History Characters / FalloutNewVegasCaesarsLegion

* EvilerThanThou: All the main factions in the game are pretty crooked, but the Legion surpass them all with the possible exceptions of the Fiends and Omertas. On top of brutal slavery, legalizing rape, and killing slaves in the arena for fun, their leader is a psychopathic man-child who slaughters whole cities over a grudge and kills people for accidentally insulting his ego.

** Also the GreaterScopeVillain of Honest Hearts, where he ordered the White Legs to exterminate New Canaan and its allies. He also sent Ulysses to give them machine guns and train them in their use.

* CardCarryingVillain: See EvilerThanThou below.

* EvilerThanThou: While previous Fallout {{Big Bad}}s regretted their actions, seeing them as necessary evils (Richardson, The Master) or were at worst mechanically indifferent (Eden, Calculator), Caesar outright revels in the carnage he causes, needing nothing more than a personal grudge to justify wiping out a stable, altruistic community. In this sense, he somewhat resembles Frank Horrigan, down to there being no way to talk him out of his madness. [[https://jesawyer.tumblr.com/post/133867000061/3-disclaimers-i-love-new-vegas-love-the-legion J.E. Sawyer]] commented that they're effectively the one main faction in the game to not be, in some way, gray.
-->'''J.E. Sawyer:''' There's nothing really morally grey about Liberia's Charles Taylor, but he's a real guy who did astoundingly terrible things for the sake of maintaining power. In the context of F:NV, I don't think Caesar and the Legion need to be thought of as "grey" like the player's other options. I think they can be what they are, as they are, because the lie of their fiction is intended to provoke thoughts about truth, i.e. the nature of humans who rise to power in such circumstances. When we say "war never changes", we're talking about things like this.

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Although you get a first glimpse of how far Caesar and his Legion are willing to go when you wade into the ruins of Nipton, when you first meet the man himself he's a calm and logical ruler who tells you how he plans to use his horde of thugs to bring peace and prosperity to the Mojave. At first, anyway. Then you hear about his more unsavoury actions, like slaughtering entire camps and tribes down to the last man, woman and child out of little more than [[{{Sadist}} unadulterated bloodlust]], his [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil downright nauseous habit of taking those he conquers as slaves]], [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil of which the women are used as broodmares or perverted entertainment]], and his downright inhuman glee at bringing a merciless, messy end to all that question or defy him even so much as an inch. Which ultimately show him for his true nature as a [[AxCrazy violent]], [[PsychopathicManchild petulant]], [[TheSociopath psychopathic]] thug who neither [[EvilCannotComprehendGood comprehends]] nor [[IgnoredEpiphany cares]] that his actions bring more harm than good to the Mojave as a whole, and is so driven by his ego he would gladly run it into the ground than admit he was ever wrong.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: His ultimate goal is to unite the remnants of humanity and prevent a tragedy like the Great War from ever happening again. But his method for achieving that noble goal is morally repugnant.

* PragmaticVillainy: His actions are horrible but they have goals bigger than petty raids, he is diminishing the NCR's morale and troops by attacking important trade post.

An elite frumentarii agent who meets up with the Courier during the mission to [[spoiler:assassinate the NCR president during his trip to Hoover Dam.]] He provides both information and support during the quest, including disguises to get past security and even a bomb if the player passes a high enough skill check.

* GlassCannon: Statistically, he does have decent combat stats and his Displacer Glove is fairly powerful. However, his robes barely count as armor meaning that he's not that hard to kill with a decent weapon.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: A definite believer of this. Don't believe him? Just ask [[WretchedHive Nipton]]. He'll even tell you straight up to kill him if you believe he's in the wrong.