BioShock (series)/Characters: Difference between revisions

 

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* [[AFGNCAAP]]: As the [[Player Character]], naturally.

* [[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.}})

* [[Foil]]: Recieved an excellent one in the form of Sofia Lamb

** Probably even moreso in the case of Fontaine. Fontaine builds up a company from simple foodstuffs to high technology, catching Ryan off-guard when Fontaine Futuristics surpasses Ryan Industries. This he admired. What caused Ryan to have a colossal freakout was discovering that Fontaine was smuggling surface-produced goods into Rapture, setting off his paranoia that the "parasites" would come nationalize his [[Hidden Elf Village]].

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: Twice over. His [[The Fettered|ideals]] and [[Determinator|determination]] built a business empire unheard of in reality, and Rapture itself was a true Objectivist Utopia... for a time. [[Hidden Elf Village|Isolating Rapture from the surface]] created Fontaine - his own personal [[Al Capone]] to run the resulting smuggling black market; worse still, after Fontaine was killed, he nationalized his business in an outright betrayal of Rapture's guiding philosophy, and rushed ADAM onto the market without bothering to regulate its sale or use- thus leaving the blame for the many thousands of addictions and the civil war squarely on his head. All downhill from there, but he ''might'' have been able to salvage things if he hadn't taken {{spoiler|[[Manipulative Bitch|Sofia Lamb's]]}} bait and thrown her in prison with all his other enemies - giving them a leader, his own personal Bolshevik.

* [[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]].

* [[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.

** Justified. In Rapture, you will often see ads for a gene tonic that makes you look 'twenty years younger!' Apparently they actually work.

* [[Straight Edge Evil]]: In spite of all the dangers in Rapture, he doesn't appear to have made use of any Gene Tonics or Plasmids to defend himself. In fact, it's very likely that he's only used ''one'' gene tonic in all his years spent in Rapture.

* {{spoiler|[[Suicide By Cop]]: What his controlling Jack to test whether he's a man or a slave, according to his binary thinking, turns out to be.}}

* [[Ubermensch]]

* [[Wicked Cultured]]

 

* [[Arc Words]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Mission Control]]

* {{spoiler|[[The Mole]]}}

 

* [[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.

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

 

=== Frank Fontaine ===

* {{spoiler|[[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: He had Jack created to kill Andrew Ryan... only for Jack to turn on him when Fontaine showed his hand and tried to kill him. He was also partly responsible for creating the Little Sisters, a group of whom swarm him to deliver the killing blows.}}

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

* [[Posthumous Character]]: As one of the main instigators of the uprisings against Ryan, Fontaine was gunned down by Ryan's men prior to the game. {{spoiler|Except not. He used that opportunity to fake his death and return as the [[Rebel Leader]] Atlas.}}

* [[Super Strength]]: {{spoiler|One of the few gene-tonics he's been willing to use before the final boss battle; during the climax, he uses it to create obstacles that can slow Jack's pursuit.}}

* [[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.]]}}

* [[Celebrity Survivor]]: One of the most active media personalities in Rapture prior to the civil war, now thriving in the anarchy of the city's collapse.

* [[Large Ham]]: Very large.

* [[Laughably Evil]]: Sure, he's a complete monster, but damn if he isn't a ton of fun to listen to and watch.

* [[Performance Artist]]

* [[Playing With Fire]]: If he ever gets pissed off enough to attack you in person, a lot of fireball-tossing will be involved.

** Also [[Large Ham|very notably]], in one of his audio dairies: ''It's my curse! It's my '''fucking''' curse!''

** "I'm SANDER FUCKING COHEN!"

{{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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* [[Abusive Parent]]

* [[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}}.

* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Despite her calm demeanor and utopian views, she is [[The Sociopath|clearly a cold-hearted sociopath at heart]], ruling Rapture with an iron fist.

* [[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.

* [[Hypocrite]]: For all her collectivist idea she can be pretty damn possessive. This was true even before she came to power as she leaves the surface because she believes others have corrupted HER collectivist ideas.

* [[Light Is Not Good]]: [[Blondes Are Evil|Blonde]], [[Faux Affably Evil|pretends to be nice]], [[Faux Symbolism|symbolic]] [[Meaningful Name|name]], [[Path of Inspiration|leads an evil cult]], [[Totalitarian Utilitarian|and will screw the world over to make it "better"]]. Yee-up!

* [[Manipulative Bitch]]: She {{spoiler|engineered her ''own'' jail conviction to gain popular support as a martyr ''and'' place herself in a facility far from Rapture where she could turn the inmates into an army.}} Even ''Fontaine'' is impressed.

* [[Moral Sociopathy]]: A curious case in that she probably did not began as this, but by the time of Bioshock 2 she has definitely become a sociopath obsessed with her philosophy.

* [[Nothing Personal]]: She goes as far as to say she loves Subject Delta just as much as anyone else, before sending a pack of splicers to kill him.

* [[Straight Edge Evil]]: Much like Ryan before her, she doesn't indulge in Plasmids and Gene Tonics, to the the point that the abovementioned mind control was administered by one of Lamb's splicers.

