Mass Effect 3: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''"[[War Is Hell|It's hard enough fighting a war.]] [[The Chains of Commanding|But it's worse knowing no matter how hard you try... you can't save them all.]]"''|'''Commander Shepard'''}}

Like the second game, ''Mass Effect 3'' allows players to import their save files from the other two installments, altering the storyline to match the choices your Shepard made in ''1'' and ''2''. But ''ME3'''s plot varies drastically depending on the save file; over one thousand variables are recorded in each save, and ''every'' decision made can have an impact on the story - even choices made in the original game that were never addressed in the second. In fact, this means there are far more widespread possibilities of what is going to happen in the end and thus some MAJOR story tropes may never come into play for a given playthrough.

The power tree from the second game has also been modified: now, instead of evolving a power only once at the end of its life, there are more chances to evolve and more types of evolutions, and certain aspects of powers can now be upgraded directly.

The [[Xbox 360]] version includes an exclusive voice command feature; players with Kinect can issue verbal orders to squadmates during combat and read an option from the [[Dialogue Tree]] aloud to select it during conversations.

* [[Ascended Meme]]: Before Javik's name became officially known, he was commonly referred to on forums as "Prothy the Prothean". This gets a hearty lampshade from him.

{{quote| '''Javik:''' ''Your "Joker" pilot insists I call myself Prothy the Prothean. I insisted he allow me to throw him out the airlock.'' }}

* [[Aside Glance]]: After making his "[[Hunt for Red October|Russian National Anthem]]" joke during the geth dreadnought boarding cutscene, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqt3aW6clAo Joker glances deliberately into the camera].

* [[Attack Its Weak Point]]:

** How Shepard racks up {{spoiler|his/her first on-foot Reaper kill}}.

* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: Cryo powers, in a welcome shift from the second game. Several other powers can now be spec'ed to work better on frozen stuff, and enemies will slow down when hit even if they're shielded or armored.

* [[Badass Army]]: Building an army of the greatest Badasses of the entire galaxy.

* [[Badass Bystander]]:

* [[Crapsack World|Crapsack Galaxy]]: Reaper invasions will ruin anyone's day, and [[It Got Worse|it is only gonna get worse]].

* [[Critical Status Buff]]: In the main campaign, losing your shields will give you a few seconds of [[Adrenaline Time]].

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]:

** The Reapers vs. Earth. According to the Codex entry "The Fall of Earth", the Reapers conquer the planet in a matter of ''hours''. While escaping Earth, players will see that the previously enormous fleet that was gathered in orbit around Earth has been completely devastated, and we later learn that Arcturus Station (the Systems Alliances' capital) was destroyed, along with the ''entire'' Second Fleet. Many of the battles that directly involve Reapers turn into this. The turians are suffering massive casualties despite having the most powerful military in the galaxy. Thessia, home of the asari, falls.

* [[Cyberspace]]: {{spoiler|'''You enter the geth consensus'''. Legion helps by filtering the experience into something Shepard's mind can comprehend, though. As the disembodied Legion voice converses with you, you may notice that the walkway tiles appearing for your convenience flash in unison with Legion's voice: You are actually walking on Legion.}}

* [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]]:

** In multiplayer, different characters have their powers mapped to different hotkeys.

* [[Dark Reprise]]:

** During the end credits, a slower (and slightly more unnerving) version of "Leaving Earth" plays as the final track.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The number of dead is in the millions already. Trillions more lives are at stake. The developers have said they want to make this game edgier, but still with more humor, as well. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfvo5ueKJY8 Liara is literally darker], as well as personality-wise. [[Word of God]] says it's intentional.

* [[Defcon Five]]: Averted in an email, stating about the traffic emergency and the Alliance declaring SABER One (presumably the equivalent of DEFCON in ME) when the Reapers invaded Earth.

* [[Defector From Decadence]]: It seems that not all of Cerberus is in lockstep with The Illusive Man's apparent [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|vault off of the slippery slope]]. Your War Assets have a whole folder dedicated to "Ex-Cerberus". {{spoiler|Jacob and a bunch of security and science personnel have officially severed ties with the Illusive Man and have holed up on Arrae. Rescuing them adds to your War Assets - the science team helps the Crucible Project, while Jacob becomes an anti-Cerberus consultant for the Alliance.}}

** Emily Wong, dying of wounds inflicted while reporting on the Reapers, {{spoiler|rams her skyvan into one at high speeds}}.

