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* [[Casting Gag]]: Voiced by [[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined(2004 TV series)|known Cylon]] Tricia Helfer.

* [["It" Is Dehumanizing]]: Joker and Shepard both refer to her this way initially. Joker's switch to using "her" is more of a plot point than Shepard's, who can treat her as 'equipment' for the whole game depending on your dialogue choices.

* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: Not EDI herself, but if you [[All There in the Manual|read between the lines]] and look at the [[Expanded Universe]], {{spoiler|Dr. Eva, the robot whose body EDI takes over in the third game}}, is named after [http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Eva_Coré another character] from Thethe Illusive Man's past. And {{spoiler|the robot Eva was designed to be completely loyal to TIMthe Illusive Man and not have any free will of her own}}. Ew.

=== The Illusive Man, AKAa.k.a. {{spoiler|Jack Harper}} ===

The enigmatic leader of Cerberus. He seeks to protect humanity, regardless of the cost. He gets Shepard to investigate the disappearance of human colonies. He is the protagonist of the tie-in comic ''Mass Effect: Evolution'' {{spoiler|where it's revealed that his real name is Jack Harper, and he got his start by fighting the turians on Shanxi, and his eyes were damaged when he encountered a Reaper artifact on the planet during the struggle.}}.

In ''Mass Effect 3'', he makes his most ambitious move yet -: attempting to gain control of the Reapers and their technology rather than defeating them conventionally.

* [[Anti-Villain]]: {{spoiler|When he first shows up, at least.}}.

* [[Appropriated Appellation]]: His anti-alien manifesto was derided by Alliance command after first contact as "survivalist rhetoric written by an illusive man"." He kinda rolled with it.

* [[Batman Gambit]]: His plan to revive Shepard as-is through the Lazarus project is one of these, and it is even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] at the beginning of the game by Miranda. {{spoiler|His gambit pays off big in the Renegade ending, but he winds up [[Hoist by His Own Petard|hoisted by his own petard]] in the Paragon ending and undergoes a [[Villainous Breakdown]].}}.

** {{spoiler|Attempts an enormous one against the Reapers in ''Mass Effect 3'', in order to take control of them to subdue other species and put humanity on top. However, his plan fails because he doesn't fully anticipate just how out of his league his own (very strong, but only human) mind is in the face of an [[Eldritch Abomination]] and ends up being indoctrinated.}}.

* [[Benevolent Boss]]: He will do everything in his power to help out his subordinates... so long as they remain loyal and useful.

** [[Bad Boss]]: Just don't betray him. Just ask {{spoiler|Paul Grayson, who gets Reaper technology implanted into him.}}. In the third game, {{spoiler|he uses Reaper technology to create an army of slaves, among other atrocities.}}.

* [[Big Bad Ensemble]]: He's the second most recurring antagonist throughout the ''Mass Effect'' series, including the comics.

** {{spoiler|[[Big Bad Duumvirate]]: Subverted, despite what the characters believe. While Harbinger and Cerberus largely ignore a direct confrontation throughout most of ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', the Illusive Man took great steps to control the Reapers in the meantime -: he ordered Henry Lawson to study indoctrination, buffed Cerberus to [[NGO Superpower]] status and modified himself with Reaper tech so he could use the Crucible. Once Harbinger finds out, the Reapers storm Sanctuary in a brief moment of [[Evil Versus Evil]]. However, that research ultimately led to the Illusive Man himself becoming indoctrinated (or strengthening it, since his eyes ''are'' Reaper tech). By the final confrontation, it's made clear that TIMthe Illusive Man was little more than [[The Starscream]]. }}.

* [[Body Horror]]: {{spoiler|His cybernetic implants during the final confrontation.}}.

* [[Call Back]]: {{spoiler|TIM's suicide is Saren redux.}}.

* [[The Casanova]]: His dossier in the ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'' [[Downloadable Content|DLC]] reveals this.

