Bioshock Infinite - Ending Explained

Ending of Bioshock Infinite leave you confused? Mitch from Game Front helps connects the dots and goes into some of the core concepts invovled in Bioshock Infinite's crazy ending. Spoilers, obviously.
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[@trythesauce3396]

This is one of those games where when you finish you just sit there contemplating your life :/

[@zylo999]

+JT Gore And then your head starts to pain...

[@trythesauce3396]

Ethan Reuben as well as your heart

[@williammccormick2592]

too true my freind, too true

[@M3iscool]

It just makes no f***ing sense in every way. It hurts.

[@isaaccortinovisjohnson4632]

So true

[@Tullerman]

"We all make choices but in the end our choices make us." - Andrew Ryan

[@Crazycliff98]

He's the man! Man chooses!

[@diegodeanda2002]

AlexKenProductions would u kindly stfu

[@hansolo1983]

It's actually "A man chooses, a slave obeys"

[@chuckkentucky3781]

would you, kindly

[@randymarsh2.069]

Gaaay

[@marcelojorquera1712]

literally finished this game 2-3 minutes ago like...what...

[@joshcoughlin7859]

Literally same I'm so lost rn 😂

[@M3iscool]

I'm with you, I just listened to the credit music and stared at the wall beside my monitor for a bit trying to figure it out. Obviously I couldn't. I almost wonder if the writers even had any idea about what they were doing. They just threw a bunch of logic puzzles into the storyline and said, lets mess with these people, and none of it actually makes any sense at all, from a science standpoint.

[@marcelojorquera1712]

\\Skate-Make-Bike-Weld// 😂😂😂 when I saw the AD I was like..nononono

[@boiho8960]

same :D

[@LapisGoBlue]

fr

[@mateomarroquin8632]

BUT DOES SHE GO TO PARIS?!?!?!?!?!

[@sualocin]

This guy asking the real questions

[@jackknash]

Didn't she never get born then?

[@o.o9296]

She did, in Burial at Sea part two she starts off in Paris. Sitting and enjoying her life in Paris. Sadly it doesn't last.

[@21encrypto34]

@@o.o9296 yes in the other universes

[@Daebiya]

plot twist, she is Paris

[@stjepanbrkic3215]

Soooo... Booker sold his daughter to himeslf? Interesting.

[@thatweirdgreenparrot7715]

More interesting is Lutece's... They are both same person, so if they have sex together, it would be some nasty self fuck: :D

[@MrBX5]

+WESKER terminator or masturbation... kinda.

[@ReenDuk]

+That Weird Green Parrot they should go fuck themselves

[@nizarshawwa3704]

If they actually did, how does the baby genetic composition work?

[@user-ut9ln4vd5m]

Sold her to an older richer version of himself... just like people today do when freezing their eggs/embryos

[@ignacio8529]

Bioshock: Infinite, infinite possibilities, infinite universes, and infinite mind fuck

[@cj_mrgoldenfox15]

Infinite Anger. I feel like I just wasted my time story wise

[@calbedard]

since comstock was never a infant but booker was, elizabeth had to go back to the moment where comstock would be ''born'' thus drowning booker at the moment of his rebirth during the baptism. in other words comstock died right as he was born (as booker said to smother him in his crib). just to clear that up for people who are still having a little bit of a hard time to wrap their head around this huge mindfuck.

[@farmerboy2]

THANK YOU! I can go to sleep now.

[@upsidedownone340]

Callie Bedard this ending didn’t really fit the game if you think about it

[@HLVIII]

Callie Bedard your hot

[@McShowsTV]

but who did he sell his daughter to? and what was the debt?

[@mayo1361]

But technically she still killed booker, so how is Elizabeth still alive when she was never even born? Maybe her disappearing at the end means she got erased, but why in multiple worlds when Booker was only killed in one.

[@iFailGames]

This is some Matrix level shit.

[@ghstrider100]

HAHAHAHHA XD yup m8

[@iampedro101]

Raheel Khan Matrix isn't confusing

[@randomfools808]

Matrix is way more realistic and thought provoking than this is.

[@thegoddamnedbatman2138]

The ending reminded me of a Nolan movie like inception of tenet

[@12yearoldjackass]

I like how this video didn't take half an hour to watch, like all the other explanation videos on youtube. Nice!

[@perplexual84]

i just hope another bioshock comes out, this ending left me unfinished with life if that makes sense

[@CLYSPEcentral]

They aren't making anymore :(

[@temper1337]

+Logan Ward They said they would continue to make games like bioshock and borderlands.Its just taking a while :/

[@temper1337]

***** It should be the last bioshock and actually have a good ending. It would be better than releasing a new one every year like cod lol.

[@Gmod2012lo1]

+Jdot Realmccoy where did you get that... can you give me the source of your info?? pls :DD

[@danhk96]

I know I'm a yaer late, but the DLCs are the real ending and they tie everything together, including Bioshock 1 and 2.

[@DP2O9]

Just beat the remastered version. I was so fucking confused about the story. Especially the ending. You explained everything really well and now I understand. Thank you.

