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** Kal'Reegar concerns himself less with politicking and more with shooting, just like [[Firefly|another character]] played by [[Adam Baldwin]].
** [[Steve Blum]] plays a strong, deadly, artificially created, technically newborn lizard warrior with a childlike ([[Values Dissonance|for his species]]) demeanor, a love for battle and an undying loyalty to his human master. [[Digimon Tamers|Curious]].
** Mordin's actor really did
** EDI is voiced by Tricia Helfer, who played a sexy cylon (robot) in ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]''. {{spoiler|In ''Mass Effect 3'', EDI gains a sexy robot body, further strengthening the allusion
* [[Ascended Fanon]]: [[BioWare]]'s response to Garrus' and Tali's popularity and the fans' desire to have them romance options.
* [[Fan Nickname]]:
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** There's also [[Fate/stay night|GARrus]].
** "The [[Justice League]]" for Shepard and the squadmates.
** Crazy Robo-Cthulhu Farmers for the Reapers.
** We can't forget {{spoiler|Pants the Human-Reaper}}.
** Friend Zone Turian for the poor bastard and his cringe-worthy attempts at wooing Valley Girl Quarian complaining about her human boyfriend.
** SuZe was her nickname before people knew it was "Jack". Short for "''Su''bject ''Ze''ro". It's fallen out of use now, probably because hardly anyone in the game calls her "Subject Zero".
** There are some who call the Illusive Man... TIM.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]:
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*** No, it's the Geico Gecko!
*** [[Tales of Vesperia|Commandant Alexei!]]
** In the Admiralty Board: Shoreh Aghdashloo, Martin Jarvis, Simon Templeman
** [[Firefly|Jayne]] [[Adam Baldwin|Cobb]] is there to keep the Geth off Tali's back.
*** Colonel John Casey [[In Space]], in a suit! [[Chuck|Morgan]] would be so proud!
** Captain Bailey as Michael Hogan, well known as Colonel Tigh in [[Battlestar Galactica]].
** [[Battlestar Galactica
*** Oh God, [[StarCraft II|Kerrigan's]]/Caprica Six in our ship!
** Why, TIM, you're looking awfully [[Martin Sheen]] today.
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** Patriarch is voiced by Jim Cummings, aka [[Winnie the Pooh|Tigger]]!
** Harbinger sounds like...
*** Oh shit, [[Universe At War|Kamal Rex]] has decided to help the Hierarchy out in the ''Mass Effect'' Universe, who needs a purifier when you got a ship of Collectors?
*** Also he is the incredible [[Magnificent Bastard]] [[Angel|Holtz]].
*** Also he voices a criminal warlord who is bribing Bailey.
*** He also had a nice conversation with [[The Joker]] [[The Dark Knight Saga|about knives.]]
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*** As well as [[Fallout: New Vegas|Joshua Graham, the Burned Man]].
** The Shadow Broker is even more violent than Grunt!
** Warden Kuril's voiced by Saren, as if you needed more reasons to be suspicious.
** Admiral Steven Hackett: [[Red Faction|Molov]], [[Modern Warfare|General Shepherd]], [[Alien (franchise)|Bishop]], [[The Terminator|Detective Vukovich]]...
* [[Missing Trailer Scene]]: Despite most of the advertising focusing on them as such, Shepard never actually refers to the colonists (or anyone else) as "the lost" in the game.
* [[One of Us]]: Legion's a robo-[[Vin Diesel]]. Check out its [http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Shadow_Broker_Dossiers/Legion#Gamer_Profile Gamer Profile!]
* [[The Other Darrin]]:
** The voice for the man trying to get a refund from the turian shopkeeper on the Citadel doesn't sound '''anything''' like it did in the first game. If he didn't specifically mention that he'd been trying to get a refund for two years, most players probably wouldn't have noticed it was him.
