History Characters / Borderlands2VaultHunters

* CelibateHero: In the Wedding Day Massacre DLC, when Moxxi asked him if he ever had someone he loved, his reply is that he's in love with combat and the battlefield and doesn't need anyone. Anthony Burch also [[https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034913/https://ask.fm/reverendanthony/answers/129074062664 confirmed]] on his old [=ASKfm=] that [=Zer0=] is [[UsefulNotes/{{Asexual}} asexual]] (at least in his head, anyway). But then by [=BL3=] he seems to have developed an actual crush on Lorelei even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuCj78mpAaE messing up one of his haikus]] while talking to her! Quite possibly because Lorelei was [[InLoveWithYourCarnage violently wiping the floor with Maliwan troops and enjoying every second of it beforehand.]]

* CelibateHero: In the Wedding Day Massacre DLC, when Moxxi asked him if he ever had someone he loved, his reply is that he's in love with combat and the battlefield and doesn't need anyone. But then by [=BL3=] he seems to have developed an actual crush on Lorelei even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuCj78mpAaE messing up one of his haikus]] while talking to her! Quite possibly because Lorelei was [[InLoveWithYourCarnage violently wiping the floor with Maliwan troops and enjoying every second of it beforehand.]]

* OedipusComplex: It's implied that she had something of an Electra Complex towards Brother Sophis in the Wedding Day Massacre DLC. When asked if she had a loved one in her life, she notes that there was an older man once who's dead now. WordOfGod [[http://ask.fm/reverendanthony/answer/123997256776 confirms]] that the two were physically/romantically involved.

* AscendedGlitch: Axton was initially programmed to occasionally flirt with Maya when reviving her ("Wow. Do you work out, or..."), but the voice clip ended up triggering regardless of which character he was reviving. [[https://www.gearboxsoftware.com/2013/08/inside-the-box-inclusivity/ According to Anthony Burch]], after fans expressed disappointment that he wasn't ''intentionally'' bisexual, the writers decided to take the glitch and run with it. A new voice line in the ''Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep'' [=DLC=] makes Axton canonically bi.

* CelibateHero: Anthony Burch [[https://ask.fm/reverendanthony/answers/129074062664 confirmed]] on his old [=ASKfm=] that Maya is [[UsefulNotes/{{Asexual}} asexual]] (at least in his head, anyway).

* 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=], and is credited as voicing him in "Tales" despite having a consistently higher-pitched voice throughout, but Creator/AshlyBurch voices him in ''Tales From the Borderlands'', episode 5, and the "Wimoweh" trailer.

* DifficultButAwesome: Less so than [=Zer0=] or Krieg, but Maya is definitely one of the more "tactical" characters, as her special ability only targets one enemy and thus cannot be used for crowd control (at least by default) or evasion unlike every other special ability. This is particularly pronounced when playing solo. She has particular trouble with either high mobility non-phaselockable bosses or multiple high mobility melee enemies because of this.
** Again, as mentioned under Combat Support: Unless you set your skill build up with Converge, Helios, Cloudkill, and Ruin. In which case she becomes a goddess of crowd control and can eliminate multiple targets in seconds.

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: In ''VideoGame/Borderlands3'', her bangs have now grown past her waist.

* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Instead of protecting a dignitary like he was assigned to, he used him as a TrojanHorse to kill off a terrorist cell. Needless to say, his superiors didn't approve.

-->'''Sheriff''': Alright, here's your ten-thou'.\\

* ChekhovsGun: In her Echo logs, Gaige states that Marcy's father has more money than god. Gaige, by a ''significant'' margin, has the biggest bounty of the Vault Hunters at a jaw dropping 820,000,000,000. This is 100 billion higher than even Maya, a Siren whom Handsome Jack with all of Hyperion's resources at his disposal is after.

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. Her secondary mechanic is Anarchy: every time she kills an enemy or reloads an empty weapon, she's awarded Anarchy stacks, which increase her gun damage and decrease her gun accuracy; if she dies or reloads a non-empty gun, the stacks decrease. Her skill trees are oriented towards increasing her and Deathtrap's survivability ('''Best Friends Forever'''), increasing her damage output and taking advantage of Shock elemental damage ('''Little Big Trouble'''), and using Anarchy stacks to becoming more powerful ('''Ordered Chaos''').

