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BioShock (Video Game)
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BioShock is a video game series developed by Irrational Games (also known as 2K Boston for a short while before reverting back to the old name). The series acts as a Spiritual Successor to the System Shock games, and as such are technically First Person Shooters with Stat Grinding and Survival Horror elements. In addition to guns, players also have access to a range of element-themed mutant abilities.BioShock games take place in alternative history realities built heavily on Bio Punk and Diesel Punk. As with System Shock, plots unfold in a Soiled City on a Hill, now under the control of a lunatic with a God complex. The general backstories of the cities and characters are elaborated on in Apocalyptic Logs scattered about. The games delve deep into heavy ethical and philosophical themes: the first two games (as well as their DLC and the DLC of the third game), set in the underwater city of Rapture, meditate on the ethics of gene editing, Objectivism versus Collectivism and the dangers of extreme ideologies, especially when combined with hypocrisy and the natural tendency to compromise our values in the pursuit of power.The third game, Infinite, wrestles with forgiveness, redemption, free will, American Exceptionalism, interventionism, fundamentalism, secularism, and a great many more "isms", plus the tendency of revolutions to replace one tyrant with another.An Updated Re-release of Infinite containing all DLCs came out in November 2014. Another rerelease compiling all three games (minus the multiplayer elements of BioShock 2) came out on September 13, 2016 for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, September 15 for PC and May 28th, 2020 for Nintendo Switch.2K games confirmed in 2019 that a fourth game is in the works at Cloud Chamber, but little else is known besides that. | |
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Cap Raiser: Bioshock 2: Researching the Thuggish Splicer will raise the maximum amount of money Delta can hold by 200, and the cap starts at 600. BioShock Infinite: Infusions are pickups that boost the player's choice of limits: health, salts, or shields. | |
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Creator Cameo | |
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Creator Cameo: Ken Levine provides the voices of the vending machines. | |
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Gatling Good | |
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Columbia is similar, since the people are that paranoid and jingoistic. It's why the Motorized Patriot has a Gatling Good gun. | |
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There's also a few crucified corpses to be found, either in Ryan's foyer for his "spy collection," in medical facilities pinned to operating tables, or near the docks with a smuggler strung up just right. The last case was probably intentional, since he was smuggling religious contraband. | |
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Madness Mantra | |
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Madness Mantra Practically almost all enemy NPC, not to mention Sander Cohen's "The Wild Bunny" audio diary: "I want to take the ears off but I can't! It's my curse! It's my fucking curse! I want to take the ears off! Please! Take them off! Please!" A notable example are the NPCs singing "Jesus loves me this I know", since Christianity was supposed to be banned in Rapture, and there are smugglers crates full of nothing but tons and tons of Bibles (UNSOLD - so the smugglers must've been idiots to keep importing them). | |
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Heroic Mime | |
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Heroic Mime Jack, the protagonist of the first game, has exactly two lines in total, both in the opening cutscene. Lampshaded in BioShock 2, with one of Father Wales' audio diaries describing Jack as a silent and mysterious Messiah figure; "Then, though he spake not a word..." The second game's protagonist, being a Big Daddy, straddles the line between this and The Unintelligible; distorted but vaguely-human grunts and roars, and not much else. Averted in Infinite where Booker frequently talks to himself and other characters throughout the game. | |
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Jumping Off the Slippery Slope | |
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There's no real difference between Fontaine and Ryan by the time BioShock takes place as both of them have gone far off the deep end to achieve their goals. | |
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Obnoxious Entitled Housewife | |
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Obnoxious Entitled Housewife: The Lady Smith splicers embody this trope, with several quotes complaining about servants ("Charles! I think the negro cook's been stealing. It's always like that with the coloreds. Take, take, take"), poors ("They talk talk talk, but in the end they've got nothing to offer society. Just more mouths to feed") and her predicament ("The times may be unkind, but did you have to take our home? I raised my children there! Bastards!"). | |
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Evil Versus Evil | |
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Evil Versus Evil: Andrew Ryan versus Frank Fontaine. Andrew Ryan versus Sofia Lamb. Daisy Fitzroy versus Zachary Comstock. | |
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Monster and the Maiden | |
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Monster and the Maiden: One of the game's iconic enemies are the Bouncers (also known as Big Daddies), hulking suits of armor who protect Little Sisters, human girls who are tasked with collecting ADAM. | |
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Brainwashed and Crazy | |
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Brainwashed and Crazy: Hardcore Objectivist Andrew Ryan, desperate to win Rapture's civil war, resorted to pheromones to control his population, with the justification that if Atlas won they'd be no better off than slaves anyway. | |
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Blatant Item Placement Averted. Much of the weapons and ammo you pick up are either scattered around as a result of a civil war, or found in stashes in offices or weapons lockers. Other things like your improvised weapons are constructed out of mundane materials. Played straight in Infinite where you can find ammo for your guns in places like inside picnic baskets on a crowded beach. | |
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Second Hour Superpower | |
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Second Hour Superpower: The plasmids from both games. | |
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The Sociopath | |
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The Sociopath: Quite a few denizens of Rapture fit the criteria, including Sander Cohen, Sofia Lamb, and Andrew Ryan himself. | |
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Multiple Endings | |
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Multiple Endings In the original, if you rescue all the Little Sisters you find rather than harvest them, you bring them up to the surface with you, where they live normal lives before all returning to comfort you on your deathbed. If you instead harvest them all, after beating the last boss you gorge yourself on ADAM, lead an army of Splicers to the surface, and seize a submarine armed with nuclear weapons. The number of Little Sisters harvested determines the tone of Tennenbaum's otherwise identical voice-over in these endings: harvesting most of them causes her tone to be spiteful and accusatory, while harvesting only a few of them leads to a more disappointed tone from her. As a nod to the choice, the Splicers in the sequel argue over which path Jack took. There's a lot more permutations in the sequel's endings (six, to be precise), depending on whether you again chose to harvest or save the Little Sisters, but also if you chose to kill or spare NPCs]. Variables include the presence or absence of Little Sisters as well as whether or not Eleanor saves her mother, watches her drown, or actively kills her. After morally-ambiguous paths, Delta intentionally dies rather than have Eleanor follow his example, leaving her to wonder if anyone can be redeemed or who will guide her now. In the worst ending, Eleanor follows your example and harvests you for ADAM, and declares that her desires are all that matter and the world is going to change. In Infinite, this is thoroughly averted. Several moral choices present themselves in your path but the plot is unaffected and there is only one ending. | |
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Scare Chord | |
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Scare Chord: The soundtrack has random ones thrown in to mess with you (bordering on playing with Musical Spoiler). Also, your plasmids have specific noises they make when you switch to them, and Electrobolt's is a scare chord. In Infinite, executions with the Skyhook are accompanied by these. | |
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Violation of Common Sense | |
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Violation of Common Sense: The camera's Enemy Scan ability rewards more points for action shots (enemies are attacking or affected by your powers in some way) and multiple subjects (more than one enemy in shot), leading to the ridiculous notion of a massive firefight becoming the ideal time to take some photos. The game at least helpfully pauses the actions between shots. The sequel fixes this by having you start recording first, then attacking. | |
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Human Resources | |
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Human Resources: ADAM, when harvested from dead bodies. | |
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Unwinnable by Design | |
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Unwinnable by Design: The hacking mini-game can become unwinnable, especially further on, as a consequence of the increasing difficulty. This is especially true in the first game, where overload and alarm slots can appear in unavoidable patterns. The idea is to force you to use hacking tonics to dial them back down to a winnable state. | |
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In Infinite, after Comstock realised that the Lutece twins were in a position to reveal Elizabeth's true origins due to the role they played in obtaining her in the first place, he had Fink murder them by sabotaging their Tear device in a staged accident. It didn't exactly work out as planned: though their bodies died, their consciousnesses survived, and they were turned into Physical Gods who eventually orchestrated the destruction of Comstock and Columbia. | |
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The Movie | |
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The Movie: Originally to be directed by Gore Verbinski of Pirates of the Carribean fame, replaced by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later), written by John Logan (Gladiator, The Aviator, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street), eventually killed by Ken Levine himself. | |
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Necessary Drawback | |
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Necessary Drawback: Frozen enemies are very easy to kill, but drop no loot upon death (because you shattered them to bits!) | |
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Papa Wolf | |
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Exemplified in the Big Daddies, who live only to protect the Little Sisters. They will never start a fight. They're happy to finish one, though. Though they will freak out and try to kill you if you get too close to their Little Sister. Or cause them even a slight amount of damage by accident. It's possible to get a Big Daddy to start a fight, though it's by no means hard to avoid doing it. | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Getting shot to pieces by a machine gun or taking a wrench to the frontal lobe are probably the least painful ways to die in Rapture. At least they beat being burned, drilled, electrocuted, drowned, telekinetically hurled, and/or beaten to death. | |
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MST3K Mantra | |
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MST3K Mantra: According to the Making of BioShock DVD, one of the early difficulties in designing Rapture was that, being on the sea floor, the city would have to be designed in a certain way to cope with the natural spreading and movement of the sea floor. Eventually, the artistic developers simply ignored the issue and designed it as any normal city would be. They do say, however, that the final design is apt because like their idea of a Objectivist-run city, a city built on the seafloor just isn't feasible. | |
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Punch-Clock Villain | |
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Punch-Clock Villain: In BioShock the splicers are only after you because of the bounty Ryan put on your head; they aren't real villains and care very little about you. They are just consumed and driven by a drug addiction. Ryan also pumps pheromones throughout Rapture so that they do his bidding. And in ‘’2’’, they are only after you because they think you're trying to kill or corrupt their messiah. Which, from their perspective, you pretty much are. Most of the people who attack you in Infinite are just working for Comstock. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Rapture has gone to hell. Columbia is more of a Crapsaccharine World (at least before the Vox uprising). | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: If you find a kitchen, odds are good that there's a human body on the table or counter. Probably necessary due to Rapture's food production breaking down, plus it's a way to recycle that sweet, sweet ADAM. Spider-splicer hearts can also be used as medpacks. | |
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Iconic Sequel Character | |
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Iconic Sequel Character: Elizabeth is the franchise's most recognizable character after the rumbler big daddy and little sister combo. Booker DeWitt and Subject Delta are also more popular in cosplay than most of the first game's characters (very few of which even have unique models). | |
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Magnificent Bastard | |
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No matter how clever your plots are, no matter how totally you control everyone in Rapture, and no matter how magnificent you are, never underestimate a swarm of Little Sisters' ability to screw you and your plans up. | |
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Creepy Old-Fashioned Diving Suit | |
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Creepy Old-Fashioned Diving Suit: The first game introduces the iconic Big Daddies, men who were heavily spliced with the ADAM mutagen and outfitted in unique, heavily-armored and intimidating diving suits to be protectors for the Little Sisters in the underwater city of Rapture. This turns them into massive imposing armored monsters/mutants that have superhuman strength, endurance and speed, "speak" only in low creepy moans (almost sounding like whales), and typically carry weapons like drills and rivet guns (other Big Daddy armaments would be introduced in the sequel). While we never see the Big Daddies without their suits, Story Breadcrumbs indicate that their creation involved a lot of Body Horror, so that's probably for the best. Its sequel, Bioshock 2 introduces Subject Delta of the Alpha Series, two new types of Big Daddies (The Rumbler which has a shoulder-mounted rocket launchers and the Lancer which is armed with the Ion Laser cannon), it also introduces the Big Sisters, Little Sisters from the first game who weren't rescued by Jack, all grown up in the eight years since. They're a lot more nimble, acrobatic, and aggressive than the Big Daddies, making liberal use of Plasmids as well as their supersized arm-mounted ADAM syringes, but are outfitted in diving suits all the same. They're responsible for kidnapping little girls from the surface to act as the newer generation of Little Sisters. | |
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The Antichrist | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_26c09c2b | comment |
Also in Columbia, since, barring the beginning of the game, Booker is seen as The Antichrist, so the vending machines could quite literally hate his guts. Possession fixes that. | |
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1.0 | |
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Karma Meter | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_276ad49e | comment |
Karma Meter: The first one attempted it with the Rescue/Harvest choice for dealing with Little Sisters, and even the game's director admitted the black or white choice was a poor implementation. It was also incredibly harsh; you bave to make your choice about what you want to see almost at the beginning, because harvest just two out of 21 Little Sisters and you turn into some kind of baby-eater. The sequel seems to go through the motions by giving you the same choices again, just twice, but there are also three characters whom you can choose to kill or spare, which also affects the ending, giving a total of four; Mother Theresa, baby-eater, Judge Dredd, and I Did What I Had to Do (ie, baby-eating at the weekend). The impact of these choices is the game ending (at which time it won't effect play), and the rewards for 'harvesting' or 'rescuing', which in the end result in equivalent rewards (no cost for doing the "right thing"). There is a third option to play through without interacting with the Little Sisters (when possible), and a fourth is to not finish the game and just inhabit areas indefinitely living off the respawning Splicers/Big Daddies for resources. Subverted in BioShock Infinite - there are several opportunities to make choices (moral or otherwise), some of which will result in payouts, but none have any impact on the ending. It's always the same because it has to be. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_276ad49e | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_27a42ebc | comment |
Spiritual Successor: To System Shock and System Shock 2. Almost all of the game mechanics are identical to the latter. In fact, in interviews with Gamasutra developers have stated their starting plan was "System Shock 2 did pretty well, let's make System Shock 2 again." | |
