Line #45 Trivia/Borderlands2


1	* ActingForTwo: Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard voices both Lilith and Tannis, and the two characters have interactions or dialogue between them in certain scenes, specifically in the ''Commander Lilith'' DLC where they argue about what to do with the hidden prototype Siren chamber.
2	* BadExportForYou: By virtue of Loot the World, the companion app, being NoExportForYou, the main game itself is this because those outside the US are just flat out denied better weapons compared to gamers in the United States.
3	* CreatorBacklash: A minor case, but lead writer Anthony Burch [[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/13gsxi/iama_mister_torgue_and_will_answer/c73w94h/ regrets how he handled the New-U Stations]]. His approach was that New-U Stations were a non-canon element that only existed for gameplay balance (thus allowing [[KilledOffForReal plot-based deaths to remain significant and final]]), but he felt that giving the stations dialogue (explaining them as Hyperion technology) was a mistake as it directly integrated them into the lore of the ''Borderlands'' universe, thus shattering the illusion and [[GameplayAndStorySegregation raising all sorts of questions on undoing death that weren't intended]].
4	* DevelopmentGag:
5	** The side mission "The Name Game" has the Vault Hunters... well, hunt down bullymongs while Hammerlock attempts to come up with a catchier name for the beasts. He eventually gives up and sticks with bullymong. According to interviews, "The Name Game" was developed as a parody of their attempts at giving the bullymongs a suitable name, with ferovore and primal beast being among the considered names. Hammerlock even suggests renaming the bullymongs to ferovore and primal beast during the mission, only to find out that he can't use them for his almanac.
6	** The "No Vacancy" side mission has you restore power to a motel truck stop by repairing its generator. The three components you need are a [[Creator/GearboxSoftware Gearbox]], a Creator/{{Valve}}, and a Platform/{{Steam}} capacitor. Scooter then makes an in-universe application of this trope, narrating allusions to the development process of the game from the 3 aforementioned parts. Plus, the statement where "the steam pumps used to run on a different power source, until people complained and they changed it." is an allusion to how the PC port of this game now runs on the Steam matchmaking system instead of the more problematic [=GameSpy=] system used in the first game. In addition, [[VideoGame/HalfLifeOpposingForce this isn't the first time a Gearbox and a Valve were used to solve a particular problem]], though thankfully this time the mission doesn't involve a boss.
7	** One NPC in Sanctuary says "If you're not a fan of Bambugira's latest single you should be shot to death. Just a fact, man." Bamboo is an automatic software deployment tool, and JIRA is a bug-tracking system.
8	* DummiedOut: [[http://www.reddit.com/r/Borderlands/comments/11dxbt/getting_the_lore_right_now_with_47_more_than_26/ Various little bits of dialogue, but ones that explain SO much:]]
9	** Angel and Jack are the ones manipulating the New-U system to keep the Hunters alive throughout the game: Angel to take down Jack, and Jack to make sure he kills you himself [[spoiler:after you kill Angel.]]
10	** Captain Flynt mentions that he has a bounty out on whoever killed his brother, Baron. Other than that cut line there's no mention of any relation between the two.
11	** Borderlands released official ringtones [[http://www.borderlands2.com/us/#downloads (free to download from their main website)]] featuring voice clips from Moxxi, Torgue, Claptrap, Tiny Tina, and Sir Hammerlock. The files consist of nothing but dialogue spoken by those characters, almost all of it (Tina doesn't have any of her DLC dialogue, but everything else is there.) This includes some dummied out dialogue, such as Torgue telling you to go down into the sewers and kill rats, and more of Tina's conversation during the tea party that never made it into the game.
12	** Moxxi was originally supposed to be involved in Fink's Circle of Slaughter, located right before The Fridge. She also has unused Tip Jar lines.
13	* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: Two versions above the standard pre-order, including an art book, [[{{Defictionalization}} Marcus bobblehead]], some extra in game items, and various other things. The most expensive version comes with a scale replica of the red loot chests from the first game!
14	* MemorialCharacter: Michael Mamaril, the generous Vault Hunter that sometimes appears in Sanctuary, and who was created in the memory of Michael John Mamaril, a ''Borderlands'' fan that passed away at the age of 22, and whose friend asked Gearbox Software for a short eulogy by Claptrap, Michael's favorite character.
