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

[[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]]!]]

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: A surprisingly nuanced version of this -- she doesn't trust aliens and has issues with turians in particular because her grandfather was the commander at the garrison at Shanxi, who was also the only human commander to ever surrender to alien forces. As a result, the Williams name is something of a curse, and Ashley suffers for it. Whether this comes across as a sympathetic [[Freudian Excuse]] or petty blame-shifting on her part is down to the player.

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

* [[Character Development]]: Paragon Shepard can help him undergo a surprising amount of this, with Garrus slowly coming to realize that regulations and safety precautions, while sometimes obstructive, are often there for very good reasons. {{spoiler|He can even decide, on his own, to re-apply to C-Sec once your mission is complete.}} Or, if Renegade, you can encourage his [[Cowboy Cop]] tendencies and have him {{spoiler|decide to reapply for Spectre status.}} Unfortunately, he seems to backpedal between games if you've encouraged him to work within the system -- which makes sense, considering {{spoiler|the Council did everything possible to rip apart everything he and Shepard's team accomplished in the first game, denying the Reapers' existence and allowing C-Sec to become corrupt and ruthless in its policing of the Citadel. Of course he'd get pissed off at the system and take things into his own hands.}}

** His romance with female Shepard starts out this way--Shepard suggests they have casual sex "to blow off steam" and Garrus, after a moment of shock, agrees. As things progress the relationship becomes more emotional, but the dialogue is never quite overtly romantic.

* [[It's All My Fault]]: In ''Mass Effect 2'', he blames himself for the death of his squad and feels he has to kill the traitor to avenge them. And according to turian culture, it ''is'' his fault -- if someone is placed into a position they weren't qualified for, the stigma is on the guy who put them there.

* [[Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Trailer]]: He was never officially confirmed to be a squad member in ''Mass Effect 2'' -- all the promotional shots of him focused on the meeting with him on Omega. As of November 2010, he still doesn't have a bio on the ME2 site.

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

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

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

* [[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.

* [[Slasher Smile]]: In ''Shadow Broker'', she gets off a nasty one after dressing down the Shadow Broker, pressing ''all'' of its [[Berserk Button|Berserk Buttons]].

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

* [[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.}}

* [[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.''}}

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

* [[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>}}

* [[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|Blood Knights]], and are watching their people slowly die out.

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

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

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