The Master (Fallout)

"The Unity will bring about the master race. Master! Master! One able to survive, or even thrive, in the wasteland. As long as there are differences, we will tear ourselves apart fighting each other. We need one race. Race! Race! One goal. Goal! Goal! One people... to move forward to our destiny. Destiny."

- The Master



The Master is the main villain and final boss of the post-apocalyptic RPG adventure game Fallout. He is a disgusting mass of mutated flesh infused with the computer system of the underground vault he resides in. The Master is the leader of an army of "Super Mutants" and wants to replace the (few remaining) humans on the planet with his new race of mutants, believing that, unlike humans, they will never fight amongst each other. A notable feature of The Master is that his "voice" is pieced-together from the different voices of people that he's absorbed through the years.

The Master used to be Richard Grey, a doctor/murderer-turned-mercenary who was flung into a vat of nuclear waste at the Mariposa Military Base, where the U.S. Government had been experimenting with the mutant Forced Evolutionary Virus (F.E.V.). He was in the vats for so long that he mutated into a completely inhuman blob. Soon after, the blob started absorbing other creatures that ventured near the base, and later bionically merged himself with the base's internal computer systems. As the Master grew more powerful, it started experimenting with its victims, exposing them to the F.E.V. with the intent of building a loyal Super Mutant army that would capture whole human settlements and expose them to the F.E.V., believing that would make them as "perfect" as The Master soon saw himself to be. Later on, the Master relocated to an unnumbered Vault prototype, where he recruited unaltered humans to start a cult in his honor, the Children of the Cathedral. The cult was used as a front to further The Master's agenda, which came to be known as, "The Unity".

When The Vault Dweller, the main protagonist of Fallout, learns of The Master, he has the choice of either joining The Master, or destroying him. If he joins The Master, The Vault Dweller will lead the Super Mutant army to Vault 13 (The Vault Dweller's home) to capture more subjects. If The Vault Dweller chooses to destroy The Master (or convinces The Master to commit suicide by informing him that the Super Mutants are sterile), a nuclear device inside of the Vault will be detonated, the Vault will be destroyed, The Master will be destroyed and the Super Mutant army will dissolve.