History BioShockInfinite / TropesQToZ

** In the game's .INI file, a list of commands show that, in addition to all of the weapons and vigors found in the final game (excluding the Vox guns and Undertow), there would've also been acid-tipped crossbows, mortars, "hematoma needles", possibly a third kind of pistol, and the carbines firing in 3-round-bursts by default (before going through another scrapped change of having marksman scopes in 2011's gameplay), along with "Frost Bite", "Fungal Healing", "Rift Tethers", "Spider Trap", "Telekinesis", and "Weapon Slave" vigors.

** In the game's .INI file, a list of commands show that, in addition to all of the weapons and vigors found in the final game (excluding the Vox guns and Undertow), there would've also been acid-tipped crossbows, mortars, "hematoma needles", possibly a third kind of pistol, and the carbines firing in 3-round-bursts by default (before going through another scrapped change of having marksman scopes in 2011's gameplay), along with "Frost Bite", "Fungal Healing", "Kinetic Overflow", "Rift Tethers", "Spider Trap", "Telekinesis", and "Weapon Slave" vigors.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Bioshock Infinite'' changed significantly over the course of its development. Elizabeth, for instance, looked older in the first builds, and seemed to have extreme Vigor powers. The environments in the trailers and earlier gameplay demonstrations were much more dynamic, and there was a kind of environmental destruction not unlike that of the Battlefield games. Comstock possessed a much younger appearance, and seemed to be just a politician. There was no mention of him being a "prophet", and the propaganda seen in Colombia had much less to do with religion or the Founding Fathers. And perhaps most disappointingly, Songbird, who was sidelined to secondary character status in the final product, was a recurring boss that Booker would fight many times over the course of the game.

* RagnarokProofing: Played with. Columbia in general looks more or less more pristine than Rapture even with all the damage and accompanying wear-and-tear.[[spoiler:The whole multiple timeline shtick would also explain why it seems intact even in 1984]]. Over time however, the city does devolve to Rapture levels of decay. The only difference, of course, being that Rapture received more water damage than fire damage while Columbia received the opposite treatment.

* RavensAndCrows: One of the Heavy Hitters is the Crow, who has a small flock of crows surrounding him and can transform into them to move small distances without damage. The "Murder Of Crows" vigor you get from the first one you kill lets you summon a flock, and they definitely play up the creepiness. The idle animation when the Vigor is equipped shows Booker's hand covered in feathers, his nails having turned into long black claws.

** SuperEmpowering: The Boys of Silence are revealed to have tear-inducing abilities similar to Elizabeth's [[spoiler: in the BadFuture. These were likely introduced to them at a young age through the intervention of that reality's Elizabeth, for the purpose of controlling the inmates of [[BedlamHouse Comstock House]]]].

* ShownTheirWork: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkl6HrlP1zw The 2011 VGA trailer]] used a rendition of "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" by the lead voice actors, which drew ire from [[MoralGuardians religious groups]] for removing a lyric with the word "lord." That's an error; the lyric was added in the Carter Family rendition "Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By)", [[NewerThanTheyThink recorded in 1935]]. The devs merely used the original hymn unaltered.... and it's also possible that they knew exactly what they were doing.

* {{Squick}}: In-universe example, every time you brutally murder someone with the hook melee weapon, Elizabeth says things like, "Oh my God!" Kind of appropriate given you're tearing people's heads off.
* StableTimeLoop: Despite dimension hopping shenanigans, the major events and set pieces of the game do not change all that much, and Elizabeth says outright there's [[spoiler:"always a man, always a lighthouse, always a city."]] In the end, it's revealed [[spoiler:the entirety of the events are caused by Booker attending the baptism - which spawns countless iterations of the game's events. The only way to stop it is drown Booker at his baptism.]]

** If you find a sniper rifle lying around, chances are you'll need it very soon.
** If you see a tear for a gun turret or a patriot, not only will you need it, but activating it will cause it to start the fight, which is good for early-jumping ambushes.
** Whenever you pick a new Vigor chances are that you'll need to use them very soon.

