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!!General Pandora

[[folder:Tina]]
!Tiny Tina
!!''World's Deadliest 13 year old''
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AshlyBurch

A thirteen-year-old demolitions specialist who is ''completely bonkers''. Also a friend of the Crimson Raiders, and bears a deep grudge against both Handsome Jack and a particularly nasty bandit named Flesh-Stick.
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* ADayInTheLimelight:
** She's the central character of the fourth DLC, "Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep".
** Along with Brick, she's also the protagonist of the ''+ 5 to Punching'' short film, which sets up the events of said DLC.
* AllGirlsLikePonies:
** [[spoiler:Probably the main reason why she had Butt Stallion as the queen of her campaign]].
** [[spoiler:In the ''Fight for Sanctuary'' DLC, Tina is overjoyed to become Butt Stallion's new owner after she and the Vault Hunters recover her from the Helios ruins.]]
* AmbiguouslyGay:
** It's ambiguous because she's thirteen, but she only sexualizes the "female" members of her tea party and her original motivation for training you in the second DLC was that she was going to have a PrecociousCrush on Moxxi.
** ''Assault On Dragon Keep'' further supports this - she ''always'' addresses the entire group with female terms. Girls, Ladies, Hos, etc. She also gets [[DistractedByTheSexy distracted by the thought of how the Queen's legs "Go on for miles."]] Mordecai has to snap her back to focus on the game.
--->''Sorry, was still thinking about them legs. Mm!''
*** Worth noting that [[spoiler:the queen is a ''[[BestialityIsDepraved horse]]'']].
** In her [[https://gearboxsoftwarecom.s3.amazonaws.com/images/_/20130712/701b26e49031d71be55944d3f2038e3758a43378.jpg invitation]] to Maya for the "[[MagicAmpersand Bunkers & Badasses]]" games, she [[PrecociousCrush basically asks the Siren out]]. It's kind of sweet, actually.
--->youre real pretty and I like you do you like me please mark one __ Yes __ No
** It's worth mentioning that [[http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/community/articles/1077/inside-the-box-inclusivity this article]] by Anthony Burch, wherein he confirms Axton and Torgue are bi and Hammerlock is gay, doesn't so much as mention Tina.
** It's probably safe to say that, due to her being such an extreme CloudCuckoolander, her sexual preferences depend on [[RuleOfFunny whatever is funniest at the time]].
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Frequently.
-->'''Tiny Tina:''' Counting Down! TEN! NINE! ''(missiles launch and explode)'' ...I got bored.
* AnimalMotifs: Rabbits, most of her tech is designed after a rabbit and she wears a pouch with a rabbit's face on it. Considering her eccentric nature, it could be a reference to ''[[AliceAllusion Alice in Wonderland]]''.
* ArcVillain: Of ''Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon's Keep'' technically, seeing as though she's the DM.
* AxeCrazy: This girl sings "Pop Goes the Weasel" with alternate lyrics to make it an unsubtle MurderBallad, while dancing around and committing ''actual'' murder. (With her victim clearly able to hear her, no less.) And that's just her first appearance. She could give ComicBook/HarleyQuinn a run for the title of "best psychotic female".
* BadassAdorable: She's an adorable if not-so-slightly nutty thirteen-year-old who also happens to be the most gifted demolitions expert on Pandora.
* BestServedCold: Or, in this case, served with enough volts to completely vaporize.
* BerserkButton: Tina absolutely HATES oatmeal raisin cookies. During the "Eat Cookies and Crap Thunder" quest in the Torgue DLC, when Tina discovers that what she thought were chocolate chip cookies are actually oatmeal raisin cookies, she goes absolutely ballistic, ordering you to destroy every one of the dispensers.
* BreakTheCutie:
** [[spoiler:Her backstory: her parents were put through horrendous slag experiments after being sold to Hyperion by a bandit named Flesh-Stick, and the only thing that saved her life was some explosives her parents had smuggled which helped her escape. This both traumatized her into the CloudCuckoolander she currently is and fed her obsession with explosives]].
** [[spoiler:The Climax of her DLC has her finally confronting the fact that Roland is dead, with her literally dropping to her knees crying. Her fellow Crimson Raiders realized just how bad they'd hurt her and allows her to play out her fantasy to get some measure of closure.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite being a crazed 13-year old, she's the best bomb maker that Roland knows.
* CloudCuckoolander: Oh, so very much. [[spoiler:Implied to be a coping mechanism for her trauma.]]
-->"I'm a little teapot, bloody and cut. Here is my handle, here is my butt."\\
"Squishy. Squishy squishy squishy."
* CopeByPretending: The "Assault on Dragon Keep" DLC reveals that Tina is trying to cope with [[spoiler:Roland's death]] by denying that it happened and pretending that everything's all right. The climax reveals that Tina is very ''very'' aware that [[spoiler:Roland is dead]] and is really using the pretending as a defense mechanism.
* CreepyChild: Generally played for laughs.
--> '''Tiny Tina:''' ''(singing a song and skipping)'' All around the stactus plant, the stalker chased the bandit. The stalker thought it was all in fun - POP! ''(jumps on the detonator plunger that is linked to a bandit wrapped in dynamite and blows the bandit to pieces)'' goes the bandit.
** It's ''not'' so laugh-inducing when [[spoiler:you finally learn the fate of her parents. The poor kid's had it rough]].
* CuteAndPsycho: She's a cute girl who has no issue killing entire gangs, blowing up rail lines and torturing her captives.
* DemolitionsExpert: And completely crazy about bombs, to the point that when she appears in the Torgue DLC, she ''blows off the door'' to her camper van just to make an entrance.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Inverted.
--> "You disarmed my proxy-boomer? [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy Damn, gurl, you got skills to pay the billzzzzzzz!]]"
* DungeonMaster: ''Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep'' centers around her being the DM for a game of ''[[MagicAmpersand Bunkers & Badasses]]'', with Brick, Mordecai, and Lilith as the other players.
* ElectricTorture: Subjects Flesh-Stick to this during her "tea party", while you have the job of keeping the generator running by taking out Flesh-Stick's buddies.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: We first meet Tina while singing her own equivalent of "Pop Goes the Weasel", during which she detonates a bomb held by a bandit tied to a stactus plant in her workshop, killing the bandit.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: Has huge, dark bags under her eyes. Part of the reason is her diet is ''terrible'', consisting of nothing but crumpets. Lilith actually forced her to eat other stuff during their [[MagicAmpersand Bunkers & Badasses]] game. [[spoiler:The other reason is probably nerves from the emotional trauma of her parents' deaths]].
* {{Expy}}: She's more or less what would happen if [[Anime/CowboyBebop Radical Edward]] lived on Pandora and rather than computers, she became obsessed with bombs.
* FishEyes: Her left eye strays some at times. It was originally a glitch, [[ThrowItIn but the developers enjoyed it enough to leave it in]].
* FluffyTheTerrible: She gets a new puppy named Enrique in ''Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage'' DLC. It's a [[spoiler:Badass Fire Skag]].
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Her obsession with explosives is because her mother saved her from the Hyperion labs by slipping her a grenade.]]
* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: A 13 year old that talks like equal parts raving psycho and lunatic pimp.
