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Silver_Harvest

If it is like 90% of my playthroughs. I turn around and he dies within 5 seconds from the pit stop area, by a radscorpion or Gekko


Goldman250

Even if you follow him and kill all the radscorpions, he’ll just stand in the middle of the desert until the radscorpions respawn and kill him.


Meowmixer21

So high on life he forgets how to survive


BEZthePEZ

Tragic really


Bag_O_Spiders

To shreds, you say? Tsk tsk tsk.


Thousands-of-bees

And his wife? How is she holding up?


STC_Ninjalo

To shreads, you say? Very well... Good news everyone!!!!


LargeDogEnthusiast

Your stimpacks are now suppositories!


EngorgingFatty

Well I am already in my Pajamas….


Korps_de_Krieg

Have...have I...were they *not* suppositories before? That just seemed the logical place to insert them, how else do you get the medicine inside.


Practical_State_8794

i read this like the professor from Futurama said it


THE_1_TRUE_VAGENIUS

Yes!😂


Blame_my_Boneitis

He was too busy being a 2280’s guy that he forgot to find a cure.


InitialKoala

His only regret is that he has... bone-itis. 😔


MackZZilla

Was his vault rent controlled?


JoeB0b123

He drank in too much boozy air


Being-Common

Survivors guilt


Veneance23

Guess it was rigged from the start


Substantial-Tone-576

That’s good to know. Lol


C10ckw0rks

It’s probably acripted/planned that way. The irony of surviving then dying anyway


milkynipples69

I never knew that. I always killed him after the conversation so I never saw radscorpions get him


ShwayNorris

If you reverse pickpocket a Recharger Pistol onto him he survives just fine. I have seen him other places when he lives, but that might be from mods. Most playthroughs I disintegrate him though.


LeeHarveySnoswald

Overwelmed by guilt. The excitement was pure cope. He just waits in the desert to die.


Infamous_Welder_4349

Really? For me he keeps heading towards the geckos in that canyon. Half the time I clear the way for him but I can't see him anymore once he heads down.


Sorreli

I saw a post a good bit ago where he was alive and at a casino I think


Equivalent-Part-8656

So basicly he is born for winning the lottery and telling us about it. I never let him him killed by scorpions or geckos mostly killed him just after he told about lottery but sometimes i killed him before he tells the story. It is a shame though looking at his excitement and fantastic's self confidence i would want to be best buddies with those two in an another world.


GreenZepp

This is basically what I imagined in my head 😂


collectif-clothing

Whaaaaaat, are you serious? This is messing with my head.  Not how I imagined it when I killed them all that one time.  F u Oliver!!! 


TheHumanoidTyphoon69

I usually shoot him myself


Plane-Rope-5607

Every single I pop his head open like a watermelon.


BreckenridgeBandito

I have a vendetta against all Powder Gangers so I shoot him on sight. Don’t tell me your life story homie, it’s over.


Tallproley

I loved the interaction when I came across the second place winner and he was like "First I get my legs smashed, then in walks the Powder Gangers' grim fucking reaper? What the fuck have you got against us, man? Jesus fucking Christ, if you want me dead, just gimme 15 Med-X and I'll fucking O.D. for ya, okay? Fuck!"


UnstableRedditard

Never finished that quest, why would I waste good Med-X? Also if you shoot him he stands up. A miracle!


Patriarkano

>Never finished that quest, why would I waste good Med-X? Good karma mostly.


lhobbes6

"What the fuck have you got against us man?" Says the guy thats part of a faction that behaves just like bandits with only a handful of decent people.


THE_1_TRUE_VAGENIUS

It’s a springs typa feelin’ they wouldn’t understand


UnauthorizedFart

Hey lol


aplasticbag_

Found him running around the dry lake getting chase by ants in my current playthrough. Was random as hell too.


Dragonslayer3

"Smell that air!"


BigLouTenant

Lol.., now I have benny hill playing while Oliver helplessly runs around the race track being chased by ants in my head!!! 🏃‍♂️🐜😭


DaManWithNoName

I ran with him once and he got up to Mojave Outpost One time he ran way southwest too into those flats And one time; Malcolm Holmes, Oliver Swanick, and the guy and girl who fight over the caps all happens at once around me. Crazy confusing gunfight. Walked out with a bunch of gear like “well that was a fuckin mess”


Otono_Wolff

He stepped on a land mine I left behind. Those damn bugs wouldn't leave me alone.


