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"By Mennen, Nice Shooting."

Fallout: Nuka Break is a Fan Film series set in the Fallout Universe. It's made by Wayside Creations, created and written by Zack Finfrock and cowritten by Brian Clevinger of 8-Bit Theater and Atomic Robo fame. Originally just a short film, positive reaction lead to it being revived as a continuing series.

The series stars Twig, a dimwitted, overweight Vault Dweller; Scarlet, a Laser-Rifle-toting former Legion slave; and Ben, an amoral ghoul. Together, they try to survive the Mojave Wasteland, and, in Twig's case, search for the perfect "Nuka Break".

Complicating matters is a bounty put on the trio by Caesar's Legion for freeing Scar, and Ben's unscrupulous item-obtaining measures have put them in a tight spot where finding work is difficult.

Season 2 was much wider in scope and ambitious, going into production after a very successful Kickstarter campaign. Tim Cain, one of the founding fathers of the Fallout series, and Chris Avellone, designer for Fallout 2 and New Vegas was involved in the creative process. The second season was released on October 28, 2013. 2017 saw the release of “The Wanderer”, a three-part prequel story focusing on the Ranger.

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Fallout: Nuka Break contains the following tropes:

• Affably Evil: Larry’s a crook willing to sell out his friends in an instant, but once you get past that he’s actually a pretty charming guy.
• All Hail the Great God Mickey!: Ben's memories of life before the Great War are a little hazy, leading him to the conclusion "By Mennen" is from a hymn, leading the trio to start using it in the same way as "by God". Mennen is the company that makes Gillette razors, among other things.
• And the Adventure Continues: Season 2 ends with Twig, Scar, Larry and Bonnie heading off to return Bonnie to her hometown.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: Leon attempts to confess his love to Scar, who had just lethally wounded him. She doesn't let him finish.
• Anti-Villain: Bison, the Super Mutant slave-owner, is actually a very nice person who never abuses his slaves and treats them very well. He beats the shit out of the Ranger, but only out of perceived self-defense, and he backs off once it’s clear the Ranger isn’t a threat anymore. He even gladly lets Becca go free in exchange for the Red Star cap, when he could’ve easily just killed her and taken it. It’s implied he may actually just be trying to protect the slaves in his own strange way.
• Art Evolution:
  • There is a noticeable increase in quality between the film and the first episode.
  • Compare the Eyebot from the movie/Season 1 to the one that shows up in Red Star.
• Artifact Title: Or rather its importance and direct relevance to the plot. Twig's desired "Nuka Break" is achieved halfway through the first season, but the trio are still actively trying to find peace and stability while surviving in the Mojave Wasteland.
• Action Girl: Scar. In episode 4, she beat the crap out of a slaver merc who tried to disarm her. Even Twig was impressed. Too bad another one shoots her in the arm. Twig and Ben supposedly rescued her from slavery, but what actually happened was that they tried to rescue her but got their asses kicked, forcing her to rescue them as she made a getaway.

• Big Damn Heroes: The Mysterious Stranger, who Twig had done a favor for previously, saves him from a radroach ambush.
• Bittersweet Ending: The Party kills Leon and saves the Lockre, but Ben is dead and the Ranger heads off on his own once again.
• Bolivian Army Ending: At the end of episode 4, Larry ambushes the crew for Leon Swallow, Scar's owner. In the last moments of the episode, one of his men seemingly shoots her in the back (it's actually her arm, so she's okay.
• Born Lucky: Twig has a canonical Luck Stat of 10, which shows itself in a number of ways: he returns a hat to a man who turns out to be the Mysterious Stranger of the games, who returns the favor by saving him from a radroach, and he's got a habit of laying his hands on overpowered equipment like the Shishkebab when he's in a pinch.
• Bounty Hunter: The Party runs into a few, due to the Legion putting a price on their heads. Luckily for them, the first group they encountered was completely incompetent, due to a typo on the poster making the bounty one-tenth of what it was supposed to be and thus too small-potatoes for the big leaguers. Less luckily, Episode 4 ends with Ben's old friend betraying them and getting a team of competent and numerous mercs to capture Scar.
• Brick Joke: Twig returning a fallen hat to man shortly after arriving in Eastwood. It belonged to the Mysterious Stranger, who saves his life from a Radroach attack a few episodes later.
  Mysterious Stranger: Now we're even.
