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14	We knew ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' was going to be quite frightening when it had one of these pages started '''JUST FROM THE FIRST PREVIEW'''. And Lord, it did not disappoint.
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20	* To start off, let's just go ahead and say that those of you here with acrophobia may find navigating a city suspended miles up in the air a bit uncomfortable, ESPECIALLY via Sky-Hook.
21	* For anyone with aquaphobia, this also plays in before the game actually starts. Remember that priest that had to 'baptize' you before you could actually get into Columbia? ''He was blind''. Suddenly, his statement of not looking clean enough is a bit more unnerving...
22	* The [[CreepyOldFashionedDivingSuit Big Daddies]] have been replaced by the altogether creepier Handymen. Just to emphasize how much more disturbing they are over the Big Daddies, you get a viewport with the subject's beating heart on full display. Just the SOUND of their hands moving should be enough to get anyone freaking out.
23	** 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 sick and/or disabled people who were turned into these monstrosities, probably against their will, given Columbia's eugenicist ideals. It doesn't help that they constantly scream that they're in pain while attacking.
24	*** Actually, it's more direct than that. The entrance of Comstock House shows photos of generic NPC under their various "sins" and a Handyman appears only on a board titled ''Pacifist.'' It puts something of a new spin on many of the enemy's quotes, such as "GET DOWN!" when electrifying the skylines. It's likely not so much a taunt, it's a warning from someone who doesn't want to hurt you but has to fight.
25	** A particularly moving pair of Voxophone entries is by Hattie Gerst, the wife of a Handyman. In the first, she explains that her devout scientist husband Samuel's work with the Siphon had given him stomach cancer, and had to be turned into a Handyman to save his life; in the second, having passed away herself, she tells him to remember, even when the fits of madness overtake him, that she is the proudest woman in all of Columbia to have been his wife, and they'll meet together again in Heaven. The latter can be found by his corpse, where several Vox members are posing for photographs after bagging him like a wild animal.
26	* '''Songbird'''. A giant, black, screeching mechanical steampunk bird gargoyle creature whose sole purpose is to hunt you down and retrieve Elizabeth.
27	** The thing has claws, smacks Dewitt around like he was nothing and tears through buildings like paper (not to mention it's from Dewitt point of view the whole time. Those claws an inch from your face, yeesh).
28	*** How about the fact that the developers based Songbird and Elizabeth's relationship on an abusive romance? In the game, it doesn't stop attacking [=DeWitt=] until she ''apologizes for running away from him.''
29	*** For what it's worth, Elizabeth is probably faking that, since she only does it at the very last second before Songbird punches Booker into paste and her 'normal' pleading with it to stop isn't working.
30	** It has its share of NothingIsScarier moments. When [[https://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 ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum''.
31	** And how do you beat this monster on your own? You DON'T. There's nothing in your arsenal that can even make [[NighInvulnerable this thing]] flinch, let alone harm it. In fact Future Elizabeth flat out says that in every single alternate timeline where Booker fights the Songbird, [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption he ultimately loses and likely dies as a result.]] If getting tossed stories upward into a building and then held at the mercy of this beast (all in terrifying first-person) as Elizabeth desperately begs for your life didn't make you feel utterly helpless, then that little revelation will.
32	* Thought Songbird and the basic enemies were bad enough? Meet [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHlNyOc5iW8 the Motorized Patriot]], an unholy cross between an animatronic UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington and the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''. Complete with creepy malfunctioning voice, [[MoreDakka minigun]] and the Terminator's [[MadeOfIron endurance]] and {{Determinator}} tendencies.
33	-->'''Motorized Patriot:''' ''Blood''... is the ''price''... of ''liberty''! ''[dakka dakka dakka]''
34	** The disturbingly fast, mechanical cranking motion its arm makes to operate the aforementioned mini-gun. That alone looks just plain ''wrong''.
35	** 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 its weak point. As the Patriot turns to return fire back at it, its 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!".
36	** This is a phrase that you will learn to fear, because it means that one of these guys has spotted you and is getting the old Pepper Mill ready:
37	--->''The Lord judges,'' '''''[[PreAssKickingOneLiner I act.]]'''''
38	** Staying behind cover too long will set you up for a nasty shock as the Patriot shifts gears from "slow, plodding lead hose" to "stomping, clanging juggernaut" as it attempts to rush you out of cover.
39	** The final kicker: Motorized Patriot quotes are faction specific. Now while not particularly frightening in of itself, it points to two possibilities. 1. The man who records the voice for the Motorized Patriots has defected to make Vox quotes along with his original Founder ones, or the far more terrifying possibility 2. Motorized Patriots have gained some kind of sentience and rebelled against The Founders themselves. The fact these machines are basically clockwork machine gun toting caricatures of presidents originally envisioned as a museum attraction makes this disturbing thought all the worse.
40	** One more thing: apparently there were going to be versions based on Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. The artbook shows some of the details, [[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140518213929/bioshock/images/d/d8/Pat_faces.jpg including what they would look like when damaged]], and is isn't pleasant. It also should be noted that the cracked porcelain look of the Motorized Patriots was inspired by an old china doll Ken Levine's mother had that terrified him as a kid. That should say enough about these damn things.
41	* Imagine being forced into a suit that causes your body to become engulfed in flames, all the while you are pumped full of drugs that do nothing to numb the agony but everything to drive you utterly insane. This is the torture that the Firemen have to endure every day. There is no way to cure them, and it is implied that any attempt to remove them from their suits will kill them.
42	-->'''Fireman:''' It burns! It burns so much! Let me out! PLEASE!
43	* 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 super-weapon to impose their will on foreign countries in the name of imperialistic nationalism. The Vox Populi is a group that started with good intentions only to devolve into bloodthirsty thugs who loot shops, burn down buildings and publicly execute defenseless civilians. 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]].
44	** In the E3 demo, you get a very good look at this. People getting mugged, live terrorism in open daylight, propaganda of film reels showing faces on those red curtains. It's total anarchy in the streets. Heck at one point you come across some people about to do a live execution of an innocent mailman and you're given the choice to let him die to preserve your cover or save him and have the radicals gunning for you.
45	** The pacing in general is absolutely terrifying. You're basically running around this expansive, acrophobia-inducing, reality-warped deathtrap of a super-weapon (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?]]
