Amazon’s Fallout crams a surprising amount of fan service into its eight-episode-long first season, and what’s even more impressive is none of it feels like fan service. From vaults and Pip-🌟Boys to ghouls and power armor, a wide variety of ♒Fallout’s iconography is represented, and all of it serves an important purpose within the narrative.
With so many references to the games in every episode, it may seem like there isn’t much left to pull from in season two. Luckily, the show has 🧸held back a few of Faﷺllout’s most iconic creatures, weapons, and items that will almost certainly get revealed next season. Here’s our wishlist for Fallout season two.
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Deathclaw
The first season doesn’t feature a ton of the wasteland’s nuclear-radiated wildlife, but there are a few. Radroaches feature heavily in two different episodes, and a pivotal moment in Maximus’ story centers around a mutant bear called a Yao Guai. There’s also a mutant axolotl that features prominently in oneꦰ of the episodes, which looks somewhat like the Gulpers from Fallout 4: Far Harbor. What we don♓’t see are any Deathclaws - Fallout’s unofficial mutated mascot.
It’s clear that the show is intentionally holding back these monstrosities for season two. In the final moments of the last episode, we see Hank step over a Deathclaw skull on his way to New Vegas. We see another skull in the credits, sಌo it seems all but guaranteed that at least one Death🅠claw will terrorize Lucy and Maximus in the next season.
Super-Mutants
In the Vault-Tec boardroom scene in episode eight, where the executives are giving their pitches for vault experiments, the West-Tek rep suggests using a vault to ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚdevelop a super mutant soldier using illegal immigrants, which is a cartoonishly evil thing to say, but also the season’s only reference to super mutants. This is fertile ground for the next season’s story.
Super Mutants are an important species that have been in every Fallout game since the first, where they served as the primary antagonists led by the Master. Though mostly hostile, three games have featured Super Mutant companions, while New Vegas, where Fallout season two will be at lea🤡st partially set, features a Super Mutant haven called Jacobstown. With th🌼e main characters representing several of Fallout’s classic factions (vault dweller, ghoul, Brotherhood of Steel), a Super Mutant would make a great addition to the main cast.
Synths
Other than Matt Berry’s organ-harvesting Mr. Handy character Snip-Snip, robots play a surprisingly s🌌mall role in the first season. Synths, the androids created by the Institute, don’t have a particularly long history in the Fallout series, but characters like Nick Valentine and Paladin💞 Danse have cemented synths firmly into the Fallout mythos.
Introducing synths may 𓂃open a can of narrative worms that the show wasn’t ready to address in season one, but they’re too important to the Fallout universe to ignore for long.
Gary
When Lucy and Maximus find themselves the unwitting captives of Vault 4 in episode six, the show does a great job of recreating the feeling of slowly uncovering the secrets hidden within each vault in the games. I don’t expect the show to rehash old what's-in-the-vault storylines each season, but there’s at least one that deserves to make the jump from game to show.
I’m speaking of course about Fallout 3’s Vault 108 and its inhabitants known as Gary. The experiment in 108 involved cloning a guy named Gary over and over and making each new clone a little bit more violent and dangerous than the one before. By the time you arrive there, the residents have become so feral they can’t even speak anymore, except for one word: Gary. It’s as hilarious as it is disturbing, which de✨scribes Fallout in a nutshell, and it’d be great for the show to give a nod to this fan-favorite vault.
Caesar
Saving the best for last, Caesar is probably the most iconic character in all of Fallout, as well as the best villain, which is impressive for a game full of great villains. With Lucy and Cooper likely heading to New Vegas in pursuit of Hank next season, there’s ple🥀nty of opportunities for a run-in with Caesar’s Legion out in the Mojave.
Caesar’s backstory mirrors Maximus’ in some interesting ways, and it would be great to see how Maximus relates to him. Caesar could serve a surrogate father role for him, creating a dangerous 🧸dynamic for the heroes, or an unlikely alliance as they take on the powers that be on the Strip. The show hasn’t brought any characters from the game into the story yet, but there’s no better character to start with than Caesar.
