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This page is for listing the tropes related to party members who '''first appeared''' in the original ''[[Mass Effect 1|Mass Effect]]'' game.
For the pages listing tropes related to NPCs, Antagonists and Party Members who first appeared in other games in the trilogy, see the [[Mass Effect/Characters|''Mass Effect'' Character Index]].
== Gunnery Chief/Operations Chief/Lieutenant Commander Ashley Williams ==
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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.
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* [[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''.
* [[Hot Amazon]]: Especially [http://www.lecourtierdelombre.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Ashley_1_scan_Mass_Effect_3.jpg her redesign]{{Dead link}} for ''[[Mass Effect 3]]''.
* [[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.
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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.
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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.
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't threaten his boy/girlfriend. Necks will snap.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: For a really easy-going and nice guy, he can break your neck with a single powerful biotic blast, and is adept at making your weapons blow up in your face.
* [[Boarding School of Horrors|Biotic Training Of Horrors]]
* [[Bi the Way]]: He can only be romanced by a female Shepard in the first game, but he can be romanced by a Shepard of either gender in the third.
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: His L2 implants give him more oomph than the average biotic running the stabler and safer L3s, but he has to deal with frequent migraines. And he's one of the luckier ones in terms of side effects.
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* [[Character Development]]:
** In the first game, he takes a bit of convincing to loosen up and let himself go more often. Come the third, he has to convince 'you'' to take a "sanity check" with him on the Citadel.
** He completely writes off Cerberus as a terrorist organization in ''Mass Effect 2'', seeing Shepard working with them as a betrayal. In ''Mass Effect 3'', after the mission with ex-Cerberus scientist Dr. Cole, he asks Shepard if the people in Cerberus were good people, and if the Illusive Man was a good person before he was now.
* [[Covert Pervert]]: He's surprisingly knowledgeble about extranet fetish sites, approves of {{spoiler|EDI's new body}} once the shock wears off, doesn't think he would survive an encounter with an [[Death by Sex|Ardat-Yakshi]] and is caught staring at [[Absolute Cleavage|Diana]] [[She's Got Legs|Allers]].
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Not as apparent as the others tend to be, but he has his moments.
* [[First Guy Wins]]: If romanced.
* [[Flawed Prototype]]: Kaidan's biotic amplifier implants are L2, a model series that was made before humanity really knew what it was doing when it came to biotics. He suffers
* [[Gay Option]]: In the third game.
* [[Good-Looking Privates]]: [[Mr. Fanservice|Estrogen Brigade Bait]]. Say hello to the game's [[Love Interest]] for the female PC and male PC in
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: If not romanced with Male Shepard. Shepard even calls Kaidan a brother to him.
* {{spoiler|[[I Regret Nothing]]}}: {{spoiler|His last words if he dies on Virmire}}.
* {{spoiler|[[
* {{spoiler|[[
* [[Locked Out of the Loop]]: One of the main reasons why {{spoiler|the reunion on Horizon goes so badly}}. Shepard seems to be the only one to think it might be a good idea for him to know what the hell is going on. Unfortunately, it was too little, too late. At least until the third game.
* [[Magikarp Power]]: He starts weak, but with high levels, no other party member even comes close to competing with him for sheer versatility.
* [[Majorly Awesome]]: He's reached this rank in ''Mass Effect 3''.
* [[Master of None]]: The reasoning behind some fans' dislike for him. Even though he does become more versatile as time goes on and his array of support powers grows, he can never match any of his teammates in terms of combat power.
* [[The Medic]]: Kaidan is the only squadmate to get the medicine talent, which decreases the recharge time on the first aid talent.
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* [[Mind Over Matter]]
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: It bears repeating. That ''voice''.
** [[Fan Disservice]]: In ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', you get to see plenty of shirtless Kaidan
** [[Female Gaze]]
* [[Mutually Exclusive Party Members]]: With {{spoiler|Ashley after Virmire. One of them ''will'' always die so it's impossible to finish the game with both of them}}.
* [[Nice Guy]]
* [[Officer and a Gentleman]]: He's polite, open-minded, and keeps strict control over himself and his biotic abilities. [[Beware the Nice Ones|And he can kick your ass]].
* [[Optional Party Member]]: After {{spoiler|nearly being killed on Mars, he's absent until Udina's attempted coup, wherein he can actually be killed or, barring that, have his request to return to the ''Normandy'' refused}}.
* [[Perma-Stubble]]: In ''Mass Effect 3''.
* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: If he survived the first game, and Liara wasn't romanced, the second game's opening alarmingly shows him wearing the legendary Phoenix armor.
* [[The Red Mage]]: Kaidan uses both biotic and engineer powers.
* [[Semper Fi]]: A special operative, like all biotics, but still a Marine.
* [[Space Marine]]: Again, if you're a soldier in the Alliance military, you're a Marine.
* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: With female Shepard in the second game if romanced in the first. With male Shepard in the third game.
* [[Suddenly Sexuality]]: Like Anders in ''[[Dragon Age II]]'', Kaidan will make advances towards a male Shepard in ''Mass Effect 3'' without even the slightest indication that he was interested in men beforehand.
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: In ''
* [[Tranquil Fury]]: After the mission on Horizon, where {{spoiler|the Illusive Man and Henry Lawson were turning people into husks to try and control them
{{quote|"After what I saw down there, I have never been more filled with rage."}}
* [[We Used to Be Friends]]: Basically has this with Shepard in ''Mass Effect 2'', carrying over into ''Mass Effect 3''.
{{quote|'''James:''' You know the Commander?
'''Kaidan:''' [[Broken Pedestal|I used to]].
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: He's got some things to say about {{spoiler|1=Shepard working with Cerberus in
* {{spoiler|[[You Shall Not Pass]]}}:
** In the first game, {{spoiler|at the same time as Ashley's. It's up to you whether he survives over her
** In the third game, {{spoiler|this happens ''again'', when he, as a Spectre, stands between you and Councilor Udina. If you haven't done enough socializing with him beforehand, what Ashley did to Wrex, you do to him
* [[The Worf Effect]]: He gets [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|beaten to a bloody pulp]] by Eva Core at the beginning of ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', which leaves him hospitalized for a third of the game.
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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.
* [[Adorkable]]: [[Shrinking Violet|Easily flustered]] because she's use to spending time alone and not around groups of people.
