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A human Systems Alliance Marine who specializes in weapons skills and heavy armor. One of two possible romance options for a male Shepard. Returns as a party member and romance option in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' if she survived the first game.

 

* [[Action Girl]]: Of all of the characters in ''[[Mass Effect (video game)|Mass Effect 1]]'', only Wrex can match her for sheer toughness, and no one is as adept with weapons as her. This continues in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', where her skills are mostly focused on dealing damage (as opposed to James, the other soldier character, whose skills are more focused on survivability).

* [[Affectionate Nickname]]: "Skipper", towards Shepard.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: Her views on human/alien interaction actually delve much deeper than simple racism. While she has trust issues, her views fall more along the line of "we shouldn't become too dependent on them."

* [[Highly-Conspicuous Uniform]]: Her default armor in the first game is white and pink. ''Pink''.

* [[Improbable Age]]: [[All There in the Manual|Supplementary material]] says she's 25 in the first game, which is really pushing the suspension of disbelief if she's a senior NCO.

** [[Truth in Television]]: During war, you'd be shocked how fast and far someone can advance in rank.

A turian C-Sec officer who joins Shepard's team after becoming dissatisfied with regulations at C-Sec. Specializes in technology and long-range combat. Rejoins Shepard as a squadmate in ''Mass Effect 2''. Fan demand made him a love interest for the female Shepard. He returns as a squad member in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', provided he survived the second game.

 

* [[Adorkable]]: In his romance with female Shepard. First, he agrees to Shepard's offer of casual sex, but each time you talk to him after that, he's increasingly awkward, worrying about all the ways their [[Interspecies Romance]] could crash and burn. By the time he shows up in Shepard's quarters, he's babbling from nerves. Finally, he confesses it's because he feels like Shepard is the only real friend he's got left, and after all his failures, he wants their relationship to be something that finally goes right.

** Come ''Mass Effect 3'', he's not as nervous around her if she continues to see him.

A human biotic Sentinel Marine in the Systems Alliance military who specializes in technology and biotic support powers. One of two possible romance interests for a female Shepard. Returns as a party member and romance option in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' if he survived the first game.

 

* {{spoiler|[[Asskicking Equals Authority]]}}: {{spoiler|He's been made a Spectre in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]''}}.

* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: Kaidan is prone to the occasional non sequitur and odd, childlike observation.

An [[Bizarre Alien Biology|asari]] [[Hot Scientist|scientist]] and expert on the Protheans who joins Shepard's team after being attacked by the geth. Also a powerful biotic with powers that can only be matched by an Adept Shepard. [[Boldly Coming|Possible romance interest for a Shepard]] [[Bi the Way|of either gender]]. One of the few characters who can join your party in all three games, being permanent in ''Mass Effect 1'' and ''Mass Effect 3'', and available in ''Mass Effect 2'' via DLC.

 

* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: Her new power for the third game is Warp Ammo.

* [[Action Girl]]: Prothean ruins are a popular target for pirates and mercenaries looking for quick cash. If you want to excavate them alone, you've got to know your way around a fight.

** What makes that scene even more powerful (and chilling) is that she's {{spoiler|1=practically channeling Benezia at that point. "Have you ever faced an asari commando unit before? Few humans have." Her mother told Shepard the same thing in ''Mass Effect 1''}}.

** Even before {{spoiler|working to kill the Shadow Broker}}, she displays a lot of determination and ruthlessness in the ''Mass Effect: Redemption'' comic book. Apparently, working with Shepard was a very significant influence.

** ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'' has her take two giant levels in badass. The first is when we encounter her in the trade center, where she's {{spoiler|chasing down a Spectre and hurling Shadow Broker agents around like toys}}. Let's repeat that for clarification: Liara is making a freaking {{spoiler|'''Spectre'''}} flee from her. The second makes her potentially even more powerful than Shepard.

{{quote|'''Liara:''' Give me ten minutes and I can start a war.}}

A quarian mechanist who specializes in technology and is traveling on her Pilgrimage to find technology or resources valuable to the quarian Migrant Fleet. Joins Shepard's team for protection when she finds information incriminating Saren, and remains both out of gratitude and to help bring down Saren. She is also a party member in the sequels, as well as a romance option.

