Vault-Tec’s Vault Boy mascot is one of Fallout‘s most iconic symbols. Even those who have never played the games can likely recognize the grinning blue-and-yellow-clad figure and his ...

Vault-Tec’s Vault Boy mascot is one of Fallout‘s most iconic symbols. Even those who have never played the games can likely recognize the grinning blue-and-yellow-clad figure and his ...

Michael McWhertor is a journalist with more than 17 years of experience covering video games, technology, movies, TV, and entertainment. Vault Boy is the smiling cartoon character featured on ...

Much of the humor around Vault Boy comes from the weird and macabre situations the cheery Vault-Tec mascot finds himself in. Early Fallout games showed Vault Boy as a grave robber, slaver ...

The Vault Boy Hold Up meme is a black-and-white image of the Fallout video game character holding his palms out in a “slow down” gesture. Vault Boy is a character in Fallout. He is the ...

Vault Boy, the cheerful yet eerie mascot of the Fallout series, is an iconic symbol of the franchise's retro-futuristic aesthetic. First introduced in Fallout (1997), Vault Boy represents Vault ...

But as we’ve seen from the reviews for the Fallout show thus far, it’s been praised for handling the source material with care, and the same can be said for its Vault Boy origin story.

And nowhere is this more evident than with the lore the series added to Vault Boy. So, just who is Vault Boy? And what are the true Fallout origins of this symbol and his thumbs-up? Here’s what ...