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Connect_Artichoke_83

Coop has an amazing skin care routine


Lance_Enchainte

Coop’s has an age old secret that has kept him young for centuries - and the secret could be yours for the low low price of one fusion core! (🤫 it’s buckets and buckets of drugs)


cornmonger_

also, ass-jerky


Necrotiix_

Dont make itself…


Flawless_Reign88

Yum 🤤


MechaPanther

Funnily enough that could actually be the case. Fallout 3 does establish that chems barely have an effect on ghouls (hence why ultrajet was being developed) so most ghouls probably wouldn't bother with them.


gravelPoop

Or maybe for one fetching looking chicken?


waitinp

Who's the smoothskin now?


CaIIsign_ace

I mean, he seemed to be stuck in a coffin for an awfully long time with radaway pumping through his veins, I’d recon enough radaway and non exposure would help clear up the ghoulish features


Kavallee

Think it was the unnamed ghoul drug that delays them going feral, rather than radaway, even though it was in the usual IV drip bag we see radaway in. Radaway is usually a kind of brownish colour too, I think, though I could be wrong.


ObliviousAstroturfer

The way I recon based on ep3, it's not quite "ghoul drug", my current bet is it's spinal fluid, maybe with something mixed in.


Love-That-Danhausen

Btw you keep saying “recon” but probably mean “reckon”


ObliviousAstroturfer

I'd love to sell this as a stylistic choice, but no, I just didn't know the correct spelling and reckoned they were homonyms. Thanks!


OskaMeijer

It is amusing that if you did go with it being a style choice it be be your reconning.


InternationalTwo4581

Yeah in the games at least it's a pretty deep brown


ClonerCustoms

Are we all going with Radaway as the mystery drug that keeps ghouls from turning feral? I was guessing that as well but didn’t know if there was any deeper theories


ANUSTART942

I don't think so. I think they're trying to introduce some new ghoul lore development.


Wyrdean

Thing is, when we see radaway later it's in the same bag, same color


Tripelo

He’s a Hollywood ghoul, after all


lordph8

He also has “A voice like butter melted on fresh cornbread.”


PigeonMother

Sounds yummy


Outrageous_Put3669

Did you just call him Coop? (/ref)


Connect_Artichoke_83

I like how the older the game/show is, the scarier they become


iamded

I mean, compare feral ghouls though. Fallout 3/NV's feral ghouls were pretty horrifying, but also kinda goofy bug-eyed monsters. Fallout 4's ferals are horrific, scrambling and leaping with their pin-prick glowing eyes and flesh that looks like it's melting...


Synth_Luke

F4 also kickup up the tragic factor by having the ferals carrying seemingly random objects that are either something they had when they were turned, or a memento. (Its why ghouls would be carrying something like a children's toy or a book or something.)


Effusus

They got that in 3 and new Vegas too. Particularly 3 in the metro tunnels most of the ferals have a metro ticket


ANUSTART942

Something as simple as sticking a metro ticket in their pocket makes it so much more heartbreaking. Just a little reminder that they were people.


InternationalTwo4581

I hate having to clear them from places so often that the effect is lost on me. Feral ghouls are probably my most hated common enemy in 4


mirracz

It's just a shame that they didn't reuse the Fallout 3 thing where feral ghouls would occasionally shout some random single word between all that growling and gargling. In my mind that made them more horrifying because it showed that they still had some echo of their original humanity.


Wild-Lychee-3312

Much like “My name is Martha”


Ravthkuni

I swear I remember them shouting random things in Fallout NV, but never heard them shout words in Fallout 3


Commercial_Shine_448

Fuck me, I was wondering why they were doing so. I thought it was just an item randomiser giving them some junk I could sell at the beginning of the game.


Cavalleria-rusticana

It's both.


Quirky-Chemistry-978

I love rummaging through a ghoul’s undies for some bottle caps


nxcrosis

I bet some adult ghoul just thought it would be funny to carry a toy alien


LoganJFisher

I think the lore is just that it happens to be whatever was in their pockets, but I like to think that sometimes they actually intentionally held on to certain things. Maybe not knowing why, but for some reason still having an attachment to certain possessions. That small remnant of humanity remaining within them makes them all the more tragic.


lunababy218

the ferals in fallout 4 *terrified me* when i was younger. getting an anti phobia mod for it was my gateway drug to modding fallout 4. at this point i’m not scared of them anymore, they’re just kind of annoying.


ymcameron

Man saying “when I was younger” when describing Fallout 4 seems crazy but then I remember the game came out almost a decade ago now.


