sister shatters a bay window; he's trapped in a room and pelted with gunfire and molotov cocktails until the floorboards under him break, sending him on a three-story fall; the train car he's riding gets torpedoed by Father Wales; Sofia Lamb floods Siren Alley, nearly crushing him to death when a metal door's slammed into him by the resulting water pressure; his link to Eleanor is disrupted {{spoiler|when Sofia half-suffocates her with a pillow}}, leaving him on the brink of death; a corridor of demolition charges explode in his face, and he has to {{spoiler|ride to the surface while hanging onto the side of Sinclair's escape pod, being battered and crushed by intense pressure on the way.}}.

* [[Psychic Powers]]: againAgain, some of the plasmids:

** [[Brainwashed]]: Hypnotize.

** [[Mind Over Matter]]: Telekinesis.

* {{spoiler|[[Spirit Advisor]]: In most of the endings, Eleanor injects herself with Delta's ADAM, allowing him to live on inside her mind.}}.

* [[Super Prototype]]: He moves faster than the Big Daddies in Bioshock''BioShock 1'', and can use plasmids. Dr. Suchong also [[Lampshade Hanging|mentions]] that it's superior to what is to come, but they had to [[Nerf]] the following versions to the point of [[Lowered Monster Difficulty|"mediocrity"]], mostly because they would be too [[Hoist by His Own Petard|dangerously]] overpowered.

The [[Big Bad]] of ''[[BioShock (series)|BioShock]] 2''. ''[[Doctor Who]]'' fans [[Hey, It's That Guy!|may recognize her as]] [[Agatha Christie]], played by Fenella Woolgar. An idealist as obsessive as Ryan, but with a philosophy that's diametrically opposite. She believes in absolute collectivism, denouncing individuality and. indeed, sentience as a curse. She plans to use her daughter Eleanor to set the foundations for Utopia, [[Utopia Justifies the Means|whatever it takes]].

* [[Big Bad]]:

* [[Berserk Button]]: {{spoiler|She couldn't stand Eleanor rejecting her ideology and went to increasingly erratic and extreme lengths to stop Subject Delta. Finally, she smothers Eleanor in a last ditch attempt to stop Delta; she had no way of knowing this wouldn't kill Eleanor as well, but it's quite clear she didn't care}}.

* [[Manipulative Bitch]]: She {{spoiler|engineered her ''own'' jail conviction to gain popular support as a martyr ''and'' place herself in a facility far from Rapture where she could turn the inmates into an army.}}. Even ''Fontaine'' is impressed.

* [[Moral Sociopathy]]: A curious case in that she probably did not began as this, but by the time of Bioshock''BioShock 2'', she has definitely become a sociopath obsessed with her philosophy.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: {{spoiler|But not in the way most would think: her actions and audio diaries quite clearly reveal she never had any intention of saving Rapture. Her real goal is to create a "Utopian,", who would be able to serve the common good with no concern for their own desires, and gradually convert the rest of the world into similar beings.}}.

A [[Affably Evil|friendly, charming and somewhat amoral]] businessman who aids Subject Delta in his quest to reunite with Eleanor Lamb. Voiced by Doug Boyd.

* {{spoiler|[[Big Damn Heroes]]}}: {{spoiler|Attempts one of these to free Delta from captivity. It doesn't go well for him.}}.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Apparently, his grandfather was a strong believer in working in the name of "The People,", and "The World Entire,", and drowned in the construction of the Panama Canal-... thus giving Augustus Sinclair an early bias against altruism.

* {{spoiler|[[I Cannot Self-Terminate]]: An absolutely heartbreaking example.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Mercy Kill]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[ActionApocalypse GirlMaiden]]}}

** [[Teen Genius]]: {{spoiler|Masterminded the plan to resurrect Subject Delta.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Corrupt the Cutie]]: As Eleanor is watching virtually everything you do, harvesting the Little Sisters and killing defenceless characters will result in her becoming just as ruthless and violent.}}.

** {{spoiler|[[Daddy's Little Villain]]: In the bad endings.}}.

* [[Psychic Powers]]:

* {{spoiler|[[Statuesque Stunner]]}}: {{spoiler|Upon donning the Big Sister suit, Eleanor stands eye to eye with Subject Delta. Big Sisters in general are also around 6'10".}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Took a Level in Badass]]}}: Near the end of the game, {{spoiler|the frail teenager you've been trying to reach for the whole game gets in a Big Sister suit, and proceeds to wreak ungodly havoc upon her mother's regime with [[Gone Horribly Right|the powers given by the ADAM injected into her]].}}.

