History Monster / Fallout

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'': [[SociopathicSoldier Frank Horrigan]] is a Secret Service agent and TheDragon to [[PresidentEvil President Dick Richardson]]. A psychopath even before his mutation, Horrigan delighted in killing whenever he could. His first onscreen appearance has him gunning down a family, [[WouldHurtAChild including their child]], for refusing his demands. Later, he gleefully kills Brotherhood of Steel agent, Matt, and wipes out the entire community of peaceful, talking deathclaws that the player had earlier befriended. Horrigan has [[FantasticRacism a special hatred]] for [[BoomerangBigot “mutants”]], humans and creatures that have been exposed to the FEV virus or even the slightest amount of radiation. This racism leads to him aiding in the Enclave’s plan to unleash a biological weapon which will wipe out all mutated life in North America, in order to make America "[[ANaziByAnyOtherName genetically pure.]]" Once defeated, Horrigan tries to activate the Enclave Oil Rig's self-destruct sequence, condemning all of his remaining allies to death, [[TakingYouWithMe just so he can take the Chosen One with him when he dies]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}''
** Roy Phillips is a [[FantasticRacism rabid anti-human bigot]] trying to get into Tenpenny Tower through any means possible. When first approached, Phillips's initial plan is to use his feral ghouls to overrun Tenpenny Tower and slaughter everyone inside. Despite this, [[LackOfEmpathy Roy feels no empathy for his feral brethren]], believing them to be mindless freaks only good as guard dogs and cannon fodder. However, if the Lone Wanderer is able to come to a solution where the ghouls are peacefully allowed to move into Tenpenny Tower, Roy will seemingly relent hostilities. At least until a few days later where it's revealed he slaughtered everyone in the Tower anyway, regardless of whether they were anti-ghoul or not, [[ForTheEvulz for no reason]]. When confronted about this, Roy shows no guilt and tells the Wanderer to piss off [[UngratefulBastard before he murders the Wanderer too]]. Furthermore, if Burke is still alive and still plans on [[NukeEm nuking Megaton]], Roy will fully support Burke's plan so he can see that "smoothskin shithole" wiped off the earth.
** [[MadScientist Dr. Stanislaus Braun]] is the Overseer of Vault 112 who [[RealityWarper controls the virtual reality simulation]] where he and the other vault members reside. A {{sadist}} with [[AGodAmI a god complex]], for the past 200 years he’s been [[ItAmusedMe entertaining himself]] by torturing and killing every person inside the simulation, [[FateWorseThanDeath only to bring them back to life to torment and kill them over and over again]]. He specifically mentions that doing so is [[ForTheEvulz only fun because they are real people]], and not computer simulations. Before Braun allows the Lone Wanderer to leave the simulation, he forces the player to do increasingly horrible things to the other Vault residents, culminating in the deaths of all inhabitants by the player’s hands. Braun was also the Director of the "Societal Preservation Program", better known as the Vault experiments. Advertised as providing civilians shelter from the expected nuclear war, in actuality the purpose of the Vaults was to gather unknowing, human guinea pigs to conduct horrific experiments on {{for science}}. These experiments include forcibly turning Vault citizens into Super Mutants, tricking people into [[HumanSacrifice ritualistically sacrificing their fellow citizens]], pumping hallucinogenic drugs into their ventilation system, and driving people insane by implanting posthypnotic combat suggestions into their minds through white-noise. Most of the Vault experiments resulted in the deaths, [[AndIMustScream or worse]], of everyone involved with them.
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''
** Vulpes Inculta, [[TheSpymaster leader of the Legion's Frumentarii spy network]]. He engages in shady tactics that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Legate Lanius considers highly dishonorable]]. At one time when the Courier meets him, he razed Nipton to the ground[[labelnote:*]]although the town was inhabited by {{Asshole Victim}}s[[/labelnote]], enslaving, executing and crucifying most of the inhabitants while coldly imploring the Courier to examine it in detail before informing the NCR of his presence. [[spoiler:He also coordinated a nuclear attack on Camp Searchlight, leaving it desolate and turning many of the surviving inhabitants into feral ghouls, and he was secretly arranging with the Omerta bosses to chlorine bomb New Vegas.]]
** Cook-Cook. The Fiends themselves are [[AlwaysChaoticEvil always chaotic psychos]] who torture people for fun, but Cook-Cook is so bad that he is [[EvenEvilHasStandards barely tolerated even by the other Fiends]]. He alternates between burning people alive and raping them, such as he did with Corporal Betsy and Pretty Sarah, the latter of whom he disfigured via burning. Two Westsider slavers, [[PragmaticVillainy who only stopped raping their slaves because it lowered their value]], were disgusted when Cook-Cook didn't even wait for them to turn around before enjoying a family he bought from them, starting with their son. One time, he bought some teenage slaves, 3 girls and a boy. The boy was burned alive and the girls made to watch. He is also implied to be a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]].
** Big Sal and Nero, the Omerta family bosses. The only rule the Omertas have is "don't go against the family", which is punishable by death, but rather than emphasize loyalty, it is instead intended to keep others from standing in the way of the bosses' plans. Such plans involve [[spoiler:secretly working for Caesar's Legion to massacre the entire population in New Vegas as soon as the battle at Hoover Dam begins, with a promise that they'll have control over the city. They are selling out the Mojave to the Legion not because they agree with Caesar's ideals, but they lust for power and loathe Mr. House for what they perceive to be his lording over them]]. They also get their prostitutes addicted to drugs to force them to be dependent upon their bosses, framed a man for murder to blackmail him into working for them, and give their hookers to [[spoiler:Clanden]] to be raped, tortured and killed.
** [[spoiler:Clanden]], an operative working with the Omertas. At first he seems like a perfectly normal, friendly man, but investigation reveals him to be a SerialKiller who makes snuff films of himself raping and torturing women to death. In exchange for a constant supply of hookers to kill, he makes [[spoiler:chlorine bombs for the Omertas to use in their attack on New Vegas]]. If the player blackmails him into leaving New Vegas he’ll be okay with it, saying he can always “find more girls to play with” elsewhere.
** Father Elijah, former elder of the Mojave Brotherhood of Steel and antagonist of ''Dead Money''. His obsession with old world technology led to him getting his people slaughtered at the battle for HELIOS. After fleeing the battle, he sought out the fabled Sierra Madre Casino, a treasure-trove of lost technology which he wanted to use to "wipe the slate clean." In order to obtain the casino's treasures, he kidnapped dozens of people, attached slave collars to their necks, and [[YourHeadAsplode blew their heads off]] unless they acted as cannon fodder for the Sierra Madre’s defenses. Once the PlayerCharacter reaches the Sierra Madre, Elijah orders him/her to kill off the allies that had helped them, and later tries to kill the Courier him/herself for [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outliving their usefulness]]. Elijah’s ultimate goal is to use the Sierra Madre’s technology to kill off every person in the Mojave, and then build a new nation where every person will be collared and forced to obey him.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'': [[SociopathicSoldier Frank Horrigan]] is a Secret Service agent and TheDragon to [[PresidentEvil President Dick Richardson]]. A psychopath even before his mutation, Horrigan delighted in killing whenever he could. His first onscreen appearance has him gunning down a family, [[WouldHurtAChild including their child]], for refusing his demands. Later, he gleefully kills Brotherhood of Steel agent, Matt, and wipes out the entire community of peaceful, talking deathclaws that the player had earlier befriended. Horrigan has [[FantasticRacism a special hatred for]] [[BoomerangBigot “mutants”]], humans and creatures that have been exposed to the FEV virus or even the slightest amount of radiation. This racism leads to him aiding in the Enclave’s plan to unleash a biological weapon which will wipe out all mutated life in North America, in order to make America "[[ANaziByAnyOtherName genetically pure.]]" Once defeated, Horrigan tries to activate the Enclave Oil Rig's self-destruct sequence, condemning all of his remaining allies to death, [[TakingYouWithMe just so he can take the Chosen One with him when he dies]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'': [[SociopathicSoldier Frank Horrigan]] is a Secret Service agent and TheDragon to [[PresidentEvil President Dick Richardson]]. A psychopath even before his mutation, Horrigan delighted in killing whenever he could. His first onscreen appearance has him gunning down a family, [[WouldHurtAChild including their child]], for refusing his demands. Later, he gleefully kills Brotherhood of Steel agent, Matt, and wipes out the entire community of peaceful, talking deathclaws that the player had earlier befriended. Horrigan has [[FantasticRacism a special hatred for]] [[YouAreWhatYouHate “mutants”]], humans and creatures that have been exposed to the FEV virus or even the slightest amount of radiation. This racism leads to him aiding in the Enclave’s plan to unleash a biological weapon which will wipe out all mutated life in North America, in order to make America "[[ANaziByAnyOtherName genetically pure.]]" Once defeated, Horrigan tries to activate the Enclave Oil Rig's self-destruct sequence, condemning all of his remaining allies to death, [[TakingYouWithMe just so he can take the Chosen One with him when he dies]].