** Rila, one of Samara's Ardat-Yakshi daughters, {{spoiler|realises she is indoctrinated and manages to hold onto her own senses long enough to stare down a Banshee and blow them all to hell.}}

{{quote| '''Rila''': We are ''not'' your slaves!}}

* [[The Dead Have Names]]: The Normandy gets a memorial wall, which lists the names of every single crew member that died over the course of the trilogy.

* [[Death From Above]]: {{spoiler|Shepard kills one of the smaller Reapers by calling down orbital strikes from the entire quarian fleet.}}

* [[Degraded Boss]]: The Atlas mech is encountered as a boss during Priority: Sur'Kesh. They are encountered on later missions as normal enemies. This can be oddly reversed if the From Ashes DLC is downloaded (See [[Sequence Breaking]]).

* [[Demoted to Extra]]:

** Harbinger. Remember how much of a [[Large Ham]] he was in the last game? Because he does not even have ''lines'' in this one.

* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: The plot accounts for the consequences of nearly everything Shepard has and has not done over the course of both prequels, including DLC content, and brings characters in and out of narrative based on whether you recruited them, helped them, left them to their own devices, or got them killed during the Suicide Mission. For vital plot quests, stand-ins will take the place of important characters that are missing. Even acknowledged bugs from the previous game have a place in the game's narrative: Conrad Verner may apologise for claiming that you pulled a gun on him even though you did not, as he was just under a lot of stress at the time.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: After {{spoiler|the attempted Cerberus coup on the Citadel}}, two smugglers forced off of Omega can be heard talking in Purgatory. Both of them are disgusted at how clean and nice the club is, but when the turian smuggler suggests they steal military medical supplies while they are stuck on the Citadel, the Human smuggler threatens to turn them ''both'' in if he does anything of the sort. She points out that Earth is dying and she is not going to try to make money off the Alliance ''now'', while they are fighting to save the human race.

* [[Even Mooks Have Loved Ones]]: While raiding a Cerberus base for Reaper tech that they are studying, you can find two journals from "C. Talavi" as he records his experiences as he joins Cerberus; the first is full of excitement at finally being there, the second is sapped of all emotion after he has been [[Slave Mooks|integrated]]. Later, aboard the Citadel you can encounter a Private Talavi, serving in the Alliance, who is unhappy at being assigned to fight Cerberus instead of the Reapers because her younger brother has joined the organization.

* [[The Extremist Was Right]]:

** The moment the first Reaper descends, the Committee collectively realise just why Shepard claims that causing the destruction of an entire star-system did nothing more than ''slow them down''.

** The Vanguard's Biotic Charge basically is a combination of this and [[Foe-Tossing Charge]].

* [[Flaunting Your Fleets]]: The "Fleets Arrive" sequence includes all of the amassed fleets you've acquired jumping into the Sol System in succession, along with Joker and several galactic representatives reporting their fleets as ready.

** Designs for the Crucible, an incomplete and impossibly advanced anti-Reaper superweapon, are left by the Protheans for the species of the next cycle to use. {{spoiler|We later learn that the Crucible is only partly of Prothean design. It originated many, ''many'' cycles in the distant past, and was passed down through time from one cycle to next, each adding their own improvements, with the hope that someone in a future cycle would be able to iron out all the details and build it.}}

** In a direct [[Call Back]] to the first game, Liara made plans for very detailed instructions on who the Reapers are and how to fight them them so various time capsules can be put in place in the event they do not win and any future species are able to recover the vital information.

** The salarian dalatrass accuses Shepard of being a bully when the Commander, Victus & Wrex/Wreav tell her that unless she gives them the location of the krogan female immune to the Genophage, they'll leave the salarians to the Reapers all because she refuses to give into the ''one'' demand the krogan have in exchange for their assistance. {{spoiler|Before the mission to cure the Genophage, the dalatrass contacts Shepard & threatens to withold salarian support unless Shepard sabotages the cure}}.

** {{spoiler|The asari government. They claim that the asari are the most advanced race in the galaxy due to inherent virtues, but they actually have the ''only'' intact Prothean Beacon in the galaxy.}}

* [[I'm Standing Right Here]]: When Joker comments on EDI's new body, and says that he'd like to take a picture of her, EDI (who is sitting right beside Jeff, and can hear his entire conversation with Shepard) comments in a slightly hurt tone, "...I'm right here, Jeff."