* NoodleIncident: According to Tina's invitation to her [[MagicAmpersand Bunkers & Badasses]] game, he got into a ''very'' heated argument with her. Axton wants to take back the things he said (or so Tina hopes), and Tina wants to take back the dynamite she threw at him...

** It is also mentioned by Tiny Tina in her invite to Maya for her [[MagicAmpersand Bunkers & Badasses]] game: ''If you ain't too busy trying to get Krieg to stop staring at you''.

* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: [[invoked]]Tina made all of the dwarves in her ''[[MagicAmpersand Bunkers & Badasses]]'' campaign look like Salvador because of his small size. Lilith takes offense to it, Salvador not so much.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: Too much steroid use has stunted his growth, which basically makes him 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 [[MagicAmpersand Bunkers & Badasses]] campaign off of him, something that he thinks is awesome.

* TheFellowshipHasEnded: As of ''Borderlands 3'', this tight-knit group seems to not be as tight-nit anymore, 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.

* TheFellowshipHasEnded: As of ''Borderlands 3'', this tight-nit group seems to not be as tight-nit anymore, 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.

* MegatonPunch: "Fistful of Hurt", his melee override that lets him deliver a devastating uppercut to his enemies that can [[BlownAcrossTheRoom knock them away]] from him.

* CelibateHero: In the Wedding Day Massacre DLC, when Moxxi asked him if he ever had someone he loved, his reply is that he’s in love with combat and the battlefield and doesn't need anyone. But then by [=BL3=] he seems to have developed an actual crush on Lorelei even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuCj78mpAaE messing up one of his haikus]] while talking to her! Quite possibly because Lorelei was [[InLoveWithYourCarnage violently wiping the floor with Maliwan troops and enjoying every second of it beforehand.]]

* RegeneratingHealth: He starts off with a skill that slowly but continuously regenerates his health; unlike everyone else, it has no conditions to activate, it's always permanently on once unlocked. He gets back half his health when Gunzerking and regenerates further during it. He can get a skill that makes him regen ''more'' during Gunzerking, and he can get a skill that makes him regenerate more whenever he takes direct damage. Properly-specced he'll be recovering health six ways from Sunday and be nearly impossible to kill. The Brawn skill tree specializes in this by giving Salvador four ways to regenerate or fully restore health.

-->'''[=Zer0=]''' Oh yes. I saw that.

'''Other''': [[Characters/BorderlandsBanditsAndBanditFactions Bandits and Bandit Factions]] ([[Characters/BorderlandsChildrenOfTheVault Children of the Vault]]) | [[Characters/BorderlandsHodunkAndZafordClans Hodunk and Zaford Clans]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsCreatures Creatures]] ([[Characters/BorderlandsEridiansAndVaultMonsters Eridians and Vault Monsters]]) | [[Characters/BorderlandsRaidBosses Raid Bosses]])-]]]]]

'''Weapon Brands''': [[Characters/BorderlandsAtlas Atlas]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsDahl Dahl]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsHyperion Hyperion]] ([[Characters/BorderlandsHandsomeJack Handsome Jack]]) | [[Characters/BorderlandsMaliwan Maliwan]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsTorgue Torgue]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsWeaponBrands Other Weapon Brands]]\\
'''Other''': [[Characters/BorderlandsBanditsAndBanditFactions Bandits and Bandit Factions]] ([[Characters/BorderlandsChildrenOfTheVault Children of the Vault]]) | [[Characters/BorderlandsHodunkAndZafordClans Hodunk and Zaford Clans]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsCreatures Creatures]] ([[Characters/BorderlandsEridiansAndVaultMonsters Eridians and Vault Monsters]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsRaidBosses Raid Bosses]])-]]]]]

[[folder:Krieg]]
!!Krieg (AKA The Psycho)
See [[Characters/BorderlandsKrieg his own page]] for tropes.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Uses [[VisualPun a hatchet]] as his melee weapon.

* GlassCannon: [=Zer0=] focuses almost entirely on powerful one-shot kills, either with a sniper rifle or with a massive melee strike. However, this offensive capability comes at the expense of a total lack of defense. Only one skill helps to recover shields, and he has only two skills that allow for health regeneration (both of which are obtained relatively late in his skill trees). Of the three "defensive" skills he has, two of them can only be activated by killing an enemy. He has a hard time staying alive as a result.

