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== The Lone Wanderer ==

 

The Lone Wanderer lived happily in Vault 101 for the first 19 years of his/her life before their beloved father escaped, leaving The Wanderer alone and with the overzealous Overseer's men after them. Escaping the Vault, the Lone Wanderer began their life on the surface.

 

 

 

* [[And the Adventure Continues...]]: With ''Broken Steel'', at least...

** [[Badass Normal]]: S/he's apparently just some kid from a vault.

** [[Badass Bookworm]]: Intelligence is the most important stat due to the fact that it determines how many skill points you earn, so players are usually this. Given the many skill books you'll find, Intelligence or no you'll be doing a lot of reading too.

** [[Submissive Badass]]: In ''Broken Steel'', you take orders from the Brotherhood, but they will readily acknowledge, next to [[Badass Automaton|Liberty Prime]], [[Person of Mass Destruction|you are the most dangerous thing they could unleash on the Enclave.]]

* [[Barbarian Hero]]: It's possible to just specialize in melee weapons, but it's not a very good option considering [[Reality Ensues|nearly everyone else has a gun,]] and will likely just back up and shoot you. Better get some [[Power Armor]] if you want to survive going melee.

* [[Bi the Way]]: Possible for female characters.

* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: Have a high enough unarmed skill and the Bloody Mess perk, and your bare hands can literally [[Megaton Punch|punch]] limbs off or even reduce low level enemies to [[Ludicrous Gibs|chunks of meat]].

** It's also possible to kill several deathclaws barehanded, provided you have 100 Unarmed and the Paralyzing Palm perk.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Many dialogue options are ''very'' sarcastic.

** For instance:

* [[Determinator]]: Hunting across the Capital Wasteland for his/her father definitely counts.

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Hitting a target in the head from fifty feet away, in the dark, while the target is moving, and possibly so are you. You ''will'' be doing this.

* [[The Messiah]]: With good karma, and more so than the previous two Fallout heroes. The Vault Dweller and the Chosen One went place to place righting wrongs, bringing order and stopping invading armies. The Lone Wanderer does all that ''and'' manages to supply the entire region with clean drinking water.

* [[Memetic Badass]]: If evil enough, becomes one [[In-Universe]] among the Paradise Falls slavers.

* [[Odd Friendship]]: A good karma player has this with [[Genius Bruiser|Fawkes.]]

** Of particular note is the final mission of ''Broken Steel''. The Lone Wanderer is sent to clear out Adams Air Force Base, fight his/her way through the Mobile Crawler crawling with dozens of [[Elite Mooks]], and ''nuke the base''. [[That One Level|The base does not go down easily]], but at the end of the mission you've pretty much single-handedly annihilated the Enclave, something the entire Brotherhood couldn't.

* [[Science Hero]]: Many terminals allow you to turn robots and turrets against your enemies. Most notably the Enclave in the final mission at Adam's Air Force Base.

* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Hints are dropped the Lone Wanderer had this with Amata.

 

 

 

=== Fawkes ===

 

Formerly a security guard living in Vault 87, Fawkes was one day chosen for an experiment involving FEV, which turned him into a super mutant. Unlike his brethren, Fawkes retained his intelligence through the transformation. This caused the other Super Mutants to shun him, and when the player first meets him he's locked up in a cell in Vault 87. He carries a Gatling Laser and can only be obtained with Good Karma.

 

* [[Always Lawful Good]]: He won't join you if you're neutral or evil. He always wants to do the moral and right thing.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: If you rescue him from Vault 87, he'll later show up to help you outside of Raven Rock while he is gunning down Enclave soldiers with a Gatling Laser.

* [[Defector From Decadence]]: Though he never really was part of it to begin with; he retained too much intellect after mutation to become a raving monster like the other super mutants.

* [[Eleventh-Hour Ranger]]: Fawkes can't be recruited until the final quest in the main quest line. While you can still explore the wasteland and complete sidequests with him, by the time you get him you're pretty much at the end of the game's main storyline.

* [[Gentle Giant]]: He has a sort of Zen philosophy... and can rip you apart with his bare hands.

* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: A popular tactic among players is to have average small guns and energy weapons skills, just about enough to get through most of the story, then let Fawkes do all the work while they put points into science, repair, lockpick, medicine, etc. Fawkes is more than capable of destroying anything in the wasteland by himself.

* [[Nigh Invulnerable]]: With ''Broken Steel'', his health is at least 10 times higher than anything in the game.

* [[No Indoor Voice]]: Like all super mutants, however with him its the most noticeable since he talks intelligently, but the tone of it sounds like he's about to go berserk and beat you to death with a hammer.

* [[Video Game Caring Potential]]: Letting him out of his prison at Vault 87.

 

=== Star Paladin Cross ===

 

The highest ranking Paladin of the Brotherhood of Steel, Cross is Elder Lyon's cyborg adviser and bodyguard. When the Lone Wanderer was a child, she helped escort James to Megaton. She can be a follower to a player with Good Karma.

* [[Lady of War]]

* [[Power Armor]]: Like all other Brotherhood members.

 

=== Butch DeLoria ===

 

Formerly a bully at Vault 101, Butch has grown into a man tired of living in the Vault and aching for some freedom. If the player has the Vault opened in the ''Trouble On The Homefront'' quest, he can be found in Rivet City and can be recruited with Neutral Karma. He has weak default weapons, a 10mm Pistol and his Switchblade Knife.

 

* [[Badass Normal]]: Despite being the least useful companion, one has to remember he's just some kid from the Vault who managed to fight his way through the wasteland with nothing but a pistol and his switchblade.

* [[Delinquents]]: A 1950s greaser-type one, keeping with ''Fallout'''s aesthetics.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: See next entry.

* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: After the Tunnel Snakes disband due to one member dying and the other quitting, Butch decides to make a new tunnel snakes gang outside of the vault. "The most badass gang in the entire wastes!" The gang consists of one gang leader, and one member, both are Butch.

 

=== RL-3 ===

 

A pre-war Mr.Gustsy type military robot armed with a plasma weapon and a flamethrower, RL-3, like many robots, is still running on his fission battery and survived the nuclear war. However, he is not instantly hostile, and as a result was acquired and fixed up by a trader named Tinkerer Joe, who is currently selling RL-3 for 1,000 caps (500 with a speech check). However, RL-3 has his own programmed personality, and will only join people who are not too "extreme" (which means you can only buy him with Neutral Karma).

 

* [[Can't Catch Up]]: Without ''Broken Steel'', he does kick ass at first, but the fact that he does not level up with the player past level 9 makes him much less useful at the end of the game.

