History Characters / BioShock

* DecompositeCharacter: In ''Bioshock 1'', Spider Splicers used the Toasty, Baby Jane, Waders, and Rosebud models, which are among the most disfigued and mentally unstable splicer archetypes. In ''Bioshock 2'', all Spider Splicers use the more explicitly grotesque Crawler model.

* {{Mook}}: Thuggish and Leadhead Splicers, the former tends to run right at people to smack them with a blunt object and the latter uses fairly common firearms. They're [[TheGoomba not even worth hypnotizing]], frankly. Leadhead Splicers get a lot more dangerous in the second game after they start packing Tommy guns and shotguns, though.

* FlawedPrototype: Costly, overpowered, [[GlassCannon fragile,]] and only capable of bonding with one Little Sister, with catastrophic results if she dies or is saved by Tenenbaum. They were retired ''with good reason''.

* FlawedPrototype: Costly, overpowered, and only capable of bonding with one Little Sister, with catastrophic results if she dies or is saved by Tenenbaum. They were retired ''with good reason''.

* TheDreaded: Anybody in Rapture that retains any concept of self-preservation is terrified of The Protectors. As shown in the intro where a Protector unwittingly saves Jack by scaring off two splicers who were about to harvest adam from him.

* TheDreaded: Anybody in Rapture that retains any concept of self-preservation is terrified of these things.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The second time the player sees one. Right as Splicer attacks a Little Sister, the Bouncer she was paired with charges in with a bone-chilling roar, smashes the Splicer against a glass wall hard enough that it breaks, [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill uses his drill to punch a hole in him, and then picks him up by the head and slams him into the floor over and over until his skull has been reduced to paste]]. Then it goes back to its usual docile self and follows his Little Sister meekly out of the room, ignoring you. This makes one thing clear as day: don't mess with the Little Sister and they won't mess you up.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: They are outrageously vocal homophobes. Which is kind of odd, as ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite: Burial at Sea - Episode One'' establishes that Rapture was surprisingly progressive regarding homosexuality for its time period before the civil war.

** ''Characters/BioShockInfiniteProtagonists''

--> "The Voice Of Great Multitude! The voices! Leave me alone, you fuckers! ''I know!'' '''I KNOOOW!'''"
--> "Stop trying to speak through me, O Lord! You know I am not worthy! ''Please!''"

--> "She must be sacrificed! ''For all of us!"''
--> "By God, I shall cast you open!"

--> "''Fuck, God damn it!'' '''I HATE BEES!'''"
--> "'''"NOT THE BEES, NOT THEM!"''' ''(Screaming in pain)''
--> "''I don't like bees!'' '''Get away from me!'''"

--> "Great Harlot, ''be judged!''"
--> [[Literature/BookOfRevelation "Whore of Babylon!"]]
--> "Harlot! ''Abomination!''"

* EliteMooks: This is especially true of the Alpha Series in ''[=BioShock=] 2'', since they can show up without Little Sisters and are hostile from the start.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The second time the player sees one. Right as Splicer attacks a Little Sister, the Bouncer she was paired with charges in with a bone-chilling roar, smashes the Splicer against a glass wall hard enough that it breaks, [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill uses his drill to punch a hole in him, and then picks him up by the head and slams him into the floor over and over until his skull has been reduced to paste]]. Then it goes back to its usual docile self and follows his Little Sister meekly out of the room.

* LightningBruiser: Once enraged, the Bouncer can move ''fast''.

* NiceHat: He wears either a black or white fedora. Some versions in the second game also sport top-hats.

* NiceHat: Brutes are often seen wearing bowlers.

* AdultFear: Like the Rosebud splicer, she misses her kids, however, we don't know what happened to her them or if they were even in Rapture in the first place.

* AdultFear: Her daughter was taken to be a Little Sister and the act in itself didn't do any wonders.

* MightyGlacier: The slowest Big Daddy model, but also the toughest and the Rivet Gun does a lot of damage.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Juliet Landau (''[=BioShock=]'', ''Burial at Sea''), Jordelle Ferland (''[=BioShock=] 2'')

* ImplacableMan: The Big Daddies are extremely tough, and once enraged, will not stop until either they or their attackers are dead.

* CowboyCop

* AmbiguousInnocence: But they would be completely innocent in other circumstances.