Bill McDonaghedit

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Bill McDonagh
Biographical Information
Family	Flann McDonagh
Died	1959
Place of Death	Rapture Central Control
Physical Description
Gender	Male
Appearances
Appears in	BioShock

"Ryan nationalized Fontaine Futuristics - he owns it now, lock, stock and barrel. For the good of the city, he says. He'll break it up in due time, he says. I've resigned from the council and lodged me letter of protest, but that's just pissing in the wind. It'll be war, I say... unless somebody stops Ryan and right fast."

―Bill McDonagh^[src]

Contents 1 History 2 Audio Diaries 3 Trivia 4 References

[edit] History

Bill McDonagh speaks with a Cockney accent and served as the general contractor in Rapture under Andrew Ryan. A well meaning man who believed in the promise of Rapture, he provided the expertise and labor necessary to build Rapture. McDonagh first met Ryan while he was repairing the fixtures in the bathrooms of Ryan's New York suite. Ryan asked why McDonagh was using brass fixtures instead of the tin ones that were arranged with the contractor and McDonagh replied that he would pick up the cost of the fixtures, as a point of personal pride being that none of his work had ever leaked. Impressed, Ryan made him general contractor.

McDonagh was one of Rapture's City Council members, possibly because of his close friendship with Ryan or because of his great influence in building and maintaining the city. McDonagh displayed a more realistic outlook than Ryan when it came to upkeep of the city. He was the first to realize that things were getting out of control with the Fontaine's Plasmid business in Rapture, and he tried to tell Ryan that real grievances did exist among Fontaine's followers, due in strong part to the excesses and philosophy of Ryan himself. After Fontaine was supposedly killed in a shoot out with Ryan's security forces McDonagh tried to get Ryan to prevent any further unrest by dealing with the matter equitably. However, Ryan ignored his advice, nationalizing Fontaine Futuristics and going against all of his philosophy against "Big Government" in the process.

This upset McDonagh so much that he resigned his post on the city council in protest. As the situation in Rapture worsened McDonagh realized that the Civil War would not end until Ryan was dead. In order to save his beloved city he decided to kill Ryan. Ultimately, he was unsuccessful. Bill McDonagh is found killed and impaled on a pillar outside of Andrew Ryan's office in Rapture Central control, after he turned on Ryan in an attempt to prevent the chaos from growing worse.

[edit] Audio Diaries

• Medical Pavilion
  • Freezing Pipes
• Neptune's Bounty
  • Eden Leaking
  • Arresting Fontaine
  • Meeting Ryan
  • Rapture Changing
• Arcadia
  • Seeing Ghosts
• Fort Frolic
  • Fontaine's Army
  • Guns Blazing
• Hephaestus
  • Ryan Takes F Futuristics
  • Stopping Ryan
  • Fontaine's Legacy
  • Genetic Arms Race

[edit] Trivia

• It is possible that Bill is the owner of the Fighting McDonagh's tavern, since it shares his last name and because many of his audio diaries can be found there.

• Ken Levine, the director of BioShock^[1], stated that he used characters as themes in BioShock, with Bill McDonagh representing Ryan's conscience.^[2]

• According to an article in There's Something in the Sea, Bill McDonagh's disappearance from the surface was noticed by his nephew Flann McDonagh.

[edit] References

1. ↑ Ken Levine on Wikipedia
2. ↑ Gamespot Interview with Ken Levine