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** Actually, by the time we get to see the Council for the first time in the third game, the invasion is well underway, so we unfortunately miss their initial shocked/horrified reactions to the fact that Shepard was right all along. {{spoiler|And the Turian Councilor Sparatus ends up being [[Took a Level In Kindness|the first of the Councilors to offer Shepard aid]] in the form of vital intel}}.
** As a corollary to that, {{spoiler|The Illusive Man. Indoctrinated though he may have been, his belief in controlling the reapers is one of the three ways Shepard can choose to save the galaxy. Additionally, the 'Control Reapers' Ending is the only one wherein the Citadel isn't blown to smithereens, thus saving countless lives. Well, assuming that it wasn't all a dream anyway}}.
*** The Illusive Man is also absolutely correct in how unfair, corrupt, and anti-human the galactic power structure is and how humanity's only hope to get an even break is to cheat like mad bastards, right up to the point where the Council explicitly abandons the Alliance to die in order to buy more time to save themselves in the opening act of Mass Effect 3. Indeed, were it not for the fact that Cerberus' goals went beyond 'Beat the cheaters and earn humanity a fair opportunity' to 'Eventually reduce all other races to humanity's vassals' and then Cerberus being Indoctrinated by the Reapers, it would have been effectively impossible for the series to actually keep Cerberus as an antagonist faction in the endgame.
** In Mass Effect 2, Maelon, a former student of Mordin's, is revealed to be conducting brutal experiments on live test subjects in an attempt to develop a cure to the Genophage. After dealing with him, Shepard is given the choice of whether to either preserve the data or to destroy it. However, {{spoiler|the data becomes vitally important in the third game to ensuring the survival of the last fertile female Krogan.}}
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