History Headscratchers / Borderlands2

*** To be more specific, Funimation was founded in Fort Worth, and are now headquartered in Flower Mound, just north of Dallas. Gearbox's offices are located in Plano, not even an hour north of Flower Mound. Also, a lot of the voice actors from Funimation double as directors, producers, writers, sound engineers, and a host of different jobs, so they, by necessity, have to stick around the DFW area. It was really easy for Gearbox to corral the Funi members into helping them with the game's voice acting.

*** He must notice eventually that they work for you, considering the side-quest he gives you to kill yourself despite knowing you'll resurrect. One way or another, I think the idea that Angel did something to the system that prevents him from removing the new Vault Hunters from it even after her death is the most likely explanation.

*** If he does this during the last fight, he would probably rush to resurrect The Warrior and doesn't have time to remove you from the system. If he left to do so, you'd be able to free Lilith. He also thought once the Warrior would awake the Vault Hunters would be insignificant.

*** Someone at Hyperion quietly deleted him so that when he died, the company would be able to move on without a megamaniacal dictator at the helm. We already know Blake is willing to go against the grain (such as when he "bragged" to TK Baha about the assassins sent to kill him...which coincidentally gave him time to escape), so maybe it was him or someone like him.
*** Lilith's super-charged Siren powers kept the respawn from working. Slight asspull, plus she's not necessarily the one who kills him, so that's another strike against it.
*** Jack is so rich that the New-U station broke when trying to calculate its cut. Silly in addition to being unlikely.

*** It would actually be harder for Angel to cover up a New-U use if it wasn't being charged. With the Vault Hunters, she can just switch around a few names and identification. But she likely can't actually cover up the New-U being ''used'', so she's got to keep the books balanced. In a setting this advanced, and with corporate interests this profit-oriented and unscrupulous, they'll likely notice any imbalance in their books very quickly. Hyperion doesn't care about people, they care about ''profit''. Plus, charging you to respawn would also be a subtle incentive on her part to keep you from screwing up as often.

*** Think about it, [[spoiler: she was hooked up to an Eridium Injection system for YEARS and when it was finally removed, she died.]] If a New-U station revived her exactly as she was, it would Digistruct [[spoiler: a body that would immediately die of Eridium withdrawal anyway, only to be resurrected again, then die of withdrawal, then die again, etc. etc.]] So yeah, she probably took herself out.

*** Yes, there's a reason Angel wants you to follow a very specific robot. A robot that has intelligence and holds no allegiances to the company that made it. And tried to take over the galaxy and overthrow the company. And Hyperion destroyed the entire product line (or so they thought). What was your point again? Are you trying to imply all hyperion products work perfectly as intended?

*** Jack is ''ridiculously'' dishonest. Just because his preferred method is manipulation than outright lying doesn't mean he never lies when it could benefit him. (Consider that he spends the first act of the game trying to kill you and/or telling you you should die [[spoiler:when his master plan relies on your survival and infiltration of Sanctuary]]. Or lying to his boss about why he's dispatched a Hyperion satellite to Pandora.)

*** Well, sure. I guess what I'm wondering is WHY? I mean, anyone who's blown the helmet off of a Goliath knows that Pandorans are no strangers to disfiguring injuries. So thereby hangs a tale. Jack's face is either a transplant, or a mask...So what happened to the original version? Obviously he's narcissistic as hell, otherwise he wouldn't call himself "Handsome" Jack. And we know he had some sort of plastic surgery. But did he just swap in a better one? Was he injured somehow? It just seems like (especially given all of the over-arching story elements between the first game and this one) there's gotta be some sort of narrative significance to that facet (sorry!) of his character.
*** There's an image of Handsome Jack [[http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/File:1348620070076.jpg without his mask]]. WildMassGuessing here, but [[spoiler:the fact that the scar matches the symbol that the Psychos wear on their masks]] suggests that Jack was [[spoiler:disfigured and branded by a group of bandits]], explaining his irrational hatred for the inhabitants of Pandora.
**** Actually, it's given to him [[spoiler: if you let Lilith kill him in the endgame. That head model is from his corpse.]] You can literally watch it be burned onto him. It's more of a general Pandora/Vault symbol anyway.
**** That explanation has been circulating around, despite having a massive hole: if it's that recent, then ''why is he wearing a mask in the first place''.

*** Just a bit of FridgeHorror: Handsome Jack's body doubles wear the same mask. That means whoever the face originally came from had their face removed at least twice.

*** Which brings up the question: Why didn't Jack bombard Sanctuary AFTER he captures Lilith?
*** Because it might kill the new Vault Hunters, and he wanted to do that personally. Plus, he was trying to wake up an alien kaiju, so he figured the city itself wouldn't be a problem for too much longer.
*** Besides, by that point, Jack's winning to an extreme degree. Roland's dead. Lillith is his prisoner. The Crimson Raiders are effectively paralyzed. He's hours from opening the Vault and getting the Warrior under his command. He doesn't ''need'' to kill Sanctuary anymore.
**** But why not do it anyway and get rid of the slight chance they could do something to stop him?
**** Because ''he doesn't need to.'' His victory is all but assured, and he's megalomanical enough to assume that his victory is totally assured.
***** Sanctuary's new position is fairly close to some major Hyperion assets, including the Wildlife Exploitation Preserve and a major moonshot receiving facility. Pre-kidnap, Jack probably wouldn't have wanted to risk missed shots or fallout wrecking his assets, especially the WEP. Post-kidnap, he was absolutely pissed off enough at the Vault Hunters, old and new, that he wanted to be there and watch them die with his own eyes, preferably as slowly as possible. Blowing them to pieces would have ruined his satisfaction.
**** There's also the fact that Sanctuary itself isn't really that much of a problem for Jack, it's the fact that Roland set up his base of operations there that makes it a problem. Once Roland is dead, the Crimson Raiders can't really do much, and as a result Sanctuary isn't much of a threat. The only things that threaten him at that point are Brick, Mordecai, and the PC. Of those, he wants to kill the PC himself, Brick is more of a threat due to his control over the Slabs (who aren't in Sanctuary anyway), and Mordecai is more of a loner. The other thing is that neither Brick nor Mordecai are bound to the city like Roland was; they do stay there, but Jack doesn't know that. As far as he knows, they're still running around Thousand Cuts or Tundra Express, meaning that if he attacks Sanctuary, all he's doing is risking killing the PC, who he explicitly ''doesn't'' want to kill.

