Daniel Bird

Daniel Bird is the Vice President of the United States and an Enclave executive under President Dick Richardson in 2241.

Background
Elected at an unknown time, exactly how many of President Richardson's five terms Daniel Bird has served as vice president isn't known, but he is described as a small nervous-looking man wearing a food-stained suit. Daniel was a volunteer test subject for an experimental vaccine against FEV Curling-13. It backfired, frying his brain, which has resulted in him spending most of his post-accident time standing idly around in his office and mumbling to himself. President Richardson states that his spelling ability has actually improved. Most of Bird's monologue indicates that he is obsessed with the correct use of spelling and grammar.

Appearances
Daniel Bird appears only in Fallout 2.

Behind the scenes
Nearly all his dialogue comes from absurd but real quotes from Dan Quayle, US Vice President that served during the term of President George H.W. Bush (1989–93), or slight variations thereof (such as substituting words like "Enclave" into the quotes). President Richardson's comment that Bird's spelling has improved in the time since the experiment that left him otherwise mentally impaired is another reference to Quayle, who famously misspelled "potato" as "potatoe" while in attendance at an elementary school spelling bee in 1992. Also, one can connect his name, "Bird," to "Quayle."