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Eridian Vaults\\
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[[WMG: The heroes of this game...]]

...will be the villains of the next. Gearbox has already done the "heroes of previous game as mentors of the next" thing, and one of the underlying themes here is how Pandora likes to destroy heroes. The Vault Hunters of this game are not as ethically and mentally sound as the previous group. It's also impossible to ignore the symbolism of the heroes all taking Handsome Jack's mask after his defeat. By the time Borderlands 3 rolls around, they will have turned over to their darker natures in various ways and the new batch of characters will have to defeat the now-evil heroes of Borderlands 2.

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game will be the villains of the next. next]]

Gearbox has already done the "heroes of previous game as mentors of the next" thing, and one of the underlying themes here is how Pandora likes to destroy heroes. The Vault Hunters of this game are not as ethically and mentally sound as the previous group. It's also impossible to ignore the symbolism of the heroes all taking Handsome Jack's mask after his defeat. By the time Borderlands 3 rolls around, they will have turned over to their darker natures in various ways and the new batch of characters will have to defeat the now-evil heroes of Borderlands 2.2.
* '''Salvador''': Obvious here. He's now a bandit king like Brick, only far more vicious.
* '''Axton''': He took over the surviving Hyperion organization, and is running it like...well, like Axton would. A smirking, cheerful GeneralRipper.
* '''Maya''': We've seen how easily cargo cults spring up on Pandora. She's been used by a religious order before, but it's a whole 'nother ballgame when you're the one in charge. She's allowed a cult to form around her and is using them to seek out the secrets of the remaining Vaults and Eridium.
* '''Gaige''': Mass produced Deathtrap, programmed it to hunt down bullies in her territory. She is essentially a dictator ruling her territory, but people are really nice to each other in it. The irony of an anarchist doing this is lost on her.
* '''Zer0''': The ultimate Big Bad. What is his goal? To open ALL the vaults. At once. Why?
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[[WMG: The heroes of this game...]]

...will be the villains of the next. Gearbox has already done the "heroes of previous game as mentors of the next" thing, and one of the underlying themes here is how Pandora likes to destroy heroes. The Vault Hunters of this game are not as ethically and mentally sound as the previous group. It's also impossible to ignore the symbolism of the heroes all taking Handsome Jack's mask after his defeat. By the time Borderlands 3 rolls around, they will have turned over to their darker natures in various ways and the new batch of characters will have to defeat the now-evil heroes of Borderlands 2.

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Scooter once mentioned that his father was in a wheelchair and so is Jimbo. Moxxie,Scooter and Ellie were part of the Hodunk clan too.

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Scooter once mentioned that his father was in a wheelchair and so is Jimbo. Moxxie,Scooter Moxxie, Scooter and Ellie were part of the Hodunk clan too.



But the combined stress of working as a lowly code monkey in an arms company where his ideas were laughed off, having a siren as a daughter, and said siren daughter accidentally killing his wife(and disfiguring him hence the mask) drove him off the slippery slope to being the CompleteMonster that he is ingame. Alternatively he's always been a CompleteMonster and his wife had a massive case of GenreBlindness.

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But the combined stress of working as a lowly code monkey in an arms company where his ideas were laughed off, having a siren as a daughter, and said siren daughter accidentally killing his wife(and disfiguring him hence the mask) drove him off the slippery slope to being the CompleteMonster that he is ingame.in-game. Alternatively he's always been a CompleteMonster and his wife had a massive case of GenreBlindness.



** Possible, they did say that the station could appear in a future dlc.

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** Possible, they did say that the station could appear in a future dlc.DLC.



[[spoiler: an robot built BY the Eridians (either [[TokenGoodTeammate a good faction]] [[ScaryDogmaticAliens from the otherwise evil ones]], or the REAL Eridians compared to the force pretending to be them), and was sent to stop Jack (or, more generally, prevent[[LostSuperweapon The Warrior]] from falling into [[OmnicidalManiac potentially genocidal hands]]). This is obvious by the fact that, whenever he "accepts the challenge", he crytically states: "This is intriguing/The Vault, my masterpiece?/Challenge accepted.]]

