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* BewareTheNiceOnes: While noted to be kind and courteous even by her servant staff, she is absolutely ''vicious'' when confronting Rosalind over what she thinks is an affair with her husband, streaming at her and calling her a "whore". To say nothing of when she is brought back as the Siren.

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* BewareTheNiceOnes: While noted to be kind and courteous even by her servant staff, she is absolutely ''vicious'' when confronting Rosalind over what she thinks is an affair with her husband, streaming screaming at her and calling her a "whore". To say nothing of when she is brought back as the Siren.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: While noted to be kind and courteous even by her servant staff, she is absolutely ''vicious'' when confronting Rosalind over what she thinks is an affair with her husband, streaming at her and calling her a "whore". To say nothing of when she is brought back as the Siren.
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* VideoGameCaringPotential: Booker can either throw a baseball at Jeramiah Fink....
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: ...or he can instead cast the first stone at this couple. Not that he can do so anyways, as you are caught and fingered as The False Shepherd.

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* VideoGameCaringPotential: Booker can either throw a baseball at Jeramiah Fink....
Fink...
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: ...or he can instead cast the first stone at this couple. Not that he can do so anyways, ends up doing either, as you are he's caught and fingered identified as The the False Shepherd.
Shepherd before completing the throw. The only difference the choice makes is whether they show up later to offer you items as thanks for helping them.
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* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler:If he hadn't baptized Booker [=DeWitt=], Comstock and thus pretty much the entire game would have never happened.]]

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* OnlySaneWoman: While they're equally brilliant, Rosalind seems to be the more mature. Exemplified by one scene early in the game, where the two of them can clearly be seen through the binoculars across from Monument Island: Robert is juggling while Rosalind looks on disapprovingly.



* WomenAreWiser: While they're equally brilliant, Rosalind seems to be the more mature. Exemplified by one scene early in the game, where the two of them can clearly be seen through the binoculars across from Monument Island: Robert is juggling while Rosalind looks on disapprovingly.
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* EvilVsEvil: The game largely paints the Vox as being just as evil as the Founders they're at war with, hence why Booker (and later Elizabeth) are apprehensive about joining them. Portraying a violent slave rebellion this way, and whether or not it is a grossly insensitive false equivalency, has not been without controversy.

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* EvilVsEvil: The game largely paints the Vox as being just as evil as the Founders they're at war with, hence why Booker (and later Elizabeth) are apprehensive about joining them. Portraying a violent slave rebellion this way, and whether or not it is a grossly insensitive false equivalency, has not been without controversy.
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* {{Leitmotif}}: In the voxophone recordings, Duke has a light piano flourish, while Dimwit has a sour, mash-the-keys-with-your-hand sounding note.

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* {{Leitmotif}}: In the voxophone recordings, Duke has a light piano flourish, while Dimwit has a sour, mash-the-keys-with-your-hand sounding note.sour discordant chord.



* VideoGameCaringPotential: Booker can instead throw a baseball off of the Smug Jeramiah Fink....
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: ... but he can instead cast the first stone at this couple. Not that he can do so anyways, as you are caught and fingered as The False Shepherd

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* VideoGameCaringPotential: Booker can instead either throw a baseball off of the Smug at Jeramiah Fink....
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: ... but or he can instead cast the first stone at this couple. Not that he can do so anyways, as you are caught and fingered as The False Shepherd
Shepherd.
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* EvilVsEvil: The game largely paints the Vox as being just as evil as the Founders they're at war with, hence why Booker (and later Elizabeth) are apprehensive about joining them. Portraying a violent slave rebellion this way, and whether or not it is a grossly insensitive false equivalency, has not been without controversy.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Their weapons work in a unique and creative way but face stiff competition from the BoringButPractical Founder weapons Vox weapons only become common in the final third of the game and still need to be individually upgraded so, more often than not, players will stick to the weapons they've already spent a small fortune upgrading.

