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* Psycho Krieg apparently has no issue assaulting a [=CoV=] base or the Firehawk if push comes to shove, but the moment he has to recall the "Needleman", [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness the chaos is canceled.]]

* Psycho Krieg apparently has no issue assaulting a CoV base or the Firehawk if push comes to shove, but the moment he has to recall the "needleman", [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness the chaos is canceled.]]
-->'''Sane Krieg''': What? [[HorrifyingTheHorror What could you possibly be afraid of?]]\\
'''Sane Krieg''': Oh.. [[OhCrap yeah...]]

* What make a Psycho tick? Tannis reasons the answer lies in Vaulthalla. The answer is the Psychoreaver, the incarnation of rage so strong that Sane Krieg almost succumbs at the entrance. To illustrate this better, this Psycho is built like a gladiator or Thor, is as big as a house, is smart enough to throw magic if you try to camp at the ledges, and prefers to smash you with a cage-sized flail. And he can grow bigger.

** Who is Leperman that even Psychoreaver mutters his name?

'''Psycho Krieg''': Oh.. [[OhCrap yeah...]]
* In the memory of Hyperion, some things might glitch out, leading you to find things that aren't there or structures suddenly appearing/disappearing whenever you get to close. In memory of Hyperion, their scientific research are so horrendous that the board of ''Unethical'' research [[EvenEvilHasStandards gave them three thumbs down]].

* In the memory of Hyperion, some things might glitch out, leading you to find things that aren't there or structures suddenly appearing/disappearing whenever you get to close. In memory of Hyperion, their scientific research are so horrendous that the board of ''Unethical'' research gave them three thumbs down.

* Psycho Krieg apparently has no issue assaulting a CoV base or the Firehawk if push comes to shove, but the moment he has to recall the "needleman", the chaos is canceled.
* In the memory of Hyperion, some things might glitch out, finding things that aren't there. In memory of Hyperion, their scientific research are so horrendous that the board of ''Unethical'' research gave them three thumbs down.

* Psycho Krieg apparently has no issue assaulting a CoV base or the Firehawk if push comes to shove, but the moment he has to recall the "needleman", the chaos is canceled.

* The first memory of Krieg...is constructed in meat. And there are giant eyeballs that keep looking at you, even when placed correctly in skulls. And there are spiderants, in case this wasn't creepy enough.

* The Ruiner hatching looks like a nuclear bomb going off, and unlike ''Videogame/{{Fallout}}'' it's portrayed as terrifying. The sky is blocked out with green clouds, fire and debris stream through the air, and when you call Juno you can hear everyone panicking in the background.

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* The Ruiner, a creature so fearsome that the Company bombed its research rather than attempt to hatch it. Not to mention that the bad guy hatched it anyway by dropping it from orbit and creating an explosion so big that the sky turns green.

* The Ruiner hatching looks like a nuclear bomb going off, and unlike ''Videogame/{{Fallout}}'' it's portrayed as terrifying. The sky is blocked out with green clouds, fire and debris stream through the air, and when you call Juno you can hear everyone panicking in the background.
** It's especially bad for fans of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', as it's likely to remind them of the mushroom bomb and the birth of the Lich.

** Speaking of Troy, both twins have one half of the same power, parasitic healing. Tyreen can absorb powers but Troy needs those powers to prolong his lifespan. Troy's existence may have saved Tyreen's life because if he didn't exist then Tyreen would have been akin to vampire, draining the life of others to prolong her own.

* How the Children of The Vault came into existence in the first place. Years of being cannon fodder for companies like Dahl, Atlas, and Hyperion, being target practice for the Vault Hunters and subjected to genocide by the New Pandora Army have pushed the bandits to the breaking point. Now imagine every Bandit and Scav from the previous games joining forces, and they're said to number ''10 billion strong''. [[ParanoiaFuel Scary thought, huh]]?

* The circumstances leading to Maya's death. Tyreen tries to drain Ava only for Maya to take Troy hostage in an attempt to stop her. Troy panics and grabs Maya's arm which makes both their tattoos light up [[OhCrap slowly causing both of them to realize that]] [[NewSuperPower Troy doesn't need to absorb his sisters powers specifically after all.]] Up until that point Troy really believed his was BlessedWithSuck and his powers were useless. Maya essentially brought her death on herself because [[MuggingTheMonster neither she]] [[HowDoIShootWeb nor Troy]] [[NotSoHarmlessVillain believed he could defend himself from her]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard until she accidentally proved he could.]]

* Near the end of the game, Troy goes into such a massive power trip that he Phaselocks Elpis and tries to ram it on Pandora, so he and Tyreen can open the Great Vault, free the full extent of the Destroyer, drain it and become gods. Seeing Elpis so close to the surface is the stuff of nightmares. It takes Lilith's HeroicSacrifice to stop Elpis from crashing.

* Anointed enemies. These are COV bandits that are immune to Cryo and have powers of their own, but some of them will calmly walk towards you as they shoot you with their finger laser. They don't jump in your face, scream in your face, or even run away from or towards you. What does Eridium do to make these bandits act like Terminators (and it's most likely Eridium is the cause as defeating them will crystallize their bodies).

