BioShock (series)/Characters: Difference between revisions

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* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type III]] mostly, as the player will probably kill many splicers in a [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|most painful way]] (but [[What Measure Is a Mook?]]). If you choose to harvest little sisters, Type V. Of course, when he harvests ''all'' of them, he'll no longer be an Anti-Hero, but [[Complete Monster|worse]] [[Face Heel Turn|than]] [[Villain Protagonist|that]].

* [[Badass Normal]] (He begins the game as this, then becomes more of a [[Badass Abnormal]] as he becomes more and more spliced. {{spoiler|And ends up partially becoming a Big Daddy, to boot.}})

* [[Bee-Bee Gun]] His insect swarm plasmid.

* [[Hypocrite]]: And how! He acts like a stereotypical tyrant once things stop going his way, but it's okay as long as he [[Completely Missing the Point|technically doesn't pass any laws]].

* [[Lack of Empathy]] / [[The Unfettered]]: He sees ''nothing'' wrong with {{spoiler|murdering a woman in cold blood for selling his unborn child}} or with {{spoiler|gassing a scientist who was trying to save Acadia from his poisons}}, or with {{spoiler|decorating the entrance hall to his office with the grimly mutilated corpses of his would-be assassins}}.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: [[Ayn Rand|Immigrant from Communist Russia, develops a fiercely individualistic philosophy promoting self-interest, dreams of building a hidden libertarian utopia where men of ability and independence can live free from the predation of government and moochers...]]

* [[Older Than They Look]]: According to the [http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Andrew_Ryan Bioshock wiki] Ryan was born in 1892, which would make him 67 or 68 at the time of the first game. From his pictures on the audio diaries he looks like a healthy man in his mid-forties, and while he seems older when you meet him at the end, he certainly doesn't look nearly 70.

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: That, plus power and influence, seems to do more of the talking in his life even after he set up the societal rules of Rapture and ended up breaking them when Fontaine and Atlas proved to be formidable enemies.

* [[Self-Made Man]]

 

* [[The Atoner]]

* [[Germanic Depressives]] (A rather justified case)

* [[Hot Scientist]]

* [[Heel Realization]]: One day she got a good look at a Little Sister and felt hatred like she never felt before, and not towards the children.

* [[Les Collaborateurs]]: Despite her Jewish heritage, her [[For Science!|love of science]] led her to become an aide to the Nazi scientists of Auschwitz.)

* {{spoiler|[[Mission Control]] (After [[The Reveal]] in the first game)}}

 

=== Frank Fontaine ===

** He mentions {{spoiler|having spent six months as a [[Master of Disguise|chinaman]] once}}.

* [[Consummate Liar]]: There is no doubt that Fontaine is a lying bastard from beginning to end.

* [[Drunk on the Dark Side]]: {{spoiler|After overdoing a self-defensive splicing.}}

* [[Diabolical Mastermind]]: He eventually gains a lot of power within Rapture, even rivaling Andrew Ryan's, because "he's got the [[Psycho Serum|ADAM]], and that makes him the guv'nor".

* {{spoiler|[[Faking the Dead]]}}

* [[Functional Addict]]: {{spoiler|Prior to the boss battle, Fontaine has clearly been using ADAM, but only enough of it to survive the dangers of Rapture. Unfortunately, when Jack corners him, Fontaine splices up with all the ADAM he's been able to gather, driving himself mad in the process.}}

* {{spoiler|[[The Man Behind the Man]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[One-Winged Angel]]: He confronts you after splicing himself into a hulkish superman with multiple [[Elemental Powers|plasmids]] and more than a passing resemblance to the [[Irony|mythical Atlas]]. It's twice as ironic when you realize that in the end he's defeated by a bunch of little girls}}.

* [[Villain Teleportation]]: As a Houdini Splicer, Cohen performs a lot of paranoia-inducing teleports.

* [[White Dwarf Starlet|White Dwarf Star]]: His reputation has already waned by the time Ryan recruits him for Rapture, with his comeback production receiving less-than-stellar reviews; Cohen, of course, talks of nothing but his "projects" and his admirers. Being the only headliner in Rapture helps get him to prominence again.

