Maybe this is stupid... but where do the bodies go?

[Lovesick]

No, I don't mean the bodies of the little sisters, that's been addressed.

I mean the bodies of the inhabitants of Rapture that have been killed in the war? You can see that around the locations are bodies that are in the process of decay.
Now, it would be a logical argument that they get cleaned out by splicers or Big Daddy's, but seeing them around the map doesn't support this. And to be honest, Splicers don't seem like a bunch that are big on keeping thing's tidy.
So I thought, maybe they're left to rot? Well that would be fine but there are no skeletons in Rapture as far as I'm aware.
For example, in Inner Persephone, when you become the little sister there are bodies for you to gather ADAM from. I'm just saying this so you guys have a specific example.

So maybe this is a really basic and stupid question for me to ask... BUT WHERE ARE ALL THE BODIES?!

[Shades]

They probably found some way to dispose of the bodies, but left a few behind or something, I honestly don't know.

[Sir_Goose]

The bodies transform in to mysterious lockboxes... and then they all pile neatly in the corner :D

[Shades]

The bodies transform in to mysterious lockboxes... and then they all pile neatly in the corner :D

This. It's much more likely than you think.

[Lovesick]

The bodies transform in to mysterious lockboxes... and then they all pile neatly in the corner :D

Oh yeah, I forgot to put the lockbox technicality in my original post xDD

[VoidDelta]

Maby they get cannibalized :eek:

:3 or get buried lovingly by their enemies :)

or get beaten to a pulp (literally) by a big daddy :cool:

[Crezth]

No, I don't mean the bodies of the little sisters, that's been addressed.

I mean the bodies of the inhabitants of Rapture that have been killed in the war? You can see that around the locations are bodies that are in the process of decay.
Now, it would be a logical argument that they get cleaned out by splicers or Big Daddy's, but seeing them around the map doesn't support this. And to be honest, Splicers don't seem like a bunch that are big on keeping thing's tidy.
So I thought, maybe they're left to rot? Well that would be fine but there are no skeletons in Rapture as far as I'm aware.
For example, in Inner Persephone, when you become the little sister there are bodies for you to gather ADAM from. I'm just saying this so you guys have a specific example.

So maybe this is a really basic and stupid question for me to ask... BUT WHERE ARE ALL THE BODIES?!

You see the corpses all around you - from the parents of Masha to potential ADAM-carriers.

As for the "skeletons" dilemma you pose, it is worth noting that for a body to completely decay into a skeleton, a little more time is required - a lot more time, in fact. The currently zombified looks of the dead citizens of Rapture is moreorless accurate.

[Mr.Big_Daddy]

The problem with disposing of the bodies is that most of them contain ADAM, and for anyone who is in Rapture (Splicers mainly) need ADAM to survive. Also remember the Little Sister's gather the ADAM from corpses, without the corpses they cannot do this, and so 'Rapture's economy' so to speak would grind to a halt.

[I_Chose_2_Obey]

I would assume during the war people were fairly 'sane' still, and they were the ones who moved the bodies. Then when they became more spliced, they got to the point of not caring.

[Drew36Chambers]

No, I don't mean the bodies of the little sisters, that's been addressed.

I mean the bodies of the inhabitants of Rapture that have been killed in the war? You can see that around the locations are bodies that are in the process of decay.
Now, it would be a logical argument that they get cleaned out by splicers or Big Daddy's, but seeing them around the map doesn't support this. And to be honest, Splicers don't seem like a bunch that are big on keeping thing's tidy.
So I thought, maybe they're left to rot? Well that would be fine but there are no skeletons in Rapture as far as I'm aware.
For example, in Inner Persephone, when you become the little sister there are bodies for you to gather ADAM from. I'm just saying this so you guys have a specific example.

So maybe this is a really basic and stupid question for me to ask... BUT WHERE ARE ALL THE BODIES?!
...its a video game...

[Precarious]

They turn into lock-boxes. Duh. :P Ah, the power of Rapture... Cleaning up the mess for us.

