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Ulysses is so desperate to get off Pandora that he really just doesn\'t think that the drop point would be directly on the beacon that he\'s standing over. It\'s not suicide in any way.
* DoorStopper: In Hammerlock's radio commercial for his "Beasts of Pandora" book, he says that if you were faced up against a Stalker, you would know to attack it on the underside of it's skull (it's weakpoint), or otherwise you could just throw the massive book at it and run away while it's stunned.
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** [[spoiler:Ulysses.]]
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** With Gaige the Mechromancer, you have 'Anarchy' - Every magazine you empty or enemy you kill trades accuracy for damage, stacking up to 150 times! Reload before your mag's empty though, and ALL those stacks disappear! [[note]]This disappear![[note]]This is if you don't have Discord, which allows you to reload on a non-empty clip without risking all your stacks. The first reload causes them to go down in exchange for a fire rate boost, accuracy boost, and health regen. The second stops the loss of stacks but you lose the bonuses.[[/note]]bonuses[[/note]]
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** Axton's turret can get a spherical type shield[[hottip:*: If shield[[note]]If the perk to place the turret on any surface is used or the turret is placed near an edge the turret shield generates a sphere shape that stops at surfaces.]]The surfaces[[/note]]. The shield is a dome or spherical beehive barrier. It stops incoming enemy shots but permits players to fire from inside or through the shield. The shield is not part of a health and shield regen set up.
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* MacGyvering[=/=]HomemadeInventions: The resourceful, but technically-inept Bandit cults also make [[http://files.g4tv.com/ImageDb3/280374_S/borderlands-2-weapon-manufacturers-detailed-exploding-guns-sounds-fun.jpg guns]] [[http://www.cinemablend.com/images/sections/34342/Borderlands_2_Screenshots_34342.jpg equipped with huge mags]][[hottip:*: I mean, that's a belt-fed machinegun if the huge box is anything to judge by. If you're not sure which one, kindly look at the one of the right. The one using a coke bottle as a sight.]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBBngY-O8gI&feature=related that are so ramshackle]][[hottip:*: see about 0:56]] that they make the guns of the Resistance of {{Brink}} look professionally manufactured by comparison.
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* MacGyvering[=/=]HomemadeInventions: The resourceful, but technically-inept Bandit cults also make [[http://files.g4tv.com/ImageDb3/280374_S/borderlands-2-weapon-manufacturers-detailed-exploding-guns-sounds-fun.jpg guns]] [[http://www.cinemablend.com/images/sections/34342/Borderlands_2_Screenshots_34342.jpg equipped with huge mags]][[hottip:*: I mags]][[note]]I mean, that's a belt-fed machinegun if the huge box is anything to judge by. If you're not sure which one, kindly look at the one of the right. The one using a coke bottle as a sight.]] sight[[/note]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBBngY-O8gI&feature=related that are so ramshackle]][[hottip:*: see ramshackle]][[note]]see about 0:56]] 0:56[[/note]] that they make the guns of the Resistance of {{Brink}} look professionally manufactured by comparison.
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** In fact, every single partnership you come across is same-gender or unknown (as in, only one partner is known, like [[spoiler:Tina's Dad]]). The only straight relationship in the game (aside from some of Moxxi's) is between Roland and Lilith, and that one dissolved before the game even started.
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** The Fibber gun. Its stats say some ridiculous things and the [[PainfullySlowProjectile bullets arc quite a bit]], but the damage output is likely to be higher than all of your other guns up to that point. Sure, its regular damage is nice, around 750, but when you do a critical hit with it of about 11,000 around level 24-29, you'll suddenly be wondering why enemies die almost instantly.
*** The other version of it fires bullets quickly, and upon hitting a surface, will split into multiple bullets. So at first glance it seems rather weak, but try shooting the ground near the enemy, and watch as they suddenly get hit by about 8 shots all at once. Suddenly those [[EliteMook super badass nomads]] with the full shield and [[AttackItsWeakPoint no hole to exploit]] fall rather quickly when your shots go under their shield and hits their feet...
*** The other version of it fires bullets quickly, and upon hitting a surface, will split into multiple bullets. So at first glance it seems rather weak, but try shooting the ground near the enemy, and watch as they suddenly get hit by about 8 shots all at once. Suddenly those [[EliteMook super badass nomads]] with the full shield and [[AttackItsWeakPoint no hole to exploit]] fall rather quickly when your shots go under their shield and hits their feet...
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** The Fibber gun. Its stats say some ridiculous things First off, this gun lies to you. Hard. It'll claim it has ludicrous damage, firing speed, and mag size (sometimes more than you can actually carry ammo for pistols), but also immense reload times. The special effects also note it has +3000% damage and +50% love. However, depending on what version of the [[PainfullySlowProjectile gun you get, it can either remain the lethal joke item, or it can go well into the DifficultButAwesome category. On the joke effects side: the more you shoot with it the slower the bullets arc quite go or a bit]], but the damage output is likely parabolic and heavy drop off with bouncing bullets which makes it very hard to be higher aim. The very powerful effects include a version which shoots 5 to 7 bullets that go slightly slower than all of normal, but penetrate your other guns up to enemies, a version that point. Sure, its regular damage is nice, around 750, but when you do a has incredibly high critical hit with it of about 11,000 around level 24-29, you'll suddenly be wondering why enemies die almost instantly.
*** The otherdamage, and a version of it fires which makes its bullets quickly, ricochet once and upon hitting a surface, will split into multiple bullets. So at first glance let it seems rather weak, but try shooting the ground near the enemy, and watch as they suddenly get hit by about spawn an additional 8 shots all at once. Suddenly those [[EliteMook super badass nomads]] with the full shield and [[AttackItsWeakPoint no hole to exploit]] fall rather quickly projectiles when your shots go under their shield and hits their feet...it does, effectively multiplying its damage by 9.
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** They evolve far beyond the normal Badass though... Wait long enough and they become burrowing artillery platforms as the Super Badass varkid, and one stage further is the aerial gunship Ultimate Badass varkid. Of course, each version has several times more health than the previous. It goes even further on the second playthrough, where if you are lucky (or unlucky, if you weren't actively trying to get him to spawn) the second Raid boss from the main game could potentially evolve from an Ultimate Badass. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Vermivorous the Invincible]] has at least twice as much health as the other raid boss Terramorphous the Invincible, and a wide array of attacks to (insta)kill you with.
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** Another contender is Infinity, which is a legendary rapid fire pistol that has only one bullet per clip, but does not use ammo at all, effectively having a BottemlessMagazine. Combined with some other items (the aforementioned Bee, and a unique relic that increases pistol fire rate by 50% and damage by 20%), it is one of the strongest and most reliable weapons in the game. It also has one of the lowest drop rates in the game, and the boss it drops from is incredibly annoying and powerful.
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** One quest line follows Taggart, an ex-boyfriend of Sir Hammerlock, where you find several of Taggart's echo recordings to his mother, ending with you looting what was supposed to be a mothersday gift. Which gives off one heck of an OedipusComplex...
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** In fact, every single partnership you come across is same-gender or unknown (as in, only one partner is known, like [[spoiler:Tina's Dad]]). The only straight relationship in the game (aside from some of Moxxi's) is between Roland and Lilith, and that one dissolved before the game even started.
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Ulysses is implied to be fully aware that he\'s going to be killed by the lunar supply drop.
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: The most accurate attacks in the game aren't lasers or sniper rifles but thrown projectiles. Psychos can throw their buzz-axes with pinpoint accuracy from further away than you can reliably hit them with a sniper rifle. Bandits and Loaders also aim their grenades a lot better than they aim their guns; if you don't move they will consistently put them directly under your feet regardless of distance. Bandits can even achieve this level of accuracy with grenades while being ''shot in the face mid-throw.''
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*** [[spoiler:Albeit accidently. Albeit accidentally.]]
*** [[spoiler:Albeit accidently.
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** Having any ranks in Gaige's Smaller, Lighter, Faster skill causes any gun with a magazine size of one (rare, but still known to exist.) to be reduced to zero, making the gun completely useless.
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** The city of Opportunity, a ridiculously shiny city with statues and cardboard cutouts of Handsome Jack everywhere. True to his actual character, the people building it are overworked to death, and there are more security robots around than humans. The actual builders are even told they won't be able to live there when the city is finished, since they aren't civilized or rich enough.
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** The city of Opportunity, a ridiculously shiny city with statues and cardboard cutouts of Handsome Jack everywhere. True to his actual character, the people building it are overworked to death, and there are more security robots around than humans. The actual builders are even told they won't be able to live there when the city is finished, since they aren't civilized or rich enough. The fact that he's actively paying people to live in a city in the middle of a bandit-infested planet makes the place an example of FascistButInefficient.
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* DefaceOfTheMoon: Handsome Jack put a humongous space station halfway between the planet and its tidally locked moon that casts a big shadow in the shape of an H upon the moon's surface. Wherever you are, it's watching you if not explicitly raining enemy reinforcements.
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* DefaceOfTheMoon: Handsome Jack put a humongous space station halfway between the planet and its tidally locked geosynchronous moon that casts a big shadow in the shape of an H upon the moon's surface. Wherever you are, it's watching you if not explicitly raining enemy reinforcements.
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* IronicEcho: Lilith is fond of teleporting around, surprising enemies, and killing them. She most commonly says "Sup." while doing this. [[spoiler:Handsome Jack later teleports in behind Roland and shoots him in the back, greeting a surprised Lilith with "Sup."]]
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* GenderBlenderName: Taggart named an especially big and nasty Stalker after his mother, ''Henry''.
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Poorly written names doesn\'t count unless you hear them sounding them out as well.
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* FunetikAksent: Many of the implements of destruction/protection made by bandits have names that are written in this manner.
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** TheEvilGenius: Although Hyperion obviously has plenty of [[MadScientist Mad Scientists]] on the payroll, a lack of named scientific personal gives this title to [[StrawmanNewsMedia DJ Hunter Hellquist]], who single-handedly runs Jack's PropagandaMachine on Pandora.
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** TheEvilGenius: Although Hyperion obviously has plenty of [[MadScientist Mad Scientists]] on the payroll, a lack of named scientific personal other than Dr. Samuels (who is a ReluctantMadScientist) gives this title to [[StrawmanNewsMedia DJ Hunter Hellquist]], who single-handedly runs Jack's PropagandaMachine on Pandora.Pandora. The Hammerlock DLC introduces Professor Nakayama, "Hyperion's Scourge" and evidently responsible for poisoning the CEO of Atlas corporation.
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* NostalgiaLevel: Arid Nexus - Badlands is basically the starting zone of the first game after Hyperion got their hands on it.
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* FourFingeredHands: Zer0 is portrayed with only four digits on each hand. This may be just another reference to his Japan-esque haiku-spouting cyber-ninja character, or, given that [[TheFaceless his body is completely concealed]] and he seems extremely lanky for someone his strength, it might be a hint that he is not exactly human.
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* {{Ho Yay}}: InUniverse:
** During Sir Hammerlock's mission to find Taggart, he mentions that "one of old boyfriends" was also a hunter.
** While in the Wildlife Exploitation Preserve, during Tannis's side mission 'Doctor's Orders,' you have to pick up several Echos talking about [[spoiler: slag experimentation]]. Within these Echos, it is mentioned that [[spoiler: one of the male subjects has a husband that must remain alive.]]
*** In addition, Jack tells the doctor performing the experimentation on these people that he will do the same to her wife if she doesn't comply.
** During Sir Hammerlock's mission to find Taggart, he mentions that "one of old boyfriends" was also a hunter.
** While in the Wildlife Exploitation Preserve, during Tannis's side mission 'Doctor's Orders,' you have to pick up several Echos talking about [[spoiler: slag experimentation]]. Within these Echos, it is mentioned that [[spoiler: one of the male subjects has a husband that must remain alive.]]
*** In addition, Jack tells the doctor performing the experimentation on these people that he will do the same to her wife if she doesn't comply.
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* {{Ho Yay}}: During Sir Hammerlock's mission to find Taggart, he mentions that "one of his ex-boyfriends" was also a hunter.
** While in the Wildlife Exploitation Preserve, during Tannis's side mission 'Doctor's Orders,' you have to pick up several Echos talking about [[spoiler: slag experimentation]]. Within these Echos, it is mentioned that [[spoiler: one of the male subjects has a husband that must remain alive.]]
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** While in the Wildlife Exploitation Preserve, during Tannis's side mission 'Doctor's Orders,' you have to pick up several Echos talking about [[spoiler: slag experimentation]]. Within these Echos, it is mentioned that [[spoiler: one of the male subjects has a husband that must remain alive.]]
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** During Sir Hammerlock's mission to find Taggart, he mentions that "one of old boyfriends" was also a hunter.
** While in the Wildlife Exploitation Preserve, during Tannis's side mission 'Doctor's Orders,' you have to pick up several Echos talking about [[spoiler: slag experimentation]]. Within these Echos, it is mentioned that [[spoiler: one of the male subjects has a husband that must remain alive.]]
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** TheLancer / TheLeader: Axton. As pointed out on his character page, he's too much of a BloodKnight and GlorySeeker to responsibly lead reprobates like Salvador and Zer0 around, and probably too much of a MilitaryMaverick to really care. Although, in the intro, he is perfectly capable of taking the lead and a few of his Class Mods that tactically in combat that he is the Pointman.
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** TheLancer / TheLeader: Axton. As pointed out on his character page, he's too much of a BloodKnight and GlorySeeker to responsibly lead reprobates like Salvador and Zer0 around, and probably too much of a MilitaryMaverick to really care. Although, in the intro, he is perfectly capable of taking the lead and a few of his Class Mods and skills indicate that tactically in combat that he is the Pointman.
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Missing some Ho Yay up in here. :]
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* Ho Yay: During Sir Hammerlock's mission to find Taggart, he mentions that "one of his ex-boyfriends" was also a hunter.
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** While in the Wildlife Exploitation Preserve, during Tannis's side mission 'Doctor's Orders,' you have to pick up several Echos talking about [[spoiler: slag experimentation]]. Within these Echos, it is mentioned that [[spoiler: one of the male subjects has a husband that must remain alive. In addition, the doctor performing the experimentation on these people is being forced to do so because Jack has captured her wife.]]
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* Ho Yay: {{Ho Yay}}: During Sir Hammerlock's mission to find Taggart, he mentions that "one of his ex-boyfriends" was also a hunter.
** While in the Wildlife Exploitation Preserve, during Tannis's side mission 'Doctor'sOrders,' Orders,' you have to pick up several Echos talking about [[spoiler: slag experimentation]]. Within these Echos, it is mentioned that [[spoiler: one of the male subjects has a husband that must remain alive. ]]
*** In addition, [[spoiler: the doctor performing the experimentation on these people is being forced to do so because Jack has captured her wife.]]
** While in the Wildlife Exploitation Preserve, during Tannis's side mission 'Doctor's
*** In addition, [[spoiler: the doctor performing the experimentation on these people is being forced to do so because Jack has captured her wife.]]
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** While in the Wildlife Exploitation Preserve, during Tannis's side mission 'Doctor's Orders,' you have to pick up several Echos talking about [[spoiler: slag experimentation]]. Within these Echos, it is mentioned that [[spoiler: one of the male subjects has a husband that must remain alive. In addition, the doctor performing the experimentation on these people is being forced to do so because Jack has captured her wife.]]
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* DamageIncreasingDebuff: Slagging does not, in itself, harm an enemy but they take a whole lot more damage from non-slag attacks once they're suffering from slag.
* DamnYouMuscleMemory:
** For those who have the habit of reloading after every fight, this can result in losing ammo when reloading a Tediore weapon, since reloading has you throw the gun at the enemy like a grenade. Very cool, but it takes all the bullets left in the clip with it! It's so bad that even the developers do it during previews. Of course, some players may throw full ones anyway for the damage bonus.
*** Worse yet, the resulting explosion can hurt yourself. A lot, in some cases.
** With Gaige the Mechromancer, you have 'Anarchy' - Every magazine you empty or enemy you kill trades accuracy for damage, stacking up to 150 times! Reload before your mag's empty though, and ALL those stacks disappear! [[note]]This is if you don't have Discord, which allows you to reload on a non-empty clip without risking all your stacks. The first reload causes them to go down in exchange for a fire rate boost, accuracy boost, and health regen. The second stops the loss of stacks but you lose the bonuses.[[/note]]
--->'''Gaige''': Don't accidentally reload, don't accidentally reload...
*** Then played with more if you go to another character where you ''can'' reload before you're empty and you're used to not reloading unless you're dry.
** The new driving controls: guaranteed to kick you out of a vehicle at least once before you remember that you can't lock onto enemies anymore.
** The PS3 version moves the aim and shoot buttons from the analog triggers to the shoulder buttons and uses the triggers to throw grenades and use action skills. Those used to the first game's control layout may find themselves inadvertently using their action skills and blowing themselves up with their own grenades. You are, however, able to change the control scheme to "Classic" ''Borderlands'' in the options menu.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Yes, it's DenserAndWackier, but the game gets ''very'' dark near the end, with the fight against [[spoiler:Angel]] and the [[spoiler:death of Roland, and kidnapping of Lilith]].
* DarkestAfrica: The continent of Aegrus is pretty much this. Dark swamps, savannahs and jungle mountains filled with [[TheNativesAreRestless bloodthirsty savage tribal warriors]] and ferocious wildlife trying to kill you at every turn.
* DeadlyDoctor: Doc Mercy, a brutal, insane Bandit doctor who loves hurting a lot more than healing. Much to Dr. Zed's chagrin, however, he's actually a licensed surgeon with a real medical degree.
* DeadpanSnarker:
** Some weapons have voices, and will sarcastically comment on what you're doing, whether reloading, or if you get a critical hit.
** Claptrap is also the embodiment of this trope.
-->'''Claptrap:''' Your ability to walk short distances without dying will be Handsome Jack's downfall!
