Shout Out / Borderlands 2

Player Characters

Salvador The Gunzerker

Heads

• The Baron
• Bowler Badass
• Breaking Bald
• Boatmurderer (Also a reference to Dwarf Slayers from Warhammer)
• Gearhead
• Superduperfly
• Top Card

Skins

• Annoying Orange
• Bluebeard
• Golden Trigger Finger
• A Green Day
• Green Sleeves
• Haggard and Horrible
• I Blue Myself
• I Don't Wanna Explode
• Indigo Montoya
• Pale Rider
• Red Baron
• Red Dwarf
• Salvador SMASH!
• Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
• Starry Night
• Tin Roof -- Rusted
• When I'm Old and Grey

Skills

• Come At Me, Bro: "Nigh Invulnerability is one hell of a drug".
• Hard to Kill
• Bus That Can't Slow Down
• Ain't Got Time to Bleed / Sexual Tyrannosaurus
• I'm the Juggernaut
• 5 Shots or 6
• I'm Your Huckleberry
• Yippee Ky Yay
• Just Got Real
• Inconceivable
• Out Of Bubblegum
• No Kill Like Overkill: "I'm looking for a really big gun that holds a lot of bullets".

Class Mods

• Altered Beast (1988)
• Legendary Gunzerker: "Nobody puts this baby in a corner."

Dialogue

• "KILLING WITH SKILL!"
• "GARBAGE DAY!"
• "I AM INVINCIBLE!"
• "BOOSH!"
• "BIENVENIDOS A LA FIESTA, AMIGO!" ^note Spanish form of "Welcome to the party, pal!"
• While Gunzerking:
  • "CHOW YUN-FAT!"
  • "SOLO PUEDE HABER UNO!"
• Killing an enemy while Gunzerking:
  • "GET OFF MY PLANE!"
  • "ESTE ES ME BOOMSTICK!"
  • "IT'S BEEN REVOKED!"
  • "SONRÍE, HIJO DE...!"

Zer0 The Assassin

Heads

• 3NG13 (Engie)
• C04l Tr41n (Coal Train)
• G4l4h4d (Galahad)
• Gh0st
• Punk
• Murder of Cr0ws: (Scarecrow) and Ech0lcation
• Are Y0u Still There
• I D0 Declare

Skins

• Azure Knight
• Better Red
• Blue Bot
• Blue Light Special
• Blue Scarab
• Cool as Ice
• Dark Night
• Eyes of the Snake
• Green-Eyed Monster
• Leaf on the Wind
• Mutant: complete with Leonardo Blue stripe down his helmet.
• Pinky Has a Brain
• Red Shirt
• Reptilian
• Sound and Fury
• Sting Like a Bee
• This is HEV-y
• Tiptoe Through the Tulips
• Toad of Battle
• UltraMarine
• Vault Suit
• Who're you callin' yellow?
• Why so Serious
• Wish Upon a Star
• The Yellow Dart
• D0n't Get My Dander Up

Skills

• C0unter Strike
• Death Bl0ss0m
• Kill C0nfirmed
• Many Must Fall
• Death Mark: "It's not an easy thing to live with."

Class Mods

• The Professional
• Legendary Killer: "Well, that escalated quickly."

Dialogue

• "How hilarious / You just set off my trap card / Your death approaches."
• "I get skills for kills / Such a profitable life / I am rich, biatch."
• "This is the story / All about how my life got / Flipped, turned upside-down."

Axton the Commando

Heads

• Medic Mantis
• Wetworker: Demoman's knit cap and eyepatch.
• Shadoloo Style: M Bison's Commissar Cap.
• Gallant Grunt: Imperial Guard helmet.
• Covert Op
• Clever Boy
• Warrior of Light: Solaire's helmet

Skins

• Axton's Blue Period
• Blue Bomber
• Buring Love
• "Double Down Brown Town": Reference to the Destructoid podcast, "Podtoid".
• Fade to Blue
• Fire and Forget
• Golden Boy
• The Half-Shell
• Ice and Fire
• The scarlet-colored Miss O'Hara
• The Man With The Golden Pun
• Mister Blonde
• The Pink Panzer
• Purple Haze
• Red Fraction
• Red Rover
• Twenty Thousand Leagues
• Undah da Sea
• Advanced Warfare

Class Mods

• Pointman
• Legendary Ranger: "Wanna know how I got these scars?"

Skills

• Duty Calls
• Battlefront

Dialogue

• "You get a bullet! And you get a bullet! EVERYBODY GETS A BULLET!"
• invoked "Cool Story Bro."
• "On your feet, soldier!"

