Ken Levine, the director of BioShock, stated Bill McDonagh in a way represented Ryan's conscience in the game.He named it after his father, who had been a boxer in his youth. It is stated in the novel BioShock: Rapture that Bill is the owner of the Fighting McDonagh's tavern.Reaching Hephaestus, Jack finds McDonagh's corpse, hung up in Ryan's Trophy Hall after his failed assassination attempt, along with six other men and women, including Anya Andersdotter.īill McDonagh is mentioned by Andrew Ryan and Kate O'Malley in the Audio Diaries: " Pauper's Drop" and " Dionysus Park's Weakness".īurial at Sea - Episode 1 Main article: Burial at Sea - Episode 1Īn altered version of Bill McDonagh's audio diary portrait is briefly seen in the Need to Know Theater: " Taking the Taint Out of Fontaine", among the rest of the Council. Bill McDonagh was killed and his body was 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. In order to save his beloved city he decided to kill Ryan. Īs the situation in Rapture worsened, McDonagh realized that the Civil War would not end until Ryan was dead.
This upset McDonagh so much that he resigned his position on the city council in protest. However, Ryan ignored his advice, nationalizing Fontaine Futuristics and contradicting all of his philosophies against "Big Government" in the process. Īfter Fontaine was supposedly killed in a shootout with Ryan's security forces, McDonagh urged Ryan to prevent any further unrest by dealing with the matter equitably. 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.
McDonagh was also the first of the council to realize that things were getting out of control with Fontaine's Plasmid business and Fontaine's Home for the Poor. Unfortunately, this did not have the intended effect and only made Ryan's political situation worse.
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He attempted to lessen the unrest amongst the poor population by getting Ryan to agree to a series of debates with Sofia Lamb. McDonagh displayed a more realistic outlook than Ryan when it came to upkeep of the city.
McDonagh was often called on for maintenance in various parts of the city, including problems with the pipes in Arcadia, the Medical Pavilion and Dionysus Park. 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.
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