| Brigid Tenenbaum | |
|---|---|
| BioShock character | |
 Brigid Tenenbaum in BioShock 2 | |
| First appearance | BioShock (2007) |
| Created by | Ken Levine |
| Voiced by | Anne Bobby |
| In-universe information | |
| Nationality | German |
Brigid Tenenbaum is a fictional character in the BioShock video game series developed by Irrational Games. She is a German Jew who survived the Holocaust due to assisting in Nazi human experimentation, and was eventually invited to the underwater city of Rapture, where she continued human experimentation. She discovered a substance that altered DNA that was highly addictive, using little girls as hosts, before developing compassion for them and attempting to save them from their parasites.
Various aspects of her character have been the subject of discussion by critics, including her ethnicity, autism, and gender. Her initial lack of empathy was suggested in a paper to be spreading the implication that people with autism lacked empathy, a sentiment other people shared after Levine discussed it in an interview. He later clarified that her autism was not the source of her lack of empathy, but rather, her experiences with the Holocaust contributed to it.