[@danielgillrup9518]

that's why I'm here too. didn't understand it in 2013 either lol

[@awesumtoast97]

same lol. in 2013 i kiiinda got it now i get it

[@jalmarinousiainen3795]

Love u Puppymonkeybaby!

[@DP2O9]

Jalmari Nousiainen same

[@jmoa5758]

Fun game, inreresting characters, still a shit plot.

[@Hexxstaff]

This has also provided a new meaning to what happens, when you die in the game. You open the door, just like in the beginning of the game, and go through the story once again, almost to the point where you'd ve died, but a while earlier. That's why some of your enemies are still alive, and you come out in a slightly different place. Your every death is an ending of one of the Bookers' dimensions, and you just enter another dimension, where you still have a chance to succeed. At least I think so.

[@jamesr736]

That also explains why when you jump off into the sky, the game just places you back where you were just before you jumped.

[@missinformation5451]

I knew Booker was Comstock the very second he killed him and his nose started bleeding; when you kill someone in a different world that is the side effect they feel in every other one. And based on the logic of this game, the ending does make sense. For every universe in which one person is alive, they are dead in another. Even if you kill a baby it would still be alive in another universe because it was already conceived. Think of it as an equation in which something is either 1 or -1; both exist as equal values on their separate scales. If Comstock was never conceived and never existed in one universe, then he is a 0. His non-existence is the same on both sides of the eternal spectrum because there is no negative, or mirror image of nothing.

[@GarethLategan]

I understand that killing Booker before he can become Comstock means that they cut off that entire branch of possible worlds. But to prevent Comstock from existing Booker can make the choice to not get baptised. That choice creates different worlds where the different choices got carried through. But isn't Deciding to kill Booker also just a choice to prevent Comstock from existing? Wouldn't that mean that there is still a world/worlds where the Elizabeths don't kill him too?

[@missinformation5451]

Gareth Lategan that's where things get really sketchy... if they are going with the classical theory that every possibility that can exist, does exist then yes there is a world where the exact same thing happened and she decides to not kill him at the end. If that is the case though, there is really no point to stopping Comstock, seeing as there are a seemingly infinite realms and there is no way of erasing him if they are part of the equation. My theory is that since Elizabeth has her special powers she and booker become removed from the equation and are somehow omnipresent in all the universes.

[@GarethLategan]

Yeah and seeing as a whole bunch of Elizabeths showed up for the 'smothering' it seems like this one decision should affect more than one world

[@tsibosp]

Moses Browning yes and no in my opinion. the video failed to mention that in the scene that Booker drowned there were many Elizabeths not just 1. They did that in order to imply that this universe is connected to the others and Elizabeth now could make this happen cause she got all her powers back. So killing him there in that dimension intervenes with the others. One might argue that the number of Elizabeths was not nearly enough but I think it was a metaphor. No need to show an infinite number of Elizabeths to achieve that.

[@SeditiousSpyke]

tsibosp Every decision has an infinite number of minute variables that create an infinite amount of possible futures or more realistically speaking do create an infinite branch of new 'verse's' per decision. Taking control of such a moment and forcibly introducing a new choice not normally within the range of choices open to the person making the decision, has an infinitely expanding consequence. Ergo, you kill booker once, you save an infinite number of elizabeths. Realistically speaking this can never be 'actually' resolved as every booker across the infinite span of verse's would need to be smothered in this moment. The point standing here is the paradox of future consequences in past tenses, his choices always lead to a moment where he is smothered and always lead to a future that creates a future where he must be smothered. The ouroboros loop. He lives to die because he must live to die. This details in joyous truth of our current perception of the universe, every choice that can be made already has been made and will continue to be being made forever and we cannot stop it. The underlying message here is the emphasis of 'and we cannot stop it' When he is smothered the elizabeth who smothers him is cancelled out because she cannot now exists to have the urge/reason to smother him , but she contradictory also MUST exist in such a state because she HAS smothered him.

[@mohammadzafar]

man ending was so confusing..thanks for the video

[@boing615]

There's a post credits scene of Booker back in the room where he hears Anna crying again but it fades to black as he opens the door.

[@JollymixYT]

That's because the debt is over Comstock is no more. Go to the door it's never knocking so lutess is never coming for the girl. DeWitt can live with his daughter

[@Kal-EL_Volta]

Who is Dewitt

[@Excalibur5k]

I kind of wish there was more of a connection to the original bioshock games besides just a big Easter egg.

[@gnotaur5000]

+Misha play the dlc burial at sea you will love it! :D that ending!!!

[@gnotaur5000]

+Misha play the dlc burial at sea you will love it! :D that ending!!!

[@karninana]

It's not just an easter egg...it kind of connects those games together with the explenation of the multiverse, when she also says "there is always a man, there is always a city"

[@ianispain4925]

watch vixaryas video on it all, he explains how it all ties in much better

[@emilyhanley391]

giorgan maca burial at sea ties everything together so beautifully

[@SteezyTeej]

I understood the ending but man you made me understand it and like it better! Like the Heads and tails part! The thought and effort and creativity put into this game is crazy.

