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For the pages listing tropes related to NPCs, Antagonists and Party Members who first appeared in other games in the trilogy, see the [[Mass Effect/Characters|Mass Effect Character Index]].

** During his [[Last Stand]]: "Heh heh, '''''my''''' turn."

* [[Become a Real Boy|Become A Real Krogan]]: The goal to secure his loyalty.

* [[Blood Knight]]: Even moreso than normal for a krogan.

* [[Blue Eyes]]: One of the few krogan to have them. It's rather striking.

* [[Optional Party Member]]: While his recruitment mission is mandatory, you don't actually have to release him from his tank.

* [[Parental Substitute]]: Shepard, particularly Paragon Shepard, acts as one to him.

* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: Eventually. Being accepted into the Urdnot clan really heals his tattered ego.

* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: Many of his mannerisms come across as rather child-like at times. He also plays with action figures on his spare time when he's not busy killing stuff, eating and reading Hemingway. Make sense since he's [[Justified Trope|less then a year old]].

* [[Character Development]]: Depending on how you treat her, she can either stay a [[Dark Action Girl]] or show a softer side. This is shown in the two possible culminating scenes for a romance with her, one of which is just about sex, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6RHlWL2Oz0=related the other of which is far more tender.]

** It's worth noting that while {{spoiler|assaulting the Collector base}}, if you choose her to {{spoiler|man the biotic barrier through the Seeker Swarm room and she's loyal, she'll refer to you as "Commander" like she ''means'' it. For as violently psychotic and unruly a character as Jack is, that's speaking volumes about her development under Shepard's command.}}

** There's also the Suicide Mission: {{spoiler|if you choose to have her lead a team during it, her final words will be " "Too many...tore me up. How'd you talk me into this? Heh...I wasn't supposed to care." Apparently, being around [[The Messiah]] long enough can make even Jack give a damn about everyone else.}}

** If she's still alive in 3 {{spoiler|she has become a teacher with a very strong bond with her pupils, due mostly to Shepard's influence.}}

** It's a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] that if the player remains romantically interested in Jack, she'll openly kiss him in front of everyone, even her students, no longer afraid to show open affection.

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Apparently a recurring event for her. You add her to the crew right after she finishes one of these.

{{quote|'''Grunt:''' ''That's'' Jack? Jack is tiny. *Jack starts wrecking the place* Let's get down there, I want to see!}}

* [[Satisfied Street Rat|Satisfied Lab Rat]]: Although she's hardly 'satisfied' unless she's in a fight.

* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: If romanced in 2, the first thing she does to Shepard in 3 is deck him. Then give him a passionate kiss.

* [[Sociopathic Hero]]: "Heroic" is very much a stretch for her. {{spoiler|At first.}}

* [[Stealth Pun]]: She once used "Jacqueline Nought" as an alias, with "nought" being the British term for the American "zero." The pun comes in when this makes her {{spoiler|Jackie 0, a play on the tabloid nickname for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.}}

** {{spoiler|If she died in ''2'', this is her listed name on the ''Normandy'' cenotaph.}}

* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: Within the game, all you're told is that you're picking up a dangerous biotic named Jack; it's left as a surprise that she's a female until you see her the first time. The surprise is completely ruined by the fact that the character was introduced in promotional material prior to the game's release, including a personal character trailer. Although her name is only given as "Subject Zero" in this material, enough detail is given about how she is recruited that the only way her sex can come as a surprise is if the player goes into the game completely blind.

* [[Troll]]: She was banned from the Citadel Newsnet forums for excessive and repeated swearing, derogatory comments, inflammatory comments, and circumventing worksafe filters.

*** She also gets vanned a lot. You are actually supposed to get her out of the proverbial space van in her recruit mission.