46	** Ideology turning men into monsters has been a recurring theme in the ''VideoGame/BioShock'' series: Andrew Ryan's "Every Man For Himself" philosophy proved that it would make a sustained society impossible (while he would never admit it, Frank Fontaine was basically the perfect embodiment of his philosophy, someone who cared about nothing but his own advancement and would give nothing to others, who wanted to keep everything for himself) and quickly devolved into total anarchy. Lamb's ideal society was no better, since in a society where no one individual was important and the group was everything meant that horrible things could be done to individuals if it meant the group would prosper. But both were based at least on ideas that had the best interests of everyone at heart. The ideologies expressed in ''[=BioShock=] Infinite'', on the other hand, are based on things like racism, xenophobia, elitism, paranoia, etc. When Ryan's and Lamb's philosophies are taken to their natural conclusions, they lead to anarchy for Ryan, and a Dystopia for Lamb. When you take Columbia's various ideologies together, it leads to "Destroy Everyone Who Isn't Like Us", and "Us" is in debate even in Columbia itself.
47	* The scariest part of all basically amounts to one question: [[WorldGoneMad "What happened to Columbia?"]] And, more importantly, [[ParanoiaFuel do we want to know the answer?]]
48	* The leader of Columbia, "Prophet" Zachary Hale Comstock, is heralded in posters as being the 'Hero of the Battle of Wounded Knee.'
49	** Go ahead and look up exactly how that "battle" went.
50	** His original look looked like all the worst aspects of Nixon and Cheney mashed together, with a curled sneer that just gave off 'is a sex offender' vibes. [[http://images.wikia.com/bioshock/images/3/36/Early_Comstock_Poster.png See for yourself.]]
51	** For extra points, that drumming and chanting you hear in the Wounded Knee exhibit at the Hall of Heroes? That's a real Native American war cry.
52	* Comstock's Vox Populi counterpart, Daisy Fitzroy, could possibly be just as disturbing, given the scene from the E3 demo in which she [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110617160706/bioshock/images/6/6a/Daisy_Fitzroy_Banner_Projection.png projects herself onto a curtain]]. She looks absolutely insane or like Big Brother.
53	** And then ''Burial at Sea'' comes around to turn her into AlasPoorVillain.
54	* Perhaps the most disturbing element from Infinite is that many of the citizens of Columbia don't seem to realize that the city has fallen into ruin. In the trailers you can see a woman sweeping the porch of a building ''that is on fire'', a man giving a speech to empty deck chairs, and another man on a bench who is covered with crows. Then it turns out both the Crow's politician master and the woman both seem to be suffering from tear sickness which wasn't revealed until the game proper. Look at that man in the demo, he twitches like there are two of him in the same place and he's obviously off his rocker when you see him preaching to absolutely no one. Yeah, they planned that particular insanity that far in advance. Even worse, his friend Charles doesn't even seem to notice that he's bat-shit insane and still follows his orders to the letter. Hell, maybe he doesn't even care, maybe the power of vigors drove him insane, or maybe he's just used to seeing things like that now? Any way you look at it, it's creepy.
55	* The Siren, yet another enemy, is apparently a nod to late 19th century Spiritualism, which works a lot better in the game world, if this is anything to go by. The Siren is able to bring dead enemies back to life after you've gone and killed them once. Resurrection! Always fun.
56	** She is actually a quantum superposition of a woman (namely, Lady Comstock) in both her alive and dead states, ''[[AndIMustScream and fully aware of her existence in both]]''.
57	** More directly, her booming, distorted voice and the glowing-eyed zombie soldiers she resurrects to battle you are quite unsettling to behold. Of the three Siren fights, the showdown at the Bank of the Prophet is by far the creepiest, as you chase her into the depths of a deep, dark, abandoned vault, with lots of corners and alcoves within her arena where you can suddenly run into zombies meleeing you in the face while trying to scrounge for supplies.
58	** For bonus creep factor doubling as GeniusBonus, her song is a heavily distorted snippet from the end of the ''Dies Irae'' sequence of [[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]]'s ''Requiem in D minor'' funeral mass. Dies Irae ("Day of Wrath") is a chanted prayer for the souls of the departed, and this particular section is known as ''Lachrimosa''. Translated from Latin:
59	---> Full of tears will be that day
60	---> When from the ashes shall arise
61	---> The guilty man to be judged;
62	---> Therefore spare him, O God,
63	---> Merciful Lord Jesus,
64	---> Grant them eternal rest. Amen.
65	--> For extra Genius Bonus and OhCrap, she seems to leave out the last three lines about forgiveness and eternal rest.
66	* The Boys of Silence, another enemy. They don't sound too creepy otherwise (they're meant to replace the cameras from the original ''VideoGame/BioShock1'', except they'll consciously be looking for you), but then you see their heads. They wear a helmet that has no eyes and a gaping mouth.
67	** To makes things worse, take a closer look at their outfits: first their clothes heavily resemble those of a child, complete with bib and laces which raises an awful lot of uncomfortable questions. Second, consider that helmet design: you have two trumpets which redirect sound into a brass helmet which presumably reverberates. Does the sound they make derive from them ''screaming in pain?'' Third, the helmets are attached to the leather shoulder straps by metal clamps and padlocked shut. Why would the helmets be locked shut?
68	** Even WORSE: The only time you run into them? Inside a dimly-lit, run-down asylum where it's just you, them and the crazies that stand around in Uncanny Valley-esque president masks and stare at the walls. If a Boy spots you, he'll shriek and alert every psycho around you, who will then grab whatever they can find and try to beat you to death with it. On top of that, ammo is low, you're without your plucky girl sidekick and one manages to get RIGHT behind you while you're working a control panel and shriek in your face.
69	** The fact that they are introduced so late in the game, with no explanation, in the most jarring area available, amplifies their creepiness. They wouldn't be half as effective standing around the Hall of Heroes.
70	** The WORST is that one of the Voxophones you find in Comstock House implies that ELIZABETH created them.
71	*** Speaking of which, they have Tear-powers. As Elizabeth taught us, you get Tear-powers by having a piece of yourself cut off and put in another Universe. Now, what's under that helmet?
72	*** Did you know that Boys of Silence lack facial rigging, unlike the masked Firemen and Crows?
73	*** And about those president mask-wearing inmates? An all too disturbing hint is dropped over the asylum's PA system as to why they're so bonkers.
74	---->'''Elizabeth:''' Baptism is the rebirth of the spirit. But sometimes [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill the mind gets in the way]]. If the mind will not yield, then you must [[MindRape expose the mind to every version of itself]]. Either [[BrainwashedAndCrazy the mind will yield]], [[EmptyShell or be reduced to a blank.]]
75	** It's worse if you've seen the artbook designs for people mutilated by exposure to Tears. Now ask yourself: ''what do you think those inmates really look like?''
76	** [[NothingIsScarier The wheelchair with the Ben Franklin mask that moved on its own...]]