[@madzmedia2]

The reason why the tally is always heads is basically to suggest that Booker is in a constant loop where the same outcome always happens until he breaks the loop

[@jomarcentermjm]

so they are hoping a tiny change like tails

[@RokushoTheRavager]

Very very good explanation my friend. I just now completed this game and while I do remember hearing that the game has a "terrible" ending and that Booker dies, I totally did not expect what I just witnessed. Now I understood that Booker and Comstock are technically the same person from two different worlds and that Elizabeth is his daughter, but I didn't realize because of her finger getting cut off that's how she can bend time, nor did I really understand who the Luctessas were and how they played a part in the story or the whole heads and tails part. Thank you so much for explaining that part man, I'm totally going to go back and play this game again so I can earn all the trophies I missed, get the collectibles I missed as well, and maybe understand the story a little better. Wow man, this game has to have one of the most memorable stories I've ever played I don't think any ending has ever shocked me like this one has. It makes you wonder how the developers even came up with this crazy idea. I'm completely blown away.

[@RokushoTheRavager]

***** Yea I get it, thanx man but I understand it now.

[@TravelwithMo23]

***** Nice observation !

[@aleks456]

+ShadowWarrior242 How shock are you?BioSHOCK?

[@RokushoTheRavager]

nibberola . See that would be believable except for the fact that there’s no way you could construct a story this meticulously thought out and also confusing at the same time, if you were tripping balls. I appreciate the incite though 😆

[@oscines2170]

Bioshock 1 has an even more shocking ending

[@sswwaann1]

When he said give back my daughter... Such a powerful moment

[@butone7919]

Through the whole ending, I had my mouth and eyes wide open. The saddest game ending I have ever seen. :

[@timonwje]

+Patryk Ochnio The after credit scene is actually a happy ending. :) Booker's drowning eliminated the possibility of Booker becoming Comstock with the acceptance of baptism 20 years ago. This allows him to start the infinite loop in an alternate universe in which he never could accept baptism and become Comstock. Therefore he was able to keep his daughter without ever going through the "Bioshock Infinite" story at all.

[@karninana]

@@timonwje you just confused me the second time...

[@timonwje]

@@karninana I'm sorry :D

[@Kamal_AL-Hinai]

You should play red dead redemption 2. Your opinion will change

[@zhouyongkang5331]

You clearly haven't played Silent Hill 2

[@reverse5461]

When elizabeth (or anna) told us that %50 percent of citizens in columbia pays taxes to comstock, we replied: "I should consider that prophet business." this is where i understand that we are Comstock.

[@karninana]

Lol really? I took it as a joke

[@dougielee7172]

It's a bash on communism and socialism. 50% of THEIR income goes to comstock not 50% of citizens pay taxes.

[@TacShooter]

Joseph Smith, Junior was accused of getting drunk and saying, "I am a Profit," which seems a ridiculous accusation, since you can't misspell a word by speaking it.

[@jomarcentermjm]

Would be funny if in a different universe he uses elizabeth to prove comstock was a fraud by showing the same ability as him and he doesn't because he lost full control of the tears and he is a true prophet that comstock make out a story that make brooke a false prophet.

[@samibarantufekci2418]

Oh man songbird was like the best character i've ever seen in a game with steampunk based environment,i was really upset when it...died

[@DogSquadCSGOChannel]

I completed the game today and while watching some videos, the multiverse theory popped up and it turns out that the person that popularised the multiverse theory IRL is called Bryce Dewitt. Coincidence? I think not.

[@Xemnes90]

Am I the only one who's finding this confusing?

[@menamahran7258]

no

[@karninana]

Nope. Every person who played it in the entire universe (and multiverse) got confused from this game's ending

[@lukejs3182]

@@karninana BUT WHAT IF THERE IS A REALITY WERE ONE PERSON UNDERSTOOD IT??????????????????

[@firefistace9074]

I'm here to tell you after 6 years that you are not 🤣

[@firefistace9074]

@@lukejs3182 now that's fucked up.

[@kloan111698]

well, it erases Comstock, because the Luteces said several times that all people live throughout time, not just in specific sections, "Lives, lived, will live", and they also say that in order to completely erase something from the multiverse, it must never exist in the first place. So killing Dewitt before his baptism at the crossroads , since it's a constant and always happens, will nullify the possibility of Comstock ever coming into existence, since every divergent path couldn't exist because the baptism never happened.

[@amalinzethecat2474]

Wait, but if drowning Booker is, as you say, a constant, and always happens, then how could Comstock exist at all? Wouldn’t Booker just always drown before he could ever become Comstock?

[@randomfools808]

Not how the multiverse works.

[@localredtea]

@@amalinzethecat2474 originally, booker is reborn as comstock after the baptism. The drowning incident never actually happened before. But the elizabeths drowned him at this moment so thats why comstock doesnt exist anymore. Because all comstocs from every universe are all originally formed after booker decided to be baptised. You must understand that originally, booker doesnt get drowned. He is only drowned now because the Elizabeth in this universe managed to get close to him and decided to end things

[@jomarcentermjm]

elizabeth can also use her ability to sabotage the baptism tho making comstock dead and brooke still alive. or make brooke never try to find a religious way to cleanse him?

