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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Dr. Dala has...somewhat more ''biological'' needs than her colleagues, to an extent that rapidly becomes disturbilarious. Apparently even when she was human she used, ahem, ''assistance'' (at least until the other Think Tank members got on her case for stealing batteries). The Courier can also reference masturbation in a dialogue with Dr. 8, with options ranging from prudishly tip-toeing around the subject to recommending his/her own methods.
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* ReluctantPsychopath: Muggy, who is all too aware how crazy he's been made, which just leaves him an even worse wreck.
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* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: The Think Tanks' real names have been lost to time and have since been replaced by the names they use now.
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* BlatantLies: Borous claims that he made the Cazadores sterile, docile and unable to leave the Big MT.
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* BlatantLies: Borous claims that he made the Cazadores [[MetaphoricallyTrue sterile, docile and unable to leave the Big MT.MT]].
* EvilutionaryBiologist: Borous created Cazadores and Nightstalkers. 'Nuff said.
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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: It's abundantly clear that Dr. Klein has absolutely no idea what the heck he's doing. Dr. 0 is ''seemingly'' almost as bad, as his scientific specialty is apparently limited to "taking robots apart" and he tends to destroy his equipment a lot, but he is willing to admit that he is not all that good at the thing he ostensibly specialises in, and he did produce both Muggy and Securitrons that are ''better'' than [=RobCo=]'s Mk. II in some hardware respects, despite centuries of being in the open with no maintainance[[hottip:*:Their [[CrushKillDestroy software]], on the other hand...]]. The other Think Tanks seem genuinely skilled and productive in their areas of expertise, Dr. Borous [[DemonicSpiders dangerously so]].
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* KnowNothingKnowItAll: It's abundantly clear that Dr. Klein has absolutely no idea what the heck he's doing. Dr. 0 is ''seemingly'' almost as bad, as his scientific specialty is apparently limited to "taking robots apart" and he tends to destroy his equipment a lot, but he is willing to admit that he is not all that good at the thing he ostensibly specialises in, and he did produce both Muggy and Securitrons that are ''better'' than [=RobCo=]'s Mk. II in some hardware respects, despite centuries of being in the open with no maintainance[[hottip:*:Their [[CrushKillDestroy software]], on the other hand...]]. The other Think Tanks seem genuinely skilled and productive in their areas of expertise, [[EvilutionaryBiologist Dr. Borous Borous]] [[DemonicSpiders dangerously so]].
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* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: The Think Tanks' real names have been lost to time and have since been replaced by the names they use now.
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* TakeThat: Muggy the miniature Securitron was made by 0 as one to spite House. Muggy is aware of this and ''hates'' him for it.
** Also, he describes the meaning of the term "Old World Blues". A longing for the glories of the past.
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* TheStoner: While all the Think Tanks are Mentats addicts, Mobius' drug habits arearguably even worse, including Psycho and Jet. He claims he gets the dispensers mixed up.
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* VocalDissonance: [[spoiler:Even if you're a female, your brain talks to you with a male voice since female voice modules are hard to come by around here.]]
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* ShoutOut: [[Futurama It doesn't just seem like coincidence that he is a disembodied brain that says raisin instead of reason]].
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* StalkerWithACrush: Borous again, based on one of the files you have to retrieve listing the after-school activities of a girl.
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* GracefulLoser: If you tell him that [[spoiler:his plan failed because the Think Tank only needs the blueprints to the various tech, which they already have at that point]], his response is a mere "Oh well, I tried".
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* TheDogBitesBack: If 0 is inspired to take pride of being Dr. Zero, he'll angrily lash out against Klein in the final confrontation.
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* WalkingTechbane: 0's specialty is basically breaking robots, Muggy being the exception. He was however able to upgrade upon the Securitrons, but his have since gone CrushKillDestroy. The fact that [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter House is arguably the better roboticist]] is the reason that that 0 loathes him.
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** [[spoiler:Well, that and he tends to be high as a kite when he threatens them.]]
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* MadScientist: No, really? The fact that they tend to hop themselves up on Mentats doesn't help a bit. They've also been doing virtually the same things over and over and over for more than 200 years. Vivisection ''can'' get boring, you know. Finally, this is ''{{Fallout}}'', and Fifties Science! was imagined to be a little different to regular science.
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** The toaster is also a subtle ShoutOut to a cut toaster from ''{{Fallout 2}}''. Although the one from ''Fallout 2'' would [[RedDwarf only ask if you wanted toast...]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: Sort of. When you tell the toaster that the world was already destroyed in nuclear fire, he's saddened because it wasn't by him. He gets over it by the next time you talk to him though, vowing to be the world's second destroyer.
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* NotSoHarmless: Dr. Mobius warns the Courier that, despite their quirky personalities and seemingly incompetent harmlessness, the Think Tank are brilliant, dangerous, and amoral, and will bring untold horrors to the Mojave if they ever escape Big MT.
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--> ''"It is truly the end of all intelligence when the Lobotomite speaks more wisdom than you "geniuses".''
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** IncomingHam: "Ahahahaha! I am on-line once again! Tremble world before my electric heating coil of doom!"
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* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Dr 0 will make it clear to Dr Klein that his name is Zero if you managed to convince him.
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* EvilIsPetty: Borous is a StrawMsoygnist and a JerkAss, but it's not because he went off the deep end with his rabid hatred of DirtyCommunists. [[spoiler: In truth, he never got over a jock bullying him and stealing a girl who most likely didn't give a crap about him anyway. As a result, as one quest shows, he became a total asshole who would happily take his worst enemy and have him torn apart by vicious mutated animals, just because he never got over it.]]
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* SilentBob: Dr. 8 is this, by virtue of being completely unintelligible to most, though 0 seems to be able to figure out what he's saying anyway and acts as translator.
* SilentBob: Dr. 8 is this, by virtue of being completely unintelligible to most, though 0 seems to be able to figure out what he's saying anyway and acts as translator.
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* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Dala is evidently a combination of a botanist, toxicologist and a physician/surgeon.
