History NightmareFuel / Bioshock2

* The fact you're called ''Subject'' '''DELTA''' implies that, even with all the screwed up stuff you learn about your past,there were 3 more before you.

** The look on Eleanor's face when Lamb forces Delta to shoot himself brings up a [[FridgeHorror tragic and disturbing thought.]] Little Sisters are conditioned to view the world as an idyllic paradise. They see corpses as angels, blood as roses, splicers as elegantly dressed men and women, and Big Daddies as knights in golden armor. So what was she seeing that made her recoil like that?

* How about the Little Sisters Orphanage in Siren Alley? When you go in, you find a few bodies about you can search, including a spider splicer pinned to the wall by a spear (and keep in mind, those are a new enemy at this point, so you're not quite used to seeing those freaks yet). On the way up, you catch a glimpse of a live spider splicer as he darts around a corner, but other than that, no real fights. But then you reach the end and get your loot and the power goes out, leaving your flashlight your only illumination. As you charge back the way you came, by that beam you keep catching glimpses of the spider splicer darting around corners one step ahead of you until eventually they trap you in the second floor hall. The following standup fight with the spiders and a brute is outright catharsis at that point! Oh, but on the way out [[spoiler: shine your flashlight at the "dead" spider pinned to the wall: he's about to leap at you]]

* Colin Fix's [[http://images.wikia.com/bioshock/images/9/95/SubjectGamaConcepts1.jpg early concept art for the Alpha Series]]. If you ever wanted to know what a Big Daddy looked like under their suit, this might just change your mind.

* Colin Fix's [[http://images.wikia.com/bioshock/images/9/95/SubjectGamaConcepts1.jpg early concept art for the Alpha Series]]. If you ever wanted to know what a Big Daddy looked like under their suit, this might just change your mind.

* Eleanor in the Bad Ending. You just let a complete psychopath, packed full of ADAM and incredibly powerful Plasmids, loose on the world. And now that [[spoiler:Delta]] is dead, the only things important to her are her "survival and joy". And by joy, she means ripping people apart. Now, think back on how easily she dealt with Splicers, who were no slouches themselves. You do the math.

*** Somewhat mitigated by the fact that, after playing the first game, it seems likely that the programming persists after the Little Sisters are rescued ([[spoiler: the ones that you escort around still find your appearance as a Big Daddy beautiful, and apparently still want to harvest corpses, despite no longer having their ADAM slug]]). This, of course, brings up a lot of questions about what life would be like [[spoiler: on the surface for the ones that you have the option of rescuing]]. Coupled with the fact that their programming starts to decay as they get older and that it can lead to insanity if it's not been deliberately broken, this gives a new dimension to [[spoiler: the good endings to both games. Even after leaving Rapture, the Sisters aren't out of the woods yet]].

** [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/2/12/ And now here is another take on that...]]

*** The novel makes it clear that Lamb was like this before coming to Rapture, but it wasn't until she had access to desperate people incapable of escape that she started thinking about a 'revolution.' At first you chalk up Ryan's hatred of Lamb to her being a DirtyCommunist, but then you realize the utter disconnect between her [[DissonantSerenity terrifyingly soothing public face]] and her utter lack of empathy for ''anyone,'' from her followers to her daughter. Lamb emphasizes '[[LoveYouAndEverybody caring for everyone equally]]' to the point where she ''does'' feel the same thing for everyone: [[DeconstructedTrope Absolute indifference to their status as humans, concerned only with how they can advance her]] [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans Greater Good]].

*** The novel makes it clear that Lamb was like this before coming to Rapture, but it wasn't until she had access to desperate people incapable of escape that she started thinking about a 'revolution.' At first you chalk up Ryan's hatred of Lamb to her being a DirtyCommunist, but then you realize the utter disconnect between her [[DissonantSerenity terrifyingly soothing public face]] and her utter lack of empathy for ''anyone,'' from her followers to her daughter. Lamb emphasizes '[[LovesYouAndEverybody caring for everyone equally]]' to the point where she ''does'' feel the same thing for everyone: [[DeconstructedTrope Absolute indifference to their status as humans, concerned only with how they can advance her]] [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans Greater Good]].

*** The novel makes it clear that Lamb was like this before coming to Rapture, but it wasn't until she had access to desperate people incapable of escape that she started thinking about a 'revolution.' At first you chalk up Ryan's hatred of Lamb to her being a DirtyCommunist, but then you realize the utter disconnect between her [[DissonantSerenity terrifyingly soothing public face]] and her utter lack of empathy for ''anyone,'' from her followers to her daughter. Lamb emphasizes 'caring for everyone equally' to the point where she ''does'' feel the same thing for everyone: Absolute indifference to their status as humans, concerned only with how they can advance her [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans Greater Good]].

