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== Ashley Williams ==
== 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]]!]]
{{quote| ''"Why is it whenever someone says '[[With Due Respect|With All Due Respect]]' they really mean 'kiss my ass'?"''}}
 
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* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: Recent ''[[Mass Effect 3 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 3]]'' scans are showing this for Ashley in her civvies.
* [[Shoot the Dog]]: {{spoiler|If Shepard is unable to talk Wrex down, she may do this to save him/her.}}
* [[Shout -Out]]: Her name is a reference to ''[[Evil Dead]]'s'' protagonist. During the Virmire stage, she can also make a comment about her "boomstick."
** 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.
{{quote| '''Ashley''': Just shut up and kiss me.}}
* [[Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids]]:
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* {{spoiler|[[Vasquez Always Dies]]: Potentially.}}
* [[Violently Protective Girlfriend]]: Comes into play if you romance her, especially if she {{spoiler|kills Wrex.}}
* [[The Worf Effect]]: She gets [[No -Holds -Barred Beatdown|beaten to a bloody pulp]] by Eva Core at the beginning of [[Mass Effect 3]], which leaves her hospitalized for a third of the game.
** On the other hand, she did go hand to hand with a highly advanced mech, who proceeded to repeatedly smashed her head against a shuttle, likely instantly knocking her out. Unlike Shepard, Ash hasn't got a [[Made of Iron|reinforced bone structure]] which allows them to headbutt a Krogan.
* {{spoiler|[[You Shall Not Pass]]: At the same time as Kaidan's. It's up to you whether she survives over him.}}
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** "There's no Shepard without Vakarian."
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Garrus is generally a nice guy, if bitter about C-Sec and his own failings... but get him angry and he'll go commando on your ass.
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: Turians are one of only two known species (the other being quarians) that have a [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality_%28chemistry%29:Chirality chr(28)chemistrychr(29)|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]].
{{quote| '''Garrus:''' It's so much easier to see the universe in black and white. Gray? ...I don't know what to do with gray.}}
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* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Gains some shortly into ''Mass Effect 2'' after getting a rocket to the face; on a human face, his would definitely look like evil scars, although he's a good character.
* [[Gut Feeling]]: Garrus often trusts these, which lends even more to his [[Cowboy Cop]] status.
* [[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.
{{quote| '''Shepard:''' There's no Shepard without Vakarian.}}
** 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.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: ''[[Company of Heroes]]'' players will be unsurprised by his sniper skill, since he was an American one there.
* {{spoiler|[[Hollywood Kiss]]}}: Gives one to Shepard in ''3'' if they're in a romance during their Citadel outing. [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|And it's just as beautiful]] [[Fan -Preferred Couple|as you would expect.]]
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: He often obsesses with seeing villains get their just desserts, regardless of whether pursuing them is the wisest course of action. He wrestles with himself over whether it's because of his pride, or because of his values in justice. If you take him down the Paragon path, he admits it was his pride that wanted him to hunt down Dr. "Heart" more than it was to seek justice.
* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: Performs this for many of his targets as Archangel. For ordinary criminals he just executes them via bullet to the head, but for special criminals he uses special means, e.g. damaging a saboteur's environmental suit so that it kills him by suffocation, killing a weapons smuggler with his own smuggled weapons, killing a drug dealer by giving him an overdose of his own drugs, and a quarian viral specialist serial killer with a cough. The only criminal he breaks this pattern for is a slaver, whom he [[No -Holds -Barred Beatdown|set ablaze, fractured the face with his rifle butt, and shot multiple times in every limb and primary organ.]] Though if the target was a [[Made of Iron|Krogan]] (and the use of the term "primary organ" suggests that he was), this may have been [[Death of a Thousand Cuts|barely enough]].
* [[Hurting Hero]]: In the sequel; especially pronounced when pursuing a romance with him. Gets turned [[Up to Eleven]] in the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC, where a dossier on him reveals {{spoiler|his mother has turian Alzheimer's, and his sister is on bad terms with him because he can't send any money to help and can't tell her what he's doing.}} Liara says to Shepard that she's giving him peace.
** Although its also revealed that {{spoiler|he asked Mordin to use his STG clearance to pull some strings so the Salarian Medical Centre had clearance to pursue further research into the disease. He also donated his Cerberus pay to fund the project and get his mother onto one of the trials.}}
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** Also, on the final mission he ''always'' does well when assigned to command the backup; both Fire Teams are good assignments, and he's as good as Grunt when it's time to [[Hold the Line]].
** Back in the role again in ''3'', sharing with Ashley/Kaidan this time.
* [[Let's Wait AwhileA While]]:
{{quote| '''Garrus:''' You know me. I always like to savor the last shot before popping the heat sink ([[Beat]]) [[That Came Out Wrong|Wait, that metaphor]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|went somewhere horrible.]]}}
* [[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''.
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'''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.
* [[Sir Not -Appearing in -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.
* [[Space Police]]
* [[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.
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* [[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 ME3.
* [[Hey It's That Voice|Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Raphael Sbarge, who also played Carth in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (Video Game)|Knights of the Old Republic]]'' and Scorch in ''[[Republic Commando]]''.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: If not romanced with Male Shepard. Shepard even calls Kaidan a brother to him.
* [[Ho Yay]]: With male Shepard. A ton. In the first game it was mostly left over from when he was meant to be a full-fleged [[Gay Option]]. The second game managed to take it [[Up to Eleven]] even though he only had two scenes. The third game made it canon.
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** 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 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 3]]'', which leaves him hospitalized for a third of the game.
 
