Top 10 Most Evil Fallout Characters Ranked From Bad to Very, Very Bad

It’s hard for an evildoer to stand out in the radioactive sea of wrong'uns that is the Fallout series, so a round of applause for these folks who are the 10 most evil characters in Fallout history, ranked from bad to very, very bad, according to us. Subscribe for more videos like this from Outside Xbox!
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[@FuriousMaximum]

Pickman needs to be swapped out for Eulogy Jones. Pickman specifically targets Raiders. Eulogy Jones puts bomb collars on kids.

[@MikadoYuma]

Yeah, and Pickman probably saved more lives than he took. If we're going on basic morality, he is an antihero.

[@nostanater1]

The guy is just an artist

[@dynastywolf2201]

Who likes kids anyways

[@sonofthaemas]

exactly

[@gamervet4760]

I always let Pickman go. He's disturbed by trauma as his art pieces are a response and a callback to that trauma. I doubt he'll ever hurt a settler or a farmer. He knows his targets have less humanity than a mirelurk. Which is why he's so inhumane with them.

[@Cyrus_T_Laserpunch]

The things that make Cook-Cook pure evil are so bad that OutsideXbox could not explain it all or this video would become VERY demonetized.

[@kattastic9999]

To anyone who doesn't know, yes it's what you're afraid of it being. Yes, even _that._ There are very few survivors of his attention, and every one of them will literally pay you if you let them know you killed him.

[@alexmartinez5859]

Dear God! Just a look through the wiki and I know that if I ever play New Vegas, that’s number one on the list of people who should be forgotten as Yes-Man says.

[@Cthulhuwarlord]

@@alexmartinez5859just don’t damage the head so you can get paid for your troubles

[@TomDarkwulf87]

There's a reason he has "very evil" level karma

[@amoose8439]

VEEEEERY demonetized

[@brownbear6123]

The stuff that happened in Nipton was actually worse than described. There were a few people that were beheaded (the "lucky losers"), then there were the crucifixions, the mayor was burned on a pile of tires, third place winners got drug off as slaves, and there is one guy in the trading post. He got to live as the second place winner, but they crippled his legs. The guy you meet on the way in is just the only guy who got to live with no violent repercussions. Oh, I also forgot that anyone who resisted was shot.

[@tinyfistm.2607]

Heh, my first time through, I saw this powder ganger running at me, and of course I quickdrew-killed him. Heh. Oops. So much for 'winning'.

[@daviddaugherty2816]

It's worth noting that Vulpes Inculta, the mastermind behind that is in the very exclusive _New Vegas_ Very Evil Club(tm) alongside Mortimer and Cook-Cook.

[@Mistwolfss]

But Mortimer is suuuuch a nice guy.

[@UrpleSquirrel]

Also, he straight-up lies when he told you no one fought. There's evidence of people who fought all over the town. If he actually believed in Caesar's philosophy, he wouldn't need to lie about it, now would he?

[@Josiahiswatching]

Never got his name. You see guys wearing uniforms walking calmly through that town in that state well nothing for it but thump-thump to say hello

[@opossumqueen4524]

I would also add Eulogy Jones, the guy that runs Paradise Falls, since he buys and sells slaves.

[@daviddaugherty2816]

Metzger, the slaver boss in Fallout 2 was really bad, too.

[@allhandsondik7803]

Shocked he's not on here, him and Cook-Cook were the 2 characters that immediately came to mind.

[@blacksheepindefinitely2264]

Eh Eulogy isn't Evil. Jk

[@thatguy9154]

Doc morbid.

[@supersuede6493]

also would add The Master. Literally want to kidnap and force you to become a mutant monstrosity

[@lauraanne341]

As soon as Andy said 'at least he never put an explosive collar on someone', KZbin cut to an advert of someone wearing one of those pet collars they get after the vets. It felt eerily relevant

[@empath69]

Google *used* to have the motto of 'Don't be evil'...but they withdrew it...hmmmm...

[@keithpanton7486]

We definitely need a boss of a social media company as a main villain in fallout 5.

[@AndyD773]

Now that’s not fair to Braun, Andy. He has plenty of regard for other people’s suffering … he just regards it with glee

[@marhawkman303]

yes, it's not callous disregard... it's gleeful enjoyment.

[@lucutes2936]

Wgat

[@WrathOfGrapesN7]

A list of 10? Me thinks that somebody's spent too much time around radiation and has sprouted an extra 3 entries 😂

[@marhawkman303]

I'm surprised he was able to get it down to ONLY 10.

[@alexanderchalk6197]

Too much vault tech evil to keep to 7

[@landonletterman831]

"Every Overseer that knew what they were doing," would make a staggering list, by itself

[@FYAjibber000]

It's because that NPC left the show

[@Zepplin76]

It was a +3 entries perk

[@lycanthrochick]

"Try to be more open minded" says the guy who refuses to believe synths can be sentient

[@oliviawolcott8351]

that charter school reminds me of actual tests done on orphans where they were fed radioactive laced food.

