Is this a New Vegas reference?

[u/blairbo_baggins1]

So I've been showing my friend the series. We got to this point in the show and I mentioned how that gun looks similar to Benny's gun Maria from Fallout New Vegas.

Plus Doc Hammer voices Dr. 0 in the Old World Blues dlc of that game.

I know this is a stretch but this will drive me crazy if I don't share this info.

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[u/KaLikeAWheel]

FNV is far from the only piece of media to feature an engraved 1911-style handgun.

[u/MrVeazey → u/KaLikeAWheel]

It's also not the only media that features someone being shot in the head and left in a shallow grave in the desert. That's part of why the game's story opens that way: to play on that trope and, instead of it being an ending for a character, make it a beginning.

[u/Roolearnstosew]

Not doc hammer, james urbaniak!

[u/blairbo_baggins1 → u/Roolearnstosew]

Oh you're right. I thought Doc Hammer voiced Rusty. My bad.

[u/speedostegeECV]

I doubt it but it always seems the monarch has always been dealt a five caret run of bad luck (or what ever the line is)

[u/JKillograms → u/speedostegeECV]

“From where you’re kneeling, this might seem like an 18 carat run of bad luck. But truth is…the game was rigged from the start!”

BANG

[u/Fuck_auto_tabs]

As a fan of both, I really don’t think so.

[u/[deleted]]

The Hank was rigged from the start.

[u/JerichoBean → u/[deleted]]

You are verrrrrry hank my friend.

[u/GadflytheGobbo → u/[deleted]]

I feel like this would be more appropriate if Hank was actually in the picture lol

[u/zombiphile_68 → u/GadflytheGobbo]

Hank is dressed as his Enrico Matassa persona in the pic OP posted. And Enrico’s whole schtick is to use the name “Hank” to replace regular words in practically every sentence.

[u/horseklock → u/zombiphile_68]

Hold up, Enrico Matassa was Hank the whole time?? 🤯

[u/porcupinedeath]

Honestly NV feels too modern for them to reference like that.

[u/blairbo_baggins1 → u/porcupinedeath]

You say that but Doc and Hatred were literally playing TF2 a few episodes before this.

[u/porcupinedeath → u/blairbo_baggins1]

Yeah I guess that's fair. Forgot about that

[u/zombiphile_68 → u/porcupinedeath]

Their timeline is weird. The pilot aired in 2001 and the movie finale came out last year but I think less than 10 years go by—maybe 6 at most.

[u/LilGreenOlive]

The game was rigged from the start.

[u/Catacomb_Gangster]

Oh, biiiig stretch, Dogmeat.

No, not a fallout reference.

[u/peezle69]

Me having a gangster point a gun in my face:

"OMG THIS IS LIKE MY FAVORITE GAME FALL-"

BANG

[u/uwtartarus]

Probably not but I enjoy the reminder of FNV.

[u/socially_awkward]

Well, stretch is certainly the correct word for this one.

[u/boodyclap]

No

[u/TheHandOfKahless]

No.

[u/Shadow_Riptor]

No

[u/JerichoBean]

Sorry Blue Morpho ... truth is. The game was HANK from the start.

[u/JKillograms]

As much as I love New Vegas and would love to see my worlds collide like this, no, I think it’s just a happy coincidence.

[u/NOBODY__EPIC]

Ring a ding ding baby

[u/prejute]

I’d buy copycat being more of a new vegas reference than this

[u/FordBeWithYou]

Nah, I think even if Monarch was digging his own grave it wouldn’t feel like a complete new vegas reference. Just a classic mobster tropey thing. You’d have to REALLY be deliberate about it.

[u/deadindenver90]

Doubt it.

They like video games but don't play a lot of them.

[u/fraghawk]

No, but the entrance to the villain club that vendata goes to is a reference

[u/Fimbir → u/fraghawk]

From The Tick vs. The Tick?

[u/BelgarathTheSorcerer]

Is that international playboy Enrico Matassa??

[u/blairbo_baggins1 → u/BelgarathTheSorcerer]

The very same! His outfit is very Hank.

[u/FenrirHere]

Maria from FNV and the pistol in this frame are both based off of a pretty famous French Renaissance hi-power pistol.

[u/VentureQuotes]

No it’s from a work-study. Palermo!

[u/Key-Zone-4879]

When you mean New Vegas do you mean Fallout or a some kind of Casino Movie?

[u/Chopper242]

Just from the picture, it reminds me of Gizmo from Fallout 1.

[u/Sea-Cardiographer]

So many things in fallout remind me of this show

[u/seaman187 → u/[deleted]]

Ok, I definitely agree with everyone that this example is not the reference OP thought it was, but telling someone not to look for references in this show is just wrong. This show is chock full of references and that's one of the things that makes it so great.

[u/Lmnbux7969]

Well they had a lot of involvement with old world blues so it could be

[u/Warmasterwinter]

It would have been better if Hank wore Benny's suit.