**** A medical degree is not compulsory for getting a medical license. The fact Dr. Zed is capable of healing anyone is sufficient proof that he might have been able to pass a licensing exam. His experiments are more likely the reason for losing the license.

*** This is entirely possible. S&S sells to the Pandoran market by marketing their weaponry as having high magazine capacity. Then along come the bandits, whose own weapons can be produced more cheaply and fill in the same niche. S&S stops selling altogether when their market share gets too low and no one buys their weapons and moves their shipments off-world.
**** S&S looked to be a reseller, buying guns made by other companies, tweaking them a bit, giving them huge magazines, repainting them, and reselling them as their own brand. With the bandits making cheap guns that already fit S&S's niche, their operations were no longer profitable on Pandora (since they don't make their own guns) so they left or went out of business.

*** This troper had a friend once have a respawn glitch out and take most of his money. He went from many, many, many times the money counter cap, to effectively nothing. Maybe Hyperion pulled the same thing on the Old Vault Hunters? What're they going to do, cancel their subscription? [[spoiler:Actually, that explains a few things about Roland...]]

*** I think the person was asking how exactly does the weapon itself distinguish between looking down the sights and hip-fire in-universe.

*** It makes a lot more sense if you assume that most Digistruction is just "hyperstorage." Most cases of digistruction (New-U stations and Tediore guns notwithstanding) don't actually create something new. Say a Digistruct unit just allows it to convert matter to energy and then back again later, with some odd applications popping up now and again. There may be a replication technology, but it's probably very rough; the "upgraded" Digistruct units the new Vault Hunters carry might be upgraded with a unit to allow it to function as a MatterReplicator for simple shapes, thus meaning that a Tediore gun is really just a batch of replicator code. As for the New-U stations, there's an element of GameplayAndStorySegregation here, but it's possible to construct a rough explanation if you assume that each New-U packs a storage unit containing all of the carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, etc. that a human body is composed of, then uses the on-file genetic code of the customer to arrange it. (The New-U stations do have your genetic code registered; it's literally the first thing you do in [[VideoGame/{{Borderlands}} BL1]]).

During the mission "The Man Who Would Be Jack", you get a voice modulator that, according to Angel, alters your voice and transmits a bio-signature into nearby machines. If that's true, then why are all the Loaders still trying to kill you? As far as they're able to tell, you ''are'' Handsome Jack; right now, they're shooting at their boss. It makes sense that the foot soldiers would be able to tell the difference, but not the robots. Hell, if you're fighting said soldiers and the Loaders drop in, they should start fighting for ''you'', seeing as how Jack would have a much higher priority than some random grunts.

*** That makes sense. Assuming he meant to write "5248" (and made one hell of a typo by screwing up the order that much), and that he was homeschooled until the normal graduating age of 18, then the game would be 9 years after graduation, making him 27.
**** Maybe he's dyslexic?
*** Roland seems to be in his 30s at least, though. It seems most likely that it is either a slip of the mind from Gearbox, or that the date system is different on his home planet.
*** Cryo sleep still seems like the most likely option to me, given that (a) it takes a very long time to travel from one galaxy to another, even at near-light speeds, (b) the robotics in this world are easily complex enough to travel for thousands of years without human help, and (c) there's been no mention of FTL travel so far in the series. Here's hoping we get more explanations about this in the Pre-Sequel this year!

* If Hyperion has a Fast Travel + New-U Station (let's call it a [[Portmanteau Fast U]]) inside Sanctuary, why doesn't Jack with his legions of robots simply teleport into Sanctuary and kill everyone there? If the PC can enter and exit the place whenever they like, why can't Jack? He owns the network.

** Both Tina and Torque are frankly people who have the means and reason to make guns that shoot swords that explode.

*** Besides, by that point, Jack's winning to an extreme degree. [[spoiler: Roland's dead. Lillith is his prisoner. The Crimson Raiders are effectively paralyzed. He's hours from opening the Vault and getting the Warrior under his command. He doesn't ''need'' to kill Sanctuary anymore.]]

*** Besides, by that point, Jack's winning to an extreme degree. Roland's dead. Lillith is his prisoner. The Crimson Raiders are effectively paralyzed. He's hours from opening the Vault and getting the Warrior under his command. He doesn't ''need'' to kill Sanctuary anymore.

** I always got the idea that after Angel dies, Handsome Jack sort of drops the bullsh*t trolling he does and starts taking the PC seriously and isn't going to lie to them, because ItsPersonal now and he wants all cards on the table, as his manner in dealing with PC changes from trolling to loathing. Therefore, I'd say that when he says that his wife was killed by Angel, it sounds as though he's telling the truth because of what stage he's at that point in the story, although that's just my interpretation of events.