[Eloeo]

Actually,a more proper question would be: Where do the bodies of Jack and Delta go when they're revived in Vita Chambers?

They are not taken to those chambers,they are cloned and build in them,so the bodies don't just disappear...

[VoidDelta]

Actually,a more proper question would be: Where do the bodies of Jack and Delta go when they're revived in Vita Chambers?

They are not taken to those chambers,they are cloned and build in them,so the bodies don't just disappear...

xD *looks down to find a pile of dead Deltas* :cool:

[Winterkid]

Actually, according to science, you can't just create something from nothing, so raw material would be needed to create you AND your clothes. Where better than the actual flesh you had and the clothes/suit you were wearing?

[BiggerDaddier]

Actually, according to science, you can't just create something from nothing, so raw material would be needed to create you AND your clothes. Where better than the actual flesh you had and the clothes/suit you were wearing?

Well, science does tell us that you CAN create matter from energy (E = MCC and all). But even with all of Hephaestus working away I doubt you'd come close to enough energy to reproduce enough Jacks and Deltas to support a nooby night of Bioshock.

But anyway, as for the actual topic of this thread, they disappear to the land of graphical runtime, along with the cracks in the glass and empty containers. A better question, in my mind, would be where the live splicers come from when you clear out a dead end, head back towards the entrance, and get ambushed from behind. Especially when there are no holes in the walls, and the splicers have no method of teleporting/walking on the ceiling.

[Crezth]

Well, science does tell us that you CAN create matter from energy (E = MCC and all). But even with all of Hephaestus working away I doubt you'd come close to enough energy to reproduce enough Jacks and Deltas to support a nooby night of Bioshock.

Let alone manage the blueprints for the exact chemical composition and atomic arrangement of every molecule of either/or of their bodies...

Besides, energy is something. Our fellow's point stands: you can't create something from nothing.

[SPINEBLOOD]

big daddys drag them away O_O

[Raab]

There will be some future DLC thats already on the disk that will explain this.

[wodinoneeyex]

The bodies are dragged away by the unseen trained mutant giant rats to a vita chamber if they like you (like Jack and Delta) or maybe to the Pneumo tubes to go to the 'Central Office' to be recycled (either as Soylent Green or to the No longer Lil Sisters hideaway - Tannenbaums??? for proper adam extraction or a hacked-vitachamber so they can come alive and join the independant invisible zombie factions.)

[BioShock Freak]

They turn into lock-boxes. Duh. :P Ah, the power of Rapture... Cleaning up the mess for us.

:p
Exactly! Took the words outta my mouth. :D

~Mari.

[Z008MJ]

Ther're eaten by Splicers, problem solved.

[Precarious]

Ther're eaten by Splicers, problem solved.

Now, have YOU ever seen a splicer kneeling down next to a body eating it? Hmm? Lockboxes.

[Spaded_Pacman]

Now, have YOU ever seen a splicer kneeling down next to a body eating it? Hmm? Lockboxes.

would it be possible to get the adam out of a dead splicer if you eat them?

[Z008MJ]

would it be possible to get the adam out of a dead splicer if you eat them?

As crazy as they are, they might think so.

[Moira Fontaine]

would it be possible to get the adam out of a dead splicer if you eat them?

....
Woaaahhh!
I never thought of that...:eek:

[Precarious]

would it be possible to get the adam out of a dead splicer if you eat them?

Well, that depends. Little sisters use adam extractors. I wonder if you need it concentrated. Otherwise they'd all be pretty damn strong.

[Handful O Hellfire]

Finnegan cannibalized Splicers for ADAM; so I guess thats the in-universe explanation for how Splicers treat their dead. And we do find a few Splicers on kitchen tables.

[The ADAM Reaper]

*tilts head and scrutinizes the scene*

A murder, but no body.

*:cool: removes glasses * Looks like we've got our selfs a case.

*YYEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHH*

[The ADAM Reaper]

would it be possible to get the adam out of a dead splicer if you eat them?

