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An index of character lists for the ''{{VideoGame/Borderlands}}'' video game series and its spin-offs.

* ''Characters/Borderlands1'' (first game)

* [[Characters/BorderlandsVaultHunters Vault Hunters]] ([[PlayerCharacter main protagonists]])

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** [[Characters/Borderlands2DLCCharacters DLC Characters]]

** [[Characters/BorderlandsThePreSequelVaultHunters Vault Hunters]]
* ''Characters/TalesFromTheBorderlands''

** [[Characters/Borderlands3VaultHunters Vault Hunters]]
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* ''Characters/TalesFromTheBorderlands''

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* ''Characters/TalesFromTheBorderlands''

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** [[Characters/FirstBorderlandsVaultHunters Borderlands 1 Vault Hunters]]
** [[Characters/SecondBorderlandsVaultHunters Borderlands 2 Vault Hunters]]
** [[Characters/ThirdBorderlandsVaultHunters Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Vault Hunters]]
** [[Characters/FourthBorderlandsVaultHunters Borderlands 3 Vault Hunters]]

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!!Supporting [=NPC=]s
[[folder:Dr. Zed]]
!Dr. Zed Blanco
!!''Do No Harm''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/DrZed_1385.png]]
->Voiced by Ric Spiegel

A "doctor" who lived in Fyrestone in the first game, Zed is a helpful healer who supplies most of the planet with medicine through his vending machines, despite the fact that his license to practice was revoked.
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* AnAxeToGrind: He uses a psycho axe for surgery a few times.
* AutoDoc: He runs a series of vending machines called ''Dr. Zeds Portable Clinic'', which are thrown all around the planet to provide healing syringes, shields and class mods to any customers.
* BackAlleyDoctor: Zed lost his license long ago. It's not clear if he lost it due to insanity (especially considering Doc Mercy the lunatic laser-wielding bandit still has a license) or some other reason, but he still has an honest, if screwed-up, desire to heal people. However, by the time of the ''Commander Lilith'' DLC he's considering going back to med school to get his license reinstated.
* MadScientist: Shows hints of this in the second game. He actually creates skag/rakk hybrids ([[BreadEggsBreadedEggs "skrakk"]]) and a psycho/spiderant hybrid ([[BreadEggsBreadedEggs "Spycho"]]) at one point, for no reason he's willing to divulge.
* MeatGrinderSurgery: He even has a quest where you assist him with this in the second game. You make the first incision with your melee attack, which kills the patient instantly. Of course, the "patient" in question was a Hyperion agent threatening everyone nearby with death and evidently had to be restrained, so he's not that upset.
--> '''Zed:''' close enough.[[note]]His tone of voice is so nonchalant and unsurprised, it's like he was expecting this to happen.[[/note]]
* NeverMyFault: Denies all responsibility for his experiments getting out of control on the technicality that you're the one who went through with helping him in the first place.
-->'''Zed:''' You know, when you really think about it, this all ''your'' fault.
* NiceGuy[=/=] OnlySaneMan: To an extent -- slightly less so in the sequel, if his shades of MadScientist are anything to go by. He's still more or less the most morally upstanding member of the supporting cast, not counting Roland or Helena Pierce [[spoiler: who's no longer alive by the time the sequel takes place]].
* OnSecondThought: Played for laughs in an echo recording found in his old Fyrestone clinic in ''2''.
--> '''Zed:''' Heya Roland. I appreciate your offer to move into Sanctuary, but I've got a lot of stuff here in Fyrestone. Sanctuary sounds nice and all, but... Fyrestone's my home. I made my decision, if I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die in the city I was born: ''Fyresto-''
--> '''[[KillerRobot Hyperion Loader]] who audibly barrages in:''' ''Attention citizens of Fyrestone: Die.''
--> '''Zed:''' [[OhCrap Aw, piss.]] '''[Sounds of gunfire]''' ''On second thought Roland, when's the soonest you can pick me up?''
* RunningGag: His lack of a medical license becomes one in the second game.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: He overhandedly denies having any involvement when you return with a bunch of skag and rakk organs for his experiments.
-->'''Zed:''' (acting disgusted) EWWWW! What are you handing me all these organs for? Here, please take this pile of money as a sign of my disgust!

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[[folder:Moxxi]]
!Mad Moxxi
!!''Looks CAN kill''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/moxxi_borderlands_2_by_bl4upunkt-d5m9tk3_5356.jpg]]
->Voiced by Creator/BrinaPalencia

The buxom and drop-dead gorgeous mother of Scooter and Ellie, who was introduced during the first game via her eponymous DLC. By the second game, her Colosseum has been destroyed, so she tends her bar in Sanctuary.
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* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Seriously, would you be able to tell she has at least three grown-up children by looking at her?!
* AccentRelapse[=/=]OohMeAccentsSlipping: In ''2'', if you place money in her Tip Jar, she'll occasionally start talking about her old clan. Partway through, she starts slipping into the same redneck accent her children use, before berating herself for it.
** The Pre-Sequel shows that she drops her accent when she's alone tinkering and is very sensitive about being caught off-character, threatening the Vault Hunters with getting Scooter to bury them in a shallow grave.
** By ''3'' she's seemingly made some peace with it as she's started leaning into a classy SouthernBelle persona. Still not a full on [[DeepSouth Hodunk accent]], but it's progress for someone who once threatened to kill people who heard her actual voice.
* AceCustom: Moxxi evidently has an arsenal of custom weapons she's made that are handed out as rewards, repainted rose-red/bright pink, are typically augmented with generous LifeDrain, and prominently displaying the name Mad Moxxi across them. These weapons include the [[MoreDakka Hail]], the [[DoubleEntendre Creamer]], the [[BilingualBonus Chère-amie]], the Rubi, and many more.
* AliceAllusion: Her outfit (specifically her hat) and personality remind one of the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts.
* AnythingThatMoves:
** Flirts with the player character regardless of gender (or possibly ''species'', in [=Zer0=]'s case).
** Which makes it funnier when the one thing she rejects is Claptrap, which she made very clear that whatever love she has for him, it's platonic.
* BerserkButton: ''No-one'' threatens her in her own bar.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler: Jack]] found this out the hard way in the Pre-Sequel.
* BiTheWay: Flirts with the player regardless of gender, and beside her three former husbands, she has mentioned that she had several female lovers.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: While her actions on Pandora are already questionable at best while tainted white in Borderlands 2, yet [[MaleGaze nobody seemed to care anyway]], it gets darker when she [[spoiler:tries to kill Jack and his hired Vault Hunters by blowing the Eye of Helios while the space station in question is filled with innocent civilians and repenting Dahl soldiers all out of fear that Jack may become a threat to them.]]
* CosplayOtakuGirl: Meta example: Moxxi is one of the most popular characters to cosplay as, to the point that she was one of the Pre-Sequel characters aside from the main characters that had a cosplay guide released.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: Invoked. After saying "No one eats my girlfriends but me" in reference to an ex-girlfriend cannibal who literally ate one of her female lovers, this causes her to quickly apologize and throw up in her mouth. Doubles as NotSoStoic after she reveals her puns are a defense mechanism.
* DoubleEntendre:
** She definitely likes to use them on occasion.
---> '''Moxxi:''' You should be able to see the prison now. It used to be an island in the ancient sea. Now it's Mr. Shank's own personal male stabbing machine -- ThatsWhatSheSaid!
** Her tip jar has a sign above it that reads "Insert your tip", and she reprogrammed a Hyperion loader to speak in little ''but'' sexual innuendos. And named it [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Innuendobot 5000]].
** In the sequel, she gets so angry at Mordecai that she can't think of any sexual innuendos.
** In the ''Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage'' DLC, she claims the innuendo thing is a coping mechanism for the horrors of Pandora. And considering what a CrapsackWorld the planet is, well...
** In ''VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands'' she basically drops a pile of innuendo at [=Zer0=], who [[NotDistractedByTheSexy doesn't give a damn about it]].
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Almost every woman in Sanctuary will ask you if Moxxi said anything about them. And if you bought the DLC content, ''even [[PirateGirl Captain Scarlett]]''. Fan fiction, ho!
* FanserviceWithASmile: As if her default outfit wasn't revealing enough, Moxxi wears a typical medieval bar wench outfit + tight corset in Tiny Tina's ''[[MagicAmpersand Bunkers & Badasses]]'' campaign. Being in a fantasy setting, she reflects upon this awareness and comments that she's surprised that Tina didn't make her outfit even more revealing than it is. Totally not what she was expecting.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Formerly a member of the Hodunk clan along with Scooter and Ellie before eventually leaving them. Despite being contemptuous of them in the main game, she attempts to settle their feud with the Zafords peacefully through marriage of two of their Goliaths in the ''Wedding Day Massacre'' DLC, with understandably disastrous results.
* GagBoobs: Sports the biggest pair out of all the female characters in the entire series barring her daughter [[BigBeautifulWoman Ellie.]] Handsome Jack even refers to her as "Ol' Balloon Tits", and they're enough to cause the normally [[TheBaroness ice cold]] Aurelia Hammerlock to burst into laughter.
* {{Gainaxing}}: Especially evident in her intro cutscenes for ''Secret Armory'' and ''Campaign of Carnage''.
* GemEncrusted: According to Episode 4 of Claptrap's web series, Moxxi drinks "diamond flavored water". Don't ask us how that works.
* GenkiGirl: Whatever else you say about her, she is ''extremely'' enthusiastic about what she does in the Underdome.
* GladiatorSubquest: She runs the various arena tournaments of Pandora. In the second game, she's the one behind the Circles of Slaughter and hopes to take Torgue's tournament as her own.
* GoldDigger: She spared her last ex, because he was good with money (and his hands). She later dated Handsome Jack, until he got too overprotective and she broke up with him. He then proceeded to destroy the Underdome.
* GoodGuyBar:
** Owns one in every game in the series. In ''Borderlands 2'', she was forced to move to Sanctuary, but business is not booming and she literally has a tip jar.
** She opens another one in the Badass Crater of Badassitude.
** She runs "Moxxi's Tavern" in Tina's campaign. Being aware that she's being used as an NPC in her game, she comments that she's surprised that the uniform Tina put her in is ''not'' even more revealing than she expected.
** She also runs a bar on Elpis. She mostly stays away from it because Janey Springs uses it as an excuse to "accidentally" run into her. [[spoiler: Appropriately, she leaves it after Jack and the Vault Hunters may no longer be considered "good" anymore. Although pragmatically it's because she just screwed jack and almost killed the vault hunters, so it's not entirely safe anymore.]]
* HiddenDepths: She's got a few. She admits in ''2'' that her constant innuendos are a defense mechanism, while in the Pre-Sequel it turns out that she's actually a mechanic nearly as good as her children (and with an equally thick accent), but she finds this embarrassing. Near the end of the game, she [[spoiler:helps Lilith and Roland try to kill Jack]], which would have instantly smoothed over her problems with Mordecai if she had ever told him.
-->'''Lilith:''' Moxxi's got layers, like an onion made of boobs.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: One of the reasons she dumped Mordecai for [[spoiler:Jack]]. Her relationships with Mr. Shank and Motor Momma could also qualify. Though it turns out that [[spoiler: she dumped Jack because she could tell he was a psychopath underneath his nice-guy exterior, and was proven right when he burned down her Underdome in retaliation, among other atrocities.]]
* HotterAndSexier: Moxxi's outfit in ''3'' ditches her sleeves and has much more prominent AbsoluteCleavage.
* ICallItVera: Has a personal revolver by the name of Rubi. In the second game, she offers it as a reward if the player collects Rakk Ale for her rather than Mordecai.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Tiny Tina, although theirs is of the VitriolicBestBuds variety.
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Invoked upon herself. When she asks you to go clean up some graffiti, she says that ''most'' of it isn't true.
* LifeDrain: Nearly every weapon Moxxi gives you as a reward has life stealing properties, healing you for a percentage of damage dealt.
* MamaBear: See ScrewThisImOuttaHere below.
** When talking about Motor Mama, she gets uncharacteristically pissed off when telling you that she (Motor) eats her own kids.
** In the ''Wedding Day Massacre'' DLC, she is incredibly uncomfortable with the idea of kidnapping a baby to make a love potion and horrified at the idea of actually tossing it into the concoction. Even after the recipe simply calls for making the baby cry, she's still disappointed at both herself and the Vault Hunters, noting that it's not something heroes should be doing.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:In the Pre-Sequel, she tricks Jack and his Vault Hunters into destroying the Destroyer's eye in an attempt to kill them. Had Jack and his goons not decided to activate the sequence remotely, she would have succeeded in the latter]]. Brick and Mordecai are actually impressed at how crafty she is.
* MyBelovedSmother: Towards Ellie. She does not like the fact that Ellie intentionally puts herself in danger by being involved with her old clan and constantly bothers her about being massively overweight.
* MsFanservice: If her appearance, clothing, and... top-heaviness don't emphasize the point enough, her constant innuendo and sensual voice will do the trick.
* NiceHat: Her top hat, a wink to her role as the ringmaster of the various, circus-like bloodsports she hosts.
* TheNicknamer: She tends to address the players as "Sugar".
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's old enough to have two known kids of adult age.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Moxxi hates when anyone sees her out of character, threatening anyone who learns that she enjoys tinkering and slips back into her redneck accent in her off time with a shallow grave provided by Scooter. During the assault on the Hyperion moon base to recover the Eye of Helios from Dahl forces, Moxxi is so focused on giving her technical know-how to the Vault Hunters, that when Lilith finds a chance to slip in a "ThatsWhatSheSaid" to one of Moxxi's unintentional innuendos, she barks back to her to focus on the mission.
* OnlySaneWoman:
** In '''MR. TORGUE'S CAMPAIGN OF CARNAGE!''' anyway. Of course, for much of the DLC she's between Tiny Tina (a CreepyChild obsessed with StuffBlowingUp) and Mr. Torgue (a musclebound PsychopathicManchild ''also'' obsessed with StuffBlowingUp), so she may seem saner in comparison.
** In the Pre-Sequel she is this as well especially in comparison to [[CloudCuckooLander Janey]] and [[LeeroyJenkins Lilith]]. Roland seem to be the only one on the same page as her. [[spoiler: There's a good reason for this though; she's planning to kill Jack.]]
* PeekABangs: She always has one lock of hair covering her right eye.
* ReallyGetsAround:
** "Hot dog down a skag den, y'know what I'm sayin?", and this comment is coming from her own son.
** Apparently she even sleeps with bandits if the graffiti she makes you erase is to be believed.
** So far, we know she's had three husbands (Jimbo, Mr. Shank, and Marcus) and possibly had more between games, has had many lovers which have given her kids (Scooter, Ellie, and two more unnamed ones), had sex with Lucky, and she used to date Mordecai, whom she dumped for [[spoiler:Handsome Jack]], of all people. So, yeah, she really seems to enjoy being on her back a lot. It was also revealed she used to date Motor Momma.
** Might add Mr. Torgue to the list, [[ShipTease considering how they act]] in the ''Campaign of Carnage'' DLC. In the ''Wattle Gobbler'' DLC, Torgue even proclaims that he's willing to work for her "Pro-Boner".
** If every NPC that asks "Has Moxxi said anything about me?" is implying that they had a one-night stand, then you can add the populations of Sanctuary, Overlook, Concordia, and the ''Hyperion Moon Base'', as well as Captain Scarlett and ''Zombie TK Baha'' to the list.
* RetiredBadass: According to her, there was a time when she was a skilled fighter and would be in the front lines alongside other Crimson Raiders.
* {{Revenge}}: She desires it on Jack for the destruction of her Underdome, so she sends the Vault Hunters on a quest to flood Jack's under-construction version.
* SadClown: Aside from her makeup invoking the trope in the most literal sense, Moxxi is revealed to be at least a little traumatized from living on [[DeathWorld Pandora]] and especially from dating [[ImAHumanitarian Motor Mama]]. She admits that her flirty showgirl sense of humor is her way of coping.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When her clan leader ordered Moxxi to kill someone or have her daughter be turned into the clan wife, she responded by killing the asshole and taking both Scooter and Ellie out of the clan.
* SexIsViolence: Moxxi gets ''really'' excited watching the Vault Hunters fight in the Underdome.
-->'''Moxxi:''' More! More! MORE!
* StepfordSmiler: All of her innuendos are defense mechanisms. She admits to this after becoming disgusted with herself for telling the Vault Hunters "No one eats my girlfriends but me!" when talking about [[FatBastard Motor]] [[ImAHumanitarian Momma]].
* TeenPregnancy: Considering the ages of Scooter and Ellie, it's implied that Moxxi give birth to all four children the moment she started menstruating. Or she's [[OlderThanTheyLook older than she looks]].
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Her entire sexy image is crafted so that her enemies will underestimate her because of her appearance. She gave the same advice to Marcus when they were married, only in his case it was to gain weight.
* UnkemptBeauty: She's still hot when she's out of character [[WrenchWench and covered in engine grease]].
-->'''"Jack":''' ''Wow'', you're even prettier without makeup. That's just...so terrible...
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: She keeps her ''submachine guns'' and her booze tucked inside her ample cleavage.
* WeaponOfChoice: Moxxi brandishes a Maliwan pistol called the Rubi, which deals a hefty amount of elemental damage and boasts the highest LifeDrain percentage versus her other weapons (12% vs 2%).[[note]]Actually, the Rubi is the second highest LifeDrain weapon, beaten by the Grog Nozzle (a quest-only pistol required for a single quest in Tiny Tina's DLC) in Borderlands 2, which has a 65% effect.[[/note]]
* WrenchWench: ''The Pre-Sequel!'' shows that in her private time, she's a mechanic like her kids. Unlike her kids, she's very self-conscious about being caught tinkering since she also reverts to her Hodunk accent. Also unlike her kids, she shows more aptitude in electronics than mechanics, and she ''does'' have the technical vocabulary and knowledge to explain it, rather than just an intuitive grasp of machines. She's mechanically adept enough to reprogram a loader to speak only in innuendo (though the robot in question absolutely loathed it) as well as being able to [[spoiler:sabotage Jack's superweapon]].
* ZettaiRyouiki: On her right leg. The other sports a fishnet stocking.

