History TearJerker / BioshockInfinite

* Booker doesn't immediately tell Elizabeth that she's actually a package he was sent to retrieve, and he even tells her that he'll take her to Paris when they escape Columbia. When Elizabeth finally realizes the truth after all of her excitement, she doesn't respond. She just breaks down in tears for the longest time, utterly crushed. [[spoiler:[[MoodWhiplash And then]] it turns out she was faking it so she could whack Booker in the face with Jack's wrench from ''{{Bioshock}}''.]],

* [[spoiler:She never got to see Paris after all.]]

* When the Songbird [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=attvYJb6xn8&feature=player_embedded first searches for Elizabeth]], Elizabeth tearfully asks Booker to promise something for her. Booker promises he'll deal with the Songbird, but that's not what Elizabeth wants. In a heartbreaking moment, she puts Booker's hand around her throat and ''begs'' him to promise to kill her before the Songbird can have her. Booker flatly states that it'll never come to that. [[spoiler: If you've played the game before and know Elizabeth's real realationship with Booker, it becomes even more horrifying.]]

* Booker doesn't immediately tell Elizabeth that she's actually a package he was sent to retrieve, and he even tells her that he'll take her to Paris when they escape Columbia. When Elizabeth finally realizes the truth after all of her excitement, she doesn't respond. She just breaks down in tears for the longest time, utterly crushed. [[spoiler:[[MoodWhiplash And then]] it turns out she was faking it so she could whack Booker in the face with Jack's wrench from ''{{Bioshock}}''.]],
**well I wouldn't say she was fake crying per say. she was probably really upset that the first person she met besides a 40-ft tall robot bird, actually only broke her out for the money-and for all she knew another cage-she just happen to be a very fast thinker.

* When the Songbird [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=attvYJb6xn8&feature=player_embedded first searches for Elizabeth]], Elizabeth tearfully asks Booker to promise something for her. Booker promises he'll deal with the Songbird, but that's not what Elizabeth wants. In a heartbreaking moment, she puts Booker's hand around her throat and ''begs'' him to promise to kill her before the Songbird can have her. Booker flatly states that it'll never come to that.

* Booker doesn't immediately tell Elizabeth that she's actually a package he was sent to retrieve, and he even tells her that he'll take her to Paris when they escape Columbia. When Elizabeth finally realizes the truth after all of her excitement, she doesn't respond. She just breaks down in tears for the longest time, utterly crushed. [[spoiler:[[MoodWhiplash And then]] it turns out she was faking it so she could whack Booker in the face with Jack's wrench from ''{{Bioshock}}''.]], well I wouldn't say she was fake crying per say.
** she was probably really upset that the first person she met besides a 40-ft tall robot bird, actually only broke her out for the money-and for all she knew another cage-she just happen to be a very fast thinker.

* Booker doesn't immediately tell Elizabeth that she's actually a package he was sent to retrieve, and he even tells her that he'll take her to Paris when they escape Columbia. When Elizabeth finally realizes the truth after all of her excitement, she doesn't respond. She just breaks down in tears for the longest time, utterly crushed. [[spoiler:[[MoodWhiplash And then]] it turns out she was faking it so she could whack Booker in the face with Jack's wrench from ''{{Bioshock}}''.]], well I wouldn't say she was fake crying per say. The she was probably really upset that the first person she met besides a 40-ft tall robot bird, actually only broke her out for the money-and for all she knew another cage-she just happen to be a very fast thinker.

* Booker doesn't immediately tell Elizabeth that she's actually a package he was sent to retrieve, and he even tells her that he'll take her to Paris when they escape Columbia. When Elizabeth finally realizes the truth after all of her excitement, she doesn't respond. She just breaks down in tears for the longest time, utterly crushed. [[spoiler:[[MoodWhiplash And then]] it turns out she was faking it so she could whack Booker in the face with Jack's wrench from ''{{Bioshock}}''.]]

** There's a part where you find an audio diary of a woman whose husband suffered injuries and was turned into a handy man. Later in the game, you find two Vox soldiers posing in front of a dead handy man, getting their picture taken and giving thumbs up. The handy man is holding an audio diary from the same woman, a recording of herself saying that whenever he starts to fade into rage, to listen to this, because she will always stand by him, and promises to meet him again, whole, at the gates. She ends by saying, "I love you. I love you. ''I love you.''"

* Hindsight example. At the beginning of the game, you see a Handyman on display before a large crowd; far from being proud of his new body, he's hunched, cowering, trying to cover his face and jerking in alarm at every camera flash. Learning a little more about the Handymen makes this scene really depressing: before being made into a cyborg, this guy had a life of his own, likely a family; then, after suffering debilitating injuries or terminal illness, he was given a chance to survive and possibly even live forever... only to end up getting permanently grafted to a huge, awkward and decidedly ugly body. And then, as if losing any chance at a normal life wasn't bad enough, the Founders demanded services in return: he was put to work ''killing people'' (even worse if the Handyman was a civilian beforehand), making him even more feared by his fellow citizens. And on fair-day, this poor bastard was pushed out onto a stage and told to sit there while everyone in Colombia gawked at him. Let's face it, the Handymen have it just as bad as the Big Daddies, if not worse: Mr Bubbles and co were brainwashed and effectively mindless by the time of Jack's arrival, so they didn't have to cope with seeing their entire lives slip through their fingers; and at least the Big Daddies had friends and companions in the form of the Little Sisters. The Handymen have lost ''everything.''

