You do, but it’s not a mission requirement i.e. he’s always there as a map spawn. Boll, on the other hand, only appears when you take “In Memoriam”: if you visit his lair before doing so, neither he nor his skags show up.
I know he always spawns. I just questioned it because he’s not “rare”
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Gut0nes, that is what I was talking about. I remember something in the old forums, I think, that was an Excel spreadsheet, or similar, that listed the “rare” enemies / encounters, like Michael in Sanctuary. Someone like BoneHead 2.0 is not a rare, because he is always there. Same with “Spiderpants”. They are around in Tina in UVHM, and maybe in TVHM. So not really rare. I’m thinking about Michael, Muscles, tubby bones, tubby Rakk, things like that. Things that you see and go, “what is that? Never seen that before”.
Ah, I think I know what you might be talking about! There was a drop-rates survey that included a lot of specific loot sources. I have a copy, and possibly a link, but on my laptop which is at home right now. I’ll check tonight, assuming no post-ninjas show up between now and then.
I honestly had no idea. I just assumed that when he showed up next to the fast travel, he wouldn’t be at his usual spot. I just never thought about checking both places when that happens.
Yeah, he’s not rare at all. I noted that on the list. I just included those enemies in a separate section because they have a unique name and since you have to be actively looking for them, you could easily miss them or confuse them with regular enemies. That’s all. Also, I feel it would be easier to separate the random spawns from the guaranteed spawns if we just listed all of the unique enemies in the game.
Is the Spiderpants guy really a thing? I honestly never seen him. Or never noticed it. See? That’s the point I was trying to make above. He is a random spawn, right? Like, he doesn’t have an actual fixed spawn point? Can multiples of him spawn at the same time, like a regular enemy?
There are a lot of unique enemies in the game, but not that many actually “rare” ones. I guess the only truly rare ones are maybe Muscles, those Loot Midgets that don’t come out of containers and Tubby Midgets. All of the others are pretty common and you’ll eventually bump into them. Just think of it as a list of unique enemies with a couple of really rare ones in there.
EDIT: Added those loot midget types to the list.
Yep. Supposedly the one near the FTS has a higher chance of dropping the Harold. Either way, if you notice red dots on your mini-map by there, you’ll know the 2nd Lee has spawned and you have an additional shot at a Harold.
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I’ve come across Spiderpants 2-3 times in all my playthroughs, so he’s not always there. At least not for me.
I’m always dubious of such claims. I only kept track during the drop rate experiments, and I don’t have those notes any more, but I’m pretty sure I personally never got a Harold from that location. IIRC, he spawned there about 1 time in 10. The other thing I’ve noticed recently is that I’ve never had him spawn in his other area when I’ve been going through there on the mission to find Lt. Reese. So maybe he’s like Boll and only starts spawning there after that mission? Obviously, I’ll have to start another character to check this out!
I don’t think I’ve ever seen him in my own playthroughs, other than perhaps once? I’d definitely say he’s a rare spawn! Also, when the first screen shot of him was posted, a lot of folks were… incredulous.
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There’s a side quest in the Mr Torque dlc that Sir Hammerlock gives you to get samples from a new form of rakk- and they’re all tubby rakks. If you take this into consideration then tubby rakks aren’t really rare- of course, in the main game and other areas I’ve only ever seen one, but that one side quest kind of skews their rarity IMO…
I have never seen Muscles. Of course after I do Thousand Cuts I leave it open for LLM farming…
Also have only seen tubby varkids, spiderants and bones…
Also Also only have seen the “normal” LLMs…
RNG! 
I’ve never encountered Spiderpants in all my time playing this game, but I just did a TTAODK playthrough and I bumped into two Tubby Bones just by doing the missions. I wasn’t even looking for them. So Spiderpants is most definitely not always there, and based solely on my personal experience with the game, I’d say he’s rarer than Tubby Bones. I’ve also encountered a lot of Tubby Rakks while playing the game. I don’t think they’re any rarer than other types of Tubbies, it’s just that players usually don’t pay that much attention to Rakks and not a lot of people would prefer to farm them for Tubbies instead of Spiderants or Skags. In the end, that’s why I decided to list all of them. RNG performs in mysterious ways and different players could have different experiences when it comes to “rare” spawns.
EDIT: Added Spiderpants to the list in the random spawns section.
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Yup, I’ve got several Harolds from Savage Lee by the Fast Travel. He’s never in the Marrowfields until you’ve done the mission to rescue Reese, but will always be there afterwards, ‘bonding’ with the friendly Bullymongs.
I’d like to know more about Jimmy Jenkins. There must be an interesting backstory there. Shame you have to kill him straight away…
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He’s always there. Guess I have another small thing to test.
Leroy Jenkins!
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Tha… thank you.
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Anytime. It was an Internet meme for awhile.
There are an awful lot of memes in Borderlands 2 that are beyond my ken, though I do take pride in being able to catch the Shakespeare and occasional T. S. Eliot references 
Wait, what the heck is a “Spiderpants”?
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