* [[Tsundere]]: If Shepard coaxes her out of her hostility and helps her find some personal closure, she displays a softer and more vulnerable side. Summed up in her last romance line of the series:

* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: {{spoiler|She wasn't in the best position to figure out just what was going on in the Teltin facility.}}

* {{spoiler|[[What Would X Do?|What Would Shepard Do?]]}}: {{spoiler|If she survives the second game and you make it to Grissom Academy in time in the third, you'll find her teaching a batch of young biotics and defending them from Cerberus. She even admits that some of Shepard's leadership rubbed off on her, what with "all those damn speeches."}}

* [[You Need to Get Laid]]: Inverted; see [[Sex Equals Love]] above.

* [[Your Makeup Is Running]]: During her romance scene.

A biotic and former marine who joined Cerberus to protect humanity, although he dislikes their extreme methods. He's also the protagonist of the iPhone game ''Mass Effect Galaxy''. Also one of ME2's romance options for the female Shepard.

* [[Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder]]: {{spoiler|He and Dr Brynn Cole are together in ''3'' whether or not you romanced him.}}

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type II or III.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: If Fem Shep rejects his romantic interests in favor of Garrus, he derisively refers to the turian as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5rbBD4qEOs 'that cuttlebone.']

* [[Female Gaze]]: There's a point [http://youtu.be/z03cL5ZzhkA early in the romance] in which the camera seems to switch to Shepard's POV, and pans up from his groin to his face.

* [[I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me|I Can't Believe A Chick Like You Would Notice Me]]: He seems rather surprised when female Shepard tries to start a romance with him, but eventually runs with it.

* [[I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That]]: When Grunt starts talking about how appetizing the smell of burning plague victims is.

* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Implies this towards Miranda.

* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: He's generally a nice guy, but displays a ''lot'' of cynicism regarding the Alliance and Citadel governments after the events of ''Mass Effect Galaxy'' which led him to join Cerberus in disgust. Not that he's altogether fond of ''them'', either.

* [[The Lancer]]: A position he shares with Garrus and Miranda.

* [[Magic Knight]]: Both a capable soldier and a powerful biotic.

* [[Man Hug]]: How he assures Shepard he's ready to go post-loyalty mission.

* [[Oblivious to Love]]: Not only does Shepard pretty much have to explicitly state her interest in him for it to register, but, by all accounts, he also doesn't seem to realize that Kasumi wants to jump his bones. Of course, since she's a downloadable character, he has no dialog related to her so it's hard to tell.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: The Illusive Man placed him on Shepard's team for relative emotional stability as much as skill.

* [[Playing with Fire]]: Aside from Grunt and Shepard themselves, he's the only one with Incendiary Ammo.

* [[Plot Armor]]: Like Jack, he can't die during his ''3'' sidequest.

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: An "S-Strike", to be more accurate. Shortly after the cutscene where Shepard releases Jack from cryo, as the squad enters a wrecked room with a few Blue Suns enemies fighting off escaped prisoners, Jacob will blurt out "Holy shit!" in face of all the chaos and destruction.

* [[Static Character]]: His character changes the least throughout the story. This is deliberate; he's ''supposed'' to be the most emotionally-stable crewmember. Everyone else's loyalty mission involves some form of baggage from their past, while Jacob has to actually be brought into his loyalty mission by an outside actor.

* [[The Stoic]]: He tends to express less emotion than most of the characters.

** [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: Bring him along to the Derelict Reaper and you'll learn that he hasn't gotten over Eden Prime as much you initially thought.

* {{spoiler|[[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: In ''3'', if romanced previously he is shown to have cheated on a Shepard with Dr. Cole in the six months they were incarcerated. Even ''he'' admits he was a bastard for doing so if Shepard chooses to call him on it.}}

* {{spoiler|[["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: He does a good job of not showing it though.}}

* [[Back Stab]]: Her signature ability, called Shadow Strike.

** Less of an actual [[Back Stab]], but more "bop people with the omni-tool".

** ''And'' quickly reloads her powers if it lands [[One-Hit Kill|a killing blow.]]

* [[Calling Card]]: In her early career, she left a rose in place of what she stole. Her partner eventually made her realize how unproductive this is for a thief.

