How to Make a Big Daddy Docile Again

"…he, a lumbering palooka in a foul-smelling diving accommodate…"

― Andrew Ryan^[src]

Big Daddies (originally named Protectors, and occasionally referred to as Mister Bubbling or Mister B. by Little Sisters and Metal Daddies by Splicers) are genetically enhanced human beings who have had their skin and organs grafted into an armored diving suit, with Alpha Serial being an apparent exception to the grafting procedure, though however heavily spliced. Their chief purpose is to protect Little Sisters while they escort them around Rapture.

Gameplay [ ]

If all of the Little Sisters have been either harvested or saved in a level, Large Daddies volition wander to a vent like usual and bang on it. However, a Little Sis will not come out, causing the Large Daddy to groan in frustration and bang again earlier letting out a sad moan and walk away in an attempt to notice another Little Sister.

Bated from the Alpha Series, Big Daddies communicate by uttering haunting sounds like to that of whale calls. Blastoff Serial communicate with low, inhuman grunts and roars. For easier interpretation, production model Big Daddies have a bioluminescent chemical substance which filled the helmet, displaying its state of emotion or mind.^[ane] The Big Daddy has three different colors he will display.

Green indicates the Big Daddy is hypnotized and friendly.
Yellow indicates sensation merely indifference to his environment. However, he volition react to people near him past shoving them. If the Big Daddy has a Niggling Sister with him and the player continuously stands in his fashion, the Big Daddy will become enraged in club to protect the threatened Little Sister.
Red indicates rage towards assailants.

The surviving Alpha Series from BioShock 2 are in a permanent state of wrath due to prolonged separation from their Little Sisters. This excludes subjects Delta and Sigma owing to their unique circumstance.

History [ ]

*A Big Daddy digs into the foundation of Rapture.*

Big Daddies were originally created by Dr. Yi Suchong to serve as Rapture'southward maintenance workers, to help in subsequently structure projects, and to practise the menial work of Rapture that was not profitable:^[2] Rosies riveted panels and windows while Bouncers drilled deep-bounding main rocks and minerals for further city expansion.^[iii]

Protector Program [ ]

As the demand for ADAM skyrocketed, Suchong proposed the idea of recycling the raw genetic fabric directly from the corpses of dead Splicers, instead of exclusively producing it with Piddling Sisters in their laboratories. With the genetically-modified girls at bully chance when out on the streets gathering ADAM on their own,^[4] the "Protector Program" was initiated to bond them to the hulking Big Daddies, turning the latter into Protectors who would respond aggressively to whatsoever threat encountered by the Gatherers.

Suchong suggested this thought to Andrew Ryan, knowing that becoming a Large Daddy was a "one-way street", but he fretted about being able to notice suitable candidates. However, Ryan gave assurances that it would not be a trouble.^[5] While the true identities of almost of the candidates were unknown, many were exiled criminals, the criminally insane, and political dissidents imprisoned in Persephone, which was under the management of Augustus Sinclair, the owner of the plasmid research company, Sinclair Solutions. With the assistance of Sofia Lamb, who was herself imprisoned at Persephone at that time and acting equally a psychiatrist for the other inmates, Sinclair would send chosen test subjects from Persephone to both Fontaine Futuristics and Ryan Industries.^[6]

Blastoff Series [ ]

