Mass Effect 3/Characters/Antagonists and Npcs: Difference between revisions

This page is for listing the tropes related to Antagonists and NPCs who '''first appeared''' in the third ''[[Mass Effect 3|Mass Effect]]'' game.

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

=== Kai Leng ===

[[File:kai_leng_p_5042kai leng p 5042.png|frame|[[Metal Gear Solid|Cyborg Ninja]], Circa 2186 CE]]

{{quote| ''Cerberus thanks you for all your hard work.''}}

{{quote| '''Voiced by''': [[Troy Baker]]}}

A Cerberus assassin who had a run in with David Anderson during the events of ''[[Mass Effect: (Franchise)/Retribution|Retribution]]'' and ''[[Mass Effect: Deception (Literature)|Deception]]''. He returns as part of the force that the Illusive Man sends against Shepard in the third game.

{{quote| '''Shepard''': Three-on-one, pal. It's over.<br />

'''Kai Leng''': No. Now it's fun. }}

** He's not very good at it; however, he gets burned bad more than once.

* [[Climax Boss]]: He's the game's final proper boss.

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: He's more than happy to {{spoiler|call in reinforcements to help him}}, or even {{spoiler|have a ''gunship'' cover him while he "recharges"}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Death Byby Irony]]: Shepard guts him with an omniblade}}.

* [[Determinator]]: Near the end of ''Retribution'', {{spoiler|Anderson shoots him in [[Kneecapping|both legs]] to slow down his escape while he and Kahlee tend to a wounded boy.}}. Leng still manages to {{spoiler|get away by using his arms to climb up a ladder and swinging from bars along the ceiling to get to his shuttle before security can find him. And yes, dropping from the ceiling onto legs that are bleeding out ''is'' painful as hell.}}. Also, {{spoiler|after being beaten by Shepard at the Cerberus HQ, he will muster up all his remaining energy to try and stab Shepard while s/he's busy looking through the Illusive Man's files, though Shepard will simply counter him with an omniblade stab to the sides that finishes him off for good.}}.

* [[Dirty Coward]]: For all of his gloating, he does have a tendency to retreat and hide behind superior firepower whenever the odds are against him (read: whenever he's up against [[One-Man Army|Shepard]]), at least until the the final battle with him. Shepard calls him out on this during their final confrontation, which Kai Leng [[Lame Comeback|doesn't handle very gracefully]].

* [[Evil Is Petty]]: In ''Deception'', he {{spoiler|busts into Anderson's house to plant some bugs. Before he leaves, he sits down, takes out a bowl, and eats Anderson's cereal. Yes, really.}}.

** In the game proper, he {{spoiler|sends an email taunting Shepard about the fall of Thessia under the guise of Asari Military Command, with the subject "Evacuating Thessia". The first thing it says is "Good, you opened this message. This isn't actually asari military command." You can almost hear the smug laugh that would follow that sentence.}} .

* [[Fatal Flaw]]: His pride. He arrogantly refuses to take Shepard seriously as a threat and constantly taunts him/her about his/her failures and dead friends and allies. {{spoiler|His underestimation of his/her skill gets him killed.}}.

* [[Flunky Boss]]: During the second fight.

{{quote| '''Shepard:''' Three against one, pal. It's over.<br />

'''Kai Leng:''' ''No''. Now it's ''fun''. }}

* [[Implacable Man]]: Gets the drop on Shepard's team by landing on top of their [[Flying Car]]. A car that ''[[Drives Like Crazy|Shepard]]'' [[Drives Like Crazy|is driving]]. While shooting at him. He manages to disable it and escape.

* [[Knife Nut]]: [[Badass|It's what he used to kill six turians and a krogan.]] And as of ''Deception'', {{spoiler|an incredibly powerful biotic}} ... although technically, he used a [[Improvised Weapon|shiv made from a toothbrush]].

{{quote| '''Kai:''' S-shut up!}}

* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: {{spoiler|After fatally wounding at least one of Thane, Miranda &and Kirrahe; Shepard winds up [[Karmic Death|killing Leng in the same way]], [[Impaled Withwith Extreme Prejudice|running him through with an omniblade]].}}. The scene plays out the same {{spoiler|1=even if Shepard is an Adept or a Vanguard, the two classes which don't use the omniblade in their heavy melee attack; thereby meaning that Adept/Vanguard!Shepard uses the omniblade ''once'' in the entire game, just to invoke this trope}}.

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: Well, he's a racist cyborg ninja come ''Mass Effect 3''.

* [[Power Palms]]: Most likely due to his cybernetic nature.

