Forum:What can kill Fawkes?

I like Fawkes a lot but have had him die on me a number of times. I was so saddened, I went immediately to a previous save each time. Here's where I've seen him die.

Once in the anchorage memorial by a mirelurk who was invincible. He was taking Fawkes apart and I shot the 'lurk at least 30 times with the alien blaster and he wouldn't die. Once at Takoma industrial. I'd left him by the trucks in front of the factory while I dispatched the behemoth. Some Talon Mercs and a Mr Gutsy killed him. Once he got killed by the behemoth at GNR studios. I hate it when he gets killed and try to prevent it when possible. Kenny Powers

I have tried multiple times to kill Fawkes just to see if it was possible, with mini-nukes and anything else I could think of with no success. But the current game I'm on, he has died twice upon me entering the Citadel Courtyard. There is no apparent cause of death as the Brotherhood are friendly toward us and are not shooting. He just drops dead in the middle of the courtyard with no explanation.

I killed him by shooting him with 2 mini nukes, puting all my mines down, telling him to wait on them and shooting from afar. (I did that twice.) Then I went to Rivit City And told him to wait by a bus while I blew it up. He had two notches left, so I took him into major combat situations. Eventually he died. I was sad =[. So i wnt to one of my previous saves...70.253.196.126 13:20, June 9, 2010 (UTC)

So I was doing the mission Death From Above when I had Fawkes with me so I tested if the the orbital strike could kill him. I made him wait beside Liberty Prime when he gets blown up. The result Giant Robot Superweapon dead : Intelligent Super Mutant loses 2 bars of F****ING health. So bearing that in mind can anyone tell me what can kill this beast?--MagnumUser 20:41, June 1, 2010 (UTC)

Well if an orbital strike can't kill him my plan probably won't either. But i'd like to see someone make him wait then blow up megaton. This will probably never happen since it would mean that you'd have to play the game the whole way without ever having a private house. The Lone Kobold 20:45, June 1, 2010 (UTC)

You could use the Citadel glitch and use the Rivet City Hotel as a place for any loot.--MagnumUser 20:52, June 1, 2010 (UTC)

Actually, reverse pick pocketing him with a lot of grenades does the trick quite nicely. Ferbil 19:34, June 3, 2010 (UTC)

I have killed him before on 360...he took absolutely AGES to kill. It took me 2 bottlecap mines, (They crippled his legs) and then I pulled out Vengeance (The Best Gatling Laser) and put nearly 2000 electron charge packs into him, before dying. And that was on Very Easy difficulty... So he is rather tough. --Half-BloodPrince 15:34, June 9, 2010 (UTC)

I went on top of a SatCom sattellite and i pushed him off. He died lol. Tezzla blah blah blah 16:09, June 9, 2010 (UTC)

I pushed him of a sat com satellite then jumped after him. Didn't end well though... We went splat on a random raider.--Blahmarrow 19:10, August 27, 2010 (UTC)

I was in the Citadel and ordered Fawkes to go melee and then I took my trusty Gauss Rifle out and started shooting at him, VATSing at his legs. Then I used my flamer while my AP went up. After a long time, he died. (That was on normal.) Redaueron 16:19, June 9, 2010 (UTC) Briareus the Sniper

Wait what satcom station has the ability to do an orbital nuclear strike? Anyways try that it might tickle him a little.

I came really close to killing him when I let him get beat up by a super mutant behemoth. It was really quick, too. He also died in a mine field, I think it was the one with the hostage.--Verno 21:28, June 17, 2010 (UTC)

Try reverse-pickpocketing any type of grenade or explosive such as a mine into Fawkes after you have fired him.--SoPro~ 02:04, June 20, 2010 (UTC)

''Well if an orbital strike can't kill him my plan probably won't either. But i'd like to see someone make him wait then blow up megaton. This will probably never happen since it would mean that you'd have to play the game the whole way without ever having a private house.''

