Fallout Season 2 Will Tackle New Vegas’ Many Endings From Every Angle
Fallout’s Aaron Moten teases that the show won’t dodge New Vegas’ branching endings, hinting at a canon‑smart way to fold the game’s divergent paths into the series.
Pack your chips. Fallout season 2 is heading to New Vegas, and the show is already teasing how it will handle the game’s choose-your-own-ending baggage without breaking the timeline.
What Aaron Moten is actually hinting at
Aaron Moten, who plays Maximus (a Brotherhood of Steel knight), told The Spill that the new season takes place years after the events of the 2010 game Fallout: New Vegas. He also said he and showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet have been talking about the way the wasteland remembers things: messy, self-serving, and contradictory. Or, in his words:
"how history is written in the wasteland by whoever writes it."
He added that early in the season, Lucy and the Ghoul bump into people who are very sure they’re on the winning side of recent history, while the Ghoul pushes back with a different read. Translation: do not expect one neat, universally accepted version of who won New Vegas.
Quick refresher: the game ended four different ways
Fallout: New Vegas famously branches depending on who you back, and the final showdown decides who runs the Mojave. No heavy spoilers here, but the major paths are:
- NCR (New California Republic)
- Caesar's Legion
- Mr. House
- Independence (going it alone)
Each route reshapes the Strip and beyond, which is great for a video game and a headache for any TV writer trying to pick a single canon. Moten’s comments suggest the show might not pick one at all, instead letting different factions claim different outcomes. Honestly, that tracks for this universe.
The poster tease that raised eyebrows
A fresh season 2 poster quietly tweaks a fan-favorite faction: the Kings — the Elvis-worshipping gang from the games — look to be Ghouls in the show. In New Vegas they’re human. It’s a small change with big ripple potential, and a nice sign the series isn’t afraid to remix game lore when it makes sense on screen.
Where this leaves season 2
New Vegas is a major setting with a lot of baggage, but the series seems ready to lean into the unreliable-history angle rather than lock in a single definitive ending. Expect conflicting stories, power plays, and people insisting they already won. Fallout season 2 hits Prime Video on December 19.