 

* [[Action Girl]]: She doesn't hesitate to get into a scrap.

* [[Adorkable]]: A rare female example of the trope, particularly when you romance her in the sequel.

A krogan battlemaster who combines close-combat skills and enormous physical strength and durability with biotic powers. Joins Shepard's team out of both an interest in fighting a good battle and because the money is nice. Becomes a progressive-minded overlord of the krogan people in ''Mass Effect 2'' if he survived the events of the first game, eventually uniting them under his banner.

 

* [[Afraid of Needles]]: Mordin claims this about [[The Big Guy|Wr]][[Proud Warrior Race Guy|ex]] when he's eager to leave his lab and donate tissue samples later. It may or may not be true, but either way it's hilarious. But when he finally gets around to it...

{{quote|'''Wrex''': [[Groin Attack|Let's just say no scalpel should cut where he cut.]]}}

* [[The All-Solving Hammer]]: One of the first things Wrex usually suggests when confronted by a problem is to eat the individual responsible.

* [[Ancestral Weapon|Ancestral Armor]]: In the first game, he asks Shepard to retrieve his family's armor from a turian smuggler.

{{quote|'''Wrex''': My ancestors actually ''wore'' this piece of junk?}}

* [[Badass Boast]]: I am Urdnot Wrex and THIS IS MY PLANET!!!

* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Not overt, but Wrex hints that he was either born during or shortly after the Krogan Rebellions, making him ''very'' old, even for a Krogan.

* [[Big Good]]: Becomes this to the Krogans on Tuchanka if he lives past Virmire.

* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: Krogan have secondary ''everything'', from cardiovascular to nervous systems.

** And four testicles, referred to in the fandom and then in the second game as a "quad".

* [[Blood Knight]]: Though he's downright moderate compared to the rest of his species.

* [[Bounty Hunter]]: One of many jobs he's taken over the centuries.

* [[Captain Obvious]]: "I raised the hammers; you have to activate both of them. My advice is: avoid the [[Wave Motion Gun|giant laser!]]"

* [[The Casanova]]: According to the krogan females.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Provides half of the snark in the first game.

** For bonus points, its done in close up, so you get to see just how pissed off Wrex is, taking up the ''entire screen''.

** [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: On the other hand, he respects women a lot more than the average Krogan

* [[Enemy Mine]]: With the Turians in the third game. Despite the fact that neither Wrex nor Primarch Victus are quick to trust the other, Victus is completely in favour of curing the Genophage and Wrex makes good on his promise to send Krogan troops to aid in the defence of Palaven.

** Victus and Wrex also seem to find common ground opposing the [[Smug Snake|Salarian Dalatrass]]. She seems to clearly irritate them ''both''.

* [[Expy]]: He shares many traits with Canderous Ordo, of [[Knights of the Old Republic]] fame. Most notably, both come from a culture of [[Blood Knight]]s, and are watching their people slowly die out.

* [[The Gadfly]]: Especially in the first game's infamous elevator sequences, where he frequently says outrageous things to your squadmembers just to see how they react.

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: He's one of the toughest squad members in the series and also one of the most intelligent.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: When talking to Grunt in the second game.

{{quote|'''Grunt''': Okeer is dead.

* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: All over his shell.

* [[Good Thing You Can Heal]]: Initially believed Shepard survived being Spaced due to having a redundant nervous system.

{{quote|'''Shepard:''' Yeah, humans don't have that.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: An exile from a barbaric race. Utterly ruthless. A one man army. The most vicious bounty hunter in the galaxy. Also the only squadmate to be affected by Ashley or Kaidan's death (other than them obviously) and quite possibly the most sensitive and caring character towards Shepard other than Liara and Kaidan. And he tried to end his people's infighting, pretty much making him the krogan equivalent of a hippie. Who says bloodthirsty, thousand-year-old reptilian warlords don't have hearts?

** Two of them, in point of fact.

* [[I Work Alone]]: Fortunately, he's a reasonable example of this trope; he prefers to work by himself, but he's perfectly willing to operate with small groups. Shepard also works in small groups, so he's got no problems with that. It's just being part of armies he has issues with.

