How Did Super Mutant Behemoths Get So Big? - Fallout Lore
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ค. 2024
- In this video, we're going to learn how Super Mutant Behemoths got so big in the Fallout series. We'll explore the history of these creatures and see how they've evolved over the course of the games.
If you're curious about how the Fallout series handles big, scary creatures, then this video is for you! We'll go over the history of the Super Mutant Behemoth and see how it's evolved over the course of the games.
0:00 Intro
0:15 Fallout 3
1:00 Fallout 4
2:45 Fallout 76
3:38 Outro
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Swan wasn't actual dumb as he knew enough to camouflage himself and ambush prey.
Also he knows his name, he says it when he emerges.
Yes it seems Commonwealth behemoths are able to hold onto a little bit more of their intelligence if they can even lead super mutants.
Hey don’t forget that strong did too so it seems fev effected commonwealth citizens differently in general
@@KenwrathKDK well after all this is the institutes version of the fev which is significally way more improved in certain aspects such as the mutants not looking like as if they had kim kardanshians lips
And he actually didn’t even “ambush” them more like giving them an opportunity to leave before trying to eliminate a threat
If no one has said before. Fallout 3's dc super mutants got the modified strain causing yellow skin tone more aggression as well they just keep growing thus behemoths. The green skin is a throwback to the original pigment.
or the art team just did it that way under no direction
@jonny_codphilo7809 art team for later fallouts just got lazy and went back to the original pigment i feel as a throwback. Good ole bethesda tho. No direction lol they chose they know.
@@koikoi7603 Green looks better.
fallout 3 was very green already
having green skins wouldnt look right in the already sickly green world
yellow give them an off tint that makes them look mutated and they stand out a bit better.
Lily was always my favorite, also love how she goes invisible when you crouch
lily isn't a behemoth
@@Victor-Soria no but at 3:35 he asks "whos your favorite super mutant from the fallout games" and my favorite super mutant is Lily
@@nipplecollector7818 understandable, have a nice day
She was always my favorite. All the arguments with her bad alternate self (Leo?) and when you trade and she says "Grandma's got a present for you". Absolutely awesome.
Never a dull moment traveling the Mojave with grandma
I was always partial to Fawkes, from Fallout 3. The perfect blend of brutality and intelligence. It's like Betheseda went and hand crafted their own Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. And Fawkes ruminations of his state of being, and his insistence of being a "meta human," not a super mutant, are just the highlights of a game of that caliber. Lily comes as a close second. The doddering grandma trope is both an enduring and tragic aspect for such a long lived nightkin.
Great analysis!
dog/god from the sierra madre dlc for new vegas is a good example too
@@pontus_011 very cool character
@@rokmun680 yeah ive always liked dog/god, and the option to merge them ive always found to be really interesting
I loved fawkes, what I didn’t love was that by the time you get him as a companion the game is practically over, and you can’t bring companions to the DLC so I just always choose starpaladaian because she rarely dies and I can get her with in 3 hours play time or less
Frank Horrigan Is One Of The Hardest Fights In Fallout.
If Ya Know How To Turn The Mounted Turrets On Him, You'll Win.
But The Standard Fight Is Brutal.
you have to also get the brigade to turn on him too, if you do a playthrough without companions, this is kind of hard to do without save editors and Guides
The turrets are used if you have the president's access card on you and use it to log on his account in the PoseidoNET terminal in the same room as Horrigan.
I've personally been killed by turrets more times than by Horrigan
Is it gay to aim at his eyes?
I wouldn't say turrets = victory.
More than once ive had horrigan heet the turrets, the enclave kill squad, and me.
Strong is still my favorite companion. To his gleeful laughter after a good kill, to his yelling at me every time I pick a lock, to his childlike lack of understanding in some situations.
Speaking of Strong hating you lock picking, it would have been great in FO4 that if you have 10 strength you can get a perk that allows you to ‘smash’ as Strong calls it, a locked safe, box with a sledgehammer and then get the items inside.
I got my character up to master lockpicking, but she started out just being a dumb gal with max strength and high HP that loved swinging a heavy weapon around
Strong is voiced by the same guy that does Goku from dragonball.
@@man_without_fear6518 that’s hilarious, I had no idea 😂
"I've never played Fallout until 4 and never played D&D", the post.
@@deadinside9565 "I'm an obnoxious no lifer who has no friends" the post
@@deadinside9565 The
My favorite one has to be Erickson from the Far Harbor DLC of Fallout 4. The uniquely irradiated fog of Far Harbor mysteriously turned this guy from being the average, violent super mutant from Boston to a chill and thoughtful guy. He even trains hounds of different types, allowing the player to buy them for settlement protection. All in all, he's a big green dude with the personality of a hippie in the wilderness who so happens to love dogs!
