History Fridge / Borderlands

*** Between ''Tiny Tina's Wonderlands'' & ''3'', when Torgue was reinstated as the company face, he was forced to compromise by having weapons get elemental enhancements since explosive damage is no longer considered an element, and the new radiation element could fill the niche of making things explode. On the other hand, having sticky gyrojets alt-fire on your rifles, shotguns and handguns is perfect, due to enemies having a nasty habit of escaping your line of fire, and the gyrojets mean that there's not much they can do once an explosive bullet is latched onto them. Torgue saw how terrible the E-Tech pistols were and decided to make sticky bullets with more damage. Apparently Jakobs liked the idea as well when they created The Duc pistol based on Torgue firmware. So did Hyperion and Dahl with their Proprietary License and Kaoson [=SMGs=] respectively.

*** In ''3'', when Torgue was reinstated as the company face, he was forced to compromise by having weapons get elemental enhancements since explosive damage is no longer considered an element, and the new radiation element could fill the niche of making things explode. On the other hand, having sticky gyrojets alt-fire on your rifles, shotguns and handguns is perfect, due to enemies having a nasty habit of escaping your line of fire, and the gyrojets mean that there's not much they can do once an explosive bullet is latched onto them. Torgue saw how terrible the E-Tech pistols were and decided to make sticky bullets with more damage. Apparently Jakobs liked the idea as well when they created The Duc pistol based on Torgue firmware. So did Hyperion and Dahl with their Proprietary License and Kaoson [=SMGs=] respectively.

*** In ''3'', after the Darzaran Bay Massacre (which, unbeknownst to the company, Moze was the sole survivor), they, like every other company, learned from the weaknesses of CripplingOverspecialization that were demonstrated in the first three games, and added more firepower to their weapons so incidents like that never happen again. For their alt-fire modes, we have zip rockets, tasers, grenade launchers, rocket launchers, mortars, double-barrels, and shotguns. As a matter of fact, Vladof created the Sickle, an assault rifle with shotgun properties as an homage to their discontinued Hammer shotgun from the first game. MoreDakka, while effective, will only carry the company so far, so their subsequent foray into all sorts of under-barrel attachments is at least rooted in making their weapons more competitive with the other companies.

* The entire series, seems to be a giant TakeThat against the idea of [[MegaCorp letting corporations act in a government's place]]. In the first game alone you have a corporation that literally abandoned a planet of people to mutated raiders and deadly wildlife (Dahl), one that didn't even try to save lives during a zombie outbreak (Jakobs), and one that treated its best military commander with the same respect you save for a data entry clerk (Atlas). Then there's Hyperion, a corporation where assholery is not just encouraged but also ''is the law'' and which, by the time of ''2'', had waged a war with the population of Pandora for 3 years, turned into a Orwellian corporation full of backstabbing corporate climbers, and run by a CorruptCorporateExecutive whose policies were on par with Stalin's regime. And in the third game, one of the remaining big corporations (Maliwan) becomes the backbone of a cult of bandits led by a Siren bandit and her brother, both of which suffer from [[AGodAmI God complex]], while the other two engage in a very bloody war out of which there was only one survivor. And the less said about one of those latter corporations' (Tediore) actions in ''VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands'', the better.

*** They don't make sniper rifles, because Pandora's bandits are pretty consistently AxCrazy {{Blood Knight}}s who are largely incapable of the kind of long-distance focus and discipline required to use a sniper rifle effectively.

* The entire series, seems to be a giant TakeThat against the idea of [[MegaCorp letting corporations act in a government's place]]. In the first game alone you have a corporation that literally abandoned a planet of people to mutated raiders and deadly wildlife (Dahl), one that didn't even try to save lives during a zombie outbreak (Jakobs), and one that treated its best military commander with the same respect you save for a data entry clerk (Atlas). We all know what happened with the corporation shown in the 4th DLC (Hyperion), which, as of the second game, had waged a war with the population for 3 years, turned into a Orwellian corporation full of backstabbing corporate climbers and run by a CorruptCorporateExecutive whose policies were on par with Stalin's regime. And in the third game, one of the remaining big corporations (Maliwan) becomes the backbone of a cult of bandits led by a Siren bandit and her brother, both of which suffer from [[AGodAmI God complex]], while the other two engage in a very bloody war out of which there was only one survivor.

*** In ''3'', after having their asses handed to them by Vladof's Iron Bear Corps, they decided to make changes to their reload system. Instead of being simply grenades, they become turrets that fire down on the enemy or drones that hunt down their prey. While other companies still see Tediore as a joke, they won't be laughing as much when hordes of Baby Maker, Turbo Ten Gallon, Fire Musket, Scorpio, Mother Too, Smart Gun XXL, and Dark Army drones move in for the kill. Plus, the newfound diversity of Tediore means that they have something other than being a ''very'' cheap brand to buy from going for them. Their guns having a wide range of gimmicks and abilities means that people who would've either passed them over or sold their weapons to the nearest vendor the moment they had the opportunity will now be taking them seriously when picking out weapons to carry into battle. They had to abandon their rocket launchers in order to make this feature work.

*** ''3'' doesn't modify the tendency of ''2'', except for one thing: COV guns draw ammo from the backpack, effectively eliminating manual reloading, allowing their troops to fire non-stop... which is basically [[AttackAttackAttack their one and only strategy in combat]]. However, this comes at the cost of overheating and repair if the guns ever break, hence the need for spare parts and water bottles, squirt guns and portable hoses. Also they had to abandon their shotguns and [=SMGs=], probably because they didn't mesh well with the MoreDakka philosophy being bumped UpToEleven. You can imagine the bandits not being happy about this, as it hinders them to some extent in close range, which, admittedly, is somewhat made up for them retaining their trademark ActionBomb and Close Quarter Combatant tendencies. The Calypsos tried to compensate for this loss by having their cult join forces with Maliwan which has both shotguns and [=SMGs=] followed by allying with Aurelia Hammerlock (with Troy literally getting into bed with her) to acquire the vaunted Jakobs shotguns.

*** In ''3'', after having their asses handed to them by Vladof's Iron Bear Corps, they decided to make changes to their reload system. Instead of being simply grenades, they become turrets that fire down on the enemy or drones that hunt down their prey. While other companies still see Tediore as a joke, they won't be laughing as much when hordes of Baby Maker, Turbo Ten Gallon, Fire Musket, Scorpio, Mother Too, Smart Gun XXL, and Dark Army drones move in for the kill. Plus, the newfound diversity of Tediore means that they have something other than being a ''very'' cheap brand to buy from and their dubious honor as useful VendorTrash going for them. Their guns having a wide range of gimmicks and abilities means that people who would've either passed them over or sold their weapons to the nearest vendor the moment they had the opportunity will now be taking them seriously when picking out weapons to carry into battle. They had to abandon their rocket launchers in order to make this feature work.

*** In ''3'', when Torgue was reinstated as the company face, he was forced to compromise by having weapons get elemental enhancements since explosive damage is no longer considered an element, and the new radiation element could fill the niche of making things explode. On the other hand, having sticky gyrojets alt-fire on your rifles, shotguns and handguns is perfect, due to enemies having a nasty habit of escaping your line of fire, and the gyrojets mean that there's not much they can do once an explosive bullet is latched onto them. Torque saw how terrible the E-Tech pistols were and decided to make sticky bullets with more damage. Apparently Jakobs liked the idea as well when they created The Duc pistol based on Torgue firmware. So did Hyperion and Dahl with their Proprietary License and Kaoson [=SMGs=] respectively.