History Characters / Fallout2

* [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Super Mutant Serial Killer Schizophrenic Cyborg Secret Service Agent]]

* MagnificentBastard: Many of the nonviolent solutions boil down to getting your enemies to kill each other or even kill themselves, usually while paying you for the privilege.

* GeniusBruiser: He's arguably the smartest of the [[spoiler:deathclaws in Vault 13]] and smarter than a lot of humans you'll meet. And he can rip anyone who's not in power armor (or at least combat armor {MkII}) apart.

* GeniusBruiser: He's arguably the smartest of the [[spoiler:deathclaws in Vault 13]] and smarter than a lot of humans you'll meet. And he can rip anyone who's not in power armor (or at least combat armor MkII) apart.

** In ''New Vegas'' it's apparently canon that he and the Chosen One stormed the Enclave oil rig, and obviously he lived to tell about it. For those of you who have actually brought Marcus to the oil rig, stormed it guns blazing, and got him out alive, tell the others how difficult tht might be.

* WithThisHerring: At the beginning of the game, you are given three items: a spear, a knife, and some healing powder. Everything else in the game has to be scavenged, and you likely wont even get a basic peashooter until the 3rd town. Justified in that your village is primitive, and scrounging around the huts will show that the spear and knife are the best they can provide.

* OptionalSexualEncounter

* PlayingHardToGet: You have to do this if you want to seduce Miria.
* PurelyAestheticGender: Averted in that their stats are slightly different and their dialogues are very different, but played straight in practice, as once they've become companions they behave pretty much the same, and the only real reason both of them exist is so that you can pick one according to you sexual preference.

* RomanceSidequest: The closest there is to one in this game. Unfortunately, once you've married them there isn't much you can do with them since the only interactions you have consists of giving them orders the same way you do to your other companions (which they will usually ignore anyway). There are mods that improve this though.

* ReviveKillsZombie: A keen player will notice that he suffers from a severe heart condition. Feeding him any kind of stimulant, even a Nuka Cola, kills him instantly.

* ThatOneBoss

* TheBigGuy

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: If you leave him alive at the end of the game, the endgame narration will reveal he was stabbed to death by a jet addict in The Den. And despite inventing the infamous drug, nobody will ever remember his name]].

* TheScrappy: Seems to be an InvokedTrope. He is intended in every way to be unbearable; he's annoying, depraved, amoral, has a grating voice, green-tinted skin, is useless in combat, has a huge ego, and if the PlayerCharacter is female, he will attempt to drug rape her. He's also the only companion who will protest if you leave him behind and bribes you to keep him around by hinting he knows where a secret stash of Mordino goods are hidden.

* LoveMartyr: Even if your adventures put them in harm's way on a daily basis, even if you shoot puppies and eat babies, even if you cheat on them right in front of their eyes, even if you you whore them out to dirty old men for pocket change and outright ''abuse'' them on a regular basis; they will still stick to you like a leg and refuse to leave your side even for a second.

A bartender in Vault City eager for adventure, the Chosen One can recruit him, as long as they aren't a slaver or IdiotHero. Pretty good with all weaponry. Later goes on to father Rose of Sharon Cassidy of ''FalloutNewVegas''.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: If he lives through the game, he heads eastward to find more refugees of the Master’s army. You encounter him again in ''FalloutNewVegas'', confirming he helped the Chosen One take down the Enclave and lived to tell about it.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Major reason why he's in this sequel. And why his [[IdenticalGrandson "grandson"]] is in ''Fallout3''.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: As with most of the Enclave, anyone living out in the Wasteland has been exposed to radiation and is therefore a mutant and expendable. Vault citizens are the only exceptions.

Head of the Bishop family, he's the middle man in an underground deal with NCR to get Vault City to join the republic.

* PiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Aside from his shady dealings with NCR, it doesn't seem the Bishops actually ''do'' much in New Reno besides run a casino.

* BadassGrandpa / CoolOldGuy: He's roughly about 50-60 and has a heart condition but can still kick ass.

* GeniusBruiser

* ParentalAbandonment: He left his daughter in a young age.

* BadassBookworm: Intelligence is the most important stat, as it determines the number of skill points you have, so it's highly reccommened you play as one of these.

* TheChosenOne: Subverted. You are "the chosen one" for the people of your home village only because of the fact that there are no other viable canditates left, and most of them are not very optimistic of your chances of success. If you identify yourself as "the chosen one" to anyone outside of your village you are treated as a complete joke.
* TheHero: Many options are possible, even moreso than Fallout 1, 3, or New Vegas.

* VerbalTic: Appearently he calls everyone who does him a favor "boss".

* TheScrappy: Seems to be an InvokedTrope. He is intended in every way to be unbearable; he's annoying, depraved, ammoral, has a grating voice, green-tinted skin, is useless in combat, has a huge ego, and if the PlayerCharacter is female, he will attempt to drug rape her. He's also the only companion who will protest if you leave him behind and bribes you to keep him around by hinting he knows where a secret stash of Mordino goods are hidden.

