History Characters / Fallout1

-->'''Voiced by''': JimCummings, Kath Soucie

[[SarcasmMode A shining example of super mutant intelligence]].

* EvillyAffable: Keeps a polite, mocking tone through all of his conversations.

* {{AFGNCAAP}}: Averted, but [[RetCon not in this game.]] [[spoiler: Canonically, the Vault Dweller is male, and his name, though not proven, is most likely Albert Cole.]]

A no-nonsense merchant guard and your first recruitable companion. Was canonically [[KillItWithFire burned to death]] while fighting super mutant alongside Vault Dweller. [[spoiler: DummiedOut content in ''{{Fallout 2}}'' shows that he faked his death and asked the Vault Dweller to help with the cover-up. He is still alive and kicking, living just outside Vault City.]]

* {{Lancer}}: Vault Dweller's first and closest companion.

* [[spoiler: ReallySevenHundredYearsOld]]: [[spoiler: Ian was probably already older than the Vault Dweller by the time of the first game but he is still doing well 80 years later. His improbable age is [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] during his DummiedOut conversation with the Chosen One.]]

!!Vault Dweller

* {{BFG}}: If [[{{Fallout2}} ''Vault Dweller's Memoirs'']]are to be believed, Vault Dweller stormed the Mariposa Base wielding one.

* {{Retcon}}: [[spoiler: In ''{{Falllout 2}}'' his motives for exiling Vault Dweller were changed from "not wanting to disrupt Vault's order" to "not wanting to disrupt an AncientConspiracy started by his predecessors".]]

The leader of Vault 13. It is his job to see that Vault 13 continues to function peacefully, effectively and unopened. After the Vault's water chip broke down, he was forced to choose one young Vault Dweller to find a new one. [[spoiler: He is also well aware of the Vault Experiment and intends to keep it going for the designated 200 years. After Vault Dweller had saved the day, he prepared a present for his champion - a banishment. He argued that had the hero stayed in the Vault, the other Vault Dwellers would have gotten into their heads that outside world isn't completely uninhabitable and left the safety of the Vault to the [[CrapSackWorld cold, unforgiving wasteland]]. This decision came to bite him in the ass when the entire Vault turned against him for exiling their hero and executed him after finding out about the Vault Experiment.]]

* [[spoiler: KarmicDeath:]] [[spoiler: he exiled Vault Dweller to keep the Vault from tearing itself apart. In the end he was overthrown by the residents of Vault 13 for exiling their savior and executed before the Vault was divided between those who followed Vault Dweller into the outside and those who stayed in the Vault.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Subverted [[spoiler: while he appears to be both reasonable and well-meaning he is also willing to keep the insane Vault Experiment going and exile Vault Dweller after s/he wasn't needed anymore.]]
* {{Retcon}}: [[spoiler: in Falllout2 his motives for exiling Vault Dweller were changed from "not wanting to disrupt Vault's order" to "not wanting to disrupt an AncientConspiracy started by his predecessors".]]

A no-nonsense merchant guard and your first recruitable companion. Was canonically [[KillItWithFire burned to death]] while fighting super mutant alongside Vault Dweller. [[spoiler: DummiedOut content in Fallout 2 show that he faked his death and asked Vault Dweller to help with the cover-up. He is still alive and kicking, living just outside Vault City.]]

* [[spoiler: ReallySevenHundredYearsOld]]: [[spoiler: Ian was probably already older than Vault Dweller by the time of the first game but he is still doing well 80 years later. His improbable age is [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] during his DummiedOut conversation with Chosen One.]]

* SelfImposedChallenge: Keeping Dogmeat alive can be a bit frustrating, especially in the last few levels where he's constantly in harm's way. To make matters worse, you can't give him any kind of instructions or tell him to stay put meaning that he'll be the first to run into a fight. It is possible to make him survive the game but its tricky. Then again, by that point he is more trouble and there isn't any other tangible reward other than [[VideoGameCaringPotential a warm fluffy feeling]].

* VideoGameCaringPotential: You can pet him, treat his injuries, feed him yummy food and prevent him from dying horrible while trying defend your life. *Sniff*

A gas mask wearing Nevada Ranger with years of experience under his belt. If recruited, he helps Vault Dweller mop the floor with local crime boss and save the Core Region from super mutants.

* GeniusBruiser: Both the strongest and most intellectual and well-spoken of your companions.

* WeaponOfChoice: Double-barreled shotgun but will settle for any rifle he is given. Giving him anything with burst fire function results in ATeamFiring.

A Scavenger who joins Vault Dweller on his/her journey if asked. She hangs around with Followers of the Apocalypse, although she doesn't share their ideas.

* TheSmartGuy: Not book-smart, but very street-smart and quick on her feet. She's also good at picking locks.
* StraightEdge: She stays off drugs and alcohol because she once witnessed a good friend die of an overdose.

The zero-nonsense-tolerant Head of the Paladins who would later become Elder after the death of John Maxson

* HeyItsThatGuy: ClancyBrown, who's also known for voicing [[SpongebobSquarepants Mr. Krabs]]

** DragonTheirFeet: You can confront and kill the Master before him. In fact, the Fallout 2 manual assumes you did.

* HypercompetentSidekick: While he lacks his charisma and vision, the Lieutenant seems far less deluded than the Master about their goal. If you bring up the supermutant sterility to him, he acknowledges it to be a problem, but assures the problem will eventually be corrected.

