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* PinballProjectile: The "Close Enough" skill, which gives bullets that miss a chance to ricochet back at enemies but at reduced damage, and the "Nth Degree" skill, which causes every nth successful hit to ricochet at full damage.
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* PinballProjectile: The "Close Enough" skill, which gives bullets that miss a chance to ricochet back at enemies but only hit for 50% damage[[hottip:*: which means that at reduced damage, 400 Anarchy the bullet hits like half a ton of bricks instead of a full ton, i.e. you can still one-shot a mook off a ricochet]], and the "Nth Degree" skill, which causes every nth successful hit to ricochet at full damage.
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* NoodleIncident: According to Tina's invitation to her Bunkers and Badasses game, he got into a ''very'' heated argument with her, and they both kind of regret it. Axton apparently wants to take back the things he said, and Tina wants to take back the dynamite she threw at him....
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* TheStoic: Oddly averted for his archetype. Since most of his lines are in Haiku, he is considerably more wordy than the other Vault Hunters.
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**SplitPersonalityTakeover: Krieg's inner voice threatens to do this if his psychopathic side ever harms an innocent, and makes it clear that he'll do it just to kill them both.
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** Tiny Tina's "invite" to Maya for her Bunkers and Badasses game mentions Krieg staring at Maya a whole lot.
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* TheOtherDarrin / TheOtherMarty: Was originally supposed to be voiced by Creator/LuciChristian, and is even listed in the credits as such, but switched to Creator/CheramiLeigh in the middle of production. A lot of (possibly ''most'' of) Gaige's lines are still recognizably Luci; if you don't spec into Anarchy or Close Enough, you'll pretty much never hear Cherami at all.
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* TheOtherDarrin / TheOtherMarty: TheOtherDarrin[=/=]TheOtherMarty: Was originally supposed to be voiced by Creator/LuciChristian, and is even listed in the credits as such, but switched to Creator/CheramiLeigh in the middle of production. A lot of (possibly ''most'' of) Gaige's lines are still recognizably Luci; if you don't spec into Anarchy or Close Enough, you'll pretty much never hear Cherami at all.
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** His inner/good personality has "... Close enough", usually said in annoyance after telling the dominant personality to say something and he instead shouts some psychotic nonsense.
* [[FlamingSword Flaming Buzz-axe]]: Fire Fiend gives him a chance to set enemies on fire with melee attacks, with his axe becoming wreathed in flames.
* MoreDakka: Elemental Elation has it so that Krieg gains an increasing stack of buffs to his fire rate and magazine size anytime he deals elemental damage. Paired with Blood Filled Guns (which increases his magazine size based on his Bloodlust stacks), he can supply some impressive Dakka.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: While revenge is a basic motivator for all of the Vault Hunters, Krieg ''really'' has it out for Hyperion as they are the ones responsible for making him into what he is. Notably, his version of Handsome Jack's mask is named ''"GO TO HELL DIE DIE DIE"''
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: While revenge is a basic motivator for all of the Vault Hunters, Krieg ''really'' has it out for Hyperion as they are the ones responsible for making him into what he is. Notably, his version of Handsome Jack's mask is named ''"GO TO HELL DIE DIE DIE"''DIE"'' and his sane side openly encourages him to massacre Hyperion troops.
-->''"Yes. Make them pay for what they did to us."''
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* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Light the Fuses has him tossing dynamite when his health reaches zero. He also has a few skills that improve explosive damage.
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* CharmPerson: Thoughtlock, the final skill of her Motion skill tree, which makes it so that her phaselock turns enemies against each other rather than simply holding them in place.
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* ImmuneToFlinching: Krieg is heavier than the other Vault Hunters, giving him less knockback from attacks, which goes good with his melee-centric play-style. This also has the unfortunate side effect of making grenade jumping and certain Badass Challenges impossible to do using him, such as getting a geyser to launch you to the top of the Happy Pig Motel sign. It doesn't launch him nearly high enough.
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* KnockbackEvasion: Krieg is heavier than the other Vault Hunters, giving him less knockback from attacks, which goes good with his melee-centric play-style. This also has the unfortunate side effect of making grenade jumping and certain Badass Challenges impossible to do using him, such as getting a geyser to launch you to the top of the Happy Pig Motel sign. It doesn't launch him nearly high enough.
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* DangerousDeserter: Abandoned his post to become a mercenary and vault hunter.
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* DangerousDeserter: Abandoned Because a court-martial would have resulted in him being executed, Axton's wife (who was also his post commanding officer) [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial did not suggest]] he go AWOL to become a mercenary and vault hunter.
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* HearingVoices: Yes, yes, Krieg's hearing his old personality most of the time. The interesting thing is that if Krieg's in a multiplayer group, everyone else can hear the sane personality. A slightly creepy touch.
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** The word "Meat" in general. So much so that {{https://gearboxsoftwarecom.s3.amazonaws.com/images/_/20130713/28c8ac9f204cdf8bc40efd5a9957c514823af91f.jpg Tiny Tina}} thinks she can talk to him using only the word meat.
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** The word "Meat" in general. So much so that {{https://gearboxsoftwarecom.[[https://gearboxsoftwarecom.s3.amazonaws.com/images/_/20130713/28c8ac9f204cdf8bc40efd5a9957c514823af91f.jpg Tiny Tina}} Tina]] thinks she can talk to him using only the word meat.
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** It is also mentioned by Tiny Tina in her invite to Maya for her Bunkers and Badasses game: ''If you ain't too busy trying to get Krieg to stop staring at you''.
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** The word "Meat" in general. So much so that {{https://gearboxsoftwarecom.s3.amazonaws.com/images/_/20130713/28c8ac9f204cdf8bc40efd5a9957c514823af91f.jpg Tiny Tina}} thinks she can talk to him using only the word meat.
-->''In words you will understands: MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT BLOOD MEAT CAKE''
** He has a tendency to scream "NIPPLE SALADS" at times. It's even featured in his Legendary Psycho class mod.
** The word "Meat" in general. So much so that {{https://gearboxsoftwarecom.s3.amazonaws.com/images/_/20130713/28c8ac9f204cdf8bc40efd5a9957c514823af91f.jpg Tiny Tina}} thinks she can talk to him using only the word meat.
-->''In words you will understands: MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT BLOOD MEAT CAKE''
** He has a tendency to scream "NIPPLE SALADS" at times. It's even featured in his Legendary Psycho class mod.
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**Really, all of Krieg's skill trees are like this. When you only have a few skill points, none of them are that great. Going into Hellborn early will probably just kill you for very little benefit. Bloodlust will provide very little advantages, and you probably won't have the equipment to really make use of Mania for a while. However, once you get enough skill points to start maxing out the trees...
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* EyepatchOfPower: While not exactly an eyepatch, his default head has his right eye covered by one of the belts that fastens his mask to his face. Strangely enough, his other heads seem to show that the eye is perfectly normal.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: He makes various references to numbers when talking about loot, and has several lines that more or less tell the player to use his action skill when he's at low health.
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** This may seem low for an assassin of Zer0's... But if he did his job properly, there would be no evidence linking him to his crimes. If all of his assassinations were catalogued, his bounty would likely be much, much higher.
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* WantedPoster: '''Political Assassin: $32,000,000,000'''
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* WantedPoster: '''Political Assassin: $32,000,000,000'''$32,000,000,000'''
**This may seem low for an assassin of Zer0's... But if he did his job properly, there would be no evidence linking him to his crimes. If all of his assassinations were catalogued, his bounty would likely be much, much higher.
**This may seem low for an assassin of Zer0's... But if he did his job properly, there would be no evidence linking him to his crimes. If all of his assassinations were catalogued, his bounty would likely be much, much higher.
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* AxCrazy: Krieg is decidedly much more lacking in the sanity department compared to the other Vault Hunters, enough that his (Non-inner voice) quotes make ''Salvador'' look perfectly sane. Case in point: the "Silence the Voices" skill in the Mania tree increases his melee damage, while also introducing a probability to hurt ''himself'' with his melee attacks.
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* AxCrazy: Krieg is decidedly much more lacking in the sanity department compared to the other Vault Hunters, enough that his (Non-inner voice) quotes make ''Salvador'' look perfectly sane. Case in point: the "Silence the Voices" skill in the Mania tree increases his melee damage, while also introducing a probability to hurt ''himself'' with his melee attacks. For bonus points, he also [[AnAxeToGrind uses an axe.]]
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* [[Characters/Borderlands2VaultHunters Vault Hunters]]
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* DifficultButAwesome: Zer0 is probably the most difficult of the characters to pick up and play as, [[GlassCannon because the majority of his abilities are focused on doing damage with very few buffing his survivability.]] His playstyle focuses on evasion, agility, and inflicting titanic amounts of damage to take down enemies before they can do much in turn, which is challenging for newer players.
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-->'''Tina''': Yeah I know, [[TheNicknamer Lilywhite]], what, you think it's racist?! Hey I'mma go ask Sal see if he thinks its racist. HEY SALVADOR, IS IT OKAY IF ALL THE DWARFS IN MY CAMPAIGN LOOK LIKE YOU!?
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-->'''Tina''': Yeah I know, [[TheNicknamer Lilywhite]], Free Lily]], what, you think it's racist?! Hey I'mma go ask Sal see if he thinks its racist. HEY SALVADOR, IS IT OKAY IF ALL THE DWARFS IN MY CAMPAIGN LOOK LIKE YOU!?
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* GunNut: Makes sense for the '''gun'''zerker to be one, but it's made clear in the Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon's Keep DLC when the characters ponder on what they will spend their riches on. Salvador's response:
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* GunNut: Makes sense for the '''gun'''zerker to be one, one (and one of his skill trees is even called Gun Lust), but it's made clear in the Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon's Keep DLC when the characters ponder on what they will spend their riches on. Salvador's response:
** Near the end of the Tiny Tina DLC, when the characters are pondering what they'll use their loot for:
--->''"I care not for money/Only for the true combat/That said, I'll buy guns."''
--->''"I care not for money/Only for the true combat/That said, I'll buy guns."''
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* SelfHarm: Silence the Voices makes it so that he has a chance to hurt himself in exchange for a major buff to melee damage and the Hellborn tree has several skills that immolate himself.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: While revenge is a basic motivator for all of the Vault Hunters, Krieg ''really'' has it out for Hyperion as they are the ones responsible for making him into what he is. Notably, his version of Handsome Jack's mask is named ''"GO TO HELL DIE DIE DIE"''
* SelfHarm: Silence the Voices makes it so that he has a chance to hurt himself in exchange for a major buff to melee damage and putting points in the Hellborn treehas several skills that immolate himself.gives him a chance to light himself on fire when using Incendiary weapons.
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* [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks Throwing Your Buzz Axe Always Works]]: When in Rampage mode, Krieg can toss his axe as well as swing it. One of his skills even more or less turns it into a grenade by dealing explosive damage when tossed.
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** He also has an idle quote:
-->''"Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now... Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now... Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now... Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now... Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now... Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now..."''
-->''"Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now... Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now... Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now... Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now... Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now... Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now..."''
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* IAmAMonster: A couple of his quotes have Krieg trying to shout down his inner voice and declare that he is a monster, and ''he loves it''. One even says it word for word:
-->There is no me, there is no you! There is only the never ending spit and bile of combat! The twenty-four hour murder spree of shining metal! I drink the blood and eat the loot and breathe the numbers, because '''{{I AM A MONSTER}}! NOW AND FOREVER!'''
-->There is no me, there is no you! There is only the never ending spit and bile of combat! The twenty-four hour murder spree of shining metal! I drink the blood and eat the loot and breathe the numbers, because '''{{I AM A MONSTER}}! NOW AND FOREVER!'''
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* TheFaceless: Played with. Krieg's face is largely covered by his various masks, but certain heads show parts of his face, and you can get a rough idea of what he looks like from that.
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* TheFaceless: Played with. Krieg's face is largely covered by his various masks, but certain heads show parts of his face, and you can get a rough idea of what he looks like from that. It doesn't appear to be especially disfigured, oddly enough.
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** Also, one of the DLC heads ("I WANNA BE WANTED") has him use his wanted poster as a facemask.
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[[folder:Axton]]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Borderlands2_Axton-2_8476.png]]
!''As "The Commando"''
!!Voiced by RobertMcCollum
A former commando for the Dahl corporation, Axton was forced out of service due to his GloryHound ways (which resulted in far too much collateral damage), which also cost him his marriage. He became a bounty hunter until he was lured to Pandora by Handsome Jack with promises of fame, fortune, and glory. Axton's skill involves deploying his Sabre Turret, which provides supporting fire and other benefits.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Axton was originally meant to make flirtatious remarks only when reviving Maya, but due to an oversight in development he makes them when reviving male team members as well.
** He also has such a line for dueling.
-->"If I win, we're totally making out."
** In the Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon's Keep DLC the characters ponder on what they will spend their riches on. Axton's response:
-->"Guns and ladies...sometimes dudes."
* AnAxeToGrind: Uses [[VisualPun a hatchet]] as his melee weapon.
* AttackAttackAttack: Many of Axton's skills let him inflict increased damage or regenerate health and shields by damaging or killing enemies, and therefore rewarding aggressively pressuring the enemy with constant fire.
* BadassNormal: Doesn't have mystical powers, isn't a robot, or an alien, or a cyborg, or a mutant. He's just a plain old human soldier.
* BeehiveBarrier: One skill makes his turret generate one, see DeployableCover.
* BloodKnight: Got booted out of the military for being reckless and over-aggressive; rather than face a firing squad, he went to Pandora to ply his trade.
* BountyHunter: See above.
* CargoShip: In-universe, he loves his turret as much or more than his ex-wife, to the point he actually calls her "honey" and "sweety."
-->'''Axton:''' (throws out the turret) HAVE YOU MET THE MISSUS?!
* CriticalStatusBuff: The Pressure ability from the Survival tree gives Axton faster reloading and shield recharging the lower his health is. Another skill increases his gun damage when his shields are down, and yet another increases his damage and move speed while in Fight For Your Life.
* DangerousDeserter: Abandoned his post to become a mercenary and vault hunter.
* DeployableCover: One of his skills turns the Sabre turret into this; it's not a standard feature as with Roland's Scorpio turret. It's a forcefield that you and your allies can shoot and walk through, but enemies can't.
* DesperationAttack: Crisis Management from the Guerrilla tree gives Axton more gun and melee damage when his shields are depleted.
** The Gunpowder tree has Do or Die, which allows you to throw grenades in Fight For Your Life when obviously you normally aren't able to.
** Survival has Last Ditch Effort which increases gun damage and movement speed in Fight For Your Life.
** Survival also carries Grit, a skill that gives you a considerable chance to not only ''ignore the blow that would have killed you'', but also has it [[ImplacableMan restore your health]], bringing you back up when your enemies thought you were down.
* {{Determinator}}: See all of the above in DesperationAttack. Axton is the second-toughest character after a Tank-focused Salvador, but where Salvador is just plain ''tough'' and uses his berserker rage to power through enemies, Axton simply ''refuses to die''.
--> ''"I don't die so easy!"''
* DualWielding: The 'Gemini' skill lets Axton dual wield turrets.
** The turrets themselves, thanks to 'Double Up', can also operate two guns simultaneously.
* TheEngineer: It's even the name of one of his class mods, naturally the one focused on using his turret frequently and boosting its offensive capabilities.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a neat line of a scar on his chin, and a similar but smaller one going over his left eye and through his eyebrow.
* GlorySeeker: His reason for becoming a Vault Hunter is to become famous.
* ISurrenderSuckers: [[spoiler:You can find [=ECHO=] logs of him being tortured by bandits he was sent to capture. The bandits reveal that they are aware of their own bounties, and that they believe Axton has been paid up front for their capture. Perhaps part of his plan all along, Axton "admits" that he has the payment in a small storage deck in his pack, and all the bandits have to do to retrieve it is throw the deck on the ground. It turns out that storage deck was his Sabre Turret. True to form, it comes complete with a snide, "All too easy," as the turret mops the floor with the bandits.]]
* JackOfAllStats: Axton is equally capable of playing the same roles as any other character, though not as perfectly. He can control the battlefield similarly to Maya with his turret and grenades, distract and tank damage like Salvador and Gaige, inflict tremendous damage at short or long like Salvador, Gaige, and Zer0, debuff and mezz enemy armor/shields like Gaige and Maya, and deploy an additional support weapon like Gaige. He's just ''not as good'' at those roles as they are. His primary strength is in his versatility.
