He also similarly dignified in the face of his own canonical death at the hands of the Vault Hunters in. Confirmed casting for the project includes Cate Blanchett as Lilith, Jamie Lee Curtis as Tannis, Kevin Hart as Roland, Ariana Greenblatt (Avengers: Infinity War) as Tiny Tina, Florian Munteanu as Krieg, Haley Bennett, dgar Ramrez as Atlas, and Jack Black as the voice of Claptrap. Rhys made a small appearance in the official Borderlands 3 reveal trailer standing by Zer0, one of the vault hunters from Borderlands 2. If you, In Episode 1, a billboard for the "Engorge!" destroyed Helios, killing (at a minimum) thousands of innocent Hyperion employees. "Bandit Slaughter" from Borderlands 2 making a reappearance during the Vault Guardian fight. Rhys is an employee of the Hyperion Corporation, and one of the two main protagonists of Tales from the Borderlands. If you see my main man Vaughn back on Pandora, tell him main man Rhys said, uh. "yo." It's Vault-o-clock, baby! Rhys' original outfit came with a pair of snakeskin boots. They make a return in Borderlands 3 after Hyperion programmer Rhys Strongfork took the company deed from the ruins of Helios and rebuilt the company from the ground up. Playable character (Tales from the Borderlands)NPC (Borderlands 3, New Tales from the Borderlands) The Hyperion corporation is named after one of the original Titans in reference to its titanic size and wealth. But sometimes, his actions are awkward regardless. Cassius willingly offers his services to Rhys if he joins to help in the final boss battle. Fiona can finally pull off a fatal headshot on, Vasquez tries to get him to sell out Vaughn. If you collect enough money, you are able to hire the Mysterious Vault Hunter. note Claptrap note Borderlands 3 note Supporting Characters Borderlands note Borderlands 2 note Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep A New Tales from the Borderlands trailer at Gamescom 2022 gave fans a release date of October 21, and anticipation has quickly risen about how it will handle the story this time around. the Loaders have been getting smarter. ''My Silver Lining'' by First Aid Kit makes for the perfect ending song for Episode 5. after defeating the Traveler and the others collect their loot, Rhys and Fiona enter the vault and sees a chest. Contents 1 Character 2 Tales from the Borderlands 3 Borderland 3 The watch Felix gives to Sasha in Episode 2 turns out to be a healing device, which. Felix's gift saves Sasha from dying, which bounces back and forth from sad, to funny, to heartwarming, then back to funny when said gift that just saved her life, Rhys escapes from a horde of accountants by fake-mowing them down with mimed weapons in a segment as dramatic as a regular fight. Krieg moved to Pandora and started fighting against Hyperion after they twisted him into a raving lunatic mutant. One is a Hyperion company man looking to claw his way up the corporate ladder. Rhys is the only one who can see or hear him since he's inside Rhys' cybernetics. However, if Rhys and Jack are on good terms when Rhys takes a nasty fall, then things go south after Jack temporarily controls Rhys and has him act incredibly sleazy towards her. Standard M.O. Race Most evident in a. Borderlands Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. In addition to main character Athena, two of the assassins sent after you in the General Knoxx DLC are named Hera and Minerva. Instead, they use cunning and deception to deal with potential enemies, such as Vaughn moonlighting as a bandit boss and pretending to have snipers when all he had were people with laser pointers. Rhys invites the Vault Hunters to Atlas HQ to give them the third Vault Key piece. Does this in the opening of Episode 5 regardless due to Jack's insanity and attempt to make him into a Robo-Jack. you have the option of leaving Rhys' ECHO-Eye intact, thereby imprisoning AI Jack inside, unable to even control any nearby technology. Lilith comes to Pandora trying to run away from ostracism on account of having magical powers, as well as due to rumors of there being another Siren on the planet. Vallory uses a Bandit rocket launcher, which are supposed to fire three small rockets at the same time, but hers fires single, regular-sized rockets like any other brand. Rhys attempts to do the same to another bandit. In general terms, he is the in-between characterization of Timothy Lawrence and Professor Nakayama. This thoroughly freaks out, In Episode 1, Rhys practices his game face for his meeting with his boss. This page is an index of character lists for the Borderlands video game series and its spin-offs. However, Episode 5 reveals that Jack's AI died before he met up with Fiona again, and this is actually a new eye made from Atlas tech instead of Hyperion tech. When they can't get him out due to his feet being stuck in his case, she's forced to scoop out his eyeball with a spork, with her accidentally crushing the first one. Human Engages in a hilariously bizarre "gunfight" with a. When Fiona tells her version of the same events he just drops to his knees and starts begging. Green is a bit murky: it marks both Uncommon weapons and items as well as mission objectives. Which is to be expected given he's "promoted" to janitor. At the end of the fifth episode, after defeating the Traveler, Rhys and Fiona enter the Vault of the Traveler together, and disappear in a flash of bright light. They specialize in shotguns, SMGs, pistols, and rocket launchers, and for the most part their stats are below average. Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy, Gortys can copy the combat skills of the people piloting her, Nobody Here But Us Stuffed And Displayed Corpses, constantly insisting that he knows how to fire a gun. the alarm is tripped and the security drones are released. Vasquez' body being destroyed by a suicide psycho, the Vas-guise's voice module breaking down mid-infiltration and either Rhys taking over Hyperion or being possessed by Jack just after grabbing the Gortys piece, This is actually the reason why the Stranger is disguised, as he was afraid that if they knew his identity, Fiona and Rhys will lie to him about what happened to Gortys. Episode 4 was released on August 18, 2015. The World of Mystery has the corpses of Bewm, Shade, Professor Nakayama and Commandant Steele stuffed and mounted as displays. Under the reign of Rhys, Atlas has been largely reformed and serves as allies of the Vault Hunters. Television. After Katagawa is defeated, Rhys asks the Vault Hunters what they think of his mustache (of which the Vault Hunters can respond positively or negatively, triggering different dialogue from him), then gives them the Key piece. if you told Fiona and Sasha about Holo-Jack's existence. They make assault rifles, pistols (which count as revolvers), shotguns (which often have low mag sizes) and sniper rifles. Voice Actor Rhys ripping out his ECHO eye in Episode 5 is milked for all it's worth. Consider thisin Episode 1, Rhys explicitly stated that one of his main desires in life was to be the next Handsome Jack, and idolized the guy as a hero. Being an uploaded AI version of himself, it bypasses the whole "kills you dead" issue the endoskeleton had when he was still human. In, Celestial Class Mods are the only one of the three types of Legendary Class Mods with the possibility of, The Legendary "Celestial Baroness" Class Mod has no, Roland as The Soldier, Mordecai as The Hunter, Lilith as The Siren, and, Axton as The Commando, Maya as The Siren, Salvador as The Gunzerker, and, Athena as The Gladiator, Wilhelm as The Enforcer, Nisha as The Lawbringer, and, FL4K as The Beastmaster, Moze as The Gunner, Amara as The Siren, and, Most of them come from Greek mythology, but a few are Biblical instead - Eden-6. In this series, actual wooden 19th century firearms can win against ancient alien monsters. And if you've seen what he's done to Oasis, it shouldn't come as too much a surprise who's running it. If one attack is good, then seven should be elected Mayor. You can tell Rhys to lose it after Katagawa is dead, and he'll let you keep it as a trinket for your guns. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands. The Helios station, which was built by Hyperion, was named after one of Hyperion's sons, and is high in the sky just like the Sun. Hyperion (Formerly)Atlas (Owner/CEO) Sirens have a skill that causes enemy bullets to do this, The Mechromancer has two skills that cause bullet ricochet, one of her trees even. while chewing out Rhys at the same time for doing so. The whole reason why Rhys and Fiona are mad at each other in the present. Fiona, Sasha, and Felix, who work together as a team of con-artists to survive on Pandora. Cassius: Talk Athena down from killing him in Episode 3. Given that his very title card is dotted with question marks, it should be no surprise that a lot of what he does during the series is a spoiler. However, he can outgrow this if the player chooses the alternative option. New Tales Intro Often subverted. Felix's watch levitates Sasha as it's healing her Of course, by the end of episode 5, despite their differences, they've become. Not only does she get unceremoniously impaled mid-sentence, she then gets revived twice and her new Claptrap programming ensures her following deaths are as undignified as possible. 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Rhys crash lands in the ruins of Helios, so he can finish off Jack and finish his character arc, while Fiona ends up near the Vault, so she can finish her business with Vallory. Should Rhys and Vaughn meet up with Fiona in Hollow Point, Loader Bot. However, as soon as they arrive, the Atlas defenses are sabotaged and Maliwan forces start invading. In the first. Borderlands is a series of Space Western Hero Shooters with RPG Elements (or Action RPGs with FPS elements) for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Windows, and OS X developed by Gearbox Software creators of the Brothers in Arms series and the three expansion packs for the original Half-Life. Getting a digital copy of your idol downloaded into your brain should qualify, but Rhys has very mixed feelings on his situation due to some poor first impressions and a desire to look "cool". Fiona actually lying to him about how Loader Bot punches Athena away only vindicated his fears, since he knows it's a lie but can't call her out on it without revealing he IS Loader Bot, The destruction of Helios at the beginning of episode 5, especially from Rhys' point of view. Also, of all the prior Vault Guardians, none had received any form of foreshadowing whatsoever in their respective games other than the Warrior. With that, he and his best friend Vaughn set out to Pandora to steal the deal for themselves. Online, everywhere. Many Crimson Lance roadblocks also act like this during the introductory quests to. Glenn ends up eating Terry's corpse to extract its brain, and they both comment on wanting to eat humans at the quest's end. ''Retrograde'' by James Blake, which plays as Fiona and Rhys evacuate Helios in Episode 5. 