Awesome / Fallout (2024)

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Season 1

E 1 - The End

• As horrible as it is, the nukes dropping in the opening are beautiful. It's an excellent display of cinematography.
• Credit where it's due, the Vault Dwellers actually manage to fight off the Raiders. They were caught surprised and unprepared by brutal Raiders who get to the armory, but their years of healthy living and physical training allow them to kill off or capture most of them, leaving only their leader to escape with the Overseer.
• Seeing the Prydwen in live action arriving at the Brotherhood's base, complete with a squadron of Vertibirds and a crowd of awe-inspired Aspirants watching the T-60c clad Knights striding across the runway.
• The Ghoul wakes up to find himself held at gunpoint by three people with itchy trigger fingers. He lassos the leader, disarms another, uses that one as a Bulletproof Human Shield, pulls a Boom, Headshot! on the third, and then goes off the finish off the leader.

E 2 - The Target

• Maximus puts down the Yao Guai mauling Knight Titus with a single headshot. After an episode of him being a Bully Magnet, it shows that Maximus is a genuinely skilled soldier for the Brotherhood.
• The Ghoul's fight against Ma June and her enforcers; he manages to fight his way out of a near perfect crossfire while tanking multiple gunshots and scoring several explosive polykills on the mooks attacking him. The only thing that slows him down is him getting briefly mauled by CX404/Dogmeat and then Maximus showing up.
  • Even better is the gunfight showing off a major element of the games that one could have reasonably assumed would be cut: the franchise's famous slow-motion kill shots, which all look as glorious (and bloody) as anything from the source material. And the Ghoul wasn't even using VATS at the time!
• Maximus vs. the Ghoul:
  • Thanks to his Powered Armor, Maximus presents a foe that the Ghoul can't kill in a head on battle like the others he had just dispatched. The Squire turned Knight tanks several heavy gunshots before smacking the Ghoul around with a few punches.
  • The Ghoul manages to escape Maximus by climbing up a rickety staircase that Maximus can't follow. Maximus' solution is to collapse the building and drag the Ghoul back down to his level.
  • Maximus ends up getting stuck, leading the Ghoul to taunt him and exploit a weakness in the Powered Armor's design to slice his servitors and leave him running at only half power. When Maximus tries to retreat, the Ghoul uses his lassoing skills to hook him with a chain and cause him to fly out of control, ultimately ending the fight in his favor.
  • Note that we later learn that the Ghoul knows where to aim to one-shot Powered Armor. He's been holding back the whole time, apparently out of (justified) confidence in handling a clear rookie who runs the armour "like a shopping cart", which might be a case of Plot Armor for Maximus.

E 3 - The Head

• While out for repairs, Maximus comes back to find some scrappers trying to steal his armor. He's able to fight most of them off with a wrench and a toilet seat, and just when it seems like the thugs are getting the upper hand he activates one of the armor's hands and crushes a goon's head like an overripe melon, causing the last man standing to flee in terror.
• Unlike Titus running in terror from the Yao Guai, Maximus stands his ground as the monstrous Gulper leaps at him. Before the beast can eat him, though, Thaddeus pegs it with a precision shot from the heavy machine gun he brought when he dropped in.
  • Also unlike Titus, Maximus doesn't leave his squire to die at the jaws of the Gulper, rushing out of the water and doing his best to pull Thaddeus free while pressing the anchor the Ghoul tried to hook the beast with earlier deeper down its throat, which ultimately deals it a fatal wound and causes it to vomit up Thaddeus and the head before it dies. Bonus points for how Maximus does this even though Thaddeus is one of his former bullies, showing even more how much his spirit eclipses Titus' spirit in nobility.

E 4 - The Ghouls

• Lucy breaks out of her bonds, rigs up some poison darts with drain cleaner, threatens her captors, frees the other captives (which unfortunately also requires her to kill a feral ghoul)... and then goes outside to give Cooper his meds despite all the trouble he put her through.
  Lucy: I may end up looking like you... but I'll never be like you. Golden Rule, mοthеrfսckеr. [walks away]

E 7 - The Radio

• Though it turns out to all be a misunderstanding, Maximus's attempt to rescue Lucy is still pretty badass, as he stomps through the Vault in full power armor, sending security guards flying with one punch and tossing an entire Nuka-Cola machine through the air.
• A darkly awesome moment in seeing the captured raiders finally get their comeuppance, after being totally unremorseful for what they did to Vault 33, being poisoned and dying what look like very painful deaths.

E 8 - The Beginning

• Though they lose the battle, the NCR remnants under Moldaver put up a hell of a fight against the Brotherhood, downing several Vertibirds with AA fire and killing some Knights by jumping on them and firing point-black into their necks with machineguns.
• The Ghoul confronts a squad of Brotherhood Knights and wonders aloud if they ever solved the weakness in their Powered Armor concerning the faulty weld beneath the chest plate. He then shoots one Knight in the indicated spot, blowing the guy to Ludicrous Gibs inside his armor while the Ghoul concludes no, they did not. Cue one-sided massacre as the Ghoul kills the lights and slaughters the Brotherhood soldiers on his lonesome.
  The Ghoul: I bet that outfit makes y'all feel like a big man, don't it? Well, I know 'cause...well, I used to wear one back in the day. There was only one problem with it. There was a flaw in the welding, just below the chest plate! (One of the knights looks down at his chest in a worried manner) I wonder if they fixed that in this new model?
  (CLACK!) (BOOM!!)
  (Bullet strikes one Knight just under the chest plate, followed by a Sickening "Crunch!" and some kind of horrible groan, and the Knight crumples to the ground)
  The Ghoul: (Smirks) I guess not.
• Lucy has her father at gunpoint after he steals a suit of armor and knocks Maximus out. He tells her she can't shoot him, and he would be right... only someone does shoot him, cutting open his cheek in the process. And the shooter says something that makes it very clear to Hank, and the audience, who his attacker is:
  The Ghoul: Oh, you want another autograph, Young Henry...? Feo, fuerte y formal.
  (He steps out of the shadows, revealing himself to Hank)
  The Ghoul: When your daughter said her last name was MacLean, well...I just couldn't believe it was THE MacLean. Hell, this kid used to pick up my wife's dry cleanin'.
  (Hank stumbles back, clearly in shock and fear)
  The Ghoul: Now, I’ve waited over 200 years...to ask somebody one. Question. (He raises his gun at Hank's head) ...Where's my fuckin' family?
• Downplayed, but the mere fact that Robert House in the flashback sequence both openly questions Vault-Tec's whole scheme, refuses to blindly go along with it, and manages to avoid repercussions is impressive in itself.