Bioshock > Miscellany > Returning Characters in Bioshock 2
There was a discussion on which characters mentioned in Bioshock may have survived to make an appearance in Bioshock 2. The moderator who started the discussion (whose name was taped on the Kyburz character) listed possible candidates.
Significant Characters
Brigid Tenenbaum
Jack Ryan
Masha Lutz
SullivanMinor Characters
Dieter Sonnekalb
Pierre Gobi
Angelina (Dieter's girlfriend, last name unknown)
Anton Kinkaide (founder of Rapture Metro)
Marianne Dellahunt (Mercury Suites resident)
Lloyd Webster (President of Circus of Values Vending)Super-minor characters
Alexander (from Vitachamber diary)
Roland Wallace (from Enrage trial audio diary)
Sinclair (from vitachamber diary and possible owner of Sinclair Spirits)
Demitasse (conjecture)
Rosenberg (Working Late audio diary)Rapture residents learned about from SomethingintheSea
Dr. Miller (mentioned in Kyburz article)
May J Carmody (an Australian photographer of note from Kyburz article)
James Millard Oakes
Jean-Louise Roget
R. Killian Quain
Orrin Oscar Lutwidge
J. Yang (J. Yang is the name of the individual who inspected the Fontaine Futuristics-branded computer in Ryan's office.)Characters who are possibly still alive
Sander Cohen
Andrew Ryan
The moderator's assumption is that a tape next to (or found on) a corpse does not necessarily mean the author of the tape is the corpse.
I, of course, assume otherwise: That if there is a corpse with a tape, the corpse is probably that of the tape's author. I also assume that whoever is not dead is a splicer, unless I find proof to the contrary.
This means that the following people are dead for sure: Steve Barker (Kashmir Restaurant), Sullivan, Samuel and Maritsa Lutz, Masha's parents (Port Neptune), Sammy G. (Smuggler's Cave), Tasha Denu (Farmer's Market), Al Milonakis (Fort Frolic), Bill McDonagh, Anya Andersdotter, Pablo Navarro, Kyburz (Hephaestus), Anna Culpepper (Olympus Heights), Yi Suchong and Diane MacClintock (Apollo Square). Angelina, the female half of the tryst in Arcadia's Tea Garden, is likely the corpse in the nearby stream.
I will go over some of the people on the list and give my own take on their fate.
Regardless of how the game ends, Brigid Tenenbaum obviously escaped Rapture with saved Little Sisters in tow. It is she who revives and guides the Big Daddy Prototype (BDP) in the first Bioshock 2 demo.
In whichever ending of Bioshock, Jack Ryan will have grown old and died by the time of Bishock 2 due to Suchong's accelerated aging.
The fate of Masha Lutz is like that of any other Little Sister: She could have been saved by Jack; she could have been harvested; she could have been crushed by débris; she could even be the Big Sister herself.
Augustus Sinclair was the head of Sinclair Solutions, which feeds you plasmids to test out in the multiplayer part of Bioshock 2. He was also one of two scientists who attempted (unsuccessfully) to explain the Vita-Chamber to Suchong. He was also the owner of Sinclair Spirits in Fort Frolic, with its beer, wine, spirits, cheese — and ninja splicers! It turns out that not only does he survive but takes the place of Atlas as your guide in Brigid Tenenbaum.
Sander Cohen, as Ryan's blood relative, can revive himself in a Vita-Chamber, no matter how many times you kill him. It is possible the BDP visits Fort Frolic in Bioshock 2 and encounters him.
Orrin Oscar Lutwidge and Rød Killian Quain are confirmed to be the same person: Lutwidge before he visited Rapture, Quain after he escaped. It was possible that he might break out of the asylum (and he does!) and return.
Demitasse is the name of a tea shop (an urge for tea
), not an actual person. The BDP may visit the shop, though, but with no such urge.
It is possible that the BDP may encounter Australian photographer May J. Carmody (who came to Rapture at the same time as Kyburz), U.S. Navy midshipman James Millard Oakes (whose vanishing spawned a JBS-like anti-Communist group), and French architect Jean-Louise Roget (father of Celeste Roget) — either as corpses or as splicers or (perhaps) as surviving humans. Oakes, it turns out, did survive long enough to send a distress signal to the surface, which Mark Meltzer picked up — in time to hear Oakes being attacked.
Finally, Andrew Ryan turned off his Vita-Chamber on purpose, as he no longer had a reason for living. I seriously doubt he is coming back.