Elizabeth

* See also WillTheRealElizabethPleaseStandUp
* See also Going-To-Paris and Paris
* See also Elizabeth_Should_Have_Destroyed_The_Luteces
* See also Booker and Comstock
* See also Lutece
* See also Songbird
* See also Tower_and_Siphon ( where Elizabeth had spent most of her life )
* See also Audio Diary Analysis#Elizabeth and BaSx_Audio_Diary_Analysis#Elizabeth
* See also Tears
* See also Scissors for Daisy Fitzroy
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A Sheltered Life ... :
 
WHAT EXACTLY *WAS* IN THOSE BOOKS SHE SPENT MOST OF HER LIFE READING ???????????????????
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 Burial At Sea, Delusions Of Elizabeth ... :
Elizabeth is a delusional person who thinks that saving one person which results in the deaths of thousands in Rapture is a good thing ( She thinks she can see the future ... ). Or she just doesn't tell us that her real motive is just an insane desire for revenge upon her Father (Comstock).
BTW : Her assumption that Sally ( later in BaSx ) is 'Saved' is a bit premature. When Elizabeth 'sacrifices' herself ( gets killed by Atlas/Fontaine ), who knows what really happens to Sally after that ? As a Little Sister, Sally might be one of those YOU (the Player) killed for her ADAM when YOU played BS1, or a Big Sister you killed in BS2. Some other Splicer could also have 'ended' the child. Who knows ? Infinite Possibilities ...
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The Scripting of the 'Companion'/'Sidekick' was not always Sterling :
WayOverThere.jpg|The Navigation often had her run off taking some strange path ...
SomethingThere1.jpg|Elizabeths FREQUENT 'waiting' behaviors were often quite bizarre"BIOzarre" - Another Typo that warrants some good use ... Serendipity ...
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LizzyReads.jpg|Behavior often made it look like she was Nearsighted and needing Glasses ...
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== Elizabeth Was Kinda Borderline Autistic : ==
The Game Designers tried to handle : What to do with Elizabeth when Nothing is Happening ( ie- Her looking at various objects ) ... For all the touted 'Scripting', they still had problems where Elizabeth was sometimes too repetitive in her actions. Perhaps with the 'Move the Player on' game-pacing, they thought it was enough.
Since I look at things in the game 'more than a little', I had hundreds of opportunities to notice Lizzy's Pseudo-Autism :
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Distracted.jpg|Obliviouly Concentrating on Things
TooHappy.jpg|Showing Strange Detachment
RAinman2.jpg|Distracted
Revelations.jpg|I've Just Machine-gunned a Dozen People ...
Moody.jpg|Sometimes Going into "Quiet Time" Mode 
Rainman.jpg|Rainman Mode
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OddBehavior.jpg|She seems to get distracted alot
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LoveTheMagicBlockingWindows.jpg|"Tell me about the Rabbits again Booker ...""Tell me about the Rabbits again..." - Reference to "Of Mice And Men" and NOT Sander Cohen.
Gawping.jpg|Confusion
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IsSheBored.jpg|Quiet Time
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TheRoom.jpg|Even in Booker's "Died" Delusional state, Elizabeth acts odd.
RaptureFace.jpg|Strange staring continues in Rapture
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Deficit.jpg|Elizabeth can't even pay attention for her resupply task
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IntenseConcentrato.jpg|Yes, I found these over-sized card drawers Confusing Too.
AutoEll.jpg|Lizzy seems to change her moods constantly - BIPOLAR DISORDER ????
GorillaBooker.jpg|She Is always Curious, but Is she also Nearsighted ?
OffInLalaLand.jpg||Well, I don't even remember what this thing (she is looking at) IS.
LoopyHere.jpg|In tight quarters, I noticed Lizzie stands real close and gets in your way ( of your movement ).
ThisOddBehave.jpg|Garbage was Entrancing
SinclairVisited.jpg|Something must be really interesting there - Probably got a good smelling of it too ...
Lizzylook8.jpg|Ooooh, Bracelets ...
LizzyReads.jpg|Did Elizabeth Need Glasses ?
Peculiar7783.jpg|Booker Musta Frequently Thought : "WTF Is She Looking At ????"
CuriousGeorge.jpg|Vox Pop ... Booker, can we go get some Popcorn ?!?
Distracted663.jpg|Elizabeth was constantly Distracted.
Distracted876.jpg|For Some Reason Elizabeth Started Talking To The Door
Distractedmmuchh.jpg|Pretty Pretty Red ...
AndAgainz.jpg|Look Booker ... ANTS !!!
ScreenSaver.jpg|Isn't that a Baptismal Font ??? Birdbath ??? Hmmm.
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Context Matters :
The 'talk' content for 'the story bits' given by Elizabeth : Often she would 'launch into' it immediately after the Player just committed acts of Bloody Savagery - Gunning down/battering/burning opponents. She seemed mostly oblivious to THAT having just happened. A ( little more of a ) Delay might have been good for her story spiels to begin - Some little time for the situation to stabilize.
