Guns, ghouls, and good looks: Why the Fallout series challenges expectations with its (relatively) unscarred gunslinger

In the Fallout universe, ghouls are a tragic byproduct of radiation exposure.

“When you get to those ghouls that are really, really gross, they were really losing their minds.

Certain ghouls possess a unique resilience to radiation, even finding it mildly restorative. In Prime’s Fallout series, the enigmatic ghoul, played by Walton Goggins (Justified), was once a handsome pre-war actor named Cooper Howard.