History Characters / BorderlandsClaptrap

->'''Voiced by:''' [[Creator/RoosterTeeth David Eddings]] (English; 2009-2018) Jim Foronda (English; 2019), Creator/WataruTakagi (Japanese), Antoine Tomé (French)

'''Weapon Brands''': [[Characters/BorderlandsAtlas Atlas]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsDahl Dahl]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsHyperion Hyperion]] ([[Characters/BorderlandsHandsomeJack Handsome Jack]]) | [[Characters/BorderlandsMaliwan Maliwan] | [[Characters/BorderlandsJakobs Jakobs]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsTorgue Torgue]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsTediore Tediore]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsWeaponBrands Other Weapon Brands]]\\

'''Weapon Brands''': [[Characters/BorderlandsAtlas Atlas]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsDahl Dahl]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsHyperion Hyperion]] ([[Characters/BorderlandsHandsomeJack Handsome Jack]]) | [[Characters/BorderlandsMaliwan Maliwan] | [[Characters/BorderlandsJakobs Jakobs]]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsTorgue Torgue]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsTediore Tediore]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsWeaponBrands Other Weapon Brands]]\\

'''Weapon Brands''': [[Characters/BorderlandsAtlas Atlas]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsDahl Dahl]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsHyperion Hyperion]] ([[Characters/BorderlandsHandsomeJack Handsome Jack]]) | [[Characters/BorderlandsMaliwan Maliwan]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsTorgue Torgue]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsTediore Tediore]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsWeaponBrands Other Weapon Brands]]\\

** As of ''3'', the latest generation of Vault Hunters and the crew of Sanctuary-III treat him with indifference, and being promoted to General of the Crimson Raiders by Lilith has gone to his head quite a bit, making him blustery and egotistical. That said, Maya's apprentice Ava genuinely likes him and actually nerds out when she meets him for the first time.

* ForYourOwnGood: He constantly dismiss what Claptrap wants as he believes what he is doing is for his best, even believing himself to be his OnlyFriend. He even goes as far as threatening to kill his consciouness and [[GrandTheftMe taking over the body]]. At the end however, he finally live up to his words by sacrificing himself for Claptrap.

-->'''Claptrap:''' Jack dumps everything he kills here... bandits, Vault Hunters, Claptrap units. If I sound at all pleased about this, it's because my programmers made this my default tone of voice! '''I'M ACTUALLY QUITE DEPRESSED!'''

* EvilerThanThou[=/=]EvenEvilHasStandards: As EOS, he'll occasionally say that Jack would do worse things with the H-Source than he would, but considering his own abilities, it's not hard to assume he could outdo Jack.

* ShoutOut: When he first visualizes inside the Quarantine Cube, he is shown wearing a [[Literature/SilenceOfTheLambs Hannibal Lecter muzzle over his face]].

!!!'''Voiced in English by:''' [[Creator/RoosterTeeth David Eddings]]; Jim Foronda (''VideoGame/Borderlands2 Commander Lilith and the Fight for Sanctuary'' DLC, ''VideoGame/Borderlands3'')[[labelnote:'''Other Languages''']]Creator/WataruTakagi (Japanese), Antoine Tomé (French)[[/labelnote]]

->'''Voiced in English by:''' [[Creator/RoosterTeeth David Eddings]]; Jim Foronda (''VideoGame/Borderlands2 Commander Lilith and the Fight for Sanctuary'' DLC, ''VideoGame/Borderlands3'')
->'''Voiced in French by''': Antoine Tomé
->'''Voiced in Japanese by''': Creator/WataruTakagi

* FalseMemory: The subroutine masks the events Claptrap doesn't want to remember and replace them with false albeit more pleasant memories.

