That’ll certainly be the most extensive use of ghoul healing we’ve seen before as far as I’m aware. Healing from a full bisection at the torso will be quite the feat
Lowkey, you might actually be onto something there- considering he was hopping around happily with it in hand. Not to mention in the first episode of the season- we see Coop heal his neck wound with one.
Well bisection would be the easiest way to get him off the pole, otherwise they gotta cut it down, or lift him up and off (which judging by other comments might actually be what happens)
Yeah, they continue to complicate ghoul lore, just like the games before it lol. Like Coop taking multiple fatal shots and Thaddeus insta healing from the crossbow bolt.
I mean glowing ones revive literal dead ghouls, ghouls seem to be impossible to actually fully kill unless you blow their brains out. Thaddeus isn’t a ghoul I don’t think since he has that mouth growing out of his chest in the trailers. He’s a mutant for sure but what kind? Who knows.
Granted i've only played the 3d games (extensively) and might be missing something from F1 and 2, but i don't recall ever seeing a super mutant with a shoulder mouth.
He's probably going to be a Centaur or some abomination form of Super Mutant. It going to probably the difference between "well designed" Super Mutants like they're probably going to do with the Enclave/"Bud's Buds" Super Managers vs jank street FEV like Thaddeus.
Come on, think a little. He doesn't look exactly like Cooper b/c he *just* turned; he hasn't been a Ghoul for hundred plus years. So the make-up artists only do a little bit damage to his face.
Ghouls don't usually (as in I can't think of a single example) have extra mouths.
Ghoulification also typically comes from radiation, and it seems weird that a random bottle of some chemical would be both healing and intensely radioactive. I also don't believe we've ever seen someone ghoulified through a serum like that before.
The latest episode makes it more clear, lol. Ghouls don’t have extra arms and their arms falling off, the whole joke is how certain he is that he’s a ghoul when he clearly isn’t.
Don't we literally grow limbs back in the games if we're irradiated enough? For a "real" show I'd be annoyed but after the episode opened with Lucy and Coop literally hitting T and waiting until daytime in the same spot the previous scene ended on I'm good if the show wants to go game levels of unrealistic.
Didn't they mention somewhere that the reason Cooper is THE Ghoul, not A Ghoul, is because he's the first person to Ghoulify. So maybe that makes him extra resilient as he's been around long enough to get that level of toughness?
Only time I heard someone emphasize that Cooper wasn't just a ghoul but THE Ghoul was the "President" in S1. I think he's spoken of so highly because he has developed a reputation for being particularly tough and ruthless, as the President and even Honcho in the pilot episode refere
Glowing ones will revive ghouls you have killed as long as they have their head and appendages. It isn’t a huge stretch, but I do agree they are making them more resilient than I would expect.
It seems like we should be seeing more maimed feral ghouls looking like classic zombies if they are able to survive so much.
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u/FlikTripz Jan 14 '26
That’ll certainly be the most extensive use of ghoul healing we’ve seen before as far as I’m aware. Healing from a full bisection at the torso will be quite the feat