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[[folder:Marcus]]
!Marcus Kincaid V
!!''No Refunds!''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/MarcusBL2_7263.png]]
->Voiced by Bruce [=DuBose=]

The friendly, helpful, extremely amoral arms dealer who narrates the beginning of each game. He likes killing his competition.
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* ArmsDealer: For the entire planet, it seems.
* TheBarnum: In the second game, he convinces a random nerd by the name of Kai that he is TheChosenOne just so he could sell him a gun for $2,000,000.
* BerserkButton: Don't ask Marcus for refunds. And God help you if you steal from him.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: Attempts to emulate Scooter in one quote from his vending machines. He immediately regrets it.
-->'''Marcus''': Catch a guuunn! '''Guh!''' Never doing that again!
* CasanovaWannabe: Has the Vault Hunters collect skag musk glands and rakk hive ambergris for him in ''Claptrap's New Robot Robolution'' so he can make a powerful cologne. It doesn't work.
* ChildHater: Despite children being the ones he tells stories to, Marcus is at best contemptuous of them.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Has no problem hiring the Vault Hunters to eliminate his competition.
** Or with convincing a gullible new arrival that he is The Chosen One, foretold by prophecy, in order to sell him a gun.
*** And then he sends the player to recover the gun so can resell it when [[spoiler:the "Chosen One" ends up getting killed.]]
** "You won't find better merchandise from anyone else! I've made sure of ''that''."
*** "If you shop anywhere else, I'll have you killed!"
** He'll even have you test elemental weapons on live targets, with titles like "Shoplifter" or "Competitor." They're [[AssholeVictim Hyperion]] workers, but still.
** He's not above selling to the Crimson Raiders' enemies, including the Bloodshot bandits (who worship him as "The Gunbringer").
*** Still hasn't learned his lesson as of the ''Commander Lilith'' DLC; when you [[spoiler:return to Sanctuary and see how messed up his store is, he remarks that he will ''stop'' selling the New Pandoran Army weapons as retribution. These guys have already thrown him out of his home and are on the verge of killing everyone on the planet]], but this is where he draws the line.
** In his EstablishingCharacterMoment for the second game, a customer tries to get a refund for a gun he claims is faulty. Marcus callously demonstrates the gun's reliability by shooting the customer in the leg with it.
-->'''Marcus''': Looks like it works to me.
-->'''Customer''': ''(agonized screaming)''
** In the Mercenary Day DLC, Marcus reveals he doesn't like selling guns to the people of Gingerton because they'll just give them away for free. Later on, [[spoiler:he attempts to steal back the guns he sold them so he can keep both his money ''and'' his merchandise.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: Marcus likes to use people who shoplift from him as targets in his shooting range. People who ask him for refunds often find themselves shot in the kneecap with the gun they're trying to return.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Marcus may be greedy and willing to kill his rivals, but Handsome Jack's wanton disregard for life is too much even for him.
* FamousLastWords: After getting [[NotQuiteDead shot in the back twice]]:
-->'''Marcus:''' If it took more than one shot, then you weren't using a Jakobs.
* FatBastard: He's clearly overweight and isn't above shooting at any customer who dares ask for a refund, not to mention his ruthless business practices. Apparently, this was done intentionally when he was engaged to Mad Moxxi, who gave him to advice to put on some weight so people would underestimate him, much like how she uses her sex appeal the same way.
* GodGuise: Probably unintentionally on his part, the Bloodshots started seeing him as a god and named him the 'Gunbringer'. The way they saw things, they provided offerings (money) to Marcus, and he brought power (guns). This quickly got out of hand, to the point that the Bloodshots built a massive statue of Marcus on top of their fortress and began sacrificing people into a pit of fire in the name of Marcus the Gun God. It's unclear if he even knew about his 'worshippers' but if he did, knowing Marcus, he almost certainly found a way to profit off of the misconception.
* GoldTooth: He has one. It's one of the few obvious signs of how ludicrously wealthy he is.
* GrumpyBear: His cheery demeanour is strictly a front for the customers - he's the surliest and most cynical of the main cast, and the least tolerant of everyone else's tomfoolery. As a result, he's usually either the StraightMan or TheComicallySerious when things get silly.
* {{Identical Ancestor}}s: Throughout the games are portraits of what seem to be Marcus' ancestors, all of them named Marcus Kincaid and all of them identical save for either different hats or hair.
* HelloInsertNameHere: In Borderlands 2, you can find two tapes advertising his wares in the Bloodshot stronghold. They are the same tape with different names (very poorly) spliced in. Even better, the first advertises to Roland, who is fighting the Bloodshots... while the second advertises to the Bloodshots, who are fighting Roland's Crimson Raiders.
-->'''ECHO #1:''' Dear - ''Roland'' - I can't help but notice that the - ''Bloodshots'' - you are fighting...
-->'''ECHO #2:''' Dear - ''Bloodshots'' - I can't help but notice that the - ''Crimson Raiders'' - you are fighting...
* {{Hypocrite}}: The description he gives about Jack when you're setting off to finally kill him isn't very far off from his own description.
--> I want him dead because he's a greedy, murdering son of a bitch ''who needs to die screaming!'' '''[Cheerily]''' [[MoodWhiplash Good luck!]]
* InVinoVeritas: Personality Inversion. Getting drunk makes the notoriously cheap and greedy Marcus mail out refunds to his unsatisfied customers. When he sobers up he is ashamed and disgusted with himself for doing so and has you go around and take the refunds out of the mailboxes before it's too late. When the quest is finished he declares he's never drinking again.
* {{Jerkass}}: Customer demanding a refund on a "faulty" weapon? He shoots him in the leg with said weapon and comments that it seems to work just fine.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Very rarely, he breaks down and acts like a decent human being. Notably, in the second game, when [[spoiler:Roland dies]], he is seriously shook up by it, and when you set out to kill Jack in the final storyline quest, he'll give you a free blue-rarity weapon, not because Hyperion is disrupting his arms trade, but because Handsome Jack is a "greedy murdering sonofabitch who needs to die screaming".
* {{Lzherusskie}}: He speaks with a thick Russian accent, though his grammar is otherwise perfect.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Despite primarily being a weapons vendor, he also apparently runs a transportation business (driving the bus himself no less), scavenges corpses for weapons to sell, controls interplanetary commercial weapon shipping to and from Pandora (to the point of being able to blockade all laser weapons from getting to Pandora), and on top of all that finds time to tell stories to children.
* NoodleIncident: According to one of the loading screen tips from Pre-Sequel, he never let laser weapons come to Pandora after an incident involving a straw. Apparently, asking ''anyone'' about it puts your life at risk.
* NotQuiteDead: He appears to get killed at the end of ''Claptrap's New Robot Robolution'', but survives. (See UnreliableNarrator below.)
* PetTheDog: Its revealed in the tie-in comics that he took in Tannis after her entire team had been killed, and had been living alone for years. He did this for no apparent charge and after meeting her only once in passing years prior.
* PornStash: In the second game, he sends the players to retrieve his most valuable treasure lost after [[spoiler:Sanctuary takes flight]], which turns out to be dirty pictures of Moxxi. You're then given the option to either bring them back to Marcus or to Moxxi... who plans to post them online.
* PutOnABus: Apart from his vending machines and a loading screen tip justifying the lack of laser weapons on Pandora, he doesn't appear at all during the Pre-Sequel.
* TheScrooge: ''Notoriously'' cheap. He'd rather test allegedly faulty merchandise on you than give you a refund (although, to be fair, his merchandise ''is'' reliable), and it takes a titanic event to actually make him pull money out of his pocket (usually some kind of business deal that'd make him lose ''more'' money if unresolved). In [[VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}} the second game]], he gives the wrong change to a customer and sends you on a mission to get the excess change back. How much change? ''Nine dollars.'' (And this is for a sale where he conned the guy out of ''two million'' dollars.) He pays you tons of money to get his nine dollars back, but that's business. He also sends you on a mission to reclaim refund checks he wrote while drunk before they're sent.
* SkunkStripe: Visible on his head.
* TheStoryteller: Aside from being an arms dealer (and bus driver), Marcus is the resident storyteller who narrates the stories of the Vault Hunters to kids. According to the ending of Captain Scarlett and her Pirate's Booty, he's training a kid to take up his mantle.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Moxxi advised him to get fat so that his enemies would underestimate him because of his appearance.
* UnreliableNarrator: Marcus narrates the beginning of the main games, the beginning of the Zombie Island, New Robot Revolution, Pirate's Booty DLC, and the Dragon Keep DLC, as well as the credits for Zombie Island, in the form of a story for a young child. However, he often messes up details or contradicts himself.
-->'''Marcus:''' The Vault Hunters had stopped the evil doctor Zed from - \\
'''Child:''' I thought his name was Ned.\\
'''Marcus:''' Yes, yes. Whatever you say. Where was I...
** At one point, he explicitly says he is lying when he is talking about Patricia Tannis rejecting him.
** He also describes himself getting "killed off" in Claptrap's Robot Revolution, despite still being around to tell the story ''and'' showing up in the second game. [[note]]Although it's possible that he was simply revived with a New U machine. He can certainly afford it.[[/note]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tannis]]
!Patricia Tannis
!!''Insane(ly smart)''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tannis_288.png]]
->Voiced by Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard

