History FalloutNewVegas / TropesIToM

* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: Club Zoara, inside the Gomorrah Casino.

* InterfaceSpoiler: If you have ''Lonesome Road'' installed, taking the "Explorer" perk reveals two new locations on the Mojave located in NCR and Legion territory that are inaccessable until [[spoiler:you nuke either faction during the DLC.]]

* LoadsAndLoadsOfSidequests: The game is an excellent example of this. Even without the {{downloadable content}}, there's still a lot of interesting places to visit and sidequests to undertake that aren't touched by the main plot at all. It's probably a good idea to spend some time doing just that too, as focusing entirely on the main plot can lead to finding oneself sorely underleveled and underequipped to deal with the mid/late game challenges. Don't worry, [[TakeYourTime the guy that shot you in the intro isn't going anywhere]].

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Caesar's Legion's ending for the Mojave is an absolutely brutal DownerEnding... but in their ending they are at least kind enough to take out the [[SmugSnake Great]] [[DrugsAreBad Khans]], the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Powder]] [[BombThrowingAnarchists Gangers]], and the Fiends.

* ILoveNuclearPower: The game has one (vanilla game) or two (with a DLC) perks that let your character revel in the joys of nuclear power:
** Rad Child grants a 2 HP-per-second HealingFactor per level of radiation sickness. This is the single most powerful source of healing in the game.
** Atomic! (from "Old World Blues") gives you a similar bonus to AP regeneration while suffering from radiation poisoning, as well as a boost to walking speed while actively being irradiated (allowing food to act as a sort of non-addictive chem, as it's now digested over a few seconds rather than one-and-done consumed).

** The Think Tanks, especially Dr. Klein. Even his subtitles are in all caps. It's lampshaded as well, with him constantly complaining that the volume control of his loudpspeaker is awry. [[WesternAnimation/TheTick The Tick]], [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers Dr. Venture]], [[Franchise/RatchetAndClank Captain Quark]] and [[Franchise/MetalGear Liquid Snake]] are 4 of the 6 scientists. Case closed.

** In ''Lonesome Road'', the Deathclaws also level scale, and at their highest level, they deal 350 melee damage, which is more than the Legendary and Alpha Male DCs from the main game, enough to smite nearly any character in a single swipe.

* InterfaceSpoiler: If you have ''Lonesome Road'' installed, taking the "Explorer" perk reveals two new locations on the Mojave located in NCR and Legion territory that are inaccessable until [[spoiler: you nuke either faction during the DLC.]]

* MysteryMeat: Strange Meat (and Strange Meat Pie) is a fairly commonly-found food item. [[spoiler[[ImAHumanitarian It's made out of people]]]].

* MoeGreeneSpecial: Pauline Wins threatens to do this to you, but she's rather lacking in the credibility department.

** In ''Lonesome Road'', the Deathclaws also level scale, and at their highest level, they deal 350 melee damage, which is more than the Legendary and Alpha Male DC's from the main game, enough to smite nearly any character in a single swipe.
* IncrediblyLamePun:
** Private Sexton in Camp Forlorn Hope runs a collection quest where you bring him the ear of any Legionnaire you kill. Get it? Legion''ear''? You can then call him out on how awful the pun is.
** [[spoiler:When you return the Platinum Chip to Mr. House, you can make this happen by trying to Barter him for more money but not having enough skill points.]]
---> '''The Courier:''' Better raise the price or... or you're "chip outta luck".\\
'''Mr. House:''' ... Was that an attempt at humor?

** Chief Hanlon, Colonel Hsu... this attitude is common in the NCR, and more so the higher up the chain of command you go. These people know the NCR means well, but is mired in so much bureaucracy and bickering its hard for anything to get done.
** Dr. Henry is a grumpy ex-Enclave doctor living with the super-mutants trying to cure them of their schizophrenia. He's old and bitter enough to have had enough of anyone's moralizing but believes its something useful he can do with his skills.

* LadyLuck: The [[https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Miss_Fortune Miss Fortune]] perk/character is a play on the phrase "lady luck". She can also be a AnthropomorphicPersonification since there's a 10% she can show up to cripple enemies, offering the player better "luck" in dealing with them.

* MusicalThemeNaming: Almost every quest is named after a classic song, along with an IncrediblyLamePun or two ("Ant Misbehavin'").

** There are few weapons that can one-shot a Deathclaw. The [[InfinityPlusOneSword YCS/186 Gauss Rifle]] is one of them, possibly the [[InfinityMinusOneSword The Anti-Materiel Rifle]] is too. The YCS/186 can even one-shot [[MadeOfIron the Legendary Deathclaw.]] Proper loading and [[BoomHeadshot application to the head]] with the [[HardLight Holorifle]] also works.

