Krieg

Krieg is the playable Psycho class character in Borderlands 2. He is the sixth playable character in the game and 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 went 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.

In his graphic backstory, Krieg is shown wandering the wastelands wielding only his buzz axe, killing bandits and other hostiles along the way. The inner voice seemed to have far less influence on his actions, barely able to keep his blood lusting vessel targeting hostiles over non-combatants. After narrowly avoiding getting splattered, Krieg sees Maya at a train station. Krieg's inner voice knew she was a Siren and a Vault Hunter, and told Krieg to ally with her. Krieg, however, screamed at the top of his lungs, "I'm the conductor of the POOP train!". Maya interprets this as being hostile and opens fire, only to attract a pack of rats.

Too focused on Krieg, Maya does not see the cannibals approach from behind. Somehow Krieg's inner voice, with some difficulty, managed to influence his darker side to warn Maya by shouting, "Turn around pretty lady!" and he defends Maya, butchering the rats and terrifying one of them unconscious. After helping Krieg finish off the rest of them, Maya softens up to the madman, and Krieg's inner self gains hope that perhaps he can regain himself, though his outer self was too preoccupied screaming about ribcages and cockatiles to express it. Afterwards he is seen clinging to the side of the train, which explains how he ended up in Windshear Waste.

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.

When joining a game Killing multiple enemies in succession. When going into Buzz Axe Rampage
 * I'm here to shank and smile!
 * It's time to bleed!
 * Who's ready to flay some scalps?!
 * BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOOOD, BLOOD, BLOOOOOOOD!
 * Mahahaha! My mind is on fire!
 * (If I harm an innocent person, kill me.)
 * Over here, my sweet meats, your prince of justice and genocide has something to say: Gone are the days of the tentacle and the age of the gods and mercy is far away... We are the fighters of the middle, the second act in the three-part MEAT play, AND I WILL WIN BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR!
 * 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!
 * Keep your chin up, SO I CAN SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER!! Oh, there's no time to cry... We have to squeeze the whimpers out of you like a smothered baby in the night... You won't make a noise now, will you, WILL YOU!! Stay quiet, OR YOU'RE DEAD! NOW AND FOREVER!!
 * Pitiful people prepare, plead plentifully plentiful platitude phenomenal patriot pounds, poundingly perverse puppets﻿ pulping, pleasantly, putrid pasties.
 * Look at me when I scream at your soul! 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! My stomach is clear and my mind is full of bacon!
 * I can't see her anymore... She was so clear and bright... but the blood is in my eyes, and now I can only watch the ocean of blood... It's waves crash against my forehead again and again, AND I JUST NEED TO LEARN HOW TO SURF!!
 * You're gonna scream, just like she did; open mouth, open heart, blood and noise forever piercing my skull, poisoning me with its psychopathic purple liquid. We watched it all, and felt the knife split down the middle... CAN YOU HEAR ME?!
 * I'll never forget the way her holes cried... The way she screamed in agony as she pushed the knife slowly into my sternum... Such a beautiful symphony of feelings, and at the end of it, she was so much greater! My operatic diva of flesh and steel!!
 * I'm gonna kill you all, I'm gonna kill your friends and your family, I'm gonna track down your grandparents and turn them inside-out, nobody can stop the blood train that will turn your loved ones into a red splatter across the red tracks of humanity!
 * Box cover, box cover! I'm the one who eats the stardom! I'm the hero of all the villans! You can't swallow my morality like a lollipop pill! I'll run around your mind and set the world record with my meat sleeves!
 * This is my favorite song! Dance to the drum beat of the ballistic, fetishistic, sadistic piss-stick! Let the bullets scrape me clean and never ever ever flash a sassy eye at the good doctor!
 * There is no me, there is no you! There is only the never ending spit and bile of combat! The twenty-four hour murder spree of shining metal! I drink the blood and eat the loot and breathe the numbers, because I AM A MONSTER! NOW AND FOREVER!
 * (The voices said 'empty, hollow and thud'. The voices said 'empty, hollow and thud'. THE VOICES SAID 'EMPTY, HOLLOW AND THUD'!!)
 * 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!
 * POUNDS! OF! FLESH!
 * (It's time...)
 * NO!! DON'T DO IT!!
 * I'LL SLICE YOUR EYELIDS SO YOU CAN WATCH THE END!!

