Axton

Axton is the playable Commando class character in Borderlands 2.

He was revealed on February 21, 2012, in the Borderlands 2 Launch Date Trailer.

Background
Originally from Heironymus, Axton turned to a military career, although was later discharged for being too unpredictable and a fun-loving glory seeker. He took his skills, and his precious turret, to Pandora where he felt they would be more appreciated.

Skills
Action Skill: Sabre Turret

Axton is able to deploy a versatile Dahl Sabre Turret, a veritable arsenal with 360° rotation and a weapons complement that can be upgraded to include multi-rocket launcher and a portable nuke. Cooldown is 42 seconds (same as Salvador).

Guerrilla
Short-range engagement. Focused on getting Axton into the fight and improves the turret's ability to perform continuous high damage attacks (the turret as heavy suppression fire support)

Gunpowder
Medium-range engagement. Focuses more heavily on medium range explosives and weapon damage. Improves many of Axtons offensive combat stats, and improves the turret mostly as a tactical deploy/distraction.

Survival
Defense-oriented. Focused on defensive stat boosts and abilities, using the turret frequently, and pulling Axton back from the brink of death.

Trivia

 * Axton's turret is manufactured by Dahl.
 * Axton's wife Sarah died a few years before the events of Borderlands 2. She was also his former commanding officer, and Axton wears her dog tag.
 * Axton is wanted for war crimes, the bounty on his head is $5,000,000,000.
 * Axton dislikes cats.
 * It is apparent that Sarah before the events of borderlands 2 had given her wedding band back to Axton before he was to be executed by a firing squad, avoiding it only because he went to Pandora.