In order to break the loop the Luteces bring the 123rd Booker in the "game's universe", he creates his own memories for the different reality (message at the beginning of the game and explanation by Rosalind Lutece at the end), he succeeds in the rescue, he really wants to change, he breaks the loop and only after dying under these conditions the universe is restored. Without the events of the game if you bring Booker directly at the end he would become Comstock or would still be a desperate Booker. And the only way to make that choice is for him to rescue Elizabeth. The third choice he makes is wanting to go to Paris with Elizabeth. They have the same powers of Elizabeth but they can't do anything because the only way to make Booker's death count in order to "reset" the multiverse is for him to decide to not become Comstock or Booker. The Booker you're playing is the 123rd and the only one that survives. That's why at the beginning the Luteces know you won't row the boat and they have a tally of 122 heads at the fair. Anna will never be sold and renamed Elizabeth Comstock doesn't exist any more and neither does the Booker who is picked by the Luteces at the beginning of the game.Īll this is possible because destroying the siphon and controlling Songbird with the song from the future Elizabeth breaks the loop of the universes. With the final decision all universes disappear and becomes one (post credits scene). From that moment it will be one universe, with one Booker and one Anna. The Elizabeth you know disappears along with the other ones you see in the water. (See also: Looper, Doctor Who, Back to the Future, etc) I think that any story which includes these types of elements is highly likely to fall afoul of some type of similar paradoxical situation. How can Elizabeth even drown her own father before she was born? Doesn't drowning all the possible Booker/Comstocks mean that Elizabeth never existed in the first place? Then, who drowned him? Further, if there are infinitely many worlds, there's not a single one where Booker perhaps never had a daughter? There's a lot of hand waving about "constants" here that they use to get away with it, but it's still a bit silly. However, practically all time travel and inter-dimensional travel science fiction stories have their fair share of issues: Obviously - massive spoilers, so no one-boxing :) The final note is accompanied by the entire screen turning to black - it's possible that at this point the final Elizabeth has disappeared as well. The ending is somewhat ambiguous in this regard:Īs each note of the final song is playing, another Elizabeth fades away. It seems reasonable to conclude that she was able to remove herself from the Comstock timeline, to survive the erasure of the Columbia universe. Can she visit Booker, and would she even want to? The ending tangentially opens new questions, infinitely, so to speak.īy the end of the game, the Elizabeth with whom we traveled was omniscient and quasi-omnipotent. But I guess that's the implication of immortality. The question is, what's she doing now? Sitting around in that endless sea of lighthouses? Knowing the constants and variables of each one? Sounds akin to purgatory. If drowning Booker eliminates the Comstock timelines, this could be visualized as all the lighthouses(universes) containing Comstock popping out of existence in that sea of lighthouses.Įlizabeth doesn't necessarily disappear, because she's shown to be detached from the Bioshock time/space continuum by having the ability to open/enter tears and megaverses at will. So Elizabeth is still outside, hanging out in the Columbia megaverse. Booker even says "wait, you're not, who are you?" The Elizabeth in this lighthouse/universe doesn't have the bruises and scratches from being recaptured by Comstock, and she isn't wearing the bird/cage pendant. You enter a final light house where you're drowned by parallel universe Elizabeths.īut Elizabeth never enters that lighthouse with you. The first sea of lighthouses you encounter, with all the "stars" (which are really tears) represents the Bioshock multiverse.įrom there you enter the Columbia megaverse, a subset of possibilities within the entire multiverse all having to do with Columbia/Elizabeth/Booker. It's possible she exists within the probability space like the Luteces. I quote here a good explanation which I came across on the 2k forums:Įlizabeth's fate is still rather up in the air. If you look closely, she is not wearing the necklace which you gave her at the beginning of the game. "Your" Elizabeth is not present in the drowning scene.
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