** Lilith, in ''spades''. Almost everything she says is a snark directed at someone.
** Just about everyone gets snarky sometimes.
* DeathFromAbove: The Spores from the Hammerlock DLC. They hover in the air, dropping kamikaze versions of themselves onto you.
* DeathIsCheap:
** Just like in the first game, you respawn at a nearby station when you die, losing a decent chunk of money but nothing else.
-->'''Hyperion Respawn Station:''' The next time some idiot tells you that life is meaningless without death, Hyperion recommends killing them.
** If your entire party dies enemy health will also reset. (This can make solo play occasionally infuriating, as bosses or named Bad Ass enemies like Mad Mike can reset to max life and shields the moment they get a lucky shot off at you.)
* DeathOfAThousandCuts:
** Some enemies, particularly in co-op games, may have such a huge amount of hp that you're almost essentially forced to do this to them. Also played straight if you use an acid or fire weapon on them, and it whittles them down gradually.
** There's even a couple of Badass Ranks that can be pulled off by getting your second wind from killing an enemy with damage-over-time caused by fire or acid weapons -- LIFE and death of a thousand cuts!
** There is also an area of the game called "Thousand Cuts." Perhaps not coincidentally, [[spoiler: the BonusBoss "Terramorphous the Invincible" (which must be taken down by this method, raid-style) appears just past this area.]]
* DefaceOfTheMoon: Handsome Jack put a humongous space station halfway between the planet and its tidally locked moon that casts a big shadow in the shape of an H upon the moon's surface. Wherever you are, it's watching you if not explicitly raining enemy reinforcements.
* DefeatMeansFriendship:
** Some of the remnants of the Crimson Lance are now led by Roland as members of the resistance agains Handsome Jack. Despite Roland being a Crimson Lance deserter and working with the other vault hunters, they murdered hundreds of them and concretely ended their main employer. Handsome Jack is just ''that much'' of a threat. Most of them seem happy to work for Roland.
** Averted by some of them who decided to become bandits instead of working with the vault hunters.
** [[spoiler:Once you kill the Sheriff, if Deputy Winger is still alive and you didn't shoot him during the fight, he'll surrender peacefully and give you a unique Relic.]]
** [[spoiler: Loader Mal stops attacking you once you beat him down badly enough at the end of the "Real Boy" side mission in Eridium Blight. He's one of the ''very'' few enemies you can absolutely only fight once per playthrough because of this.]]
** [[spoiler: Brick in a fashion, he just lets his underlings do the fighting before accepting the players into his gang.]]
* DeflectorShield:
** Personal BeehiveBarrier type shields as part of RegeneratingShieldStaticHealth. When not taking damage the shields always regenerate after a delay. Some player skills can affect the shields like giving them extra capacity and faster recharge rates. Unless the player has specific skills or picks up items players do not regenerate health. Shields may have other special effects like emitting a burst of elemental energy or cause damage to enemies attackign the player. Some shields even give up energy to boost weapon damage. Enemies also have similar shields.
** Axton's turret can get a spherical type shield[[hottip:*: If the perk to place the turret on any surface is used or the turret is placed near an edge the turret shield generates a sphere shape that stops at surfaces.]]The shield is a dome or spherical beehive barrier. It stops incoming enemy shots but permits players to fire from inside or through the shield. The shield is not part of a health and shield regen set up.
* DenserAndWackier: Definitely, compared to the IndecisiveParody in the first installment. One can argue, however, that the shift to full blown BlackComedy took place in the original game's DLC with their BreakingTheFourthWall and [[CardCarryingVillain card carrying villainy]].
* DevelopmentGag: One quest has you restore power to a motel truck stop by repairing its generator. The three components you need are a Gearbox, a Valve, and a Steam capacitor.
* DidntNeedThoseAnyway: Limbs can be blasted off of most Hyperion Loaders by inflicting sufficient damage to their weak points, though the weakpoints on certain tougher models may only be hit from behind. Removing the left arm will disable grenade-throwing, right arm takes away their gun, and so on and so forth. [[TheMedic Repair Surveyors]] can digistruct new limbs onto the damaged units ''in the field'' (along with restoring the robot's HP), though.
* [[spoiler:DiscOneFinalDungeon: The mission where you bring down Hyperion headquarters shield and go after Handsome Jack for the first time. It's setup like the final mission in the game... it's not]]
* DifficultButAwesome:
** Zer0 seems to have been tailored to this - one of his skills gives you a stacking damage bonus when you get a critical hit, but you lose it if you ''don't'' get a critical. Also it fades over time, and sniper rifles only. He also has no early health-restoration abilities, unlike everyone else, forcing you to rely on health vial drops to restore yourself (assuming you don't have a buddy who can heal you or a health regenerating class mod). Most of the rest of his skills are based around high-risk, high-reward strategies involving in-your-face melee or distant-but-precise sniping.
** Gaige's Ordered Chaos skill tree caters to this as well. Its primary --and mandatory-- skill is "Anarchy" which stacks every time Gaige kills an enemy or reloads from an empty clip. The more Anarchy you've got, the more damage you do, but the more inaccurate you become, and this can stack all the way up to +700% Damage (and -700% Accuracy!). Other skills in the tree make use of Anarchy and do awesome things like creating explosions if you shoot at an enemy while jumping through the air or forming health-stealing claws in melee.
** Hyperion weapons in general. The whole schtick of Hyperion weaponry - that they become more accurate as they fire - is so counterintuitive to every FPS out there that many players just don't use them. However, Hyperion weaponry also has consistently superior stats to just about everything else, so once you manage to get accustomed to the weirdness of using such a counterintuitive weapon family, they become devastatingly effective.
* DisneyDeath: Most players won't notice this unless they're watching it (and not running towards the next area shooting stuff), but during the final story mission, [[spoiler:when Mordecai and Brick are helping the Vault Hunters to reach Jack before he activates the Warrior, the cargo ship Mordecai is on starts taking a lot of damage about halfway through the level. Brick then jumps onboard to try and help, but the ship crashes into the lava below, complete with Brick screaming. Then when you finish the story mission, both men show up at the end, a little bit battered, but no worse for the wear.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: A few examples.
** Handsome Jack tends to do these on you during story missions. It never works out though, since you destroy everything he sends your way.
** In the Campaign of Carnage DLC, Mr. Torgue has you kill a game review critic simply because he gave a 6 out of 10 for a game the former liked. As you leave the area after killing him, the surviving reviewers then comment on you and how you reminded them of yet another game (or rather, a feature in the game) they hated, causing Mr. Torgue to have you kill them as well.
** Tiny Tina gives you a quest to get an autograph from her third favorite person in the Campaign Of Carnage DLC. The guy says no, so she has you kill him and collect his head instead. [[spoiler: Then after you turn the quest in she mentions her number one favorite person is you.]]
*** She gives you another mission where the quest is to gather chocolate chip cookies from the Torgue arena. However, the last one contains oatmeal-raisin cookies, so she has you destroy all the cookie vending machines simply because she hates those types of cookies.
*** The game seems to agree with her, saying [[FelonyMisdemeanor "Oatmeal cookies should be considered a war crime"]] when turning in the mission.
* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:Piston]], the primary antagonist of the ''Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage'' addon. He's afraid of you and anyone else who wants to step up to him, and uses every underhanded move in the book to try to take you out without putting himself in danger.
* DontExplainTheJoke: Handsome Jack explains:
--> Once you've eaten prime rib for free, it's hard to go back to suckin' down hamburgers for cash. If you know what I'm talking about. Do you know what I'm talking about? [{{Beat}}] Dicks. I'm talkin' about dicks.
* DragonAscendant: Loyal Handsome Jack follower and Hyperion employee Professor Nakayama isn't too pleased at what the vault hunters did to his boss.
* DreadfulMusician:
** The AI core that you put into Moxxi's entertainment system.
** Jack also invokes this trope in one quest, [[spoiler: after he kills Bloodwing. He at first mentions playing a violin, but then doesn't have one, and the dialogue stops. After you reach Sanctuary a few moments later, he comes back on, and then plays some really awful notes on said violin, then berates you and says that it would've been really funny if he had played it right after Bloodwing died. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L-h6v6qOHk Can be viewed here.]]]]
* DrivenToSuicide:
** It's hard to go UpToEleven much more than your cover bandit looking doubly suicidal. %%Before adding other examples, check to see if it is already under, or would fit better under SuicideAsComedy.
** Daisy after you deliver to her the poem written by Scooter.
** Face [=McShooty=], a bandit that gives you the quest of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin shooting him in the face]]. Doing so even nets you an achievement.
** [[spoiler:Ulysses.]]
** [[spoiler:You, in a sidequest. In Eridium Blight, there's a sidequest where [[BigBad Handsome Jack]] pays you to jump off a really tall cliff. You can comply and get a lot of Eridium [[WhatTheHellHero (and get called his bitch)]], or call the Hyperion Suicide Prevention Hotline to get more EXP instead (and get called a loser.)]]
* DumbMuscle: Goliaths, complete with a SimpletonVoice and HulkSpeak. Weirdly, their intelligence seems to go up a few notches when they become enraged.
* DummiedOut: [[http://www.reddit.com/r/Borderlands/comments/11dxbt/getting_the_lore_right_now_with_47_more_than_26/ Various little bits of dialogue, but ones that explain SO much:]]
** Angel and Jack are the ones manipulating the New-U system to keep the Hunters alive throughout the game: Angel to take down Jack, and Jack to make sure he kills you himself [[spoiler: after you kill Angel.]]
** Captain Flynt mentions that he has a bounty out on whoever killed his brother, Baron. Other than that cut line there's no mention of any relation between the two.
** The reason Wilhelm goes down so easy is because Jack had him throw the fight to make it easier for Sanctuary to [[spoiler: get the bum power core.]]
* DyingMomentOfAwesome
--> ''"[[spoiler:Dad]], I have to tell you something... you're an asshole."''
* {{Egopolis}}: Fyrestone, the first town in the first game is now Jackville.
** The city of Opportunity, a ridiculously shiny city with statues and cardboard cutouts of Handsome Jack everywhere. True to his actual character, the people building it are overworked to death, and there are more security robots around than humans. The actual builders are even told they won't be able to live there when the city is finished, since they aren't civilized or rich enough.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Fire is good against flesh, Acid is good against armor, and Shock is good on shields. Explosive is average-middling on everything and has {{Painfully Slow Projectile}}s, but does splash damage. Slag is NonElemental, and coated enemies take more damage from non-slag attacks.
** That said, it's usually a good idea to carry at least one of every type of elemental weapon on you. It may seem extremely inconvenient at first, particularly if you're a KleptomaniacHero who has to grab everything they see. But an otherwise tough battle against a badass loader can be made much, much easier if you have a good corrosive weapon on you, or a fire weapon against the goliath whose helmet you just accidentally shot off, particularly in True Vault Hunter Mode.
* EliteMook: Besides the usual "Badass" variants of enemies, some enemy types are, in general, more powerful than their companions. Nomads, for example, are slow-moving but tougher than most other bandits, often armed with riot shields or heavy machine guns, and some even function as Mook Commanders by ordering the rest of the enemies after you.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas:
** Salvador and his grandmother.
** Handsome Jack invokes this trope in one quest by sending you to check on his grandmother. He sounds rather concerned for her and doesn't seem like the usual jackass that he normally is. [[spoiler: Then he averts it by revealing that he hired some bandits to kill his own grandmother, and just wanted you to check and see if they did the job. Even better: Since you killed them, he doesn't have to pay them anymore! Given that said grandmother has a buzz-axe in her house which is said to be used as a "disciplinary" weapon, Jack may have a FreudianExcuse for wanting her dead.]]
* EveryoneIsBi: Or at least, most people are and those who aren't don't make a big deal about it. Various characters in the game will make passes at you or comment on how attractive you are regardless of what gender your character is, and in a game with a lot of characters who have [[JerkAss almost no redeeming features]], not a single one of them makes a gay joke.
** There are several gay marriages mentioned in passing as well. Then again, the game takes place in 5357.
** [[FalloutNukaBreak It's Pandora. Love is where you find it.]]
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: As in the first game, the wildlife is angry and numerous. Newly added are the plants, like Firemelons, which explode when shot or Stinging Cacti which electrocute anything that gets close when they are shot, struck, or otherwise disturbed.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Jack seems to be under the impression that whether you're good or evil is entirely down to aesthetics: if you look great, have a lot of money, and live in a shiny, shiny city, you're the good guy, and good guys always win. He doesn't really seem to understand the difference between order and chaos, either, because while he mentions he's trying to clean everything up, that's in between fits of mad laughter over how hilarious it is to blow people's brains out and speeches about how mining-induced volcanoes are "the definition of awesome!"
* EvilIsPetty:
** In full effect. Handsome Jack can't resist constantly calling you to tell you how he [[PokeThePoodle Poked The Poodle]] recently. On several occasions he's audibly eating something. He is also visibly offended by any and all of your attempts to resist him to the point that ''your continued existence alone'' causes him to be in a state of constant VillainousBreakdown.
** One sidequest has Handsome Jack give you a mission to kill yourself, knowing full well you'll respawn; he just wants to humiliate you.
** Another mission has the Hyperion Corporation hiring you to kill a bunch of bandits, knowing full well who you are and promising a "Hyperion firearm made especially for you" if you do it. The sniper rifle in question has decent stats and an onboard AI that does everything it can to make you feel bad (which is an explicit ShoutOut to [[http://xkcd.com/873/ this XKCD comic]]).
*** [[FridgeLogic When you think about it]], why is the weapon called the "Morningstar"? Guess who is called the "morning star" - ''Lucifer''. It's essentially Jack/Hyperion's way of saying that ''you're'' the Devil.
* EverythingMakesAMushroom:
** Badass grade robots create a skull-shaped mushroom cloud.
** Also played straight with Axton's turret gun if you get a certain skill. It will create a mushroom-cloud explosion wherever it lands at.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin:
** The "Loaders" are repurposed enemy mining robots and come in many deadly varieties. HOT Loaders are armed with flamethrowers. JNK Loaders are assembled from junkyard scraps. EXP Loaders...explode.
** The mission called "Shoot This Guy in the Face". A guy named "Face [=McShooty=]" wants you to shoot him in the face. Guess what you do.
** There's a unique bruiser named Muscles and a unique midget named Shorty.
** In Captain Scarlett's Pirate Booty, there is also an ARR Loader, which is a pirate robot complete with pegleg and sword.
* ExperienceBooster: The Moxxi's Endowment Relic.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Near the end of the mission mentioned below under EyeScream.
* ExpospeakGag: Near the beginning of the game, Hammerlock utters "Ah, fecal matter" to express his displeasure at the bounty board not working.
* ExtremeMeleeRevenge:
** Bandit "Maylay" shields encourage this as a tactic, granting bonus melee damage when depleted. This is especially the case with the unique Love Thumper shield, which takes a ''very'' long time to recharge and gives a huge melee bonus - while also causing explosions with every connecting melee attack.
** Goliaths drop their weapons when their helmets are knocked off, attacking with their bare hands until killed. Provoking this is the best way to deal with Goliath Blasters, because their rocket launchers are much more dangerous than they could ever be while enraged.
* ExtremeOmnivore:
** According to Scooter, Crazy Earl once ate one of his cars. The whole thing. With a fork and all...
** Skags will eat EVERYTHING. One quest flavor text theorizes that guns must taste like filet mignon to them seeing how often [[LampshadeHanging they drop them when killed]].
* EyeBeams:
** Loaders can zap you with their CyberCyclops eyes, an attack that's usually reserved for when their primary weapon is useless (like when you're out of range or when you shoot their arms off). It charges slowly and is pretty easy to avoid.
*** Constructors have much more powerful lasers that can cut you down in seconds, though again it's not an attack they use very often.
** Lab Rats, bandits who were experimented on by Hyperion and escaped, fire ''very'' powerful beams from their eyes if they manage to get right in your face.
** Deathtrap also has an ''electrical'' eye beam he'll use against distant flying targets (like Rakk) and can get a more powerful fire-damage beam as an upgrade from Gaige's middle skill tree.
* EyeScream: One of your first missions is a result of [[spoiler:a Bullymong named Knuckle-Dragger tearing out Claptrap's eye.]]
* {{Fiction 500}}: Handsome Jack. Hyperion is the largest corporation on Pandora, and he owns the whole thing.
-->"I wanted to let you know that I just bought a pony. Made of diamonds. Because I'm ''rich''."
** Jack later clarifies: not a statue, a ''living pony made of diamonds''. Given that there are other species on Pandora composed of precious gems, this is a little less far-fetched, but still.
** His promised bounty reward to several assassins? Enough money for each of them to buy a mansion... composed of smaller mansions.
* FiveBadBand: With the five named big wigs of Hyperion in the main game:
** BigBad: Handsome Jack.
** TheDragon: Vice President Blake. Although since he never appears physically in-game, is [[KickTheDog constantly mocked]] [[{{Troll}} by Jack]], and [[spoiler: [[DragonWithAnAgenda was undermining Jack's agenda by aiding TK Baha and Dr. Zed]]]], TheBrute often has to pick up most of the slack in this department.
** TheBrute: Wilhelm. Not much is given to his personality, sans the fact he's a giant half-cyborg [[HeroKiller that nearly wiped out the original Vault Hunters pre-game]], and evidently attends most of Jack's largest purges [[spoiler: such as slaughtering Helena Price and her refugees]].
** TheEvilGenius: Although Hyperion obviously has plenty of [[MadScientist Mad Scientists]] on the payroll, a lack of named scientific personal gives this title to [[StrawmanNewsMedia DJ Hunter Hellquist]], who single-handedly runs Jack's PropagandaMachine on Pandora.
** TheDarkChick: The Sheriff. Is pretty much the only woman that would be [[AxCrazy crazy]] and [[ObviouslyEvil evil]] enough to be [[UnholyMatrimony Handsome Jack's girlfriend]], but also displays legitimate power in her own right, keeping all of Lynchwood under the grip of her martial law [[spoiler: and breaking Brick where even Wilhelm couldn't - [[KickTheDog albeit by]] [[AndYourLittleDogToo murdering his dog.]]]]