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!!This is a partial character sheet for the VideoGame ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''. Visit [[Characters/FalloutNewVegas here]] for the main character index. Subjective trope and audience reactions should go on the [[YMMV/FalloutNewVegas YMMV page]].
!! The Think Tank
--> ''"It is truly the end of all intelligence when the Lobotomite speaks more wisdom than you "geniuses".''
---> Dr. Klein
--> '''Voiced by:''' Jim Ward (Dr. Klein), Beau Weaver (Dr. Borous), Jocelyn Blue (Dr. Dala), and James Urbaniak (Dr. 0)
A group of some rather... interesting Pre-War Scientists, they will be the first group of people (in a certain sense of the word) the Courier will meet.
* ActorAllusion: James Urbaniak is basically playing [[TheVentureBrothers Rusty Venture]] in his role as Dr. 0.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Dr. Dala has...somewhat more ''biological'' needs than her colleagues, to an extent that rapidly becomes disturbilarious. Apparently even when she was human she used, ahem, ''assistance'' (at least until the other Think Tank members got on her case for stealing batteries). The Courier can also reference masturbation in a dialogue with Dr. 8, with options ranging from prudishly tip-toeing around the subject to recommending his/her own methods.
* BerserkButton: Mr. House and [=RobCo=], for Dr. 0. He can't even stand the fact that the Courier uses a Pip-Boy.
** Borous' hatred of Communists arguably rivals Liberty Prime. He programmed the Book Chute in the Sink with its all-consuming need to cleanse printed books of their nasty, seditious-thought-provoking material by wiping them totally blank.
* [[spoiler:BigBad: They, specifically Dr. Klein, are the real instance of this trope in ''Old World Blues'', not Dr. Mobius as they want you to think.]]
* BrainInAJar
* BlatantLies: Borous claims that he made the Cazadores sterile, docile and unable to leave the Big MT.
** The same for nightstalkers, though despite being blatantly wrong, both that and the Cazadores might not be a lie: Borous is delusional enough to honestly believe what he says despite all the evidence against it.
** He says that they're as "[[ExactWords sterile as they are docile]]!" Which is definitely true. Just probably not in the way he meant it.
** When Dr. 0 is ripping on Dr. Klein ([[spoiler:assuming you convinced him to side with you]]), the former tells the latter that one of his ideas was copied from the Chinese. Klein, in response, vehemently declares that to be a ''lie!'' ...And that he'd deleted all evidence to the contrary.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Centuries of being [[BrainInAJar robotic brains in jars]] have done much to alienate them from normal human thought. The Mentants they're hooked on probably didn't help either.
* BoldInflation: How Borous talks.
* ComedicSociopathy: Most of the time. Then you get to see some of their results, which are less funny.
* {{Cloud Cuckoo Lander}}s: The Think Tank and sanity went their separate ways a ''looong'' time ago.
* CripplingOverspecialization
* DartboardOfHate: 0 has a picture of House with knives stabbed into it.
* DrGenericius: Dr. Borous.
* DrugsAreBad: Centuries of Mentat abuse have not done them any favors.
* [[spoiler:EvilAllAlong: Well, amoral, but you already know that. The problem is that they're manipulating you into giving them what they need to escape Big MT to conduct their experiments on the Mojave and the world at large.]]
* FantasticArousal: Dr. Dala is, uh, interested in human bodily movements. Even rubbing your face is of interest.
* ForScience: [[CaptainObvious Duh]]. It's even stated as their literal motivation. Not any specific goal, mind you. Just...science.
* FreudianExcuse: Borous was bullied in high school by one Richie Marcus and Betsy Bright, the girl he had a crush on chose to go smoking with Richie rather than go to the dance with him. Borous being the man behind Nightstalkers and Cazadores, high school probably messed him up something bad.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe If you befriend the 4 other Think Tank members]], [[spoiler:they'll stand up to Dr. Klein when he tries to pull a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on you during the final confrontation.]]
* HeyItsThatVoice: Dr. Klein can get rather Orson Welles-ian on occasion.
* HumanoidAbomination: They're considered at least to count towards the Abominable challenge, though they're not exactly humanoid.
* InsufferableGenius: Most of them.
* JerkAss: Klein always, Borous always, 0 if he's in a bad mood. On the other hand, Dala thinks you're just ''fascinating'' and 8...seems...nice. [[TheUnintelligible Maybe]].
* KickTheDog: Borous used his dog Gabe as a test subject, turning him into a giant cyberdog pumped up on Psycho.
** PetTheDog: [[spoiler:When you bring him Gabe's dog bowl, he mourns his cruel treatment of the one creature he truly cared about.]]
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: It's abundantly clear that Dr. Klein has absolutely no idea what the heck he's doing. Dr. 0 is ''seemingly'' almost as bad, as his scientific specialty is apparently limited to "taking robots apart" and he tends to destroy his equipment a lot, but he is willing to admit that he is not all that good at the thing he ostensibly specialises in, and he did produce both Muggy and Securitrons that are ''better'' than [=RobCo=]'s Mk. II in some hardware respects, despite centuries of being in the open with no maintainance[[hottip:*:Their [[CrushKillDestroy software]], on the other hand...]]. The other Think Tanks seem genuinely skilled and productive in their areas of expertise, Dr. Borous [[DemonicSpiders dangerously so]].
** This could also be due to centuries of Mentat abuse, not to mention that the biogel that the brains float in is corrosive over time. All of the scientists there were geniuses when they were human.
** According to WordOfGod, Klein is more the [=Lab Director/College Dean=] than the biggest genius. He's there to push them around and keep the group somewhat focused on research since, relatively speaking, he's the most [[OnlySaneMan sane]] and has the most forceful personality.
* LargeHam: Dr. Klein and Borous, especially the latter.
** The game itself lampshades this:
-->'''Mission Objective''': Go talk to Dr. Klein, even though you don't have earmuffs.