15	* {{Nepotism}}: An unintentional example. When Anthony Burch wrote the character of Tiny Tina, he unthinkingly created her based around his sister [[Creator/AshlyBurch Ashly]]. When he realized it, he figured he might as well ask her to audition for the part. While other actresses placed an audition, [[YourCostumeNeedsWork none of them could portray his sister]] [[ShapedLikeItself better than his own sister]], so Ashly ultimately got the part. Even without Anthony as writer of the series, Ashly still plays the role of Tina in all games she appears in, such as ''VideoGame/Borderlands3'' and ''VideoGame/TinyTinasWonderlands''.
16	* NoExportForYou:
17	** Not the game itself, but several of its marketing tie-ins, including two contests and a pack of limited trading cards, are only available to Europeans, which is sort of odd for an American game.
18	** On the other end of the spectrum, the companion app for the game, ''Loot the World'', is only available in the US iOS App Store and Google Play Store.
19	* NoPortForYou: The ''Commander Lilith and the Fight for Sanctuary'' DLC is only available for the PC (specifically Windows), Platform/Playstation4, and Platform/XboxOne ports of ''Borderlands 2''. It is not available for the Platform/Xbox360, Platform/PlayStation3, Platform/PlayStationVita or even the [[Platform/{{Unix}} Linux]] ports[[note]]Though Proton might help, although given how ''the Linux port was once [[PolishedPort the shining textbook example of a port done right]]'', this just served to upset those who prefers the Native port even further[[/note]]. Subverted with the Platform/NintendoSwitch port, which didn't launch with it despite releasing after the DLC, but got it later on.
20	* TheOtherDarrin:
21	** Both Roland and Mordecai's voice actors changed hands - Roland now sounds [[JiveTurkey less gangsta]] and more leader-y, while Mordecai has an accent.
22	** Gaige had a complicated case of this mixed with TheOtherMarty: most of what you normally hear of Gaige is by Creator/LuciChristian, but many of her more intense lines ([[PowerHigh mainly while stacking up on Anarchy]]) are provided by Creator/CheramiLeigh. According to Leigh, Christian was indeed who Gearbox originally casted, but partway through the recording process, they changed their mind (allegedly because Christian couldn't get the rebellious "edge" for the character they wanted) and brought in Leigh, who re-recorded the script. Due to what appears to have been an honest accident, [[LeftItIn much of Christian's dialogue was still left in the game before she shipped out]], [[ThrowItIn but the devs have seemed to just roll with it]] and officially credit both Christian and Leigh for Gaige's voice for the game (in ''3'', they stuck to Leigh as the sole actress).
23	* PermanentPlaceholder
24	** "Bullymong" was a placeholder name for the 6-limbed alien yetis. It stuck. A quest in game {{lampshades}} this with Sir Hammerlock trying and failing to rename them before his book on them ships.
25	** The name "Handsome Jack" was a placeholder taken from a throwaway line from an episode of ''Series/DoctorWho''. The name proved popular with the production team, so they decided to make it the character's official moniker.
26	%% (ZCE) * PlayingAgainstType: Creator/ChristopherSabat as Innuendobot 5000.
27	* PreOrderBonus: The "Premier Club" edition contains the Gearbox Gunpack, Vault Hunter's Relic, a Golden Key, and the Mechromancer Vault Hunter. This was later made available for post-release purchase since October 9, 2012 under the "Mechromancer Pack".
28	* RealSongThemeTune:
29	** "Short Change Hero" by Music/TheHeavy is used in the intro.
30	** The end credits use "How You Like Me Now", also by The Heavy.
31	* RefittedForSequel:
32	** The scrapped turn-in NPC named Captain Cabrera was later used in the ''Slaughter Dome'' DLC, which added the Natural Selection Annex area to the Wildlife Exploitation Preserve level.
33	** Originally, as part of the BearerOfBadNews quest [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD4WrEpO_JA#t=4m22s the player would have to tell]] Tiny Tina of [[spoiler:Roland's death]]. [[spoiler:Tina's coping with this tragic event]] is the entire basis of the ''Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep'' DLC.
34	** A "Refitted for Port" variant: DummiedOut audio shows that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1YMlNRChdc Jack himself]] was originally the voice of the Hyperion vending machines and New U stations (which was presumably removed to avoid opening the FridgeLogic [[GameplayAndStorySegregation surrounding them]] even further). The dialogue is present in the Switch version... And is more common than the Hyperion Voice.
