Super mutants are Humans who have been subjected to a government-made virus called the'' Forced Evolutionary Virus'' (FEV), which was designed to create super soldiers. It worked to a degree, with the subjects becoming stronger and tougher, but at the cost of both intelligence (with some key exceptions) and becoming aggressive to a fault. An army of super mutants led by an extremely mutated biomass called "The Master" acts as the main antagonistic faction of the first game; notably, the Master can be convinced that his plan to phase out normal humans in favor of mutants is unworkable (Super mutants are sterile), causing him to commit [[suicide]], at the end in lieu of actually fighting him. A separate strain of Super mutants appear in Fallout 3, this group leaderless and far more innately hostile than their Western counterparts, with only two friendly individuals ever being encountered. | Super mutants are Humans who have been subjected to a government-made virus called the'' Forced Evolutionary Virus'' (FEV), which was designed to create super soldiers. It worked to a degree, with the subjects becoming stronger and tougher, but at the cost of both intelligence (with some key exceptions) and becoming aggressive to a fault. An army of super mutants led by an extremely mutated biomass called "The Master" acts as the main antagonistic faction of the first game; notably, the Master can be convinced that his plan to phase out normal humans in favor of mutants is unworkable (Super mutants are sterile), causing him to commit [[suicide]], at the end in lieu of actually fighting him. A separate strain of Super mutants appear in Fallout 3, this group leaderless and far more innately hostile than their Western counterparts, with only two friendly individuals ever being encountered. |