Fallout’s Ghoul Origins & Anatomy Explored - How Radiation Created A Breed Of New Mutated Beings?
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- Опубліковано 2 тра 2024
- Unearthing the secrets of the wasteland! This video dives deep into the fascinating (and horrifying) world of ghouls in the Fallout franchise. We'll explore the origins of these irradiated beings, how their bodies were ravaged and transformed by nuclear fallout. But are ghouls just mindless monsters? We'll dissect their ghoul physiology, the different sub-types, and grapple with the existential questions that plague them - are they human, or something entirely new? Join us as we navigate the ethics of ghoul discrimination in the wasteland and explore the struggles of these mutated survivors.
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Fallout 4 actually was shown to have many Ghouls who retained their identities. Idk why some people keep forgetting that Lol
Fallout 3 had regular ghouls too, you never play that?😂
New vegas aswell
3, too, buy ty, seems nobody's played the games.
Agree lol wtf
All of the fallouts have ghouls that retain their consciousness.
38 seconds in and I know for certain this guy hasn't played the games.
Was it when he stated that ghouls are all basically rabid zombies “to be killed?” Did it for me.
This guy bought his account or botted his sub count, this video has fuck all views and he has no idea what he’s talking about
@@KruggKruscherp weird. I can see your reply, but when I open the comment section it’s gone despite showing “2 replies.” YT shadow banning the mildest of “offensive” posts again.
this video is probably AI. The voice, the script, and the minimal B-roll.
Bro I said the same thing to myself 😂
9:57 I don’t think becoming a ghoul is what changed Cooper Howard’s personality, 200 years of trying to survive in the wasteland is what changed him.
And his wife's betrayal.. always a dam woman's fault
Seems a little poorly researched, In 3 there was a whole community of ghouls living in a museum in DC.
same for new vegas, tactics, fallout 1, 2, brotherhood of steel.
Yeah, the Underworld, you also come across plenty of friendly Ghouls in F4
Omg that was so long ago. But i think i remember that mission. It was something like i had to kill the douchy rich people or kill the ghouls. Its been so long. But there was only one cool dude there like an actor that had a ghoul friend he use to do radio shows with?
The Ghoul was my favorite character in the Fallout show. Enjoyed Walton Goggins' fantastic acting.
The mysterious serum is from FO4 (Cabot)
Same one of the best anti-heroes and protagonists in the entire show.
My favorite line is his, "The wasteland has its own Golden Rule. Though shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every goddam time."
I laughed at loud at that part. Fallout games do lets you forget their is actually a main plot.
Wait there is a main quest … a settlement needs my help
Sentient ghouls have appeared as major characters in every Fallout game. The guy who made this video has never played them.
I think that even if you hate this show you got to agree that Goggins did a bang up job portraying this character
Getting it wrong in the first minute, congrats. Some ghouls can talk in all the games.
and most the games, except for 4 and 76, have ghoul settlements
@@xXxLuciferMorningstarxXx Fallout 4 has the slog that's a ghoul settlement
@@rachroyston6697 forgot about that
Right and as The Ghoul aka The Hunter told Lucy even Ghouls like him who retain their humanity and sense of self during their first meeting still have the cannibalistic hunger for human flesh it's just that him and the other Ghouls who retain their humanity and sense of self keeping said cannibalistic hunger at bay due to their mental discipline and willpower and that every day was a mental battle just to keep it at bay.
Not every ghoul is a mindless killer to kill everthing on sight... I feel review channels don't even try anymore, let alone are experts in games, to know any different...
I can tell you never played any fallout game, especially not fallout 1 & 2
I won't pretend to be anything other than an FO4 only player (with about 2,5k hours to be fair), but channels like this are part of the reason we need gatekeepers in our favourite franchises that we actually care about and invest ourselves in.
How do you explain something without any research?
Welp, guy doesn't actually know what he is talking about.
Big time 😂 glad I'm not the only one who noticed this guy probably never played a single game even just to try it. Probably read some wiki page and started editing clips
So have you actually played the game or…? Because there’s a lot of ghouls who have retained their personalities and also live amongst regular wastelanders
How can I even trust this video when the narrator obviously doesn’t even know the source material
So far, I've watched the first two episodes, and I find it interesting for how they've tied all the games together. I have played 3, 4, New Vegas, and 76. This was needed to explain a lot of things.
I thought so too. I feel like there are a lot of bad adaptions out there, but this one isn't bad. I enjoyed it.
