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=== Legion ===

[[Mind Hive|1,183 geth runtimes]], operating on a special-purpose geth mobile platform, who are [[Stalker with a Crush|hunting for Shepard]], complete with integrating a chunk of his/her armor into [[Pronoun Trouble|his/its/their]]<ref>Legion uses "we,", while [http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Legion the Mass Effect Wiki prefers "it."].</ref> body.

* [[Appropriated Appellation]]: From EDI —... another AI, no less.

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: The list of infractions on Legion's profile for the [[WoW]] expy are 2 counts of "suspected use of VI play assistance" ("directed use of twenty-seven pets without the use of macros" and "reaction time better than possible for organics", respectively), 1 count of "suspected use of hacking for server access" ("tactics better than possible without knowledge of underlying code behavior") and 1 count of "unsportsmanlike behavior", which is revealed to be "taunting during Genophage Elimination Platinum".

* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: Besides being chock full of unique and entertaining dialogue, and offering insights into what was until then one of the most stereotypical bad guy factions in the game, Legion is also an incredible powerful squadmate. He is a bit wimpy to start with, but he gets a shield boosting ability as his loyalty power and is after that pretty durable. The M-98 Widow Anti-Materiel Rifle you can research for him after the loyalty mission is also one of the two most powerful weapon any squadmate can wield. In terms of damage per shot, only Grunts researchable M-300 Claymore shotgun is better, but the Widow can be fired from a ridiculous range. He also has access to assault rifles for close to medium range combat and a wide array of tech powers that are only rivaled by Tali.

* [[Because You Were Nice to Me]]: ItsIt's revealed in ''Mass Effect 3'' that Legion's memory of Shepard welcoming him with (somewhat) open arms aboard the ''Normandy'' was deemed worthy enough to be preserved in the Geth consensus, along with other key moments of Geth history.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: A major case of [[Trailers Always Lie]] made fans think Legion would be a creepy stalker obsessed with Shepard in a most unhealthy way. The obsession is debatable, but Legion comes across as very mild-mannered. Which doesn't mean it's any less [[Badass]];: it's a deadly sniper who can match ''[[Wrench Wench|Tali'Zorah vas Normandy]]'' as a technician.

** {{spoiler|He pleads to let him upload the Reaper Code in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' to allow full sapience on every Geth platform, allowing the Geth to defend themselves from the attacking Quarian fleet and pointing out the Geth don't want this conflict. If you fail to either back him up or [[Take a Third Option|broker a peace between the Quarians and Geth]], he tries to throw you off a cliff.}}.

{{quote|'''Legion:''' No two species are identical. All must be judged by their own merits. Treating every species like ones' own is racist. Even benign anthropomorphicism. }}

* {{spoiler|[[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Will be programmed to fight for Cerberus if you sold it to them in ''Mass Effect 2''; you fight it at their base near the climax of ''Mass Effect 3''.}}.

* [[Character Development]]: If Legion died in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'''s climactic mission, then in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', its role is filled by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIdE0MNOiAI&feature=plcp&context=C475b94bVDvjVQa1PpcFPHC6lGjpj4TTgm4iiVd3nBKe8kn9-sK1E= a sort of backup] (spoilers in video). This backup has no memories from the past three years and no memory of working with Shepard -... and it's a rather different character from the "real" one. It's much less friendly and more logical, disinterested when Shepard tries to connect with it, and it doesn't seem to have any grasp of emotion or trust. It never mentions beauty or souls. Those three years changed it a ''lot''.

** [[Video Game Caring Potential]]: Refuses to kill slaves in the ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' [[Expy]].

* [[The Comically Serious]]: notablyNotably if you take him on an accidental "infiltration" of the Citadel.

'''Legion:''' ...Geth do not ''intentionally'' infiltrate. }}

* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: Hilariously invoked in the ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'' DLC. Legion's online gaming profile indicates it has been hit with multiple infractions because it was so skilled, the game designers thought it was cheating. While it later challenged and overturned those relating to superior micro-management, reaction time, and tactics, it accepted a suspension for taunting its inferior human opponents during an event.

* {{spoiler|[[Crucified Hero Shot]]: It was in this pose when you find it in the Geth Dreadnought, being used against its will as an amplifier for the Reaper control signal.}}.

