History WMG / Fallout

* ''Characters/Fallout1''
* ''Characters/Fallout2''
* ''Characters/Fallout3''
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* ''Characters/FalloutShelter''
* ''Characters/Fallout76''
* ''Characters/Fallout2024''

[[WMG: The Enclave bombed DC.]]

[[WMG: The war between the NCR and the Legion is baised on the RealLife Iraq War of 2003-2011]]

[[WMG: The ''Fallout'' verse divergence point from real life was Joseph [=McCarthy=] was never censured and did not die from Hepatitis]]

[[WMG: The massive number of nuclear cars on the road made the devistation of the war much worse]]

[[WMG: The explosion of new bio-diversity has as much to do with mass extinction as mutation]]

[[WMG: The Pipboy (models 2000 Plus and beyond) are the reason why the player's character is better than the peoples of the wasteland.]]

[[WMG: District of Columbia was bombed by low yield dirty bombs]]

[[WMG: Washington DC had an operational missile defense system.]]

[[WMG: The ''Fallout'' games are all immersive VR history lessons.]]

[[WMG: The next installment will involve water in a big way]]

[[WMG: The reason why atomic technology is so widespread is because the bomb was never dropped...]]

[[WMG: James and Catherine are from the Commonwealth.]]

[[WMG: The NCR and the society that arises from the East Coast (Project Purity, the Eastern Brotherhood, etc.) are doomed to go to war when they meet near the middle of the country.]]

[[WMG: The "white flashes and voices" at the beginning of the third game are due to the events in the "Walking with Spirits" quest in Point Lookout.]]

[[WMG: The ''Fallout'' universe is a BizarroUniverse of the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' universe.]]

[[WMG: Confessor Cromwell is right.]]

[[WMG: The Brotherhood of Steel were working for the Enclave at one point.]]

[[WMG: The Enclave is the Hero Doomed to Failure of the ''Fallout'' series.]]

[[WMG: The only real person is the PC.]]

[[WMG: Myron didn't actually ''invent'' Jet like he claims.]]

[[WMG: Post-apocalyptic Earth is being quarantined by aliens]]

[[WMG: The first nukes were launched by aliens!]]

[[WMG: EnsembleDarkHorse Vault Boy is a real person and is the CEO of Vault-tec.]]

[[WMG: The Enclave killed most, if not all, of the kids in Little Lamplight.]]

[[WMG: The Narrator is the Vault Dweller, from ''Fallout 1''.]]

[[WMG: The world ''Fallout'' takes place isn't earth but Magrathea form ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' and the same planet that Guardian of Forever is on.]]

[[WMG: The Brotherhood of Steel is on its way to a civil war.]]

[[WMG: A [[HeelFaceTurn Heel-Face Turned]] Enclave base and a Heel-Face Turned Chinese base worked together to build space ships to leave Earth when the nukes started flying.]]

[[WMG: Punga fruit and cave fungus will save humanity.]]

[[WMG: The Lone Wanderer did survive the ending.]]

[[WMG: James survived his sabotage of Project Purity and rescued Colonel Autumn.]]

[[WMG: Colonel Autumn's reasons for opposing Eden's Final Solution are largely selfish.]]

[[WMG: The Brotherhood of Steel was founded by Communist China.]]

[[WMG: Gary Staley, of Gary's Galley, is one of the Garys from Vault 108.]]

[[WMG: The [[Literature/TheBooksOfEmber City of Ember]] is one of the Vaults.]]

[[WMG: TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}} takes place in a Vault GoneHorriblyWrong.]]

[[WMG: The Fallout Universe is an Alternate (possible?) future of Watchmen]]

[[WMG: If you seduce Burke with a female character during The Power of the Atom he eventually kills himself.]]

[[WMG: Megaton was built from the Chinese bomber that dropped the bomb the town is built around.]]

[[WMG: The Fallout universe is the result of ending to ''Film/DrStrangelove''.]]

[[WMG: Rockopolis was a trog city.]]

[[WMG: Vault Dwellers are genetically superior to Wastelanders.]]

[[WMG: The Falloutverse has been cursed by [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia the White Witch.]]]]

[[WMG: The U.K. survived, and they're just being dickheads by refusing to send any foreign aid to nuclear-devastated regions.]]

[[WMG: Mister Burke is an undercover Enclave agent.]]

[[WMG: A majority of players seem to side with Lord Ashur and consider Wernher to be Starscream/Frank Fontaine. I submit instead that Wernher is Moses.]]

[[WMG: The three dead bodies found outside of Vault 101 are the remains of the scouting party sent out by the previous overseer.]]

[[WMG: Speaking of Canada...]]

[[WMG: Mister Burke is the avatar of Atom]]

[[WMG: Argyle was previously Brainwashed into blindly following whoever held his "Contract" (Dashwood, in this case), much like Charon]]

[[WMG: Little Lamplight is secretly under Super Mutant control]]

[[WMG: The US and China are the only "wastelands", everywhere else is more or less fine.]]

[[WMG: In ''Fallout 3'', if you reach the "Saint" class level, you will actually become one.]]

[[WMG: Liberty Prime is a Franchise/{{Transformer|s}}.]]

