Good morning, Wastelanders, and welcome to New Vegas. Fallout Season 2 has dropped the trailer, and I'm not going to lie to you. I'm not going to beat around the bush. This is not a tease. It's here. New Vegas is happening on Amazon Prime. Plenty to catch up on, plenty to get excited about. So, we're going to break down everything you need to do to catch up and what we know so far about Season 2, and also take in the top Easter eggs from Fallout fans. They have been a living Leo meme. Here I come. Oh, here I come. Oh, bouse. Whether you're a veteran of the Fallout lore and you just want to get a little bit more of it, or you're someone who still thinks this is a Walton Goggins spin-off series from White Lotus where his character gets a facelift. This is going to be your one-stop shop. So, let's get into it. Let's head to the Mojave for Fallout Season 2 breakdown and Easter eggs.
Okie dokie. So, here's the deal. Fallout 30 years of lore, video game after video game after video game for three decades. Season one of the liveaction series recently came out and now we have Season Two on the way. This is a nuclear wasteland full of conspiracies, political thrillers, missions, and the games range from having to go fix a water pipe to taking down a political juggernaut. There's a widespread amount of lore and intricacies and little characters and little details that you can find in this show. So, we're going to break down the top level stuff. The game is about the locations where the wasteland is taking place, but the show does have some characters we're following along with. Sure, in the game, the characters don't really have names that we care too much about, but the show really does dive into the archetypes that we know from the Fallout video games and introduces them here. So, here's your breakdown of who these characters are, where they left off, and where we're heading in Season 2. Lucy is our main character, our vault dweller, and they're kind of the core of what these Fallout games are, right? It's the guy with the thumbs up. Vault Boy. Basic concept, you know, nuclear wasteland. Nuclear war happens or people in a vault. They get out of a vault for the first time and discover the wasteland. Conspiracies unravels, characters met, tragedy faced, and that's basically what Fallout is. It's a good time.
Ella Pernell is back as Lucy, our main vault character. And a lot of flashbacks show some of her vault childhood. As we unravel that part of the lore, including a childhood bedroom that looks like a Pottery Barn in Doomsday, we see some classic Fallout toys like Giddy Up Buttercup and the Sugar Bomb cereal. And it just tells us two things. One, VaultTech. They are marketing towards children and parents are letting it happen. It also tells us number two, we are definitely getting a lot of Lucy's past in the show. We're going to dive into different parts of the Fallout lore that maybe we haven't seen yet. With the ghoul, we're going to get a lot of pre-war stuff. What's happened up to the Great War and the nuclear apocalypse with Lucy? We're going to get underground, look at what happened inside the vault. Season 2 seems to dive into Lucy and her family's involvement with all of this as we peel back the onion, draw the curtain, and find out what's going on behind the corporation of the nuclear war. Season 1 had a big reveal, a big drop. Vaulttech Corporation just started a nuclear war that they ended up benefiting from. Typical Tuesday for an evil corporation. Big shock, big reveal. Sorry for not giving a spoiler alert, but this is a Season 2 breakdown. He knew what you were getting into.
Maximus is our Brotherhood of Steel representation. The Brotherhood of Steel is this technomilitary cult that collects old retro tech mixed with those motorcycle gang kids from Book of Boba Fett. Quick pause. Can we get a clip of the motorcycle race from Book of Boba Fett with the Chevy Bair mopeds? Yeah, it's just the worst. I can't believe we let that happen. Aaron Motton's Maximus ended season 1 trying to find himself, trying to figure out his mortality and not to get pushed around and bullied all the live long day. Season two tosses him right into the fire. Full armor, full responsibility, full chaos and crisis abound. He's fighting death claws. He's battling airships and he's getting yelled at by every single militant force around. It's the Brotherhood starter kit. In the games, the Brotherhood's usually this stoic and intimidating confident force, but Maximus kind of flips it on his head. In all this, it's a different take on the character. Gives us a different look at the Brotherhood than the games. When you see him in New Vegas tossed into a place where everybody lies, cheats, steals, and frogs splash off the top rope. It's going to be a problem. This kid's in for some trouble. Not like the casual trouble you're talking about. I'm talking like nuclear wasteland level trouble.
Walton Gogggins is back as the ghoul and we get a little bit of his past here in the trailer. The ghouls are former humans that have been affected by the radiation and are either living amongst us in this Deadpool Voldemort nightmare crossover or they're just kind of zombies which is weirdly less gross. Gogggins is somewhere between Midnight Cowboy and some sort of bounty hunter from a future time. And Gogggins plays him perfectly with the 200 years of doing this fed up with it charisma that only a few people can bring to the screen. He's charismatic, dangerous, and kind of charming and funny at the same time while his face is falling off. That's talent.