* [[Distinctive Appearances]]: It has N7 armor grafted to his frame to make sure you don't mistake it for another geth. And a massive hole through its chest, which oddly enough doesn't really seem to bother it much. {{spoiler|Its replacement in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', if it died on the collector base, has a holographic version of the armor and no memory of why it picked that.}}.

* [[Do Androids Dream?]]: As shown in its admiration for Shepard, Legion is capable of some degree of emotion, though it doesn't really understand it. The closest thing to anger you'll see is if you side with Tali during the loyalty confrontation -... otherwise, it's just "Anger is an organic response. We understand the theory, but we do not experience it."

** The ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'' DLC reveals that Legion has spent 75 hours playing the "Fleet and Flotilla" [[Dating Sim]]. It has a score of 15 ("Hopeless"). It's capable of some level of compassion, however.

** Legion mentions that the geth have been quietly maintaining Rannoch, the quarian homeworld, as a form of memorial. When asked, Legion claims not to know why, but speculates that it is done out of sorrow for the death of so many quarians during the Morning War.

** In the third game, {{spoiler|it asks this question repeatedly, and right before its [[Heroic Sacrifice]] asks Tali, and she answers "yes."}}.

* {{spoiler|1=[[Final Death]]: Legion is one of the only characters in ''ME3Mass Effect 3'' who is guaranteed to bite it no matter what you do. If you don't side with the geth, he tries to [[Neck Lift]] you to death, and you have to kill him. If you side with the geth or [[Take a Third Option]], he pulls a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to turn them all sentient. There is no outcome where Rannoch isn't the end of the road for him. Also, if you gave him to Cerberus in the second game, you'll have to kill him yourself during the attack on Cerberus Headquarters.}}.

** Mitigate it to the point that Legion becomes one of the most durable party members, second only to Grunt and Soldier/Sentinel Shepard. At this point, he's more just 'cannon.'.

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]: If you side with the geth or get both sides to stand down, Legion disseminates its personality to upgrade the other geth. Siding with the quarians means ''you'' kill them before they have the chance.}}.

** In ''Mass Effect 3'', it's revealed Shepard was the first organic since the Morning War that the Geth chose to interact with on a one-to-one basis. This was hinted at in ''Mass Effect 2'' when Legion admits to having visiting worlds Shepard had gone to, implying that the Geth may have built Legion with the intention of opening a diplomacticdiplomatic dialogue with the galaxy, via Shepard.

* [[Interface Spoiler]]: It's referred to as "Legion" in the subtitles when you meet it first. Oddly enough, when you talk to it later, it's referred to as "Geth". In addition, by the time you progress far enough to meet it, the party select screen will most likely have a single, gaping hole ''with a dossier'' in it, thus cluing the player in that there's another party member to recruit, and it just might be this "Legion" fellow.

* {{spoiler|[[Ironic Name]]: Named after a host of demons in the second game,; in the third, Legion's [[Heroic Sacrifice]] makes him [[The Messiah]] to the Geth.}}.

* [[Jack of All Stats]]: When fully upgraded, it becomes arguably the most useful party member in the game. Legion's powerful sniper rifle makes it a better sniper than Garrus or Thane, its tech powers are almost as good as Tali's (only his lack of an Energy Drain ability puts it at a disadvantage in that department), his fully upgraded shields plus his "Geth Shield Boost" ability gives it almost as much durability as Grunt, and the fact that it can use assault rifles makes it good in a straight up firefight, like combat characters such as Zaeed, Grunt, and Garrus. It just lacks biotics, being synthetic and all.

* [[Late Character Syndrome]]: Recruiting it triggers the end game;: there's only time for two more missions after that. You still have an opportunity to do missions you've missed at this time (and take him along), but it will cost you the lives of several crew members. During the final sequence, however, it's not particularly useful as there are no synthetic enemies on the Collector space station.

** You can also [http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/105/index/1585456/4#2001802 modify your saved game]{{Dead link}} to have it appear for squad use in the beginning of the game, after Freedom's Progress. You can get significant amounts of dialogue. It's also a potential game-breaker -: you have a sniper who can easily be equiped with the Widow ("one shot, one kill" except against the toughest opponents) and has the combat drone which distracts enemies. It's entirely worth it, though.

* {{spoiler|[[Mini Boss]]: If he was given to Cerberus in ''Mass Effect 2'', he is battled towards the end of Cerberus HQ in the third game, working for Cerberus.}}.

