Upon Fontaine's summons, using the trigger phrase "Would you kindly", Jack boarded a plane in 1960 that passed near Rapture's location in the North Atlantic, then hijacked it, forcing it to crash land at the coordinates of the Lighthouse, the Main entrance to Rapture.Ĭlassification: Genetically Modified Human, Heir of Rapture, The Prodigy Child
Sometime in 1958, before Fontaine faked his own death in a shootout with Sullivan's forces, Jack was smuggled out of Rapture in a bathysphere and sent to the surface as a sleeper agent, living out his pre-programmed life, as Jack Wynand, until Frank Fontaine "activated" him. He was to be Fontaine's backup plan if he was ever forced into an unfavorable situation by Ryan, which happened during Rapture's Civil War. Jack is the illegitimate son of Andrew Ryan and Jasmine Jolene, Ryan's mistress. During his journey through Rapture, Jack comes across a number of gene altering substances, known as Plasmids, that he uses to empower and protect himself.
He is a young male who, prior to his unwilling arrival in Rapture, was a passenger on an airplane that crashed near the lighthouse that provided entry to the underwater city. Jack is the protagonist of BioShock, whom the player controls throughout the game. "When Mum and Dad put me on that plane to visit my cousins in England, they told me, 'Son, you're special, you were born to do great things.' You know what? They were right."