History Literature / BioShockRapture

** Tenebaum approaches the fisheries for lab specimens while recalling how her last job ended when she [[WorstAid performed an injection]] [[GroinAttack on a man's more delicate region]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Alot of it to later events in the story as well as the games

* GilliganCut: When hearing about a emergency involving sabotage, Andrew Ryan guesses that Bill is already dealing with it. Cut to Bill (knee-deep in water) wondering how on earth he's going to deal with the emergency.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Andrew Ryan's hypocrisy grows through the story. Even at the very start it’s revealed that Ryan founded his empire on oil which he discovered purely by luck, even though he’s so insistent on self-sufficiency. He abhors taxes, but puts a surcharge on the oxygen produced by his park when he needs to build more capital to compete with Frank Fontaine's rising business. He takes over Fontaine Fisheries by force. In the later stages of the book he’s even using black market goods like pork and smoking cigars.

* BodyHorror: Attention is called to the deformities that Splicers suffer from, along with the destructive effects that Plasmids cause when used on their victims. And that's not counting the experimental subjects that Plasmids were tested out on, of which special mention goes to the... ''thing'' in the Special Studies room...
-->Clinging to the walls opposite Fontaine was something that might've once been human. It was as if someone had taken human flesh and made it as malleable as clay--bones and flesh made pliable--and [[MeatMoss plastered it onto the wall]].

* RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic: Not only do some characters have a few "um"s and pauses in their sentences, but its revealed that most of the characters except Andrew Ryan have a few lines that like to throw out. Some of the audiodiaries are revealed to be polished performances of previous conversation (the characters side of it anyway) and stories they frequently tell. A few characters "quote" single sentences either from the their dares or even monologues in the games, implying they have a few practiced lines they like to throw out when appropriate.

* SarcasmBlind: Fontaine discovers through Tenenbaum and Suchong that more ADAM can be made by implanting the slug that produces the substance into little girls. Faced with the obvious hurdle of finding girls to host the slug, he sarcastically asks if they can order them from a catalog. Suchong does not pick up on the sarcasm, and remarks that he has not heard of any such catalog.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Andrew Ryan's hypocrisy grows through the story. Even at the very start it is revealed that Ryan founded his empire on oil which he discovered purely by luck, even though he is so insistent on self-sufficiency. He abhors taxes, but puts a surcharge on the oxygen produced by his park when he needs to build more capital to compete with Frank Fontaine's rising business. He takes over Fontaine Fisheries by force. In the later stages of the book he is even using black market goods like pork and smoking cigars.

** In a different vein, it is mentioned that a group of constables betrayed Andrew Ryan by aiding Atlas and his followers in attacking the upper-class New Year's party at the Kashmir Restaurant. Constable Cavendish is mentioned to have shot these traitorous officers.

** [[spoiler: Sullivan]] himself becomes this, as he extrajudicially murders [[spoiler: Anna Culpepper by drowning her]] late into the book. It is implied that he [[spoiler: later commits suicide out of guilt.]]

* TheFettered: Bill throughout the book. He sees everything going wrong, but can't bring himself to turn against Andrew Ryan--partly out of loyalty to the man who gave him a chance, and mostly out of concern for [[AdultFear what'll happen to his family]] if he's arrested.