History Characters / MassEffectUrdnotWrex

* WhereItAllBegan: If you cure the genophage [[spoiler:and Eve is alive]], you will meet up with him at the place where his father ambushed and tried to kill him, and he will remark about how the genophage turned the krogan into "animals".

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority:

* UseYourHead: [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority In true krogan fashion]], he uses this to assert his dominance.

* LivingLegend: He's renown throughout the galaxy for his exploits, and as the last Krogan to kill a Thresher Maw during his rite of passage, at least until Grunt if he manages the same thing.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Kind of PlayedForLaughs in the second game, when Grunt's extranet search on Wrex ended up to searching for dinosaurs instead. Of course given his name is one letter away from "rex", which is Latin for king and part of Tyrannosaurus rex, it's not far off.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Eve says that Wrex has always been enthusiastic around fertile females. [[spoiler:With the genophage cured]], the Citadel DLC informs us that as the leader of the most powerful clan and symbol to the galaxy of the awesomeness of their people, they've been lining up around the corner for his seed. And what's funnier, Eve/[[spoiler:Bakara encourages it, probably to [[RadishCure break Wrex of the habit through forced overindulgence]]]].

* WeaponOfChoice: Cutscenes, trailers, promotional art, and the ''Citadel'' squad selection screen all show him wielding the [[{{BFG}} Claymore heavy shotgun.]] For good reason; it's a great weapon to give him in-game.

* StopBeingStereotypical: He dislikes the self-destructive violence of the other krogan, who justify their reckless and bloodthirsty actions with little more than a declaration of "I'm a ProudWarriorRaceGuy!" and leave it at that. Should Wrex survive the first game, he's working to change it through reforms that defy tradition and the BloodKnight mindset, albeit not without some butting of heads (both figuratively and literally).

* StopBeingStereotypical: Dislikes the self-destructive violence of the other krogan and is working to change it.

* TokenEvilTeammate: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Wrex admits he pretends to be this, simply because it's ''expected'' of krogan.
** While Wrex isn't ''evil'', he is the most ruthless of Shepard's original six squadmates. When the player is faced with a major Paragon/Renegade choice, one squadmate will always endorse the paragon choice, and one will always endorse the renegade choice. Wrex is the only party member to always endorse the renegade choice regardless of party combination. Even Ashley, the next most renegade squadmate, will endorse the paragon option if she is in the party with Wrex. The only exception is the “save the Council” decision, where Ashley understandably advocates holding the fleets back and not risking human lives.

** He is a krogan, and thus tends to equate ass-kicking with respect (as shown when he head butts another Krogan who is getting too mouthy for Wrex's liking). He may even [[DiscussedTrope discuss this]] with various other crewmembers, by asking them if they could beat Shepard in a fight. Kaidan dismisses the question with how he'd realistically never have to fight his superior officer; Wrex decides that that's why Shepard is his superior officer, and why s/he would win. Tali (or Liara) asks if krogan size up ''everyone'' for a fight, to which he replies yes; his tone of voice suggests that [[DeliberateValuesDissonance he's genuinely surprised that the other races don't]].

** The "who would win" bit sets up a BrickJoke in "Citadel" - [[spoiler:en route to fighting the Clone, Wrex gloats to Ash/Kaidan that they're about to get their answer after all]]. It's also turned around when Zaeed and Javik ask who'd win: him or Grunt? Both immediately respond with a headbutting contest before Shepard shuts it down because s/he knows what comes next, and it would be hell to clean up the resulting destruction.

** Provided that Shepard talks to him and returns his family armor, Wrex eventually sees Shepard as a friend. This becomes a heartwarming FriendshipMoment in the second game when you're reunited with him; Wrex immediately ends a meeting to greet Shepard outright calling him/her "My friend!" Another FriendshipMoment happens in the third game, if you stay trustworthy and warn the krogan about the shroud sabotage. Wrex tells Eve "I told you we could trust him/her".

** When Wrex joyfully bounds out of his "throne" to greet Shepard with unabashed happiness in ''2'', it's fairly startling. Especially in contrast to the cold shoulder s/he gets from the Virmire survivor on Horizon.

