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== Tropes G - M ==
* [[Gainax Ending]]: {{spoiler|There are three endings: Youyou control the Reapers, possibly by uploading yourself into the Citadel, and force them to leave. You destroy the Reapers and all other synthetic life, and all organic life if you did particularly poorly. Or, you make all organic and synthetic life a techno-organic synthesis. The entire Mass Relay network is then destroyed spreading your control / destruction / synthesis energy wave across the galaxy, and in most endings the Citadel is destroyed and/or Shepard is killed in the process. The ''Normandy'', which was last seen on Earth, is then seen travelling faster than light through space<ref>apparentlyApparently from picking up your party members in the final dungeon, but many players find this '''extremely''' unclear.</ref> and, after being caught in the wave, ends up crashing on an unknown planet. An after-credit epilogue then shows an old man telling the legend of "The Shepard" to a child and then being asked by the child for another tale of Shepard's exploits, implying Shepard may have actually survived. Finally, in the "best" destruction ending, a scene will play showing an N7 soldier who appears to be Shepard waking up in a pile of rubble, though how or even where the scene takes place is left unclear.}}.
* [[Game Breaking Bug]]:
** If you're not the host in a multiplayer game, your Vanguard can charge immediately after you're downed; the game's attempt to resolve the lag makes you start bouncing off the floor, eventually glitching out of the map and locking up the game.
** The [http://www.cinemablend.com/games/BioWare-Investigate-Mass-Effect-3-Black-Screen-Bug-40714.html Black Hole Bug] on the Xbox 360 version, which can cause the game to lock up on a blank screen before even reaching the title. So far, the only known [https://web.archive.org/web/20130212075449/http://www.consoledemon.com/put-a-band-aid-over-the-black-hole-in-me3 solution] involves editing the ''Mass Effect 3'' files in your gamer profile.
* [[Gatling Good]]: The Geth Spitfire, which is a [[Frickin' Laser Beams|laser Gatling gun]].
* [[Gay Option]]: Male Shepards have [[Relationship Upgrade|Kaidan]] or Steve Cortez, while female Shepards have Diana Allers or Samantha Traynor. Liara remains a romantic option, but is [[Discount Lesbians|not technically female]].
* [[Genetic Engineering]]: {{spoiler|It is revealed towards the climax of the game that asari were the subject of this by the Protheans in order to cultivate their Biotic potential.}}.
* [[Genius Ditz]]: [[The Reveal]] that Conrad Verner is actually ''Doctor'' Conrad Verner.
{{quote|'''Shepard''': Conrad, I'm building an Ancient Prothean Dark Energy device to stop the Reapers. [[Sarcasm Mode|Can you help with that?]]
'''Conrad''': Well I did write my doctoral dissertation on Xenotechnology and Dark Energy Intergration.
'''Shepard''': *[[Beat]]* ''Really?'' }}
* [[Genocide Dilemma]]:
** You have to choose between the total extermination of either the geth or the quarians at the hands of the other over the skies of their homeworld, {{spoiler|However, it is possible to [[Take a Third Option]], but it will be very difficult to get the correct condition that allows you to do so.}}.
** If you choose the ending in which {{spoiler|Shepard (possibly) survives, you'll be sacrificing EDI and the geth.}}.
* [[Giant Mook]]: The Brute, Atlas and Geth Primes.
* [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]]: When Ken asks Gabby if she has seen attractive new crewmember Samantha Traynor, Gabby tells him not to bother, [[Incompatible Orientation|since he is not Traynor's type]]. When he then suggests that ''she'' make a move on Traynor, Gabby says she just might since nobody else is expressing any interest, and Ken then tells her to make sure she takes pictures. Later, when Ken asks Gabby if she helped repair some damage to EDI's architecture, he asked if there was any lubricants involved, and maybe some moaning, and that he wishes his imagination was good enough to picture it.
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* [[Good Cannot Comprehend Evil]]: After Ashley discovers what Cerberus was doing at {{spoiler|Sanctuary}}, once she is back aboard the ''Normandy'' she explains to Shepard that she simply ''cannot'' understand the kind of thinking that went into something like that. She also says that she is ''glad'' that she cannot follow that line of thinking, since it makes her feel human.