Chanced upon one in a duststorm yesterday, took it down with .50 cal round to the head, but the dust lowers visibility and makes VATS much less effective (although you can walk past an enemy five feet away and not see them at all without it) so I had to crouch in it's path and wait for it to walk up to me before taking the shot. Being on survival, it was the tensest moment I've had playing Fallout
Counter: Super mutant behemoths just eat their Wheaties every morning so they grow big and strong.
A valid counter argument
I haven't seen anyone else say it, so I will. Dog/God from the Dead Money DLC has gotta be my favorite. The dynamic between his two personalities and the story around it is so interesting
Fawkes forever!
This guy Fawkes
What happend to Fawkes from FO3 It's only been 10 years evan if the Capital is Far From the Commenwealth 10 years Can Also be a long tine hopefully nothing bad has Happend
Fawkes is goated
I would do all the requirements to exeed the follower limit and end up with like 8 follower plus fawkes, then i would go to my house in Megaton and hit him until he turns hostiles, all the other followers could never defeat him he would anihilate them then kill me lol
Strong is best
I'll always be fond of Marcus, he's so strong in Fallout 2
I would like to see these crooked scientists get together and discuss the various FEV strains. That would be pretty interesting to listen to while I'm crouched with a stealthboy and a laser rifle preparing to blow these madmen away.
Did they just build oversized fire hydrants in this universe?
😂
That’s what a fire hydrant looks like. The long part that the behemoth holds on to is just typically completely underground so you don’t notice it. That’s how the hydrant connects to the water main.
@@joshuadoll9000 are you serious right now? Lol
@@684avatar Yeah. They're normal hydrants.
@@joshuadoll9000 your momma is a fire hydrant 🥵
It never gets old when youre with strong and hes like "This is the age of the supermutants!" Heck the first time i was doing the virgil quests i was with strong, and that bit of unique dialogue leading upto strong and i pummeling virgil and his protectrons, good times
So my take is the behemoth status is just a part of a super mutant's life cycle. In unstable variants it happens because the mutations reach a point where they grow uncontrollably, and in stable variants it just happens with age(which means most won't reach that point given how violent and furious their peers are).
Makes me wonder if theres some really old behemoths that mutated into even bigger behemoths? Probably not when they become more dumb, and pretty much just skin armed with (at that point imo) a concrete support from a highway overpass, but it would be cool seeing a unique behemoth thats really old/really strong
Same, and I was wondering if some of them grew so big that they can't even stand up anymore, so they're just dragged their body on the ground and they're look like some moving hill/mountain from a distance.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's established that super mutants do have metabolic functions like we do; they need to eat and drink to stay alive, indicated by their man-eating tendencies and their camps being full of meat bags. So a behemoth must already require a lot of food (probably eats fellow super mutants if needed), but an even larger behemoth would very easily starve to death when there's nothing to eat for a while.
I would assume there's only so much FEV can do to toughen the bipedal human body and after a certain size their bodies collapse under their own weight
@@ra_alf9467This is actually such a cool concept, perhaps a group of follower mutants who feed the beast and have it roam the wastelands like a slow crawling fortress
I enjoyed Lily, the Nightkin from New Vegas, Marcus was also interesting
Marcus was a bit of a hippy but his story regarding the BOS knight he fought was interesting.
Marcus is clearly the best one.
The Jamaican Jumbalaya Jaguars!!!!
The more I hear about the fallout lore the more I appreciate fallout 3 more, that game was just brutal and I’m glad it was the first fallout game I played
great video!
I'd love to see you back up the "dumber" part of your Vault 87 explanation with some actual in-game lore evidence. The original FEV strain from Fallout 1, also generally resulted in dumb Super Mutants on a regular basis, and the Master laments this, and believes he can solve the problem with an unmutated test subject, which is why all the inhabitants of Vault 13 get kidnapped because they weren't exposed to radiation and other mutagens in the wasteland (having grown up underground.)
Players seem to forget this part because you can only converse with the more intelligent forms. They ignore the fact there are tons of mutants in random encounters that just attack on site and how dumb the ones you can actually converse with are. Fallout 2 muddied the lore even more because the ones who survived Fallout 1 were generally the brighter ones, but even those aren't considered genius, just not complete morons. See the dumb dumbs who survive to New Vegas.