77	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=bLHW78X1XeE "Beasts of America" trailer]] features a ''crapload'' of scares. Highlights include watching the Murder of Crows tearing bloody clumps out of citizens, Booker's hands catching fire and his fingers ''burning away to the bloodied bone'' in a scene very reminiscent of taking your first shot of Electro Bolt in ''[=BioShock=]'' and a police officer getting his face ''torn to shreds'' by a Sky-Hook wielded by one of his fellows. The real kicker of the final example is that '''Booker''' is the one shoving the guy's face into the hook, making him complicit in what appears to be a cold-blooded murder.
78	** Even before the violence, a warning you won't get until it's far, far too late--"'''Bring us the girl, and wipe away the debt.''' That was the deal. The details elude me now; but the details wouldn't change a Goddamned ''thing''."
79	** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLGWGEOgGsQ&list=UU_nGSOyONQsVhxi6iQRgmZg "False Shepherd" trailer]] elaborates on that last one a bit--it seems Booker was about to suffer the fate he gives to the policeman before a bit of... quick action on his part. Oh, but here's the new kicker: judging by the way the camera lingers on the device after the deed is done, this is how the ''[[{{Squick}} player first acquires the Sky-Hook.]]'' That's right, just wipe the blood, bone fragments, and brain tissue off and it's as good as new!
80	** The reason the cops were threatening Booker? It appears to be the scenario where Booker refuses to throw the first baseball at a "convicted" interracial couple, who are all surrounded by cartoonish depictions...of monkeys. And the police aren't too happy about it. ([[SarcasmMode It gets better]]...the background is of "negro" monkeys conducting a wedding, and the crowd does a mocking rendition of the Wedding March in preparation for the stoning. Truly [[NightmareFuel the stuff of nightmares]].)
81	*** To make it worse, they WILL attempt to kill you, regardless of the choice you made (or even a refusal to throw it). Because the true reason for their attack is that you are what amounts to be Columbia's Anti-Christ.
82	* From [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUBvObOkZRk The First Few Minutes Of BioShock Infinite trailer]], we get a subtle one. There is a quote presented at the beginning: The mind of the subject will desperately struggle to create memories where none exist...If you keep this in mind, it gives you a horrifying thought as the opening proceeds: Does the character actually remember anything, or is he literally creating his past out of things that he sees as he goes along? If that is the case, the main character is literally being dropped into a hellish situation with no training, no memory of his past, and little to no chance of survival. He was literally expected to piece together his mission, and his past, from what he came across along the way. It's like the plotline for ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'', only the main character is doing it without realizing it.
83	* The '[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8FUZTNpfhc Columbia:]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zin6aKnJM5Q 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 in the style of ''Series/InSearchOf'' channeling the spirit of {{Creepypasta}} in how mundane yet just subtly ''off'' it is. Apparently, in the world of the game what happened to Columbia became an unsolved mystery[=/=]urban legend along the lines of Atlantis, the ''Mary Celeste'' and the Bermuda Triangle, 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 a building that ended up somewhere in the Alps), even decades later were left wondering precisely where it went, what the hell happened up there, and [[ParanoiaFuel whether it's still flying around up there...]]
84	** 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 super-weapon populated by xenophobic, nationalistic ultra-racists, just floating in the air and nobody knows what happened to it. And they CAN'T find out.
85	** Now that the game is out, we can confirm exactly when this video fits into the timeline of the game and why it appears to be from the early 80's. It is from the timeline when Booker failed to rescue Elizabeth and she was brainwashed into becoming the new Comstock. The city has likely disappeared in preparation of their attack, given that the Alps are not on the flight path laid out in the lighthouse at the beginning of the game. This documentary would have been released right before Columbia attacks New York!
86	** There's a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkMjLxMxR-A second part too:]] It's about the Songbird. And the IronicNurseryRhyme is just terrifying if you've played the game, or know how powerful Songbird is.
87	--->''Songbird, Songbird, see him fly,''
88	--->''Drop the children from the sky.''
89	--->''When the young ones misbehave,''
90	--->''ESCORTS CHILDREN TO THEIR GRAVE.''
91	--->''Never back-talk, never lie,''
92	--->''OR HE'LL DROP YOU FROM THE SKY!''
93	* ''Mind In Revolt'', one of the pre-order bonus e-books, gives insight both into the screwed-up race science of Columbia and [[TheUnfettered just how unhinged Daisy Fitzroy is]]. It ain't pretty.
94	** In Columbia, they use phrenology and they've turned the local mental hospital into BedlamHouse, where they dole out lobotomies like they're going out of style -- and ''write them off as a good thing''. To be fair, that isn't actually that different than medical science in the early through mid 20th centuries, but the RealLife doctors [[ObliviouslyEvil thought they were actually being helpful]]; Columbia's just seem to regard it as expedient.
95	** Note that phrenology was discredited about fifty years before Columbia was even built- around the 1840s. Columbian scientists are so deluded and desperately clinging to their racism, they're not even really scientists anymore.
96	* And in the same False Shepherd trailer we get ''[=BioShock=]'s'' signature [[BodyHorror Body Horror]] of Booker ''watching the skin flake off his hands, exposing muscle and the vigor power underneath.''
97	** In the game proper, such attacks are frequent executions of enemies, and the first one includes imbedding the Sky-Hook into the face of a Columbian police officer. The visuals are frightening, but the ''sounds'' are ''horrifying''. The whine of a dentist drill combined with the crunching of bones and tearing of flesh.
98	* At the beginning where you have Booker hit the bells in a specific sequence to get the rocket ride to Columbia and a red light flashes over the sky with an ominous booming horn? ''[[ParanoiaFuel Where is that red light and horn coming from?]]''
99	* Early in the game, you're at a carnival and you win a lottery. What good luck! What does that get you? ''The "honor" of throwing the first stone at the public stoning/execution of a mixed race couple.''
100	** The lottery itself is horrific, with the unfortunate couple being tied to stakes on a stage against a backdrop of [[DarkestAfrica "untamed African jungle"]], with African caricature-faced monkeys as ring-bearer and flower-girl and an equally caricaturish "Witch Doctor" as preacher, all while cheerful, happy crowds look forward to beating them to death with baseballs. Now, you think that this is supposed to be exaggerated for dramatic impact, right? Well, guess what? You're ''wrong''. Lynchings could and often ''did'' have an almost carnival-like atmosphere, with white people treating the hanging, rape, castration, burning and other brutal tortures of African-Americans as jolly good fun for the whole family. If you've the stomach for it, these two links showcase [[http://historicpork.tumblr.com/post/48450937661/the-lynching-of-jesse-washington-washington-was both the horrors of a lynching]] and [[http://blackourstory.tumblr.com/post/88493884899/smiling-faces-because-it-happened-because-were just how nonchalant the participants were]]. '''That''', more than anything, is the ''real'' NightmareFuel here; that the horrors of the Founders are actually nothing that wouldn't have been been done by the UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan, and similar scenarios actually ''did'' happen in America during that time period.