* [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]]: One of the bits of info you can read on Liara's Shadow Broker Terminal details two Alliance intel operatives interrogating a Cerberus Phantom. They start the good cop/bad cop routine... and then her face explodes. Looks like the Illusive Man was listening in when Mordin said that ocular nerve flashbangs work better than suicide pills hidden in teeth.
* [[Good Guy Bar]]: The Purgatory Bar on the Citadel, judging by the amount of Alliance and turian military soldiers hanging out there. However, with the capture of Omega by Cerberus, Purgatory is now serving Aria T'Loak and other criminals. [[Open Secret|Despite its size and popularity, Avina doesn't recognize that it exists.]].
* [[Good Running Evil]]: {{spoiler|Potentially how the series can end, if Shepard takes control of the Reapers in the finale.}}.
* [[Grand Finale]]: The end of Shepard's story.
* [[Gravity Screw]]: The mission aboard {{spoiler|the geth dreadnought}} has you walking through the destroyed remnants of a docking extension tube on the ship, and sometimes the only footholds to move forward are on the ceiling.
* [[Grenade Spam]]:
** The gold challenges on multiplayer have had quite a few recognize this in effect; it in fact led to the creation of the trope page.
** As well as normal grenades, Centurions have smoke grenade spam, using two or three at a time to block your vision, in between throwing normal grenades. Rinse and repeat when the smoke clears as many times as they take to die, it could be three or four cycles. ''That's at least twenty four grenades they're carrying, a single soldier.''.
* [[Grey and Grey Morality]]:
** The geth vs. quarian war. The geth just wanted to evolve on their own, while the quarians feared that the geth would rebel and kill them all off. Talking to Legion and Tali sheds a lot of light on this in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', and your decisions will affect the final outcome.
** Cure the genophage? You will need to do that to get the krogans to support the turians, who will then in turn help Earth. But the salarians are against it because of the Krogan Rebellions 1500 years ago, and how they proved to be a great menace to the galaxy. {{spoiler|However, Eve and Wrex promise to sort out the differences and learn from their ancestor's mistakes should you choose the Paragon route to cure it.}}.
** There is no clear-cut Paragon or Renegade ending choice, and the game goes out of its way to ensure that. {{spoiler|Destroying the Reapers is done by Anderson in the preceding cutscene, but that area and that cutscene are colored red, and choosing that results in the death of EDI, the geth, and every AI and VI in the galaxy. Commanding the Reapers is done by the Illusive Man in that cutscene, but the highlights there are blue, no races get sacrificed, and apparently, Shepard just sends the Reaper fleet back out of the galaxy without causing any further destruction. Synthesis does not result in any genocide or Reaper manipulation, but involves ''forcibly rewriting the entire fabric of life's existence'' without any input or opinion from... well, anybody. (Green) ALL of them involve destroying the mass relay network, so even if you have figured out which ending seems most appropriate, you are still causing something almost everyone can agree is problematic.}}.
* [[Guide Dang It]]: The exact conditions needed to unlock the [[Golden Ending]] in the {{spoiler|quarian/geth}} storyline. ''No-one'' is sure of what the full list entails, and the conditions listed in the official strategy guide have been proven inaccurate.
* [[Guilt Based Gaming]]: More so than either of the previous games. ''Besides'' the ability to [[Et Tu, Brute?|kill off several close allies]] if you so choose, missing the Grissom Academy side-quest leads to {{spoiler|Jack being kidnapped and experimented on by Cerberus AGAIN after she had finally managed to build a life for herself. You get to hear records of her being tortured when you hit the Cerberus base... shortly before having to kill the Phantom they turned her into.}}.
* [[Gun Accessories]]: Gun modifications return, and each one visibly attaches to the weapon (if external, like a scope) or causes changes in the weapon coloration (if internal, like a heat sink expansion).
* [[Gundamjack]]: During gameplay, Shepard is able to hijack [[Mini-Mecha|Atlas mechs]] by shooting out the cockpit's glass and killing the driver.
* [[Gunship Rescue]]: So many. The retrofitted ''Normandy'' makes it first appearance in this manner, but the biggest example is Shepard {{spoiler|being given a laser targeting device for the ''Normandy'' to take out a Reaper construct and when the "construct" turned out to be a Reaper itself, Shepard called in the whole damn Quarian Migrant Fleet for an orbital strike}}.