* [[Mr. Exposition]]: Almost Legion's entire purpose in ''Mass Effect 2'' is to provide an Infodump of how the Geth were retconned from ''Mass Effect 1'' (it isn't even a matter of explaining vague technical data, very explicit aspects of Geth physiology from ''Mass Effect 1'' function completely differently in ''Mass Effect 2''). His loyalty mission may have an impact on ''Mass Effect 3'', but that remains to be seen.

* [[Neck Lift]]: {{spoiler|Don't expect it to go down without a fight if you side with the quarians in ''Mass Effect 3''.}}.

* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: Legion was officially announced by the dev team in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcZXMuY5kqk 'Enemies'] trailer, which also talked about the Collectors and geth as a whole. The impression fans took away was that of a cold, calculating, absolutely terrifying opponent with a [[Creepy Monotone]] and a firm grasp of psychological warfare. Once encountered in the game... not so much.

** Also potentially to a Colonist Shepard in ''Mass Effect 3''. Legion is heavily implied to have once been the argicultural unit shown in the Geth's memories that picked up a Sniper Rifle to defend other units during the Morning War. Legion was once a simple ''farmer''. Sound familiar, Colonist Shepard?

*** Not so weird. Legion's understanding of humanoid emotional reactions is incomplete—thatincomplete: that's part of why he's journeying with you, to learn about them.

** Legion's loyalty mission makes mention that Legion requires its programs to reach consensus before it decides to act. ItsIt's plausible that the vote swung towards sending the data before Shepard [[Took a Third Option|pointed out a fair compromise]].

** Also plays the role in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', {{spoiler|where unlike it'sits people, Legion actually realizes that siding with the Reapers no matter the circumstances is a really freaking stupid idea.}}.

* [[Pronoun Trouble]]: It's iffy on whether Legion should be referred to as a "he", an "it", or a "they", considering that Legion is made up of over a thousand geth programs that form a gestalt consciousness. Legion refers to itself as "we,", although it can be hard to seperate whether it is speaking of the runtimes in the platform named Legion, or the geth species as a whole. In conversation, it suggests that the distinction may be meaningless. It does occasionally refer to itself as a single platform in the singular.

* [[Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence]]: Level 4;: the geth programs that comprise Legion are, together, capable of cracking just about any computer system in microseconds, and have technical skills on par with some of the best (if not ''the'' best) organic engineers in the galaxy. They're also beginning to develop emotions, though they do not fully understand them yet.

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Played with. When asked why Legion chose a piece of Shepard's armor to fix itself (there had to be plenty of more suitable material around and a substantial hole remains), it pauses awkwardly, looks away a little and very quietly answers [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?|"No data available".]].

* [[Stop Being Stereotypical]]: What Legion thinks of the geth that sided with the "Old Machines.".

* [[Troll]]: Of the "Social Experiment" variety. If you talk to Legion, it eventually reveals that they [http://youtu.be/o-bodFaiazs do this] (1:30 in) to provoke reactions and study organics, in this case, using a fabricated story about a certain pattern of stars forming the face of a Salarian goddess when viewed from the Batarian homeworld, and a bunch of Salarians bought it until they tried to purchase colonization rights for those stars and found out they didn't exist.

* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: Very few people (including Citadel security) react to a Geth platform following Shepard around. Anderson hand-waves that the geth are no longer "the boogeymen they used to be", and that most people are assuming it's a trophy.

* [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?]]: From his dossier in ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'':

Player Score: 15 (Hopeless) }}

** Legion's claim to not know why he chose to repair himself with a piece of ''Shepard's'' N7 Armour. It is notable that one of Legion's primary objectives was to study Shepard, having journeyed to numerous world's in their path and the N7 Armour used was found at the ''Normandy'' crashsite. It's implied that Legion did so as a form of rememberance, possibly experiencing a sense of loss over Shepard's death which it could not rationally quantify.

* [[Where It All Began]]: {{spoiler|It's implied that Legion was the first geth to kill a quarian. No matter what happens at Rannoch, he will die there.}}.

== = Morinth ===

An asari serial killer that Samara is hunting. She is actually Samara's daughter. You can choose to kill Samara during the climax of her quest, and by doing so you can have Morinth join you instead of her mother. The "''Lair of the Shadow Broker"'' [[Downloadable Content|DLC]] reveals that her real name is Mirala.