* MadScientist: No, really? The fact that they tend to hop themselves up on Mentats doesn't help a bit. They've also been doing virtually the same things over and over and over for more than 200 years. Vivisection ''can'' get boring, you know. Finally, this is ''{{Fallout}}'', and Fifties Science! was imagined to be a little different to regular science.
* {{Malaproper}}: Unpossible! And all things robotical.
* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan: Remember the Cloud, the Ghost People, Christine and the fall of the Sierra Madre in general? Yeah, it was all their idea. Or at least, their doing. Not to mention the Cazadors, Nightstalkers and the Spore carriers plaguing the Mojave and Zion Valley.]]
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Even when they were human, they weren't very good people.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Borous comes to this realization when you bring him Gabe's dogbowl. He quickly suppresses his feelings however.
* MyHeroZero: Dr. 0 (Zero), whose name is mistaken as O.
* [[spoiler: MeaningfulName]]: [[spoiler: All their names have to do with infinite loops and endless repetition. A 0 (a loop), an 8 (a sideways infinity symbol), Klein (as in Klein bottles), Mobius (as in Mobius strips), Borous (short for Ouroboros, the snake that eats its own tail - though you can point out that it's spelled incorrectly) and Dala (short for mandala, a circular geometric pattern).]]
* TheNicknamer: Dala calls the Courier a "teddy bear". She had a thing for collecting actual teddy bears when she was human. Lobotomites have become her... new teddy bears.
* NoIndoorVoice: Dr. Klein, due to someone messing with his volume control. Borous is incapable of speaking in anything but an announcer-like voice.
** Borous does, however, speak in a relatively calmer voice after [[spoiler:presenting Gabe's feed bowl to him]].
** 0 was originally supposed to be like this before his character was re-written.
* NotSoHarmless: Dr. Mobius warns the Courier that, despite their quirky personalities and seemingly incompetent harmlessness, the Think Tank are brilliant, dangerous, and amoral, and will bring untold horrors to the Mojave if they ever escape Big MT.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Dala is evidently a combination of a botanist, toxicologist and a physician/surgeon.
* OverratedAndUnderleveled: In ''Lonesome Road'', in one of Ulysses' holotapes he remarks how powerful the Think Tank are, stating that they're too powerful for even him to defeat, and that it would take a hundred Elijahs to challenge their full, combined power. Dr. Mobius likewise plays up the difficulty of the Courier facing all 5 Think Tank members in a straight out fight. However, in-game they're quite a push-over once you override the Pacification Field that prevents you from shooting them.
** FridgeBrilliance: The trick the Courier used to override the Pacification Field would not work for Ulysses ''or'' Elijah, nor would Ulysses know about it[[hottip:*:it relied on the Courier remaining perfectly lucid while still not having a brain in the head, and even the ''Think Tank'' were surprised at that working]]. Mobius, meanwhile, has an interest in playing up the difficulty of facing the Think Tank in a straight out fight[[hottip:*:He was their ''friend'', and wants this to be resolved peacefully.]].
* PatrioticFervor: Borous hates communists almost as much as he hates Richie Marcus and Betsy Bright.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Dala is the only female in the group.
* [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Spell My Name With A 0]]: 0 has long since given up on correcting people on his name. With a high enough Intelligence you can tell him to put a slash through the zero and he will ''praise you as a genius''.
* TheUnintelligible: Dr. 8, due to Elijah hacking his voice modules to play [=RobCo=] termlink protocol. [[spoiler:You can understand him through a skill check. At least, the Courier will, so you have to figure out what 8 is saying via the Courier's responses.]]
* ThisIsSparta: "Give. The. Lobotomite. The. Emitter."
* WalkingTechbane: 0's specialty is basically breaking robots, Muggy being the exception. He was however able to upgrade upon the Securitrons, but his have since gone CrushKillDestroy. The fact that [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter House is arguably the better roboticist]] is the reason that that 0 loathes him.
* [[spoiler:YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness]]: [[spoiler:In the end, Klein will try to pull this on you. You can either kill the Think Tanks or convince him otherwise. If you've befriended the other Think Tanks, they'll speak on your behalf. Or, you can convince them your skull now [[ChewingTheScenery houses the BRAIN OF MOBIUS]]!]]
!!The Inhabitants of the Sink
--> ''"A toaster is just a DeathRay with a smaller power supply!"''
---> The Toaster
--> '''Voiced by:''' Jim Ward (Sink CIU, Sink Auto-Doc), Beau Weaver (Book Shredder), Roger Cross (Biological Research Station), Veronica Belmont (Light Switch 01/02), Jocelyn Blue (Sink appliance), Sunil Malhotra (Muggy), Rashawn Underdue (Blind Diode Jefferson), Jace Hall (Toaster)
A group of appliances at the Sink, the Courier's home base during Old World Blues. Each one has their own personality.
* ArtificialIntelligence
* AttentionWhore: Light Switch 02
--> ''"If I made out with the Sink, would you pay more attention to me?"''
* AxCrazy: The toaster, of all things. His purpose in life is to 'murder' other toasters and other appliances, ripping them into their component parts. If the Courier ends the DLC with bad karma, [[spoiler:the toaster goes on to found and be the center of his own cult, laying waste to all unfortunate appliances.]]
* BettyAndVeronica: The light switches. 02 is the Betty, 01 is the Veronica.
* CardCarryingVillain: The toaster is quite possibly the most hilarious example ever.
* CasanovaWannabe: The biological research station. It really wants your seed, baby!
* CompanionCube: ''All'' of them.
* DoubleEntendre: Several of the Biological Research Lab's responses to the Courier, and the Courier can respond in kind.
* {{Expy}}: The toaster is basically the ''Fallout'' equivalent of Murray from the ''MonkeyIsland'' series. Only a toaster.
** The toaster is also a subtle ShoutOut to a cut toaster from ''{{Fallout 2}}''. Although the one from ''Fallout 2'' would [[RedDwarf only ask if you wanted toast...]]
* TheJeeves: The Sink Central Intelligence. To the point that it will constantly call you "sir", even if you're a woman and point this fact out, because it was programmed to and not likewise programmed to say "ma'am" or leave out the honorific altogether.
