This article contains spoilers for the Fallout television show on Amazon Prime.
Some fans of Fallout New Vegas who have been tuning in to see the Fallout television show streaming on Amazon Prime have developed a fun theory that would link the game and the show together. Although the game released in 2010 and the show in 2024, these fans seem to believe that one of the show’s more prominent characters already made a cameo of sorts in Fallout New Vegas, even if it wasn’t intended at the time.
In terms of the timeline of the Fallout series, the events taking place in the television show are the most recent Fallout lore that has been introduced. Most of the scenes in the show take place in the year 2296, although there are frequent flashbacks to an era before the bombs fell, which occurred on October 23, 2077. As for the games, the most recent (lore-wise) has been Fallout 4, which took place in 2287, although New Vegas is only one game behind, with its events occurring in 2281.
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The game character that some fans just can’t help but link to the show is Victor, the Securitron robot who digs the Courier up from their grave at the command of New Vegas central character Mr. House. Unlike most Securitrons, who bear the same cartoonish, black-and-white face of a police officer on the screens at the center of their chestpieces, Victor is a friendly, smiling cowboy through and through — not unlike the character Cooper Howard, played on the television show by Walter Goggins. Although he’s still alive as a ghoul in the show’s present, plenty of scenes from the past depict Howard as he was in pre-war America: a grinning cowboy movie star and spokesperson for Vault-Tec, which is why some people believe the human character served as the basis for the mechanical one.
Is Victor’s Face In Fallout: New Vegas Really Cooper Howard?
From their reactions, most fans don’t seem to believe that the developers at Obsidian Entertainment intended for a character that hadn’t even been invented yet would serve as the face of a character in New Vegas‘ main story. They’re less convinced, however, that Bethesda won’t retcon the story to make the two characters one as the Fallout show and games surge in popularity.
If the theory turns out to be true, Howard being the inspiration for Victor’s face and voice wouldn’t be the only example of a character from the TV show’s flashbacks later lending their acting talents to robots who are still around more than 200 years later. When main character Lucy gets taken to a sleazy hospital by Howard, she’s greeted by a Mr. Handy named Snip Snip, voiced by Matt Berry, who heals her severed finger before trying to harvest her organs. Later in the show, during a pre-war flashback, Cooper is seen talking with an actor friend by the name of Sebastian Leslie, also played by Berry, who grumbles about his payment for lending his voice to the Mr. Handy line. With Fallout seemingly headed for New Vegas in season 2, the possible connection could be revealed soon.
Fallout
Created by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Amazon Prime Video’s Fallout is based on the post-apocalyptic RPG gaming franchise that started in the 1990s. Set hundreds of years after the Great War, Lucy leaves her Vault bunker to travel the Wasteland in search of her kidnapped father.
- Cast
- Walton Goggins , Ella Purnell , Kyle MacLachlan , Xelia Mendes-Jones , Aaron Moten
- Seasons
- 1
- Streaming Service(s)
- Prime Video
- Showrunner
- Lisa Joy , Jonathan Nolan
- Creator(s)
- Graham Wagner , Geneva Robertson-Dworet
