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[[folder:Fridge Brilliance]]
* Why do the porta-potties have guns and ammunition inside of them for vault hunters to find? In case of the situation where if someone ambushes you on the toilet, [[CrazyPrepared you're prepared]]!
* Tiny Tina:
** She's an explosives prodigy. Her name, "Tiny Tina", is a play on the initials "TNT".
** An instance that counts as both brilliance and horror is her characterization. Kids sometimes really talk like that, but only if the overwhelming majority of people they know talked like that around them during their formative years. Given that she lives next to the bandits that include her parents' killer among their number and she is only just growing past the "impressionable" stage, she literally owes every last horrible moment of her life and personality to these guys.
** During her main game's mission chain's climax, one of her comments is, ''"I read the most EXTRAORDINARY thing the other day, Sir Reginald. Something about slag experimentation. I forgot the details."'' Only later does the meaning of the comment become clear: she's reminding Flesh-Stick of the CruelAndUnusualDeath he sold her parents to, which is revealed in the Wildlife Exploitation Preserve level.
** Her Psycho mask that she wears on the side of her head. At first, it simply looks like a trophy. However, taking her behaviour into account, one might see it as a hint that she is halfway between sane and being a Psycho herself. [[ContrivedCoincidence Her encounter with Roland and co.]] most likely [[MoralityPet prevented her from completely slipping into the latter]].
* Tina's parents might have inadvertently given her a chance at the best life they could have. Because of the grenade her mom smuggled in for her escape, Tina is now wildly obsessed with explosives, which led her into contact with the Vault Hunters and eventually Mister Torgue, owner of the largest explosive manufacturers on the planet and FriendToAllChildren. Torgue himself thinks that being nice to kids and treating ladies with respect is the highest level of badassitude, eagerly enjoys Tina's company, sharing her love for ''Bunkers and Badasses'' (to the point of Tina allowing him to become a character in both ''Assault on Dragon Keep'' and ''VideoGame/TinyTinasWonderlands''), as well as being able to give Tina a job where she can legitimately put her skills and love to use. For all the crap Tina had to go through during her early life, it's nice to know there's a chance [[EarnYourHappyEnding she can be truly happy in the end]].
* A dark example when you kill Bloodwing. The reason she doesn't drop any loot is because she's not an animal native to Pandora, meaning she's not an ExtremeOmnivore that finds guns delicious.
** Alternatively, you didn't literally kill Bloodwing; Jack did.
* Angel:
** She spends the entire game cutting off her curse words, because her father chides her on language. Therefore, it is entirely and brilliantly fitting for her struggle for freedom that the very last word she utters to Jack is "asshole."
** Phaseshift. To a tech savvy person, when she's is using it in the beginning of the game, they assume that she is simply modulating the phase of a reference signal to open a door, which would make sense. When she uses it again, she is changing the phase of another reference signal to shut down Sanctuary's shields. So there's no reason to assume or suspect that she was a Siren and not an A.I. since she is using tech jargon to do exactly what she says she is doing.
** Her commentary when you first reach Sanctuary is inconsistent with what we see. She says it is "slightly less dangerous" than the rest of Pandora, and that it is the "last refuge for murders, thieves, and outcasts." Yet in Sanctuary itself, you mostly encounter peaceful, if desperate, people trying to live their lives free of Hyperion tyranny. With very few exceptions -- one murder case, and a standoff between a group of adventurers over who stole their money -- there's little crime. It isn't until you learn that Angel works for Jack that the reason for this becomes apparent: she's pretty much just reciting Jack's script, and Jack labels [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters everyone opposed to Hyperion as baby-eating psycho bandits]].
** During the assassination mission at the "Southpaw Steam & Power" level, Handsome Jack makes an offhanded remark of how only six Sirens can exist at any given time, and that he knows of three. Lilith and Maya are obvious, seeing as how he was hunting the former during the quest you hear of this and had a WantedPoster of the latter, but anyone who's finished the game knows ''[[TheWoobie exactly]]'' who the third one is.
*** On top of that, it's easy for anyone who played the first game and NOT the second (since Jack's revelation comes right after the player reached Sanctuary, roughly a quarter into the game) to assume that the third Siren is Steele, making TheReveal that much better hidden.
* Sanctuary:
** Why doesn't Angel actually know anything about Sanctuary? Because she's only wired into ''Hyperion'' tech, and Sanctuary is a ''Dahl'' ship.
** This also explains why she was able to open that Hyperion Barge for you on the glacier, but needed you to fetch a Hyperion gadget in order to hack the Catch-A-Ride. Perceptive players of the first game may have noticed that Scooter is a former Dahl employee; the Catch-A-Rides are Dahl-tech as well, and she can't interface with them without integrating Hyperion tech.
** Likewise, Sanctuary is a Dahl ship, so, as part of her BigGood façade, Angel needed the Vault Hunters' [[UnwittingPawn unwitting help]] in order to allow Jack to rain hell upon the city/ship when TheReveal is done.
** ''And'' it also explains why the Elite army didn't appear until very late in the game: Jack reserved their best men for the key areas needed to ensure the revival of the Warrior.
** ''And'' explains why Angel had such a difficulty to take control of Sanctuary's tech while the New Pandora Army managed to take Sanctuary by storm with little impunity in ''Commander Lilith and the Fight for Sanctuary''. Sanctuary was originally a Dahl ship, and the New Pandora Army was originally a Dahl regiment, contrasting the tech-oriented Hyperion. They'd know their equipment inside and out.
** It seemed odd, back in ''1'', that the city of Sanctuary was named "Sanctuary" of all things, when it spent the entire game being terrorized by bandits and the Crimson Lance. It's a SequelHook, where New Haven, the main city in the first game, has been razed by Hyperion, and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the heroes find sanctuary in -- you guessed it -- Sanctuary]].
* Re-learning action skills:
** The reason why everyone needs some time to relearn the action skills they brilliantly showcased in the train during the intro? They were just ''thrown out of an exploding train!'' They've just been concussed to hell and back and need time for their bodies to recover and to fix their gear so they can remember their abilities and use them.
** Alternatively, according to Gaige's [=ECHOs=], the skills are actually pre-existing programs that exist in the Vault Hunter's ECHO HUD... but wait, didn't we lose those in the crash? Fortunately, Claptrap happens to find another one just lying around and gives it to you. None of the data on it is relevant to you, so you give it a hard reset. You're basically starting over from square 1.
