BioShock 2: Difference between revisions

* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: Fans wanted to see [[Hero of Another Story|Mark Meltzer's]] story come to a definite conclusion, so 2k Games put Mark Meltzer in the game {{spoiler|as a Big Daddy you have to kill. Turns out, Mark wanted to be with his daughter under any conditions. This discovery put many of the followers of ''[[Bio Shock]] 2's'' ARG [[Player Punch|into bad moods.]]}}

** You don't ''have'' to kill him. There are several other Big Daddies around. Although if you don't, he will most likely {{spoiler|die when Fontaine Futuristics and Persephone fall to the bottom of the trench after Sofia Lamb destroyed the anchors that held buildings in place}}.

** A smaller example for {{spoiler|Mark Meltzer,}} assuming you're rescuing the Little Sisters: {{spoiler|he gets turned into a Big Daddy and ultimately dies at your hand, but Cindy is safe.}}

* [[Book Ends]]: The game ends outside the lighthouse where the first game begins.

* [[Cult]]: Lamb's "Family," complete absolute fealty to their leader, messianic figure, and suicidal "ascension" ceremonies.

* [[Cute Bruiser]]: {{spoiler|Eleanor Lamb, after you free her and she dons a Big Sister getup.}}

* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Sofia Lamb. Once she realizes Eleanor is helping Delta, she sits in the quarantine room with her and watches her every move. Later, {{spoiler|she uses the Big Daddy's link to their Sisters to knock you out by strangling Eleanor.}} Immediately afterward, {{spoiler|she straps you to a table, saying that if they kill you, you'll just go back to a Vita Chamber.}} Later, {{spoiler|she [[Rocks Fall Everyone Dies|tries to destroy the entire building to kill you regardless of the Vita Chambers]] }}, and then {{spoiler|sabotages the ballast tanks on the escape boat to so that it can only handle enough weight that she can escape}}. ''Then'' {{spoiler|when you're on the final leg of the run to the boat, she's got a huge stack of explosives waiting for you at the door.}}

* [[Darker and Edgier]]. It may seem impossible, but ''[[Bio Shock]] 2'' [[Up to Eleven|manages to get even darker and edgier]] than the first game, at least in some respects.

* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: The Big Sisters.

* [[Dual Boss]]: There's a [[Climax Boss]] fight against two Big Sisters at the same time at the beginning of the final level.

* [[Easter Egg]]: ''[[Bio Shock]] 2's'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNqsJbTwxM0 Unstable Teleport Plasmid].

** Using the Incinerate plasmid in a block of ice in Dionysus Park reveals a cat called Schrodinger...

* [[Electronic Speech Impediment]]: Alex the Great's "secretary".

* [[The End of the Beginning]]: The best ending

{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Eleanor'''}}: "If Utopia is not a place, but a people, then we must choose carefully, for the world is about to change, and in our story, Rapture was just the beginning."}}

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Inverted. Augustus Sinclair is still an improvement over [[Complete Monster|Frank Fontaine.]]

* [[The Evils of Free Will]]: The basis of Sofia Lamb's philosophy: that free will and self-awareness are the root of evil, and that only by "killing the self" can one achieve peace. This leads her to create a cult.

* [[Flawed Prototype]]: The Alpha Series can only be bonded to a particular Little Sister, and initially had a penchant for wandering away from them. This resulted in the formation of a permanent bond, so that if that Little Sister is lost, the Alpha unit either is rendered comatose, [[Heroic BSOD|becomes morose]], or [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|flips out]].

* [[Foil]]: Sofia Lamb, who believes in original sin, the impotence of human reason, as well as altruism, is literally the opposite of an Objectivist like Andrew Ryan. Some of the audio diaries in the contain snippets of debates between them, an interesting look at two diametrically-opposed forces colliding on stage.

* [[Remember the New Guy]]: Turns out, Sofia Lamb was out of the picture by the time Atlas was picking up steam, but still a forefront in the "Maybe Ryan's not right" train of thought.

* [[Sawed Off Shotgun]]: Played totally straight with the damage upgrade to ''2's'' shotgun, which literally says sawing off the barrel makes it deal more damage. Precisely why the developers think long-barreled shotguns actually exist is anyone's guess.

{{quote| '''Ryan:''' I spoke to a young man exiting the park after the grand opening, asking him what, if anything, he had learned here. He said his chores didn't seem so bad anymore - as long as mother wouldn't send him to the surface.}}

* [[Sequel Escalation]]: An interesting case - the story is equally good, with a villain based on opposite ideals to Ryan, but the combat is [[Up to Eleven]] by comparison.

** However, an audio diary from Gil Alexander cites Delta as the first successful Alpha Series, so you can probably guess what happened to the first three on your own.

* [[Vorpal Pillow]]: {{spoiler|Sophia to Elanor}}.

** When fans spoke up about the possibility of not knowing Mark Meltzer's fate after the events of "[[Viral Marketing|Something In The Sea]]," 2K added him to ''[[Bio Shock]] 2''.

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* [[Faking the Dead]]: In a sense, {{spoiler|The Thinker to Porter.}}

* [[Fun With Acronyms]]: In Minerva's Den, we are introduced to Rapture's [[Master Computer]], the Rapture Operational Data Interpreter Network, nicknamed "The Thinker". If you notice what the acronym [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Rodin spells], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thinker nickname] starts making more sense...

* [[In the Future Humans Will Be One Race]]: An audio log in the Minerva's Den missions reveals that people in Rapture have begun using plasmids to change their race, as Porter recalls a businessman suggest he splice himself white to get ahead. [[Hand Wave|May or may not explain]] why there's so few characters who aren't of Anglo or Russian descent.

* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: It becomes clear that C. M. Porter attempted to make The Thinker simulate his dead wife. {{spoiler|The last audio diary confirms he succeeded, but he was so creeped out by it (finally realizing that it wasn't and would never be ''her'') that he quickly shut down the simulation.}}