History NightmareFuel / BioshockInfinite

** There's also a terrifying undertone of "If it's still up there, "''why haven't we found it?''". In the time the games take place, there's a good reason for why nobody found the floating city. But by the eighties we have planes, radar, satellites... just think about the ParanoiaFuel for everyone that hasn't convinced themselves Columbia still exists. You have a superweapon populated by xenophobic ultrapatriotic racists, just floating in the air and nobody knows what happened to it.

** There's also a terrifying undertone of "If it's still up there, "''why haven't we found it?''". In the time the games take place, there's a good reason for why nobody found the floating city. But by the eighties we have planes, radar, satellites...

* The '[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8FUZTNpfhc Columbia: A Modern-Day Icarus]]' trailer, which is done in the style of a trailer for a cheap yet ''really'' creepy early 1980s educational / conspiracy-theory TV show. Apparently, in the world of the game what happened to Columbia became an unsolved mystery / urban legend along the lines of Atlantis, the ''Marie Celeste'' and the Bermuda Triangle [[note]]Yes, those mysteries have been solved, pretty much, but you know what I mean.[[/note]] and while the other trailers have presented the horrors that are lurking around on Columbia when the player arrives there, this one is done from the perspective of the people on the ground who, left only with a few hints and fragments that fell out of the sky (including part of a building that ended up somewhere in the Alps), even decades later were left wondering precisely where the hell it went, what the hell happened up there, and [[ParanoiaFuel whether it's still flying around up there...]]

* The '[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8FUZTNpfhc Columbia: A Modern-Day Icarus]]' trailer, which is done in the style of a trailer for a cheap yet ''really'' creepy early 1980s educational / conspiracy-theory TV show. Apparently, in the world of the game what happened to the Columbia became an unsolved mystery / urban legend along the lines of Atlantis, the ''Marie Celeste'' and the Bermuda Triangle [[note]]Yes, those mysteries have been solved, pretty much, but you know what I mean.[[/note]] and while the other trailers have presented the horrors that are lurking around on Columbia when the player arrives there, this one is done from the perspective of the people on the ground who, left only with a few hints and fragments that fell out of the sky (including part of a building that ended up somewhere in the Alps), even decades later were left wondering precisely where the hell it went, what the hell happened up there, and [[ParanoiaFuel whether it's still flying around up there...]]

** It has its share of NothingIsScarier and HellIsThatNoise moments. When [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=attvYJb6xn8&feature=player_embedded it searches for Elizabeth]], you hear a distorted, frightening cry, and a search spotlight very similar to The Scarecrow in Batman's nightmares in ''BatmanArkhamAsylum''.

You know [[VideoGame/BioshockInfinite Bioshock Infinite]] is going to be quite frightening when its gets one of these pages started '''JUST FROM THE FIRST PREVIEW'''.

** Ken Levine has confirmed there's a "tragic" backstory behind the Handymen. Given the imagery on the Handymen booth seen in the fair in the Beasts of America trailer they are likely [[spoiler:sick and/or disabled people who were turned into these monstrosities, likely against their will, given Columbia's eugenicist ideals]].

* [[AdultFear Possibly scarier]] than any monster is the political extremism that has torn the city apart: the Founders are racist, xenophobic and theocratic despots who openly endorse eugenics and can and have used their floating superweapon to impose their will on foreign countries in the name of imperialistic nationalism. The Vox Populi are a group that started with good intentions only to devolve into blood thirsty thugs who loot shop owners, publicly execute ''postmen'' for "spreading lies" and whose belief of "everything should belong to everyone" has turned into "everything should belong to ''us''". In Rapture you fought against mutants whose insanity was explicitly caused by fantastical PsychoSerum. At first glance, in Columbia you fight against ''people'' [[TruthInTelevision turned into "monsters" by mere IDEOLOGY]].

--> '''Booker:''' ''No, but I'm afraid of you.''

* [[AdultFear Possibly scarier]] than any monster is the political extremism that has torn the city apart: the Founders are racist, xenophobic and theocratic despots who openly endorse eugenics and can and have used their floating superweapon to impose their will on foreign countries in the name of imperialistic nationalism. The Vox Populi are a group that started with good intentions only to devolve into blood thirsty thugs who loot shop owners, publicly execute ''postmen'' for "spreading lies" and whose belief of "everything should belong to everyone" has turned into "everything should belong to ''us''". In Rapture you fought against mutants whose insanity was explicitly caused by fantastical PsychoSerum. At first glance, in Columbia you fight against ''people'' [[TruthInTelevision turned into "monsters" by mere ''ideology'']].

