Fallout on Amazon Prime Video adapts the Bethesda game series and includes plenty of nods and jokes to Fallout lore. Here is a list of the best ones we could find.
Fallout is braving a whole new world — sort of. The new show from Prime Video is blazing a trail in the same continuity as that of the games. It’s a bold choice for a video game show (particularly when so many either just adapt the main plot of the game or create an entirely separate timeline to muck about in), though in keeping with the open-world RPG spirit of Fallout.
And it means that Easter eggs aren’t necessarily just little nods to the game. Sure, some of them might be. But they may also be laying the groundwork for season 2. Either way, they’re extra fun to pay attention to in the world of Fallout, which is absolutely full of them. Here’s (the ongoing list of) every Easter egg we spotted in Fallout, separated out behind spoiler warnings as necessary:Pip-Boys and terminals
There are a few references to the retro computer interfaces players interact with in the Fallout franchise. In the first episode, Lucy’s little brother, Norm, is goofing off playing Atomic Command — a holotape from Fallout 4 — on his Pip-Boy. Later on, he needs to hack into a Vault terminal, and it’s the same hacking minigame players are familiar with. Bad for operation security, but great for anyone who needs to uncover an eerie conspiracy.Enemies ahoy
Some of the enemies from mainline Fallout games show up in the show to menace our protagonists. This includes raiders — in episode 1, one bloodthirsty raider menacing Chet pulls out a combat chem that looks and sounds a lot like Psycho. We also get to see our first Radroach in episode 2 when Dogmeat snacks on one (that was about to snack on Lucy).
Brother Titus of the Brotherhood encounters a yao guai, a mutated and monstrous bear that first appeared in Fallout 3 and returns in both New Vegas and Fallout 4. A super mutant also shows up on a collection of wanted posters, showing that these big green menaces are still around to some degree.Skeleton crew
In episode 2, Lucy explores a small, abandoned house. The shelves are littered with knickknacks, but the inhabitants of the house are all dead. Lucy observes the situation and uncovers the cause of their demise: Rat poison was added to their last supper. This scene establishes the horrors of the Wasteland, but it also feels like a nod to Bethesda’s notorious habit of littering skeletons everywhere for ambient storytelling.