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1.0 | |
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Adam Smith Hates Your Guts | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_29f44d3a | comment |
Adam Smith Hates Your Guts: Justified, since Rapture's regulation-free economy means that shopkeepers can charge people for weaponry to defend themselves during a civil war. Subverted, since you can hack most of the game's vending machines to get yourself greatly reduced prices. In an audio diary, Andrew Ryan even complains that hacking of the vending machines undermines Rapture's capitalist values. It also shows up in places where businesses will rip-off their customers, like a fancy theater or lounge - a snack bar, even when hacked, sells for the "low, low" price of $80. Also justified in that there are no shopkeepers in the desolate Rapture, so there is no economy to begin with. Player characters can buy anything only by using vending machines that have predetermined prices. One of the loading screens in the first game has a quote from the owner of Circus of Values (the vending machines) that pretty much sums up the entire concept of a monopoly in a nutshell: "Do we overcharge the suckers? Sure we do. Where else are they gonna go?" Also in Columbia, since, barring the beginning of the game, Booker is seen as The Antichrist, so the vending machines could quite literally hate his guts. Possession fixes that. In BioShock: Rapture it is explained that when you come to Rapture, you exchange your money for Rapture Dollars, which of course can never be changed back since Rapture is a secret city, which is another reason nobody can leave. | |
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-0.3 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_29f44d3a | |
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Auto-Doc | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_2ae247a4 | comment |
Auto-Doc: Automatic medical machines. They charge you cash, but will heal you completely; however enemies can also use them. You can also hack them so they'll give you a discount and kill any enemies who try to heal with it. Destroying them causes them to drop first aid kits. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_2ae247a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Master of Unlocking | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_2b2a1700 | comment |
Master of Unlocking: All three protagonists, having mastered respectively the specific arts of plumbing and stopping a needle in the right place. | |
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1.0 | |
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Noiseless Walker | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_2bbd9d44 | comment |
Noiseless Walker: The Wrench Lurker tonic has this effect, as it completely silences your footsteps, no matter whether you're walking, crouching or running full tilt. It also increases the wrench's damage to unaware targets. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_2d4fa515 | comment |
Ax-Crazy: Almost everyone in Rapture, and a fair number of people in Columbia. | |
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1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_2d4fa515 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_2f238617 | type |
Power-Upgrading Deformation | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_2f238617 | comment |
Power-Upgrading Deformation: Taking Plasmids isn't necessarily this... that is, if you manage to maintain a steady supply of EVE, which no one can thanks to the civil war in Rapture. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_2f238617 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_2f238617 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_32821ceb | type |
The Unintelligible | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_32821ceb | comment |
The Unintelligible: Big Daddies, having vocal modulators surgically implanted directly into the larynx, can't really talk all that well, nor do they have the brainpower for speech. As such, they primarily communicate in very deep (and very creepy) moans, grunts, and roars evocative of whalesong. Not that they have problems making their feelings clear about, say, your proximity to their Little Sister. They have handy lights for that:] yellow if they don't care, red if they're mad, and green if they're helping you.. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_32821ceb | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_33310c11 | type |
Under the Sea | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_33310c11 | comment |
Under the Sea: The first game somehow avoided a water level. The sequel lets you tromp around in your big old diving suit, but mostly to see some scenery and as a breather between action sequences. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_33310c11 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_34f1b472 | type |
Mad Artist | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_34f1b472 | comment |
Mad Artist: Sander Cohen. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_34f1b472 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_34f1b472 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_3517000d | type |
Mad Scientist | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_3517000d | comment |
Mad Scientist Dr. Suchong et al. Tenenbaum skirts the line mainly by realizing what she's doing and becoming The Atoner. Played with in the case of Gil Alexander who was sure that his next experiment will render him insane. He's right. Sofia Lamb is a rare example of a Mad Social Scientist. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_3517000d | |
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TheSixties | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_3618ebb9 | comment |
The '60s: BioShock 1 takes place in 1960 while the sequel is set around 1967-68. | |
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1.0 | |
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| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_3618ebb9 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_379ba10f | type |
RealityWarping | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_379ba10f | comment |
In Infinite, the long-dead Lady Comstock is frequently mentioned by other characters and is hailed as a saint by the ruling faction of Columbia. Then she gets resurrected with Reality Warping technology, and becomes an active (and very hostile) character in her own right... | |
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The Hero Dies | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_382a6399 | comment |
The Hero Dies: Every game in the series (including DLC) ends with the death of the protagonist. The only exception is Subject Sigma from the Minerva's Den DLC to Bioshock 2. At least Jack in Bioshock 1 does get to live peacefully for a decent number of years before apparently dying of old age, whereas every protagonist from Bioshock 2 onwards dies immediately and messily at the end of their adventure, with the exception of Sigma as stated above. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_382a6399 | |
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Catch and Return | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_38805691 | comment |
Catch and Return: Telekinesis lets you pitch most projectiles back at the one that threw them. This is harder to do in some cases; Rosie mines, for example, anchor themselves to the floor when they land. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_38805691 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_38805691 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_3897986a | type |
Intoxicated Superpower Snag | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_3897986a | comment |
Intoxicated Superpower Snag: Both Jack and Subject Delta find that alcohol drains their EVE bars, leaving them with progressively less energy to use on plasmids... but on the upside, alcohol restores their health bars, so it's useful if you don't have any health kits and don't mind squandering mana. By contrast, nicotine regenerates the player characters' EVE bars but damages their health bars. Intoxication Mechanic: Drinking multiple alcoholic beverages in quick succession will cause the screen to become blurry, in addition to slightly boosting the player character's health and slightly depleting his reserves of EVE (in BioShock and BioShock 2) or Salts (in Bioshock Infinite). Certain gene tonics or Vigors will change the effects of alcohol consumption. | |
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1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_3897986a | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_393ec3f9 | type |
Zeerust | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_393ec3f9 | comment |
Zeerust: Invoked intentionally with Rapture's art design. | |
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1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_393ec3f9 | |
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Dystopia | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_3b39c254 | comment |
Dystopia: Both Rapture and Columbia, each one in a different way. | |
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The Constant | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_3b3d8430 | comment |
The Constant: In Infinite it is revealed that the lighthouse is this, as there is a man to go to one in each universe, in one form or another. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_3b3d8430 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_3bce9346 | type |
Ragnarök Proofing | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_3bce9346 | comment |
Ragnarök Proofing: For a run-down shell of its former glory, Rapture in the first game still more or less looks as it did when all hell broke loose, although a good chunk of it is shown falling apart. The sequel on the other hand shows just how far it's decayed in eight years, with rust, moss and sea life creeping ever more into what's left. | |
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| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_3bce9346 | |
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Schizo Tech | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_3c5ae1a1 | comment |
Schizo Tech Rapture has genetic engineering without the computers that would make genetic information intelligible... which would explain a lot, actually. As of the Minerva's Den, they may have had those too. And an AI. And an Ion Laser. Also, the automatic doors, the miniguns, the audio tapes (which were invented on the surface five years later), the security bots, the Hack Tool for aforementioned computers, (which has no real life equivalent but appears to be a projectile USB drive launcher that works on something that I assume to involve radio waves) and a lot more. And this is the sixties. | |
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1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_3c5ae1a1 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_3d19dd09 | type |
Punk Punk | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_3d19dd09 | comment |
Punk Punk: Each setting exemplifies a mishmash of "-punk" ideas. The setting of the first two games has shakes of late Diesel Punk (in the era as well as the more mechanical devices), Bio Punk (in the cavalier attitudes the populace of Rapture has regarding modifying their own - and each others' - genetics and body structures), and Ocean Punk. The setting of Infinite is a dark take on Steampunk and Clock Punk in both technology and its effect on the world around it, with some Fantastic Noir trappings. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_3d19dd09 | |
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Convenient Color Change | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_3d4f266f | comment |
Convenient Color Change: When you successfully hack a turret. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_3d4f266f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Neural Implanting | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_403c6dbf | comment |
Neural Implanting: Wouldn't you know it, The Psycho Serum ADAM does that too! | |
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1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_403c6dbf | |
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Manipulative Bastard | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_40c57041 | comment |
Manipulative Bastard: Frank Fontaine. And Mommie Dearest bastardess Sofia Lamb | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: The sequels seem to like to give these out to its protagonists: Subject Delta will always die no matter what ending you get. The upside is that his "daughter" will finally see the surface, alongside with whatever lessons she learned from him... good or bad. Booker successfully kills Comstock and rescues Elizabeth... but that means he has to let her drown him in order to prevent him from becoming Comstock. Though after the credits he's shown waking up in his office, possibly letting him learn from his mistakes. And in Burial in Sea, Elizabeth gets her skull caved in, but dies with a smile, knowing she set in motion the downfall of Atlas and the rescue of the Little Sisters. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_40cc0c7e | |
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Lag Cancel | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_41d74667 | comment |
Lag Cancel: Fire your crossbow, switch to a plasmid, then switch back to your crossbow and fire it again. Doing this cancels the lengthy animation after firing and lets you spit out your whole clip of bolts in short order. In 2, the lengthy animation is characteristic of the spear gun, but since both your plasmid and weapon hands are out at the same time, this trope is averted. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_41d74667 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4252fdf6 | type |
Hyperactive Metabolism | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4252fdf6 | comment |
Hyperactive Metabolism There are a number of comestibles that will restore your health and EVE meters, but only by a very small amount. Eating snacks such as potato chips and cream-filled cakes gives you health, while drinking coffee gives you EVE, and eating a "pep bar" gives you a smidgen each of health and EVE. Meanwhile, smoking cigarettes will give you a bit of EVE at the cost of some health, while drinking alcohol will give you a bit of health at the cost of some EVE. The gene tonic Extra Nutrition will give you more health from consumables, and while you'll still have to deal with some drunken wobbling, the gene tonic Booze Hound causes you to gain EVE instead of losing it when drinking booze. BioShock 2 superficially expanded the set of consumable items, adding not only more mundane food items like canned goods and cola but vitamins, aspirin, fresh water, and something called "Doc Hollcroft's Cure-All", which restores both health and EVE despite being, as an audio diary on the website reveals, a placebo. BioShock Infinite expands this even more and you rely on the food since you can't store medkits any more. Some drinks restore Salt, smoking restores some Salt at the cost of health, drinking alcohol has the opposite effect. And of course there's absolutely no limit to how much you can eat or drink. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_4252fdf6 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_444154b8 | type |
Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_444154b8 | comment |
Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: The cells that Little Sisters grow up in, covered in drawings of dead people and morbid-looking stick figures of Big Daddies. Saved children draw happier, sunnier drawings. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_444154b8 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_44c55e9d | type |
Teleportation with Drawbacks | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_44c55e9d | comment |
Teleportation with Drawbacks: As all plasmids need EVE and Teleportation is always because of plasmids: A Teleport plasmid was planned, but due to sequence breaking concerns was never implemented. The novelization prequel explains why there aren't any Teleport plasmids left around for you to find: it was the first plasmid Ryan agreed to ban (also the first time he went against his "free market" philosophy), because it was just that dangerous to have teleporting drug addicts running around. Fontaine actually agreed with Ryan (probably the only time they agreed about anything) about its danger and stopped producing it. However, there were still plenty of splicers who'd already used it... | |
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1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_44c55e9d | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4534a70b | type |
You ALL Look Familiar | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4534a70b | comment |
You All Look Familiar Only two characters in the original had unique character models, and even some major cast members had to make do with un-deformed versions of Splicer models. Happily averted in the sequels, where even minor named characters with only a few seconds of screentime have unique and detailed models. They avoid making it too obvious in the first game by making sure you see every named NPC from behind (Johnny, Julie), from very far away (Atlas at Smuggler's Hideout, Tenenbaum in the Medical Pavillion), or obscured by a mask or scenery (Steinman, Wilkins, Tenenbaum at Mercury Suites), saving the unique character models for the two characters you actually converse with up close. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4534a70b | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_4534a70b | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_457655dd | type |
Human Popsicle | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_457655dd | comment |
Human Popsicle: Courtesy of the Ice plasmids, which can lead to a case of Ice Breaker. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_457655dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_457655dd | featureConfidence |
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| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_457655dd | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_45fe3a2e | type |
Utopia Justifies the Means | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_45fe3a2e | comment |
