History Characters / BorderlandsThePreSequelVaultHunters

* CowardlyLion: While he's a bit spineless at times, this doesn't stop him from fighting monsters and baddies like the other Vault Hunters. Though in his eyes, it's not like he has a choice.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Digi-Jacks can't move from the spot they spawn in, so if an enemy is out of direct line of sight or hiding behind cover, they toss a spark of light like a grenade instead of shooting at it directly. It's pretty accurate and fairly powerful.

* BadBadActing: The biggest flaw in Timothy's acting is how awkward and stilted he sounds, completely lacking the charisma and confidence the real Jack has. By the time ''3'' rolls he couldn't care less about it [[spoiler:but still pulls a downright perfect Handsome Jack impression in order to let the Vault Hunters gain access to the Handsome Jackpot's core, a.k.a: Jack's Secret.]]
* BadBoss: The "Greater Good" skill tree is meant to channel Jack's selfishness and cowardice, meaning that it benefits the most from letting your minions and teammates do most of the work for you. The capstone makes it so that every Digi-Jack death counts as a kill for "Jack", meaning that he can get Second Wind as well as activating his Kill Skills when they die.
* BadImpressionists: While Tim might look and sound exactly like Jack, he's not much of an actor. His idea of talking like Jack mostly involves awkwardly-timed slang, bringing up how handsome he is, and introducing himself unprompted. Not a single NPC buys it.
-->'''"Jack"''': Hey there... kiddos. Uh, Hyperion are losing Helios to Dahl, we need to stop the signal that's jamming its system. [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch ... Bitches?]]

* ExpendableClone: Many of his skills benefit him when his Digi-Jacks die and he's even got one skill, ironically named "Accountability," that increases in power when his Digi-Jacks or allies get damaged but goes down when he himself gets damaged, so to get the most out of it he has to hide like a wuss.

* {{Foil}}: To Handsome Jack, the man he was a BodyDouble to. Jack, even before becoming Handsome Jack, was a man with dreams bigger than Pandora, Helios and Elpis and it's safe to bet had he conquered Pandora he wouldn't stop there, he was also prone to violent outbursts becoming more unhinged as time went on and things spiralled out of control. Timothy is a simple man with no dellusions of grandeur who accepted the contract of becoming a low-level Hyperion employee because he had student loans, he's a scaredy cat and is very vocal about how he ''does not'' relish in the world of violence and insanity Vault Hunters take part of preferring to say as far from it as he can, and he only wants to get away from all that craziness and live his life.

* {{Foil}}: To Handsome Jack, the man he was a BodyDouble to. Jack, even before becoming Handsome Jack, was a man with dreams bigger than Pandora, Helios and Elpis and it's safe to bet had he conquered Pandora he wouldn't stop there, he was also prone to violent outbursts becoming more unhinged as time went on and things spiralled out of control. Timothy is a simple man with no dellusions of grandeur who accepted the contract of becoming a low-level Hyperion employee because he had student loans, he's a scaredy cat and is very vocal about how he ''does not'' relish in the world of violence and insanity Vault Hunters take part of preferring to say as far from it as he can, and he only wants to get away from the sea of insanity and violence and live his life.

* LastOfHisKind: In ''3'', he's the last surviving Jack Body Double.

* {{Foil}}: To Handsome Jack, the man he was a BodyDouble to. Jack, even before becoming Handsome Jack, was a man with dreams bigger than Pandora, Helios and Elpis and it's safe to bet had he conquered Pandora he wouldn't stop there, he was also prone to violent outbursts becoming more unhinged as time went on and things spiralled out of control. Timothy is a simple man with no dellusions of grandeur who accept the contract of becoming a low-level Hyperion employee because he had student loans, he's a scaredy cat and is very vocal about how he ''does not'' relish in the world of violence and insanity Vault Hunters take part of preferring to say as far from it as he can, and he only wants to get away from the sea of insanity and violence and live his life.

* {{Foil}}: To Handsome Jack, the man he was a BodyDouble to. Jack, even before becoming Handsome Jack, was a man with dreams bigger than Pandora, Helios and Elpis and it's safe to bet had he conquered Pandora he'd stop there, he was also prone to violent outbursts becoming more unhinged as time went on and things spiralled out of control. Timothy is a simple man with no dellusions of grandeur who accept the contract of becoming a low-level Hyperion employee because he had student loans, he's a scaredy cat and is very vocal about how he ''does not'' relish in the world of violence and insanity Vault Hunters take part of preferring to say as far from it as he can, and he only wants to get away from the sea of insanity and violence and live his life.

