60 Fun Facts About Borderlands

The Vault Hunters' hub in Borderlands 3 is a spaceship named what?

It flies between planets where new Vaults have been found.

Which studio created the Borderlands series?

2K publishes it; Take-Two completed its purchase of the studio in June 2024.

What is the name of the treasure-filled alien structures the games' heroes hunt?

Gearbox compared discovering new loot to opening a Pandora's box, which is how the planet got its name.

The long-extinct alien race whose artifacts litter the games' home planet are called what?

The mineral Eridium is named after them.

Guinness credited the first Borderlands with how many possible guns?

The stats are procedurally generated and colour-coded from white through purple to orange.

The Borderlands art style is frequently mistaken for what technique?

Gearbox describes it as a comic-book rendering approach; the original was more realistic before a secret prototype changed course.

How was the first Borderlands pitched internally around 2005?

Randy Pitchford was a fan of both roguelikes and first-person shooters.

In the first Borderlands, which corporation returns to claim the planet and its Vault?

Dahl had abandoned the planet at the start of the game.

What monster emerges when the first Vault is opened?

Pushing it back inside let Eridium flourish through Pandora's crust, setting up the sequel.

Which of these is one of the four original Vault Hunters?

The other three were Roland, Lilith and Brick; the rest listed are Borderlands 2 characters.

Lilith belongs to a race of women with alien powers known as what?

Maya, Amara and Vex are Sirens too, as are the villains of the third game.

What is the name of the town where the first game begins?

It is where the Guardian Angel first speaks to the Vault Hunters and where Dr Zed and a Claptrap help them.

Roughly how many copies had the first Borderlands sold by 2011?

It was an unexpected success for Gearbox and spawned four DLC packs.

Which of these was one of the four DLC packs for the first Borderlands?

The others were Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot, The Secret Armory of General Knoxx and Claptrap's New Robot Revolution.

Handsome Jack is the CEO of which corporation?

He rules Pandora from the Helios space station in Borderlands 2.

Who wrote the Borderlands 2 script, said to be seven times longer than the original's?

He said Handsome Jack was a charismatic 'douche' who mirrored his own personality.

Who voices Handsome Jack?

Jack was originally going to be a Vault Hunter 'frenemy' before becoming an outright villain.

The Guardian Angel who guides the Vault Hunters turns out to be whom?

Jack keeps her enslaved to charge the Vault Key; the Vault Hunters kill her as an act of mercy.

Which original Vault Hunter does Handsome Jack kill in Borderlands 2?

He shoots him in Angel's chamber, then captures Lilith to finish charging the Vault Key.

What is the name of the resistance base city in Borderlands 2?

By Borderlands 3 the Crimson Raiders operate from a spaceship instead.

Salvador, one of the Borderlands 2 Vault Hunters, is described by what class name?

He can dual-wield any two guns; Gaige the Mechromancer and Krieg the Psycho came as DLC characters.

Which two characters were added to Borderlands 2 as DLC Vault Hunters?

Cherami Leigh voices Gaige and Jason Douglas voices Krieg.

Who voices the explosives-obsessed Tiny Tina?

She is the sister of the game's lead writer.

What giant creature does Handsome Jack summon from the Vault at the climax of Borderlands 2?

He wanted to use it to control Pandora and beyond.

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel was primarily developed by which studio?

Gearbox assisted; the game was later bundled into The Handsome Collection.

The Pre-Sequel takes place mostly on which body?

The low gravity meant oxygen kits and ground-slam attacks.

Which new weapon type did The Pre-Sequel introduce?

It also added a cryogenic element that could freeze enemies solid.

In The Pre-Sequel, Nisha the Lawbringer had earlier appeared in Borderlands 2 as what?

Wilhelm, another Pre-Sequel hero, becomes the cyborg boss you fight in Borderlands 2.

What ability does Claptrap gain in The Pre-Sequel that he had famously lacked?

The little wheeled robot is the series mascot and its 'beloved/behated' comic relief.

Who voiced Claptrap in the first four Borderlands games before a falling-out with Randy Pitchford?

Jim Foronda has voiced the robot since Borderlands 2 VR.

Which studio developed Tales from the Borderlands?