** And the reason why you start with all your weapons and abilities in [[NewGamePlus True Vault Hunter mode]]? You're a ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin True Vault Hunter]]'' who doesn't let petty things like exploding trains wreck your ability to kick ass. You've prepared for such an occasion and have a back-up of all your data on-hand and ready to go. The same can apply to your SDU inventory.
* Why is the med station in Overlook disabled during the tail end of "Bright Lights, Future City"? So you can't abuse it during [[HoldTheLine the fight to defend the beacon]].
* Why doesn't Roland have any missions for you outside of the main ones? So when he dies, you don't lose any. The one sidequest he does host is given from a bulletin board, and is explicitly a recorded message from him regarding the assignment, since he's too busy at the time to actively direct you or give running commentary like everyone else giving you missions.
* Gaige:
** The initials of Ordered Chaos is OC. The initials for overclocking are also OC. When one considers what Anarchy does to her, it could be considered overclocking her.
** The reason she has so many references to ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' in her skill trees might be the fact that she's a no-nonsense, peppy teenage girl, and probably would have found the show appealing. [[PeripheryDemographic Not that it says much in the show's case]], but still.
** A Gaige character who specs in Anarchy will find that Vladof weapons are extremely effective due to their high rate of fire. This actually makes canonical sense, because anarchy is the Vladof M.O. They ''live'' to help cause strife and overthrow governments. However they are unable to use the Infinity due to its special feature and Gaige's Anarchy Stacks require reloading after emptying the gun clip.
* The Golden Gear mini-quest and trip up to Mount Hellsfront is one big shout out to ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', complete with ersatz Ring and Gollum. The quest also involves a particularly long journey, from the very start of the game to the Eridium Blight. It is also full of hazards that can quickly reduce players to "Fight For Your Life" mode, but lacking in any enemies that can be killed to gain a second wind. You can't use Fast Travel, die, or enter a vehicle, so you have to do it the hard way and walk. As such, it is often nightmarishly difficult (unless you're cautious and have a high enough level) to make the trip up the mountain alone, but it's much easier to do it with a companion to help you to your feet when you go down. Just like Sam and Frodo.
* Whenever you reload a Maliwan weapon, such as an SMG or sniper rifle, all the lights on the sides go out, but that's not all -- if the weapon has electronic sights, they'll also go out while the magazine is out, further emphasizing that Maliwan magazines do more than just hold bullets. Contrast Dahl or Torgue weapons that keep all lights on no matter what you do.
* When in the Caustic Caverns picking up the ApocalypticLog of the Dahl expeditionary mining group, one log has the security chief Booth, outraged upon being continually ordered to "harvest" the friendly and intelligent [[SiliconBasedLife Crystalisks]], threatening the CorruptCorporateExecutive in charge of the mining with the fact that her team has guns, while the miners only have pickaxes. Turns out the executive has a gun, too. When you find the security chief's tombstone, there's a pickaxe stuck in it, [[LastDisrespects a final insult from the executive]]. However, [[LaserGuidedKarma karma]] would catch up to Harchek in the form of Blue the Crystalisk and, judging by the bloodstains, mangled skeleton, and the pickaxe in the eye socket, it's mostly like one of the security personnel did it as [[LastDisrespects a middle finger to the dead Harchek]] for killing Booth.
* About the Bandit brand's weapons having misspelled names. Looking at it, you'd think they'd be lacking the most rudimentary education. Then it hits you: that's why they're here. Without basic education, they would've resorted to crime to support themselves, and would then have been too uneducated to cover their tracks, resulting in them being caught and dumped on Pandora as convict labor.
* Why doesn't the player character stop Handsome Jack from releasing the Warrior when they have the chance? All of the player characters -- with the exception of Maya -- are some flavor of BloodKnight, and they may have allowed Jack to unleash the Warrior simply for the sake of having something big to fight. Maya, on the other hand, probably figures she can kill the Warrior and prevent anyone else trying to use its power again, or could also be keeping her distance just in case Jack has another one of those siren-controlling collars on him.
* Hyperion makes massive use of robotic troops, far more than the Crimson Lance, and have relatively few actual human soldiers. Why? Because Jack is such a BadBoss that he has a hard time recruiting anyone into his army, and most of those are just the engineers who are pressed into combat whenever the Vault Hunters show up.
** Or because, in ''The Pre-Sequel'', he didn't have the funds, the time, or the clout to get an army to retake Helios Station when it was overrun, so during the course of the game, your goal is to build a robot army. Presumably, he continues using robots, because they've got less needs like, food, lodging, or pay, and he can moonshot them to the surface without any trouble.
** After "Control Core Angel", we see more, proper Elite units akin to the Crimson Lance's unique units of ''1''[='=]s ''The Secret Armory of General Knoxx'', especially in the Arid Nexus and Hero's Pass. Jack is going all-in on the Vault Hunters' asses, and he's crossing the GodzillaThreshold in order to achieve both of his ends: 1) destroying the Vault Hunters and 2) ensuring that none of them reach the Vault of the Warrior.
* Why did the Eridians create the Warrior in the first place? So that if the [[SealedEvilInACan Destroyer]] got loose, there'd be something capable of putting it back in its can. That would explain how the Destroyer got sealed in the first place.
** Which also explains why their vaults are unlocked with the same Key: the only way to unleash the Destroyer also allows you to unleash the thing that can defeat the Destroyer. The Destroyer getting out also caused Eridium to sprout across Pandora, which is just the thing you'd need to recharge the Key, so you don't need to wait 200 years for it to charge by itself. Anything that releases the Destroyer also provides exactly what's needed to defeat it.
* During the Maliwan Weapon Test mission in Sanctuary, Marcus mentions how corrosive weapons are his personal favorite. It seems like a throwaway line, but then one remembers that due to proximity, Marcus' most regular customers are Crimson Raiders, who spend most of their time fighting Hyperion. And since Hyperion fields mostly robots, Raiders are more likely to buy corrosive weapons than any other kind. Naturally, he makes the most money off of corrosive weapons. [[TheScrooge No wonder he likes them so much.]]
* During the "Toil and Trouble" mission in Sawtooth Cauldron, if you killed Mortar on the way up, Brick will wonder why the bandits don't just give up, since you just killed their leader. A rather ironic statement so soon after Roland's death, since the protagonists and the resistance members in Sanctuary also never gave up after that. However, it is Brick who is saying it. Brick was only helping Roland, and was never under his command. As far as he's concerned, [[NotInThisForYourRevolution he's not fighting for his dead leader and his cause, but to avenge a fallen friend]]. It goes deeper if you did the quest "Bearer of Bad News" before this, as killing Roland was the last straw, Brick has made it his own personal goal in life to kill Jack; everything else is just a bonus.