* [[Infinity-1 Sword]]: With ''Broken Steel'', he has incredibly high health, but is just below Fawkes due to his lack of killing power at higher levels.

* [[Kill It with Fire]]: Comes with a built-in flamethrower. Toasty!

* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]:

 

=== Jericho ===

 

A former Raider currently living in Megaton, Jericho has decided to leave his life of stealing and killing behind him. He just lounges around Megaton all day, sleeping in his one room shack or getting drunk at Moriarty's bar, but can be recruited by a player with Evil Karma. He carries a Chinese Assault Rifle and a nailboard.

 

* [[Badass Beard]]

* [[Blood Knight]]: He's by far the most bloodthirsty companion, and if you stop to talk to him he'll complain that he does not want to stop in the middle of the action.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: He may be completely devoid of morality and has committed unspeakable crimes, but he still sleeps with his teddy bear by his side in his house.

 

=== Clover ===

 

Eulogy Jones' personal bodyguard/sex slave, she is nonetheless utterly devoted to her master. She can only be initially purchased by an Evil Karma player, but can then later be re-hired regardless of Karma.

 

* [[Bodyguard Babes|Bodyguard Babe]]: Though not a very good one...

* [[Can't Catch Up]]: Clover's default weapon is weak (a very short range sawed off shotgun, in contrast to Jericho's assault rifle or Charon's unique sniper shotgun), and her stats are quite average. Along with Butch, she really doesn't have any pluses that make her a recommendable companion.

* [[Mind Rape]]

* [[Perky Female Minion]]

* [[Shotguns Are Just Better]]: Inverted. Her sawed-off shotgun has very short range and she lacks the power to deal any real damage with it. Honestly, she'd probably be better off using an assault rifle or even a revolver.

 

=== Charon ===

 

A ghoul with a mysterious past, Charon was apparently brainwashed in his childhood to blindly follow whoever holds his contract. He is currently a bouncer in an Underworld bar called the [[Meaningful Name|The Ninth Circle]], where his contract can be purchased from its current owner, [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Ahzrukal]], or obtained from him by killing off his competition on the alcohol business.

* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Although he is far saner then most people like this. The only major effect from the brainwashing seems to be complete loyalty to whoever holds his contract.

* [[Captain Obvious]]: Occasionally tosses out "I don't like the looks of this place" and "This place is not safe" when wandering around, somehow feeling the need to warn you even if you're in a Deathclaw lair, a Raider camp, etc...

* [[Jack of All Stats]]: He is a good all rounder, with a good starting weapon, all around good skills, is obtained mid-way into the game, and can be recruited regardless of karma

* [[Karmic Death]]: He delivers one to Ahzrukal.

* [[Shotguns Are Just Better]]: His [[Fan Nickname|"sniper shotgun"]], which actually has significantly less spread than the normal combat shotgun and thus is more lethal at long-range without sacrificing any power.

 

=== Dogmeat ===

 

* [[Canine Companion]]: The best one for any video game ever.

* [[Everythings Precious With Puppies]]: Awww, did Dogmeat die heroically in combat? Well now your beloved companion is gone forever... or is he? With the Puppies! perk you'll never have to worry about his safety again! Whenever he bites it you'll just have to wait for a new doggie buddy to show up at vault 101. Truly, puppies make everything better.

* [[Infinity-1 Sword]]: Like Fawkes and RL-3, he levels up with the player with the ''Broken Steel'' DLC added, and can end up with insane health by time you reach level 30. The only thing keeping him from being Plus One is his lack of a long range attack.

* [[Legacy Character]]: [[Word of God]] says he's the descendant of the Dogmeat from ''[[Fallout 1]]''.

* [[Made of Iron]]: "Dogmeat! Go rip off that [[Bonus Boss|Super Mutant Behemoth's]] arms!"

 

Vault 101 is where the player character was born and spends their childhood. While it only takes up about an hour of gameplay in the main storyline, it can be returned to later for a quest.

 

 

The ruler of Vault 101. Afraid of losing control, he exercises complete control over everyone in the vault, and enforces the rule that "no one ever enters and no one ever leaves." His only soft spot is his daughter, Amata.

 

* [[Jerkass]]

* [[Papa Wolf]]: And ''how''.

** James' medical notes reveal that he is present during all of his daughters check-ups in order to make sure his daughter hasn't gotten pregnant. If the Lone Wanderer is a male, this definitely adds a whole other level of subtext to why he has developed such an irrational hatred of you.

* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: Even if you come back and complete "Trouble On The Homefront" in his favor. He does give you a reward... and then basically tells you to get the hell out and never come back.

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: When you're escaping from the vault, you need to get his password to open the door. In this conversation with him, you have the option of surrendering, and giving him your gun. He then tries to kill you. With the same gun.

 

 

The daughter of the Overseer and the Lone Wanderer's childhood friend. She helps them escape after James goes missing and the Overseer wants answers.

* [[Ungrateful Bastard|Ungrateful Bitch]]: While her choice to kick you out of the Vault has some justification in the script, the voice acting makes it come off as very casual and regretless on her part (especially since you have to leave ''forever''). Perhaps Amata and her father are [[Not So Different]].

 

 

 

 

== Megaton Characters ==

Megaton is one of the more stable settlements around, with about thirty people, a sheriff, a water purifier, scavenging teams, and a wall to keep Raiders out. However, there is the little problem of [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|an unexploded atomic bomb in the middle of the town]], but hey, it keeps those nuts at the Church of the Children of Atom occupied, so how bad can it be? When the Lone Wanderer arrives, Megaton's fate can be decided.

 

 

The de-facto Sheriff (and mayor) of Megaton, and the first person the Lone Wanderer meets on the surface.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: He's a nice guy with good morals and firm patience. You could make fun of him all you like, and insult his town, and he merely shakes his head and warns you to behave.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: If you ask him to arrest Burke, he runs to Burke and tells Burke to follow him. He then turns his back on him and puts away his rifle, leaving him open to a gunshot to the back.

 

 

The owner of Moriarty's Saloon. He's got a lot of connections, and has a lot of people who owe him a lot of money. Lucas Simms claims to be the mayor of Megaton, but Moriarty is the one aiming to have complete control over the citizens.

 

* [[Affably Evil]]

** [[Faux Affably Evil]]: He'll act all polite and friendly to your face, but one look at his computer tells us what he's saying about people behind their backs...

* [[Pet the Dog]]: Ordinarily, Moriarty would've have thrown James and his child out of his establishment when they met for the very first time, simply because said child's crying annoyed him. but [[Manipulative Bastard|James talked him out of it.]] In fact, if you read Moriarty's notes, you get the feeling James actually managed the rare feat of getting actual courtesy and respect out of Moriarty. And, in a smaller instance, he does wind up leveling with you and telling you the mostly unvarnished truth even if you fail the speech check. That said, bear in mind this man is a known liar.

