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Because, let's face it, it's an extreme coincidence that the two [[Big Bad|big bads]] represent the worst of Black and White. Meanwhile, the sea slugs that make ADAM have something to do with Phyrexia.

It was his attempts to infiltrate the US and Soviet governments that left Rapture vulnerable. OSS caught wind of his operation and assisted mafia backed smugglers in their business of providing contraband goods to the citizens of Rapture. This is what led to Fontaine's rise to power and the eventual conflict the caused the collapse of Rapture's society.

 

If it had been underwater, it is doubtful that whales and giant squid would swim so close or that the building exteriors would be free of your typical underwater growths. Also, there is no evidence of the adverse effects of being underwater (air pressure and so on) affecting the residents. All of the water leaking in all over the place is part of the illusion.

* No, the water that "leaks" in is real--it's piped in from somewhere to form "leaks" to enhance the illusion of there being water outside. It's not illusory water.

** Still Jossed by the ending. You can physically see the ocean from the cutscene outside the ballast escape pod.

* Err, what about the fact that you're swimming in the goddamn ocean at the beginning of the first game? Then you step into the lighthouse, and go to the bathysphere. Therefore, you are definitely underwater. In fact, you're already underwater when you enter the bathysphere, albeit, not too far. And don't you dare say it was [[All Just a Dream]].

** Also Jossed. [[Word of God]] says that Bioshock Infinites Colombia (the flying city) is set in the same universe as Rapture.

 

Back in the 40's, when Rapture was constructed, DNA ''testing'' wasn't mainstream, let alone DNA modification. The injections that rewrite your DNA to let you shoot lightning (in an ''underwater'' city) are just Lovecraftian magic combined with the side effects of being anywhere near Cthulhu. Big Daddies are Deep Ones (Bouncer), and those with the Innsmouth taint (Rosie) magically bound into service by Andrew Ryan. Fontaine didn't want Rapture; he wanted the Necronomicon, the thing that allowed Ryan to build an entire city at the bottom of the ocean.

* Which leads to some interesting speculation regarding {{spoiler|[[And Then John Was a Zombie|the main character]]}} after he becomes a Big Daddy.

* Possibly confirmed by [http://www.somethinginthesea.com/ the viral website] for the sequel - one of the pieces of paper says that {{spoiler|one of the kidnappings took place in Innsmouth, RI. It's in the upper left corner, third item from the "top"}}

** This troper agrees with this theory, and would like to make an addition. The ADAM slugs are the gibletized remains of a [[Eldritch Abomination]]. after all, {{spoiler|[[Mass Effect 2|Even dead gods still dream.]]}}

* Which is a pretty obvious reference to [[Cthulhu Mythos|Cthulhu]]. This is also relevant to the previous WMG.

 

*** There's one near enough to Ryan's office though. If you die in Ryan's office, you pop out at the Chamber near the Bathysphere. Also, who says he wanted to leave? Ryan still believes Rapture can be saved. He wanted to manipulate the player into killing off Fontaine, leaving him with no genuine opposition.

* Look at it this way--the sequel has to have a villain, and Sander Cohen probably isn't up for it. That leaves either Ryan, or you in the evil ending, and while the latter would be a cooler twist, developers seem curiously squeamish about making evil paths canonical.

*** Actually, a recent issue of Gamepro states that the Big Sister is a villain; just not the ''main'' villain. She is most likely going to [[The Dragon|play the part of muscle and act as his/her enforcer.]] Who, then, is the main villain? Personally, this troper has his money on someone we've met before (though he has no idea who that might be, since most of the characters from the first game, are, you know, out of commission...)

*** News these days seem to say that the main baddie of Bioshock 2 is some sort of cult leader that the Splicers and Big Sisters follow who wants to kill you and bring Rapture back to its former state.

* I could imagine him singing Still Alive.

** Oh god, now I can't get Ryan singing that out of my head. [[Schmuck Bait|Thanks.]]

 

== The Big Daddies are actual fathers ==

 

Whoever it is fanatically protective of the little sisters to the point of kidnapping at least a dozen little girls to convert into the little girls. Tennenbaum notes in her audio logs how obsessive her maternal instinct is, and what other major player is left in the city after the end of the game?

*** Further [[Jossed]] - GameInformer shows her alive in 1967. She apparently escaped with a group of Little Sisters (regardless of what Jack did in the first game). The Big Sister is one of these girls that returned to Rapture and started it up again.

