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{{quote|''I think Borderlands's system of randomly-generated guns are really neat, except sometimes they raise questions. [[Fridge Logic|"Why does my sniper have a bayonet"]] kind of questions.''|[http://www.awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=041210 Katie Tiedrich] on the Torgue Blister Shotgun, '''[[Awkward Zombie]]'''}}

 

 

 

* [[The Smurfette Principle|Lilith]], [[Touched by Vorlons|the Siren]]. A Phasewalker, capable of stepping out of reality to a phased out version of the world, while leaving presents (hint: harm) for her enemies on the way in and out.

* [[Friendly Sniper|Mordecai]], the Hunter. A wandering man whose [[The Beast Master|pet hawk Bloodwing is his best ally]]. [[Improbable Aiming Skills|Won a sharpshooting contest when he was 17 using a revolver, while the other contestants used sniper rifles]].

 

The most recent patch further increases the level cap by 8 for everyone (meaning those who have Knoxx get a cap of [[Freud Was Right|69]]).

 

 

 

'''[[Cage the Elephant|Ain't no rest for the wicked...]]'''

{{quote|"Four hundred percent more awesome! Also, Torgue doesn't make their guns out of freaking wood!"<ref>A [[Take That]] to rival gun manufacturer Jakobs.</ref>}}

* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: The more rare guns add special effects to the attacks.

** Note that Lilith's specialty is these types of weapons.

* [[Affably Evil]]:

** Dr. Ned [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|(who is totally not Dr. Zed)]] could count too.

* [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: {{spoiler|Interplanetary Ninja Assassin}} Claptrap and his revolutionary friends, though averted with the regular Claptraps.

* [[Amazon Brigade]]: The Lance Assassins. Phasewalkers are this, but there's only a handful of them.

* [[Ammunition Backpack]]: Certain enemies have ammo tanks which can be blown up (which is good, since these enemies tend to be the insanely powerful ones).

** The Healer: Roland, whose turret regenerates ammo and health, can [[Healing Potion|Raise Dead]] on being deployed, has class mods that also regenerate ammo, and a classic [[Healing Shiv]] power.

** The Nuker: Brick with maxed out launcher skills.

** The Pet Master: Roland with his Scorpio Turret. Mordecai can become this with Class mods that can refresh Bloodwing's cooldown faster than it completes an attack run.

** The Jack: Roland, who has the most Team-Centric abilities, and possibly the most varied set.

* [[And I Must Scream]]: When you first enter the lands of Tartarus Station, where the Claptrap revolution is taking place, you fight against regular human enemies. After finishing and turning in the first quest you get there, the same enemies you fought before have suddenly grown a bit more, [[You Will Be Assimilated|robotic in nature]]. Virtually every enemy you fight from that point on, with the exception of the D-Fault enemies, is a cyborg monster. They say [[Mercy Kill|"Please... just let me die..."]] upon death. Let that speak for itself.

* [[Apocalyptic Log]]:

** Tannis' first set of journals, somewhat. They detail Dahl's abandonment of her project and her [[Played for Laughs]] [[Sanity Slippage]], culminating in the Skags picking off her research team.

* [[Artificial Brilliance]]:

** Skags and Psychos lead their targets. The novelty wears off, but it's effective for such a simple strategy.

** Every enemy will shout a warning and assume a stance before engaging you in combat, giving you time to respond. If you heed the warning and leave their territory peacefully, they don't attack.

** Enemies will also be on high alert if you shoot at them from a distance and miss your target, now knowing you are out there somewhere.

* [[Attack Its Weak Point]]:

** For human(oid) enemies it's the [[Boom! Headshot!|head]]. For Skags, you have to shoot their exposed mouth, with a similar [[Pink Mist]] effect. Finally, for Spiderants, you have to shoot the abdomen. Bosses are where things get a bit more complicated, but it's generally pretty obvious; large glowy bits, things that look squishy, etc.

** The only time you can get the Rider sniper rifle is during the quest where you have to kill the Rakk Hive. The tagline for the weapon says "Careful... you might put someone's eye out." Guess where the weak-point is on the Rakk Hive...

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Some of the more esoteric weapons are harder to use than just shooting straight at things. The Eridian weapons probably top the list.