• Canon Character All Along: The Scholar is really Goris, the albino talking deathclaw from the second game.

• Chekhov's Gunman: Ron turns out to be the Brotherhood Of Steel Paladin who trained Scar.
• The Chosen One: Leon believes that the child he and Scarlet are “fated” to have will be this, a powerful figure who will unite the entire Wasteland. We never find out if the prophecy he’s trying to fulfill is for real or not.
• Combat, Diplomacy, Stealth: When faced with a problem, Scar pulls out her rifle, Twig tries to talk it out, and Ben runs away, only to catch the enemy by surprise later.
• Companion Cube: Twig is deeply attached to his Pip-Boy, making it especially difficult when he has to scrap it for parts to get the Lockre operational.
• Continuity Nod:
  • Several to the second game: The Scholar turns out to be Goris and obliquely mentions that Twig reminds him of the Chosen One, most likely because of his Pip-Boy. Ben and Larry also mention that they used to work for Myron in New Reno.
  • An Enclave eyebot spouting President Eden’s propaganda figures into the climax of the pilot.
  • The first season starts with the Party getting kicked out of Goodsprings after a nasty argument with Chet.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • When the NCR Ranger drops the name of an important person from Ben's past, he immediately begins throwing punches. The Ranger deflects them easily and disables Ben in Bullet Time. Then Twig attacks with his Shishkebab, which fares as well as you'd expect, while Scar's smart enough to not jump in. Really, the only reason the group is still alive is because the NCR Ranger wanted to talk.
  • The Mysterious Stranger, an NPC from the games who wields a Purposely Overpowered weapon, versus... a radroach. Overkill at its finest.

• Darker and Edgier: Season 2 is a lot less funny than the first one, which is not to say it doesn't have totally ridiculous moments.
• David Versus Goliath: Unfortunately, inverted during the fight between Leon and Ron. Ron is clad in his resilient Powered Armor and uses a slow, powerful Super Sledge, while Leon is lightly armored and uses a basic sword. Leon uses his superior maneuverability to disarm, trip up, and prepare to execute his painfully slower opponent.
• Defictionalization: The Nuka Breaker weapon, which started as a Shout-Out to this same series in Fallout: New Vegas, is now a weapon that Twig uses.
• Doom Magnet: Scar considers herself one, on account of how many people die in the crossfire of Leon's attempts to recapture her. This almost causes her to give up escaping when captured again.
• Dual Wielding: In the Season 2 finale, the Ranger uses both a knife and a hatchet in combat, easily trumping a few mooks.
• 11th-Hour Superpower: Twig receives the Nuka Breaker in the Season 2 finale and it is set up this way. But it is ultimately subverted as he doesn't even get to swing it before getting run through by Leon's sword.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: For as much of a psychotic douchebag as he is, Leon seems to genuinely love Scar in his own twisted way. Though this is thrown into doubt by “Red Star”, which reveals she’s actually his second choice in “bride”; Becca was his first, but fell out of favor once he decided Scar was better.
  • Leon himself is the loved one for Caesar; the fact that he’s Edward Swallow’s brother is the main reason he’s still alive and has as much power as he does.
  • Scorpion and his gang truly loved their pet bark scorpion, and the Ranger earned their enmity when he shot it in self-defense.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Leon was so crazy that Caesar's Legion, one of the most brutal societies in the franchise, kicked him out. Although the Legion still supports him, since his big brother Edward happens to be Caesar.
• Exposed to the Elements: Let's just say Scar must go through a lot of sunblock.

• Explosive Overclocking: During the Season 2 finale, Twig supercharges his Shishkebab with a Nuke Cola Quantum, providing a flashy blue flame and easily cutting down a few mooks. Then the blade melts away. Fortunately, he gets the Nuka Breaker.
• Faceless Goons: Face-concealing bandannas, scarves, and hockey masks are utilized on both sides, but more enemy mooks use them more than the Red Shirts do. Justified as it's an effective way to shield oneself from the arid air of the Mojave desert and glare of the sun.
• Fallen Hero: Ben is a minor legend to many people in the Wasteland, famous as the man who gave up his place in Vault 7 to save his wife. Now he’s just a lowly crook. He later admits to the Ranger that he was never a true hero to begin with; he murdered the guards outside Vault 7 to get his wife in and only didn’t join her because he was covered in their blood and knew he would just be kicked back out because of it.
