Fans have been patiently waiting for Fallout Season 2 to introduce one of the games’ most iconic monsters. Now, the Prime Video show just answered a major Deathclaw mystery that players never got proper answers to.
The Fallout series set up the introduction of New Vegas and Deathclaws at the end of the first season when Hank (Kyle MacLachlan) stomped by one of the monsters’ skulls on his way to the iconic location from the games.
The first four episodes of Fallout Season 2 have seen Lucy (Ella Purnell) and the Ghoul (Walton Goggins) making their way to the city in search of Hank, and fans are already loving seeing elements from the 2010 New Vegas game making it into live action. There’s also been plenty of speculation in the last few months that Bethesda is working on remastering Fallout 3, and a fresh report also claimed that a New Vegas remaster is also in development.
But Fallout Season 2 Episode 4 also finally brought Deathclaws into live action, and their first appearance may have answered a key mystery about the war that took place before the nuclear apocalypse.
Fallout Season 2 confirms that Deathclaws were deployed as weapons during the war
Fallout Season 2 confirms that the US Government used Deathclaws in the Sino-American war. Episode 4 kicks off with a flashback to Cooper Howard (Walton Goggins) fighting on the Alaskan Front when he’s wearing the T-45 Power Armor while fighting the Chinese soldiers. However, Coop ends up on the floor when his Power Armor malfunctions (remember how he chewed out Bud Askins for the flaws in the armor in Season 1?) and it looks like he’s about to get killed by the enemy.
However, he hears a terrifying roar and sees a hulking figure emerge in the background with giant horns and claws which rips its way through the Chinese soldiers before they can finish him off. Fans already knew that the creatures were developed as a bioweapon before the war erupted, but it was never revealed whether they were actually deployed in battle.
Now, thanks to Fallout Season 2, we know that Deathclaws were let loose as a weapon against the Chinese. However, this still leaves more questions to be answered. Were they being controlled by the device that Robert House (Justin Theroux) was tinkering with? Did the government release them with the intention of catching them again, or were they just left alone afterwards? The games confirmed that some of the Deathclaws escaped from laboratories when the bombs were dropped, which is why they’re running wild across the wasteland.
Cooper/The Ghoul appears to know more about the monsters than he’s letting on at the end of the fourth episode, but his main priority is obviously not getting killed when one of them emerges from the Gomorrah Hotel and Casino. Fans will just have to be patient to see how he and Lucy kill (or escape) the terrifying creature.
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