History TearJerker / BioshockInfinite

* The haunting realization, as you travel around during ''Burial at Sea'', that everyone you meet, every person you run into, is going to end up either dead or an insane splicer. And that, somewhere in all this mess, a tiny Jack Ryan is growing somewhere.

* The ''[[{{Retraux}} Fact from Myth]]'' trailer takes on a more painful tone after finishing the DLC. Especially since the blonde woman in upstate New York who violently refuses to be interviewed after seeing a certain painting is almost definitely Sally, suggesting that she's ''still'' haunted by Elizabeth's death well into TheEighties.

* It's a bit of a small one, but there's a hidden area in Comstock House after the Vox take Columbia, in which the music stops and you hear the radio announcer ask for help. The tone of fear in his voice is just unnerving. Also, doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} in that he's still broadcasting music even in the midst of all-out warfare.

** One thing people tend to miss is when Elizabeth asks the projection of Booker to "just humor her", it did not. It just keeps reminding her regretfully that it is not Booker.

* The ''[[{{Retraux}} Fact from Myth]]'' trailer takes on a more painful tone after finishing the DLC. Especially since the woman in upstate New York who violently refuses to be interviewed after seeing a certain painting may very well be Sally, suggesting that she's ''still'' haunted by Elizabeth's death well into TheEighties.

* The entire sorry state of affairs, the building of Columbia and all its ills, Elizabeth's dimensional kidnapping, lifelong imprisonment, and later emotional and physical torture, ALL of it traces back to the fact that 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:''' [[WhamLine GIVE ME BACK MY DAUGHTER!]]

** '''Elizabeth:''' '''"[[WhamLine I never should have left.]] ''(sobbing)'' I NEVER should have left you there."'''

-->'''Elizabeth:''' *Hysterical* Booker? P-Please! PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME HERE!

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* The entire ending crosses with this and a WhamEpisode. 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 forget his past, which went [[GoneHorriblyRight horribly right]], in one universe, while a different version of himself refused. And the only way to stop all of it is to drown Booker before the baptism [[RetGone so none of it ever happens]].
** '''Booker:''' [[WhamLine GIVE ME BACK MY DAUGHTER!]]
** The sound of Booker's voice when he realizes that Elizabeth is his daughter is especially heartbreaking.
** And after that realization dawns, three words are enough. ''"I sold you... I. Sold you..."''
** There's also his desperate voice during that scene: ''Anna!" "ANNA!"
* When Elizabeth said she would kill Comstock, Booker said he would do it. Turns out they both did. And it's a HeroicSacrifice, since drowning her father ''wipes herself from existence'', as each version of her vanishes.
* The entire sorry state of affairs, the building of Columbia and all its ills, Elizabeth's dimensional kidnapping, lifelong imprisonment, and later emotional and physical torture, ALL of it traces back to the fact that 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.

* Elizabeth's briefly successful attempt to heal a dying horse in an early gameplay trailer. Her reaction to her failure is heartbreaking.
* When the Songbird [[http://youtu.be/attvYJb6xn8?t=2m54s 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. If you've played the game before and know Elizabeth's real relationship with Booker, it becomes even more horrifying.
** The gameplay actually makes the scene even more freaky - Songbird looks MUCH BIGGER!
* 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. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome And Booker immediately stands up to go after them, jumping on the first air rail he finds.]]

* Also from ''Burial at Sea'', the sad fate of Moses Lydecker. After going through all the hard work of converting Fontaine's department store into a prison in just ten days, he's shot by sentry turrets, crippled in both legs, and left trapped inside the store just as Ryan sinks it to the bottom of the ocean. In desperation, he starts sending out audio logs begging for help through the pneumatic tubes, and ''every single one of them'' comes back [[SomebodyElsesProblem unread]]. And [[FromBadToWorse just to make matters worse]], the player comes across his beaten and bloody corpse right after seeing a Splicer step out of his hiding spot, implying that [[MissedHimByThatMuch if Booker and Elizabeth had arrived just a little earlier, they could have saved him]].