[[Boldly Coming|Matriarch Trellani]] (twice) }}

** We see even more of this in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]''. He tries to ensure Shepard will be at ease working with Cerberus by recruiting [[Ace Pilot|Joker]] and [[Team Mom|Dr. Chakwas.]]. He also specifically uses [[Ethical Slut|Kelly Chambers]], [[Violent Glaswegian|Ken Donnelly]] and [[Wrench Wench|Gabby Daniels]]

* [[Cunning Linguist]]: Apparently can speak the asari and turian dialects unaided by universal translator, although this is apparently because of {{spoiler|the Reaper tech he was implanted with.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Cutscene Boss]]}}: {{spoiler|At the end of the third game, you will either be able to [[Talking the Monster to Death|convince him to kill himself]], [[Call Back|like with Saren in the first game]], or you'll have to take him out using one of two [[Quick Time Event|Renegade interrupts]]. Not taking either of them results in a [[Nonstandard Game Over]].}}.

* [[Devil in Plain Sight]]: Doesn't matter whether Shepard is Paragon or Renegade;, you always get dialogue options about whether or not the Illusive Man is trustworthy, and whether he knows more than he lets on at the end of several missions (in both cases, often to his face). Granted, a lot of this is to do with Cerberus's reputation and the player's experience of them in the previous game, but even so, itsit's clear that Shepard and other characters are wary of him and his organization, especially as the game goes on, and it becomes more and more obvious that they are still up to no good.

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Or, perhaps, too much ego. {{spoiler|Obviously, he thought he could outwit indoctrination and not end up like Saren. He couldn't.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]}}: {{spoiler|If Shepard can make him realize that he's being indoctrinated during their last conversation, he will choose to shoot himself.}}.

* [[Empathic Environment]]: His office. {{spoiler|If Shepard is a Paragon, the star will turn blue. Otherwise (i.e., Renegade), it will turn red.}}.

*** {{spoiler|[[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]}}: {{spoiler|Whatever his research ethics were like before, it becomes clear in the third game that he's thrown off any remaining restraints, to the point of attempting to institute a ''second'' Project Overlord, which disgusts even the head of the original project.}}.

* [[Evil Is Not a Toy]]: {{spoiler|As [[Magnificent Bastard|magnificent]] as he was, he was still way out of his league attempting to take control of the Reapers.}}.

* [[Fatal Flaw]]: His [[Pride]]. He's so convinced that the ends justify the means, {{spoiler|it leads to himself and the entirety of Cerberus getting indoctrinated by the Reapers}}.

** {{spoiler|Un-shackled EDI explains that Cerberus owns the companies that built the first ''Normandy''. They likely still have the resources and technology involved.}}.

* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: {{spoiler|Even if you've finished the game depriving him of Reaper tech, he'll still go out of his way to get Kasumi in your team even though they've already finished their mission. The same goes for the Overlord mission, begging the question of why he'd request your aid in stopping his project after you blew up the Collector Base. In addition, you still get Cerberus funding when completing missions.}}.

* [[Jerkass Has a Point]]: Despite everything he's done wrong, and the truth behind his actions and motivations in the third game, one of the three endings reveals that {{spoiler|the Illusive Man's plan had a large bit of truth all along. Players who don't wish to destroy all synthetic life or watch the Citadel burst into flames (with all those people who are still stuck on it) will have no choice but to appreciate what he has been working so hard to do.}}.

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Although he is not as manipulative as he wants to think, what with trying (and failing) to persuade Paragon Shepard to {{spoiler|save the Collector base.}}.

* [[Necessarily Evil]]: His stance on some of his actions in ''Mass Effect 2'' and just about everything he does in ''Mass Effect 3''.

* [[Not So Different]]: ''Mass Effect 3'' starts to show that he and {{spoiler|Saren}} are frighteningly similar.

