History Awesome / Borderlands2

** Being Krieg in this situation is especially fun because all the things Jack says about you, (that you're a murderer, a bandit, a ''psycopath'') are all true. The knowledge that you're all these things and more and STILL more righteous than him makes it so satisfying to land that buzz-axe into his soft face. Better yet, if he ''hadn't'' ordered those experiments on ya, you wouldn't be the badass standing there about to kill him. Bonus points if you use your buzz axe, which is just like the one that his grandmother had used to discipline him as a child. Because nothing says revenge quite like forcing your enemy to relive childhood trauma while you kill them.

** Or, you could literally execute him with Zer0's Executi0n.
** OR, you could shoot him [[VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel in the back]], as a nice CallBack to the moment where he stopped being a rational man and slowly transformed into Big Brother.

** If you want a truly canon death, just shoot him in the abdomen, which he's covering with his hands.

** Bonus points go to Zer0, who kills two Hyperion soldiers in what is arguably the most badass [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impalement]] ever. After tricking one Engineer into punching his hologram, he runs the other through from behind with a katana, does a flying somersault off of his (still standing) body, and kicks off the first Engineer, sending him flying right into the blade, chest first. CutscenePowerToTheMax, sure, but undeniably epic.

* [[spoiler: Killing Handsome Jack.]] After all the shit this lunatic puts you through, [[spoiler:you get to enjoy him pitifully begging for his life after you defeat the Warrior. And it's not a cutscene death either. You get to pull the trigger on him yourself, with whatever gun you want, at any point during his speech. Thank you, Gearbox.]]

** And of course, just the simple, basic melee attack. Nothing like an anti-climatic end for a over-the-top SmugSnake with AGodAmI delusions, delivered by a quick downward swing from a tomahawk.

*** Not to mention she ''deliberately cut her arm off'' so she could install the robotic one!

** The only thing that's anywhere near as awesome is playing as Maya and using ''your own'' [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Siren powers]] '' to do so.

** Being Krieg in this situation is especially fun because all the things Jack says about you, (that you're a murderer, a bandit, a ''psycopath'') are all true. The knowledge that you're all these things and more and STILL more righteous than him makes it so satisfying to land that buzz-axe into his soft face. Better yet, if he ''hadn't'' ordered those experiments on ya, you wouldn't be the badass standing there about to kill him.
*** Bonus points if you use your buzz axe, which is just like the one that his grandmother had used to discipline him as a child. Because nothing says revenge quite like forcing your enemy to relive childhood trauma while you kill them.
** And of course, just the simple, basic melee attack. Nothing like an anti-climatic end for a over-the-top SmugSnake with AGodAmI delusions.

** Or the Morningstar, nothing says Irony like killing them guy with a gun his company sent you to make you feel bad.
** Speaking of talking guns, you could also use the Loader AI core from "Out of Body Experience" if you turned him into a gun. He wanted to help you kill people after all. "Good decision", indeed.
** Heck, there's also doing so with ''the first gun you get in the game''. "Heh". Thanks, Claptrap.

** The point is: It's awesome and satisfying no matter how you do it, because the very people he said were dirt are making Pandora a better place.

** OR, you could shoot him [[VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel in the back]], as a nice CallBack to the moment where he stopped being a rational man and slowly transformed into Space Stalin.

* The Crystalisk's CynicismCatalyst story crosses with TearJerker, CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming and this. A security team led by an Officer Booth goes into the caverns and discovers the Crystalisks for the first time, befriending a [[GentleGiant rather large one]] that she named "Blue" out of his crystal colour. After her supervisor, a woman by the name of [[LackOfEmpathy Harchek]] proceeds to order her murder after she speaks out against her mining the Crystalisks, Blue [[BerserkButton isn't too]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge happy about that]]and [[ItsPersonal goes apeshit on the mining team]] along with the others and by the sounds of it, [[UnstoppableRage killing the entire expedition]], [[KarmicDeath including]] [[AssholeVictim Harchek]], by himself.