* [[The Pollyanna]]: She always reflects that things could be worse... even when trapped inside a derelict Reaper with dozens of husks that's slowly crashing into a star. Hey, at least it's not full of rats!

* [[Phantom Thief]]: She's one of the galaxy's best thieves/hackers, but has no criminal record. On her loyalty mission, Kasumi even says that no one knows what she looks like.

** If Shepard ignores her, she has about a dozen humorous comments from being a credit agency for help with collector agents to the offer of a sweet Japanese girl, before getting mad if Shepard doesn't bite.

{{quote|'''Ad!Kasumi:''' OK, really? [[What the Hell, Player?|How many times does it take to walk past without getting interested?]]}}

** One of the artifacts is an Ogre statue... that looks like an Ogre from [[Dragon Age]] Origins.

** She's one big [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]] 2''. She visually resembles Visas Marr and her last name is Goto.

** From [[Dead or Alive]], apart from being a namesake of that series' protagonist, Kasumi's loyalty mission has her infiltrating the mansion of a crime boss named Donovan.

* [[The Smart Guy]]: {{spoiler|Along with Tali and Legion, she's an ideal choice for the Tech Expert during the suicide mission.}}

{{quote|'''Kasumi:''' Now you see me...}}

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: She loves ramen, and regrets not having stolen her grandmother's recipe.

{{quote|'''Kasumi:''' Nobody's perfect.}}

{{quote|'''Jondum Bau:''' Her intelligence and skill are almost salarian.}}

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* [[Action Girl]]: Designed to be, indeed. Those biotics probably didn't come cheap.

* [[Always Someone Better]]: If you choose to earn her friendship, she reveals she feels somewhat inferior to Shepard. She was designed to be perfect and easily accomplish impossible tasks she is set. Shepard is just a regular person but somehow manages to succeed in doing impossible tasks ''anyway'' and often completes them with results beyond what she could have done.

* [[Archnemesis Dad]]: The reason she joined Cerberus in the first place was to gain protection from her father. Which turned out to be a really dumb idea, since her father loves Cerberus and is closely connected to it. {{spoiler|This comes back to bite her and Oriana in the ass in [[Mass Effect 3]].}}

* [[The Baroness]]: Sexpot variety.

* [[Died in Your Arms Tonight]]: One of her possible death scenes {{spoiler|in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' has her [[Tear Jerker|dying in Shepard's arms, reconciling with Oriana, and making Shepard promise to keep fighting, no matter what the cost]].}} This earns her a [[And This Is For|name drop]] when {{spoiler|Shepard kills Kai Leng.}}

* [[The Dragon]]: To The Illusive Man, at least until the end of the second game. She's been replaced by Kai Leng as of [[Mass Effect 3]].

* [[Femme Fatale]]

* [[Foot Focus]]: She gets a couple of scenes which show off her stiletto heels.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Much of her behavior makes more sense in light of her loyalty mission and the Shadow Broker dossier. {{spoiler|Before meeting Shepard, only three people have never betrayed her to her knowledge: a childhood friend, the Illusive Man, and Jacob. By the end of the game, it's entirely likely that only Jacob and the Illusive Man remain from that list. With the Shadow Broker dossier, it's clear that part of her affection for her sister comes from being unable to have children of her own, and despite being in a dating service, she ruthlessly cuts off one candidate who makes the mistake of trying to be interested in more than just sex. Since she cannot bear children, she's less interested in romance.}} Though these are played more subtly than most [[Freudian Excuse]] examples, once they're revealed, most of Miranda's personality is clearly defined by these.

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: She may be bitter, ruthless and bitingly critical of others, along working for Cerberus, but she's a good person at heart. She genuinely believes Cerberus is "pro-human", not "anti-alien"; she'll work hard to advance human interests, but has no desire to walk over aliens to do so.