 

 

The owner of the Craterside Supply, a general store in Megaton. She's ''weird''. The Lone Wanderer can help her fulfill her life's dream of authoring the definitive book on how to survive the wasteland. Conversely, the Wanderer can rip her off, hiding out in the saloon all day, then coming back to give her idiotic and dangerous advice.

** At one point, she says she thought of ''digging a well with a Mini-Nuke''. Wisely, she reconsidered.

* [[Nice Guy|Nice Girl]]: Her quirks aside, she really does have no ulterior motives aside from wanting to help people with what she discovers from her experiments.

* [[Try Not to Die]]: She'll send you off on incredibly dangerous missions with friendly advice to this effect - especially the ones where you need to become injured and have a broken limb. She will even cheerily say the trope name word-for-word.

 

 

One of the owners of The Brass Lantern and Moriarty's only business competitor.

* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]]: Andy is incredibly angry and bitter, even chatting with Burke about his little deal, and Leo is a notorious addict. She seems to be the only one with a level head.

* [[Doesn't Like Guns]]: It appears that way, she carries a .32 pistol, but never uses it, even when attacked.

 

=== Confessor Cromwell ===

 

An old (and possibly senile or insane) old man who spends his entire day standing in a puddle of radiation next to an undetonated atomic bomb. He preaches about the "Children Of Atom" and will gladly except new members and donations.

 

=== Gob ===

 

An unfortunate ghoul who came to Megaton from Underworld seeking adventure. He ended up as Moriarty's worker (basically a slave) to pay off a debt he owed, which Moriarty unfairly increases by charging him for trivial things like simply living there.

* [[Totally Radical]]: His speech is peppered with "hip" expressions.

 

 

 

=== Allistair Tenpenny ===

 

The owner of the tower and local old [[Jerkass|asshole]]. He spends his days bored and "on safari", which means sniping things from the top of his grand tower.

 

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: On account of being, well, old.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Granted, wanting to see Megaton blown up is a horribly dick move ([[Evil Is Petty|because it was marring his view]]), but at least he had the decency to ask Burke to evacuate people before the deed was done. [[Complete Monster|Unfortunately, Burke was willing to ignore this and let everyone die anyway.]]

* [[Expy]]: One cannot look at him without being reminded of Howard Hughes. Take special note of the milk bottles lining the walls of his penthouse suite.

* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: If you kill him, you get Good Karma.

 

=== Mr. Burke ===

 

Mr. Burke is a shady character. He apparently just came out of nowhere when Tenpenny Tower was first being built, and has acted as Tenpenny's right hand man ever since. Currently, he's working on taking care of this ugly looking town on the horizon with the live nuclear bomb in the middle of the town. The Lone Wanderer first encounters him in Moriarty's Saloon in Megaton, where Burke is trying to find someone to help him with that.

* [[Affably Evil]]

* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: Thanks to the way the game AI works, it is piss easy to foil his assassination attempt of Lucas by simply clicking the talk button repeatedly as soon as Lucas turns around. He will immediately turn to face you and tell you to quit bothering him, and in that time you can shoot him full of holes. What makes this stupid is that he could simply be coded to ignore you as he pulls out his gun like some other characters are for other confrontations.

* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]: [[Complete Monster|Emphasis on the "zero soul" part.]]

* [[Nuke'Em]]: He seems to have some weird love of nuclear explosions. Just listen to him if you blow up Megaton.

 

=== Chief Gustavo ===

 

The chief of the security guards at Tenpenny Tower who has been concerned with a small group of ghouls hiding out in the nearby Metro tunnels lead by Roy Phillips.

 

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: His hatred of ghouls.

* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: He's more or less in charge of running Tenpenny Tower. Tenpenny just sits up in his suite all day.

 

=== Herbert "Daring" Dashwood ===

 

The subject of the GNR radio play "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|The Adventures of Herbert Dashwood]]", Herbert once traveled the wastes, going on adventures with his "stalwart ghoul manservant, [[Hypercompetent Sidekick|Argyle]]". He has retired from his life of adventures and currently resides at Tenpenny Tower

 

* [[Downer Ending]]: The real ending to his adventures. It ended with Rockopolis getting massacred by the slavers and his sidekick Argyle dead.

* [[Flanderization]]: In-universe example; he says the radio play made him out to be more of a [[Idiot Hero|bumbling fool]] than he really was.

* [[Nice Guy]]: He's pretty much the only person at Tenpenny Tower who ''doesn't'' seem like a complete jerk.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: He's the only one in Tenpenny Tower who isn't an ignorant asshole.

* [[Retired Badass]]:

** If Roy Phillips attacks Tenpenny Towers with his army of feral ghouls, Dashwood is the only resident who manages to put up any kind of meaningful resistance. He'll usually manage to bring down several ferals before being overwhelming by sheer numbers.

* [[Screwy Squirrel]]: You can often find him playing tricks on people in Tenpenny Tower

 

=== Roy Phillips ===

 

The leader of a small gang of ghouls (consisting of him, his two friends, and dozens of Feral Ghouls) who live in Warrington Station under Tenpenny Tower. He has tried to gain entry to Tenpenny Tower, but the residents have turned him away due to their bigotry against ghouls.

 

* [[Not So Different]]: When talking to him, you have the option of saying that he's an anti-human bigot and basically no different from Tenpenny himself. His only response is a big "screw you".

* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: Has Three Dog's support and is even marked as a Good character in-game. Three Dog does call him out once he learns Roy slaughtered the Tower's human inhabitants for pretty much no reason, though, and you no longer take a karma hit for killing him if you do so after learning of Roy's deeds.

* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: His plan for massacring the inhabitants of Tenpenny Tower is to let in dozens of [[Our Zombies Are Different|Feral Ghouls]] to overrun security and kill everyone inside.

 

=== Bessie Lynn ===

 

Roy Phillips' girlfriend and one of his two non-Feral Ghoul followers trying to move into Tenpenny Tower. She seems incredibly innocent and frail, and seems to be completely unaware of what Roy Phillips did to get rid of the inhabitants of the tower.

 

=== Susan Lancaster ===

 

One of several ghoul hating residents. She is a former slaver who retired from Paradise Falls and bought a spot in Tenpenny Tower. She now seems to make her pay by acting as a prostitute amongst the male residents.

 

* [[The Vamp]]: She uses sex as her security to stay in this lavish home. At night she walks around the tower in sexy underwear just because she can.