A socially maladjusted archeologist sent to Pandora by the Dahl corporation to investigate the alien ruins. Then a skag ate one of her coworkers alive while she hid under his corpse, and she went from "antisocial" to "completely cuckoo."
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* ApocalypticLog: Detailing her descent into insanity. She makes a hobby of recording her insane ramblings, spreading said recordings around random places, then hiring individuals to gather them back for her.
* AxCrazy: Her insanity at times manifests as murder.
* BiTheWay: During one of her rambles in the second game, she mentions scientific secrets that could only be dreamed of "in my bed - standing offer!" to the player, regardless of gender. In [=Zer0=]'s case, possibly even regardless of ''species''. She also ate a piece of Lilith's hair [[ForScience under the pretense of scientific discovery]].
** In the "Son of Crawmerax" DLC for ''Borderlands 2'', the person who kills Maya's assassin left her an anonymous letter which mentions their attraction to her. From the way it's written it's pretty obviously from Tannis.
** In one echo recording, she states that she was "involved" with two ceiling chairs, who only she can hear. Reading between the lines, it seems that she was being beaten while hanging upside down, so she made up a romantic story about the chairs that were in the same room.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She was driven mad after being stuck on the planet for way too long. As such, she has developed strange habits such as getting romantically involved with inanimate objects, among other things.
* CompanionCube: In the first game, she had a romantic relationship with an ECHO recorder that apparently ended in a messy breakup. Between the first and second games she had a polyamorous relationship with two "ceiling chairs" who were brothers, one of which was "killed" in front of her eyes by Hyperion.
* {{Flanderization}}: An interesting and likely deliberate case. While her ECHO logs make it clear early on she isn't exactly all there, in the main game she's not so much crazy as she is [[InsufferableGenius insufferable]]. It isn't until ''Robot Revolution'' and the second game that her insanity ''really'' takes the spotlight.
** Especially noteworthy is that she goes from hoping everyone she meets (and tends to end up killing) will be her friend (and indeed being so lonely that she [[spoiler:builds a robot duplicate of herself!]]) in the first game to being so horrified by the idea of contact with other people that she has a {{High Pressure|Blood}} {{Nosebleed}} at someone saying hello and a panic episode from someone calling her "pretty" in the second.
* DissonantSerenity: Even when talking about the death and violence that surrounds her or her own torture, she rarely drops her condescending tone.
* GogglesDoNothing: Wears a pair of goggles on her heads that serve no real purpose. They're available for Maya as a OldSaveBonus.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Well aware of it, but too far gone to care much.
-->'''Tannis Recording:''' Day 172. The fat girl, Chimay, was crushed under an alien ruin that collapsed today. She didn't... die right away and begged me to put her out of her misery as she choked on various fluids and bile. I hesitated because she was the last one alive that wasn't me. As she was choking, and coughing and dying, I tried to enjoy the interaction, I imagined it to be a conversation, as I knew it was the last I would have for a while. When I finally got around to smothering her so that I could continue my research, I could tell that she regretted the decision. The Skags had been waiting for this meal for a while; they will not go hungry tonight.
* HotScientist: She's at least attractive enough to have it noted by a resident of Sanctuary. She didn't take it very well.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: She repeatedly claims this, but ends up murdering or driving away potential friends. This also seems to be exhibited in her tendency to create [[CompanionCube Companion Cubes]] despite otherwise being disdainful of other people. However, she warms up to Roland in particular after she got spittle on him while she was ranting and he was not disgusted. She claims that it was the first time in her life that she felt truly safe. She may have even developed a crush on him as ECHO recordings of the Torture Chairs mission have her mention "Roland, and his well-defined pectoral muscles" entrusting her with the Vault Key.
** Its also shown in the tie-in comics that she thinks very highly of Marcus. She goes so far as to identify him as her hero due to the fact that he took her in after she'd been living alone for year, after only meeting her in passing once years prior.
** Zig-zagged in Hidden Journals as she literally popped a vein when another human being greeted her (with enough pressure to cover both of them in blood). She also apparently barricaded her home to soundproof it from other people's merriment, and dry-heaving into a bucket for 3 hours was considered ''an improvement'' for dealing with compliments.
* InsufferableGenius: As one of the smartest people on Pandora, she is incredibly condescending towards everyone. Lampshaded by Zed in the second game.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She always tells you to drop whatever "irrelevant" task you're doing to help her. At least a little of her behaviour can be written off as a combination of extreme isolation and the trauma that left her isolated (skags ate the rest of her team; she survived by hiding under a corpse). A little more because it's Pandora, planet of self-serving lunatics. The rest is just part of her...charm.
* NoSocialSkills: Upon relocating to Sanctuary, one of her neighbors said hello, causing her to have an explosive nosebleed on the spot from sheer stress. Later, a young man calls her pretty, and she spends three hours dry-heaving into a bucket, which she considers progress. According to the mission text of the quest that has you gather the ECHO entries detailing said events, Tannis has [[UsefulNotes/AspergersSyndrome Asperger's Syndrome]], no doubt exacerbated by [[GoMadFromTheIsolation events in the first game]].
* NotSoDifferent: She was amongst the people abandoned when Dahl left Pandora. While most of the workers came to become the series' raving bandits, Tannis... also went crazy and started killing people. This fact perhaps dawns on her in The Raid on Digistruct Peak.
* PetTheDog: In the Son of Crawmerax DLC, [[spoiler:it's vaguely implied that she was the one who killed Maya's assassin for her, judging by how Maya's personal message matches her speech patterns]].
* PsychopathicManchild: A female, Type C version. She's still as smart as ever but the long term trauma has made her kooky and a little childish.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Why does she want Jack dead? It's not that he tortured her. It's not that he ripped the Vault Key out of her hands after breaking them. [[spoiler:It's because his minions sawed off the legs of a "ceiling chair" that she was falling for.]]
-->''"Revenge is as pointless as music, but on this occasion, I will allow myself the revenge, I will allow myself to aid in his downfall. Mark my words, Jack, you're going to die."''
* RobotMe: The reason she has the original Vault Hunters collect Claptrap parts for her.
* RunningGag: Within each game, there is always a hidden EasterEgg that involves Tannis riding a fish.
** Taken to its logical (or illogical) extreme in Claptastic Voyage where Claptrap's scientific curiosity is represented as a fish with Tannis' head.
* SanitySlippage: PlayedForLaughs in her ApocalypticLog.
* SkewedPriorities: Due to her insanity she often puts whatever she fancies at the moment above whatever it is you're doing, such as collecting audio logs or handling hazardous material while you're on a rescue mission or trying to find a cure respectively. Similarly she also does bizarre things to whatever you collect for her that is completely unrelated to what you thought you got them for, like listening to the Eridium experiments (which includes the horrifying deaths of many people) as entertainment.
* TooKinkyToTorture: In ''Borderlands 2'', her audio logs of her time under Hyperion torture indicate that she was less concerned with the actual torture and more concerned with the two "ceiling chairs" she had fallen in love with, and making sure the torturers' equipment was properly sterilized to prevent unnecessary infection. When you turn the audio logs in to her, she says that she'll whip up a cup of cocoa and listen to them ''as relaxation''.

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[[folder:Scooter]]
!Scooter
!!''Get you one!''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Borderlands_2010-02-25_16-04-17-22_7028.png]]
->Voiced by [[WebVideo/MoviesWithMikey Michael Neumann]]

The friendly owner and operator of Catch-A-Ride, which owns the vehicle digistruct stations across the planet. Scooter is loud, boisterous, and dumb as a bag of hammers -- except when it comes to machines.
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* AgentScully: One of his primary character traits in the first game was doubting the Vault's existence, alongside Marcus' belief in it (and the potential profit) and Helena's pragmatism.
* AbhorrentAdmirer:
** Laney joins a band of cannibals because it's the only place she can avoid Scooter's sexual advances. Daisy takes one listen to a love poem he composes for her and [[spoiler:[[DrivenToSuicide immediately commits suicide.]]]]
-->Everyone's a critic.
** He apparently had a thing for Ellie too. Mind you Ellie is his ''sister'' (one of his few direct relatives too). It's one of the reasons that Ellie lives in The Dust (the other being that she just likes killing bandits).
** He appears to have a thing for Fiona too. She's appropriately horrified. [[spoiler:She didn't have to worry about that for long, with him dying in Episode 4 of ''TalesFromTheBorderlands'', although you do have the option to have Fiona give him a LastKiss so that he dies happy.]]
* BerserkButton:
** Destroying his runners, "breaking his mama's girl parts," and making fun of his sister's appearance.
** When he overheard Hamhock had a one-night stand with his mom, he apparently interpreted it as him raping her and sent a group of mercenaries (one of which is a badass psycho) after him. If Moxxi is to be believed, this is apparently a regular occurrence; he is extremely overprotective of his mom and sister.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: On the surface he looks like a harmless, awkward geek but throughout the games you find evidence that he's just as dangerous as any of the other bandits out there, if not moreso. You never see any of it on screen, but he's not afraid to get his hands dirty. He apparently buried Lucky alive after the first game and you can find one of his victims tied burnt to a vending machine in the dust.
* BookDumb: Has no actual idea how anything works, but is able to fix just about anything anyway. In short, he's just about the best engineer on Pandora (Hyperion, Atlas, and all the rest of the [[MegaCorp megacorps]] included), and he does it all by ''instinct.'' In at least this respect (and indeed a few others) he's a lot like [[{{Series/Firefly}} Kaylee]], who probably didn't make it through sixth grade but can 'talk' to machines.
* BookEnds: The player is introduced to Scooter after jumping over Piss Wash Gully in a car. [[spoiler: His send-off from the series has the player making a similar jump over his memorial site.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: His introduction in ''Tales from the Borderlands''.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Has a tiny crush on Ellie. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Awww.]] Who's his sister. [[NauseaFuel Ewww.]]
* CasanovaWannabe: Tries to woo a few girls in ''2'', fails miserably... But he [[CrazyPrepared thinks ahead enough]] to ask you to get him girly mags [[ADateWithRosiePalms in case he fails]].
* CatchPhrase: "Catch a ride!" and "Get you one!"
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He does have his moments.
-->'''Scooter:''' You's a Vault Hunter! ''(awestruck)'' That's like a ''unicorn''!
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: His HeroicSacrifice in ''Tales.'' Hell, knowing him it's probably how he's always wanted to go.]]
* EasilyForgiven: Zigzagged in the sequel. [[spoiler:The "Swallowed Whole" sidequest reveals that he was planning to kill you for hacking the Catch-A-Ride system at the beginning of the game, but instead settles for sending you on a dangerous mission to kill a midget in a stalker-infested cavern. Once you make it back alive, he declares that your hacking is in the past now and he will definitely not kill you, probably.]]
* TheEngineer: Support engineer for the protagonists of both games. Seriously, moving around Pandora would be a '''BITCH''' if the player didn't have access to his Catch-A-Ride terminals. Hell, he's even the main engineer for [[spoiler:''the flying city of Sanctuary''. The fact he actually gets trusted with the maintenance of it is testament to his skill]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** Like most of the characters, his moral compass isn't exactly the best, but he genuinely loves his family, as shown by how he threatens to kill you if you hurt Ellie and [[spoiler:killing Lucky Zaford after he slept with Moxxi]].
** He has a quest in the Mr. Torgue DLC where he sends you to go kill a man who slept with Moxxi for all the wrong reasons. Moxxi tries to defend him by saying that it was a misunderstanding and it was partially her fault that it happened. You get the choice of either killing the guy Scooter wants you to kill, or kill the 4 other bounty hunters that he sent to do the job instead. (He gives you first dibs.)
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:In ''Tales'', upon realizing that he's not going to be able to get his hand out of the rocket in time, Scooter calmly accepts his fate and tells Fiona to save herself and the team.]]
* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:Three guesses what he yells out before he dies, and the first two don't count (Hint: His death involves RidingTheBomb).]]
* GadgeteerGenius: Easily overlooked but qualifies. [[spoiler:He's able to keep Sanctuary flying on '''scrap metal''' and totally repairs (and can upgrade) Fiona and Sasha's totaled caravan in the space of a couple of hours at most.]]
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: If Fiona kisses him then he shows this but he still smiles when she releases the thruster.]]
* GreaseMonkey: Works as a mechanic. Literally covered in grease.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Failed to pull his hand out in time while trying to press a button to start ejecting an thruster about to explode on the spaceship used by the protagonists in ''TalesFromTheBorderlands''. Knowing it's far too late to do anything about it, he tells Fiona to just eject it while he's still stuck to it, and he of course explodes with the thruster.]] The team [[spoiler: commemorates]] him by launching his satellite into space for all to see.
* IdiotSavant: Scooter's not the pokiest bullet in the clip (HA! See what I did there?!), but give him machinery and a box of tools and the man can make miracles. It even seems to be some sort of innate skill, since he's actually shown trouble describing ''what'' a mechanical component does, but still knows when he needs it and how to put it together anyway.
** It seems to be an innate skill of his entire clan, Hodunk, as they specialized in racing vehicles and making such.
* IncestIsRelative: All his crushes are related to him, at least distantly. Though considering [[ReallyGetsAround his mother]], that's not really saying much. Fiona and Sasha from Tales From the Borderlands seem to be the only exceptions but Scooter is more interested in Fiona.
** He mentions having a "brother-uncle"; clearly incest, ahem, runs in the family.
* InformedAttribute: Judging by his signs and his satellite, he apparently works/worked for Dahl. This never comes up, and other characters like Moxxi and Marcus seem to be independent entrepreneurs.
** Oddly ''Tales'' reminds us of his connection to Dahl with the satellite (which is a problem at first as Hyperion still holds a grudge for [[VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel a certain rogue Dahl legion's assault on Helios]]), but changes Old Haven (his home town) to an Atlas city originally, instead of being occupied by them later. Though the city originally being an Atlas city ''would'' explain why the Lance have seen fit to take it over as it provides no real tactical advantage.
* LastRequest: [[spoiler: In the ''Borderlands 2'' DLC ''Commander Lilith and the Fight for Sanctuary'', Scooter leaves an ECHO for his family and the Vault Hunters containing his last words and requests. After having his porno magazines regathered (which Moxxi keeps since no one wants them) and naming Ellie as the new owner of Catch-A-Ride, he asks the Vault Hunters to do one final spectacular stunt jump for him at the crater where he and the rocket booster he was stuck to crashed.]]
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: His [[VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands third]] EstablishingCharacterMoment in the series makes him appear to have enough MediumAwareness to know about game's RunningGag character intros. [[spoiler:Too bad Fiona is weirded out by this.]]
* MadLibsCatchphrase: He tends to replace "ride" with whatever is relevant with the current topic sometimes, such as "Catch-a-Familial-Reconciliation!". This got so bad that he somehow convinced Marcus to say "Catch-a-Gun!" in one of his vending machines.
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: He makes quite a few of these.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. He claims to be named after his sister.
* RidingTheBomb: [[spoiler: He goes to his death bellowing his catchphrase, as a faulty booster rocket about to explode heads down to Pandora.]]
* SociallyAwkwardHero: [[spoiler: He is very unlucky with love and is often overexcited with interactions. In ''Tales'' if Fiona says "Everything will be fine" then Scooter will reply with "Haa, there's the girl fell in love with", understandably Fiona is a little freaked out by the bold statement and Scooter quickly fumbles.]]
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: To Lucky.
-->'''Scooter:''' Lucky's an old buddy of mine -- and by old buddy I mean "asshole what ruined my momma's girl parts". Sounds like he's in trouble so you go on ahead and try and keep him alive long enough so I can kill him at a later occasion.
** He reveals that he was successful in killing him in the General Knoxx DLC. He ''told'' you he was gonna do it.
** It goes on to be the central conflict of a clan rivalry as well. Lucky was part of the Zaford clan and Scooter was formerly part of the Hodunk.
* VocalEvolution: From ''1'' to ''2'', Scooter's delivery of his lines gained their unique cadence and his Hodunk accent started to be more emphasized.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Helena Pierce]]
!Helena Pierce
[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/helena_pierce_borderlands_4.jpg]]
->Voiced by Sue Birch

