Mr. House

Robert Edwin House, better known as Mr. House or House, is one of the overarching characters and one of the two possible main antagonists of Fallout: New Vegas, unless the player sides with him.
House is the self-styled President, CEO and sole proprietor of the New Vegas Strip in the Mojave Wasteland in the year 2281. House is responsible for the founding of RobCo Industries and civilizing the New Vegas casino tribes.
He was voiced by the late René Auberjornois, who also played Odo from the TV Series, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Chef Louis in The Little Mermaid.
==Personality==
Initially, Mr. House is, by virtually every denizen of the Mojave Wasteland, an utter mystery. Few have ever seen him since the Great War, let alone conversed with him.
As a result of his seclusion in the casino, the Lucky 38, the Omertas, one of the Three Families that run the strip in his name, resent Mr. House, seeing him as an ineffective leader due to his complete neutrality in the numerous feuds between the families, nicknaming him "Not-at-Home", this even makes the Omertas plot to overthrow him.
But once the Courier meets him, House gradually starts to reveal his personality to the former.
House is an incredibly sophisticated and intelligent man, having a genius-intellect even before he became the mechanically modified leader of New Vegas. 
This towering intellect contributed to his somewhat arrogant nature, thinking of himself as a higher kind of person, and eventually striving to rebuild the world by himself.
House, disregarding his arrogant personality, is quite affable to those that respect him and that he respects back, like the Courier.
==Biography==
Robert Edwin House was orphaned at an early age when his parents died in a freak accident involving an auto gyro and a lightning strike. He was subsequently cheated out of his inheritance by his elder half-brother, Anthony, who seized complete control of the family company, H&H Tools Inc. Nevertheless, House attended the Coomonwealth Institute of Technology, and founded the robotics company RobCo Industries at the age of 22. It would soon become one of the most profitable corporations in the world, owing mostly to House's considerable technical genius and business acumen. He used the wealth and power to gain controlling interests in a myriad of other businesses. These included REPCONN Aerospace, and the Lucky 38 Hotel & Casino on Las Vegas Boulevard.
House went to work on a secret plan to ensure the city would survive this apocalypse and that he would live to see the world after the war. He programmed multiple mainframes with satellite links meant to disable the vast majority of the Chinese missiles  which he had installed on the roof of the Lucky 38, to deal with any missile his program had missed. His body was permanently connected to an extremely sophisticated life support device to take care of his physiological needs, while his brain was wired directly into his vast information network via an enormous supercomputer.
An integral element of his plan was the platinum chip. The chip was to be delivered in the afternoon of October 23, 2077. Unfortunately, about 20 hours before delivery, the Great War began. The chip was lost and was rediscovered over 200 years later in Sunnyvale by some of the multiple scavengers hired by House. Forced to work with an inferior version of the OS, he suffered numerous system crashes and was even forced into a coma by one of the failures before being able to reboot an earlier, stable version.
House regained consciousness in 2138. Biding his time, he entered the world stage once again in 2274, when Securitrons under his command emerged from the Lucky 38. This action was prompted by the arrival of New California Republic scouts at Hoover Dam. In order to establish his rule, he enlisted the help of tribes living in |Vegas (later known as the Three Families) and rebuilt the city just in time to welcome the arrival of the NCR army's advance forces. In exchange for help with Hoover Dam and permission to use the McCarran Airport as its headquarters, House signed the New Vegas treaty, ensuring cooperation from NCR and, for a time, protecting The Strip from annexation.
When the Courier (main protagonist of Fallout: New Vegas) reaches New Vegas, Mr. House invites them to his private home in the Lucky 38 penthouse, where he reveals the truth behind what has been going on: the package the Courier was nearly killed for by Benny was "The Platinum Chip", a device created for Mr. House immediately before the war but never delivered due to the end of the world. Benny had wanted to steal the Platinum Chip to take over New Vegas himself.
Choosing to side with any of the other factions, Mr. House must eventually be killed/disabled, which is done by using a secret terminal next to his monitor, it unlocks the secret chamber where his ancient, hideously decrepit original body is. Even if the House is placed back into his pod, exposure to outside bacteria means that he will not survive for little more than a year at most.
==Other Media==
===Fallout TV Series===
==Gallery==
Mr. House.jpg|Mr. House Screen
==Trivia==
* In Fallout 4, House is revealed to have funded the Institute and having had a partnership with them, having help build some of their technology. His association with the Institute is also mentioned in Fallout New Vegas.
==External Links==
* Mr. House on Villains wiki
* Mr. House on Nukapedia
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