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{{quote|"''[[Book Ends|War. War never changes.]]''"

|'''[[Ron Perlman|Narrator]]'''}}

 

It has been many decades since the winds of the apocalypse blew in over America and took the old world with it, leaving only the Wasteland in its place. The event, known as [[World War III|"The Great War"]], was the culmination of a long and bloody struggle between USA and China over the last oil in the world. It came in the form of a massive global nuclear attack, which in two hours bathed the Earth in fire and radiation and ended all human civilization. But the human race is stubborn, and not so easily eradicated, and now small societies are starting to pop up all over the North American mainland, and you, the player, can either [[A World Half Full|help them prosper]] or take away their hope, and watch them [[Crapsack World|wither and die]].

* ''[[Fallout 76]]'', announced in May 2018 for a November 2018 release.

 

 

See also ''[[Wasteland (video game)|Wasteland]]'', the series' [[Spiritual Predecessor]], and ''[[Arcanum]]'', the series' [[Steampunk]] sister game.

 

'''Note: Tropes relating to the series and the Fallout Universe in general goes here. Please put tropes that applies to individual games in the series on their respective pages.'''

* [[Abdicate the Throne]]: So to speak. Sometimes the diplomatic solution in regime-change type quests involves the officeholder stepping down willingly.

* [[Abusive Precursors]]: The Enclave, the remnants of the United States Government, the main antagonists of the second and third games.

* [[After the End]]: Nobody knew who fired the first missile that triggered the apocalypse, and by the end of the day, nobody cared. It was considered the end of the world. But still, humanity survived (mutated, blood thirsty, and completely shattered), and the world moved on. The Great War wasn't the end, simply one more sad chapter.

* [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: Varies quite a bit. Artificial intelligences are rare, bulky, immobile machines in ''Fallout'' (with the exception of the "androids" developed at post-war MIT). Some intelligences are sane and helpful, others are unstable but relatively harmless, and a few are villains.

* [[All Crimes Are Equal]]: Insofar as the idea of "crime" can exist in a society with no more centralized legal structure. Any sort of wrongdoing will typically be met with the same sort of response: everyone in the settlement attacks you. Take a step into a place you aren't allowed, steal a bottle of Nuka-Cola, or simply act like a [[Jerkass]] to the wrong person, and you can expect violence. Subverted in some settlements with jails and order, in these places you can actually be imprisoned. ''Fallout: New Vegas'' gives a [[Hand Wave]] that NCR's troops are miserable due to the state of the Mojave and this is why they're so on-edge and don't care to punish crimes fairly, but it's still silly that a dozen armored troops will open fire on you just for taking a tin can off the floor that was marked as owned.

* [[The Alleged Car|The Alleged Everything]]: 80% of the tech you find is literally falling apart, broken, or [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|trying to kill you]]. However, [[I Love Nuclear Power|that]] [[Invisibility Cloak|doesn't]] [[Robot Buddy|mean]] [[Humongous Mecha|that]] [[Frickin' Laser Beams|technology]] [[Powered Armor|is]] [[Kill Sat|useless]].

* [[Desert Skull]]: The series loves this trope.

* [[Dirty Communists]]: Going by Pre-War propaganda, the entire nation of China. You get to fight a simulation of them in the ''Operation: Anchorage'' DLC. Likewise, [[Humongous Mecha|Liberty Prime]] figures anyone who gets the receiving end of one of his nuclear footballs is a communist, regardless of what he's actually fighting. Then again, that just [[Rule of Funny|makes it better]].

* [[The Ditz]]: Harry, who is easily the dumbest Super Mutant in the ''entire series''.

* [[Doomed Hometown]]: The first two games start out with the player having to stop their hometown's impending destruction.

** The Mid-Western Brotherhood of Steel, based in Chicago, are a little better in that they interact peacefully with the tribals around them and help them. They are still a fascistic militant group and their 'interaction' is basically a glorified protection racket "for your own good", but they at least seem intent on including outsiders in building a better tomorrow.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: There's a lot of this, whether it be by NPCs or by the main character him/herself, particularly the Chosen One from the second game, provided he/she isn't an [[Hulk Speak|idiot]].

* [[Lethal Joke Item]]: The [[A Christmas Story|Red Ryder Limited Edition BB Gun]]. It does virtually no damage to enemies... unless you hit them in the eyes, in which case it becomes ''the most powerful weapon in the entire game'' and has a near 100% crit rate, regularly resulting in [[Ludicrous Gibs]] even against [[Demonic Spiders|Super Mutants]] and [[Boss in Mook Clothing|Nightkin]]. It is, however, [[Captain Obvious|useless against enemies that don't have eyes]]. The same BB Gun makes its return in ''Fallout: New Vegas''. The weapon has an extremely high critical damage multiplier and perfect accuracy, and while hidden, with the right perks, its damage output surpasses everything short of an Anti-materiel rifle with a sneak attack critical.

* [[Living Legend]]: By the end of any given game, the protagonist will have been everywhere, met everyone, changed everything for better or worse, and become a legend. Or maybe you just skipped right to the end, because you can do that.

* [[We Can Rule Together]]: The Master, President Eden and Caesar all make similar offers to the player character. The Master is actually good for it, while Eden's plan will get you killed (though to be fair, Eden might not have known that), and Caesar doesn't exactly have the best track record of keeping his promises (especially if you're playing a female character, given Caesar's view on the place of women in society).

** In ''Dead Money'', ''the player'' can make this offer to the [[Big Bad]], Father Elijah, but only if they have a negative relation with the NCR, whom Elijah wants to overthrow.

* [[We Have Reserves]]: The New California Republic defeated the Brotherhood of Steel because the Brotherhood, being an elitist order, had too few members to conscript for troops. For years, they fought the war under the assumption that their technological superiority gave them the advantage, until it became clear that they were doomed because they could not replace their troops fast enough.

* [[Weird Science]]: The ''Fallout'' 'verse runs on 50-style B-movie '''SCIENCE!'''

 

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