History Series / Fallout2024

** In episode 4, Lucy is drugged and captured by Snip-Snip the Mr. Handy in the Super-Duper Mart. [[spoiler: While she is semi-conscious and immobile, she has a flashback of her mother. However, this flashback happens while she is being rolled by a group of imprisoned ghouls, some of whom are feral. Lucy's Mother is revealed in the last episode to have been turned into a feral ghoul herself]].

** In episode 4, Lucy is drugged and captured by Snip-Snip the Mr. Handy in the Super-Duper Mart. [[spoiler: When the robot transports her on a gurney to the back room while she is semi-conscious and immobile, she has a flashback of her mother. However, this flashback happens while she is being rolled by a group imprisoned ghouls, some of whom are feral. Lucy's Mother is revealed in the last episode to have been turned into a feral ghoul herself]].

** In episode 5, after Lucy asks Maximus about what, happened in the last 200 years, [[spoiler:he replies that he was a child when the bombs fell which would not make any sense given his age. She later learns he was a survivor of the bombs that destroyed Shady Sands.]]

** The show also states that [[spoiler:the "Fall of Shady Sands" happened in 2277, the same year as the First Battle for Hoover Dam and four years before the events of ''New Vegas.'' This at a glance seems to contradict the game's year 2281 events, as numerous characters in that game directly reference Shady Sands as the current, thriving political core of the nation from which Congress and the President operate. [[WordOfGod Both Emil Pagliarulo and Todd Howard]] would later state that ''New Vegas'' remains canon, with Shady Sands being destroyed shortly ''after'' the events of the game, with "Fall" instead being a separate, as of yet unexplained event. This still creates uncertainties given President Kimball flies from Shady Sands to New Vegas for a speech during 2281. This "Fall" cannot be an extremely loud catastrophe nor even noticeable for the population who has access to radio, word of mouth, and travelers to and from Shady Sands.]]

** In episode 5, after Lucy asks Maximus about what happened in the last 200 years, [[spoiler:he replies that he was a child when the bombs fell which would not make any sense given his age. She later learns he was a survivor of the bombs that destroyed Shady Sands.]]

* AuthoritySoundsDeep: Harkening back to the games that used the same effect, Brotherhood T-60c power armor has a vocal modulator that produces a deep, booming voice that sounds little like they do when out of it.

* AuthoritySoundsDeep: Harkening back to the games that used the same effect, Brotherhood T-60c power armor has a vocal modulator that produces a deep, booming voice that sounds little like they do when out of it.

* CapitalismIsBad: [[spoiler:It's revealed that the main villains of the series, and by extension the ''Fallout'' franchise as a whole, are Vault-Tec and similarly aligned conglomerates who engineered [[WorldWarIII the Great War]] and systemically stamp out any attempts to rebuild civilization outside their control so that they can rule the world according to their own whims, without pesky regulations or governments getting in their way]].

* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Lucy]] gets hit ''hard'' with it when [[spoiler:she]] learns, in quick succession, that [[spoiler:a) her father wasn't born in a vault, but is actually [[CorruptCorporateExecutive a Vault-Tec executive]] who was [[HumanPopsicle cryogenically frozen]] as part of [[LongGame Vault-Tec's ploy to take over post-war]], b) he's the one who [[NukeEm destroyed Shady Sands and, by extension, the NCR by nuking it]], and c) in the process [[TilMurderDoUsPart killed her mom]], since she ended up [[ZombieInfectee becoming a feral ghoul from the radiation]]. Lucy ends up completely devastated at realizing that [[AllForNothing that her dad was never worthy of being rescued]].]]

