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* KarmaHoudini: She manages to escape the Vault Hunters after they [[spoiler:kill Roscoe]], and [[spoiler:according to Grandma Flexington, she's still going around robbing and killing people.]]

* EliteMook: ''[[UpToEleven Every single one of them]]''. Make no mistake, these are not the unorganised, white-rarity gun using meat shields like Bandits or Loaders. Every one of them is not only quite sturdy and have specialised roles that make dealing with them a pain, almost all of their rank and file carry ''E-Tech guns''. In short, be prepared for a fight when you encounter a squadron, because these people will ''bring one''.
* EvilGloating: Often taunts you how you lost Sanctuary.

* PaletteSwap: They're reskins of the Lost Legion soldiers from ''The Pre-Sequel''. Considering how they were formed, this could not have been more fitting.

* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Subverted with Sparky, who is the only Flynt encountered so far whose name isn't also a title.

* {{Foil}}: To Handsome Jack's Grandmother. While Jack's Grandmother was an abusive, bitter hag that turned him into the bloodthirsty tyrant that terrorized Pandora, Grandma Flexington is a musclebound yet sweet old lady who raised Torgue as best she could and he still turned out okay. Well as close to okay as you can get in the universe of Borderlands.

* PaletteSwap: They're reskins of the Lost Legion soldiers from the Pre-Sequel. Considering how they were formed, this could not have been more fitting.

* ShootTheMedicFirst: They have medics that can heal other teammates.

* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Most of his ECHO calls are him gloating about how ''easy'' it was to take Sanctuary and mocking your military tactics. It makes just about ''everyone'' hate him.

[[folder: TK Baha's Bloody Harvest]]

[[folder: The Horrible Hunger of the Ravenous Wattle Gobbler]]

[[folder: How Marcus Saved Mercenary Day]]

[[folder: Mad Moxxi and the Wedding Day Massacre]]

[[folder: Sir Hammerlock vs. The Son of Crawmerax]]

[[folder: Commander Lilith and the Fight for Sanctuary]]

* BackFromTheDead: Wants to do this for Handsome Jack through cloning. Specifically, he wishes to create an army of Eridium-enhanced Jacks. [[spoiler:At the very least, he successfully created an AI of Jack stored within his ID drive.]]

* CardCarryingVillain: Tries to act like a stereotypical Borderlands Villain, but this quickly falls apart the moment you actually start messing up his plans and plowing through his men and monsters. By the end of it he realizes just how in over his head he was, to the point that ''Hammerlock'' was giving him pointers on how to be an effective villain (which he ignores due to the panic).
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The Handsome Jack AI that he built in ''Pre-Sequel'' will eventually plays a bigger role in ''Tales''.]]

* RememberTheNewGuy: Parodied - when Nakayama assumes the Vault Hunters are after his "power" on Aegrus, Hammerlock bluntly tells him they were on a hunting expedition, and didn't know him. When Nakayama sputters [[SayMyName his name]], [[RedBaron his nickname]], [[OffscreenVillainy the fact he poisoned Atlas' CEO]], and [[InformedAttribute how people are "terrified" of him]], it ''still'' doesn't ring any bells for Hammerlock or the Vault Hunters, causing Nakayama to hang up in exasperation.

* StalkerWithACrush: Although Handsome Jack's handsomeness is something of a running gag, Nakayama goes into enough detail to sound like a smitten teenage girl in the ECHO recording he made about meeting Jack in person. Even though Jack threatened to strangle him for making eye-contact. All the safes containing Jack's DNA samples also contain ''framed photographs''. Also, just how ''did'' Nakayama get those DNA samples...?
** The Pre-Sequel shows that Nakayama was obsessed with Jack even before he became Handsome Jack. His sidequests are all about him attempting to show Jack his affections for him in various creepy ways.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: While he only appears in a DLC in the second game as well a side quest in ''Pre-Sequel'', his actions in both games plays a major role in ''Tales'', namely [[spoiler:creating an AI of Handsome Jack as part of the latter's resurrection]].

