History Characters / BorderlandsCreatures

* AIBreaker: Running to the arena's ledge somehow causes both Crawmerax and its mooks get stuck in an animation loop, making the fight much easier. However, moving your position can break them out of their animation lock, and since you're next to a cliff, you can easily get pushed over and fall to your death.

* FlunkyBoss: Crawmerax spawns a handful of unique and ''very annoying'' crabworms: the craw maggots, the green craw worms, and the armored craw worms. The former knock back players off of cliffs, while the latter spit globs of acid at said players. It's saying something when these guys are considered to be just as dangerous, if not, even more dangerous than Crawmerax itself.

* MarathonBoss: Cramerax is technically the first raid boss in the series, and while soloing this boss is possible, it's difficult to fight on foot unless you're exploiting the ledge.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Crawmerax is clad in purple everywhere, from its shell to its single eye. Crawmerax also happens to be the biggest and strongest boss in the game, and defeating this behemoth rewards you with a generous amount of Legendaries and a slightly better chance to get a Pearlescent, but such a task is easier said than done.

[[folder: Bullymongs]]
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Six-limbed ape-like creatures that most commonly inhabit the colder parts of Pandora.

* AtrociousAlias: Hammerlock thinks so anyway, so he sends you out on a mission to gather more information and refuse on them (mostly by killing them) so that he can find new more suitable names for them for his almanac. Whatever he comes up with is either generic or worse than the name Bullymong.
* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Four-armed alien yetis, given their tendency to be found in snowy environments. They also take on the "sasquatch" role when they show up in the Eridian Blight with a different coat color.
* BoulderBludgeon: Some of them have the habit of throwing rocks at you. Shooting a number of said rocks out of the air is a badass challenge.
** It’s not just limited to boulders either, Bullymongs can throw plenty of things in their environment, including [[CarFu cars]] and entire ''water towers'' uprooted from their support beams.
* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: Giant, multi-armed alien gorillas who live with their kin and have similar intelligence to earthly primates.
* KillerGorilla: They're massive and aggressive 4-armed gorilla-like alien animals.
* MakeThemRot: The aptly named Bullyrot, a type of Bullymong that uses corrosion.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Four arms, their primary method of movement and combat.
* TopHeavyGuy: They have four massive arms, but disproportionally small legs.

!! Knuckle Dragger
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The Bullymong who terrorizes Pandora's tundra, Claptrap has his eye ripped out and stolen by it, forcing the Vault Hunters to chase after it.

* CarFu: It makes its introduction by lifting a wrecked car up, tossing it down to explode below it and landing in the smog to challenge the Vault Hunters.
* InfinityMinusOneSword: Its got a rare chance to drop the Hornet, a Legendary Dahl pistol with heavy corrosive damage and a fast burst-fire. With pistol ammo being pretty common and strong weapons being in short supply for the first few areas of the game, the Hornet will literally melt through the competition until it’s outleveled or outdone by another Legendary down the line.
* KingMook: One of these for Bullymongs, and the first of the adult Bullymongs encountered (before this fight, all that were fought were juveniles).
* RareRandomDrop: Has a chance to drop the Dahl Hornet, a corrosive burst-firing pistol.
* WarmUpBoss: Knuckle Dragger serves as what is essentially the tutorial's boss battle before dumping the players into the fray. Its got easy tells to its attacks, a generous but manageable amount of HP, and is uncomplicated as far as boss battles go, being a straight battle of shooting it until it’s dead while back pedaling.

!! King Mong
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A massive Bullymong that roams the Eridium Blight near the entrance to the Arid Nexus Boneyard.

* MightyGlacier: Blue moves like molasses, but it can soak up damage well, even if they're critical hits, and its attacks hit ''hard''.
* KingMook: Aside from being utterly huge and blue, it's almost exactly the same as other Crystalisks. Even its color and crystals give it a glacier-like appearance, making this massive Crystalisk an almost literal version of this trope.

* MarathonBoss: Since Vermivorous is a raid boss, she has enough health to make a fight last for around several minutes unless you used the cheese kills above.

* KingMook: Aside from being utterly huge and blue, it's almost exactly the same as other Crystalisks.

* MarathonBoss: Voracidous is one of the several raid bosses throughout the game.

* MarathonBoss: Since Terramorphous is a raid boss, he has tons of health and dangerous attacks. Hope you got some strong weapons and enough ammo to take him down, most preferably with a friend.

* BatOutOfHell: Less dangerous and more pesky than other examples, but Rakks are still hostile bat-like creatures. Then again, some can be incredibly dangerous, such as Mothrakk.

* LightningBruiser: Mothrakk has tons of health, immunity against elemental DamageOverTime, has enough speed to catch up with your vehicle, and melt your health with her fireballs. To make matters worse, not only is she harder to hit thanks to being high up in the sky, she doesn't have a weak spot to exploit. Then again, you can melt her health with strong [[StuffBlowingUp Explosive weapons]], such as the Atlas Ogre or Torgue Cobra.

