History Borderlands2 / TropesDToN

* DiscOneNuke: Almost every boss enemy has a heightened chance to drop one particular Legendary (orange-rarity) weapon, including those fought at the very beginning of the game. Although it's certainly a LuckBasedMission to get one, the right spawn can give you a ''very'' powerful weapon quite early on[[note]]Keep in mind, of course, that since these weapons spawn at low levels, they will eventually be outclassed by even white-level common weapons; it just takes a fair bit longer[[/note]]. Two examples particularly stand out:

** Once you get to Three Horns Divide-- the area right after beating [[WakeUpCallBoss Captain Flynt]]-- you can find the unique Psycho Savage Lee, who has a chance to drop the legendary pistol [[Film/DirtyHarry Unkempt Harold]]. It's a Torgue pistol (meaning explosive damage) that shoots three horizontal projectiles, which each split into up to seven projectiles. And if any projectile hits, it will deal damage as though all of them hit. On larger enemies this will put out about a thousand damage per shot if all seven hit. This pistol can carry you from when you arrive at Three Horns all the way through the Wildlife Exploitation Facility, and perhaps even up to and including the BNK-3R.
** A notable subversion also exists with the Hornet pistol. Compared to other pistols of the same level, the Hornet really does live up to its Legendary rarity, but it has a boosted chance to drop from Knuckle Dragger, the tutorial boss. This means it will always spawn as a Level 1 variant and will become outclassed very, very quickly. Furthermore, its always-corrosive nature hinders it at a point in the game when every enemy that isn't Boom or Bewm has health instead of armor.

* {{Gainaxing}}: Moxxi does it in her intro during the Campaign of Carnage DLC. Ellie does it as well when she's talking to the player.

* DeathIsCheap:
** Just like in the first game, you respawn at a nearby New-U 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 Badass enemies like Mad Mike can reset to max life and shields the moment they get a lucky shot off at you.)
** Subverted when [[spoiler:Roland, Angel, Jack, Hector]], and any other named characters die ''permanently'' for story reasons. Unless they're mid-bosses.

* IncreasinglyLethalEnemy: There are a few enemies which can grow into more powerful forms if they're left unchecked:
** Varkids turn into cocoons, which spit out progressively more and more powerful forms. Unlucky (or lucky, if they're farming it) players might end up fighting Vermivorous the Invincible.

* FourPointScale: InUniverse; 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.

** It's hard to go UpToEleven much more than this game's cover featuring a psycho that's looking doubly suicidal. %%Before adding other examples, check to see if it is already under, or would fit better under SuicideAsComedy.

* HairTriggerSoundEffect: Many of the speaking items in the game fall under this trope, making the guns that talk when fired something of a literal example. But bonus points go to the weapon The Bane, which amps this trope UpToEleven, playing the psycho midget squeal at top volume when fired. Fully automatic fire = CONSTANT EXCRUCIATING NOISE! It's referred to in game as a cursed weapon for a reason...

** Turning it UpToEleven, if the player has The Bee equipped while in a vehicle, any bullets they fire from that vehicle will include amp damage. However -- unlike how it works in normal operation -- taking damage does not cancel the effect, giving you limitless amp damage as long as you're in the vehicle. This only works for bullet damage, so the vehicle that takes the best advantage of this is the Machine Gun variation of the Runner.

*** Turned UpToEleven with the Practical variant. Shooting enemies directly with it does virtually no damage, but if the bullets bounce off a wall/floor first, it can kill some ''raid bosses'' in under a minute.

** Torgue shotguns substitute clouds of gyrojets for pellets, which is taken UpToEleven when you find a Torgue shotgun with the rare (but appropriately Torgue-manufactured) Quad barrel.

* 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.

* DenserAndWackier: Multitple:
** Compared to the IndecisiveParody in the first installment and the arguable shift in its DLC's with their BreakingTheFourthWall and [[CardCarryingVillain card carrying villainy]], this game is definitely crazier and funnier.
** InUniverse, the psychos became even more bonkers after Jack took over. When at first their babbles had a constant predatory air to them, now they also spout out things like "Bring me a bucket, and I'll show you a bucket!" or "You can't kill me! I'm already dead tomorrow!", among other hilariously nonsensical and fourth-wall-breaking quotes.

** Constructors have the ability to fire what basically amounts to a nuke. This will send you into Fight for your Life mode (or reduce you to a sliver of health if you were above half, to prevent a OneHitKill), and has a gigantic radius. Thus, the best way to avoid this attack is to shoot the nuke in mid-air.