* JiveTurkey: Blind Diode Jefferson, your jukebox. He also says he'd sing the Blues, but he can't because the bits of him that actually played music were stripped out.
* HarmlessVillain: As much as he would like to [[OmnicidalManiac burn the world]], there's really only so much the Toaster can do.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Ulysses is feeling rather frisky right now towards the Courier.
* {{Keet}}: Muggy's adorable, perpetually cheerful [[IncrediblyLamePun mug]] makes him seem like this, but it's subverted: he's a tiny ball of hate, self-loathing and neuroses who is ''well aware'' of being all these things, which just fills him with even more rage.
* KillItWithFire: If the toaster had its way... Fortunately, its tiny heating coil restricts it to simply heating up Saturnite, and then only if you let it. The weapons created this way will set your enemies alight instead.
* LargeHam: The toaster, again. And Muggy.
* NeatFreak: The sink (not to be confused with The Sink, which is your base). The idea of a filthy wastelander touching her is quite repulsive.
** And Muggy. Although he intentionally leaves all of Dr. 0's mugs and plates filthy out of spite.
* OmnicidalManiac: Guess who?
* OrwellianEditor: The book chute's job is to take any "seditious" books you have, and remove all of their text, all in the name of keeping citizens from thinking for themselves. Won't that keep you happy and docile, citizen?
* RedScare: The book chute is especially hateful of [[DirtyCommunists Communists]], and regards any free thought as seditious.
--> ''Look out! Communist! ...No, false alarm. It was just a plate.''
* RefugeInAudacity: The biological research lab [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything seeds]] Muggy, tricking him into thinking a mug fell down his chute.
* RoboticPsychopath: The toaster, as stated above.
* TakeThat: Muggy the miniature Securitron was made by 0 as one to spite House. Muggy is aware of this and ''hates'' him for it.
* TitleDrop: At the end of the expansion, Blind Diode Jefferson does this for the next DLC.
--> ''"Guess you'll be putting on your travelling boots again, hitting that old '''lonesome road'''."''
* TokenEvilTeammate: The Toaster again.
* UpperClassTwit: The Sink Central Intelligence is rather condescending.
* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: Some of them require upgrades to do what should be some pretty simple stuff. The sink, for instance, which allows you to get a drink of water, requires a module for filling up ''empty bottles'' with water.
!!The Stealth Suit Mark II
--> ''"Hello. It's nice to meet you. Who can I hide you from today?"''
--> '''Voiced by:''' Veronica Belmont
Yep, the Stealth Suit is a character. Of a sort. You find her in one of the labs. When equipping her, she will use Stimpacks and Med-X on you as needed.
* ArtificialIntelligence
* DeadpanSnarker: Has a variety of things to say should you attempt to sneak with your Pip-Boy light on.
* EvolvingWeapon: Armor, really, but you can upgrade her via tests.
* TheMedic: As stated above, she will heal you when you are injured.
* RobotGirl: Suit, technically.
* RoboShip: It's fairly evident she's quite fond of you. [[invoked]]
** It seems like the Infiltration program in X-13 has a bit of an attachment to her as well, if the epilogue is anything to go by.
--> The infiltration program in X-13 felt spent, having repeatedly upgraded the Stealth Suit until it could upgrade it no more. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything It felt warm, fulfilled, and a bit sluggish]]. It realized not long after, the Stealth Suit had left it without so much as a note on the nightstand. So the infiltration program sent out Robobrains into the wastes [[StalkerWithACrush looking for its wayward technology]].
* StopHelpingMe: Her automatically injecting you with Med-X will give you an addiction if you let it continue. And she will also burn your stimpack supply quickly when all you need is just some slow healing from food and drink.
** She'll also occasionally give false signals of enemy attacks, even accompanied by "Just kidding!" a moment thereafter.
* {{Yandere}}: May show signs of this.
!!Dr. Mobius
--> ''"Well, there's many things they have forgotten sitting in their bowls. [[BreadEggsMilkSquick Friendship. The thrill of discovery. Love. Masturbation.]] The usual."''
--> '''Voiced by:''' CamClarke
The antagonist of Old World Blues [[spoiler:until you meet him and get his side of the story]].
* [[spoiler:AbsentMindedProfessor]]: [[spoiler:Due to a combination of senility, drug addictions and his brain being corroded by the biogel. It's kinda sad, really]]
* AffablyEvil: He rambles on placidly about nothing very much when you speak to him and seems genuinely surprised you're there to fight. It takes some effort for him to recall that he ever had plans at all, let alone brilliant schemes - but he assures you that if he had, they would indeed have been brilliant! Then he'll give you some Mentats with the air of a grandfather handing out sweets. It's very hard to imagine how he could be less threatening. [[spoiler:Because, of course, he's not the real threat.]]
* [[spoiler:AntiVillain]]: [[spoiler:He's actually a kindly, half-senile old man. His mad scientist tendencies are the result of tripping on Mentats and Psycho.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Kinda.]]
* BrainInAJar
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass[=/=]TheChessMaster: Despite seemingly being [[spoiler:a friendly, harmless, half-senile old man]], it's clear that [[spoiler:Mobius cooked up a genuinely complex and effective plan to keep the Think Tank safely sealed inside the Big MT, and also manipulated the Think Tank into providing you with the means to get your brain back and reinstall all your stolen organs]].
* CripplingOverspecialization
* DrGenericius
* TheDragon: The X-42 Giant Roboscorpion is effectively this for him.
* [[spoiler:GoodAllAlong: He's trying to keep the Think Tank from escaping the Big MT and inflicting their atrophied morals and dubiously logical [[ForScience Science!]] on the world at large.]]
* [[spoiler:HeroAntagonist]]
* KingMook: Mobius is noticeably tougher than the other Think Tank members, which even gets lampshaded in dialogue if you talk to him about trying to fight the Think Tank.