@@brianshissler3263 What are you on??? Ghouls were perfectly explained until Bethesda came along and fucked it up. and what bad adaptions?? Are you talking about 4 and 76 ?
@@klbn6 i wouldn't say that 4 & 76 are bad adaptations because every single fallout game except for new vegas and brotherhood of steel have the same story with minor differences.
I keep waiting for a ghoul to be a playable character in a Fallout game.
Brotherhood of steel fallout
@@ladyDelilah84 idk if it's a mod but on steam i noticed that you could in new vegas
@@xXxLuciferMorningstarxXx it's a mod I know it but can not remember what it is called
I'm not sure about Fallout 4, it's been a while, but if you have 400+ rads for long enough in Fallout 3, you will become a Ghoul.
If you play the games you will find there are plenty of non ferel ghouls, starting with Harold in Fallout 1. This ghoul reminds me of Charon the Merc Ghoul you can have as a companion in Fallout 3.
Honestly listening to some of the series ghouls try to remind themselves who they were in a bid to stave off the feral ghoulness was heartbreaking
Like imagine having to remind yourself that you are in fact human, while something deep and powerful inside you demands you wreck anything that doesn’t have a noseless face like yours
Im pretty sure it wasnt just being a ghoul that changed coopers psyche but also losing his daughter, what his wife did to humanity and him and just dealing with the wasteland for 200 years. That will make anyone a dark person mentally.
Jason Bright from fallout 3, the vault tech representative from 4, Desmond from point lookout dlc, the glowing ghoul in nuka world dlc, the ghoul settlement in underworld in number 3, the sheriff like ghoul in New Vegas, the ghoul kid in number 4, Hancock from number 4, Moria Brown if you decide to blow the nuke in Megaton, Gob in number 3 and so on and so on, there are a lot of intelligent ghouls. Ghouls go rabid if they get exposed to much radiation plus the serum from what I can tell was never in the games
i could see all ghouls going feral over a long period of time, some just taking it longer for their brain to go mad than others
Good Neighbor's mayor in Fallout 4 explains to the player how he became a ghoul. He discovered an experimental radioactive drug that he describes as producing a remarkable high, regardless of the fact that the result of it was his ghoulification, which he came to accept due to allegedly now being "immortal," or rather just aging much, much slower than humans.
@@meta4cast28 good to know
To me, it makes sense for the vials to be Radaway, In vials rather than bloodbags as we are used to seeing it. In Fallout 3, having 400 rads will begin the process of turning you into a Ghoul, going higher than 400, just speeds up the process, using Radaway will slow down the transformation until you get below 400, which will halt it. It's not a stretch I think to suggest that Radaway can stop an already turned Ghoul turning feral. I think it's a better solution than introducing a new drug
not every ghoul is a feral goul. its not specfic to the show for ghouls to retail their humanity
Just going to point out Harold isn't technically a ghoul, just a mutant
The Ghoul is a non ferral ghoul which means he isn't a mindless zombie however ferral ghouls are mindless zombies. In Fallout ghouls are very complicated subjects as rectcons have mudled ghouls anatomy.
The ghoul is the hero, he saved the dog twice. Once with the Stimpack and once from the Nuka cola machine.
He harmed the dog in the first place, and saving the dog does not make him a hero. He is a opportunist, the dog is useful.
He keeps the dog around even after the head is a moot point
@@KingofGeo So he still using the dog, a opportunist stand Still
I did like the character of the ghoul, apart from that anti-ghoul serum he follows the fallout canon.
But I feel like this video was made by someone who never played any of the fallout games. Nothing wrong with this and the video is overall quite well done, but some clarifications should be added.
Ghouls become feral with time (those are the one we kill as the player). They all start fully sentient and go feral at different rate. You meet plenty pre-war ghouls in the various fallout games that are quite sane.
That "anti-ghoul" drug is made up in the series. Never encountered that in any of the games. Ghouls heals by getting exposed to radiation. Like a kind of post apocalypse photosynthesis.
They also not all become drug addicts, but after a hundred years or two of the hell it must be, even a non-ghoul human would be tempted to use drugs to numb the pain...
Worth noting that the required head shot to kill is not canon. A ghoul or feral ghoul can be killed with enough trauma. They are more resilient than a baseline human, they don't seem to react to pain, which is why they keep coming until you destroy enough of their body. The headshot is a quicker kill, that is accurate enough.