* GenkiGirl: Is incredibly hyper when it comes to explosives, and just life in general. In the ''Fight for Sanctuary'' DLC, she confides to the vault hunters that it feels like she needs to just keep moving around out of fear that she'll just stop. She figures it must be a defense mechanism for living on Pandora.
* HarmfulToMinors: [[spoiler:Saw her parents violently butchered for Slag research by Hyperion.]] The resulting trauma made her the off-kilter nutcase she is now.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl:
** A sketch at the end of ''Borderlands 2'' has her perched on Brick's shoulders, both of them killing bandits. This is also a callback to some of Brick's earlier dialogue; he mentions running around the bandit camps with Tina riding on his back, punching out bandits whilst Tina threw explosives around.
** In ''The Pre-Sequel!'', she and Brick are the ones listening to Athena's story in a NewGamePlus.
* IntergenerationalFriendship:
** She's friends with Brick and Roland as well as Mr. Torgue. She evidently has the latter on her cellphone.
** Also with Moxxi, although their relationship is of the VitriolicBestBuds variety.
** Her DLC shows that she's pretty close with most of the original Vault Hunters, with the possible exception of Mordecai, who mostly just tolerates her. By the ''Fight for Sanctuary'' DLC, she considers him a friend, and shows great concern for him, even crying her eyes out when she sees his condition.
* KillerGameMaster: She attempts to start off the Dragon Keep campaign with a HopelessBossFight against The Handsome Sorcerer's Dragon. When Lilith protests this, she change the fight to a generic EliteMook Skeleton. Unlike other examples, she's just bad at balancing combat.
* KillerRabbit: With emphasis on ''killer''. Bonus points for having rabbit-themed graffiti wherever she hangs out and stuffing plush toys with explosive warheads.
* LittleMissBadass: A 13 year old DemolitionsExpert.
* MadBomber: She's an AxCrazy DemolitionsExpert.
* {{Nepotism}}: An unintentional meta example. When Anthony Burch wrote the character of Tina, he unthinkingly created her based around his sister Ashly. When he realized it, he figured he might as well ask her to audition for the part. While other actresses placed an audition, Ashly ultimately earned the role.
* TheNicknamer:
** Has a large variety of nicknames for people, such as Shorty or Huggabutt for the player. She settles on "Vaulty-Vault" for most of the ''Fight for Sanctuary'' DLC.
** A RunningGag in ''Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep'' is that every time she refers to Lilith, she uses a new nickname for her.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Apparently, Flesh-Stick thought Tina died with her parents.
* OffTheRails: If you explore the side paths in the forest area of the Dragon Keep DLC, Tina admits that she didn't balance the combat for that situation. Cue a "Super Mega Badass Treant" showing up, it's level roughly 25 higher than everything else in the area. Tina quickly reworks things back to normal and apologizes for her lack of foresight.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** [[spoiler:She drops her usual goofy demeanor for a [[CreepyMonotone completely deadpan, flat delivery]] when she finally gets her revenge on Flesh-Stick]].
---> '''Tiny Tina:''' (completely serious and deadpan) [[TranquilFury Best tea party ever.]]
** [[spoiler:During Assault on the Dragon's Keep, she becomes uncharacteristically mean-spirited when talking about The Sorceror's Daughter (Angel's analogue in the game). She even says if Angel wasn't involved no one would have died. This is an early hint that she's aware Roland is dead and is using denial to cope.]]
** In ''Fight for Sanctuary'', she takes a moment and drops her usual high energy persona to confide to the vault hunters that she feels like she'll die if she doesn't keep constantly moving around. She figures it's a defense mechanism for living on Pandora, and thanks you for giving her the time to be real.
* ParentalSubstitute:
** Seems to view Roland as this, as she keeps a picture of herself with him on her nightstand.
** [[spoiler:She was originally part of the BearerOfBadNews quest. Hearing of Roland's death snaps her out of her usually cheery guise and utterly devastates her.]]
** [[spoiler:The Assault on Dragon's Keep has her in denial over Roland's death and she refuses to believe he's really gone. The entire DLC is her trying to cope with his death and trying to honor him and Bloodwing in her own way.]]
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Lapses into stereotypical African American and upper-class British mannerisms, among others. [[spoiler:During her DLC, she couldn't resist talking like this while voicing Roland, which turns him into a JiveTurkey. Mordecai lampshades it. For some reason, she can perfectly mimic the speech styles of Handsome Jack and Ellie, so she's doing it on purpose.]]
* {{Revenge}}: Her tea party quest involves capturing and then torturing [[spoiler:Flesh-Stick, the bandit who sold her and her parents to Hyperion for human testing.]]
-->'''Tina:''' [[ItsTheBestWhateverEver Best tea party ever.]]
* {{Sleepyhead}}: Can often be found napping in between quests.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: She's 20 years old in ''VideoGame/Borderlands3''.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: When she captures Flesh-Stick for her tea party, she says "[[SophisticatedAsHell You are cordially invited, BITCH!]]"
* TranquilFury: While she tortures and kills Flesh-Stick for his crimes, her demeanour is as cheery and polite as before, but it's ''very'' obvious that she's murderously enraged inside over what he did. When he finally dies, this little facade comes down slightly, to when the "fury" seeps through to the point that it's...[[CreepyMonotone noticeable.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood:
** Crumpets; and during 'Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep', she admits to having lived on nothing but a steady diet of crumpets for the last few years.
--->'''Mordecai''': Ever? Seriously? You should ''literally'' be dead.\\
'''Tina''': ''(with her mouth full of crumpets)'' Naw dog, I'm gonna live ''forever''.
** Chocolate chip cookies. She goes ballistic when she realizes that Torgue's vending machines sell oatmeal raisin cookies, ordering you to destroy them all.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Let's start with her pretending to ''pimp out'' two stuffed bunny missiles to you and go from there.
* UnreliableNarrator: Shows shades of this through her "[[MagicAmpersand Bunkers & Badasses]]" campaign in ''Assault on Dragon Keep''
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Her first reaction to being teleported with Lilith's siren powers is to vomit and cheer at how awesome that was.
* WhatIsThisFeeling: Some of her dialogue in ''You Are Cordially Invited: RSVP'' has her remark the following after seeing Flesh-Stick again.
-->'''Tina:''' Seein' him makes me scared as crap and I don't. ''remember.'' whyyyy.
* WriteWhoYouKnow: In-universe, she based many characters of her [[MagicAmpersand Bunkers & Badasses]] campaign on people she know or at least know of, if not outright just put them in the game with a fantasy-themed costume such as Moxxi or Ellie. [[spoiler:She even puts in Butt Stallion even though that was mainly a joke between Jack and the Vault Hunters]].
* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: She admits 3/4s into her [[MagicAmpersand Bunkers & Badasses]] campaign that she's making stuff up on the spot because she didn't think the others would get that far so fast. [[invoked]]
* YouKilledMyFather: She's after a bandit named Flesh-Stick because he [[spoiler:turned her parents in to Hyperion]].
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[[folder:Ellie]]
!Ellie
!!''Likes: cuddling, murder''
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JamieMarchi

