Psycho (Borderlands 2)

For other uses, see Psycho.

Psychos are deranged maniacs commonly armed with buzz-axes and grenades. They are a frequent sight among bandits, and usually provide the front line of any hostile bandit group.

Psycho Enemies

Psycho - Has cargo pants instead of orange pants and occasionally sports rudimentary armor or tattoos, otherwise they look exactly the same as the Psychos from Borderlands. They also function in exactly the same way, except they do not perform a suicide charge when their health gets low and they will occasionally combat roll their way out of the line of fire. They can appear in fur hats and possess purplish skin as Freezing Psychos, with a mining light and pickaxe as Psycho Miners, or with pirate attire as Pillagers in Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty. Psycho midgets appear as well.
Suicide Psycho - These psychos are easily identified by their blue mohawks and blood-stained skin. When they spot a Vault Hunter, they will lift a grenade over their heads and make a mad dash towards the nearest one. Once they get close, they detonate the grenade, blowing themselves up and dealing extreme damage to anything nearby. If however, they cannot get close, they will simply throw grenades like a normal enemy. If shot on the grenade carrying hand (the one raised), they will drop the grenade. When this happens, they stop, and simply take out another grenade and continue attacking. If they are killed before they get close, they drop a live grenade which blows up after a few seconds. They also have a midget variety.
Burning Psycho - Behaves very similar to a regular Psychos, except that they have red skin and wear a flaming skull mask. In addition to swiping with their flaming axes, they can breathe fire at targets as well. Their attacks also have a chance to set things on fire. Also, unlike in the first game, they are not immune to fire damage. They too have a midget variety.
Slagged Psycho - Psychos that appear similar to regular ones, save that they are Eridium purple and slightly more emaciated looking. They can inflict Slag with each melee swipe and have the ability to vomit Slag goop on their targets as well. Despite their frail appearance, they are actually tougher than the standard psycho.
Midget Boner - Smash Head's midget allies. They are only found in The Fridge in Normal Mode, but also appear sparingly in Lynchwood in True Vault Hunter Mode.
Armored Maniac - Psychos that wear pieces of old Crimson Lance armor, and as such are substantially tougher and stronger than regular psychos. Because of their armor, they are classified as armored foes and take almost no damage from elemental attacks, save corrosive attacks. They appear during True Vault Hunter Mode, and Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode.
Gravedigger - Psychos that attack with a shovel and throw corrosive Skulls. They only appear during True Vault Hunter Mode or higher.

Badasses

Badass Psycho - Very large, surprisingly fast psychos that can inflict heavy damage. Otherwise act the same as regular psychos.
Chubby Midget - One of the chubbies in Borderlands 2, and is rumored to by the most rarest out of them all. Much slower than regular psychos, but to compensate they have more health and deal substantially more damage. They also drop a ton of loot when killed and have a chance to drop some very rare loot.
Loot Midget Psycho - The Loot Midget Psycho is a very, "strange" loot midget, and unlike most other ones, it will spawn naturally, it is just a very rare chance, it still has the same drop pool as normal loot midgets do though, loot midget goliaths, rats, and nomads share a similar spawning type with the loot midget psycho.

Appearances

Borderlands 2

Strategy

Psychos charge into battle to swing their buzz-axes at targets when they reach melee range. When hurt, they will occasionally roll their way out of the line of fire. Hitting a psycho on the feet causes them to trip and fall back giving time to inflict extra damage on the psycho until it recovers.