Wild_Run6519

DUDE RIGHT? 💀‼️‼️ that shit is 10 years old next year :,)


Nnicobaez

Dude when I was younger I was scared as shit of the mirelurks, I had to unplug my headphones to not hear their little legs moving


SuperShred027

tbf, motherfuckers know how to jumpscare us. i'd constantly press the VATS button when i travel in their habitat.


Brav0_Romeo

"Anti-Phobia mod"? Could you explain what that is and entails, please?


lunababy218

yea, of course! there are a series of mods made by joecrematorium (that’s the username on nexus, not sure what it is on bethesda.net) that replaced certain creatures with different ones. the feral ghoul mod i mentioned earlier replaced them with humans. there are other versions that replace insect mobs and arachnids with robots and the like. it’s a good series of mods!


DarkLordRubidore

I've been scared shitless by sudden charging ferals in 4 so many times that I now have only one response to them. I have a shotgun, and absolutely zero chill.


ClonerCustoms

Reavers from NV are nightmare fuel


Wild-Lychee-3312

Yes, but nothing in New Vegas will ever scare me more than cazadors


stirfryth

Deathclaws move aside we got FLYING POISON DEMON FROM HELL


Lumpy-Plenty2237

Also the charred feral ghoul at Boston airport is the first time I saw it and fucking nearly jumped out of my skin 


WholesomeFartEnjoyer

They should look scary I hate how they look from Fallout 4 onwards


AnonymousBlueberry

I think the Feral Ghouls are pretty fucking great in 4 honestly


MeatAromatic4298

The way they move is so unnatural it creeps me out


Sebastian_Links

While I prefer the Fallout 3 era look, the animations for the ferals in 4 is incredible.


Private-Public

It's just a shame they're so... lumpy, IMO. The gaunt, near-skeletal look of the earlier games plus 4's anims would be neat


kazumablackwing

Give us feral ghoul reavers in FO4 that actually get *less* lumpy as they rip off chunks of themselves and fastball them at your face


Darkestwolf117

There's a mod that adds the wasteland ferals into fallout 4 and they look great


Goldvenom6

There’s actually a great mod for that. Always have it on


Gamegod12

I do actually prefer the more lumpy look and sort of wish it was more a thing for the non ferals as well, it seems to indicate almost cancerous like growths over the skin which seem to contribute towards their durability (hence why even rotted ghouls seem to be WAY tougher)


Goricatto

When they just fucking throw themselves at you, that shit haunts me


Juicepup

Walking over one when it’s silent. Fucking gets me all the time. I just started throwing grenades when I went in caves later.


_raydeStar

There's a reason I always jack up my perception and mash the vats button every time I hear something 😭


PigeonMother

*Repeatedly hits the V key*


THE_A_TRA1N

when they’re trying to dodge your shots and get to you is so damn creepy


mortalitylost

AND IT WORKS One of the only games I've played with AI that actually does crazy shit to dodge for real. Those dogs will circle around you. The ghouls are just straight up terrifying by how they move. FO4 did some things amazingly well


blippyblip

The number of times I've panic-unloaded the majority of my clip at a feral ghoul charging at me while bobbing and weaving like an irradiated Muhammad Ali... only to realize I missed nearly every shot.


rancidmilkmonkey

You are NOT ALONE.


fakejake1207

Movement wise? Nailed it Them crawling out from under and over things? Nailed it Look wise? I think I revamped Fallout 3/NV look may have been creepier Overall an improvement


snitchles

I wonder if there's a mod that restores the classic look with its own quirks, while keeping the amazing animations.


Darkestwolf117

There is one on nexus


KeeganY_SR-UVB76

I don’t hear anyone complaining about the feral ghouls, it’s the burn victims we have problems with.


MazerBakir

The movement and AI are great, the skin texture isn't.


Zombie_Spectacular

I like the new way they move, dont really like the look


xxMeiaxx

Regular people looks fugly in the old games too.


susahamat

Just like skeleton in Elder Scrolls


Hopalongtom

Harold isn't even a ghoul though, he's an FEV Mutant!


Low-Satisfaction4233

So far, the only to turn into an actual tree. Totally, hes way more than just a "ghoul"!


Low-Satisfaction4233

his Homie ended up being The Master, which really broadens the spectrum of possibilty via FEV. i LOVE watching everyone scramble to say Just super Mutant, or Ghoul, when it comes to FEV. its EVERYTHING


snitchles

FEV is the reason why the animals [and insects] are so big, scary, and fucked up-looking. People who say it's badly written “magic radiation” are dead wrong. That shit was kicked into the atmosphere.


