History Monster / Fallout

*** '''VERY SLIGHTLY''' subverted when you find out [[spoiler:Vulpes wasn't lying about Nipton [[WretchedHive being a town of evil]]. They sold out everyone in the town for the Legion to spring a trap, and didn't realise they were getting [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves caught in it]], because they actually value loyalty above all. For his effort, the mayor of Nipton [[KillItWithFire is burned alive]].]]

** Not to mention that the corner stones of Legion "culture" are eugenics, rape, cannibalism, sexism, cruxifiction, slavery, and mass murder. They're practically every stock villain faction rolled into one.

** Roy Phillips. If the vault dweller negotiates with Tenpenny and his tenants to let the ghouls move in, [[spoiler:eventually, upon returning to Tenpenny Tower, all the human residents have vanished. If you check the basement, you'll find the corpses of the missing people stripped of all their possessions. Even poor Herbert Dashwood, who supported ghoul equality, is among the dead. If confronted, Roy tells you to fuck off before he adds you to the pile.]]

* Mr. Burke in Fallout 3 is probably one of the few characters in all of fiction who objectivly qualifies for this trope. His boss, Allistair Tenpenny, sent him off to set off Megaton's undetonated nuke after evacuating the town and the immediate area of people (not exactly a saintly thing to do on Tenpenny's part, but he at least wanted to avoid killing people). Burke, however, decided to ignore the "evacuate the people" part and was planning on just nuking the town with the innocent people still there.

** Vulpes Inculta of the Legion is a [[SarcasmMode shining]] example of monster-dom. When you first meet him, he's just finished killing ''every single person but two'' in the [[spoiler: town of Nipton]] by nailing them to crosses and setting their houses on fire. What made it worse is the way the loathsome bastard just... [[KarmaHoudini saunters off]] as you arrive, telling you to spread the word of his monstrous deed to terrorize the surrounding communities. And then he leaves you alone amidst the ruins, the crucified bodies, the burning... suffice it to say, it took a surprising amount of resolve and serious amounts of [[SoundtrackDissonance Radio New Vegas]] before I began to search [[spoiler: Nipton]] for [[KleptomaniacHero loot]]. It also inspired me to level up as fast as humanly possible, so I'm able to slaughter this murderous fuck in a truly spectacular fashion. [[ThisIsSPARTA I. Can't. Fucking. WAIT.]]

** Vulpes Inculta of the Legion is a [[SarcasmMode shining]] example of monster-dom. When you first meet him, he's just finished killing ''every single person but one'' in the [[spoiler: town of Nipton]] by nailing them to crosses and setting their houses on fire. What made it worse is the way the loathsome bastard just... [[KarmaHoudini saunters off]] as you arrive, telling you to spread the word of his monstrous deed to terrorize the surrounding communities. And then he leaves you alone amidst the ruins, the crucified bodies, the burning... suffice it to say, it took a surprising amount of resolve and serious amounts of [[SoundtrackDissonance Radio New Vegas]] before I began to search [[spoiler: Nipton]] for [[KleptomaniacHero loot]]. It also inspired me to level up as fast as humanly possible, so I'm able to slaughter this murderous fuck in a truly spectacular fashion. [[ThisIsSPARTA I. Can't. Fucking. WAIT.]]

-->[[spoiler:'''Big Sal''': Caesar asked us to provide a distraction on the Strip. So when he gives the word we're going to launch an all out assault on the Strip. First we're going to blow the embassy, then we're going to use soldiers to kill every last [[PrecisionFStrike motherfucker]] on the Strip. Then we'll run this joint. That'll teach Not-At-Home what can go on while he sits in his [[ClusterFBomb fucking]] ivory tower lording down from on high.]]