[@kyleblackburne2870]

She kills the booker that returns for the baptism changing the baptism from a variable to a constant meaning you will always end up as booker because the comstock baptism creates a paradox

[@danielmcdonald7989]

Man, what an absolute mindfuck this ending is, I finished BioShock infinite yesterday (thought it was fucking brilliant, despite what people have said about it) and this ending just blew and fucked my mind in equal great measure, but I suppose when you have a girl who can open tears in reality, creating multiple alternate realities and timelines at will and a guy who can become one of two people depending on a cosmic choice, creating yet more alternate realities and timelines, the ending is bound to be a mindfuck of epic proportions.

[@theextinctsurgeon310]

Yup, Irrational Games used the multiverse as a concept for the story. They outdid themselves.

[@haydenr1392]

Just watched another 25 min explanation vid, and I have to say props man. You gave a more accurate, elaborate explanation in 1/5 the time. Best concise explanation of a complicated story I've seen.

[@theinfideluk]

Probably one of the best endings to a game I've seen. Though thanks for clearing up some of the stuff I brushed over.

[@Xenosaurian]

This ending was too sad and depressing! This was not the ending I wanted! It left me wanting more adventures with Booker and Elizabeth, but this was so sad that I'm crying!!! :'(

[@Xeando]

Hans-Christian KZbin the credits, booker and elizabeth do a little song together as real life persons, its so unreal hearing them two talk and sing

[@butone7919]

Hans-Christian I was really hoping Elizabeth and Booker went to paris together. I am depressed because of that ending too >:(

[@stjepanbrkic3215]

+Hans-Christian thats exactly how they make you into buying the DLCs .:(

[@greeneyesdragon08]

I hated the ending, I really wanted them to make it out together

[@orions143]

+Hans-Christian they lived happily ever after at Booker's timeline.

[@Doustain]

The whole story is amazing, but in the end he doesn't drown Comstock, since he is the Booker that refused the baptism so he doesn't become Comstock. Wouldn't he need to travel to a universe just after he accepts the baptism and then kill the reborn Comstock, leaving only Booker?

[@yathuarulnanthy5822]

Doustain Yeah you are right. But at the same time, there are infinite number of universes hence there are infinite number of Comstocks. Only if Elizabeth travels to those infinite number of universes to kill infinite number of Comstocks, he would be truly killed.

[@nihs148]

+Doustain This is where they abandon theory and simply go with story lol. If Elizabeth really needed to kill all the Comstocks/Dewitts, she would have to go to all the other multiverses or have them all come to one place. However, instead because Comstock/Dewitt going to the baptism, the second time around, is a constant, it is implied that the Dewitt we are playing as, represents and is all the Comstocks/Dewitts.

[@ichrispollitt]

+NiHs yes, because the one we are playing as is the only one with the variable to get to elizabeth again, all the others fail or what not, so if you think that they all die, apart from one, one of them gets elizabeth after passing comstock BUT THEN HE GETS REBIRTHED, so technically in all the universes, where he failed, he never was reborn as comstock, but in the universe where he did succed he became comstock, which is why when he succeded he basicially made everythit fuck up, but that gets to the paradox, comstock would never exist without dewitt but dewitt would never exist without comstock if comstock didnt exist then dewitt would live a normal life

[@aleks456]

+Doustain Maybe all the Comstock just need to die to avoid any new universes that will be created that may result in a new Comstock

[@charlesprice3487]

My thoughts exactly. Comstock would have to be killed an what would be seem as endless worlds so no telling how many times he would have to be killed or Booker and Elizabeth would have to narrow down the one world where the exact moment booker converted over to Comstock which seems to be the case in the ending.

[@uzairahmed4197]

Why did Elizabeth have to kill him when they could have just walked away and forgot about it all. She killed him before he became Comstock but since they were already killed him in their world why couldnt they just forget and live in the universe where they finally succeeded, instead of erasing everything by making sure that Comstock never existed

[@GEKGanon]

Three years later... because Comstock had a machine that let him reach through the universes. They couldn't simply walk away from it, because there was always another Comstock in another universe that could make another Columbia, take another Anna, train another Elizabeth, etc.

[@larrythehoverfish3745]

@@GEKGanon one month later yes

[@someone-_-5737]

@@larrythehoverfish3745 one year later... Indeed.

[@maddygyangg]

Question: what about the cliff hanger of the end credits? Booker waking up going to check up on Anna and asking if that's her

[@JollymixYT]

Because DeWitt is drowned killing Comstock it ends the loop. There's never a debt notice no one knocks at the door. So he can live his life happily with his daughter.

[@TacShooter]

Bloody Hell! I pressed Escape before seeing that!

[@kmukayed]

DailyBits but in which universe though?

[@GEKGanon]

That doesn't actually work though. A lot of the game doesn't quite work. The entire point of the ending is that EVERY Booker is killed across EVERY possible reality, so that Comstock can never exist. There is no reality in which Booker doesn't die at the baptism, so there shouldn't be any reality where he lives happily ever after with Anna, because he ALWAYS drowns to death prior to her birth.

