Summary
- Show stayed true to source material, faithfully recreating iconic weapons like the Junk Jet and Power Armor.
- Weapons reflect characters' backgrounds; from makeshift scavenger gear to advanced pre-apocalypse tech.
- A variety of guns and melee weapons from the Fallout game series were adapted for TV, showcasing unique designs and capabilities.
The first season of Amazon's the weird wasteland of Fallout's world, the streaming show was sure to arm the denizens of its post-nuclear apocalypse to the teeth with a variety of guns and melee weapons lifted straight from the games. These TV versions of the game series' arsenal range from lovingly faithful to quite different.
The eclectic cast of Fallout wield a variety of different armament, typically cluing audiences in on their background in some way. The scavengers and raiders of the wasteland might wield jury-rigged weaponry crafted from scrap, while the more well-connected combatants of the series might hoist deadly energy weapons from the 50s retrofuture utopia that existed before the bombs fell. In either case, the show has presented an interesting variety of accuracy to the source material.
10 The Junk Jet
A cumbersome cannon that turns anything into a weapon
Used early on in the series, the lovable Junk Jet gets its first on-screen appearance in Amazon's Fallout. One of the cobbled-together weapons assembled from scrap that players could craft in Fallout 3, the Junk Jet is a pneumatic canon capable of firing miscellaneous objects at high speeds. In a sparse wasteland in which ammunition is at a , this comical weapon is surprisingly handy to lug around.
The Junk Jet first appears in the show used by one of the men who attempts to work with The Ghoul, comically impaling a gang member guarding his grave site with what appears to be the leg of a baby doll. Later, the Junk Jet gets another cameo as a background object hung on the wall at Ma June's shop, correctly labeled as such. Hopefully, the faithful adaptation of the weapon will get more use in Fallout's second season.
9 Power Armor
A terrifying suit of armor that's a weapon in and of itself
Although not technically a gun or melee weapon, referring to the Power Armor as a dangerous tool for killing in and of itself is far from a lie. Most famously used by the Brotherhood of Steel, Power Armor is one of the most iconic sights of the Fallout game series. Though the Power Armor gets a few changes in Fallout, the series still shows off what a trained operator behind the visor of the weighty suit can do.
In particular, the model of Armor used by Maximus and other Brotherhood of Steel Knights in the Amazon series is the T-60. Before the war, T-60s were used to turn the tide of the U.S. war with China, replacing the role of tanks in conventional warfare. This makes it all the more controversial that the series introduces a critical design flaw into the armor's design, allowing it to be taken down with a single shot.
8 The Assault Rifle
An awkward weapon that makes more sense in the show
the cumbersome weapon looks more like a plane-mounted machine gun ripped straight from World War I
One of the most infamous firearm designs in the entire Fallout game series is the weapon simply known in Fallout 4 as the "assault rifle." Despite its designation implying a compact machine gun built with the ergonomics of a rifle, the cumbersome weapon looks more like a plane-mounted machine gun ripped straight from World War I. Besides clashing with the 50s aesthetic of Fallout's technology, the eyesore of a weapon is more like a light machine gun than an assault rifle.
Luckily, Amazon's Fallout show had a clever solution that retroactively fixed the assault rifle's misleading categorization. Rather than being meant for use by a single soldier, the assault rifle in the series is more of a dedicated weapon for Power Armor s, being clearly too weighty and clunky to be effectively welded by a normal soldier. Beyond this clarification of scale, the assault rifle in the show is a dead ringer for the weapon introduced in Fallout 4.
7 The Ripper
A vicious chainsaw, conveniently pocket-sized
One of the most fearsome melee options for players of the Fallout games, the ripper is a common sight in the wastelands. Often seen in the hands of raiders and the Followers of the Apocalypse, the ripper is essentially a miniature chainsaw, configured in the shape of a short sword. In the games, the rotary blade allowed for a great action economy within the V.A.T.S. targeting system.
The ripper of the show has a slightly different design, looking more sleek and futuristic while folding in on itself for convenient carrying. It seems as though the weapon was actually implied to be one of Fallout's high-tech medical devices, being made to saw through limbs in a medical setting with ease. Lucy uses it to this end when cutting off the recently-deceased Wilzig's head.
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6 The 10mm Pistol
The streaming series shows off two varieties of handgun
Few weapons are as faithfully portrayed in Amazon's Fallout TV show as the trusty 10 millimeter pistol. Not based off the design of any real-world firearm, the chunky looking pistol looks lifted straight from the games. Two variants of the weapon appear, used as a sidearm by both the Brotherhood of Steel and the Enclave.
The show actually features two different designs of the 10mm pistol as it appears in two different games. The pistol from the original Fallout and Fallout 2 appears in the hands of Maximus, notably used to shoot down the Yao Guai that attacks Knight Titus. Meanwhile, the Fallout 4 version of the gun can briefly be seen holstered on the hips of Enclave soldiers in Wilzig's brief flashbacks to the Enclave base and is later used by Lucy, proving an impressive commitment to detail by the show.
