New Tales From the Borderlands Could Be Teasing An Answer to the Zer0-FL4K Mystery

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Gearbox's Borderlandsuniverse continues to expand outside the main numbered entries, with the recent release ofTiny Tina's Wonderlands, the upcoming release of New Tales from the Borderlands, and a Borderlands movie in the works. With all of this, there are certainly story threads that need to be expanded upon. For example, many fans were upset when Gearbox confirmed Sasha and Fiona weren't inNew Tales from the Borderlands, but the good news is that Gearbox does have plans for them (saying they shouldn't just be side characters, which makes sense).

However, perhaps one of the longest-lasting mysteries/stories goes all the way back to Borderlands 2 and the assassin character Zer0. It was mysterious enough on its own, and then Borderlands 3 came in and introduced several new factors like Fl4k. There is a huge mystery surrounding Zer0 and Fl4K, as well as a few others in the franchise, and New Tales from the Borderlands' Lou13 may just hold the answer.

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When Borderlands 2 was released, fans realized that Zer0 didn't breathe and had an odd number of digits. Combined with the way he spoke in Haikus, his robotic sound voice, and his mask display, many quickly deduced Zer0 was a robot. Now, that could have been swept under the rug as unnecessary background information, but one DLC introduced another character named 0ne. Thus began the stories that there were some super powerful robots out there, perhaps with numbers in their names as generation designations, and Borderlands 3 kept that trend up.

Borderlands 3's Fl4k is highly comparable to Zer0. Not only do they have skills with similar names and numbers in their name, but Fl4K and Zero have the same number of fingers and the