Getting back to Vault 87, Uncle Leo and Fawkes explain that prejudice often results in the more intelligent Super Mutants being driven away or killed by their brethren.
I don't recall ANY lore saying they get dumber as they get older. Just that they continue to grow. Your claim that the FO4 Super Mutants are smarter because they can use more advanced weapons and craft is also suspect because FO3 didn't have crafting as a feature, but you could regularly find Super Mutants using energy weapons as well as the gatling weapons available in that game and the lore stated they were very good at building with metal, particularly fortifications.
Granma Lily is my favorite. On a gameplay standpoint, just give her Oh Baby, make her stop taking meds and go to town with anyone.
On a story standpoint, her story is tragic and I always make sure she remembers her Grandkids, even if that means she takes half dosage of her meds
Swan is one of the best enemies of the Fallout franchise. The event is built up so well; finding clues and seeing hints near the area about the enemy, it being in the direct path of a main mission, how early you encounter it, the build up, ect. I can't describe how terrifying it is to see that broken swan barely moving out of the corner of your eye, and when you hit VATS it is there. You approach and the stand up combined with the roar literally makes it the best enemy in the game. Such an amazing first encounter. I have looked at Fallout 1, 2, and 76, as well as played a ton of Fallout 3, New Vegas, and 4. Trust me when I say Swan is one of if not the best super mutant in Fallout.
I'm glad you had such a buildup for him but I literally was just trying to find that fuckin red line my first playthrough and stumbled on him, used a 10mm pistol to kill him... sure it can either be one of the coolest enemies to find or the most lackluster
meh it was a oke encounter i say the mirelurk qeeun at the castle is more terrifying and there more super mutants i find more fun
I just stumbled upon him while following the red line while still relatively low level, so I had to retreat, set up land mines (something which I rarely use) lure him into the mines, then finish him off with molotovs so it was a pretty fun fight despite not experiencing the build up
I actually didn't know the institute did that, cool
forgot behemoths are in fallout 76. back when the game first launched me and my buddy found a bunch in an old fair grounds and kept getting stomped by like 10 or 15 of them. i got back into the game over the last few months and lots has changed. anyways i was derping around and came across a group of super mutants and off in the back i could see something big. i opened fire and seen him come at me. scared the shit out of me and killed me a few times but i managed to pick them off
My favorite is fawkes, he is the strongest companion I ever had. Only bug or myself can kill him.
There is also the single behemoth from the mariposa strain of FEV,that being frank horrigan. Unlike other strains the mariposa strain was completely pure (at least compared to other strains) so they couldn't produce behemoths naturally. Horrigan became one due to EXTREME Enclave experimentation post transformation which increased his size to around 15 feet. He's also the only one capable of speech.
Amazing video keep the, coming I love fallout
Cheers dude, Bethesda are great with their lore so always happy to make videos on their games
@@LoreTours and I’ll keep watching them
Marcus, my man has a buttery voice when other muties sound like a Yao Guai performed Can can on their voice boxes 💀💀💀
Plus he’s surely around the level of Fawkes smart wise
Good content, i subbed to your channel.
Thanks for the sub! Glad you enjoy the Fallout Lore!
Missed opportunity. That would've been so cool if you could come across Behemoths with cage backpacks full of kidnapped humans and you could end up freeing them.
I always liked Uncle Leo in Fallout 3 because he was the first super mutant that talked that I ever met
idk maybe the (fallout 4's) Commonwealth Super Mutants were genetically coded to not grow larger over time, unlike what we've seen elsewhere. We know that the Institute released them, so maybe it's like releasing a neutered animal into the wild; learning what it does without damaging the test?
Marcus, Fawks, I think his name is Davidson from the encounter in 3 where he gives you a suit and finally, Lilly
Please correct me if I'm wrong about my 2nd, and it's in that order
The behemoth design is so fucking cool
I think it was cleared up during the Steel Dawn DLC when the FEV virus was “perfected” and the scientist ended up turning into a behemoth so maybe he was exposed to a stronger variant of the virus.
It's so hard to choose one favorite. Marcus, Fawkes, basically every single super mutant in New Vegas you can talk with (especially Lilly and Dog/God), Strong...
Fallout 3 Super Mutants are def my favourite mutants in the Fallout series. They have it all. Menecing appearance, great combat and intense/funny diolauge.
Bethesda knew what they were doing with Fallout 3. Practically bottled lightning.
"I am super mutant! I am unstoppable!" - they say to the guy in fully modded power armor.
Usually they say this just before I kill them.... I don't even use power armor really ever...
