History Characters / Bioshock1

* CutLexLuthorACheck[=/=]DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: He could have made his fortune legitimately and been a great businessman, but he only found joy in pulling off a con. As a result, he couldn't help himself and broke the few rules Rapture had.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: The only flaw in his masterplan [[spoiler:which led to his downfall]]. He did not expect that Tenenbaum's conscience would arise and she would develope empathy for the Little Sisters, [[spoiler:leading to her turn on him and her support of Jack]].

* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: He could have made his fortune legitimately and been a great businessman, but he only found joy in pulling off a con. As a result, he couldn't help himself and broke the few rules Rapture had.

* SatanicArchetype: If Andrew Ryan is (ironically) the God of Rapture then Frank Fontaine would be the Devil of Rapture. He's a ConMan who sets up charity services for the indigent and less-than-well-off as a front for smuggling and human experimentation (including getting them addicted to ADAM and turning them into splicers), akin to the DealWithTheDevil Satan makes on the most vulnerable. His MasterActor abilities allowing him to convincingly fake his death and reappear as somebody else with people none the wiser harkens to Satan always appearing as someone innocuous before luring somebody into their trap. The fact that the player can become something akin to the MessanicArchetype towards the Little Sisters by saving them (doing so would grant the good ending, [[spoiler:which has been canonized and also makes him the AntiAntiChrist]]) futher highlights Frank as [=BioShock=]'s equivalent of the Devil.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Greg Baldwin (''[=BioShock=]''), Karl Hanover (''[=BioShock=] 2'', ''Burial at Sea'') (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Oleg Shcherbinin (Russian)[[/note]]

* BonusBoss: You don't have to kill him to advance the plot, although sparing him in Fort Frolic and then fighting him in Olympus Heights allows access to his bedroom, which contains a Power to the People machine. He only attacks if you hit him first or damage his masterpiece (in Fort Frolic) or if you disturb the dancing splicers in his house.

* YouGotSpunk: Said to Elizabeth, suggesting he's far less merciful under normal circumstances. [[spoiler:He eventually loses patience and beans her with a wrench anyway, but it took him 2 weeks as opposed to 2 seconds, so cheers for him]].

* ObfuscatingStupidity: The game never explains whether or not it's intentional, but Suchong knows better English than he lets on in his speech and lab notes.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Susanne Blakeslee [[/note]]

** ''"You think you got power? You're 20 watts and I'm the lights of Broadway!"''
** ''You've got nothing but deuces and threes!"''

** [[spoiler:He rants about Jack "betraying" him at the end when in fact it was Fontaine who attempted to throw Jack under the bus when he got control of Rapture]]. He also [[spoiler: expects you to believe him when he repeatedly accuses Tenenbaum of being untrustworthy, despite the fact that he spent the entire game lying about his identity and intentions while manipulating you via MindControl.]]

* IWasQuiteALooker: She laments the loss of her beauty due to splicing.

* StarterVillain: She is the first named splicer you fight, and introduces how dangerous the splicers you fight are.

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

* TheAlcatraz & TheCityNarrows: Fontaine's shopping center. Following his last stand with the police, the remnants of Fontaine's army were hounded into the department stores and cut loose -- literally, the entire hub was uncoupled from the city and sunk. When [[spoiler:Elizabeth restored the district to its rightful position (via the Lutece particle)]], the prisoners swarmed Rapture and the war began in earnest. In ''Burial at Sea'', the mall serves as a preview of Rapture's fate: it's swarming with masked maniacs, and beginning to flood.

* AbstractApotheosis: Not quite literally, but by the time of the game he's come to be a representation of both [[GoneHorriblyRight the ultimate expression of the city's values]] ''and'' [[GoneHorriblyWrong the 'parasites' Andrew Ryan always hated]]; a man completely self-interested, smarter than those around him, and completely unencumbered by principles or moral scruples, and who used that to rise FromNobodyToNightmare- but also someone who relied on ''exploiting'' the system and tricking others into working to his own benefit more than their own. And while Fontaine himself died when Ryan betrayed his own principles, his work was carried on by others, like Atlas and his rebellion, who were acting for the fair market that Fontaine used to rise to power.[[spoiler:For the very good reason that Fontaine and Atlas were one and the same. To the end, Fontaine's actions were all for Fontaine.]]

* BigBad: In Rapture's backstory, he was the biggest threat to [[EvilVersusEvil Ryan]]. [[spoiler:He's also the BigBad of both the first game and (as Atlas) ''Burial at Sea'']].

* AbhorrentAdmirer: A lot of her quotes relate to how she wants Jack to be with her... even if she [[Yandere has to kill him]]

[[folder:Dr. J.S. Steinman]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Peter Francis James (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Andrey Yaroslavtsev (Russian)[[/note]]
[[quoteright:100:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/J_S__Steinman_1947.jpg]]

->''"With genetic modifications, beauty is no longer a goal or even a virtue, it is a moral obligation. Do we force the healthy to live with the contagious? Do we mix the criminal with the law abiding? Then why are the plain allowed to mingle with the fair?!"''

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

* AlliterativeName: '''F'''rank '''F'''ontaine, he seems to have a knack for naming his businesses like this too.

* AbstractApotheosis: Not quite literally, but by the time of the game he's come to be a representation of both [[GoneHorriblyRight the ultimate expression of the city's values]] ''and'' [[GoneHorriblyWrong the 'parasites' Andrew Ryan always hated]]; A man completely self-interested, smarter than those around him, and completely unencumbered by principles or moral scruples, and who used that to rise FromNobodyToNightmare- but also someone who relied on ''exploiting'' the system and tricking others into working to his own benefit more than their own. And while Fontaine himself died when Ryan betrayed his own principles, his work was carried on by others, like Atlas and his rebellion, who were acting for the fair market that Fontaine used to rise to power.[[spoiler:For the very good reason that Fontaine and Atlas were one and the same. To the end, Fontaine's actions were all for Fontaine.]]

* FalseReassurance: Atlas scolds his lackey for playing RussianRoulette with a Elizabeth instead of rubbing her out as ordered, grumbling that they're not animals and to just quit torturing her and put her down. This becomes darkly funny later when he later abuses her to no end and [[spoiler: eventually kills her.]]

* AlliterativeName: '''F'''rank '''F'''ontaine.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: When you find his corpse, it's been stabbed through with[[spoiler:a Big Daddy drill]].