** '''Booker:''' [[WhamLine GIVE ME BACK MY DAUGHTER!]] [[BigNo NO!]]

* When the Songbird [[http://youtu.be/attvYJb6xn8?t=2m54s 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 relationship 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 a wrench.]]

* Lady Comstock's audio recordings are increasingly difficult to listen to, as the woman becomes more and more disillusioned by her husband's actions, but feels she can't call him out on them because she once considered herself beyond redemption too, but Comstock offered it anyway. And when she does finally break and decides to confront her husband... [[spoiler:he kills her in cold blood, using her as a martyr to further his own goals.]] And that's not even talking about that time when he [[spoiler:forcibly resurrects her and treats her to a FateWorseThanDeath, so he could use her to kill Booker, and get Elizabeth.]]

* Hearing Elizabeth [[spoiler:be tortured through the tears in the Asylum, begging for mercy and desperately saying she'll be "Comstock's Daughter"]] is just gutwrenching. Worse is the obvious panic in Booker's voice every time he says anything during that portion of the game.

* [[spoiler:The Songbird's 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 its own twisted way, and she cared for it too.]]
** [[spoiler:The Songbird's eyes finally switch to green just before dying, indicating it's in a peaceful mood, having decided to FaceDeathWithDignity.]]
** [[spoiler:Oh, and did you notice the Little Sister crying over a dead Big Daddy in the background, just after Songbird's death? That's how Elizabeth could've been.]]
** [[spoiler:Arguably made just a litle bit sadder, once you've played the Burial DLC, and see just what Songbird went through, and how it pair bonded with Elizabeth in the first place.]]
* 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 forget his past, which went [[GoneHorriblyRight horribly right]], in one universe, while a different version of himself refused. And the only way to stop all of it is to drown Booker before the baptism [[RetGone so none of it ever happens]].]]
** '''Booker:''' [[spoiler:[[WhamLine GIVE ME BACK MY DAUGHTER]]!]]
** The sound of Booker's voice when he realizes [[spoiler:that Elizabeth is his daughter]] is especially heartbreaking.
** And after that realization dawns, three words are enough. [[spoiler:''"I sold you... I. Sold you..."'']].
** There's also his desperate voice during that scene: [[spoiler:''Anna!" "ANNA!"]]
* [[spoiler:When Elizabeth said she would kill Comstock, Booker said he would do it. Turns out they both did. And it's a HeroicSacrifice, since drowning her father ''wipes herself from existence'', as each version of her vanishes.]]
* The entire sorry state of affairs, the building of Columbia and all its 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.
* [[spoiler:She never got to see Paris after all.]]
** [[spoiler:Towards the end of the game, all Booker wants to do ''is'' to forget about the deal and take her to Paris. The strain in his voice makes everything sadder.]]
** A Fridge TearJerker in that, while Booker presumably wanted the girl to wipe away a debt [[spoiler:there is no debt but to themselves. He was going to take her to New York only because that's where he lives and he wanted her to live with/near him, but he forgot about it and mistook that desire for a external order.]]
* Right before Booker and Elizabeth enter the universe where [[spoiler:Booker becomes Comstock after his baptism]], she asks him if this is really what he wants, but you can tell how heartbroken she is in her voice. Even though she knows that this is the only way to stop Comstock, she's still heartbroken by what she has to do.

* Even Booker's office is a bit sad when you look around it enough. There's bottles and decks of cards strewn about, showing his addiction to gambling and drink. But there's a bed in the corner, and the other only room is [[spoiler:Anna's room.]] This makes you stop and think: That possibly Booker had enough debt to the point that he had to sell his house!
** If he even had a house in the first place... That apartment may have been all he ever had, even before the debts.

