History Fridge / Borderlands3

** Addendum: Tyreen and Troy only needed to touch Amara to steal her powers, right? Wrong. Amara is probably stronger and more skilled in hand-to-hand combat and is quite possibly fast enough to react to Tyreen's teleportation spam. Besides Amara saw what Tyreen was capable off when she stole Lilith's powers and what Troy did to Maya-- she would make well damn sure neither would get the chance to grab her.

** Addendum: Tyreen and Troy only needed to touch Amara to steal her powers, right? Wrong. Amara is probably stronger and more skilled in hand-to-hand combat and is quite possibly fast enough to predict Tyreen's teleportation spam. Besides Amara saw what Tyreen was capable off when she stole Lilith's powers and what Troy did to Maya-- she would make well damn sure neither would get the chance to grab her.

*** [=Fl4K=]'s Gravity Snare was created to emulate Maya and Amara's Phaselock and Phasegrasp respectively. While not quite powerful as those two Action Skills, it can lift, stun, or confuse enemies. It's also the only Action Skill that can be activated while in "Fight For Your Life" mode to keep enemies from fleeing while trying get a kill revive.

* The cover art being a parody of a painting of Jesus might just seem like transgressive comedy, but makes more sense when the main antagonists are a pair of Sirens [[GodGuise masquerading as a god and godess and leading a cult.]] A pair of False Prophets, mocking Christ with their blasphemous actions.

* The fact that Wainwright Jakobs learning that the monsters that killed his father in cold blood were the children of Typhon [=DeLeon=], the man who gave him advice on using shotguns and created the Jakobs' trademark slogan as well as being a friend to Montgomery Jakobs would have been disheartening as well as having Typhon's good name being dragged through the mud posthumously for siring two megalomaniacal hellions with God complexes. For this reason Winnie would've kept this secret from most of the general public.

''[[Fridge/Borderlands1 Borderlands]]'' - ''[[Fridge/Borderlands2 Borderlands 2]]'' - ''[[Fridge/BorderlandsThePreSequel Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!]]'' - ''[[Fridge/TalesFromTheBorderlands Tales from the Borderlands]]'' - '''''Borderlands 3''''' - ''[[Fridge/TinyTinasWonderlands Tiny Tina's Wonderlands]]''-]]]]]

** Lilith's Siren abilities were largely self-taught in a vagabond lifestyle, and she wasn't concerned with finding out anything more about her heritage. While Maya received some instruction and training, she got it from a group of monks who wanted their own pet superhuman and so probably didn't tell her everything she could do, along with discouraging her to think for herself. On the other hand, Amara has been making constant use of her Siren power for years as a vigilante against her world's criminals. Self-taught or otherwise, Amara's fought for far longer and without being manipulated by someone else into not exploring her potential, so she trumps both previous Sirens in sheer experience, explaining her versatility (her three base abilities) and being able to alter the ways they work (the augments and elemental modifiers).
** Axton was a professional soldier, sure, but a bit of a maverick and loose cannon by the sounds of some of his ECHO logs, and he deserted while taking a customizable Dahl turret. Roland similarly deserted the Crimson Lance, but [[DefectorFromDecadence out of moral dissolution]] with the Crimson Lance. Moze, on the other hand, was part of an elite squadron of mechanized infantry with a fearsome reputation and retains her soldier's discipline (mostly) all of the time, and she left her post with an advanced Vladof mech at her command. In every sense of the word, Moze's got her predecessors outgunned. Alternatively, while Salvador is a civilian fighter who focuses on brute strength through MoreDakka and whose ammo regeneration relies on his action skill, Moze is a trained soldier whose ammo regeneration can be triggered through multiple means.

** [=FL4K=] is the hardest to pin down: they are likely self-taught as Mordecai was, the only difference being their robot brain could help them learn a lot faster, plus their background as an archivist bot could give them access to all the information they need on the creatures they tame. This is shown by [=FL4K=] taming three different attack animals, and how they're able to cultivate those animals into Badass variants. WordOfGod also states they are several hundred years old, giving them more time to learn. On a lesser note, both [=FL4K=] and Claptrap are robots who naturally resist fire attacks but take more damage from corrosive attacks, with [=FL4K=] obviously being the more competent vault hunter.

