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I Have A Question About BioSHock : Infinite - Burial At Sea?

Update:

Elizabeth Dewitt saved the Jack and the Little Sisters, but also helped start a civil war and crash an airplane with thirty people on board.

So would you consider Elizabeth a hero, antihero, or villain?

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  • 5 years ago

    It all depends on perspective, she's considered neutral in character in the storyline, even despite the fact that they make you believe her a protagonist, the idea was to make the gamers believe Jack the hero before inevitably finding out that he was the main cause of all the problems at the end of the game, you're not forced into believing liz a hero or villain. At the end of the game when Jack is killed by liz, it's a choice to assume her a hero or villain and both answers would be correct in the eyes of the development team, because the story isn't about setting her a hero OR villain in the end, it's about leaving with a mind full of questions, the inception movie had the same effect and movie critiques considered it a genius ending, I believe they were trying to take this form of approach...

  • Ellis
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    5 years ago

    I think that's why Liz's arc is incredible. BAS sees her becoming like Booker and Comstock, killing / harming others to reach an end. In episode 2, however, she begins to see how she used Sally to get back at Comstock, the same way she was used in Infinite. Thus, she feels guilt and goes out of her way to save Sally. One may argue that she is still narrow minded in the sense that to save Sally means to cause the death of so many and give Fontaine power. In that sense, I don't think she's a hero or a villain. She's a victim.

  • 5 years ago

    Elizabeth used Sally for her own needs; she burned her and left her in Rapture.

    Elizabeth returned to Rapture to save Jack and the Little Sisters but passing through a tear to a reality where she was dead made her forget.

    Throughout the Episode 2 Elizabeth thinks she's going to rescue Sally,but she's really going to rescue Jack who in turn would rescue the Little Sisters, not just Sally.

    She broke the stalemate of the Rapture Civil War and gave Atlas the Ace In The Hole which in turn killed the people on the airplane.

    It was difficult thing to do, but it was worth it because she saved Jack and the Little Sisters, not just Sally.

    For Booker Dewitt it was "Bring us the girl and wipe away the debt" and for Elizabeth it was "Bring us the boy and wipe away the debt" a reversal of roles.

    In most movie; books; and video games it's the male hero giving his life to save the woman and let her become a hero, BioShock : Infinite - Burial At Sea turned that trope on it's head, the female hero gave her life to save the man and let him become a hero.

  • 5 years ago

    Yaa you die at the end to stop the chain of events that creates the beginning.

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