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Each member of the cast represents one of the factions warring over control of the Mojave Desert. The vault dwellers have the doggedly optimistic Lucy (Ella Purnell), the wretches of the wasteland get the Ghoul (Walton Goggins), and the \u201corder at any cost\u201d Brotherhood has Maximus (Aaron Moten). But more than either Lucy or the Ghoul, it\u2019s Maximus\u2019 character across both seasons that best represents the heart of all Fallout<\/em> storytelling: when society has broken down, do you choose evil or good?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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\u201cI would put him right in the middle.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Lucy and the Ghoul pretty clearly declare their own sides early in the show. Lucy is determined, no matter the extensive grief it brings her, to be a good, helpful person in the wasteland. On the other hand, the Ghoul is a selfish \u201cthe ends justify the means\u201d kinda guy where the \u201cmeans\u201d is often \u201ckill whatever\u2019s in the way.\u201d Throughout the first season and into the second, both characters are firmly set in their respective outlooks. But what makes Maximus interesting in this context is that he hasn\u2019t figured his perspective out yet. He struggles with the choice Lucy and the Ghoul have already made.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cI would put him right in the middle of the two of them,\u201d said Aaron Moten in an interview with The Verge<\/em>. Speaking on where he falls in personality between Lucy and the Ghoul, Moten says Maximus has the best and worst of both worlds. \u201c[Maximus] can share in [Lucy\u2019s] naivete, but [he] also has lived a life above ground in the wasteland,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
In inhabiting the middle, Maximus bounces between both ends of the good versus evil spectrum. In the first season, Maximus lets Titus, the knight he\u2019s assigned to, die of his wounds before taking his power armor and identity. When Maximus gets his own squire, Maximus bullies him, perpetuating the bullying he experienced as a Brotherhood initiate. Thanks to some helpful flashback storytelling in season 2, we know Maximus was taught by his family to be better than that. So maybe, when Maximus saves Lucy for the first time, or when he steps in to resolve a dispute between two wastelanders, we\u2019re seeing those teachings finally kick in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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When we catch up with Maximus at the start of season 2 though, it seems he\u2019s back flirting with the Ghoul\u2019s end of the continuum. He\u2019s a fully fledged Brotherhood knight with the admiration of his peers. He also has authority over them that he has no reservations about flexing. But even when Maximus has reached his pinnacle of achievement, he knows he\u2019s not living up to the ideals his family instilled in him, and it creates an inner tension unique to Maximus. Lucy is looking for her dad; the Ghoul is looking for his family. Their tensions are external and, now that they\u2019re back on the road again together, often aimed at each other.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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But Maximus achieved his goals at the end of season 1 \u2014 he got to be a knight. He\u2019s the show\u2019s most conflicted character and it makes him the one most like the prototypical Fallout <\/em>game protagonist, even if he\u2019s overshadowed by his more charismatic colleagues. On paper, Maximus has nowhere else to go, so his war turns inward. And you know what Fallout <\/em>likes to say about war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As we tuck into Fallout season 2, eager to see Amazon bring New Vegas to life, there\u2019s one person who stands out \u2014 and not just because of his power armor. Knight Maximus of the Brotherhood of Steel is the most important of Fallout\u2019s three main characters, and I\u2019m glad the new season is finally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2203055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21741,22914,363150,23808,22077],"class_list":["post-2203054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-interview","tag-report","tag-streaming","tag-tv-shows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Maximus-is-more-important-than-ever-in-Fallout-season-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2203056,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203054\/revisions\/2203056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2203055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}