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T.K. Baha
| T.K. Baha | |
|---|---|
 "You shoulda seen the look on your face!" | |
| Title | Citizen |
| Gender | Male |
| Race | Human |
| Faction | NPC |
| Status | Deceased |
| Location | Arid Badlands |
| Game | Borderlands |
| Appearances | Borderlands The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned (reanimated zombie) |
T.K. Baha is a blind, one-legged widower living in a shack near the settlement of Fyrestone. He is a mission provider early in the story and is a friend of Scooter.
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Background
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T.K. is a loner, preferring to keep to himself, but he's friendly enough. He wears goggles to hide his blind eyes and doesn't get out much due to his missing leg. He lost both his original leg and the prosthetic leg given to him by Dr. Zed in subsequent fights with the large, vicious Skag called Scar.
After Dr. Zed leaves Fyrestone, T.K. is left all by himself. Eventually psychos raid his house and kill him, hanging him by his wooden leg from the fan in his shack. The Psychos who did this are located to left of his shack in his garden.
In the Zombie Island of Dr. Ned add-on, T.K. makes a surprise reappearance. After having been killed in the Arid Badlands he is found to have joined the ranks of the undead and continues his new zombie existence in Hallow's End as Zombie TK Baha.
InvolvementEdit
T.K. offers several missions to a starting player. He offers a few main ones, as well as some side missions upon completing T.K. Has More Work.
If his prosthetic leg is retrieved from Scar, T.K. will reward with a unique shotgun, T.K's Wave.
Missions Edit
Main story missions:
Side Missions:
NotesEdit
- T.K. Baha's name is inconsistently presented throughout Borderlands.
- In Borderlands he is referrred to as "T.K. Baha", yet his splash screen presents a modified version as "TK Baha". In English it is common practice to append initials of a name with a period, although this trend is diminishing as the presence of all capital letters is deemed sufficient to indicate an acronym.
- In The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned, his undead variant is referred to as "Zombie TK Baha". Similarly, items carrying his name acquire the same update, for example, "TK Baha's Leg".
Quotes Edit
- "You! One more step and it'll be your last! ... You should have seen the look on your face!" - intro cinematic
- (Sniffs) "You're not a Skag, are ya? Good, I only shoot Skags... Well, mostly anyways. Heehee."
- "Don't worry about me I can take care of myself. I get by just fine. Alright? I'm O.K."
- "I uh, I hate to send you away, you're great company and all... but I, I gotta go take a dump. I gotta take a dump something awful! Something real awful! Oh.. never mind... it's gone now."
- "Hey! Why don't you come over here and chat a while. Always nice for a fellow to have company out here!"
- "Hmm... smells like off-worlder. How are you liking our planet anyways?"
- "Thanks. There are just some things that are too difficult without the use of my eyes."
- "Heh, you should have seen the look on your face!"
- "I'll be seeing you. I'll see you all right? I'm gunna see you. See you later. I'll see you."
- "Be seeing you! ...You don't get it do you?"
- "Now don't let them son-of-a-biscuit-eating-Skags get to you."
- "Hey, uh... If you ever need anything, anything at all, uh... Just let me know."
- "You! One more step an' it'll be your last."
- "Can't say how much having someone's help is... um... well... rather helpful."
TriviaEdit
- T.K makes jokes about his blindness such as "You should have seen the look on your face!" and his obsession with the phrase, "Be seeing you."
- T.K Baha (Ahab spelled backwards) may be a reference to Captain Ahab of the novel Moby-Dick which tells the story of the seaman's obsession with revenge on Moby-Dick. Scar replaces the whale as Baha's nemesis.
- If a player takes the mission Is T.K. O.K.? from Scooter through multiplayer without having finished T.K.'s side missions in Skag Gully, they can check on T.K.'s dead body inside his house while TK is still alive on his porch.
- T.K. is left hanging in the "Hanged Man" position as found on tarot cards.
- His wooden leg can be found in a burning barrel, behind the closed teller window, in the second DLC, Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot.
- After the completion of the mission Powering The Fast Travel Network (but before Is T.K. O.K.?), it's possible to fast travel back to Fyrestone, and head up to T.K.'s house one last time before his death.
- T.K.'s appearance, with his large glasses and malocclusion, bears a striking resemblance to the character known as "Bubbles" (played by Mike Smith) from the Canadian comedy mockumentary television series Trailer Park Boys.[citation needed]