* DeusExMachina: A deliberately InvokedTrope in the ''Tiny Tina's Assault on Dungeon Keep'' DLC. [[spoiler:As the campaign advances, everyone learns that Tina drew up the whole story as a coping mechanism for Roland's death. She didn't want to believe it had happened, and the ultimate fight against the Handsome Sorcerer finds her writing herself into a corner. She can't think of any way to properly end the campaign, since she doesn't want it to end. Lilith and the others remind her that it's ok to make up a happy ending just for the sake of it. Mordecai and the others loved seeing the "miracle" that she thought up, that is, Bloodwing coming up from nowhere to save the day]].

* 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.

** Barf Skags are a lesser degree of this, usually through VendorTrash. Explained InUniverse by the fact that Skags eat damn near everything, and vomit up whatever they can't digest.

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Near the end of the mission mentioned below under EyeScream.

* HopelessBossFight: Happens at the beginning of ''Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep''. With Tina as DM for a game called ''[[MagicAmpersand Bunkers & Badasses]]'', she sends down a dragon just as the Vault Hunters approach Flamerock Refuge. Weapons are ineffective and its attack results in a OneHitKO.[[note]]It's technically possible to survive the attack if Axton's '''Grit''' skill kicks in. However, it has no effect on what follows.[[/note]] When called out for this severe imbalance, Tina revives everyone and substitutes the dragon for a different boss.

* 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. Some of the stuff he says is still pretty surreal, given that Pandora is a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with brain damaged psychpaths...

** 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 cartridges left in the magazine 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.
*** This is less of an issue with the legendary Deliverance shotgun, unique among Tediore guns in that it homes in on enemies. Whether or not it has ammunition left in the magazine when you throw it, it'll shoot at its target without using that ammo while en route to its target.
** With Gaige the Mechromancer, you have the "Anarchy" mechanic - Every magazine you empty or enemy you kill trades accuracy for damage, stacking up to 150 times![[note]] 400 times with 5 points in the skill "Preshrunk Cyberpunk"[[/note]] With 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 partially empty magazine 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]]

** The Clan War sidequest chain is considered one of the darkest subplots in the entire series. Despite the innate absurdity and hilarity of the trademark ''Borderlands'' writing, the questline not only reveals some incredibly, graphically messed up aspects of Moxxi, Scooter and Ellie's backstories, but also involves [[spoiler:burning people alive in their own homes and ''slaughtering tens of people at a wake for a guy'' '''you yourself helped get killed to begin with'''.]]
** ''Commander Lilith and the Fight for Sanctuary'' is this compared to the other full DLC packs, as the stakes are much higher and it serves as a bridge between this game and [[VideoGame/Borderlands3 the sequel after it]]. [[DownerBeginning It starts with]] [[spoiler:Sanctuary being taken over by a fanatical army and gets worse from there on...]]

** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Captain Flynt. There are three containers in the lower deck of his ship that appear to be set up for exactly this. One has copies of the local porn mags (and used tissues), one has posters of [[MsFanservice Moxxi]] (and used tissues), and the last has a dismembered teddy bear (and [[RuleOfThree used tissues]]).

** Maya also qualifies. Her '''Restoration''' skill turns her weapons into {{Healing Shiv}}s, and her '''Res''' skill turns her Phaselock into an instant resurrection spell -- but only for allies. She also has several LifeDrain skills. While the '''Nurse''' class mod boasts a passive healing effect as its main feature, it can also boost one or two of her LifeDrain skills.

** The Spores from both ''Hammerlock'' [=DLCs=]. They hover in the air, dropping kamikaze versions of themselves onto you.
** The introduction card for the fight against [[spoiler:Piston's airship]] in Mister Torgue's Campaign of Carnage actually says this. It's accurate too - the thing circles your position raining missiles and bouncing bombs upon you.

