Honestly. With a name like this how can you possibly be a bad Dad? I know I know, your emotions have been manipulated, you reek to high heaven, your vocal chords have been torn out and you’re pretty much fused inside that honking great diving suit, but you are the embodiment of a father figure to the Little Sisters of Rapture.
To them you’re kind, caring, and playful individuals who are going to keep those mean old splicers away from them as they sip on their weird blood and ADAM cocktails. A Big Daddy will die defending their bonded partner and will keep them safe from any threat - including you.
And if that’s not good enough for you then we have two other great dads in the Bioshock franchise, namely Jack Ryan and Sigma who, depending on your choices, can leave lasting, positive impacts on the Little Sisters you save and Eleanor, who all go on to live happy and what appear to be successful lives. So yeah, Massive Man Dad or Caring Protector Dad. The choice is yours!
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
