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The video game developing company [[BioWare]] is notable for the [[Trope Overdosed]] games—which produce quite a few memes:
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*  [[Baldur's Gate]]:
** You must gather your party before venturing forth.<ref>An annoying message with an even more annoying voiceclip that plays, often multiple times, whenever you attempt to have one party member leave an area and the rest of the party isn't close enough.</ref>
*** Recycled in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'', with a variant in ''[[Jade Empire]]''. Nodded towards in the ''[[Dragon Age]]'' series.
*** You have been waylaid by enemies and must defend yourself!
** Go for the eyes, Boo, '''[[Go for the Eye|GO FOR THE EYES!!]] [[Battle Cry|YAARGH!!!]]''' *squeak* <ref>[[Boisterous Bruiser|Minsc's]] original [[Large Ham|hamtastic]] battle cry.</ref>
*** Recycled for [[Mass Effect|Tali's]] little [[Attack Drone]]
*** Also shows up as a loading screen hint in ''[[Dragon Age]]''.
* ''[[Mass Effect]]'':
** "Shepard." "Wrex." "Shepard." "Wrex." "Shepard." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Fjc1hBwuE "Wrex."] <ref>Abusing the dialogue system for fun and profit.</ref>
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eeruIZ0T44 "I've had enough of your snide insinuations!" *SHEPARD PAWNCH*] <ref>Shepard punches a reporter s/he doesn't like. It is considered to be endlessly satisfying and entertaining to watch.</ref>
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoNFdnxU6F8 "I've had enough of your disengenuous assertions!" *SHEPARD PAWNCH*] <ref>Shepard punches ''the same reporter'' in the second game, with the moment being no less popular.</ref>
**** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UbZ0h8BMXg "I've had enough of your tabloid journalism!" *SHEPARD PAWNCH - MISSED! - SHEPARD HEADBUTT*] <ref>Shepard attempts punching ''the same reporter'' in the third game... [[Genre Savvy|and the reporter dodged!]] So he follows up with a knockout headbutt.</ref>
*** [http://www.halolz.com/2009/08/27/i-have-a-galaxy-to-save-excuse-me/ "I have no time to justify myself to your viewers, I have a galaxy to save. Excuse me."] [[Take Your Time|Cue Shepard dancing on the disco]] [[Real Men Wear Pink|with pink battle armor]].
** "Because it's a ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG43LcH3CNo big stupid jellyfish]''!" <ref>Renegade Shepard mocking a Hanar became popular for his/her strange emphasis and hand gestures.</ref>
*** [[Ascended Meme|Referenced]] in ''Mass Effect 3'', when dealing with an indoctrinated hanar.
** [[Celebrity Endorsement|I'm Commander Shepard]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d4yBjbWbDY and this is my favorite page on All The Tropes!] <ref>Shepard endorsing a store became a massive, highly exploitable snowclone. By this point, Shepard has a favourite something on everything, often several.</ref>
*** [[Mass Effect 3|"I'm Garrus Vakarian,]] [[Ascended Meme|and this is now my]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lgeGNaC6YY FAVORITE spot on the Citadel!"]
** '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLpgxry542M SIR ISAAC NEWTON] IS THE [[Memetic Badass|DEADLIEST SON OF A BITCH IN SPACE]]!''' <ref>An officer explaining a ship's weapons to some grunts became popular for this bizarre-yet-awesome sentence.</ref>
** Shepard removes Tali's mask to reveal...<[https://web.archive.org/web/20120418102258/http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/105/index/931488/1 Insert photoshopped face here]> <ref>The player has never seen a quarian without a helmet on--the first time Tali takes hers off, the camera cuts away, and fans decided to supplement for themselves.{{spoiler|The amount of foresight displayed by whoever wrote the "photoshopped face" is uncanny}}</ref>
*** Tali's Hips <ref>Tali has some impressive [[Hartman Hips]], and it is mandatory to mention them whenever she is talked about.</ref>