'''Other''': [[Characters/BorderlandsBanditsAndBanditFactions Bandits and Bandit Factions]] ([[Characters/BorderlandsChildrenOfTheVault Children of the Vault]]) | [[Characters/BorderlandsHodunkAndZafordClans Hodunk and Zaford Clans]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsCreatures Creatures]] ([[Characters/BorderlandsEridiansAndVaultMonsters Eridians and Vault Monsters]]) | [[Characters/BorderlandsRaidBosses Raid Bosses]])-]]]]]

'''Other''': [[Characters/BorderlandsBanditsAndBanditFactions Bandits and Bandit Factions]] ([[Characters/BorderlandsChildrenOfTheVault Children of the Vault]]) | [[Characters/BorderlandsHodunkAndZafordClans Hodunk and Zaford Clans]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsCreatures Creatures]] ([[Characters/BorderlandsEridiansAndVaultMonsters Eridians and Vault Monsters]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsRaidBosses Raid Bosses]])-]]]]]

'''Weapon Brands''': [[Characters/BorderlandsAtlas Atlas]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsDahl Dahl]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsHyperion Hyperion]] ([[Characters/BorderlandsHandsomeJack Handsome Jack]]) | [[Characters/BorderlandsMaliwan Maliwan]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsTorgue Torgue]] | [[Characters/BorderlandsWeaponBrands Other Weapon Brands]]\\

* BigNo: When defeated.

As of ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel''. [[labelnote:See it in ''Borderlands 1'' (''Claptrap'' DLC)]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Clapninja_4111.png[[/labelnote]]]]

A type of Hyperion robot designed to provide assistance to settlers and newcomers to Pandora. They are almost universally hated by the population of the planet, and the bandits use them as target practice. The one who greets the Vault Hunters in Fyrestone is the most ubiquitous to the series, introducing the first generation of Vault Hunters to Pandora and later leads a short-lived robot revolution in the name of his kind, [[UnwillingRoboticisation "claptrapping" any living creatures they encountered]]. It becomes a major character in the second game, rescuing the second generation of Vault Hunters from the tundra after Jack failed to kill them, and eventually becomes a playable Vault Hunter in ''The Pre-Sequel!'' as the prototype [[KillerRobot [=FR4G-TP=]]] under Jack's employ. By the time of the third game, he's a 'respected' general of the Crimson Raiders who greets the third generation of Vault Hunters arriving on the planet.

His action skill in ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'' has him run VAULTHUNTER.EXE, a buggy program that analyses the battlefield and grants him a random ability it deems appropriate for the situation.

** The intro of ''Claptrap's New Robot Revolution'' reveals that he was originally sent by Hyperion to kill the Vault Hunters after they became a drain on the economy. Instead, it led the rest of the Claptraps in a ([[HumansAreTheRealMonsters not entirely unjustified]]) revolt against the humans.

** When Jack tries to make Claptrap into a viable robot soldier, he gets frustrated and furious because every time he activates it, Claptrap just won't stop dancing. Eventually Angel suggests that the best way to make Claptrap work as a soldier is to "work with the idiocy, not against it." This is the reason why VAULTHUNTER.EXE is as random and uncontrolled as it is: the aspect of the code that would have made it work properly, known as [=5H4D0W-TP=], was self-aware and so hostile and malevolent that Claptrap's own security systems automatically quarantined it.
* AmbiguouslyBi: He has shown interest in ladies, usually to their disgust, but this piece of small-talk in the DLC ''Guns, Love, and Tentacles'' of ''3'' shows that he bends both ways. Given that this is [[PluckyComicRelief Claptrap]] though, how much of it is flirting, how much is [[IJustWantToHaveFriends its desire to have friends]], how much is just his programming trying to be funny and how much he tries to be serious is open to debate.

* BadBoss: He's the director of its own web series, and frequently has Steve shooting crew members that fail in some way.

* BigBad: The mistreatment of every named character towards his line, as well as Hyperion's desire to rid Pandora of bandits (even before Jack, a known anti-Bandit Hyperion employee, rose to power) leads it to [[TheDogBitesBack start the events]] of ''Claptrap's New Robot Revolution''. He even acts as the expansion's FinalBoss, though he eventually survives.
* BoringButPractical: For all of the flashy and sometimes literally insane special effects VAULTHUNTER.EXE can have, one of its most useful use is simply the fact that it always fully heals it when triggered.