[[WMG: The Nuka-Cola Corporation secretly started the war in order to control the economy of the post-apocalyptic wasteland.]]

[[WMG: Everything that happens after you first "wake up" as an adult is a Vault-Tec simulation.]]

[[WMG: If you enter Vault 106 you never leave.]]

[[WMG: The Lone Wanderer becomes Braun's new plaything.]]

[[WMG: Elder Lyons purposely caused the schism between the Capital Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel.]]

[[WMG: Slavery will never end in the Pitt.]]

[[WMG: It takes place in the same alternate reality as VideoGame/BioShock.]]

[[WMG: Megaton is doomed to become a mutant haven.]]

[[WMG: Everything that happens during and after the Broken Steel add-on is a DyingDream]]

[[WMG: The Capital Wasteland is a recently re-settled area.]]

[[WMG: Vault-Tec knew the apocalypse would happen, and may still be functioning.]]

[[WMG: ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' is the divergence point into the Fallout timeline]]

[[WMG: Ghouls are the allegory of Jews.]]

[[WMG: Fallout 3 takes place in the Command and Conquer universe and the Great War was a desperate solution to the Tiberium problem.]]

[[WMG: Most or all of the nuclear bombs dropped on the Capital Wasteland were neutron bombs.]]

[[WMG: The Mother Punga in Point Lookout is actually a physical manifestation of an EldritchAbomination.]]

[[WMG: The main character is fluent in Chinese.]]

[[WMG: Everybody's sense of time has been distorted by radiation--the game actually takes place twenty years after the bombs fell, not 200.]]

[[WMG: The Super Mutants are the reason the Capital Wasteland is so primitive when compared to places like the NCR and New Vegas.]]

[[WMG: Moira is already becoming a ghoul]]

[[WMG: Feral Gob would kill Moriarty.]]

[[WMG: All Raiders have a deathwish.]]

[[WMG: [=AntAgonizer=] and Mechanist would become a serious threat if not stopped.]]

[[WMG: [=AntAgonizer=] would make her minions wear Psycho-Tic helmets.]]

[[WMG: [=AntAgonizer=] would become a viable threat by herself.]]

[[WMG: [=AntAgonizer=] could have been damn useful in Greyditch]]

[[WMG: Fallout takes place in the HP Lovecraft universe]]

[[WMG: The East Coast Brotherhood is going to turn itself into the eastern equivalent of the NCR.]]

[[WMG: New Vegas will deal with the original purpose of the Vaults; [[spoiler: space travel.]]]]

[[WMG: ''[[VideoGame/{{Battlefield}} Battlefield 2]]'' takes place in the Fallout verse]]

[[WMG: The aliens from the Mothership Zeta add-on are from Mars]]

[[WMG: The Capital Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel, now probably the dominant division of the faction will ally with the New California Republic]]

[[WMG: The Lone Wanderer never returned to Earth]]

[[WMG: Three Dog is God.]]

[[WMG: [=RadAway=] is imported Vodka.]]

[[WMG: Elder Lyons was sent east to be gotten out of the way, not just to look for tech.]]

[[WMG: Fallout 3 is really a video simulation in Fallout New Vegas.]]

[[WMG: The Lone Wanderer is a perfected super mutant from The Master's army.]]

[[WMG: What happens when you get too irradiated?]]

[[WMG: The plan to leave Earth has already worked and resulted in [[{{Series/Firefly}} The Aliance]].]]

[[WMG: The obligatory Time Lord theory]]

[[WMG: There is a good in-story reason why so many doors are boarded up in Three and New Vegas.]]

[[WMG: The reason you can offhandedly fire a death ray at Canada is because a coder at Bethseda once ate a terrible poutine.]]

[[WMG: after the end of the game Veronica joined Lyons Pride]]

[[WMG: The Brotherhood of Steel will soon be gone from the West Coast.]]

[[WMG: Dr.Lesko intentionally engineered the firebreathing ants]]

[[WMG: The fallout series takes place after ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'']]

[[WMG: The Mad Max Trilogy takes place during the first years of the Fallout Series]]

[[WMG: Casear's Legion is active in The Captial Wasteland and Burke is part of the Frumentarii]]

[[WMG: If not killed, Roy Phillips would take over the Capital Wasteland]]

[[WMG: Marcus is being set up to take Harold's place as the main recuring character]]

[[WMG: The Lone Wanderer/The Courier are both psychic]]

[[WMG: Marcus will travel East and come into opposition with the Capital Wasteland Brotherhood]]

[[WMG: Fallout 4, a spin-off game, or some later game will involve Chicago, the Enclave and the Brotherhood... but not as we know them]]

[[WMG: Other possible locations for future games]]

[[WMG: The Vault Dweller, Chosen One, Lone Wanderer, and Courier are all related.]]

[[WMG: The origin of Bob.]]

[[WMG: The 'Extremely Interesting Changes' that President Dick Richardson mentions are the same changes that cause most wastelanders to become stupid mutants.]]

[[WMG: The Master in Fallout 1 is the Master from Doctor Who.]]

[[WMG: China launched the first nukes out of desperation.]]