But that would be considered cannibalism, my dear child, and it is quite frowned upon in most societies.

[Handful O Hellfire]

Lady Smith: Ooh, Bessy, did you know in the jungle there are cannibals? They are all negroids.
Other Lady Smith: GASP!
*They return to eating the liver of a Ducky*

[AK Downfall]

Its possible that there bodies are transferred to a vita chamber but since there genetic code isnt sync they dont respawn. Seems logical enough to explain where they go.

[Reinhart]

Speaking from a developers standpoint, the campaign of Bioshock 2 was not made for inverse non-linear gameplay. What I mean by this, is that one cannot simply traverse back to a certain spot and expect to find the body there. (albeit, there are some circumstances where the purpose was meant by the developer) The various corpses which lay around the levels may disappear, as the developers may not have intended for the player to trek their way back to that certain area.

[ProjectDelta]

There will be some future DLC thats already on the disk that will explain this.

What? Are you serious?

[BioShock Freak]

would it be possible to get the adam out of a dead splicer if you eat them?
Doubt it. Not only do the little sisters use a special ADAM extractor, but they drink it and take it into their bodies, which is how I think the recycling process works. Could be wrong, though; maybe you can eat the corpses and take their ADAM. That'd be one hell of a meal for just some ADAM, but I'm sure they'd do it if it was possible.

~Mari.

[The ADAM Reaper]

Its possible that there bodies are transferred to a vita chamber but since there genetic code isnt sync they dont respawn. Seems logical enough to explain where they go.

Haha, imagine 100 splicers all crammed into a vita-chamber :p

[Vengeful]

The bodies are teleported to fontaine futuristics and a lock box of their contents are teleported back.

[CMRankine]

In my own little world, I like to think that you're being chased around Rapture by the same 7 or 8 splicers who keep getting revived in the Vita Chambers. I just ignore the thing about the Chambers being locked.

[Meltzer]

It's called the Bonesaver tonic:

[annoying video starting to play]

"Escape your foes even after your own death! Laugh at them from the grave as your body turns into a neat lockbox, conserving your bones and valuables. Warning: Don't lose the key.

Keep the city clean - get your Bonesaver tonic today!"

[Winterkid]

Haha, imagine 100 splicers all crammed into a vita-chamber :p

That's just a variation of an old college prank.

I would imagine after Adam's been reclaimed and they've been looted for anything useful, into a furnace they go. There WAS a morgue in Biochock.

[wodinoneeyex]

Speaking from a developers standpoint, the campaign of Bioshock 2 was not made for inverse non-linear gameplay. What I mean by this, is that one cannot simply traverse back to a certain spot and expect to find the body there. (albeit, there are some circumstances where the purpose was meant by the developer) The various corpses which lay around the levels may disappear, as the developers may not have intended for the player to trek their way back to that certain area.

More important - that leaving them on the screen uses up rendering resources that people with high powered cards wouldnt notice, but people with low end (within the designed target specs ) will start getting poor graphics.

The bodies are still in ragdoll mode even after dead so arent static parts of the terrain mesh. You can wind up with many in a small area (within view of the player).

Similarly the decals (bullet holes, scorch marks, etc..) also disappear to be replaced with newer ones. They are fairly low processing wise but their numbers make it add up if you were to leave too many around.

[wodinoneeyex]

would it be possible to get the adam out of a dead splicer if you eat them?

Hearts of spider splicers act as first aid kits....

Of course the lil sisters pull the blood (maybe high tech syringe does something more complicated -- and adam magnet/enzymes to draw it out of tissue into blood...)

So dracula stalks the world again....

Tannenbaum wasnt from Transylvania was she ???

[Handful O Hellfire]

I'm thinking atleast a little ADAM would permeate the meat in the body of a Splicer. Or maybe they have all just turned to cannibalism alltogether.

[wodinoneeyex]

I'm thinking atleast a little ADAM would permeate the meat in the body of a Splicer. Or maybe they have all just turned to cannibalism alltogether.



