Top 10 Best Moments From Fallout Season 1

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00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our favorite moments from the Fallout

00:11TV series.

00:12There will be some spoilers ahead for the finale.

00:18Number 10.

00:19The Great War

00:20Until Fallout 4, we'd never seen the Great War with our own eyes, but that game opened

00:25with the bombs falling on Boston as people descended into Vault 111.

00:28To bring everybody up to speed, the TV show also opened with the war itself.

00:41As rich people gather to watch television, Janie Howard notices a mushroom cloud blossoming

00:46in the distance.

00:49Cooper briefly thinks it's a fire before the penny drops.

00:58Everybody runs for their lives as atomic fire strikes Los Angeles, with bombs erupting

01:02in every direction, dosing Cooper with enough radiation to turn him into a ghoul.

01:06The war lasted for only two hours, destroying the old world in less than a day.

01:11Number 9.

01:12Our three leads meet early on as they all arrive in Philly, a small town somewhere in California.

01:26Max wants Wilsig because the Brotherhood does, the ghoul wants Wilsig because there's a huge

01:30bounty on his head, while Lucy just wants to find her dad, which involves delivering Wilsig

01:34into the arms of Muldaver.

01:40The ghoul cements his status as a new iconic Fallout character by triggering a huge shootout,

01:45with everybody trying to claim the bounty on Wilsig's head.

01:52He even holds his own against Max when he arrives in Titus' stolen power armor, which is certainly

02:00impressive.

02:02Number 8.

02:03Arriving at Vault 4.

02:04Lucy still has an idealistic view of the vaults, while back in Vault 33, Norm is slowly unraveling

02:13the truth about Vault-Tec.

02:15Fans of the games will already know that nothing is as it seems where Vault-Tec is concerned,

02:19but Lucy learns this along with the franchise's newcomers.

02:28The first clues that something is wrong in Vault 4 are the strange mutations the inhabitants

02:32have.

02:33A human cyclops, and people with extra ears and noses aren't the standard mutations

02:37people in the wasteland get, and she begins to investigate.

02:47It's one of the show's funniest moments, and it's no wonder we saw a bunch of Vault 4 scenes

02:51in the trailers.

02:52And grabbed a moldy one.

02:55Number 7.

02:56The Ghoul Wakes Up.

02:58After seeing Cooper ride his horse through LA as the bombs fall, we don't see him again

03:01until the end of the first episode, when he rises from the grave.

03:05This is the first real introduction to mutants we have in the series, though other notable

03:19mutant races like the Super Mutants don't appear, as the Ghoul is awakened.

03:23It's a classic Western moment as they try to bargain with him, and Cooper, now extremely

03:31jaded and cynical after 200 years roaming the Wastes, delivers one-liner after one-liner.

03:36Well, I tell you what, boys, whenever somebody says they do one last job, that usually means

03:45their heart's not in it.

03:46Fallout's West Coast games have always taken inspiration from Westerns, and the Ghoul's

03:50entire character is an homage to that.

03:55The Wasteland is a dangerous place, and there are plenty of groups who want to break into

04:12the vaults to make use of their safety and the luxuries they provide.

04:20This is what initially appears to have happened in the first episode, though we won't spoil

04:24what's actually going on.

04:31Vault 33 is part of a trio of vaults, and they're exchanging dwellers with Vault 32 to

04:36maintain genetic diversity.

04:37One of these dwellers is destined to marry Lucy.

04:40It's not until much later, though, after they've tried to tie the knot, that she realizes he's

04:43a raider after her Geiger counter reads him as being radioactive.

04:47A gruesome fight breaks out between the dwellers and the raiders.

04:58Number 5, Cooper's Commercial.

05:01Yep, it's me, Cooper Howard, star of stage and screen.

05:05We see Vault-Tec information reels and branding throughout the games, with Fallout 2 opening

05:09with a Vault-Tec video explaining what life on the surface will be like.

05:12But it was fascinating to finally see some Vault-Tec propaganda in live action as Cooper becomes

05:17the company's public face because of his wife's job as an executive.