Another one of Fontaine Futuristic's leading scientists, Gilbert "Gil" Alexander replaced Dr. Suchong as head of the Protector Program;: in this position, he created the Alpha Series and the symbiotic bond with their Little Sisters- making him indirectly responsible for {{spoiler|Johnny Topside's}} conversion into Subject Delta. Following the collapse of Rapture's security police, he also designed the city's automated security system. However, he eventually fell in with Sofia Lamb and the Rapture Family, assisting in their development of a "Utopian"," {{spoiler|even submitting himself to the first attempt to create one.}}. Unfortunately, {{spoiler|the experiment resulted in him being horribly mutated and deranged by mass amounts of ADAM, ultimately reducing him to a nightmarish aquatic monster kept within a tank in the basement of Fontaine Futuristics.}}.

* [[Bad Boss]]: {{spoiler|Following his descent into insanity, "Alex the Great" has assumed total control of Fontaine Futuristics and declared himself CEO; given that there's no way of creating new products and no paying customers anyway, most of his time is spent torturing his splicer "employees."}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Body Horror]]: We don't see his transformation take place, but given that the monster inside the tank looks like a cross between a fetus and a squid, it wasn't pretty.}}.

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: {{spoiler|He might have been undergoing a horrific mutation and almost half-insane at the time, but Dr. Alexander was very careful in setting up a way for Delta to [[Mercy Kill]] him;: first, he left several pre-recorded messages throughout the Fontaine Futuristics building, containing useful advice and essential passwords to restricted areas; secondly, he planted a cache of weapons and security bots to assist anyone who might come to the rescue; finally, just to make sure his rescuers would be sane enough to outwit his insane alter-ego, he programmed a bio-scan to exclude any visitors who weren't mentally up to the job.}}.

* [[Evil Brit]]: Apparently English- (or at least he speaks in a RecievedReceived Pronounciation accent-), but not actually a villain until {{spoiler|massive doses of ADAM administered by Sofia Lamb drive him insane.}}.

* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Not only did he mastermind Rapture's security systems, but {{spoiler|after his mutation began}}, he also modified the branches of it around Fontaine Futuristics to provide help to anyone answering his [[Distress Call]]. After {{spoiler|his mutation drove him insane}}, he also equipped numerous security drones with monitors and speakers to carry his voice and face- part of it, at least- to his "employees.".

* {{spoiler|[[The Man Behind the Curtain]]: When Delta finally meets Dr. Alexander's horribly mutated self, he's not much of a threat without the splicers he employs; true, he may be a gigantic monster with the combined powers of hundreds of different splicers implanted into his body, but his reliance on his tank prevents him from physically attacking, and the bright light means that he can't even see Delta clearly enough to fight back in any other way.}}.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: {{spoiler|The man's nickname is "Gill,", and he ends up as an obvious aquatic lifeform.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Mercy Kill]]: His lucid self requests this from you, while his insane self begs to be spared; the decision's up to you.}}.

* [[Talkative Loon]]: {{spoiler|After becoming Alex the Great, most definitely.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Tragic Monster]]}}

* [[The Voice]]: Subject Delta never sees Gil Alexander's entire face at any point in the game except in old photographs. {{spoiler|Unless you're playing the PC version of the game, and you're prepared to use noclip.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Weakened by the Light]]: Dr. Alexander's new body can't stand bright light, and naturally recoils when Delta switches on the overhead lights in his chamber.}}.

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: {{spoiler|After it was found that the attempt to transform him into a Utopian had failed, Lamb abandoned Dr. Alexander.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: Let's just say that there are very few people in the game that ''haven't'' been backstabbed by him at some point.}}.

* [[Cower Power]] : {{spoiler|Poole spends most of his only level hiding in a booth while forcing Delta to clear up his dirty business.}}.

* [[Dirty Coward]]: {{spoiler|Poole's only real concern is keeping his ass out of the fire, and he's willing to go to the most repulsive lengths to ensure that nothing bad happens to him: this includes having Eleanor Lamb kidnapped and converted into a Little Sister, sabotaging Dionysus Parl so that the entire population drowned, and ordering Delta to harvest any Little Sisters that might discover what he'd done. And when things start getting out of control, he quickly lapses into spineless begging.}}.