* TheLeader: Or as close as it gets to this group; Axton visibly takes the lead in the opening cutscene, and possesses several class mods oriented toward leadership and command.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: The Guerrilla skill tree has an ability called Scorched Earth which causes his turret to fire 22 missiles in a volleys. When combined with the Gemini skill, Axton can deploy two turrets equipped with missiles.
* MilitaryMaverick: Said attitude got him ''kicked out'' of the military. He now merely works as a gun for hire. That said, he claims to have around ten years of military experience -- either his glory hound ways are a relatively new development or he spent a ''lot'' of time whittling away at his superiors' good will.
* MoreDakka: His Guerrilla tree has a skill called Sentry that increases the number of shots his turret fires per burst, and another called Double Up that adds a second gun to the turret and makes both guns fire damage-enhancing slag bullets -- the effects of those two skills combined is laughably awe-inspiring. The Onslaught ability from the tree increases his gun damage and movement speed after killing an enemy.
** Gunpowder includes Metal Storm which increases fire-rate and reduces recoil after killing an enemy, and Battlefront increases gun damage caused while his turret is out.
* NoExceptYes: Axton's not saying you owe him when he revives you, he's ''implying'' it.
* NominalHero: He wants glory, he wants to get paid, and he wants to fight a worthy opponent. Fighting Hyperion is simply the best way for him to get all three, plus revenge for trying to murder him.
* NukeEm: The player can get a skill that lets Axton set off a Nuke when deploying the Sabre Turret (subject to its own cooldown).
* ThePollyanna: He went from high ranking military officer with a wife to a mercenary on a planet full of convicts. Axton is still the most jovial of the bunch.
* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: Done by himself in one of his idle lines.
-->''"This... this is nice. Who wants to be out killing stuff anyway?... me. I do."''
* SemperFi: Mentions this exact phrase in his origin ECHO, so it can be assumed he was part of a futuristic Marine unit.
* SchmuckBait: Uses his turret as this while capturing a bounty before the game starts.
** Also invoked in-game:
-->''"Hey, stand in front of this!"''
* TakeCover: While cover is useful for everyone, Axton's skills allow him to make the best use of it, particularly in the "Guerrilla" tree. The Able skill dramatically speeds up shield regeneration and recharge delay, allowing him to quickly move in and out of cover, and the Preparation skill in the "Survival" tree regenerates health when he has full shields. Coupled with his turret's ability to draw fire, Axton is very capable of fighting effectively from cover, emerging to trade fire with the enemy and take hits to his shields, and falling back to fully regenerate them in seconds.
* TattooAsCharacterType: [[http://images.wikia.com/borderlands/images/9/98/Borderlands2_Axton_2.png The metallic-looking two lines underneath an upside-down V implanted above his left eye]] was likely intended to serve a purpose like this, [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Army-USA-OR-09c.svg resembling a sergeant major's rank insignia]], to portray his military background.
* TheTurretMaster: Moreso than Roland due to his much more advanced Sabre turret. Customizing his turret is a big part of Axton's skill trees -- he can add missile launchers and/or an extra gun to his turret, for instance, or even deploy two turrets at once.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Often when he or his turret kills an enemy.
* WantedPoster: '''War crimes: $5,000,000,000'''
* WhatTheHellHero: Delivered by his ex-wife, Sarah, when recounting Axton's brilliant plan to escort a dignitary... [[spoiler:By planting a tracker on him, following it when he got captured, and blowing up the building full of terrorists. ''With the dignitary still inside.'']]
* WorthyOpponent: One echo found in Lynchwood has Axton complaining how bandits offer no challenge and he's looking for something more.
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!''As "The Siren"''
!!Voiced by Martha Harms
A Siren who once served as the secret weapon of an order of monks known as the Order of the Impending Storm who ruled over the planet Athenas. After learning of the monks' corruption and their plans to use her as a enforcer to keep the people of Athenas in line, she abandoned the order to seek out answers regarding her Siren lineage on Pandora. Her skill is Phaselock, letting her trap, damage, or control enemies.
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* AGodAmI: Was apparently worshiped as a goddess on her homeworld. [[spoiler:[[AGodIAmNot Ultimately inverted.]] She has godlike powers from being a Siren, but doesn't see herself as a god.]]
** [[spoiler:CorruptChurch / StopWorshippingMe: The leadership exploited her for their own gain. When she found out... she was ''not'' happy.]]
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Traveled the galaxy to investigate Siren lore.
* BadassBookworm: Her class mods appear as hardcover books.
** In the Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon's Keep DLC the characters ponder on what they will spend their riches on. Maya's response:
-->"Lots and lots of books...and guns."
* BaldWomen: The head you get for buying the limited edition is this.
* BerserkButton: Do not call her a child. [[spoiler: Ask [[SinisterMinister Brother Sophis]] - oh wait, [[BoomHeadshot Maya blew a hole in his head]]. Nevermind!]]
* BurnTheWitch: Some enemies have this attitude to Maya, sometimes to the point they drop the line, verbatim. [[BerserkButton Maya doesn't take too kindly to this...]]
* EvilLaugh: Has several of these, ranging from girly giggling (including a Lisa Simpson-esque snort-laugh), to absolutely cold-blooded chuckling when dispatching Badass-rank enemies.
* FashionableAsymmetry: Her stylish tattoos only run down her left arm, not her right.
* GoneHorriblyRight: The church that raised and trained her repeatedly insisted that she was going to be used to fight terrorists and criminals.[[spoiler: [[HoistByHisOwnPetard When she found out they were using her to keep the planet in terror to obey them, she killed them.]] ]]
* GoodIsNotSoft: While significantly less amoral than her teammates, she's still quite vicious towards her enemies.
* HealingShiv: Like Roland's Cauterize from the first game, her Restoration ability allows you to heal your allies... by shooting them. Her Rez override also turns her action skill into an insta-revive.
** As a sidenote, Restoration means your shots will even heal a Krieg who specced into Fuel the Rampage (which enables him to take friendly fire) -- the healing seems to actually be painful to him, as he responds as if hurt.
* TheHero: Maya is the only one of the new Vault Hunters who is not on Pandora to find a challenge nor is wanted for any previous crime. She also is the only Vault Hunter that has shown to be wholly good by refusing to execute innocent civilians and stopping the Order that raised her from using her to terrorize her planet. However...
** HeroWithBadPublicity: Jack put a bounty of $720 billion on her head, the second highest of the Vault Hunters (compared to Axton's 5 for war crimes, Zer0's 32 for political assassination, Salvador's 99 for at least eight varied offenses, and Gaige's 820 for her Deathtrap "exploding" her RichBitch classmate), simply for being a Siren [[spoiler:not under his thumb like Angel.]]
* LifeDrain: Several of her skills have this effect.
* TheMedic: Has the main healing skill tree of the group in her Harmony skill tree, which includes the Rez ability to allow her to instantly revive an ally in who is down in Fight For Your Life mode.
* MoralityPet: For Krieg, who became a Vault Hunter upon falling for her.
* MrViceGuy: Given her outright refusal to murder civilians on her homeworld, it seems she's basically good, but she's clearly not above partaking in the [[PayEvilUntoEvil targeted]] ComedicSociopathy the Vault Hunters are offered a chance to participate in from time to time.
** Also has the most reason to be against Hyperion considering Jack's treatment of Sirens.
* PowerGivesYouWings: If you place points in the Blight Phoenix skill, Maya will sprout wings of fire every time she kills an enemy.
* PowerHigh: Invoked with "Is there no limit to my power?!" when leveling up. Still no where near as bad as Gaige though.
* PowerTattoo: Much like Lilith, the left side of her body bears Eridian markings.
* PsychoticSmirk: Apparently loves doing this when she Phaselocks people. However, her smirk is more heroic than most examples.
* RedemptionEarnsLife: By working with her the other Vault Hunters, who fall into the type of people she'd kill, they get to avoid having their brains incinerated. [[spoiler: Some of the church members who were less abusive were also allowed to live and are implied to have aided in her getting to Pandora.]]
** Her initial response to meeting Krieg is to start shooting once he starts yelling. It's only once he puts into action the meaning behind his words, and gets out one short coherent line, by saving her does she stop attacking him.
* SensualSpandex: Her tight fitting top prominently shows off her figure.
* ShipTease: With Krieg. Admittedly it seems pretty one sided.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Her profile specifically states that she dislikes when people try to experiment on her.
** In her personal [=ECHO=] log, "First Week On Pandora", she mentions that half of the Pandora populous she's met wants to worship her for being a Siren and the other half want to capture her and turn her over to Hyperion.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: One of her Second Wind callouts is "I'm back, bitches!"
* TokenGoodTeammate: Despite her fondness for a hearty EvilLaugh when dispatching foes, calling opponents 'bitches,' and her tendency to tell opponents they should just give up and die, Maya is by far the least psychotic and bloodthirsty of the Vault Hunters.
** She is also the most polite to other characters. She will politely insist the other character to take their time if they are in their menu while trying to travel to the next area, and when she appears in a game, she will greet them, tell them what she is and that is nice to meet them, and warn them that if they try to capture her, she will incinerate their brain.
** It's also worth noting that the enemies in the game are pretty much all either bandits or [[EvilInc Hyperion]] employees and machines. The exact thing she was raised to fight.
* TouchedByVorlons: She's a Siren, like Lilith. Her powers involve "phaselocking", in which she traps an enemy in an energy bubble and temporarily taking it out of the fight.
* [[spoiler:TykeBomb: According to logs you can find, her church intended her to be this. It didn't work out.]]
* WantedPoster: '''Siren: $720,000,000,000'''
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: And her hair is really colored blue. Well, on her default skin anyways. Her character skins vary from realistic hair colors to various dye jobs.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Salvador]]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Borderlands2_Salvador2_5244.png]]
!''As "The Gunzerker"''
!!Voiced by JohnSwasey
A heavily-built but not terribly huge native to Pandora who was lured into becoming a Vault Hunter by a Hyperion raid on his village, which promised him violence and challenge in equal measure. His skill is Gunzerking, allowing him to regenerate health and ammo, become resistant to damage, and dual-wield weapons.
----
* AxCrazy: A rare, [[UnscrupulousHero kinda heroic]] example.
* BadassBeard: Has a large beard that makes him look even more rough and tumble, though many of his alternate heads change the style or get rid of it altogether.
* BadassBoast: Several of his Gunzerking lines are this.
* BadassNative: Salvador is actually a native of Pandora and was the defender of his village.
* BadassNormal: Compared to the other vault hunters, Salvador is this. Axton is an experienced soldier who can deploy a powerful turret; Zer0 is a ninja who uses holographic decoys and may not even be human, judging by his borderline-supernatural abilities. Maya is [[TouchedByVorlons a siren.]] Gaige has [[ABoyAndHisX a badass death robot bodyguarding her.]] Krieg is the result of experimentation. Salvador, on the other hand, is just one man with incredible anger management issues and an insatiable thirst for MoreDakka. He kicks as much ass as any of the others.
* TheBerserker: ''Gun''zerker, to be more specific.
* TheBigGuy: He and Krieg take Brick's place as this for the new crop of Vault Hunters.
* BoisterousBruiser: Loudest and most verbal of the bunch. Most likely due to roid-rage.
* BondOneLiner: Killing enemies while Gunzerking causes Salvador to spout an action hero one-liner. Some of them, like "[[Film/AirForceOne GET OFF MY PLANE!]]" and "[[LethalWeapon IT'S BEEN REVOKED!]]" are famous one-liners from action movies.
** Also parodied in one of his Gunzerking quotes, which is simply "ONE-LINER!"
* CombatSadomasochist: In his introduction ECHO recording, Salvador is told that before he get anywhere near the vault, he'll be shot, stabbed, burned, and mauled a thousand times over. He loves every part of that sentence. Also, when reviving downed teammates he'll sometimes say that if anyone's going to almost die, it should be him.
* CompensatingForSomething: When entering Gunzerk, one of his lines is "Time to compensate!", and while Gunzerking he might also say "Screw you, [[FreudWasRight Freud!]]". Obviously, he's either compensating for his small stature... or that other thing that steroids can make small.
-->"IT'S LIKE HAVING THREE DICKS!"
* DesperationAttack: The "Down, Not Out" skill in the Gun Lust tree allows you to Gunzerk while in Fight For Your Life. Just Got Real from the Brawn tree increases gun damage the lower your health is
* DemBones: The head you get for finishing the main story of ''Pirate's Booty'' is a skull with a pirate hat and a beard.
* DiscriminateAndSwitch: All of the dwarfs in Tina's ''Bunkers and Badasses'' game look suspiciously like Salvador...
-->'''Tina''': Yeah I know, [[TheNicknamer Lilywhite]], what, you think it's racist?! Hey I'mma go ask Sal see if he thinks its racist. HEY SALVADOR, IS IT OKAY IF ALL THE DWARFS IN MY CAMPAIGN LOOK LIKE YOU!?
-->[{{Beat}}]
-->'''Salvador''': That is awesome!
* DreadlockWarrior: One of his heads gives him a long dreadlock ponytail.
* EasilyForgiven: Salvador was about to be hanged when Hyperion attacked his village. When torturing the man who shot the judge for doing that, he's asked why he cares, since the judge was going to hang him. Salvador brushes it off as "Nobody's perfect".
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Has the third highest bounty of all the Vault Hunters, with a list of crimes including manslaughter, arson, and cannibalism... and yet, he still loves his grandma Rosita.
* FightingForAHomeland: He's fighting back against Hyperion because they've declared all the local residents 'bandits' for not submitting to Hyperion rule. Also, because there's a crapload of guns and money in it for him.
* FlippingTheBird: Does this with his Come At Me, Bro skill. Sadly, it's first person only and no third person animations exist for it.
* GratuitousSpanish: Not just his name, but some of his taunts as well. ''Bienvenidos a la fiesta, amigos!''
* GunsAkimbo: Can actually dual-wield ''every'' gun in the game, from pistols to Rocket Launchers. It's even lampshaded in the loading screens, mentioning if you wanna have a rocket launcher in one hand and a sniper rifle in the other, you can!
* GunNut: Makes sense for the '''gun'''zerker to be one, but it's made clear in the Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon's Keep DLC when the characters ponder on what they will spend their riches on. Salvador's response:
-->"Guns! And Guns!"
* TheGunslinger: The Vaporizer with a Rampage build (though with a focus on dual wielding unusual for the archetype); The Woo with a Gun Lust build and a pistol-boosting Renegade mod.
* HollywoodActionHero: He ''runs'' on tropes common to the HollywoodActionHero, with the [[SociopathicHero exception of "morality"]] and a huge helping of LampshadeHanging and Meta.
* HealingFactor: While Gunzerking. The Brawn skill tree has a number of skills that effect this in various ways.
* HiddenElfVillage: His village was so remote that the people living there had never heard of Hyperion and didn't know what the hell a "Vault" was. Like, ever.
* ImAHumanitarian: Cannibalism is among the list of charges on his Wanted poster. It's unknown if this is one of Hyperion's exaggerations, although it is within the realm of possibility.
* TheJuggernaut: The Brawn skill tree is built around making Salvador unkillable. One of the skills in the tree is even called "[[Film/XMen I'm the Juggernaut]]", and he has Juggernaut class mods that boost Brawn skills.
* LampshadeHanging: Salvador's a fan of doing this while starting up Gunzerk a lot.
--> ''"TIME TO OVERCOMPENSATE!"''\\
''"CAN'T STOP SCREAMING!"''\\
''"ONE-LINER!"''\\
''"SCREW YOU FREUD!"''\\
''"SOMETHING CLEVER!"'' (he says the exact words)
* LargeHam: The number of lines he speaks in the game that are not enormously loud, top-of-his-lungs battle cries or taunts can probably be counted on one of Zer0's hands.
* MoreDakka: Salvador's entire modus operandi, especially when you take a look at his Gun Lust tree.
** The last skill in the Rampage tree is Keep Firing, which increases the fire rate and reload speed of guns while Gunzerking for as long as the trigger is held down. Try it with guns that have fast fire rates, speedy reloads, and/or huge magazines to begin with -- you'll fire ''hundreds'' of bullets in the blink of an eye.
* TheNapoleon: He is a dwarf, caused by a lifetime of steroid abuse. He's also a ''very'' angry man.
