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Super Mutants, Ron Perlman, and More: Six Things We Want to See in ‘Fallout’ Season 3
As the smoke clears on Prime Video’s latest venture into the Post-Nuclear Wasteland, fans are left wondering what’s next for the Fallout TV show. After all, the second season basically ended on a cliffhanger where all the established factions seem ready for war, so it seems like anything goes in the show’s future.
With that in mind, we’ve decided to come up with a list highlighting six things we want to see in Fallout Season 3, as the showrunners have already proven to be receptive to fan feedback – so we might as well throw some suggestions out there in case Amazon and Bethesda are listening.
Obviously, the Fallout fanbase is a massive and diverse group, so this article is in no way intended to be a definitive list of everything fans are clamoring for. That’s why you should go ahead and comment below with your own predictions/requests for season 3 if you have a different take on the matter.
With that out of the way, onto the list!
6. Marcus
Photo courtesy of Prime.
Episode six finally introduced viewers to the first Super Mutant on the show (played by genre icon Ron Perlman, no less), so it’s safe to say that Season 3 will feature more of these hulking creatures who didn’t ask to be turned into living weapons.
However, now that it’s been established that the Super Mutants are on the warpath, long-time fans are probably wondering what the gentle giant Marcus must think of all this – if he’s still alive. A pacifist leader who previously helped establish safe havens for his fellow Super Mutants, Marcus is one of the most iconic characters in the franchise and an obvious choice to expand the cast in Season 3.
5. Fat Man & Co.
Ella Purnell (Lucy MacLean) in FALLOUT SEASON 2. Courtesy of Prime. © Amazon Content Services LLC
I’m not usually partial to excessive fan-service in adaptations as these distractions can often get in the way of telling a proper story, but even I had a smile on my face when Lucy finally unleashed her Power Fist in episode 5. However, that moment got me thinking about other iconic weapons that have yet to make the jump to live-action, and why I think their inclusion might enhance the show.
After all, the Fallout franchise has always been adept at using environmental storytelling to convey its narrative, and over-the-top items and weaponry are a huge part of that. That’s why I’d like to see someone get dematerialized by a plasma rifle in season 3, or maybe have a character use my personal favorite weapon from the games: the Fat Man Tactical Nuclear Catapult!
4. Synths
Fallout 4 Synth
Fallout 4 may have been a divisive title due to its dilution of some of the series’ most iconic narrative elements, but even this controversial entry has a lot going for it if you judge the game by its own merits. In fact, 4 offers one of the most interesting additions to the franchise mythology in the form of the Institute’s Synths: biomechanical creations meant to infiltrate colonies and act as slave labor in the post-nuclear wasteland.
With Hank McLean’s (and the Enclave’s) plans to artificially influence Wastelanders through mind control having been thwarted by Lucy and the Ghoul, it makes sense that they might resort to more drastic measures in Season 3 – measures that may include kidnapping and replacing vault dwellers with loyal synths.
3. Kaiju Battles
Fallout 3 – Liberty Prime
The latest season of the show finally delivered on the Deathclaw action that fans had been waiting for since the creatures were first teased back in 2024, with Max’s battle for Freeside being one of the highlights of the entire franchise. However, with Master Quintu’ teasing a new version of the giant battle automaton Liberty Prime during the post-credits scene, the showrunners now have an opportunity to give us an all-out monster brawl worthy of the franchise’s 1950s retro-futuristic inspirations.
You see, the existing Fallout games have already established that there are Deathclaw sub-species of varying sizes, so it wouldn’t be that hard to imagine a Kaiju-class monstrosity that could conceivably take on Liberty Prime.
While this addition to Season 3 is a long-shot due to budgetary concerns and the overall absurdity of the request, a fan can still dream!
2. Wartime Blues
Aaron Moten in FALLOUT SEASON 2. Photo Credit: Lorenzo Sisti / Prime. © Amazon Content Services LLC
Season 2 has done a wonderful job of teasing long-time fans with the promise of large-scale conflict by bringing back the NCR, re-establishing the Legion as a major threat and even inciting a civil war among The Brotherhood of Steel. Unfortunately, this year’s story seemed to wrap up before any of these factions could actually meet for a climactic showdown.
