Prime Video’s Fallout knows where it’s going and has from the start. That includes how the show sets up storylines well in advance, like when it openly revealed its mind control devices (without us knowing) in just its second episode. In season two, we got a single scene that certainly felt like a super tease. We briefly met a super mutant played by Ron Perlman. That giant green fighting machine tried to recruit the Ghoul to his cause. He said there’s a war coming against the people who created them. And that showdown might happen sooner than later. Fallout‘s co-showrunner and writer Geneva Robertson-Dworet said Perlman’s super mutant is meant to be a “big role” that is part of “larger wars” waged in the wasteland in Fallout season three.
Robertson-Dworet gave The Direct some insight into what the future awaits for its big season two addition. She said she has “always seen” Perlman’s vengeful super mutant as “a big role” because “he is a larger character in this world, in our minds.”
That’s great news for fans of both Fallout and Ron Perlman (that Venn Diagram is a circle, right? Right.) What could that big role look like, though? Robertson-Dworet explained that he could help expand on the actual world the show takes place on, one that is much bigger than just the space inhabited by Lucy, Max, and Cooper Howard. That’s why she says the creative team behind the series “like the idea of hinting at larger wars, larger fights in this world.”
And those wars could be really big in season three even without the addition of a possible super mutant army. The Brotherhood of Steel wants to employ Liberty Alpha Prime robots. Robert House has cold fusion. The NCR and the Legion are both finding renewed strength. And the Enclave seems more powerful than ever. The wars coming to Fallout season three and beyond will be very large.
Maybe the Ghoul should have agreed to fight with Ron Perlman’s big green warrior.