Independent Fallout Wiki

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In a 2011 blog, Platonic Forms of the Marginalized, Joshua Sawyer talks about his experiences writing Arcade Gannon, and his advice to other writers creating LGBT characters:

This brings me to my own experience with normative audience expectations of a character in a marginalized group: Arcade Gannon. Arcade is a companion I wrote for Fallout: New Vegas. In addition to being a Caucasian male, a doctor, and a swell guy, Arcade is also gay. Though Arcade has no more than five lines out of several hundred that relate to his sexuality (and even those are, at most, strong implications), players have given more attention to his sexuality than any other aspect of his character. Perhaps the most heated discussions were generated by an article Jim Sterling wrote titled Homosexuality and Fallout: New Vegas: A gay marriage made in gay Heaven. At the heart of the debate was Jim's assertion that Arcade was a great gay character because his sexuality is so downplayed, so "unremarkable". Internet posters far and wide both supported and contested this view, often explicitly stating their preferences for how gay characters should be portrayed. Like Lara Croft's sex, Arcade Gannon's sexuality dominated the definition and discussion of his character. The obvious problem is that no character can meet every individual's expectations of how a group should be represented. Despite this, as long as a group is significantly marginalized among characters in media, whether due to simple omission or active exclusion, audiences will continue to turn rare specimens into exemplars.

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Ruby, an escort in Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, can provide her services to player characters, including the two female characters Nadia and Patty, remarking "women know what women want, sugar. Come here and I'll show you..."

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Fallout Wiki: Featured Fan Art (June 2026)

This month's artwork was created by IFW staff member and artist @rimuru-mayhem, inspired by a popular meme!

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Happy Pride Month from all of us at the Independent Fallout Wiki! We are always striving to create a safe and welcoming environment for all members of the Fallout community.

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The Red Sox won the World Series in 1903, 1912, 1915, 1916, and 1918, mirroring some of the Swatting Sultans World Series banners under the mayor's office window. As of the game release year, the game does not include wins in 2004, 2007, and 2013. There are two 1986 American League banners in the game files but no 1975 banner. A 2004 banner exists but is not used in Diamond City.

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"But I want to leave a legacy of greatness when I die. My tribe deserves better than this, cowering in a canyon and living on scraps."

-Papa Khan (Fallout New Vegas)

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It took until December of 2025 for the state of Michigan to be reference in the Fallout franchise with Fallout 76's release of Burning Springs. A Michigan license plate can be found at the Last Resort bar in Highway Town.

The existence of nine states have left to be acknowledged in the franchise, which are as follows:

Alabama

Arkansas

Delaware

Indiana

Minnesota

North Dakota

Rhode Island

Vermont

Wisconsin

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Concept artwork of the Atomic V-8 created by Senior Concept Artist Ilya Nazarov for Fallout 4.

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Gabriel was a Brotherhood of Steel warrior cut from Fallout Tactics. He appears in early screenshots for Fallout Tactics, but does not appear in the game.

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"This is where I last saw them. Standing here, saying goodbye. We knew it was the end of everything. "Go on without me, I need to stop by the house and get my gun," I told them. "I'll meet you at the Vault!" Those were my last words to them. I hope they made it. I don't even remember their faces anymore... but I remember that they stood here with me, and I remember our last words together." -Remember them (Fallout 76)

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A Fallout 4 loading screen reveals that the river of Nuka-Cola Quantum in Nuka World's "World of Refreshment" attraction is actually dyed glowing water, meant to simulate the drink's appearance.

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Concept art created by Adam Adamowicz of the Centaur. This rendition depicts the centaur with two heads, in similar fashion to the ones seen in the first two games. The final version would result in a single headed Centaur seen in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas.

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"I'd give anything for a Fancy Lad. Wait, I mean- you know what I mean!" -Kings Gang member (Fallout New Vegas)

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The Boulder Dome was a location planned in the cancelled Fallout game known as Van Buren. The massive scientific research facility overshadowed the city of Boulder, built to specifically to withstand a direct nuclear attack. Surrounding the structure are the blasted remains of the city, with what's left of it contaminated with radiation and toxic waste.

This idea was later reused by Chris Avellone when creating the Big MT for Fallout: New Vegas. In a presentation for the NYU Game Center, Avellone stated: So a lot of the work I had done for Boulder, Colorado in Van Buren had actually ended up mutating and actually becoming a part of the work that ended up being in Old World Blues, which was the Big Empty Research Facility, had a lot to do with the Boulder Dome that was in Van Buren.

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The Sole Survivor's pre-war car is the Fusion Voyager, as seen parked in their driveway.

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Concept art of the Think Tank created by artist Brian Menze, shared by Chris Avellone on Twitter.