* [[Adrenaline Makeover]]: Compare Liara when you meet her in ''Mass Effect'' to Liara by the end of Lair of the Shadow Broker. Though of course whether the getting the guy/gal part gets played straight/averted/subverted/etc depends largely on the player's own choice.
* [[Adventurer Archaeologist]]: But not by her own choice. She occasionally makes references to encounters with pirate gangs and hostile wildlife in unexplored systems.
{{quote|'''Liara:''' Our travels now are somewhat different from my normal excavations. I would prefer lengthier studies... and fewer explosions.
'''Wrex:''' It's good for you. A nice explosion now and then keeps the mind sharp.
* [[Aggressive-Submissive]]: "...how many times have you thrown him/her on the bed and peeled him/her out of his/her uniform?" Liara's father asks this about her and Shepard, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|and Liara tries to not make it sound so dirty]].
* [[Air Vent Escape]]: How she's reintroduced in ''Mass Effect 3''. While being chased by a pair of Cerberus operatives.
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: Due to being a "pureblood".
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type III in the sequel.
** Softens up a least little in the third game. Like Garrus, she might even qualify as a Type II for that game.
* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]:
* [[Aside Glance]]: Of gratitude when Shepard refuses to give her up to [[That One Boss|the krogan]] on Therum.
* [[Attempted Rape]]: Twice in
* [[Babies Ever After]]: Alluded to during her romance scene in ''Lair of the Shadow Broker''.
{{quote|'''Liara:''' So, tell me what you want. If this all ends tomorrow, what happens to us?
'''Shepard:''' I don't know. Marriage, old age, and a lot of little blue children?
'''Liara:''' You just say these things!
* [[Badass Adorable]]: In the first game, she's easily flustered and generally socially awkward, especially when dealing with people outside her species. She's also a biotic death machine.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: For a girl who spends all of her time buried in her books, Liara is ''horribly'' deadly with her biotic powers.
** How badass is she, you say? She's the only other character besides Adept!Shepard who can use [[Gravity Master|Singularity]], and her other biotic powers rival or even surpass Samara's, who is ''several centuries her senior''. She's powerful enough that she can send a powerful biotic {{spoiler|Spectre}} with armed backup running for her life.
**
** Hell, from her comments about looking after herself when encountering pirates and looters at Prothean dig sites, she seems to be the Space [[Indiana Jones]].
* [[Battle Aura]]: Uses her biotic glowyness to dissuade some enemies a few times.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Harming Shepard.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Yet again. Liara's a very demure young asari who is entirely capable of turning an entire horde of geth into tinfoil with her brain. Ask
** Doing a quest for her reveals that {{spoiler|one of her assistants is a mole. After informing her of this, the player can go to her office and find out that not only did Liara already kill her assistant, she disposed of her body as well
* [[Bi the Way]]: Sort of. Asari are a monogendered species, meaning they are all biologically female (can reproduce). However, they don't have any concept of gender divisions, and therefore can be equally attracted to any gender (or species, for that matter).
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: Asari reproduce by "melding", where they join their entire nervous system to their partner's and use the electrical impulses to randomize some of their own DNA for the offspring. Galactic science waffles on the subject, but it often turns out [[Lamarck Was Right]]
** The asari are the setting's only known telepaths, and they use it as part of the mating process. It's not only logical that asari daughters take after their parents psychologically, it's almost inevitable given the depth of the melding.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|By the time of ''Mass Effect 2'', she's much less innocent and kind as she's had a rough couple of years by then}}.
** {{spoiler|Cranked [[Up to Eleven]] during the Fall of Thessia mission in the third game. She's a complete wreck even during the mission, to say nothing about after}}.
* [[Broken Pedestal]]: {{spoiler|After the fall of Thessia, she angrily calls out Javik for not even caring, that she's spent her entire life studying his people and feels like it was for nothing. He's a ''Prothean''... he was supposed to have all the ''answers''}}.
* [[Came Back Wrong]]: One of Liara's fears regarding {{spoiler|Shepard, after having handed the Commander's corpse over to Cerberus for the Lazarus Project. It also partly explains her initial, somewhat distant attitude on Illium}}.
* [[Canada, Eh?]]: Mostly averted, but listen to Liara say 'Protheans'. It almost always comes out as 'Prootheans'.
* [[Captain Obvious]]: During parts of ''Lair of the Shadow Broker
* [[Character Development]]: In the first game, Liara T'Soni is a stuttering, bookish, nerdy girl. {{spoiler|In the sequel, she has become a ruthless information trader, but her tough attitude is revealed to be a defense mechanism if you romanced her in the first game
* [[Character Tic]]: Whenever something fascinates her, she adopts what could best be described as a standing up variation of the [[Thinker Pose]].
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: In the sequel, where she's somehow become an information broker despite no prior evidence that she had any skills in the field.
** Still presented sympathetically given that she had to do this to succeed as an information broker.
* [[Cutscene Incompetence]]
** However, she had been in a stasis field for a ''while'' by this point, so
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: You recruit her by rescuing her from a horde of bad guys, she doesn't fight once throughout the entire level, and she almost faints even after you've got her on the ship. Add this to her general naivete, and she seems like the poster child for this trope. [[Beware the Nice Ones|Then you actually take her into battle]], and quickly realize that [[Badass in Distress|she can take care of herself]].
** It should be noted that when you rescue her, she's unarmed and fatigued from being held immobile for goodness knows how long (if you save that mission for last, she thinks she's hallucinating Shepard's party).
{{quote|'''Kaidan:''' When was the last time you ate? Or slept?}}
** And she ''can't remember''.
* {{spoiler|[[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Upon becoming the new Shadow Broker, Liara vows to use her newfound power and influence for the power of good, and to aid Shepard in stopping the Reapers}}.
* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: ''Mass Effect: Redemption'' and ''Lair of the Shadow Broker''.
* [[Digging Yourself Deeper]]: In the first game, Liara's attempts to explain why she's so interested in you in purely scientific means leads to a series of flustered, ever-escalating [[Double Entendre|double entendres]].
* [[Discount Lesbians]]
* [[Double Tap]]: How she finishes off a pair of Cerberus operatives chasing her during her reintroduction in ''Mass Effect 3''. [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|After having already trapped them in a singularity and shot them center mass in mid-air]].
