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* [[Badass Normal]]: Art eventually becomes this. He starts out as someone who has never fired a firearm in his life, has never led anyone into combat, and lives in an age without DNA modification technology. By the time he gets to Virmire, he's able to hold his own in Shepard's squad, he leads a salarian STG unit into battle and manages to avoid extremely high casualties, and he's able to be a pretty decent Soldier class fighter, even without the modifications to his DNA. In fact, the only medical procedure he's undergone in the ME universe is surgery to correct near-sightedness, and such a surgery already exists in his home time period. Wrex lampshades his improvement at a couple of points, and then there are the two [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|CMoA's]] he racks up below. [[Took a Level In Badass]] indeed...
* [[Batman Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Art attempts to pull this almost on the spot to make sure he dies at Virmire. Unfortunately, Shepard goes for him instead of Ashley.}} For his failure he gets a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] speech from Shepard.
* [[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]: Art takes this approach when plotting how he'll return back to his world. His first thought? Rather than get shot down on the battlefield where someone could use medigel on him, he'll allow himself to get caught in the blast on [[Wham! Episode|Virmire]]. {{spoiler|[[Your Princess Is in Another Castle|Unfortunately...]]}}
* [[Bi the Way]]: The narration mentions that Art is bisexual. Of course, it's also being mentioned while he's being seduced by an older turian.
** Said turian happens to be {{spoiler|Tonn Actus, the one who is attempting to sell Wrex's family armor. This makes the mission to retrieve Wrex's armor...complicated, especially considering it had [[Off the Rails|already started going differently then it did in the original game.]] }}
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* [[Dudley Do-Right Stops to Help]]: Art pulls this trope to save Tali at the beginning of the fic.
* [[Dynamic Entry]]: Art pulls off a decidely [[The Dark Knight Trilogy|Joker-esque]] one (complete with Shotgun) when returning to Tali's trial from the Alarei {{spoiler|with Rael'Zorah}}.
* [[Early
* [[Epigraph]]: The fanfiction.net version has these. Most of the time it's played straight, but it has also been played for laughs. Eventually, it drops them, and there have been none in both versions of the sequel.
* [[Expy]]: Eltarn and Sawrik are basically {{spoiler|[[Heavy Rain|Ethan and Shawn Mars]], except as turians.}}
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* [[Shipper On Deck]]: Art for Kaidan and Shepard. It's played with, however, given that Art mentions several times that he personally prefers pairing fem!Shepard with Thane in the games. He comes to regret it when {{spoiler|Kaidan dumps her on Horizon}}.
** Art outdoes this in part two with shipping Thane and Shepard. He's even more enthusiastic about it than he ever was with Kaidan and Shepard.
* [[Shout
** The Shepard siblings are named [[Once Upon a Shooting Star|Al and Joc]]. Ironically, the [[Mass Effect]] canon provides just as many [[Mythology Gag|Mythology Gags]] for [[Tropers/Royal Fanatic|Royal Fanatic]]'s fanfic as the traits deliberately put in by Herr Wozzeck.
** Art gives himself the name [[Dragon Age|Zevran Aranai]] while trying to get Wrex's armor from Tonn Actus. Oddly, Art resisted the urge to ask if there was something in his apartment that needed assassinating.
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* [[Small Reference Pools]]: Heavily and gleefully averted throughout.
* [[Socially Awkward Hero]]: Art, when it comes to romance. Sure, he can give big speeches and take down bad guys without breaking a sweat. But any situation referring to romance (and especially Tali)? Gets incredibly nervous. Justified in that he had never been in a long-term relationship before coming to the Mass Effect universe.
* [[Something They Would Never Say]]: According to anyone in the Mass Effect universe, at least: when Tali comes to convince Art out of his catatonic sadness {{spoiler|after Virmire}}, they get into a brief argument, during which Art [[Wham! Line|accidentally lets slip]] that {{spoiler|he knew Ash was going to die before he ever met anyone on the Mass Effect crew}}.
* [[Spared By the Adaptation]]: Mass Vexations 3 has already gone through the cure the Genophage mission and Mordin is still alive afterwards.
* [[Spin-Off]]: [http://nordronnoc.deviantart.com/gallery/36491128 Mass Vexations: Redemption] is a mix of type 1 and type 11.
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* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: Ethan Sunderland, full stop. {{spoiler|Justified in that he's not really from the Mass Effect universe.}}
** {{spoiler|Also, he has the [[Fallout New Vegas|Wild Wasteland]] trait.}}
* [[Wham! Episode]]: Art's loyalty mission. {{spoiler|All goes reasonably well until they get to the end. They find the impostor looks almost exactly like Art, and after enough provocation he finally flies into a rant in which he spills the beans about the truth of his origins... in front of Shepard, who had been out of the loop until that time. She doesn't take it well.}}
** Chapter 39: We learn the exact circumstances that brought Art to the Mass Effect Universe, and they're ''much'' worse than Art thought.
** Chapter 4 of Part 3. {{spoiler|Shepard gets arrested.}} That's ''all'' that needs to be said.
** Chapter 18 of Part 3. All that really can be said is that Tali gets hurt. ''Badly'' hurt.
* [[Wham! Line]]: {{spoiler|"You don't fucking understand! I knew she was going to [[Cluster F-Bomb|fucking]] die ''since I fucking arrived on the fucking Citadel!''"}}
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Let's just say that Art creating a [[Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story]] was bound to create numerous instances of this at some point or another.
** Garrus, Wrex, and Shepard don't take to finding out Art knew everything about what had been happening for the past two years all too well... {{spoiler|'''''Especially''''' not Shepard.}}
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