* BroughtDownToNormal: After the events of ''The Pre-Sequel!'', Claptrap loses both his combat protocols and stair-climbing wheel. Were it not for [=5H4D0W-TP=] sacrificing himself to save him, it wouldn't have even survived. He apparently manages to get back to some degree of its previous badassery by the time of the final battle in ''Tales From the Borderlands''.

** The intro isn't any easier on him. In the span of about two hours, [[EyeScream it has its eye ripped out]], falls off a cliff, [[ElectricTorture gets electrocuted]], [[StuffBlowingUp gets blown up by a massive artillery cannon]], and gets [[ColdBloodedTorture used as a torture doll]] by a bandit leader. This being ''Borderlands'', it's all PlayedForLaughs.
** During the quest to reclaim its ship, a group of pirates proceed to beat Claptrap, while it suggests that they instead talk it out. While showing them a hypothetical of how such a conversation would go, Claptrap inadvertently convinces itself that ''the very people beating him have the moral high ground'' since it doesn't actually feel pain and hitting it makes the pirates feel better. That's right, Claptrap convinces itself that it should be beaten up.

** "It's a Trap... Card" causes him to create an explosion that heals allies while damaging enemies whenever its shields are depleted.

* ComebackMechanic: As a Fragtrap, he's the undisputed master of comebacks, as he has multiple skills related to "Fight For Your Life" mode in all three of his skill trees. he has two skills that [[CriticalStatusBuff vastly increase its damage output in ''FFYL'']], one that gives him regeneration afterwards so he stays alive longer better, one that draws aggro so enemies are easier to kill and he can recover, another that makes him periodically emit nova explosions while sending out minitraps to seek out enemies and explode on them in FFYL... basically, properly-specced, Claptrap may go down but it almost never means he's ''out.'' He also has a near-instant downtime, whereas other characters take a while to slump over during which they can't be controlled. This means Claptrap is far less likely to lose track of a target when he goes into ''FFYL''.

* CurseCutShort: An Out of Game example. Claptrap won the award for Best Character at the 10th annual Spike Video Game Awards. During his introduction, it casually strolled through his room and repainted himself into a tuxedo and top hat while giving its thanks for just being nominated, though it hoped that it would win too. At the end though, it rushes towards the camera, ready to flip off the audience.

** His abilities have elements of this: going into Fight For Your Life makes it more dangerous, not less.

* FinalBoss: Of ''Claptrap's New Robot Revolution'' as the INAC. As it's the last of the four expansions, this also makes it the FinalBoss of ''1'' in general.

** For all three groups of Vault Hunters. He tries its best to be friendly and helpful, but ''no one'' really seems to like him or even treat him halfway decently, with the possible exception of Angel and Janey Springs. The various Vault Hunter groups keep it around out of a combination of necessity, proximity, and possibly pity.

* GemEncrusted: In Episode 4 of its web series, he claims to own a toilet seat made out of diamonds. He can't use it because it's three feet tall and can't reach the seat, but he likes having it. Also, no bowel system.

* GoodBadBugs: In-universe; VAULTHUNTER.EXE is malware that Jack installed on top of Claptrap's basic software to make it combat-ready. Because of this, it's hard to predict and has the potential to be as dangerous to Claptrap and allies as it is to their enemies. When activating his skill during multiplayer, other characters generally comment how ThisIsGonnaSuck, yelling at him to do something that won't screw them over.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: It likes to say "let's go!" in several languages such as German, French, Italian and Spanish.

* GuestFighter: He's one of the four main characters in Telltale Games' ''VideoGame/PokerNight2''. Depending on whether or not it puts collateral in, you can win Handsome Jack's mask for [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 the Spy]] if you're on PC, a Bloodwing item for your Xbox LIVE avatar if you're on Xbox, or a dynamic theme for your [=PS3=] involving him crossed-over with the other characters playing poker, such as running away from an alien tractor beam with [[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam]], or giving a rose to [=GLaDOS=] from Portal.

