History YMMV / FallOut

* CommonKnowledge: It is popularly [[AccentuateTheNegative assumed]] that because of how nasty they already were and how the Enclave were already in control of things by the time the bombs fell, that pre-war US fired the first shot in an effort to destroy the entire world to fulfill the Enclave's genocidal goals, while blaming China for doing so. In reality, while the US was already a Enclave-controlled Fascist government willing to experiment both on its own citizens and Chinese-Americans, it is deliberately left ambiguous who fired the nukes in the first place and Josh Sawyer himself has stated that it matters less that nukes were fired and what does matter was the authoritarianism and militarism on all sides, combined with the nukes existing in the first place, that caused the end of the world. In-universe Enclave actually did not move towards shifting their goal to one of global genocide until the 2100s.

* {{Misblamed}}: In the Bethesda-era games, expect Todd Howard (and, to a lesser extent, Emil Pagliarulo) to get the bulk of the fandom's bile when complaints are raised about a certain game. While this is admittedly more justified than a lot of other examples since Howard is the face for Bethesda Softworks and Pagliarulo is the most vocal member of [=BGS'=] writing team, the Bethesda-era Fallouts are still video games made by at ''least'' a hundred different people, and both Howard and Pagliarulo are only two people out of the entire production staff.

** In ''4'', Dogmeat will still be able to fetch items held in locked containers. This means that the Sole Survivor can simply return to Vault 111 with Dogmeat, go to the Overseer's office and ask him to fetch, and he'll bring you back [[DiskOneNuke the Cryolator]]. With him even [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments adorably carrying it in his mouth while he follows you around]] and wags his tail.