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I love it that Tannis can make friends with in-animate objects and she gets the siren ability to talk to in-animate objects
Yeah that's soo true!😇😆
Introverts: Is it possible to learn this power?
Never thought about it that way. That's a cool way of thinking about it
@@geraldyeager7652 not from a jedi....I mean extrovert......
Ironic tis it not lol
“As she was choking, and coughing, and dying, I tried to enjoy the interaction-“ Vault hunter: can we go now?
Lol. 6:10
She just wasn’t interested
they are voiced by the same person aswell
Ah Tannis, my sweet abrasive semi-psychotic cinnamon roll
History of Grandma Flexington
ERUPTION PLEASE DO IT!!!!!
YES
“EXPLOSIONS?”
While playing the old bag's kinda short mission. Lolz
She is Old The end
Tannis is a pretty good character- I just never got used to the whole "becoming a siren" thing. I also wish they'd stop tiptoeing around major plot developments and just go all-in with it- it's sort of ridiculous. I know Tannis has achieved a lot, but that's only because we're told that she has. We don't see anything unfold for ourselves, and anything that we are involved with just ends up like Fustercluck- inconclusive.
i wouldn't doubt tannis wanting to be a siren or make herself be one, since she's the kind of scientist that are crazy about wanting to enhance others or themselves. or try life threatening things out or see how certain creatures tick! so she made herself into a siren... for science!
@@poptartfrompluto5169 Tannis did not choose to be a siren. Angel, for some reason, gave her powers to Tannis.
@@andysnider6984 Tbh it's more deserving than Ava
@@KingRogue agreed. Lil should of made her leader after she "died".
@@KingRogue that's not saying much and she still shouldn't have gotten powers.
Man those early echo logs were pretty dark and serious compared to the more comically-inclined recent ones. Def my favorite character in the entire series. Good job on these videos, thank you.
Right? I started playing BL 1 right after I came back from my 4th tour in war zones, and the first time I played the recordings during the game I kept thinking "Damn, this chick is dark"
After finding out she was like me, a girl on the Autism Spectrum, my love for her grew tenfold. It's great to have a character with a disability become so important to the overall story. She's also been there from the start!
@@A5H_01her disability representation is also done very well. It's just kind of a fact about her. It's important to her personality, yes, but it's not all she is, yet at the same time it's also very clear once you know it, not buried behind a dozen layers of implication and subtext. And, of course, her disability causes her to face issues that people who don't have it wouldn't face, but she's also still a very capable and strong character in her own right. It's really good.
listening to all her echo logs, it baffles me that tannis and lilith are both voiced by colleen clinkenbeard- they sound so different!!
I imagine that in Borderlands 4 she may try to unite the other Sirens, either to learn more about Sirens/Vaults/Eridians or to feel safer in numbers since so many want to abuse their Phase powers. She’ll likely have her hands full trying to reign in Amara’s lust for stardom and dealing with Ava who is, well, Ava...
Ava is still an important crewmate character, so we cant make krieg kill her, because sane krieg would commit suicide and no krieg
I hope, if they ever write for Ava again, that they mature her quite a bit.
@@dawidek8237sane krieg must be insane to commit suicide for killing a super badass siren midget
Wouldn't be surprised if someone else inherited Tyreen's leeching powers, and basically did their own thing, allowing us to play as some vampiric ass-kicker, and probably bringing in some interesting dynamic to it all.
@@retrogamelover2012 Yes. The Phaseleech power must be out there after all
Tannis is probably my favourite character in the series at this point. It's between her and Krieg for sure. They're both fantastically written and on a level relatable. I think in the Borderlands universe, they're the best examples of the most raw human reactions to being surrounded by an insane amount of chaos nonstop. At least for me anyway.
Krieg is more so it’s like he asks the question Do you reject insanity or welcome it
I see where you are coming from, but you are giving her relatability too much reach to make her likeable. She’s negative, arrogant, and rude towards other people’s interests out of an excuse being “an Autistic person who had her hands broken”. I get that she has a hard time picking up social queues, but all that means is she’s prone to speak her opinion more often than others….. and her opinions SUCK.
I could hear him say "having made her debut" before I clicked
The legendary line "Having made their debut"
I don't remember much of BL1, but I remember Tannis' echos vividly. They're seriously horrifying. She sounds just a typical scientist at first, then it dawns how the planet makes people into psychos. It's amazing that she didn't completely crack.
