History Fridge / BioShock

* The plasmid videos all portray caricatures of various splicer models as the victims of the demonstrations. Waders is in Electric Bolt, Mrs. Smith is in Freeze and Decoy, Breadwinner is in Enrage, Dr. Grossman is in Incinerate, Pigskin is in Insect Swarm, Ducky is in Enrage and Sonic Boom, Baby Jane is in Telekenesis, and Rose is in Vortex Trap. Toasty is arguably the thief in Security Beacon. -RainingMetal
* So Rapture is a contained city, with the Big Daddies keeping it from leaking TOO much, with enough room inside for MAYBE 5000 people. So why is it that Splicers (Who kill each other and the Big Daddies, if they can.) and the Big Daddies seem to keep showing up? Because the Big Daddies fix the Vita-Chambers first (Admit it, when was the last the last time you saw a broken, or even a damaged Vita-chamber?) and those same Vita-Chambers still have all the citizens DNA in them, so they KEEP GETTING BROUGHT BACK. Which also explains the limited amount of models for splicers in the game. And then it strays into Fridge Horror...

* FridgeHorror: The [[ApocalypticLog audio diaries]] are [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel unsettling enough]] already, but it wasn't until my fifth or sixth playthrough that one of the ads I had been seeing all along hit home: these diaries are made by Fontaine Futuristics. About two-thirds of the way through the first game, you learn that Frank Fontaine [[spoiler:is the son of a bitch who has been manipulating you the entire time]]. [[PlayerPunch And every single audio diary you've seen, as well as the ones you haven't seen, put money in his pocket]].

** YourMileageMayVary applies, but [[spoiler:giving the player bad karma for what looks like a clear act of [[MercyKill mercy]]. Makes a lot more sense when you remember that ''Gilbert Alexander'' effectively is already dead. '''Alex the Great''' clearly wants to live and won't be able to hurt anyone that the player wouldn't have killed also.]] The player has no right to decide that his quality of life is unworthy for him.

* This troper at first wondered why Andrew Ryan ordered you to kill him, since that's exactly what you were going to do regardless. Then I realized what his last words actually meant. "A man chooses... a slave obeys." He is choosing, and you are obeying.

* This troper has seen at least one person express his dislike of Gil Alexander/Alex the Great on the premise that the developers tried to make him too much like Sander Cohen and created what was essentially a bad knock-off. When this troper reached that part of the game and found out what had been done to Gil, he started to think that maybe the reason he acted so much like Cohen was because he probably had some of Cohen's ADAM spliced into him, giving him his thoughts and memories, and possibly even some aspects of his personality which took over. The great Sander Cohen isn't one to share the spotlight, after all...

* I was thinking about the ADAM making process according to the diaries involving [[spoiler:a parasitic sea slug implanted in the little sister's stomach]] and then I realized [[spoiler:they regurgitate the ADAM.]] I'm now realizing I've been injecting myself with [[spoiler:children's vomit]] this whole time.

* The button you use to shoot your shotgun, pistol, machine gun, chemical thrower, crossbow, and grenade launcher is the same button you use to "shoot" your camera. --Billy Bob Joe
** Elaborate?
** You shoot splicers with guns, but you can also shoot them with a camera.
*** That's because it uses the exact same mechanic and is equipped like another weapon. Changing the controls of the game just for a camera would be downright stupid. This isn't Fridge Brilliance, this is just plain normal.

* I was annoyed at Eleanor's insistence on saving her mother in the good ending. Then I realized two separate things:
** One: She was following your example, esp. re: Stanley Poole, the DirtyCoward in Dionysus Park who sold both Eleanor and You to the Little Sister and Big Daddy programs. If you spare him (and you have to to get [[MultipleEndings this ending]]), she looks through your memories of Poole and applies them to her mother.
** Two: It's arguably a case of CruelMercy, because Lamb is effectively stranded on that escape [[BuffySpeak bathyshere-pod-thing]] with no provisions, without the help of her daughter, with whom she's living on borrowed time anyway. Oh yeah, and the nearest landmass? ''The lighthouse marking the entrance to Rapture, which she just left in order to unleash her creation on the world.'' So we have a SadisticChoice between running back to Rapture with her tail between her legs, or dying slowly of starvation, dehydration, exposure, or all three. Suck on ''that'' one, ''[[PrecisionFStrike Bitch.]]''
*** This troper would like to expand on that. Sophia Lamb's success in making the cult occured because it was in the HiddenElfVillage of Rapture. Could she do it on the surface at all? Even if she gets back to civilization, how can she do anything? How can she explain her absence for 20 years?
** Eleanor pretty much spells it out in the good ending - she is challenging her mother's belief that humanity is doomed by its own selfishness by saving her, even though Sofia thinks she has been tainted by Delta's beliefs.

*** Emphasis on the "presumably." It seems more likely that Andrew Ryan offering Rapture to people who shared his philsophical views rather than an across-the-board "best and brightest." The scientific minds we see in Rapture range from the clinically detached to the sociopathic, and that was before they even came to Rapture. And to judge by the meager hints we've gotten of the world outside of Rapture, it doesn't look like their disappearances made a huge impact on the world.

** I think the page for the game argues that this is probably intentional. This is a game that was previewed as being relatively open ala [DeusEx] or [SystemShock] and the big reveal is that you've had no freedom the entire time (and you'll continue to have no freedom, as Tennebaum has you do her will after you kill Ryan).

* Upon reading the novel, the reason the city was named "Rapture" hit me. The chosen (smart, rich people with a lot of stick-to-itivenes) are spirited away to paradise, while the unworthy (everyone else) face the end of the world ([[EarthShatteringKaboom nuclear war]]). The Rapture civil war could also be an allegory for the War in Heaven (paradise becomes a battle-field).

* Upon reading the novel, the reason the city was named "Rapture" hit me. The chosen (smart, rich people with a lot of stick-to-itivenes) are spirited away to paradise, while the unworthy (everyone else) face the end of the world ([[EarthShatteringKaboom nuclear war]]).

* Upon reading the novel, the reason the city was named "Rapture" hit me. The chosen (smart, rich people with a lot of stick-to-itivenes) are spirited away to paradise, while the unworthy (everyone else) face the end of the world ([[EarthShatteringKaboom nuclear war).

* Upon reading the novel, the reason the city was named "Rapture" hit me. The chosen are spirited away to paradise, while the unworthy face annihilation.

* Got peeved off by the difficulty change in Bioshock 2? Consider this: the only living non-spliced people were in hiding (Tenenbaum, Grace Holloway, Stanley Poole) and the rest were immediately killed by splicers. Splicers are constantly battling each other to harvest ADAM from their corpses. So between Jack's departure and Delta's resurrection, splicers have been fighting each other with the better spliced one prevailing, and the ones Delta fought were the strongest of the strong. In other words, ''natural selection justifies having a Big Daddy as a protagonist.''