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In today's video we'll be taking a look at the various serial killers found throughout the series, from pre-war to post-war, people just can't seem to stop killing one another! Enjoy!
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When we think of a serial killer we think of the main character
Especially when you look at how many people and animals you’ve killed over the course of one play through.
@@Davidofthelost thats self deafance
@@imperfectundertaker1 well that sounds a bit boring to me
Your character usually doesn't kill anyone but hostile Raiders and creatures, everyone in the fallout universe has killed something but usually it's in self defence. Your character can be a serial killer if thats what you wanna be in fallout but most people are pretty nice
Lmao. So true. She saw me stealing that Cram. Death of everybody.
You forgot the sole survivor when he/she kills kellogg Which makes them a Cereal killer
Dad get out of internet
i'm ashamed to say i actually laughed at this
Alright I smiled
OH cmon you know everyone will say this Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down, hhahaahahahahaahahhaa ok i guess enough internet for the next month i suppose.
Seeing how i used a fat man i still dont know how to cook cereal....
I kinda feel like the pint-sized slasher was inspired by Michael from the Halloween movie franchise. Michael killed his sister when he was but a boy, wearing a clown mask, and wielding a kitchen knife.
I mean he also might not be a child. He could just have been a person with Dwarfism.
Yeah, that and both happen in a nice suburban neighborhood with an older aesthetic.
It was a Chefs Knife damn it.
@@leshape192 yeah it happened in 1961 in the movie. The same mid century aesthetic your talking about as well as in the Fallout games.
@@garbagebanditdayz819 The movie Halloween is set in 1978 though.
i like how pickman is one of the many lovecraft references in the franchise; he's named after the titular artist, whose disturbing paintings are revealed to be life portraits of hideous creatures
apologies, i just noticed your post, you beat me to it. Great HPL story.
Darn Good Story
Plus Preston that is another great love craft reference when it comes to cats.
@@alphariusomegon281 finally found you
@@dreamsprayanimation you must really like Horror at the Red hook or Call of Cthulhu. They have that word you like.
Synonymous I am a 66 year old Grandpa Gamer and I really glad I came across your posts. As a side note coins were used on the dead's eyes back before embalmment so their eyes would not open or would not be seen during the viewing.
It was also done by some cultures as an offering to the ferryman, just wanted to add that in there
God bless you man, love seeing the older generation still gaming on
Ah, Older generation gaming now. Thats really cool!
Cool. Cool.
I never knew that, thanks for sharing! Stay awesome Grandpa 😁👍
I was never quite convinced that the detective ever did go down into the sewers for the phantom. The tapes were left in place as if he had everything neatly planned out to lure the detective. It's as if he'd set the table, lit the candles, and waited for the date. But...why would the tapes still be neatly in their places had the detective picked them up en route? Also a few traps were still in place, no? I tend to think the serial killer got a little too far ahead of himself and assumed all would go as he planned. He didn't quite plan for any alternative where the detective either didn't come (end of the world being a sudden end to his grim dating sim) or that he could be bested by a hammer to the head and killed by his dear detective. Eh. I'm thinking too much. I also like the Hannibal and Clarice angle.
There's a skeleton outside the sewer fyi The detective?
I mean there is still the tape where the killer admits to killing the detective so idk
I think that while waiting for the detective the bombs ended up dropping. Radiation ended up going into the sewers and the glowing one we encounter down there is the killer. The other ghouls were probably survivors trying to find shelter.
The skeletons on the bed have chalk and the machete next to them
@@goldensentinel7715 I like this idea.
Pickman is one im fine with having around. Raiders deserve their own monster
I better call Nil then He seems to like killing bandits and raiders
I liked in new vegas how if we kept killing powder gangers some would be terrified of the player lolz also if we become vilified the faction will hate us and if you kill enough then do enough good it really messes with things cus some will act like asshats and some will fear you and be nice just to stay on your good side LMAO, gods F4 really missed the mark.....
@@darthXreven I loved how they called us the grim reaper
Id love to see someone turn pickman into a john wick like conpanion
@@foxboiunknown320 tried to use a force recruit cheat on him but he still disappears once i get outside anyway
"What could possibly motivate a child to don a clown mask and murder innocent people in cold blood?" Young Michael Myers: *nervous sweating*
Funny story; I rescued Pickman from the raiders, spoke to him and he gave me the key, and after that, I killed him. But apparently the game didn't have a contingency plan for that, because I had the encounter with the dead raiders holding the "Thank you" letter. Only now I'm learning why; because all I could think was "what the fuck?!"
it would be pretty neat if we got to meet an ghoulified adult version of the pint sized slasher in a DLC or new game
@Horrid Gamer creation club? you mean 20 dollars for a quest and a gun / clothing
@@themiamimutilator EWWWWW MONEY ON A GAME FUCK THAT
Did you just describe the exact plot of a piece of Creation Club content just to whine about the Creation Club?