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Near Portals/Doorways, She sometimes was stuck close to the gunfire. 
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The Infinite Game's Plot was driven too much by this magic fantasy stuff. Supposedly it was unleashed by 'science' which itself was alot of convenient Hokem.
It changes from BioShock's 'Science destroys a Society' into Infinite's 'Magic makes Special Effects to Spice up Shooter-game'.
Simply switch universes to forward the plot ... """Fricken Then Just GO TO PARIS, MORON !!!"""
No one is Saved, Nothing is Fixed/Improved, Evil is NOT Vanquished.
INFINITE WASTE.
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Was Elizabeth Kept ON SOMETHING While She Lived In The Tower ?
Plenty of Pharmacological Medicine was available even at that time, and certainly Stealable though Tears.
Booker then 'Freeing Her', She was no longer "On Her Meds" ?
It might explain 'more than a little' of her behavior.
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== We Can Have Alot Of Fun With Elizabeth ==
DontRunWithScissors.jpg|The Death of the Murderous Rebel
StupidestSceneEva.jpg|Asking Daisy to Sacrifice herself so that Elizabeth can become better ( or something )
KenLevinesFear.jpg|Lobotomy 4 U
Dontrunwithscissors.jpg|I read in a book once how to get blood stains out of clothes ...
File:SofiaLamb.jpg|Maybe the lazy writers could have made Elizabeth to turn into Sofia Lamb too ???
Cohenarts.jpg|Elizabeth in Burial At Sea conveniently was known to, and associated with, Sander Cohen
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Moreplaster.jpg| A more likely fate for Elizabeth in the long run (If Atlas hadn't smashed her skull...)
Artdecomotorcycle.jpg|Maybe Elizabeth could have zipped around Paris on this and been "The Talk Of Paris"
Demonstrate.jpg|Imaging Elizabeth in BaSx using JUST THIS 
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ElizabethNoseLobotomy.jpg|Her Fate ( Alternate Universe )
Raptorino.jpg|We needed at least One motorized bike scene in BaSx ( but didn't get any )
Whatifsongbird.jpg|Elizabeth coulda 'got her wings'
DontKnowF.jpg|Basic statement about Infinite_BS and BaSx
AKenLevinePhobia.jpg|A moronically contrived scene written on one of those early Denny's napkin notes
Giantificcc.jpg|Did I mention how stupid BaSx also was ???
HEY_LADY.jpg|Lady Comstock's ghost was 'gunning for "That Bastard Child Elizabeth" 
TearDemo.jpg|Chopped Out game element 
LizbethCat.jpg|Alternate Universes often made ALOT MORE SENSE
Booker_catch.jpg|Humor Opportunity Missed
Cantread.jpg|Amazingly huge signs maybe because everyone's Eyes were affected by the altitude, or degenerative effects of 'Tears'
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TEARZ_BEWAREZ2.jpg|Was it Elizabeth who caused all the Tears ?
Mikky.jpg|Elizabeth was the cause of it all, SO she was the cause of THIS stupidity too
MoreSurgeryLizzy.jpg|Alternate Universes - That's what the writers told us
AlternateInfinite.jpg|That's what the writers told us ...
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LobotomyTradingCards.jpg|In So Many Universes THIS was Elizabeth's FATE
LoboElizabeth.jpg|All nice and 'calmed down' so they could Siphon the "Quantumz" juice with no problems
1915DarwinAward.jpg|Was THIS the real FATE of Elizabeth - not some creepy inter-dimensional crap that writers thought up ????
Sack.jpg|This Would Have Been Simpler For Booker
Elizzaho.jpg|So Elizabeth became a 'Street Walker' ?
YeahCHOICE1.jpg|More "Choice" -- Yeah Right Levine
EMW.jpg|Really strange 'Christianity' there Levine where they turned Comstock's "daughter" into a 'Graven Image' Graven Image - seen by various Fundamentalist Christians as improper to represent religious themed personages - idolatry - Worshiping of Idols ... Thus why this cult religion of Levine's is incredibly absurd to label mainstream 'American' for its time.
Inmate452.jpg|In most universes Booker was NO use at all.
CreepyLevineStuff.jpg|Levine's game had a bit of a Pedo element ...
CreepyRoom.jpg|Hidden Cameras recording Elizabeth in her Tower
ContrivedMuch.jpg|But she is supposed to have become a Lockpicking expert ????
Moreasinine.jpg|The whole secret observation thing was quite creepy
Gotabitstupid.jpg|Seriously, who EVER made signs like this ( and so huge ??? ) 
RamItInThePlayersFace.jpg|Elizabeth IS the 'specimen'
Wasntsopretty.jpg|Alternate Universes
RealityIsABitch.jpg|Game writers can't be expected to observe the Laws Of Physic
Stickitinhereye.jpg|Barely alive .... and The Little Sister does what Little Sisters are conditioned to do
StupidityinAssets.jpg|Hint - Ryan would have just turned off the signs lights
GoldenPlacque.jpg|Her 'Father'. Yeah we got it Levine - Except Comstock didn't actually do much to equate himself to Actual American Founding Fathers
Metallizzie.jpg|"As long as you can milk it for Quantum Juice, does it really matter ???" - Jeremiah Fink
WhatsThis.jpg|Various Things were not included in the game
YesWarning.jpg|Didnt we something like this in the remake of Mad Max ???