Scooter's sister, who runs a vehicle garage in The Dust.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: While her relationship with Moxxi is strained, [[spoiler:if you visit Scooter's garage in the final mission, she'll tell him to tell their mom that she loves her.]]
* BigBeautifulWoman: While she's definitely on the higher end of the weight spectrum, it's not like she's really ''ugly.''
* BiTheWay: Will flirt with the player character regardless of gender. Definitely takes after her mother.
* ChainmailBikini: In ''Tiny Tina's Assault On Dragon Keep'', you can choose between giving Ellie a bikini or actual platemail for armor. She points out the flaws of this trope. If you give her the bikini, she says that she wishes she had a sweater as well.
-->'''Ellie:''' That ain't armor! That's not even big enough to cover half a tit. Besides, it ain't like the bad guys are gonna be aimin' for my saucy bits.
* FatAndProud:
** One of the reasons why she moved out to the Dust is because Moxxi kept nagging her to lose weight, and she didn't want to.
** The dev team actually was so insistent on getting her "fatness" right that her neck-rolls alone went through five different iterations before they were satisfied.
** She also is rather proud of her beauty and has a healthy sense self-worth, referring to the Hodunks' clan emblem being a skinny chick because they like skinny chicks.
--->'''Ellie:''' And they love skinny chicks 'cause they's pussies.
* GagBoobs: Even with her heavier-set frame, her breasts are proportionally bigger than ''[[BuxomIsBetter Moxxi's]]'' by a huge margin.
* {{Gainaxing}}: Her boobs jiggle as much as, if not more than, her mother's. To the point that she and her mother are the only two female characters in the game whose models underwent additional work specifically to accommodate the two characters' [[JigglePhysics breast movements]].
* InsultBackfire: The bandits make hood ornaments in her likeness to mock her. Although she is aware they were meant to be insulting, she thinks the design is "badass" and has you steal some so she can put them around the shop.
* ItAmusedMe: Secretly instigates the clan war between the Zafords and the Hodunks primarily for kicks, as well as wanting to prove to Moxxi that she can survive in The Dust.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: [[spoiler:In the Pre-Sequel you can catch Moxxi "out of character" tinkering with a loader bot. She sounds remarkably like Ellie, especially with the same drawl and enthusiasm for tinkering.]]
* KarmaHoudini: Neither side of the Clan War arc ''ever'' catches on that she started it. However as of 4th Headhunter DLC, they're starting to put two & two together... and still never figure it out.
* LegCling: Official artwork for ''Tiny Tina's Assault On Dragon Keep'' shows Ellie clinging to Roland's leg. She's wearing a [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Slave Leia outfit.]]
* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler:Scooter's final ECHO request to Ellie is given in the ''Commander Lilith and the Fight for Sanctuary'' DLC, with his sister becoming the new owner of Catch-A-Ride in his passing.]]
* SouthernFriedGenius: She might not be all there, and speak with the same drawl as Scooter, but she knows her stuff when it comes to trucks n' stuff... when she isn't crushing them around a bandit in a trash compactor over an insult.
* WrenchWench:
** Helps Scooter out and introduces the player to the new Bandit Technical, which the player first uses to get into the Bloodshot Stronghold.
** [[spoiler:In ''Borderlands 3'', Ellie runs all of the Catch-A-Ride stations as per Scooter's dying wishes.]]
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: She can fit an entire suit of armor in her size in her cleavage, much like her mother with guns.
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!!Sanctuary