It used the choice-driven episodic format of The Walking Dead and was pulled from sale when Telltale closed in 2018.

Tales from the Borderlands follows corporate lackey Rhys and which con artist?

The pair unreliably recount the story of a fake Vault Key.

In Tales, what happens to Rhys after he collects parts of the robot Gortys?

The Jack AI is finally wiped out when Helios crashes into Pandora.

Who are the villains of Borderlands 3?

Tyreen and Troy lead the Children of the Vault cult and are both Sirens, having been conjoined at birth.

Which Borderlands 3 Vault Hunter pilots a mech called Iron Bear?

She is a rogue Vladof soldier; FL4K the Beastmaster rounds out the four.

Which city-planet, home of the Atlas corporation, do the Borderlands 3 heroes visit first?

It holds the first Vault ever discovered.

How many copies did Borderlands 3 sell in its first working week on sale?

It reached eight million by the end of 2019, the best start in the series.

Borderlands 3 on PC was exclusive to which storefront for six months?

The Steam release followed in March 2020.

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands is set inside a tabletop role-playing game called what?

It is a sequel to the Borderlands 2 DLC Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep.

Who voices the Dragon Lord in Tiny Tina's Wonderlands?

Samberg and Sykes voice fellow party members Valentine and Frette.

Borderlands 4 takes place on which new planet?

It is the series' first seamless open world with no loading screens.

Who is the antagonist of Borderlands 4?

The dictator rules Kairos with an army of synthetic followers.

Which of these is a Borderlands 4 Vault Hunter?

Her fellow hunters are Rafa, Harlowe and Amon.

Who directed the 2024 Borderlands film?

Tim Miller handled two weeks of reshoots because Roth was busy on Thanksgiving.

Who plays Lilith in the Borderlands film?

Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Ariana Greenblatt round out the main cast.

Roughly how much did the Borderlands film gross worldwide, against a budget of $110-120M?

It premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre and was declared a box-office bomb.

The studio behind Borderlands is based in which Texas city?

It was founded in 1999 by five developers who first made Half-Life expansions.

Which company completed its acquisition of the Borderlands studio in June 2024?

Embracer had bought it in 2021 and sold it after a failed investment.

Which corporation abandons Pandora at the start of the first game, just before the Vault Hunters arrive?

Roland, Lilith, Mordecai and Brick then set out to find the Vault, guided by a mysterious voice.

How old is the demolitions expert Tiny Tina when she first appears?

Ashly Burch voices her; other recurring NPCs include Mad Moxxi, Scooter, Ellie and Sir Hammerlock.

What kind of product is Borderlands: Tiny Tina's Robot Tea Party, unveiled alongside Borderlands 3?

Two to five players race to assemble a specific Claptrap model in about 15 minutes.

Borderlands 2 was ported in 2014 to which handheld, with multiplayer capped at two players?

The port carried the full game and some DLC; a Switch Legendary Collection followed in 2020.

How did the LootTheWorld app let players unlock items for Borderlands 2?

Items were transferred through a ShiFT account; the free app ran from December 2013 until October 2015.

In the Badass Rank system, how many points must a player earn to redeem one small buff?

Points come from challenges such as killing enemies with a certain weapon type, and buffs raise stats like gun damage or shield capacity.

Anu and Octavio are joined by which frozen-yogurt shop owner in New Tales from the Borderlands?

Fran uses a hoverchair for mobility, and the trio hunt a vault key together.

How many copies had Borderlands 4 sold by 22 September 2025, ten days after launch?

It launched on PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Windows, with a Switch 2 version following in October.

Which China-exclusive shooter in the series, made with 2K China, was cancelled in November 2015?

Developed by 2K China with Gearbox for Shanda Games, it died when 2K China was closed over profitability.

Who voices Claptrap in Borderlands 3?

He took over the small yellow robot, the only character to appear in every game and a playable one in the Pre-Sequel.

Which composer, also known for Assassin's Creed, co-wrote the first Borderlands soundtrack?

He worked with Raison Varner, Cris Velasco and Sascha Dikiciyan on the 27-track album released in 2009.

Who voices the bartender Mad Moxxi?

Clinkenbeard voices both Lilith and Patricia Tannis, while Marchi plays Scooter's sister Ellie.