** SixthRangerTraitor: [[spoiler:Angel, who starts off as a combination of The Evil Genius and The Dark Chick (albeit unwillingly) but later on actively helps the Vault Hunters stop Jack.]]
* FiveManBand: With the five Vault Hunters so far:
** TheHero: Maya. Although [[NotSoAboveItAll she's not above the]] ComedicSociopathy the rest of the Vault Hunters take in stride, she's [[TeamMom the most responsible]], [[LadyOfWar polite]], [[GoodIsNotNice and heroic of them]]
** TheLancer: Axton. As pointed out on his character page, he's too much of a BloodKnight and GlorySeeker to responsibly lead reprobates like Salvador and Zer0 around, and probably too much of a MilitaryMaverick to really care.
** TheBigGuy: Salvador. [[TheNapoleon Technically an ironic term,]] [[PintSizedPowerhouse but his sheer stamina]] [[BoisterousBruiser and attitude]] [[CrazyAwesome make up for it.]]
** TheSmartGuy: Gaige. Eighteen year-old with [[ArtificialLimbs a mechanical arm]] and a giant, KillerRobot she designed herself. FOR A HIGH-SCHOOL SCIENCE FAIR!!
** TheSneakyGuy: Zer0. [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja Duh.]]
* FlippingTheBird: With the taunting skill upgrade ''[[IShallTauntYou Come At Me Bro!]]'', Salvador does this with both hands before reaching for his guns.
* FlunkyBoss: Some fights are much more about fighting off waves of enemies than attacking one single foe; in other cases there's a giant foe (usually a Constructor) that's actually making new enemies for you to fight. There's a boss fight against a Thresher that has swallowed a supply beacon and it is inadvertently causing robots to be launched from the moon down to its location, making it one of those rare "inadvertent" flunky boss fights.
* FeudingFamilies: There's a quest chain where you facilitate the feud between the Hodunks and the Zafords. Which clan comes out on top is ultimately up to the player.
* FlatWhat: Lilith's reaction to Roland's discovery that [[spoiler:the Vault is not a cache of weapons or similar, but a living thing.]] Twice in a row.
-->'''Lilith''': I'm just gonna go ahead and repeat myself. What?
* FourPointScale: In-universe; an ECHO sim reviewer gives a bad review to a game Mr. Torgue enjoys... with a numbered score of 6/10. Mr. Torgue calls the reviewer out on his hypocrisy, saying that by any logical standard 6/10 is above average.
* FreudianSlip: Moxxi gives one when you're going to face off with Motor Momma in the Torgue DLC. She immediately apologizes for it afterward, saying that she went too far that time.
--> '''Moxxi:''' No one eats my girlfriends but me.
* FriendlyFireProof: In co-op games, shooting other players outside of a duel doesn't hurt them. The siren even has a skill that heals others by shooting them. Some special shield effects can hurt your teammates, namely the IED Boosters dropped by the Whiskey Tango and the explosive nova caused by melee attacks when the Love Thumper is depleted.
* FromBadToWorse: Oh, so there's a tyrannical government/megacorp in charge that tried to kill you when you landed? That sucks! Now, watch [[spoiler:a character from the first game is killed, ''in a recording'' while the BigBad laughs, your supposed ally (Guardian) Angel turn on you because she's working for said BigBad, your city is endangered, a friend's pet is mutated then killed, you are forced to MercyKill a girl you find out is the CorruptCorporateExecutive's daughter held in perpetual slavery to stop said baddie, another friend is shot (right after the whole kill-the-slave-girl thing), a third friend is kidnapped and the BigBad got away with everything! Well, until the final boss battle anyway.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Not too far into the game, you find logs Handsome Jack has left as instructions for people on trying to get one of his bounties, specifically for the Siren Maya. To dissuade bounty hunters from just painting a woman's arm blue and turning in her corpse as "evidence" he says there's only six Sirens in the universe. More importantly, he also says he knows who three of them are. At this point in the game the player only knows two of them, Lilith and Maya. Plot Point! [[spoiler:Actually you know all three, you just don't realize it. It is later revealed that Angel is a Siren...and Jack's daughter]].
** [[spoiler: Even earlier, when Angel hacks a door for you, she uses an ability called "Phaseshift". That is awfully similar to Phaselock and Phasewalk, Maya and Lilith's respective ability.]]
** A minor version in Tina's house. Look at the cards on the table. They're the names of each of the invitees to her tea party, who you will be asked to fetch for a side mission. One of them says [[spoiler:"Evil bastard who killed my parents"]].
** When you first meet Roland in the flesh, in the cutscene that triggers he's on a bed with a giant, red graffiti on the wall that reads [[spoiler:You Die!]]. [[spoiler:Roland is the only one of the original Vault Hunters to die in the story.]]
** When you get back to Sanctuary after killing [[spoiler:Wilhelm, Scooter is working on one of the fuel cell receptacles. Right after Sanctuary has to take off.]]
* GagBoobs: Moxxi. Jack even refers to her as "Ol' balloon-tits".
* {{Gainaxing}}: Moxxi does it in her intro during the Campaign of Carnage DLC.
* GameBreakingBug: Most are not ''completely'' game breaking, but they can be prevalent.
** The biggest one was having Bad Ass Rank reset and deleting all skin unlocks/stash items, while still leaving the challenges for them completed. It happened randomly from the first day of release, though it was eventually patched (and the patch re-credited all ranks and unlocks, mostly accurately).
*** After killing Doc Mercy, he drops a quest item. For some reason, this can clip through the floor, forcing you to quit the game so it spawns where Mercy spawned.
*** If an enemy is in front of the New-U station when you respawn, you can get ''stuck inside of the station.'' Enemies almost never appear in front of New-U stations, so as to prevent spawn killing, but Loaders can move in front of the station during or after the fight with the Gluttonous Thresher. During the fight it's not a problem, as the Thresher will just kill you, you respawn, and you may move freely again, but after the fight, Loaders won't spawn anymore, meaning that if you die while the last Loader was standing in front of the station, and you kill him upon respawn, you're stuck and have no choice but to quit the game to fix it.
*** The [=BNK3R=] boss can get stuck in the geometry. If you kill it, nothing happens, forcing you to reload your game.
** During the final leg of the "Get to Know Jack" sidequest, if you turn the valve to summon the rakk holding the final ECHO log ''before'' pressing a nearby button, you will have one, ''one'' chance to kill the rakk before it vanishes, otherwise its ECHO log, and subsequently the sidequest, is LostForever.
** A bug existed with Gaige that if someone is using Anarchy on a multiplayer game and not hosting it, they'll lose their stacks every reload without question.
** Enemies randomly float into the sky and eventually out of the game world. Turns out to be funny if it happens to an enraged Goliath, because all you'll hear throughout the map is their evil laugh.
* GameplayAllyImmortality: None of the original characters can be harmed when they're out fighting in the field with you during story missions. Most blatantly with Brick, whose preferred method of fighting is punching things to death.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation:
** [[spoiler: Even if Handsome Jack is dead, when you do the Double Rainbow Easter Egg he still ECHO's you because his voice is required for the achievement to pop.]]
* GatlingGood: Every Assault Rifle manufacturer makes "spinigun" assault rifles. They feature a gatling style form of operation with barrels that spin up to maximum rate of fire and eat through ammo quickly. Jakobs spiniguns, however, fire all three spinigun barrels at the same time, effectively turning it into an accurate shotgun. Non-Jakobs Pistols can also come with a double rotary barrel which gives them ridiculously fast fire rates. Badass Goliaths heft massive miniguns, literally roughly the same size as themselves, into combat -- though, like all Goliaths, they drop their weapon when enraged. Badassasaurus has rocket-firing miniguns mounted as its "arms".
* GentlemanAdventurer: Sir Hammerlock (according to his introduction slide, no less). Subverted as he is also SophisticatedAsHell and just as prone to crude humor as everyone else on the planet.
-->'''Sir Hammerlock''': I just- y'know what, sod it all- Bonerfarts; they're ''Bonerfarts'' from now on!
* GiantMook: Bruisers return, but are largely replaced by Goliaths as the Bandit giant mook. WAR Loaders fill this role in Hyperion forces.
** One of the first thresher-type monsters you face is the [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever fifty-foot-tall one]].
* GilliganCut: An audio version is used frequently in TK Baha's old Echo recordings.
-->'''TK:''' Well, it's the first day on Pandora. Wife wasn't too happy about the move, but she'll come around. This is the beginning of our new life together!
-->''Next ECHO''
-->'''TK:''' Welp, my wife's dead.
* GiverOfLameNames:
** One quest Hammerlock gives you involves changing the name of the Bullymongs for his almanac. After a while he gives up and just calls them "bonerfarts", which the game will hilariously update them to for the duration of that quest.
** In the very beginning of the game, Handsome Jack talks about how he's recently bought a horse made of diamonds that he wants to call "Piss-for-brains" in honor of the Vault Hunters. Later on, he settles on "Butt Stallion". According to The Sheriff, Jack just sucks at naming things since his original name for Lynchwood was "New New Haven".
* GladiatorSubquest: 3 different gladiator fight arenas in the main game.
** The Mr. Torgue DLC features several whose first level must be completed in order to advance the story. The second and subsequent tiers of these matches are optional.
* GoneHorriblyRight: One of Zed's quests involves getting Rakk and Skag parts for him. Later they turn into Skrakk, or flying skags. The final part of the quest has you kill a Spycho, or a psycho combined with a spiderant.
* {{Gorn}}:
** Sometimes enemies turn into chunks if you kill them with a high powered weapon, or they may also vaporize/burn/melt away if you kill them with an elemental weapon.
** It is possible to blow off limbs
** The only thing keeping a Golaith's skull from erupting out of his head and flopping around on his distended spinal cord is that helmet he's wearing...
* GoshDarnItToHeck:
** The Guardian Angel occasionally gets frustrated and utters a minor swear word, then acts mortified and changes it to "darn" or "heck" or so on.
** This may have something to do with the fact that [[spoiler:Jack, Angel's father, who is keeping her a prisoner to use her as a living battery]], admonishes both her and other characters for "language" later in the game [[spoiler:(having presumably done so for Angel's entire life)]].
** The censorship-obsessed robot in Washburn Refinery sends you on a mission to kill a profanity-spewing radio DJ. When you actually meet the DJ, his "profanity" is just a lot of really infantile yet imaginative made-up words. "Suck my willywack!"
* GradualRegeneration: There are very few shields that restore your health over time compared to the first game, but there are other ways to gain regeneration, like abilities that grant it through action skill use or killing an enemy, or certain class mods.
* GrailInTheGarbage: Like in the first game, sometimes you may find a really good gun from a random garbage can. Usually, that happens after you just spent most of your money buying something ever so slightly ''less'' good from a vending machine only five minutes ago.
* GratuitousSpanish:
** From Mordecai, he says stuff like "adios" or "Gotcha, Pendejo" when he's helping you out by sniping enemies.
** Salvador's speech is also peppered with Spanish, especially in ECHO recordings. "They tried to kill mi abuela!" Becomes hilarious when he has Jack's voice.
* GratuitousEnglish: In the Japanese version of the game, the subtitles always spell out the names of people and places in English.
* GraveRobbing: Claptrap is doing this when you meet him.
** Marcus' vending machines periodically mention that a lot of his stock was lifted from dead bodies.
** YOU do it in a quest or two.
* GreatWhiteHunter: Sir Hammerlock is a GentlemanAdventurer who is equal parts hunter, scholar, and gentleman. He doesn't go out in the field much anymore, mostly because he literally lost an arm and a leg to some of Pandora's native fauna. Further, most of the items he gives you are sniper rifles.
* GreenRocks:
** Eridium, a rare element with ties to the [[{{Precursors}} Eridians]], and the cornerstone of Eridian technology from the first game. The opening of the Vault is revealed to have spread it all over the planet, which in turn triggered a gold rush and a subsequent takeover by Hyperion. It is used as a currency for an unique vendor. In addition, it seems to have an empowering effect on Sirens like Lilith, who gained the ability to teleport among other things.
** Slag is an Eridium byproduct and it's all over the place in some parts of this game. It tends to cause crazy mutations in people, so it's the most likely cause of all those weird-as-hell Goliaths and other mutants.
** [[spoiler:Constant overexposure leads to true physical dependence on it to live, as is the case of Angel.]]
* GrenadeLauncher: Unlike the first game, this game has them, though not as a unique weapon type. Dahl's Grenadier assault rifles, E-Tech shotguns, and the legendary Torgue Kerblaster are the various kinds you can get your hands on.
* GreyAndBlackMorality: While none of the Vault Hunters are traditional heroes, they pale in comparison to the likes of Handsome Jack. Mostly PlayedForLaughs.
* [[GuiltBasedGaming Guilt-Based Idling]]: Leave your character standing long enough and s/he will make snarky comments.
-->'''Maya:''' 27 years of training to stare at nothing!
-->'''Salvador:''' As fun as watching Skags hump.
* GuideDangIt: Gearbox didn't spread the word about the Golden Key (see TooAwesomeToUse) until late on launch day. Sucks for you if you'd already opened that chest the first time you hit Sanctuary and got two L15 grenade mods...
* GunPorn:
** Obviously. New to the sequel is the ability to examine your item models, and every load screen has a rotating gun model (or shield or grenade mod) in the corner.
** A number of weapons have authentic looking methods of firing or operating. Like some revolvers when being rapidly fired the character fans the hammer to various break action weapons like shotguns opening up realistically. Other details like realistic function actions of the hammers, bolts on some automatic weapons moving like real life weapons, to certain magazines like drums or pans moving like the weapon would believably fire.
* GunsAkimbo:
** Salvador's specialty. And this isn't just limited to pistols or Submachine guns, either; how about ''rocket launchers akimbo''? One of his skills also doubles all grenades he throws while gunzerking.
** Goliaths, Bandit {{Giant Mook}}s, dual wield machine gun-type assault rifles (or rocket launchers in the case of Goliath Blasters), until you make them angry.
* HandCannon: A specialty of Jakobs and Torgue. While Torgue makes pistols called this, they're actually the smallest ones in Torgue's pistol arsenal. The real honor goes to their revolvers with the elongated Jakobs and massive Torgue barrels(note:Barrels are not specific to manufacturers -- any company can use these barrels.), both of which increase damage, and one of which increases accuracy. And, carrying over from the last game, the Maggie, (AKA the [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter Masher]]) a Jakobs revolver that shoots shotgun shells.
* HaHaHaNo: When the player is delivering invitations to Claptrap's birthday party, this is Marcus' reaction to actually coming there.
* HailfirePeaks: Frostburn Caverns; icy but full of nutty fire-worshippers who use flamethrowers.
* HandicappedBadass: All but literally; One-Armed Bandits are one of the bigger and tougher versions of Goliaths. Their name comes not only from the fact that they carry slot machines on their backs, but also because they're missing an arm themselves.
* HandWave: [[spoiler:Maya's first ECHO log notes that she isn't affected by eridium the same way Lilith is, avoiding the potential effect that would have had on the plot.]]
* HaveANiceDeath: The New-U stations will taunt you on occasion.
* HaveIMentionedIAmGay: See StraightGay below.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Deputy Winger, if you spare him during the showdown with the Sheriff.]]
* HeroicSecondWind:
** If you lose all your health, you can get a "second wind" either by killing an enemy, or in a co-op player game, another player helping you back on your feet.
** Some badass ranks can be achieved by purposely doing this, such as killing a badass while dying, or killing enemies with a certain gun-type.
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Handsome Jack murders Helena Pierce, one of your main allies in the original game. Near the end of the game he also personally kills Roland by shooting him in the back.]]
* HeroWithBadPublicity:
** As you finish story quests, there is a data pod in Sanctuary where you can hear the latest news. No matter what you did, the newscaster always paints you or your allies in a bad light.
** Fortunately, you can pick up a sidequest late in the game that allows you to "take care of that problem", aka go kill the guy making all those negative announcements about you and Sanctuary.
* HonestJohnsDealership: Marcus is normally a sociopath and a very unscrupulous businessman, but one quest late in the game is all about how he conned an idiot into buying an (admittedly quite good) gun at an outrageous price, and you retrieving the 9$ change he gave too much.
** His vending machines also occasionally remind you that "if you shop anywhere else, I'll have you killed" and that most of his wares were looted from dead bodies.
* HopeSpot: Towards the end of the game, [[spoiler: Roland starts talking to you again, after having been killed by Jack, about how you should go kick Jack's butt and then go out for some drinks. Then Jack comes on and says that it was just him, and that Roland still really is dead.]]
* HorseOfADifferentColor:
** Like in the ''Secret Armory of General Knoxx'' DLC from the first game, some enemies have skag mounts. In this case, they're average-sized bandits riding huge armored skags, rather than the ''Knoxx'' DLC's midget bandits riding average-sized, sometimes-armored skags. Also in this case, they're very specifically meant to stand in for horsemen, since they only show up in the Western movie themed Lynchwood area.
** One early boss is a psycho midget riding a bullymong (a four-armed alien ape thing), and the commentary makes a clear reference to Master Blaster.
** Handsome Jack claims to have a living pony made of diamonds, which he named Butt Stallion in honor of the Vault Hunters.
** Midget bandits will occasionally hop onto a Goliath's shoulders.
* HostileShowTakeover: In one quest for the Torgue DLC campaign, Moxxi has you grab a bunch of ECHO's which has interviews with Mr. Torgue and herself. In the last recording, Tina takes over the show briefly, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWp5lZM9edA with very hilarious results]] (starts at 1:37 in the video).
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Atlas. After losing hundreds of men and tech and millions of dollars trying and failing to kill the original Vault Hunters in the original game's endgame and ''Secret Armory'', they've gone from the dictators of Pandora in all but name to a virtually nonexistent figurehead company. Their former role has been taken over by Hyperion, with a new and even more outrageously evil (and/or petty) CEO.
