Currently replaying Borderlands 2, and damn, they couldn’t make a more fitting satire if they tried.
I don’t think they imitated him - was he known to be that obnoxious back then? - but it certainly fits.
Just recently in the “Opportunity” city-level, one of the announcements could be straight from Musk. Paraphrased: “Only a miserable worker is a hard worker. Happy workers aren’t working hard enough.”
The game probably started development in 2010, and I don’t think he’d gone full public lunatic by then.
But Musk is several cringey satires rolled up into one and given life, pinnochio-style. So it’s not surprising that any particular portrayal of an amoral asshole would absolutely hit the high notes.
I don’t think there’s any evidence that Musk is a rapist, is there? And I’m pretty sure that he also doesn’t have a live pony made of solid gold.
Unlike Musk, Jack actually seemed to care about his daughter.
He’s certainly guilty of sexual harassment, anyway.
There’s a difference, though, between sexual harassment and keeping women locked up in a basement torture dungeon.
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And I’m pretty sure that he also doesn’t have a live pony made of solid gold.
[/quote]Which is the thing that sucks about him most. He’s one of the richest guys to ever live. He could have a goddamn live pony made of solid gold. And what does he do instead? He buys Twitter and fucks it up.
There shouldn’t be billionaires, but there really shouldn’t be boring billionaires.
Come one guys, Handsome Jack had Butt Stallion and she was made of living diamond not mere gold.
Well he does have that golden goat statue. Maybe not solid gold, but close enough;
So I missed this. He did what now? Which game was that? That’s dark even for Borderlands.
I assume Chronos is referring to Angel, the Siren. Also Jacks daughter.
Jack had her imprisoned - for her own “safety” - after an “incident” with her powers. She was in a chamber specifically made to block/restrain her powers, had a collar that forced her to do what he wanted (as in, use her siren powers and don’t use bad language), and (later?) was articially pumped full of Eridium (think forced steroid injections) to power up the vault key.
In the course of Borderlands 2 it is a storyline mission to destroy the eridium injectors - effectively killing her. The mission giver? Herself!
Jack pleaded for her life, but she made it quite clear that she wanted to be “free”, and death was the only way.
Her last words were to curse her father.
I’m not sure how long she was in that chamber, but I’d guess 10 years at the least. Going from small child to grown woman.
I don’t think there was anything sexual between them, though. Not that it makes Jack any less of a monster.
OK… that rings a faint bell. I have this unfortunate characteristic of forgetting things as soon as I complete them.
I don’t really see it. If I’m parodying Musk, the elements of his character I’m aiming for would be:
None of that really applies to Handsome Jack. He’s not an engineer or inventor, he’s a corporate suit who backstabbed his way to the top, and is wholly unapologetic about his naked ambition and disregard for others. He’s a direct descendent of Gordon Gecko, taken to an interstellar level.
It fits even less well if you look at it in the context of 2012, when Musk’s public image as a “real life Tony Stark” was taken a lot more seriously. He’d literally had a cameo as himself in Iron Man 2 two years earlier. A Musk parody at the time probably would have been more sympathetic over all, but would still have focused a lot on, “Look at all this cool stuff I personally invented,” and “Here’s my plan for saving the human race.”
Now, Ted Faro, on the other hand…
I only played a little bit of the game, because it really wasn’t compatible with my computer, so I might be misremembering. But I seem to remember something about him bragging to the Main Character about having someone dear to the Main Character imprisoned, and there was nothing Main Character could do about it.
Also, didn’t Jack get his position by being an adventurer, and finding the big powerful Macguffin from the first game? I.e., he was the character you would have been playing in Borderlands 1, now absolutely corrupted by absolute power.
My understanding of Borderlands comes almost entirely from watching oboeshoesgames rather than actually playing the games, but my understanding is that Handsome Jack was actually a playable character, and his background lore was given in the Pre-Sequel.
He himself wasn’t a playable character but you could play his body double.
None of the playable characters in Borderlands 2 have any connection to Handsome Jack, except that they’re after the MacGuffin he wants. Really, none of them have any sort of backstory, or even personality, at all. They’re basically blank slates with different power sets.
Handsome Jack does do all sorts of abominable things to NPCs in the game, and I’m sure there’s a lot of kidnapping and wrongful imprisonment mentioned. Nothing sexual, though, at least that I can remember, and I played through the game several times.
Again, no. The four playable characters from the first Borderlands all show up as NPCs in the second, and are opposed to Jack’s plans in the second game.
I never played the pre-sequel. Was that the same body double that shows up in the casino DLC for Borderlands 3?
Could be, who knows? They all look the same.