History Characters / MassEffect1Npcs

* AscendedExtra: Joker goes from being effectively part of the scenery in the first game (never once seen outside of his pilot's chair) to having a much larger role (most notably the one referenced in the spoiler-protected entry just above this one) in the second.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler: If you never assaulted in the prior two games, Khalisah's value as a War Assest will double in ''3''. The description will imply that Shepard's advocating for unity ultimately ended up rubbing off on her, and integrating that into her journalism has made it more effective.]]

* DistressedDamsel: A mild case.

* DistressedDamsel: At least, if the term "Damsel" can even apply to a giant insect. Regardless, the Rachni Queen gets captured in both ''1'' and ''3'', both times with Shepard being the only one to rescue her if they so choose.

* TheInformant: She provides the player with information during several quests. It tends to be information of the sort you wouldn't expect an ordinary clinic doctor to know.

* ThePeterPrinciple: The same desire for discipline, firm intelligence, and a clear chain of command that presumably made Sparatus a capable enough leader to be promoted to such a high position within the miliaristic Turian Hierarchy make him a frustrated ObstructiveBureaucrat utterly incapable of properly handling Specter assets like Saren and Shepard. Fortunately for him, the arrival of the Reapers and all out galactic war with them in ''3'' puts him right back ''in'' his element, and ensure he's easily most useful of the Council for the duration of the game. The other Councilors, unfortunately, play this trope to the hilt. [[spoiler: The same instinct for conflict avoidance that made Tevos such a good peacemaker drives her to continue concealing vital information from the rest of the asari's allies in peacetime, the same logical viewpoint and deference to his government that made Valern a good representative hamstring his ability to support the other species when said government attempts to sabotage efforts to get the most powerful military in the galaxy into the war, and Udina's patriotism that made him such a strong advocate for humanity's interests cracks him like glass in the face of the Earth invasion, driving him to outright collaborate with Cerberus and launch a coup.]]

* NervesOfSteel: Probably the calmest and most unflappable human leader in the series. Even when Reapers tore the Alliance a new one. Pointed out by Jacob in the third game.

** Case in point: in the [[BadEnd Low EMS]] final battle there's a scene of a Reaper destroyer landing on a Dreadnought, presumably his flagship. We're treated to a scene inside of the [[TheBridge CIC]] with fires breaking out, panels exploding, alarms blazing and Alliance personnel screaming and running in horror, while the admiral just stands there calmly, gritting his teeth and holding on to railing.
* OldSoldier: Hackett's age doesn't diminish his badassery in any way.

** FourStarBadass: He's an admiral, after all.
** He's been with the Alliance for a very long time. He doesn't let it slow him down.

-->'''Hackett's entire response to a lengthy request email:''' Request denied.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Councilor Sparatus. While he's often an ass about it, Shepard ''does'' frequently do erratic things and make decisions of galactic importance without bothering to consult the council first.

** A subtle moment. In ''3'', when Shepard states Earth was attacked by the Reapers, Sparatus takes a step forward. He's prepared to help immediately before Shepard asks.
** Tevos gets a turn in ''Mass Effect 3''. While it was a dick thing to say, she did have a point when she said that negotiating an alliance with the krogan wouldn't end well, because of millennia old grudges. If Wreav is the krogan leader, he has never forgiven the council for the genophage and intends to at the very least, use the threat of the krogan hordes to extort accommodations from other races. The Citadel archives contain a transcript of how badly the last council negotiations with a krogan warlord ended. She also probably knew that Dalatress Linron would reject anything a krogan rep would ask for.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Ironically, ''Sparatus of all Turians'' becomes this in ''3''. He quickly becomes a critical ally to Shepard and the Systems Alliance, and [[spoiler:is ultimately the only councilor who doesn't make your life harder. Tevos, and the Asari government in general, are concealing the existence of a fully-functional Prothean Beacon on Thessia. Valern is complicit in the Salarian sabotage of the Genophage Cure, and Udina is complicit in an attempted Cerberus coup]].

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[[caption-width-right:240:Sometimes I get the urge to turn off the internal compensators and pull a Crazy Ivan, you know?]]

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In Mass Effect 1, Joker makes it clear that he earned the right to pilot the ''Normandy'' by being "The best damn helmsman in the Alliance fleet." His record spoke for him. Years later, Joker's origin story comic reveals [[spoiler:he took the ''Normandy'' on the joyride, and risked his own career to prove he was the best.]]

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[[caption-width-right:240:Or maybe I'm just happily drunk.]]

* FormerBigot: His diaries in Mass Effect 2 reveal that his xenophobic views on the aliens made a complete U-turn after tackling the Sovereign crisis shoulder-to-shoulder with them[[note]]as usual, Tali is the MoralityPet he first identifies with[[/note]], and he notes that reading the older entries makes him feel ashamed. [[spoiler:Too bad he was killed soon after.]]

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[[caption-width-right:230:"You've got an eye for talent, Commander."]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[TemptingFate Do not cut me off again, Commander. I fail to find it amusing.]]]]

