History WMG / BIOSHockInfinite

[[spoiler:Why bother playing along with his false memories instead of tossing him through a tear into the ocean or something? Because she wasn't sure he was irredeemable. Yes, he'd done something horrible, but Booker has done plenty of horrible things; the different between Booker and Comstock is that Booker felt remorse. This version of Comstock might have been closer to Booker than to the Prophet. Notice that even though Elizabeth is the one who suggests turning on the furnace to drive Sally out, she sounds shocked when Comstock agrees to it. She's testing whether he would be willing to torture a child and endanger her life rather than let her leave him, and when he does it, she's satisfied that his nature is more Comstock than Booker.]]

[[spoiler:Let's face it, "Prime Booker" was already driven pretty damn crazy by Anna's abduction, so the Booker left clutching his baby daughter's decapitated head is guaranteed to have gone beyond insanity to full on tragic villainy. Since him not appearing would be a fairly significant plot thread forgotten im guessing he will have found his way to Rapture somehow (hell, maybe using the aforementioned dead baby head to open a tear in his reality for added nightmare fuel) in order to get revenge on everyone he saw through the portal (i.e. Comstock, Elizabeth, the Lutreces) and my bets he will end up as some kind of "super splicer" stalking Elizabeth through episode 2 and only revealing his identity in the end.]]

** [[spoiler:Confirmed. Looks like he did read this.]]

* Every ''[=BioShock=]'' protagonist [[spoiler:has died in each of the games' canonical endings.]][[note]]Jack dies after living his life with the Little Sisters he saved from Rapture, Delta dies after escaping to the surface with Eleanor, and Elizabeth kills Booker at the baptism. Comstock!Booker in Burial At Sea dies aswell, although by a drill. Elizabeth gets murdered by Atlas when she gives him what he wants in Burial at Sea.[[/note]] Only [[spoiler:Sigma has survived no matter what, though Porter will likely pass away peacefully like Jack in the good ending]].

This means that while the Vigors were tested, some of the victims of trying out the faulty ones may have died or worse. Since Columbia is pretty practical about everything, they may have weaponized the victims of faulty Vigors. Same goes for the Zealots Of The Ladies, whom may have volunteered themselves to test the Vigor in the name of The Lady, Lady A. Comstock. Slate may count aswell, since he steals and drinks almost every single Shock Jockey Vigors in Hall Of Heroes, some of which may have been faulty, aside from the one he gives you. This means that a major amount of the Vigors in the game might be just as faulty as the Plasmids, and that Booker might be just lucky enough to get the "correct" ones, so one of his [[spoiler:versions of himselves that managed to fail, ay have died from a faulty Vigor]]. As a man mentions in the early parts of Infinite:

* Franchise/{{Dishonored}}

[[WMG: [[spoielr: The Booker seen playing the guitar is not the same as the radio Booker]]]]

[[WMG: Elizabeth is a TimeLord]]

[[WMG: The Luteces are TimeLords]]

* Underground. ([[UruAgesBeyondMyst D'ni?]])

In the trailers so far, several of Elizabeth's really big attempts to alter reality have either shown or had the characters physically arrive in an alternative 1983, as evidenced by cinema marquees that display ''[[ReturnOfTheJedi Revenge of the Jedi]]'' banners. The "Truth From Legend" trailers also have a noticeably early-1980s feel to them as well. It would therefore seem reasonable to assume that there's some connection at least between the events taking place in 1912 and something which is occurring in this alternate 1983, if not the actual 1983.

[[WMG: The plot of the game was originally a dark mirror of TheWizardOfOz]]

[[WMG: The Tornado Tear Elizabeth summons at one point is the same twister from {{The Wizard of Oz}}.]]

** Sounds plausible, except this has already been done to death by AC.

[[WMG: The plot of the game was originally a dark mirror of TheWizardOfOz]]
Comstock is clearly channeling the Wizard, with Columbia is the apotheosis of the same era the books were written in (since Oz was intended to be a series of all-American fairy tales it's doubly appropriate). Booker meets, in order, a pack of fierce crows crying out for a Scarecrow, a guy who rants about "Tin Men", and a cowardly industrialist who compares himself to a lion. Trailers even show Elizabeth being lynched, as though the Columbians had mistaken her for some kind of witch (and since she later summons a tornado...)

