Famous Last Words / Borderlands

• Borderlands:
  • "You woke the wrong dog! Awww yeah!" Nine-Toes
  • "Stupid bounty hunter killed Sledge..." Sledge
  • "I never liked this shithole planet anyway..." Krom
  • "You'll regret this...somehow..." Baron Flynt
  • "Yes, the Key works! Soldier, get your men ready to go inside-" Crimson Lance Commandant Helga Steele, just before she and her soldiers get impaled by the Destroyer's tentacles
• The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned:
  • "Pray for me." Hank Reiss
  • "Hopefully I'll be able to last the night. At least there's a full moon to keep me company." Father Jackie O'Callahan
  • "Heh heh...its not over yet!" Dr. Ned Blanco, who gets zombified himself
• The Secret Armory of General Knoxx
  • "Chaz! I failed you Chaz!" Mr Shank
  • "Tell the Admiral...I hate him." Gen. Alphonso Knoxx
• Claptrap's New Robot Revolution
  • "It's finally over...I see a bright light...it's beautiful...beautiful...no, wait, that's just the sun. Shit." General Knoxx-Trap, first time
  • "You can't keep a dead doc down for long. Viva la Robolution!" Dr Ned-Trap
  • "Please...let me die with digni...tsk tsk tsk...ohh, check me out..." Commandant Steele-Trap, first time
  • "I heard that your life flashes before your eyes right before you die. What a load of crap...oh wait...okay, there it goes..." General Knoxx-Trap, second and final time
  • "NOOOOOOOO! Er, I mean, BUCKAAAAAAWW!" Clucktrap
  • "If it took more than one shot...you weren't using a Jakobs..." Marcus Kincaid, after being shot twice. He gets better.
• Borderlands 2:
  • "What the hell ARE you?" Poor bandit schmuck who got slashed by Zer0 on orders of some relative who lost someone
  • "He's dead." Key Crimson Raider member Helena Pierce, about her husband, just before Handsome Jack kills her and orders his top bodyguard Wilhelm to slaughter everyone on her train
  • "It's our new torture dolls, boys! Let's turn up the heat!" Captain Flynt, King of the Rippers
  • "A Vault Hunter? Heh, didn't think I rated that much of a rescue. One of those psychos ran off with the power core. Without it, Sanctuary'll be defenceless. [cough] Get that core back to Sanctuary. I'm just gonna take a quick nap. Wake me up when I'm not on Pandora anymore." Cpl. Reiss, who succumbs to his wounds after getting beat up by the Bloodshots
  • "I'M STARVING! I WANNA EAT YOUR BABIES!" Hyperion spy on Dr. Zed's operating table before passing out. He is later killed in "surgery" performed by the Vault Hunters.
  • "Keep your mitts off my toy! Finders keepers, losers DIE!" Doc Mercy, Dr. Zed's rival
  • "AHHHHH! THE BLOODSHOTS ARE KILLING US! AHHHH!" The owner of the Happy Pig Motel during a massacre
  • "I FEEL YOUR EMBRACE, FIREHAWK! I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Children of the Firehawk midget member Matchstick as he gets sacrificed to the Soaring Dragon
  • "I can see...the flames..." Children of the Firehawk leader Incinerator Clayton, after a cremation ritual gone awry
  • "I shoulda killed your fat ass when I had the chance!" Bandit Technical driver, before Ellie, the aforementioned "fat ass", crushes him with her grinder
  • "Bloodshots, what's going on? I'm hearing more gunfire than usual! I'm still waiting for a response from Hyperion! [static] Took you long enough! Alright, 20 bucks for Roland! That's my FINAL offer!" Flanksteak, leader of the Bloodshot clan, who got a "Request denied" reply from a loader. Needless to say, he got gunned down.
  • "GODDAMNED ROBOTS!" One of the Bloodshot marauders, right before he is thrown off the Bloodshot Ramparts
  • "Please - please, NO!" Another one of the Bloodshot marauders, right before he is blown to pieces by an EXP Loader
  • "Is that marshmallows and skag urine I smell?! Yummmmy! Come on in, dude!" Lee, one of the Splinter Group's members. Gets killed along with Dan and the rest
  • "We gonna shred you up!" Dan
  • "This shell moves like a whale with an eating disorder. Destroy it and help me find another. Also, die." Constructor #1340
  • "Thank you. I will now attempt to murder you." WAR Loader #1340
  • "Are your ears bleeding? Are you close to death? Is your suffering moving you to thoughts of suicide?" Radio #1340. Afterwards, he gets turned into either a gun or a shield, depending on your choices.