** It's why Brick also [[EstablishingCharacterMoment makes his appearance]] in ''Commander Lilith...'' at the tail end of The Burrows. It's the entrance to the remains of Hyperion's Helios Station.
* Handsome Jack's role in the story acts almost as a deconstruction of the concept of BlackComedy and badass quipping action heroes. Throughout the entire story, he makes light of just about everything, from how stupid the Bandits can be, to how overly-dangerous his own practices are. However, he also makes a point of taking potshots at the people of Sanctuary however possible, and unlike the Bandits and the Crimson Lance, he has the full motivation to dig deeper than them, and has the know-how and resources to do it. And so, by the time you're in Eridium Blight doing quests for him, you start seeing how terrifying and infuriating it is to be the butt of the game's jokes.
* Songs:
** The choice of opening song when compared to the one from the first game -- Similar melodies and titles, and the themes match their respective games quite well; the first was upbeat and centered around getting money, while the second is darker and relates to heroism.
** The opening song alludes to Pandora being no place for a hero. While this foreshadows the death of Roland as he is the only unquestionably heroic character in the game, it also foreshadows the death of Jack, the only person to directly refer to himself as a hero (Angel refers to the Vault Hunters as heroes, but they never directly acknowledge it).
** Even more foreshadowing when you look at the subsequently released Pre-Sequel. ''The Pre-Sequel'' deals heavily in themes as to what constitutes a hero, and whether or not there is a "true" hero to the Borderlands universe. Pandora ain't no place for no hero.
** The theme for the Sawtooth Cauldron area is very frightening, to the point where hearing a gunfight start is actually ''good''. But why choose it for that particular area, and not places like the Eridium Blight, the Fridge or the Bloodshot Stronghold? Well, if you look at the landscape for a while, the place ''somehow'' resembles [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam's battlefields]], which were, by all accounts, a very nightmarish and terrifying environment. There are also more Buzzards in there than any other map, and Vietnam was famous for having attack helicopters fill the skies daily. And finally, the big-ass creek section for Brick's flag sidequest has multiple Buzzards coming at you, a very common sight for North Vietnamese soldiers.
*** It also includes nods to the Old Haven theme from ''1''. There's a sidequest that involves you finding in the Cauldron an old treasure belonging to that place. But that isn't the bit of brilliance. It's the bit of foreshadowing that the Vault Hunters of ''2'' are there to find a way to enter into a familiar area that the Vault Hunters of ''1'' know very well: the Arid Badlands, now the Arid Nexus, where the Hyperion Info Stockade is located. And like New Haven and Old Haven, Sanctuary and the Arid Nexus have a [[TimeSkip past-against-the-present]] relationship.
** The theme song for both of the Arid Nexus areas has a new segment complementing a remixed fragment of "Welcome to Fyrestone" from ''1''. Not only this reflects how we don't get to see how the Arid Badlands look past Piss Wash Gully and the entrance to the Arid Hills, but we also get to play in an area we couldn't play back in the original game (which in this game it's revealed to be called the "Boneyard"), as well as seeing [[DoomedHometown the status of Fyrestone and its surrounding areas]] under the control of [[EvilInc Hyperion]].
* Salvador being wanted for [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking public indecency and profanity alongside all his other crimes]] isn't just a joke when you progress further into the game and learn how [[DisproportionateRetribution Handsome Jack responds to such things.]]
* Bridge to Arid Nexus:
** Near the climax, during your quest to find the Hyperion Info Stockade, your path is blocked when a section of a bridge elevates to create a gap you can't cross. Brick recommends you steal some explosives from a rival gang in an area called Sawtooth Cauldron. On reflection, there seem to be some plot holes in this sequence. The Sawtooth leader won't send the elevator down to allow you to reach the top of his tower, so you have to destroy his favorite Buzzard, a ''flying vehicle'', to make him angry enough to send the elevator down. When you steal the charges, they are stolen and deployed using those flying vehicles, begging the question, why doesn't Brick just have his Slabs just pick you up and drop you off at your destination? Very simply, Brick saw an opportunity to have the Vault Hunters, easily one of the strongest forces on the entire planet, wipe out and emasculate a rival faction of bandits for him. In light of later developments in the plot, the Vault Hunters would probably fail to question such a roundabout way of crossing the gap, as long as they were at least on track to kill Jack.
** Alternatively, the Sawtooth Bandits had their own air force of Buzzards, and it'd be too costly men and material wise to simply wage an air war over Sawtooth territory. Better to send in a group to sabotage Mortar's buzzard (he could possibly be genuine boss material when flying it, similar to ''The Pre-Sequel!''[='=]s RK-5 gunship), break in through the landing pad, and wreck merry hell on their airpower so that the Slabs could send in some buzzards of their own to make off with the explosives.
* The "Cult of the Vault" Challenges might just seem like they used some kickass words in rhyme, but the symbols are hidden so well and in such random and ridiculous places that you are bound to look up at least one of them just to complete one, let alone all of them. The only way to complete the entire achievement, especially the really long ones, is to either search every nook and cranny of the entire game, or collaborate with a bunch of other people. In short, you either become a highly obsessed cultist trying to find all these symbols, or you form your own cult looking for them.
* All the new Vault Hunters are either more experienced or are more suited by nature than the previous ones, if going by their backstories:
** Roland left the Crimson Lance as a young soldier, while Axton is a seasoned veteran.
** Lilith taught her Siren powers to herself and was mostly an adventurer, while Maya spent her entire youth training her powers under the guidance of a religious order that researched Sirens.
** Mordecai was only traveling around for hunting and looting, while [=Zer0=] is a professional assassin with a long history of jobs.
** Brick is a BadassNormal brawler, while Krieg is an escaped lab experiment, and Salvador grew up killing bandits on [[DeathWorld Pandora]] and abuses steroids enough to stunt his growth.
** Gaige is a GadgeteerGenius.
** When you defeat Wilhelm, Angel notes that you're stronger than the four Vault Hunters of the first game. At that point in the game, you're likely around Lv. 16-18, which means you have 700-900 HP, the only stat that grows automatically with levels. In ''VideoGame/Borderlands1'', a Lv. 50 character had about the same amount of HP! You're literally more resilient than the first four Vault Hunters!