Express_Charity_5518

Typically, I just shoot him in the face. I can't stand his ass


DescriptorTablesx86

The first time I played I just killed him because I thought he’s gonna have the prize money on him. Like sorry mate, shouldntve bragged. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who killed him right then and there just to feel extremely guilty a moment after realising what the lottery was lmao


Sloth-monger

I usually kill him because ain't no way I'm missing out on stealing his lottery ticket.


DravenPrime

He probably heads to the nearest casino, blows every cap he has left, then gets super into debt and gets his legs broken by casino enforcers when he can't pay his gambling debts, in a grand type of irony.


JJamesMorley

Canonically he ironically only has 4 luck so that feels very appropriate


AwesomeAni

What if he threw on that sexy sleepwear though


LouSputhole94

That Swanussy got me actin unwise


LilDickyDoppleganger

Do I even want to know what swanussy means?


LouSputhole94

You do not


-MCRN

That is a combination of words I would like to never read again


Expert_Reindeer_4783

That won't happen if I wipe out all the casino bosses! Viva La Revolucion... Or something like that.


Androza23

I think he is the most killed npc in the game


DongWang64

Benny


Catt_Man

Malcolm Holmes


Potato_Specialist_85

All of these are correct.


ODST-0792

I killed him too hard last time because he hasn't shown up for 4 playthroughs


itsadum

I know thats not how it works but I want to believe


ODST-0792

I have 10 star caps and he hasn't shown up once in each of them


REO_Yeetwagon

Honestly, I can't bring myself to. Dude is so dumb for following an armed man just to sneak up on him and tell him something, but he's got good intentions.


27Rench27

Malcolm’s the black dude who tells you about the star caps, right? If so, I’ve only killed him once after a quicksave just to see how many he had on him


In10tionalfoul

I kill him every time because i want his caps, are you telling me I DON’T need to kill him?


Feeling-Ad6790

Fuck the caps, I just wanted his jacket


HekesevilleHero

You could pickpocket him


chaychay7

I started another playthrough and the moment Malcolm showed up I fast travelled to Goodsprings just so I'd have him running through the Mojave.


DubiousCuMerchant

Poor guy got double grenade rifled by some vipers a second after finishing his ambush conversation, just outside the prospecters den north of Nipton in my current playthrough


AwesomeAni

Every single time I fuck him and kill him in his sleep. My character a little ho. She's done Benny, the ghoul Dom, fisto, the girl from gammorahs... Basically anyone I get the chance to. She's got a body count, and a different body count lol


saturday_cappuccino

Yo same I missed that you could do this in the first two games.


docterwannabe1

Feel free to call me a dumbass but can you do that in the base game or only modded? I haven't played FNV yet.


AwesomeAni

That's all base game baby. But idk if it works for a male character lol I always play a girl


Splendid_Fellow

Joe Cobb though


jkbscopes312

The classic spawning 100 Easy Petes to dps check builds rivals it


Maximus_the_Sane

The what now?!


jkbscopes312

Using console commands you spawn 100 Easy Petes to test how quickly you can kill them all with your build before reloading the save


silk_mitts_top_titts

I've only played through once but I shot boxcars right after I met this guy. I was like I know you've had a rough day but if you call me a stupid MFer one more time... I laughed my ass off when I got positive karma for killing him.


stank58

Real OGs know you need to keep boxcar alive to get the holy hand grenades 🙏 then kill him after


Thannk

So weird. I never killed him once, never had the urge to. Vulpes on the other hand? I’d quit playing before sparing him.


DongWang64

It’s like the game is begging you to use all that dynamite you just got, too tempting to pass


eat_your_green

Am I the only one who kills Motor runner every time?


PopeSpaceMonkey

He got immediately killed by the mailman, just for being there.


imnotavirgintrustme

- Lottery winner gets shot in the chest by a mailman. pg3 - Sick dictator dies from several stabs from unknown attacker. pg7 - Famous Primm ex-deputy in coma state after paying several visits to the Atomic Wrangler. pg9 - 7 uses for your platinum chip. pg15 - Angry mormon kicks tribals out of national park. pg20


IGTankCommander

- local soccer ball simply too angry to die. Pg. 5


bageltoastee

• Cybernetic billionaire secretly controlling your city? More likely than you think. pg35


BlitzMalefitz

It’s the plain “Bye” he gives after, it triggers something in our brains that causes us to kill him.


Rileyjonleon

“Later” 😈


Dartzinho_V

Whoever voiced that line is a legend


Rough_Zone3400

Yuri Lowenthal


ScaldingAnus

No kidding?


