History Awesome / BioShock1

* Setting Sander Cohen's Quadytch ''on fire'' after finishing it. And, when Cohen goes ballistic, killing him and getting the Irony achievement for snapping a picture of his corpse.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14pQ5B0iTUs Andrew Ryan's death.]] He knows he is going to die either way, so he decides to go out the way he chooses to. "[[IronicEcho A man chooses ...]]"

* As Ryan gasses her lab for breach of contract, Dr. Langford uses the last of her strength to write down the code to her safe, allowing Jack to create [[GreenThumb the Lazarus Vector]].

* As Ryan gasses her lab for breach of contract, Dr. Lanford uses the last of her strength to write down the code to her safe, allowing Jack to create [[GreenThumb the Lazarus Vector]].

* Anya Andersdotter, a minor character (present in only two audio diaries), loses her daughter to the Little Sisters programme. Despite being utterly untrained as an assassin (she came to Rapture to design ladies' shoes), she decided to go after Ryan by herself in order to get her daughter back... and ''very nearly succeeded'', judging by her unusually prominent place on Ryan's trophy wall for such an apparently unimportant individual.

* TheReveal that Frank Fontaine's was the mastermind behind ''the entire thing'' definitely counts as well, and instantly seals his spot as a MagnificentBastard. While many such Bastards are indeed Magnificent, not very many have sold themselves as such within the first ''minute'' of their entry into the story.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14pQ5B0iTUs Andrew Ryan's death.]] He knows he is going to die either way, so he decides to go out the way he chooses to. "[[IronicEcho A man chooses ...]]"
* A Big Daddy giving Suchong his awesomely appropriate KarmicDeath. You get a front row seat in ''Infinite: Burial At Sea''.

* Setting Sander Cohen's Quadytch ''on fire'' after finishing it. And, when Cohen goes ballistic, killing him and getting the Irony achievement for snapping a picture of his corpse.

* The scene where Sander Cohen thinks you're mocking his masterpiece and sends several Splicers after you while Waltz of the Flowers plays. It's such an incredible scene. Seriously, try not to be amazed when you whack a Splicer and they go twirling off to the side as if it's some grotesque ballet. And the fact that Sander shouts out "Fly, little moth. Fly!" and "Smile! SMILE!" like it really IS a grotesque ballet makes it all the more better.
* It is possible to engineer a situation in which two Big Daddies fight to the death while a Little Sister is standing in the background shouting "Hit him, Mr. B!" Doing this requires that you die with a vita-chamber close enough for you to run back and watch the action after your resurrection, but it's well worth it. Or save enough Little Sisters to get the Hypnotize Big Daddy plasmid, use it on one Daddy, then find a second with a Little Sister, shoot the Sister's BD with one bullet, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2gNzQaAwTs watch the chaos.]]
* Anytime you manage to kill a Big Daddy with one well-executed plan in one fell swoop definitely counts, considering the scarcity of ammo and the sheer toughness of the guys.

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* Anytime you manage to kill a Big Daddy with one well-executed plan in one fell swoop definitely counts, considering the scarcity of ammo and the sheer toughness of the

* Anytime you manage to kill a Big Daddy with one well-executed plan in one fell swoop definitely counts, considering the scarcity of ammo and the sheer toughness of the guys.
* The EstablishingCharacterMoment for Big Daddies. A Little Sister screaming for help when attacked by a Splicer prompts her respective Big Daddy to charge in. The Splicer tries shooting it with a revolver, but the bullets bounce off its suit, and when he tries to run away it [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill smacks him into a wall, uses its drill to punch a hole in him when he gets back up, then grabs him by the head and repeatedly slams him against the floor,]] and actually sends him through a window made of bullet proof glass.

** Just three words: "''Would you kindly?''" The part where he pretends that his family is aboard a bathysphere that Ryan blows up, just to fuel the player's motivation against Ryan. Except Ryan didn't even acknowledge the sub or any of its passengers. He only states his intention to kill ''you'', a key pawn in Frank Fontaine's EvilPlan, and it is Atlas, Fontaine's alias, who was last seen fiddling with the sub controls. Fontaine more likely rigged the sub to explode beforehand in preparation for Jack's return to Rapture. He ''is'' a MagnificentBastard, after all.