[@guyred2083]

@@JollymixYT but I thought when he was drowned, he was drowned in every universe

[@framedwarlock5535]

I think that elizabeth didn't bring Booker to just another baptism scene, but in the FIRST one ! So instead of the other worlds accepting/not accepting the baptism, he drowns in them, thus elizabeth doesn't exist anymore, in any of the worlds

[@WilliamScopes]

That's not it at all.

[@Rogsterius]

Notice that it's not the same Elizabeth who's drowning you in the end, as the one you played with throughout the game. Look closely at 6:29 and you will see that she doesn't have the bird necklace which our Elizabeth got from the Lutece's at battleship bay. Booker even says "wait. You're not... you're not... who are you?". The question to be drawn is where did Elizabeth go, did she stay at the light house among the sea of doors? Did she find a way to exist outside the space-time contiuum like the Lutece's? Originally I thought that when you killed of the version of booker that came to be Comstock, it would erase all existing universes with Elizabeth too, which is why all those alternative versions of Elizbeth disappear in the end when they kill off Comstock. But the Elizabeth we played with wasn't there.

[@Rogsterius]

***** Neither of the necklaces appear in the end.

[@dans6859]

I think it's most likely that they pre-rendered the end-game sequence (like most games do) and left out the necklace to avoid confusing the 50% of people who chose the other item (ironically confusing 100% of us in the process)

[@dougielee7172]

That part ticked me cause you know it's not her anyway ... she never enters there with you

[@lunyxappocalypse7071]

I hope she survived....

[@jomarcentermjm]

@@dans6859 can they just IDK make two version of it and have a variable if birdnecklace run videoA else run VideoB

[@Dawn_8OA]

I replayed this after my first time being when it came out and not understanding anything at the time I tried again this year and I gathered so much more and it has become a top tier game for me. My interpretation that made the most since without creating any theories and following the games rules completely to my understanding. (Also read many thread explanations) note: (if you look at every little detail you will never piece together a solid understanding of this ending i've learned.) Forgive my poor punctuation FOR ELIZABETH I am positive at the end OUR Elizabeth follows you into the door to help with the drowning bc you have to take into account the dev side, a lot of players noted in their playthrough that Elizabeth's necklace would dissapear randomly and many teams on the game had their own share of cutscenes to do with time restraints. It's hard to match and nail everything 100% together and i'm sure they forgot to add her necklace or add a cutscene of her taking it off after going in the door since that no necklace Elizabeth shares way too many similarities to OURS such as the redness on her chest/collarbone and her perfectly placed hair is too much of the same to interpret it as a different Elizabeth. (even in dev interview Ken says if you try to keep peeling the layers it just gets way too complicated / i'm paraphrasing.) Now keep in mind only TWO Elizabeths managed to destroy the spire (old Elizabeth who gives you note and OUR Elizabeth. but old Elizabeth has had way too many fucked up things happen to her from the brainwashing/genocide to get out of her situation instead, she decides to help you save Our girl) but our Elizabeth who wasn't operated on like the old one is like the Luteces now and can jump between tears fully now and somewhat immortal after the spire's destruction which is why at the fade away of the other Elizabeths on piano at the end, OUR Liz doesn't dissapear and it ends on a high note (which symbolizes hope and also a bit of closure). Now in Burial at sea since she's been able to see all the doors of other universes and The memories of all the other Elizabeths only to discover a single Comstock had escaped the purge that had erased all the other Comstocks. (she doesn't go crazy with exploring other universes so don't think she does, she seems to remain in this perfect Paris tear she's created which we see in BAS EP.2) she sees one universe where Comstock failed in obtaining baby anna through the tear and instead gets her head chopped off rather than her pinky, with that guilt Comstock ask Lutece to take him to a world with no Comstock, Dewitt or Anna. Jumping into a universe that is not yours like booker the subject will try to create false memories to peace together their mind just like OUR Booker. so this Comstock lives a few years with not so great memory until Elizabeth goes into this DLC to falsely help Comstock to find sally with revenge in mind which eventually leads to her dying in the first episode to the big daddy after letting it kill Comstock. (revenge complete) In second episode she feels guilt for using Sally to lead up to killing comstock (hence the dark turn showing Sally in her Perfect Paris tear) and decides to go back to that same universe to save Sally and make things right but she is unaware that if she goes back to a universe she died in she loses her tear powers and immortal status and the brother/sister make that apparent in the boat ride where Liz seems not to know about this effect until seeing her dead body after returning to that universe. Liz's memories are now jumbled as well since she doesn't belong there, but as you progress in the game she decides if she has to sacrifice herself to save Sally then the price is worth it. To gift her closure at the ending Elizabeth sees Jack in bioshock 1 (memories rewrite themselves) saving sally so Elizabeth accepts the death from Atlas happily and dies in Sally's arms/hand. (retribution complete) So our Elizabeth ends her story in episode 2 of BAS (even with all that power and potential, revenge eventually simplified her goal and became her downfall) AS FOR BOOKER OUR Booker's story ends in infinite simply. a Commentor made a great interpretaition but I changed it a little to fit my understanding. " OUR Booker was drowned at his baptism by the Elizabeths, but one universe was born from this result. This Booker did not try to return to the baptism (thus, no Comstock or Elizabeths bc of the drowning), but just went home and did whatever brought about Anna. Then he lived his life... until October 8th, the day Anna was taken away. At that point, he remembered everything from his dimension-hopping (memories rewrite themselves, remember) and woke up, and went to see if Anna was gone." Also the Booker in BAS was just created in Elizabeth's head as a gatekeeper for her sanity and for her hidden memory conscious to be revealed to her to know what to say and where to find the ace in the hole. (the devs had to make it apparent somehow and it is expressed in their dialogue in game) I know a lot won't agree probably, but this is the explanation that made the most sense TO ME bc the dev team did not think of every little thing to make it perfect and have the time/power to add every little detail and cutscene and insane quality checks to make everything crystal clear, I would think even they would admit that.

