The Full Story of Dogmeat | Fallout Lore

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Published on September 5, 2025 3:52:23 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxwzkONMc1E

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In every fallout game you can have a canine companion, and more often than not that dog is called Dogmeat. Despite the name it’s not always the same dog. In fallout 1, Dogmeat was owned by a man called Mel, a traveller who wore leather, carried a shotgun and had a funny accent, at least that’s what we’re told by Phil of Junktown. As the story goes, Mel came from the east, through the deadlands, arrived in Junktown and started interfering with Gizmo’s business. Gizmo is the owner of the casino and the boxing ring in Junktown, it’s safe to say Gizmo is not a good man, when Mel got in the way of his plans for controlling Junktown, Gizmo hired some local thugs and threw Mel off the casino’s roof. Mel is clearly a reference to Max Rockatansky from Mad Max, the leather, shotgun, unusual accent being Australian which would have appeared strange to Phil, and even the name Mel, as in Mel Gibson who played Max in the first three movies, but there’s also the dog from Mad Max 2: Road Warrior, which is a blue heeler simply called Dog. Dogmeat wasn’t just inspired by Road Warrior, he’s also a reference to 1975 movie a boy and his dog, where the boy sometimes calls the dog dogmeat, although his name throughout the rest of the movie is blood and he’s not a blue heeler, so it’s a slight mix of both of these movies, two men and their dogs surviving the wasteland. I can’t say the say the same for the dog itself as the only concept art showing Dogmeat in Fallout 1, looks more like a Heinz 57 type of dog and not one specific breed.

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