Dean Domino

Dean Domino, also known as the King of Swing, is a famous pre-War lounge singer, now ghoulified and trapped in the Sierra Madre in 2281.

Background
Domino and his orchestra gave performances across the United States and Europe, including the casinos on the Las Vegas Strip. He was invited to play at the Sierra Madre, but found himself in the shadow of the casino's founder, Frederick Sinclair. Domino, consumed by jealousy, became determined to take everything from Sinclair that he held dear. He enlisted the help of his former lover Vera Keyes, a starlet who had caught Sinclair's eye. Domino introduced them to each other as part of his plan to break into the casino vault, where he would take whatever it was that Sinclair had there that was so important. However, Keyes got cold feet, so in order to ensure her continued cooperation, Domino began to blackmail her with evidence of a Med-X addiction, apparently unaware that her addiction was a result of her being terminally ill. His final gig was to be at The Tampico, but that all changed when the bombs dropped; the security holograms activated and the Gala Event turned into a massacre.

Domino survived the apocalypse and the casino's security systems, but refused to let go of the Sierra Madre's treasure, becoming obsessed with it. He would spend the next two hundred years plotting his grand heist, oblivious to the fact that Sinclair had long since discovered Domino's plan and prepared a trap within the casino vault. However, he was captured by Dog, fitted with an explosive collar, and forced to work for Father Elijah in breaking into the casino. Although his ability to obtain the treasure may have diminished with this development, his lust for it most certainly has not.

He is a quick thinker, trained with guns (specifically pistols), explosives, and knives. He is very paranoid, setting up many booby traps and hiding several 'secret stashes' throughout the Villa - perhaps understandably, considering the ghost people who inhabit it. He is also overly obsessed with robbing the Sierra Madre in revenge for the perceived insult from Sinclair, who he believes built the casino just to overshadow him.

Dean finally found an opportunity when Christine Royce appears. Christine tracked Elijah from Big MT to the Sierra Madre Casino & Resort, where she suffered the same fate as Domino. At some point, Domino locked her into an Auto-Doc in the Villa's Medical District, where her vocal cords were torn out. She later regains use of her voice when the operation is completed by the Auto-Doc in Vera Keyes' hotel room, where it is revealed that her capture was part of Domino's plan to break into the vault, as the elevator could only be activated by the voice of the long-dead Vera Keyes.

Quests

 * Find Collar 14: Dean Domino: The player has to find and recruit Dean in the Residential District.
 * Strike Up the Band: The player has to escort Dean to Puesta del Sol south for him to connect a circuit.
 * Curtain Call at the Tampico: The player has to confront Dean in the Sierra Madre Casino & Resort in the Tampico and can choose to either let him go free, or kill him for his actions before the War.

Other interactions

 * Domino can make Sierra Madre martinis, and can give the player the Sierra Madre Martini perk with the correct dialogue choices.

Appearances
Dean Domino is mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas and Lonesome Road, and appears only in the add-on Dead Money.

Behind the scenes

 * Dean Domino is an amalgamation of Dean Martin, an Italian-American singer/actor/comedian, and Fats Domino, an American rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter. Dean Domino mentions that he worked for Imperial Records, which is a real life company that Fats Domino worked for, but unlike Dean Martin, Dean Domino speaks using an southeastern British accent.
 * The Dean Domino poster also takes heavy inspiration from a Fats Domino concert poster.
 * If the player has the Wild Wasteland trait, Dean will reference Army of Darkness when he kills a ghost person for the first time, saying "he's not dead, it's a trick. Get an axe."
 * When asked about the nature of the ghost people, Dean will attempt to quote (though incorrectly both times) the famous exchange between Hamlet and Horatio: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
 * The surname "Domino" may be a gesture to Gaston Leroux's gothic novel "The Phantom of the Opera" later made into a musical by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber—a one-sided love story between a disfigured man and an operetic soprano named Christine. The musical's logo features a domino (in this context, a type of mask that covers half the face), worn by the Phantom to conceal his facial deformities. The aviator sunglasses worn by Dean Domino resemble the eye openings of such a mask. The multiple copies of "¡La Fantoma!" magazine hidden throughout the Sierra Madre and vicinity would seem to bolster this assumption.

Bugs

 * If you kill Dean on a set of stairs, his body might glitch out of the map.
 * Sometimes, when Dean is knocked unconscious, he may never wake up until you restart a save, or enter a new area.
 * Right after killing Dean on the stairs, a message might come up and say: "Dean is dead" over and over even after clicking Ok.
 * If Dean is talked to while he is still marked as "hostile", it will remove the hostile tag. making the quest uncompleteable.
 * There is an object near the doors to the vault you can talk to. While facing the vault, it should be the one on the left.  Talking to it gives text like you are speaking to Dean Domino and is even voiced.  It isn't known if he has to die for this to happen however.

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