Fallout Season 2 will Introduce Deathclaws

17.04.2024 - 03:09 / thegamer.com / Graham Wagner

When you think of some of the scariest, most bone-chilling creatures you could potentially face while crossing Fallout's many Wastelands, there aren't many that conjure up more fear than the Deathclaw. They've been the stuff of nightmares for decades, and they're arguably one of the most iconic baddies from across the entire series. That makes their exclusion from the first season of the Fallout TV show all the more perplexing.

Sure, we get a look at one of their skulls during the show's closing moments, but a scrap with a Deathclaw akin to Lucy and Cooper fighting off a Gulper is nowhere to be seen. That's because a Deathclaw throwdown is being saved for the second season, as revealed by Fallout's co-showrunner Graham Wagner in an interview with The Wrap.

According to Wagner, the team behind Season 1 wanted to get Deathclaws in somewhere, but felt that they had to save the encounter as it would have to be "a monumental piece." The team was worried that cramming all the iconic elements of the Fallout series into the first season would make the show come across as written by someone who "spent 10 seconds reading the Wikipedia page for Fallout," and saving some things for Season 2 allowed them to "bring in some deeper cuts."

It's worth noting that, at the time of writing, a second season of Fallout hasn't yet been ordered by Prime Video, but it would be extremely surprising if Amazon didn't capitalize on the massive success of the show. Season 2 is almost guaranteed at this point, and it sounds as though the folks that worked on it believe so too, with the way they're talking about it.

Thanks to Wagner's comments about Season 2, we know that someone will have the unenviable task of fighting a Deathclaw, but that's pretty much all we know about it so far. It does seem likely that the group will be heading to a different location, a fan-favorite one teased at the end of the show, but as for the plot, new characters, release date, and video game references, we'll have to use our imaginations for now.