** We've got one answer: a casino built by Handsome Jack that's still full of Loaders and maddened guests. It's not all that terrifying, but it's still unnerving to think that so much of Jack's influence survives even seven years after his death.

* The intro for the Handsome Jackpot has a moment where we're reminded that even when pretending to be nice for a commercial we're still watching [[AxCrazy Handsome Jack]]

* Rhys is lucky that he only had to deal with AI Jack controlling his cybernetics. All the Jack doppelgangers have Jack's DNA that cannot be removed by surgery, which seems to naturally contain traits like nicknames and a desire to strangle kittens. If Jack's death hadn't screwed them over, the Vault Hunters might have faced dozens of fighters as amoral as Jack. And if Jack's DNA can affect people that way, what is in a Psycho's DNA?
* Once he runs out of cash, Pretty Boy pays the final repair of Jackpot using ''his blood''. According to the dialogue, the mechsuit just sprouts needles out of nowhere and starts draining him. Made even worse by his mech suit's health bar switching from armor to normal health, which carries it's own horrific implications.

* One of the doors you can knock on in Cursehaven is answered by someone who doesn't want to let you in...because they've [[ImAHumanitarian just eaten]]. But they ask you to wait around, as [[ImpliedDeathThreat they'll have more room shortly]]...
* You think the Calypso's cult was bad? The DLC's cult, the Bonded has omninous chanting, mass sacrifice, and tentacles. Both as part of their costumes and attacks. Some of the enemies have shields with beating hearts in them.

** Adding onto this, the fights with the COV are more in the flavor of traditional Borderlands gunfights, comedic action-movie sequences with lots of explosions, bullets and witty one-liners. The Bonded throw this out the window, with their fights being more along the lines of scenes from Resident Evil, facing off against unknown and untold horrors, throwing everything you have into the fray in a desperate attempt to stay alive.

* The Ruiner, a creature so fearsome that the Company bombed its research rather than attempt to hatch it. Not to mention that the bad guy hatched it anyway by creating an explosion so big that the sky turns green.

** It's probably why they stayed out of the Corporate Wars and never open The Vault on Eden-6.

* Scraptrap Nest. My God, the Scraptrap Nest. The years of hiding from Jack's sanctioned pogrom of the Claptraps have corrupted their programming so badly that they've turned feral and aggressive to anyone residing in The Compactor, and are genuinely frightening to face.

[[caption-width-right:350:Behold, one of [[BossInMooksClothing The Anointed. ''Have fun.'']]

** It's especially bad for fans of ''WesternAnimation/{{AdventureTime}}'', as it's likely to remind them of the mushroom bomb, and the birth of The Lich

* The Ruiner hatching looks like a nuclear bomb going off, and unlike ''Videogame/{{Fallout}}'' it's portrayed as terrifying. The sky is blocked out with green clouds, fire and debris stream through the air, and when you call Juno you can hear everyone panicking in the background.

** The lower levels of the Facility turn the above point UpToEleven. It's very similar to the lower levels of [[VideoGame/Portal2 Apeture Science,]] and while there's nothing explicitly scary down there, [[NothingIsScarier you get the feeling there might be...]]

* The Meatman, a legend of Gehenna, said to make even the toughest men disappear, leaving only their hats behind. Granted, the questgiver's target is very superstitious, but said target is a very bloody killer, and seeing the flaming fake of this legend can either kill him via heart attack or make him give up the thought of killing even a flower.

** The lower levels of the Facility turn the above point UpToEleven. It's very similar to the lower levels of [[VideoGame/Portal2 Apeture Science,]] and while there's nothing explicitly scary down there, [[NothingIsScarier you get the feeling there might be...]]

* In ''Bounty of Blood'', the Company, as the narrator explains, is where the raiders loot the destructive weapons used to attack the town and experiment with several creatures, including the one hatched from the "Town Stone". What makes this scary is that the Company isn't a new entry, it's actually Jakobs, so even if it's before Wainwright's time, even a company focused on pure raw damage isn't so pure.
* The Ruiner, a creature so fearsome that the Company bombed its research rather than attempt to hatch it. Not to mention that the bad guy hatched it by creating an explosion so big that the VH and the town (on opposite sides) can see a big green mushroom cloud in the horizon.

* The Ruiner, a creature so fearsome that the Company bombed its research rather than attempt to hatch it. Not to mention that the bad guy hatched it by creating an explosion so big that the VH and the town (on opposite sides) can see a big green mushroom cloud in the horizon.

* Mayhem level 4 gives enemies enough health/armor/shields it turns the entire game upside down, especially if playing solo. Enemy encounters you casually walked through earlier now turn into long battles where cover is extremely important, enemies take a lot of punishment to fall, and heavy enemies become horrifying tanks that just refuse to go down. And to make things worse, enemy shields can still replenish, so you need to keep firing to even stand a chance. It gets easier once you adjust, but the enemy buffs are impressive enough a player trying the mode out will feel overwhelmed for a good while.

* Ratches are horrible, disgusting rat/bug monsters with scary faces and nests that are infesting everything.