The Assassination of Daisy Fitzroy (By The Coward BioShock Infinite)

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BioShock is celebrating its 10-year anniversary today, March 26, 2023. Below, we take a critical eye to how it ultimately mishandles its prominent Black revolutionary character, Daisy Fitzroy.

Let me tell you a story: a story about a slave.

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This slave was once the absolute pride of their owner. Strong. Respected. And the slave was well-cared for. The lady ruler of the land decreed it. But the slave was still enslaved. Their only real power was the ability to control a crowd. After being declared an enemy of the state, the slave revolted. They swore vengeance, inciting an entire people to cheer for the fall of their ruler, and made no apologies for their wish to overthrow the government by force. The slave would fight, and die, for freedom.

This is a story about a slave.

Actually, it's a story of two slaves.

One of them is BioShock Infinite's Daisy Fitzroy. The other is Maximus Decimus Meridius from Ridley Scott's Gladiator. But these are two different slaves on another level. One of them is considered an all-time great hero of film. Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. His actions defied the Roman Empire through violent revolt, ending in a dead emperor and a new republic. He is a hero, and the film portrays him as such.

The other is a Black slave in 1912, sent to serve her master in a floating utopia for rich, bourgeois, and stultifyingly racist white people of the time. Zachary Comstock, her master and the city's «prophet,», frames her for