* HulkSpeak:
** Goliaths aren't big on grammar, syntax, or intelligence in general. It's pretty funny to hear them try to describe the things around them -- if Zer0 leaves Decepti0n near them, they might cry "Ghost person!" Strangely, when angered their speech is much more grammatically correct.
** Averted by the one friendly Goliath in the game, a questgiver named Ulysses. He uses complete, coherent sentences -- and is smart enough to desperately want to leave Pandora.
* HumansAreBastards: Parodied in the quest where you help a robot become a human - his ideas of what it means to be a person are rather... off.
** Although this being Pandora, it's quite understandable how he came to those conclusions.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The reason the crystal monsters found in the Caustic Caverns and the Fridge became violent is because Dahl wanted the valuable crystals they are comprised of. The foreman even killed the security chief, who was trying to defend them.
-->'''Sir Hammerlock:''' [[LampshadeHanging Have you heard my speech about how humans are the real monsters]]? Seems appropriate.
* HumongousMecha:
** Super-Badass Loaders stand several times taller than a person, and have enormous cannon arms. Then there is Saturn, which is the size of a building, and one of the toughest bosses in the game, [[spoiler: since its weak spot is impossible to hit if you play solo using Maya or Salvador.]]
** Badassasaurus is a gigantic, bulletproof mechanical dinosaur. It's bristling with armaments, featuring gatling rocket launchers as its "arms", a "hornet's nest" style rocket barrage on its back, and ''nuclear'' missiles in its knees.
* HundredPercentCompletion: '''Oh God!''' There are zillions of Challenges in the game and one of the X-Box/Playstation Achievements/Trophies requires you to get at least the first level in all of them (at least, the ones not located in a specific area). The trickier, area-specific ones usually have only one level but that means you need to do everything you can to find them all, usually in the form of boss challenges or finding all hidden audio logs or Vault Symbols.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: In the credits, Brick is seen with Tiny Tina (riding piggyback on his shoulders) killing bandits.
* HybridMonster: The "Monster Mash" questline ends with you hunting down skag/rakk hybrids, or "skrakk", and later a spiderant/psycho hybrid ("Spycho"), created by Dr. Zed for God knows what reason. You also helped him make the monsters in the first place by bringing him body parts.
-->'''Zed:''' If you think about it...[[NeverMyFault this is really all your fault.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: Vladof promotes its weapons as a tool of revolution against the MegaCorp evil - despite being clearly just as corporate and ruthless.
** Made more evident in this DummiedOut [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91CUC7F37IU&feature=plcp Vladof-Brand Vending Machine]] quote: "[[EatTheRich TO HELL WITH CAPITALISM]], [[NoExceptYes EXCEPT IN THIS CASE!!!]]"
* IDieFree: [[spoiler:Angel, whose life has consisted of being used to charge the Vault Key because she's a Siren. The player(s) destroy the machinery keeping her alive both [[MercyKill at her request]] and to stop Jack.]]
* ImAHumanitarian:
** As in the previous game, Psychos make no bones about the fact that they want to eat you. Rats appear to be cannibals as a rule -- when starting combat they might shout "Allez cuisine!" They also rant about licking their chops and how delicious you look.
** When the Rats are killed by a fire weapon, their death cry is sometimes "I smell delicious!"
** Frequently when dying, Rats exhort their brother Rats to eat their remains.
* ImmuneToBullets:
** Badassasaurus, the penultimate boss of ''Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage'', is effectively bulletproof; regular bullets just bounce right off and might even hit you. The only weapons that can damage it are explosive weapons. Luckily, there's a Torgue vending machine just outside the arena you fight it in, and if you've been saving up your Torgue Tokens you should have a pretty cool variety to chose from.
** Crystalisks are bulletproof -- except for the crystals on their legs. As with Badassasaurus, explosive weapons are capable of punching through their thick hides, but in this case it's much more efficient to just go for the weak points.
* InASingleBound:
** Rampaging Goliaths are bad news, and this trope is why. They can leap through the air to find you and pound you no matter how high up you climb. In some cases their jump arcs are totally ridiculous.
** Bullymongs are large apelike creatures that can propel themselves through the air on their large arms.
** Hyperion Troops are outfitted with Exoskeleton style PowerArmor permitting them to make large leaps or for some of the troops glide.
* IncrediblyLamePun: "Since arriving on Pandora you have been mauled, shot, stabbed, and frozen... and yet, that pun hurts worst of all." The mission in question is called Arms Dealing. You [[spoiler:get a bunch of actual human arms for Doctor Zed. Get it? Arms dealing?]]
** During the mission "The Ice Man Cometh" (in which the player is sent by Claptrap to rig some bandits' furnaces to make them too cold to fight), Claptrap ''loves'' this trope.
--> '''Claptrap:''' Hey bandits - FREEZE! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
* InexplicablyAwesome: Zer0, who Gearbox has admitted they created to be a parody of a SociopathicHero with a MysteriousPast. There is absolutely no information given on who he is, what is his goal and why is he spouting [[IceCreamKoan philosophical haiku alongside gaming jargon]]. Even Handsome Jack admits that he has no idea what his deal is.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: Most legendary (orange) items are like this in that they tend to be better than any other weapon of its type in the game, but two items in particular stand out: The Bee (an amp shield without the CastFromHitPoints factor, allowing its massive damage boost to apply until you take damage) and the Conference Call (a shotgun that spawns additional bullets when it hits something or travels a certain distance). The Bee drops from an optional late game mini-boss; the Conference Call from the final boss (though both can drop elsewhere, just those two have the highest chance of dropping each item).
* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja
** Probably the entirety of what Zer0's deal is.
** In Captain Scarlett's Pirate Booty, you also have Ninja Pirates who can use a kind of deception.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Handsome Jack is amazingly evil and amazingly self-centered. The most amazing thing is that he's somehow managed to convince himself he's the good guy of the story. Yes, he's the ''hero'', standing up to the "bandit hordes," from the safety of his orbiting spaceship, behind an army of robots, while laughing about how he once gouged a man's eyes out in front of his kids. He probably doesn't even understand the meaning of the word "good," he just heard somewhere that it's a desirable trait which means he must have it because he's ''so'' awesome.
* ItsRainingMen: The giant H-Station in the sky isn't just for show. It can launch supply crates and robots straight at your location, all the way from the MOON.
* JustThinkOfThePotential: It's suggested that, when the Vault Hunters get their hands on the Vault Key, they should just destroy it. Roland suggests the idea of turning the Vault's contents on Handsome Jack and drive Hyperion off Pandora for good.
* KangarooCourt: Salvador was subjected to one in his backstory. The judge refuses to believe that the bandits who attacked Salvador's grandmother were, well, bandits, and insists that they were innocent men whom Salvador murdered.
* KarmicDeath: Some audio logs in the Caustic Caverns reveal this happened to at least one of the heartless Dahl executives. There were strange, elephant-sized creatures made of crystals down there and the security chief lady noted they were peaceful. The executive goes, "Made of crystals, huh? Chop 'em up, I want my money!" The security chief declines, especially since she's befriended the big blue one, but she gets shot by the executive. The final audio log is of the executive panicking as the peaceful creatures are not so peaceful anymore now that they've been attacked, and she gets squashed by the big blue one.
* KickTheDog: As if his attempt to kill you would not be enough to convince the player that Jack's evil, one of your first mission involves finding [=ECHOs=] of Handsome Jack gratuitously and mercilessly executing a major character of the first game.
** In fact, he really makes it a point to constantly rub this trope in your face throughout the game. Which makes his inevitable death at your hands at the end of the game all the more rewarding after putting up with all of his shenanigans.
* KillItWithFire: Fire weapons are generally pretty useful, but especially so against Bullymongs.
* KillThePoor: Handsome Jack's plan for Pandora, in a nutshell: All stinky poor people must die! Naturally, you get to introduce him to the fact that Pandora [[EatTheRich eats the rich]].
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter:
** Largely played straight. A gun with a high damage output will generally trump elemental weapons. Averted however, if you take advantage of ElementalRockPaperScissors, as elemental weapons receive a damage bonus even if their effects don't trigger.
** Also played straight with some e-tech guns, which can be tricky to hit enemies with, especially over long distances.
** Averted by some e-tech weapons- bouncing bullets, piercing bullets, or even both together are possible, and unlike in Borderlands 1 they do not travel any slower than regular projectiles.
* KingMook: Smash-Head is basically the ultimate Goliath, several times normal Goliath size and wielding a huge shield and rocket launcher. The Big Sleep is the "king" version of pirate Anchormen. There's also Saturn, who is essentially a giant Loader, Dukino's Mom, a massive skag, and King Mong, who is just a really huge Bullymong.
* KleptomaniacHero: Just like the first game, you'll probably search every nook and cranny for item containers, and may pick up every gun you find, if nothing else to sell for VendorTrash. You also get badass ranks by picking up colored items too, so don't be surprised if, in a co-op game, you see someone grabbing everything that the other players leave/drop behind.
* KlingonPromotion: Subverted with Hyperion personnel.
--> [=*You kill a Hyperion personnel*=]
--> '''Nearby personnel''': "Woohoo! Looks like ''someone'' is in line for a promotion!"
* KnightOfCerebus: Surprisingly, Handsome Jack. In a game filled with ComedicSociopathy and black humor, Jack sets the tone very early on by [[spoiler: laughing as he describes the noise Helena Pierce's head made when he blew it off]]. Things only get worse later on.
* KnightsAndKnaves: One of Marshal Friedman's missions has you trying to figure out which one of four robbers (Sam, Lindy, O'Cantler, and Lee) took all the money for him-or-herself. Friedman explicitly tells you that only one of them is truthful and the others are all lying. [[spoiler:The culprit is Lee, the only one who didn't try to accuse anyone else; the truth-teller is probably O'Cantler, who accused Sam of ''lying'' but not of stealing the money.]]
* KonamiCode: Enter it at the title screen, and you unlock the "Extra Wubs" option in the menu. [[spoiler:It literally does nothing. Sorry to disappoint]].
* LampshadeHanging: A few missions specifically lampshade elements of the game
** The "No Vacancy" mission, wherein you turn the power at the Happy Pig motel back on. Scooter guides you through the motions, and at one point asks if it's weird that he knows what you're doing over the ECHO communicator.
** The "Uncle Teddy" mission has you collecting T.K. Baha's old ECHO logs for evidence of Hyperion stealing a gun design of his. T.K.'s neice Una notes that he "kept all his ECHO correspondence -- like a lot of people on Pandora, evidently", lampshading the fact that you find these things everywhere and they seem to be recording near-constantly.
* LaResistance: Sanctuary is an entire town opposing Handsome Jack's oppressive dictatorship led by the former Vault Hunters called the Crimson Raiders. When you enter it for the first time, Roland outright tells you they're losing the fight since Hyperion has access to a lot more resources than they do, not to mention all the [[WeHaveReserves robot troops]] at their disposal.
* LargeHam: Goliaths, once they become [[TurnsRed enraged.]]
--> '''GET READY TO FEEL MY FINGERS IN YOUR EYEBALLS'''
--> '''GET ON YOUR GODDAMN KNEES'''
--> '''I'M GONNA GOUGE YOUR EYES OUT'''
-->-- The Goliath
* LastOfHisKind: The Claptrap you meet at the beginning of the game is the last [=CL4P-TP=] robot in existence, as the others were all destroyed on Handsome Jack's orders. He keeps the corpses of the rest in his home.
* LaughablyEvil: Handsome Jack to a tee. He's clearly having a ''blast'' being evil.
-->'''Jack:''' Ohoho man did- did you see her head?! It was all like PBBBPTH! Ahahaha...hoohoo...
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** Courtesy of Sir Hammerlock.
-->'''Hammerlock:''' Oh dear, I'm spouting exposition again, aren't I? Apologies.
** Nomads also spout enough dialogue about "gear" and "loot" to qualify for this.
** Gaige in the item screen:
-->'''Gaige:''' Show me some green arrows!
* LethalJokeItem:
** The Fibber gun. Its stats say some ridiculous things and the [[PainfullySlowProjectile bullets arc quite a bit]], but the damage output is likely to be higher than all of your other guns up to that point. Sure, its regular damage is nice, around 750, but when you do a critical hit with it of about 11,000 around level 24-29, you'll suddenly be wondering why enemies die almost instantly.
*** The other version of it fires bullets quickly, and upon hitting a surface, will split into multiple bullets. So at first glance it seems rather weak, but try shooting the ground near the enemy, and watch as they suddenly get hit by about 8 shots all at once. Suddenly those [[EliteMook super badass nomads]] with the full shield and [[AttackItsWeakPoint no hole to exploit]] fall rather quickly when your shots go under their shield and hits their feet...
** Some of the randomly generated loot is this, especially since all guns are generated with a mix of benefits and drawbacks. Both can get ridiculous pretty rapidly.
* Letters2Numbers: Every "o" in the name of Zer0 and his skills has been replaced with a "0". The names of some of his alternate heads follow suit, this time including E/3, I/1, and A/4 as well.
* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: Two versions above the standard preorder, including an art book, [[{{Defictionalization}} Marcus bobblehead]], some extra in game items, and various other things. The most expensive version comes with a scale replica of the red loot chests from the first game!
* LostForever: The challenge that tasks you to complete optional mission objectives is an example of this. You only get one shot in each playthrough to finish the optional objectives, and that's it. Not even joining a friend's game to do the mission again will count towards the challenge if you've completed the mission already. If you're looking to finish the challenge, better take care.
* LotteryOfDoom: Hyperion runs one ([[ForTheEvulz for no reason]]) in the town of Overlook, throwing "winners" into the "Grinder" which is exactly what it sounds like.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Several enemies employ this in combat, such as BUL Loaders, Nomad Torturers, and Badass Nomads.
* MacGyvering[=/=]HomemadeInventions: The resourceful, but technically-inept Bandit cults also make [[http://files.g4tv.com/ImageDb3/280374_S/borderlands-2-weapon-manufacturers-detailed-exploding-guns-sounds-fun.jpg guns]] [[http://www.cinemablend.com/images/sections/34342/Borderlands_2_Screenshots_34342.jpg equipped with huge mags]][[hottip:*: I mean, that's a belt-fed machinegun if the huge box is anything to judge by. If you're not sure which one, kindly look at the one of the right. The one using a coke bottle as a sight.]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBBngY-O8gI&feature=related that are so ramshackle]][[hottip:*: see about 0:56]] that they make the guns of the Resistance of {{Brink}} look professionally manufactured by comparison.
* MadeOfExplodium: The various barrels you can shoot throughout the game is made from this trope. The vehicle you're riding in can also seem to be this if an enemy destroys it quickly, usually via rockets.
* MadLibsDialogue: Pops up every now and then. Some notable moments include an ad Marcus gives to the Crimson Raiders, encouraging them to buy guns to fight the bandits... and the same ad to the bandits, except with every instance of Crimson Raiders and bandits swapped.
* MagikarpPower: Larval varkids are mostly annoying. But if you don't contain them, and fast, you'll be fighting an armored Badass variant. They're almost as bad as the trope namer, the Magikarp, itself.
* ManipulativeBastard: Handsome Jack, to a tee. In one sidequest he tries to pay you to kill yourself, [[spoiler:and when you finally find Angel, he gives a masterful performance to try and stop you from killing her.]]
* MeaningfulName:
** Hyperion translates as "Watcher from above". Their KillSat is visible with the naked eye from every outdoor location in the game and tracks your progress.
** Zer0; it refers to both his mysterious nature, and the emoticon that flashes on his visor whenever he gets a kill.
** Gaige is rather close to "gauge" (a mechanical measurement device or assessment of a situation); this relates to both her cyborg nature, and the predictive ability required to play her most complex skill tree. She also loves to "gauge" the inventory items and see how they stack up.
** Salvador translates from Spanish as [[SavingTheWorld "Savior"]]
* MediumAwareness: See Meaningful Name directly above. Gaige in the inventory screen. "Show me those green arrows!" (referring to the green arrows that show how an item is superior to what you're comparing it too.)
-->'''Gaige''' I love comparing loot!
* MediumBlending: As with the first game, there is live action footage not only of the Guardian Angel, [[spoiler:but also Lilith]].
* MenuTimeLockout: Bringing up the multi-tiered menu screen effectively freezes the action around your character, allowing you to calmly scrutinize a dizzying array of sprawling weapons stats in order to determine precisely how best to effectively murder the face of whatever cold-blooded homicidal thing happens to be bearing down on you at the time.
** Averted in multiplayer, though; everything happens in real time.
* MercyKill: Played completely straight.[[spoiler: Angel, held prisoner by Jack, her own father, [[IDieFree asks to die]] to both end the torment and stop Jack's plot to use her as a power source--disconnecting her ends her life but also prevents the Vault Key from charging]].
* MetalSlime: The chubby version of enemies, who rarely show up but drop more loot than usual when killed.
* MexicanStandoff: Referred to as a Truxican standoff in this game, there are two instances of this. The first is near the end of the mission "The Good, the Bad, and the Mordecai", where you stand off against two other people in a fight for a treasure chest. The other is in the mission [="BFFs"=], which has a group of four people in this state because they can't figure out who stole their cash.
* TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay: Averted; humanity has colonies in six galaxies.
* MiniMook: Midgets are back, and there's a couple of new types. Some regular enemies may also be micro-sized, such as mini-goliaths, or tiny nomad raiders.
* MoneyMultiplier: The Vault Hunter's Relic increases the chance of finding rare loot.
* MoneySpider:
** Shooting the crystals off of Crystalisks can allow you to pick them up as an equivalent to cash. And since they spawn with a degree of regularity, they can be farmed to pad one's bank account.
** Barf Skags are a lesser degree of this, usually through VendorTrash. Explained in-universe by the fact that Skags eat damn near everything, and vomit up whatever they can't digest.
* MoodWhiplash:
** This game is both a bigger parody than the first, as well as ''much'' darker, leading to tons of this. Tiny Tina's tea party is a funny bit of ComedicSociopathy...until it becomes clear she's torturing the bandit who got her parents killed right in front of her.