[[folder:Sir Hammerlock]]
!Sir Alistair Hammerlock
!!''Hunter, Scholar, Gentleman''
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JMichaelTatum

A QuintessentialBritishGentleman who is on Pandora to study the native fauna. Having lost his arm, leg, and desire to go into the field some time ago, he enlists the new Vault Hunters to help him conduct studies.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Played for laughs and subverted in "Big Game Hunt".
-->'''Hammerlock:''' Thank you for joining me on this expedition, by the by. Things can get pretty lonely on treks such as these, and, with my right hand being made of metal, I am incapable of amusing myself in the way most other males would. Pahaahahaha! Some ribald humor for you there.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Is the focus of the 3rd DLC expansion, ''Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt''.
* AdventurerOutfit: Wears a futuristic version of a Victorian era safari outfit. With his robotic arm and leg, he wouldn't look that out of place at a SteamPunk convention.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: He has a notably dark complexion despite having traits of a GreatWhiteHunter.
* AnArmAndALeg: A [[SandWorm Thresher]] by the name of Old Slappy tore out Hammerlock's arm at the socket. The same thresher also got the leg on that side, and possibly even the other leg as well. He sends you after it in a sidequest.
* ArtificialLimbs: See above. Easily removable, too!
* AwesomeMcCoolname: His title and name would put hairs on your chest with each utterance.
* BadassAdorable: According to his DLC, Hammerlock first came to Pandora as a child of six, after his father [[DisproportionateRetribution abandoned him for a month after "using colourful language in polite company"]]. After throttling twenty skags into submission he started to enjoy the place.
* BadassBookworm: He is a scientist who is trying to catalog Pandora's various flora and fauna for his almanac. He is however not above plagiarism of others' notes as one of the sidequests he gives is to track down his old boyfriend's notes.
* BadassFamily: He is the brother of Aurelia Hammerlock, who was one of Jack's Vault Hunters in the Pre-Sequel. The two have a very bitter history together, which would explain why he never mentioned her.
* BadassGay: A gay man who throttled twenty large predators at the age of six and would be a terrifying enemy if he wasn't so friendly.
* BadassInDistress:
** You first meet him when he's besieged by Captain Flynt's men. He won't come out until you've gotten rid of all the hostiles.
** In the ''Son of Crawmerax'' DLC, he is captured by the locals as a sacrifice to the titular Son of Crawmerax.
* BadassMustache: Few will ever have facial hair as fine as his. It's officially part of the appeal in the opening video for his DLC.
* CharacterBlog: Took over the ECHO Cast blog used by Gaige and Mr. Torgue in preparation for his DLC. He also covered a week of the Loot Hunt event.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: In the ''Pre-Sequel!'', he sends you on a mission to capture "moon threshers." The red thresher and blue thresher you capture are then shipped off to Pandora, where it's revealed that they escaped and specifically grew up to become Old Slappy and Terramorphous.
* DoorStopper: One of the radio ads has him advertise his almanac. He highlights that if the info inside won't help you survive against whatever Pandoran fauna you are facing, smashing the book over it's head also works. Comes in 10 volumes too no less.
* ElectronicEyes: It's very hard to see, but his right eye (right behind the broken lens of his glasses) is mechanical. [[NoodleIncident Where this happened is never mentioned, or explained.]]
* GentlemanAdventurer: He's the QuintessentialBritishGentleman who studies and hunts the creatures of Pandora.
* FriendlySniper: He seems to prefer Jakobs sniper rifles as his main weapon, as he's often seen posing with one and he uses one at the beginning of his DLC. Every gun he gives you as a quest reward in his DLC is a Jakobs brand.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: Knows all about the creatures of Pandora, but also has an amusingly dark sense of humor.
* GottaKillEmAll: In ''3'', his Crew Missions involve hunting down various miniboss creatures so that he can mount their heads and corpses in his room in Sanctuary III.
* GreatWhiteHunter: He even has three old rifle darts on his jacket. Fittingly his DLC has you hunting all kinds of boss monsters (including two raid bosses no less). Unfortunately he doesn't participate in any of them, with no explanation as to why either. In the ''Fight for Sanctuary'' DLC, he states that Hadorax is the last challenge on his list of Pandoran big game hunts, and expresses sorrow in not knowing what he'll do with himself afterward.
* HighClassGlass: Though it's not a monocle, it's a pair of glasses with one lens broken. Still meant to invoke the look though.
* IAmVeryBritish: Has an extremely stereotypical upper-class RP (Received Pronounciation) accent.
* IGaveMyWord: In his DLC, Hammerlock refuses to investigate Professor Nakayama because he had promised the Vault Hunters a relaxing vacation of hunting, and "a gentleman always keeps his word". He only relents and directs the Vault Hunters to investigate Nakayama because the professor kept bugging them and Hammerlock realized that they wouldn't be able to get a moment's peace until they dealt with him.