** Roy Phillips, a ghoul with [[FantasticRacism severe hatred towards humans]]. If the Lone Wanderer negotiates with Tenpenny and his tenants to let the ghouls move in, eventually upon returning to Tenpenny Tower, all the human residents have vanished. [[spoiler:If you check the basement, you'll find the corpses of the missing people stripped of all their possessions. Even 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.]] Should Burke still be alive and nuke Megaton, Phillips will be ecstatic seeing “that smoothskin shithole” wiped out and offer Burke employment.
** [[MadScientist Dr. Stanislaus Braun]], the Overseer of Vault 112 who [[RealityWarper controls the virtual reality simulation]] where he and the other vault members reside. A sadist with [[AGodAmI a god complex]], for the past 200 years he’s been [[ForTheEvulz entertaining himself]] by torturing and killing every person inside the simulation, [[FateWorseThanDeath only to bring them back to life to torment and kill them over and over again]]. He specifically mentions that doing so is only fun because they are real people, and not computer simulations. Before Braun allows the Lone Wanderer to leave the simulation, he forces the player to do increasingly horrible things to the other Vault residents, culminating in the deaths of all inhabitants by the player’s hands. Braun was also the Director of the "Societal Preservation Program", better known as the Vault experiments. Advertised as providing civilians shelter from the expected nuclear war, in actuality the purpose of the Vaults was to gather unknowing, human guinea pigs to conduct horrific experiments on ForScience These experiments include forcibly turning Vault citizens into Super Mutants, tricking people into [[HumanSacrifice ritualistically sacrificing their fellow citizens]], pumping hallucinogetic drugs into their ventilation system, and driving people insane by implanting posthypnotic combat suggestions into their minds through white-noise. Most of the Vault experiments resulted in the deaths, [[AndIMustScream or worse]], of everyone involved with them.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'': [[SociopathicSoldier Frank Horrigan]], a Secret Service agent and TheDragon to [[PresidentEvil President Dick Richardson]]. A psychopath even before his mutation, Horrigan delighted in killing whenever he could. His first onscreen appearance has him gunning down a family, [[WouldHurtAChild including their child]], for refusing his demands. Later, he gleefully kills Brotherhood of Steel agent, Matt, and wipes out the entire community of peaceful, talking deathclaws that the player had earlier befriended. Horrigan has [[FantasticRacism a special hatred for]] [[YouAreWhatYouHate “mutants”]], humans and creatures that have been exposed to the FEV virus or even the slightest amount of radiation. This racism leads to him aiding in the Enclave’s plan to unleash a biological weapon which will wipe out all mutated life in North America, in order to make America "[[ANaziByAnyOtherName genetically pure.]]"

