Fallout's Biggest Mysteries | Fallout Lore

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Mysterious Stranger doesn't seem to JUST help the Protagonist. Nick's investigation occurs before the Sole Survivor has left the Vault; this implies that the Stranger is in the Commonwealth helping others.

So i just realized while watching this video but the Zetans probably can upgrade the Giddyup Buttercups as actual war mounts as they are the right size to rode them. Thats probably why they are so interested in them

This guy predicted the Fallout show ending...

The Mysterious Stranger is Todd Howard, working with the Zetans to defeat Vault-Tec and the Enclave. No Bark told me so

The mysterous stranger in fallout 1 isnt a mysterious guy fallowing you from the shadows like in later games. The perk just means you are likely to find a stranger whenever you are in the middle of a combat and they will help you.

The mysterious stranger always felt the most interesting to me, we know some stuff about him and it is like we don't know him at all

You could argue that the Zetans attacking in the various events could be an invasion of sorts. Assuming it is then they tried to invade in force, drawn to Appalachia and possibly other parts of the world, before being driven off by the survivors. They then needed to make the abominations and Giddy Ups as a way to replenish their depleted forces while also waiting for more to arrive. The Lone Wanderer then stopped them before they could launch their second invasion

My favorite part about the Mysterious Stranger is when Nick tries to arrest him

To be fair to the Zetans It would only make sense for them to wear space suits. They probably live most of their lives in very controlled vault-like environments, ie spaceships and the wasteland known as Earth isn't exactly a place you want to visit without protective clothing. What with all the latent radiation and FEV in the air

I wonder if the non presence of inaccessible vaults indicates that the vaults we don't see are vaults that were never meant to be opened, and so developers just chose not to put them into the games. I haven't played all the games but who knows. Maybe there are people who are trapped forever.

After watching the show and hearing about Vault 76. I think we now know where and how Hank may have gotten his hands on a nuke to destroy Shady Sands.

Wait.... there was supposed to be a 1998 "Fallout movie"? 😮

I love how the Vaults cost over 150% what was initially bidded and yet many of the services and components were built by the lowest bidder. That's definitely really interesting

I love the colony ship idea it makes it so Vault tec wasn’t unrealistically evil

An interesting part of the Vault 76 story is that the Overseer was younger than most of her residents coming in. Odds are Vault Tec was betting on her listening to Vault Tec after the war due to a lack of experience

Mysterious Stranger was apparently based on a character from a work of the same name by Mark Twain. Twain wrote multiple versions of the story; each involves a supernatural character called "Satan" or "No. 44". So possibly a supernatural guardian. Wouldn't be the first supernatural element to Fallout and honestly better to have him NOT be delved too deep into to maintain his mystery.

I’ve always thought definitive “China/The US/Vault Tec started the war” theories miss a bit of the spirit of what Fallout is intended to be about. I agree with Boyarsky’s take that it doesn’t matter and shouldn’t be a question that ever gets an answer.

Since playing the Mistress of Mysteries quest in FO76, I've always had the thought that Frederick Rivers had something to do with the Mysterious Stranger. His wife had just built a network of super hero girls out of nowhere and dedicated her life and passion to doing good for the wasteland - only to be killed by the misguided mistakes of their own daughter. During this escapade, Frederick himself was quiet, reserved, refusing to take sides or even interject in the family politics. But he did contribute his skills as an inventor - building specialized armor, modifying stealth boys, and even crafting specialized 44 magnums for each of the girls (hmm...) Plus, Frederick's fate is unknown. We never see a body, he's not in the mansion that he used to work in, and there are mentions of him after the end of the quest. So what happened to him? Well, who knows what would go through the mind of a genious inventor when he sees the dead bodies of his wife and only child, sacrifices to the cause of protecting the innocent and bringing evil to justice. Let's also not forget that Frederick's wife was the Mistress of Mysteries - both in real life and fiction. And the character was often involved with the silver shroud - another similarly dressed super hero wielding a 44 pistol. Does he use the stealth boys he used to experiment on to show up "out of nowhere" as the Mysterious Savior or Mysterious Stranger? Does he dig into his lab until he invents teleportation? Does he build new customized 44 pistols and create a new network of Mysterious Strangers - only called as such because they don't stick around enough to say othwrwise? It seems like all the pieces are there and makes a hell of lot more sense than the supernatural theory I hear so often.

I wouldn't have never thought that the mysterious stranger could be a ghost from the past that have unfinished business