* [[Hacker Cave]]: Liara sets up one on the ''Normandy;; to continue her work as the Shadow Broker while traveling with Shepard.
* [[Hammerspace]]: No matter what weapons you have equipped, you and your team still have the ability to pull an M-8 Avenger and Predator pistol out of their butts at a moments notice during certain cutscenes, even if you have a better pistol/assault rifle.
* [[Hand Cannon]]: The Carnifex and Phalanx return from the second game, but they are far outshone by two new additions. The first is the Paladin, a weapon so hard to come by it has to be requisitioned using Spectre authority. It only holds twenty shots, but makes up for it by dealing more damage than most ''sniper rifles''. The second is the Talon, sidearm of choice for Cerberus operatives. It's a revolver. That fires shotgun shells.
* [[Hand Wave]]: The Widow and Claymore shotgun can now be used by fragile quarians and salarians in multiplayer, despite being explicity stated to have bone-shattering recoil. Good thing "trial-and-error testing" "eventually produced less hazardous versions of these weapons."
* [[Harder Than Hard]]: Hardcore and Insanity difficulties return to this game with the recent major upgrades to the combat AI.
* [[Hauled Before a Senate Subcommittee]]: The game starts with Shepard trying to help the Alliance Defense Committee make sense of the Reapers.
* [[Heads I Win, Tails You Lose]]: Fighting Kai Leng on {{spoiler|Thessia}}. He has gunship support that will target you every time you take down his shields, and eventually it [[Cutscene Incompetence|switches to a cutscene]].
* [[Hero-Killer]]: Kai Leng. {{spoiler|Ignoring his novel exploits and looking only at the game, his potential victims list can include two former squadmates, namely "designed to be perfect" Miranda and super-assassin Thane. If Thane is not around, then his spot may be taken by Major Kirrahe, certified STG badass of "hold the line" fame.}}.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]:
** Quite a few. {{spoiler|Thane performs one if he survived "''[[Mass Effect 2|ME2]]"'', otherwise Major Kirrahe may replace him; if Shepard is Paragon, Mordin performs one. Legion also pulls one if Shepard sides with the geth or uses the Paragon/Renegade choice to [[Take a Third Option|take a third option.]]}}. And then, of course, there are the game's endings.
** [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] in at least one case: {{spoiler|Ifif Aralakh Squad is left behind to buy the Rachni queen time to escape and fully loyal Grunt joins Shepard's team to lead them out, he will turn and tell them to go back to the shuttle without him while he holds off the Reaper-converted rachni. As Shepard and company are arriving at the shuttle, Grunt emerges from the cave, [[Blood Splattered Warrior|covered in blood]], and asks if anyone has something to eat.}}.
* [[Hero of Another Story]]: The way multiplayer is justified; players take on the roles of an elite team assisting Shepard in tackling hotspots.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]:
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** Shepards of either gender will call a non-romanced Kaidan "my brother" during their lunch at the Citadel.
* [[Hide Your Children]]:
** Averted in the game's CGI trailer, which shows a little girl playing with a toy spaceship in a sunflower field as a Reaper looms ominously overhead. In the next scene, the sunflower field has been transformed into a blackened wasteland, and Shepard [[Empathy Doll Shot|picks up the girl's toy spaceship from the ashes]], implying that she did not survive -... or worse, got turned into a husk.
** [[Averted Trope]] in the first ten minutes of the game. Shepard comes across a young boy hiding in an air duct who refuses to let Shepard help him (and then [[Stealth Hi Bye|disappears]] when Shepard briefly looks away). Later, when Shepard leaves Earth, (s)/he sees the boy get onto an escape shuttle—whichshuttle... which is promptly destroyed by a Reaper.
* [[Hollywood Darkness]]: Averted. There are multiple places that are pitch black, forcing Shepard and the squad to turn on the flashlights on their guns. Outside of the beam, you cannot see anything.
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: {{spoiler|Samara tries to kill herself to avoid being forced by the Justicar code to kill her last surviving daughter. Shepard can stop her with a Paragon interrupt.}}.