* Why are Hyperion weapons a bit difficult and frustrating to use? Simple: We are meant to dislike Hyperion for the most part, and an easy way to do that, gameplay-wise, is to make them produce frustrating weapons. More than that, they aren't ''designed'' as effective weapons. Jack took over Hyperion, and in ECHO logs you can hear a meeting on how to make the Hyperion brand stand out. Jack, given his background as a lowly programmer, knows nothing about firearms or ballistics. He just tells his team to start naming the guns after corporate buzzwords that sound nice but don't really mean anything. Jack didn't care about the guns, he cared about appearances.
** They become less frustrating to use as their weapon quality and levels get higher. Hyperion weapons were designed for elitist snobs, so of course they wouldn't give a crap about common white-quality weapons. They'd invest all of their care into the higher quality goods.
* Every time Claptrap has problems opening a plot-critical door, it seems like simple RuleOfFunny to show off how hopelessly incompetent and useless Claptrap is. Quite the opposite -- he can't open the crashed drop barge in the Windshear Waste because Jack locked it down specifically to have Angel help the Vault Hunters and gain their trust and when confronted with the door to Hero's Pass, Claptrap is facing Hyperion's best security measures, designed specifically knowing he would be trying to open it. This turns a frustrating apparent failure into Claptrap's SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome when ''he overrides the security measures and opens it anyway.'' Which would explain why the door directly leads to [[WeaksauceWeakness a flight of stairs]], as it ensures that Claptrap can't hack anything beyond this point.
* Mordecai and Moxxi:
** When Mordecai gives you the "The Good, The Bad and The Mordecai" sidequest, he reveals that [[CuttingOffTheBranches he was the winner of the Underdome challenge]], getting a huge weapon cache and Moxxi herself (who he later married, as revealed during the "Rakkaholics Anonymous" sidequest) as reward. This may seem to have come out of nowhere, however, Moxxi has a confirmed taste in strong men and, more to the point, specifically appeared for the first time running Moxxi's Underdome in hopes of finding a man badass enough to take as her next husband. It only makes ''sense'' that one of the previous games' Vault Hunters would have been her first choice for Mr. Right #4.
** Stemming on from the above, why would Moxxi dump Mordecai and hook up with Handsome Jack? Multiple reasons. Firstly, though the player is LateToTheParty, prior to the events of ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'', Handsome Jack was originally a VillainWithGoodPublicity; naturally, Moxxi's eye would be attracted to a man who was both handsome and seemingly heroic. Secondly, Moxxi has well-established GoldDigger traits; an incredibly wealthy and powerful CEO in Hyperion Corporation would be very attractive, compared to a vagabond bounty hunter. Thirdly, Moxxi is used to always being the center of attention -- but with Mordecai comes Bloodwing, Mordecai's beloved pet and ally, who already needs regular care and attention to fulfill her role as Mordecai's battlefield partner. As Moxxi makes clear during "Rakkaholics Anonymous", she resented the fact she had to share Mordecai's attention with Bloodwing. Put all these together, and it's no wonder that Moxxi divorced Mordecai and tried hooking up with Handsome Jack... until she realized Jack was a [[BitchInSheepsClothing Psycho with a nice-guy façade]].
* Why doesn't Jack simply [[JustEatGilligan deactivate the New-U stations]] after he declares all-out war on you? Obviously, he wants to keep you alive and kicking for as long as it takes for him to get his hands on you himself.
** Furthermore, Jack wants to get rid of all the bandits and everybody else he doesn't like; you prove yourself quite adept at disposing of bandits, so he has no real reason to stop you.
*** Supporting this point is the "Hyperion Contract #873" AssassinationSidequest. It requires you to kill 100 bandits[[note]]With four side missions requiring you to kill 25 bandits with Incendiary weapons, 25 with Corrosive weapons, 25 with Explosive weapons and 25 with Shock weapons[[/note]]. It's found in the Overlook Bounty Board, next to the entrance to The Dust, a bandit-infested area... which is also adjacent to the entrance to [[PeninsulaOfPowerLeveling Lynchwood]], ''another'' area even ''more'' infested with bandits. [[BeefGate Higher-levelled bandits, to boot]]. In terms of story, it's available right after you manage to re-enable the Fast Travel network via HoldTheLine. Clearly, Hyperion may be a disgusting MegaCorp which promotes assholery, with Jack as the king of entitled assholes leading it, but even they KnowWhenToFoldEm.
** Furthermore, the reason you still respawn if you die at The Vault of the Warrior is so Jack can enjoy [[ColdBloodedTorture killing you over and over again, either by himself or with the Warrior.]]
** ''Furthermore'' why Jack isn't respawning at the Vault of the Warrior (or for that matter anywhere else)? Because either Angel, before dying, pulled him out of the system and Jack was so blinded by rage to notice, or Jack was too confident he (or the Warrior) could best the Vault Hunters in a fight, so he pulled himself out of his own New-U network.
* Why is Brick so obsessed with punching in the main game and especially ''Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep''? Because ''Borderlands 1'' players denied him the chance to do so by endgame due to melee not scaling well.
* A small one, but largely due to game scaling: The Morningstar gun you obtain as a reward for completing the sidequest "Hyperion Contract #873" will sometimes berate you for wasting ammo, saying that there are children who can't afford it. Naturally, children shouldn't be buying ammo anyways but by that point in the game, most ammo cost several hundred dollars. So only the richest of children can afford them anyways. This gets especially hilarious in True Vault Hunter Mode or Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode, where one stack of ammo can equal half or a whole year's salary for an adult.
* When Mordecai goes berserk following Bloodwing's death he begins raining bullets down on the enemy that one-shot kill anything they hit with a huge explosion, what gun is he using, and why wasn't he using it before? He's using the Cobra, a monstrously powerful explosive Sniper Rifle from ''1'', and he hadn't been using it before then because, by its lack of inclusion in the game, it's probably the only one of its model left intact and he didn't want to break or lose it. Tiny Tina later built copies of the gun after seeing what Mordecai was able to do with it, but hasn't built very many, accounting for its extremely low drop rate in the DLC.
** Additionally, Mordecai seems to be sniping more for entertainment than effectiveness up to then - in Tundra Express, he's just doing target practice to keep his eye in, and in the Preserve, he's sure Bloodwing can look after herself and is more cautious than genuinely worried. After Bloodwing's death, he stopped caring and [[ItsPersonal started blowing up every being related with the Hyperion brand]].