Maya the Siren

Heads

• Metal Fear: The Cyborg Ninja's head minus the light in the center.
• Nevermore
• Clean Shave: Bald with blue tattoos.

Skins

• Black Widow
• Blackest Night
• Emerald Hornet
• Fright of the Bumblebee
• Mellow Yellow
• Pretty and Pink
• Rose Tailor
• Slice of Fried Gold: Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's slang for "brilliant".
• Sound and Fury
• Wise Grasshopper

Class Mods

• Warder
• Fox: features image of a flaming fox.
• Bullet Witch

Dialogue

• "To the moon!" — When running over enemies
• "So it goes..."

Gaige the Mechromancer

Heads

• Fragger
• Metal Blood: Tali from Mass Effect (Naturally, also a Wrench Wench that uses an Attack Drone)
• Sinful Sweetheart: Ema Skye from Ace Attorney
• Neverending and Gory
• Infector Gadget

Skins

• And Hell Followed With Her
• Bye Bye Baby
• Chilling and Killing: "... my Annabel Lee."
• Don't Drink the Water
• It's Always Sunny on Pandora
• Reddy Steddy Go
• Streets Ahead / Cool Cool Cool
• A Study in Red
• Girly Rotten
• Horrible Religion
• Cool as Ice
• YESFX
• Bring Out Your Dead
• Summoner Sickness

Class Mods

• Paranoid Punk mods, which give the biggest boost to the Annoyed Android skill.

Skills

• A few to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • 20% Cooler
  • Fancy Mathematics
  • The Stare
  • Evil Enchantress
• Strength of Five Gorillas
• Wires Don't Talk
• Made of Sterner Stuff
• Make it Sparkle: "Robots are like vampires: they sparkle when hit with incendiary rounds."
• Sharing Is Caring
• The Nth Degree
• Robot Rampage: "If one attack is good, then seven should be elected mayor."

Dialogue

• "Terminated!"
• "Exterminate!"
• "MECHROMANCER ANGRY"
• "Killing Spree!", "Unstoppable!", "Multikill-kill-kill-kill-kill...", etc.
• "Snikt, Snikt Bub!" — When using her With Claws skill.
• "UNLIMITED POWER!"
• "ALLAN WRITE SOME DIALOGUE HERE!"
• When summoning Deathtrap:
  • "Number Five alive!"
  • "By my command!"
  • "Klaatu Barada Nikto!"
  • "To hell with the First Law!"
  • "Domo arigato, suckas!"
  • "It's robot fighting time!"
• In her ECHO logs Gaige says she thinks whatever Marcy has planned for the science fair will look like an Interocitor compared to Deathtrap.

Krieg The Psycho

Heads

• ZEN AND THE ART OF MEAT
• His I HEAR YOUR BLOOD mask looks very similar to General Grievous's.

Skins

• CRIMSON WAVE MR. HALL
• I CAN'T BREATHE IN THIS

Skills

• Burn Baby Burn

Class Mods

• Legendary Sickle: "You're entering a world of pain"

Dialogue

• Doctor Who:
  • "You were fantastic. SO WAS I!" — when winning a duel.
  • "It's the end, but the meat has been prepared!" — Losing a duel.
  • "CARROT JUICE!?" — when accepting a duel.
  • "NO LAST WORDS FOR THE EIGHTH!" and "I DON'T WANT TO GO!" — quotes while falling into Fight-for-Your-Life mode.
• "You're in my spot!" — Using 'Redeem the Soul.'
• "Looks like them Puke boys are in a peck o' trouble!" — Catching big air in a vehicle.
• "It's a bloody business, Bates!" — Building up Bloodlust stacks.
• "Friendship is hate!" — Issuing a duel.
• "Now... GO TO SLEEP!" — Killing a Badass (reference to the Jeff The Killer Creepypasta).
• "What an amazing chest, Gwynevere!" — Opening a chest.
• "I swallowed your soul!" — Scoring a Buzz Axe kill.
• "From Hell's heart!" — Dying with Pull the Pin.
• "Confusion!" — Accidentally melee-ing yourself due to 'Silence the Voices.'
• "He's on fire!" — Lighting yourself on fire with Burn, Baby, Burn, Fuel the Fire, and/or Delusional Damage.

