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** This is actually the case. In one level a DaVinci-style sketch of Songbird can be found with a note that it is designed to function at low pressures and handles high pressure badly. Early in the game an eye cracks and it balks as it tries to dive only a few feet underwater to grab Booker. Safe to say, Songbird marks a quick retreat and goes back to being airborne.

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** This is actually the case. In one level a DaVinci-style [=DaVinci=]-style sketch of Songbird can be found with a note that it is designed to function at low pressures and handles high pressure badly. Early in the game an eye cracks and it balks as it tries to dive only a few feet underwater to grab Booker. Safe to say, Songbird marks a quick retreat and goes back to being airborne.
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** Iron oxide, rust, can be effectively used in making red dyes. Given the Vox workers from the lower class having access to large amounts of rusted metal makes sense.
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** Put another way, for the same reason sodium reacts violently with water. Something in the laws of physics simply requires it. In this case we don't know the underlying law and neither does anyone else. Even Robert and Rosland are still experimenting trying to understand the why of it all taking the opportunity of putting dozens of Bookers through identical circumstances to study the phenomena. That there are constants and are variable is what can say for sure happens by observation but the exact reason why is probably something only all powerful Elizabeth knows if anyone at all.
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** Problem #1: How can Fink - a 1912 Robber Baron so prone to intellectual theft that he might as well be suffering from CreativeSterility - manage to solve a problem that the brightest minds of Rapture couldn't tackle? Columbia's scientific focus was primarily concerned with engineering and physics; Rapture's scientific crowning glory was in the field of genetics... or at least this was the case before the retcons were established. Problem #2: in the same voxophone where Fink mentions that he's been fishing for sea slugs, he also bitches about the astronomical cost of all these underwater expeditions. To put this in perspective, Fink has enough dosh to casually decorate his building with a giant golden statue of himself, and he complains that the sea slugs are unbelievably expensive; so you'd think that the Vigors would be a special product given only to the ultra-rich or the government, something made by commission, maybe. But no, there's a huge production line of them! Problem #3: From a visual standpoint, Vigors and Plasmids are very very different. In the Raptureverse, when a plasmid is selected, it's effectively on all the time, as you can see by Jack/Subject Delta/Subject Sigma's hand: the heat of Incinerate leaves permanent burns until you change plasmids, the honeycomb blisters of Insect Swarm don't inexplicably vanish, your hand remains frozen by Winter Blast, and the discolourations and deformities caused by Enrage or Hypnotize Big Daddy remain present as long as those powers are selected. The Vigors, on the other [[JustForPun hand]], flicker in and out of existence while they're selected: the burns of Devil's Kiss, the cracks of Bucking Bronco, the suckers of Undertow - all of them appear and disappear, many of them with a visual effect similar to that of the tears. If this was derived from Elizabeth's powers, this would make sense, but given that this has been retconned in favour of plasmids, the logic just flies out the window.

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** Problem #1: How can Fink - a 1912 Robber Baron so prone to intellectual theft that he might as well be suffering from CreativeSterility - manage to solve a problem that the brightest minds of Rapture couldn't tackle? Columbia's scientific focus was primarily concerned with engineering and physics; Rapture's scientific crowning glory was in the field of genetics... or at least this was the case before the retcons were established. Problem #2: in the same voxophone where Fink mentions that he's been fishing for sea slugs, he also bitches about the astronomical cost of all these underwater expeditions. To put this in perspective, Fink has enough dosh to casually decorate his building with a giant golden statue of himself, and he complains that the sea slugs are unbelievably expensive; so you'd think that the Vigors would be a special product given only to the ultra-rich or the government, something made by commission, maybe. But no, there's a huge production line of them! Problem #3: From a visual standpoint, Vigors and Plasmids are very very different. In the Raptureverse, when a plasmid is selected, it's effectively on all the time, as you can see by Jack/Subject Delta/Subject Sigma's hand: the heat of Incinerate leaves permanent burns until you change plasmids, the honeycomb blisters of Insect Swarm don't inexplicably vanish, your hand remains frozen by Winter Blast, and the discolourations and deformities caused by Enrage or Hypnotize Big Daddy remain present as long as those powers are selected. The Vigors, on the other [[JustForPun hand]], "hand", flicker in and out of existence while they're selected: the burns of Devil's Kiss, the cracks of Bucking Bronco, the suckers of Undertow - all of them appear and disappear, many of them with a visual effect similar to that of the tears. If this was derived from Elizabeth's powers, this would make sense, but given that this has been retconned in favour of plasmids, the logic just flies out the window.
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* This troper always figured it was Booker manifesting some sort of tear ability to save himself, probably when on the verge of death. When you first use the respawn door, Booker comments, he asks "What just happened?" or something similar, and after that never mentions it again. This, adding in that Booker can recognize when it isn't "his" Anna/Elizabeth, and when you "respawn" the enemies and items you used do not. This points toward it is always the same Booker and Elizabeth back in whatever universe he "died" in. This is also why the respawn door has the "tear" effects, Booker's tears look like his door, since it is beyond that door that this whole mess started. This is how Booker was also able to see the Invasion universe, where Colombia is attacking New York. He came close to drowning in the Baptism, this activated his tear ability. Like Elizabeth, came back to the Infinite!universe. This is what makes Alpha!Booker special, the one who can actually save Elizabeth.

