Fallout Season 2: 25 Video Game Details and Easter Eggs in Episode 1

The Fallout TV amusement is packed afloat of characters, factions, locations, and items acquainted to immoderate who has played the beloved RPGs. There are truthful galore easter eggs to spot that we recovered 111 video crippled details successful Season 1 alone. With Season 2 heading to a fan-favourite portion of the Fallout universe, New Vegas, there's people a full caller flood of iconography acceptable to marque its mode from the games into the Prime Video series. So, we’ll beryllium digging into each and each occurrence and picking retired everything we’ve noticed that relates to the root material. Without further ado, let's instrumentality a look astatine each video crippled easter ovum and details we spotted successful the play pemiere of Fallout Season 2.

Characters and Factions

Robert House is acceptable to beryllium a large quality this season.

1. The likes of Lucy and The Ghoul evidently instrumentality successful Fallout Season 2, but 1 little evident returning quality is Robert House, who archetypal appeared astatine the extremity of Season 1, albeit looking a small different. That’s due to the fact that he’s present been recast, with Justin Theroux taking implicit (sort of) from Rafi Silver, successful anticipation of a presumably larger relation this clip around. It makes sense, too, arsenic New Vegas is wherever the laminitis of RobCo Industries is recovered successful the game, declaring himself arsenic CEO, President, and Sole Proprietor of the New Vegas strip. We archetypal spot him successful a flashback series astatine a section bar.

2. New Vegas is besides location to immoderate iconic factions that conflict for power implicit the Mojave wasteland. One we spot prominently successful this occurrence is the Great Khans, a raider people inspired by Mongolian civilization of the aged world. This tin intelligibly beryllium seen successful their horned helmets and recognisable logo that’s proudly connected show successful Novac.

3. A fig of corpses wearing fur hats tin beryllium seen arsenic Lucy and The Ghoul analyse an abandoned vault. These are akin to the hats worn by the People's Liberation Army, arsenic seen successful Fallout 3 and its Operation: Anchorage DLC, though these are not really dormant members of the PLA, but the rotting carcasses of Americans brainwashed into reasoning they’re communists.

4. Before the bombs dropped, we besides get a look astatine a Vault-Tec salesman who looks to beryllium dressed beauteous overmuch precisely similar the 1 who rings your doorbell astatine the commencement of Fallout 4. We’d beryllium highly amazed if it’s the nonstop aforesaid one, considering they’d person to beryllium successful some Boston and Los Angeles adjacent the opening of the apocalypse, but it's large to spot that Vault-Tec enforces a strict formal codification policy.

Locations

A virtibird flies crossed the neighborhood, mimicking the opening of Fallout 4.

5. In fact, the whole neighborhood that the salesman is roaming astir is akin to the 1 seen astatine the opening of Fallout 4. Even a subject Vertibird tin beryllium seen flying implicit the street, precisely similar it does successful the 2015 game.

6. Lucy and The Ghoul locomotion past a motion pointing towards the Starlight Drive-In Theater arsenic they rotation the wasteland. This drive-in cinema is really a determination you tin sojourn successful Fallout 4, but I conjecture determination indispensable person been a ample concatenation of these that dispersed passim America.

7. Vault 24 is simply a funny one. Strictly speaking, it doesn’t beryllium successful Fallout: New Vegas, but pursuing its 2010 release, a Vault 24 jumpsuit has been recovered successful the crippled files of Obsidian’s RPG. It seems similar this was a determination that was yet cut, truthful it's bully to spot it get its infinitesimal successful the limelight here, adjacent if it doesn’t look the astir welcoming of places.

8. One determination that is decidedly successful Fallout: New Vegas is the Dino Dee-lite Motel. Arguably 1 of the Mojave wasteland’s astir iconic landmarks, successful this portion of the timeline, the Great Khans person seemingly taken power of it astatine the disbursal of the game’s erstwhile occupant, Jeannie May Crawford, who ran it 15 years earlier successful 2281.

9. Dinky the T-Rex is the motel’s looming dinosaur mascot, and helium looks conscionable similar helium does successful New Vegas. In a wide notation to the video game, Lucy uses its gaping rima arsenic a sniper’s nest, conscionable arsenic Craig Boone and Manny Vargas erstwhile did.

10. The Dino Dee-Lite motel is what the municipality of Novac is built around, having gotten its sanction from the damaged “No Vacancy” motion that sits extracurricular of it. In the game, its residents picture it arsenic “a tiny oasis successful a large desert”, but it looks similar it's seen amended days successful the show.

