Amazon's Fallout TV Show: 10 Things Fans Need To See
4. Black Humour
Of the weirdest and darkest kind...it's a Super, Duper, Duper mart!
From Vault-Tec's laughably simple in-game videogames to the skeletons arranged in ludicrous positions, there's plenty of dark humour to the Fallout games.
The Vault Boy's gurning smile is everywhere, and has become a symbol of the game's delicate balance of humour and the horror of the wasteland. Abandoned computer terminals detail a poor downtrodden employee's battle with pointless red tape, and there's the sheer ridiculous nature of a portable nuclear weapon, AKA the fat man. From a legion of plungers adorning a toilet cubicle to the hilarious primitive conversation options of low intelligence characters, there are plenty of laughs in Fallout. OK, maybe not laughs; more like knowing smirks, or pained grimaces. But, hey, you gotta lighten the mood any way you can, right?
And just what are all those teddy bears up to?