 

=== Dr. J.S. Steinman ===

{{quote|''"We all come down here, figured we'd all be part of Ryan's Great Chain. Turns out Ryan's chain is made of gold, and ours are the sort with the big iron ball around your ankle."''}}

 

 

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=== Subject Delta ===

 

 

* [[Can't Live Without You]]: As an Alpha Series Big Daddy, Delta will either lapse into a coma or die unless he is reunited with Eleanor soon.

* [[Super Prototype]]: He moves faster than the Big Daddies in Bioshock 1, and can use plasmids. Dr. Suchong also [[Lampshade Hanging|mentions]] that it's superior to what is to come, but they had to [[Nerf]] the following versions to the point of [[Lowered Monster Difficulty|"mediocrity"]], mostly because they would be too [[Hoist by His Own Petard|dangerously]] overpowered.

* [[This Is a Drill]]

 

=== Dr. Sofia Lamb ===

{{quote|''"Until ADAM, the human animal was a slave to the gene... the inner Tyrant. Lust... greed... rage; self obsession was etched into our DNA. We were not pulling the 'Great Chain of progress,' as Ryan believed - but shackled to it. But now, in theory, we can redraft the human blueprint. Serving the common interest can become as natural as breathing."''}}

 

 

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** [[Non-Action Big Bad]]

* [[Berserk Button]]: {{spoiler|She couldn't stand Eleanor rejecting her ideology and went to increasingly erratic and extreme lengths to stop Subject Delta. Finally she smothers Eleanor in a last ditch attempt to stop Delta; she had no way of knowing this wouldn't kill Eleanor as well, but it's quite clear she didn't care}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Break the Haughty]]: Suffers from this in the semi-good ending of the game, especially when Eleanor makes it clear that she only saved Sophia's life to make sure that she'd go on living in the knowledge that her Utopia had failed and her daughter had betrayed her.}}

* [[Blondes Are Evil]]

* [[Evil Matriarch]]: Is she ever! It's clear from the opening cutscene that she possesses no love for Eleanor as a human being, only possessiveness.

* [[The Evils of Free Will]]: She believes that individuality is the root of all evil.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: In the form of her strict upbringing as a psychiatrist following in her father's footsteps, and in the form of her volunteer work in post-bomb Hiroshima.

* [[Foil]]: Her collectivist outlook makes her one to Andrew Ryan.

* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Not only did he mastermind Rapture's security systems, but {{spoiler|after his mutation began}} he also modified the branches of it around Fontaine Futuristics to provide help to anyone answering his [[Distress Call]]. After {{spoiler|his mutation drove him insane}}, he also equipped numerous security drones with monitors and speakers to carry his voice and face- part of it, at least- to his "employees."

* [[Kick the Dog]]: {{spoiler|In one of his earliest scenes, Alex the Great has his modified security drone electrocute a pair of terrified splicers.}}

* [[Mad Scientist]]: As one of Rapture's scientific elite, this is a given.

* {{spoiler|[[The Man Behind the Curtain]]: When Delta finally meets Dr. Alexander's horribly mutated self, he's not much of a threat without the splicers he employs; true, he may be a gigantic monster with the combined powers of hundreds of different splicers implanted into his body, but his reliance on his tank prevents him from physically attacking, and the bright light means that he can't even see Delta clearly enough to fight back in any other way.}}

=== Subject Sigma ===

 

 

* [[Elemental Powers]]: same as two previous protagonists

* [[This Is a Drill]]

* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]: Inverted. {{spoiler|It is revealed at the end of Minerva's Den that Subject Sigma is C.M. Porter; C.M. Porter who has been assisting him turns out to be The Thinker.}}

 

=== Reed Wahl ===

* [[The Insomniac]]: Type C- it's driven him even ''further'' into insanity,

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: "I splice up strong, fast, tall. Why can't I splice up ''normal?!"''

* [[Manufacturing Victims]]: Apparently, as a very devout member of the Rapture Family, he's hopelessly addicted to Sofia Lamb's therapy.

* [[Nervous Wreck]]

* [[Dr. Jerk]]

* [[Dressed to Heal]]

* [[Kryptonite Is Everywhere]]: Taken to ludricrous levels with his rampant germophobia:

{{quote|"There's semen on everything! ''EVERYTHING!''}}