Utopia Justifies the Means: Ironically, Ryan is forced to turn Rapture into a police state in order to protect his Objectivist Libertarian dream city. Meanwhile Sofia Lamb of the sequel is an even greater believer in this trope, being a collectivist taken up to eleven, desiring to do "good" for a people she views mainly as tools. | |
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1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_45fe3a2e | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_47542f3a | type |
Electricity Knocks You Out | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_47542f3a | comment |
Electricity Knocks You Out: In all games where electric attacks were present, they had the propriety of knocking out enemies, allowing for combos involving melee attacks against weakened adversaries. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_47542f3a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_47542f3a | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_48346d2e | type |
Public Service Announcement | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_48346d2e | comment |
Public Service Announcement: Some deliciously cheesy dialogues occasionally kick in on Rapture's P.A. system, usually excusing security measures. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_48346d2e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_48346d2e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_48346d2e | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_49d18492 | type |
Scenery Gorn | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_49d18492 | comment |
Scenery Gorn: Rapture. All of it. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_49d18492 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_49d18492 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_49d18492 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_49d59be9 | type |
Scenery Porn | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_49d59be9 | comment |
Scenery Porn: The bathysphere ride into Rapture in the first game, and the underwater strolls in the second. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_49d59be9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_49d59be9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_49d59be9 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_49f20c6a | type |
Gory Discretion Shot | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_49f20c6a | comment |
Gory Discretion Shot A form of Non-Gory Discretion Shot in the form of all-concealing green mist is used the moment you actually harvest a Little Sister. Interestingly, in BioShock 2, you have an opportunity to see what happens when somebody else attacks and harvests a Little Sister, and they too are surrounded by an evil-looking pea-green fog. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_49f20c6a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_49f20c6a | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4a3e547f | type |
Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4a3e547f | comment |
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The entire "Would You Kindly" bit in the first game makes you realize that you were blindly obeying the game itself, not just the command phrase. Though most people who play these games figure out that the doors leading OFF the Yellow Brick Road just don't open. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4a3e547f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4a3e547f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_4a3e547f | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4a7c6f60 | type |
Personal Space Invader | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4a7c6f60 | comment |
Personal Space Invader Just try to run from a spider splicer. You'd be astounded at how quickly they'll close the distance once your back is turned. Big Sisters aren't afraid to get up close and personal either. Bouncers' only attacks are this. Subject Delta can replicate it, too. While the Handyman has a wide array of attacks, they seem fond at charging at you full-speed. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4a7c6f60 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4a7c6f60 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_4a7c6f60 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4a852458 | type |
Big Good | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4a852458 | comment |
Big Good: Dr Brigid Tenenbaum plays this role in BioShock and BioShock 2, as well as the Minerva's Den DLC for the latter. Robert and Rosalind Lutece provide a more unexpected example in Bioshock Infinite: initially they come across as morally ambiguous at best, but it turns out they're genuinely out to help Booker and Elizabeth oppose the Big Bad. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4a852458 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4a852458 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_4a852458 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4a932556 | type |
Compilation Re-release | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4a932556 | comment |
Compilation Re-release: In preparation of BioShock Infinite's release, 2K released the BioShock: Ultimate Rapture Edition for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, compiling the first two games and their respective DLCs. This collection also gave Xbox 360 players access to the then PlayStation 3-exclusive Challenge Rooms DLC. BioShock: The Collection consists of all three games and their DLC in a single package. In the case of the physical release, the first two games are in a single disc, while Infinite gets its own separate disc instead. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4a932556 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4a932556 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_4a932556 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4afa0e25 | type |
Bio Punk | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4afa0e25 | comment |
Bio Punk: But of course! The turrets and cameras also have a Diesel Punk vibe. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4afa0e25 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4afa0e25 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_4afa0e25 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4c798fd5 | type |
Shock and Awe | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4c798fd5 | comment |
It's dancing, daddy, it's dancing! | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4c798fd5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4c798fd5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_4c798fd5 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4d070ee3 | type |
Power Perversion Potential | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4d070ee3 | comment |
Power Perversion Potential The world of BioShock incorporates body-altering tonics that can do anything from beef up your fighting ability to allowing you to shoot fire out of your fingers, and can all bought and sold on the open market. Imagine what other kinds of tonics must have been feasible. And given Andrew Ryan's insistence that the market be completely free and unregulated, some of them most certainly did become available to the public. Medpacks heal anything from skinned knees to STD's. In the Burial at Sea DLC, there's the Peeping Tom plasmid. It makes you invisible, muffles your footsteps and allows you to see through walls. Think on that for a moment. In fact, nearby where you find it is an audio diary where the proprietor of the establishment selling it responds to a woman who is complaining about constantly being peeped on by Peeping Tom users with, "Tough luck, it's a free market." Though he was kind enough to direct her to a business that sold material that could block the x-ray effect. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4d070ee3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4d070ee3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_4d070ee3 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4d0986e1 | type |
Snacksploitation | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4d0986e1 | comment |
Justified, since Rapture's regulation-free economy means that shopkeepers can charge people for weaponry to defend themselves during a civil war. Subverted, since you can hack most of the game's vending machines to get yourself greatly reduced prices. In an audio diary, Andrew Ryan even complains that hacking of the vending machines undermines Rapture's capitalist values. It also shows up in places where businesses will rip-off their customers, like a fancy theater or lounge - a snack bar, even when hacked, sells for the "low, low" price of $80. Also justified in that there are no shopkeepers in the desolate Rapture, so there is no economy to begin with. Player characters can buy anything only by using vending machines that have predetermined prices. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4d0986e1 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4d0986e1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_4d0986e1 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4de1a4f7 | type |
Improvised Weapon | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4de1a4f7 | comment |
Averted. Much of the weapons and ammo you pick up are either scattered around as a result of a civil war, or found in stashes in offices or weapons lockers. Other things like your improvised weapons are constructed out of mundane materials. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4de1a4f7 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4de1a4f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_4de1a4f7 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4eaa9b84 | type |
Author Tract | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4eaa9b84 | comment |
Ryan to Professor Langford after she decides to help Jack restore Arcadia with the Lazarus Vector. The specific reason is that her contract made all her intellectual discoveries Ryan's property. Considering Ryan's Author Tract about "owning the sweat of one's brow", and how she's one of the few sane, helpful and (if a bit amoral) nice people in Rapture, her death is a big Player Punch moment. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4eaa9b84 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_4eaa9b84 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_4eaa9b84 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_504a1991 | type |
Body Horror | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_504a1991 | comment |
Body Horror Splicers are marred by bloated tumors or lesions or twisted limbs, and looking at some of the Big Daddy suits it's impossible to imagine a normal person fitting in them. This is because the person in question has had their flesh removed and organs welded into the inside of the suit. Spider Splicers have decayed even further in BioShock 2 and barely look human anymore, while the new Brute Splicers are so beefed up on gene tonics that skin and muscle grew over their clothing. Vigors in Columbia have similar effects to ADAM use, and that's not even getting into the Handymen. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_504a1991 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_504a1991 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_50727f8d | type |
Death Is a Slap on the Wrist | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_50727f8d | comment |
Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: A light slap at that thanks to the Vita-Chambers scattered throughout the levels. Unlike most other games, respawning doesn't even cost any resources. The sequel acknowledges this when the villain admits that the best she can do is slow you down and attempts to get rid of you permanently by destroying all the Vita-Chambers in the area via crush depth. Unless, of course, you turn them off for an achievement run. This also applies in Infinite, and in most cases it will show Elizabeth reviving you. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_50727f8d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_50727f8d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_50727f8d | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_53e1ce4e | type |
Please Wake Up | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_53e1ce4e | comment |
Please Wake Up: The Little Sisters sob this sometimes after you kill their Big Daddy. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_53e1ce4e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_53e1ce4e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_53e1ce4e | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_545744ee | type |
Plot Coupon That Does Something | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_545744ee | comment |
Plot Coupon That Does Something: ADAM, and the Little Sisters who produce it. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_545744ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_545744ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_545744ee | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_55ca8aa | type |
The Mob Boss Is Scarier | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_55ca8aa | comment |
The Mob Boss Is Scarier: One log can be found next to an electrified corpse that belonged to a smuggler. Play it and you'll hear the dead smuggler refusing to give Ryan's goons any information because he claims that Fontaine will do worse. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_55ca8aa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_55ca8aa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_55ca8aa | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_56a6d9d5 | type |
One-Way Visor | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_56a6d9d5 | comment |
One-Way Visor: Rosies and Alpha Series. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_56a6d9d5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_56a6d9d5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_56a6d9d5 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_57a91010 | type |
Green Rocks | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_57a91010 | comment |
Green Rocks: The sea slugs gained the ability to generate ADAM from a large, glowing biomass. It can be seen under Persephone. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_57a91010 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_57a91010 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_57a91010 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_57cf76a1 | type |
Hate Plague | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_57cf76a1 | comment |
Hate Plague: The Enrage plasmid lets you throw a squishy, organic Conflict Ball at foes, turning them into berserk team-killers. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_57cf76a1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_57cf76a1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_57cf76a1 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_58833512 | type |
Watering Down | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_58833512 | comment |
Watering Down: This is Pierre Gobbi's main complaint with Rapture; watered down wine to rip off customers (who obviously have no other choice to get wine, and thanks to lack of regulation, no one to put a stop to them for it). Judging by the nature of ADAM and the fact homemade Plasmids became increasingly common, it would not be surprising if more illicit sources of ADAM were cut with other stuff or watered down. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_58833512 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_58833512 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_58833512 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_598c85e0 | type |
Enemy Scan | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_598c85e0 | comment |
Set Splicers on fire! Watch as they run toward a pool of water, then electrify them! Bash their faces repeatedly with a wrench! Freeze them, ignore their pleas for help, and shatter them into chunks of icy flesh! Toss them like ragdolls! Rig medical stations to poison them! Lure them into waiting turrets! Impale them to scenery through their faces! This is encouraged with the sequel, where you progress faster with enemy research by killing foes with new and inventive applications of your weapons and plasmids. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_598c85e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_598c85e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_598c85e0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5a3b8032 | type |
The Un-Reveal | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5a3b8032 | comment |
The Unreveal: We never actually see what Big Daddies look like under their helmets; as if taunting us with this trope, BioShock 2 begins from the POV of a Big Daddy prototype who is commanded at one point to remove his helmet, and he complies, right before shooting himself in the head. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5a3b8032 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5a3b8032 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_5a3b8032 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5c17c12f | type |
Bribing Your Way to Victory | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5c17c12f | comment |
Bribing Your Way to Victory: A bizarre in-universe example. Thanks to the hyper-capitalist nature of Rapture, you can literally buy the security systems that are supposed to be keeping you out and use them on enemies instead. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5c17c12f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5c17c12f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_5c17c12f | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5caef4ca | type |
Chainsaw Good | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5caef4ca | comment |
Chainsaw Good: Infinite had its version to provide amusing incidents of bloody decapitations and such. And then the DLC (back in Rapture) had to add its own strange equivalent - as if the giant Big Daddy drill was no longer good enough. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5caef4ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5caef4ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_5caef4ca | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5ce7dbb9 | type |
Central Theme | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5ce7dbb9 | comment |
Central Theme: The dangers of extremism and utopianism. And of wanton genetic modification, but mostly extremism. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5ce7dbb9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5ce7dbb9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_5ce7dbb9 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5ceb9939 | type |
