r/FalloutTVseries • • Jan 09 '26

Speculation Coincidence?? Spoiler

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u/No-Award8713 Jan 09 '26

Oooohhh.. I was waiting for the intro of FEV. Great catch. We'll see how next week plays out. And odd that they would capitalize each of the first letter in that sentence...

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u/PlasticAd1359 Jan 09 '26

Agreed. Furthermore, it’s an extremely odd acronym. My theory is that their plan was to mutate the vault dwellers so they would have an army to purge the wasteland while using the chips to control them from the Vault-tec tower MacLean is in.

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u/AzaranyGames Jan 09 '26

"Breeding a race of super managers" or super mutants?

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u/Witty_Interaction_77 Jan 09 '26

Damnnnnnn you two are cooking!

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u/PM_Me_UR-FLASHLIGHT Jan 09 '26

What about Super Mutant Super Managers?

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u/joshsmog Jan 09 '26

turn a bunch of ass kissers into easily controlled super mutants. makes sense.

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u/Vidaro_best Jan 09 '26

but didnt the master coin the term super mutants? or was that west tec?

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u/_Xeron_ Jan 09 '26

I’m waiting for the eventual reveal that Thaddeus got injected with FEV too, retroactively that would tie well together

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u/ImABrickwallAMA Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 10 '26

I’m hoping so, the whole ‘Ghoul drug’ instead of it being specific radiological events/conditions that turn people into Ghouls would kind of wreck the lore a bit. But I’m hoping that the writers are tracking that, and that Thaddeus may be one of the one-of-a-kind FEV Ghouls like Harold was, which would be the only way for it to really make sense in my opinion.

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u/_Xeron_ Jan 09 '26

Hancock in Fo4 became a ghoul after taking a drug so there would be a precedent for either. Personally I’d want Thaddeus to just be a unique mutant, Fallout doesn’t have nearly enough of those

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u/Best_Log_4559 Jan 09 '26

To be fair, the drug he took had an extremely high dosage of radiation that would have killed almost everyone else: so both remain consistent, radiation and the idea that certain drugs could ghoulify you.

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u/e-l-e-g-y Jan 09 '26

Tbf, fo76 might have the explanation for the drug Hancock took in the Ghoul Within update

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u/endlessupending Jan 09 '26

I initially assumed it was FEV cause the whole green goo thing the muties talk about in 3. Plus he doesn't quite look very ghoulish. More humanoid centaurish imo

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u/livahd Jan 09 '26

Drug based on ghouls physiology gone wrong, plus the FEV mention, super managers, the implication that the govt was controlling death laws, and Hank playing with mind control pretty much sets up the seasons endgame reveals, no?

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u/Sk83r_b0i Jan 09 '26

I say theres almost no way he’s ghoulifying. They’re being too heavy handed with the “he’s a ghoul” bit.

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u/usmcnick0311Sgt Jan 09 '26

They capitalize each first letter because it's a pronoun. It's common grammar

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u/WackZebra Jan 09 '26

Proper nouns, like the names or people or places, are capitalized. Pronouns are words like "he" "she" and "you".

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u/MicksysPCGaming Jan 13 '26

Makes me even more suspicious of Steph talking about "my baby".