* [[Ice Queen]]: Explicitly called that by a {{spoiler|[[Red Shirt|soon-to-be-former]]}} Cerberus employee.

* [[Informed Attractiveness]]: Despite being specifically engineered to be extremely beautiful, a lot of the fanbase finds her appearance...weird.

*** Or it could be that they had trouble animating her face. Miranda's expressions get weird sometimes.

*** Can be summed up fairly well by [http://awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=111411 this comic]

** Despite her cold exterior she seems to genuinely care for Shepard even before being revived. When s\he begins waking up Miranda bitches out Wilson then helps Shepard stabilize with a warm smile.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: She has a few moments.

** On Freedom's Progress, she'll recommend taking Veetor for interrogation rather than letting Tali take him back for medical care, and will seem mildly disappointed if you let Tali take him.

** Right after the {{spoiler|Normandy gets attacked by the Collectors, and Joker, the sole survivor of the attack watches all his friends be dragged away by various cosmic horrors}}, the ''first thing she does'' upon getting back the ship is {{spoiler|scold Joker for losing the crew and unshackling EDI (which saved the ship).}} Keep in mind that {{spoiler|it was her brilliant idea that all the capable fighters aboard abandon the ship, leaving it wide open for attack.}}

** Even her final romance scene could be interpreted as this. Despite both her and Shepard having private quarters containing a double bed, she chooses to have sex on the floor of the engineering deck - very close to where both love rivals and enemies Jack and Tali hang around.

* [[Knight Templar]]: She's a member of Cerberus, so this one is a given.

* [[Knight Templar Big Brother|Knight Templar Big Sister]]: She keeps extremely detailed records on all her sisters' potential boyfriends. Even her sister finds that a little creepy.

* [[The Lancer]]: She's Shepard's executive officer, although she shares the overarching Lancer role with Jacob and Garrus.

* {{spoiler|[[Last Kiss]]: If she dies in ''3'' and is romantically involved with Shepard.}}

* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: There is an undertone of this between her and a male Shepard during their conversations in [[Mass Effect 3]].

* [[The Worf Effect]]: She's built up as a perfect human specimen throughout [[Mass Effect 2]] (though a monumentally arrogant one that often overestimates her own abilities) and a competent biotic. {{spoiler|In Mass Effect 3, Kai Leng shows up, beats her half to death, takes her Sanctuary Data, and unceremoniously dumps her broken body in Henry Lawson's office. She'll actually die from these wounds if you don't warn her that Kai Leng is active and/or give her Alliance resources.}}

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* [[Angst? What Angst?]]: Heavily affected by loyalty mission, fine by return to ''Normandy''. Salarians possess short lifespans, learn to deal with emotional burdens efficiently. Came to terms during shuttle ride. Concern appreciated, however.

* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type]] [[Good Is Not Nice|III]].

* [[Evilutionary Biologist]]: Subverts trope. Generally well-intentioned. Strong ethical guidelines. Fairly ruthless regardless.

{{quote|'''Mordin:''' No testing on species capable of calculus. Simple rule. Never broke it.}}

* [[Fire, Ice, Lightning]]: [[Kill It with Fire|Incinerate]], check. [[Kill It with Ice|Cryo Blast]], check. [[Agony Beam|Neural Shock]]? Close enough!

* [[The Fettered]]: Believes strongly in scientific ethics, refuses to experiment on sapient life.

** {{spoiler|[[Go Out with a Smile]]}}

** {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]}}

** Still resolute that it was the right action. Even against Shepard's best arguments. Invokes [[Grey and Gray Morality]]. Actions not unjustified.

*** Worth remembering alternative was genocide.

* {{spoiler|1=[[Ironic Echo]]: If survived ME2, can die while curing genophage in ME3. Uses same lines about how others would have gotten it wrong.}}

* [[It's Okay If It's You]]: No interest in Shepard romantically. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Fwa-OQ1ao If ever explored, Shepard optimal.] Either sex. Ahem.

