10 Coolest Fallout Ghouls Across The History Of The Franchise, Ranked

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Ghouls are one of the franchise’s most enduring and inspired creations. A more sympathetic take on the zombie trope, they brilliantly evoke the horror, humor, and human tragedy at the core of the setting. But there are certain ghouls who, through sheer suaveness or sharp attention to post-apocalyptic fashion, have managed to stand out from the pack as some of the coolest characters in the wasteland.

For the average ghoul, attaining cool status is a potentially Sisyphean task. Widely discriminated against for their gruesome appearance, smell, and an unfortunate tendency to devolve into feral versions of themselves, ghouls are unlikely to be invited to the trendier soirées of the universe. Anyone is bound to pick up a thing or two after a few centuries of life, however, so it follows that there are some necrotic post-humans eager to stick it to the smoothskins and bring ghoul-cool to the wasteland.

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Set is the vicious leader of Necropolis, an all-ghoul society in (1997). Born before the Great War, he seized control of his own kingdom from human settlers in 2083 and proclaimed it a new kind of ethnostate for ghouls. Trespassing humans are killed and eaten, with ghouls proclaimed of the post-apocalyptic world.

Set is cool only in the sense that he would likely rank on the wasteland equivalent of a list. He projects sheer and terrifying power, capable not only of founding his own community but of elevating ghouls as a people. The fact this elevation is based on the same xenophobic sentiment that drove ghouls from human settlements in the first place is either lost on him or disregarded because it harshes his power trip. Set is a remarkable ghoul – but he’s also a despot, and that’s just really uncool.

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