Fallout's Mutant Bears (Yao Guai) Explained

[@FalloutLorecast]

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[@Sgt_Kane]

There was a chinese native girl in my class when I first started playing fallout. I asked her what Yao Guai meant and she simply said "You mean like monster?". I told her "yeah that explains it".

[@Historybuff_769]

I don't know why but I found this funny

[@jonaspete]

She is Taiwanese not Chinese

[@Sgt_Kane]

@@jonaspete are you stupid? You're trying to tell me about a girl I knew personally?

[@lihanchai154]

I found the name funny when I first encountered it. Like of all the things to name 'monster/demon' I'd think of the Deathclaw.

[@jackminel6055]

If i remeber correctly the native people are kust decendents of chinsese people

[@illegalclown]

I always assumed it was just a pun of Yogi Bear.

[@GrahamAstles]

Me too. It's a much better explanation.

[@TheBlackbaron95]

Exactly lol I called them yogis as a kid

[@Lordoftheapes79]

It is also that.

[@Grombrindal]

The whole Chinese language thing is kinda dumb. But here's the thing: it would probably just be called a Ghoul Bear or a Radbear

[@SatanicBarbeque]

​@@Grombrindal Ah yeah, why give them a dumb unique name when you can just give them a much cooler generic name that's used for multiple other non related creatures in the wasteland. Totally not the more dumb option.

[@brianmoyachiuz905]

Oh it's kinda like the word yokai where it's also loosely based on any strange creature as well

[@ArcaneLatte]

So if there were japanese prisoners instead of Chinese we would be calling these mutated bears Yokai

[@rexturbo10]

more like Kaiju since it means 'Strange Beast' originally

[@rexturbo10]

So YaoGuai is like the Chinese version of Kaiiju, for those who don't know Kaiju originally meant 'Strange Beast' same as YaoGuai

[@handznet]

That scene in the series was great. Serious and showing the fragility of being alone in the post nuclear world. Not even power armor is going to save you.

[@Quincy148]

Power suit can save you but the user is just a coward

[@chicotheworld9763]

@@Quincy148 tell em

[@wickid-the-rogue]

Jammie pull up the pipboy audio of that mutated bear mauling a rad scorpion

[@aquariandawn4750]

Csn you imagine replacing Three Dog with Joe Rogan? That would be a great mod

[@wickid-the-rogue]

@@aquariandawn4750 right him talking about bears for a hour would be dope

[@aquariandawn4750]

@@wickid-the-rogue Jamie pull up that footage of what happened down at the super duper Mart

[@wickid-the-rogue]

@@aquariandawn4750 and Jammie be like a ghoul or super mutant lol

[@wickid-the-rogue]

For sure a missed opportunity if never done be funny af

[@erikcarlsen2179]

Need a petition to make Robot the main radio host of the next fallout. Or even better would be a "Wasteland Stories" radio station where Robot is the host of a podcast type station.

[@hillaport]

Are they smarter than the average bear? Maybe not, but they're a heckuva lot more irradiated...

[@Mississippicommunistparty]

Риска was portrayed as a ghoulified bear and I put a 7.6k caps bounty for every claw I get from it.

[@ClumsEGirl]

Btw ruzka is pronounced roo-zka or Russian. Must have been a Russian circus bear before the Bombs? 😅

[@YOGI-kb9tg]

It is. You find it next to its circus ball

[@bhutwheyttherismor86]

Came here to say this. Rooz-ka not ruzz-kuh

[@Reefer-Rampage69]

@@YOGI-kb9tgThat’s actually really sad

[@OlliePattz]

who else recently found out about the podcast and just now finding the KZbin… hehe it’s time to binge 😏

[@MaddixCuhming]

Honestly the bear isn’t as scary as it should be. Death claws are way scarier and stronger in 4 and in 76 there’s so many other beasts but I feel like after 3 and Vegas they kinda fell off. No one fears the bear

[@BlackJacked]

The Dusky Yao Guai is on par if not actually stronger than every kind of deathclaw in the game

[@hiddendesire3076]

The sheer amount of stagger is terrifying even to Power Armor users in 4 and 76.

[@YoSuey]

Probably because you could see a Yao Guai within 5 minutes of leaving the vault and there's not many armors and special stats for items. They might even do more damage in FO3.

[@arktisch-humorgaming8993]

The fuck you saying fallout on very hard or survival you'll shit yourself

[@johnhoover8952]

Unless you're Knight Titus.

[@festig2139]

Legendary Ghoulified Giant Feral Yao Guai has entered the chat.

[@erniethomas8997]

Ghost of she is like the reverse version of smoky the bear..

[@raymondcarter1137]

Maybe Radbear was trademarked

[@CatchingDinosaurs]

I always kind of considered them a form of where-bear or where-wolf cross. That sort of thing exists in other Bethesda titles.