* [[Keet]]: Described as being like hamster on caffine. Salarian metabolism much faster than most other species', but fast even for Salarians.

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Mid-Sentence]]: "[[Dying Moment of Awesome|I am the very model of a--]] '''BOOM'''}}

* [[Squishy Wizard]]: Skills quite useful in combat, but shields and health quite weak. Survival requires support.

* [[The Talk]]: Shown [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAP92rvm1hQ here], on [[Interspecies Romance]]. Try not to "ingest". Offers for all romances. Promises to "probe" Jacob/Miranda. Cerberus could have bugs ''anywhere''...

* [[Techno Babble]]: Constantly. Combines with [[Terse Talker]], [[Motor Mouth]]. Some complain of difficulty understanding. Get doctorate! Have real conversation!

* [[Terse Talker]]: Talks fast and short. [[Motor Mouth|First part natural to salarians]]. Second part special to himself. Likes [[Techno Babble]] dialogue. Always [[Thinking Out Loud]]. Reading [[Self-Demonstrating Article]] right now. *[[Verbal Tic|sharp inhale]]* May help you understand.

{{quote|"Who's that? Pilot? No. Synthesized voice. Simulated emotional inflections. Could it be... no. Maybe. Have to ask. Is that an AI?" - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}yMA6F4-YAfw Mordin learns about EDI]}}

** Annoying to Krogan female in ''3''.

** Saved many lives. May be desire for [["Glad to Be Alive" Sex]] with savior.

** "If wanted to try human, would try {{[[[Dude Magnet]] Shepard}}]." Shepard's sex irrelevant.

** Must note. No other Salarians share tic. Unique to me.

** {{spoiler|Refers to self once. Happens if Shepard questions decision to cure genophage after working on it for so long.}}

** Mordin's friendship with Shepard develops into this as well.

* [[We Are as Mayflies]]: Inverted. Salarian lifespans much shorter than human ones. He himself already 30. Human equivalent 116. Will die soon, even if survive suicide mission.

* [[X Marks the Hero]]: Apparently receives scar from Krogan killed with pitchfork.

* [[You No Take Candle]]: ''[[Captain Obvious|Obviously]]'' highly intelligent - Infinitives waste time!

* [[Action Mom]]: She has three daughters {{spoiler|and had to imprison two and hunt down the other because they're Ardat-Yakshi -- basically Asari sex vampires}}.

* [[A Lighter Shade of Grey]]: Asari Justicars were the original basis for the Spectres.

* [[Almost Kiss]]: See Tearjerker below.

* [[Ancient Astronauts]]: In [[Dummied Out]] content from her Shadow Broker dossier, {{spoiler|she was a crewmember of an asari ship that crashed on Earth in the Elizabethan era, was possibly responsible for the destruction of the Spanish Armada, and inspired none other than [[William Shakespeare]] to write a romantic sonnet about her.}}

* [[Death Seeker]]: A mild example but she outright states that she has no plans for retirement and expects to die in battle.

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Somewhat likely to break your neck for stealing an old lady's purse, but she might just offer you a lesser punishment first.

* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]

* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]}}: Potentially in 3, {{spoiler|rather than kill her one remaining daughter, Falere, and break her code, but you have a Paragon interrupt that can be used to stop her}}.

* [[Knight Templar]]: Though she considers herself a [[Knight Errant]]. Mixed with a bit of [[Samurai]].

* [[Lady of War]]

** In one later conversation it's implied that she often warns people the equivalent of "Do you ''really'' want to do/say that in my presence?" If they ignore her, well, probably [[Too Dumb to Live]].

