Who Is The Ghoul in Fallout TV Show? Walton Goggins Character Explained
In the Fallout TV series we met Ghoul – a mutant bounty hunter known before as Cooper Howard. Here you will find out who exactly this character is.
Warning! Below you will find spoilers from the Fallout TV series.
Fallout TV series has drawn new audiences into a world familiar to many gamers, where ghouls – mutated humans who were exposed to massive radiation and now look like zombies – live on the surface after a nuclear disaster. In the games, they are mostly faceless opponents that the player must deal with. The same can’t be said of Walton Goggins' character in the TV show, Cooper Howard, however, for now let's focus on the game ghouls themselves.
Not all the ghouls in them are devoid of humanity. Some of them have retained consciousness, resembling Goggins' character, but many of them have also descended into madness and gone feral. And it is such creatures that players must deal with – the ones that are highly aggressive, attacking anyone within their reach. The danger associated with them has led to a worldwide prejudice against ghouls, even those that have retained mental abilities. All mutated humans are seen as a threat, including those who haven’t yet become them, by the belief that eventually everyone will go feral. Ghouls as mutants are immune to radiation and radioactive fallout, and besides, their lives are extended.
Who is the Ghoul from the Fallout TV show?
Many of these issues concern the character played by Walton Goggins, Ghoul, or if you prefer, Cooper Howard. Before the nuclear disaster, he was an actor appearing in westerns, who also managed to take part in a Vault-Tec commercial, thanks to the help of his wife. His wife, Barb, held a high position in the company and had a lot of influence there, which she used in her husband's interest. Cooper, in turn, as his relationship with Vault-Tec began to tighten, also began to develop some suspicions about the true intentions of the company, which, as it turned out, wasn’t all that good, and neither was Barb herself. Cooper's wife was involved in the company's misdeeds, even advocating that Vault-Tec should drop bombs so that their vaults wouldn’t go unused.
In the post-Great War world, Cooper has changed drastically. Not only did he mutate, becoming a ghoul, but he went from being a loving father and husband, defending his values, to a ruthless gunman without principles. Cooper discarded his former personality to find himself in a new world, where he became a mercenary, and not just any mercenary. Ghoul has managed to earn a name for himself as one of the most competent bounty hunters in the wasteland.
Cooper, as the person who witnessed the catastrophe explosion, is aged in the Fallout TV series. Amazon's production is set 219 years after the apocalypse, so Ghoul must be more than 250 years old. That's impressive, especially when you consider that he still hasn't gone feral and remains a conscious being despite his mutations.