* ILoveNuclearPower:
** Taking the Rad Child perk gives the Courier a HealingFactor whenever they suffer radiation poisoning, offsetting some of the penalties.
** Applies to Ghouls, with the medical advantages that radiation provides to them.

* LethalJokeItem: The Abeline Kid LE BB Gun is the ''Fallout New Vegas'' equivalent of the [[VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}} Red Ryder Limited BB Gun]], which gives a bonus critical damage and bonus critical chance.

* MontyHaul: The ''Dead '''Money''''' DLC is named quite appropriately. After the very frustrating and aggravating campaign, you are rewarded with Gold Bars which are worth 10000 caps each, the very high tier weapons and armor from the campaign, and over 10000 Sierra Madre chips if you gambled at the casino. Also, every three days, you get 1100 Sierra Madre chips at the Abandoned Bunker. Think they're useless now? There's a vending machine in Elijah's room. That means a practically infinite supplies of chems, stimpacks, and weapon repair kits!

** The components needed to craft stimpacks and super stimpacks are the same ones used in ''Fallout 2'' if you asked Myron to make them for you. Further, the components needed to craft Rocket are based on the ones needed to make Ultrajet in ''Fallout 3''; a cleaning agent (Detergent/Abraxo) and a sweetener (Nuka Cola/Sugar Bombs).

** [[spoiler:Red Lucy]] in The Thorn, [[spoiler:Sarah Weintraub]] in Vault 21, and any prostitute you sleep with. Also, you can hear a few while walking around Gomorrah and Casa Madrid. Dr. Dala in ''Old World Blues'' takes this UpToEleven, despite (or ''because of'') being essentially a brain in a jar.

** A character can be specced to become this. If you have Remnants power armor, both ranks of the Toughness perk, the big brained and reinforced spine perks from the Old World Blues DLC, and the sub-dermal plating implant, you can have a DT of 53! If you have Cass as a active companion and drink Whiskey, you'll have a DT of [[UpToEleven 57!]] Also, if you have Endurance 10 and Life Giver at level 30 (45 if you have the three [=DLCs=]), [[StoneWall your HP will be a whopping 620 (770)!]]

* MegatonPunch: The Two-Step Goodbye takes this trope UpToEleven (and fits in quite nicely with the nuclear theme of the series). It's a PowerFist that has an increased chance to score criticals, though the critical damage is reduced. The kicker is, a critical hit will send your enemy flying, and then they explode. You hear the sound of a frag mine going off followed by the explosion.

* KillThemAll:
** This is the easiest way to complete some of the main quests. Doesn't work so well when dealing with the Powder Gangers and Legion, but really, who wants to have anything to do with those jerks?
** In the DLC [[spoiler:''Honest Hearts'' at any point after the initial ambush you can decide "Screw it, I'm not running all these errands" then shoot anyone of your allies kicking off an alternate quest for essentially killing everyone in the valley. This causes you to fail the DLC's main quest line but you get all the good loot and get back to the main game that much faster.]]

** Marcus. He survived the events of Fallout, that is the complete destruction of the Master's Army. Then, he survived a ''three day'' fight with a Brotherhood Paladin and became friends with the man. A group of refugees joins him and the Paladin to form the town Broken Hills, which later becomes deserted. Canonically, Marcus joined the Chosen One on the assault on the Enclave's offshore oil-rig, going toe-to-toe with the infamous [[TheJuggernaut Frank Horrigan]]. During the events of Fallout 2, you can take him to a clinic in Vault City, where the doctor will remove "20 7.62mm, 40 .44 magnum JHP, 40 .44 magnum FMJ, 50 5mm JHP, 10 .45 caliber, 24 10mm JHP, 50 .223 FMJ, and 20 9mm ball" rounds ''from his body''. Careful count will reveal over '''254 separate rounds removed'''. He then lives through a coup at Black Mountain against his leadership, very good considering Tabitha's murderous tendencies. ''40 years'' later, he is leading a group of super mutants in Jacobstown, and seems to be more powerful then ever. You just can't kill Marcus. Oh, and he's voiced by [[Creator/MichaelDorn Worf]].

* MushroomSamba: one quest in Honest Hearts has YOU go on one.

* MyGreatestFailure: This attitude is commonly held of [[spoiler:The Bitter Springs Massacre]] by those who were there.

* MysteryMeat: Strange Meat (and Strange Meat Pie) is a fairly commonly-found food item. [[spoiler:[[ImAHumanitarian It's made out of people]]]].