* [[Evil Uncle]]: When Sofia Lamb was arrested, she ordered Stanley Poole and Grace Holloway to take care of Eleanor; as such, Poole ended up being called "Uncle Stanley,", and proved his credentials in the evil uncle field by {{spoiler|having Eleanor kidnapped to prevent her from ratting him out.}}.

* [[He Knows Too Much]]: {{spoiler|From Poole's point of view, everyone in Dionysus Park knew too much, so he found a way to [[Kill'Em All]].}}.

* [[Hero Worshipper]]: One of his audio diaries reveals that he's come to admire Subject Delta- or, as he was known when he was still a human being, {{spoiler|Johnny Topside}}- after interviewing him for the Tribune. {{spoiler|Poole also went on to frame him as a spy and have him imprisoned in Persephone, where he was transformed into a Big Daddy, so he obviously didn't admire Topside ''that'' much.}}.

* [[Elemental Powers]]: sameSame as two previous protagonists:

** [[An Ice Person]]: Winter Blast.

** [[Blow You Away]]: Cyclone Trap.

** [[Shock and Awe]]: Electro Bolt.

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: He is {{spoiler|C.M. Porter}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Necromantic]]: His main motivation for humanizing the Thinker was to bring his dead wife Pearl back to some degree with the Thinker's advanced approximation of Pearl's personality. Although the Thinker is successful in its emulation, Porter realizes that it isn't Pearl and stops.}}.

* [[Psychic Powers]]: againAgain, some of the plasmids:

** [[Brainwashed]]: Hypnotize.

** [[Mind Over Matter]]: telekinesisTelekinesis.

* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]: Inverted. {{spoiler|It is revealed at the end of Minerva's Den that Subject Sigma is C.M. Porter; C.M. Porter who has been assisting him turns out to be The Thinker.}}.

* [[Tragic Monster]]: {{spoiler|Subverted in the end where he is back to an unspliced state.}}.

The antagonist of the ''Minerva's Den'' DLC, Porter's former partner who betrayed him to take control of The Thinker alone, believing that it can be used to crack a perfect equation that can predict everything. Voiced by Keith Szarabajka.

* {{spoiler|[[Final Boss]]}}

* [[Foreshadowing]]: After realizing that {{spoiler|Sigma is Porter,}}, Wahl hints to Sigma that he knows it, by {{spoiler|pointing out the inconsistencies of Porter suddenly returning from Persephone, the [[Hellhole Prison]] over them all, and completely sane and normal.}}.

* [[Mad Mathematician]]: Minerva's Den is full of equations scrawled on the walls in chalk, paint and even ''blood'', all presumably Wahl's work in his efforts to find the "predictive equation", an equation he believes can be used to predict the future.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: When Sigma approaches closer and closer, and he runs out of [[Mooks]], he gets mroe and more angry, constantly telling Simga to turn back and stop. Ending with him {{spoiler|attacking Sigma in a battle he could have told himself would end in his death.}}.

== Splicer Models ==

== Overall Tropes ==

* [[Body Horror]]: All of the Splicers have been hideously disfigured as a result of oversplicing: many sport visible infections, massive tumours, club feet, distended stomachs, [[Tainted Veins]], and distorted facial features. The Crawlers manage to top all of this by way of a complete complete skeletal overhaul: their skulls are horribly misshapen- (and noticeably ''cracked''-), their limbs are long and twisted, they've got only one eye left for each of them, and the skin has pulled almost completely away from their teeth

* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]]: Prior to becoming addicted to ADAM, most of the splicers were likely average, everyday citizens of raptureRapture.

* [[Inelegant Blubbering]]: When Splicers cry- (and given how broken they are, that's more often than you think-), they don't cry prettily.

== Brute ==

* [[Armoured Closet Gay]]: In spite of all his homophobia, the Brute can be heard making a few interesting remarks to the opposite effect when alone;, and when he's under the effects of the Hypnotize plasmid...

* [[Famous Last Words]]: "Fuckin'... ''poof..."''

* [[Sir Swearsalot]]: Out of all the Splicers, he undoubtedly uses the most foul language. In fact, when charging, his only line is a deafening roar of "FUCK''EEEEEEERRR!"''.

* [[Smarter Than You Look|Smarter Than He Looks]]: There are few hints that the Brute is a lot cleverer than most of his dialogue would imply;: he can be heard talking about the necessity of bone density to back up the muscle mass he's gained, and some of his dialogue can be surprisingly eloquent. Plus, Leo Hartwig, the original Brute, cobbled together the Brute-splicing formula himself, and goes into battle accompanied by hacked security bots.