** In the Hyperion Wildlife Exploitation Preserve, there are funny announcements about not getting near the animals unless you're in the "human bait" test group and similar, cut with finding ECHO recordings of a scientist being forced to conduct horrific human experiments because [[IHaveYourWife Jack has her wife]].
** During the hilarity that is the Hodunk/Zaford quest chain, Ellie offhandedly mentions the reason Moxxi took her away from the Hodunk clan was because they were planning to [[WifeHusbandry raise her as the clan wife]]. Pretty much everything in the game has at least a little FridgeHorror attached to it.
** After the part where [[spoiler: Handsome Jack kills Roland and takes Lilith hostage]] is a part where you're teleported into some closet with a ton of chests. Upon exiting, you see that it's Marcus' storage area, and he sees you coming out and admonishes you for being in there. Ahahaha... might have been more amusing if it hadn't been for the previous scene.
* MookMaker: Constructors are what Jack sends after you when he gets really serious about killing people. They're big, heavily-armored floating replicators that can digistruct a small army of loaders and turrets, and making mooks isn't their only attack, either. They are also armed with huge cutting lasers, missile volleys, a ground-pound if you try to get too close to them, and the Badass ones launch tactical mini-nukes at you. Their one weakness is shooting their eye, which disrupts how they construct new loaders, but you still have to dump a ton of bullets into them.
* MookMedic: Hyperion uses small flying robots called Surveyors to either repair Loaders or give them shields. Thankfully, you can still kill a Loader getting healed pretty easily unless multiple surveyors are healing it.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: "Dr." Zed, is a subversion, as he constantly reminds you of his lack of a medical license. Doc Mercy is a straight example, a bandit doctor who is far more interested in causing wounds than patching them up.
* MoreDakka: Vladof weapons, to the point where some of their sniper rifles (especially the Droog line) are functionally long-range assault rifles. Assault rifles with [[GatlingGood spinigun]] barrels. And ''especially'' Vladof manufactured spiniguns.
* TheMorlocks: Rats, Bandits who live in especially isolated areas and are even more detached from society than regular bandits. They're first encountered in the sewers of the Bloodshot Stronghold and are most plentiful in the cavernous Fridge. For some reason there are a few of them in Lynchwood, though.
* MyBelovedSmother: There are two distinct Psycho voices, each with its own personality. Both of them are seemingly fearful of their mothers; Psycho 2 has lines that indicate she dominated his life [[SelfMadeOrphan before he killed her]]. The challenge for killing Psychos is even called "Mama's Boys".
* MyGrandmaCanDoBetterThanYou: During the quest to return to Sanctuary and planting a fast travel station in Overlook, Jack sends robots to try and stop you. Most players won't experience this (unless you're soloing on True Vault Hunter Mode with sub-par weapons, or have an extremely bad group), but if the robots repeatedly interrupt/destroy the beacon, Jack will chime in, commenting on how bad you are and wonder how you can defeat him if you can't even protect a little beacon.
** He sends a similar taunt if you take too long to rescue Roland (either due to dying repeatedly, and/or taking too long to destroy the robots). It then takes him to the Hyperion prison in The Dust, where you now have to travel to and fight more enemies to rescue him.
* MostAnnoyingSound: Invoked with Claptrap, especially after you get to Sanctuary and he's just running around the city saying stupid things. The citizens ''hate him.''
-->'''Sir Hammerlock:''' When I hear that robot speak, I can feel my brain cells committing suicide.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWYjLurySU0 The Bane.]] It's a cursed weapon for a reason - even the game [[FunWithSubtitles subtitlles its babbling as [annoying sound]!]]
*** '''YEAHAHAHAHYEAHAHYEAHAHAHYEAHAHAHAYEAHAHAHAHAYEAHAAHAHAHYEAHAAHAHYEAAHAHYAHAHAYEAAHAHAYEAHA'''
** [[http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Morningstar The Morningstar]], the reward for "Hyperion Contract 873", is a special sniper rifle "custom designed, for [[YouBastard a murderer like yourself]]." It mocks you when you do things like kill an enemy or reload, and makes [[http://xkcd.com/873/ this xkcd strip]] a reality.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The launch day trailer suggests a massive battle LordOfTheRings style with the four new heroes teaming up with the old. This does not happen. Furthermore, [[http://ds.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/100xl9/best_frame_of_the_borderlands_2_launch_trailer/ this]] quite amusing scene never occurred.
* NewGamePlus: Just like the old Videogame/{{Borderlands}}, the player may run through the entire game again after finishing the story, facing tougher enemies while getting better loot. This is intended to be a DifficultySpike on the level of NintendoHard, but whether that is true [[YMMV/{{Borderlands2}} is up to you]].
* NiceHat: Sir Hammerlock's hunting hat. Turning in the initial quest to collect bullymong fur to Sir Hammerlock results in him mounting the fur on his hat, making it even ''more'' badass.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Lilith qualifies for one when she [[spoiler:ignores Angel's warning to stay away from Angel's core and gets kidnapped by Jack to charge the vault key.]]
** Your own character ends up doing this during a story quest, [[spoiler: where putting a new power core in Sanctuary ends up disabling the town's shields. To be fair however, none of the protagonists were aware of this, as it was yet another of Jack's many {{XanatosGambit}}s]].
* NoExportForYou: Not the game itself, but several of its marketing tie-ins, including two contests and a pack of limited trading cards, are only available to Europeans, which is sort of odd for an American game.
* NoFlowInCGI: Everyone's hair is pointy and immobile. Mordecai's ponytail or Lilith's bangs could put an eye out, and some alternate heads make it even worse.
** Gaige's skirt and [[ChainedByFashion the padlock on her right wrist]] don't move at all.
* NoHeroDiscount: Largely because of AdamSmithHatesYourGuts, the most you can expect for helping people out on a quest is whatever reward they give you. Marcus and Dr. Zed still expect you to pay full price for their wares, no matter how many quests you've done for them and how many times you've saved them from Hyperion.
* NoIndoorVoice: Salvador yells almost all the time.
* NoNameGiven: The Sheriff of Lynchwood has no name and the deputy even points it out during a broadcast. He doesn't know who she is, just that she showed up one day, deputized him, and scares the shit out of him. This may be a stealth ShoutOut to "The Man With No Name."
* NoodleIncident: Gaige's father apparently aided her escape with the aid of a golf cart and explosives.
** A particularly amusing radio advert for Tediore weapons has a man named John claiming that he lost both of his thumbs in a "horrific foreplay accident".
* NoOSHACompliance: We've lost count of the broken or missing safety rails. There's also the various Eridium mines with exposed moving drill bits that players might accidentally blunder into and be killed by. Never mind the per-usual [[MadeOfExplodium explosive barrels]] that just happen to be...oh, ''everywhere.''
** One sidequest has you fight a miniboss that you reach by walking up a conveyor belt. Sounds easy? Well, it is, even while dodging the giant pistons, but that's still a really odd way to get up to what seems to be the guy's living space.
* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Unlike the first game, there's no fall damage at all. This allows you to take shortcuts out of dungeons, or to do something so badass that the Slab King is amazed at you.
** ... Except when you try to jump off the mesa that Magnys Lighthouse is built upon. Jumping off the lighthouse to it's base is fine, but jumping off the base to the town down below will kill you.
* NoticeThis: Anything that can be opened or looted has glowing green lights on it somewhere. In the event it's not a chest, locker, lockbox, crate, junk pile, washing machine or cardboard box, it will ''still'' have something green and glowing about it. Piles of animal refuse also have a greenish glow or green mist about them (Pandoran life forms eat anything they can get their mouth on, and just throw up the undigestible guns and bullets for you to loot).
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* DamageIncreasingDebuff: Slagging does not, in itself, harm an enemy but they take a whole lot more damage from non-slag attacks once they're suffering from slag.
* DamnYouMuscleMemory:
** For those who have the habit of reloading after every fight, this can result in losing ammo when reloading a Tediore weapon, since reloading has you throw the gun at the enemy like a grenade. Very cool, but it takes all the bullets left in the clip with it! It's so bad that even the developers do it during previews. Of course, some players may throw full ones anyway for the damage bonus.
*** Worse yet, the resulting explosion can hurt yourself. A lot, in some cases.
** With Gaige the Mechromancer, you have 'Anarchy' - Every magazine you empty or enemy you kill trades accuracy for damage, stacking up to 150 times! Reload before your mag's empty though, and ALL those stacks disappear! [[note]]This is if you don't have Discord, which allows you to reload on a non-empty clip without risking all your stacks. The first reload causes them to go down in exchange for a fire rate boost, accuracy boost, and health regen. The second stops the loss of stacks but you lose the bonuses.[[/note]]
--->'''Gaige''': Don't accidentally reload, don't accidentally reload...
*** Then played with more if you go to another character where you ''can'' reload before you're empty and you're used to not reloading unless you're dry.
** The new driving controls: guaranteed to kick you out of a vehicle at least once before you remember that you can't lock onto enemies anymore.
** The PS3 version moves the aim and shoot buttons from the analog triggers to the shoulder buttons and uses the triggers to throw grenades and use action skills. Those used to the first game's control layout may find themselves inadvertently using their action skills and blowing themselves up with their own grenades. You are, however, able to change the control scheme to "Classic" ''Borderlands'' in the options menu.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Yes, it's DenserAndWackier, but the game gets ''very'' dark near the end, with the fight against [[spoiler:Angel]] and the [[spoiler:death of Roland, and kidnapping of Lilith]].
* DarkestAfrica: The continent of Aegrus is pretty much this. Dark swamps, savannahs and jungle mountains filled with [[TheNativesAreRestless bloodthirsty savage tribal warriors]] and ferocious wildlife trying to kill you at every turn.
* DeadlyDoctor: Doc Mercy, a brutal, insane Bandit doctor who loves hurting a lot more than healing. Much to Dr. Zed's chagrin, however, he's actually a licensed surgeon with a real medical degree.
* DeadpanSnarker:
** Some weapons have voices, and will sarcastically comment on what you're doing, whether reloading, or if you get a critical hit.
** Claptrap is also the embodiment of this trope.
-->'''Claptrap:''' Your ability to walk short distances without dying will be Handsome Jack's downfall!
** Lilith, in ''spades''. Almost everything she says is a snark directed at someone.
** Just about everyone gets snarky sometimes.
* DeathFromAbove: The Spores from the Hammerlock DLC. They hover in the air, dropping kamikaze versions of themselves onto you.
* DeathIsCheap:
** Just like in the first game, you respawn at a nearby station when you die, losing a decent chunk of money but nothing else.
-->'''Hyperion Respawn Station:''' The next time some idiot tells you that life is meaningless without death, Hyperion recommends killing them.
** If your entire party dies enemy health will also reset. (This can make solo play occasionally infuriating, as bosses or named Bad Ass enemies like Mad Mike can reset to max life and shields the moment they get a lucky shot off at you.)
* DeathOfAThousandCuts:
** Some enemies, particularly in co-op games, may have such a huge amount of hp that you're almost essentially forced to do this to them. Also played straight if you use an acid or fire weapon on them, and it whittles them down gradually.
** There's even a couple of Badass Ranks that can be pulled off by getting your second wind from killing an enemy with damage-over-time caused by fire or acid weapons -- LIFE and death of a thousand cuts!
** There is also an area of the game called "Thousand Cuts." Perhaps not coincidentally, [[spoiler: the BonusBoss "Terramorphous the Invincible" (which must be taken down by this method, raid-style) appears just past this area.]]
* DefaceOfTheMoon: Handsome Jack put a humongous space station halfway between the planet and its tidally locked moon that casts a big shadow in the shape of an H upon the moon's surface. Wherever you are, it's watching you if not explicitly raining enemy reinforcements.
* DefeatMeansFriendship:
** Some of the remnants of the Crimson Lance are now led by Roland as members of the resistance agains Handsome Jack. Despite Roland being a Crimson Lance deserter and working with the other vault hunters, they murdered hundreds of them and concretely ended their main employer. Handsome Jack is just ''that much'' of a threat. Most of them seem happy to work for Roland.
** Averted by some of them who decided to become bandits instead of working with the vault hunters.
** [[spoiler:Once you kill the Sheriff, if Deputy Winger is still alive and you didn't shoot him during the fight, he'll surrender peacefully and give you a unique Relic.]]
** [[spoiler: Loader Mal stops attacking you once you beat him down badly enough at the end of the "Real Boy" side mission in Eridium Blight. He's one of the ''very'' few enemies you can absolutely only fight once per playthrough because of this.]]
** [[spoiler: Brick in a fashion, he just lets his underlings do the fighting before accepting the players into his gang.]]
* DeflectorShield:
** Personal BeehiveBarrier type shields as part of RegeneratingShieldStaticHealth. When not taking damage the shields always regenerate after a delay. Some player skills can affect the shields like giving them extra capacity and faster recharge rates. Unless the player has specific skills or picks up items players do not regenerate health. Shields may have other special effects like emitting a burst of elemental energy or cause damage to enemies attackign the player. Some shields even give up energy to boost weapon damage. Enemies also have similar shields.
** Axton's turret can get a spherical type shield[[hottip:*: If the perk to place the turret on any surface is used or the turret is placed near an edge the turret shield generates a sphere shape that stops at surfaces.]]The shield is a dome or spherical beehive barrier. It stops incoming enemy shots but permits players to fire from inside or through the shield. The shield is not part of a health and shield regen set up.
* DenserAndWackier: Definitely, compared to the IndecisiveParody in the first installment. One can argue, however, that the shift to full blown BlackComedy took place in the original game's DLC with their BreakingTheFourthWall and [[CardCarryingVillain card carrying villainy]].
* DevelopmentGag: One quest has you restore power to a motel truck stop by repairing its generator. The three components you need are a Gearbox, a Valve, and a Steam capacitor.
* DidntNeedThoseAnyway: Limbs can be blasted off of most Hyperion Loaders by inflicting sufficient damage to their weak points, though the weakpoints on certain tougher models may only be hit from behind. Removing the left arm will disable grenade-throwing, right arm takes away their gun, and so on and so forth. [[TheMedic Repair Surveyors]] can digistruct new limbs onto the damaged units ''in the field'' (along with restoring the robot's HP), though.
* [[spoiler:DiscOneFinalDungeon: The mission where you bring down Hyperion headquarters shield and go after Handsome Jack for the first time. It's setup like the final mission in the game... it's not]]
* DifficultButAwesome:
** Zer0 seems to have been tailored to this - one of his skills gives you a stacking damage bonus when you get a critical hit, but you lose it if you ''don't'' get a critical. Also it fades over time, and sniper rifles only. He also has no early health-restoration abilities, unlike everyone else, forcing you to rely on health vial drops to restore yourself (assuming you don't have a buddy who can heal you or a health regenerating class mod). Most of the rest of his skills are based around high-risk, high-reward strategies involving in-your-face melee or distant-but-precise sniping.
** Gaige's Ordered Chaos skill tree caters to this as well. Its primary --and mandatory-- skill is "Anarchy" which stacks every time Gaige kills an enemy or reloads from an empty clip. The more Anarchy you've got, the more damage you do, but the more inaccurate you become, and this can stack all the way up to +700% Damage (and -700% Accuracy!). Other skills in the tree make use of Anarchy and do awesome things like creating explosions if you shoot at an enemy while jumping through the air or forming health-stealing claws in melee.
** Hyperion weapons in general. The whole schtick of Hyperion weaponry - that they become more accurate as they fire - is so counterintuitive to every FPS out there that many players just don't use them. However, Hyperion weaponry also has consistently superior stats to just about everything else, so once you manage to get accustomed to the weirdness of using such a counterintuitive weapon family, they become devastatingly effective.
* DisneyDeath: Most players won't notice this unless they're watching it (and not running towards the next area shooting stuff), but during the final story mission, [[spoiler:when Mordecai and Brick are helping the Vault Hunters to reach Jack before he activates the Warrior, the cargo ship Mordecai is on starts taking a lot of damage about halfway through the level. Brick then jumps onboard to try and help, but the ship crashes into the lava below, complete with Brick screaming. Then when you finish the story mission, both men show up at the end, a little bit battered, but no worse for the wear.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: A few examples.
** Handsome Jack tends to do these on you during story missions. It never works out though, since you destroy everything he sends your way.
** In the Campaign of Carnage DLC, Mr. Torgue has you kill a game review critic simply because he gave a 6 out of 10 for a game the former liked. As you leave the area after killing him, the surviving reviewers then comment on you and how you reminded them of yet another game (or rather, a feature in the game) they hated, causing Mr. Torgue to have you kill them as well.
** Tiny Tina gives you a quest to get an autograph from her third favorite person in the Campaign Of Carnage DLC. The guy says no, so she has you kill him and collect his head instead. [[spoiler: Then after you turn the quest in she mentions her number one favorite person is you.]]
*** She gives you another mission where the quest is to gather chocolate chip cookies from the Torgue arena. However, the last one contains oatmeal-raisin cookies, so she has you destroy all the cookie vending machines simply because she hates those types of cookies.
*** The game seems to agree with her, saying [[FelonyMisdemeanor "Oatmeal cookies should be considered a war crime"]] when turning in the mission.
* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:Piston]], the primary antagonist of the ''Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage'' addon. He's afraid of you and anyone else who wants to step up to him, and uses every underhanded move in the book to try to take you out without putting himself in danger.
* DontExplainTheJoke: Handsome Jack explains:
--> Once you've eaten prime rib for free, it's hard to go back to suckin' down hamburgers for cash. If you know what I'm talking about. Do you know what I'm talking about? [{{Beat}}] Dicks. I'm talkin' about dicks.
* DragonAscendant: Loyal Handsome Jack follower and Hyperion employee Professor Nakayama isn't too pleased at what the vault hunters did to his boss.