[[PlayerCharacter That's you]] - a poor smuck from Vault 13, chosen by the Vault Overseer to be sent out in the radioactive wasteland. Your mission: to find a new water chip for Vault 13 or else everyone you know and love will die. [[BlatantLies Simple enough job]] - there's another Vault nearby, and they'll surely be able to spare you one. But as you'll travel across the radiated desert, you'll learn that nothing is that simple and everything comes with a price...

* TearJerker: Convincing him to kill himself.

* [[spoiler: {{DudeWheresMyReward}} : Thanks to Vault Dweller's efforts, the West Cost is spared from the Master's evil plan. Thanks to Overseer, Vault Dweller is forever banished from Vault 13 for becoming "too different".]]

The leader of Vault 13. It is his job to see that Vault 13 continues to function peacefully, effectively and unopened. After the Vault's water chip broke down, he was forced to choose one young Vault Dweller to find a new one. [[spoiler: He is also well aware of the Vault Experiment and intends to keep it going for the designated 200 years. After Vault Dweller had saved the day, he preapared a present for his champion - a banishment. He argued that had the hero stayed in the Vault, the other Vault Dwellers would have gotten into their heads that outside world isn't completely uninhabitable and left the safety of the Vault to the [[CrapSackWorld cold, unforgiving wasteland]]. This decision came to bite him in the ass when the entire Vault turned against him for exiling their hero and executed him after finding out about the Vault Experiment.]]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: In the bad ending, he goes down gunning hordes super mutants after Vault 13 is found and overrun.

* LawfulNeutral

* StrawmanHasAPoint: [[spoiler: even after the retcon his closing speech isn't invalidated by much: If Vault Dweller hadn't run into those who had left the Vault after him by chance, they would have likely died in the wastes due to having little to none skills to surviving in the wastes.]]

* [[spoiler: ReallySevenHundredYearsOld]]: [[spoiler: Ian was probably already older than Vault Dweller by the time of the first game but he is still doing well 80 years later. His impropable age is [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] during his DummiedOut conversation with Chosen One.]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: He was so well-received that he had a cameo in {{Fallout2}} and IdenticalGrandson in {{Fallout3}}.

* {{Tearjerker}}: for every animal lover, the first time he dies. And the second time. And the fiftieth time...

* BerserkButton: ''DON'T'' play on his nerves. Anger him alot, he will have you thrown out of the base, which is a bad thing if you haven't collected all that fancy [[DiscOneNuke Power Armour and weapons]]. And heck, just step ''ONE'' foot into his room (even if you just wanna talk to him if his [[ArtificialStupidity routine happens to be stuck there]]) and he will accuse you of being a thief, should you fail a speech check.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: He treats you like nothing new after you go through The Glow which is, simply put, a heavily radiated hellhole (literally) . Possibly retconned as the Fallout wikia points out that prominent members of the Brotherhood of Steel resisted his joining of the organization and he is most likely one of those members and thus his (somewhat) negative attitude towards you.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[ClancyBrown Clancy Brown]] who's also known for voicing [[SpongebobSquarepants Mr. Krabs]]

* TheWoobie / WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds

The Master's second-in-command. One of the few supermutants gifted with both extraordinary intelligence ''and'' extraordinary strength, he represented the Master's vision of how the supermutants should be perfectly and was choosen as his right hand man. He is in charge of the Master's army and oversees the mutation process at the Mariposa Military Base.

* HeelRealization: If you opt to [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talk him to death]], you can reveal to him that his super mutants are sterile and that his plan will never work. He's so stricken with grief upon realizing that all his work has been for nothing that he kills himself and destroys his army.

* Gorn: The game has plenty of violent deaths, but the Lieutenant's death animation is probably the goriest one in the game. He slowly, painfully melts into a puddle of blood when you kill him.

!! The Master
-->'''Voiced by''': JimCummings

!! Morpheous

* BigGuy: Easily the most heavily armed and armoured of all companions.

A Scavenger who joins Vault Dweller on his journey if asked. She hangs around with Followers of the Apocalypse, although she doesn't share their ideas.

* {{Chick}}: Averted. She is just as violent and cynical as his male compatriots if not more so.

* BerserkButton: ''DON'T'' play on his nerves. He will have you thrown out of the base, which is a bad thing if you haven't collected all that fancy [[DiscOneNuke Power Armour and weapons]]. And heck, just step ''ONE'' foot into his room (even if you just wanna talk to him if his [[ArtificialStupidity routine happens to be stuck there]]) and he will accuse you of being a thief, should you fail a speech check.

* BerserkButton: ''DON'T'' play on his nerves. He will have you thrown out, which is a bad thing if you haven't collected all that fancy [[DiscOneNuke Power Armour and weapons]]. And heck, just step ''ONE'' foot into his room (even if you just wanna talk to him) and he will accuse you of being a thief, should you fail a speech check.

* KnightTemplar:

* DudeWheresMyRespect: He treats you like nothing new after going through The Glow which is, simply put, ''filled'' with radiation. Possibly retconned as the Fallout wikia points out that prominent members of the Brotherhood of Steel resisted his joining of the organization and he is most likely one of those members and thus his (somewhat) negative attitude towards you.

* BerserkButton: ''DON'T'' play on his nerves. He will have you thrown out, which is a bad thing if you haven't collected all that fancy [[DiscOneNuke Power Armour and weapons]]. And heck, just step ''ONE'' foot into his room (even if you just wanna talk to him) and he will accuse you of being a thief.