History Characters / BorderlandsVaultHunters

'''Individuals and groups''': [[Characters/BorderlandsDahl Dahl]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsHyperion Hyperion]] ([[Characters/BorderlandsClaptrap Claptrap]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsHandsomeJack Handsome Jack]]) | [[Characters/BorderlandsTorgue Torgue]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsEridiansAndVaultMonsters Eridians and Vault Monsters]]\\

'''Individuals and groups''': [[Characters/BorderlandsHyperion Hyperion]] ([[Characters/BorderlandsClaptrap Claptrap]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsHandsomeJack Handsome Jack]]) | [[Characters/BorderlandsTorgue Torgue]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsEridiansAndVaultMonsters Eridians and Vault Monsters]]\\

'''Individuals and groups''': [[Characters/BorderlandsHyperion Hyperion]] ([[Characters/BorderlandsClaptrap Claptrap]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsHandsomeJack Handsome Jack]]) | [[Characters/BorderlandsEridiansAndVaultMonsters Eridians and Vault Monsters]]\\

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'''Miscellaneous''': [[Characters/BorderlandsWeaponBrands Other Weapon Brands]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsCreatures Creatures]]-]]]]]

'''Miscellaneous''': [[Characters/BorderlandsWeaponBrands Weapon Brands]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsCreatures Creatures]]-]]]]]

'''Individuals and groups''': [[Characters/BorderlandsClaptrap Claptrap]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsHandsomeJack Handsome Jack]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsEridiansAndVaultMonsters Eridians and Vault Monsters]]\\

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** Handsome Jack calls them "Bandit." Then again, he calls everyone not working for him that. [[spoiler:Later on, he calls them "child-killer" after Angel's death]].

* GunNut: All Vault Hunters love guns and are all overjoyed upon seeing a weapon of decent rarity. Even [[CloseRangeCombatant bruisers such as Brick and Krieg]] love themselves a shiny new gun. When [[spoiler:Typhon [=DeLeon=]]] shows off the Eridian Fabricator (a gun that can shoot guns) to the Vault Hunters, all of them immediately want it for themselves (with Zane being reduced to screaming "GUN" repeatedly).

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Roland, Nisha, Wilhelm, Maya, Aurelia and [[AmbiguousSituation possibly Lilith]] all end up meeting untimely demises.]]

** In Tales, [=Zer0=], Athena, Springs, August, Cassius, and [[spoiler:Claptrap]] can all be selected as incidental Vault Hunters during the finale. Felix can also be selected, but he leaves the story again [[spoiler:and instead leaves Fiona with enough money to hire Claptrap]].

** Roland is a solid Blue, being TheHero for the first game, and BigGood in the second. Axton, by comparison, is a Red, what with being a MilitaryMaverick that [[UnfriendlyFire blew up some terrorists along ''with'' the VIP he was supposed to be protecting]], basically due to RuleOfCool [[spoiler:as opposed to a RoaringRampageOfRevenge like Roland]]. Athena actually bounces back and forth; ''outside'' of combat she's calm and controlled, recounting her tale without any real emotion to Lilith, while ''in'' battle she becomes loud, aggressive and, depending on her skill trees, she insults her foes or flies into berserk laughter.

** TheLeader: Roland for the first group, with [[spoiler:Brick and Lilith taking over when he dies]]. For the second team, [[WordOfGod Anthony Burch]] says it's Maya. For the third group, Jack himself is the leader, and ostensibly represented by his Doppleganger.

* TrueCompanions: The first group has become one by the second game, despite their own vast differences. And when [[spoiler:Roland dies]], the reaction from Brick just shows how strong their friendship became. In the ending of ''Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep'' (which shows all of the Vault Hunters gathered around [[spoiler:Roland and Bloodwing's memorial]]), Marcus has this to say about them.

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** Nisha, befitting her cowgirl motif, mainly uses pistols (Her skill "One for Each of Ya" allows her to DualWield them). She also uses a whip as her melee, which can be enhanced by her Law & Order tree. She also has several skills and mods that specifically enhance Jakobs guns.