** The [[Evil Dead|Boomstick]] would be the [[Trope Codifier]] for impractical rocket-shooting shotguns, were there such a trope. It literally has no accuracy, being very capable of missing an enemy at point-blank range.

** Vehicles in certain areas or at higher levels are basically gigantic death traps that are only useful for getting around certain zones more quickly outside a few quests specifically designed to be completed in a vehicle. Ramming a higher-level badass mook will result in the vehicle exploding (downing the players inside) with said badass losing about 50% health.

** Sniper rifles with less than 94% accuracy. Even if it does a lot of damage, it won't do you much good if you keep missing due to having such a wide radius when zoomed in with it. Especially painful if it only has a 3 round magazine, and a really long reload animation.

** Most medium ranged weapons such as assault rifles or SMG's, without a zoom of some kind. Iron sights don't seem to work well in this game, so you'll either end up shooting from the hip, or you'll end up using the non-zoom weapons up close, which may not always be a good idea, especially if they have small magazine capacity and long reload time.

** Also the majority of the bandits, and at least two of the player characters.

* [[Badass]]: [[Elite Mooks]] are called this. On [[New Game+]], they get upgraded to Bad Mutha, and then [[Superbad]]s.

* [[Bathroom Stall Graffiti]]: While not in a bathroom, one quest given to you by Mad Moxxi has you cleaning up graffiti about her. Considering how [[A Worldwide Punomenon|badly written]] and [[Toilet Humor|childish]] said graffiti is, it's either a take on or a shout out to the trope.

** Literally with [[Mighty Glacier|Brick]], whose action skill (single button press) is "Berserk".

* [[BFS]]: Hanz, one of Baron Flynt's bodyguards, has one.

* [[Big No]]: Whenever Mordecai dies.

{{quote|''"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! I '''NEVER''' DIE!!!"''}}

* [[Black Comedy Rape]]:

* [[Bling Bling Bang]]: Knoxx's Gold.

* [[Bloody Hilarious]]: Many deaths from elemental weapons.

* [[Body Backup Drive]]: The player-characters possess immortality through the New-U stations (save checkpoints) they come across. If they do take too much damage and subsequently bleed out, they are simply cloned and deposited back at the last New-U station they passed. For a fee.

* [[Body Horror]]: Undead {{spoiler|Ned}} and Motorhead, FKA {{spoiler|Sledge}}.

* [[Boss Subtitles]]: Even the main characters get one.

** Sledge. '''P.S.: You guys aren't friends.'''

** Nine-Toes. [[Too Much Information|Also, He has three balls.]]

** Baron Flynt. '''[[Smoking Is Cool|That's medicinal.]]''' It's a reference to Woody Harrelson, who played Larry Flynt in the film, and is known to be a proponent of a certain smokable herb.

** The player characters have differing ones in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86WpLFOIYjw PC Launch Trailer] also. Mordecai is "Suavemaculant", Lilith is "Hot", Roland is "Swashbucklerous" and Brick is ''"Ballnormous"''.

** {{spoiler|Hank Reiss: WERESKAG ([[Nice Hat]]!)}}

** {{spoiler|Undead Ned. ''HOLY F*#KING SHIT!!!''}}

** (From The Secret Armory of General Knoxx) Scooter: ''GET YOU ONE!''

** Athena: [[Neck Snap|Oh snap!]]

* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: The effect of The Dove repeater pistol. "Sometimes I forget to reload."

* [[Bragging Rights Reward]]: A decent chunk of high level/rare weapons.

* [[Bullfight Boss]]: Alpha skag, and especially Skagzilla: they have thick front armor and a charge attack, so jumping out of the way and shooting their backs is the easiest way to defeat them. Corrosive weapons or a critical hit, however, are more efficient.

* [[Cain and Abel]]: Jaynis and Taylor Kobb. {{spoiler|Actually subverted, as once Jaynis is killed and Taylor takes control of his town, he proves to be just as bad as his brother}}.

* [[Cel Shading]]: The game is often mistaken as using it, but the lighting and shading are realistic, not cel.

* [[Character as Himself]]: Brick.

* [[Cherry Tapping]]: Very possible, for example if you're feeling suicidal enough to use the melee attacks (Brick's Berserker or stun attacks don't count) or an amazingly underleveled weapon. Or you could just go for the [[Goomba Stomp]]...

