4. Frank The Rabbit/The Luteces
If you're comparing Bioshock Infinite to Donnie Darko then you cannot brush off the fact that Frank The Rabbit acts as the same sort of guide for Donnie that The Luteces acted as for Booker DeWitt. Without the Luteces guiding Booker through the city of Columbia through both: appearances and the voxophones, I'm convinced that we never would have reached the end of the city, or the game for that matter. Without Frank The Rabbit guiding Donnie and telling him where to go or what to do, the universe would have surely ended up in a far more damaged state. I say damaged but I really just mean destroyed. I'm not saying that the two are exactly the same. Frank The Rabbit becomes The Manipulated Dead in a tangent universe and I really don't think he makes his own choices whereas The Luteces have the freedom to knowingly jump throughout time and space, appearing whenever and wherever they desire. With all of this talk about universes, why not move on to...