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| “ | Elizabeth: Booker, are you afraid of God? Booker DeWitt: No. But I'm afraid of you. |
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| ~ Elizabeth and Booker in the opening of Infinite and later on when they traveling to The Hand of the Prophet. |
| “ | There's a world of difference between what we see, and what is. | „ |
| ~ Elizabeth to Booker. |
Anna DeWitt, better known as Elizabeth Comstock is the overarching protagonist of BioShock franchise, appearing as the appearing as the unseen overarching protagonist of BioShock, the deuteragonist of BioShock: Infinite and its DLC Burial at Sea - Episode 1, and the main protagonist of Burial at Sea - Episode 2.
Elizabeth had been imprisoned in the floating city of Columbia since she was an infant. Booker DeWitt is sent to retrieve her from the city, and bring her to New York. She is guarded by Songbird, a monstrous, winged creature who was both her guard and only friend during childhood; she began to hate him as she grew up, seeing him as a warden prohibiting her freedom. Elizabeth has the power to manipulate Tears that exist in the fabric of time. When Booker frees her from her tower on Monument Island, the Founders, Zachary Hale Comstock, and Songbird are all determined to recapture her at any cost.
She is voiced by Courtnee Draper, who also voiced Sally in Burial at Sea, White Tiger in Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes and Disney 3.0, and Sarah Whitaker in Days Gone.
Biography[]
Background[]
Born in 1893 as Anna DeWitt, she is the daughter of Annabelle Watson and Booker DeWitt, a former military soldier turned Pinkerton agent. Annabelle died during childbirth, resulting in Booker falling into depression, losing his job due to his violent methods to end labor strikes, and turning to gambling. Booker built a large debt, and when greeted by Robert Lutece, agreed to give Anna over to Father Zachary Hale Comstock to have his debts washed away. He immediately regretted his actions and attempted to rescue Anna, but failed as she was pulled into Comstock's universe. However, the tip of her pinky finger was severed when the tear closed, which place her in both realities.
In the new universe, Anna was taken in by Father Comstock and his wife, who were alternate versions of Booker and Annabelle where the prophet had accepted Father Witting's baptism. Comstock became fertile due to experiences with the tear machine, and had the Luteces find him an heir to maintain Columbia. Renamed Elizabeth, she was moved to Monument Island when she started to display the ability to create tears and Lady Comstock's hatred for the child, believing the girl was the daughter of Comstock and Rosalind.
While being kept on the island, she was studied and they discovered a tear that opened a universe where Andrew Ryan created Rapture. Jeremiah Fink began a partnership with Rapture's doctor Yi Suchong, and both created the Songbird to protect the girl. When she was child, Elizabeth witnessed Songbird crash into the tower, and managed to save him in time before he could die. As a result, Songbird imprinted on the child, and Fink broke his partnership and prevented Suchong from gaining Elizabeth's locks of hair. As she grew older, Elizabeth started to visit other universes via her tears, but she was stopped when the Luteces created the siphon to control her power. Having a large amount of spare time in her entrapment, Elizabeth would read the books, paint, and desiring to go to Paris.
BioShock Infinite[]
In 1912, the Luteces sent Booker DeWitt to retrieve Elizabeth from Columbia, and the two would encounter each other when he reached her tower. When Songbird is alerted to his presence, the duo are forced to escape from the tower and land in Battleship Bay's ocean. When leaving the bay, Booker lies to Elizabeth that he will take her to Paris by leaving Columbia via The First Lady airship, but secretly is tasked with taking her to New York. Despite witnessing DeWitt kill some of Comstock's men, she agrees to work with him to reach the airship. The two are stopped from entering The First Lady when the gondola needs power, and head to the Hall of Heroes to obtain the Shock Jockey vigor. Elizabeth is introduced to Cornelius Slate, who was a military soldier that served alongside DeWitt during the Sioux Wars. She learns of his involvement in the Wounded Knee massacre, and that she is Comstock's "daughter" when seeing a memorial to Lady Comstock.
