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| 2 | [[Characters/Fallout4ProtagonistAndFamily Sole Survivor and Family]] | [[Characters/Fallout4Companions Companions]] ([[Characters/Fallout4MainStoryCompanions Main Story Companions]]) | '''Factions''' ([[Characters/Fallout4BrotherhoodOfSteel The East Coast Brotherhood of Steel]] -- [[Characters/Fallout4TheRailroad The Railroad]] -- [[Characters/Fallout4TheInstitute The Institute]]) | [[Characters/Fallout4CommonwealthCitizens Commonwealth Citizens]] ([[Characters/Fallout4DiamondCity Diamond City]] -- [[Characters/Fallout4Goodneighbor Goodneighbor]]) | [[Characters/Fallout4IslandCitizens Island Citizens]] | [[Characters/Fallout4NukaWorldCitizens Nuka-World Citizens]]-]]]]] |
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| 4 | This is a folder for the major factions and characters within the ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' Commonwealth. |
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| 8 | !Main Questline Factions |
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| 10 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 11 | * ColorMotif: Each of the Commonwealth's primary factions have one or two colors be the most predominant in both their headquarters and equipment, usually being prominently featured on their flag (with the exception of the Brotherhood, whose flag is recolored orange in this game) and being heavily associated with their mood and aesthetic. |
| 12 | ** The Commonwealth Minutemen - '''Blue'''. The Minutemen are [[TheParagon the closest to a unambiguously "good" faction in the whole game]] and so BlueIsHeroic is in full effect for them. It also calls back to the Minutmen being (metaphorically) descended from the Pre-War United States in the use of blue from the American flag (along with a similar placement of stars). Blue is the most common favorite color, and the Minutemen are literally built up out of the Commonwealth's average settlers banding together for the common good. Blue also symbolizes serenity (the Minutemen are {{Reasonable Authority Figure}}s to the settlements under their protection) and melancholia (the Minutemen suffered through a hideous TraumaCongaLine up to the present that left them shattered and relying on the Sole Survivor to help them rebuild). Even the fact that blue is symbolic of masculinity can be seen reflected in how the only active member of the Minutemen at the game's start is the male Preston Garvey, and the last two known Generals ([=McGann=] and Becker) were men. |
| 13 | ** The East Coast Brotherhood of Steel - '''Grey/Black'''. Virtually all of the Brotherhood's technology has a clear grey color scheme thanks to their predominantly DieselPunk aesthetic through their widespread usage of advanced Pre-War tech. Grey is also used for mourning (the Lyons family were wiped out in the decade since ''3'' and the Brotherhood has lost numerous soldiers to the Wasteland) and depression (as evidenced through the Brotherhood's increasingly cold and dour demeanor as they try to act like professional soldiers). Grey also evokes the image of plate armor and medieval knights, befitting the Brotherhood's FeudalFuture aesthetic. Furthermore, while the Brotherhood are not precisely ''evil'' in this game, they're significantly DarkerAndEdgier than their counterparts in ''Fallout 3'', and so a shift to a darker grey (almost black) can be seen as reflective of this increasing cynicism and darker turn. Black is also sometimes associated with rebirth, and the East Coast Brotherhood has been reborn as a mighty RisingEmpire in the decade since ''3''. |
| 14 | ** The Institute - '''White'''. The Institute as a whole has a very clean and sterile (almost medical) aesthetic made up of smooth and elegant curves colored in a cold white, emphasizing both their advancement and detachment from the Commonwealth's horrors. White can also symbolize purity, and the Institute practices slavery (which is given multiple allusions over the game's course to the history of white supremacy and slavery in the United States) through its racist treatment of Synths along with openly regarding only themselves as the "true" inheritors to humanity (to the detriment of the Commonwealth's surface dwellers). White is also a color representing innocence, and most of the Institute's own citizens are LockedOutOfTheLoop regarding their own organization's atrocities, being (for the most part) ObliviouslyEvil and viewing the Commonwealth's inhabitants with a mix of CondescendingCompassion and BystanderSyndrome. Divinity is also associated with the color white, and not only are the Institute "playing God" through their creation of advanced artificial intelligence with the [[ArtificialHumans Synths]], but many parallels are intentionally drawn over the course of the game (as noted on the Institute's own sub-page) between the Institute and TheThemeParkVersion of the Christian concept of {{Heaven}}. Finally, in some Eastern cultures (such as Japan and China) white is a symbol of death, and the Institute is the darkest (morally speaking) of all of the game's factions and their questline invariably ends with [[spoiler:at least two large factions - the Brotherhood and Railroad - essentially slaughtered to a man]]. |
| 15 | ** The Railroad - '''Orange/Brown'''. Orange, a color of warmth and enthusiasm, conveys how the Railroad is a RagtagBunchOfMisfits and TrueCompanions fighting against the Institute's tyranny who are also firmly dedicated to helping protect Synths and make the world a more accepting place for them. The color orange is also ''literally'' conveyed in how most of their headquarters is lit through candlelight. Meanwhile, brown - the color of the armored leather coats worn by Railroad Agents - can covey a sense of filthiness and decay, and at the start of the game the Railroad has been recently savaged by the Institute's ''blitzkrieg'' of Railroad safehouses, and are in need of the Sole Survivor's aid to help turn their fortunes around. Additionally, brown can also convey a sense of dependability, and the Railroad's entire structure is centered on numerous secret tests and CrazyPrepared backup plans that are required because of them being ProperlyParanoid concerning [[BigBrotherIsWatching the Institute's operations]]. |
| 16 | * ACommanderIsYou: A rare non-strategy game example is exemplified with each faction. |
| 17 | ** The Minutemen are Ranger/Diplomat. Their entire organization is founded around convincing people to work together for the benefit of everyone at the expense of the self. Furthermore, the fact that they're mostly made up of generally weak militia troops is mitigated by prioritizing access to powerful ranged weapons in the form of both deceptively devastating laser weaponry and access to artillery fire support. |
| 18 | ** The East Coast Brotherhood of Steel are Brutes. They're the most powerful straight-up faction in the Commonwealth bar-none, having the only fleet of Vertibirds in the entire region, better military tech than anyone else, and more Power Armor than everyone else put together. The Brotherhood's primary tactic is to pound the enemy into submission through their dominance of the sky before dropping in their [[PoweredArmor Power Armored]] Paladins to mop up what's left. |
| 19 | ** The Institute are Spammer/Espionage with limited Elite/Guerrilla forces. They have large numbers of cheap, weak Gen 1 and 2 Synths who they can ZergRush at their enemies if they really need to. However, their primary tactic is to [[KillAndReplace infiltrate the enemy with Generation 3 Synths]] in the right places to sow havoc and weaken them, while keeping their actual location hidden from outsiders. They also have access to extremely elite combat Synths called Coursers, but as they don't have a lot of them, they have to use them as assassins and special agents rather than frontline {{Super Soldier}}s. |
| 20 | ** The Railroad are Elite/Guerrilla. Being primarily a Synth-smuggling operation without a lot of soldiers, they rely mostly on their excellent spies and saboteurs to inflict damage on first the Institute and later the Brotherhood, using the element of surprise to their advantage. They also rival the Institute in terms of usage of Stealth Boys, and have enough hoarded gear that the troops they ''do'' have are well-supported by advanced armored coats and Gauss Rifles. Like the Institute, they try not to get into stand-up fights, but as Bunker Hill shows, they can still ''win'' such fights if they must, particularly when they have the home-team advantage. |
| 21 | * EnforcedColdWar: [[spoiler:An ending with the least amount of killing has this for three out of the four factions: through careful politicking, a diplomatic Sole Survivor can manage to only destroy the Institute, while leaving the Minutemen, Railroad, and Brotherhood of Steel to survive. The "Cold War" part comes from the fact that some elements of the Railroad and Brotherhood are just itching to finally take the other faction out for good, only stopped by you staying their hands through refusing to pull the trigger.]] |
| 22 | * FactionCalculus: Again, another rare non-strategy game example. |
| 23 | ** The Commonwealth Minutemen - Cannons. The Minutemen combine generally weak militia troops with deceptively powerful laser weaponry and access to artillery fire support to get the job done. Unusually for a Cannon faction, their military doctrine is almost entirely defensive; They focus on protecting settlements (and later, expanding artillery coverage across the Commonwealth) rather than on punching out their adversaries - but they have the strongest punch of any faction when they ''do'' take the offensive. |
| 24 | ** The Brotherhood of Steel - Powerhouse. They've got the only air fleet in the Commonwealth, better military technology than anyone else in the region, and more Power Armor than the rest of the factions put together. Their favored tactics are to dominate the air with their Vertibirds, then drop to the Earth with armored heavies and go in hard and loud. |
| 25 | ** The Institute - Subversive. They have nigh-unlimited numbers of cheap and weak Gen 1 and 2 Synths, but they only resort to the {{Zerg Rush}} if they must; Instead, their favored tactic is to infiltrate the enemy with Gen 3 Synths in the right places to sow havoc and weaken them to the point they can be easily crushed, while keeping their actual location hidden from outsiders to prevent counter-attacks. They also have access to extremely elite combat Synths called Coursers, but they don't have a lot of them, so they prefer to use them as secret agents and assassins. |
| 26 | ** The Railroad - Balanced. They don't have a lot of soldiers, but they've got very good spies and saboteurs on par with Institute Synths, and they have enough hoarded gear that the troops they do have are well-supported by advanced armored coats and Gauss Rifles. Like the Institute, they try not to get into stand-up fights, but as Bunker Hill shows, they can still actually '''win''' such fights if they must, particularly when they have the home-team advantage. |
| 27 | * FighterMageThief: Three out of the four easily fall into one of these archetypes, with the Minutemen being more of a mixed example. Notably, following them in the main questline will significantly alter each questline's "feel" for the most part, aligning with the general mood and tone of each faction. |
| 28 | ** The Commonwealth Minutemen -- Duelists (Fighters + Thieves). They're largely concerned with establishing/defending settlements and use whatever they can get their hands on to do the job, be it jury-rigged laser rifles (their signature weapon) to old-fashioned artillery cannons. Siding with them is mostly focused on direct combat but with devastating surprise tactics and sneakiness utilized to help even the playing field (i.e., [[spoiler:storming the Institute from a long-forgotten secret entrance and taking down the ''Prydwen'' with a mass artillery strike]]). |
| 29 | ** The Brotherhood of Steel -- Fighters. They use military tactics, brute force, and ample Power Armor to clean the commonwealth. Siding with them involves a lot of direct combat. |
| 30 | ** The Institute -- Mages. They have near-magical technology and a decided preference for hanging back and letting their creations do the fighting and spying for them (particularly since [[SquishyWizard they're fairly weak in a straight fight]]). Siding with them involves a lot of high-tech missions and ample robotic assistance. |
| 31 | ** The Railroad -- Thieves. They rely on stealth and clandestine operations to have a chance against their considerably more powerful enemies. Siding with them involves a lot of cloak and dagger activities. |
| 32 | * FourPhilosophyEnsemble: Each of the four factions fill these roles to varying extents. |
| 33 | ** The Minutemen are '''The Optimists'''. Their original purpose was to defend settlements out of good will before getting themselves nearly wiped out, and can do so again with the Sole Survivor's help. |
| 34 | ** The Brotherhood can be seen as '''The Realists'''. Ten years after the war with the Enclave, with Owyn Lyons gone, his prioritization of helping people over retrieving technology has been merged with the more traditional approach of the Brotherhood. Under Arthur Maxson's lead, the [=BoS=] scaled back its duties from strictly being "peacekeepers of the wastes" to retrieving dangerous technology and fighting different threats that endanger the people of the Wasteland. |
| 35 | ** The Institute are '''The Cynics'''. They believe it's futile for the Commonwealth to sustain itself on the surface and have plans to restart life from scratch. Unfortunately,, they've done so many things wrong in each attempt at realizing their end goal of "redefining mankind" that even their current leader finds it increasingly harder to justify their actions. |
| 36 | ** In a sense, the Railroad are '''The Apathetic'''. The idea of a secret organization seeking to liberate all Synths from the Institute sounds well and good on the surface. But the problem is that this is their ''only'' goal and they don't have the manpower to do anything else regardless. |
| 37 | ** '''The Conflicted''' may actually be the Sole Survivor. If they join all of the warring factions, they would soon realize that they don't have any real power to change anyone's way of thinking until the very end, but only on the faction they choose to fully commit to. |
| 38 | *** The Railroad also qualifies to some extent, what with their endless debates about whether earlier generations of Synths are deserving of freedom or not. |
| 39 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: |
| 40 | ** The Minutemen are '''Sanguine''', seeking to reach out to settlements to build up a network of support that helps all, and feel it is their primary mission to save the Commonwealth one settler at a time. Even when they are on the verge of being wiped out, Preston never loses his optimism about helping the people of the Commonwealth. |
| 41 | ** The Brotherhood are '''Choleric''', similarly open about their beliefs, but focusing largely on the tasks of eliminating the Institute and their Synths as a way to bring peace to the Commonwealth. They are stubborn to a fault on this, that they would [[spoiler:eliminate one of their own upon learning he is a Synth due to the danger he poses to the chapter.]] |
| 42 | ** The Institute is '''Melancholic''', with rigid perfectionism to present "Mankind, Redefined" and a paranoia about surface life that puts them at odds with every other faction around. |
| 43 | ** The Railroad is '''Phlegmatic''', while they seek to help Synths escape the clutches of the Institute and the Brotherhood, they prefer to stay in the shadows and don't even do much of anything in the game beyond decode a Courser chip unless the player chooses to either join them or openly antagonize them through joining either the Brotherhood or Institute (both of whom ultimately call for the Railroad's destruction). |
| 44 | * GreyAndGrayMorality: No one's clear-cut "good" or "evil" in the Commonwealth, with even the Institute (the game's darkest faction) having their saving graces. |
| 45 | ** The East Coast Brotherhood of Steel [[TookALevelInJerkass have reverted back to their former conservatism]], becoming arrogant, xenophobic, tech-grabbing conquerors who are pushing their way into the Boston region and who are characterized by both extreme {{Fantastic Racism}} and a high-minded paternalism[[note]]which is even openly lampshaded by Piper as [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything having shades of fascism]][[/note]]. However, they also dedicate themselves to wiping out real threats such as Feral Ghouls, Raiders and Commonwealth Super Mutants and actually have the military power to ensure security. And they do this all while genuinely upholding their public welfare commitments to Wastelanders just as much as their original directives. |
| 46 | ** [[WeHelpTheHelpless The Commonwealth Minutemen]] are the closest thing the Commonwealth has to [[TheParagon unambiguous "good guys"]], but have been [[BeingGoodSucks notably inefficient on a historical level]], and have recently suffered through massive infighting (to the point where [[HeWhoFightsMonsters many devolved into becoming Raiders that were/are just as vicious and heartless as those they'd previously fought]]). In fact, the Minutemen as a whole are virtually extinct at the game's start, and with the player character at the Minutemen's helm from the proverbial start, it is ultimately the ''player's'' motivations that will dictate the course of this faction. |
| 47 | ** [[MadScientist The Institute]] are [[ManipulativeBastard xenophobic manipulators]] who oppress both the Commonwealth and their Synths so as to support their CrystalSpiresAndTogas "utopia" -- but they also prize innovation and scientific discovery, [[VisionaryVillain genuinely want to create a world superior to the old one]], and have [[LockedOutOfTheLoop the vast majority of their own citizens kept completely in the dark about their true crimes]] (meaning the actual guilt that can be ascribed to them is rather variable). |
| 48 | ** Lastly, [[UndergroundRailroad the Railroad]] ''seem'' to be the good guys who oppose the heartless slavery and oppression of Synths (who they believe are sentient beings), but [[SingleIssuePsychosis they care very little for the Commonwealth as a whole]], and the methods they'll use and the lengths they'll go to in order to achieve their goals [[WellIntentionedExtremist can both be unnervingly extreme]]. |
| 49 | ** There's also the fact that the only ending in the game which ''doesn't'' involve you [[spoiler: ''[[OffingTheOffspring killing]]/[[IHaveNoSon betraying your own son]]'' involves wiping out both the well-intentioned Brotherhood of Steel and the friendly Railroad (either of which likely helped get you to him in the first place). And similarly, while it can be arguably downplayed by the Sole Survivor issuing the evacuation order beforehand, all other endings to the game involve raiding the Institute itself and blowing it all to kingdom come]]. |
| 50 | * PunkPunk: Each of the Commonwealth's main factions takes a heavy aesthetic inspiration from different "punk" subgenres. |
| 51 | ** The Minutemen are technically CattlePunk, but in practice they're more "Colonial Americana"-punk than anything else. Their most iconic weapon is a crank-powered laser ''musket'', virtually all of their members wear simple clothes that wouldn't look that out of place from farmers during the American Revolution (most notably their tricorn militia hats), their original headquarters was the ruins of Fort Independence, and the Minutemen General outfit is basically ComicBook/{{Captain America}}'s uniform worn under a Colonial overcoat. The first Minuteman the player is likely to meet even wears a Colonial duster that he snagged from a history museum. |
| 52 | ** The East Coast Brotherhood of Steel primarily uses fixed Pre-War tech, giving them a highly DieselPunk atmosphere with Atompunk undertones. This is clearest with the ''Prydwen'', which is a '''huge''' AirborneAircraftCarrier staffed with countless [[FutureCopter Vertibirds]] that altogether looks more like something out of a pulp sci-fi magazine from TheGreatDepression than anything that could exist in reality. |
| 53 | ** [[invoked]] The Institute turns the series' already-present RaygunGothic aesthetic up to eleven, albeit now with a more CrystalSpiresAndTogas undertone reminiscent of the science fiction of TheSeventies (likely as a reflection of them being the most technologically advanced faction in the whole franchise). According to ''[[WordOfGod The Art of Fallout 4]]'', ''Film/LogansRun'' was one of Bethesda Game Studios' primary design inspirations when crafting the Institute. |
| 54 | ** The Railroad are essentially {{Steam Punk}}-lite. Most of their higher-profile combat-oriented agents wear armored leather longcoats, the Railroad's weapon is the Railway Rifle (basically a steam-powered ''railgun''), and candles & brickwork make up most of their ElaborateUndergroundBase. |
| 55 | * SigilSpam: The symbols for all four main factions can found all across the Commonwealth. The Institute has a stylized Vitruvian Man. The Brotherhood of Steel brings their old standard back; a set of gears wreathed by winglets with a sword superimposed over it. The Railroad features a railroad oil lamp with a candleflame (although the version seen on their flag seems to have [[RuleOfSymbolism an atom in the middle instead of the candleflame]]). The Minutemen have a revolutionary musket crossed by a lightning bolt surrounded by three stars at the top, left, and right. |