* UndyingLoyalty: By the second game, even if he can't go with Shepard, it's clear that he has nothing but undying respect for him/her and will help him/her 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.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Subsequent games make it clear that he's not ''evil'', but in the first he's decidedly darker than other party members. Take him on Virmire when you discover the captured salarians driven to mindlessness by indoctrination, and he's visibly unhappy about it, saying that you don't do that to prisoners -- kill them, sure, but not ''[[MindRape that]]''. This is why he objects to Paragon Shepard releasing them. As far as he's concerned, even though they'd all die in the blast anyway, it'd take a cold person to let them live on like that for any longer than necessary. A cut-and-dried MercyKill is what he would want if he ended up indoctrinated, and hence he agrees to Renegade Shepard opening the door and gunning the salarians down.

* KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect: Averted. The Urdnot scientists are actually complaining because Wrex has turned them to ''agricultural'' sciences and focused their efforts on increasing crop yield, irrigation and better farming methods. Only on Tuchanka could the ''scientists'' be upset that the ''Warlord'' doesn't want them to blow things up!

* UndyingLoyalty: By the second game, even if he can't go with Shepard, it's clear that he has nothing but undying respect for him/her and will help him/her anyway he can. However, Shepard can later lose Wrex's trust by deleting Maelon's research and making no attempt to apologise.

* FoeTossingCharge: As a guest party member in ''Citadel'', his most common tactic is to charge into the enemy mob and club them with his shotgun. Horrified players will soon realize that Wrex easily has twice as much HP as other party members, [[LeeroyJenkins and thus can survive running out in the open and being shot at by multiple assailants]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of the elevator conversations in ''1'' has Garrus eagerly wanting to see how the ''Normandy'' handles in a fight. Wrex[[note]]and also Liara if she's present[[/note]] retorts that it would be stupid to get into a head-on fight in a frigate designed for stealth. The opening of the second game proves that Wrex was entirely correct about that - although, admittedly, the enemy ship belonged to the Collectors.

* OldSoldier: Not overt, but Wrex hints that he was either born during or shortly after the Krogan Rebellions, making him ''at least'' 1,400 years old, which is old even for a krogan.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Is aggressive and short-tempered, but deep down cares about his friends and the krogan race.
** He is the only one besides Joker to comfort Shepard after they are forced to leave either Ashley or Kaidan behind on Virmire.
** Gives Shepard a very warm greeting as the krogan overlord. From a grizzled old cynic like him, that really means something. He even invites Grunt to be part of the clan. As warlord, he does everything in his power to aid his people, [[GoodIsNotNice whether they like it or not]].

* FantasticRacism: Openly admits to be racist against salarians, and his distrust of them causes him to act up and nearly screw up the deal. He's not exactly a fan of the Turians either. Since representatives of both species played a part in creating the genophage, this prejudice isn't unwarranted.
** While he doesn't have any particular hatred for the asari he's quite happy to assume the negative stereotypes about their reproductive habits are true.

* SuicideByCop: Should [[spoiler:Shepard sabotage the genophage cure]], he'll come gunning for them on the Citadel... with no barriers and armed with only a shotgun, in full view of several fully-armed C-Sec officers. It's pretty obvious how he expected the encounter to end.The

* CoolOldGuy: In the second game, this is given as the reason the krogan are uniting under his leadership.

* SuicideByCop: Should he learn that [[spoiler:Shepard sabotaged the genophage cure]], he'll come gunning for them on the Citadel... with no barriers and armed with only a shotgun, in full view of several fully-armed C-Sec officers. It's pretty obvious how he expected the encounter to end.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Eve says that Wrex has always been enthusiastic around fertile females. [[spoiler:With the genophage cured]], the Citadel DLC informs us that as the leader of the most powerful clan and symbol to the galaxy of the awesomeness of their people, they've been lining up around the corner for his seed. And what's funnier, Eve/[[spoiler:Bakara encourages it, probably to [[RadishdCure break Wrex of the habit through forced overindulgence]]]].

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Eve says that Wrex has always been enthusiastic around fertile females. [[spoiler:With the genophage cured]], the Citadel DLC informs us that as the leader of the most powerful clan and symbol to the galaxy of the awesomeness of their people, they've been lining up around the corner for his seed. And what's funnier, Eve/[[spoiler:Bakara encourages it, probably to [[[RadishdCure break Wrex of the habit through forced overindulgence]]]].

* GeniusBruiser: A true blue Krogan Battlemaster, with the krogan martial might and biotics therein. He's also a krogan with a vision for his race's survival, and the pragmatism required to see it come to fruition. A notable example comes from his discussion with Garrus about the Normandy's stealth drive. While Garrus wonders about its utility in combat, Wrex points out that only an idiot gets into a slugfest in a stealth ship.