@@nightfall89z62 When I play I always use power armor, usually getting X-01 by level 15.
@@Vault-TecOffical cool. I don't think I've ever had full x01 until level 25ish
I hope fallout 5's super mutants are smarter, more evolved and even willing to have diplomacy and settlements that you can ally with or become hated in
Rising to the top and becoming the leader your own gang of Super Mutants would be fun
@Lore Tours oh definetly, maybe have a unique companion who is like the first Super mutant offspring maybe cool backstory
@@liamhealy4511 That would be good, feel like that companion would also then end up being worshipped by the other mutants as a Mesiah due to their infertility
I hope not. That's just too far away from supper mutan behavior. I think the fact you can befriend Strong in fo4 is enough.
@@theonlineanimal6009 Nah, in the original games, the super mutants were just different-looking people. They were able to co-exist with humans. Bethesda has only portrayed them as comically stupid monsters, but since their super mutants are always the result of a new experiment somewhere, it leaves the option for the original FEV strain of super mutants to make a return.
Need to remember they willingly toyed with FEV whenever I see another Institute defender.
I've always had a soft spot for uncle Leo, Fawkes is cool but the fact that he's directly tied into a main quest makes encountering him a lot less exiting than Leo randomly wandering by.
The intro reminds me of when I go goblin mode
can say a lot about behemoths, but you can't take the readiness to shop away from em, ready to shop, and shop big!
😂
Man, its like the Master's worst nightmare.
Thanks
Grahm is my favorite super mutant. He is so wholesome and just loves his cow and making money.
Imagine if there was a behemoth that retain Strong or Dog’s level of intelligence; able to have it as a companion
There is even a blind super mutant somewhere in fallout 4 idk where I forgot
My favorite super mutants were strong and Erickson. The armor for the super mutants in fallout 4 made me really wish they would delve into making playable super mutants in universe.
Let me know if this is a dumb idea, but Super mutant caravans. If we’re to have another fallout featuring them,especially located in the east coast,having another separate source of FEV would become tiresome, as it would seem like lazy writing to cram them into the game. Like you mentioned in the vid, we already have examples of super mutants migrating (and in this case, across a large body of water) so it’s even been established they can roam in packs. I can already imagine roving bands of mutants in transit between vault 87 (just an example of an FEV source) and where the game takes place in order to gather up more people ti turn into mutants. Hell, even waystations along their route heading out of the location would be a fun way to incorporate some higher difficulty areas and unique bosses within them. I also imagine a main quest wherein you lock down their main return route to the capital wastes and hold it against waves of mutants.
Tl;dr traveling mutants between next game’s location and an already established FEV source can create a potential for more gameplay and story variety without the lazy writing of a new completely different FEV source that despite its canonized rarity seems to keep popping up out of the blue
I like that a lot! Yeah it does just feel like they cram them into every game a bit, especially when, as you said FEV is meant to be a rare resource.
Your idea could set them up as a legitimate big bad boss for the next game with a tide of them spewing forth into the wasteland for the player to stop.
Either give them some proper development in the next game or just cut them and create a new set of bad guys.
@@LoreTours exactly! Like they even crammed the super mutants into 76 when the scorched already could’ve been an amazing replacement with just a little bit more variety. Only other problem is we’re gonna have to wait another 5 years til we see anything new from fallout:(
@@tylerthomason9461 True true, Starfield is hopefully out soonish though and man it looks fun
@@LoreTours I’m cautiously optimistic for it. Just hoping Bethesda doesn’t fumble it somehow
What i really wanna know is why do alot of the behemoths have shopping carts in their backs
I always assumed it was being exposed to extreme radiation during the transformation
Whitch I’d why they are so lumpy and uneven
That could be the case for those produced by the Institute I guess. Their strain of FEV did have a lot of issues with radiation contaminated subjects while they were trying to make Gen 3 synths. I touch on that a bit more in this video if it interests you :) th-cam.com/video/2W_h7s0ZStU/w-d-xo.html
Can Behemoths breathe underwater?
We find Swan asleep underwater, as do we find one in 76 sleeping in a pond.
It is most likely that the natural production of human growth hormone has been turned up to 100 with the FEV but I wouldn't say that about all but it seems logical for most.
Also something to kinda do with the size of the behemoth in reality the frame would have so much stress from gaining upwards of 600 pounds your bones would have to change or they will degrade and the heart will probably stop functioning normally pretty much early stages of heart failure by the time of behemoth if the bones muscles and heart hasn't changed for the bigger body they will die but chances the gland in the brain is effected that had Andre the Giant holding wine bottles and making them look like beer bottles
what about frank horagan from fallout 2? i thought he was a supermutant behemoth?