| 56 | * SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Each of the four major factions falls somewhere on the scale: |
| 57 | ** The Minutemen are easily the most on the side of '''idealism''', as a group that goes out of its way to protect common folk and help get humanity back to a level of functionality and camaraderie. They also are generally open to aiding synths, Ghouls, and other non-human but peaceful groups. |
| 58 | ** The Railroad is similarly on the side of '''idealism''' but to a lesser extent. They believe in helping synths and humans (especially synths), but they also have justified doubts that civilians will accept the belief that synths are human in all but origin. It's also very hard to make the Railroad hostile to a strictly Minuteman-aligned player as long as basic decency is shown, and Desdemona openly states that the Minutemen can be easily allied with because of their similarly altruistic viewpoints. |
| 59 | ** The Brotherhood of Steel leans more toward '''cynicism''', as they have a very negative view of anything that isn't purely human, despite undeniable evidence that Ghouls, synths, and even Super Mutants can be peaceful members of society. They also hold a firm MightMakesRight stance and aren't afraid to be heavy-handed with civilians if they believe it to be for the greater good. While they can have an uneasy peace with the Minutemen and even the Railroad, any defiance from either group leads them to hostilities. |
| 60 | ** The Institute is easily on the extreme end of '''cynicism''': while they believe in science and progress, their magnum opus project is one that will replace the human race (which they believe to be doomed in a destroyed world) with synths, and they generally hold firm that Wastelanders are savage brutes. They also will refuse peace with all but the Minutemen due to the incongruent beliefs of both the Railroad (wants to free synths) and the Brotherhood (hates the Institute for perpetuating the science that caused the Great War). |
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| 63 | [[folder:The Commonwealth Minutemen]] |
| 64 | [[quoteright:251:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/commonwealth_minutemen.jpg]] |
| 65 | [[caption-width-right:251:United We Stand]] |
| 66 | ->''"Protect the People at a moment's notice"'' |
| 67 | -->-'''Preston Garvey''' |
| 68 | |
| 69 | An organization of volunteer soldiers who used to serve as the protectors of the Commonwealth, but have since run into a bit of bad luck. The Sole Survivor and Preston Garvey can restore them to their former prominence, rebuilding the organization through allying with/setting up numerous settlements across the Commonwealth. |
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| 71 | * TheAlliance: They are a group of allied settlements and Wastelanders working together for the betterment of the Commonwealth and who oppose those who seek to lord over it like the Institute. And while they're not the beginnings of a NCR-like government by themselves, they can nonetheless help lay down the foundations for something like it. You can also choose to have them ally with any of the other three big players. |
| 72 | * ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge: 18th century artillery can prove to be remarkably effective against 23rd century Power Armor and laser weapons. |
| 73 | * ArchEnemy: |
| 74 | ** To the Institute. While the Institute regards them as an UnknownRival, either faction's goals are diametrically opposed to one another. Piper also claims that the Minutemen have directly fought against the Institute's armies in the past and have actually ''won''. Furthermore, it's later revealed that [[spoiler: one of their other ArchEnemy factions -- the local breed of Super Mutants -- are the direct result of the Institute's experimentation]]. |
| 75 | ** To both the Raiders and Super Mutants infesting the Commonwealth. The Minutemen first rose in prominence from defending Diamond City from a Super Mutant horde, and the entire organization was largely founded on providing mutual aid and defense against those two major threats. The Minutemen's fall from grace in recent years allowed for Raiders and Super Mutants to rampage across the Commonwealth and grow in power without any counter ([[EnemyCivilWar aside from each other]]), with numerous settlements and homesteads who were originally allied to the Minutemen being destroyed as consequence. Some Minutemen (most notably James Wire's faction operating out of Libertalia) even became {{Fallen Hero}}es and [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis became Raiders no better than those that they had originally fought against]]. |
| 76 | ** Easily their most directly opposing foe, however, is the Gunners. The Gunners are an outside force invading and raiding the very Commonwealth the Minutemen have sworn to defend, and the Gunners' mercenary ethos runs directly against the Minutemen's more selfless path. Both are intent on unifying the Commonwealth, but the Gunners want it united through ruthless militaristic conquest (and hegemony with the bigger cities) solely for their benefit as contract killers, while the Minutemen want the region to be peacefully unified through emphasizing teamwork and the common good. Perhaps most infamously, the Minutemen were brought low in the Gunner-organized "Quincy Massacre," which was organized in large part by one of the Minutemen's own betraying the rest for greater power and wealth among the Gunners. Combining all of the above with many Gunners [[ArmyOfThievesAndWhores being essentially "elevated" Raiders]], and it's no surprise that the two factions utterly hate each other. |
| 77 | * AuthorityInNameOnly: |
| 78 | ** The player settlements set up/organized by the Sole Survivor are technically allies of the Minutemen through the Sole Survivor becoming the Minutemen's General as part of the game's tutorial and main questline, but because this is still a role-playing game, how ''much'' of a connection between the Minutemen and various settlements (and thus, how much the Minutemen control/direct each settlement) is ultimately up to the player. |
| 79 | ** Despite the Sole Survivor being the ostensible General of the Minutemen and their leader, this mostly results in someone else (primarily Preston Garvey) giving orders to you to complete quests for the Minutemen. Granted, this is an [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality Acceptable Break from Reality]], since having to actually sit down and listen to and manage the ''endless'' complaints and bickering between the various Minutemen Colonels would be incredibly boring and frustrating. |
| 80 | * BackFromTheBrink: The Sole Survivor can rebuild the settlements, the trust in the Minutemen, as well as recruit new soldiers until they're bigger than ever. |
| 81 | * BadassArmy: If the Sole Survivor chooses them to be, they eventually become a militia of well-equipped soldiers that can own a castle, several sets of Power Armor, and artillery support. They will eventually be strong enough to take on both the Institute and the Brotherhood of Steel... and ''win''. |
| 82 | * BadassNormal: No [[PoweredArmor Power Armor]] (not by default at least), or [[KillerRobot Synths]] ([[spoiler:with the exception of Sturges, who ''is'' a Synth though he's unaware of it, and there's likely a few more like that in their ranks]]), just normal, well-trained militiamen with weapons and equipment that are jury-rigged SchizoTech at best. Despite their shortcomings and harsh start, with the Sole Survivor's help they can eventually become a powerful enough faction to militarily take on both the Institute and the Brotherhood. [[spoiler:And once they do, they win against both factions in two ''utter'' {{Curb Stomp Battle}}s.]] |
| 83 | * BeingGoodSucks: The Minutemen are the most straightforwardly good faction, but they've suffered embarrassing defeat after embarrassing defeat, to the point that the group is almost dead by the time the Sole Survivor awakens. They're by far the weakest faction of the main four, at least before you start helping them rebuild. |
| 84 | * BetrayalByInaction: There's a lot of factors which caused the Minutemen to spiral to near-oblivion after the death of General Becker, but the biggest was probably the loss of morale. Minutemen didn't come to each others' aid anymore. Most starkly brought up with the Quincy Massacre, where nearby Minutemen chose to stand by as the town was overrun by Gunners. Interestingly, certain Gunner terminals in Quincy imply that this was not by choice but rather turncoat Clint had a direct hand in their non-response. |
| 85 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: If the Minutemen take out the Institute, ''everyone'' is shocked. Desdemona will smile at the player and admit that s/he really ''is'' a General, while the Brotherhood of Steel are openly nervous at the idea that the Minutemen had enough firepower to do it. The Brotherhood are also justified in being nervous, as the Minutemen have (by this point) withstood a direct attack by the Institute with enough power to then immediately counter-attack and wipe out their ElaborateUndergroundBase. Not to mention, those artillery emplacements spread across their settlements are really the only genuine threat to the ''Prydwen'' in the entire Commonwealth -- even the Institute has no true counter and has to hack Liberty Prime to bring it down -- and the Brotherhood can't attack any one settlement to secure themselves without facing retribution from the rest. |
| 86 | * BigGood: If the Sole Survivor helps to rebuild it, it becomes this for the Commonwealth. [[spoiler:They are the only faction that will openly, without the use of covert moles, cooperate with another faction to take out the Institute -- in this case they can cooperate with the Railroad.]] |
| 87 | * BlueIsHeroic: The Minutemen are the most straightforwardly "heroic" main faction in the Commonwealth, and their flag is predominantly blue. |
| 88 | * BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: One of the Minutemen's most powerful weapons is repurposed artillery cannons dating back to the 18th century. |
| 89 | * CattlePunk: Their general aesthetic, along with that of the American Revolutionary War. Their ramshackle equipment also evokes that of Colonial and Wild West-era frontiersmen, and their peaceful rule over settlements is reminiscent of {{Cowboy Cop}}s. |
| 90 | * ChekhovsGun: Literally in the case of the 18th-19th century howitzers that the Minutemen can deploy once they gain access to them. [[spoiler:They also prove useful as anti-aircraft guns, as they could shoot down the ''Prydwen''.]] |
| 91 | * CombatPragmatist: Why get a bunch of your soldiers killed when you could just shell the place with artillery? |
| 92 | * CurbStompBattle: Suffered three huge ones prior to meeting the Sole Survivor: |
| 93 | ** The first was at the Castle, where their leader was killed by a Mirelurk Queen and the Minutemen driven out, causing many internal disputes between them. |
| 94 | ** The second was at Quincy, where the Gunners attacked and killed many of them, collapsing what was left the Minutemen and leaving Preston's group as the only remaining active unit. |
| 95 | ** The third was at Lexington, where most of Preston's men and survivors from the Quincy Massacre were overrun by Feral Ghouls. |
| 96 | ** The fourth ''would have'' happened and finished them off at Concord by a gang of Raiders, if not for the Sole Survivor's timely intervention. |
| 97 | ** At the end of the game, [[spoiler:they can be on the giving end against the Institute ''and'' the Brotherhood of Steel. They've come a long way, indeed.]] |
| 98 | * DarkhorseVictory: If you choose to complete the endgame with the Minutemen, they definitely qualify for this. The Institute are feared as a seemingly invincible and untraceable boogeyman and the Brotherhood are so powerful and overt in their displays of power that both the Railroad and the Institute immediately clock them as direct and dangerous threats. Even the Railroad, weakened as they are, have been fighting the Institute for years and have managed to gain at least one sympathetic ear inside it. The Minutemen, on the other hand, have [[DecapitatedArmy fallen apart without a leader figure to hold them together]], and many of those who survived [[FromCamouflageToCriminal have given up on saving people and chosen to become Raiders]]. It's only with the Sole Survivor stepping in to fill the vacuum of power and helping Preston Garvey re-establish contact with the scattered settlements of the Commonwealth, build up said settlements, establish supply lines between them, retake the abandoned Fort Independence and as a result, re-establish Radio Freedom and crack open the armory to acquire the plans for Minutemen artillery, that the Minutemen can even ''start'' to become a viable BigGood faction for the Commonwealth. [[spoiler:If the player completes the Minutemen endgame, [=NPCs=] for the Brotherhood of Steel are quite surprised and, on some level, impressed, but also express annoyance and jealousy that the player denied them their chance of glorious victory over the Institute.]] |
| 99 | * DeathFromAbove: Their special faction power allows the player to call down artillery strikes via smoke grenades. [[spoiler:If the player chooses to take down the Brotherhood with the Minutemen in the quest "With Our Powers Combined", they use their artillery to shoot the ''Prydwen'' out of the sky.]] |
| 100 | * DecapitatedArmy: A series of decapitations spelt the gradual downfall and eventual demise of the Minutemen. First was the loss of the Castle almost fifty years prior; with the loss of Radio Freedom, coordination became difficult. Second, when General Becker died, his successor Colonel Hollis lacked the charisma to hold the group together. Hollis getting killed at the Quincy Massacre was the final blow. |
| 101 | * DoomedMoralVictor: What the Minutemen became for their actions. Sadly, the Commonwealth mostly considered the group idiots for it rather than admiring their principles and bravery. That is, unless the Survivor turns things around in their favor. |
| 102 | * {{Eagleland}}: Mixed Flavor leaning toward Beautiful. Like the NCR, they represent a great deal of the better part of the Pre-War world, albeit with a more romanticized view of the United States' founding principles. |
| 103 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: They can achieve a comeback and successfully bring down the Institute, but it requires a ''lot'' of work, and they're not in any position to do it without your help. |
| 104 | ** The Minutemen have all but completely come apart at the seams by the time the Sole Survivor emerges from Vault 111. Their last general is dead, most of their subgroups have deserted, turned to banditry or been killed off entirely, and the only remaining group the player meets at Concord consists of ''one'' active duty Minuteman and four hapless civilians under his protection -- an engineer, an old junkie with mysterious clairvoyance powers and a married couple trapped in [[FiveStagesOfGrief separate stages of grief]] over the death of their son. If not for the Sole Survivor's intervention, they would probably be killed off by attacking Raiders or an approaching Deathclaw. |
| 105 | ** Even once they're saved, the only way the Minutemen can regain any kind of footing is for the Sole Survivor to help Preston and the others establish a home in the ruins of Sanctuary Hills, then assume the position of General and begin reaching out to other settlements to agree to let them protect and build said settlements up to the point where they can feed, shelter and protect themselves, whether self-sufficiently or along supply lines. Doing so will eventually allow them to help the Minutemen retake Fort Independence, the long-abandoned Minutemen headquarters, and rebuild it too, as well as access the castle's armoury and rediscover the power of old-fashioned gunpowder artillery, allowing said settlements to not only protect themselves but support the General with long-range bombardments upon dug-in enemy positions. The more settlements they recruit, the more volunteers the Minutemen can call upon, and the better coverage they have across the Commonwealth. (Each cannon can fire from within five tiles.) If they so choose, the Sole Survivor can choose Sturges to build the various pieces of the Signal Interceptor necessary to gain access to the Institute. |
| 106 | ** Finally, after all this (and building up Independence to stand up to an enemy siege), the Minutemen have to break into the Institute by [[spoiler:exploiting a severe loophole in their water supply, allowing the Sole Survivor to hijack their Molecular Relay and teleport Preston (if not already with them), Sturges and a small number of volunteers inside the Institute, whereupon they destroy the place]]. Doing this results in a major recruiting surplus, allowing the Minutemen to send representatives to Diamond City and occupy checkpoints along all the major roads, ensuring that the Commonwealth will be safer than ever under their protection. |
| 107 | * EliteMooks: The Minutemen basically serve in this role for the general settlers making up their allied settlements (read: the player's settlements). Also an inversion, as the Minutemen are the only major faction ''without'' some form of EliteMooks. The Brotherhood has their ''many'' power armor troopers, the Institute have their Coursers, and even the Railroad has Heavies equipped with heavy weapons and armor. Minutemen in comparison are individually quite weak, unarmored, and equipped only with pipe weapons or Laser Muskets, but not only are there a ''lot'' more of them, but they have really big long-reaching guns backing them up. |
| 108 | * EmergencyBroadcast: Radio Freedom exists to alert Minutemen across the wasteland whenever a settlement is in trouble. |
| 109 | * EtTuBrute: The reason why the Quincy Massacre happened was because a Minuteman by the name of Clint betrayed them and joined the Gunners, helping to fight against his former faction. |
| 110 | * {{Expy}}: |
| 111 | ** They are ''very'' similar in the way they operate to the Desert Rangers of both the ''Fallout'' and ''VideoGame/{{Wasteland}}'' universes. Being a military-focused faction that offers protection to settlements around the wastes, and one that almost got completely destroyed by a more powerful faction. Unlike the Desert Rangers of ''Fallout'', who elected to amalgamate into a relatively ideologically compatible and very powerful nearby state when their back was against the wall (the NCR against Caesar's Legion), the Minutemen can eventually recover from their destruction because they ''don't'' have that option. |
| 112 | ** They are also one to Owyn Lyons’ iteration of the East Coast Brotherhood from ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' in that both factions want to help regular people instead of lording over them, and both suffered from defections and ineffectual leadership after the death of their leader, until a new charismatic leader rebuilds them. |
| 113 | * FallenHero: [[spoiler:The Sole Survivor can turn them into this if you have them ally with the Institute, making them into the latter's surface proxies in all but name.]] |
| 114 | * FiveManBand: |
| 115 | ** The Sole Survivor is named TheLeader fairly early on. |
| 116 | ** Preston Garvey is quick to assume the role of TheLancer after meeting the Sole Survivor. |
| 117 | ** Sturges is TheSmartGuy, who has the know-how for building settlements and later can reverse-engineer tech to get you into the Institute, although in his introduction he has trouble with a terminal computer. |
| 118 | ** Ronnie Shaw is TheBigGuy, despite being the female of the group, and unlocks both the Castle Armory and artillery tech for the Minutemen. |
| 119 | ** TheHeart ends up being the unnamed Minutemen Radio operator, coordinating the entire faction's movements through the radio along with helping inspire morale through their music selection. |
| 120 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 121 | ** They serve as one in regards to the Brotherhood of Steel. The Brotherhood has suffered through numerous terrible tragedies (mostly on the West Coast) and under its new leadership, its Eastern branch has become darker and more conservative. The Minutemen have suffered the same sort of catastrophic losses, but can come back more idealistic than ever. In addition, while both groups want to bring order and stability to the Commonwealth, the Brotherhood's methods are top-down and paternalistic, while the Minutemen have a more grassroots and democratic approach. Additionally, the Brotherhood used highly advanced Pre-War tech like Power Armor and Vertibirds, while the Minutemen scrape by on basic Wastelander SchizoTech and even [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece using outdated weaponry]] like 18th century artillery cannons. |