* Hindsight example. At the beginning of the game, you see a Handyman on display before a large crowd; far from being proud of his new body, he's hunched, cowering, trying to cover his face and jerking in alarm at every camera flash. Learning a little more about the Handymen makes this scene really depressing: before being made into a cyborg, this guy had a life of his own, likely a family; then, after suffering debilitating injuries or terminal illness, he was given a chance to survive and possibly even live forever... only to end up getting permanently grafted to a huge, awkward and decidedly ugly body. And then, as if losing any chance at a normal life wasn't bad enough, the Founders demanded services in return: he was put to work ''killing people'' (even worse if the Handyman was a civilian beforehand), making him even more feared by his fellow citizens. And on fair-day, this poor bastard was pushed out onto a stage and told to sit there while everyone in Colombia gawked at him. Let's face it, the Handymen have it almost as bad as the Big Daddies: at least Mr Bubbles and co didn't have to cope with seeing their entire lives slip through their fingers; at least the Big Daddies had friends and companions in the form of the Little Sisters. The Handymen have lost ''everything.''

** [[spoiler: The Songbird's eyes finally switch to green just before dying, indicating it's in a good mood, FacingDeathWithDignity.]]

* The entire sorry state of affairs, the building of Columbia and all it's ills, Elizabeth's [[spoiler: dimensional kidnapping, lifelong imprisonment, and later emotional and physical torture]] ALL of it traces back to the fact that [[spoiler: Rosalind Lutece managed to contact her male alternate dimensional counterpart, fell in love with him, and made a deal with the devil (Comstock) to fund building a gate to reach him.]] Without her Comstock would just be another crazy small time cult leader.

* Booker doesn't immediately tell Elizabeth that she's actually a package he was sent to retrieve, and he even tells her that he'll take her to Paris when they escape Columbia. When Elizabeth finally realizes the truth after all of her excitement, she doesn't respond. She just breaks down in tears for the longest time, utterly crushed.

* The entire sorry state of affairs, the building of Columbia and all it's ills, Elizabeth's [[spoiler: dimensional kidnapping, lifelong imprisonment, and later emotional and physical torture]] ALL of it traces back to the fact that [[spoiler: Rosalind Lutece managed to contact her male alternate dimensional counterpart, fell in love with him, and made a deal with the devil (Comstock) to fund building a gate to reach him.]]

* [[spoiler: Elizabeth turns out to be right that she'll be killing Comstock. And it's a HeroicSacrifice, since killing her father ''wipes herself from existence'', as each version of her vanishes.]]

** [[spoiler: The Songbird's eyes finally switch to green just before dying, indicating it's in a good mood, FacingDeathWithDignity.]]

* [[spoiler: The Songbirds death should count. Being drowned at the bottom of the sea, whilst Elizabeth looks on, sadly telling it to let go, while it screams in agony and tries to reach her. Sure, it was built to be an abusive partner, but it obviously loved her in it's own twisted way, and she cared for it too.]]

** ---> '''Booker:''' [[spoiler:GIVE ME BACK MY DAUGHTER!]]

* The entire ending crosses with this and a WhamEpisode. [[spoiler:It turns out [[FutureMeScaresMe Booker is Comstock]], and thanks to manipulation in TheMultiverse, ended up convincing himself to give over his daughter, Anna, who grew up into Elizabeth. Booker would become Comstock after using his baptism to find God, which went [[GoneHorriblyRight horribly right]], in one universe, while a different version of himself refused. He's also indirectly responsible for the creation of [[{{VideoGame/BioShock}} Rapture]] [[{{Bioshock2}} later]]. And the only way to stop all of it is to drown Booker before the baptism [[RetGone so none of it ever happens]].]]

* The entire ending crosses with this and a WhamEpisode. [[spoiler:It turns out [[FutureMeScaresMe Booker is Comstock]], and thanks to manipulation in TheMultiverse, ended up convincing himself to give over his daughter, Anna, who grew up into Elizabeth. Booker would become Comstock after using his baptism to find God, which went [[GoneHorriblyRight horribly right]], in one universe, while a different version of himself refused. He's also indirectly responsible for the creation of [[{{VideoGame/BioShock}} Rapture]] [[{{Bioshock2}} later]]. And the only way to stop all of it is to drown Booker before the baptism [[RetGone so none of it ever happens]].]]

* Booker doesn't immediately tell Elizabeth that she's actually a package he was sent to retrieve, and he even tells her that he'll take her to Paris when they escape Columbia. When Elizabeth finally realizes the truth after all of her excitement, she doesn't respond. She just breaks down in tears for the longest time, utterly crushed.

* At the end of that demo, Songbird finds them and hits Booker so hard he ''flies'' into a building (and ''not'' the nearest building). When Songbird is preparing for the kill, Elizabeth stops it from killing Booker by promising to come back with it. The last you see of Elizabeth before Songbird leaves is her tear-stained face. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And Booker immediately stands up to go after them, jumping on the first air rail he finds.]]

* Elizabeth's briefly successful attempt to resurrect a dead horse. Her reaction to her failure is hearthbreaking.

* Elizabeth's briefly successful attempt to resurrect a dead horse. She reaction to her failure is hearthbreaking.

* When the Songbird [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=attvYJb6xn8&feature=player_embedded first searches for Elizabeth]], Elizabeth tearfully asks Booker to promise something for her. Booker promises he'll deal with the Songbird, but that's not what Elizabeth wants. In a heartbreaking moment, she puts Booker's hand around her throat and ''begs'' him to promise to kill her before the Songbird can have her. Booker flatly states that it'll never come to that.