[@codydoxey2497]

Sierra Madre and father Elijah makes him Sierra Padre

[@naughtycicero1460]

Boooooooo

[@sorenkarna2619]

@@naughtycicero1460😂

[@CedricPETIEU-hh3tk]

A second video is needed. A lot of characters are evil in Fallout.

[@Jonas-lj8ul]

Yeah, bad is neither rare or undermanned in the wasteland....

[@somejerkbag]

I imagine there will be a commenters edition

[@caesarspeaks]

Dermot and St James

[@somejerkbag]

Myron...

[@doctorspindash2.086]

What about that bullets? Guy in fallout 4. He wanted to enslave an entire family and even a kid

[@Jonathon_Hennessey]

The Enclave come to mind as a very evil Fallout faction. In both of their appearances in Fallout 2 and Fallout 3, they have attempted to commit genocide against the people living in the wasteland on the justification that they are the only genetically pure humans left after the apocalypse happened.

[@weneedaladder8384]

The Fallout games really going back to the 'ol "genetic purity" well. There's the enclave in 2 and 3, the BoS in most games, the institute in 4. I'm not sure about NV but I think genetic purity is what Father Elijah was going for.

[@nonamegiven202]

Funny thing is In 2 they failed in their plans of killing EVERYONE who didn't take the inoculation (so all their pure human talk was just BS anyways). in 3 they failed because Eden was butt hurt they chose not to do that genocide plan. Meanwhile in 76 where they DID finally do a regional genocide, and it was all by accident because one dude really wanted to nuke china again just to be sure. They're really are Saturday morning cartoons level of villains

[@daviddaugherty2816]

I wouldn't count Fallout 3 and 2 as separate games, there. After you find your dad, it's just the plot of Fallout 2 over again.

[@Cthulhuwarlord]

@@weneedaladder8384he wants to wipe out the legion and NCR and start anew. Not sure if he has a after plan because nothing about it is mentioned if you do the secret ending for dead money where you join him in taking the Mojave

[@zacharyreed5318]

@@weneedaladder8384 I'd say they rarely use the genetic purity thing. Sure the Enclave does it, the BoS (besides Lyons and Maxon since they actively recruit outsiders) is more that it originated from its founders not being able to trust outsiders not to stab them in the back Elijah wasnt he just wanted to create a utopia but that utopia would come at the cost of everyone else The Institute though are just saturday morning cartoon villain's level of bad writing. no reason given why they are hostile towards the surface or why they created synths. If the synths started as something like 'human cybernetics have a hard limit before the body fails and we needed to go from the robot side to find a work around' and it got out of hand or going all in on 'we wanted slaves who wouldnt be able to (usually) fight back and wouldnt give us cancer by just standing next to us' would be better

[@DMBLaan]

For those who don't know, Pickman is a reference to a reoccurring character in HP Lovecraft's works, Richard Upton Pickman, first seen in "Pickman's Model", later turned into a Ghoul (the Lovecraft kind, not Fallout) of high standing.

[@archerelms]

There's a lot of Lovecraft in Fallout 4

[@nineblackgoats]

Pickman's Model is my favorite Lovecraft story and I love how they explored the theme of madness through him in Fallout.

[@silentassason]

​@@archerelmsthere's a lot of Lovecraft in all of fallout lol

[@IkeFanBoy64]

I've said this for years, but I think Pickman would've made an amazing companion

[@MonsieurMcRib]

Here goes Andy again with his anti-cannibal bias. If I'm not supposed to eat people in the Wasteland, then why is it a perk?

[@LiquidusSnakeX]

Ass jerky don't make itself.

[@vladimirlestrad3120]

Sometimes a fellas gotta eat a fella.

[@AsbestosMuffins]

ya and why am I granted godlike powers for eating the 3 leaders of the NV factions!

[@qiff6667]

4 leaders ​@@AsbestosMuffins

[@gigiroelant7299]

If the show being good wasn't enough, making fallout relevant enough again for more oxbox lists is icing on the cake.

[@eduardoarmenta9232]

What about the fact that now there's a real chance the next Fallout could be developed by Obsidian instead of Bethesda (I don't think that had any realistic prospect until now that Xbox announced they want to speed up its development and Bethesda might be to busy for that). This could be the biggest impact the show ends up having

[@notsospecialk362]

Ox Box

[@Undivided_X]

​​@@eduardoarmenta9232 I just hope Josh Sawyer is involved as a lead director. We saw what happened with Outer Worlds. A good game, but also somewhat disappointing.

[@Cthulhuwarlord]

@@eduardoarmenta9232most of the studio that made new vgas retired or moved to a different company. Obsidian is not the same as it was when they made new vegas

[@redencarnacion]

A certain character from the Fallout show can fit in this list.

[@MunchKING]

I mean to be fair to Shaun, everyone else in Fallout 4 makes you wipe out all the other major factions too.

[@lugi25]

Fr. He wasn't that evil.

[@purrosie4742]

Well, except for the minutemen. The only wiped faction there is the institute.

[@MunchKING]

@@purrosie4742 I thought after the story they then made you put a bunch of cannons everywhere and you blew up the Brotherhood.