Sandercohenart3232323.jpg|Elizabeth : "WHO MAKES THIS CRAP ?" Salesguy : "Doesn't matter, as long as the idiots buy it" 
Ignoranceofthereal.jpg|Gianormous_Infinite_BS - What does Elizabeth know about reality ???
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Hellcafeparis.jpg|Yeah, Paris ...
Elizthing.jpg|"Bring us the Thing and wipe away your debts".
Delusionsindreams.jpg|Elizabeth really should have "Gone to Paris", when she had the chance ...
ElizabethsFlashDrive.jpg|In one (multi)universe, did the Rat that ate (our) Elizabeth's 'pinky' ALSO become a Inter-dimensional god ??????
LobotomyYourDoingItWrong.jpg|Elizabeth after Lobotomy -- She should have simply 'Gone to Paris' through a Tear instead of that destructive vendetta she pursued.
ElizabethGotAHead.jpg|Another View of 'future' Elizabeth ( probably one of the 'Sally' variations where the Tear closed on the child's head ??? ) Fink no doubt was ready with a solution like he always is ...
Cohenart4.jpg|Booker, Elizabeth, and Sally in an Alternate Universe
GoldenCalfthing-symbolicofthegame.jpg|Levine & Co claiming Columbia had ANYTHING to do with American (Christian) religion is not just BS, but actually insulting to people's intelligence.
Authenticdiversity.jpg|To be actually 'diverse', why didn't Elizabeth look like this ( instead of a Disney Princess ??? )
CatUniverseElizabeth.jpg|Elizabeth in one of the trillions of 'CAT' Alternate Universes
Pianocat.jpg|AND BOOKER in that 'CAT' Alternate Universe
NamelessFear.jpg}The cliche chase picture by whatever the frick that thing is. RUN Elizabeth!!! RUN !!!
Giantz.jpg|Strange. I thought Elizabeth was kept locked away and the Public really didn't see her much ?
Justplainwrong.jpg|Alternate Universe where Elizabeth became a Splicer
TheSample.jpg|There were many aspects of Elizabeth's 'Observation' which was really creepy
FoundInWreckage.jpg|Item found in wreckage of a large crash in the Rockies
Ponyshock2.jpg|Fans can have such imaginations ...
ElizabethInGilsLab.jpg|Gil Alexander became fascinated by the Elizabeth Corpse found in Atlas's hideout
OldElizabeth.jpg|If the character had ALWAYS been 'Granny Lizzie', it would have skewed the Players actions a bit, No ?
LoboElizabeth.jpg|Lobotomies have a 'calming' effect upon the patient ...
RamItInThePlayersFace.jpg|The "Specimen" - The Size of those Signs - Like the Players never would see them if the gamemakers didn't make then 10 X as large as they should have been
Remember_Infinite.jpg|Multiple Elizabeths - ALL Gods ??? ( Even the IQ 55 one ?? )
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TooOddThisOne.jpg|Elizabeth Sometimes Seemed SPACED OUT ...
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Alternate Weirdness :
Elizabeth learns she is HER OWN MOTHERA creepty incestuous element that so many Players recognized ... ... "Forget it Booker, Its Columbiatown ..." Movie "Chinatown" 1974, Jack Nicholson with Comstock looking quite alot like John Huston
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Unintended Consequences - Real World Infant Mortality Rates were still quite high at the end of the 19th Century.
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Lizzy Sure Picks Dimensions Which Are Disasters For Others ...
Consider : If Lizzy MERGED together this 'Universe', then isn't SHE responsible for it ?
Freaking weird 'CIRCLE' would be : Elizabeth actually enabling the whole game story itself.
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More Challenging : A more fatal game where mishaps bring the 'GAME OVER' screen overlay. You now have to protect Elizabeth, who being a shut-in isn't familiar with hazardous things like gunfire, drop-offs, leaping out into space and Tear side-effects.
Otherwise the Player is just a 'One Man Army' who is a massive Bullet Sponge.
Even just having to handle 'protecting her' A LITTLE would have added complexity to the overly repetitive 'Combat' situations. Of course, that also might have required far better AI programming/Scripting for her, and more complicated 'Stay Here' guidance interfacing being required for the Player.
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== Elizabeth's Personality ? ==
Does Elizabeth's personality (in I:BS) make any sense ? Does anyone else think Elizabeth acts very 'Out of Character' for someone who as locked all her life in a tower, had little interaction with people, and had a giant mechanical bird keeping her imprisoned ?
