bandits

Bandits are hostile humans that inhabit Pandora. They will kill anyone and anything in order to obtain equipment, food, and fuel.

Background Those of the bandits who have retained their sanity and remained predominantly human have come from a very mixed collection of backgrounds. Many were convicts brought in as cheap labor to the Eridium mines of Pandora by the Dahl corporation and carelessly released when the company severed most ties with the planet. Others have simply turned to banditry in order to survive on Pandora, others simply were just bandits anyway.

Appearances Borderlands The Secret Armory of General Knoxx Strategy Bandits move quickly and seek cover when they come under fire. They also typically duck into a crouch to reload their guns. They are known to carry a variety of small arms and grenades, and are often encountered wearing shields.

Bandit Thug Thugs wear dark brown masks that fully conceal their head. These masks have a red stripe at its center and yellow eyepieces. They are often armed with pistols, though they are also known to make use of shields, grenades and submachine guns. They are fairly common among the bandits' ranks. While not tough, thugs will fight somewhat intelligently, using cover and moving from place to place. Thugs are also the operators and drivers of the Out Riders and Mulciber Mk2 Gatling guns used by bandits.

Bandit Thugs have different names for each difficulty level, and for DLC appearances:

Bruisers are large, hulking, and very muscular bandits. Regular bruisers are shirtless, wearing surgical-style masks, goggles and have a mohawk hairdo. Badass Bruisers wear full-face masks crafted from metal. Bruisers in Borderlands 2 use the first game's Badass Bruiser appearance.

Psychos are bandits who have gone insane with a freakish obsession for the Vault. Shirtless, wearing a white mask and dressed in orange pants, these outlaws can be immediately identified by their homicidal cries, psychotic laughter and constant desire to get into close combat.

Sledge is a "massive brute"[1] and the leader of the bandits in the Arid Badlands. He is the primary antagonist for a series of missions that bar access to the Dahl Headlands and his death is one of the last tasks undertaken in the Arid Badlands.

Baron Flynt was born on Pandora into a notorious family, and is the brother of Captain and Zane. He once worked for Dahl as a prison warden. When Dahl abandoned the operation, he was left to fend for himself, along with a prison full of starving convicts. He freed these desperate men, and with them formed a tribe of bandits.