Cerberus

Cerberus is the Mister Gutsy model robot patrolling the ghoul city of Underworld. If the Lone Wanderer speaks to him, he or she will learn that Cerberus would much rather "send [the ghouls] back to hell" than serve as their guard dog, but his combat inhibitor prevents him from slaughtering the "zombie freaks."

With the Robotics Expert perk, the player can remove Cerberus's combat inhibitor, resulting in negative karma and Cerberus's immediate hostility with the player and everyone else in Underworld. Should you so choose, you can also incite him to violence by destroying his combat inhibitor in a more primitive fashion which, though weakening Cerberus a fair bit, does not net you negative karma. Exactly how successful Cerberus's ensuing rampage is seems mostly up to chance, with results tending to vary from one or two dead residents to the complete genocide of Underworld; regardless of his success, however, he seems grateful just to have the opportunity to carry out his holocaust.

Appearances
Cerberus appears only in Fallout 3.

Trivia

 * In Greek Mythology, Cerberus is the 3-headed dog who guards Hades and the Gateway to Underworld. Through dialog, the player can get Cerberus to reluctantly agree that his job is, in essence, that of a "guard dog," protecting Underworld from any hostile intruders, which is analogous to the role of the myhtological creature. Also, just as the mythological Cerberus has three separate heads attached to one body, the Cerberus of the Fallout universe comparably sports three sensor modules to one chasis.


 * Though pronounced "Sur-bur-us" in-game, the traditional Latin pronunciation of the name would be "Kār-bār-oos," as there are no soft consonsonants or short vowels in Latin (excepting 'e,' with long version written as 'ē'). Disregard this. Circus is pronounced "Sur-kus", Circa is "Sur-kuh", and Cerberus is indeed "Sur-bur-us". The belief that the letter C in Latin can only make the hard "K" sound is a pretentious belief held by idiots.

Quotes

 * "Atten-shun! Civilian on deck."
 * "Go Underworld! Go Ghouls! Yay!"
 * "...Damn this pansy zombie programming..."
 * "Closing dialog system."
 * "Personally I think they're a bunch of rotting zombie-maggot farms, and I'd sent them back to Hell if I could, DAMN THIS COMBAT INHIBITOR!"
 * "Whoa Nelly! Sensing Combat Inhibitor removal! Guns are hot! Firing for effect! Welcome to Hell, you zombie freaks!"