* NoIndoorVoice: Pretty much everything he says is screamed at the top of his voice.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: He's basically a Latino [[Comicbook/XMen Wolverine]] with no claws. Heck, one of his skills is a MegatonPunch. Because of this, Tina based all the dwarves of her Bunkers & Badasses campaign off of him, something that he thinks is awesome.
* ScreamingWarrior: While Gunzerking, he's always screaming. Most of the things he says in that state are utter nonsense.
* SociopathicHero: Salvador has, in his own words, "issues". Namely, he really loves to hurt and kill people, with both his bare hands and big, powerful guns.
** Reviving someone as Salvador may be accompanied with him saying "I stopped shooting to help you." or "You made me stop shooting!" in a fairly self-important tone.
* TopHeavyGuy: Has an absolutely hulking upper body, on top of tiny, comically short legs.
* TropeName: A hilarious amount of his quotes are this, part of his near-constant LampshadeHanging of the HollywoodActionHero tropes he runs on.
* UnscrupulousHero: He's got very good reasons to be fighting Hyperion beyond simply getting paid or finding a worthy opponent to fight, but he's [[BloodKnight very eager to spill blood]] and happy to slaughter and torture Hyperion personnel.
* UnstoppableRage: What Gunzerking is. The screen gets a red tint around the edges and you can see the bloodshot veins in Salvador's eyes for the duration.
* WantedPoster: '''Manslaughter, Theft, Arson, Destruction of Property, Trespassing, Cannibalism, Public Indecency, and Profanity: $99,000,000,000.99'''
[[/folder]]
[[folder:[=Zer0=]]]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Borderlands2_Zero2_6012.png]]
!''As [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers a Number]]''
!!Voiced by Mike Turner
An extremely mysterious assassin who came to Pandora to find a challenge worthy of his skills. Beyond that, we...really don't know much else. It's up in the air as to whether he's even human. His skill is Deception, which creates a holographic decoy while he turns invisible, letting him strike suddenly for massive damage.
* BadassBoast: Can give a particularly awesome one when killing an enemy during "Fight For Your Life Mode!", which like most of his second wind lines is one of the only times he sounds ''[[NotSoStoic Pissed]]''.
-->''"I won't die today / Not while I still have ammo / I am a badass!"''
** Another good one if you kill a tough enemy with a [[BoomHeadshot headshot]] or critical hit:
-->''"Critical killing / Is an art unto itself / And I am Rembrandt."''
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: His class mod are elbow blades.
* BloodKnight: When hunting down a poor schmuck, he insists that he fight back and stop retreating so he can work for it.
* CallingCard: Named Zer0 because of the trademark red, digital-format zero that his mask displays when he scores a kill.
* ChallengeSeeker: His primary motivation above all else is to seek a challenge for his skills.
* ColdSniper: Zer0 has a dedicated sniping skill tree. He does ''not'', however, seem to have much in the way of emotion.
* TheComicallySerious: His CreepyMonotone [[MoodWhiplash drastically clashes]] with his {{Emoticon}}s, and the times he's SophisticatedAsHell.
* DamageIncreasingDebuff: Death Mark lets him apply a debuff to enemies (signified by a red 0 above them) whenever he hits someone in melee or with kunai.
* DissonantSerenity: Half of Pandora could be exploding around him, and Zer0 will still be talking in his calm, focused, sinister monotone.
* {{Emoticon}}: Zero doesn't have facial expressions since he is obviously wearing a mask, so his faceplate lights up to show his emotions, such as :) when he kills or <3 when he's picking someone up.
** When he loses a duel, "FML" (Fuck My Life) shows up on his face.
* {{Expy}}: Of [[GIJoe Snake Eyes]]. Early concept art even had him wearing a similar grilled visor (Mentioning Snake Eyes as the inspiration). One of his alternate heads is very similar, and one of his costumes is even called "Eyes Of the Snake".
** Also of [[Franchise/MetalGear Gray Fox]]. The character designer even admitted to being a big MGS fan, and partially modeled Zero after the famous cyborg ninja. It really becomes apparent when Zero talks, as his voice has a similar tone as that of Gray Fox.
* FlashStep: His Execute skill allows him to perform this during Deception mode; with the end-tier skill of his Bloodshed tree, Many Must Fall, he can chain these indefinitely as Deception will remain active and the timer will be reset as long as he manages to kill his target.
* FlechetteStorm: Death Bl0ss0m lets him throw explosive kunai with elemental effects during Decepti0n mode that are also capable of applying the Death Mark debuff.
* ForMassiveDamage: Zer0's gameplay is built around burst damage and hit chains; in particular, his Critical Ascension skill adds bonus damage for every critical hit scored within a few seconds, stacking up to 999 times but decaying over time.
* FourFingeredHands: Zero only has four fingers. He might not be human.
* {{Haiku}}: Pretty much anything he says beyond short, curt sentences is one of these.
* InexplicablyAwesome: The designers have stated outright that they wanted Zer0 to have as confusing, muddled, and mysterious a background as possible.
** The [=ECHO=] surveillance logs that Jack has [[HyperCompetentSidekick his subordinate]] pull up on him leave even ''them'' stumped. Hell, Jack even balks that all anyone can say about Zer0 being on Pandora or whether he's human or not is "I dunno".
* {{Invisibility}}: Sends out a decoy while he turns invisible, Predator-style.
* Letters2Numbers: All of the letter o's in Zer0's name, skill trees, heads and skins are replaced with number 0's. The names of some of his alternate heads follow suit, and also includes 3 for E, 1 for I (i), and 4 for A sometimes.
* MyHeroZero: Or more specifically, Zer0.
* {{Ninja}}: Clear design influence, and the name of one of his class mods. The ultimate skill in the Decepti0n-focused Cunning tree even gives him the ability to throw kunai knives.
* NoNameGiven: Other than "Zer0," which is almost certainly a pseudonym.
* NoSocialSkills: Upon being told that it is impossible to shut a rude person up, Zer0 "accepts" the challenge and decapitates the guy in front of his friend.
* ProfessionalKiller: Part of being an assassin. He's wanted by Hyperion for a political assassination.
* OneHitPolykill: The B0re skill, which lets bullets penetrate enemies as well as highlighting weak points while in Decepti0n.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Occasionally peppers his haikus with profanity.
-->'''Zer0 (Issuing a duel challenge): '''Oh, what?! Yeah, what, bitch?! / Yeah, I just slapped you and stuff. / What you gonna do?
* SpreadShot: His Death Bl0ss0m skill.
* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: He tends to speak in haiku.
* SwordAndGun: Has a skill called "[[BruceLee Be Like Water]]" that advocates using both his sword and guns in tandem.
* TheStoic: Oddly averted for his archetype. Since most of his lines are in Haiku, he is considerably more wordy than the other Vault Hunters.
* UnscrupulousHero: His motives are, like everything else about him, shrouded in mystery. But he seems to mostly be in it [[BloodKnight for the pleasure of the fight]].
* WantedPoster: '''Political Assassin: $32,000,000,000'''
* WarriorPoet: A lot of his statements are in Haiku.
* WorthyOpponent: What he hopes to find in searching for the Vault; Although he takes contracts and payment without much discretion, he is essentially looking for a challenge.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Gaige]]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gaige_1141.png]]
!''As "The Mechromancer"''
!!Voiced by CheramiLeigh
A high-school engineering genius who was forced to flee to Pandora after an "incident" in her school's science fair resulted in her rival "exploding." Travels with her personal RobotBuddy, D374-TP, or "Deathtrap," which she digistructs using her specific skill.
----
* AccidentalMurder: When Marcy got first place the science fair [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney by having her father buy off all the judges]], she started gloating and shoved Gaige. Deathtrap's IFF protocols registered her as an enemy, so he attacked, and Marcy...[[LudicrousGibs exploded]]. Also, the stray cat that walked into the line of fire during Deathtrap's testing of its claws.
* {{Adorkable}}: Her first ECHO portrays her as a nerd, complete with tech talk and snorting laugh. One of the crimes listed on her wanted poster is "Excessive Adorability"
* AGodAmI: If you build up enough anarchy stacks her "got a stack" quotes start drifting this way.
-->"I'm getting a god complex and I LIKE IT!"\\
"I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA!"\\
"I AM THE INFINITE!"\\
"I AM THE GOD OF DAMAGE!"
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Her father walks in during her ECHO casting bringing her hot cocoa to drink, leading to this:
-->'''Gaige:''' I don't need cocoa, dad, I am a woman of science and asskickery, not children's beverages!\\
'''Gaige's Dad:''' Heh heh, whatever you say, sweetheart, I'll just leave it here.\\
''[[{{Beat}} [Gaige's dad walks out, followed by a moment of silence]]]''\\
'''Gaige:''' ...*slurp* Dammit, that's really good.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Wanted for "Creation of unauthorized technology and excessive adorability" according to her profile card.
* ATeamFiring: The "Anarchy" skill increases her damage while decreasing her accuracy every time she kills an enemy or she empties her clip. This can be circumvented to a degree by using Hyperion weapons and the [[PinballProjectile Close Enough]] skill in the [=BFF=] tree.
** The frustration of not hitting things is also circumvented by increasingly hilarious dialogue:
--> "Eh, accuracy's overrated anyway."\\
"I probably won't hit anything, but whatever!"\\
"Why am I still doing this?!"\\
"I don't even remember what accuracy ''is!''"\\
"God help you all if I actually ''hit'' something!!"\\
"[[BreakingTheFourthWall Player!]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis WHAT! ARE YOU!]] ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis DOING?!]]''"
* ArtificialLimb: She accidentally sliced her left arm - she says it's "[[{{Understatement}} not a big cut]], it barely goes like, halfway to the bone" - which gave her a great idea. Instead of using an Insta-Health injection to fix the wound, she proceeds to ''[[CrazyAwesome finish lopping it off]]'' with a particle saw and builds a new one, which contains all of Deathtrap's digistruct data so she can quick-summon him wherever she is and whenever she wants. It can also punch through concrete.
* AscendedFangirl: Her second ECHO has her gushing about Pandora and the Vaults. After her AccidentalMurder of Marcy, she leaves her homeworld of Eden-5 for Pandora.
* BadassAdorable: Kicks hundreds of bandits' and soldiers' asses, even while being Adorable.
* BadassBookworm: A total nerd turned Vault hunter.
* TheBeastmaster: All her trees buff Deathtrap, but Best Friends Forever focuses on this the most.
* TheBerserker: Ordered Chaos turns her into one. While she can do somewhat significant damage from down range with some luck, charging in is much more effective.
* BigNo: Whenever her Anarchy stacks expire. [[FunnyMoments Hilariously]], the "NO!" gets ''longer'' the more stacks you had before they expired.
* BlindingBangs: One of the head options she starts the game with.
* BloodKnight: Gets this with Anarchy.
-->"BLOOOD!!!"
* BodyHorror: Starting off with how she got her robotic arm, there are also several skins for her head that drift into this territory. Digitized Death, Mecka Wrecka, and Metal Blood all replace her head with robotic ones, Speak No Evil has her mouth stitched shut and her eye inhumanly distorted, and Lovely Corpse has the skin ripped right off her face.
* BrattyHalfPint: Can show tendancies of this, especially against enemies.
--> '''After a Second Wind:''' Nice try, suckas!\\
'''After a critical kill:''' NOOB!
* BreakingTheFourthWall:
** Completely makes the fourth wall her bitch in regards to Anarchy. Does it no less than five times in relation to gaining Anarchy stacks. When Anarchy gets REAL high, she actually starts wondering aloud what the player is doing.
--> "[[DamnYouMuscleMemory Don't accidentally reload.]] [[MadnessMantra Don't accidentally reload.]]"\\
''(later with more stacks)'' "I think my reload button's broken."\\
"Player! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis WHAT! ARE YOU!]] ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis DOING?!]]''"\\
"[[GameBreaker You're breaking the game, dude!!!]]"\\
"ALLEN WRITE SOME DIALOGUE HERE!!!"
** Does it when you accidentally reload without Discord:
--> "[[DamnYouMuscleMemory Aw man, learn the controller!]]"
* BroughtDownToNormal: Lampshades it when losing Anarchy.
--> "I feel normal now."
* BullyHunter: The reason why she initially built Deathtrap. It worked a little too well, suffice to say.
* CastFromHitPoints: Blood Soaked Shields restores her shields on a kill at the cost of some of her health. This pairs up incredibly well with Amp or Turtle Shields, allowing you to keep the amplified damage so long as you keep killing or to simply maximize the Health to Shield rate.
* ChainedByFashion: She wears a padlock on her right wrist. Upon closer inspection, it appears to be one-half of a pair of handcuffs. She ''did'' mention being arrested (and expelled), and it'd be just like her to keep the handcuffs after escaping because they looked cool. [[LoveableSexManiac And other stuff.]]
* CharacterBlog: She was the first user of the [[https://twitter.com/ECHOcasts ECHO casts twitter account]] (before it was taken over by other characters) and her own [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijs-FEk3OIk&feature=g-all-u ECHO Video Log]]. The latter makes up for her lack of in-game ECHO logs like what the original four Vault Hunters have.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Anarchy gains damage and loses accuracy in equal percentage points.
* DaddysGirl: Despite acting like your typical rebellious teenager, she's still very close to her father; to the point he helps her flee to Pandora after the AccidentalMurder.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Normally played straight like with the other characters, but averted if you decide to spec into Ordered Chaos. If you die you lose all your Anarchy stacks. Have fun getting them back if you had the max you could get. If Gaige is downed while she as a lot of Anarchy stacks, she'll ''freak out''.
-->"[[LampshadeHanging If I go down now, I'm screwed!]]"
* DifficultButAwesome: Her Ordered Chaos tree. The tree relies on the (mandatory for that tree) Anarchy skill, which gives a stackable damage buff and accuracy debuff every time you make a kill or reload a gun with an empty clip. These buffs do not degrade (outside of Fight for Your Life), but do disappear if you prematurely reload. Needless to say, hitting anything becomes difficult when you have a lot of Anarchy stacks going, but when you do hit them, they ''will'' feel it. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Gaige's bounty is the highest of all the Vault Hunters at 820 billion for accidentally killing her classmate and going on the run. This seems excessive when compared to the other Vault Hunters until you realize that Marcy's father was extremely rich and could afford to put out such a massive bounty.
* DropTheHammer: Her melee weapon is a claw hammer.
* DudeWheresMyRespect:
** One of her quotes, when Deathtrap is killing, points out that he only placed 3rd in the science fair.
*** She complains more about getting 3rd place as one of her rants when you idle too long.
** Hyperion Engineers will make fun of Deathtrap when it's released.
* EvilLaugh: While insane she may do this. Or just say it.
-->'''"EVIL MANIACAL LAUGHTER!"'''
* EvolvingWeapon: Deathtrap's appearance changes depending on Gaige's skillset. Having points in the BFF tree gives it additional armor plating, having points in Little Big Trouble gives it bladed wings, and points in Ordered Chaos gives it bandit-style spikes. It's possible for it to have a combination of the three. The final talent in each tree also cause Deathtrap to [[PowerGlows glow]].
* FingerlessGloves: Wears one on her right hand (her 'good' hand).
* FlirtingUnderFire: When reviving her, she will flirt with the character regardless of gender.
--> [''Tiger growl''] I'll be thanking you later.\\
Thanks, sexy. [''Tiger growl'']\\
Well, you are just hot as hell. Remind me to pay you back for that.
* FrickinLaserBeams: Deathtrap can be upgraded with one.
* GadgeteerGenius: Again: Built a robot for the science fair.
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration:
** She damages her robotic hand by using it to smash concrete, by the time she's on Pandora she's using that strength but using a hammer or digistructed claws to deliver the blow.
** During her ECHO logs, she mentions a few of her skills as various upgrades. For example, she thinks the reason Deathtrap dealt explosive damage to Marcy was because of a glitch in the recently-installed Discord circuits.
* GenkiGirl: Is an extremely hyper young woman.
* GirlishPigtails: Her default skin has her hair done up in pigtails.
* GlassCannon: Of a sort when using Ordered Chaos. She has the same base HP as each other Vault hunter, but because of the accuracy reduction from Anarchy she has to get closer to the enemies than the others. Blood Soaked Shields can help mitigate it, but the CastFromHP factor can result in death even quicker when her shields do go down.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Her Necrosis skin and Chaos Reigns color scheme do this to her. Necrosis provides a teal glow, Chaos Reigns an orange glow, and the two together a yellow glow.