In the Game, she appears social, cheerful, excited - things that don't exactly fit a socially isolated individual. Should she, once she got out, seem so weirdly relaxed roaming the streets. Wasn't she worried/be-fearful about the people who locked her up in the first place, and watched like a lab rat all her life ? Why would she want to goof around instead of 'getting the hell away' from there ? One could argue that she is naive, but she has already proven THAT still would NOT explain it, as there are times that she genuinely dreads the possibility of going back, yet at others she is nonchalant.
Considering Elizabeth was mostly raised by 'Songbird' and maybe the Luteces(?), wouldn't she act more like a feral child ?
Why didn't Comstock just brainwash her from the start, or at least say he was her father, rather than just throwing her in a giant shoebox and never speaking to her again. It would be pretty interesting, plot-wise, to see Elizabeth learn about the outside World, which Comstock probably demonized, and help her recover from her brainwashing. 
You'd think Elizabeth and Eleanor should both be a little more messed up considering what they've been put through.
* Eleanor is kind of messed up. She is obsessed with a mind-conditioned man in a diving suit who she thinks had been with her when she was a blood drinking, mind conditioned, kidnapped/abused child. In the final level of BS2, she kills with no hesitation. Eleanor even yells things like : "This one died alone and afraid ! Stand in our way and you'll get the same !"
* Elizabeth in Infinite BS is the quantum physics SteamPunk Rapunzel. Elizabeth's social skills are considerably good for having no (or little) social contact her whole life, unless you count songbird and early 'handlers'. From social interactions in books? That's a stretch. Or from going in her 'Tears' ? 
There should be Similar personalities with BOTH locked away in Towers their whole lives.
Elizabeth actually mentioned she used to go into her 'Tears' ( Where and how much IS kept vague ). She probably got some interaction in those - but certainly it was limited. (( It is also Problematically inconsistent that SHE didn't age like Comstock - being so exposed to them - JUST More Magical Inconsistency ... ))
Elizabeth should be antisocial and barely speak. BUT that does not make for a good story. Her story arc is about starting naive, then facing the horrors of war, racism and exploitation, trying to help the disadvantaged and being disappointed again, and finally learning about her past and origin so she can end the suffering in Columbia once and for all. That's how she 'grows as a character'. If she was just a social deficient person ( from lack of social interaction ) the story wouldn't be interesting and wouldn't move forward.
Elizabeth seemed overly excited to actually be out in the World. Having had all that time to read all kinds of books, she may have developed some (warped) understanding of how people interact. She initially seems to have a pretty high moral standpoint. MAYBE she could have 'Observed the World' more through her 'Tears' she makes (( That perhaps as effective as learning about 'Life' by watching TV )). She probably did not go through many of the Tears, but could have seen and heard people. It seems to have made her more curious/excited to see more. Certainly it would be a reason to want to escape her situation ( Watched, Trapped in the Tower, and with whatever fate Comstock was 'lining up' for her future. )
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Inconsistency - Infinite or Not Infinite, THAT IS THE QUESTION :
* Infinite Universes ? Every time Booker and Elizabeth jump through a Tear, they are simply abandoning that previous dimension's reality ( and that other 'dimension' will go on just as they left it - for good or ill ). Running away from a problem is being made so simple (( Such pathetic crutch-iferous story writing. )).
* NOT Infinite Universes ? Magic girl Elizabeth 'Merges' selected Universes ? Destroys one of the two ? Throws the combined universes into a catastrophic mess for ALL THE REST ( which she is not interested in ) ??? She 'Picks and Chooses' the fate of other people - Willy-Nilly ? (( Seems callous and crudely Evil to me. Selfish. ))
SO WHICH IS IT ?
THEN there is the "Go back and Stop it from Starting" idea being all Fallacious for the same reasons : 
* IF Limited Universes (Not 'Infinite'), THEN just Merge Merge Merge till it is all better/perfect - Why Murder Booker ??? With god-like powers, this seems obvious.
* IF THERE ARE Infinite of Infinites happening across all the parallel universes, THEN the ones that contained that 'evil baptism' have already happened in their infinite numbers. Maybe you can jump into another similar universe where the occurrences had not YET happen ( time shifted universe ), but every Infinite number of Evil Comstock STILL takes shape through an Infinite sequence of Quark 'branchings' ( perhaps with very different happenings in each universe ), AND it is quite unknown as to any predictable future results in them ( That whole Probability thing which REAL Quantum Physics is actually based on ). Elizabeth cannot control THAT. SO Elizabeth, by meddling, could/would/did ONLY cause worse catastrophes -- Many being Infinitely worse results. 
* Elizabeth's self-imagined 'godlike' state may be due to her being severely damaged/flawed/deluded/insane ( "Tear poisoned" like her Father ??? ). There WILL STILL BE all the other Infinite universes where Comstock happens, No matter WHAT she does ( With Infinity, It does NOT even have to be Comstock == Booker ).
