Fallout 3/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Action Survivor]]

* [[Badass]]: It's part of being a ''Fallout'' hero--mutated animals, drug-addicted raiders and murderers, berserk robots, monstrous super mutants and military power-armor clad stormtroopers armed with plasma rifles, all fall before you by the truckload as you scour the wastes. Even an entire spaceship of aliens won't stop you!

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

* [[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.

* [[Mushroom Samba]]: {{spoiler|in ''Point Lookout''}}

* [[The Beast Master]]: If you have the Animal Friend perk.

* [[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.

* [[Drop the Hammer]]: His melee weapon is a sledgehammer.

* [[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.

* [[Tragic Monster]]: Although he's not berserk like other the super mutants.

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

=== Star Paladin Cross ===

* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]

* [[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.

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

{{quote| Kill 'em all and let god sort 'em out!}}

* [[Lost Forever]]: Yes, Dogmeat can be killed. If he is, he's dead for good.

* [[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.

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

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.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]

* [[Genki Girl]]: She's always smiling and cheerful. Even when ghoulified.

The town prostitute. Working for Moriarty (under duress), she clearly hates the guy like everyone else in town, but otherwise is rather decently regarded by everyone else.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Easily the sexiest woman in Megatown without trying very hard.

* [[Under New Management]]: If you kill Moriarty, Nova will take over running the inn part of the saloon, and will no longer be a prostitute.

* [[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.

* [[Retired Monster]]

* [[The Mean Brit]]

=== Mr. Burke ===

* [[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.

* [[Badass]]: While in actual game play he goes down pretty easily, certain quests can be taken that end in Burke sneaking into Tenpenny Tower and scaring the living shit out of Roy Phillips so much that Roy decides to make him his right-hand man out of fear.

* [[Dragon-in-Chief]]: He seems to be the one who came up with (and executed) the idea for blowing up Megaton, as well as many other of Tenpenny's plots. Tenpenny himself just appears to be a crazy old man.

* [[Enigmatic Minion]]: By Tenpenny's accounts, Burke just showed up out of nowhere one day and started to act as Tenpenny's right-hand man. His actual goals, motives, and background are never revealed, other than a brief line in his love letters to a female player character where he talks about making "necessary sacrifices" to rebuild the world for humanity.

{{quote| '''Voiced by''': Paul Eiding}}

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[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".

* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: If the residents of Tenpenny Tower peacefully let him in, he'll slaughter them all, steal their things, and throw their bodies in the basement. If you confront him about it, he'll tell you to fuck off before he adds you to the pile of corpses.

* [[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.

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.

{{quote| '''LYONS!!!''' I know you're in there, I know you can hear me! You open this goddamn door right now!! ''(cue door opening)''}}

* [[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.

* [[Asian and Nerdy]]

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

* {{spoiler|[[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: Averted, as he is capable of deciding his own free world and decides to protect the people of Rivet City.}}

* [[Disc One Nuke]]: {{spoiler|Completing the "Replicated Man" quest in his favor will cause him to give you a unique plasma rifle that does huge damage and can be obtained very early. Keep in mind you can only get it by completing the quest, if you kill him he'll just have a normal Chinese Assault Rifle}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Ridiculously Human Robot]]: Zimmer made sure that every detail was covered. He even has synthetic blood}}.

* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: {{spoiler|Revealing him to Zimmer and watching him get deactivated and dragged away.}}

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

* [[Heel Face Door Slam]]: You can personally see to it that Flak doesn't get to have a happy new life, by being paid by Paradise Falls to either murder him or have him enslaved. Considering Shrapnel is almost always by his side, [[Together in Death|odds are good you'd have to take him out too.]]

* [[Straight Gay]]: There's no indication when talking to them, but the two are a couple, and share a bed together in the room they share.

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

A ghoul in a suit who gives the wanderer a task to kill five bigoted humans and retrieve their keys for him. {{spoiler|Of course, only Tenpenny is a bigot, the others just happen to have the keys he wants that unlock a rare suit of armor.}}

* [[Boom! Headshot!]]: His quest name is even "You gotta shoot em in the head." Mr. Crowley also won't give you the full bounty unless the target dies from a headshot. {{spoiler|Or you get him to reveal that he is just after the keys.}}

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: The reason he gives for wanting the humans on his list dead. {{spoiler|In reality, the only bigoted one is Tenpenny.}}

* [[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.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: After working with her, she opens up just a bit to the player, admitting that her father went out one day when she was young and never came back, and saying she hates him for it. {{spoiler|Later revealed in a hidden holotape to have been caused by his unplanned death; he went to the Statesman Hotel to make a deal that would have helped them move to a better place, but the other person turned on him, and they ended up killing each other.}}

** 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.]]

* [[Last Words]]: Not hers, but her father's. If she survives to the end of the quest she helps you with, and you ask about her father, you can find his final message in the Statesman Hotel. Upon delivery to her, {{spoiler|she tearfully forgives him for what he had wanted for her}}, and presents her unique 10mm SMG as a gift to you, saying that with her relatively safer work in the Underworld, you'd need it more than she would.

