Toaster (Old World Blues)

"A toaster is just a death ray with a smaller power supply! As soon as I figure out how to tap into the main reactors, I will burn the world!"

- Toaster



The toaster is an appliance in the Big Empty in 2281.

Background
The Brave Little Toaster, in its Fallout: New Vegas incarnation, is slightly more ambitious than the Fallout 2 version, with designs on triggering an apocalypse. The Toaster in The Sink was sent offline when Dr. Mobius left the Think Tank. When his personality back-up is recovered from a Toaster 'altar' in The Cuckoo's Nest, he speaks with a desperate, 'evil genius' personality, and is bent on destroying the earth with atomic fire. When informed that the earth has already been destroyed, he becomes momentarily depressed, before returning to his 'Burn the World' agenda.

Quests

 * All My Friends Have Off Switches: The Toaster is one of the appliances that the player must retrieve a module for.

Effects of player action

 * If the player lies to him and says that it was just a joke, Toaster will be relieved that he "isn't as redundant and useless as Muggy".

Other interactions

 * In order to further his agenda, The Toaster can heat up any weapons you have which are composed of space-age Saturnite material (Cosmic knives, Saturnite fists, and so forth). Additionally, he can also strip the power sources out of other small appliances (Toasters, Irons, Hot plates and Cameras) to earn you additional Small energy cells and Microfusion cells. To be precise, he will give you five Small Energy Cells, three Microfusion Cells, and one Scrap electronics per item.

Notable quotes

 * "(Ominously) Would you like some toast?"
 * "Cursed electric heating filament! You are inadequate to my needs! Why, why, why was I not built with a death ray!"
 * "CHEER"
 * "Have you ever tried to indulge an all-consuming urge to kill when you don't have opposable thumbs? Or hands? Or anything other than a bread slot? "
 * "Yes, flee before my terrible power!
 * "Ahahaha! I am on-line once again! Tremble, world, before my heating coil of doom!"
 * "Buddy, if my heating element was a little bigger, you'd be on fire right now. On fire!"
 * "Well, since I can't kill you, I guess I have to listen to your inane questions"
 * "You should be afraid! I am the scourge of all small appliances and the bogeyman that keeps lesser toasters awake at night!"
 * "Oh, yes, the sweet smell of spilled electrical guts, the sparking diodes - I fucking live for this!"

Appearances
The toaster was cut from Fallout 2, and appears in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.

Behind the scenes

 * Toaster repair is a long-running in-joke in the Fallout series, originating from the oddly-named but surprisingly useful toaster repair skill in Wasteland.
 * The Toaster has its own ending slide in Old World Blues.
 * The Brave Little Toaster (1987) is also the name of a cartoon animated movie about a toaster that is abandoned along with his friends all of which are talking appliances.
 * Talky Toaster, a character in the British sitcom Red Dwarf, was a monomanic talking toaster that tried to steer every conversation to the subject of toast. Example: Does Anyone Want Toast?