* Father Elijah from ''Dead Money''. He was the former elder of the Mojave Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel, and the one responsible for them all getting slaughtered at HELIOS. He fled from the battle and eventually reached a fortress of technology called the "Sierra Madre". However, to access the technology he needed, he had to go through a bunch of defenses like laser turrets, invincible holograms, a big cloud of poisonous gas appropriately refered to as "The Cloud", and an army of [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Ghost People.]] So what does he do? Go through it himself? No, he enslaves a nightkin named "Dog"(who is severely mentally impaired, even by nightkin standards, to the point that he has
developed a seperate personality known as "God"), and proceeds to force him to kidnap dozens of people to act as cannon fodder for the security of the Sierra Madre, threatening to blow their heads off with his slave collars if they tried to escape (and if the headless corpses by the entrance are any indication, he did just that several times). He then captures you, and he forces you through all the same things as others, except he gives you the help of a team of the other people he captured. You surprise him and eventually reach the Sierra Madre casino, where all this tech he is looking for is located. So then what does he do? He orders you to [[YouHaveOutLivedYourUsefulness kill off your former team, simply because they are of no use to him anymore]]. When you've done that (or haven't, and simply convinced them to leave), you reach what he was looking for: The Sierra Madre vault, and it is here that he reveals his true plan: To unleash the Cloud upon the Mojave, killing ''every single person there'' (or "wipe the slate clean", as he calls it), then using the invincible holograms and the other tech to build a new nation, a new nation where everyone has a slave collar slapped on them, so they won't think if disobeying him. Then, to finish off his grand plan, he tries to kill you, despite your loyal service to him. Needless to say, [[LaserGuidedKarma blowing his head off or locking him in the Sierra Madre vault until he starves to death]] is very, very satisfying.

* Father Elijah from ''Dead Money''. He was the former elder of the Mojave Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel, and the one responsible for them all getting slaughtered at HELIOS. He fled from the battle and eventually reached a fortress of technology called the "Sierra Madre". However, to access the technology he needed, he had to go through a bunch of defenses like laser turrets, invincible holograms, a big cloud of poisonous gas appropriately refered to as "The Cloud", and an army of [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Ghost People.]] So what does he do? Go through it himself? No, he enslaves a nightkin named "Dog", and proceeds to force him to kidnap dozens of people to act as cannon fodder for the security of the Sierra Madre, threatening to blow their heads off with his slave collars if they tried to escape (and if the headless corpses by the entrance are any indication, he did just that several times). He then captures you, and he forces you through all the same things as others, except he gives you the help of a team of the other people he captured. You surprise him and eventually reach the Sierra Madre casino, where all this tech he is looking for is located. So then what does he do? He orders you to [[YouHaveOutLivedYourUsefulness kill off your former team, simply because they are of no use to him anymore]]. When you've done that (or haven't, and simply convinced them to leave), you reach what he was looking for: The Sierra Madre vault, and it is here that he reveals his true plan: To unleash the Cloud upon the Mojave, killing ''every single person there'' (or "wipe the slate clean", as he calls it), then using the invincible holograms and the other tech to build a new nation, a new nation where everyone has a slave collar slapped on them, so they won't think if disobeying him. Then, to finish off his grand plan, he tries to kill you, despite your loyal service to him. Needless to say, [[LaserGuidedKarma blowing his head off or locking him in the Sierra Madre vault until he starves to death]] is very, very satisfying.

* Father Elijah from ''Dead Money''. He was the former elder of the Mojave Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel, and the one responsible for them all getting slaughtered at HELIOS. He fled from the battle and eventually reached a fortress of technology called the "Sierra Madre". However, to access the technology he needed, he had to go through a bunch of defenses like laser turrets, invincible holograms, a big cloud of poisonous gas appropriately refered to as "The Cloud", and an army of [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Ghost People.]] So what does he do? Go through it himself? No, he enslaves a nightkin named "Dog", and proceeds to force him to kidnap dozens of people to act as cannon fodder for the security of the Sierra Madre, threatening to blow their heads off with his slave collars if they tried to escape (and if the headless corpses by the entrance are any indication, he did just that several times). He then captures you, and he forces you through all the same things as others, except he gives you the help of a team of the other people he captured. You surprise him and eventually reach the Sierra Madre casino, where all this tech he is looking for is located. So then what does he do? He orders you to [[YouHaveOutLivedYourUsefulness kill off your former team, simply because they are of no use to him anymore]]. When you've done that (or haven't, and simply convinced them to leave), you reach what he was looking for: The Sierra Madre vault, and it is here that he reveals his true plan: To unleash the Cloud upon the Mojave, killing ''every single person there'' (or "wipe the slate clean", as he calls it), then using the invincible holograms and the other tech to build a new nation, a new nation where everyone has a slave collar slapped on them, so they won't think if disobeying him. Then, to finish off his grand plan, he tries to kill you, espite your loyal service to him. Needless to say, [[LaserGuidedKarma blowing his head off or locking him in the Sierra Madre vault until he starves to death]] is very, very satisfying.