[@purrosie4742]

@@MunchKING That's entirely optional. The only faction that's mandatory to wipe out during a minutemen run is the institute. Which is really ironic considering the minutemen are supposed to be the "backup" faction that'll never hate you and let you get an ending where literally every other major faction is ash.

[@brendan9868]

I personally don’t care about how it ends as everyone but the minutemen makes you just go scorched earth on 2 factions, but Shaun absolutely should be here based on what he’s done over the years. It was him who approved of kidnapping, experimentation, killing and replacing of wastelanders, including children. He also approved of mass slaughters of settlements and is responsible for the original minutemen’s attempt at setting up a government failing. Worst part is that nothing he’s even done has even made sense. Everything they have at their disposal and they’ve all decided to dedicate their lives to making fancy robots that they claim don’t even have thought or feeling, which really begs the question of why make them then and what was it all for.

[@daviddaugherty2816]

No Myron? He not only invented jet (sorry Bethesda, it's not pre-war), pretty much single-handedly giving a significant portion of the wasteland a crippling drug addiction and giving the Mordinos (one of the worst factions in Fallout 2) significant levels of power over the neighboring communities. He also developed jet by doing _a lot_ of lethal human experimentation on slaves, and it's made very clear he doesn't care about them in the slightest. In the end he mostly did it all just to prove his superiority and also get laid.

[@MadSwedishGamer]

He also sexually assaults you if you play as a woman.

[@SilverionX]

The big bad in Fallout 2 is probably the worst character in all of the Fallout games.

[@yeetthechild7767]

Another thing to add, if you play as a female character with an END stat of 5 or lower, he’ll drug and take advantage of you.

[@rocketman544]

I activated Tranquility Lane's fail-safe and left Braun in there without a second thought. Also, no characters from Fallout or Fallout 2? Dick Richardson (mister 'let's kill every non-mutated being in the world') comes readily to mind.

[@chrisworsley8836]

If you are thinking of doing another one of these lists, I'd recommend Dixie from the Fallout 4 Nuka World DLC. The Holotapes of her baiting settlers and then murdering them are proof she's pure evil masked in "Southern Charm"... Oh, and the head of the Gourmands in Fallout 76 (as if you could get Andy to play 76 long enough to get the footage) Dude literally started eating his own people because he got bored, then got kicked out, hid in a cave, ate his own wife, then became a wendigo. He's that evil.

[@connorgordon652]

Pickman isn’t a bad guy…..he’s helping stop raiders in his own unique way

[@funki4896]

Unironically I think there are dozens of characters that should have made the list instead of him. The entire Disciples faction is more evil - they basically do the exact same things as Pickman but their victims are innocent people and not raiders...

[@allhandsondik7803]

​@funki4896 the fact that a vigilante with a wierd hobby got on here over the owner of a slaver dynasty in Eulogy Jones, is absolutely wild.

[@OscarGomez-hg8cb]

@@allhandsondik7803I was about to say that I’m not sure if eulogy jones is a character rather than a named mook, but then I remembered I’ve never actually tried talking to the slavers, so he might be XD

[@allhandsondik7803]

@OscarGomez-hg8cb he's awful, I play 3 mainly as a bad guy, so i work with him a lot, and he will accept you selling Brian Wilks (the kid who's dad died to ants) to him for like 300 caps., and will enlist you to enslave the youngest kid in Little Lamplight, and when he asks you to, he'll say "the kids will serve as long lasting labor, and POSSIBLE BREEDING STOCK". Dude deserved a spot and a high spot on here.

[@acooldog4959]

ok you got me, even in a most goodie goodie run if i see a skill book marked red you know i'm having it anyway

[@kalengell1871]

Sorry, I’m gonna do it… Father Elijah is the former Brotherhood of Steel Elder, not just a mere scribe.

[@Crocogator]

It's me. I'm replaying FO4 with a full luck/charisma/endurance build. Her name is Mother. And she has the cannibal perk. I brought you into this world. I can put you back where you came from.

[@thedj9553]

That's psychotic and I love it

[@Crocogator]

@@thedj9553 Strong loved that.

[@notmousse]

Still a runner up.

[@Bruced82]

Good news, we're all on this list as nr 2.

[@Crocogator]

@@notmousse you mean the Mother that stepped up.

[@yuyutubee8435]

6:42 I just noticed that Caesar looks like Gunther from Friends, the madman. 😂

[@jeffersontheskull9687]

Dean Domino from dead money which is odd as he’s a companion. Not only does he try to kill you if he thinks your actually capable and doesn’t have something to hold over you but he’s pretty remorseless about how he was trying to ruin Sinclair simple because he was being positive after losing money. Even worse is while never explicitly confirmed, the terminals in the dlc talk about Mr yesterday which sounds like a nickname for dean which reveals him to be in charge of the shoddy construction of the villa and at least partially responsible for the Cloud getting so bad.

[@sarafontanini7051]

its so weird how not killing him is almost played as a good thing

[@kingedwin]

Lanius' solution for everything is killing everyone, making the victory of Ceasar's Legion worse with him than with Ceasar.