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[[spoiler: an robot built BY the Eridians (either [[TokenGoodTeammate a good faction]] [[ScaryDogmaticAliens from the otherwise evil ones]], or the REAL Eridians compared to the force pretending to be them), and was sent to stop Jack (or, more generally, prevent[[LostSuperweapon The Warrior]] from falling into [[OmnicidalManiac potentially genocidal hands]]). This is obvious by the fact that, whenever he "accepts the challenge", he crytically cryptically states: "This is intriguing/The Vault, my masterpiece?/Challenge accepted.]]



* One of the quotes the machine states says that the bodies they make you are digistructs (it basically asks you not to think too much about the fact you've been a digital copy of yourself since the first time you died).

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* One of the quotes the machine states says that the bodies they make you are digistructs (it basically asks you not to think too much about the fact you've been a digital copy of yourself since the first time you died).



Notice how Axton used a magnetic turrent? He would not be able to do that without some levels behind his belt. Also, you genreally do not find loaders and the like untill you are a few levels into the game.

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Notice how Axton used a magnetic turrent? He would not be able to do that without some levels behind his belt. Also, you genreally generally do not find loaders and the like untill until you are a few levels into the game.



Since grenade mods seem to modify grenades without being consumed, it's fair to assume that they're digistructed in a similar way. Since grenades are inherently disposable it makes sense that they'd have cheap parts (there's no point in designing a homing mechanism which will be able to survive 1,000,000 flights when it's going to be blown to pieces on its first, after all). Tediore might have experimented with using the cheap grenade parts in guns (with or without the intention of making the invokation of ThrowAwayGuns a feature), found that they still detonated (maybe it would have been too expensive to modify them not to, maybe it was just an accident) and made it a feature.

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Since grenade mods seem to modify grenades without being consumed, it's fair to assume that they're digistructed in a similar way. Since grenades are inherently disposable it makes sense that they'd have cheap parts (there's no point in designing a homing mechanism which will be able to survive 1,000,000 flights when it's going to be blown to pieces on its first, after all). Tediore might have experimented with using the cheap grenade parts in guns (with or without the intention of making the invokation invocation of ThrowAwayGuns a feature), found that they still detonated (maybe it would have been too expensive to modify them not to, maybe it was just an accident) and made it a feature.feature.

[[WMG: Hyperion foot soldiers and field engineers are in some way artificially indoctrinated to ensure their loyalty.]]
It's damn near impossible to explain the fanatical loyalty of Hyperion's low ranks to [[BadBoss Handsome Jack]] otherwise. Hyperion seems like exactly the sort of organization that would entice the low ranks with promises of food, wealth, stability, et cetera, and then thoroughly MindRape them into loyalty before letting them anywhere near a gun. This also partially explains why he has to threaten and coerce people like scientists and executives: if the brainwashing damages critical thinking skills, it can only be used on low-rank field personnel, making old-fashioned coercion necessary for anybody who is needed to do more than shoot things.

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This would explain why she wasn't with the other hunters in the opening credits. In the same way you can have any four vault hunters running around the game (including duplicates), the Mechromancer can appear in the main quest before arriving on Pandora despite it not being canon. After all, a schoolgirl going on the run and joining/doing battle with a female pirate Captain sounds pretty ''Literature/TreasureIsland''-ish (to the point of being a rough GenderFlip of the plot). Plus Gaige and Scarlett are both standing together on the launch menu which appeared after the Scarlett DLC went live.

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This would explain why she wasn't with the other hunters in the opening credits. In the same way you can have any four vault hunters running around the game (including duplicates), the Mechromancer can appear in the main quest before arriving on Pandora despite it not being canon. After all, a schoolgirl going on the run and joining/doing battle with a female pirate Captain sounds pretty ''Literature/TreasureIsland''-ish (to the point of being a rough RecycledInSpace GenderFlip of the plot). Plus Gaige and Scarlett are both standing together on the launch menu which appeared after the Scarlett DLC went live.live.

[[WMG: Tediore used standardised parts from ''grenades'', at least initially.]]
Since grenade mods seem to modify grenades without being consumed, it's fair to assume that they're digistructed in a similar way. Since grenades are inherently disposable it makes sense that they'd have cheap parts (there's no point in designing a homing mechanism which will be able to survive 1,000,000 flights when it's going to be blown to pieces on its first, after all). Tediore might have experimented with using the cheap grenade parts in guns (with or without the intention of making the invokation of ThrowAwayGuns a feature), found that they still detonated (maybe it would have been too expensive to modify them not to, maybe it was just an accident) and made it a feature.