Alcohol Hic | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5ceb9939 | comment |
Alcohol Hic: When you grab two beverages in quick succession and, as a result, get momentarily drunk. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5ceb9939 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5ceb9939 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_5ceb9939 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5d1b30ad | type |
Hydro-Electro Combo | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5d1b30ad | comment |
Hydro-Electro Combo: Water significantly amplifies electric attacks. On its own, "Electrobolt!" stun-locks enemies for a few seconds but when transmitted through water puddles will instantly kill any enemy short of a Big Daddy. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5d1b30ad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5d1b30ad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_5d1b30ad | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5da3f522 | type |
Big Brother Is Watching | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5da3f522 | comment |
Big Brother Is Watching: Rapture is dotted with security cameras, and if one gets a long enough glimpse of you it dispatches combat drones to put you down. On the upside you can hack said cameras so that enemies trigger the drone attacks. BioShock 2 features this trope even more directly as it sometimes has voices warning you over the loudspeaker that "Big Sister is Watching You!", along with graffiti warning that "LAMB IS WATCHING". Columbia is similar, since the people are that paranoid and jingoistic. It's why the Motorized Patriot has a Gatling Good gun. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5da3f522 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5da3f522 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_5da3f522 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5e105542 | type |
Magic Genetics | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5e105542 | comment |
Magic Genetics: There probably isn't a real "shoot lightning from your hand" gene, and BioShock shows why we should be thankful for that. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5e105542 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5e105542 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_5e105542 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5ec15a79 | type |
Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5ec15a79 | comment |
Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke: Gene Tonics let you turn invisible, teleport, recharge health by hacking machinery, or take better pictures, while Plasmids and Vigors allow you to hurl energy, toss objects with your mind, or turn your hand into a hornet nest. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5ec15a79 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5ec15a79 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_5ec15a79 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5fcedca | type |
Big Eater | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5fcedca | comment |
Big Eater: Disposable food items are used instantly and there are no consumption limits. This is okay for, for example, a Pep Bar, but reaches the point of "grotesque superpower" when Delta, Booker, or Jack manages to bolt down an entire chocolate cake or drink a whole bottle of moonshine, three Arcadia Merlot bottles and a shelf of vodka roughly one second per bottle, or chew their way through an entire storeroom full of supplies just because they can - especially Delta, who's wearing a sealed diving helmet. Mitigated somewhat by any sort of alcoholic drink, if you drink two or more in quick succession you'll experience some serious beer goggle effects. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5fcedca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_5fcedca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_5fcedca | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_60194b82 | type |
Spanner in the Works | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_60194b82 | comment |
Spanner in the Works: No matter how clever your plots are, no matter how totally you control everyone in Rapture, and no matter how magnificent you are, never underestimate a swarm of Little Sisters' ability to screw you and your plans up. Early in the sequel, a Thuggish Splicer literally sticks his lead pipe (no pun intended) into a set of gears to jam a door, and you have to pull it out with Telekinesis to proceed. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_60194b82 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_60194b82 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_60194b82 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_60414102 | type |
Zombie Apocalypse | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_60414102 | comment |
Zombie Apocalypse Replace "walking undead" with "insane psycho psychic pseudo-zombies" and you get the idea. They're a lot less decayed and mutated in the sequel, however, but still deformed. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_60414102 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_60414102 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_60414102 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_60b03a94 | type |
Parental Issues | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_60b03a94 | comment |
Parental Issues: Interpretations of family and their role in ideological inheritance are a recurring theme, and are central to The Reveal of every game. In some ways, every game asks "What responsibilities does a parent and child have to each other? Which are realistic, which are worthwhile, and which are just egotistical?" | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_60b03a94 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_60b03a94 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_60b03a94 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_60e2ec3e | type |
Artificial Intelligence | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_60e2ec3e | comment |
As of the Minerva's Den, they may have had those too. And an AI. And an Ion Laser. Also, the automatic doors, the miniguns, the audio tapes (which were invented on the surface five years later), the security bots, the Hack Tool for aforementioned computers, (which has no real life equivalent but appears to be a projectile USB drive launcher that works on something that I assume to involve radio waves) and a lot more. And this is the sixties. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_60e2ec3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_60e2ec3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_60e2ec3e | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_644eca71 | type |
Rich Bitch | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_644eca71 | comment |
Rich Bitch: One sort of female splicer has a snooty upper-class accent, complains about the quality of the tenderloin (which doesn't exist), and threatens to "send the boy out to give you a good thrashing". It's creepier (and at times funnier) than it sounds. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_644eca71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_644eca71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_644eca71 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6651bba7 | type |
Bio-Augmentation | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6651bba7 | comment |
Bio-Augmentation Plasmids and gene tonics in Rapture. Vigors and Infusions in Columbia. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6651bba7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6651bba7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_6651bba7 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_66f763c0 | type |
Interface Screw | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_66f763c0 | comment |
Interface Screw: Walk under a leak and your screen will go funny for a moment. A more gameplay-related variety occurs late in the first game when you drink the first dose of the antidote to Fontaine's mind control. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_66f763c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_66f763c0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_66f763c0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_67b0bd0e | type |
An Ice Person | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_67b0bd0e | comment |
An Ice Person: Martin Finnegan, and the ice-element Houdini Splicers found later in the game. You can turn an enemy into a Human Popsicle in either game with Winter Blast and other attacks. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_67b0bd0e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_67b0bd0e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_67b0bd0e | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6b5a92dc | type |
Uncanny Valley | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6b5a92dc | comment |
Uncanny Valley Intentionally invoked in the original, where everything from the Splicers to the Little Sisters just looked wrong even if they weren't horribly mutated. The sequel discards it, making the Little Sisters more adorable (since, after all, you're conditioned to protect them) and the Splicers less inhuman - which only makes them more horrifying by accentuating their mutations and deformities. There's an in-universe example in the sequel's Journey to the Surface ride at Ryan Amusements; in an audio diary, Andrew Ryan himself notes the uncanny valley quality of the animatronics used to dissuade children from wanting to leave Rapture. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6b5a92dc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6b5a92dc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_6b5a92dc | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6b983bf7 | type |
Unstoppable Rage | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6b983bf7 | comment |
Likewise, your first encounter with a Little Sister in BioShock 2 has you entering a room to hear her begging "Mr. Bubbles... please get up..." while crying in terror with a splicer advancing menacingly on her. At that point most players fly into an righteous fury and bullrush the splicer and drill the ever loving crap out of him. The Little Sister will then turn to face you and with such genuine happiness say "Mr. Bubbles, you're all better." Dawww... Sadly, this can also be horrifically subverted if you choose to harvest the Little Sisters instead. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6b983bf7 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6b983bf7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_6b983bf7 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Eve's Garden in Fort Frolic. "Come bite the apple!" | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6d0d209c | type |
Flashy Teleportation | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6d0d209c | comment |
Flashy Teleportation: How all teleportation that is seen, works, with puffs of smoke and flashes of light on appearing and disappearing: Houdini Splicers, who appear and disappear in puffs of smoke and flashes of light, Fiery red, or Icy blue, depending on their element. BioShock 2: There's an Unstable Teleport plasmid that needs to be used multiple times, and leads to the player to an otherwise inaccessible location. Its teleports of itself and the player are red smoke and light. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6d0d209c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6d0d209c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_6d0d209c | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6d41b8da | type |
Fantastic Aesop | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6d41b8da | comment |
Fantastic Aesop: Zig-Zagged. The narrative offers up a lot of perfectly valid points for why each games' respective "ideal" utopian society cannot ultimately sustain itself, but Rapture's also heavily depends on the proliferation of genetic modifiers and performance enhancers that drive their users violently insane; something that would eventually cause any kind of political or economic system to collapse. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6d41b8da | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6d41b8da | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_6d41b8da | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6fc40689 | type |
Ragdoll Physics | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6fc40689 | comment |
Ragdoll Physics: Telekinesis lets you use debris, furniture, even dead bodies as weapons. You can even use the plasmid to yank a Splicer's mask off and beat them to death with it. In BioShock 2, the speargun's reusable ammo can be TK'ed out of an attacker and thrown right back in. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6fc40689 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_6fc40689 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_6fc40689 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7104ae6a | type |
Wrench Whack | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7104ae6a | comment |
Wrench Whack: The first weapon you acquire is a wrench. With the right gene tonics, it's a viable weapon against any enemy at any point in the game. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7104ae6a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7104ae6a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_7104ae6a | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_72423e7d | type |
Teleporting Keycard Squad | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_72423e7d | comment |
Teleporting Keycard Squad: If you crawl through an air duct or unlock a door to a supply cache, chances are there's a Splicer or two waiting for you when you return. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_72423e7d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_72423e7d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_72423e7d | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_72cdfc33 | type |
Big Bad Ensemble | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_72cdfc33 | comment |
In Infinite, it's between Zachary Comstock and Daisy Fitzroy, though Daisy leaves the picture pretty early. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_72cdfc33 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_72cdfc33 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_72cdfc33 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7335ffa9 | type |
Grey-and-Gray Morality | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7335ffa9 | comment |
Grey-and-Gray Morality: And how. While you may find it hard to justify the actions of Lamb, Ryan and Fontaine (as well as many other characters), you can make a case that most characters have a Freudian Excuse (or are just deluded into achieving their philosophy with any means possible). The 2K Forums in particular are filled with many debates on the morality of characters. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7335ffa9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7335ffa9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_7335ffa9 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_73f38fe0 | type |
LEGO Genetics | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_73f38fe0 | comment |
LEGO Genetics: There's simply no way that all those superpowers Jack gains could interface with his DNA so easily. The same with all the splicers, but they certainly went crazy enough. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_73f38fe0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_73f38fe0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_73f38fe0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7503483d | type |
Original Position Fallacy | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7503483d | comment |
Original Position Fallacy: Frequently comes up. In the first game, talented and hard-working people come to Rapture hoping to be captains of industry, only to get shuffled in menial labor. The second game highlighted how the massive poverty resulting from Ryan's capitalist dream created a backlash with nasty consequences for everyone involved. And while it isn't as prevalent, part of the reason so many foreign workers had to be brought into Columbia (who eventually became the Vox Populi) was because none of the Founders were willing to do the menial work needed to maintain the flying city. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7503483d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7503483d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_7503483d | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_76c0e85d | type |
High-Voltage Death | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_76c0e85d | comment |
High-Voltage Death: Throughout the series, any enemies hit by electricity in water are instantly killed. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_76c0e85d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_76c0e85d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_76c0e85d | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_77824082 | type |
Healing Boss | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_77824082 | comment |
Healing Boss: Dr Steinman has a healing station built into the room he fights Jack in, and will use it to recover after taking damage. It's possible for the player to hack it and turn it against him so it will kill him instead. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_77824082 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_77824082 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_77824082 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_77a5657 | type |
Lovecraftian Superpower | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_77a5657 | comment |
Lovecraftian Superpower: Plasmids - injectable potions made from the stem-cells of sea-slugs - can bestow people superpowers and can be used for things like mind-control and cosmetic surgery. Because of the objectivist system of Rapture however, the addictive qualities of plasmids turned the population into freakish, mutant addicts, giant, diving-suit cyborgs and inhuman little girls that mass produce it. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_77a5657 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_77a5657 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_77a5657 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_786e5cac | type |
Circling Birdies | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_786e5cac | comment |
Daddy's giving you stars and birdies! | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_786e5cac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_786e5cac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_786e5cac | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7a7b093d | type |