* GogglesDoNothing: She has a pair of googles on her head that she never seems to use for anything in the game proper.
* InTheHood: Her Necrosis skin has this, along with GlowingEyesOfDoom. Curiously though, the hood on her shirt that's always down is still there so she has two hoods.
* InstantWebHit: In her first ECHO, she had twelve (er, eleven) subscribers. Then five in her second, then two in her third. After accidentally killing her RichBitch classmate and going on the run, she suddenly has over twenty thousand.
* LargeHam: Again, fluctuates with her Anarchy stacks. The more stacks, the more hammy she gets. It varies between boasting over how much damage she's doing and bitching about how her accuracy blows.
* LovableSexManiac: The most flirty out of all the characters, especially illustrated by one of her idle quotes.
-->'''Gaige''': If I don't shoot, repair, or [[DoubleEntendre screw something]] in the next few minutes, we're going to have a problem.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Zigzagged. When she cut her arm "halfway to the bone", she didn't freak out at all. Hell, her first thoughts were to instantly and completely heal it. However, her second thought was to chop her arm completely off and build a new one.
* {{Nerd}}: Quotes ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament''; yells "GG", "Noob", and similar; built a robot in her own garage with her own skill, etc.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Her reaction to slicing her arm ''halfway to the bone''.
* OpenMindedParent: Gaige's dad is alright with anything save for amputation:
** When she tells him that her rival stole her design, gave it to the local fascist police force and is trying to win the science fair that they are competing in with Gaige's idea, Gaige gets this reaction from her dad:
-->'''Gaige's Dad:''' You're gonna take that bitch down, right?
** When Deathtrap [[LudicrousGibs gibbed]] Marcy at the Science Fair, Gaige's dad actually helped her ''escape the police and flee to Pandora'' (using explosives), you can probably chalk him up as "Best Dad Ever".
* TheOtherDarrin / TheOtherMarty: Was originally supposed to be voiced by Creator/LuciChristian, and is even listed in the credits as such, but switched to Creator/CheramiLeigh in the middle of production. A lot of (possibly ''most'' of) Gaige's lines are still recognizably Luci; if you don't spec into Anarchy or Close Enough, you'll pretty much never hear Cherami at all.
* PinballProjectile: The "Close Enough" skill, which gives bullets that miss a chance to ricochet back at enemies but at reduced damage, and the "Nth Degree" skill, which causes every nth successful hit to ricochet at full damage.
* PlayingWithFire: The "Little Big Trouble" skills "The Stare" and "Electrical Burn" give her (and Deathtrap) some ability to do fire damage, though in the latter case it's a side-effect of shock damage.
* ThePollyanna: Adapts to her [[DeathWorld new environment]] rather quickly but maintains her disposition.
* PointlessBandaid: Worn on her right cheek.
* PowersAsPrograms: In her ECHO casts she name-drops a bunch of her abilities as possible upgrade applications for Deathtrap or for her own arm. Whether this is true for other characters is ambiguous, but in her case, her powers ARE programs.
* PowerFist: Her cybernetic arm can smash concrete. Which helps explain why a tiny teenage girl can swing a hammer as hard as a full-grown male soldier.
* PowerHigh: After building up enough anarchy stacks. Evidenced not only by her quotes showing more and more of a [[AGodAmI god complex]], but the way she yells "Anarchy!" At lower amounts, it's a straight yell of it. Higher amounts? It sounds more or less like she's being aroused by the power.
* PragmaticHero: She's basically decent, but she considers poundings delivered by a giant attack robot [[PayEvilUntoEvil a suitable response to bullying]].
* PreOrderBonus: The Mechromancer is free for people that pre-order the game.
* RebelliousSpirit: And how! One of her class mods is called Punk even.
-->"PUNK NEVER DIES!"
* RoboSexual: One of her class mods have her referred to as a Technophile, while she mostly treats Deathtrap like a pet there are times she'll refer to it in more personal terms, and will often refer to guns as if they were alive (some actually are), calling them sexy.
* RobotMaster: Commands an "undead" robot known as a D374-TP (aka Deathtrap).
* ScienceFair: A major part of her and Deathtrap's OriginStory. Essentially Deathtrap, then called as "DT", was a science fair project designed as an "anti-bullying" robot. DT fulfilled his functions well... [[GoneHorriblyRight too well]].
* ShockAndAwe: Her Little Big Trouble tree is all about dealing large amounts of electrical damage.
* ShockwaveClap: Deathtrap can do this.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Her classmate, RichBitch and SpoiledBrat Marcy Halloway. [[ItsPersonal It gets personal]] after Gaige finds out that Marcy plagiarized her work, renamed it, and sold it to "the galaxy's most corrupt police force".
* SkillGateCharacter: Her Best Friends Forever tree is designed to be less powerful than her other trees, but much more user-friendly, making it good for new players.
* SmallGirlBigGun: She's the shortest Vault Hunter in the game, and yet can still use rocket launchers, shotguns and sniper rifles.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: Digistructed Claws and Deathtrap.
* {{Squick}}: When scoring a crit kill, she may yell out "I got brains on my shoes! ({{Beat}}) I like it!" An in-universe example is when she gets slagged. She complains that she got some in her mouth and informs everyone that it smells like a mix of piss and nachos.
* TeenGenius: [[WordOfGod Eighteen years old]] and she initially designed Deathtrap as a ''science fair project''.
* ThreeLawsCompliant: Deathtrap isn't. Dialogue exists reflecting it:
-->"[[LampshadeHanging To hell with the first law!]]"
* TookALevelInBadass: Goes from bullied, not very popular nerd to [[OneManArmy Vault Hunter]].
* UnusualEuphemism: Has a bunch.
--> ''(On a Deathtrap kill)'' "Ooooh, right in the wingnut!"
* WantedPoster: '''Creation of Illegal Technology and Excessive Adorability: $820,000,000,000'''
* WhateverMancy: She is known as the "Mechromancer" for her ability to "summon" her robot Deathtrap from out of nowhere with only a wave of her cybernetic hands like magic. Her cybernetic arm is actually some sort of portable digistructing device that she uses to conveniently digistruct Deathtrap wherever she goes.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: [[RunningGag Once again]], based on her Anarchy stacks. From zero to roughly 100 stacks, she seems normal. From there to 150, she's clearly feeling the effects mentally and wants more, but no where near as bad as once she passes the 150 mark. By the time she hits 400 she's clearly [[PowerHigh gone off]] [[AGodAmI the deep end]]. She even lampshades it by yelling "I'm going mildly insane!!"
* WrenchWench: Her designs have elements of it.
* WolverineClaws: Her tier 6 Ordered Chaos skill, With Claws, overrides her default melee attack with digistructed claws while you have Anarchy stacked.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Some of her Second Wind quotes come off as being legitimately surprised that she pulled it off and didn't die as opposed to her usual handling of the situation.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Her reaction to finding out that Marcy stole her DT design, gave it to police, and gave it the stupid name of Crime Buster Bot.
-->'''Gaige:''' Bitch, are you kidding me!?
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[[folder:Krieg]]
[[quoteright:340:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/BL2Krieg_3916.jpg]]
!''As "The Psycho"''
!! Voiced by Jason Douglas
The product of horrifying experimentation at the hands of Hyperion, Krieg was once a heroic Vault Hunter. While the process did make him stronger, it also drove him almost completely insane, with the last remnants of his former self acting as a conscience to him. Encountering Maya as she waited for a train, he fell in love with her and became a Vault Hunter alongside her in hopes that she will be the one to make him sane once more. His Action Skill has him go on a rampage with his buzz axe, regaining health for every kill.
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* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: During his stint in the ECHO Casts twitter account, he tends to capitalize random letters such as "[=NIPpLE SaLAds=]" and "[=YoU WANNA know wHo I AM I will SHOW YoU WHo I AM=]".
* ADayInTheLimelight: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3mhWvWEb9g A Meat Bicycle Built for Two]]'', a short film made by Gearbox that shows how Krieg became a Vault Hunter.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: In psychology, alliteration without logical association is often indicative of clanging, a symptom of schizophrenia. Unsurprisingly, Krieg is quite fond of this:
** Could it be that he's seen ''Film/VForVendetta'' at some point?
--> "Pitiful people prepare, plead plentifully plentiful platitude phenomenal patriot pounds, poundingly perverse puppets pulping, pleasantly, putrid pasties."
** All of the skill names in the Hellborn skill tree. (Burn Baby Burn, Fuel the Fire, Pain is Power, etc.)
* AnAxeToGrind[=/=]ChainsawGood: He wields a larger version of the buzz axe that Dr. Zed or the Badass Psychos use. The Buzz Axe Bombardier attaches dynamite to it, letting Krieg deal explosive damage whenever he throws it. His class mods take the form of different blades for it.
* AndIMustScream: He used to be a much saner, smarter, more moral sort, possibly a Vault Hunting bounty hunter. Now? Thanks to Hyperion experimentation, he's a mass-murdering (of Hyperion & the deserving) Badass Psycho with all the insanity and AxCrazy-ness that implies. And his original personality is a SplitPersonality, completely aware of the horror of his dominant personality and his actions.
* {{Angrish}}: Especially when Rampaging.
* AttackAttackAttack: The basis of the Bloodlust skill tree. Dealing damage adds stacks of Bloodlust, which decreases if no damage is being dealt. As such, it is best for him to always be on the offensive and shooting at something.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Two major examples, both from the "Mania" tree:
** Silence the Voices gives you a HUGE melee damage boost (easily reaching over 300% with a class mod) but causes you to have a 12% chance to hit yourself. On paper this doesn't seem major, but in practice you're hitting yourself every one in ten swings (more if you're unlucky) and dealing that huge melee damage to yourself. If you're not healthy enough you'll end up KOing yourself. Additionally, if you were close enough to hit the enemy, they're close enough to hit you, meaning that missed swing gives them an opportunity to hit back, hard. That being said, if you're beefy enough to take the hit or plain lucky, this skill crosses over to the AwesomeYetPractical side.
** "Light the Fuses" causes Krieg to run around when his health is depleted, throwing bundles of dynamite. Excellent for getting a second wind against bandits and other ground troops, but against airborne enemies you'll wish you had a regular "Fight for Your Life" (which this skill will always override.)
* AxCrazy: Krieg is decidedly much more lacking in the sanity department compared to the other Vault Hunters, enough that his (Non-inner voice) quotes make ''Salvador'' look perfectly sane. Case in point: the "Silence the Voices" skill in the Mania tree increases his melee damage, while also introducing a probability to hurt ''himself'' with his melee attacks.
* BadassBoast: ''MY PECS HAVE PECS!''
** (Seeing a Badass enemy) "I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT A BADASS IS!"
** "I'M GOING TO PUT '''MY''' PAIN INTO '''YOUR''' SOUL!"
** ''I LOOKED INTO THE HEART OF DARKNESS, AND I ATE IT ALL!!!''
* BeastAndBeauty: With Maya. He became a Vault Hunter because he fell in love with her and wanted to protect her.
* TheBerserker: Given what he is, this is a given. The Mania tree in particular focuses on fighting as suicidally as possible, doing stuff like deliberately putting yourself in harm's way to recharge your specials or running around with a lit bundle of dynamite. The Bloodlust tree, on the other hand, gives him stacks of "Bloodlust" that accumulate quickly as he damages enemies (but also disappear rapidly if he's not damaging enemies) so to get the most out of its skills, it also forces you to run straight into combat blowing away as many enemies as possible as quickly as possible.
* TheBigGuy: Class 1, and he looks to be the tallest of the new Vault Hunters.
* BodyHorror: He was an experiment of some sort, and still has numerous scars, stitches, and various hoses all over his body. He can also mutate himself into a Badass Psycho, misshapen limbs included.
* BreakoutMookCharacter: He's a Psycho, like the kind you've been killing or watching them blow up. One of his rants indirectly references this ("Box cover, box cover, I'm the real star!")
* BreathWeapon: "Hellfire Halitosis" lets him breathe flames.
* CallBack: Occasionally says "You woke the wrong dog!" when getting a Second Wind. That's what Nine-Toes in VideoGame/{{Borderlands}} said to the original Vault Hunters when they fought him.
* CaptainObvious: His Psycho Mutant transformation. "I'VE GOT A HUGE HAND!"
* CastFromHitPoints: Effectively, if not ''directly.'' Related to SelfHarm below, he performs better when his shields are down and his Action Skill recharges faster when he takes damage to his health instead of his shields (his "Feed the Meat" skill massively increases his base health but makes his shields recharge slower to facilitate this). If he's not in enough danger already from the enemy, several of his skills actively hurt himself, like "Silence the Voices" which has a 12% to smash himself in the face with his buzz axe or his Hellborn tree that lights himself on fire (but that's actually a ''good'' thing). At any given moment, his health could dip dangerously low, only to be fully recharged the next second, then be back down again.
* CatchPhrase: He has a tendency to scream "NIPPLE SALADS" at times. It's even featured in his Legendary Psycho class mod.
** His inner/good personality has "...Close enough", usually said in annoyance after telling the dominant personality to say something and he instead shouts some psychotic nonsense.
* CoolMask: Wears a gas mask version of the normal Psycho mask as his default Head. Every single one of his alternate Heads is some form of mask or helmet which covers most of his face.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Much of his dialog is generally nonsense involving meat or blood in some way. Especially exacerbated in Raving Retribution, where he'll go on completely nonsensical rants while spouting homing fireballs from his body.
-->''MY STOMACH IS CLEAR, AND MY MIND IS FULL OF'' '''BACON!'''
* CriticalStatusBuff: A fair number of his skills involve buffing Krieg when he takes damage, especially when his shields are down.
* DeadpanSnarker: When he's not wallowing in self-loathing, his sane half can be pretty snarky.
-->''It's over, idiot. You're going to die here and now and the last words out of your mouth will have been "poop train."''
* DeathSeeker: His inner voice will occasionally comment "I deserve this" when Krieg either bashes himself in the face or is set on fire.
* DesperationAttack: The "Light The Fuses" skill, which lets him toss dynamite and move normally when his HP reaches 0. He can also detonate it Suicide Psycho style, though he'll get Second Wind if he manages to score a kill with it.
** There's also the "Release the Beast" skill, in which if Krieg activates Buzzaxe Rampage when at 1/3 of his health he transforms into a Badass Psycho.
* DifficultButAwesome: Per the developer's own admittance, the Mania tree falls squarely into this. Taking damage actually buffs Krieg, even moreso without shields. This places him at a higher risk of frequently getting knocked into Fight For Life mode, but one skill completely restores his health with every kill he makes while using his action skill.
** Several Bloodlust tree skills feed into one another: there's a grenade kill skill that makes gun damage better, a gun kill skill that makes melee damage better and a melee kill skill that makes grenades better. Keeping your Bloodlust from decaying is hard enough, keeping track of all this in the middle of battle is even harder, but if you pull it off: a string of ever-increasing deadliness.
** All of his skill trees have perks that can feed into each other. Strip The Flesh and Salt The Wound can grant huge boosts to Torgue Shotguns, and Fuel The Rampage (taking damage speeds up Buzz Axe Rampage cooldown) and Release The Beast (Krieg turns into a Badass Psycho with maxed health and massive damage reduction when special is triggered at 33% health, like when you come out of fight for your life mode) means that unless you were in Buzz Axe Rampage when put into fight for your life mode, as soon as you come out, you can immediately trigger a buzz axe rampage, and go on a killing spree as a Badass Psycho mutant.
** The Hellborn skill tree: you gain bonuses by setting yourself on fire. At higher levels, with the Delusional Damage perk, you can set yourself on fire by using any elemental attacks, including corrosive, which you will use a lot later in the game. Elemental Empathy causes a fraction of all elemental damage you deal to heal you.
* EmpathicHealer: "Redeem the Soul", which lets Krieg instantly revive allies in exchange for immediately putting him in "Fight for your Life" mode. Of course, if he has Light the Fuses, this might come as an advantage for him.
* FriendlyFireproof: Averted. "Fuel the Rampage" makes him susceptible to friendly fire.
* HeroicWillpower: The original personality is able to exert some level of control over the dominant personality. WordOfGod compares said personality to a driver of a runaway truck that cannot stop the truck and can only try to steer away from as many people as he can and try to mitigate any damage it might cause.
