Fallout: New Vegas/Tropes M to Z: Difference between revisions

 

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== M ==

* [[Poisoned Weapon]]: A Courier with a decent survival skill is able to concoct poisons of varying lethality, then apply them to melee weapons. It's more of [[Awesome but Impractical]] as the poison is removed after one strike, but it's worth it to stealthily toss a throwing knife at a deathclaw and watch its health bar drain completely.

* [[Politically-Incorrect Villain]]: Caesar's Legion makes no pretense about it: they think women are inferior to men physically and mentally, and should [[Stay in the Kitchen]]. Also, [[Fantastic Racism|they think of Ghouls and Super Mutants as nothing more than savage beasts]], even though the majority of them actually aren't so bad. Just one more reason to remember they represent sociological ''regression'', not progress. This is arguably part of the idea, though. Caesar is trying to turn back the clock, and values have to come with that package.

* [[Power Fist]]:

** The [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Power Fist]] makes a comeback, but the big daddy of them in the game is the Ballistic Fist: a glove with a [[More Dakka|SHOTGUN]] attached to it which triggers on contact. [[Rule of Cool|AWESOME!]]

** Early on, any weapon that uses the devastating yet rare .44 magnum rounds. [[Averted Trope|With the addition of ammo crafting at sufficiently high levels, you can make your own .44 magnum rounds by breaking down your less useful bullets]]. Not so with the alien energy ammo or the mini nukes, though.

** Turbo. It puts everything around you into [[Bullet Time]], causing enemies to move and attack ridiculously slowly while you continue to fight at normal speed, rendering even the Legendary Deathclaw a sitting duck for its duration. Unfortunately, there's only a handful that can be found or bought right off the bat, and to get any more than that you have to learn an extremely rare crafting recipe that requires you to hunt Cazadores (one of the hardest enemies in the game) for ingredients. The only other option is the Implant GRX perk in ''Old World Blues''.

** The Proton Inversal Throwing Axes in ''Old World Blues''. There are, at best, around thirty total with random spawning on corpses. You're lucky if you find ten. They are the single most-damaging thrown melee weapon in the game, but there's no way to get more.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: There are a lot of people in this game that would earn a [[Darwin Awards|Darwin Award]].

** The most valuable (currency-wise) item in the game are gold bars from the ''Dead Money'' DLC. However, they weigh 35 pounds, and most vendors don't have over 10000 caps on them at a time. On the plus side, if you can manage to drag out the entire set, you could purchase the entire inventories of the Gun Runners and Van Graffs and still have leftover change.

** This is the reason NCR used to back their money with gold (rather than water, as they did back in ''[[Fallout 1]]'' and during ''New Vegas''). It has very little use post-apocalypse, unlike water, which everybody always needs.

 

== Y ==