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' [[SociopathicSoldier Frank Horrigan]], a Secret Service agent and TheDragon to [[PresidentEvil President Dick Richardson]]. A psychopath even before his mutation, Horrigan delighted in killing whenever he could. His first onscreen appearance has him gunning down a family, [[WouldHurtAChild including their child]], for refusing his demands. Later, he gleefully kills Brotherhood of Steel agent, Matt, and wipes out the entire community of peaceful, talking deathclaws that the player had earlier befriended. Horrigan has [[FantasticRacism a special hatred for]] [[YouAreWhatYouHate “mutants”]], humans and creatures that have been exposed to the FEV virus or even the slightest amount of radiation. This racism leads to him aiding in the Enclave’s plan to unleash a biological weapon which will wipe out all mutated life in North America, in order to make America "[[ANaziByAnyOtherName genetically pure.]]"

* Big Sal and Nero, the Omerta family bosses. The only rule the Omertas have is "don't go against the family", which is punishable by death, but rather than emphasize loyalty, it is instead intended to keep others from standing in the way of the bosses' plans. Such plans involve [[spoiler:secretly working for Caesar's Legion to massacre the entire population in New Vegas as soon as the battle at Hoover Dam begins, with a promise that they'll have control over the city. They are selling out the Mojave to the Legion not because they agree with Caesar's ideals, but they lust for power and loathe Mr. House for what they perceive to be his lording over them]]. They also get their prostitutes addicted to drugs to force them to be dependent upon their bosses, framed a man for murder to blackmail him into working for them, and give their hookers to [[spoiler:Clanden]] to be raped, tortured and killed.

* ''[[AC:VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}]]'' [[SociopathicSoldier Frank Horrigan]], a Secret Service agent and TheDragon to [[PresidentEvil President Dick Richardson]]. A psychopath even before his mutation, Horrigan delighted in killing whenever he could. His first onscreen appearance has him gunning down a family, [[WouldHurtAChild including their child]], for refusing his demands. Later, he gleefully kills Brotherhood of Steel agent, Matt, and wipes out the entire community of peaceful, talking deathclaws that the player had earlier befriended. Horrigan has [[FantasticRacism a special hatred for]] [[YouAreWhatYouHate “mutants”]], humans and creatures that have been exposed to the FEV virus or even the slightest amount of radiation. This racism leads to him aiding in the Enclave’s plan to unleash a biological weapon which will wipe out all mutated life in North America, in order to make America "[[ANaziByAnyOtherName genetically pure.]]"

''[[AC:VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}]]''
* Roy Phillips, a ghoul with [[FantasticRacism severe hatred towards humans]]. If the Lone Wanderer negotiates with Tenpenny and his tenants to let the ghouls move in, eventually upon returning to Tenpenny Tower, all the human residents have vanished. [[spoiler:If you check the basement, you'll find the corpses of the missing people stripped of all their possessions. Even 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.]] Should Burke still be alive and nuke Megaton, Phillips will be ecstatic seeing “that smoothskin shithole” wiped out and offer Burke employment.
* [[MadScientist Dr. Stanislaus Braun]], the Overseer of Vault 112 who [[RealityWarper controls the virtual reality simulation]] where he and the other vault members reside. A sadist with [[AGodAmI a god complex]], for the past 200 years he’s been [[ForTheEvulz entertaining himself]] by torturing and killing every person inside the simulation, [[FateWorseThanDeath only to bring them back to life to torment and kill them over and over again]]. He specifically mentions that doing so is only fun because they are real people, and not computer simulations. Before Braun allows the Lone Wanderer to leave the simulation, he forces the player to do increasingly horrible things to the other Vault residents, culminating in the deaths of all inhabitants by the player’s hands. Braun was also the Director of the "Societal Preservation Program", better known as the Vault experiments. Advertised as providing civilians shelter from the expected nuclear war, in actuality the purpose of the Vaults was to gather unknowing, human guinea pigs to conduct horrific experiments on ForScience These experiments include forcibly turning Vault citizens into Super Mutants, tricking people into [[HumanSacrifice ritualistically sacrificing their fellow citizens]], pumping hallucinogetic drugs into their ventilation system, and driving people insane by implanting posthypnotic combat suggestions into their minds through white-noise. Most of the Vault experiments resulted in the deaths, [[AndIMustScream or worse]], of everyone involved with them.

