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[[File:swarm_plasmid_8903.png|frame|[[The Wicker Man|OH NO, NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES!]]]]

 

 

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** And what's the very first thing you see after that? Piles of abandoned luggage, picket signs that say "Rapture is dead!" "Ryan doesn't own us!" "We're not your property!" and "Let it end! Let Us Ascend!" scattered all over, and finally, you come to an official looking notice pinned to the wall that reads "Attention! All Bathysphere travel is now denied." It sends chills up your spine when you realize what it means, too. Ryan is in so much denial about how secret Rapture is, he traps the population inside it in a vain attempt to hold onto a dead idea.

* The Lighthouse, which is more than a little creepy already. You just barely escape the plane crash in the middle of nowhere, and you see this big creepy tower just standing there in the middle of the ocean. You go in, and the first thing you see is this big gold statue, and big red banners with propaganda all over them. A very strong Fascist/Communist vibe just from that, and then you go down in the Bathysphere, and he treats you to a film containing an equally disturbing speech (something about "the great not being held back by the small", and the ''way'' he says it) and with similarly fascistic imagery (Look at all the old Nazi, or Soviet propaganda and you can see the exact same kind of imagery, with the barely human looking farmer, the big [[Strawman Political]] symbols in the sky attacking him). Also the sound the lights in the Lighthouse make when they come on is eerie. In fact, the brief [[Scenery Porn]] of you coming up to the city is probably the only break in the entire game.

* The voice modifying machine when being converted into a Big Daddy. Looks painful, and the fact that screaming would only intensify the pain. Heck, the entire Big Daddy [[Body Horror|conversion process]] qualifies.

* The Splicers in general are pretty creepy, but especially the Spider Splicers. The first encounter you have with the Houdini Splicers is also particularly terrifying.

{{quote|"In BioShock Insect Swarm manifests itself as [[Squick|multiple honeycomb-like pods of reddened flesh on Jack's hand and wrist, with half a dozen hornet-like insects crawling along them."]]}}

* Having to use those oh-so-sterile needles. Bonus for getting fear of needles and fear of disease at the same time.

* Try waking up in a Vita Chamber, miles from the actual fight, and finding a Splicer right in front of it. The Splicer said, "Do you know what we do to Judases!?"

* Just coming out of a regeneration tube once. Suddenly, it all goes black. Even your powers don't give light. Suddenly, there's a red spot-light that you instinctively run to. You can hear ''them'' crawling in the shadows. Splicers. You don't know how many or what kind. They're just moving around, waiting, watching, talking in their own incoherent ramblings. Occasionally, one skirts the edge of the spotlight, flashing a leg or a claw. You can shoot randomly into the darkness, but there's no guarantee it'll hit. And then, when they finally decide to move, they move en masse. And all you can do is run...

{{quote|'''Nurse''': Uh, doctor, she's not booked for a face lift ... Doctor ... stop cutting ... DOCTOR, STOP CUTTING! GET ME THE CHIEF OF SURGERY! GET ME THE CHIEF OF SURGERY NOW!}}

** And when you encounter Steinman for real:

** and when you finally put him down:

{{quote|''"LOOK IN A MIRROR! LOOK IN A MIRROR!"''}}

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