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Bioshock plot predicted in Batman: TAS


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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
Location: Metro area, Georgia
PostPosted: Jun 03 2011 05:30 am Reply with quote Back to top

http://www.geekosystem.com/batman-bioshock/

"Oh, what’s that… what’s that thing where they’re in a underwater city? And it’s all dystopian, with enormous mechanical guards? Like, there’s this billionaire capitalist who’s starting a new civilization based on his rules, and he doesn’t want anyone interfering with it? But then the heroes come in and stop him with help from Mr. Freeze?

Oh right. It’s an episode of Batman: The Animated Series and it’s called “Deep Freeze.”"

Compare to the synopsis for the original BioShock, courtesy of Wikipedia:
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BioShock is set during 1960, in Rapture, a fictional underwater dystopian city. The history of Rapture is learned by the player through audio recordings as he explores the city. Rapture was envisioned by the Randian business magnate Andrew Ryan, who wanted to create a laissez-faire state to escape increasingly oppressive political, economic, and religious authority on land.

...By New Year’s Eve of 1959, “[Ryan's] paranoia had reached such a level he was hanging dozens of people, mostly innocent, in Rapture’s main square.”


There's more in the article but it is amusing.


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Preng
Title: All right, that's cool!
Joined: Jan 11 2010
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PostPosted: Jun 05 2011 02:10 am Reply with quote Back to top

I remember reading about this some time ago. Quite the similarities between the two, and it makes you wonder if 2K just copy pasted the ideas - although by 2011 Simpsons has done everything already.

Seriously, though, too bad the video at the article's end was taken down.
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