Each shooter game from the Borderlands franchise introduces playable character classes with dedicated powers and abilities. These characters are also often known as Vault Hunters (in the main game series), due to they seek for mysterious treasury places called Vaults.
Borderlands
- Main article: Classes/Borderlands
Borderlands 2
- Main article: Classes/Borderlands 2
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
- Main article: Classes/Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Borderlands 3
- Main article: Classes/Borderlands 3
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
- Main article: Classes/Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
Borderlands 4
- Main article: Classes/Borderlands 4
Notes
- Regardless of mentions about weapon preferences, all characters can use any type of weapon throughout the game without penalty. However, certain characters have abilities in their respective skill trees that can augment the use of a certain weapon type, such as Roland's Scattershot, or Zer0's At 0ne with the Gun.
- The main characters (in the core series of games) are often referred to as "Vault Hunters" in the story, due to their role in the course of events as soldiers of fortune-seeking the Vault and its rumored treasures.
- In the mission Wanted: Dead!, displayed text from each character highlights their individual personality traits. Lilith's cursive script is signed off with a kiss mark and dots her "i"s with hearts, Mordecai uses a hasty scrawl, Roland prints plainly and neatly in capitals, and Brick's writing is a barely legible and childlike scribble.
- Although not an official member of the team, the NPC Michael Mamaril makes mention of himself also being a Vault Hunter before offering a weapon.
- Typhon DeLeon is another example, as while he is the first Vault Hunter, he is also only an NPC.
- Fiona and Rhys who appear on the Tales from the Borderlands trailer are pointed out by Marcus of not being Vault Hunters despite their intentions of performing something that normally a Vault Hunter would do.
- Prior to invading the abandoned Atlas facility controlled by Bossanova, Zer0 simply shoots his way into the building with virtually no effort and kills everything in his way. When Sasha asks Fiona why they don't just go in the same way, Fiona reminds Sasha they aren't "Vault Hunters". The group then finds a mostly non-violent way into the building.
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