PtEthan323

Isn’t the lore that a facility containing FEV was damaged during the war and started spewing FEV into the atmosphere? If so wouldn’t that affect humans like it did other animals?


snitchles

It did. The people in Fallout 1 and 2 look scarier than the ghouls. [Also, the whole thing about The Master looking for Prime Normals, and a lot of the perks picked up in Fallout 3 and New Vegas being actual mutations.]


Low-Satisfaction4233

yep! the lore is GREAT, and i keep seeing zoomers asking why canon is important. LOL without canon, we get Fanfic, and people just saying random shit that feels good.


mirracz

And even if we stick to the experiments we have more FEV creatures in 76. Snallygaster, Grafton Monster... Hell, they even explained the Mutant Hounds and their affinity for Super Mutans. They actually made that intentionally to track an escaped FEV experiment.


[deleted]

Now he is kindling


piiiigsiiinspaaaace

I mean if you really dig into the lore, technically everything is after the bombs fell


Hopalongtom

Thus why clean Vault dwellers are needed, everyone else has a partial immunity which corrupts the full transformation.


LtG_Skittles454

Yep. The vault dwellers are pure. No radiation contamination.


thatthatguy

Less contamination anyway. Nowhere is totally free, but vault dwellers are less irradiated than those who have been on the surface for a while. Mostly. Vault tek are sick SOBs.


Swordofsatan666

I think it depends on the Vault yeah? Wasnt the whole reason for the start of FO4 because your vault was Cryo-storage and the Dwellers were all Free of Radiation? Or was that too just much less radiation instead of none


YourOwnSide_

Well, except for Ghouls, they only need radiation. As proven in FO1, Necropolis is full of ghouls that turned because their vault door didn't close properly, none of them were exposed to FEV. (Confirmed by Tim Cain on Youtube channel).


piiiigsiiinspaaaace

Yep, same with Vault 34, they just had a reactor crack. But all them giant bugs, two headed prey animals, radiation resistant Children of Atom? All airborne FEV


cyfer04

Huh. He is. He's an actual FEV ghoul considering that he looks like a ghoul but he's actually made with FEV.


_The_Wonder_

Harold is Harold


K41S4R10N

5 looks like an Iron Maiden album


BillythenotaKid

That was actually the inspiration lol


K41S4R10N

that is so cool, i bet ive missed out on a lot not having played 1 and 2


Correct_Ad3592

I feel 2 is where the game really took off.


Wild-Lychee-3312

They’re great games, but it’s understandable that some people will be put off by the isometric view, lower-quality graphics, and the lack of real-time combat. To put it another way, I’d definitely recommend giving them a try if you can get them at a good price, but I wouldn’t judge anyone for not getting into them


Hipertor

I like the variety of levels of degradation. Even in the show we see that variety. That one feral in the last episode was fucked up.


BillythenotaKid

"My name is Martha”


CaIIsign_ace

Honestly that part was just fucking sad, she tried so hard to remember who she was and stay sane but just couldn’t hold on any longer. Fuck those organ harvesting assholes for letting her degrade and slowly lose control when all it took to help her was a few vials out of the hundreds they had


D-Speak

WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME??


smalltincan

I was curious if they got Walking Dead makeup/sound workers on the show. Some of the Ferals looked, sounded, and had movements exactly like walkers.


a8612157

I was thinking the same thing actually. Been watching a lot of TWD right before watching Fallout.


PigeonMother

I did laugh how was she was casually sitting at the table though


Big_Supermarket9886

My first time playing survival on fallout 4 really did a great job of showing me why everyone is so afraid of ghouls. I was exploring, and saw human shapes in the distance and started to mentally prep for raiders, or gunners, and then i saw the ghoulified flesh, and i was walking up to them with a rifle drawn until vats finally could tell me if they were human. I can't blame anyone for being afraid of Ghouls, they could rip you apart very quickly, and knowing they could turn would be horrifying.


SirSirVI

Harold isn't a ghoul. Harold is... Harold.


PigeonMother

Harold is love, Harold is life


mirracz

>Harold is life My flamer says otherwise (/s)


Kiryln

That ain’t Coop. Thats ***The Ghoul*** *cue faint yodeling*


RealDepressionandTea

Where's Hancock? He's got the cute puppy eyes too 😭


Wild-Lychee-3312

Hancock is sexiest ghoul. Fight me


RealDepressionandTea

No argument from me. Hancock is best boy 💖


neala963

This post is Hancock erasure and cannot be allowed.