** Similarly, Miranda's bum is ''very'' visible through her [[Painted-On Pants]], and [[Male Gaze|the camera knows it]].
*** [[Mass Effect 3]] gives us the same treatment with Kaidan, if he was romanced since Mass Effect 1 <ref>He turns around to walk on the Normandy, and Shepard, and the camera, stare straight at his ass [[Eating the Eye Candy|the whole time]] with a huge smirk on her face.</ref>
** '''[[Incoming Ham|ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL.]]''' <ref>Harbinger says this before possessing a Collector, turning it into a [[Boss in Mook Clothing]]. It and Harbinger's other lines are popular [[Interrupting Meme]]s.</ref>
*** '''[[I Shall Taunt You|THIS HURTS YOU.]]'''
*** '''[[Unfortunate Implications|I KNOW YOU]] [[Foe Yay|FEEL THIS.]]'''
** Ah, yes. ''(airquotes)'' "Reapers".<ref>The Council are desperate to conceal all evidence of the Reapers, this line from the Turian Councilor is used to summarise their mentality.</ref>
*** We have dismissed that claim.<ref>The unexpected exploitive properties of the subsequent quote have gotten to the point where the Turian Councilor can dismiss just about any claim anyone's ever made.</ref>
** Garrus is '''impressed'''.<ref>If you land a headshot while Garrus is with you, he will occasionally comment "Impressive!" in an [[Chewing the Scenery|overly enthusiastic fashion]]. Fans took this and ran with it.</ref>
*** He says it again in [[Mass Effect 3]] when you blow up a door with a Cerberus fighter.
*** Thane, on the other hand, is '''excellent'''. And ''one hell of a drug''.<ref>If you try to romance Thane, and have the infamous "Sex Talk," with Mordin, he will reveal that Drell (like Thane) secrete chemicals from their skins that, if ingested, cause hallucinations in humans.</ref>
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0zysleRQ0Q&feature=related "Can it wait for a bit? I'm in the middle of some calibrations."] <ref>Garrus says this whenever the player wants to talk to him when he has no conversations at that point. It becomes common practice to check up on characters after completing an important mission to see whether they have anything new to say but Garrus' events do not trigger for a relatively long time, so the player hears this phrase '''a lot'''.</ref>
*** Now an [[Ascended Meme]]. His love of calibrations is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QIfURNyhp0 referenced several times] in [[Mass Effect 3]].
** Talibrations <ref>Tali and Garrus hook up in the third game if neither was romanced by Shepard. Talibrations is the [[Fan Nickname]] for the couple</ref>
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EpNeTsEEDE Geth do not infiltrate.] <ref>Citadel security is laughably incompetent.</ref>
*** Geth do not ''intentionally'' infiltrate.
*** Toyed with now to insanity: Bioware added playable Geth to multiplayer, and of the two classes they can play, ''one of them is Infiltrator''.
** "What can you tell me about memes?"
*** "Well, Shepard, memes are--"
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq-p0ysCF6E "I should go."] (trollface.jpg)<ref>Shepard seems to have a tendency to start conversations and then abruptly excuse him/herself. People are beginning to suspect it's being done on purpose... Part of the problem is that the skip dialog button is the same as the select dialog button, and the dialog wheel doesn't always wait for the person to stop talking before showing up, often resulting in unanticipated dialog choices.</ref>
** '''[http://gaming.icrontic.com/files/2010/05/Deal-with-it-Shepard.jpg Deal with it.]'''
** [[A God Am I|I AM A BIOTIC GOD!!!!]] <ref>Niftu Cal, simultaneous [[Memetic Badass]] and [[Crowning Moment of Funny]], is one gigantic meme. Actually, more like waist-high.</ref>
*** I think things... and they HAPPEN! Fear me, lesser creatures, for I am biotics made flesh!
**** I began to SMELL MY GREATNESS!
***** I am a great wind that will sweep ALL BEFORE ME like a... [[Department of Redundancy Department|A GREAT WIND]]!
****** FEAR ME!
** Thank you for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AePYwVjtpq4 bringing me X, T'Soni].<ref>The Shadow Broker has commentary on whatever squadmate you bring to help fight him</ref>
** Memetic mutations; heavy risk, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh2br8CUWbM but the priiiiiiize.]
** [[Hypocritical Humor|You humans are all racist!]] <ref>Said repeatedly by members of various other species to humans. Popular for its blatant hypocrisy.</ref>