[@cheka1109]

1. Mitch, best explanation on KZbin. The resolution, however, lies in the fact the universes are interconnected at certain points of time. When a variable takes effect in a single universe, new universes were "branched" out given the number of possible outcomes. In the world where Booker accepted baptism, there is only one Comstock in the entire multiverse. With each decision or act that one Comstock makes, he became multiple Comstocks in the new universes created from the probabilites.

[@gokublack4211]

I like how the ending had a touch of BioShock 1 and 2 locations

[@Metsuuu_]

DeWitt's death was technically his choice.He said to Elizabeth that the only way to stop Comstock was killing him when he was born.Elizabeth did actually ask him if he really wants to that.He insisted on doing it to pay for what he has done to Elizabeth.(the day Comstock was born was the day he was baptized)

[@jomarcentermjm]

But he never realized he and Comstock are the same until its too late

[@Thaibiohazard123]

In my opinion this ending is legendary, and will be remembered for a very long long time. Bioshock Infinite is not a game that there's some kind of mastermind comes out and explain everything, the only way you can fully understand the story of infinite is by listening/reading all the voxophones, and paying attention to every note that is hidden along the game this is a very clever way to present the game, and makes player smarter when play games.

[@suhaylali2917]

What an amazing game, left me thinking about my own life and it made me sad :( This game hit my heart

[@SaulmanPhishbass]

those damn lock-picks!

[@mariospapavasileiou8081]

It's also possible that Booker was Andrew Ryan as well

[@thomasclark5832]

I geuss this also explains why comstock made the musem of wounded knee and the boxer rebellion etc... huh

[@joaobadjoras602]

yes the museum did, in fact, represent the deeds that occured that day, when Slate says "Comstock wasn't there etc etc" he was wrong, Comstock was there, commiting all those atrocities that war forces a man to (even tough in the museum they are described as heroic acts) and the man behind the atrocities? Booker, who then would take the baptism and be renamed as Comstock. hope i helped

[@eshan309]

Brilliantly explained! Just completed the game and i was left with so many questions throughout my playthrough (even though i did understood the multiverse part and the very ending where he is shown he himself is Comstock). You explanation helped me join the pieces.

[@Eclipsless]

I could be wrong, but this is the way I understood the ending (to answer the last question you posed at the end): The way I imagine the multiverse that Elizabeth describes, is like a tree with all the different variables acting as branches. However, that one baptism is the constant or sort of like the tree stump, where everything is grown from. The reason Booker drowning effects every other multiverse (evidenced by the different Elizabeth’s disappearing with each piano note in the last scene), is because this one point in history is the *source*. It’s this event that causes all those other branches to form based entirely off the yes or no decision Booker has on whether or not to get the baptism.

[@SheriffSpoons]

Thanks a lot guys. This video really filled in the gaps for me. Well done!

[@m3wniverse]

So MUCH makes sense now. Comstock WAS at wounded knee. at the start, the rowers (who are the luteces) talk about trying an experiment. ' one goes into an experiment knowing one can fail' 'yes, but one doesn't go into an experiment knowing one already has' also, 'he doesnt row' IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE

[@FrostedSapling]

This is the most concise explanation of the ending I've found. Great job!

[@umanoid1523]

Thanks for the explanation Mitch. I pretty much got it but did miss a few of the finer details. I watched a lot of your playthrough after my own playthrough just to see your in game playing style. I just finished the ending and then finished up your final walkthrough chapter. i was still realing from the ending so was cool to hear your reaction as well.

[@shanerooney7288]

I finished the game about 15 minutes ago. Couldn't wrap my head around what happened. I was probably thinking along the lines of a single looped timeline, rather than a branching timeline. This video cleared up my confusion, explained a few extra details I missed, and didn't take half an hour doing it. Nice work.

[@Z3RO37]

Great summary. Very concise and well researched. Thank you! Such a cool concept to play with in a game.

[@TheRealSteezy89]

Great job ,Mitch. I'll make sure to post your video the next time somebody has some questions about the ending.