  • "You suck..." Will the Bandit's final words in his post-mortem ECHO recorder, right after his failed attempt to trap and kill you
  • "NO! I'm sorry I sold out your family! I'm SORRYYYYY-" Flesh-Stick, electrocuted to death after a "tea party" set up by Tiny Tina, the aforementioned parents' now orphaned daughter.
  • "Is this...pain?/Someone has made a mistake!/This is literally impossible!/My movement is impaired!" Wilhelm, who was placed in the Hyperion train allegedly carrying the Vault Key as an elaborate trap to unsuccessfully kill you
  • "That's not a power core! Raiders, the shields are down! The shields-" Lt. Davis, who gets blown up by the Hyperion power core which turned out to be a trojan horse for Angel to hack through and deactivate Sanctuary's shields
  • "Chapter - f...chapter fff... Henry ate my hands...she chewed them off in front of me and I swear to Jack...the spiky bitch laughed as she did it. Mom, I just don't know what to do... No! Get away, Henry! No, Henry! Get back! No! Mommy! Mommy! MOMMMMMMYYYYYY!" Eddy P. Taggart, Sir Hammerlock's old ex-boyfriend and renowned poacher
  • "Sure did, brother. Why don't you-" Mavis, Carson's brother/partner, just before getting killed by...
  • "The flats. Buried under a grave. So when do we bust outta here?" Carson himself, a thief who stole Mordecai's Underdome chest. Said before getting killed by...
  • "A Truxican standoff, eh? Fine." Gettle, Mavis' killer and Hyperion goon. Gets killed along with Mobley below after finding the chest
  • "DRAW!" Mobley, Carson's killer and dangerous small-time bandit
  • "Wasss that SSSCOOTER?! Why do you think I fled here?! It was the only place Sssssscooter would not follow me with his sssstupid advancessss! IF SSSSSCOOTER SENT YOU, YOU MUST DIE!" Laney White, Scooter's first girlfriend who got brainwashed into a rat at the Fridge. Alternatively:
  • "HISSSSSSSS! I CAN TASTE YOUR MUSK!" Laney, if she summons her seven midgets before then
  • "I'M ALIIIVE!" Shorty, midget bandit who defaced one of Scooter's Catch-A-Rides and got swallowed by a stalker named Sinkhole.
  • "Listen, you heartless bitch! My team has guns, your team has pickaxes! Move the ship or we'll move it for you! Security Officer Booth, signing o-" Dahl Mining Security Officer Elyse Booth, before being shot dead by...
  • "What do you mean they're fighting back?! Booth said they were as docile as bloody kittens! Give me that gun, you coward! Aim for the blue one! AIM FOR THE BLUE ONE!" Dahl Mining Supervisor Amelia Harchek
  • "Ba-dang-dang-doo...what are you doin' up here? Come to wish me luck when I set off those fireworks? Man, when those dudes drive by and are all NYROWWW and I hit the fireworks and it's like KABOOSH and the ladies are all like YEAAAH, it just never gets better than that! Except that one time I tied two cats together and used 'em like a skippin' rope. Blood and fur everywhere!" Hodunk pyrotech at his clan's Speedway
  • "Faith and begorah! They're after me money!" Peter "the Bagman" Zaford, who tempted fate one too many times
  • "We are here today to celebrate the life of Lucky Sleveen Zaford. Lucky was a good man. Kind of heart and noble of spirit, Lucky brought joy into the lives of everyone he met - the people he killed notwithstanding. Lucky loved the drink. He loved women. He loved LIFE. And on this day, let us not dwell only on Lucky's memory, but on the lowlife sister-humpers who took him from us. The disgusting, amoral progeny of the Hodunk clan known as Scooter. Mark my words, fellow Zafords - we shall defeat the Hodunks, and then, THEN we shall truly avenge Lucky!" Zaford preacher at the annual wake in the Holy Spirits Bar
  • "Paw says DIE!" Tector Hodunk, if you side with the Zafords
  • "You two-faced son of a slag! You won't live ta regret that!" Mick Zaford, if you canonically side with the Hodunks
  • "Yeah, I did it! I ain't sorry! Why don't you-" Barlo Gutter, Justin Macready's murderer, before Marshall Friedman executes him
