Fallout season two’s latest episode has a super Easter egg cameo for fans

The sixth episode of Fallout season two has just aired on Prime, and with it given viewers and fans a fun cameo to look out for.

Please be aware of spoilers for Fallout season two below.

Just a week or so on from Ron Perlman’s revelation that he was paid “$40 and a sandwich” for his first Fallout gig in the 90s – which saw him narrating the RPG complete with his iconic “War. War never changes” line – the actor has now popped up in the TV series, decades later.

Perlman plays the part of a Fallout Super Mutant in the show, who liberates Walton Goggins’ Ghoul from that pole he was impaled on at the end of last week’s episode (I am still wincing from that scene).

In the show’s Fallout, Perlman’s Super Mutant again mentions “war”, telling the Ghoul there is one coming, and so “we need you healthy”. He then helps sort out that whopping great hole in the Ghoul’s abdomen.

“They call us abominations, but they created our kind,” Perlman’s character tells the Ghoul as he heals. ‘They’, of course, refers to Fallout’s nefarious Enclave, which seems to have its fingers in the Vault-Tec pie. “Ghouls, mutants, we’re kin,” Perlman’s Super Mutant continues, “and we should unite against our common enemy.”

Perlman’s Super Mutant is putting together an army against the “people who set all this in motion”, but what that could actually mean for the rest of Fallout season two remains to be seen, as no sooner than we get a glimpse of Perlman’s mutilated face, he bops the Ghoul over the head to keep his location a secret. Hmmm, curious!

There are still two more episodes of Fallout season two left to go, and things are heating up in the wasteland. Along with returning faces like Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins, Macaulay Culkin and Kumail Nanjiani have also joined the show for season two.

Meanwhile, filming for the third season of Fallout is expected to begin this May. Don’t expect to see a similar Perlman cameo from Bethesda’s Todd Howard, though. “They’ve offered me a whole bunch, even in season one,” Howard said last month, explaining he was “going to be in the sort of Dr. Strangelove Vault-Tec room, where they’re talking [about] all the experiments, and some other things.”

However, the studio head thinks he is best placed “behind the camera” rather than in front of it.