** Which will get you the Achievement/Trophy, "My Brother is an Italian Plumber".

* [[Chest Monster]]: Several containers in ''The Secret Armory of General Knoxx'' have midgets hiding inside.

** [[Shout-Out|However, his]] [[Shoryuken|special attack]] [[Shmuck Bait|can be]] [[HP to One|pretty devastating]].

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Patricia Tannis. Also, according to his twitter account, General Knoxx is one as well.

** Tannis' [[Boss Subtitles]] in ''Claptrap's New Robot Revolution'' comes with a background that has [[Visual Pun|screws and baseballs]] on it while pausing on her holding a [[Brain In a Jar]].

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: In some videos, [http://www.gametrailers.com/video/claptrap-behind-borderlands/55554 Clap][http://www.gametrailers.com/video/claptrap-behind-borderlands/56814 Trap].

* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: Elemental weapons have distinctive color markings on them that represent their element. Shock (good against shields) is blue. Fire (good against fleshy bits) is red. Blast (average against everything except scythids) is yellow. Corrosion (good against armor) is green. There is one weapon that cycles between them, which is orange.

** Enemy shields and clothing are coded this way too. Red enemies tend to be fire resistant and use fire attacks, green enemies are corrosion resistant and might spit poison at you, blue enemies are shock resistant and use electrical attacks, and so on.

** Even the companies themselves have this to a large extent for the color of their guns, such as brown for Jakobs, S&S's yellow, Maliwan's blue, Dahl's green or tan, Tediore's light grey, Hyperion's red, etc.

* [[Combat Medic]]:

** Roland, the most support-oriented character, has a skill tree called 'Medic', which helps him heal his allies, but that doesn't mean he's any less capable of fighting. His abilities include:

*** Giving the team a regenerative factor when he kills an enemy.

* [[Comeback Mechanic]]: The "Second Wind" feature, whereby if you manage to kill an enemy as you're in the throes of death yourself, you gain a small amount of health back, and can continue.

* [[Continue Your Mission, Dammit!]]: The Voice goes ''nuts'' towards the end of the game.

** Or they just live in there. Pandora doesn't have much in the way of sweet digs.

* [[Damage Over Time]]: Many weapons that deal elemental damage have a chance of causing damage over time as an added effect.

* [[Dark Action Girl]]: The Lance Assassins.

* [[Death by Materialism]]: If you fail to escape the armory by taking too much time looking through weapons chests. Although, since [[Death Is a Slap on The Wrist|death only means a monetary loss]], you're better off hunting for rare guns than trying to escape.

* [[Death Seeker]]: Knoxx by the time you meet him.

* [[Death World]]: Pandora makes Australia look like a petting zoo.

* [[Defector From Decadence]]: Roland (Soldier) is a former member of the Crimson Lance.

* [[Deflector Shields]]: A device that acts as additional regenerating hit points.

** The inverse happened to Patricia Tannis, who wasn't even mentioned at all in the trailer, and features a lot more than Pierce and actively helps you with your quest.

** The Vault Hunters of the first game are NPCs in the second, though still important to the story.

* [[Deployable Cover]]: Scorpio turrets have elements of this, but they're mostly for [[Captain Obvious|shooting things]].

* [[Desert Punk]]: No, really.

* [[Difficulty Spike]]: Playthrough 2.5 really ramps up the difficulty. For one thing, most enemies are now always either at or one level higher than you, and Badasses and bosses are much more lethal.

* [[Disc One Final Boss]]: {{spoiler|Baron Flynt, leader of Pandora's bandit hordes}}.

* [[Disc One Nuke]]: Due to this game's [[Random Drop]] system, it's [[Rare Random Drop|extremely rare]], but very possible to find weapons that possess incredible power at a low level requirement, early in the game. If you have a decent amount of luck, you can find a weapon that will tear the rest of the game apart.

** There's multiple breeds of weapons that are disproportionately powerful for their item level, which can be incredibly deadly in the right hands: any rapid-fire weapon with a high ignite chance (fire damage seems to be at the very least partially-HP-percentage-based, which renders them capable of utterly destroying Badass/boss foes regardless of level), mashers (relatively-accurate and fast-firing shotgun pistols), Anarchy submachine guns (quad-shot), the list goes on. God help your foes if you stumble across the Playthrough 2+ versions...