{{quote|'''Morinth:''' I didn't choose to be made this way... ''mother''.

'''Samara:''' ''[[Shut UP, Hannibal|Enough]]'', [[Shut UP, Hannibal|Morinth!]] }}

''"I love any game where your opponent can believe he's about to win... just before you kill him."'' }}

* {{spoiler|[[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: If you choose her in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', and she survives, the Reapers turn her into a [[Body Horror|Banshee]] you have to kill in London in ''Mass Effect 3''.}}.

* [[Death by Irony]]: She tells you, "I love any game where your opponent can believe he's about to win... just before you kill him." She spends most of the mission thinking she's about to win.

* [[Death by Sex]]: Due to a bizarre genetic quirk, she burns out the nervous system of anyone she mates with, instantly killing them. This process not only gives her a boost of power and knowledge, but it's extremely addictive for her. The effect is drug-like—thelike: the more that she does it, the more she wants to do it.

* {{spoiler|[[Dropped a Bridge On Her]]}}: {{spoiler|There's no way to prevent her from being turned into a Banshee in the third game. You've got to kill her. Granted, [[Serial Killer|she probably deserves it.]]}}.

* [[A God Am I]]: Claims to be the "genetic destiny of the asari", despite the fact that Ardat-Yakshi cannot breed. Also, of course, the whole "setting herself as a goddess" thing she did, complete with demanding the sacrifices of daughters.

* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: You get one when Samara makes the kill. Apparently, it's so gory that even cast-iron Shepard averts his/her eyes.

* [[Half Human Hybrids]]: [[Rule of Three|Again]], she subverts this by being a purebloodpure-blood in a society that prefers hybrids. As the purebloodedpure-blooded daughter of a purebloodpure-blood, asari like her are the reason for the anti-pureblood stigma.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: "Embrace eternity!" It's an asari [[Catch Phrase]] for when they mind meld with another -: with her, she's talking of a whole different kind of "eternity".

* {{spoiler|[[Laser-Guided Karma]]}}: If she survives ME2''Mass Effect 2. {{spoiler|After having made a career out of murdering people using mind control, it's only fitting that she ultimately falls under the control of the Reapers when they turn her into a Banshee.}}.

* [[Mutually Exclusive Party Members]]: With her mother, Samara. Recruiting her will cause Morinth to kill her mother and take her place on Shepard's squad.

* [[Perky Goth]]: [[Darker and Edgier]]. When you first encounter her face-to-face, she seems very amiable in an [[Affably Evil]], [[Wicked Cultured]] way, and all she seems to really care about is just 'lingering in the shadows' and '[[The Hedonist|experiencing as much pleasure as possible.]]'. You might even start to think that Samara is overreacting, maybe her obsession has made her delusional. Except the 'Goth' elements aren't just an act;: she's really an asari sex vampire who likes to kill and [[Mind Rape]] people, and she wants to keep doing it.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: If she was alive at the start of the third game, she [http://youtu.be/c0Sz9NG2ObU sends letters] to her sisters in the monastery. She lies and tries to manipulate them, but still says she misses them. Whether this is sincere or not, it's the one time she ever seems to suggest caring about anyone.

* [[Serial Killer]]: [[Death by Sex|Through sex, no less.]].

* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: [[Complete Monster|Oh dear Lord, yes.]]. Zaeed is practical; Morinth does because she wants to do it, because it pleases her. And you do not even met Zaeed unless you have bought out his DLC, making this her this by default on the base game.

* [[Underestimating Badassery]]: Played with;: Shepard's role as bait is to demonstrate badassery to lure her out. However, if they have a high Paragon or Renegade score, they can completely shrug off her attempts at mind control, leading to Morinth having a minor [[Oh Crap]] moment when she realisesrealizes the person in front of them is far more dangerous than she thought.

* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Invokes this to get sympathy points, [[Subverted Trope|but it's all an act.]].

* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: She tries to convince Shepard that ''she's'' the victim (it's not her fault that she's an Ardat-Yakshi) and that Samara is the evil one for trying to kill her. It's... not really all that convincing.

=== Wilson ===

'''Miranda:''' Dead? }}

* [[The Mole]]: He started the disaster that led to Shepard's early awakening, but you don't know who he was working for at first. {{spoiler|He was working for the Shadow Broker}}.