Krieg

Krieg is the playable Psycho class character in Borderlands 2. He was revealed on March 24, 2013, in the Borderlands 2 Krieg the Psycho Character Reveal Trailer. He was released on May 14th, 2013 on Steam and PlayStation Network for $9.99, or 800 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live.

Background
Not much is known about Krieg, other than he has escaped from a lab beneath Pandora. Tweets made on the Echocast profile not only reveals that he wants to 'kill the bandits, kill Hyperion, and get revenge', but that he seems to want to 'protect the weak, and kill the deserving' with an extra focus on 'kill the deserving' part.

Whatever Krieg's been through to make him the blood-drinking, meat-loving killer that he is, he wasn't always like this. Krieg's psyche has a remnant of who he used to be--a literal inner voice which forces Krieg to only kill the deserving, and help others. The voice remarks that he remembers helping people, getting paid with loot, and other Vault-hunter-esque pursuits. It's also informed Krieg that should Krieg ever kill an innocent person, the inner voice will take over and commit suicide to kill them both.

Action Skill: Buzz Axe Rampage
[Fire] to swing buzz axe, [Aim] + [Fire] to throw buzz axe.

+500% Melee Damage, regain all Health on kill.

Duration: ~15 seconds.

Cooldown: 120 seconds, reduced by taking damage.

Bloodlust
Focuses on ranged combat using a Bloodlust stack mechanic. Dealing damage to an enemy adds a stack of Bloodlust to a maximum of 100. Stacks decay after 3 seconds if you haven’t dealt damage at a rate of 1 stack per second.

Mania
Focuses on melee combat and Health/Fight For Your Life mechanics.

Hellborn
Focuses on elemental effects, particularly setting oneself on fire. Bonuses that apply only when on fire are in.

Quotes
Parentheses indicate Krieg's inner voice speaking.

"My stomach is clear and my mind is full of bacon."

