History Characters / MassEffect2CouncilSpaceNPCs

* CanadaEh: Michael Hogan's northern Ontario accent comes through pretty strongly.

* BigBadWannabe: In the end, the Reapers are just a far greater threat than he could ever hope to be and he ends up being their UnwittingPawn. The Alliance barely treats him as a threat during the Reaper invasion and the very moment he and Cerberus finally does start to become a problem, they swiftly launch an offensive on Cerberus's main base and effectively ends the organization.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Don't presume you know me / my motives", which he tends to bring out whenever Shepard tries calling him on his misdeeds.

* CatchPhrase: "It's been wonderful talking to you all! I hope you'll come out on election day!"

* GutturalGrowler: Seems to be part of being a drell.

--> '''The Illusive Man:''' [[spoiler:I'm sorry, Shepard... I tried. ''[BANG]'']]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When he turns on Shepard in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', he outright calls them a tool that's serves its purpose and is no longer needed. He's also quick to turn on his people who were working on technology from the Collector Base, [[DeadlyEuphemism terminating their contracts]] once they'd done their jobs. [[spoiler:This flies in the face of the sheer lengths he went to in resurrecting Shepard, as well as refusing Miranda's suggestion of implanting them with a control chip, and sure enough, there's more to the story. He's actually been indoctrinated.]]

[[BoldlyComing Matriarch Trellani]] (twice)

* BigGood: In ''2''. "Good" is a strong word for him, but at the end of the day he's the one who's funding and directing your efforts to stop the Collectors and save humani-I mean, the galaxy from the Reapers.

'''VideoGame/MassEffect2:''' [[Characters/MassEffect2EarlyPartyMembers Early Party Members]] ([[Characters/MassEffectMirandaLawson Miranda Lawson]]) | [[Characters/MassEffect2LatePartyMembers Late Party Members]] | [[Characters/MassEffect2SecretPartyMembers Secret Party Members]] | [[Characters/MassEffect2MainAntagonists Main Antagonists]] | [[Characters/MassEffect2SecondaryAntagonists Secondary Antagonists]] | [[Characters/MassEffect2NormandyCrew Normandy Crew]] | '''Council Space [=NPCs=]''' | [[Characters/MassEffect2NonCouncilSpaceNPCs Non-Council Space NPCs]]\\

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MartinSheen (English) Philippe Catoire (French)

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In-universe, he takes a lot of Shepard's traits. He's a badass Spectre who doesn't play by the rules, tried to warn the Council about the Reapers and killed Sovereign in the Battle for the Citadel. His next movie involves him curing the genophage. Shepard thinks he's just a "big stupid jellyfish". He's also voiced by Mark Meer, which means he will even ''sound'' like male Shepard, which leads to one of the most epic TalkingToHimself scenes in the Citadel DLC, as seen below.

--> ''Gunnery Chief'': That is why you check your targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Cheung, we do not "eyeball it"! This is a weapon of mass destruction! You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip!

* KickTheSonOfABitch: It's hard to feel sorry that the mercs are hunting him when he conveniently withheld information about the drugs he sold them. His partner is also likely one of these.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: See AssholeVictim.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Him getting his face smashed by ''Paragon'' Shepard was well-deserved]].

->''"The galaxy would be a better place if nobody but the Asari had ever dragged themselves out of the primoridal muck!"''

* DeathOfAChild: Her bondmate died on Rannoch in the first stages of the Geth rebellion, but it was losing ''both of her daughters'' during Sovereign's attack on the Citadel which really broke her.
* FantasticRacism: One dialogue option has her go on a rant about (in turn) the Salarians, the Turians, and Humans, blaming all of the galaxy's current ills on their combined actions.

* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Suffice to say her low opinion of ''every other Council species'' goes hand in hand with a belief in Asari moral supremacy.
* RulesLawyer: Very haughtily informs Shepard that the terms of the contract the Zhu's Hope colonists signed were perfecly clear and are completely ironclad.

* WolfWhistle: Whistles the two-note glissando when [[BuxomBeautyStandard fondly recalling [[spoiler:Benezia]]'s rack]].

* {{Expy}}: The Illusive Man's development in ''3'' is rather parallel to Saren's from the first game: they both are [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned Extremists]] who cross the MoralEventHorizon to deal with the Reaper threat. [[spoiler: While Saren feels that he can work with the Reapers to save all organic life, TIM decides to try to find a way to control them and uplift humanity. They both even justify their actions with the ''exact same'' argument; "the Reapers never truly wiped out all organics". Both of their paths lead to them getting Reaper implants, making them easier to be indoctrinated. In the end, they both can also die in the same exact way, committing suicide if Shepard manages to convince them that the Reapers are controlling them.]]

'''The Catalyst:''' Yes, but he could never have taken control, because we already controlled him.

** OverprotectiveDad: She has shades of this [[spoiler:if you are romancing Liara]].