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This page is for listing the tropes related to party members who '''first appeared''' in the original ''[[Mass Effect 1|Mass Effect]]'' game.
For the pages listing tropes related to NPCs, Antagonists and Party Members who first appeared in other games in the trilogy, see the [[Mass Effect/Characters|''Mass Effect'' Character Index]].
== Gunnery Chief/Operations Chief/Lieutenant Commander Ashley Williams ==
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* [[Action Girl]]: Prothean ruins are a popular target for pirates and mercenaries looking for quick cash. If you want to excavate them alone, you've got to know your way around a fight.
* [[Adorkable]]: [[Shrinking Violet|Easily flustered]] because she's use to spending time alone and not around groups of people.
* [[Adrenaline Makeover]]: Compare Liara when you meet her in ''Mass Effect'' to Liara by the end of Lair of the Shadow Broker. Though of course whether the getting the guy/gal part gets played straight/averted/subverted/etc depends largely on the player's own choice.
* [[Adventurer Archaeologist]]
{{quote|'''Liara:''' Our travels now are somewhat different from my normal excavations. I would prefer lengthier studies... and fewer explosions.
'''Wrex:''' It's good for you. A nice explosion now and then keeps the mind sharp.
* [[Aggressive-Submissive]]: "...how many times have you thrown him/her on the bed and peeled him/her out of his/her uniform?" Liara's father asks this about her and Shepard, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|and Liara tries to not make it sound so dirty
* [[Air Vent Escape]]: How she's reintroduced in ''Mass Effect 3''. While being chased by a pair of Cerberus operatives.
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: Due to being a "pureblood
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type III in the sequel.
** Softens up a least little in the third game. Like Garrus, she might even qualify as a Type II for that game.
* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]:
* [[Aside Glance]]: Of gratitude when Shepard refuses to give her up to [[That One Boss|the krogan]] on Therum.
* [[Attempted Rape]]: Twice in
* [[Babies Ever After]]: Alluded to during her romance scene in ''Lair of the Shadow Broker''.
{{quote|'''Liara:''' So, tell me what you want. If this all ends tomorrow, what happens to us?
'''Shepard:''' I don't know. Marriage, old age, and a lot of little blue children?
'''Liara:''' You just say these things!
* [[Badass Adorable]]: In the first game, she's easily flustered and generally socially awkward, especially when dealing with people outside her species. She's also a biotic death machine.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: For a girl who spends all of her time buried in her books, Liara is ''horribly'' deadly with her biotic powers.
** How badass is she, you say? She's the only other character besides Adept!Shepard who can use [[Gravity Master|Singularity]], and her other biotic powers rival or even surpass Samara's, who is ''several centuries her senior''. She's powerful enough that she can send a powerful biotic {{spoiler|Spectre}} with armed backup running for her life.
** {{spoiler|Her grandfather was a krogan
** Hell, from her comments about looking after herself when encountering pirates and looters at Prothean dig sites, she seems to be the Space [[Indiana Jones]].
* [[Battle Aura]]: Uses her biotic glowyness to dissuade some enemies a few times.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Harming Shepard.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Yet again. Liara's a very demure young asari who is entirely capable of turning an entire horde of geth into tinfoil with her brain. Ask
** Doing a quest for her reveals that {{spoiler|one of her assistants is a mole. After informing her of this, the player can go to her office and find out that not only did Liara already kill her assistant, she disposed of her body as well
* [[Bi the Way]]: Sort of. Asari are a monogendered species, meaning they are all biologically female (can reproduce). However, they don't have any concept of gender divisions, and therefore can be equally attracted to any gender (or species, for that matter).