@@scottishcheese13 If that’s all of the plot then it’s a very basic one and not worth 20 f*cking dollars. He just thought of the idea and it happened that someone wanted to make money off it. He’s not in the wrong.
@@Haloguy3959 ok? Not sure who said it was worth $20, and no one’s ever paid that for it, but go off I guess.
I always have wondered where pickman disappeared to, he probably when to fallout 5 or something.
I hope he makes an appearance in Fallout 5, even if it's only a random encounter or calling card.
He looked down the Barrel of my Gauss Rifle...
@@besserwissersmartass1170 good
@@besserwissersmartass1170 as much as I feel the justification of killing picman, I feel more justified for keeping him alive aa well. He hunted and killed raiders. Left others alone but had a true hatred for raiders.
@@nicholaswallen8147 today it's raiders, what about the future? Will he change to gunners, or Settlers? We don't know, so better be sure and take him out.
Weird how I find encountering evidence of serial killers on my playthroughs more unsettling than a charging Deathclaw.
I mean a charging Deathclaw isn’t really “unsettling” like there isn’t really anything ominous and uneasy about a charging giant animal wanting to use you as a toothpick.
A Deathclaw is an animal, it's just running on instincts. A serial killer is a human, they choose to kill
Deathclaws start off intimidating and then just become inconveniencing as you level up 😂
@@litneyloxanIn New Vegas they are always intimidating, doesn't matter the level 😂
My Fallout OC is the Sugar Bomber, a serial killer who puts mines inside random Sugar Bomb boxes. Thank you, Bethesda, I shall take my caps.
I get this image of a 1950s style kids cereal brand mascot running across the wasteland yeeting cereal boxes that explode on impact
Unrelated but i love your pfp, like seriously where did you find it?
@UC_4WWMCjpn79YDSg5cEletA Nice! Thwanx
With all the traps and shit you find all over Fallout 3 and 4, I could see this happening.
honestly, since bottlecap mines are a thing, I really wish Sugar Bombs... bombs, would be craftable too
*"Pint sized slasher"* .... Cicero, that you off the skooma???
For the fens killer I think the first theory makes more sense. Since if he marked those two X’s on the wall that would explain the piece of chalk almost right next to his hand with the machete
We have no really evil companions in fallout 4 I wish they would've made picman into one
Pickman would have been an awesome companion. Honestly would have stuck out less then Strong too. Because Strong and Gaige are our "Evil" companions but Strongs just whiney and Gaige is barely a real raider imo. Clearly more a brains guy. Pickmans murderous artsy mentality would have been so cool to explore. Maybe his companion quest could have been to find "subjects" (victims) for his masterpiece.
Porter Gage? though i guess he's not evil evil, he's just a raider...and unlike every raider in all the games the guy is a lot smarter.....but he'd have to be to put together that plot....and to be our companion lolz
@@darthXreven To be honest I forgot about Gage but still, I think pickman would have been an awesome companion. Maybe his quest could have something to do with why he is the way he is? and we can help him find some sort of peace? just ideas
@@maxmunzert9725 Pickman's ability could be stealth attacks always result in a critical hit if a melee weapon is used.
@@TheValkyre0 I'd trade Gage for Pickman any day. His likes/Love would just be killing Raiders while his Dislikes/Hate would just be killing settlers.
The only survivor to survive the pint size slasher and live...yes thats what survivor means
Underrated comment lol
This just reminds me of the Reaper or something from Criminal Minds. Turns out, the only survivor was the serial killer all along! He is who gave the description of the killer being small after all, who could carefully stage the attacks. It's the perfect alibi.
@@jasdanvm3845 That's... actually plausible
@@jasdanvm3845 That's a great show
A fucking hard laugh 😂
I wouldn't put it past Bethesda for mucking up their lore with that patient in the asylum. They do it all the time.
pickman is based on a lovecraft character who is also an artist who paints disturbing art. The narrator is his friend. pickman has become friends with ghouls(lovecraft ghouls anyway) and is becoming one of them. they certainly could have made this pickman a ghoul and that would have been pretty damn cool lovecrafts pickman is in pickmans model and dream quest. worth a read
I remembered the story when I encountered this mission.
