History Headscratchers / BioShockInfinite

** The weird thing is that I only ever came across two of these: the one with the glowing eyes and the cracked mask face, and the one wearing a Lady Liberty head. And then they never show up again? It kinda feels like they're an enemy type that got cut at the last second, but these two were accidentally left in.

* Is it faked, or is it real? Cohen probably had an actual mustache, but in ''Burial at Sea'', it looks like it was drawn on. So do his eyebrows. For reference, see this [[http://i.neoseeker.com/neo_image/81602/news/7/cohen_trailerscreen_web.jpg picture.]] and [[http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/684846174479082699/0738DB5190CAB9B83EF0E74CC9CD9CCB1D44F84E/ this one.]] (WARNING: UncannyValley+NightmareFuel)

* Why are there Vigors in 1959's Rapture? If they were Plasmids in any other thing except name I'd understand, but they are not only most of the same Vigors you find in Columbia (including "Shock Jockey" instead of Electro Bolt) and they make people crazy, but they are not injected. (INB4 they are using the ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' engine. I'm sure they could have tweaked it a bit if they really meant to.)

** So, in short, Elisabeth is able to subconsciously open a rift to any one of the universes that have events happen the way that would be most efficient for what she currently wants. However what she wants and what her actual goal is don't always like up which in this case meant she opened a rift to a universe where Chen Lin wasn't killed by the cops and is equipment wasn't confiscated but subconsiously she went with the one where a revolt was in progress because that's what she ''really'' wanted to see happen.

** So, in short, Elisabeth is able to subconsciously open a rift to any one of the universes that have events happen the way that would be most efficient for what she currently wants/needs.

* If the theory that Annabelle DeWitt and Lady Comstock being the same person is true, then why doesn't Booker recognize his own wife? It's not like he can miss her. Her pictures and statues are all over the city.

*** It's also possible Booker's memory of his wife's appearance is one of the things locked behind the nursery door, so to speak. Annabelle DeWitt probably died young and would very, ''very'' likely not be down with Booker selling Elizabeth, and his guilt, grief and trauma related to her death would probably play into the Tear amnesia he gets.

Rapture being fine with plasmids makes sense as self-improvement and body modification fits better with objectivist views but Columbia is inhabited by hyper-militant fundamentalist christians. Changing your body (as it would be seen as altering God's work) and what are basically magic powers would most certainly not be fine with that crowd. It mostly feels like they added it in just so the gameplay wouldn't be too different from the previous games.

-->'''Elizabeth:''' I'm not even his daughter...\\

** A generally missed detail is in the book "Mind in Revolt" which was released as an add-on to the base game years ago. In it, scientist Francis Pinchot interviews Daisy Fitzroy at Comstock House to find out how to "cleanse sin from the body", which he deems can be done through mental evaluation and Phrenology. However, by the end of the book he's horrified that only way to clean the body of sin is through surgical experiments meant to torture dissenters into submission. Unfortunately he doesn't manage to stop such tortures from happening, and his research is unfortunately used to turn Comstock House into a mental asylum / "rehabilitation centre" by the time Elizabeth rises to power.

** A generally missed detail is in the book "Mind in Revolt" which was released as an add-on to the base game years ago. In it, scienist Francis Pinchot interviews Daisy Fitzroy at Comstock House to find out how to "cleanse sin from the body", which he deems can be done through mental evaluation and Phrenology. However, by the end of the book he comes to the horrific realization that the only way to clean the body of sin is through surgical experiments meant to torture dissenters into submission. So, it is through those studies that Comstock House is turned into a mental asylum by the time Elizabeth rises to power.

** A generally missed detail is in the book "Mind in Revolt" which was released as an add-on to the base game years ago. In it, scienist Francis Pinchot interviews Daisy Fitzroy at Comstock House to find out how to "cleanse sin from the body", which he deems can be done through mental evaluation and Phrenology. Throughout the book however, he comes to the horrific realization that the only way to clean the body of sin is through surgical experiments meant to torture dissenters into submission. So, it is through those studies (Presented in the book post-humously by a fellow colleague) that Comstock House is turned into a mental asylum by the time Elizabeth rises to power.

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* After Elizabeth's InnocenceLost moment with Fitzroy, that led her to give herself a clothing and [[ExpositoryHairstyles Hair]] change, only the most critical of players would have ignored the RuleOfSexy, and questioned how she managed to lace up that corset by herself. At least until the game actually makes you help tie her corset back up after you rescue her from being tortured.

*** For someone who seems so adamant that people discussing plot details just shut up and take what the game tells you at face value, you sure are quick to jump to conclusions without in-game confirmation yourself.

** Pretty sure someone else mentioned this earlier and it was essentially HandWaved. I don't think we'll ever get a clear answer for this aside from GameplayandStorySegregation and the fact that if he did dislocate his shoulder the game wouldn't be nearly as much fun as it is.

* How comes Elizabeth, who spent her whole life in a tower, is not the least bit disturbed that she's now doing exactly what her father forbid her to do? Why doesn't she have a brief FreakOut ala ''Disney/{{Tangled}}''?

** He actually doesn't remember. Shortly after you meet Elizabeth for the first time, she asks Booker if he's married. He says he was, but his wife died in childbirth, and when Elizabeth asks if he has a child, he simply says "No." As Rosalind Lutece says in the epigram that begins the game, a person who's brought into an alternate timeline will automatically begin to fashion a set of alternate memories to accommodate the conflict. As far as Booker's concerned, he's a childless, widowed war veteran and ex-Pinkerton who's come to Columbia to discharge a gambling debt by finding a girl. Any time someone tells him things are otherwise, he gets a nosebleed and insists that what he remembers is the gospel truth. It takes Elizabeth at full power to break the conditioning and force him to admit what the truth of the matter really is. The Luteces could tell him the real story until they were blue in the face but it wouldn't do any good.

** While the fact of going through a Tear scramble normal minds, don't forget that Booker's mind came ''already'' scrambled before the twins takes him through the Tear. Remember, he is a vet, suffering PSTD, who loses his wife in childbirth, before ''his child gets stolen by a flippin' dimension traveler and gets {{Fingore}}d by a {{Portal Cut}}''. Do not ask why is Booker not remembering his child, ask how he managed to be a barely functional individual without an army of badass therapists to back him up. Heck, as far as I can see, the passage through the initial Tear probably ''repaired'' a good deal of his psyche.