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* EldritchAbomination: One of the most alien looking ''Borderlands'' creatures yet.

* LightningBruiser: On top of being physically powerful enough to eat through vehicles in seconds, they're deceptively faster than they look.

* AsteroidsMonster: Almost literally. Killing off larger Kraggons will spawn two more weaker ones.

* TheSwarm: The aptly named Ratch swarm; a swarm of flying Ratch around the size of insects.

Massive, solitary types Saurians and the species' equivalent to the TyrannosaurusRex.

* EliteMook: The strongest of the Saurians, uncommonly found and thankfully they're never in packs.

* LightningBruiser: On top of being physically powerful to eat through vehicles in seconds, they're deceptively faster than they look.

* BonusBoss: There's no real need to fight her, and there's no quests attached to her at all, making her battle something you'd likely go out of your own way to do an experience.

* AtrociousAlias: Hammerlock thinks so anyway, so he sends you out on a mission to gather more information on the (Mostly by killing them) so that he can find new names for them. Whatever he comes up with is either generic or worse than the name Bullymong.

** The smaller Spiderants are so weak that this is negligible, but their variants such as the King and Queen are very hard to bring down with out going for the thorax.

* BatOuttaHell: Less dangerous and more pesky than other examples, but Rakks are still hostile bat-like creatures. Then again, some can be incredibly dangerous, such as Mothrakk.

* MercyKill: Scooter mentioned thought about it. Thankfully it didn't happened.

* RareRandomDrop: It's got a rare chance to drop Whitting's Elephant Gun, a scopeless sniper rifle made by Jakobs, if you aren't satisfied from the one you get as a mission reward.
* ShoutOut: Its name and breath attack is an unsubtle reference to Godzilla himself.

* MamaBear: Utterly defied - she's trying to eat her offspring, and presumably has done it before given her appetite.
* OffingTheOffspring: Attempted by her until she's slain.

* ShoutOut: Another reference to the Godzilla franchise, named and designed after the giant butterfly Kaiju Mothra.

[[folder: Rakk Hive]]
Massive creatures with vertical mouths and several holes on their backs, which serves as homes for Rakk (Hence the name). They have long hibernation periods, and are often seen sleeping underground with their backs exposed.

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: They're easily the size of a building.
* TheBusCameBack: After being absent since the first game and not appearing in the second game's base story, one finally returns as Captain Scarlet's pet and as her boss battle, named Roscoe. They're also present in the Southern Raceway, however they're all asleep underground.
* MeaningfulName: They have a symbiotic relationship with Rakks, allowing them to use the holes on their bodies as nests.
* NonIndicativeName: Zig-zagged. The name itself is actually descriptive on what they are for Rakks. It just doesn't indicate that they're ''actual living creatures'' for anyone who first hears the name.

[[folder: Bullymongs]]
Six-limbed ape-like creatures that most commonly inhabit the colder parts of Pandora.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Not the biggest enemy in the game, but still massive enough to dwarf your vehicle a few times over and make it hard to search for loot after you kill it.

[[folder: Spiderants]]
Giant quadrupedal insects that form hives in certain areas of Pandora, such as the Dust.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: The Spiderants' thorax is the most vulnerable part of their bodies. However, their armor plating in the front and shifting makes this hard to capitalize on unless they're shooting their webbing at you.
** The smaller Spiderants are so weak that this is negligible, but their variants such as the King and Queen are very hard to bring down with out going for the thorax.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Hence their name, Spiderants form colonies much like ants with their Badass variants are named after classes such as worker, soldier, queen, king, etc. And like spiders they're capable of forming webs, and shoot them at their prey. Unlike either, however, they only have four legs.
* RollingAttack: How some of them might attack.
* SpidersAreScary: Hence the name "'''Spider'''ant".
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[[folder: Threshers]]
Tentacled, cephalopod-like creatures that travel underground. They are usually found near shores and riverbed areas such as the Highlands. They’re also native to Elpis, albeit in much smaller sizes.
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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Threshers can grow to massive sizes, with boss Threshers always being at least being the size of a several story building. Non-boss Threshers can still be utterly massive though, such as Turf Threshers and Badass Pyre Threshers.

* TragicMonster: Originally, they were peaceful creatures who greeted the newly arriving Dahl miners with curiosity and friendliness, which the miners quickly started developing a mutual liking for them as well. When Dahl executives learned of their valuable crystals, they demanded them to be mined and killed for profit. The ensuing poaching Dahl partook in, and subsequent massacre for both sides, enraged the remaining Crystalisk population to apparently deem most [[HumansAreBastards humans to be utter bastards]], with almost no specimens currently existing who won't attack humans who get too close on sight.

* EldritchAbomination: The most alien looking ''Borderlands'' creatures yet.

