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[[folder:Frank Fontaine [[spoiler: aka Frank Gorland, aka Atlas]] ]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler: He becomes the main antagonist of the first game after Ryan’s death.]]

* BreakingSpeech: After Jack [[spoiler: frees himself from his mind control conditioning]], Fontaine tries delivering a few of these to stop him. [[spoiler: They don't stick]]

* BoisterousWeakling: Zig-zagged. For how frightening Fontaine looks on paper, the man himself is merely a very smart conman who is good at manipulating people into doing his bidding, especially when he has people who do his dirty work without questioning him. When it comes to actually fighting someone though, Fontaine never attacks unless the person is weaker than him or is unable to fight back; it's telling that when Jack starts going after him, his first instinct is to run off and over-splice himself to get the upper hand by any means neccessary.
* CarryingTheAntidote: Lot 192, an antidote to the [[spoiler:Mind Control Plasmid]]. Fontaine ordered its creation as an insurance policy, fearing the plasmid might be used against ''him''. [[spoiler:Jack gulps the serum]] in order to rid himself of [[spoiler:Fontaine's remaining {{Trigger Phrase}}s]], which Tenenbaum couldn't dismantle on her own.

* ConArtist: His occupation.

* CutLexLuthorACheck[=/=]DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: A downplayed version. 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. But as an experienced crook Frank was able to keep this going for a very, very long time, always managing to be "where the evidence wasn't." He arguably would've been able to keep operating in Rapture for as long as he wanted if Ryan hadn't gotten greedy and decided to play Frank at his own game by taking his company from him by force. [[spoiler: Even then, Frank was playing that game longer than Ryan and managed to fake his death and set the stage for a comeback.]]

* 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. They even kill him with the very ADAM extractors he had them use.]]

* IHaveManyNames: Gorland, Barris, Wiston, Moskowitz, Fontaine, [[spoiler:Atlas]] and... [[{{Yellowface}} Wang]]?

* LikeASonToMe: He claims [[spoiler:Jack]] is the closest thing he's ever had to a son.

[[folder:Frank Fontaine]]

** He is absolutely against harvesting the Little Sisters, reasoning them being far more useful alive than dead.

* ThirdPersonPerson: As shown by his quote above, to show how self-centered to sociopathic levels he is. The book implies he simply never bothered to learn more English than was needed for his work. Interestingly, some of his audio diaries, such as "Plasmids Are the Paint", have him drop this vocal trait.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: He tries to get the upper hand on Jack by forcing him to relinquish his weapons to a pneumo before coming into his lair. But as Atlas points out, Peach can't confiscate Jack's Plasmids (of which by the time Jack encounters Peach he has at the very least Electro Bolt, Incinerate, and Telekinesis). He also doesn't count Jack's wrench as a weapon (which is honestly pretty stupid), and doesn't take into account that Jack can hack his security camera, turret, and med station to work against him,

* DidntThinkThisThrough: He tries to get the upper hand on Jack by forcing him to relinquish his weapons to a pneumo before coming into his lair. But as Atlas points out, Peach can't confiscate Jack's Plasmids (of which by the time Jack encounters Peach he has at the very least Electro Bolt, Incinerate, and Telekinesis). He also doesn't count Jack's wrench as a weapon (which is honestly pretty stupid), and doesn't take into account that Jack can hack his security camera and med station to work against him,

* ImproperlyParanoid: Kinda [[spoiler: While he ''was'' right that Fontaine was still alive and that Jack was his puppet, he was wrong in his assumption that Jack was ''knowingly'' working for Fontaine and was sent specifically to kill him -- he just wanted passage through the fisheries. The only reason Ol' Peachy didn't live to see the end of the game is because [[SelfFulfillingProphecy he attacked Jack first and made him act in self-defense]], making his paranoia more of a liability than anything else]].

* DoWrongRight: During her time imprisoned by Nazi, she helped the scientists by pointing out their errors. One angrily asked her why she, a Jewish child, would help her tormentors. Her response was that if they were going to commit such atrocities, they should at least get the science right.

* HyperspaceArsenal: Just how he manages to lug around a [[WrenchWhack pipe wrench]], a [[RevolversAreJustBetter revolver]], a [[MoreDakka Tommy]] [[CoolGuns Gun]], a [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter pump-action shotgun]], a [[AutomaticCrossbow crossbow]], a GrenadeLauncher, a [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrower]], multiple types of spare ammunition for all of the above, plus a bunch of Eve hypos and first-aid kits all at the same time without any inconvenience is never explained.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Miriam Shor (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Elena Solovyova (Russian)[[/note]]

* GutturalGrowler: The switch from "foppish" Cohen to "serious" Cohen.

* TotallyNotACriminalFront: Inheriting control of a fish-packing company, he established himself as a rugged entrepreneur in Rapture, setting up a front to disguise his smuggling activities. The same goes for "Little Sister's Orphanage" and "Fontaine's Home For the Poor", which use the poor as grist for his splicer mill.

* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: Inheriting control of a fish-packing company, he established himself as a rugged entrepreneur in Rapture, setting up a front to disguise his smuggling activities. The same goes for "Little Sister's Orphanage" and "Fontaine's Home For the Poor", which use the poor as grist for his splicer mill.

* DecoyBackstory: Jack, has flashes of his past involving his parents and being raised on a farm. When he finally confronts Andrew Ryan, he discovers his entire past is a hypnotic fabrication; [[spoiler:Jack is Ryan's 4-year-old son, genetically enhanced and artificially aged, and manipulated into coming back to Rapture as a living weapon.]]

** His impulsive behavior, a flaw that he admits having in the ''Rapture'' novel. While he's a very good planner, he is unable to wait years for his plans to come to fruition and decides to speed things up in order to get to his goals faster. He thus keeps getting into plans whose risks keep rising, until his final plan ends p leading to his death.

* EvilIsPetty: From the moment he got into Rapture, Fontaine always tried his best to annoy Ryan at any opportunity he got, even when it didn't benefit him at all. The ''Rapture'' novel even goes as far as stating that Fontaine started hating Ryan ''the moment he saw the latter on a newspaper''.

** His impulsive behavior, which he himself admits in the ''Rapture'' novel. While he's a very good planner, he is unable to wait years for his plans to come to fruition and decides to speed things up in order to get to his goals faster. In ''Burial at Sea", he decides to kill Elizabeth after she gave him the paper with the code, but he tried to kill her without even bothering to read the paper. Had he managed to kill her on his first try, the whole plan regarding Jack would have failed. And later he tried to get rid of Jack, even though he had control over him and that Jack had full control over his plasmid powers. After realizing that Jack was after him, he decided to overdose himself with plasmid without taking into account the side effects.

* 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.]]

* 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:Professor Julie Langford]]

* BloodStainedLetter: Or rather "Blood-Stained Audio Diary" as there is a noticable blood stain on his portrait that sets him apart from other characters.

->'"Maybe we never should have come to this place."''

[[folder:Dr. Yi Suchong]]

[[folder:Dr. J.S. Steinman]]