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: Asari reproduce by "melding", where they join their entire nervous system to their partner's and use the electrical impulses to randomize some of their own DNA for the offspring. Galactic science waffles on the subject, but it often turns out [[Lamarck Was Right]]
** The asari are the setting's only known telepaths, and they use it as part of the mating process. It's not only logical that asari daughters take after their parents psychologically, it's almost inevitable given the depth of the melding.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|By the time of ''Mass Effect 2'', she's much less innocent and kind as she's had a rough couple of years by then
** {{spoiler|Cranked [[Up to Eleven]] during the Fall of Thessia mission in the third game. She's a complete wreck even during the mission, to say nothing about after
▲* [[Break the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|By the time of ''Mass Effect 2'', she's much less innocent and kind as she's had a rough couple of years by then.}}
* [[Broken Pedestal]]:
▲** {{spoiler|Cranked [[Up to Eleven]] during the Fall of Thessia mission in the third game. She's a complete wreck even during the mission, to say nothing about after.}}
* [[Came Back Wrong]]: One of Liara's fears regarding
▲* [[Broken Pedestal]]: {{spoiler|After the fall of Thessia, she angrily calls out Javik for not even caring, that she's spent her entire life studying his people and feels like it was for nothing. He's a ''Prothean''... he was supposed to have all the ''answers''}}.
▲* [[Came Back Wrong]]: One of Liara's fears regarding {{spoiler|Shepard, after having handed the Commander's corpse over to Cerberus for the Lazarus Project. It also partly explains her initial, somewhat distant attitude on Illium.}}
* [[Canada, Eh?]]: Mostly averted, but listen to Liara say 'Protheans'. It almost always comes out as 'Prootheans'.
* [[Captain Obvious]]: During parts of ''Lair of the Shadow Broker
* [[Character Development]]: In the first game, Liara T'Soni is a stuttering, bookish, nerdy girl. {{spoiler|In the sequel, she has become a ruthless information trader, but her tough attitude is revealed to be a defense mechanism if you romanced her in the first game
* [[Character Tic]]: Whenever something fascinates her, she adopts what could best be described as a standing up variation of the [[Thinker Pose]].
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: In the sequel, where she's somehow become an information broker despite no prior evidence that she had any skills in the field.
** Still presented sympathetically given that she had to do this to succeed as an information broker.
* [[Cutscene Incompetence]]
** However, she had been in a stasis field for a ''while'' by this point, so
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: You recruit her by rescuing her from a horde of bad guys, she doesn't fight once throughout the entire level, and she almost faints even after you've got her on the ship. Add this to her general naivete, and she seems like the poster child for this trope. [[Beware the Nice Ones|Then you actually take her into battle
** It should be noted that when you rescue her, she's unarmed and fatigued from being held immobile for goodness knows how long
{{quote|'''Kaidan:''' When was the last time you ate? Or slept?}}
** And she ''can't remember''.
* {{spoiler|[[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Upon becoming the new Shadow Broker, Liara vows to use her newfound power and influence for the power of good, and to aid Shepard in stopping the Reapers
* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: ''Mass Effect: Redemption'' and ''Lair of the Shadow Broker
* [[Digging Yourself Deeper]]: In the first game, Liara's attempts to explain why she's so interested in you in purely scientific means leads to a series of flustered, ever-escalating [[Double Entendre|double entendres]].
* [[Discount Lesbians]]
* [[Double Tap]]: How she finishes off a pair of Cerberus operatives chasing her during her reintroduction in
* [[Enemy Mine]]: {{spoiler|With Cerberus, to save Shepard's body from the Shadow Broker and the Collectors. The fact that she beats herself up over handing Shepard's corpse to The Illusive Man explains in part her behavior during the second game
* [[Even Heroes Have Heroes]]: Her reaction to meeting {{spoiler|Javik, a living Prothean, in ''Mass Effect 3''}}. Lampshaded by ''everyone'', with Shepard joking that they'll hand over questions to Liara because she looks like she's about to explode.
* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: Notable if you bring
{{quote|'''Liara''': Incredible, the Beacon seems to think you are Prothean, Shepard. It must be from the Cipher you got back on Feros, all those years ago.
{{spoiler|'''Javik''': [[Deadpan Snarker|Or it could be the Prothean standing right next to you]]
* [[Fling a Light Into the Future]]: Taking a cue out from the Protheans in ''Mass Effect 3'', she plants several time capsules across many worlds to warn future species in the event that the Reapers aren't stopped. She even has a section devoted to the heroics of Shepard, and you can tell her how wish it told.