• Fantastic Racism: Chet practically craps his pants when sees Ben (a ghoul), while Ron openly admits to hating them. The latter example is a hint that Ron’s a member of the Brotherhood Of Steel, who openly dislike ghouls.
• Fat and Proud: The residents of Vault 10. They were encouraged to constantly eat fatty foods and were provided no exercise equipment whatsoever, so after 200 years, morbid obesity became the ideal weight in their society. Twig was bullied all his life for being the skinniest person in the vault, hence his nickname.
• The Fog of Ages: Ben's lost much of his memory of life before the Great War ("By Mennen"). That's to be expected when you've been suffering from radiation poisoning for 200+ years.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: Alot of them, usually with props or set pieces from other Fallout productions.
  • Special one: an aversion of Katanas Are Just Better in Episode 5. Shiskebab v. Katana? Shiskebab wins hand down.
  • Plot relevent one: The Ranger can be seen in the stand off scene in Season 1, Episode 3.
  • When the Scholar throws the book to Twing, you can see his claws.
• Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Twig meets Goris, the giant, intelligent deathclaw. Goris exchanges some pleasant conversation and then provides Twig with a book on factory maintenance, which allows the Lockre to manufacture the munitions it needs to defend itself.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Red. She shoots one of her own teammates in the face for annoying her and later kills Trader Vic when he finds her unconscious.
  • Scar, too; in the first episode, she puts a gun to Ben's head, and in Episode 2, she slugs Ben for being a Jerkass.
• Happiness in Slavery: Bison’s slaves love him, as he never abuses them, keeps them safe, and generally treats them very well. He gladly lets Becca leave once he’s given something in exchange (the Red Star cap) and it’s hinted that he may not even be trying to enslave them, just protect them.
• Heel–Face Turn: Larry ends up joining the good guys once it becomes clear that Leon’s just going to kill him too.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Knowing that he’s going feral anyways, Ben uses his last moments of sanity to distract Leon and his crew, buying time for the Ranger, Scar, Larry, and Bonnie to escape the slave camp.
• I Call It "Vera": Leon has a Fat Man named "Artemis".
• Idiot Hero: Twig is not a bright man. Zack Frinfrock said at PAX the only reason he’s still alive is a 10 in his Luck stat.
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Legion soldiers don't like using guns, and it definitely shows. Leon's men fail to hit targets at ranges where the heroes use the shotguns to take them out. In one case, two mooks with assault rifles can't hit two people stuck in the open, standing still, who then have time to line up a shot with a pistol and headshot them!
  • Twig admits to being a terrible shot without using VATS, although we never get to see how terrible.
• Insult Backfire: Whenever Twig is insulted for being fat (typically by Ben, but other characters get their turn), he will be very flattered, because in the Vault he grew up in, everyone was morbidly obese - he was ostracized for being very thin compared to everyone else, hence his nickname.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Both Ben and Larry qualify. They may be backstabbing crooks, but they do the right thing in the end.
• Karmic Death: Leon meets his end at the hands of Scar, who he had spent the entire series tormenting.
• Kleptomaniac Hero: Ben. Besides looting every corpse he finds, Ben thought their Courier job was a scam, stole all the objects and replaced them with "useless crap" which led to them getting kicked out of Goodsprings.
  "Woo! Free shit! Woo!"
• Knight in Sour Armour: Ron is very open about his belief that the heroes don’t stand a chance against Leon. Doesn’t stop him from doing everything he can to help.
• Land Mine Goes "Click!": Ron steps on a landmine in S2E4, and can't step off it until it's disarmed. Bad enough, but it's part of an armed ambush and he's now stuck in the open. After a close fight, the enemy is killed and Twig manages to defuse it.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Episode 5 features the trio doing this, with Twig robbing a merchant for a Shishkebab, Scar beating the crap out of the mercs who captured them and Ben deciding the only way the situation they're in is going to end is if they go after Big Bad Leon Swallow, or else the mercs will keep coming.
  • Season 2: When Ron suits up, you know heavy stuff's about to go down.
• Luke, You Are My Father: The Ranger, a.k.a. James Eldridge, is Ben's great-great-great-great-grandson. Ben's wife was pregnant back when he got her into Vault 7, but neither of them knew it at the time.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane:
  • The Scholar/Goris has fairly mundane origins, but the cryptic manner he speaks and the way he instantly knows who Twig is and what he needs makes one wonder if he’s somehow become something more than a talking deathclaw. He also makes some odd comments that sound very much like he’s describing the franchise’s game mechanics...