** Even ''further'' [[Jossed]]; not only does Tennenbaum show up (albeit not for very long at ''all''), but Big Sisters are generic enemies descended from grown-up Little Sisters, not a single entity.

== Demitosse will be a major antagonist in Bioshock 2 ==

If you look out many of the windows in Rapture, you'll see a series of billboards with three names: RYAN, FONTAINE, DEMITOSSE. Since Ryan --> Fontaine was the [[Big Bad]] progression in the original game, this has fueled fan speculation that a further Fontaine --> Demitosse plot progression would appear in the sequel, with Demitosse being the new Big Bad.

** So the next [[Big Bad]] will be a cup of Coffee... Oh my god... [[Homestar Runner|Homsar's]] Father!

** Jossed, since there hasn't been any mention of a Demitosse anywhere in the game.

 

== The girl in the Bioshock 2 trailer is Big Sister ==

* [[Jossed]]; a case of [[Never Trust a Trailer]].

 

== Andrew Ryan was working on a rudimentary AI construct. ==

In part because someone else hinted at it in the main page, in part because I've been thinking of it since I first played the game. [[System Shock|The Big Sister form is dead, insect!]]

 

== The Big Sister is an [[Emo Teen]]. ==

** Well, IRL Mister Rogers was a minister, if I remember correctly. Maybe Jack!Rogers struck a deal with/strongarmed God into fixing him up.

*** There are loads of different ways he could've fixed his voice box after winning, from the extra Rapture medkits he had in his pockets to doctors back home.

 

== Ryan Industries got help from Vault-Tec when constructing Rapture. ==

 

If this is true, then he's probably the founder of the "Cult of Jack" we've seen in the interviews.

*** Jossed. {{spoiler|Sofia Lamb, an activist, is the villain.}}

*** Ah-ah-aahh! It's actually confirmed, sort of. {{spoiler|Lamb is a ''Collectivist'' who, once she got into power, used the Rapture Family to take control. In multiple audio diaries, Ryan makes the connection between her philosophy and Communism. "A new Kremlin will engulf the council before they catch on."? "Her bolshevik fever dream"?}}

 

He really got killed when Fontaine became more plasmid then man. Jack was actually lying on the ground,imaging that he was saving the little sisters or taking over the world,while he slowly died. He never escaped and never beat Fontaine.I mean,Fontaine is basically Superhuman in every way,no man could beat him on the first try,even with the amount of guns Jack was carrying,but Jack probably got the last laugh when Fontaine got killed by the little sisters in a revenge attack. Sadly,though,they were a little too late.

* If Jack was unable to defeat Fontaine because he was superhuman, then you'd better guess again, 'cause Jack is too. The only real difference between Fontaine and Jack was Fontaine was stronger, but was unable to use weapons. And Jack can use a Vita-Chamber, so how exactly would he die if he could just come back and wither down Fontaine's health? Plus, Jack had a grenade launcher, a Tommy-Gun, a revolver most probably designed for killing bears, a device capable of LITERALLY THROWING ELECTRICITY, a crossbow, a very large-caliber shotgun, and a wrench, as well as the ability to fling every single element of nature from his hands at will. Yeah, Fontaine's going down like a corpse with cement-block shoes.

 

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Think about it. If it were purely mechanical, you wouldn't be able to hack them, especially with the green liquid that the first game used. The hacking method is to blank its mind out, so that it sees Jack and anyone with him as friendly, and anyone else as an enemy.

 

== Big Daddy is an ancestor of Iron Man ==

 

== Sander Cohen is [[The Phantom of the Opera|the Phantom]] ==

 

== The Third Bioshock Villain will be a Nihilist ==

 

Just a few predictions for the upcoming sequel:

* As Subject Delta (The ''fourth'' Big Daddy, first one to successfully bond with a little sister) you will encounter Mark Meltzer (The guy from the There's Something Under the Sea website) and can choose to help him in his quest for his daughter

* There will be a brief prequel tutorial in which {{spoiler|You end by killing Suchong}}

** Sadly [[Jossed]] by the emergence of the first five minutes: {{spoiler|you learn about the controls while wandering through Adonis Baths, and don't end the tutorial in killing Suchong.}}

** Confirmed, because of respawn footage.

* In the multiplayer story the spawn points will be {{spoiler|Prototype Vita Chambers}} because Sinclair also developed the widespread ones.