For the Fens Phantom, I like the first theory, but believe the second. Fallout has a pattern of having the character(s) that the environment and story follows be at the end. I think that as the Phantom killed the Detective, and was subsequently injured, the bombs dropped and the Phantom was then ghoulified
I believe Pickman is loosely based on the H.P. Lovecraft short story "Pickman's Model" about an artist who goes crazy.
No it's about an artist that paints literal monsters. He's a bit weird but not really crazy.
@@turtleofpride4572 idk I'd consider anyone who keeps a group of deadly monsters around pretty crazy
@@gremloid I never got the vibe Pickman kept the monster locked up or anything. They were just the perfect model for him.
Fallout has been known for it's many paranormal events I like to believe that the Pint-Sized-Slasher was actually just a little clown monster.
I feel like that's the only way to make the story of the killer even worse: though people could become depraved enough to impersonate him, the only indicator anyone would have to know they've found the real killer is that, dead or alive, the killer's mask never could be removed.
The last one is a reference to the novel “The Most Dangerous Game”
My teacher had my class read it my freshman year
@@obiwanssauce2565 Actually a pretty good read
Is that the one where the guy falls off the boat and gets hunted by the military officer
General Zaroff, and his servant…
Oh, I remember reading that in seventh grade! I knew it sounded familiar.
the pint-sized slasher was probably never one person. as suggested by the newspaper clipping, the myth existed before the killings, thus any psycho could've just donned the mask and done some slashing. further the initial killings could've inspired more psychos to don the mask and try to copy whoever did the initial attack. we see these "copycat killers" irl as well, the latest season of AHS while obviously fictional and dramatized does a fair job of showing this w seemingly the entire cast of characters obsession w richard ramirez and the fictional "Mr. pogo" or whatever they called him
I guarantee my character has done worse than any of these people.
They blocked the door and wouldn't move. Had to be done.
The Fens Phantom and the detective were in the final room of the sewer. The skeleton with the hammer in it's skull is the detective and the Glowing One is the Phantom
Pickman was a decent man, as he only slaughtered evil people. Techically though, he would also appear morally depraved due to his "art". Regardless, I always let him live.
He's not really a decent man, he just targets bad people. He doesn't even really have the motivation of vengeance like the Punisher, he's more like Dexter--he's killing because he enjoys killing but wants to tell himself he's better than an animal by only killing people worse than he is. The targets may only be raiders for now, but being motivated by the urge to kill might lead to the deaths of innocents sooner or later.
@@VladyO Now I want to see Dexter Morgan meet Pickman
In the words of Dutch's gang " I ain't good but I'm not them."
i think he's morally ambiguous in the way he kills, just like the player killing raiders. no matter how much you try to "justify" it, its still murder, right?
@@vinylwubs6987 unless they attack you first then its self defense.
I see fallout lore, i click
The freaky thing about the Fens Phantom? Those might not have been skeletons when he arranged them like that, if you know what I mean.
Obviously not m8 did u watch the video
The phantom was just trying to find either a lover or a friend.
No he absolutely was not
In total agreement that Bethesda *drastically* missed the mark in not somehow involving the Nuka-Killer in the DLC 😒
Your editing is amazing
Thanks! Gotta make sure it's worth watching 😊👍
I first found Pickman's calling card on Valentines' day lol it was quite weird :D
does the Puppet man from vault 77 count as a serial killer? It's implied he killed a ton of raiders and slavers at least
To be fair Raiders and Slavers kind of ya know . . . deserve it.
@@maximaldinotrap pickman killed raiders 😐
@@maximaldinotrap He'd still be a serial killer
@Anime0god no.
@Anime0god That would group someone who killed 10 people in self defense, a Navy SEAL, and the serial killer all in the same category
In fallout 4 west of diamond city in the area near the train tracks and vault 81 there are two murdered settlers. One in the back room of a small gardening shop and another, who seems to have been tortured to death, inside a trap door marked hideout on one of the white towers near the train tracks. Those two always seemed to me like the work of another post-war serial killer or possibly Kellogg, though I have no idea what he'd gain from torturing a random settler.
It always surprises me when I can learn something new about the lore that I missed playing through the games. Great vid, really well put together and informative without droning. Definitely subscribing
Welcome aboard! 😁👍
The brothers and their hunting lodge reminds me of a short story I had to read. I believe it was called the most dangerous game. It even had a film adaption. The book and movie both are quite old but I enjoyed them personally
Is that the one about the guy who falls off the boat and gets hunted by and kills that crazy military officer?
