5. Big Daddies And Little Sisters
These are the icons of the game. So popular, that you play as a Big Daddy for Bioshock 2 and a Little Sister for one section. However these are not just straight bosses or villains to defeat. The Big Daddies will not do anything to you unless you attack first. They are sticking to their function of guarding the Little Sisters, making them sympathy. The appearance of them is designed around old diving suits that continues the theme of a steampunk/diselpunk look within the game. However, their visual impact is boosted by being partnered with the Little Sisters, the undead waif being combined with the faceless hulk. What would become the Little Sisters, went through a lot of design changes. They started off as slugs, but they realized that few players would worry about harvesting them. So the designs and ideas went from crabs to rodent-like creatures to dogs. They were looking for a shape that could invoke sympathy. Then they struck gold with the Little Sister idea. Now they had something that could be creepy with drinking blood from corpses with syringes. A further vampire connection is that Juliet Landau from Buffy the Vampire Slayer is voicing them. Then the player kills a Big Daddy and she cries over its body. Now the player has to make a decision.