* InfernalRetaliation: With points in the Hellborn tree, he gets a ton of buffs from being on fire, and he even has a chance to set himself on fire with his fire attacks (and with the Delusional Damage skill, ''any'' elemental damage).
* [[InfinityMinusOneSword Infinity -1 Mutation]]: Triggering your active ability at critical health (1/3rd or less) with 'Release The Beast' turns you into a rampaging Badass Psycho, buffing your melee damage, adding to your damage resistance, and topping off your health instantly. Best of all, your Active Ability is ready for use again ''the second it wears off.'' As such, you can keep popping this skill over and over each time your health goes critical. Suffice to say, unless you're armed to the teeth with Legendary Weapons, your Active Ability will see a ''lot'' of use.
* InterfaceScrew: Killing enemies with your action skill splatters your camera with lots of blood.
* JekyllAndHyde: In this case, the Hyde personality is the dominant one while the Jekyll at least tries to make sure that the former only kills evildoers.
* KnockbackEvasion: Krieg is heavier than the other Vault Hunters, giving him less knockback from attacks, which goes good with his melee-centric play-style. This also has the unfortunate side effect of making grenade jumping and certain Badass Challenges impossible to do using him, such as getting a geyser to launch you to the top of the Happy Pig Motel sign. It doesn't launch him nearly high enough.
* LaughingMad: He has quite the variety of maniacal laughter.
* LoveAtFirstSight: He falls in love with Maya upon seconds of meeting her. Unfortunately, his [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} lack of communication skills]] causes her to shoot at him.
* LoveRedeems: At least, the inner personality hopes that Maya will be the one to make him sane once more.
* MadeOfExplodium: His final "Bloodlust" skill, Bloodsplosion, makes every single enemy an ActionBomb: when they die, they go BOOM! Better yet, if the explosion kills an enemy it can start off a domino effect of explosions.
* MadnessMantra: One of his Raving Retribution lines has him repeating a certain phrase, getting louder each time.
-->''"The voices said 'empty, hollow and thud'. The voices said 'empty, hollow and thud'. '''THE VOICES SAID 'EMPTY, HOLLOW AND THUD'!!'''''
* MagikarpPower: The Bloodlust tree is not very powerful at low levels, with very minor boosts to relatively useless things like magazine capacity and weapon swap speed, especially considering these boosts are based entirely on the rapidly-decaying Bloodlust stacks. However, the later Bloodlust tree skills are much, much more powerful, and also turn the weak tier one skills into essential building blocks for the rest of the tree. Not to mention that the later equipment and expanded inventory capacity and ammunition capacity allow for a much swifter accumulation of Bloodlust stacks.
* ManOnFire: His "Hellborn" skill tree actually ''encourages'' you to set him on fire.
* MeaningfulName: Krieg is [[BilingualBonus German for war]]. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Originally]] his name would have been Blitz but the developers decided that Krieg sounds more like an actual name.
* MookHorrorShow: The debut trailers show bandits being obliterated by his silhouette. Also, the PAX presentation in which he was introduced had a short video set to "In the Halls of the Mountain King" consisting of Krieg demonstrating his various in-game abilities upon enemies.
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: The voice in his head tries to direct Krieg's rage towards "the deserving" and even swears that if he ever kills an innocent person that he ''will'' take over and commit suicide.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: One Mania skill gives him health for overkilling enemies. Find some way to do ludicrous damage to enemies and he'll get his health back, no problem!
* NoIndoorVoice: Anything that Krieg says is shouted, just like every other Psycho on Pandora. It's even extended to ''every single name'' for his Heads and Skins, which are in ALL CAPS.
* PlayingWithFire: One of his skill trees deals almost exclusively in fire elemental damage. [[IncendiaryExponent Being set on fire actually buffs him.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: When he first met Maya, his sane side wanted to tell her how beautiful she was and that she may be the one to save him. [[TalkativeLoon What came out was decidedly less eloquent]].
-->'''"I'M THE CONDUCTOR OF THE POOP TRAIN!"'''
* SelfHarm: Silence the Voices makes it so that he has a chance to hurt himself in exchange for a major buff to melee damage and the Hellborn tree has several skills that immolate himself.
* ShipTease: With Maya in his backstory video. It seems like his inner voice finds Maya very attractive, and his outer voice refers to her as "PRETTY LADY".
* SplitPersonality: Besides his "default" AxCrazy self, he has a (much) saner, (much) more moral voice in his head who ensures that he only kills "the deserving". They do ''not'' get along. This is in fact his original personality.
* TakingYouWithMe: "Pull the Pin" has Krieg drop a grenade when he dies, gaining double XP if it kills someone. Inverted in Light the Fuses mode, where successfully suicide-bombing enemies brings him back to life.
* TalkativeLoon: His short film shows that his psychotic personality seems to be nearly incapable of putting their otherwise rational thoughts into coherent spoken words, making it difficult to communicate with others.
* ThemeNaming: All but one of the skills in the Bloodlust tree have "Blood" in their names, all but one of the skills in the Mania tree follow a "[Verb] the [Noun]" pattern, and all the skills in the Hellborn tree are alliterative. There's also one skill each in Bloodlust and Hellborn that conform to the Mania tree's theme.
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Light the Fuses has him tossing dynamite when his health reaches zero. He also has a few skills that improve explosive damage.
* [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks Throwing Your Buzz Axe Always Works]]: When in Rampage mode, Krieg can toss his axe as well as swing it. One of his skills even more or less turns it into a grenade by dealing explosive damage when tossed.
* TokenEnemyMinority: Seemingly the only semi-heroic Psycho of the series.
* ViolationOfCommonSense: Pretty much his entire play-style revolves around doing things you normally try to '''''avoid''''' with the other characters. Like, say [[ManOnFire being set on fire]] or taking damage, or getting up-close and personal while hacking at people with a buzz axe.
** That said, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the whole idea for a character with this kind of play-style was thought of before the game was launched, but was saved for DLC because it might have turned away some players.]]
* WantedPoster: '''Property of Hyperion: $100,000,000,000'''
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Considering that he's more or less an upgraded version of a Psycho, Krieg is not one for a shirt.
* WordSaladTitle: His head and skin names are a fountain of unending randomness.
** And yet are often ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin at the same time.
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[[folder:Axton]]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Borderlands2_Axton-2_8476.png]]
!''As "The Commando"''
!!Voiced by RobertMcCollum
A former commando for the Dahl corporation, Axton was forced out of service due to his GloryHound ways (which resulted in far too much collateral damage), which also cost him his marriage. He became a bounty hunter until he was lured to Pandora by Handsome Jack with promises of fame, fortune, and glory. Axton's skill involves deploying his Sabre Turret, which provides supporting fire and other benefits.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Axton was originally meant to make flirtatious remarks only when reviving Maya, but due to an oversight in development he makes them when reviving male team members as well.
** He also has such a line for dueling.
-->"If I win, we're totally making out."
** In the Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon's Keep DLC the characters ponder on what they will spend their riches on. Axton's response:
-->"Guns and ladies...sometimes dudes."
* AnAxeToGrind: Uses [[VisualPun a hatchet]] as his melee weapon.
* AttackAttackAttack: Many of Axton's skills let him inflict increased damage or regenerate health and shields by damaging or killing enemies, and therefore rewarding aggressively pressuring the enemy with constant fire.
* BadassNormal: Doesn't have mystical powers, isn't a robot, or an alien, or a cyborg, or a mutant. He's just a plain old human soldier.
* BeehiveBarrier: One skill makes his turret generate one, see DeployableCover.
* BloodKnight: Got booted out of the military for being reckless and over-aggressive; rather than face a firing squad, he went to Pandora to ply his trade.
* BountyHunter: See above.
* CargoShip: In-universe, he loves his turret as much or more than his ex-wife, to the point he actually calls her "honey" and "sweety."
-->'''Axton:''' (throws out the turret) HAVE YOU MET THE MISSUS?!
* CriticalStatusBuff: The Pressure ability from the Survival tree gives Axton faster reloading and shield recharging the lower his health is. Another skill increases his gun damage when his shields are down, and yet another increases his damage and move speed while in Fight For Your Life.
* DangerousDeserter: Abandoned his post to become a mercenary and vault hunter.
* DeployableCover: One of his skills turns the Sabre turret into this; it's not a standard feature as with Roland's Scorpio turret. It's a forcefield that you and your allies can shoot and walk through, but enemies can't.
* DesperationAttack: Crisis Management from the Guerrilla tree gives Axton more gun and melee damage when his shields are depleted.
** The Gunpowder tree has Do or Die, which allows you to throw grenades in Fight For Your Life when obviously you normally aren't able to.
** Survival has Last Ditch Effort which increases gun damage and movement speed in Fight For Your Life.
** Survival also carries Grit, a skill that gives you a considerable chance to not only ''ignore the blow that would have killed you'', but also has it [[ImplacableMan restore your health]], bringing you back up when your enemies thought you were down.
* {{Determinator}}: See all of the above in DesperationAttack. Axton is the second-toughest character after a Tank-focused Salvador, but where Salvador is just plain ''tough'' and uses his berserker rage to power through enemies, Axton simply ''refuses to die''.
--> ''"I don't die so easy!"''
* DualWielding: The 'Gemini' skill lets Axton dual wield turrets.
** The turrets themselves, thanks to 'Double Up', can also operate two guns simultaneously.
* TheEngineer: It's even the name of one of his class mods, naturally the one focused on using his turret frequently and boosting its offensive capabilities.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a neat line of a scar on his chin, and a similar but smaller one going over his left eye and through his eyebrow.
* GlorySeeker: His reason for becoming a Vault Hunter is to become famous.
* ISurrenderSuckers: [[spoiler:You can find [=ECHO=] logs of him being tortured by bandits he was sent to capture. The bandits reveal that they are aware of their own bounties, and that they believe Axton has been paid up front for their capture. Perhaps part of his plan all along, Axton "admits" that he has the payment in a small storage deck in his pack, and all the bandits have to do to retrieve it is throw the deck on the ground. It turns out that storage deck was his Sabre Turret. True to form, it comes complete with a snide, "All too easy," as the turret mops the floor with the bandits.]]
* JackOfAllStats: Axton is equally capable of playing the same roles as any other character, though not as perfectly. He can control the battlefield similarly to Maya with his turret and grenades, distract and tank damage like Salvador and Gaige, inflict tremendous damage at short or long like Salvador, Gaige, and Zer0, debuff and mezz enemy armor/shields like Gaige and Maya, and deploy an additional support weapon like Gaige. He's just ''not as good'' at those roles as they are. His primary strength is in his versatility.
* TheLeader: Or as close as it gets to this group; Axton visibly takes the lead in the opening cutscene, and possesses several class mods oriented toward leadership and command.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: The Guerrilla skill tree has an ability called Scorched Earth which causes his turret to fire 22 missiles in a volleys. When combined with the Gemini skill, Axton can deploy two turrets equipped with missiles.
* MilitaryMaverick: Said attitude got him ''kicked out'' of the military. He now merely works as a gun for hire. That said, he claims to have around ten years of military experience -- either his glory hound ways are a relatively new development or he spent a ''lot'' of time whittling away at his superiors' good will.
* MoreDakka: His Guerrilla tree has a skill called Sentry that increases the number of shots his turret fires per burst, and another called Double Up that adds a second gun to the turret and makes both guns fire damage-enhancing slag bullets -- the effects of those two skills combined is laughably awe-inspiring. The Onslaught ability from the tree increases his gun damage and movement speed after killing an enemy.
** Gunpowder includes Metal Storm which increases fire-rate and reduces recoil after killing an enemy, and Battlefront increases gun damage caused while his turret is out.
* NoExceptYes: Axton's not saying you owe him when he revives you, he's ''implying'' it.
* NominalHero: He wants glory, he wants to get paid, and he wants to fight a worthy opponent. Fighting Hyperion is simply the best way for him to get all three, plus revenge for trying to murder him.
* NukeEm: The player can get a skill that lets Axton set off a Nuke when deploying the Sabre Turret (subject to its own cooldown).
* ThePollyanna: He went from high ranking military officer with a wife to a mercenary on a planet full of convicts. Axton is still the most jovial of the bunch.
* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: Done by himself in one of his idle lines.
-->''"This... this is nice. Who wants to be out killing stuff anyway?... me. I do."''
* SemperFi: Mentions this exact phrase in his origin ECHO, so it can be assumed he was part of a futuristic Marine unit.
* SchmuckBait: Uses his turret as this while capturing a bounty before the game starts.
** Also invoked in-game:
-->''"Hey, stand in front of this!"''
* TakeCover: While cover is useful for everyone, Axton's skills allow him to make the best use of it, particularly in the "Guerrilla" tree. The Able skill dramatically speeds up shield regeneration and recharge delay, allowing him to quickly move in and out of cover, and the Preparation skill in the "Survival" tree regenerates health when he has full shields. Coupled with his turret's ability to draw fire, Axton is very capable of fighting effectively from cover, emerging to trade fire with the enemy and take hits to his shields, and falling back to fully regenerate them in seconds.
* TattooAsCharacterType: [[http://images.wikia.com/borderlands/images/9/98/Borderlands2_Axton_2.png The metallic-looking two lines underneath an upside-down V implanted above his left eye]] was likely intended to serve a purpose like this, [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Army-USA-OR-09c.svg resembling a sergeant major's rank insignia]], to portray his military background.
* TheTurretMaster: Moreso than Roland due to his much more advanced Sabre turret. Customizing his turret is a big part of Axton's skill trees -- he can add missile launchers and/or an extra gun to his turret, for instance, or even deploy two turrets at once.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Often when he or his turret kills an enemy.
* WantedPoster: '''War crimes: $5,000,000,000'''
* WhatTheHellHero: Delivered by his ex-wife, Sarah, when recounting Axton's brilliant plan to escort a dignitary... [[spoiler:By planting a tracker on him, following it when he got captured, and blowing up the building full of terrorists. ''With the dignitary still inside.'']]
* WorthyOpponent: One echo found in Lynchwood has Axton complaining how bandits offer no challenge and he's looking for something more.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Maya]]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Borderlands2_Maya2_6618.png]]
!''As "The Siren"''
!!Voiced by Martha Harms
A Siren who once served as the secret weapon of an order of monks known as the Order of the Impending Storm who ruled over the planet Athenas. After learning of the monks' corruption and their plans to use her as a enforcer to keep the people of Athenas in line, she abandoned the order to seek out answers regarding her Siren lineage on Pandora. Her skill is Phaselock, letting her trap, damage, or control enemies.
----
* AGodAmI: Was apparently worshiped as a goddess on her homeworld. [[spoiler:[[AGodIAmNot Ultimately inverted.]] She has godlike powers from being a Siren, but doesn't see herself as a god.]]
** [[spoiler:CorruptChurch / StopWorshippingMe: The leadership exploited her for their own gain. When she found out... she was ''not'' happy.]]
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Traveled the galaxy to investigate Siren lore.
* BadassBookworm: Her class mods appear as hardcover books.
** In the Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon's Keep DLC the characters ponder on what they will spend their riches on. Maya's response:
-->"Lots and lots of books...and guns."
* BaldWomen: The head you get for buying the limited edition is this.
* BerserkButton: Do not call her a child. [[spoiler: Ask [[SinisterMinister Brother Sophis]] - oh wait, [[BoomHeadshot Maya blew a hole in his head]]. Nevermind!]]
* BurnTheWitch: Some enemies have this attitude to Maya, sometimes to the point they drop the line, verbatim. [[BerserkButton Maya doesn't take too kindly to this...]]
* EvilLaugh: Has several of these, ranging from girly giggling (including a Lisa Simpson-esque snort-laugh), to absolutely cold-blooded chuckling when dispatching Badass-rank enemies.
* FashionableAsymmetry: Her stylish tattoos only run down her left arm, not her right.
* GoneHorriblyRight: The church that raised and trained her repeatedly insisted that she was going to be used to fight terrorists and criminals.[[spoiler: [[HoistByHisOwnPetard When she found out they were using her to keep the planet in terror to obey them, she killed them.]] ]]
* GoodIsNotSoft: While significantly less amoral than her teammates, she's still quite vicious towards her enemies.
* HealingShiv: Like Roland's Cauterize from the first game, her Restoration ability allows you to heal your allies... by shooting them. Her Rez override also turns her action skill into an insta-revive.
** As a sidenote, Restoration means your shots will even heal a Krieg who specced into Fuel the Rampage (which enables him to take friendly fire) -- the healing seems to actually be painful to him, as he responds as if hurt.
