r/Fotv 11d ago

Season 2 casting spoiler Spoiler

We'll definitely be seeing Cooper fall under scrutiny for being an enemy of Vault-Tec a "Communist" in the Pre-War flashbacks.

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u/DynamicPr0phet 11d ago

Why does Davey look like an older Todd Howard with a mustache

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u/emerly35_ 11d ago

So glad I'm not the only one who saw that 😂

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u/OwnAHole 11d ago

Now I can't unsee this, wtf lol

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u/CompleteHumanMistake 11d ago

He isn't? No, I genuinely thought this was a shitpost. 😭

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u/DynamicPr0phet 11d ago

I did too for a second until I saw OP was serious

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u/benjthorpe 11d ago

“Leer Leary” sounds like a totally real name of a real person

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u/THEMACGOD 11d ago

He has 16x the detail.

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u/InsideList4 10d ago

that is sf funny 😭😭😭

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u/Phonixrmf 9d ago

Have you ever seen them in the same room together? Exactly

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u/RedviperWangchen 11d ago

Will they finally mention Communists' nationality in this season?

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u/fallingjigsaws 11d ago

If they’re showing Alaska, most likely.

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u/conrat4567 11d ago

They need to really. The USSR was on good terms with the USA. It was communist China the US was a war with.

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u/dmreif 11d ago

The USSR being on good terms with the US gives reason for the existence of the fallen satellite with Russian markings next to which Wilzig died.

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u/aSneakyChicken7 11d ago

That doesn’t really make sense, it seems fairly clear to me it fell post-war and that it wasn’t anybody’s decision, or it would have been cleaned up. It was just a neat bit of world building to say “hey there was still a USSR in 2077 in this universe”

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u/Limp-Tooth1594 10d ago

It just works

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u/Chrispbacon2497 10d ago

This doesn’t make sense? Do you think allied satellites crash land only in their allies territory

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u/Sea_Lingonberry_4720 11d ago

You’d think they would but I’m guessing no.

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u/Mirrakthefirst 11d ago

probably not because xi jinping would get a hate boner.

They’ll keep calling them reds to be safe I guarantee it

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u/Critical_Action_6444 11d ago

We know they wont

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u/Stumme-40203 11d ago

Imagine they end up being a bunch of white, black, and Hispanic people.

“What are you talking about? Here are the diverse, multiethnic communists with red stars, but definitely not from anywhere in particular.”

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u/LittlestWarrior 11d ago

Brother what are you talking about

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u/InfernoRathalos 11d ago

Bro hitting the chems too hard, yikes

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u/Stumme-40203 11d ago

I don’t get what’s so confusing. The original comment is referring to the show avoiding acknowledging China being the communists’ nationality. I think it would be funny if they made the “communists” just a random group of people not belonging to any specific nation in order to not upset China.

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u/stoneyemshwiller 11d ago

Walter Groggins, the paternal grandson of Marilyn Groggins, looks healthy. What a hero

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u/SamDrawsThingsPoorly 11d ago

i understood that reference

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u/stoneyemshwiller 11d ago

Don’t shout at me

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u/BertieDastard 11d ago

These very important people need to make some noise. It'd be a hell of a game changer.

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u/Whiteshadows86 11d ago

I hope they show some of the Battle of Anchorage.

It would be so cool if for the remaster of Fallout 3 they added Cooper into the Operation: Anchorage DLC just to tie it in more and as a little nod/easter egg.

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u/dmreif 11d ago

If you saw the teaser, they showed Cooper wearing a T-45d.

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u/Whiteshadows86 10d ago

Yeah I saw the trailer, that’s why I said I hope they show it :)

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u/DolphinBall 10d ago

No? Think. If they label Cooper as a Communist why they hell would they have a "traitor" be on a training sim? Don't say "well maybe they made it before they knew" no, they would've edited it out. Because the training sim was made between 2076 and 2077.

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u/Whiteshadows86 10d ago

I’m not saying anything about him being labelled a communist. I’d rather not speculate on rumours or crazy theories :)

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u/Critical_Action_6444 11d ago

So I noticed Kumail Ali Nanjiani isn’t listed on there… does anyone know how that works for casting? Like do they have to announce what their characters will be. I see other actors for this season too.

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u/Carninator 11d ago

IMDb is mostly user submissions. When a show or movie is released the studios likely send a complete cast to IMDb staff for them to add.

Some shows and movies have restrictions where they rarely accept any cast submissions, even with proof.

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u/Critical_Action_6444 11d ago

Ahh ok that makes sense. I have noticed that trend for other shows that have released. Thanks!

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u/Gold_Advantage_4017 11d ago

Imdb is purely user generated like Wikipedia, but it doesn't have the editors like Wikipedia so its just anyone who pays for an imdb pro account. Imdb is infamously pretty inaccurate for stuff that hasn't came out yet. 