On the contrary, in my first run i went through the whole game without messing with the bomb, and thus not getting any real house (I did store my stuff in the Citadel) because I thought that I couldn't get the megaton house, for lucas simms had died. Now, of course, I read up lots of stuff here and have the house. Man, that post felt like forever. --It&#39;s a shame that Blobbersberries can&#39;t get the signature to work so this&#39;ll do. 14:05, June 21, 2010 (UTC)

If you really must do such a thing, you either (1) terminate him in Vault 87, (2) leave him in Vault 87 so he can't get his unlimited-shot gatling laser, release him later, and send him up against a Deathclaw or Behemoth; or (3) I guess you could try telling him to wait, putting 40 mini-nukes around him, and then shooting him with the Fatman (do mini-nukes detonate sympathetically?) -- personally, I like having him and Cross as my followers. We don't die, but everything else does!

I don't think the world-model mini nuke can explode, so unfortunately this plan wouldn't work, despite how hilarious it would be The Slightly-Lonely Wanderer 11:25, July 19, 2010 (UTC)

Heh, on very easy at Level 30, Fawkes took 30 mini nukes from a fully repaired Fat Man to get rid of even one bar on his health. So, after that, I shot the MIRV at him. IT took about 19 or so to make a dent in it, so I then took him to all the buses I could find and blew them up, then got all of Rivet City to attack him (He slaughtered everyone), then got all of the Citadel to attack him. Finally, the only way I could see him dying was to get attacked by Liberty Prime. So, I fired him while Prime was near. It took 5 minutes of continuous blasting on Prime's part to actually kill Fawkes.--With care and happiness,  Supermutantslayer450'  ROAR  23:30, June 27, 2010 (UTC) \

Only one thing ca truly kill Fawkes. ME! Also my mate tells me if you jump from the flight deck of rivet city he will follow suit and miss the water and die on the rocks. JASPER42 21:05, July 5, 2010 (UTC)

Why would anybody try to kill Fawkes? Liam Spencer 12:11, July 7, 2010 (UTC)

I don't like him, im neutral/evil and on my good save i had him. All he just annoyed me in the end with his random comments like "It's amazing how people trust you enough not to attack me" often right after a huge battle. And the there's his killing sprees in Republic of Dave. and Regulator HQ, that just get inconvenient. He's only goo for his shear power and i don't need that any more, i can hold my own against near anything. Only caused trouble by Albino rad scorpions and Overlords. I dont even take Charon my current companion or Dogmeat on missions any more. Just make them wait in Tenpenny with Sticky, Shorty and Red. "We're not going to Big Town" JASPER42 16:58, July 7, 2010 (UTC)

I got bored on my good level 30 character and tried to kill him on normal. First I got loaded on chems (Jet, Ultrajet, Psycho, Med-X, Buffout and Nuka-Cola Quantum), then pumped about 1000 shots from Xuanlong, 10 mini-nukes (before he broke my Fat Man), ~400 shots from A3-21's plasma rifle and a bunch of sneak attack criticals with plasma grenades. By the time he was dead, I'd used all five of my stims and blood had spattered all over the exhibits at the Museum of History Entrance. Then I reloaded. Good times. ^_^ Telos 09:23, July 8, 2010 (UTC)

A grenade pickpocketed. Took me two seconds :P --Vault-BA 02:27, July 31, 2010 (UTC)

Mysterious Stranger could kill him, with his over 9000 damage magnum. Also if he slept you oculd sandman him. Liam Spencer 11:15, July 31, 2010 (UTC)

Abandonment. I had Fawkes as a companion, he was awesome. Killed everything with that gatling laser, from Death Claws and Feral Ghoul Reavers to Super Mutant Overlords, then I went to do the Mothership Zeta DLC with Fawkes in tow, not realizing that he'd be stranded (Duh!). About a quarter of the way through, I got that accursed 'Fawkes has died' message, though I'm still not sure what killed him. When I went back to his corpse, there was a dead Deathclaw, couple of destroyed Sentry Bots in the outlying regions, and a live Albino Radscorpion. It was probably the latter that killed him, but dammit, I avenged his death. Fawkes died for what he believed in... HIS FREEDOM!!! *sob* :'( - Trueform Darkside

Fawkes pities the fool that doesn't survive being shot in the face 12 times by a MIRV. ---MPLX Fantasurge 03:32, September 9, 2010 (UTC)

One of my characters right now is level 26, and I have Fawkes and Dogmeat backing him up. If it wasn't for my Blackwater rifle I'd never get any XP. I still like pile of bodies we leave in our wake though.--John Larson 03:10, September 14, 2010 (UTC)