* [[Psychotic Smirk]]: {{spoiler|Give him the Collector base at the end of the game, and he'll have a rather creepy one of these.}}.

* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: {{spoiler|What Paragon Shepard does to him after destroying the Collector base. Bonus points for Miranda doing it too, when asked to convince him/her not to do it. Extra bonus points for "Shut up" being the actual dialogue option that shows up on screen.}}.

** {{spoiler|The whole of the final confrontation with him in the third game is consists of this combined with a healthy dose of [[Kirk Summation]] and [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]].}}.

* [[Spanner in the Works]]: Part of how Cerberus operates in ''Mass Effect 3''. {{spoiler|Attacking Sur'Kesh to kill the fertile females, and attempting to set off a Turian bomb on Tuchanka in order to prevent races from uniting.}}.

* [[Start of Darkness]]: ''Mass Effect: Evolution''.

* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: To {{spoiler|Saren}} in ''Mass Effect 3''. {{spoiler|Both seek to use the Reapers as a means to secure the dominance of their race, and end up indoctrinated and implanted with Reaper tech for their efforts. Shepard can even talk the Illusive Man into suicide in an almost exact replication of Saren. According to a Prothean VI, every cycle has groups like these that emerge.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Talking the Monster to Death]]}}: {{spoiler|You can convince him to kill himself at the end of ''Mass Effect 3''. However, unlike with the encounter with Saren in the first game, which just requires a bunch of points in the Charm or Intimidate skills, the dialogue option to do this with the Illusive Man is ''very'' [[Guide Dang It|difficult to unlock]]; you have to have near-max EMS, a completely full Reputation bar, ''and'' have to have taken all of the Persuade options in ''every conversation you have with him during the game''.}}.

* [[Tragic Hero]] / [[Tragic Villain]]: He needs quite a bit of whitewashing to be considered a 'hero', but the fact remains that he had the power, knowledge (his information network nearly rivals the Shadow Broker's), and charisma to stand a significant chance of defeating the Reapers. {{spoiler|Too bad his [[Pride]] led to him getting too close to Reaper tech and becoming one of their biggest assets against Shepard. It's hard to argue that, had the Illusive Man sided with Shepard when they encountered one another on Mars, the fight could have been won much sooner and more easily.}}.

** In ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', he has a pretty epic one when {{spoiler|confronting Shepard and Anderson at the endgame, especially if Shepard keeps pointing out that his plan to control the Reapers is failing because he himself is indoctrinated and playing into their hands}}. It ends with him either {{spoiler|ranting violently at Shepard and trying to shoot him/her and Anderson, or fighting off his indoctrination and committing suicide.}}.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]]: In the third game, {{spoiler|his reaction to seeing Shepard after s/he storms his base}}:

* [[Commanding Coolness]]: Gets promoted to this by the time you meet him in ''Mass Effect 3''.

* [[Retcon]]: An accidental one regarding his name. A background news report in the second game refers to him as Owen Bailey, but the ''[[Downloadable Content|Lair of the Shadow Broker]]'' archives refer to him as Armando Bailey. A later Cerberus Daily News report patched up the mistake by giving him the rather unwieldy first name "Armando-Owen.".

* {{spoiler|[[You Kill It, You Bought It]]}}: {{spoiler|Basically how he got his job, though unintentionally.}}.

"The Alliance does not condone assassination. We would never give that order. Killing Darius was your decision alone - and because you're a Spectre, we couldn't reprimand you if we wanted to." }}

** In ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'', {{spoiler|his dossier reveals that [[Genre Savvy|he denied an Alliance desk jockey's request to have Shepard detained and interrogated for a few months due to his/her ties to Cerberus, and with style.]]}}.

** Later in the same DLC, Liara {{spoiler|reveals that Hackett was the one who gave her Shepard's dogtags, and confirmed that Shepard was still alive before they actually met, wishing Shepard well.}}.

