5 Best Villains In The BioShock Franchise, Ranked
There are a lot of famous bad guys in the BioShock trilogy. Here is a ranking of the best in the series.
Since the first BioShock game came out in 2007 and gave players a chance to explore a complicated and interesting steampunk world, the series has been a big deal in the industry. After what some people have called the worst game in the trio, the last game in the series changed the way games are made in a big way. And how amazing the stories are. BioShock is unlike any other game because it has political and moral themes that are hard to understand.
Each game takes place in a different realm, and each game has an effect on what happens in the other games. The writers and developers have linked them in a way that has never been done before in a series.
Fans have loved the games for almost 20 years, and the series has been called one of the best of all time. Like many other popular games, BioShock’s characters, especially the differences and connections between the bad guys, are a big part of why people like it so much.
Sophia Lamb
After Andrew Ryan and Frank Fontaine die, Sofia Lamb takes over as leader. We first met her in BioShock through records. Lamb was brought to Rapture by Ryan, who thought that she would be able to help people who were hurt by the isolation of the “utopia.”Lamb, a smart but obsessive psychiatrist, thought that everyone in the city was linked in some way.
Lamb’s work with her patients slowly led to a group of people who saw her beliefs and deeds as a religion. She seemed to care about the poor people of Rapture, which helped her become the new head of the city. But, like many other characters in the BioShock series, she would fail because of how hard she tried.
Lamb loses to her own daughter, Eleanor Lamb, and Delta, who is linked to her. This is because Eleanor and Plasmid did not succeed in making a perfect citizen. Even though Lamb is a scary bad guy in BioShock 2, many fans think he is not as scary as other bad guys in the series.
The Songbird
In BioShock Infinite, it’s not clear where Elizabeth’s jailer came from. What players do know is shown during ‘Burial at Sea,’ when audio recordings show talks and plans between Dr. Yi Suchong of Rapture and Jeremiah Fink of Colombia. After finding a way to see into other realms, Fink was able to build the Songbird. The Songbird is a lot like the Big Daddy in many ways.
At first, no amount of work can bring the Songbird and Elizabeth together. The link doesn’t start until Elizabeth fixes the Songbird after an accident when she was young. And it’s a strong bond, because the Songbird never stops trying to get Elizabeth back to her tower the whole time you play Bioshock Infinite.
The machine is both an interesting work of art and a nearly unbeatable foe. Several times during Drive Mad, Booker Dewitt and Elizabeth have to run away instead of fighting. Elizabeth is the only one who can beat the Songbird. She takes it to Rapture and traps it under the sea.
Frank Fontaine
Frank Fontaine, also known as “Atlas,” is one of the two bad guys in the first BioShock game. Which is one of the most famous games ever made. When Jack first comes to Rapture, Fontaine doesn’t waste any time using him to get what he wants. Unlike Andrew Ryan, who is also a bad guy, Fontaine is the one who makes many of the other bad guys do things. By saying “Would you kindly,” he is able to control Jack and use him to kill his worst enemy, Andrew Ryan.
Before Rapture fell, Fontaine was the one who paid for ADAM and then Plasmids. Both of which contributed to the city’s people becoming crazy and unstable.
Fontaine is a master con artist who tricks Jack into thinking that he is just trying to save his family from Rapture as ‘Atlas.’ Andrew Ryan dies, and only then does it come out that Fontaine only used him to take full control of Rapture. Fontaine, a powerful final boss, shows up again in BioShock Infinite’s ‘Burial at Sea.’
Andrew Ryan
Andrew Ryan started Rapture because he wanted to make a place where only the best people in the world could live. He was firm in his view that people could only own what they earned. And he hated what he called “parasites,” or groups that benefited from the work of others. His idea for Rapture had been working for a while. But he would die because of how much he hated the poor.
Ryan is a driven man who wants to keep making Rapture better. Even if it means hurting some of its people. This helps Fontaine and Sofia Lamb, the bad guy in BioShock 2, become more powerful.
Ryan can be heard complaining to and threatening Jack, who is later revealed to be his son, throughout BioShock. Ryan tells Jack the truth about why he did what he did in his last moments and says the famous line, “A man chooses, a slave obeys.” He then tells Jack to kill him with the words “would you please.”
Zachary Comstock
Zachary Comstock, who started Columbia in BioShock: Infinite, is a religious fanatic, a patriot, and a dictator. He is also the main thing that sets things in motion in what has been called the best game in the series. Comstock is able to make Columbia, his dream country, with the help of Rosalind Lutece. Columbia, which floats above the world, is what Comstock thinks is the best country.
In the end, Comstock is able to use the Lutece’s technology to move between dimensions and improve Columbia’s technology. But using technology all the time is hard on his body and keeps him from having a child who can take over his country. Comstock is so desperate that he talks Booker DeWitt, an alternate version of himself, into giving up his child.
DeWitt would finally go to Columbia to get his daughter, now named Elizabeth, with the help of the Luteces. The two of them work together to beat Comstock, who in the end helped destroy both Columbia and Rapture.
