Psycho (Borderlands)



Psychos are bandits who have gone a little crazy. They exclusively use melee weapons and charge the player, laughing hysterically and screaming for meat.

Sometimes, more frequently when low on health, a psycho will pull out a bomb and charge the player on a suicide mission. The psycho must be shot down at a distance when this occurs, else it is likely the player will be blasted into his last stand. This is often unrecoverable if there are no other enemies around. When fighting psychos from higher ground that is not easily accessed, psychos will occasionally throw their melee weapons at you.

Badass psychos are much larger than the normal varieties and have a severely stunted left arm. They never make suicide attacks and deal more damage as well as have more health, but they move fairly slowly and are easy to avoid as long as you have room to back up. Sometimes the bodies of the dead badass psychos turn into bodies of normal dead psychos for unknown reasons, this does not always occur and may be a glitch.

There is also a much more powerful variant of the Badass Psycho called the "Roid Rage Psycho". He is extremely large, wears spiked armor, and has grenades strapped to his legs. He uses a normal melee attack as well as a Badass Skag-esque ground pound attack. Occasionally, he will remove a grenade from his leg and throw it at you. Roid Rage Psycho can be found at the end of the mission Sledge: To The Safe House.

There are also smaller, midget versions of psychos that act exactly like normal psychos, they generally have less health but may be more difficult to hit. The midget versions also have a variation where they wield shotguns.

On Playthrough 2, the name Psycho is changed to Maniac.

Trivia

 * It appears to be psychos that killed T.K. Baha in "Is T.K. O.K.?" mission.

Quotes

 * "Time for my pound of flesh! Hahahahahaha!"
 * "Strip the flesh, salt the wound!"
 * "More meat for me!" (Heard after another bandit or psycho is killed in front of him.)
 * "Time....to....play. TIME TO PLAY!"
 * "Time...to pound...SOME MEAT [PUPPETS/PUPPIES]!"