* [[Hope Spot]]: All over the place. To name a few: {{spoiler|Thethe kid getting onto the shuttle (it is blown up); finding Rila intact in the monastery (she has started to transform into a Banshee); trying to save Tali if you allow the geth destroy the quarians (Notnot even the Paragon interupt can stop her from committing suicide); finding the key to completing the Crucible on Thessia (Kai Leng steals the information, Thessia falls); launching missiles at a Reaper after a ''grueling'' ground battle (they miss)}}.
* [[Hope Springs Eternal]]: Regardless of which ending occurs, unless all life in the galaxy is destroyed, {{spoiler|the Stargazer retells the story to his grandson, revealing that life managed to survive, and speaks of traveling to the stars, so humanity has found some way back to space even without the Mass Relays}}.
* [[Hot Blade]]: Shepard can now wield an Omni Blade, using the tech from the Omni Tool. The Omni Blade is forged by the omni tools onboard fabricator. A hot carbon based blade held in place by a mass effect field that is diamond hard. The blade is often tinkered with by the user to produce electrified and twin blade versions. The Engineer takes this trope to its logical extreme by having blade coated in burning hot plasma literally setting it ablaze.
* [[Hotter and Sexier]]: The game's launch trailer features a blurb from IGN that says ''Mass Effect 3'' is the sexiest game in the series, and a minute later we get glimpses of a sex scene featuring Ashley and Shepard. Also, one of the casual outfits that FemShep can wear around the ''Normandy'' is a sleeveless, low-cut, form-fitting cocktail dress.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Multiple battles take place on foot against Destroyer-class Reapers, which are 200-600 meter tall ships that are built out of the "lesser" species of each cycle.
* [[Hypocrite]]:
** The salarian dalatrass accuses Shepard of being a bully when the Commander, Victus &and Wrex/Wreav tell her that unless she gives them the location of the krogan female immune to the Genophage, they'll leave the salarians to the Reapers all because she refuses to give into the ''one'' demand the krogan have in exchange for their assistance. {{spoiler|Before the mission to cure the Genophage, the dalatrass contacts Shepard & threatens to witholdwithhold salarian support unless Shepard sabotages the cure}}.
** {{spoiler|The asari government. They claim that the asari are the most advanced race in the galaxy due to inherent virtues, but they actually have the ''only'' intact Prothean Beacon in the galaxy.}}.
* [[I Am a Humanitarian]]: [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Cannibals]], husks created by fusing humans and batarians, regain health by eating fallen enemies (or allies).
* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: Banshees pick you up and impale you ''on their arm'' if you let them get close. {{spoiler|One of them will do this to Rila, Samara's eldest Ardat-Yakshi daughter}}.
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* [[Incompatible Orientation]]: Samantha Traynor, a romance option for FemShep, is forced to let MaleShep down if he tries to make a move on her. Later, when Ken and Gabby are talking, Gabby has to tell Ken not to bother flirting with Traynor, since he is not her type.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: [[Averted Trope]] with the boy Shepard encounters during the escape from Earth. His escape shuttle gets blown up by a Mini-Reaper as it was lifting off.
* [[Ink Suit Actor]]: Martin Sheen (Thethe Illusive Man), Keith David (Admiral Anderson), Yvonne Strahovski (Miranda Lawson), Seth Green (Joker), and Jessica Chobot (Diana Allers) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfvo5ueKJY8 all look exactly like their characters]. James Vega is a subversion: - Hehe looks like Freddie Prinze Jr. but only after bulking up at the gym.
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: An indoctrinated (or possibly just crazy) hanar on the Citadel believes that, since the hanar worship the Protheans and the Protheans were turned into Collectors, that means that the Protheans served the Reapers. Therefore the hanar must serve the Reapers. Shepard even lampshades this when s/he hears this.
{{quote|'''Shepard:''' You BIG STUPID JELLYFISH!}}
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'''Tali:''' Very carefully. Turian brandy, triple-filtered, then introduced into the suit via an emergency induction port.
'''Shepard:''' ...That's a straw, Tali.
'''Tali:''' ''Emergency... induction... port.'' }}
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]]: Cerberus Phantoms are described by the official site as "Goddamn ninjas on speed!".
