History Characters / Fallout2024

* BrokenPedestal: He becomes this to Lucy with the reveal that he's been alive since before the war as a Vault-Tec higher up who nuked Shady Sands, resulting in her mother becoming a feral ghoul, all out of petty jealousy and a need to control others. Also seems to have one himself towards Cooper Howard/the Ghoul, excitedly asking him for an autograph when they first meet and glaring at him hatefully when he's confronted by him two hundred years later.

* BrokenPedestal: He becomes this to Lucy with the reveal that he's been alive since before the war as a Vault-Tec higher up who nuked Shady Sands, resulting in her mother becoming a feral ghoul, all out of petty jealousy and a need to control others.

** The final confrontation with Moldaver and [[spoiler: the discovery that Hank was responsible for the destruction of Shady Sands ''and'' her mother's transformation into a feral ghoul]] all but shatters Lucy's spirit; consequently, she's left silently weeping as the revelations stack up, and by the end of it, she's left so shell-shocked that she doesn't even seem to notice the massive battle royale playing out just below her.

* HeroicBSOD: During the final flashback of the first season, the realization that [[spoiler: Vault-Tec was planning to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike to kick off the Great War and his own wife proposed the idea in the first place]] left Cooper sitting in stunned silence, barely able to react when a secretary called for his attention.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Played with. While she [[spoiler:is likely in on the Vault-Tec conspiracy providing the evil part,]] it can be debated whether she truly loved Bert. She is clearly devastated by his death and mourns him. That being said, she did often mock him while he was alive and eventually replaces him with Chet - albeit she clearly is trying to model him into a new Bert.
* EyepatchOfPower: After losing an eye in the wedding massacre, she gets a fashionable eye-patch in Vault-Tec blue... and quickly establishes herself as a lot more ruthless and commanding than she initially appeared while she still had two eyes. [[spoiler: For good measure, she becomes the new Overseer of Vault 32 after Betty reassigns her and Chet.]]

Built just outside of Santa Monica, Vault 33 is unique in that it is connected with two other Vaults, 32 and 31, with contact between them only happening every few years.

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/EllaPurnell, Luciana [=VanDette=] (young)[[labelnote:Foreign VAs]] Zina Khakhoulia (French) Monserrat Mendoza (Latin American Spanish), Creator/MiyukiSawashiro (Japanese)[[/labelnote]]
->"I may end up looking like you, but I will never ''be'' like you."

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Aaron Molten, Amir Carr (young)[[labelnote:Foreign VAs]] Baptiste Marc (French), Nacho Rodriguez (Latin American Spanish), Soichi Abe (Japanese)[[/labelnote]]
-> "I'd be grateful to the Brotherhood for giving my life meaning."

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/WaltonGoggins[[labelnote:Foreign VAs]] Gilduin Tissier (French), Creator/ReneGarcia (Latin American Spanish), Creator/ShunsukeTakeuchi (Japanese)[[/labelnote]]
->"Us cowpokes...we take it as it comes."

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/LeslieUggams

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ZachCherry

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/RodrigoLuzzi

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/MoisesArias

->'''Norm:''' No, but that sounds accurate.

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Dave Register[[labelnote:Foreign VAs]] Creator/AlexandreGillet (European French)[[/labelnote]]

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Annabel [=O'Hagan=]

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Leer Leary

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ChrisParnell

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/CherienDabis

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/MichaelCristofer

-->''[[spoiler:We once ruled the Wasteland. And yet power is taken, not given. A lesson you seem to have learned. So, if what you say is true, and you can lead us to the relic, then together, you and I, we will take power. And with it we will start a new Brotherhood.]]''

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/MichaelRapaport

->''"This fucking place. There's always something to ruin your fuckin' day."''

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JohnnyPemberton

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Xelia Mendes-Jones [[labelnote:Foreign VAs]] Creator/IngridDonnadieu (European French)[[/labelnote]]

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/MichaelEmerson[[labelnote:Foreign VAs]] Creator/PierreTessier (European French)[[/labelnote]]

->''"You come from a world of rules, of laws. This place is indifferent to all of that."''

