News Fallout Fallout Season 2 Will Feature New Vegas‘ Most Controversial Faction The introduction of Caesar’s Legion in Fallout Season 2 brings one of gaming’s strangest debates to a new audience. By Matthew Byrd | Published on August 20, 2025 Screenshot: Amazon MGM Studios Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Amazon MGM Studios While the first trailer for Fallout Season 2 understandably left people talking about Mr. House, those striking scenes of Walton Goggins in old New Vegas, and the possibility of a Macaulay Culkin sighting, eagle-eyed Fallout fans are fixated on the brief scene pictured above that confirms the return of the series’ most controversial faction: Caesar’s Legion.  Introduced in Fallout: New Vegas, Caesar’s Legion is a Mojave Wasteland faction that is quite obviously modeled after the Roman Empire. They wear tunics, they (generally) shun modern technology, and they follow a leader named Caesar who seeks to topple the New California Republic through totalitarian rule and barbaric methods that include slavery, cultural homogenization, rampant sexism, and total warfare. Though the Legion has been surprisingly successful in their conquests, they are often portrayed as an obviously villainous faction.  In fact, some Fallout fans find them to be almost comically villainous and underwritten compared to New Vegas’ other, more morally ambitious groups and characters. However, as New Vegas designer Josh Sawyer explained, the Legion wasn’t meant to be thought of as morally “grey.” They are meant to represent the “nature of humans who rise to power in such circumstances” and how such humans and circumstances tie into the Fallout series motto: War Never Changes.  However, not all Fallout fans see the Legion that way. The Legion has long attracted a vocal group of seemingly unlikely supporters who are perhaps constantly thinking of the Roman Empire for all the wrong reasons. Some fans support the Legion because they like their looks, because they want to role-play as bad guys, or because they generally enjoy annoying others with their decision to side with said bad guys. That last group sometimes blends into another group that genuinely argues for the Legion’s methods, their results, and the general idea of power through brutish strength and oppression. If this coalition of meme enthusiasts, trolls, diehard philosophical loyalists, evil aesthetic admirers, and “at least the trains run on time” defenders sounds frighteningly familiar, it’s because Fallout’s writers have long been excellent students of history.  There are also some questions about how the Legion fits into the show’s timeline. Fallout Season 2 takes place roughly 15 years after the end of Fallout: New Vegas, and New Vegas can end in one of many ways depending on the player’s choices. It seems unlikely that the show will feature one of the endings that suggest the Legion conquered New Vegas, so the series may instead focus on remnants of the faction long removed from their glory days. The scope of that faction and the identity of their leader (this is actually another Culkin candidate role) are mysteries for another day.  Regardless of those specifics, it’s the reaction to this faction that will be most interesting to monitor. Given the themes of Fallout’s first season, there is little doubt that the show will portray them largely as the totalitarian troops cosplaying as conquerors in a world looking for leaders who can grow something from the ashes, which is largely how they were originally intended to be presented. Historically, though, it is very much worth noting that such depictions of this group have not deterred endorsements. [end-mark] The post <i>Fallout</i> Season 2 Will Feature <i>New Vegas</i>‘ Most Controversial Faction appeared first on Reactor.