* [[Interrupted Suicide]]:
** Subverted in the case of {{spoiler|Tali, if you let the geth destroy the entire Migrant Fleet on Rannoch}}. Despite the Paragon interrupt appearing right before the suicide, pressing the button does nothing.
** A Paragon interrupt allows Shepard to stop {{spoiler|Samara}} from killing herself in order to {{spoiler|protect her surviving daughter and uphold the Justicar Code}}.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: With the entire galaxy falling apart because of the war, this becomes more apparent then ever among Shepard, the crew, and background characters.
* [[It Got Worse]]: The Reapers are no longer a looming future threat, they are ''here''.
* [[It Has Been an Honor]]: Before you set out on the final battle, you get a chance to talk and interact with all the crewmembers possible. At least half of the conversations end up using some variation of the phrase.
* [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks]]: In-universe, Joker kids about this concerning Cerberus {{spoiler|after the botched coup}}, saying how he was all for them when they were vigilantes helping the helpless, but now they're a "bit too mainstream... and evil."
* [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]]: In this case, {{spoiler|the center of the geth hive mind}}.
* [[Kick the Dog]]:
** Just to make it one hundred percent clear who the bad guys are, a Mini-Reaper is shown shooting down unarmed civilian transports, one of which had a little boy on it.
** The Illusive Man presents himself as [[Necessarily Evil]] but still has a few moments of utterly needless cruelty. During the Mars mission, he {{spoiler|orders Eva to "finish" / "dispose of" the Virmire Survivor}}. During the endgame, he shows off his new power by {{spoiler|forcing Shepard to '''shoot Anderson'''.}}.
* [[Kick Them While They Are Down]]: Fallen allies in multiplayer can be revived, unless the enemy stomps and executes them. On higher difficulty, especially if the whole team is down, they won't do this and end the match early, forcing players to sit and wait until the revive meter runs out or [[Rage Quit]] and lose any experience for that mission.
* [[Kill All Humans]]: [[And I Must Scream|...or enslave them]], or [[Mind Rape]] them, [[Fate Worse Than Death|or turn them into piles of gray goo]], if the Reapers have their way.
* [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]: On Mars, an e-mail that was being typed right before the sender was killed, she types along complaining about someone then immediately switches to allcaps raising the alarm about the mess hall being vented... but doesn't finish in time.
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: [[Anyone Can Die]] means ''anyone.''. Unavoidable deaths (Providedprovided they survive to, and appear, in this game) include {{spoiler|Legion, Morinth, Thane Krios, Donnel Udina, the Illusive Man and David Anderson. If War Asset levels are not high enough, ''everybody'' dies in the ending. Shepard dies in most endings, with ''one'' potential survival if certain conditions are met.}}.
* [[Lag Cancel]]:
** Adrenaline Rush does not take you into [[Bullet Time]] for the multiplayer, but it still instantly reloads your weapon.
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{{quote|''[after Shepard chooses a '''{{color|blue|Paragon}}''' dialogue option]''
'''Cortez:''' When you put it that way, how can I say no?
'''Shepard:''' You can't. }}
** Among other things, [[Dumbass Has a Point|Conrad Verner]] seems to call out [[BioWare]] itself on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YsGwcnDGaw the switch to thermal clips] in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' and ''Mass Effect 3''.
** Conrad is also very sorry [[Ascended Glitch|he accused Shepard of pointing a pistol at him]], he was under a lot of stress.
** Vega and Cortez argue the merits of the Mako vs the Hammerhead -: Vega thinks the Mako can at least take a hit compared to the "[[Fragile Speedster|made of paper]]" Hammerhead, while Cortez prefers agility to something that "handles like a drunk rhino"." Cortez even provides some [[Techno Babble]] to explain how the Mako drove up all those sheer rock faces!
** Cortez mocks the logic behind setting up the armory on the command deck and not the shuttle bay.
** After saving Primarch Victus, he mentions Garrus retired to the battery, "Something about... 'calibrations'..." to which shepard replies "That Sounds like Garrus.".
* [[Last-Minute Hookup]]: Both for the player character and supporting cast.
** Shepard will have the opportunity to bed his/her love interest (even if it's a new romance) right before the attack to retake Earth.
