Fallout: New Vegas/Characters/New California: Difference between revisions

** {{spoiler|The best ending for the Followers of Apocalypse is only available if you make them cooperate with the NCR. In which they will be able to continue caring for the less fortunate citizens in New Vegas. Originally it was unavailable due to a bug in the game's programming, but has now fixed by the last patch.}}

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: A really effective way to skip though the red tape when dealing with the NCR if you lack high speech skills or reputation is by bribing the officials.

Option 4: Oh my, it seems I have so many caps in my pocket that I am not sure what to do with them! Say, I think I will just leave some on the table... }}

* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: The NCR was originally founded upon idealistic ideals of giving people a chance to achieve more than just day to day survival and unite them under the banner of a benevolent government. But in the years since Fallout 2, the difficulty of maintaining a functional nation state in a post-apocalyptic world has slowly dragged the NCR more towards the cynical side.

=== General Lee Oliver ===

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''"I would sooner spit on the grave of my dead mother than let some courier-walk-the-wasteland-fuck talk to me like that. Who the hell do you think you are? Looking to cash your chips to the sound of NCR bullets, eh? I can oblige."''|General Oliver when {{spoiler|confronted by an army of Securitrons commanded by Yes Man}} }}

* [[Armchair Military]]: Why he's not particularly popular amongst the troops.

* [[Badass Boast]]: Makes a few of these if you try to talk him off in the House/Independent endings, for all the good that does him.

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: His manner of speaking, er, lacks refinement.

* [[Cruel Mercy]]: If he's talked into surrendering, House states that he'll be publicly disgraced and held responsible for the loss of not only the Mojave but the countless lives of soldiers, along with...

=== Colonel James Hsu ===

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''"Calm is what you have to be when people look to you. And it's all you can be when things are out of your hands"'' }}

* [[A Father to His Men]]: Boone notes that he shook his hand once, and that he could tell from the look in his eye that he understands what the soldiers are going through.

* [[Being Good Sucks]]: Some [[Dummied Out]] post-game content reveals that Col. Moore is picked over him for a promotion in the NCR ending due to, depending on how one interprets what would have been said, her aggressive kill-'em-all tactics or Hsu being far less willing to take credit for things being better than what the brass thought it would be. Of course, it is [[Dummied Out]], so the canonicity of this remains uncertain.

* [[Beleaguered Bureaucrat]]: Since he's stuck being a desk jockey, he gets saddled with this.

* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: Much like Hanlon, he's a bit beaten down by the rampant problems that the NCR faces in the region.

=== Colonel Cassandra Moore ===

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''"Unlike the good ambassador, I don't intend to blink."'' }}

=== Chief Hanlon ===

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''"I wish I could explain it to you. The old chief's finally at a loss for words."'' }}

=== Ambassador Dennis Crocker ===

''Interested in politics, eh? Well, grab a seat and get comfortable.'' }}

=== President Aaron Kimball ===

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''"Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevadas, defiant and enduring."''|President Kimball's speech at Hoover Dam}}

* [[Big Good]]: In the eyes of many NCR citizens.

* [[Is This Thing Still On?]]: At the end of his speech. Except he doesn't seem to realize it was.

* [[Jerkass]]: According the the comments of numerous NCR NPCs, he's a greedy, imperialistic dick who just cares about annexing everything he sees. {{spoiler|Could potentially be a case of [[The Extremist Was Right]] if you help the NCR take control of the Mojave}}.

* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Even if you dislike the NCR, you have to admit that he is really good at giving a speech.

* [[Shout-Out]]: The solider that he awards a medal to is clearly a [[Forrest Gump]] [[Expy]].

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: After his great speech, he tells his men:

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Personally making a public visit to a location directly next door to your biggest enemy's base of operations. It's arguably a matter of pride, though; his comments ([[Is This Thing Still On?|broadcast over the PA]]) indicate that he's well aware he could be shot and doesn't want to stay any longer than he has to.

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Caesar, of all people, actually considers him to to one and described Kimball as 'a man of potential' since he approves of Kimball's heavy handed and expansionist policies when dealing with the raider tribes that attacked the NCR back when he was a general. However, Caesar despise the fact that instead of using his influence to seize control of the republic via a military coup, Kimball choose to be democratically elected instead.