Wilhelm
Gender	Male
Race	Human
Faction	Hyperion
Level	15-19 (Normal Mode) 42 (True Vault Hunter Mode)
Status	Killable (Respawning)
Location	End of the Line
Game	Borderlands 2
Appearances	Borderlands 2
Voiced By	Todd Haberkorn

Wilhelm is a Hyperion engineer who serves Handsome Jack, and who nearly killed the original Vault Hunters after the events of Borderlands. He is one of the bosses in Borderlands 2.

Wilhelm is the first major boss of the game. (Major bosses are indicated by health bars on the HUD instead of above the enemy.) He is mentioned multiple times by the Guardian Angel, with considerable trepidation, before he is fought at the End of the Line.

Physically he is part Hyperion robot, with his body from the waist down replaced with loader legs. From waist up Wilhelm resembles an Engineer with a Constructor's eye in the place of his right eye. Wilhelm also bears a shoulder-mounted mortar, which he uses for ranged attacks.

Strategy

Main article: A Train to Catch

Notes

• Wilhelm has a chance to drop:
  • Logan's Gun, a Legendary pistol manufactured by Hyperion
  • Rolling Thunder, a Legendary grenade mod manufactured by Torgue

Trivia

• Wilhelm has no intro cutscene, despite his status.
• Defeating Wilhelm unlocks the "Wilhelm Screamed" achievement, a reference to the stock sound recording used in many movies, television shows, and video games.
• Wilhelm is first mentioned in the mission Whatever Happened to Helena Pierce?, when he is heard murdering a train full of refugees on their way to Sanctuary under orders from Handsome Jack.
• An unused ECHO recording from Handsome Jack exists in which Jack says that he poisoned Wilhelm prior to his fight with the Vault Hunters, weakening him in order to ensure the power core he carried would be recovered without making the find seem too easy.

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