== Crawler ==

Though the Crawler is a Spider Splicer by default, he tends to offset the stealth aspect of the character by being the noisiest of all enemies in Bioshock''BioShock 2'', with the possible exception of the Big Sister. More disfigured than any other splicer in Rapture and even more deranged, the Crawler is very vocal about his problems, screaming and wailing with every move, sometimes even accusing the player of being a figment of his imagination.

* [[Happy Place]]: The Crawler reacts to the hypnotise Plasmid very differently to other targets in the game;: while most Splicers under the influence see the player as a friend, the Crawler sees the whole experience as one of Sofia Lamb's therapy sessions, where he evidently feels most comfortable.

== Baby Jane ==

Evidently in show business before the Civil War, the Baby Jane splicer is still trying to find work in the theatre, and can often be heard insisting that she's a star. Sometimes, she experiences moments of lucidity when she realises that Rapture is no longer fit for theatrical performances and her face has been ruined by constant splicing; unfortunately, she uses these moments to take out her frustrations on the player.

* [[Shout-Out]]: To ''[[What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?]],'', of course.

== Breadwinner ==

A businessman of some sort, the Breadwinner is under the delusion that Rapture's steady collapse is "just a bad quarter,", and he still has a chance to make it big-... when he isn't under the impression that he's already made it to the top.

* [[I Coulda Been a Contender]]: Thoroughly averted;: the Breadwinner may waver a bit in his convictions, but he never really stops believing that his fortune is still on the rise.

* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]: While being frozen, the Breadwinner starts muttering about how he needs a hot toddy-... or a vodka.

* [[Perpetual Poverty]]: In spite of his insistence to the contrary, it's not likely that the Breadwinner will ever have the wealth he wants-... or claims to have.

== Ducky ==

An elderly security guard, Ducky differs from most of the other Splicers in that, rather than being delusional or lost in his own private fantasy, he's just aggressive and paranoid-... not to mention insanely nationalistic.

* [[The Cuckoolander Was Right]]: At one point, exclaims that {{spoiler|Fontaine isn't dead}} and that {{spoiler|Atlas and Fontaine are the same}}. And [[Wham! Episode|towards the end of the first game...]]

* [[Racist Grandma|Racist Grandpa]]: Can be heard snarling furiously about "parasites"," papists, and race-mixers.

== Dr. Grossman ==

{{quote|''"I swore an oath to do no harm, and I... mostly... meant it."'' }}

* [[Child-Hater]]: Despises children on general principle, claiming that babies are born "covered in death,", and professing utter loathing for the Little Sisters.

* [[Neat Freak]]: Can often be heard grumbling about how dirty or unhygenic the room is-... regardless of just how filthy it actually is.

* [[Trust Me, I'm an X]]: When searching for a character in hiding, he can be heard yelling, "Don't worry, I'm a ''[[Blatant Lies|professional]]!"''.

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: His germophobia, which has him claiming that he can see death floating in the air-... and that bacteria ''aren't'' microscopic.

== Pigskin ==

A member of one of Rapture's football teams, Pigskin is more lucid than most of the Splicers-... apart from his slightly desperate belief that his parents are somewhere in the area. Nevertheless, he still suffers considerable pain, both from the deformities induced by ADAM overdosing, and from his fellow Splicers.

== Big Daddies/Sisters ==

== Overall Tropes ==

* [[Walk, Don't Swim]]: Most Big Daddies are far too heavy to swim, but as they don't need to breath, and they're immune to the crushing pressure on the ocean floor, Big Daddies are perfectly capable of marching across the sea bed.

== Alpha Series ==

* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: The Pairbond;: it worked exactly as planned-... it's just that Alexander wasn't able to predict what would happen if the Splicers actually succeeded in killing a bonded Little Sister. The result sent the entire Alpha Series to the scrapheap.

== Bouncer ==

== Rosie ==

== Rumbler ==

== Lancer ==

== Big Sister ==

* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Played with-: as Little Sisters, they were under the influence of mental programming for much of their childhood, even leading into adolescence; however, following adolescence, the programming broke down, leaving them aggressive and dangerously unstable. So, Gilbert Alexander put them through another round of specialized brainwashing to channel their violent instincts in a productive direction.

* [[Make Me Wanna Shout]]: The Big Sisters announce themselves with a piercing shriek that actually distorts Delta's vision, but thankfully, it doesn't actually hurt him.