* [[Incompatible Orientation]]: Samantha Traynor, a romance option for FemShep, is forced to let MaleShep down if he tries to make a move on her. Later, when Ken and Gabby are talking, Gabby has to tell Ken not to bother flirting with Traynor, since he is not her type.

* [[It Has Been an Honor]]: Before you set out on the final battle you get a chance to talk and interact with all the crewmembers possible. At least half of the conversations end up using some variation of the phrase.

* [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks]]: In-universe, Joker kids about this concerning Cerberus {{spoiler|after the botched coup}}, saying how he was all for them when they were vigilantes helping the helpless, but now they're a "bit too mainstream...and evil."

* [[Kick the Dog]]:

** Just to make it one hundred percent clear who the bad guys are, a Mini-Reaper is shown shooting down unarmed civilian transports, one of which had a little boy on it.

** The cool-down for the infiltrator's Cloak can be reduced. Attacking in any way brings you out of cloak, but attacking with a weapon will trigger cloak's cool-down while attacking with a power will trigger that power's cool-down, which is usually much shorter.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]:

{{quote| ''[after Shepard chooses a '''{{color|blue|Paragon}}''' dialogue option]''<br />

'''Cortez:''' When you put it that way, how can I say no?<br />

'''Shepard:''' You can't. }}

** Conrad is also very sorry [[Ascended Glitch|he accused Shepard of pointing a pistol at him]], he was under a lot of stress.

** Vega and Cortez argue the merits of the Mako vs the Hammerhead - Vega thinks the Mako can at least take a hit compared to the "[[Fragile Speedster|made of paper]]" Hammerhead, while Cortez prefers agility to something that "handles like a drunk rhino". Cortez even provides some [[Techno Babble]] to explain how the Mako drove up all those sheer rock faces!

* [[Last-Second Word Swap]]: Jack. Repeatedly.

* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]: None less than the Xbox Live frontend is already spoiling the fact that From Ashes gives you a Prothean squad member.

** The kid in the beginning that says "You can't help me." {{spoiler|and dies shortly thereafter regardless of what you do}} seems to be talking to the player that you cannot save everyone.

** A scene that follows continues this, with Shepard having the option to express just that.

* [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]]: Cerberus Guardians carry riot shields into battle. They are quite effective at soaking up damage; however, the shields can be got around with good tactics, good aim, or good use of powers. Or, if you have a big enough gun, they can be flat out ignored.

* [[Ludicrous Gibs]]:

** Large enough guns such as the Black Widow sniper rifle gib pretty much anything that lacks shields or armoring.

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: Having been heavily implied in ''Mass Effect 2'', this game confirms that {{spoiler|Matriarch Atheyta is Liara's "father."}}

* [[Monumental Damage]]: In the trailer we can see a pretty busted up Big Ben Clocktower, and a Reaper just about to land on the London Eye. The tower does, however, manage to remain standing through the end of the game.

* [[Motivational Lie]]: {{spoiler|After the fall of Thessia, if you use the Paragon interrupt during the Liara/Javik confrontation, Javik explains that the Protheans believed that the asari were the best hope for this cycle, and that the Protheans protected and nurtured them because they saw their potential. After Liara leaves, Shepard asks whether Javik meant what he said; he asks "does it matter?" and you get as an addendum either "[[Exact Words|I will tell you what you want to hear]]: I meant what I said", "She believes it. So she will keep fighting."}}

** {{spoiler|Control: Shepard uses the Illusive Man's plan and takes control of the Reapers, ordering them to cease hostilities and leave for an unknown destination, letting the populations of the galaxy decide their own course. The exact implications are up to debate - Shepard lights up and disappears after touching the control terminal, which may mean that he [[Heroic Sacrifice|either died from the stress]] of the [[Unusual User Interface]] after forcing the Reapers to leave other civilizations alone or [[Brain Uploading|uploaded his consciousness]] to [[A God Am I|command the Reapers for all eternity]] and aid, dominate, or destroy galactic civilization as he sees fit.}}

** {{spoiler|Destroy: Shepard uses the Crucible to destroy the Reapers, with the side effect of ''[[Genocide Dilemma|destroying every synthetic in the galaxy along with them.]]''}}

** {{spoiler|If you take too long to choose an ending, "The crucible has been destroyed," appears on screen, offering you the usual game over options.}}

* [[Nostalgia Level]]: Almost every planet you have visited in the previous two games, you either re-visit or can procure Assets from. Yes, that includes ALL the UNC missions in the Mako from the first game except for Luna (for obvious reasons).