** Gearbox gives you one in a sidequest: the Madjack, a revolver that has crazily spinning bullets and a high ricochet chance. But that works to your advantage with distant, powerful targets: a Madjack can take out a Mulciber in just a few shots.

** You'll get the Clipper in your first hour or two of gameplay. It has a very high rate of fire, with a chance to do [[Kill It with Fire|fire damage]] with every hit. You'll be killing skags and Lance with it all the way to the end of the game.

* [[Do Not Run with a Gun]]: Played straight in that players cannot fire while running (crosshairs disappear, and taking a shot will just toggle back to walking speed), averted in that this is ignored if firing while airborne, so run-and-gun is possible by bouncing around.

** General Knoxx was about to kill himself before his boss battle.

* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Brick can barely read or write, but has strength that's best described as "rhino-like".

* [[Dynamic Loading]]: Dynamic Loading Fail is practically guaranteed, at least for the largest areas.

* [[Elite Mooks]]: Called [[Badass]]es, unless you do the [[New Game+]] which makes them ever more powerful and called '[[One Bad Mother|Bad Mutha]]'.

** And Playthrough 2.5 upgrades them again, this time to '[[Superbad]]s'.

* [[The Engineer]]: Roland (obviously), and the Crimson Lance Engineer enemies. Further, the badass Crimson Lance from the the 3rd DLC have an elemental turret as part of their skillset.

* [[Everything Fades]]: Played straight with enemies killed by non-elemental means. Justified with incineration and dissolving when enemies are killed with Fire or Corrosive elemental weapons, respectively.

* [[Evil Albino]]: Commandant Steele.

** They also seem to get compared to the [[Killzone|Helghast]] an awful lot by the fandom.

** You can get the [[Diablo 2|Cracked Sash]] off [[Diablo 2|Rakkinishou]]?

** Undead Ned, or more accurately, the [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Nedcromorph]], is one of, well, a [[Dead Space (series)|Necromorph]].

*** If you can scrounge up an old copy of Game Informer with the pre-release article on the game, take a look at the characters and note that they were all different then. Zed is Roland, Steele is Lilith (who apparently was a male character called the scientist originally, one of the later sub-bosses (Reaver) was Mordecai, and supposedly the badass bruiser model was Brick.

* [[Fetch Quest]]: The Journal and Scavenger Hunts, and a few others.

** [[Twenty Bear Asses]]: A few others besides those.

* [[Flash Step]]: Lilith's special ability allows her to step into an alternate dimension (causing an explosion that helps discourage her enemies from attacking), run quickly to her target, pop out with an energetic shockwave that stuns her foes, and then proceed to mow them all down.

* [[Game Mod]]: Gearbox won't provide a development kit for fear of breaking what little balance the game has already, but this hasn't stopped people from creating save editors to experiment with. Want a 40000 damage twenty-cap revolver that shoots fire rockets and never needs reloading? Okay!

* [[Gameplay Ally Immortality]]: If someone won't shoot at you, you can't shoot it at it. They won't even notice.

* [[Gas Mask Mooks]]: The Crimson Lance. The bandits, on closer inspection, are wearing what appear to be some sort of gas mask.

** Just about every human enemy save bosses wears a mask of some sort, presumably so the developers wouldn't have to animate them speaking their various taunts and cries.

* [[Giant Enemy Crab]]: They appear out of the sand and you [[Attack Its Weak Point|Attack Their Weakpoints]] [[For Massive Damage|For Massive]] [[Overly Long Gag|Damage]].

** Hell, one of the challenge achievements for killing {{spoiler|the Guardians}} is titled "What is this thing?", as if to [[Lampshade]] the sheer absurdity of the situation. It's explained by the Voice afterwards, but still.

* [[Glass Cannon]]: {{spoiler|The Eridians}} are extremely powerful, but have very low defense and health.

* [[Goggles Do Nothing]]: Why does an archaeologist need aviator goggles, exactly?

** For the same reason Mordecai might need them on a desert wasteland planet-in case of sandstorms or something.

* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]: Brick (Berserker). Can specialize in hand to hand combat. Keep in mind the planet is populated with gun toting road warrior type bandits and assorted monsters. Good thing Brick hits like a train.

