Atlas

Atlas is a Rapture resident who first contacted Jack via radio when he arrived in the city. He asked Jack to rescue his wife Moira and son Patrick, who were trapped in a bathysphere by Ryan. In order for Jack to do this, Atlas gave Jack advice over the radio on how to survive in Rapture, now inhabited by aggressive Splicers, Big Daddies, and ghosts. He introduced Jack to the properties of ADAM, which gave Jack superpowers. Atlas hated Andrew Ryan and gradually turned Jack against him. As Jack traveled around the city, he began to realize that Atlas played a strange and important role in the life of the city. Posters on the walls asked, "Who is Atlas?", and a voice on the radio said, "Atlas is a friend of the parasites. Don't be a friend of Atlas." In Arcadia, Jack found an audio diary in which Ryan refers to Atlas as the leader of the bandits. In reality, Atlas is a mask created by Frank Fontaine to mislead everyone, including Ryan and Jack, the latter of whom was unwillingly following Fontaine's every order.

When Ryan nationalized Fontaine Futuristics, Frank Fontaine was declared dead. Atlas used the abandoned houses to rally disaffected citizens and raise an army against Ryan. Setting up wards in Hephaestus, Apollo Plaza at his headquarters, he then began collecting weapons, plasmids, and gene tonics to arm his army. The decisive action that officially began the war came on New Year's Eve 1958, when a riot occurred at the Kashmir Restaurant, where many of Rapture's wealthy Elite had been invited to a masquerade ball. In order to contain the rioters, Ryan ordered any disaffected people to be "relocated" and locked away in Apollo Plaza. The Council decided to implement the death penalty in Rapture, causing more and more people in Ryan's ranks to reconsider their position in the conflict, including Chief of Security Sullivan. As the conflict deepened into 1959, more people joined Atlas, including Ryan's lover Diana McClintock. They decided to destroy the Big Daddies, which resulted in many casualties for both Ryan and Atlas, even killing Little Sisters to obtain the ADAM they so desperately needed. In a desperate arms race with the rebels, Ryan was forced to use increasingly extreme measures, eventually leading to the city's public transportation being blocked in an attempt to restrict Atlas' movements. Eventually, Ryan resorted to using a plan suggested to him by the late Dr. Suchong: altering the plasmid line using pheromones to mentally suggest actions. The Atlas army was under control, but all those unaffected by the pheromones fled into the city.

At the beginning of the game, Atlas tries to escape the city with his family. One of Atlas' followers, Johnny, tries to help Jack, who has just survived the accident and descended in a bathyscaphe. Johnny falls into a trap, where he is killed by a Spider-Spider, who then turns her attention to the bathyscaphe and begins to rush into the bathysphere, breaking it. But she fails, she retreats into an ambush, and then kills Jack. Atlas, having lost his ally, has no choice but to help Jack get through the destroyed areas of Rapture using a radio, hoping that Jack will help him save his wife Moira and young son Patrick, who are both trapped in Rapture. Atlas says that he came to Rapture in search of a better life, but now feels like it is "God's punishment for him and Moira and Patrick." Thus, Atlas "indirectly" guides Jack, and proves to be a useful ally in the alien city of Rapture. He tells him about the beginning of Rapture's decline, about ADAM, and about the events that took place on New Year's Eve 1959. He asks Jack to help him get his family out of a submarine hidden in the Smuggler's Den, suggesting that they go through secret caves used by smugglers before the civil war and owned by Fontaine's fisheries in Neptune's Bounty. Atlas says that his plan is to escape the city. He helps Jack by guiding him through the Medical Pavilion and then through Neptune's Bounty. Eventually, Jack reaches a secret bay with a submarine in a hidden base used by smugglers. However, after Jack opens the door to Atlas, the Resistance leader is attacked by Splicers sent by Andrew Ryan. Atlas retreats, ordering Jack to break through to the submarine himself. Jack defeats the mutants, but the submarine explodes right before Jack and Atlas' eyes, killing his wife and son. He and Jack retreat to Arcadia. Distraught with grief, Atlas reveals his new plan - to take revenge on Ryan for killing his family.

So, Atlas asks Jack for help again to stop the tyrant and put an end to this. Atlas directs Jack through Arcadia to the bathysphere, when suddenly Ryan introduces toxins into the air, which kills all the trees that serve to produce oxygen. Not only is this a direct threat to the life of all of Rapture, but it is also the reason for blocking all the doors, and in order to go further, Jack needs the Lazarus drug. To do this, he needs to find Julia Langford. Jack gets to her, but she demands Rose for research, until then not letting Jack into the lab. Jack brings Rose, Julia opens the door to the lab, but as soon as he gets to her, Ryan sprays gas in the office with Julia, killing her, citing a "breach of contract". But Julia, with her last strength, manages to write the code to the safe where the drug recipe is stored on the glass. Jack finds the recipe, and then, on the advice of Atlas, heads to the Farmer's Market to get everything he needs for the Lazarus drug. Once the drug is ready, it revives the trees. Oxygen starts flowing from the trees again, the doors are unlocked, and Jack moves on to Fort Frolic. Upon arrival at the Fort, Sander Cohen, the current owner of the Fort, jams the connection with Atlas and submerges the bathysphere underwater. And now, in order to get further, Jack must help Cohen in creating the Quadriptych. In short, you need to kill four targets given by Cohen, photograph them and hang the photos on the marked places of the Quadriptych. Finally, Jack reaches Hephaestus and Rapture's Control Center, where Ryan's headquarters are located. Guided by Atlas's advice and the diaries of the Resistance members, Jack gets to Ryan, who tells Jack the whole story, explaining that Atlas controlled Jack with the phrase "Be kind", after which Ryan orders Jack to kill him.