* SpoonyBard: Although generally perceived as useless, they have one big advantage going for them: If you are at the maximum party limit (5 people) when you marry them, they will override the party limit, thus giving you a sixth party member which is more than you can have otherwise. This can make their addition a welcome one, as while they are crappy fighters, they are at least ''capable'' of fighting and may in fact score a critical every once in a while, and will also give you some additional carrying capacity which is very useful if you tend to hoard items.

-->You've gotten alot farther than you should have... but then you haven't met Frank Horrigan either. Your ride's over mutie. [[PrepareToDie Time to die]].

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: As with most of the Enclave, anyone living out in the Wasteland has been exposed to radiation and is therefore a mutant and expendible. Vault citizens are the only exceptions.

The Enclave's lead scientist at Navarro, doctor Schreber is [[BeyondTheImpossible even more immoral then the rest of the Enclave]]. His constant horrific experiments have disturbed the base, and resulted in the commander ordering his room soundproofed. You can come across him in your visit to Navarro, where you have to kill him to obtain the companion K-9.

* RasputinianDeath: Before fighting him you can talk a four-man Enclave patrol into helping you fight him and reprogram the auto-turrets in the room to attack him (doing both is advised as otherwise they help him). Though the actual combat is turn based, the reality is you now have five men, plus however many companions you have, plus the turrets, shooting him up from all directions at once with gatling lasers, plasma cannons, gauss rifles, and whatever else you've given your team. You then leave his bisected corpse to be blown up on the oil rig, likely be crushed by the rubble, and sink into the ocean

* ImplacableMan: In various optional cutscenes, he's seen laughing off plasma rifle fire and punching [[DemonicSpiders Deathclaws]] in half. Indeed, with 999 hit points and an armor class of 45, he's by far the toughest enemy in the original two games.

* XanatosGambit: Arranged for Richard Wright to die of jet to arrange a mob war between the Mordinos and the Wrights, leaving the Salvatores to sweep into the power gap the destruction would cause.

* WithThisHerring: At the beginning of the game, you are given three items: a spear, a knife, and some healing powder. Everything else in the game has to be scavenged, and you likely wont even get a basic peashooter until the 3rd town.

* CosmeticAward: Throughout the game, The Chosen One can join the NCR Rangers, The Brotherhood of Steel, TheMafia, the Slavers, and numerous other groups. Joining the Brotherhood just gets you some rare equipment and optional stat boosts, being a Made Man for the mob gets you a discount at a couple shops, and being an NCR Ranger does...nothing at all. The Slaver career is the most influential, as it permanently marks you as an unscrupulous character and causes several people to not talk to you.
* DeadpanSnarker

* DesignatedHero: If you play as an evil character, it's a [[TheChosenOne literal case]].

* CompleteMonster: It's possible...
** TheMessiah:...and so is this

* IdenticalGrandson: The player model's appearance is identical to the Vault Dweller from Fallout 1.

* TheChosenOne: [[CaptainObvious Duh]]

* InformedFlaw: Despite mentioning that he has a heart condition and regularly informs you that chems causes his heart to act up, no actual problems will come from pumping him full of them. And this actually goes both ways; you can find a bottle of heart pills and upon feeding them to him, he will notice that he feels better, but no actual benefits will come from it.

* SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX: While quite skilled with a spear, he is bit reluctant to use one as he fears that doing so makes him look like a tribal. Upon being getting informed that the Chosen One is a tribal, Cassidy will quickly backtrack and claim that some of his best friends are tribals who uses spears.

The Super Mutant mayor and sheriff of Broken Hills, who will agree to join the Chosen One after some of the town's problems have been sorted out. Voiced by [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Michael Dorn]].

* {{Jerkass}}: Arguably a CompleteMonster.

* TheScrappy: Seems to be an InvokedTrope. He is intended in every way to be unbearable; he's annoying, [[CompleteMonster depraved, ammoral]], has a grating voice, green-tinted skin, is useless in combat, has a huge ego, and if the PlayerCharacter is female, he will attempt to drug rape her. He's also the only companion who will protest if you leave him behind and bribes you to keep him around by hinting he knows where a secret stash of Mordino goods are hidden.

* LoveMartyr: Even if your adventures put them in harm's way on a daily basis, even if you shoot puppies and eat babies, even if you cheat on them right in front of their eyes, even if you outright ''abuse'' them on a regular basis; they will still stick to you like a leg and refuse to leave your side even for a second.
* SpoonyBard: Although generally perceived as useless, they have one big advantage going for them: If you are at the maximum party limit (5 people) when you marry them, they will override the party limit, thus giving you a sixth party member which is more than you can have otherwise. This can make their addition a welcome one, as while they are crappy fighters, they are at least ''capable'' of fighting and may in fact score a critical every once in a while, and will also give you some additional carrying capacity which is very useful if you tend to hoard items.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: On the other hand, their useless stats and their annoying refusal to stay behind and wait even for a short while, which will ruin any attempt of [[DressingAsTheEnemy infiltration]] for you, not to mention that they take up a valuable party member slot, can lead players to do some rather cruel things to them. You can cheat on them right in front of their eyes, routinely abuse them, sell them into slavery, extract their brain with a surgical machine and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking divorce them]]. For extra asshole points, you can then return to Mordoc and tell their father that they have died, which causes him to have a fatal heart attack.

* CompleteMonster

* EvilIsCool