He kept the smuggling under wraps, though by disguising himself as a legitimate businessman with interests in charity (Fontaine's Home for the Poor) and Applied Sciences (Fontaine Futuristics). This so disgusted Fontaine that he used his surly band of sea merchants as smugglers, creating a massive criminal empire. In Rapture it was illegal to own things like Religious texts, music and art from the surface unless it was given the official O.K by Andrew Ryan. Within a short while he owned and operated "Fontaine Fisheries", a fishing company that also doubled as a sophisticated smuggling ring. The Smuggler Of Raptureįontaine came to Rapture a poor hood from The Bronx with nothing but big ideas about how he would turn himself into a millionaire. Fontaine is eventually overrun by little sisters extracting Adam from his body and is killed.įrank Fontaine is voiced by Greg Baldwin who also donated his vocal talents as the grossly unpopular Norton Mapes from F.E.A.R. While Fontaine attacks Ryan through smuggling and his own industries such as plasmids and fisheries, his Alter ego attacks Ryan as the political leader of Rapture through Atlas.įontaine consumes so much Adam that he becomes an almost God-like figure and the main character has to battle it out against Fontaine at the end of the game. Atlas is nothing more than part of Fontaine's master plan to seize control of Rapture by turning the poor, the disenfranchised, the people who showed up believing they would be captains of industry but ended up pushing brooms, against Ryan. Frank Fontaine admits that the character "Atlas," the crusading reforming leading a rebellion against Ryan's increasing authoritarianism as his Ayn Rand Objectivist paradise spins wildly out of control, is nothing more than a cynically created long con. The protagonist's only friend in Rapture 'Atlas" is revealed to be Fontaine towards the end of the game, who has been manipulating the player to do his will.With the use of the hypnotic trigger phrase "Would you kindly." he is able to force you to eliminate his only competition, Andrew Ryan so he can take over Rapture. ![]() This uprising caused the downfall of Rapture as a society and created the state of Rapture as Jack (the player) sees it in 1960. The fight lasted for so long that it drove Ryan into hiding and eventually caused a massive uprising on New Years Eve 1959. He started off by gathering together a band of followers in the poor houses of Apollo Square where he and his family lived, after a while this group grew beyond Ryan's expectations causing him to lash out against Atlas.Ītlas responded by rousing his people into a frenzy, which would cause a riot in Rapture like they'd never seen before. Whatever his job was he experienced the hypocrisy in Andrew Ryan's Utopia first hand, causing him to quit and begin a personal crusade against Ryan. What we do know is that he's a married father of one, perhaps an Irish immigrant contracted by Fontaine Fisheries as a laborer. To the player, Atlas is a guide through the depths of Rapture and a constant help in the fight to overthrow the megalomaniac Andrew Ryan but even through that we learn very little about him. Information regarding Atlas' past is almost non-existent. ![]() Atlas is the name used by the mysterious renegade that would eventually cause a full rebellion in Rapture, forcing Andrew Ryan into hiding.
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