History Characters / Borderlands2VaultHunters

** Her Ordered Chaos tree benefits greatly from the Anarchy mechanic - stacking status effects that give increased damage at the cost of accuracy. But the accuracy penalty can actually be resolved by combining Anarchy with "Close Enough and The Nth Degree". These skills guarantee that your bullets will at least richocet to the field or towards the enemies even if you miss your initial shot. Anarchy Gaige players can easily scatter bullets from all sorts of directions and still expect targets to be damaged from all the ricochet and bouncing of projectiles.

** Axton: '''War crimes: $5,000,000,000’'''
** Maya: '''[[FantasticRacism Siren]]: $720,000,000,000’'''
** Salvador: '''Manslaughter, Theft, Arson, Destruction of Property, Trespassing, Cannibalism, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Public Indecency, and Profanity]]: $99,000,000,000.99’'''
** [=Zer0=]: '''Political Assassin: $32,000,000,000'''
** Krieg: '''Property of Hyperion: $100,000,000,000'''. Also, one of the DLC heads ("I WANNA BE WANTED") has him use his wanted poster as a facemask.
** Gaige: '''Creation of Illegal Technology, Murder, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Excessive]] Adorability: $820,000,000,000'''

* WantedPoster: '''War crimes: $5,000,000,000'''

* WantedPoster: '''[[FantasticRacism Siren]]: $720,000,000,000'''

* WantedPoster: '''Manslaughter, Theft, Arson, Destruction of Property, Trespassing, Cannibalism, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Public Indecency, and Profanity]]: $99,000,000,000.99'''

* WantedPoster: '''Political Assassin: $32,000,000,000'''

* WantedPoster: '''Property of Hyperion: $100,000,000,000''' Also, one of the DLC heads ("I WANNA BE WANTED") has him use his wanted poster as a facemask.

* WantedPoster: '''Creation of Illegal Technology, Murder, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Excessive]] Adorability: $820,000,000,000'''

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: As of ''3'', only Maya, [=Zer0=], Gaige and Krieg have been accounted for in regard to what they've been doing after the events of ''2''. All that's known about the others is that Axton's been doing some modeling and Salvador was last seen at the Lodge where he built up a very large tab.
** Axton and Salvador return as announcers for the new Arms Race mode in ''Borderlands 3''. With this, all the player characters from ''2'' are accounted for.

* GlassCannon: Of a sort when using Ordered Chaos. She has the same base HP as each other Vault Hunters, 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.

** In ''Borderlands 3'', there's an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGVGc5uydFA ECHO recording]] of Krieg talking to Maya about [[spoiler: the fact Sanctuary has been destroyed and Maya has to leave for Athenas. He's actually holding up his end of the conversation, more or less--even his shouting about poop and knives is pretty clearly about his feelings. Another series of ECHO Logs shows that Krieg's sane side is now capable of gaining control temporarily and speaking aloud after years of work. At the end of the ''Fantastic Fustercluck'' DLC, Krieg's Sane and Psycho sides are able to come to an understanding and agree to make the best of their shared existence together]].

* AmnesiacHero: Inner Krieg doesn't remember anything from his past, and [[AxCrazy outer Krieg]] [[EvilFeelsGood doesn't want to]]. By the end of "Fantastic Fustercluck" [[spoiler:he never fully regains his memories of who he was, but he accepts it and chooses to build a new future]].

* FragileSpeedster: With the right skills, [=Zer0=] can pick up speed while using his action skill and gain even more speed after killing an enemy, letting him dash right through the battlefield during the duration. With the Execute skill taken, he'll be able to dash at an enemy's direction with his melee attack, so even if you don't plan on using a melee build on [=Zer0=] you can [[MundaneUtility still use it to move around even faster between targets while in stealth.]]

** ** It gets taken up a notch in ''3'' where he's much more relaxed and resorts to slang and casual speech in haiku, while still having a sophisticated edge to his vocabulary.
--> ''We made them angry. / Prepare for counter-attack. / Maliwan dickheads.''
-->'''[=Zer0=]''' ''(After the player has killed Katagawa)'' Katagawa is dead./ That kill was long overdue. / What a goddamn douche.

-->'''[=Zer0=]''' ''(After the player has killed Katagawa)'' Katagawa is dead. That kill was long overdue. What a goddamn douche.