35	--->'''Handsome Jack:''' Every time you die, you're actually paying me! Wait, is that ironic or [[DudeNotIronic is that one of those things you think is ironic, but actually isn't]]? Like a cripple doing stand-up?
36	* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The Linux port, which was outsourced to Aspyr. Gearbox pretty much cancelled their contract with Aspyr and as a result the Linux version doesn't get the Commander Lilith DLC, and is no longer capable of cross-platform play with Windows users. This has led to a strange situation where Linux users are now running the Windows version using [[MediaNotes/{{Wine}} Proton]] instead of the native port, which is a shame because the Linux native port was really well optimized and was previously held as a shining example of how smoothly a game that has been properly optimized on Linux would run.
37	* ThrowItIn:
38	** Dameon Clarke (Handsome Jack's voice actor) ad-libbed a number of his lines, including the moment early in the game when he calls the Vault Hunter, mouth full of food, about his diamond pony.
39	--->'''Anthony Burch:''' It's easily Jack’s single most popular line, ''and I didn't frigging write it''. I will never forgive Dameon for this.
40	** Tiny Tina's model has an animation issue where her left eye suddenly turns to the side. [[RedRightHand It makes her look even more like the psycho]] CreepyChild she is, so the devs simply left it there under the justification that she has strabismus (AKA lazy eye).
41	** Character dialogue was meant to be targeted, meaning Axton would give flirty lines when reviving Maya, but neutral otherwise. After deciding against targeted lines, the Dev team realized that this means Axton can say lines like ''"Wow. Do you work out, or...?"'' to the male characters; despite this, [[http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/community/articles/1077/inside-the-box-inclusivity they decided it would be better to just make him bisexual instead]].
42	** During production, the writing staff was known to change things on the fly. Nakayama's death, for example, was changed to what it wound up being half-way through Ian Sinclair's recording session.
43	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
44	** Tediore guns were originally going to be unreliable and have a chance of exploding in your hands. Tediore guns in the finished product are dirt-cheap and disposable, but perfectly reliable.
45	** For the ''Captain Scarlett'' DLC, [[spoiler:originally the players would actually get to fight and kill Scarlett while [[FluffyTheTerrible Roscoe]] would be the new raid boss]].
46	** There was originally no plans to include a Buddy A.I. where that allied NPC is able to prioritize targets and attack them. The mission "Hunting the Firehawk", [[spoiler:Lilith was going to have a smaller role where she would Phase Blast once for her intro and Phase Blast to conclude the fight by killing any surviving bandits during the fight]].
47	*** Originally [[spoiler:Lilith's]] title card didn't say [[spoiler:"aka The Firehawk"]]. It was added after focus testers repeatedly complained that they were never able to find this [[spoiler:"Firehawk"]] the mission was telling them to look for. Anthony Burch also rewrote one of [[spoiler:Lilith's]] lines to clarify the point.
48	** Before coming up with the DLC, ''Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep'', there was initially an idea where Handsome Jack had a spoiled nephew that lived on an island and would trap the Vault Hunters in a game that forced them to fight their way through a series of complex challenges he had designed. The idea later became a fantasy idea and Tiny Tina eventually became the dungeon master.
49	*** Among the various ideas for the new DLC was the theme of [[ThePowerOfRock heavy metal rock and roll]] which was on top of the list. Ryan Heaton, the Lead Level Designer for the DLC, was glad that the team did not go in that direction.
50	** An early storyline quest would have involved the player chasing down Fink (the Rat who hosts the Bandit Circle of Slaughter) and beating some answers out of him. This was too complicated to program, though it does explain why Fink hates the players so much.
51	** Originally, Motor Momma of the ''Campaign of Carnage'' DLC would have become a Raid Boss like Pyro Pete.
52	** Handsome Jack would have originally played more of a [[FriendlyEnemy Frenemy]] role to the heroes as a rival Vault Hunter who would help or hinder them whenever he sees fit. Eventually, the developers decide to make him purely a villain to make things clearer.
53	** There were planned Vending Machines that would exclusively sell Bandit weapons. Even a Psycho would have been doing the sales pitch as evidenced by these [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILpqqRFvsZI unused lines]].

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