[@Dracinard]

Though Caesar does have terminal brain cancer, so Caesar taking over the Mojave is just Lanius taking over the Mojave with extra steps.

[@daviddaugherty2816]

@@Dracinard If I recall, you have to fix Caesar to get his endings.

[@lafken2]

But the Legion wouldn't exist without Caesar; he facilitated people like Lanius and Vulpes to have a lot of power and used their violence as strategic tools. Just a thought

[@MartynWilkinson45]

Caesar knew what he was building wouldn't survive him by long. He could have done something about that, but decided that building a strong ideology with a skilled and respected successor was harder than just raping his slaves and letting it all fall.

[@bw7754]

@@Dracinardjust make arcane Gannon his personal doctor, tumor removed and Arcane is miserable. Everyone wins

[@kjell1979]

I'd nominate Clint from Fallout 4. He betrayed the Minutemen which created the Quincy Massacre which culminated in a bunch of settlers and minutemen being burned in the middle of the city.

[@TheAzulon]

And also indirectly caused you to meet Preston Garvey, which is a crime on itself.

[@tubensalat1453]

@@TheAzulon Another settlement needs your help.

[@kjell1979]

@@TheAzulon And Marcy Long

[@LordRefa]

Forgetting that Fallout 1 and 2 exist.. What about Frank Horrigan? He was a bad dude even before he was a super mutant. Master is debatable. But yes. Definitely pretty evil.

[@gathenhielm9977]

The Master at least had good intentions and he turns out to be a pretty reasonable guy if you point out the flaws in his plan.

[@A_N1ne]

Frank Horrigan the only Boss in all of Fallout you can't reason with/join. nooo he's total a good guy and in no way a bad guy

[@Stotfish]

Frank Horrigan. He's not evil. He's simply a misunderstood genetically engineered total homicidal maniac cyborg.

[@LordRefa]

I was thinking and going to say the same but then I thought some of their ideas were a bit nazi. 😅

[@ThatOneGuyYouSaw15]

My money is on president Richardson trying to wipe out most life on earth...again

[@kalythai]

What about George in New Vegas? He makes a 300 caps bet with you that if you can cross the artillery field, he will double your money. If and when you successfully cross the field and return to him, he admits that you are the only one who actually was able to cross the field. Now imagine how many people he sent to their death for a 300 cap bet.

[@myopickid4180]

Just "Lie" and send him to the artillery field after that

[@michaelcreech8957]

i mean he hangs around and warns everyone that comes along he's not forcing people to go just "oh yeah I bet you cant" you can tell him no

[@lolbit1232]

That’s not evil? He actively tells you not to walk there cause the artillery but the people who take the bet are just stubborn or to damn stupid to listen to his warning, so why not profit of stupid?

[@teddylyon1189]

If cook-cook isn’t on here than there’s a problem

[@K1lla513]

I swear i came to the comments for this😂

[@TrickyTalon23]

He’s gotta be number 1

[@moonlightingjam]

I had my fingers on the keyboard ready to write a comment if he wasn't on the list. A lot of Fallout characters are just cartoonishly evil, but Cook-Cook is downright nasty and not in a funny way.

[@ProfessorChaos56]

@@moonlightingjam For a character so over the top evil, Cook-Cook is played horrifyingly strait.

[@FnRenner]

A dime a dozen raider leader? After Nuka World? Nah, dawg. Pass

[@Ashtarte3D]

How could you guys miss Frank Horrigan? The man was a complete psychopath with the body of a super mutant in goddam power armor. The guy was so vicious and brutal that he gave PTSD to Enclave soldiers helping out his extermination missions because he was just that depraved.

[@mjvdg4194]

Mr. House picks up a lot of points for being a functionally immortal megacapitalist who seeks the removal of anyone who doesn’t serve his purpose.

[@machscga6238]

Capitalism isn't evil, its the freedom and dignity of society. Only people with pretend degrees in political philosophy have this hate on for Capitalism

[@W00dstockSJ]

3. President Dick Richardson 2. The Master (aka Richard Grey) 1. Frank Horrigan

[@AwesomeWookiee]

This is Frank Horrigan erasure. Otherwise 10/10.

[@daviddaugherty2816]

I don't know, he's mostly a Mr. Burke style henchman. I'd give his spot to President Richardson. He's the one that wants to kill everyone in North America with an FEV plague, and unlike that ripoff Eden, can actually get everyone. Horrigan was mostly a... murder enthusiast.

[@huwguyver4208]

Now I know the alternate-timeline story of Talkie Toaster from Red Dwarf. Who knew he had it in him to become a New Vegas supervillain?

[@lardman7667]

Pft, Pickman is practically a superhero of the wasteland.

[@silentassason]

If Pickman doesn't kill innocents then he's basically a mixture of Punisher and Dexter

[@patrickoeary1425]

im suprised we havent seen a single charecter from fallouts 1&2.

[@kcollier2192]

I'd say most members aren't old enough to have played either when they first came out... I, on the other hand 😄

[@gathenhielm9977]

President Dick Richardson is arguably worse than anyone on this list. Dude's plan was to wipe out 99.9999% of humanity.