5 The Laser Pistol
The first energy weapon available to any Fallout player
The Fallout world was far more advanced than the real-world fifties at the time of the nuclear apocalypse, meaning a number of high-tech weaponry was able to escape to the post-apocalypse. Not reliant on mere kinetic ammunition, some of the better-funded survivors of the series wield deadly energy weapons, such as the AEP9 laser pistol. Though small, these guns were still capable of turning hapless raiders to ash with a single well-placed shot.
The laser pistol is briefly used by Moldaver in the final episode of Fallout season 1. While it gets tragically little screen time, it does at least seem to be a faithful re-creation of the laser pistol's model from Fallout 4. Earlier versions included a distinct rectangular trigger guard absent in this later iteration of the pistol.
4 The Laser Rifle
A briefly-seen upgrade of its smaller cousin
While the laser rifle is never shown firing in its brief appearance, its construction seems completely accurate
Fallout's laser weaponry comes in far more varieties than just the laser pistol, and the show briefly acknowledges this with a brief laser rifle appearance. Once again, in Wilzig's flashback, the AER9 laser rifle can be seen carried by a soldier on the Enclave base. The energy weapon is easily spotted by its bright yellow battery, square shape and hand guard, and unique skeleton stock.
Much like Moldaver's use of the laser pistol, the appearance of the laser rifle is indicative of how well-off the Enclave and its subordinates are. Energy weapons aren't easy to come by in the Fallout universe, and being able to hoist one is a clear status symbol. While the laser rifle is never shown firing in its brief appearance, its construction seems completely accurate to the same weapon in the games, owing to the meticulous work of the series' phenomenal art department and prop design.
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3 The Dart Gun
Lucy's primary weapon of choice
it has a much scrappier appearance in the games, being fashioned from a paint gun
The primary weapon used by the Vault Dweller Lucy, the dart gun is very indicative of the character's non-violent values. Not typically killing its targets, the dart gun instead injects its victims with a heavy dose of tranquilizer, allowing Lucy to even use it on her cousin, Norm, without fear of doing lasting damage. The downside to this nonviolent chemical incapacitation is that those particularly resistant to drugs, like Walter Goggins' The Ghoul, aren't affected much by the weapon's hypodermic needles.
In the games, the dart gun does indeed exist, though it looks quite remarkably different. Rather than being a clean emergency weapon supplied for Vault Dwellers by Vault-Tec, as seems to be the case in the show, the dart gun players can use in Fallout 3 is a craftable weapon, like the Junk Jet. As such, it has a much scrappier appearance in the games, being fashioned from a paint gun, a toy car, and elastic surgical tubing.
2 The Syringer
The rifle version of Lucy's dart pistol
A lengthier version of Fallout 3's dart gun, the syringer gets only the briefest of glimpses in Amazon's Fallout. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance, the weapon can be seen briefly carried by one of the survivors in Filly during the town's shootout with The Ghoul. Unfortunately, its hapless isn't given much of a chance to shine before being swiftly incapacitated by the irradiated gunslinger.
The weapon appears fairly faithful to the version first appearing in Fallout 4. Like the original dart gun, the syringer is a crafted weapon, cobbled together from various household items and pieces of scrap left lying around in the wake of nuclear armageddon. It fires custom-made syringes that can be loaded with cocktails that produce a variety of effects, typically not incapacitating its target outright, but weakening them for another weapon to finish the job.
1 The Minigun
The classic multi-barreled machine gun used in a variety of media
Like the best all the best media rife with firefights, the Fallout series never shied away from using a minigun or two. So-named because it is the smaller version of the fixed machine guns mounted into military planes, miniguns in real-life are six-barreled machine guns capable of sending a torrent of lead down range blisteringly fast, typically mounted to a vehicle of some kind. In the Fallout series, they can be wielded by the strongest of wasteland survivors, maxing out the first letter of the series' "S.P.E.C.I.A.L." stat system.
In the Amazon series, the minigun appears several times, mounted to the side of the Brotherhood of Steel's Vertibirds and nestled within the machinery of the Enclave's automatic turrets. These uses are both very faithful to the games, though the design is modeled after the gun's Fallout 4 appearance rather than its awkward model in Fallout 3, consisting of three pairs of two barrels fixed at strange angles from each other. Fallout treats its viewers to the full force of a minigun several times in the first season, making no mistake about the heavy weapon's uncontested power.
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Fallout
- Release Date
- April 10, 2024
- Showrunner
- Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan
- Writers
- Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan
Cast
Lucy MacLean
Aaron MotenMaximus
WHERE TO WATCH
Set 200 years after an apocalypse, Fallout follows residents of luxury shelters as they re-enter a post-nuclear world. Confronted with a bizarre and violent landscape, the series explores the stark contrasts between their sheltered existence and the harsh realities of the outside universe.
- Seasons
- 1
- Streaming Service(s)
- Prime Video
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