** One mission involves the player(s) holding off waves of bandits from destroying an electric generator while Tiny Tina hosts a [[ElectricTorture "tea party"]] for [[ItsPersonal Flesh-Stick]].
** The "Bright Lights, Flying City" mission in ends with the player(s) having to defend a beacon in order to establish a fast-travel link to Sanctuary. You're doing this while Handsome Jack does everything he can to stop you, throwing endless Hyperion robots your way. It's one of the hardest missions in the game whether you're playing solo or in a group; the enemies are as relentless as they are numerous.
** One mission has you defending a Hyperion supply drop that landed in Slab bandit territory, with the help of some Slabs. In this case, there's a set number of enemies that Hyperion throws at you, but unlike in the above example (where you can repair the beacon if it's damaged and continue the mission), this mission is over if the supply drop takes just a few hits, and the last, most powerful enemies spawn just a few steps away from being able to hit it.
* 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.

* HubUnderAttack: Sanctuary, the players' stronghold and shopping centre, comes under heavy mortar fire after [[spoiler: Angel phaseshifts through the fake fusion core and deactivates the shield]], forcing the Crimson Raiders to relocate [[spoiler: the entire city]]. Later on in ''Commander Lilith & the Fight for Sanctuary'', Sanctuary is taken over by [[spoiler: the New Pandora Army]], and the player spends the entire [=DLC=] trying to take it back.
* 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 becomes much more grammatically correct.

* HyperspaceArsenal: It's back, and it functions similarly to the first game. Also, while [[HammerSpace Storage Decks]] (the metal device with a glowing blue 'beam' across its surface device used to show how many weapons you can equip at one time) is visible once again, not all playable characters show those on their character models.[[note]]Gaige, Maya, and [=Zer0=] aren't seen to have one, while Axton (on the right side of his thigh, though it's not glowing), Krieg (right side on his belt), and Salvador (he has two: one on left and one on right just below his armpits) have Storage Decks on their character models.[[/note]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: The Sheriff. "Pistols at high noon. Come alone." Of course, even though she considers YOU a WorthyOpponent and is a borderline FriendlyEnemy, she doesn't tell you that ''she'll'' be surrounded by mooks armed with assault rifles, her right-hand man with a shotgun, and hiding behind cover on the roof of her office with her incendiary Maliwan pistol drawn...[[note]]''And'' there's a bonus for not shooting the deputy.[[/note]]
** That said, you can always bring friends of your own and blow her head off with a Rocket Launcher or pick her off with a sniper rifle. Or, you can simply retreat until Nisha and her small army are forced to follow you, allowing you to pick them off one by one or chuck grenades at them. Or, if you're Axton, plonk your turret in a convenient spot.[[note]]Keep in mind that you'll lose the "Kill her with a pistol" bonus if you don't kill her with a pistol. But these are all options.[[/note]]

** Vladof promotes its weapons as a tool of revolution against the MegaCorp evil - despite being clearly just as corporate and ruthless, and having shiny, high-quality finishes, even though they're supposed to be made by angry factory workers. Made more evident in this DummiedOut [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91CUC7F37IU Vladof-Brand Vending Machine]] quote: "[[EatTheRich TO HELL WITH CAPITALISM]], [[ByNoIMeanYes EXCEPT IN THIS CASE!!!]]"

* GuideDangIt: Figuring out the correct murderer in "Won't Get Fooled Again," since two of the three witnesses you can interview won't provide obviously useful information. [[spoiler:Moxxi mentions shooting one of them and his shield absorbing the bullets, but the brother with the visible shield on his body is innocent]]. In fact, the only reliable information as to which brother is the murderer [[spoiler:comes from the sheriff, who mentions the victim died to a single bullet to the throat. The only gun that usually kills with a single headshot is a sniper rifle, pointing to the brother with the rifle as the killer. Zed does note that he patched up the murderer, and the murderer has full health while the others don't. In addition, if you look closely, the murderer also has a shield bar.]]

* HairTriggerSoundEffect: Many of the speaking items in the game fall under this trope, making the guns that talk when fired something of a literal example. But bonus points go to the weapon The Bane, which amps this trope UpToEleven, playing the psycho midget squeal at top volume when fired. Fully automatic fire = CONSTANT EXCRUCIATING NOISE! It's referred to in game as a cursed weapon for a reason..

** 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).

** 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.
** Having any ranks in Gaige's Smaller, Lighter, Faster skill (which are required to advance in the Anarchy tree) reduces the magazine size of any gun she uses. If that gun has a magazine size of one (rare, such as some Jakobs shotguns and the Infinity pistol), it's reduced to less than one and subsequently rounded down to zero, making the gun completely useless to her.
** 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. Doubly as funny if it was an enraged Midget Goliath, making all his lines high-pitched.