| 122 | ** The Minutemen also serve as a rebuttal to the Institute, as they trust the people of the Commonwealth to directly work ''with'' them as opposed to trying to rule over them from the shadows. While the Institute are cynical manipulators who view the surface world as a lost cause that [[RightfulKingReturns they will retake in due time]] once the surface dwellers have all killed each other off, the reborn Minutemen under the Sole Survivor are idealistic radicals that can build numerous new, safe, and comfortable settlements across the Commonwealth so as to help usher in a new unified society. Also, the Minutemen are a primarily low-tech military organization who understand how to get people to trust and listen to them thanks to performing public works, while the Institute are a purely civilian organization whose terrible understanding of diplomacy has only resulted in over a century's worth of disastrously counter-productive relations with the surface. Their goals are also diametrically opposed to one another: the Minutemen want to unite and "civilize" the Commonwealth free from the Institute's yoke, while the Institute needs to keep the Commonwealth oppressed and unable to fight back so that their scavenging missions and espionage agents can go un-impeded and continue to support and safeguard their underground "utopia". Though perhaps ironically, both factions are shown to suffer from the same FatalFlaw (more or less) of an over-reliance on charismatic leaders to mitigate their infighting and get anything done in a unified fashion. |
| 123 | * FantasyCounterpartCulture: While they're pretty obviously based after the historical Minutemen who fought in the American Revolution, their general code and ethos, along with their intentionally loose command structure (being made up of a loose alliance of various tribal settlements), is also distantly reminiscent of both the Iroquois Confederacy[[note]]though ironically, most of the Iroquois fought ''against'' the historical Minutemen, and the American Revolution caused the shattering of the Confederacy due to several tribes taking different sides[[/note]] and the early pre-Constitution United States, the latter of which was also closer to a loose alliance of states with a weak central government. |
| 124 | * FromZeroToHero: From the perspective of the Brotherhood and/or Institute. The Minutemen are ignored as an ineffective inconsequential citizen's militia, with even the Institute's [[SecretPolice SRB]] writing them off as a potential threat. But if those factions piss off the new General enough, they are going to find themselves on the receiving end of either a very effective artillery bombardment, or their hidden base stormed and blown up through a forgotten back door getting kicked in. |
| 125 | * GameplayAndStorySegregation: [[invoked]] According to the game's lore, the Laser Musket is powered by the crank on the side. However, as the repair system seen in previous games (like ''3'' and ''New Vegas'') has been removed and, as shown in ''New Vegas'', weapons with effectively infinite ammo [[GameBreaker will easily dominate even with a repair system present]]. To prevent that, cranking the Laser Musket in actual gameplay simply ''loads'' it with Fusion Cells instead of independently charging the weapon. |
| 126 | * GangOfHats: Naming their militia after its historical equivalent isn't, in itself, so odd. Dressing in approximations of 18th-century costume and calling their homemade laser weapons "muskets" is a ''bit'' more out-there. |
| 127 | * HeroWithBadPublicity: A DownplayedTrope version. The Minutemen are thought to be extinct and most people think their ending wasn't very smart. Which isn't helped at all by how the organization was becoming ripe with tensions and infighting leading up to its TraumaCongaLine as a result of its shaky organization. This starts to turn around when the Sole Survivor rebuilds them and shows why they're the good guys. |
| 128 | * HopeBringer: Many in the Commonwealth see the renaissance of the Minutemen as a big deal; a greater chance at prosperity and safety that was slowly lost when the previous incarnation of the organization began falling apart. Doubly so if they retake the Castle, as this gets Minuteman Radio up and running and they can coordinate their actions better. Everyone including Diamond City Radio and the SRB are surprised by it happening. |
| 129 | * IconicItem: The [[SchizoTech Laser]] [[ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge Musket]]. It's one of the only single-shot weapons in the game, must be loaded (or cranked, so to say) each time you fire, but with a big enough crank capacitor, it can do truly massive damage. Combined with how many museum muskets are around Boston and the abundance of laser weapons found among the military checkpoints, pretty much every single Minuteman can hold one of these bad boys. |
| 130 | * IncorruptiblePurePureness: One of the nicest, if not ''the'' nicest faction in the entire Fallout series. The TraumaCongaLine they've gone through has only managed to strengthen their idealism in the long run. |
| 131 | ** This gets increasingly downplayed as the game goes on, though. Preston's idealism was only strengthened as are some of the returning Minutemen's, but many of those who had lost hope ended up [[DangerousDeserter becoming Raiders or even joining the Gunners.]] In particular the Raiders at Libertalia and the [[EtTuBrute leader of Gunners at the Quincy Massacre]] both have their origins in the Minutemen. |
| 132 | * {{Irony}}: Despite Elder Maxson's claims, the Minutemen have ironically been upholding Owyn Lyons' ideals better than the "reformed" East Coast Brotherhood has been. |
| 133 | * LastStand: The Quincy Massacre where they refused to abandon their charges against far superior odds. |
| 134 | * LedByTheOutsider: The Sole Survivor, a complete outsider, [[FishOutOfTemporalWater from a different time period]], no less, can swoop in and rise through the ranks of the Minutemen to become their general. |
| 135 | * LesCollaborateurs: The player can effectively turn them into this if they side [[spoiler:with the Institute or the Brotherhood of Steel]]. |
| 136 | * LoadBearingBoss: The Minutemen's collapse in recent years (particularly after the Fall of the Castle) allowed for Raiders and Super Mutants to gain more power unimpeded, along with providing a power vacuum for hostile forces like the Gunners to take advantage of and try to conquer the Commonwealth. |
| 137 | * MeaningfulName: The Minutemen are based on an actual group of people during the Revolutionary War, so called because just like the Minutemen of the American Revolution, they were militias that were given extra training and were especially made to be prepared "at a minute's notice". This is why they wear old uniforms and look like revolutionaries. [[spoiler:They get the chance to live up to the name if they launch an artillery strike on the Brotherhood, as the Brotherhood's Vertibirds reach the Castle in just about one minute.]] |
| 138 | ** Minuteman is also the name of a land-based nuclear missile, fitting for a series called Fallout. One of its warheads is even designated W87, and the game takes place in the year 2287. |
| 139 | * MildlyMilitary: They have a more informal militia-style structure, much like their historical predecessor. There are obviously still ranks, but Post-War Minutemen units historically were often somewhat autonomous from each other. The semi-independent nature is sometimes a shortfall, since respect for the chain of command is not explicitly drilled into Minutemen, and loss of a [[FourStarBadass strong General]] resulted in the organization eventually collapsing in the past. This even gets almost literally lampshaded in "Pinned," where the Sole Survivor can try to pull rank on a Minutemen Colonel only for the Colonel to turn around and point out that he doesn't have to necessarily take orders from the Sole Survivor since the Minutemen "isn't the military." |
| 140 | * MirroringFactions: To the Enclave, in a similar fashion to how the New California Republic serves as the Enclave's {{Foil}}. The Minutemen generally invoke a more virtuous, honorable memory of America rather than the twisted vision pushed by the likes of Eden. And much like the Enclave, they were thought to be extinct at the beginning of the story. The Enclave also utilized super-advanced technology and futuristic [[PoweredArmor Power Armor]] when attacking their opponents, while the Minutemen rely on cobbled-together weapons and 19th-century howitzers on the battlefield. Finally, [[FantasticRacism the Enclave were profoundly racist towards Wastelanders]], [[ANaziByAnyOtherName to the point of genocidal levels]], and [[LaserGuidedKarma their hostility only served to gain them countless hosts of enemies that drove them to near-extinction]]. In contrast, the Minutemen are a largely egalitarian organization that actually performs public works and services (i.e. organizing safe and prosperous settlements while fighting off Raiders and Super Mutants) that gains them numerous friends across the Commonwealth. |
| 141 | * MugglePower: No Synths, no Power Armor (unless the player decides to assemble and maintain a fleet of suits personally), no secret underground networks, and no grand plans involving the Commonwealth: they're just a bunch of ordinary men and women with a genuine desire to help those in need. With your leadership, they can demolish both the Institute and the Brotherhood of Steel. |
| 142 | * MysteriousPast: Interestingly enough for a major {{Big Good}} faction in this series, virtually ''no'' details are given about how the Minutemen were initially formed. While [[TheFederation the New California Republic]] and [[TheOrder the Brotherhood of Steel]] are both given extensive details on how they first came to be, that's not really seen with the Minutemen. The earliest known given details about the Minutemen's backstory is that they first rose in prominence when they saved Diamond City from a massive horde of Super Mutants in 2180. Justified as the Minutemen's TraumaCongaLine would have greatly helped in burying (both literally and metaphorically) any records the Minutemen had of their past and origins. |
| 143 | * NewEraSpeech: Downplayed compared to the Institute's, but the Sole Survivor can record messages for the Minutemen's radio station, Radio Freedom enticing people to join their settlements. |
| 144 | * NobleBigot: Overlapping with PoliticallyIncorrectHero to an extent; Some of their number are prejudiced against Ghouls and Synths, which is (unfortunately) somewhat expected due to the widespread prejudices against both Synths and Ghouls across the Commonwealth. Desdemona of the Railroad [[BrutalHonesty outright tells the Sole Survivor]] that this is why the Railroad doesn't have that much trust and respect for the Minutemen (and [[JerkassHasAPoint she has a point]] considering how long she's been working for the Railroad), and why she encourages them to instead work with the Railroad in freeing the Institute's Synths rather than the Minutemen: |
| 145 | -->'''Sole Survivor:''' You think the Minutemen won't help the Synths?\ |
| 146 | '''Desdemona:''' The Minutemen are a reflection of the character of the Commonwealth people. [[HumansAreBastards And time and time again, that character has been proven to be rotten]]. The Synths are tangible receptacles of their hatred of the Institute. Order them to help, and they'd mutiny. |
| 147 | ** However, to the Minutemen's credit, several of their members also consist of either Ghouls or mind-wiped escaped Synths, indicating that the prejudice issue is likely due to the Minutemen's highly decentralized organizational structure. Ultimately, this doesn't make the Minutemen irredeemably evil, just unfortunately flawed. Indeed, the Railroad can be persuaded to join the Minutemen if the latter plans to attack the Institute directly. |
| 148 | * NoodleIncident: Piper can offhandedly mention prior battles between the Minutemen and the Institute, but this is never elaborated on or mentioned elsewhere. |
| 149 | * RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Sort of. The Minutemen are said to be citizen-soldiers and it shows, what with most of the roving patrols and reinforcements ranging from some laser musket-toting soldiers with the uniforms to guys in rags and baseball helmets wielding pipe guns. This tends to have them be at a disadvantage when fighting opponents in mid- to late-game. |
| 150 | * RankScalesWithAsskicking: It is implied that their Generals have almost always been the toughest and most badass of them all. |
| 151 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: To all of their settlements. The Minutemen can effectively control much of the Commonwealth ''even before the ending'' if you do their quests. They also treat their position as a partnership with the settlements they ally with and even trade protection for supplies. |
| 152 | * RedshirtArmy: The Minutemen's second faction power is the ability to call back-up with a flare gun. Unfortunately, they tend to be under-leveled, so don't expect them to contribute too much in an actual fight. |
| 153 | * TheRemnant: As of the beginning of the game, Preston is the only surviving active Minutemen. |
| 154 | * RockBeatsLaser: Can potentially take down [[spoiler:both the Institute ''and'' the Brotherhood of Steel]] despite having less advanced technology than either. [[spoiler:This is most starkly on display against the Brotherhood, a faction of power armored EliteMooks, who the Minutemen beat with 19th Century artillery.]] |
| 155 | * RuleOfSymbolism: The incorporation of Revolutionary War iconography is quite deliberate on their part. Like their revolutionary predecessors, the Commonwealth Minutemen are just ordinary folks who have to be ready to take up arms and fight off threats to their communities in a minute's notice. Their revolutionary predecessors didn't have to deal with killer robots, mutated wildlife and deranged Raiders, though. If the male SoleSurvivor becomes their General, that symbolism is further extended, as the male Sole Survivor is a veteran of the US Army - which inherited the legacy of the ''original'' Minutemen via the Continental Army. |
| 156 | * SoleSurvivor: Preston Garvey admits it's not ''literally'' true but he's the only one who still identifies as a Minutemen. |
| 157 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: |
| 158 | ** The Minutemen have more than a few similarities with the New California Republic. And should the Sole Survivor opt to rebuild and lead them, they can partner up with the various settlements, effectively controlling much of the Commonwealth. In the process laying the foundations for something like the NCR to emerge. |
| 159 | ** Even more so, the Minutemen's M.O. is almost identical to the Desert Rangers' one in the original ''VideoGame/{{Wasteland}}''. |
| 160 | * TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Before you arrived, they were curb-stomped by Mirelurks, Gunners, Feral Ghouls and Raiders. After you save them? Not only can you effectively ''control much of the Commonwealth'' even before a Minuteman ending, but after said ending, the Survivor has the option of taking on the Brotherhood of Steel if they're deemed a threat by the Minutemen. And despite technological odds, ''win''.]] |
| 161 | ** Post-ending, [[spoiler:assuming you led them to victory against the Institute, Minutemen will start patrolling the roads in groups and manning old military checkpoints. These guys are much stronger than the guys you can call in with the flare gun; they're roughly the same level as the player character and pack fairly decent equipment, some even wear body armor. Reports from players say that they're often more than a match for most of the things that periodically attack the checkpoints.]] |
| 162 | * TraumaCongaLine: Their headquarters was attacked by a [[GiantEnemyCrab Mirelurk Queen]] (which is as strong as Mother Dagon from ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu''), their leader was killed, a power struggle broke out, most of the remaining members gave up, then most of the only survivor's team got overrun by Feral Ghouls and would've been finished off by Raiders. It's been a rough couple of years. |
| 163 | * UltimateAuthorityMayor: For all the Minutemen claim to be partners with a settlement, every single decision in the settlement is made by the Sole Survivor, from reasonable things like how it's defended, to what specific foods they grow and who does what job. |
| 164 | * UnknownRival: |
| 165 | ** To the Institute. The Minutemen are basically the only faction whose destruction the Institute's main quest line doesn't require - the two barely interact if one follows the Institute quest line, requiring the player to only calm down a stand off between the Minutemen and an Institute recruiter sent to recruit a scientist, which can be done without firing a single shot, and can even end with the Sole Survivor [[WeCanRuleTogether convincing the Minutemen that the Institute shares their goals.]] The Institute basically doesn't care about the Minutemen nor see them as a threat. Should you take charge of the Minutemen and lead them against the Institute however, they ''will'' take notice. |
| 166 | ** Similarly, the Brotherhood of Steel does not really take notice of the Minutemen since they aren't a threat to the normal Wastelander like Raiders or Gunners, and the Brotherhood even considers the Minutemen to be outright civilians, chastising a Sole Survivor that is aligned with both factions should the player destroy the Institute using the Minutemen. This is potentially ''very'' shortsighted of the Brotherhood: [[spoiler:the Minutemen have very big guns and are not afraid to annihilate the Brotherhood's flying fortress with them if the player wants their destruction]]. |
| 167 | * VigilanteMilitia: Armed citizen-soldiers banding together for mutual defense against [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou the menaces of the Wasteland]]. |
| 168 | * VisualPun: One happens during "Taking Independence"; the Minutemen's fight against the Mirelurks infesting their former headquarters consists of a group of Minutemen fighting against a bunch of (mutated) lobsters.[[labelnote:For those who don't get it:]]The Commonwealth Minutemen are (metaphorically) descended from the Minutemen of the American Revolution who fought against British soldiers. Most British soldiers were called "Redcoats" due to the iconic red coats featured in their uniforms, and were also derisively nicknamed "lobsterbacks" by American militias. In short, a group of Minutemen are once again fighting a bunch of lobster(backs) at Fort Independence.[[/labelnote]] |
| 169 | * WeAreStrugglingTogether: It's implied that the Minutemen were beginning to undergo this shortly after the Castle (and their last General) fell, with bouts of infighting and disagreements causing tensions amongst themselves. Under Preston and the Survivor's guidance however, the Minutemen can avoid this from happening again. |
| 170 | ** There are still signs of this during the Survivor's tenure as General, though. While the Castle and the settlements under your command show no danger of this happening, at least one group you'll encounter [[spoiler:when you're on a mission to recruit a scientist for the Institute]] will be at odds with you. This and the tensions prior to the loss of the Castle are explained in greater detail in [[{{Fridge/Fallout4}} the Fridge section]]. |
| 171 | * WeCanRuleTogether: One of their major principles. [[spoiler:Most significantly, they can team up with the Railroad or (with a speech check) the Institute.]] |
| 172 | * WeHelpTheHelpless: Their number one creed and ethos. |
| 173 | * ZergRush: Individual Minutemen are poorly-armed citizen militia and no match for the EliteMooks of the other factions (the Minutemen lack their own counterpart too), but the thing with the Minutemen is, there are a ''lot'' of them, and when they come together and shoot at the same target, these threats don't last long against being pelted by bullets and lasers from every angle. |
| 174 | ** Subverted once you complete the quest "Old Guns", where the Minutemen acquire schematics to build artillery. They can then use these guns to destroy targets too fortified to defeat with small arms, such as the Brotherhood's airship. |
| 175 | [[/folder]] |
| 176 | |
| 177 | [[folder:The East Coast Brotherhood of Steel]] |
| 178 | -->See Characters/Fallout4BrotherhoodOfSteel |
| 179 | [[/folder]] |
| 180 | |
| 181 | [[folder:The Institute]] |
| 182 | --> See Characters/Fallout4TheInstitute |
| 183 | [[/folder]] |
| 184 | |
| 185 | [[folder:The Railroad]] |
| 186 | -->See Characters/Fallout4TheRailroad |
| 187 | [[/folder]] |
| 188 | |
| 189 | !Major Far Harbor Factions |
| 190 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 191 | * FactionCalculus: Far Harbor (Balanced), Acadia (Subversive) and The Church of Atom (Powerhouse) |
| 192 | * FourPhilosophyEnsemble: Like their mainland counterparts, the Island has the three fit at least one of the four. |
| 193 | ** The Harbormen count as '''The Cynics'''. Considering how most of the population are generally distrusting of the other two, and how the Fog had gotten worse when the Church arrived, Far Harbor is rather unwelcoming to any real change. |
| 194 | ** Acadia can be considered to be '''The Realists'''. The Synths know very well about the dangers of the Island, and attempted to earn the trust of the Harbormen by giving them the Fog Condensers. Unfortunately, it didn't have the impact they desired and they're still a potential target to the Harbormen's misplaced fears. |
| 195 | ** The Church of Atom can be considered a ''very'' twisted variant of '''The Optimist'''. They simply want to spread Atom's teachings. Unfortunately, this would mean the destruction of both Acadia and Far Harbor by proxy. |
