A Mysterious Fallout Season 2 Trailer Moment Teases A Big Reveal For Video Game Fans
"Fallout" is the best video game adaptation to date. This is a TV show that understands you can't expect to do a 1:1 remake of the story in a different medium. Instead, it adapts the world and the mythology of the beloved video game series while also creating an original story set in that world, occasionally featuring known characters but not making them the focus. That way there is no clash with the version of the characters that the audience has in their mind from their experience playing the game, there is no trying to please fans by trying to fit in every single plot point from the original story. Instead, "Fallout" can surprise even the most hardcore fans as they don't know where the show's story is going or what aspects of the game it will include.
Indeed, the main character of "Fallout" is truly its world, which not only looks lifted directly from the games, with spectacular production value, but is one very unique post-apocalypse. The retro-futuristic aesthetic, the practical sets and props, and the abundance of mutated creatures makes this a visually exciting and diverse universe, one that is always upping the ante in terms of introducing new dangers.
We know that "Fallout" season 2 will introduce what's without a doubt the most terrifying creature in the wasteland: The Deathclaw. Now, the latest trailer for season 2 seems to be teasing another big reveal for fans of the games. We don't see it, but around the 1 minute mark we hear a very deep voice that sounds a lot like a super mutant, one of the biggest enemies (and, at times, allies) in the game series.
Super mutants are hugely important to Fallout, and hard to do in live-action
"You're gonna need friends. There's a war coming," the unseen voice says in the latest trailer for "Fallout" season 2. Though not confirmed, the deep voice does sound fitting for a super mutant, who tend to be portrayed by actors with deep voices in the game.
Super mutants are an integral aspect of the "Fallout" universe. They're a powerful, threatening mutant enemy that fits the radioactive wasteland of the games, but they are also specifically flavored to the darkly comedic and anti-capitalist themes of the games. Unlike the ghouls, who are just regular humans exposed to radioactivity over long periods of time, the super mutants are people who were exposed to the "Forced Evolutionary Virus" which was created by a big defense contractor (the same one that created the power armor) as a way to create super soldiers. They are massively muscled, stronger than any human, and quite savage, though there are some super mutants that retain high intelligence.
The super mutants were created by the Master, a once-brilliant scientist who wanted to transform humankind for the post-nuclear world and create a world of mutants. Of course, like many big plans in the "Fallout" world, it went horribly wrong and the super mutants ended up becoming a mindless horde of brutes that terrorize the wasteland. One scene in the new "Fallout" season 2 trailer shows Hank MacLean (Kyle MacLachlan) conducting an experiment that accidentally explodes a mouse