 

 

 

A large aircraft carrier ship that has become a relatively safe home for the many survivors who live there thanks to its location, thick steel walls, and retractable bridge. It has its own bazaar, hotel, science lab, and even church. They also have their own police force standing guard and patrolling the city, adding yet another blanket of safety for its civilians.

 

=== Doctor Madison Li ===

 

A scientist working in Rivet City who helped James with project purity. Along with Bannon and Harkness she is a member of the city council and runs the science section.

 

* [[Action Survivor]]: [[Star Trek: The Original Series|Dammit James, she's a doctor, not a gun slinger!]] She doesn't have a weapon, or any fighting skills whatsoever, but she can dodge Enclave lasers well enough, and [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|infiltrate the Brotherhood of Steel headquarters just by raging at them over the intercom.]]

* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: [[Word of God]] says she was in love with James, but put aside her emotions when he got married, instead deciding to put her focus on science.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: After escaping the Enclave, all the insanity causes her to go into shock, and mentally collapses for a while.

* [[Put on a Bus]]: In ''Broken Steel'', she apparently decides to leave the Capital Wasteland during your coma, and moves to the Commonwealth to pursue her science in a safer environment.

 

=== James (Dad) ===

 

The father of the player character. While he claimed to be from Vault 101, in truth he was part of a science team in Rivet City working on something called "Project Purity", a project designed to bring clean water to the wasteland for drinking and agriculture purposes. He was a good father for most of his life, but when his child turned 19, he left the vault to pursue Project Purity once again. The player searching for him is what drives the first part of the plot.

 

* [[Deadly Doctor]]: He's actually pretty proficient in combat, even if he wasn't invincible due to him being marked as "essential".

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Jump starts the plot

* [[Good Parents]]

* [[Guile Hero]]/[[Science Hero]]: Speaking with people who've dealt with him in the past, such as Moriarty and Dr. Li, reveals that James is extremely charismatic and has a way with words; he was able to convince Moriarty to help him despite the bar owner's normally selfish nature, was able to talk his way into Vault 101 despite the Overseer's extreme isolationism and xenophobia, and was able to convince the Brotherhood to help defend Project Purity despite their doubts over its success or utility. He's quite similar to a Speech-based player-character.

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Not only did he convince The Overseer to let him into Vault 101, xenophobia be damned (although the need for a doctor did greatly grease the skids of the decision), he actually managed to get Moriarty to put his [[Jerkass]] ways on park around him.

* [[Nice Guy]]

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]

* [[What Were You Thinking?]]: The Lone Wanderer can give James a hefty heaping of this after they reconnect.

 

 

 

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: He's a bit rude when you first meet him, but he does just want to protect the people of Rivet City.

 

=== Flak and Shrapnel ===

 

Two merchants who run the city gun store together. Flak is a former slaver, and Shrapnel is a former raider. Depending on your morality, you can help the slavers in Paradise Falls get back at Flak for selling them out.

 

* [[The Atoner]]: They both were horrible, horrible people in the past who did horrible horrible things. But the two both have put it behind them and are upstanding citizens in the town now, and drop ears to prove it.

* [[Heartbroken Badass]]: Sometimes when Flak is enslaved and taken away, Shrapnel will leave Rivet City to wander aimlessly in the wasteland.

** Allegedly if you follow him he eventually makes his way to [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|Paradise Falls]].

** Plus a slaver in paradise falls refers to Flak as "an old queen".

 

=== Sister ===

 

A slaver sent by Eulogy Jones to join in on the hunt for the missing android, in order to capture it for use of the Paradise Falls slavers. He decided he liked Rivet City though, and chooses to stay there indefinitely.

 

* [[Gender Blender Name]]: He refuses to talk to you about his name.

* [[Retired Monster]]: Unlike Flak, Sister is not sorry about his job as a slaver, and is still evil and drops a finger if killed. If you help him enslave Mei Wong, then he'll leave his retirement and go back to the slaving business without question.

 

=== Horace Pinkerton ===

 

 

* [[Guide Dang It]]: Don't have a strategy guide or the internet? Well, good luck finding him!

* [[Magic Plastic Surgery]]: He can give this to the Lone Wanderer if they want, and with only a 35% chance of fatal infection!

 

 

 

=== Mr. Crowley ===

 

 

 

=== Ahzrukal ===

 

The proprietor of one of Underworld's two bars. He seems to only care about making money and isn't above using questionable means to get it.

 

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: He tells you himself that he believes that Charon holds no end of animosity towards him, but won't touch him so long as he holds his contract. You can then buy this contract from him for as little as 500 caps with a speech check, causing Charon to walk over and send his former employer into an early retirement.

 

=== Cerberus ===

 

A Mr. Gutsy robot who patrols underworld and keeps the residents safe... a task which he despises with every fiber of his being.

 

=== Sydney ===

 

A relic hunter originally on a job from Abraham Washington in Rivet City to retrieve the Declaration of Independence. Once the player meets up with her, they can either team up with her, ignore her and finish the quest themselves [[Jerkass|(collecting her reward while they're at it)]], or murder her in cold blood to collect her reward as well.

 

* [[Determinator]]: Not the most enduring of potential allies (you have to trade her stimpaks every time you want her to heal), nor the most powerful (her personal weapon is her own 10mm SMG, which is rapidly eclipsed by a good number of other weapons), but even if she's limping and up against superior firepower, she just won't back down. Also applies even if you complete the quest on your own, ignoring her completely: she will eventually track you down somewhere in the Wasteland, and she's understandably pissed that you took her reward caps. Thus, she and a friend of hers attack you with full fury. Granted, since she's up against the [[One-Man Army|Lone Wanderer]], she's got next to no chance, but points for trying.

* [[Expy]]: Of Sydney Fox from ''[[Relic Hunter]]''.

* [[It May Help You on Your Quest]]: Of the more mundane variety; if you deliver her father's [[Last Words]] to her (see below), she gives you her customized 10mm submachine gun. Said weapon deals 2 more damage and holds 20 more rounds per clip than the usual SMG; a great weapon in its own right, especially with how easy it is to get 10mm ammo.

** Alternatively, you can just take it from her by agreeing to team up with her, [[Jerkass|letting her charge off on her own, and looting her corpse for it.]]

* [[Retired Badass]]: After finishing the Declaration heist, she decides to retire to the Underworld and set up shop as a weapons dealer, due to the facts that it's safer work, and because the Ghouls there don't blatantly stare at her ass.

 

 

 

A small settlement to the north that is home to a few wastelanders, merchants, and a couple of crazy people who think that they are superheros. Unfortunately, having these "heros" have been causing the town no end of problems such as the two fighting in the streets and endangering innocents.

