Editing Ghoul (section)

==Fallout==
In the [[Fallout]] universe, some humans who are irradiated don't die horribly, but mutate; their skin sloughs off and their nails turn into claws, but they become seemingly immortal, in the "immune to aging" sense, and immune to radiation - they can even learn to "feed" on radiation to replace the need for physical sustenance. These zombie-like bastards are known in-universe as "ghouls". Many retain their human minds and now have to put up with prejudice from their former neighbors; partly because they look like burnt walking corpses, but mainly because they sometimes lose their minds and become zombie-like roving cannibalistic horrors, known as feral ghouls, the widespread assumption being that this is the eventual fate of all ghouls (though mostly the former - as a Ghoul points out in FO4, regular people break and go killing all the time too in Fallout, so...).

What they look like depends on the game. Feral Ghouls in Fallout 1, 2, 3 and NV have no skin and exposed teeth while normal ghouls look like people with flaking, dead skin. From Fallout 4 and forward, feral ghouls look like cancerous, dangling messes (but with their skin intact), while normal ghouls look like severe burn victims, usually with no hair or nose.