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* AwesomeButImpractical: Their weapons work in a unique and creative way but face stiff competition from the BoringButPractical Founder weapons weapons. Vox weapons only become common in the final third of the game and still need to be individually upgraded so, more often than not, players will stick to the weapons they've already spent a small fortune upgrading.
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* AntiVillain: For as violent and unmerciful as they are, the fact still stands that they're a slave rebellion looking for emancipation.
* AxCrazy: While admittedly hard to blame them (the Founders they're slaughtering enslaved them), their revolution is much more about razing Columbia to the ground and slaughtering its people rather than overthrowing them.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Their weapons work in a unique and creative way but face stiff competition from the BoringButPractical Founder weapons Vox weapons only become common in the final third of the game and still need to be individually upgraded so, more often than not, players will stick to the weapons they've already spent a small fortune upgrading.
* BombThrowingAnarchists: Their revolution seems more focused on reducing Columbia to rubble painted with the Founders' blood than overthrowing the Founders.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Whatever good intentions they were founded on were drowned out by their increasing bloodlust, eventually becoming little different than the Founders themselves (aside from the racial politics of course).
* MotiveDecay: What was initially a civil rights movement seeking equality for Columbia's oppressed underclass has long since degenerated into getting violent {{Revenge}} on the Founders.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: They're more akin to a hoard of bloodthirsty barbarians.
* TragicVillain: Even for as bloodthirsty and destructive as they are, they are still slaves seeking freedom so it is hard to really blame them for showing so little mercy (it helps that the Founders largely [[AssholeVictim deserve it]]).
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* CoolGuns: They carry a Pig Flak, Hail Fire, or Barnstormer to attack Booker with.
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* DecapitatedArmy: {{Averted|Trope}}. Despite dying right before the start of the final third of the game, the Vox Populi revolution continues without her, with their troops being the primary enemy force for the rest of the game.

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->''"Elizabeth. Isn't that a lovely name!"''

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->''"Elizabeth. Isn't that a lovely name!"''
->''"This is the moment we trained for. The False Shepherd is here. The day was not exact, but... the Prophet's sight proves out again. The specimen must be taken alive. If she dies, I suspect they will give us to the bird. And whatever pieces it leaves behind will bear no names... That was cigarette number six. This waiting is insufferable."''
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** Then again, ''Burial At Sea'' shows that he at least puts himself through the same working hours as his workers.

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* AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome: [[spoiler:In one universe, she was married to a self-proclaimed Prophet and was easily the most powerful woman in the city where everyone loved her. In another, she was married to a deadbeat former Pinkerton agent with a serious case of PTSD]].

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* AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome: [[spoiler:In one universe, she was married to a self-proclaimed Prophet and was easily the most powerful woman in the city where everyone loved her. In another, she was married to a deadbeat former Pinkerton agent with a serious case of PTSD]].PTSD, and died in childbirth]].



* DeadAlternateCounterpart: [[spoiler:In the reality in which Booker rejected baptism, she died giving birth to her daughter. Because Comstock was sterile, her death was simply postponed by two years]].

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* DeadAlternateCounterpart: [[spoiler:In the reality in which Booker rejected baptism, she died giving birth to her their daughter. Because Comstock was sterile, her death was simply postponed by two years]].



** [[spoiler:Her alternate self's death was also mourned by the same person till this very day and coped her death by drinking and gambling. To remember her, her husband name their daughter after her]].
* MakeMeWannaShout: Sings loudly enough to reach [[spoiler:the other-world.]]

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** [[spoiler:Her alternate self's death was also mourned by the same person till this very day and coped her death by drinking and gambling. To remember her, her husband name Booker [[DeadGuyJunior named their daughter after her]].
* MakeMeWannaShout: Sings loudly enough to reach [[spoiler:the other-world.
her]].]]


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* SuperScream: Sings loudly enough to reach [[spoiler:the other-world.]]
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JenniferHale & Oliver Vaquer

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* ElementalRockPaperScissors: These ice-based enemies can be handily defeated by fire-based attacks.
* LogicalWeakness: Using Devil Kiss or Radar Range will make short work of them.

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* ElementalRockPaperScissors: These ice-based enemies can be handily defeated by [[KillItWithFire fire-based attacks.
attacks]].
* LogicalWeakness: Using [[KillItWithFire Devil Kiss or Radar Range Range]] will make short work of them.

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