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This would explain why she wasn't with the other hunters in the opening credits. In the same way you can have any four vault hunters running around the game (including duplicates), the Mechromancer can appear in the main quest before arriving on Pandora despite it not being canon. After all, a schoolgirl going on the run and joining/doing battle with a female pirate Captain sounds pretty ''Literature/TreasureIsland''-ish (to the point of being a rough GenderFlip of the plot).

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This would explain why she wasn't with the other hunters in the opening credits. In the same way you can have any four vault hunters running around the game (including duplicates), the Mechromancer can appear in the main quest before arriving on Pandora despite it not being canon. After all, a schoolgirl going on the run and joining/doing battle with a female pirate Captain sounds pretty ''Literature/TreasureIsland''-ish (to the point of being a rough GenderFlip of the plot). Plus Gaige and Scarlett are both standing together on the launch menu which appeared after the Scarlett DLC went live.
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[[WMG: Gaige doesn't canonically appear until the Scarlett DLC.]]
This would explain why she wasn't with the other hunters in the opening credits. In the same way you can have any four vault hunters running around the game (including duplicates), the Mechromancer can appear in the main quest before arriving on Pandora despite it not being canon. After all, a schoolgirl going on the run and joining/doing battle with a female pirate Captain sounds pretty ''Literature/TreasureIsland''-ish (to the point of being a rough GenderFlip of the plot).
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[[WMG: There will be a future DLC that allows players opperate Buzzards]]

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[[WMG: There will be a future DLC that allows players opperate Buzzards]]
* Because awesomeness. Also, it wouldn't be the first time enemy vehicles became accessible to players (Monster and APC's were enemy exclusive in the first game, but became player-accessible in the General Knoxx DLC, as well as the Bandit Technicals in this game).
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* Alternatively, Maliwan, with their focus on elemental tech, may try to kidnap Lilith and Maya to [[PlayingWithSyringes experiment on them]].

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* Alternatively, Maliwan, with their focus on elemental tech, may try to kidnap Lilith and Maya to [[PlayingWithSyringes experiment on them]].
them]].
* Also alternatively, Corraza, the DummiedOut manufacturer from the first game. They may have a new gimmick such as shield-sapping grenades, the reason they got DummiedOut in the first place, or reuse Hyperion/Atlas style (High accuracy/High balanced stats).
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[[WMG: The Vault-Hunters seen in the intro movie where in true vault-hunter mode already.]]

Notice how Axton used a magnetic turrent? He would not be able to do that without some levels behind his belt. Also, you genreally do not find loaders and the like untill you are a few levels into the game.
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* '''The Stringman''' playing '''Bass''': Based on a combination of Buddy from SixStringSamurai, Rocketbilly Redcadillac from GungraveOverdose, and drawing on other inspirations, we have a retro-50s style rocker with sunglasses, James Dean jacket, a truly ridiculous hairstyle on his default head, and a tendency to make bad musical puns and impersonate Elvis. His default melee attack is a katana, and his class mod is his guitar. His action skill causes him to stun enemies with a power chord or create elemental effects in the area around him.
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** Possible, they did say that the station could appear in a future dlc.

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[[WMG: Roland is dead for good...because Axton is his replacement]]
* Think about it. Roland, while one of the original vault hunters...WAS BORING. His personality was 'the hero', and he lacked comedic sociopathy, or boobs. He was the straight man. However, Axton is comically homicidal. Lilith, Mordecai, and Brick all have leadership potential. In Borderlands 3, they can all be NPCs, and be fun to interact with. Even Zer0 is rather quirky. Furthermor, Axton is one of the least changed character classes.
** This suggests concerning things about Maya or Lilith in the sequel.

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[[WMG: Roland is dead for good...because Axton is his replacement]]
* Think about it. Roland, while one of the original vault hunters...WAS BORING. His personality was 'the hero', and he lacked comedic sociopathy, or boobs. He was the straight man. However, Axton is comically homicidal. Lilith, Mordecai, and Brick all have leadership potential. In Borderlands 3, they can all be NPCs, and be fun to interact with. Even Zer0 is rather quirky. Furthermor, Axton is one of the least changed character classes.
** This suggests concerning things about Maya or Lilith in the sequel.

