Fallout Season 2: Who's Confirmed to Return and Who's New?

Prime Video’s Fallout is returning for its much-anticipated 2nd play connected December 17, 2025, and fans astir the satellite can’t hold to spot however the amusement brings New Vegas to life. While we person to hold a small longer to spot if they tin unrecorded up to the heights we felt playing Fallout: New Vegas, we’ve decided to assistance with the hold by looking astatine who the large players volition beryllium successful these caller episodes.

From returning favorites similar Ella Purnell’s Lucy, Walton Goggins’ Ghoul, and the goodest miss Dogmeat (!), to caller faces similar Justin Theroux’s Mr. House and a ‘crazy genius-type character’ played by Macaulay Culkin, present are each the biggest characters that we cognize oregon tin spot returning to the wasteland for Season 2.

For much Fallout, cheque retired our explainer of the ending of Season 1, 14 things we privation to spot successful Season 2, our large interrogation with Todd Howard and Jonathan Nolan connected the series, and 111 video crippled details we recovered successful the show.

Ella Purnell arsenic Lucy MacLean

Ella Purnell’s Lucy MacLean is 1 of the main characters of Prime Video’s Fallout, and that won’t alteration successful Season 2, arsenic 1 of the last shots of the archetypal play featured her, the Ghoul, and Dogmeat pursuing the way of Lucy’s father, Hank, toward New Vegas.

She is inactive reeling from the information astir her begetter and his work for the thousands of lives mislaid successful Shady Sands, and her parent turning into a ghoul. Oh yeah, and she had to mercy-kill her mother; pugnacious stuff.

Walton Goggins arsenic Cooper Howard / The Ghoul

Walton Goggins’ Ghoul volition beryllium backmost for Season 2 successful a large way, arsenic we past near him with Lucy and Dogmeat heading to New Vegas successful pursuit of Lucy’s father, Hank MacLean.

The Ghoul, who was erstwhile known arsenic a celebrated Hollywood histrion named Cooper Howard, really met Hank implicit 200 years agone erstwhile helium was a Vault-Tec executive. He was besides the 1 who helped person Lucy to fto Hank spell truthful they could travel him and hopefully find retired who was truly down the Great War.

Dogmeat

The beloved Dogmeat, besides known arsenic CX404 and Four, was seen with Lucy and the Ghoul astatine the extremity of Season 1, and volition beryllium backmost successful Season 2. We couldn’t beryllium happier, due to the fact that she is conscionable the best.

Aaron Moten arsenic Maximus

Aaron Moten’s Maximus is portion of the Brotherhood of Steel, and has been gathering a precise beardown narration with Lucy, adjacent though they aren’t unneurotic pursuing the events of Season 1. Maximus was knocked retired by Hank aft helium donned Power Armor, and awakens to spot that astir everyone has near him.

However, Moldaver is inactive astir and had lone a fewer moments to live. In 1 of her last acts, she activated the acold fusion reactor and brought powerfulness backmost to Los Angeles successful a pivotal moment. Before she died, Moldaver warned Maximus of the dangers of the Brotherhood. When Dane finds the pair, helium assumes Maximus killed her, promoting Maximus to a Knight contempt his interior fears of the aboriginal and his spot successful it.

Kyle MacLachlan arsenic Hank MacLean

Hank MacLean is Lucy’s father, and 1 of the main ‘missions’ of the archetypal play progressive Lucy trying to rescue him. However, Hank has a overmuch darker past than Lucy could person ever believed, arsenic helium was integral some to the nonaccomplishment of thousands of lives during the bombing of Shady Sands, and Lucy’s mother, Rose, becoming a ghoul.

We past spot Hank successful Power Armor being held astatine gunpoint by Lucy, who doesn’t extremity up shooting him. The Ghoul does effort to sprout him successful the back, but Hank escaped aft knocking Maximus out, heading to New Vegas with Lucy, the Ghoul, and Dogmeat blistery connected his trail.

Moisés Arias arsenic Norm MacLean

Norm is Lucy’s member and Hank’s son, and helium is the 1 who discovers that Vault 31 has been secretly storing the cryogenically frozen Vault-Tec employees from earlier the Great War, including his father.

He was past seen with Bud (Michael Esper), who won’t fto him permission this vault due to the fact that helium present knows excessively much. He is fixed the enactment to beryllium enactment to slumber truthful helium wouldn’t starve, but we person yet to larn his fate.

Justin Theroux arsenic Mr. House

Despite Rafi Silver’s cameo arsenic Dr. Robert House successful Season 1, The Leftovers’ Justin Theroux volition beryllium playing House successful Season 2 of Fallout. This is simply a precise important character, and successful a trailer for Season 2, we larn the Ghoul really met him successful Las Vegas earlier the warfare and that helium claimed helium was the main origin for the extremity of the world.

This is simply a large woody for fans of Fallout: New Vegas, arsenic Mr. House besides played a large relation successful the game.

Macaulay Culkin

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Home Alone’s Macaulay Culkin has joined the formed of Prime Video’s Fallout arsenic a yet-unnamed character. However, it has been reported that helium volition beryllium playing a “crazy genius-type character.”

Frances Turner arsenic Barb Howard

Barb Howard is the ex-wife of the Ghoul / Cooper Howard, and was a well-respected enforcement of Vault-Tec. We larn much astir her communicative via flashbacks, including 1 wherever she suggests a nuke should beryllium utilized to delight the company’s shareholders. The Ghoul is inactive searching for his family, truthful we astir apt haven’t seen the past of Barb.

Sarita Choudhury arsenic Lee Moldaver

Lee Moldaver led the forces of the New California Republic and kidnapped Lucy’s father, Hank. We larn that her biggest ngo (with Lucy’s mom, Rose) was to bring cleanable and unlimited vigor to the world; she was capable to usage the acold fusion generator to bring that imagination to Los Angeles.

The imagination had a price, however, arsenic she was changeable and killed successful the last moments of Season 1. Considering Moldaver has a agelong past successful this satellite that predates the Great War, determination is simply a bully accidental we inactive whitethorn spot her successful flashbacks successful the caller episodes.

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