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* [[Anvilicious]]:
** While the pro-LBGTQ stance of the game is well known and received, there have been a few problems with its execution. Two prominent examples are how lesbian character Suvi Anwar had disproportionate emphasis put on her sexuality during advertisement and before a patch the game featured transsexual character Hainly Abrams, a quest giver for an important quest chain, deadnaming in the first conversation. Also, the homosexual romance between Male Ryder/Gil is the only one where a Ryder of either gender
** While the kett are [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]] and [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped|the evils of the Nazis are notorious for good reasons]], some considered the kett an egregious example of this as, in addition to the standard trappings the kett also had deadly prison camps for undesirables and they, especially the Archon, kept getting saddled with the [[Villain Ball]] (one reason the Nazis are despised in real-life is because they also used [[Pragmatic Villainy]] to devastating effect).
** Science fiction is no stranger to discussing the perils of religious extremism, with the kett also having a religious bent to the [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]] trope. However the writers went as far as to saddle them with imagery and titles directly ripped from completely dissimilar real-life religions, particularly Christianity (the namesake of the kett characters "Cardinal" and "Primus" being Christian clerical titles), which raises troubling questions. While the Archon doesn't carry the same [[Unfortunate Implication]], some have found his angel imagery in conjunction with his title and story role to be a heavy-handed reference.
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** SAM gets this as well. Some see SAM as a likeable, inquisitive and helpful AI. Others see SAM as an annoying [[Captain Obvious]]-type helper, a knock-off of EDI from the original trilogy or both.
* [[Captain Obvious]]: Some consider the reveal of Voeld to be this. If you completed certain sidequests and paid attention to ambient chatter and your various mission objectives before you reach Voeld, it is easy to figure, and you may already know [[Assimilation Plot|what the kett do with Angara they capture]] before [[The Reveal]].
* [[Complete Monster]]: The Archon of the Heleus Cluster. In addition to being a [[Hate Sink]] and a [[Scary Dogmatic Alien]] he has his own atrocities. {{spoiler|He captured the Salarian Ark and began running tests on them, such as harvesting their organs while they were still alive, or committing Cold-Blooded Torture on them for information.}} When Ryder and co. came to liberate the Ark he [[Sore Loser|eventually attempted to shoot down the Ark, killing the thousands of Salarians within, rather than allow them to escape]]. He is also a [[Bad Boss]], despite the fact that the kett are {{spoiler|literally brainwashed to be loyal to the cause}}, having them punished if he thinks they aren't committed enough. Obsessed with the Remnant technology known as Meridian, the Archon planed to {{spoiler|use its immense terraforming capabilities to force entire races to surrender to exaltation, or else he'll use Meridian to kill all life on their worlds.}} He's even implied to {{spoiler|be a traitor to the kett cause whose
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