  • Leon believes in a prophecy claiming that a child born in a place free of radiation will rise to unite the Wasteland. The characters do indeed discover a small location mysteriously devoid of any radiation, but Leon never gets the chance to try and fulfill that prophecy. So is the prophecy for real, or was the place just lucky enough to not be hit when the nukes fell?
  • The Red Star cap is either a totally mundane bottle cap that’s been ascribed with special importance by superstitious wastelanders, or a mystical talisman of some sort. The Ranger never gets it to do anything special, but just about everybody he meets knows what it is, Bison regards as incredibly valuable, and just showing it to a robot seems to causes said robot to instantly tell the Ranger everything he needs to know.
• Mook Chivalry: Used throughout the series, but the Season 2 finale plays it straightest. Mooks switch to melee weapons to engage the heroes wielding melee weapons, don't gang up on said melee heroes, and nobody shoots the main characters when they're walking out in the open. Justified, as they're fighting the Legion, who can't resist the chance to best their foes in melee combat and are rarely trained to use guns.
• Morality Pet: The Ranger ends up becoming one for Ben.
• Mysterious Past: We never learn the Ranger’s full backstory, only getting vague hints; he’s a descendant of Ben’s, used to be a tracker, worked with Becca’s father, and stole his armor from a real NCR ranger. That’s all we know.
• Mythology Gag: Just about every gun, outfit, and item in the series is a replica of something from Fallout, including Vault Jumpsuits, Laser Rifles, Bottlecap Mines, That Gun, and of course, Nuka Cola.
  • Of particular note is Scar's Tri-Beam Laser Rifle, which does fire 3 laser beams as in game each time it's fired.
  • Episode 3 reveals that Ben and Larry worked in the stables of New Reno with Myron.
  • Larry has the Eyebot from the movie on the shelf behind his Jet stall.
  • At the end of Episode 2 and the beginning of episode 3 there are several NCR Civilian Rangers and one NCR Veteran Desert Ranger.
  • Episode 4 features a very faithful recreation of a Legion Slave camp.
  • Episode 5 features the Shishkebab and a Nuka Cola Quantum. It also has an internal mythology gag with the return of Red.
  • The Eastwood shopkeeper remarks that Twig must "have a lead belly" to drink so much irradiated Nuka Cola without getting sick (which happened in the fan film). "Lead Belly" is the name of a gameplay perk that cuts down on the poisoning incurred from eating foods and drinking irradiated liquids (though ironically not Nuka Cola).
  • A two-way Mythology Gag: Fallout: New Vegas added a unique Rebar Club called the Nuka Breaker in the Gun Runner's Arsenal DLC as a shout-out to this series. The creators of the series didn't realize it was a shout-out and included it in the background of an episode as a shout-out to New Vegas. After realizing it, they have Twig using the weapon in the Season 2 finale.
  • In Season 2, Twig eventually meets Goris, a.k.a. the Albino Talking Deathclaw from Fallout 2. Goris is actually pretty helpful.
• Narrator: Played by Vic Mignogna in both the movie and series!
  • Unreliable Narrator: He often tells things from Twig's point of view.
• Never Found the Body: James goes down in the final battle, complete with dramatic slow motion close up. After the battle, Ron tells Scar that they couldn't find his body. Sure enough, James turns out to have survived.
• Non-Indicative Name: Twig. Then again, he grew up in Vault 10, where he was the skinniest, so to them it is an indicative name (in fact it's the nickname they called him to make fun of him).
  • The Ranger is quick to protest that he’s not actually an NCR ranger, despite wearing the armor and answering to the title. “The Wanderer” reveals that he actually stole the armor from a dead ranger that was murdered by Scorpion.
• Nuke 'em: After learning the Party has been hiding out in Eastwood, Leon blows it up with a Fat Man.
• Odd Friendship: A chubby Vault-Dweller, a kleptomaniac ghoul, and a badass former slave. We know how Ben and Twig met Scar, but how Ben and Twig ever hooked up as traveling companions is completely unimaginable.
  Scar: "Don't look at me, he's your friend."
  Ben: "My friend? I don't even like the guy."