Mana Meter | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7a7b093d | comment |
Mana Meter: EVE, which is used to power plasmids. In Infinite, it's salts, used to power vigors. They are pretty much one and the same, due to a scientific 'collaboration' between Columbia and Rapture, though salts are a less efficient version. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7a7b093d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7a7b093d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_7a7b093d | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7b8f5f07 | type |
Charm Person | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7b8f5f07 | comment |
Charm Person: Hypnotize type plasmids, and the Possession Vigor. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7b8f5f07 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7b8f5f07 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_7b8f5f07 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7ed25068 | type |
Video Game Caring Potential | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7ed25068 | comment |
Videogame Caring Potential/Videogame Cruelty Potential Set Splicers on fire! Watch as they run toward a pool of water, then electrify them! Bash their faces repeatedly with a wrench! Freeze them, ignore their pleas for help, and shatter them into chunks of icy flesh! Toss them like ragdolls! Rig medical stations to poison them! Lure them into waiting turrets! Impale them to scenery through their faces! This is encouraged with the sequel, where you progress faster with enemy research by killing foes with new and inventive applications of your weapons and plasmids. The Little Sisters are the only completely harmless enemies in the game. You can rescue them and turn them back into little girls... or kill them for ADAM. The potential for both is ramped up in the sequel while you play as a Big Daddy - you can "adopt" another Daddy's partner, run around the level with her riding on your back, protect her while she harvests some ADAM for you, and finally rescue her from her living nightmare, or viciously betray her trust. The game presents the Little Sisters as a moral choice, but the way it reacts to those choices makes it less moral and more practical - if you harvest one, you get more ADAM right now. If you rescue one, you get less ADAM immediately - but for every three Little Sisters you rescue, you get a gift at the nearest plasmid vendor containing only a little less ADAM than you would have gained by harvesting, plus a couple plasmids or gene tonics, including a few you can't get any other way. So the only real reason to harvest Little Sisters is just because you're a bastard. The sequel is mildly better in this regard: you get a fair bit more ADAM for harvesting than rescuing, about three entire rescued Sisters worth. In the last level of BioShock 2, there are many splicers that are so far gone they just rock side to side. You can still kill them. Why wouldn't you? The turning point in Columbia's introduction in Infinite involves deciding whether or not to throw a baseball at a tied up mixed race couple. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7ed25068 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7ed25068 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_7ed25068 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7f3e75b6 | type |
Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7f3e75b6 | comment |
Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair Rapture, what was to be an Objectivist utopia, and now is decidedly not. Even more so in the sequel, which in addition to the ever-encroaching decay emphasizes the hubris of Andrew Ryan's ambition... and its fate of eventually being swallowed up by the sea forever. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7f3e75b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7f3e75b6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_7f3e75b6 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7f93c22e | type |
Chain Lightning | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7f93c22e | comment |
The original let you upgrade your elemental plasmids to deal more damage, but the sequel really expands on it - your Electro Bolt, for example, becomes a chargeable chain lightning attack at level 2, and at level 3 the charge becomes its normal function while the new charge lets you spray a torrent of electricity from your fingertips. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7f93c22e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_7f93c22e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_7f93c22e | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e | type |
Large Ham | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: Some audio diaries come to mind. For example, Pierre Gobbi is practically chewing on the scenery when expressing his unhappiness about the watered-down wine.. Of course, to a Frenchman wine is Serious Business. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_82e4ab4a | type |
Unbroken First-Person Perspective | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_82e4ab4a | comment |
Unbroken First-Person Perspective: Used in every game in the franchise. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_82e4ab4a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_82e4ab4a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_82e4ab4a | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_85f0963f | type |
Psycho Serum | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_85f0963f | comment |
Psycho Serum: Once again, ADAM. The only ones not affected are the Little Sisters, who are instead hallucinating a luxurious dream world instead of the corpse-strewn, decaying madhouse they're wandering through. And it is revealed in BioShock 2 that even they are being affected, but at a slower rate. Hence, Big Sisters. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_85f0963f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_85f0963f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_85f0963f | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_86ee8070 | type |
World of Ham | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_86ee8070 | comment |
World of Ham: But justified in-universe because: 1) almost anyone who would want to live in Rapture would already be something of Magnificent Bastard even before going down there; and 2) by the time the player gets there, everyone has pretty much gone insane. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_86ee8070 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_86ee8070 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_86ee8070 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_8774fb47 | type |
Eldritch Abomination | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_8774fb47 | comment |
Eldritch Abomination: The "luminescent biomass" beneath the Persephone Prison Colony has shades of this. In addition to apparently giving the sea slugs in the area the ability to produce ADAM, a diary found on the body of a suicidal prisoner states that he felt like things were watching him from outside in the light coming off of it. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_8774fb47 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_8774fb47 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_8774fb47 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_8a3c406e | type |
Hair-Raising Hare | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_8a3c406e | comment |
Hair-Raising Hare: Some splicers wear bloodied bunny masks, while Sander Cohen is fixated on rabbits, using rabbit masks in his tableaux and rabbits in his... poetry. See the page for his work. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_8a3c406e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_8a3c406e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_8a3c406e | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_8b568cb7 | type |
Posthumous Character | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_8b568cb7 | comment |
Posthumous Character: You learn a lot about some characters from all the plentiful audio diaries you recover, hearing about their life in pre-crapsack Rapture, their hopes and dreams, their role during the civil war... and then you find their corpse. In the sequel, certain characters from the first game manage to cast their shadow over everything despite being dead for 10 years or more. In Infinite, the long-dead Lady Comstock is frequently mentioned by other characters and is hailed as a saint by the ruling faction of Columbia. Then she gets resurrected with Reality Warping technology, and becomes an active (and very hostile) character in her own right... | |
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Third-Person Person | |
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Third-Person Person: Dr. Suchong | |
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Wham Episode | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_8e20979 | comment |
Wham Episode: Rapture Central Control in the original, or the sequel's Persephone Penal Colony. | |
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1.0 | |
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Bloody Handprint | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_8fed141a | comment |
Bloody Handprint | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_8fed141a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Recycled IN SPACE! | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_905438eb | comment |
Recycled In Space: BioShock is System Shock not IN SPACE! | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_905438eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Rule of Symbolism | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_916c72b3 | comment |
Rule of Symbolism: Lots of religious symbols show up in the game. The most obvious example is the name of the city, Rapture, supposedly a reference to the "Rapture of the Deep". There's also a few crucified corpses to be found, either in Ryan's foyer for his "spy collection," in medical facilities pinned to operating tables, or near the docks with a smuggler strung up just right. The last case was probably intentional, since he was smuggling religious contraband. Also the substances you need to use the plasmids are called Adam and Eve. Adam is used to buy them and Eve is used to repower then. | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_928ca2cc | comment |
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness An audio diary titled as such in BioShock 2 explains that not only did the rest of the Alpha series meet this fate, but Gil Alexander himself has also been abandoned by Sofia. Ryan to Professor Langford after she decides to help Jack restore Arcadia with the Lazarus Vector. The specific reason is that her contract made all her intellectual discoveries Ryan's property. Considering Ryan's Author Tract about "owning the sweat of one's brow", and how she's one of the few sane, helpful and (if a bit amoral) nice people in Rapture, her death is a big Player Punch moment. After Jack has killed Ryan and shut down the auto-destruct, ending Ryan's control of Rapture, Atlas/Fontaine sends security bots after him, and when that doesn't work, activates Code Yellow. In Infinite, after Comstock realised that the Lutece twins were in a position to reveal Elizabeth's true origins due to the role they played in obtaining her in the first place, he had Fink murder them by sabotaging their Tear device in a staged accident. It didn't exactly work out as planned: though their bodies died, their consciousnesses survived, and they were turned into Physical Gods who eventually orchestrated the destruction of Comstock and Columbia. | |
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Enclosed Space | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_931fecec | comment |
Enclosed Space: Mostly of the Underwater Base variety. | |
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1.0 | |
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Monster Clown | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_932da128 | comment |
Monster Clown: "Fill your Cravings at the Circus of Values! Hahahahahaaaa!!" | |
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1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_932da128 | featureConfidence |
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White Mask of Doom | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_947ac4b0 | comment |
White Mask of Doom: One of Sander Cohen's motifs. Additionally, the New Year's Eve 1959 party was a masquerade, and some Splicers still wear creepy animal masks. | |
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1.0 | |
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| BioShock (Video Game) / int_94d0eb61 | type |
Lighthouse Point | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_94d0eb61 | comment |
Lighthouse Point: Where Jack and Booker start out and where the second game ends. As with the recurring concept of 'a man, a lighthouse, and a city' in Bio Shock Infinite, the game's Gainax Ending involves lighthouses. Lots of lighthouses. | |
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Tuckerization | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_95bca4c9 | comment |
Tuckerization: Many characters are named after 2K or Irrational staffers, and might even be voiced by the namesakes. Most are minor, but there's also two big names in 2, Augustus Sinclair and Gil Alexander (after two visual artists from the first game). | |
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1.0 | |
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Phlebotinum Dependence | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_9676e505 | comment |
Phlebotinum Dependence: One of ADAM's properties that got Fontaine excited was how addictive it was; it got Ryan hot and bothered as well, prompting him to take over Fontaine's business and pump ADAM onto the market with no restrictions whatsoever. Too bad one of the side-effects of combined overuse and withdrawal is, you know, turning into a flame-throwing psychopath. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_9676e505 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_970c790a | comment |
Robert and Rosalind Lutece provide a more unexpected example in Bioshock Infinite: initially they come across as morally ambiguous at best, but it turns out they're genuinely out to help Booker and Elizabeth oppose the Big Bad. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_970c790a | |
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Brand X | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_978937d6 | comment |
Brand X: Concept art for the creme-filled cake boxes has the cakes looking exactly like Twinkies. The final in-game art reduces the resemblance, possibly to reduce risk of trademark lawsuits. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_978937d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Hide Your Children | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_9c495599 | comment |
Hide Your Children: Pointedly averted; whether to kill the Little Sisters is the primary moral decision the player is given. There are no other children around though, meaning no boys at all. The closest thing are the Pigskins, who resemble scared teenage boys wearing football gear. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_9c495599 | featureApplicability |
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Hyperspace Arsenal | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_9c7e3137 | comment |
Hyperspace Arsenal Maybe there's a gene tonic that gives people personal pocket dimensions. BioShock Infinite averts this, as the player can only carry two guns at once. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_9c7e3137 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_9c7e3137 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e | type |
Interface Spoiler | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e | comment |
Interface Spoiler: Your suspiciously empty weapon wheel and equally empty level menu can give away that Your Princess Is in Another Castle!. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| BioShock (Video Game) / int_9d0b9603 | type |
Eye Cam | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_9d0b9603 | comment |
Eye Cam: Used to dramatic effect in both games, after the main character in each has been knocked unconscious and is coming to. | |
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1.0 | |
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| BioShock (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: The games are loaded with foreshadowing. See their entries for more. | |
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1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_9e447c8c | type |
Suspiciously Apropos Music | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_9e447c8c | comment |
Some of Rapture's jukeboxes or public speakers still function, allowing you to fight for your life to the tune of old-timey big band hits like "Beyond the Sea." Of course, some of these devices are just barely functioning: "How much is that dog-gy in thedog-gy in thedog-gy in thedog-gy in the..." | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_9e447c8c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_9e447c8c | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a0c55654 | type |
The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a0c55654 | comment |
The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: The attack-you-on-sight, mutated, insane Splicers that follow Fontaine are indistinguishable from the attack-you-on-sight, mutated, insane Splicers that are loyal to Ryan, or the attack-you on sight, mutated, insane Splicers that belong to the Family. Though at least the latter are well-behaved regarding the Little Sisters. The Rebellious Vox Populi in Columbia are quick to lose all control and become hostile towards anyone that isn't one of them. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_a0c55654 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a121abc7 | type |
Respawning Enemies | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a121abc7 | comment |
Respawning Enemies Each level is slowly repopulated with Splicers over time, but the respawn rate is low enough that it's not too annoying. On the other hand, the Big Daddies respawn almost immediately, which would be more annoying if they weren't totally harmless when left alone, not to mention useful with the right plasmids. In the sequel, the enemies respawn more quickly, and enemies can spawn in locations that would be impossible to reach without Offscreen Teleportation. | |