* PowerfulButInaccurate: Can be built around this trope with the "Ordered Chaos" skill tree. Killing enemies and reloading builds up "anarchy" which increases damage at the cost of accuracy.

'''Supporting Characters''': ''[[Characters/Borderlands1 Borderlands]]'' | ''Characters/Borderlands2'' (''Characters/TinyTinasAssaultOnDragonKeep'' DLC) | ''[[Characters/BorderlandsThePreSequel The Pre-Sequel]]'' | ''Characters/Borderlands3'' | ''Characters/TalesFromTheBorderlands'' | ''Characters/TinyTinasWonderlands'' | ''Characters/NewTalesFromTheBorderlands'' | [[Characters/BorderlandsOtherCharacters Other media]]\\

[-'''[[Characters/BorderlandsVaultHunters Playable Characters]]''': ''[[Characters/Borderlands1VaultHunters Borderlands 1]]'' | '''''Borderlands 2''''' ([[Characters/BorderlandsKrieg Krieg]]) | ''[[Characters/BorderlandsThePreSequelVaultHunters The Pre-Sequel]]'' ([[Characters/BorderlandsClaptrap Claptrap]]) | ''[[Characters/Borderlands3VaultHunters Borderlands 3]]''\\

[-'''[[Characters/BorderlandsVaultHunters Playable Characters]]''': ''[[Characters/Borderlands1VaultHunters Borderlands]]'' | '''''Borderlands 2''''' ([[Characters/BorderlandsKrieg Krieg]]) | ''[[Characters/BorderlandsThePreSequelVaultHunters The Pre-Sequel]]'' | ''[[Characters/Borderlands3VaultHunters Borderlands 3]]''\\
'''Supporting Characters''': ''[[Characters/Borderlands1 Borderlands]]'' | ''Characters/Borderlands2'' (''[[Characters/TinyTinasAssaultOnDragonKeep Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep]]'') | ''[[Characters/BorderlandsThePreSequel The Pre-Sequel]]'' | ''Characters/Borderlands3'' | ''Characters/TalesFromTheBorderlands'' | ''Characters/TinyTinasWonderlands'' | [[Characters/BorderlandsOtherCharacters Other media]]\\
'''Weapon Brands''': [[Characters/BorderlandsAtlas Atlas]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsDahl Dahl]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsHyperion Hyperion]] ([[Characters/BorderlandsClaptrap Claptrap]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsHandsomeJack Handsome Jack]]) | [[Characters/BorderlandsMaliwan Maliwan]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsTorgue Torgue]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsWeaponBrands Other Weapon Brands]]\\

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 deploys his Sabre Turret, which provides supporting fire and other benefits. His skill trees are oriented towards buffing his turrets and his fighting ability ('''Guerrilla'''), increasing his damage output and enhancing his guns ('''Gunpowder'''), and increasing his survival (aptly named '''Survival''').

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 an 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, and her skill trees are oriented towards enhancing her fighting skills through Phaselock ('''Motion'''), making her a better healer ('''Harmony'''), and applying and leveraging elemental damage ('''Cataclysm''').

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. His skill trees are oriented towards enhancing his guns ('''Gunlust'''), enhancing his Gunzerking skill and his ammo capacity ('''Rampage'''), and increasing his survivability ('''Brawn''').

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, allowing him to strike suddenly for massive damage. His skill trees are oriented towards making sniper rifles and long range guns more useful ('''Sniping'''), taking better advantage of his Deception skill ('''Cunning'''), and buffing his melee attacks ('''Bloodshed''').

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. Her secondary mechanic is Anarchy stacks, which are awarded when she kills an enemy or reloads an empty gun during combat, are lost when she dies or reloads a non-empty gun, and decrease her accuracy while increasing her gun damage; as a result, she works best with close range guns with small clips that don't rely on accuracy. Her skill trees are oriented towards increasing her and Deathtrap's survivability ('''Best Friends Forever'''), increasing her damage output and taking advantage of Shock elemental damage ('''Little Big Trouble'''), and using Anarchy stacks to becoming more powerful ('''Ordered Chaos''').