* The Crystalisk's CynicismCatalyst story crosses with TearJerker, CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming and this. A security team led by an Officer Booth goes into the caverns and discovers the Crystalisks for the first time, befriending a [[GentleGiant rather large one]] that she named "Blue" out of his crystal colour. After her supervisor, a woman by the name of [[LackOfEmpathy Harchek]] proceeds to order her murder after she speaks out against her mining the Crystalisks, Blue [[BerserkButton isn't too]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge happy about it]] and [[ItsPersonal goes apeshit on the mining team]] along with the others and by the sounds of it, [[UnstoppableRage killing the entire expedition]], [[KarmicDeath including]] [[AssholeVictim Harchek]], by himself.

* The Crystalisk's CynicismCatalyst story crosses with TearJerker, CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming and this. A security team led by an Officer Booth goes into the caverns and discovers the Crystalisks for the first time, befriending a [[GentleGiant rather large one]] that she named "Blue" out of his crystal colour. After her supervisor, a woman by the name of [[LackOfEmpathy Harchek]] proceeds to order her murder after she speaks out against her mining the Crystalisks, Blue [[BerserkButton isn't too]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge happy about it]] and goes apeshit on the mining team along with the others and by the sounds of it, [[UnstoppableRage killing the entire expedition]], [[KarmicDeath including]] [[AssholeVictim Harchek]], by himself.

* The Crystalisk's CynicismCatalyst story crosses with TearJerker, CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming and this. A security team led by an Officer Booth goes into the caverns and discovers the Crystalisks for the first time, befriending a rather large one that she named "Blue" out of his crystal colour. After her supervisor, a woman by the name of [[LackOfEmpathy Harchek]] proceeds to order her murder after she speaks out against her mining the Crystalisks, Blue [[BerserkButton isn't too]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge happy about it]] and goes apeshit on the mining team along with the others and by the sounds of it, [[UnstoppableRage killing the entire expedition]], [[KarmicDeath including]] [[AssholeVictim Harchek]], by himself.

-->'''Mr. Torgue:''' [[BerserkButton THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE!]] [[UnstoppableRage CHASE HIM DOWN AND PUNCH HIM SO HARD HE]] '''[[MadeOfExplodium EXPLODES!]]'''

* On your way back to Sanctuary after [[spoiler:Bloodwing's death]], you get attacked be an army of high level Hyperion robots. Just as you ready your favourite gun, you hear Mordecai tell you to get down... [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge who then proceeds to]][[UnstoppableRage unleash a truly massive attack]], effortlessly wiping them all out with ''exploding slag Cobra shots.''

* On your way back to Sanctuary after [[spoiler:Bloodwing's death]], you get attacked be an army of high level Hyperion robots. Just as you ready your favourite gun, you hear Mordecai tell you to get down... who then proceeds to unleash a truly massive attack, effortlessly wiping them all out with ''exploding slag Cobra shots.''

-->'''Mr. Torgue:''' [[BerserkButton THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE!]] [[UnstoppableRage CHASE HIM DOWN AND PUNCH HIM SO HARD HE]] '''[[MadeOfExplodium EXPLODES!]]'''
Let down somewhat with the rather Social Justice Warrior-esque ness of it all. Stil awesome, 'cause it's Motherfucking Torgue.

-->'''Mr. Torgue:''' [[BerserkButton THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE!]] [[UnstoppableRage CHASE HIM DOWN AND PUNCH HIM SO HARD HE]] '''[[MadeOfExplodium EXPLODES!]]'''

* Any fan of Westerns can appreciate seeing the Vault Hunters fanning the hammer whenever they're firing a revolver really quickly, especially when they're in epic gun battles on the Bloodshot Dam, in Opportunity, at Sawtooth Cauldron, or, better still, battling Nisha in Lynchwood. It's a simple detail, but it's nice, considering how all the games are basically classic Western movies [-IN SPACE!-] that meet ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', ''Literature/IRobot'' and ''Film/MadMax'' all at once.

