The second season of Amazon’s Fallout TV present is ploughing forward, and the very first thing I wish to see in it’s extra of my beloved Norm. However the second factor I most wish to see is a particular easter egg: the Mysterious Stranger.
There have been loads of callbacks to the videogames within the first season, together with model names like YumYum Deviled Eggs, Abraxo Cleaner, and Radiation King (that one’s a double easter egg, since Radiation King within the video games was itself a reference to The Simpsons—it is the model of TV that burns younger Homer’s shadow into the wall of his childhood residence in Grampa Vs. Sexual Inadequacy). Even mechanics from the video games scored some cute references, with the Ghoul going into slow-mo throughout a shootout like he was utilizing VATS and clearly having purchased the Bloody Mess perk.
Because the forged ranges up into season two, I am hoping certainly one of them buys Mysterious Stranger. A perk that is been within the video games from the beginning, that is the one which provides a random probability of a person in a fedora and trenchcoat showing to take your aspect in a combat. New Vegas added Miss Fortune, a distaff model of the identical character who wears a showgirl outfit, and provided that’s the place season 2 of the present is headed, possibly she’ll present up within the background of a scene as effectively?
You possibly can argue the Mysterious Stranger is solely systemic and never an precise individual, and due to this fact it would not make sense so as to add them to the TV present. And whereas the present hasn’t shied away from referencing every part from SPECIAL stats to Bloody Mess, based on Fallout 4 the Mysterious Stranger is an actual individual. You meet his son, The Lonesome Drifter, in New Vegas, and in Fallout 4 you’ll find a observe in Nick Valentine’s workplace explaining the artificial detective has been monitoring many years’ price of sightings of this “psychopath”.
Given what number of years the Mysterious Stranger has been exhibiting up for, Nick entertains a few theories about his id. Possibly it is truly been a number of males in hats through the years, or possibly the Mysterious Stranger is “A Ghoul with minimal scarring”. That sounds acquainted. Coop is a ghoul with much less in the best way of radiation burns than the common ghoul, he exhibits as much as save Lucy out of the blue, and he is been alive for lengthy sufficient to have saved my bacon in each Fallout recreation. Possibly in season 2 he’ll point out that he swung by Mariposa Army Base to rescue some hapless Vault dweller from tremendous mutants, then a guitar sting will play, and I am going to must thank him for having my again since 1997.