Enemies

Introduced in the main game

• In one of Tannis' missions, she sends you into the Bloodshot stronghold to kill four mutant Rat-type enemies. The references are legion:
  • The mission is called "Splinter Group".
  • You have to lure them out with their Trademark Favorite Food: pizza.
  • They are found in a sewer.
  • They initially mistake you for their friend, June.
  • They talk with a stereotypical surfer accent, much like the 1980s versions of the Turtles.
  • The four Rats in question are named Lee, Mick, Dan, and Ralph. And they wear blue, orange, purple, and red, respectively.
  • A challenge named "Cut 'Em No Slack" after a line from the TMNT theme song requires you to kill the Rats in the order their corresponding turtles are named in said song.
  • One of their fight quotes: "This dude's worse than the Hand Clan!"
  • An optional boss fight after you kill the four mutants? Their master, Flinter.
  • The area you enter after beating the four mutants is modeled after the Turtles' lair from the 1980s cartoon.
  • Hell, the mission complete text for this mission? One word: "References!"
• The Threshers are giant sand worms.
• There are two Stalkers fought in the jungle-themed "Wildlife Exploitation Preserve" level called Pimon and Tumbaa.
• The Eridium Blight level houses two boss bullymongs called King Mong and Donkey Mong.
• Scooter's quest "The Cold Shoulder" ends with you fighting Laney White and her seven midgets.
• Goliaths will shout "Welcome to die!"
• Suicide Bandits will shout "YOLO!"
• At the end of a side mission in the level "The Fridge", you fight a Rakk-disguised bandit called Rakkman. His ECHO ends up with a statement saying "I am throatscratch! I am the pants! I AM RAKKMAN!".
  • In battle, Rakkman refers to himself as "the Goddamn Rakkman", and in True Vault Hunter Mode he becomes "Rakkman Forever".
  • He hangs out in a place called "The Rakk Cave."
  • His ECHO log makes a reference to his mother's "pearly-pearls." In media of the game's period, Bruce's mother was murdered by a mugger for her pearl necklace.
• Bandits will shout "I am the one who knocks!"
• Bandits will shout "You're not Alexander!"
• And bandits will also shout "NEVER SHOULD HAVE COME HERE!"
• Bandits in Buzzard helicopters will shout "Tora! Tora!" and sing "Ride of the Valkyries".
• The PWR Loader robots have spinning blades for hands, and also resemble a power lifter. To say nothing of how Hyperion engineers appear to be wearing miniature versions of the Power Lifter.
• The BNK-3R's Boss Subtitles reads 00101010. If you know your Binary Code, this represents the number "42", which in itself is a reference to the Arc Number of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
• In True Vault Hunter Mode, Lab Rats are renamed R.O.U.S.'s.
• Psychos will also shout "INCONCEIVABLE!" when shot.
• Constructors will announce they're "Charging my laser".
• Crystalisks.
• Psychos will sometimes quote entire passages of Hamlet.
  • When killed, Goliaths will sometimes say "Good night, sweet prince" or "I am slain!"
• Psychos occasionally shout "Never gonna give you up..." as a death-cry.
• Loaders will announce that "First Law disabled. Lethal Force Approved."
• Lab Rats will exclaim "the fear!" when attacked.
  • When they use their Eye Beams, Lab Rats sometimes say "Optic Blast!"
• A dying Nomad may say "Bury me with my stuff..."
• A dying Goliath may say "Time for go to bed..."
• Rats are quite fond of eating people. "Allez cuisine!"
• If you phaselock a Goliath, he might say "I believe I can fly!"
• Hyperion Engineers will say "I didn't ask for this...." when dying.
• Doubles as Actor Allusion, but sometimes a Goliath will threaten to floss his teeth with your spine.
• When you throw a grenade, you might hear a bandit yell "I don't wanna explode!"

Introduced in Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty

• There's an unique enemy that has a chance of spawning somewhere in Magnys Lighthouse. His name is Mr. Bubbles, and he is accompanied by a midget named Lil' Sis. If you kill Mr. Bubbles without harming Lil' Sis, she will stop being hostile and give you a gun called Little Evie.

Introduced in Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage

• Some motorcycle-riding bikers are called Road Warriors in Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode.
• Midgets occasionally ride into battle on the backs of goliaths, echoing the dynamic inherent to Master Blaster.

Introduced in Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep

• Orcs talk about being "'ard". They also call each other "boyz", and humans "humies".
• Dragons closely resemble the dragons in Skyrim.
• Wizards... just about everything they say is a reference. Magic words range from "Bibbity, bobbity, DIE!" to "Sim sim sala BOOM!" to "Mekka lekka hi, you're gonna die!" Run away from them and they may say "That's right, fly, you fools!"
• Knights, when wounded, might say their injury is "But a scratch".
• Pixies: "HEY! LISTEN!"
• A unique enemy in Hatred's Shadow: a patch of darkness on the wall, named The Darkness. You attack The Darkness.
  Achievement Unlocked: It's Like That One Video
  • Bonus points if you cast Magic Missile at The Darkness.
• One of the enemies is a fire skeleton that, when headshotted, becomes a floating skull that rams towards their enemies, like a Lost Soul.

