YMMV / BioShock: Rapture

• Complete Monster: The novel-exclusive Pat Cavendish is a constable for Rapture who uses his position to abuse and bully anyone he wants. Cavendish routinely brutalizes and tortures prisoners of Rapture, regardless of their level of guilt, and is the most trigger-happy constable in the city, always wearing a grin while gunning down suspects. Seeking to line his pockets with extra cash, Cavendish begins kidnapping citizens and handing them off to Sander Cohen to be nightmarishly murdered, and also kidnaps young girls to sell them to Dr. Yi Suchong to be experimented on. When sent to capture Bill McDonagh for execution, Cavendish gleefully plans to take in the man's wife and daughter as well just because he can, and attempts to gun down one of his fellow constables when the man tries to show mercy to Bill's family.
• Nightmare Fuel: Has a page.
• One-Scene Wonder: There is only one chapter that stars Sander Cohen, It's about what you'd expect.
• Squick/No Yay:
  • Sander Cohen and his infamous act of forcing a youth to have sex with an octopus at a wild party.
  • At one point, Ryan accused Fontaine that the reason he was so interested in orphan girls was due to a sexual nature. Fontaine, a Card-Carrying Villain that was essentially running The Mafia in Rapture, is utterly DISGUSTED by this accusation.
  • The novel makes clear that Frank and Tenenbaum's relationship was, at least temporarily, sexual in nature. What little the novel shows is basically Tenenbaum asking Frank to simulate forcing her into it, because despite wanting it herself she can't stand being touched. Oddly, this trope applies for both participants, as Tenenbaum is implied to be touch- or sex-averse and Frank is, at least initially, weirded out by the pseudo-rape aspect.
• Tear Jerker: A huge one occurs at the end when Bill stoically says goodbye to his wife and daughter, knowing that though they'll survive he'll be shot by his former friends as soon as they leave, and furthermore recognising that his young daughter probably won't remember him.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Many fans were eager to read this mainly to learn more about the backstory of "Johnny Topside", since those who played the game before reading the book knew he eventually becomes Subject Delta, the player character in the second game. Those fans were disappointed to learn that — aside from recapping how he came to be in Rapture (he was a deep-sea diver who arrived in the city uninvited and apparently by accident) and the main contending theories as to why he was there (there are fears he's either a government agent or an investigative journalist, both of which were already covered in the game and neither of which are confirmed or denied in the novel) — he's absent from the book. In fact he never even appears on-page, he's just mentioned a couple of times in passing, and even his real name is never revealed.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: To a degree considering just how many stories the novel tries to contain and share. Because of the book's rushed state to incorporate lore from BioShock 2, many notable characters from that game have a diminished presence. There's also several off-page events, be they due to being in-game materials (such as Audio Diary events) or simply not being portrayed on the page.
• The Woobie: Bill McDonagh and his family. Even moreso in how they manage to escape, but he doesn’t.