The mayor of New Haven in the first game, she became a lieutenant in the Crimson Raiders when Hyperion moved in. She is strict and no-nonsense, but also fair and reasonable.
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* ArtificialLimbs: Has a mechanical left arm.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: The left side of her face is severely scarred and she appears to be blind in that eye. It's revealed in ''2'' that this is due to her husband giving her a skag pearl ring, which released pheromones that attracted hungry skags.
* AFatherToHisMen: She cares greatly for the citizens of New Haven in the first game.
* OnlySaneMan: Most of Pandora has adopted a mixture of selfishness and insanity in the face of its harshness, but she still tries to keep the vestiges of civilization alive.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: All she ever asks the Vault Hunters to do is fix the messes they make and help her people out.
* ShooOutTheClowns: Inverted. The developers have said that her death was to kill off the last serious character on Pandora, so that the comedy of the series could be grounded solely by tragic moments, not a StraightMan.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: An early sidequest in the sequel has you hunt down ECHO recordings to learn her fate at the behest of Sir Hammerlock. Apparently she had joined the resistance against Hyperion, only to be KilledOffForReal by Handsome Jack himself.
** YourHeadAsplode: Handsome Jack kills here with a head shot and by his reaction, it's not pretty.
-->'''Handsome Jack''': Hohohoho... holy crap! Did you see her head? It was like - PBBLLT!
* TwoFaced: Though it's not so much a reflection on her personality (she's a tough-but-fair ReasonableAuthorityFigure) as how tough life on Pandora is. It was apparently due to her dead husband giving her a "skag pearl ring". Now giving someone with the word "Skag" in it is bad enough but then you learn it releases "a hunger inducing pheromone"...

[[/folder]]

[[folder:TK Baha]]
! Teddy "TK" Baha
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TKBaha_8257.png]]
->Voiced by David Eddings

One of the first characters the first Vault Hunters meet, TK is a blind hermit with a weird sense of humor and a shotgun.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: He's the title character of the Borderlands 2 DLC ''Zombie TK's Bloody Harvest''.
* CameBackWrong: In the "Zombie Island of Dr. Ned" DLC, he has become a zombie. He doesn't attack the player, though, he just sits in his shack rambling about brains.
* CanonDiscontinuity: InUniverse, he's [[MediumAwareness blatantly aware]] that he was killed off in the main story in the first game, and only comes back as a zombie in DLC. In ''Zombie TK's Bloody Harvest'', he mentions that he thought about moving to Sanctuary, but he didn't want to break canon.
* CoolOldGuy: The player characters like him so much that [[spoiler:they bring him brains when they find him as a zombie.]]
* CoolShades: Likely worn as a result of his blindness.
* TheExile: ''Borderlands 2'' reveals that he was more or less forced to move to Pandora after Hyperion sent assassins after him in an attempt to steal his weapon designs. Were it not for Blake tipping him off and suggesting him to move, he wouldn't even be alive. Er, undead. Whatever.
* HandicappedBadass: Implied to be one. [[spoiler:Doesn't save him.]]
* LateArrivalSpoiler: The Borderlands 2 DLC "Zombie TK's Bloody Harvest" sees the return of TK as a friendly zombie.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Unlike the other zombies, he doesn't attack the Vault Hunters, instead choosing to sit in his shack happily rambling about how much he loves brains -- quite possibly a result of dying ''before'' being exposed to the zombie virus.
* ThePollyanna: He was the target of Hyperion assassins, forced to relocate to [[DeathWorld Pandora]], lost his wife to Scar, before losing his sight and leg to the same skag. None of this stops him from being possibly the cheeriest, friendliest person the Vault Hunters come across. He's still just as cheery [[spoiler:as a zombie.]]
-->"I maybe a blind crippled widower, but that don't mean all's lost!"
* PottyFailure: "I uh, I hate to send you away, you're great company and all... but I, [[TooMuchInformation I gotta go take a dump]]. I gotta take a dump somethin' awful! Somethin' real awful! Oh.. never mind... [[ToiletHumor it's all gone now]]."
* {{Revenge}}: He desires it against a skag named Scar for killing his wife, blinding him, and eating his leg.
** Fittingly, [[spoiler: a group of appropriately leveled Psychos can be found near his house after his death. It's heavily implied that they're the group who killed TK, allowing the player to directly avenge him.]]
** In the sequel, his niece Una wishes to avenge her uncle by hiring the Vault Hunters to find evidence of how Hyperion planned to steal his weapon designs.
* RunningGag: He has an obsession with the phrase [[Series/ThePrisoner "Be seeing you"]], as he uses it as an ironic joke at the expense of his blindness.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: [[spoiler:Braaaaaaaaaaains!]]
* TemptingFate: In Borderlands 2 you are tasked with retrieving his Echo Logs to find something incriminating against Hyperion. The last one ends with him noting that bandits showed up outside, but it can't possibly go wrong. Anyone who played the original Borderlands knows exactly what happens to him.

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[[folder:Crazy Earl]]
!Crazy Earl
!!''Buy somethin' or get outta my face!''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crazyearl_5.png]]
->Voiced by Randy Pitchford

The owner of a scrapyard, Crazy Earl is angrily antisocial, but moves to Sanctuary to run the black market in the second game.
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* AdaptationNameChange: Sort-of; when you first hear of him, his name is spelled "Crazy" Earl, but the quotation marks disappear when you actually meet him.
* BerserkButton: No one makes fun of Crazy Earl's crazy mustache.
* BigEater: During the mission "Plan B" in Borderlands 2, Scooter mentions that he once ate one of Scooter's cars... the whole car... with a fork.
* DemotedToExtra[=/=]OutOfFocus: He was actually part of the main story in the first game, and gave several story missions, in the second game, he's been demoted to "[[FriendInTheBlackMarket black market vendor]]," and only has a very minor role in the quest "Plan B."
* FriendInTheBlackMarket: His entire role in the second game and the Pre-Sequel.
* GlobalCurrencyException: As a black market vendor, he only accepts Eridium/Moon Rocks as payment. In his words, "Cash is for clowns!".
* {{Hikikomori}}: Due to him becoming paranoid after bandits stole pretty much everything he owns. "Why do you think I barricaded myself in here?"
* HonestJohnsDealership: Actually admits the fuel cell he's giving you in "Plan B" is a piece of junk ([[OurProductSucks he himself describes it as "this crap fuel cell"]]), and says that [[OurProductSucks merely touching it made two of his fingers rot off]]. However, the upgrades that he sells are actually useful.
* {{Jerkass}}: He sometimes crosses over into JerkWithAHeartOfGold territory since he does have [[JerkJustifications very good reasons for being a jerk]] and [[PetTheDog can show genuine kindness]], but usually, he's just a straight-up {{Jerkass}}.
* JerkJustifications: As mentioned before, bandits did steal pretty much everything he owns... [[AndYourLittleDogToo including his pet skag, Skrappy]].
* NoodleIncident: See BigEater.
* PetTheDog: The mission "Earl's Best Friend," and his relationship with Skrappy in general.
* SelfDeprecation: One of the Claptrap Webisodes has Earl referring to Randy Pitchford as a "bitch-hack".
* ShoutOut: "[[VideoGame/TheLegendofZelda It's dangerous to go alone,]] [[QuoteSwearUnquote jerkwad!]]"
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Canned skag meat, which is odd considering he has a pet skag named Skrappy, who he cares deeply for, and considers to be his best friend.
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[[folder:'''Spoiler Character''']]
!Angel (The Guardian Angel)
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[[caption-width-right:331: Angel in the remastered ''Borderlands'']]
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->Portrayed by Britanni Johnson and voiced by Jennifer Greene

A mysterious woman who helps both sets of Vault Hunters with information and missions. She is revealed to be broadcasting from a hacked Hyperion satellite named "[[LeetLingo 4N631]]" at the end of the first game.

