Summary

• The Fallout TV show is canon to the games, offering a new story and Easter eggs from the franchise.
• The trailer reveals the main character exiting Vault 33, following the game series' story structure.
• Fan-favorite elements like Dogmeat, Power Armor, and the Brotherhood of Steel will appear in the show, staying true to the retrofuturistic style of the games.

The teaser trailer for Amazon's teaser trailer for the Fallout show at CCXP 2023, offering audiences the first look at the popular video game series translated to screen.

Interestingly, the Fallout franchise's timeline for the TV show. As such, the teaser trailer for Amazon's Fallout offers some insight into what this story will entail, along with a slew of Easter eggs and references to the original game series.

11 The Fallout Trailer Shows The First Look At Vault 33

The Amazon show will feature an all-new Fallout location.

The first tease at the Fallout show's story involves a first look at Vault 33. In almost every Fallout game, the story begins with the player character exiting a Vault, a bunker-like home created for humans to survive imminent nuclear destruction. Most games take place a certain amount of time after the apocalypse, with the Fallout TV show beginning in Vault 33 and featuring a similar story to the game series.

10 Amazon’s Fallout Show Will Tell A Similar Story To The Fallout Games

The Fallout adaptation seems to be adhering to the game franchise's status quo.

As is clear from Amazon's Fallout trailer, the series will tell a very similar story to the various games in the franchise. The trailer showcases the main character, Ella Purnell's Lucy, exiting Vault 33 for an unspecified reason. Most Fallout games follow this story outline, with the player character foregoing the safety of a Vault for the Wasteland for a specific adventure. For example, Fallout 3 centers on the player character leaving Vault 101 to search for their father who disappeared, while Fallout 4 showcases players leaving Vault 111 to find their son, Shaun. While the trailer does not reveal the reason for Fallout’s story, the basic premise is similar.

9 The Fallout TV Show Confirms Dogmeat’s Appearance

An iconic Fallout companion returns for a live-action appearance.

One of the first major Easter eggs to the original games found in Fallout's trailer is the appearance of Dogmeat. Dogmeat is the German Shepherd shown in the trailer multiple times and comes from the Fallout game series. In most games, Dogmeat has been a standout, fan-favorite character with different iterations being utilized in Fallout, Fallout 3, and Fallout 4, with a cameo appearance in Fallout 2. Following this trend, Amazon's Fallout TV show will also feature Dogmeat in some capacity.

8 Amazon’s Fallout Show Continues The Franchise’s Retrofuturistic Style

Fallout's unmistakable visual style is being accurately portrayed by Amazon Prime's show.

One of the more wide-reaching Easter eggs of Amazon's Fallout trailer is that the show will continue the games' retrofuturistic style. In the Fallout universe, the nuclear destruction of the world takes place in 2077 with the society of that time having an overt fondness for eras between the 1940s and 1960s. As such, the world's look, feel, style, and tone all resemble 1940s-1960s America. This will continue with Amazon's Fallout, with the trailer exemplifying the visual style of the games while accompanied by Nat King Cole's "I Don't Want To See Tomorrow."

7 Amazon’s Fallout Show Includes Fallout's Vertibirds

The Fallout show adapts recognizable vehicles from the game franchise.

Another interesting game Easter egg found in the Fallout trailer is the inclusion of Vertibirds. In the Fallout game series, Vertibirds are forms of VTOL aircraft that often switch the position of their rotor blades. These vehicles can be spotted in the trailer for Amazon's Fallout shortly after the Nat King Cole song begins to play.

6 The Fallout Trailer Offers The First Look At The Series’ Iconic Power Armor

Fallout's most recognizable aspect gets a live-action interpretation.

Undoubtedly the most iconic, recognizable aspect of the Fallout franchise is Power armor, the bulky suit of armor that plays a major part in almost every Fallout game. This was heavily expected to be included in Amazon's adaptation, with the Fallout trailer offering the first look at the armor. Sporting an almost identical design to the games with a perfect blend of CGI and practical effects, Amazon's Fallout trailer proves the show will do the franchise's Power armor justice.

5 The Fallout Trailer Includes An Iconic Video Game Faction

The Brotherhood of Steel arrives at Amazon Prime's Fallout Wasteland.

While the Power armor shown in Fallout's trailer is an Easter egg in and of itself, it also contains another, more subtle reference to the games. On the chest of the various suits of Power armor shown in the trailer, a red symbol can be spotted which shows a winged sword surrounded by gears. This symbol is from the Fallout games and is the sigil of the Brotherhood of Steel, a faction found in every Fallout game. The Brotherhood of Steel seeks to preserve advanced technology and regulate its usage throughout the wasteland in each Fallout game, with the faction playing a part in the Amazon show's story too.

4 Amazon’s Fallout Trailer Gives First Looks At The Show’s Cast (Including Walton Goggins’ Ghoul)

Fallout's cast includes a whole host of fantastic actors.

The trailer for Amazon's Fallout includes first looks at the show's ensemble cast. From Ella Purnell's Lucy to Michael Emerson's Wilzig, the first half of the Fallout trailer highlights some of the show's characters. Other inclusions are Aaron Moten's Maximus and Walton Goggins as Cooper Howard/The Ghoul. In the Fallout universe, Ghouls are mutated humans who have been adversely affected by the nuclear radiation of the Wasteland.

3 Amazon’s Fallout References Vault-Tec

The iconic Fallout organization will have a role to play in adaptation.

In the Fallout universe, the Vaults that housed humanity during the nuclear apocalypse were created by a company named Vault-Tec. The Vaults and everything inside them were provided by Vault-Tec, with the company's iconography being found throughout Amaozn's Fallout trailer. From the yellow and blue jumpsuits of the Vault Dwellers such as Lucy to the mugs in the trailer donning the Vault-Tec logo, the iconic game company will have a present role in Amazon's adaptation.

2 The Fallout Trailer Highlights The Series’ Mutated Monsters & Weapons

Radroachs, hermit crabs, and nuclear-infused bears ravage Fallout's world.

While Ghouls are mutated humans in the Fallout universe, the world also houses several mutated monsters. Some of these are spotted in the Fallout trailer, the first being the iconic Radroach. Radroachs are one of the more common monsters in the Fallout games and are giant mutated cockroaches, one of which can be spotted in the Fallout trailer. Other monsters in Amazon's show highlighted by the trailer include a mutated crab, possibly a hermit crab or mirelurk from the games, as well as a radiation-infused grizzly bear. Similarly, the trailer highlights Fallout’s recognizable weapons like automatic guns and sentry turrets.