* [[Gradual Grinder]]: Elemental weapons aside from Explosive ones are this. They generally do less overall damage than their normal gun counterparts, but if you manage to hit the mob with a damage-over-time component, then it'll gradually whittle their health away. The humanoid mobs will often [[Fridge Horror|scream in pain as it slowly kills them]].

* [[Grail in the Garbage]]: Doesn't happen often, but sometimes you can find a really good gun when searching through Pandora's many trash cans. Or Skag barf.

* [[Groin Attack]]: A viable (in fact, more like necessary) tactic when facing the Crimson Lance if you don't have any Incendiary or Corrosive weapons and can't get a straight shot at their heads, since their groins lack armor.

* [[Guide Dang It]]: Some of scavenger and even some of the regular mission will make you grow to hate the waypoints which can make finding certain mission related objects confounding to say the least. Further, some missions themselves have really out-of-the-way trigger points.

** The worst part about the Scavenger missions is the gun itself is usually [[Vendor Trash]].

** However, the 'loot' icon can be a less obvious but more helpful, uh, help during scavenger quests.

* [[Hand Cannon]]: Most of the revolvers would qualify, but mashers—revolvers that shoot seven or eight bullets per shot—are the undisputed kings. At level 50 the average masher can exceed 2,000 damage per shot (more than most rocket launchers).

{{quote|"Hold still while I heal you..." '''BRAKKA BRAKKA BRAKKA'''. "There, all better."}}

* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]: Pretty much all of the player characters love dispensing death, but Brick probably takes the cake.

{{quote|'''Brick:''' (After killing a particularly difficult enemy) ''"Gimme something else to kill."''}}

* [[Hot Mom]]: Moxxi is Scooter's mom.

* [[Hulk Speak]]: Sledge and Badass Psychos.

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: The Lance's Devastator unit. General Knoxx also has one.

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: As the game starts out, you'll already be able to wear two weapons, equip a shield, a grenade mod, a class mode, carry about 1000 rounds of ammunition for all the different weapon type, three grenades and carry twelve other items. Every playthrough allows you to find upgrades for your backpack to give about 30 more slots to carry items, you'll be able to buy ammo storage which will end up allowing you to hold around three thousand bullets and 9 grenades.

* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: Victims of the bandits can be seen impaled on various objects in some places.

** And with irony, the Crimson Lance did the same to the bandits lured to Old Haven.

* [[Impossibly Low Neckline]]: The neckline actually isn't that low for [http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/File:K9uammthwvnzkq0w.jpg Mad Moxxi], but considering the size of her, it's still a surprise she doesn't pop out!

** Seems to be popular with Sirens as well (Lilith and Steele).

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Ax wielding bandits will throw their ax at you from 100 yards away and hit you. Every time.

* [[Incendiary Exponent]]: Lilith's Phoenix skill sets her on fire (with only beneficial effects), which makes any nearby enemies acquainted with the [[Man On Fire]] trope [[Captain Obvious|(with harmful effects)]].

** Also, Flaming Psychos. Cackling insanely and trying to kill you while ON FIRE. It actually gives them immunity to fire damage to boot.

* [[Insufferable Genius]]: When Tannis isn't being a scatterbrained [[Cloudcuckoolander]], she's this. She'll continually mention how she's the intellectual superior of everyone else, bombards her conversations with casual misanthropy, and never truly gives up that haughty air even when she's lost it to dating her voice recorder.

* [[Jerkass]]: Tannis and Pierce also consider you to be beneath them, and don't hesitate to let you know.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Very little characterization is given to Krom, one of the bosses, except that he is apparently pretty bad, so in his pre-fight cutscene he shoots a tiny cowering robot off of a bridge for good measure.

* [[Kill It with Fire]]: The best way to deal with zombies. The Maliwan Hellfire submachine guns in particular cause a stacking fire damage-over-time effect with every shot and turn anything that's not fire resistant into a living torch in a few seconds.

** The Eridian sniper rifles also have one very useful advantage over their kinetic counterparts: their bullets have no travel time/delay. Very good for Mordecai, even if he doesn't have any perks for Eridian weaponry.

** They also have technically unlimited ammo. While they need to recharge after a certain number of fired shots they will never run out of ammo, which can be helpful if you find yourself in the extremly unlikely situation that you are completely out of ammo for all your guns.

