Mass Effect 2/Trivia

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 * Actor Allusion:
 * The Krogan are very similar to Klingons. It's no surprise then that Wrex's adviser Gatatog Uvenk is voiced by an actor famous for playing a Klingon.
 * Kal'Reegar concerns himself less with politicking and more with shooting, just like another character played by Adam Baldwin.
 * Steve Blum plays a strong, deadly, artificially created, technically newborn lizard warrior with a childlike (for his species) demeanor, a love for battle and an undying loyalty to his human master. Curious.
 * Mordin's actor really did.
 * EDI is voiced by Tricia Helfer, who played a sexy cylon (robot) in Battlestar Galactica..
 * Ascended Fanon: BioWare's response to Garrus' and Tali's popularity and the fans' desire to have them romance options.
 * Fan Nickname:
 * For Garrus, Space Batman, considering his vigilante actions in Mass Effect 2.
 * There's also GARrus.
 * "The Justice League" for Shepard and the squadmates.
 * Crazy Robo-Cthulhu Farmers for the Reapers.
 * We can't forget.
 * Friend Zone Turian for the poor bastard and his cringe-worthy attempts at wooing Valley Girl Quarian complaining about her human boyfriend.
 * Suzie for Jack a.k.a. Subject Zero.
 * There are some who call the Illusive Man... TIM.
 * Hey, It's That Voice!:
 * Grunt has the same voice as Steve Blum's most famous character, Spike, only electronically pitched down about three semitones.
 * Someone went and gave Damsel biotics, didn't they? We're all doomed.
 * She was also a feline Jedi.
 * Miranda is Sarah Walker In Space! Chuck would be so proud.
 * Zaeed could be:
 * Ethan Rayne?
 * Serris?
 * Saul Karath?
 * Lord Harrowmont?
 * Legion, you sound like...
 * Albert Wesker!
 * No, it's the Geico Gecko!
 * Commandant Alexei!
 * In the Admiralty Board: Shoreh Aghdashloo, Martin Jarvis, Simon Templeman and Claudia Black.
 * Jayne Cobb is there to keep the Geth off Tali's back.
 * Colonel John Casey In Space, in a suit! Morgan would be so proud!
 * Captain Bailey as Michael Hogan, well known as Colonel Tigh in Battlestar Galactica.
 * Tricia Helfer as EDI.
 * Oh God, Kerrigan's/Caprica Six in our ship!
 * Why, TIM, you're looking awfully Martin Sheen today.
 * President Bartlett wanting to ensure humanity's superiority is extreme Vocal Dissonance.
 * Seems like Alice De Raey has developed quite the taste for alien flesh as Kelly Chambers.
 * Aria is Carrie-Anne Moss.
 * Aethyta is Claudia Black, though it's probably harder to tell if you're comparing her to Daro'Xen. Probably because she doesn't use her native accent.
 * Gavin Archer is Simon Templeman (who also voiced Han'Gerrel vas Neema). Oh, and Loghain.
 * Don't forget the infamous time traveling bloodsucker, Kain.
 * Patriarch is voiced by Jim Cummings, aka Tigger!
 * Harbinger sounds like...
 * Oh shit, Kamal Rex has decided to help the Hierarchy out in the Mass Effect Universe, who needs a purifier when you got a ship of Collectors?
 * Also he is the incredible Magnificent Bastard Holtz.
 * Also he voices a criminal warlord who is bribing Bailey.
 * He also had a nice conversation with The Joker about knives.
 * He is also Apollo Diomedes, Captain of the Blood Raven Honor Guard!
 * As well as Joshua Graham, the Burned Man.
 * The Shadow Broker is even more violent than Grunt!
 * Missing Trailer Scene: Despite most of the advertising focusing on them as such, Shepard never actually refers to the colonists (or anyone else) as "the lost" in the game.
 * One of Us: Legion's a robo-Vin Diesel. Check out its Gamer Profile!
 * The Other Darrin:
 * The voice for the man trying to get a refund from the turian shopkeeper on the Citadel doesn't sound anything like it did in the first game. If he didn't specifically mention that he'd been trying to get a refund for two years, most players probably wouldn't have noticed it was him.
 * Mordin is the only major character in series to switch voice actor between games. Few notice difference.
 * Jim Cummings is replaced as Urdnot Wreav's voice actor for the third game. It's not even known who voices Wreav. Oddly, this also comes with a change in design. In Mass Effect 2, he had a red crest (similar to Wrex), but in Mass Effect 3, he has a brown crest.
 * Playing Against Type: The Illusive Man is a VERY different role than what Martin Sheen usually plays.
 * Preorder Bonus: If you pre-ordered at GameStop, you get a M-490 Blackstorm heavy weapon and the Terminus Armor, and if you pre-ordered at EBGames, you get the Inferno Armor. However, the Inferno Armor is now available as part of the Equalizer Pack DLC, and the Terminus Armor and Blackstorm weapon are available as free DLC.
 * Relationship Voice Actor: Almost example, as Mark Meer (MaleShep) is married to Belinda Cornish, who voices Rana Thanoptis, the Asari scientist who shows up on Virmire and has a minor role in the next two games.
 * Talking to Himself: Niftu Cal if you're playing Male Shepard.
 * What Could Have Been: Let me save you the trouble.
 * Legion was supposed to be recruitable earlier in the game. Legion's mission dialog still exists, though unreachable without hacks.
 * Unimplemented content, pre-release posts on Weekes' dev blog, and other leaks indicate that Tali and Thane could be romanced by Shepards of either gender in earlier development. In the final product, the most visible remainder of this is that most of Tali's lines are the same for both Shepards, which are clearly intended to nudge the player to a romance with her. Female Shepard can even attempt to initiate a romance with Tali, but she will dodge the issue.
 * Similarly, Kenneth and Gabriella were meant to be romanceable like Kelly.
 * Character recruitment was originally intended to be much more open-ended, and modding your save file to add party members before you should be able to recruit them will let you hear their dialog for earlier circumstances, such as taking Legion to Purgatory. This likely changed because of the late decision to split the Xbox 360 version of the game into two discs; the forced recruitment progression funnels the player along a path that's not entirely linear, but predictable enough to split the game with.
 * A few leftover voice recordings in the released game indicated that Liara was initially intended to have a much deeper and longer storyline... which was later made a reality with the DLC Lair of the Shadow Broker.
 * Early video previews showed more involved gun mechanics; weapons would cool down on their own ala the first game, with ejectable thermal clips as a "need More Dakka right this second" option. Specialized ammunition was shown to be a consumable resource instead of a passive ability and as such could be turned on or off at will.
 * Going through the dialogue and screen text files reveals that several of the loyalty missions originally had very different plots:


 * A cut sidequest in Mass Effect 2 originally had Shepard forced to find some red sand for Jack, due the fact that Cerberus experimentation meant that red sand was the only thing that could help her sleep without levitating everything in the room.
 * Mordin was initially intended to be biotic. . Also, initially would have come into conflict with Grunt. The two have next to no problems with each other.