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* One of the quotes the machine states says that the bodies they make you are digistructs (it basically asks you not to think too much about the fact you've been a digital copy of yourself since the first time you died).

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* Think about it. Roland, while one of the original vault hunters...WAS BORING. His personality was 'the hero', and he lacked comedic socipathy, or boobs. He was the straight man. However, Axton is comically homicidal. Lilith, Mordecai, and Brick all have leadership potential. In Borderlands 3, they can all be NPCs, and be fun to interact with. Even Zer0 is rather quirky. Furthermor, Axton is one of the least changed character classes.

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* Think about it. Roland, while one of the original vault hunters...WAS BORING. His personality was 'the hero', and he lacked comedic socipathy, sociopathy, or boobs. He was the straight man. However, Axton is comically homicidal. Lilith, Mordecai, and Brick all have leadership potential. In Borderlands 3, they can all be NPCs, and be fun to interact with. Even Zer0 is rather quirky. Furthermor, Axton is one of the least changed character classes.
** This suggests concerning things about Maya or Lilith in the sequel.

[[WMG: New U Stations aren't actually reviving people; they're just built on top of respawn points that are natural to Pandora. This is why unique animals respawn as well. Hyperion did, however, find a way to toll a percentage of money from respawners anyways.]]

[[WMG: After a few years, one builds a resistance to New U Stations, and when you die, it's for good.]]
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[[WMG: Roland is dead for good...because Axton is his replacement]]
* Think about it. Roland, while one of the original vault hunters...WAS BORING. His personality was 'the hero', and he lacked comedic socipathy, or boobs. He was the straight man. However, Axton is comically homicidal. Lilith, Mordecai, and Brick all have leadership potential. In Borderlands 3, they can all be NPCs, and be fun to interact with. Even Zer0 is rather quirky. Furthermor, Axton is one of the least changed character classes.
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[[WMG: Zer0 is a former {{Yakuza}}]]
Hence why he only has three fingers; he was so AxeCrazy he had to have both his pinkies chopped off before they finally kicked him out (they didn't kill him for obvious reasons).
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* Jack's "locked up" Roland's New U account, but he also has Angel's saved. (And of course, he has a deluxe one himself.) Maybe you'll even enter into the New U systems and encounter all the old characters plus Jack, and find a way to make them Deader Than Dead.

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* Jack's "locked up" Roland's New U account, but he also has Angel's saved. (And of course, he has a deluxe one himself.) Maybe you'll even enter into the New U systems and encounter all the old characters plus Jack, and find a way to make them Deader Than Dead.
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*** But... Didn't Blake help T.K. evade the assassins?

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* The latest news seems to indicate that [[http://www.oxm.co.uk/46746/new-borderlands-2-dlc-pack-outed-mr-torgues-campaign-of-carnage/ Torgue]] will be the focus of the second DLC. S&S might come up, since they were the "rival" to Torgue (being the MoreDakka to Torgue's {{BFG}}).
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Evidence? Three fingers and a thumb on each hand. If he takes off his helmet, he'll say, "Well, obviously./What did you expect I was,/secretly female?"

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Evidence? *Evidence? Three fingers and a thumb on each hand. If he takes off his helmet, he'll say, "Well, obviously./What did you expect I was,/secretly female?"
** Well, today I thought he was a quarain from MassEffect three fingers and non-bent legs? Human hybrid, maybe. As far as lore is concerned, Pandora is not Earth and the game's setting is close to that of ME (I think). Note that I didn't finish borderlands 2 yet so don't hold it against me if anything turns out wrong.

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[[spolier: Although most people only say his facial scar is an "inverted-V", it's cited on the Borderlands wiki that IT'S THE SYMBOL OF THE VAULTS, i.e. the two Vaults he manipulated the Vault Hunters to open for him! Although some Tropers here think that it was evidently caused by [[PowerIncontinence Angel losing control of her powers]] [[NoodleIncident one time]], I think that Jack was [[TouchedByVorlons giving his scar]] - [[ManBehindTheMan and his "mission"]] - [[AliensAreBastards by either the Eridians]], [[TheChessmaster or some even shadier force pretending to be the Eridians]]. [[TheQuisling Either way, Jack is just using his mission to further his personal power, while desperately trying to impress his real master.]]]]