* [[Enemy Mine]]: {{spoiler|With Cerberus, to save Shepard's body from the Shadow Broker and the Collectors. The fact that she beats herself up over handing Shepard's corpse to The Illusive Man explains in part her behavior during the second game}}.
* [[Even Heroes Have Heroes]]: Her reaction to meeting {{spoiler|Javik, a living Prothean, in ''Mass Effect 3''}}. Lampshaded by ''everyone'', with Shepard joking that they'll hand over questions to Liara because she looks like she's about to explode.
* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: Notable if you bring {{spoiler|Javik}} to Thessia.
{{quote|'''Liara''': Incredible, the Beacon seems to think you are Prothean, Shepard. It must be from the Cipher you got back on Feros, all those years ago.
{{spoiler|'''Javik''': [[Deadpan Snarker|Or it could be the Prothean standing right next to you]]
* [[Fling a Light Into the Future]]: Taking a cue out from the Protheans in ''Mass Effect 3'', she plants several time capsules across many worlds to warn future species in the event that the Reapers aren't stopped. She even has a section devoted to the heroics of Shepard, and you can tell her how wish it told.
* [[Go Mad From the Isolation]]: Liara seems to be on the brink of this in the first game if you decide to rescue her after the rest of the main story missions. By the time you get there, she's completely convinced you're a realistic hallucination. So, yes, all that time you spent flying around, she's been locked in stasis.
* [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]]: She's got blue skin and is regarded as attractive by most other characters.
* [[Guest Star Party Member]]: In ''Lair of the Shadow Broker''.
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: {{spoiler|Counters the Shadow Brokers' speech with one of her own. He didn't like it much}}.
* [[Has Two Mommies]]: And the other mommy is an asari. [[Fantastic Racism|Which is why she's shunned so much, as asari-asari relationships restrict genetic diversity]] [[Broken Aesop|...
** As seen in [[Bi the Way]], ambiguously gendered asari are "female" in the eyes of every other race, possessing the same sex organs and characteristics as would be expected for mammalian females, though one asari serves as the "father
** Ultimately averted. Her "father" is {{spoiler|shown in the third game to be Matriarch Aethyta, the bartender from Illium and then the Presidium, assigned to keep an eye on Liara after Benezia went evil}}. Even though Liaria's father is 'female
* [[Hero Worshipper]]: Towards Shepard ''big-time''.
** In
** In the third game, she programs a series of time-capsules to be sent across the galaxy in case the mission fails with one whole section of the archive devoted ''solely'' to tales of Shepard's exploits. If Shepard encourages her to be the one to decide how they will be remembered, she practically gushes over him/her.
* [[Hidden Depths]]:
* [[Hot-Blooded]]: Liara definitely comes across as this in the second and third game.
* [[Hot Scientist]]: Just look at her.
* [[How Did You Know? I Didn't.]]: After {{spoiler|killing the Shadow Broker}}, Shepard asks Liara how she knew that {{spoiler|the Shadow Broker was a yahg}}. She actually had no idea; she just made an educated guess on the spot.
* [[In-Universe Catharsis]]:
* [[The Ingenue]]: Shy, sweet, and easily flustered? Yep.
* [[I Shall Taunt You]]: When confronting the Shadow Broker, she {{spoiler|brings up his status as the previous Broker's "pet", triggering his [[Berserk Button]]}}. Judging by the files on him, {{spoiler|wherein the previous Broker warned him to watch his temper and that losing it costs him his better judgment, he would have been a far more dangerous opponent in the subsequent battle if Liara hadn't pissed him off}}.
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]:
** If you have progressed far enough in the romance with Ashley or Kaidan by the time you get her romance dialogue, she admits she has a huge crush on Shepard, but gracefully backs down, saying it is obvious Shepard already has strong feelings for Ashley/Kadian and that she doesn't want to come between them.
** Also, in the second game, whether Shepard cheated on her or remained faithful to her, she will tell him/her that if s/he wants to move on, she can accept that and be happy for him/her.
* [[Jerkass Facade]]: {{spoiler|She adopts one in the sequel to allow herself to operate in Illium's underworld
* [[Knight Templar]]: During the interim beween the first and second game, though Paragon Shepard can pull her back from this.
* [[Knowledge Broker]]
* [[Like an Old Married Couple]]: Throughout the duration of
* [[The Medic]]: Her class skill in the first game adds to the amount of HP healed by medigel on top of the first aid ability.
* [[Mind Over Matter]]: Usually holds the spot of most powerful biotic on your squad.
* [[Minored in Asskicking]]: Most people find it more than a little odd that an archeologist would be so good at combat. Then Liara points out that since they have potential for containing incredible technology, Prothean ruins are popular targets for pirates and mercenary raids. And Liara has worked in Prothean ruins. Alone. For decades.
* [[Not So Different]]: Noticable in the second game, when Liara at times begins to unconsciously channel ''her mother''.
* [[Number Two]]: In ''Mass Effect 3'', she acts as an unofficial XO for the Normandy.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: She's 106 years old, "barely more than a child." Asari live for about a thousand.
* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]: Averted. In Peak 15, she may say the following upon the end of the first engagement against the {{spoiler|rachni}}:
{{quote|'''Liara:''' Xenobiology is not my field. Maybe someone in the labs knows.}}
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: She never knew her second parent's identity, only her species (another asari—a major social no-no, because asari value genetic diversity {{spoiler|and also because that's where Ardat-Yakshi come from}}) and her relationship with her mother was apparently strained at best. {{spoiler|And that was ''before'' Benezia joined up with Saren and Co
* [[Plot Armor]]: Liara will survive all the way to the final mission of ''Mass Effect 3'', no matter what you do. [[Anyone Can Die|That's not true of any other character on this page
*
* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: Liara can be pursued as a romance in ''Mass Effect 3'' even if you previously turned her down in the first game.
* [[Religious Bruiser]]: In the first game, at least, it's implied that she is quite religious.
** [[Like Father, Like Son|Like Mother, Like Daughter]]: Her mother
* [[Required Party Member]]: During
* [[Revenge]]: Her primary goal, as of ''Mass Effect 2,'' is to track down and kill {{spoiler|the Shadow Broker}} for trying to {{spoiler|sell Shepard's body to the Collectors
* [[Roaring Rampage of Rescue]]:
* [[Schrödinger's Gun]]: Regardless of whether the player downloaded the
* {{spoiler|[[Self-Made Orphan]]}}: Potentially, if you make her fight alongside you to take down
* [[She Who Fights Monsters]]: Played with. She becomes incredibly ruthless by the second game in her hunt for the Shadow Broker, even if [[Morality Chain|Paragon!Shep is continuously trying to pull her back
* [[Shout-Out]]: An archaeologist called '''[[Tomb Raider|L(i)ara]]'''...