Quotes

Normal

I can still taste her lovely sweat-box, she fed me such tears of ecstasy.
Liar! I ripped out her bumpy tummy and her hot screams were for me!
NO! Mommy bled for us both! She bled for us both!
Another story to sing to the cages at home!
Bring me a bucket, and I'll show you a bucket!
Come to me, my pasty cake!
Flavor me fancy, but you really put the pants in panting!
I can't wait to take your picture!
I love you!
"Love me, hate me - It all tastes the same!
I'm gonna beat you to life!
I need another head for my merry-go-round - YOURS IS PERFECT!
I wonder if I plant you in the ground, if you'll grow taller?
I made finger pizza just for you!
I made you a salad, outta worms!
I'm... gonna choke and stroke your lifeless body!
I'm gonna floss my teeth... with your face!
I'm gonna make hammocks, from your eye lids!
I plucked a hair from the head of a dying baby! Let me give it to you!
It's inside me! IT'S INSIDE ME!
It's time for the meat puppet!
It's time for THREE pounds of flesh!
"Be my garden! My gestational soils!
Lick and scream, and pee! I'm COMING to make you teeth!!!
Let's agree to disagree!
Look into my eyes when I stare at you!
Look at me when I'm charging at you!
Mommy dearest was the clearest until she lost her bearing, now she's rusted, and is busted, and out of sight and hearing!
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon against self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't, ah fie, 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead, nay not so much, not two, So excellent a king, that was, to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the wings of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him, As if the increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet within a month - Let me think not on't; frailty, thy name is woman - A little month, or ere these shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she - O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourned longer - married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules. Within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her gall'd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not, nor it cannot come to good. But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue. (Too Solid Flesh soliloquy from Hamlet)
The meat puppies, they come to the slaughter, like children to an ice cream truck!
They told me to bring a pail lunch... you look pale enough to me!!
This is prison and we're the guys in the shower!
Wear your face like a condom!
What does it all mean!?
Will you marrow me?
You smell like my little girl!
You're a feast of eyes and piss in all this bliss!
Organic or bust!
My mommy's gonna be so mad!
You're gonna be my new meat bicycle!
My mom looked at me that way, too!
Mom always said to be thorough...
Here it comes, big boy!
Why will no one play with me?!
I'm the one who knocks!
Foreskin hats for my puppets!
Another slave (laughter) to feed me!
(laughter) For France!
You can't kill me! I'm already dead tomorrow!
I've got the neeeed to seeeed!
STOP LOOKING AT ME!
WHY ARE YOU YELLING?!
NO NEED TO SHOUT!
Another walking meat puppet!
I can see Uranus from here! Hahahahaha!
Get ready for bad touch!
A flower? For meeee?
Drop-kick your babies!
I AM IMMORTAL!
I like my victims like I like my coffee... in the butt!
Unforgivable! UNFORGIVABLE!
You sat in my swing! NOW I'M GOING TO EAT YOU!!
It's meat puppet master theatre!
I can hear with my teeth!
SEEEEEEMEEENNNN!!
French me, mommy!
I wanna play! Just play with me!
(laughter) It's time! (laughter) for a good old fashioned slap and crap!
Garters for guts!
Guts for garters!
I'll never stop, until they flop!
The sweet songs of sausage stumps will fill my days!
Your dirty sausage dog won't touch me!
Just a drop! On my tongue!
Slurp it! Drink it! Eat it! (sniff) Smell it!
I'll feed your skin snacks to my cockatiel!
Slap the Pancakes!!
Start the clock! I'm going to count every minute I get with you...
Eyes like grapes. Delicious!

Attacking

Bam!
Karate chop!
Kung-fu!
Seeeemen!

Taking critical damage

Ouchie-wowchies!
Oh God, oh God!
The worst!
Peaches!
Inconceivable!
Oh, sweet Marcus!
Pleasure in pain!
ENDOOORPHINS!
EXTREME!
Pluto's not a planet!
No! GOOOOD... No! GOOOOD!
No, more diapers!
Sugar meals!

Low health

Gimme my hit points back!
I'm sorry, mommy... I'm sorry!
Gotta get my hands...around....your throat
I just...need....a new toe from you

Elemental damage

Slag
- I need a powerful woman! Right now!
- Hit me!
- Mommy! Where are you?!
- Ohh, spankings!
- I'm ready for prom! Heheheh...
- This is not organic!
- Even... more endorphins!
- Feels good, man!

Vault Hunter retreating

Come back soon!
Don't run away! I need your face!
Pussy! Pussypussypussypussypussy pussy!
Where's the kitty?
Wait! Come back! I won't eat you! Really!
Hahahaha! Ruuuun!
I see you!
You can hide, but you can't run! Pussy!

