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What are you waiting for? GO!
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Your chances of winning just got better.
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~ Roland.
Roland is a major character in the Borderlands video game series.
He is one of the four main protagonists of the 2009 role-playing video game Borderlands, the deuteragonist of its 2012 sequel Borderlands 2, and a posthumous character in the 2019 sequel Borderlands 3.
He used to be a soldier of the Crimson Lance, the highly trained private military of The Atlas Corporation. He is proficient with all weapons, although he prefers Shotguns and Combat Rifles. Roland can deploy a Scorpio Turret that can be upgraded throughout the game. Roland is the playable "Soldier" class in Borderlands, and an important NPC in Borderlands 2.
He was voiced by Oliver Tull and Markus Lloyd in Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel.
After the opening of the Vault and the defeat of General Knoxx, Lilith and Roland traveled to Pandora's moon Elpis on a vacation trip. There was where they met Jack for the first time, who asked them for help against Colonel Zarpedon through the Vault Hunters. They initially refused until they realized Zarpedon would destroy both Elpis and Pandora if left unchecked. After Jack killed his scientists under suspicion of betrayal, they went along with Moxxi's plan to sabotage and destroy the Eye of the Destroyer, preventing Jack from using it.
Before the events of Borderlands 2[]
Following the Vault Hunters' defeat of General Knoxx, the Atlas Corporation abandoned all remaining Crimson Lance soldiers on Pandora. Roland used this opportunity to rally the Lancemen against Hyperion, pledging to give them a cause their previous employer could not promise them, forming the Crimson Raiders, along with Mordecai, Brick, and his then-girlfriend Lilith.
The Raiders were originally stationed in New Haven, but were compromised when Shep Sanders disclosed its location to Hyperion. Overrun and with Lilith believed dead by Hyperion, the Raiders relocated to Sanctuary. Roland then ended his relationship with Lilith and evicted Brick for murdering Shep Sanders to focus on defending the town. Lilith drew the bandits' attention away while Brick became the leader of the Slab bandit clan.
Borderlands 2[]
Before meeting with the new Vault Hunters, Roland was captured by the Bloodshots, a bandit group who attempted to claim the bounty on his head. With the assistance of Lilith, the Vault Hunters rescue him from Hyperion. He then resumes his post as the leader of the Raiders and assigns story quests to the Vault Hunters.
During the Crimson Raider/Slab joint strike on Control Core Angel, he assists the Vault Hunters in retrieving the Vault Key. In the core of the facility, he lowers the shields guarding Angel's Eridium injectors, while the Vault Hunters destroy them. Against Roland and Angel's insistence, Lilith appears as well. When Angel dies, Roland goes to retrieve the Vault Key, but is shot dead by Handsome Jack, who also captures Lilith. Mordecai and Brick take command until the Vault Hunters defeat Handsome Jack, and Lilith succeeds his position,
A post-credits scene depicts Roland's funeral, with Lilith, Mordecai and Brick tearfully mourning him.
Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep[]
A manifestation of Roland becomes part of the plot of Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep, where he is added in randomly at points whenever Tiny Tina wants to, and was meant to be a necessary player in Tina's game would it not be for his untimely demise, ultimately representing how Tina can't let go of Roland after his death. This iteration of Roland is clad in medieval armor and has Tina's speech patterns. He acts the same AI-wise, deploying his Scorpio Turret and assisting the player, using exclusively common (or white) rarity weapons. Roland, in said game, identifies himself as a White Knight of the Queen. After the original Vault Hunters finish their game, they gather at Roland's memorial statue, joined by Claptrap and the new Vault Hunters, where Tina says her farewell.
Borderlands 3[]
Roland does not appear in the game personally, however there is a town on Pandora named after him, with a large memorial statue that bears affectionate comments from all of the principal characters of the series. Presumably, he is buried here.
Quotes[]
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Woo! That's the jump off now!
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~ Roland
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Woo! Time to get up in this!
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~ Roland
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Your chances of winning just got better.
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~ Roland
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I got your back.
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~ Roland
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Now we can get things started.
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~ Roland
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I see a chest.
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~ Roland seeing a chest
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Hey, I see a resupply.
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~ Roland
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I see loot ahead.
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~ Roland seeing loot
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Resupply.
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~ Roland getting a resupply
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Loot, over here.
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~ Roland spotting loot
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Cargo in sight.
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~ Roland seeing cargo
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Cargo over here.
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~ Roland seeing cargo
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I'll get us resupplied.
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~ Roland getting supplies
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Time is bullets.
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~ Roland
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Wastin' daylight, foo.
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~ Roland
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Wastin' daylight here.
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~ Roland
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Burnin' daylight.
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~ Roland
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Always nice to get resupplied.
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~ Roland getting supplies
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Always room for more loot.
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~ Roland
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Armaments here.
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~ Roland
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Alright, we've got guns over here.
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~ Roland
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Can never have enough stuff.
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~ Roland
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This will help.
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~ Roland
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Bigger and badder.
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~ Roland
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Rankin' up!
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~ Roland
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Gettin' better all the time.
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~ Roland leveling up
Trivia[]
It is stated in Roland's profile that he dislikes publicity. Ironically despite this, he appears to be okay with having his picture on dozens of recruitment posters across Sanctuary.
Roland appears to be the leader of the original Vault Hunters as they take orders from him after rejoining the Crimson Raiders without protest. This is also suggested by one of his class mods in Borderlands being the Leader.
In Borderlands 2, due to his rank and the severity of circumstances, Roland seems to have difficulty expressing himself, with Lilith and Mordecai sometimes clarifying things to the Vault Hunters.
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