 

=== Tanya Christoff aka The Antagonizer ===

 

A would-be supervillan who terrorizes the town with her army of giant ants. Luckily, or unluckily, the Mechanist always stops her with his robots and drives her away... until the next day rolls around and they repeat the process.

 

* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: It's mentioned that her whacky [[Incredibly Lame Pun|ANTics]] have kept Raiders and Slavers away from the town. Imagine what her ability to control giant ants could do if she could be convinced to use that power to defend the people of the Wastes. Instead, talking her into a [[Heel Face Turn]] only results in her just leaving.

* [[Evil Is Hammy]]: Doesn't get much hammier then dressing up as an ant themed supervillain... especially in a post-apocalyptic world where it just isn't that practical.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Her family was killed by ants. For some reason this seemed to cause her to worship them.

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Loves to rant about how humanity is inferior to ants and will only destroy itself, unlike the noble ants.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: If you talk her into giving up, she immediately drops her [[Large Ham]] act and begs you to let her go. She sounds about three seconds away from crying.

 

 

A man who defended the town from the Antagonizer and decided to become her arch nemesis. As his name implies, he uses the superior technology of his robots to keep the Antagonizer at bay. Sadly, his efforts seem to be doing more harm then good as the battles between the two often put the other residents in danger.

* [[Hero with Bad Publicity]]: He means well, but the townsfolk hate him for starting fights with the Antagonizer. Sure enough, if the Lone Wanderer obtains his costume and equips it they'll take a -1 to charisma.

* [[Large Ham]]: He's REALLY into this whole superhero persona thing.

* [[Mecha-Mooks]]: Once again, his protectrons.

* [[Mr. Fixit]]: He was the town mechanic before the Antagonizer came along.

* [[Super Zeroes|SuperZero]]: The rest of the town sure seems to see him this way.

 

 

Girdershade is a small (very small) settlement on the southwest edge of the capital wasteland. Its only 2 inhabitants are a Nuka Cola addict and her protector (who really just wants get with her).

 

=== Sierra Petrovita ===

 

 

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Something is not right in her head. Probably has something to do with her Nuka Cola addiction.

 

=== Ronald Laren ===

 

 

* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: The only reason he bothers with Sierra in the first place is because he wants to have sex with her. He is also quite enticed with the idea of a threesome between him, Sierra, and a female Lone Wanderer.

* [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]]: He certainly seems to think so.

* [[Perverse Sexual Lust]]: The only reason he even stays in Girdershade.

* [[Shotguns Are Just Better]]: Uses a unique sawn-off shotgun called "The Kneecapper."

 

 

 

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Possibly a Type 3 for the organization. While they're mostly morally upstanding Paladins, they have a shoot-on-sight policy when dealing with Ghouls, tarnishing their general image.

* [[Anti-Mutiny]]: Lyons decided that it was more important to follow the ''intent'' of the Brotherhood Codex (rebuild humanity) rather than the ''letter'' (in other words, xenophobic laws). This is what ended up pissing off those who would become the Outcasts, who adhered strictly to said Codex, in turn starting their '''own''' [[Anti-Mutiny]].

** The mutiny itself is treated in an interesting way by the Elders of the West Coast headquarters; unable to come to a consensus on whether his actions were what their Codex intended, they don't actually punish him. Matter of fact, they let him keep his title and status in the order. The catch is, they also cut off any reinforcements to the Capital Wasteland. By the time they are encountered by the Lone Wanderer, their organization is severely understrength and under-supplied.

* [[Elite Mooks]]: Lyons' Pride, Sarah's personal handpicked squad.

** Meanwhile, the main branch is all but dead.

* [[Fantastic Slurs]]: "Zombies" for the ghouls and "uglies" and "frankensteins" for the Super Mutants.

* [[We Have Reserves]]: Averted; they don't have reserves, and are constantly stretched thin dealing with the Super Mutants.

** On the other hand, given how Lyons is willing to recruit Wastelanders into the Brotherhood (part of why the Outcasts bailed), he will eventually be able to play this trope straight, assuming time and resources are merciful enough.

 

=== Owyn Lyons ===

 

Owyn Lyons is the Elder in charge of the Capital Wasteland chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel. Sent out nearly three decades ago to investigate the area, he trekked across the entire continent with his contingent from Lost Hills to the DC region. While originally sent there to collect and store all the technology he could, his branch of the Brotherhood eventually turned their focus to protecting the people of the Capital Wasteland and eradicating the Super Mutants. Recently, due to his deviation from the mission, the Brotherhood has stopped sending extra troops and many of his best soldiers have revolted and become the Outcasts. This has overstretched his forces, and forced him to look to recruiting from the wasteland.

 

* [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]]: What arguably has put him at odds with the tenets of the Brotherhood. [[Word of God|Developers have said]] that they liken him to the [[Fallout 1|Vault Dweller]] in that they were sent out on a specific mission, but after being released from the constant values feedback and insular society, he began to think autonomously and developed compassion.

* [[Defector From Decadence]]

* [[Honor Before Reason]]: In ''Broken Steel'', Lyons opts to distribute the purified water from Project Purity freely to the people of the Wasteland, instead of selling it for caps. He also refuses to sell the water to Raiders and Slavers, despite them having an abundance of caps to buy it with. These decisions drive the very cynical Scribe put in charge of coordinating the water distribution quite crazy.

* [[Retired Badass]]: He was a Paladin before he was an Elder, and by all accounts was exceptionally badass even by Paladin standards.

 

=== Sarah Lyons ===

 

Sentinel Sarah Lyons is the daughter of Owyn Lyons, who made the trek across the continent when she was a toddler. She now is one of the best combatants under Elder Lyons' command.

 

* [[Family Business]]: And the business is the Brotherhood of Steel. Par for the course for those born into it, but it seems that her father is grooming her to take over the chapter after he passes away.

* [[One of the Boys]]: Apparently she's a fighter first, and a woman a distant second. Her father is somewhat concerned.

 

 

 

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: In universe. He's nigh-unstoppable, but he requires a lot of energy to power, along with there being, sadly, only one of him, so he can't cover much ground.

* [[Badass Automaton]]

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: His battle with the Enclave at Project Purity. Despite having dozens of power armor wearing soldiers with gunships, plasma rifles and automated artillery, they may as well have been throwing rocks at Liberty Prime.

** If the Lone Wanderer doesn't take Raven Rock out, Liberty Prime will do it anyway.

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Some of his quotes.