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1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_a121abc7 | |
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Overly Long Gag | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a188ac4b | comment |
The attack-you-on-sight, mutated, insane Splicers that follow Fontaine are indistinguishable from the attack-you-on-sight, mutated, insane Splicers that are loyal to Ryan, or the attack-you on sight, mutated, insane Splicers that belong to the Family. Though at least the latter are well-behaved regarding the Little Sisters. | |
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1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_a188ac4b | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a1b141f4 | comment |
Dr. Suchong et al. Tenenbaum skirts the line mainly by realizing what she's doing and becoming The Atoner. | |
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1.0 | |
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| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_a1b141f4 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a2326b6a | type |
No Canon for the Wicked | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a2326b6a | comment |
No Canon for the Wicked: The ending to Burial At Sea part 2 reveals that the canon ending of the original Bioshock was indeed the good one. Though at the same time, it took place in one out of an infinite number of possible universes where the reverse could be true. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a2326b6a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_a2326b6a | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a2761f46 | type |
Wreaking Havok | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a2761f46 | comment |
Wreaking Havok: No obnoxious stacking puzzles are present, though this may be the only reason moderately-useful plasmids like Cyclone Trap or Sonic Boom were included. On the other hand, it's a nice touch to allow you to use Telekinesis to break a shop's windows and steal some stuff, even if it summons the security bots. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a2761f46 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_a2761f46 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a5a6d7b3 | type |
Mutants | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a5a6d7b3 | comment |
Mutants: The splicers were originally ordinary people who deliberately purchased injectible upgrades for their DNA, buying anything from good looks to superpowers... only to find just how debilitating ADAM can be if used carelessly. | |
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Healing Factor | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a5fb0d24 | comment |
Healing Factor: The Little Sisters, justified due to the ADAM in their system. Deconstructed in the second game: overly fast healing of broken bones often means they don't set properly, so they have to be re-broken several times to be put back into place. | |
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Giant Mook | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a8826e1e | comment |
Also, one of the Big Daddy classes is called a Rumbler, which was also the name of the Giant Mooks from System Shock 2. | |
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1.0 | |
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| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a89efe3c | type |
Unusable Enemy Equipment | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a89efe3c | comment |
Unusable Enemy Equipment Towards the end of BioShock, the player has to dress up like a Big Daddy. Jack has to walk around the level collecting scattered parts of their outfit. He cannot take more than one intact part of the suit from the dead Big Daddy he starts the level near, and for good reason: Big Daddy parts are permanently fused to the body. In the sequel, Alpha Series' use upgraded weapons. You can only loot them for ammo, not trade your vanilla grenade launcher for one with the shield or a two-shot shotgun for a six-shot one. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a89efe3c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a9646938 | type |
Mammon | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a9646938 | comment |
Mammon: Some of the lower-class Splicers mention Mammon in their mad ravings, in the context of how Rapture went horribly wrong. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a9646938 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a9646938 | featureConfidence |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_a9646938 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a971e83c | type |
Hidden Elf Village | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a971e83c | comment |
Hidden Elf Village Deconstructed. If Andrew Ryan's fear of discovery by the surface nations hadn't made Rapture into one of these, there would have been no black market for Frank Fontaine to control. For a captain of industry, Ryan was blind to basic economics - demands will be supplied, laws only make them more expensive. Averted in Infinite. Everyone knows about Columbia, as it was designed as a showcase of American ingenuity, and therefore meant to be showed off. It was only after the Boxer Rebellion and its subsequent secession from the United States that it closed itself to the rest of the world. Booker not knowing about the existence of the city is an early clue to his true nature. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_a971e83c | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a9dc5293 | type |
Development Hell | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_a9dc5293 | comment |
A live action film has been in Development Hell at Universal for a number of years, with filmmakers like Gore Verbinski and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo attached at different points. Most recently, Netflix announced that they had picked up the rights and brought aboard Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay) to direct and Michael Green (Logan, Jungle Cruise) to write. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_abad35b4 | comment |
Soundtrack Dissonance: Some of Rapture's jukeboxes or public speakers still function, allowing you to fight for your life to the tune of old-timey big band hits like "Beyond the Sea." Of course, some of these devices are just barely functioning: "How much is that dog-gy in thedog-gy in thedog-gy in thedog-gy in the..." Some of the Splicers evidently made contact with those missionary smugglers, and will sing "Jesus Loves Me" while idle, or moan Amazing Freaking Grace to themselves when they're lurking out of sight. Columbia also has some cheery music playing, but not as much (the game is set half a century earlier and thus with not as many radios and such). | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| BioShock (Video Game) / int_abc66b07 | type |
Evolving Attack | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_abc66b07 | comment |
Evolving Attack The original let you upgrade your elemental plasmids to deal more damage, but the sequel really expands on it - your Electro Bolt, for example, becomes a chargeable chain lightning attack at level 2, and at level 3 the charge becomes its normal function while the new charge lets you spray a torrent of electricity from your fingertips. Infinite instead has each Vigor upgraded separately according to user preference, with an "aid" or a lowered Salts cost, though both can be learned. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_abc66b07 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_ad1db87c | type |
Oh, Crap! | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: Many examples whether from the player, splicers or the current antagonist. One occasion of particular note is early in the sequel where, after several brief encounters with a Big Sister you enter a large room with a massive window just in time to see her running along its wall, cutting the glass with her extra-long ADAM needle as she goes. With the cracks spreading you have just enough time to think "oh crap" before the glass caves in and you're hit by several thousand gallons of high pressure seawater. That Big Sister goes up to eleven - Delta can't smash the windows with any amount of drilling, gunfire, explosives, or Plasmids. Or how about when Delta and Eleanor are running down a corridor to make their escape. Eleanor goes to take the corner ahead of you. Then everything slows down, and you see her starting to skid to a stop. You see a cloud gather around her to signal that she's trying to teleport out as you come around the corner only to find crates and crates of explosives. Which promptly blow you to kingdom come. The plaster splicer mannequins. At one point in Fort Frolic, you'll pass through a corridor lined with 5 on each side. After exploring the rooms beyond you come back the same way, and now they're all gone.... | |
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1.0 | |
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Apocalyptic Log | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_ad22fa80 | comment |
Apocalyptic Log: Scattered throughout both Rapture and Columbia are audio journals by the city's inhabitants. The information revealed within ranges from the useful (lock combinations) to the informative (who the main characters are and how Rapture got this way) to the disturbing (the reason why there are two corpses embracing on a bed next to a bottle of pills) to the unreliable (Cohen's rantings probably shouldn't be read too literally). | |
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1.0 | |
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The Big Easy | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_b1c9f316 | comment |
The sequel has Siren Alley, which bears a strong resemblance to New Orleans' French Quarter. The area is a battlefield between the Wales brothers, one of which manages a hotel-turned-whorehouse, while the other has found religion and put up some religious murals depicting events from BioShock. | |
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1.0 | |
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Pink Is Erotic | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_b25547b1 | comment |
Pink Is Erotic: The Eve's Garden cabaret features pink lights. Likewise, in Burial At Sea, "Cupid's Arrow", which sells erotic materials, such as books, has pink lights too. | |
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1.0 | |
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Soiled City on a Hill | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_b349a835 | comment |
Columbia, though still a Soiled City on a Hill, partially averts this by appearing at least superficially functional. However, when Booker and Elizabeth enter the third tear into a universe where the Vox Populi's revolution is successful, this trope is in full effect. | |
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Flushing-Edge Interactivity | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_b40bdc2b | comment |
Flushing-Edge Interactivity: The toilets, sinks, and bathtub fixtures all work, and are equally pointless. | |
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1.0 | |
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No OSHA Compliance | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_b47d95be | comment |
No OSHA Compliance: Justified, in that Andrew Ryan built Rapture specifically to get away from pesky things like workplace safety laws. In his city something like OSHA would be thought of as a statist effort to destroy capitalism. You can even find "X days since last accident" signs in various places, but the number is never very high. Also, there's little point since the whole city is literally falling apart anyways. | |
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1.0 | |
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Squick | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_b486877f | comment |
Splicers are marred by bloated tumors or lesions or twisted limbs, and looking at some of the Big Daddy suits it's impossible to imagine a normal person fitting in them. This is because the person in question has had their flesh removed and organs welded into the inside of the suit. Spider Splicers have decayed even further in BioShock 2 and barely look human anymore, while the new Brute Splicers are so beefed up on gene tonics that skin and muscle grew over their clothing. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_b486877f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Take That! | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Infinite seems to be, partially, a Take That! to both right- and left-wing extremism. The ultra-religious and nationalistic Founders are portrayed as vile, racist, xenophobic hypocrites, while the anarchist revolutionaries of the Vox Populi are vengeful, merciless, sadistic killers who gleefully massacre helpless Founder civilians once their revolution gets underway. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_b53077b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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False Utopia | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_b535a9d6 | comment |
False Utopia: Rapture and Columbia. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Caught Up in the Rapture | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_b6a754a5 | comment |
The most obvious example is the name of the city, Rapture, supposedly a reference to the "Rapture of the Deep". | |
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1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_b6a754a5 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_b707726f | type |
Hypocritical Humor | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor / Irony - many of the splicers really don't know what they have become: | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_b707726f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_b707726f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_b707726f | |
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The Multiverse | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_b9e8ad28 | comment |
The Multiverse: How Columbia and Rapture connect, as well as possible other games. Shown overtly for the two of them in Infinite with not only the Wham Episode in Rapture, but also the "Burial at Sea" Downloadable Content. The Constant: In Infinite it is revealed that the lighthouse is this, as there is a man to go to one in each universe, in one form or another. | |
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1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_b9e8ad28 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_ba5bbda5 | type |
Mirror Character | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_ba5bbda5 | comment |
Mirror Character: There's no real difference between Fontaine and Ryan by the time BioShock takes place as both of them have gone far off the deep end to achieve their goals. In the sequel, Lamb's version of "the greater good" is ultimately as monstrous and terrible as Ryan's philosophy, and she's just as willing to cast those ideals aside (and screw the rest) when it comes to saving herself. Interestingly both Ryan and Lamb were partially driven to their respective extremes by the Hiroshima bombing: Ryan saw the bomb as a corruption of science and industry into making a weapon that allowed "parasites" to destroy what they couldn't seize (a la Project X) while Lamb was outraged at the United States using her "for the greater good" philosophy to justify the bombing. Both also ultimately thought that the "corrupt" surface world was doomed to destroy itself. Many of Comstock's qualities, such as a relentless sense of determination and a deep, protective impulse towards a daughter figure, can be found in Booker as well. There's a good reason for that—Booker is Comstock. | |
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1.0 | |
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It's All About Me | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_bb18a227 | comment |
It's All About Me Andrew Ryan. Frank Fontaine. Pretty much everyone in Rapture, really. That's kinda the point, though. As regards Ryan in particular, it's hinted by the audio diary "Fontaine Must Go" and the fact that his name is plastered all over the city's signage that his motives in building Rapture were less to do with creating a haven for the world's elite, and more to do with creating a haven for himself where he could milk the inhabitants for all they're worth... one way or another. | |
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| BioShock (Video Game) / int_bbf11c0 | type |
Genius Bruiser | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_bbf11c0 | comment |
Genius Bruiser: All three protagonists have good hacking and puzzle-solving abilities, in addition to being good with firearms. | |
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1.0 | |
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Destroy the Security Camera | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_be302f61 | comment |
Destroy the Security Camera: You can do this in Bioshocks 1 & 2 to prevent cameras from sending hostile Attack Drones after you. Or you can hack the camera to make it target enemies instead. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_be302f61 | |
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Last Chance Hit Point | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_beac3bec | comment |
Last Chance Hit Point: On Easy or Normal, any attack that should kill you (i.e. taking a rocket to the face with only about 10 health left) only bumps you down to 1 health, and you have to take an additional hit to die. BioShock 2 takes it even further by making you invincible for about 1 second after being brought down to 1 health. This is disabled on the highest difficulty, however, which makes things a lot harder. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_beac3bec | |
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Hollywood CB | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_bf95c3d9 | comment |
Hollywood CB: Sort of. Your radio, which everybody can tap into (or jam) at the proper time. | |
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1.0 | |
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Wingding Eyes | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_c02925f0 | comment |
X his eyes! | |
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1.0 | |
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Status Infliction Attack | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_c1265778 | comment |
