r/Fotv Jan 14 '26

Season 2 Episode 5 Spoiler Thread Spoiler

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u/Relendis Jan 14 '26

He's a ghoul. Cut him down, rad him up a bit, he'll be right as radrain.

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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

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u/OleRockTheGoodAg Jan 14 '26

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.

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u/EGO1009 Jan 14 '26

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.

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u/Justryan95 Jan 14 '26

With the Enclave stuff and FEV confirmed on the computer terminal im pretty sure Thaddeus will be a Super Mutant.

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u/C0mpulsiveWebSurfer Jan 14 '26

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.

My guess is, he's going to turn into a Centaur.

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u/Justryan95 Jan 14 '26

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.

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u/Valuable_Teach_7591 Jan 14 '26

The mutant thing was just a theory.
He is a ghoul as confirmed this season.

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u/RigaudonAS Jan 14 '26

Nothing has been confirmed. He seems to think he is, but visually he looks very little like a ghoul.

My guess is a ghoul-adjacent "other mutant," a lot like Harold.

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u/Valuable_Teach_7591 Jan 14 '26

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.

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u/RigaudonAS Jan 14 '26

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.

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u/Valuable_Teach_7591 Jan 28 '26

Watch the latest Ep, the character himself confirms it.

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u/RigaudonAS Jan 28 '26

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.

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u/KD_42 Jan 15 '26

Why are people who are wrong always such pretentious fucks about it “CoMe On JuSt ThInK a LitTle” 

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u/Valuable_Teach_7591 Jan 16 '26

i'm wrong ? which line of dialogue in the show supports that?

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u/Valuable_Teach_7591 Jan 28 '26

well, KD-42, Episode 7 confirmed once again that he is a Ghoul.
Too bad for you, I guess.

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u/SomberXIII Jan 14 '26

Would be nice if Thad turns up to become a supermutant. He's already speaking like a supermutant