Its so funny; Tannis says so much about avoiding human contact and even throws up from disgust due to someone calling her pretty, yet went on about wanting friends and even offers to have set with the vault hunter when you first meet her in borderlands 2
Maybe it's the kind of human contact she prefers. Professor Nakayama might be her taste. Possibly because every person she has encountered was not even literate. Could be her aversion. She may be a sapiosexual . Attraction to intelligence. Though Nakayama fell down stairs and killed himself. Usually high IQ has side effects in other areas. Particularly emotions, understanding people, not having certain life skills, cooking etc. Her Social Skills are lacking because her Scientific skills are predominant.
@@robertpatter5509She's very narcissistic too.
After watching three "History of" videos, it has suddenly dawned on me how as the series went on, Gearbox wrote themselves into a lot of corners. And instead of addressing or fixing those plot holes, they just barged right through them and pretended like they didn't exist. Do Sirens choose their next host or don't they? Are they born with their powers or not? If Jack was manipulating the vault hunters before they even got off the bus in the first game, how is the Pre-Sequel the story of Jack becoming the evil Handsome Jack if he was already evil? It really makes you wonder why we care about the story of Borderlands when the writers don't.
Jack was using the vault hunters to get Atlas off of Pandora, he wasn't doing it because he was evil at the time. He just wanted to get Hyperion to turn their attention towards finding the Vaults. Which makes sense given there are Four Vaults on Pandora if you count the planet vault from BL3. There's the Destroyer's Feeding Cage, The Vault of the Warrior, The Vault of the Traveler, and the planet vault. Jack wanted to get Hyperion to go to Pandora and then take it over to open the Vault on Elpis and thats what led him to becoming evil.
Also sirens are capable of choosing their hosts, but if they don’t then I assume it’s random. And in almost all circumstances (with the sole exception being the calypso twins as far as we know) you are not born with siren powers.
@@zacyquack Probably be interesting to see someone eventually get Tyreen's leeching powers in the series, and possibly play as a vampiric ass-kicker of sorts. Probably would be an interesting dynamic, after what happened with the Calypsos.
Just want to see progressively bigger numbers go brrrrr
Can we all have a moment of silence and some Fs in chat for Phillipe 😔😔😔
Honetly I wish Tannis was a playable character
Phase shift would be a pretty cool siren power
@@duckhathap763 maybe we could digi struct robots to fight for us?
@@duckhathap763 or like airstrikes?
How is this guy not up there with some of the Borderlands content creators, he may only make 5 minute videos sometimes, but he packs so much info into these videos. I’m seriously impressed, and I’ve just about watched all of these. This guy is amazing.
Honestly I'm shocked she even has aspie this type of info just came out of nowhere and I even have it too and again it shocked me to know that she has it aswell
Being an aspie (person with Aspergers) myself, it’s nice to see a character in one of my favourite game series also be autistic. (Also, shes never met a child? Weird. Well, this is the Borderlands franchise after all.
I just looked up aspergers and I actually think I may have it, it wouldn’t explain a lot about my life. I enjoyed this video very much but I think I may have to speak to someone after this.
@@_Beastie_ good luck!
I really enjoyed that Lovecraftian vibe of Borderlands 1. Especially with Tannis. Great writing.
Tannis has probably had the best character arc in the series.
Tina???
I feel like she cared about everybody in her own way and when everyone started dying she started going into denial and then when everyone was finally gone she just continued to work to be like I must not let this go for all for nothing
Wait so if Tannis stayed up for three days straight on Pandora which has days that are 90 hours long then she was superhuman long before inheriting her siren powers
Didn't know that Tannis had aspergers. Nice that there's some representation for people like me!