05:19He takes us through Vault 4 and introduces us to a group of scientists who will be in charge

05:33of the vault.

05:34Of course, we later find out that this doesn't go well for them, which is hardly surprising.

05:48We also learn that even before the war, many people were suspicious of Vault-Tec.

05:52Fellas, are you happy?

05:55Number 4, Snip Snip.

05:57In exchange for the mysterious yellow liquid Cooper needs so that he doesn't turn feral,

06:02he decides to sell Lucy to a group of organ dealers living in an abandoned super-duper-mart.

06:05I'd say you've lost a finger.

06:07Ah, that won't do at all.

06:10Let's get you taken care of.

06:12Follow me.

06:13Initially, she thinks she's there to receive medical treatment and is greeted by a surprisingly

06:17friendly Mr. Handy robot named Snip Snip, voiced by Matt Barry.

06:20I'm simply going to harvest your organs.

06:24Huh?

06:25Though he repairs her hand with a new finger, he then announces that she's going to serve

06:28an entirely different purpose.

06:30Snip Snip, tell them what a Braxo does to the human body.

06:33If you've got a clog that's full of muck, trust a Braxo draining fluid to get it unstuck.

06:39It's very poisonous.

06:41Lucy is able to defeat Snip Snip and then use a syringer, a gun you can craft in Fallout

06:464, full of a Braxo drain cleaner to bargain her way to freedom.

06:50Number 3.

06:51The Meeting

06:52In the final episode, we learn the truth of how the Great War started.

06:55According to the show's interpretation, it was begun by America's large corporations,

06:59summoned to a sinister meeting by Vault-Tec's executives.

07:02We have over a hundred vaults spread across America.

07:06They met with the heads of other recognizable companies in the Fallout world, West Tech,

07:10Robco, Repcon, and Big Mountain, to decide that actually, total nuclear annihilation is

07:15going to be more profitable for them than allowing peace negotiations to go through.

07:19But we're talking about making a significant investment based on a hypothetical.

07:25How can you guarantee results?

07:26By dropping the bomb ourselves.

07:30Vault-Tec also distributes control of its vaults among these companies to conduct their

07:34twisted experiments.

07:43Gamers will recognize Mr. House as the face of Robco, but also Frederick Sinclair representing

07:48Big MT, a deep cut from New Vegas' DLC.

07:51Call this what it is, bud.

07:54Your sales aren't up to snuff, and you need money.

07:57You're one to talk, Freddy boy.

07:59You could lose money running a casino.

08:01Number 2.

08:02The Gulper

08:03Our first taste of Fallout's notorious mutant fauna was when the Yao Gui attacked Titus and

08:07Maximus.

08:08But a more interesting mutant appears later, the Gulper.

08:11Gulpers appeared as enemies for the first time in Fallout 4's Far Harbor DLC, but here,

08:15they're much more formidable.

08:25This mutant Axolotl initially appears when it attacks Lucy and steals Wilsick's head,

08:30which leads to the Ghoul using her as bait to lure it out.

08:35They don't manage to retrieve the head at this point, with Max and Thaddeus arriving

08:38soon after to track the same thing.

08:39It attacks them and they manage to defeat it, though another Gulper later appears in Vault

08:444.

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09:01Number 1.

09:02The Final Showdown

09:03Tomorrow, so they say, will be a lovely day.

09:10The final battle is between the Brotherhood of Steel and LA's remnants of the New California

09:14Republic, as Lucy simultaneously tries to deal with the leader, Moldaver, in exchange for

09:19her father's life.

09:24The charge is led by Maximus, who's been forgiven by the Brotherhood for Titus' death.

09:28We've had plenty of vintage needle drops throughout the series, borrowing licensed tracks from the

09:32game radios, but this one hits different.

09:38The Brotherhood outmatched their enemies with advanced armor and weaponry, and battle in

09:41slow motion, and we finally get to see what the knights are capable of in large numbers,

09:46setting the stage for Season 2.

09:49And we'll see you next time.

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10:06Let's go.

10:22Let's go.

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