* Father Elijah from ''Dead Money''. He was the former elder of the Mojave Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel, and the one responsible for them all getting slaughtered at HELIOS. He fled from the battle and eventually reached a fortress of technology called the "Sierra Madre". However, to access the technology he needed, he had to go through a bunch of defenses like laser turrets, invincible holograms, a big cloud of poisonous gas appropriately refered to as "The Cloud", and an army of [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Ghost People.]] So what does he do? Go through it himself? No, he enslaves a nightkin named "Dog", and proceeds to force him to kidnap dozens of people to act as cannon fodder for the security of the Sierra Madre, threatening to blow their heads off with his slave collars if they tried to escape (and if the headless corpses by the entrance are any indication, he did just that several times). He then captures you, and he forces you through all the same things as others, except he gives you the help of a team of the other people he captured. You surprise him and eventually reach the Sierra Madre casino, where all this tech he is looking for is located. So then what does he do? He orders you to [[YouHaveOutLivedYourUsefulness kill off your former team, simply because they are of no use to him anymore]]. When you've done that (or haven't, and simply convinced them to leave), you reach what he was looking for: The Sierra Madre vault, and it is here that he reveals his true plan: To unleash the Cloud upon the Mojave, killing ''every single person there'' (or "wipe the slate clean", as he calls it), then using the invincible holograms and the other tech to build a new nation, a new nation where everyone has a slave collar slapped on them, so they won't think if disobeying him. Then, to finish off his grand plan, he tries to kill you, espite your loyal service to him. Needless to say, [[LaserGuidedKarma blowing his head off or locking him in the Sierra Madre vault until he starves to death]] is very, very satisfying.

** The third game gives us Roy Phillips, who seems to be a personification of everything that makes Ghouls disliked turned UpToEleven, and Alleister Tenpenny, an unashamedly callous bigot who [[spoiler:wants to blow up a city full of innocent people for ''sport''.]]
*** Roy Phillips easily matches Tenpenny in complete monsterdom. If the vault dweller negotiates with Tenpenny and his tenants to let the ghouls move in, [[spoiler:eventually, upon returning to Tenpenny Tower, all the human residents have vanished. If you check the basement, you'll find the corpses of the missing people stripped of all their possessions. Even poor Herbert Dashwood, who supported ghoul equality, is among the dead. If confronted, Roy tells you to fuck off before he adds you to the pile.]]
*** No, Tenpenny's sport consists of shooting people with a sniper rifle from atop the balcony of his penthouse suite. What people? Why, anyone who makes a good target, of course. [[spoiler:His wish to see Megaton destroyed was simply because it spoiled his view of the desolate post-Apocalyptic wasteland]]
**** Wow, that sounds like another [[SchindlersList Complete Monster]].
**** For all it's worth, while he did in fact order Megaton to be destroyed because it was an eyesore, he also ordered for the population of the town to be evacuated (an order which ''Burke'' ignored and hid from the player), so for all his bigotry and killing for sports, he still comes off at least somewhat more sympathetic than Roy. Roy himself doesn't get any such boons, seeing as he kills of all non-ghoul residents regardless on how the quest is solved in the ghouls' favor.
**** Tenpenny is saved from being a true CompleteMonster because he's actually not that bigoted. He wants Megaton evacuated before its destroyed, and he will actually let Roy and his two friends live in his tower peacefully if you can convince his residents. Also, Tenpenny never says he shoots ''people'' for sport, he he says he shoots random mutated animals passing by. His assistant, Mr.Burke, fits the mold perfectly though. He's Mr.Tenpenny's right hand man, the one who he tasked with nuking Megaton. If you ask him to evacuate Megaton before it is destroyed, he specifically says not to, saying that Megaton's people are an even bigger eye soar than the town itself. This was never about just following orders either, as he will still blow up Megaton even if Tenpenny is dead (if Roy Phillip's kills Tenpenny, he will congradulate Roy and state that "[he] is a firm believer in natural selection").

* First things first--the player himself, from Vault Dweller to Courier, is capable of some fucked-up repugnant shit. The [[{{Fallout3}} Lone Wanderer]] can nuke a town, slaughter Ghouls, destroy the [[BigGood East Coast Brotherhood of Steel]] and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking crush a young woman's dreams of writing a survival guide]]. The [[FalloutNewVegas Courier]] can blow up a monorail, renege on an agreement to allow Great Khans to go free after they've released their hostages, use Archimdedes One to slaughter all the NCR soldiers near Helios, and ally himself with brutal slavers, [[MadBomber Powder Gangers]] or even [[CompleteMonster Elijah]] (though the game immediately ends when you side with him). The Chosen One can be the worst; he can sell his/her spouse into slavery, slaughter entire towns, beat children to death, join the mob, and much, much more.

