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** Ken Levine actually [[http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/23/us-videogames-protest-idUSTRE7AM2M220111123 visited several Occupy Wall Street protests]] in order to make the atmosphere of the protests depicted in the game more authentic.
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That is subversion, not deconstruction.
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** Elizabeth is also shaping up to be a deconstruction of the SaveThePrincess trope, from her combat skills to her relationship with her captor Songbird.
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** The man giving the speech in the gazebo sounds exactly like [[VentureBrothers Doctor Orpheus]], although Steven Rattazzi's participation has not been confirmed or denied yet.
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* ComplacentGamingSyndrome / SelfImposedChallenge: Veteran gamers who didn't like the instaspawn of ''{{BioShock}}'' can play [[http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/16214/veteran-gamers-will-get-a-system-shock-with-1999-mode-in-bioshock-infinite 1999 Mode]]. Gotta pick specializations, and stick with them, for better or worse. If you don't have the resources when you're killed, it's GameOver (which is an homage to ''SystemShock'' if you didn't have enough nanites).
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* SelfImposedChallenge: The rare official variety, which was added to combat ComplacentGamingSyndrome. Veteran gamers who didn't like the instaspawn of ''{{BioShock}}'' can play [[http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/16214/veteran-gamers-will-get-a-system-shock-with-1999-mode-in-bioshock-infinite 1999 Mode]]. Gotta pick specializations, and stick with them, for better or worse. If you don't have the resources when you're killed, it's GameOver (which is an homage to ''SystemShock'' if you didn't have enough nanites).
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* ChallengeGamer ComplacentGamingSyndrome / SelfImposedChallenge: Veteran gamers who didn't like the instaspawn of ''{{BioShock}}'' can play [[http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/16214/veteran-gamers-will-get-a-system-shock-with-1999-mode-in-bioshock-infinite 1999 Mode]]. Gotta pick specializations, and stick with them, for better or worse. If you don't have the resources when you're killed, it's GameOver (which is an homage to ''SystemShock'' if you didn't have enough nanites).
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* ChallengeGamer / SelfImposedChallenge: Veteran gamers who didn't like the instaspawn of ''{{BioShock}}'' can play [[http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/16214/veteran-gamers-will-get-a-system-shock-with-1999-mode-in-bioshock-infinite 1999 Mode]]. Gotta pick specializations, and stick with them, for better or worse. If you don't have the resources when you're killed, it's GameOver (which is an homage to ''SystemShock'' if you didn't have enough nanites).
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: The game will apparently take on themes such as American Exceptionalism, as well as the racism and xenophobia of the late-19th and early 20th century America. [[WordOfGod Ken Levine]], however, [[http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/10/01/ken-levine-bioshock-infinite-is-not-about-the-tea-party.aspx denies]] claims that the game is a thinly veiled parody of the Tea Parties.
** Recent previews show that Vox Populi (which have the exact opposite ideology as the city's rulers) are just as bad, so it's more of a TakeThat at political extremism in general.
** Recent previews show that Vox Populi (which have the exact opposite ideology as the city's rulers) are just as bad, so it's more of a TakeThat at political extremism in general.
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* ShownTheirWork: A recent 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)", [[OlderThanTheyThink recorded in 1935.]] The devs merely used the original hymn unaltered.
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** It's worse than [[BioShock Rapture]]!
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** [[JustifiedTrope The Skylines weren't intended]] for people's use, according to [[WordOfGod Ken Levine]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XYPgH_HFCU&feature=relmfu in a video]].
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Made a mistake. \"Can the Circle\" is the country sound appropriated from the hymn. The hymn is what she is actually singing.
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->''You can picture happy gatherings 'round the fireside long ago\\
And you think of tearful partings when they left you here below.\\
Will the circle be unbroken by and by\\
By and by?\\
Is a better home awaitin' in the sky\\
In the sky?''
-->-- Can the Circle Be Unbroken, as sung by Elizabeth
And you think of tearful partings when they left you here below.\\
Will the circle be unbroken by and by\\
By and by?\\
Is a better home awaitin' in the sky\\
In the sky?''
-->-- Can the Circle Be Unbroken, as sung by Elizabeth
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** At least this is acknowledged by making significant falls from rail to rail hurt Booker.
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* {{Expy}}: The Handymen bear more than a little resemblance to [[Literature/LandOfOz Tik-Tok]].
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* {{Expy}}: Columbia is pretty much what would happen if [[CastleInTheSky Laputa]] was created by America.
** The Handymen pretty much look just like the Laputa Robots with human parts.
** The Handymen bear more than a little resemblance to [[Literature/LandOfOz Tik-Tok]].
** The Handymen pretty much look just like the Laputa Robots with human parts.
** The Handymen bear more than a little resemblance to [[Literature/LandOfOz Tik-Tok]].
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** The Vigor "Murder of Crow", both in its nature for summoning killer crows, and the fact the word "murder" is another way of saying "group of crows".