When joining a game When killing multiple enemies in a row When using Buzz Axe Rampage When Buzz Axe Rampage is ready When activating Light the Fuse Critical Kill When getting a Second Wind with Light The Fuse When detonating during Light the Fuse Vehicle kill Silence the Voices (Self Damage) When reviving an ally When revived On earning a Second Wind While Idle Completing a Challenge Out of Ammo Comparing Items Spotting Health Spotting a Badass When set on fire When hit by friendly fire When turning into a Badass Psycho Mutant When using Redeem the Soul When killing enemies while using Buzz Axe Rampage When finding rare loot On gaining a level When making a high jump in a vehicle When accumulating Bloodlust stacks Issuing a duel challenge Receiving a duel challenge Losing a duel Stalemate at a duel Winning a duel
 * I'm here to shank and smile!
 * It's time to bleed!
 * Whose ready to flay some scalps?!
 * BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOOOD, BLOOD, BLOOOOOOOD!
 * Mahahaha! My mind is on fire!
 * (If I harm an innocent person, kill me.)
 * Look at me when I scream into your soul.
 * From hell's heart, I stab at thee!
 * I know what I have become... I am the inside of this world, I taste the gore, and I smell the crying, AND I WANT MORE! I want to bathe in your flesh, I want to savor your fear. I wanna live inside a castle built of your agony, AND I WANT TO CRUMBLE IT WITH AN AXE TO YOUR CAROTID ARTERY!
 * Your family is next!
 * STOP SCREAMING!
 * GRIND GRIND GRIND KILL KILL KILL!
 * (This is gonna get ugly...)
 * (You asked for it...I can't hold it back any longer...!)
 * I'M....COMING!!
 * [maniacal laughter]
 * I'LL SWALLOW YOUR SOUL!
 * (It's time...)
 * NEVER STOP THE KILLING, NEVER!
 * I feel the hurt...time for a rampage!
 * Rampage and fill the red bar!
 * I'm losing blood...gimme yours!
 * My axe is thirsty!
 * RAMPAGE TIME!
 * It's time to go insane!
 * Rampage and heal, heal and rampage!
 * Boom!
 * Gotcha!
 * Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock!
 * How can I snap your neck if you don't have one?!
 * Bathe in the meat chunks!
 * MEAT!!!
 * Explosions of life!
 * Circle of Life!
 * Born into flame!
 * Immortal!
 * Wahahahah! I'll take you ALL with me!
 * Wahahahah! Not fast enough!
 * We'll all go together!
 * Your liver is a hood ornament!
 * Insurance fraud!
 * Train won't stop!
 * I love it when you splash on my windshield!
 * Thank you for riding the Psycho Express, Tooh-tooh! All aboard, I'll be collecting your tickets, we have beverages in the DINING CAR!!!
 * Stop hitting yourself!!
 * I hate me!!
 * CONFUSION!!
 * The pain goes HERE!
 * SHUT UP!!
 * GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!
 * STOP TALKING TO ME!!
 * KILL THE LITTLE MAN!!
 * QUIET!!
 * GET OUT, GET OUT, GET OUT!!
 * LET ME LOOSE!!
 * I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!
 * NO, NO, NO!!
 * STOP JUDGING ME!!
 * YOU CAN'T CONTROL ME!!
 * (Dude, what are you doing?)
 * (I deserve this.)
 * (You can't get rid of me THAT easily...)
 * Love you...
 * There's no barbecue 'til I say there's a barbecue!
 * Can't make the pain scream from down there!
 * I will murder your death.
 * You don't die today. YOU DIE EVERY DAY!!
 * Get back on your meat hunches!
 * GET UP, GET UP!!
 * Don't worry...it's a good touch.
 * (That's right, help 'em. Just like old times...)
 * (Say 'thank you'.) NIPPLE SALADS!! (...Close enough.)
 * Somebody still cares!?
 * Stranger Danger!
 * I am unused to the emotions I am currently feeling!
 * I'm so happy I could KILL you!
 * Don't make this weird!
 * Immortal!
 * (Get up...you still got bad guys to kill...)
 * (On your feet, she might still be out there.)
 * I'M NEVER SORRY!
 * NOW YOU SHOULD BE SCARED!
 * You woke the wrong dog!
 * I'm not full yet!
 * Angry, I'm angry!
 * Let me hear those screams!
 * My flesh is forever!
 * Now to SCRAPE YOUR FACE FROM MY FINGERNAILS!
 * It's strangling time!
 * I'm back!
 * Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now... Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now... Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now... Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now... Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now... Why aren't my fingers in someone's eye sockets right now...
 * (Where is she? Is she still alive? Did she get away?)
 * (If you ever kill an innocent person, I will destroy us.) Shut UP!! (No. That's the deal. You can kill as many of the deserving as you like, but the second your axe touches the flesh of an innocent, I'll end this. All of it. A razor to the veins, just like that fugitive we tried to grab on Hera, remember?) Nnnnngh, get out of my head!! (...I'll take that as a 'yes.')
 * Somebody open me up and put out the fire in my belly... Put it out with knives and bullets and strangling, or I will eat your nephews!
 * (Nice change of pace not to be murdering someone for once. Probably temporary, though. I'll lose my mind again and be screaming about meat and fluid soon enough... But this part feels... nice.)
 * You think this is the end... It will start again, the blood, the screaming, again and again, forever!
 * NIPPLE SALADS! Nipple salads... Nipple salads!
 * SILENCE! IT'S KILLING ME (Quiet noises) and I will strangle the whispers out of you WITH A BONE SAW
 * (I'm beginning to remember) Stop it, keep the memories down with a knife in it's throat, slash it until it bleeds thought juice across the dirt and it's absorbed into nothingness...
 * (I can't stop, I can't stop the killing) AND I DON'T WANT TO!
 * You think this is the end, it will never end. The blood and the screaming and the teeth it will start. Again, and again, and again, forever.
 * (Maybe the world is sending me a sign.)
 * STRONGER!
 * My pecs have pecs!
 * I feel a deep, dark warmth...!
 * I'm rising!
 * You can't stop me!
 * I'm rising!
 * No, no, no, no, no!
 * Who made this gun!?
 * I ordered a lead salad!
 * NOTHINGNESS!
 * [frustrated groan]
 * (Uh-oh. Math. Hope we don't pop a blood vessel.)
 * Uhh... the choices are pretzeling my inner lobes!
 * See the numbers, taste the violence....
 * I see red!
 * Organic arm-jabbers!
 * Blood drink!
 * Blasto bandage!
 * I see feel good needles!
 * HERE COMES THE BATH-TIME!!
 * I'm gonna swallow your throat, badass!
 * I can't wait to taste your lungs!
 * I'll show you what a badass is!
 * I see meat muscles!
 * Don't cry when I pull your lungs out through your chest!
 * Come to me wrath sponge!
 * Splash your blood all over me!
 * Somebody delivered a feast!
 * I want to hear you scream!
 * (This one, we can kill.)
 * I EMBRACE THE FLAME.
 * HE'S ON FIRE.
 * (I deserve to burn...)
 * Hit the one you love! Do it!
 * I'll eat the pain.
 * I feel your spanking.
 * Friendship is pain.
 * Shoot me 'til you love me!
 * Friendlyfriendlyfriendly FIRE!!
 * DON'T...STOP!!
 * (Oh...they finally turned on me...)
 * I CAN'T TAKE IT!!!
 * NO! NO, NO, NO!!!
 * I'VE GOT A HUGE HAND!!!
 * [angry roar]
 * (I'm a monster...!)
 * (...You got 'em...!)
 * Better this way...
 * Pitiful people prepare, plead plentifully plentiful platitude phenomenal patriot pounds, poundingly perverse puppets﻿ pulping, pleasantly, putrid pasties.
 * You loud sacks of filth and sour cream can hit me with your pain pinatas all day, but you'll never take the jellied fantasies of my wasted youth!
 * [unintelligible roaring noises]
 * I told ya what would happen!
 * I like my treasure like I like my baby steaks, raaaaare...
 * What a shiny soul stabber!
 * A golden mallet for the meat pounding!
 * Look at that pungent kill stick.
 * MINE, MINE, MINE!
 * A killing tool, put it in me!
 * (We can use that to kill the deserving, grab it, grab it...)
 * Ooohoohoohoohoo, look at that shiny soul stabber!
 * I heard a ding!
 * I'm rising!
 * All I see is red!
 * This pleasure is agony!
 * I'm overflowing!
 * [short, maniacal laughter]
 * I want to crush something!
 * Gun time, fun time!
 * Do you hear that?!
 * I AM DEATH!
 * (Nearly as good as getting paid)
 * Looks like them Duke boys are in a peck of trouble!
 * Somebody catch me!
 * Fine! I'll make the sky bleed!
 * FLYING!!
 * I can't breath!
 * (This is kinda awful, but mostly awesome...)
 * I smell a little drop!
 * BLOOD CONCERTO!!!
 * Paper cut...
 * I love it when you bleed at me!
 * It's a bloody business, Bates!
 * I lust for your blood!
 * Friendship is hate!
 * I'll give you something to cry about!
 * LOOK AT ME!
 * You'll never choke ME down!
 * I am NOT your friend!
 * (Don't kill this one, they are not deserving.)
 * That's more like it!
 * Thank you!
 * Yeeeeessss, AGAIN!
 * Thanks for the face pain!
 * (Don't kill them, this is just for fun, for fun...)
 * It feels perfect!
 * I've got to stop.
 * I didn't mean it!
 * Feels different this time!
 * It's the end... But the meat has been prepared!
 * I slaughtered Steven! He's not even!
 * I'll strangle you with that tie!
 * That's wrong! SO WRONG!
 * But nobody's bleeediiinnng!
 * I'd rather snort a knife into my brain!
 * Feels so right!
 * You're making me giddy!
 * While there's life, there's meat!
 * You were fantastic. SO WAS I!
 * (Teasingly) You should've ruuuun!