Experiments were conducted by Dr. Gilbert Alexander in the research laboratories of Fountaine Futuristics. The first protector prototypes bonded to Little Sisters were called the Blastoff Series, who were previously plasmid test subjects from Sinclair Solutions. Alexander took inspiration from a common nickname for the Protector Program candidates, "Big Daddies", and engineered a conditioned bond between the Protectors and their charges which would mimic, through mental and concrete restraints, the emotional bail between a male parent and his daughter, the "Pair Bond."^[seven] This bond ensured that the Protectors would baby-sit their charges at all times, and not wander abroad from the girls, otherwise they would slip into a coma. Later on many unsuccessful attempts, the first candidate from the Protector Programme to be successfully pair bonded was Discipline Delta, a deep sea diver formerly known as Johnny Topside who had discovered and entered the city by accident. In a short fourth dimension though, the Alpha Series failed to be practical as Protectors as they only protected a unmarried specific Little Sister, and if they were lost to Splicers or rescued by Dr. Brigid Tenenbaum, that rendered the Protectors useless, sending them into a coma or making them suicidally aggressive. Even after being reprogrammed, they were but usable equally combatants with no other thought than to kill their target. With these unsuccessful results, the Blastoff Serial was put to an end. The remaining Blastoff models were deactivated and, in the following years, kept in holding at Fontaine Futuristics, Minerva'southward Den, and Persephone.

Columbia's Songbird Involvement [ ]

"These holes have shown me all the same another wonder, though I've yet to see the awarding for information technology. They illuminate a merger of motorcar and man that is somehow the lesser, yet the greater, of both parties."

― Jeremiah Fink^[src]

Regardless of his colleague'southward progress, Suchong was also working on a bond of his own creation, albeit without success. Meanwhile, over in Columbia's reality, Jeremiah Fink, an industrial tycoon who previously used trans-dimensional Tears to steal Rapture'due south technological advancements,^[eight] was trying to piece of work on his own kind of Protector based on Suchong's piece of work, the Songbird. Like Suchong though, Fink had reached an impasse while trying to bond the beast to a unmarried child, Elizabeth. In 1958, he contacted Suchong through a Tear that the Rapture scientist was actively studying at the old Silver Fin Restaurant in Fontaine's Section Store, and they both came to an agreement to share their research in order to reach their mutual objective. However, Songbird accidentally bonded itself to its test subject, and Fink chose to put an end to his partnership,^[9] eventually closing his Imprinting Studies labs at Fink Manufacturing.

Suchong, who got the short terminate of the bargain, was nonetheless looking for the solution in genetic compatibility. Using the Lutece Device withal left in his possession, he intended to steal a DNA sample of Fink's bonded test bailiwick^[10] but his research was put on hold when the City Council closed the department shop to turn it into a prison for Fontaine's criminal gang. His Tear device was eventually damaged past vandals, but could still exist remotely controlled from his clinic and secret laboratory at Artemis Suites, Apollo Square. On December 31, Suchong finally caused the DNA sample from Elizabeth herself (ironically unknown to him that she was the same test subject who in one case bonded to Songbird) as she'd gone to the eating house to repair the Lutece Device to return to Columbia.

Ii weeks later, the Civil War initiated by the bombing of the Kashmir Eating house'south New Twelvemonth'due south Eve Masquerade Ball led to a panic, bank crash and an ADAM shortage as citizens spliced heavily in social club to protect themselves. This brought the need for performance Protectors, more important now than always.

Protector Bond Breakthrough [ ]

Suchong's genetic Protection Bond endeavor proved a failure as the Big Daddies still ignored the girls. While he fussed over this, unknown to him, Elizabeth provided the solution to ii Little Sisters in his own laboratory: inject a dying Large Daddy with ADAM to save him. This acquired the Bouncer to bond to both Little Sisters, Leta and Masha Lutz, and the girls went to tell Suchong virtually what happened. However Suchong, deep in his work and growing frustrated, failed to notice the Big Daddy's change in behavior and smacked Leta away during a recording of his failed Lot 255 results. This triggered the aggressive response of the Bouncer, who and then impaled Suchong with his drill to the scientist's own desk-bound, proving the bond had worked but at the cost of Suchong'south life.

With this breakthrough, it led to the farther bonding of Big Daddies to Little Sisters, where Pheromones were used to make the girls attracted to the Large Daddies and not be afraid of them equally they had been previously. With the bonding organization at present working, the Memorial Museum at Point Prometheus was changed to the Proving Grounds to be used for Big Daddy training.