• One Last Job: “Red Star” involves the Ranger accepting a tracking quest to rescue a woman’s missing daughter, despite insisting he no longer does such things.
• One-Man Army: The Ranger. He racks up by far the highest body count in series with terrifying ease.
• Only a Flesh Wound: In the final battle, James gets stabbed between the shoulders and Twig gets stabbed through the kidneys. Twig is excused, James not so much, but they're both revealed to be just fine.
• Pretty Little Headshots: Very common way for Mooks and Red Shirts to die.
• Powered Armor: The iconic Brotherhood Of Steel armor (modded with some road signage) makes an appearance in the second season finale.
• Remonstrating with a Gun: Ben earns himself a tongue-lashing when he unwittingly does this and points his gun right at Scar.
• Retired Badass: Ron. Turns out he was the Brotherhood of Steel Paladin that taught Scar how to survive in the Wasteland.
• Revolvers Are Just Better: Many characters, but the Ranger in particular uses them to great effect, using them at close range. Very close range.
• Riddle for the Ages: It’s never revealed just what’s up with the Red Star cap. The Ranger’s curiosity is clearly peaked, but once Bison takes it in exchange for sparing the Ranger’s life and letting Becca go, he decides to just move on rather than waste time trying to figure out what it is.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: Ben killing the guards outside Vault 7 to save his wife Clem. He thought he was being selfish and only did it to get Clem inside, but he unwittingly saved the Vault by doing so; the guards were deliberately keeping out any medical personnel, as the Vault’s experiment was to see how long it’s populace would last without any sort of modern medicine.
• Scenery Gorn: The series uses visual effects to add post-apocalyptic rubble in wide shots, adding a very nice atmospheric effect.
• Schmuck Bait: When Larry is having Scarlett disarm his slave collar.
  Larry: You feel that tiny little bar?
  Scarlett: Yeah.
  Larry: It's about a quarter-inch thick, has a blue stripe, really really tiny?
  Scarlett: Yeah.
  Larry: DON'T touch it! The thing next to it, pull it straight down, STRAIGHT down.
• Serial Escalation: Despite being a fan project with limited funding, they got full support from Chris Avellone at Obsidian, Bethesda has openly supported them, and had two high profile actors (Vic Mignogna and Doug Jones) work on their project.
  • Then Obsidian gave the series a Shout-Out by adding the unique rebar club, The Nuka Breaker in the Gun Runner's Arsenal DLC for Fallout: New Vegas!
• Serious Business: The Mysterious Stranger takes Twig’s joke about him “owing” the Party after Twig retrieves his fallen hat very seriously. Unfortunately, his idea of paying them back is shooting a single radroach.
• Shotguns Are Just Better: In the series, Ben's signature weapon is analogous to Fallout: New Vegas's Hunting Shotgun.
• Shout-Out: The Ranger's combat style in the Season 2 finale seems kinda familiar. Where else have we seen someone Dual Wielding a Reverse Grip knife in one hand and a hatchet in the other?
  • There appears to be an Operator symbol on a fuse box at The Lockre.
  • Looks like George Costanza was right about "By Mennen" being an Ear Worm.
  • Touch Connors is the stage name of 1950s actor Mike Connors who played the Big Bad in Day The World Ended, one of the first post apocalypse survival movies.
  • Eastwood is clearly named in honor of Clint Eastwood, befitting the Weird West stylings.
• Short-Range Long-Range Weapon: Especially evident in the Season 2 finale. Characters on both sides walk out in the open shooting other people with guns and aren't cut down immediately by their support (which also have guns).
• Sliding Scale of Gameplay and Story Integration: The series goes to great lengths to integrate the franchise’s gameplay into the plot:
  • Twig’s healing is accelerated by drinking Nuka-Cola due to a mutation, a riff on the “eating heals you” mechanic from the games. Word of God also notes that he has a Luck stat of 10, which explains a lot.
  • Every weapon used in the series is one you can use in-game, such as Scar’s Tribeam Laser Rifle, or Ron’s Super Sledge.
  • The Mysterious Stranger wastes his incredible killing power on a puny radroach, just as he often does in the games. He also pulls a Stealth Hi/Bye that leaves the Party bewildered.
  • The Scholar/Goris makes an eerie comment about there being no such thing as set-in-stone “fate”, only “possibilities”; a clear reference to the franchise’s famous branching storylines. He then gives Twig the information he needs in the form of a Skill Book.
