Fallout’s Ghoul Origins & Anatomy Explored - How Radiation Created A Breed Of New Mutated Beings?
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 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.
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
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 😂
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
Best line next to the sardine eating line
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.
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?
Sentient ghouls have appeared as major characters in every Fallout game. The guy who made this video has never played them.
Yeah he literally refers to feral ghouls as just simply “ghouls” which is misleading. A ghoul is someone who hasn’t gone feral yet
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
@@WolfManStillPlays 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.
I think that even if you hate this show you got to agree that Goggins did a bang up job portraying this character
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
I can tell you never played any fallout game, especially not fallout 1 & 2
I just listened to an explanation of ghouls from a source that knows absolutely nothing about Fallout.
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 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
@@WolfManStillPlays 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.
How can I even trust this video when the narrator obviously doesn’t even know the source material
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 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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Just going to point out Harold isn't technically a ghoul, just a mutant
A ghoul able to knock back a power suit with a kick seems ridiculous.
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.
not every ghoul is a feral goul. its not specfic to the show for ghouls to retail their humanity
Ghouls maintain their sense of self until they go feral
I never played the game. As a non player, I thought this show was great.
dude dont know shit about ghouls or fallout.
Yeah I was thinking the same. Just another person capitalizing on fo
@@williampike6813Yup I can't see something tells me he plagiarism
yea, we know much more than he does!
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
Having never played the game - only watching the series - I'm convinced that Waltin Goggins was the perfect choice to play the Ghoul. Absolutely the most convincing character in the show and infinitely entertaining
I've watched several videos on the origin of Cooper "The Ghoul." One thing that no one has yet to explain about The Ghoul has really been bothering me.
The Ghoul has been supposedly buried for 200 years. Basically, since the apocalypse started and the bombs were dropped. Obviously, he took his daughter Janey somewhere safe, or perhaps something else happened. I can wait until this is likely revealed later in the series.
What's bothering me is Ghoul Cooper's reputation, which precedes his 200-year internment. It's obvious that nearly everyone in the Fallout world is not only familiar with him but, at the very least, has heard the plethora of stories about him. Furthermore, many people had interactions with him and know him well because of it. Most people seem to fear him. Many hate him, but he still seems to have some allies from before his 200-year hiatus, yet after the beginning of the apocalypse.
So, if Cooper the Ghoul has been buried since the beginning of the apocalypse, how does he have so much history with so many different people in such a short time-frame?
The Ghoul was a bounty hunter and had obviously been searching for his family back then, too, if they were already separated at that time. Nonetheless, for Cooper, the Ghoul to have had this much influence over the post-apocalyptic population, he must have been alive or at least not buried for many years.
Something isn't right time wise with the events in Cooper's story.
I can tell you never played a fallout game by your description of ghouls
He's an OP character. Marines get more dangerous the older we get. He's more than 200 years old. I can't even imagine what's in his head.
Not a gamer but I binged the series- brilliant production loved it
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.
“I’d offer you one of these cherry tomatoes, but you got a hole in your neck” The Ghoul🍅
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
If you can save a ghoul with serum, then I wonder why Moldaver didn't attempt to save Lucy's mom? Cleary she would have known about the serum. And, why wouldn't Cooper try to transplant a new nose? Finally, if Thaddeus is a ghoul now, and can almost regenerate his foot, then is his nose going to fall off too? So many ghoul related questions left unanswered.
I would say IF there was a second season, but we all know there will definitely be a second season...
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.
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
I now understand why the tower didn't want to let Ghouls in. If that is the case. I would never allow a Ghoul in my town.
Why ignore their 200 years worth of knowledge? Simply add extra security & make sure the Ghouls are aware of that when they show signs of going feral, they can be quickly isolated peacefully & let them spend the remaining time alone with some dignity.
Thaddeus is turning into s Super Mutant, not a ghoul
Makes me wanna become a ghoul like shit look what people doing nowadays
Sir, there are a lot of pre and post war ghouls with their minds intact in the games.
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.
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.
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.
6:59 - BIG FART killed him 😂
That scene minus getting shot....
i hope we see Super Mutants in season 2
particularily Marcus (voiced by Michael Dorn again)
Eddie Winter. The Ghoul Nick Valentine hunts down to seek revenge for the human Nick Valentine whose identity he is.
Those bombs went off underground. They didn't fall.
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.
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.
Oh no! I would not want to live that long for a vendetta.
What if the liquid is the weird liquid that comes from infectious wounds with a bunch of other nutrients and minerals
I cant wait for Season 2😬 Pls release it faster!!!🙏
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.
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
"The goul" sure reminds me alot About Valentine
So if he can’t regenerate body parts what was his old boss cutting off him?
I'm betting the yellow serum is FEV.
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.
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!
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.
There are at least TWO glowing ones who are NOT feral AHZ from kiddy kingdom from nuka world in fallout4 and jason bright in new vegas there is more to ghouls than just radiation FEV has a role to the process as well
Hes like a cross between, dead pool, red skull from marvel and vekna with a hint of babayaga aka john wick for me anyway😂
Awesome show!😎👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Dayum the World was beautiful before the Nukes
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.
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
Im pretty sure Thadeus is a Super Mutant not a Ghoul…
Ten vials! I love the character and would watch a whole show dedicated to Coop.
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.
Group census after watching first season most people would rather be killed in the start than any of the other options?
Ghouls are playable character type in Fallout game ;)
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
10 vials. Cooper was my favorite character in the tv show. Lucy my second and the dog my third
Big fan of fallout video games and TV you rock
eeeeh wrong. If you follow the game series, Fallout 4, ghouls are NPC as well, there are several different types of ghoul, the first type you mentioned, those who have been out in the waste for a looong time and then those who are still human.
They need to do a Jonah Hex series similar to this show. Bloody and violent.🖤
This review is so bad, it is actually good; that’s rare👏
looks more like skeletor
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.
Ghouls have always existed as intelligent beings in all fallout games.
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.
Vault boy have that protagonist Doug and gave huge potential to steal the show
Fallout 4 was very similar to the shows only difference i see is the yellow syrum
On you're next video can you talk about arnim zola Oregon please
the guns we rocks a rossi mare
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
Does anyone knoe how long he was in the coffin for roughly?
"fleshed out character". 😊
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