10 Video Game NPCs You Shouldn't Have Trusted

10. Atlas - BioShock

Throughout the original BioShock, players are guided through the city of Rapture by the support character Atlas, a revolutionary who they speak with via radio for a major chunk of the game.

Later on, however, it's revealed that Atlas is actually the megalomaniacal conman Frank Fontaine, who faked his death and assumed the Atlas alias in order to agitate a Civil War and take control of Rapture for himself.

We also learn that Atlas' oft-repeated phrase, "Would you kindly?," whenever he asks the player to do something, is actually a hypnotic inducement - a trigger phrase which forces progagonist Jack to do anything he asks without pushback.

The lesson here? If a game keeps a support character at arm's length from you, and you never actually meet them in person, there just might be a good reason for it.