I didn't know that Tannis was on the spectrum (I'd always focused on Gaige so I completely missed her), but after hearing you describe her, I can definitely see how she works. For starters, we're commonly claimed to not have emotions or empathy, which is extremely wrong, but understandable since what we lack is emotional _expression_ making us appear emotionless. Similarly, we can feel empathy, but from what I can tell, it needs to be learned. A side effect of learned empathy is 1) it can be difficult to turn off under normal circumstances, and 2) restricting it to other humans has to be learned completely separately. The latter basically means that it gets over-generalized to apply to anything from non-human animals to, as Tannis shows, inanimate objects. Another aspect is that the autism spectrum doesn't inherently make one antisocial or asocial. We still crave social interaction just like any other human. The problem is that we effectively have a separate language, so communicating with neurotypicals means that we have to put in effort, a _lot_ of effort, to translate between the two languages. Put two people on the spectrum together, and no translation is needed and they can both start acting far more social than they ever had before. Her intro in BL2 implies a potential sensory part, but what I'd rather end this off with is her becoming a siren. This, likely unintentionally, plays into an interesting piece of autistic history, portrayals, and culture. Despite usually focusing on logic as Tannis mentioned, magic is a surprisingly common interest. Part of this can be attributed to the powers themselves acting as a metaphor, part can be due to some abilities potentially appearing magical to some, and another part can be traced back to the stories of changelings. Descriptions of changelings often show similar traits as various physical and mental disabilities, including autism. In a sense, Tannis receiving the powers could be seen as similar to becoming a changeling. How curious she is...
Siren powers being physiological manifestations of someone's personality traits makes sense. When the siren doesn't choose a host, the powers choose the person they match and the most. Lilith, with her phasewalk, always tried to run from her problems, and had to be forced into a position where she couldn't run any more. Maya grew up controlled, and in the iron grip of a group of tyrants. Likewise, in BL3, she is particularly controlling of Ava, although in this case trying to leep her safe as opposed to weaponise her. Tyreen is a parasite, using her circumstances as an excuse to justify her horrible actions and her literally consuming the lives of anyone useful to her. Amara is confrontational, often acting without thinking, and is very blunt with her words and actions, hence why her siren power is the one thay is configured entirely for combat. Tannis is like Angel, wherein the two of them feel more of a connection with machines and objects with people. They're logical in their actions, but that does not mean they lack emotion. It makes sense why they have their phase shift.
No matter if she's an autistic or not. I think, she's a bitch.
@@sev1120thus meaning that tannis is one of the best autistic video game characters (and one of the only autistic video game characters) in history
@@ecotanimate4149 Indeed. Tannis is a very good representation of autism, and a particular part of the spectrum
I'm Autistic, just like Tannis. She's one of my favourite Borderlands characters (other than Lilith and Maya.) When I first found out about it, I was like... "No way, finally! A video game character who's just like me!" Man, I wish Tannis was real, I think in some way, she and I would've been great friends. 😁😁😁
I have Asperger's syndrome and I can also relate to Tannis. I doubt that we would have been great friends as I have found that trying to interact with other people, even people who also has Asperger, will be difficult. It would be nice to think that I could make a friend.
I never knew she was! That's very cool!
Her model for in game is a blind woman. Love the video. Also love these details gearbox has put into the characters backstories
Id be able to understand her as much as I can understand most of the entire cast (always say trade in when wanting a different gun from Marcus). It's just visual/verbal ques and body language that I can't fully understand until straight up told to me. Joking example being Moxxy trying to seduce me, id only know that she wanted me if she just straight up told me and not danced around it fully naked.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I really miss how dark her character was in the first game.
Tannis has her priorities straight. She wanted that comfortable chair.
Love these history videos, surprised u haven't done one on claptrap?? Unless I missed it
Same but that shit will be 40 min long
Reviewing 3 games 2 dlcs like GOD DAMM
Im surprised too. Also just bringing this up; but why do people hate claptrap? I think hes a funny and a little adorable robot, maybe a little annoying at times but still such a great character. I hope they will add a dlc about him like psycho got one.
@@ghostoftsushimafan7172 I mean I would watch it. I love claptrap.
@@ghostoftsushimafan7172 don't forget the poker game
I always wondered why sirens are always girls but then I remember a key component of human DNA, the chromosomes. The Y chromosome, which is what makes men, is just so much smaller than the X chromosomes which make women. This is likely due to women being the ones that generate life and give birth so they need the extra information in their DNA to do just that. Its likely that the powers that are passed on require space, maybe even taking over the space of the information needed to generate life, thus making them infertile, but in return giving them tremendous power. Its odd to me this video made me think about it this logically but I figured I'd share my thoughts to all of the other fans here.
this is so cool maybe instead of the genetic information being for reproduction its replaced with information to pass on the powers
It a way for the powers to survive. An amazing theory!
Sounds bad ass. Makes you think then how ab seraphs? Are they just weaker by comparison
wait so troy _isn't_ a siren?