* [[Go Mad From the Isolation]]: Liara seems to be on the brink of this in the first game if you decide to rescue her after the rest of the main story missions. By the time you get there, she's completely convinced you're a realistic hallucination. So, yes, all that time you spent flying around, she's been locked in stasis.
* [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]]: She's got blue skin and is regarded as attractive by most other characters.
* [[Guest Star Party Member]]: In ''Lair of the Shadow Broker''.
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: {{spoiler|Counters the Shadow Brokers' speech with one of her own. He didn't like it much}}.
* [[Has Two Mommies]]: And the other mommy is an asari. [[Fantastic Racism|Which is why she's shunned so much, as asari-asari relationships restrict genetic diversity]] [[Broken Aesop|...
** As seen in [[Bi the Way]], ambiguously gendered asari are "female" in the eyes of every other race, possessing the same sex organs and characteristics as would be expected for mammalian females, though one asari serves as the "father
** Ultimately averted. Her "father" is {{spoiler|shown in the third game to be Matriarch Aethyta, the bartender from Illium and then the Presidium, assigned to keep an eye on Liara after Benezia went evil}}. Even though Liaria's father is 'female
* [[Hero Worshipper]]: Towards Shepard ''big-time''.
** In
** In the third game, she programs a series of time-capsules to be sent across the galaxy in case the mission fails with one whole section of the archive devoted ''solely'' to tales of Shepard's exploits. If Shepard encourages her to be the one to decide how they will be remembered, she practically gushes over him/her.
* [[Hidden Depths]]:
* [[Hot-Blooded]]: Liara definitely comes across as this in the second and third game.
* [[Hot Scientist]]: Just look at her.
* [[How Did You Know? I Didn't.]]: After {{spoiler|killing the Shadow Broker}}, Shepard asks Liara how she knew that {{spoiler|the Shadow Broker was a yahg}}. She actually had no idea; she just made an educated guess on the spot.
* [[In-Universe Catharsis]]:
* [[The Ingenue]]: Shy, sweet, and easily flustered? Yep.
* [[I Shall Taunt You]]: When confronting the Shadow Broker, she
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]:
** If you have progressed far enough in the romance with Ashley or Kaidan by the time you get her romance dialogue, she admits she has a huge crush on Shepard, but gracefully backs down, saying it is obvious Shepard already has strong feelings for Ashley/Kadian and that she doesn't want to come between them.
** Also, in the second game, whether Shepard cheated on her or remained faithful to her, she will tell him/her that if s/he wants to move on, she can accept that and be happy for him/her.
* [[Jerkass Facade]]: {{spoiler|She adopts one in the sequel to allow herself to operate in Illium's underworld
* [[Knight Templar]]: During the interim beween the first and second game, though Paragon Shepard can pull her back from this.
* [[Knowledge Broker]]
* [[Like an Old Married Couple]]: Throughout the duration of
* [[The Medic]]: Her class skill in the first game adds to the amount of HP healed by medigel on top of the first aid ability.
* [[Mind Over Matter]]: Usually holds the spot of most powerful biotic on your squad.
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* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]: Averted. In Peak 15, she may say the following upon the end of the first engagement against the {{spoiler|rachni}}:
{{quote|'''Liara:''' Xenobiology is not my field. Maybe someone in the labs knows.}}
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: She never knew her second parent's identity, only her species (another asari—a major social no-no, because asari value genetic diversity {{spoiler|and also because that's where Ardat-Yakshi come from}}) and her relationship with her mother was apparently strained at best. {{spoiler|And that was ''before'' Benezia joined up with Saren and Co
* [[Plot Armor]]: Liara will survive all the way to the final mission of ''Mass Effect 3'', no matter what you do. [[Anyone Can Die|That's not true of any other character on this page
* {{spoiler|[[Redeeming Replacement]]}}:
* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: Liara can be pursued as a romance in ''Mass Effect 3'' even if you previously turned her down in the first game.
* [[Religious Bruiser]]: In the first game, at least, it's implied that she is quite religious.