** The reason there aren't any more original-model Cobras is that they were manufactured by Torgue in the first game. Mister Torgue, as the company gunsmith, is the sort of HotBlooded BoisterousBruiser who would decide that sniping wasn't as badass as close-range shotgun fighting or blowing stuff up because it lacked the in-your-face thrill, which also explains why his company stopped manufacturing sniper rifles. He's decided that sniping bores him, so he isn't going to encourage it by building sniper rifles, even if their bullets explode.
* The Vladof corporation are shown fighting Dahl's private army in their advertisement. Given that Hyperion is the main "corporate oppressor" in-game, why Dahl? First off, Vladof loves fast rate of fire and full-auto, while Dahl prefers slow rates and burst fire. And more importantly, Vladof makes assault rifles based on the AK-47 family. Dahl rifles seem to be built off the [=M16=] and its variants. ''Its rival.''
* Moxxi keeps insisting that [[BigBeautifulWoman Ellie]] should lose some weight and Ellie resents her for this. However, Moxxi does have [[FreudianExcuse a reason]] - as revealed in ''Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage'', she used to date Motor Momma and later dumped her due to being disturbed by her cannibalism.
** Ellie choosing to gain and keep all that weight makes sense too once you know her backstory: Moxxi left the Hodunk clan after they intended to make Ellie a clanwife. Whereas Moxxi chose to move far away from the clan to wash her hands clean of them, Ellie proves her toughness by living practically on their doorstop. But according to Ellie, the Hodunks like skinny chicks "because they're stupid". The Hodunks taunt her for her physique, but she's quite proud of it, judging by the hood ornaments she asks you to collect for her. Ellie making herself undesirable to her former clan while living right next to them is basically her [[FlippingTheBird flipping them the bird]] with both hands.
* Sure, Rakkman was denounced as insane by his fellow bandits, and it's implied that they kicked him out into the Fridge, a ''very'' hostile environment, just so they couldn't be near him anymore. After battling Laney White in a sidequest, you can shoot and loot your way through a giant concrete bunker with lots of rooms, like something out of an [=WW2=] Eastern Front battlefield or ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''. But once you get to a large cave in the complex, there are ''no'' Rats in there at all, just Rakkman. And as the Rats are also bandits, it implies that they also stuffed him into an isolated room so they wouldn't have to deal with him either!
* The reason Maya, unlike Lilith and Angel, isn't able to use Eridium to enhance herself is actually due to the fact that she wasn't on Pandora or its orbit when the Destroyer was killed.
** There's also the simple possibility that Maya never attempted it in the first place because she keeps seeing all the negative side effects of Sirens using Eridium.
* When briefing the Vault Hunters on the defenses they'll have to overcome to reach her, Angel warns them not to let Lilith into the chamber. Maya players will immediately pick up on the issue with that warning; if it's so dangerous for Lilith to be there, why is it okay for fellow Siren Maya? Jack's had years since their last encounter to learn how to counter Lilith's next attempt to Phaseblast him. But that counter would only work on Lilith if she tried to Phaseblast Jack. It wouldn't work on Maya, because she can Phaselock Jack and shoot him to death from range instead of taking the bait.
* During "The Bane" sidequest arc, [=McNally=] is a psycho when you battle him, but in his ECHO, he sounds like a regular bandit. But why? Well, if you wielded a fancy unique gun as your primary weapon that also makes extremely annoying noises whenever you use it, you'd probably go mad from all that irritating screaming. [=McNally=] could've used the gun for several weeks, months or even ''years'' before using his last shreds of sanity to get rid of it, before succumbing to insanity and becoming a psycho. Which also explains why he's got a pair of scissors lodged in his right ear canal and a knife and fork in his left.
** Why is The Bane "cursed"? Because Hyperion deliberately made it to lure and/or trick unwary bandits or Vault Hunters into using it and make them easy pickings for their army. You are almost unable to move and every time you fire, reload or switch weapons you are greeted with a "voice" that'll drive you to jam random utensils up your eardrums. The reason Marcus isn't cursed because he only sold the gun to a customer and not used it himself. It's also last found in Lynchwood where Nisha and her posse would simply wait for the unlucky sap to retrieve the gun, to make them easy pickings as well.
* Marcus offers only a bare handful of side missions, and the rewards he offers for them are usually pretty lame:
** He only offers two unique items, the Lucrative Opportunity and the the Evil Smasher. The former is a special relic that shortens the item respawn timers on vending machines, and the latter is mostly a JokeItem with a small, random chance to suddenly become a LethalJokeItem for one magazine. Only the latter of the two rewards is worth much and only because [[GoodBadBugs/Borderlands2 a glitch used to exist]] that [[GameBreaker snapped any difficulty in the game over its knee]][[note]]it really was that powerful -- applied properly, it would let you melt ''[[OptionalBoss Terramorphous]]'' in under a second with an Infinity Pistol, for instance[[/note]]. If played straight, Marcus' quests largely aren't worth the effort. Why? Marcus is TheScrooge. He isn't going to give away good merchandise for free if he can help it.
** This is also why, when your allies are handing you weapons in Sanctuary to kick Handsome Jack's ass, the blue-quality rifle Marcus gives you is always obsolete by a few levels: he objects to Handsome Jack on a personal level and genuinely wants to see him dead, but at the same time, it's just not him to give away valuable gear.
** Of the two pieces of unique loot that Marcus offers, the Evil Smasher is explicitly a crap gun he cobbled together to con a out-of-towner out of two million bucks. Since it was already paid for, it's no surprise he lets you keep it. The other one, the Lucrative Opportunity, instead encourages you to visit vending machines. Since 2/3rds of the vanilla vending machines are owned by him and players rarely visit Zed's machine anyway (due to easily getting health via skills and only needing 1 shield for at least every 5 levels), he'd make back whatever the Lucrative Opportunity would have cost him very soon.
** In the case of the Evil Smasher, Kai was the ''Borderlands'' equivalent of a Twitch streamer or Youtuber, so he was a public enough figure for there to be some chance that somebody might come to Pandora to investigate his death. In addition to the nine bucks Marcus wanted back, you also picked up the crap gun Marcus sold him and the ECHO tapes of Marcus screwing Kai over. All evidence of Marcus' wrongdoing is as good as destroyed, so if anyone ever asks, Marcus can claim that all he did was sell Kai a gun.