| 196 | ** '''The Apathetic''' are essentially The Brotherhood of Steel and the Institute. Both factions don't care whether Acadia is actually good or not, and the Brotherhood could either destroy it, or the Institute could warp them all back. |
| 197 | ** '''The Conflicted''', as usual, is the Sole Survivor. As the WildCard, the fate of the factions are determined by their actions. |
| 198 | [[/folder]] |
| 199 | |
| 200 | [[folder:The Harbormen of Far Harbor]] |
| 201 | |
| 202 | The original residents of Mount Desert Island. The Harbormen mainly reside in the north of the Island in the titular community. While they used to be spread all over the Island, the Fog has driven them back to the Northern docks, with Fog Condensers provided by Acadia keeping the Fog at bay. Unfortunately, a recent change of leadership in the Children of Atom has sparked tensions between both sides, as the Children see the Fog as a blessing, while the residents of Far Harbor only see it as something that's killed countless members of their community and should be eliminated. |
| 203 | ---- |
| 204 | * BadassArmy: Downplayed, but the Harbormen are still alive not just because of the Fog Condensers. |
| 205 | * BadassNormal: They're by and large just ordinary mariners and homesteaders struggling to survive in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds. |
| 206 | * DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: All of the Harbormen are a deconstruction of the {{Determined Homesteader}} archetype. The fact that "Every Harborman is the captain of their own ship" has only resulted in a community full of arrogant and self-interested individuals unwilling to properly work together. The Mariner even notes at one point that despite most of the surviving Harbormen squatting on her docks, they still expect ''her'' to be responsible for all of its upkeep. [[spoiler:This eventually results in her deciding to make her land publicly owned on the event of her death, which would basically force the Harbormen to actually form a properly organized society on the Island.]] |
| 207 | * FantasticRacism: Many of the residents of the harbor dislike Synths, [[UngratefulBastard despite Acadia's Fog Condensers being the only reason Far Harbor has not been overtaken by the Fog]]. Admittedly, the dislike of Synths is considerably downplayed compared to the levels of bigotry often showcased in the Commonwealth, with them feeling more apathy than outright hatred for Acadia's residents. |
| 208 | * FatalFlaw: {{Pride}}. As noted above, all Harbormen are profoundly selfish and proud individuals who are essentially doomed to [[DividedWeFall hang separately]] unless the Sole Survivor ([[spoiler:and the Mariner]]) manages to help them retake their Island. |
| 209 | * GangOfHats: They're (appropriately) based around fishing and Colonial New England. |
| 210 | * HadToBeSharp: All Harbormen consider themselves meaner and tougher than any mainlander on account of their eminently more hostile environment. |
| 211 | * MisplacedAccent: One Harborman has a strong Yorkshire accent for some reason. He even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades it]], saying his family comes from Yorkshire, [[FutureImperfect but doesn't know where it is]], speculating it's in [[ContinuityNod the Capitol Wasteland]]. |
| 212 | * RiteOfPassage: In order to gain their respect, the Sole Survivor must complete the "Captain's Dance," a rite of passage that involves throwing yourself into a lake that you've sufficiently chummed and is full of all the Island's worst creatures that you could find. The quest is even named that, and apparently hasn't been performed in generations before the Sole Survivor came to the Island. |
| 213 | * TorchesAndPitchforks: [[spoiler:If [=DiMa=] turns himself in and is executed]], Allen Lee will attempt to incite an angry mob to wipe out Acadia. Whether he succeeds in doing so depends both on your Charisma and how many sidequests for Far Harbor you have completed at this point. |
| 214 | * ViciousCycle: According to Old Longfellow, the Harbormen are incorrect to believe that the Children of Atom are "feeding" the Fog. He's old enough to remember when the Fog was this thick, and agrees with Captain Avery in how it seems to move in cycles over the decades. There are long periods when the Fog is fine and hidden away in the deeper reaches of the Island... and then there's periods like right now, where the only inhabitable regions are those with Fog Condensers or are suitably far enough above the Fog line. |
| 215 | [[/folder]] |
| 216 | |
| 217 | [[folder:The Synths of Acadia]] |
| 218 | |
| 219 | A community of runaway Synths located in the observatory atop Mount Desert Island founded by [=DiMA=]. Named after the former national park it's in the middle of. In the past, they gave Far Harbor the Fog Condensers as a sign of trust and goodwill. Unfortunately, the Children of Atom see the Condensers as an affront to Atom, and Acadia's providing of them to Far Harbor threatens the community's neutrality as tension mount between the Children and the Harbormen. |
| 220 | ---- |
| 221 | * BystanderSyndrome: [=DiMA=] lampshades this, admitting that his criticisms of both a Railroad-aligned Sole Survivor and the Railroad itself aren't that fair since he's talking from a position of relative safety and doesn't have to live in [[CrapsackWorld the Commonwealth]]. |
| 222 | * ButtMonkey: They're the weakest faction on the Island, and most of the endings to ''Far Harbor's'' main quest ends with their community razed to the ground. |
| 223 | * {{Foil}}: Of sorts to the Railroad, in that while they also care about the plight of Synths (being Synths themselves), they're not afraid to go ''much'' further than just rescuing and defending their brethren. [=DiMA=] also lampshades this should the Sole Survivor ask him about them. |
| 224 | * GangOfHats: Downplayed, but being based in an observatory has resulted in them being primarily based around science and astronomy. |
| 225 | * MadScientist: Averted. They're ''seen'' as this by the Children of Atom and Far Harbor, but it's more just that they have the most advanced technology on the Island and have the luxury of being able to actually continue research. |
| 226 | * MirroringFactions: In regards to the very Institute that they ran away from. Both are scientifically-inclined and mysterious organizations isolated from the rest of the surrounding region that have many skeletons in their closets and [[spoiler:are led by a {{Manipulative Bastard}} intent on controlling the surrounding region through the creation of a conspiracy for what they see as the greater good]]. |
| 227 | * NonActionGuy: They're the least violent out of the Island's main factions. Justified since they mostly live in the old astronomical observatory on Cadillac Mountain, and so are far enough above the Fog line that they usually don't need to worry about dealing with the Fog's creatures or the Island's other threats. |
| 228 | * TheRunaway: An entire community of them, essentially. |
| 229 | * SchizoTech: Like with the rest of the ''Fallout'' series, they have both really advanced and primitive technology. They rely on pretty old food planters to grow food for trading, but are able to alter Synths' memories and have advanced plastic surgery facilities. |
| 230 | * TownWithADarkSecret: [[spoiler:[=DiMA=] had done a lot of ''really'' questionable things as fail safes should Acadia be at the brink of collapse.]] |
| 231 | [[/folder]] |
| 232 | |
| 233 | [[folder:The Church of the Children of Atom]] |
| 234 | |
| 235 | [[TheBusCameBack Returning from]] ''VideoGame/Fallout3,'' the Church of the Children of Atom have changed quite a bit in the intervening decade. Originally, they were only a cult of loony but harmless folks who worshiped an atom bomb in Megaton. Since then, they've become considerably more militant, swelling in numbers and going off on a vicious crusade across New England to "spread Atom's word". The Children are split into three main groups - the Crater of Atom faction (found in the Glowing Sea, they are peaceful if a bit rude to the Sole Survivor), the main Commonwealth faction (who are religious extremists that attack virtually anyone outside of their cult on sight), and the Mount Desert Island faction (one of the main factions in the ''Far Harbor'' [=DLC=]). |
| 236 | |
| 237 | The events of ''Far Harbor'' revolve around a brewing conflict between the Children of Atom, Acadia and Far Harbor. Their fanaticism found the Fog, which they believe makes the Island Atom's land, and wish to spread it everywhere. This is obviously bad news to those who aren't immune to the Fog's radiation and the murderous creatures it spawns, sparking hostility with Far Harbor. The Children of Atom also see the Fog Condensers as an affront to Atom, souring their previously positive relations with Acadia (whose leader, [=DiMA=], had previously helped them find a safe place to dwell on the Island after they were kicked out of Far Harbor). A recent change in leadership has led the Children to become even more militant, which combined with the death of a missionary at the hands of Allen Lee of Far Harbor, has raised tensions to an all time high. |
| 238 | ---- |
| 239 | * AlwaysChaoticEvil: The mainland Commonwealth faction of the Children will try to kill you on sight. Their continued hostility if the Sole Survivor becomes friendly with the Nucleus and/or Crater of Atom folk is also justified, both due to the limitations of widespread communication in the Wasteland and because the Church is highly factional & split into multiple independent cults. |
| 240 | * AscendedExtra: They're now one of the most important factions in the ''Far Harbor'' [=DLC=]. |
| 241 | * BodyHorror: Hair loss, bloodshot eyes, and facial deformities are common features among the Children, most likely due to the prolonged effects of radiation exposure. |
| 242 | * CallBack: Some of the more antagonistic Commonwealth Children (like the group holed up in Kingsport Lighthouse) act more like the Apostles of the Holy Light in how they revere ghoulification. |
| 243 | * CargoCult: Yes, they still worship radiation and nuclear warheads. In fact, most of the religious iconography the Children use is based on scientific diagrams of atoms. |
| 244 | * ChurchMilitant: Justified, since they live in the [[DeathWorld Wasteland]]. |
| 245 | * CorruptChurch: The Island's division of the Children has become this under Tektus' command. |
| 246 | * CripplingOverspecialization: Their over-reliance on radiation-based weapons can become this at times. Their near-constant use of Gamma Guns makes them a nightmare to fight, but they are rendered practically harmless by a Hazmat Suit or Power Armor, and they're pretty much guaranteed to die if they come up against Wasteland mutants of any kind. |
| 247 | ** Taken doubly so if you have Hancock with you, since [[FeedItWithFire radiation heals him.]] Furthermore, any companion (except the aforementioned Hancock) will NoSell the Gamma Gun, since all are immune to radiation (even normal humans like Preston Garvey or Deacon) as [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality it would be needlessly difficult and annoying to have to constantly heal/account for their radiation damage]]. |
| 248 | ** The Children at The Nucleus have it better, though, since the Radium Rifles they have do ballistic damage ''as well as'' radiation damage, making them deadlier combatants. |
| 249 | * DevelopersForesight: If you have a good reputation with the Nucleus, you can have extra dialogue with the Children of Atom at both the Crater of Atom and Sentinel Site in the Commonwealth. |
| 250 | * DefectorFromDecadence: The ''Far Harbor'' sect at least has one who's more literal than most, with him being a [[spoiler:defector from the Enclave who found "salvation" with the Children.]] |
| 251 | * EvilVersusEvil: The Commonwealth sect of the Children can be encountered fighting the Gunners in random events across the Commonwealth. |
| 252 | * FaceHeelTurn: The original Children of Atom were a kooky but well meaning bunch that simply tried to preach the glory of Atom to others. Ten years later, they've become fanatical and murderous. |
| 253 | * FantasyCounterpartCulture: Heavily downplayed, but their religious zealotry, military prowess and geographical position of being surrounded by enemies in what they see as a "holy land" paints the ''Far Harbor'' sect of them as an analogue to the various Crusader States. |
| 254 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: Somewhere along the line, Confessor Cromwell's congregation seems to have taken a pretty horrific turn. |
| 255 | ** One of the locations in the Glowing Sea is the Sentinel Site, [[spoiler:where a group of the cult members went to search for Mini-Nukes. What they found was a fully functional nuclear launch facility, which they then started the launch sequence for. Thankfully, the launch pad was clear and the Feral Ghouls trapped within the facility killed them ''before'' they could load any of the remaining warheads.]] |
| 256 | * FutureImperfect: Their entire faith is largely founded on a misinterpretation of the structure of the nucleus. Generally speaking, the Children believe that each atom contains its own universe, and the splitting of that atom through nuclear fission (a.k.a. "Division") creates two entire new universes. Thusly, radiation in their eyes is a nurturing and positive force that represents Atom's creative might, and they revere it for how it can change and transform something/someone for the better. |
| 257 | * GangOfHats: Their obsessive love of radiation and nuclear-based technology/weapons. |
| 258 | * GoodShepherd: Some of them are still largely benevolent and friendly. Unfortunately, even ''that'' is downplayed by their fanatical brethren. |
| 259 | * {{Homage}}: Their more antagonistic factors paint them as a love-letter to the countless {{Apocalypse Cult}}s encountered in the works of H.P. Lovecraft. |
| 260 | * GlassCannon: In the vanilla game, thanks to their radiation weapons, they can kill even a high-level player very quickly, since radiation damage isn't affected by level. However, because they only wear basic robes with minor radiation resistance, almost any weapon can put them down in a few hits. And if you're immune or ''very'' resistant to radiation because you're, say, wearing Power Armor or got a Ghoul/robot buddy with you, cleaning them up is reduced to a chore. However, ''Atom help you'' if they start using Nuka Grenades... |
| 261 | ** ''Far Harbor'' gives them the Zealot's Marine Armor and Radium Rifles, giving them a much needed edge against many of the inhabitants of the Island. |
| 262 | * HumanoidAbomination: They're somehow immune to radiation, despite appearing completely human. It's worth noting that some humans in the early ''Fallout'' games were considered "mutants" and also had this immunity to radiation. |
| 263 | * InternalHomage: The more antagonistic elements of the Mount Desert Island faction of the Children seems to be heavily influenced by the Children of the Cathedral from the original ''Fallout.'' |
| 264 | * LargeHam: If the Gamma Guns don't notify their presence, their hamminess will. |
| 265 | -->'''Child of Atom:''' He is coming with the clouds! |
| 266 | * MaximumHPReduction: Thanks to their radiation-based weapons and traps along with the revamped radiation system, they deal both this and PercentDamageAttack. |
| 267 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Not all of their beliefs can be waived off as mere zealotry. |
| 268 | * MirroringFactions: To the New Canaanites from ''[[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Honest Hearts]]''. The New Canaanites are [[VestigialEmpire nearly extinct]] after brutal attacks from the White Legs, and are {{Church Militant}} by consequence of having to survive in the Wasteland. They're also remarkably friendly to outsiders, don't try to overtly pressure people into joining their faith, and hail from a faith that began before the Great War (Mormonism). The Children of Atom are a powerful {{Rising Empire}} in the region and are {{Church Militant}} even by the standards of [[HadToBeSharp Wastelanders]]. They also are suspicious/hostile to outsiders, frequently try to pressure people into joining their cult, and their faith was only created ''after'' the bombs dropped. |
| 269 | * PetTheDog: The real reason they were so angry about Sister Gwyneth leaving wasn't because of her apostasy, but because they liked her and missed having her around. Convince her to return and ask for the Church's forgiveness, and they'll happily grant it. |
| 270 | ** Additionally, they're surprisingly accepting of others wanting to join their order (despite their general xenophobia), with the Archemist having being welcomed into their religion despite her having formerly been the doctor of Far Harbor (their current rival on the Island). |
| 271 | * ReligionOfEvil: What they've become compared to what they used to be, killing anyone who isn't or doesn't want to be part of their cult. Downplayed in that it's portrayed less as their dogma being inherently evil and more due to how the majority of its adherents in the Commonwealth are rabid fanatics. |
| 272 | * RisingEmpire: They're the most powerful force on the Island, and it's implied that a fair chunk of New England is firmly under their control. |
| 273 | * SicklyGreenGlow: Most of the stuff they use is associated with/has a neon-green color scheme. Justified since they worship radiation and radioactive waste. |
| 274 | * SinisterMinister: What a large portion of them are now. |
| 275 | * TokenGoodTeammate: In the vanilla game, the sect found in the Crater of Atom (a.k.a. "the Ground Zero to the Boston bomb") are the only non-hostile members of the Children of Atom in the Commonwealth. |
| 276 | ** ''Far Harbor'' introduces the Nucleus, their base of operations on the Island. As long as you stay on good terms with them, this reveals that they're still as friendly as they were in ''Fallout 3''. |
| 277 | * TookALevelInBadass: To the point that they can be an even fight for the Gunners, are a powerful {{Rising Empire}}, and can be just a veritable nightmare to fight. |
| 278 | * TookALevelInJerkass: The majority of them are now genocidal cultists that worship Feral Ghouls and murder anyone that disagrees with their faith. |
| 279 | * TyrantTakesTheHelm: ''Far Harbor'' reveals that after the more reasonable Confessor Martin went missing shortly after arriving on the Island, the megalomaniacal High Confessor Tektus took over, which likely helped lead to the current state of their religion. |
| 280 | * VisionQuest: Revelations from Atom being imparted by his messengers are an important part of their religion, to the point where the Children require the Sole Survivor to undergo one in order to gain access to the Nucleus. |
| 281 | * WeaponSpecialization: The Commmonwealth branches almost exclusively wields Gamma Guns. |
| 282 | ** ''Far Harbor'' adds Radium Rifles to their arsenal for the Children on the Island. Unlike the Gamma Guns, Radium Rifles deal physical damage ''plus'' radiation damage, meaning that they can circumvent a player attempting to use a Hazmat Suit to NoSell their usual torrent of Gamma Gunfire. |
| 283 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: What they see themselves as, being the only ones willing to spread Atom's love and ensure salvation for all. |
| 284 | [[/folder]] |
| 285 | |
| 286 | !Major Nuka-World Factions |
| 287 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 288 | |
| 289 | An army of three different Raider gangs who had pushed out any and all Trader resistance out of Nuka-World and turned it into their own personal playground, under the leadership of Overboss Colter. But seeing as you just killed him, now ''you're'' their Overboss. |
| 290 | ---- |
| 291 | * BadassArmy: The Raiders are all much stronger than the Commonwealth Raiders, wielding better weapons, equipped with better armor and are higher leveled than them as well as more hit points. Random encounters can have them engaging groups of [[EliteMooks Gunners]] and almost always winning. |
| 292 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: The three gangs would like nothing more than to throw each other under the bus if they could. One of the ways Nuka-World can end if you fail to unite them is to align yourself with one of them and then killed the rest. |
| 293 | * CoDragons: Mason, Mags and Nisha, first to Colter and then to the Sole Survivor. |
| 294 | * EnemyCivilWar: Due to Colter's incompetent leadership, the gangs are all at each other's throats and barely acknowledge your authority in the beginning. |
| 295 | * EvilVersusEvil: Ultimately, every single one of them is some variation of "bad." |
| 296 | * GangOfHats: The Operators are really sharp dressers who like cash and manipulating people. The Pack have a serious animal motif going on, to the point where they use ''stuffed animals'' as body armor. And the Disciples are blood thirsty {{Psycho Knife Nut}}s who liberally strew the remains of their victims around their territory. |
| 297 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Sole Survivor can use Porter Gage's plan to gain their trust so as to lower their guard before massacring them all during "Open Season." |
