Jimquisition: Lugoscababib Discobiscuits

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I'm the kind of person who might throw the term Ludonarrative Dissonance at Bioshock. Though that's more because the narrative is built around Booker feeling very guilty about what he did to native Americans, yet the gameplay involves you (and the protagonist) not giving a shit about burning the flesh off of cops and jamming their faces into spinning gears. That is an undeniable gameplay/story contradiction.

What I got was that Booker had been extremely guilty over what he did during the war, only he's done and gone through so much shit afterwards that he's grown actively apathetic towards it.
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Booker exists as the polar opposite of Comstock. While Comstock praises his atrocities as right and pure, Booker has just accepted that he's a violent, irredeemable monster. He throws violence at everything because that's the only thing he knows how to do. So, even when put into a position where he can "do the right thing" - he does it by doing murder and violence so that someone else [Elizabeth]doesn't have to be corrupted by it.