History Characters / Fallout2024

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She's with Cooper when the bombs drop, and it is unknown what happened to her since. The Ghoul's demand to Henry in the season 1 finale implies that she and her mother are still alive, or he at least has good reason to believe they are.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Like her daughter Janey, it's not established what happened to Barbara after the nukes fell. The Ghoul certainly believes both of them are alive (and, by implication, that she presently has custody of Janey), and his motivation is to find a Vault-Tec executive who can tell him where they are.

** He bullied Maximus but when Maximus--disguised as Titus--orders Thaddeus to insult him, Thaddeus is uncomfortable badmouthing Maximus now that he thinks he's dead.

* ShoutOut: The character name is strikingly similar to that of the actor who played Boss Hogg in ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard''. Both characters are low-level authority figures with incompetent minions.

* NotMeThisTime: Norman and the rest of the Vault residents of 33 believe that the raiders pulled a KillAndReplace on the residents of Vault 32. [[spoiler: They're only half right.]]

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In episode 3, he's the only one to suggest killing the captive Raiders (on the ground that [[PayEvilUntoEvil they tried to kill them all so it would be doing to them exactly what they tried to do to the Vault Dwellers]] and they clearly show no interest in any kind of rehabilitation. He gets his wish in [[spoiler:episode 7, when he finds the raiders dead from rat poison. But seeing their corpses clearly shocks him, as does the casualness with which the other Dwellers take the news]].

* CelebritySurvivor: A [[https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/11/fallout-first-look preview article from Vanity Fair]] and the [[https://youtu.be/o1YhcviJ7IU?si=b9QhVxRczEHpQr9z countdown livestream for the reveal trailer]] establish "The Ghoul" as this -- once named Cooper Howard, he was a famous actor who starred as the gunslinging lead character of "[[ShowWithinAShow The Man From Dead Horse]]", a hit western film released just before the war. After the bombs fell, centuries of fighting for survival in the wasteland forged him into an ''actual'' [[TheGunslinger gunslinger]] making a living in the wasteland as a BountyHunter, though his backstory establishes that he was also a Marine before he turned to acting, and saw active service [[spoiler:using the T-45 power armour]].

* SmugSnake: A slimy, smirking, self-important, self-promoting scumbag, Bud clearly thinks he's the hottest shit that Vault-Tec has to offer. However, it's made abundantly clear that he's not as clever or as capable as he believes: the biggest point in his career prior to "Bud's Buds" was overseeing the rollout of the T-45 power armor, which turned out to be full of hidden design flaws; his big presentation to the [=CEOs=] is immediately reduced to shouted arguments, and it takes Barbara - the woman that Bud is supposedly supervising - to get the various company heads on-board with Vault-Tec's plan; he remained ignorant of the massacre of Vault 32 and Moldaver sneaking in two years later; and Norman not only tricks Bud into letting him into Vault 31, but Bud's attempts to stop him from snooping further are foiled with hilarious ease. Ultimately, Bud's only victory is achieved because Norman was so shell-shocked at the truth behind Vault 31 that he took his eyes off him for a moment too long.

* BecarefulWhatYouWishFor: In episode 3, he's the only one that suggest killing their prisoners (on the ground that [[PayEvilUntoEvil they tried to kill them all so it would be doing to them exactly what they tried to do to the Vault Dwellers]] and they clearly show no interest in any kind of rehabilitation. He gets his wish in [[spoiler:episode 7, when he finds the raiders dead, poisoned. But seeing their corpses clearly shocks him, as does the casualness with which the other Dwellers take the news]].

* KickTheDog: Her plan to infiltrate Vault 33 involves setting up her close friend's daughter to be sexually assaulted (via deception) and murdered along with a bunch of other innocent Vault Dwellers.

* WeHaveReserves: Upon hearing that Maximus has apparently "died", he immediately assures "Titus" that they have plenty of more Squires to replace him with.

* GoryDiscretionShot: Gets shot in the chest by the Ghoul, whose bullets tend to make people explode, though due to the lights being off we only see a glimpse of it.

* SergeantRock: Isn't afraid to lead to the Aspirants he was training into battle himself.

* GoryDiscretionShot: Gets shot in the chest by the Ghoul, who's bullets tend to make people explode, though due to the lights being off we only see a glimpse of it.

[[folder:Thaddeus]]
!!Thaddeus
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JohnnyPemberton\\\

A fellow Aspirant who is seen bullying Maximus at boot camp, who is later reassigned to be "Titus'" Squire after Maximus' "death", initially unaware that Maximus has assumed the identity of Titus.

* LackOfEmpathy: He's entirely unbothered by seeing his wife's been turned into an extremely decayed feral Ghoul by his actions. Furthermore, he didn't give a damn that over 30,000 people were peacefully living in Shady Sands when he nuked it, or that nuking Shady Sands ended the NCR, the wasteland's only functioning democracy.

* AssholeVictim: After exploiting Lucy and trying to brutally mutilate & kill her, he gets beaten up by Overseer Hank with a shovel, who then proceeds to drown the raider in a barrel of pickles.
* AxCrazy: Once the pretenses of being a vault-resident disappear, Monty is shown to be an especially violent raider who tries to cut and stab Lucy with his dagger, and even tries to strangle her to death.
* EvilIsPetty: Before it's revealed he's a raider, Monty uses Lucy's window-drapes to wipe his privates after having sex with her.

* HateSink: There's a special despicability for anyone to marry an eager young woman, sleep with her, then try to violently kill her and her community immediately afterwards.

* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: He views starting the Great War, eradicating life on Earth, and subjecting the Vault dwellers to bizarre and inhumane experiments as perfectly justified, because it gives him the opportunity to create a society with a perfect managerial structure.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Both during pre-war time and during his reign over Vault 31, Bud comes across as an overly chipper and upbeat sort of executive who can't help but smile at every opportunity when talking with Cooper or his various partners and even comes across as a little awkward given how much of a {{Workaholic}} he is in conversation... which all dissuades from the fact he is a deeply amoral ManipulativeBastard who is actively planned the Great War for profit, gain, and [[OneNationUnderCopyright the eventual control of all of mankind]] with his fellow suits at Vault-Tec, up to [[OmnicidalManiac nonchalantly stating Vault-Tec's plan to purge surface clean]] 200 years later to Norman in the same breath he makes a comparison how his "buds" are kind of people that will sell lemonade.

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: When first introduced, he comes off as a benign empty suit whose only threat is talking people's ear off. But it becomes increasingly clear that he's very influential and very amoral, which is a very dangerous combination when the entire world's at stake. Even in his pathetic BrainInAJar state, he still retains enough remote control over Vault 31's systems to trap Norman inside the cryo-vault and force him into a SadisticChoice of either going in a cryo-storage unit or dying of starvation as his prisoner.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Like her daughter Janey, it's not established what happened to Barbara after the nukes fell. The Ghoul certainly believes both of them are alive (and, by implication, that she presently has custody of Janey), and his motivation is to find a Vault-Tec executive that can tell him where they are.