If season one made him a fan favorite, season two seems to be breaking our hearts a little bit because we get a look at what happened before the war. And we get a look at who this guy is and why we should give a [ __ ] You probably just tell me to shut the fudge up. The fourth character is New Vegas. A new character, a new location for Fallout Season 2. We're officially in the Mojave, which is from, of course, video game Fallout New Vegas. And if you ask literally anyone who played the Fallout games, this is the Empire Strikes Back. This is the best vibe. This is the Mario Kart Double Dash of the Fallout franchise by and far. And yeah, I said Mario Kart Double Dash was the best Mario Kart game. If you want to tell me how big of an idiot I am, let me know in the comments. I'd love to hear from you. Season 1 seemed to pull from a couple different games to build this new story set after the Fallout timeline before the show started. But this season seems to be pointing more directly at one of the games, New Vegas. said, "Of course, this is going to one for one adapt that story, but it's going to fall on a lot of the similar locations, characters, and storylines that we learned from that game back in 2010."
Picture like Las Vegas, right, but with a little more radiation, a little more crazy batshit characters walking around, a little more political conspiracy and corruption in the background. It's really not all that different from normal Vegas, but this has more of a zombie vibe going on. We also have two new cast members making an appearance in the trailers. Both names that everybody should recognize. First off, Camille Najani. And we don't know who he's playing, but he looks great doing it with the hair and the jacket and the this and Camil Nani. Always great to see him showing up. And then a fan favorite of this season, McColin is also here, and he is supposed to be a big deal. We don't know who he is, but it's a genius archaic survivalist type guy. And it's great to see Maui, especially around the holidays when it's Home Alone two season every single day.
Now, on to the biggest Easter eggs people are excited about. First and foremost, we'll get a shot of the Lucky 38, the control tower, the hub, the HQ for Mr. House in New Vegas. Mr. House, of course, the mastermind behind this whole thing. Cryofreezing robot security. This recreation looks pretty solid. It looks big and massive and it looks like you're going to get lost in it just like you did back when you played the game. We also get a shot of Mr. House in his chamber surrounded by green screens and looking just like he did in the game played by Justin Throw. This means that the show is not just adapting New Vegas and picking apart once gone over story in the same location. We're getting Mr. House. We're getting some story lines moving forward while matching it in with our new story lines with Lucy and the ghoul and Maximus and whoever else shows up.
Next up, yes, we do get Freside. Yes, we do get the A atomic Wrangler. But the real gym, the real story, the real thing that we're all here to see is an Elvis style ghoul situation. The Kings are back in the Fallout world. And yeah, there are ghouls who were Elvis impersonators and they hang on to that fact. And they do a lot of the Elvis things and the Elvis hair and the jacket. It's a fun time. It's Vegas. This is a point to the showrunners not just doing the big things from Fallout, but also the weird, wild, silly things that made it a cult classic for years and years.
Now, in this trailer, there's one very quick shot of a robot with a cowboy face in it, and the Fallout friends lost their minds. That is Victor, the Securatron. It's basically like a cowboy and a Roomba and an Alexa all mixed up to one in some nuclear blast. And the Securatrons and Victor specifically is like your handheld guide through New Vegas. And they unravel as we go. And it tells us a couple things. One, the Securatrons are here and the robot security is very present. Two, Mr. House, he's watching. He's got his eyes everywhere. And three, the strip is not safe for anyone.
And the last thing from the trailer that really got fans off their seat, of course, is the Caesars Legion. And this is where fans were like, "Oh, they're doing it." The shot is quick. Red armor, guns drawn, formation set. And if you don't know what you're looking at, you might miss it. But if you do know what you're looking at, you know that shit's about to pop off. Roman style trouble that scary kind of take over the world empire type stuff. In the Fallout world, especially New Vegas, the Caesar's Legion is this like military slaveun type situation. Follow a very simple motto. What would Julius Caesar do? do that but like more of it with more screaming which funny enough is also the plot to Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes one of the funniest titles in movies but it's very similar the whole we do what Caesar did and they probably take it the wrong way they're weird they're merciless they're organized and they're very very scary and a lot of the showrunners and writers of Fallout take this as an opportunity to be like hey what if we did Rome again but like more evil than Rome was season 2 looks to be doing everything that fans wanted it to do and said Hey, let's just do it all in one season. There's a lot to get to in New Vegas. There's a lot of things that fans are excited to see. Will they get to all of them? Nobody really knows. Temperatures are kind of mixed, but Fallout fans are excited to see that their favorite world is finally coming to life in this type of way. And listen, they've shown before that they are not afraid to mix and match and pull from different things outside the game and put it into the show. And there is a whole unlimited world of Fallout lore out there that we could see. Surprises abound.
So, let us know. What are you most excited to see from this new season of Fallout? What location do you hope they go to next? If they keep making these things, let us know in the comments. I'm Matt Ripkey. Until then, we'll see you next time.