10 Exact Moments Video Game Villains Became Obsessed With You

6. Killing Handsome Jack's Daughter - Borderlands 2

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You are little more than a momentary amusement to Handsome Jack for the first half of Borderlands 2. He'll call you to mess with you every now and then - you've already gotten his dander up by surviving that train crash he orchestrated for you at the beginning, very rude - but, besides that, it's no different than the giggling contempt which he expresses to everyone else on Pandora.

And then you kill his daughter.

Now, Angel wanted to die - it was certainly a sight better than being trapped in her father's little ivory tower playing honey trap for poor treasure hunters for the rest of time. But good luck explaining that to Jack, who immediately shoots Roland dead after you're done and goes on a rampage to make you, and you specifically, very, very dead.

Now his calls to you are tinged with rage, even when trying to tell a joke, and the calls come more frequently. He goes to great pains to hurt you personally. And at the end of it all, he throws it all away to challenge you just so he can "avenge" his daughter.

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