So I decided to go back and play Fallout 3 for a little bit just for the hell of it, and I played evil so Regulators end up hunting me. Then I started to wonder, are the Regulators even canon? We all know the canon Lone Wanderer is a good guy. The Lone Wanderer saves the Capital Wasteland by bringing pure water to the masses without putting the FEV in it, he/she blows up the Mobile Base Crawler and NOT the Citadel, he/she probably disarms the bomb in Megaton instead of destroying the town, and he/she helps to write a complete Wasteland Survival Guide. The Lone Wanderer is good. So he/she would have been hunted by Talon Company Mercs and not Regulators. So, if you don't even take the Lawbringer perk, Regulators never even show up in the game. So are the Regulators non-canon? Because, without being evil and without taking the Lawbringer perk, they don't exist. Does the Lone Wanderer by default take the Lawbringer perk just so the Regulators can exist in the game? Idk, it's just a thought. 71.171.112.74 05:29, January 15, 2013 (UTC)
- Where is it ever made canon that the Lone Wanderer is a good guy?
Some Assembly Required! 05:34, January 15, 2013 (UTC)
Nothing is canon until FO4 is released. 
"Hail to the Pigeon!" 06:36, January 15, 2013 (UTC)
- Whoa! Call Wikia, tell them to shut down the servers - we are out of business! :) --Theodorico (talk) 08:16, January 15, 2013 (UTC)
I just mean that from my point of view, the Regulators feel like the Wild Wasteland trait. They don't ever show up unless you take the Lawbringer perk and/or are evil, just like the aliens don't show up in FO:NV if you don't take the Wild Wasteland perk. On the flip side, Talon Company is always in the game regardless of karma or perks. But again, this is just a thought I had, as we will probably never hear of Talon Company or Regulators again. As for the Lone Wanderer being good, he/she is. The Lone Wanderer brings pure water to the Capital Wasteland (whether he/she activated it or not), blows up the Mobile Base Crawler, and helps write the Wasteland Survival Guide. These are the actions of a hero, a good guy. However, that is not to say the Lone Wanderer was a saint. We can debate the side quests as much as you want, but as for the main questline he/she took the path of good. Just as the Vault Dweller was a good guy and the Chosen One was a good guy, the Lone Wanderer was also a good guy. The only one that is up for debate is the Courier. All the other Fallout games have canonically good endings. 71.171.112.74 03:10, January 17, 2013 (UTC)
- Regulators do show up without the perk. Lucas Simms is a regulator, and one can be found near the cemetery where you kill Junders. 67.187.96.246 03:18, January 17, 2013 (UTC)
- The dead one at the cemetery only appears if you have the perk. However, where is it stated that the Lone Wanderer must be a good guy, or girl (we need a female main character already). Having the Lone Wanderer be a villain, maybe even a villain appearing later could be an interesting twist. Oh yeah, also it was Interplay that made the main characters all good. You can't use Interplay's actions as evidence of what Bethesda will do. Paladin117>>iff bored; 03:20, January 17, 2013 (UTC)
- I could have sworn that regulator still showed up, just without the note on him if you didn't have the perk. As for the Interplay comment, that's not true. Interplay made the main character for Fallout 1 a bad guy as the Wasteland Stranger, whom you have to fight in the Los arena. 67.187.96.246 03:28, January 17, 2013 (UTC)
- While odd, it appears the Wasteland Stranger you fight is not the Vault Dweller, although it is odd that they share the same nickname and has almost the same model. Paladin117>>iff bored; 03:35, January 17, 2013 (UTC)
- It has been confirmed that after the Vault Dweller left Arroyo, he came across Carbon and settled there, even helping the Initiate, who can find the Wasteland Stranger's Vault 13 flask in the mill at Carbon. 67.187.96.246 03:47, January 17, 2013 (UTC)
- While odd, it appears the Wasteland Stranger you fight is not the Vault Dweller, although it is odd that they share the same nickname and has almost the same model. Paladin117>>iff bored; 03:35, January 17, 2013 (UTC)
- I could have sworn that regulator still showed up, just without the note on him if you didn't have the perk. As for the Interplay comment, that's not true. Interplay made the main character for Fallout 1 a bad guy as the Wasteland Stranger, whom you have to fight in the Los arena. 67.187.96.246 03:28, January 17, 2013 (UTC)
- The dead one at the cemetery only appears if you have the perk. However, where is it stated that the Lone Wanderer must be a good guy, or girl (we need a female main character already). Having the Lone Wanderer be a villain, maybe even a villain appearing later could be an interesting twist. Oh yeah, also it was Interplay that made the main characters all good. You can't use Interplay's actions as evidence of what Bethesda will do. Paladin117>>iff bored; 03:20, January 17, 2013 (UTC)
(←) Well, first off, it's not confirmed because Brotherhood of Steel is non-canon. Secondly, what I was saying is even in BoS, the Wasteland Stranger you fight in Los is different than the one you meet in the rest of the game. Paladin117>>iff bored; 03:50, January 17, 2013 (UTC)
- Canon has nothing to do with information being confirmed. What matters in this case is that Interplay did indeed make one of their original protagonists a bad guy whom you can kill. And no, he isn't. Both in Carbon and in Los he used the exact same character sprite, and even his concept art that was released by Interplay shares the exact same likeness and was labeled as being the Vault Dweller in his older years. 67.187.96.246 03:52, January 17, 2013 (UTC)