Introduced in the Headhunters packs

• The Horrible Hunger of the Ravenous Wattle Gobbler DLC has two chef minibosses named Chef Gouda Remsay and Chef Bork Bork.
  • The two Tributes of Opportunity are named Axel and Rose

Other

Gear

• All Vladof sniper rifles' prefix and title are in Nadsat.
• Dahlminator: "Dodge this".
• Vladof Transformer shield: "There's more than your eye can see".
• Roaster rocket launcher: "Toasty!"
• Dahl Emperor SMG: "You know... for him."
• The Jakobs Hammer Buster assault rifle: "Gar! Gorarr! My dad's a scientist! GWARRRR!!!!"
• Longbow: Shoots Minecraft arrows, has the flavor text "Ceci n'est pas une sniper rifle."
• Thre Dog^note Bandit-manufactured, thus the spelling, and since the game engine treats "Thre" as a prefix, it registers as "Dog" shotgun: "One barrel ain't enough, and two is too few!"
• Miss Moxxi's Heart Breaker: "I don't want to set the world on fire..."
• Veritas gun and Aequitas shield
• The Law pistol and Order shield: "Chung-gunk."
• Gwen's Head: "What's in the box?!"
• Captain Blade's Orphan Maker: "Makes Orphans Often"
• Deliverance shotgun: "Kiki got a shotgun"
• Chère-amie sniper rifle: "Je suis enchante, Ou est le bibliotheque?"
• Stinkpot combat rifle, which was the first elemental Jakobs gun: "We're pirates. We don't follow the rules!"
• Fastball grenade: "Forget the curveball, Ricky, give him the heater."
• Nukem rocket launcher: Stylized yellow radiation symbols on it and the flavor text "Name Dropper."
• The Unkempt Harold pistol: "Did I fire five shots or six? Three? Seven. Whatever."
• The Blockhead shotgun: "Also try Minecraft!"
• The Mysterious Amulet of the Tiny Tina DLC is a reference to the Pendant in Dark Souls. Specifically, as an item of unknown benefit that might possibly be put in the game simply just to confuse players and cause them to speculate. And exactly like the source^note At least until Commander Lilith..., where it's needed in order to get the UNICORNSPLOSION! from Butt Stallion, they offer no benefit at all... Other than a graphical effect that only activates for every player currently wearing it, which only takes effect with a minimum of two players. Pretty lights, and no bonus whatsoever.
• Incendiary Bandit weapons are have the prefix "Fire Fire", appropriately enough for weapons made by dumb, childish pyromaniacs.
  • Meanwhile, incendiary Bandit rocket launchers have the prefix "Hunka burnin'".
• Logan's Gun: "Gun, Gunner!"
• The "Deadly Bloom" shield, with flavor text: "What do you mean...theoretically?"
• The Kitten assault rifle: "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
• The "Lightning Bolt" grenade mod's flavor text: What's a jiggawatt?
• Doubles as a Stealth Pun: the Legendary Veruc assault rifle references one of the bratty kids in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Don't get it? Read the gun's name and type out loud. Bonus points for being manufactured by Dahl.
• The DLC Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep has a shotgun which launches swords called "SWORDSPLOSION!". Its Flavor Text reads "Because Mr. Torgue said so!"

Vehicle Skins

• Char: No effect on speed, unfortunately.
• Neon Purple: Neon purple and green.
• Alabaster: White Sand Skiff skin.
• Propane: Blue flames, possibly of valour.