| 298 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: The Nuka-World gangs are all vicious Raiders joined together out of greed, but [[OnlyInItForTheMoney the Operators]] and [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy the Pack]] are both ''somewhat'' less evil than [[AxCrazy the Disciples]]. |
| 299 | * LoopholeAbuse: The gangs are forbidden to harm one another. However, there [[AintNoRule is no rule]] about manipulating your rivals into harming each other and the general unspoken rule about murder is "don't get caught". |
| 300 | * SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Nuka-World has a pretty sizeable slave population [[spoiler:consisting of the traders who used to call Nuka-World their home before the Raiders came in and took over.]] |
| 301 | * MortonsFork: It is impossible to keep all three gangs in your good graces, as there is an uneven number of parks and outposts you can claim before someone decides they're not getting a big enough piece of the pie. |
| 302 | * NiceMeanAndInBetween: Let's boil it down. |
| 303 | ** The Operators are the Nice ones, who're the gang Settlers will most want to reason with. |
| 304 | ** The Disciples are the Mean ones, being more likely to just kill you than negotiate. |
| 305 | ** The Pack is the [=In-Between=], who like to dominate over their Settlers without killing them, but give no room for negotiation anyway. |
| 306 | * SlobsVersusSnobs: The Pack and The Operators are this, which is lampshaded by random Disciples. |
| 307 | -->'''Disciple:''' I don't know what's worse - wearing a tie, or wearing a teddy bear. |
| 308 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: The gangs do not get along very well with each other. [[spoiler:Eventually, the faction with the least territory (inevitable since there's only five sections of Nuka-World you can divide among the gangs) will turn against you.]] |
| 309 | * WeAreStrugglingTogether: It's clear that none of the gangs get along despite the alliance Colter originally put them up to, and constantly try to get under each other's skin to get around their law forbids them from killing each other. |
| 310 | * WeaponSpecialization: All of them wield Handmade Rifles in combat (though the Disciples still prefer to utilize their knives in close-quarters), albeit with them decorated differently depending on the specific gang wielding them[[note]]The Disciples have their rifles [[DarkIsEvil colored black]], the Pack's rifles are bright and splattered with various colors, and the Operator's rifles are simply expertly polished and clean-looking[[/note]]. |
| 311 | [[/folder]] |
| 312 | |
| 313 | [[folder:The Disciples]] |
| 314 | |
| 315 | An '''''extremely''''' ''vicious'' gang of Raiders holed up inside Fizztop Mountain. They are led by Nisha, and their symbol is five tally marks composed of knives. Most of them are women, and they're all primarily interested in violence and bloodshed. |
| 316 | ---- |
| 317 | * AmazonBrigade: Not 100% exactly, but the vast majority of the Disciples are women. Like, one guy out of every ten women. |
| 318 | * AxCrazy: These guys and gals are really, ''really'' into violence. They enjoy torturing their victims for as long as possible without killing them and decorate their base of operations with numerous pieces of gore and viscera. In fact, they ultimately come across more as a gang of {{Serial Killer}}s than actual Raiders, being more interested in killing than raiding. Some Disciples will out and out admit to be addicted to murder. |
| 319 | * BayonetYa: One of their favorite weapons, other than their unique knives, is a .44 revolver with a bayonet attached. |
| 320 | * BladeEnthusiast: As suggested by their symbol, and this is their preferred fighting style. In addition, the DLC brings with it a new knife weapon known as a Disciple's Blade which reinforces this trope. |
| 321 | -->'''Disciple:''' Sure, we carry guns, but ''knives'' are where it's at! |
| 322 | * ColdBloodedTorture: Disciples frequently complain about their victims dying too quickly, making it clear they torture people just for the sheer hell of it. |
| 323 | * CoolMask: All of them conceal their faces with cruel-looking masks fashioned from sharp pieces of metal. |
| 324 | * DarkActionGirl: All of their female members, with Nisha being the poster child. |
| 325 | * DeadGuyOnDisplay: They '''love''' this trope, far more than the other gangs. A Nuka-World park under their control will soon have many heads on pikes and spiky metal bits everywhere for decoration, and their home base in Fizztop Mountain is half-covered in blood. |
| 326 | * TheFaceless: You'll never see a Disciple's face. Not any living one, at least. |
| 327 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Their members are probably the most polite out of the three groups, even showing some surprising respect to the player character and generally don't insult them that much compared to the other two gangs. But make no mistake, these folks are some of the sickest, darkest, and most depraved excuses of humanity since seen in the entire ''Fallout'' series. |
| 328 | * HemoErotic: A non-vampiric example, as they get off on the spilling of blood. Furthermore, if their leavings concerning the bodies can be taken into consideration, they like drinking the blood of their kills just as much as they bathe in it. |
| 329 | * ImprobablyFemaleCast: For some unexplained reason, nearly every disciple is female. |
| 330 | * InTheHood: They also wear hoods in addition to their masks. |
| 331 | * NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: As far as their leader is concerned, there is only one rule concerning killing members of the other rival gangs: "Don't get caught". Of course, there are those in her gang that don't ''quite'' get the message. |
| 332 | * TheOneGuy: There's only about one male Disciple for every ten women you see, if that, so this trope applies to most of their sub-groups. |
| 333 | * ScaryImpracticalArmor: The Disciples really like creepy helmets that have no eyeholes whatsoever. |
| 334 | * SpikesOfVillainy: Their masks and armor have a lot of blades and spikes on them. These people are ''really'' into their sharp edges. |
| 335 | * TheUnfettered: They are of the belief that rules are simply there to restrict you and would love nothing more than to let loose and murder wantonly. |
| 336 | [[/folder]] |
| 337 | |
| 338 | [[folder:The Pack]] |
| 339 | |
| 340 | A gang of "colorful" Raiders present found in the Bradberton Ampitheater. They are led by Mason, and their symbol is a snarling dog's head. They're easily the most "tribal" out of the [=Nuka-World=] Raiders, and base their hierarchy around the animal kingdom while using attack animals in combat. |
| 341 | ---- |
| 342 | * AnimalMotif: Dogs primarily, but other animals such as Mole Rats are featured. |
| 343 | * ApeShallNotKillApe: Pack members are forbidden to shed each other's blood. Definitely played straight when it comes to a Pack member taking over as their new leader, since it's forbidden to kill the previous one. They humiliate and then exile them, instead. |
| 344 | * AttackAnimal: They keep a number of attack dogs and mole rats at their hideout. |
| 345 | * AxCrazy: A developer at Bethesda described the Pack as "absolutely crazy." Even so, they still come across as relatively saner than the Disciples. |
| 346 | * TheBeastmaster: The Pack frequently use attack dogs, and seem to enjoy pushing the limits of what animals they can tame. One of the creatures they seem to trying to control even includes a Ghoulified gorilla. And hilariously enough, they've somehow managed to convert a '''''live''' Feral Ghoul''... into a [[MundaneUtility chair]]. |
| 347 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: It's pretty hard to take a guy wearing a clown mask and bright orange fur trousers seriously. Even when he ''does'' have a big gun pointed at your head and has a veritable swarm of Mole Rats to back him up.. |
| 348 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: Their attitude toward slavery. The Pack is of the opinion that there are no slaves in Nuka-World that didn't ask to be a slave. |
| 349 | * ChallengingTheChief: The Pack Alpha can be challenged by other Pack members for leadership, with the loser being humiliated and exiled from the gang. |
| 350 | * CoolAndUnusualPunishment: To get around their law forbidding any of the Raiders from killing each other, they hold their KlingonPromotion duels to end this way: Loser is humiliated and exiled. The last leader before Mason was tarred and feathered like a chicken. Bwak-kawk! |
| 351 | * ImAHumanitarian: Food items known as Mystery Bacon and Mystery Jerky can be found inside Bradberton Amphitheatre. That they are both called [=HumanBacon=] and [=HumanJerky=] respectively in the game's files suggests these are made from human flesh. Some strange meat, anybody? |
| 352 | * KlingonPromotion: Averted. The Pack's laws say that no member can kill another member of the Pack, so while a member can forcefully take a leadership position by defeating the current leader, they do not end it with the loser's death. Instead, they are publically humiliated and exiled from the gang. |
| 353 | * MirroringFactions: They can be seen as the {{Evil Counterpart}} to the [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Great Khans]]. Both are tribal groups with unique outfits that have served as professional pirates in the past. However, the Great Khans still have a sense of honor and simply want to live the rest of their lives out in peace while returning their tribe to its "glory days." The Pack are utterly merciless and have never really stopped being glorified Raiders (unlike the Great Khans), while also wanting to aggressively force their influence upon others. |
| 354 | * ProudWarriorRaceGuy: They kind of look and act more like very colorful tribals than a traditional Raider gang. |
| 355 | [[/folder]] |
| 356 | |
| 357 | [[folder:The Operators]] |
| 358 | |
| 359 | A gang of pseudo-aristocratic Raiders present found in Nuka-Town USA's Parlor. They are led by Margaret "Mags" Black, her brother William, and their friend Lizzie Wyath. Their symbol is a bleeding heart inside of a crosshair. Primarily, they're concerned with making money over displays of strength or brutality, and their aesthetic is a lot of fancy candles, lights and vases around territory they own. |
| 360 | ---- |
| 361 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: At least in the sense that they don't engage in any pointless acts of cruelty. They're perfectly fine with brutal violence so long as it accomplishes something or helps turn a profit, but the Operators consider it to be a means rather than an end. |
| 362 | * AristocratsAreEvil: They come across as more snobbish than their Pack and Disciple counterparts. Add to that, their leaders are quite perhaps the closest things to actual aristocrats in the post-nuclear wasteland. |
| 363 | * BadassInANiceSuit: The Operators wear suits with pieces of armor stuck on them. |
| 364 | * TheBeautifulElite: There really isn't such thing as an "ugly" Operator, it seems. All of them are reasonably attractive, are well dressed and have well-groomed [[EightiesHair '80s hair]]. That last part is even lampshaded by Nisha and Dixie. |
| 365 | * BlingBlingBang: Their rifles primarily sport a spiffy, polished chrome finish and cherry wood stain, in contrast to the crude paint jobs the Disciples and Pack give to their own guns. |
| 366 | * BlueBlood: Their leadership came from the Upper Stands in Diamond City, before they were cut off from their inheritances by their wealthy parents and then exiled. |
| 367 | --> '''Operator:''' Mags, William and Lizzie, all you have to do is hear them speak to know they weren't born into this life. But they sure as hell were '''born''' for it. |
| 368 | * ColdSniper: The Operators favor sniper rifles and are the most professional of the Raider gangs. |
| 369 | * ConsummateProfessional: Compared to wild animals like the Pack and a gang of violent psychopaths like the Disciples, they ''definitely'' count as this. They also view themselves as this, seeing their so-called ''allies'' as, quote, "amateurs playing dress up." |
| 370 | * DecadentCourt: Deadly? Check. Decadent? Check. |
| 371 | ** Which makes their choice of a theatre called The Parlor as their home base a piece of [[FridgeBrilliance brilliance]] on the writers' part. "Come into my parlor" indeed! |
| 372 | ** How decadent are they? They're the only people in the Wasteland who have ''napkins'' on their tables! |
| 373 | * EvilWearsBlack: Their uniform, if it could be described as such, is a black business suit-type outfit with varying grey and gold embossed patterns. |
| 374 | * FauxAffablyEvil: They may be less wild and insane than the Pack and Disciples, but they're still just as evil and despicable. |
| 375 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: The gangs all dislike and distrust one another, but it seems both the Pack and Disciples alike find the Operators ''especially'' grating in their snobbery. To be fair, this resentment is justified in its own way. |
| 376 | * TheMafia: They overall feel more like a mob gang than Raiders. |
| 377 | * ManipulativeBastard: They rely on subterfuge and working in the shadows, and Mags has even sent two of her Operators (a woman, and - [[CrazyPrepared just in case]] - a man) to act as {{Honey Trap}}s to try and seduce a high-ranking member of the Disciples. |
| 378 | * MirroringFactions: To the White Glove Society. Whereas the White Gloves were once tribals remade by Mr. House into sophisticated caricatures of [=Pre-War=] high society ([[BecomingTheMask who nonetheless try their best to live up to their reputation]]), the Operators were founded by rogues hailing from Diamond City's elite (thus as close to being "born on a silver spoon" in the Commonwealth as one could get outside of the Institute), but simply see their high society pretensions as a justification for their savagery. |
| 379 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: The only thing they want out of the Nuka-World Alliance is profit. And there's '''nothing''' they won't do to get it. |
| 380 | * PragmaticVillainy: Compared to the other gangs, they are just out there to make profit, averting the VillainByDefault notion of most Raiders. |
| 381 | * RichBoredom: The Disciples and The Pack seem to accuse the Operators of being a bunch of bored, spoiled little rich kids. Given the nice suits, their (arguably) better equipment, that they're in it purely for caps and the fact that the Operator's leadership started off ''as'' spoiled little rich kids - from Diamond City, no less - one could certainly see why. |
| 382 | * SharpDressedMan: Crudely-made pieces of armor crafted from rusted metal aside, they're often wearing the "Fancy Suit" item, a suit with faded embroideries all over it. They are pretty well dressed for a bunch of ne'er-do-wells. |
| 383 | [[/folder]] |
| 384 | |
| 385 | !Hostile Minor Factions |
| 386 | |
| 387 | [[folder:The Commonwealth Raider Gangs]] |
| 388 | |
| 389 | "Raiders" is a catch-all term for the countless gangs of murderous cutthroats scattered across the Wasteland. There are a multitude of Commonwealth Raider gangs and tribes, each centered around various "Raider Lords." |
| 390 | ---- |
| 391 | * ADayInTheLimelight: The ''Nuka-World'' DLC is Raider-centric, allowing the player to become an Overboss of three Raider gangs, well, raid communities in the Commonwealth. |
| 392 | * TheApunkalypse: They consist of lawless and anarchic gangs running extortion schemes or just killing and looting. |
| 393 | * AssholeVictim: The sympathetic ones aside, most Raiders are {{Serial Killer}}s and murdering psychos that the player shouldn't feel that bad about killing. |
| 394 | * ClusterFBomb: Notorious for doing this, especially when trying to pursue you. |
| 395 | * CurbStompBattle: The Corvega Raiders under Gristle are in the process of handing one out to the last Minuteman and his remaining group of survivors at Concord. Fortunately, the Sole Survivor comes across them in time. |
| 396 | * DeadGuyOnDisplay: Raider strongholds tend to have a lot of dismembered corpses and decapitated heads on full display. |
| 397 | * DevelopersForesight: All of the roughly 21 different Commonwealth Raider tribes have their own unique power struggles. Not only will Raiders mention the Sole Survivor wiping out competing gangs, but they will mention how this affects regional power struggles along with wanting to join up with new Raider groups - which will automatically notify the Sole Survivor of their locations on the Pip-Boy's map. |
| 398 | * DrugsAreBad: Raiders are heavy users of chems like Jet, which is implied to be one of the reasons they're so violent. |
| 399 | * FallenHero: Some Raiders (most notably, the ones at Libertalia) were originally Minutemen that fell from grace. |
| 400 | * FantasticRacism: Most Raider gangs (the L&L Gang in particular) appear to despise the Railroad and its Synths, as evidenced by the missions "Butcher's Bill" and "To the Mattresses." |
| 401 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: ''None'' of the named Raider Lords like [[PsychopathicManchild Bosco]]. If Bosco is killed early on, then subsequent Raider leaders, such as Slag and Tower Tom, will express relief at his death. |
| 402 | * GeniusBruiser: Some of the Raiders and Raider Lords are disturbingly smart, but are thankfully hampered by either having incredibly dumb subordinates, very narrow goals, or some variation thereof. |
| 403 | ** The Rust Devils gang introduced in the Automatron DLC are practically geniuses by anyone's standard, let alone Raiders. They have the smarts to build and modify legions of robots and advanced traps, and their leader has a fairly solid grasp of tactics and security to boot. |
| 404 | * HellbentForLeather: A good majority of Raiders wear punkish leather as some part of their outfits or as armor, befitting their criminal nature. |
| 405 | * HypocriticalHumor: Some Raiders will, without any hint of irony, call each other lunatics or psychotic. |
| 406 | * MobWar: |
| 407 | ** Terminal entries in gang strongholds indicate a large amount of competition between the various gangs in the Commonwealth. |
| 408 | ** Raiders can be encountered fighting groups of aggressive scavengers as part of random events in the Commonwealth. |
| 409 | * {{Mooks}}: Raiders will typically be the most common human enemies encountered throughout the game, and generally appear with lower health and lower levels than the Gunners or the Super Mutants. |
| 410 | * PostApunkalypticArmor: Raiders wear scavenged leathers, hunks of metal, et cetera. Unlike earlier games, the Raider gangs in the Commonwealth have managed to obtain Power Armor frames and throw on plating. |
| 411 | ** Though this is somewhat downplayed in comparison to ''Fallout 3'' or ''Mad Max 2''. Raider attire in ''Fallout 4'' looks more like an attempt to make practical armor from cobbled together junk, and less like leather fetish gear. |
| 412 | * PromotedToPlayable: In the ''Nuka-World'' DLC, Raiders are a joinable faction for the first time in the entire series. |
| 413 | * PunchClockVillain: Several Raiders come across as this. |
| 414 | * ScaryImpracticalArmor: Fully upgraded Sturdy or Heavy Raider armor consists of welded metal plates and can easily be mistaken for Power Armor at first glance, but is actually weaker than even leather armor of an equivalent tier and upgrade level. |
| 415 | * SchizoTech: A lot of Raiders have nothing better than [[ImprovisedWeapon pool cues or handmade pipe guns]] and are half-naked with maybe a shoulder pad for protection. Others are wearing suits of [[PoweredArmor Power Armor]] and armed with Fat Men. Justified in that their gear is whatever they can steal. |
| 416 | * SpikesOfVillainy: Some Raiders wear Spike Armor or Cage Armor, which provides a decent sum of Damage and Energy resistance and is lined with rusty spikes made from rebar. |
| 417 | * TragicMonster: Many Raiders are {{Trapped In Villainy}} by the realities of the Wasteland, and at times it's hard not to pity them. |
| 418 | --> '''Nameless Raider:''' Just shut up and die already, I've got kids to feed! |
| 419 | * TookALevelInBadass: Not uniformly, but compared to the Raiders of the Capital and Mojave Wastelands, most Commonwealth Raiders have access to much heavier firepower and gear (Fat Mans and Powered Armor). |
| 420 | * VillainByDefault: Except for some scripted scenes, Raiders are almost always hostile to the player character. And even then, after the scene finished, it will usually result in combat. Additionally, excluding some of those from ''Nuka-World'' and several other Raiders across the Commonwealth, most Raiders are depicted as bloodthirsty and psychotic monsters that revel in murder and causing suffering. However, there's still a noteworthy number of Raiders depicted as down-on-their-luck survivors forced into a life of crime by circumstance. |
| 421 | * WhatMeasureIsAMook: While for the most part they're violent psychos, some terminal entries and dialogues you hear if you sneak up on them count. Notably, they appear strung out and even horrified at what they have done. |
| 422 | [[/folder]] |
| 423 | |
| 424 | [[folder:The Gunners]] |
| 425 | |
