History Characters / Fallout2024

* SmugSnake: After escaping his cage and donning a power armor, Hank still believes that he can earn Lucy's unwavering allegiance. Even as she aims a pistol at him, he confidently asserts that she lacks the ability kill him, partly due to the armor and partly because she lacks the resolve to shoot her own father. However, his demeanor quickly fades when the Ghoul unexpectedly appears and wipes the smug grin off his face.
* TilMurderDoUsPart: He as good as murdered his wife when he nuked Shady Sands, resulting in his wife becoming a feral ghoul. He even has the audacity to tell Lucy that he loved her mother, but the day Rose ''abandoned them'', she stopped being Lucy's mother.
* UngratefulBastard: After Maximus releases him from his cage, Hank's first response after donning a power armor is to knock his rescuer unconscious.

* ReplacementGoldfish: Played with in The Ghoul's case. She clearly reminds him of the dog he had (and loved) before the Great War, and while he inevitably tells her "Sorry, girl, but you ain't him", he cares for her all the same.

* DrowningMySorrows: He goes on a chem bender after Lucy destroys the organ harvesting operation, putting on one of his old movies and reflecting on what he's become.

* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Being a former actor, Cooper has no shortage of sassy quips before he unloads into whatever is in his way, including one about a flaw in The Brotherhood's suits of power armor before he exploits that very weakness.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Like most Mr Handy's he's extremely polite, totally loyal to his employers, and perfect happy to cut up innocent people for them. He doesn't seem to understand why anyone would get upset about this.

* BestFriend: Maximus' closest iend. They are also more of a realist as [[spoiler:they gently shoot down his dream of leaving the Brotherhood, correctly informing [[ResignationsNotAccepted him that is not an option.]] They also save Maximus' life when they plead with the Elder Cleric to give Maximus a second chance to find Wilzig's relic, and finally claims Maximus is responsible for Moldaver's defeat so that he'll be promoted to proper Knighthood.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Norman is the product of centuries of breeding to create a super-genius manager. He brilliantly unearths the Vault's secrets in a matter of days once he puts his mind to it, despite no formal training as a detective. The Vault's breeding being successful is what undoes their attempts at secrecy.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Norman is the product of centuries of breeding to create a super-genius manager. He brilliantly unearths the Vault's secrets in a matter of days once he puts his mind to it, despite no formal training as a detective.

* MadeOfIron: Over the course of the first season, he's violently bullied by fellow recruits, gets beaten by wastelanders fighting over the armor he needed to leave for repairs, gets shot through the arm and manages to shrug it off for quite a while before Lucy realizes how severe it was, and [[spoiler:even gets sucker-punched in the head by Hank - who was wearing a suit of T-60c power armor at the time - ]], yet still manages to get back up, despite lacking the Ghoul's inhuman durability and healing factor.

* ExperiencedProtagonist: Was already a war veteran before the apocalypse, and he's had over two-hundred years of fighting through the wasteland to hone his edge.

* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Downplayed. While a famous actor before the Great War, by 2077 Cooper Howard had been struggling to find good acting roles due to his association with Vault-Tec, being forced to perform at wealthy clients' birthday parties just to make ends meet. [[spoiler:[[RewatchBonus On later viewings]], this is revealed to be the result of him stumbling upon Vault-Tec's secretive plans and his wife's involvement in them.]]

* TheMentor: A very dark version. After capturing Lucy, he puts her through many lessons that teach her the kind of ruthlessness she'll need to survive the Wasteland- making her strip meat from his friend's corpse, drink radioactive water, and indirectly leading her to take her first life. He also seems genuinely impressed when Lucy bites off his finger, and while he cuts hers off in repayment, he calls it the "first honest exchange we've had."

* TookALevelInJerkass: In the past, Cooper Howard was one of the nicest guys you could've met, a loving dad and husband, a friendly man who treated his co-stars like family, and a guy so squeaky clean that he objects even to shooting an unarmed villain in a movie. The Ghoul, however, is more vicious, ruthless, and cynical, and doesn't hesitate to torture or kill anyone to survive.

* TheConspiracy: Norm's CharacterArc is focused on navigating it - While Lucy deals with the harsh world above, Norm navigates Vault 33's damaged social-structure and seeks to unravel the AwfulTruth behind the Three Vaults and Vault-Tec's hand in the destruction of the world.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Played with. While she [[spoiler:is likely in on the Vault-Tec conspiracy providing the evil part]], it can be debated whether she truly loved Bert. She is clearly devastated by his death and mourns him. That being said, she did often mock him while he was alive and eventually replaces him with Chet - albeit she clearly is trying to model him into a new Bert. She also clearly cares for her newborn baby.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even they, a gang of psychotic bandits, were disturbed by what they saw in Vault 32 - to the point that one of them coldly snaps that whatever was going on there "wasn't innocent."

* NoNonsenseNemesis: When one scientist hears a small noise from floor 12, courtesy of Lucy sneaking around, he avoids the usual cliches of dismissing the sound or investigating it alone and unarmed - instead hitting the alarm and grabbing a harpoon gun.

* SheepInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Vault 4 comes off as immensely shady and has multiple mutated people in its ranks - but it turns out that they really are as magnanimous as they present themselves to be; those mutated people are the former test subjects that mutinied and took over, making the Vault a true haven for both those test subjects and refugees from Shady Sands. The worst that can be said is that they worship Moldaver, but even she turns out to be a BigGood. When they punish Lucy for sneaking onto floor 12, they just banish with two weeks of supplies to boot.]]

* TheHedonist: {{Implied}}. Monty apparently wanted to have a good time while in Vault 33 before the attack truly began. He engages in the wedding, dances, parties, eats some decent food, and sleeps with a beautiful young woman... and once he's done, he attacks the Vault 33 residents with the rest of the raiders. For good measure, he even remarks to Lucy that this was the best day of his life - before trying to kill her.

* TheQuietOne: He doesn't talk much in any of his scenes, allowing Lucy to fill the silence while he waits for the fighting to start, and generally seems to prefer using non-verbal cues to spoken ones - undressing as a sign of being ready to consummate the wedding.

* SmugSnake: A slimy, smirking, self-important, self-promoting scumbag, Bud clearly thinks he's the hottest shit that Vault-Tec has to offer. However, it's made abundantly clear that he's not as clever or as capable as he believes: the biggest point in his career prior to "Bud's Buds" was overseeing the rollout of the T-45d power armor, which turned out to be full of hidden design flaws; his big presentation to the [=CEOs=] is immediately reduced to shouted arguments, and it takes Barbara - the woman that Bud is supposedly supervising - to get the various company heads on-board with Vault-Tec's plan; he remained ignorant of the massacre of Vault 32 and Moldaver sneaking in two years later; and Norman not only tricks Bud into letting him into Vault 31, but Bud's attempts to stop him from snooping further are foiled with hilarious ease. Ultimately, Bud's only victory is achieved because Norman was so shell-shocked at the truth behind Vault 31 that he took his eyes off him for a moment too long.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Her first suggestion for a Vault concept is to have a REPCONN milk-delivering robot as Overseer, making her initially come across as eccentric and innocuous compared to the likes of Sinclair and Von Felden. However, her ''second'' suggestion is a Vault that separates parents from children and institutes a nightmarish eugenics program that [[WouldHurtAChild allows only the most intelligent children to reach adulthood]] - in other words, '''[[VideoGame/Fallout4 Vault 75]]''' - revealing that Julia Masters is just as psychopathic and monstrous as the other delegates underneath the apparent woolly thinking.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Played with. While she [[spoiler:is likely in on the Vault-Tec conspiracy providing the evil part]], it can be debated whether she truly loved Bert. She is clearly devastated by his death and mourns him. That being said, she did often mock him while he was alive and eventually replaces him with Chet - albeit she clearly is trying to model him into a new Bert.

->'''Portrayed by:''' Aaron Molten, Amir Carr (young)[[labelnote:Foreign VAs]] Baptiste Marc (French), Nacho Rodriguez (Latin American Spanish), Soichi Abe (Japanese)[[/labelnote]]

* OnlySaneMan: He has moments of this throughout season 1, particularly when he is (almost) the only one who is onboard with executing the savage raider prisoners and when Chet abandons his investigation, leaving Norm as the only Vault 33 dweller who even ''cares'' that something sinister is obviously going on with Vault 33 and its siblings.

* ButtMonkey: Falls in unrequited love with his cousin Lucy, then fails to sabotage her wedding. Helps her escape the vault but gets tranquilized before he can come with her. Gets fired from his job as Gatekeeper and openly weeps. Has sex with Stephanie but only after she dresses him in her dead husband's clothes and calls him "Bert". Then her water breaks before it goes too far. Then he's roped into investigating Vault 32 with Norm. Then he's the HenpeckedHusband to Stephanie and surrogate father to her baby.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: [[spoiler:Steph comes from Vault 31]] and is selected to [[spoiler:become the new Overseer of Vault 32, heavily implying she's in on the plans to control and manipulate Vaults 32 and 33.]] She also encourages Norman to murder the Raiders, insisting it's what his father would have done. Despite this she seems to have been a genuine friend to Lucy and seems to have loved her husband Bert.

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: When first introduced, he comes off as a benign empty suit whose only threat is talking people's ears off. But it becomes increasingly clear that he's very influential and very amoral, which is a very dangerous combination when the entire world's at stake. Even in his pathetic BrainInAJar state, he still retains enough remote control over Vault 31's systems to trap Norman inside the cryo-vault and force him into a SadisticChoice of either going in a cryo-storage unit or dying of starvation as his prisoner.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Betrayed REPCONN by manipulating its Board of Directors into selling the company to Robco, and then betrayed Robco by stealing information on its top secret projects for an unknown third party.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Like all Vault 33 inhabitants, he's obsessively [[GoshDangItToHeck clean mouthed]]. As such, when he drops a PrecisionFStrike [[spoiler: after being told that he's being reassigned to Vault 32]], it's a sure sign that he's ''seriously'' upset.