
He's basically Roland 2.0, but whereas Roland had fairly plain skills and turret, Axton has a lot more power to express with how the Sabre can be upgraded to have a second gun, rockets, slag shots, cling to walls and ceilings, a shield, and even let Axton deploy a second turret after the first. It's not hard to see why: all of them have much more unique and varied skills and abilities compared to the previous team, and have access to a wider variety of equipment to make them stand out from each other by a significant margin. Superior Successor: Angel believes that they're this to the original Vault Hunters, fully confident that they would succeed where their predecessors started/failed and defeat Jack.They are also very capable of coming up with complex plans of their own, as shown in 3's story and DLCs. Strong and Skilled: Story-wise, they are some of the strongest vault hunters to ever exist, as they overpower two of The Pre-Sequel's vault hunters who were superior to 1's and come out no worse for wear.In this band, there's an ex-military commando with a Companion Cube level of affection for his sentry gun, a Badass Bookworm telekinetic woman who's just as interested in educating herself as she is in melting enemies alive, an excessively mysterious cyber-ninja who speaks in poetic haiku while blasting heads off, a diminutive Pandoran native with some serious roid rage and an obsessive love for guns, a girly high schooler on the run from the law whose best friend is a giant deadly robot, and a literal Ax-Crazy and split-personality suffering maniac who's only just barely able to direct his rage to acceptable targets while seeking revenge for those responsible for his condition. Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: A more glaring example than the other Vault Hunter teams, as this group is an especially diverse lot.

Not even when Maya dies and Zer0 stays aboard Sanctuary 3 for the rest of the game does he play a further role, nor do the others get involved in the story. Although Maya and Zer0 appear in 3, their screen time is rather minimal. Even in their own game they never spoke to other characters or commented on current events outside of their own ECHOs and four DLCs.


The Fellowship Has Ended: As of Borderlands 3, this tight-nit group seems to not be as tight-nit anymore, with many of them away and isolated from one another, most not even joining the conflict with the Calypsos barring Zer0 and Maya.It only grows from there as the story continues and they begin directly opposing Hyperion by themselves. Famed in Story: They're regarded with great fame and respect just for surviving Handsome Jack's ambush by the people of Sanctuary and the Crimson Raiders, since every other person that answered his call for Vault Hunters were killed.