''[[AC:VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas]]''
* Vulpes Inculta, [[TheSpymaster leader of the Legion's Frumentarii spy network]]. He engages in shady tactics that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Legate Lanius considers highly dishonorable]]. At one time when the Courier meets him, he razed Nipton to the ground[[labelnote:*]]although the town was inhabited by {{Asshole Victim}}s[[/labelnote]], enslaving, executing and crucifying most of the inhabitants while coldly imploring the Courier to examine it in detail before informing the NCR of his presence. [[spoiler:He also coordinated a nuclear attack on Camp Searchlight, leaving it desolate and turning many of the surviving inhabitants into feral ghouls, and he was secretly arranging with the Omerta bosses to chlorine bomb New Vegas.]]
* Cook-Cook. The Fiends themselves are [[AlwaysChaoticEvil always chaotic psychos]] who torture people for fun, but Cook-Cook is so bad that he is [[EvenEvilHasStandards barely tolerated even by the other Fiends]]. He alternates between burning people alive and raping them, such as he did with Corporal Betsy and Pretty Sarah, the latter of whom he disfigured via burning. Two Westsider slavers, [[PragmaticVillainy who only stopped raping their slaves because it lowered their value]], were disgusted when Cook-Cook didn't even wait for them to turn around before enjoying a family he bought from them, starting with their son. One time, he bought some teenage slaves, 3 girls and a boy. The boy was burned alive and the girls made to watch. He is also implied to be a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]].

* [[spoiler:Clanden]], an operative working with the Omertas. At first he seems like a perfectly normal, friendly man, but investigation reveals him to be a SerialKiller who makes snuff films of himself raping and torturing women to death. In exchange for a constant supply of hookers to kill, he makes [[spoiler:chlorine bombs for the Omertas to use in their attack on New Vegas]]. If the player blackmails him into leaving New Vegas he’ll be okay with it, saying he can always “find more girls to play with” elsewhere.
* Father Elijah, former elder of the Mojave Brotherhood of Steel and antagonist of ''Dead Money''. His obsession with old world technology led to him getting his people slaughtered at the battle for HELIOS. After fleeing the battle, he sought out the fabled Sierra Madre Casino, a treasure-trove of lost technology which he wanted to use to "wipe the slate clean." In order to obtain the casino's treasures, he kidnapped dozens of people, attached slave collars to their necks, and [[YourHeadAsplode blew their heads off]] unless they acted as cannon fodder for the Sierra Madre’s defenses. Once the PlayerCharacter reaches the Sierra Madre, Elijah orders him/her to kill off the allies that had helped them, and later tries to kill the Courier him/herself for [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outliving their usefulness]]. Elijah’s ultimate goal is to use the Sierra Madre’s technology to kill off every person in the Mojave, and then build a new nation where every person will be collared and forced to obey him.

''[[AC:VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}]]''
* [[SociopathicSoldier Frank Horrigan]], a Secret Service agent and TheDragon to [[PresidentEvil President Dick Richardson]]. A psychopath even before his mutation, Horrigan delighted in killing whenever he could. His first onscreen appearance has him gunning down a family, [[WouldHurtAChild including their child]], for refusing his demands. Later, he gleefully kills Brotherhood of Steel agent, Matt, and wipes out the entire community of peaceful, talking deathclaws that the player had earlier befriended. Horrigan has [[FantasticRacism a special hatred for]] [[YouAreWhatYouHate “mutants”]], humans and creatures that have been exposed to the FEV virus or even the slightest amount of radiation. This racism leads to him aiding in the Enclave’s plan to unleash a biological weapon which will wipe out all mutated life in North America, in order to make America "[[ANaziByAnyOtherName genetically pure.]]"

* Myron, a chemist who, in exchange for money and whores, invented the drug “Jet” for the Mordino crime family. He brags about having perfected the drug’s recipe by experimenting on about a hundred slaves with heart conditions, killing nearly all of them by inducing heart attacks, and has no remorse for their deaths. Not only does he take pride in how many lives have been ruined by his drug, but, if the PlayerCharacter is female and has low intelligence, he will also attempt to rape her by giving her a drugged drink.

* Mr. Burke, [[TheDragon the right-hand man]] of Allistair Tenpenny. After Tenpenny decided he wanted the town of Megaton destroyed because it was an eyesore, he tasked Burke with setting off the undetonated nuke in the middle of the town. However, first he ordered Burke to evacuate the town and surrounding area of people. Burke instead decided set off the nuke with the town still occupied. What’s worse is that he will set off the nuke even if Tenpenny is dead and he has no reason to do so. Burke also has no loyalty to his boss, and, if Roy Phillips [[spoiler:killed Tenpenny and every other resident in the hotel]], Burke will say that what Roy did was “inspired.”

* Myron, a chemist who, in exchange for money and whores, invented the drug “Jet” for the Mordino crime family. He perfected the drug’s recipe by experimenting on about a hundred slaves with heart conditions, killing nearly all of them by inducing heart attacks. Not only does he take pride in how many lives have been ruined by his drug, but, if the PlayerCharacter is female and has low intelligence, he will also attempt to rape her by giving her a drugged drink.