** PostFinalBoss: Although his stats are objectively pretty good, he's a fairly mediocre fight compared to all the DemonicSpiders in the Big MT you've been fighting as regular enemies. The real final boss of ''Old World Blues'' was the [[HumongousMecha X-42 Giant Roboscorpion]] guarding his lab. [[spoiler:In fact, you don't even have to fight him at all, given that he's really a harmless, well-intentioned old man.]]
* LargeHam: He's voiced by Cam Clarke so this goes without saying.
* MadScientist
* {{Malaproper}}: He uses words like "raisin" instead of "reason" and other such mix-ups. Quiet, Dessert, etc.
* NinjaPirateRobotZombie: He uses robot Radscorpions that shoot [[FrickinLaserBeams lasers]] at you.
* [[spoiler:OnlySaneMan: For a given value of sane, anyway - more sane than the Think Tank, which isn't saying much, and then only when he isn't hopped up on Psycho and Mentats.]]
* NonActionBigBad: [[spoiler:Assuming he actually counts as bad.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: Mobius was evidently obsessed with the post-apocalyptic economy and correctly guessed that bottlecaps would be used as currency.
* TheStoner: While all the Think Tanks are Mentats addicts, Mobius' drug habits are arguably worse, including Psycho and Jet. He claims he gets the dispensers mixed up.
* [[spoiler:WellIntentionedExtremist]]: [[spoiler:He only broadcast crazy messages and unleashed the Robo-Scorpions so the scientists of the Think Tank wouldn't escape and harm the rest of the world.]]
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: His Robo-Scorpions are pretty much his only way of solving problems and he is very enthusiastic about using them, though it would be hard not to be. Just ''try'' saying you're going to unleash the [=Robo-Scorpions=] ''without'' [[LargeHam hamming it up]].
!![[spoiler: The Courier's]] Brain
--> '''Voiced by:''' Suhil Malhotra
A brain who has a few things to say to you.
* BrainInAJar
* [[spoiler:EnemyWithout]]: [[spoiler:Not really, but your brain isn't that happy with you.]]
* JerkAss: [[spoiler:The Courier him/herself can outright ask why his/her own brain is such a dick.]]
* [[spoiler:LivingMacguffin: Pretty much what everyone in Big MT, including you, needs to further their plans.]]
* NeatFreak
* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:When it lambasts the Courier for constantly charging into danger, the Courier can counter that since it's...well, his/her brain, then those actions are just as much its responsibility as his/her's. The brain, in turn, counters that those are all simply glands at work, and thus the Courier ''is'' to blame. But with a high enough intelligence, the Courier points out that the brain contains most glands, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny unless it's trying to pin everything on the thyroid]].]]
* [[spoiler:ScrewYourself]]: [[spoiler:You can actually hit on your own brain with the Black Widow/Confirmed Bachelor perk, to its incredible disgust.]]
* [[spoiler:SplitPersonalityMerge]]: [[spoiler:Possible at the end.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Your brain does not enjoy venturing in filthy dilapidated Vaults, dealing with creatures such as Cazadores on a relatively daily basis and going on a pointless quest of vengeance.]]
** [[spoiler:If you're playing as a female Courier and slept with Benny, your brain will have some choice words about that, as well.]]
----
!! The Think Tank
--> ''"It is truly the end of all intelligence when the Lobotomite speaks more wisdom than you "geniuses".''
---> Dr. Klein
--> '''Voiced by:''' Jim Ward (Dr. Klein), Beau Weaver (Dr. Borous), Jocelyn Blue (Dr. Dala), and James Urbaniak (Dr. 0)
A group of some rather... interesting Pre-War Scientists, they will be the first group of people (in a certain sense of the word) the Courier will meet.
* ActorAllusion: James Urbaniak is basically playing [[TheVentureBrothers Rusty Venture]] in his role as Dr. 0.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Dr. Dala has...somewhat more ''biological'' needs than her colleagues, to an extent that rapidly becomes disturbilarious. Apparently even when she was human she used, ahem, ''assistance'' (at least until the other Think Tank members got on her case for stealing batteries). The Courier can also reference masturbation in a dialogue with Dr. 8, with options ranging from prudishly tip-toeing around the subject to recommending his/her own methods.
* BerserkButton: Mr. House and [=RobCo=], for Dr. 0. He can't even stand the fact that the Courier uses a Pip-Boy.
** Borous' hatred of Communists arguably rivals Liberty Prime. He programmed the Book Chute in the Sink with its all-consuming need to cleanse printed books of their nasty, seditious-thought-provoking material by wiping them totally blank.
* [[spoiler:BigBad: They, specifically Dr. Klein, are the real instance of this trope in ''Old World Blues'', not Dr. Mobius as they want you to think.]]
* BrainInAJar
* BlatantLies: Borous claims that he made the Cazadores sterile, docile and unable to leave the Big MT.
** The same for nightstalkers, though despite being blatantly wrong, both that and the Cazadores might not be a lie: Borous is delusional enough to honestly believe what he says despite all the evidence against it.
** He says that they're as "[[ExactWords sterile as they are docile]]!" Which is definitely true. Just probably not in the way he meant it.
** When Dr. 0 is ripping on Dr. Klein ([[spoiler:assuming you convinced him to side with you]]), the former tells the latter that one of his ideas was copied from the Chinese. Klein, in response, vehemently declares that to be a ''lie!'' ...And that he'd deleted all evidence to the contrary.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Centuries of being [[BrainInAJar robotic brains in jars]] have done much to alienate them from normal human thought. The Mentants they're hooked on probably didn't help either.
* BoldInflation: How Borous talks.
* ComedicSociopathy: Most of the time. Then you get to see some of their results, which are less funny.
* {{Cloud Cuckoo Lander}}s: The Think Tank and sanity went their separate ways a ''looong'' time ago.
* CripplingOverspecialization
* DartboardOfHate: 0 has a picture of House with knives stabbed into it.
* DrGenericius: Dr. Borous.
* DrugsAreBad: Centuries of Mentat abuse have not done them any favors.