* DevelopmentGag: The "No Vacancy" quest has you restore power to a motel truck stop by repairing its generator. The three components you need are a [[Creator/GearboxSoftware Gearbox]], a Creator/{{Valve}}, and a UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} capacitor. Scooter then makes an in-universe application of this trope, narrating allusions to the development process of the game from the 3 aforementioned parts. Plus, the statement where " the steam pumps used to run on a different power source, until people complained and they changed it." is an allusion to how the PC port of this game now runs on the Steam matchmaking system instead of the more problematic [=GameSpy=] system used in the first game.
** One NPC in Sanctuary says "If you're not a fan of Bambugira's latest single you should be shot to death. Just a fact, man." Bamboo is an automatic software deployment tool, and JIRA is a bug-tracking system.

** Likewise, if you die even before getting to Claptrap's place in the first level (Possible in a NewGamePlus if you let yourself killed using explosions from your transferred weapons), you will get a free New U Station.

** When the player is sent to the Marcus Munitions backdoor, if you don't loot a single chest Marcus will only wonder how the hell you ended up there, instead of berating you for robbing him.
** In [[NewGamePlus True Vault Hunter Mode]], the player is automatically given a third fuel cell for ''Plan B''. Normally, one has to buy product from Crazy Earl as a means of introducing the uses for Eridium boullion, but since his upgrades can potentially cap out or at the very least become ''very'' expensive come a repeated playthrough, the fuel cell comes as a freebie given that Scooter's provided Eridium isn't changed.

* HandCannon: A specialty of Jakobs and Torgue, especially their revolvers. Provided you acquire them at their highest levels, both Maggie (AKA the [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter Masher]]) and Rex ([[SniperPistol effectively a small rifle]]) are capable of 119982/shot[[note]]6 bullets doing 19997 each[[/note]] and 115633/shot respectively. With Salvador dual wielding two Maggies, [[GameBreaker/{{Borderlands2}} you're talking gamebreaker pistols.]]

** Guardian Angel straight up says she's an A.I. about 10 minutes into the game; in the first game her nature was kept deliberately vague until TheStinger after the end credits. [[spoiler:though it later turns out she's actually not an A.I. after all]].
** As it takes place some time after the main game, a major subplot of the Tiny Tina DLC is [[spoiler:Tina dealing with Roland's death]].

** ''Commander Lilith & the Fight for Sanctuary'' has a sidequest where Moxxi tasks the Vault Hunter with [[spoiler:honoring Scooter's last will and testament following his death in ''Tales of the Borderlands'']].

* LegacyBossBattle: Rosco in the ''Captain Scarlett'' [[DownloadableContent DLC]], who is a domesticated Rakk Hive. The Rakk Hive was one of the first bosses announced for the original ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}''.

* NewGamePlus: Just like the old game, 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/{{Borderlands 2}} is up to you]].

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** ''Four'' related to ''Commander Lilith...'':

*** After the "Mt. Scarab Research Center" level, the player enters into [[spoiler:"Paradise Sanctum", basically an infected version of Sanctuary]] where the FinalBoss fight happens. After the fight and the ending cutscene, the player can't return to the area, since [[spoiler:not only it doesn't feature a Fast Travel point, but Sanctuary was also destroyed in order to eradicate Hector and his plan]], so trying to access it from the Research Center level will end with the player [[spoiler:facing a deadend in the form of some vines blocking the entrance. At least there's an exit-only Fast Travel station]].
*** There's no [[GottaCatchEmAll "Cult of the Vault"]] challenges for "Fight for Sanctuary" and [[spoiler:"Paradise Sanctum"]]. This is because there's no way to access these levels after the events that take place in them, so there's no way to backtrack and check places that may be missing in order to complete the challenge.

** Three related to ''Commander Lilith...'':

*** There's no [[GottaCatchEmAll "Cult of the Vault"]] challenges for "Fight for Sanctuary" and [[spoiler:"Paradise Sanctum"]]. This is because there's no way to access these levels after the events that take place in them, so there's no way to backtrack and check places that may be missing.

* 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]].
** In particular, the Clan War sidequest chain is widely regarded as one of the darkest subplots in the entire series. Despite the innate absurdity and hilarity of the trademark ''Borderlands'' writing, the questline not only reveals some incredibly, graphically messed up aspects of Moxxi, Scooter and Eli's backstories, but also involves [[spoiler:burning people alive in their own homes and ''slaughtering tens of people at a wake for a guy'' '''you yourself helped get killed to begin with'''.]]
** ''Commander Lilith and the Fight for Sanctuary'' is this compared to the other full DLC packs, as the stakes are much higher and it serves as a bridge between this game and [[VideoGame/Borderlands3 the sequel after it]].