After Jack kills Ryan, Atlas contacts him and again with the phrase "Be kind" orders him to take the key to the city and cancel the self-destruct process. Jack disables Rapture's self-destruct system, and Atlas, overjoyed, tells Jack that he is actually the late Frank Fontaine, and then calls the Security Bots to kill him. Jack escapes with the Little Sisters and accidentally falls into a vent along the way. Despite all this, Frank made a clever "knight's move" to achieve his goal, which shows his ability to predict events several years in advance.

Subject Delta can explore Fontaine's office, where he can find the audio diary "Fontaine's Farewell", which tells the story of how Fontaine became Atlas. There is also a painting in the office that may be of Frank's family, with him standing with a boy and a woman, but who they really are is unknown, as Fontaine did not have a child or a wife, as he told Jack. Another of Fontaine's audio diaries, "The Fall of the Place", can be found in the Fine Arts Gallery in Dionysus Park. In this audio diary, he marvels at how he got a brand new face to transform into Atlas, and also mentions the events of the first game.

Atlas appears in Burial at Sea – Episode 2 as the main antagonist. Trapped in the flooded Fontaine's Department Store, along with many of Fontaine's followers, he attempts to sneak back into Rapture with the help of Elizabeth. He made a deal with the girl once he learned she was Suchong's lab assistant, threatening to kill her if she did not fulfill part of their agreement. He gives her a radio to stay in touch, and takes Sally as a hostage; the Little Sister was too valuable cargo to leave with Elizabeth.

After Elizabeth manages to obtain a quantum particle in Columbia and activate it, Atlas's men kidnap her for interrogation. While Elizabeth is unconscious, Atlas and his followers sneak out of Fontaine's Department Store and carry out a planned raid on the Kashmir Restaurant. When Elizabeth regains consciousness, she finds herself tied to a chair. Atlas's follower, Lonnie, injects her with a truth serum in an attempt to extract information. She awakens after a two-week sleep, and Atlas threatens her with a transorbital lobotomy if she does not reveal the "ace in the hole." After the procedure is unfinished, Elizabeth says she would be grateful if he sees it through to the end. Enraged, Atlas brings in Sally and threatens to lobotomize her. Elizabeth later finds the "ace in the hole" and gives it to Atlas. Atlas beats the girl half to death with a wrench until he realizes he still needs her to decipher the "ace". After Elizabeth deciphers the "ace", Atlas finishes her off with a final, fatal blow.

The "Who is Atlas?" posters are a reference to Ayn ​​Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged, which features a similar expression, "Who is John Galt?", used to indicate the meaninglessness of the question being asked. If you compare photos of Fontaine and Atlas, you can immediately notice the similarities, only Atlas differs from Fontaine in that he has hair, no mustache, and a noticeable cleft chin. Despite being one of the main characters in the original BioShock, Atlas does not have his own model like Andrew Ryan and Cohen. He does, however, have his own model in the BioShock Infinite expansion. In the novel Bioshock: Rapture, in a conversation with Diana McClintock, Atlas states that he has a daughter; in the game, he says that he has a son. In the BioShock Infinite add-on, his appearance is different from the one he had in BioShock. Specifically, he has darker hair and a slightly different face than in BioShock. Throughout the game, Fontaine deviates from his role as Atlas and shows that he does not have a fully developed backstory. While posing as Atlas, Fontaine tells Jack that he brought his wife, Moira, and son, Patrick, to the city from the surface. However, when Jack is at McDonagh's Bar, he says that he took Moira there on their first date. He also makes distinctly American use of phrases: - When commenting on the nitro mutant, he says "sounding off like it's the 4th of July," (referring to the explosions=fireworks). - On Cohen, he says "Cohen's an artist, says some. He's a Section Eight, says I." Section 8 - Discharge from the US military due to mental disorder.

• allusion to American football - "Every time we get a yard ahead, Ryan goes and moves the goal line down to the other side of the field!" In 1C translation: "Every time we move one step forward, Ryan takes and moves the final goal to the other side of the field." Inside Fontaine's apartment in the Olympus Penthouse, the player can hear a phonograph playing "Danny Boy".

Inside Fontaine's apartment in the Olympus Penthouse, the player can hear a phonograph playing "Danny Boy" by Mario Lanza, a famous Irish song. In Burial at Sea - Episode 2 - when enraged, Atlas' Irish accent changes to Fontaine's Bronx accent. Atlas is 40 years old. In Bioshock, Atlas seems kinder, even after Andrew Ryan's death. But in the Bioshock Infinite expansion, Atlas is tougher and more brutal.