That is the True problem with 'Infinity' (the Infinite) -- The concept IS rather hard for a Game Developer to get their head around, let alone communicate it to the Players. So Many Authors have learned that they get into real trouble when they attempt to Explain/Employ it. It has already been thoroughly discussed through the Years of Fiction Writing. (( It was 'Lesson Not Learned', by Levine. ))
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== Burial At Sea Elizabeth==
In BaSx Elizabeth, who once was an 'Interdimensional god', becomes damaged and quite limited and a terrible revenge-driven person. She fixates on 'Sally' ( a repetitive echo of the Infinite BS Booker story, I suppose ). There are added contradictory inconsistencies as she somehow ( still after 'losing her powers' ) foresees the coming of Jack, who somehow will 'Save Sally' . But Elizabeth does NOT foresee the terrible destruction and thousands of deaths in Rapture which her assistance to Atlas will bring about - while Assuming Sally WILL actually ever be 'Saved' ( and not simply now be violently 'harvested' for ADAM by a Jack or some other Splicer, as so many Little Sisters were ). 
It is never explained logically why Elizabeth, who should have Ceased to Exist ( by murdering Booker back before the 'Baptism' at the end of Infinite BS ), is now again back ( as is Comstock, now looking like Booker ). The only possible explanation for this problematic story is 'CUZ'. DLCs often have weak/canon-breaking writing, but this is an extra grand example of a DLC abusing the story/logic/Canon of the original game.
'God' Elizabeth has killed the Booker (at 'Baptism') to allegedly STOP everything ( the whole mess ) from starting. BUT THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN --- All the badness did NOT go away, and she just MURDERED a Booker who maybe never did do anything bad. DID SHE then SLAP HERSELF UPSIDE THE HEAD SO HARD that she damages her Brain AND splits herself into INFINITE Elizabeths again ?? So that's a cosmic reset allowing ANYTHING the gamewriters want. 
Though it WOULD all be SO MUCH simpler and less confusing to have it all have been Booker's "Fever Dream" after his drinking too much Quack Patent Toothache Medicine :
THERE Booker Dewitt wakes up all crusty eyed, and with a raging headache, and looks over to the crib where baby Anna lies dead of some common childhood disease ( 'Do doctors buy child corpses for dissection ?' the alcohol-addled Booker thinks ... ) - He then blows his own head off with his gun. The End. ( HEY, You don't have to go to a Dystopia to have semi-profound tragedy in a story. )
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Elizabeth In Rapture Wearing Lipstick ... :
In the 1890s ( even largely by 1912 ), only whores wore lipstick ( what we call 'makeup' ). She adapted so fast to the 1950s, No ? Amazing what you can learn about Reality by reading books ( or being a "|Pinky God" ).
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Elizabeth - The Process To Become a Quantumz 'god' :
Leave apart of themselves in another dimension ?? Is that all ? How much 'soul' lives in a 'pinky' ? Do strands of hair qualify ? Dandruff ?? Exactly how much tissue/matter does it take to qualify for this ?
We saw Tears on statues and such in Columbia ( kinetoscope ). So were their some pigeons who 'left' stuff after flying/going thru other Tears at various points ?? Does that count too ? (( BTW - are these special pigeons to exist at 15000 feet altitude ?? Birds are greatly affected by thin air and Pigeons are usually live at low altitude and don't fly very high. ))
Fingernail clippings or dandruff should work, no? ( Probably making Booker a potential dimension god too - possibly why/how he appears to Elizabeth in BaS2 ). This "Constant" thing is just a strange obsession of Elizabeth's, as there are an INFINITY of other universes too ( She might have been better off finding her way to a 'happy' Paris, instead of fixating on the Bookers ... 'Water under the bridge' and all that - one in which you can also have a better Paris than the real one. )
Sally must've got godhood in spades - one of her losing a head. Does one have to survive this separation/leaving-behind ? Or is godhood instilled, bringing instant transcendence and a flavor of 'Zombiefication' ? ( Or maybe Fink could put the head quickly on a Handyman rig ??) ( NOW THAT WOULDA BEEN A "HEAVY HITTER" WORTHY OF THE NAME !!!! ) The possibilities are endless.
This Tear-severed body-part process all apparently was whatever the writers say it was. This is the least of the faulty pseudo-science issues ( just another symptom of the 'Quantum Physics Can Do Anything' half-arsed plot devices/story-details ).
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== REVELATION !!!! ==
IF it takes JUST ONE of a 'person' to lose a piece of their body to the other side of a 'Tear', THEN with the nature of ACTUAL INFINITE every single person in the universe would be pulled through a tear, lose some tissue, and returning to their own dimension now BE A QUANTUM GOD.
Quantum godhood then being universal, it really isn't anything special to be this kind of quantum god, and so every action by one 'god' would be undone by some other 'god'.
WE really cannot help these gamewriters when their own cosmology and invocation of 'science' works against their game plots.