* [[spoiler:EvilAllAlong: Well, amoral, but you already know that. The problem is that they're manipulating you into giving them what they need to escape Big MT to conduct their experiments on the Mojave and the world at large.]]
* FantasticArousal: Dr. Dala is, uh, interested in human bodily movements. Even rubbing your face is of interest.
* ForScience: [[CaptainObvious Duh]]. It's even stated as their literal motivation. Not any specific goal, mind you. Just...science.
* FreudianExcuse: Borous was bullied in high school by one Richie Marcus and Betsy Bright, the girl he had a crush on chose to go smoking with Richie rather than go to the dance with him. Borous being the man behind Nightstalkers and Cazadores, high school probably messed him up something bad.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe If you befriend the 4 other Think Tank members]], [[spoiler:they'll stand up to Dr. Klein when he tries to pull a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on you during the final confrontation.]]
* HeyItsThatVoice: Dr. Klein can get rather Orson Welles-ian on occasion.
* HumanoidAbomination: They're considered at least to count towards the Abominable challenge, though they're not exactly humanoid.
* InsufferableGenius: Most of them.
* JerkAss: Klein always, Borous always, 0 if he's in a bad mood. On the other hand, Dala thinks you're just ''fascinating'' and 8...seems...nice. [[TheUnintelligible Maybe]].
* KickTheDog: Borous used his dog Gabe as a test subject, turning him into a giant cyberdog pumped up on Psycho.
** PetTheDog: [[spoiler:When you bring him Gabe's dog bowl, he mourns his cruel treatment of the one creature he truly cared about.]]
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: It's abundantly clear that Dr. Klein has absolutely no idea what the heck he's doing. Dr. 0 is ''seemingly'' almost as bad, as his scientific specialty is apparently limited to "taking robots apart" and he tends to destroy his equipment a lot, but he is willing to admit that he is not all that good at the thing he ostensibly specialises in, and he did produce both Muggy and Securitrons that are ''better'' than [=RobCo=]'s Mk. II in some hardware respects, despite centuries of being in the open with no maintainance[[hottip:*:Their [[CrushKillDestroy software]], on the other hand...]]. The other Think Tanks seem genuinely skilled and productive in their areas of expertise, Dr. Borous [[DemonicSpiders dangerously so]].
** This could also be due to centuries of Mentat abuse, not to mention that the biogel that the brains float in is corrosive over time. All of the scientists there were geniuses when they were human.
** According to WordOfGod, Klein is more the [=Lab Director/College Dean=] than the biggest genius. He's there to push them around and keep the group somewhat focused on research since, relatively speaking, he's the most [[OnlySaneMan sane]] and has the most forceful personality.
* LargeHam: Dr. Klein and Borous, especially the latter.
** The game itself lampshades this:
-->'''Mission Objective''': Go talk to Dr. Klein, even though you don't have earmuffs.
* MadScientist: No, really? The fact that they tend to hop themselves up on Mentats doesn't help a bit. They've also been doing virtually the same things over and over and over for more than 200 years. Vivisection ''can'' get boring, you know. Finally, this is ''{{Fallout}}'', and Fifties Science! was imagined to be a little different to regular science.
* {{Malaproper}}: Unpossible! And all things robotical.
* [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan: Remember the Cloud, the Ghost People, Christine and the fall of the Sierra Madre in general? Yeah, it was all their idea. Or at least, their doing. Not to mention the Cazadors, Nightstalkers and the Spore carriers plaguing the Mojave and Zion Valley.]]
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Even when they were human, they weren't very good people.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Borous comes to this realization when you bring him Gabe's dogbowl. He quickly suppresses his feelings however.
* MyHeroZero: Dr. 0 (Zero), whose name is mistaken as O.
* [[spoiler: MeaningfulName]]: [[spoiler: All their names have to do with infinite loops and endless repetition. A 0 (a loop), an 8 (a sideways infinity symbol), Klein (as in Klein bottles), Mobius (as in Mobius strips), Borous (short for Ouroboros, the snake that eats its own tail - though you can point out that it's spelled incorrectly) and Dala (short for mandala, a circular geometric pattern).]]
* TheNicknamer: Dala calls the Courier a "teddy bear". She had a thing for collecting actual teddy bears when she was human. Lobotomites have become her... new teddy bears.
* NoIndoorVoice: Dr. Klein, due to someone messing with his volume control. Borous is incapable of speaking in anything but an announcer-like voice.
** Borous does, however, speak in a relatively calmer voice after [[spoiler:presenting Gabe's feed bowl to him]].
** 0 was originally supposed to be like this before his character was re-written.
* NotSoHarmless: Dr. Mobius warns the Courier that, despite their quirky personalities and seemingly incompetent harmlessness, the Think Tank are brilliant, dangerous, and amoral, and will bring untold horrors to the Mojave if they ever escape Big MT.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Dala is evidently a combination of a botanist, toxicologist and a physician/surgeon.
* OverratedAndUnderleveled: In ''Lonesome Road'', in one of Ulysses' holotapes he remarks how powerful the Think Tank are, stating that they're too powerful for even him to defeat, and that it would take a hundred Elijahs to challenge their full, combined power. Dr. Mobius likewise plays up the difficulty of the Courier facing all 5 Think Tank members in a straight out fight. However, in-game they're quite a push-over once you override the Pacification Field that prevents you from shooting them.
** FridgeBrilliance: The trick the Courier used to override the Pacification Field would not work for Ulysses ''or'' Elijah, nor would Ulysses know about it[[hottip:*:it relied on the Courier remaining perfectly lucid while still not having a brain in the head, and even the ''Think Tank'' were surprised at that working]]. Mobius, meanwhile, has an interest in playing up the difficulty of facing the Think Tank in a straight out fight[[hottip:*:He was their ''friend'', and wants this to be resolved peacefully.]].
* PatrioticFervor: Borous hates communists almost as much as he hates Richie Marcus and Betsy Bright.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Dala is the only female in the group.
* [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Spell My Name With A 0]]: 0 has long since given up on correcting people on his name. With a high enough Intelligence you can tell him to put a slash through the zero and he will ''praise you as a genius''.