** HypocrisyNod: ''Egg On Your Face'' has him try to paint the Vault Hunter's motives for collecting the eggs as mysterious and amoral before admitting that one possibility is that he paid them to.

* LivingStatue: [[spoiler:In ''Tales from the Borderlands'', it's revealed that Butt Stallion [[AngstComa 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, 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.]]

* SolidGoldPoop: [[spoiler: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.

* BerserkButton: In this case, [[spoiler:''he's'' the BerserkButton for all the dwarves.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: Destroying the Weird-Ass Magic Globe will turn him from hostile to friendly. [[spoiler:For all of five seconds, until he remembers Ragnar]].

** Kind of subverted: she considers bragging about killing children to be distasteful. [[WouldHurtAChild Not the act itself]], just bragging about it.

* {{Heel}}: Piston has all the trappings of a classic pro wrestling heel. He cheats, betrays, and is an arrogant, cowardly blowhard. The crowd knows it and hates him for it, which Torgue doesn't mind [[LoveToHate because it helps the ratings]].

* JerkAss: His favourite pastime, it seems, is to verbally bully and be cruel to you/your friends ''in everything he says.''

** More than that, he constantly name drops various references to Franchise/FinalFantasy. To paraphase some of his lines:

* HeroWithAnFInGood: He's a good guy who wants to do good things and help Pandora, but GoodIsBoring and [[StuffBlowingUp explosions are awesome]] so all that "good" stuff can wait (thankfully his shareholders keep him from doing anything ''too'' destructive).

* HiddenDepths: Contrary to his [[TestosteronePoisoning image]], Torgue actually considers being nice to women the epitome of badassitude. He's also surprisingly eco-friendly, not allowing littering in the Badass Crater of Badassitude (the debate of how eco-friendly blowing sh*t up is is left for more inquiring minds). He also seems to like kids, as he instantly bonds with Tiny Tina when she interrupts him while he's interviewing Moxxi. Also, he likes chocolate chip cookies. So much that the only two things the food dispensers provide are cookies and bacon.

* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Mister Torgue is his actual first name. See WhoNamesTheirKidDude below, and AwesomeMcCoolname above.

* IncompetenceInc: He runs it. Despite being a weapons manufacturer, Torgue's company seems to spend all of it's money on explosions and fighting rather than, y'know, ''[[UpToEleven anything company relevant.]]'' However, this might just be Torgue's poor management skills as President Smith has next to no tolerance for his shenanigans, [[spoiler:eventually firing him for ruining their Thanksgiving publicity stunt]].

* InsaneTrollLogic: In the Wattle Gobbler DLC, when President Smith tells him that the reason that the competition was rigged was [[spoiler:so Torgue himself could kill it and be a hero]], he answered back with this.

** His solution to a batch of poisoned beer is to have you kill the people who bought the beer. That way, they wouldn't die...oh.

** However, the Wattle Gobbler DLC shows that the actual president of the Torgue Corporation is Anton Smith and Torgue is simply a spokesperson they kept on, having sold it for $12 and a high-five. [[spoiler:By the end of the DLC, Smith fires Torgue for screwing up what was meant to be a publicity stunt (as well as just having enough of his bullshit).]]

* MathematiciansAnswer: Frequent.

* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Once tried to destroy an inhabited planet, while he and his shareholders were on it. His shareholders managed to talk him out of it.

* PointyHairedBoss: Enters several of his own employees in the tournament. According to him, he's lost at least half of his workforce in three days because of this. His opinion on the possibility of the entire workforce in the Badass Crater of Badassitude starving in a few months is "THAT IS F*CKING AWESOME". Unlike Handsome Jack however, he isn't cruel so much as simply short-sighted.

