Mass Effect 2/Characters/Party Members: Difference between revisions

* [[Like Father, Like Son|Like Father, Like Daughter]]: Subverted; they turn out to be very different people in the end. Both are highly talented scientists who use their intelligence to do the extraordinary. Miranda brings Shepard back to life, and Henry {{spoiler|manages to control husks independently of the ''Reapers.''}} However, while Miranda's only ethical quandary was whether to implant Shepard with a control chip (which she later regrets even considering), Henry {{spoiler|sacrifices thousands, if not millions of innocent people to indoctrination in order to make his breakthrough, and never regrets a thing.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Self-Made Orphan]]: If she survives to the end of 3, she finally kills Henry Lawson along the way. Whether she lives past *that* depends on whether you warned her about Kai Leng.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Death Faked for You]]: If Wrex and Eve dead, can be convinced to fake genophage cure and help with Crucible project. Wreav too dangerous as leader without Eve to stabilize him. Pretend to have died in explosion.}}

** {{spoiler|Inverted if Shepard shoots in the back. Crawl to workstation. Die before temperature change ruins cure. Senseless death. Even Shepard disgusted with self.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Faking the Dead]]: Third game. If Eve dead and Urdnot Wreav sole krogan leader, can be convinced krogan not yet ready for cure. Will disappear to work on Crucible. Shepard lets krogan believe everything went as planned.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Go Out with a Smile]]: Third game.}}

** {{spoiler|[[Go Out with a Smile]]: Restored future of krogan species.}} Good reason to smile in face of death.

** {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]: Dying while curing genophage only redemption for modifying it previously}}

* {{spoiler|[[Retirony]]: "Would have liked to run tests on the seashells."}}

* {{spoiler|[[Sacrificial Lion]]: In third game, arguably. End of first story act, first major character to die. Clear sign no-one else safe. *inhale* No-one. If killed by Shepard, good sign of how far s/he has fallen.}}

** {{spoiler|Possibly on receiving end in third game. If not convinced to go along with sabotage, Renegade Shepard forced to shoot him to stop genophage cure.}}

** {{spoiler|Refers to self once. Happens if Shepard questions decision to cure genophage after working on it for so long.}}

** {{spoiler|Paragon Shepard in ''3'' grabs her hands to avert her attempt to commit suicide.}}

* [[Catch Phrase]] / [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]: "Find peace in the embrace of the Goddess." Usually followed by a sick, splattering '''CRUNCH'''.

* [[My Master, Right or Wrong|My Code Right Or Wrong]]:* It's left deliberately ambiguous whether she takes certain actions because she wants to, or because she has to. Some dialogue indicates it's highly likely that she takes no pleasure in a lot of things she has to do as a justicar, but the rules and the code are more important than her personal feelings. In fact, she may have sworn the code to get as far away from her personal feelings as possible.

** Mass Effect 3 shows one thing that she flat-out refuses to do: {{spoiler|killing her last living daughter, because said daughter is not a twisted sociopath.}} Though technically, she is fulfilling the code, as the code demands that a justicar who fails to fulfill the code pay for it with her life to atone.