*** And the best part? It's implied through the Remnants that they weren't the only Enclave members in the west who felt that way. Too bad you gunned down those said members who shot at you just for a shot at utopia.

* First things first--the player himself, from Vault Dweller to Courier, is capable of some fucked-up repugnant shit. The [[Fallout3 Lone Wanderer]] can nuke a town, slaughter Ghouls, destroy the [[BigGood East Coast Brotherhood of Steel]] and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking crush a young woman's dreams of writing a survival guide]]. The [[FalloutNewVegas Courier]] can blow up a monorail, renege on an agreement to allow Great Khans to go free after they've released their hostages, use Archimdedes One to slaughter all the NCR soldiers near Helios, and ally himself with brutal slavers, [[MadBomber Powder Gangers]] or even [[CompleteMonster Elijah]] (though the game immediately ends when you side with him). The Chosen One can be the worst; he can sell his/her spouse into slavery, slaughter entire towns, beat children to death, join the mob, and much, much more.

* First things first--the player himself, from Vault Dweller to Courier, is capable of some fucked-up repugnant shit. The [[Fallout3 Lone Wanderer]] can nuke a town, slaughter Ghouls, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking crush a young woman's dreams of writing a survival guide]]. The [[FalloutNewVegas Courier]] can blow up a monorail, renege on an agreement to allow Great Khans to go free after they've released their hostages, and ally himself with brutal slavers or [[MadBomber Powder Gangers]].

**** Wow that sounds like another [[SchindlersList Complete Monster]].

*** It wasn't because they could, it was because they were conducting social experiments to see who could survive what conditions for an eventual colonisation to another planet.
*** Not ''all'' of the vaults were inhumane experiments, quite a few of them being relatively nice. And that's not even counting the few designated vaults for the few privileged people who were part of the Enclave. And even some of the more inhumane ones, such as Vault 34, which had a deliberately overstocked weapon supply with no locks, turned out surprisingly decent until rather recently in ''FalloutNewVegas''. Speaking of New Vegas, the Enclave Remnants encountered in it are portrayed as surprisingly humane in contrast to previous installments, in which they were just a bunch of douchebags.

*** You seemed to miss some things. He doesn't kill every single person, he basicaly conducts his lottery in tiers. The top ones get to live, the lot bellow them get their legs broken but live, the lot bellow them get enslaved, the lot bellow them get tied up to crosses and left to die, and [[ItGotWorse the ones bellow them...]] let's just say you haven't given the bastard enough credit for his idea.
*** '''VERY SLIGHTLY''' subverted when you find out [[spoiler:Vulpes wasn't lying about Nipton [[WretchedHive being a town of evil]]. They sold out everyone in the town for the Legion to spring a trap, and didn't realise they were getting caught in it, because they actually value loyalty above all. For his effort, the mayor of Nipton [[KillItWithFire is burned alive]].]]

*** Not ''all'' of the vaults were inhumane experiments, quite a few of them being relatively nice. And that's not even counting the few designated vaults for the few privileged people who were part of the Enclave. And even some of the more inhumane ones, such as Vault 34, which had a deliberately overstocked weapon supply with no locks, turned out surprisingly decent until rather recently in ''FalloutNewVegas''. Speaking of New Vegas, the Enclave Remnants encountered in it are portrayed as surprisingly humane in contrast to previous installments, in which they were just a bunch of douchebags.

** Special mention must go to their man [[spoiler:Clanden. He seems perfectly friendly enough, but then you can find a locked room close to his suite where there's a dead hooker, who, if you have a high enough medicine skill, is revealed to have been tortured to death. And, you can get into the hidden safe in his suite, you can find a holotape that is described to "contain horrific sounds of murder and violence. You hear Clanden engaging in violent sex with women, and then hear the sounds of visceral and violent murder being carried out." Thankfully, it's only a description and you can't actually play a recording of what's going on.

** [[spoiler:Werner]] from ''The Pitt''. [[spoiler:All his talk about being a slave freedom fighter is a lie. He's really a disgustingly selfish ManipulativeBastard whose sole concern is taking control of the city from the much more fairminded Ashur. He views his fellow slaves as little more than pawns to move around in his quest for power. Oh, and he knows full well that the Trogg cure is really Ashur's infant daughter, but he doesn't care. If he has to kidnap and quite possibly torture an innocent child just to rule ''one'' city, he's exactly as monstrous to do it. In summary, Wernher literally cares for nothing but himself, and is willing to lie to and kill anyone who gets between him and his selfish goals.]]