In the second game, she continues to help, and even admits to being an AI. Except, [[AndIMustScream as revealed later on, not really.]] However, she betrays the Vault Hunters halfway through the game, nearly getting Sanctuary destroyed in the process. Turns out she's Jack's daughter and a Siren, plugged into the Hyperion network and pumped full of Eridium to charge the Vault Key.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Subverted and zigzagged. She appears to be an AI and admits it in the second game (she's not), and misled the original Vault Hunters and betrays the second group of Vault Hunters on Jack's orders.
* AbusiveParents: Jack's used her as an organic computer since she was a child and punishes her with electric shocks when she won't do as she's told. Despite this, he honestly seems to love her and believes himself to be protecting her.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: In-universe example. Tiny Tina [[spoiler:blames her for Roland's death]], and casts her as a demon in her ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''-style game in the fourth DLC.
* AndIMustScream: Trapped in the "throne" Jack made for her when she was a child.
* ArtShift: The remastered version of both Borderlands turn the live-action footage from a video with filter effect to dot-matrix effect.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: How does she get the request to put Sanctuary back on the Fast Travel Network put through? By cutting off the life support on the Hyperion lunar base.
-->'''Angel:''' Nothing gets results like a death threat.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Her final words to Jack.
-->'''Angel:''' Dad... I have to tell you something. You're an ''asshole''.
* CatchPhrase: In the second game, she uses the phrase "Executing Phaseshift" whenever she uses her powers.
* ClimaxBoss: Killing Angel is what much of ''Borderlands 2'' builds up to, and the boss fight against her caps off the BigBadassBattleSequence of the game. In addition, her death sets the stage for the final missions of the game.
* CoresAndTurretsBoss[=/=]FlunkyBoss: She must be killed by destroying the Eridium Injectors in the chamber, while automated turrets, environmental hazards and an endless horde of very tough mooks keep spawning in. Unusually, she isn't the one summoning these things - in fact, she tries her best to help you.
* DeadpanSnarker: Becomes one in the second game.
* DeathSeeker: She'll do anything to escape her father... even though being disconnected from Eridium will kill her.
* DesignatedVillain: Invoked in universe. In ''Assault on Dragon Keep'', Tiny Tina shoehorns Angel's ''[[MagicAmpersand Bunkers & Badasses]]'' counterpart into a villainous role after building her up as an ally, because [[spoiler:she blames Angel for Roland's death]]. Lilith, [[spoiler:who was captured and forced into Angel's position herself]], can't help but protest.
* DrivenToSuicide [[SuicideByCop by Vault Hunter]]: Appears to be in her early twenties to late teens, has been imprisoned as a WetwareCPU, emotionally and physically abused, been used as little more than a tool by her father, and rendered immobile due to her father making her body dependent on Eridium. As such, she [[UnwittingPawn enlists you, the Vault Hunter]], to break into her chambers and kill her.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Her paleness could possibly be due to being kept imprisoned for most of her life, though the other sirens we've seen in-game, (possibly) including Steele, have all been pretty pale as well.
* FashionableAsymmetry: In the second game, her hair is short on one side and longer on the other. This is a hint that she is both a Siren, sharing the same asymmetry as Lilith and Maya, and that one side of her head is shaved, with cybernetic implants on that side.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are subtle clues to her true identity throughout the early part of the second game.
** The use of the phrase "phase shift", and Jack commenting in a recording that he knows the identities of three of the six Sirens in the universe. Though that also doubles as a RedHerring, given that [[VideoGame/{{Borderlands}} Borderlands 1]] players are likely to assume that the third will be Steele. Except she's not.
** The ending of the first game foreshadows her involvement with Hyperion -- the Hyperion satellite seen orbiting Pandora has "4N631" (ANGEL) written on the side of it.
** Early on in the second game, she's shown interfacing with Hyperion technology without any problems, but she's unable to hack Scooter's Catch-A-Ride stations until the Vault Hunters salvage a component from a wrecked Hyperion robot nearby, again hinting at her ties to Hyperion.
** The second game's NonstandardCharacterDesign contains a subtle hint as to what she actually looks like. In the first game, she has full-length hair going down both sides of her head. Her appearance in the second game (shown above) has short hair on one side and longer on the other. The short hair is due to the left side of her head being shaved and having some kind of cybernetic implants inserted. The asymmetry is also a subtle hint that she's a Siren, as Lilith and Maya are also asymmetrical in clothing design.
** The way Jack addresses her and chastises her. Rather than his usual faux-casual threats, he sounds...parental.
--> '''Jack:''' You and I are having a serious talk once this is over!
** Jack's [[spoiler:horrid]] treatment towards Angel also foreshadowed certain a quest after her [[spoiler:death]], at Eridium Blight. [[spoiler:Turns out his treatment towards his own daughter acted as a reflection on how much pain he was going through with his grandmother, [[FreudianExcuse with a nasty buzzaxe to prove it]]. Of course, [[NeverMyFault he doesn't make the connection]]]].
* ElectronicEyes: Her radio portrait in ''Borderlands 2'' has glowing blue electronic eyes that appear red in extreme close-ups.
* GoshDarnitToHeck[=/=]LastSecondWordSwap: In ''Borderlands 2'', she doesn't seem to like cursing, even though she almost does it a few times. This is due to conditioning by her father. Her last words, however, [[PrecisionFStrike has her calling her dad an asshole]].
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: She isn't just ''called'' the Guardian Angel: her ''name'' is Angel.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: Not by behavioral limitations, mind you. She's sealed inside a containment field and has one of Jack's control collars around her neck, and can only have limited effect on the outside world, especially when Jack starts reigning her in more tightly.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Isolated all her life by her slavery, she's incredibly lonely. She becomes ''severely'' distraught when Jack makes her betray the original Vault Hunters ''and'' the new ones. She even says in a very sad, quiet voice, "We are not friends anymore, are we?"
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: She's primarily known as the Guardian Angel amongst the Vault Hunters. Turns out Angel is her actual name.
* MoralityPet: Averted. Despite being the only person Jack truly loves aside from himself, his treatment of Angel solidifies just how evil he really is. Instead...
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Revealed to be this in the second game.
* MercyKill: Near the end of the second game.
* MissingMom: The fate of her mother/Jack's ex-wife is never made clear. Jack claimed that Angel accidentally killed her with with her powers, which is why he put her in Control Core Angel to begin with, but audio files about Jack's past indicate that she had insisted that "the Angel" be shut down before her "disappearance". Mentioning her in front of Jack is one of his {{Berserk Button}}s. [[spoiler: In Tales, Jack reveals that it was his second wife who insisted Angel be shut down (well, he claims she bolted after finding out about Angel). He also reiterates that Angel killed her birth mother, his first wife, but [[UnreliableNarrator given who]] [[ItsAllAboutMe is telling us this]], it should be taken with a grain of salt.]]
* MissionControl: In all of the first game and some of the second.
* TheMole: In ''Borderlands 2''. Subverted in that she doesn't want to be.
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: She appears to the Vault Hunters as an FMV of a real woman whenever she's communicating to them [[spoiler:until you actually reach her. Afterwards, Lilith uses the same manner of communication when she's forced to replace Angel.]]
* OneWingedAngel: Puns aside, in Tiny Tina's ''[[MagicAmpersand Bunkers & Badasses]]'' campaign in the fourth DLC, she [[spoiler:turns into a {{drider}} after you unchain her in the dungeon]].
* OnlySaneWoman: In both games. While she seems mostly unaware of the absurdity of everything going on around her in the first game, she's [[CharacterDevelopment taken to]] [[DeadpanSnarker commenting on it]] in the second. She's also one of the few characters who displays a fondness for Claptraps, though she acknowledges that they're largely an annoyance.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Her dialogue becomes notably less snarky and much more stilted in the second game whenever she is lying to you, such as when you encounter Wilhelm.
* OutOfFocus: For as heavily plot-relevant that she is in both Borderlands and Borderlands 2, the only lines she has in the Pre-Sequel are for a side quest where Jack is scouting out prospective Vault Hunters to help his mission on Elpis, and in Fragtrap's origin echo logs, and she has no echo portrait when she speaks. Granted, the story focuses on Jack, but he uses her extensively all throughout the series. At the least, Jack keeps a framed picture of her as a child at his office desk.
* PeekABangs: On her actual physical body, the hair on the left side of her face completely covers that eye.
* PhlebotinumDependence: Due to Jack pumping her full of Eridium, Angel can no longer survive without it.
* PowerGivesYouWings: White ones. Whether these are actually the wings she normally manifests, or if they're an effect from the Vault Key (as Lilith has the same color wings when she is being used to power the Key) is unclear.
* PowerTattoo: Like the other Sirens.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Her "phase shift" requires direct access to Hyperion technology. This is why in the first game, when Steele shuts down the ECHO network, she is effectively blinded, and in the second game, why Handsome Jack needs you to sneak a Hyperion power core into Sanctuary's shield network. She also cannot take control of machinery when an operator is directly controlling it. The engineers who tried to stop her from launching a Fast Travel beacon discovered that she still has control over life support, though.
* RonTheDeathEater: InUniverse in [[spoiler:''Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep'', where Tina, blaming her for Roland's death, has her counterpart in her game be DaddysLittleVillain, whereas Angel actually wanted to ''help'' the Vault hunters]].
* SelfMadeOrphan: Jack implies she accidentally killed her mother with her uncontrolled powers, but other audio implies he's not entirely truthful.
* {{Technopath}}: Her Phase Shift abilities seem to manifest as an ability to manipulate technology, specifically Hyperion tech, including the means to digistruct objects at will and process enormous amounts of data.
** WordOfGod states that her siren ability is a manipulation and creation of artificial realities, in and outside of technology. In the original concept art, when the vault hunters cross into the Control Core, they walk into a ... home. They weave through all the very normal rooms, until they find her in the kitchen. The same as what happens in game, Jack yanks her out, shattering her safe illusion. Due to time constraints and the trickiness of level building, they instead opted for the strange purple ethereal realm depicted, but apparently that's part of the same process. If they'd done it, it would have doubled a tear jerker, all the amazing things that are only in the limits of her imagination to create, she builds the safety of a home around her. Then Jack ruins it too.
* TouchedByVorlons: Comes with being a Siren.
* UnreliableExpositor: Much of what she says in the first game about the Vault is revealed to be an outright lie in the second.
* UnroboticReveal: Her last appearance reveals her as a Siren, not an ArtificialIntelligence.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Regularly communicates with both sets of Vault Hunters over the ECHO network, and in the second game, is "networked into everything" on Pandora.
* WalkingSpoiler: Thanks to the second game.
* WetwareCPU: Among other things, this is how Jack uses her -- she perpetually has the whole of the [=ECHOnet=] at her fingertips and can call up codes, blueprints, surveillance videos, recordings, or anything else digital upon request if there's a means for her to reach it (and if there isn't, she can usually come up with a way to make one). She profiled the new Vault Hunters and knows their pasts in detail. ...Except [=Zer0=]. All she can say about him is "I'unno."

[[/folder]]

!!Bandits

[[folder:Nine-Toes]]
! Nine-Toes
!!''Also, he has three balls.''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Nine_toes_6585.png]]

The leader of the bandits attacking Fyrestone in the first game.
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* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Instead of just another Psycho as in the game, Nine-Toes from the comic ''The Fall of Fyrestone'' is a far more competent, intelligent, poetic individual. He's treated as a legitimate threat who actively destroyed Fyrestone and put a stop to Vault Hunters coming to the city.
* BadassBoast:
** "You woke the wrong dog."
** "I'm gonna rip your arm off and beat your baby with it!"
* TheDragon: To Sledge.
* ImAHumanitarian:
** "You remind me of my mother... I ''ate'' my mother."
** "I'm gonna ''eat'' you when I'm done!"
* KingMook: He's basically a Psycho with lots of spikes who can actually use a gun.
* SpikesOfVillainy: Spikes adorn his shoulder armour, his head, and even his nipples.
* StarterVillain: The first official boss in the game.
* TooMuchInformation: Just read his BossSubtitles!
* WickedCultured: Nine-Toes comes off as a lot more well learned and poetic in the ''Fall of Fyrestone'' comic. Lilith just finds it annoying.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sledge]]
! Sledge
!!''P.S.: You guys aren't friends.''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Sledge_shot01_8554.png]]
->Voiced by Creator/ChristopherSabat

A massive bandit leader characterized by a love of midgets and close combat.
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* BackFromTheDead: Gets resurrected as Motorhead in ''Secret Armory.''
* CameBackWrong: Can be faced as a DLC boss as "Motorhead".
* DropTheHammer: As indicated by his name, he has a rather large sledgehammer as a melee weapon. In the second game, it's carried by Brick.
* HulkSpeak: "Sledge give little runt BIG Death!"
* TheJuggernaut: Befitting his role as the first WakeUpCallBoss in game, Sledge is incredibly strong.
* LegacyCharacter: Seems to have a couple. Smashhead is an optional mini boss in ''2'', while Brick has also adapted several of Sledge's attributes. Sledge's helmet is also a head option for Salvador.
* SpikesOfVillainy: Absolutely ''covered'' in spikes.
* WakeUpCallBoss: Angel refers to him as the first truly dangerous opponent you'll face. He's also the first of the the game's 3 major bandit leaders.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mad Mel]]
! Mad Mel
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mad_mel.png]]


Leader of the vehicle-riding bandits who have been stealing Scooter's runners in the first game.
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* CoolCar: A skeletal repaint of the Monster (which you can access in the 3rd DLC).
* DragonAscendant: It's mentioned he took over the Badlands bandits after you bumped off Sledge.
* ShoutOut: [[Film/MadMax Everything]] [[Film/LethalWeapon about]] [[Film/{{Braveheart}} him]] is a ShoutOut to Creator/MelGibson (more specifically, the ''Mad Max'' movies).
* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Spouts a generic Bruiser line, but effective nonetheless: ''"Come on little one, time to die!"''
* VehicularAssault: He spends his boss battle driving around in the aforementioned CoolCar, and ''will'' crush you under its tires if he can.