Frank isn't exactly a super mutant to begin with, He's the closest thing to the FEV's original intended result of creating Super Soldiers that anyone using FEV has ever achieved, although intervention from the Enclave with Surgery and a few other alterations was needed.
Neil the super many from new Vegas that warns you about going up black mountain 😊
Grandma for sure is my favorite dearies lolol
I like that fallout super mutants are like elder scrolls vampire they are different depending how they are made and are not all the same.
Always wondered why the mutants in F4 looked far less intimadating than they did in F3 and NV.
I can still hear it.....
Super mutant: "Smashy smashy"
The best super mutant is the one that spawns when you pick up the teddy bear out the shopping cart
Marcus for me by far. From his voice and model to his philosophic nature. Makes me want a remake of fallout 2 and nv with todays tech. Tho at the same time if not given proper care theyd probably just fuck it up
swan was my favorit sadly i did not know that you could tame him befor i killed him
The fact that frank basically was a behemoth in power armor (wiki says 12ft tall)
My head canon for the super mutant behmoths was actully certian mutants getting expoused to a higher dosgae of fvv and radition
You should give them credit
I'd have to say my favorite supermutant companion would have to be Lily.
I just all the grandmotherly things she said and how doting she is on your character.
I wish in in all fallout games you can have a option to become a behemoth. 🙂
It'd be cool just to become a super mutant. Like how Skyrim let's you become a werewolf
@@LoreTours or if the game allowed you to become a ghoul or synth or sum similar to Skyrim like you mentioned with the Werewolf or Vampire race
Mods
@@funbagdirk3957 Fallout 76 tried that but the multiplayer factor killed that.
Grams my favorite super super mutant the things he says are just funny
I like the red bohometh in Fallout4.
Me casually 1v1ing a Behemoth with my power fist.
Same here. The most annoying part about the ancient ones isn't the damage. That part doesn't exist. The annoying part is how long I have to wait until I can punch again when they stomp me. It's a bit horrifying when a 200 year old lawyer thinks of this nightmarish creature as a demon, but it's also funny.
Ok what if, you know the giant human skeleton you find in fallout 4? (I think) what if that was a species of human that was mutated into super mutants.
Itd be cool if they had their own sort of diamond city where they thrive n work with the communities hell itd be cool if fallout 5 was a story where we are a rare super mutant with intelligence etc
Fawkes, meansonofubich and that one super mutant who sells you dogs in far harbor
Did anyone else notice that the behemoth had fewer toes and fingers?
Well atempts to make houlk 😅
What about the night kin why are they different
im just curious who made their shoes and pants.
Do a vid on nightkin
one of them were probably shaq
Trueeee, some of them are probably smaller than Shaq tbf
Fallout 3 mutants weren't as dumb as people were made to believe, at the very least not all of them. Somehow, despite the excruciating pain of the transformation and the supposed decreased intelligence, the mutants somehow remembered and knew how to turn other people into SM, despite the fact that this was a process that also required vast scientific knowledge.
3:38 Frank horrigan
Ah the institute the faction that tries it’s hardest to being completely unredeemable.
Chicken and broccoli for gains
Grahm and his meat week, along with chally moo moo
Swan is my Favorite behemoth super mutant and Fawkes is my favorite standard super mutant
“You know exercise. Plenty of rest. Eat your green vegetables” peter maquire parker
Behemoths don't make sense as they are canonically mindless beasts, but they obviously would have to be tool users to make their equipment.
Essentially the repurposed assets for giants without consistent lore kept in documentation.
I guess they didn't want to pay for more voice acting?
The super muntants of far harbor aren’t from the mainland commonwealth
The way Bethesda use them , they are just orc in this universe as far as as I'm concern. BTW , what is that oversized fire hydrant ?
Do nightkin count because my favourite is best friend Tabitha
U can zoom (random asf but first vid I found out)
No I'm going to work out
It is quite true yes the Fallout 4 is weird and different yes even the super meetings are a bit more intelligent even the behemoths has some capabilities I did not know about and yes they actually do show some type of intelligence
You didnt mention frank horigan dude a behemoth in power armor
He could definitely solo a behemoth. I wouldn't class him as one though, he's more of a genetically modified super soldier, akin to what WestTek originally wanted to create with FEV. Behemoths are just Super Mutants who kept getting taller
Erickson he sells you dogs of all types for cheap its also how i got my settlers to 100 percent happiness
Is Vergil still the most intelligent super mutant?