** Garrus asks the same thing, but with him, he knows full well what Liara's doctorate is in and the whole conversation becomes a [[Mythology Gag]] about Liara's wide-eyed naive alien-girl role in ''ME1''.

{{quote| '''Liara:''' Oh. You were joking, weren't you?<br />

{{quote| Liara: Oh. That was a joke, wasn't it?<br />

EDI: No. A joke has a specific structure. This was "messing with you". }}

* [[Oblivious to Love]]: If they are both assigned to the geth dreadnought mission, Garrus and Tali can discuss the turian chocolates that Dr. Michel gave to Garrus. Tali reads into it, but Garrus does not seem to realize that Dr. Michel might have been trying to send a signal.

* [[Odd Friendship]]: Tali and Legion actually refer to each other fondly, Tali in particular talks about her whole perspective being shifted because they kept in contact with eachother between ''ME 2'' and ''ME 3'' (until Legion's disappearance).

** Garrus says those exact words {{spoiler|on Sur'Kesh when an elevator's doors open to reveal a bomb.}}

* [[Old Save Bonus]]: Taken [[Up to Eleven]]. The game tracks over a thousand variables from a save file that went through the previous two games, including:

** An imported Shepard (and, by association, his/her squadmates) all start at the level you ended ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' with. A Level 30 character imported in gets 31 points to spend right off the bat.

** The game tracks whether or not you completed the previous game's downloadable content. If you completed "Bring Down The Sky" from ''[[Mass Effect 1]]'', {{spoiler|and saved the hostages, Balak}} can show up again; {{spoiler|he also shows up if you didn't save the hostages and then [[Never Found the Body|left him for dead]].}} If you completed "Lair of the Shadow Broker", you can get bonus intel. Completing "Arrival" nets extra dialogue during a couple of conversations and prevents a reduction to a war asset (who had to do Arrival since you did not).

* [[Platonic Life Partners]]:

** FemShep and a non-romanced Garrus.

** This may happen with Kaidan and a Female Shepard - though he desperately wants it to be more.

* [[Point of No Return]]: There are two points in the game where, once you complete that part, previous parts of the game become inaccessible.

* [["Previously On..."]]: If you did not play either of the previous two games, there will be two video prologues explaining the story so far and the races of the galaxy.

* [[Punched Across the Room]]: Adepts and Vanguards have biotic heavy melee attacks; the former gets an open-palm strike that focuses on distance, the latter gets a super-punch (that can be used right after Charge). Batarian characters can also do this to enemies with their enforcement gauntlets, which generate a giant holographic fist for a huge punch.

* [[Put the Laughter In Slaughter]]: Krogan multi-player characters, when they enter close combat. Also, Grunt has a disturbing tendency to sort of giggle as he kills things.

{{quote| '''Krogan PC:''' Hah! They're dead!}}

** The Leviathan of Dis, the corpse of a genetically engineered organic starship which was mentioned in ''ME1'', is revealed in this game to have been the corpse of a Reaper. {{spoiler|This was one of the key reasons for the complete destruction of the Batarian Hegemony, as its corpse had indoctrinated many members of the batarian military and government who sabotaged their home systems defenses}}.

** The final scene of the game reveals that {{spoiler|the Citadel is home to an AI, referred to as "the Catalyst," that either created or controls the Reapers. It uses them to wipe out advanced organic life out of a belief that a synthetic rebellion is inevitable, and that if it did not interfere then eventually the synthetics would wipe out ''all'' life, whereas with the Reapers at least the primitive races can continue to exist.}}

** {{spoiler|Cerberus, for ''several'' reasons, as per the Illusive Man's orders. The Illusive Man's belief is that the Reapers don't want to destroy all sentient life--because if they did, there'd be no reason to have left humanity alone last time or to go through this trouble to "harvest" races. He believes that since the Reapers see something valuable in humanity, it would be wiser to gain control of the Reapers and guide their plans with humanity's interests. Okay--all of that is absolutely true, but it doesn't change the fact that the Reapers plan to wipe out all galactic civilization as it exists and that humanity would effectively cease to exist being essentially "human", which would make preserving the species moot. Furthermore, the Illusive Man is indoctrinated, and it's made clear that the indoctrination would have prevented him from actually gaining control at all and was probably making him more sympathetic to the Reapers' goals than humanity's. Despite all of that, however, Shepard can choose to go through with TIM's plan and s/he can take Control of the Reapers in his stead.}}

