Why are so many characters in borderlands pre sequel gay

The original Borderlands game was released in and seemed to be totally unconcerned with the culture war. This is not how Borderlands 2 and the Pre-Sequel were written. Released in andwhen the culture war was brewing but had not yet exploded into Gamergate or, in the latter case, a few months after it had begun, making it unclear how much of it was written with that specific movement in mind.

Borderlands 2 and the Pre-Sequel make a point of being progressive. Angel was also a character in the first Borderlands, although her guidance was so vague and useless that she accomplishes basically nothing despite being one of, if not the, most prominent NPCs by number of voice lines.

Her only role in Borderlands 1 was to dispense motherly cooing of encouragement before going into a boss fight and praise after completing one, in such a way that implies that some kind of greater strategy for killing all these bandits was supposed to be written into her dialogue at some point but they never got around to it.

She does this by helping you, uh…kill her. Angel helps you kill Angel. It seems like Angel betrays you for no other reason except to then facilitate her having a redemption arc, because someone at Gearbox is horny for women who feel ashamed of past actions and are on some kind of redemption quest to atone for their crimes — especially since Angel switches from that at the exact moment her cooing motherliness gets choked off.

Either way, Lilith spends the final stretch of the game being held captive and tortured while you do a side quest where you race around Lethal Lava Land gathering up refunds that arms dealer Marcus Kincaid mailed out while drunk and is now paying you to reclaim before anyone actually collects them.

None of it is so blatant that I would normally bother writing a blog post about it, except that so many of the side quests go out of their way to try and show off progressive credentials bear in mind these games released in andbefore the US Obergefell case legalized gay marriage in all 50 states which makes the portrayal of women in the main plot much more noticeable.

Ellie is an overweight mechanic whose side quests revolve around either starting a gang war to profit from the conflict Yojimbo-style and collecting the figureheads of a bunch of bandit murdercars styled to look like her, which she suspects were supposed to mock her but which she thinks look cool so she wants to put them up around her house.

Borderlands 3 also features Lilith being attacked by a bad guy who drains her psychic powers out at the end of the very first arc. Skip to content The original Borderlands game was released in and seemed to be totally unconcerned with the culture war.

Damn near everyone is queer in the Borderlands franchise and I’m here for it

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