* It's said that Elizabeth's powers work on the principle of opening dimensional tears so you can-at certain points-bring things into existence or take them out. As a result, Columbia probably has very unstable dimensionality, causing odd [[AnachronismStew anachronisms]] like a theater playing something called [[ReturnOfTheJedi Revenge of the Jedi]], Saltonstall having a communist badge even though it shouldn't be invented for about a decade, the [[MoreDakka Rolston Reciprocating Repeater]][[hottip:*: The closest thing to a handheld machinegun like that wasn't invented until sometime in World War I, and... well, it sucked.]],and many more odd SteamPunk things. Now, every fan of a game which prominently mentions other dimensions know that for every paradisiacal dimension or dimension like ours but different, there will be one that is ightmareFuel or is just bloody horrible. It seems very likely that someone somewhere is going to tap into one of these in Columbia...

* Thought Songbird and the basic enemies were bad enough? Meet [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHlNyOc5iW8 the Motorized Patriot]], an unholy cross between an animatronic GeorgeWashington from the depths of the UncannyValley with TheTerminator. Complete with creepy malfunctioning voice, [[MoreDakka minigun]] and TheTerminator's [[MadeOfIron endurance]] and {{Determinator}} tendencies.

* Thought Songbird and the basic enemies were bad enough? Meet [[http://kotaku.com/5891444/evil-robot-george-washington-is-one-of-bioshock-infinites-big-villains the Motorized Patriot]], an unholy cross between an animatronic GeorgeWashington from the depths of the UncannyValley with TheTerminator. Complete with creepy malfunctioning voice, [[MoreDakka minigun]] and TheTerminator's [[MadeOfIron endurance]] and {{Determinator}} tendencies.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHlNyOc5iW8 The trailer showing the Motorized Patriot]].

*** The pacing in general is absolutely terrifying. You're basically running around this expansive, acrophobia-inducing, reality-warped deathtrap of a superweapon(currently in the midst of a ''civil war,'' no less), and absolutely everyone appears to be dangerous lunatics and psychopathic machines that will attack you seemingly at random. There is no escape, anywhere you go there will just be more crazies trying to blast you to smithereens. You don't know where they're firing from, they outnumber you hopelessly, and oh, did we mention the Vox Populi assault airship that will randomly pop in and [[MacrossMissileMassacre spew death everywhere like a sprinkler?]]

* It's said that Elizabeth's powers work on the principle of opening dimensional tears so you can-at certain points-bring things into existence or take them out [[hottip:*: Like skylines or turrets. Before you call bullshit, in the first trailer Elizabeth's powers seemed to be CastFromHitPoints and/or have a great strain on her this probably won't make you a GodModeSue.]] As a result, Columbia probably has very unstable dimensionality, [[hottip:*: That last term was borrowed from PerdidoStreetStation]] causing odd [[AnachronismStew anachronisms]] like a theater playing something called [[ReturnOfTheJedi Revenge of the Jedi]], Saltonstall having a communist badge even though it shouldn't be invented for about a decade, the [[MoreDakka Rolston Reciprocating Repeater]][[hottip:*: The closest thing to a handheld machinegun like that wasn't invented until sometime in World War I, and... well, it sucked.]],and many more odd SteamPunk things. Now, every fan of a game which prominently mentions other dimensions know that for every paradisiacal dimension or dimension like ours but different, there will be one that is ightmareFuel or is just bloody horrible. It seems very likely that someone somewhere is going to tap into one of these in Columbia...

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHlNyOc5iW8 Well, the trailer showing the Motorized Patriot]] [[BlatantLies totally wasn't frightening.]] Now if you'd excuse me, I'm going to [[BringMyBrownPants change my pants]] and try to avoid that mechanized bastard if I can when the game drops.
** You forgot about the disturbingly fast, mechanical cranking motion it's arm makes to operate the aforementioned minigun. That alone looks just. plain. WRONG.
** Oh, and in the trailer showcasing it, look closely at the scene where Elizabeth conjures a gun turret in order to distract it so you (Booker) can shoot it's weak point. As the Patriot turns to return fire back at it, it's head alone suddenly rotates back towards and stays fixated on you WHILE fighting the turret as if to say, "Don't worry. I have NOT forgotten about you. Once I've finished with this, you're dead!".

** Oh, and in the trailer showcasing it, look closely at the scene where Elizabeth conjures a gun turret in order to distract it so you (Booker) can shoot it's weak point. As the Patriot turns to return fire back at it, it's head alone suddenly rotates back towards and stays fixated on you WHILE fighting the turret as if to say, "Don't worry. I have NOT forgotten about you. Once I've finished with this, you will die next.