** {{spoiler|On the Citadel, you can hear Rupe Elkoss (the billionaire owner of Elkoss Combine) lambast the Sanctuary colony on Horizon, advising his conversational partner not to run to that "scam of a place" since he assumes that they are making money off people's desperation. He is right that it is a bad idea to go there, but instead because Sanctuary is a secret Cerberus abduction and testing facility.}}

** Provided your War Assets were high enough, {{spoiler|Shepard wakes up at the end of the "Destroy" ending}}.

* [[Sequence Breaking]]: The Atlas Mech is supposed to be first encountered at the conclusion of the mission on Sur'Kesh, where it receives an introductory cinematic and serves as the boss of the mission. However, the Grissom Academy becomes available after the previous mission to Palaven, and the Atlas appears as a much more mundane mid-level boss. The DLC mission "From Ashes" can likewise make the Atlas an enemy before its intended introduction, as it is available as soon as you regain free control of the ''Normandy''.

* [[Shockwave Stomp]]: The Vanguard's new unique power, Nova.

* [[Shooting Gallery]]: In the Spectre's office on the Citadel.

** When approaching a geth dreadnaught, Joker says, [[Hunt for Red October|"The only way they'll find us is if we start singing the Russian National Anthem."]] And then gives an [[Aside Glance]].

** [[Jurassic Park|"I found a Kakliosaur skull preserved in amber, maybe you could clone it?"]]

** Talk to Cortez enough and he'll get some of his old fighter pilot buddies to fight for you. They're called "Rogue Fighter Pilots" in the terminal, but they left the Alliance on good terms, so how did they go rogue-[[Rogue Squadron|ohhhhhhhh...]]

* [[Show Within a Show]]: [[Running Gag|Blasto the Hanar Spectre]] eventually seems to have had [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyK8nopOwqs a full blown radio drama] made about him. Inspired by [[Lethal Weapon]], no less.

* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: In the game's launch trailer, the Illusive Man warns Shepard not to interfere with his plans. Shepard's response? "Go to Hell!"

* [[Smash to Black]]: The last shot in the game ends like this before fading into the credits.

* [[Smug Snake]]: Kai Leng. Emphasis on "smug".

* [[Sniper Rifle]]: Standard equipment, coming in models that offer armor-piercing capability and with attachments that let you see through smoke.

* [[Socialization Bonus]]: Your War Assets, which build up via both plot and sidequest, are assigned point values, the way they might be in [[Tabletop Games]]; Miranda Lawson, as an example, is worth 25 points all on her own. To win the final battle, you need an army worth (say) 1,000 points. However, each asset's value is modified by their "efficiency" rating, measured in a percentage that goes up with multiplayer victories: base War Asset value times the Efficiency percentage equals "Effective Military Strength," which is the number that really counts. A 1,000-point army at 100% efficiency has the same EMS as a 2,000-point army at 50%.

** If Legion did not survive the Suicide Mission or he was sold to Cerberus, his role in the Geth-Quarian War will be assumed by a nondescript "Geth VI" constructed in Legion's likeness. Shepard will even note that the VI looks very similar to the geth they retrieved in the previous game if Legion was never turned on. This does not count Legion's appearance {{spoiler|as a "Geth Assassin" at the Cerberus Base}} if you sold him previously.

* [[Sword and Gun]]:

** The addition of the omniblade makes all Soldiers, Engineers, Infiltrators and Sentinels equipped with this combo.

* [[Stylistic Suck]]: In-Universe with ''Blasto 6''.

** At the conclusion of the Poisoned Medigel mission on the Citadel, {{spoiler|Conrad will do this for Shepard, complete with a dramatic slow-motion dive. If you completed Jenna's sidequest in the first game then [[Subverted Trope|he is not shot after all]].}}

** If he survived the Virmire mission in the first game, and Thane did not survive the suicide mission in the second game, {{spoiler|Major Kirrahe will take the bullet for the Salarian councilor during the Cerberus invasion of the Citadel}}.