MMMM Splicer-Burgers.....


Probably tastes better than Sea Slug tartare ....

[Docmeff]

To give my guess on the OP's question. I didn't read all of the posts.

But I have wondered the same thing. Obviously Rapture is in disarray and is not the most upkept place it's clear there is some body removal.

If you remember from the first game there are crematoriums. You see bodies outside. During the peak of Rapture I'm sure that people were creamated. These being people who died from any reason (natural causes, etc.) You certainly wouldn't just put them in an airlock and suck them out to see. It would suck to be eating morning breakfast and a corpse bubbles up to your winow.

[The ADAM Reaper]

They got up, and walked away. The end.

[RaptureWillBeReborn]

They turn into BioZombies with BioWeapons and BioTechnology because they live in BioShock.

Sorry, couldn't resist. (it would be awesome if they did turn into zombies)

[The ADAM Reaper]

They turn into BioZombies with BioWeapons and BioTechnology because they live in BioShock.

Sorry, couldn't resist. (it would be awesome if they did turn into zombies)

House of the Spliced

Resident Shock (A.K.A BioEvil )

Left 4 Rapture

i made a gam3 wif splicerz in it

Plasmids vs Zombies

I could go on forever :rolleyes: ...

[Handful O Hellfire]

They could be using the Resurrection tonic!

[Mr.Plum]

But I have wondered the same thing. Obviously Rapture is in disarray and is not the most upkept place it's clear there is some body removal.

If you remember from the first game there are crematoriums. You see bodies outside. During the peak of Rapture I'm sure that people were creamated. These being people who died from any reason (natural causes, etc.) You certainly wouldn't just put them in an airlock and suck them out to see. It would suck to be eating morning breakfast and a corpse bubbles up to your winow.

If people are wondering "where the bodies go" then i might as well ask this question, how can a city and the bottom of the sea actually exist?? Or, wouldn't the glass break under the unmeasurable pressure? Or, is adam actually real? These questions, as well as the OP's are silly. At the end of the day, it's just a game.

[wodinoneeyex]

If people are wondering "where the bodies go" then i might as well ask this question, how can a city and the bottom of the sea actually exist?? Or, wouldn't the glass break under the unmeasurable pressure? Or, is adam actually real? These questions, as well as the OP's are silly. At the end of the day, it's just a game.


If the city is pressurize to near the same pressure then there is not that much pressure against the glass/walls/doors.

But even then you would have pressure differentials bewteen different sections of a tall structure (1 atmosphere per 33 feet) - so if you have a Rapture-like skyscraper 400 feet tall then there would be 12 atmospheres difference top to bottom. You really cant compress/decompress people without effects like the bends if you had depth matched sections.


The blue liquid called adam is just a cocktail of hallucinogens taken by some game designers at a party that they never came down from.

[cloud26]

I have always wondered about the bodies myself. But the main thing that bugs me is:

Where are all the childeren?

The only kids you see are the Little sisters. but not all the girls in Rapture were turned into a little sister, and where are the boys like Billy?

This needs to be gone over in the next game. Maybe explained by Tenebuam.

[The ADAM Reaper]

I have always wondered about the bodies myself. But the main thing that bugs me is:

Where are all the childeren?

The only kids you see are the Little sisters. but not all the girls in Rapture were turned into a little sister, and where are the boys like Billy?

This needs to be gone over in the next game. Maybe explained by Tenebuam.

I assume that after the adults when crazy, the kids were officially screwed.

[drewdewd]

Yeah, this is kinda stupid.

[Docmeff]

If people are wondering "where the bodies go" then i might as well ask this question, how can a city and the bottom of the sea actually exist?? Or, wouldn't the glass break under the unmeasurable pressure? Or, is adam actually real? These questions, as well as the OP's are silly. At the end of the day, it's just a game.

And


Yeah, this is kinda stupid.

Clearly the immersion and Grandeur of Rapture has been lost on you.

