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== Gunnery Chief/Operations Chief/Lieutenant Commander Ashley Williams ==

[[File:Mass-Effect-3-Ashley-Williams_2442.jpg|frame|Nothing like a nice relaxing stroll on the beach...[[Meaningful Name|blasting]] [[Shout-Out|bad guys]] [[Evil Dead|with my]] [[Shotguns Are Just Better|boomstick]]!]]

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.

* [[Covert Pervert]]: Pops up if you romance her in the first game. Along with the [[A Date with Rosie Palms]] entry, she'll mention that Commander Shepard has a great ass. '''Twice.'''

** Seems to be a family trait. Her sisters comment on Male Shepard being cute in the first game, with Ashley turning around and realising that Shepard is [[Right Behind Me|standing right there]]

'''Ashley''': *''Mortified''* Shoot me now. }}

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Acts as one to her younger sisters.

** Shepard notes in the third game that the very first time they met Ash she had just seen her entire platoon wiped out by geth and instead of laying down and giving up, her response was to pick up her gun and kept firing. Shepard implies that if they hadn't shown up, she would have likely continued to do so even if it meant she had to defend the colony by ''herself''.

* [[Did I Say That Out Loud]]: Pops up several times if Shepard is in a romance with her.

* [[Drink Order]]: To cope with the impending Reaper attack, James gives her a bottle of alcohol. She drinks the whole bottle.

* [[Dying Declaration of Love]]: Averted. If you romance her, she refuses to say "I love you" until both of you come out of the endgame alive.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards|Even Bigots Have Standards]]: She invokes this in [[Mass Effect 2]] to rebuke Shepard' offer of working with [[Nebulous Evil Organization|Cerberus]].

* [[Family Honor]]: The driving force behind her service in the Alliance military.

* [[Fan Girl]]: Mildly towards Shepard if s/he has the War Hero background.

** She also romances Shepard with by quoting Walt Whitman (AKA ''[[Dead Poets Society]]'').

* [["Shut Up" Kiss]]: Invoked in the third game if the romance was continued.

* [[Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids]]:

'''Ashley:''' A pessimist is what an optimist calls a realist. }}

* [[Space Marine]]

* [[The Unfair Sex]]: If romanced previously, Shepard calls her out on this attitude in ''3'', noting that if they chose to romance someone else in the second game, it was only because Ashley made her feelings abundantly clear on Horizon that they were ''over''.

* [[We Used to Be Friends]]: Basically has this with Shepard in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', which carries over to ''[[Mass Effect 3]]''.

'''Ashley:''' [[Broken Pedestal|I used to]]. }}

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: {{spoiler|1=Like Kaidan, she doesn't take it well when she learns that Shepard is working for Cerberus in ME2.}}

== Garrus {{spoiler|"Archangel"}} Vakarian ==

[[File:Garrus_Vakarian_06_by_johntesh_3389.jpg|frame|Can it wait for a bit? I'm in the middle of some calibrations.]]

* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: Turians are one of only two known species (the other being quarians) 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, salarians, krogans, etc.) without, at the least, not getting any nourishment from it; or at the most, having a fatal allergic reaction.

* [[Black and White Morality]]: Garrus prefers to see the world like this. Unlike Samara, he's willing to give mercy a chance if [[Morality Chain|Shepard]] [[What Would X Do?|persuades him to]].

* [[Breakout Character]]: Like Tali, he becomes ''far'' more plot relevant and fleshed out in the sequel, in addition to being a [[Love Interest]].

** In ''3'' Garrus, along with Liara, also has the most conversations/interactions with Shepard. Keep in mind, this is done despite the fact that Garrus could actually be dead in the player's import.

* [[Cultural Rebel]]: Garrus frequently displays this, being relatively lax compared to most Turians when it comes to bending the rules and also recognising that following military protocol is ''not'' always the best course of action, particularly when it prevents him from helping people.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Probably the most sarcastic character next to Joker:

'''Garrus:''' Gardens, electronic shops. Antique stores, but ''only'' if they're classy. }}

* [[Death by Irony]]: The Shadow Broker's dossier on Garrus reveals that he is a fan of dishing out these types of deaths to criminals. This includes shooting a weapon smuggler in the head with one of his own smuggled weapons, and ''[[Cherry Tapping|coughing]]'' on a quarian virus specialist turned serial killer.

* [[Headbutt of Love]]: Since turian mouths are structured very differently from humans and fluid exchange can lead to anaphylactic shock, this is how he shows affection for female Shepard during their [[Pre-Climax Climax|romance scene]].

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]/ [[Platonic Life Partners]]: With Male Shepard and Female Shepard (if not romanced), respectively.

** With any Shepard who didn't romance him, after a poignant bonding moment in the third game he sarcastically wonders if Shepard is going to ''propose''. This happens to be the same moment in which, with a romancing Shepard, he ''does'' propose.

* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Lets his obsession with revenge get away with him in the second game; you can choose whether to stop him or encourage him.

** Back in the role again in ''3'', sharing with Ashley/Kaidan this time.

* [[Let's Wait a While]]:

* [[Lost Forever]]: If you don't recruit him in ''Mass Effect'', not only is he gone for the game if you wait too long, but you can't romance him in ''Mass Effect 2''.

** And if you don't romance him in ''2'', you can't start a new one in ''3''.

* [[Memetic Badass]]: In-universe is considered one on Omega as "Archangel".

** His skill with calibrations is also considered ''legendary'', to the point where he even manages to beat ''Legion'' in improving the ''Normandy's'' Thanix cannon, something that Legion deemed impossible.

'''Legion''': Scanning. Normandy's weapon systems have been improved by .43%. ''[[Beyond the Impossible|How did you accomplish this?]]'' }}

* [[Morality Chain]]: Paragon Shepard acts as one for Garrus, preventing him from going too far into [[Knight Templar]] territory and becoming like the very criminals he so despises. Its heavily implied that Garrus is very aware of this.

* [[Number Two]]: By ''ME2'', he's pretty much Shepard's right-hand man (even if unofficially) and probably the most trusted fellow soldier and combatant. This continues into ''ME3'' if he's still alive.

* [[Oblivious to Love]]: It becomes a minor running gag that he's completely unaware that Dr. Michel has a major crush on him.

'''Garrus''': She said she saw it and thought of me... [[Comically Missing the Point|why?]]<br />

'''Tali''': *snickers* Oh, nothing.../(to a female Shepard romancing him): Watch yourself, Shepard. }}

** As of ''Mass Effect 3'' he seems to finally come out from Shepard's shadow and into his own. The turian hierarchy's put him in charge of a special Reaper Task Force and during the course of the game, he's seen playing leadership roles to turian soldiers and refugees. Shepard him/herself notes that s/he's seen multiple turian generals saluting him and can ask him about his rank and what he thinks about becoming Primarch someday (Garrus is not crazy about the idea).

** Shepard can ''intentionally'' miss while shooting bottles with him on the Citadel, leading to Garrus gloating like a madman that he's a ''better'' shot than Shepard and triumphantly declaring;

* {{spoiler|1=[[Pair the Spares]]: With Tali, assuming neither of them are occupied with Shepard in ME3.}}

* {{spoiler|1=[[Plotline Death]]: can suffer this in ''ME2'', at which point he does not appear in ''ME3''.}}

* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: In spades.

* [[Self-Deprecation]]: Swaps jokes about humans and turians with Joker afew times.

'''Garrus''': Figuring out which side took the rocket. }}

* [[Shutting Up Now]]: In Mass Effect 2, he pokes fun at Tali over the things she revealed in the elevators in the first game, then basically has this response when she threatens him with a shotgun.

* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]: Because of his [[Adorkable|Adorkability]] and [[Badass|GAR]] factors, he commands a relatively sizable shipping following even among straight male fans of the series.

* [[Sure Why Not]]: Fan demand got him upgraded to a love interest in ''Mass Effect 2''. He even uses a way of showing affection common in many GarrusxFemShep fics. Probably because bodily fluid exchange could cause one of them to go into shock, as Mordin points out.

* [[Tron Lines]]: The alternate appearance pack gives him these (as well as fixing the gash in his armour).

* [[Vigilante Man]]: As Archangel.

* [[You Are Better Than You Think You Are]]: Paragon Shepard invokes this during the first game when Garrus wants to show no mercy to Saren for being a traitor. Shepard rebukes him, stating that when they confront Saren, they will give him the chance to return to face justice first and ''only'' shoot him if they are left with ''no other choice.''

** This also occurs in the mission to track down Dr Saleon. Garrus is in favour of just outright shooting him, whereas Shepard points out that he will again be brought before a court of law. When they are forced to shoot Saleon, Garrus bitterly points out how pointless mercy was, causing Shepard to point out;

** During his loyalty mission in the second game, Paragon Shepard can stop him from shooting Harkin and Sidonis, noting that this ''isn't'' like Garrus and that his mission for revenge is going too far and [[Not So Different|turning him into]] one of the criminals he so despises.

== Lieutenant/Staff Commander/Major Kaidan Alenko ==

[[File:KaidanME3_6455.jpg|frame|Not [[Knights of the Old Republic (video game)|Carth]] at all!]]

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.

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* [[Actor Allusion]]: Kaidan's voice actor is the same as [[Knights of the Old Republic (video game)|Carth Onasi's]].

* {{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.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: In ''ME3''.

* [[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.}}, Kaidan's seething hatred of the Illusive Man manifests itself in him very calmly wanting to rip the man in half.