Trivia

 * According to Borderlands 2 Creative Director, Paul Hellquist, Krieg was once a bandit that became a Vault Hunter. Ultimately Hyperion captured Krieg and tortured him until his "brain broke," buffing up his abilities at the same time.
 * Krieg's skills "Strip The Flesh" and "Salt the Wound" are references to one phrase commonly heard from psychos ("strip the flesh, salt the wound").
 * According to the PAX East developers commentary, some of Krieg's skills are reference to the psychos' skills which annoy players the most. This includes throwing explosives and exploding (Suicide Psychos), breathing fire (Burning Psychos) and rushing opponents for melee (normal Psychos).
 * Krieg's name means 'War' in German.
 * Krieg's skill Burn, Baby, Burn is a reference to the song "Disco Inferno" by The Trammps.
 * On April 24, 2013, Krieg took over @ECHOcasts Twitter (formerly owned by Sir Hammerlock).
 * Krieg's line "Look at me when I scream into your soul" is a reference to a series of similar lines used by attacking psychos ("Look into my eyes when I stare at you" and "Look at me when I'm charging at you").
 * Based on his quotes, Krieg seems to have at some point helped a woman or girl to escape from somewhere. Krieg makes several comments based around an unknown female, and his inner voice asks whether 'she' got away or not.
 * Krieg seems to suffer from Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). He argues with himself in some of his quotes, and he has a very quiet 'inner voice' which occasionally tells him what to do or comments on his surroundings--it is very difficult to hear unless sound effects and volume are turned down very low.
 * The dominant personality seems to be his violent side.
 * His more peaceful side seems to keep him in check by threatening that it will take control and commit suicide as soon as he harms an innocent person.
 * Krieg's bounty is $100,000,000,000. No crimes are listed, but in the launch trailer the poster has "Property of Hyperion" written on it.
 * When Krieg dies, regardless of whether he has Light the Fuse or not, he will attempt to say the lines he uses when detonating the bundle of dynamite that accompanies LTF mode. These lines will usually be at least partially cut off.
 * Krieg's quote "You woke the wrong dog!" is a nod to Nine-Toes from the first Borderlands. Upon meeting him, he says "You woke the wrong dog!"
 * Krieg's head 'I CAN'T BREATHE IN THIS' is a reference to the character Dark Helmet from the film "Spaceballs".
 * The name's of Krieg's skills follow patterns depending on which tree they are in.
 * Bloodlust skills' names all include the word "blood".
 * Mania skills' names all follow the pattern: word + " the " + word.
 * Hellborn skills' names all use alliteration.
 * Krieg's quote "You were fantastic. SO WAS I!" is a reference to Doctor Who when the 9th Doctor regenerates and says a similar line.