Forum:Some Legendary Loot Ideas

Just some ideas for some legendary gear I COMPLETELY offer to Gearbox. Use as you desire, my friends!

Notes and Trivia

 * The Big Tony is a reference to the Thanatos from BL1.
 * The Grind and it's flavor text are a reference to a Skid Row song. The full lyric is, "You can't be king of the world if you're slave to the grind."
 * The Power Fist and it's flavor text reference the NES peripheral The Power Glove and it's slogan, "Now you're playing with power."

Notes and Trivia

 * The flavor text on the Espionage references the Team Fortress 2 Meet the Spy video, where the red Spy calls the Blue Scout's mother "Ma petite chou-fleur."
 * The Filthy Animal references the movie shown in Home Alone where the man says, "Keep the change, you filthy animal."
 * The Ancient references MGS3: Snake Eater.
 * The Phi references the Japanese television show Kamen Rider 555 (pronounced Faiz), where the title character uses a gun that fires in three shot bursts and uses a phone that says "Standing By" right before changing into his Kamen Rider form.
 * The M*A*S*H references not only the real Mobile Army Surgical Hospital with it's ability, but it's flavor text is the name of the theme song for the television series of the same name.
 * Shrapnel, Kickback, and Bombshell are the names of the Insecticons in Transformers Generation 1.

Notes and Trivia

 * The Efficiency's flavor text comes from a quote made by Aldous Huxley: "The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."
 * The Competition's flavor text is from a quote by Toba Beta: "Competition is a rude yet effective motivation.”
 * Sunzi is another way to say Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War.
 * The Marshall is a reference to the Marshall brand of Electric Guitar amps.
 * The Quantum's flavor text references the James Bond film, Quantum of Solace.

Notes and Trivia

 * The Tombtone's flavor text references the slogan of Tombstone pizza.
 * The Boomstick's flavor text references the Evil Dead video game, Fistful of Boomstick, and it's ability reflects how, in the films, Ash never needed to reload unless he were in extreme danger.
 * The Bronco's flavor text is a reference to the Ford Motor Company slogan, "Built Ford Tough." The Bronco is also a Ford model vehicle.
 * The Transcontinental's flavor text references, not only the fact that it's namesake is a railroad, but also a song by fictional metal band, Dethklok.
 * The Grizzly's flavor text is a reference to a line from the movie, Happy Gilmore, where a character that had previously remained silent speaks to confirm that "Grizzly Adams did have a beard."

Notes and Trivia

 * The Firehawk's flavor text refers to a line Lilith says during the Cult of the Firehawk missions.
 * The Philosopher's flavor text is synonymous with "Full Metal" a reference to the anime Full metal Alchemist.
 * The Plague is an update of the Maliwan Crux from BL1.
 * The Teleforce is the name of a weapon devised by Nikola Tesla that he called the Peace Ray, hence the flavor text.
 * The Fahrenheit's flavor text references the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451 and the television show 1000 Ways to Die.
 * The Vampyre's flavor text is taken from Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Notes and Trivia

 * The Equalizer, Defender, and Savior are brought back from BL1 with different abilities and new flavor text.

Notes and Trivia

 * The Griffin's flavor text references the song "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts" sung by Merv Griffin.
 * The Friendly Fire and Bastard are both returning guns from BL1 with slightly modified flavor text, the FF's to reflect Mister Torgue's vernacular, and the Bastard's to reflect how people saw the Glorious Bastard variant in BL1 as a reference to the movie Inglorious Basterds.
 * A Moreton Wave is a 'solar tsunami' caused by solar flares, and is capable of traveling at around 560K MPH (250 km/s)
 * The Falcone's effect and flavor text is a reference to the signature move of F-Zero character, Captain Falcon
 * The Carpet Bomb's flavor text references the crude question, "Does the carpet match the drapes?" usually asked to determine if a woman's hair color is natural.

Notes and Trivia

 * The Liberator's flavor text is a reference to a line spoken in Fox's Anastasia.
 * Chronobylska is the Russian way of saying Chernobyl, and the flavor text references the only other level 7 nuclear catastrophe as classified on the International Nuclear Event Scale, Fukushima, Japan
 * The Bounty Hunter's flavor text is a line spoken by Darth Vader to Boba Fett during The Empire Strikes Back
 * The flavor text on the Fallout is a line spoken by the character Liberty Prime in Bethesda's Fallout 3. Ironic that Vladof is a Soviet Russia inspired manufacturer and Liberty Prime was violently anti-Communism.

Notes and Trivia

 * The Terrapin's flavor text references the Parry Gripp song Turtle, see here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRWAFQqQY9Y

Notes from Me
There are six guns in this list that gain and grant special abilities when wielded by a particular Vault Hunter. If you can find them, I'll spill what they do.

Mech-Romance (talk) 19:57, October 2, 2013 (UTC)