The OP's question stems from the idea that Rapture and Bioshock were so well designed and the story so gripping and engaging, you are sucked in as a player and it becomes its own reality.

That's the point. The game and story are so well told that you suspend disbelief and actually have no problem with most of what is Rapture. It's good story-telling. You have apparently missed this.

[BioShock Freak]

The disappear only to respawn again. Duh. Why else would there be so many Toasty, Ladysmith, Ducky, and Wader splicers?

~Mari.

[Mr.Plum]

Clearly the immersion and Grandeur of Rapture has been lost on you.

The OP's question stems from the idea that Rapture and Bioshock were so well designed and the story so gripping and engaging, you are sucked in as a player and it becomes its own reality.

That's the point. The game and story are so well told that you suspend disbelief and actually have no problem with most of what is Rapture. It's good story-telling. You have apparently missed this.

Wait, you're going too fast. You assume I have missed or was not immersed enough in Rapture? You assume that I don't recognize the genious of Bioshock's story-telling? And that I don't appreciate the game as a whole?

All because I found this topic absolutely pointless? You jump to conclusions fast.

Bioshock may be the most immersive game i've ever played but at no point did I question the finer, pointless details. Simply, Bioshock is a game and not everything has to make sence or fit perfectly. These questions shouldn't matter. It's like saying, "why are there so few garbage cans in Rapture?" The developers didn't intend for the player to ask such irrelevant questions.

Do you see where I'm coming from?

[Lovesick]

Hang on... Wait wait wait.

I'm not sitting here going "Where do the bodies go... Wait, do they not have any way of cleaning up the bodies? Oh my! Rapture can't be real then! Oh the horror!!!"

I'm simply posing a question of curiosity. Don't take is as a serious question that will shatter the dream of Rapture that I have.

[Sinclair Saucer]

Well, when Splicer's are low on dough for the Circus of Values; they eat them..for nutrition and ADAM!

[ManicSheep]

hmm how about they dress them up like Vikings and throw them into the ocean?
Free pancakes and waffles to whomever can get the reference

[wodinoneeyex]

I have always wondered about the bodies myself. But the main thing that bugs me is:

Where are all the childeren?

The only kids you see are the Little sisters. but not all the girls in Rapture were turned into a little sister, and where are the boys like Billy?

This needs to be gone over in the next game. Maybe explained by Tenebuam.

Children often have a much lower survival rates than adults (who in a death trap that Rapture has become have few enough survivors themselves).

There might be outlying areas, construction/farm satelite communities where the survival rates are higher (where you might have more self dependant people and resources which if they were smart cut themselves off from the insanity in 'the city'). Some children might be in places like those who werent as likely to go insane via plasmids as the 'sophisticated' city folk.

Childrens corpses everywhere was a bit further than the designers/managers wanted to go.

Like in Aliens movies children might hide better in those narrow spaces between walls and ducting -- they ARE there, just they are INSIDE the walls. (And maybe they are cannibals -- to explain the 64 dollar question of where the corpses go...)

[that_splicer_guy]

Portal Gun

[Grayskin]

My Shop on Fleet Street...

Pie anyone?

[BioSD]

They turn into adam slugs thats more than possible:D

[AK Downfall]

They turn into adam slugs thats more than possible:D
...yeah Jack and Delta had to ability to harvest/rescuse splicers....

[Codex]

My Shop on Fleet Street...

Pie anyone?

Mr. Todd? Is that you?

[MightyHaze]

Would you agree that it is entirely possible that splicers not known for their tidiness are territorial, Bodies once harvested and and having outlived their usefulness could be dragged into the airlocks then flushed out into the ocean to be shark food!
What do you think of that synopsis guys?

[MightyHaze]

Would you agree that it is entirely possible that splicers not known for their tidiness are territorial, Bodies once harvested and and having outlived their usefulness could be dragged into the airlocks then flushed out into the ocean to be shark food!
What do you think of that synopsis guys?