Super Mutant Sterility and an offhand comment by Marcus

Are Super Mutants Sterile?

  • It takes a few years to get the juices flowing again.

    Votes: 1 10.0%
  • The Vault Dweller was right, they're sterile.

    Votes: 9 90.0%

  • Total voters
    10

Traplord209

It Wandered In From the Wastes
So I was playing Fallout 2 and I decided to get Marcus a hooker to see what he'd say. He goes "I hope she doesn't get pregnant." My player character was able to ask him WHY he said this, because the player character "thought all mutants were sterile". Well so did I? They even reference it in later games if I remember correctly. Marcus has this to say though. Is it canon?
Untitled.png
 
Chris Avellone answered this in the Fallout Bible back in the day. He said that Marcus was just joking, Super Mutants are sterile. Whether the original author intended this to be a joke is anyone’s guess.
 
Fair enough of a retcon. It's clear though that Marcus is not saying it as a joke in the actual game. Too bad.
 
The whole sterility part is not exactly explained in details.

Maybe it's only female Supermutants who are sterile, while the male Supermutants are fertile, but human females who get impregnated by them die along with the child due to complications (like the Ogre Island in Arcanum).

There're 2 things that could point to that being the case:
  • The female Supermutants lose more traits of their gender than males
  • All test subjects in Supermutant lab in Tactics are female
 
This is why having more than one writer for stuff like this is a bad idea. Then some guy comes in years later starting a religion off the whole mess and the doctrine is all screwy.
 
The whole sterility part is not exactly explained in details.

Maybe it's only female Supermutants who are sterile, while the male Supermutants are fertile, but human females who get impregnated by them die along with the child due to complications (like the Ogre Island in Arcanum).

There're 2 things that could point to that being the case:
  • The female Supermutants lose more traits of their gender than males
  • All test subjects in Supermutant lab in Tactics are female
This is a much cooler explanation. I'm going with this for my head canon
 
Chris Avellone answered this in the Fallout Bible back in the day. He said that Marcus was just joking, Super Mutants are sterile. Whether the original author intended this to be a joke is anyone’s guess.
Now here's the real question that no one hasn't asked yet, is the Fallout Bible STILL considered canon? :confused:
 
The whole sterility part is not exactly explained in details.

Maybe it's only female Supermutants who are sterile, while the male Supermutants are fertile, but human females who get impregnated by them die along with the child due to complications (like the Ogre Island in Arcanum).

There're 2 things that could point to that being the case:
  • The female Supermutants lose more traits of their gender than males
  • All test subjects in Supermutant lab in Tactics are female
The only issue with this explanation is that the reason for Super Mutant sterility is due to FEV “repairing” gametes, as FEV views sex cells as “unfinished”. Doesn’t explain how all the non-human FEV mutants can reproduce though.
 
Last edited:
The real explanation is they just never thought about it that in depth and the lore is all retarded. In order for me to jam Atom into the headcanon I need to fudge a couple of dates here. *marks dates off*
 
HELLO this is Earth calling. They are not real people ! It is a game. Headcanon ? I liked the bread cannon. Firing those baguettes was funny.

Marcus told me he liked doing the wimmins up the Gary Glitter. Chris Have a Loan is way overated as a storyteller.
 
Last edited:
Hello guy that does not get things. People like to come up with fan canon at places like this to keep the creativity flowing. Stuff like this:

https://www.nma-fallout.com/threads/fallout-motor-city.197709/

Then sometimes they make mods out of it. Sometimes they don't. Either way that headcanon is being put into the mod for Hearts of Iron 4 so it is something I guess.
 
I am very old and confused. I thought canonised and circumcised were both the same thing. I know Cardinal Newman was canonised cos I went to his school. Further up the road (Queens Drive) King David school had circumcised pupils.

All the time I have to look up the definitions of words. Incel , snowflake, even that ' touch grass ' phrase.
I thought it was a drug reference but it just means, get out more.

I did the same as @Traplord209 and tried to get ol' Marcus laid.

In New Vegas if you get Marcus a bit fucked up on drink an drugz he boasts about making some money in the porn industry. Apparently BGC videos were all the rage at that time.

I would guess Marcus made all the 2nd gen mutants. It was not Marcus that made them stupid fuckers it was the mothers who sold their bodies in Reno.

So I suppose that is my headcanon . Thank you ' teach' I have learned a lot.
 
A retcon is acceptable. However, it is obvious that Marcus is not saying it in jest throughout the real game. Oh well.
 
Back
Top