History Characters / MassEffectUrdnotWrex

* KickTheSonOfABitch: He'll kill the local crime lord Fist even after he surrenders. Renegade Shepard and Tali certainly don't disagree.

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* {{Patricide}}: He was forced to kill his father, Jerrod after Jerrod called a "peace meeting" at the Hollows (the one place on Tuchunka where fighting is strictly forbidden) only to betray him and kill those loyal to him when it became clear he wouldn't join Jerrod's warmongering cause.

** At a species level, he's initially the only krogan you encounter in the entire game to defy this. Though he retains some of his racial prejudice against salarians and turians he's got no real problems working with Garrus (other than chewing Garrus out for making some InnocentlyInsensitive comments) and Captain Kirrahe. He also laments how the krogan are more concerned with maintaining their grudges than actually preventing their own extinction. By ''2'' he decides to do something about it by unifying the krogan under his rule to focus more on rebuilding krogan society than getting revenge against the turians and salarians. Going by how many of the krogan are following his lead, he does a damn good job of it.

* BloodBrothers: He declares Shepard to be his blood sibling if [[spoiler:Shepard saves Eve and cures the genophage.]] To him, the krogan have no greater friend, no greater hero, than the commander.

** ''Mass Effect 1'' gives Wrex a rather miserable death, should they choose to deal one out to him. Namely, he can be knocked down with a punch or a shot, and then shot multiple times like a dog. On top of that, he immediately becomes a ForgottenFallenFriend to the rest of the group.

** Whenever a Krogan, be it another clan leader or his own brother, starts giving him shit he simply head butts them. While this is Krogan culture, Wrex is not adverse to head butting people of other species to shut them up

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* UndyingLoyalty: By the second game, even if he can't go with Shepard, it's clear that he has nothing but undying respect for them and will help them anyway he can. However, Shepard can later lose Wrex's trust by deleting Maelon's research and making no attempt to apologise. If they supports the Krogan the entire series, Wrex's loyalty to Shepard is unbreakable.

* UndyingLoyalty: By the second game, even if he can't go with Shepard, it's clear that he has nothing but undying respect for them and will help them anyway he can. However, Shepard can later lose Wrex's trust by deleting Maelon's research and making no attempt to apologise. If they supports the Krogan the entire series, the Wrex's loyalty to Shepard is unbreakable.

* UndyingLoyalty: By the second game, even if he can't go with Shepard, it's clear that he has nothing but undying respect for them and will help them anyway he can. However, Shepard can later lose Wrex's trust by deleting Maelon's research and making no attempt to apologise. If Shepard supports the Krogan the entire series, the undying loyalty is unbreakable.

* CrazyIsCool: In-Universe, the Urdnot Mechanic acknowledges that Wrex is a "crazy old man", but at the same time, what he's saying makes sense and is actually ''working''. Because of this, in the third game, Eve calls him the first bright light the krogan have had in a millennium.

* CutsceneIncompetence: Ashley downs him with one shot from a rifle in [=ME1=] before [[DoubleTap finishing him off with a few more shots]], (Shepard can pistol-whip him and shoot him repeatedly on the ground) and Shepard can kill him with a pistol in [=ME3=]. He mysteriously forgets that he has barriers and biotic powers. The latter is notable enough that it might actually be SuicideByCop after he's lost all hope for the Krogan.

* DirtyOldMan: In [=ME3=], according to Eve, he's a bit... enthusiastic about fertile krogan females. By the ''Citadel'' DLC, he's over this. Largely because he's been with so many that his genitals physically hurt. Which says something when you're a member of a species of armored reptilian walking tanks with regeneration capabilities, and you're considered one of the most badass specimens of that species.

* UndignifiedDeath: Mass Effect 1 gives Wrex a rather miserable death, should they choose to deal one out to him. Namely, he can be knocked down with a punch or a shot, and then shot multiple times like a dog. On top of that, he immediately becomes a ForgottenFallenFriend to the rest of the group.

* BadassBaritone: His voice has deepness that is only matched by a few other krogan, the [[EvilSoundsDeep Reapers]] [[spoiler:and the Leviathan]].

-->'''Voiced by:''' Steven Barr

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* AfraidOfNeedles: Mordin claims this about Wrex when he's eager to leave his lab and donate tissue samples later. Whether's it true or not, it's hilarious, and then when he finally gets around to it...

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* CharacterDevelopment: Wrex starts off the first game as the most cynical party member, and then some. He's completely fatalistic and hopeless about the krogan's chances and has spent centuries as nothing more than a mercenary and bounty hunter. If he survives the first game, he decides to make a second go at saving his race and ends up becoming a progressive leader for his people, eventually growing from a common mercenary to arguably the most powerful krogan in the galaxy. If Shepard supports him and his desire to cure the genophage unwaveringly, he ends up being arguably the single most idealistic and hopeful character in the third game's entire story. In fact, he's cracking wise and trying to come up with a new CatchPhrase. When talking to his soldiers in London, he calls them "princesses".

** He also knows that the dalatrass won't let the genophage be cured without trying something.