* AmbiguousGender: [=Zer0=] is assumed to be male, but his true gender is officially unknown. [[https://imgur.com/WqhuuK7 The "Pandoran Gazette"]] and [[https://twitter.com/GearboxOfficial/status/355350130775453696 an invitation from Tiny Tina point to his gender ambiguity]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ1DVjHMvQY&feature=youtu.be&t=389 At PAX 2014, Randy Pitchford referred to [=Zer0=]'s gender as "ambiguous"]]. [=Zer0=] is the only Vault Hunter in [=BL2=] to have a male and female voice actor. Mike Turner voices him in [=BL2=] and [=BL3=], but Ashley Burch voices him in ''Tales From the Borderlands'', episode 5, and the "Wimoweh" trailer.

* TheFellowshipHasEnded: As of Borderlands 3, this tight-nit group seems to not be as tight-nit any more, with many of them away and isolated from one another, most not even joining the conflict with the Calypsos barring [=Zer0=] and Maya. Even then, [=Zer0=] and Maya don't interact. The rest don't get a passing mention by those on Sanctuary either despite their reputation and previously tight bond, even after [[spoiler: their friend and former leader, Maya, has been killed]]. Originally it seemed as if this was the result of the Raiders scattering to rebuilt at the end of Commander Lilith, though Fantastic Fustercluck all but states it happened much more recently then that.

* TheBusCameBack: He appears alongside Salvador in 3's "Arms Race" DLC, as an announcer for a reality game show.

* TheBusCameBack: He reappears with Axton in 3's "Arms Race" DLC, as an announcer for a reality game show.

* AmbiguousGender: [=Zer0=] is assumed to be male, but his true gender is officially unknown. [[https://imgur.com/WqhuuK7 The "Pandoran Gazette"]] and [[https://twitter.com/GearboxOfficial/status/355350130775453696 an invitation from Tiny Tina point to his gender ambiguity]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ1DVjHMvQY&feature=youtu.be&t=389 At PAX 2014, Randy Pitchford referred to [=Zer0=]'s gender as "ambiguous"]]. [=Zer0=] is the only Vault Hunter in [=BL2=] to have a male and female voice actor. Mike Turner voices him in [=BL2=] and [=BL3=], but Ashley Burch voices him in Tales From the Borderlands, episode 5, and the "Wimoweh" trailer.

** NotSoStoic: In Borderlands 3, [[spoiler: he expresses genuine grief and mourns Maya after she is killed off by Troy]].

** He's the central figure of the fourth DLC of Borderlands 3, "Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic Fustercluck".

** An ECHO Log in the base game of 3 states that prior to his current state Krieg was a highly capable stealth operative who preferred silently hunting down his prey.

* BeautyMark: Her reappearance in Borderlands 3 reveals her to have one, previously hidden under the bandaid on her face.

* PreOrderBonus: The Mechromancer is free for people that pre-order the game.

* RealityEnsues: As ''3'', reveals, [[spoiler:even a badass Vault Hunter veteran can't do much against one of the biggest {{Mega Corp}}s in the galaxy with trillions upon trillions of manpower and killer robots all out for her blood. Gaige has been forced to leave the Crimson Raiders and spent the last seven years in hiding from Holloway's forces, and it's clearly taken a toll on her both mentally and emotionally.]]
** Likewise, ''3'' shows that the life of a Vault Hunter isn't exactly roses and rifles, and getting out of the lifestyle can make readjusting... difficult. You don't leave a life that involved carrying sixteen shotguns and killing an entire town of bandits before breakfast without some scars, physical or otherwise.

* RetiredBadass: Technically, in that as of 3 she states that she's retired from Vault Hunting and has been working as a wedding planner for quite a while. Granted, she still gets into various misadventures.

* SitcomArchNemesis: Her classmate, RichBitch and SpoiledBrat Marcie Holloway. [[ItsPersonal It gets personal]] after Gaige finds out that Marcie plagiarized her work, renamed it, and sold it to "the galaxy's most corrupt police force". By the Son of Crawmerax DLC, this has extended to the entire Holloway family and them hunting her down for accidentally killing Marcie is the reason why she doesn't show up in the main story of 3.

* TeenGenius: [[WordOfGod Eighteen years old]] and she initially designed Deathtrap as a ''science fair project''.