** After Shepard is forced to {{spoiler|kill 300,000 batarians, Hackett notes that he will do what he can to protect Shepard and delay any fallout that s/he will have to face as long as possible saying that s/he did what s/he did for the right reasons. He even tells him/her to keep his report because he doesn't need it to know that s/he did the right thing.}}.

* [[Rousing Speech]]: {{spoiler|He gives one during the endgame of ''Mass Effect 3''.}}.

{{quote|{{spoiler|"Never before have so many come together - from all quarters of the galaxy. But never before have we faced an enemy such as this. The Reapers will show us no mercy. We must give them no quarter. They will terrorize our populations. We must stand fast in the face of that terror. They will advance until our last city falls, but we will not fall. We will prevail. Each and every one of us will be defined by our actions in the coming battle. Stand fast. Stand strong. Stand together. Hackett out.}}.}}

* [[The Voice]]: Until ''The Arrival''.

{{quote|''"You're free to go, Justicar. It's been an honor having you in my station... and it's nice you didn't kill me, too."''}}

Anaya is a cop on [[Crap Saccharine World|Illium]] that Shepard meets when looking for Samara. She is quite helpful, as Shepard's cause might draw Samara away from Illium—andIllium... and therefore keep Anaya from having to arrest and be subsequently killed by the justicar.

'''Anaya:''' Yeah, that. }}

* [[Hero Worshipper]]: Like most Asari, is in total awe of a Justicar like Samara, even if that Justicar will [[Lawful Stupid|probably end up eventually killing her.]].

* [[My Country, Right or Wrong|My Orders, Right Or Wrong]]: She makes it very clear that she will follow her orders to detain Samara if Samara does not leave Illium, even knowing that her odds of survival are close to zero.

* [[Shout-Out]]: After the mission, she sends you an e-mail titled [[Portal (series)|Still Alive]].

An Asari Matriarch working in the Eternity bar on Illium because she had the ''blue laughed off her ass'' when suggesting her people build more mass relays. Bothered, but not too worried, about being confronted by [[Butt Monkey|Conrad Verner]], and implies she would have dealt with him a lot more violently than Shepard. {{spoiler|She is actually Liara's father. She took the bartending job in Eternity and later the Apollo cafe both to keep an eye on Liara for the other matriarchs and to keep the less sympathetic ones from trying something.}}.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Well... ''technically.''.

* [[Easter Egg]]: {{spoiler|If you order a "mystery drink" at the kiosk, then talk to her again, her character model is of a much younger and more attractive asari.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...]]: She gives Shepard a barely-veiled threat along these lines if s/he's been romancing Liara in the third game.}}.

* [[Mrs. Robinson]]: She flirts with Shepard quite a bit. {{spoiler|The fact that she's Liara's dad plays it even closer.}}.

** {{spoiler|Also prompted Benezia's petname for Liara, "Little-wing".}}.

{{spoiler|At the end, its revealed that his brother didn't volunteer at all for the last phases of the experiment, ''he forced his own brother, against his will, to take part in the experiment'', despite knowing full well how horrific and traumatizing it would be on him.}}.

== = The Quarian Admiralty Board ===

The current members that govern the quarian Migrant Fleet, composed of Rael'Zorah vas Rayya, Shala'Raan vas Tonbay, Han'Gerrel vas Neema, Zaal'Koris vas Qwib Qwib, and Daro'Xen vas Moreh. They play major roles during Tali's loyalty mission, being the judges in her trial and each member has a unique outlook on the geth/quarian conflict.

* [[Fantastic Racism]] / [[Just a Machine]] : Zaal'Koris is the only one who reflects on both sides of the geth-quarian war. Gerrel and Xen are actively hostile in different ways, while Raan doubts that "they have different factions" will convince people.

