(This is her final form), they are doomed to fight until one of them is destroyed. Katagawa Jr., in an attempt to secure a partnership of his own with Rhys, invaded Promethea, putting the entire Atlas corporation at risk. TfTBL 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. Both hate each other, both are untrustworthy and both are trying to sell their side of the story. 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. The game often offers a choice that sounds cool and snarky, only for Rhys to nervously stumble over his words. Rhys made a small appearance in the official Borderlands 3 reveal trailer standing by Zer0, one of the vault hunters from Borderlands 2. It's subtly implied that he's well aware that enemies want to kill him because of his connections to Atlas, as Athena was ready to kill him and he didn't fight back. 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. There's absolutely nothing there. In release order, they are: S&S Munitions, Bandits, Scavs and Children of the Vault. In episode 1, Vaughn can comment that ever since Jack died, Torgue weapons are shown firing regular bullets instead of explosive gyrojets. ; Applied Phlebotinum: Reverse engineered Eridian technology is the source of elemental weapons, while Eridium was used in the making of E-tech weaponry in 2 . Her first name is only stated in the game files. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Borderlands. 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. 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! Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. 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. Of course, this being Jack, his statement should be taken with a large dose of salt. It turns out it was just a guard's chair left empty because he had to leave his post to go to the bathroom. Gender Rhys is an ambitious man who once dreamt of becoming the next Handsome Jack. 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. 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. Marcus disagreed and later ate his words when Rhys successfully re-forged Atlas and creating his own tech. As Fiona's sister, she is a vital character to the story, accompanying her the majority of the time during the game. 27 in Fictional Characters Sorted By Age 1 Vote Yes 0 Vote No Fictional Characters Sorted By Age Best Protagonists in Best & Worst of Video Games 1 Vote Yes 0 Vote No It was later announced in February 2020 that Eli Roth was attached to direct a script treatment by Craig Mazin (Chernobyl). Most notably, Rhys and Fiona's new outfits look like something out of the Wild West, with Rhys having a fancy waistcoat and all. Baker originally played Rhys in Tales from the Borderlands, who quickly became a fan-favorite character. 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. Often subverted. Red is, obviously, health packs and stimpacks. He's a successful one by being the new Atlas CEO. The Real Housewives of Atlanta The Bachelor Sister Wives 90 Day Fiance Wife Swap The Amazing Race Australia Married at First Sight The Real Housewives of Dallas My 600-lb Life Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Jack: Let's get DIRTY! Rhys Strongfork is the fan-favorite, augmented, CEO of the Atlas Corporation within the Borderlands series. 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 In, Torgue is obssessed with everything MANLY, and as such they are the only weapon brand in, Vladof boast of being the maker of weapons for the revolution, and as such they tend to look like offshoots of Russian real-world weapons like the AK-47. 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". 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. Playable character (Tales from the Borderlands)NPC (Borderlands 3, New Tales from the Borderlands) Even Rhys's Echo-Eye remarks on Nakayama's eccentricities. Due to being corporate drones before Helios crashed down, many of the survivors of the crash do not have the skills needed to survive on Pandora. ", indirectly indicating its enhanced zoom. 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. Fiona, Sasha, and Felix, who work together as a team of con-artists to survive on Pandora. Together, they get mixed up in a plot with gangsters and Hyperion employees to uncover the location of . Additionally, she serves as a potential love interest for the adventurous, but hapless Rhys. This thoroughly freaks out, In Episode 1, Rhys practices his game face for his meeting with his boss. In the final battle, Rhys's legendary skill with the finger gun allows Gortys to fire actual bullets from her fingers. Played straight in "Escape Plan Bravo", where Rhys is able to enhance a map from his cybernetic arm. Much of New Tales from the Borderlands' plot revolves around Anu's creation, and the device could work as a usable weapon within Borderlands 4. ''Retrograde'' by James Blake, which plays as Fiona and Rhys evacuate Helios in Episode 5. 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. By the time he's done, everyone else has found another way to get in. Shade's recounting of how she died doesn't help either. Easily. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. despite the fact that August would literally just have to slightly move his wrist to fire again. The World of Mystery has the corpses of Bewm, Shade, Professor Nakayama and Commandant Steele stuffed and mounted as displays. Unfortunately, sometimes these can create holes in the story, that doesn't make sense in the current story without further explanation. The offending facial hair will immediately disappear, and there doesn't seem to be any achievement connected to it. 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. You can tell Rhys to lose it after Katagawa is dead, and he'll let you keep it as a trinket for your guns. Zer0 makes an appearance during the "Hostile Takeover . 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. This led to Marcus agreeing to a rocky but sustainable partnership. At least in his his version of the story, anyway. 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. A member of Atlas' armed forces that the Vault Hunter rescues from a Maliwan/Bandit attack. As they go up in rarity, the wood paneling gets replaced by silver, then golden furnishing. 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. He's not really worse for wear, except that he admits he's probably suffering severe internal bleeding. The corporation staked Pandora as its own in Borderlands but was forced off planet. Purple is clearer: it marks Very Rare and Very Strong weapons and items. He sets the plot of New Tales in motion by firing Anu after her invention of a device that teleports objects to an unknown destination fails to impress him enough to make up for her release of jabbers intended for animal testing. During a Q&A session at Supanova . That is, until you find the Gortys core he was looking for. According to Vaughn, his office is filled with posters of the man. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. The Atlas corporation is named after the Titan who was sentenced to hold the heavens on his shoulders forever. UsefulNotes/The Eighth Generation of Console Video Games. In Episode 1, he's a pretty cowardly office boy. But sometimes, his actions are awkward regardless. 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. Saving Loader Bot is one, and the dog stays with you too! However, Gearbox head Randy Pitchford says it was Baker himself who turned down the role. Which is to be expected given he's "promoted" to janitor. Dr. Tannis explains that almost every bandit on Pandora used to be a relatively sane Dahl worker. Finally, it's the Trope Codifier for the "Looter Shooter" genre. 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. while chewing out Rhys at the same time for doing so. 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. 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. trying to kill himself to escape the madness. 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 story is about the Stranger trying to get the entire picture of what happened with. Prolific voice actor Troy Baker has revealed the true reason why he didn't reprise his role as Rhys in Borderlands 3. Episode 2 was released on March 17, 2015. - stream 188 rhys playlists including tales from the borderlands, borderlands, and handsome jack music from your desktop or mobile device. A minor one, the bandit in the intro scene gets hit by Rhys' car right after he kills someone. p>The Borderlands franchise has a long and somewhat complication storyline that has progressed through all the series titles. Y'know, last time a Vault opened on Promethea, Atlas rose like a phoenix. Characters sorted by TV Tropes Categories. Even Vaughn remarks that in college Rhys was a partygoing ladies' man despite being an equally huge nerd due to his confidence, looks, and charisma. 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. With Sasha. 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. Rhys gives the Vault Hunters an Atlas Viper Drive to hack a Maliwan shuttle instead. Roland's squad, Lilith's father, Higgins, Essimere, The Eldest, Crush's gang, Tate/Asha, L4CK-TP, Tannis's team. The quiet walk in the jungle, especially, carries tons of romance if you let it. The fifth and last episode was released on October 20, 2015 for PCs and PlayStation consoles, October 21 for Xbox consoles, and October 22 for mobile devices. You also have the option of turning him into one for Zer0. Rhys tries to get some of his tears to fall on Sasha's face. The Fremington's Edge has. male enhancement drug is shown in Hollow Point. Most evident in a. Fiona gets hold of a white-rarity Jakobs Scarab, but fires it in a three-round burst, something only. This can be his suggested response to Vasquez's taking his boss' position. A feature film based on the popular video game set on the abandoned fictional planet of Pandora where people search for a mysterious relic. He doesn't struggle when Athena tries to kill him and simply accepts his fate with simple dejection. Rhys got his cyberware to help him get ahead in the data-mining department. 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Jason Brody. 