Missions

• 3:10 to Kaboom
• The Once and Future Slab
• The Man Who Would Be Jack
• Mighty Morphin'
• Medical Mystery: XCOM-Municate
• Rocko's Modern Strife
• Bright Lights, Flying City
• The entire mission "Too Close for Missiles" is a sustained reference to Top Gun: the quest giver is Loggins (Kenny Loggins did much of the Top Gun soundtrack), who spouts lines from the movie as the quest progresses. The final step is to kill the Shirtless Men after you burn their volleyball net. The completion screen is also a direct parody of the movie's opening crawl.
• Splinter Group: you have to exterminate a group of escaped mutants named Lee, Ralph, Mick and Dan and Flinter.
  • And you even had to lure them out with pizza.
  • After dropping the pizza: "What the hell, you're not June! GET 'EM, DUDES!"
• The mission briefing for "Let There Be Light" directs you to install Captain Blade's compass at the top of the lighthouse, where it will reveal the location of the Treasure of the Sands. So you've got that going for you. Which is nice.
• "No Vacancy" references Gearbox's expansion to Half-Life, Opposing Force, where you need to find a valve and a gearbox to proceed. Here, you need to find a steam valve and a gearbox. Sadly, no giant alien worm.
• The Pretty Good Train Robbery: The mission screen quips "Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?"
• A mission in Wurmwood requires you to kill a monster named Grendel.
• Hyperion Contract #873: The Morningstar has the "FPS Mod", which was made by project Ex-Kay Seedy.
• In Memoriam. A man is making recordings of a video game character which the character disapproves of. His name is Boll... as in infamous adapter Uwe.
• Ellie's hood ornaments in "Positive Self Image" use the same pose as Rolls-Royce's "Spirit of Ecstasy"
• The title for the mission "I Know It When I See It" in the Washburne Refinery is a reference to a phrase used by Justice Potter Stewart in his definition of obscenity (specifically pornography) in the United States Supreme Court case Jacobellis versus State of Ohio. Seriously, how many video games reference the Supreme Court?
• The mission to locate Captain Scarlett is "A Study in Scarlett."
• Won't Get Fooled Again: Where you need to find the culprit in a crime. If you get it right, the quest even ends with a one-liner worthy of Horatio Caine himself.
• A Real Boy: A robot wants to become human, and as a reward he gives you a gun called Fibber, which lies about its own stats (but is still a good gun due to having a number of unique effects, some of which are significantly more powerful than others).
• Assassinate the Assassins: The bonus objective for the fourth assassin asks that you MDK (Murder Death Kill) him with a shotgun.
  • The first assassin, named Wot, has to be killed with a pistol.
• In the Lynchwood mission "Showdown", a bonus objective requires you to shoot the sheriff, but not the deputy.
• The Talon of God: Once you've finished shooting The Warrior, Lilith tells you to activate the Moonshot Console. What are you doing? Nuking the creature from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
  • Additionally, Lilith ends the final scene on the line "No rest for the wicked." Doubles as a reference to the first game.
  • At the very beginning, Claptrap is fiddling with a panel to get access into Hero's Pass. Halfway through, while you are holding off a massive enemy assault, he accidentally triggers a set of blast doors.
• The Good, The Bad and The Mordecai, which culminates in a three-man stand-off in a graveyard over buried treasure.
• For part of Animal Rescue, the text when you start each part are a reference to If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, e.g. "If you give a skag some medicine, it's going to want some food...".
• The Bagman in the Clan War questline is referred to as a leprechaun, and when you ambush him, he says "They're after me money!", a clear reference to the Lucky Charms mascot. The initial description of the quest ("Hearts, stars and horseshoes...") is lifted from the cereal's longtime jingle.
  • The entire Clan War questline is also a shoutout to Yojimbo/A Fistful of Dollars/Last Man Standing.
• Faster than the Speed of Love
• The mission description for Big Feet: Advice from an old tracker: you wanna find something, use your eyes.
• The mission description for Get To Know Jack is Know Your Enemy.

Challenges

• You're One Ugly Mother...
• Say 'Watt' Again
• The Call of Booty
• It's Not Easy Looting Green
• Death, Wind and Fire
• Game of Thorns
• Gone with the Second Wind
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Assault Rifle
• This is my Rifle... and ...This is my Gun
• Lock, Stock, and...
• What're Ya Buyin?
• For The Hoard!
• Yo Dawg, I heard you like Challenges
• The Not-So-Phantom Tollbooth
• Eff Yo Couch
• Down with Big, Handsome Brother
• That's Impossible, Even for a Computer
• Down the Rabbit Whole
• If You're Not First, You're Last
• Blue Sparks
• A Squall of Violence
• Purple Reign
• Hard Boiled
• The Killer
• Burnin' Ring of Fire
• C4 is for Cookie
• So Much Blood!
• Fus Ro Die!
• Orcs Should Perish (Incidentally, both games have Colleen Clinkenbeard as part of the cast)
• Savage Bloody Savage
• Dead Air

Minor Dialogue

Angel

• At one point Angel mentions that Roland is the man with the plan.
• Angel says that Handsome Jack's body doubles do all his "hand-kissing and baby-shaking" for him.

Claptrap

• "My pal Hammerlock can fix me right up. Allons-y!"
• "Minion, roll out!"

Crazy Earl

• "It's dangerous to go alone, jerkwad!"

Ellie

• "After this, you're gonna be the last man standin' with A Fistful of Dollars! ...Yo, Jimbo!" (Both films follow the same premise as the mission-a Drifter gets caught up in a Mob War and sees the opportunity to make some money by working for both sides.)
• What Scooter said - I wanna hollow that sumbitch's gourd and eat nachos out of it. (After she hears Scooter demanding Jack's head on a pike via Echonet.)