Once Slate is either killed or spared, Booker retrieves the Shock Jockey vigor and the two return to The First Lady. Elizabeth quickly learns of Booker's lies when noticing the coordinates are for New York, and she proceeds to knock him out with a wrench and flees when the Vox Populi arrive. She attempts to sneak onboard to another vessel, but is caught and thrown out, where he encounters Booker once again. Despite being angered at DeWitt for his actions, she agrees to work with him to reclaim The First Lady, as the Vox Populi leader Daisy Fitzroy wants Booker to give them weapons in exchange for the airship. During their search for the gunsmith Chen Lin, Elizabeth learns that she is not the prophet's daughter from reading Lady Comstock's diary, and that her adoptive mother was partially the reason she was put into a tower.
The two reach Fink's factory and find Chen dead, and Elizabeth decides to use her powers to enter a reality where the gunsmith is still alive. However, they find Lin alive but suffering from being merged with another reality, thus sending Elizabeth and Booker to retrieve his tools. Going through Shantytown to find the tools, they find they can't transport them to the gunsmith, so Elizabeth opens another tear where the supplies have been given to the Vox Populi. As a result, the revolution has begun and are assaulting Fink's factories. Though they can reach the airship, they find that Booker became a martyr for the Vox, and Daisy sends her men after him since she believes him to either be a ghost or an imposter. Elizabeth is then forced to kill Fitzroy when she attempts to murder Fink's son, causing her to become traumatized from the experience.
The two enter the airship and prepare to leave Columbia, but Songbird arrives and destroys The First Lady. The two find themselves in Emporia, and decide to find a way to control Songbird since the creature won't allow them to leave the city. While heading to the Comstock House, they learn from the Luteces that their is a flute that if played specifically, can control the Songbird. When reaching the gate to Comstock's home, they cannot since it the gate needs the appropriate fingerprint. Realizing that her adoptive mother's corpse is kept in condition, Elizabeth decides to head there despite concerns from Booker. When reaching her casket, Comstock siphons some of Elizabeth's power to revive his late wife as the Siren. Elizabeth and Booker are then forced to subdue Lady Comstock, and the former is able to calm her by explaining how she died and came back. Lady Comstock then blasts open the gates to the Comstock house and departs, finding some peace and resolution.
When heading to Comstock's home, the Songbird attacks Booker, and Elizabeth makes an exchange for her freedom for DeWitt's life. She is taken to a laboratory where she is tortured by scientists, but she is rescued Booker, who was taken there by an elderly version of Elizabeth that fulfilled Comstock's goal. She tells Booker that she is going to kill Comstock, but he refuses, wanting to kill the prophet himself for what he did to her. The two reach to Comstock after defeating his men, and Comstock attempts to tell her that all of this happened because of DeWitt. He then intervenes and kills Comstock, and Elizabeth asks him what the prophet meant about his involvement with her losing her pinky finger. While on The Hand of the Prophet, Elizabeth realizes that Monument Island is the siphon itself and that the card given to her are instructions to control Songbird.
When Booker destroys the tower on the island, Elizabeth gains full control over her powers, and transport herself, Booker and Songbird to Rapture. She explains that she is able to see infinite outcomes and possibilities, and that Comstock is still alive in other realities. Elizabeth takes Booker through his past, where he regains his memories of giving Elizabeth over to Comstock when she was just an infant. Booker then believes they should kill Comstock as a baby, and Elizabeth brings him to the river where he rejected the baptism, thus revealing that the prophet is an alternate version of him that accepted it and was reborn. Different versions of Elizabeth arrive, and they proceed to drown him before he can accept or reject the baptism. All of the different Elizabeth's disappear except for the main one.
Bioshock: Burial at Sea[]
Elizabeth realized that drowning Booker created a paradox for one reality, and all different versions of her collapsed onto her upon being erased. She learns that one Comstock survived, having accidently caused Anna's death when struggling to take her to his reality. Guilt-stricken, Comstock told the Luteces to send him to a different reality so he could forget what he did, and they sent him to Rapture. Elizabeth traveled to Rapture and started to fit into the 50s era world, and worked with Sandor Cohen to learn about the child trafficking that was happening there. As a result of traveling there, tears started to appear, which gained the attention of Dr. Suchong.