** The various Vault Hunters, Janey Springs (until ''Tales''), and The Guardian Angel are the only people that treat him with anything resembling civility. Everyone else sees it as a tool (both senses of the word) or as a complete annoyance.

* HiddenDepths: Several starkly somber scenes in ''Claptastic Voyage'' make it clear that, despite his seemingly irrepressible demeanor, it has at least a subconscious understanding of what people think of it, and carries a great deal of guilt for all the problems he has caused.

** Invoked by the "I Love You Guys!" skill tree, which focuses on making it a great support character with team buffs and healing in a desperate attempt at making his teammates like him.
** At the end of its tree is the ability to offer a high-five, granting the deliverer a health regeneration and fire rate bonus. Claptrap can receive this if he is left hanging or [[DevelopersForesight melee'd by an enemy with his hand up]].

** In ''The Pre-Sequel!'',he can essentially mimic [=Zer0=]'s [=Decepti0n=] as one of its VAULTHUNTER.EXE abilities.

** In ''2'', he gets shot into a bandit camp and you find it being kicked by four bandits. During that time it somehow managed to convince himself that the bandits have the ''moral high ground'' (due to him not being able to feel pain and allowing the bandits to vent their rage being good for them).

** He discovers transmissions from another Claptrap unit in ''Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt''. [[YankTheDogsChain it's dead.]] And it exploded, so there's no chance it can be repaired.

** In ''The Pre-Sequel!'', all the other Vault Hunters treat him as this due to its VAULTHUNTER.EXE ability having the potential to backfire spectacularly and directly impair them in battle.

** In ''2'', he finds itself in this role once more, this time because its compatibility with Hyperion technology means it's the only Crimson Raider who can bypass Hyperion security, at least with the proper upgrades.

* MachineWorship: A group of savages in ''Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt'' worship Claptrap until it insults Handsome Jack, whom they also worship.

** Even outside of this tree, many of Claptrap's skills focus around causing explosive novas, chucking out explosive miniature drones of himself, and turning itself into an ActionBomb.

* MechanicallyUnusualClass: In ''The Pre-Sequel!'', being a robot means that he not only doesn't require oxygen but that it's resistant to incendiary damage and weak to corrosive.

* MoreDakka: His Funzerker effect digitally clones his equipped weapon and forces it and its allies to fire uncontrollably. It burns through ammo at a very fast rate, but is notably devastating with Jakobs brand weapons, shotguns, or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Jakobs brand shotguns.]]

* NotQuiteDead: Jack shoots him after using the H-Source (which Claptrap helped get for it) to kill every Claptrap in existence, then dumps it in a junk pile with the rest. [=5H4D0W-TP=], the remnants of the Fragtrap programming, sacrifices himself to keep him functional long enough for Sir Hammerlock to find and fix him.

* OldShame: In-universe, as of ''The Pre-Sequel!'' he came to deeply regret his time as the INAC, to the point that it associates the MINAC with shame.

* OnlySaneMan: At least to some degree in his own product line. When on the mission to get into Jack's Office, he has to enlist the aid of a standard [=CL4P-TP=], who lacks the experiences and developed personality of Claptrap. During the fiasco, he finds itself becoming incredibly annoyed, more than any of the humans, at the dumb antics of his own kind. Him gaining more individuality than the standard [=CL4P-TP=] from his accumulated data as the Interplanetary Ninja Assassin Claptrap as well as the Fragtrap, and interacting with people more than any other robot in the series, may very well have contributed to him persistently surviving as the LastOfHisKind.

* PostFinalBoss: The MINAC is basically the final boss of ''Claptrap's New Robot Revolution''. Claptrap itself jumps out of him to fight you after you beat him, and while he's got miniboss-level durability and deals extremely heavy damage if you actually stand still and let him punch you, he's basically a pushover and fighting him serves as a victory lap to end the game.

** ''Funzerker'': Claptrap gains the ability to dual-wield his guns (by digitally cloning its equipped weapon) while also causing him and his allies to fire uncontrollably. Essentially a copy of Salvador's action skill with more stipulations.