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* EvilVsEvil: Make your pick: Comstock's Founders, who are racist, jingoistic pigs, or Fitzroy's Vox Populi, who are chaotic, morally blind, and destructive.
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* EvilVsEvil: Make your pick: It's Comstock's Founders, who are racist, jingoistic pigs, or against Fitzroy's Vox Populi, who are chaotic, morally blind, and destructive.destructive, in the floating city Columbia.
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* EvilVsEvil: Make your pick: Comstock's Founders, who are racist, jingoistic pigs, or Fitzroy's Vox Populi, who are chaotic, morally blind, and destructive.
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Repair Dont Respond. Occupy Wall Street is way younger than the developement of Infinite.
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*** And now the Vox Populi are being compared to Occupy Wall Street. Even Levine himself claimed to be using the latter as inspiration for how the former got started.
*** If that's what Mr. Levine is claiming, he must have access to Elizabeth's time-jumping powers - Occupy Wall Street didn't get started until mid-September 2011, three months ''after'' the debut of the 15-minute trailer at E3 2011.
*** If that's what Mr. Levine is claiming, he must have access to Elizabeth's time-jumping powers - Occupy Wall Street didn't get started until mid-September 2011, three months ''after'' the debut of the 15-minute trailer at E3 2011.
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*** If that's what Mr. Levine is claiming, he must have access to Elizabeth's time-jumping powers - Occupy Wall Street didn't get started until mid-September 2011, three months ''after'' the debut of the 15-minute trailer at E3 2011.
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*** And now the Vox Populi are being compared to Occupy Wall Street. Even Levine himself claimed to be using the latter as inspiration for how the former got started.
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** Thankfully, it only appeared to be an intro. The choices made in the second 15-minute E3 trailer appear to have all sorts of paths and choices to make.
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** Daisy Fitzroy, leader of the movement that was supposed to help the little guy, has a surname that means "illegitimate child of the king."
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* HugeGuyTinyGirl: In the fifteen-minute demo, Booker's hand is shown to be bigger than both of Elizabeth's combined, and when she places his hand around her neck, it easily encircles it.
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*** [[TheDarkTower "Go then, there are other worlds than these".
these".]]
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* {{Retraux}}: To fit the theme, [=GameInformer=] drew [[http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/featured/irrational/bioshockinfinite/infinitespreadv2.jpg two]] [[http://gamerinvestments.com/video-game-stocks/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/bioshock-infinite-game-informer-cover.jpg covers]] in the style of ''The Saturday Evening Post'', popular at the time.
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* {{Retraux}}: To fit the theme, [=GameInformer=] drew [[http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/featured/irrational/bioshockinfinite/infinitespreadv2.jpg two]] [[http://gamerinvestments.com/video-game-stocks/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/bioshock-infinite-game-informer-cover.jpg covers]] in the style of ''The Saturday Evening Post'', popular at the time.in 1912.
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* {{Retraux}}: To fit the theme, [=GameInformer=] drew [[http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/featured/irrational/bioshockinfinite/infinitespreadv2.jpg two]] [[http://gamerinvestments.com/video-game-stocks/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/bioshock-infinite-game-informer-cover.jpg covers]] in the style of ''The Saturday Evening Post'', popular at the time.
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* EagleLand: Columbia is what happens when a type-2 gets worse.
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* NoMereWindmill: Saltonstall's gazebo is surrounded by signs reading "They'll take your gun! They'll take your wife! They'll take your business! They'll take your LIFE!". Given the xenophobic nature of his speech, you assume "they" are "those dirty foreigners" or something...until you meet the Vox Populi who roam around "reclaiming" everything they can find and say stuff like this:
-->'''Vox Populi member''': Your homes are ours! Your wives are ours! Your LIVES are ours! It ALL belongs to the Vox!
-->'''Vox Populi member''': Your homes are ours! Your wives are ours! Your LIVES are ours! It ALL belongs to the Vox!
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* NoMereWindmill: Saltonstall's gazebo is surrounded by signs reading "They'll take your gun! They'll take your wife! They'll take your business! They'll take your LIFE!". Given the xenophobic nature of his speech, you assume "they" are "those dirty foreigners" or something...until you meet the Vox Populi who roam around "reclaiming" everything they can find and say stuff like this:
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-->'''Vox Populimember''': Mook''': Your homes are ours! Your wives are ours! Your LIVES are ours! It ALL belongs to the Vox!
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** Levine claims that the game was partially inspired by [[http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5575/ this]] speech supposedly given by WilliamMcKinley regarding the annexation of the Philippines, which is a prime example of this trope in its own right.
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* PowerIncontinence: Elizabeth doesn't exactly have complete control over manipulating the tears, as shown when she accidentally dumps her and Booker in the 1980s before wrenching them back.
