Moxxi, Roland and Lilith betrayed Jack in order to prevent him from getting too powerful. Following the instructions of his then lover at the time, Moxxi, Jack activates the laser weapon only for it to destroy itself. With Helios back under Hyperion control, Jack then decides to use the Eye of Helios to attack the Lost Legion forces on Elpis. Before being killed by Jack, Zarpedon explains that the vault on Elpis has been opened. After fighting through the Lost Legion, Jack and his vault hunters manages to defeat Zarpedon. During this time, he killed those who were assisting the Lost Legion or suspected of doing so. Jack has his vault hunters assist him in retaking the station as well as calling in assistance from Roland and Lilith two vault hunters who opened the vault on Pandora. However, the rogue Lost Legion Dahl detachment led Colonel Zarpedon attacks and seizes the space station before directing its orbital laser at Elpis in order to prevent the vault on the planet from opening. However, this was a ploy to equip the Destroyer's eye into a laser weapon dubbed 'The Eye of Helios'.ĭuring this time, Jack also hired six vault hunters to help him with finding a vault on Elpis, Pandora's moon. He also used this as an opportunity to rise up the corporate ladder by orchestrating bets to his superiors and using Angel and the original vault hunters (whom were unaware of this at the time).Īfter the vault is opened and the Destroyer was defeated, he managed to persuade his superiors to build the Helios space station in order to keep watch on Pandora.

With his daughter in place, he orchestrated the events of Borderlands, using Angel as a proxy to relay instructions to the original vault hunters. Horrified at what Angel could do, but also acutely aware of the potential of her powers, Jack then forcibly placed Angel in a chair linked to Hyperion's entire communications network. In her desperation, Angel used her powers to take control of one of Grogmouth's turrets, killing her bandit captor-but also her mother in the process. This, unfortunately, did not escape the notice of Pandora's bandit population, and Angel was kidnapped by a bandit named Grogmouth. Angel would later awaken to her powers as a Siren-one of six extant women with extraordinary alien powers-as a young child, powers which enabled her to talk to and control machines. When he became older, he found a job as a computer engineer for the Hyperion Corporation and would eventually get married and have a daughter, Angel. This abuse would most likely become one of the main contributors to the decline of his mental state as he became older. While being raised by his grandmother, he was subjected to (at the least) physical abuse. His father passed away while he was very young, causing his mother to give custody of Jack to his grandmother. Handsome Jack's history is a complex one. He was voiced by Dameon Clarke, who also played Cell in the English dubbed version of Dragon Ball Z. His ultimate goal is to open the Vault of the Warrior and use it to wipe everything he deems evil. In actuality, he's a power-hungry dictator who regularly abuses and kills his own employees for his amusement. Jack is the CEO of the Hyperion corporation and self-proclaimed hero of Pandora, as well as the arch-nemesis of the Crimson Raiders, who seeks to restore peace to the lawless planet. He serves as the unseen overarching antagonist of Borderlands, the main antagonist of Borderlands 2, the deuteragonist of Borderlands: the Pre-Sequel and a posthumous antagonist in Tales from the Borderlands and Borderlands 3. Handsome Jack is the main antagonist of the Borderlands franchise.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s cute that you all think you’re the heroes of this little adventure, but you’re not. Which is why you’ve gotta die! See, I can’t just have some psychopathic murderers getting to the Vault before I do. Only badasses like you could brave the horrors of Pandora and find it. The power inside the next vault could bring peace to Pandora. Maybe Butt-Stallion, nah that's even worse. I was going to call it 'Piss-For-Brains' in honor of you, but that just feels immature. I'm racking my brain trying to think of a name for that diamond pony I bought.

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