[@Chamuko99]

You know what, this was a fairly enjoyable video. I didnt expect to get lore (I just saw the title not Channel).... Was surprised by the length of video (pause), thought it was gonna be stretched out explanation of the name but no you actually brought bears from Fallout 3 - Fallout 76 Cool i didnt know about the quests in Fallout 3 n New Vegas with Yao Guais I didnt grt to that part. Cool

[@BadgerBlue]

Iv played off and on since launch of 76 and got back into it a few weeks ago, I didn't know anything about fluffy till this video but I ran into "son of fluffy" about a week and a half ago as a legendary random encounter. If that was a bug it was pretty impressive

[@E-Gaming-k1c]

I have an idea as to why Fluffy had the rad damage to him, what if he and the doctor both died before the war and after the bombs dropped it radiated Fluffy's corpse?

[@noneyabidness9644]

Saw a different type of ghost a week or so, ago. (Usually they're shadow people, or a tiny black spec about the size of a house fly. A 3D shadow not cast against a surface. Less frequently light balls/people.) But about a week or so back, the spirit, itself, was invisible. But it was interacting with a string of LED lights, dimming one, and casting a shadow of black flame. I tried waking up my wife to see it, as it was kinda cool. But she gasped when she awoke and the activity instantly ceased. Never seen a spirit cast a shadow, ever...never mind, a shadow of black flame.

[@VulpineFury]

Let's not forget the cultural nod of "Yogi Bear"

[@leefox5596]

Yao Guai is so cute, wanna tend to it's wounds

[@batmorrigan7616]

no two headed ones yet, come on ncr

[@kiyrinwillow4941]

When ever we cant explain somewhere new in the wastelands i just blame the enclave by default

[@renaigh]

so it's a title that can apply to any of the creatures in Fallout.

[@JetShanghai]

Hey I just found your channel and I'm enjoying your lore videos. What kind of microphone do you use? I am looking for something as crisp as yours.

[@julianf147]

I didn’t know polar bears was that big

[@Karle94]

Largest land carnivore on earth

[@laykni]

If you want a giant mutant bear in fallout 76 it would have to be like the great great grandfather of fluffy or something

[@YoSuey]

76, is the first game canonical.

[@Stalker-ph2ul]

"walking cloud" lol

[@HairryTurttleneck]

Cool video dude! I like it

[@KimcheeRacing]

I dunno if someone mentioned this in the comments already, but the Japanese word "Yokai" comes from "Yaoguai"

[@thetaeisenberg9902]

😮 love this video beautiful scenery where you from ofw ?

[@MegaCyberleader]

mutated grizzly bears

[@wilomica]

I am more curious about the naked mole rat. How does a species from Africa cover the Commonwealth etc?

[@AtomicUki]

yogi the bear come on

[@ZeceFackler]

What if something like the Chinese did something to create it and it's name is more hinting at the Chinese involvement for it. They where doing a bunch of stuff in fallout world.

[@tinmen5943]

I just called them yogi bears. Don't feed Yao gaui children

[@StoneFree-rr8cu]

In fallout 4 they look more terrorific

[@AndroidA258]

doing forget fallout 76 comes before all fallouts

[@mark-wh2yv]

It made sense to me, like a Chinese Easter egg joke...I guess I was wrong, everyone else had other ideas... ( Personally I think my misconception is funnier)... Oh well..lol

[@ethervagabond]

The whole origin of the Yao Guai name doesn't make sense. They were supposedly named by Chinese in internment camps BEFORE the Great War. But where were these mutated, irradiated bears coming from BEFORE the Great War, before the bombs dropped and irradiated everything? I mean, there are bears in China, it's not like Chinese people don't know what regular bears are and named them Yao Guai. So where did mutated bears come from before the bombs dropped?

[@KaosNova2]

In Fallout 3, they were described as being from Black Bears

[@elishafollet5347]

The copious amounts of nuclear waste that kept getting dumped into the wild was probably having some slight affects on the wild life long before the bombs fell

[@kenn4eyes]

Named by the descendants of Chinese prisoners HELD in those camps before the great war. They werent named before the great war

[@quanghuynguyenang8455]

Fallout New Vegas,, The only thing I think about Yao Guai... They have really good meat (no -1 STR) ... Any raw meat eaters here :D

[@ajflink]

Video game bears are assholes. Well, most.

[@therakshasan8547]

Bears do not live in deserts. All Fallout games in deserts didn't have bears. In 76 all the imaginative writers have been let go and those that replaced them just recolor and rename existing things .

[@theHedgex1]

People have enough trouble fighting me as Kuma in Tekken. I doubt they want to fight a gaint bear.

