Analyzing Evil: Mr. House From Fallout New Vegas

Hello everyone and welcome to the remastered one hundred seventy-third episode of Analyzing Evil! Our topic for this video is Mr. House From Fallout New Vegas. I hope you enjoy, and thanks for watching. If you have any feedback or questions feel free to let me know below!

The song in this video was provided by CO.AG

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[TheVileEye]

I forgot to mention it in the intro, as I do sometimes, but some people are asking why I chose Mr. House as the first Fallout character to cover considering the moral ambiguity surrounding his character. Well that's because I didn't! The patrons did. Mr. House was the patron pick for this month, and so he happened to be covered before any of the other more villainous organizations/people in this universe due to their selection. Hope that clears things up for people wondering why I went with him first!

[sumeetmaity]

Man, if we're getting an episode for Mr. House, I'm really looking forward to when you might cover Father Elijah, The Think Tank, Ulysses and Caesar.

[suedonnym]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the fate of Vault 21. As someone who sided with House, i find it to be one of his most interesting displays of ruthlessness that make him such a compelling character. He displaced an entire community of potentially hundreds of people, destroyed most of their home, and only allowed the remains to function as a hotel that would serve his Strip, all because he didn't want the Vault's tunnels to be used against him - only for Benny to have a secret escape tunnel of his own that went completely undetected.

[griddle]

“Why did you allow President Kimball to get assassinated?”

“He tried to make me pay taxes.”

“………understandable….”

[e.t.anderson]

If House is evil, the why do I lose karma when I kill him? Checkmate 😎

[KingWammy]

By crossing into New Vegas mythos you have opened Pandora's Box

And I'm all here for it

[trollus_croatus]

"I prefer the term autocrat"
- Mr. House

[dialloayodele]

Fallout’s universe fits this show perfectly and I mean that literally there’s so many characters you can go in depth with. You got Caesar, The master, President Eden, Father Elijah, Benny, Boone, and way more have no clue if you’ve done that or not but you very much should.

[Ultimaton]

Robert Edwin House is a peculiar character. He definitely has an ego and is a businessman first above all else, but I believe him to be a ruthless pragmatist who isn’t easily sidetracked nor does he concern himself with the affairs of others as long as they don’t conflict with his ambitions. His authoritarian tendencies are his worst quality, without question, yet he simultaneously seems the best suited to ensure the long-term survival of humanity. The man is perfectly controversial.

[coffee]

I like how House actually has a plan for the future.
The NCR is spread too thin and can't get anything done... though they would be my next pick, the legion seems like a horrible fate tbh, and yes man is basically putting all your chips into an AI that can go skynet any moment, although the morals of that ending would depend on your character

[elijahomarmohammad]

Patrolling the Mojave makes you wish for a video about Caesar.

[Vandelberger]

At least Mr. House was genuinely grateful for my assistance.

[GreasusGoldtooth]

House is a really interesting character. He's almost an anti-villain.

[that_invisible_man]

Mr. House is objectively correct about the BoS, though.

[RedScorpion]

A man chooses a slave obeys,

Mr House: Courier, why are you carrying a 9 iron?

[JuliusKingsleyXIII]

I admit I haven't clicked on a video in a while for various reasons, but this was a must-click for me. Mr House is one of the most interesting characters in all of fiction, and the constant debate that rages on to this day about who or what is best for the Mojave never gets old.

[Warrior-Of-Virtue]

There was an alternate ending that ended up being cut where after destroying his securitrons, the Courier could convince House to surrender to the NCR and allow New Vegas to be peacefully annexed. I honestly wish they'd left this in as it would open up a multitude of interesting possibilities. Not the least of which being House slowly taking over the NCR via the ballot box.

[ElysiumCreator]

The Dual Performance of Armin Shimmerman (Andrew Ryan) and René Auberjonois (Robert House) is always amazing in DS9, the heart of the show imo

[filipvadas]

I like how all 3 factions have the element of *Past, Present and Future* and their different leanings on each one are what give them their good and bad sides:

*NCR* is focused on the present while taking inspiration from the past, but not considering the futue. Its the most "good" faction on a base level, but it doesn't remove the fact that many of its officials are corrupt and their lack of forethought could lead them to make the same mistakes the previous government made. No matter how many well-intentioned people there are.

*The Legion* is all about bringing the past into the present. A time whem human life only mattered if you were born into privilege or if you were strong enough to be the last man standing. Its the most prosperous faction for sure, with the most territory, resources and army.
But what does that prosperity really mean when it was built on the backs of slaves who are ready to rebel at any given opportunity or when vast army is mostly made up of just slightly more disciplined and better equipped raiders who are itching at the chance to get more power.
The Legion, like the empire they take so much inspiration from, is a house of cards doomed to fall in on itself because they aren't looking to fix potential future problems, just bury them with more conquests, which is ironically having the opposite effect.

In fact, the conversation with Legate Lanius you can have if your Speech is high enough is essentially just you pointing this out. How the Legion's constant rapid expansion will one day stretch them soo thin that actually *defending* all that territory will be impossible. Be it from attacks from rival factions, from rebellions and/or traitors in their own ranks.

And, to Lanius' credit, he does show himself reasonable enough to hear you out and has a *genuine* "Oh, shit!" moment when he does the math himself and realises that you're right.
He leaves to convince Ceasar to retreat to fix the festering problems with the Legion, which he HAS been warning him about for years, albeit not before giving you a great deal of respect by saying that he's looking forward to the day he meets you and NCR on the field of battle once their hold on the east of the country is stabilised. Basically, acknowledging you as an equal for your cunning alone.

This, to be fair, shows that there *are* people in the Legion who are competent leaders and who can turn into something more than what it is, but its quite unlikely

The titular character of the video House, is focused on the future and learning from the past, but is completely dismissive of the present.

Sure, House has an actual plan to save humanity, with the intelligence, patience, longevity and resources to make it happen.

But the problem is that the guy was completely blind, whether its willfully or not doesn't matter, to the festering problems his style of governing was creating.
He didn't care about the growing inequality between the citizens of New Vegas and he didn't care about the growing anemosity between the factions helping run his city or that they were all basically mobsters.

When your faction is mostly made up of robots who follow your every whim and people who are only following you out of self interest, with growing inequality on top of that, what does that say about the society House would have created? How many problems will his "ideal future" really have when its foundation is this rotted?

Despite his longevity, House can't live forever so, like the Legion, even if he had the time he needed to build his utopia it would eventually crumble in on itself the moment he died.

[CB]

I have some villains i like to suggest
1. The Master (the first fallout game)
2. Frank Horrigan (fallout 2)
3. DIO (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure part1 and part3)X
4. Caesar (fallout New Vegas)
5. Frieza (dragon ball) X