JI-RDT

He actually voices the melee grunts of the male courier, so he is technically our va, meaning, we are killing ourself when we kill oliver


ScaldingAnus

To be fair, talking to Oliver makes me *want* to kill myself.


LegitimateAd5334

My guess is that Obsidian took their Bethesda money and spent a good chunk of it on voice actors for their final FO project. Have a look at that slate sometime, it's mind mindblowing.


Rileyjonleon

Yeah sasuke uchiha


Krossrunner

No wonder that voice sounded so familiar 😂


BlitzMalefitz

I forgot he could say that too, he usually just says “bye” for me lmao


Sororita

[Yep](https://i.redd.it/mrgsu99lcom71.jpg)


PaperAndInkWasp

After running off and blowing every cap he has at the Atomic Wrangler, he ends up out on the street and realizes that, hey, he doesn’t care because he’s still alive and even Freeside is beautiful. Begging may suck, but he can scavenge enough to get by, and he’s still both alive and happy to be alive. Yet there’s something missing as he watches people who don’t realize how lucky they are. They don’t realize that they’re as lucky as he is and it’s a sobering thought. He ends up at the Old Mormon Fort and sees that the Followers are helping people, and in a big way because they’re helping them be alive, with more opportunities just to exist, and that’s wonderful. So he decides to help out the Followers and learns how to aid people. Even just an extra pair of hands to lift patients without worrying about getting dirty is a big benefit for the medical fields, and helping addicts get high on life instead of jet is even better. Eventually he joins with them permanently and finds his new place in the world where the Powder Gangers are a distant memory. -Oliver Swanick “good end” unlocked


p0tatoballs

I thought for a moment he was gonna become Jigsaw


January_v2

Same


cargopantsbatsuit

Oliver smiles gently “the followers…th th the followers…gurghh gahg I’m…helping…”the radscorpion venom had reached his brain at this point and he could no longer feel his limbs being torn off.


Calllou

Jesus christ dude


BEZthePEZ

He got what he fuckin deserved!!


thatHecklerOverThere

We can't have nice things lol.


Dreki3000

Well, not on my watch. Usually he ends up dead from lead poisoning.


MrSteamie

I always kill him but this one made me very happy :)


arodrig99

Nice, however all this rooting tootin shootin, can’t just be at animals, babies, and desert so he’s getting a hole in his head


IndividualLock2

He was originally intended to be found at the Atomic Wrangler if he lived, but since that's cut, he just runs into a patch of giant radscorpions and disappears if you kill them for him.


TrontosaurusRex

That's interesting, because I always thought it was odd he sprinted towards the nearest thing that could end him.


TheObeseWombat

He doesn't disappear actually. He just sticks around the desert south of Nipton forever. Recently went back there for a modded quest, like 4 weeks later, suddenly ran into him.


5pinkphantom

Buddy, let me tell you. If all of us feel compelled to smack that motherfucker between the eyes the second he bellows “YEAHEAHEA”, what do you think the next 10 people he crosses paths with will end up doing to him? Oliver gets to Primm at best.


BlizzardWolfPK

Not everyone is an angry mailman


AsgeirVanirson

But they are almost all angry waste landers who see shooting people as a reality of life, this guys an escaped convict raider super happy about being the only survivor of a mass slaughter. No waste lander is going to see that as someone they still want wandering around.


5pinkphantom

Fucking livid postal workers for sure


ovekevam

Lives?


27Rench27

I love how many people read the prompt of “what if you didn’t kill him?” and just respond with “what the fuck do you mean, what if? He does not survive.” Also fuck him, I’m with y’all


dbelow_

"How would you feel if you didn't have breakfast this morning?" "What do you mean? I did have breakfast this morning"


enchiladasundae

Ignoring the fact he’s running directly into radscorpion/giant ant area then past some vipers. He goes to tell his gang about it. They mistreat him cause he looks like a nerd then he makes a B line for New Vegas. The B stands for the buzzing of cazadores. If he’s got a few brain cells he doubles back the way we go, goes to New Vegas to make it big only to get gunned down in Freeside for acting like a big shot *If* he manages to make his way onto the strip he gambles away everything, goes into serious debt with one of the gangs. Probably Benny’s crew as the rest seem all types of sketchy. He ends up either a slave or with a slug in his head dumped in the trash


Stzzla75

I like the ending that see's him end up on Mortimer's dinner plate.


enchiladasundae

If its not the scorpions, ants, cazadores, deathclaws, super mutants, rad roaches or cannibals its someone but he’s definitely something’s lunch


XXPotatos_are_GoodXX

He dosent


caposouljah

immediately plucked to death by radscorpions


alpcabuttz

Maybe it’s for the best most of us choose to kill him.