* JustEatHim: He's fond of using this to end arguments. It's generally effective at making people go away.

* MadeOfIron: While krogan are notorious for this anyway (being the only species capable of going to the rachni home worlds) Wrex takes this up a notch by being nigh unkillable on most difficulties. Up until [[NintendoHard insanity mode]] Wrex can simply charge into a squad of enemies and murder them all with little effort.

* MoralPragmatist: His goal is to ensure the survival of his doomed species, and he has developed very pragmatic ideas to help the krogan recover from [[DepopulationBomb the Genophage]], but they're too [[ProudWarriorRace proud and violent]] to listen to him. In the first game, when [[BigBad Saren]] finds a way to breed new krogan, he seriously considers betraying you, and you can only change his mind by either threatening to kill him or making him realize how stupid it would be to join Saren. In the third game, if he survived, Wrex refuses to help in the war against [[AbusivePrecursors the Reapers]] unless you cure the Genophage first, and if you sabotage said cure, he immediately withdraws all krogan support just so that [[TakingYouWithMe humans will go extinct just like the krogan]].
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: In the first game, his usual suggestion for dealing with problematic individuals is to [[JustEatHim eat them]].

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Wrex in no way comes off as dumb, but he is much more sophisticated than he lets on.
** Also works in a subversion to his BloodKnight tendencies. One of the elevator convos has Garrus eagerly wanting to see how the ''Normandy'' handles in a fight, to which Wrex[[note]]and also Liara[[/note]] retorts about the folly of getting into slugging matches in a ship meant for stealth. The opening of the second game proves that Wrex was entirely correct about that.
** Rather than trying to appear dumb he simply lets his [[TheGadfly gadfly]] tendencies and krogan stereotypes let people think he's dumb, when in fact he had a mind like a razor and is simply fed up of trying to make a difference.

* WorthyOpponent:
** Considered his FriendlyEnemy Aleena[[note]]who is heavily implied, but never explicitly stated, to be Aria[[/note]] to be this.
** Wrex views Shepard as one when they first meet, seeing Shepard as a warrior worthy of his respect. He drops hints in the first game that he believes in a fight Shepard could easily take him down, which considering Wrex once single-handedly defeated a ''Thresher Maw'' and Shepard is a squishy human, says a hell of a lot.
*** By the end of the second game, you'll probably have done a lot of the same things he did, and without the MadeOfIron characteristics that the krogan have going for them. It's no wonder Wrex respects you.

** 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 convinced 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 role 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.

* RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler:In [=ME3=], if you betray his friendship and sabotage the genophage cure, he will come after you on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. To elaborate, he comes to the Citadel armed with a giant shotgun (visitors are forbidden from carrying weapons on the station), assaulting a C-Sec officer and shooting at Shepard in broad daylight. Even if Shepard doesn't kill him himself, it doesn't take long until C-Sec reinforcements arrive and swiftly kill him. He really should've thought of a better plan. Then again, he was probably so angry and hurt that he wasn't thinking straight or didn't care enough for his own safety anymore.]]

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Eve says that Wrex has always been enthusiastic around fertile females. [[spoiler:With the genophage cured]], the Citadel DLC informs us that as the leader of the most powerful clan and symbol to the galaxy of the awesomeness of their people, they've been lining up around the corner for his seed. And what's funnier, Eve/[[spoiler:Bakara encourages it, probably to break Wrex of the habit through forced overindulgence]].

* TheCasanova: According to Eve that "if there's a fertile female, he'll be there", and "[he's a good leader] when he isn't trying to sire half of Tuchanka". In the ''Citadel'' DLC, [[spoiler:if the genophage is cured, he'll complain about how he's been [[ReallyGetsAround so busy mating]] that he needs an icepack for his crotch. If Eve/Bakara is still alive, he says that she is encouraging it (probably to try and break him of the behavior through forced overindulgence)]].

'''Wrex:''' I know, but I'm old and I worry, even though my favorite Quarian is all grown up and killing Reapers.\\

* ReallyGetsAround: [[spoiler:If the Genophage is cured, every Krogan female under the sun wants a piece of him. Unfortunately for Wrex, he's been having so much sex that he needs a bag of ice for his currently-aching quad.]]

''"Wrex:''' And I gave you the moral support to dodge them! ''(chuckles)''