101	** No less disturbing is that not long beforehand, you received a telegram very specifically warning you against entering the lottery, specific even to the point of telling you ''which number not to pick'' -- although you don't seem to be given much of a choice in the event.
102	* When you're given your shield by the Luteces, Rosalind comments, "Surprising that it didn't kill him". ''How many Bookers have died from that Infusion malfunctioning?''
103	* The Fraternal Order of the Raven, a fanatical cult to John Wilkes Booth. Even before Columbia goes to hell, the place looks like it wanted to get a head start in that direction. What with the dark decrepit interior of what would otherwise be an opulent manor, filled with plates/bowls and tables of food long since rotted, left out as "offerings" to the creepy-ass crows/ravens that frequent (and shit all over) the place.
104	** And it's there that you first see the Murder of Crows vigor in action... against a helpless Asian man tied down to have the flesh ripped from him by a swarm of the aforementioned birds.
105	** The context for this doesn't help either. You walk through the aforementioned creep cult hangout filled with rotting food and ravens. You come to a room in which you get given some healing items, as if gearing you up for a boss fight. If you look around you'll find a hidden room with a blood covered cell in it. And when you move on, before you even fully open the door, you see a man being killed by a murder of crows.
106	** The implication that from his dialogue he was an innocent man that had just been kidnapped off the street. His agonized screaming of "WHY?! '''''WHYYYYY?!'''''" doesn't help. He's not white. That's crime enough for the Order.
107	** If that's not enough for you, The First Zealot's Voxophone recording heavily implies they can literally ''see'' through the eyes of the crows they summon. [[BigBrotherIsWatching "Cover the city with eyes," indeed.]]
108	* After boarding the first airship you come across, there's a woman you find praying in the cockpit. After Comstock gives Booker a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, the woman ''sets herself on fire''. Not long before, Booker's first words to her were "I'm not going to hurt you", making the whole spectacle even more creepy.
109	** Seeing this plus Comstock House arguably cements Comstock himself as the scariest thing in game (at the very least from an adult perspective). You have this psychotic KnightTemplar who, holding absolute power over an entire city, has not only cyborg monstrosities and Vigor-enhanced zealots at his beck and call, but also enough raw charisma to have his otherwise sane, normal human followers go so far as to perform self-immolation without even a hint of hesitation. In other words, this is the nightmare you get when you take Jim Jones and give him access to state of the art steampunk/sci-fi techonology.
110	** Believe it or not it was originally going to be ''even worse'': according to an [[http://www.complex.com/video-games/2012/12/bioshock-infinite-walkthrough-guide-preview/first-contact early preview]], that woman was originally ''a young boy''.
111	** The scare morphs a bit if you are aware about scares in horror games. When you see the woman praying, it's almost a given that she's going to attack you, especially with the perfect opportunity of her boss pontificating outside. What you don't expect is the aforementioned self-immolation, and the entire airship going up in flames around you.
112	--->'''Comstock:''' The Lord forgives everything. But I'm just a prophet... [[{{Hypocrite}} So I don't have to]]. Amen.\
113	'''Woman:''' Amen. sets herself on fire
114	** What makes it even more frightening is the realization that Comstock ''is'' Booker.
115	* When you reach Elizabeth's home on Monument Island, the place is covered with warning signs. Every wall, every door, propped up on the floor. Everywhere you look, nothing but signs that say [[AC:Danger! Do Not Speak To The Specimen, Do Not Approach Siphon While Specimen Is Inside, CAUTION: Proceed Only If Specimen Is Properly Sedated (refer to sedation protocol 080-312)]] and so on. What exactly can this girl ''do?''
116	** And it doesn't help that there are [[NothingIsScarier no staff or guards anywhere]].
117	** '''FACILITY UNSAFE'''.
118	** Not to mention the fact that there apparently were people watching Elizabeth behind the scenes for years, and pictures being taken of her... ''even when she's in her dressing room''. You even find a ''[[PassThePopcorn freaking bag of popcorn]]'' in one of the viewing rooms, bringing up some profoundly skeevy implications. Doesn't help that there are [[http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=198498157 pictures of her dressing as a young girl.]] Either these people are so dedicated to the experiments and their "specimen" that they no longer see her as human or someone developed Lima Syndrome and fell in love with a preteen girl. Either thought is creepy as hell.
119	** Near the entrance to her room are some of Elizabeth's childhood objects on scientific display alongside levers that activate Tear properties on said objects. The objects are "Companion (Age 1)" (a teddy bear), "Poetry Book (Age 4)," [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and]] ''[[{{Squick}} "Menarche (Age 13)"]]'' (a cloth with blood on it).[[note]] In case you don't know, menarche is the first stage of [[MenstrualMenace menstruation]].[[/note]] If that doesn't speak levels about how creepy and disgusting these "scientists" are, nothing does. Even better, go ahead an activate the levers for each tear. The teddy bear and poetry book simply change color, but the blood on the cloth simply [[NothingIsScarier disappears]].
120	** For added creepiness, Booker hears Elizabeth's distorted voice humming bits and pieces of ''Everybody Wants to Rule the World'' as the Siphon continues draining power from her. Never has a ''Tears for Fears song'' inspired actual fear.
121	* Songbird's introduction when you're rescuing Elizabeth from Monument Island is also very freaky. You're running at first from some kind of faceless terror that's wrecking the place around you, and just before you get out it ''smashes'' the door open and peers inside, the visible eye glowing a hellish orange before a piece of superstructure falls on it, allowing you to escape. It then hounds you across the Skyline as Monument Island collapses, and as Booker and Elizabeth fall into Battleship Bay it ''dives in after you'', braving water pressure to try and kill you for taking her and only stopping (with its eye ''right in front of your face'') when the water pressure causes one of its eyes to break open. The music doesn't help, at all.
122	* After escaping from the tower and Songbird, Booker passes out and finds himself back in his apartment, much as he does when he "dies" in-game. However, in this instance, Elizabeth is with him in the apartment, staring blankly ahead and slowly repeating the phrase "Bring us the girl... and wipe away the debt," after the demonic-sounding voice outside the door. Booker begins to call uneasily, "What do you want with her?" and becomes increasingly frantic. This instance is reprised later in the game when things have become even more dire. Haunting, to say the least.
123	* The scene where Booker is trying to buy a ticket for the gondola while a man is talking on the phone to someone. You can then get two possible choices. First, draw your weapon and threaten the man, which seems like a nasty thing to do. Second, simply ask for help again, to which he apologizes for the wait..before drawing a knife and stabbing you in the hand.
124	** The man in question is setting you up for an ambush, and the phone call he is making when you walk up is reporting your arrival at said ambush. The wording of the phone call makes it sound extremely suspicious, [[BaitAndSwitch far too suspicious for anything to actually come of it.]]