Farther Development [ ]

As the Big Daddies and Little Sisters were sent out onto the streets of Rapture, citizens responded to them in different ways, though many were disgusted every bit the Large Daddy's intimidating appearance and aggressive conditioning caused fright amidst the populace and resulted in several unfortunate accidents. Confrontations with Splicers and well-meaning citizens prompted Andrew Ryan to circulate public address announcements to warn against approaching the Big Daddies and Lilliputian Sisters. Ryan tried to gainsay public dislike of the Protector Plan past having the Big Daddies described equally "Knights In Shining Armor", created to protect Rapture confronting the "Parasites".^[xi] As the violence on the streets became more extreme, elite versions of the Bouncer and Rosie were created to aid defend Little Sisters in the more unsafe areas of the city. Ryan even commissioned a third model of Protector to be created by Rapture Central Computing using the aid of The Thinker, and then the Lancer, considered to be the virtually advanced Large Daddy and so far, was created forth with the new Ion Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation weapon. Despite the new Protector being finished, it never left Minerva'due south Den, as Reed Wahl sealed off the entire facility from the rest of Rapture.

Past the end of the civil state of war in 1960, many Big Daddies had fallen to the attacks of Splicers and Atlas' rebels and littered the corridors of Rapture. All the same more remained active, roaming from one vent to another to call on Trivial Sisters to start another bike of gathering. Years after the death of Andrew Ryan and after Sofia Lamb took control, ADAM gathering connected until the remaining Lilliputian Sisters in Rapture were likewise old to be able to process the raw genetic textile. The remaining Big Daddies connected to maintain the city in a feasible state, every bit per their original blueprint. The older Sisters were then turned into Large Sisters by Dr. Alexander, one of the few remaining scientists at Fontaine Futuristics. He conditioned them as enforcers and provided them with diving suit gear like to those of Large Daddies, producing a new fearfulness for the Splicers.^[12] In 1967, Lamb, requiring new Niggling Sisters and the ADAM they produced, sent Big Sisters out to kidnap little girls from the surface.^[13]

Notwithstanding, Splicers continued to evolve over the years, making them more effective in ambushing Big Daddies. This forced Alexander to create a new model of Protector, the Rumbler, which was designed to effectively acceleration larger groups of enemies.^[14]

Stopping the Program [ ]

In 1968, Brigid Tenenbaum returned to Rapture to gratuitous the new Niggling Sisters, foiling Lamb's program of perfecting her Utopia,^[fifteen] and to notice a cure for ADAM.^[sixteen] With the help of Lamb'south daughter and former Little Sister, Eleanor Lamb, and the artificial intelligence even so monitoring the city's automation, The Thinker, she reactivated two Alpha Serial: Subject Delta, Eleanor's former pair-bonded Protector, and Subject area Sigma, previously Charles Milton Porter, the initial creator of The Thinker. Both Alpha Serial regained part of their humanity and gratuitous will, which helped them complete their own objectives: Delta guided by Sinclair, and Sigma past The Thinker, who was impersonating Porter. Their opponents, a genetically mutated and insane Alexander, Sofia Lamb, and Reed Wahl, reactivated other, broken Alpha Series and used them as soldiers to try and cease the rogue Protectors. The last known Alpha Series created was Sinclair (Subject area Omega, Ω), washed by Sofia Lamb to fight Delta as part of her escape program, which ultimately failed.

Induction and Conditioning Process [ ]

"…you go Big Daddy, it'due south a one-way street."

― Yi Suchong^[src]

From the fourth dimension of its founding, maintenance of Rapture required trained divers in reinforced suits to walk outside along the seafloor to repair leaks and reinforce the city'south structure. By the time of the Protector Programme's tests, certain former citizens of Rapture had been genetically contradistinct with ADAM and permanently sealed within the special diving suits to go what were somewhen called Large Daddies. They were genetically modified and conditioned in the inquiry labs and facilities of Point Prometheus. Protector training was eventually washed in the Proving Grounds.