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: In the first game.
* [[Skilled but Naive]]: At least in the first game. [[Character Development|Not so much]] [[Break the Cutie|in the second game
* [[Slasher Smile]]: In ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'', she gets off a nasty one after dressing down the Shadow Broker, pressing ''all'' of its [[Berserk Button]]s.
* [[Squishy Wizard]]: Liara can only wear light armor and has low health. She makes up for it with spectacular biotic capabilities.
** Comes back even more strongly in the third game, where she might be the ''only'' biotic on your squad (if Shepard isn't one, Kaidan's dead and you haven't bought Javik). This can turn her low CON scores into a distinct achilles' heel.
* [[The Stoic]]: Post time-skip and post [[Break the Cutie]] in the second and third games she tends to act like this, almost never raising her voice and becoming somewhat [[The Comically Serious]] mixed with [[Broken Bird]].
** [[Not So Stoic]]: Still has moments of genuine emotion namely
* [[Survivor Guilt]]: In addition to the guilt she feels for {{spoiler|handing Shepard's body to Cerberus
* [[That Came Out Wrong]]: Her first conversation with Shepard, in which her fascination with his/her exposure to the beacon leads her to referring to him/her as an interesting test subject.
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: She starts out as an awkward and bookish archaeologist. In the sequel,
** {{spoiler|Mind you, that was before she chased Vasir by jumping out a window, and dropped plasma on the Shadow Broker
** What makes that scene even more powerful (and chilling) is that she's
** Even before
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130517052741/http://images.pcworld.com/news/graphics/168882-mass-effect-redemption-2_original.jpg Redemption well and truly earned].
** ''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
{{quote|'''Liara:''' Give me ten minutes and I can start a war.}}
* [[Undying Loyalty]]: To Shepard, [[Up to Eleven|possibly moreso than anyone else in the series
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Even if you don't romance her, Liara's friendship with Shepard still has a level of this to it.
* [[Violently Protective Girlfriend]]: Following Shepard's temporary demise, she took up a one-woman crusade to get his/her body back from the Shadow Broker and the Collectors. As of the end of the second game, she's still working to track the Broker down and make them pay for ''daring'' to touch Shepard.
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** Tali also mentioned being trained to survive away from the fleet, however.
** Tali is also a virgin when you first meet her.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: '''[[Running Gag|Yes]]'''. She has more than a little friction with her mother
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Surprisingly absent in the ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'' DLC
** She does call you out about hooking up with another love interest
* [[When She Smiles]]: In the second and third games post-[[Break the Cutie]].
* [[Woman in White]]: Her preferred outfit in ''Mass Effect 2'' and ''Mass Effect 3'', reflecting her new [[Stoic]], [[Lady of War]] tendencies.
* [[You Are Better Than You Think You Are]]: Paragon Shepard's interrupts in ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'' reminding her of how she was when they met and urging her to not descend into [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] territory, not even to protect them.
* {{spoiler|[[You Kill It, You Bought It]]: After she and Shepard kill the Shadow Broker, she takes his place. She's at least the third person to hold the title
* [[Youthful Freckles]]: She ''is'' only 108 years old.
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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.
{{quote|'''Shepard:''' I trust you too, Tali, but you don't have to prove anything to me.
'''Tali:''' I know... well, no, not that I know... it's just that... well... it's not normally like this... I mean, wow... when did it get so hot in here?
** If romanced in ''Mass Effect 2'', she becomes more confident in her relationship with Shepard in ''Mass Effect 3''.
* [[Affectionate Nickname]]:
** [[The Nicknamer|James]] nicknames her 'Sparks' in ''Mass Effect 3''.
{{quote|'''James:''' Yeah, your quarian friend. The jumpy one with the glowing eyes? Sparks.
'''Shepard:''' Uh-huh.
** A male Shepard who romances her calls her "{{spoiler|Miss Vas Normandy}}." Joker quips that, every time he hears Shepard call her that, he expects her to be [[Beauty Contest|wearing a sash and tiara]].
* [[Apologetic Attacker]]:
* [[Appropriated Appellation]]: During her loyalty quest
* [[Badass]]: Just how [[Badass]] is Tali? Let us count the ways...
** [[Badass Adorable]]: She can fight her way through hundreds of geth without breaking a sweat and yet she stammers when you romance her. She also names her combat drones and praises them for doing a good job of killing things.
** [[Badass Bookworm]]: Being a quarian, she is ''required'' to know about advanced subjects like starship engineering. And even among quarians she is considered an expert.
** {{spoiler|[[Four-Star Badass]]: If she's exonerated in her trial in ''Mass Effect 2'', the other admirals elect to have her fill her deceased father's vacant position}}.
**
***
* [[Battle Couple]]:
* [[Beautiful All Along]]
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Tali is right up there with Kaidan in the sheer niceness department. That doesn't change the fact that she is a ''monster'' with a shotgun, can easily lock down most enemies, and can potentially have the strongest shields in your entire party even without upgrades. And when provoked, she can get both vicious and creative.
{{quote|'''Tali''' (after being told by Shepard to not lose sleep over a very rude volus): My brain agrees with you. My gut says I should jack his suit's olfactory filters so that everything smells like refuse!
'''Garrus:''' Remind me not to get on your bad side.
** In ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', her response to
{{quote|'''Tali''': [[Tranquil Fury|He needs to die.]]}}
* [[Big Red Button]]: Though one doesn't really show up, [[Lampshade Hanging|she still points out the inadvisability of pushing them]].
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: Quarians are one of only two species(the other being turians) that have a [[wikipedia:Chirality (chemistry)|dextro-amino acid based biology]]. As such, they can't consume any food or drink made for levo-amino acid biologies(humans, asari, salarian, krogan, etc
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Blue Oni]]: Some people see this, with [[Loveable Rogue|Kasumi]] being Red Oni. Tali, [[Beware the Nice Ones|though she has her moments]], is kind, calm, and uses her [[The Engineer|considerable skills]] to aid others. Kasumi is upbeat, [[Genki Girl|energetic]], and uses her considerable talents for [[Classy Cat Burglar|thievery and espionage]].