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. He's looking for the Vault to follow Maya; he fell in love with her and thinks Maya will restore his sanity. Allowing Jack to take control of Rhys's body at the end of episode two results in his Echo eye turning bright gold. Action Survivor in. Instead of traditional box mags, most of them have an apparatus to clutch the mag then slowly pull it into the body of the weapon. Once the Vault Hunters reach the base, Rhys remotely walks them through it. Unfortunately, this basically means they're just smart enough to be confused. 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. In general terms, he is the in-between characterization of Timothy Lawrence and Professor Nakayama. He's stated to be absolutely obsessed with Handsome Jack to the point that he specifically styles himself after him. A picture of her is seen on Rhys's desk in, a picture of Sasha can be seen on Rhys's desk in. tell him Rhys said. Each game follows a party of adventurers who arrive on the desert planet of Pandora in search of an alien vault said to contain vast stores of untold wealth, power and alien technology. Also, of all the prior Vault Guardians, none had received any form of foreshadowing whatsoever in their respective games other than the Warrior. 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. Even though it doesn't actually kill anyone, it was. He also offers reinforcements during the assault on the Cathedral of the Twin Gods. 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). However, as soon as they arrive, the Atlas defenses are sabotaged and Maliwan forces start invading. Fights a group of bandits on August's customized Bandit Technical in Episode Three. 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. He later returns as a supporting NPC protagonist in Borderlands 3. 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! He has the Vault Hunters meet him at his ship, but before they can travel to Maliwan's base, Katagawa destroys the ship with the laser. Cassius willingly offers his services to Rhys if he joins to help in the final boss battle. The robot calls this the ". 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. If you're familiar with his handiwork, you can probably guess that Shade is faking it. Related Articles All Marvel's Midnight Suns Pre-Order Bonuses and Special Editions The official gameplay trailer can be seen here, along with the announcement trailer. During his stay in the Hyperion corporation, he got along with two co-workers, Vaughn and Yvette, but maintained a rivalry with Vasquez. One of his first dialogue options is to declare he's going right to the top, and taking his friends with him. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Tales from the Borderlands is an episodic Adventure Game by Telltale Games with collaboration from Gearbox Software set in the Borderlands universe, released from 2014-2015. The Expansion was announced on October 11, 2012, and was released for PC, Xbox 360, and the PlayStation 3 on October 16, 2012. Enraged by Katagawa destroying some of his favorite structures, Rhys retaliates by destroying Katagawa's yacht Zanara with the laser. If one attack is good, then seven should be elected Mayor. He was voiced by Troy . Rhys' most notable features are his ECHO eye implant, which allows him to scan objects and reveal information about them, and his mechanical right arm, which has a built-in interface. Mystery Vault Hunter: Either have the maximum amount of money in the game by the time you need teammates for the final battle, or spare Felix in Episode 1 (which gives you enough money to hire the Mystery Vault Hunter). 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. 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. Many Crimson Lance roadblocks also act like this during the introductory quests to. Rhys, due to his cybernetics, is an excellent hacker. Tales From The Borderlands. the alarm is tripped and the security drones are released. Not long after, Vasquez appears, hinting at Yvette's. And if you've seen what he's done to Oasis, it shouldn't come as too much a surprise who's running it. However, he can outgrow this if the player chooses the alternative option. Cassius: Talk Athena down from killing him in Episode 3. 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. Katagawa attempts to convince him that Zer0 betrayed Atlas, but Rhys refuses to believe it until he is attacked by a Maliwan-decorated Zer0. He then took the sisters in, and raised them into a life of crime . Later on, they learn that the guy was actually in suspended animation Fiona later does it again at the Atlas Bunker, revealing that she kept the general's eye in her pocket this whole time. Vaughn, and by extension, the Children of Helios, in Episode 5. 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. Speaking to VG247, the voice actor said he wanted to . Rhys appears much more confident and determined by this, coupled with quite a Badass scene of him looking out of Jack's office window at Pandora, now in command of one of the most powerful corporations of all time. 