[@zombiedoe3404]

the master is a fairly obvious one. a (short sighted) genocidal eugenicist who gets a kick out of absorbing peoples brains

[@alexbruce9499]

The Oxbox team aren't all that familiar with them, and the gameplay isn't particularly well-suited to video content. Still, I was waiting for The Master or Frank Horrigan to show up. If they were more ambitious then maybe Gizmo as a more obscure choice with a talking head animation.

[@OtakuD50]

Most evil thing in Fallout 1 was the coding. Foil an assassination attempt on a sheriff? The sheriff and his guards shoot you down. Miraculously protect a mayor during an uprising against a rogue mercenary army? Mayor decides he's done living and aggros you. Want to do any kind of infiltration? You better not have any allies, especially your dog. Completely shut down the means of producing a race of super mutants? The ending just decides to ignore that little detail.

[@dummy_vicc2976]

I feel like the toaster should be replaced with thomas hildern, the ncr scientist who's sent about a dozen people to their death for the promise of caps, except he'll only pay you 1200 caps even if you succeed at the quest. Also he'll try to avoid telling you that he's sent other people in, and avoids giving a clear answer when you press him on it, so it's entirely possible he's responsible for even more deaths. The toaster *is* evil but like,,, he's a toaster and he doesn't even have any way to move. The whole point of both him and muggy is that their entire existence is kinda pointless

[@robertpatter5509]

The Spirit of Evil is more apt.

[@LithiaSinclair]

Fallout 1 and 2 have plenty of guys who deserve spots over the toaster and Pickman but at least im glad to see Father Elijah made it on to the list

[@sargimusprime8893]

Solid list though I was expecting Elijah and Caesar to be higher; also glad you put Shaun on the list nothing noble about the institute.

[@Shadow_Sonata]

The problem with the Institute was that they were written as the typical moustache twirling villains rather than a shadowy organization, no real depth to it. There could have been quests added to control their direction (like use of Gen 1 and 2 synths to decontaminate the glowing sea area) or replace someone with a synth where the original was horrifically evil. You kind of do that with the Children of Atom in Far Harbor.

[@tomtitherington]

Note: any puns about food...run!

[@WrathOfGrapesN7]

Eggsactly...

[@UpperDarbyDetailing]

Or death puns.

[@marhawkman303]

@@chainsawsubtlety9828 Canniballen?

[@STRAKAZulu]

Pickman is a reference to a Lovecraft character. And, while he is morally bankrupt, at least he's cleaning up the Wasteland...

[@MrShukaku1991]

Yeah, theres a lot of guys worse than Pickman.

[@lisah-p8474]

I thought he was kind of charming. Something about the way he called me "killer".

[@gavinziozios1431]

I mean... is it any better than our characters? Don't we spend our time killing raiders, and then some?

[@janetd5121]

@@gavinziozios1431 Yes the sole survivor can basically kill thousands by the games end.

[@weneedaladder8384]

To quote Luke from the Vader Immortal video: "I feel like I'm light side because I'm killing the evil guys. Look, how much enjoyment I get out of it is irrelevant".

[@kallasantysanty6092]

Oh i would add a few. Like Dr Schreber from Fallout 2, the guy that experimented on deathclaws and when they becouse inteligent decided to murder them all, also he disabled his K-9 robodog motor functions and made him watch every horrible think he did just becouse the dog become sentient and developed morals (and didnt like what he was doing). And there is of course Frank Horrigan (Fallout 2), Enclave accidentally made supersoldier and they main hitman... lovely person. There is also Joanne Lynette (also from Fallout 2), the leader of Vault City that clearly hates any outsiders (they are good only as servants... basicly they name for slaves), also wants you to destroy city of Gecko just becouse Ghouls live there (and also radiation but even if you make it better she still wants them dead). One of those characters that you should not shot on sight (quest wise) but you so much want to! There is also Morpheus (in Fallout 1) the cynical opportunist of a cult leader for the Children of the Cathedral (the cult that worship the Master... though Morpheus is there only for money and power). At least Master thought he was saving the world by turning people into mutants, old Morphy didnt give a sh... about humanity. I could go on as there are a lot of evil people in old fallout games but this is too long already :P

[@anthonymiller5625]

2:30 If they bring us to the Big MT in a future season of Fallout, I want Peter Dinklage to do the voice of Toaster.

[@Werewolf_Korra]

You forgot Dermot and St James, a pair of slavers who sell a child to the fiends and keep her teddy bear as a trophy.

[@botkilleruze4709]

I wouldn’t call pickman evil more mentally disturbed and he attacks only raiders so I don’t think he’s necessary evil

[@PenginUchuu]

Why are there none from the first two games? There are loads of evil characters in those.

[@gavinlopez6258]

I would guess because they are less well-known. Who would you put on your list? I imagine characters from the Enclave and maybe Doc Morbid would make the list.

[@UthersonL]

For my money, the evilest one has to be the supermutant with a flamethrower in Necropolis in Fallout 1. In most of my playthroughs, he ends up cooking Dogmeat and not showing even an ounce of regret.