@@spaghoottionaplate4752 he is but only because he was conjoined to Tyrene at birth so had to keep leaching off her after they were seperated, until he found he could leach Maya/other sirens and then he didn't need Tyrene to exist
How about my dearest pal, Sir Alistar Hammerlock? Please please please!
Holy shit! The cast of the Borderlands film is adding up. Jamie Lee Curtis just took the Tennis job!
As someone with aspergers, I can very much relate to Tannis's aversion to human interaction and social awkwardness
I always had the feeling that she was the mastermind or evil character and maybe had siren powers or wanted them so bad or was looking for something that non knew.
Love the videos my guy, keep up the good work and awaiting your new videos!
I love tannis! Thanks for doing this dude!
This was awesome, thanks for this video.
Wow... I never thought I'd share anything in common with a Borderlands character: I have Autism like Dr. Tannis & am a mama's boy like Scooter
Bruh same
You did a great job with this video... Just as you have with the other ones that I have watched this far! Thanks for putting all of the time and effort into creating these 🙏
The think of tannis being tortured is sad but for some reason her yelling and crying about ceiling chairs is funny ngl
Absolutely love Tannass. This video was spot on as always and I'd love to see a video on Vaughn
Jamie Lee Curtis as Tannis is literally the most unforgivable thing any game adaptation has ever done. I'm fuming
Her echo tapes were and still are my favorite thing about the first game. I looked forward to finding them over and over again
I saw the description, I appreciate your dedication
my fav interaction with tannis is before leaving sanctuary to fight the warrior. she didn't say a word, just handed me a 150% HP on second wind, I loved it.
Great video and I like her character.
Eruption, I've got something you can use. In Crawmerax dlc, we see Zer0 saved from Sparky Flynt's assassin, by a being named One. In the alternative body style for Zane, he adopts the mantle of assassin One. Because he may have no knowledge that one may already exist, there is no reason Zane couldn't have gone back in time to save Zer0. What is the deal with this?
Zane's Assassin One suit isn't cannon, it's an alternate universe version of Zane. The One that save's Zer0 is is just somebody from his past, the joke being that his name is Zer0, so probably knows people with other number-based names (probably a reference to James Bond and and that world's in universe numbering of agents; "007", "006" ect)
@@griskin_8202 he may actually be canon unless they are confirmed. It confirmed that there is a multiverse. It could happen with interdimensional travel. Nobody has confirmed information with the Watcher that there is or isn't a multiverse. So all we can do is assume and put the dots together. As they did go to the same assassin bar.
Love the vids keep up the good work🌹
Tannis ceiling chairs had more personality and character than the vanilla campaign of bl3
In my school vr game, Tannis, along with Tina, were both involved in Project Apex (infusing Goalius and Nogara with very high amounts of iridium to go after the counter titan a massive mechanical vault monster who power rivals the Destroyer and in it introduction it killed the Traveller) it kinda worked with it being able to escape through assimilating the corpes of the traveller and teleported away
I love how you can slowly hear the sped up way of talking she normally has
Bruh you work so hard on these videos I feel so bad that this only has 100 views
I have a Theroy that BL3 takes place after the events in the game- during the intro Marcus says Vault Hunters that remind him of you. Meaning we are the (Next gen) of Vault hunters and we are only reliving the story of BL3 Vault hunters. This really clicked with me when we travel to kreigs mind in the middle of space... as if we are living in a dream universe. Also a lot of characters from other Borderlands games have changed there personality like the story teller IE (Marcus) has a bias towards them.
I agree because at the end of the Pre sequel the alien (I forgot is name) said that a war is "COMING" meaning its not here yet and I don't think calypso twins arc is the war and we're going to need all the vault hunters we can get, I think he came to either just deliver the message or maybe he left hence why hes not in the game maybe BL3 this is way for us to get use to the Vault hunters in Bl4 cause like you said BL3 is their story but BL4 is the real game. If im right (Which I think I am) that means BL3 is kind of like The Pre Sequel 2 in a way.
This is a very good content. I never knew how her psych work before ans im glad i watched your video. Very entertaining.
You are a legend for continuing this series. Thank you.
yo wtf, i was literally thinking about this video since i just finished 2 side quest's from tannis on BL2 where you retrieve her journals.
Wait.....DAHL were about to leave the planet due to more failure than success. Also, inform Tannis that they were about to leave and she should join. Where they neglecting her until then? She was literally working solo that entire time and they somehow expected success?
“IVE GOT ONE QUESTION AND ONE QUESTION ONLY. EXPLOSIONS!!!!????”