** In Tetanus Warren, there is a boss enemy called King Wee Wee.

* [[Konami Code]]: [[Black Widow|Mad Moxxi's]] first husband was [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DosLOfrn58 a dirtbag and a cheat].

* [[Large and In Charge]]: General Knoxx.

* [[Law Enforcement, Inc.]]: The Crimson Lance who work for the Atlas Corp. It's hinted they've gone rogue, however.

** Also, the writings in Tannis' cell at Crimson Fastness imply the second playthrough as well.

* [[Level Grinding]]: A little, but [[Level Scaling]] means it isn't very efficient. DLC, however, let you outlevel enemies by doing the DLC before going back to the plot.

* [[Level Scaling]]: Within a particular range for each area. Finishing the second playthrough makes the range for everything on par with yours.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Sledge is deceptively fast for his size, especially since, at first, he seems to use the slow "Bruiser" fighting style. This is especially noticeable if you try to fight him with a scoped weapon (don't aim for the head - his helmet blocks out all crit damage - ''unless'' you can reliably hit his red eyeslit) and find that he's always closing the distance to you much quicker than he should. He attacks rather fast, ''especially'' if you back into a corner.

* [[Loads and Loads of Loading]]: The [[Play Station 3]] version takes 36 seconds to load from the main menu to Fyrestone and has similar wait times every time you travel to a new area. The Xbox 360 is not much better. Replacing the [[Play Station 3]]'s stock 5600 RPM drive with a 7200 RPM drive can cut 20-33% off these times.

* [[Lost Forever]]: Wonderfully [[Averted]], since you can switch between your first and second playthroughs. Most of the unique weapons can also [[Random Drop|drop from bosses]], and most bosses that drop unique items respawn. That said, be sure not to kill King Wee Wee in your second playthrough until it's done.

** Unfortunately, the third DLC plays this straight with the Kyros' Power, Typhoon and Knoxx's Gold weapons, as the bosses that drop them no longer respawn after their respective quests are completed.

* [[Ludicrous Gibs]]: Running over a bandit in your vehicle will cause chunks to go flying about 35–40 meters high and rain down for several seconds. And that's not even counting the weapons with explosive or incendiary ammunition...

* [[MacGuffin]]: The Vault Keys.

* [[The Medic]]: Roland has a skill tree called 'Medic'.

* [[Medium Blending]]: The Guardian Angel's transmissions are comprised of live action footage, albeit with heavy post-processing.

* [[Mega Corp]]: Every gun manufacturer seems to have spinoff products scattered around the world. Atlas is the current leader, with control of the Echo network and commerce grid, but Dahl's insignia shows up everywhere. Jakobs seems to have a prefab housing division, just for starters...

** Dahl Corporation seems to have run the mining firm on Pandora, but they had to quickly evacuate once the Crimson Lance rolled in.

** Jakobs also has a company town built around a lumber mill in the DLC. It harvests wood for their guns.

* [[Money for Nothing]]: Money is very critical within the first and second area, but by the time you reach the Dahl Headlands, you will be either selling more than spending or just keep farming for money found in lockers. Even though the money display caps off at $99,999,999, you can still get even more money beyond the display.

* [[Mook Maker]]: Various huts and caves.

** The Rakk Hive, more literally.

** "Vladof! You don't need to be a better shot, you just need to shoot more bullets."

** Don't forget "The Meat Grinder" Combat Rifle dropped by a boss. It has a skill that increases its fire rate when you kill stuff with it. Combine THAT with Roland's ''Metal Storm'' skill and a good class mod that adds points to that skill and well... you get the idea.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Mad Moxxi. You saw that picture, right?

* [[Murder, Inc.]]: The Crimson Lance.

{{quote|'''Moxxi:''' ''(distraught)'' You killed my second husband. You actually killed him. I know I told you to but... I'm sorry, I need a minute.}}

* [[New Game+]]: Beat the game, then start a new run of the campaign with tougher enemies and your old guns!

* [[No Kill Like Overkill]]: One headshot not enough? How about a sniper rifle that shoots ''six bullets at once''?

** There's quite a few examples of guns that just love this trope on this page already.

* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]: The Claptraps.