  • VATs not only exists in-story, but it functions almost exactly like in the games, and it’s a minor plot point that Twig relies on it to aim properly.
• Sixth Ranger: The Ranger, fittingly enough. Larry becomes one by the end of season two.
• Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: The main villains are ruthless slavers, and the town of Eastwood shows particular disdain for slavery. Deconstructed in “Red Star”, when Bison the Super Mutant slave-owner turns out to be an Anti-Villain who’s actually just trying to protect his “slaves”.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Ben somehow does this while standing in the middle of an ambush. The moment he's offscreen, he's gone. The ambushers actually have to look around to realize he's right behind their leader. His Stealth skill must be maxed out.
  • Ben does this in the original fan film, too: Twig and Scar mention they killed a bunch of bounty hunters, and suddenly Ben's already behind them, running towards the bodies for loot.
  • The Mysterious Stranger does this after saving Twig in episode 6, unsurprisingly.
• Stuffed into a Locker: Twig has Claustrophobia due to this.
  "Since I was the smallest, the other kids would make fun of me by stuffing me into small spaces. 'mua ha ha! You can fit into a refrigerator, whereas we cannot!'"
• Taking You with Me: Since he’s going feral anyways, Ben gives in and hurls himself at Leon’s group, hoping to take as many of them as he can with him. He kills quite a few before being put down by Leon himself.
• Team Pet: Scorpion and his crew have a pet bark scoripion that they like to sic on people. The Ranger ends up pissing them off when he shoots it in self-defense.
• Throwing Your Hatchet Always Works: The Ranger kills a mook behind Scar this way in the Season 2 Finale.
• Toilet Humor: "Hey Twig, have you seen our new water purifier... Well... it's still yellow but its coming along."
• Trademark Favorite Food: Twig and Nuka Cola.
  Twig: "You have any more Nuka Cola?"
  Old Man: "I got Sunset Sarsaparilla."
  Twig: "That's not Nuka Cola."
• Trash the Set: Not a straight example, but the set Eastwood was filmed in burned down in a wildfire[1]◊. Aaron Giles blamed the fiends.
  • Throw It In!: In Episode 6, aired after the set-trashing above, Leon Swallow blows Eastwood to smithereens with a Fat Man.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Ben and Twig, and Ben and Scar. Ben openly admits he's not too crazy about Twig and openly tries to get him killed, yet is completely willing to give him back-up. Scar is routinely offended by Ben's behavior, often calling him out on such things, and he does apologize to her often.
  Scar: You're an ass, you know?
  Ben: I know, sorry.
• Webcomic Time: An enforced example. Episode 5 was delayed a week because the VFX guys couldn't finish the big fight scene in the episode fast enough. When it turned out extremely well, they openly admitted on Twitter that they rushed to released the first four episodes and currently Nuka Break now airs once every three weeks instead of every two, giving the effects people more time and the actors the ability to do pick up scenes.
• Weird West: In keeping with the Western trappings of it’s source material.
• What Could Have Been: The last half of season 1 was filmed and then needed to be refilmed when a wildfire destroyed the Eastwood set. Many characters who were given names (like Raz) were intended to have much larger roles in the series... which can't happen now. As a result they truncated their last half of the season to end at episode 6 (the original intent was 9 for a decent length season) with the above mentioned Throw It In! as their cliff-hanger for season 2, which will be nothing like the original intention. (They have, however, announced that there will be several survivors from Eastwood, including Mayor Connors.)
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: When Leon bests Ron in melee combat, he insists on a flashy execution and is interrupted twice before he can finish, the second interruption resulting in his death.
• Worf Had the Flu: Leon assaults the Lockre with only a platoon of men, rather than waiting for a battalion of legionaries for backup. This explains why the Legion's usual tactic of zerg rushing isn't as effective as it ought to be.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Twig's reaction to being complimented on a steal by Scar and Ben.
  "…That doesn't make me feel good."
• Your Days Are Numbered: In the second season, Ben finds out he’s going feral.
• Your Head Asplode: How Daniels dies, courtesy of a slave collar.
• Your Normal Is Our Taboo: Twig was bullied all his life for being the skinniest person in Vault 10, but he is considered too fat by most people in the Wasteland. Of course, since he's from Vault 10, if somebody tries to insult him for being fat, he'll just take it as a compliment.