Definitely a long one, but definitely a good one.
In Borderlands 2, she also invites the Vault Hunter to her bed, a "standing offer". Gaige is a high school student lol
Thank you!
I always remember the first time we hear her talk on a echo log, how she survived a skag attack by hiding under a body
No wonder Tannis is a phatt mood for me, being I have similar mental stability patterns
Someone explain me please. Why Eridians made possible to open Vault (Borderlands 1) every 200 years? What purpose? To check if Destroyer doing fine?
Since the BL1 vault is keeping more of a borderlands god and less a normal vault monster kept in check, it was meant to be a “food slot” where every 200 years, whenever some hapless adventurer witnessed the vault opening they’d be eaten by the Destroyer. This was the system they used to keep the monster contained as explained by Nyriads (an ancient sirens) recordings
Funny how eridians were centuries ahead in technology and couldn't kill the destroyer...but a regular dude with 4 guns can
@@anantrawat2311 not really true. The destroyer in its true form can never die and it’s been stated to be a casual Star Buster threat. In its sealed form however it’s considerably weaker hence why it can be defeated, but not killed. Remember the Destroyer is only sealed at all because Nyriad had to sacrifice all the eridians to make herself strong enough to seal it and even she knew she could never truly kill it.
My 3 favorite characters are definitely Mister Torgue, Tiny Tina, and Patricia Tannis
Ok ok this was a good one...now do a HISTORY OF SHADE!
My favorite character hands down
My favorite character
The way I interpreted it was that Tannis was inspired by Typhon but either grew jaded at one point at not finding any evidence for it or always saw it as an inspirational fairy tale. Her mother could very well have been a scientist but hated her job. I know I have been a cashier with no interest in retail.
Honestly, I never like the idea of her becoming a siren.
Same, the lore says in the whole universe there can be like 6 or 7 sirens at once, in the universe !!! And in bl3 there's sirens all around
So? What's wrong with gearbox finally using sirens 💀
I'd find every vault for that bed offer.
When she was doing that stuff to the graveward I was like wow your so not a siren then when I kill the agonizer boom siren
Wow I never realize she had Asperger's I also have that too which is very cool to me
I relate to tannis a lot, i have the same autism diagnosis as her and i also can’t pickup social cues
my atypical icon ❤
History of eruptionfang next
Out of curiosity, would a history on Marcus be in the future?
Forget the Sirens, Tannis is my Borderlands waifu :-D
tannis is a siren sooooo
Tannis was my first game crush….
History of the Vaults/ Vault Keys
Idk why but this is just one of those odd feelings you get. Tannis is gonna be a playable character in BL4
13:08 - "This is where the sandwiches live!!! Get you one!!"
Thanks
you should do one on clap trap I love him
I feel like she's in queue for a borderlands 4 vault hunter. Especially now that she is a siren.
god i like Tannis so much, she cracks me up the most xD
Her becoming the next playable siren in bl4 would be nice.
This reminds me of how "Eridian" was first pronounced, and I missed it. "Er-i-dan" rolls off the tongue a bit smoother than "Ear-id-ian."
I just want to add, Tannis' psychosis makes her a very unreliable narrator, so some of her later dialogue could be a side effect of that. that could help make sense of some of her conflicting story!
I always found it funny how in the hypodermic needles mission on sanctuary Tannis says that "puritanical notions of sexuality are so last century" yet she herself lusts after Typhon De Leon, ironic and hypocritical.
History of Handsome Jack.
Tannis becoming a siren might be the reason she never interacted with a child since she was shielded by her parents. Since as seen with Ava some are destined to be a siren from a young age. So it’s not to far that her parents saw this as well and shielded her.
History of the company from bounty of blood
What if the reason Angel gave Tannis the siren abilities because Angel was acting as her Echo Log when she was "going insane" it would make more sense than her randomly getting them or anything
Lmao those chairs 🪑💺🪑💺🪑💺 😂😂😂
History of crazy earl. And claptrap
It’d be cool if we can play as Tannis is Borderlands 4.
The torture that she went through proves that she swas a siren-in-waiting. Her garments also covered areas that would have revealed markings of a siren. A siren who doesn't yet know what power she got or want. On a side note: What was Cmdt. Steele's power or abilty?
Claptrap story pls
History of Crazy Earl please
Tannis tanking torture like a mad lad... until they touched her chairs