* Salt-Upon-Wounds, the leader of the White Legs from ''Honest Hearts''. In order to join Caesar’s Legion, he was tasked with destroying the peaceful town of New Canaan. Being a DirtyCoward who knew he couldn’t defeat the Canaanites in a straight fight, Salt-Upon-Wounds and his men burned the surrounding communities to the ground, pretended to be refugees so the New Canaanites would let them into their town, and then killed everyone there. The old and sick were butchered as they tried to leave. Priests were burned alive in churches. The children were beaten to death with clubs as they slept.

* [[SociopathicSoldier Frank Horrigan]], a CIA agent and TheDragon to [[PresidentEvil President Dick Richardson]]. A psychopath even before his mutation, Horrigan delighted in killing whenever he could. His first onscreen appearance has him gunning down a family, [[WouldHurtAChild including their child]], for refusing his demands. Later, he gleefully kills Brotherhood of Steel agent, Matt, and wipes out the entire community of peaceful, talking deathclaws that the player had earlier befriended. Horrigan has [[FantasticRacism a special hatred for]] [[YouAreWhatYouHate “mutants”]], humans and creatures that have been exposed to the FEV virus or even the slightest amount of radiation. This racism leads to him aiding in the Enclave’s plan to unleash a biological weapon which will wipe out all mutated life in North America, in order to make America "[[ANaziByAnyOtherName genetically pure.]]"

* [[SociopathicSoldier Frank Horrigan]], a CIA agent and TheDragon to [[PresidentEvil President Dick Richardson]]. A psychopath even before his mutation, Horrigan delighted in killing whenever he could. His first onscreen appearance has him gunning down a family, [[WouldHurtAChild including their child]], for refusing his demands. Later, he gleefully kills Brotherhood of Steel agent, Matt, and wipes out the entire community of peaceful, talking deathclaws that the player had earlier befriended. Horrigan has [[FantasticRacism a special hatred for]] [[YouAreWhatYouHate “mutants”]], humans and creatures that have been exposed to the FEV virus or even the slightest amount of radiation. This racism leads to him aiding in the Enclave’s plan to unleash a biological weapon which will wipe out all mutated life in North America, in order to make America [[ANaziByAnyOtherName “genetically pure.”]]
* Myron, a chemist who, in exchange for money and whores, invented the drug “Jet” for the Mordino crime family. He perfected the drug’s recipe by experimenting on about a hundred slaves with heart conditions, killing nearly all of them by inducing heart attacks. Not only does he take pride in how many lives have been ruined by his drug, but, if the PlayerCharacter is female and has low intelligence, he will also attempt to rape her by giving her a drugged drink.

* Mr. Burke, [[TheDragon the right-hand man]] of Allistair Tenpenny. After Tenpenny decided he wanted the town of Megaton destroyed because it was an eyesore, he tasked Burke with setting off the undetonated nuke in the middle of the town. However, first he ordered Burke to evacuate the town and surrounding area of people. Burke instead decided set off the nuke with the town still occupied. What’s worse is that he will set off the nuke even if Tenpenny is dead and he has no reason to do so. Burke also has no loyalty to his boss, and, if Roy Phillips [[spoiler:killed Tenpenny and every other resident in the hotel]], Burke will say that what Roy did was “inspired.”
* Roy Phillips, a ghoul with [[FantasticRacism severe hatred towards humans]]. If the Lone Wanderer negotiates with Tenpenny and his tenants to let the ghouls move in, eventually upon returning to Tenpenny Tower, all the human residents have vanished. [[spoiler:If you check the basement, you'll find the corpses of the missing people stripped of all their possessions. Even 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.]] Should Burke still be alive and nuke Megaton, Phillips will be ecstatic seeing “that smoothskin shithole” wiped out and offer Burke employment.
* [[MadScientist Dr. Stanislaus Braun]], the Overseer of Vault 112 who [[RealityWarper controls the virtual reality simulation]] where he and the other vault members reside. A sadist with [[AGodAmI a god complex]], for the past 200 years he’s been [[ForTheEvulz entertaining himself]] by torturing and killing every person inside the simulation, [[FateWorseThanDeath only to bring them back to life to torment and kill them over and over again]]. He specifically mentions that doing so is only fun because they are real people, and not computer simulations. Before Braun allows the Lone Wanderer to leave the simulation, he forces the player to do increasingly horrible things to the other Vault residents, culminating in the deaths of all inhabitants by the player’s hands. Braun was also the Director of the "Societal Preservation Program", better known as the Vault experiments. Advertised as providing civilians shelter from the expected nuclear war, in actuality the purpose of the Vaults was to gather unknowing, human guinea pigs to conduct horrific experiments on ForScience These experiments include forcibly turning Vault citizens into Super Mutants, tricking people into [[HumanSacrifice ritualistically sacrificing their fellow citizens]], pumping hallucinogetic drugs into their ventilation system, and driving people insane by implanting posthypnotic combat suggestions into their minds through white-noise. Most of the Vault experiments resulted in the deaths, [[AndIMustScream or worse]], of everyone involved with them.