When killing enemies while using Buzz Axe Rampage or using Buzz Axe Rampage When Release the Beast is available When activating Light the Fuse When Pull the Pin is activated Critical Kill After Killing a Badass (or higher) enemy 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 Salt the Wound  When revived or being revived On earning a Second Wind While Idle Completing a Challenge Out of Ammo Comparing Items Looking at Skill Trees 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 finding rare loot On gaining a level When making a high jump in a vehicle When gaining Elemental Elation stacks When accumulating Bloodlust stacks Issuing a duel challenge Receiving a duel challenge Losing a duel Stalemate at a duel Winning a duel
 * [unintelligible roaring noises]
 * I told ya what would happen!
 * I swallowed your soul!
 * A pain of many parts!
 * Grind the cartilage!
 * [snarls} OPEN YOUR VEINS!
 * STOP DYING AT ME!!
 * (Yes, make them pay for what they did to us...)
 * 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!
 * DIE!
 * From hell's heart, I stab at thee!
 * Martyr for my little one...
 * We'll all go together!
 * I'm taking you with me...
 * How can I snap your neck if you don't have one?!
 * Bathe in the meat chunks!
 * MEAT!!!
 * It's a baptism of blood!
 * YOU MAKE ME VOMIT! [laughs]
 * [maniacal laughter]
 * I LOOKED INTO THE HEART OF DARKNESS, AND I ATE IT ALL!!!
 * Now, GO TO SLEEP!
 * Now to kill your family! [laughs]
 * Your FAMILY is next!!
 * Explosions of life!
 * Circle of Life!
 * Born into flame!
 * Immortal!
 * DEATH-BIRTH!
 * I SAW THE LIGHT!!!
 * 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...)
 * [menacingly] 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!!
 * The skargleblargs won't get you today.
 * You get back on your meat haunches!
 * Get up, GET UP!! YOU'VE GOT PEOPLE TO HURT!!
 * Don't worry...it's a good touch.
 * It's a bad, bad flesh rip that leaves YOU screaming.
 * (That's right, help 'em. Just like old times...)
 * Hurt me more!
 * Hurts so good!
 * No pain, no gain!
 * Nothing makes me stronger than a sucking chest wound!
 * There is nothing but agony!
 * Stab me a THOUSAND TIMES!!
 * It hurts, hahahaha! IT HURTS!!
 * Pain is LIFE!!
 * Make me bleed!
 * A pain of many parts!
 * The sting of POWER!
 * (Damn, that hurts...)
 * Why aren't you stabbing me?
 * (Say 'thank you'.) NIPPLE SALADS!! (...Close enough.)
 * Somebody still cares!?
 * Stranger Danger!
 * I can't even feel a knife in my spine...
 * I was enjoying that!
 * Stop it! STOP IT! I NEED TO FEEL IT ALL!!
 * What're you doing to me?!
 * 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 never end. The blood, the screaming, and the teeth, it will start again and again and again, forever!
 * NIPPLE SALADS! Nipple salads... NIPPLE SALADS!
 * The silence... Kill it! I'll find you! Quiet noises... and I'll STRANGLE the whispers out of you with a BONESAW!!
 * (I'm beginning to remember...) Stop it, keep the memories down with a knife in its 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!
 * 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....
 * But who makes the prettiest noise?
 * Toooo maaaany icons...
 * 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...)
 * Keep warm!
 * (Ow. Ow. Ow ow.)
 * 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...!) [Said in the tone of his normal outside voice]
 * (You wanted 'im? You GOT 'IM!)
 * GOTTA THINK BIG... BIIIIIIG!
 * (Better this way...)
 * You don't die, I DIE!
 * Monster down! Angel up!
 * (You don't deserve this. I deserve this.)
 * You're in my spot!
 * Trading Places!
 * 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...)
 * 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 breathe!
 * Bigger mag, better pain!
 * Stack the frenzy! (Say this with two different styles, the other with a calm voice and the other with a more angry tone with the added words: "Do it!" after)
 * Cauterize the wound!
 * Burning, melting goodness!
 * Now run, run!
 * Yes I knew it!
 * When my powers combine!
 * Melt for me, pastycakes!
 * Melt in my mouth!
 * (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!
 * [Snarling] Hemophilia!
 * Salt... Good god, where's my salt?!
 * I feel the crimson!
 * Blood on the dirt!
 * The crimson mist is so nutritious!
 * What a fantastic blood boy I've become!
 * 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

 * 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").
 * 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").
 * 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!"
 * The name's of Krieg's skills follow patterns depending on which tree they are in.
 * Bloodlust skills' names all include the word "blood"except Buzz Axe Bombardier.
 * Mania skills' names all follow the pattern: word + " the " + word.
 * Hellborn skills' names all use alliteration.
 * Krieg got one quote for each winning and losing a duel that are based on quotes from Doctor Who.
 * When winning he can say "You were fantastic. SO WAS I". The 9th Doctor said almost the same thing.
 * When losing he can say "It's the end... but the meat has been prepared". The 4th Doctor said "It's the end... but the moment has been prepared."
 * Both original quotes where the last words said by the Doctor before going into a body- and personality altering regeneration.
 * His quote, "Friendship is HATE!" is a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic joke.
 * Krieg is the only playable character who has no lines while under the effects of the Handsome Jack voice modulator, though he does make the same stock grunts.
 * Krieg's quote "Now. GO TO SLEEP!" is a reference to a popular internet meme Jeff the Killer, who says the same thing before killing his victims.
 * Krieg breaks the 4th wall with several quotes.
 * "Rampage and fill the red bar!" shows that health is connected to a health bar.
 * "Toooo maaaany icons..." shows that skills are connected to skill icons.
 * "See the numbers, taste the violence...." shows that items are connected to numbers.
 * Krieg's quote "He's on fire!" is a reference to NBA Jam.
 * The quote "Looks like them Duke boys are in a peck of trouble" is a reference to the Dukes of Hazard.
 * The post-release background story video reveals more of Kriegs personality:
 * Krieg was the first playable vault hunter to meet Maya.
 * Krieg likely refers to Maya in many of his quotes. His inner voice seems to have a crush on Maya, however, Krieg shows great frustration in trying to communicate with Maya, as everything Krieg said made no sense. Krieg makes himself look like an idiot, for example, saying that he is a "Poop train Conductor". His inner voice wanted to compliment and thank Maya but the smile he gets at the end was "close enough".
 * The two personalities actually share the same goal, one leads while the other tries to follow but can't quite get it right.
 * Based on his quotes, Krieg seems concerned with several different females. His quotes involving "she" are scattered and inconsistent. Within his ramblings, several stories can be imagined but not logically tied together.
 * Tiny Tina refers to Krieg as Craig on the Borderlands Twitter.
 * Krieg has the most lines for kill streaks, a total of thirteen.

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