[[WMG: ''TheJetsons'' takes place in a future version of ''[=BioShock=] Infinite'']]
* There is a version of Columbia where they actually did manage to survive, defeat the Vox Populi and burn the "Sodom Below". But in doing so, they ended up destroying their own religion. Their whole religion is based on hating the surface world and exterminating those on it. And with the loss of a surface world to rail against and the eventual death of their Lamb, their religion lost most of its central Tenets. The remaining Columbians keep many of the cultural beliefs that they developed over the decades (living in the sky, lack of labour rights, racial segregation...) but lose their religious ones. That is why you only rarely see earth in TheJetsons. It's also why you never see any non-White people in the series.

[[spoiler:It seems that no protagonist ever survives their game in Infinite]]. Unless Ken Levine is GenreSavvy or reads this.

* Not only will the Rapture setting be a tear, but so will the ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' universe and the FreedomForce universe (both done by Irrational). Some 2K games, such as the upcoming XCOM reboot and the Borderlands games, will also appear as universes that the "tears" can access.

* [[spoiler: Also confirmed for Booker as Comstock.]]

* Not only will the Rapture setting be a tear, but so will the VideoGame/SystemShock universe and the FreedomForce universe (both done by Irrational). Some 2K games, such as the upcoming XCOM reboot and the Borderlands games, will also appear as universes that the "tears" can access.

[[WMG: The SystemShock universe is a result of the ending]]

** [[SystemShock About that]]... No lighthouse, though.

[[WMG: Elizabeth's powers are actually derived from [[GurrenLagann Spiral Energy]].]]

With genetically altered trees. And tree-people. And people-trees. And it'll feature bamboo technology. It'll deconstruct eco-terrorism or destroying the enviroment. Possibly both.

[[WMG: Someone on the ''[=BioShock=] Infinite'' design team is a SomethingAwful goon.]]

[[folder: Bioshock related theories]]

Fourth, scientists who worked to bring Jack and Elizabeth into the world died and/or ended up directly acting against the respective founders and those who directly caused their fall at the benefit of the characters in question. While Fontaine did acquire the genetic material necessary for Jack to exist in the first place, it was Brigid Tenenbaum and Yi Suchong who worked to bring Jack into the world. Suchong was dead at the beginning of ''VideoGame/Bioshock1'', which left Tenenbaum to help Jack combat Ryan. With Ryan's death, Tenenbaum helped Jack fight against Fontaine. Meanwhile, Elizabeth was brought over into the world by the Lutece 'twins'. The Luteces later 'died' and were, in fact, 'dead' at the beginning of Infinite. The twins then ended up helping Elizabeth combat Comstock. Comstock, like Andrew, was killed with minimal fanfare (going as far as making the deliberate choice to die), leaving Elizabeth to end up fighting against the Vox Populi.

** [[SystemShock About that]]...No lighthouse, though.
*** Actually [[http://http://http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/bioshock/images/e/e3/Space_lighthouse.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140530120840 cut material]] from BioShock Infinite imply that [[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130228041053/nazizombiesplus/images/thumb/4/45/Citadel_station.png/500px-Citadel_station.png Citadel Station]] ''IS'' the lighthouse of System Shock.

[[WMG: '[=BioShock=] Infinite'' and the Perpetual Testing Initiative Portal 2 DLC exist in the same universe.]]

[[WMG: There is an additional aspect that will show up in every ''[=BioShock=]'' game outside of [[spoiler:A Man, A City, And a Girl. The Protaganist always dies at the end]].]]
''[=BioShock=] 1'': [[spoiler:Jack is last seen on his deathbed surrounded by the girls he saved.]]

[[WMG: The Bioshock Infinite Crossover Dartboard]]

* {{Eversion}}

* {{Marathon}}

** The fate of Columbia will continue ''Franchise/BioShock'''s tradition of having multiple endings, one choice during the game will directly or indirectly decide weather Columbia physically survives at the climax of the story.

[[WMG: The game (and the ''Franchise/BioShock'' series as a whole) takes place in the same universe as John Ajvide Lindqvist's Novel ''Harbour'' (Swedish original title: ''Människohamn'').]]

[[WMG:''[=BioShock=] 2'' and ''[=BioShock=] Infinite'' are more imaginary worlds in the head of [[spoiler:[[SilentHillShatteredMemories Cheryl Mason]].]]]]

Besides SilentHill (see above), any story that involves a Man, a Woman/Girl, a City/Town, a Lighthouse/Tower and a Rescue could be one of the alternate worlds where Elizabeth and Booker's story plays out differently.