* MadLibsCatchphrase: "[''Blank, typically a noun''], Ho!" [[note]]"Adventure, ho!", "Repressed memories, ho!", et cetera.[[/note]]
* MrExposition: He narrates many of the exposition trailers. Lampshaded in his first appearance.
--> ''I'm spouting exposition again, aren't I? Apologies.''
** He's also the narrator for several trailers in which he usually describes various game mechanics and story details.
* NiceGuy: Polite, well-spoken, honest, doesn't call you names even when you mess up (he politely elaborates on any specific requirements he might have if you mess up during a quest), and is genuinely thankful for your assistance regarding his various requests involving killing the wildlife. A wee bit sarcastic, but that mostly happens when he's annoyed by Claptrap.
* NiceHat: That you can help him decorate with bullymong fur as a side quest.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'', it's revealed that [[spoiler:Threshers are apparently a sort of mutated plant and are not a native species to Pandora, being instead native to Elpis, where they were very puny and unimpressive. Hammerlock actually asks you to send him two Threshers so he can study them, which then get loose and become an invasive species. He comments that it shouldn't be a problem because of their small size, but by the events of ''Borderlands 2'', Threshers '''thrive''' on Pandora and grow to gargantuan proportions in the planet's more favorable environment. Hammerlock ''screwed'' the planet's ecosystem. Not to mention that one of the Threshers you sent him is his own future archnemesis, Old Slappy, who would go on to make his mistake ''literally'' cost him AnArmAndALeg. The other Thresher, who Hammerlock named "Terry", is implied to have become ''Terramorphous the Invincible''.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In Aurelia's personal ECHO, he gives her a lengthy tirade about how she's a horrible person who he wants nothing to do with.
-->"Hello, "dear" sister. I’m sure that necrotic lump of tissue you call a heart skipped a beat when I opened your condescending message. As PLEASED as I would be to have your [[IceQueen emotionless, creature-murdering presence]] in my home, I must respectfully decline your request to be housed in my mobile surveying platform during your quote-unquote holiday on Pandora. By all means, [[RichBitch spend some of mum and dad’s blood money on a ticket]]. By all means, [[EgomaniacHunter indiscriminately murder the wondrous creatures I came here to study]]. By all means, get your butlers to carry you around in a [[GenuineHumanHide palanquin sewed from the skins of crying children]]! But don’t you DARE presume to be worthy of my presence after the DECADES of teasing and torment you put me through! I WANT NOTHING! TO DO! WITH YOU! SINCERELY, SIR HAMMERLOCK!”
* RetiredBadass: With the loss of two of his limbs he pays the Vault Hunters to go out and investigate Pandora's native fauna for his almanac.
* SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish: As a zoologist of some form, his speech is certainly more formal than most.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Despite his GentlemanAndAScholar image, he can be just as crude as everyone else sometimes. "Bonerfarts" comes to mind.
* StraightGay:
** One sidequest in ''Borderlands 2'' has you collect ECHO logs from an ex-boyfriend of his, and one sidequest in ''The Pre-Sequel'' has you meet up with a different ex-boyfriend who still owes him a favour, but other than that you'd never notice.
** Anthony Burch confirmed that he is indeed gay in [[http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/community/articles/1077/inside-the-box-inclusivity this article here.]]
* TemptingFate: In the Pre-Sequel he has you sneak two Threshers off of the moon to Pandora (which doesn't have them yet.) His post-quest dialogue imply that the two escaped, but it shouldn't be that bad since they're "tiny little buggers". [[spoiler:One of them is named Terry, and the other one has a habit of Slapping. These were implied to have turned into Terramorphus the Invincible, a Raid Boss thresher the size of a a mountain, and Old Slappy, the gargantuan thresher that took off his limbs.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: Has a one-sided friendship with Claptrap. Claptrap considers him a good friend while Hammerlock despises the little bastard and says that his voice kills his brain cells.
** Ironic given that Hammerlock was the one who repaired Claptrap after Jack left him for dead at the end of the Pre-Sequel's ''Claptastic Voyage'' DLC.
* WhiteSheep: His sister Aurelia is the epitome of a RichBitch, and while we never get to see his parents, the fact that he considers their fortune blood money suggests they're just as awful as Aurelia, if not worse. In contrast, Alistair himself is one of the few unambiguously decent people on Pandora.
* WeaponOfChoice: He has a preference for Jakobs guns as three of his unique guns you can earn in his DLC are all of the Jakobs manufacture. He also favors sniper rifles, which is one of the few things he and his sister share, and often (but not always) give them out as rewards for quests.
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[[folder:Michael Mamaril]]
!Michael Mamaril
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->'''Voiced by:''' Chad Cline

