Mass Effect (video game)/Characters/Party Members: Difference between revisions

* [[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 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.

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

* [[Lost Forever]]: like Garrus, link up with her in ''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].

* [[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|1=[[Plotline Death]]: can suffer this in ''ME2'', at which point she does not appear in ''ME3''. Can also suffer this in ''ME3'', depending on your choices during the re-ignited quarian/geth war.}}

* [[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.

* [[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]]:

** 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.

* [[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

'''Tali''': You bet I was! You dying because the geth overrode my hack? Think of my reputation!

'''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.

** 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, {{spoiler|Tali can be exiled from the Flotilla for treason.}}

* [[You Don't Want to Die a Virgin, Do You?]]: Seems to be her motivation to "find a way before the last fight".