125	*** Furthermore, when you walk into the area, people are acting... off. A hotdog vendor is unsure of what he has "Sauerkraut? uh... I guess. That'll be uh... one Silver Eagle." Beyond this there are people talking and a violinist playing beautifully, but when you make it to the counter everyone STOPS WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND STARTS STARING AT YOU. It doesn't help that there's three violin cases, only one of which is open, and one violin. What are they storing in them? Then suddenly, everyone has a weapon. Oh, [[SenselessViolins that's what that is]].
126	* The mere fact that the citizens of Columbia, both those aligned to the Founders and eventually the Vox Populi are ''actively'' out for Booker's blood makes the city even more frightening than Rapture's doomed denizens. Unlike the splicers, who are so insane from constant Plasmid use, Columbia's citizenry in general are still consciously sane and can hide in plain sight. Which means that with the exception of Elizabeth and ''maybe'' the Luteces, you really can't trust ''anyone.''
127	** Especially, as it turns out, you can't even trust yourself.
128	** Keep in mind also that unlike Rapture's splicers, the people of Columbia didn't ''need'' Vigor abuse to become the warped madmen you come across--they already ''were.''
129	* Enemies hit with an upgraded Possession will commit suicide when the Vigor wears off. If they have a gun, they'll just shoot themselves. If they have a melee weapon, they'll beat themselves to death with it. If they have an [=RPG=], they will point it at their feet and blow themselves all over the place. The worst part is you can't tell if they're doing it because the Vigor compelled them to or because being Possessed is just ''that horrifying''.
130	** Actually, you can tell: the description of Possession in the loading screens explains that being Possessed ''really is that horrifying''. It specifically states that they commit suicide because of what they've done while possessed. Or, if they didn't kill anyone, presumably they commit suicide simply ''because'' they were possessed by the [[AntiChrist False Shepherd]]--and considering how fanatically religious Columbia is, it's perfectly understandable why that would be considered a DeathEqualsRedemption situation.
131	*** As Possession is advertised as a date-rape drug, the suicidal consequences are either that specific machine's upgrade (and the cheapest in the game--50 Silver Eagles!), or due to Booker being the one possessing folks. Given how things were arranged just-so by both the Lutece and Comstock, both might well be the case.
132	* When you have the Murder of Crows Vigor equipped, you may see [[http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130621145623/bioshock/images/8/86/Tumblr_mlqxxbLMil1s9flg6o1_500.png an idle animation]] where the fingernails on Booker's left hand become black claws. It is surprisingly creepy.
133	* The Shock Jockey vigor (as well as gear that causes electrical damage) has a [[CruelAndUnusualDeath particularly nasty kill animation]]: Victims' heads [[YourHeadAsplode burst into chunks]] before their bodies and then their skeletons [[DisintegratorRay disintegrate into ash.]]
134	* All the vending machines are mounted with animatronic salesmen who are constantly waving their arms around. In the dark, its easy to mistake that movement for an enemy, and their clanking gears can sound like a Motorized Patriot. They're also way louder and more talkative than Rapture's vending machines, which means you'll be constantly hearing voices, even when they're on the other side of a wall.
135	** Every so often you come across an inactive vending machine that has the salesman frozen in a position leaning forward and staring at a Gear or Infusion under it. With open mouth and glowing yellow eyes. It's extremely eerie considering the normally talkative and energetic vending machines.
136	* Towards the beginning of the Soldier's Field area, you're pointed to an ice cream shop where you're given the option to steal from the cash register there. Given that this is the first instance of the ability to steal anything being presented to you, many players probably won't be able to resist the urge to at least try it, resulting in the police being called and everyone in the area turning hostile. However, if you can resist your curiosity and push onwards, you can freely explore the entire area, experiencing Columbia's nightlife in one of the extremely rare instances where everything around you at least seems mildly peaceful and almost normal, at least until you reach the trolley station at the end. At that point, a loud message is broadcasted to the area, warning of the False Shepherd's presence, and the minute you turn around, literally every civilian in the area will have disappeared. There's no short scenes of people being evacuated or running away, they just vanish into thin air. Seeing the lively, bustling area that you just strolled through [[NothingIsScarier completely empty]] is an extremely eerie experience, and then the militia shows up to makes things worse.
137	* The motorized Patriot in of itself is creepy enough, but then there's how you're introduced to it as well. Slate brings to life a motorized Patriot from the other side of the room, while it breaks itself free from the glass display it's in.
138	** Worse still, the vandalized machines which originally sold Gear (modeled after Jewish tailors) have not only been stripped of their contents and broken, but have the word "YID" and "HEEB" painted on their sides. Anti-Semitism runs deep in Columbia.
139	* Chen Lin's brutal interrogation. The man's corpse makes the most disgusting SQUISH sound when his head rolls to the side. It's absolutely disgusting. How long was he alive during the torture? Even in the universe where he lives, the video tape of his interrogation has his eye swollen shut, his neck bruised, and him just drenched in blood. Who's to say that this is even the first or last person this happened to? You find dead bodies in cells being eaten by beetles in the ''police station''. They don't even bother to move the damn bodies.
140	* Like with ''[=BioShock=]'s'' Plasmids, taking Vigors for the first time is... disturbing to say the least. For instance, the "Devil's Kiss" Vigor gives us a vision ''of Booker's hands burning away to the bone.'' And his terrified screams ''really'' don't help...
141	** Taking the "Undertow" Vigor will have Booker's arms have suction cups appearing on them... leaving ''massive holes'' in his arms. BodyHorror indeed...
142	* The scene where the Vox finally turn against you. First of all, the way Daisy calls you a "complication" is subtly threatening, then the elevator stops with a few Vox soldiers staring at the corpses they just made out of people. They don't do anything, so you think for a moment that maybe, MAYBE they are still your allies. Then they see you, pull arms and start trying to murder you despite the fact that you're with Elizabeth, an innocent looking civilian. You helped save their lives not ten minutes ago by taking down the Zeppelin, [[UngratefulBastard but now they want you dead.]]
143	* As you make your way through the city after the Vox uprising, you can see all of the horrible things the Vox have done. Dead civilians litter the streets, while you see dozens of captured Founder soldiers mercilessly executed and left to rot. There is even one point where you see several high ranking Founders who have been scalped, with their bloody scalps nailed to a board.
144	* At one point, later in the game, you can overhear a Vox Populi fighter talking about eliminating anyone who could be a threat. This includes people with guns... and ''glasses''. What makes this especially frightening is that in RealLife, the Khmer Rouge ''did'' target people with glasses, as they were considered "intellectuals" and thus enemies of the revolution. It gives you a good idea of where the Vox Populi is going to be heading.
