The Pitt (Fallout 3)

The Pitt is an industrial raider town located in the remains of Pittsburgh, about 500 kilometers to the northwest of Capital Wasteland. It is a place where three irradiated rivers come together and many of the towns inhabitants are mutated.

History
The Pitt was originally a place of pure chaos, full of rape gangs and torture squads. As part of the early recon when the Brotherhood of Steel first arrived in the East Coast area, Owyn Lyons led his paladins in an attack against the Pitt from over Mount Wash, later called "The Scourge". Even though they were completely outnumbered, they still razed much of the city to the ground. During this operation the Brotherhood lost only one member of the strike force, Ashur (his comrades thought that he had died in a steel mill explosion), who would later go on to unify the raiders and take control of the city.

As they swept through the Pitt the Brotherhood policed up every non-mutated child they could find, of which there were around twenty. Lyons brought the children back to the Citadel, which was still under construction, and enlisted them into the Capital Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel. One of these children grew up to be Paladin Kodiak.

While not as much of a threat as before the Scourge, the Pitt is still a center of raider and slaver activity. Three Dog might have lived there as through a dialogue choice say he was born in a town filled with mutants. There is also a raider named 0-Dog in the Pitt, possibly a relative or a childhood buddy of some sort.

Appearances
The Pitt was only mentioned in Fallout 3 and appears in the Fallout 3 downloadable content pack also titled The Pitt. A holotape found in Rockopolis reveals that slavers have taken the entire population of Rockopolis to the Pitt to be sold as slaves.

Trivia

 * In the Welcome to the Pitt screenshot, the bridge pictured in the screenshot is known as the South Tenth Street Bridge.
 * The change in the color of the bridge from yellow to an ocean green could be a result of the evaporating radiated waters from the river below the bridge.
 * Several buildings in the background including the Mellon Bank building and the U.S. Steel Tower are real buildings in down town Pittsburgh.
 * Based on Midea's dialog, there are no Super Mutants in the Pitt.
 * When releasing the slaves in the beginning of the quest, one of the slaves runs towards the vault dweller and opens a conversation. In this conversation, the player can get the slave's clothes by saying "Your clothes. Give them to me. Now." This is a reference from the movie "The Terminator", in which Arnold Schwarzenegger uses the same phrase.
 * The Pitt has a very similar setting to the movie Escape From New York . Werhner wears an eye patch and is a powerful gunfighter, similar to Snake Plissken, and both The Pitt and Escape's New York have a bridge littered with wreckage and landmines.
 * The character Lulu, if prompted, gives the player noodles. Lulu's Noodles is a popular Pittsburgh restaurant.
 * The story bears a lot of similarity to the Marvel Comic The Pitt . Like in the Story the destruction of Pittsburgh causes mutations. Although in the comic it gives the infectee powers, while in the Pitt DLC it causes skin lesions and devolution to Trogs
 * The Pitt could be a reference to Land of the Dead, a George A. Romero film. Both are set in Pittsburgh, which is split into a poor part and a rich part where the leader lives in a tower. Outside pittsburgh in both the film and the pitt are animalistic creatures (zombies in the film, Trogs in the DLC) Also, if you choose Wehrner's way of finishing the Pitt, the Trogs invade the rich part of Pittsburgh, just as the zombies did in Land of the Dead.
 * The Pitt may also be a Animal Farm reference, because of all the quotes telling the slaves that they are really free.