** Mordin is the only major character in series to switch voice actor between games. Few notice difference.
** Jim Cummings is replaced as Urdnot Wreav's voice actor for the third game. It's not even known who voices Wreav. Oddly, this also comes with a change in design. In ''Mass Effect 2'', he had a red crest (similar to Wrex), but in ''Mass Effect 3'', he has a brown crest.
* [[Playing Against Type]]: The Illusive Man is a ''VERY'' different role than what [[Martin Sheen]] usually plays.
* [[Preorder Bonus]]: If you pre-ordered at GameStop, you get a M-490 Blackstorm heavy weapon<ref>Which shoots ''[[Crazy Awesome|exploding black holes]]''</ref> and the [http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Terminus_Armor Terminus Armor], and if you pre-ordered at EBGames, you get the [http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Inferno_Armor Inferno Armor]. However, the Inferno Armor is now available as part of the Equalizer Pack DLC, and the Terminus Armor and Blackstorm weapon are available as free DLC.
* [[Relationship Voice Actor]]: Almost example, as Mark Meer (MaleShep) is married to Belinda Cornish, who voices Rana Thanoptis, the Asari scientist who shows up on Virmire and has a minor role in the next two games.
* [[Talking to Himself]]: Niftu Cal if you're playing Male Shepard.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: [http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_2_Cut_Content Let me save you the trouble.]
** A cut sidequest in ME2 originally had Shepard forced to find some red sand for Jack, due the fact that Cerberus experimentation meant that red sand was the only thing that could help her sleep without levitating everything in the room.▼
** Mordin was initially intended to be biotic. {{spoiler|1=[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_28OE71kmA8&feature=channel One correct choice for maintaining Biotic Barrier during suicide mission.]}} Also, initially would have come into conflict with Grunt. The two have next to no problems with each other.▼
** All post-Horizon squadmates have hidden dialogue for earlier in the game, but Legion came off a bit worse than Tali, Thane or Samara.
** [[Dummied Out|Unimplemented content]], pre-release posts on Weekes' dev blog, and other leaks indicate that Tali and Thane could be [[Bi the Way|romanced by Shepards of either gender in earlier development]]. In the final product, the most visible remainder of this is that most of Tali's lines are the same for both Shepards, which are clearly intended to nudge the player to a romance with her. Female Shepard can even attempt to initiate a romance with Tali, but she will dodge the issue.
** Similarly, [[Those Two Guys|Kenneth and Gabriella]] were meant to be romanceable like Kelly.
** Character recruitment was originally intended to be much more open-ended, and modding your save file to add party members before you should be able to recruit them will let you hear their dialog for earlier circumstances, such as taking Legion to Purgatory. This likely changed because of the late decision to split the Xbox 360 version of the game into two discs; the forced recruitment progression funnels the player along a path that's not entirely linear, but predictable enough to split the game with.
** A few leftover voice recordings in the released game indicated that Liara was initially intended to have a much deeper and longer storyline... which was later made a reality with the DLC ''Lair of the Shadow Broker''.
** Early video previews showed more involved gun mechanics; weapons would cool down on their own ala the first game, with ejectable thermal clips as a "need [[More Dakka]] right this second" option. Specialized ammunition was shown to be a consumable resource instead of a passive ability and as such could be turned on or off at will.
** Going through the dialogue and screen text files reveals that several of the loyalty missions originally had very different plots:
{{quote|''"Bored with being the galaxy's top bounty hunter, Zaeed's also exhausted by up-and-comers seeking a rep written in his blood. Now he's learned that the second-best bounty hunter has gone corporate, and job one is to kill Zaeed. Zaeed's plan: wipe them out first... with extreme prejudice."''
''"You helped Zaeed fake his own death, and he's grateful."''
''"Kasumi revealed that Nava Corp has designed and is about to unleash tailored bio-viruses against the citizens of the Alliance. Only Nava Corp possesses the vaccines. Kasumi needs you to help stop Nava Corp permanently."''}}
▲** A cut sidequest in
▲** Mordin was initially intended to be biotic.
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