[@Mr.Smooch]

If he took that last babtism with all of the Elizabeth copy’s there, that is were he would become comstock. So the original plan to kill him where comstock all began did happen. This is also why all of the other Elizabeth’s started to disappear , as their stories have been wiped except for the original we played with.

[@DidoInFlames]

the ending is masterpiece . thank you for explaining it

[@KlonkyDonkers]

5 years later and this is still my favourite game.

[@jimyr8258]

To better understand the very last scene - including the part most explanations don't fully grasp: Booker has to die, so Comstock never will exist, but NOT in all worlds. He says, they have to go back at the birth of comstock and she brings him to the baptism, where he wonders why they are there again. Then Booker understands, he is who becomes Comstock. But he is NOT drown IN ALL worlds, he is only drown in these worlds he decided to get baptized. That's how the last scene is explained, if Comstock never went after Anna, Booker never sold Anna to Comstock (Columbia never existed and so on) - so she doesn't cease to exist, she just never becomes Elizabeth and simply grows up as Booker's child Anna. Elizabeth ceased to exist too, but not Anna. Anna was taken from half of the worlds where she existed (she never did in Comstock's worlds as he became sterile), so Elizabeth/Anna got actually rescued in all worlds she existed. We see earlier, that there are many Elizabeth and many Bookers moving through many the lighthouses, so they all are gonna do the same, that's how it's explained that all Comstock's are also being taken care of. And Booker at the time earlier at the baptism, has now the knowledge what will happen, NOT DeWitt the false shepherd, but DeWitt the one becoming Comstock (as he says: I'm Comstock) - as we see in an earlier scene, that the memories mixing and decides - and the one becoming Comstock decides at that moment to not become Comstock (they get drowned by Elizabeth). The other half DeWitt go back at their life with Anna (the very last scene). So in the end, neither DeWitt nor Elizabeth(Anna) dies, only Comstock does, all Comstock's.

[@zuvlet]

jesus thank you man it gave me clarity and made me not so depressed, just finished the game 4m ago

[@poseidon5003]

By killing Boker/Comstock at the baptism, Elizabeth essentially erases herself from existence. Both versions need to exist for her to exist as she knows it. When the siphon was destroyed, she had full control over the tears and over time. She became a fifth dimensional being. She/they killed him/not him before she/they were born.

[@fortniteisass6197]

The ending was litteraly the craziest thing, I got so confused. When he said “I’m both” I lost half of my brain cells like wtf just happened. I kinda hate the ending since the fact we know he sold his daughter. But it was a great ending other than that

[@sickinsidelv9256]

dude you explained that PERFECTLY!!! damn this was really screwing with my head, THANK YOU!!

[@babbisp1]

6:19 I never liked this idea in time travel stories where someone can alter their history and experience the effects on the spot (similar things happen in Back to the Future, called "the ripple effect"). So Elizabeth goes back in time, kills Booker during the baptism, thus eliminating the possibilities of Booker fathering her, and so all the Elizabeth variants despawn on the spot (6:56). But wait, if Elizabeths despawned, how was Booker killed? Bootstrap paradox. In my opinion, killing Booker should prevent *further* Elizabeths from being born down the road, but it should not despawn those that are already there.

[@psychofade2745]

I just finished it minutes ago, one of my favs now.

[@Masoncakes97]

So was Comstock was able to predict his own death? (The drowning) He mentioned that he knew how Columbia would end including himself in the beginning of the game. That was his great prophecy

[@BrianSnyderND]

Well done! Great video. Thanks!

[@Espi68One]

Just finished the game today, and Yeh, I am confused, but this explains a bit more. Good work.

[@jerrycallows3906]

thanks for the synopsis. i finished the game but i was too busy blowing things up and trying to stay alive to pay attention to the story.

[@snyggfredrik]

dusted of my old 360 and started my 1999 mode journey thro this amazing game. 4 days later I've finished it again and still, still I'm amazed over this game. All bioshock games are truly great. they don't make games like this anymore. I love them. hoping for a fourth game soon :)

[@MrSkyboy997]

Thanks for clearing it up. I was really confused with the ending.

[@AlexDerBoss1]

Thanks for that video. I mean, i finished the game and got most of it. But its perfect to see you putting together all the pieces. :)

[@cadengraham7579]

Just beat the game 30 minutes ago and I loved the storyline. The moment Anna was pulled through the portal and got her pinkie cut off and him saying “daughter,” it all started to tie together. I think that the Lutece’s coming together to get her back to him was clever and all the hints surrounding it were all very well done. One of the saddest video game endings that can definitely be talked about. Also, when I teleported to rapture, my jaw was dropped the entire time… it is the very first scene where you fall off the ledge. Which I thought was super interesting. Too bad I couldn’t grab a plasmid while I was at it.

[@vixxito]

Many thanks for some of the aclarations, the Lutece role in the game is clear in my mind now.

[@ryancritchlow7131]

I think that they were able to erase Comstock by drowning Booker because it was multiple Elizabeths from different realities doing the same task making it a constant in every reality, that Booker dies at his baptism

[@shadowheart52]

Crazy fucking story, but a good dramatic twist with DeWitt and Comstock being the same person, and the sudden realization that DeWitt's tattoo was the initials of the daughter he betrayed.