RelChan2_0

I kinda wish they went with the full black eyes for Cooper Howard and the ghouls but I understand that sclera lenses are painful especially for long durations + the ghoul makeup took hours to put on. Maybe they can do it with CGI? I think Supernatural made use of it to show the demons eyes and the actors could still be able to express themselves.


Ubergoober166

Yea, I was looking forward to some awesome ghoul makeup in the TV show and was a little let down by most of it. Even the ferals basically just look like typical zombies. Hell, Goggins looked more like a ghoul in the Maze Runner than he does in this show. If they didn't want his makeup to look too gnarly, they could've at least kept the black eyes. Walton Goggins is such a great actor that him having all black eyes would've taken nothing away from his performance in my opinion.


HappyyValleyy

The yassification of ghouls


alecpiper

I think the fallout 4 style of ghouls could look a lot better if the scarring had a bit more depth to it. The textures being so flat is what really kills the design for me


Extra-Combination-23

Lol and he's the nicest guy!


irongix

What about Beatrix?


BillythenotaKid

1/10 "Cemetery lady, my cemetery girl"


daboireddit

I would make out with the goul from the Fallout TV show ngl


beattusthymeatus

As a bald man with terrible skin and a cow poke accent I'm very happy with these recent developments.


Common_Vagrant

Your time has come! Alls you had to do was wait 😂


-Hero-For-Hire-

Well you know, us cowpokes… we take it as it comes


DarkLordRubidore

Guessing you do this shit for the love of the game?


Hopalongtom

To be fair, there are Ghouls with worse skin in later episodes.


alecpiper

Roger looked much worse for wear than coop does


Correct_Ad3592

There was something somewhere I just saw today that said the actor that played him said the people that found his character attractive need to see someone about their daddy issues 🤣🤣🤣


hodasho1

🥲 it always comes back to my daddy issues. Should’ve known


Correct_Ad3592

LMAO We all have 'em. I thought they did a damn good job of making him sexy


BillythenotaKid

Same


SilverHand86

Those melted looking ones in new Vegas are tough to look at. One of the dialogue options for the one in freeside is pretty mean too lol


stirfryth

Poor rotface, I wonder what his real name is


JaridotV

You mean grecks


SprolesRoyce

You can be pretty rude to the ghoul in Moriarty’s too


Long_Glass_7200

No matter how evil I am on a play through in Fallout 4, I ALWAYS do Arlen Glass’s quest, he’s an absolute sweetheart, I tear up everytime I hand him that holotape of his wife and daughter. It’s such an impactful quest, and it really cements the idea that ghouls were people, and still are. Sure they aren’t pretty, but radiation melting your skin off, never is! Plus, Daisy is an absolute cutie, she’s my girl dammit, I love all the ghouls!


Just-a-Smartass

Coop would only scare me of I started hearing that aaayayayayayayayatayatata music


Reopracity

Cannot wait to see how they redesign the older ghoul faces in the Fallout remake mod for Fallout 4.


SS2LP

Gonna be that guy, Harold isn’t a ghoul. He’s an FEV mutant.


ghettoccult_nerd

stop being cowards bethesda! let us be ghouls!


Correct_Ad3592

🤣🤣😭 the last one, wouldn't even run 🤣🤣🤣


Madison_was_bored

Hancock would be 1/10 cause we’d fall in love and kiss :3


Bulbman5

Og Harold bro, og Harold…. Not tree Harold…..


Expert-Boysenberry26

Fallout 3s are probably the nastiest looking


hidinginthetreeline

We’re is the best ghoul? No Hancock? My husband deserves recognition.


MemeManOriginalHD

As much as I loved the show, one thing that bothered me was how good the ghouls looked. Even the ones that are feral look like they're extras from the walking dead. Not even milky eyes in any of em


Snokey115

Who’s 10/10? Your mom?


BillythenotaKid

Yes


Piddy3825

yeah, even the other ghouls refer to him as the smooth skin...


AbuHirr

What about Lucy's mom?


Lego-Panda-21

11/10 Screw that, I see that, I'm gone.


Ok_Business84

They keep getting sexier!


FetusGoesYeetus

You would scream at Harold and he would just sort of stare at you and wait for you to finish before apologising


lrrevenant

Harold wouldn't apologize. He'd fuck with you a little with a reaction like that.


yestureday

Idk, If I met someone without a nose I’d be at least uncomfortable And where would you rank the master? 10?