[@parapapapapa]

I really consider the theory of Fallout 76 being a huge simulation Because the amount of non-sense that happens in this game is unnatural to every other game

[@Grombrindal]

It's unfortunate that its all canon. That being said, MMORPGs require vast amounts of content even by RPG standards and Bethesda was obviously overwhelmed

[@Sir.InfinityTGK]

Outside of a little less care put into 76- Is Elder Scrolls Online any better? It’s the risk you run making open world RPG’s and wanting them to be that first over the source material. But with one hit-or-miss inarguable success already under the belt I can think (outside of corporate greed) that the ball was dropped on 76 because of its complex lore- setting- and Timeline. But fuck man- They did the TV show like no other.

[@erikcarlsen2179]

Should have been Radbear. Yao Guai makes zero sense. Why wouldn't wastelands remember what a bear was? Every other rad creature has an American name. Yao Guai makes sense in aFallout China game but not in a USA fallout game.

[@mr.chesthead3470]

Did you not watch the video? It's explained

[@erikcarlsen2179]

Did you read my comment? It makes zero sense for all of the creatures to have american names, yet this one has a Chinese name. I dont care if Chinese prisoners called them Yao Guai it still doesn't make sense that American wastelanders use a Chinese name.

[@mr.chesthead3470]

@erikcarlsen2179 why are Brahmin called Brahmin and not cows? They were taught that they're called brahmin after it caught on after the war, Yao guai is the same way. People were taught that they were called Yao guai after the name caught on with wastelanders, plus they don't exactly look like regular bears, so I'd understand if people thought they were different than bears, because they are.

[@erikcarlsen2179]

@@mr.chesthead3470 Brahman can be tied back to a Brahma Bull 100% american word.

[@mr.chesthead3470]

@erikcarlsen2179 how it's spelled is linked to India (brahmin). If you look it up, the breed is also Indian. Plus, that's a random ass breed, why would they remember that and not cow, huh?

[@omegaXjammur]

Oh, so Yokai but Chinese

[@elishafollet5347]

Not even a yokia just a large mutated bear, not much that really needed to be explained tbh

[@claygeez]

china

[@Mr.Murphy2]

Try writing a script next time. You go on these long rants that have nothing to do with the title of the video. Thank you.

[@dylanrooks1916]

I like his style script would ruin it

[@ClumsEGirl]

Firstttt

[@deathriderx1540]

im 100th liked!!!

[@dukenukem8381]

You have so much unnecessary filler that i used playback x2 and still couldn't get through the vid. Get to the point my dude.

[@dukenukem8381]

@poopyguitarist69 He constantly repeats himself not valuing viewers time. He is not really exposing the lore either.

[@dukenukem8381]

@poopyguitarist69 Have you seen picture galleries ? They are even shorter! 1 second!

[@Reefer-Rampage69]

@poopyguitarist69no he’s right. I watch long lore videos all the and this man keeps rambling, stuttering, laughing, and going off on tangents. This is not the kinda lore channel I want to watch

[@Reefer-Rampage69]

@poopyguitarist69I’ll stick to watching Radking or Synonymous

[@lucfxgambitgaming7494]

@poopyguitarist69 You're trying to berate someone using Duke Nukem pfp a game first released in 1991. Btw people can have videos recommended to them, thats why we're here. You actually have 2 INT stat just like the uploader.

[@teslapilot5755]

“We have to go to Wikipedia to find out …”. Yikes. 😳 as smart as going to your barber for medical advice

[@FalloutLorecast]

Interesting that you bring that up. Barbers used to do more than just cut hair. You could actually go to them for medical advice, especially in towns without physicians. Secondly, wikipedia is the most accurate encyclopedia of knowledge ever created. The requirements for accurate references and rigorous vetting process keep inaccuracies extremely low. The Excyclopedia Brittanica gathering dust on your grandma's shelf isn't anywhere near as accurate. If you don't believe me, look it up. There are studies.

[@teslapilot5755]

@@FalloutLorecast glad you are aware that barbers were the closest thing to a surgeon, some 200 years ago. But wikipedia is nowhere near a trustworthy source of information, as its crowdsourced. The recent kerfuffle about Yasuke coming to mind

[@FalloutLorecast]

@@teslapilot5755 You can cherry-pick examples where it fails, sure. No source is perfect. But there's more to it. Even the most critical of scientific reviews have shown that it's no less accurate than any other generally accepted source. The most favorable scientific reviews claim it tends to be more accurate. Again, look it up. The info is out there. Just because you can point at a big scary incident doesn't mean that those are most common. Most people are afraid of sharks more than bees, but bees kill 100 times more people every year. Same sort of thing.

[@teslapilot5755]

@@FalloutLorecast There's multiple instances where Wikipedia has been manipulated for propaganda. Even Wikipedia has its own article about it. While I aplaud them for the attempt at transparency, I must call you out for falling to normalcy bias. When I attended college, my professors told us that citing Wikipedia as a source would get us failed. I believe that's still the case. According to several translators I reviewed, 妖怪 does translate loosely to 'devil', 'djinn' or 'monster', as a composition of the words horrendous-being + strange/usual. In this case Wikipedia was on point.

[@MotoMoto-el2dy]

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