  • "Karima, don't feel bad Jack fed yer husband to the grinder. Well, I'll bed ya, if ya asked nicely! Ahahahahahaha!" Dave, Karima's obnoxious and sexist neighbor, as his house gets blown to hell by a Hyperion mortar
  • "You know nothing! Child, you have SO much left to learn! You don't-" Brother Stephen Sophis, to Maya, just before she kills him
  • "Don't worry, honey, everything's gonna be okay!" Test Subject #524, aka Tina's father, who, like his wife, succumbs to Hyperion's slag experiments
  • "Just run! TINA! RUUUUUNNNN!" Test Subject #525, aka Tina's mother
  • "Wow. This is really...um, could you excuse me for a second? Thanks." Daisy, Scooter's second girlfriend who apparently shoots herself after hearing his poem
  • "THANK YOU!" Face McShooty
  • "Yeah, great job. We're all sooooo proud that you managed to kill off our friends and brothers. You're just sooo cool. This is totally not sarcasm." sarcastic Slab bandit; if you kill him, the Slab King/Brick will congratulate you on that
  • "King, he's usin' mortars again! He's using mortars-" random Slab bandit, just before getting blown up by just that
  • "Commencing dance protocols - ERROR. ERROR." Overseer, the constructor you hack to destroy a number of Jack statues. Didn't go well for him
  • "The Bane...Marcus..." Sanctuary bandit who got cursed with the aforementioned weapon
  • "I STILL HEAR IT! STILL!" McNally, second owner of the Bane, sitting on a bench
  • "Fine." Barrowman, one of Axton's torturers who got tricked into activating the latter's Sabre Turret
  • "That ain't no storage deck! What the HELL!" J-Dog, another one of Axton's torturers
  • "Had to get rid of it..." Gar, third owner of the Bane, after burying it in a shallow grave
  • "Rootin' tootin' lootin' son of a gun!" Mad Dog
  • "Howdy, partner." Nisha Kadam, the Sheriff of Lynchwood and Jack's girlfriend
  • "Nooooo. I am Jack and I am dead." Jack's Body Double, who turns out to be a random engineer who you kill to impersonate his voice and biometric ID
  • "Dad...I have to tell you something: You're an asshole." Angel
  • "She's dead. Jack just lost his only way to awaken the Warrior. We've got the Vault Key, but this isn't over yet. We've gotta find Jack and take him out. Lilith, take the Vault Key, to Tannis. I'm going after Jack. " Roland, just before an enraged Jack shoots him In the Back and easily subdues Lilith.
  • "It's a giant skag! Oh god, what does it want? WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT? AHHHHH!" Robb, just before getting killed by Dukino's mom, the aforementioned beast
  • "Look, given what we know about human consciousness, I can be certain of only one thing: I didn't steal the money. I know my own mind, and I know my mind didn't steal it. If I knew everyone else's minds I might be able to help you a bit more, but, sadly, I can only speak for myself. And I'm doing that now. Speaking, to say that I didn't steal the money!" Jim Kepler, who really did steal all the money for himself from his own heisting friends
  • "Slag you, freak!" Some other bandit schmuck who also got slashed by Zer0
  • "Pahaha – by the way your fruity ass talks, it sounds like you're PLENTY challenged! Ha!" Zeke, who, needless to say, ended up like the other two on this list
  • "Faithful listeners: I am going to save the galaxy! Armed with the Evil Smasher, given to me by the wise seer Marcus, I will head into the heart of Sawtooth Cauldron and cleanse it of evil. I always knew I was destined for greater things! I must go find my destiny, listeners. For justice! For glory! For Moxxi! CHAAAAAARGE!" Kai, ECHOnet celebrity who fell for Marcus' BS
  • "I want that Slab's head in my digestive tract!" Mortar, leader of the Sawteeth clan, vengeful for the destruction of his prized buzzard Boombringer
  • "I can leave! I finally found a way off this Jack-forsaken planet! TAKE ME! FREAKIN' TAAAAAAAKE MEEEEEEEEE-" Ulysses, goliath in a hurry to leave Pandora. Suicidal or just plain idiotic?