[[/folder]]
[[folder:Krom]]
! Krom
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/krom.jpg]]
->Voiced by Oliver Tull

Bandit boss of the Rust Commons in the first game, and second in command to Baron Flynt.
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* BaldOfEvil: He has a few hairs, but other than that, he's bald.
* DyingDeclarationOfHate: One of this death quotes is him stating how much he hated Pandora anyway.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: According to his wiki profile (which got it from somewhere), his real name is Leslie.
* GatlingGood: Uses a gatling turret.
* KickTheDog: Randomly shoots a Claptrap before fighting you.
%%* NoMouth:
* TheTurretMaster: Fights from the top of a canyon on a turret.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Kobb Brothers]]
! Taylor and Jaynis Kobb

A pair of brothers fighting over a bandit town in Rust Commons East.
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* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Subverted. Taylor is just as bad if not worse than his brother, as it would turn out.]]
* CrazyPrepared: Taylor apparently puts armed midgets in storage containers (complete with beds and toilets) in case he has a sudden need to betray someone.
* KingMook: Both brothers use a generic Bandit Raider design.
* ObviouslyEvil: Taylor. The fact that he's a KingMook should have clued the player in that [[spoiler:they would end up fighting him]].
* ShoutOut: Jaynis and Jaynistown are one to Jayne Cobb of ''Series/{{Firefly}}''.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Baron Flynt]]
! Baron Flynt
!!''That's Medicinal.''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Baron_Flynt_5491.png]]
->Voiced by Creator/IanSinclair

One of the highest-ranking bandits in the first game, he lords over the Salt Flats from an abandoned mining rig.
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* CoolGun: His BoomStick, which is [[Franchise/EvilDead beyond Groovy]].
* DiscOneFinalBoss: He is the leader of the bandits. After him comes [[spoiler:the Crimson Lance and the Guardians]].
* EvilGloating: By far the most talkative bandit leader in the game, he taunts you several times over the radio before you finally confront him face-to-face.
** SophisticatedAsHell: His dialogue has shades of this, at least compared to all of the other bandit leaders.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: According to cut dialog from his brother Captain Flynt in ''Borderlands 2'', Baron is literally his first name. [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude Their parents were douchebags.]] [[spoiler: Averted in ''Borderlands 3'' with the third Flynt brother, Zane.]]
* KickTheDog: According to Tannis, Flynt punched her dog.
* LeanAndMean: Unlike all of the other bandit leaders, who are all huge mountains of muscle, Flynt's a lanky, regular-sized guy. Despite this, he's still very tough in a fight.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: He sits up on his chair even after you reach him. The only time he gets up and attacks you is after you kill Hanz and Franz.
* ShoutOut: He, his gun, and the gun's FlavorText are all {{Shout Out}}s to ''Franchise/EvilDead''.
* SmokingIsCool: Has a small lit.... something whenever he appears.
* TheStoner: If his BossSubtitles are to be believed, that's not a cigarette.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys[=/=]CoDragons: His two assistants, Hanz and Franz.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mr. Shank]]
!''[[InsistentTerminology Mr.]]'' Shank
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_borderlands_2010-02-25_20-12-18-63_6342.png]]
->Voiced by Stan Robak

The [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday extremely heterosexual]] leader of Lockdown Palace, and Moxxi's second husband. He kidnaps Athena in the Knoxx DLC.
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* BadassGay: He was apparently skilled enough to take down Athena, who's a legit One-Woman Army, and puts up a decent boss fight when you fight him.
* BaldOfEvil: As can be seen in his picture, Mr. Shank doesn't have any hair on his body.
* BodyHorror: As can be seen in his picture here. He has a knife jammed through his ''skull'' so that the tip is jutting out ''through his'' '''eye socket'''.
* DepravedBisexual[=/=]DepravedHomosexual: He used to be married to Moxxi, so he could be bi, or perhaps he realised he was gay during or after the marriage, or was just using her as a [[TheBeard beard]]. But we can all agree on the "depraved" part.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Judging by his dying words, his relationship with Chaz was a loving one.
* FlyingUnderTheGaydar: Attempts this, but his romantic feelings for his boyfriend Chaz are pretty blatant. The question amongst fans isn't whether or not he's gay, but whether he's bi or was basically using Moxxi as TheBeard.
* InsistentTerminology: That's '''[=MR=].''' Shank.
* KnifeNut: He has several knives on his person and seems to ''really'' enjoy using them. Not to mention the knife he has jammed in his face.
* ManlyGay: Has shades of this, although he tries his best to cover it up. Also has some elements of MachoCamp. It's possible he's really just CampGay and that any masculine behaviour he displays is due to him trying to stay in the closet.
* MeaningfulName: Shank is a term for a prison stabbing. Mr. Shank runs a prison. He also has a knife stuck in his head and uses knives in combat.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Concerning his love affair with Chaz.
* TattooedCrook: He's a criminal who has tattoos and goes mostly naked to show them off.
* TeleportSpam: He uses an Atlas Assassin teleporter module (which he stole off Athena) to do this when you fight him.
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: He actually kills a prisoner for calling him "Shank."
* TransparentCloset: He tries to deny his homosexuality, but he's fooling nobody. Particularly in his lame attempts to claim he uses the virility/phallus enhancer "Engorge!" to please his "girlfriend" Chazmina.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Steve]]
!Steve the Bandit
!!''Heyooo!''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/steve_poker_night_2_sam_elimination_card_1389.png]]
->Voiced by Mikey Neumann

Alongside Claptrap, the mascot of the series. In the second game, it turns out, he works with the Zafords.
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* TheCameo: Shows up in [[spoiler: episode 5 of ''Tales'' as the bandit that [=Zer0=] is shooting at.]]
* CatchPhrase: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy-jGa04nJg Heyoo!]]"
* CoolGun: As seen in ''Poker Night 2'', he owns a rocket launcher that shoots relatively harmless confetti rockets![[note]]Not in the picture we provided here however, which comes from that game, but it's of the only elimination where Steve [[Franchise/SamAndMax just walks in to eliminate a player]] [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/borderlands/images/6/6a/Steve_Heyo.png/revision/latest?cb=20130812064006 instead of firing a rocket at one.]][[/note]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Claptrap, according to Claptrap's webseries and ''VideoGame/PokerNight2''. [=GlaDOS=] even refers to Steve as Claptrap's best friend.
* MemeticBadass: In the second game, there's Bandit graffiti about "Steve the Lion-Heart" to suggest he's one in-universe.
* OhCrap: In ''Poker Night 2'', Steve's reaction when an angry [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers Brock Samson]] heads towards him after Steve shot a confetti rocket at him.
-->'''Steve:''' Heyooo! ''(shoots Brock)''\\
'''Brock:''' Excuse me... ''(menacingly heads towards Steve)''\\
'''Steve:''' ...[-Heyooo-]? ''(flees with Brock in pursuit, who catches up and begins audibly beating him)''
* SeriesMascot: The second of two of them, the first being [[RobotBuddy Claptrap]].
* UnexplainedRecovery: Was apparently killed in ''The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned'', but is found alive and well in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', both in The Dust and within The Holy Spirits tavern, apparently either a member of or working with the [[{{Oireland}} Zaford Clan]].
[[/folder]]

!!Atlas and the Crimson Lance

[[folder:Commandant Steele]]
!Commandant Helga Steele
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/commandant_steele_9259.png]]
->Voiced by Creator/LaniMinella

The leader of the Crimson Lance in the vanilla game, dedicated to finding and plundering the Vault first. Possibly the Siren Lilith came to Pandora to find, but that is never confirmed.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Her first name is only stated in the game files.
** The ''Borderlands: Origins'' comics confirm that Steele is, in fact, a Siren, which explains how she was able to activate the Destroyer Vault's key. Apparently Handsome Jack didn't include her in his list of them because [[spoiler: she was already dead at the time.]]
* BadBoss: Aside from treating her underlings like shit, in the backstory [[spoiler:she knowingly sent Roland's squad on a suicide mission, then left them for dead when they were overrun. Of course, this ends up coming back to bite her in the end.]]
* TheBaroness: Not only does she have the personality type, but she also speaks with a Russian accent.
* BigBad: The closest thing that the game has to a main villain.
* BigNo: [[spoiler: As the Destroyer eats her.]]
* BlatantLies: [[spoiler: After tricking the Vault Hunter into going on a wild goose chase for Baron Flynt's nonexistent piece of the Vault Key, she claims that Tannis came to her and has been working with the Lance the entire time. Once the Vault Hunter finds Tannis she's in a cell with ''torture equipment'' just outside, proving that Steele was flat out lying.]]
* ButtMonkey:
** [[spoiler:Not only does she get unceremoniously impaled mid-sentence, she then gets revived -- twice -- and her new Claptrap programming ensures her following deaths are as undignified as possible.]]
--> [[spoiler:'''Steele-Trap:''' Unce, unce, unce... I was better off with a damn tentacle through my chest.]]
** Shows up in Tales from the Borderlands stuffed and as a museum piece. Shade's recounting of how she died doesn't help either.
* CameBackWrong: She is brought back as [[spoiler:Steele-Trap during the ''Robot Revolution'' DLC.]]
* DarkActionGirl: [[spoiler:This isn't evident in the main game, but it definitely shows in ''Robot Revolution''.]]
* EvilAlbino: Lampooned by Knoxx.
--> Have you met our friend the sun?!
* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler: They ''were'' her BigNo as the Destroyer ate her, but being [[UnwantedRevival forcibly revived as Steele-Trap]] during the Robot Revolution caused them to change to ''this.'']]
-->'''Steele:''' [[spoiler: [[UndigifiedDeath I... I... I think I lost the beat...Unce...]]]]
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: The first possible interaction that the player can have with her, which doesn't always play, has her condemn you for agreeing to "assassinate" a "local leader". The "local leader" she's talking about? ''[[TheBrute Sledge.]]''
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How [[spoiler:the Destroyer kills her.]]
* InformedAbility: She demonstrates no special powers when you fight her as [[spoiler: Steele-Trap]], despite being a Siren, one of the most dangerous beings in the universe. Potentially FridgeBrilliance, as [[spoiler: a new Siren apparently comes into being whenever one of the old ones dies, so its likely her powers were transferred away from her upon death. Notably, Steele's Siren tattoos are gone when she's resurrected as Steele-Trap, and replaced with Claptrap-themed circuitry tattoos.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Her ''first'' guaranteed interaction with the Vault Hunter is a direct ECHO-broadcast where she tears into them for killing Sledge because they're a mercenary and she doesn't approve of anyone not affiliated with the Lance doing anything to police Pandora.
* KingMook: In the Claptrap DLC, she is more or less a Lance Assassin with more health.
* MotorMouth: According to Knoxx.
--> '''Knoxx:''' I sent Steele to this planet to take care of this little problem and also because... seriously, have you ''heard'' her? She talks all the time.
* PowerTattoo: She has Siren tattoos, although the powers she possesses remain a mystery. [[spoiler:Even when fought as Steele-Trap she doesn't demonstrate any special Siren powers.]]
* SheFu: As [[spoiler:Steele-Trap.]]
* TouchedByVorlons: She is a Siren, but she never demonstrates any powers in the game (other than being able to operate the Vault Key).
* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler: She still has a hole in her torso from The Destroyer's tongue when she reappears in the ''Robot Revolution'' DLC as Steele-Trap, but as she was last seen being EatenAlive by The Destroyer it's not made clear how her body has become intact again or how Claptrap retrieved her.]]
* TheUnfought: [[spoiler:Played straight in the main game. Inverted in the ''Robot Revolution'' DLC, in which she comes back under the control of the Claptraps and fights the player characters twice.]]
* UnwillingRoboticisation: Rebuilt as [[spoiler:''Steele Trap'' in the Robot Revolution DLC.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:General Knoxx]]
!General Alphonso Knoxx
!!''Doesn't like Mondays''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Borderlands_2010-02-25_23-13-43-53_168.png]]
->Voiced by Stan Robak

The beleaguered general of the Crimson Lance after Steele botches the job, he is deeply annoyed by everything to do with Pandora and his superior, the five-year old Admiral Mikey.
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* AffablyEvil: He's polite to the Vault Hunters, despite making it clear he intends to kill them. Even his dying request that they should destroy Pandora because it's a CrapsackWorld that doesn't deserve to exist is pretty polite.
** [[spoiler:He's even affable when being forced to fight as Knoxx-trap, encouraging the Vault Hunters on their efforts at killing him and congratulating them on critical hits.]]
* ButtMonkey: Sees himself as this, given his OnlySaneMan attitude.
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:In the Robot Revolution DLC]], much to his chagrin.
--> '''Knoxx:''' I'm back! Wait... I'm ''back''? ''Dammit''.
* TheCameo: In the Pre-Sequel, Knoxx is the one who narrates Athena's personal ECHO logs.
* TheChewToy: His men disrespect him, his commanding officer is literally a child, and he's stuck on a CrapsackWorld. Oh, and [[spoiler:he gets resurrected, ''twice'', when all he wants is to stay dead.]]
* DangerousDeserter: He would have been, if he'd gone through with his plans to kill the Vault Hunters and then leave the Crimson Lance for being full of idiots and incompetents.
* DeadpanSnarker: In his ECHO recordings.
* DeathSeeker: When you reach him, [[spoiler:he's about to commit suicide]], but decides to try killing the Vault Hunters instead. [[spoiler:In the Robot Revolution DLC, he is brought back to life twice and is not happy about it.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first ECHO you receive from him begins with a ''very'' long-suffering sigh. And that sums up his attitude to Pandora, the Crimson Lance, his mission, the Vault Hunters, his underlings, his superiors, his life, and every other damn thing that goes on to happen from there.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The reason he was furious at his superiors for what they did to Athena was partially that he thinks it was just an incredibly dirty move on their part.
** PragmaticVillainy: ... As well as knowing that if they had to kill her sister, they should have gotten someone without any personal investment in the job rather than have her do it.
* EyepatchOfPower: Wears one.
* FlunkyBoss: Knoxx himself is pretty tough, what with his AceCustom mech suit, but what really makes him "final boss" difficult is the fact that he's accompanied by lots of Crimson Lance units, including Devastators ''and'' a Badass Devastator, as well as multiple Crimson Lance medics that can heal Knoxx to full health if you don't kill them quickly enough. This is most apparent in ''Claptrap's New Robot Revolution'', in which you fight Knoxx again, only this time he's by himself and is a noticeably easier fight.
* KingMook: Knoxx is basically an AceCustom Devastator (he's larger and has a ''lot'' more health), although he does have a few unique attacks and is also a FlunkyBoss.
* LargeAndInCharge: Courtesy of his enormous mech suit.
* OnlySaneMan: Sees himself as this among the Crimson Lance leaders. He's not wrong, given that the rank-and-file seem more concerned with ice-cream than their mission and they left a code [[TooDumbToLive that their lives depend upon]] at a blatant tourist trap where anyone could pick it up, the elites are AxCrazy (they were brainwashed as children then [[SelfMadeOrphan forced to murder their parents]]), and his boss is a ''five year old'' because of goddamn {{nepotism}}. All while he's trapped on a desert planet loaded with crazies and vicious alien wildlife, and someone is massacring his men with little effort. He's so fed up with the situation that when the Vault Hunters find him, he's [[DrivenToSuicide trying to kill himself to escape the madness.]]
* PetTheDog: The Pre-Sequel shows that he was actually quite fond of Athena, noting that she was a "nice enough kid" for a ChildSoldier and was pretty angry at his superiors when they ordered her to wipe out the village her sister lived in to cut off her remaining ties to the outside world, knowing that as well as it being a dick move that it will just lead to her wanting vengeance against them. For her part, Athena actually respected Knoxx and regretted that he had to die.
* PoweredArmor: Uses his own custom suit of Devastator armor, which is somewhere between here and MiniMecha.
* PunchClockVillain: He bears the Vault Hunters no ill will and isn't ideologically loyal to the Crimson Lance, but he's a career soldier who takes his work seriously.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: His resurrection -- he ''wanted to die'', and bitterly demands you hurry up and kill him during the battle.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Athena]]

