History NightmareFuel / Fallout2024

* Vault-Tec's Plan D, the most humane product [[EvilInc they]] ever released. It's the [[spoiler:above-mentioned suicide pill]].

* In case you thought the Enclave had reformed at all since their last onscreen appearance, it's shown that they euthanize any puppies born from their personal guard dogs that are below 10 ounces. And by "euthanize", we mean "tossed into a furnace to burn to death while still alive and helpless".

* In case you thought the Enclave had improved at all since their last onscreen appearance, it's shown that they euthanize any puppies born from their personal guard dogs that are below 10 ounces. And by "euthanize", we mean "tossed into a furnace to burn to death while still alive and helpless".

* The Gulper, a car-sized mutant salamander/axolotl that eats the head and nearly eats Lucy and later Thaddeus. What makes is especially creepy is that it doesn't have teeth- it's mouth is filled with hundreds of mutated ''human fingers'', all poking and prodding its prey as it tries to swallow them.

* Lucy gets her first taste of feral ghouls in this episode- their decaying skin and ratty clothing makes them look even more monstrous than The Ghoul. The only real sign of humanity left in them is that some will [[MadnessMantra repeat their names over and over again]] as a last attempt at staying sane- once that's gone, they become vicious monsters that can quickly overtake and shred even a fit and well-armed human. The normally disinterest organ harvesters are genuinely concerned when Lucy demands they release the ferals from their cages as well, and immediately go for their guns before the ferals stagger out and charge at them.
* Norman and Chet go to Vault 32, ostensibly to find out how the raiders got in and what they did to the populace. What they find is absolute carnage- long decayed bodies in various death poses, from one that was ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by a foosball rail to one person who killed themselves by jamming a knife into a toaster. The walls are plastered with bloody graffiti saying things like "We Know The Truth" and "Death to Management", and from Norman's scans of the bodies' [=PipBoys=] this wasn't recent- everyone in Vault 32 had been dead for ''two years'' before the raiders came in.

** Worse, she loses consciousness barely a minute after releasing Maximus from his disabled power armor. Had she wasted just a little bit more time pondering whether or not to let him out, she would've fainted and left him trapped in his armor, dooming them both.

* Norman goes to check on the captured raiders as part of his duties, only to find that they're all dead-- someone (implied to have been Betty) slipped rat poison into their rations to silence them, leaving them as pale, bloated corpses slumped over in their food trays. What's worse, he seems to be the only person disturbed by this, with Betty assuring everyone that "some people just can't be rehabilitated".
** Furthermore, Betty appears to have already found a patsy to pin the crime on-- the friendly young security guard at the holding cells, who is desperately trying to plead her innocence to the Vault guards as she's led away and the ruling council apathetically looks on.

* Rose [=MacLean=] is still alive, but is easily the nastiest looking Ghoul in the entire show if not the entire ''Fallout'' franchise- what skin remains on her body is charred black, her eyes are missing, and her necklace has been burned into her skin. She is essentially a living skeleton that can only feebly twist and moan, all of which combines to make her look like an animatronic skeleton with slow, jerky, inhuman movement. [[UncannyValley Somehow, the resemblance to an animatronic]] makes things worse. [[AndIMustScream and she's been like this for]] ''[[AndIMustScream years]]'' by the time Lucy finds her and gives her a MercyKill.

* Rose [=MacLean=] is still alive, but is easily the nastiest looking Ghoul in the entire show if not the entire ''Fallout'' franchise- what skin remains on her body is charred black, her eyes are missing, and her necklace has been burned into her skin. She is essentially a living skeleton that can only feebly twist and moan, all of which combines to make her look like an animatronic skeleton with slow, jerky, inhuman movement. [[UncannyValley Somehow, the resemblance to an animatronic makes things worse.]] [[AndIMustScream and she's been like this for]] ''[[AndIMustScream years]]'' by the time Lucy finds her and gives her a MercyKill.

* Rose [=MacLean=] is still alive, but is easily the nastiest looking Ghoul in the entire show if not the entire ''Fallout'' franchise- what skin remains on her body is charred black, her eyes are missing, and her necklace has been burned into her skin. She is essentially a living skeleton that can only feebly twist and moan, [[AndIMustScream and she's been like this for]] ''[[AndIMustScream years]]'' by the time Lucy finds her and gives her a MercyKill.

* Lucy ventures to the bowels of Vault 4 and discovers footage of a past experiment; a pregnant woman gives birth in a tank of water to a school of fish, which then begin devouring her alive.

* The irradiated water that Lucy drank in the previous episode has given her a severe case of radiation sickness, causing her to vomit and then pass out. Were it not for her finding Maximus who gives her a packet of Radaway, she almost certainly would've died.

* Maximus being stuck inside his energy deprived power armor, completely unable to move he's stuck standing and is sure to die from dehydration within a few days. Then the radroaches appear, searching for a weak joint in the armor, it seems he'll be slowly eatten alive. He's saved by Lucy, but for a brief period there she was considering leaving him immobile, with his visor up, which would ensure something eatting away at his face.

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* Lucy, parched of thirst after being forced to walk through the wasteland by The Ghoul, forces herself to drink irradiated water, getting down on her knees and scooping up handfuls to gulp down. And she does this as her Pip-Boy's Geiger counter practically ''screams'' at her, but she drinks it anyway because of just how desperate she is. And as she notes later, she wasn't even sure if it was actually water she drank.