* [[Smug Snake]]: It is very hard to sympathisesympathize with this bastard. Yeah, he's a bloodthirsty, xenophobic hitman, but he's also, and more importantly, a ''complete tool''. On Thessia, he trash-talks {{spoiler|the person he killed on the Citadel}}, provoking an infuriated reaction from your squadmates. After {{spoiler|escaping with the plans for the Catalyst while Thessia falls to the Reapers}}, he sends Shepard an email ''just'' to rub his/her nose in it.

* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: Gets on the receiving end of this in the Cerberus battle from {{spoiler|Shepard, who has different dialogue depending on how the Cerberus encounter goes.}}.

{{quote| '''Shepard''': That was for {{spoiler|Thane}}, you ''son of a bitch''.}}

** To the point where if you take the Renegade interrupt, Kai Leng, known as one of the galaxy's deadliest assassins, ends up taking just a moment too long when he attempts to kill Shepard. {{spoiler|Without even blinking, s/he promptly spins around, breaks his sword ''bare-handed'' and stabs him to death with the omni-blade.}} Keep in mind, this is literally seconds after he has been [[Curb Stomp Battle|beaten to a pulp]], after which Shepard casually went back to what s/he were doing before-hand.

{{quote| '''Kai Leng:''' You're slow, Shepard!<br />

'''Commander Shepard''' I'm only slow because ''I'm'' not running! }}

=== Dr. Eva Coré ===

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* [[Canon Immigrant]]: Subverted;: ''this'' Eva Coré is not the Eva Coré from ''Evolution'' (the fact that the Eva Coré from ''Evolution'' dies at the end of the comic should be [[Captain Obvious|a pretty big hint]]). She was named after her by the Illusive Man.

* [[Dark Chick]]: Fills this role in regards to Cerberus.

* [[FemBot]]: As seen in her [[Robotic Reveal]].

* [[Femme Fatale]]: Built to be one.

* {{spoiler|[[Gundamjack]]}}: {{spoiler|When EDI starts scanning for the Prothean info it downloaded, Eva comes back online and tries to attack. EDI spends the rest of the game "wearing" her body.}}.

=== Henry Lawson ===

[[File:henrylawson_3988henrylawson 3988.jpg|frame]]

{{quote| ''Few people have the stomach to do what it takes to survive.''}}

{{quote| '''Voiced by''': Alan Dale}}

* [[Archnemesis Dad]]: To Miranda.

* {{spoiler|[[Destination Defenestration]]}}: Miranda {{spoiler|biotically throws him through a window to his death.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Disney Villain Death]]: Courtesy of Miranda}}.

* [[Evil Genius]]: To {{spoiler|the Reapers' [[Big Bad]] and the Illusive Man's [[The Dragon|Dragon]]. He manages to find a way to control husks independently of Reaper influence, to a limited extent.}}.

* [[Offing the Offspring]]: He's really not too concerned about Miranda's welfare. He's also "discarded" the [[Designer Babies]] that didn't live up to his expectations. {{spoiler|If you can't talk him down or miss the Renegade interrupt, he'll shoot her in the stomach before she kills him.}}.

{{quote| '''Miranda:''' I wasn't the first [child] he made. Just the first one he kept.}}

=== Diana Allers ===

[[File:allers_9343allers 9343.jpg|frame| I can do this, Commander. Remind me to tell you about the time I made an elcor cry.]]

{{quote| ''Wars can be won or lost in the editing room, and this war needs to be won.'' }}

* {{spoiler|[[Doomed Hometown]]}}: She mentions in passing that her homeworld is the colony of Bekenstein. {{spoiler|Towards the end of the game, her colony is razed and her family killed, because the Reapers target industrial areas... and her hometown had a factory that made binoculars.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Dropped a Bridge On Her]]: If you refuse her, she puts herself on another ship, which is blown up, and she dies.}}.

* [[Dull Surprise]]: There are ''several'' instances of this, but one of the first moments is when she's dismayed by a Shepard who supports a crew member regarding Allers' opinion piece on abandoning Terra Nova (she's for it; the crew member's against). She expresses her disapproval in her normal tone, despite it being clear by her dialogue that she's unhappy about it, and her facial expression doesn't change.

* [[Ink Suit Actor]]: Her appearances are based on her voice actress.

=== Steve Cortez ===

[[File:cortez11_5347cortez11 5347.jpg|frame|Anything for you!]]