** Burial at Sea, Episode 2. [[spoiler: Events come full circle for the Franchise, to the first titles Good Ending with Jack and the little sisters. At great cost to Elizabeth. What she did will never be known.]]
* TheStinger is a happy TearJerker because it implies [[spoiler:Anna is in the crib and Booker will finally get to live a normal life with his daughter.]]
* Something that overlaps with FridgeHorror can be found in [[spoiler:[[https://sites.google.com/site/sprage39/video-game-thoughts/bioshockinfinite/whyagoodchunkofthegametakesplacein1914 this post:]] which suggests that ''your'' Elizabeth is never saved from indoctrination.]]
* Out of all the tragedies in this list, absolutely none compare to the flying city itself. Columbia, the ultimate embodiment of mankind's hopes and dreams, the epitome of ingenuity, the bastion of progress and the potential epoch of a glorious future, is utterly twisted and deformed into an absolute nightmare filled with racism, unethical experimentation, false salvation, slavery, unstable timelines, mechanical monstrosities and broken dreams. Seeing something so beautiful become twisted by the same forces that helped build is absolutely depressing for any player. [[spoiler:When Booker and Elizabeth change the timeline so that the city never existed, it's like Travis forcing himself to shoot his beloved Old Yeller who has become rabid to put it out of its misery.]]
* Songbird in general. While it's a monster, the Songbird can't actually help what it is. [[spoiler: It used to be a human being, but it's been altered in a way that makes the handymen look like they've received a mild cosmetic surgery]]. It genuinely loves Elizabeth like a daughter, but it has no idea how to express that in an appropriate way because it's ''literally'' incapable of considering that its behavior might be to her detriment. While it's incredibly dangerous and needs to be stopped before it can harm either Elizabeth or Booker (or pretty much everyone in Columbia, frankly), it's a tragic villain completely at the mercy of modifications made to it by a religious zealot and his hyper-capitalist lackeys.

* After the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sICZlnUObkw ending]] of the first episode, [[spoiler:you might actually feel sorry for this version of Comstock.]]
** [[spoiler:For extra tearjerker points, compare the scene to how it played out in the main game, and how that Booker reacted when he remembered. Constants and variables, indeed...]]
** [[spoiler:This version of Comstock seemed regretful and it seems strange that Elizabeth and the Luteces were holding him in such contempt when it seemed like he'd at least partially redeemed himself, until you remember that instead of living with his guilt like Booker did, Comstock ran away from it and became someone else. Again.]]
** [[spoiler:Made even worse if you assume this entire ordeal was a SecretTestOfCharacter on Elizabeth's part to see if he had [[LastSecondChance truly redeemed]]. This would certainly explains her FlatWhat when Comstock ''agrees'' with her suggestion to turn on the thermostat to lure Sally out, implying she didn't think he'd ''actually'' go through with it. Her anger is likely because this proved he'd not changed at all, putting his own desire for his "daughter" ahead of her safety]].

*** [[spoiler:Worse still, Elizabeth watches with contempt as Booker is violently gutted by a Big Daddy from behind and doesn't even flinch when his blood splatters her face. A testament showing she has completely lost her innocence and in some ways become as bad as Comstock himself]].
** The scene when [[spoiler:Elizabeth is desperately persuading Comstock to not take Booker's beloved daughter, who is the only thing that makes him happy, away. It makes it even worse when you realize that [[FridgeHorror Booker might have gone mad with grief.]]]]
*** Think about that scene even longer, if you can stomach it. [[spoiler:The portal closes on Anna with her head on Comstock's side. Which means Booker was left holding the headless corpse of his child, who wouldn't have been in that situation if not for his own lapse of judgement.]]

* Elizabeth's increasingly DeathSeeker attitude throughout Episode 2, [[spoiler:particularly evident during her near-lobotomy at Atlas' hands, as well as when she knowingly walks to her own death, but not before jeering at Atlas simply to [[GetItOverWith get on with it]]]].
* The ending of Episode 2. So terrible, so bittersweet and so very, very fitting. In particular, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6IA0kKUTso Sally singing "La Vie en Rose"]] to Elizabeth [[spoiler:as she dies.]]
* [[spoiler:It's heartbreaking to see Daisy realize that she's never going to see the revolution succeed if Elizabeth has to kill her. However, she agrees, knowing that Booker and Elizabeth will kill Comstock at the price of her dying for her cause.]]
** [[spoiler: Remember, or go watch a video, of Daisy as she died. She twists about and reaches out for Elizabeth in a desperate manner. This is not becoming of a ruthless maddened killer, but of someone who will never see her efforts come to fruition hoping upon hope that this person before them will see it through. It was the only time she actually SAW Elizabeth, the person she was sacrificing herself towards upon the Luteces advice]]
* Elizabeth is ''absolutely terrified'' when [[spoiler:Atlas is about to perform a trans-orbital lobotomy on her,]] but what's heartbreaking is her voice when Booker leaves her there.

