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== ''BioShock 1'' ==

 

The protagonist of the first game, an American of rural origin who ended up in a plane crash over the Atlantic ocean in early 1960. {{spoiler|He is later revealed to have been Andrew Ryan's bastard son by way of Jasmine Jolene, donated to Dr. Suchong, who engineered Jack to be a [[Laser Guided Tykebomb]]}}. Voiced by Adam Sietz.

 

* [[An Ice Person]]: Winter Blast.

* [[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]].

The creator and ruler of Rapture. Ryan fled from society after becoming dissatisfied with America and its 'parasites'. Voiced by Armin Shimerman/[[Unsho Ishizuka]].

 

* {{spoiler|[[Archnemesis Dad]]}}

* [[Badass Moustache]]

An Irish fisherman who guides Jack over his shortwave radio. He brought his wife and son to Rapture in search of a better life, but is now desperately trying to get them out. He is gradually revealed to be the leader of the Anti-Ryan rebellion. {{spoiler|'Atlas' is later revealed to be a persona adopted by Frank Fontaine, who has been manipulating Jack even before the game begins}}. Voiced by Karl Hanover.

 

* [[Arc Words]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

A high ranking scientist of German-Jewish origin within Rapture, who mothered the Little Sister project and later came to view them as her surrogate children, in atonement for removing them from their parents and experimenting on them. Voiced by Anne Bobby.

 

* [[The Atoner]]

* [[For Science!]]: Her initial outlook on her work, even to the point of collaborating with her Nazi captors.

An infamous New York mobster and former business rival of Andrew Ryan's whose rise to prominence and power through the marketing of plasmid technology proved instrumental in provoking Rapture's civil war and downfall. Voiced by Greg Baldwin {{spoiler|and Karl Hanover (in ''Bioshock 2'')}}.

 

* [[American Accents]]: A clear case of Joisey/Da Bronx, to more clearly ram home that he's a gangster.

* [[Badass Moustache]]

[[Renaissance Man|Artist, writer, actor, director and composer]], famous for writing Rapture's national anthem "Rise, Rapture, Rise", as well as many other strange and eccentric works. Notably hostile towards those who question his art and/or closeness to Andrew Ryan. Jack first encounters him in Fort Frolic, after Cohen jams Atlas' radio transmission and blocks the exists; welcoming Jack as a fellow artist, he gives him the task of killing his former disciples and photographing their corpses..

 

* [[Affably Evil]]: Weirdly friendly towards Jack throughout their time together, often complimenting him on his fighting style or his talents as a photographer. Also, he apologises profusely after launching a horde of splicers at him.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Just try questioning his art. {{spoiler|[[Good Bad Bugs|He could even rise from the dead to attack you if you hit his Quadtych]]}}.

Before Rapture's societal collapse, J.S. Steinman was one of the city's most famous medical professionals: already a highly innovative plastic surgeon, he used ADAM to sculpt his patients to the highest possible standard of beauty. Unfortunately, he also tried a few of these new techniques himself. As such, by the time Jack meets him, Steinman has degenerated into a splicer, and now sees his patients as little more than human-shaped canvases on which to practice his skills as an artist: specifically, cubism.

 

* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: His audio diaries, especially "Not What She Wanted", which records the moment in which Steinman finally loses his mind and begins performing a facelift on a patient- who'd only been scheduled for a nosejob- while a nurse screams for help in the background.

* [[Berserk Button]]: By the time Jack meets him, Steinman is a very strong believer in [[Beauty Equals Goodness]], and considers anything ugly to be offensive to the point that he's willing to kill and/or mutilate it on sight.

Initially just a worker in Neptune's Bounty fisheries, Peach was drawn into becoming the leader of Fontaine's smuggling ring. As Fontaine started to take advantage of his employees and the Rapture Death Penalty was introduced, he found himself trapped between a rock and a hard place. He became paranoid and reclusive, refusing to believe Fontaine was really dead.

 

* [[Large Ham]]

* [[Properly Paranoid]]

Dr. Yi Suchong was one of the leading scientists in Rapture, who worked for Fontaine on plasmid tests, as well as designing Little Sisters and the first of the Big Daddies. {{spoiler|He and Dr. Tenembaum were also responsible for creating Jack and the mental conditioning that would be used to control him}}.

 

* [[Child-Hater]]: Suchong hated children, and scarcely bothered to conceal it in any way. One of his big dreams was to find a way to make children age quickly to make them more efficient and "domesticatable". {{spoiler|Eventually, he succeeded in this by creating Jack}}.