145	* '''[[http://youtu.be/9CpkJY1W9nc?t=3m22s WHO ARE YOU?]] CHAAAAAAARLES!! ATTEND!''' When they said [[DirtyCommunist communists were red devils]], we don't think it should have been literal. Doesn't help that the man is obviously suffering from tear sickness which we didn't learn about until the game came out three years later... Then you find his scalp nailed to board alongside Fink's. Yeah, he may have not appeared in the final game, but the developers made sure he died a horrible death like everyone else.
146	** Incidentally, what did Booker do to warrant that guy siccing Charles on him? [[HairTriggerTemper Attempt to walk past him, through the gazebo.]] He even assumes Booker to be an assassin when he sees him take a sniper rifle...''that he was already giving out freely!''
147	* When breaking into the vault of the Bank of the Prophet, you will keep catching flashes of a Zealot running by just at the edge of your vision, making it so that you're never quite sure when he's going to ambush you. It doesn't help that sections of the vault are rather cramped and very dimly lit.
148	* Comstock House is basically a creepy hospital, creepy school, creepy asylum, creepy jail, creepy science lab, and creepy orphanage all rolled into one.
149	** And the screams! And the signs! "WHERE WE LIE." "WHERE WE WEEP." "WHERE WE CLEANSE." "WHERE WE SLEEP." "NO SIN EVADES HIS GAZE" before you meet the Boy of Silence.
150	** Not to mention "WHERE WE WORK." "WHERE WE LEARN."
151	** There's this one small room that you have to pass through which contains a ton of the Washington/Jefferson/Franklin masks, just sitting there looking at you. And one of the masks is a Comstock mask, which stares directly down the only path through the room. It has glowing eyes for some reason, and you must pass very close to it to get out. By this point, the player is hypersensitive to the environment, and weird, out-of-place things like this are pure ParanoiaFuel. It seemed almost certain that walking past that mask would trigger ''something'' horrible. [[NothingIsScarier It doesn't.]]
152	** At one point you are moving through a corridor and a [[http://i.imgur.com/UjAPeuh.jpg/ wheelchair with a mask]] sitting on it slowly wheels forward from behind a column into view... there is [[ParanoiaFuel no one else]] in the corridor.
153	** "WHERE WE WEEP" deserves special mention, as it appears to be a morgue, mortuary and crematory all in one. White sewed up body bags piled up, and a single coffin with a bodybag in it right in front of the furnace... doesn't help that the only access is through the apparent torture chamber either.
154	* The three kinetoscopes you come across in Comstock House. Instead of opening with the "Word of the Prophet" title card, they all feature work from someone named William R. Foreman. What's on them? A sunrise over Columbia, shots of hummingbirds flying around a garden, and a view of Battleship bay. [[NothingisScarier All without any music, text, or people in them. The only ambient sound is the buzzing of the projector. We don't even see or hear Foreman himself]]. They're all very unsettling to watch, and raise a lot of questions. Who put them there in the first place? And why? Worst of all, the final one ends with [[DrivenToSuicide the cameraman jumping off the edge of battleship falls, followed by blackness, then text reading ''William R. Foreman (Oct 13 1867-July 2 1909)'']].
155	* The whole BadFuture in general with tears and recordings detailing how they broke Elizabeth. But probably the most chilling when you come across a projector showing nothing but glaring eyes as she expresses disappointment that Booker wasn't there to save her in probably the coldest tone ever. Talk about a guilt trip.
156	** This level of the game is easily the most reminiscent of old ''Bioshock''/''System Shock'' titles, given that it's happening AFTER the horrible calamity, like in those games, whereas Infinite is happening DURING it. It's the only place in the game you encounter the Boys of Silence, and their cronies are nothing but insane patients wearing Founding Fathers mask (much like the Motorized Patriots), banging their heads against the wall or just generally looking broken as human beings. The atmosphere is perfect with the snowy weather, and it all comes to a peak when you take Elizabeth's hand at the end of the level, only to discover she's an old woman and she's looking down on Columbia attacking 1984 New York City. The image of that alone is chilling. Just imagine living an ordinary, every-day 80's life, only to have a forgotten legend descend upon you and rain fire.
157	* After rescuing Elizabeth from the scientists you sit her upright to find a plug put ''directly'' into her spine, for an added bonus the scientists are revealed to have not put her under during all of this, meaning she felt the whole process. Now remember the BadFuture where Booker ''couldn't'' save her... yeah. And Booker has to take it out under the same circumstances.
158	** Immediately following this, you can find a voxophone recording from one of the doctors torturing Elizabeth and it is ''chilling''. He shows ''zero'' empathy for Elizabeth, even comparing her to Pavlov's dog. His last line says it all.
159	--->'''Dr. Powell:''' Pavlov made a dog salivate. We'll make this one ''weep.''
160	* A truly horrifying use of PublicDomainSoundtrack occurs in Comstock House. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtwsExTdIoo It's in the room with the surreal film that's punctuated by glaring, accusatory eyes]], which also contains the [[ApocalypticLog audio diary]] in which Elizabeth reveals when and why she crossed the DespairEventHorizon: she eventually came to believe that Booker was not going to come and rescue her. Given how much both Booker and the player care about Elizabeth at this point, it's definitely a PlayerPunch already, and it gets worse when you realize that the music accompanying all this is a distorted version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOA-2hl1Vbc Pachelbel's Canon]]. Finally, the distorted classical music, grainy black-and-white film, and mental degradation of a major character are horrifically reminiscent of Alex's undergoing the Ludovico Treatment in ''Film/AClockworkOrange''.
161	** What's worse is that the film has subliminal messages in it, just for that extra bit of creepiness.
162	** A bonus, one of the Projectors in the later rooms of the Asylum has a barely noticeable face of Elizabeth which is unsettling once you realize what you're looking at.
163	* As one of Comstock's warnings to Elizabeth as they try to reach the First Lady is that Booker would abandon her, it becomes clear that the Prophet has again looked at the possibilities, and that he'd been planning out the breaking of Elizabeth as an contingency from the very beginning.
164	* Another creepy moment from Comstock House. When you first get to the room where you fight the Boys of Silence you can clearly hear Elizabeth screaming her lungs out in the other room. It's actually coming from a tear, you discover upon returning to the area later in the level. Which arguably makes it ''worse.'' Her dialogue will even show up in the subtitles if you haven't started the fight.
165	** "No, please! I'll be... I'll be your daughter! screaming I'll be your daughter! I'll be... ''I'LL BE YOUR DAUGHTER,'' '''PLEASE!!!"'''
166	* Just after throwing the switch to try and rescue Elizabeth from the [[EldritchLocation snow-covered wasteland]], the player turns around to see one of the Boys of Silence [[JumpScare right behind them]]. This is also a callback to the first game when you headed into the basement of an area to retrieve something only to find a splicer behind you.