* In the Arms Dealing mission in The Highlands, Zed points out that one of the arms "musta belonged to a seamstress or somethin'; you can tell from the metatarsels (sic)." This could be ArtisticLicenseBiology on the dev team's part, or it could be that Zed, [[RunningGag not being a real doctor]], doesn't actually know that it's spelled metatarsals, and that those are toes (fingerbones are meta''carpals'').
* Early in the game, you find an ECHO in which Tannis states her finding that Lilith's hair "tastes like olives... no, fried pickles". But of course it does. Every facet of Pandoran life has to be improvised in some way, and greasy foods account for a large part of the average diet. Lilith's likely having to substitute used cooking grease for styling gel. The same grease was probably used to cook olives and fried pickles.
* When they complete and pick up the voice modulator, each Vault Hunter has a unique response to hearing their voice turned into Handsome Jack's... except for Krieg, who clams up immediately and stays silent until his first chance to get rid of it, even during his Buzzaxe Rampages, when he's normally the most vocal. Krieg hates Jack so much for making him what he is that he will go for days, even WEEKS on end without raving about meat bicycles and ribcages, just so he doesn't have to hear Handsome Jack's voice coming out of his mouth.
* The name of the company that set up the power grid in Three Horns, Southpaw, is a slang term for a person who is left-handed. When you first reach Three Horns, both Handsome Jack and the Crimson Raiders are going out of their way to hide their true activities from one another. "Let not your left hand know what your right hand is doing", indeed.
* Why is Butt Stallion specifically an {{Expy}} of [[Franchise/MyLittlePonyGeneration4 Rarity]]? Butt Stallion effectively gives you guns for free, and Rarity is the Element of Generosity.
* One of the possible properties of Eridium is extending the durability/sturdiness of anything, explaining why Scooter's cars, which used to reduce beings to bits back in ''1'', now can only push them back at best, despite being the same models and having all the benefits the ''2'' Vault Hunters have, and how Lilith is able to survive a lot of things her ex-boyfriend Roland couldn't, such as physical damage to their bodies.
* ''Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty'':
** In Oasis, you get a quest from Aubrey Callahan III to destroy her grandmother's old ship so that nobody knows she's related to her. Except, take a good look at her name, Aubrey Callahan '''III'''. Making her grandmother Aubrey Callahan I, and her heritage obvious. [[FailedASpotCheck She never catches on to this.]]
** You'll notice that the Pirates wield Vladof Weapons, like nearly everyone on Pandora. Why do they carry Vladof weapons? It's a ShoutOut to modern-day pirates in Somalia, who mainly use [=AKMs=] and other former Warsaw Pact equipment. And why does nearly every enemy, from bandits to marshals to Hyperion soldiers carry a Vladof rifle at times? Because [=AK=]s are often shown in media as "bad guy" guns, are cheap, easy to maintain, and both the rifles and ammunition are ridiculously common.
** [=C3n50r807=], found in the "Washburn Refinery" level, is a loader programmed to detect and censor forms of moral corruption... by having those possessing and/or distributing them violently murdered, and then proclaiming itself morally superior for it. It may have been a failed attempt by Handsome Jack to use his robot army to automate the oppressive censoring of Pandora.
* ''Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage'':
** Piston keeps repeating how he's [[TheAce the number one]] throughout the entire DLC and [[BerserkButton gets pissed off whenever someone calls him a coward]]... however, the only thing he does after becoming the champion is keeping the player from reaching him, placing obstacle after obstacle, and staining the player's name and reputation. And when the time comes to face the player, instead of outright facing the player 1-on-1 like the rest of the bosses, he hides behind a huge mechanical dinosaur. In contrast, Pyro Pete (who even faces the Vault Hunters as the DLC's OptionalBoss), Motor Momma and Flyboy all subject the player to a trial of some kind and then actually ''face'' the player without any excuses once said trial is completed. In comparison to them, Piston truly ''is'' the Ultimate Coward.
** Why is Pyro Pete the [[SuperBoss raid boss]]? Of all of the "badasses" you have to fight, only Pete fights you man to man. Sure, his arena is tricked out to give him an advantage, but he doesn't fight you while augmented in a vehicle like the rest. Pete may be crazy, but unlike Piston, he isn't a coward.
** You can pick up pin-up portraits of Moxxi. These do not show up in your backpack and have no importance to the plot. So why are you collecting them? [[IllBeInMyBunk Reasons.]]
*** Additionally, the fact that they have no monetary value is probably justified given that there's really no room for high art in a world like [[CrapsackWorld Pandora]].
** Moxxi states that her innuendos are a defense mechanism after making a distasteful joke involving a cannibal literally eating her old girlfriend. In ''The Pre-Sequel!'' we learn that, when not in public, she reverts to the same Hodunk speak like her children. Since almost all of her interactions have you go out and kill someone, it means that she developed the whole Mad Moxxi façade just so she can cope with the necessity of living on [[DeathWorld Pandora]].
** The ShipTease between Moxxi and Torgue. Both were introduced to the Borderlandsverse in a DLC and played a key part as quest-givers in a later DLC: Moxxi with ''1''[='=]s ''Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot'' and ''The Secret Armory of General Knoxx'' and Torgue with ''Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage'' and ''Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep''.
* ''Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep'':
** Role-playing was originally created for psychological treatment. The DLC is basically all about Tina's complete denial over Roland's death in the main game.
** There are subtle hints throughout the DLC campaign that despite dialogue to the contrary, Tina is well aware that Roland is dead. The story mission where you meet up with The White Knight is called "Denial, Anger, Initiative"; Two-fifths of the Five Stages of Grief, interrupted with a gaming term, indicating that Tina isn't ready yet to accept Roland's death.
** The White Knight has you retrieving a sword for him, which has the power to revive the dead.
** Most of the locations in the DLC are named after the stages of loss: the Forest of Tranquility (the time before anything bad has happened), the Immortal Woods (Denial), the Mines of Avarice (Bargaining), Hatred's Shadow (Anger), and the Lair of Infinite Agony (Depression). Deep inside, Tina definitely knows that Roland is gone.
** The jewels that the Queen leaves behind for you to follow her? It isn't until the end that you realize that those jewels are Butt Stallion's ''leavings''.
** Roland as the White Knight: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland The historical Roland]] and his more fantastical depiction in French history presents him as a glorious knight wielding an unbreakable sword. And, appropriately, just like the historical Roland, the "real" Roland is killed in battle and his killer escapes immediate vengeance at his allies' hands.
