History Characters / MassEffect1Npcs

* ShoutOut: Done almost whole-cloth (right down to the Queens killing the daughters that didn't share "harmonious" views) from the bugs in ''EndersGame''.

* OncePerEpisode: Shepard is presented with the opportunity to physically assault her in all three games, making it (disturbingly) easy to go, as ''PennyArcade'' puts it, "3-for-3" with her.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Oddly enough, in the third game his skin get's a lot darker. In the interactive comic, he is coloured outright ''black''.

* TheComicallySerious: Doubles with GenreSavvy in 3. He does not think the salarian troops can handle Wrex; ''he thinks their medbay is not large enough for all the ensuing casualties''.

** In ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'', [[spoiler:his dossier reveals that [[GenreSavvy he denied an Alliance desk jockey's request to have Shepard detained and interrogated for a few months due to his/her ties to Cerberus, and with style.]]]]

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: In the third game. [[spoiler:When Udina aids in the Cerberus coup and Shepard intervenes in his attempts to send the other council members to their deaths, Udina attempts to cover his own ass by declaring ''Shepard'' to be the one helping Cerberus. However, the Council quickly remembers that the last time they disbelieved and distrusted Shepard blew up in their faces and quickly side with them over Udina.]]

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:Be careful how you handle her in ''3''. She'll duck the first punch you throw and, if you're not quick on the draw, ''knock Shepard down flat''.]]

An ''actual'' reporter. You have the option to give her a good scoop on Fist, and later to help her break a story on the working conditions of traffic controllers on the Citadel. The day before ''Mass Effect 3'' was released in North America, she [[CharacterBlog took over]] BioWare's [=AllianceNewsNet=] [[https://twitter.com/#!/AllianceNewsNet Twitter account]], seen in an easier-to-peruse format [[http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Alliance_News_Network/SolComms here]], and chronicled the Reaper attack on Earth.

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* OOCisseriousbusiness: In ''3'', she is clearly on the verge of CRYING during the interview, showing Genuine passion for perhaps the first time in her carrier..

* OOCisseriousbusiness: In Me3, she is clearly on the verge of CRYING during the interview, showing Genuine passion for perhaps the first time in her carrier..

* UndyingLoyalty: Do you even need to ask?
* WhatTheHellHero[=/=]WhatTheHellPlayer: If the player doesn't enter the Omega 4 relay fast enough, Chakwas will chew Shepard out, and it's obvious she's chewing the player out for TakeYourTime.

* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler:Even if the player saves their lives in from Sovereign, they will still offer no help whatsoever in stopping the Collectors beyond the reinstatement of Shepard's Spectre status. While Tevos seems grateful and Valern seems neutral and they both deny the Reapers' existence, and Sparatus continues to be a complete {{jerkass}} to Shepard.]] The fact you're working for what is essentially a terrorist group [[JerkassHasAPoint may have something to do with it.]] That and the fact that sending a Council fleet into the Terminus Systems could spark war.
** Still present in the third game. After the Reapers invade, their response to Shepard being proven right is;
-->'''Tevos''': The cruel and unfortunate truth is that while the Reapers focus on Earth, we can prepare and regroup.
** [[DevilsAdvocate However,]] they are not necessarily ''refusing'' to help Shepard per se, and the turian councilor even gives Shepard a lead on where to go next; they can be persuaded over time to contribute more forces. When speaking to Admiral Hackett afterward, Paragon!Shepard tells him that the Council is simply caught off-guard by both the invasion and the Alliance's mostly theoretical plan for a counterattack (at that point, [[GodzillaThreshold all Shepard has is plans for a superweapon that ''might'' destroy the Reapers, with not much else to back it up]]). The war room guards, Campbell and Westmoreland, also make a similar point...
--->'''Campbell:''' I can't believe the Council won't help.\\
'''Westmoreland:''' Come on, Sarah. If Thessia was lost and Earth hadn't been touched yet, you can be damn sure we'd be guarding our own borders.

* WeWereYourTeam: The TropeNamer.