-->'''Portrayed by:''' [=Lana5=], Nunaya Business de la Forge

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/DaleDickey

->''"The vaults were nothing more than a hole in the ground for rich folks to hide in while the rest of the world burned."''

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JonDaly

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/MattBerry

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Matty Cardarople & Elvis Valentino Lopez

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/GlennFleshler

->''"Somebody's got to step up and bring some order around here."''

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/FredArmisen

->''"Like most weeks here at KPSS, this week is fiddle week, when all of my airtime will be spent luxuriating in my small but mighty collection of fiddle tunes."''

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ErikEstrada

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Teagan Meredith, Avery Reed (younger)

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/MattBerry

->''"Hollywood is the past. Forget Hollywood. The future, my friend, is products. You're a product. I'm a product. The end of the world is a product."''

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Dallas Goldtooth.

->''"What happens when the cattle ranchers have more power than the sheriff?"''

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/KyleMacLachlan

->''"Lucy, I had to make a choice between their violent world and our peaceful one."''

-->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SaritaChoudhury

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Elle Vertes

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Cameron Cowperthwaite

->''"Just so you know, [[FauxAffablyEvil this was the best day of my life]]''".

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Michael Esper

->''"...the future of humanity comes down to one word: Management."''

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/FrancesTurner

->''"We have conflict, and we have war. And war, well... [[ArcWords War never changes]]."''

-->"I don't even know what planet you're on."

-->'''Portrayed by:''' James Yaegashi

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Rebecca Watson

In actuality, Moldaver is the current head of the New California Republic after its devastation several years prior due to a nuke being detonated in Shady Sands. She simply wishes to bring the NCR back to its former glory.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: In their short appearance, they're always together.

* LovableCoward: He is ''much'' less willing to defy the Overseer and investigate Vaults 31 and 32 than Norm, but he's ultimately a loyal and sympathetic character.

* DeathTrap: The space around his radio tower is filled with death traps and their victims.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: She is the only person to agree with Norman that they should PayEvilUntoEvil on the raiders. [[spoiler:And like all transfers from Vault 31, she was a Pre-War Vault-Tec management trainee, placed in crysosleep.]]

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: As a Ghoul, he is functionally immortal in all the ways that matter as, [[FunctionalAddict outside of the need for drugs to keep him from going feral]], he needs [[TheNeedless very little in the way of food or sleep to maintain himself]], has a powerful HealingFactor that can withstand gunshots that would down most people if not outright kill them unless they aim for his head, and is more or less immune to radiation that allows him to traverse dangerous regions caked with fallout, all of which by themselves make him a terrifying bounty hunter who is essentially a SuperPersistentPredator for whoever he's tracking; but as he is also a USMC veteran of the Battle of Anchorage back before the Great War, he has more than enough skill to complement his power set [[spoiler:[[CurbStompBattle which lets him steamroll an entire contingent of Brotherhood Knights in full Power Armor without breaking a sweat]]]].

* ImAHumanitarian: After giving his friend Roger a MercyKill, the Ghoul starts carving up his body for rations and orders Lucy do the same. From his dialogue, it's not the first time he's resorted to cannibalism to survive out in the Wasteland.

** Though he locks Dogmeat in a Nuka-Cola cooler for annoying him, Thaddeus tries to rationalize it by telling her she'll have air and will be fine, apparently to soothe his guilty conscience, uncomfortable with the knowledge he's leaving her to almost certain death.

* DrivenToSuicide: After realizing that he'll never be able to make it to Moldaver in time before getting caught by the Ghoul or the Brotherhood, he takes a Vault-Tec brand Plan D suicide pill (banana-flavored) and tells Lucy to cut off his head and take it with her.