* SeriesContinuityError: He's no longer head of security by Mass Effect 2. The "Mass Effect: Inquisition" comics shows that he was killed by Bailey when Bailey catches him seemingly working for the Council's enemies, and Bailey confirms this to Shepard in the third game. For some reason, the codex states that Pallin was still alive until Mass Effect 3, where he helped foil the Cerberus Coup and was killed by Kai Leng.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: He is about 52 in Mass Effect 3. You'd be forgiven for thinking he is in his 70s.

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[[caption-width-right:300:Don't just stand there looking pretty, ''kill something!'']]

[[WMG: Captain[=/=]Rear-Admiral Hannah Shepard]]

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* CharacterDeath: If you fail to save him in Mass Effect 1.

* HeelRealization: If you save him from the biotic terrorists in Mass Effect 1, in ''2'' he admits in a letter to Shepard that he took the job mostly for the power, but now realizes that was wrong, which leads to his:

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[[caption-width-right:250:[[BlatantLies The people want to hear your story.]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:320:"Really? You'd talk to me before anybody else?"]]

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[[caption-width-right:240:We have trust issues in my family.]]

* HiddenDepths: She reveals in Mass Effect 2 why she's in Internal Affairs: she originally wanted to be a cop or C-Sec, but she came from a poor background and needed the money a corporate job would bring in. She also admits that dealing with white-collar crime means she doesn't have to investigate ''"[[NightmareFuel things that make it hard to sleep at night]]"''.

** Both interactions with her have a lot of {{Shout Out}}s to the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise. Her discovery, and being used by a shady corporation, resembles Alien, while meeting underground in Mass Effect 3, with dead bodies pinned to the wall and being atop a makeshift throne is a direct reference to Aliens.

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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: [[spoiled:One of the reasons everyone wonders if he was indoctrinated. By the point he stages the coup, Cerberus have stepped up to blatantly sabotaging anti-Reaper efforts, huskifying their troops and outright terrorism, and yet he still lets them onto the Citadel. And for all this, the Illusive Man still considered Udina totally expendable, so he probably wouldn't have lasted long afterward.]]

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* HateSink: Particularly in the first game where Udina is a thoroughly unlikable, smug and obstructive politician who second guesses Shepard at every turn and stabs [=them=] in the back when it's politically convenient. His one brief scene in the second game reminds players that he's still an UngratefulBastard to Shepard. The third game is the only point where he becomes at all sympathetic, working his ass off to rally support for the Reaper-invaded Earth. [[spoiler:And even then, this one redeeming quality ultimately drives him to perform a FaceHeelTurn and join Cerberus, plotting to murder the rest of the Council so he can claim ultimate power on the Citadel to better help save Earth.]]

* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:If you killed the Queen in ''1'', the one you encounter in ''3'' is a clone made by the Reapers.]]

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Shepard can convince her to quit, through a threat or the reasoning that her organization has been irretrievably tainted. She'll sigh and acknowledge that it makes sense. She's fully aware that she can't defeat Shepard, but that isn't the motivation for it, since she'll attack Shepard if he tries to arrest her, knowing he'll kill her.

Commanding officer of the Alliance Navy's Fifth Fleet. Voice of authority and giver of sidequests. Often heard, but never seen in-game (until ''Mass Effect 2'''s Arrival DLC, that is).

** He initially raises some not entirely unreasonable concerns about having aliens onboard what is ostensibly an Alliance vessel, but then sneeringly wonders if Shepard still remembers what color their blood is. As the conversation goes on, he makes it clear he doesn't trust any alien race, nor does he see any reason he should.

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* MemeticHandGesture: "Ah, yes, 'Reapers'..." To the "point" where "Sparatus" cannot be "mentioned" without "air quotes." "* air quotes* "

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Particularly towards [=FemShep=], whom he acts like a chauvinist prick towards.
** Case in point, any interaction with him in both games is one of the few times in the trilogy a dialogue choice will explicitly be confined to one gender. Shepard can threaten to beat the stuffing out of him in ''1'' for calling her princess, and in ''2'', if you allow Garrus to shoot him in the leg, you can have [=FemShep=] state that she would shoot Harkin [[GroinAttack somewhere else]].

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RogerJackson

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RogerJackson

%%* MaleGaze: Her introduction.

* BadassBaritone: As one would expect from Creator/KeithDavid.

* BadassBaritone: Courtesy of Creator/LanceHenriksen.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Manipulating someone into killing her own sister? A hard pill to swallow. Knowing her sister was a thug and a slaver who planned to extort her? Much more digestible. Shepard can concede that Dahlia deserved what she got, which Nassana will agree with.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: A large majority of players, even if they are Renegade, choose to help Parasini if only to just get back at him for making Port Hanashan so frustrating.

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* NoNameGiven: Until ''Mass Effect 3'', Sparatus and Valern were known only as the turian and salarian Councilors respectively. Tevos is namechecked in ''Mass Effect 2'', though it's not clear she's the asari councilor until Udina reveals the council's names in ''3''.