Fallout Season 2 May Avoid Canonising a New Vegas Ending, Star Explains
The solution is surprisingly simple.
Ever since it was revealed that the second season of Fallout would shift the show’s location to Nevada, fans have had many questions about which Fallout: New Vegas ending the show would canonise.
Fallout: New Vegas has quite a lot of unique endings, but it essentially boils down to which of the game’s four factions you side with that will give you a certain outcome.
With Amazon’s Fallout show heading to New Vegas for the second season, the question of which ending is canon is bound to come up.
I mean, considering how different the NCR ending and the Legion ending are from each other, it’d be extremely difficult to write a story that accommodates both endings as canon.
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One of the show’s stars has offered an alternative perspective on the matter though, and it might solve any issues Fallout lore aficionados have with the text.
How Will Fallout: Season 2 Address The Endings Of New Vegas?
Speaking to The Spill, Maximus actor Aaron Moten suggests that this detail was very much at the forefront of the cast and crew’s mind when developing the second season.
“Actually, you know what's really interesting is our storyline, where we are in time, it's a number of years after the events of New Vegas,” Moten says.
“An interesting thing, a conversation Geneva [Robertson-Dworet, co-showrunner] and I have been having, was actually about how history is written in the wasteland by whoever writes it. And different perspectives will have a different perspective on who won and who lost.
“It's a really beautiful thing. We see it really early on that you guys [Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins] find out who believes themselves to be winning, and The Ghoul offering a different perspective.”
From the sounds of that, it might be that Fallout Season 2 may skirt around the question of which ending is canon altogether in this way.
One character insists the NCR won at Hoover Dam, and another suggests Caesar’s Legion actually won. Another may say Mr House won, whereas another will claim it was the Courier doing it all by themselves.
Indeed, we also see this in the trailer, where we see Mr House’s computer screen and multiple shots of a Legion camp.
In the end, it may be that the show will dodge the question entirely, making it so that any of the New Vegas endings are canon.
Fallout: Season 2 airs on Amazon Prime Video on 17 December, 2025.
Topics: Amazon, Fallout, TV And Film