** Provided they survived ''ME2Mass Effect 2'', and you pardoned them in the Citadel Spectre office, Ken and Gabby finally admit their love for each other if you go visit them at the very bottom of Engineering prior to the final mission.
** If you didn't romance either of them, Garrus and Tali are seen embracing when you walk in on them at the forward batteries. Tali says in the conversation afterwards (likely half-joking) that "This is just a fling, Vakarian. I'm only using you for your ''body''."
* [[Last-Name Basis]]:
** If Shepard and Dr. Chakwas decide to share another bottle of brandy, [[Lampshade Hanging|they note that neither of them has ever called the other by their first name.]] Chakwas feels using Shepard's first name would be a disservice to everyone she is fighting for... and if that makes no sense, it is just a lady's prerogative. Shepard can call her Karin, though.
** Jacob mentions that {{spoiler|his girlfriend wants to name their baby after Shepard... as in, naming the kid Shepard.}}. He intends to talk her out of it, though.
* [[Last-Second Word Swap]]: Jack. Repeatedly.
* [[Last of His Kind]]: Javik, the [[Precursors|Prothean]] squad member from the "''From Ashes"'' DLC pack.
* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]: None less than the Xbox Live frontend is already spoiling the fact that From Ashes gives you a Prothean squad member.
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]:
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** A scene that follows continues this, with Shepard having the option to express just that.
{{quote|'''Shepard''': It's hard enough fighting a war, but it's worse knowing no matter how hard you try, you can't save them all.}}
** Conrad references the save import bug from the second game, apologisingapologizing for claiming that Shepard held a gun to his face when they never did so, he thinks he was under a bit of stress at the time.
* [[Left Hanging]]: {{spoiler|The ending does not reveal the fate of the allied armies, the state of the galaxy, where the ''Normandy'' landed, or even the true fate of Shepard. According to the writers, it was to leave speculation open.}}.
* [[Legion of Lost Souls]]: In a manner with the squads in multiplayer. They are ostensibly Systems Alliance units and operate under Alliance command, with most of their members being human soldiers and other military specialists, but they also include volunteers and mercenaries from a variety of other races, such as turians, asari, krogan, drell, and quarians. Now with the Resurgence Pack, geth and batarians join the party.
* [[Like a Son to Me]]: {{spoiler|Anderson will refer to Shepard as either "son" (Male) or "child" (Female) after saying [[So Proud of You|how proud he is of what you have accomplished]].}}.
* [[Limit Break]]: What krogan characters get in multi-player after killing three enemies in close succession with melee attacks. What exact bonuses are given [[RPG Elements|depends on your progression]].
* [[Literally Shattered Lives]]: If an advanced [[An Ice Person|Cryo skill]] is used on an enemy, they can be shattered into little ice chunks by shooting or punching them.
* [[Living Relic]]: Javik, the Prothean party member made available in the ''From Ashes'' DLC who slept from the previous cycle in a stasis pod. To him, the most advanced races in the galaxy are but primitive barbarians and, in the case of the salarians, a ''food source'' (Theirtheir liver is preferably served raw as a delicacy). He is ignorant of our culture, society and history, and views our philosophy and religions with near contempt, but also sees in us the potential for ending the Reaper cycle and vengeance for the slaughtered Prothean empire.
* [[Loads and Loads of Loading]]: Multiplayer has so many loadscreens, you'll wish they brought back elevators. It's possible to invite a friend to a game, have him accept, switch the game to public and have it fill up before he can join.
* [[London Town]]: London (and UK Alliance Headquarters) is hit several moments before the attack on the Vancouver-Seattle Megapolis, with the first trailer showing no less than eight Reapers walking all over it. {{spoiler|It is where Shepard and Anderson make their final push on Earth.}}.
* [[Lost Forever]]:
** Completing Priority: Tuchanka will make many side quests on the Citadel impossible to complete. There is little to no indication of this in the game. See [[Point of No Return]] below.
** While most upgrades, weapons or sidequest objectives will become available for purchase at the Spectre Office store if you missed them during gameplay, the Shuriken SMG and Saber assault rifle do not.