I love how your lore vids are not glorified lets plays
So oxhorn?
eh, i dont mind it too much either way. these types of vids always feel more informative and detailed look over the series as a whole, while the lets-play-y types are kinda like a deeper look at more specific things.
I know next to nothing about Fallout, so this will be fun
What’s the point in leaving a dislike? The video is better then most on the subject and is not worthy of a dislike.
If I had to guess I’d say a majority of them are accident. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve disliked or liked videos by accident
Idk i got scared, and i never was scary of any horror movie
Good to see a fellow (from what I can tell) british fallout content creator. Great shit dude!
British through and through, glad to see you're enjoying the content!
I enjoyed being a serial killer child in fo3 and being a child dressed as a clown with a kitchen knife i cant help but to think of Michael Meyers. Also i love the fact that Bethesda puts a lot of work in little things like this.
The main character is the biggest one, I'm sorry mom.
Sorry if it has already been pointed out but.... "Pickman's model" a short story by H P Lovecraft, story about a morbid artist . Very amusing video cheers.
This guy need more popularity
Addicted to this channel, it’s gotten me back into Fallout again 😎
Caveat to the pint sized slasher thing, fallout 4 has a lot of lore inconsistencies so its very possible the 9 year old is the slasher since in the same game during the nuka world dlc it's shown that nuka cola quantum was released already and had been out for awhile already when prior lore stated that quantum was set to be released the day after the bombs fell.
The mispronounciation of "Charon," especially pronouncing it as "Karen," will be something that haunts my nightmares.
The Nuka-Killer is just a reference to the Nightmother of the Dark Brotherhood.
So delighted I found you. It's nice to see a fallout lore enthusiast.
I've never trusted those blue/red/broken garden gnomes I keep finding in compromising settings.....
Just subbed, you've got great quality videos I've played all the fallouts besides one and two. It's nice to learn more lore. You should do all the vaults eventually. Really enjoyed the vault 11 vid.
There's one famous serial killers in fallout, some say it was a man and some say its a women. This serial killer always wear a vault jumpsuit at the beginning before upgrading to better armor, and always obsess with clearing out every buildings, area, settlements, leaving no living things alive (Humans, ghouls, animals, mutants, robots are all equally killable to him). There's rumor going around that this serial killer was actually a good person but some say his a terrible person, another one say that he is mixed of both. One thing certain about this serial killer is that he never realize he is a serial killer. Watch your back whenever you play any fallouts game because legend say that this serial killer is always near your character.
It is your character XD
Great video.This is some of the best fallout content I have seen in a while.
How tf does this guy only have 50k subs. This is top tier quality.
Me wanting to get vilified by everyone: are you serial killers even trying?
I have a confession to make: Every morning i turn into a Cereal Killer, Annihilating a whole bowl.
I found your videos recently. This is top shelf content, I'm very impressed! Great work
ngl, I stumbled upon your channel a couple of days ago and I loved it, so I'm just here to help out with the algorithm
I think when i was a kid playing fallout 3 i was a serial killer. I remember of entering on megaton(the city with the big bomb),i entered in a old house,take a knife and a doctor coat,entered in every other house in the city and cut their heads and bring to the house,where i put them on shelves. I think too much freedom do this to me.
How do you not have more subs? Your work is really good dude!
Thanks! 😁👍
Your content is really really good to listen to while I work. My favorite OC is a really good karma character who prefers to indulge the cannibal perk on raiders. It also means more regular food sold to stores for people lol. I play too many rpg’s 😂
I think the brothers who hunted people is a nod to "the most dangerous game" where a man is stranded on an island and has to defend himself from a crazed hunter
I hadn’t subbed yet when I heard the story about the nuka cola killer. when you went into detail and explained why certain cultures put things over eyes of the dead. I’m a huge history nut and loved that you went to that length
Pickman was inspired by a story by H.P Lovecraft called Pickman's Model. Funny how both are set in Boston.
Your videos come out of nowhere when I need them the most
Probably mentioned but Pickman and his gallery are shoutouts to the Lovecraft story Pickman's Model. It's about a Bostonian who lives in and old section of the city and is known for their brilliant, but extremely disturbing, paintings. Of course Lovecraft's Pickman isn't a serial killer (as far as i can recall) but it's revealed at the end of the stories that the monstrous creatures he draws were drawn from life. Also Another killer worth mentioning is Lorenzo Cabot, at least jack claims is homicidal. Though he's a threat at leastto the Cabots, I believe he kills other people if you encounter him afterwards and get the impression that he killed before the war as well... though i cant recall if this is explicitly stated in dialog
I really, really like these videos. After I stopped watching a certain fallout lore youtuber, this is such a breath of fresh air. Thanks for also including 76.
you're welcome!