* [[One-Man Army|One Robot Army]]: He doesn't need the Wanderer or the Brotherhood's help getting to the purifier... the only reason that they are even there is to witness his awesome first-hand.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Averted, actually, or at least unintentional. Despite a couple of similar lines between them, as well as the impossible-to-miss name and voice, [[Word of God]] says he wasn't intended to be a homage to [[Transformers|Optimus Prime]]. However, it's been admitted the parallels may have been done subconsciously.

* [[Testosterone Poisoning]]

 

 

 

* [[Base on Wheels]]: Their Mobile Base Crawler in ''Broken Steel''.

* [[Eagle Land]]: Type II, obviously.

* [[Elite Mooks]]: The average enclave soldier is already an elite mook compared to most other factions, and their Hellfire Troops are even better.

* [[Expy]]: They are ''very'' similar to [[Godwin's Law|Nazis]].

* [[Kill Sat]]: They have a nuke launching satellite in ''Broken Steel''.

* [[Obviously Evil]]: They're a bunch of guys in black power armor with demonic looking masks and officers who's uniforms look like a cross between the Nazis and [[The Empire]] from [[Star Wars]].

* [[Video Game Flamethrowers Suck]]: Averted with their [[Elite Mooks|Hellfire Troopers.]] Their Heavy Incinerators have a huge range and do ridiculous damage.

 

=== Colonel Augustus Autumn ===

 

 

* [[I Am the Noun|I AM the Enclave!]]: Declares this as part of his [[Villainous Breakdown]] if you reveal President Eden's treachery to him.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Shooting an unarmed scientist to get James to talk

* [[Patriotic Fervor]]: Autumn views himself and the Enclave as representing the American nation (something which everyone else in the Wastes has forgoten about 200 years after the end of the world), which he uses to justify everything he does.

* [[Posthumous Character]]: Becomes this in the ''Lonesome Road'' DLC of ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]''.

* [[Southern-Fried Private]]: He has a noticeable southern accent for some reason.

* [[Stupid Evil]]: He demands James activate the purifir, despite James explaining it doesn't work and never has, as well as interogating the player for the code to activate it later and threatening them if they refuse, when in-universe the player doesn't know the code (it's {{spoiler|2-1-6}}, but you only know that because the dialogue option to tell Autumn shows it, no one ever tells it to you). He also had no reason to betray Eden in the manner he did, if he wanted to take over he could have just {{spoiler|used Eden's override code, instead of opening rebelling and getting his men killed}}.

** As with everyone else in the game he's [[Too Dumb to Live]], considering he fights wearing only his trenchcoat and armed with a laser pistol, while you're probably wearing power armor and carrying a plasma rifle, Fat Man, minigun, etc.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: If you reveal to Colonel Autumn that President Eden still plans to use Project Purity to exterminate the people of the Wasteland, and entrusted you with the means to do so, Autumn will have a complete breakdown as his faith in America and the Enclave is finally shaken.

 

=== President John Henry Eden ===

 

 

* [[Affably Evil]]: ''Very'' polite, and has a deliciously reassuring voice. You're ''nearly'' tempted to trust this guy, especially if you haven't actually heard of the Enclave before.

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: The fact he talks about his carefree childhood growing up in rural Kentucky with his faithful canine sidekick, but still discusses the current status of the Capital Wasteland as if he's aware of such, should clue you in that something is definitely off about him.

 

 

== The Brotherhood Outcasts ==

 

 

* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: ''Operation: Anchorage'', in which they play a more direct and significant role than the vanilla game.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: How they view their actions, feeling Lyon's faction of the Brotherhood is the traitors faction while they are doing what their Codex commanded.

* [[Jerkass]]: While not outright hostile like many other factions, they are very condescending and insulting to anyone who's not one of them. Strangely, their leaders, such as Protector Casdin, are much more polite.

* [[Mecha-Mooks]]: They use robots far more than any other faction, except maybe the Enclave.

 

== The Super Mutants ==

* [[Badass Boast]]: "I'll wear your bones around my neck!"

* [[Bonus Boss]]: There are five Behemoths in the game, but only one needs to be fought, the other four are optional.

* [[Drop the Hammer]]: One of their favorite forms of melee attacks. [[Oh Crap|This includes the Behemoths.]]

* [[Elite Mooks]]: The Mutants themselves to the human enemies. ''Broken Steel'' adds in the ''Elite'' Elite Mooks, the Super Mutant Overlord

* [[Giant Mook]]: The standard Super Mutants already tower over normal humans, and Behemoths dwarf them.

* [[I Am a Humanitarian]]: "Hurry up and die, I'm hungry!"

* [[Made of Iron]]: The Overlords are obscenely tough to take down. The Masters, one rank down on the power meter, are fairly durable too.

* [[More Dakka]]: Standard armament about their ranks including the assault rifle, Chinese assault rifle, and among higher ranks the minigun and gatling lasers. Overlords are particularly fond of the tri-beam laser rifle.

* [[Scary Impractical Armor]]: Constructed out of bits of scrap metal and rubble, but not a problem since as super mutants they have thick skin. The Behemoth takes the cake, wearing shopping carts for armor and strapping a car door on its arm as a shield.

* [[Scenery Gorn]]: It's easy to tell if a location is holding host to them by looking for the bags of human remains.

 

== Talon Company ==

A company that makes a living off of killing people for money, Burke and some other unknown person will hire them to kill the player if their karma gets too high. They are currently headquartered at Fort Bannister and lead by a man named Jabsco.

 

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Commander Jabsco is a [[Made of Iron]] badass with ridiculously high health and a rocket launcher.

* [[Bonus Boss]]: Commander Jabsco.

* [[Elite Mooks]]: Compared to the standard Raiders, they have much better armor and weapons.

* [[Flunky Boss]]: Jabsco is found in the basement of Fort Bannister backed up by a squad of mercs, as well as pretty much everyone else in the base.

* [[Made of Iron]]: Commander Jabsco.

 

== The Slavers ==

 

* [[Affably Evil]]: Eulogy Jones will remain polite and friendly even as he is offering to sell you child slaves.

* [[Death by Irony]]: Many people choose Lincoln's Repeater as their weapon of choice when killing slavers. Lincoln's Hat is also a popular item to equip while killing them (especially if you're killing the ones at the Lincoln Memorial).

* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: Invoked by Eulogy when you first meet him, commenting that the Capital Wasteland is a harsh place and you do what you have to in order to get by.

 

== Little Lamplight ==

 

 

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Despite being a child, Mayor MacCready is one of the most profane characters in the game.

* [[Growing Up Sucks]]: Lamplighters who turn 16 are forced to leave, usually migrating to Big Town, where the harshness of the wasteland awaits them.

