Bioshock

Elizabeth Comstock

Elizabeth Comstock

Elizabeth Comstock is a special girl living in Columbia, a floating city in the clouds that seceded from the Union in the late 1800s. She is the daughter of Father Comstock, the mad prophet ruling the city. Elizabeth possesses the power to open Tears, portals to other worlds that have advanced Columbia’s technology. Booker DeWitt rescues her from imprisonment, aided by her abilities. Initially non-combatant, she uses Tears for minor aids; larger changes are less controlled. In Burial at Sea Episode 2, she loses her powers and fights with weapons, preferring traps, hiding, and single takedowns.

Tears - General Mechanics

  • Tears are windows to other worlds that Elizabeth can open and close, often with slight variations but sometimes striking differences. (source)
  • Originally able to create Tears before her powers were drained. (source)
  • When found by Booker, she cannot create Tears and needs an existing one to open. (source)
  • Rosalind Lutece theorizes Elizabeth’s power stems from partially existing in two realities after her finger was severed in her previous reality. (source)
  • Overlapping multiple realities causes conflicts, like those who died in one remembering death. (source)
  • Overlapping realities can make people see things that aren’t there. (source)
  • Constant exposure to alternate realities causes sterility. (source)
  • Constant exposure to alternate realities causes rapid aging. (source)
  • Elizabeth loses her powers after the main version of herself is killed. (source)

Tears - Elizabeth with Siphon

  • Opens a Tear to an alternate version of Paris in the 1980s. (source)
  • Opens a Tear to create an open window in an elevator. (source)
  • Opens a Tear to create a freight hook for Booker to latch onto. (source)
  • Opens a Tear to create a sky rail to slide down. (source)
  • Opens a Tear to create balloons to catch Booker. (source)
  • Opens multiple Tears to slow Booker while running away, eventually opening one to pass a wall. (source)
  • Opens a Tear to overlay a reality where Chen Liu is alive due to his brother being Fink’s head of security. (source)
  • Creates a Tear where Booker DeWitt died as a martyr for the Vox Populi to move Chen Lin’s gunsmith tools. (source)
  • Opens a Tear to add a lock onto a gate. (source)
  • Opens a Tear to view a conversation from the past. (source)
  • Opens a Tear to bring a tornado into the operating room. (source)
  • Can open a Tear to create higher ground or a turret. (source)
  • Can open a Tear to create a discount vending machine. (source)
  • Can open Tears to create medical kits or salts. (source)
  • Can open Tears to create guns. (source)
  • Can open Tears to create floating turrets. (source)
  • Can open Tears to create mechanized, gun-toting Patriots. (source)
  • Can open Tears to create cover. (source)
  • Can open Tears to create environmental hazards like Tesla coils. (source)
  • Can open Tears to create decoys of Booker. (source)
  • Can open Tears to create food. (source)
  • An older Elizabeth destroyed the minds of her followers by merging every version of them into one. (source)
  • An older Elizabeth brings Booker into the future, then sends him back to the past. (source)

Tears - Elizabeth without Siphon

  • Brings Songbird to Rapture. (source)
  • Can see a million million worlds, the same yet different. (source)
  • Knows what happens in all of these worlds. (source)
  • Felt everything every version of her felt. (source)
  • Knows the past and future of all worlds; even after losing most powers, remembers relevant information under torture. (source)
  • Can open tears to create robotic Samurai to attack foes. (source)

Tears - Tears not created by Elizabeth

  • Rosalind Lutece met an alternate version of herself through a Tear. (source)
  • Rosalind Lutece saw a reality where Soviets controlled Columbia through a Tear. (source)
  • Albert Fink heard modern music through Tears, translating it into current styles. (source)
  • Jeremiah Fink stole the idea of Songbird from Rapture through a Tear; adapted to low pressure based on Rapture technology. (source)
  • Jeremiah Fink stole Vigors idea from Dr. Suchong’s Plasmids through a Tear. (source)

Tears - Other

  • The Siphon charges Elizabeth’s power through objects to swap with alternate versions. (source)
  • Comstock siphoned Elizabeth’s power to resurrect her mother as a ghost, combining Lady Comstock and Elizabeth’s feelings. (source)

Plasmids and Vigors - Peeping Tom

  • Allows seeing people and items through walls while standing still, or briefly turning invisible. (source)
  • Invisibility lasts indefinitely while standing still. (source)
  • Uses power as a heat sink for the Lutece Device. (source)

Plasmids and Vigors - Old Man Winter

  • Sprays dry ice from hands. (source)
  • Area effect freezes multiple enemies; frozen enemies forget Elizabeth after thawing. (source)
  • Creates a 2500 pound dry ice sculpture. (source)
  • Creates a bridge of dry ice. (source)
  • Freezes the entire floor of a department store. (source)

Plasmids and Vigors - Possession

  • Possesses enemies and machinery to fight for her, or sets charged traps that activate on touch, knocking out victims. (source)

Plasmids and Vigors - Ironsides

  • Surrounds herself with a shield that catches bullets midair, adding to her ammo, and regenerates health and EVE from ammo damage. (source)

Weapons

  • Air Grabber, used for latching onto freight hooks. (source)
  • Crossbow shoots sleep bolts that knock targets out immediately, Noisemaker rounds that make noise, and proximity gas bolts that knock nearby enemies unconscious. (source)
  • Hand Cannon. (source)
  • Shotgun. (source)
  • Radar Range microwave projector cooks targets from inside, turning them into living bombs; boils water for coffee in seconds; killed a dog on the spot. (source) (BaS)
  • Radar Range cooks targets into living bombs. (source) (BaS)
  • Radar Range boils water in seconds. (source) (BaS-A)
  • Radar Range killed a dog instantly. (source) (BaS-A)

Strength

  • Knocks a man out with one blow. (source)
  • Knocks Booker out with a wrench. (source)
  • Resists being taken by a grown man and kicks him in the groin. (source)
  • Knocks a man out with a kick to the groin. (source)
  • Throws books at Booker. (source)
  • Skips a stone. (source)
  • Moves some rubble. (source)

Agility

  • Climbs over some wreckage. (source)

Durability

  • Survives a long fall into Battleship Bay. (source)
  • Survives an airship crash. (source)
  • Survives an electric shock that knocked out or killed two people. (source)

Skills

  • Has experience with lockpicking, cryptology, painting, singing, and dancing. (source)
  • Picks a lock. (source)
  • Cracks a Vox Populi cipher with a codebook. (source)
  • Deciphers a chemical code, figures out repairs for the Lutece Device and where to find parts. (source)
  • Sings ‘Let the Circle be Unbroken’. (source)

Other

  • Kills Daisy Fitzroy with scissors. (source)
  • Tosses Booker a coin. (source)
  • Tosses Booker some salts. (source)