* TheDreaded: While it doesn't stop the countless mooks across the galaxy from trying to kill them anyway (In fairness, they're either stupid or don't have a choice), the title of Vault Hunter is synonymous with aspiration and utter dread, and a bloodbath is generally expected to happened whenever they show up.

** Zane, who came (while calling it a vacation) largely to under the radar from various corporations that put a bounty on his head.

* SchrodingersCanon: The New-U Stations, which is ''literally'' a version of DeathIsCheap that allows the Vault Hunters to come back even after death. It's unknown if they're supposed to be treated as actually existing or not, seeing how ''1'' has you register in it during the tutorial, and ''2'' has a quest where you're paid to kill yourself by Jack. The latter of which and you CAN do and Jack acknowledges that you've died and revived. And ''3'' has the exact same mission with Tyreen offering the reward, her similarly acknowledging the death and rebirth of the vault hunter. But on the other hand there's plenty of evidence saying it's GameplayAndStorySegregation seeing how Jack, despite owning the station and the company, never either revives himself or stops the vault hunters from reviving despite it being supposedly within his capability.

* CombatPragmatist: Turrets, DualWielding guns, swords, shields, holograms, attack animals, attack robots, mechs, Siren powers, ice summons, buzz axes, and fisticuffs. The Vault Hunters will use everything at their disposal to take out their enemies alongside their guns. Fighting fair is for chumps and it will get you killed in worlds like Pandora, Elpis, and Promethea.

* SilentProtagonist: Zigzagged in ''1'' and ''2''. While the Vault Hunters ''could'' speak, mostly during fights or standing idle long enough, they never directly speak to the [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]] around them. The Vault Hunters of ''2'' grew out of this in later DLC while teams that preceding them gained unique dialogue in main campaigns.
* SpaceCossacks: A good chunk of the playable characters in ''Borderlands'' are on the run and moved to Pandora to escape from someone or something. The straightest examples are Roland, who moved to Pandora after defecting from Atlas's elite forces; Moze, who moved to Pandora after surviving a suicide mission and defecting from Vladof's armored unit; and Gaige, who is on the run in Pandora after killing her rival during a high school science fair.

* ChallengeSeeker: A common motivation for becoming a Vault Hunter aside from riches and glory is a worthwhile challenge (as well as the riches and glory that come with it). This is the main motivation for [=Zer0=], [=FL4K=], Amara, Brick and Mordecai. When word gets out that Fiona considers herself a Vault Hunter, [=Zer0=] willingly answers the call to help her out in the final chapter of ''Tales From The Borderlands'', and is not disappointed.

* PromotedToPlayable: Athena, Claptrap, Wilhelm, and Nisha started as [=NPCs=] before being made Vault Hunters. Krieg also serves as this for the Psycho class of enemies.

* SilentProtagonist: Zigzagged in ''1'' and ''2''. While the Vault Hunters ''could'' speak, mostly during fights or standing idle long enough, they never directly speak to the NPCs around them. The Vault Hunters of ''2'' grew out of this in later DLC while teams that preceding them gained unique dialogue in main campaigns.

* SchrodingersCanon: The New-U Stations, which is ''literally'' a version of DeathIsCheap that allows the Vault Hunters to come back even after death. It's unknown if they're supposed to be treated as actually existing or not, seeing how ''1'' has you register in it during the tutorial, and ''2'' has a quest where you're paid to kill yourself by Jack, and you CAN do it and he acknowledges that you died and revived and ''3'' has the exact same mission with Tyreen offering the reward. But on the other hand there's plenty of evidence saying it's GameplayAndStorySegregation seeing how Jack, despite owning the station and the company, never either revives or stops the vault hunters from reviving despite it being supposedly within his capability.

