“Your involvement with the various places and people of the Wasteland is well documented by future historians. Only a single question remained unanswered: What happened to you?
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Below are the available ending cutscenes in Fallout. The endings are influenced by the choices the player character made during the course of the game.
Returned to normal vault life
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“You are taken away, and slowly returned to normal Vault life. But a month later, disaster strikes.
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Refuse to or fail trying to find the water chip. 
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Military base
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“Your mission beneath the Mutant Stronghold is successful. Your actions today will influence the outside world for years to come.
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Destroy the Mariposa Military Base. | 
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Cathedral
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“Your mission beneath the Cathedral is successful. Your actions today will influence the outside world for years to come.
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Destroy the Cathedral. | 
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Master's victory
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“It is done. Vault Thirteen belongs to the Unity and the Master. Your knowledge of the Vault defenses saved many mutant lives during the attack. You personally made the final kill when you took the life of the Overseer. You will certainly become one of the finest soldiers for the Unity, and your skills will see you rewarded often in the future. You are happy. But there remains the tiniest doubt of what could have been...
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Join the Unity. Reveal the location of Vault 13 to the Lieutenant or the Master, or let 500 days pass with the Master still alive (in v.1.0; otherwise, this triggers after 13 years). | 
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Super mutants
Ending 1
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“The death of the Master was the first major step towards ending his mad dream of conquest and enforced peace, but it is the destruction of the Vats that neutralizes the mutant threat. Without the ability to create more mutants and enforce their harsh brand of justice, the mutant armies flee to the east, beyond the no-man's land.
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Destroy the Cathedral before the Mariposa Military Base. Note: The Vault Dweller's memoirs establish this ending as canon. |
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Ending 2
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“You managed to destroy the Vats, then you killed the Master before he could realize his twisted plans. With the Master gone, his armies flee to the east in fear of retribution from the remaining normals.
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Destroy the Military Base before taking the Cathedral. Note: Due to a bug, the game only plays the prior ending, never this one. |
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Necropolis
Water pump maintained
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“The ghouls of Necropolis learn how to maintain the repaired water pump, and eventually rediscover many lost secrets of engineering. They form a business selling this technology to other towns.
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Take the chip, fix the pump. Note: This ending is partially canon, as mentioned by some ghouls like Lenny in Gecko. |
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Dehydration
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“The ghouls of Necropolis learn firsthand the final meaning of dehydration, as their city succumbs to the desert sands and the water runs out. Without their water purifying control chip, they do not survive.
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Take the water chip, but don't fix the pump. | 
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Mutant attack
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“The mutant attack on Necropolis spares none of the ghoulish inhabitants. After the mutant armies advance, they leave a truly dead city behind them.
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Enter Necropolis after 110 days have passed, or kill all the super mutants at the watershed and enter after 30 days have passed. Note: The Vault Dweller's memoirs and Fallout 2 establish this ending as canon. |
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Followers of the Apocalypse
Gain control of Boneyard
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“The Followers of the Apocalypse rise to become a major influence in New California. With your help, they gain control of the LA Boneyard.
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Complete the Find Children spy in the Followers quest and train the Followers in use of firearms. Note: Fallout: New Vegas establishes this ending as canon. However, it is impossible to obtain in the game due to Heather's absence. |
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Killed by mutants
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“The mutant armies, led into battle by the fierce Super Mutants, destroy the Followers of the Apocalypse. Barely human carrion feeders pick over the Followers' remains.
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Either the Master is still alive after 90 days, or one fails to find the Children of the Cathedral spy within the Followers. | 
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Shady Sands
New California Republic
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“In Shady Sands, Tandi helps her father Aradesh bring a new community and new life out of the broken remains of the world. They are responsible for the New California Republic, whose ideals spread across the land.
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Aradesh and Tandi are alive. Note: Fallout 2, Fallout 3, New Vegas, and Fallout 4 establish this ending as canon. |
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Aradesh grieves Tandi
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“Aradesh grieves for his slain daughter, Tandi, but eventually builds Shady Sands into a respected community which is prosperous for many years, before his untimely death at the hands of a Desert Raider.
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Tandi is dead or not rescued, Aradesh is alive. |
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Tandi takes over
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“Tandi takes control of Shady Sands after the death of her father, Aradesh. Her brilliant if headstrong style of leadership makes Shady Sands a powerful force in the years to come.
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Aradesh is dead, but not Tandi. |
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Destroyed by raiders
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“With Aradesh dead, and Tandi missing or killed, Shady Sands needs a new leader. After several elections, they find they cannot be governed by a single person and create a guiding council. Shortly afterwards, the Raiders regroup and attack Shady Sands, burning the small community to the ground.
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Aradesh is dead, and Tandi is either dead or still being held by the Khans. | 
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Razed by mutants
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
|---|---|---|
“The mutant army marches as far north as Shady Sands, razing the small town to the ground.