* PsychopathicManchild: It's [[DownplayedTrope played down]], but still, he writes everything in crayon and eats almost nothing but cookies, and then there's his love of kittens, overall childishness, the list goes on.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Inverted. He is more of a jerk in Pre-Sequel, what with how he's obsessed to destroying laser weapons and at one point strong-arms the Elpis Vault Hunters into destroying one, and praising Claptrap sometime in the past (revealed in [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind Claptrap's mind]]) after Claptrap accidentally blew up a stadium, which set before Borderlands 2.
* UndyingLoyalty: He considers the Vault Hunters his only friends, and is always helping them out whenever he can.

** IAmNotLeftHanded: It's strongly implied that even with him as Pyrocaustic Pete, he's been holding back the entire time: Unlike Motor Momma, Flyboy, and Piston his name is not replaced with DEAD on the leaderboards when you beat him as Pyro Pete or Pyrocaustic Pete, and it's regularly announced in his area that he reduced a planet to ash. It's all just him maintaining the {{Kayfabe}}.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In-game files indicate that like Pyro Pete, [[TookALevelInBadass she would have become a Raid Boss after beating the main story]].

* See [[Characters/BorderlandsVaultHunters The Vault Hunters]]

* See [[Characters/BorderlandsVaultHunters The Vault Hunters]]

* BiTheWay: Scarlett is [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer yet another woman]] of the Borderlands who may ask you if Moxxi's said anything about them as random dialogue by talking to them.

* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:Once you defeat Roscoe, she encourages you to proceed to the treasure yourself and says that you'll meet her again]].

* KarmaHoudini: She manages to escape the Vault Hunters after they [[spoiler:kill Roscoe]].
** [[spoiler:According to Grandma Flexington, she's still going around robbing and killing people.]]

* TheUnfought: She doesn't fight you directly, [[spoiler:instead riding upon Roscoe as she sics him on you.]]

* BadBoss: He was renowned as a pirate of great ruthlessness. In truth...
** AFatherToHisMen: He cared deeply for his men, [[spoiler:and simply kept up the ruse to keep them in line. When a crew member of his was caught stealing from him, Blade not only faked his execution but also gave him enough money to live comfortably. When they find out, they attack him, and he feels he can't bring himself to fight back. But then he does anyway]].

* AllThereInTheManual: There's a lot of stuff in the [[http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/13gsxi/iama_mister_torgue_and_will_answer/ AmA]] on Reddit that you don't learn in-game.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: As noted above and under WhoNamesTheirKidDude, his legal name is "Mister Torgue High-Five Flexington".

** In the Pre-Sequel, he hates laser weapons because they're not explosive. During a mission where you get a light reactor for Janey Springs, he offers to give you a Torgue gun if you drop it into lava instead. Janey thinks his offer is a bit excessive, but she likes his enthusiasm. Later on, at the end of a mission to test out a laser prototype for Janey, he'll have you drop the laser next to a beacon, and then [[spoiler:crash a spaceship loaded with fifty tons of high explosive into it.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: At some point between the Dragon Keep and Wattle Gobbler [=DLCs=], he's acknowledged that yes, badasses can cry too.
** Also between the Pre-Sequel and Borderlands 2. In TPS after being turned down for a date by Janey, he complains of being "friend-zoned". Present day Torgue (who is apparently [[FramingDevice listening in on Athena tell the story]]) cuts in to point out that he was younger then, and now realizes that the friend-zone is a sexist concept.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His intro in his starring [=DLC=] pretty much sums up what kind of person he is.

* {{Foil}}: To Handsome Jack. Where Jack is smooth, cultured, arrogant, cruel, well-dressed, and tries to build a perfectly-ordered world enforced by fascist policies of mass execution, intimidation, and terror, Mr. Torgue is friendly, kind, anarchic, loud, crude, childish, and focused on destruction.

