History Monster / Fallout

->'''[[Characters/FalloutNewVegasTheCourier The Courier]]:''' You want to attack NCR? All of NCR?\\

** Nero and his right-hand-man Big Sal are [[TheMafia the Omerta]] family bosses. The only rule the Omertas have is "don't go against the family", which is punishable by death, but rather than emphasize loyalty, it is instead intended to keep others from standing in the way of the bosses' plans. Such plans involve secretly working for Caesar's Legion to massacre the entire population in New Vegas as soon as the battle at Hoover Dam begins, with a promise that they'll have control over the city. They are selling out the Mojave to the Legion not because they agree with Caesar's ideals, but because of lust for power and loathing of [[Characters/FalloutNewVegasRobertEdwinHouse Mr. House]] for what they perceive to be his lording over them. They also [[FrameUp framed a man for murder to blackmail him into working for them]], get their prostitutes addicted to drugs to force them to be dependent upon their bosses, and give them to Clanden to be raped, tortured and killed.

** ''Dead Money'' {{DLC}}: [[BigBad Father Elijah]] is the former elder of the Mojave Brotherhood of Steel. His obsession with old-world technology led to him getting his people slaughtered at the battle for HELIOS. After fleeing the battle, he sought out the fabled Sierra Madre Casino, a treasure-trove of lost technology which he wanted to use to "wipe the slate clean." In order to obtain the casino's treasures, he kidnapped dozens of people, attached [[ExplosiveLeash slave collars]] to their necks, and blew their heads off unless they acted as CannonFodder for the Sierra Madre's defenses. Once [[Characters/FalloutNewVegasTheCourier the Courier]] reaches the Sierra Madre, Elijah orders him/her to kill off the allies that had helped them, and later tries to kill the Courier him/herself for [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outliving their usefulness]]. Elijah's ultimate goal is to use the Sierra Madre's technology to kill off every person in the Mojave, and then build a new nation where every person will be collared and forced to obey him.

[[VideoGame/{{Fallout}} War. War never changes.]] But the world AfterTheEnd is [[RunningGag an okay place to live]]--as long as you avoid [[CompleteMonster these guys]].

** [[SinisterMinister Morpheus]] is the opportunistic, power-hungry leader of the [[ReligionOfEvil Children of the Cathedral]]. Originally a member of the sadistic Rippers, Morpheus left the gang to form his own doomsday cult and eventually joined TheMaster as the HighPriest of the Unity's religious branch. Indifferent towards [[WellIntentionedExtremist the Master's teachings and good intentions]], and [[SmugSnake believing himself to be his equal]], Morpheus is setting up hospitals with free medical care in towns as a recruitment tool for Unity, luring victims to his church where people regularly go missing and are made into fresh subjects for the Master to use as soldiers in his war against humanity, but not before Morpheus introduces them to the belief that being "baptized" in FEV--Forced Evolutionary Virus--is essential to their lives, a process that can give an [[CruelAndUnusualDeath excruciating and painful death]] to those who fail to become Super Mutants, allowing one of his men to "discipline" his believers with a cattle prod. Using his group to make the enemies of Unity simply "disappear", Morpheus shows an interest in destroying the Followers of the Apocalypse, and if his church is set to explode, then Morpheus will [[DirtyCoward run away by himself]], abandoning all of his people to die.
** Doc [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Morbid]] initially presents himself as merely an [[DrJerk arrogant and unpleasant man]], but is revealed to be {{greed}} personified. As Junktown's resident [[MadDoctor physician]], Morbid offers medical assistance for enormous prices, and is the only doctor in the wastelands to force his patients to pay him for the examination. Those who refuse to pay him are murdered by his two mercenaries and their bodies are taken to his underground lab, where are they are butchered into small pieces and sold to Iguana Bob; the human meat is then cooked to look like iguana bits and given to the population. If Morbid discovers that the Vault Dweller has visited his lab, Morbid will let the latter live only if he can [[EyeScream remove an eye]], declaring that "half of what you have just seen" is now his.

** [[PosthumousCharacter Roy Gottlieb]] was the head of the Justice Bloc, which emerged as a key player in the Vault 11 social disaster. While nominally preparing {{human sacrifice}}s demanded by Vault 11's social experiment, Roy in reality [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist used the sacrifices to consolidate his personal power]]. In his lowest move, Roy forced a woman named Kate into becoming the SexSlave for him and the entire Justice Bloc for a month by threatening to elect her husband--choosing the man because he beat him in checkers--before sacrificing her husband anyway. When Kate became Overseer and tried to upend Roy's system, Roy launched a violent coup that led to the death of almost everyone in the Vault.

** [[HumanTraffickers Eulogy Jones]] is the crime boss in charge of the human trafficking occurring in the Capital Wasteland. Killing his predecessor to take his place and establish his own empire at Paradise Falls, Jones oversees everything with an iron fist and rules over the "livestock", keeping them in check by [[ExplosiveLeash installing explosive collars on their necks]]; Jones also assigns a homicidal maniac named [[DumbMuscle Forty]] who enjoys killing slaves with the job of watching them for him. Always in the company of two personal slaves whom he sees as his bodyguards and prostitutes, Jones verbally abuses them on a daily basis and has [[MindRape succeeded in brainwashing one of them]], reducing the woman into a subservient sex object suffering from UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome who would do anything to make him happy; even if she is fanatically loyal to him, Jones is fine with selling her for a thousand caps. Owning a house for captured children, Jones tasks the Lone Wanderer with bringing some "VIP" targets and eventually [[WouldHurtAChild even more children]] to Paradise Falls for him to enslave, rewarding you for being complicit in his business.