** In ''3'', she manages to work around her Code again {{spoiler|if Shepard stops her from killing herself. When Falere, her daughter, tells Samara that she (Falere) will stay at the monastery and that she's never needed its walls to follow her ''own'' code anyway, Samara decides that it satisfies the demands of her Code. And Samara will have to check on her often... [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|as a Justicar should]].}}

* [[Mind Over Matter]]: She is an extremely powerful biotic and - aside from perhaps Jack's escape from Purgatory - performs the most spectacular onscreen feats, from slowing falls to smashing people's heads to wrenching a car out of the air as its drivers try to escape.

* [[Murder Is the Best Solution]]: A rare heroic example; thanks to her Code, anyone who opposes her is a criminal, and therefore should not be allowed to live.

* [[My Master, Right or Wrong|My Code Right Or Wrong]]: It's left deliberately ambiguous whether she takes certain actions because she wants to, or because she has to. Some dialogue indicates it's highly likely that she takes no pleasure in a lot of things she has to do as a justicar, but the rules and the code are more important than her personal feelings. In fact, she may have sworn the code to get as far away from her personal feelings as possible.

** Mass Effect 3 shows one thing that she flat-out refuses to do: {{spoiler|killing her last living daughter, because said daughter is not a twisted sociopath.}}

* [[Never Mess with Granny]]: Not actually a grandmother, for [[Tear Jerker]] reasons, but old enough to be one. An asari matriarch who is almost a thousand after all.

* {{spoiler|[[Offing the Offspring]]: Her primary goal as a Justicar is to put down one of her daughters.}}

* [[The Not Love Interest]]: She'll actively reject any attempt at romance. The interest is quite welcome, however.

* [[Optional Party Member]]: None of the post-Horizon squadmates are necessary to finish the game.

* [[Principles Zealot]]: No one else keeps their feelings and their actions as separate as her.

{{quote|'''Captain Anaya:''' She would die defending an honest cop, but would fight an army of corrupt ones to her death.}}

* [[Take a Third Option]]: Her occasional way of working around her code. In fact, her primary reason for joining Shepard in the fight against the Collectors was so she wouldn't be forced to kill innocents.

** In ME3, when forced to make a, for her, impossible choice between {{spoiler|her innocent daughter's life and the demands of her code, she chooses the third option - suicide}}.

* [[Warrior Monk]]: Though it's noted that other cultures would see her as a vigilante.

* {{spoiler|[[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: If the player chooses Morinth over her. Shepard even says "Morinth is more useful."}}

** Which can be interpreted as either ruthless practicality or simple self-preservation. {{spoiler|Morinth, after all, is a known quantity by this point and only an idiot would die at her... hands. Samara explicitly says she would kill a Renegade Shepard if she hadn't already sworn an oath.}}

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Well, waistcoat. In the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC, his file reveals he wears the outfit not because [[Armor Is Useless]], but because covering up his chest would worsen his illness.

* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: Drell have perfect recall of [[Photographic Memory|anything they've ever done]], though they can't always control it. Thane notes that with the ability to recall ''bad'' memories as well, [[Blessed with Suck|this isn't always a good thing.]] And since the drell came from an arid world and are now living on a planet that's 90% ocean, they suffer from a degenerative illness that causes their lungs to eventually fail.

* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: While he is normally a clean and efficient killer, he notes that he took extra time with {{spoiler|his wife's killers}}.

* [[Cold Sniper]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Not to the level of, say, Garrus, but he gets his moments.

{{quote|'''Thane:''' ''(after Shepard offers to help him with his disease)'' Thank you, but if the best minds the hanar Illuminated Primacy have to offer can't fix my problem, I doubt your ship's medic can.

{{quote|'''Thane''': I accepted the Dantius commission because I didn't know what else to do. Looking back, it's clear I resigned myself to death. I would have fulfilled my contract.}}

* [[Determinator]]: {{spoiler|When you meet him in ''3'', he was given three months to live... nine months ago.}}

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: {{spoiler|Left his son Kolyat to be raised by relatives after his wife died. In his personal mission, he attempts to stop him from following his footsteps.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: Or at least what finally brings about his death.}}

** If his being able to inspire salarians to rethink their lives and buy new clothes is anything to go by...

** He was originally intended to be a [[Love Interest]] [[Bi the Way|for both male and female Shepards]]. The male Shepard romance was scrapped sometime during development, but [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhfzyGbnAYA some of the dialogue was recorded] and [[Dummied Out|still remains in the game files]].