* HappyEndingOverride:
** [[spoiler:Shady Sands developed into a borderline pre-war city, with modern buildings, bountiful crops, and running trolleys, but was blasted into a crater by Hank [=MacLean=].]]
* HealingPotion: Stimpacks are a standard means for characters to almost instantly heal up in the video games, but their healing properties aren't really explored as anything more than a game mechanic. The show takes this approach to how Stimpacks work by making it induce hyper regeneration inside the body to heal them enough from mortal wounds.
* {{Homage}}

* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: The series shakes up ''Fallout'' canon in a big way. [[spoiler:The New California Republic, a major power player in the west since ''Fallout 2'', was violently dismantled and its remnants wiped out by a resurgent Brotherhood of Steel, and Vault-Tec is confirmed to have been pulling the strings on everything since ''before'' the Great War, firmly cementing themselves as the true BigBad of the entire franchise]].

* NoZombieCannibals: Just like the rest of the ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'' franchise, feral ghouls do not attack other ghouls, feral or otherwise. When Lucy ignorantly releases an entire pack of them locked up at the clinic, they attack the normal humans and no one else.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: In a pre-war segment, Sebastian Leslie has a discussion with Cooper about selling his voice away for $138,000 ([[AmbiguousSyntax or possibly $138]]), much to his regret. At the time of the series' release, AI-generated voicework presented a similar threat to screen and voice actors who would be at risk of accidentally selling away their likenesses for a pitiful amount of money.

* WeWillUseWikiWordsInTheFuture: This applies to the meds used in the future like the [[HealingPotion StimPack]] or [[AntiRadiationDrug RadAway]].

''Fallout'' is a post-apocalyptic ScienceFiction series based on the popular [[Franchise/{{Fallout}} video game series of the same name]] owned and published by Creator/{{Bethesda}}. It is executive produced by Lisa Joy and Creator/JonathanNolan of ''Series/{{Westworld}}'' fame, along with Creator/ToddHoward (game director of ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' and ''VideoGame/Fallout4''). Geneva Robertson-Dworet (''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'') and Graham Wagner (''Series/{{Portlandia}}'', ''Series/SiliconValley'') serve as series creators and showrunners. The series will not be a direct adaptation of any prior game in the series, but instead an original story [[SharedUniverse set within the universe of the games]] and, according to Howard, part of the official ''Fallout'' canon.

** During Episode 8, during a flashback where Vault-Tec [[spoiler: discusses allowing the Corporates to use the Vaults for their experiments]], some of the experiments discussed are those that can be found in the various games.

** In episode 8, the corporate leaders lay out some ideas for Vault experiments. These include a deliberately overcrowded Vault (Vault 27 from the ''Fallout Bible''), a Vault governed by an AI (Vault 51 from ''76'') a Vault aimed at developing Super Mutant soldiers (Vault 87 from ''3'') a Vault where psychotropic drugs are pumped into the air supply (Vault 106 from ''3''), and a Vault where children are separated from their parents and forced into a eugenics program (Vault 75 from ''4'').

** The fact of there being three Vaults constructed around Los Angeles and all seem perfectly intact by the late 2200s raises concerns over how they could have possibly evaded discovery by [[spoiler:the Master in ''VideoGame/Fallout1''. The Master and his Unity were raiding and collecting Vault Dwellers to make into Super Mutants in California for years. The interconnected Vaults starting with Vault 33 are in a major urban center, with the blast door entrance out in the open for anyone to see, unlike Vaults 13 and 15. One would think that made them easily discoverable by super mutant scouts hunting for repositories of pure human DNA. That they all seem to have survived without incident up to the present day implies either The Master never investigated them, gave up trying when he couldn't break into 33 like he did the demonstration Vault, or just by sheer luck the Unity never discovered them.]]

** In episode 8, the corporate leaders lay out some ideas for Vault experiments. These include a deliberately overcrwoded Vault (Vault 27 from the ''Fallout Bible''), a Vault governed by an AI (Vault 51 from ''76'') a Vault aimed at developing Super Mutant soldiers (Vault 87 from ''3'') a Vault where psychotropic drugs are pumped into the air supply (Vault 106 from ''3''), and a Vault where children are separated from their parents and forced into a eugenics program (Vault 75 from ''4'').

** [[spoiler:Putting aside whatever ending the player might have worked toward in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', Vegas was at least a functioning, safe city that was surrounded by a larger slum. The ending of season 1 shows that Vegas has at least been partially abandoned, and signs of civilization around it are sparse.]]