* [[Just Eat Him]]: He's fond of using this to end arguments. It's generally effective at making people go away.

* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: He'll kill the local crime lord Fist after you get Fist at your mercy. Tali and potentially Shepard certainly don't disagree.

* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: Yes, he does help save the galaxy and eventually becomes chieftain of Clan Urdnot but he's also as cynical as they come.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: He hits hard ''and'' fast.

* [[Magic Knight]]: In addition to his substantial toughness and general combat skills, he's also a biotic.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: He's called Wrex because [[Incredibly Lame Pun|he wrecks stuff.]] Get it? [[Don't Explain the Joke|It's funny because it's a pun!]]

** Also, rex = Latin for king. Fits with him {{spoiler|becoming the krogan overlord in the second game}}.

* [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]: Wrex is somewhere in between playing this straight and averting it. He mostly embraces the overall krogan culture and attitudes, but he's far more willing than most of his race to acknowledge a lot of their actions are idiotically self-destructive (to the point of making some attempt to fix that in the second game).

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Wrex in no way comes off as dumb, but he is much more sophisticated than he lets on.

** Also works in a subversion to his [[Blood Knight]] tendencies. One of the elevator convos has Garrus eagerly wanting to see how the ''Normandy'' handles in a fight, to which Wrex retorts about the folly of getting into slugging matches in a ship meant for stealth.

*** The opening of the second game proves that Wrex was entirely correct about that.

{{quote|"I have to make friends with the one turian in the galaxy who ''thinks he's funny''."}}

* [[Optional Party Member]]: He doesn't have to be recruited to finish the first game.

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Becomes this for his entire species.

* [[Properly Paranoid]]: He was hired by Saren once, but eventually decided to leave without waiting for pay since it didn't take him long to get suspicious of the guy. Turns out all the other mercs he was working with were found dead a week later.

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: We don't know how old exactly Wrex is, but given that he defeated a Thresher Maw ''over'' a thousand years ago and hints that he may have been around during the Krogan Rebellions (which happened in ''700 AD'')... yeah, Wrex is ''very old'', even for a Krogan.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: About as reasonable of an authority figure as you can be for an entire species of [[Blood Knight]]s.

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: And red skin, and red guns...

* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: In self-defense.

* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: Believe it or not he embodies both sides of this trope. The latter is obvious but he shows a surprisingly caring side of himself after Virmire. He's the only character to talk about Ashley/Kaidan's death other than Joker and the Virmire Survivor, and the only character to comfort Shepard over it, telling you he respects your decision. The relationship between him and Paragon Shepard also fits this trope.

* [[Sociopathic Hero]]: Mostly in the first game, less so in the sequel.

*** As a mercenary [[Blood Knight]], surely a certain amount of sociopathy is required, regardless of Virmire and his feelings about the krogan.

* [[The Stoic]]: It's a significant moment whenever he really does emote.

{{quote|"Shepard."

* [[Stop Being Stereotypical]]: Dislikes the self destructive violence of the other Krogans and is working to change it.

* [[Undying Loyalty]]: By the second game, even if he can't go with Shepard, it's clear that he has nothing but undying respect for him/her and will help him/her in anyway he can.

* [[Use Your Head]]: [[Asskicking Equals Authority|In true krogan fashion]], he uses this to assert his dominance.

* [[Warrior Poet]]: To be fair, he mostly writes his poems with guns.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]:

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Considered his [[Friendly Enemy]] Aleena to be this.

** Wrex views Shepard as one when they first meet, seeing Shepard as a warrior worthy of his respect. He drops hints in the first game that he believes in a fight Shepard could easily take him down, which considering Wrex once single-handedly defeated a ''Thresher Maw'', says a hell of a lot.

 

An over-enthusiastic Alliance soldier from Eden Prime, he is assigned as part of your squad when everything goes to hell there. Continuing in the long Bioware tradition of early sacrificial party members, he dies in the opening few minutes.

 

* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: He says he's itching for some action just before the Eden Prime mission. Too bad "action" in his case meant watching his homeworld get scorched and being gunned down by a pair of geth recon drones.

* [[Sacrificial Lamb]] / [[Red Shirt]]