History Series / Fallout2024

* AdaptationalUgliness: The Gulpers depicted in ''Far Harbor'' and ''Fallout 76'' basically resemble giant salamanders that walk on two legs. They're radically redesigned in the show, now resembling grotesquely massive axolotls with frog-like proportions, giving them spindly back legs and oversized heads, and have a maw filled with human fingers. The sixth episode shows that [[spoiler:they're actually ''human/creature hybrid'' mutants created through experimentation in Vault 4.]] Given the notable differences, they may be created from a different breed of salamander indigenous to the West Coast that just so happen to share the same name as the East Coast variant.

* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:The Gulper's new design is this. Instead of being mutant giant salamanders, the Gulper fought on Hollywood Boulevard is the result of horrific genetic experiments conducted on Vault 4's test subjects. Lucy finds recorded footage of a female subject giving live birth to an entire pod of Gulpers, and Overseer Benjamin proudly refers to the escapee that devoured the Vault's original scientists as his great-uncle Peter.]]

* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Shady Sands and the whole NCR]] play this role in order to show how truly powerful (and monstrous) [[spoiler:Vault-Tec and Lucy's father]] are. In the games, they are [[spoiler:one of the major forces in the Wasteland and usually the closest to restoring a semblance of order from the pre-war world]], yet they are destroyed with little difficulty [[spoiler:by a single nuke dropped on their capital]].

** [[spoiler:Vault-Tec themselves are subject to this. While they were certainly evil in the games they were ultimately "just" government contractors in it for the money and many of the experiments were only set up at the behest of the government, with President Richardson stating that some of the experiments helped the Enclave survive on their oil rig in some unspecified fashion (with the experiments as a while being mostly designed by hired scientists like Dr. Stanislaus Braun). Here it's revealed that they started the entire nuclear war themselves (or were at least planning to do so) in order to remake the world in their image (which is [[{{Expy}} remarkably similar]] to what happened to the Umbrella Corporation in [[Film/ResidentEvilTheFinalChapter that series' movie adaptation]]), and many of the experiments were actually set up by them & other {{Mega Corp}}s with the goal of creating new societies via [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinism]].]]

** Lucy's mission after episode one is to find and rescue her father after he's kidnapped by Lee Moldaver.

** The shadowed, circular board room where the corporate oligarchs meet in the Season 1 finale is more than a little evocative of the War Room in Film/DrStrangelove.
** Speaking of the Season 1 finale, a shot of Brotherhood Vertibirds flying through an orange sunset references a shot of chopper silhouettes on an orange sky from Film/ApocalypseNow.