Status Infliction Attack: The series has its powers do this so they're special, instead of just being basically a magic gun using different ammo: The first game, BioShock: Every attack plasmid other than Telekinesis, which deals physical damage by hitting enemies with objects, and there's some Gene Tonics that affect other attacks as well: "Electro-Bolt" can stun enemies. "Incinerate" can set enemies on fire, dealing Damage Over Time. "Winter Blast" can freeze enemies in place. The "Frozen Field" series of Gene Tonics imbues the Wrench with cold damage and a chance to freeze enemies with its attacks. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_c1265778 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_c2b0ebc0 | type |
Never Gets Drunk | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_c2b0ebc0 | comment |
Never Gets Drunk While it's possible to get "drunk," (a) the effect lasts about twenty seconds and (b) it typically takes multiple entire bottles of hard liquor to produce even this. All the protagonists are in some weird alcoholic limbo between this and Can't Hold His Liquor. They all get equally drunk after two drinks in quick succession- whether those drinks were both single beers, or both whole bottles of vodka, or anything in between. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_c2b0ebc0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_c335b9ec | type |
Irony | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_c335b9ec | comment |
Irony: The games tend to show how the various ideological utopias shown become both their own antithesis and similarly screwed-up in practice. The Rapture of Andrew Ryan is initially shown as a libertarian paradise that would make Ayn Rand proud. Yet Ryan himself isn't above nationalizing businesses or resorting to prattle like the binding "chain of industry" when things go his way. Though then again, that may simply be him looking out for himself. The Rapture of Sofia Lamb is presented as the ultimate collective not too dissimilar to late-stage communism. Yet in the end, Lamb herself proves to be as selfish and self-centered as Ryan was. Comstock's Columbia tries to be a nationalist showcase of American Exceptionalism. In practice, it becomes a warped mirror of America at its worst, not to mention an utter perversion of everything the Founding Fathers fought for. Columbia under the Vox Populi is on paper free of its people's oppressors. Except that the Vox prove to be just as tyrannical and zealous to a fault as Comstock and his supporters. | |
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1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_c335b9ec | |
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Cracks in the Icy Façade | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_c498c82b | comment |
Cracks in the Icy Façade: Dr. Brigid Tennenbaum started as a former Nazi collaborator who helped Mengele in Auschwitz due to scientific curiosity and only complained because Nazis didn't do interesting things in these experiences. In Rapture, while working with Little Sisters, her heart awoke to the atrocities visited on them and, by the end, fled to protect and save the Little Sisters. The first time Jack meet her is when she shoot a splicer attempting to murder a Little Sister for her ADAM. | |
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1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_c498c82b | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_c4b0faae | type |
Can't Hold His Liquor | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_c4b0faae | comment |
All the protagonists are in some weird alcoholic limbo between this and Can't Hold His Liquor. They all get equally drunk after two drinks in quick succession- whether those drinks were both single beers, or both whole bottles of vodka, or anything in between. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_c4b0faae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_c4b0faae | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_c513249 | type |
Harder Than Hard | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_c513249 | comment |
Harder Than Hard: The PlayStation 3 port, in addition to the Easy, Medium, and Hard difficulties, has Survivor, which is described on the difficulty selection screen as "every bullet counts." They mean it. In this mode, enemies can do some serious damage to you and nearly all of your plasmids consume a lot more EVE. And to add to the fun, two of the trophies force you to play the game on this difficulty. The first trophy requires you to simply finish the game. The second trophy requires you to finish the game without using Vita-Chambers. Said trophies are respectively called "A Man Chooses" and "I Chose The Impossible" Though not the same difficulty, the Xbox 360 version similarly has Achievements for just finishing the game on Hard ("Seriously Good At This") and without using any Vita-Chambers ("Brass Balls"). | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_c513249 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_c691d3f4 | type |
Offscreen Teleportation | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_c691d3f4 | comment |
In the sequel, the enemies respawn more quickly, and enemies can spawn in locations that would be impossible to reach without Offscreen Teleportation. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_c691d3f4 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_c69d8b0c | type |
Intoxication Mechanic | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_c69d8b0c | comment |
Intoxication Mechanic: Drinking multiple alcoholic beverages in quick succession will cause the screen to become blurry, in addition to slightly boosting the player character's health and slightly depleting his reserves of EVE (in BioShock and BioShock 2) or Salts (in Bioshock Infinite). Certain gene tonics or Vigors will change the effects of alcohol consumption. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_c69d8b0c | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: The helpful automated voice in Fontaine Futuristics stutters and sounds like a very familiar AI. Speaking of said A.I, one of the achievements for BioShock 2 is called 'Look at You, Hacker.' Also, one of the Big Daddy classes is called a Rumbler, which was also the name of the Giant Mooks from System Shock 2. "53,596 zombies were killed in the making of this game." "Grab a crowbar or somethin'!" The 'Baby Jane' splicers, are most probably a reference to the novel/1962 film Whatever Happened To Baby Jane, which involved an aging, psychopathic ex-child star, trying to get back into show business. The splicer even quotes one of the lines from the film: It was probably unintentional, but Dr. Suchong sounded a little like a villain from Jonny Quest in not just his ethnic origin, but in that he inadvertently causes his own demise... The Little Sisters' glowing eyes. The "Would you kindly" conspiracy board you see just before meeting Andrew Ryan is a reference to the movie The Usual Suspects. "Bring Your Daughter To Work Day". Oh, she gets tested, alright. Certain splicers can be heard shouting "... and you shall know my name is the LORD!..." when idle. From the ride down to the city in the bathysphere, the film starts with an ad: "Fire at your fingertips!", for the incinerate plasmid. That was how Dagny Taggart described cigarettes. And the ad shows a man lighting a cigarette for a woman who looks very much like a young Ayn Rand. The credits for BioShock 2 include the message "Go Team Sea Slug!" When you use Incinerate while carrying a Little Sister, she will sometimes misquote the Wicked Witch of the West. There is a keycode opened by a code 0047. You learn of this from the recording made by certain Tobias Riefer. Along the same vein is a keycode 0451- the first lock and keycode you encounter, actually. This is a reference to a long-running number that dates back to the System Shock days, used in both the original and the Irrational-developed sequel as the first door codes you find, as well as Deus Ex (both the original and the sequel- again, the first door codes you find.) The number itself is a reference to Looking Glass Software's old office door code, which in turn was a reference to Fahrenheit 451. BioShock 2 inverts the number, but it's still the first lock you encounter. Danny Wilkins, one of the playable characters from BioShock 2's multiplayer, is a football player. He wears a purple jersey bearing the number 4, like Brett Favre as a Minnesota Viking during the game's development. One of the books lying around in BioShock 2 is titled Applied headology. Little Sisters are in a so-called symbiotic, but really mostly parasitic relationship with a worm-like thing living inside them that enhances their regeneration, causes their eyes to glow and deludes them to do things they would not otherwise do. Sounds familiar? | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_c83f40d8 | type |
Bystander Syndrome | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_c83f40d8 | comment |
In the Burial at Sea DLC, there's the Peeping Tom plasmid. It makes you invisible, muffles your footsteps and allows you to see through walls. Think on that for a moment. In fact, nearby where you find it is an audio diary where the proprietor of the establishment selling it responds to a woman who is complaining about constantly being peeped on by Peeping Tom users with, "Tough luck, it's a free market." Though he was kind enough to direct her to a business that sold material that could block the x-ray effect. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_c83f40d8 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_ca52cc92 | type |
Canned Orders over Loudspeaker | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_ca52cc92 | comment |
Canned Orders over Loudspeaker: From the corny "Rapture Reminders" and other Public Service Announcements in the first game to Sofia Lamb's unnerving "inspirational" speeches in the second game. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_ca52cc92 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_ca52cc92 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_ca52cc92 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_cb1fe02e | type |
Magic by Any Other Name | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_cb1fe02e | comment |
Magic by Any Other Name: There's a plasmid/vigor equivalent of just about every standard RPG magic power, as long as you have the EVE/salts. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_cb1fe02e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_cb1fe02e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_cb1fe02e | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_cd3703a2 | type |
Genre Mashup | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_cd3703a2 | comment |
Genre Mashup: This game is Zeerust Science Fiction, Survival Horror, Art Deco, and Anarcho-Capitalistic Dystopia all put in a blender. | |
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1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_cd3703a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_cd3703a2 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_cf496044 | type |
Smoke Out | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_cf496044 | comment |
Smoke Out: Nitro Splicers carry smokebombs to do this, whenever the player gets too close to them. | |
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1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_cf496044 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_cf496044 | |
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The Apunkalypse | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_d082b66b | comment |
The Apunkalypse: Rapture in a nutshell. Failed anachronistic 1940's civilization under the sea? Check. Said civilization sparsely populated by marauding mutant junkies looking for a fix from a genetic wonder drug? Check. One man forced to fight against these junkies and avoid an Orweillian Surveillance Government? You bet. Columbia, though still a Soiled City on a Hill, partially averts this by appearing at least superficially functional. However, when Booker and Elizabeth enter the third tear into a universe where the Vox Populi's revolution is successful, this trope is in full effect. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero? The bad ending of the original has Tenenbaum chew you out for being such an amoral monster, which shouldn't bother you if you made the decisions to earn it. Sofia Lamb attempts to invoke this tirelessly throughout the course of the sequel, but for the most part her accusations are ineffectual. Although, if Delta's been a particularly abusive father, it can hit pretty hard. | |
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Blasphemous Boast | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_d3f33049 | comment |
Finally, the original meaning of 'rapture', which is "kidnapping" or "snatching", from Latin raptus — in the first and second senses, one is caught up or transported by ecstasy, while the third connotes being swept up by God into the Kingdom of Heaven.note Also potentially of interest, though not of direct significance here: 'rapture' is cognate to 'rape', which originally meant obtaining a wife via kidnapping, and 'raptor', denoting predatory birds which swoop down upon their prey and snatch it up into the sky. Ryan himself chose the name as a Blasphemous Boast (due to his dislike of religion) and in reference to the fact that he was "rapturing" the world's best and brightest. | |
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My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_d4d775c9 | comment |
My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad The chatter from the Gatherer's Garden kiosks. More specifically, "My daddy's smarter than Einstein! Stronger than Hercules! And he can make fire with a snap of his fingers! Are you as good as my daddy, mister? Not if you don't come to Gatherer's Garden!" The Little Sisters you adopt "I got the best Big Daddy" from BioShock 2: "Daddy's giving you stars and birdies!" | |
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Hypocrite | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_d52d28b6 | comment |
Hypocrite Andrew Ryan. Nominally an Objectivist, but he ends up nationalizing industries, restricting free speech, killing ideological opponents and ultimately (according to Diane McClintock) believing more in power over others than his nominal philosophy. As Anya says in one of the recordings, "I believed in this place. I believed in Ryan. But when it got hard, Ryan didn't believe in Rapture..." In BioShock 2, Sofia Lamb practices her philosophy in a brutally consistent fashion until the end of the game, where she's quite happy to doom The Family to a watery grave while she makes her escape on a submersible. Also justified, as she had no intention of actually saving the people of Rapture, only in stabilizing it long enough to extract all the ADAM she could. As you start getting closer to Fontaine, he starts complaining about your "betrayal", insisting that "nobody told you nothing but lies" and referring to himself as "family". Comstock is this in so many ways. First he is an ultra-nationalist who seceded from the very nation that he claims to love (claiming, of course, that they betrayed him). Second, though he professes to champion all that is White, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant in the face of heathen Catholics and/or foreigners, he fills Columbia with images of angels and the Founders to the point of idolatry. In one audio log, he rages about being accused of having Native American ancestry... apparently, he was so desperate to deny this that he burned hundreds of Native American families alive. | |
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Named After First Installment | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_d6514291 | comment |
Named After First Installment: Numbered Sequels style. The series started with BioShock. and its entries all involve biological enhancement superpowers. | |
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Anti-Frustration Features | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_d6f284a3 | comment |
Anti-Frustration Features: Enemies will always miss their first few shots in Bioshock 1. This is both to alert you to their presence, and to ensure the player isn't instantly killed by an enemy they didn't even know was there. | |
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| BioShock (Video Game) / int_d833090a | type |
Right Hand Versus Left Hand | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_d833090a | comment |
Right Hand Versus Left Hand: Several of Rapture's citizens have tried to assassinate Andrew Ryan, two of which were Anya Andersdotter and the engineer Kyburz. When Anya turned up in Kyburz's office in an attempt to pry information from him, Kyburz believed she was a spy trying to trick him into revealing his own plot and turned her in to Ryan's men. In an audio diary he admits that he isn't sure about her, but can't take the risk this far into his own plans. On the other side of things, the Head of Rapture's security forces failed to convince Peach Wilkins to report Fontaine's crimes, because even though Wilkins hated Fontaine, he had no way of knowing that Rapture's security didn't secretly work for Fontaine. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_d833090a | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_d848560f | type |
Unusual Euphemism | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_d848560f | comment |
Unusual Euphemism: The ways the Little Sisters refer to their Big Daddies' violence against enemies. Unzip him Mr B! UNZIP HIM! Given that Big Daddies have their organs grafted to their suits it is more morbid than it appears. X his eyes! Daddy's giving you stars and birdies! It's dancing, daddy, it's dancing! | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_d848560f | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_da92a6d9 | type |
Item Amplifier | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_da92a6d9 | comment |
Item Amplifier: The game has the plasmids Booze Hound and EVE Link, which add EVE regeneration with the use of health items (though you still get blurred vision from drinking too much). The Medical Expert and Extra Nutrition plasmids give more traditional boosts to the effects of health items. | |
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1.0 | |
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Lightning Bruiser | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_db6230b7 | comment |