** For gameplay purposes, however, the [=CoV=] are still fought in the post-game. Their radio broadcasts proclaim that they will continue to fight in Tyreen's name no matter how badly they're beaten down. That, and given how much trouble even God Queen Tyreen had getting them to ally with Maliwan (an ECHO log shows her trying and failing to hammer this into her cultists' heads), it isn't much of a stretch to assume any transition from enemy to ally would take quite a while.

* Cryo and Radiation deal decent damage to both armor and shields respectively though not as much as corrosive and shock. Why? Prolonged exposure to extreme cold can make even the toughest of armor brittle, and radiation can interfere with electronics, which shields are made out of. Furthermore, radiation (which is subatomic particles being flung around) pokes billions of tiny holes in materials that make them fragile, a process called "radiation embrittlement."

*** [=Fl4K=]'s Gravity Snare was created to emulate Maya and Amara's Phaselock and Phasegrasp respectively. While not quite powerful as those two Action Skills, it can lift, stun, or confuse enemies. It's also the only Action Skill that can be while activate in "Fight For Your Life" mode to keep enemies from fleeing while trying get a kill revive.

** However, it was Typhon [=DeLeon=]'s {{Deconstruction}} of OverprotectiveDad that made the Calypso Twins into who they are which led to the events of the game. Typhon may have been the first Vault Hunter but he was [[ParentsAsPeople still human]].

*** [=Fl4K=]'s Gravity Snare was created to emulate Maya and Amara's Phaselock and Phaseflare respectively. While not quite powerful as those two Action Skills, it can lift, stun, or confuse enemies. It's also the only Action Skill that can be while activate in "Fight For Your Life" mode to keep enemies from fleeing while trying get a kill revive.

** [=Fl4K=]'s Gravity Snare was created to emulate Maya and Amara's Phaselock and Phaseflare respectively. While not quite powerful as those two Action Skills, it can lift, stun, or confuse enemies. It's also the only Action Skill that can be while activate in "Fight For Your Life" mode to keep enemies from fleeing while trying get a kill revive.

* In Greek mythology (references to which are ''everywhere'' in ''Borderlands'' as is), Typhon is a dragon with a hundred heads that Gaia, or Mother Earth, sent to defeat Zeus after he took out his father Cronus. Typhon and his mate Echidna had many monstrous children. What's this got to do with Typhon [=DeLeon=], you may ask? Well, when you meet him later, he mentions that he has two kids, and that they grew up to be— guess what? Monsters.
* Also in Greek myth, Calypso was a nymph who kept Odysseus on her island for seven years. Her name comes from the Greek word meaning "to conceal/deceive." It's no coincidence, then, that the Calypso Twins did their fair share of deception in order to amass such a large following.
* In much the same way that the second group of Vault Hunters seemed to outclass the first, the current crop seem much more capable and experienced, both in character and mechanically. This would explain, for instance, the greater degree of customisability of action skills and augments, whereas previous generations of Vault Hunters only had one.

** Axton was a professional soldier, sure, but a bit of a maverick and loose cannon by the sounds of some of his ECHO logs, and he deserted while taking a customizable Dahl turret. Roland similarly deserted the Crimson Lance, but out of moral dissolution with the Crimson Lance. Moze, on the other hand, was part of an elite squadron of mechanised infantry with a fearsome reputation and retains her soldier's discipline (mostly) all of the time, and she left her post with an advanced Vladof mech at her command. In every sense of the word, Moze's got her predecessors outgunned. Alternatively, while Salvador is a civilian fighter who focuses on brute strength through MoreDakka and whose ammo regeneration relies on his action skill, Moze is a trained soldier whose ammo regeneration can be triggered through multiple means.

* Maliwan's presence on Nekrotafeyo would explain a lot of things - mainly, the new, almost alien like design of their guns, as well as the ability to shift between two elements. Rhys claimed that the research benefits of studying a mere Vault Key fragment would have kept Atlas afloat for potential decades. Now imagine what Maliwan could do (and probably did) with free access to a whole planet full of potentially still-functioning Eridian technology.

** Athena is likely off somewhere attempting to live a peaceful life with Janey Springs, and would likely have no interest returning to her former life as an assassin/mercenary, especially after the events of the ''Pre-Sequel'' and how Lilith treated her then.

* The fact the Psychos can be created as well as being exposed to alien technology puts a chill in your spine. How do we even know which is which but vault hunters will be too busy fighting for their lives for those answers.