* DreadfulMusician:
** The AI core that you put into Moxxi's entertainment system.
** Jack also invokes this trope in one quest, [[spoiler: after he kills Bloodwing. He at first mentions playing a violin, but then doesn't have one, and the dialogue stops. After you reach Sanctuary a few moments later, he comes back on, and then plays some really awful notes on said violin, then berates you and says that it would've been really funny if he had played it right after Bloodwing died. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L-h6v6qOHk Can be viewed here.]]]]
* DrivenToSuicide:
** It's hard to go UpToEleven much more than your cover bandit looking doubly suicidal. %%Before adding other examples, check to see if it is already under, or would fit better under SuicideAsComedy.
** Daisy after you deliver to her the poem written by Scooter.
** Face [=McShooty=], a bandit that gives you the quest of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin shooting him in the face]]. Doing so even nets you an achievement.
** [[spoiler:Ulysses.]]
** [[spoiler:You, in a sidequest. In Eridium Blight, there's a sidequest where [[BigBad Handsome Jack]] pays you to jump off a really tall cliff. You can comply and get a lot of Eridium [[WhatTheHellHero (and get called his bitch)]], or call the Hyperion Suicide Prevention Hotline to get more EXP instead (and get called a loser.)]]
* DumbMuscle: Goliaths, complete with a SimpletonVoice and HulkSpeak. Weirdly, their intelligence seems to go up a few notches when they become enraged.
* DummiedOut: [[http://www.reddit.com/r/Borderlands/comments/11dxbt/getting_the_lore_right_now_with_47_more_than_26/ Various little bits of dialogue, but ones that explain SO much:]]
** Angel and Jack are the ones manipulating the New-U system to keep the Hunters alive throughout the game: Angel to take down Jack, and Jack to make sure he kills you himself [[spoiler: after you kill Angel.]]
** Captain Flynt mentions that he has a bounty out on whoever killed his brother, Baron. Other than that cut line there's no mention of any relation between the two.
** The reason Wilhelm goes down so easy is because Jack had him throw the fight to make it easier for Sanctuary to [[spoiler: get the bum power core.]]
* DyingMomentOfAwesome
--> ''"[[spoiler:Dad]], I have to tell you something... you're an asshole."''
* {{Egopolis}}: Fyrestone, the first town in the first game is now Jackville.
** The city of Opportunity, a ridiculously shiny city with statues and cardboard cutouts of Handsome Jack everywhere. True to his actual character, the people building it are overworked to death, and there are more security robots around than humans. The actual builders are even told they won't be able to live there when the city is finished, since they aren't civilized or rich enough.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Fire is good against flesh, Acid is good against armor, and Shock is good on shields. Explosive is average-middling on everything and has {{Painfully Slow Projectile}}s, but does splash damage. Slag is NonElemental, and coated enemies take more damage from non-slag attacks.
** That said, it's usually a good idea to carry at least one of every type of elemental weapon on you. It may seem extremely inconvenient at first, particularly if you're a KleptomaniacHero who has to grab everything they see. But an otherwise tough battle against a badass loader can be made much, much easier if you have a good corrosive weapon on you, or a fire weapon against the goliath whose helmet you just accidentally shot off, particularly in True Vault Hunter Mode.
* EliteMook: Besides the usual "Badass" variants of enemies, some enemy types are, in general, more powerful than their companions. Nomads, for example, are slow-moving but tougher than most other bandits, often armed with riot shields or heavy machine guns, and some even function as Mook Commanders by ordering the rest of the enemies after you.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas:
** Salvador and his grandmother.
** Handsome Jack invokes this trope in one quest by sending you to check on his grandmother. He sounds rather concerned for her and doesn't seem like the usual jackass that he normally is. [[spoiler: Then he averts it by revealing that he hired some bandits to kill his own grandmother, and just wanted you to check and see if they did the job. Even better: Since you killed them, he doesn't have to pay them anymore! Given that said grandmother has a buzz-axe in her house which is said to be used as a "disciplinary" weapon, Jack may have a FreudianExcuse for wanting her dead.]]
* EveryoneIsBi: Or at least, most people are and those who aren't don't make a big deal about it. Various characters in the game will make passes at you or comment on how attractive you are regardless of what gender your character is, and in a game with a lot of characters who have [[JerkAss almost no redeeming features]], not a single one of them makes a gay joke.
** There are several gay marriages mentioned in passing as well. Then again, the game takes place in 5357.
** [[FalloutNukaBreak It's Pandora. Love is where you find it.]]
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: As in the first game, the wildlife is angry and numerous. Newly added are the plants, like Firemelons, which explode when shot or Stinging Cacti which electrocute anything that gets close when they are shot, struck, or otherwise disturbed.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Jack seems to be under the impression that whether you're good or evil is entirely down to aesthetics: if you look great, have a lot of money, and live in a shiny, shiny city, you're the good guy, and good guys always win. He doesn't really seem to understand the difference between order and chaos, either, because while he mentions he's trying to clean everything up, that's in between fits of mad laughter over how hilarious it is to blow people's brains out and speeches about how mining-induced volcanoes are "the definition of awesome!"
* EvilIsPetty:
** In full effect. Handsome Jack can't resist constantly calling you to tell you how he [[PokeThePoodle Poked The Poodle]] recently. On several occasions he's audibly eating something. He is also visibly offended by any and all of your attempts to resist him to the point that ''your continued existence alone'' causes him to be in a state of constant VillainousBreakdown.
** One sidequest has Handsome Jack give you a mission to kill yourself, knowing full well you'll respawn; he just wants to humiliate you.
** Another mission has the Hyperion Corporation hiring you to kill a bunch of bandits, knowing full well who you are and promising a "Hyperion firearm made especially for you" if you do it. The sniper rifle in question has decent stats and an onboard AI that does everything it can to make you feel bad (which is an explicit ShoutOut to [[http://xkcd.com/873/ this XKCD comic]]).
*** [[FridgeLogic When you think about it]], why is the weapon called the "Morningstar"? Guess who is called the "morning star" - ''Lucifer''. It's essentially Jack/Hyperion's way of saying that ''you're'' the Devil.
* EverythingMakesAMushroom:
** Badass grade robots create a skull-shaped mushroom cloud.
** Also played straight with Axton's turret gun if you get a certain skill. It will create a mushroom-cloud explosion wherever it lands at.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin:
** The "Loaders" are repurposed enemy mining robots and come in many deadly varieties. HOT Loaders are armed with flamethrowers. JNK Loaders are assembled from junkyard scraps. EXP Loaders...explode.
** The mission called "Shoot This Guy in the Face". A guy named "Face [=McShooty=]" wants you to shoot him in the face. Guess what you do.
** There's a unique bruiser named Muscles and a unique midget named Shorty.
** In Captain Scarlett's Pirate Booty, there is also an ARR Loader, which is a pirate robot complete with pegleg and sword.
* ExperienceBooster: The Moxxi's Endowment Relic.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Near the end of the mission mentioned below under EyeScream.
* ExpospeakGag: Near the beginning of the game, Hammerlock utters "Ah, fecal matter" to express his displeasure at the bounty board not working.
* ExtremeMeleeRevenge:
** Bandit "Maylay" shields encourage this as a tactic, granting bonus melee damage when depleted. This is especially the case with the unique Love Thumper shield, which takes a ''very'' long time to recharge and gives a huge melee bonus - while also causing explosions with every connecting melee attack.
** Goliaths drop their weapons when their helmets are knocked off, attacking with their bare hands until killed. Provoking this is the best way to deal with Goliath Blasters, because their rocket launchers are much more dangerous than they could ever be while enraged.
* ExtremeOmnivore:
** According to Scooter, Crazy Earl once ate one of his cars. The whole thing. With a fork and all...
** Skags will eat EVERYTHING. One quest flavor text theorizes that guns must taste like filet mignon to them seeing how often [[LampshadeHanging they drop them when killed]].
* EyeBeams:
** Loaders can zap you with their CyberCyclops eyes, an attack that's usually reserved for when their primary weapon is useless (like when you're out of range or when you shoot their arms off). It charges slowly and is pretty easy to avoid.
*** Constructors have much more powerful lasers that can cut you down in seconds, though again it's not an attack they use very often.
** Lab Rats, bandits who were experimented on by Hyperion and escaped, fire ''very'' powerful beams from their eyes if they manage to get right in your face.
** Deathtrap also has an ''electrical'' eye beam he'll use against distant flying targets (like Rakk) and can get a more powerful fire-damage beam as an upgrade from Gaige's middle skill tree.
* EyeScream: One of your first missions is a result of [[spoiler:a Bullymong named Knuckle-Dragger tearing out Claptrap's eye.]]
* {{Fiction 500}}: Handsome Jack. Hyperion is the largest corporation on Pandora, and he owns the whole thing.
-->"I wanted to let you know that I just bought a pony. Made of diamonds. Because I'm ''rich''."
** Jack later clarifies: not a statue, a ''living pony made of diamonds''. Given that there are other species on Pandora composed of precious gems, this is a little less far-fetched, but still.
** His promised bounty reward to several assassins? Enough money for each of them to buy a mansion... composed of smaller mansions.
* FiveBadBand: With the five named big wigs of Hyperion in the main game:
** BigBad: Handsome Jack.
** TheDragon: Vice President Blake. Although since he never appears physically in-game, is [[KickTheDog constantly mocked]] [[{{Troll}} by Jack]], and [[spoiler: [[DragonWithAnAgenda was undermining Jack's agenda by aiding TK Baha and Dr. Zed]]]], TheBrute often has to pick up most of the slack in this department.
** TheBrute: Wilhelm. Not much is given to his personality, sans the fact he's a giant half-cyborg [[HeroKiller that nearly wiped out the original Vault Hunters pre-game]], and evidently attends most of Jack's largest purges [[spoiler: such as slaughtering Helena Price and her refugees]].
** TheEvilGenius: Although Hyperion obviously has plenty of [[MadScientist Mad Scientists]] on the payroll, a lack of named scientific personal gives this title to [[StrawmanNewsMedia DJ Hunter Hellquist]], who single-handedly runs Jack's PropagandaMachine on Pandora.
** TheDarkChick: The Sheriff. Is pretty much the only woman that would be [[AxCrazy crazy]] and [[ObviouslyEvil evil]] enough to be [[UnholyMatrimony Handsome Jack's girlfriend]], but also displays legitimate power in her own right, keeping all of Lynchwood under the grip of her martial law [[spoiler: and breaking Brick where even Wilhelm couldn't - [[KickTheDog albeit by]] [[AndYourLittleDogToo murdering his dog.]]]]
** SixthRangerTraitor: [[spoiler:Angel, who starts off as a combination of The Evil Genius and The Dark Chick (albeit unwillingly) but later on actively helps the Vault Hunters stop Jack.]]
* FiveManBand: With the five Vault Hunters so far:
** TheHero: Maya. Although [[NotSoAboveItAll she's not above the]] ComedicSociopathy the rest of the Vault Hunters take in stride, she's [[TeamMom the most responsible]], [[LadyOfWar polite]], [[GoodIsNotNice and heroic of them]]
** TheLancer: Axton. As pointed out on his character page, he's too much of a BloodKnight and GlorySeeker to responsibly lead reprobates like Salvador and Zer0 around, and probably too much of a MilitaryMaverick to really care.
** TheBigGuy: Salvador. [[TheNapoleon Technically an ironic term,]] [[PintSizedPowerhouse but his sheer stamina]] [[BoisterousBruiser and attitude]] [[CrazyAwesome make up for it.]]
** TheSmartGuy: Gaige. Eighteen year-old with [[ArtificialLimbs a mechanical arm]] and a giant, KillerRobot she designed herself. FOR A HIGH-SCHOOL SCIENCE FAIR!!
** TheSneakyGuy: Zer0. [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja Duh.]]
* FlippingTheBird: With the taunting skill upgrade ''[[IShallTauntYou Come At Me Bro!]]'', Salvador does this with both hands before reaching for his guns.
* FlunkyBoss: Some fights are much more about fighting off waves of enemies than attacking one single foe; in other cases there's a giant foe (usually a Constructor) that's actually making new enemies for you to fight. There's a boss fight against a Thresher that has swallowed a supply beacon and it is inadvertently causing robots to be launched from the moon down to its location, making it one of those rare "inadvertent" flunky boss fights.
* FeudingFamilies: There's a quest chain where you facilitate the feud between the Hodunks and the Zafords. Which clan comes out on top is ultimately up to the player.
* FlatWhat: Lilith's reaction to Roland's discovery that [[spoiler:the Vault is not a cache of weapons or similar, but a living thing.]] Twice in a row.
-->'''Lilith''': I'm just gonna go ahead and repeat myself. What?
* FourPointScale: In-universe; an ECHO sim reviewer gives a bad review to a game Mr. Torgue enjoys... with a numbered score of 6/10. Mr. Torgue calls the reviewer out on his hypocrisy, saying that by any logical standard 6/10 is above average.
* FreudianSlip: Moxxi gives one when you're going to face off with Motor Momma in the Torgue DLC. She immediately apologizes for it afterward, saying that she went too far that time.
--> '''Moxxi:''' No one eats my girlfriends but me.
* FriendlyFireProof: In co-op games, shooting other players outside of a duel doesn't hurt them. The siren even has a skill that heals others by shooting them. Some special shield effects can hurt your teammates, namely the IED Boosters dropped by the Whiskey Tango and the explosive nova caused by melee attacks when the Love Thumper is depleted.
* FromBadToWorse: Oh, so there's a tyrannical government/megacorp in charge that tried to kill you when you landed? That sucks! Now, watch [[spoiler:a character from the first game is killed, ''in a recording'' while the BigBad laughs, your supposed ally (Guardian) Angel turn on you because she's working for said BigBad, your city is endangered, a friend's pet is mutated then killed, you are forced to MercyKill a girl you find out is the CorruptCorporateExecutive's daughter held in perpetual slavery to stop said baddie, another friend is shot (right after the whole kill-the-slave-girl thing), a third friend is kidnapped and the BigBad got away with everything! Well, until the final boss battle anyway.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Not too far into the game, you find logs Handsome Jack has left as instructions for people on trying to get one of his bounties, specifically for the Siren Maya. To dissuade bounty hunters from just painting a woman's arm blue and turning in her corpse as "evidence" he says there's only six Sirens in the universe. More importantly, he also says he knows who three of them are. At this point in the game the player only knows two of them, Lilith and Maya. Plot Point! [[spoiler:Actually you know all three, you just don't realize it. It is later revealed that Angel is a Siren...and Jack's daughter]].
** [[spoiler: Even earlier, when Angel hacks a door for you, she uses an ability called "Phaseshift". That is awfully similar to Phaselock and Phasewalk, Maya and Lilith's respective ability.]]
** A minor version in Tina's house. Look at the cards on the table. They're the names of each of the invitees to her tea party, who you will be asked to fetch for a side mission. One of them says [[spoiler:"Evil bastard who killed my parents"]].
** When you first meet Roland in the flesh, in the cutscene that triggers he's on a bed with a giant, red graffiti on the wall that reads [[spoiler:You Die!]]. [[spoiler:Roland is the only one of the original Vault Hunters to die in the story.]]
** When you get back to Sanctuary after killing [[spoiler:Wilhelm, Scooter is working on one of the fuel cell receptacles. Right after Sanctuary has to take off.]]
* GagBoobs: Moxxi. Jack even refers to her as "Ol' balloon-tits".
* {{Gainaxing}}: Moxxi does it in her intro during the Campaign of Carnage DLC.
* GameBreakingBug: Most are not ''completely'' game breaking, but they can be prevalent.
** The biggest one was having Bad Ass Rank reset and deleting all skin unlocks/stash items, while still leaving the challenges for them completed. It happened randomly from the first day of release, though it was eventually patched (and the patch re-credited all ranks and unlocks, mostly accurately).
*** After killing Doc Mercy, he drops a quest item. For some reason, this can clip through the floor, forcing you to quit the game so it spawns where Mercy spawned.
*** If an enemy is in front of the New-U station when you respawn, you can get ''stuck inside of the station.'' Enemies almost never appear in front of New-U stations, so as to prevent spawn killing, but Loaders can move in front of the station during or after the fight with the Gluttonous Thresher. During the fight it's not a problem, as the Thresher will just kill you, you respawn, and you may move freely again, but after the fight, Loaders won't spawn anymore, meaning that if you die while the last Loader was standing in front of the station, and you kill him upon respawn, you're stuck and have no choice but to quit the game to fix it.
*** The [=BNK3R=] boss can get stuck in the geometry. If you kill it, nothing happens, forcing you to reload your game.
** During the final leg of the "Get to Know Jack" sidequest, if you turn the valve to summon the rakk holding the final ECHO log ''before'' pressing a nearby button, you will have one, ''one'' chance to kill the rakk before it vanishes, otherwise its ECHO log, and subsequently the sidequest, is LostForever.
** A bug existed with Gaige that if someone is using Anarchy on a multiplayer game and not hosting it, they'll lose their stacks every reload without question.
** Enemies randomly float into the sky and eventually out of the game world. Turns out to be funny if it happens to an enraged Goliath, because all you'll hear throughout the map is their evil laugh.
* GameplayAllyImmortality: None of the original characters can be harmed when they're out fighting in the field with you during story missions. Most blatantly with Brick, whose preferred method of fighting is punching things to death.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation:
** [[spoiler: Even if Handsome Jack is dead, when you do the Double Rainbow Easter Egg he still ECHO's you because his voice is required for the achievement to pop.]]
* GatlingGood: Every Assault Rifle manufacturer makes "spinigun" assault rifles. They feature a gatling style form of operation with barrels that spin up to maximum rate of fire and eat through ammo quickly. Jakobs spiniguns, however, fire all three spinigun barrels at the same time, effectively turning it into an accurate shotgun. Non-Jakobs Pistols can also come with a double rotary barrel which gives them ridiculously fast fire rates. Badass Goliaths heft massive miniguns, literally roughly the same size as themselves, into combat -- though, like all Goliaths, they drop their weapon when enraged. Badassasaurus has rocket-firing miniguns mounted as its "arms".