** {{spoiler|[[Jossed]], they just respawn.}}

* Orrin Oscar Lutwidge (another character from the There's Something Under the Sea website) will {{spoiler|return to Rapture}}

** Unlikely, as {{spoiler|Lynch threatened him with torture and killed an orderly who came to check, while Lutwidge is on the run.}}

** {{spoiler|Both above have been [[Jossed]] Oscar Orrin Lutwidge killed him at the end of the ARG and then he committed suicide.}}

* Instead of {{spoiler|Father Wales}} being [[The Dragon]] to [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|Sofia Lamb}} it actually turns out to be the other way around

** {{spoiler|[[Jossed]]}}

** {{spoiler|[[Jossed]]. There's no plot twist of [[Wham! Episode]] magnitude, but that doesn't mean the game [[Player Punch|pulls its punches]]. }}

 

 

Elysia chlorotica is a species of sea slug that steals chloroplasts from algae to make its own food. It can also pass the genetic material for chloroplasts down to its children, though they have to eat more algae to do the same as their parents. The ADAM slugs are part of this family, except they merely have a rather unstable genetic code, which was how Dr. Tenenbaum was able to make plasmids out of their genetic material.

 

After completing his Quadtych, it is ultimately up to the player if they wish to kill him or not and the reason why we didn't see him in Bioshock 2 is because Subject Delta didn't go anywhere near Fort Frolic thus never meeting up with the still alive Cohen.

 

== Sander Cohen ''was'' killed by Jack, but was revived by a Vita-Chamber ==

 

 

1. Sander Cohen is a powerful Houdini Splicer, whose ability to teleport and throw fireballs allow him to travel quickly and safely throughout the city.

 

== The ADAM-producing slugs don't live in the stomach; they're actually in the {{spoiler|uterus.}} ==

* [[Tropers/Mikephisto|This Troper]] had a much less [[Squick|squicky]] version of this WMG. Instead of {{spoiler|actually being in a uterus}}, the slug just {{spoiler|utilizes the hormones to its advantage whatever those may be. durring puberty, the slug has to fight an uphill battle with the body producing said hormones naturally}}. Also while we're on the subject of the reproductive system (And since the WMG tags don't seem to be working for me) {{spoiler|Fontaine}} didn't splice away his balls. He has the Armored Shell tonic equipped and a side effect/feature of the tonic is to cover genitalia with a natural cup made of whatever Armored Shell is made of.

 

== Eleanor is Frank Fontaine's daughter. ==

 

== Tenenbaum has been using extremely powerful prototype plasmids for a while now to keep herself alive in Rapture, and she's still sane because she implanted herself with an experimental ADAM slug. ==

 

 

 

The bit about the ADAM slug is also possible because Tenenbaum practically made the Little Sisters herself, and if anyone would know how to implant those slugs into someone who's not a Little Sister, it's her. As for why, it's revealed in the sequel that people with Little Sister ADAM slugs and the like, such as {{spoiler|Eleanor Lamb}} are immune to the effects of Splicing, and by dabbling in some forbidden science, which is within her ken, naturally, Tenenbaum is able to remain immune to the effects of plasmid use while being able to stay alive in a nightmarish place like Rapture.

== Subject Delta is Eleanor's literal father. ==

We are never told who Eleanor's father was, only that Sophia seemed to have no time for romance after arriving at Rapture. Subject Delta, in his persona as Johnny Topside, came to Rapture for as yet undisclosed reasons. [[Word of God]] said that Subject Delta's past was supposed to heavily parallel with Mark Metzer's. Eleanor also seems to regard subject Delta as her true father. With this in mind - we can connect the dots. Delta is Sophia's estranged husband. After the Lambs vanished to Rapture, he, like Metzer, searched the world for his daughter, eventually discovering Rapture and becoming a key player in the civil war. He, like Metzer, was also turned into his own daughter's Big Daddy.

 

== The Third Bioshock game will be about Tenebaum ==

== The endings in Bioshock 1 branch off into different storylines. ==

For the good ending, Jack and his Little Sister pals live long lives and Bioshock 2 happens. But with the bad ending, Jack launches the sub's nuclear missiles, that hit both China and the USA, making them think that the war between them had begun. With this war, both nations fire their entire nuclear stockpile, bathing the world in nuclear fire. A few Splicers remain, and they become Feral Ghouls, mainly Glowing Ones and Reavers.