* {{Zeerust}}: Columbia manages to feature even more strange Zeerust than [[Franchise/BioShock Rapture]] while it also wallows in Victorian steampunk. What makes it especially bizarre is the patchworkiness of the Zeerust... one location combines somewhat accurate-to-period aesthetics with, of all things, a Fifties ice cream shop. Selling soft-serve. Justified in [[spoiler: Comstock's use of the siphon to control the tears, seeing into multiple futures and gleaning technology, music, and information from them]].

* RedEyesTakeWarning: The Songbird. It has three settings, shown via its eyes: green for at ease, yellow for on guard, and red for hostile.

* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Vigors are implied to be used for their MundaneUtility and commonplace (vigors can be found sitting in the street), however other than two of the Heavy Hitters no enemy mooks choose to use Vigors against Booker (despite the Vox explicitly capturing a facility that manufactures them).

-->'''Motorised Patriot:''' ''The farm is now run by the pigs!''

** [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130401100959/bioshock/images/8/86/Motorized_Patriot.jpg Motorized Patriot]] bear a similarity with the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''. Their [[MoreDakka gatling gun]] is a dead giveaway.

* TownWithADarkSecret: Columbia gives off this vibe no sooner than you set foot in it. It's at first seems quaint and wholesome as you walk around and enjoy the scenery, as long as you take nothing from the odd religious imagery. Then you reach the fair and notice the games have an odd fixation with devil motifs. Then you finally reach the "raffle" and win it [[spoiler: where the prizes turns out to be a public stoning of a interracial couple with you throwing the first stone (or baseball in this case)]]. After this all pretense of Columbia being a nice place is dropped quickly and [[FromBadToWorse it goes downhill from there]]. As it is a [=BioShock=] game, it doesn't really come as a surprise.

* VoiceOfTheLegion: Comstock often speaks to Booker through a microphone that creates a slowed-down, delayed echo of his voice, presumably for dramatic effect. The First Zealot, leader of the Fraternal Order of the Raven, also speaks (without any kind of mic!) in a bizarrely resonant, buzzy sort of voice that seems to have some kind of static-like noise behind it.

** Unlike the first {{BioShock}} game, Columbia's population is still mostly alive, [[spoiler:at least, before the civil war]]. Which makes it weird that Booker can walk around holding machine guns and rocket launchers with no one batting an eye. Given the population's highly jingoistic nature, this may simply be the (il)logical extension of the Second Amendment. No one civilians seem to actually carry firearms, however.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Bioshock Infinite changed significantly over the course of its development. Elizabeth, for instance, looked older in the first builds, and seemed to have extreme Vigor powers. The environments in the trailers and earlier gameplay demonstrations were much more dynamic, and there was a kind of environmental destruction not unlike that of the Battlefield games. Comstock possessed a much younger appearance, and seemed to be just a politician. There was no mention of him being a "prophet", and the propaganda seen in Colombia had much less to do with religion or the Founding Fathers. And perhaps most disappointingly, Songbird, who was sidelined to secondary character status in the final product, was a recurring boss that Booker would fight many times over the course of the game.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Fink's son runs away and disappears after [[spoiler: Elizabeth kills Daisy Fitzroy]] and we never see him again. [[FridgeHorror Given that the area is crawling with Vox soliders, the implications aren't pretty]].

** This quote from a Vox Motorised Patriot, considering [[DirtyCommunists what it]] [[AnimalFarm alludes to]].

* RuleOfSymbolism: It's not a Ken Levine game if it wasn't! Plenty is made of Christian symbolism (and perversions thereof), motifs of red represnting the Vox, the "lamb", et cetra.

---> '''Elizabeth''': Latest in the series. [[DevelopmentHell I heard it was delayed three times]].

** That's not all - You can get an achievement for completing 1999 Mode without buying anything from Dollar Bill machines. Given that they sell health packs, salts, and ammuntion (and are the only machines that do), it's fitting that the achievement's called "Scavenger Hunt." Because you'll be hard-pressed to get through without scrounging for every bag of chips, soda pop, and bullet you can find.