* [[Totalitarian Utilitarian]]

 

=== Augustus Sinclair ===

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Apparently, his grandfather was a strong believer in working in the name of "The People," and "The World Entire," and drowned in the construction of the Panama Canal- thus giving Augustus Sinclair an early bias against altruism.

* [[Functional Addict]]: He's apparently indulged in ADAM-based plastic surgery, but evidently not enough to drive him to Splicerdom.

* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: Sure, he's an exploitative sleazebag who wants to sell Rapture's biotechnology to the highest bidder, but he goes out of his way to help Delta and prefers him showing mercy.

* {{spoiler|[[Mercy Kill]]}}

* [[Voice With an Internet Connection]]

 

* {{spoiler|[[Corrupt the Cutie]]: As Eleanor is watching virtually everything you do, harvesting the Little Sisters and killing defenceless characters will result in her becoming just as ruthless and violent.}}

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: When you summon Eleanor to fight with you in Persephone, she pretty much stomps all over the splicers.

* [[Human Sacrifice]]: Basically what her mother is planning.

* [[Messianic Archetype]]: [[Deconstructed Trope|Gloriously torn apart and vaporized]].

* [[Evil Uncle]]: When Sofia Lamb was arrested, she ordered Stanley Poole and Grace Holloway to take care of Eleanor; as such, Poole ended up being called "Uncle Stanley," and proved his credentials in the evil uncle field by {{spoiler|having Eleanor kidnapped to prevent her from ratting him out.}}

* [[Functional Addict]]: Flashbacks show that Poole has been splicing, but he's obviously been able to keep his habit under control for now.

* [[Hero Worshipper]]: One of his audio diaries reveals that he's come to admire Subject Delta- or, as he was known when he was still a human being, {{spoiler|Johnny Topside}}- after interviewing him for the Tribune. {{spoiler|Poole also went on to frame him as a spy and have him imprisoned in Persephone, where he was transformed into a Big Daddy, so he obviously didn't admire Topside ''that'' much.}}

* [[Oh Crap]]: {{spoiler|At the end of his level, Poole suffers a ''doozy'' of an [[Oh Crap]] moment when Sofia Lamb remotely opens the door to his booth and informs Delta just who was ''really'' responsible for his conversion into a Big Daddy.}}

* [[Blood Knight]]

* [[The Brute]]

* [[Country Matters]]: The Brute is notable in that he's the only Splicer to use this particular expletive.

* [[Famous Last Words]]: "Fuckin'... ''poof..."''

"Mates, right? Mates. Yeah." <br />

"Do anything for ya. I mean that." }}

* [[Hates Being Touched]]: Apparently a side-effect of his homophobia.

* [[Hot Blooded]]

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.

 

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

* [[Hallucinations]]

* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: Undoubtedly the most attractive of the Splicers, even though she's just as disfigured as the others.

* [[Shout Out]]: To ''[[What Ever Happened to Baby Jane]],'' of course.

* [[Uncanny Valley Makeup]]: Close examination shows that her makeup consists of a layer of greasepaint and lipstick smeared [[The Joker|Jokerishly]] over her face.

* [[White Dwarf Starlet]]

* [[Perpetual Poverty]]: In spite of his insistence to the contrary, it's not likely that the Breadwinner will ever have the wealth he wants- or claims to have.

* [[Sharp Dressed Man]]: Still wears an expensive pinstriped suit.

* [[White Dwarf Starlet]]: In the corporate sense, anyway.

 

* [[Cowboy Cop]]

* [[The Cuckoolander Was Right]]: At one point, exclaims that {{spoiler|Fontaine isn't dead}} and that {{spoiler|Atlas and Fontaine are the same}}. And [[Wham Episode|towards the end of the first game...]]

* [[Properly Paranoid]]: At times.

* [[Racist Grandma|Racist Grandpa]]: Can be heard snarling furiously about "parasites," papists, and race-mixers.

* [[The Mean Brit]]

* [[Neat Freak]]: Can often be heard grumbling about how dirty or unhygenic the room is- regardless of just how filthy it actually is.

* [[Slipping a Mickey]]: Occasionally admits to putting things in his nurses' drinks.

* [[Trust Me I'm an X]]: When searching for a character in hiding, he can be heard yelling, "Don't worry, I'm a ''[[Blatant Lies|professional]]!"''

 

== Pigskin ==

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.

 

* [[Apologetic Attacker]]

* [[Jerk Jock]]: Thoroughly averted.

== Overall Tropes ==

* [[Berserk Button]]: All of the Big Daddies have been programmed to fly into a rage if a Little Sister is harmed in their presence. The Alpha Series was programmed with a much more specific version of this.

* [[Clingy Costume]]: To varying degrees: Alpha Series Big Daddies can remove their helmets, but that's about it; most run-of-the-mill Big Daddies are little more than organs and tissues ''welded'' to the inside of their suits; the Big Sisters are the only Protectors who can remove their suits, and most of them are too busy to do so.

* [[Elite Mook]]

* [[One Way Visor]]

* [[The Unintelligible]]

* [[Was Once a Man]]