-->'''Douchebag NPC:''' I'm sorry! I'll never say anything douchey ever again! [{{Beat}}] Bitch!\\

-->'''Torgue:''' THE VAULT HUNTER JUST DEFEATED THE NUMBER THREE BADASS ON PANDORA, GOING FROM NUMBER FOUR ON THE LEADERBOARD TO NUMBER THREE. THIS IS ONE NUMBER HIGHER THAN FOUR.\\

-->'''Torgue:''' WITH A NAPKIN AND A SPOON LIKE A F*CKING GENTLEMAN.[[note]]For the record, the actual answer included: "WHILE HIGH-FIVING A CLASSY LADY."[[/note]]

-->'''Torgue:''' IS IT JUST ME, OR DOES THIS GUY SEEM LIKE HE'S GONNA BETRAY THE F*CK OUTTA YOU?

-->'''Torgue:''' PLOT TWIST.

--> '''Torgue:''' ''WHAT DO YOU THINK NEW-U STATIONS ARE FOR?''

-->'''Torgue''': Wow, that quest was dark and ironic, a true look into the duplicitous of interpersonal relationships. NOW GET BACK HERE SO YOU CAN EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT THE HELL I JUST SAID.

--> '''Salvador''': That was a ''fuuuuun'' weekend!

* VillainExitStageLeft: She just disappears [[spoiler: after you defeat Roscoe. She encourages you to kill the Leviathan right afterwards, but after that she is nowhere to be found]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Quite literally, actually, when you [[spoiler: shoot the lock off of the chest which he keeps the fourth compass piece in and end up breaking the piece in the process.]] Fortunately, he can make a new one.

** In the Pre-Sequel, he hates laser weapons because they're not explosive. During a mission where you get a light reactor for Janey Springs, he offers to give you a Torgue gun if you drop it into lava instead. Janey thinks his offer is a bit excessive, but she likes his enthusiasm. Later on, at the end of a mission to test out a laser prototype for Janey, he'll have you drop the laser next to a beacon, and then [[spoiler: crash a spaceship loaded with fifty tons of high explosive into it.]]

* DumbMuscle: He's incredibly ripped and packs a [[DamnedByFaintPraise decent]] punch [[spoiler: outside of his blimp or the Badassasaurus Rex]]. He also claims [[ArtisticLicenseBiology He has ''thirteen'' Pecs]] while mocking the Vault Hunters, and by the sound of his voice ''believes it''.

* BigBadWannabe: Although the legitimate BigBad of Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt, the game mercilessly treats him as one, making him an UnknownRival to the Vault Hunters, and who only go after him when Hammerlock deduces [[FelonyMisdemeanor killing him is the only way to shut him up.]] [[spoiler: And on top of all that, [[TheUnfought he dies by falling down some stairs before you actually get to fight him]].]] He probably gives ''[[TheChewToy General Knoxx]]'' a run for the money in the ButtMonkey department. When the Vault Hunters actually decide to go after him, he quickly realizes that he's in over his head and completely unprepared to deal with you.

* GeniusDitz: According to ''The Pre-Sequel'', he actually has a degree in horticulture, and lied about being a geneticist just to get hired by Hyperion. However, he shows at least some skill in creating genetic abominations [[spoiler: (though not always to scale, as he once created a FunSize version of The Destroyer)]], and was somehow able to [[spoiler: create a VirtualGhost of Jack.]]

* YouBastard: Gives this vibe [[{{Anvilicious}} throughout his quests]]. One involves luring a borok called "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Der Monstrositat]]", while he muses "[[HumansAreTheRealMonsters but who is the real monster?]]". Another has you collect [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Drifter eggs]], [[spoiler: [[ShootTheDog and then murder their mother]]. And no, it's not in self-defense, like the way Dietmar's commentary sets it up: [[CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption you have to go out of your way to find and kill]] [[MamaBear Arizona]].]] And all the while, he describes you as [[LackOfEmpathy cold, ruthless, and indifferent to the suffering of the creatures you encounter.]]