 

 

A group of vigilantes who are dedicated to punishing the wicked. They will pay the player to chop off evil persons fingers and turn them in for a bounty, and will come after the player if their karma gets too low.

 

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Their standard uniform.

* [[Fingore]]: The only way to claim a bounty for them is by removing the fingers from the people you kill, although you can only take one finger per person...

* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]: Their main purpose.

* [[Oddly Small Organization]]: Subverted. If you ask their leader why their group is seemingly so small, she'll respond that the ones you see are only her guards/assistants/bureacrats, whereas the rest are scattered throughout the wastes.

== Reilly's Rangers ==

 

 

* [[Action Girl]]: Reilly herself, and especially Brick.

* [[Blood Knight]]: Brick doesn't seem to care what the rangers do, so long as she gets to kill something she's happy. If you talk to her she'll even admit she's glad they came to Vernon Square because it allowed her to kill so many super mutants.

* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Brick is quite exuberant about fighting.

** [[The Hero]]: Reilly.

** [[The Lancer]]: Butcher, the medic, who's also implicitly in a relationship with Reilly.

** [[The Big Guy]]: Brick, the heavy weapons specialist.

** [[The Chick]] and [[Sacrificial Lamb]]: Theo, the quartermaster.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Reilly suffers a small one out of guilt for what happened to her team, especially Theo. You can help snap her out of it.

* [[Vasquez Always Dies]]: Averted, well, if you save them from the Super Mutants.

 

Evil, possibly insane wastelanders who only seem to exist to cause pain, suffering, and destruction. They are completely relentless and won't hesitate to kill anything and everything they come across.

 

* [[Dirty Coward]]: Occasionally, a raider will attempt to flee if he or she becomes injured enough... [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|aim for the legs.]]

* [[Scenery Gorn]]: Almost every raider base has a few mutilated corpses laying around or suspended from hooks.

* [[Zerg Rush]]: Seems to be their only tactic. [[Too Dumb to Live|Even if their target(s) happen to be wearing power armor and wielding a fat man.]]

 

 

=== General Constantine Chase ===

 

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Which you can pick up and wear in ''Mothership Zeta''.

* [[Executive Meddling]]: In-universe, the simulation was adjusted according to his demands constantly, and became very detached from the reality. There's no real way to tell if anything you experience in it actually happened or if it was just Chase making stuff up.

* [[Four-Star Badass]]: Literal 4 Star General. Is also quick to remind the player when they don't call him 'sir' that such idle banter between subordinate and his superior officer is unprofessional, and that those stars on his uniform aren't just for show and is something he earned over a long career so his rank deserves respect.

* [[Posthumous Character]]: He's mentioned frequently throughout the game, and only appears in person in the simulation.

 

The leader of the Chinese forces in Alaska and the final boss of ''Operation: Anchorage''.

 

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Executing an unarmed prisoner when you first meet him.

* [[Made of Iron]]: Has ''by far'' more health than any other human NPC in the entire ''Fallout'' series, being nearly as tough as a Super Mutant Behemoth. This is most likely due to him being a character in a computer simulation, which was reprogrammed by General Chase to be significantly divorced from the reality of the real Anchorage campaign.

 

=== Werhner ===

 

The character who initiates ''The Pitt'' DLC. Formerly Ashur's [[The Dragon|Dragon]], Ashur made him into a slave after Werhner attempted a coup. He eventually escaped, and is currently looking to free the slaves of The Pitt and become it's new ruler.

 

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: He betrayed Ashur, lied to the player, and if you talk him out of fighting he'll abandon the Pitt without any concern for the slaves who were relying on him to free them.

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]

* [[Dirty Coward]]: Has shades, mostly through relying on others to achieve his goals for him instead of doing it himself. It's also very easy to convince him his revolution has failed, in which case he flees.

* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: When called out on the full extent of his plans, Wernher tells the player that sometimes you have to commit morally questionable acts to create effective social change. It rings somewhat hollow though, due to his previous acts and the completely Jerkass way he talks about it to the player.

* [[Not So Different]]: His speech to the player about having to do evil things for the greater good reveals he's really no different from Ashur.

* [[Revolvers Are Just Better]]: His weapon of choice

 

=== Lord Ashur ===

 

The current leader of The Pitt (basically all that's left of Pittsburg). He was formerly part of the Brotherhood of Steel, and was with them when the Brotherhood sacked the city, however he was knocked out in the battle, forcing the Brotherhood to leave him behind. He was eventually found by some locals, who worshipped him as a god. Eventually, using his leader ship skills and combat experience, he unified a large section of The Pitt, and is its current ruler. Although The Pitt has been ravaged by the Trogs disease and has been forced to turn to slavery, Ashur has maintained relative order, and still sees hope in using The Pitt's manufacturing capabilities to turn it into a prosperous city.

 

* [[Ambition Is Evil]]: Unlike the inhabitants of the Capital Wasteland who seem content with sitting with their thumbs up their asses for 200 years, he is actively trying to make progress towards making the world better. However, the price of doing so is a society built on slavery as well as raiding resources from surrounding communities.

* [[Big Bad]]: He's set up as the main antagonist of the Pitt, although it's up to the player to decide whether he or Wernher is most in the right. Ultimately it's a choice between a good man ruling over an evil, dangerous, but ordered and progressive society, or a selfish man taking over in the name of the people, freeing them but ruining the good work the other man has done.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: To your dad James. They've both undertaken a massive reformation project and want to make their respective homes better places, but Ashur is willing to do whatever he has to to make it reality, such as using slave labor and ruling by force. His intensions are also motivated by selfishness as much as by benevolence, as he admits before Marie was born his desire to make The Pitt a better place was to leave his mark on the world. Once Marie was born he wanted it done so she could grow up in a better world, which is the exact opposite of how James reacted when the Lone Wanderer was born, the death of his wife demoralizing him and causing him to abandon Project Purity and live a normal life for his child.

* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: The Pittsburg area has zero population growth due to the city's unique toxins causing any babies born in the city to be mindless mutants. As a result, Ashur had to resort to slavery to preserve the Pitt as a functioning community. He reasons against simply abandoning the city due to the benefits of the area's only functional steel mill outweighing the human cost of running it.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: When you first see him speaking to one of his raiders, he objects to the use of the word "slaves" and prefers the term "workers", as it not only helps their morale but emphasizes they are doing important work and can earn their freedom.

* [[Scary Impractical Armor]]: Averted with his armor, which is both scary and practical. It is basically a normal Brotherhood T-45b armor, except random objects have been used to repair it over the years, such as random bits of metal, kevlar, and a Brahmin skull.

