Spoilers Off for games prior to Borderlands 3 as well as for spoiler characters that are marked as such. Proceed with caution. You Have Been Warned.
Playable Vault Hunters: Borderlands | Borderlands 2 (Krieg) | The Pre-Sequel (Claptrap) | Borderlands 3
Supporting Characters: Borderlands | Borderlands 2 (Tiny Tina's Assault On Dragon Keep DLC) | The Pre-Sequel | Borderlands 3
Spinoffs and other media: Tales from the Borderlands | Tiny Tina's Wonderlands | New Tales from the Borderlands | Other media
Weapon Brands: Atlas | Dahl | Hyperion (Handsome Jack) | Maliwan | Jakobs | Torgue | Tediore | Other Weapon Brands
Other: Bandits and Bandit Factions (Children of the Vault) | Hodunk and Zaford Clans | Creatures (Eridians and Vault Monsters) | Raid Bosses
For the Handsome Sorcerer, check Jack's own page.
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The White Knight
Roland
Voiced by: Markus Lloyd
The supposed protagonist of Tina's campaign. He is a fantasized version of Roland as a White Knight, beloved by the people of Flamerock. He goes to save the Queen alongside the player.
- Back from the Dead: While the real Roland died recently, he comes back here as a part of Tiny Tina's roleplay game. However it turns out that he is only a character she plays. Lilith and Mordecai try to reason Tina about Roland's death and how she has to accept it, until the end where she breaks down and explain that she is well aware but just want to imagine him alive just for the time of her game. Lilith and Mordecai admits that they miss him too and allow her to finish her story.
- Big Good: Of Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep.
- The Comically Serious: He speaks in Jive Turkey slang while still possessing Roland's stoic and unemotional tone of voice.
- Deus ex Machina:
- Tina generally spawns him at random as back-up for the players, which bugs Lilith since not only does it not make any sense it's also a sign that Tina is in serious denial of Roland's death.
- Additionally, his death is averted by the arrival of Bloodwing, as a tribute to the dead real Bloodwing, as "a miracle."
- GMPC:
- He more or less serves this role, often appearing alongside the players just because Tina says so and is clearly intended by Tina to be the hero of the story. However, his presence in the game is mostly for Tina to cope with the death of the real Roland and to give him a better fate than his ignoble death at the hand of Jack.
- The mission where he's introduced also implies that Tina wrote him to be Roland's character, only taking GM control of him since he was "late".
- Flat Character: Other than being The Hero, he doesn't have much depth or characterization, not like his role would require any.
- The Hero: Much like his real counterpart, though he's a much more idealized version.
- Imaginary Friend: Sort of, being an imaginary character who serves as the Big Good of Tiny Tina's fantasies.
- Jive Turkey: Since Tina's the one behind his dialogues, this Roland speaks in the same slang that she does, albeit much more awkwardly.Mordecai: Roland doesn't talk like that.
Tina: He does when I'm voicing him girl.
Roland: Yes. For shizzle. - Knight in Shining Armor: His role in the story, due to Tina's adoration of his real-life counterpart.
- The Mourning After: He serves as a coping mechanism for Tiny Tina, who has trouble accepting that Roland won't come back.
- Never Heard That One Before: Evidently, being asked why he's the White Knight is not a new thing for him. He warns you that asking is an invitation for him to punch you in the throat.
- Non P.O.V. Protagonist: The Vault Hunter is not the main character of Tina's campaign as they are a secondary character from her perspective, having barely any lines or relevance in the story despite accomplishing most of Roland's job.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In-universe, Jack fails to kill him (and Bloodwing as well) meaning he gets to live on...in the imagination of his friends.
- Wish-Fulfillment: He is this to Tina, as she imagines Roland being still alive. Naturally, she has to learn to let it go.
King Ragnar
Ragnar the Emancipator
Voiced by: Kent Williams
King of the dwarves and leader of their resistance against the Handsome Sorcerer. He wants to ally with the Vault Hunters so his army of dwarves can destroy the Sorcerer and free his people.- Berserk Button: In this case, he's the Berserk Button for all the dwarves, Brick killing him makes all the other dwarves to be hostile at the Vault Hunters.
- The Good King: The rest of the dwarves are deeply loyal to him, believing he will save them from the Sorcerer. Which makes them really, really angry when Brick kills him.
- La Résistance: Head of the dwarves still fighting for freedom.
- Ludicrous Gibs: When Brick punches him, he rolls a natural 20. Ragnar explodes in a shower of gore.
- The Magnificent: If nothing, The Emancipator is a much nicer title than others.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: See above. The dwarves love him for a reason.
- Universally Beloved Leader: He is beloved by all of his men, to the point where killing him causes a witch hunt against the Vault Hunter from the dwarves.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Barely gets in a couple of sentences before Brick explodes him.