** Rael'Zorah seemed to have been a strict officer and a clever fighter, but remained distant from his daughter Tali, though he still loves her dearly. Based on spoken dialogue from the other four admirals, Rael seemed to share Gerrel's opinion in driving the geth out of their homeworld. {{spoiler|To that end, Zorah deliberately reprogrammed captured or dismantled geth to perform experiments, in an effort to successfully hack their neural network. By experimenting on active geth, Rael not only violated sacred laws that predated the quarians' flight from the homeworld, but got everyone on the Alarei killed and endangered the entire fleet.}}.

A close friend of Tali's mother, and flag officer of the Patrol Fleet. Her arm of the flotilla is responsible for picket lines, scouting, and extra-fleet escort duties. Stuck with the fairly thankless task of keeping the other admirals in line, she is sadly aware of the limits of her position and doesn't feel she can do much to change public opinion. If Tali dies in the [[Suicide Mission]], she fills her shoes at certain points in ''Mass Effect 3'''s story, like Padok Wiks does for Mordin.

* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]: If Tali's dead, and you save the geth over the quarians, she shoots herself in the head.}}.

* [[Neutral No Longer]]: {{spoiler|Initially was wishy-washy about her stance in the whole Homeworld question, but once momentum started, she sided with Admirals Xen and Gerrel. While Xen wanted to test out all her new toys, and Gerrel was simply itchin' for a fight, Raan just wanted to take the homeworld.}}.

An outspoken opponent of Homeworldhomeworld invasion plans, supporter of geth peace endeavours, and commander of the Civilian Fleet. He's responsible for the well-being of the majority of the fleet's ship numbers.

** [[Nice Guy]]: In ''Mass Effect 3'', he's the only one to stand with Tali in resisting the other admirals' war fever, his main concern is protecting the civilians who make up the bulk of his fleet, and his fervent belief in the fundamental right to life for the geth remains. He ends up becoming more of a [[Reasonable Authority Figure]] than Shala'Raan at times and {{spoiler|his survival}} is absolutely crucial {{spoiler|to broker a peace between the quarians and the geth}}.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Not immediately obvious in ''Mass Effect 2'', since he seems too willing to [[Kick the Dog|get Tali exiled for the sake of politics]], but by ''Mass Effect 3'', he fits this trope absolutely perfectly.

* [[Resigned to the Call]]: {{spoiler|Should you rescue him after his crash-landing, he becomes a hero to his people, having set foot on the homeworld and lived to tell about it. He's reluctant because the entirety of the rest of his ship's crew perished in the process. Ironic, considering he thought the idea of taking back the homeworld was suicidal folly at best.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Senseless Sacrifice]]: ''Worse'' than senseless;: if you let him die to save his crew, it becomes impossible to avoid the [[Genocide Dilemma]] later}}.

* [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]]: Unless reined in, he ''will'' launch a full frontal assault on anything resembling a geth ship. This includes the geth dreadnought that a fellow Admiral and a hero of the fleet is aboard, and later on, {{spoiler|he'll order the entire Migrant Fleet to open up on the geth fleet while they're disabled, and continue ordering the attack when they've been upgraded with advanced Reaper coding unless Tali, Shepard, Zaal'Koris, ''and'' Shala'Raan order him to stop}}.

* [[Flanderization]]: In the second game, he was the most vocal admiral about wanting to go to war with the geth, but was otherwise incredibly respectful to Shepard and was one of the most sympathetic admirals towards Tali during her trial. Come to the war in the third game, and he becomes single-mindedly obsessed with destroying the geth at the cost of the Migrant Fleet's civilian ships and {{spoiler|even Tali and Shepard while they're on board the geth dreadnought}}. That said, we never saw him at war in ''Mass Effect 2''.