[@Lunaboops]

Definitely hope this gets revisited with some more characters, as there's no shortage of pure evil in Fallout: Frank Horrigan, Ulysses, Thomas Hildern, Dick Richardson, Mortimer, Eulogy Jones, Myron And also the definitely evil, but debatable how much Mr House & The Master The most evil one of all, Jeanne May, what she did to Boone should put her on a list

[@middleagedmutantninjaturtle18]

There is never enough Fallout content. Please do more

[@gwts1171]

What about Veronica in New Vegas? She stole my heart. Not literally, mind you. Yet.

[@TheAzulon]

There is also Valerie Barstow, the Overseer oa what was to be vault 88. She demonstrates severe lack of empathy, putting people under torturous experiments for "the greater good of humanity" and even comments that you should not feel for the setlers on vault 88.

[@macgyver42563]

Yeah, when I played that quest, I didn't do what Barstow intended, I did the exact opposite. Everything was quite pleasant and people liked being in the vault. Well, except for Valerie, but she doesn't count. Then when the quest was nearly over and I was left with the choice of her staying or leaving, I took option B. Let her wander the Wasteland and "become a stronger human" or whatever she said. Chances are, she'd end up becoming a raider or most likely, killed by insects, raiders, other settlers, or Deathclaws.

[@LordHammer33]

To put Braun into perspective you only have to think about the fact that the good karma ending of Tranquility lane is the one where you hit the failsafe that kills all the other residents and leaves Braun alone for all eternity

[@EnordAreven]

So... We not talking about characters from Fallout 1&2?

[@kapee187]

Iguana bob tho

[@thecatfish1918]

Myron. Or like any of the Fallout 2 Enclave. They easily beat Pickman at the VERY least.

[@TheSniper721]

I assume so but even if this is just going with 4, 3 and NV there is quite a few things wrong.

[@RozenockDoll]

First Citizen Lynette

[@KingKuroTV]

Father Elijah at only #7 is CRAZY

[@TrickyTalon23]

Ikr there are some REALLY evil people in this series

[@Nozomi621]

I think he would have been an easy number 1 if his plan actually worked... you know... genocide and all.

[@olu550]

Elijah isn't even the most evil character in Dead Money, much less New Vegas. Dean Fucking Domino, though...

[@KingKuroTV]

All im saying is the fact that the crotchety old man who wants to blow up a single city is nowhere near as evil as the man who wants to wipe away civilization as we know it out of spite.

[@elitefencer777]

Should be higher, definitely worse than Caesar or Shaun; and that's no low bar either. One leads a slave army of rapists, and the other is responsible for FO4's main questline, euggggh.

[@redencarnacion]

People simping for Caesar’s Legion like they’re no different from the Taliban.

[@cathal3020]

What's wrong with the taliban? They are hardly ISIS or something

[@redencarnacion]

@@cathal3020 They’re a misogynistic Islamic theocracy that deny women and girls fundamental human rights such as education.

[@kmdrfarsight]

Myron, I don't need to explain. He got what he deserved

[@gingipride]

I like that the player isn't #1. Like sure, we *can* do lots of evil things, but some of these evil-doers do the evil things our character can only dream of. You know, like sitting in a hotel and detonating nukes at your leisure.

[@tamfuwing1]

Anyone not romancing Curie in FO4 is sus.

[@furonguy42]

I would argue that Roy Phillips is one of the most evil people in Fallout. In Fallout 3, he can be encountered trying to get into Tenpenny Tower, though the guy who controls the electric lock on the front gate says no Ghouls are allowed. A quest can be unlocked from either the door guard or Roy himself to sort out the Tower's "Ghoul problem", either by killing Roy and his two friends, or by helping them get into the tower. Roy wants to go in guns blazing, insisting that the entire populace is bigoted against Ghouls, but you can convince him to let you try to resolve it peacefully. Talking to the residents, a distinct majority, including Allistair Tenpenny himself, are fine with Ghouls coming to live in the tower. Only a handful of residents will angrily leave when asked about sharing the space with Ghouls. Some of the residents are even outright pro-Ghoul, such as Daring Dashwood, a retired adventurer who's best friend, whom he dearly misses, was a Ghoul. After getting the bigots to leave peacefully, Roy, his girlfriend and his bodyguard will move in. Before long, Allistair Tenpenny will disappear, and Roy will claim that Allistair had an "accident" shortly after a "disagreement". What he means is obvious. That was _not_ part of the deal you made with Roy, but you're willing to overlook it, since Tenpenny does indeed have a chequered past and present, so it's entirely believable that he may have said or done something out of line. Upon your next visit to the tower, however, all the nice people you went out of your way to talk to and establish that they're not against Ghouls are gone. Roy's bodyguard Michael will hint to you to check the basement, where you can find the bodies of all the human residents (or maybe the game bugs and there are no bodies to be found, but canonically they're still there). You can then confront Roy about this, and he'll claim that they were all bigoted towards him, you know this can't be true, because you met these people yourself. Roy didn't care about living in the tower, he just wanted an excuse to be violent. Roy's girlfriend Bessie will give the noncommittal statement of "Well if Roy killed them I guess they must have done something wrong", and Michael will claim that he didn't want to kill those people, but figured he'd just go ahead and follow Roy's instructions anyway. You then decide to avenge the noble Daring Dashwood by shooting Roy's head off with a Plasma rifle and then the game deducts karma points from you, because, for some bizarre reason, the game considers Roy to have "good" karma.