  • "This just in, Pandora - the bandit scum who killed Jack's daughter has just set the Old Haven orphanage ablaze, and-It's you! Die, bandit scum!" Hunter Hellquist, the propaganda-spewing radio host of the Hyperion Truth Network
  • "What a nice day. Just walkin' out in the sun, talkin' into my ECHO recorder, hoping skags don't ambush me, and break my gun into four separate parts before eating them-OH GOD! THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IS HAPPENING! AHHHHH!" Carlo the Bandit
  • "I may be a blind, crippled, widower, but that don't mean all's lost. Met some folks lookin' for the Vault - I did the "see you later" joke a couple times but they just didn't get it. Oh, and I found the old message I got from Hyperion a few years back. Hid it in a corner for safe keeping - aww, rakkspit. Bandits. Well, I'm sure this'll turn out alright." Teddy K. Baha, right befor getting killed and hanged upside down by psychos as depicted in the previous game
  • "Ghkk...please, please..." Mr. Moorin, who got strangled to death with a watch chain by Jack for speaking of his late wife
  • "You may have been able to scare the other directors into giving up their shares, but I know you. I know that beneath that ridiculous mask, you're still a hideous, pathetic little nobody." Harold Tassiter, previous president of Hyperion who gets strangled to death as revealed in The Pre-Sequel
  • "No, no, no...I can't die like this...not when I am so close...and not at the hands...of a FILTHY BANDIT! I could've saved this planet! I could've actually restored order! I wasn't supposed to die at the hands of a CHILD-KILLING PSYCHOPATH! YOU'RE a SAVAGE! YOU'RE a MANIAC! YOU ARE A BANDIT, AND I AM THE GODDAMN HERO! The Warrior was practically a GOD! How - HOW IN THE HELL HAVE YOU KILLED MY WARRIOR?!!?!!! You idiots! The Warrior could have brought peace to this planet! No more dangerous creatures! No more bandits! Pandora - IT COULD HAVE BEEN A PARADISE!" Handsome Jack, if you let him finish his Final Speech
• Commander Lilith and the Fight for Sanctuary: "NO!" Col. Hector, New Pandora commander, who is incinerated by Lilith along with the Vault Map - which got fused to him - and all of Sanctuary
• Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!
  • "People think robots can't feel pain, but we actually feel it in slow motion, with great intensity! This robot died in horrific agon—" The CL4P-TP unit that escorts you to Jack
  • "My aspirations!" Deadlift
  • "You're so getting murderized when you least expect it!" Maureen
  • "Alas - 'tis my Deirdre. Dead and departed. Well then, I shall join you, my love. Fear not — we shall enter the vast dark portal together! My wings beat towards you in the abyss!" Myron, after Maureen is killed
  • "I surrender!" The Merriff
  • "Skipper, noooooooo!" The Bosun
  • "I need...more...power... YAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH!" Cosmo Wishbone
  • "I can't - I can't- I c-can't— I'll k-kill you I'LL KILL YOU KILLLLLLLL" Felicity
  • "Jack, DON'T!" Gladstone Katoa
  • "Vault Hunter! Got a job for you! I- Ugh, God, it's stuffy in here. Lemme crack a window." Dr. Minte, before opening a window on a space station
  • "You must turn back. The power within the Vault will trigger a chain of events that—" Colonel Tungsteena Zarpedon
  • "TO THE LAST!" RK-5's pilot
• Tales from the Borderlands
  • "Oh! Now I wish you let me come with you." Shade, if Fiona doesn't let him come with her.
  • "I really really really really really really really really really really really... HATE YOU!" Bossanova
  • "Fiona... you always were my favorite..." Felix, if Fiona lets him die
  • "What? No!" Vasquez
  • "Catch a riiiiiide!" Scooter, who gives his life to save the ship Fiona and company are on by detaching and riding one of its overloaded rockets all the way to Pandora
  • "Please don't send me back there. It's not like they say. There's nothing...there's absolutely nothing there. Don't do this." The Handsome Jack AI
  • "You don't got the balls..." Finch, if you choose to kill him yourself
  • "Just stay out of my way!" Vallory
  • "This one's for Finch!" Kroger
• Borderlands 3
  • "Be...ready..." Maya
  • "So that's what cold...feels like..." Aurelia Hammerlock
  • "Ty... we were...so close..." Troy Calypso
  • "You gotta stop her..it's too late for me. Just promise me something: Don't...be...the last...Vault Hunters..." Typhon DeLeon, the first Vault Hunter and the Calypso twins' father, who dies of his injuries after a failed grenade suicide attack against Tyreen
  • "Mmmh...finally... Don't expect mercy, superfan. I'm not that kind of god." Tyreen Calypso, who merges with the Destroyer in an attempt to finish off the Crimson Raiders, but fails
  • "Run towards the fire... Sanctuary's yours, Ava. Be ready." Lilith, who flies into Elpis and gives her life closing down the Great Vault, saving Pandora and leaving a flaming Firehawk sign on it

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