167	* At the very end of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvX0D3j4gbE Lamb of Columbia]] trailer, Elizabeth and Booker are standing in the middle of a wheat field as a gigantic tornado creeps closer and closer... and Elizabeth just stares at you, motionless, no expression on her face at all. Just try to imagine the possible context for that.
168	** Now we know the context: She's torn open a tear just after Booker's freed her from [[BodyHorror the medical procedure intended to keep her from using her powers]], and is daring Booker to stop her from killing Comstock. Oh, and before that, she allowed that same tornado to sweep up the doctors that were operating on her.
169	*** Subverted by Booker answering firmly: "I'm going to do it for you."
170	* Comstock's death and the lead up to it. He is perfectly calm when inviting you in, and then violently grabs Elizabeth and demands that she asks Booker about her finger. What follows is Booker flying into UnstoppableRage, throttling the Prophet, cracking his skull open on the baptismal font and drowning him in it. And all the while he is raging not just Comstock but also himself.
171	-->'''Booker:''' '''She's YOUR Daughter, you son of a bitch!! And you abandoned her!'''
172	* Speaking of the artbook... oh god, the artbook. FacialHorror galore, of people's faces just so incredibly twisted... or stuck to another instance of their face, with the artbook saying "Quantum rifts splice different instances of people together with varying results," in a clinical tone rivaling the Website/SCPFoundation. Faces are stretched like rubber into other versions of the same face, the mouth too twisted and too long on one end to make you ever want to know how they open them. The eyes aren't usually on the same level of the face as each other, and are often curved downwards in ways faces simply should not work, one face looks like raw hamburger on one side, with the jaw exposed and a single tendril of muscle connecting the upper and lower jaw on that side of the face, and one... vaguely face-shaped... thing with a single eye twisted into the middle and three mouths. Check out the [[http://imgur.com/a/Eah4p#tcifxxi scans]], if you have the stomach.
173	* At the very end of the game, Booker and Elizabeth wander through Rapture's "Welcome Center" in 1960. [[NothingIsScarier Nothing happens]], but the atmosphere itself is unbearably eerie and quiet.
174	** By the looks of the way things are situated, this is almost ''immediately'' before Jack sets foot in Rapture himself. The signs you first see when you step off the Bathysphere are pretty much in the same place. Hell, it might've been ''after''. You're in this whole situation, might even be able to prevent it and you can't do anything about it.
175	** Later on when Songbird dies, it might sound a bit familiar. That's because it actually was in the first Bioshock.
176	* The [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion EVA-esque]] ending when all those Elizabeths suddenly show up and crowd around Booker to drown him. Not only a crazy twist, but a pretty morbid freak out too.
177	** And to make it worse, it's in first-person rather than third-person; you have to watch this ''through the eyes of'' a drowning person. That is, you're looking up at their faces through the water as they're drowning Booker, seeing the air bubbles escape, watching everything fade to black...there's one mitigating factor to this nightmare fuel, though; at least this is a voluntary HeroicSacrifice on Booker's part to prevent the rise of Comstock.
178	* Early in the game's development, 2K games considered making ''[=BioShock=] Infinite'' in the style of ArtNouveau, you can even find [[https://bioshock.fandom.com/wiki/BioShock_Infinite_Removed_Content#.22City_in_the_Sky.22 a good amount of their early artwork]] for the game done in this style on the [=BioShock=] Wiki. The sight of Colombia done in Art Nouveau style and the atmosphere it gives out makes even the sight of seemingly unimportant buildings look at best surprisingly creepy and unnerving, and at worst hauntingly ominous. Part of you may wonder what the game would be like if the Art Nouveau style and atmosphere made it in every visual of the final game, but to partially quote [[VideoGame/BioShock2 Sofia Lamb]]: ask yourself; '''do you really want to know?'''
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181	[[folder:''Burial at Sea'']]
182	* One brief moment in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpdgtlHuKpw trailer]] for the Rapture-based "''Burial at Sea''" DLC-- during the montage of various people walking around a pristine, happy Rapture, there's one shot of a stern, schoolteacher-type lady holding up a sign and seemingly lecturing a group of Little Sisters. They look completely identical to one another, and they all move in unison, at one point turning and staring ''right'' at the camera. There's a subtle but distinctly creepy air to the scene, even without context.
183	** Which isn't helped by how said schoolteacher-type lady looks suspiciously similar to Sofia Lamb.
184	** In the game proper, [[JumpScare it happens much more quickly]], with all the girls mechanically jerking their heads toward you the moment you come too close.
185	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGq2RgUB8j8 very end]] of ''Burial at Sea'', Part 1, shows us something quite horrifying. Remember the PortalCut where Elizabeth lost part of her pinky finger? Well, that universe's Elizabeth had it happen to her head. Keep in mind that this happens to a '''baby'''.
186	** Even worse if you consider what happens after the tear closes - Comstock was only left with the head, and the Booker in that universe was left ''with the entire body''. Whatever happened to Booker following this can only be left to the player to decide.
187	** The entire final cinematic is just one horrific scene after another - the zombie-like Little Sister Sally presumably dropping down the red-hot ventilation shaft, the sheer contempt with which Elizabeth and the Luteces treat Comstock, and Elizabeth's face getting spattered with blood as the Big Daddy's drill impales Comstock from behind. Talk about a PlayerPunch.
188	** [[{{Squick}} The sounds]] Booker/Comstock makes when he's killed. Let's run down the list: he hacks up blood and tries desperately to breathe after being initially stabbed, ''screams in utter agony'' when the drill rotates, and lets out a final spluttering cough when it's pulled out. Those are the sounds of a man dying in pain.
189	* The unsettling painting from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsJDrsKNYxI the teaser trailer.]] A somber-looking Booker and Elizabeth are dancing closely in the foreground, while the background is a hellish red with rabbit-masked figures lurking in the shadows. Not surprising that it's a bit..."off", being a Cohen original.
190	* In that actual scene, when Booker and Elizabeth are dancing, they talk about why Cohen is trafficking little girls.
191	-->'''Elizabeth:''' What do you think Cohen's customers do with the children? Do they-\
192	'''Booker:''' Sometimes. But those types lack the capital of Suchong and Ryan.\
193	'''Elizabeth:''' That's a blessing.
194	** Yep, that is Elizabeth asking in a not-so-subtle way - and Booker confirming - that Cohen sells little girls to people who sexually abuse them. All the horror of Rapture just got taken up to eleven.
195	* Sander Cohen's ''Miasma'' - a [[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140210015251/bioshock/images/9/92/BigCanvas_CohenPaintings_01_DIFF.png painting]] about... ''something'' horrible, certainly.