See: ''Characters/BorderlandsThePreSequel''

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Admiral Mikey]]
A five-year old that was Admiral of the Crimson Lance 3rd Starborne Brigade, which unfortunately makes him Knoxx's superior officer. He's one of the reasons why Knoxx hates what Atlas is.
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: He was a five-year old boy and barely understood anything, let alone the situation on the ground. He tries sending General Knoxx some chocolate but seeing how it melted on the trip there it didn't warm him to the grumpy old man.
* TheGhost: He's frequently brought up but seeing how he's both a child and a high-ranking officer there was no way he'd show up in game.
* ImprobableAge: He's '''five'''.
* InfantImmortality: He's a ghost in game but according to Knoxx that's not enough to protect him ''outside'' of the game.
* PointyHairedBoss: He's a child, what do you expect?
* Goddamn {{Nepotism}}: He was a five year old admiral and that was the only way he could ''ever'' be promoted, let alone serve.
* StaircaseTumble: According to General Knoxx's Website/{{Twitter}} account, Mikey met his unfortunate end by falling down "30,000 stairs". Seeing how he had no heirs, this led to more troubles for Atlas.
[[/folder]]

!!Jakobs

[[folder:Dr. Ned]]
! Dr. Ned Blanco
!!''I'm Helping!''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_imhelping_3225.png]]
->Voiced by Ric Spiegel

The identical twin brother of Zed, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial who is not just Zed with a mustache]]. The main antagonist of the Zombie Island DLC.
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* AffablyEvil: In spite of the fact that he's a ZombieApocalypse-unleashing, murderous MadScientist, he's pretty chatty and pleasant towards the Vault Hunters. He makes brownies, offers them some, then remembers he probably shouldn't be giving brownies to the people who want him dead.
* AntiClimaxBoss: Invoked. [[IntendedAudienceReaction Intended and subverted]]. He goes down quite easily. [[spoiler:Followed by credits rolling past at lightning speed. Then they're suddenly ripped away and ''Undead Ned'' screams "It's not over yet!" Along with a character intro screen of Undead Ned with the text "HOLY F*#KING SHIT!!!"]]
* BadassMustache: One that's apparently growing out of his surgical mask. [[spoiler:He still has a moustache as Undead Ned, although it's styled completely differently.]]
* BerserkButton: His assistant, Bill, making popcorn when people are trying to work. This evidently ends up turning into a deep hatred of popcorn in general.
--> '''Ned:''' You smell like popcorn. Now I'm pissed!
* BigBad: Of "The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned" DLC, naturally.
* BodyHorror: As [[spoiler:Undead Ned.]]
* CameBackWrong: ''Thrice''. Upon being killed in "Zombie Island", he almost instantly [[spoiler:revives as Undead Ned. Then, in "Claptrap's New Robot Revolution", he is revived as Ned-Trap, ''then'' as Undead Ned-Trap.]]
* CardCarryingVillain: He actually makes note of the decision to dedicate himself to evil, records it, and idly hopes nobody happens to find the recording and learn of his nefariousness.
* DeadlyDoctor: Aside from the zombies, he can put up a pretty good fight one-on-one.
* EvilTwin:
** Of Dr. Zed. At first, it can be assumed that Ned is Zed with an [[PaperThinDisguise obvious fake moustache]] spouting [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial suspicious denials]] ("I am Dr. Ned, who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise"). However, other sources (such as the Game Of The Year Edition Guide, the fourth Claptrap webisode, [=DLC=]s 3 and 4 and, of course, ''Borderlands 2'') confirm that they are indeed two different people - brothers, specifically.
** In the Headhunter DLC of the third game, T.K. Baha hints that there's a third sibling (possibly making them triplets, not twins), named Ted, that is even worse than him. However Baha also pretty much says that none of the DLC is canon anyways.
* FlippingTheBird: In his second intro.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: When you first meet him.
** When wounded, Dr. Ned-trap might say "Pour alcohol on the wound. Also in my mouth."
%%* LaughablyEvil
* MadScientist: Not only created zombies, but Wereskags as well.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: [[spoiler:''[[BossSubtitles Turns out he's a bad guy... who knew?]]'']]
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: By the end of the Borderlands 1 storyline, he's a [[spoiler:twice-undead cyborg physician.]]
* ObviouslyEvil: He's not even really trying to hide it. The time he made the Vault Hunters wait while he lowered his hand-cranked elevator, forcing them to fight off a massive horde of zombies, going so far as to drop the counter-weight ''twice'' comes to mind.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Undead Ned]], a far tougher battle than the one just before it.
* PornStash: There are ''huge'' stacks of dirty magazines in his secret lab.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Denies frequently that he's just Zed with a moustache. [[spoiler:In the Robo-lution DLC, it's shown that he's telling the truth, as both Zed and the [[UnwillingRoboticisation newly activated Ned-Trap]] are both seen. Similarly, Zed is still present in the sequel, and the Pre-Sequel and Tales canonises all the events of the Robo-lution.]]
* UnwillingRoboticisation: How the Claptraps bring him BackFromTheDead.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hank Reiss]]
! Hank Reiss
!!''Nice Hat!''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hankreiss.png]]

A man who was turned into a were-skag by Ned when he was given the anti-zombie antidote. Identified by his NiceHat.
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* ApocalypticLog: His ECHO correspondence with his wife, which gradually tells the tale of the zombie outbreak in Jakobs Cove [[spoiler:and first hints at Ned's direct involvement in same]], and ends with him going to Ned as a volunteer test subject for the skag-based cure.
* MonsterProgenitor: The original wereskag, ultimately responsible for every other wereskag's existence.
* NiceHat: It actually looks really stupid, but deserves a mention because the game itself calls it such (if mockingly). Why does he wear it? His daughter made it for him. He even mentions the other guys teasing him about it.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Technically a were''skag'', but wereskags are more like werewolves than skags are like wolves in the first place. The main difference? The mouth, which opens like a flower. Oh, and wereskags would have never existed if Ned hadn't injected Reiss with skag stuff in the first place.
* TragicMonster: He was a loving family man before transforming into a wereskag.
* TurnsRed: Once his health gets below a certain threshold, he howls and gains a ton of it back. If you don't take them out fast enough, other wereskags do the same.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Father O'Callahan]]
!Father Jackie O'Callahan
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A local preacher who tried to fight the "evil" of Jakobs Cove before being infected with the Wereskag virus.
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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: The Vault Hunters are hired to find out what happened to him, learning through ECHO recordings that he was "nicked in the neck" by Hank Reiss.
* BadassPreacher: He appears to be an actual priest who decides to "kick evil's arse".
* {{Determinator}}: Fighting the zombies and Hank Reiss is tough, but he stays strong through prayer...and the whiskey in his flask.
* OhMyGods: References the Guardian Angel at least once.
* ShoutOut: Obviously a reference to the character Father O'Callahan from ''Salem's Lot'' by Stephen King, [[spoiler: both characters are monster hunters who end up infected by the monsters they hunt.]]
* TragicMonster: A BadassPreacher who tried to help Jakobs Cove and was turned into the very "evil" he was fighting. BeingGoodSucks on [[CrapsackWorld Pandora]].

[[/folder]]

!!Hyperion

[[folder:Mr. Blake]]
! Mr. Jeffrey Blake
!!''Vice President of Hyperion''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Mr__Blake_668.png]]
->Voiced by Creator/RBruceElliott

The surprisingly reasonable vice president of Hyperion. He hires the Vault Hunters in the Robot Revolution DLC of the first game, but is only heard in ECHO logs in the second.
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* BeleagueredAssistant: [[BadBoss Handsome Jack treats him like a butler]] more than anything else.
* BenevolentBoss: Surprisingly, despite the flames and his devil horns, he is a very reasonable executive. Unlike most corporate executives you have seen so far, he did not backstab the vault hunters [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness after the job is done]] and compensated them ''very'' generously. In the sequel, it's revealed that [[spoiler:he warned TK Baha and Dr. Zed that Hyperion was coming after them and politely suggested that they escaped while they still could]].
* BusCrash: Possibly. [[spoiler:After a long absence, he is finally mentioned in the last Videogame/TalesFromTheBorderlands episode in a scan as the acting CEO of Hyperion. Right after Helios crashed. Of course, as Helios was full of Jack fanatics while Blake is a sensible businessman, and Hyperion itself is a wide reaching corporation with investments on many planets and Pandora was only Jack's fixation (and that he wasn't in the CEO's office), it's entirely possible Blake was nowhere near Pandora when the Helios station met its demise.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: He has his moments.
-->'''Blake:''' We at Hyperion have always valued our relationship with the treasure hunters on Pandora, so I know you'll leap at the chance to help us out. ...[[NiceJobBreakingItHero Particularly since you killed our last team]].
* DemotedToExtra: He is the brains behind the plan to stop the Claptrap uprising in ''Robot Revolution'' and gives all but one of the story missions. In the second game, he is only heard through ECHO recordings.
* TheDragon: Being the Vice President of Hyperion implies that he is this to Jack, but...
** DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler:He warned TK Baha about how Hyperion Assassins were coming for him and suggested he take his wife and run while he still could, and he made the same warning to Dr. Zed later on.]] In Jack's AMA, [[http://www.reddit.com/r/Borderlands/comments/2irv09/hey_kiddos_handsome_jack_here_ama_about_how_im/cl4x5c8?context=10000 he mentions]] that he's pretty sure that Blake is trying to get him killed so he can take his job.
** DragonAscendant: [[spoiler:According to an ECHO scan in the final episode of ''Tales'', Blake was acting-CEO of Hyperion before Jack's return.]]
** Strangely enough, however, the ECHO logs in "Get to Know Jack" seem to indicate that he was Jack's lackey before he even became president, at least sometime between the Pre-Sequel and Tassiter's assassination.
* EnigmaticMinion: At the least, while he's openly contemptuous of everyone in Pandora, his actions suggest that he's a lot less evil than, say, Handsome Jack.
* HornedHairdo: More subtle than some examples, though.
* MaliciousMisnaming: A subject to one. Jack repeatedly gets Blake's first name wrong, [[{{Jerkass}} very likely on purpose]].
--> '''Jack:''' Anything else on today's agenda, Jimmy?\\
'''Blake:''' It's "Jeffrey", sir. And no.\\
'''Jack:''' [[{{Troll}} Thanks, Jimmy]]!
* MissionControl: Provides all but the first story mission in ''Claptrap's New Robot Revolution''.
* MouthOfSauron: He's evidently Hyperion's representative when dealing with bandits and mercenaries, since he's also the head of Tourism and Mercenary Relations.
* ObviouslyEvil: Subverted. His intro scene gives off this impression, but he's actually perfectly reasonable.
* OnlySaneMan: The first corporate suit in the ''entire game franchise'' who isn't a PsychopathicManchild (Torgue, Handsome Jack, probably most of Atlas' management), [[ComedicSociopathy comedically sociopathic]] (...it's ''Borderlands''), a BadBoss, venal and profit-obsessed to the point of being TooDumbToLive (Jakobs), or succumbing to any other various inanities. ([[VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands Vaughn and maybe Rhys]], depending on player actions, later join the short list of non-deranged executives.)
* PetTheDog: Warning TK Baha and his wife about Hyperion's approaching assassins, and later telling Dr. Zed to leave Fyrestone before the Hyperion robots evict him by force. It would have been easier and inconsequential for him to have simply let them die, but it seems that he is reasonable enough to give a fair warning to anybody who is on Hyperion's kill-list.
* PunchClockVillain: He is this under Handsome Jack.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In the Claptrap DLC, he's generally polite and helpful and rewards the Vault Hunters properly after everything is said and done.
* SharpDressedMan: He dresses very smartly compared to everyone else on Pandora... although he starts to lament it, given the local weather conditions.
-->'''Blake:''' Why, ''why'' did I decide to wear wool in the desert?
* ShoutOut: His name is a reference to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake William Blake]], with the ''Borderlands'' Wikia [[http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._Blake#Trivia going into further detail on the subject]].
* TheVoice: Is only heard in ECHO recordings and broadcasts in ''Borderlands 2''.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:INAC]]
!Interplanetary Ninja Assassin Claptrap (I.N.A.C)
!!''Viva la Robolution!''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Clapninja_4111.png]]
->Voiced by David Eddings

