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The Warrior
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: While how fast you promote may be determined by your Charisma stat, your promotions still only happen when you level up.
- Badass Driver: The Warrior is the only Fallout protagonist who can drive a vehicle in missions. He's also the only one with a "Pilot" skill.
- Badass Normal: They start as nothing more than a tribal with no particular training. And unlike other Fallout protagonists, he can never become an Empowered Badass Normal.
- Colonel Badass: Doesn't matter what your rank is. You'll still be out there in the field kicking ass even when you become a Brotherhood General.
- Covered with Scars: According to one character, you look like you "Lit your face on fire and tried to put it out with an ice pick." He then says he read that in a joke book, but considering how often you get shot at...
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": You can give him a name. But everyone will just refer to him as Warrior.
- Worthy Opponent: By the end even the Calculator has come to admire your tenacity.
- Utopia Justifies the Means: If the Warrior merges with the Calculator with bad karma, then s/he murders the Brotherhood Elders, dissidents, and prepares for a potential war with the rest of the Brotherhood back west all in the name of creating a safe wasteland.
General Barnaky
- Arm Cannon: Cyborg Barnaky's left arm is a combination missile launcher/.50 BMG machine gun.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: After being defeated by the Calculator's robots, his brain is extracted from his body and placed in a unique humanoid brain-bot to serve as the Calculator's Dragon. He retains his original personality and memories, but has been indoctrinated into believing in the Calculator's goals.
- Brain in a Jar: What the Calculator does to him. You can potentially do it to him again, uploading his brain into the Calculator itself.
- Cyborg: His fate at the hands of the Calculator is cyborgization.
- The Dragon: The Calculator turns him into its Cyborg General, due to his extensive knowledge of the B.O.S.'s capabilities and tactics.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: He's full of this in the earlier missions, although he does drop it quite a bit once you earn his respect by completing several missions successfully. Helps that he's voiced by the Patron Saint of this Trope.
- Fantastic Racism: He's shown to have a very strong disdain for Super Mutants and Ghouls, and if he's allowed to merge with the Calculator, he ends up enslaving those populations to serve humanity. He's not a huge fan of Tribals, either, as he makes perfectly clear to you (a Tribal) in the first few missions.
- Morality Pet: His wife, Maria, is this to him. To the point that even when robotized and working for the Calculator, if he detects his locket or letter to his wife on you when you fight him, he realizes what he's doing is wrong and gives up.
- Not Quite the Right Thing: Allowing Barnaky to merge with the Calculator, instead of doing the Heroic Sacrifice yourself or simply destroying it and letting its technology and power go to waste, seems like a very clever way to Take a Third Option. This quickly turns out to not be the case, as while the racist Barnaky's Repressive, but Efficient rule is prosperous for the Wasteland's "pure" native humans, he ends up enslaving all Super Mutants and Ghouls to serve the Brotherhood, with any who resist or any humans who reject his anti-mutant prejudice being hunted down and exterminated by his combined forces of BoS troops and robotic soldiers.
- Wolfpack Boss: The cyborg Barnaky is the toughest individual humanoid enemy in the game, though he's not quite the One-Man Army that Frank Horrigan was. However, he also has a bunch of Calculator robots backing him up in the final fight.
Gammorin
The leader of the Super Mutant army and the initial major foe the Brotherhood of Steel faces.
- Disc-One Final Boss: Defeating him is the main objective of the first 1/3rd of the game, before the Calculator's forces reveal themselves.
- *Rank Scales with Asskicking: On the one hand, Gammorin has very high stats and is a pretty good fighter. On the other hand, he's fought almost alone with only a couple Super Mutants helping him, while you have your entire 6 person squad. His equipment is also relatively mediocre, being equipped only with metal armor and a tommy gun which, while capable of putting out a lot of lead quickly, has low armor penetration and should easily be survivable by the quality of armor your squad should have at this point.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: His main goal is to strengthen the Super Mutant army in order for them to fight the Calculator's forces and stop it from exterminating all organic life in the Wasteland. Unfortunately, the way he goes about doing this is fairly destructive for the surrounding population, which is not helped by the fact he's at least partially insane.
- You Kill It, You Bought It: Gammorin turns out to be Paladin Latham, a high-ranking Brotherhood of Steel commander, who was lost during the original crash of the expedition's ships, and ended up being captured by the Super Mutant army. He killed the real General Gammorin in combat, an act which earned him the Super Mutants' respect and caused him to end up becoming their leader, taking Gammorin's name in the process. Due to a head injury he sustained during the fight, though, he's slowly going insane and now partially believes himself to be the original Gammorin.
The Calculator
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: An AI Overseer who eventually went rogue and created a robot army.
- Big Bad: Serves as the primary villain for Tactics.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: It's actually doing what it was programmed to do. Problem is a few cut corners in safety protocol, a century without maintenance, and being plugged into a bunch of brains of questionable quality has corrupted its programming.
- Didn't See That Coming: Its opinion of you.
- Mind Hive: While the Calculator itself is an AI, it requires the minds of humans to help it perform its functions.
- Underestimating Badassery: Evidently, the Calculator knew of your exploits and could have killed you anytime, but it didn't think it needed to devote too many resources to stopping you.Calculator: You have proven a statistical anomaly that crashed my logistics programs time and time again.
