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An old friend of Admiral Hackett, Dr. Kenson sent a shockwave through the galactic community by publishing research that proved the Mass Relays pre-dated the Prothean civilization. She is later incarcerated by the batarians who claim they stopped her from committing terrorist acts. {{spoiler|Turns out they were half right since, although she had planned to smash an asteroid into the Alpha Relay, it was to prevent the Reapers from using it as a springboard when they arrived. Unfortunately, by the time Shepard frees her, she had already been indoctrinated and will now do everything in her power to stop Shepard from interfering with her masters' plan}}.

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Not as badass as other examples in the series (she prefers to have her men fight for her), but she's decent in a fight and hardly someone you want to cross.

* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]: She blows herself up when a Paragon Shepard finally corners her and tries to talk her down. A Renegade action simply shoots her, but she's already pulled the pin.}}

* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: First appeared in Cerberus Daily News, revealing to the galaxy her findings that the mass relays were not made by Protheans.

* [[Moral Myopia]]: {{spoiler|When Shepard activates the [[Colony Drop|Project]], Kenson immediately calls out Shepard for what s/he's done. Not because Shepard's actions will kill thousands of innocent people, but because it would kill Kenson's crew and prevent Kenson from seeing the Reaper's arrival. This is, of course, a side-effect of getting Indoctrinated.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Taking You with Me]]: She tries to do this when she blows herself up, but Shepard survives the explosion.}}

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: {{spoiler|Yes, let's put the indoctrinating Reaper artifact out in the open, with no attempts to contain it.}}

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Played with. {{spoiler|Her initial plan to stop the Reapers would have killed thousands of innocent people. However, she dropped the plan after becoming indoctrinated, realizing it to be horrible, but for the wrong reasons.}}

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[[File:overlord 5768.png|frame|MAKE IT STOP!]]

* [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]]

* [[Arc Villain]]: He (and his small army of geth) only appears as the antagonist in his DLC, and isn't mentioned in the vanilla game.

* [[Bald of Evil]]: {{spoiler|Well, not really.}}

* [[Body Horror]]/[[Medical Horror]]: {{spoiler|The rig he's wired into. ''Yeesh''.}}

* [[Brain Uploading]]

* {{spoiler|[[Break the Cutie]]}}

* [[Catch Phrase]]: David Archer has "Square root of nine hundred six point oh one is thirty point one..." On the other hand, the Overlord himself has a catchphrase in the electronically distorted snarls it produces throughout the game. {{spoiler|This is later revealed to be him screaming '''''[[And I Must Scream|"QUIET PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!!!"]]'''''}}

* [[Contagious AI]]: Infects and controls an army of geth and security mechs. {{spoiler|He can even overpower ''EDI'' if you're not quick enough during the boss fight. Thankfully, he cannot do the same to Legion.}}

* [[Digitized Hacker]]: As a VI, he can interface with any electronic device. It's noted that if he ever escaped his facility, he could cause a "technological apocalypse."

* [[Gone Horribly Wrong]] {{spoiler|"It all seemed harmless..."}}

* [[Machine Worship]]: The purpose of the project was to get the geth to see him as a sort of god-figure, letting him control them.

* {{spoiler|[[The Rainman]]: He is extremely good with numbers, to the point where he can communicate with the Geth (who use math as their language). This is the reason why he was selected for the project.}}

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: {{spoiler|Only what it looks like. He's actually trying to cry for help, but he's so broken it doesn't work out.}}

* [[Start of Darkness]]: Before you finally face him, The Overlord shows you his origin.

* [[The Unintelligible]]: While some of what he says is just noise, he also speaks heavily garbled sentences that become clearer over time. If you know what he's saying, you'll be able to understand him: {{spoiler|'''''[[And I Must Scream|QUIET PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!!!]]'''''}}.

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[[File:vasir 6747.png|frame|Ilium is just Omega with expensive shoes.]]

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* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: She's a Spectre ''for a reason''.

* [[Badass]]: She's a Spectre. It's a job requirement. {{spoiler|She beats ''Shepard'' in a mid-air wrestle}}.

* {{spoiler|[[The Dragon]]: To the Shadow Broker, being his best fighter. A Spectre herself, Vasir justifies it by saying that her working for the Shadow Broker isn't any different from Shepard working with the Illusive Man.}}

* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: She was mentioned in the [[Cerberus Daily News]] in February and July 2010.

* [[Made of Iron]]: Gets hit with a lot of attacks, but almost never shows up with a visible injury. Also probably the toughest boss fight in the entire game, partly due to the fact she charges around quickly and has 2 layers of crazy tough protection.

* [[Magic Knight]]: Comes with being a biotic. Her special ability makes her especially stand out from other examples in Mass Effect.