* [[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.

** "Focus on the mission and not on my ass, please."

* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: He has the ability to crank out powerful robots to defend human settlements, a skill which would be incredibly useful to a society beset by constant Raider and mutant attacks. Yet he is viewed as an intolerable nuisance, and the best outcome to the Canterbury Commons quest involves convincing him to give up his profession, get lost, and never come back.

* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: His protectrons.

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

{{quote| Mechanist: "FEAR NOT, CITIZEN!"}}

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

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: While the Antagonizer was fun and relatively harmless, the mechanist's robots and missiles are a serious threat to everyone's safety.

* [[Big Good]]

* [[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.

* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: Lyons was willing to disregard the technicalities of the Brotherhood Codex in order to follow the Codex's spirit of protecting humanity, such as by committing his forces to protecting Wastelanders, as well as recruiting from among their ranks. This works out in the end, as his actions end up building the Capital Wasteland Brotherhood into being the dominant power in the region, while the Brotherhood chapters back west who remained faithful to the Codex's xenophobic laws are now on the brink of extinction.

* [[Abusive Precursors]]

* [[Broken Pedestal]]: Any player who hasn't played Fallout 2 is bound to get this feeling, especially after listening to their sincere radio broadcasts.

* [[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.

* [[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]].

* [[Oddly Small Organization]]: Averted in a way as they have a huge army (by the standards of the wasteland) patrolling the wastes, but also played straight somewhat. See [[Skeleton Government]]

* [[Skeleton Government]]: Their entire government seems to consist entirely of a president, a military, and a few scientists with no leader.

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

* [[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.

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

* {{spoiler|[[The Starscream]]: Although he seems to consider this a last resort option.}}

A large group of Brotherhood members who have revolted against Elder Lyons for his deviation from their original goal, to collect and store technology. Their prime goal is to continue the work of the Brotherhood they feel Lyons has abandoned.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|1=At the end of ''Operation: Anchorage'', Defender Sibley and his men will try to kill Protector McGraw and the player, feeling that the player does not deserve anything in return for his help.}}

* [[Flunky Boss]]: {{spoiler|Sibley}}

* [[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.

** {{spoiler|1=And if you save McGraw and Olin at the end of the ''Operation: Anchorage'' expansion, they are genuinely grateful, though, like always, their surviving subordinates outside are still asshats.}}

{{quote| '''Enclave trainee:''' Don't shoot! We surrender! We fragged our lieutenant - we just want some water!<br />

'''Outcast''': (laughs) We're not softies like Lyons's bunch. We're the real Brotherhood of Steel. [[More Dakka|This is how we deal with people like you.]] }}

* [[The Starscream]]: {{spoiler|Defender Sibley}}

* [[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.

* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: Overlords are already obscenely strong with a lot of HP and thick skin, but the tri-beam laser rifles they use have a special algorithm in their coding that gives them a +40 damage boost when the target is the player character. Keep in mind the rifle fires three beams at once, and suddenly you realize why half your HP vanishes in a single hit from these guys.

* [[Big Bad]]: Eulogy Jones

* [[Black Widow]]: Their former leader, Penelope Chase, was nicknamed this.

* [[Future Imperfect]]: They intentionally try to invoke this by burning all records of Abraham Lincoln.

* [[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.

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

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

* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]

** [[Evil Is Hammy]]: "It is I! Professor Calvert! I have been kept alive through the '''MIRACLES''' OF '''SCIENCE'''!"

* [[Smug Snake]]

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

* [[Mad Scientist]]

* [[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.

=== 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.

* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Being a ghoul and all, he is several hundred years old. He's also a great shot with a sniper rifle and an expert at setting traps. When you're strong enough to keep up with the Tribals, you know you've got to be badass.

* [[Black and Gray Morality]]

* [[Combat Medic]]

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

* [[Powered Armor]]

* [[The Smart Guy]]: He learns about the alien technology around you pretty quick, and is able to refine weapons and consumables from the stuff you find.

** [[Badass Mustache]]

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: He's actually speaking real Japanese, and most of the time is saying just what you'd think he'd be saying -- "Where am I?" "Where's my sword?" "I must prepare for battle", etc.

* [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]: But he's completely unaware of it, seeing as how you're unable to talk to him to explain the situation, and he appears to assume he's just been captured by magic monsters.

* [[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.

A recurring character from the earlier games. Harold apparently traveled all the way to the capital wasteland from the west coast sometime before Fallout 3 and at some point {{spoiler|became fused with his plant friend "Bob."}} Now he is worshipped like a god... much to his annoyance.

* {{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.

* {{spoiler|[[Fate Worse Than Death]]}}: What he considers his current form.

* [[No Indoor Voice]]: "His name's Bob, but I call him '''HERRRBERRRT'''! 'Cause ''I'' think it's pretty funny."

* {{spoiler|[[When Trees Attack]]}}: Averted. He is actually one of the nicest people in the wasteland.

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 ===