That being said, I hope you don't take this post the wrong way, this is just me being a fallout fan :) Keep making those quality videos !
In the games not all Ghouls are destined to become feral, some can retain their minds. That's a change I'm not so fond of in the series.
Walton Goggins is fantastic in the show and he's my favourite character.
i think that they can & will eventually turn feral, just some take longer than others. that may not be confirmed but it's something that makes sense
OH MY GOSH! I JUST REALIZED A FUN MOTIF, GIVEN THAT GHOULS ARE BASICALLY ZOMBIES, YOU CAN SAY THE GHOUL IS A "dead man walking!" just another reason to love the character! what a fun way to recontextualize an idea!
6:59 - BIG FART killed him 😂
That scene minus getting shot....
don't mean to insult but that was 1 of the best explanatory narrative on youtube
There's several goals in the franchise that are not aggressive that you don't kill sometimes you carry him as a partner that you know with you
Ive played quite a few Fallout games, Fallout 3, New Vegas, Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 and none of them desribe ghouls as needing any kind of serum to retain their humanity, alot of them do drugs just for the fuck of it, as for retaining their humanity that really just comes down to luck and how much radiation they were exposed to initially, some transformed over time and managed to stay sane while others who were exposed to a much larger amount transformed much quicker and turned seemingly overnight, and in Fallout 4 we got introduced to not only more mutated ghouls like "glowing ones" but also touching more on ghoulification in animals, like Yaio Guai, Rag Stags, Dogs, and Ghoulrillas meaning its not just humans it affects, Ghouls also don't really need to feed or drink very often.
The Ghoul is just the best fucking character, and Lucy too, she got stabbed with a machete by Wraiths/Raiders and survived it like a boss
Did you play any of the fallout games, because ghouls work the same why they do in the show, they are NPCs that have conversations and quest development, overtime and or through to much radiation exposure they become Feral that is what is happening to Roger and Cooper but they had meds that are helping them. Even as feral they still communicate with each other and they will not attack other ghouls feral or not.
5:54 no. That is not at all true and that has never played a role in ANY of the games. Ppl dislike them because they can go feral overnight.
I never played the game. As a non player, I thought this show was great.
There is are many in game lore elements supporting that ghouls were not just "spawned" via radiation. It played a factor obviously, but as I recall the lore elements pointed to a genesis similar to that of supermutants. In other words, a vault tec experiment gone wrong. Likely trying to hybridize human DNA with some other radiation resistant species, or possibly increasing a human's inherent radiation resistance via 3rd party compounds like the FEV virus.
That all said, your video makes it seems as though all ghouls in the games are mindless zombies. There are plenty of full featured, flushed out, quest related ghoul NPCs going all the way back to F3. In fact, Cooper Howard reminds me of Hancock from Fallout 4. Obviously there mannerisms and personality are different, but they're both intelligent characters with a gift for violence and intimidation. Going back even further to 3, you can recruit a follower from the ghoul settlement of underworld. He's not the best in the game mind you, but he's up there. Not to mention he's massive, if you give him power armor he can not only wear it(rare for 3 followers), he makes your character look a child next to him when he does so. lol
Instead of buying the serum, wouldn't be easier to learn the recipe and make it himself?
He'd need to buy the supplies to make and mass produce it all and then protect it from raiders and stuff, it's probably easier to just bounty hunt and buy it
@bigskullnobrain6303 not unless he produces the materials himself, and markets it to the other ghouls, make a profit off of it.
And even hire some guards to protect it.
Not every character in Fallout is the main playable protagonist. No they can't craft things from thin air with ingredients on a chem station.
@@ChibaBanana I wasn't referring to the games
For the same reasons a lot of meth heads don't produce their own meth or crack addict's don't produce their own crack.
Not a gamer but I binged the series- brilliant production loved it
i hope we see Super Mutants in season 2
particularily Marcus (voiced by Michael Dorn again)
Sir, there are a lot of pre and post war ghouls with their minds intact in the games.
Makes me wanna become a ghoul like shit look what people doing nowadays
Awesome show!😎👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Eddie Winter. The Ghoul Nick Valentine hunts down to seek revenge for the human Nick Valentine whose identity he is.
I thought he ate Roger’s liver to try and get some leftover drugs out of it. Help sustain himself till he got more vials.