Items and Iconography

The Dino Dee-lite Motel from Fallout: New Vegas has been taken implicit by the Khans.

11. A bully small item is the shield and skull decoration seen successful Novac. This is simply a notation to the Great Khans ending descent from the archetypal Fallout, which you whitethorn person seen based connected the choices you’d made successful that archetypal Interplay Productions game.

12. And of course, it wouldn’t beryllium Fallout with Nuka Cola. A vending instrumentality for the wasteland’s favourite carbonated portion tin beryllium seen successful Novac by the motel.

13. Caffeine isn’t the lone cause rife successful the Mojave, though. This Great Khan subordinate tin beryllium seen inhaling immoderate Jet, a almighty hallucinogenic chem that gives the idiosyncratic a little play of enhanced awareness. In the games, this translates arsenic slowing down the enactment astir you to springiness the subordinate an borderline successful combat. Incidentally, the astir communal signifier of Jet is created utilizing the fumes emanating from the dung of Brahmin (Fallout’s multi-headed bovine).

14. The Ghoul tin beryllium seen utilizing a instrumentality that produces a greenish airy oregon mist to heal the cuts connected his neck. This appears to beryllium a marque caller instrumentality created for the show, but it could beryllium a miniaturised mentation of Fallout 76’s Stimpack Diffuser, which creates a unreality of greenish healing mist.

15. Of course, determination are besides much accepted ways of harming your insides. Big Boss cigarettes are a precise communal marque successful the Fallout universe, and we tin spot Mr House with a battalion of them successful the opening.

16. If you’re much of a straight-edge kinda person, possibly we tin involvement you successful immoderate of the wasteland’s much precious items – purified water. A vessel tin beryllium seen connected the level of a vault backmost successful Los Angeles.

17. Another large mode to reconstruct immoderate wellness successful the Fallout games is by eating immoderate Sugar Bombs. An incredibly sugary meal cereal, a container tin beryllium spotted successful the acold little sweet-looking aesculapian installation wrong Vault 24.

18. Back successful the precise Fallout 4-looking municipality successful the mediate of the episode, we tin spot a Vault-Tec van, presumably belonging to the aforementioned salesman. In lawsuit you don’t know, Vault-Tec is the institution liable for gathering and maintaining the hundreds of atomic bunkers crossed North America.

19. And don’t get excessively excited, but that isn’t the lone van-related detail, arsenic successful the episode’s opening country we are shown a Radiation King van down Robert House. Radiation King is an electronics institution that, among different items, makes galore of the televisions spotted crossed Fallout’s wasteland.

20. Speaking of exertion and Mr House, could the neck-mounted vigor chips that helium uses to overpower the operation worker’s encephalon beryllium an early prototype of the Mesmetron, oregon possibly a competing plan from RobCo Industries? The Mesmetron is simply a caput power instrumentality that we’ve lone antecedently seen successful Fallout 3. This unsocial limb was developed by Implied Hypnotics Inc. and grants the subordinate the quality to confuse enemies, and adjacent marque their heads explode.

21. Speaking of non-Fallout: New Vegas-related items from the games making their mode into the TV show, the Whack a Commie! arcade machine from Fallout 4’s Nuka World enlargement tin beryllium seen being played by Cooper’s daughter, Janey, successful a flashback.

Music

22. Music is simply a immense portion of the Fallout games, and that’s nary antithetic successful the show. During the Novac shootout, we tin perceive “Big Iron” by Marty Robbins. This way features successful Fallout: New Vegas and has lived a agelong beingness since, becoming a meme successful its ain right.

23. “It’s All Over” by The Ink Spots tin besides beryllium heard successful the episode. This is from Fallout 4, with The Ink Spots being a 1930s and ‘40s radical that has go synonymous with the games, having had songs featured successful aggregate entries.

24. “Make the World Go Away” is simply a state opus primitively written by Hank Cochran. Though not successful immoderate Fallout, a screen of it has been utilized successful a video game: GTA San Andreas, which besides visits Las Vegas arsenic 1 of its cardinal locations.

25. A mates of different tracks besides get aired passim the play 2 premiere: A screen of “Cheek to Cheek” by Frank Sinatra, and “Workin’ For the Man” by Roy Orbison. These person nary transportation to the already established Fallout beingness arsenic acold arsenic we tin tell, but bash acceptable the vibe perfectly.

And that’s everything we spotted successful the archetypal occurrence of play 2 of the Fallout TV show. Did we miss anything? Let america cognize successful the comments. For much Fallout, cheque retired our reappraisal of the premiere, and enactment tuned adjacent week for each of occurrence two’s easter eggs.

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.