A Vault Hunter who can randomly be encountered in Sanctuary, usually around the shops or the Crimson Raider headquarters.
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* CoolShades: Wears a pair of mirrored sunglasses that look very cool.
* NiceGuy: The fact that he just so happens to keep level-appropriate blue (and sometimes purple) weapons with him just to hand them off to you quickly makes him an endearing character, and he is very much loved by the fans, who often run around Sanctuary looking for him.
* {{Tuckerization}}: He's based on a fan of the original ''VideoGame/Borderlands1'' who died before the release of the game. Gearbox was so moved and upset that they put him in the sequel, and let him try out the pre-release version before his death.
* WeaponOfChoice: He spawns carrying a Legendary assault rifle on his back, and a sword similar to Mordecai's. Interestingly, he seems to prefer Jakobs rifles, or at least assault rifles with the Jakobs barrel, as he's most frequently seen with either the Smooth Scorpio, the Hammer Buster or the Stomper, which is a weapon that also doubles as a CallBack to both a sidequest in the first game, and a combat rifle type.
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!!Hodunk Clan
[[folder:Clan in General]]
A clan of the [[DeepSouth Pandoran equivalent to stereotypical rednecks]]. Also the family that Mad Moxxi, Scooter, and Ellie hail from before Moxxi took the kids and left.
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* CuttingOffTheBranches: Considering that Jimbo and Tector are still alive in ''Tales from the Borderlands'', the Vault Hunters evidently sided with them in the Clan Wars.
* DeepSouth: Apparently their neck of the Dust is the Pandora equivalent. These guys leave no stereotype unturned, either. Playing the banjo, living in trailers, driving race cars...
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:The ending of the Wedding Day Massacre DLC sees the Hodunks and Zafords allying together to swear vengeance against Moxxi and the Vault Hunters after the botched attempt to unite the clans by marriage.]]
* MobWar: An optional series of sidequests from Ellie lets you provoke one between two rival clans, the Zafords and Hodunks. One of the later Headhunter DLC packs lets you help Moxxi patch things up between them again.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: They're armed with shotguns in every mission. Tector has one too. For the most part, they seem to like Torgue shotguns very much.
* SouthernFriedGenius[=/=]IdiotSavant: Surprisingly. Despite all the genetic disorders and physical and mental development issues, the Hodunk clan are innate technological geniuses. They even run their own family race track.
* TooDumbToLive: They never seem to realize that the same people that they're hiring to go after the Zafords are the same people that the Zafords are hiring to go after them. That or they don't care.