* TheHero: Maya is the only one of the new Vault Hunters who is not on Pandora to find a challenge nor is wanted for any previous crime. She also is the only Vault Hunter that has shown to be wholly good by refusing to execute innocent civilians and stopping the Order that raised her from using her to terrorize her planet. However...
** HeroWithBadPublicity: Jack put a bounty of $720 billion on her head, the second highest of the Vault Hunters (compared to Axton's 5 for war crimes, Zer0's 32 for political assassination, Salvador's 99 for at least eight varied offenses, and Gaige's 820 for her Deathtrap "exploding" her RichBitch classmate), simply for being a Siren [[spoiler:not under his thumb like Angel.]]
* LifeDrain: Several of her skills have this effect.
* TheMedic: Has the main healing skill tree of the group in her Harmony skill tree, which includes the Rez ability to allow her to instantly revive an ally in who is down in Fight For Your Life mode.
* MoralityPet: For Krieg, who became a Vault Hunter upon falling for her.
* MrViceGuy: Given her outright refusal to murder civilians on her homeworld, it seems she's basically good, but she's clearly not above partaking in the [[PayEvilUntoEvil targeted]] ComedicSociopathy the Vault Hunters are offered a chance to participate in from time to time.
** Also has the most reason to be against Hyperion considering Jack's treatment of Sirens.
* PowerGivesYouWings: If you place points in the Blight Phoenix skill, Maya will sprout wings of fire every time she kills an enemy.
* PowerHigh: Invoked with "Is there no limit to my power?!" when leveling up. Still no where near as bad as Gaige though.
* PowerTattoo: Much like Lilith, the left side of her body bears Eridian markings.
* PsychoticSmirk: Apparently loves doing this when she Phaselocks people. However, her smirk is more heroic than most examples.
* RedemptionEarnsLife: By working with her the other Vault Hunters, who fall into the type of people she'd kill, they get to avoid having their brains incinerated. [[spoiler: Some of the church members who were less abusive were also allowed to live and are implied to have aided in her getting to Pandora.]]
** Her initial response to meeting Krieg is to start shooting once he starts yelling. It's only once he puts into action the meaning behind his words, and gets out one short coherent line, by saving her does she stop attacking him.
* SensualSpandex: Her tight fitting top prominently shows off her figure.
* ShipTease: With Krieg. Admittedly it seems pretty one sided.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Her profile specifically states that she dislikes when people try to experiment on her.
** In her personal [=ECHO=] log, "First Week On Pandora", she mentions that half of the Pandora populous she's met wants to worship her for being a Siren and the other half want to capture her and turn her over to Hyperion.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: One of her Second Wind callouts is "I'm back, bitches!"
* TokenGoodTeammate: Despite her fondness for a hearty EvilLaugh when dispatching foes, calling opponents 'bitches,' and her tendency to tell opponents they should just give up and die, Maya is by far the least psychotic and bloodthirsty of the Vault Hunters.
** She is also the most polite to other characters. She will politely insist the other character to take their time if they are in their menu while trying to travel to the next area, and when she appears in a game, she will greet them, tell them what she is and that is nice to meet them, and warn them that if they try to capture her, she will incinerate their brain.
** It's also worth noting that the enemies in the game are pretty much all either bandits or [[EvilInc Hyperion]] employees and machines. The exact thing she was raised to fight.
* TouchedByVorlons: She's a Siren, like Lilith. Her powers involve "phaselocking", in which she traps an enemy in an energy bubble and temporarily taking it out of the fight.
* [[spoiler:TykeBomb: According to logs you can find, her church intended her to be this. It didn't work out.]]
* WantedPoster: '''Siren: $720,000,000,000'''
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: And her hair is really colored blue. Well, on her default skin anyways. Her character skins vary from realistic hair colors to various dye jobs.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Salvador]]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Borderlands2_Salvador2_5244.png]]
!''As "The Gunzerker"''
!!Voiced by JohnSwasey
A heavily-built but not terribly huge native to Pandora who was lured into becoming a Vault Hunter by a Hyperion raid on his village, which promised him violence and challenge in equal measure. His skill is Gunzerking, allowing him to regenerate health and ammo, become resistant to damage, and dual-wield weapons.
----
* AxCrazy: A rare, [[UnscrupulousHero kinda heroic]] example.
* BadassBeard: Has a large beard that makes him look even more rough and tumble, though many of his alternate heads change the style or get rid of it altogether.
* BadassBoast: Several of his Gunzerking lines are this.
* BadassNative: Salvador is actually a native of Pandora and was the defender of his village.
* BadassNormal: Compared to the other vault hunters, Salvador is this. Axton is an experienced soldier who can deploy a powerful turret; Zer0 is a ninja who uses holographic decoys and may not even be human, judging by his borderline-supernatural abilities. Maya is [[TouchedByVorlons a siren.]] Gaige has [[ABoyAndHisX a badass death robot bodyguarding her.]] Krieg is the result of experimentation. Salvador, on the other hand, is just one man with incredible anger management issues and an insatiable thirst for MoreDakka. He kicks as much ass as any of the others.
* TheBerserker: ''Gun''zerker, to be more specific.
* TheBigGuy: He and Krieg take Brick's place as this for the new crop of Vault Hunters.
* BoisterousBruiser: Loudest and most verbal of the bunch. Most likely due to roid-rage.
* BondOneLiner: Killing enemies while Gunzerking causes Salvador to spout an action hero one-liner. Some of them, like "[[Film/AirForceOne GET OFF MY PLANE!]]" and "[[LethalWeapon IT'S BEEN REVOKED!]]" are famous one-liners from action movies.
** Also parodied in one of his Gunzerking quotes, which is simply "ONE-LINER!"
* CombatSadomasochist: In his introduction ECHO recording, Salvador is told that before he get anywhere near the vault, he'll be shot, stabbed, burned, and mauled a thousand times over. He loves every part of that sentence. Also, when reviving downed teammates he'll sometimes say that if anyone's going to almost die, it should be him.
* CompensatingForSomething: When entering Gunzerk, one of his lines is "Time to compensate!", and while Gunzerking he might also say "Screw you, [[FreudWasRight Freud!]]". Obviously, he's either compensating for his small stature... or that other thing that steroids can make small.
-->"IT'S LIKE HAVING THREE DICKS!"
* DesperationAttack: The "Down, Not Out" skill in the Gun Lust tree allows you to Gunzerk while in Fight For Your Life. Just Got Real from the Brawn tree increases gun damage the lower your health is
* DemBones: The head you get for finishing the main story of ''Pirate's Booty'' is a skull with a pirate hat and a beard.
* DiscriminateAndSwitch: All of the dwarfs in Tina's ''Bunkers and Badasses'' game look suspiciously like Salvador...
-->'''Tina''': Yeah I know, [[TheNicknamer Lilywhite]], what, you think it's racist?! Hey I'mma go ask Sal see if he thinks its racist. HEY SALVADOR, IS IT OKAY IF ALL THE DWARFS IN MY CAMPAIGN LOOK LIKE YOU!?
-->[{{Beat}}]
-->'''Salvador''': That is awesome!
* DreadlockWarrior: One of his heads gives him a long dreadlock ponytail.
* EasilyForgiven: Salvador was about to be hanged when Hyperion attacked his village. When torturing the man who shot the judge for doing that, he's asked why he cares, since the judge was going to hang him. Salvador brushes it off as "Nobody's perfect".
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Has the third highest bounty of all the Vault Hunters, with a list of crimes including manslaughter, arson, and cannibalism... and yet, he still loves his grandma Rosita.
* FightingForAHomeland: He's fighting back against Hyperion because they've declared all the local residents 'bandits' for not submitting to Hyperion rule. Also, because there's a crapload of guns and money in it for him.
* FlippingTheBird: Does this with his Come At Me, Bro skill. Sadly, it's first person only and no third person animations exist for it.
* GratuitousSpanish: Not just his name, but some of his taunts as well. ''Bienvenidos a la fiesta, amigos!''
* GunsAkimbo: Can actually dual-wield ''every'' gun in the game, from pistols to Rocket Launchers. It's even lampshaded in the loading screens, mentioning if you wanna have a rocket launcher in one hand and a sniper rifle in the other, you can!
* GunNut: Makes sense for the '''gun'''zerker to be one, but it's made clear in the Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon's Keep DLC when the characters ponder on what they will spend their riches on. Salvador's response:
-->"Guns! And Guns!"
* TheGunslinger: The Vaporizer with a Rampage build (though with a focus on dual wielding unusual for the archetype); The Woo with a Gun Lust build and a pistol-boosting Renegade mod.
* HollywoodActionHero: He ''runs'' on tropes common to the HollywoodActionHero, with the [[SociopathicHero exception of "morality"]] and a huge helping of LampshadeHanging and Meta.
* HealingFactor: While Gunzerking. The Brawn skill tree has a number of skills that effect this in various ways.
* HiddenElfVillage: His village was so remote that the people living there had never heard of Hyperion and didn't know what the hell a "Vault" was. Like, ever.
* ImAHumanitarian: Cannibalism is among the list of charges on his Wanted poster. It's unknown if this is one of Hyperion's exaggerations, although it is within the realm of possibility.
* TheJuggernaut: The Brawn skill tree is built around making Salvador unkillable. One of the skills in the tree is even called "[[Film/XMen I'm the Juggernaut]]", and he has Juggernaut class mods that boost Brawn skills.
* LampshadeHanging: Salvador's a fan of doing this while starting up Gunzerk a lot.
--> ''"TIME TO OVERCOMPENSATE!"''\\
''"CAN'T STOP SCREAMING!"''\\
''"ONE-LINER!"''\\
''"SCREW YOU FREUD!"''\\
''"SOMETHING CLEVER!"'' (he says the exact words)
* LargeHam: The number of lines he speaks in the game that are not enormously loud, top-of-his-lungs battle cries or taunts can probably be counted on one of Zer0's hands.
* MoreDakka: Salvador's entire modus operandi, especially when you take a look at his Gun Lust tree.
** The last skill in the Rampage tree is Keep Firing, which increases the fire rate and reload speed of guns while Gunzerking for as long as the trigger is held down. Try it with guns that have fast fire rates, speedy reloads, and/or huge magazines to begin with -- you'll fire ''hundreds'' of bullets in the blink of an eye.
* TheNapoleon: He is a dwarf, caused by a lifetime of steroid abuse. He's also a ''very'' angry man.
* NoIndoorVoice: Pretty much everything he says is screamed at the top of his voice.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: He's basically a Latino [[Comicbook/XMen Wolverine]] with no claws. Heck, one of his skills is a MegatonPunch. Because of this, Tina based all the dwarves of her Bunkers & Badasses campaign off of him, something that he thinks is awesome.
* ScreamingWarrior: While Gunzerking, he's always screaming. Most of the things he says in that state are utter nonsense.
* SociopathicHero: Salvador has, in his own words, "issues". Namely, he really loves to hurt and kill people, with both his bare hands and big, powerful guns.
** Reviving someone as Salvador may be accompanied with him saying "I stopped shooting to help you." or "You made me stop shooting!" in a fairly self-important tone.
* TopHeavyGuy: Has an absolutely hulking upper body, on top of tiny, comically short legs.
* TropeName: A hilarious amount of his quotes are this, part of his near-constant LampshadeHanging of the HollywoodActionHero tropes he runs on.
* UnscrupulousHero: He's got very good reasons to be fighting Hyperion beyond simply getting paid or finding a worthy opponent to fight, but he's [[BloodKnight very eager to spill blood]] and happy to slaughter and torture Hyperion personnel.
* UnstoppableRage: What Gunzerking is. The screen gets a red tint around the edges and you can see the bloodshot veins in Salvador's eyes for the duration.
* WantedPoster: '''Manslaughter, Theft, Arson, Destruction of Property, Trespassing, Cannibalism, Public Indecency, and Profanity: $99,000,000,000.99'''
[[/folder]]
[[folder:[=Zer0=]]]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Borderlands2_Zero2_6012.png]]
!''As [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers a Number]]''
!!Voiced by Mike Turner
An extremely mysterious assassin who came to Pandora to find a challenge worthy of his skills. Beyond that, we...really don't know much else. It's up in the air as to whether he's even human. His skill is Deception, which creates a holographic decoy while he turns invisible, letting him strike suddenly for massive damage.
* BadassBoast: Can give a particularly awesome one when killing an enemy during "Fight For Your Life Mode!", which like most of his second wind lines is one of the only times he sounds ''[[NotSoStoic Pissed]]''.
-->''"I won't die today / Not while I still have ammo / I am a badass!"''
** Another good one if you kill a tough enemy with a [[BoomHeadshot headshot]] or critical hit:
-->''"Critical killing / Is an art unto itself / And I am Rembrandt."''
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: His class mod are elbow blades.
* BloodKnight: When hunting down a poor schmuck, he insists that he fight back and stop retreating so he can work for it.
* CallingCard: Named Zer0 because of the trademark red, digital-format zero that his mask displays when he scores a kill.
* ChallengeSeeker: His primary motivation above all else is to seek a challenge for his skills.
* ColdSniper: Zer0 has a dedicated sniping skill tree. He does ''not'', however, seem to have much in the way of emotion.
* TheComicallySerious: His CreepyMonotone [[MoodWhiplash drastically clashes]] with his {{Emoticon}}s, and the times he's SophisticatedAsHell.
* DamageIncreasingDebuff: Death Mark lets him apply a debuff to enemies (signified by a red 0 above them) whenever he hits someone in melee or with kunai.
* DissonantSerenity: Half of Pandora could be exploding around him, and Zer0 will still be talking in his calm, focused, sinister monotone.
* {{Emoticon}}: Zero doesn't have facial expressions since he is obviously wearing a mask, so his faceplate lights up to show his emotions, such as :) when he kills or <3 when he's picking someone up.
** When he loses a duel, "FML" (Fuck My Life) shows up on his face.
* {{Expy}}: Of [[GIJoe Snake Eyes]]. Early concept art even had him wearing a similar grilled visor (Mentioning Snake Eyes as the inspiration). One of his alternate heads is very similar, and one of his costumes is even called "Eyes Of the Snake".
** Also of [[Franchise/MetalGear Gray Fox]]. The character designer even admitted to being a big MGS fan, and partially modeled Zero after the famous cyborg ninja. It really becomes apparent when Zero talks, as his voice has a similar tone as that of Gray Fox.
* FlashStep: His Execute skill allows him to perform this during Deception mode; with the end-tier skill of his Bloodshed tree, Many Must Fall, he can chain these indefinitely as Deception will remain active and the timer will be reset as long as he manages to kill his target.
* FlechetteStorm: Death Bl0ss0m lets him throw explosive kunai with elemental effects during Decepti0n mode that are also capable of applying the Death Mark debuff.
* ForMassiveDamage: Zer0's gameplay is built around burst damage and hit chains; in particular, his Critical Ascension skill adds bonus damage for every critical hit scored within a few seconds, stacking up to 999 times but decaying over time.
* FourFingeredHands: Zero only has four fingers. He might not be human.
* {{Haiku}}: Pretty much anything he says beyond short, curt sentences is one of these.
* InexplicablyAwesome: The designers have stated outright that they wanted Zer0 to have as confusing, muddled, and mysterious a background as possible.
** The [=ECHO=] surveillance logs that Jack has [[HyperCompetentSidekick his subordinate]] pull up on him leave even ''them'' stumped. Hell, Jack even balks that all anyone can say about Zer0 being on Pandora or whether he's human or not is "I dunno".
* {{Invisibility}}: Sends out a decoy while he turns invisible, Predator-style.
* Letters2Numbers: All of the letter o's in Zer0's name, skill trees, heads and skins are replaced with number 0's. The names of some of his alternate heads follow suit, and also includes 3 for E, 1 for I (i), and 4 for A sometimes.
* MyHeroZero: Or more specifically, Zer0.
* {{Ninja}}: Clear design influence, and the name of one of his class mods. The ultimate skill in the Decepti0n-focused Cunning tree even gives him the ability to throw kunai knives.
* NoNameGiven: Other than "Zer0," which is almost certainly a pseudonym.
* NoSocialSkills: Upon being told that it is impossible to shut a rude person up, Zer0 "accepts" the challenge and decapitates the guy in front of his friend.
* ProfessionalKiller: Part of being an assassin. He's wanted by Hyperion for a political assassination.