* [[spoiler:Clanden]], an operative working with the Omertas. At first he seems like a perfectly normal, friendly man, but investigation reveals him to be a SerialKiller who makes snuff films of himself raping and torturing women to death. In exchange for a constant supply of hookers to kill, he makes [[spoiler:chlorine bombs for the Omertas to use in their attack on New Vegas]]. If the player blackmails him into leaving New Vegas he’ll be okay with it, saying he can always “find more girls to play with” elsewhere.
* Father Elijah, former elder of the Mojave Brotherhood of Steel and antagonist of ''Dead Money''. His obsession with old world technology led to him getting his people slaughtered at the battle for HELIOS. After fleeing the battle, he sought out the fabled Sierra Madre Casino, a treasure-trove of lost technology which he wanted to use to "wipe the slate clean." In order to obtain the casino's treasures, he kidnapped dozens of people, attached slave collars to their necks, and [[YourHeadAsplode blew their heads off]] unless they acted as cannon fodder for the Sierra Madre’s defenses. Once the PlayerCharacter reaches the Sierra Madre, Elijah orders him/her to kill off the allies that had helped them, and later tries to kill the Courier him/herself for [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outliving their usefulness]]. Elijah’s ultimate goal is to use the Sierra Madre’s technology to kill off every person in the Mojave, and then build a new nation where every person will be collared and forced to obey him.
* Salt-Upon-Wounds, the leader of the White Legs from ''Honest Hearts''. In order to join Caesar’s Legion, he was tasked with destroying the peaceful town of New Canaan. Being a DirtyCoward who knew he couldn’t defeat the Canaanites in a straight fight, Salt-Upon-Wounds and his men burned the surrounding communities to the ground, pretended to be refugees so the New Canaanites would let them into their town, and then killed everyone there. The old and sick were butchered as they tried to leave. Priests were burned alive in churches. The children were beaten to death with clubs as they slept.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series has many, many evil people, but Dr. Stanislaus Braun really takes the cake. He is found inside a virtual reality simulation, having been the sole [[RealityWarper administrator]] for 200 years. What has he been doing all this time? Why, [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential torturing and killing the others in the simulation over and over again of course!]] He specifically mentions that doing so is only fun because they are real people, and not computer simulations.
** Roy Phillips. If the Lone Wanderer 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.]]
** The third installment also gives us the Talon Company, which has no apparent redeeming qualities. Every last member is a PsychoForHire.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'', three of the four New Reno families fall under this category. Wright is considered the "good" family.
** Also from ''Fallout 2'', Myron. He developed the highly addictive and dangerous drug "Jet" for the Mordinos in exchange for money and whores. How did he develop said drug? He conducted experiments on around a hundred slaves suffering from heart conditions, resulting in death by cardiac arrest for nearly all of them until he got the recipe right. If you call him out on this, he'll openly wonder why you care about the lives of the slaves anyway. He even takes ''pride'' in how many lives his drug has ruined, and will never stop bragging about it. Fortunately, in the epilogue, he gets one of the most appropriate [[KarmicDeath Karmic Deaths]] in the history of fiction.
-->'''Endgame Narrator (RonPerlman)''': Myron died less than a year after the defeat of the Enclave, [[DeathByIrony stabbed by a Jet addict while drinking in the Den]]. [[LaserGuidedKarma His discovery of Jet was quickly forgotten, and now there is no one who remembers his name.]]
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': Cook-Cook of the fiends. The fiends themselves are choatic JerkAss types who torture people for fun, but Cook-Cook is so bad that he is barely tolerated by even the other fiends. He alternates between burning people alive, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking cooking (quite well apparantly)]], and rape. Two Westsiders, who made a profit kidnapping refugees and selling them to just about everyone (and stopped raping them because it lowered their value), were squicked when this guy didn't even wait for them to turn around before enjoying a family he brought them, starting with their son. One time, he bought some teenage slaves, 3 girls and a boy. The boy was burned alive and the girls made to watch. To say nothing of his implied cannibalism and what this could further implicate about that incident...........
* [[spoiler:The Omertas]], with the exception of [[spoiler:[[EvenEvilHasStandards Cachino]]]]. [[spoiler:Their leadership is secretly working for Caesar's Legion to massacre the entire population in New Vegas as soon as the battle at Hoover Dam begins. But Cachino knows something serious is up with the Omerta bosses and will even help you ruin their plans to help the Legion chlorine bomb New Vegas.]]
-->[[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 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.]]
** 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.]]
* The Enclave in the first two games were definitely this. First of all, all of those utterly horrific Vault Experiments? They were behind every single one of them. That's right; [[HumanSacrifice Vault 11]]? They did it. [[AndIMustScream Vault 112]]? They did it. [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Vault 97]]? You get the idea. Their first onscreen action in the series is to ''massacre a whole vault full of innocent men, women and children'', just because ''some'' of them had a ''trace'' of radiation in them. That's right, they are so obsessed with rebuilding a "pure" America that they are willing to commit genocide on not just Ghouls and Mutants, but literally anyone with even the smallest bit of radiation in them. That's ''over 90% of America's remaining population''. They don't care. Among the worst is ''Fallout 2'''s Agent Horrigan, who is best described as a "genetically engineered cyborg psycho total homicidal maniac." He always murders someone whenever he appears, the first victims being a group of unarmed peasants.
** The worst part about the Enclave being behind the Vaults? Everything the public had known about them was a complete and utter lie. They were never meant to save anyone.
* 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.
* Salt-Upon-Wounds, the leader of the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil White Legs]] from the DLC ''Honest Hearts''. He and his tribe of powerful warriors ''really'' wanted to join the Legion. The Legion agreed to let them in, but they had to accomplish one task first: destroy the peaceful town of New Canaan. How did Salt-Upon-Wounds and his warriors go about this? They burned the surrounding communities to the ground, took advantage of the New Canaanites kindness to get them to let the White Legs into the town (since they couldn't take the New Canannites in a straight up fight) while pretending they were refugees, then they killed ''everyone there''. The old and sick were butchered as they tried to leave. Priests were burned alive in churches. The children were beaten to death with clubs as they slept. Once you figure out about all this, it's really difficult not to take the "Crush The White Legs" option and kill every last one of these bastards, Salt-Upon-Wounds included.
** Also he waited to do this while most of New Canaanites who could fight back were out, ''including the person they were order to kill!'' In fact he was the only one they really ''needed'' to kill.
* Mr. Burke in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}''. 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.
* [[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.]]