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Dr. Tannis explains that almost every bandit on Pandora used to be a relatively sane Dahl worker. Working up the ranks of Hyperion is a start for him, with, of course, intentions to control Hyperion one day. He's one of the reasons why Knoxx hates what Atlas is. TfTBL p>In Tales from the Borderlands the player controls two different characters. Male After entering the Vault of the Traveller and opening the cache they find there, Rhys and Fiona are. Shade's recounting of how she died doesn't help either. Although Rhys was happy to obtain the data, he was not concerned with finding the Vault initially, which prompted threats from the Vault Hunters. Rhys is also much more comfortable in getting his hands dirty. Dumpy only joins if Rhys chooses to trust Jack at the end of Episode 2; otherwise it's smashed by Loader Bot after paralyzing Vaughn at the start of Episode 3. Once the Vault Hunters reach the base, Rhys remotely walks them through it. Call-Back: In Episode 1, a billboard for the "Engorge!" male enhancement drug is shown in Hollow Point. He is one compared to the standards of the majority of corporate owners in the. RELATED: Borderlands: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Rhys. None of them really act like what they'd do in Borderlands 2 however. It's also used to justify the fact that Pandora's Hat is "Balls-to-the-wall Ax-Crazy," which is absolutely Played for Laughs (see above re: funny, irreverent writing). Katagawa Jr., in an attempt to secure a partnership of his own with Rhys, invaded Promethea, putting the entire Atlas corporation at risk. Tags. He is seen dancing on the TV screen behind Rhys. Even Rhys's Echo-Eye remarks on Nakayama's eccentricities. There's always a Skag in every game's intro cutscenes, and most of the time, they die from being rammed or blindsided by a vehicle. It even shows that Jack is in control of the trailer foreshadowing. The Vladof corporation was able to wipe out an entire, Hyperion has a fair share of soldiers, but their forces mainly consist of mass-produced loader bots, at least following Jack's. Bandits themselves also have their own acceptable target: midgets; they are looked down upon by all of them, and using them as human shields is acceptable, normal and widespread. A weapon manufacturer and private military contractor, Atlas produce high-quality weapons that excel in almost all areas, with no obvious weaknesses, other than rarity. Additionally, the fight was probably a lot more in Athena's favor than portrayed by Fiona since they drag Athena off more or less just fine in Episode 3, but in the opening of the Pre-Sequel, Brick and Mordecai slowly limp away while leaning on one another after Athena is tied down after Lilith describes Athena having "damn near killed" them. Protagonists Rhys Fiona Supporting Characters Vaughn Sasha Yvette Felix Loader Bot Spoiler character Gortys Antagonists Vasquez August Kroger and Finch Vallory Bossanova The Traveler Others The Stranger (Spoiler Warning) Spoiler character Handsome Jack Fanclub Shade Zer0 Athena Janey Springs Scooter Brick Mordecai Of course, this being Jack, his statement should be taken with a large dose of salt. Jack. Chocolate dill pickle is his favorite frogurt flavor, based on his Viper Drive password hint and answer. Speaking to VG247, the voice actor said he wanted to . Saving Loader Bot is one, and the dog stays with you too! By the time of Borderlands 3 he's a successful CEO, with his company becoming one of the Mega Corps of the six galaxies. Tales from the Borderlands wasn't so lucky, but Gearbox Software wasn't inclined to let it die, so it worked on a sequel in-house. If you count areas seen in the background of the menu as being previews of locations in the series. On the other hand, if Rhys and Jack are on good terms and Rhys accepts his offer, Jack makes him Hyperion's new President. There's nothing. The only problem now is that he's not exactly going to use his original body Henderson's drifting corpse gets caught in the group's spaceship and makes it go critical. The Stranger's Conference Call lacks a certain accessory that purple and legendary weapons always have. Posted on 17th Aug, 2022 20:12 PM; 1118 Views; Tales from the Borderlands fans expecting to see Rhys and Fiona in the sequel could be out of luck, which may turn out to be a mistake. Borderlands: Directed by Eli Roth. RedCosplayDesigns. Rhys, due to his cybernetics, is an excellent hacker. Tales from the Borderlands is an episodic point-and-click graphic adventure comedy video game based on the Borderlands series. After loading Nakayama's ID chip into Rhys's implant, which contained Handsome Jack AI, the AI accompanies him throughout the game and either gives advice or mocks Rhys. With Janina Gavankar, Haley Bennett, Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis. Borderlands Legends (2012), a real-time strategy game for iOS devices. Athena also does this after saving Fiona and the gang from Vallory. Possibly the Siren Lilith came to Pandora to find, but that is never confirmed. Rhys Strongfork is the current CEO of the Atlas corporation, a former middle manager of Hyperion. Sasha to Fiona about Felix's gift Sasha is a main character in Telltale Games' Tales from the Borderlands. This page is an index of character lists for the Borderlands video game series and its spin-offs. They make SMGs, shotguns, sniper rifles, and pistols, though the last one gets phased out in, Jakobs harken back to the days of Western shootouts with a focus on pure, raw damage and nothing else. Rhys keeps his mustache Buckle Up weapon trinket If, on the other hand, you tell Rhys that his mustache is gross, he will be quite crestfallen. Most notably, Rhys and Fiona's new outfits look like something out of the Wild West, with Rhys having a fancy waistcoat and all. TfTBL Intro He is one of the two main protagonists of Tales from the Borderlands, a major character in Borderlands 3, and appears in New Tales from the Borderlands. The Expansion was announced on October 11, 2012, and was released for PC, Xbox 360, and the PlayStation 3 on October 16, 2012. Machine gun + Grenades: Sticks its grenades into its cannon, creating a grenade launcher. Your attempts to apply a hemo-pack to his arm go, and he doesn't get pissed at the Vault Hunters when they accidentally chop off his arm even though he has every right to be, He springs back to life for a moment to reward you. After the Vault Key is revealed as a fake, it gets taken by Bossanova and becomes the. Felix betrays the team for a briefcase containing $10 million, while Yvette betrays the group to Vasquez-turned-Rhysquez for a promotion (but Rhys gets accidentally promoted before her.) Bonus points if you decided to shoot him first with the Derringer he gave you. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Borderlands. The Stranger's shotgun appears to be the legendary Conference Call. Gortys Project is assembled in the belly of the Old Haven Atlas Facility. Salvador is a Pandoran native. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/BorderlandsAtlas. He is one of the two main protagonists of Tales from the Borderlands, a major character in Borderlands 3, and appears in New Tales from the Borderlands . As a child, Fiona and her sister Sasha try to get by with every bit of money they could find, usually through stealing and conning people. Additionally, she serves as a potential love interest for the adventurous, but hapless Rhys. Depending on your choices, Vaughn can note to Rhys how his looks have helped him through life, as despite Rhys being just as awkward and nerdy as Vaughn, because of the way he looked, he could fake it, offering him greater opportunities than Vaughn. He also genuinely thanks them for killing Steele, considering he didn't like her very much. Rhys (Tales from the Borderlands) 1 roles in common. Vaughn, and by extension, the Children of Helios, in Episode 5. He was initially excited as reinforcements arrived, but quickly became frustrated when he realized that the Vault Hunters were his only support. Desperate to save Atlas, he agrees to their terms and tells the Vault Hunters that Maliwan is after the pieces, having also invaded Athenas. All Hyperion weapons have internal stabilizers that make your gunfire more accurate the longer you shoot, at the downside of being really innacurate to start with. for Hyperion suits. Playable Characters Vault Hunters: Borderlands 1 note Borderlands 2 note Krieg Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! destruction of the stolen 10 million dollars, which leaves the protagonists completely broke. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. he makes an alliance with August to force Rhys and Fiona to put together the Gortys pieces for them, and make clear that they'll kill them afterwards, Vallory takes over, kills Vasquez, and August follows her orders. The only problem is no one seems to know where these Vaults are, and finding them won't be easy Pandora is a backwater world where no one wants to live, filled with mutated monsters and violent convicts left over from a Mega-Corp's previous mining operations. However, with Borderlands 4 rumored to be in development, and the sequel likely not going to take as long to make as Borderlands 3, it isn't too early to start talking about the future.Ironically, though, the best thing Borderlands 4 could do is look to its past. He instructs the Vault Hunters to meet his top agent, Zer0, who is already planning a strike on the Gigamind to steal Maliwan's data. The game was developed by Tell. provided you kept Felix's gift to her so it could save her at the end. Gender He's even affable when being forced to fight as Knoxx-trap, encouraging the Vault Hunters on their efforts at killing him and congratulating them on critical hits. She tries to backpedal on this when talking to Rhys, saying that she was lying to Vasquez and was actually trying to get him and Vaughn back to Helios safely. (Ruled Hyperion) (Rejected Hyperion) A disco ball is hanging on the ceiling with disco music playing. Rhys and Fiona are at least guaranteed to survive the events of the game though they evidently parted on poor terms. Both hate each other, both are untrustworthy and both are trying to sell their side of the story. Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic Fustercluck, New Tales from the Borderlands characters, Appears in New Tales from the Borderlands, Interview Gearbox Softwares Randy Varnell Discusses Borderlands 3 Story, Returning Characters, and Making a Memorable Villain. Rhys frantically tries to find Zer0 to help fight off Maliwan and instructs the Vault Hunters on how to help get the defenses back online. recruiting the extraordinary characters they've met throughout their travels, potentially including Zer0, Athena, Janey Springs, August, Cassius, and Felix, though because Felix isn't a fighter or a robot pilot, he instead uses his money to hire, the Vault of the Traveler and the Gortys Project. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The dresser that falls off the van at the start of Episode 2 turns out to be the same place Felix hid nine million dollars. With the right dialog choices, you can make Rhys into a proper Jack wannabe. He made his initial debut in TellTale's Tales From The Borderlands game, where he. Related Articles All Marvel's Midnight Suns Pre-Order Bonuses and Special Editions Both are fired in the final episode; it can be pointed out after the Children of Helios take The Stranger captive that he has the same gun and Rhys recovers the shares to take control of Atlas himself. Rhys tries to find Sasha - Borderlands 3 AFGuidesHD 200K views 2 years ago Tales from the Borderlands - Funny Moments from Episode 1 DaMusic Gamer 247K views 7 years ago Two Best Friends. He knew he only had one side of the story when he saw Fiona kill Gortys and wanted to know why she had done it without letting their prior relationship cause her to lie. Atlas' "crown jewel" and the titular Gortys Project hinted at in the first two episodes, this small, scarlet robot was going to help Atlas open the Vault of the Traveler before the company's collapse. The offending facial hair will immediately disappear, and there doesn't seem to be any achievement connected to it. Rhys is also a supporting character in Borderlands 3. The Fremington's Edge has. to "Break his heart" when August starts to walk away from the deal, he walks towards him and proceeds to punch through his chest and rips it out either at August or at Felix just before he opens the case. Happens again in Episode 4, only this time the rest of the group agrees to try it out. Marcus disagreed and later ate his words when Rhys successfully re-forged Atlas and creating his own tech. Baker originally played Rhys in Tales from the Borderlands, who quickly became a fan-favorite character. The beleaguered general of the Crimson Lance after Steele botches the job, he is deeply annoyed by everything to do with Pandora and his superior, the five-year-old Admiral Mikey. When they realized that Pandora wasn't worth the effort, they up and left while leaving their workers for dead. Zer0: Identify yourself to Mordecai as a potential Vault Hunter in Episode 3. destroy her to seal away the vault and the Traveler to save Pandora. Shows up in Tales from the Borderlands stuffed and as a museum piece. He does not consider forcing Rhys to be the skin of a robotic Jack endoskeleton to be "a catch". Rhys Strongfork is the fan-favorite, augmented, CEO of the Atlas Corporation within the Borderlands series. Background Rhys is an ambitious man who once dreamt of becoming the next Handsome Jack. No matter which option you choose or how carefully you try to time your button-press to select dialogue when it's glitched back to alerting her for help, Jack hijacks the speech center of Rhys' brain and talks through him, forcing him to say that nothing is wrong. As one of the game's supporting characters, she plays a large role in the plot. He hacks a Death Sphere and uses it to gain access to the control room while the Vault Hunters protect it. The Atlas corporation is named after the Titan who was sentenced to hold the heavens on his shoulders forever. If you still have Felix's gift, she gets better though. Likewise, in Borderlands 3, Rhys successfully hacks multiple Maliwan targets with his Viper Drive in Space-Laser Tag while assisting the Vault Hunters in shutting down the laser. I Was Fabricated, Programmed and Wired Ready: After the fall of the Crimson Lance, most of them ended up reforming under Roland as the Crimson Raiders, essentially becoming the official army of Pandora. Unfortunately, the game left much to be desired with its cookie-cutter story that doesn't hold a candle to the story of its predecessor. which ends with the Handsome Jack AI uploading himself into Helios and taking it over. In Episode 4, he's come a very long way on the Badass scale. ORIGINAL STORY 30th September 2019: Troy Baker has said he didn't voice Rhys Strongfork in Borderlands 3 because Gearbox "wouldn't go union". being the closest resemblance of Handsome Jack before his rise to power, was seemingly forced to work for Hyperion under stress, has a deep obsession of the same maniac who rose in power, didn't care how much punishment he's been through, both were ridiculed under similar incompetent personalities, to hundreds of Hyperion employees all by himself, My, she has grown! The title of the first episode hints at the appearance of Zer0 at around its midpoint and the. Sort by Tropes 1 Vote Yes. Girl Cartoon Characters. Apart from a few hiccups in the execution phase, such as, Another from Episode 5. Luckily, this can be resolved in Episode 4; if so, even. Rhys is an original character in Telltale's Tales from the Borderlands He serves as one of the two playable protagonists, alongside Fiona. Washable Borderlands Cel Shaded Rhys Inspired Face Mask. Rhys' colorful striped sock is a nod to his voice actor, Troy Baker, love for colorful striped socks. She is accompanied by her equally street-smart sister, Sasha. Tales from the Borderlands Leaving Rhys and Fiona Behind is a Bad Move. Their weapons tend to feature lots of wood furniture, especially their revolvers and rifles. After getting screwed out of a promotion by his nemesis Vasquez, he catches wind of a deal for a Vault Key. The Jack AI turned out to be just as murderous and insane as the original in episode 5. then it turns out to all be a ruse so he can pull one last. Though some familiar faces like Rhys have brief cameos, Sirens are referenced often, and Vaultlanders serve as nods to old Vault HuntersVaultlanders serve as nods to old Vault Hunters - stream 188 rhys playlists including tales from the borderlands, borderlands, and handsome jack music from your desktop or mobile device. In the final battle, Rhys's legendary skill with the finger gun allows Gortys to fire actual bullets from her fingers. Even though it doesn't actually kill anyone, it was. A five-year-old that was Admiral of the Crimson Lance 3rd Starborne Brigade, which unfortunately makes him Knoxx's superior officer. (303) $27.00 FREE shipping. In Episode 5, Gortys adapts this practice by digistructing herself some functional finger guns. As Fiona's sister, she is a vital character to the story, accompanying her the majority of the time during the game. Moze moves to Pandora after being the sole survivor of a suicide mission, which is also the straw that breaks her back after long years of abuse from Vladof's command that was already digging into her sanity. In the case of Felix, she hits him while falling away in the moving caravan, inflicting a probably-lethal-on-its-own wound in advance of the bomb blast. Crowd . Rhys is now the playable character. Vasquez get shot dead, leaving a gaping wound in his chest, after he, AI!Jack is separated from Rhys's body, and Rhys can elect to smash the eye circuitry which contains his last fragment of consciousness, permanently killing him. p>The Borderlands franchise has a long and somewhat complication storyline that has progressed through all the series titles. Search Works. According to Vaughn, his office is filled with posters of the man. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. He later returns as a supporting NPC protagonist in Borderlands 3. Games Rhys is offered the chance to rule Hyperion together with Jack. Machine gun + Rocket Launcher: Rotates in place to do a Death Blossom attack. In "Atlas Mugged", Rhys contacts Yvette, and tells her to help them out. Rhys can say something in threatening manner, which will make Vasquez punch him in the face in both episodes. The second time the game lampshade this with the message "Why is it always the face?". Borderlands: Directed by Eli Roth. Grenade homes in onto the nearest enemy and explode on impact. The loaders have been getting smarter ever since Jack's death. Rhys starts out with a stun baton which is so overpowered all he has to do is tap it against someone to send them flying. Nakayama created a Jack A.I. The Handsome Jack AI declares him a worthy successor to ruling Hyperion. But. Instead of reloading normally, the gun is thrown forward like a grenade while a new one digistructs in your hands, but at the cost of wasting any ammo left in the mag (though that ammo does increase the damage of the thrown weapon). The only bandit who gives him any real trouble once he activates it is a heavily-amored Nomad. However, Gearbox head Randy Pitchford says it was Baker himself who turned down the role. Rhys gives the Vault Hunters an Atlas Viper Drive to hack a Maliwan shuttle instead. After the events of Tales from the Borderlands, he acquires the rights to the then-defunct Atlas brand and rebuilds it from scratch. You also have the option of turning him into one for Zer0. Most of the in-game episode trailers have featured Jimbo riding on the shoulders of Tector Hodunk, who's firing a heavy machine gun at something. : Vault Hunters, loading his dog it into a gun and firing it at said CEO's daughter, Mikey met his unfortunate end by falling down "30,000 stairs". p>With the Borderlands series having been around for over a decade, players have fought a huge variety of enemies within the games.However, one of the most iconic is undoubtedly the Loader Bots, and Redditor kevinhansen286 used LEGOs to bring the Borderlands enemy type to life.. Usually, Borderlands fans will focus on recreating items tied to the series' iconic Vault Hunters. According to Marcus, the reason old Atlas guns are no longer usable is because Atlas installed brickware on their weapons that rendered them useless after their fall. North Face Backpack. Kinda torn both ways on this one. Janey: Honor Scooter's request in Episode 4 and launch his satellite into space. They make a return in Borderlands 3 after Hyperion programmer Rhys Strongfork took the company deed from the ruins of Helios and rebuilt the company from the ground up. He then took the sisters in, and raised them into a life of crime . Borderlands is a series of Space Western Hero Shooters with RPG Elements (or Action RPGs with FPS elements) for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Windows, and OS X developed by Gearbox Software creators of the Brothers in Arms series and the three expansion packs for the original Half-Life. During a Q&A session at Supanova . Video Game Industry. If Fiona fails to activate the EMP in time, he'll find out that the Vault Key is a fake and will try to leave Pandora with Vaughn only for Bossanova and Zer0 to come barging in. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. It captures the feeling of the game perfectly as the credits roll. The reborn Atlas trades ultra-high quality for a new type of weaponry: Smart Guns that lock on once an enemy is hit with a tracker projectile fired from an underbarrel attachment. Rhys got his cyberware to help him get ahead in the data-mining department. When Jack takes over Rhys's body, his eye turns yellow, the same as in the present day, indicating that he might be the one really in control in the present. The former. Rhys, Fiona, and the surrounding personalities were all memorable, be it the sarcastic Loader Bot, Vazquez' smug aura, or the glorious reemergence of love-to-hate villain, Handsome Jack. A number of the Lance Assassins they've raised continue the theme. For example, he can give Sasha a flower, but doing so causes it to release a chemical that makes the surrounding creatures hostile to them. He was voiced by Troy . After a gunfight, Finch escapes taking Gortys and Sasha with him on their ship. The leader of the Crimson Lance in the vanilla game, dedicated to finding and plundering the Vault first. After the invasion of Atlas's orbiting headquarters and the planet Promethea by Tediore, Rhys contacts Anu and asks for her help recovering his looted vault key. Episode 5 shows just how much. It's actually fake. A member of Atlas' armed forces that the Vault Hunter rescues from a Maliwan/Bandit attack. The Vault Hunter accidentally cuts one of his arms off when he needs their help to extract some hemoglobin. the modern-looking city never shows up either. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Tales from the Borderlands Leaving Rhys and Fiona Behind is a Bad Move By Richard Warren Published Aug 17, 2022 Tales from the Borderlands fans expecting to see Rhys and Fiona in the sequel. He left his hometown to fight Hyperion after the latter declared all the local residents as bandits for not submitting to Handsome Jack's iron fist. If Dr Cassius is spared in episode 3, by episode 4, Vaughn escapes from Vallory and hides with the Doc. The reborn Atlas trades ultra-high quality for a new type of weaponry: Smart Guns that lock on once an enemy is hit with a tracker projectile fired from an underbarrel attachment. the Stranger's flashback to Gortys's death, talking about a promise Rhys and Fiona made and broke And seeing it in the distance, it zooms in on Loader Bot. The same color it is in the present day. The official gameplay trailer can be seen here, along with the announcement trailer. The Handsome Jack AI is seen floating on the window in front of Rhys. trying to kill himself to escape the madness. Falls down Jack's trapdoor in Episode Five and lands on the metal floor. ECHO recordings from Marcus Kincaid in the Meridian Outskirts reveal that sometime after the events of Tales from the Borderlands, Rhys approached Marcus, seeking a partnership with him as he was confident that he could rebuild Atlas. How enhanced? Roland's squad, Lilith's father, Higgins, Essimere, The Eldest, Crush's gang, Tate/Asha, L4CK-TP, Tannis's team. Becomes an even bigger example depending on choices, as Rhys can greatly lift Vaughns spirits by stressing his loyalty to him, which will result in Vaughn joyfully hugging him. How Marcus pitches the game's story to his listeners. Later, New Tales from the Borderlands was confirmed for an October 21, 2022 release. He shoots it into the air and near Fiona and Rhys repeatedly without turning them into swiss cheese. In fact, one of the major points of conflict between Rhys and, with his state only worsening every time Katagawa destroys something he loves with his. (This is her final form), they are doomed to fight until one of them is destroyed. Jason Brody. However, you will also get the, in my opinion, far superior weapon trinket - Rhys's Piece. She serves as the deuteragonist in Fiona's side of the tale. Best Games. Handsome Jack's body was sealed away inside Butt Stalion. It was paid for by his quarterly bonus, which he received by arranging a lucrative (though controversial) Eridium mining deal. Not long after, Vasquez appears, hinting at Yvette's. This game has the biggest Western vibe out of all others-almost everybody uses Jakobs firearms, Prosperity Junction is very much like a modern Wild West town, Old Haven is a ghost town and Fiona can even purchase a very, very Western-like and much fancier version of her present day outfit that's appropiately named "Steampunk Princess". You have three options: forgive her and get her back to Pandora safely through an escape pod, forgive her but then later drop her into space while attempting to shut down the central power core, or leave her trapped in a jail cell to be killed when Helios is destroyed. Blasters: Firing a effectively continuous stream of energy. Work Search: tip: "uchiha sasuke/uzumaki naruto" angst kudos>10 "Trick Shot" prefix guns have bullets that bounce if they don't hit an enemy. At least from his perspective. Athena: Either lie to Janey in Episode 4 and tell her that Athena said she loved her before being captured (which will salvage Athena and Janey's relationship), or encourage Athena to be honest with her. Rhys gets another in the climax of "Zer0 Sum" when, Sasha does one to a bandit. Optional with Sasha in episode 3. You have to watch as he pulls a long cord of wires out of his eyeball, it's making sickening squelching sounds, and it is. Aided by an extremely complex Randomly Generated Loot system that creates every weapon, shield and accessory you find, resulting in about Eleventy Zillion combinations, and some of the funniest and most irreverent writing in the history of video games, the player sets out to find the Vault and become a legend. In episode 1, Vaughn can comment that ever since Jack died, Torgue weapons are shown firing regular bullets instead of explosive gyrojets. Rhys is a younger-looking clone of Handsome Jack The new trailer for the game starts with handsome Jack himself recounting where TFTB takes place within the Borderlands timeline, and there are already hints that Jack in some way plays into the story of the game. In a potential conversation with Vaughn during episode 3, no matter what you choose, Rhys will note how he refused to abandon Vaughn when the latter wasnt allowed into a party because of his looks. the Hyperion employees who survived the destruction of Helios actually worship Rhys as a messiah figure for breaking them free of their corporate shackles. Jack briefly hijacks them, replacing all of the people who worked on the game with himself. Handsome Jack's majority shares in the Atlas corporation and the same Conference Call shotgun used by The Stranger are both hanging in the trophy case of Jack's old office in Helios near the end of Episode IV. Vladof weapons feature fairly fast fire rates and big magazine sizes with a. Rhys: I can't believe it Jack: (stops) What? Home / Articles / Tales from the Borderlands Leaving Rhys and Fiona Behind is a Bad Move. Jack actually does save the day without killing any of your friends, though he can't resist taking a few potshots at them for the lulz. Purple is clearer: it marks Very Rare and Very Strong weapons and items. A feature film based on the popular video game set on the abandoned fictional planet of Pandora where people search for a mysterious relic. Most sniper rifles have a zoom of between 4x and 6x. Episode 1 was released on