Fallout 4 Characters' Sad Fates Share One Thing In Common With The Fallout TV Show

A prominent character in shares an uncommonly tragic fate with one from the TV show. Although the video games and TV show don't share any major characters, they do share lore. That means they feature a lot of the same concepts, and characters with similar backgrounds. These tenuous connections reveal which kinds of stories are common in the Wasteland, which in turn helps characterize the world of 's setting.

But, in a rare coincidence, two characters from and the TV show share similar backstories, in more ways than one. The similarities further extend to how they're portrayed in their respective pieces of media. This speaks not only to the nature of the characters themselves, but also to their place in the wider universe, and also hints at the future of the franchise.

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and the TV show feature ghouls depicted both before and after ghoulification, making them some of the most tragic figures in the series. In, the nameless Vault-Tec representative who knocks at the Sole Survivor's door during the introductory sequence eventually becomes a ghoul. He sells them the membership that allows them to take up residence in Vault 111. But as the bombs fall and the Sole Survivor prepares to enter the Vault, the sales rep can be seen arguing with one of the guards.

But despite exposure to deadly levels of radiation, the Vault-Tec rep manages to survive the war, if not unscathed. The Sole Survivor later finds a ghoulified Vault-Tec rep living at the Hotel Rexford in Goodneighbor, at which point he can be invited back to the rebuilt Sanctuary. Once the Sole Survivor comes to visit him, the Vault-Tec rep can be recruited as one of 's settlers. He can use his hundreds of years of sales experience to run any settlement's trading post.

Meanwhile, the TV show stars a character known simply as The Ghoul. Pre-War, he was better known as the