

However, this ultimately creates a bootstrap paradox, as destroying Vault 13's water chip ensures the Chosen One's own birth many years into the future. By traveling back in time, the Chosen One kicks off the events of the original Fallout during this event. This lead to the founding of Arroyo, the settlement where the Chosen One would be born. Many of the other Vault 13 residents are angered by the Overseer's decision and follow the Vault Dweller out into the wasteland anyways. The Dweller's tales of the world outside the Vault could inspire the others to leave, so they must banish the person who saved their lives. Though the Vault Dweller would succeed, they are considered too dangerous to be let back inside the Vault. In Fallout, the failure of Vault 13's water chip is the motivating event behind the Vault Dweller being allowed to leave the vault, searching for a replacement part. RELATED: Fallout 76's Haunting Mothman Cryptid, Explainedįor anyone familiar with the story of the original Fallout, destroying the water chip has some pretty huge ramifications. Star Trek fans are intimately familiar with this masterpiece episode, and Fallout fans were surprised to find the time portal McCoy used in Fallout 2. In the episode, Chief Medical Officer Leonard McCoy accidentally injects himself with a heavy dose of a lethal drug and beams himself down to an unknown planet, where he accidentally teleports to the 1930s and changes history. The City on the Edge of Forever is easily one of Star Trek: The Original Series' most iconic episodes. In fact, a pretty clever one in Fallout 2 actually pays homage to Star Trek.

Plenty of fans know about the Wild Wasteland perk in Fallout: New Vegas, though that perk actually serves to be more of a reference towards the crazy secrets and references in the first two Fallout games, but fewer are familiar with the many tongue-in-cheek jokes and references from the first two games.

The Falloutseries is known for having some pretty out-there easter eggs that go deep into the world of sci-fi, with many of these references feeling incredibly out-of-place in the world's post-apocalyptic setting.