{{quote|"Amonkira. Lord of Hunters. Grant that my hands be steady, my aim be true, and my feet swift. And should the worst come to pass, grant me [[Stealth Hi Bye|forgiveness]]."}}

* [[Retired Badass]]: In the third game, he tells Shepard that it's his time to rest from conflict now that his life is almost over. {{spoiler|Then the Cerberus coup attempt happens and he has one last rumble with Kai Leng, saving the salarian councilor at the cost of his own life. In the hospital, Thane quips that Leng should feel ashamed that a terminally-ill drell managed to stop him from reaching his target}}.

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Went on one after {{spoiler|his wife was murdered}}. He notes that while he usually kills swiftly, he took extra time with {{spoiler|her killers}}.

* [[Romancing the Widow]]er

* [[Springtime for Hitler]]: He was going to his last mission to be killed in action, until Shepard showed up. Subverted because he decides that joining Shepard is a much better plan.

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Subverted. {{spoiler|After his future wife threw herself in front of his targeting laser to stop one of his missions, he became obsessed with finding her. Instead of going down the usual path of this trope, he fell on his knees in front of her and begged for forgiveness. Eventually, it worked.}}

** He does this during his loyalty mission, but, unlike most instances of this trope, he does this in plain sight in the middle of a open lobby. [[Failed a Spot Check|When two people walk in front of him.]]

** One of the Shadow Broker's surveilance tapes shows another example: while walking down a corridor, he steps into the shadow cast by a column and doesn't step out again.

* [[When You Coming Home, Dad?]]: {{spoiler|His relationship with his son, Kolyat, prior to his wife's death. This becomes a [[Whole-Plot Reference]] to the original song when Kolyat decides to follow in his father's footsteps and become an assassin.}} [[Lampshade Hanging|His loyalty achievement is even]] ''[[Lampshade Hanging|called]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|"Cat's in the Cradle."]]

* [[Worf Had the Flu]]: {{spoiler|It seemed that Kai Leng was only able to beat him because he was already in poor physical condition at the time. Thane was suffering from the advanced stages of Kepral's Syndrome, which makes every breath painful, and is roughly 6 months past his best doctor's expected projections. Had Thane been at his peak, Leng would not have survived the fight, or at least would have ran like a little bitch much earlier.}}

{{quote|'''Shepard:''' I think my translator just glitched. What did you call me?

'''Thane:''' "Siha." Someday I'll tell you what it means. }}

** He will call a female Paragon Shepard "Siha" even without a romance being initiated.

* [[Your Days Are Numbered]] / [[You See, I'm Dying]]: "This was to be my last job. I'm dying."

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* [[Normally I Would Be Dead Now]]: He survived getting shot in the head at point-blank range purely by sheer [[Determinator|determination]].

{{quote|'''Zaeed:''' A stubborn enough person can survive just about anything.}}

* [[One Last Job]]: The money he received from Cerberus as payment for joining Shepard's squad has made him seriously consider retirement. Either that or suicide via blowing his ship up near Omega.

* [[Optional Party Member]]: He's a DLC character.

* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Albeit a much more subdued and refined version than most.

** He even gets a bit self-referential - he claims that the only person not to piss themselves when having a gun next to their heads are psychotic maniacs and trained killers. And they can be hard to discern sometimes.

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Possible in ''3'' if Zaeed wasn't loyal in ''2''. He dies saving ambassador Din Korlack from the other mercs who had been duped into thinking Din was still a Cerberus sympathizer.}}

* [[Retired Monster]]: He was once a very vicious merc and {{spoiler|co-founded the Blue Suns}}

* [[Cyber Cyclops]]: As with its whole race.