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The Master is still alive after 230 days have passed. Takes precedence over the other endings. |
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Junktown
Killian takes control
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“Killian Darkwater takes firm control of Junktown, drives out the last of Gizmo's kind, and then enforces his own brand of frontier justice. Life is fair and safe under his law.
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Gizmo is dead, Killian is alive. | 
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Killian alternate version
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“With Gizmo out of the way, Killian enforces his brand of frontier justice on Junktown. The city remains orderly but small, as travelers steer away from his rigid sensibilities.”
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With the background picture being a gallows behind Killian with shadows of dead men hanging from it. |
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Gizmo takes control
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
|---|---|---|
“Junktown becomes the new boomtown under the careful, and profitable, guidance of Don Gizmo. He profits the most, and continues to increase the size of his casino, and the scope of his power, until he chokes to death while eating some iguana-on-a-stick.
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Gizmo is alive. | 
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Gizmo alternate version
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“Under Gizmo's leadership, Junktown becomes a trading center and resort, where people come from miles around to gamble, spend money and enjoy themselves in relative safety. Gizmo keeps the town prosperous but healthy, as he has no desire to injure his own affluence. The inhabitants of the town become wealthy and famous.”
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With the background picture showing Junktown as a Reno-like casino with electricity and clean streets free of any drug dealers or riff-raff who might endanger Gizmo's operations. |
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Destroyed by mutants
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“The mutants are slowed, but not stopped, by the brave defenders of Junktown. When the army finishes their brutal siege, nothing of Junktown remains.
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The Master is still alive after 210 days.
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- In the original write-up of Junktown, the "ending sequence" was reversed from its final incarnation. See the alternate endings for the original versions.[1]
Brotherhood of Steel
Major research and development house
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“The Brotherhood of Steel helps the other human outposts drive the mutant armies away with minimal loss of life, on both sides of the conflict. The advanced technology of the Brotherhood is slowly reintroduced into New California, with little disruption or chaos. The Brotherhood wisely remains out of the power structure, and becomes a major research and development house.
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Rhombus is alive. Note: Fallout 2 establish this ending as canon. |
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Dictatorship
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“The Brotherhood of Steel, under new leadership after the death of Rhombus, becomes an overzealous, techno-religious dictatorship. In 20 years, the Steel Plague devastates the newly formed New California Republic, and starts a Dark Age that could last a thousand years.
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Rhombus is dead. | 
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Destruction
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“The Brotherhood of Steel repels the first wave of a mutant invasion, but a traitor in their midst causes the Citadel to fall. Fortunately, the advanced technology is mastered slowly by the mutants, and they were unable to use it against you.
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Kedrick is alive, or the Master is alive for 170 days.
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Hub
Prosperous trade center
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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| Complete find the missing caravans, none of Decker's quests, complete Iguana Bob quest, be friendly with Harold. Note: Fallout 2, Fallout 3 and New Vegas confirms that this ending is canon, despite the Iguana Bob quest being absent. |
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Abandoned
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“The Hub disperses before the might of the mutant army and will never recover.
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Do not complete the quest to find the missing caravans, complete at least one quest from Decker, or the Master is alive after 140 days. | 
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Khans
Destroyed as a fighting force
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“Thanks to your persistence, the Raiders are destroyed as an effective fighting force, and disband. None of the Raider survivors are ever heard from again.
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Kill Garl and at least eight more raiders, or kill at least thirteen raiders. Note: Fallout 2 and New Vegas establish this ending as semi-canon. |
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Regroup and terrorize
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“The Desert Raiders eventually regroup and manage to terrorize small communities in the years following your adventures.
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Enter the raider camp but don't kill enough raiders for the previous ending. |
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Scourge that lasts for years
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“The Desert Raiders pillage most of the northern parts of New California. They are a scourge that lasts for years, until a rebel army of mutants brings them down.
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Do not enter the main camp of the Khans. |
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Vault Dweller
Kill the overseer
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“You march into the desert sands, leaving the shattered corpse of the Overseer behind you, never to return to the Vault.
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Must have the Bloody Mess trait from character creation or by using the perk Mutate!. Then by the end of the game, must either have low Karma, or initiate combat after talking with Jacoren. |
The overseer lives
| Narrative | In-game condition(s) | Image |
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“You march into the desert sands, leaving the Vault behind you.
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Don't kill Jacoren. Note: The Vault Dweller's memoirs and Fallout 2 establish this ending as canon. |
Videos
Fallout Cutscenes The Dipping
Fallout Cutscenes The Invasion of Vault 13
Fallout Cathedral Explosion
Fallout 1 - Killing Overseer
Remastered cutscenes
Fallout 1 Original- The Dipping Cinematic
Fallout 1 Original- Invasion of Vault 13 Cinematic
Fallout 1 Original- Cathedral Explosion Cinematic
Fallout 1 Original- Vault 13 Out of Water Cinematic