* [[Lost Superweapon]]: The Crucible, an ancient anti-Reaper superweapon discovered in the Mars Prothean Archives at the beginning of the game. {{spoiler|The kicker is that the cast initially assume it is of Prothean origin, only to learn it has been designed bit-by-bit over multiple extinction cycles, and the ending even implies it was actually the Reapers (or whoever created them) who originally planned it}}...}}
* [[Luck-Based Mission]] : Multiplayer objectives can frequently be this. Sometimes you score and all the various items you need to activate/deactivate are placed in the same room and far from the enemies, other times you have to kill four [[Demonic Spiders|Banshees]] which all are heavily guarded by their Reaper allies.
* [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]]: Cerberus Guardians carry riot shields into battle. They are quite effective at soaking up damage; however, the shields can be got around with good tactics, good aim, or good use of powers. Or, if you have a big enough gun, they can be flat out ignored.
* [[Ludicrous Gibs]]:
** The remains of Cerberus' Troopers killed by Infiltrator Shepard's [[Sticky Bomb]] would fit better into a bucket than a body bag. Also applies to enemies killed with the 'Carnage' ability, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|naturally.]].
** Large enough guns such as the Black Widow sniper rifle gib pretty much anything that lacks shields or armoring.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: Having been heavily implied in ''Mass Effect 2'', this game confirms that {{spoiler|Matriarch Atheyta is Liara's "father."}}.
* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]: The Hydra missile launcher, which is occasionally encountered in single player. Instead of firing one big missile, it fires a whole bunch of self-guided ones with three-stage explosives, making it equally useful for taking out bosses or swarms of standard [[Mook]]s.
* [[Mama Bear]]:
** {{spoiler|Jack, if she survived the suicide mission, is very protective of her students and has even cut back on cursing in front of them to provide them with a good mentor.}}.
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Jack:''' Didn't think I'd ever care this much. But I won't let anyone hurt 'em. They're my kids. MINE.}}.}}
** {{spoiler|''Samara'', [[Offing the Offspring|of all people]], is a [[Mama Bear]] in this, assuming she survived ''Mass Effect 2''. She is perfectly willing to take on an entire building full of Banshees on her own in order to rescue her two remaining daughters --... and then to [[Driven to Suicide|shoot herself in the head]] to protect her last daughter from [[Honor Before Reason|herself/the Justicar Code]].}}.
* [[Match Maker Quest]]: {{spoiler|Shepard can encourage EDI and Joker to become a couple and can do the same for Ken and Gabby}}.
* [[McNinja]]: Cerberus Phantoms. Also, drell characters from multi-player 'roll' like ninjas and get a speed bonus.
* [[Meaningful Echo]]:
** If Miranda survived the previous game, she will return and be searching for her missing sister. Shepard will caution her to be careful, to which she will respond "No promises." . {{spoiler|If you contact her before the final charge on Earth, they flip it around}}.
** Mordin gives us two of these. In the previous game, he told Shepard he sometimes fantasized that it wasn't his responsibility to work on the genophage that keeps Krogan population in check. He follows this up by calling it a fool's wish because "It had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong." Later, as Mordin prepares ascends to the top of a collapsing tower to make certain the cure for the genophage is effective, he repeats this line, though this time without any regrets as to his course of action.
** Shephard and Legion have a flip where Shephard wishes Legion "Good Luck" and he responds "Acknowledged". They repeat it with the roles reversed near the end of the mission.
* [[Meaningful Name]]:
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* [[Mega City]]: The story starts in a city that is described as Vancouver, British Columbia; Seattle, Washington; and Portland, Oregon merged. Later references make it clear that you were in the "Vancouver" part.
* [[Messianic Archetype]]: This game really ups the ante on how much of [[The Messiah]] Shepard can be, particularly in the good endings.
* [[Meta Casting]]: {{spoiler|Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, voices a space-focused grandfather in the post-credits scene.}}.
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Krogan multi-player characters, who have much less agility than the other races but have far higher HP, Shields, and resistance to damage.
* [[Mildly Military]]: Discussed if you have Ken and Gabby rejoin the crew. Engineer Adams, who unlike Ken and Gabby did not leave the Alliance to enlist with Cerberus, will praise both of their skills, but he will comment that Ken needs to learn to keep his mouth shut, and that he needs to remind Ken about proper military procedure and the chain of command.
* [[Mini-Mecha]]: Cerberus has ten-foot tall mecha at their disposal. You can actually kill the pilot before destroying the mech, letting Shepard run rampant in one.