** To further the point, Kasumi introduces herself as a fan of Shepard. Tali clearly is. So just how did she take some of Kasumi's initial offers?
* [[Breakout Character]]: Like Garrus, her plot relevance surged up like crazy in the sequel, even becoming a [[Love Interest]].
* [[Break the Cutie]]: She suffers an emotional breakdown while investigating her trial. You can potentially give her comfort by hugging her.
**
** {{spoiler|Let the geth destroy the quarians in the third game. She commits suicide
***
* [[Bubble Boy|Bubble Girl]]: Comes from a race of them. Their weak immune systems force them to live in their envoronmental suits constantly.
* [[But I Would Really Enjoy It]]: Tali is initially reluctant to sleep with Shepard
{{quote|'''Tali:''' Just so you know, I'm running a fever, I've got a nasty cough, and my sinuses are filled with something I can't even describe. And it was totally '''[[Worth It]]'''.}}
* [[Can't Have Sex Ever]]: She works ''HARD'' to subvert this.
** Assuming you romanced her, this is no longer a problem by the third game. Her body's immune system has adapted enough that she can have sex with Shepard safely.
* [[Can't Hold Her Liquor]]: After the Horizon mission in ''Mass Effect 3'', you can find her in the ''Normandy'' lounge getting hammered. Then if you go go down to the cargo bay to talk to Javik, you walk in on her drunk-dialing him.
* [[Character Development]]: Tali is more mature in the sequel. Also, see [[Vocal Evolution]] below.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: You know that knife strapped to her boot that we never see her using? It can come up in one very important moment in ''Mass Effect 3''
* [[Clingy Costume]]: Like all quarians.
* [[The Conscience]]: Acts as one of the voices of reason in the sequel... [[Fantastic Racism|except on the topic]] of [[Artificial Intelligence]].
* [[Cooldown Hug]]: [[Video Game Caring Potential|Shepard has the option of giving this to her after]]
* [[Covert Pervert]]: It's fairly obvious during the second game that Tali has secretly lusted after MaleShep since practically day one. And the second he shows '''any''' romantic interest in her, the first thing she makes clear is that she wants him to deflower her (with more subtle words).
**
** And to continue Lair goodness, {{spoiler|the same log as the 'nerve stim' program reveals she downloaded a video on 'Human Courtship and Mating'
*** It should be noted that she downloads the vid regardless of whether Shepard is male
* [[Curtains Match the Window]]: A rather more literal example than most, both her visor and hood being purple in color.
**
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: To wit:
{{quote|'''Tali:''' (to Garrus) I'm glad the imminent destruction of all organic life has improved your career opportunities.
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'''Shepard:''' I'm not working for [Cerberus], they're working for me.<br />
'''Tali:''' So ''you'' ordered the listening devices and tracking beacons that are all over this ship?
* [[Death Glare]]: Tali manages to throw a ''withering'' [[Death Glare]] at Jacob during her briefing on the Normandy. Through an ''opaque helmet'', which somehow makes it even more menacing.
* [[Digging Yourself Deeper]]: Gets flustered and does this after accidentally revealing her attraction to Shepard in the second game.
** Alternately, if neither she nor Garrus is romanced by Shepard, this is her reaction when {{spoiler|Shepard walks in on her and Garrus together}}...
* [[Disc One Nuke]]: In the first game, she was a ridiculously durable death machine with maxed out Electronics and "Quarian Machinist", which raised her shields to very high levels, and in the former's case let her sap the shields off any enemy in one go. It was very easy to max out both those skills very early in the game.
* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]: In ''Mass Effect 3'', if you can't get the geth and the quarians to work together, choosing the geth side means she has to watch the entire fleet get blown out of the sky. She walks off a cliff to her death}}.
* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: She resorts to this once or twice during the third game. It takes triple-filtered turian brandy introduced through an "emergency induction port".
{{quote|'''Shepard:''' That's a straw, Tali.
'''Tali:''' [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|Emergency.]] [[Insistent Terminology|Induction.]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Port.]]
* [[Enemy Mine]]: What she sees working with Legion as.
** She also hates Cerberus and makes it clear that she's only there [[Undying Loyalty|because Shepard is]].
* [[The Engineer]]: In the first game, Chief Engineer Adams is impressed with her skill. In the second, she gets automatically promoted to chief engineer herself as soon as she's recruited.
** In the third game, with the return of Chief Engineer Adams, she unofficially becomes Second Engineer and acts as his Relief. Adams comments that its good to have her back as she clearly knows the new ''Normandy's'' engines better than he does.
* [[Even Heroes Have Heroes]]: Towards Shepard. Upped in the sequel. [[Up to Eleven|BIG time]]].
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: She became a love interest in the second game, and her fanbase rejoiced. Except for the ones who were disappointed she wasn't a love interest for Female Shepard.
* [[Everyone Can See It]]: Her feelings for Male Shep. Kelly, Kasumi, Liara and {{spoiler|Javik}} can all comment on it.
* {{spoiler|[[The Exile]]:}} In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', {{spoiler|one outcome of her loyalty mission is that she can be permanently exiled from the Migrant Fleet. But she still has a home on the Normandy}}.
* [[The Faceless]]: Justified. Her species has a weak immune system that means she must wear a special suit at all times.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Sometimes slips into this, the Geth having become a major [[Berserk Button]] for the quarians.
*
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: The quarians' [[Planet of Hats|hat]], but Tali is especially so.
{{quote|'''Tali''': Give me some eezo and a circuit board and I'll have it making precision jumps.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Green-Skinned Space Babe]]}}: {{spoiler|You finally get to see Tali sans suit in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' if you romance her ''and'' help the Quarians reclaim their homeworld
* [[Hack Your Enemy]]: AI Hacking is one of her abilities, a carryover from the Engineer class. She keeps it across all three games.
* [[Hartman Hips]]: The mandatory mentioning of them along with the character is virtually a meme.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Female Shepard.
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{{quote|'''Tali''': It's good to be back on the ''Normandy''.
'''Shepard''': Let me know if it's too quiet for you to sleep. I'm sure I can find you [[Double Entendre|someplace louder.]]<br />
'''Tali''': [[Covert Pervert|Hmm...]]