Greedtooth
Greedtooth
Voiced by: Robert McCollum
The other dwarven leader in the Mines of Avarice, Greedtooth is a vicious, angry dwarf who is allied with the Sorcerer, and guards the last rune for the dwarven passphrase.- Brainwashed and Crazy: He's loyal to the Sorcerer only because of the Weird-Ass Magic Globe. Once you destroy it, he calms down. Then he remembers you killed Ragnar.
- Convection, Schmonvection: He leaps into a river of lava to reach the Gold Golem, and the entire battlefield is on a lake of magma just a few inches below the rocky surface.
- The Dragon: One of several of the Handsome Sorcerer's most powerful minions.
- Heel–Face Turn: Destroying the Weird-Ass Magic Globe will turn him from hostile to friendly. For all of five seconds, until he remembers Ragnar being killed by Brick.
- Humongous Mecha: The Gold Golem is a massive war machine that he pilots.
- Made of Iron: He takes an enormous beating to bring down (his exposed piloting position is the Gold Golem's weakpoint) and he happily immerses himself in magma to reach the Golem in the first place.
- Mind-Control Device: The "Weird-Ass Magic Glob" that's floating around during the fight with him. Tina recommends destroying it. He still wants to kill you afterwards, but now he's doing it of his own free will.
The Sorcerer's Daughter
The Sorcerer's Daughter
Voiced by: Jennifer Greene
The daughter of the Handsome Sorcerer who guard the dungeon her her father's castle and antagonize the hero(es). She is an imaginary version of Angel.- Adaptational Villainy: Due to Tiny Tina blaming Angel for Roland's death and her past complicity with Jack, she paints her as a monster who is fully on her father's side and even attempt to kill Roland.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Once she is freed, she shapeshift into a mobstruous spider from below the waist, and summons a clutter of spiders to assist her in her fight.
- Daddy's Little Villain: She is this to the Handsome Sorcerer, if not even scarier than him.
- Demonization: Again, Tiny Tina's portrayal of Angel as a monster is less than fair. Lilith tries to argue that the Sorcerer's Daughter may not have been so bad but Tina doesn't listen.
The Queen (Spoiler Unmarked)
Butt Stallion
Jack's diamond pony that he bought at the beginning of 2 and the Living MacGuffin of Tina's campaign, who you need to find in order to undo the Handsome Sorcerer's curse and bring light back to the world. Has also a role in the post-game of Commander Lilith and the Fight for Sanctuary.
- Angst Coma: The real Butt Stallion went into this after Jack's death, becoming little more than a statue on Helios. She is still very much alive, as Fiona discovers to her horror if she shoots her.
- Ascended Extra: She was first mentioned in a throwaway line meant to demonstrate Jack's Conspicuous Consumption. She later made a physical appearance in the Dragon Keep DLC as well as other games around the BL 2 timeline.
- Big Good: She's pretty much the only thing that can bring the light back into the corrupted world of Assault on Dragon’s Keep. Also serves this role in Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
- Brick Joke: From an ad-libbed comment from Handsome Jack from the very beginning of the game to making an actual appearance.
- Cool Horse: Made of diamonds, naturally.
- Expy: She looks a lot like Rarity from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Except Butt Stallion doesn't speak. This is very much intentional.
- Extreme Omnivore: She eats Eridium, both to restore light to the world and to crap out loot.
- Gender-Blender Name: She's a Mare, not a Stallion.
- Living Statue:
- In Tales from the Borderlands, it's revealed that Butt Stallion self-petrified herself out of sadness after Handsome Jack died and was left on display in his office. After Helios's destruction, Vaughn and the survivors recover her and care for her as best they can.
- In the Fight for Sanctuary DLC of the second game, Butt Stallion is rescued from New Pandora soldiers by the Vault Hunters, and Tiny Tina is able to snap her out of her petrification. As a show of gratitude, Vaughn leaves her in Tina's care.
- Solid Gold Poop:
- She leaves piles of diamonds as droppings early on in a trail. After you free her, she proceeds to prance around and literally crap out loot. After she's back in Flamerock Refuge, you can feed her Eridium to get loot from her. She also vomits rainbows.
- After being rescued in the Fight for Sanctuary DLC, Butt Stallion relocates to The Backburner and can be fed for loot in the same manner. Feeding her while wearing the Mysterious Amulet will make her barf up a special Effervescent-level shotgun that shoots exploding Butt Stallions!
- The Voiceless: She doesn't have any meaningful lines, due to being a horse.
- World's Most Beautiful Woman: Tina says that she's the "most beautiful queen in the history of forever" and gets distracted when thinking about the Queen's legs. The fact that Butt Stallion is a horse makes a lot of sense in hindsight. When the Vault Hunters finally see her they admit she's very beautiful.