Ten vials for how much I enjoyed the ghouls insight. I wondered though if the serum that is used to heal Thaduas foot is an F.E.V. Serum…. Although seeing the evidence you might be correct in that it did turn him into a ghoul, and the doctor has some sorta quota he has to meet otherwise he gets “unalived” or worse. Why else would he try to unalive himself to then go, ah a customer/longterm addict, IM SAVED.
If he was buried for years at a time, in the start of the show, why didn't he become feral then?
Idk if you have seen, but there was some of that serum connected to him trough the ground. Its visible in this video before they uncover him.
In the original Fallout games 1 & 2 ghouls do not go feral though some ghouls might go crazy anyhow considering their long life as what basically looks like a walking dead. Like the ghouls of Necropolis that became thus because of the intended design flaw of their vault. Other ghouls have different but similar background stories. Like Supermutants they can live for centuries.
Feral ghouls was the result of another evil experiment.
But far from all ghouls will turn feral.
In Fallout 1 the player "The Vaultdweller" befriend several ghouls and in Fallout 2 a ghoul by the name of Lenny even joins the "Chosen" as a companion and in Fallout Tactics the player can eventually through choices recruit ghouls to become companions = Usually ghouls have louse stats in Strength but often excellent stat in Perception as well as their experience from living for so long.
OKAY I know that Bethesda's Fallout basically soft rebooted the franchise and changed a whole lot but not THAT much...
Good video nonetheless and explanatory for the ghouls encountered in the show that I do like.
Ten vials! I love the character and would watch a whole show dedicated to Coop.
The arm thrusters on the Power amour were a bad choice. The Jet packs on their backs are much more fitting with the retro-50s vision of the future that Fallout is supposed to be set in.
Also where the heck are the Protectrons?? And why does everything look like the actual 1950s and not the vision of the future people had back in the 1950. There should be a whole lot more metal buildings and The cars should look like rocket ship car designs from the 1950s, not like actual 1950s old cars.
Harold is the most famous ghoul to appear in almost all fallout games. Saying they're "zombies to be killed" in the games tells me you have zero credibility.
Does anyone knoe how long he was in the coffin for roughly?
Ghouls maintain their sense of self until they go feral
But.......can he procreate.....tune in next week kiddos.
His nose fell off…that should tell you something
@@justintime6242 Oof! 😂
look at that face...the mans a nutsack...of course he can😂
Ghoul can't have kids, they are sterile. Unless you add certain mods.
@@justintime6242 Never considered that.
"The goul" sure reminds me alot About Valentine
Even Fallout 3 has Ghouls who retained identities. This narrator apparently has not actually played the games and obviously not consulted with someone who has.
Ghouls are playable character type in Fallout game ;)
Vault boy have that protagonist Doug and gave huge potential to steal the show
So if he can’t regenerate body parts what was his old boss cutting off him?
I think i got the mix combine
1. Jet,
2. Dirty water (so it has a little rads)
3. Med-x
4. Rad away
5. Dissolved mentats.
What I like most about the show, is that it’s not supposed to be realistic but more based on Fallout logic. I just wish they incorporated V.A.T.S and SPECIAL stats. Side note introducing the necessity for “serum” by ghouls is kinda confusing. Though in a way it makes sense it’s never mentioned in the previous lore😅
He's basically Caleb from 'Blood'. Caleb had a sense of theatricality. Coop is literally a master thespian.
5:05 More like Red Skull.
10:17 What's the point of putting left-handed bolt-actions in a game where everyone is right-handed? There were no left-handed bolt-actions in Fallout: New Vegas, so why do they exist in the post-New Vegas Fallout games?
10:45 Why's there no front sight on Coop's hand cannon? There's already a mod for FNV that lets the player use something that resembles that thing (except it has a swing-out cylinder instead of being top-break).
13:37 Why does he wear that "Mare's Leg Deluxe" on his back with the lever facing out instead of in? That just makes it more awkward to draw off the back. At least he wears it in right-handed configuration. And he's right-handed. Compare and contrast with Ash Williams. It always irritates me when characters in movies, TV shows, or video games configure their gear contrary to their lateral preference. In Fallout: New Vegas, when characters are seen third-person (including the player character), they wear their gear right-handed. That's fitting since everyone's right-handed in the Fallout world. In Fallout 4, weapons worn on the back are slung left-handed for no reason. Why not give the player the option to make their character left-handed?! And don't get me started on right-handed characters wearing left-handed gas masks. Two examples of that are Krieg from Borderlands 2 and The Pyro from Team Fortress 2.
14:31 Notice how he wears his hat high on his head just like in Fallout: New Vegas.