{{quote| ''I seem to remember getting shot at the whole time and everyone coming back in one piece, Mr Vega.''}}

{{quote| '''Voiced by''': Matthew Del Negro}}

** [[Falling Into the Cockpit]]: He has experience flying and obviously does a fine job, but on paper he is actually your logistics officer, and ended up running the shuttles because no one else on the ''Normandy'' could.

* {{spoiler|[[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him]]}}: {{spoiler|If you didn't befriend or romance him, he dies when his shuttle is shot down during the last level.}}.

* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: The sensitive guy to James' manly man. While he firmly fits as a [[StraightInvisible Gayto Gaydar]], he's not afraid to talk about his feelings, his problems letting go of his dead husband, and even cry in front of others. This is all presented in a very serious light, without a hint of camp.

=== Samantha Traynor ===

[[File:traynor_5003traynor 5003.jpg|frame| Checkmate!]]

{{quote| ''It's almost as if you wanted to spare your pawns the indignity of living under my regime.''}}

{{quote| '''Voiced by''': Alix Wilton Regan}}

* [[Sexy Secretary]]: Unlike Kelly, it's entirely coincidental.

** [[Nipple-and-Dimed]]: Apparently Miss Traynor likes to take her showers while wearing her lacy bra and panties. And with the door open. (Ofof course, she ''is'' trying to seduce a female Shepard)...)

=== Bethany Westmoreland and Sarah Campbell ===

* [[Falling Into the Cockpit]]: They were Joker's guards (in the "legal custody" sense, not the "Very Important Person" sense) before the Reaper attack, keeping watch over him while he worked with EDI<ref> whoWho convinced the Alliance officials that she was a VI rather than an AI, and that she was programmed only to respond to Joker's inputs.</ref> during the ''Normandy'''s refit. When the Reaper attack happened, they accepted Joker and EDI's offer of a ride. Now they guard the War Room, evidently for lack of anything else to do with their skills.

* [[With Us or Against Us]]: Campbell states that she's totally fine with killing one of her ex-friends, simply because he joined Cerberus.

If the Destiny Ascension was destroyed in the climax of the first game, the replacement Council refused to meet with you in the second due to your Cerberus ties. This is the first time you meet the other races' new representatives -: Quentius (turian), Dalatrass Esheel (salarian) and Irissa (asari).

=== Primarch Adrien Victus ===

[[File:victus_119victus 119.jpg|frame| I'm not really a "by the book" kind of guy... and I piss people off.]]

{{quote| ''Decisions like these weigh heavy on me. When I was a general I could pass them up the chain of command, but now I'm all I've got.''}}

A turian general leading the defense against the Reapers attacking Palaven. General Adrien Victus is rescued from Palaven's moon, Menae, by Commander Shepard after the initial attack killed Primarch Fedorian. The line of succession in the Hierarchy is very clear: Victus is to be the new Primarch and must lend the might of the turian fleet in Shepard's battle against the Reapers.

== = Dalatrass Linron ===

{{quote| ''[[Irony|A bully has few friends when he needs them the most!]]''}}

A leader of the Salarian people. Shepard has to negotiate an alliance between her, Primarch Victus and Wrex / Wreav during the first act of the game, a task made no easier by her feelings regarding the krogan.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: She refuses to believe that the krogan can be anything but brutish thugs. If Wreav is leading them, there's at least some reason for her to be worried, but keeping Wrex alive makes her attitude come off even worse.

* [[Hypocrite]]: She preaches that Shepard is repeating the salarians' mistake of using the krogan to fight a war, ignoring the inevitable fallout that will follow an unchecked krogan population boom. {{spoiler|We then learn that the salarians are planning on secretly uplifting the ''yahg'', who are stronger than krogan, as smart as salarians, and adaptive as humans.}}.

* [[Jerkass]]: Hides the fact that she's holding the cured female krogan, constantly impedes the alliance peace talks, and to top it all off {{spoiler|asks you to sabotage the genophage cure.}}. Never shows a second of remorse for anything that she's done.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: If you do {{spoiler|go through with her plan to sabotage the genophage}}, Linron fully lives up to her promise. {{spoiler|She will also provide falsified data that says the genophage cure was flawed from the getgo in case the krogan start to ask questions.}}.

* [[Smug Snake]]: ''And how''. She ''clearly'' thinks she's a [[Magnificent Bitch]], but by the end of Act I, {{spoiler|if the genophage is cured and Wrex and Eve are alive,}}, everyone is tired of her bullshit, and {{spoiler|the ''entire STG'' goes AWOL to fight Reaper forces despite the genophage being cured.}}.