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* In ''VideoGame/Fallout 2'', three of the four New Reno families fall under this category. Wright is considered the "good" family.

* The Enclave in the first two games were definitely this. First of all, all of those utterly horrific Vault Experiments? They were behind every single one of them. That's right; [[HumanSacrifice Vault 11]]? They did it. [[AndIMustScream Vault 112]]? They did it. [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Vault 97]]? You get the idea. Their first onscreen action in the series is to ''massacre a whole vault full of innocent men, women and children'', just because ''some'' of them had a ''trace'' of radiation in them. That's right, they are so obsessed with rebuilding a "pure" America that they are willing to commit genocide on not just Ghouls and Mutants, but literally anyone with even the smallest bit of radiation in them. That's ''over 90% of America's remaining population''. They don't care. Among the worst is Fallout 2's Agent Horrigan, who is best described as a "genetically engineered cyborg psycho total homicidal maniac." He always murders someone whenever he appears, the first victims being a group of unarmed peasants.

** Also he waited to do this while most of New Canaanites who could fight back were out, ''inclucing the person they were order to kill!'' In fact he was the only one they really ''needed'' to kill.
* Mr. Burke in Fallout 3. 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.

* The Enclave in the first two games were definitely this. First of all, all of those [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel utterly horrific]] Vault Experiments? They were behind every single one of them. That's right; [[HumanSacrifice Vault 11]]? They did it. [[AndIMustScream Vault 112]]? They did it. [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Vault 97]]? You get the idea. Their first onscreen action in the series is to ''massacre a whole vault full of innocent men, women and children'', just because ''some'' of them had a ''trace'' of radiation in them. That's right, they are so obsessed with rebuilding a "pure" America that they are willing to commit genocide on not just Ghouls and Mutants, but literally anyone with even the smallest bit of radiation in them. That's ''over 90% of America's remaining population''. They don't care. Among the worst is Fallout 2's Agent Horrigan, who is best described as a "genetically engineered cyborg psycho total homicidal maniac." He always murders someone whenever he appears, the first victims being a group of unarmed peasants.

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* The ''{{Fallout}}'' series has many, many evil people, but Dr. Stanislaus Braun really takes the cake. He is found inside a virtual reality simulation, having been the sole [[RealityWarper administrator]] for 200 years. What has he been doing all this time? Why, [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential torturing and killing the others in the simulation over and over again of course!]] He specifically mentions that doing so is only fun because they are real people, and not computer simulations.

* In Fallout 2, three of the four New Reno families fall under this category. Wright is considered the "good" family.
** Also from Fallout 2, Myron. He developed the highly addictive and dangerous drug "Jet" for the Mordinos in exchange for money and whores. How did he develop said drug? He conducted experiments on around a hundred slaves suffering from heart conditions, resulting in death by cardiac arrest for nearly all of them until he got the recipe right. If you call him out on this, he'll openly wonder why you care about the lives of the slaves anyway. He even takes ''pride'' in how many lives his drug has ruined, and will never stop bragging about it. Fortunately, in the epilogue, he gets one of the most appropriate [[KarmicDeath Karmic Deaths]] in the history of fiction.

* ''FalloutNewVegas'': Cook-Cook of the fiends. The fiends themselves are choatic JerkAss types who torture people for fun, but Cook-Cook is so bad that he is barely tolerated by even the other fiends. He alternates between burning people alive, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking cooking (quite well apparantly)]], and rape. Two Westsiders, who made a profit kidnapping refugees and selling them to just about everyone (and stopped raping them because it lowered their value), were squicked when this guy didn't even wait for them to turn around before enjoying a family he brought them, starting with their son. One time, he bought some teenage slaves, 3 girls and a boy. The boy was burned alive and the girls made to watch. To say nothing of his implied cannibalism and what this could further implicate about that incident...........

** Also he wanted to do this while most of New Canaanites who could fight back were out, ''inclucing the person they were order to kill!'' In fact he was the only one they really ''needed'' to kill.

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** [[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.]]

* ''FalloutNewVegas'': Caesar's Legion...crucifies their enemies just like Roman soliders used to do. And you can join them unlike the antagonists of Fallout games past.
** Vulpes Inculta of the Legion is a [[SarcasmMode shining]] example of monster-dom. When you first meet him, he's just finished slaughtering almost everyone in town, then putting the rest into slavery in the [[spoiler: town of Nipton]]. 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...
** To expand more on the Legion's general MO, besides crucifying people left right and centre, they also are the main slaver faction in New Vegas; anyone who is not a volunter soldier in the legion is a slave, even if you were a tribe that allied with the legion and fought alongside them you'll still be attacked and completely enslaved once that area is taken. It goes double for women, who are considered only fit as breeding stock...occassionaly being made to carry heavy backpacks after having ''both legs broken''.
** 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. Any attempt to refute the Legion's misdeeds as some "TheExtremistWasRight" method can be undone simply by saying that the Legion distills all the horrible atrocities committed in the lawless wasteland into a frighteningly pure and institutionalized form.
** As bad as the Legion is in general, Lanius in particular is even worse. If he winds up at the head of the Legion, he'll bring the Mojave under his heel or set it ablaze trying.