** Hey, everyone, [[Blatant Lies|this store discriminates]] [[Insane Troll Logic|against the poor!]]
** [[Ascended Meme|Blasto]], the [http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Entertainment#Blasto_the_Jellyfish_Stings first] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwfH9oHOzRQ Hanar Spectre].<ref>Fans created several Spectres they wanted to appear in ''Mass Effect 2'', Blasto being one of them. Then the actual game contained previews for an in-universe film staring Blasto that is one huge ''[[Dirty Harry]]''/[[Blaxploitation]] parody. The third game went even further, with a good ten minutes of audio from a Blasto movie available for players to listen to.</ref>
*** [[Dirty Harry|"This one has forgotten whether its heat-sink is over capacity. It wonders whether the criminal scum considers itself fortunate."]]
** It's Kelly's fault! <ref>An STD normally found only in varren, also known as "fishdogs," somehow made its way onto the Normandy. General consensus in the community is that Kelly Chambers is the infection vector.</ref>
** Don't Fuck With Aria.<ref>Overly-hammed-up [[Precision F-Strike]]. Despite being something of a [[Forced Meme]], it's caught on with the community and made Aria a fan favorite.</ref>
** This page isn't wearing Heavy Armor; I cancelled my preorder.<ref>A mockery of some of the [[Fan Dumb]]'s criticism of Ashley's ME3 outfit, which consists of a Spectre uniform similar to the one Tela Vasir wore in LotSB, rather than the Phoenix armor she's worn in the last two games. It turned out that she also had a heavy armor option (though of a different style than in the previous games).</ref>
** What? No Udina? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg4eNKnpyXs This is an outrage!]
** Now we have to spend all day computing pi because Joker plugged in the overlord.<ref>A reference to Joker's reply to EDI when a spoilery event happens.</ref> Also, EDI's response "That was a joke."
** "I WILL DESTROY YOU!" <ref>Human mooks in Mass Effect 1 had a ''very'' limited sound set, and talked ''constantly''. In Mass Effect 2, this was improved, and the mentally unstable squad member Jack was given one of their lines as a shout-out... by Mass Effect 3, people are teasing her about overusing it, too.</ref>
*** This one dates back at least to Juhani in [[Knights of the Old Republic]]. (Who, incidentally, [[Actor Allusion|shares Jack's voice actress]])
** Shepard can't dance.<ref>Several locations in the series let you "dance," which means vaguely moving side to side while waving your arms pitifully. Later games give NPCs a variety of upgraded animations... but not Shepard, who might be good at every possible human pursuit ''except'' dancing. It's even lampshaded in-game by other characters.</ref>
** Jacob? Who's he? <ref>Poor Jacob Taylor from ME2, an [[Unlucky Everydude]] is by far the least cared-about character in the fandom; not quite [[The Scrappy]], but only because nobody hates him any more than anybody likes him. Despite being around from the beginning of his game and being the only male human [[Love Interest]] in it, just ''try'' to find any fan art or fan fiction featuring this guy.</ref>
** That big muscular guy. Isn't his name BLAST HARDCHEESE? <ref>James Vega, the new human squad member for ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', is a bit more buff than the other male PCs, resulting in a whole lot of references to the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' take on ''[[Space Mutiny]]''. See also: Punch Rockgroin, Slap Bulkhead, Butch Deadlift, Flint Ironstag, Bob Johnson...</ref>
** "[http://i.imgur.com/xMtxx.jpg Party temple!] It is a club!"<ref>Youtube captions + videos with Reapers talking = memes.</ref>
** DING DONG BANNU
** Kai Leng: Cereal Killer.<ref>Kai Leng, one of the main antagonists in the third game, was first seen in a series of novels. One of these novels, Deception, was infamous for its poor writing and massive amounts of narm. The most famous of which is probably the scene where Kai Leng sneaks into Anderson's apartment, bugs it, and then stays for a few more minutes to steal Anderson's cereal and eat it right there.</ref> [[A Worldwide Punomenon|The fans took it from there.]]
** ''[[Insistent Terminology|Emerrrrrgency induction port.]]'' <ref>During ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', after a certain mission Tali will head to the bar and get completely smashed, insisting her straw be referred to with more technical terminology. And she seems to have so much fun with it.</ref>
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpeRk1YFn8s We'll bang, OK?]