** [[Like Father, Like Son|Like Mother, Like Daughter]]: Her mother
* [[Required Party Member]]: During
* [[Revenge]]: Her primary goal, as of ''Mass Effect 2,'' is to track down and kill {{spoiler|the Shadow Broker}} for trying to {{spoiler|sell Shepard's body to the Collectors
* [[Roaring Rampage of Rescue]]:
* [[Schrödinger's Gun]]: Regardless of whether the player downloaded the
* {{spoiler|[[Self-Made Orphan]]}}: Potentially, if you make her fight alongside you to take down
* [[She Who Fights Monsters]]: Played with. She becomes incredibly ruthless by the second game in her hunt for the Shadow Broker, even if [[Morality Chain|Paragon!Shep is continuously trying to pull her back
* [[Shout-Out]]: An archaeologist called '''[[Tomb Raider|L(i)ara]]'''...
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: In the first game.
* [[Skilled but Naive]]: At least in the first game. [[Character Development|Not so much]] [[Break the Cutie|in the second game
* [[Slasher Smile]]: In ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'', she gets off a nasty one after dressing down the Shadow Broker, pressing ''all'' of its [[Berserk Button]]s.
* [[Squishy Wizard]]: Liara can only wear light armor and has low health. She makes up for it with spectacular biotic capabilities.
** Comes back even more strongly in the third game, where she might be the ''only'' biotic on your squad (if Shepard isn't one, Kaidan's dead and you haven't bought Javik). This can turn her low CON scores into a distinct achilles' heel.
* [[The Stoic]]: Post time-skip and post [[Break the Cutie]] in the second and third games she tends to act like this, almost never raising her voice and becoming somewhat [[The Comically Serious]] mixed with [[Broken Bird]].
** [[Not So Stoic]]: Still has moments of genuine emotion namely
* [[Survivor Guilt]]: In addition to the guilt she feels for {{spoiler|handing Shepard's body to Cerberus
* [[That Came Out Wrong]]: Her first conversation with Shepard, in which her fascination with his/her exposure to the beacon leads her to referring to him/her as an interesting test subject.
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: She starts out as an awkward and bookish archaeologist. In the sequel,
** {{spoiler|Mind you, that was before she chased Vasir by jumping out a window, and dropped plasma on the Shadow Broker
** What makes that scene even more powerful (and chilling) is that she's
** Even before
** [http://images.pcworld.com/news/graphics/168882-mass-effect-redemption-2_original.jpg Redemption well and truly earned].
** ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'' has her take two giant levels in badass. The first is when we encounter her in the trade center, where she's
{{quote|'''Liara:''' Give me ten minutes and I can start a war.}}
* [[Undying Loyalty]]: To Shepard, [[Up to Eleven|possibly moreso than anyone else in the series
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Even if you don't romance her, Liara's friendship with Shepard still has a level of this to it.
* [[Violently Protective Girlfriend]]: Following Shepard's temporary demise, she took up a one-woman crusade to get his/her body back from the Shadow Broker and the Collectors. As of the end of the second game, she's still working to track the Broker down and make them pay for ''daring'' to touch Shepard.
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** Tali also mentioned being trained to survive away from the fleet, however.
** Tali is also a virgin when you first meet her.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: '''[[Running Gag|Yes]]'''. She has more than a little friction with her mother
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Surprisingly absent in the ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'' DLC
** She does call you out about hooking up with another love interest
* [[When She Smiles]]: In the second and third games post-[[Break the Cutie]].
* [[Woman in White]]: Her preferred outfit in ''Mass Effect 2'' and ''Mass Effect 3'', reflecting her new [[Stoic]], [[Lady of War]] tendencies.
* [[You Are Better Than You Think You Are]]: Paragon Shepard's interrupts in ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'' reminding her of how she was when they met and urging her to not descend into [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] territory, not even to protect them.
* {{spoiler|[[You Kill It, You Bought It]]: After she and Shepard kill the Shadow Broker, she takes his place. She's at least the third person to hold the title
* [[Youthful Freckles]]: She ''is'' only 108 years old.
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