The candidates for consecration into the Protector Program went through voice box modification and pheromone awarding, which attracted the Petty Sisters to the Big Daddies. After those, the candidates' skin and organs were grafted and integrated into their suit, to become 1 functional unit.^[17] The subjects were then placed in large vats of an unknown yellow substance, and somewhen reduced to mindless servitors.

Through genetic splicing, the humans inside the heavy suits were given enhanced forcefulness and durability. Their conform exoskeletons contained the life support machinery needed to keep them live during their duties, allowing a Big Daddy to lift heavy loads and exercise other strenuous tasks, also as resist the cold and force per unit area of the deep ocean. In BioShock, BioShock 2, and Burial at Ocean, Big Daddies can be seen performing both internal and external maintenance repairs. Big Daddies were too ordered to periodically return to facilities similar Hephaestus for routine maintenance check-ups.^[18]

Large Daddy Types [ ]

So far, there are 5 main types of Big Daddy protectors, including two elite versions for only the Bouncer and Rosie. Of the five protectors, the latest four are functional and protect the Picayune Sisters, every bit the original Alpha Series (with the exception of Subject Delta) were marked as a failure.

Introduced in BioShock [ ]

Bouncer [ ]

Bouncers are clad in a very distinct heavy diving suit, the entire trunk of which is covered by a thick metal carapace. The head protrudes directly forward from the upper chest area and is encased in a hemispherical helmet studded with eight lit portholes. A big, fully-functional conical drill is fastened to the right arm only forward of the elbow and is used for powerful melee attacks. The Bouncers get their name from their will to protect their bonded Petty Sisters.

Both a regular and a red-striped Elite version with a harpoon-like drill appear in BioShock and BioShock two.

In the BioShock Space: Burial at Sea DLC, the Bouncer can use the drill as a grappling hook to get effectually Rapture'south infrastructure quicker and likewise to get closer to those that threaten a Little Sister. It is a new feature for that tool/weapon not seen in previous games. A note establish in Suchong'southward dispensary states that the gas that launches the drill bit makes the subject somehow unstable, suggesting that the feature was discontinued in subsequent Bouncers and explaining its absence in chronologically subsequently games.

In concept art of the game, a Bouncer model with ii flat caput drills is seen. Nonetheless, this version was removed when the developers decided they wanted the Big Daddies to interact with the Little Sisters. The model tin can exist establish in the Museum of Orphaned Concepts.

Rosie [ ]

Rosies are clad in a basic heavy flexible fabric diving suit, the upper torso of which is covered by a high-gauge metal carapace. The caput is guarded by a thick metallic diving helmet welded to the torso carapace and has iii big lit portholes. They wield large Rivet Guns and Proximity Mines at long range, and use the Rivet Gun for powerful melee attacks also.

A cherry-striped Elite version is present in the original BioShock.

Introduced in BioShock 2 [ ]

"Big Daddies stand for BioShock: They are iconic fixtures in Rapture. In BioShock ii, y'all step into the shoes of the commencement Large Daddy and assume the role of 1 of the near feared beings within the urban center walls. Designing new Large Daddies posed a significant challenge: Not but did the team have to pattern a playable Big Daddy, but they likewise had to create other Big Daddies that would yet present a significant threat to y'all, despite the fact that yous now likewise wield a drill."

― Deco Devolution: The Fine art of BioShock 2 - Introduction to Big Daddy chapter^[src]

Viii years later the events of BioShock, Sofia Lamb is in control of Rapture and she and her followers have produced new Big Daddies to help protect the Fiddling Sisters. Bouncers and Rosies return to the sequel, along with three new types.

Rumbler [ ]

The Rumbler is the newest type of Big Daddy, and debuts in BioShock 2. Designed by Gilbert Alexander, his arsenal includes deployable Mini-Turrets and a shoulder mounted RPG that shoots not-guided rockets. This Big Daddy type seems to be more mobile than the other 2 types, although less armored. Its combat manner gives information technology an advantage in open spaces, unlike its 2 counterparts, and information technology seems to fare well in long to mid-range combat. Its attacks are designed to keep the player on the motility, and information technology tin apace plough the surround to its advantage and requite the player equally fiddling cover as possible. A very formidable foe to say the least.