** Made better if Ashley is with you.
{{quote|'''Ashley''': Maybe we can talk about this when we're not on a damn ''Geth Dreadnought''.}}
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'''EDI''': Shepard and Tali became physically intimate during the fight against the Collectors.
'''James''': [[Too Much Information]].
'''Shepard''': ''Thank you'', EDI.
* [[Insecure Love Interest]]: Fits this trope like a glove during her romance. Averted in the third game.
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Falls into this when drunk on turian brandy.
{{quote|'''Tali''': Turian brandy, triple filtered and introduced into the suit through an emergency induction port.
'''Shepard''': Thats a ''straw'', Tali.
'''Tali''': [[Insistent Terminology|Emmeeerrrgency]] [[Memetic Mutation|induction]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|port
* [[It's Quiet... Too Quiet]]: She has trouble sleeping on the ''Normandy'' because the ship is so quiet. Justified
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: [[Tear Jerker|She initially refuses Shepard's advances because she believes that he'll be hurt by their relationship
* [[Just Friends]]: [[Revision|Retroactively with male!Shep from the first game
* [[Latex Space Suit|Latex Bio-Hazard Suit]]:
{{quote|'''Ken:''' Don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful bucket... The whole suit is lovely, quite snug in all the right places...
'''Tali:''' You ''know'' I can hear you!
* [[Lost Forever]]: like Garrus, link up with her in ''Mass Effect 2'' or forever hold your peace.
* {{spoiler|[[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter]]:}} A literal example, even if she isn't evil at all. {{spoiler|Rael's researchs}} are morally questionable at best, and beyond the [[Moral Event Horizon]] to some.
* [[Matzo Fever]]: Since quarians are [[Ambiguously Jewish]]. "Tali" is actually a girls' name in Hebrew, according to [http://www.behindthename.com/name/tali Behind The Name].
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*** They've got shades of all three and more. Their "Admiralty Board" is rather Royal Navy.
* [[Motor Mouth]]: She admits to this when she becomes nervous.
* {{spoiler|[[A Date with Rosie Palms|Nerve Stimulation Implants]]: Revealed in the ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'' DLC she had them, then removed then reinstalled mutliple times before installed once aganin and upgrading them}}.
* [[Noble Bigot]]: Make no mistake: as selfless and heroic as Tali is, she ''hates'' synthetic lifeforms. And she's one of the more ''open-minded'' quarians. Of course, this is a [[Justified Trope]] given her situation. Her people were driven off their home planet and nearly genocided by their own created AI race, and the geth later {{spoiler|kill her father as well}}. The fact that the quarians started it aside, Tali has more than a few reasons to be distrustful of if not hostile towards, say, {{spoiler|Legion}}. Later, thanks to [[Character Development]], the aforementioned open-mindedness pays off. {{spoiler|Legion, the player's choice can make her be more friendly to Legion, sparking a friendly [[Not So Different]] situation in the third game to resolve the whole quarian/geth conflict. Doing so factors in to the potential for reconciliation between the Geth and Quarians}}.
* [[Odd Friendship]]: In ''Mass Effect 3'', it seems that she and Legion have been in communication, and it's clear that they develop a strange fondness for one another even after the other admirals lead the quarians back into war with the geth.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Behind Jacob {{spoiler|and Legion}}, Tali is one of the more sensible crewmembers on the Normandy, [[Noble Bigot|though she still has her issues]]. {{spoiler|[[Character Development|At least until ''Mass Effect 3'']]}}.
* [[Optional Party Member]]: Just like Thane, Samara, Grunt, Zaeed, Kasumi and {{spoiler|Legion}}, you can complete [[Mass Effect 2|the second game]] without her. [[Plot Tailored to the Party|Doing this will come back to haunt you though...]]
* [[Orgasmic Combat]]: Her accent and combat cries sounds surprisingly sexual, though Tali is clearly not ''that'' kind of character.
* {{spoiler|[[Pair the Spares]]: If your Male Shepard does not romance Tali in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', she will end up with Garrus}}.
** {{spoiler|When you consider that Garrus is essentially a ''Paragade'' Shepard, it makes sense that she's attracted to those qualities}}.
* [[Pardon My Klingon]]: She uses the term "bosh'tet" from time to time.
* {{spoiler|1=[[
* [[Precision F-Strike|Precision B-Strike]]: When she's truly mad, she tends to use the term "bosh'tet". She ''screams'' it at Kai Leng if she's brought along to Thessia.
* [[Rank Up]]: {{spoiler|She is an Admiral in the third game
* [[Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic]]
*
* [[Reassignment Backfire]]: {{spoiler|When the Admiralty Board accuses her of treason, they officially change her ship from the ''Neema'' to the ''Normandy'', in hopes of publicly ostracizing her from the fleet and under the impression that Shepard would do a substandard job of defending her
* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: Potentially with Male Shepard in the second game.
* [[Required Party Member]]: In ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', {{spoiler|the first and last missions of the Rannoch arc}}.
* [[Rescue Romance]]: It even gets [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by Tali that she often gets rescued by Shepard; not that she can't handle herself, but it certainly helped kick-start her feelings for him.
** Is done in reverse as well when she saves Shepard in the third game... that is, {{spoiler|if you side with the quarians in their conflict with the geth}}. Also happens on the Geth Dreadnought, where Tali saves Shepard from falling to his/her death when the elevator is damaged by a rocket.
* [[Set a Mook to Kill a Mook]]: She can hack synthetic enemies and get them to kill each other. This includes [[Giant Mook|Geth Primes]], [[Spider Tank|Geth Armatures]], [[Mini-Mecha|Atlas Mechs]], and [[More Dakka|all types of turrets]]. Like most powers, it was nerfed heavily in the second game (it was considered overpowered in the first due to almost half of the game's enemies being synthetic), but was buffed again in the third.
* [[Shoot the Dog]]: {{spoiler|If you can't broker peace between the quarians and the geth, then you must choose one of the two. If you choose the quarians, then Legion will knock Shepard down, strangle him/her, and hold him/her over the edge of a cliff. Tali then stabs it. In Legion's final moments, Tali tells it that she's sorry and that it does have a soul}}.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
{{quote|'''Tali:''' [[Baldur's Gate|Go for the optics, Chikktika!]]}}
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** She's actually quite snippy. You sass her, she'll gladly return fire. Just ask Wrex.
** Also, keep in mind that she isn't generally shy and is perfectly capable of having a conversation without stuttering or getting nervous.
