History Characters / BorderlandsKrieg

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JasonDouglas (English), Creator/KenjiHamada (Japanese) Patrice Baudrier (French) '''Played by:''' Creator/FlorianMunteanu (film)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JasonDouglas (English), Creator/KenjiHamada (Japanese) Patrice Baudrier (French)

'''Weapon Brands''': [[Characters/BorderlandsAtlas Atlas]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsDahl Dahl]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsHyperion Hyperion]] ([[Characters/BorderlandsHandsomeJack Handsome Jack]]) | [[Characters/BorderlandsMaliwan Maliwan]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsTorgue Torgue]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsTediore Tediore]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsWeaponBrands Other Weapon Brands]]\\

--> "Pitiful people prepare, plead plentifully plentiful platitude phenomenal patriot pounds, poundingly perverse puppets; pulping, pleasantly, putrid pasties."

** Silence the Voices gives you a HUGE melee damage boost (easily reaching over 300% with a class mod) but causes you to have a 12% chance to hit yourself. On paper this doesn't seem major, but in practice you're hitting yourself every one in ten swings (more if you're unlucky) and dealing that huge melee damage to yourself. If you're not healthy enough you'll end up [=KOing=] yourself. Additionally, if you were close enough to hit the enemy, they're close enough to hit you, meaning that missed swing gives them an opportunity to hit back, hard. On the other hand though, hitting yourself with full HP (which isn't a particularly hard thing to do with Krieg) while in battle can help you activate ''Release the Beast'', which instantly heals him completely and grants him a massive damage buff while he's rampaging. In situations where for some reason you don't or cannot get ''Release the Beast'', then the chance to hit yourself becomes somewhat a liability due the aforementioned reasons.

--> '''Krieg:''' Box cover, box cover! I'm the one who eats the stardom! I'm the hero of all the villains! You can't swallow my morality like a lollipop pill! I'll run around your mind and set the world record with my meat sleeves!

--> "HURTS...SO...GOOD!"\\

** His Action Skill encourages a melee playstyle (although he also has a ranged attack while doing it, the buzz-axe is slow, easy-to-dogdge and can arc). This is in contrast to the other five playable Vault Hunters whose Action Skills can make them safely attack or escape from a distance.

* GlassCannon: Gearbox's take on Krieg is a "High risk, high reward character." Exaggerated with the Hellborn and latter stages of the Mania skill trees, with the main tactics behind Hellborn to actively set Krieg on fire for special attacks and stat increases, and Mania's "Silence The Voices" skill QUADRUPLING his melee damage in exchange for a one-in-five chance of hitting himself upon melee-ing, which most likely will send him into "Fight For Your Life Mode" with the extremely high damage he deals.

-->There is no me, there is no you! There is only the never ending spit and bile of combat! The twenty-four hour murder spree of shining metal! I drink the blood and eat the loot and breathe the numbers, because '''{{I AM A MONSTER}}! NOW AND FOREVER!'''

-->You loud sacks of filth and sour cream can hit me with your pain pinatas all day, but you'll never take the jellied fantasies of my wasted youth! My stomach is clear and my mind is full of bacon!"

--> "(This is kinda awful... but mostly awesome.)"

-->''"Yes. Make them pay for what they did to us."''

--> ''[when motivating Ed to break open the doors]'' "SHE'S WAITING TO SUCKLE AT THE TEAT OF [[RescueRomance EXPLOSION CHIVALRY!"]]
-->''[when asked by Innuendobot if his oedipal feelings for Moxxi are normal]'' [[HeroicSelfDeprecation "DON'T ASK ME TO SHOW YOU NORMAL!"]]

--->''"THE TINY ONE, THE SAD FACED MOTHER AND THE BLUE TATTOO FOREVER AND EVER."'' This implies that he feels a level of affection for Tiny Tina (the Tiny One), Mad Moxxi (the Sad Faced Mother because of her makeup and being Ellie and Scooter's mother), in addition to actually being in love with Maya (the Blue Tattoo).

** Tiny Tina's "invite" to Maya for her [[MagicAmpersand Bunkers & Badasses]] game mentions Krieg [[EatingTheEyeCandy staring at Maya a whole lot]].

** A rabid, raving, 'roid-raging, ramblin' rancher who drinks blood and chops people into stew meat, mostly played for ([[BlackComedy dark]]) laughs when it doesn't dip into SurpriseCreepy. While not completely divorced from reality (at least lucid enough that we can take quests and dialogue at face value), he's still a giggling axe murderer with a good half that keeps him pointed at the (other, worse) bad guys.

!!!'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/JasonDouglas[[labelnote:'''Other Languages''']]Creator/KenjiHamada (Japanese) Patrice Baudrier (French)[[/labelnote]]

!!!'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/JasonDouglas[[labelnote:'''Other Languages''']]Creator/KenjiAmada (Japanese) Patrice Baudrier (French)[[/labelnote]]

!!'''Voiced in English by:''' Creator/JasonDouglas[[labelnote:'''Other Languages''']]Creator/KenjiAmada (Japanese) Patrice Baudrier (French)[[/labelnote]]

!!Krieg (AKA The Psycho)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JasonDouglas
->'''Played by:''' Creator/FlorianMunteanu (film)

* HeroicSuicide: The biggest rule Krieg's original self has against his dominant personality is to never harm an innocent, and instead unleash his bloodlust on the scum that deserve it. If he breaks this rule, then the original [[TakingYouWithMe will take over and kill himself, taking the dominant Krieg with him.]]