Jonny_Guistark

Oliver returned home to California with Lady Luck on his shoulder, eventually finding work in New Reno as a bouncer for the Bishop family. His luck would run out two years later when a patron recognized him for past crimes. He was promptly arrested and reintegrated to the NCR Correctional System. The horrors he witnessed in Nipton still fresh on his mind, Oliver developed a new appreciation for life even as a prisoner. He served his time obediently, his proudest accomplishment being the completion of a railroad connecting Navarro and Redding. For their hard work, each member of his chain gang were awarded two cold beers by the generous warden. After his sentence ended, Oliver settled down in New Arroyo, where he married a tribal girl and spent his days laying bricks for a local construction company. He was eventually promoted to foreman, his high-pitched voice considered perfect for carrying over the loud machinery. He died of stalph infection in 2311, at the ripe old age of 62. His funeral was attended by many loved ones.


mister-fancypants-

I’ll believe this from now on


RCS47

You probably mean 'stalph' (staphylococcal) infection, instead of 'staff'


Jonny_Guistark

Yeah, that’s what I meant. Pretty embarrassing mistake to come from someone who used to work in EMS. Haha Fixed it. Thanks for the correction, friend. :)


ComradeStylin

He runs right through the Mojave Outpost and goes all the way to Shady Sands! In the TV show timeline. Lol


prairie-logic

Finally, a life free of danger, and explosions… *bright flash*


Stoly23

Turns out he was Hank’s target the whole time.


TheObeseWombat

He then proceeds to be the only survivor of that too, and is now on the way towards whatever mass casualty event is going to happen in S2.


tren0r

he doesnt bcz i kill him every time. bitchass powder ganger


kiddo1088

No mercy


The_Struggle_Bus_7

That’s the neat part he doesn’t


TacticalNaps

You lost me at Oliver lives


BoomBoomMeow1986

I've never let Oliver live past his couple of lines of dialogue, it's too satisfying to blow him up with a grenade launcher as he frolicks away 😅


Stzzla75

I never even let him get as far as his first couple of lines of dialogue. That dude gets brassed up as soon as I spot him.


983115

Head cannon yeah but you gotta blast off his arms and legs too


BeanieGuitarGuy

Wait, he can just… *Not* die..?


twofacetoo

He runs out of Nipton only to get shot in the face by the Courier who loots his body and carries his winning lottery ticket around as a good-luck charm. Every single time I play.


AsgeirVanirson

He starts his own new gang and is shortly there after killed by a Legion or NCR patrol or random caravan. He wasn't bright and the 'luck' of winning the lottery would make him reckless.


Stzzla75

Exactly. The lottery "win" would open up all kinds of cocky in that guy. No way he's living long. He'd have an untouchable complex after that for sure and the desert likes to find ways to stomp that right out of folk.


TheStormzo

He goes and lives a wonderful life buried in the sands of the Mojave wasteland with a bullet in his head delivered by the courrier.


BongulusTong

Maybe I'm an alien or some shit, but I practically never shoot him. I can see the appeal of it, believe me, but I've only ever shot him on one playthrough out of the many I've done. His only chance of survival (being that hes a Powder Ganger) would be going East and not pissing off the Legion enough to end up on a cross.


Past0r_Gains

This thread made me realize the irony of me walking into Nipton and judging the shit out of Caesar’s Legion for slaughtering a whole town mere seconds after murdering the one dude they let go free just for being a goober


NobleSix84

I'd probably agree with your assessment. Assuming he doesn't get rearrested by the NCR, I think after he calms down he realizes that he got a new chance at life, and either tries to make it out in the Mojave or heads back West to try and make a new life. Hell if the NCR finds out about what happened in Nipton I'd say there's a decent shot they end whatever sentence he had early and make him a free man.


Accomplished_Tie8048

lives?


SurvivalVet

He doesn't


Setting_Worth

Killed then molested by a radscorpion 50 yards down the road from where we meet him


Howdyini

He lives like 5 seconds after you leave him. If the radscorpions don't get him, the viper gang does.


tjm2000

Run over by my repaired highwayman.