* TheUnintelligible: Dr. 8, due to Elijah hacking his voice modules to play [=RobCo=] termlink protocol. [[spoiler:You can understand him through a skill check. At least, the Courier will, so you have to figure out what 8 is saying via the Courier's responses.]]
* ThisIsSparta: "Give. The. Lobotomite. The. Emitter."
* WalkingTechbane: 0's specialty is basically breaking robots, Muggy being the exception. He was however able to upgrade upon the Securitrons, but his have since gone CrushKillDestroy. The fact that [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter House is arguably the better roboticist]] is the reason that that 0 loathes him.
* [[spoiler:YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness]]: [[spoiler:In the end, Klein will try to pull this on you. You can either kill the Think Tanks or convince him otherwise. If you've befriended the other Think Tanks, they'll speak on your behalf. Or, you can convince them your skull now [[ChewingTheScenery houses the BRAIN OF MOBIUS]]!]]
!!The Inhabitants of the Sink
--> ''"A toaster is just a DeathRay with a smaller power supply!"''
---> The Toaster
--> '''Voiced by:''' Jim Ward (Sink CIU, Sink Auto-Doc), Beau Weaver (Book Shredder), Roger Cross (Biological Research Station), Veronica Belmont (Light Switch 01/02), Jocelyn Blue (Sink appliance), Sunil Malhotra (Muggy), Rashawn Underdue (Blind Diode Jefferson), Jace Hall (Toaster)
A group of appliances at the Sink, the Courier's home base during Old World Blues. Each one has their own personality.
* ArtificialIntelligence
* AttentionWhore: Light Switch 02
--> ''"If I made out with the Sink, would you pay more attention to me?"''
* AxCrazy: The toaster, of all things. His purpose in life is to 'murder' other toasters and other appliances, ripping them into their component parts. If the Courier ends the DLC with bad karma, [[spoiler:the toaster goes on to found and be the center of his own cult, laying waste to all unfortunate appliances.]]
* BettyAndVeronica: The light switches. 02 is the Betty, 01 is the Veronica.
* CardCarryingVillain: The toaster is quite possibly the most hilarious example ever.
* CasanovaWannabe: The biological research station. It really wants your seed, baby!
* CompanionCube: ''All'' of them.
* DoubleEntendre: Several of the Biological Research Lab's responses to the Courier, and the Courier can respond in kind.
* {{Expy}}: The toaster is basically the ''Fallout'' equivalent of Murray from the ''MonkeyIsland'' series. Only a toaster.
** The toaster is also a subtle ShoutOut to a cut toaster from ''{{Fallout 2}}''. Although the one from ''Fallout 2'' would [[RedDwarf only ask if you wanted toast...]]
* TheJeeves: The Sink Central Intelligence. To the point that it will constantly call you "sir", even if you're a woman and point this fact out, because it was programmed to and not likewise programmed to say "ma'am" or leave out the honorific altogether.
* JiveTurkey: Blind Diode Jefferson, your jukebox. He also says he'd sing the Blues, but he can't because the bits of him that actually played music were stripped out.
* HarmlessVillain: As much as he would like to [[OmnicidalManiac burn the world]], there's really only so much the Toaster can do.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Ulysses is feeling rather frisky right now towards the Courier.
* {{Keet}}: Muggy's adorable, perpetually cheerful [[IncrediblyLamePun mug]] makes him seem like this, but it's subverted: he's a tiny ball of hate, self-loathing and neuroses who is ''well aware'' of being all these things, which just fills him with even more rage.
* KillItWithFire: If the toaster had its way... Fortunately, its tiny heating coil restricts it to simply heating up Saturnite, and then only if you let it. The weapons created this way will set your enemies alight instead.
* LargeHam: The toaster, again. And Muggy.
* NeatFreak: The sink (not to be confused with The Sink, which is your base). The idea of a filthy wastelander touching her is quite repulsive.
** And Muggy. Although he intentionally leaves all of Dr. 0's mugs and plates filthy out of spite.
* OmnicidalManiac: Guess who?
* OrwellianEditor: The book chute's job is to take any "seditious" books you have, and remove all of their text, all in the name of keeping citizens from thinking for themselves. Won't that keep you happy and docile, citizen?
* RedScare: The book chute is especially hateful of [[DirtyCommunists Communists]], and regards any free thought as seditious.
--> ''Look out! Communist! ...No, false alarm. It was just a plate.''
* RefugeInAudacity: The biological research lab [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything seeds]] Muggy, tricking him into thinking a mug fell down his chute.
* RoboticPsychopath: The toaster, as stated above.
* TakeThat: Muggy the miniature Securitron was made by 0 as one to spite House. Muggy is aware of this and ''hates'' him for it.
* TitleDrop: At the end of the expansion, Blind Diode Jefferson does this for the next DLC.
--> ''"Guess you'll be putting on your travelling boots again, hitting that old '''lonesome road'''."''
* TokenEvilTeammate: The Toaster again.
* UpperClassTwit: The Sink Central Intelligence is rather condescending.
* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: Some of them require upgrades to do what should be some pretty simple stuff. The sink, for instance, which allows you to get a drink of water, requires a module for filling up ''empty bottles'' with water.
!!The Stealth Suit Mark II
--> ''"Hello. It's nice to meet you. Who can I hide you from today?"''
--> '''Voiced by:''' Veronica Belmont
Yep, the Stealth Suit is a character. Of a sort. You find her in one of the labs. When equipping her, she will use Stimpacks and Med-X on you as needed.
* ArtificialIntelligence
* DeadpanSnarker: Has a variety of things to say should you attempt to sneak with your Pip-Boy light on.
* EvolvingWeapon: Armor, really, but you can upgrade her via tests.
* TheMedic: As stated above, she will heal you when you are injured.
* RobotGirl: Suit, technically.
* RoboShip: It's fairly evident she's quite fond of you. [[invoked]]
** It seems like the Infiltration program in X-13 has a bit of an attachment to her as well, if the epilogue is anything to go by.