196	** Even worse, it was inspired by Francis Bacon's works, which are NightmareFuel; in their own right.
197	* There are in-game radio ads that make use of the sound of Security Bots attacking. It instinctively makes anyone familiar with the sound want to run, hide, and look for [[ParanoiaFuel a bot that's not there.]]
198	* The return of Sander Cohen. His [[http://i.neoseeker.com/neo_image/81602/news/7/cohen_trailerscreen_web.jpg appearance]], mannerisms and theatrics shows that he was already an utterly deranged MadArtist ''even without the splicing.''
199	** There's a distinct UncannyValley feeling to his features and make-up already, but the [[http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/684846174479077203/B871F4C1DDE05C79BC7D95AFCDD99F76407EBB0E/ sight]] of his face blown up and projected onto a giant stone carving (apparently locking eyes with another bust) is positively freakish.
200	* Elizabeth at the ending of Episode One. The ending itself is a gigantic WhamEpisode, but it's also a gigantic contrast in reactions to murder. As if her MyGodWhatHaveIDone reaction from killing Fitzroy in the main campaign wasn't frightening enough, her LACK of reaction when the Big Daddy impales Comstock!Booker and splatters blood on her face is somehow even worse.
201	** There's also the implication that the entire DLC was just Elizabeth and the Luteces toying with Comstock. Elizabeth's mission was to purge the remaining Comstocks from the multiverse, and if she wanted, she could've easily just shot him the moment she walked into his office, but she didn't. She dragged him around on a mission to save the missing girl he was obsessed with, repeatedly put his life in danger (only to save him when things got a little too dangerous), pushed him through the hellscape of the decrepit Department Store, and then, once Comstock realized what he had done and had just enough time to regret his actions, she let a Big Daddy slowly run him through with his drill.
202	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RL4BOXGJzI 2:15 of this trailer for Burial at Sea - Episode 2.]] Elizabeth has gone a long way...but if the {{Chiaroscuro}} lighting is any indication, things are about to go to hell.
203	-->'''Elizabeth:''' This world values children, not childhood. light flicker There's a profit to be made, flicker and the men who make it.
204	** And she's changing from her original clothing, to her corset and dress outfit from the second half of Infinite, to her present outfit, looking menacing all the while.
205	** And in the final product, we see a fourth version of Elizabeth: in her present outfit, splattered in blood.
206	* The sequence of Elizabeth in Paris. It goes from a beautiful place full of smiling people who adore Elizabeth and including Disney-esque singing birds, to a hellish grey-tinted nightmare-scape that is deserted of people, most of the buildings are ruined or on fire and one building advertises lobotomies, foreshadowing what is to come later.
207	** Even the Disney sequence is rather creepy in an Uncanny Valley sort of way. Everyone greets Elizabeth by name in the same chirpy tone, and turns to watch her as she walks past, still with smiles on their faces, but the effect is disconcerting, regardless. It was almost a relief to see it turn into a nightmare after waiting for the other shoe to drop.
208	* The boat-ride to the lighthouse. Instead of the beautiful InnBetweenTheWorlds we saw in ''Infinite'' that was illuminated by countless other universes gleaming as far as the eye can see, this iteration is nearly completely silent and utterly pitch black.
209	** And if you look in the water as you're being rowed merrily along...you'll start noticing all the drowned, staring faces. That's right: you're cruising the River Styx.
210	* In one of the random videos stations scattered about Rapture you'll get the chance to experience a short artistic film produced by none other than Sander Cohen himself! What does this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WcJZSrzIFU film]] consist of, you ask? It begins with a message stating "Please Stand By" in large, bold letters across the screen, only for the image to start slowly rotating as static noises, ethereal wailing, and deranged laughter begin to play in the background. Then a deep, almost demonic voice begins to speak: '''WHY DO YOU STAND THERE? WHEN SOMEONE IS RIGHT...BEHIND YOU.''' [[ShmuckBait You'll never guess what happens once the video ends and]] [[JumpScare you turn around!]] You see [[https://bioshock.fandom.com/wiki/Regard%C3%A8rent_et_Furent_Observ%C3%A9s?file=Cohen_s_surprise.jpg this lovely chap, just sitting there.]] And he does ''absolutely nothing.'' Even worse? ''That isn't a man.'' That's one of Cohen's plaster statues.
211	** Worse still, it's thought in some circles that Cohen makes those by slathering his victims with plaster...
212	** And the book confirms that. He just gets his disciples to torture some first or slits their throats. And the poor blokes are so pumped on ADAM that they're almost numb to what they're doing, and when they eventually realise it, they can't do anything about it and are miserable.
213	** Just about all of Sander Cohen's silent films in all their ''Film/TheRing''-esque glory are this. Most of them are a series of [[SurrealHorror disjointed, incredibly creepy images]]. It makes you realize just how truly screwed up this guy was even before the Fall of Rapture.
214	* The Ryan the Lion Prepatory Academy, in where children are indoctrinated into being selfish bastards. If that wasn't bad enough, there's a sign in the principal's office talking about disciplining children ''with Possession''! The more you think about it, the worse this place gets...
215	* The lower area of Fink's hidden lab. All of it is NightmareFuel, from the [[FateWorseThanDeath Handyman]] operating areas (one of the notes written on the chalk board mentions of some of the subjects won't stop screaming), to the areas where cruel test were preformed on innocent animals, to the long hallway filled with deceased dogs being preserved in some sort of liquid.
216	* Atlas' torture of Elizabeth is one of the most brutal appliances of the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique ever seen in a video game. You get to witness the horror of ''a transorbital lobotomy'' (which involves inserting a metal pick just above the eyeball) from a ''first-person perspective''. Then Atlas brings a hammer into play. And it gets even worse from there when Elizabeth remains defiant and dares Atlas to lobotomize her, prompting him to lose his cool and attempt the same procedure on '''Sally'''!
217	** And keep in mind, this is the same Atlas persona that played you for a sentiment in the very first ''[=BioShock=]''. No, this is not the attitude of the family man Jack knew, this is one of a desperate, ruthless thug, i.e. Frank Fontaine.
218	* The scene where Elizabeth enters the lighthouse and the first thing she sees is Sally, stuck in a red-hot grate with bars, screaming to be let out. Then it multiplies and soon they're in a circle all around her.
219	* The cut [[http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Jockey_Splicer Jockey splicers]]. Even though this is the early years of the Rapture Civil War, these freaks look like something out of ''VideoGame/BioShock2''. Deformed from excessive Shock Jockey drinking, their bodies are covered with huge crystals bristling with electricity and they look even worse than Crawler splicers. It's difficult to express how badly Fink's and Suchong's vigors have mutated them.

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