* [[Team Pet]]: KEI-9 in the Collector's Edition, who is a robotic dog that was left behind by an Alliance engineer during the Normandy's retrofit, and exists to walk around in the ship's shuttle bay and be referred to by Shepard as a "good dog".

* [[Technicolor Eyes]]: In addition to the regular eye colors Shepard can have more exotic iris colors like white or [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|red]].

* [[Time Abyss]]: The Reapers have been active for ''billions'' of years. {{spoiler|The Catalyst is older than the Reapers themselves and has watched countless cycles of life evolving and being destroyed}}.

* [[Tired of Running]]: Shepard accidently woke up a Reaper tank and their first response is to just get away, but Shepard realized that by running all they would do is delay a massive battle and more lives will be lost because {{spoiler|the Reaper was controlling/influencing the geth forces}}. So s/he decides to stand his/her ground and {{spoiler|calls in the Migrant Fleet for a dedicated orbital strike}}.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Tabloid reporter Khalisah Al-Jilani has learned from her [[Running Gag|previous encounters]] with Shepard.

* [[Trash the Set]]: {{spoiler|That fancy field-of-stars office the Illusive Man communicates from? You get to WRECK it during your final fight with Kai Leng.}}

** An asari commando who killed a crying girl to prevent her from giving away their position, and keeps begging for a gun {{spoiler|so she can put a bullet in her own head}}.

** A human soldier who was injured and whose wounds became infected, so despite receiving proper on-site medical care, still had to have his legs amputated afterwards.

** One girl in the refugee camp stands patiently near a converted information kiosk, because her parents said they would meet her there, even though they were on different escape shuttles. The turian on duty knows full well that her parents are not going to make it, but cannot bring himself to tell her. She slowly works it out herself anyway, and resolves to wait for them all the same.

** It is shown through the interaction with squad members as many of them get reports of their families being killed or worrying about news of that, homeworlds destroyed, etc. And the strain that it puts on Shepard is very noticeable.

* [[We ARE Struggling Together!]]: Despite the Reaper invasion, some of Shepard's potential allies are trying to kill each other. Shepard will need to resolve their issues to get their support.

* [[Wham! Episode]]: The Thessia mission. {{spoiler|Not only does the homeworld of the galaxy's most prosperous species fall, it turns out that the asari owe their prosperity to Prothean technology that they have been hoarding to themselves, in blatant violation of their own laws against withholding such technology. For the first time in the whole series, Shepard flat-out ''fails'' thanks to Kai Leng's dirty tricks. It is very quiet on the Normandy afterwards.}}

** During the mission to Sur'Kesh, Cerberus attacks the STG facility and both Mordin and Shepard's squad mention that Cerberus must have been helped by a [[The Mole|mole]] in STG to get there that quick, but this is never brought up again later and whoever it was remains unrevealed.

** On the mission to Benning, Admiral Hackett explains that Cerberus is officially denying their involvement and saying that the personnel involved are rogue operatives. Hackett states that this time he is actually inclined to believe Cerberus, since wanton destruction is not their usual style (They normally have ''some'' goal, no matter how obtuse or abhorrent it might be). After this mission, the idea of rogue Cerberus agents, or what they might have been planning, is never brought up again.

** If you decide to sabotage the cure, {{spoiler|Mordin catches on to what you are up to and expresses indignation that Shepard will throw all that work away for a backroom deal with the dalatrass.}} He can, however, be persuaded to come around to your viewpoint depending on who is in charge of the krogan clans and who survived the mission so far.

** If you sabotage the cure and you completed his family armor quest in the first game, Wrex {{spoiler|rails at you for being two-faced when he confronts you on the Citadel.}}

* [[Where It All Began]]:

** The "From Ashes" DLC pack adds a mission about a Prothean artifact on Eden Prime, the location of the first mission in the original game. Liara flat-out says this is "where it all began" for them.

** The finale {{spoiler|takes place on the Citadel, on the underside of where the first game ended, once again trying to open the arms.}}

* [[Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?]]: Garrus when he sees Kirrahe's sticky grenade launcher.

** Shepard and Liara / the Virmire Survivor, if you pursued a romance with them and then a different crewmember in the second game.

** Potentially applies to Tali or Garrus, if you pursued one of them in the second game and choose to dump them in ''3''.