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* [[Altum Videtur]]: Caesar's Legion uses ''a lot'' of Latin. Latin names, ranks, currency, uniforms, punishments, etc. You need to use it for a small side-quest against {{spoiler|a captured Legion Centurion POW that the NCR captured, provided your Intelligence is high enough.}} They're also pronounced correctly (Caesar is pronounced with a hard C).
** There's some debate over how "Caesar" would be pronounced. "Kai-zahr" is one interpretation to the original Latin pronunciation, as is "Kay-zahr" - or "Kay" (rhymes with say or day) plus "zahr" (rhymes with bar, car or star), or a softer "s" sound, such as "Kay-sahr".
* [[
** Caesar's Legion is an interesting example in that they're fleshed out, their leader is given an understandable motive, and you're allowed to join their side. However, they still match all the criteria of the trope: they're impossible to negotiate with in the long term (as a local mob boss puts it, "Caesar has no allies, only slaves"), they're hostile towards any other independent civilization, and the [[Defector From Decadence|defection rate]] among Legionaries is virtually zero due to the ruthless nature of their society. In the end they're a rare example of making an [[
* [[Always Check Behind the Chair]]: Sometimes, supplies and other things are pretty well hidden behind something. You can easily miss the unique weapons Ratslayer, All-American, Compliance Regulator, Thump-Thump, and even Annabelle (if you think that the Nightkin on top of the radio tower is nothing special) if you don't bother to check unless you are reading a guide (that, and there is a tendency your follower may pick them up).
* [[Always Over the Shoulder]]: When in third person.
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** Doc Mitchell's medical examination on the courier at the start does offer one piece of foreshadowing...if you have the motivation to see it. To some patients, the last Rorschach card he shows you looks a little bit like a large needle-like tower shining in the darkness...a lot like the Lucky 38 Hotel.
** Dead Money heaps a HUGE amount of it in the final act and the end.
** The only way we know about Ulysses is through this. (unless you bought the [[Limited Special Collectors' Ultimate Edition|limited special collector's ultimate edition]] and saw Ulysses as the three of clubs)
** In ''Honest Hearts'' The Burned Man mentions Ulysses. {{spoiler|Apparently he's a Legion scout and spy.}}
** Johnston Nash on Ulysses: "Hope a storm from The Divide skins him alive!" {{spoiler|Guess what you can do to him at the end.}}
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* [[How We Got Here]]: Expect to spend most of the first leg of the story missions just figuring out what the hell led up to you delivering a platinum chip that was worth being ambushed and shot over.
* [[Hulk Speak]]: Much to the delight of old-school fans, this is back in, if you set your intelligence REALLY low.
* [[
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: Benny's [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]] at the start of the game is chock-full of gambling puns.
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: All the guns and ammo you can carry. Made even funnier with mods that make you completely naked when not wearing some kind of armor (instead of the usual game coded underwear). [[Fridge Logic|Just where are you keeping all your guns and knives and ammo and food and water and other odds and ends when you're completely naked?]]
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** One of the challenges for Gun Runners' Arsenal is "Historical Propriety", where you re-enact the Ides of March and stab Caesar to death with a knife.
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: If you get the Gun Runners' Arsenal DLC, you can have a Katana as a melee weapon. It's got decent attack power, but it also attacks ludicrously fast, effectively turning you into an honourable Japanese meat grinder.
* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: Caesar's Legions ending for the Mojave is an absolutely brutal [[Downer Ending]]... but in their ending they are at least kind enough to take out the [[Smug Snake|Great]] [[Drugs Are Bad|Khans]], the [[
* [[Kill Sat]]: The Archimedes II [[Wave Motion Gun|orbital laser]]. You can acquire a remote to it. {{spoiler|[[Fridge Horror|And that remote is in the hands of an unwitting child.]] The safety was on, at least.}}
* [[Kill Them All]]: This is the easiest way to complete some of the main quests. Doesn't work so well when dealing with the Powder Gangers and Legions, but really, who wants to have anything to do with those jerks?
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