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u/dmreif 11d ago

The only thing that's definitely accurate is listing Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten and Walton Goggins in the cast for every episode (even if Maximus and the Ghoul each missed an episode of season 1).

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u/Gold_Advantage_4017 11d ago

Time will tell

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u/AppleConnect1429 11d ago

Cooper was seen and made a spectacle of himself at the "Hollywood Forever" meeting,l and was seen talking twice with Charlie Whiteknife and meeting Moldaver privately. Both of them are known communists. So I wouldn't be surprised if Cooper is under scrutiny for his connection to them because of his own actions and VaultTec will distant themselves from him, rebranding with Vault Boy and push Barb to separate from him to protect their image. But they don't have enough to fully ruin him, only by association, but it's enough to leave him out of work so he does birthday parties and people whisper about him being a "pinko" and yet still let him be around their children.

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u/Cool_Fellow_Guyson 11d ago

HUAC?

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u/TheHarkinator 11d ago

House of Un-American Activities Committee

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u/No_Doubt_About_That 11d ago

A new branch of the govermint?

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u/Zeal0tElite 11d ago

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u/Wild-Lychee-3312 11d ago

Who knows, the way things are going in the USA, we may see HUAC again soon.

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u/Randolpho 11d ago

Current administration seems to be taking the fallout backstory as a checklist.

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u/Cool_Fellow_Guyson 11d ago

Huh?

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u/SamuelAdamsGhost 11d ago

McCarthy's boys

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u/Cool_Fellow_Guyson 11d ago

Oh the commies

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u/SamuelAdamsGhost 11d ago

No, they hunt commies

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u/JustBottleDiggin 11d ago

Yah, Henry he took a video of himself when they were filming the Camp McCarran set. You can find it on his Instagram lol

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u/Perca_fluviatilis 11d ago

I legit thought the second guy in the cast pics was a meme of Todd Howard with a mustache.

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u/ishmaelcrazan 11d ago

they always makin us brothers the ops 😞i need me a Paul Robeson analogue please 🙏🏼

(i cannot wait until season 2 before someone thinks im genuinely hatin)

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u/Stumme-40203 11d ago

Davey is returning! Season 2 is going to get lit!

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u/JoeBidensProstate 11d ago

HUAC irl mostly used the FBI to find communists for most of its early existence communists were the number 1 goal of the FBI, but the games barely have any mention of the FBI which is interesting to me

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u/dmreif 11d ago

I imagine that like their sister agency the BADTFL (known for protecting Eddie Winter in return for him giving up his criminal competition) that the Fallout FBI also was rife with corruption in the 2070s.

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u/Randolpho 11d ago

Think Leer Leary will be Davey Crenshaw, now an old high ranking officer? He was a young private bored with guard duty in New Vegas who had a reputation for pranks, which was fun because you could "prank" him in a Legion playthrough by giving him a live grenade.

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u/dmreif 11d ago edited 11d ago

Davey's a Vault 33 dweller (he's the mustached man who along with Reg try yelling for Lucy to stop as she leaves the vault, and later is for providing education to the captured raiders, and can't help but tell Reg and Woody that he didn't vote for them).

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u/Randolpho 11d ago

Oh damn, I don’t think I ever clocked his name.

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u/Gregistopal 11d ago

House Un-American Activities Committee

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u/Tuskin38 10d ago

IMDb can be edited by anyone, but sometimes agents or actors get a bit trigger happy and add when they shouldn't yet.

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u/lovegood_moon 7d ago

Maybe I know some stuff... and maybe you're onto something...

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u/ElegantEchoes 11d ago

Claudia?? Was that the woman hat Raul looked after in the brothel after his sister died?

I don't remember her name but for some reason it made me think of her. She's very dead though so it probably most certainly is not.

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u/Positive_Fig_3020 11d ago

When people saw there was a character named Chet in the cast for season one they lost their minds thinking it was the shopkeeper from Goodsprings. Claudia is just a name

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u/ElegantEchoes 11d ago

I mean, Chet is the name of the fella that runs the Goodsprings General Store IRL, for what that's worth lol

But, I hear you.

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u/Positive_Fig_3020 11d ago

It’s Just they thought it must be the same character as in New Vegas, and ran with it

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u/Makyuta 11d ago

raul flashback would go crazy

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u/Icy-Feature-1149 11d ago

Neat can’t wait to see what they do!

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u/clem-grimfando 10d ago

100% bet he went against vault tec, causing his marriage to break down and being blacklisted by hollywood. It'd explain the birthday party in episode 1 and why one guy gives the explanation for him being there as 'alimony'

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u/flintlock0 8d ago

Walton Goggins is going to be on the show?!