== = Padok Wiks ===

{{quote| ''In the interests of science, how do krogan mate?''}}

The scientist in charge of the secret base on Sur'Kesh where you meet Eve. If Mordin died in the [[Suicide Mission]], Wiks then joins you on the ''Normandy'' and takes over his role in the story, synthesizing a genophage cure from Eve's tissue.

* {{spoiler|[[Face Death Withwith Dignity]]: After fixing the sabotage and allowing the dispersal of the genophage cure, he crosses his arms behind his back, stands tall and waits for death.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]: He goes out the same way as Mordin.}}.

* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Joker takes to calling him "not-Mordin" until {{spoiler|he sacrifices himself}}, but talking to him reveals that he's more spiritual (and detests Gilbert &and Sullivan).

== = Major Coats ===

[[File:majorcoats_4229majorcoats 4229.jpg|frame]]

{{quote| ''The Admiral's being modest. He's the reason any of us are still alive.''}}

The soldier in London from the very first trailer appears at the end of the game, complaining about spending three days trapped in Big Ben. He helps Anderson co-ordinate the final push on {{spoiler|a teleport beam leading up to the Citadel.}} .

* [[Majorly Awesome]]: A major in the Alliance.

* [[Sniper Rifle]]: His preferred weapon. Specifically an M-29 Incisor in the trailer.

== = Lieutenant Tarquin Victus ===

[[File:tarquin_6343tarquin 6343.jpg|frame]]

{{quote| ''Victory, at any cost...''}}

The son of Primarch Adrien Victus, Lieutenant Tarquin Victus is leading a squad of turian troops on a mission to defuse a bomb near a major krogan population center, a bomb {{spoiler|which was long ago planted by the turian government as a contingency in case another round of rebellions happened.}}. With an alliance between the krogans, turians, and humans in its infancy, it is imperative that Victus complete his mission.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: He earns the respect of his troops the hard way. {{spoiler|Posthumously.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: Dies disabling the bomb on Tuchanka}}, redeeming himself in the eyes of his people.

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Falls to his death to make sure the bomb gets disabled}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]: At least in turian eyes, he needed redemption. And he got it.}}.

== = Jondum Bau ===

{{quote| ''And for the record--not everyone doubted your word about the Reapers. I just hope we're not too late.''}}

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: If you don't have Kasumi, you have to choose between saving him or stopping the virus from disabling the hanar homeworld's defenses.}}.

== = Kahlee Sanders ===

{{quote| ''We met -- God, what's it been? -- 20 years ago. I was there when Saren betrayed him.''}}

{{quote| '''Voiced by''': [[Grey DelisleDeLisle]]}}

A first lieutenant working for the Alliance. She works at the Jon Grissom Academy as part of the Ascension Project, a school for young human biotics, although she isn't a biotic herself. She is an old acquaintence of David Anderson. She appeared in the ''Mass Effect'' novels ''[[Mass Effect (Franchise)/Revelation|Revelation]]'', ''[[Mass Effect (Franchise)/Ascension|Ascension]]'', ''[[Mass Effect: (Franchise)/Retribution|Retribution]]'' and ''[[Mass Effect: Deception (Literature)|Deception]]'' before appearing in ''Mass Effect 3'', where she helps to evacuate the students from the academy when Cerberus attacks.

* [[Token Romance]]: With Anderson in ''Revelation''.

== = "Eve"/{{spoiler|Urdnot Bakara}} ===

[[File:eve11_6616eve11 6616.jpg|frame| Heh, then maybe we can show the men how it's done.]]

{{quote| ''Wisdom comes from pain, and the genophage has made us very wise.''}}

{{quote| '''Voiced by''': Lani Minella}}

* [[Badass Damsel]]: She spends most of a mission locked in a pod, being escorted and protected by Shepard and Coco. But once she gets free, the first thing she does is yank a shotgun out of an ally's hands and blast two Cerberus troopers to kingdom come.

{{quote| '''"Eve":''' I can handle myself, Wrex.<br />

'''Wrex:''' ([[Beat]]) ''Women''. }}

* [[Hooked Up Afterwards]]: Implied to have done so with Wrex, who mentions she's pregnant by the time you take back Earth. Wrex jokes that it's one of [[Friends Withwith Benefits|the perks]] of his being clan-chief, even if she does want to name the firstborn child after Mordin.

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: If Maelon's data was not saved in ''Mass Effect 2'', she will die.}}.

* [[MacGuffin Girl]]: She is the only {{spoiler|test subject of Maelon's to survive, the only krogan to ever be cured of the genophage and live. This makes her insanely valuable, as a cure can be synthesized based on her newfound immunity --... which makes her a target for Cerberus, who don't want the krogan to join the battle against the Reapers.}}.