*** In that same vein, "I f*cking love steak" and Garrus's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crgEIhI3y_o&feature=context-shows&list=SL Damn whore]
** Anderson was born in London.<ref>Anderson mentioned twice to Shepard that he was born in London. The second time was infamous for its awkwardness. His lack of a distinctive accent even though other characters in the setting has them also made the whole thing more jarring.</ref>
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=467pmIX-oZo Marauder] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130804103518/http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o4/Vulpix1000/motivator48cfb4eb2d9b0e12556e3209267450038685b648.jpg Shields]: the [[True Final Boss]] of ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' <ref>With ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' lacking any sort of [[Final Boss]] fight, the fandom has seized on the last foe Shepard faces, a random marauder [[Mook]] which pops out of nowhere near the portal leading to the Citadel. The "shields" part comes from the fact that marauders have Energy Shields, which appears directly under their name; combine them and you get Marauder Shields.</ref>
** SPACE MAGIC.<ref>Most often used to refer to the Synthesis ending, as there is no explanation given for how it works. Occaisionally used for the other two endings for similar reasons.</ref>
** LOTS OF SPECULATION FROM EVERYONE!<ref>Line scribbled at the bottom of a design note seen on an official IOS app which shows that the inconclusiveness of ME3's ending was intentional.</ref>
** Artistic Integrity.<ref>The reason given by Bioware for the Extended Cut DLC merely expanding on the existing ending, rather than creating a new one from scratch as some fans had hoped. Unamused fans wasted no time tearing that statement apart, with some even finding an old [[Seinfeld]] clip bashing the idea.</ref>
*  ''[[Dragon Age]]'': 
** "Enchantment? Enchantment!"
**  MORRIGAN DISAPPROVES (-5) <ref>Morrigan has a tendency to lose approval over just about anything.</ref>
**  Swooping is ''bad''.<ref>Alistair's response to Morrigan's accusation that he "fear[s] that barbarian hordes will swoop down upon [him]."</ref>
***  You are some sort of sneaky witch-thief!
**  Well shave my back and call me an elf!<ref>Explanation:This and the subbullets are examples of Oghren's rather... interesting way of phrasing things.</ref>
*** Fart me a lullaby!
***  [[Incredibly Lame Pun|NO ONE TOUCHES OGHREN'S JUNK]] [[Unstoppable Rage|AND LIVES!!!]][
**  We're '''RIDICULOUSLY''' awesome.<ref>One of Zevran's victory quotes</ref>
**  Warden senses tingling...<ref>A common start-of-combat phrase used by an Experienced Male Human Noble Warden (even before becoming a Warden!), voiced by Robin Sachs.</ref>
**  Have ''you'' [[Double Entendre|ever licked a lamp post in winter?]] <ref>Another Alistair-ism, mostly associated with his [[Romance Sidequest]]</ref>
**  Oh, look. I have cheese. Also? Virginity.
**  [[Dragon Age II|Goddamnit, Anders.]] <ref>Quickly becoming a meme on the Bioware forums, in reaction to Anders' behavior late in the game.</ref>
** For a short while around the time of the demo prologue, The Order Dictates was a ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' meme. Why are Isabela's boobs so large? THE ORDER DICTATES!
** [[Stupid Statement Dance Mix|MAKER NOOOOO]]
** Press a button, something awesome happens! Button. Awesome. Button. Awesome. Awesome button! <ref>A phrase used by one member of the dev team during the promotional period of [[Dragon Age II]]. Quickly caught on as a way to mock [[BioWare]]'s advertising.</ref>
* ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'': Meatbags.<ref>The phrase [[Ensemble Darkhorse|HK-47]] uses to describe humans. Hardly exclusive to him, but used as shorthand to demonstrate his [[Heroic Sociopath]] nature.</ref>
* ''[[Star Wars: The Old Republic|The Old Republic]]'': 29:30 <ref>Comes from a leaked 90-minute video of early beta footage. Around the 29:30 mark is a scene with a Jedi being injected with a sedative that renders him unconscious, despite the fact that Jedi are generally trained to resist poisons. There's also the fact that the Jedi is standing completely still and not offering any resistance as all this is happening. Additionally the graphics were of less-than-stellar quality. Comes from /v/.</ref>

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