[@ProfessorChaos56]

Roy should be in place of Allistair. Hell, Burke should be in place of Allistair (the latter wanted Megaton evacuated first).

[@tubensalat1453]

It's a quest I never really did. (I once let the ghouls in to see the carnage and then return to an earlier save.) generally I think "Yeah... Whatever... You do you..." and carry on with my business. I wouldn't side with Tenpenny's. And I strongly dislike removing traders from these Bethesda games.

[@furonguy42]

@@ProfessorChaos56 Yeah, it's explicitly stated that although Allistair said he thought Megaton was an eyesore, that detonating the bomb was Burke's idea - Allistair was either too apathetic or too senile to object, which means he's certainly not a good person, but it's hard to call that "more evil" than Burke.

[@treswolves5512]

@@furonguy42it’s also imo, impossible to rank him higher than cook cook who is quite possibly the worst named raider in any of the games (at least the modern titles).

[@smeghead6041]

Yes I agree also if Burke is still alive Roy and him will blow up megaton if u haven't done it already. Roy is evil scum

[@jmccmj234]

President John Henry Eden would be a good shout.

[@daviddaugherty2816]

President Richardson in Fallout 2 would be a better choice. Literally the exact same plan, but his FEV plague would've gone in the upper atmosphere and got everyone in North America.

[@gruggerduggerhoose]

No Grandma Sparkle? *confused mittensquad noises

[@joacimunicorn]

RIP to a legend

[@gruggerduggerhoose]

@@joacimunicorn o7

[@MicahMotion]

#1: the player

[@KadenGreenspan]

Everyone in fallout is trying to out-evil everyone else - this is gonna be a fun video

[@Boggzorz]

Wow a list more than 7

[@homerman76]

I mean they've done 8 on occasion

[@carlsiouxfalls]

Dima is like his own personal Institute - replacing his oppositions' leadership with synth replicas so he can control the island - and that's the "peaceful" ending.

[@keyblademasterclark]

One small gripe. Father Elijah wasn't a scribe, he was an Elder.

[@neuesachlichkeit6919]

Your intro is HILARIOUS. How, exactly, is that not like present-day Earth again, what you said? XD

[@Smumbo]

I'm surprised #1 wasn't "You", considering all the horrible things you can do in these games, sometimes on behalf of some of the characters on this list.

[@Artificer1911]

OxBox looked at the Master and was like, "nah, that guy's cool"

[@daviddaugherty2816]

I mean... he means well? Comparatively speaking, that makes him a saint in Fallout terms.

[@genghiskhan7041]

"Radioactive sea of utter bastards". Well done :D

[@MrYin90210]

I have this very important question to ask you... Would you like some toast?

[@dahn57]

How about a muffin?

[@MrYin90210]

They're not just bready, they're quite currenty too 🤔

[@paine_inflicta]

Howdy doodly do! So glad I'm not the only one.

[@sacselassie563]

Nobody wants no buns baps baguettes or bagels and no smegging flapjacks!

[@averagegamecritic]

I mean, The Brotherhood of Steel does that as a standard policy when meeting the Mojave Wasteland chapter, so Elijah isn’t incredibly different from them. The evil of allowing Oliver Swanick to live is far worse than any crucification they do.

[@chrisball3778]

You got positive Karma for killing raiders in Fallout 3, even though they were hostile to you by default and you had to do it all the time for self-defence, even if you were trying to play as a villain. This means that Pickman would be regarded as an absolute saint if he just moved to DC.

[@Richforce1]

Pickman was based on a character from Lovecraft's "Pickman's Model" but the original never killed anybody, himself at least, the monsters he seemed to be related to and painted pictures of however...

[@matthewdykeman8149]

You should do a list of the most evil backstory characters. The guys you cant actually meet but are responsible for just everything. Like good ole "President" Eckard Lockhart self entitled president of the Appalachia Enclave and creator of the scorched plague.

[@commander392]

This top 10 list should have "(Bethesda Edition)" in its title

[@peteressig9502]

Frank Horrigan and the President from Fallout 2. Not to mention Lynette from Vault City. Or Big and Little Jesus or Mr. Bishop.

[@longbongbigdongbonkey_kong]

You had a chance to reference the opening of New Vegas (worse than a gunshot to the head) at 3:54 and you blew it!

[@tonimi137]

I knew when Pickman was at the bottom of the list it was going to be a good one, and I wasn't disappointed. Cheers!

[@lolbit1232]

Issue is he’s not evil

[@tonimi137]

@@lolbit1232 He's a serial killer. By definition, that's evil.

[@middleagedmutantninjaturtle18]

You forgot the most evil 3 of New Vegas. Vulpes İnculpa, Mortimer and Philippe

[@crazychristopher1989]

And technically Dima from Far Harbor. Sure he only wanted peace on the Island but he did it by killing someone, as revealed in the "Best Left Forgotten" quest.