* [[No Plot, No Problem]]

{{quote|'''Marcus:''' "If it took more than one shot, you weren't using a Jakobs!"}}

{{quote|'''Scooter:''' Don't act all surprised, I told you I was gonna do it!}}

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Helena Pierce. Zed, to a much lesser degree.

* [[Personal Space Invader]]: Played straight by 99% of Pandora's wildlife, which just ''loves'' to leap at you in an attempt to gnaw your face off.

* [[Pink Mist]]: Any headshot with a significantly powerful gun and/or significantly lower-leveled enemy. Special mention goes to the Boomstick, which people often discard after the [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]] battle. It may not look like much, but point it at some zombies that get too close to you... and they are reduced to Ludicrous Gibs and [[Bloody Hilarious]] green mist that put the Masher or a blasting pistol to shame.

* [[Planetville]]: Averted.

* [[Pointy-Haired Boss]]: Admiral Mikey, Knoxx's superior.

* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]: Nine Toes; "You woke the wrong dog." subverted story wise it's him that gets his asskicked, gameplay wise it's played straight if you're not careful.

* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: General Knoxx.

* [[Random Drop]]: Said to be the system for gun drops, though with a supposed over 17 million possibilities, you'll probably be able to find something cool in general.

** It's also a bit of a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]], given Gearbox's community management strategy.

{{quote|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}jQF7GQjTjsM Speaker]:'' Our artists did a lot of research; they found out [[Take That Me|there's actually some other colors in the palette]].}}

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Again, {{spoiler|Interplanetary Ninja Assassin}} Claptrap and his revolutionary friends. A number of the worse Bandits also have red lenses on their masks. Averted with Mordecai, who has red goggles as a default [[The Sniper|unless you're on the opposing end of his sight]].

** Psycho zombies in the DLC. If you manage to knock them down ''without'' killing them, when they get up, you better run (or not, since you will ''not'' outrun them).

* [[Regenerating Shield Static Health]]

* [[Respawning Enemies]]

** Not just 'up to 8', there is at least one revolver style shotgun that holds [[Up to Eleven|20]]. Although the reload animation doesn't seem to be entirely accurate for it.

* [[Robot Me]]: What Tannis needs all those Claptrap parts for in ''Claptrap's New Robot Revolution''.

* [[Robot War]]: Viva la Robolucion!

* [[Rule of Funny]]: Is there a pop-culture reference, inappropriate joke, or neurosis that can be played for laughs? It goes in the game!

* [[Sarcasm Mode]]: Some of Mordecai's lines when standing still. '''HE LOVES IT!'''

* [[Screaming Warrior]]: Brick becomes this whenever he uses his Action Skill, to either annoying or hilarious effect.

* [[Sea Mine]]: You can find them on a dry lakebed in ''The Secret Armory of General Knoxx''. Drive a car too close to one and it will explode and kill you.

* [[Sex Sells]]: Some promotional art puts focus on Lilith's ass.

* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: Used for the [[Boss Subtitles]] of the [[Player Character]]s in the opening cutscene for the game:

{{quote|''Brick - As himself''}}

** "Maliwan guns shoot more lightning than the next leading competitor!"

* [[Shoot the Medic First]]: The enemy medics in the third DLC, though they are the [[Combat Medic]] type, and can heal things while shooting you.

** Inverted with the Jakobs Striker Shotguns. They have a mod called "Sniper Rifles are for Chumps" that increases accuracy, and if you're lucky enough to find one with a scope, you're likely going to be killing everything with scoped headshots. Too bad it's not exactly the most stable weapon out there, making it hard to actually aim with.

** The Gamble series of sniper rifles have decreased accuracy, so they aren't very useful at a long range, but they've got a lot of power. In fact, it's impossible to increase the accuracy of a Gamble with COMs, unlike other sniper rifles.

** This gets ridiculous when you have a shotgun with more zoom and accuracy then your sniper rifle. Specifically, The Blister, a corrosive shotgun with 3.5x zoom, when the average sniper rifle between 1.0x zoom and 2.8x zoom. This is a quest reward, so you'll probably come across it.

*** The range of your shotgun is never fully appreciated until you figure out that the [[Goddamn Bats]] of [[Downloadable Content]] ''The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned'' are easily dispatched hundreds of feet away with a single shotgun shell in their general direction.