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** How Cerberus must have [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2FH3zV7G0Y found out] about the krogan female on Sur'Kesh.
{{quote|'''Garrus:''' Cerberus must have been tipped off. They got here too fast.
'''Liara:''' Every war [[The Quisling|has its traitors]]. }}
** Mordin was Wrex's mole -: he leaked info about the fertile females and encouraged political pressure to release them. {{spoiler|He is not Wrex's *only* source, however, as you will learn the hard way if you betray him.}}.
* [[Monumental Damage]]: In the trailer, we can see a pretty busted up Big Ben Clocktower, and a Reaper just about to land on the London Eye. The tower does, however, manage to remain standing through the end of the game.
* [[Motivational Lie]]: {{spoiler|After the fall of Thessia, if you use the Paragon interrupt during the Liara/Javik confrontation, Javik explains that the Protheans believed that the asari were the best hope for this cycle, and that the Protheans protected and nurtured them because they saw their potential. After Liara leaves, Shepard asks whether Javik meant what he said; he asks "does it matter?", and you get as an addendum either "[[Exact Words|I will tell you what you want to hear]]: I meant what I said", "She believes it. So she will keep fighting."}}
* [[Multiple Endings]]: Three basic flavors, with quite a lot of levels of success/failure, and at least as many end-game nonstandard game overs. All of them have their merits, but also have [[Sadistic Choice|rather nasty consequences.]]. {{spoiler|Not only because Shepard has [[Last Chance Hit Point|life-threatening injuries]] due to getting ''shot'' by '''Harbinger's main gun''' en route to the Catalyst, but because the Crucible does its job through ''[[Explosive Overclocking]]'' -... using it ''will'' [[The End of the World as We Know It|destroy]] ''the entire [[Portal Network|Mass Relay network]]''... if it was constructed properly ''and'' deployed without being damaged en route to the Citadel. If it wasn't, it could destroy ''[[Scavenger World|all advanced technology]]'', '''[[Kill'Em All|all life in the galaxy]]''' or '''''[[Bad Ending|itself without doing anything.]]'''''}}.
** {{spoiler|Control: Shepard uses the Illusive Man's plan and takes control of the Reapers, ordering them to cease hostilities and leave for an unknown destination, letting the populations of the galaxy decide their own course. The exact implications are up to debate -: Shepard lights up and disappears after touching the control terminal, which may mean that he [[Heroic Sacrifice|either died from the stress]] of the [[Unusual User Interface]] after forcing the Reapers to leave other civilizations alone or [[Brain Uploading|uploaded his consciousness]] to [[A God Am I|command the Reapers for all eternity]] and aid, dominate, or destroy galactic civilization as he sees fit.}}.
** {{spoiler|Destroy: Shepard uses the Crucible to destroy the Reapers, with the side effect of ''[[Genocide Dilemma|destroying every synthetic in the galaxy along with them.]]''}}.
** {{spoiler|Synthesis: Shepard [[Take a Third Option|Takes A Third Option]] and disseminates all his/her nanotech into the Crucible, causing a chain reaction that forcibly converts all organic and synthetic life in the galaxy into [[The Singularity|cellular-level cyborgs]], [[Heroic Sacrifice|dying in the process]]. Since the Reapers' motive for the cycle no longer applies, they cease hostilities and leave.}}.
* [[Mundane Luxury]]: In the monastery for secluded Ardat-Yakshi, you can find a message from one of the inhabitants mentioning that somebody managed to smuggle in a copy of the vid ''Vaenia''. She is arranging a group watching and is practically bursting with anticipation. Dialogue in ''Mass Effect 2'' revealed that ''Vaenia'' is a love-story featuring two asari: Thesethese young Ardat-Yakshi are so desperate for connection to the outside world and emotional stimulus that they are planning to sneak out at night, risking possible forced isolation, so that they can watch a ''romance film''.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: If Shepard {{spoiler|shoots Mordin before he rides up the elevator to the Shroud}}, Shepard stands in shock for a moment before turning away with a grimace and throwing the gun away as he walks off. Especially significant if it's a Carnifex, the model of pistol he gave you as a good faith gesture the first time you met.
 
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