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[[folder:Papa Hodunk]]
!!Jimbo "Papa" Hodunk
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/IanSinclair

The patriarch of the clan, he's an unintelligible old coot stuck in a wheelchair.
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* BadassMustache: He has a very nice handlebar.
* BerserkButton: The sheer mention of Moxxi and her kids sends him into a gibbering rage since he sees them as traitors.
* DisappearedDad: Is vaguely implied to be Scooter's father, but since Scooter's been kicked out of the clan it's doubtful he has much of a presence in his life.
* EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped: "[old coot gibberish]".
* HandicappedBadass: He's missing his left leg and is normally confined to a wheelchair, but he still personally takes part in the final battle against the Zafords, riding on Tector's shoulders.
* ThePatriarch: Generally referred to as "Papa Hodunk".
* TheUnintelligible: Everything he says has to be translated by another member of the Hodunk clan.
* WeaponOfChoice: Green-rarity Torgue MIRV grenades, by the final Clan War mission.
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[[folder:Tector]]
!!Tector Hodunk
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JoelMcDonald

The eldest Hodunk son, and Jimbo's right-hand man.
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* BookDumb: From what we get from ''Tales'', he can't read. Which is good, because Fiona's wanted poster is pretty much right next to him, outside the Purple Skag.
* TheDragon: To Jimbo in Borderlands 2 and to August in ''VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands''.
* FriendlyEnemy: He seems to be on even personal terms with Moxxi, recommending her bar to people even though he knows it ticks his dad off.
* {{Gonk}}: Probably the most unusual looking human NPC in the game, if not the ugliest.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: You can kill him at the end of the clan war, he reappears alive in "Mad Moxxi and the Wedding Day Massacre" just to immediately get struck by lightning, and then appears in Tales from Borderlands.
* TranslatorBuddy: To his own father.
* TurnsRed: If you kill his father, Tector turns into "Grieving Tector". It's sort of like making a Goliath mad, except he doesn't regenerate health.
* WeaponOfChoice: He wields a shotgun at the end of the Clan War arc. In ''Tales'', though, he uses a blue-rarity Dahl repeater.
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!!Zaford Clan
[[folder:Clan in General]]
A clan of Irishmen who run their own pub, the Holy Spirits, near the town of Overlook.
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* CuttingOffTheBranches: ''Tales from the Borderlands'' implies that the Vault Hunters ended up killing Mick.
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:By the end of the Wedding Day Massacre DLC, the Zafords and the Hodunks unite against Moxxi and the Vault Hunters.]]
* FightingIrish: Irishmen obsessed with fighting the Hodunk clan. "I pay in blood, booze, and ''bullets''!"
* MobWar: An optional series of sidequests from Ellie lets you provoke one between two rival clans, the Zafords and Hodunks. One of the later Headhunter DLC packs lets you help Moxxi patch things up between them again.
* {{Oireland}}: Shamelessly, although PlayedForLaughs. Lots of alcohol, ridiculous accents, shamrocks, and ''sooo'' much green.
* TooDumbToLive: Like their rivals, they (or at the least Mick) never seem to realize that the same folks that they're hiring are the same ones being hired by their enemies. That or they don't care.
* WeaponOfChoice: The Zafords like using elemental [=SMGs=], and so does Mick. However, they have a tendency to use pistols as well, especially elemental ones or Jakobs revolvers.
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[[folder:Mick]]
!!Mick Zaford
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChuckHuber

Patriarch of the Zaford clan, he's a friendly, affable father who just wants to kill every single Hodunk he sees.
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* InvisibilityCloak: If you haven't encountered Hyperion Infiltrators yet, Mick is the first human enemy you'll see with a cloak in the game's chronological order of quests, so be wary.
* MeaningfulName: As the Zafords represent the FightingIrish trope, Mick is a pejorative often used for the Irish.
* NiceHat: Wears a snazzy bowler.
* PapaWolf: His response to the Hodunks killing his son Peter is to have the Vault Hunter go and burn them alive in their trailers, and he has enough when Lucky's wake is crashed.
* WeaponOfChoice: He carries a submachine gun at the Clan War last mission, which usually spawns as a Bandit one.

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[[folder:The Bagman]]
!!Peter Zaford
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChuckHuber

Mick's son, a nice boy who might be a little insane.
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* TheDutifulSon: To hear him tell it.
* HearingVoices: Or more specifically, a single voice, which he addresses as "voice in me 'ead."
* {{Leprechaun}}: Not a typical example, but his traits make The Bagman an allusion to one. He's short and the family's bagman, but he's called a leprechaun. When fought, he teleports around the room as if by magic, and can drop a relic called the Pot O'Gold.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Oddly enough, he carries a corrosive E-Tech Bandit shotgun.
* TemptingFate: As the player stalks him in order to find the Zafords' hidden money cache, Peter constantly and loudly talks to himself about how he hopes nobody is following him with the intention of ambushing him when he finally reaches the cache, and that he loves not getting ambushed as part of the trip.
* TheUnfavorite: What he thinks himself to be. It's unknown if it's true or just a result of his insanity, but Mick does seem horribly torn up over his death.
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!!Overlook

[[folder:Overlook in general]]
Residents of the small town of Overlook, they are all confined to their homes due to suffering from a brain disease called the skull-shivers. The disease was brought on by Hyperion's mining operations, and the company has since taken over the town and terrorized the already suffering citizens.
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* {{Hikikomori}}: The whole town, but not the usual case. They're all house bound due to a "curfew" enforced by Hyperion. Should they "break" it, one of the citizens will get executed via [[LudicrousGibs the Grinder]]. In the worst case scenario, the nearby Hyperion base has a mortar aimed towards the town.