* [[Morality Chain]]: If Wrex is krogan leader, he only needs a bit of prodding from her. If Wreav is leader, most of the cast agree she's the only thing keeping him from repeating history. {{spoiler|1=If she dies, leaving Wreav unchecked, you can convince Mordin/Padok to sabotage the genophage cure for the sake of galactic stability.}}.

* [[Odd Friendship]]: With Mordin, and Shepard if you're kind to her. She even says she wants to name her first born child after Mordin, {{spoiler|in memory of his sacrifice.}}.

* [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]: She's the female clan's Shaman;: like the Urdnot Shaman who oversaw Grunt's rite, she explains that she gave up her name the day she took the title. The ''Normandy'' team takes to calling her Eve.

** However, complete the Tuchanka arc perfectly (by doing all missions, keeping her alive, and releasing the cure) and Eve will deem Shepard a friend worthy of knowing her true name: {{spoiler|Urdnot Bakara}}.

=== Urdnot Dagg ===

{{quote| ''To be hated by ones so powerful speaks well of you. My krogan would destroy anything we face to earn such a reputation.''}}

* [[Blood Knight]]: Enough that he assumes Shepard's one as well. In fact, he's ''jealous'' that Shepard has Reapers personally looking out for his/her death.

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Held off the rachni to keep them off Shepard.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Impaled Withwith Extreme Prejudice]]: Repeatedly, in the back, by rachni.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[In the Back]]: How he dies.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: His death is unavoidable.}}.

=== Kalros ===

A Colossal Thresher Maw that has roamed the wastelands of Tuchanka for more than a thousand years. When the salarians set up the atmosphere-replenishing Shroud tower during the Uplifting, they built it near an arena dedicated to Kalros to discourage any vandals or saboteurs. It worked -: even after the Shroud was used to spread the genophage, no-one dared go near it... until Shepard and co. needed it to spread the cure.

* [[Cool Versus Awesome]]: She fights a freaking ''[[Eldritch Abomination|Reaper]]''. {{spoiler|And ''wins''.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Yes she did.}}.

{{quote| '''Garrus:''' When the krogan name a thresher maw, you know you're in trouble. They don't think ''anyone's'' going to kill it.}}

{{quote| '''Wrex:''' If [[Death World|Tuchanka]] has a temper, Kalros is it.}}

* [[Kaiju]]: It's simply ''enormous''.

=== Geth VI ===

{{quote| ''[[Mistaken Identity|We are not Legion.]]''}}

{{quote| '''Voiced by''': [[DCD. C. Douglas]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]: To finish the upload of the Reaper code to the rest of the geth.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: Its death can't be avoided.}}.

== '''*END-GAME SPOILER*''' ==

=== The Catalyst ===

{{quote| ''The story is older than the [[Eternal Recurrence|Cycles]] themselves: "[[Turned Against Their Masters|The created destroys the creator.]]"''}}

The missing component for the [[MacGuffin|Crucible]] turns out to be the Citadel itself; the sapient AI that created and controls the Reapers. He was created countless aeons ago to avert the inevitable [[Robot War|Robot Wars]]s that spring up between the created and their creators. His solution was the forcible transformation of all spacefaring species in Reaper form. He left less advanced ones alone to flourish, essentially hitting the [[Reset Button]] over and over for ''millions'' of years.

* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Inverted. His voice sounds like a young boy's, and he's definitely the least malevolent of the Reapers.

* [[Graceful Loser]]: See [[Bigger Bad]]. No ego-maniacal speeches, no [[This Cannot Be!]] -... he simply admits his system will no longer work and gives Shepard final say on what to do with the Crucible's power.

* [[Heads I Win, Tails You Lose]]: It is subtly implied that the three options he presents you with are only the options that he ''wants'' to present you with.

** {{spoiler|ControlDestroy the Reapers and send them away, endingwith the cycleside and letting the populationseffect of the''[[Genocide galaxyDilemma|destroying decideevery theirsynthetic own course. The stress ofin the [[Unusualgalaxy Useralong Interface]]with will [[Heroic Sacrifice|kill Shepardthem]].''}}.

== = The Stargazer ===

A nameless grandfather that relates the legendary story of "[[Spell My Name Withwith a "The"|The]] Shepard" to his grandson ages after the conclusion of the game during [[The Stinger]].

* [[The Storyteller]]: The implication is that the ''entire series'' has been the old man telling the story to his grandson;: the different details of varying playthroughs are handwaved with the explanation that it happened so long ago that the specific details have been lost.