* LegacyCharacter: The latest of a series of different dog companions by that name.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives a brief and scathing one to Lucy in episode 2, capped by [[FlippingTheBird double middle fingers]], telling Lucy that, ''at best'', Wastelanders see Vault Dwellers as naive fools who will get themselves killed for no reason, and at worst are ''despised'' as the descendants of the "rich fucks" who hid from the apocalypse and lived in comfort and luxury while letting everyone else die.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: The only "villainous" thing we see him do is have his goons arrest the Ghoul, who to be fair seems to be responsible for shooting up the Super Duper Mart and is a legitimately dangerous and evil individual. His gang may run a protection racket, but considering the lawless state of the Wasteland this might be a NecessarilyEvil.

* DeathTrap: The space around his radio tower is filled with death traps and their victims,

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: His reaction to [[spoiler:becoming a ghoul]], particularly as he was about to rendezvous with the Brotherhood.

* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:Quintus utterly confounds Maximus, who has decided he wants to leave the Brotherhood and was prepared to make a HeroicSacrifice for Lucy, when he offers him the chance of working together with him.]]

* MissingMom: Her mom died when she was still young. [[spoiler: She's actually not dead, but when Lucy finally encounters her, [[FateWorseThanDeath it's apparent death would have been preferable]]]].

* CowardlyLion: Spends most of the attack on Vault 33 hiding, and brands himself as "too chicken" to follow Lucy out into the Wasteland... and yet, he has the bravery and gumption to walk back into the charnel house of Vault 32 to conduct his own investigation, even continuing after his much bigger friend wimps out on him and [[spoiler: Betty does her best to sabotage him.]]

* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler: Quintus utterly confounds Maximus, who has decided he wants to leave the Brotherhood and was prepared to make a HeroicSacrifice for Lucy, when he offers him this.]]

* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: He gets several minutes of backstory when he enters the plot [[spoiler: but gets killed in the same episode]].

* UncertainDoom: Doesn't appear after the second episode, even when Maximus is in Filly and sees the town cleaning up the remains from the Ghoul's shootout. Considering [[spoiler: the Brotherhood forcefully take over Filly later in the season and are implied to have killed a good number of its citizens,]] it doesn't look good for her.

* 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.

* MissingMom: Her mom died at some point before the events of the episode. [[spoiler: She's actually not dead, but when Lucy finally encounters her, [[FateWorseThanDeath it's apparent death would have been preferable]]]].

->''Portrayed By:''' Matty Cardarople & Elvis Valentino Lopez

* VillainRespect: He had a past with The Ghoul and is pretty friendly with him even when The Ghoul insults him and he himself intends to have The Ghoul killed, and urges his "Sheriffs" not to let The Ghoul goad them into doing something stupid.

* HorrifyingTheHorror: Even they, a gang of psychotic bandits, were disturbed by what they saw in Vault 32.

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Aaron Molten[[labelnote:Foreign VAs]] Baptiste Marc (French), Nacho Rodriguez (Latin American Spanish), Soichi Abe (Japanese)[[/labelnote]]

-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/EllaPurnell[[labelnote:Foreign VAs]] Zina Khakhoulia (French) Monserrat Mendoza (Latin American Spanish), Creator/MiyukiSawashiro (Japanese)[[/labelnote]]

* MissingMom: Her mom died at some point before the events of the episode.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Upon arriving, the Overseer tells Lucy to never visit Level 12, but don't bother to explain why. Of course, once she starts being weirded out by the local culture he also didn't bother to describe and now curious, she immediately goes there to understand what's going on, resulting in a huge misunderstanding that could have ended very badly.

* PoorCommunicationKills: A lot of heartache could've been avoided had she taken a more diplomatic approach to kidnapping Hank (who clearly didn't recognize her) and not gotten vicious Raiders involved. If anything, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard had she not been so brutal and clouded by revenge, she probably could've gotten the cold fusion device sooner and avoided the Brotherhood destroying her base and killing her]].

* DeathByDisfigurement: Gets his leg shot off by the Ghoul and [[spoiler:commits suicide over his impeded mobility soon afterwards]].