History Characters / Bioshock2

* IHaveNoDaughter: Right before smothering Eleanor, she bemoans that Eleanor has been learning from Delta's actions instead of her own, rendering her little better than him in Sofia's eyes.

* TheAtoner: In the Neutral ending, even though she feels she has become a monster, she wonders if she can find redemption like Delta has by choosing to give up his life.
* AxCrazy: Goes into this in the bad endings or even when working to it when she's an ally, butchering through the various splicer types with ''outright glee.'' [[YouBastard And you influenced her into it.]]

* BadassInDistress: Turns out she's ''very'' capable of looking after herself. It seems her mother was less afraid of others harming her and more afraid of her daughter simply going her own way.

* BerserkButton: At least for Good Eleanor, harming her father is a good way to earn a harpoon to the gut or an Incinerate! plasmid to the face. Her mother Sofia also learns this the hard way in the Justice ending when she [[spoiler:is drowned by Eleanor for condemning her father to death.]]

* BloodKnight: Fairly low-key if you saved the little sisters, but if you harvested them, she actively enjoys rampaging through the splicers.

* CurbStompBattle: When you summon Eleanor to fight with you in Persephone, she pretty much stomps all over the splicers.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: From a little sister to basically an invincible, teleporting [[BossInMookClothing Big Sister]] with telekinesis. Even more of a case in the Bad ending, in which case she's a BloodKnight that derives joy from both killing things and watching them die, and has both her own genius and Delta's cunning and experience on top of all those powers.

* FlashyTeleportation: Big Sister Teleportation has purple-colored effects. [[spoiler:Teleportation is another one of her powers as a Big Sister.]]
* GoodIsNotSoft: She kicks plenty of ass as a Big Sister regardless of your decisions and [[spoiler:in one ending where she saves her mother, she admits that she's not doing it out of kindness or love, but [[CruelMercy because she wants to Sofia to live with the knowledge that everything she worked for was for nothing.]] Conversely, in one of the endings where she kills her mother [[PayEvilOntoEvil she states that it's because her mother's sins precluded mercy]].]]

* NeverMyFault: In the Choice ending, she outright blames Delta for turning her into a monster.

* PlayingWithFire: She can shoot fireballs out of her hands.
* PsychicPowers: She can communicate with Delta telepathically, and makes use of the Telekinesis plasmid.

* UnskilledButStrong: It is unlikely she's had any formal combat training, instead relying on instinct and what she's observed from Delta to tear apart enemies.

* GoodCounterpart: He what Atlas would've been if he was entirely on the level.

* TheSociopath: She doesn't even give a damn about her own daughter, seeing the girl as just another tool.

* ConMan: Not nearly as much as Fontaine, but still present. He fittingly uses a style achetypical to the American South that relies on his marks to theselves be greedy and willing to screw others over. E.G. he sells syringe parts and buys complete syringes at a significantly greater amount. People think they've found a get rich quick scheme and are pulling one over on him, but as he explains, he still buys the completed syringes for less that it would cost hire employees with the market value of labor.

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: She talks about Jack and his mental conditioning in one of her audio diaries. Unsurprisingly, she's more concerned with how that conditioning allowed him to escape his "self" and whether it could have been used to promote the common good, as opposed to the horror of being stripped of one's free will.

* WorthyOpponent: Her opinion of the Rosie Big Daddies.

* LoopholeAbuse: Collectivism wasn't actually illegal in Rapture, so their was nothing Ryan could do about her making a commune right under his nose. Ultimately, subverted as Ryan simply ignores the law and had her arrested anyway. Ironically, her commuine was genuinly stockpiling weapons with the goal of a revolt, meaning she was genuinly breaking the law! [[note]] Delta can actually find what's left of the stockpile in the one waterproof room in her movie theater in Dionysus Park. [[/note]]

** It's subtile but it's revealed that Eleanor didn't become the vessel until 1967, nine years after she was rescured. Yet, all records seem to seize of her from childhood until being a teenager, and Dr. Gilbert always seems to speak of her in past-tense. This is because once her conditioning was broken she became a normal girl and eventually a BrattyTeenageDaughter. Eleanor then became a politcal threat, because if her own daughter isn't listening why should anyone else? So Sofia had her placed in ''stasis,'' only pulling her out when she became central to her plan.

* UngratefulBastard: Holds his brother in complete and utter contempt despite Simon dearly loving him. He assumes Simon sent you to talk to him when you first encounter him, and he throws and grenade as his "peace offering", says he can't believe he "shared a womb with such a sap" in an audio log reflecting on the paths they took, and when Simon sends him a bottle of wine with the vintage being the code to Simon's territory, he says in another audio log he should "send his wine through my system and [[ExcrementStatement send it back warm.]]"

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler:Let's just say that there are very few people in the game that ''haven't'' been backstabbed by him at some point. To wit: he's the one who had Johnny Topside arrested and converted against his will into a Big Daddy. He then betrayed Sophia Lamb's trust by hosting wild parties at Dionysus Park behind her back, and later sent Eleanor to be converted into a Little Sister to prevent the truth from getting out -- he then [[KillEmAll kills everyone who showed up at his parties]] just to make absolutely certain there were no loose ends.]]

* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:From Poole's point of view everyone in Dionysus Park knew too much, so he found a way to KillEmAll. He flooded the park, killing everyone there, and then sent Eleanor off to be converted into a Little Sister. This all turns out to be wholly unnecessary, as Sophia Lamb knew what Poole did the whole time and was just toying with him.]]

* GadgeteerGenius: Not only did he mastermind Rapture's security systems, but [[spoiler:after his mutation began he also modified the branches of it around Fontaine Futuristics to provide help to anyone answering his DistressCall. After his mutation drove him insane, he also equipped numerous security drones with monitors and speakers to carry his voice and face- part of it, at least- to his "employees."]]

* UncannyValley: Invoked during the replication of Pearl. Also, while it is as sentient as a human, it definitely does not act like a human.

* AllLovingHero: If Delta saves all the Little Sisters and spares the major {{NPCs}}, he'll be interpreted as one by the in-game characters. [[spoiler: To a point where Eleanor in highest Good Ending will pledge to follow his example.]]

* VillainProtagonist: He becomes one if you harvest every Little Sister and kill all 3 NPCs.

* ConMan: Not nearly as much as Fontaine, but still pressent. He fittingly uses a style achetypical to the American South that relies on his marks to theselves be greedy and willing to screw others over. E.G. he sells syringe parts and buys complete syringes at a significantly greater amount. People think they've found a get rich quick scheme and are pulling one over on him, but as he explains, he buys the still buys the completed syringes for less that it would cost hire employees with the market value of labor.[[note]]And he still makes buck even if the people decide to build the syringes for personal use, which is what how the deal of marketted.[[/note]]