* ShownTheirWork: ''Fallout'' fans have noticed that the series is full of small details that even some of the most ardent players would likely not notice or think about when playing the games. The various sets of armor (including the iconic T-60c Power Armor) and weapons used by the Brotherhood of Steel are consistent with those found in the games, what's shown of Vaults 33, 32, and 4 is consistent with the designs & layouts from the Vaults found in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' and ''VideoGame/Fallout76'', and even the medical supplies used by Snip Snip, the Mister Handy surgeon look like the various chem/drug containers & jars found in-game.

*** During the attack on Vault 33, while all the residents defend themselves with clear amateurish-ness, Hank whacks [[spoiler:Monty]] with [[ShovelStrike a shovel]] before drowning him, maintaining a cold-fury but blank expression. [[spoiler:That's not just Hank being a PapaWolf, that's showing that he is far more used to violence than most 33 residents]].

* ShownTheirWork: ''Fallout'' fans have noticed that the series is full of small details that even some of the most ardent players would likely not notice or think about when playing the games. The various sets of armor (including the iconic T-60c Power Armor) and weapons used by the Brotherhood of Steel are consistent with those found in the games, what's shown of Vault 33 is consistent with the designs & layouts from the Vaults found in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' and ''VideoGame/Fallout76'', and even the medical supplies used by the Mister Handy robot look like the various chem/drug containers & jars found in-game.
** In one flashback scene, Cooper Howard (a former marine) criticizes the T-45 Power Armor, and as the ghoul he notes how the current T-60 models still have some of the vulnerabilities. In the ''Fallout'' games, T-60 Power Armor is the more advanced and protected version of the T-45.
** The Pop-Boys used by Lucy and other Vault Residents are used the exact same way they are operated in ''Fallout 4'', with their UIs being exactly the same as in-game.

** Continuing the trend set in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', "The Ghoul" is easily the best looking of his kind in any ''Fallout'' media. Other than his baldness and lack of nose, he barely has any signs of the radiation-induced decay that most other ghouls have had in the games, with perfectly normal teeth and eyes and skin that looks merely aged and leathery, not outright rotted. According to Nolan, they "hired [[Creator/WaltonGoggins the actor]] for a reason", and as such [[RealLifeWritesThePlot the typical ghoul characteristics were dialed back so the actor could emote properly through the makeup]]. Other ghouls look similar, if only slightly worse. {{Inverted}} in one major case in the Season 1 finale: a far more rotted feral ghoul that is barely more than a one-armed skeleton with (some) skin appears, but barely moves because Moldaver has restrained it to a chair. [[spoiler: The Ghoul in question here is Lucy's Mother, Rose]].

*** During the attack on Vault 33, while all the residents defend themselves with clear amateurish-ness, Hank whacks [[spoiler: Monty]] with [[ShovelStrike a shovel]] before drowning him, maintaining a cold-fury but blank expression. [[spoiler:That's not just Hank being a PapaWolf, that's showing that he is far more used to violence than most 33 residents]].

** Continuing the trend set in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', "The Ghoul" is easily the best looking of his kind in any ''Fallout'' media. Other than his baldness and lack of nose, he barely has any signs of the radiation-induced decay that most other ghouls have had in the games, with perfectly normal teeth and eyes and skin that looks merely aged and leathery, not outright rotted. According to Nolan, they "hired [[Creator/WaltonGoggins the actor]] for a reason", and as such [[RealLifeWritesThePlot the typical ghoul characteristics were dialed back so the actor could emote properly through the makeup]]. Other ghouls look similar, if only slightly worse. {{Inverted}} in one major case in the Season 1 finale: a far more rotted feral ghoul that is barely more than a one-armed skeleton with (some) skin appears, but barely moves because Moldaver has restrained it to a chair.