Once learning that Comstock's adoptive daughter Sally was kidnapped and turned into a little sister, Elizabeth decided to work with the alternate DeWitt to locate the child. During their search, they find her traveling through the ventilation systems and Comstock attempts to pull her out, leading to him regaining his memories. Comstock then apologizes for his actions, but Elizabeth reject it before he is killed by a Big Daddy. However, Elizabeth was killed as well when attacked by the Big Daddy, who smashed her into being impaled by a rebar. While trapped in a illusion of being in Paris, the Luteces explain to her that though dead, she can return to Rapture at the cost of losing her abilities for good. She also begins to speak with "Booker", with his fragment of her mind helping her during her quest.
Wanting to save Sally, Elizabeth reluctantly helps Atlas/Frank Fontaine find a way out of Rapture, first getting the particle that could lift the area back to Rapture. Reaching Dr. Suchong's make-shift lab in the Silver Fin restaurant, Elizabeth discovers a Lutece device where a tear is open. Seeing that she can find a particle to lift the area, Elizabeth manages to obtain parts to repair it to return to the flying city. Despite succeeding in obtaining the particle, she is stopped by Dr. Suchong, who orders her to find locks of hair in exchange for her return back through the tear. Elizabeth agrees to his demand and finds the locks, which are of her own due to Suchong and Fink's collaborations during their attempt to make big daddies and Songbird imprint. After making the exchange, Andrew Ryan confronts Elizabeth, sending his men to kill her before warning her that Atlas will break his deal.
Upon using the particle to lift the area, Atlas has her captured by his men, wanting them to coax the "Ace in the Hole" from her. The attempts fails as two weeks pass, but Elizabeth regains her senses, and agrees to find the "Ace" in exchange for Sally's life. Going to Suchong's clinic, Elizabeth helps a Big Daddy imprint on two Little Sisters when they give him ADAM, and witnesses the bouncer kill Dr. Suchong when he strikes one of the girls. Upon retrieving the "Ace in the Hole"'s encoded message, she returns to Atlas, giving him the message before being beaten unconscious by him. Before being beaten to death, she reveals that the message states "Would You Be Kindly" while seeing the "Ace in the Hole" attack a plane he is on.
While dying from wounds sustained by Atlas, Elizabeth sees the future, where Jack returns to Rapture, stops Atlas, and adopting Sally and the Little Sisters. Seeing that she has saved Sally from death and has finally broken the cycle, Elizabeth dies from her wounds while being comforted by the child.
Quotes[]
| “ | Well, I want a puppy, but that doesn't mean I'm going to get one! | „ |
| ~ Elizabeth's response to Booker upon learning that she is Comstock's "daughter". |
| “ | They are all different, yet similar. Constants, and variables. | „ |
| ~ Elizabeth explaining the different realities to Booker. |
| “ | Never underestimate the fallibility of the egomaniac. | „ |
| ~ Elizabeth to "Booker" on Dr. Suchong. |
| “ | If you kill her, I truly hope you are happy living down here. Put down roots; raise a family. Or maybe you think Andrew Ryan is gonna ride to your rescue. | „ |
| ~ Elizabeth to Atlas. |
| “ | This world values children, not childhood, there is a profit to be made, and men who make it. | „ |
| ~ Elizabeth while comatose. |
| “ | It says... "Would You Kindly". | „ |
| ~ Elizabeth to "Booker" on Suchong's encoded message. |
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Trivia[]
- She is the first playable female character in the series in Burial at Sea - Episode 2.
- She was originally supposed to be 17 years old, but the developers felt that she was "too Disney princess".
- Her appearance in Burial at Sea was inspired by Lauren Bacall, Elizabeth Taylor, Rita Hayworth, and Veronica Lake.