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* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: Averted with ADAM and EVE, which, despite being always written out in all caps, are never revealed to stand for anything.
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: In the story, ADAM is used to activate and maintain one's ability to splice; in the game it's treated more like a form of currency for plasmids and upgrades that are otherwise available free of charge.
** In the [[Apocalyptic Log|Audio Diary]] "Today's Raid," Diane
** In fact, [[What Could Have Been|the original plan]] (which even made it to an early gameplay demo) was to have ADAM be the main currency of the game, before they decided to replace it with Rapture Dollars for everything but plasmids.
** The Splicers ignore vials of Adam just lying around, the player doesn't. this might be fridge brilliance, given what Andrew Ryan does to looters. The Big Daddies never respond to other splicers with the hostility they do to you. Even when it's scripted the lights do not change from Yellow to Red. Even when attacked by accident they simply posture and scream, if you attack them by accident.
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