* [[We Used to Be Friends]]: Basically has this with Shepard in ''2'', carrying over into ''3''.

'''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 ME2.}}

== Dr. Liara T'Soni/{{spoiler|The Shadow Broker}} ==

[[File:Liara_2099_5588.jpg|frame|Give her ten minutes and she can start a war.]]

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 ''1'' and ''3'', and available in ''2'' via DLC.

* [[Adorkable]]: [[Shrinking Violet|Easily flustered]] because she's use to spending time alone and not around groups of people.

* [[Adventurer Archaeologist]], but not by her own choice. She occasionally makes references to encounters with pirate gangs and hostile wildlife in unexplored systems.

'''Wrex:''' It's good for you. A nice explosion now and then keeps the mind sharp. }}

* [[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.

* [[Attempted Rape]]: Twice in Redemption--a batarian and his cronies attempt to proposition/rape Liara. [[Mugging the Monster|Both times they end up dead.]]

* [[Babies Ever After]]: Alluded to during her romance scene in ''Lair of the Shadow Broker''.

'''Liara:''' You just say these things! }}

* [[Badass Adorable]]

* [[Distressed Damsel]]: 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.)

** And she ''can't remember''.

* [[Double Tap]]: How she finishes off a pair of Cerberus operatives chasing her during her reintroduction in ME 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.}}

* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: Notable if you bring {{spoiler|Javik}} to Thessia.

{{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 ''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.

* [[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}}:

* [[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.}} In the third game, Shepard can find out that her father is {{spoiler|Matriach Aethyta}}, and encourage Liara to go talk to her.

* [[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.]] {{spoiler|She can still get blasted by Harbinger during the final push if your EMS is too low.}}

** [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 {{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.

* [[Undying Loyalty]]: To Shepard, [[Up to Eleven|possibly moreso than anyone else in the series.]] Can also fit with [[Violently Protective Girlfriend]] below.

* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Even if you don't romance her, Liara's friendship with Shepard still has a level of this to it.

== {{spoiler|Admiral}} Tali'Zorah nar Rayya/vas Neema/{{spoiler|vas Normandy}}/{{spoiler|vas Rannoch}} ==

[[File:Tali_6115.jpg|frame|She does have a face. Really.]]

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]]

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

'''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 ''3''.

'''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]].

* [[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.

'''Garrus:''' Remind me not to get on your bad side. }}

** In [[Mass Effect 3]], her response to {{spoiler|viewing the Illusive Man's plan to emotionally manipulate a vulnerable Shepard (after being resurrected by the Lazarus Project, and being cut off from all his friends and allies) into working with Cerberus}} shows she can be quite frightening when she is well and truly angry.

* [[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.) without, at the least, not getting any nourishment from it; or at the most, having a fatal allergic reaction.

* [[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, because their mutually [[Bizarre Alien Biology|Bizarre Alien Biologies]] would result in anything from allergic reaction, to drastic illness, to death for her. She ''assures'' you that this does not coincide with her desires.

* [[Can't Have Sex Ever]]: She works ''HARD'' to subvert this. {{spoiler|Shadow broker's file reveals she once had [[A Date with Rosie Palms|"nerve stimulation" implants]], had them removed/turned off reinstalled, she finally had it installed and upgraded}}

** 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.

* {{spoiler|[[A Date with Rosie Palms|Nerve Stimulation Implants]]: revealed in Shadow Broker DLC she had them, then removed then reinstalled mutliple times before installed once aganin and upgrading them.}}

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: To wit:

'''Tali:''' (to Shepard) What could I possibly be suggesting? I mean, a young woman gets saved by a dashing commander who lets her join his crew and then goes off to save the galaxy? [[Lampshade Hanging|How could she possibly develop any interest in him?]]<br />

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* [[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.

* [[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".

'''Tali:''' [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|Emergency.]] [[Insistent Terminology|Induction.]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Port.]] }}

* [[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.

* {{spoiler|[[Four-Star Badass]]: Admiral, to be exact, in Mass Effect 3}}

* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: The quarians' [[Planet of Hats|hat]], but Tali is especially so.

* {{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]]

* [[Ill Girl]]: Something of a [[Running Gag]] concerning her; she finds the perception irksome.

* [[The Immodest Orgasm]]: In the third game, a quick dialogue with a romanced male Shepard seems to poke fun at this.

'''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.

** Most of the crews' reactions are priceless.

** The real kicker is if new guy James Vega is in the group.

'''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.

'''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, though; the ships in the Migrant Fleet are frequently bought used or are remnants from the Geth Uprising, so the engines, life support, and so on make noise when they're working. On the Migrant Fleet, a ship that isn't noisy is a ''' ''very bad thing'' '''.

* [[Just Friends]]: [[Revision|Retroactively with male!Shep from the first game.]]