{{quote|''"Before ADAM, you could no more domesticate a child than a boa constrictor. They eat and drink like pig, and give nothing back. Must find way to accelerate process."''}}

 

The protagonist of ''[[BioShock (series)|BioShock]] 2'' and the [[Player Character]], a [[Super Prototype]] Big Daddy.

* [[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.

* [[Elemental Powers]]: Same as Jack:

The [[Big Bad]] of ''[[BioShock (series)|BioShock]] 2''. ''[[Doctor Who]]'' fans [[Hey, It's That Guy!|may recognize her as]] [[Agatha Christie]], played by Fenella Woolgar. An idealist as obsessive as Ryan, but with a philosophy that's diametrically opposite. She believes in absolute collectivism, denouncing individuality and. indeed, sentience as a curse. She plans to use her daughter Eleanor to set the foundations for Utopia, [[Utopia Justifies the Means|whatever it takes]].

 

* [[Abusive Parent]]

* [[Big Bad]]:

A [[Affably Evil|friendly, charming and somewhat amoral]] businessman who aids Subject Delta in his quest to reunite with Eleanor Lamb. Voiced by Doug Boyd.

 

* [[Affably Evil]]: Amiable and without scruples from the word "go".

* {{spoiler|[[Apologetic Attacker]]}}: {{spoiler|Gets turned into an Alpha series Big Daddy near the end of the game and forced to fight Delta, desperately apologizing to him and Eleanor along the way}}.

Sofia Lamb's daughter and Delta's former Little Sister. Constantly in sedation, as part of Lamb's master plan. Voiced by Sara Bolger and Sydney Unseth (as a child).

 

* [[Acquired Poison Immunity]]: Apparently, due to her exposure to large amounts of ADAM as a child, Eleanor can tolerate extensive splicing without any of the side-effects. Unfortunately, this makes her the perfect candidate for her mother's experiment...

* {{spoiler|[[Action Girl]]}}

Another one of Fontaine Futuristic's leading scientists, Gilbert "Gil" Alexander replaced Dr. Suchong as head of the Protector Program: in this position, he created the Alpha Series and the symbiotic bond with their Little Sisters- making him indirectly responsible for {{spoiler|Johnny Topside's}} conversion into Subject Delta. Following the collapse of Rapture's security police, he also designed the city's automated security system. However, he eventually fell in with Sofia Lamb and the Rapture Family, assisting in their development of a "Utopian", {{spoiler|even submitting himself to the first attempt to create one}}. Unfortunately, {{spoiler|the experiment resulted in him being horribly mutated and deranged by mass amounts of ADAM, ultimately reducing him to a nightmarish aquatic monster kept within a tank in the basement of Fontaine Futuristics}}.

 

* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: {{spoiler|How his still-lucid self communicates}}.

* [[The Atoner]]: Dr. Alexander was genuinely ashamed that he'd been responsible for Eleanor's transformation into a Little Sister, and worked for many years to undo the conditioning he'd forced on her.

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Stanley Poole was a reporter for the Rapture Tribune newspaper. He was hired by Augustus Sinclair on the behalf of Andrew Ryan to infiltrate the Rapture Family, and gather evidence so that Sofia Lamb could be imprisoned. It all went downhill for him from there.

* {{spoiler|[[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: Let's just say that there are very few people in the game that ''haven't'' been backstabbed by him at some point}}.

* [[Cower Power]]: {{spoiler|Poole spends most of his only level hiding in a booth while forcing Delta to clear up his dirty business}}.

 

The protagonist of [[BioShock (series)]] 2 DLC Minerva's Den and the [[Player Character]], another [[Super Prototype]] Big Daddy.

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

** [[An Ice Person]]: Winter Blast.

The antagonist of the ''Minerva's Den'' DLC, Porter's former partner who betrayed him to take control of The Thinker alone, believing that it can be used to crack a perfect equation that can predict everything. Voiced by Keith Szarabajka.

 

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: For a skinny mathematician, Wahl is remarkably strong even by Splicer standards when you finally fight him, as he can take almost as much damage as a Big Sister (though since he lacks Big Daddy damage resistance and effect immunity, it's pretty easy to juggle him to death with your plasmids and weapons).

* [[Boss in Mooks Clothing]]: {{spoiler|He is a reaused buttons splicer, with a [[Nice Hat]]}}.