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. With that, he and his best friend Vaughn set out to Pandora to steal the deal for themselves. How enhanced? Subverted before he came to Pandora, apparently. At the start of Episode 2, Fiona is forced to use the body of an Atlas general in order to bypass a retinal scanner. After getting screwed out of a promotion by his nemesis Vasquez, he catches wind of a deal for a Vault Key. No Archive Warnings Apply; Fiona/Rhys (Borderlands) Rhys (Borderlands) Fiona (Borderlands) Rhyiona Week 2022 - Lovers to Enemies; Mild Language; Canon-Typical Violence 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. Shield + Grenades: Sticks several of its electricity-spewing sticky grenades to its shield, then smashes it into the ground to create a cone of electricity. The loaders have been getting smarter ever since Jack's death. Owen Shaw 1 roles in common. He was initially excited as reinforcements arrived, but quickly became frustrated when he realized that the Vault Hunters were his only support. In Episode 4, he's come a very long way on the Badass scale. Male The leader of the Crimson Lance in the vanilla game, dedicated to finding and plundering the Vault first. destruction of the stolen 10 million dollars, which leaves the protagonists completely broke. Engages in a hilariously bizarre "gunfight" with a. Can be very sweet and downright romantic with Sasha, which she seems to enjoy quite a bit. Handsome Jack. The whole reason why Rhys and Fiona are mad at each other in the present. Kinda torn both ways on this one. Rhys Strongfork is the current CEO of the Atlas corporation, a former middle manager of Hyperion. Borderlands: Directed by Eli Roth. Voice Actor Takes on a literal army of bandits with his stun baton in Episode One. You can choose to be a jerkass, a friend, or develop a romance. Video Game Industry. In this series, actual wooden 19th century firearms can win against ancient alien monsters. He's quite smarmy just on his own, which can be increased even more through the dialogue options, should the player so desire. After the events of Tales from the Borderlands, he acquires the rights to the then-defunct Atlas brand and rebuilds it from scratch. Virtual Jack calls him on this, but to a near. 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. After the Vault Key is revealed as a fake, it gets taken by Bossanova and becomes the. As with any story of this length and magnitude, many moving parts can sometimes get lost in the mix of things. Yvette shows her true colors in Episode 4 as being just as backstabbing as everyone else on Helios, revealing to Rhys (while disguised as Vasquez) that she was in cahoots with Vasquez after Rhys and Vaughn left for Pandora to have Vasquez bring back Rhys' head to extract Jack's AI from inside, justifying it to herself as thinking that they were going to die anyway so she might as well have gained something from it. With the right dialog choices, you can make Rhys into a proper Jack wannabe. Borderlands: Directed by Eli Roth. In March 2021 it was released on the Nintendo Switch. 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. Search Works. opening a mysterious chest of supposed loot together, including the same dialog. A lighter shadw of purple is used in, Orange is the color of Legendary weapons and items. Sasha to Fiona about Felix's gift Sasha is a main character in Telltale Games' Tales from the Borderlands. Click below to see other actors suggested for each role, and vote for who you think would play the role best. Rhys' original outfit came with a pair of snakeskin boots. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/BorderLands. Green is a bit murky: it marks both Uncommon weapons and items as well as mission objectives. 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. Possibly the Siren Lilith came to Pandora to find, but that is never confirmed. Rhys and Fiona are at least guaranteed to survive the events of the game though they evidently parted on poor terms. When they realized that Pandora wasn't worth the effort, they up and left while leaving their workers for dead. If you see my main man Vaughn back on Pandora, tell him main man Rhys said, uh. The second key fragment was reclaimed by the Vault Hunters after destroying the Katagawa Ball. 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. The last act of episode 5 has Rhys referring to both Fiona and Sasha by shortened variations of their names, and the last five minutes, Rhys has the option to imply interest in Fiona over Sasha given certain dialogue options. note Claptrap note Borderlands 3 note Supporting Characters Borderlands note Borderlands 2 note Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep TfTBL Intro He is one compared to the standards of the majority of corporate owners in the. Rhys is still CEO of Atlas one year after the events of Borderlands 3. Home / Articles / Tales from the Borderlands Leaving Rhys and Fiona Behind is a Bad Move. This never shows up. Vallory forces the group to infiltrate Hyperion for the next Gortys upgrade. As Fiona's first, there's telling Shade he cannot accompany you, followed by the message: Rhys has one, when Fiona interrupts his version of events as the Stranger drags him through the desert. not too worried that he'll be tracked to the other side of Grophic IV. Rhys is also a supporting character in Borderlands 3. Rhys Strongfork is on of two protagonists of the 2014 video game Tales From the Borderlands. In "Atlas Mugged", Rhys contacts Yvette, and tells her to help them out. It's actually fake. However, he quickly recomposes himself and tells them that if Maliwan is supported by the Calypsos and are after the Vaults, then that information would be stored in Maliwan's Gigamind. Dahl advertise themselves as making weapons for professional soldiers and the like. 