Slagged Bloodwing is a boss in Borderlands 2.
Involvement
Handsome Jack captures Bloodwing during the events of Borderlands 2, and uses slag to mutate her; increasing her size considerably and endowing her with various elemental effects, including explosive. After Bloodwing is weakened sufficiently, Mordecai uses a tranquilizer shot on her. However, Jack then proceeds to activate bloodwings' explosive elemantal effect which then causes her head to explode.
Strategy
- Main article: Wildlife Preservation
Notes
- Upon defeating Bloodwing, if a Commando's Sabre Turret is currently occupying the spot on which Bloodwing lands, Bloodwing may glitch into the ground below the turret, making it impossible to access her collar and retrieve Claptrap's upgrade. If the player save-quits the game and travels back to Bloodwing, she will be laying in her proper spot and the mission can be completed normally.
- Returning to the site where the boss fight took place will not spawn a new Slagged Bloodwing; instead, the player will fight Son of Mothrakk.
- Bloodwing's headless body can later be found on a pedestal in Opportunity.
- There is a sketch in the end credits of Mordecai with a small bird that just hatched out of an egg, most likely another Bloodwing.
Trivia
- In Borderlands, Mordecai refers to Bloodwing as "boy", however, in Borderlands 2 Mordecai refers to Bloodwing as a her. Both Roland and Lilith also refer to Bloodwing as a boy in Borderlands 2 when the mission is turned in.
- It is also speculated that Mordecai finds out Bloodwing's actual gender some time between Borderlands and Borderlands 2, and that Bloodwing is possibly the mother of the Bloodwing hatchling seen in the credits.