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Riddle Me This Boatman :
Elizabeth's Pinky - How exactly do you have to hold your hand so that a whole joint of the Pinky ( very short compared to the other fingers ) alone can be sheared off by a closing 'Tear' ??? - Look at how close to the edge of the other fingers that cutline is -- fold all the other fingers and keep the Pinky fully extended. You have to retract all the other fingers in - which is NOT what you do when you are reaching for something. How very perfectly timed it was being drawn through so that baby Anna's hand ( It is 15 X bigger and more likely to be caught in a shrinking hole, no ? ) is not sheared off, but then the Pinky only is ? ( Well it is better than a foot and Elizabeth hobbling around with Booker on a pegleg ... ) 
And how did the other Booker/Comstock/whatever come to be grasping Sally's head in the tug of war with the other-other Comstock ? Tears are mysterious things, and appear to have a propensity for chopping of bits of children's bodies. Is it all just a delusion created by the Luteces ( are they members of the Yakuza Yakuza : Who have a thing about cutting off 'Pinkies' as a punishment/warning. ?? ) doing an experiment in trans-warp existence, and then actually holding a 'pinky in pliars' thru a Tear as it is closed ?? Shouldn't it have been Booker who had to lose a finger to make up for his thuggish transgressions ???
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Alternate Comstock (learns the Secret) - Tearing his own Pinky Tip off with Pliars and Tossing through a Tear ... ( "If You Real Want Something Done, DO IT YOURSELF !!!" )
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Add Some Psychological Fun - About Elizabeth Having "Finger Envy" :
"Nine-Fingered Freak" was what some of Lizzie's "Handlers" called her in Columbia ... ( More than a few are 'It is just a job' handler/keeper types, and who wondered WHY they were pandering to this person - And them - who had interesting things to say in the Bar later ... )
Was she ever allowed to see anybody with 10 fingers ?? Why did she not comment and have a fascination with Booker's 2nd Pinky ??? ( All the people who she had direct contact with had to have a pinky snipped off ... - Dedicated, no ? )
Question - If that Elizabeth in Rapture had used a Medi-Kit ( or was recycled thru a Vita-Chamber ) would she get her pinky back AND therefore NO LONGER be a Dimension god ( THAT WOULD EXPLAIN IT !!! ) ???
Sander Cohen], when he 'shocked Elizabeth in BaS1, might have cut off her other Pinky - just for the 'symmetry' ( certainly Steinman would have done so too ). Possibly, Sander has it in a little display case, and it has little rabbit ears glued on it ( or he carries it around to show his admirers - a key ring fob ).
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The Schmaptism of Elizabeth :
So this 'Baptism' thing is supposed to be the 'turning point' of this whole mess ? One path is Comstock ( the treasonous megalomaniac cultist ), and the other Booker ( a professional thug and worthless drunkard who sold his own daughter ). So is the solution simply to end him before this 'baptism' even takes place ? A Multitudes of worse universes can spew out of that act, WHICH Elizabeth herself has now DIRECTLY CAUSED, no ? What if THAT particular first universe and Booker ( out of all the infinite different universes ) is the ONE who eventually did something stupendously great and good ? 
Elizabeth, in her crazy SEEKING OF REVENGE, is just picking and choosing universes ( and really doesn't know What the F*ck she is doing ) HAS NOW DESTROYED THAT GOODNESS !!! SHE becomes the new center of 'badness' in place of Booker/Comstock. Nothing subsequently changes in the universes she leaves anyway. THOSE still go on their way to whatever path resulted within THEM. 
With her Time Travel (( SORRY, NOT PART OF Quantum Physics )), she also stops herself from existing and thus cannot exist to return to kill Booker - Oops that old problem. Even Fantasy is supposed to be consistent ( WE needed an alternate scene where Booker emerges from the water sputtering and then yelling "Hallelujah, I Am Alive !!!", and the story then continues down some third path. ) 
A solution maybe should have been : IF this Time Traveling back along the web of timelines is even possible ( NOTE - Nothing in the real Quantum Physics/Mechanics even remotely talks about that being possible, nor the side-stepping into universes via Tears either, -- 'Tears' ARE NOT part of Quantum anything either ) : To go back and kill Rosalind Lutece before she can activate her Quantum 'Whatzits', and obliterate all signs/evidence of that technology. Of course, there are an infinite number of Rosalinds out there - Too many doing almost exactly the same. So maybe Elizabeth has to kill them all ??? But she also might run into others of herself who are trying to PROTECT Rosalind ( or at least a particular one ). 
(( IDEA - A MultiPlayer game where EVERY Player is Elizabeth, with lotsa fun mutations ( each with their own story ) ... Those "Story LEGOs", which Levine merely rephrased about Branching Computer Game Stories ? ))
It all gets so confusing. It is WHY so many Science Fiction writers stay away from 'Infinites' of this type -- Because with it you set up a system you cannot control ( It is completely 'open ended' ), and with inconsistencies you can't really comprehend/justify. 