** "[[VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}} I'm looking for a man in a checkered coat. Have you seen anyone like that?]]"
** A side-quest for the Kings will have one suspect identified by the name "Lou Tennant," the name the dumber Super Mutants called TheDragon in the original ''VideoGame/{{Fallout|1}}.'' The friend of the witness who provides that little gem even calls him "dumb as a mutant."

* MoralDissonance: The entire point of the game is that NCR and Legion are neither objectively good or evil, so while some named characters will be, most rank and file troops of either faction are of neutral karma. Thus, you can head into a camp of friendly legionnaires and pump them full of buckshot for no loss of karma. But when you try to loot the camp after, their goods that are marked as owned are still counted as such, so you get a karma penalty for stealing. Killing them in cold blood, no problem, taking their healing powder, that's terrible.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Caesar's Legion uses the Latin pronunciations, while the NCR troops and everybody else typically use anglicized pronunciations. In fact, how a character pronounces Caesar is a pretty good indication of how much respect they have for him. Joshua Graham, for instance, ''should'' know better - after all, he was in the Legion since the beginning - but due to the circumstances of his departure, he intentionally pronounces Caesar's name incorrectly.
** Strangely enough though, Marcus uses the Latin pronunciation. Follows-Chalk does as well, which is likely because he first heard the name from Graham when he was still with the Legion.

** A Legion-aligned player can help Centurion Silus escape Camp McCarran with the latter giving the Courier a detailed plan on how he plans to escape. If the player has a [[IdiotHero low intelligence]] stat and asks him to repeat his plan, the centurion wonders why he asks for help from an invalid.

** It's actually acknowledged and explained if you discuss it via dialogue choices, though it does display an extreme amount of arrogance when it comes to [[BatmanGambit you and your motivations]]. [[spoiler:Caesar has a worldview where advanced technology in the hands of the masses is actively harmful to their cultural development. Thus, he cannot send Legionaries down to examine the structure without teaching them about technology and disrupting his carefully-constructed culture... but he can send you, a Profligate. His argument relies on you to see the light of his wisdom, but if that doesn't work he's happy to intimidate you into doing his bidding. He won't let you leave the camp with the Chip without trying to kill you, and if you fight back, you're Vilified by the Legion forever.]]
** You can grab it too, if you so choose. Special mention goes to [[spoiler:blowing up the Securiton army underneath the Legion Fort if you are going for the House or Wild Card ending, essentially throwing away your trump card for no good reason.]]

** Private Sexton in Camp Forlorn Hope runs a collection quest where you bring him the ear of any Legionaire you kill. Get it? Legion''ear''? You can then call him out on how awful the pun is.

* TheJuggernaut: Deathclaws. Deathclaw Alpha Males. [[MamaBear Deathclaw Mothers.]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Legendary Deathclaw.]] Remember the old description of The Baron of Hell in Doom? ''"Tough as a dump truck and nearly as big, these Goliaths are the worst things on two legs since Tyrannosaurus rex."'' This perfectly describes an ordinary deathclaw, to say nothing of its monstrous variants.

** After destroying the lives of two innocent people and sealing their fates to die alone, miserable and in extreme pain, Dean Domino can just walk right out of the Sierre Madre two hundred years later to start over in the Mojave if you choose to let him live. Then again, considering how easy it is to tick him off and make him plan to murder you (for example, by not constantly acting as his snivelling lackey) which results in his own death, you would really have to go out of your way to placate him - how to let him live isn't listed under GuideDangIt for nothing.

** Not to mention that the player can LITERALLY be made of iron if you buy the 8000 cap sub-dermal armor implant. It works by infusing your cells with iron

** Marcus. He survived the events of Fallout, that is the complete destruction of the Master's Army. Then, he survived a ''three day'' fight with a Brotherhood Paladin and became friends with the man. A group of refugees joins him and the Paladin to form the town Broken Hills, which later becomes deserted. Canonically, Marcus joined the Chosen One on the assault on the Enclave's offshore oil-rig, going toe-to-toe with the infamous [[TheJuggernaut Frank Horrigan]]. During the events of Fallout 2, you can take him to a clinic in Vault City, where the doctor will remove "20 7.62mm, 40 .44 magnum JHP, 40 .44 magnum FMJ, 50 5mm JHP, 10 .45 caliber, 24 10mm JHP, 50 .223 FMJ, and 20 9mm ball" rounds ''from his body''. Careful count will reveal over '''254 seperate rounds removed'''. He then lives through a coup at Black Mountain against his leadership, very good considering Tabitha's murderous tendencies. ''40 years'' later, he is leading a group of super mutants in Jacobstown, and seems to be more powerful then ever. You just can't kill Marcus. Oh, and he's voiced by [[Creator/MichaelDorn Worf]].