* WantedPoster: '''Creation of Illegal Technology, Murder, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Excessive]] [[{{Adorkable}} Adorability]]: $820,000,000,000'''

** Her class mods from Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragons Keep are called (CharacterAlignment) Necromancer.

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* TrueCompanions: Zigzagged. On one hand, the end of Tiny Tina's DLC seems to push this at the end, all gathering together to pay respects to [[spoiler: Roland and Bloodwing]] in a silent moment of unity and the headhunters DLC have them doing more casual things together such as choosing to go on vacation and celebrate holiday events together. On the other hand, ''3'' heavily leans towards TheFriendsWhoNeverHang, seeing how [=Zer0=] and Maya don't talk to each other during the time the two are in the story (With only [=Zer0=] mentioning her), and Krieg's DLC focuses more on how Lilith, Mordecai and Brick view him than any of his group barring Maya. Gaige in her DLC outright says Deathtrap's been her only real friend.

* FrickinLaserBeams: Deathtrap can be upgraded with one.

* TheFriendNoOneLikes: The ''Fantastic Fustercluck'' DLC shows that the Psycho part of Krieg has internalized his self-hatred to the point that he sees himself as this, which is represented by distorted versions of Brick, Mordecai and Lilith that are actively hostile to him and the Vault Hunters. However, his sane side eventually reveals that contrary to what he feels, they actually did see him as a friend by showing a memory of them inviting him for drinks.

* TheBigGuy: Class 4, easily being the loudest and most bloodthirsty Psycho on Pandora, and that is really saying something. Class 1 as well, as he's the tallest and most solidly built of the new Vault Hunters, and can get even bigger with Release the Beast.

* AxCrazy: 'Murderous insanity' is the entire job description of a Pandoran psycho, and his action skill literally involves him going crazy with an axe.

* OutOfFocus: Since ''2'', the Vault Hunters have had no significant role to play in the main plot lines of later games. ([[SilentProtagonist even in their own game they never spoke to other characters or commented on current events]] outside of their own [=ECHOs=] and three DLCs.) Although Maya and [=Zer0=] appear in ''3'', their screen time is rather minimal. [[spoiler: Not even when Maya dies and [=Zer0=] stays aboard Sanctuary 3 for the rest of the game does he play a further role, nor do the others get involved in the story.]]

* OutOfFocus: Since ''2'', the Vault Hunters have had no significant role to play in the main plot lines of later games. ([[SilentProtagonist even in their own game they never spoke to other characters or commented on current events]] outside of their own [=ECHOs=] and five DLCs.) Although Maya and [=Zer0=] appear in ''3'', their screen time is rather minimal. [[spoiler: Not even when Maya dies and [=Zer0=] stays aboard Sanctuary 3 for the rest of the game does he play a further role, nor do the others get involved in the story.]]

* TheFellowshipHasEnded: As of Borderlands 3, this tight-nit group seems to not be as tight-nit any more, with many of them away and isolated from one another, most not even joining the conflict with the Calypsos barring [=Zer0=] and Maya. Even then, [=Zer0=] and Maya don't interact. The rest don't a passing mention by those on Sanctuary either despite their reputation and previously tight bond. Originally it seemed as if this was the result of the Raiders scattering to rebuilt at the end of Commander Lilith, though Fantastic Fustercluck all but states it happened much more recently then that.

* OutOfFocus: Since ''2'', the Vault Hunters have had no significant role to play in the main plot lines of later games. ([[SilentProtagonist even in their own game they never spoke to other characters or commented on current events]] outside of their own [=ECHOs=] and three DLC.) Although Maya and [=Zer0=] appear in ''3'', their screen time is rather minimal. [[spoiler: Not even when Maya dies and [=Zer0=] stays aboard Sanctuary 3 for the rest of the game does he play a further role, nor do the others get involved in the story.]]

* TheBusCameBack: Is slated to appear in 3's "Arms Race" DLC, as an announcer for a reality game show.

* TheBusCameBack: Is slated to appear in 3's "Arms Race" DLC, as an announcer for a reality game show.

* TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: They are largely independent of each other in ''3'', to the point that even when the race for the vaults spans multiple planets keeps growing, only [=Zer0=] and Maya are available to help. [[note]] Whether Gaige, Krieg, Axton and Salvador didn't help because they were unable to or uninterested is never said, so they could have legitimate reasons for not appearing with one another.