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. The Mechromancer has the "Robot Rampage" skill, whose flavor text only makes sense because of its description, that it creates a flurry of lasers: The Gunzerker has the "Come At Me, Bro" skill, where the flavor text only makes sense because of its description, that taunting is a way to heal to full health, and taunted enemies deal reduced damage: Fremington's Edge sniper rifles have the text "I can see my house from here! Rhys had posters of Handsome Jack on his wall when he was a Hyperion employee. 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. Character Type 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. With Troy Baker or not, Rhys will be joining the cast of Borderlands 3 alongside other franchise favorites as Clap Trap, Tiny Tina, and Zero on September 13, 2019, on PlayStation 4, Xbox One,. "Trick Shot" prefix guns have bullets that bounce if they don't hit an enemy. Baker is also famed for his work as a number of other major characters in modern video games, such as Joel from The Last of Us. p>For the most part, New Tales from the Borderlands tells a story that is largely disconnected from the rest of the Borderlands universe. By Episode 4, he can come to be quite highly respected by both Fiona and Sasha. Depending on the player's choice, both of these characters can die or live to the end of the series. He also genuinely thanks them for killing Steele, considering he didn't like her very much. Borderlands Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. 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. Go to Borderlands r . The Dahl corporation places profits over safety of their employees. 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. With Janina Gavankar, Haley Bennett, Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis. The entire cast except Rhys and Jack does one when Rhys is unexpectedly promoted to. 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. The World of Curiosities gleefully point out the various body horror aspects of Dr. Nakayama's Eridium implants and what happened with Commandant Steele. Jack begs Rhys not to kill him because he doesn't want to return to the afterlife, which he says is nothingness. 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. In, Tediore pride themselves on cheap but still effective guns for the average consumer, and their firearms look the part. A five-year-old that was Admiral of the Crimson Lance 3rd Starborne Brigade, which unfortunately makes him Knoxx's superior officer. He's forced to go another route. Compare to Episode 1 where he's basically scared out of his mind when having to fight bandits to Episode 3 where he goes to chase August with Loader Bot alongside Sasha to save Gortys. Games Tales from the Borderlands Leaving Rhys and Fiona Behind is a Bad Move. Being an uploaded AI version of himself, it bypasses the whole "kills you dead" issue the endoskeleton had when he was still human. 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. Alvin Seville 1 roles in common. Despite initial fears of Scooter launching off a satellite would get everyone killed from the bad guys escorting the protagonists, no one declines doing so when suggesting to launch it off in honor of Scooter after his. In Episode 5, Rhys uses a shard of glass to. Episode 1 was released on November 25, 2014. Falls down Jack's trapdoor in Episode Five and lands on the metal floor. Yvette serves as the greatest threat until AI Handsome Jack plugs himself in and takes over the whole base, trying to kill Rhys while Vallory double-crosses the group and has her men attack them and try to take the upgrade and leave them to die. The Hyperion corporation is named after one of the original Titans in reference to its titanic size and wealth. 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. The former later offers to put a bullet through Rhys' head if his brain gets taken over by Jack. Tales from the Borderlands was released in 2014 by Telltale Games told a story between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3 and followed two unreliable narrators - Rhys and Fiona -. Both hate each other, both are untrustworthy and both are trying to sell their side of the story. Shield + Rocket Launcher: Shoots all its remaining rockets straight up, then uses its shield as an umbrella to keep Rhys and Vaughn safe as everything else explodes. Rhys, Vaughn, and Yvette, friends and mutual Hyperion wageslaves who work together to try and advance each other's careers. 