Handsome Jack

• I'm sending everything I have at you! EVERYTHING!
• In Zer0's history Echoes, Jack says (to Angel) "You have a brain the size of a planet."
• "Let's all go out for milkshakes."
• Jack brags about buying a horse made out of diamond. A crystal pony if you will. It's not a sculpture, by the way.

Marcus

• "Your friendly neighborhood arms dealer"

Moxxi

• One of her responses to being tipped is to remember a great piece of advice Pappy Hodunk once gave her, which is subtitled [Frontier Jibberish].

New-U Stations

• "Hyperion welcomes you back from your visit to the undiscovered country."
• "Rise from your grave!"
• "Hell is reserved exclusively for pedophiles, and people who buy Jakobs munitions."
• "We hope you enjoy your new regeneration."
• "Hyperion suggests Live! Liiiiiive!"

Opportunity

• "We will now take a moment of silence to commemorate this week's fallen workers: Hartnell, W.; Troughton, P.; Pertwee, J.; Baker, T."
• The history exhibit seems at least partially based on a similar one dedicated to Andrew Ryan in Bioshock 2

Sanctuary citizens

• "I'm missing Constable What for this?"
• "Have you ever played the ECHO sim Gang That Wears Purple?"
• "I used to be a Vault Hunter like you◊, until I took a bullet to the knee." ^note Borderlands 2 writer Anthony Burch apologized for the joke on Twitter.
• More subtly, a Crimson Raider may say, "Aargh, kneecap's seizing up! Damn war wounds."
• "Winter's coming."
• "Are we having fun yet?"
• "This is no planet for old men."
• "Constant Vigilance."
• "I must go now. My people need me". Even funnier with a glitch that makes enemies float off into the sky.
• "I feel asleep..."
• "This place is just outside heaven for soldiers like us. Always something to fight."

Tiny Tina

• "Boosh"
• "Shorty, you da best. You da you da best."
• When you first see her, she greets you with "O hai!"

Wilhelm

• "I am Jack's righteous fury"

DLC

Captain Scarlett and her Pirate's Booty

• The Captain herself is a shout-out to Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
• The sand skiffs are from Return of the Jedi with Captain Scarlett's being Jabba the Hutt's.
• Shade's face is reminiscent of Raoul Duke from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
• Sandman rides a Goliath in a manner similar to Master Blaster from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.

Mister Torgue's Campaign of Carnage

• Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage is loaded with mission name references, all references to hard rock/heavy metal tunes.
  • Kickstart my Heart
  • Highway to Hell and Long Way to the Top
  • Twelve O'Clock High
  • A Montage
  • Eat Cookies and Crap Thunder
  • Welcome to the Jungle, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, and Appetite for Destruction
  • Chop Suey
  • Bar Room Blitz
• Mister Torgue at one point tells the player that it's "Straight up Dawg Time", a reference to the game "Dudebro: My Shit Is Fucked Up So I Got to Shoot/Slice You II: It's Straight-Up Dawg Time", a game made by the NeoGAF community which, much like the DLC, satirizes Testosterone Poisoning.
• One of Pyro Pete's first lines is "fire walk with me."
• Fly-Boy is constantly name dropping Final Fantasy references.
  "TOUGH TIDUS!"
  "You can go kefka the taint."
  "None of you hojos can compare to me!"
  "Now midgar out of here!"

Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt

• Savages in Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt sometimes shout "La Li Lu Le Lo!"
• Early on in Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt, Professor Nakayama first addresses the Vault Hunters as "little moths"
• Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt features a sidequest called "The Rakk Dahlia Murder," which is a reference to an infamous Hollywood murder case.
• Candlerakk's Crag entrance is near the skeleton of a huge creature (with some reptile or fish features) holding a monolith of similar size.
• Professor Nakayama's tinkering with animal genetics to create new war machines, combined with his physical appearance, attempts at being intimidating and coming across as pathetic, and the primary initial of his name give him more than a passing resemblance to Dr. Neo Cortex. To reinforce this, Krieg is awarded the head "MASKS MAKE ME LOOK FAT", a tribal mask similar to Uka Uka that brings to mind Crash Bandicoot himself with his physique, shirtless outfit, and being an escaped lab experiment.

Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon's Keep

• Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep is filled with shout outs and references to MMOs, nerd culture, and other things.
  • There's a quest where you have to find Ellie a suit of armor. You can either get her a sensible, protective armor, or a Chainmail Bikini. The skimpier outfit is a dead ringer for Slave Girl Leia from Return of the Jedi.
    • The armor also shows up in the teaser image, which serves as an homage to the Army of Darkness cover.
  • One quest is nothing but a giant reference to Dark Souls with the Vault Hunter helping out what is, by all appearances, a Dark Souls player down on his luck. There's a part where you fight giant skeletons in a graveyard, the stuff you grab for him comes with the item description "You sense agony. Despair. Snapped controllers," and at the end of the quest, the game is 'invaded' by a huge, red-tinted knight who uses recognizable moves from the game. The player advises you at the end to "Hold on to your humanity."
  • One quest has you being sent after Prince Jeffery, who sits upon an Iron Throne made up of guns and has guards named Molehill and Canine (a reference to Gregor and Sandor Clegane, who are known as The Mountain and The Hound respectively). The main joke of the quest is that Mordecai doesn't get the references since he doesn't watch Game of Thrones, instead watching a show about duchesses getting married.
  • The quest for the raid boss of the DLC is called Raiders of the Last Boss.
    • Funnily enough, in the spanish version of the DLC, the dragon's names are references to other media.
      Healianth is called Tiamatzo. Could be also a shout-out to Final Fantasy.
      Brood is called Elliot.
      Incinerator is called Smaugón.
      Boost is called Spyroide.
  • During one quest where you help Claptrap become a wizard, he tries to summon a powerful demon, but ends up summoning brooms.
  • In one quest, you hunt down a crazed knight's friends to see which of them stole his loot. Their names are Sir Boil, Sir Mash, and Sir Stew.
  • The mission My Dead Brother has the rather simple description of "Bro team kill."
  • The mission Fake Geek Guy features Tiny Tina asking Mister Torgue various nerd culture related questions to test if he is a real nerd. These include references to Star Trek (the frequent deaths of Red Shirts specifically), The Lord of the Rings, and Doctor Who.
  • One of the spell grenade mods is Fireball. Its flavor text? "Porkchop sandwiches!"
    • Similarly, Lightning Bolt (whose flavor text mentions jigawatts) and Magic Missile (point and shoot).
  • Butt Stallion finally makes an appearance, in which she's shown to be a white unicorn mare with curly, purple-indigo hair. Does that description remind you of someone who is also associated with diamonds? And lest people believe it's a coincidence, the game makers are well aware of the similarities. At one point a picture of Handsome Jack styling a Rarity toy was even posted on the game's facebook page.
• Owing to the fantasy setting of the "Bunkers & Badasses" game, all the dialogue for the vending machines is changed. Thus:
  • Zed: You need healin'... badly!
  • Have fun stormin' the tower!
• The Dwarves make quite a few references when you kill them.
  "Hi ho! Hi ho! It's off to Hell I go..."
  "At least it isn't another bloody Creeper!"
  "Losing... is fun..."
• The various mages say magical incantations as well.
  Meka-leka-hi-meka-YOU'RE-GONNA-DIE!
• When you first get the "Post-Crumpocalyptic" quest, Moxxi says that "Times are tough, sugar...."
• Mister Torgue wants you to blow up the ocean!
  • He also says at one point that he is "THE MOST ELECTRIFYING MAN IN COMBAT ENTERTAINMENT".
• Claptrap at one point shouts "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" before slamming his staff down.
• There's an "enemy" called "The Darkness". You get an achievement for throwing a Magic Missile grenade at it because you're attacking the darkness.
• After Claptrap says "I love you guys!" at Roland's statue, we hear the last line of narration in the DLC, spoken by Marcus: "And then Claptrap said something stupid and ruined everything."
  Lyrics: "...and then I go and spoil it all by saying somethin' stupid like "I love you..."

Commander Lilith & the Fight for Sanctuary

• The achievement/trophy for activating the Backburner's firewall is "Anyway Here's 'Firewall'."
• The achievement/trophy for equipping effervescent-quality (rainbow) gear in all slots is "Painbow Connection."
• There's a box of Torgue brand Eggos marked "Property of 11" in Mt Scarab Research Station.
• Scooter's Memorial is See You, Space Cowboy.
• One of the locations in the Dahl Abandon is called Sinon's Perch.
• There is a sidequest named "My Brittle Pony", another goes "The Oddest Couple".
• Chapter 7 is titled "Paradise Found", which is a reference to Paradise Lost.
• Inside the Burrows is a small ice cave with a sword sticking out of a pile of frozen bones. When you try to take it out, a skag appears and attacks. His name is Ghost and the Relic he drops is called "Winter is Over."
• Hector's troops are labelled with titles such as "Heavy", "Pyro", "Sniper", "Medic", and "Scout". Sound familiar?
  • The "Winging It" mission is a Hold the Line scenario against Hector's troops. You have to help Ellie repair some turrets with a 'bashwrench,' which she says can "fix anything by thwacking it a few times" with the wrench. Said wrench is a classic 1950s-era monkeywrench, and is found in front of a picture of Scooter, a Southern-accented mechanical genius. This means that you are now the Engineer.