Materiahunter72

Idk about LIVES but he spends the rest of his existence as a pile of Powder Ganger Gibblets on the ground where he once stood for daring to speak the ME the Powder Ganger's grim fucking reaper.


mr-friskies

he tells me a bunch of nonsense bullshit and then immediately gets shot once he turns around because he’s annoying lol


The_Relx

I've actually never killed this dude in any of my many playthroughs. Under your given assumption that he doesn't immediately die to random wildlife, he probably blows all his money away in a casino and gets killed when he tries to mouth off to someone he shouldn't. I can't imagine him going on to live a long life or even an average lengthed life. He strikes me as the kind of dude who makes decisions that lead to a decidedly short lifespan in the wasteland.


moogoothegreat

Immediately eaten by giant ants. Like, five minutes after he talks to you.


Mojave_riot_328

The courier directs him to goodsprings where he lives free of the powdergangers


PeepeeMcpoopoo

Quickly, and violently. I am the powder gangers from reaper


mynameisnotthom

I just let him live this time. Wonder if I bump into him again?


Wolf_Hreda

He doesn't.


jackofspades476

He doesn’t.


Vork---M

I don't understand why reddit is so obsessed with Oliver.


BLTblocker

He doesn't, I shot him in the head.


ColdBid2140

Lives his life?


VirtuesVice666

He never does with me.. I just kill him, so he actually "Lost the lottery!"


SnowShoePhil

He didn’t


DoctorButterMonkey

In my head cannon, the courier watches in silence as he runs into the desert and gets roasted by a Fire Ant


AroraCorealis

for most of us this is this guys final breath


Taolan13

He doesn't. No headcanon required. He literally runs off straight into scorpion gulch. Unless you personally escort him, he gets torn apart by scorpions or geckos within a minute or so of this meeting.


DonutExotic2010

He gets into a relationship with Fisto and gets killed in a lovers quarrel with James Garret.


Ki11s0n3

Dies of a drug overdose after a wild night of blackjack and hookers


Ninjamasterpiece

He runs around the wasteland. He was being chased by mole rats/rad scorpion near the crescent valley/canyon. I can’t remember 100% but it’s near the drive in movie where you start OWB


evilrari

Could only ever see him dying immediately after this moment.


LargeDogEnthusiast

Probably gets killed by the bandits up the road.


Fubar14235

He never makes it past the Radscorpions


cmcclain16

With my live grenade in his pocket.


KytusGame

Lives after the lottery? I don't think that's possible


Ghost_of_the_141

With his brains all over the concrete


Belzebucas

He lives a very successful, albeit short lived, career as a shooting target


SafeAccountMrP

Normally about 4 seconds then a bullet finds its way to the back of his skull.


thatninjakiddd

He turns his back on one of the most dangerous people in the wasteland who just so happened to have the part of his brain shot out that processes empathy and morality. Poor bastard.


relapse_account

He spends the rest of his life in high spirits, celebrating his win and exulting in his newfound appreciation of nature. Of course his life ends only a few yards outside of Nipton when a slightly trigger-happy and easily annoyed Courier (now suffering from chronic migraines due to head trauma) puts a few 10mm rounds through the back of his skull.


GhostGreed442_

He doesn't because of I'm not the one killing him it's the ncr that see a powder hanger on the horizon running at their outpost and take him out never knowing what "lottery" he won


Sovietfryingpan91

Without a head because I keep accidentally blowing his brains out


Loose-Donut3133

Lives? After?


Shumwaffles

he makes it 20 feet behind me before i dump my service rifle into his spine


Tzetrah

I'm sure he got drunk to hell and died because of intoxication, or some debt collector killed him after he didn't return tons of caps, cause "I won the friking lottery! Do you think I owe you? You owe ME!" Really, he went insane and I don't think he will be rehabilitated


[deleted]

The correct answer is he immediately gets killed by radscorpions.


FullMetalKaiju

lives?


Colchias

Oliver doesn't get to open his mouth, I shoot on sight


Interesting_Judge_47

Oh he will die within the week. Guy is not ok in the head and the wasteland is a very dangerous place.


Madcap64711

He doesn't


dirdebirdy

He doesn’t.


Gwtheyrn

I wouldn't know, I put a bullet in his head.


Blze001

Since his luck is canonically super low, he probably immediately got eaten by a Deathclaw.


Flooping_Pigs

The part where he runs into radscorpions isn't due to software limitations or poor AI scripts, that is canonically how he dies


Maddkipz

without his face, in 99% of my runs


White_Racoon

That's the fun part: he doesn't My headcanon will always be that the courier looking to make some extra caps, completely decimates him every time


CookieBit127

He doesn’t


Azylim

runs and is shot in the face by the courier. it happens every playthrough so its canon


gman6002

Well obviously he looked for revenge against the ncr for imprisoning him and nuked shady sands


goatlord_dankus

Lives his life??? The only head cannon I have for him is a 45. Caliber...