This review is so bad, it is actually good; that’s rare👏
10 vials. Cooper was my favorite character in the tv show. Lucy my second and the dog my third
I don't know why but I assumed the vials where either Radaway or Jet (I know jet is red). Either way I didn't question it.
I don't know why I like the ghouls so much, but I think they're awesome
Well I reckon that I'm kinda parcel to the ghoul because I liked him in the justified show here in KY, so I'm gonna give him 10 vials
dude dont know shit about ghouls or fallout.
Yeah I was thinking the same. Just another person capitalizing on fo
On you're next video can you talk about arnim zola Oregon please
Big fan of fallout video games and TV you rock
Ive recently bought my first fallout game (4) and im trying to get as much info and lore as i can. If anyone can help out that would be great
I just listened to an explanation of ghouls from a source that knows absolutely nothing about Fallout.
Okay this makes no sense. They suffer from necrosis yet have regeneration? And who created the serum?
They suffer from partial necrosis. Upper layers of their skin is shed like snake's skin.
They need to do a Jonah Hex series similar to this show. Bloody and violent.🖤
Now that I think about it I wonder if the vault tec rep the one who you meet in fallout 4 I wonder if they could bring him in he seems like he would know some secrets of vault tec after all he knew that day was Dday he may know which vault the ghouls family was in
"fleshed out character". 😊
10/10 great character
Thaddeus is not a ghoul. I think he took fev
That anti-feral serum is probably modified Radaway created by, not Lucy's father, but one of his Vault scientists who secretly keeps ghouls as slaves. As even in a control Vault, you have gene-stock and labor problems. Haven't seen the show because not willing to waste money on Bezos's money fetish but am a Fallout fan.
Misinformation City!😊
the guns we rocks a rossi mare
No love for Raul?
Stephen kings gunslinger is better than
Oh? Coop is heartless because he became a ghoul? Not because he's been ALIVE for 200 YEARS in the apocalyptic wasteland??? How would your mind fare in this situation, hmm? Personally I would either become this guy, or be dead.
Anyone preacribed methadone can relate to a ghoul. 😂 Our green or red elixir
bruh you don't even know what you're talking about... either that or you tryin to bait comments like this here.. the ghouls you showed from the games are full on feral ghouls just like you see some ghouls turn into in the damn show itself.... it's not that the damn show directors frikkin "elevated" them in the series dude jeezus that was one of the worst and most incorrect explanations iv'e ever heard sorry xD
they're pretty much if not exactly the same in the show as they are in the games bruh the only thing i want to maybe see sometime in the show is a full on feral ghoul but that would probably be way too graphic/creepy even for that show idunno.. maybe they do an episode where the girl vault dweller (i don't remember her name) finds herself underground in like sewers or train tunnels somehow and now needs to sneak out maybe for halloween or something lol xD
but anyways.. if you go on to explain this later on in the video.. you're a bastard xD :q for having put it the way you did just mere seconds into the video.. and i'm not watching any more of this horseturd.. terrible, horrible start to the vid even if it was as a joke or something utterly stupid like that
Damn no spoilers warning wtf
450 dislikes. oh and if you want a better video about ghouls look up "ghoul lore" by radking. it's a good video
I came to get more info on the lore since I was enjoying the series, I DIDN"T come to get the season ender spoiled for me, damn fool!
The only fool is you😂
😂😂😂😂
Spoiler alert for those of you that get super upset and whiney about spoilers. Either way, take a breath. You’ll live. You’ll still enjoy the show. Calm down.
I'd guess the ghoul drug is like an Alzheimer's drug or something. Once you show signs of going feral, you still have options.
But he looks nothing like vault boy
This dude has no idea what he's talking about at all. There are whole communities of sentient ghouls throughout every single fallout game dating back to the first game
10 vials period.
If you actually knew your Fallout lore sir, you'd know there are many different types of ghouls. The ones you persistently refer to are known as Feral Ghouls. There are indeed many sentient ghouls throughout the Fallout franchise. Carry on. ;)
32s in and you are already very wrong which tells me the other 17min are not worth it
Sorry man, Fallout game franchise has been around for way too long and has had TONS of players for review videos of the Fallout show to include even a slight lack of research hahaha, unfortunate ;P
It’s Obvious that you’re not a gamer and not a fan of the series. You are doing this for the money on UA-cam 😢 I can’t even finish this video
This channel is the UA-cam equivalent of a yahoo email spam folder