Though the studio is now defunct, Telltale Games created narratives known for having difficult choices and excellent stories in them. Though they produced games for graphic novels and TV shows, the studio also created game tie-ins like Tales From the Borderlands.

It remains one of their best games and also set up the events of Borderlands 3 while enriching the lore of existing characters like Handsome Jack and the little-discussed Commandant Steele.

But not all of the characters from Tales made appearances in Borderlands 3. Whether due to choices that could leave a character alive or dead, future DLC appearances, or the writers just opting not to use the character, some fan favorites got snubbed. On the other hand, some characters faded into the wind and fans didn’t lose any sleep over it.

10 Don’t Miss: Vallory

Vallory is August’s mom and a seriously dangerous crime boss with killer fashion sense. She’s technically known Sasha and Fiona since they were young and even counts Hugo Vasquez among her contacts.

Apart from that, however, not much else is known about Vallory. She’s rich, has a dry sense of humor, seems to prefer Jakobs weapons, and — that’s it. With so little information presented about her in the story, it’s difficult for fans to latch onto the Queenpin for future stories.

9 Miss: Fiona

Both Sasha and Fiona basically got snubbed for Borderlands 3 while Rhys and Vaughn became central characters in the game. This is due, in part, to Fiona having disappeared into a Vault with Rhys. In Borderlands 3, Rhys can be heard talking about searching for a woman who “doesn’t want to be found” and has a picture of Sasha on his desk.

Fans really latched onto both Fiona and Rhys to the point that fans created a canon RhysxFiona ending of their own. Perhaps the plucky, hat-wearing Vault Hunter will emerge in Borderlands 3 DLC since Krieg also just came back in similar fashion.

8 Don’t Miss: Hugo Vasquez

Hugo Vasquez, despite being a jerk of a character, was voiced by the one and only Patrick Warburton. He’s a typical slimy, corporate-ladder climbing schmuck in a suit clawing his way up the Hyperion ranks, but he’s also in contact with crime groups like the one Vallory runs.

That said, he dies and he dies hard in Tales From the Borderlands. But even if he could reappear in future Borderlands games, the thing that would excite fans most is hearing Patrick Warburton’s voice again. After all, what’s one corporate schmuck to a world full of Vault Hunters?

7 Miss: Shade

Shade can be a bit of a contentious character just like Claptrap. Players either love him or hate him; however, in the canon universe of Borderlands, his personality makes perfect sense as a mainstay secondary or tertiary character.

He’s a Hunter S. Thompson stand-in that echoes back to T.K. Baha, but with more zaniness and loneliness. Though he can die in Tales From the Borderlands, it’s unclear which choice would be canon in the universe. Theoretically, Shade could come back in future Borderlands entries and many fans would be delighted to his crooked smile and oversized sunglasses once again.

6 Don’t Miss: Handsome Jack

This is another character whose voice actor is more loved by fans than the character himself. After three games featuring Jack as essentially a main character (BL1, BL2, and BL: The Pre-Sequel), fans are pretty done with Handsome Jack and his obsessive, ruthless attitude.

That said, his actions still echo throughout the Borderlands universe and his origin story (as seen in Pre-Sequel) raises many questions about the true nature of the Vaults, the Pandorans, Sirens, and eridium. Jack may also not truly be gone if Rhys still has his AI downloaded on a drive somewhere.

5 Miss: Gortys

Voiced wonderfully by Critical Role’s Ashley Johnson, Gortys is just the cutest little super robot gamers will ever encounter. It doesn’t hurt that she’s got fighting moves like Chun-Li from Street Fighter.

The Gortys Project, like many things in Borderlands, started out as an effort to find vaults. The (at the time) defunct Atlas company developed her to find the Traveler but hid her parts all around the galaxy. Her sometimes misguided, but always sincere glee reminded players that life doesn’t have to be taken so seriously.

4 Don’t Miss: Felix

Felix acts as a father figure for both Fiona and Sasha, teaching them the ways of thieving and scheming. Despite some serious betrayals and the player having the option to kill him, later revelations in the game show that Felix paid for Athena to watch out for and teach Fiona.

He can also help pilot Gortys at the end if the player doesn’t kill him. But the whole selfish dad archetype as a motivator for a female character is a bit played out. Telltale helped invert the trope by giving Fiona the agency to forgive him and thus improves the story, but doesn’t do much for Felix in terms of making him an interesting character.

3 Miss: Loader Bot

When Gearbox first unveiled the playable character FL4K for Borderlands 3, some fans speculated that they were Loader Bot in disguise. But that theory became null thanks to ECHO logs detailing FL4K’s origins as an indexing unit for the “Grand Archivist” who gained sentience and a thirst for violence.

Much like Gortys, Loader Bot endeared himself to fans with his no-nonsense yet sarcastic demeanor and his utter devotion to helping his friends, as well as his admiration and adoration for Gortys. Though players were happy to see his reveal after his noble sacrifice on Hyperion, Gearbox has not suggested a return for Loader Bot as of yet.

2 Don’t Miss: August

Despite displaying some more endearing qualities depending on which choices the player chose, August never quite made himself an irreplaceable character in the series.

Basically a crime boss kid who doesn’t quite know how to flirt, August starts out as someone Fiona and Sasha are grifting. But he develops over time and can even end up piloting Gortys at the end of the game. Unfortunately, when paired up against incredible side characters like Gortys, Shade, and even Cassius, August lacks some individuality that sets Borderlands characters apart from the average shoot ‘em up goons.

1 Miss: Scooter

This is still a fresh wound for many Borderlands franchise fans. Though Scooter existed before Tales From The Borderlands, he met his end in one of the episodes and Gearbox confirmed that he was no longer alive in Borderlands 3.

But Borderlands is so much the worse without the light-hearted, perverted, but enthusiastic backwoods mechanic who once sought help to craft a poem to woo a lady. Though survived by his mom Mad Moxxi and his sister Ellie, the Borderlands experience just isn’t the same without him.

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