History Heartwarming / Bioshock2

* In Inner Persephone, in one of the Children's Therapy rooms, the player can find a set of locked doors. You can find a button to unlock them on a nearby pillar. Before you click on them, you can peek inside and see an Alpha Series standing near a rocking splicer, almost caressing their backs as though in comfort. Normally, the Alpha Series are UnstoppableRage personified (exception to those who succumbed into a coma) and it was nice to see them just showing a bit of their suppressed humanity. The player can click the button to unlock the doors, triggering their Rage. Although this is mostly a scripted event, one can almost believe that the Alphas Series are attacking the player as though they wish to protect the splicers.

* In Outer Persephone there is a locked room I couldn't figure out how to get into. But when I looked inside I saw an Alpha Big Daddy standing next to one of the Rocking Splicers. It kept on making noises and appearing to pat it on the back, as if to comfort the poor splicer.

** Even better, look at the statues during the Little Sister sequence. They show [[spoiler: how Eleanor interprets your encounter with the people from her life, such as Grace.]][[http://images.wikia.com/bioshock/images/2/23/Grace_Holloway_good_statue.jpg One of them shows Delta carrying Grace heroically in his arms.]]

** Near near the end of the game you can [[spoiler:see the world through the eyes of a Little Sister]] and one of the first things you see is [[spoiler:a [[http://images.wikia.com/bioshock/images/8/86/Daddy_Knight.png two story high golden statue]] of a Big Daddy in a heroic vein looking something like a knight Templar or a paladin. Also all of the other statues you pass during the mission are of Big Daddies being heroic- protecting people and defeating monsters.]] It's nice to know you're a hero to someone after all.

* Doubling with Tear Jerker: when you're exploring the amusement park in the second game, you find a series of audio diaries from a teacher who was trapped in the park with her students when Rapture's civil war started. She ends up dying of starvation because she gave all her food to the children. Where do you find her body? In a high-up corner where the Splicers can't get her, laid out on a rug with arms folded over her chest, surrounded by candles, gifts, and drawings of smiling children. The children knew what she'd done for them, and they honored her as best they could.

-->"I'm going to tell all the other girls I have the best daddy!"

* In ''[=BioShock=] 2'', when you get the Hypnotize plasmid, you see a pair of splicers slow-dancing, acting completely enamoured. It was obvious that you were supposed to use the plasmid to turn them against one another, but it brought back fond memories of this troper's home-coming semi-formal. He just couldn't bring himself to harm either of them, and left the area without killing either of them. It was the sweetest thing he'd seen in Rapture for a long time...

** Fridge Brilliance / Horror - after what Lamb did to ''you'' with the very same plasmid, years ago, you'd have to be as much a monster as she is to inflict the same on another. "So," the game asks, "are you?"

* There's a diary who is owned by a little boy named Billy Parsan. In it, he [[spoiler: tells a Little Sister that he thinks she's cute, her Big Daddy reminds him of a Comic Book hero, that he bought her a gift and stored it someplace that no one else could get it, and said he'll wave to her next time he sees her.]] I guarantee you will go "D'awwww!"

* Depending on your actions, when [[spoiler: you are temporarily a Little Sister]] the statues you encounter on the way can be either this or nightmare fuel: one of the statues, the one representing how you treated Stanley Poole either shows you killing him or helping him stand on his own two feet again. The one representing Gilbert Alexander is perhaps the most impressive: if you did the right thing, [[http://images.wikia.com/bioshock/images/5/54/Gilbert_Alexander_good.jpg it shows Delta pulling a man out of a monster.]]

* Eleanor's friendship with a boy named Amir. When she went off to see the "dog eaters" her mom warned her about, she saw him picking on a smaller boy and got in a fight with him. They called a truce when she gave him a bloody nose. They became good friends after that. Amir even showed her a book he had about the surface, which Eleanor had never seen. Even when her mother installed a new security system, Eleanor still broke out to see him and the other kids. In one of her audio logs, she even admits that she thinks Amir is [[PuppyLove "kind of pretty."]] On her final day in the Little Sister's Orphanage, she planned to escape, find him, and the two of them would steal a submarine to escape to the surface. [[{{Tearjerker}} Shame they never did.]]

* In the promotional 'Something in the Sea' campaign, there's a Little Sisters crayon drawing of a Big Sister escorting her around Rapture. They're holding hands. (While the Big Sister is impaling a Splicer, but still.)

* In both the dorm Eleanor lived in at Little Sisters Orphanage and in her personal room with Grace Holloway, she makes a point of recording her teddy bears' height along with her own on her wall height chart. It's the kind of detail that makes you smile.

* In both the dorm Eleanor lived in at Little Sisters Orphanage and in her personal room with Grace Holloway, she makes a point of recording her teddy bears' height along with in her wall height chart. It's the kind of detail that makes you smile.

** Despite being TheFundamentalist, Simon's dialogue implies that he believes his brother's soul was saved.

* Heck, there was a Crowning Moment in the very first trailer ever shown for the game. We get a savage battle between a Big Daddy and the player who was trying to take a Little Sister. It ends with the player getting gored to death by the Big Daddy's drill. As a camera cuts to the Little Sister cowering on the ground, the Big Daddy stomps into view towering over her, his drill still covered in blood, and reaches out his huge hand to help her up. That single shot let me know that this game would be different.

* Villainous example: Father Simon Wales and his brother Daniel. The former is a [[TheFundamentalist Fundamentalist]] SinisterMinister while the latter is an atheist and a brothel owner but they still genuinely love each other. When Delta kills Daniel, Simon is [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes outraged]].

* In ''[=BioShock=] 2'', there's a diary who is owned by a little boy named Billy Parsan. In it, he [[spoiler: tells a Little Sister that he thinks she's cute, her Big Daddy reminds him of a Comic Book hero, that he bought her a gift and stored it someplace that no one else could get it, and said he'll wave to her next time he sees her.]] I guarantee you will go "D'awwww!"

* ''VideoGame/BioShock2'''s ending, in which [[spoiler: Delta lives on through Eleanor.]]
* In ''[=BioShock=] 2'', sparing [[spoiler: Grace Holloway]]'s life, and seeing [[spoiler:her]] amazement after you leave.

* Near the end of Bioshock 2, there's a big one for players who have been good. Big Daddies have yellow portholes as a default, red when they're attacking, and green when they're hypnotized. Big Sisters have red. Always. [[spoiler: Until, looking through the eyes of a Little Sister you're possessing, you see Eleanor Lamb towering over you with a green porthole, as she reaches down to release the Little Sister from her slug, while talking about how you've taught her to be good.]]

* In Bioshock 2, if you take a moment to watch the Little Sisters while they are with other Big Daddies, you may see that sometimes one of them may stop and sulk while refusing to move forward. The attending Big Daddy will gesticulate with his hands and grunt gently at his ward as if to say "Come on, just a little more" before gently patting her head. The Little Sister will look up at him and continue onward.

** Despite being TheFundamentalist, Daniel's dialogue implies that he believes his brother's soul was saved.

* In Bioshock 2, if you take a moment to watch the Little Sisters while they are with other Big Daddies, you may see that sometimes one of them may stop and sulk while refusing to move forward. The attending Big Daddy will gesticulate with his hands and grunt gently at his ward as if to say "Come on, just a little more" before gently patting her head. The Little Sister will look up at him and continue onward.

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