* [[Shutting Up Now]]: See [[Les Yay]] in the YMMV section.
* {{spoiler|[[Sins of Our Fathers]]: Her character quest in the sequel centers around her being held responsible for her father's geth experimentations}}.
* [[The Smart Guy]]: The tech and engineering expert.
* [[Something Only They Would Say]]: How she can potentially realize that, yes, that is Shepard standing in front of her in the beginning of the second game. Only s/he would know about how she got the geth data for her Pilgrimage.
*
* [[Squishy Wizard|Squishy Technician]]: Her tech powers can be incredibly useful when trying to mezz enemies, especially when dealing with synthetics, but her physical durability is pretty poor, due in part to the general fragility of her suit and (in ME1 at least) the rarity of her armor upgrades. In ''[[Mass Effect (video game)|Mass Effect 1]]'' this is balanced out by pouring points into her Electronics skill and her "Quarian Engineer" Class skill, which increases her shields to the point where she can survive pretty much the whole game with the same suit she started with; in the sequel, she's a bit more durable in general and gets a loyalty power that drains enemies' shields or synthetics' health and replenishes (or even overcharges) her own shields.
* [[Statuesque Stunner]]: She is the tallest female squad-mates, and as tall as M!Shep
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* [[Sure Why Not]]: Like Garrus, got upgraded to a love interest in the sequel due to fan demand.
* [[Talking Lightbulb]]: What with being a quarian and all.
* [[Terrified of Germs]]: Though not as terrified as most of her race, if her behavior towards male!Shep is any indicator
* [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]]: She wears purple.
* [[To Absent Friends]]: Regarding ''Miranda'' of all people, {{spoiler|if the latter doesn't survive Sanctuary in the third game}}.
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: At the beginning of the first game, she is a teenager in over her head, on the run from a few thugs. Come the third
* [[Tranquil Fury]]: Cerberus tends to be a calming influence on Tali.
{{quote|''I don't know who you are, but Cerberus threatened the security of the Migrant Fleet. Don't make nice. [...] I assumed you were undercover, Shepard. Maybe even planning to blow Cerberus up. If that's the case, I'll lend you a grenade.''}}
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'''Shepard''': You were worried?
'''Tali''': You bet I was! You dying because the geth overrode my hack? Think of my reputation!
'''Shepard''': You were worried.
* [[The Un-Reveal]]: Go ahead, romance her in the sequel. See how sadistic Bioware can be.
** {{spoiler|''Partially'' subverted. Close-ups do give you some view of her eyes and nose behind the mask. She looks rather human. And somehow, ''that just makes it all the more sadistic''}}.
*** If you romance her in ''Mass Effect 3'', you get [http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/File:Taliface.png a photo of her unmasked]. {{spoiler|She actually looks very close to human, with some dark lines along her neck and three-fingered hands. She even has human-like hair}}.
*** {{spoiler|And glowing eyes. The dark lines are also not exclusive to the neck, she has some on her forehead too, linking to her eyebrows}}.
* [[Underestimating Badassery]]: The Shadow Broker in ''Mass Effect 2'' has a unique comment for each potential party member about how valuable eliminating them and Shepard would be. But Tali? ''He's surprised Liara brought her along'', what with her botched research mission on Haestrom. Though he could just be trying to press her [[Berserk Button]].
* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Three guesses as to who.
* [[Violently Protective Girlfriend]]: Gets a hint of this in the third game provided Shepard romancer her, especially if she
{{quote|'''Tali''': He needs to die.}}
* [[Vocal Evolution]]: At the very beginning of the first game, Liz Sroka hasn't quite settled the nuances yet; Tali's voice is higher and has less of an accent. Her performance throughout the second game is uniform.
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* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: She ''will'' call Shepard out if he/she betrays her trust.
** Well, she also reacts that way when she finds out Shepard is working for Cerberus, has a functional AI on board, or recruits
** In the first game, Shepard can call her out on her attempts to justify the quarians' attempted genocide of the geth when the geth became sentient (an action that led to the civil war that resulted in the quarians fleeing their homeworld).
* [[What Would X Do?|What Would Shepard Do?]]:
** Not as much as Garrus, but she tries, to the point of trying to emulate Shepard's [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|nice job with the mining laser]] back on Therum with demolition charges. We'll just assume she forgot about how [[Fridge Logic|that kind of blew up in Shepard's face when s/he tried it
** Hey, it still got Shepard what s/he wanted.
** Another example:
*** In ''Mass Effect 3'', she'll state flat-out that
* [[When You Coming Home, Dad?]]: Makes it very clear that she was never close to her father in childhood. Though that is sort of expected if your father is part of the leadership council for your entire race.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Spiders?]]: If she is [http://youtu.be/ZIQ-iGF1t-4 brought along] for the rachni sidequest in ''Mass Effect 3'', she makes it clear she does not like crawlies. By freaking out when attacked by swarmers and screaming "Spiders ''spiders spiders '''spiiiiiiiiiders!!'''''" A later conversation with Garrus reveals she's felt this way since day one. If you have the ''Mass Effect: Datapad'' iOS app, she even sends you an email on the subject.
{{quote|'''Tali:''' Spiders, Shepard. Seriously. Spiders.}}
** [[Fridge Brilliance|Which makes sense if you brought her with you to Noveria in the first game
* [[Worth It]]: Tali's response when she gets sick after her relationship with Shepard becomes intimate.
** Which gets a [[Call Back]] in ''Mass Effect 3''.
{{quote|'''Tali:''' And [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}EaPdGMxFSv0#t{{=}}19m43s for the record]? Still ''totally'' [[Worth It]].}}
* [[Wrench Wench]]: Quarians are the whole race of incredibly skilled engineers. And ''even among the quarians'', she is counted one of the best engineers and geth specialists.
** Note that it's not an [[Informed Ability]]. She is as skilled with technology as Legion and Kasumi. In other words, her level of tech-savvy rivals {{spoiler|over a thousand linked geth programs}} and the best human thief in the galaxy.
* [[You Can't Go Home Again]]: In the sequel,
**
* [[You Don't Want to Die a Virgin, Do You?]]: Seems to be her motivation to "find a way before the last fight."
== Urdnot Wrex ==
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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.
** Ironically, a Thresher Maw ''Hammer'' is exactly the solution to defeat a Reaper on Tuchanka in ''Mass Effect 3'', by [[Summon Bigger Fish|summoning Kalros]].