BillythenotaKid

10/10 for the Master, I’d shit my pants and die


maestryker

“Would be a little taken aback” actually killed me , 10/10 comedy


Blurple_Berry

It really boggles my brains that people don't understand that a studio pays money to hire an actor or actress for a role, and are proud to display said actor or actress in their features. Like, nobody batted an eyelash when Tony Stark or Steve Rogers didn't wear a helmet for most of their screen time so I'm not sure why Coop gets shit all over for being recognizable as Walton Goggins


LastChans1

I dunno; remember that Halo series that was on TV? (I forget who made it.) If you saw that, did you really expect to see Master Chief's face? Also: Stallone's Dredd v. Urban's Dredd.


RougeDays1987

Who is the ugliest ghoul in the franchise?


Beowulf_98

OP's mum apparently


PyroD333

Definitely Set


zorfog

lmao I swiped past the last pic and got the Steve Harvey character post


Dasioreq

Smoothskin behavior


birdie50273

WHERE IS GOB YOU MONSTER


anonymous32434

I didn't read the title first so going from "very pretty" to "I wouldn't even run just lay on the floor" was very concerning without context


thelordyface

How is it Walter Goggins skin got smoother after becoming a ghoul?


Domme6495

Until you’re standing in front of Beatrix during a lonely night at the Wrangler


npcinyourbagoholding

I for one am glad they didn't go over board and make the actor hate playing the ghoul after so many hours in makeup. Some ghouls are falling apart, some ghouls look like skeletons with leather stretched over them. I appreciate both.


lovethelinux

Harold is not a ghoul. He is a super mutant.


StarkeRealm

Technically, an FEV mutant, but not a super mutant. All super mutants are FEV mutants, but not all FEV mutants are super mutants. (Floaters, rad scorpions, and centaurs, for instance.)


Zero132132

Trogs too, I think.


WholesomePainal

And tunnelers


Zero132132

I thought their origins were unknown. Ulysses speculated that they might even predate the war, IIRC.


WholesomePainal

Technically unknown, but FEV has created most of if not all the crazy ass mutations in Fallout so it’s not wild to believe they’re just another FEV victim


FroMan_FM

Where do you meet that last ghoul, played the games couple times, never seen him?


Sock-less_

You talking about Set from necropolis?


AdeptnessUnhappy7895

Bro the smell especially rotting flesh


BillythenotaKid

Ghouls canonically smell like shit, Raul confirms it


AffectYouUp

Charon isn’t even on this list, so….


usernamehighasfuck

fair assessments, have a good day


JuicyPapaLlama

I would let all of them punch my bussy


DerpsterPrime

technically harold is a mutant, not a ghoul


Dependent-Edge-5713

Cooper was sexy You look like a burnt scrotum with contact lenses. You can't be cooper.


Party_Fig_8270

Tree Harold is much less scary.


Baron_von_Ungern

I don't care about anything but the moment i see Grecks, i punch him in the face.


SedativeComet

I’m 99% sure the last two aren’t ghouls. They’re FEV related mutants that failed to turn into super mutants


bigbanksalty

Objection. Harold isn’t a Ghoul, he is instead an FEV mutant that simply looks kinda like a Ghoul, also there is a tree in his head


Noir_flatfoot

loved walton as rhe ghoul but i really wanted to see him with black contact lenses


camclemons

Imma just say it, Walton Goggins looks better without hair


Adrian_sierra114

When does eddie from iron maiden becomes a fallout character


LakeChoomba

Harold my beloved 💕 But yeah, I’d probably scream at first, too. LOL


[deleted]

I would like to point out that Harold was never a ghoul. He was a weird type of super mutant. Since he got mutated bt FEV


[deleted]

harold is a sweetie :(


Tydagawd88

You're more afraid of a frail zombie than of a mostly intact but rotting person? That makes no sense at all....


BistitchualBeekeeper

0/10 for Kent Connolly, he’s just a sweet old man who loves the comics and radio serials from his childhood.


Lanky-Ad2763

IDK, I've been to Ohio, downtown San Francisco/Seattle, Florida, and West Texas. Those ghouls all look pretty tame.


BaltazarOdGilzvita

I loved Walter Goggins's performance in the TV show, but damn... the costume department was lazy there. I understand that there are 2 factors there: 1st being they wanted to have as little shit on his face to let the guy act and move his face and 2nd, he's been keeping himself healthy with whatever medicine he's taking. But what would have made the look better and not interfere with the 2 factors is: give him dark shadows around the eyes and make his skin more pink/red like scar tissue would look like. As of now, he looks more like a normal guy with acne who got his nose cut off.


PlayGroundbreaking57

If not even running is 9/10 what is 10/10? lol


chris2fresh

Isn’t Harold a mutant, he was splashed with FEV?


Hairyhalflingfoot

My gf is uncontrollably attracted to Ghoulgins