--> The infiltration program in X-13 felt spent, having repeatedly upgraded the Stealth Suit until it could upgrade it no more. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything It felt warm, fulfilled, and a bit sluggish]]. It realized not long after, the Stealth Suit had left it without so much as a note on the nightstand. So the infiltration program sent out Robobrains into the wastes [[StalkerWithACrush looking for its wayward technology]].
* StopHelpingMe: Her automatically injecting you with Med-X will give you an addiction if you let it continue. And she will also burn your stimpack supply quickly when all you need is just some slow healing from food and drink.
** She'll also occasionally give false signals of enemy attacks, even accompanied by "Just kidding!" a moment thereafter.
* {{Yandere}}: May show signs of this.
!!Dr. Mobius
--> ''"Well, there's many things they have forgotten sitting in their bowls. [[BreadEggsMilkSquick Friendship. The thrill of discovery. Love. Masturbation.]] The usual."''
--> '''Voiced by:''' CamClarke
The antagonist of Old World Blues [[spoiler:until you meet him and get his side of the story]].
* [[spoiler:AbsentMindedProfessor]]: [[spoiler:Due to a combination of senility, drug addictions and his brain being corroded by the biogel. It's kinda sad, really]]
* AffablyEvil: He rambles on placidly about nothing very much when you speak to him and seems genuinely surprised you're there to fight. It takes some effort for him to recall that he ever had plans at all, let alone brilliant schemes - but he assures you that if he had, they would indeed have been brilliant! Then he'll give you some Mentats with the air of a grandfather handing out sweets. It's very hard to imagine how he could be less threatening. [[spoiler:Because, of course, he's not the real threat.]]
* [[spoiler:AntiVillain]]: [[spoiler:He's actually a kindly, half-senile old man. His mad scientist tendencies are the result of tripping on Mentats and Psycho.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Kinda.]]
* BrainInAJar
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass[=/=]TheChessMaster: Despite seemingly being [[spoiler:a friendly, harmless, half-senile old man]], it's clear that [[spoiler:Mobius cooked up a genuinely complex and effective plan to keep the Think Tank safely sealed inside the Big MT, and also manipulated the Think Tank into providing you with the means to get your brain back and reinstall all your stolen organs]].
* CripplingOverspecialization
* DrGenericius
* TheDragon: The X-42 Giant Roboscorpion is effectively this for him.
* [[spoiler:GoodAllAlong: He's trying to keep the Think Tank from escaping the Big MT and inflicting their atrophied morals and dubiously logical [[ForScience Science!]] on the world at large.]]
* [[spoiler:HeroAntagonist]]
* KingMook: Mobius is noticeably tougher than the other Think Tank members, which even gets lampshaded in dialogue if you talk to him about trying to fight the Think Tank.
** PostFinalBoss: Although his stats are objectively pretty good, he's a fairly mediocre fight compared to all the DemonicSpiders in the Big MT you've been fighting as regular enemies. The real final boss of ''Old World Blues'' was the [[HumongousMecha X-42 Giant Roboscorpion]] guarding his lab. [[spoiler:In fact, you don't even have to fight him at all, given that he's really a harmless, well-intentioned old man.]]
* LargeHam: He's voiced by Cam Clarke so this goes without saying.
* MadScientist
* {{Malaproper}}: He uses words like "raisin" instead of "reason" and other such mix-ups. Quiet, Dessert, etc.
* NinjaPirateRobotZombie: He uses robot Radscorpions that shoot [[FrickinLaserBeams lasers]] at you.
* [[spoiler:OnlySaneMan: For a given value of sane, anyway - more sane than the Think Tank, which isn't saying much, and then only when he isn't hopped up on Psycho and Mentats.]]
* NonActionBigBad: [[spoiler:Assuming he actually counts as bad.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: Mobius was evidently obsessed with the post-apocalyptic economy and correctly guessed that bottlecaps would be used as currency.
* TheStoner: While all the Think Tanks are Mentats addicts, Mobius' drug habits are arguably worse, including Psycho and Jet. He claims he gets the dispensers mixed up.
* [[spoiler:WellIntentionedExtremist]]: [[spoiler:He only broadcast crazy messages and unleashed the Robo-Scorpions so the scientists of the Think Tank wouldn't escape and harm the rest of the world.]]
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: His Robo-Scorpions are pretty much his only way of solving problems and he is very enthusiastic about using them, though it would be hard not to be. Just ''try'' saying you're going to unleash the [=Robo-Scorpions=] ''without'' [[LargeHam hamming it up]].
!![[spoiler: The Courier's]] Brain
--> '''Voiced by:''' Suhil Malhotra
A brain who has a few things to say to you.
* BrainInAJar
* [[spoiler:EnemyWithout]]: [[spoiler:Not really, but your brain isn't that happy with you.]]
* JerkAss: [[spoiler:The Courier him/herself can outright ask why his/her own brain is such a dick.]]
* [[spoiler:LivingMacguffin: Pretty much what everyone in Big MT, including you, needs to further their plans.]]
* NeatFreak
* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:When it lambasts the Courier for constantly charging into danger, the Courier can counter that since it's...well, his/her brain, then those actions are just as much its responsibility as his/her's. The brain, in turn, counters that those are all simply glands at work, and thus the Courier ''is'' to blame. But with a high enough intelligence, the Courier points out that the brain contains most glands, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny unless it's trying to pin everything on the thyroid]].]]
* [[spoiler:ScrewYourself]]: [[spoiler:You can actually hit on your own brain with the Black Widow/Confirmed Bachelor perk, to its incredible disgust.]]
* [[spoiler:SplitPersonalityMerge]]: [[spoiler:Possible at the end.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Your brain does not enjoy venturing in filthy dilapidated Vaults, dealing with creatures such as Cazadores on a relatively daily basis and going on a pointless quest of vengeance.]]
** [[spoiler:If you're playing as a female Courier and slept with Benny, your brain will have some choice words about that, as well.]]
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