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-->'''Marcus''': ''Catch a guuunn! '''Guh!''' Never doing that again!''

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/BruceDuBose

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Very rarely, he breaks down and acts like a decent human being. Notably, in the second game, when 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".
** JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: The assault rifle he gives you is notably underleveled compared to the level-matched gear everyone else in Sanctuary hands out. He might hate Handsome Jack and have every reason to want to see the bastard gone, but Marcus is still Marcus, a cheapskate above all else.

* {{Catchphrase}}:
** ''"So, you want to hear a story, heh..."''. Said at the start of each game (and some [=DLCs=]).
** ''"No refunds."'' is more common while you buy stuff from his or his vending machines.

'''Weapon Brands''': [[Characters/BorderlandsAtlas Atlas]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsDahl Dahl]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsHyperion Hyperion]] ([[Characters/BorderlandsHandsomeJack Handsome Jack]]) | [[Characters/BorderlandsMaliwan Maliwan]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsTorgue Torgue]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsTediore Tediore]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsWeaponBrands Other Weapon Brands]]\\

!Supporting [=NPC=]s[[note]]Per appearance order, including [=DLCs=][[/note]]

!Enemies[[note]]Per appearance order, including [=DLCs=][[/note]]
!!Jakobs
[[folder:Dr. Ned]]
!Dr. Ned Blanco
!!''I'm Helping!''
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As of ''1'' (''Dr. Ned'' DLC, original appearance). Click for: [[labelnote:''Dr. Ned'' second appearance]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bl1_undead_ned.jpg[[/labelnote]] - [[labelnote:''Claptrap'' DLC]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bl1_dr_ned_trap.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
->'''Voiced by''': Creator/RicSpiegel

Zed's identical twin brother, [[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; he doesn't even have full miniboss durability, at most he's just equal to a regular [[EliteMooks Badass]]. 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!!!"
* 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.%%How?
%%* BodyHorror: As Undead Ned.
* CameBackWrong: ''Thrice''. Upon being killed in "Zombie Island", he almost instantly 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.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: It seems his initial motives for creating the zombies were altruistic (research into cheating death), but upon realizing that the results were useless for anything other than mass destruction he just shrugs his shoulders and decides to be a CardCarryingVillain instead. His reasoning seems to be IMeantToDoThat: if his creations are going to wreck havoc anyway, he might as well fully embrace it and consider himself a successful villain rather than a grossly incompetent scientist.
* KingMook: When you fight him at the end of the DLC, he fights just like a regular pistol bandit, only with more health and a slightly unique weapon. Then he goes OneWingedAngel and turns into a huge undead monster.
* 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.
* MakerOfMonsters: His experiments are responsible for the zombies and wereskags of Jakob's Cove, which he uses to defend his lab.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: ''[[BossSubtitles Turns out he's a bad guy... who knew?]]''
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: By the end of the first ''Borderlands'' storyline, he's a 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: Undead Ned, a far tougher battle than the one just before it.
* PornStash: There are ''huge'' stacks of dirty magazines in his secret lab.
* {{Roboteching}}: When you fight him he's armed with a Purple-rarity submachine gun with a unique barrel that makes it fire drunken bullets that spiral randomly and ricochet off walls.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Denies frequently that he's just Zed with a moustache. In the ''Robot Revolution'' 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 canonizes all the events of the Robo-lution.
* TreacherousQuestGiver: Played for laughs, given how ObviouslyEvil he is.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: How the Claptraps bring him BackFromTheDead.
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[[folder:Hank Reiss]]
!Hank Reiss
!!''Nice Hat!''
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A man who was turned into a were-skag by Ned when he was given the anti-zombie antidote. Identified by his hat.
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* ApocalypticLog: His ECHO correspondence with his wife, which gradually tells the tale of the zombie outbreak in Jakobs Cove 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.
* 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.
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[[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.
* TragicMonster: A BadassPreacher who tried to help Jakobs Cove and was turned into the very "evil" he was fighting. BeingGoodSucks on [[CrapsackWorld Pandora]].
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