| 426 | A ruthless army of mercenaries found operating in the Commonwealth, who have been warring with the Minutemen (and pretty much everyone else) for a long time now. Despite their claims about being skilled mercenaries, they're little more than slightly more-organized Raiders with very militaristic pretensions, even attacking many of the Sole Survivor's settlements after they're organized. They also have a "no-prisoners" mindset, will do any job for the right price, and are actively attempting to conquer the entire Commonwealth on behalf of some mysterious other party. Possible companion [=MacCready=] used to be a member of The Gunners. |
| 427 | ---- |
| 428 | * AlwaysABiggerFish: The reason they can't just up and kill [=MacCready=] for leaving the group is because that would require going to war with Goodneighbor. |
| 429 | ** They are themselves this for Raiders, once the Sole Survivor levels to the point where even high level Raiders are basically a cake walk. |
| 430 | * ArmyOfThievesAndWhores: They have delusions of being an elite crew of mercenaries, but the Gunners really are nothing more than a band of murdering, thieving Raiders with better weapons, armor and supplies. They literally attack settlements (and the player) [[VillainByDefault on sight]], which sends a clear message that they prefer to take what they want by force rather than trade their services as guns for hire. |
| 431 | ** They're not even above slavery, trying to buy a Ghoul child from the Sole Survivor during a quest to return the kid to his parents. If the player refuses, they come back and demand the kid ''and'' parents be handed over as property. |
| 432 | ** Tessa is a named Gunner who operates in the Quincy ruins. You can find a log entry in a terminal made by her superior officer complaining that Tessa still thinks and acts like a Raider and has zero discipline or respect for military tactics and protocol. |
| 433 | * AssholeVictim: It's hard to sympathize with them even when compared to other Raiders, especially given how ruthless they can be. |
| 434 | * AxCrazy: The Gunners basically take the place of a hyper aggressive army of thugs, only much more organized and better armed. |
| 435 | * CurbStompBattle: On the giving end towards the Minutemen during the Quincy Massacre. The only surviving Minuteman was Preston and two other subordinates (who would later lose their own lives to the Feral Ghouls in Lexington), with the others all killed. In "Hunter/Hunted," they are on the receiving end of one thanks to both Z2-47 and you. |
| 436 | * DangerousDeserter: More than a few of them are former Minutemen who lost faith in their mission to bring freedom and safety of the Commonwealth. In particular, their leader in the Quincy Ruins, Clint, still wears the Minutemen uniform underneath his new Power Armor. |
| 437 | * DistinctionWithoutADifference: They may not ''literally'' be a Raider gang, but it's often remarked on by both companions and settlers that the Gunners ''act'' like Raiders in every way that matters. |
| 438 | * {{Eagleland}}: As part of them being the EvilCounterpart to the Minutemen, they're decidedly Boorish Flavor, with them more or less representing the physical manifestation of virtually every negative stereotype ever given to the U.S. military. |
| 439 | * EliteMooks: Much is made of the fact the Gunners are tougher and better equipped than normal Raiders. |
| 440 | * EnergyWeapons: One of the main gameplay differences between Gunners and Raiders is that Gunners tend to use lasers (and the occasional plasma gun) while Raiders almost always use bullets. |
| 441 | * EvilVersusEvil: The Gunners appear to be on bad terms with the Commonwealth sect of the Children of Atom, and can be encountered fighting the Children in random events. |
| 442 | * {{Foil}}: They're essentially the EvilCounterpart to the Commonwealth Minutemen. The Gunners are a group of aggressive mercenaries and {{Sociopathic Soldier}}s intent on using extreme military discipline to conquer the entire Commonwealth. They're also one of the only factions to have access to Pre-War military tech, being that they mostly use EnergyWeapons and even have some ''Vertibirds'' on their side. The Commonwealth Minutemen, in contrast, are a band of heroic militiamen and citizen soldiers that want to help unite the Commonwealth together by protecting settlements and laying the groundwork for a new society. They seem to rely mostly on {{Had To Be Sharp}} for training their soldiers and use cobbled-together weapons, 18th century howitzers and anything they can grab for protecting the innocent. It's not that big a surprise that these two factions utterly despise each other and are in the midst of a vicious war. |
| 443 | * GangOfHats: They're more or less a mix of the Pre-War U.S. military and the German Hessians that fought against the colonial militias during the American Revolution. |
| 444 | * GreaterScopeVillain: Whoever is hiring the Gunners to ravage the Commonwealth and conquer it on their behalf. All that's known is that they're not native to the region. |
| 445 | * HateSink: Considering how Raiders have now been suitably humanized to the point that the player may actually feel bad about killing them, the Gunners primarily exist to fill that now-vacant void of utterly hate-able antagonists. Being an army of enslaving mercenaries that massacre entire cities for kicks, the Gunners are the scum of the earth, comparable to the Paradise Falls Raiders in their demeanor. |
| 446 | * HufflepuffHouse: Like the four playable factions, the Gunners are a distinct organization with clear goals, a main settlement, and distinctive capabilities, but in game, serve as little more than elite Raiders. Justified, as they've already been hired by an outside party to conquer the Commonwealth on their behalf. |
| 447 | * KillerRobot: The Gunners tend to have reprogrammed Mr. Gutsys and Assaultrons patrolling The Commonwealth with them. |
| 448 | * MildlyMilitary: They use many of the trappings of a proper military outfit, but their superior discipline only extends to what they shoot at you and how well they shoot it, leaving very little room for things like honor or codes of conduct. They're just as amoral as the Raiders, and only somewhat less brutish. |
| 449 | * MookHorrorShow: Z2-47 tears through an army of these guys during "Hunter[=/=]Hunted." |
| 450 | * OutsideContextVillain: Downplayed, but it's mentioned that they're not native to the Commonwealth, and are also the only faction aside from the Brotherhood of Steel that are entirely armed with Pre-War military-grade equipment. |
| 451 | * PragmaticVillainy: The soldiers are only concerned with completing their mission and won't fight unless they are given a reason to. They'll fight if they see you trespassing on their territory, they won't kill anyone dying because they believe it'll be a waste of ammunition, and they'll avoid unnecessary combat. For example; Winlock and Barnes refuse to fight Macready not because they respect him for being a former gunner, or fear him due to his skills, but because fighting him in Goodneighbor will lead to a war between the Goodneighbor community and the Gunners. |
| 452 | * PrivateMilitaryContractors: They'll take on any job for the right price. |
| 453 | * RankScalesWithAsskicking: The Gunner Commander is noticeably tougher than his mooks. |
| 454 | * RapePillageAndBurn: The Gunners regularly attack militia settlements, probably because they're being paid to, but also just as likely ''for the sheer hell of it''. Once some of your settlements are large enough, they will start turning their attention there, so be careful. Even your Settlers will say that they are just a more organized, better equipped group of Raiders. |
| 455 | * RenegadeSplinterFaction: A few of the even more violent and crazy Gunners ended up defecting and joining the Forged. |
| 456 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Talon Company in the Capital Wasteland. Unlike Talon Company however, the Gunners often become Raiders themselves. On top of that, with no KarmaMeter, they won’t set up ambushes to jump you. |
| 457 | * TattooedCrook: Some Gunners have their blood type tattooed on their foreheads, presumably for medical reasons. |
| 458 | * TokenGoodTeammate: A pair of non-hostile Gunners can be found protecting Dreth's caravan. |
| 459 | * VillainByDefault: Despite being mercenaries, the Gunners are always hostile to the player character and act like a well-equipped group of Raiders. |
| 460 | ** Justified in this case by the pre-existing war between the Gunners and the Minutemen, which the Sole Survivor basically walks into by siding with Preston in Concord. At the very least, the Talon Company has an excuse of attacking the player character on sight because they have been hired to do so and there is a bounty on your head. Gunners don't have such excuse. |
| 461 | ** Furthermore, the vast majority of the Gunners are mentioned as operating on behalf of another party from outside the Commonwealth, and likely are trying to prevent anyone else from interrupting their contract. |
| 462 | * TheWorfEffect: A building full of Gunners are used as punching bags in one of the main quests to establish how dangerous and powerful Institute Coursers are. |
| 463 | [[/folder]] |
| 464 | |
| 465 | [[folder:The Triggermen]] |
| 466 | |
| 467 | The Triggermen are a group of Mafia themed gangs who mostly occupy the urban areas of Boston. The Survivor encounters them in Vault 114 when rescuing Detective Nick Valentine, whom they have kidnapped. They are lead by mob bosses such as Skinny Malone and Marowski. |
| 468 | ---- |
| 469 | * AffablyEvil: Skinny Malone and Marowski are fairly likable and reasonable crime bosses, especially in comparison to the various Raider and Gunner leaders. |
| 470 | * ArcVillain: Skinny Malone and his gang are the main threat for An Unlikely Valentine. He's captured Nick, whom you need to help track down Kellogg, and his Triggermen crew are your opposition throughout Vault 114. |
| 471 | * AxCrazy: Skinny's girlfriend, Darla. |
| 472 | * BadassInANiceSuit: The entire gang wear suits and are one of the more organized gangs in the Commonwealth. |
| 473 | * CantCatchUp: Though their higher-than-average health, special damage resistance, and access to [[MoreDakka tommy guns]] makes them decently tough opponents at low-to-average levels, their health stops scaling and maxes out at a much lower level compared to Raiders, Gunners, or other more common enemies, making them comparative wimps at very high levels. |
| 474 | * TheDon: Skinny Malone is the head of the largest Triggermen gang in Vault 114, though there are other gangs lead by Malcom Latimer, Marowski, and Eager Ernie. |
| 475 | * EqualOpportunityEvil: The Triggermen have a surprisingly high number of Ghouls in their gang, probably about 25% of the gang itself. |
| 476 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: If you talk Skinny into backing down, Darla will play it tough by insulting him for going soft before leaving to wander The Commonwealth on her own. If you convince her to walk away by bringing up her family, she has a HeelRealization, drops the hardass attitude, and decides she's better off going home to her folks. |
| 477 | * FriendlyEnemy: Skinny Malone has mutual respect for Nick Valentine, and honestly doesn't want to kill him. |
| 478 | * GangOfHats: They are a Mafia-themed gang, wearing suits and fedoras and carrying Thompson [=SMGs=] in combat. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because their oldest (ghoul) members were in the Mafia pre-war, and may very well be a direct descendent organization. |
| 479 | * IronicNickname: Skinny Malone [[FatBastard is anything but]]. Lampshaded by Nick. |
| 480 | * MadeOfIron: Most Triggermen have very large amounts of innate damage resistance to compensate for their lack of armor, [[LevelScaling which increases as the player gains levels]]. Fortunately, they have no such resistance to energy weapons. |
| 481 | * TheMafia: They have an organized crime theme. Some of the ghouls are old enough to have been in the actual Mafia before the Great War. |
| 482 | * MirroringFactions: With the Three Families of the New Vegas Strip, particularly the Omertas. Whereas the Families were originally tribals rehabilitated by House in the image of the Pre-War world, the Triggermen have a much stronger continuity with Pre-War America's crime rings. Which may have to do with the Commonwealth's relatively urbanized environment and some of the mobster ghouls being old enough to have been ''actual mobsters'' back in the day. |
| 483 | * MoreDakka: Most of the gang carry submachine guns, which can make infiltrating their base difficult for unprepared players. |
| 484 | * MysteriousPast: If Mama Murphy is given a chem dose to use the Sight during the start of the quest "Unlikely Valentine", she gives a couple of vague phrases indicating that something happened in Skinny Malone's past, involving "the Quarry" (which dialogue choices with the gangster reveal Nick Valentine was involved in too, to explain why Malone refuses to outright kill him) and "Lily June on the rocks" that was so important that, if cited during the confrontation in Vault 114, it causes him to react with utter shock and awe before he gives the Sole Survivor and Nick Valentine a ten-second window to go free without being attacked, even over the objections of his moll Darla. It ends up costing him his gang's loyalty as they ultimately throw him out for his perceived weakness refusing to kill Valentine. |
| 485 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: |
| 486 | ** If the Survivor spares Skinny when rescuing Nick, Skinny can later be found wandering the wasteland alone, his gang having abandoned him. |
| 487 | ** The player can also convince Darla to leave Skinny [[IHaveAFamily by reminding her she still has a family]]. |
| 488 | * TokenGoodTeammate: A friendly Triggermen member can be encountered out in the Commonwealth. Talking to him will point the Sole Survivor in the direction of Bobbi No-Nose and The Big Dig quest. |
| 489 | [[/folder]] |
| 490 | |
| 491 | [[folder:The Forged]] |
| 492 | |
| 493 | A small but deadly gang of ex-Gunners who are based around Saugus Ironworks. They are obsessed with metal and fire. |
| 494 | ---- |
| 495 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: There are numerous crimes which the Forged judge worthy of execution, including cheating during the initiation ritual, cowardice during battle, and refusing to change one's name when joining. |
| 496 | * AxCrazy: Above and beyond other Raiders and Gunners. |
| 497 | * BadBoss: While no Raider boss is an understanding employer, as such, Slag does things like cutting off the limbs of people who displease him. He's also thrown several of his Raiders into the furnace for a failure. |
| 498 | * DangerousDeserter: They're deserters from the Gunners and a dangerous bunch, though the Gunners aren't much better. |
| 499 | * FireBreathingWeapon: Flamers and Molotov Cocktails are among their favorite weapons. |
| 500 | * GangOfHats: A fire/industrial theme. Forcibly invoked by Slag, who cuts off the limbs and feeds to the forge members who don't take a name that fits the theme. |
| 501 | * HeavilyArmoredMook: Members typically wear Spike Armor or Cage Armor, which provides a decent amount of damage and energy resistance. |
| 502 | * IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: When you meet Slag, he's ordering his newest recruit, a local FarmBoy, to kill a captive just to prove that he's willing to kill. |
| 503 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Enforced; those who wish to join the Forged are expected to take on a tough-sounding nickname, typically something themed around fire, machinery, carnage or death. At least one potential recruit, Yancey, was killed for refusing to embrace this custom. |
| 504 | * {{Pyromaniac}}: A gang of them. |
| 505 | * SpikesOfVillainy: Like Raiders, they're fond of Spike Armor and Cage Armor adorned with spikes made from rusty rebar. |
| 506 | * TheWorfEffect: As dangerous as the Forged can be, them being crushed by a squad of Enclave Remnants drives home how formidable the latter are. |
| 507 | [[/folder]] |
| 508 | |
| 509 | [[folder:The Commonwealth Super Mutant Collective]] |
| 510 | |
| 511 | The "local flavor" of Super Mutants found in the Commonwealth, the Island, and Nuka-World. No one knows for sure where they come from, but they're seen as bad news and regularly attack virtually everything in sight. They are organized into a series of marauding warbands found across the Commonwealth and a separate detachment on the Island, intent on expanding forth from their fortifications and seizing the entire region for their own. |
| 512 | ---- |
| 513 | * ActionBomb: The dreaded Super Mutant Suiciders serve as these. |
| 514 | * AlwaysChaoticEvil: Aside from Strong, Virgil, and Erickson, no friendly Commonwealth Super Mutants are seen over the course of the game. However, EnemyChatter implies that at least ''some'' of them are more peaceful (read: more pragmatic and less mindlessly suicidal), and they just aren't encountered by the Sole Survivor and other local Commonwealth residents. |
| 515 | * AngryGuardDog: Their Mutant Hounds, which can be just as frustrating to fight as the Super Mutants themselves. |
| 516 | * ApeShallNeverKillApe: Commonwealth Super Mutants are never seen fighting each other. They do let other members of their race die if they're sufficiently injured though, as they see them as too weak to be worthy of keeping alive along with being "not true Super Mutants" for getting mortally wounded in the first place. |
| 517 | * ArchEnemy: The East Coast Brotherhood of Steel seems to be this for them. |
| 518 | ** Arguably one to the Minutemen, who rose to prominence defending Diamond City from a whole army of Super Mutants over a hundred years ago. The "Greenskins" radiant quests are dedicated to fighting them, and at later levels Super Mutants will attempt to besiege the Castle. |
| 519 | * BashBrothers: They have a collectivist mindset and will try to avenge their fallen comrades. |
| 520 | * BloodKnight: Unlike the Vault 87 mutants, these Super Mutants will sometimes hunt humans for sport rather than just for food or propagation. |
| 521 | * BodyHorror: While the ordinary mutants actually have ''less'' of this than the other types, their [[GiantMook Behemoths]] have strange body proportions and have one arm longer than the other. |
| 522 | ** The normal muties still have their creepy body designs, though, such what looks like ''tumors'' adorning their bodies and their heads being noticeably smaller in relation to their body size. |
| 523 | * CompositeCharacter: They combine traits of the Mariposa super mutants and the Vault 87 super mutants. They have an overall smaller physique than the Vault 87s, but retain their savagery and their tendency to get StrongerWithAge, including becoming Behemoths (though the Commonwealth Behemoths are smaller than the Capital Wasteland Behemoths). However, their intelligence levels are much closer to the Mariposa mutants, including being able to use technology and craft weapons and armor, being able to speak in complete sentences and hold a conversation, and having a chain of command with leaders they obey. Their green skin tone is closer to the Mariposa mutants than the Vault 87s, and they decorate their lairs with bags of bloody gore of their victims as the 87s did. |
| 524 | * DumbMuscle: The vast majority of them are ''impressively'' stupid, though they're still noticeably smarter than their counterparts in the Capital Wasteland. |
| 525 | * DyingRace: [[spoiler:Brian Virgil was able to shut down the Institute's FEV lab before he fled to the Glowing Sea. While the Commonwealth Super Mutants are somewhat aware of their creation (they can even be heard muttering "No green stuff here..."), they have no visible way to propagate their species, dooming them to extinction. Unfortunately for the Commonwealth, they're still TheAgeless, so they'll likely be a decent threat for the foreseeable future unless they have more [[DefectorFromDecadence Defectors From Decadence]] like Strong and Erickson.]] |
| 526 | * FantasticRacism: Interestingly, EnemyChatter indicates that the Commonwealth Super Mutants don't ''just'' attack non-mutants because they're hungry; rather, they do it for the additional reason that they view all other "races" as inferior (the loading screens directly state that they see themselves as "the Commonwealth's master race") and are only worthy of getting [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunted for sport]] or being [[MadeASlave used as slaves]]. |
| 527 | * FateWorseThanDeath: Most people in the Wasteland consider getting captured by Super Mutants this. Justified, since that will likely result in them being EatenAlive. |
| 528 | * GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: [[ItMakesSenseInContext In a sense]]. From the perspective of the Commonwealth's inhabitants, they just ''appeared'' one day, and have been ravaging the entire region since. |
| 529 | * GoMadFromTheRevelation: Most of them are psychotic because their minds can't properly handle the horrific mutations that their bodies have been subjected to. |
| 530 | * HulkSpeak: Many of them speak like this, but not as heavily as the Vault 87 Mutants or the Second Generation Mariposa Mutants. |
| 531 | * HiddenDepths: A rather surprising case. According to Strong, most Commonwealth Super Mutants operate in a ''collectivist'' mindset, equally sharing their resources among each other for a common goal and almost never fighting each other. |
| 532 | * ImAHumanitarian: The main reason why they attack Commonwealth settlements is to take the residents away for food. |
