The Ghoul, real name Cooper Howard,[Ext 1] is a character in the Fallout Television Series.
Background
Pre-War
Before the war, Cooper Howard was an actor that starred in films such as Gun, Under the Covers, Valley of the Gun, The Man From Calabasas, A Man and His Dog, and The Man from Deadhorse.
He served the US Marines[1] during the reclamation of Anchorage[citation needed]. After he returned, Cooper Howard worked as a film actor for California Crest Studios[citation needed], and later contracts for corporations such as Vault-Tec[citation needed]. Some years later, Cooper Howard was working as a cowboy performer at Roy Spencer's birthday party with his daughter, Janey, and his horse, Sugarfoot, to pay for his alimony payments[2]. During this party, the Great War happened and the bombs fell on Los Angeles. He is last seen before riding away from the mushroom cloud on Sugarfoot with Janey.
Post-War
Following the Great War, Howard became a bounty hunter known only as "The Ghoul" with a reputation of being a "supreme badass"[3]. He used to be buried by Dom Pedro once a year[4] after he cuts "some pieces off" and puts him "right back in the ground"[5] in a coffin, connected with IV tubes of RadAway hanging from a cross. He is dug up one last time by Honcho, Slim and Biggie, to offer him a bounty to track down someone from the Enclave that is going to meet Moldaver[6]. He proceeds to kill them and take their bounty.
Publications
Inventory
After the War, The Ghoul relies on his lever-action rifle, a combat knife, and a custom revolver that uses ammo with "Boom!" engraved on the bullets. He wears a cowboy-like set of clothes, including a duster, a brimmed hat. He carries his equipment and his Vials that are used to keep him from turning into a Feral Ghoul in horse saddlebags hanging off his shoulder, as well as a holsters for his rifle, knife and pistol.
S1E1 - The End
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S1E2 - The Target
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S1E3 - The Head
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S1E4 - The Ghouls
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S1E5 - The Past
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S1E6 - The Trap
During a conversation with fellow actor Sebastian Leslie, Cooper states that the advertisements he did for Vault-Tec cost him a movie gig. Another actor and veteran that Cooper served with in Alaska, Charles Whiteknife, invited Cooper to an anti-Vault-Tec meeting held secretly at Hollywood Forever.
S1E7 - The Radio
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S1E8 - The Beginning
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Notes
- The Ghoul has a miniature in the "Fallout The Series Miniature Set" for use in Fallout: Wasteland Warfare[Ext 3]
Quotes
- "Why, is this an Amish production of The Count of Monte Christo or just the weirdest circle jerk I've ever been invited to?" – Episode 1
Behind the scenes
- His prosthetics were done by Vincent Van Dyke.[Ext 4]
- Director Jonathan Nolan compared the character to Virgil in Dante's Inferno, stating that he "becomes our guide and our protagonist in that [older] world, even as we understand him to be the antagonist at the end of the world," much like Virgil's role in the story.[Ext 5]
- Actor Walton Goggins revealed several details behind playing the character:
- He stated that he had not played Fallout before and did not want to be influenced by the game.[Ext 6]
- In preparation for his role, he would watch a movie every day to "stay in that head," with such period movies including Stagecoach, Rio Bravo, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Wild Bunch and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.[Ext 1]
- The "Tech" page on Fallout Amazon Prime features a short note on RadAway, with an image of two IV bags labeled "RadAway" attached to a cross.[Ext 7][Ext 8]
Gallery
"Well now that is a very small drop in a very, very large bucket of drugs"
Creating mischief in Filly
Vault 4 ad, pre-War
Cooper Howard in his mansion, pre-War
Promotional
The Ghoul in a promotional image
Fallout 76
Cooper Howard in "GUN"
Cooper Howard in "Under The Covers"
Cooper Howard in "The Man From Calabasas"
Cooper Howard in "Valley Of The Gun"
Other
The Ghoul Fallout: Wasteland Warfare miniature figurine [Ext 3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "So for me, the time that it took for this application, it took a while…but I would watch a movie every day. I'd seen a lot of these movies, but when I go to work, I like to kind of stay in that head and there's a lot to kind of answer for who The Ghoul is now, and this man Cooper Howard. So, I watched a lot of John Wayne – watched The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and Rio Bravo and Stagecoach – and all of Clint [Eastwood’s] stuff with [Sergio] Leone…and Mr. [Henry] Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West, and then The Wild Bunch, just a lot of those things. And it's like, “Oh, okay, I know all of these,” but even Butch Cassidy [and the Sundance Kid]."
(Collider - 'Fallout's Walton Goggins Reveals Which Classic Westerns Inspired The Ghoul) - ↑ "New photos reveal the cast and characters from ‘Fallout,’ the new Prime Video series premiering April 12" on aboutamazon.com (Archived)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Fallout The Series miniature set
- ↑ "Prosthetics designer Vincent Van Dyke (who worked on Leonardo DiCaprio’s character in Killers of the Flower Moon) devised the look of the Ghoul. “I need to be able to see Walton and his performance, he needs to look like a Ghoul from the game, and he needs to be kind of hot,” Nolan says."
(Vanity - Fallout First Look: This Is How the World Ends—With a Smiling Thumbs-Up) - ↑ "He compares The Ghoul to the poet Virgil in Dante’s Inferno, someone in this hellish landscape who knows its full scope, origin, and secrets. “He becomes our guide and our protagonist in that [older] world, even as we understand him to be the antagonist at the end of the world,” Nolan says."
(Vanity - Fallout First Look: This Is How the World Ends—With a Smiling Thumbs-Up) - ↑ "During a group interview, including Collider's Steve Weintraub at CCXP in Brazil, Goggins discussed his process for preparing to play his starring role in the series. One thing it didn't involve was playing the Bethesda games that the show mostly pulls from. "I didn't play the game beforehand," he said. "I had heard about it. My son, he’s 13, it was a little bit before his time. He's a big Bethesda fan, but he got into Skyrim, The Elder Scrolls. That's his thing. And when we started having these conversations, he came in and sat down on the bed with me and he said, 'So you gonna download Fallout and start playing it with me?' And I said, 'No. No, because I don't want to be influenced by the game.'""
(Collider - 'Fallout's Walton Goggins Reveals Which Classic Westerns Inspired The Ghoul) - ↑ Fallout Amazon Prime
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