* Booker's appearance in Episode 2 as a whole counts. When you realize who he is, his somber tone and calm voice even with Elizabeth's tougher moments hammer home how much Elizabeth really misses [[spoiler:her father]]. And the almost apologetic tone he uses every time he has to remind her [[spoiler:"I'm not Booker"]] takes the cake.
** [[spoiler:One thing people tend to miss is when Elizabeth asks the projection of Booker to "just humor her", it did not. It just keeps reminding her regretfully that it is not Booker.]]
* The fact that Elizabeth never [[spoiler: got a chance to have any kind of proper life, instead dying in a city as corrupt and horrific as the one she grew up in at the bottom of the ocean where no one even knew her name.]]

* The ''[[{{Retraux}} Fact from Myth]]'' trailer takes on a more painful tone after finishing the DLC. Especially since the woman in upstate New York who violently refuses to be interviewed after seeing a certain painting [[spoiler:may very well be Sally, suggesting that she's ''still'' haunted by Elizabeth's death well into TheEighties.]]

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* It's a bit of a small one, but there's a hidden area in Comstock House after the Vox take Columbia, in which the music stops and you hear the radio announcer ask for help. The tone of fear in his voice is just unnerving. Also, doubles as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming in that he's still broadcasting music even in the midst of all-out warfare.

* 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:''' "I'm sorry. [[WhamLine I never should have left.]] ''(sobbing)'' '''I NEVER should have left you there.'''"

** '''Elizabeth:''' "I'm sorry. [[WhamLineI never should have left.]] ''(sobbing)'' '''I NEVER should have left you there.'''"

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---> I don't know if she was dangerous... or just insane.

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* The fact that, given that Irrational is downsizing and being restructured into a smaller company, this may be the last ''VideoGame/BioShock'' game that the studio may make.

* The ending of Episode 2. So terrible, so bittersweet and so very, very fitting.
* Sally singing "La Vie en Rose" to Elizabeth [[spoiler:as she dies.]]

** Burial At Sea, Episode 2. [[spoiler: Events come full circle for the Franchise, to the first titles Good Ending with Jack and the little sisters. At great cost to Elizabeth. What she did will never be known.]]

* Also from ''Burial At Sea'', the sad fate of Moses Lydecker. After going through all the hard work of converting Fontaine's department store into a prison in just ten days, he's shot by sentry turrets, crippled in both legs, and left trapped inside the store just as Ryan sinks it to the bottom of the ocean. In desperation, he starts sending out audio logs begging for help through the pneumatic tubes, and ''every single one of them'' comes back [[SomebodyElsesProblem unread]]. And [[FromBadToWorse just to make matters worse]], the player comes across his beaten and bloody corpse right after seeing a Splicer step out of his hiding spot, implying that [[MissedHimByThatMuch if Booker and Elizabeth had arrived just a little earlier, they could have saved him]].
* The haunting realization, as you travel around during ''Burial At Sea'', that everyone you meet, every person you run into, is going to end up either dead or an insane splicer. And that, somewhere in all this mess, a tiny Jack Ryan is growing somewhere.

* Elizabeth's increasingly DeathSeeker attitude throughout Episode 2, [[spoiler:particularly evident during her near-lobotomy at Atlas' hands, as well as when she knowingly walks to her own death, but not before jeering at Atlas simply to [[DefiantToTheEnd get on with it]]]].

* Sally singing to Elizabeth [[spoiler:as she dies.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[SayMyName "ELIZA]][[FutileHandReach BETH!"]]'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[FutileHandReach "ELIZABETH!"]]'']]