* GentlemanAdventurer: Sir Hammerlock (according to his introduction slide, no less). Subverted as he is also SophisticatedAsHell and just as prone to crude humor as everyone else on the planet.
-->'''Sir Hammerlock''': I just- y'know what, sod it all- Bonerfarts; they're ''Bonerfarts'' from now on!
* GiantMook: Bruisers return, but are largely replaced by Goliaths as the Bandit giant mook. WAR Loaders fill this role in Hyperion forces.
** One of the first thresher-type monsters you face is the [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever fifty-foot-tall one]].
* GilliganCut: An audio version is used frequently in TK Baha's old Echo recordings.
-->'''TK:''' Well, it's the first day on Pandora. Wife wasn't too happy about the move, but she'll come around. This is the beginning of our new life together!
-->''Next ECHO''
-->'''TK:''' Welp, my wife's dead.
* GiverOfLameNames:
** One quest Hammerlock gives you involves changing the name of the Bullymongs for his almanac. After a while he gives up and just calls them "bonerfarts", which the game will hilariously update them to for the duration of that quest.
** In the very beginning of the game, Handsome Jack talks about how he's recently bought a horse made of diamonds that he wants to call "Piss-for-brains" in honor of the Vault Hunters. Later on, he settles on "Butt Stallion". According to The Sheriff, Jack just sucks at naming things since his original name for Lynchwood was "New New Haven".
* GladiatorSubquest: 3 different gladiator fight arenas in the main game.
** The Mr. Torgue DLC features several whose first level must be completed in order to advance the story. The second and subsequent tiers of these matches are optional.
* GoneHorriblyRight: One of Zed's quests involves getting Rakk and Skag parts for him. Later they turn into Skrakk, or flying skags. The final part of the quest has you kill a Spycho, or a psycho combined with a spiderant.
* {{Gorn}}:
** Sometimes enemies turn into chunks if you kill them with a high powered weapon, or they may also vaporize/burn/melt away if you kill them with an elemental weapon.
** It is possible to blow off limbs
** The only thing keeping a Golaith's skull from erupting out of his head and flopping around on his distended spinal cord is that helmet he's wearing...
* GoshDarnItToHeck:
** The Guardian Angel occasionally gets frustrated and utters a minor swear word, then acts mortified and changes it to "darn" or "heck" or so on.
** This may have something to do with the fact that [[spoiler:Jack, Angel's father, who is keeping her a prisoner to use her as a living battery]], admonishes both her and other characters for "language" later in the game [[spoiler:(having presumably done so for Angel's entire life)]].
** The censorship-obsessed robot in Washburn Refinery sends you on a mission to kill a profanity-spewing radio DJ. When you actually meet the DJ, his "profanity" is just a lot of really infantile yet imaginative made-up words. "Suck my willywack!"
* GradualRegeneration: There are very few shields that restore your health over time compared to the first game, but there are other ways to gain regeneration, like abilities that grant it through action skill use or killing an enemy, or certain class mods.
* GrailInTheGarbage: Like in the first game, sometimes you may find a really good gun from a random garbage can. Usually, that happens after you just spent most of your money buying something ever so slightly ''less'' good from a vending machine only five minutes ago.
* GratuitousSpanish:
** From Mordecai, he says stuff like "adios" or "Gotcha, Pendejo" when he's helping you out by sniping enemies.
** Salvador's speech is also peppered with Spanish, especially in ECHO recordings. "They tried to kill mi abuela!" Becomes hilarious when he has Jack's voice.
* GratuitousEnglish: In the Japanese version of the game, the subtitles always spell out the names of people and places in English.
* GraveRobbing: Claptrap is doing this when you meet him.
** Marcus' vending machines periodically mention that a lot of his stock was lifted from dead bodies.
** YOU do it in a quest or two.
* GreatWhiteHunter: Sir Hammerlock is a GentlemanAdventurer who is equal parts hunter, scholar, and gentleman. He doesn't go out in the field much anymore, mostly because he literally lost an arm and a leg to some of Pandora's native fauna. Further, most of the items he gives you are sniper rifles.
* GreenRocks:
** Eridium, a rare element with ties to the [[{{Precursors}} Eridians]], and the cornerstone of Eridian technology from the first game. The opening of the Vault is revealed to have spread it all over the planet, which in turn triggered a gold rush and a subsequent takeover by Hyperion. It is used as a currency for an unique vendor. In addition, it seems to have an empowering effect on Sirens like Lilith, who gained the ability to teleport among other things.
** Slag is an Eridium byproduct and it's all over the place in some parts of this game. It tends to cause crazy mutations in people, so it's the most likely cause of all those weird-as-hell Goliaths and other mutants.
** [[spoiler:Constant overexposure leads to true physical dependence on it to live, as is the case of Angel.]]
* GrenadeLauncher: Unlike the first game, this game has them, though not as a unique weapon type. Dahl's Grenadier assault rifles, E-Tech shotguns, and the legendary Torgue Kerblaster are the various kinds you can get your hands on.
* GreyAndBlackMorality: While none of the Vault Hunters are traditional heroes, they pale in comparison to the likes of Handsome Jack. Mostly PlayedForLaughs.
* [[GuiltBasedGaming Guilt-Based Idling]]: Leave your character standing long enough and s/he will make snarky comments.
-->'''Maya:''' 27 years of training to stare at nothing!
-->'''Salvador:''' As fun as watching Skags hump.
* GuideDangIt: Gearbox didn't spread the word about the Golden Key (see TooAwesomeToUse) until late on launch day. Sucks for you if you'd already opened that chest the first time you hit Sanctuary and got two L15 grenade mods...
* GunPorn:
** Obviously. New to the sequel is the ability to examine your item models, and every load screen has a rotating gun model (or shield or grenade mod) in the corner.
** A number of weapons have authentic looking methods of firing or operating. Like some revolvers when being rapidly fired the character fans the hammer to various break action weapons like shotguns opening up realistically. Other details like realistic function actions of the hammers, bolts on some automatic weapons moving like real life weapons, to certain magazines like drums or pans moving like the weapon would believably fire.
* GunsAkimbo:
** Salvador's specialty. And this isn't just limited to pistols or Submachine guns, either; how about ''rocket launchers akimbo''? One of his skills also doubles all grenades he throws while gunzerking.
** Goliaths, Bandit {{Giant Mook}}s, dual wield machine gun-type assault rifles (or rocket launchers in the case of Goliath Blasters), until you make them angry.
* HandCannon: A specialty of Jakobs and Torgue. While Torgue makes pistols called this, they're actually the smallest ones in Torgue's pistol arsenal. The real honor goes to their revolvers with the elongated Jakobs and massive Torgue barrels(note:Barrels are not specific to manufacturers -- any company can use these barrels.), both of which increase damage, and one of which increases accuracy. And, carrying over from the last game, the Maggie, (AKA the [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter Masher]]) a Jakobs revolver that shoots shotgun shells.
* HaHaHaNo: When the player is delivering invitations to Claptrap's birthday party, this is Marcus' reaction to actually coming there.
* HailfirePeaks: Frostburn Caverns; icy but full of nutty fire-worshippers who use flamethrowers.
* HandicappedBadass: All but literally; One-Armed Bandits are one of the bigger and tougher versions of Goliaths. Their name comes not only from the fact that they carry slot machines on their backs, but also because they're missing an arm themselves.
* HandWave: [[spoiler:Maya's first ECHO log notes that she isn't affected by eridium the same way Lilith is, avoiding the potential effect that would have had on the plot.]]
* HaveANiceDeath: The New-U stations will taunt you on occasion.
* HaveIMentionedIAmGay: See StraightGay below.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Deputy Winger, if you spare him during the showdown with the Sheriff.]]
* HeroicSecondWind:
** If you lose all your health, you can get a "second wind" either by killing an enemy, or in a co-op player game, another player helping you back on your feet.
** Some badass ranks can be achieved by purposely doing this, such as killing a badass while dying, or killing enemies with a certain gun-type.
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Handsome Jack murders Helena Pierce, one of your main allies in the original game. Near the end of the game he also personally kills Roland by shooting him in the back.]]
* HeroWithBadPublicity:
** As you finish story quests, there is a data pod in Sanctuary where you can hear the latest news. No matter what you did, the newscaster always paints you or your allies in a bad light.
** Fortunately, you can pick up a sidequest late in the game that allows you to "take care of that problem", aka go kill the guy making all those negative announcements about you and Sanctuary.
* HonestJohnsDealership: Marcus is normally a sociopath and a very unscrupulous businessman, but one quest late in the game is all about how he conned an idiot into buying an (admittedly quite good) gun at an outrageous price, and you retrieving the 9$ change he gave too much.
** His vending machines also occasionally remind you that "if you shop anywhere else, I'll have you killed" and that most of his wares were looted from dead bodies.
* HopeSpot: Towards the end of the game, [[spoiler: Roland starts talking to you again, after having been killed by Jack, about how you should go kick Jack's butt and then go out for some drinks. Then Jack comes on and says that it was just him, and that Roland still really is dead.]]
* HorseOfADifferentColor:
** Like in the ''Secret Armory of General Knoxx'' DLC from the first game, some enemies have skag mounts. In this case, they're average-sized bandits riding huge armored skags, rather than the ''Knoxx'' DLC's midget bandits riding average-sized, sometimes-armored skags. Also in this case, they're very specifically meant to stand in for horsemen, since they only show up in the Western movie themed Lynchwood area.
** One early boss is a psycho midget riding a bullymong (a four-armed alien ape thing), and the commentary makes a clear reference to Master Blaster.
** Handsome Jack claims to have a living pony made of diamonds, which he named Butt Stallion in honor of the Vault Hunters.
** Midget bandits will occasionally hop onto a Goliath's shoulders.
* HostileShowTakeover: In one quest for the Torgue DLC campaign, Moxxi has you grab a bunch of ECHO's which has interviews with Mr. Torgue and herself. In the last recording, Tina takes over the show briefly, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWp5lZM9edA with very hilarious results]] (starts at 1:37 in the video).
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Atlas. After losing hundreds of men and tech and millions of dollars trying and failing to kill the original Vault Hunters in the original game's endgame and ''Secret Armory'', they've gone from the dictators of Pandora in all but name to a virtually nonexistent figurehead company. Their former role has been taken over by Hyperion, with a new and even more outrageously evil (and/or petty) CEO.
* HulkSpeak:
** Goliaths aren't big on grammar, syntax, or intelligence in general. It's pretty funny to hear them try to describe the things around them -- if Zer0 leaves Decepti0n near them, they might cry "Ghost person!" Strangely, when angered their speech is much more grammatically correct.
** Averted by the one friendly Goliath in the game, a questgiver named Ulysses. He uses complete, coherent sentences -- and is smart enough to desperately want to leave Pandora.
* HumansAreBastards: Parodied in the quest where you help a robot become a human - his ideas of what it means to be a person are rather... off.
** Although this being Pandora, it's quite understandable how he came to those conclusions.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The reason the crystal monsters found in the Caustic Caverns and the Fridge became violent is because Dahl wanted the valuable crystals they are comprised of. The foreman even killed the security chief, who was trying to defend them.
-->'''Sir Hammerlock:''' [[LampshadeHanging Have you heard my speech about how humans are the real monsters]]? Seems appropriate.
* HumongousMecha:
** Super-Badass Loaders stand several times taller than a person, and have enormous cannon arms. Then there is Saturn, which is the size of a building, and one of the toughest bosses in the game, [[spoiler: since its weak spot is impossible to hit if you play solo using Maya or Salvador.]]
** Badassasaurus is a gigantic, bulletproof mechanical dinosaur. It's bristling with armaments, featuring gatling rocket launchers as its "arms", a "hornet's nest" style rocket barrage on its back, and ''nuclear'' missiles in its knees.
* HundredPercentCompletion: '''Oh God!''' There are zillions of Challenges in the game and one of the X-Box/Playstation Achievements/Trophies requires you to get at least the first level in all of them (at least, the ones not located in a specific area). The trickier, area-specific ones usually have only one level but that means you need to do everything you can to find them all, usually in the form of boss challenges or finding all hidden audio logs or Vault Symbols.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: In the credits, Brick is seen with Tiny Tina (riding piggyback on his shoulders) killing bandits.
* HybridMonster: The "Monster Mash" questline ends with you hunting down skag/rakk hybrids, or "skrakk", and later a spiderant/psycho hybrid ("Spycho"), created by Dr. Zed for God knows what reason. You also helped him make the monsters in the first place by bringing him body parts.
-->'''Zed:''' If you think about it...[[NeverMyFault this is really all your fault.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: Vladof promotes its weapons as a tool of revolution against the MegaCorp evil - despite being clearly just as corporate and ruthless.
** Made more evident in this DummiedOut [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91CUC7F37IU&feature=plcp Vladof-Brand Vending Machine]] quote: "[[EatTheRich TO HELL WITH CAPITALISM]], [[NoExceptYes EXCEPT IN THIS CASE!!!]]"
* IDieFree: [[spoiler:Angel, whose life has consisted of being used to charge the Vault Key because she's a Siren. The player(s) destroy the machinery keeping her alive both [[MercyKill at her request]] and to stop Jack.]]
* ImAHumanitarian:
** As in the previous game, Psychos make no bones about the fact that they want to eat you. Rats appear to be cannibals as a rule -- when starting combat they might shout "Allez cuisine!" They also rant about licking their chops and how delicious you look.
** When the Rats are killed by a fire weapon, their death cry is sometimes "I smell delicious!"
** Frequently when dying, Rats exhort their brother Rats to eat their remains.
* ImmuneToBullets:
** Badassasaurus, the penultimate boss of ''Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage'', is effectively bulletproof; regular bullets just bounce right off and might even hit you. The only weapons that can damage it are explosive weapons. Luckily, there's a Torgue vending machine just outside the arena you fight it in, and if you've been saving up your Torgue Tokens you should have a pretty cool variety to chose from.
** Crystalisks are bulletproof -- except for the crystals on their legs. As with Badassasaurus, explosive weapons are capable of punching through their thick hides, but in this case it's much more efficient to just go for the weak points.
* InASingleBound:
** Rampaging Goliaths are bad news, and this trope is why. They can leap through the air to find you and pound you no matter how high up you climb. In some cases their jump arcs are totally ridiculous.
** Bullymongs are large apelike creatures that can propel themselves through the air on their large arms.
** Hyperion Troops are outfitted with Exoskeleton style PowerArmor permitting them to make large leaps or for some of the troops glide.
* IncrediblyLamePun: "Since arriving on Pandora you have been mauled, shot, stabbed, and frozen... and yet, that pun hurts worst of all." The mission in question is called Arms Dealing. You [[spoiler:get a bunch of actual human arms for Doctor Zed. Get it? Arms dealing?]]
** During the mission "The Ice Man Cometh" (in which the player is sent by Claptrap to rig some bandits' furnaces to make them too cold to fight), Claptrap ''loves'' this trope.
--> '''Claptrap:''' Hey bandits - FREEZE! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
* InexplicablyAwesome: Zer0, who Gearbox has admitted they created to be a parody of a SociopathicHero with a MysteriousPast. There is absolutely no information given on who he is, what is his goal and why is he spouting [[IceCreamKoan philosophical haiku alongside gaming jargon]]. Even Handsome Jack admits that he has no idea what his deal is.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: Most legendary (orange) items are like this in that they tend to be better than any other weapon of its type in the game, but two items in particular stand out: The Bee (an amp shield without the CastFromHitPoints factor, allowing its massive damage boost to apply until you take damage) and the Conference Call (a shotgun that spawns additional bullets when it hits something or travels a certain distance). The Bee drops from an optional late game mini-boss; the Conference Call from the final boss (though both can drop elsewhere, just those two have the highest chance of dropping each item).
* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja
** Probably the entirety of what Zer0's deal is.
** In Captain Scarlett's Pirate Booty, you also have Ninja Pirates who can use a kind of deception.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Handsome Jack is amazingly evil and amazingly self-centered. The most amazing thing is that he's somehow managed to convince himself he's the good guy of the story. Yes, he's the ''hero'', standing up to the "bandit hordes," from the safety of his orbiting spaceship, behind an army of robots, while laughing about how he once gouged a man's eyes out in front of his kids. He probably doesn't even understand the meaning of the word "good," he just heard somewhere that it's a desirable trait which means he must have it because he's ''so'' awesome.
* ItsRainingMen: The giant H-Station in the sky isn't just for show. It can launch supply crates and robots straight at your location, all the way from the MOON.
* JustThinkOfThePotential: It's suggested that, when the Vault Hunters get their hands on the Vault Key, they should just destroy it. Roland suggests the idea of turning the Vault's contents on Handsome Jack and drive Hyperion off Pandora for good.
* KangarooCourt: Salvador was subjected to one in his backstory. The judge refuses to believe that the bandits who attacked Salvador's grandmother were, well, bandits, and insists that they were innocent men whom Salvador murdered.
* KarmicDeath: Some audio logs in the Caustic Caverns reveal this happened to at least one of the heartless Dahl executives. There were strange, elephant-sized creatures made of crystals down there and the security chief lady noted they were peaceful. The executive goes, "Made of crystals, huh? Chop 'em up, I want my money!" The security chief declines, especially since she's befriended the big blue one, but she gets shot by the executive. The final audio log is of the executive panicking as the peaceful creatures are not so peaceful anymore now that they've been attacked, and she gets squashed by the big blue one.
* KickTheDog: As if his attempt to kill you would not be enough to convince the player that Jack's evil, one of your first mission involves finding [=ECHOs=] of Handsome Jack gratuitously and mercilessly executing a major character of the first game.
** In fact, he really makes it a point to constantly rub this trope in your face throughout the game. Which makes his inevitable death at your hands at the end of the game all the more rewarding after putting up with all of his shenanigans.
* KillItWithFire: Fire weapons are generally pretty useful, but especially so against Bullymongs.
