Cassidy?

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So, who is he based on?

Our website and also Falloutvault.com says he's based off a vampire in Garth Ennis' Preacher comics.

Except John Cassidy isn't a Vampire, and The Preacher certainly isn't retrofiftyish.

So, why the assumption?

Our reader Dragoon says that "Cassidy was named after Cletus Cassidy, who was Carnage in the spider-man comics. He is more of a 'mean sonuvabitch'"

I would guess that the comic book character from before the war would be Hopalong Cassidy, who was made into a comic and even looks a bit alike.

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But he's not a "mean sonuvabitch", as Sander points out.

So?

Was Butch Cassidy ever made into a comic?

Discuss.
 
I maintain that it's from the Preacher comics. The Fallout 2 developers never showed any attention to the 50s setting, and only thought about what would be cool when it came to easter eggs. I doubt that anyone of them thought that 'Hopalong Cassidy' was in any way cool.
 
Preacher what? Hopalong Cassidy was the first thing to come to mind, what with the Western-ish theme in Fallout 2 and all.

In fact, Cassidy is a very Western-ish name, and everyone back there was a badass.

If you have the Slaver or Childkiller perks, or a karma of -101 or below, Cassidy will not join you on your quest. He won't leave if you gain these perks or lower your karma after he has joined, though.
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He's not that much of a badass, apparently. And Hopalong Cassidy did go around capping bad guys.

Wikipedia said:
Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional cowboy-hero, created in 1904 by Clarence E. Mulford and appearing in a series of popular stories and later novels. Here the character appears as a rude, rough-talking 'galoot'. Beginning in 1935, the character, played by William Boyd was transformed into the clean-cut hero of a series of 66 immensely popular films, only a few of which were based on Mulford's works, but which led, in turn, to a comic book series modelled after the films.
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Apparently the original one was badass, and used harsh language.


I really have no idea what a vampire has to do with any of this.
 
I allways thought he was based on Hopalong Cassidy before I started searching about Fallout on teh intarnet web...most likely because I had never herd of any other Cassidy's back then.
 
Uh-hm... Butch CASSIDY and the Sundance Kid... ring a bell? Anyone? Helloooooo?
 
corey said:
it says in the game he was from butch cassidy who his dad named after.
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Where. Where does it say so in the game?

You only are presented with a phrase from Cassidy "Dad named me after some comic book character from before the War. Said he was a mean sonuvabitch, too", QFM. So, I ask about Butch Cassidy comics to validate this.

Also, your sig picture is 22px too high.
 
Hmmm, I need to find those 'cassidy' comics it seems.

Vintage anything is usualy better quality than modern era (execpt the 80's, little good came from that decade)
 
PsychoSniper said:
Vintage anything is usualy better quality than modern era (execpt the 80's, little good came from that decade)
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Yup, Watchmen, Swamp Thing, The Sandman, Doom Patrol, V for Vendetta, Love and Rockets, Thorgal, those comics just plain suck!
 
alec said:
Uh-hm... Butch CASSIDY and the Sundance Kid... ring a bell? Anyone? Helloooooo?
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That never was a comic, so that's already not the case. Although that would be the most likely answer otherwise.
 
I always assumed he was Cassidy from preacher. Could be that at the time I was a big preacher fan, but there seems little question on it. To the best of my knowledg, there is no Butch Cassidy comic. If there is, I need to buy it.
Vintage anything is usualy better quality than modern era (execpt the 80's, little good came from that decade)
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Iron Maiden.
One 80's thing that will make up for any bad 80's things. Ever.
 
There most definitely was a short-lived Hopalong Cassidy comic, graphic novel, etc.

A vampire would be sill-eh!
 
Of course there was. That was what Hopalong Cassidy was. But, he wasn't a 'badass motherfucker'.

Besides, the Fallout 2 developers weren't known for their adherence to retro pulp, or their aversion of silliness.
 
Preacher's Cassidy doesn't have enough similarities to really be Cassidy's base to me. He wasn't really a mean sonuvabitch so much as he was a child trapped in a vampire's body with a constructed sense of justice. Sure, Cassidy owned a bar, but there's no suggestion that he had a drinking or a drug problem.

Saying that Fallout 2 had a western theme doesn't help, since Preacher had a huge western theme and was also designed around an appreciation of Americana, though Preacher's Americana was circa 1990.

I guess there's no real way to prove it unless it comes from the horse's mouth, but having the character based on Preacher's Cassidy would be stupid.
 
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