* [[Ancestral Weapon|Ancestral Armor]]: In the first game, he asks Shepard to retrieve his family's armor from a turian smuggler.
** In a subversion, the constant arms race had made it an unequipable piece of junk, and is only valuable for personal reasons.
{{quote|'''Wrex''': My ancestors actually ''wore'' this piece of junk?}}
* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type]] [[Black and Grey Morality|IV]] or [[Sociopathic Hero|V]] in the original [[Your Mileage May Vary|depending on your view]];
* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]: He is a krogan, and thus tends to equate ass-kicking with respect. He may even [[Discussed Trope|discuss this]] with various other crewmembers, by asking them if they could beat Shepard in a fight. <ref>Kaidan dismisses the question with how he'd realistically never have to fight his superior officer; Wrex decides that that's why Shepard is his superior officer, and why s/he would win. Tali asks if Krogan size up ''everyone'' for a fight, to which he replies yes.</ref>
**
{{quote|'''Wrex:''': {{spoiler|Speak when spoken to, [[Jerkass|Uvenk]]. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|I'll drag your clan to glory whether you like it or not]]
* [[Badass]]:
* [[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.
** Especially once you consider that, even though ''Mass Effect'' takes place in the future, Wrex would have been born when Earth still had ''Vikings''.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Any mention of destroying the krogan's chances of curing the genophage will provoke a violent reaction. {{spoiler|It can get Wrex killed in the first game unless you can talk him down, and he will die in the third game if you sabotage the cure
* [[Big Good]]: Becomes this to the Krogans on Tuchanka if he lives past Virmire.
* [[The Big Guy]]: Type 1 in the first ''Mass Effect'', [[Character Development|shifts to]] Class 5 if he survives to the sequel.
* [[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 Brothers|Blood Brother/Blood Sister]]: He declares Shepard to be his if
* [[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.
* [[Bruiser with a Soft Center]]: Not so much in the first game, but played straight from the second game onward.
* [[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.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: In the second game, this is given as the reason the krogan are uniting under his leadership.
* [[Cutscene Incompetence]]:
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Provides half of the snark in the first game.
* [[Death Glare]]: Displays a great one in ''Mass Effect 3'' when the Salarian Dalatrass insults the Krogan. The look on his face makes it clear that he wants nothing more than to pull out a shotgun and leave a large hole in the Normandy's bulkhead where she was standing.
** For bonus points, its done in close up, so you get to see just how pissed off Wrex is, taking up the ''entire screen''.
*
* [[Dirty Old Man]]: In
** [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: On the other hand, he respects women a lot more than the average Krogan
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: A possibility, if you make a certain series of decisions. In
* [[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.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]:
** {{spoiler|If you sabotaged the genophage cure in ''Mass Effect 3'', he will return later on, having found out, and tries to kill Shepard no matter what. He also calls off all his support for the war. Notably, he only does this after you yourself arguably cross the [[Moral Event Horizon]]
* [[Friendly Enemy]]: He mentions having one in an asari named Aleena
* [[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.
'''Wrex''': Of course he is. You're with ''Shepard''. How could he be alive?
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]:
* [[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.
'''Wrex:''' Oh.... It must've been painful then.
* [[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.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: {{spoiler|Gives Shepard a very warm greeting as the krogan overlord. From a grizzled old cynic like him, that really means something. He even invites Grunt to be part of the clan. As warlord, he does everything in his power to aid his people, [[Good Is Not Nice|whether they like it or not]]
{{quote|'''Wrex:'''
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* [[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.
* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: Possible in the first game, which has repercussions throughout the series. Also possible in the third game, if you sabotage the genophage cure: he'll find out and you'll have to blow him away on the Citadel}}.
* [[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.
* [[Like an Old Married Couple]]: {{spoiler|His interaction with "Eve" in the third game}}.
* [[Magic Knight]]: In addition to his substantial toughness and general combat skills, he's also a biotic.
* [[The McCoy]]: To Dalatrass Linron's [[The Spock]] and Primarch Adrien Victus's [[The Kirk]]
* [[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}}.
** According to [[Word of God]], they called him Wrex after a Tyrannosaurus Rex, which still comes from "king
* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: Invoked in ''Mass Effect 3'' if you bring Liara and Garrus along to Sur'kesh, he's deeply happy she's there... oh, and Garrus too.
* [[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.
* [[Odd Friendship]]: With Shepard. Dialogue in ''Mass Effect 3'' indicates that he's deeply fond of Liara... [[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Garrus]], in his own way.
{{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.
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much|Deconstructed]]
* [[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...
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Plays the red to Eve's blue {{spoiler|as leaders of the Krogan
* [[Revenge Before Reason]]:
* [[Royal Blood]]: To a degree
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: Wrex used to have a tribe of his own, though he fled Tuchanka after a fight with his father. {{spoiler|In the sequel, he's become the overlord of most of the krogan clans
* [[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.
* [[Slave to PR]]: He executes a gang leader against your orders because he was hired by the Broker to personally kill him. He even gives you the bounty if you don't bring him along and beat him to the punch
* [[Sociopathic Hero]]: Mostly in the first game, less so in the sequel.
** Arguable even in the first game. Wrex was willing to
*** 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."
"Wrex."
** When Wrex joyfully bounds out of his "throne" to greet Shepard with unabashed happiness in ''Mass Effect 2'', [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|it's fairly startling]].
* [[Stop Being Stereotypical]]: Dislikes the self destructive violence of the other Krogans and is working to change it.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: What he thinks of anyone that goes up against Shepard. Which {{spoiler|makes you wonder what that says about ''him'' when he does this on Virmire. [[Played With]] in that he likely knew he had no chance at actually "winning", but was doing it as a matter of principle or honor rather than tactics. Thankfully, the player has three ways of talking him out of it
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* [[Uncomfortable Elevator Moment]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOg-nLWe71w Wrex seems to really like the elevators
* [[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.
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* [[Warrior Poet]]: To be fair, he mostly writes his poems with guns.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]:
** If he's taken to Noveria, and Shepard spares the rachni queen. As he reminds you, millions of his ancestors died to defeat the rachni the first time.
** If you deleted Maelon's research, he has some choice words for you in the last game
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{{quote|'''Wrex''':
* [[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.
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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.
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* [[Sacrificial Lamb]] / [[Red Shirt]]
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