*** More damning, in Fallout the bombs fly on October 23rd 2077.

** Soviet maybe?

== Jack has an ADAM slug. ==

== Rapture is developing a sustainable food chain consisting entirely of ADAM. ==

Little Sisters take in the old ADAM, serving as scavengers and decomposers. It's entirely possible that they can subsist entirely on this. Their waste product (recycled ADAM) is distributed among Big Daddies (just because only the Alpha series gets properly weaponized plasmids doesn't mean they're not all heavily altered) and possibly used by whoever's in charge (Ryan or Lamb or whoever) to bribe splicers. Splicers and occasionally Big Daddies and Little Sisters become food for larger, tougher splicers. Big Sisters are the top predators. Incidentally, they make a lot of sense viewed from this perspective. The "increased aggressiveness" of older Little Sisters was just them getting hungrier, as pubescent kids do, and beginning to see the splicers as Happy Meals with legs. They don't care about keeping ADAM in the food chain (like lions don't care about making food for dung beetles) or protecting the Little Sisters (at the very least, it's not a primary objective). They attacked Delta because he was a delicious four-course meal. Then the Big Sisters throw up ADAM for whoever's holding their leashes, the ADAM is given to splicers who start killing each other over it, and the cycle begins anew. For all we know, none of them even need food. Delta's gluttony aside, it's hard to see how Big Daddies would eat. The only necessary inputs are more people because I refuse to accept the possibility that splicers aren't sterile.

* Orrrr it could be that (as was explained in-game) the Alpha Series went insane when the pairbond experiments on them failed. Delta was the first success.

 

The [[Healing Factor]] provided by the ADAM slug in his stomach is why he is able to stay along [[Time Lord/WMG|J]][[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|a]][[Badass Bookworm|m]][[Genius Bruiser|i]][[Badass Abnormal|e]] for so long without turning into chunky salsa. This fact, combined with the Little Sister mental conditioning and exposure to [[Impressive Pyrotechnics]] led to [[Mad Bomber|an unusually deep fascination with rapid pressurized disassembly of large objects]].

 

== If there is a Bioshock 3, the player character will be [[Dating What Daddy Hates|Billy]]. ==

 

== The telekinesis plasmid works by sonic manipulation. ==

== The plot of Bioshock 3 will be as follows. ==

The [[Big Bad]] of Bioshock 3 will be Orrin Oscar Lutwidge, who was a character who was featured prominently in the "There's Something in the Sea" viral campaign that preceded Bioshock 2's release and by the end his final fate is left ambiguous. While he may have died his body isn't accounted for, and his background reveals he not only once went to Rapture but expressed a desire to return to it. Having already been noticably mutated by splicing in his original visit to the city, Lutwidge wouldn't immediately be considered an outsider (and thus, not marked for death) by it's inhabitants but because he hadn't had the opportunity to abuse ADAM as much as they had due to leaving he retains much of his mental abilities (if not sanity). Using his genius engineering talents, he is able to save the city from completely falling apart following the departure of both Ryan and Lamb, uses his charisma to get the remaining splicers to name him the new leader of Rapture, and as a huge fan of Lewis Caroll, he turns Rapture into a creepy "Alice in Wonderland"-themed environment. And rather then trying to make Rapture an ideal free-market or collectivist society like Ryan or Lamb respectively, Lutwidge (who was less sane then either of them) turns it into utopia for the insane, where splicers give free reign to their psychotic tendencies, making them more dangerous and upredictable then ever.

'''Chesire Cat:''' ''You must be, or you wouldn't have come here.'' }}

* This is the best Bioshock 3 idea ever

 

== Johnny Topside, a.k.a. Subject Delta, was the inspiration for the creation of Big Daddies. ==

 

== Andrew Ryan was right! ==

 

 

 

== Rapture is powered by the BP oil spill. ==

 

* Rapture was built in the 40s, experienced a great amount of decay and destruction through the late 50s and 60s, and is located a ways east of Greenland.

** Timey Wimey Ball. With portals.

 

* Given that both possess powers such as telekinesis (which they would pick up along the way), and {{spoiler|both have fathers voiced by Armin Shimerman}}.

 

 

== All the "Shock" games have elemental and extremist motifs - meaning that Levine's future projects can be predicted. ==

 

 

== Bioshock 3 will involve the complete destruction of Rapture at the hands of a band of mercenaries ==

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