Forum:A family history of getting shot in the head?

If you look at the page for Lanius, the Legion's Legate, almost all the way down at the bottom you find that in an interaction with the Courier he talks about 2 bullet wounds to his head. So whats up with that?

Simple oversight?

Had Benny seen the Zombieland holotape and decided its never too early to use the double tap?

Did one of those random bullets out of the hundreds of thousands fired at you leave you with more than a concussion?

Is this a hint as to events in the Couriers past?

Something Lonesome Road will explain?

This was something that I had just noticed and thought you could all use something to think about, and maybe give you a laugh or two in the process...So whats YOUR idea on this mystery? All ideas welcome: serious, funny or whathave you XxSick DemonxX 07:09, August 17, 2011 (UTC)

Funny you should mention that, I also noticed that comment about the two head injuries. Alot of speculation about the Lone Wanderer and The Courier being the same person. And if you played Point Lookout in Fallout3, The wanderer has thier head cracked open and a piece of brain removed. Maybe just a coincidence, because the Wanderer hadn't suffered any memory loss at that point. But it could explain a few things. Mysterious individuals that have a hate on for you because of something in your past(Ulyssess). Your ease of use with a pip-boy when it's given to you at the start of FOV, little hints here and there.Carinth 13:37, August 17, 2011 (UTC)

Perhaps the Legate is assuming that after all the battles you were in, a bullet must have pierced your skill sometime or another. But this time, the super hardened pre-war hat was enough to stop the bullet from knocking you out cold for a couple of days. You didn't have to play it easy to get your bearings. --24.36.136.171 01:03, August 19, 2011 (UTC)


 * The game shipped with a movie that plays for the opening, but originally there was a scripted event that still exists in the game files. In the script, Benny fires once, has a short pause, then fires again. It's likely still canon to the story that the Courier was shot twice in the head, and perhaps you didn't hear the second shot due to being unconscious.--SushiSquid 01:16, August 19, 2011 (UTC)

The reason I'm kinda thinking the fo3 point lookout as being the previous headwound is that the wound coulda been mistaken as a gunshot and the hanging dolls you find in the new add-on. They are the same hanging dolls as on the swamp totems in point lookout, perhaps another hint.Carinth 19:38, August 19, 2011 (UTC)

Sorry the Courier can't be the Lone Wanderer. The Couriers a blank slate.--UserofMagnum 22:21, August 19, 2011 (UTC)

Well all we can do is speculate for now, nothing's definite that we know of yet. An enigma still to be solved.Carinth 02:17, August 20, 2011 (UTC)