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The third game in the popular ''[[Fallout]]'' series. Developed by [[Bethesda|Bethesda Studios]], rather than Black Isle, and set in the D.C. area rather than the West Coast. It incorporates FPS elements into the RPG structure for the first time in the main series.

* [[Bi the Way]]: Possible for female player characters who can flirt with Bittercup, hire Nova and show attraction towards Amata. Possibly with Bittercup, who will flirt with a female character, though other characters claim that she has a reputation for promiscuity.

* [[Big Brother Is Watching]]: The Vaults were actually advertised in a museum exhibit as such.

** Also, the [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Enclave Eyebots]].

* [[Big Creepy-Crawlies]]: Ohhh, boy. Let's see, Radroaches, Bloatflies, Radscorpions, Fire Ants...

* [[Call a Smeerp a Rabbit]]: These ain't your daddy's [[Breath Weapon|Fire]] [[Big Creepy-Crawlies|Ants]]...

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Happens once early in ''The Adventures of Herbert 'Daring' Dashwood,'' when Herbert and Argyle need to get past a guard:

'''Guard:''' Aieee! }}

* [[Canon Shadow]]: You can take Charon into Tenpenny Tower or Fawkes into the Citadel, and no-one so much as remarks on it, despite other members of their respective races having shoot-on-sight status. ''New Vegas'' dragged your companions closer into the limelight with companion sidequests.

* [[Elephant in the Living Room]]: Hilariously averted with Fawkes. ''No one'' cares you have a ''Super Mutant'' trailing you.

** Fawkes will often [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] this while you're traveling.

* [[Enemy Chatter]]: Most humanoid and robot enemies taunt you if they detect your presence. This is quite stupid on their part since it helps you locating where and who or what they are.

* [[Energy Weapons]]: They are generally the most powerful ranged weapons apart from the biggest of big guns and unique small guns.

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: Whatever happens to prisoners of the Super Mutants. It can be surmised that they in fact {{spoiler|get dunked in FEV to transform into more Super Mutants.}}

** If they don't just [[I'm a Humanitarian|eat]] you first...

** Braun if you {{spoiler|activate the Chinese invasion.}} Everyone else in Tranquility Lane if you don't.

* [[Five-Man Band]]: Your [[Ragtag Band of Misfits]] in ''Mothership Zeta''.

** [[Zero Wing|You have no chance to survive]] [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|in America?]]

* [[An Interior Designer Is You]]: You can purchase decoration themes for your house as well as useful upgrades such as a workbench, lab table, and a soda machine (it makes your soda cold, improving its HP restoration ability). And any clutter (old books, dinner plates, teddy bears, etc) you can pick up around the game world can be placed in your house. Trying to do the last thing can cause much frustration thanks to a rather wonky physics engine.

* [[Irony]]: James just wanted you, his only son/daughter, to live a quiet, safe, and peaceful existence on your own while he snuck out of the vault into the wasteland in pursuit of his of shattered dreams. Too bad that the very act him leaving is what forced you out of the vault and into danger anyways.

** {{spoiler|Liberty Prime destroying the last remnants of the American Government.}}

* [[Powered Armor]]: Standard issue for the Brotherhood of steel and the Enclave

* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]: Done by many [[NPC]] and followers.

'''Sergeant RL-3:''' Do that again and I'll put ''my boot so far up your ass you'll cough up boot polish!'' }}

* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Every Vault-Tec Overseer. Well, except Braun.

* [[Scenery Gorn]]: The view of downtown DC from the top of the Washington Monument is equal parts breathtaking and horrifying.

* [[Scenery Porn]]: {{spoiler|Oasis}} Also, various places such as downtown Washington, D.C., Arlington Cemetery, the northwestern area of the map ... pretty much anything that isn't in the central, southwestern, or northeastern portions of the world map.

* [[Second-Hour Superpower]]: The Pip Boy 3000 and the V.A.T.S targeting system is given to you during your 10th Birthday Party.

* [[Sequel Hook]]: Picking up on a mention from ''Tactics'', both this game and ''New Vegas'' imply there's another faction of the Brotherhood of Steel operating in Chicago, and it's also hinted that super mutants have been sighted and the Enclave is suspected to have another base nearby.

** The hovering robots are called Mister Handy if they have service roles and Mister Gutsy if they're used for combat.

* [[This Is No Time for Knitting]]: In ''The Adventures of Herbert 'Daring' Dashwood'', the following exchange occurs:

'''Herbert 'Daring' Dashwood''': It's not what he's taking out, my dear, but rather what he's putting in! DUCK AND COVER! }}

* [[Throwaway Country]]: In ''Mothership Zeta'', you can use the [[Death Ray]] to zap part of [[Canada, Eh?|Canada]].

* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: The Narrator says that Vault 101's door never opened, and that you were born there. [[First Episode Spoiler|The game's plot proves both false.]]

* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: In full force. Nobody comments that you're decked out in power armor or that you have an eight-foot-tall, bright yellow walking tank with you. But for once, the tank (Fawkes) has the decency to [[Lampshade]] it:

* [[Updated Rerelease]]: The Game of the Year edition, which has downloadable content from the original version in the package.

* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: John Henry Eden wants to {{spoiler|kill off every mutated human (read: 95% of the population) in the Capital Wasteland as he believes it is the only way to save it}}. Also, in ''The Pitt'' DLC, the leader of the {{spoiler|slave-driving Raiders in the ruins of Pittsburgh was trying to resurrect Pittsburgh as a functioning, producing city, with the intention of ending the slave labor once a cure for the mutations plaguing the city's workers could be developed}}.