* [[Latex Space Suit|Latex Bio-Hazard Suit]]:

'''Tali:''' You ''know'' I can hear you! }}

* [[Les Yay]]: A bit towards Female Shepard.

'''Tali:''' I know. But I would be honored to join suit environments with you. I-if you were a quarian, and if we weren't already on a suicide mission, and--[[Shutting Up Now|I-I'm going to tinker a little bit more, thanks for coming by]]. }}

* [[Lost Forever]]: like Garrus, link up with her in ''2'' or forever hold your peace.

* [[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]]:

* [[Shrinking Violet]]: In her romance with Shepard in the sequel. She gets more confident and flirtatious in the third game.

** She's actually quite snippy. You sass her, she'll gladly return fire. Just ask Wrex.

* [[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 game--three years, more or less, in-universe--and she is {{spoiler|''an Admiral of the Fleet.''}}

* [[Tranquil Fury]]: Cerberus tends to be a calming influence on Tali.

* [[Tsundere]]: After Shepard affirms he still wants to be in a relationship with her in the third game, she becomes much more relaxed around him, to the point that she starts displaying some of these traits.

'''Shepard''': You were worried. }}

* [[Underestimating Badassery]]: The Shadow Broker in ''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 {{spoiler|kills Legion.}} Also, she has four very simple words to say once {{spoiler|the files at the Cerberus Base reveal how The Illusive Man manipulated Shepard into seeing Cerberus as sympathetic.}}

* [[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.

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy|"Well Done, Daughter" Gal]]: Tali is sure her father loves her, but regardless is said to be rather distant, and probably has similar expectations for her as much as everyone else.

** Comes across in the third game when she gets hammered on Turian Brandy and admits in a conversation with Shepard that one of the reasons she admires Miranda is because she ''never'' changed herself to please ''her'' father. Even if half the time she was a "Cerberus Cheerleader Bosh'tet".

*** If romanced she also comments that she's getting drunk with her boyfriend. Her ''human'' boyfriend.

* [[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 {{spoiler|Legion}}.

* [[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 ''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.

** [[Fridge Brilliance|Which makes sense if you brought her with you to Noveria in the first game.]] She was particularly vulnerable to rachni acid attacks back then, {{spoiler|and that was ''before'' the Reapers [[It Got Worse|made husks out of them]] }}.

* [[Worth It]]: Tali's response when she gets sick after her relationship with Shepard becomes intimate.

** Which gets a [[Call Back]] in 3.

* [[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.

== Urdnot Wrex ==

[[File:phpsdLKkHAM_4868.jpg|frame|[[Memetic Mutation|Shepard]].]]

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.

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* [[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...

* [[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 ''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.

* [[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]]; {{spoiler|moves up the scale to [[Good Is Not Nice|Type III]] in the sequel if he survives.}}

* [[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>

** {{spoiler|In Mass Effect 2, assuming he survived the first game, he is in the process of reforming and uniting Krogan society through sheer force of personality (and ass kicking, when necessary).}}

* [[Badass]]: {{spoiler|MOFO ICED A THRESHER MAW ON FOOT IN HIS RITE OF PASSAGE. A feat nobody else would pull for hundreds of years afterwards. <ref>Shepard can get in on doing that ''2''.</ref>}}

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

* [[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.

'''Wrex''': Of course he is. You're with ''Shepard''. How could he be alive? }}

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: {{spoiler|As krogan overlord, he institutes many reforms to help his species... and if he has to go against tradition or bust heads for it to work, so be it}}

* [[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.

'''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?

* [[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]].}}

** {{spoiler|1=Despite disliking salarians in general, he honestly comes to respect Mordin in ME3, affectionately nicknaming him "Pyjak."}}

** {{spoiler|After Mordin sacrifices himself to cure the genophage, Wrex says that he'll honour him by naming one of the newborn children after him. Maybe one of the girls.}}

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

* [[Odd Friendship]]: With Shepard. Dialogue in ''3'' indicates that he's deeply fond of Liara...[[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Garrus]], in his own way.

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

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

*** 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.

"Wrex." }}

** When Wrex joyfully bounds out of his "throne" to greet Shepard with unabashed happiness in ''2'', [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|it's fairly startling]].

** If you deleted Maelon's research, he has some choice words for you in the last game - it takes rescuing Eve and following him to the Shroud before he's willing to call you a friend again.

** {{spoiler|If you betray his trust by sabotaging the genophage cure, he tries to kill you. On the same occasion, he also calls you out for your actions during the Citadel coup if you killed the VS - *and* for the turian bomb on Tuchanka if you let it go off. It's a bit of a low point for Shepard, all in all.}}

* [[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.

== Richard L. Jenkins ==

[[File:jenkins_1199.jpg|frame|[[Tempting Fate|With a name like that, surely he'll be around forever. Right?]]]]

'''Voiced by''': Josh Dean }}