History YMMV / BorderLands2

** "Girlfriend Mode" - Coined by the game's Lead Designer John Hemingway for Gaige's Best Friends Forever skill tree, since the tree makes the Mechromancer a SkillGateCharacter designed for more survivability... Other variations include "the girlfriend skill tree" or the mode that your newbie girlfriend can play without being overwhelmed.

** The Warrior. [[spoiler:Despite the incredible build up to the fight, if you have a fast-firing weapon that does enough damage, (preferably a powerful Jakobs assault rifle, as the Gatling Gun and Cannon variants are especially good) you can make the Warrior submerge into the lava with enough damage, before he can even attack once, especially on Solo. Or camping out with a decent SniperRifle and [[AttackItsWeakPoint snipe its glowing chest plates]] from a far enough distance. There is even a pillar to the left of the computer that you can climb that gives you great visibility and avoids all lava attacks. This makes a normally incredibly difficult and climactic fight pathetically easy to the point where the Crystalisks present around the area are more difficult than the Warrior itself]]. This is true even on [[NewGamePlus True Vault Hunter Mode and the even harder Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode]].

** The Warrior. [[spoiler:Despite the incredible build up to the fight, if you have a fast-firing weapon that does enough damage, (preferably a powerful Jakobs assault rifle, as the Gatling Gun and Cannon variants are especially good) you can make the Warrior submerge into the lava with enough damage, before he can even attack once, especially on Solo. Or camping out with a decent SniperRifle and [[AttackItsWeakPoint snipe its glowing chest plates]] from a far enough distance. This makes a normally incredibly difficult and climactic fight pathetically easy to the point where the Crystalisks present around the area are more difficult than the Warrior itself]]. This is true even on [[NewGamePlus True Vault Hunter Mode and the even harder Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode]].

** Players will find [[spoiler:[[LastDisrespects crashing the Zaford wake]]]] to be in poor taste and an act significantly crueler than setting the Hodunks' homes on fire, and also perceive the Hodunk's enthusiasm for incest as unsettling. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that the wake [[PlayerPunch is for Lucky]], a character returning players from ''1'' will be familiar with, due to his role in the previous game's main story and his [[KilledOffscreen unceremonious death]] in the ''The Secret Armory of General Knoxx'' DLC.]]

** "Where Angels Fear to Tread" Part 1 is widely regarded as the funnest level in the game, beginning with a full-on assault on Control Core Angel with Loaders, Constructors, Hyperion Soldiers and a Badass Constructor, with ridiculous amounts of of loot chests along the way. After this trek up to Control Core Angel? A boss fight against the aforementioned BestBossEver. This then culminates in a fight for survival while Loaders constantly spawn in as you survive long enough to destroy Angel's Eridium injectors. And after all of this? [[spoiler:[[MoodWhiplash Angel dies, Roland is killed by Jack and Lilith is captured]].]]

** The Sheriff as well, as although she's a merciless, sadistic, puppy-murdering cowgirl, she enjoys fighting you, is [[EvilIsSexy very attractive]] and is popular enough that Anthony Burch said that he [[https://twitter.com/reverendanthony/status/464449209551167488 regretted killing her off.]]

* AuthorsSavingThrow: When the base game was released some complaints cropped up over Tiny Tina's characterization, mainly the fact that she was a white girl [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy talking like a stereotypical]] SassyBlackWoman. Starting with her re-appearances in the DLC and continuing into [[VideoGame/{{BorderlandsThePreSequel}} The Pre-Sequel]], more focus was put on her being a GenkiGirl laden with TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior.

** A minor case in the townsfolk of Overlook, as they are rendered too ill to even leave their homes due to Hyperion's environmentally insensitive actions. [[TokenEvilTeammate Except Dave, of course]]. [[PetTheDog You can make them all feel better in a quest chain]], [[KickTheSonOfABitch and kill Dave too]]!

* DracoInLeatherPants: Jack tends to get this a lot due to his [[FreudianExcuse tragic past]] and [[KickTheSonOfABitch how he deals with actual bandits]], with his fans downplaying or even straight up ignoring all the horrific things he does just out his own [[{{Narcissist}} narcissism]], [[{{Sadist}} sadism]] and [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans lust for power.]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Mr. Torgue is RatedMForManly LargeHam personified. He instantly bonds and becomes friends with Tiny Tina, adding to his already big popularity.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Jack tends to get this a lot due to his [[FreudianExcuse tragic past]] and [[KickTheSonOfABitch how he deals with actual bandits]], with his fans downplaying or even straight up ignoring all the horrific things he does just out his own [[{{Sadist}} sadism]] and [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans lust for power.]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: While most of the DLC is a mixed bag, Nakayma became one of the more popular non-Handsome Jack villains in the series thanks to being a hilarious IneffectualSympatheticVillain who is treated more like a nusuance than a true threat. He proved popular enough that he reappeared in the ''The Pre-Sequel.'' with his own set of side quests.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: While most of DLC is a mixed bag, Nakayma became one of the more popular non-Handsome Jack villains in the series thanks to being a hilarious IneffectualSympatheticVillain who is treated more like a nusuance than a true threat. He proved popular enough to reappear in ''The Pre-Sequel.''

* TierInducedScrappy: While Krieg definitely has his fans for his balls-to-the-wall playstyle, very few will invest heavily into his Hellborn skill tree. While Mania gives him access to powerful melee bonuses like the apex skill Release the Beast and Bloodbath allows him to keep dealing absurd damage in Ultimate Vault Hunter mode (where going melee is much more dangerous), Hellborn just doesn't have enough good bonuses to justify using it as the focus of your build most of the time.

** Nomads just want you to fuck off, and sometimes ''prefer'' that you killed them so that they won't bother being with their fellow Bandits and Psychos anymore.