Mass Effect 2/Characters/Antagonists and NPCs: Difference between revisions

== NPCs ==

 

=== EDI ===

[[File:edi 4801.png|frame|I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees... <ref>That is a joke.</ref>]]

 

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* [[Affably Evil]]: To Paragon players. According to ''Retribution'', this is a facade he uses to make it difficult to tell when he's lying.

** If Shepard dies he seems genuinely remorseful in private, regardless of what s\he did to the Collector base.

** [[Non-Action Big Bad]]: In every appearance with him as an antagonist.

* [[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 Shadow Broker [[Downloadable Content|DLC]] reveals this.

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

{{quote|''Shepard, {{spoiler|you're in my chair}}.''}}

 

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[[File:bailey 580.png|frame|Not too old for this shit just yet.]]

 

* [[Canada, Eh?]]: Michael Hogan's northern Ontario accent comes through pretty strongly.

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

* [[Dirty Cop]]: A [[Zig-Zagging Trope]]. Bailey is obviously crooked, as he's willing to torture suspects and makes under the table deals with thugs, but at the same time he's actually a good person and acts as a [[Reasonable Authority Figure]] towards Shepard.

* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]: Will bargain with crooks if it ultimately means it'll keep peace on the Citadel.

* [[Foil]]: Towards Executive Pallin. Unlike Pallin, who was a by-the-book cop, Bailey is willing and able to bend the rules if he feels it gets the job done.

* [[Hidden Heart of Gold]]: Willing to engage in dirty business to keep the peace, but he's anything but a thug - see below.

* [[Old-Fashioned Copper]]: On your first trip to the Citadel, you overhear him encouraging a younger officer to "make [the suspect] scream a little" to extract a confession, and then offers to do it himself if she can't handle it.

* [[Noble Bigot]]: Subverted. Although this trope often goes hand in hand with [[Old-Fashioned Copper]], Bailey is one of the few NPC's in the series to avoid this. During Thane's quest he shows empathy towards the alien population's fear of humans, observing that many of them have lived on the station since before humanity discovered space travel. All the more impressive given that many of the C-Sec officers throughout the game are very openly speciesist, including (at first) Garrus.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: "You think [Thane's] the only man who ever screwed up raising a son?"

* [[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."

* [[Retirony]]: Defied. He tells you he wants to retire to a nice place in the foothills on Earth, but then quickly adds that he won't be doing so any time soon.

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

 

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[[File:hackett 2605.jpg|frame|Something's come up, Commander.]]

 

 

 

[[File:Anaya p 555.png|frame|Nice guns. Try not to use 'em in my district.]]

 

* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: Though [[Subverted Trope|not by choice]], only by proxy: her superiors ordered her to detain Samara, even though Samara's code would force her to kill Anaya to avoid it. Fortunately, both of them are willing to be reasonable about it.

* [[By-The-Book Cop]]: She only accepts your evidence against Pitne For because Samara vouches for you.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Very much so.

{{quote|'''Shepard:''' You're not going to lock her up?

* [[Friend on the Force]]: Will follow up on some of Shepard's leads if you go to her.

* [[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.

{{quote|'''Anaya:''' I'm a cop and I know my duty.}}

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

 

[[File:Aethyta 3981.png|frame|Sorry. My father was a krogan.]]

 

 

* [[Cool Old Lady]]: Thanks to being a [[Deadpan Snarker]] and [[Dirty Old Woman]].

* [[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.}}

* [[Wolf Whistle]]: When fondly recalling {{spoiler|Benezia's}} rack.

 

[[File:archer 3656.png|frame|Even amid chaos there are lessons to be learned.]]