Fallout Season 2 Stays Ambiguous on New Vegas Canon with a Key Courier Line

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So, did Fallout season 2 make your Fallout: New Vegas ending choice official? Not exactly. The finale stays true to its initial promise by remaining neutral.

Spoilers for the Fallout season 2 ending follow.

“It’s good to be alive again. Over the years, my body became something of a target for wandering travelers with something to prove,” House reflects to the Ghoul after his reboot in New Vegas. “I have been poisoned, shot, bludgeoned with a crowbar.”

The Ghoul quickly interrupts this nostalgic trip in his own blunt way (“Shut the fuck up,” he retorts), leaving many questions about the Fallout TV show and its impact on the canon ending choices in Fallout: New Vegas.

It’s been a long and winding journey to this point. Previously, co-showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet mentioned that Fallout would “avoid” confirming any New Vegas endings as canon.

House’s return on his computer led many, myself included, to believe that the House always wins and that New Vegas concluded with the New California Republic and Caesar’s Legion in disarray. However, that wasn’t a definitive conclusion, according to Robertson-Dworet.

“It did seem to us like a version of himself powered by cold fusion would be sort of the ultimate possible incarnation of Robert House,” she later explained, adding, “I’ve always seen it as something that allows for many players’ experiences to have happened, but still Robert House had this other version of himself, that he was always ready to create and what he needed was the diode.”

The narrative surrounding House’s fate becomes increasingly complex with his brief admission in the finale. The references to being shot and bludgeoned reflect possible player choices (though, in the latter case, it’s with a golf club). His chamber can also be sterilized, leading to his physical demise.

Regardless of the scenario – all or none of those options are valid – it seems House was always anticipating the return of the cold fusion diode to Lucky 38. That was his salvation, but as he pointed out, many other fates awaited him before that. As Bethesda director Todd Howard succinctly put it in our recent conversation about canon, “I think it’s good to open up those conversations, and you may get history, you may get conflicting reports on how some things went.”

Fallout season 2 is now fully available for streaming on Prime Video. For more, check out our breakdown of the Fallout season 2, episode 8 post-credits scene, and a look ahead to Fallout season 3.

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