* KillThePoor: Handsome Jack's plan for Pandora, in a nutshell: All stinky poor people must die! Naturally, you get to introduce him to the fact that Pandora [[EatTheRich eats the rich]].
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter:
** Largely played straight. A gun with a high damage output will generally trump elemental weapons. Averted however, if you take advantage of ElementalRockPaperScissors, as elemental weapons receive a damage bonus even if their effects don't trigger.
** Also played straight with some e-tech guns, which can be tricky to hit enemies with, especially over long distances.
** Averted by some e-tech weapons- bouncing bullets, piercing bullets, or even both together are possible, and unlike in Borderlands 1 they do not travel any slower than regular projectiles.
* KingMook: Smash-Head is basically the ultimate Goliath, several times normal Goliath size and wielding a huge shield and rocket launcher. The Big Sleep is the "king" version of pirate Anchormen. There's also Saturn, who is essentially a giant Loader, Dukino's Mom, a massive skag, and King Mong, who is just a really huge Bullymong.
* KleptomaniacHero: Just like the first game, you'll probably search every nook and cranny for item containers, and may pick up every gun you find, if nothing else to sell for VendorTrash. You also get badass ranks by picking up colored items too, so don't be surprised if, in a co-op game, you see someone grabbing everything that the other players leave/drop behind.
* KlingonPromotion: Subverted with Hyperion personnel.
--> [=*You kill a Hyperion personnel*=]
--> '''Nearby personnel''': "Woohoo! Looks like ''someone'' is in line for a promotion!"
* KnightOfCerebus: Surprisingly, Handsome Jack. In a game filled with ComedicSociopathy and black humor, Jack sets the tone very early on by [[spoiler: laughing as he describes the noise Helena Pierce's head made when he blew it off]]. Things only get worse later on.
* KnightsAndKnaves: One of Marshal Friedman's missions has you trying to figure out which one of four robbers (Sam, Lindy, O'Cantler, and Lee) took all the money for him-or-herself. Friedman explicitly tells you that only one of them is truthful and the others are all lying. [[spoiler:The culprit is Lee, the only one who didn't try to accuse anyone else; the truth-teller is probably O'Cantler, who accused Sam of ''lying'' but not of stealing the money.]]
* KonamiCode: Enter it at the title screen, and you unlock the "Extra Wubs" option in the menu. [[spoiler:It literally does nothing. Sorry to disappoint]].
* LampshadeHanging: A few missions specifically lampshade elements of the game
** The "No Vacancy" mission, wherein you turn the power at the Happy Pig motel back on. Scooter guides you through the motions, and at one point asks if it's weird that he knows what you're doing over the ECHO communicator.
** The "Uncle Teddy" mission has you collecting T.K. Baha's old ECHO logs for evidence of Hyperion stealing a gun design of his. T.K.'s neice Una notes that he "kept all his ECHO correspondence -- like a lot of people on Pandora, evidently", lampshading the fact that you find these things everywhere and they seem to be recording near-constantly.
* LaResistance: Sanctuary is an entire town opposing Handsome Jack's oppressive dictatorship led by the former Vault Hunters called the Crimson Raiders. When you enter it for the first time, Roland outright tells you they're losing the fight since Hyperion has access to a lot more resources than they do, not to mention all the [[WeHaveReserves robot troops]] at their disposal.
* LargeHam: Goliaths, once they become [[TurnsRed enraged.]]
--> '''GET READY TO FEEL MY FINGERS IN YOUR EYEBALLS'''
--> '''GET ON YOUR GODDAMN KNEES'''
--> '''I'M GONNA GOUGE YOUR EYES OUT'''
-->-- The Goliath
* LastOfHisKind: The Claptrap you meet at the beginning of the game is the last [=CL4P-TP=] robot in existence, as the others were all destroyed on Handsome Jack's orders. He keeps the corpses of the rest in his home.
* LaughablyEvil: Handsome Jack to a tee. He's clearly having a ''blast'' being evil.
-->'''Jack:''' Ohoho man did- did you see her head?! It was all like PBBBPTH! Ahahaha...hoohoo...
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** Courtesy of Sir Hammerlock.
-->'''Hammerlock:''' Oh dear, I'm spouting exposition again, aren't I? Apologies.
** Nomads also spout enough dialogue about "gear" and "loot" to qualify for this.
** Gaige in the item screen:
-->'''Gaige:''' Show me some green arrows!
* LethalJokeItem:
** The Fibber gun. Its stats say some ridiculous things and the [[PainfullySlowProjectile bullets arc quite a bit]], but the damage output is likely to be higher than all of your other guns up to that point. Sure, its regular damage is nice, around 750, but when you do a critical hit with it of about 11,000 around level 24-29, you'll suddenly be wondering why enemies die almost instantly.
*** The other version of it fires bullets quickly, and upon hitting a surface, will split into multiple bullets. So at first glance it seems rather weak, but try shooting the ground near the enemy, and watch as they suddenly get hit by about 8 shots all at once. Suddenly those [[EliteMook super badass nomads]] with the full shield and [[AttackItsWeakPoint no hole to exploit]] fall rather quickly when your shots go under their shield and hits their feet...
** Some of the randomly generated loot is this, especially since all guns are generated with a mix of benefits and drawbacks. Both can get ridiculous pretty rapidly.
* Letters2Numbers: Every "o" in the name of Zer0 and his skills has been replaced with a "0". The names of some of his alternate heads follow suit, this time including E/3, I/1, and A/4 as well.
* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: Two versions above the standard preorder, including an art book, [[{{Defictionalization}} Marcus bobblehead]], some extra in game items, and various other things. The most expensive version comes with a scale replica of the red loot chests from the first game!
* LostForever: The challenge that tasks you to complete optional mission objectives is an example of this. You only get one shot in each playthrough to finish the optional objectives, and that's it. Not even joining a friend's game to do the mission again will count towards the challenge if you've completed the mission already. If you're looking to finish the challenge, better take care.
* LotteryOfDoom: Hyperion runs one ([[ForTheEvulz for no reason]]) in the town of Overlook, throwing "winners" into the "Grinder" which is exactly what it sounds like.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Several enemies employ this in combat, such as BUL Loaders, Nomad Torturers, and Badass Nomads.
* MacGyvering[=/=]HomemadeInventions: The resourceful, but technically-inept Bandit cults also make [[http://files.g4tv.com/ImageDb3/280374_S/borderlands-2-weapon-manufacturers-detailed-exploding-guns-sounds-fun.jpg guns]] [[http://www.cinemablend.com/images/sections/34342/Borderlands_2_Screenshots_34342.jpg equipped with huge mags]][[hottip:*: I mean, that's a belt-fed machinegun if the huge box is anything to judge by. If you're not sure which one, kindly look at the one of the right. The one using a coke bottle as a sight.]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBBngY-O8gI&feature=related that are so ramshackle]][[hottip:*: see about 0:56]] that they make the guns of the Resistance of {{Brink}} look professionally manufactured by comparison.
* MadeOfExplodium: The various barrels you can shoot throughout the game is made from this trope. The vehicle you're riding in can also seem to be this if an enemy destroys it quickly, usually via rockets.
* MadLibsDialogue: Pops up every now and then. Some notable moments include an ad Marcus gives to the Crimson Raiders, encouraging them to buy guns to fight the bandits... and the same ad to the bandits, except with every instance of Crimson Raiders and bandits swapped.
* MagikarpPower: Larval varkids are mostly annoying. But if you don't contain them, and fast, you'll be fighting an armored Badass variant. They're almost as bad as the trope namer, the Magikarp, itself.
* ManipulativeBastard: Handsome Jack, to a tee. In one sidequest he tries to pay you to kill yourself, [[spoiler:and when you finally find Angel, he gives a masterful performance to try and stop you from killing her.]]
* MeaningfulName:
** Hyperion translates as "Watcher from above". Their KillSat is visible with the naked eye from every outdoor location in the game and tracks your progress.
** Zer0; it refers to both his mysterious nature, and the emoticon that flashes on his visor whenever he gets a kill.
** Gaige is rather close to "gauge" (a mechanical measurement device or assessment of a situation); this relates to both her cyborg nature, and the predictive ability required to play her most complex skill tree. She also loves to "gauge" the inventory items and see how they stack up.
** Salvador translates from Spanish as [[SavingTheWorld "Savior"]]
* MediumAwareness: See Meaningful Name directly above. Gaige in the inventory screen. "Show me those green arrows!" (referring to the green arrows that show how an item is superior to what you're comparing it too.)
-->'''Gaige''' I love comparing loot!
* MediumBlending: As with the first game, there is live action footage not only of the Guardian Angel, [[spoiler:but also Lilith]].
* MenuTimeLockout: Bringing up the multi-tiered menu screen effectively freezes the action around your character, allowing you to calmly scrutinize a dizzying array of sprawling weapons stats in order to determine precisely how best to effectively murder the face of whatever cold-blooded homicidal thing happens to be bearing down on you at the time.
** Averted in multiplayer, though; everything happens in real time.
* MercyKill: Played completely straight.[[spoiler: Angel, held prisoner by Jack, her own father, [[IDieFree asks to die]] to both end the torment and stop Jack's plot to use her as a power source--disconnecting her ends her life but also prevents the Vault Key from charging]].
* MetalSlime: The chubby version of enemies, who rarely show up but drop more loot than usual when killed.
* MexicanStandoff: Referred to as a Truxican standoff in this game, there are two instances of this. The first is near the end of the mission "The Good, the Bad, and the Mordecai", where you stand off against two other people in a fight for a treasure chest. The other is in the mission [="BFFs"=], which has a group of four people in this state because they can't figure out who stole their cash.
* TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay: Averted; humanity has colonies in six galaxies.
* MiniMook: Midgets are back, and there's a couple of new types. Some regular enemies may also be micro-sized, such as mini-goliaths, or tiny nomad raiders.
* MoneyMultiplier: The Vault Hunter's Relic increases the chance of finding rare loot.
* MoneySpider:
** Shooting the crystals off of Crystalisks can allow you to pick them up as an equivalent to cash. And since they spawn with a degree of regularity, they can be farmed to pad one's bank account.
** Barf Skags are a lesser degree of this, usually through VendorTrash. Explained in-universe by the fact that Skags eat damn near everything, and vomit up whatever they can't digest.
* MoodWhiplash:
** This game is both a bigger parody than the first, as well as ''much'' darker, leading to tons of this. Tiny Tina's tea party is a funny bit of ComedicSociopathy...until it becomes clear she's torturing the bandit who got her parents killed right in front of her.
** In the Hyperion Wildlife Exploitation Preserve, there are funny announcements about not getting near the animals unless you're in the "human bait" test group and similar, cut with finding ECHO recordings of a scientist being forced to conduct horrific human experiments because [[IHaveYourWife Jack has her wife]].
** During the hilarity that is the Hodunk/Zaford quest chain, Ellie offhandedly mentions the reason Moxxi took her away from the Hodunk clan was because they were planning to [[WifeHusbandry raise her as the clan wife]]. Pretty much everything in the game has at least a little FridgeHorror attached to it.
** After the part where [[spoiler: Handsome Jack kills Roland and takes Lilith hostage]] is a part where you're teleported into some closet with a ton of chests. Upon exiting, you see that it's Marcus' storage area, and he sees you coming out and admonishes you for being in there. Ahahaha... might have been more amusing if it hadn't been for the previous scene.
* MookMaker: Constructors are what Jack sends after you when he gets really serious about killing people. They're big, heavily-armored floating replicators that can digistruct a small army of loaders and turrets, and making mooks isn't their only attack, either. They are also armed with huge cutting lasers, missile volleys, a ground-pound if you try to get too close to them, and the Badass ones launch tactical mini-nukes at you. Their one weakness is shooting their eye, which disrupts how they construct new loaders, but you still have to dump a ton of bullets into them.
* MookMedic: Hyperion uses small flying robots called Surveyors to either repair Loaders or give them shields. Thankfully, you can still kill a Loader getting healed pretty easily unless multiple surveyors are healing it.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: "Dr." Zed, is a subversion, as he constantly reminds you of his lack of a medical license. Doc Mercy is a straight example, a bandit doctor who is far more interested in causing wounds than patching them up.
* MoreDakka: Vladof weapons, to the point where some of their sniper rifles (especially the Droog line) are functionally long-range assault rifles. Assault rifles with [[GatlingGood spinigun]] barrels. And ''especially'' Vladof manufactured spiniguns.
* TheMorlocks: Rats, Bandits who live in especially isolated areas and are even more detached from society than regular bandits. They're first encountered in the sewers of the Bloodshot Stronghold and are most plentiful in the cavernous Fridge. For some reason there are a few of them in Lynchwood, though.
* MyBelovedSmother: There are two distinct Psycho voices, each with its own personality. Both of them are seemingly fearful of their mothers; Psycho 2 has lines that indicate she dominated his life [[SelfMadeOrphan before he killed her]]. The challenge for killing Psychos is even called "Mama's Boys".
* MyGrandmaCanDoBetterThanYou: During the quest to return to Sanctuary and planting a fast travel station in Overlook, Jack sends robots to try and stop you. Most players won't experience this (unless you're soloing on True Vault Hunter Mode with sub-par weapons, or have an extremely bad group), but if the robots repeatedly interrupt/destroy the beacon, Jack will chime in, commenting on how bad you are and wonder how you can defeat him if you can't even protect a little beacon.
** He sends a similar taunt if you take too long to rescue Roland (either due to dying repeatedly, and/or taking too long to destroy the robots). It then takes him to the Hyperion prison in The Dust, where you now have to travel to and fight more enemies to rescue him.
* MostAnnoyingSound: Invoked with Claptrap, especially after you get to Sanctuary and he's just running around the city saying stupid things. The citizens ''hate him.''
-->'''Sir Hammerlock:''' When I hear that robot speak, I can feel my brain cells committing suicide.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWYjLurySU0 The Bane.]] It's a cursed weapon for a reason - even the game [[FunWithSubtitles subtitlles its babbling as [annoying sound]!]]
*** '''YEAHAHAHAHYEAHAHYEAHAHAHYEAHAHAHAYEAHAHAHAHAYEAHAAHAHAHYEAHAAHAHYEAAHAHYAHAHAYEAAHAHAYEAHA'''
** [[http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Morningstar The Morningstar]], the reward for "Hyperion Contract 873", is a special sniper rifle "custom designed, for [[YouBastard a murderer like yourself]]." It mocks you when you do things like kill an enemy or reload, and makes [[http://xkcd.com/873/ this xkcd strip]] a reality.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The launch day trailer suggests a massive battle LordOfTheRings style with the four new heroes teaming up with the old. This does not happen. Furthermore, [[http://ds.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/100xl9/best_frame_of_the_borderlands_2_launch_trailer/ this]] quite amusing scene never occurred.
* NewGamePlus: Just like the old Videogame/{{Borderlands}}, the player may run through the entire game again after finishing the story, facing tougher enemies while getting better loot. This is intended to be a DifficultySpike on the level of NintendoHard, but whether that is true [[YMMV/{{Borderlands2}} is up to you]].
* NiceHat: Sir Hammerlock's hunting hat. Turning in the initial quest to collect bullymong fur to Sir Hammerlock results in him mounting the fur on his hat, making it even ''more'' badass.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Lilith qualifies for one when she [[spoiler:ignores Angel's warning to stay away from Angel's core and gets kidnapped by Jack to charge the vault key.]]
** Your own character ends up doing this during a story quest, [[spoiler: where putting a new power core in Sanctuary ends up disabling the town's shields. To be fair however, none of the protagonists were aware of this, as it was yet another of Jack's many {{XanatosGambit}}s]].
* NoExportForYou: Not the game itself, but several of its marketing tie-ins, including two contests and a pack of limited trading cards, are only available to Europeans, which is sort of odd for an American game.
* NoFlowInCGI: Everyone's hair is pointy and immobile. Mordecai's ponytail or Lilith's bangs could put an eye out, and some alternate heads make it even worse.
** Gaige's skirt and [[ChainedByFashion the padlock on her right wrist]] don't move at all.
* NoHeroDiscount: Largely because of AdamSmithHatesYourGuts, the most you can expect for helping people out on a quest is whatever reward they give you. Marcus and Dr. Zed still expect you to pay full price for their wares, no matter how many quests you've done for them and how many times you've saved them from Hyperion.
* NoIndoorVoice: Salvador yells almost all the time.
* NoNameGiven: The Sheriff of Lynchwood has no name and the deputy even points it out during a broadcast. He doesn't know who she is, just that she showed up one day, deputized him, and scares the shit out of him. This may be a stealth ShoutOut to "The Man With No Name."
* NoodleIncident: Gaige's father apparently aided her escape with the aid of a golf cart and explosives.
** A particularly amusing radio advert for Tediore weapons has a man named John claiming that he lost both of his thumbs in a "horrific foreplay accident".
* NoOSHACompliance: We've lost count of the broken or missing safety rails. There's also the various Eridium mines with exposed moving drill bits that players might accidentally blunder into and be killed by. Never mind the per-usual [[MadeOfExplodium explosive barrels]] that just happen to be...oh, ''everywhere.''
** One sidequest has you fight a miniboss that you reach by walking up a conveyor belt. Sounds easy? Well, it is, even while dodging the giant pistons, but that's still a really odd way to get up to what seems to be the guy's living space.
* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Unlike the first game, there's no fall damage at all. This allows you to take shortcuts out of dungeons, or to do something so badass that the Slab King is amazed at you.
** ... Except when you try to jump off the mesa that Magnys Lighthouse is built upon. Jumping off the lighthouse to it's base is fine, but jumping off the base to the town down below will kill you.
* NoticeThis: Anything that can be opened or looted has glowing green lights on it somewhere. In the event it's not a chest, locker, lockbox, crate, junk pile, washing machine or cardboard box, it will ''still'' have something green and glowing about it. Piles of animal refuse also have a greenish glow or green mist about them (Pandoran life forms eat anything they can get their mouth on, and just throw up the undigestible guns and bullets for you to loot).
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