Its a tie because the only way to compare them is if they are all made using the same rules but once they are made under the same rules the differences largely evaporate.

I'd go with the Initiate. He would play some Slipknot and Killswitch and just blow your mind like a blood sausage, jazz boy.

I'm pretty sure the Courier, the Vault Dweller, & the Chosen One would gang up on the Lone Wander & say West coast representing!

Who needs the east when you have three bad asses on the west? :3

Yes but shortly after the fight he would cut himself and overdose on heroin while rockin' out with a full squad of prosttutes, resulting in a tie.

Then the Courier would rise from the grave somehow because that's like his gimmick, and then the Courier wins.

So no matter what happens to the Courier he will resurrect?
... Is he a Return Of The Living Dead Zombie by any chance?

We'll go with the second one.

It just oh so obviously sounds more Fallout(y).

He is death personified, unable to die himself and bringing death to communities he comes in contact with on a large scale.

Assuming I pulled out a save editor or used the console to max out each protagonist to their maximum levels with all perks and their best possible equipment, there would be some clear winners in my opinion. Those would be the Chosen One and the Courier, because they have the better perks and equipment available to them when compared to their predecessors. Should be noted however that the Lone Wanderer does have a very nice unique MIRV fatman, the Metal Blaster, and a Stealth Suit. However, the Courier would win because he has access to some of the best implants in the series, along with the Implant GRX perk. Because he is at level 50 with Logan's Loophole with challenge-related perks in tow, he is pretty darn overpowered. Especially if you add in his karma-related perks...yeah.

The Chosen One has the Jinxed Trait, but I suspect that wouldn't be enough to keep the Courier from coming out on top. It may leave him a bit annoyed, what with his weapons breaking and being jammed throughout the battle. If both characters also had all of their respective companions participating in the battle, this trait might turn the tables - it scales up against groups in my experience. Certainly would make it easier for the Chosen One to kill off individual companions and then zerg rush the Courier with his own group.

Courier.

1. Courier - because he's apparently immune to head shots. Would through the others off-guard when he just gets back up after they make his head a-splode. Also, learns a [censored]load of moral lessons and I'll be damned if he gets the short end of the stick after being forced to swallow moral [censored] about "letting go" and "beginning again".

2. Vault Dweller - because he basically taught himself how to survive. There were little in the way of organized communities when he first came out, so he had to teach himself how to survive and thus has a better understanding than the Chosen One (who was taught) and the Lone Wanderer (who had the BoS to help him out).

3. Chosen One - He's a porm star, he blew up an Enclave base WITHOUT A GIANT ROBOT DOING THE WORK FOR HIM, and he impregnated Mrs. Bishop, leading to the rise of the Bishops in New Reno (as referenced in New Vegas). Basically, he's larger than life, and while not as humble and skilled as his compatriots he can definitely hold his own decently.

4. Lone Wanderer - Wah, wah, wah, daddy! Also, basically had everyone else do the work for him when it came to SAVING THE WORLD. Still a badass, though, considering he basically ends the mutant threat by walking around blowing [censored] up. Plus, he does save everyone from dehydration. But he's still not a porm star, not self-reliant, and doesn't have immunity to headshots.

(also he's a teenager doing all that, so... yeah)


Anyways, my list is the same as yours. Chosen One probably had the most fun adventure though, I mean, he did spend time in New Reno. I dunno, I get that feeling given most of Fallout 2 was more humorous than any other Fallout game (which isn't a bad thing to me.)

Lonewander kicks Ass

Since no one has responded in months I will lock it for real this time.

Will this battle be on Very Hard/ hardcoe/DiD? This renders The Courier's head shot immunity null and void. Right? jk

They can all take turns giving the teenage Lone Wanderer a wedgie.

You know, I think that that's the biggest problem I had with Fallout 3. The dialogue was pretty bad, and some of the quests were downright moronic, but my biggest problem was being pigeonholed into playing a vault kid with daddy issues. Running around crying for daddy like a lost kid at the mall is -not- Fallout.

Is this a hypothetical fight or are we comparing there achievements?

If it's a fight the the lone wanderer wins without a pause for concern, while the other three fight in a ditch scrapping it out tlw will be hidden by his stealth suite and will rain down a second nuclear fire with his m.i.r.v

Oh, and on-topic:

1. The Courier.

2. Chosen One.

3. Vault Dweller.

4. Count Chocula.

5. A cocaine addled gorilla.

6. The Lone Wanderer.

You forgot the Warrior.

I'd say the one with the biggest gun wins unless it's a brawl guns would determine the outcome real quick

Turbo + Esther + Big Kid.
The LW will never make it away in time.

Are we talking about the Main Characters at the start of their journey? Or at the end?

If we are talking about the start of their adventure, then the Vault Dweller and the Lone Wanderer are out of the question. They came from vaults, they are not suited to traverse the waste and fight to the death compared to the Warrior and the Courier.

Who ever has the highest luck wins. I think on a level playing field, just because he came back from the dead once... The Courier.

Since I have played all characters, they would all go to Junktown and have a beer.

Courier is legend. Master of the Divide, the only person to ever live to tell the tale of the Sierra Madre, the Master of Big Mountain and the Mojave.
Pretty much unstoppable.