** ''Senseless Sacrifice'': Only available in Co-op; Claptrap downs itself to revive any other downed teammates.

** ''Torgue Fiesta'': Unlocked with the "I Am Rubber, You Are Glue" skill. Causes Claptrap and its allies to toss out grenades uncontrollably, with the potential of [[FriendlyFire causing a party wipe]].

** ''Clap-in-the-Box'': Unlocked with the "Kick Him While He's Down" skill. Claptrap runs around with a BigBulkyBomb that explodes after a period of time. If it fails to do damage to either an enemy or ally, it is downed.

** As of ''3'', Claptrap is back to being something of a RobotBuddy to the Crimson Raiders. Lilith telling the Vault Hunter to rescue it from Shiv basically boils down to "It's an annoying idiot, but it's ''our'' annoying idiot."

* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: As the Fragtrap, Jack had to sacrifice its door-unlocking processors as well as bypass memory preservation in order to make place for combat subroutines and an all-terrain wheel, which explains why Claptrap has no memories of events prior to ''2''. In ''3'', His door-unlocking processors are swapped by stair-climbing processors.

** He's convinced that everyone in Sanctuary will welcome it back with open arms and considers ''2''[='=]s Vault Hunters to be his minions.

** For Professor Nakayama, he's the reason Nakayama's ship crashed and gives the vault hunters the entrance code for it at the end of ''Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt''.
** ''Claptastic Voyage'' shows that he's been this for most of its existence in one way or another for just about everyone he's met.

** In ''Claptastic Voyage'' it's revealed that he's fully aware of how much everyone hates him and how much he screws up. After turning down Shadowtrap's offer out of UndyingLoyalty to its friends, he is shot and (almost) killed by Jack while at least two of those "friends" laugh in the background. He may also be aware that in helping Jack get the H-Source, he killed his own product line, and thus is part of the reason that he's the LastOfHisKind. The fact [[LaserGuidedAmnesia he might have lost all of its memory of it]] would be a mercy.

* ThrowTheDogABone: In ''3'', he ''finally'' finds another Claptrap unit, and is thus no longer alone. He also finds someone who worships him in Ava. The final Clapslist mission has him make a genuine friend in the form of a wheelchair-bound woman after he shows her that she can still dance even with wheels. He even decides not to accept her money and pays the player out of its own pocket.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Becomes a lot less helpful and a lot more full of itself in ''2''. By ''3'', it became [[KnightInSourArmor pretty sour]], jaded, extremely pompous and prone to bluster, as being granted the rank of General in the Crimson Raiders has gone to its head.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Both its enemies and its teammates underestimate its fighting abilities.

* WhatHaveIBecome: PlayedForLaughs. This is its response word-for-word when Jack orders Claptrap to fetch another [=CL4P-TP=] to open the door to its office, and tells it that it shouldn't bother doing it itself because its combat and stair-climbing subroutines replaced its door-overriding protocols.

* ICouldaBeenAContender: He was the executable for Fragtrap's Vault Hunter.Exe. But the unit's insecurity protocols put him in quarantine, turning Vault Hunter.Exe into the unpredictable mess it is. He even states that he's what Claptrap could, ''should'' have been.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: It has a glowing red eye that's always in the shape of a glare.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: After Jack shoots Claptrap and had him dumped in Liar's Berg, Shadowtrap sacrifices itself in order to ensure that Claptrap lived long enough to be repaired by Hammerlock.

* ImplausibleDeniability: It "never denies anything". Including it's own death.

* ObliviousToHatred: Its whole point basically is to suppress Claptrap's awareness. Replacing the memory of the events of Overlook with a better but false one where Claptrap is having a party in its honor during which everyone praise it.

* AmbiguouslyBi: He has shown interest in ladies, usually to their disgust, but this piece of small-talk in the DLC ''Guns, Love, and Tentacles'' of ''3'' shows that he bends both ways. Given that this is [[PluckyComicRelief Claptrap]] though, how much of it is flirting, how much is [[IJustWantToHaveFriends its desire to have friends]], how much is just hisz programming trying to be funny and how much he tries to be serious is open to debate.

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