However, practically all time travel and inter-dimensional travel science fiction stories have their fair share of issues: Obviously - massive spoilers, so no one-boxing :) The final note is accompanied by the entire screen turning to black - it's possible that at this point the final Elizabeth has disappeared as well. The ending is somewhat ambiguous in this regard:Īs each note of the final song is playing, another Elizabeth fades away. It seems reasonable to conclude that she was able to remove herself from the Comstock timeline, to survive the erasure of the Columbia universe. Can she visit Booker, and would she even want to? The ending tangentially opens new questions, infinitely, so to speak.īy the end of the game, the Elizabeth with whom we traveled was omniscient and quasi-omnipotent. But I guess that's the implication of immortality. The question is, what's she doing now? Sitting around in that endless sea of lighthouses? Knowing the constants and variables of each one? Sounds akin to purgatory. If drowning Booker eliminates the Comstock timelines, this could be visualized as all the lighthouses(universes) containing Comstock popping out of existence in that sea of lighthouses.Įlizabeth doesn't necessarily disappear, because she's shown to be detached from the Bioshock time/space continuum by having the ability to open/enter tears and megaverses at will. So Elizabeth is still outside, hanging out in the Columbia megaverse. Booker even says 'wait, you're not, who are you?' The Elizabeth in this lighthouse/universe doesn't have the bruises and scratches from being recaptured by Comstock, and she isn't wearing the bird/cage pendant. You enter a final light house where you're drowned by parallel universe Elizabeths.īut Elizabeth never enters that lighthouse with you. The first sea of lighthouses you encounter, with all the 'stars' (which are really tears) represents the Bioshock multiverse.įrom there you enter the Columbia megaverse, a subset of possibilities within the entire multiverse all having to do with Columbia/Elizabeth/Booker. It's possible she exists within the probability space like the Luteces.

I quote here a good explanation which I came across on the 2k forums:Įlizabeth's fate is still rather up in the air. If you look closely, she is not wearing the necklace which you gave her at the beginning of the game. 'Your' Elizabeth is not present in the drowning scene.

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