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

* [[Hero-Killer]]: Along with {{spoiler|killing Gillian with a [[Improbable Weapon User|sharpened toothbrush]] in ''Deception''}}, Kai Leng can potentially end up killing any combination of {{spoiler|Kirrahe, Thane and/or Miranda}}.

* [[Hypocrite]]: Calls quite a few people cowards (including {{spoiler|Kirrahe or Thane, who died stopping him from completing his assassination}}), while running away from Shepard multiple times, and getting reinforcements when he gets hit.

* [[I Like Those Odds]]:

{{quote|'''Shepard:''' Three against one, pal. It's over.

'''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.

* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: He killed {{spoiler|the most powerful human biotic alive}} with a toothbrush.

* [[Invisibility]]: Has an Infiltrator/Kasumi-style tactical cloak.

* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: With a [[Hand Wave]] as to why it's effective in a game where kinetic barriers are standard. {{spoiler|1=Subverted in his final appearance in ME3. You can take a Renegade interrupt in order to ''backhand'' Leng's katana and shatter it before finishing him your Omni-Blade.}}

* [[Kick the Dog]]:

* [[Recurring Boss]]: Twice. First is a [[Hopeless Boss Fight]] though.

* [[Reverse Grip]]: With his sword, like the Cerberus Phantoms, with whom he shares a lot of combat animations.

* [[Punched Across the Room|Slapped Across The Room]]: {{spoiler|In the cutscene after his and Shepard's first fight on the Thessia mission, he runs up to Liara, knocks her gun out of her hand, and slaps her, sending her flying several feet and crashing into squadmate #2. He then calls in an airstrike.}}

** He was also a victim of this trope, being on the receiving end of Thane's biotic-pimp-smack-across-the-room when he showed up on the Citadel.

* [[Smug Snake]]: It is very hard to sympathise 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.

* [[Sword and Gun]]: His preferred weapons in the books, as befitting an assassin, are a knife and silenced handgun. In the game, he uses an actual sword and utilizes [[Power Palms]].

* [[Sword Beam]]: The horizontal crescent-wave version.

* [[Underestimating Badassery]]: He severely underestimates Shepard at several points. This proves to be his undoing.

** 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.

* [[Whole Costume Reference]]: With his eye-covering HUD displays, jaw armor, synthetic muscles, bar-code markings and conventional metal sword, Kai Leng's outfit looks quite a bit like [[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots|MGS4's]] cyborg ninja design.

* {{spoiler|[[Wrecked Weapon]]: Take the Renegade interrupt after his boss fight, and he gets to see Shepard break his sword in half before stabbing him.}}

* [[You Fight Like a Cow]]: Engages in this with Shepard, {{spoiler|especially during their final showdown}}. As noted above, Shepard throws it right back in his face.

* [[Get Back Here Boss]]: At first.

* {{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.}}

* [[Out of the Inferno]]

* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: She's named after one of two friends the Illusive Man lost during ''Evolution''. She was designed to be unquestioningly loyal and, apparently, to look good even without the fake skin. {{spoiler|What the Shadow Broker archives tell us about the guy's sexual history does not help.}}

* [[Robotic Reveal]]: When she emerges from the shuttle crash with her synthetic skin burnt away, revealing her metallic body and glowing eyes.

* [[Rush Boss]]: For the second part of the fight you only have to shoot at her for a few seconds, but she'll kill Shepard in one hit if you don't kill her before she gets to you.

== Henry Lawson ==

* [[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.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Evil Is Not a Toy]]: By the time you catch up with him, his base has been trashed by a Reaper attack that caused all of the husks that he thought he had under control to go berserk. He's still alive, but probably wouldn't have lasted much longer if you hadn't shown up}}.

* [[It's All About Me]]: Obsessed with his legacy.

* [[Mad Scientist]]: Oh boy... {{spoiler|He used a refugee camp called [[Names to Trust Immediately|Sanctuary]] as a front for a husk facility.}}

* [[Necessarily Evil]]: "I will be regarded as the savior of the human race!" Uh-huh.

* [[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.}}

* [[Truly Single Parent]]: His "daughters" were made by mixing his genes with specifically chosen female DNA from to produce "perfect" children for his dynasty.

* [[Villains Want Mercy]]: The guy {{spoiler|tricks people of multiple species into coming to "Sanctuary", a place where they will be safe from the Reapers... only to slaughter them all and/or turn them into husks, and send the ones that fall in between off to become Cerberus [[Mooks]]}}. And he wants Shepard to just ''let him walk away.''

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

* [[Gay Option]]: For male Shepards.

* [[Romancing the Widow]]er: His husband Robert died during the Collectors' abduction of Ferris Fields, and he can be romanced by male Shepard during the course of ''[[Mass Effect 3]]''.

* [[Second Love]]: With male Shepard, if romanced.

* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: The sensitive guy to James' manly man. While he firmly fits as a [[Invisible to 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.

* [[Twofer Token Minority]]: Gay and Latin-American.

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: He and James knew each other before they both ended up on the ''Normandy'', and spend most of their time heckling each other.

* [[Gay Option]]: For female Shepards.

* [[Incompatible Orientation]]: If you try and hit on her as male Shepard.

* [[Mundane Utility]]: Her toothbrush. It uses mass effect fields, the miracle technology that makes faster-than-light travel possible, to floss between the teeth. It costs over six thousand credits, so needless to say, Shepard isn't putting in a requisition order to replace the one she lost.

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

* [[Smart People Play Chess]]: Either she is very very good at it, or Shepard plays chess about as well as s/he dances.

* [[Sorry, I'm Gay]]/[[You're Not My Type]]: How she rejects male Shepard if he hits on her.

* [[Teach Him Anger|Teach Her Anger]]: During the fight with the Reaper Destroyer on Rannoch, she states that for the first time, she felt ''angry''. She didn't want to simply defeat that reaper, she wanted to ''kill'' it. Shepard congratulates her on finding her fight-or-flight response.

* [[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>who 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.

* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]: Averted. They evidently check ''everybody'' before allowing them in or out of the War Room, including Shepard, the ship's commander. Every friggin' time s/he walks through.

* [[Those Two Guys]]: They pass the time by idly bantering about whatever mission Shepard has just returned from.

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

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.

* [[A Father to His Men]]: Cares deeply about the well-being of his people and refuses to simply leave them to their fates.

* [[Four-Star Badass]]

* [[Military Maverick]]: He has this reputation thanks to his unorthodox tactics.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: By far the most cooperative ally Shepard has in the first act of the game.

* [[Reluctant Ruler]]: Not particularly happy about being Primarch.

* [[Unfortunate Name]]: "Victus" means "conquered", "defeated" in Latin.

* [[You Are in Command Now]]: His predecessor was killed immediately after the Reapers arrived. He's actually very bitter about the promotion, stating that he hates politicians.

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: If he's not taking Mordin's place, his presence in the story is ''wildly'' reduced, even to the point of losing 80% of conversation options during your single remaining interaction with him.

* {{spoiler|[[Face Death with 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.}}

* [[For Science!]]: Why he wants to know how krogan mate.

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

* [[The Mole]]: If Mordin died in the suicide mission, he lets the krogan know about the females the STG recovered. It cost him a lot of friends on Sur'Kesh, but it was the right thing to do.

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

* [[Monster Progenitor]]/[[Mother of a Thousand Young]]: She's said to be the mother from whom all thresher maws spawn. This is probably an exaggeration. We think. It may be true for all the ones on Tuchanka though; the place is apparently crawling with them.

* [[Sand Worm]]: The biggest one we've ever seen.

* [[Summon Bigger Fish]]