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Despite All that has been Said, Elizabeth STILL was Merely a Sidekick as Far as Gameplay Went :
Allegedly in Infinite BS she was supposed to be 'more' ( Kennyboy Kenny/Kennyboy/kennyboi - I keep using this diminutive, but he's the one that made us have to watch his 3rd-grader misunderstandings ( and self-backpatting for it being 'clever' ), and had his lying alter-ego Atlas say "boyo" at us over and over. has said so hisself ). But THIS really is only acting out many pre-canned plot scenes, Hurling supplies at your face, Leading your movement down various one way plot-linear paths, 'Taking interest' at staged points along your route, Hiding to the side (somewhat) during flying storms of ordinance ( she's invulnerable anyway ) -- THAT all really is just typical 'sidekick' activity, something par in games for more than 10 years ( Just that there's more these days in the game 'scenes' to latch the scripting onto, and this game was largely 'a tour' ).
There really were NO significant AI Advancements in Infinite's NPCs independent behavior ( Claiming there would be 'improvements' is easy, but it IS hard to actually deliver on all that Promotional Jivetalk ).
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Easy to say by Me ? Yes, it Is. But it takes alot of knowhow and work to make NPCs more realistic ( more resources than 2K had for sure ). That's the IN for the Player Creation aspect of the MMORPG -- To be able to AMASS the knowhow and effort and finally produce some *significant* improvements - And improvements NOT just for "Sidekicks", but applied to EVERY NPC (AND Opponent) in the game in a systematic way.
So, there is a LOOONG way to go because of all the difficulties. Having many Gifted Players add their Efforts - THAT may be the ONLY way it might be achieved.
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What Does Elizabeth Really Change Through Her Actions in the Games ? :
Simple - Nothing. As an infinite number of other people are ready to step into the Comstock 'shoes' in INFINITE places -- Which Elizabeth, if she travels across dimensions til Doomsday, wont ever have time to touch. What of the several 'Multiverses' she leaves (in-game) thru Tears, which are now left to their own devices ( Heh - and possibly better off without her meddling ? ) - Has anything now been achieved in them ? Infinity is a bigggg number, and no matter how many Bookers she murders, Infinite more of them still remain.
Mr Bigglesworth in universe 876th Row, 17 Down ( the Cat Scratching Post Lighthouse ) got the Catatopia "Columeow" built, and played out the very same story ( minus the tuna and kitty litter incident ). Finkelpurr's Automoton Warriors are now invading numerous other dimensions, spreading their freedom and bounty to benighted kitties.
And so it goes ... The best laid plans of game developers and their NPCs come to naughtA similar Saying from a Robert Burns Poem : https://www.almanac.com/fact/who-said-the-best-laid-plans-of. - Screwed by their pretentious misunderstanding of the Pseudo Science they invoke.
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BaS2 ( In a Dimension Far Far Away ) :
A Bittersweet Delusional ending to BaS2 - Elizabeth of course not actually seeing (at all) what a catastrophe she is launching -- What is going to happen when she frees/enables Fontaine/Atlas, which brings about the %27civil_war%27 that kills/makes-dead many many thousands of people, and pretty much dooms Rapture ( and anyone later remaining ). And at the end ( when 'Atlas' is about to kill her ) she really doesn't know whether Sally will be 'saved' or brutally Harvested by 'evil' Jack, or by one of a thousand other ADAM-crazed Splicers -- OR be whacked/terminated as a Big Sister by Delta or Sigma), OR will wind up one of the few taken to The Surface, who might still wind up in a 'freakshow' or in Area 51 ( or be subjected to Disco Music ). It is just Elizabeth's delusion, that anything she does will actually 'fix' anything in this particular dimension ( or any other ).
Next 2K Game : BioShock Ancient - Alexandria, and its Pharos Lighthouse, and a Man (Mark Antony) -- So who needs Elizabeth ? ( After all, she doesn't exist any more - Right ? ) - Comstock 3.0 time travels back to when he really CAN 'play god' ( "Look you apes at my BoomStick !!!" Army of Darkness reference ... ). Or Not. New pretty Egyptian-themed scenery ( Pyramids !! Obelisks !!! Sphinxes !!! Sand !!!) and Mummies for Player-slaughterable (Undead) opponents. Whatever ...
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Elizabeth's Reading Material :
Why in Elizabeth's Tower does she have all those distracting books/activities, instead of materials/props put there specifically by Comstock to mold/brainwash/prepare her into becoming Columbia's Comstock heir/successor ?
She could have obtained them via Tears ( except wouldn't she simply have left her 'cage' if she could do that ? ) or had Songbird pilfer them for her. But then her handlers/minders could have removed them just as easily ( or better - substituted boring nonsense ), the way she was shown (in-game) to be thoroughly monitored/observed. 
It might have been a more interesting game ( though more work/skill ) for Elizabeth to unwittingly mouth racisms and rote-learned 'white privilege' reactions, which she was trying to break out of. But then, that's too easy to misunderstand for the typical Player demographic ( too deep, and when they couldn't even bother to get realistic recoil effects for the guns done right ).
