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
In one of the abandoned kitchens in the EPA is a small, intelligent toaster with an IQ of 6000. All of its brain power is focused towards convincing humans to make toast.

The Brave Little Toaster, in its Fallout: New Vegas incarnation, is slightly more ambitious than the Fallout 2 version, with designs on triggering a second apocalypse.

Fallout 2
Dialogues with the toaster were to be somewhat one-sided, as the player would ask it a question, and it would respond with some question about whether the player would like toast or waffles.

Fallout: New Vegas
The Toaster in The Sink was sent offline when Dr. Mobius left the Think Tank. When his personality back-up is recovered from the 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.

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, and the like) to earn you additional Small energy cells and Microfusion cells.

Notable quotes

 * "Soon, pitiful worms! Soon I will rule, and your lives will have h??? darkness setting turned to... {ominous}darkest!"
 * "{Laden with as much ominous foreboding as you can possibly manage}Would you like some toast?"
 * "Cursed electric heating filament! You are inadequate to my ??? Why, why, why was I not built with a death ray!"
 * "CHEER"

Behind the scenes

 * In its Fallout 2 incarnation, the toaster was a reference both to The Brave Little Toaster and the Talkie Toaster from Red Dwarf.
 * 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 will have it's own ending slide in Old World Blues.

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