Summary
When it comes to adapting a video game series reliant on its enemy creature design, whether it’s Haloor the mythological beings in the live-action Witcher series, these become an important element to hit home with fans. Safe to say, Prime Video’sFalloutTV series nailed the assignment of adapting the game’s radioactive mutated monsters.
While there’s only a total of eight episodes in the show’s inaugural season, there’s still plenty of room for these creatures to take the spotlight and they come wonderfully reimagined in live-action. It may not be the most abundant variety you could hope for, but these are all the best ones so far.
7Radroach
Almost All Episodes
Radroaches invade probably every episode of the Fallout TV series, despite them not always attacking the main characters. They can show up anywhere and often appear in shots where they crawl around the walls of abandoned places. It makes sense, given how common they were before the war broke out, but now they’ve got some size to them thanks to the radiation.
The first Radroach attack happens in Episode Two when Lucy finally finds a spot to rest, and her fire attracts one. Luckily, escapee Dr. Siggi Wilzig and his dog companion arrive, and the dog swiftly takes care of the roach. The next sign of trouble with Radroaches comes in Episode Five, where Maximus gets overrun by them while in Power Armor and requires some rescuing.
6Yao Guai
Episode 2
Fallout’s brilliant radioactive mutated bear species, the Yao Guai, has been in the games sinceFallout 3and shows up at a pivotal plot point in the show. Maximus is a squire for The Brotherhood of Steel’s Knight Titus, played by Michael Rapaport, and the two have a run-in with a Yao Guai while searching for Siggi Wilzig.
The Yao Guai drags Knight Titus and manages to bite and tear into the Power Armor, with Maximus ultimately killing the creature but letting Titus die from his injuries to become a Knight himself. The design of the Yao Guai is pretty one-to-one with the game; the radioactive wounds, burnt flesh, and size and ferocity are all exceptionally featured.
5Super Mutant
Episodes 2 And 6
While you don’t see a Super Mutant in the wild like you would in a Fallout game, you do get a small tease of one in the show’s first season. It comes in a brief moment as Siggi is trying to get through a security checkpoint in the Enclave with his dog, with two scientists seen transporting a Super Mutant covered in a stretcher.
As they pass the checkpoint, the camera purposely focuses on the body that’s being carted off. You only see a hand sticking out from the covering, but it’s enough to convey that it belongs to a Super Mutant, given its more massive size and green coloration. You get the face reveal on a wanted poster in Episode Six. It seems the Enclave is doingsome experiments on Super Mutants with presumably the FEV, which hopefully is a sign of more to come from them.
4Feral Ghouls
Episode 4
There are more friendly Ghouls in the Fallout series, and then there are those who havebecome feral and attack friendlies when deprived of the drug RadAway. In Episode Four, the show’s protagonist, Lucy MacLean, finds out just why you shouldn’t release the feral form of Ghouls from containment cells.
In exchange for more RadAway, The Ghoul, who has Lucy, gives her up to have her organs harvested by a Mr. Handy robot unit inside a Super Duper Mart grocery store. Lucy narrowly escapes the attempt and forces the RadAway dealers to release their captive Ghouls, who, in turn, charge at them. The makeup on the Ghouls will also remind you of the zombies seen in The Walking Dead rather than in the games.
3Brahmin
Now for the most benevolent creature that could show up in the TV show. That would be the Brahmin, and it was featured for a brief cameo in Episode Two when Lucy arrives in Filly. As she passes by the wastelanders, one of them is herding a cattle with two heads.
The Brahmin here looks to be in much better shape from the radiation, seemingly almostlike normal livestockbut just with two conjoined heads. These are a beloved staple of every Fallout game, so it’s nice the show gave a nod to this creature. However, the games also show them as hostile and more visually graphic in the mutation department.
2Gulper
Episodes 3, 6, And 7
While the Yao Guai largely sticks to a familiar creature design from the games, the Gulper received a whole new concept in the show. The games feature many different types of Gulper enemy varieties, but the one created for the Fallout show can easily blow all of those out of the water.
This creature has a lighter pink coloration similar to the Scorched Gulper but with more axolotl-esque features around the face and, perhaps the most distinct,its mouth consists of human fingers instead of teeth. The Gulper fight is a pivotal set-piece in Episode Three, which happens between a Power Armored Maximus as well as between Lucy and The Ghoul. You later also see another Gulper in a Vault 4 containment tank.
1Deathclaw
Episode 8
Unfortunately, there was no Deathclaw fight like the Gulper one in the show. What you do get, however, is a tease that Deathclaws are coming. In the final moments of the finale, a close-up of a Deathclaw skull appears in the desert wasteland, marked by its horns, fanged teeth, and nose.
Deathclaws are another bio-engineered experiment courtesy of Enclave scientists and come in many forms. They’re probably the mostinfamously large and scary creature the Fallout series has to offer, so it’s no surprise that showrunners are delaying the payoff of these characters facing a live one.