[[WMG: We haven't seen the last of the Gary clones]]

[[WMG: It's A Small World After All; the fate of the rest of the world]]

[[WMG: Mothership Zeta is the Lone Wanderer watching a pre war movie]]

[[WMG: Aliens Caused the War]]

[[WMG: The reason why the United States stayed in cultural stasis is because of the Enclave]]

[[WMG: There actually wasn't a cultural stasis in the Fallout series, the Enclave just left behind all the evidence to troll the survivors of the nuclear war]]

[[WMG: Fallout 4 will take place in Alaska, or at least have DLC that takes place there, because of its energy and resource importance.]]

[[WMG: The Mysterious Stranger is the immortal Chessmaster behind everything in the games.]]

[[WMG: The LuckStat is minor [[RealityWarper reality warping]] affecting only probabilities and can be boosted by placebo effect/confidence.]]

[[WMG: ''Manga/SevenSeeds'' is essentially what happened to Japan in the Fallout-verse.]]

[[WMG: Desmond's next "opponent" is funding the "Institute" that A3-21 escaped from]]

[[WMG: Every mention of 'nuclear' in the games actually refers to cellular nuclei, not atomic nuclei.]]

[[WMG: The [[Series/DoctorWho TARDIS]] seen in Fallout 1 was not the actual TARDIS.]]

[[WMG: China wasn't communist, as the Western propaganda claimed, but rather moderately socialist.]]

[[WMG: China never actually launched at the US.]]

[[WMG: The aliens were trying to avoid the war]]

[[WMG: Fallout is a BadFuture, not an AlternateUniverse.]]

[[WMG: Ronald Reagan still became President]]

[[WMG: Nuka Cola tastes like Dr. Pepper (despite being a pastiche of Coca Cola)]]

[[WMG: Fallout doesn't take place on our Earth, but on [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Omega IV]].]]

[[WMG: Mount Rushmore will appear in a Fallout game.]]

[[WMG: More guesses at the state of the rest of the world]]

[[WMG: State of certain cities and countries]]

[[WMG: Vault 0 really was the nucleus of the vaults, but its true purpose was to monitor the Vault Experiments while simultaneously experimenting with neuro-computer technology.]]

[[WMG: Radiation in the Fallout universe is [[ArtisticLicensePhysics screwy]] because [[AWizardDidIt ghosts]]]]

[[WMG: The Vaults were set on a regional time locks.]]

[[WMG: Radiation in the Fallout Universe isn't the energy emissions studied in our universe...]]

[[WMG: The Sovietunion isn't an American ally, but not too interested in helping China]]

[[WMG: There has only ever been one Dogmeat - He's immortal!]]

[[WMG: A huge percentage of the Wasteland's problems can be attributed to the origins of [[http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Jet Jet.]]]]

[[WMG: Felines are well alive in Fallout]]

[[WMG: Fallout and Asimov's Foundation novels are in the same universe]]

[[WMG: The protagonists of all the main games are all related.]]

[[WMG: A justification to introduce horses in future installments]]

[[WMG: If a ''Fallout'' game taking place in the Pacific Northwest (with the map spanning from British Columbia to Northern Oregon) is ever made...]]

[[WMG: DDT was never banned in the Fallout universe]]

[[WMG: Certain perks are mutations.]]

[[WMG: Nuka-Cola tastes like Dr. Pepper instead of Coke]]

[[WMG: The power armour worn by [[VideoGame/FalloutTactics the Midwestern Brotherhood]] was built by the Enclave.]]

[[WMG: The V.A.T.S. is an attempt at copying [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Hokuto Shinken]]....[[GunFu with]] [[GunKata guns]]]]

[[WMG: Sword Art Online would ultimately lead to Fallout.]]

[[WMG: In turn, the V.A.T.S. technology is based of the [[Literature/AccelWorld Brain Burst]].]]

[[WMG: Korea become unified, and a new Chinese state.]]

[[WMG: Both models of G.E.C.K are canonical.]]

[[WMG: Ray Bradbury's ''Literature/TheVeldt'' takes place in the ''Fallout'' universe.]]

[[WMG: Pre-War America perpetrated a genocide against Muslim-Americans before the bombs fell]]

[[WMG: Liberty Prime is a [[{{Transformers}} Transformer]].]]

[[WMG: In turn, the V.A.T.S. technology is based of the [[LightNovel/AccelWorld Brain Burst]].]]

The Enclave is the only faction in ''Fallout'' that realizes that the world of ''Fallout'' is a CrapsackWorld that has to be [[KillEmAll wiped clean]] if humanity actually wants to survive and thrive. But their plans are consistently thwarted, and by who? Vault Dwellers, sons/daughters of Vault Dwellers, and people who were Vault Dwellers for 95% of their life. Pure (or significantly pure) humans, with initiative and drive to change the world. By "saving" the world from the Enclave, the Player Characters doom humanity.

[[WMG: The reason why [[ILoveNuclearPower atomic technology]] is so widespread is because the bomb was never dropped...]]

The fact that 7 Seeds happens on a meteor apocalypse instead of nuclear apocalypse makes it more suited to the ''Videogame/{{RAGE}}''verse instead.