* {{spoiler|[[Not So Different]]: Picture Renegade female Shepard as an asari, working for the Shadow Broker instead of the Illusive Man; ''that's'' Tela Vasir in a nutshell.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Politically-Incorrect Villain]]:}} {{spoiler|Just to make sure we know she's a villain, she calls Liara a "[[Half Human Hybrids|pureblood]] [[Fantastic Racism|bitch]]" before making another attempt to kill her. Remember that Liara says in the first game that no asari would be cruel enough to call her a pureblood to her face.}}

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[[File:me2shadowbroker ship 4324.jpg|frame|[[Elaborate Underground Base]]? Feh.]]

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: {{spoiler|He attempts one on Liara at the climax of his DLC. [[Shut UP, Hannibal|It didn't go well.]]}}

* [[Hidden Agenda Villain]]: Possibly the only antagonist more [[Incredibly Lame Pun|elusive]] than the Illusive Man.

* {{spoiler|[[Large and In Charge]]: The yahg Shadow Broker is even larger than a ''krogan''.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Legacy Character]] / [[Legacy Immortality]] / [[You Kill It, You Bought It]]: He became the Shadow Broker after ''secretly killing the previous one.'' As Liara ends up doing '''the exact same thing''', it's implied that his predecessor wasn't the original Broker either.}}

** {{spoiler|''"Operative Kechlu"'' was the name of the agent the Shadow Broker sent to find him. After he was dead, the previous Shadow Broker sent a message that essentially said, "Congratulations, you are ''now'' Operative Kechlu".}}

* [[NGO Superpower]]: For good reason; when your organization spans most of the galaxy, has hands in business and political interests in nearly everything in said galaxy, ''and'' specializes in collecting and using information to both support those interests and manipulate governments and corporations, you definitely should have impressive resources. The Broker owns a personal army capable of deploying hundreds of loyal soldiers in ''minutes'' on Illium alone, along with a supremely well-engineered atmospheric airbase-warship, and the enormous amounts of money, hardware, and political influence one would expect from an organization of this scale.

* [[No Name Given]]: All [[Pronoun Trouble|he's/she's/they're/it's]] known by is 'the Shadow Broker.'

* {{spoiler|[[You Kill It, You Bought It]]: How he got the job. And how his successor gets the job too.}}

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The Blue Suns are, ostensibly, a corporation of [[Private Military Contractors]] founded by Vido Santiago and Zaeed Massani. In reality, they are a wide spanning criminal empire involved in the trading of slaves and drugs, and are in control of many planets in the Terminus systems.

=== The Blue Suns in general ===

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Commanders.

* [[Enemy Mine]]: Aria can help Shepard get their allegiance in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]''.

* [[Kill It with Fire]]: Blue Suns Pyros.

* [[Mooks]]: The most commonly battled mooks in the game.

** [[Elite Mooks]]: Centurions and Legionnaires. Like normal troopers, except with a Vindicator battle rifle or Scimitar shotgun instead of an Avenger series assault rifle, specialized ammo, and shields.

** [[King Mook]]: Blue Suns Commanders, soldiers with three thick layers of protection (shields, armor, and health) who wield [[BFG]]s such as Claymore shotguns or Revenant light machine guns as weapons.

* [[NGO Superpower]]: The amount of resources they have at their disposal is truly frightening. Among other things, they possess: hundreds of thousands of soldiers, heavy mechs and gunships that are just as advanced as the stuff the Alliance uses, at least three whole planets and all their people as workforce, several front corporations, a krogan cloning lab, the materials to make city destroying weaponry, and a refinery on Zorya.

* [[Shotguns Are Just Better]]: The turians seem to think so. Excepting Warden Kuril, all the turian Blue Suns troops wield shotguns. [[Short-Range Shotgun|It actually puts them at a disadvantage most of the time.]]

* [[The Jailer]]: They run a prison ship, the Purgatory.

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Averted - when he and Zaeed founded the Blue Suns, Vido ran the business while Zaeed was the field commander.

* [[Bad Boss]]: In Zaeed's loyalty mission, he threatens his soldiers with death if they retreat.

* [[Brains and Brawn]]: With Zaeed.

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: {{spoiler|Zaeed}} figured this out the hard way.

* [[Cutscene Boss]]: {{spoiler|If Zaeed kills him.}}

* [[Death by Irony]]: {{spoiler|If you let Zaeed kill him.}}

* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: In one side quest, you can find a datapad that mentions him by name even if you haven't downloaded the (free) DLC where he actually appears.

* [[Greed]]: The reason he betrayed Zaeed? Zaeed's [[Even Evil Has Standards|ethics]] meant he wasn't making quite as much money as he could've.