** The mission where he's introduced also implies that [[spoiler: Tina wrote him to be Roland's character, only taking GM control of him since he was "late"]]

* ExtremeOmnivore: She eats [[spoiler: Eridium]], both to [[spoiler: restore light to the world ''and'' to crap out loot]].

* LivingStatue: [[spoiler: In ''Tales from the Borderlands'', it's revealed that Butt Stallion [[AngstComa 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, 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.]]

** [[spoiler: 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!]]

* BerserkButton: In this case, [[spoiler: ''he's'' the BerserkButton for all the dwarves.]]
* TheGoodKing: The rest of the dwarves are deeply loyal to him, believing he will save them from the Sorcerer. [[spoiler: Which makes them really, really ''angry'' when Brick kills him.]]

* LudicrousGibs: [[spoiler: When Brick punches him, he rolls a natural 20. Ragnar explodes in a shower of gore.]]

* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: Barely gets in a couple of sentences before Brick explodes him.]]

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: He's loyal to the Sorcerer only because of the Weird-Ass Magic Globe. [[spoiler: Once you destroy it, he calms down. Then he remembers you killed Ragnar.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: Destroying the Weird-Ass Magic Globe will turn him from hostile to friendly. [[spoiler: For all of five seconds, until he remembers Ragnar]].

* YouBastard: Gives this vibe [[{{Anvilicious}} throughout his quests]]. One involves luring a borok called "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Der Monstrositat]]", while he muses "[[HumansAreTheRealMonsters but who is the real monster?]]". Another has you collect [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Drifter eggs]], [[spoiler: [[ShootTheDog and then murder their mother]]. And no, [[TheDogShotFirst it's not in self-defense]], like the way Dietmar's commentary sets it up: [[CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption you have to go out of your way to find and kill]] [[MamaBear Arizona]].]] And all the while, he describes you as [[LackOfEmpathy cold, ruthless, and indifferent to the suffering of the creatures you encounter.]]

* PaletteSwap: They're reskins of the Lost Legion soldiers from the Pre-Sequel.

!!The Bad Guy

!!Your New Bandit Bro!
The leader of "Helios Helions", a bandit clan that resides in The Backburner whose base was used by the Crimson Raiders as a temporary base after Colonel Hector takes over Sanctuary. For more info about his past history, see ''Characters/TalesFromTheBorderlands''.

!!Ivy League

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Characters from ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}''.

* [[Characters/{{Borderlands}} Characters from the first game]]
* [[Characters/BorderlandsThePreSequel Characters from the Pre-Sequel!]]
* [[Characters/TalesFromTheBorderlands Characters from Tales From the Borderlands]]
* [[Characters/BorderlandsVaultHunters The Vault Hunters]]
* [[Characters/Borderlands2SupportingCharacters Borderlands 2 Supporting Characters]]
* [[Characters/Borderlands2Enemies Borderlands 2 Enemies]]
* [[Characters/BorderlandsWeaponBrands Borderlands Weapon Manufacturers]]

!!The New Pandora Army/Scrab 191

!Colonel Hector
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Bad Guy]]
The leader of the New Pandora faction.

* {{Foil}}: To Handsome Jack's Grandmother. While Jack's Grandmother was an abusive, bitter hag that turned him into the bloodthirsty tyrant that terrorized Pandora, Grandma Flexington is musclebound yet sweet old lady who raised Torgue as best she could and he still turned out okay. Well as close to okay as you can get in the universe of Borderlands.

* AbusiveParents: Evidently Mr. Torgue had a rough childhood. During the Bar Brawl at Pete's Bar, he'll make a mention of an alcoholic father.

-->'''Torgue''': Wow, that quest was dark as HELL, a true look into the duplicitous of interpersonal relationships. NOW GET BACK HERE SO YOU CAN EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT THE F*CK I JUST SAID.

* LivingStatue: [[spoiler: 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, 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.]]

!!The Bad Guy