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. While never confirmed, it is implied that. White rarity is Common, and this applies to common-rarity weapons as well as ammo boxes. Tropes used in Borderlands include: 20% More Awesome: One of the slogans Marcus' vending machines gives for "Torgue" brand guns is: "Four hundred percent more awesome! The game supports drop-in drop-out Co-Op Multiplayer, as well as Player Versus Player in certain arenas. Like Jack, he's a former corporate stooge who through a series of circumstances rose up to the top of the corporate ladder after opening a Vault. Man, they did Rhys dirty in BL3, in Tales, he literally has to destroy everything he ever wanted, everything he worked his life for, his whole understanding of the universe is shattered, then he has to literally rip himself apart in order to finally kill the most monstrous being in the known universe in a very emotional scene, he finds a true family that cares for him in the process and even . 0 Vote No. Fiona is an adventurous con artist who proves to be the complete opposite of Rhys in almost every way. 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. Blue is also murky: it marks both Unique and Rare weapons and items. 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. 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. This page is an index of character lists for the Borderlands video game series and its spin-offs. 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. However, you will also get the, in my opinion, far superior weapon trinket - Rhys's Piece. Rhys: I can't believe it Jack: (stops) What? 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. 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. If you count areas seen in the background of the menu as being previews of locations in the series. This page is an index of character lists for the Borderlands video game series and its spin-offs. Athena also does this after saving Fiona and the gang from Vallory. This route involves literally ripping himself over against Jack's control in order to get his rights to control Atlas instead. He is seen dancing on the TV screen behind Rhys. 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. 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. Best Games. Later, New Tales from the Borderlands was confirmed for an October 21, 2022 release. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands. sublimepoint: " Vaughn [Tales From The Borderlands] + tv tropes " Zero, Amara, Fl4k, and Brick don't care as much about the Vaults and just want an excuse to fight, kill and break stuff. 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. Felix's death by suitcase bomb, if you don't warn him. 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. He's one of the reasons why Knoxx hates what Atlas is. Narrative-focused horror games, Sci-Fi titles, fantasy epics, and post-apocalyptic experiences have all returned to dominate the market once more, and Gearbox's upcoming New Tales From the Borderlands wants a piece of the action. RELATED: Borderlands: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Rhys. Most sniper rifles have a zoom of between 4x and 6x. After talking about their future plans, they open the chest together and then they both disappear, leaving it unknown what exactly happened to them. In addition to main character Athena, two of the assassins sent after you in the General Knoxx DLC are named Hera and Minerva. Gortys Project is assembled in the belly of the Old Haven Atlas Facility. Contents 1 Involvement 1.1 Season 1 1.1.1 "Zer0 Sum" 1.1.2 "Atlas Mugged" 1.1.3 "Catch a Ride" 1.1.4 "Escape Plan Bravo" 1.1.5 "The Vault of the Traveler" 2 Allies 3 Enemies 4 Appearances 4.1 Season 1 Involvement Season 1 "Zer0 Sum" Rhys can say something in threatening manner, which will make Vasquez punch him in the face in both episodes. In Episode 5, he is willingly and methodically ripping or cutting out his cybernetics with glass fragments in a last attempt to stop AI Jack. Rhys is an original character in Telltale's Tales from the Borderlands He serves as one of the two playable protagonists, alongside Fiona. He also similarly dignified in the face of his own canonical death at the hands of the Vault Hunters in. 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. Rhys calls the Vault Hunters back to Promethea after they collect the Key piece on Athenas, as Skywell-27's laser is threatening Atlas and is demolishing locations on Promethea. The Beautiful Tropes - TV Tropes Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza is a 1987 semi-autobiographical work by Gloria E. Anzalda that examines the Chicano and Latino experience through the lens of issues such as gender, identity, race, and colonialism. Gaige is probably the straightest example in the series: she ran away to Pandora with her dad's help after killing her arch-enemy with her death robot during a high school science fair, hoping that the long arm of her rival's powerful family won't find her in Pandora. Under the reign of Rhys, Atlas has been largely reformed and serves as allies of the Vault Hunters. Acme Products: As each of them is a Mega-Corp, nearly any branded product encountered in the games is also made by one of them or another, like Dahl brand dumpsters/treasure chests/squirt guns, Jakobs fuel tanks and prefab buildings, etc. Wakko Warner 1 roles in common. The game was developed by Tell. Standard M.O. the modern-looking city never shows up either. As the game has RPG elements, each title in the series has (at least) four player classes, each with an active skill and (at least) three skill trees to sink points into. 