Community:Fallout Easter Eggs

Numerous easter eggs and references to various books, movies and other games are one of the staples of the Fallout series.

Doctor Who
One of the random encounters in the desert involves the player finding a blue telephone box; as the player approaches it, a light on top begins to spin and it dematerializes. This is the TARDIS, a time-traveling ship from the UK TV series Doctor Who. There is an NPC named K-9, after a companion of The Doctor on Fallout 2 and an android named Harkness who can not die, named after a companion Captain Jack Harkness who can never die.

Dune
Mentats are used to raise Perception and Intelligence. In Frank Herbert's Dune, Mentats were considered living computers that used Spice to enhance their consciousness.

Godzilla
In one random encounter you find a giant foot print with a dead body in it. You can find a Stealth Boy on the dead body. This could be a reference to Godzilla (and possibly to the short cartoon film: Bambi vs. Godzilla).

Mad Max
Mad Max, "The Road Warrior", was an influence on the entire Fallout series; most obviously his dog and the design for the leather jacket in Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout 3. Max in turn was influenced by Harlan Ellison, in his post-apocalyptic short stories A boy and his dog and Eggsucker, and his script for the graphic novel Vic and Blood. Ellison in turn was almost certainly not the progenitor, and in no way the only exponent, of a genre that the Fallout series proves is alive and kicking.

Pulp Fiction
Just outside the entrance to Vault 13 is a corpse. Examining the corpse provides the message: "You see Ed. Ed is dead." This may be a reference to the line from Pulp Fiction's Gold Watch story: "Zed is dead."

The Simpsons
The intro movie shows a TV with the brand name Radiation King, which is the name of the TV Homer had as a young boy.

South Park
If Officer Kenny in the Hub dies in battle, a character will exclaim "They killed Kenny! Those Bastards!"

Star Trek
You can find a crashed shuttle as a random encounter. The bodies around the shuttle are wearing Star Fleet like jump suits and you find hypo sprays very similar to the ones used in Star Trek.

TOOL
In a lot of buildings in Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 there are posters that are actually Maynard from TOOL. The poster is part of the album art from the bands second album "Undertow" from 1994.

They Live
The Brotherhood soldiers who accompany you to the mutant military base will sometimes say " I've come to kick ass and chew gum and I'm all out of gum", which is a Nada's line in the movie They Live, which also notably appears in Duke Nukem 3D.

Planet of the Apes
The line "I can't believe those bastards finally did it. Damn them all to hell." in Captain Maxson's Diary is strikingly similar to Charlton Heston's famous outcry ("We finally really did it... You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!") from the final scene of the 1968 film.

Mentos
The item Mentats is most likely a reference to Mentos, a mint brand that was popular in the 80s for their slogan "the freshmaker!".