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 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. Humorously, it is unaware atomic fire has already rained when the Great War began. When informed that the Earth has already been destroyed, he becomes momentarily disoriented, 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. The module is found in The Cuckoo's Nest sitting on what appears to be a shrine for toasters.

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".
 * In the ending slide show of old world blues the Toaster continue to rants about how he will burn the world. The other appliances got too tired of the Toaster and dumped him into a bathtub. As the toaster slowly sank the toaster swore to his enemies that they would rue the day when they had bread... and no way to toast it.

Other interactions

 * The Toaster can heat up any weapons you have which are composed of space-age Saturnite material (cosmic knives and Saturnite fists). Additionally, he can also strip the power sources out of other small appliances (toasters, irons, hot plates and cameras) to 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!"
 * ''"Hey, I have a rare Mojave snow globe. Just reach into my bread slot."
 * ''"While you were away, my plans have marched steadily forward. Beware, Caesar! Beware, NCR! Soon will dawn the Age of the Toaster!"

Appearances
The Toaster appears in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues. A talking toaster was to appear in Fallout 2 but was cut before the final version.

Behind the scenes

 * The reactivation of the Toaster during the game is a reference to the toaster repair skill of Wasteland, the 1980s game which is considered to be Fallout's predecessor.
 * The Toaster is a reference to the 1987 cartoon animated movie The Brave Little Toaster, about a toaster that is abandoned along with his friends all of which are talking appliances.
 * The Toaster is also a reference to 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.