* OneHitPolykill: The B0re skill, which lets bullets penetrate enemies as well as highlighting weak points while in Decepti0n.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Occasionally peppers his haikus with profanity.
-->'''Zer0 (Issuing a duel challenge): '''Oh, what?! Yeah, what, bitch?! / Yeah, I just slapped you and stuff. / What you gonna do?
* SpreadShot: His Death Bl0ss0m skill.
* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: He tends to speak in haiku.
* SwordAndGun: Has a skill called "[[BruceLee Be Like Water]]" that advocates using both his sword and guns in tandem.
* TheStoic: Oddly averted for his archetype. Since most of his lines are in Haiku, he is considerably more wordy than the other Vault Hunters.
* UnscrupulousHero: His motives are, like everything else about him, shrouded in mystery. But he seems to mostly be in it [[BloodKnight for the pleasure of the fight]].
* WantedPoster: '''Political Assassin: $32,000,000,000'''
* WarriorPoet: A lot of his statements are in Haiku.
* WorthyOpponent: What he hopes to find in searching for the Vault; Although he takes contracts and payment without much discretion, he is essentially looking for a challenge.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Gaige]]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gaige_1141.png]]
!''As "The Mechromancer"''
!!Voiced by CheramiLeigh
A high-school engineering genius who was forced to flee to Pandora after an "incident" in her school's science fair resulted in her rival "exploding." Travels with her personal RobotBuddy, D374-TP, or "Deathtrap," which she digistructs using her specific skill.
----
* AccidentalMurder: When Marcy got first place the science fair [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney by having her father buy off all the judges]], she started gloating and shoved Gaige. Deathtrap's IFF protocols registered her as an enemy, so he attacked, and Marcy...[[LudicrousGibs exploded]]. Also, the stray cat that walked into the line of fire during Deathtrap's testing of its claws.
* {{Adorkable}}: Her first ECHO portrays her as a nerd, complete with tech talk and snorting laugh. One of the crimes listed on her wanted poster is "Excessive Adorability"
* AGodAmI: If you build up enough anarchy stacks her "got a stack" quotes start drifting this way.
-->"I'm getting a god complex and I LIKE IT!"\\
"I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA!"\\
"I AM THE INFINITE!"\\
"I AM THE GOD OF DAMAGE!"
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Her father walks in during her ECHO casting bringing her hot cocoa to drink, leading to this:
-->'''Gaige:''' I don't need cocoa, dad, I am a woman of science and asskickery, not children's beverages!\\
'''Gaige's Dad:''' Heh heh, whatever you say, sweetheart, I'll just leave it here.\\
''[[{{Beat}} [Gaige's dad walks out, followed by a moment of silence]]]''\\
'''Gaige:''' ...*slurp* Dammit, that's really good.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Wanted for "Creation of unauthorized technology and excessive adorability" according to her profile card.
* ATeamFiring: The "Anarchy" skill increases her damage while decreasing her accuracy every time she kills an enemy or she empties her clip. This can be circumvented to a degree by using Hyperion weapons and the [[PinballProjectile Close Enough]] skill in the [=BFF=] tree.
** The frustration of not hitting things is also circumvented by increasingly hilarious dialogue:
--> "Eh, accuracy's overrated anyway."\\
"I probably won't hit anything, but whatever!"\\
"Why am I still doing this?!"\\
"I don't even remember what accuracy ''is!''"\\
"God help you all if I actually ''hit'' something!!"\\
"[[BreakingTheFourthWall Player!]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis WHAT! ARE YOU!]] ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis DOING?!]]''"
* ArtificialLimb: She accidentally sliced her left arm - she says it's "[[{{Understatement}} not a big cut]], it barely goes like, halfway to the bone" - which gave her a great idea. Instead of using an Insta-Health injection to fix the wound, she proceeds to ''[[CrazyAwesome finish lopping it off]]'' with a particle saw and builds a new one, which contains all of Deathtrap's digistruct data so she can quick-summon him wherever she is and whenever she wants. It can also punch through concrete.
* AscendedFangirl: Her second ECHO has her gushing about Pandora and the Vaults. After her AccidentalMurder of Marcy, she leaves her homeworld of Eden-5 for Pandora.
* BadassAdorable: Kicks hundreds of bandits' and soldiers' asses, even while being Adorable.
* BadassBookworm: A total nerd turned Vault hunter.
* TheBeastmaster: All her trees buff Deathtrap, but Best Friends Forever focuses on this the most.
* TheBerserker: Ordered Chaos turns her into one. While she can do somewhat significant damage from down range with some luck, charging in is much more effective.
* BigNo: Whenever her Anarchy stacks expire. [[FunnyMoments Hilariously]], the "NO!" gets ''longer'' the more stacks you had before they expired.
* BlindingBangs: One of the head options she starts the game with.
* BloodKnight: Gets this with Anarchy.
-->"BLOOOD!!!"
* BodyHorror: Starting off with how she got her robotic arm, there are also several skins for her head that drift into this territory. Digitized Death, Mecka Wrecka, and Metal Blood all replace her head with robotic ones, Speak No Evil has her mouth stitched shut and her eye inhumanly distorted, and Lovely Corpse has the skin ripped right off her face.
* BrattyHalfPint: Can show tendancies of this, especially against enemies.
--> '''After a Second Wind:''' Nice try, suckas!\\
'''After a critical kill:''' NOOB!
* BreakingTheFourthWall:
** Completely makes the fourth wall her bitch in regards to Anarchy. Does it no less than five times in relation to gaining Anarchy stacks. When Anarchy gets REAL high, she actually starts wondering aloud what the player is doing.
--> "[[DamnYouMuscleMemory Don't accidentally reload.]] [[MadnessMantra Don't accidentally reload.]]"\\
''(later with more stacks)'' "I think my reload button's broken."\\
"Player! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis WHAT! ARE YOU!]] ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis DOING?!]]''"\\
"[[GameBreaker You're breaking the game, dude!!!]]"\\
"ALLEN WRITE SOME DIALOGUE HERE!!!"
** Does it when you accidentally reload without Discord:
--> "[[DamnYouMuscleMemory Aw man, learn the controller!]]"
* BroughtDownToNormal: Lampshades it when losing Anarchy.
--> "I feel normal now."
* BullyHunter: The reason why she initially built Deathtrap. It worked a little too well, suffice to say.
* CastFromHitPoints: Blood Soaked Shields restores her shields on a kill at the cost of some of her health. This pairs up incredibly well with Amp or Turtle Shields, allowing you to keep the amplified damage so long as you keep killing or to simply maximize the Health to Shield rate.
* ChainedByFashion: She wears a padlock on her right wrist. Upon closer inspection, it appears to be one-half of a pair of handcuffs. She ''did'' mention being arrested (and expelled), and it'd be just like her to keep the handcuffs after escaping because they looked cool. [[LoveableSexManiac And other stuff.]]
* CharacterBlog: She was the first user of the [[https://twitter.com/ECHOcasts ECHO casts twitter account]] (before it was taken over by other characters) and her own [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijs-FEk3OIk&feature=g-all-u ECHO Video Log]]. The latter makes up for her lack of in-game ECHO logs like what the original four Vault Hunters have.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Anarchy gains damage and loses accuracy in equal percentage points.
* DaddysGirl: Despite acting like your typical rebellious teenager, she's still very close to her father; to the point he helps her flee to Pandora after the AccidentalMurder.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Normally played straight like with the other characters, but averted if you decide to spec into Ordered Chaos. If you die you lose all your Anarchy stacks. Have fun getting them back if you had the max you could get. If Gaige is downed while she as a lot of Anarchy stacks, she'll ''freak out''.
-->"[[LampshadeHanging If I go down now, I'm screwed!]]"
* DifficultButAwesome: Her Ordered Chaos tree. The tree relies on the (mandatory for that tree) Anarchy skill, which gives a stackable damage buff and accuracy debuff every time you make a kill or reload a gun with an empty clip. These buffs do not degrade (outside of Fight for Your Life), but do disappear if you prematurely reload. Needless to say, hitting anything becomes difficult when you have a lot of Anarchy stacks going, but when you do hit them, they ''will'' feel it. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Gaige's bounty is the highest of all the Vault Hunters at 820 billion for accidentally killing her classmate and going on the run. This seems excessive when compared to the other Vault Hunters until you realize that Marcy's father was extremely rich and could afford to put out such a massive bounty.
* DropTheHammer: Her melee weapon is a claw hammer.
* DudeWheresMyRespect:
** One of her quotes, when Deathtrap is killing, points out that he only placed 3rd in the science fair.
*** She complains more about getting 3rd place as one of her rants when you idle too long.
** Hyperion Engineers will make fun of Deathtrap when it's released.
* EvilLaugh: While insane she may do this. Or just say it.
-->'''"EVIL MANIACAL LAUGHTER!"'''
* EvolvingWeapon: Deathtrap's appearance changes depending on Gaige's skillset. Having points in the BFF tree gives it additional armor plating, having points in Little Big Trouble gives it bladed wings, and points in Ordered Chaos gives it bandit-style spikes. It's possible for it to have a combination of the three. The final talent in each tree also cause Deathtrap to [[PowerGlows glow]].
* FingerlessGloves: Wears one on her right hand (her 'good' hand).
* FlirtingUnderFire: When reviving her, she will flirt with the character regardless of gender.
--> [''Tiger growl''] I'll be thanking you later.\\
Thanks, sexy. [''Tiger growl'']\\
Well, you are just hot as hell. Remind me to pay you back for that.
* FrickinLaserBeams: Deathtrap can be upgraded with one.
* GadgeteerGenius: Again: Built a robot for the science fair.
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration:
** She damages her robotic hand by using it to smash concrete, by the time she's on Pandora she's using that strength but using a hammer or digistructed claws to deliver the blow.
** During her ECHO logs, she mentions a few of her skills as various upgrades. For example, she thinks the reason Deathtrap dealt explosive damage to Marcy was because of a glitch in the recently-installed Discord circuits.
* GenkiGirl: Is an extremely hyper young woman.
* GirlishPigtails: Her default skin has her hair done up in pigtails.
* GlassCannon: Of a sort when using Ordered Chaos. She has the same base HP as each other Vault hunter, but because of the accuracy reduction from Anarchy she has to get closer to the enemies than the others. Blood Soaked Shields can help mitigate it, but the CastFromHP factor can result in death even quicker when her shields do go down.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Her Necrosis skin and Chaos Reigns color scheme do this to her. Necrosis provides a teal glow, Chaos Reigns an orange glow, and the two together a yellow glow.
* GogglesDoNothing: She has a pair of googles on her head that she never seems to use for anything in the game proper.
* InTheHood: Her Necrosis skin has this, along with GlowingEyesOfDoom. Curiously though, the hood on her shirt that's always down is still there so she has two hoods.
* InstantWebHit: In her first ECHO, she had twelve (er, eleven) subscribers. Then five in her second, then two in her third. After accidentally killing her RichBitch classmate and going on the run, she suddenly has over twenty thousand.
* LargeHam: Again, fluctuates with her Anarchy stacks. The more stacks, the more hammy she gets. It varies between boasting over how much damage she's doing and bitching about how her accuracy blows.
* LovableSexManiac: The most flirty out of all the characters, especially illustrated by one of her idle quotes.
-->'''Gaige''': If I don't shoot, repair, or [[DoubleEntendre screw something]] in the next few minutes, we're going to have a problem.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Zigzagged. When she cut her arm "halfway to the bone", she didn't freak out at all. Hell, her first thoughts were to instantly and completely heal it. However, her second thought was to chop her arm completely off and build a new one.
* {{Nerd}}: Quotes ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament''; yells "GG", "Noob", and similar; built a robot in her own garage with her own skill, etc.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Her reaction to slicing her arm ''halfway to the bone''.
* OpenMindedParent: Gaige's dad is alright with anything save for amputation:
** When she tells him that her rival stole her design, gave it to the local fascist police force and is trying to win the science fair that they are competing in with Gaige's idea, Gaige gets this reaction from her dad:
-->'''Gaige's Dad:''' You're gonna take that bitch down, right?
** When Deathtrap [[LudicrousGibs gibbed]] Marcy at the Science Fair, Gaige's dad actually helped her ''escape the police and flee to Pandora'' (using explosives), you can probably chalk him up as "Best Dad Ever".
* TheOtherDarrin / TheOtherMarty: Was originally supposed to be voiced by Creator/LuciChristian, and is even listed in the credits as such, but switched to Creator/CheramiLeigh in the middle of production. A lot of (possibly ''most'' of) Gaige's lines are still recognizably Luci; if you don't spec into Anarchy or Close Enough, you'll pretty much never hear Cherami at all.
* PinballProjectile: The "Close Enough" skill, which gives bullets that miss a chance to ricochet back at enemies but at reduced damage, and the "Nth Degree" skill, which causes every nth successful hit to ricochet at full damage.
* PlayingWithFire: The "Little Big Trouble" skills "The Stare" and "Electrical Burn" give her (and Deathtrap) some ability to do fire damage, though in the latter case it's a side-effect of shock damage.
* ThePollyanna: Adapts to her [[DeathWorld new environment]] rather quickly but maintains her disposition.
* PointlessBandaid: Worn on her right cheek.
* PowersAsPrograms: In her ECHO casts she name-drops a bunch of her abilities as possible upgrade applications for Deathtrap or for her own arm. Whether this is true for other characters is ambiguous, but in her case, her powers ARE programs.
* PowerFist: Her cybernetic arm can smash concrete. Which helps explain why a tiny teenage girl can swing a hammer as hard as a full-grown male soldier.
* PowerHigh: After building up enough anarchy stacks. Evidenced not only by her quotes showing more and more of a [[AGodAmI god complex]], but the way she yells "Anarchy!" At lower amounts, it's a straight yell of it. Higher amounts? It sounds more or less like she's being aroused by the power.
* PragmaticHero: She's basically decent, but she considers poundings delivered by a giant attack robot [[PayEvilUntoEvil a suitable response to bullying]].
* PreOrderBonus: The Mechromancer is free for people that pre-order the game.
* RebelliousSpirit: And how! One of her class mods is called Punk even.
-->"PUNK NEVER DIES!"
* RoboSexual: One of her class mods have her referred to as a Technophile, while she mostly treats Deathtrap like a pet there are times she'll refer to it in more personal terms, and will often refer to guns as if they were alive (some actually are), calling them sexy.
* RobotMaster: Commands an "undead" robot known as a D374-TP (aka Deathtrap).
* ScienceFair: A major part of her and Deathtrap's OriginStory. Essentially Deathtrap, then called as "DT", was a science fair project designed as an "anti-bullying" robot. DT fulfilled his functions well... [[GoneHorriblyRight too well]].
* ShockAndAwe: Her Little Big Trouble tree is all about dealing large amounts of electrical damage.
* ShockwaveClap: Deathtrap can do this.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Her classmate, RichBitch and SpoiledBrat Marcy Halloway. [[ItsPersonal It gets personal]] after Gaige finds out that Marcy plagiarized her work, renamed it, and sold it to "the galaxy's most corrupt police force".
* SkillGateCharacter: Her Best Friends Forever tree is designed to be less powerful than her other trees, but much more user-friendly, making it good for new players.
* SmallGirlBigGun: She's the shortest Vault Hunter in the game, and yet can still use rocket launchers, shotguns and sniper rifles.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: Digistructed Claws and Deathtrap.
* {{Squick}}: When scoring a crit kill, she may yell out "I got brains on my shoes! ({{Beat}}) I like it!" An in-universe example is when she gets slagged. She complains that she got some in her mouth and informs everyone that it smells like a mix of piss and nachos.
* TeenGenius: [[WordOfGod Eighteen years old]] and she initially designed Deathtrap as a ''science fair project''.
* ThreeLawsCompliant: Deathtrap isn't. Dialogue exists reflecting it:
-->"[[LampshadeHanging To hell with the first law!]]"
* TookALevelInBadass: Goes from bullied, not very popular nerd to [[OneManArmy Vault Hunter]].
* UnusualEuphemism: Has a bunch.
--> ''(On a Deathtrap kill)'' "Ooooh, right in the wingnut!"