*** Worse is imagining ''that'' swimming around in the very brightly illuminated depths near Persephone. Whatever is at the bottom of that trench, it's been hinted to be the ultimate source of ADAM. Gil [[spoiler: can't avoid seeking the stuff, as revealed by the plants attracting him to the front of his tank even when he knew that they could kill him]]. Imagine [[EldritchAbomination what might happen]] if he found his way down to the bottom of the trench and gorged himself for decades on more ADAM than he could possibly imagine...

** [[spoiler:The little sister's always see this...every second, a perfect world where no one get's hurt and nothing is scary. This is due to the conditioning they went through. When you rescue a little sister, you remove this perfect dream world, throwing them permanently into a world of sheer horror, death and destruction. When you don't, the little sister's see nothing but their daddy there, ripping out the very thing keeping them alive. Their last thing they see is the one they trust most of all murdering them, most likely staying in their perfect little dream world.]]

** The Little Sister Training Facility is pretty unsettling in its own right, once you find out how the little sisters are trained. There are two buttons on a wall in that area. One of them is labeled with a picture of a Big Daddy, and the other with a picture of a normal person. Pressing the first gives you a free bag of chips, the latter shocks you. This is the EXACT same method that is used to train lab rats. These little girls are LAB RATS, nothing more.It's as chilling as it is tragic.

** In the last level there are several splicers that are so forgone they just rock side to side, trapped in the flooding ruins, waiting to die. [[{{Tearjerker}} There is also a doctor teleporting around his dead patients, convinced he can still save them.]]

* Everything that terrified you and made you feel sorry for the Little Sisters gets so much worse in this game when you remember one simple fact [[spoiler:These Little Sisters are girls who were kidnapped from the surface.]]

** Eleanor there was [[UnskilledButStrong inexperienced in combat, and basically fighting on instinct and copying what she saw Delta do]]. Given that she ''just'' drained Delta of ADAM, and gained his experience along with it.

* In Persephone, if you search hard enough, you can encounter some prisoners. Not splicers, but just normal people. They don't do acknowledge the player in any way, and just cycle through a crying animation until they are killed. Your HUD doesn't register them, unlike everything else in the game, meaning you could try meleeing one to get a reaction, only for it to crumple up dead. [[YouBastard They don't even drop anything]]. Such a minor detail, yet chilling nonetheless.

** It's even worse than that. Later in the game we found out that [[spoiler: while her sanity might've been impacted, Lamb's Utopian project wouldn't change Eleanor physically, because Little Sisters aren immune to the negative effects of splicing]]. [[FridgeHorror That means that]] under the armored shell of every needle-bearing assassin sent to make you pay, [[UncannyValley there's a perfectly normal-looking teenage girl]] who has been driven mad by the programming they were under for most of their childhood, and kept under Lamb's control by another round of programming before being put in her suit, and forced to do Lamb's bidding. And you can't save them. They're too far gone. You can only frantically riddle them with bullets with the knowledge that it's you or her.

[[caption-width-right:100: What in the name of [[BioshockInfinite the lamb]] is that thing? [[note]] '''[[WasOnceAMan He]]''' [[WasOnceAMan was]] [[spoiler: [[WasOnceAMan Gill Alexander]] [[/note]]]]]]

* The Big Sister! No matter how many times they signal their presence with [[HellisThatNoise that high pitched scream]], it never loses its effectiveness. You'll still be madly scrambling about, trying to set up a perimeter for their imminent arrival.

* The [[WhateverHappenedToBabyJane Baby Jane]] splicers are ''big'' on the above, mixed with Tearjerker when you realize she was an actress forced into prostitution, veering around to FridgeHorror (in light of the prostitution) when you've got a Little Sister with you.

** The Recreational Therapy paintings. Big Sisters, looming figures with bright red faceplates. Corpses floating in water. A person just ''screaming'' in anguish and terror. Rapture in the first game was bad enough, but imagine living through that for ''ten years'' and you have a feeling how much of a mental wreck the Splicers must be.

* The fact you're called ''Subject'' '''DELTA''' implies that, even with all the screwed up stuff you learn about your past, there
were 3 more before you.

* The fact you're called ''Subject'' '''DELTA''' implies that, even with all the screwed up stuff you learn about your past, there were 3 more before you.

* Amusement park [[UncannyValley animatronics are naturally creepy already.]] So what about damaged, vandalized, abandoned ones that spew propaganda? Hell, even ''Ryan himself'' said he was creeped out by them.

* What happens if you harvest a Little Sister instead of rescuing her: [[{{ tearjerker the little sister will squirm in your arms, crying and begging you not to hurt her. }}]] Then, the screen goes black...and you're holding the poor girl's slug which had been implanted in her stomach. [[{{ Tearjerker The worst part is that the Little Sister simply doesn't know why her supposed protector betrays her. }}]]

* What happens if you harvest a Little Sister instead of rescuing her: [[{{ tearjerker the little sister will squirm in your arms, crying and begging you not to hurt her. }}]] Then, the screen goes black...and you're holding the poor girl's slug which had been implanted in her stomach. [[{{ TearjerkerThe worst part is that the Little Sister simply doesn't know why her supposed protector betrays her. }}]]