* SequenceBreaking: The second half of the ScenicTourLevel[[note]]i.e. purchasing the Possession Vigour, the heads-or-tails dialog with the Luteces, participating in the LotteryOfDoom, acquiring the Skyhook and Devil's Kiss[[/note]] can be easily skipped by [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd9qFzCme-Q using the Possession billboard as a platform to jump out of bounds]], which drops you later in the game (where you'd normally fight the EliteMook who drops Devil's Kiss) with no enemies. Of course, this also means that the already frustrating EarlyGameHell becomes even moreso; since you don't have a pistol or Vigours, you have to do the Blue Ribbon level armed only with a low-ammo machine gun from the first mook you [[DeathFromAbove Skyline Strike]]. [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything Thankfully, the game gives you the skyhook during its tutorial, and the Possession and Devil's Kiss vigours can be purchased from Veni Vidi Vigour]].

** The sandwich board Robert Lutece wears in one of the encounters [[spoiler:implies Booker has been slain 123 times, the same number of multiversal victims killed in Film/TheOne]].

* ThisIsADrill: The Skyhook is a spinning three-hooked deal that attaches to your left arm; not a ''standard'' drill-arm but a conceptual cousin to it. It's seen being used as a melee weapon long before its intended actual use, riding around on the sky-rails. It can grind its way through people's faces or snap their necks with relative ease. [[MythologyGag The first kill even has the same animation used by Big Daddies, and the sound effect of the slooooow whirring is very close to a drill]].

* ThrowTheBookAtThem: Elisabeth's first reaction when Booker comes crashing into her library? Pelt him with books! Well, they are her most immediately available weapon.

** Unlike the first {{Bioshock}} game, Columbia's population is still mostly alive, [[spoiler:at least, before the civil war]]. Which makes it weird that Booker can walk around holding machine guns and rocket launchers with no one batting an eye. Given the population's highly jingoistic nature, this may simply be the (il)logical extension of the Second Amendment. No one civilians seem to actually carry firearms, however.

* YellowPeril: The [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/94523594@N07/10850026393 Boxer Rebellion]] [[http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/afYcnZ62Wso/maxresdefault.jpg exhibit]] at the [[http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18kcf4575bzo2jpg/k-bigpic.jpg Hall of Heroes.]]

* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Naturally part of [[spoiler:Elizabeth's first murder]], though the words aren't spoken aloud.

* UniqueEnemy: There's exactly one Vox-Populi-aligned Handyman in the main game, all others belong to the Founders.

* TheSavageIndian: The Wounded Knee exhibit at Hall of Heroes portrays Native Americans as savages with glowing eyes.

* YellowPeril: The [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/94523594@N07/10850026393 Boxer Rebellion]] [[http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/afYcnZ62Wso/maxresdefault.jpg exhibit]] at the Hall of Heroes.

-->'''Motorized Patriot''': T'was yellow skin and slanted eyes\

Until they crossed the righteous path\

* RevolversAreJustBetter: While you do get a [[CoolGuns Mauser]] as your first sidearm, this trope pops up with the Paddywhacker revolver-a gun so powerful it's actually referred to in-game as the Paddywhacker HandCannon.

* YellowPeril: The Boxer Rebellion exhibit at the Hall of Heroes.

** Unlike the first {{Bioshock}} game, Columbia's population is still mostly alive,[[spoiler: at least, before the civil war]]. Which makes it weird that Booker can walk around holding machine guns and rocket launchers with no one batting an eye. Given the population's highly jingoistic nature, this may simply be the (il)logical extension of the Second Amendment. No one civilians seem to actually carry firearms, however.

* QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything: All the superpowers, SchizoTech, MindScrew, and even the floating buildings in the game? It's all done with quantum mechanics... though the way the Lutece twins mention how it's done, it almost sounds like they don't believe it either - most of the technology, as well as most of ''pop culture'' is actually the result of using quantum mechanics to spy on other realities. It's still a well-researched and presented example, though;

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