** Bloodwing's DeusExMachina. Take a close look at the blasts from Bloodwing's four collisions (once with the projectile, three times with the Sorcerer himself.) Orange. Green. Blue. Purple. While not occurring in the order of her boss fight phases, they line up with her ''elemental'' colors from her BossFight in the main game: purple for Slag, orange for Fire, blue for Electric, and green for Corrosive. Makes you wonder what might have been if Bloodwing's collar had been disarmed.
** Lilith notices the Dwarves are based on Salvador's appearance and finds it racist. When asked about it, Salvador's only reaction is to find the idea "awesome". It would be logical for an angry midget complexed about his short height to dislike being the inspiration for a group of Dwarves, but on the other hand, of course a GunNut BloodKnight like Salvador would be pleased to inspire a society of notorious {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s who are also commonly associated with gunpowder.
* ''A Meat Bicycle Built for Two'':
** The reason why Krieg says he "has" to kill the random guy walking through the desert? [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge He's wearing a Hyperion engineer helmet.]]
** Krieg doesn't appear with the other Vault Hunters on the train in the intro. The reason: going by his backstory movie, he ''was'' on the train, or at least, hanging on the ''side'' of the train.
* ''Commander Lilith and the Fight for Sanctuary'':
** After the New Pandora Army's invasion, you can find Marcus and Crazy Earl hiding in the same room. They seemed to have traded tips along with their insults while they were stuck together, since in ''VideoGame/Borderlands3'' Marcus sells Upgrades and Crazy Earl owns a gun-vending machine.
** Why doesn't Haderax drop Seraph crystals or loot? In the other [=DLCs=], the Seraph vendors are hidden in towns that are not near Sanctuary, and their raid bosses are humans (or a human aiding a creature). Haderax is not human and is located close to Sanctuary/Lilith's camp. Tiny Tina's dragons are an exception, but she probably included them in her campaign if she saw the vendor in Torgue's DLC.
* Two of the best Slag weapons in the game (if not ''the'' two best) are the Slagga and the Grog Nozzle. They also share two other traits: [[InterfaceScrew they screw your screen as if your character got drunk]], and they're related to mission chains involving alcohol/drinking[[note]]You get the Slagga as a boss reward if you side with the Zafords, who own a pub and (as seen in ''Mad Moxxi's Wedding Day Massacre'') a distillery, during "Clan War", and Claptrap gives you the Grog Nozzle during his first mission chain in ''Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep'' in a mission that involves getting dwarves drunk[[/note]]. Considering how powerful Slag becomes in [[HarderThanHard Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode]], it's safe to say that, with these weapons, you ''literally'' become DrunkWithPower.
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* The Lab Rats:
** Their eyes have mutated so that ''something'' is strangely otherworldly about their eyes. They can project strange energy from their eyes, and they can also see something that has [[GoMadFromTheRevelation driven them quite insane.]] If you're playing Maya, when you Phaselock them, ''they see it more''. Now, Siren powers are all based on phasing things into another dimension. They're seeing into another dimension... The same one that Sirens can access, which may be where [[EldritchAbomination The Destroyer]] is from.
** They are mentioned to be "genetic abominations created by Hyperion", via a tip in the menu screen. What is Hyperion known for doing other than gun-manufacturing and being douchebags? ''Slag mutation.''
** Their true origins in ''The Pre-Sequel!'' is even worse. Prior to that game, there was an area in Helios Station (the Veins of Helios) which was left unfinished due to a deadly parasitic disease (Space Hurps) infecting thousands of Hyperion workers, making them cannibalistic. Then that game's Vault Hunters performed several missions on the Quarantined area under Tassiter's orders. This meant that the disease now got transmitted to several areas of the space station. And from them, back to Pandora.
* Why does Gaige scream in pain while under the effect of elemental damage? Unlike the other Vault hunters, she's never had any training and/or experience to deal with that type of pain.
* ''Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate Booty:''
** The fact that there is a skeletal arm in Herbert's StalkerShrine to Captain Scarlett. Whose arm is it? Well...the Captain herself is missing an arm. How he ''got'' it is another question entirely.
** One of the the jokes Shade's comedian "friend" tells you is "What did the dying man say to the other dying man? Don't attach an ECHO recorder to my corpse and pretend I'm still alive!" This implies Shade was doing his OfCorpseHesAlive routine ''before'' everyone in Oasis was dead.
** The sand pirates take shelter within the hulks of derelict ships, all of which look like they were flying through the air and crashed into mountains. Magny's Lighthouse, in particular, is colossal, and possibly the tallest point on Pandora that you can reach. But then it hits you: when the Vault of the Destroyer was opened (or something), it caused a massive climate shift. The desert you're skimming across was originally ''a sea bed'', and just like Captain Flynt's Soaring Dragon, those ships crashed into those mountains because the sea instantly dried up.
* Krieg and the Psychos:
** What if Krieg's inner voice isn't unique to him? Maybe every psycho you fight has their own inner voice begging them to stop trying to kill you, [[YouBastard and said voice is silenced by your bullets]].
** Krieg's entire existence paints a very disturbing picture of what it might be like for people who turn into Psychos. Every single one of those screaming, batshit {{Mooks}} that you chewed through like so much gum could've very well been completely rational and good people before Pandora made them completely lose it. Also, try not to think about how [[AndIMustScream some of them might still have their original psyches around]], trying desperately to be heard through the insanity spewing from their mouth.
* "To Grandmother's House We Go", a sidequest in Eridium Blidge related to Jack's grandmother:
** The Hyperion Morningstar sniper rifle you get as a reward for completing "Hyperion Contract #873" [[YouBastard berates the player]] in the tone of a shrill, crabby old woman. Where did Handsome Jack get the idea and tone for this firearm? This sidequest suggests his grandmother was [[AbusiveParents extremely cruel and abusive to him]].
** A small one is where Jack's grandma's body ended up. Next to the bed are a few burlap sacks. You also find the "disciplinary tool" on the bed, which is a buzzSAW axe.
* ''Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep'':
** Tiny Tina being incredibly sure that Roland is going to show up any minute at the game table is already sad... and then it's revealed in the climax that she knew the entire time that he was dead, and was trying to give him a happy ending in her story. This raises the question: How much of her psychosis is genuine, and how much is a desperate act meant to put on a happy face? Especially if you consider this is the second time she's lost a parental figure in her life...
** At one point, during the "Post-Crumpocalyptic" sidequest chain, Tina reveals that she's been living exclusively off of crumpets for the last few years and has no plans to change that. This may have been PlayedForLaughs, but considering that her parents are dead and, by the time the DLC takes place, Roland is too, it takes a much darker tone if you know that people with post-traumatic stress disorder occasionally develop eating disorders.