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. Action Survivor. In 2022, a follow up to Tales was teased at PAX East 2022. The Handsome Jack AI declares him a worthy successor to ruling Hyperion. Tales from the Borderlands has a tremendous amount of dialogue. It was paid for by his quarterly bonus, which he received by arranging a lucrative (though controversial) Eridium mining deal. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. Rhys ripping out his ECHO eye in Episode 5 is milked for all it's worth. ORIGINAL STORY 30th September 2019: Troy Baker has said he didn't voice Rhys Strongfork in Borderlands 3 because Gearbox "wouldn't go union". accepting Vasquez's deal to betray Vaughn. The franchise is in the Guinness Book of World Records for its profusion of weapon designs. However, the player is also given several options in which he calls out Jack for being a psychotic egomaniac. The other is a smooth-talking Pandoran con-artist looking for her next big score. Tales from the Borderlands' first episode goes free, final episode coming Oct. 20. Optional with Sasha in episode 3. In Episode 5, Kroger and Finch betrays Fiona and Sasha by trying to take Gortys away and abandoning them on Helios. The first game's Tag Line of "87 bazillion guns" is an exaggeration, but not much of one: its loot engine was estimated at being able to produce some eighteen million unique combinations, and it's only gotten bazilliondier since then. 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. New Tales from the Borderlands Release Date Revealed With First Trailer Mass Effect: Andromeda Features We Hope to See in ME4 p>Gamescom 2022 kicked off with Geoff Keighley's Opening Night Live showcase where fans got new looks at upcoming games like Hogwarts Legacy and Calisto Protocol as well as some big surprises. Blasters: Firing a effectively continuous stream of energy. However, the real Zer0 appears, knocks off the imposter's helmet (revealing him to be Katagawa Jr.), and rescues Rhys. Shows up in Tales from the Borderlands stuffed and as a museum piece. Working up the ranks of Hyperion is a start for him, with, of course, intentions to control Hyperion one day. But. 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. Rhys eventually managed to rebuild the Atlas corporation and settled himself on Promethea before the events of Borderlands 3. 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. Call-Back: In Episode 1, a billboard for the "Engorge!" male enhancement drug is shown in Hollow Point. 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. Now, after four episodes, a massive shift in perspective from his time on Pandora, and general character development, he can potentially tell Jack to shove his offer right up his holographic ass at the end of Episode 4 and call him out for being the genocidal psychopath that he is. The four-option dialogue format comes up as you try to call Fiona for aid over the radio, but all the options begin to glitch back and forth, switching between telling her that you're in trouble to assuring her that everything's fine, since Jack is hacked into Rhys' brain. Handsome Jack wants to do this with mass produced versions of his "immortal endoskeleton" so that there would be an army of Jacks. The Handsome Jackpot is a space station casino built by the late Handsome Jack as his personal Egopolis as well as a tourist trap designed to trap gamblers into permanent debt slavery. The title of the first episode hints at the appearance of Zer0 at around its midpoint and the. . 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. 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. Work Search: tip: "uchiha sasuke/uzumaki naruto" angst kudos>10 Handsome Jack's body was sealed away inside Butt Stalion. 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 Loader Bot captured and interrogated Rhys and Fiona about the events of the game up until that point without revealing his identity. 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. They all look like they're made of cheap plastic and electronics, and also look rather squarish and boxy. Episode 3 was released on June 23, 2015. The closest thing is the ruins of Helios, which is surrounded by a shanty town. . Jack. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. (303) $27.00 FREE shipping. As such, their weapons look mostly like if you took modern day weapons and stuck them into the, Hyperion firearms sport a very angular appearance, with optional fins and whatnot that raise as you keep firing. ''My Silver Lining'' by First Aid Kit makes for the perfect ending song for Episode 5. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. the Loaders have been getting smarter. Happens when Rhys comes up with a plan to break into the Atlas warehouse. 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. 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