12 Things You Didn't Know About Fallout: New Vegas

6. Benny Is Based On A Real Person

Benny is one of video games' greatest slippery s***s. Him shooting you in the head and leaving you for dead is already all the justification you need to track him down, but Obsidian made him a character you absolutely love to chase across the Mojave wasteland.

The characterisation feels so truthful partly because Benny was based on a real life person, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. Despite both having a love of checkered black-and-white suits, the two also built their legacy around the Vegas Strip. Bugsy in real life is considered one of the architects of modern Vegas, financing casinos and overseeing the construction of certain landmarks.

He was also a lifelong mobster, dipping his toes into everything from alcohol smuggling (during the Prohibition era) to assassinations before settling on gambling as his crime major.

The similarities between the two are striking, and Benny is just one of many characters with real-world inspirations.