* [[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.}}

** 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."}}.

* [[Expressive Mask]]: The plating around Legion's head/eye is articulated, allowing it to mimic organic expressions to an extent. Most likely intentional, as its platform was custom-made to interact with organics. In fact, the first time we see Legion, it's raising a [[Fascinating Eyebrow]] at Shepard's unexpected appearance.

* {{spoiler|1=[[Final Death]]: Legion is one of the only characters in ''ME3'' 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.'

* [[Hero of Another Story]]: Legion was the first geth to take up arms against the quarians. It's also hinted that Legion saved the quarians by letting them escape even though the geth could have finished them off once and for all. As a composite entity, he probably was compiled from these heroic Geth runtimes.

* [[Machine Monotone]]: 99% definitely. When it asks a question, its air of curiosity is palpable. If Shepard says something that implies understanding of [[Blue and Orange Morality|geth morality]], it will show signs of happiness.

{{quote|'''Legion:''' We wish to understand, not incite.}}

** It especially loves the "X or Y?" "Yes." kind, although it's likely doing that on purpose.

* [[Mind Hive]]: Like all geth "platforms", Legion is a cluster of geth programs. It has cognitive abilities on-par with sentients because the platform they operate in was purpose-built for interaction with organic sentients, and can run around ten times more geth programs than the typical platform you frequently gun down. Specifically, Legion is host to 1,183 geth programs.

* [[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.

** Boy howdy, does it...

* [[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.

* [[No Need for Names]]: "We are all geth." Legion only adopts a name for their terminal at Shepard's insistence; it refers to itself as Legion a grand total of once, immediately afterwards:

** In the third game, {{spoiler|it uses "I" for the first and last time right before its [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. EDI says that this indicates that it achieved full sentience}}.

* [[Robot Buddy]]: The nicest geth you'll ever meet, if only because most of the others you've met used you for target practice after skewering people on pikes.

* [[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.

* [[The Smart Guy]]

* [[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."

{{quote|'''Legion''': We are immortal. Our gods disowned us. We must create our own reasons to exist.}}

* [[Token Heroic Orc|Token Heroic Geth]]

** Notably, when Shepard notices that its the same weapon, Legion briefly pauses in the exact same way as he had previously done when Shepard had asked about his use of the N7 armour, before answering that it is an efficient design.

* [[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.

* [[Unexpected Genre Change]]: Its loyalty mission turns into a [[Tower Defense]] at the climax.

* [[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.

* [[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.

** For those who ''want'' Morinth, it's possible that you won't be able to choose her without [http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/103/index/2338026 editing saves], depending on the decisions you make during the game. Both the cause and solution have been explained on the official forums via [http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/107/index/1197668/3#1429364 Word of God]. Knowing how the system works, you could just [[Save Scumming|use other methods]].

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

* [[Mind Over Matter]]

* [[More Than Mind Control]]: What eventually happens to her victims. They're her willing slaves until she tires of the game and kills them.

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: She's an omnisexual mutant [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|blue-skinned]] alien sex vampire <small>[[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE]]</small>! Too bad she's also a [[Complete Monster]].

* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: Have sex with her. Every character thinks it's a bad idea.

* [[Oh Crap]]: If Shepard resists her [[Mind Control]], which requires incredibly high rankings in either Paragon or Renegade.

{{quote|'''Morinth:''' ''(angry)'' Oh no, I see what's going on - the bitch herself found a little helper.}}

* [[Patchwork Kids]]: She is the splitting image of her mother, a fact that she has used to her advantage on more than one occasion.

* [[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.

* [[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 realises the person in front of them is far more dangerous than she thought.

* [[Wicked Cultured]]: As part of his/her role as bait, Shepard must take advantage of her love for exotic music, art and drugs.

* [[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.

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