Alpha Series [ ]

Like Subject Delta, other failed prototypes of the Alpha Serial of Big Daddies survived. They have long since lost their Sisters, and have devolved into something vaguely like a Splicer. These are barely sentient monsters that attack anything near them. Similar Delta, they can use Plasmids and regularly emit bursts of Electro Bolt, Incinerate!, and Wintertime Blast from their malfunctioning suits. They tend to use Launchers, Auto Guns, and Shotguns in addition to their Plasmids. Their armor is like to Delta's, but more than rust-covered, with parts of their arms exposed.

Their bonds were to exist to a unmarried Piffling Sis, with Delta being the kickoff success. Because of this, they are believed to not take undergone some of the modifications later Large Daddies have, such as the application of pheromones. At that place was no need due to their physiologically enforced bail to a single Niggling Sister. They were not fused into their suits (as Subject Delta could remove his helmet when he was ordered to by Sofia Lamb). Many of the Alpha Series subjects announced to have had incomplete or otherwise faulty bonds and so that instead of slipping into a coma later losing their Little Sisters, they but went mad.

Lancer [ ]

Minerva'southward Den, BioShock two'south final DLC, features a new type of Large Daddy. The Lancer is much slimmer, slightly taller, and more decorated than their counterparts. They as well hold an Ion Laser, and appears to be a finished version of the Deco-Rosie, as seen in concept fine art and as a statue in the main campaign. This is the only type of Large Daddy the player encounters in the Minerva's Den DLC aside from the Blastoff Series.

BioShock 2 Multiplayer [ ]

In the multiplayer segment of BioShock 2, the thespian is able to become a Rosie past picking upward a Large Daddy Suit. Equally a Big Daddy, the actor has access to the Rosie's Rivet Gun and Proximity Mines, also as the ability to perform a stomp which stuns nearby enemies. In the multiplayer, Rosies have 3 different "moods," indicated by the light emanating from their portholes:

Blue Calorie-free: Indicates that the Rosie is on the thespian'due south team, and every bit such is friendly to them.
Yellow Light: Indicates the Rosie is unallied yet hostile. Yellow Lights only announced in free for all games.
Red Lite: Indicates that the Rosie is a fellow member of the opposite team, and thus hostile to the player.

Meaning Big Daddies [ ]

There are vi "named" Big Daddies then far in the BioShock series:

Jack, the protagonist of BioShock, briefly disguised himself as a Rosie Large Daddy in order to follow Frank Fontaine'due south trail.
Knuckles, a friend of Louie McGraff and inmate of Persephone, who was turned into a Big Daddy.^[19]
Mark Meltzer, who was turned into a Rumbler Large Daddy after being captured past Sofia Lamb in BioShock two.
Field of study Delta, the Alpha Serial protagonist of BioShock ii.
Augustus Sinclair, who was turned into the last Alpha Series, Discipline Omega, later existence captured past Sofia Lamb in BioShock 2.
Subject Sigma, the Blastoff Series protagonist of the Minerva'south Den DLC story.

Popular Civilisation [ ]

For appearances of the Big Daddy outside the BioShock series, encounter BioShock in Other Media.

Videos [ ]

All the big daddy sounds in bioshock

Bioshock- Hunting the big daddy video

Gallery [ ]

BioShock [ ]

Early Protector Concept

BioShock 2 [ ]

Burial at Bounding main [ ]

Backside the Scenes [ ]

Even though Big Daddies tin can only be male (with the exception of the 3 female Multiplayer characters, which is not deemed for due to the inconsistency), there were at least 2 concepts for Large Daddy females: One of Robb Waters' Slug Bug concepts has the Big Daddy with a slug attached to the helmet and one version without a helmet, showing a violet-haired adult female inside^[20] (the woman is actually a reused unrelated illustration past Robb Water, of a "lx'south Mama Bear" grapheme). Opus Artz did a re-imagining pitch of the Vita-Chamber for BioShock 2, with an alternate generation of Big Daddies and Big Mommas.^[21]

