* ReliablyUnreliableGuns: While the game doesn't simulate jams or misfires, the Bandit weaponry will reflect the low quality of production by having their reloads take a ''significant'' amount of time, at least partially because the magazine is so big, and partially because (as reflected by some of their SMG designs) the magazines are held on by cheap latches that you need to smack to eject the empty mag. Scav weapons are generally a cool blue instead. Some higher level weapons have bits of added black to the combination. * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Any Bandit weapon worth a damn has a mostly red colour scheme, and given how AxCrazy most Bandits are, that red is probably dried blood. The Bandit shotgun barrel has three muzzles, making it the second most dakka-ey shotgun component after the four-shot Torgue barrel. It's a rarity if a bandit assault rifle has less than a fifty round ammo capacity, and they are a rarity among the gun makers in ''2'' in that a lot of their guns visibly change magazine models on higher-rarity/capacity guns]Rifles change from a welded-together magazine to a belt box, pistols from a stick mag to a double-drum, and shotguns from a box mag to a drum]. * MoreDakka: The ''most'' dakka you'll be able to hold in your hand with one gun. * CripplingOverspecialization: Their high magazine size comes at the cost of almost every other stat save for firerate, particularly accuracy and reload time. * CoolGuns: A given for a ''Borderlands'' weapons manufacturer, but the rough and slapdash Bandit weapons with huge barrels often make for some of the most badass weapons in the game.

On the other hand, theyвЂ™re apparently highly skilled gunsmiths capable of building homemade guns that can rival, or outright beat supposedly superior brands like Hyperion in a fight. The Scavs of Elpis are a bit better (in that they at least know how many letters are in 'SMG'), but they still make some fairly glaring errors - and use a ''lot'' of pseudo-Australian slang. Their weapons have names such as 'Ass Beeter!', 'Mashine Gun' and 'smig'. * BookDumb: Bandits are not too good at spelling. The weapon generation system also means that the supposedly superior weapon brands (including, ironically, Hyperion) use Bandit sights, barrels and even pistol grips on their own guns without concern. Marcus, and many other characters both sell and carry Bandit weapons without any qualms. * AlwaysChaoticEvil: Played straight for the Bandit manufacturers, but averted when it comes to the weaponry itself. ] * TheAestheticsOfTechnology: If it looks like it was cobbled together from bits of scrap and rejected parts from other manufacturers, it's probably Bandit tech. Likely folded into Children of the Vault for ''Borderlands 3'', considering the cult has united most of the bandit clans on Pandora. So-called Scav weapons have different colour schemes and slightly different naming themes, but outside of that are essentially just blue Bandit guns. ''Pre-Sequel'' reveals the the Scavengers of Elpis made guns incredibly similar (if not almost identical) to their Pandoran brothers, cobbled from scrap to fight off the space-faring beasts of the moon. !! Administrivia/SpoilersOff for games prior to ''VideoGame/Borderlands3'' as well as for spoiler characters that are marked as such. In the second game, it turns out he works with the Zafords. ] ] !Steve the Bandit !!''Heyooo!'' ] ->'''Voiced by''': ] Alongside Claptrap, the mascot of the series. * PunnyName: His gang resides in '''D'''ividing '''Fault'''s, and they're the last non-] bandits in the area. * GenuineHumanHide: A variation, he made his armor out of Claptrap shells. * CrossDressingVoices: In the Italian dub, he's voiced by a female. Considering how everyone in the DLC's area underwent the process, it's difficult to say the idea was wrong. * CrazyEnoughToWork: When the player encounters him, he's wearing a tinfoil hat, supposedly as a defense mechanism against Claptrap's assimilation. * BadassNormal: In a setting where everyone and their mother underwent UnwillingRoboticisation, he and his clan were able to prevent such a process.

Why are they called miniguns