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[[folder:Karima]]
!!Karima
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The current mayor of Overlook.
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* AscendedFanon: Invoked. Karima has a stuttering problem as a result of the Skull Shivers that she (and the rest of the town) contracted due to Hyperion's decidedly haphazard approach to mining safety. After you cure her, she doesn't stutter anymore. However, Anthony Burch received feedback from people who have a stuttering problem in real life, and how they appreciated Karima's character because they didn't make her stutter just to make fun of her, but rather that you could still see that she was a sympathetic character and that she still had a bit of humanity left on a planet that's gone completely insane. Anthony said that if Karima ever got any new content in the future of the game, her stutter would become a permanent part of her character. In the Claptastic Voyage DLC of the Pre-Sequel, it's shown that Karima had her stutter even before Hyperion began mining.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Karima may be a NiceGirl, but even she has her limits, as Dave learns the hard way when Karima [[spoiler:intentionally made the player to destroy Dave's house with the mortar]].
* FlowerInHerHair: She wears a wreath in her hair, which makes for an odd contrast with her severe clothing.
* NiceGirl: One of the nicest people on Pandora, which is saying something.
** In the Claptastic Voyage, she was willing to give Claptrap a chance to prove himself after [[spoiler:blowing up the VH Factor arena and half of Overlook]] by having him take medicine to her husband in the local church. [[spoiler:[[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished Unfortunately, Claptrap ended up accidentally burning down the church and killing her husband alongside countless others]].]]
* MeaningfulName: Take the "I" out and you get "karma". [[spoiler:Guess what happens to Dave.]]
* [[MrFixit Ms Fixit]]: She cobbles the shield for Overlook together from the cores of several personal shields.
* TheDogBitesBack: Dave gets his comeuppance for all his sexist jerkass remarks and for stealing the power core out of the medicine dispenser.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: She was formerly a computer programmer and only became the mayor of Overlook after the previous one died.
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[[folder:Dave]]
!!Dave
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JoshGrelle

The black sheep/village idiot of Overlook.
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* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Specifically, on the part of Karima.
-->'''Karima''': Do you know the best part about Dave? [[spoiler:He's dead.]]
* AssholeVictim: He's a sexist jerk no one in Overlook even likes. [[spoiler:You really can't blame Karima for having him murdered.]]
* HateSink: His whole existence is to be a sexist douche, it seems.
* {{Jerkass}}: The guy gives Handsome Jack a run for his money in this department. However, the Claptastic Voyage DLC shows that he used to be somewhat less of a dick, or at least not nearly as outrageously sexist. [[spoiler:It is implied that how Karima still let Claptrap help after Claptrap blew the town's stadium and set fire to the town (which lead to the church being set as a triage set on fire too, further killing the wounded survivors) turns Dave to this.]]
* KarmicDeath: Karima has you test out the new shield surrounding Overlook... [[spoiler:but not before having you drop the first mortar right on him.]]
* MenAreUncultured: In "Claptastic Voyage", he apparently considers sandwiches to be a "fancy" food.
* StayInTheKitchen[=/=]PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Loves making sexist comments towards Karima about how as a woman, she can't do anything right. [[spoiler:Suffice it to say, it makes his demise all the more satisfying.]]
* StrawMisogynist: His entire dialogue is literally nothing but sexist remarks towards Karima.
* TooDumbToLive: Takes the battery out from the medical dispenser to power a clock tower. As in, the medical dispenser that sells medicine the town desperately needs. He also lives in a shack suspended off the face of a cliff and supported by a few wooden planks.
* UngratefulBastard: If you give him the medicine for skull-shivers, he simply calls you a skag-licker. Everyone else is quite courteous.
* TheVoice: You never actually see what Dave looks like. He doesn't have an ECHO portrait and he never leaves his house.
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* CreateYourOwnVillain: In the ''Pre-Sequel!'', he actually sends you on a mission to capture [[spoiler:"moon threshers." They then escape shortly after you bring them to him and escape to Pandora.]]
* DoorStopper: One of the radio ads has him advertise his almanac. He highlights that if the info inside won't help you survive against whatever Pandoran fauna you are facing, smashing the book over it's head also works. Comes in 10 volumns too no less.

* FriendlySniper: He seems to prefer Jakobs sniper rifles as his main weapon, as he's often seen posing with one and he uses one at the beginning of his DLC.

* GreatWhiteHunter: He even has three old rifle darts on his jacket. Fittingly his DLC has you hunting all kinds of boss monsters (including two raid bosses no less). Unfortunately he doesn't participate in any of them, with no explanation as to why either.