== Dr. Liara T'Soni ==
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'''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.
* [[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 3. While being chased by a pair of Cerberus operatives.
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: Due to being a "pureblood."
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* [[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 {{spoiler|the Shadow Broker}} how seriously crossing her tends to go. {{spoiler|[[You Kill It, You Bought It|Oh wait, you'd just be asking her]].}}
** 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. (This is especially hillarious if Shepard calls her to identify the traitor from just outside her office as it can make it appear that she killed and disposed of her assistant in a matter of seconds).}}
* [[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).
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** 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]]: "Lair of the Shadow Broker" features this in abundance.
* [[Hot -Blooded]]: Liara definitely comes across as this in the second and third game. {{spoiler|Matriarch Aethyta}}, her father, believes that this is because she's a quarter-krogan.
* [[Hot Scientist]]
* [[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]]: "Lair of the Shadow Broker" provides closure for Liara's two years of mourning, grief and pain.
* [[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]]:
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* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: Liara can be pursued as a romance in ''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, Benezia, was an influential asari theologian before her [[Face Heel Turn]].
* [[Required Party Member]]: During "Lair of the Shadow Broker" in ''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]]'' and twice in ''[[Mass Effect 3 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 3]]''. The first is on Eden Prime in the "From Ashes" [[DLC]], where you need her knowledge of the Protheans. The second is the mission on {{spoiler|Thessia, Liara's homeworld}}.
* [[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.}} The DLC "Lair of the Shadow Broker" lets you achieve that goal in spectacular [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|Roaring Rampage]] style.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Rescue]]: "Lair of the Shadow Broker" is all about Liara rescuing Feron from the Broker after he was captured at the end of ''Redemption''. {{spoiler|Liara becoming the Shadow Broker is just an added perk.}}
* [[Schrodinger's Gun]]: Regardless of whether the player downloaded the "Lair of the Shadow Broker" DLC, Liara is still {{spoiler|the Shadow Broker}} as of the third game. It's just that how she got there is a bit different: {{spoiler|If Shepard didn't help Liara take down the Broker, Liara hired dozens of mercenaries--all of them the best of the best--and took on the Broker in a [[Zerg Rush]].}}
* {{spoiler|[[Self -Made Orphan]]}}: Potentially, if you make her fight alongside you to take down {{spoiler|her mother}} in the first game. This is actually ''suggested'' by a party member, though, since Liara would know more about {{spoiler|her mother}}, who's causing problems for everyone, than anyone else, and you have to fight {{spoiler|Liara's mother}} one way or another.
* [[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.]] {{spoiler|Ultimately subverted, since while she does [[You Kill It, You Bought It|kill and even take the place of the Shadow Broker]], she vows to only use the vast power to help Shepard fight the Reapers.}}
* [[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.]]
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* [[The Ingenue]]: Shy, sweet, and easily flustered? Yep.
* [[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]]
 
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** [[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]]}}
** {{spoiler|[[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Though only technically. She's an Admiral in the third game, but aside from making a few deals on the Citadel and voting against going to war with the geth, she doesn't really do any admiral stuff.}}
*** {{spoiler|[[Asskicking Equals Authority]]: The reason she's promoted to the position of Admiral is because she knows more about kicking geth ass than any other living quarian.}}
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{{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 [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality_%28chemistry%29:Chirality chr(28)chemistrychr(29)|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.
* [[Breakout Character]]: Like Garrus, her plot relevance surged up like crazy in the sequel, even becoming a [[Love Interest]].
* [[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]].
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* [[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.
* {{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.
{{quote| '''Tali''': Give me some eezo and a circuit board and I'll have it making precision jumps.}}
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* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Female Shepard.
* [[Holding Hands]]: Part of her romance path with Shepard.
* [[I Call It Vera]]: [[Shout -Out|Chikktika]] [[Baldurs Gate|vas Paus]], her combat drone.
* [[I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me]]: Her reaction if Shepard expresses interest in a romantic relationship. Tali had actually been in love with Shepard since the first game, but assumed that he would never see past her helmet and see her for her.
* [[If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her]]: An [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|exorbitantly worded]] email from her father, but this is the general gist of its contents. It's a real shame you can't show it to Tali.
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** 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.
* [[Required Party Member]]: In ''[[Mass Effect 3 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 3]]'', {{spoiler|the first and last missions of the Rannoch arc}}.
* [[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.
* {{spoiler|[[Sins of Our Fathers]]: Her character quest in the sequel centers around her being held responsible for her father's geth experimentations.}}
* [[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:''' [[Baldurs Gate|Go for the optics, Chikktika!]]}}
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: In her romance with Shepard in the sequel. She gets more confident and flirtatious in the third game.
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*** 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.}}
* [[You Don't Want to Die A Virgin, Do You?]]: Seems to be her motivation to "find a way before the last fight".
 
 
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* [[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|Blood Knights]].
* [[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]]: {{spoiler|1=In ME3, if you betray his friendship and sabotage the genophage cure, he will come after you on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]. However, [[Series Continuity Error|he will "conveniently" forget his barriers and biotics]].}}
* [[Royal Blood]]: To a degree; his father was an overlord of the Urdnot clan. {{spoiler|In the sequel, if he survived Virmire, Wrex is now overlord of the krogan homeworld.}}
* [[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 - he won't take credit or payment for something he didn't do.
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* [[Guest Star Party Member]]: Despite being with you for at most a minute or two and dying right before the first fight, he is a fully functional squad member that can be issued orders and even has some skill points for you to assign despite never having an opportunity to use any abilities.
* [[Hero Worshipper]]: To Shepard. This is rarely a good sign for a character's mortality rate this early in the story.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: His VA would go on to voice another overly eager young man who gets shot first. However this time you can save him through the Paragon Interrupt.
* [[Naive Newcomer]]
* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]], actually, [[Meaningful Name|despite the name.]] He follows Shepard's orders to the letter, though in the end it still doesn't do him much good.
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