While it makes sense that the showrunners would want to take the time to establish all of the major pieces on the chessboard before dropping us in the middle of an all-out war, I think it’s safe to say that we’re more than ready for Season 3 to provide us with an epic conflict on par with New Vegas’ Second Battle for Hoover Dam.
1. More FEV Abominations
Walton Goggins (The Ghoul) in FALLOUT SEASON 2. Photo Credit: Lorenzo Sisti / Prime. © Amazon Content Services LLC
The Fallout franchise has been expertly balancing horror and comedy for nearly three decades now, with the same series that gave us F.I.S.T.O. the sex robot also providing fans with disturbing body-horror and the occasional Lovecraftian questline. Fortunately, it seems like Prime Video’s adaptation is finally ready to embrace the darker side of the series now that our main characters have discovered the Forced Evolutionary Virus.
That’s why I’d love to see more examples of Fallout’s horrific legacy in Season 3, as creatures like Centaurs, intelligent Deathclaws and even Psykers have yet to show up in the adaptation. And now that we know how the Enclave has been using the wasteland as a testing ground for the virus, it would make sense for the next batch of episodes to lean into all sorts of fleshy mad science!
Judging from the unprecedented box office success of Kane Parsons’ Backrooms adaptation, you’ve likely already seen the liminal horror hit that managed to make audiences afraid of empty hallways and bad wallpaper. And now that so many of us have already entered the yellow labyrinth (some of us more than once), the time has come to discuss the spoiler-filled details that make the movie so fascinating in the first place.
And if there’s one element here that makes the Backrooms movie stand out from any previous lore/mythology, it has to be the genius addition of the Still Life entities. Warped recreations of real people that somehow wandered into the Complex, these misremembered creatures are responsible for some of the most disturbing imagery of 2026 – as well as laugh-out-loud memes created by one of the film’s very own concept artists.
However, true to Parsons’ word that the movie would rely heavily on practical effects, each of these distorted monsters was brought to life by real actors under heavy layers of makeup and prosthetics (with the occasional splash of CGI enhancements). While Anora and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You actress Ivy Wolk wasn’t among these performers, despite what Letterboxd might have you believe, the creature cast did benefit from veteran players with plenty of genre experience.
For starters, Alien: Romulus alumni Robert Bobroczkyi (who previously brought that film’s horrific Offspring to life during its most memorable sequence) plays the flick’s main antagonist, the Still Life version of Captain Clark. And though there was some obvious CGI involved in making the character’s peg-leg and nightmarish face more believable, Bobroczkyi’s monstrous performance and his natural 7’7″ frame helped to make that final chase sequence a clear highlight among this year’s genre offerings.
The film’s Texas-Chain-Saw-inspired “dinner” scene also features a freaky collection of less-aggressive Still Life creatures in the form of the Bearded Man, the Red-Headed Woman and, strangest of them all, the cheekily named “Archibald Leland Sutter Still Life” (who earned this title among fans and crewmembers as a reference to his apparent affinity for lamps).
While this was the first major horror outing for both Patrick Baynham (The Bearded Man) and Dana Mahmood (Archibald), Rhiannon Roberts has worked as a stunt performer in everything from Yellowjackets to HBO’s The Last of Us adaptation – which is probably why The Red-Headed Woman is the most active out of Clark’s impromptu “family.” That being said, the Archibald Leland Sutter Still Life is my personal favorite of the bunch simply because his anachronistic outfit suggests that the Backrooms phenomenon might be a lot older than the Async Foundation. I also love how hard he tries to be helpful with that little light of his!
That might be it for the Still Life entities, but I think horror fans will also be pleased to hear that the film’s Found Footage prologue stars none other than Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City star Avan Jogia as Naren Warne – and American Mary herself Katharine Isabelle also shows up in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo at Mary’s house party towards the middle of the story (though I have a feeling that she originally had a bigger part that was likely cut for time).
At the end of the day, Parsons’ Backrooms may have been an auteur-driven project motivated by the young director’s unique take on the classic creepypasta, but film has always been a collective artform, so it’s fun to see just how many talented performers it takes to bring this kind of supernatural nightmare to life in a way that connects with so many people.
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