* WantedPoster: '''Creation of Illegal Technology and Excessive Adorability: $820,000,000,000'''
* WhateverMancy: She is known as the "Mechromancer" for her ability to "summon" her robot Deathtrap from out of nowhere with only a wave of her cybernetic hands like magic. Her cybernetic arm is actually some sort of portable digistructing device that she uses to conveniently digistruct Deathtrap wherever she goes.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: [[RunningGag Once again]], based on her Anarchy stacks. From zero to roughly 100 stacks, she seems normal. From there to 150, she's clearly feeling the effects mentally and wants more, but no where near as bad as once she passes the 150 mark. By the time she hits 400 she's clearly [[PowerHigh gone off]] [[AGodAmI the deep end]]. She even lampshades it by yelling "I'm going mildly insane!!"
* WrenchWench: Her designs have elements of it.
* WolverineClaws: Her tier 6 Ordered Chaos skill, With Claws, overrides her default melee attack with digistructed claws while you have Anarchy stacked.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Some of her Second Wind quotes come off as being legitimately surprised that she pulled it off and didn't die as opposed to her usual handling of the situation.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Her reaction to finding out that Marcy stole her DT design, gave it to police, and gave it the stupid name of Crime Buster Bot.
-->'''Gaige:''' Bitch, are you kidding me!?
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[[folder:Krieg]]
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!''As "The Psycho"''
!! Voiced by Jason Douglas
The product of horrifying experimentation at the hands of Hyperion, Krieg was once a heroic Vault Hunter. While the process did make him stronger, it also drove him almost completely insane, with the last remnants of his former self acting as a conscience to him. Encountering Maya as she waited for a train, he fell in love with her and became a Vault Hunter alongside her in hopes that she will be the one to make him sane once more. His Action Skill has him go on a rampage with his buzz axe, regaining health for every kill.
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* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: During his stint in the ECHO Casts twitter account, he tends to capitalize random letters such as "[=NIPpLE SaLAds=]" and "[=YoU WANNA know wHo I AM I will SHOW YoU WHo I AM=]".
* ADayInTheLimelight: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3mhWvWEb9g A Meat Bicycle Built for Two]]'', a short film made by Gearbox that shows how Krieg became a Vault Hunter.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: In psychology, alliteration without logical association is often indicative of clanging, a symptom of schizophrenia. Unsurprisingly, Krieg is quite fond of this:
** Could it be that he's seen ''Film/VForVendetta'' at some point?
--> "Pitiful people prepare, plead plentifully plentiful platitude phenomenal patriot pounds, poundingly perverse puppets pulping, pleasantly, putrid pasties."
** All of the skill names in the Hellborn skill tree. (Burn Baby Burn, Fuel the Fire, Pain is Power, etc.)
* AnAxeToGrind[=/=]ChainsawGood: He wields a larger version of the buzz axe that Dr. Zed or the Badass Psychos use. The Buzz Axe Bombardier attaches dynamite to it, letting Krieg deal explosive damage whenever he throws it. His class mods take the form of different blades for it.
* AndIMustScream: He used to be a much saner, smarter, more moral sort, possibly a Vault Hunting bounty hunter. Now? Thanks to Hyperion experimentation, he's a mass-murdering (of Hyperion & the deserving) Badass Psycho with all the insanity and AxCrazy-ness that implies. And his original personality is a SplitPersonality, completely aware of the horror of his dominant personality and his actions.
* {{Angrish}}: Especially when Rampaging.
* AttackAttackAttack: The basis of the Bloodlust skill tree. Dealing damage adds stacks of Bloodlust, which decreases if no damage is being dealt. As such, it is best for him to always be on the offensive and shooting at something.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Two major examples, both from the "Mania" tree:
** Silence the Voices gives you a HUGE melee damage boost (easily reaching over 300% with a class mod) but causes you to have a 12% chance to hit yourself. On paper this doesn't seem major, but in practice you're hitting yourself every one in ten swings (more if you're unlucky) and dealing that huge melee damage to yourself. If you're not healthy enough you'll end up KOing yourself. Additionally, if you were close enough to hit the enemy, they're close enough to hit you, meaning that missed swing gives them an opportunity to hit back, hard. That being said, if you're beefy enough to take the hit or plain lucky, this skill crosses over to the AwesomeYetPractical side.
** "Light the Fuses" causes Krieg to run around when his health is depleted, throwing bundles of dynamite. Excellent for getting a second wind against bandits and other ground troops, but against airborne enemies you'll wish you had a regular "Fight for Your Life" (which this skill will always override.)
* AxCrazy: Krieg is decidedly much more lacking in the sanity department compared to the other Vault Hunters, enough that his (Non-inner voice) quotes make ''Salvador'' look perfectly sane. Case in point: the "Silence the Voices" skill in the Mania tree increases his melee damage, while also introducing a probability to hurt ''himself'' with his melee attacks.
* BadassBoast: ''MY PECS HAVE PECS!''
** (Seeing a Badass enemy) "I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT A BADASS IS!"
** "I'M GOING TO PUT '''MY''' PAIN INTO '''YOUR''' SOUL!"
** ''I LOOKED INTO THE HEART OF DARKNESS, AND I ATE IT ALL!!!''
* BeastAndBeauty: With Maya. He became a Vault Hunter because he fell in love with her and wanted to protect her.
* TheBerserker: Given what he is, this is a given. The Mania tree in particular focuses on fighting as suicidally as possible, doing stuff like deliberately putting yourself in harm's way to recharge your specials or running around with a lit bundle of dynamite. The Bloodlust tree, on the other hand, gives him stacks of "Bloodlust" that accumulate quickly as he damages enemies (but also disappear rapidly if he's not damaging enemies) so to get the most out of its skills, it also forces you to run straight into combat blowing away as many enemies as possible as quickly as possible.
* TheBigGuy: Class 1, and he looks to be the tallest of the new Vault Hunters.
* BodyHorror: He was an experiment of some sort, and still has numerous scars, stitches, and various hoses all over his body. He can also mutate himself into a Badass Psycho, misshapen limbs included.
* BreakoutMookCharacter: He's a Psycho, like the kind you've been killing or watching them blow up. One of his rants indirectly references this ("Box cover, box cover, I'm the real star!")
* BreathWeapon: "Hellfire Halitosis" lets him breathe flames.
* CallBack: Occasionally says "You woke the wrong dog!" when getting a Second Wind. That's what Nine-Toes in VideoGame/{{Borderlands}} said to the original Vault Hunters when they fought him.
* CaptainObvious: His Psycho Mutant transformation. "I'VE GOT A HUGE HAND!"
* CastFromHitPoints: Effectively, if not ''directly.'' Related to SelfHarm below, he performs better when his shields are down and his Action Skill recharges faster when he takes damage to his health instead of his shields (his "Feed the Meat" skill massively increases his base health but makes his shields recharge slower to facilitate this). If he's not in enough danger already from the enemy, several of his skills actively hurt himself, like "Silence the Voices" which has a 12% to smash himself in the face with his buzz axe or his Hellborn tree that lights himself on fire (but that's actually a ''good'' thing). At any given moment, his health could dip dangerously low, only to be fully recharged the next second, then be back down again.
* CatchPhrase: He has a tendency to scream "NIPPLE SALADS" at times. It's even featured in his Legendary Psycho class mod.
** His inner/good personality has "...Close enough", usually said in annoyance after telling the dominant personality to say something and he instead shouts some psychotic nonsense.
* CoolMask: Wears a gas mask version of the normal Psycho mask as his default Head. Every single one of his alternate Heads is some form of mask or helmet which covers most of his face.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Much of his dialog is generally nonsense involving meat or blood in some way. Especially exacerbated in Raving Retribution, where he'll go on completely nonsensical rants while spouting homing fireballs from his body.
-->''MY STOMACH IS CLEAR, AND MY MIND IS FULL OF'' '''BACON!'''
* CriticalStatusBuff: A fair number of his skills involve buffing Krieg when he takes damage, especially when his shields are down.
* DeadpanSnarker: When he's not wallowing in self-loathing, his sane half can be pretty snarky.
-->''It's over, idiot. You're going to die here and now and the last words out of your mouth will have been "poop train."''
* DeathSeeker: His inner voice will occasionally comment "I deserve this" when Krieg either bashes himself in the face or is set on fire.
* DesperationAttack: The "Light The Fuses" skill, which lets him toss dynamite and move normally when his HP reaches 0. He can also detonate it Suicide Psycho style, though he'll get Second Wind if he manages to score a kill with it.
** There's also the "Release the Beast" skill, in which if Krieg activates Buzzaxe Rampage when at 1/3 of his health he transforms into a Badass Psycho.
* DifficultButAwesome: Per the developer's own admittance, the Mania tree falls squarely into this. Taking damage actually buffs Krieg, even moreso without shields. This places him at a higher risk of frequently getting knocked into Fight For Life mode, but one skill completely restores his health with every kill he makes while using his action skill.
** Several Bloodlust tree skills feed into one another: there's a grenade kill skill that makes gun damage better, a gun kill skill that makes melee damage better and a melee kill skill that makes grenades better. Keeping your Bloodlust from decaying is hard enough, keeping track of all this in the middle of battle is even harder, but if you pull it off: a string of ever-increasing deadliness.
** All of his skill trees have perks that can feed into each other. Strip The Flesh and Salt The Wound can grant huge boosts to Torgue Shotguns, and Fuel The Rampage (taking damage speeds up Buzz Axe Rampage cooldown) and Release The Beast (Krieg turns into a Badass Psycho with maxed health and massive damage reduction when special is triggered at 33% health, like when you come out of fight for your life mode) means that unless you were in Buzz Axe Rampage when put into fight for your life mode, as soon as you come out, you can immediately trigger a buzz axe rampage, and go on a killing spree as a Badass Psycho mutant.
** The Hellborn skill tree: you gain bonuses by setting yourself on fire. At higher levels, with the Delusional Damage perk, you can set yourself on fire by using any elemental attacks, including corrosive, which you will use a lot later in the game. Elemental Empathy causes a fraction of all elemental damage you deal to heal you.
* EmpathicHealer: "Redeem the Soul", which lets Krieg instantly revive allies in exchange for immediately putting him in "Fight for your Life" mode. Of course, if he has Light the Fuses, this might come as an advantage for him.
* FriendlyFireproof: Averted. "Fuel the Rampage" makes him susceptible to friendly fire.
* HeroicWillpower: The original personality is able to exert some level of control over the dominant personality. WordOfGod compares said personality to a driver of a runaway truck that cannot stop the truck and can only try to steer away from as many people as he can and try to mitigate any damage it might cause.
* InfernalRetaliation: With points in the Hellborn tree, he gets a ton of buffs from being on fire, and he even has a chance to set himself on fire with his fire attacks (and with the Delusional Damage skill, ''any'' elemental damage).
* [[InfinityMinusOneSword Infinity -1 Mutation]]: Triggering your active ability at critical health (1/3rd or less) with 'Release The Beast' turns you into a rampaging Badass Psycho, buffing your melee damage, adding to your damage resistance, and topping off your health instantly. Best of all, your Active Ability is ready for use again ''the second it wears off.'' As such, you can keep popping this skill over and over each time your health goes critical. Suffice to say, unless you're armed to the teeth with Legendary Weapons, your Active Ability will see a ''lot'' of use.
* InterfaceScrew: Killing enemies with your action skill splatters your camera with lots of blood.
* JekyllAndHyde: In this case, the Hyde personality is the dominant one while the Jekyll at least tries to make sure that the former only kills evildoers.
* KnockbackEvasion: Krieg is heavier than the other Vault Hunters, giving him less knockback from attacks, which goes good with his melee-centric play-style. This also has the unfortunate side effect of making grenade jumping and certain Badass Challenges impossible to do using him, such as getting a geyser to launch you to the top of the Happy Pig Motel sign. It doesn't launch him nearly high enough.
* LaughingMad: He has quite the variety of maniacal laughter.
* LoveAtFirstSight: He falls in love with Maya upon seconds of meeting her. Unfortunately, his [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} lack of communication skills]] causes her to shoot at him.
* LoveRedeems: At least, the inner personality hopes that Maya will be the one to make him sane once more.
* MadeOfExplodium: His final "Bloodlust" skill, Bloodsplosion, makes every single enemy an ActionBomb: when they die, they go BOOM! Better yet, if the explosion kills an enemy it can start off a domino effect of explosions.
* MadnessMantra: One of his Raving Retribution lines has him repeating a certain phrase, getting louder each time.
-->''"The voices said 'empty, hollow and thud'. The voices said 'empty, hollow and thud'. '''THE VOICES SAID 'EMPTY, HOLLOW AND THUD'!!'''''
* MagikarpPower: The Bloodlust tree is not very powerful at low levels, with very minor boosts to relatively useless things like magazine capacity and weapon swap speed, especially considering these boosts are based entirely on the rapidly-decaying Bloodlust stacks. However, the later Bloodlust tree skills are much, much more powerful, and also turn the weak tier one skills into essential building blocks for the rest of the tree. Not to mention that the later equipment and expanded inventory capacity and ammunition capacity allow for a much swifter accumulation of Bloodlust stacks.
* ManOnFire: His "Hellborn" skill tree actually ''encourages'' you to set him on fire.
* MeaningfulName: Krieg is [[BilingualBonus German for war]]. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Originally]] his name would have been Blitz but the developers decided that Krieg sounds more like an actual name.
* MookHorrorShow: The debut trailers show bandits being obliterated by his silhouette. Also, the PAX presentation in which he was introduced had a short video set to "In the Halls of the Mountain King" consisting of Krieg demonstrating his various in-game abilities upon enemies.
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: The voice in his head tries to direct Krieg's rage towards "the deserving" and even swears that if he ever kills an innocent person that he ''will'' take over and commit suicide.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: One Mania skill gives him health for overkilling enemies. Find some way to do ludicrous damage to enemies and he'll get his health back, no problem!
* NoIndoorVoice: Anything that Krieg says is shouted, just like every other Psycho on Pandora. It's even extended to ''every single name'' for his Heads and Skins, which are in ALL CAPS.
* PlayingWithFire: One of his skill trees deals almost exclusively in fire elemental damage. [[IncendiaryExponent Being set on fire actually buffs him.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: When he first met Maya, his sane side wanted to tell her how beautiful she was and that she may be the one to save him. [[TalkativeLoon What came out was decidedly less eloquent]].
-->'''"I'M THE CONDUCTOR OF THE POOP TRAIN!"'''
* SelfHarm: Silence the Voices makes it so that he has a chance to hurt himself in exchange for a major buff to melee damage and the Hellborn tree has several skills that immolate himself.
* ShipTease: With Maya in his backstory video. It seems like his inner voice finds Maya very attractive, and his outer voice refers to her as "PRETTY LADY".
* SplitPersonality: Besides his "default" AxCrazy self, he has a (much) saner, (much) more moral voice in his head who ensures that he only kills "the deserving". They do ''not'' get along. This is in fact his original personality.
* TakingYouWithMe: "Pull the Pin" has Krieg drop a grenade when he dies, gaining double XP if it kills someone. Inverted in Light the Fuses mode, where successfully suicide-bombing enemies brings him back to life.
* TalkativeLoon: His short film shows that his psychotic personality seems to be nearly incapable of putting their otherwise rational thoughts into coherent spoken words, making it difficult to communicate with others.
* ThemeNaming: All but one of the skills in the Bloodlust tree have "Blood" in their names, all but one of the skills in the Mania tree follow a "[Verb] the [Noun]" pattern, and all the skills in the Hellborn tree are alliterative. There's also one skill each in Bloodlust and Hellborn that conform to the Mania tree's theme.
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Light the Fuses has him tossing dynamite when his health reaches zero. He also has a few skills that improve explosive damage.
* [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks Throwing Your Buzz Axe Always Works]]: When in Rampage mode, Krieg can toss his axe as well as swing it. One of his skills even more or less turns it into a grenade by dealing explosive damage when tossed.
* TokenEnemyMinority: Seemingly the only semi-heroic Psycho of the series.
* ViolationOfCommonSense: Pretty much his entire play-style revolves around doing things you normally try to '''''avoid''''' with the other characters. Like, say [[ManOnFire being set on fire]] or taking damage, or getting up-close and personal while hacking at people with a buzz axe.
** That said, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the whole idea for a character with this kind of play-style was thought of before the game was launched, but was saved for DLC because it might have turned away some players.]]
* WantedPoster: '''Property of Hyperion: $100,000,000,000'''
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Considering that he's more or less an upgraded version of a Psycho, Krieg is not one for a shirt.
* WordSaladTitle: His head and skin names are a fountain of unending randomness.
** And yet are often ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin at the same time.
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