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| “ | We have cities of our own, but nothing compared to Vegas. Finally, my Legion will have it's Rome. | „ |
| ~ Caesar explaining his motives to annex the wasteland into a Roman like country. |
Caesar (Real Name Edward Sallow) is the main antagonist of the 2010 RPG game Fallout: New Vegas unless the player sides with the Legion. He is a totalitarians' and ruthless cult leader who believes he needs to overthrow the NCR and annex the Mojave into a Roman type of country that will force people to live in harsh conditions but will mold them into the strongest versions of themselves.
He was voiced by John Doman.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
- He despised the followers of the apocalypse despite the fact they raised him due to their naive and good intentioned plans for the Mojave Wasteland. This is even worst considering the fact that they raised him from young age.
- After he successfully took control of the Blackfoot tribe, he led them to their enemy tribe "The Ridgers" to take over but when the tribe refused, Caesar ordered all the men, women, and children to be killed and then Caesar stacked all their bodies onto a pile.
- After they went to another tribe named "The Kaibabs" they also refused to surrender so Caesar showed them the destroyed ruins of the Ridgers and all the dead bodies which made the tribe surrender as they were terrified by the sight of such brutality and barbaric methods.
- Even after the followers of the apocalypse had raised him till, he was in his 20's, he still had 7 of them murdered on an expedition.
- After his first legate Joshua Graham had failed at the first battle of Hoover Dam, Caesar decided to set an example that failure is not tolerated by ordering Graham to be burnt alive and thrown into the Grand Canyon.
- Caesar's biggest fear is being exposed as a fraud in that he didn't descend from the Roman god Mars and built his legion on the Rome culture because of that but he built it on Roman culture because of history books he read so Caesar has most people executed if they find out.
- Allowed his second Legate Lanius to murder his entire tribe if he kept the easily manipulated boys so Caesar could turn them into Legionaries.
- Had Lanius capture 14 tribes for the Legion in order to turn them into slaves or force them to join him.
- Along with Vulpes Inculta, he manipulated the Twisted Hairs into assisting him with his goals and once they outlived their usefulness, Caesar and Vulpes betrayed them and turned them into slaves for the legion and if they resisted, they would be crucified to die a slow and painful death.
- He ordered White Legs to attack New Canaan after he heard that Graham survived his execution and was living there, what resulted in complete destruction of the city and deaths of almost all residents with only around 30 of Mormons surviving the massacre.
- It is also very likely that Caesar was not going to keep his word of letting White Legs join Legion peacefully and only manipulated them to not sent his own Troppers.
- He and Vulpes were responsible for The Battle of Nelson, which killed many NCR troops and the three that survived were also crucified to send a message to NCR troops that the Legion are taking over and to intimidate any NCR scouts. The crucifixion is such a bad fate that some characters will ask the Courier to give them a mercy killing to escape their torture.
- As said by Big Sal, Caesar hired him and his right hand, Nero, to bomb the NCR embassy and then kill everyone on the strip to take it over.
- He runs a massive slave organization which includes children being worked to near death and allows his legionaries to treat them cruelly such as stealing a teddy bear from a child, forcing the adult slaves to fight in a gladiator arena against their will for combat practice and torturing dozens of people by crucifying them.
- He also allows his men to regularly rape the women whenever they feel like it.
- His end goal is to ultimately take over the entire Mojave Wasteland and run it in his own brutal totalitarian rule, making his scale surpass almost every other villain in the game.
- He is extremely homophobic as anyone who is gay in the legion is punished by death.
- While he is insecure, it is not played for sympathy by the narrative and Caesar takes it way too far by having people executed just for saying Joshua Graham's named instead of calling him "The Burned Man" as Caesar is embarrassed that his execution of Graham failed.
- While Slavery is common in the Fallout series, Caesar meets the heinous standard as he is the worst slaver out of all the ones in the series, with him working children and others to death, forcing slaves to fight each other in a gladiator arena against their wills, putting people in fates worse than death and allowing his men to rape the women, or cruelly mistreat the children whenever they feel like it.
- Despite claiming his actions are for the good of the wasteland, his overall repulsive actions and gleeful callousness at bringing suffering to others for simply daring to go against what he says or does shows that his actions are destined to bring the collapse of the Mojave Wasteland with Caesar preferring this then admit he is wrong, showing that at the end of the day, Caesar is just a petty manchild that wants his own state the way he wants it, rather than how people would want it.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- He is quite affable towards the Courier as even if they fail to murder Kimball, he still lets them off with a second chance despite this being a big failure which Caesar doesn't tolerate, and he does allow them to get their revenge on Benny any way they want to for doing what he asks, and even if the Courier has caused problems for him and his Legion, he still allows them to join them if they decide to be with the legion during the war.
- While he doesn't care for his legionaries and sees them as pawns to further his goals, he does seem to care about his praetorians along with Vulpes and Lanius, as he allows them to know about him not really being a descendant of Mars, allows Lanius to refer to Graham by his name, has a personal auto doc that he allows them to use, and he doesn't mind Vulpes's less then honorable atrocities he causes despite Vulpes going outside his orders constantly, alongside the fact that Vulpes is the only character that Caesar calls the player out on for killing.
- If Arcade Gannon is sold to him, he will start a proper friendship with him and is devastated when Gannon commits suicide.
- He has a 'Pet the Dog' moment where he spares Silas's life, despite him breaking the rule that Legionaries should always kill themselves if they are ever captured.
- Despite hating the Followers of the Apocalypses ideology for the world, he still cares about them in his own way as he willingly lets them go in the Legion ending, despite it being very beneficial if he was to kill them since they wanted to leak his real identity as Edward Sallow, which is something Caesar desperately wanted to avoid.
- He respected Chief Hanlon for being a good leader to the NCR in his own way and made sure he got a quick and relatively painless death in his ending.
- His brain tumor is treated sympathetically by the narrative as it shows us just how much he is suffering from it and he is given a sympathetic death when Lucius lashes out at the Courier for killing him, and if they fail to convince him otherwise, all of his men will attempt to avenge his death.
External Links[]
- Caesar on the Villains Wiki
- Caesar on the Fallout Wiki
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 Inconsistently Heinous
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