** A mild example: Torgue briefly takes over as gatekeeper when he wants to be part of Tiny Tina's game. After a few nonsensical tasks, he's quickly relocated to the stocks and the normal gatekeeper is back. Said gatekeeper turns out to be the Handsome Sorcerer all along. It would have been pretty awkward to have ''Torgue'' be the Handsome Sorcerer's disguise.
* When you're making your rounds around Sanctuary before going after the Warrior, Tiny Tina will come up on your ECHO and read you a "poem." It's really just her saying "Kill Jack" over and over for a few seconds; when you take into account what happened to her parents, it sounds less like a poem and more like a ''MadnessMantra''.
* During the "Out of Body Experience" quest, you help a destroyed Hyperion Constructor put its AI core into a new body. If robots can be destroyed, but their AI cores salvaged and reused, maybe ALL the robots you face later in the game are reincarnations of the ones you already destroyed. Not only are you facing an immortal enemy, but you're also facing an army of immortal enemies that probably get more and more vengeful with every battle. It won't be long until every loader in existence is out to kill you.
** Since Hyperion seems to simply mass produce Loader Bots and not care about salvaging destroyed Loaders, it's more like you have doomed many of the Loaders you have killed to a [[AndIMustScream horrible]] fate.
** And since we're talking about Constructors, considering how they originated in ''The Pre-Sequel!'', it paints an even bleaker picture. Every Constructor you destroy and whose AI is salvageable is a copy of Felicity, who, in her own way, ''is'' immortal.
* In the "Candlerakk's Crag" level of ''Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt'', there is, in the background, the skeleton of what appears to be a skag ''the size of a small island''. It's near the area where the New-U station is, off to the left. Pandora already has a reputation for being a DeathWorld in its current state, but if that thing was actually alive at some point in time, ''how long has Pandora been one?'' Furthermore, it raises questions about what could kill something that size.
** In the main game's side mission where Claptrap reveals his secret stash, one of the objectives his gives you is to defeat a badass skag. But what the actual objective list says is "Defeat Ug-Thak, Lord of Skags". Maybe it's not just the UI being a wiseass, and there actually is/was such a creature.
* Out on Terramorphous Peak, there's the skeleton of ''something'' huge lining one side of it. The obvious thought is that Terramorphous killed this creature before it slept, but a closer look shows that the skeleton looks like it could fit a thresher. What if Terramorphous isn't unique? In addition, the skeleton appears to be ''LARGER'' than ol' Terry. If it is indeed a Thresher, it's likely that this is the skeleton of Terramorphous's ''mother''.
* Apparently, Crabworms are intelligent enough to understand the concept of revenge. As an addition, they also grow to be the size of a skyscraper after at least 5 years. This isn't good for anyone.
* During the whole "Monster Mash" questline, you are tasked with collecting Spiderant parts, Rakk parts and Skag parts. But you never find out where Zed got the "other" parts for the Spycho, since the Rakk and Skag parts went into the Skrakks. Well, remember that Hyperion guy he was operating on when you first arrived in Sanctuary? The one who you melee'd to death by accident and acted a lot like a psycho...
* Digistruction:
** All of the enemies on the Digistruct Peak are, naturally, digistructed. Including all of the organic ones. Given what we saw when putting vehicles in the Digistruct system, where did Tannis get all of that Digistruct data? It also raises questions about [[BodyHorror what did the organic creatures' "dismantling" look like]].
** Every time you respawn or teleport via fast travel stations, that's probably happening to you, too.
** At the tail end of the main game's "Monster Mash" quest, you have to kill monsters created by Dr. Zed after you bring him parts of Spiderants, Rakk and Skag. This resulted in [[MixAndMatchCritter Skrakk (skag/rakk hybrids)]], and [[BodyHorror Spycho, spiderant/psycho hybrid]]. Watch their bodies when they die. They dissipate into digistruct particles. This means that there's more to digistruct technology than just building vehicles and guns and New-U.
** One of the New-U station quotes implies that digistruct data can be corrupted, resulting in extra limbs and other kind of BodyHorror.
* Some of Tannis' ECHO logs from the ColdBloodedTorture she endured mention "ceiling chairs" that she [[CompanionCube developed an emotional attachment to]]. What the hell is a "[[NoodleImplements ceiling chair]]"? The logs say Jack was able to grab and shred them, so they probably weren't chairs literally stuck to the ceiling. It's quite possible that Tannis was being held ''upside-down''. All the blood rushing to her head would not have been good for her already-tenuous grip on reality.
* Want to make Bloodwing's death even worse? Take a closer look at [[ExplosiveLeash her collar]] when you go for that Claptrap upgrade chip. [[DeadMansSwitch Notice that little button that chip was covering up before you took it away?]] No, player. Handsome Jack ''wasn't'' the one that detonated Blood's bomb collar. [[YouMonster YOU were]]. Because Handsome Jack loves [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating Vault Hunters into hurting themselves and each other]], almost as much as he loves [[IShallTauntYou rubbing their faces in it afterward]].
* In ''Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage'', Tina asks you to get an autograph from Sully the Stabber, her third favorite mass-murderer. After being rejected, Tina asks you to kill him violently and bring her his head instead. At the end of the quest, she says that her all time favorite mass-murderer is you. The implications point to it being a ''very'' bad idea to get on Tina's bad side.
* Combine Maya being asexual, Brother Sophis being older than her and apparently once having a dynamic where he used to call her "child", and the fact that they were involved, and it certainly seems like you've got an older man taking advantage of his younger queer mentee. Like he wasn't bad enough already.
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Actual questions or theories should go on [[Headscratchers/{{Borderlands 2}} Headscratchers]] or [[WMG/{{Borderlands 2}} WMG]], respectively.
* Once again, the New-U stations bring up some questions, especially since your enemy, Hyperion, is the corporation in charge of the damn things.
* The opening sequence shows Axton's Sabre turret almost fully upgraded, including the magnetic upgrade that allowed him to deploy the turret to the ceiling. He also had a really sweet looking Maliwan Rocket Launcher. The opening is only designed to show off what each character can do, but it is a bit disappointing to see what the sabre turret starts off as when you've already seen what it can become. The train exploding is reason enough to explain how he loses his rocket launcher (and Salvador his own guns), but Axton stole the sabre turret, and he obviously still has it afterward, so where'd all the upgrades go raises a lot of questions.
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