Summary
Fallout’s The Ghoul is recreated in a shockingly good new cosplay. Serving as an adaptation of the popular video game franchise, Prime Video’sFalloutreleased earlier this year, following Lucy (Ella Purnell), a vault dweller, as she traverses a post-apocalyptic U.S. Walton Goggins plays a crucial role inFallout’s castas The Ghoul, aka Cooper Howard, a former actor who becomes Lucy’s companion.
CosplayerJo Steelnow transforms into The Ghoul in a new video posted on Instagram. Check it out below:
The look features the use of intense amounts of makeup and prosthetics, and some clever shading even allows the artist to recreate the look of The Ghoul’s absent nose. Contact lenses are also used to nail the appearance of the character’s eyes.
Cooper Howard Is Crucial To Fleshing Out The Vault-Tec Mystery
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Fallout season 1.
Cooper is the first character audiences are introduced to inFalloutseason 1, with a brief scene showing the detonation of the first nuclear bombs during a child’s birthday party. In subsequent episodes, the show features a dual-timeline story about Cooper’s pre-war mission to uncover Vault-Tec secrets while the hardened, ruthless future version of him carries out a mission during the post-war period. While The Ghoul is certainly a fun character to watch as he dispatches enemies in a post-apocalyptic setting, the scenes of Cooper navigating home and work life pre-war are just as important.
Not only are these pre-war scenes used to embue The Ghoul with humanity and remind audiences that he was once a normal father, but they also become key to uncovering larger Vault-Tec schemes. As episodes progress,Cooper becomes more suspicious of the company and its vision for America, and a potential secret agenda that his wife, Barb (Frances Turner) has. After meeting Moldaver (Sarita Choudhur), he even begins to spy on Barb, uncovering dark secrets about Vault-Tec’s true intentions, which becomes key to later episodes.
The Truth About Vault-Tec’s Bombs In Fallout Season 1 Completely Changes The Ghoul’s Season 2 Mission
The Fallout show raised new questions about the beginning of the apocalypse, and the truth behind it will define the Ghoul’s future story.
Following a reluctant partnership throughout the season, theFalloutseason 1 finalesees the Ghoul and Lucy team up. Though Lucy served as a way to introduce audiences to the world ofFalloutin season 2, both characters are now set to be tried and tested in new ways. It remains to be seen how The Ghoul will continue to evolve inFalloutseason 2, but he will evidently remain a key figure in the story moving forward.
Falloutseason 2 has not yet entered into production and doesn’t have an expected release date.
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Set 200 years after an apocalypse, Fallout follows residents of luxury shelters as they re-enter a post-nuclear world. Confronted with a bizarre and violent landscape, the series explores the stark contrasts between their sheltered existence and the harsh realities of the outside universe.