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[[spolier: [[spoiler: Although most people only say his facial scar is an "inverted-V", it's cited on the Borderlands wiki that IT'S THE SYMBOL OF THE VAULTS, i.e. the two Vaults he manipulated the Vault Hunters to open for him! Although some Tropers here think that it was evidently caused by [[PowerIncontinence Angel losing control of her powers]] [[NoodleIncident one time]], I think that Jack was [[TouchedByVorlons giving his scar]] - [[ManBehindTheMan and his "mission"]] - [[AliensAreBastards by either the Eridians]], [[TheChessmaster [[MasterOfIllusion or some even shadier force pretending PRETENDING to be the Eridians]]. [[TheQuisling Either way, Jack is just using his mission to further his personal power, while desperately trying to impress his real master.]]]]
]] Building on this...]]

[[WMG: Zer0 is...]]
[[spoiler: an robot built BY the Eridians (either [[TokenGoodTeammate a good faction]] [[ScaryDogmaticAliens from the otherwise evil ones]], or the REAL Eridians compared to the force pretending to be them), and was sent to stop Jack (or, more generally, prevent[[LostSuperweapon The Warrior]] from falling into [[OmnicidalManiac potentially genocidal hands]]). This is obvious by the fact that, whenever he "accepts the challenge", he crytically states: "This is intriguing/The Vault, my masterpiece?/Challenge accepted.]]
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[[WMG: [[DesignatedHero Jack WAS the Hero]] - but not in the way we think...]]
[[spolier: Although most people only say his facial scar is an "inverted-V", it's cited on the Borderlands wiki that IT'S THE SYMBOL OF THE VAULTS, i.e. the two Vaults he manipulated the Vault Hunters to open for him! Although some Tropers here think that it was evidently caused by [[PowerIncontinence Angel losing control of her powers]] [[NoodleIncident one time]], I think that Jack was [[TouchedByVorlons giving his scar]] - [[ManBehindTheMan and his "mission"]] - [[AliensAreBastards by either the Eridians]], [[TheChessmaster or some even shadier force pretending to be the Eridians]]. [[TheQuisling Either way, Jack is just using his mission to further his personal power, while desperately trying to impress his real master.]]]]

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Not only is the fall of one of the setting's biggest business conglomerates a plot point worth exploring, it can also lead to Gearbox putting back Atlas weapons as super rare vintage weaponry. It's a great way to bring back Athena, too.

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Not only is the fall of one of the setting's biggest business conglomerates a plot point worth exploring, it can also lead to Gearbox putting back Atlas weapons as super rare vintage weaponry. It's a great way to bring back Athena, too.
too. Alternatively...

[[WMG:One of the upcoming [=DLCs=] will focus on S&S.]]
While Atlas's absence in this game makes sense on account of the events of the first game, S&S is curiously absent as a manufacturer with no explanation whatsoever. My guess is that S&S will come back with a vengeance in one of the [=DLCs=].
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** [[http://alienfirst.tumblr.com/post/33353541588/i-tagged-this-as-borderlands-spoilers-let-me This fanart, man...]]
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[[WMG: Vaults require Vault Hunters to open.]]
As a kind of of prophecy, entities with certain traits must be present; whether one has an Eridium Charged Vault Key or not. This is why Jack assembled the second team. And had Angel assemble the first team. In a twisted way, he's right. He WAS the one who set into motion the opening of the first vault.
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[[WMG: The last DLC will be on Jack's Space Station, and involve the New U Respawn Stations]]
* Jack's "locked up" Roland's New U account, but he also has Angel's saved. (And of course, he has a deluxe one himself.) Maybe you'll even enter into the New U systems and encounter all the old characters plus Jack, and find a way to make them Deader Than Dead.

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* [[http://www.reddit.com/r/Borderlands/comments/11dxbt/getting_the_lore_right_now_with_47_more_than_26/ Cut material]] (possibly) has revealed that initially it was Jack's plan, then Angel's doing and then [[spoiler: Jack wanting to kill you himself.]]
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* The line you're thinking of says that Scooter's father is paralyzed. Jimbo is in a wheelchair because he's missing a leg. It's not him.

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* The line you're thinking of says that Scooter's father is paralyzed. Jimbo is in a wheelchair because he's missing a leg. It's not him.
** It's possible that leg is paralyzed and he is the head of the family.

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