Fallout season two‘s latest episode provided one of the coolest reveals in the show’s run and was also a great moment for fans of “Pointing at the TV and going ‘Oh crap!’” in front of their friends and then getting to explain why they were so excited.
But wait. Before we go any further, we’re about to completely spoil that cool moment (and only that moment) from season two, episode six of Amazon’s Fallout show that brings back not one, but two classic elements from the old Fallout games. So if you want to avoid that, this is the part where you turn around and never look back. Everyone else, keep scrolling.
After being super-punched through a window at the end of the last episode and left for dead by Lucy, the Ghoul is saved from his spikey predicament by a large, strange-looking figure. That figure is revealed to be a Super Mutant. Yup, the Fallout show has finally brought these big ol’ bastards into the series, and I’m happy to see they aren’t the brutish-looking monsters so frequently depicted in Bethesda’s Fallout games. Instead, this Super Mutant looks and sounds a lot like the kind seen in the older Fallout CRPGs and New Vegas.
Technically, a dead Super Mutant appeared in season one in an Enclave base, though we only saw its large green hand sticking out from underneath a sheet. But this is the first time we’ve seen a living Super Mutant in the show. That alone would be cool enough, but there’s more to this moment. The actor behind the Super Mutant makeup is Ron Perlman, a man who has a long history with the Fallout franchise.
SUPER MUTANT have arrived in #Fallout and he wanted o join Ghoul in his kind pic.twitter.com/30PD4PpZ0p
— sanmeyo (@oyemnassxo) January 21, 2026
The movie and TV actor has acted as a narrator in most of the Fallout games, including the original ones back in the ’90s. He’s the guy who famously says, “War. War never changes,” at the start of so many Fallout adventures, and who also often provides a recap of your choices and their outcomes at the end. He also appears in Fallout 4 as a TV newscaster you can hear in the background during the game’s intro. And now he’s here for the Fallout TV show, and I’m very happy about it.
It’s good to have you back, Perlman. Hopefully, you got paid more than $40 and a sandwich for this role.
Perlman’s Super Mutant character, after saving the Ghoul, mentions that the ones to blame for all of this are the Enclave, a mysterious group of fascists that planned to take over the United States before the bombs fell. The group later claimed to be the inheritors of the United States’ power and authority after the world ended. And it seems they are going to play a big role in the final episodes of Fallout season two.
