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* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]:
** Andrew Ryan is voiced by Armin Shimerman. [[You Might Remember Me From|You might remember him as]] [[Deep Space Nine|Quark]] or [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Principal Snyder]] or [[Ratchet and Clank|Nefarious]]. It can be difficult to recognize him the first two times he is heard
** The voice of the Little Sisters is provided by [[Juliet Landau]], who played [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Drusilla]].
** The Doctor Splicers ("[[Madness Mantra|How am I supposed to help you if you don't come to me]]!?") are voiced by J. G Hertzler
** Speaking of Doctors, Sofia Lamb is voiced by Fenella Woolgar
** And the voice of the grown-up Eleanor Lamb? It's Sarah Bolger, of ''[[The Tudors]]'' and ''[[The Spiderwick Chronicles]]'' fame.
** Dr. Steinman is voiced by Peter Francis James, who can be often be seen on one ''Law & Order'' show or another as a judge.
** Naledi Atkins' voice actor also voiced another female pilot whose plane was downed, namely Captain "Deadly" Pelayo from ''[[Modern Warfare]]''.
** The [[Rich Bitch]] splicers and Dr. Langford are voiced by the same actress, whom you might know better as Wanda and Timmy's mom in ''[[The Fairly
** Sander Cohen is voiced by T. Ryder Smith, who might be best remembered as the villainous Trickster from the 90s horror film ''Brainscan'', but more recently has been the voice of Baron Underbheit on ''[[The Venture Brothers]]''.
** Within the first game itself, it's clear -- and a bit jarring -- that they re-used Peach Wilkins' (unnamed) voice actor for one-off character Charlie.
** In Minerva's Den, Charles Milton Porter was voiced by Carl Lumbly, whom you might remember as [[Alias (TV series)|Marcus Dixon]] and [[DCAU|the Martian Manhunter]].
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** The Japanese voice actors are more easily identified as [[Toshiyuki Midorikawa]] is the seiyuu for Atlas, Andrew Ryan is [[Unshou Ishizuka]] and Bridget Tenabaum is [[Mie Sonozaki]]. In other words terms, Shaggia Frost wants Jack to kill Sergei Smirnov while Aplodia Neuro tries to save the Little Sisters.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: The original ''[[BioShock (series)|BioShock]]'' game underwent many, many changes from the time it was pitched to the final product.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: The original ''[[BioShock (series)]]'' game underwent many, many changes from the time it was pitched to the final product. The original pitch still had the [[Zeerust]] idea; they wanted it to take place on land, however, in a series of interconnected controlled environment chambers created by 1940's Germany. The laboratories would be full of mysteriously dead human bodies, being overrun by strange, insectoid life forms called Gatherers, who collected genetic material and body parts, the Protectors for the Gatherers, and predatory Aggressors. These eventually developed into the Little Sisters, Big Daddies and Splicers, respectively, when the developers decided they wanted a more "human" angle. The concept art book for ''[[BioShock (series)]]'' shows off some of these life-forms; particularly striking is one insectoid being half-fused into a human body using its arms and legs to walk and fire a pistol. Among other things promised was the ability to alter the controlled environment, such as raising the temperature in an area and giving yourself a plasmid that protected you from heat exhaustion.▼
** The original pitch still had the [[Zeerust]] idea; they wanted it to take place on land, however, in a series of interconnected controlled environment chambers created by 1940's Germany.
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** According to the original pitch of the game, you would have played as Carlos Cuello, a "deprogrammer" asssigned to infiltrate a mysterious cult based on a remote island and "rescue" a wealthy heiress being held there. The game would have also included a much more in-depth weapon creation system, based on the superpower creation system in ''[[Freedom Force]]''. Some of the weapons you could make included a triple-barelled automatic shotgun, a silenced railgun, magnetic grenades, a sniper rifle that shoots acid-coated bullets, ''and a chain lightning taser pistol''.
** One of the insectoids nearly made it to ''[[BioShock 2]]''
** The original game had Jack mutate more and more with plasmid use, and would make players decide if they wanted to become a hideous freak like the splicers to survive, or refuse, keeping their humanity at the cost of less safety. The final product ''encourages'' you to use more ADAM and EVE.
*** The weapon mods originally looked like they were cobbled together with random household junk ''[[MacGyver]]'' style, as a means to emphasize how Repture was supposed to be a mostly weapons free society. Levine decided that the weapons ended up looking "dorky" and thus changed the mods as to still look hand modified but "by someone who knows what they're doing
** The sequel went through several ''huge'' shifts in storyline and themes during development
** At one point, the sequel was to have [[Dirty Communists|Soviet Russia invade Rapture]], with the Soviet troops fighting splicers. They were meant to be much more intelligent than the batshit insane splicers, and would use efficient tactics (taking cover, hiding, flanking, et cetera)
** There were to be more survivors that had barricades themselves during the Splicer outbreak and were to assist the player, but this was during the "Big Sister is the primary villain" phase.
** Also during said phase, Mark Meltzer was apparently supposed to play a bigger role in the story, even being the one who hired the main player (either a detective or a parent whose daughter had also gone missing) in the first place.
** Subject Delta's armor used to be based off of old WWII-era Bombers and would have been a lot more top-heavy and bulkier.
** Sander Cohen was planned at one point to return in ''[[BioShock 2]]'' as a "20-foot-tall Freudian monster bunny".
** Some of the elements above (man infiltrating hidden area, singular [[Big Bad]]/[[The Dragon]] harassing you at every turn) are being recycled into ''[[BioShock (series)|BioShock]] Infinite'', while the Russian soldier AI was utilized for the Splicers in ''[[BioShock 2]]''.
** During the early stages of ''[[BioShock 2]]'', there was a giant squid boss that Delta was supposed to fight outside of Rapture.
* [[The Wiki Rule]]: [https://bioshock.fandom.com/wiki/BioShock_Wiki The ''BioShock'' Wiki].
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