* [[Affably Evil]]: She's very polite, considerate, and patient, and will gladly answer any and all of your questions. She also says not to be too hard on Tarak because he's under a lot of stress, and even warns you that he might kill all the freelancers regardless of what they do. She's still fanatically loyal to the Blue Suns.

* [[The Dragon]]: To Tarak. From Shepard's perspective, she's a mere [[Mook Lieutenant]]

* [[Firey Redhead]]

* [[Instant Armor]]: Tech Armor.

* {{spoiler|[[Hypocrite]]: Says that he "makes the galaxy safer" by locking up dangerous individuals. But when comes the biggest hero(ine) that ever lived, he tries to capture him/her [[Money, Dear Boy|for the bounty]].}}

* [[Instant Armor]]: Tech Armor.

* [[I Want Them Alive|I Want Her Alive:]] Towards Jack. {{spoiler|He doesn't mind killing Shep', though.}}

* [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]: Starts off as a [[Knight Templar]], with questionable methods, but not harming innocents and trying to help the galaxy. Soon, you discover he is willing to leave dangerous criminals on planets that can't pay, and he is rather brutal to prisoners. All ambiguity goes out the airlock when tries to capture Shepard for a bounty.

* [[Instant Armor]]: Tech Armor.

* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: This woman's ego masses more than twenty Jupiters combined. Just listen to her go on at the Blue Suns about her "mighty army". Okeer claims his rejected krogan would be adequate soldiers for Jedore were she not such an awful leader; this is borne out by a reject krogan speaking to and obeying Shepard on sight, without question.

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** Although that ''may'' have something to do with {{spoiler|all the Krogan mercenaries that went back to Tuchanka in the wake of the genophage cure. You'll notice that neither Aria or Hackett ever mention krogan when discussing the Blood Pack, and it was basically led by krogan mercs in 2.}}

* [[Enemy Mine]]: Aria can help Shepard get their allegiance in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]''.

* [[Grenade Launcher]]: According to the description for the grenade launcher available to the player, this is a popular weapon among them. [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|In actuality,]] their troops just use the same ML-77 Rocket Launcher everyone else uses. However, the Blood Pack Warriors are able to fire some sort of red rocket / plasma ball thing from their shotguns, which could make them an example.

* [[Healing Factor]]: Both the krogan and the vorcha. Can be countered with fire based powers like Incendiary Ammo and Incinerate.

* [[Highly-Conspicuous Uniform]]

* [[Kill It with Fire]]: Blood Pack Pyros.

** [[Elite Mooks]]: Krogan Warriors.

** [[King Mook]]: The krogan battlemasters. All of them are named, but they fight identically, being like normal Blood Pack Warriors except with higher health and armor, the ability to use [[Energy Ball|Warp,]] and a [[Deflector Shields|biotic barrier.]]

* [[Shotguns Are Just Better]]: The krogan certainly seem to think so. The Blood Pack Warriors are all equipped with Scimitar assault shotguns.

* [[Villain Team-Up]]: Early in the game, the Omega chapters of all three big merc groups team up to get rid of Archangel. They lose.

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]: If you prevent Jack from killing him in the second game, he dies in the third game by saving a shuttle full of children evacuating from the Reapers.}}

* [[Shout-Out]]: His last name is likely a reference to Shohreh Aghdashloo, the voice actress for Admiral Raan.

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* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Like the other groups, some of their members, such as Wasea, Enyala, and Jaroth.

* [[Enemy Mine]]: Aria can help Shepard get their allegiance in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]''.

** [[Elite Mooks]]: Eclipse Engineers and Vanguards.

** [[King Mook]]: Eclipse Operatives and Eclipse Commandos.

* [[Palette Swap]]: Their human units are just palette swapped versions of Blue Suns units, with at most one or two small attributes added (human vanguards have a slightly different head and toss Warps).

* [[Villain Team-Up]]: With the other two big merc groups on Omega, to take down Archangel. They lose.

* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: He runs the red sand trade.

* [[The Evil Genius]]: From Archangel's perspective. He controls the mechs, and helped Tarak plan the attack.

* [[Hand Cannon]]: He's equipped with an M-6 Carnifex.

* [[Kill It with Fire]]: Like other Eclipse Operatives, he possesses the [[Fireballs|Incinerate]] power and holographic [[Attack Drone|Combat Drones.]]

* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: After you kill all his mercs either way (through normal gunfire or hacking his heavy mech), he comes charging out with a Carnifex.

* [[What an Idiot!]]: He leaves a certain important datapad around for anyone to just pick up, including the freelancers walking around his base. Namely the datapad that contains {{spoiler|a message to Tarak about their plans to overthrow Aria and take over Omega.}}

* [[You Killed My Father|You Killed My Brother]]: The main reason he hates Archangel is because he killed one of Jaroth's top lieutenants- who also happened to be his brother.