If there is any villain that many gamers will try to avoid in their favorite video games, Songbird might be one of them (and the other would be Shahdee from Prince of Persia: Warrior Within). The Lutece twins, Robert Lutece and Rosalind Lutece, employ Booker Dewitt, who is the main and only playable character in Bioshock Infinite, to help a girl named Elizabeth get out of Columbia and safely to New York.
However, Comstock, who owns many technological inventions created by Luteces, especially the one that allows him to travel to many different realities and timelines in the world, obviously won’t let that happen. Therefore, thanks to Luteces’ technology, he orders Songbird, a robotic bird, to watch over Elizabeth in the Monument Island tower and protect her from any threats from outsiders, especially Booker Dewitt.
With the time machine and reality invented by Luteces, Comstock will surely know and be able to accurately predict that in the future there will be someone trying to rescue Elizabeth and get her out of Columbia.
And Comstock sees this as the most dangerous threat to him and his position in Columbia because if that comes to fruition, people in Columbia, especially the Columbia government group called “The Founders,” will no longer trust him as a leader of the city. , thus ruining his plans to continue ruling Columbia until his sole heir, Elizabeth, replaces him. Therefore, with the help of Luteces, Comstock decides to create Songbird, an extremely powerful guard whose main job is to protect Elizabeth from Booker Dewitt.
Who is Songbird and what is her job in this game?
Songbird is a bird-like robot. She is a robot, in the form of a bird, and his hand and only job is to protect Elizabeth in the tower from any threat, especially Booker Dewitt. Given the fact that Elizabeth is the most important person to Comstock (since Elizabeth is the sole heir to her throne), it’s no wonder Comstock believes Songbird to be a really powerful guard for Elizabeth.
Having been armed with solid metal armor all over his body, on top of a really big and strong body, there’s no way Booker can beat Songbird in this game, even with all of his powerful weapons or telekinesis superpowers.
The facts about the songbird
An interesting fact about Songbird is that despite her role as one of Booker’s biggest enemies in Bioshock Infinite, it’s actually rare to see Booker engage in direct battle against this giant bird. So never expect that you can defeat this bird in this game as Songbird only appears in several cutscenes.
The other interesting fact about Songbird is that this bird’s eyes come in 3 different colors: green, yellow, and red (similar to Big Daddy’s in previous Bioshock games). But most of the time, his eyes seem to be red, especially when he sees Booker near Elizabeth. And if you see red color in Songbird’s eyes, it means that this bird is full of anger and will hurt anyone who gets close to Elizabeth.
You don’t have to worry about this bird though, as Songbird will only appear in a few cutscenes, not in the direct battle against Booker. Unless in the first part of this game, Booker tries to help Elizabeth escape from Monument Island. This is when you can fire your weapon at Songbird, though it can’t damage it at all.
However, in addition to red, Songbird’s eyes will turn yellow if she feels alerted by Booker’s presence around Elizabeth. Finally, his eyes will turn green if his rage comes to an end or in this case, he already throws Booker away from Elizabeth or even kills him. However, most of the time, it is Elizabeth who always manages to keep her anger to a minimum, thus saving Booker’s life.
But again, it’s great to hear that you don’t have to fight Songbird head-to-head in this game because I think it’s going to be very difficult or even impossible for Booker to beat Songbird even with all of his most powerful weapons. or powers of telekinesis. And seeing how big his muscles and steel wings are, not to mention his giant claws, then there’s no doubt this bird will tear Booker’s body apart before killing him. Simply put, Songbird is simply unbeatable, or at least by Booker Dewitt.
Songbird Weaknesses
However, despite the fact that Songbird is unbeatable by Booker, there are still some weaknesses that this robotic bird possesses. First of all, as we already know, Songbird is actually loyal to Elizabeth since Songbird has been programmed to do so. So this bird will never hurt this girl no matter what. And that’s the weakness Booker can always take advantage of. So whenever Songbird is mad at Booker and is about to kill him, Elizabeth always comes to the rescue and calms him down, preventing Booker from being killed.
Songbird’s second weakness is that this bird can be controlled with a special flute called “The Whistler” given by Elizabeth. However, this doesn’t happen until Elizabeth (by which time she becomes Columbia’s frontwoman, replacing Comstock in the future) drags Booker into the future and gives him the special instrument plus song notes that can be used to control to Songbird. This is when Songbird’s latest weakness is finally revealed to players. And that is all the power of Isabel to open the tears.
Surprisingly, it is Elizabeth, not Booker, who can truly defeat and kill Songbird for good. After receiving the instrument called “The Whistler” from Elizabeth and also discovering the notes of the song, Booker uses that special flute to command Songbird to destroy the siphon. Apparently, this siphon has been preventing Elizabeth from using her power to open the “tears” to their fullest, thus preventing her from escaping the tower.
Thus, after Songbird has destroyed the siphon, Elizabeth is finally able to use her full power to transport her, Booker, and Songbird to the city of Rapture, an underwater city used in the previous Bioshock 1 and Bioshock 2. And given that Rapture is an underwater city, under the deep blue sea, then the pressure is extremely great and powerful enough to kill any living thing in this ocean.
And thanks to all of Elizabeth’s power, she then transports Booker and herself inside the building into Rapture, while Songbird is transported by Elizabeth out of the Rapture building. Then the enormous pressure of the ocean finally kills Songbird.
The positive side of Songbird
Yet despite all the bad things we already know about Songbird, oddly enough, there’s still some good inside this bird’s heart. If you’ve already played and finished this game, you obviously know that the moment after Booker kills Comstock, Songbird surprisingly decides to help Booker and Elizabeth stop the Vox Populi group from destroying the airship’s Zeppelin, a kind of machine that is really crucial to getting them safely to Monument Island. So, in this part of the game, Booker can order Songbird to attack any threats from the Vox Populi people around the airship.
So yeah, there you go. Songbird’s story. Hopefully this article can help you learn more about Songbird in Bioshock Infinite. And you? Do you have any thoughts on Songbird’s existence in Bioshock Infinite? Well, if you do, feel free to leave your thoughts in the comment section below.