* Any fan of Westerns can appreciate seeing the Vault Hunters fanning the hammer whenever they're firing a revolver really quickly, especially when they're in epic gun battles on the Bloodshot Dam, in Opportunity, at Sawtooth Cauldron, or, better still, battling Nisha in Lynchwood. It's a simple detail, but it's nice, considering how all the games are basically classic Western movies [-IN SPACE-] that meet ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', ''Literature/IRobot'' and ''Film/MadMax'' all at once.

* Any fan of Westerns can appreciate seeing the Vault Hunters fanning the hammer whenever they're firing a revolver really quickly, especially when they're in epic gun battles on the Bloodshot Dam, in Opportunity, at Sawtooth Cauldron, or, better still, battling Nisha in Lynchwood. It's a simple detail, but it's nice, considering how the entire game-if not all of them-are basically classic Western movies [-IN SPACE-] that meet ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', ''Literature/IRobot'' and ''Film/MadMax'' all at once.

* Any fan of Westerns can appreciate seeing the Vault Hunters fan the hammer whenever they're firing a revolver really quickly, especially when they're in epic gun battles on the Bloodshot Dam, in Opportunity, at Sawtooth Cauldron, or, better still, battling Nisha in Lynchwood. It's a simple detail, but it's nice, considering how the entire game-if not all of them-are basically classic Western movies that meet ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', ''Literature/IRobot'' and ''Film/MadMax'' all at once.

* Any fan of Westerns can appreciate seeing the Vault Hunters fan the hammer whenever they're firing a revolver really quickly. It's a simple detail, but it's nice, considering how the entire game is a SpaceWestern which meets classic Science Fiction, Asimov's Laws of Robotics and ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' all at once.

** Bonus points go to Zer0, who kills two Hyperion soldiers in what is arguably the most badass [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impalement]] ever. After tricking one soldier into punching his hologram, he runs the other through from behind with a katana, does a flying somersault off of his (still standing) body, and kicks off the first soldier, sending him flying right into the blade, chestfirst. CutscenePowerToTheMax, sure, but undeniably epic.

* Any fan of Westerns can appreciate seeing the Vault Hunters fan the hammer whenever they're firing a revolver really quickly. It's a simple detail, but it's nice, considering how the entire game is a SpaceWestern which meets classic science fiction and the Laws of Robotics.

** Alternatively, using the Scorpio assault rifle [[spoiler:You receive from the quest where you inform Sanctuary's residents of Roland's demise]] to do the deed. The curious fire rate causes it to sound like an army salute drum snare, making your revenge all the sweeter and all the more symbolic.
*** Or the comedy of [[ShutUpHannibal shutting him up]] with Gaige's melee, and hitting him on the head with a toolhammer.
** Wanna make it a [[CrowningMomentofHeartWarming CMoH]]? Use the gun that Michael Mamaril gave you if you still have it.
** Playing as Axton? Unleash your turret.

** Heck, there's also doing so with ''the first gun you get in the game''. "Heh".

** He reacts similarly to destroying his statues in the city. Especially when he acts like you're only mildly irritating him "for eight seconds" but then starts screaming in rage and promising to make a bunch of statues consisting of him kicking you in the junk.

--> "I'M GONNA PUT ''MY'' PAIN INTO ''YOUR'' SOUL!"

* Any fan of Westerns can appreciate seeing the Vault Hunters fan the hammer whenever they're firing a revolver really quickly. It's a simple detail, but it's nice, considering how the entire game is a SpaceWestern at its core, behind all the science fiction and the war.

* Attacking a Hyperion base [[spoiler: to reach the bunker holding Angel]] head on can be considered this as you are pretty much storming one of Jack's most protected bases with the help of [[spoiler: Brick's bandits]]. And from the same mission taking down the [[spoiler: [=BNK3R=]]]