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* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Firestorm barriers, per [[Word of God]]. Their power draw is enormous and they only go in one direction, and the projectors are still vulnerable to enemy fire, making them only really useful as a surface defense system with the projectors armored and buried underground. The Firestorm can be angled to create a pyramid-shaped defensive dome, but this won't work on spacecraft because they can be attacked from any angle, and the shield would draw about three times as much power as the rest of the ship's systems put together.

* [[Badass Army]]: GDI and Nod. The former fought the Turian Hierarchy almost to a standstill on Shanxi, without much understanding of mass effect technology. The latter is implied to have some incredibly badass troops (if lacking in the raw numbers and sheer firepower of GDI). When asked what Nod's troops were like, [[Word of God|Peptuck's response]] was to put up pictures of [[Deus Ex Human Revolution (Video Game)|Adam Jensen]], [[FEAR|the Point Man]], and a [[Halo|Spartan]].

* [[Beam Spam]]: GDI's approach to space combat appears to take this as its central doctrine.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Kaidan's appearance in Chapter 9, {{spoiler|taking down Zaeed.}}

** Peptuck has stated that GDI and Nod forces will throw down with a Reaper however.

* [[Both Sides Have a Point]]: The author's view on GDI and Nod (as well as the conflict between humanity as a whole and the Citadel). The author has [[Word of God|actually stated]] a variation on this, which is that neither side is right, but both are ''wrong'' on certain points.

* [[Cowboy Cop]]: Garrus, which is lampshaded, as the chapter in which he first showcases his overly aggressive tendencies is titled "Cowboys."

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: {{spoiler|Sovereign vs. Ion Array EP-4.}}

** Zaeed's presence on the Citadel is apparently as a result of this. Due to GDI's friendliness with the krogan, Wrex got a job on Eden Prime as a bodyguard. As a result, Zaeed was the one hired by the Shadow Broker to deal with Fist.

** {{spoiler|Tali has already completed her pilgrimage when the story starts, which means rather than a sole Quarian on the run from Saren, she had a team of Migrant Fleet Marines with her, of which Kal'Reegar is the only survivor. This also explains the larger merc presence.}}

* [[Gambit Pileup]]: The Reapers are plotting something. Kane is ''also'' plotting something. The author has hinted that other plots are in motion.The Shadow Broker got involved when sending Zaeed after the mercenaries, and now there's hints that a group called "Pheonix" is involved (with [[Word of God]] hinting that they may be this universe's equivalent of Cerberus).

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Both Shepherd and Jacob cooperate with Zaeed's rampage - or at least stay out of his way - but anticipate he'll turn on him when the [[Enemy Mine]] is over. {{spoiler|He does, and is also [[Genre Savvy]] enough to backstab Shepherd when Jacob's Marine platoon is too far away to intercede. Until Alenko showed up...}}

** [[Word of God]] is that Councilor Velarn is a [[Jerkass]] to humans [[I Shall Taunt You|deliberately, so that angry humans won't think clearly.]]

** Shepard is implied to be one of these. She is very good at manipulating others and knowing how to keep negative personality traits (such as Garrus' and Admiral Parker's tendency for overkill) under control.

* [[Mighty Glacier]]: The appropriately named ''Glacier''-class dreadnoughts fielded by GDI, which are described as having an almost impractical amount of firepower.

* [[Mini Mecha]]: The REV12 Wolverine and the Turian Hierarchy's Steelclaw knockoff.

** Also the reaction of many of the readers when they realized that the {{spoiler|Scrin and the Geth are working together and augmenting each other's tech}}.

*** Shepard has this reaction at the thought of Garrus and Havoc (the fifth) being in the same room. Two [[Crazy Awesome]] character working together nearly causes her to hyperventilate.

** Deconstructed with Zaeed: he has this reputation, but he's [[Genre Savvy|smart enough enough]] to know that he can be taken down with enough [[We Have Reserves|numbers]] and [[More Dakka|firepower]], so he uses [[Combat Pragmatist|carbombs and mini mecha]].

* [[Patchwork Fic]]: Based on the outline of the first ''ME'', but incorporates characters and elements from the second.

* [[We Are Everywhere]]: Nod. They can apparently {{spoiler|alter communications from the Citadel at will to obfuscate what happened at Eden Prime}}, and later {{spoiler|manage to get a building-sized hologram of Kane to appear in the Council Chambers}}.

* [[Wham Line]]: {{spoiler|You can't kill the Messiah.}}

* [[Word of God]]: ''Lots'' of hints are dropped by the author in the Spacebattles discussion thread. On the other hand, the author is also [[Shrug of God|extremely evasive]] on some questions, at some points outright saying "I dunno."

** [[Teasing Creator|Or responding with the evil plotting smiley.]]