 

Self-styled top of Rapture's food chain, the Brute has spliced himself into a musclebound gorilla of a human being; on top of being overbuilt, he's also aggressive, pugnacious, coarse, violently homophobic, and very ''very'' vocal about it. Appearing exclusively in the second game, he also seems to be the only member of Sofia Lamb's "Rapture Family" who isn't motivated by religious fervour, but an addiction to violence.

* [[Armoured Closet Gay]]: In spite of all his homophobia, the Brute can be heard making a few interesting remarks to the opposite effect when alone, and when he's under the effects of the Hypnotize plasmid...

* [[Baddie Flattery]]: Of course, while hypnotized, he starts complimenting Delta a great deal.

 

Though the Crawler is a Spider Splicer by default, he tends to offset the stealth aspect of the character by being the noisiest of all enemies in ''BioShock 2'', with the possible exception of the Big Sister. More disfigured than any other splicer in Rapture and even more deranged, the Crawler is very vocal about his problems, screaming and wailing with every move, sometimes even accusing the player of being a figment of his imagination.

* [[Anti-Villain]]: Out of all of the Splicers, the Crawler is one of the few that just seem pitiable and sad more than anything else.

* [[Famous Last Words]]: "Finally... sleep..."

 

Evidently in show business before the Civil War, the Baby Jane splicer is still trying to find work in the theatre, and can often be heard insisting that she's a star. Sometimes she experiences moments of lucidity when she realises that Rapture is no longer fit for theatrical performances and her face has been ruined by constant splicing; unfortunately, she uses these moments to take out her frustrations on the player.

* [[Chorus Girls|Chorus Girl]]

* [[Cute but Cacophonic]]

 

A businessman of some sort, the Breadwinner is under the delusion that Rapture's steady collapse is "just a bad quarter", and he still has a chance to make it big... when he isn't under the impression that he's already made it to the top.

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Well, he certainly was at some point.

* [[Determinator]]: "Came down here with a dream... That dream's gonna happen..."

 

An elderly security guard, Ducky differs from most of the other Splicers in that, rather than being delusional or lost in his own private fantasy, he's just aggressive and paranoid... not to mention insanely nationalistic.

* [[Badass Grandpa]]

* [[Berserk Button]]: In spite of his nationalism, Ducky has a very obvious hate-on for Rapture's leaders, especially exploitative ones like Ryan and Fontaine.

 

A surgeon in the mould of Dr. Steinman (they share the same basic model), dialogue reveals that he's not exactly the most professional in the business: freely admitting to making up answers to questions posed by concerned patients, and forgetting what his various medical supplies actually do. And worse still, he's a germophobe.

* [[Back-Alley Doctor]]: In the sense that if he ever qualified for a medical degree, he's long since lost the qualifications to splicing-induced insanity.

* [[Child-Hater]]: Despises children on general principle, claiming that babies are born "covered in death", and professing utter loathing for the Little Sisters.

 

A member of one of Rapture's football teams, Pigskin is more lucid than most of the Splicers... apart from his slightly desperate belief that his parents are somewhere in the area. Nevertheless, he still suffers considerable pain, both from the deformities induced by ADAM overdosing, and from his fellow Splicers.

* [[Anti-Villain]]

* [[Apologetic Attacker]]

 

== Alpha Series ==

* [[Axe Crazy]]: Apart from Delta and Sigma, the only Alpha Series encountered in the game are maddened killing machines, apparently having been driven insane by the death of the Little Sister they were bonded to.

* [[Can't Live Without You]]: Up until Delta, most Big Daddies lost interest in their charges the moment they were no longer in any danger; so, Gilbert Alexander countered this by creating an intense emotional bond between each Alpha Series and the Little Sister that was assigned to them. This was enforced by a physiological countermeasure that sent the Alpha Series into a coma if their Little Sister moved out of range.

 

== Bouncer ==

* [[Guest Fighter]]: Made a playable character on ''[[Play Station All Stars Battle Royale]]''.

* [[This Is a Drill]]: Their primary weapon.

 

== Rosie ==

* [[Cyber Cyclops]]: Invoked by the one-windowed helmet.

* [[Mighty Glacier]]: The slowest Big Daddies, but also the toughest.

 

== Rumbler ==

 

== Lancer ==

 

== Big Sister ==

* [[Face Doodling|Armour Doodling]]: Some of them sport crayon drawings on their armour, apparently from the Little Sisters they've been escorting.

* [[Bishonen Line]]: By far the most human (being able to actually remove their armour), and the most powerful of all the Protectors.

* [[Make Me Wanna Shout]]: The Big Sisters announce themselves with a piercing shriek that actually distorts Delta's vision, but thankfully, it doesn't actually hurt him.