| 533 | * ItCanThink: Some Super Mutants are surprisingly intelligent despite being members of what's essentially an entire (sub)species of brutish savages. Most notably, several Super Mutant bases show them having reprogrammed the locations' Pre-War turrets and spotlights to assist them in battle. They are also capable of following a chain of command, can erect fortifications, and even set up traps and ambushes - such as at Trinity Tower, where Fist deliberately used Rex Goodman's radio broadcast as bait to both lure in humans and weed out the weaker Super Mutants among his host. |
| 534 | * LargeAndInCharge: The Super Mutants on the Island are lead by Grun, who is a Behemoth who presumably earned his authority through being bigger and stronger than the other Super Mutants. |
| 535 | * LargeHam: They're pretty much an entire subspecies of {{Screaming Warrior}}s. |
| 536 | * NoIndoorVoice: As noted above, they will often shout out warcries at the top of their lungs upon seeing you. |
| 537 | * ProudWarriorRace: Commonwealth Super Mutants seem to operate in militant warbands ruled by the strongest member, and have their own subculture almost entirely based around combat prowess. However, they still operate in a collectivist mindset, sharing their resources equally amongst each other and frowning down upon theft and cowardice. |
| 538 | * TheReveal: [[spoiler:Sneaking around the Institute's [=BioScience=] division will reveal a lost [=FEV=] lab. The Institute are the source of the Commonwealth Super Mutants, as they injected many of the people they kidnapped with [=FEV=] in order to investigate biological mutations as part of their Synth research. It's also implied that they did this in order to keep the surface disorganized and unable to fight back against the Institute, along with creating an intelligent breed of Super Mutants for the Institute to use as lab rats/surface agents.]] |
| 539 | * PuttingOnTheReich: They believe themselves to be the master race and plan on taking over the Commonwealth, not unlike their Mariposa counterparts from ''Fallout 1''. |
| 540 | * RightHandAttackDog: Since they're the first breed of Super Mutant to have no Centaurs, they instead have mutated dogs called "Mutant Hounds." |
| 541 | * ScaryImpracticalArmor: Downplayed from ''Fallout 3,'' as the majority of their armor has been redesigned to look like it could actually be useful in combat. |
| 542 | * ShorterMeansSmarter: They are noticeably smaller than their Capital Wasteland cousins but make up for it with (somewhat) greater intelligence. |
| 543 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Much like their brethren in the Capital Wasteland, their presence in the Commonwealth has made it a hell of a lot harder for the natives to unite in a similar way that the West Coast had under the banner of the [=NCR.=] |
| 544 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To the Vault 87 Super Mutants of the Capital Wasteland. |
| 545 | * TakingYouWithMe: Super Mutant Suiciders have this as their M.O. |
| 546 | * TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Almost all of the Commonwealth Super Mutants seem to be furiously determined to strike back at humanity for having creating them in the first place. |
| 547 | --> '''Commonwealth Super Mutant:''' You humans made us - Now ''suffer'' for your arrogance! |
| 548 | * TookALevelInBadass: Downplayed. While their physical design actually has them looking ''less'' muscular than their counterparts in the Capital Wasteland, the majority of Commonwealth Super Mutants seem to be a hell of a lot '''smarter.''' |
| 549 | * TragicMonster: Considering how they were all once ordinary people that were forcibly and horrifically mutated into vicious monsters, it's hard not to pity them to a certain degree. [[spoiler:Among the more notable examples is Swan, a Super Mutant Behemoth who was once an Institute resident-turned-test subject named Edgar Swann.]] |
| 550 | * UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:To the Institute. While their creation was originally an unintended side-effect of their synthetic tissue research, the Super Mutants are now sent into the Commonwealth to keep the region weak and divided. It's also implied that the Institute were trying to create more intelligent Super Mutants so as to come up with more effective surface agents to fight off dangerous threats like the Brotherhood of Steel.]] |
| 551 | * VillainousValor: For all of their savagery and bloodlust, one would ''never'' call the Commonwealth Super Mutants cowardly. Additionally, the Super Mutants themselves are shown to value the sharing of resources among them all and dislike fighting each other, to the point where they even deride humans for fighting among themselves when the Super Mutants are (comparatively) united. |
| 552 | * WasOnceAMan: Like all other Super Mutants, they were human... once. |
| 553 | * WhatMeasureIsAMook: They care about each other to a surprising degree, and will yell out in anguish when one of their "brothers" is killed. |
| 554 | * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Despite the vast majority of them being AlwaysChaoticEvil, several are shown to have human-level intelligence and they have a rather deep and intricate culture. |
| 555 | * WorthyOpponent: The Sole Survivor can become one for them, illicting comments like "Good fight, human! You die well!" and "Human fight well, almost as good as a Super Mutant!" |
| 556 | [[/folder]] |
| 557 | |
| 558 | [[folder:The Enclave Remnants]] |
| 559 | |
| 560 | A contingent of Enclave forces that has established a foothold in the Commonwealth, led by Major Elias. Converting the Atlantic Offices in the Glowing Sea into a makeshift HQ, these Enclave Remnants are seeking any valuable equipment they could find, and potentially make the region a new permanent stronghold. |
| 561 | ---- |
| 562 | * ElaborateUndergroundBase: Downplayed. While the Atlantic Offices might not look like much at first glance, Major Elias and his men have done a decent job converting the ruins into a functional field HQ befitting the Enclave. Given enough time and resources, it's suggested that they could have turned it into a veritable bunker complex. |
| 563 | * EliteMooks: The Enclave Remnants are heavily armored and well-equipped by default, which isn't even getting to the ones donning Hellfire Power Armor. |
| 564 | * {{Foil}}: To the Enclave Remnants in ''New Vegas''. Those in the Mojave are technically deserters and stragglers, many of whom are guilty only of either having once served under the Enclave or being born into it. The ones in the Commonwealth, meanwhile, are still explicitly in active duty, are following orders from their unseen superiors, and are permanently hostile. |
| 565 | * GreaterScopeVillain: The logs found in the Atlantic Offices reveal that they're taking orders from somewhere. Possibly from the Chicago outpost or even [[VideoGame/Fallout3 Colonel Autumn]]. |
| 566 | * LeaveNoWitnesses: Major Elias is shown as having express orders of shooting any "non-Enclave personnel" on sight if they risk compromising the location of the field HQ. |
| 567 | * MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: What starts out as an investigation into a missing caravan leads to the discovery of a deeper Enclave plot to secure the Commonwealth. |
| 568 | * NotQuiteDead: As it turns out, the Brotherhood of Steel didn't quite eliminate the Enclave's presence in the East Coast as thoroughly as hoped, given that a contingent has begun encroaching on the Commonwealth. |
| 569 | * ThoseWereOnlyTheirScouts: As formidable as Major Elias and his men are, it's revealed that they're simply the vanguard of a potential Enclave push into the Commonwealth. The Sole Survivor, however, can stop them before they could go that far. |
| 570 | |
| 571 | [[/folder]] |
| 572 | |
| 573 | !Non-Hostile Minor Factions |
| 574 | |
| 575 | [[folder:The USS ''Constitution'' Crew]] |
| 576 | |
| 577 | A group of robots who have commandeered the USS ''Constitution'' and are looking to set sail with it. |
| 578 | ---- |
| 579 | * AxCrazy: The Protectron First Mate is ''incredibly'' eager to kill intruders. It takes multiple orders to stand down from Captain Ironsides to get it to stop suggesting they should kill the Sole Survivor on sight. |
| 580 | * {{Camp}}: Only in ''Fallout'' will you see the USS ''Constitution'' be crewed by a bunch of English-accented robots who are looking to soar into the skies with it. |
| 581 | * TheCaptain: Captain Ironsides. |
| 582 | * EnmityWithAnObject: Captain Ironsides has this with the building the ship is stuck on. |
| 583 | -->'''Ironsides:''' Damn you, Weartherby Savings & Loan! I ''spit'' at you! |
| 584 | * FutureImperfect: Zig-zagged. Ironsides is aware enough that he knows that 210 years have passed and the United States government is no more, but still thinks that the remaining crew must war with Communist China. |
| 585 | * GentleGiant: Captain Ironsides is a huge Sentry bot, but only considers violence to be a last resort. |
| 586 | * HereWeGoAgain: Succeed in helping them launch, and they proudly escape Weatherby Savings And Loan...and promptly get the ship stuck on a ''skyscraper'' a few moments later. |
| 587 | * HistoricalInJoke: The real-world USS ''Constitution'' was only able to be successfully launched after ''three'' different attempts (with the first two failing due to the ship's weight making its ways sink into the ground). The USS ''Constitution'' as manned by Captain Ironsides in-game ''also'' takes three launches in an attempt to get to the ocean — the one that put it on top of Weatherby Savings and Loan in the past, the one the player character initiates, and [[spoiler:the future third launch after they get stuck on a skyscraper]]. |
| 588 | * {{Irony}}: |
| 589 | ** There's something hilariously bizarre about a [[KillerRobot Sentry Bot]] being a MartialPacifist. |
| 590 | ** For all of their struggles to get free from Weatherby Savings and Loan, [[spoiler:they can end up becalmed on yet ''another'' building that was ''also'' owned by the same Pre-War bank. On the upside, though, since the second building is a skyscraper, at least Old Ironsides is now safe from scavengers]]. |
| 591 | * ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] In-Universe. Captain Ironsides is just as confused as the Sole Survivor is on how the USS ''Constitution'' [[SchizoTech got rocket boosters]] and ended up on top of Weatherby Savings and Loan. However, he's ultimately decided that it's not worthy of concern and they should just move on from it. |
| 592 | * LargeAndInCharge: Captain Ironsides. He can't even fit below deck. |
| 593 | * LargeHam: Captain Ironsides chews enough scenery to give even the Silver Shroud pause. |
| 594 | * ManVersusMachine: You can side with the robots or the human scavengers. [[spoiler:If you side with the scavengers, [[ILied they'll turn on you]] anyway and force you to kill them in self-defense.]]. |
| 595 | * MeaningfulName: Captain Ironsides' name presumably comes from "Old Ironsides," the nickname for the U.S.S. ''Constitution''. |
| 596 | * MirroringFactions: With regards to the robots of the National Archives back in the Capital Wasteland. Like them, the crew of the ''Constitution'' are robots who have adopted names and personalities fitting with old Pre-War figures and customs, and fight to defend themselves against invaders. The difference is that Button Gwinnett and his followers were actually programming to think they ''were'' the historical figures and think they're still fighting the war, while Ironsides and his crew are just putting on airs and are aware it's the modern day (though he still thinks the country is at war with China). |
| 597 | * NiceGuy: Captain Ironsides is always humble and polite, even when the Sole Survivor says his plan will fail. |
| 598 | * RiddleForTheAges: PlayedForLaughs; the explanations behind the USS ''Constitution'' gaining giant rocket boosters, being retrofitted with advanced Pre-War tech, and ending up on top of Weatherby Savings and Loan are all [[NoodleIncident intentionally left up in the air]]. |
| 599 | * SchizoTech: The USS ''Constitution'' is an old sailing ship that has been retrofitted with both a set of giant rocket boosters and various computers and circuit breakers within its hold to both better control its armaments and maintain its upkeep. |
| 600 | * SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence: They pretty much run the gauntlet on this. Captain Ironsides and the Bosun are pretty intelligent & self-aware, while the majority of the crew (mostly Protectrons and a few Mr. Handies) are as mentally proficient as a brick. The First Mate, Mr. Navigator, and the Lookout all sit somewhere in the middle, with Mr. Navigator giving a particularly interesting remark when the [[spoiler:ship is sitting 100 meters in the air on the top of a skyscraper]]: |
| 601 | -->'''Mr. Navigator:''' Many meters off course on the Z-axis! |
| 602 | * StealthPun: They're literally a [[WoodenShipsAndIronMen Wooden Ship of Iron Men]], and their ship is floundered on a ''bank'', which Codsworth lampshades. |
| 603 | -->'''Codsworth:''' This ship looks quite the mystery. Run aground on a bank and not a scratch on her! |
| 604 | * SuicidalPacifism: Captain Ironsides will only retaliate against the Raiders and scavengers if they're an immediate threat, and then only to the extent that they're forced to retreat. Ironsides will acknowledge this as shortsighted, but explains that his programming dictates that he not harm citizens of the Commonwealth, which these aggressors are. |
| 605 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Both them and their sidequest bares several similarities to that of the Bright Brotherhood in ''New Vegas'', being that both are insular yet outwardly friendly groups of non-humans attempting to soar into the skies on makeshift rockets and need the {{Player Character}}'s assistance to perform a successful launch (and can have their efforts sabotaged for the benefit of a surly and antagonistic human). |
| 606 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: The Bosun says he cheers the player on because he wants to, ''not'' because the Captain programmed him to. |
| 607 | * TheRemnant: Captain Ironsides believes that he and his crew are all that remains of the US military, and wants to get the ship moving again to continue the war with China. |
| 608 | * WoodenShipsAndIronMen: Literally! All of the intelligent robots aboard speak and act as if it's this era. |
| 609 | [[/folder]] |
| 610 | |
| 611 | [[folder:The Pillars of the Community]] |
| 612 | |
| 613 | A religious cult based in the Charles View Amphitheater. |
| 614 | ---- |
| 615 | * DastardlyWhiplash: Brother Andrew (or James, Matthew, or Simon depending on which system you are playing on) has that kind of mustache. Refusing his offer to join the cult and give up all your possessions reveals him to be the petty criminal scam artist that he is. |
| 616 | * ScamReligion: It's incredibly obvious from the start that the cult is a ridiculous scam. If the Sole Survivor tells Brother Andrew that they're not stupid enough to fall for it, Andrew drops all pretense and immediately demands they offer everything they've got or have it taken from them. |
| 617 | * SinisterMinister: Brother Andrew, the leader of the cult. |
| 618 | * SnakeOilSalesman: Brother Andrew is doing nothing more than trying to scam any clueless rube he can find out of their belongings by promising that joining the cult will lead them on a path to wealth and prosperity. |
| 619 | * SuicidalOverconfidence: |
| 620 | ** Brother Andrew seems to think the Sole Survivor will still be intimidated into giving up all their goods... even if they're in a full suit of PowerArmor and wielding army-destroying weapons. He can be speech-checked into letting you go, which ironically is easier if you're wearing a nice suit that's less threatening than armor. |
| 621 | ** Depending on whether you met the Pillars before a quest that requires you to save a woman from them, you'll meet Brother Thomas who replaces Brother Andrew and who tries to pull the same scam, while surrounded by the corpses you created last. Unlike with most quests you can actually ''point this out to him'', and he immediately folds and takes you to her. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation You can also say this]] if the Pillars were killed by Raiders, Super Mutants and/or crashing Vertibirds, rather than you. |
| 622 | [[/folder]] |
| 623 | |
| 624 | [[folder:The ''FMS Northern Star'' Raiders]] |
| 625 | |
| 626 | A band of ghouls inhabiting a shipwrecked vessel of foreign origin who are heavily implied to be foreign sailors stranded by the bombs - specifically Norwegian from their speech. |
| 627 | ---- |
| 628 | |
| 629 | * DerelictGraveyard: They are only encountered aboard the ''FMS Northern Star'', which has been a wreck for centuries. |
| 630 | * IDieFree: One of their quotes upon death translates roughly to "I'm coming home." |
| 631 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: They're essentially post-apocalyptic Viking ghouls. |
| 632 | * TheRemnant: They appear to be all that's left of a stranded Norwegian ship crew. |
| 633 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: They're this to the Chinese remnant soldiers in the Capital Wasteland, only considerably more unhinged and angry. |
| 634 | * TragicMonster: Compared to most other Raiders out in the Wasteland, they seem more interested in being left alone and returning to their distant, possibly irradiated homeland. |
| 635 | * WackyWaysideTribe: Of a sort. They're definitely not your usual Raiders. |
| 636 | [[/folder]] |
| 637 | |
| 638 | [[folder:Vault 81 Citizens]] |
| 639 | |
| 640 | A Vault that, unlike many others, is not only still operational, but is also inhabited by the descendants of those lucky souls who escaped the fires of the Great War. But this supposed control Vault, where Curie can also be found, is not without its secrets. |
| 641 | ---- |
| 642 | * CrapsaccharineWorld: Subverted. It's as stable as a control vault, [[spoiler:because the Overseer at the time intentionally sabotaged the pathogen experiments and cut off communication with the other Vault-Tec scientists, stranding them with only mole rats and a robot for company for the rest of their lives.]] |
| 643 | * DissonantSerenity: The entire Vault is downright ''surreal'' to dedicated Fallout players because it's such a genuinely peaceful and pleasant place to visit. |
| 644 | * EccentricTownsfolk: Inverted. The Vault 81 inhabitants are disconcertingly normal compared to everyone else in the Wasteland. They're concerned about adultery, money, and being overworked, rather than being murdered or eaten. Though many of them are a bit wary about outsiders for fairly understandable reasons. |
| 645 | * EverytownAmerica: As close to the genuine ideal of Pre-War America as you're going to get since the bombs. |
| 646 | * FantasticRacism: Inverted. They don't trust outsiders but the Overseer has convinced them to accept traders. The Sole Survivor can also prove to them that outsiders can be heroes too. |
| 647 | ** Held true if you bring in Nick Valentine or Hancock as a follower, they'll make snide comments about their status as a Synth or a Ghoul, with Nick and Hancock [[SnarkToSnarkCombat making good retorts back to them]]. |
| 648 | --->'''Vault 81 Resident:''' What the hell's that ''thing'' doing here?\ |
| 649 | '''Nick Valentine:''' Is that what your parents used to say to you? |
| 650 | * FishOutOfTemporalWater: Sort of, and in a similar manner to Curie in particular. In a sense, they're a living time-capsule of Pre-War American society. |
| 651 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Curie notes that after the Overseer cut off their access to the civilian section of the Vault, the scientists [[HeelFaceTurn had a change of heart]] and deliberately sealed their dangerous experiments away with themselves to protect the rest of the Vault, investigating what they could with what they had and living the remainder of their lives in peace. Even their deaths were from natural causes rather than suicide or infighting.]] |
| 652 | * LastOfHisKind: By 2287, it's one of the small handful of Vaults that still remain operational and well-kept. [[spoiler:And it's not even a control Vault!]] |
| 653 | * MirroringFactions: They're this in regards to ''many'' different Vaults across the series. |
| 654 | ** To Vault 101. While the Lone Wanderer's original home in the Capital Wasteland continued following its intended objectives, similar as they might seem, [[spoiler:Vault 81 long abandoned its original purpose.]] |
| 655 | ** To Vault 13 and Vault City as well. While its population is rather secluded and tends to keep to themselves, said population nonetheless remains very friendly and open so long as the Sole Survivor reciprocates. |
| 656 | ** To Vault 3. Unlike the one known control Vault in the Mojave [[spoiler:which got overrun by the Fiends, and who were then killed to the last man]], the denizens of Vault 81 are far from naive and are at least wise enough to not leave their front door open. |
| 657 | ** To Vault 21. Both Vaults were experimental vaults that were expected to result in the demise of the inhabitants, one way or another. While Vault 81 [[spoiler:decided to abandon its experiment for the sake of its inhabitants]], Vault 21's experiment proved to be perfectly compatible with surviving comfortably until they encountered Mr. House. |