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* This troper always figured it was Booker manifesting some sort of tear ability to save himself, probably when on the verge of death. When you first use the respawn door, Booker comments, he asks "What just happened?" or something similar, and after that never mentions it again. This, adding in that Booker can recognize when it isn't "his" Anna/Elizabeth, and when you "respawn" the enemies and items you used do not. This points toward it is always the same Booker and Elizabeth back in whatever universe he "died" in. This is also why the respawn door has the "tear" effects, Booker's tears look like his door, since it is beyond that door that this whole mess started. This is how Booker was also able to see the Invasion universe, where Colombia Columbia is attacking New York. He came close to drowning in the Baptism, this activated his tear ability. Like Elizabeth, came back to the Infinite!universe. This is what makes Alpha!Booker special, the one who can actually save Elizabeth.



** Also, it's certainly not saying that Colombia got very far past burning New York. Once the US figures out what they're dealing with they'd be happy to launch a couple more fighters and some surface-to-air missiles.

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** Also, it's certainly not saying that Colombia Columbia got very far past burning New York. Once the US figures out what they're dealing with they'd be happy to launch a couple more fighters and some surface-to-air missiles.



** Just replayed the intro: next to the map in the lighthouse, there's a note reading "Be prepared, he's on his way. You must stop him. -C." Given that the place is essentially a Colombian stronghold, it's almost certain that "C" is Comstock, and the lighthouse's occupant was a Colombian fanatic who was going to assassinate Booker the moment he arrived. Presumably, the Luteces killed the man before he could get a chance, then put his corpse on display to bring the "this is your last chance" angle into sharp relief.

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** Just replayed the intro: next to the map in the lighthouse, there's a note reading "Be prepared, he's on his way. You must stop him. -C." Given that the place is essentially a Colombian Columbian stronghold, it's almost certain that "C" is Comstock, and the lighthouse's occupant was a Colombian Columbian fanatic who was going to assassinate Booker the moment he arrived. Presumably, the Luteces killed the man before he could get a chance, then put his corpse on display to bring the "this is your last chance" angle into sharp relief.



** I don't remember it directly saying that Vigors use the powers of Tears. In ''Burial at Sea'', it IS explicitly stated by BAS!Suchong that Fink had broken into his labs via Tears and stolen research on Plasmids. Fink actually made the advancement in Plasmids from injections to drinkable, which Suchong then stole. This is why the plasmids in BAS are exactly like Vigors. Plasmids and Vigors work exactly the same way. They are more regulated in Columbia. As to why the Colombian "Splicers" aren't malformed, Fink refined the Vigors. This can be seen in the Firemen, and POSSIBLY the Crows, as they keep themselves covered like Splicers. They were probably early testers of the Vigors. Slate's men aren't malformed, maybe because they just recently spliced themselves up?

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** I don't remember it directly saying that Vigors use the powers of Tears. In ''Burial at Sea'', it IS explicitly stated by BAS!Suchong that Fink had broken into his labs via Tears and stolen research on Plasmids. Fink actually made the advancement in Plasmids from injections to drinkable, which Suchong then stole. This is why the plasmids in BAS are exactly like Vigors. Plasmids and Vigors work exactly the same way. They are more regulated in Columbia. As to why the Colombian Columbian "Splicers" aren't malformed, Fink refined the Vigors. This can be seen in the Firemen, and POSSIBLY the Crows, as they keep themselves covered like Splicers. They were probably early testers of the Vigors. Slate's men aren't malformed, maybe because they just recently spliced themselves up?



** Taking a good look at the siege scene, the fireballs presumably came from the fleet of airships nearby. Plus, I don't think the turret cannons would be enough to attack anything on the ground; presumably, the imposing armaments that were used against the Boxer Rebellion were mounted on the underside of Colombia's platforms.
** Thirty Colombian men died during the Boxer Rebellion. They simply landed with balloons and used infantry to attack them.

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** Taking a good look at the siege scene, the fireballs presumably came from the fleet of airships nearby. Plus, I don't think the turret cannons would be enough to attack anything on the ground; presumably, the imposing armaments that were used against the Boxer Rebellion were mounted on the underside of Colombia's Columbia's platforms.
** Thirty Colombian Columbian men died during the Boxer Rebellion. They simply landed with balloons and used infantry to attack them.