* [[Talk to the Fist]]: When Han'Gerrel orders the Migrant Fleet to {{spoiler|bombard the geth dreadnought Shepard and Tali are aboard}}, the aftermath discussion gives Shepard a Renegade interrupt to gut-punch him and boot him off the ''Normandy''. Still, militarily, he made the right decision to {{spoiler|open up on the dreadnought immediately after Legion disabled it, because he simply couldn't take the risk that its weapons, shields, and engines might come back up, and let it go back to ripping through his fleet.}}. Paragon Shepard can recognize this, and simply tell Gerrel to let him/her know before he starts shooting.

* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: He goes from being a good friend of Tali and her father to willing to sacrifice her and Shepard to destroy the geth dreadnought. And that's not even covering what he does <ref>orOr at least intended to do before thinking better of it should peace happen.</ref> at the end of the Rannoch arc.

* [[The Unfettered]]: He will stop at ''nothing'' to have his vengeance on the geth. {{spoiler|Even if you manage to get the quarians and geth to make peace, itsit's clear that he is absolutely ''furious''.}}.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: In ''Mass Effect 2'', he reveals that he believes Tali and Shepard about the Reaper threat (and is one of the few people in any position of authority to do so), and justifies the need to go to war with the geth by claiming that without a planet to shelter their noncombatants, the quarians would be unable to devote the full force of their fleet to the fight against the reapers.

* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Her interest in Rael'Zorah's research. When you keep quiet about it, she'll send you a message gloating about how she plans to use it on the geth (expose what Rael did and she'll be furious). Additionally, {{spoiler|her use of Rael's research is what starts the quarian-geth war in ''Mass Effect 3''.}}.

'''Legion:''' This platform is not available for experimentation. }}

* [[Just a Machine]]: Doesn't believe at all that the geth are synthetic lifeforms, just machines that have malfunctioned, comparing them to starships (that are superior in various ways but are still just tools), and, if Shepard refers to {{spoiler|Legion's}} help beating the Collectors, she states that the same could be said of his/her pistol. {{spoiler|Thankfully, nothing seems to comes of it to jeopardize peace should you achieve it in ''Mass Effect 3''; she just gets shipped off to the Crucible.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Apocalyptic Log]]: All we ever see of him, and he uses it to give his only child more orders about what to do with his findings.}}.

* [[Foreshadowing]]: Han's story about their pre-Pilgrimage adventure against batarian pirates tells us he has a reckless side and isn't afraid of bending the rules. {{spoiler|Apparently, promotion to admiral only made this worse.}}.

* [[If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...]]: See [[Papa Wolf]] below.

* [[Married to the Job]]: Raan implies he wasn't always that way, but after Tali's mother died, he threw himself completely into [[Workaholic|his work.]].

* [[Papa Wolf]]: In his letter authorising Tali's transfer to Shepard's command, he notes his concern that Tali may be lead astray by Shepard's influence and that if any harm comes to her whatsover, he will not hesitate to bring the full wrath of the quarian Admiralty Board down on Shepard's head. {{spoiler|He should've put the same thought into his own actions.}}.

** If Tali is romanced, she implies in ''Mass Effect 3'' that {{spoiler|this would have been Rael's reaction to the relationship}}.

{{quote|'''Tali''': I'm having a drink with my boyfriend. My ''human'' boyfriend! {{spoiler|Ha! My father would have ''hated'' you!}}!}}

* {{spoiler|[[Posthumous Character]]: By the time we find him, he's been dead a while.}}.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: {{spoiler|He wanted to build Tali a house on the home-worldhomeworld, and was prepared to torture sentient creatures in her name in order to achieve that goal.}}.

* [[Workaholic]]: Tali thinks it was his way of coping with his wife's death.

* [[Cultured Warrior]]: Implied by some of his throwaway comments; Kal's tactical knowledge can be very useful when trying to navigate the last part of [[That One Level|Tali's recruitment mission]], and if {{spoiler|he survives Tali's recruitment mission, he displays quite a bit of knowledge of the political machinations involved in Tali's trial in her loyalty mission.}}.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|He offers to distract a Geth Colossus with a rocket launcher. Shepard can save him either by refusing to let him do it or by destroying the Colossus before it kills Reegar.}}.

