Talk:Mansfield

Trivia
The following was removed from the main page for being blatant trivia or unsubstantiated supposition:


 * Not much is known about Mansfield, as practically nothing in the game refers to him other than the tear in the Bank of the Prophet. He may have been a deleted character like Sansmark or Charles.
 * ''His having an actual name (not a title like Hot Dog Vendor, etc) points to him possibly having been a character of great importance, perhaps an aide or right hand man to Comstock. The evidence in game of him being the one to order the deaths of the Lutece "twins" shows he was not simply a Founder party member or low ranking soldier or policeman, and his ability to barter directly with Fink shows how he represents a power even greater than the despotic tycoon of industry.
 * Mansfield could, however, simply be an Easter Egg, referring to Edwin Mansfield, an economics professor from the 1960s. Essentially, Mansfield reinforced the notion that the faster the rate of technological change is, the faster its yield of economic growth will be. If we suppose that Mansfield in Bioshock held the same kinds of motives for studying the rate at which firms adopt new technological changes, it makes total sense that Mansfield would want Fink to posses the patents because Fink would incorporate these new innovations into society much more quickly than it would in the Sodom Below, as it seems Fink's powers have no governmental oversight, unlike the new consumer protection laws being passed in the United States at the time. The evidence of it being an Easter Egg rather than a removed character or a developmental oversight is that you only discover his identity when you are watching the scene with subtitles on, which reveals his name.

Unownshipper (talk) 21:42, August 9, 2014 (UTC)