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* [[The Alleged Car|The Alleged Everything]]: 80% of the tech you find is literally falling apart, broken, or [[AI 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]].

** There's also an actual [[Alleged Car]] that doubles as a [[Cool Car]], the Fallout 2 Highwayman.

* [[Alternate History]]: The ''Fallout'' timeline diverges from the real world just after [[World War II]], with the social, political, and technological status quo of [[The Fifties]] enduring well into the late 21st century. The changes are minor at first but continue to cascade as the decades go by. Some of the changes include: NASA being replaced by the United States Space Agency (U.S.S.A.), American astronaut Captain Carl Bell becoming the fist human in space instead of Yuri Gagarin (though the game mentions that Russia and China dispute this), the first lunar landing occurring a few days earlier then it did in [[Real Life]] and with a different module and crew, the states are divided into thirteen commonwealths in the 1960s and the American flag is changed to reflect this (it now depicts thirteen stars, twelve in a circle and one in the middle) and then there is the divergent technological development.

** Note that it's rather strongly implied that this [[Medieval Stasis|50s Stasis]] was limited mostly to the United States, and even in the US there were some slight changes (the band [[Ratt]], and thus presumably the rock and alternative rock genres, are confirmed to exist in the Fallout universe, for example). Also, there's also a running undercurrent that the optimistic happy cheerful [[Zeerust|retro-futuristic utopia]] was teetering on the brink of collapse and massive social upheaval by the time the bombs finally fell (a few months before the Apocalypse, for example, the President was unanimously impeached for annexing a sovereign nation).

* [[Random Encounters]]: Justified in that you are watching your GPS too closely to notice anything around you. Your first warning is a lightning bolt. Then you get YOU HAVE ENCOUNTERED A RADSCORPION/ PEASANT HERDING BRAMIN/GROUP OF RAIDERS/ETC./ETC.

* [[Rare Guns]]: Desert Eagle, G11s, the automatic shotguns of ''Fallout 2,'' and several others from the list.

* [[Real Is Brown]]: Very much so.

** Or rather, dust is brown. [[Crapsack World|As are other things.]]