| 658 | ** To Vault 11. [[spoiler:Vault 11's inhabitants went along with its experiment of choosing one of their own to sacrifice each year, despite Vault-Tec assuming they would refuse and having a special message to congratulate them on not sacrificing anyone. Vault 81 was designed with the full intention of its residents being experimented on by being exposed to novel types of diseases, but the overseer decided to abandon this experiment altogether.]] |
| 659 | * NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: Some individuals are interested in actually leaving the vault, though they know it's very dangerous outside, because it's all they ever seen their entire lives. [[spoiler:True to the trope, there's a shadowy side to their home that even they aren't aware of.]] |
| 660 | * ProperlyParanoid: Some of the Vault Dwellers' xenophobia is somewhat reasonable, since opening their Vault to outsiders would make them susceptible to attacks by [[RapePillageAndBurn Raiders]] and other villainous factions who'd want their bountiful Pre-War artifacts and resources. Conversing with Neil also reveals that many of them lack martial training of ''any'' sort, let alone the HadToBeSharp mentality of the wasteland, which would ''not'' be ideal in Commonwealth. |
| 661 | * QuirkyTown: You don't get much quirkier in ''Fallout'' than a bunch of normal, nice, decent people with no trauma, horrible secrets or major mental baggage. |
| 662 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Gwen [=McNamara=], the Overseer of Vault 81, qualifies as one of these. Dr. Olivette, the original Overseer, as well (especially since she turned out to be [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight one of the only moral members of the Vault-Tec program]] in recorded history). |
| 663 | * RagnarokProofing: Zig-zagged. While the Vault is shown to be undergoing tons of repair work by the time the Sole Survivor arrives and Overseer [=McNamara=] even complains at one point about how their Vault is slowly breaking down, 81 still comes across as surprisingly stable and has held up remarkably well over the centuries. |
| 664 | ** Averted with the [[spoiler:hidden research wing of the Vault. Cave-ins are common and lighting is infrequent, with only a few isolated computer terminals and Curie's room being kept in decent shape]]. |
| 665 | * ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: [[spoiler:Dr. Olivette, the first overseer, was not a Vault-Tec employee, but a politician, and one with a good conscience and was hired on because their first choice fell ill. As such, she planned on blowing the whistle when she found out about its purpose, but found that Vault-Tec had too many connections in the government. So, she sabotaged the experiment as best she could by removing the scientists from the emergency call list for when The Great War started. Three scientists and their robot, Curie, still arrived, though. She then ended up sabotaging the bacterial delivery nozzles and completely sealed them in, knowing it would eventually kill them but would save the rest of the Vault citizens.]] |
| 666 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In addition to being a more upbeat Vault 101, it has some similarities to Vault 21 from ''New Vegas'' -- [[spoiler:a non-control Vault that despite the expectations of Vault-Tec and the Enclave, ''thrived.'']] |
| 667 | * TownWithADarkSecret: [[spoiler:As it turned out, the Vault was originally intended to test various diseases on the unsuspecting dwellers, as much for developing biological weapons as it is for finding innovative cures. But only a handful of the scientists who were meant to oversee said tests made it inside before the bombs fell. Due to [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight sabotage of the Vault's mission by the original Overseer]] the scientists were sealed from the Vault itself.]] |
| 668 | [[/folder]] |
| 669 | |
| 670 | [[folder:Covenant]] |
| 671 | |
| 672 | Located roughly between Medford/Malden and Lexington, Covenant's a remarkably pristine and well-guarded settlement that seems... ''off'' on a closer look. |
| 673 | ---- |
| 674 | * ALighterShadeOfGrey: Jacob is a fair streak nicer than [[spoiler:the scientists and militia at the Compound]]. He's open to reason and negotiation (with some difficult speech checks), is proud to ally Covenant with the Minutemen to help protect the Commonwealth, and he believes the cover story for Covenant's existence is really just as important as its true purpose, because [[spoiler:it is giving people who have had their homes and families destroyed by the Institute a chance to rebuild a normal life in peace and safety.]] |
| 675 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: The entire town is a smiling, friendly, pleasant bunch of people, that conceal a dark purpose behind their town's existence. |
| 676 | * ContinuityNod: The test they administer (the S.A.F.E) is in fact the G.O.A.T. from ''Fallout 3's'' character creation sequence, just with a few rewordings to remove references to Vaults. |
| 677 | * CrapsaccharineWorld: On the surface, Covenant looks like a gorgeous little Pre-War town, complete with a delightfully quirky robot that serves lemonade! But in reality, [[spoiler:Covenant is an elaborate trap created with the sole purpose of rooting out Synths from the Wasteland, whereupon the suspects are kidnapped and subjected to ''nightmarish'' torture to root out their true identity]]. |
| 678 | * NewTechIsNotCheap: And Pre-War tech is even more expensive. Covenant is built like a fortress on the outside, but looks spotless and Pre-War on the inside. A glimpse at a terminal reveals the town's supported by an outside budget and is vastly more expensive to maintain than the shacks most people use for houses elsewhere in the Commonwealth. |
| 679 | * NotQuiteTheRightThing: [[spoiler:The woman they accuse is indeed a Synth, but one small detail changes everything: the caravan she was part of belonged to Old Man Stockton, a Railroad agent using his caravans as cover-op for transporting runaway Synths. If the player is a Railroad member, he will outright confirm that Amelia is a memory-wiped Synth he adopted as his daughter.]] As such, there is ultimately more leaning against them than there is in their favor. After all, there is still no way to tell if [[spoiler:a Synth is an Institute infiltrator or a runaway Synth that has been mind wiped by the Railroad and who no longer remembers that they are a Synth]]. |
| 680 | ** The test itself, while well intentioned, seems to be doing way more harm than good. Dr. Chambers outright admits that the test results in 4 to 5 false positives for every [[spoiler: synth identified. This means that four to five innocent humans have to be kidnapped, tortured, murdered and dissected to identify a single synth. The Sole Survivor can even express skepticism over the efficacy of this test]]. |
| 681 | * ProperlyParanoid: Given that they [[spoiler:are against the Institute]], a certain level of paranoia is reasonable. [[spoiler:Also, the woman they accuse of being a Synth actually ''is'' one, though whether this was a lucky guess or they were on to something with their psychological testing scheme is unclear.]] |
| 682 | * ShoutOut: To ''Film/{{Blade Runner}},'' with a question test reminiscent of Voight-Kampff. |
| 683 | * StepfordSmiler: A whole settlement of them, though some have more trouble keeping up the façade than others. |
| 684 | * TownWithADarkSecret: [[spoiler:Covenant was founded by survivors of Synths replacing friends and family and killing them on the Institute's orders, who now seek to weed out Synth infiltrators by kidnapping people who visit Covenant after asking them a series of questions that have a high fail-rate and then murder them.]] |
| 685 | * WackyWaysideTribe: They're probably one of the darkest examples of this trope within the ''Fallout'' series. |
| 686 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: The player is free to simultaneously express agreement with their goal ([[spoiler:take down the Institute]]) while opposing their methods ([[spoiler:kidnapping and torturing suspected Synths]]). |
| 687 | * WholePlotReference: Covenant's storyline is more or less based after both the towns of Andale from ''Fallout 3'' and Hackdirt from ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion.'' The plot of an influential businessman looking for his missing daughter is also one to the White Glove Society quest in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' |
| 688 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Most of them are [[spoiler:survivors who lost friends and family to either Synth infiltration, or getting in the way of Institute Coursers. They're behind the abduction, torture, and murders of several people, but they believe they have to do it to protect other people from Synths.]] |
| 689 | [[/folder]] |
| 690 | |
| 691 | [[folder:The Atom Cats]] |
| 692 | |
| 693 | A small greaser gang located near Quincy who specialize in fancy paint jobs for Power Armor. |
| 694 | ---- |
| 695 | * BullyingADragon: The Gunners think it's a brilliant plan to ''attack a garage where everyone owns a suit of powered armor''. |
| 696 | * CoolGarage: Their hangout is located inside a Red Rocket garage, and is installed with a power armor station. |
| 697 | * GreaserDelinquents: [[PlayingWithATrope Played With]]. Greasers, yes. Delinquents, no. They're a post-apocalyptic textbook example with their leather jackets, blue jeans, slicked-back hair and retro nicknames, and their love of customizing Power Armor like cars, to the point that they even have a short drag racing strip set up-for Power Armor racing! Subverted in that they are also avid poetry buffs who hold regular Poetry nights (about Powered Armors!) and don't engage in any criminal activity, even helping the local farm out. |
| 698 | * HotPaintJob: Their custom Powered Armor paintjob features orange flames over a dark blue background, which can also be purchased and used by the player. |
| 699 | * JiveTurkey: They're always talking in greaser and beatnik slang. |
| 700 | * MightyGlacier: By default, they carry pipe guns, but a high-level player can encounter them with modded assault rifles, allowing them to put out a considerable amount of damage on top of their high defense and health. |
| 701 | * NoseArt: An issue of Hot Rodder can be found in their garage, allowing the player to paint their Power Armor this way. |
| 702 | * NiceGuy: One of the friendliest factions of the game, and who also help the nearby settlement of Warwick Homestead with repair jobs. |
| 703 | * PoweredArmor: They are dedicated to using and stylizing suits of pre-war suits of Power Armor. |
| 704 | * StoneWall: Being power armor aficionados, their power-armor wearing members are incredibly tough (their hit points are pretty decent as well), but their weapons start out as the standard pipe guns. |
| 705 | * TwoGirlsToATeam: Rowdy and Roxy. |
| 706 | * WarriorPoet: Literally. Besides being powered armor enthusiasts (with all that implies) they hold poetry nights. |
| 707 | [[/folder]] |
| 708 | |
| 709 | [[folder:Diamond City]] |
| 710 | -->See Characters/Fallout4DiamondCity |
| 711 | [[/folder]] |
| 712 | |
| 713 | [[folder:Goodneighbor]] |
| 714 | -->See Characters/Fallout4Goodneighbor |
| 715 | [[/folder]] |
| 716 | |
| 717 | !Minor [=DLC=] Factions |
| 718 | |
| 719 | [[folder:The Rust Devils]] |
| 720 | |
| 721 | Introduced in the ''Automatron'' [=DLC=], they're a deadly gang of Raiders with a penchant for robots. Coming from outside the Commonwealth, they serve as the antagonists for the second third of the [=DLC=], having captured Jezebel, one of the Mechanist's Robobrains. Their main headquarters is the Fort Hagen Satellite Array and hangar, both of which they have converted into a massive fortress. However, the Sole Survivor and Ada clear them out in their quest to destroy the Mechanist. They're then reduced to minor antagonists found skirmishing with the other factions across the Commonwealth (mostly spawning close to places where robots are scripted to appear, like some of the Pre-War military checkpoints). |
| 722 | ---- |
| 723 | * AceCustom: |
| 724 | ** They employ various custom robots. Of particular note is AHAB, a Sentry Bot equipped with flamethrowers and a Deathclaw skull for a head. |
| 725 | ** Their leader uses a unique set of Tesla Power Armor (different from regular powered armor with Tesla mods in that it increases the damage dealt by energy weapons rather than dealing energy damage with unarmed attacks). |
| 726 | * ArmorIsUseless: Averted. They use Robot Armor (armor shells scavenged from Assaultrons, Sentry Bots and Protectrons) which provides protection superior to Metal Armor and is nearly equal to the lighter Synth Armor (ballistic protection is better, but energy protection is slightly worse). |
| 727 | * DecapitatedArmy: Averted. Even after the death of their leader Ivey, they will still be active in the Commonwealth. |
| 728 | * ElaborateUndergroundBase: Their headquarters is located underneath the Fort Hagen satellite array. |
| 729 | * EliteMooks: They're noticeably harder to fight than normal Raiders (for what're pretty obvious reasons). |
| 730 | * GangOfHats: They're Raiders with an affinity towards robots. Wearing robot parts as armor, using robot parts for weaponry, siccing robots on Wastelanders, etc. |
| 731 | * MechaMooks: They use robots to supplement their forces. |
| 732 | * RenegadeSplinterFaction: They are basically Raiders with a fascination for robotics and will attack anybody who isn't them, even against other Raider gangs (this can occur in a few random encounters whenever regular Raiders are present, but most likely happens near the General Atomics Factory). |
| 733 | * ShoutOut: It's possible that they're named after the tribe of the same name from the popular apocalyptic fiction festival "Wasteland Weekend." |
| 734 | * SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: They frequently decorate their custom robots with skulls. |
| 735 | [[/folder]] |
| 736 | |
| 737 | [[folder:The Trappers]] |
| 738 | |
| 739 | ''Far Harbor's'' version of Raiders. They have a coastal/fishing theme, and are largely cannibals. They're said to be residents of the Island rendered insane by the Fog. |
| 740 | ---- |
| 741 | * AxCrazy: They're insane even when compared to the drug-addled Raiders, and can often be heard laughing maniacally or growling like animals in combat. |
| 742 | * GangOfHats: They have a coastal/fishing theme. They wear scavenged fishermen/diving gear, use lobster traps for helmets, and even carry harpoon guns and pole hooks into battle. |
| 743 | * ImAHumanitarian: Trappers have no qualms about eating humans [[spoiler:(or even Synths that look like people)]], something not even Raiders are crazy enough to fall to. |
| 744 | * SpikesOfVillainy: The Trappers' signature armor is noticeably spikey and bulky. Quite fitting, as they're insane, even compared to Raiders. |
| 745 | * VillainByDefault: Like Raiders, they are always hostile to everyone. |
| 746 | * WhatMeasureIsAMook: Averted compared to Raiders. Trappers don't seem to care when some of their own are killed. |
| 747 | [[/folder]] |
| 748 | |
| 749 | [[folder:The Robobrains of Vault 118]] |
| 750 | |
| 751 | Built below the Cliff's Edge Hotel, Vault 118 was intended to encompass two different wings under one Overseer - one to house members of the highest class of society (Hollywood actors, business tycoons, scientists and artists), and the other to house the lower classes. Because of budget cuts, however, the majority of the Vault was made up of robotic staff and only the wealthier half of the Vault was ever finished. Thinking of ways to cheat death, the wealthy inhabitants had their brains placed into Robobrain bodies and have spent their time doodling around for the intervening centuries. The Sole Survivor comes to visit them in order to solve a murder mystery based here. |
| 752 | ---- |
| 753 | * AceCustom: Their Robobrains are mentioned as being specifically superior to the Robobrains found elsewhere in the Wasteland. Most notably, the formerly human inhabitants are still relatively sane and (unlike other Robobrains) retain their personalities and humanity. Their robotic bodies are also small enough to comfortably fit through Vault corridors. Justified as well given how among the Vault's inhabitants is Bert Riggs, who was one of the lead developers behind the Robobrain. |
| 754 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: They're just as deadly as any Robobrain if pushed. Especially the actual murderer. |
| 755 | * {{Camp}}: ''Wonderfully'' so, with them rivaling the crew of the ''USS Constitution'' in this regard. |
| 756 | * DysfunctionJunction: Even on good days, the residents of the Vault get along like a bag of wet cats. |
| 757 | * ElaborateUndergroundBase: Their hotel is still a Vault, after all. |
| 758 | * FishOutOfTemporalWater: Played with. They're more or less aware that over two hundred years have passed since the Great War. On the other hand, they seem incredibly oblivious to the fact that the world they knew actually ''ended.'' Not to mention how they tend to much ado about their Pre-War wealth, which means very little if at all in the outside world as the US Dollar is nonexistent. |
| 759 | * InternalHomage: To the [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Sierra Madre]], albeit {{Played for Laughs}}. Both are Pre-War tourist attractions inhabited by the upper crust of society, with the latter then having their human bodies lost with them being preserved in a new form (Vault 118 had the Robobrains, while the Sierra Madre had the Holograms). It's especially notable when one takes into account how one of the inhabitants had a rivalry with Vera Keyes before the Great War. |
| 760 | * MechaMooks: The entire staff is robotic (mostly Mr. Handies and Protectrons). |
| 761 | * PoliceAreUseless: The entire plot of the murder mystery here is due to the robotic security staff being so incompetent that they couldn't catch a Robobrain (which rolls around on incredibly loud tank-treads) killing another in the main room of the hotel. Possibly Justified by the robotic security staff having been hacked by the murderer. |
| 762 | * RagnarokProofing: Justified because it's been actively maintained by its robotic staff over the decades. On the other hand, the parts of the Vault that aren't frequented by the inhabitants (like the Overseer's Office) look a bit worse for wear, mainly because of neglect. |
| 763 | * UndergroundCity: Downplayed to the extent that it's only an Underground ''Hotel.'' |
| 764 | * UpperClassTwit: '''Everyone,''' or at least those still around at any rate. The lower class wing of Vault 118 was never completed, while the Overseer shot himself rather than spend the rest of his life having to put up with the Robobrains. |
| 765 | [[/folder]] |
| 766 | |
| 767 | [[folder:The Hubologists]] |
| 768 | |
| 769 | A religious sect founded pre-Great War by science fiction author Dick Hubbell. They first appear in ''VideoGame/Fallout2'', and are now encountered in Nuka-World. They are searching the park for a decommissioned UFO ride they believe is a spaceship that can take them to their promised land. |
| 770 | ---- |
| 771 | * AmbiguousSituation: The story's pretty vague on whether or not this Hubologist sect is descended from the division seen on the West Coast, or just arose on the East Coast by itself. |
| 772 | * TheBusCameBack: As an organization, they hadn't even been mentioned after ''Fallout 2''. |
| 773 | * CargoCult: They believe that an old Gravitron amusement park ride is a genuine spaceship that will take them to their new home on planet Quetzal. |
| 774 | * ChurchOfHappyology: The Hubologists are heavily inspired by a certain religion which was founded by a certain science fiction writer, all the way down to a certain idea of spirits of the dead plaguing the living and charging money for treatments.. |
| 775 | * FamousAncestor: Their current leader is the direct descendant of the founder of Hubology himself. |
| 776 | * HistoryRepeats: Their fate is strangely similar to that of the Hubologist sect from ''Fallout 2.'' |
| 777 | * MysteryCult: They have secrets that are only revealed if you reach a certain rank. |
| 778 | * PunnyName: With the exception of Cleansed, the members have names relating to going in a circular motion: '''Hub'''bel, '''Spin'''ney, '''Roll'''er, '''Hoop'''er, and '''Turn'''er. |
| 779 | * ScamReligion: Has some pretty heavy shades of this, which is justified because that was the founder's original intent for Hubology. They aren't particularly nefarious, though - just [[CloudCuckoolander weird as all get-out]]. |
| 780 | * SchmuckBait: Per the scam religion element of the sect, you can pay the Hubologists an increasing amount of caps to advance in rank. And your reward for going all the way to AHS-8? Advanced radiation poisoning and a ''massive'' boost in Intelligence... for all of 24 hours. |
| 781 | * TooDumbToLive: Their involvement in the [=DLC=] ends in one of two ways. [[spoiler:Have everything they need to get their UFO working? Congratulations! You have a working Gravitron. Don't have everything you need, but what the hell? Congratulations! You just blew the heads off the entire cult.]] Gage loves the latter outcome, by the way. |
| 782 | * YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler:What happens to all of them if the "UFO" doesn't work properly.]] |
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