BioShock ii created an issue in continuity between the original game and the afterward installment in the serial as that it depicted Dr. Suchong as having been killed by a Big Daddy before the 1958 New year's Eve Riots, and his colleague Gil Alexander taking over the Protector program after his expiry and successfully bonding Bailiwick Delta to Eleanor Lamb before the same event. In order to keep BioShock 2 in the continuity of the series, both Alexander's work as told in the second game and Suchong's as seen in Burial at Sea - Episode two are considered here as happening in parallel, since Suchong'due south decease is the only discrepancy between the groundwork of those two stories.
One of the early versions for the plot of BioShock 2 had Subject area Delta responsible for Suchong's expiry, under the control of Sofia Lamb. She acted in order to give command of the Protector Program to Alexander, who was already faithful to her. Moreover, in this plot, the reason for Delta to travel to Persephone was not because of his mental restraining constraining him to remain close to his Fiddling Sis, but to locate Sofia Lamb's ADAM supply she made from the new gatherings and without which he could not survive.^{[citation needed]}
According to BioShock 2 manager Jordan Thomas: the series' Big Daddies move slower when y'all aren't facing them to forestall players from dying in utter defoliation as to where that behemothic drill arm came from. ^[22]

References [ ]

↑ Deco Devolution: The Art of BioShock 2
↑ Rapture Daily Post Article about Suchong: "Movement over Brigid Tenenbaum! With his ever-growing reputation for sci-entific breakthrough, Dr. Yi Suchong may take stolen your title! From the innovative new, drink Plasmids, to the cosmos of the big daddies who built our city, Rapture's leading medical researcher has been the mind behind information technology all."
↑ Demand to Know Theater: The Big Daddy
↑ Yi Suchong's Audio Diary: Protecting Little Ones
↑ Yi Suchong'south Sound Diary: Protector Olfactory property
↑ Augustus Sinclair's Audio Diary: Sacrifices
↑ Gilbert Alexander'south Audio Diary: A Begetter'due south Honey
↑ Yi Suchong'south Audio Diary: Ascertainment #33
↑ Jeremiah Fink's Voxophone: Table Scraps
↑ Yi Suchong's Audio Diary: Imprinting Roadblocks
↑ BioShock two Multiplayer Loading Screen Quotes, rank nine Rapture Standard quote
↑ Gilbert Alexander'south Audio Diary: Big Sister
↑ At that place's Something in the Sea
↑ Gilbert Alexander's Sound Diary: The Rumbler
↑ Brigid Tenenbaum'southward Audio Diary: Render
↑ Brigid Tenenbaum'south Audio Diary: Reversing ADAM Sickness
↑ Yi Suchong'south Audio Diary: Cheap Son of a Bitch
↑ Pablo Navarro'due south Sound Diary: Running Brusk on R-34s
↑ Louie McGraff's Audio Diary: Duke
↑ BioShock: Breaking the Mold in the BioShock iOS App
↑ BioShock 2 – Escaped Examination Subject on Opus Artz Portfolio (Archived & Paradigm)
↑ Game Developers Explain Some Of Their Favorite Ways To Play tricks The Thespian on Kotaku

v·d·e Enemies in Rapture
	Splicer	Protector	Security Device
Enemies in BioShock	Thuggish Splicer · Leadhead Splicer · Nitro Splicer · Houdini Splicer · Spider Splicer	Bouncer · Rosie	Security Bot · Security Camera · Turret
Enemies in BioShock ii	Thuggish Splicer · Leadhead Splicer · Animate being Splicer · Houdini Splicer · Spider Splicer	Big Sister · Bouncer · Rosie · Rumbler · Alpha Serial · Lancer (Minerva's Den)	Security Bot · Security Camera · Turret · Mini-Turret

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