thinking about. in campaign of carnage there’s two quests back to back where the VHs murder around fifty people because torgue just tells them to.

one being to kill exactly 21 bandits because the alcohol in pyro petes bar had been poisoned. so the solution was…to kill them before the poison does.

the game acknowledges this through the mission log where the VHs just shrug their shoulders and go. “well, we’re still getting paid.”

and the second is torgue sending you to go kill a bunch of bandit video game reviewers (?) because they left a bad review on a game he liked. which haha funny gearbox joke whatever. but the quest objective is literally to Leave No Survivors. over a video game review.

the VHs have always been on the side of corporate interest, even when it’s less about pandoran politics and more - “oh our super rich ceo friend is paying us money to kill people he doesnt like in his vault competition that is an active detriment to the population around it.”

and sometimes this feels like a BL2 VH specific issue? bc theyre the most vicious out of all of the games (even when playing the Bad Guys™ in TPS), and there’s not even an excuse of necessity that you could argue for the BL1 and BL3 VHs.

like. what is their problem…