*** During the attack on Vault 33, while all the residents defend themselves with clear amateurish-ness, Hank whacks [[spoiler: Monty]] with a shovel before drowning him, maintaining a cold-fury but blank expression. [[spoiler:That's not just Hank being a PapaWolf, that's showing that he is far more used to violence than most 33 residents]].
*** During a Vault 33 meeting regarding [[spoiler:the imprisoned raiders]], Norm brainstorms that [[spoiler:they should PayEvilUntoEvil with the raiders and [[MurderIsTheBestSolution kill them]]]]. Everyone else dismisses this notion in disgust, and even Norm has second-thoughts... but Steph [[spoiler:agrees with him (since they killed her husband), and states that his father Hank would "do the right thing"]].

*** During the attack on Vault 33, while all the residents defend themselves with clear amateurish-ness, Hank coldly whack "Monty" with a shovel before drowning him without his expression changing from cold fury. [[spoiler:That's not just Hank being a PapaWolf, that's showing that he is far mroe used to violence than most 33 residents]].

** During the attack on Vault 33, while all the residents defend themselves with clear amateurish-ness, Hank coldly whack "Monty" with a shovel before drowning him without his expression changing from cold fury. [[spoiler:That's not just Hank being a PapaWolf, that's showing that he is far mroe used to violence than most 33 residents]].

* PregnantBadass: During the attack on the residents of Vault 33, Stephanie doesn't hesitate to fight back despite being in her third trimester. [[spoiler:And, boy, ''does she''. Even after being ''stabbed in the eye'', she doesn't miss a step, killing the raider attacking her, taking his Sten submachine gun, and opening fire on the rest.]]

* AdaptationalUgliness: The Gulpers depicted in ''Far Harbor'' and ''Fallout 76'' basically resemble giant salamanders that walk on two legs. They're radically redesigned in the show, now resembling grotesquely massive axolotls with frog-like proportions, giving them spindly back legs and oversized heads, and have a maw filled with human fingers. The sixth episode shows that [[spoiler:they're actually ''human/creature hybrid'' mutants created through experimentation in Vault 4.]] Given the notable differences, they may be created from a different breed of salamander indigenous to the West Coast that just so happen to share the same name as the East Coast variant.

* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:The Gulper's new design is this. Instead of being mutant giant salamanders, the Gulper fought on Hollywood Boulevard is the result of horrific genetic experiments conducted on Vault 4's test subjects. Lucy finds recorded footage of a female subject giving live birth to an entire pod of Gulpers, and Overseer Benjamin proudly refers to the escapee that devoured the Vault's original scientists as his great-uncle Peter.]]

* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Shady Sands and the whole NCR]] play this role in order to show how truly powerful (and monstrous) [[spoiler:Vault-Tec and Lucy's father]] are. In the games, they are [[spoiler:one of the major forces in the Wasteland and usually the closest to restoring a semblance of order from the pre-war world]], yet they are destroyed with little difficulty [[spoiler:by a single nuke dropped on their capital]].

** [[spoiler:Vault-Tec themselves are subject to this. While they were certainly evil in the games they were ultimately "just" government contractors in it for the money and many of the experiments were only set up at the behest of the government, with President Richardson stating that some of the experiments helped the Enclave survive on their oil rig in some unspecified fashion (with the experiments as a while being mostly designed by hired scientists like Dr. Stanislaus Braun). Here it's revealed that they started the entire nuclear war themselves (or were at least planning to do so) in order to remake the world in their image (which is [[{{Expy}} remarkably similar]] to what happened to the Umbrella Corporation in [[Film/ResidentEvilTheFinalChapter that series' movie adaptation]]), and many of the experiments were actually set up by them & other {{Mega Corp}}s with the goal of creating new societies via [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinism]].]]

** Lucy's mission after episode one is to find and rescue her father after he's kidnapped by Lee Moldaver.

** The shadowed, circular board room where the corporate oligarchs meet in the Season 1 finale is more than a little evocative of the War Room in Film/DrStrangelove.
** Speaking of the Season 1 finale, a shot of Brotherhood Vertibirds flying through an orange sunset references a shot of chopper silhouettes on an orange sky from Film/ApocalypseNow.