* SchrodingersCanon: The New-U Stations, which is ''literally'' a version of DeathIsCheap that allows the Vault Hunters to come back even after death. It's unknown if they're supposed to be treated as actually existing or not, seeing how ''1'' has you register in it during the tutorial, and ''2'' has a quest where you're paid to kill yourself by Jack, and you CAN do it and he acknowledges that you died and revived. But on the other hand there's plenty of evidence saying it's GameplayAndStorySegregation seeing how Jack, despite owning the station and the company, never either revives or stops the vault hunters from reviving despite it being supposedly within his capability.

* SuperiorSuccessor: Due to a combination of SerialEscalation and gameplay mechanics being altered and/or refined, it seems that each generation of Vault Hunters are better than the next.

* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler: Roland, Nisha, Wilhelm, Maya, Aurelia and [[AmbiguousSituation possibly Lilith]] are all fated to meet untimely demises.]]

* FullNameBasis: If Timothy Lawrence is being refered to by his real name, it is almost always as the full "Timothy Lawrence". Moxxi calls him Timothy, but he's never Tim.

** In Tales, [=Zer0=], Athena, Springs, August, Cassius, and [[spoiler:Claptrap]] can all be selected as incidental Vault Hunters during the finale. Felix can also be selected, but he leaves the story again before you get to play him.

** The second group consists of ''another'' ex-soldier (this one with an overdeveloped ego), ''another'' berserk lunatic about a third as tall as anyone else (TheGunslinger/[[MoreDakka The Vaporiser]] version), an excessively (even gratuitously) mysterious assassin of completely unknown origins, a reasonably sane Siren looking for more about her heritage, a young robotics prodigy on the run from the law, and a psychotic escaped experiment who talks in complete gibberish.

* SchrodingersCanon: Th New-U Stations, which is ''literally'' a version of DeathIsCheap that allows the Vault Hunters to come back even after death. It's unknown if they're supposed to be treated as actually existing or not, seeing how ''1'' has you register in it during the tutorial, and ''2'' has a quest where you're paid to kill yourself by Jack, and you CAN do it and he acknowledges that you died and revived. But on the other hand there's plenty of evidence saying it's GameplayAndStorySegretation seeing how Jack, despite owning the station and the company, never either revives or stops the vault hunters from reviving despite it being supposedly within his capability.

* GunNut: All Vault Hunters love guns and are all overjoyed upon seeing a weapon of decent rarity. Even [[CloseRangeCombatant bruisers such as Brick and Krieg]] love themselves a shiny new gun.

* OnlyOneName: They all usually go by their first names or a nickname, with Nisha Kadam, Timothy Lawrence (That said, as Jack's body double, he's legally forbidden from saying he's not Jack), Aurelia Hammerlock, Zane Flynt, Moserah "Moze" Andreyevna, and Lilith Cashlin (seen in unused texture files) being the only exceptions. Some of them (such as Brick) probably don't even have last names in the first place. [=Zer0=] may not have a true name at all (as with so much else about [=Zer0=], it's left ambiguous), [=FL4K=]'s full name is a 512-character-long alphanumeric string, and not even Krieg knows his real name.

** Nisha, befitting her cowgirl motif, mainly uses pistols (Her skill "One for Each of Ya" allows her to DualWield them). She also uses a whip as her melee, which can be enhanced by her Law & Order tree.

* WorkingClassHero: Each of the games start with the Vault Hunters looking for work and getting into situations bigger than they expected. Subverted with Aurelia, who is rich enough to start with a decent chunk of cash and Purple-tier weapons, elitist and only only took up Vault Hunter for fun during her vacation.

* TheDreaded: While it doesn't stop the countless mooks across the galaxy from trying to kill them anyway (In fairness, they're either stupid or don't have a choice), the title of Vault Hunter is synonymous with aspiration and utter dread. A bloodbath generally expected to happened whenever they show up.

** Salvador is most commonly seen Gunzerking with two rifles at hand. (And his "Im your Huckleberry" skill specializes in pistols.)

** Ellie calls them "VH".

** Handsome Jack calls them "Bandit." Then again, he calls everyone not working for him that. [[spoiler:Later on, he calls them "child-killers" after Angel's death]].

** Tyreen Calypso calls them "Superfan" or "Vault Thief".