** Well, once again, we're going to have to bring up the big difference between Rapture and Colombia: because of Andrew Ryan's objectivist beliefs, Plasmids were sold on the open market, with no regulations or restrictions whatsoever; Colombia is a much more restrictive environment. As has been discussed on the headscratcher page, Comstock and Fink would almost certainly make citizens and soldiers alike jump through a lot more hoops before giving them superpowers; the Firemen and the Crows are elites -- they've proved that they have no rebellious leanings and can be trusted to obey orders -- so they're given a Vigor: ''one'' Vigor, not the small arsenal Booker's wielding by the end of the game. As for citizens, they get a few cheap samplers at the carnival games that wear off in a minute or two, but unless they can pay for the real deal and meet the necessary requirements, that's it. Racial minorities and the other underclasses of Columbia wouldn't be allowed within of a Vigor. This is just speculation, but the reason why nobody in Columbia brings up the fact that Vigors are usable by just about any two at least: 1) advertisers like the fairground barkers simply leave it as the ElephantInTheRoom and allow their audience to think "He said any "man" can do these things with Vigors, so obviously the Blacks and Irish can't get anything useful out of them. After all, they're not really men, are they?" 2)Comstock and/or Fink issues a statement that Vigors only work for "good, wholesome god-fearing white men and women." In the case of Blacks, Irishmen, Jews, etc, they claim that Vigors have negative effects ranging from grievious mutilation to death; thus, Comstock's flock feel so much better about themselves, and the underclasses of Colombia will be hesitant before trying to use vigors of their own.

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** Well, once again, we're going to have to bring up the big difference between Rapture and Colombia: Columbia: because of Andrew Ryan's objectivist beliefs, Plasmids were sold on the open market, with no regulations or restrictions whatsoever; Colombia Columbia is a much more restrictive environment. As has been discussed on the headscratcher page, Comstock and Fink would almost certainly make citizens and soldiers alike jump through a lot more hoops before giving them superpowers; the Firemen and the Crows are elites -- they've proved that they have no rebellious leanings and can be trusted to obey orders -- so they're given a Vigor: ''one'' Vigor, not the small arsenal Booker's wielding by the end of the game. As for citizens, they get a few cheap samplers at the carnival games that wear off in a minute or two, but unless they can pay for the real deal and meet the necessary requirements, that's it. Racial minorities and the other underclasses of Columbia wouldn't be allowed within of a Vigor. This is just speculation, but the reason why nobody in Columbia brings up the fact that Vigors are usable by just about any two at least: 1) advertisers like the fairground barkers simply leave it as the ElephantInTheRoom and allow their audience to think "He said any "man" can do these things with Vigors, so obviously the Blacks and Irish can't get anything useful out of them. After all, they're not really men, are they?" 2)Comstock and/or Fink issues a statement that Vigors only work for "good, wholesome god-fearing white men and women." In the case of Blacks, Irishmen, Jews, etc, they claim that Vigors have negative effects ranging from grievious mutilation to death; thus, Comstock's flock feel so much better about themselves, and the underclasses of Colombia Columbia will be hesitant before trying to use vigors of their own.



** I figured it was a Comstock that escaped the event that ended all his counterparts. If you look at Alpha?Elizabeth as she was begging Comstock to let go of Anna, she is still wearing the clothes she had on in Colombia. In the end of the main game, the Elizabeths that drown Alpha!Booker are not her. It can be figured that it was at this moment she left Alpha!Booker to go and try and get Comstock to reconsider in this universe, maybe as a way to alter the infinite timelines without killing him, this being her first try to alter timelines with her abilities, she fails...badly. This Comstock then has the Luteces transport him to the BAS!Rapture where he forgets his past, his mind create memories as to why he is in Rapture and he becomes Booker!Comstock, but this saves him. As he made the journey to a universe where Booker never existed or was still alive elsewhere, before Alpha!Booker erased the Comstock timelines. He saved himself, unwittingly, from never existing. The point, as I understood, of the entire DLC was Alpha!Elizabeth trying to see if Booker!Comstock had truly changed into a Booker, or if deep down he was still Comstock. This is why she set up events so that Booker!Comstock's rescue of Sally would mirror Comstock' stealing Dead!Elizabeth. She was giving him a second chance and once again he failed, showing that in the end, he was still Comstock. She then watched him die to "erase" him, one less Comstock to harm others.

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** I figured it was a Comstock that escaped the event that ended all his counterparts. If you look at Alpha?Elizabeth as she was begging Comstock to let go of Anna, she is still wearing the clothes she had on in Colombia.Columbia. In the end of the main game, the Elizabeths that drown Alpha!Booker are not her. It can be figured that it was at this moment she left Alpha!Booker to go and try and get Comstock to reconsider in this universe, maybe as a way to alter the infinite timelines without killing him, this being her first try to alter timelines with her abilities, she fails...badly. This Comstock then has the Luteces transport him to the BAS!Rapture where he forgets his past, his mind create memories as to why he is in Rapture and he becomes Booker!Comstock, but this saves him. As he made the journey to a universe where Booker never existed or was still alive elsewhere, before Alpha!Booker erased the Comstock timelines. He saved himself, unwittingly, from never existing. The point, as I understood, of the entire DLC was Alpha!Elizabeth trying to see if Booker!Comstock had truly changed into a Booker, or if deep down he was still Comstock. This is why she set up events so that Booker!Comstock's rescue of Sally would mirror Comstock' stealing Dead!Elizabeth. She was giving him a second chance and once again he failed, showing that in the end, he was still Comstock. She then watched him die to "erase" him, one less Comstock to harm others.

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