[@tyranatittie6391]

I understood the result after experiencing the ending for myself but didn't quite know how we got there so thanks for the video!!

[@jonathanvazquez1723]

Started this game in my freshman year of high school and just finished it right now as I booted it up for the first time in years. Safe to say I would have been just as confused then as I was now 😂

[@Daebiya]

Just finished this for the 2nd time (this go on Switch), and was hoping to understand the ending. haha not a chance. Thank you! This tied it all together for me.

[@BranWolfYT]

Literally just finished the game on my channel and instantly came to look this up I cannot believe it I loved this freaking game 😭😭😭

[@mrd2500]

Just finished this game. What just happened? Speechless

[@yokiryuchan7655]

I am fascinated by the possibility that there are alternate versions of myself out there.

[@keyryn8380]

I just finished this game for this first time without any prior knowledge of it, and lemme just say it was a blast all the way through.

[@KarasumanXiii]

Nice job Mitch. I actually loved the ending. Didn't leave my seat for a good while after.

[@Cptigris125]

'Booker' is not killed at the end, only the variations that become Comstock since they drown during the baptism instead. All variations that reject the baptism still exist, hence Booker's awakening in the epilogue.

[@xDMrPeaches]

It makes sense to me now. Booker was brought into the other universe where Comstock was in order to get back Elizabeth (or Anna). The key though was that he was brought into a different one, which makes it possible for there to be 2 of him in one universe. epic!

[@austinpratt5346]

To add to all the theories, if Booker really wanted to end all the comstocks, wouldn't he just have to go back and murder his own parents. Comstock was never born like Booker, but Booker is always going to be there. The twins or whatever say to get rid of something in the multiverse, it must have never existed in the first place. If booker killed his parents before they conceived the idea of having him, it would prevent Comstock from being a thing and it would also erase himself. Just a theory tho

[@LukeSniper]

The after credit piece is crucial! The baptism is where Comstock was "born". By allowing himself to be drowned in the universe where he accepted the baptism, Booker prevented Comstock from existing in all universes that spawned from that point. That means Comstock never buys Anna from Booker. The post-credit scene implies the existence of a new universe, in which Booker still has his daughter (we're left to assume that he will find some other way to settle his debts)

[@weirdskyreallyweird.5519]

At the point where Elizabeth drowns Booker/Comstock, the alternate dimensions don't exist yet. The time line splits once Booker is or isn't baptised, creating a timeline where he is Booker DeWitt and one where he is Zachary Hail Comstock. Elizabeth kills him before he makes this decision, thus erasing Booker and Comstock from all timelines from that point on. But also, logically that would mean she erased herself as well.

[@Kosho969]

in the end there's a scene where booker is in his office and this time there is no "wipe away the debt" he goes into his room, and he is with Anna

[@Justforvisit]

Well, I'd say the reason for why it affects all parallel worlds that Booker dies is that there's another thing that never has happend before: In all these Parallel Universes, nobody ever has managed to be able to stand "outside" of all these cycles, nobody was ever aware that there was a multitde of them in which the same thing only with variations happend again and again and again, and thus, them being "outside the cycles of fate" it affected all worlds that Booker died. Then again, that leads to the far more interesting questions: "Who created this place in the first place and for what purpose?"

[@jessigames8593]

I just played through all the bioshock collection and finished infinite a few days ago. I can't imagine how bioshock 4 will be. I'm ready! I knew in the end I was Comstock and Booker. I didn't understand why Elizabeth drowned me in the river though. Thanks for the explanation.

[@sarenhs4535]

I’m so happy I avoided spoilers all this time.

[@noahg5145]

The piano when u drown really starts the water works

[@benziller98]

Just finished the game. Thanks for explaining this for me.

[@mash5oo692]

Well in the lighthouse scene we can see millions of bookers along with elizabeths, meaning the final “smother him in his crib” technically happened in all universes, but that should mean right at the end the main Elizabeth should disappear also, but i guess the game cuts before her disappearing is just a way to mindfuck with us even more

[@aaronjones1290]

I agree, however I've seen some people had some questions. If you do I suggest reading, "Constants and Variables-Exploring the Many Doors of Bioshock Infinite" at Scribd.

[@Nerdygamer000]

i understood part of the rebirth part myself,i never knew the luteces where the same person but different gender! thats some real deep analysis, thx for clearing up!

[@TheStraightAgamer]

Really cool storyline. Everything makes sense at the end

[@erikhansen6521]

great explanation

[@scanjet1000]

I wish elizabeth wasn't bookers daughter. I wanted them two to fall in love XD

[@beratkucuk6026]

***** Same bro same...

[@serapia1976]

+scanjet1000 ikr. Good looking couple.

[@beratkucuk6026]

Serapia Bonjour and now it's weird

[@Riley0074]

+Berat Küçük yeah thought the same

[@Erox006]

+scanjet1000 they did , in another world , where they are not father and daughter ....

[@jesusallmaighty1]

My head hurts