The experiment hides inside Drop‘s Vault 32 came as a shock to fans as it introduced some of the darkest stories in the series.
Amazon Prime Video’s take on the beloved Bethesda video game series offered fans a new look at the series’ iconic underground vaults.
Although the in-universe company Vault-Tec publicly sold these vaults as fallout shelters to those willing to pay top dollar, it has since been revealed that every post-nuclear community was intended to conduct an experiment, some more sinister than others. .
What happened in Fallout’s Vault 32?
One of the vaults featured on Amazon Prime Video Drop the series featured a deadly experiment that is even macabre Drop.
Vault 32, Lucy’s (played by Ella Purnell) neighboring community of Vault 33, has a dark secret slowly revealed during the first season of the live-action series.
When the Riders pass through Vault 32 and attack Vault 33, members of Lucy’s community assume that their attackers also killed the inhabitants of their underground neighbors.
However, a lot more happened.
In Episode 4, after a few visits from Moisés Arias’ Norm, Norm and fellow vaulter Chet (played by Dave Register) discover that all the residents of Vault 32 apparently killed each other and not some outside force.
They then learn that a skin crawling experiment was conducted in Vault 32 where the inhabitants likely ate each other.
When they come across a television that explains the purpose of Vault 32, the pair discover that this shelter is home “mouse utopia”.
The mouse utopia described in the show is a serial experiment that gives its subjects “all the comforts, all the food they can eat, (and) all the cushions they can sleep on” before overpopulation hits and the so-called behavioral slump starts to happen. This makes for a desperate fight “once endless space” as a result, subjects eat each other:
“This rodent colony is called a mouse utopia. Inside, the mice enjoy all the comforts, all the food they can eat, all the cushions they can sleep on, but eventually overpopulation occurs. The mice fight once for plenty of foo, once. endless space, they eat each other in their desperation to survive .”
Although it is not specifically revealed that Vault 32 was the setting of a mouse utopia, after Vault-Tec used the vaults for various experiments in later episodes of the series, it is heavily implied that Vault 32 was home to a human. in the behavioral container.
Several members of the scientific community conducted such experiments on mice in the mid-20th century.
The most prominent ethologist, John B. Calhoun, studied the effect of the mouse utopia and coined the term Behavioral Sink to describe the discord in society caused by overpopulation.
This Vault 32 experiment is just one of many to be found Dropn countless underground nuclear shelters (read more about others Drop vault tests here).
Drop Season 1 is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
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