Who's the youtuber?
@@trippiehippie6005the fat bearded hypocrite
Wouldn't the cannibal inhabitants of Andale from Fallout 3 count as serial killers? (i believe the town was called Andale at any rate) Great video nevertheless!
1 year late but thay and pick man don't count as thay are post war every one is a siral killer i mean to readers the player is like Jason or Michael miyers
yep
Finally, a nice channel has come my way through the recommend section. Good stuff bro👍🏼.
Nice little love craft reference with Pickman being a painter
its fallout everyone who survives in the was is a serial killer
1:56 It's because the child lives in a society.
I'm glad I found you, love Fallout's Lore and Stories. Ever-increasing the nthApple disappeared from KZhead there's been a big Fallout Sized hole in my heart
The Pickman killer is a clear reference to HP LoveCraft's "Pickman's Model", surprised you did not mention it.
I didn't mention it because it's so obvious, you'd have to live under a rock to not get the reference.
Karen is the one that takes you across the lake? Oh lord....
Crazy this channel has so few subs. Must be new? I’m sure you’ll blow up soon. Excellent voice over and editing, great quality and interesting content. Glad to be in the first 500 subs!
Thank you 😊 I've only been making fallout videos for about a year now, didn't really find my audience until a few months ago but it's always great to see new comers enjoying the videos! Hope to see you still around when the channel hits 1000 🤞
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@@ZELMOFF777 much appreciated! 😁👍
I've watched fallout lore vids for ages, like when thentheapple (I think that's how his name was spelt) was around, and I had never found your stuff even though you've been around a bit, glad I came across it, deserve more subs though.
I'm probably never going to play 76, Atom store just turns me off. But there does seem to be some genuinely interesting bits of environment design in 76 and I appreciate you're chronicling it.
Maybe the Ultra Luxe hired him
You should do a video of all the really creepy stuff in the Fallout universe in October. Also did anything more ever pop up in the game about the Sickleman?
Good idea! And to my knowledge no, which is a real shame 😪
Thanks. And yeah that was something they really should have fleshed out.
Btw this is Sheila. I'm just on my baby girls phone 😅 figured if I was gonna rewatch these videos I might as well do it on a different account to get you more views and likes added.
I actually really love How detai,ed you go into the lore!
Feel like a missed opportunity for a cool encounter or quest would’ve been having a serial killer that targeted Vault Dwellers who wandered outside or couriers in New Vegas. That would’ve been cool
The Sickleman part of the vid kinda reminded me of how in the Victorian era, some lesbian noblewomen would muder their husband and move to the country side with their lover(s)
Maybe the real serial killer was the innocents we murdered along the way for some armor piece or some ammo.
i commented on one of your posts from like four years ago and you still liked it, i really respect that about you. you have good content, keep doing what you’re doing. you’re turning into my go to channel to watch while i eat lmao
You're too kind 😊 thanks for watching!
Pickman is the kind of wolf you leave in the woods to kill the coyotes.
Great video, but I was surprised you did not at the very least mention the very clear inspiration for Pickman as a deranged artist, in the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Specifically the novel "Pickmans Model".
I recently got a friend of mine to play new Vegas. It had been in his backlog forever. He started by killing everyone in goodsprings. Then all the powder gangers. Then everyone in Primm. When I asked him what his goal was, he said "To be the last living thing."
I'm here! 😎 Great video, just posting a comment to show some support! Keep up the good work. 🤙
I find hard to believe that the skeleton with the hammer in the head belongs to either the detective or the killer, since it is naked and has the chalk "x"
I'm surprised you didn't mention Allen Marks who goes around killing people of the wasteland to try and find the secret treasure that the star bottle caps give. I know it's not typically how a serial killer would be portrayed but it's close enough
Why fallout 4 got so many serial killers bro?
The Westley and Carl one reminded me of this short story called "The Most Dangerous Game"
this is my favorite fallout channel
I don’t think I’ve ever made a character that wasn’t a serial killer 🤷♂️
Amazing video!
thank you!
Pint Size Slasher is a reference to Halloween. Michael Myers' first kill was as a child while wearing a clown mask
This video is like a serial killer documentary collection. But way better.