Andrew Ryan is easily the most important character in BioShock, a business mogul who built the underwater city of Rapture, initially realised by Ryan as a Utopian existence flourishing amid the notion of Objectivism, whereby the world's elite would be cut off from the rest of society (namely the government). However, this apparently idyllic existence soon began to suffer when Plasmids started to be harnessed, and war broke out between Ryan and the revolutionary Atlas. Ryan meets his grisly end when player character Jack finds him in his office playing golf, where he explains that Jack is his illegitimate son, and reveals that the phrase "would you kindly?" that Atlas has been using throughout the game was a trigger with which Jack could be ordered to perform actions. Memorably, Ryan tells Jack, "A man chooses, a slave obeys", before Ryan hands Jack a golf club and using the trigger phrase, forces Jack to fill him. The combination of the shocking reveal, the cinematic quality of the scene and the sheer brutality makes it a death not easily shaken.
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