The very same Claptrap from Fyrestone. After the end of the first game's story, we see that Hyperion overwrote his programming. He decided to start a RobotWar while "claptrapping" any living creatures he encountered along the way.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: He was originally sent by Hyperion to kill the Vault Hunters after they became a drain on the economy. Instead, he led the rest of the Claptraps in a ([[HumansAreTheRealMonsters not entirely unjustified]]) revolt against the humans.
* TheAssimilator: He and his revolutionary buddies do this to the local people/wildlife, turning them into cyborg slaves for the robolution.
* BigBad: Of the Claptrap's New Robot Revolution DLC.
* CatchPhrase: "Viva la robo-lución!"
* EarlyBirdCameo: Appears at the end of the main game.
* FantasticRacism: Really doesn't like humans, referring to them as "[[FantasticSlur fleshbags]]."
-->'''INAC:''' Hath not a Claptrap an eye? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you poison us, do we not die? Of course we don't! Because we're better than all you stinking fleshbags!
* FinalBoss: Of ''Claptrap's New Robot Revolution''. As it's the last of the four DLCs, this also makes him the FinalBoss of Borderlands 1 in general.
* FlunkyBoss: It will send several waves of Kamikaze Claptraps at the Vault Hunters during the boss fight.
* GatlingGood: His HumongousMecha form has [[MoreDakka NINE]] gatling turrets mounted on it.
* HeelFaceBrainwashing: [[spoiler:He is eventually defeated by the Vault Hunters using the [[FunWithAcronyms WIRED device]] to undo the advanced programming Hyperion gave him and reverting him back to his original, friendly self.]] Afterwards, he was sent back to Hyperion to work as a door opener, where he encountered an employee by the name of Jack and gave him ideas of a new prototype combat unit...
* HumongousMecha: Fights the Vault Hunters in one.
* IfYouDieICallYourStuff: He'll sometimes yell "I got dibs on his socks!" when you die during the HumongousMecha battle.
%%* LaughablyEvil
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Does this a couple times.
-->'''INAC:''' So you think you can stop the Claptrap Robolution? You can no more control the direction of a mighty river as it flows towards freedom. Unless you built, like, a dam or an irrigation system or something.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Thanks to his actions, the Claptraps were disassembled between the events of the first and second game to the point that there's only one known Claptrap left on Pandora.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Well, Ninja Robot, but still.
* OldShame: In-universe, Claptrap as of the Pre-Sequel came to deeply regret his time as the INAC to the point that he associates the MINAC with shame.
* OneWingedAngel: His [[HumongousMecha Mega Interplanetary Ninja Assassin Claptrap]] form. However, it's simply a giant robot he pilots rather than him actually transforming.
* RebelLeader: In leading the Claptraps in the Robolution.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: A trait he shares with all the Claptrap rebels.
* ThatCameOutWrong: In messages to the Vault Hunters:
-->'''INAC:''' You will always fail as long as the Children of the Robolution are willing to fight against their former masters in order to protect me, their master! Hold on...That came out wrong.
* VoiceOfTheResistance: Frequently broadcasts recorded messages to further inspire his Claptrap brethren.
[[/folder]]

!!Aliens

[[folder:The Eridians]]
! The Eridians

The Eridians were an ancient alien race which had a presence on Pandora thousands or even millions of years ago, and the builders of the Vault. As of ''Borderlands'', they are long extinct...

...right?
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* FantasticCasteSystem: Tannis's translation program has determined that they had a class system, though she doesn't go into details about what sort of classes existed.
* GalacticSuperpower: In their time, Tannis says that they were capable of both "leadership and organized warfare". ''Borderlands 2'' indicates that they were present on numerous worlds. [[spoiler: And those are just the ones where they built Vaults.]]
* {{Precursors}}: Were gone ''long'' before humanity was around.
* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: Humanity studying their ancient technology led to technological leaps and bounds.
* RagnarokProofing: Their stuff is still in working order even after millennia... or longer.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Destroyer (SPOILERS)]]
! The Destroyer
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maxresdefault_762.jpg]]

A god-like being from another dimension who all but wiped out the Eridians... [[UnreliableNarrator Maybe.]]
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* CombatTentacles: Which impale [[spoiler:Commandant Steele within seconds of the Vault's opening]]. In ''Borderlands 2'', Handsome Jack dubs it "the universe's angriest squid."
* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler:Moxxi sabotages the Eye of Helios in an attempt to kill both the Destroyer as well as Jack and his goon squad. Jack attempts to salvage the eye in a sidequest, only to blow it up for good]].
* EldritchAbomination: Hailing from another dimension.
* FunSize: [[spoiler:Due to Nakayama's poor math, a clone of the Destroyer turned out to be only 3 feet tall. Its eye beam is of a mild annoyance rather than world-destroying magnitude.]]
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: ''Blatantly'', and subject to much SelfDeprecation.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Is the most dangerous thing in the game and probably the whole universe, and [[spoiler:freeing it inadvertently drives the plot of both 1, 2 and The Pre-Sequel]], but it has no direct influence on the game's story.
* ImAHumanitarian: the "tentacle" it impales [[spoiler: Steele]] with is its ''tongue'', with the unfortunate victim dragged into its jaws soon after.
* MacGuffinGuardian: [[spoiler: While Jack has Angel claim it's a universe destroying EldritchAbomination that wiped out the Eridians, it's more likely than not a Vault Guardian not unlike The Warrior or The Traveler meant to protect the Vault's bounty of Eridium.]]
* MainliningTheMonster: [[spoiler:Jack took its eye to power the [[WaveMotionGun Eye of Helios]].]]
* MoneySpider: On a ''much'' larger scale than any other creature in the entire Borderlands ''franchise.'' While it does drop loot as any other boss in game, [[spoiler: Borderlands 2 reveals that its death also ''seeded the entire planet with Eridium.'']]
* MultipleChoicePast: [[spoiler: In the Pre-Sequel, Jack makes an offhand comment that implies that it's simply another Eridian-built superweapon. This is consistent with dialogue from Angel in ''Borderlands 2'' that implies that Jack may have made up the whole "save the universe from an extra-dimensional eldritch abomination" thing (which is consistent with Jack's grandiose heroism fantasies).]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:The Pre-Sequel reveals that Jack used The Destroyer's eye as Helios' WaveMotionGun]].
* PrecursorKillers: It wiped out the Eridians before [[spoiler:the last of them sealed it within the Vault. At least that's what Jack had Angel tell you.]]
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:The Destroyer is the actual contents of the Vault]], sealed within by the last of the Eridians to prevent it from destroying the universe [[spoiler: ...at least, that's the story Jack has Angel feed you.]]
* StationaryBoss: Fortunately for the player, it won't move at all.
* WalkingSpoiler: Well, not technically as if it were moving around the world would be in ''big'' trouble. It's kind of hard to discuss The Destroyer without spoiling the PlotTwist that its what's inside The Vault.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Guardians]]
!!Guardians of the Vault
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Mysterious aliens (likely robots built by the Eridians) left behind to defend the Vaults, they are completely single-minded in pursuit of this goal. They use Eridian armor and weapons, but make no attempt to communicate in any way. They just fight off anyone who gets too close to the Vaults.
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* DanceBattler: A lot of them spin and backflip around the battlefield.
* DeflectorShields: They have extremely high shields, but laughable health. Any ability that lets you ignore shields cuts through them like wheat.
* ItCanThink: Everyone is shocked when seeing the Alien in ''The Pre-Sequel!'', which possesses enough intelligence to [[SmugSuper mock someone for trying to shoot it]]. It's not confirmed to actually be a Guardian, though, and may be an actual Eridian.
* OrganicTechnology: According to Athena, they're bio-mechanical constructs built by the Eridians, presumably in their own image, but in the end are not actually alive.
* SpinToDeflectStuff: Some Guardians (notably the Sentinel) can spin their staffs to deflect bullets.
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: They have blank masks for faces in ''Borderlands'', and human-looking masks in ''The Pre-Sequel!'' A Borderlands artist says that their [[http://web.archive.org/web/20110427122252/http://www.keiththompsonart.com/pages/archguardian.html faces reform to approximately mimic the appearance of whatever species it interacts with]]

[[/folder]]

'''Warning!''' Spoilers for the later games are on this page. In fact, if you see a spoiler tag, it's probably for one of the sequels. Most of the characters introduced in the first game didn't have a lot of time or opportunity for characterization, so quite a lot of these entries happen to come from a later game in any event.

* [[Characters/BorderlandsVaultHunters The Vault Hunters]]
** [[Characters/FirstBorderlandsVaultHunters First Vault Hunters]]

** [[Characters/ThirdBorderlandsVaultHunters Pre-Sequel Vault Hunters]]

* [[Characters/Borderlands3 Characters from Borderlands 3]]
** [[Characters/Borderlands3SupportingCharacters Borderlands 3 Supporting Characters]]
** [[Characters/Borderlands3Enemies Borderlands 3 Enemies]]
* [[Characters/BorderlandsThePreSequel Characters from the Pre-Sequel!]]
* [[Characters/TalesFromTheBorderlands Characters from Tales From the Borderlands]]
* [[Characters/Borderlands2SupportingCharacters Borderlands 2 Supporting Characters]]
* [[Characters/Borderlands2Enemies Borderlands 2 Enemies]]
* [[Characters/Borderlands2DLCCharacters Borderlands 2 DLC Characters]]
* [[Characters/BorderlandsWeaponBrands Borderlands Weapon Manufacturers]]
* [[Characters/BorderlandsOtherCharacters Characters from Other Borderlands Media ]]

* UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents: Has a strong hillbilly/Appalachian accent.

* UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents: Has a sort of generic Southern accent, though it's nowhere near as strong as Scooter's.

* BigEater[=/=]ExtremeOmnivore: During the mission "Plan B" in Borderlands 2, Scooter mentions that he once ate one of Scooter's cars... the whole car... with a fork.

* SkewedPriorities: Due to her insanity she often puts whatever she fancies at the moment above whatever it is you're doing, such as collecting audio logs or handling hazardous material while you're on a rescue mission or trying to find a cure respectively. Similarly she also does bizarre things to whatever you collect for her that is completely unrelated to what you thought you got them for, like listening to the Eridian experiments (which includes the horrifying deaths of many people) as entertainment.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Laney joins a band of cannibals because it's the only place she can avoid Scooter's sexual advances. Daisy takes one listen to a love poem he composes for her and [[spoiler:[[DrivenToSuicide immediately commits suicide.]]]]

* OnlySaneWoman: In '''MR. TORGUE'S CAMPAIGN OF CARNAGE!''' anyway. Of course, for much of the DLC she's between Tiny Tina (a CreepyChild obsessed with StuffBlowingUp) and Mr. Torgue (a musclebound PsychopathicManchild ''also'' obsessed with StuffBlowingUp), so she may seem saner in comparison.

** She also runs a bar on Elpis. She mostly stays away from it because Janey Springs uses it as an excuse to "accidentally" run into her.

* AnAxeToGrind: He uses a psycho axe a few times.

* LastRequest: [[spoiler: In the ''Borderlands 2'' DLC ''Commander Lilith and the Fight for Sanctuary'', Scooter leaves an ECHO for his family and the Vault Hunters containing his last words and requests. After having his porno magazines regathered (which Moxxi keeps since no one wants them) and naming Ellie as the new owner of Catch-A-Ride, he asks the Vault Hunters to do one final spectacular stunt jump for him at the crater where he and his rocket crashed.]]

* BackAlleyDoctor: Zed lost his license long ago. It's not clear if he lost it due to insanity (especially considering Doc Mercy the lunatic laser-wielding bandit still has a license) or some other reason, but he still has an honest, if screwed-up, desire to heal people.

* MeatGrinderSurgery: He even has a quest where you assist him with this in the second game. You make the first incision with your melee attack, which kills the patient instantly. Of course, the "patient" in question was a Hyperion agent threatening everyone nearby with death and evidentially had to be restrained, so he's not that upset.

%%* GoldTooth

The friendly owner and operator of the vehicle digistruct stations across the planet, Scooter is loud, boisterous, and dumb as a bag of hammers -- except when it comes to machines.

* WeaponOfChoice: Moxxi brandishes a Maliwan pistol called the Rubi, which deals a hefty amount of elemental damage and boasts the highest LifeDrain percentage versus her other weapons (12% vs 2%).[/