BioShock: Who Is Frank Fontaine?
In the original BioShock, the second-biggest twist of the game's story was that the kindly voice of Atlas had been nothing but a fraud. The man leading you around Rapture, influencing you with the phrase "would you kindly," was actually Frank Fontaine, one of the worst men to ever set foot in Rapture. Considering who else lived in this doomed city, that's definitely saying something.
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Fontaine's name is dropped multiple times throughout BioShock's story in the lead-up to this reveal, but your actual interactions with him as Jack are fairly limited. Who is this mastermind who seemingly came out of nowhere to menace you and what little remains of this city? Let's take a trip back into the history of Frank Fontaine and what may be one of the longest, most convoluted cons in history.
The precise means by which Fontaine entered Rapture are never precisely laid out, though it's probably a safe bet that he conned his way in somehow. Cons, after all, are Fontaine's favorite thing. He'd go to any lengths, lie in wait for years on end under an assumed identity, just for a shot at a payday. By his own admission, he once impersonated a Chinese person for six months for one of his grifts. It's likely that he caught wind of Andrew Ryan's efforts to establish Rapture in the North Atlantic and smelled a moneymaking opportunity, scamming his way onto Rapture's guest list.
Fontaine's first "business venture" in Rapture was Fontaine Fisheries, a fishing company that would supply a large portion of Rapture's seafood diet. Running a fishery gave Fontaine access to boats and submarines, which he could use to smuggle contraband material into Rapture for the highest bidder. However, after a chance
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