* AdaptationalWimp: Downplayed in ''3''. He's a former Vault Hunter, but doesn't fire a single bullet onscreen being a pile of nerves all the time [[spoiler:and he also gets captured near the end]], but he's survived for 7 years inside the Handsome Jackpot casino which is full of people bent on killing him just for having Handsome Jack's face.

-->'''"Jack"''': Hey there... kiddos. Uh, Hyperion are losing Helios to Dahl, we need to stop the signal that's jamming its system. [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch ...Bitches?]]
* BadBoss: The "Greater Good" skill tree is meant to channel Jack's selfishness and cowardice, meaning that it benefits the most from letting your minions and teammates do most of the work for you. The capstone makes it so that every Digi-Jack death counts as a kill for "Jack", meaning that he can get Second Wind as well as activating his Kill Skills when they die.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: By the end of his storyline in ''BL3'', Timothy is finally free of Jack's control. It may have costed him a hand, but he's been dealt a bad hand for so long that it really isn't of much consequence. Moxxi herself has forgiven him for his involvement with Jack and hints at a possible relationship between the two. Even though he is free to leave the casino, he chooses to stay once Moxxi allocates it for herself.

* VerbalTic: He got the unfortunate habit calling people "pumpkin", "cupcake" and "kiddo". Sometimes he catches himself doing it and verbally recoils in disgust, but most of times he doesn't notice.

* BottomlessMagazines: He has a number of ways to mitigate ammo consumption. Jack's Cache lets him toss a free grenade after getting four kills, and kills from these free grenades do still qualify. Marginal Benefits gives him a chance to instantly reload all equipped weapons when tossing grenades. Absolute Advantage gives his weapons a chance to not consume ammo for a few seconds after each kill. Add in a few other skills to improve his grenade damage and let him trigger kill skills on demand, and worrying about ammo supplies is a thing of the past.

* MasterActor: In ''3'' he's able to channel and impersonate Handsome Jack down to near perfection in order to gain access to a very intricate security system that would open only for the real Jack. It shows how capable he is whenever he's not scared out of his mind. It helps Timothy had prior experience as an actor too.

** In ''Pre-Sequel'' he's absolutely smitten by Mad Moxxi, even more so when he sees her "au naturel" (as in without her make-up). [[spoiler:Then Moxxi tries to have him, Jack and his Vault Hunters killed by sabotaging the Eye of Helios and Timothy can only express to Janey Springs in utter defeat how the woman he loves just tried to murder him.]]

* BodyHorror: Implied in one of his dialogues in ''Handsome Jackpot'' DLC of ''3''. After Lilith scarred Jack's face Timothy mentions he did the same thing to the dopplegangers and considering how freaking ''nasty'' that scar is...

* ButtMonkey: To put it in kind words. Ever since he accepted to be Jack's BodyDouble his life became a shitshow of interplanetary proportions. He's assigned to Vault Hunting in Elpis and is scared out of his mind for most of it, then Jack becomes ''Handsome'' Jack, Pandora's most hated man, and in between ''2'' and ''3'' he gets himself locked inside the Handsome Jackpot casino for ''7 years'' which is full of people that wanted him dead and his dialogue heavily implies he had to kill more people, including some fellow Doppelgangers to survive.

* PaperThinDisguise: Despite his job being to stand in for Jack, most [=NPCs=] quickly recognize that he's just a double for the real deal, especially since Jack himself will show up in person next to him. In Moxxi's case, Timothy's inability to not stumble all over himself says all she needs to know and even roughly a decade later she can still recognize him near-immediately.

'''Athena''': ''Loyal to the mission is one thing. Loyal to people is something else.''
* TheComicallySerious: During the ''Knoxx'' DLC, her stone-faced approach to everything that happens (from concealing her transmissions in male virility advertisements to her suicidally annoyed boss to the Atlas corporation's psychopathically upbeat PR-style) ensure comedy, even though she never cracks so much as a smirk. She's also one of the more straight-laced protagonists in ''The Pre-Sequel'', next to Wilhelm.

* NotSoStoic: While everything on both Pandora and Elpis [[SeenItAll already passed through Athena]], seeing Fiona carry an eye of General Pollux in her pocket is enough to make Athena weirded out of her mind.

* MultiRangedMaster: Doppelganger's "Free Enterprise" capstone skill, "Sponsored By...", gives him bonus based on the manufacturer of the last gun he wielded (i.e: Vladof gives him Fire Rate bonus, Tediore gives Reload Speed Bonus) which allows him to improve or outright negate problems with other guns and brands giving Doppelganger a ''a lot'' of versatility.