Lightning Bruiser: It's quite a shock to discover just how fast a Big Daddy can charge across a room and flatten you. On the bright side, you get to play as one in the sequel and are just as swift and brutal when you lower your drill and charge. This trend is continued in Infinite: the Handymen's cumbersome-looking metal bodies belie their agility, and even the Motorized Patriots are pretty quick-footed. | |
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Malevolent Masked Men | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_db88b941 | comment |
Malevolent Masked Men: Splicers often wear Mardi Gras-ish masks. Possibly justified, as it's stated in Audio-Logs that everything really went to hell in Rapture on New Year's Day. And considering some of their appearances otherwise... | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_db88b941 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_db9103de | type |
School Setting Simulation | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_db9103de | comment |
School Setting Simulation: Common in the BioShock series: Both Jack in the 1 and Delta in the 2 are able to visit Little Wonders Educational Facilities, where Little Sisters are trained to do their role. In 'Burial at Sea'' the heroes are able to visit the Ryan the Lion Preparatory Academy, where children are indoctrinated into following Ryan's ideology. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_db9103de | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_dc9b1fe9 | type |
Cue the Sun | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_dc9b1fe9 | comment |
Cue the Sun: The better endings take place as dawn breaks. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_dc9b1fe9 | featureApplicability |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_dc9b1fe9 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_deecec48 | type |
Brass Balls | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_deecec48 | comment |
Brass Balls: Two of the games use this as a name for an achievement in some way. The first game has 'Brass Balls' which requires you to finish the game on Hard difficulty without using any Vita-Chambers. The second game has 'Big Brass Balls' which only requires you to complete the game without using any Vita-Chambers. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_deecec48 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_df1793de | type |
Updated Re-release | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_df1793de | comment |
Updated Re-release: The BioShock: The Collection re-release of the first two games are remastered for the 8th generation consoles and PCs while bundling their respective single-player DLCs. Unfortunately for BioShock 2 Remastered, it does not have its multiplayer mode. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_df1793de | |
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Underwater City | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_dfbdfc6f | comment |
Underwater City: Rapture, though by the sequel the ocean is making a comeback. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_dfbdfc6f | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_e13156e1 | type |
Mama Bear | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_e13156e1 | comment |
Mama Bear: The Rosebud Splicer's main reason for the descent into madness and the violence that follows appears to be her search for her missing daughter. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_e13156e1 | featureApplicability |
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Closed Circle | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_e2a6ebc1 | comment |
Closed Circle: Rapture is under the sea, so it's pretty inescapable except for the one bathysphere. Columbia is the same in the sky. | |
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Tragic Monster | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_e35bc0f7 | comment |
Tragic Monster: Rapture is a city full of them, in both games. The splicers. It's surprisingly gut-wrenching (no pun intended) to beat to death someone who sobs "I'm sorry... It was just an accident... c'mon, get up, I was just fooling around!" when they best you. They'll even beg for their lives if you freeze them (though they'll get back to trying to kill you if they thaw, so...). Exemplified in the Big Daddies, who live only to protect the Little Sisters. They will never start a fight. They're happy to finish one, though. Though they will freak out and try to kill you if you get too close to their Little Sister. Or cause them even a slight amount of damage by accident. It's possible to get a Big Daddy to start a fight, though it's by no means hard to avoid doing it. Thanks to Sofia Lamb's propensity for brainwashing and genetic manipulation, this pops up a lot in the sequel. Mark Meltzer and Sinclair both get turned into Lamb-controlled Big Daddies, and Gil Alexander ends up as an insane, megalomaniacal Brain in a Jar. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_e35bc0f7 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_e50fa775 | type |
Damage Over Time | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_e50fa775 | comment |
"Incinerate" can set enemies on fire, dealing Damage Over Time. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_e50fa775 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Determinator | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_e567510d | comment |
Many of Comstock's qualities, such as a relentless sense of determination and a deep, protective impulse towards a daughter figure, can be found in Booker as well. There's a good reason for that—Booker is Comstock. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_e567510d | |
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"Psycho" Strings | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_e5b75009 | comment |
"Psycho" Strings Most of the score consists of stringed instruments, which can flip from melancholy to maddening in an instant. Background music in 2's Pink Pearl consists entirely of this. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_e5b75009 | featureApplicability |
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Powered by a Forsaken Child | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_e794cb54 | comment |
Powered by a Forsaken Child: The Little Sisters (originally children of about 5-8 years old) were set up as mobile factory-reservoirs for ADAM by implanting ADAM-producing sea slugs in their stomachs, and brainwashing them into gathering additional ADAM from corpses. Now, the scientists who set up this whole grisly situation harvested non-lethally by making the Little Sisters regurgitate the ADAM and sending them back into the streets to continue gathering, but apparently, that's not enough for the Splicers, because their perferred method (and yours, if you take the evil path) is to rip it from their forsaken bodies and kill them just to earn a little extra juice. | |
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| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_e794cb54 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_e7bfbb3b | type |
Clingy Costume | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_e7bfbb3b | comment |
Clingy Costume: The Big Daddies are grafted into their diving suits, though fortunately for two characters who voluntarily don similar outfits it doesn't appear to be necessary to wear them. Handymen, on the other hand, are their suits to some degree. | |
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| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_e7bfbb3b | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_e9432eb | type |
Concepts Are Cheap | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_e9432eb | comment |
Concepts Are Cheap: The Bioshock games are against extremism and utopias but never quite define coherently what particular ideas are utopian in relation to, or what ideas are extreme in relation with, mostly because it categorizes extremism as a separate notion rather than a point on a particular spectrum. | |
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BioShock (Video Game) / int_e9432eb | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_e96bdbc7 | type |
Non-Damaging Status Infliction Attack | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_e96bdbc7 | comment |
Non-Damaging Status Infliction Attack: The series has mind-control attacks which only affect their targets' mental states, and doesn't harm them directly, instead using them to attack others and get harmed by it: The first game, BioShock: Certain plasmids: "Enrage", toss a chunk of red goo at an enemy to get them hunting for something to kill, instead of just pacing about. "Hypnotize Big Daddy": Gets Big Daddies to defend the user, instead of not caring when the user's hurt. BioShock Infinite: The "Possession" vigor, turns enemies to the user's, a.k.a Booker's, side. An upgrade causes the possessed to kill themselves once the effect wears off. | |
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| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_e96bdbc7 | |
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Metropolis Level | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_ea5f3ee1 | comment |
Metropolis Level: All of the games in the series took place in cities; however, due to hubris from the leaders, they were decaying and suffering mass unrest. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_ea5f3ee1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_ea5f3ee1 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_ed98f038 | type |
Wall Crawl | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_ed98f038 | comment |
Wall Crawl: Spider Splicers just skip the walls and go straight to crab-walking on the ceiling, which is just as freaky as it sounds. Scratch, scratch... scratch... | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_ed98f038 | featureApplicability |
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| BioShock (Video Game) / int_ed98f038 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_ed98f038 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_ef0f881b | type |
Trick Arrow | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_ef0f881b | comment |
Trick Arrow: The crossbow's second alt-fire are bolts attached to electrified wires called "trap bolts". | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_ef0f881b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_ef0f881b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_ef0f881b | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_eff83d77 | type |
Mundane Utility | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_eff83d77 | comment |
Mundane Utility: Throughout the series you use superpowers not just for fighting but also for puzzle solving with things like electrokinesis to jump start machinery or a small artificial gravity well to unplug cables that are out of reach. This is even invoked in-universe with plasmid advertisements that suggest everyday uses for your powers such as pyrokinesis to light a cigarette or a fireplace. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_eff83d77 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_eff83d77 | featureConfidence |
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| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_eff83d77 | |
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Offhand Backhand | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_f018c5cf | comment |
Offhand Backhand: Big Daddies will sometimes slap an obstructing Splicer (or you) across the room without looking. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_f018c5cf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_f018c5cf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_f018c5cf | |
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Hacking Minigame | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_f1ca2085 | comment |
Hacking Minigame: The vending machines (among other things) can be hacked. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_f1ca2085 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_f1ca2085 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_f1ca2085 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_f1e837cc | type |
Mind over Matter | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_f1e837cc | comment |
Mind over Matter: The Telekinesis plasmid. "Pick up big stuff with your mind. Throw them at your enemies. What else do you need to know?" | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_f1e837cc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_f1e837cc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| BioShock (Video Game) / int_f3fac450 | type |
Brain in a Jar | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_f3fac450 | comment |
Thanks to Sofia Lamb's propensity for brainwashing and genetic manipulation, this pops up a lot in the sequel. Mark Meltzer and Sinclair both get turned into Lamb-controlled Big Daddies, and Gil Alexander ends up as an insane, megalomaniacal Brain in a Jar. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_f3fac450 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_f3fac450 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) | hasFeature |
BioShock (Video Game) / int_f3fac450 | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_f55a4778 | type |
Organ Drops | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_f55a4778 | comment |
Organ Drops: Spider Splicer Organs can be used as med-kits, if one has researched them enough. Whether or not it's cannibalism depends on how human you think the Splicers are. | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_f55a4778 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Why Isn't It Attacking? | |
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Why Isn't It Attacking?: You, potentially. | |
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Superior Species | |
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Superior Species: While not a distinct species, the citizens of Rapture fit, due to plasmids and gene tonics. Or at least they did, until they started overdoing it. | |
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Railroading | |
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Railroading: The games are more or less linear, and there is a very spoilerriffic justification why they are so for each entry: Bioshock 1: Jack is a biological weapon with no real free will, controlled by the phrase "Would you kindly", sent back to Rapture by Fontaine to seize control of Rapture from Andrew Ryan. Bioshock 2: Subject Delta is bonded to Eleanor Lamb, thus his mission revolves around securing Sofia Lamb's daughter, or he will never be able to escape Rapture. Augustus Sinclair has ambitions that will benefit them both should they succeed, but Sofia Lamb ends up putting a wrench in that plan. Minerva's Den: The man in the radio wasn't actually C.M. Porter, but The Thinker impersonating his voice. Subject Sigma is the real Porter, and The Thinker is using Porter's alias to jog his memory and goals. Bioshock Infinite: The multiverse is an arithmetic equation incarnate with constants and variables. The Luteces sent Booker to Columbia in an infinite cycle to reclaim his daughter from Comstock. | |
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With Us or Against Us | |
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With Us or Against Us: Ryan's take on the civil war. "Innocents? If they haven't chosen to defend Rapture, they've chosen to side with Atlas and his bandits. So there are no innocents. There are heroes, and there are criminals." | |
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This Is a Drill | |
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This Is a Drill: The "Bouncer" type Big Daddy. 2 gives the player one as a melee weapon, and it doesn't take long to learn a devastating (and highly-satisfying) drill charge. With proper tonics and tactics it quickly becomes the most effective weapon around. In conjunction with Winter Blast it is almost a Game-Breaker. To clarify - while the drill isn't that great for defending against multiple enemies, and it uses limited fuel for the drilling attack, with all upgrades, skill and freeze tonics, the drill can go right through the Big Daddies without causing you to lose any health. | |
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Sinister Scraping Sound | |
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Sinister Scraping Sound: The sound Splicers makes when they drag their weapons. And the sound the Spider Splicers make whenever they move. | |
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Sequence Breaking | |
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A Teleport plasmid was planned, but due to sequence breaking concerns was never implemented. | |
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One-Winged Angel | |
| BioShock (Video Game) / int_fc33ff16 | comment |
One-Winged Angel: Fontaine, who until this point has apparently only used the Super-Strength gene tonic, is spooked by the player's progress and uses all the ADAM he's stockpiled at once, transforming into a ten-foot-tall grotesquely-muscled brute - which incidentally looks like a giant statue of Atlas. | |
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Red-Light District | |
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Red Light District: Eve's Garden in Fort Frolic. "Come bite the apple!" The sequel has Siren Alley, which bears a strong resemblance to New Orleans' French Quarter. The area is a battlefield between the Wales brothers, one of which manages a hotel-turned-whorehouse, while the other has found religion and put up some religious murals depicting events from BioShock. | |
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Artistic License – Economics | |
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Deconstructed. If Andrew Ryan's fear of discovery by the surface nations hadn't made Rapture into one of these, there would have been no black market for Frank Fontaine to control. For a captain of industry, Ryan was blind to basic economics - demands will be supplied, laws only make them more expensive. | |
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Theme Naming | |
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Theme Naming: ADAM, EVE, Rapture - all especially ironic given Ryan's style of militantly anti-religious Objectivism. Most of the city's locations are also named after an appropriate Greco-Roman deity. And, of course, the references to Ayn Rand. | |
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Item Crafting | |
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Item Crafting: The first game lets you do this with "U-Invent" machines. | |
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