--> '''Voiced by:''' Roger Jackson

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: [[spoiler: The only playable character in the series other than Shepard, in the single-player mode.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: He is noticeably less... jokey in the first game. It's even in his backstory that he got the nickname because his flight instructor found him so serious while working hard to become the best pilot in the fleet. In the second game, he's doling out jokes and banter like his namesake. In the third game we discover [[spoiler: this is probably due to the fact that he feels guilty that Shepard died saving him in 2, and joking is his way of keeping Shepard's morale up, which he confirms in 3.]]

-> Yeah, that is the ''official'' story. But only an idiot believes the official story.

* {{Expy}}: Very similar to [[Series/{{Firefly}} Hoban "Wash" Washburne]]. Both are [[AcePilot Ace Pilots]], [[NonActionGuy Non Action Guys]] (although this is by necessity for Joker), are known for their sense of humor, and are called by their nicknames over their real names. Also, given the ActionGirl / NonActionGuy romance that develops between him and [[spoiler: EDI]] in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', he also fulfills Wash's role in his marriage to Zoe Washburne.

* UndyingLoyalty: He will follow Shepard to hell and back, [[MagneticHero like so many other characters.]]

-->'''Dr. Chakwas:''' I've spent most of my life on warhsips, never knowing what the next mission might bring. I'm used to the hum of engines, the creaking bulkheads, the subtle vertigo when the momentum dampeners kick in. Life planetside is too static, too boring.

* WhatTheHellHero / WhatTheHellPlayer: If the player doesn't enter the Omega 4 relay fast enough, Chakwas will chew Shepard out, and it's obvious she's chewing the player out for TakeYourTime.

* FantasticRacism:Sparatus, against humans. Valern shows himself to be quite anti-krogan in ''3''.

* TheComicallySerious: Doubles with GenreSavvy in 3. He does not think the Salarian troops can handle Wrex, ''he thinks their medbay is not large enough for all the ensuing casualties''.

* {{Badass}}: Was once a candinate for becoming the first human spectre had it not been for Saren.

-->'''Shepard:''' Good to see you too, sir.
-->'''Anderson:''' ''"Sir?"'' I may have reinstated you, but that doesn't give you permission to get all formal on me.
-->'''Shepard:''' Then I'm glad you managed to keep your ass alive, Anderson.
-->'''Anderson:''' ''[chuckles]'' That's more like it.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: In the first game, it's possible to complete her sidequest before you ever talk to her. If you do, when you report to her that her pirate sister has been killed, she replies, "Oh! And I was all set to manipulate you into killing her for me!"

** Although he's more cordial to Wrex, who actually ''agrees'' with his assertion that military power brings prestige. Of course, it may have also been because he's not stupid enough to insult a Krogan battlemaster to his face.

* BiggerStick: Discusses and supports this philosophy, believing that Earth should focus on military spending to both keep up with the rest of the galaxy and levy their military power into political clout, so that their opinion will be taken seriously. After all, it worked for the Turians.

** His comments about Humanity embracing the BiggerStick philosophy similarly aren't without precedent, considering their incredible military power was one of the main reasons the Turians gained their seat on the Council.

* InternalAffairs: she's the ''least'' irritating person who can get you a garage pass on Noveria.

-->'''Commander Shepard:''' You refused to testify. Obviously, you hate justice and deserve this.
-->'''Lorik:''' [[LampshadeHanging What insane breed of logic is that?]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: If Shepard kills the dirty ERCS officers at Synthetic Insights and tells her about it, she understands completely and doesn't hold it against them since the officers were corrupt. That said, if you lie to her face about what happened she'll call you out on it and leave by saying she has to write condolence letters to the families of the officers you killed.

* GratuitousJapanese: Refers to "Parasini-san" but otherwise speaks entirely in English.

* DeadpanSnarker: If you lie to her face about what happened with Stirling and your involvement in it she'll call you out on it and admit she can't do a thing to disprove it, but you're certainly on her radar now.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: If Shepard kills the dirty ERCS officers at Synthetic Insights and tells her about it, she understands completely and doesn't hold it against them since the officers were corrupt.

* ChekhovsArmy: If Shepard spares her life, [[spoiler:she will send a messenger in the second game in order to pledge her support against the Reapers when the time comes.]]

* RomanticRunnerUp: Not to Shepard but to Garrus, given that she'll lose out to female Shepard [[spoiler:or Tali]].

-->'''Voiced by:'''

-->'''Voiced by:''' Wendy Braun