[@PolishGod1234]

None of these are even in top 5 of most evil New Vegas characters

[@daemonwise1]

Someone forgot about the Fens Phantom. Maybe not the most evil of them all, but certainly worse than Pickman.

[@demonmprint]

Vault 88's Valory Barstow should be here. She looked up to Braun and carried out his experiments in F4

[@ZeMalta]

The Think Tank has some pretty horrible people too. Fallout 1 & 2 (specially Enclave) have a bit less monstrous people compared to 3, new vegas and 4, but some evil for sure. The raiders of the Pitt are practically Ceasars legion, with a few exceptions. And I may be forgetting some, but other than that those were some pretty good choices (I don't remember Pickman very well so I can't say much about him). Tempenny, Cook-Cook and Caesar are really strong selections, while there are many systemic and indirect (or concealed) evil in Fallout, these are super explicit and unremorsed.

[@PolishGod1234]

Think Tank is Fallout's version of Josef Mengele or Unit 731. Twisted bastards, but I always them them live just because how entertaining they are as characters

[@bigmyke2008]

The most evil fallout character is you if you tear the little girls teddy bear in half

[@Danomight86]

Whoa. I put this on while playing Fallout 4 and I'm in Suffolk County Charter School right now. What a coincidence 😅.

[@michaelsouslin891]

Picking 10 instead of 7 is awesome, it's like they know even when it's an amazing list we still out here wanting even more bc of how good their videos are.

[@SolstaceWinters]

I'm joking when I say this, but whatever anonymous madman filled an entire room with plungers and lawns gnomes of various sizes, then took a long walk... across the room's walls and ceiling.

[@michaelthomas6108]

If only Dave Lister had had some toast every once in a while Talkie the Toaster wouldn't have gone homicidal.

[@MeghanTheShade]

I bet you any money the principal of Suffolk County Charter School didn't eat the pink paste.

[@bearb3786]

Braun was part of the anchorage simulation being made too which is talked about in the files about tranquillity lane being based on the same tech. Plus the failsafe uses Chinese commandos from the anchorage simulation

[@LungsOutJem]

I feel like just about any raider leader in the Nuka-Cola DLC for Fallout 4 could have made this list.

[@Cthulhuwarlord]

Frank Horrigan, The Master, Eulogy Jones should be added if you do a subscriber addition video. Frank Horrigan is the right hand man to the president of the enclave in fallout 2 and you see Frank butcher a whole family helpless to do anything. The master abducts humans to turn into supermutants. You may be able to argue he’s not totally evil because he thinks he’s doing the right thing but I find it hard to say the “good guy” dips people into a radioactive virus to make them into super soldiers. And Eulogy Jones. Leader of the slavers in Paradise Falls in Fallout 3 where he oversees the abducting and selling of slaves including children. The wastes are much safer if all three of these people (if you can still call them people) are removed from the equation

[@trax72]

Once Toaster figures out how to tap into the main reactors, everyone will be toast.

[@j0njn]

Lorenzo Cabot might be worthy of the list too. If you encounter him in the wild after releasing him, he’s apparently proved his son’s allegations. Also, nice choice of armour in 4, I see your character dresses as a hero at the very least. (I use the same one.)

[@saschaberger3212]

I wouldn't think of him as evil, more as detached from the world around him. Imagine being psychotic, immortal and were locked up for years in isolation. There's no good or evil after this

[@kattastic9999]

Welllllllllllll he's not exactly... a _person?_ He's got the body of one, but the crown is what's actually talking to you, and the Being whose mind was stored in that crown is INCREDIBLY not human. Not even alien. Fucker is full eldritch. Like actual Cthulu tier shit. He knows as well as the player does that none of this stuff _actually_ matters.

[@j0njn]

@@kattastic9999 I respectfully disagree with the interpretation that it’s the crown talking. He himself states that it lets him commune with others, who’ve clearly warped his mind, but I wouldn’t say that disqualifies him. Nothing he or the family says indicates to me that he’s been replaced, just changed. And he is undoubtedly still a character, which is the phrasing of the video’s title.

[@j0njn]

@@saschaberger3212 It’s an interesting philosophical question, whether or not malice needs to fuel harmful deeds for a person to be considered evil, or if an absence of morality is sufficient. However, given the level if smugness he displays at times, I’d say there’s enough malice there to qualify either way.

[@Joelseph2001]

EXCELLENT thumbnail.

[@wilomica]

This is a fine lst, well thought out.

[@harryshriver6223]

The evil toaster reminds me of the talking toaster in red dwarf, you know talky, your breakfast companion with light conversation and moderate toasting in the mornings. Hey does anyone feel like some toast?😂😅😊

[@mattball8622]

To all the Critters out there: hope you enjoyed the Liam O'Brien jumpscare at 8:09

[@michaelandreipalon359]

No Iguana Bob? Cannibal vendor actually gets away with it in unmodded Fallout 1, because we can only blackmail him and not send him to jail... and then there's his progeny Mikey in the second game. Who knows what sinister misdeeds is that guy hiding?