(( Avoiding controversy like that keeps the PR Department from being flooded with accusations, and the Moneymen's CASH income higher. ))
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During Combat, Elizabeth Would Hide Away From the Gunfire/Explosions
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As a Tribute to the Canon Breakage in the Burial At Sea DLC :
We see one of Sander Cohen's "Plasterpieces" which is obviously Elizabeth, who like Cohen's other disciples was disposable, and in HIS Mind her being Best Employed as PART of his 'Art'. Perhaps a Songbird 'fished out of the drink' might be seen in a scrap pile, or being cooked by Splicers for dinner. DON'T CRITICIZE - Or YOU will Wind Up one of Cohen's 'Plasterpieces'.
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BaS Delusion Of Elizabeth 
Elizabeth is a delusional person who thinks that saving one person ( the child Sally ) - which results in the deaths of thousands in Rapture - is 'a good thing'. Or she just doesn't tell us that her real motive is just an insane desire for revenge upon her father ( another father - revenge on any Comstock which she already tried to END at that Baptism. )
AND She STILL thinks she can see the future ... ( which she has already failed at ).
BTW : Her assumption that Sally is saved is a bit premature. When Elizabeth sacrifices herself ( gets killed by Fontaine ) - at that point 'Who Knows' what really happens to Sally after that ? As a Little Sister, Sally might be one of those Little Sisters YOU ( the BS1/BS2 Player ) killed for ADAM when YOU played BS1, or a Big Sister you killed in BS2. Some other Splicer could also have 'ended' the child. Who knows ? There areInfinite possibilities ... 
Magically Elizabeth supposedly gets her Pinky Powers back for THIS Scene, when it SHOULD have been more helpful to 'see' and avoid getting killed, so that she could have an Active and More Certain ability to 'Save' Sally. So a simpler explanation is : of Elizabeth's chronic delusions.
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Did the gamewriters expect that 'The Rest Of World' would stay still until Lizzie was an old crone ?? Sorry, it simply became a ghostly Insane Asylum that sometimes was spotted floating in the distance as people Quantum-flew to the Stars.
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BaS Issues - The Mangling :
Ken Levine wanted Elizabeth to be the center of the Bioshock universe. He says so in one of the Golden Reel interviews from the Bioshock Collection. Elizabeth and Booker both had to die in order to at least follow some of 1’s Canon, but it wouldn’t be surprising if someone had to hold him back from having Elizabeth live at that DLC's end.
Other things hardly made sense. It seemed like a temper tantrum where Levine didn’t want anyone else to do anything with “his” characters. With the plot holes in BaS 1 and 2, they ruined all of the characters that aren’t Elizabeth (at least in Part 2). They all got written off, with Elizabeth becoming the cause of so many Lore events. 
Elizabeth is an interesting character, but the writers made everyone else stupid to make her look better.
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Burial At Sea pushed the Infinite BS weirdness into OUR Rapture, and shoved Elizabeth into the middle of events within an already tight section of the original Rapture story timeline, AND so have her be the 'enabler' of Rapture's destruction and the resulting mass death. 
SO why not let a Little Sister do what she does best ? It would be unfortunate if all the ADAM corpses really were immobile Zombies, who would dread the 'little ghouls' who continued to come around and painfully 'jab them' to mine their regenerating ADAM.
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A very bizarre 'narrative'. Perhaps it was a general 'Crisis Mongering' excuse for the general 'Clampdown' on the Freedoms of EVEN the White-People/Founders. With the Vox so easily walking about, it does not imply much confidence in the abilities of the Police/Paramilitary of Columbia's Police State.
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== "There will always be a Windmill, a Dog, and a Patch of Grass" ( Said by one of the other demented Dimension-Burnt Elizabeths ). ==
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Creepy Alternate Universe Scene :
Comstock tears off his own Pinky with a pair of pliars and throws it through a Tear in an attempt to become a [[Quantum_Particles_Can_Do_Anything#Pinkygod|"Pinky god" like Elizabeth ... 
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We Should have had Elizabeth play a Gitbox and Sing "Jimmy Crack Corn" ( "Blue-Tail Fly" ).
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ELIZABETH GLITCHES : 
LizzyStuck.jpg|This Spot : the navigation system failed and Lizzy could not move towards men to follow.
GettingTiredOfThis.jpg|By Design the gamemakers had this behavior a bit too repetitive ( I take time to look around and got to see Lizzy doing this quite frequently ).
AlreadyForgotten.jpg|Default Filler Behavior when BIG EVENTS had been taking place ...
LeaningMagic.jpg|Bad Game Positioning - filler 'lean on something' action ...
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Magic god powers are a great excuse for having inconsistent story logic.
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Was there some "Baggage" there we didn't know about ???
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OMG!! OMG!! It is even one of those 1950s Art Deco TVs ...
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Actually THAT would have been an interesting component for the Story to try to explain Songbird's role in Columbia : Seeking Out random Tears to close/eliminate them - because they were a potential threat to anything near them.
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