* While the fiends avoid falling into this trope as a whole because they are so drugged up they can't fully understand the morality of what's going on, several individual fiends jump warmly into this trope's embrace. Chief among them is Cook-Cook, who alternates between burning people alive, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking cooking (quite well apparantly)]], and rape. Two Westsiders, who made a profit kidnapping refugees and selling them to just about everyone (and stopped raping them because it lowered their value), were squicked when this guy didn't even wait for them to turn around before enjoying a family he brought them, starting with their son. Needless to say killing him is enjoyable, even if several of his victims are disappointed they didn't get to off him themselves.

* While the fiends avoid falling into this trope as a whole because they are so drugged up they can't fully understand the morality of what's going on, several individual fiends jump warmly into this trope's embrace. Chief among them is Cook-Cook, who alternates between burning people alive, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking cooking (quite well apparantly)]], and rape. Two Freesiders, who made a profit kidnapping refugees and selling them to just about everyone (and stopped raping them because it lowered their value), were squicked when this guy didn't even wait for them to turn around before enjoying a family he brought them, starting with their son. Needless to say killing him is enjoyable, even if several of his victims are disappointed they didn't get to off him themselves.

* Mortimer of the White Glove Society, attempts to cannabilize kidnapped victims at the society's hotel, even attempting to have banquet attendees eat human flesh unknowingly.

* The Van Graffs--Gloria has an arrangement with the Crimson Caravan Company to wipe out any potential competitors with extreme prejudice, while her brother Jean-Baptiste Cutting is a trigger-happy bastard who would just as soon plug you as say hello. Gloria's EstablishingCharacterMoment has her order Jean-Baptiste to disintegrate [[BadBoss one of her own thugs]] to scare a customer into making good on his end of a deal.

** Hell, Deathclaws aren't even that horrible at times.
*** Deathclaws are feral animals working on instinct. Complete monsterdom requires a level of sentience: intent.

** 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.]]
*** 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 below them get their legs broken but live, the lot bellow them get enslaved, the lot below them get tied up to crosses and left to die, and the ones below them, better known as the "lucky losers," simply get decapitated. When summary execution is among the least horrible fates dished out, you know you're dealing with some soulless bastards.
*** '''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]].]] ...But then again played straight when you see that the loyalty goes only one way to supposed "ally" tribes of the Legion... who get promptly assimilated by the same means that the "enemy" tribes to the Legion were.

* Mortimer of the White Glove Society, attempts to cannabilize kidnapped victims at the society's hotel, even attempt to have banquet attendees eat human flesh unknowingly.

* The Van Graffs--Gloria has an arrangement with the Crimson Caravan Company to wipe out any potential competitors with extreme prejudice, while her brother Jean-Baptiste Cutting is a trigger-happy bastard who would just as soon plug you as say hello. Gloria's EstablishingCharacterMoment has her order Jean-Baptiste to disintegrate [[BadBoss one of her own thugs]] to scare a customer into making good on his end of a deal. Making this bitch eat her own hair isn't vengeance; it's justice.
** No, it's vengeance. Watching the NCR 'sploit the evidence of the dirty deed to blackmail both the Van Graffs and Crimson Caravan into lopsided deals with the NCR is justice. They're still alive to see it happen.
* While they were arguably made ''slightly'' less monstrous in ''3'', the Enclave in the first two games were definitely this. First of all, all of those [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel utterly horrific]] Vault Experiments? They were behind every single one of them. That's right; [[HumanSacrifice Vault 11]]? They did it. [[AndIMustScream Vault 112]]? They did it. [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Vault 97]]? You get the idea. Their first onscreen action in the series is to ''massacre a whole vault full of innocent men, women and children'', just because ''some'' of them had a ''trace'' of radiation in them. That's right, they are so obsessed with rebuilding a "pure" America that they are willing to commit genocide on not just Ghouls and Mutants, but literally anyone with even the smallest bit of radiation in them. That's ''over 90% of America's remaining population''. They don't care. Among the worst is Fallout 2's Agent Horrigan, who is best described as a "genetically engineered cyborg psycho total homicidal maniac." He always murders someone whenever he appears, the first victims being a group of unarmed peasants.
** The worst part about the Enclave being behind the Vaults? Everything the public had known about them was a complete and utter lie. They were never meant to save anyone. The Vaults were purposefully given a FatalFlaw that more often than not lead to a [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel horrific]] disaster. Just because they ''could''.
*** It wasn't because they could, it was because they were conducting social experiments to see who could survive what conditions for an eventual colonization 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. The worst of the Remnants is Orion Moreno, whose only fault is that he's a genuine believer in the Enclave way and never forgave the NCR for the defeat of Navarro (and even he can be convinced to fight for them in the final battle).
*** 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.

* 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.

** 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. Any attempt to refute the Legion's misdeeds as some "TheExtremistWasRight" method can be done simply by saying that the Legion distills all the horrible atrocities committed in the lawless wasteland into a frighteningly pure and institutionalized form.