** {{spoiler|Fully happens in the third game;: he and his squad fix a vital turian comm relay, then hold the position until krogan reinforcements show up.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: Even if you save him on Haestrom, he's doomed to die ''off-screen''.}}.

* [[My Country, Right or Wrong|My Fleet, Right or Wrong]]: He thinks that the quarian fleet shouldn't go to war with the geth; nevertheless, he states that as a soldier he will follow any given order.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Insists he's "just a soldier,", and he "just shoots things". However, he's smart enough to conclude that attacking the Geth for the homeworld would be suicidal, and also that Tali withheld evidence at her trial if you don't use it.

'''Kal'Reegar:''' Noticed that, ma'am. }}

The closest thing [[Wretched Hive|Omega]] has to a ruler,<ref>Queen, if you're feeling dramatic.</ref> Aria and her forces maintain what passes for order on the station. Not to be fucked with.

** Although she's quite capable of that, too;: as shown in the comics, being the "queen" of Omega hasn't dulled her battle skills any. A Cerberus scientist expresses amazement at her biotic capabilities.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: She has her moments in ''Mass Effect 3''.

'''Aria:''' I think I'm going to employ violence. }}

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Think that Aria'd be okay with {{spoiler|Collector deals}} on her station if it doesn't bother her? {{spoiler|[http://media.comics.ign.com/media/056/056597/img_7844425.html Think again.]}}.

* [[Femme Fatale]]: How she usurped control of Omega from Patriarch.

'''Aria:''' I ''am'' Omega! }}

* [[Iron Lady]]: Anybody who can keep power in [[Wretched Hive|Omega]] for centuries is not to be taken lightly. Also, ''Mass Effect 3'' shows that {{spoiler|she has connections as high as the Asari Councilor and can bypass the immigration process of the Citadel simply by asking her.}}.

** In ''[[Mass Effect: Retribution]]'', she believes that {{spoiler|Grayson killed her daughter Liselle}}. Unfortunately, {{spoiler|this made her fall right into Cerberus' plans, since it was actually Kai Leng}}.

* [[NGO Superpower]]: If Shepard assists Aria in building a force to {{spoiler|re-take Omega from Cerberus}}, that force, the [http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/War_Assets/Alien#Terminus_Fleet Terminus Fleet], will assist in the [[Final Battle]] -... and only the krogan clans and geth fleet are more powerful. Repeat: she's got more firepower than ''an entire turian fleet.''.

* {{spoiler|[[Out-Gambitted]]: Over the course of ''Mass Effect: Invasion''. The Illusive Man is probably lucky Shepard got to him first -... Aria wouldn't have made it so quick.}}.

** A minor one in ''Mass Effect 3''. If Shepard drinks enough in [[Good Guy Bar|Purgatory]] to pass out, s/he comes to next to Aria on Aria's couch, despite the bar being a level and a half above where Aria is sitting.

** Alluded to in ''Mass Effect 3''. [[Call Back|"It looks like there's only one rule on the Citadel."]]

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: She admits that she has a certain level of respect for the "Patriarch.".

== = Urdnot Wreav ===

* [[Mauve Shirt]]: {{spoiler|If Wrex is still alive, Wreav's tomkah gets consumed by Kalros during the Tuchanka finale mission in ''Mass Effect 3''.}}.

* [[Smug Snake]]: Spends much of ''Mass Effect 3'' trying to threaten Shepard. He basically exists to tell the player "You screwed up and now you're stuck with this guy instead of Wrex."

A salarian geneticist, former member of the salarian STG and student of Mordin Solus. He also worked on the {{spoiler|modification of the genophage}} alongside Mordin. Unfortunately, he ends up getting captured by a krogan clan, Weyrloc, who are attempting to reverse the effect of the genophage. {{spoiler|Turns out he actually volunteered.}}.