* EldritchAbomination: The most alien looking ''Borderlands'' creatures yet. The closest thing they have

* EldritchAbomination: The most alien looking ''Borderlands'' creatures yet.

A species of intelligent, simian creatures native to Eden-6.

* ItCanThink: They at least possess enough intelligence to utilizes various weapons such as guns and makeshift hammers.

* RunningGag: Every ''Borderlands'' intro traditionally features a Skag getting run over.

!! Dukino
A young, domesticated Skag that the Vault Hunters encounter in Lynchwood. He is the main npc of the Animal Rescue mission, where they assist in giving him food and medicine with Scooter's assistance.

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[[folder: Rakk]]
Flying creatures that circle the skies of Pandora in flocks.

* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: Rakks are comparable to bats in overall biology, traveling in flocks, having prominent teeth, claws webbed arms and that make up wings, even preferring to rest whilst hanging upside down.
* TheGoomba: Minus their Badass variants, killing a Rakk is so easy that they're often provided as easy Second Wind targets during fights. This is especially true of Volcanic Rakk, which are so frail that a bullet or three is all you need to to gun them down during the battle with The Warrior.
* ZergRush: Their go-to strategy to taking down prey is to swoop down as a flock to repeatedly dive-bomb enemies until they die.

* EyelessFace: In place of eyes, Ratchetier instead have large tooth-like protrusions coming from their faces.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Right down to their name, they're a combination of '''r'''oaches and rats. They have ears, tails and skin color similar to rats, while also possessing thoraxes, insectoid shells and jointed limbs. Certain types even grow wings.

* TheSwarm: The aptly named Ratch swarm; a swarm of flying, smaller Ratch.

* RaptorAttack: The typical Saurian is about the size, build and temperament as the typical Raptor of fiction.

** There are also the Fire Grogs, who spit actually fire.

The massive solitary Saurians and the equivalent of the TyrannosaurusRex.

* EliteMook: The strongest of the Saurian species, uncommonly found and thankfully they're never in packs.

* LightningBruiser: On top of being physically powerful, they're deceptively faster than they look.
* TyrannosaurusRex: They're essentially this. That said, certain Tyrants also borrow traits from other creatures such as the headcrests and horns of Triceratops.

* DireBeast: Badass variants of these animals are typically gigantic and twice as dangerous as their normal variants.
* NatureIsNotNice: You'd be hard pressed to find an ''actual'' herbivore, let alone one that isn't trying to kill you.

* MixAndMatchCritters: Hence their name, Spiderants form colonies much like ants with their Badass variants are named after classes such as worker, soldier, queen, king, etc. And like spiders they're capable of forming webs, and shoot them at their prey.Unlike either, however, they only have four legs.

* MixAndMatchCritters: Hence their name, Spiderants form colonies much like ants with their Badass variants are named after classes such as worker, soldier, queen, king, etc. And like spiders they're capable of forming webs, and shoot them at their prey.

* AsteroidsMonster: Killing off larger Kraggons will spawn two more weaker ones.

* SpikesOfDoom: Saurians tend to have a umber of spikes protruding from their heads and limbs. Slingers in particular have them along their spines and tails.

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* MixAndMatchCritters: Right down to their name, they're a combination of '''r'''oaches and rats. They have ears, tails and skin color similar to rats, while also possessing thoraxes and insectoid shells

* ItCanThink: They at least possess enough intelligence to utilizes various weapons such as guns.

* SpikesOfDoom: Saurians tend to have a umber of spikes protruding from their heads and limbs. Slingers in particular have them along their spines and tails.

* CombatTentacles: Their main method of trying to kill you. They either use their arms to hurl rocks at you from afar or as whips.

A species of bipedal, carnivores creatures similar to dinosaurs, native to Eden-6 and Gehenna.

* ExtraEyes: Ravagers have 4 eyes

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%% A species of bipedal, carnivores creatures similar to dinosaurs, native to Eden-6 and Gehenna.
%%* LovePotion: According to Tannis, their sweat glands are used as an aphrodisiac called "Licking Tail" in many systems.
%%* RaptorAttack: The typical Saurian is about the size, build and temperament as the typical Raptor of fiction.

%%* ExtraEyes: Ravagers have 4 eyes

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%%* ArmlessBiped: Separating them from other Saurians is their lack of forearms.

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* EldritchAbomination: The most alien looking creatures yet.

* ItCanThink: They possess enough intelligence to form societies and build villages, communicate with other sentient life as well understand their language, and utilizes various weapons such as guns.

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%%[[folder: Saurians]]
%% A species of bipedal, carnivores creatures similar to dinosaurs, native to Eden-6 and Gehenna.
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* TheBusCameBack: After being absent since the first game and not appearing in the second game's base story, one finally returns as Captain Scarlet's pet and as her boss battle, named Roscoe.

Tentacled, Cephalopod-like creatures that travel underground. They are usually found near shores and riverbed areas such as the highlands. They’re also native to Elpis, albeit in much smaller sizes.