 

=== Professor Calvert ===

 

The main antagonist of the ''Point Lookout'' DLC. Formerly a member of the highly influential Calvert family, the professor has outlived his mortal body with the miracles of SCIENCE, and is now simply a brain in a jar. He desires psychic domination of Maryland and revenge against his nemesis, Desmond.

 

* [[Big Bad]]: Of the Point Lookout questline.

* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: The conflict between him and Desmond, with Calvert as the black.

* [[Mecha Mook]]: The only thing he can directly control are the Robobrains, Protectrons, and Turrets in his bunker.

* [[Telepathy]]: 200 years of existence as nothing more than a disembodied brain has allowed Calvert to develop the ability to communicate with and influence the minds of others over long distance via telepathy.

* [[Zero Effort Boss]]: He is a literal [[Brain In a Jar]] with no combat abilities. His only defense in his room is about 8 Protectrons (the weakest robot-type enemy in the game), most of which don't even work.

 

=== Desmond Lockheart ===

 

The main "hero" (for lack of a better term) of the ''Point Lookout'' questline. He is the arch nemesis of Professor Calvert. His current goal is to rid the world of Calvert and obtain all of the information Calvert has stockpiled.

 

* [[And the Adventure Continues...]]: If he's still alive at the end of the main quest of Point Lookout, he departs to continue hunting the rest of his enemies.

* [[Badass Mustache]]: Like [[Fallout: New Vegas|Raul]], it survived ''ghoulification''.

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: You'll be hardpressed to find anyone in the history of Fallout who cusses as much as him.

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: He has several turrets and mines set up around his mansion to repel tribals, and he even gives you a perk that increases your defense skills. He also has a bomb shelter under his mansion just in case Calvert decides to blow it up. Calvert does.

* [[Hero of Another Story|"Hero" Of Another Story]]: You pretty much catch him while he's at the tail-end of his century-spanning feud with Calvert, the details of which are never made clear. And when that matter's resolved, he still has more enemies to deal with.

* [[Jerkass]]: He makes no effort to hide the fact that his goals are entirely self serving, but he's a much better alternative then [[Card-Carrying Villain|Calvert]].

* [[The Spymaster]]: He's a former high ranking intelligence officer.

 

== The Tribals ==

* [[Fake Difficulty]]: For no reason at all, they get an unblockable + 35 damage boost.

* [[Improbable Power Discrepency]]: Strangely, many of these unarmored tribals are significantly tougher than the Power Armor-wearing soldiers of the Enclave.

 

== The Aliens ==

 

 

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Averted to hell and back with the Alien Captain.

* [[Bigger Bad]]: To the Enclave, sort of.

* [[Shout-Out]]: As stated above, they resemble stereotypical 50's and 60's aliens.

* [[Zero Effort Boss]]: The Alien Captain has lower health than pretty much everyone else onboard, and when the player has access to things like the Alien Disintegrater, he literally dies in one shot.

 

* [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]: But having been on-board the ship and frequently out of stasis long enough to explore the ship, she's pretty good about it.

* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: She's very smart and sensible, even without her advance knowledge of the ship's layout that lets her guide you around.

 

 

* [[The Engineer]]: With a Repair skill of 100, she's the best mechanic in the game and can repair anything to perfect condition.

* [[No Hero Discount]]: You can ask her why she insists on charging you for repairs, to which she replies you know how hard it is in the wasteland without money, and she's not gonna go home broke.

* [[Retired Monster]]: It's implied she may have been a raider or a slaver before being abducted.

A member of the the 108th Infantry Battalion deployed to Anchorage, he and his squad were abducted

 

* [[A Father to His Men]]: He is ''not'' happy when he finds aliens dissecting his squad members.

* [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]: He takes it the hardest of them, partially since he was involved in the conflicts that lead to [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. This results in him staying aboard the ship, feeling there's no point to heading back to Earth.

 

* [[All Asians Are Alike]]: He refers to Toshiro as a "chinaman" until he's corrected.

* [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]: Though comparing the Capital Wasteland to the Old West, he'd probably be able to adjust.

* [[Revolvers Are Just Better]]: It's actually quite potent, and the strongest variant of it you can get without nuking the Citadel in ''Broken Steel''.

 

* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: His sword has lower base damage than other melee weapons, but has higher critical damage and lower AP cost, so depending on your fighting style, yes they are.

* [[Shown Their Work]]: His armor and the symbols on it are period-accurate to the time in history the ''Fallout 3'' game guide says he's from. And as mentioned, he speaks actual Japanese.

 

 

=== Three Dog ===

 

 

* [[Catch Phrase]]: His signoff before he starts up some music.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Herald]]: Is this for you and the Brotherhood Of Steel.

* [[Moral Dissonance]]: Try playing the game with good karma, but occasionally take the "evil" solution to a quest. He'll begin his segments on you singing your praises as [[The Messiah]] of the Wasteland who he absolutely adores, then goes on to recount how, say, you brutally slaughtered some innocent people.

* [[Nice Hat]]: Wears a unique item called "Three Dog's Headwrap" that can be looted from his corpse.

* [[Public Service Announcement]]: Gives several of these over the radio from time to time. Most are helpful reminders about how to survive and some are simply small pieces of advice.

* [[Sixth Ranger]]: Given how much he sympathizes with the Lyon chapter BOS, he's practically an honorary member in all but name. Hell, his radio tower is on the list of places the Brotherhood puts guards and turrets around, more or less implying this.

* [[Take That]]: In-universe, he deals several to Enclave Radio.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: He won't hesitate to call the Lone Wanderer out even if they have near perfect karma.

 

=== Harold ===

 

 

* [[Beat Still My Heart]]: Several variants of this are possible. In fact, it's the ''only'' way to complete his quest unless you just decide to [[Kill It with Fire|roast him alive.]]

* {{spoiler|[[Body Horror]]}}: Oh yeah.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Especially if the lone wanderer asks him stupid questions.

* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]}}: Although you can persuade him to accept his new life.

 

=== Uncle Leo ===

 

A wandering super mutant who, unlike his savage brethren, has retained his mind as well as compassion for others. He is not only the nicest super mutant, but perhaps the nicest character overall in the game.

 

=== Agatha ===

 

An old woman who lives by herself out in the middle of nowhere. Of course, the Lone Wanderer can ease her loneliness a bit by paying her a visit and accepting her request to find a very rare musical instrument...

 

 

=== Smiling Jack ===

 

The only decent (well, he doesn't shoot you on sight) raider in the entire game. He runs a shop deep within Evergreen Mills and will gladly trade with the player so long as they have the caps and goods.

 

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