November 25, 2014. The closest thing is the ruins of Helios, which is surrounded by a shanty town. every Vault comes with a Vault Guardian. Her first name is only stated in the game files. Tiny Tina. Also there are moments where people will completely ignore his plans. He'll call Rhys once when he enters The Hyperion Hub of Heroism and that's his only appearance in that episode. Contents 1 Character 2 Appearances 2.1 Tales from the Borderlands 2.2 Borderlands 3 2.3 New Tales from the Borderlands 3 Killed Victims The Jakobs Skullmasher in the opening for the first episode works more like a sniper rifle than a sniper rifle that thinks it's a shotgun. Some of his dialogue options will be delivered awkwardly, resulting in a temporary silence. Depending on the choices you make, Rhys can be a greedy, albeit lovable idiot that shows kindness and loyalty towards his friends, or a self centered corrupt official that would be willing to do anything for power. UsefulNotes/The Eighth Generation of Console Video Games. and then it drops her from twenty feet up, making her land on her arm. In Episode 5, Kroger and Finch betrays Fiona and Sasha by trying to take Gortys away and abandoning them on Helios. Unfortunately, sometimes these can create holes in the story, that doesn't make sense in the current story without further explanation. When the AI attempted to kill Rhys, he ripped out his own cybernetics and could choose to either destroy the AI or leave it in an endless, eternal void. p>Borderlands 3 was the long-awaited follow-up to Borderlands 2 and is one of the best feeling first-person shooters of the year. No matter what you do in Episode 3, Athena ends up captured by Brick and Mordecai so she can be brought to Sanctuary, thus kicking off the beginning of The Pre-Sequel's intro and end. It gets scaled up once he gets promoted to CEO of Hyperion by the Jack AI for the next five minutes, if he chose to eat a pizza over firing the entire accountant office or firing a moonshot cannon at (what he thought was) a bandit settlement. Rhys may do this a few times towards Zer0. There's a dead psycho hung on the Prosperity Junction billboard. Relatedly, in the games that do feature the skag getting run over, it's not really noticed or commented on. As they go up in rarity, the wood paneling gets replaced by silver, then golden furnishing. Felix's death by suitcase bomb, if you don't warn him. after Helios has crashed and Jack has tried one last time to kill Rhys by forcing him to choke himself to death with his own arm, Rhys begins ripping out all his cybernetics to get rid of him for good. The second key fragment was reclaimed by the Vault Hunters after destroying the Katagawa Ball. She gets rebuilt later on, however. Unfortunately, this basically means they're just smart enough to be confused. One of his first dialogue options is to declare he's going right to the top, and taking his friends with him. ", indirectly indicating its enhanced zoom. her tiredness-induced mistreatment of Phuong, she didn't survive the crash of Tediore's ship, as seen when Octavio and Fran remember her in the memorial they set up in Fran's Frogurts, This gets deconstructed as the story progresses, She needs to accept the flaws of her past in order to become one with the Shard, survived Tediore's attack on Atlas's ship, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! tell him Rhys said. Katagawa attempts to convince him that Zer0 betrayed Atlas, but Rhys refuses to believe it until he is attacked by a Maliwan-decorated Zer0. In release order, they are: S&S Munitions, Bandits, Scavs and Children of the Vault. Every major installment of the series has had a different manufacturer fill the role of "high damage, high capacity, low rate of fire, long reload". Except for a few sniper rifles, all their guns fire as fast as you can pull the trigger, which can lead to some pretty monstrous burst damage. In March 2021 it was released on the Nintendo Switch. The Dahl corporation places profits over safety of their employees. It turns out it was just a guard's chair left empty because he had to leave his post to go to the bathroom. go against Jack and refuse to rule Hyperion with him, he straps you into a chair and plugs the override port into Rhys' temple to download himself into the mainframe of the station. He's stated to be absolutely obsessed with Handsome Jack to the point that he specifically styles himself after him. In another part of the station, Rhys sees the ship leaving and assumes Fiona abandoned him. to ensure that Handsome Jack would be immortal. He's a successful one by being the new Atlas CEO. Rhys is still CEO of Atlas one year after the events of Borderlands 3. In Episode 1, he's a pretty cowardly office boy. In, Tediore pride themselves on cheap but still effective guns for the average consumer, and their firearms look the part. The dusty, desert "After the End" setting allows the Real Is Brown level design to contrast with the brightly-colored loot and absolute bonanza of item boxes placed throughout the world; the art style is stylized somewhere between "Comic Books," "Storyboards" and "Cel Shading," often with visible cross-hatching lines deliberately drawn into the world. Can be very sweet and downright romantic with Sasha, which she seems to enjoy quite a bit. p>With Tiny Tina's Wonderlands set to release in March, the next main Borderlands game is likely still a few years away. Nigh invulnerability is a hell of a drug. Set after the events of Borderlands 2, Tales from the Borderlands is about how a ten-million-dollar deal over a Vault Key sets two bickering protagonists on a journey towards wealth, power and not dying, hopefully. 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