Etc...

• On the whole, the presence of the always-watching Helios station, the Hyperion army all believing Jack to be a god, Jack's face plastered across posters and Jack wanting to torture or crush any opposition are big references to Nineteen Eighty-Four. Opportunity is also a very Orwellian city, with the constant propaganda, giant statues, security cameras everywhere, and even the rewriting of history. And the moonshots could be inspired by the rocket-bomb that attacks a street full of proles in the novel's first act, and how the Party constantly bombs their own cities For the Evulz.
• A subtle one: after the mission "Bright Lights, Flying City", Sanctuary takes to the skies in order to evade the artillery barrage from Jack's Helios station. In other words, Sanctuary just became a Sky Sanctuary.
• According to writer Anthony Burch (on one of his Twitch TV Livestreams), Handsome Jack's name is a reference to Captain Jack Harkness, who is referred to as "Handsome Jack" in the Tenth Doctor episode "The Sound of Drums". Originally it was just a placeholder name, and Anthony asked, "You're not going to ship it with him still named that, are you?" They did.
• Tundra Express.
• When we first meet Mordecai, his cutscene consists of him climbing the tower above him while the camera pans out to a panoramic view.
• The sliding elevator up the Varkid Ramparts is a homage to AKIRA. There are several similar elevators in other locations as well - one at the end of the Fridge, and one leading up to the spectator area of the Bandit Arena of Slaughter.
• Caustic Caverns:
  • There's a secret area which contains a number of pixelated blocks and Creepers. They even drop pixelated skins and heads.
  • There's a bonfire with a phantom and an NPC named Solitaire.
• One loading screen says "If you use fire against fire skags, you're gonna have a bad time".
• Another loading screen: "Stalkers can't cloak without their organic shields, so get a shock weapon! If it bleeds, you can kill it, etc."
• One of the announcements heard in the Wildlife Exploitation Preserve tells you "Do not panic."
• In the Bunker area, there are a pair of road cones. One is green and one is purple. The purple one has little arms.
• You can can sacrifice a partner in co-op to the multi-armed statue of Marcus for guns by throwing them into a burning pit.
  • There's also graffiti nearby the statue that portrays Marcus as a huge head spewing weapons out of his mouth.
  • Hell, the Bloodshots' gun-obsessed quasi-cargo-cult is pretty much ripped out of Zardoz.
• Bloodshot Stronghold:
  • One of the graffiti◊ is the Crest of the Crimson Three Eyes◊ (a symbol of Zahard) from Tower of God.
• Marcus always had a lot of similarities to Sidorovich, and now his shop in Sanctuary has a lot of similarities to Sidorovich's bunker.
• On the second playthrough, there's an item in Claptrap's fireplace called "Geary's Ring." If one takes it all the way to Geary in the Eridium Blight without fast travel or dying, Geary will hit you and take the ring, then proceed to jump into the lava. Three Rakks will fly by and drop three large chests with epic loot.
• In a special spot in the Highlands, you can witness a Double Rainbow.
  Claptrap/Jack: Double Rainbow!
  Achievement: What does it mean?
• One of Zed's radio ads has a warning with numerous shout outs cutting in.
  "Come on down to-
  *WARNING: DOCTOR ZED IS NOT A REAL DOCTOR. HIS USE OF THE WORD DOCTOR IS PURELY FOR STYLISTIC AND AESTHETIC PURPOSES. SEE ALSO: PEPPER, DRE, OCTOPUS. PLEASE SEEK OUT AN ACTUAL LICENSED PHYSICIAN*
  - Doctor Zed's!"
• In "A Meat Bicycle Built for Two", Krieg's inner voice comments that Maya can "Kill me with her brain." Maya herself has a variation where she'll "incinerate your brain".
• If you take a close look at the Torgue-manufactured radios with the scope of a gun, you'll see that the radio stations on the dial go 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800... 9001.
• The flavor text for the SMG variation of submachine gun made by Dahl is "Now I can solve up to 800 problems a minute!"
• There is an exploration achievement in Eridium Blight called Vault Hunter Vs. the Volcano.
• The Wildlife Exploration Preserve, in a way, looks like Jurassic Park. Oh, and the Eridium Blight looks like Mordor. The latter has everything-crappy weather, dust blowing on your face, volcanoes...and it's the place where you actually get to meet the Big Bad.
• Similar to the example in Marcus' shop in T-Bone Junction in the first Borderlands, if you look around Claptrap's hideout on the glacier, you can find a soccer-ball-sized tank with a skull emblem on the front. Fortunately it doesn't explode.
• The Wattle Gobbler DLC is an obvious parody of The Hunger Games.

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