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{{quote|''It's been 80 long years since [[Fallout 1|your ancestor trod across the wastelands]].
''As you search for the [[Terraform|Garden of Eden Creation Kit]] to save your primitive village, your path is strewn with crippling radiation, megalomaniac mutants, and a relentless stream of [[Sex Drugs and Rock N Roll|lies, deceit, and treachery.]] You begin to wonder if anyone really stands to gain anything in this [[Scavenger World|brave new world]]...''|Plot summary, back of the box.}}
The second game in the ''[[Fallout]]'' series. This installment improves much upon [[Fallout 1|its predecessor]], being a game where you can do just about anything within reason. Numerous pop culture references make this game a troper's best friend.
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* [[Affably Evil]]: President Dick Richardson and most of the Enclave Civilian Government are quite polite people who are trying to {{spoiler|kill all mutants, which by their definition are basically everybody in the desert}}.
* [[After the End]]: The setting of this game is [[Apocalypse Not|much more "civilized" than most post-apocalyptic settings]] out there, probably because it takes place [[Exty Years From Now|80 years after]] ''[[Fallout]]''.
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* [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]]: Dave. It'd be a [[Deus Angst Machina]] if it wasn't so damn funny:
{{quote|"When I was one, I was dropped on the porch. When I was two, I had pneumonia. When I was three, I got the chicken pox. When I was four, I fell down the stairs and broke six ribs. When I was five, my uncle was decapitated by a watermelon. When I was six, my parents hit me in the head with a shovel. When I was seven, I lost my index finger to my pet rat. When I was eight, my dog Spike got hit by a tractor.
:When I was nine, my mother lost her arm to a rabid Brahmin. When I was ten, my sister was torn to bits by a pack of dogs. When I was eleven, my grandfather killed himself because I was ugly. When I was twelve, my grandmother killed herself because I was ugly. When I was thirteen, my father poked out his eyes with a pitchfork in a drunken stupor.▼
:When I was fourteen, my brother lost his hand to a wallaby. When I was fifteen, my aunt choked to death on a chicken bone. When I was sixteen, I lost my cousin to a badger. When I was seventeen, I cut off my left big toe with a hoe. When I was eighteen, my father lost his right leg to the same tractor that killed my dog. When I was nineteen..." }}▼
▲When I was nine, my mother lost her arm to a rabid Brahmin. When I was ten, my sister was torn to bits by a pack of dogs. When I was eleven, my grandfather killed himself because I was ugly. When I was twelve, my grandmother killed herself because I was ugly. When I was thirteen, my father poked out his eyes with a pitchfork in a drunken stupor.
▲When I was fourteen, my brother lost his hand to a wallaby. When I was fifteen, my aunt choked to death on a chicken bone. When I was sixteen, I lost my cousin to a badger. When I was seventeen, I cut off my left big toe with a hoe. When I was eighteen, my father lost his right leg to the same tractor that killed my dog. When I was nineteen..." }}
* [[Hundred-Percent Heroism Rating]]: If you choose to play after the end of the game and go to New Reno/Vault City, everyone will congratulate you and treat you like a hero.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]:
{{quote|'''Chosen One:''' [''about a minor gang leader''] Why do they call him Frog Morton?
'''Sheriff Marion:''' His name's Morton, and they call him Frog 'cause he croaks people. Ready to go get 'im?
'''Chosen One:''' [[Suckiness Is Painful|Ohhhh. Ouch. That's terrible. The pain, the pain!]]
'''Sheriff Marion:''' Hey, I didn't make that one up - he did. With puns that bad, I'd say that gives you just one more reason to kill 'im. }}
* [[I Read It for the Articles]]: [[In-Universe]], when talking about the Cat's Paw magasines to Miss Kitty:
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* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: Tandi, the idealistic and attractive young woman from ''Fallout 1'' is now the president of the New California Republic. The stress of being a politician has clearly not treated her well for the last few decades. Then again, she is over 90 years old by the time of ''Fallout 2''.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Any player who beats the game, no matter how evil he or she may be, will retire in the city created by the GECK, ruling it as the Elder. [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|Even if you sold the GECK]].
* [[Karma Meter]]: Done in a realistic way there.
:Actually, the "karma" meters are a little misleading as they don't measure how good or bad you are but what your reputation is in the different towns and in the game world in general. So if you did a pretty bad thing in an area where there's supposedly no one around to witness it, your karma won't be affected. Also as to why the stuff the post above don't register, [[Obvious Beta|it could be yet another thing left out in the final version of the game and no one in the development team bothered fixing it.]]
* [[Karmic Death]]
** {{spoiler|[[Jerkass|Myron]]}} gets an entirely deserved death that is infinitely appropriate. It happens after the end of the game. {{spoiler|He's drinking in the Den, when an addict kills him for money to buy more Jet. His name is quickly forgotten, and only his invention, Jet, survives him, [[Fallout 3|causing suffering decades after his death.]] }}
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