The Cold-Blooded Creatures of Fallout!

If it slithers, crawls, has scales or slime we are going to talk about it in this video. We go over all the cold-blooded vertebrates in the Fallout series both mundane and extraordinary, look at the in-game lore, and try to determine their real world inspirations.

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Timestamps:
00:10- Intro
00:45- Gatorclaw
06:54- Radtoad
11:48- Frogs
13:36- Angler
17:45- Iguana
21:20- Gecko
30:28- Komodo Dragon
32:24- Fish
33:47- Tunneler
39:08- Snakes
40:34- Gulper
45:41- Outro

[ezranger]

just a note, the "plant like growths" on the anglers appear to be clusters of mussels. Those things will stick on anything that sits still under water for a extended period and are very common up here in Maine. stay groovy brother.

[azeria]

Fallout 76 had good wildlife and unique enemies it’s like they knew people didn’t want 60% raiders and 30% super mutants as enemies

[jesseharlan]

I'm all for some kind of giant Rad Snake. That lives in the subway and travels the tunnels... that would rule.

[emeraldkoala]

The Gatorclaws are my favourite creature in Fallout 4, so the thumbnail already has me hyped.

I honestly was sad to get rid of them all and wish that they'd included the ability to reprogram the machine to make a follower Gatorclaw. Probably requiring max intelligence or something, since their own creator was unable to control them.

Also I think it was mentioned in the terminals or something that the scientist had heard of deathclaws from spying on wastelanders, and that's why he named them so similarly, though it's been a while since I was there so I could be misremembering. I think the genetic similarities are still a weird coincidence in the lore though.

[Theegreygaming]

even though they're called geckos, I might guess that they're mutated basilisks. real world basilisks, not the harry potter or witcher kind, look pretty similar, can have various shaped crests around their heads, can have spines or fins on their backs, and when escaping predators run on their rear legs... seems pretty spot on.

[BTALama]

A giant mutated mudskipper flapping towards you in a bog would be pretty terrifying

[cheesewheel]

I love the goofy look of the gatorclaw just squatting in the water for a surprise attack at 5:08 XD

[mattw]

a cool fish themed creature could be a sheepshead, they got almost human like teeth and a giant mutant fish snapping at you with human incisors would be a pretty scare concept, or carp, giant mutant carp able to launch themselves at speeds fast enough to pierce a corvega

[cameronlaird]

To add some reason why Cait doesn't think fish really exist is when most nuclear material irradiates sea water the oxygen is forced out so there honestly are probably huge dead sea deserts on whatever route from we'll say the uk to America but it seems the seas are recovering super fast with fallout 4

[KaminoNeko]

Far Harbor is actually in what used to be Maine, not Massachusetts - it used to be the Mount Desert Island, where the town of Bar Harbor is.

[onba]

About iguanas, they are currently a highly invasive animal in Florida. It stands to reason that after the war the population there could mutate and spread. I'd like to see more invasive species become endemic mutants since they already prove to be highly resilient. I'd especially like to mutant wild hogs. Their nickname down south is razorback, which sounds like an awesome mutant!

[Rfthbf]

The one thing that fallout 76 got right is how unsettling the creatures are. It's like they're in between adapting to the radiation so they all look like chronenberg monsters

[chriskuzianik]

There are iguanas aplenty in southern Florida, some are bigger than a large house cat. When it gets cold, like below 50F, they go into hibernation and fall out of the trees.

[TDenterpriser]

You missed lakelurks/ mirelurk kings which are mutated from turtles/frogs

[mentalshatter]

He's lost it, he's really lost it. A conspiracy theory on iguana's. My man needs to get off the Nuka Cola.

[Scowleasy]

Now I’m imagining a snake that mutated but it just has really buff arms

[firebladeentertainment]

Oh
I somehow expected to see the insects/arachnids here too
separate video, would have bloated this video a bit too much

(I LOVE RADSCORPIONS!)

[Aven]

My headcannon for the tunnelers' orgin is that they started spawning shortly after the bombs fell. Maybe someone or a group of people who had sought shelter from the bombs discovered an underground canyon of sorts, lived there, some how got exposed to FEV and then the local fungus and mushrooms alike consumed their dead and evolved into the tunnelers after time.

[elizabethpolanco]

Hey just wanted to mention because I didn’t see anyone else say it yet, but the far harbor dlc for fallout 4 takes place in Maine, not massachussetts where the main game takes place. Just a minor detail I noticed

[bonemarrow]

9:07 Toads don't exist Taxonomically.
What we call toads aren't usually related to other toads and are actually related to other frogs than toads.
The difference between toads and frogs are purely arbitrary and have no basis. We just call any frog which stays out of the water more often with rougher skin as toads.

So it makes sense the American bull frog becomes the Rad Toad.
Since the whole Toad thing is arbitrary and just semantics