Ed (Fallout)

Ed is a skeleton in a vault suit which lies just outside the exterior door of Vault 13 in 2161.

Background
Ed is a deceased human found initially outside of Vault 13. Little, if anything is known about his past prior to this. From his apparel though, it is visible that he too was a resident of Vault 13.

Appearances
Ed's corpse appears only in Fallout. The sprite is reused several times in Fallout 2 and also is mentioned in the Fallout Bible and Fallout: New Vegas.

Behind the scenes
"Zed's Dead, baby, Zed's dead. From Pulp Fiction. That's part of the reference. Ed was twofold: to immediately show the player that the outside world was dangerous, and to tell the player that he wasn't the first choice of someone to send out. Ed was sent out before the waterchip malfunction, however, since he's just bones."
 * In Fallout, Ed's corpse appears outside of Vault 13. The sprite has been reused to represent a generic dead Vault dweller: In a cell in the Mariposa Military Base, adjacent to Sarah and her mutant lover, Flip, carrying a 10mm pistol and three stimpaks. Its reused several times in Fallout 2,  in the lower parts of the tanker, in the Den West Side buried under debris next to the Brotherhood outpost, and in Redding under a pile of rocks near the working elevator that leads to the Great wanamingo mine's tunnels.

- Chris Taylor, Fallout Bible 6


 * This references a line from the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction, spoken by Bruce Willis' character, Butch, differing by a single letter ("Zed's dead").

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