Ally reactions

Goliath - Helmet shot off
- I think he's gonna play xylophone with my spinal cord!
- Bang-bang leads to smash-smash!
- Every time you shoot its head, another puppet loses its skin!
- Unleash her!
- Unleash the orgasm!
Goliath - Raged
- Another playmate!
- Time for playtime!
- Got my friend back!
- Time for a sleepover!
Goliath - Skill level
- Too much friendship!
- Mom says I can't see you!
- Bad friend! Such a bad friend!
Nomad - Killed
- I'm free!
- Mommy's not home! I can find another animal to skin!
- Bye-bye, mommy...
- I can eat all the kittens now!
- No more mommy!
- All the cookies for me! All of them!
- Come back, mommy!
- Free of her! Free!
- I can't wait to cuddle with his corpse!
Buzzard - Destroyed
- Ooohh, a shooting star!
- It's like a microwave meal!
- Free lunch!
- Hot delivery!
- Fire in the sky!
- Meteor shower!
- Rainin' man...
- FALL FOREVER!
- Marshmallow cockpit!
Ally killed - other
- Weakness leads to deathness! Hahahaha!
- That was... my pasty cake!
- God... dammit! I had it all set up! All set up!
- Second helpings! Sloppy globs! And melting meat in my mouth!
- Did I get some on my shoe?!'
- You killed my twin! Now I will eat you!'
- He was the only one that knew! But I'll show you, too! Hahahahaha!
- No one touch that pile! It's mine!
- I feel like we grew apart since he died!
- He was going to FEEL ME!
- You understood... YOU UNDERSTOOD!

Vault Hunter killed

But you'll miss tea time!
High-five! Oh, you're dead. Sorry.
If only my mom could see me now...

Suicide

Don't hate me! I hate me!
Don't hate me, mommy!
I'm a bad baby!
I'M VERY LOUD!
It's a cupcake. I swear it's a cupcake!
Boom time!
Cookies and screams, all topped with cream!

Suicide - when about to blow

YOLO!
Hi!
Doink!
Smile!
Buh-bye!
Pushing daisies!
Purple nurple!
BALLS!

Vault Hunter skills

Phaselock
- I can see foreverrrr!
- I'm home!
- Is that... Mr. Skaggles? Mr. Skaggles! MR. SKAGGLES! DON'T GO MR. SKAGGLES!
- Oh, mom... (thumb sucking sounds)
- Is it time-out again? But... buh-but... MOMMY!!
- I'm inside... I'M INSIDE ME!
- Just a lost Psycho in a fish bowl, singing with another head...

Dying

No, you have a time out...!
Never gonna give you up... (Reference to the song Never gonna give you up by Rick Astley)
End... quotes... death... gurgle...
Bury me upside down! (Reference to a similar quote by Bob Knight)
I miss... Mr. Skaggles... He's... licking at my face...
I've changed... I'VE CHANGED!
It's so... dark and... cold... no, mommy...!
I didn't do it!
This isn't the last thing I'll say!
My words... will ring in your ears for miles!
Hurricaaane!
I regret nothing!
I regret everything!
I can't die hungry... just one... step... closer...
You'll remember me!
My whole life... was a joke...
But the cakes we were going to bake...!
Carrot juice...
Bury me with Teddy...
Kitty!
My blood... it's salty.

Psycho Midget quotes

Normal
- Ahhh! You die!
- I'ma kill you!
- I'ma make you die!
- Midget take you out! Any day!
- Who wants ice cream cake?! It's mint chocolate chip!
- You're my new best friend! Now you DIE! Then I'm alone! Why would I do that?!
- You can't stop the Midge-Midge!
Taking damage
- No no don't do that!
- Bicycle!
Ally's demise
- Nooooooo!
- Why you kill him?! He my friend!
Vault Hunter Skills
- Deathtrap
  - AAAAAAHH! Scary robot man!
  - No! Midgey hate robots! AAAAAHH!
  - Never, robot! Never! No assimilate Midge-Midge!
- Decepti0n
  - Wooooo! He magician!
  - Midge-Midge hire you for birthday!
  - Magic man!
Dying
- (whimpers) I die...
- Midge-Midge no more...
- Midge-Midge no final words...
- At least life lived well...
- Is this what heaven's like?
- So cold... so cold... so cold...
- He like midget too... Waahh...
- Ahh! Ahh... I see light... and stars...
- Ohhh, Midge-Midge no more, cry cry...
- OH GOD! OH GOD!!! (Killed by fire damage)

Notes

Killing a psycho contributes to the Mama's Boys challenge in the challenge list.
Variants of the Psycho include "Freezing Psychos" in fur hats, and "Psycho Miners," equipped with a mining light and pickaxe.

Trivia

Tiny Tina wears a psycho mask on her head.