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Defied. It's apparently such a problem in bandit camps the port-a-potties have a notice against hogging them for this.

** Also Witch Doctors to an extent, as they can heal themselves, their fellow savages, and level them up.
** Maya also qualifies. Her '''Restoration''' skill turns her weapons into [[HealingShiv Healing Shivs]], and her '''Res''' skill turns her Phaselock into an instant resurrection spell -- but only for allies. She also has several LifeDrain skills. While the '''Nurse''' class mod boasts a passive healing effect as its main feature, it can also boost one or two of her LifeDrain skills.

** The Spores from the Hammerlock DLC. They hover in the air, dropping kamikaze versions of themselves onto you.

** Subverted when [[spoiler:Roland]], [[spoiler:Angel]], and any other named characters die ''permanently''.

** 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.]]

* DeepImmersionGaming: Invoked in Tiny Tina's DLC. While you're using your regular characters, in-game its presented as Brick, Mordecai, and Lilith playing the [[MagicAmpersand Bunkers & Badasses]] game hosted by Tiny Tina. They will comment regularly throughout some of the story missions, as well as some sidequests.

** Some of the remnants of the Crimson Lance are now led by Roland as members of the resistance against 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 the Crimson Raiders who decided to become bandits instead of working with the vault hunters.

* DodgeTheBullet: A few humanoid enemies[[note]](Marauders, Psychos, Rats, Engineers)[[/note]] will sometimes be smart enough to perform side rolls or side steps if they are aware of you shooting at them from a long distance. This makes it difficult when you are aiming at their faces under a sniper scope, or when a Torgue projectile is too slow during a gunfight. Averted with larger humanoid enemies, creatures, and robots as they never attempt to get out of a projectile's path.

** 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.]]

* FallingDamage: Averted as you don't take damage no matter how high you fall within the map area. This gets played in "The Vaughnguard" quest of ''Commander Lilith and the Fight for Sanctuary'', where you get to demonstrate to Vaughn's new recruits that you won't die from jumping on a tower. But this trope takes effect when the new recruits jump, and get [[LudicrousGibs squashed]] when they hit the ground. Similarly, there is an achievement for jumping off the top of Slab Tower.

** 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.

** 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.

** Averted by some E-tech weapons; bouncing bullets, piercing bullets, or even both together are possible, and unlike in the first ''Borderlands'', they do not travel any slower than regular projectiles.

** Averted in multiplayer, though; everything happens in real time.

* TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay: Averted; humanity has colonies in six galaxies.

** Two related to ''Commander Lilith...'':

* DevelopersForesight: Multiple:

** [[spoiler:Even if Handsome Jack is dead, when you do the Double Rainbow Easter Egg he still [=ECHOs=] you because his voice is required for the achievement to pop.]]
** Oh so very, ''very'' much with [[spoiler:Roland's death. From being able to tank high caliber bullets, rockets, lightning, fire and globs of superacid in ''Borderlands 1'', to dying from a single shot from a pistol into the back in this game]].

** The slag mechanic is exclusive to ''Borderlands 2''. This is because Slag is a by-product of Eridium processing, which is an activity that only takes place in this game as Handsome Jack is pouring all of Hyperion's resources into tapping the newly formed Eridium; refining all that Eridium produces a lot of Slag, enough to pollute the entire planet with it, and you can use it because in this game it's ''everyhwere''. It doesn't show up in ''Borderlands 1'' because Eridium only started forming once the first Vault was opened, it only shows up in a few select occasions in ''The Pre-Sequel'' because Eridium had been only recently discovered ([[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard a few bosses use Slag, but you can't]]), and it doesn't show up in ''Borderlands 3'' because the major factions are too busy fighting each other to refine Eridium.

* GenderBlenderName: Taggart named an especially big and nasty Stalker after his mother, ''Henry''.
** Taggart could have used the male/shortened form of Henrietta in this case.
** Also, Butt ''Stallion'', even though the horse in question is female.

** Claptrap likes to say "Let's go!" in several languages, such as French ("[[DoctorWho Allons-y!]]"), Spanish ("¡Vámonos!") or Italian ("Andiamo!").