Mass Effect/Trivia

"Kaidan: I just don't want you to think that I'm, you know... a whiner."
 * Actor Allusion: Kaidan's voice actor is the same as Carth Onasi's.


 * Banned in China: For about two days in Singapore.
 * Beam Me Up, Scotty!: Shepard never says "We'll bang, okay?" in-game. That quote originated from a Youtube Poop that mashed together several Shepard lines out of context.
 * Cash Cow Franchise: Four novellas, two comics (plus two free mini-comics), and three spinoff iPhone Games, so far.
 * Celebrity Voice Actor: All over the place. Seth Green, Adam Baldwin, Yvonne Strahovski, Tricia Helfer, Martin Sheen, Claudia Black, Carrie-Anne Moss... the list goes on. In fact, it could be said that the in-development movie could very well be made with many of the characters literally being played by their voices.
 * Doing It for the Art: Sure, BioWare didn't need to go so in-depth in the Codex, but it helps expand the world a lot. For example, quarians are all vegetarians... but only because animals take up space and resources. When they land in a system with dextro-DNA animals, they pig out and get the equivalent of a hangover. It's unlikely that a fan will read this in the Codex, but they did it so that if some random Joe wonders about the eating habits of the quarians, they know.
 * Fan Nickname:
 * "Sheploo" for the default male Shepard (after Mark Vanderloo, whose face male Shepard is modeled off of).
 * Kasumi uses the common nickname Shep for him/her.
 * And, of course, FemShep for female Shepard.
 * There is also FailShep, which refers to the default Shepard of a non-imported game who has made decisions that many players consider questionable.
 * In-universe, Vega takes to calling male Shepard "Loco" and female Shepard "Lola".
 * Likewise Shepard is referred to as "Skipper" by Ashley.
 * In Mass Effect 3, both Jack and Aria refer to Paragon Shepard as a "Boyscout" or "Girlscout".
 * Hey, It's That Voice!:
 * The narrator for the data files is Colonel Volgin.
 * Company of Heroes players will be unsurprised by Vakarian's sniper skill, since he was an American one there.
 * Kaidan's voiced by Raphael Sbarge, who also played Carth in Knights of the Old Republic and Scorch in Republic Commando.
 * Jossed: Fans had plenty of theories as to the true identity of the Shadow Broker. The Asari Consort? The Council? The geth? Nope. The truth is that, proving nearly all the fan theories about the Broker wrong.
 * Killer App: The series is considered a mainstay of the 360 system...
 * ...but then a PS3 port of Mass Effect 2 gets announced.
 * Name's the Same: Ashley Williams, anyone?
 * One of Us: Just check the shout out page. BioWare clearly watches the same shows and reads the same comics.
 * What Could Have Been: Saren's original costume design had him dressed all in black.
 * The Wiki Rule: The Mass Effect Wiki.