** And then there is an even more utterly ridiculous shotgun liable to make all those people complaining of the [[Modern Warfare|1887's 'unrealistic range']] do the [[Short-Range Shotgun|rageface]] or [[Your Head Asplode|a splode]]. Well, it's not quite a shotgun. It's as if at Gearbox, the dev team got sick to their stomachs of other dev teams giving shotguns an effective range of about 10 feet and decided to go to both extremes, on one side with the above 0 accuracy weapons, on the other with the Skullmasher '''sniper rifle'''. It apparently uses the same accessory as the Masher pistols that allow it to shoot six bullets for the cost of one, somehow making a shotgun effect, except it can be found with 93 accuracy. Snipers usually have above that, but that's still pretty damn good. It's a thing of beauty.

** The Anarchy series of submachine guns spit out an insane amount of firepower but have no accuracy to speak of.

* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism]]: Idealism got shot in the face with a Double Anarchy.

* [[Sniper Pistol]]: Both Repeater Pistols and Revolvers can sometimes come equipped with a scope. Even better and more reasonable if it's made by Hyperion (although the company doesn't make revolvers).

* [[Space Western]]: The game beats you over the head with this theme.

* [[Special Attack]]: All the PC characters have them and several enemy characters seem to have them as well.

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* [[Take That]]: An IGN exclusive show Gearbox executive literally attacking everyone who complaining about this game.

* [[Thick Line Animation]]: Used effectively to add to the comic book feel.

** Even more so with the Soldier if you have a good Support Gunner mod. Ammo regen!

** Some weapons even regenerate their own ammo!

** There's also this gem from T.K. Baha: "I uh, I hate to send you away, you're great company and all... but I, [[Toilet Humour|I gotta go take a dump]]. I gotta take a dump something awful! Something real awful! [[Potty Failure|Oh.. never mind... it's gone now]]."

* [[Trick Bomb]]: There are various mods that can be attached to your grenades to turn them into [[Sticky Bomb|sticky bombs]] or Bouncing Betties, make them do fire or lightning or acid damage instead of simply exploding, cause them to throw off cluster bomblets or ''teleport'' to their target...

* [[Troperrific]]: Many [[X Meets Y|Xs meet many Ys]] here.

** Or [[Crazy Awesome|rockets that explode into fire]].

* [[Up to Eleven]]: Invoked by the third DLC (in its marketing at the least).

* [[Used Future]]: There's not much left on Pandora except guns and rusty metal sheets. The inhabitants make do.

* [[Viral Marketing]]: Hey, Gearbox Software! You ''do'' know that everyone on /v/ is just going to pirate your game, right?

** Nine-Toes can also fill this role for players who don't expect backup in boss battles. Nine-Toes is easily killed, but the two skags that accompany him are armoured in the front and can easily flank and maul an unobservant player.

** You can also use Transfusion Grenades, which shoot out homing particles that steal an enemy's health and give it to you.

** Brick can run off screaming his health back, Roland and Mordecai can murder their health back and Lilith can just walk it off while invisible provided you have points in the right skills.

** Mordecai and Brick also can get class mods that give the entire team health regeneration.

** One of the patronizing PA announcements by the Atlas representative in T-Bone Junction, advising people to sit back and let Atlas do everything, includes the phrase, "If you get bitten, walk it off."

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Ninja Assassin Claptrap. He wants to free all other Claptraps... by killing all humans.

* [[Where It All Began]]: The final battle with Ninja Assassin Claptrap takes place in Fyrestone.

* [[World Gone Mad]]

* [[Wretched Hive]]: The ''entire planet''.

* [[Your Head Asplode]]: Tag an enemy in the head with a sniper rifle. Presto! What head?

** ...Or just get Brick angry enough to punch a raider to make instant raider puree!

** Or just get an Explosive Artifact upgrade for your character's special move or a gun that does Explosive element damage. Chances are ''SOMETHING'' on your foes will asplode.

** Let's just say there's a whole lot of asploding in this game.

* [[Your Mom]]: As the special thanks section rolls up during the credits, one of the developers says this for his special thanks.

* [[Zerg Rush]]: Some categories of enemies do this.

** Also, the entire point of Horde rounds in The Underdome.

 

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