Easter Eggs

1. Miscellaneous

1.1 The scene in the intro showing the man in the RA blowing the brains out of the man on his knees is an easter egg to the scene of the soldier shooting the civilian, which was all over the television news in the sixties. A police officer in Saigon deployed his men to protect civilians in the neighborhood while the Americans were retreating. Vietnamese troops were entering the city, and the Viet Cong were already snooping around. As the television crew was filming a news report, an officer was informed that the bunker his family was in had been blown up. Minutes later, one of the Vietnamese bombers was brought in. The cameraman thought the officer was going to kick the bomber long and hard, so he started filming and the policeman took out his .38 and blew the prisoner’s brains out right in the middle of the street.

2. Stuff

2.1 The leather jacket without the right sleeve is an easter egg to the movie Mad Max II: Road Warrior (1981), in which the main character wore exactly the same one.

2.2 The .223 pistol is remarkably similar to the gun from Blade Runner (1982).

2.3 Guns and Bullets is a parody of Guns and Ammo magazine.

2.4 Nuka-Cola, a reference to Coca-Cola.

2.5 Red Rider BB Gun. A reference to the game Wasteland. There was a Red Rider character who appeared if you killed children, he had a BB Gun rifle in his hands, which you could pick up from the corpse. Between 1938 and 1963 Red Rider was a popular character in America. He appeared in short comics in over 750 newspapers. There were 38 films and 40 commercial products featuring him, as well as a radio show featuring him.

2.6 Mentat is a reference to the novel Dune (1965).

3. Creatures

3.1 Death Claws – Originally thought to be Shadow Claws from Wasteland, but the Fallout Bible says that Death Claw was intended as a mini-tarrasque.

3.2 Brahmin. You thought it was something Indian? No, it’s just a two-headed cow 🙂

3.3 Updike’s Centaur. A reference to J. Updike’s novel The Centaur (1984).

3.4 Nightkin’s are wearing an iron on their leg, as if they had a damaged leg. The same one was on Mad Max’s leg in Mad Max II: Road Warrior (1981).

4. Pip-Boy .

4.1 In the karma (reputation) picture, Pip-Boy features two characters from a segment of The Bullwinkle Show called Dudley Do-right: a villain with a monocle and a top hat (Snidely Whiplash) and a Canadian constable (Dudley Do-right). These characters are also used in the Champion and Infanticide karmostatuses.

4.2 In the picture for Bonus HtH Damage perk, Pip-Boy represents the comic book hero The Incredible Hulk.

4.3 In the picture for the Mutate! (Mutate) perk, Pip-Boy depicts the comic book hero The Incredible Hulk.

4.4 In the Pathfinder perk picture, Pip-Boy is the superhero The Flash.

4.5 Pip-Boy looks a lot like Conan from Conan the Barbarian (1982) in the picture for the Slayer perk.

4.6 In the Toughness perk picture, Pip-Boy looks like the superhero Superman.

5. Special Occasional Encounters

5.1 In one of the special encounters, you can see a huge footprint with a flattened human inside. This is a reference to Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969).

5.2 In one of the special random encounters, you can find a phone booth. This is a reference to the BBC sci-fi program Dr. Who from 1963.

5.3 The flying saucer crash site is a reference to Area 51 and Roswell.

6. Cities

6.1 Vault 13.

6.1.1 Wasteland also had a water chip delivery mission, but it was one of the easiest.

6.2 Raiders.

6.2.1 A reference to the Michael Jackson song “This girl is mine.” Trying to save Tandy, you can challenge Garl to a fight, after which you can reply with “But I am a lover not a fighter”. This is a very good example of a game with a high level of difficulty, but you can also avoid using this phrase as it leads to Garl attacking you.

6.3 Junktown

6.3.1 Tycho, Desert Ranger. The Desert Rangers are an organization from the game Wasteland.

6.3.2 If you ask Tycho about local criminals, when describing the second group of criminals, he will say, “But the other ones answer to a fat freak whose name you can probably guess. Runs the casino. Those guys are organized and dangerous.” A person who has played Wasteland will probably think of Fat Freddy from that game.

6.3.3 Tycho, in describing Junktown, paraphrases Obi-Wan-Kenobi from Star Wars, describing the city as “a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

6.3.4 Phil describes the Dogmeat’s host as Mad Max from the movie series of the same name. In addition, Dogmeat is the nickname of Mad Max’s dog from Mad Max II: Road Warrior (1981).

6.3.5 In Wasteland, there was a conflict between Fat Freddy and Farana Borygo, similar to the situation with Killian and Gizmo.

6.4 The Hub.

6.4.1 A reference to the South Park cartoon. If you click on the corpse of Deputy Kenny, the phrase “Oh my god, they killed Kenny, those bastards” appears in the lower right corner.

6.4.2 The Maltese Falcon is the title of a work by Dashiell Hammett, Maltese Falcon (1930).

6.4.3 A feeble-minded Slappy, walking near the house where Harold resides, says “Let’s play Global Thermo-Nuclear War!” This is an easter egg on the movie WarGames (1983).

6.5 L.A. Boneyard.

6.5.1 The boss of Bounty Hunters is named Christopher, and it is none other than Chris Avelon, one of the developers of Fallout.

6.5.2 In conversation with Christine, you can choose a branch in the dialogue:

C D E D B D D Ducks!

M R Not Ducks!

O S A R! C D E D B D Wings!

O I B M R Ducks!

It stands for:

See the itty bitty ducks!

Em are not ducks!

Oh yes they are! See the itty bitty wings!

Oh I be! Em are ducks!

This is the same conversation we had in Wasteland with Ellen from Quartz.

6.6 The Glow.

6.6.1 Phrase from the holodisc – “Camarillo looked pretty normal on the outside, but about an hour ago he left in an unknown direction, muttering something about Gehenna. The bastard had all our anti-radiation drugs.” – Vampire: The Masquerade universe reference.

6.7 The Cathedral.

6.7.1 The Cathedral’s head of security is named Sid Vicious. John Simon Ritchie-Beverly (1957-1979), better known as Sid Vicious, was the bass player for the Sex Pistols. He was considered the #1 punk.

6.7.2 Siberian Dog Sasha. This dog belonged to Vince Denardo, one of Interplay’s employees.

6.8 Mariposa Military Base

6.8.1 Richard Gray is none other than Levelord, who did the mapping for the most famous games since Fallout 1: Blood, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, SiN, etc.