* Holding off an army of Ryan's splicers while the Lazarus Vector cooks in Langham's lab. Followed by TheReveal that Frank Fontaine's was the mastermind behind ''the entire thing'' definitely counts as well, and instantly seals his spot as a MagnificentBastard. While many such Bastards are indeed Magnificent, not very many have sold themselves as such within the first ''minute'' of their entry into the story. Just three words: "''Would you kindly?''" The part where he pretends that his family is aboard a bathysphere that Ryan blows up, just to fuel the player's motivation against Ryan. Except Ryan didn't even acknowledge the sub or any of its passengers. He only states his intention to kill ''you'', a key pawn in Frank Fontaine's EvilPlan, and it is Atlas, Fontaine's alias, who was last seen fiddling with the sub controls. Fontaine more likely rigged the sub to explode beforehand in preparation for Jack's return to Rapture. He ''is'' a MagnificentBastard, after all.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[PassThePopcorn All I need now is come popcorn...]]-]]

* Anya Andersdotter, a minor character (present in only two audio diaries), loses her daughter to the Little Sisters programme. Despite being utterly untrained as an assassin (she came to Rapture to design ladies' shoes), she decided to go after Ryan by herself in order to get her daughter back... and ''very nearly succeeded'', judging by her unusually prominent place on Ryan's trophy wall.

* The EstablishingCharacterMoment for Big Daddies. A Little Sister screaming for help when attacked by a Splicer prompts her respective Big Daddy to charge in. The Splicer tries shooting it with a revolver, but the bullets bounce off its suit, and when he tries to run away it [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill smacks him into a wall, uses its drill to punch a hole in him when he gets back up, then grabs him by the head and repeatedly slams him against the floor,]] and actually sends him through a window made of bullet proof glass.

* [[spoiler: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14pQ5B0iTUs Andrew Ryan's death.]] He knows he is going to die either way, so he decides to go out the way he chooses to. "[[IronicEcho A man chooses ...]]"]]
* A Big Daddy giving [[spoiler: Suchong his awesomely appropriate KarmicDeath.]] You get a front row seat in ''Infinite: Burial At Sea''.

* Holding off an army of Ryan's splicers while the Lazarus Vector cooks in Langham's lab.
** Followed by TheReveal that [[spoiler:Frank Fontaine's was the mastermind behind ''the entire thing'']] definitely counts as well, and instantly seals his spot as a MagnificentBastard. While many such Bastards are indeed Magnificent, not very many have sold themselves as such within the first ''minute'' of their entry into the story. Just three words: "''[[spoiler:Would you kindly?]]''"
*** The part where he [[spoiler:pretends that his family is aboard a bathysphere that Ryan blows up, just to fuel the player's motivation against Ryan.]]
*** Except [[spoiler:Ryan didn't even acknowledge the sub or any of its passengers. He only states his intention to kill ''you'', a key pawn in Frank Fontaine's EvilPlan, and it is Atlas, Fontaine's alias, who was last seen fiddling with the sub controls. Fontaine more likely rigged the sub to explode beforehand in preparation for Jack's return to Rapture. He ''is'' a MagnificentBastard, after all.]]
* Setting Sander Cohen's Quadytch ''on fire'' after finishing it. And, when [[spoiler:Cohen goes ballistic, killing him and getting the Irony achievement for snapping a picture of his corpse]].

* The scene where Sander Cohen [[spoiler:thinks you're mocking his masterpiece and sends several Splicers after you]] while Waltz of the Flowers plays. It's such an incredible scene. Seriously, try not to be amazed when [[spoiler:you whack a Splicer and they go twirling off to the side as if it's some grotesque ballet]]. And the fact that Sander shouts out [[spoiler: "Fly, little moth. Fly!" and "Smile! SMILE!" like it really IS a grotesque ballet]] makes it all the more better.
* It is possible to engineer a situation in which two Big Daddies fight to the death while a Little Sister is standing in the background shouting "Hit him, Mr. B!" Doing this requires that you die with a vita-chamber close enough for you to run back and watch the action after your resurrection, but it's well worth it.
** Or save enough Little Sisters to get the Hypnotize Big Daddy plasmid, use it on one Daddy, then find a second with a Little Sister, shoot the Sister's BD with one bullet, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2gNzQaAwTs watch the chaos.]]

* It is possible to engineer a situation in which two Big Daddies fight to the death while a Little Sister is standing in the background shouting "Hit him, Mr. B!" Doing requires that you die with a vita-chamber close enough for you to run back and watch the action after your resurrection, but it's well worth it.

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