History Trivia / MassEffect2

* RelationshipVoiceActor:
** [[Creator/AdamBaldwin Kal'Reegar]], [[Creator/YvonneStrahovski Miranda]], and Aria are [[Series/{{Chuck}} John Casey, Sarah Walker, and Gertrude Verbanski]].
** EDI and Bailey are [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Number Six and Colonel Saul Tigh]].
* SerendipityWritesThePlot:
** Many characters, especially [[spoiler: Legion]], have a dialog for missions that happen long before you are able to recruit them. It's speculated that the game was originally much more open when it came to recruiting people and the space limitations of the Xbox 360's DVD drive forced Creator/BioWare to break things up.
** The characters who [[AnyoneCanDie might have died in the first game]]--like Wrex, the Citadel Council, and [[SadisticChoice either Kaidan or Ashley]]--notably get DemotedToExtra in this game if they survived. This was apparently so that the developers wouldn't have to devote too much disc space to accommodate the first game's various MultipleEndings, and so that there wouldn't be even ''more'' branching story-lines in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''.

* TalkingToHimself: Niftu Cal and male Shepard are voiced by Mark Meer.

** Much like Kaidan from the first game, Thane Krios was originally intended as a bisexual romance option. Some dialogue from his romance with Male!Shep is still floating around the Internet.

** Ahead of the anniversary re-release, a dev on Twitter revealed that there were originally two additional same-sex romance options in the game (between FemShep/Jack and ManShep/Jacob). It got far enough into development that the scenes between them were fully animated before the decision was made to cut them, citing fear of boycotts from HeteronormativeCrusader groups.

** Jack was originally meant to be pansexual and romanceable by Shepherd regardless of gender, while Jacob was specifically imagined as a gay man and potential love interest for ManShep. Their respective routes were far enough in development to be fully animated before being cut (see ExecutiveMeddling, above), and Jack and Jacob's romance routes were repurposed to permit different-sex relationships only.

* FanNickname:
** The game that gave birth to Garrus being called Space Batman.
** [=SuZe=] was Jack's nickname before people knew it was "Jack". Short for "''Su''bject ''Ze''ro". It's fallen out of use now, probably because hardly anyone in the game calls her "Subject Zero." [[BerserkButton For good reason.]]
** There are some who call The Illusive Man... [[FunWithAcronyms TIM]].
** The Virmire Survivor for Kaidan/Ashley, which is typically used by fans to refer to the role the surviving one of the two plays in ''2'' or ''3'', unless talking about a specific one.
* ImageSource:
** ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice

* QuoteSource:
** DefrostingIceQueen
** HypocriticalHumor
** SceneryPorn