History WMG / MassEffect

->''You hear it before you see it, its call a [[HellIsThatNoise deafening roar]] as it descends from above, swooping down on you. A single great eye opens on the underbelly, a glowing red orb. You try to run, but [[WaveMotionGun a finger of red light]] extends from the eye and [[KillSat engulfs you]], and all goes black again.''

* Garrus Vakarian: Creator/AdamCopeland, Creator/ClarkGregg
* Urdnot Wrex: Creator/DaveBautista, Wrestling/DwayneJohnson

* Urdnot Wrex: [[Wrestling/{{Batista}} Dave Bautista]], Wrestling/DwayneJohnson

* Matrarch Benezia T'Soni: Creator/BridgetMoynahan

* Matrarch Benezia T'Sni: Creator/BridgetMoynahan

* Matrarch Benezia T'Sni: BridgetMoynahan

* Garrus Vakarian: Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}}, Creator/ClarkGregg

If you have the iOS Datapad app, you'll get a message from Tali [[spoiler: while she's drunk]] in the third game, filled with typos that line up with a QWERTY keyboard (for instance, "hwlp" instead of "help"). If she was typing in Khelish (or whatever the quarians' main language is), the translator would have rendered it into MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels-type gibberish, not just badly-spelled English. It also provides an in-game explanation why [[VocalEvolution Tali's accent became more pronounced between games]]; before, she had to rely on translators, which rendered her speech with a more generic tone, but now she can speak English with her own voice, which lets her accent carry over more. It also makes sense as part of her line of work; the universal translator probably doesn't cover programming languages, so Tali would probably need to learn a little bit of English in order to write programs for human computers, same as how non-English programmers have to learn some English in order for C++ or Java to make sense.

** Uh, about the Leviathan. [[spoiler:YOu know how the Reaper larva has organic material being pumped into it? Yeah, the Leviathan of Dis was a dead Reaper.]]

* In [[Literature/TheBible Judges 14:19]], it is said that "Then the Spirit of the LORD '''[[strike:[[MemeticMutation ASSUMED DIRECT CONTROL]]]]''' came upon [Samson] in power." You see this again about Samson in Judges 15, as well as in various other parts of Literature/TheBible. 'nuff said.

* Batarians are there to represent all the negative aspects of human society that are not present in the future. Batarians have an Orwellian police state too similar to North Korea, and a caste system along with slavery like that of Ancient Rome. They're like Humans where TechnologyMarchesOn but society did'nt march on.

** These Ardat-Yakshi were the reason that asari even had huntress militias. Normally, you'd think that a race so inclined to cooperation, diplomacy, debate and empathizing, like the asari, would eventually not need militaries since everyone got along. But the sociopathic Ardat-Yakshi with their enthrallment ability are threats that require military force. They wouldn't require conventional arms such as tanks, gunships, artillery, ICBMs etc, but they would require spec ops units who could surgically neutralize problematic Ardat-Yakshi. That is why their military is structured the way it is.

** This could be extended to the Reapers themselves: the Citadel Council demands that synthetic intelligences be destroyed on identification because every previous one TurnedAgainstTheirMasters - so said intelligences know that they ''will be destroyed unless they strike first.'' If previous civilisations had similar laws, then the Reapers could simply be the first synthetic civilisation which ''defeated'' their masters - and swore never to let organics threaten them again. As policing the entire galaxy would be a chore, they went for a variation of Carl Sagan's ''Contact'' - leave out SchmuckBait (the Mass Relays) to gather them at the Citadel for convenience. When their vanguard decides the time is right (everyone gathered yet not advanced enough to threaten them) they come out of dark space and KillEmAll.

* Garrus Vakarian: Wrestling/{{Edge}}, Creator/ClarkGregg
* Urdnot Wrex: [[{{Wrestling/Batista}} Dave Bautista]], Wrestling/DwayneJohnson

[[WMG:Wiki/TVTropes is a Reaper method of [[MoreThanMindControl Indoctrination]].]]

** Further expanding the theory: the asari males were like those of some species fish; tiny, barely recognisable as the same species, and permanently attaching themselves to the females, withered away to nothing but a gland producing semen in the female's body. Eventually because of a mutation some females were born with male "sibling" inside them, providing this function right from the birth. But since all the descendants from this method of reproduction are essentially clones, evolution had to find a way to expand the gene pool. At this point the innate biotic abilities came into play, and those asari who learned to meld with others for new genetic input were the ones to ultimately survive as the species we know today.