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Theory on Jack (bioshock) and handymen

posted 11 years ago by Donuts10
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The handymen are people who were forced into robotic body's. now based on a lot of what they say in the game suggests that they are incredibly miserable, and they may not even be controlling their own bodies and are essentially being used. This sounds a lot like Jack from Bioshock, being used and unable to control himself.
What if the handymen and Jack are the same? Ok I know there is only 1 jack and a bunch of handymen, but what of the handymen are fractions of jack? Thoughts?

[–] MaxPaynefan187 11 years ago

Well the Handymen are based off Big Daddies, just men infused with the body of a machine. The mind control that Jack went through is somewhat the same of the Handymen's inability to control their actions, but I wouldnt completely go with that theory.

[–] paveld78 11 years ago

When you arrive into Finkton docks, immediately after being thrown from the First Lady (zeppelin), you'll find a voxaphone, in which a woman says that her husband has gotten cancer of the stomach and would die, if not for Fink who took the husband's body and put him into the handyman suit.

That being said, Fink was stealing a lot of technology from other dimensions, and even from future of the Earth (from Rapture as well), but I doubt JACK was part of the equation.

What did happen, however, is that Fink saw the Big Daddies and decided to create the Songbird in a similar fashion. Or at least that's how I understood the voxaphone.