History Characters / OnTheShouldersOfGiants

* GenreSavvy: Among other things, after the first AIs came into being humanity quickly took steps to guaranteed them full civil rights.

* HurtingHero: He's in therapy for it.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: They resemble 2-meter long raptors with multiple eyes.

* RecursiveCreators: AIs can reproduce. While most of the AIs mentioned by name are 'first generation' ones created by organics, the AIs known as Teddy and Anonymous (aka, [[FanNickname Nony]]) are both the 'children' of another AI, and according to WordOfGod they're not the only ones.

* FanNickname: 'Nony'

* ThePrecursors: To the tiaunt and, to a lesser extent, humans. Averted in that they're still alive.

* StarfishAlien: Radially symmetrical, six-winged torpedoes with black feathers and tentacles. Oh, and they're not adapted to life on the ground.

* BizarreAlienBiology: Alien Laser Dragons with many eyes with wings that don't work for flight but ''do'' work as radiators, multiple brains, and lest we forget, [[FrickinLaserBeams lasers.]]

!!The Raloi
* EarlyBirdCameo: In canon, the Asari made first contact with the Raloi in between Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3. In this story, the [=O'Niel=] discovered them by accident on the way to the Citadel nearly a hundred and twenty years early, and decide to plant satellites in orbit to watch them grow (they are currently at industrial revolution era technology).

* NeverLiveItDown: She was once overheard jokingly proclaiming herself God-Empress of Mars while drunk, on the grounds that she was the first human actually born on the Red Planet. This came back to haunt her in two ways, one being that it eventually resulted in the Martians deciding to have the ‘God-Emperor of Mars’ as their head of state when they gained independence (although said position holds no actual political power), with Karen being named as God-Empress. The other was that the tiaunt, who actually have a God-Emperor, somehow got wind of it, and said God-Emperor apparently finds the whole thing highly amusing and keeps pretending to take it seriously and generally teasing her about it, much to Karen's annoyance. It's even heavily implied that he had a hand in the Martians making her status as God-Empress official.

* [[HumanPopsicle Alien Popsicle]]: They survived a Berserker attack that disabled their ship by going into suspended animation on Titan. Three thousand years later, humanity found them and thawed them out just a couple of years before the power ran out.

* BizarreAlienBiology: Alien Laser Dragons with many eyes with wings that don't work for flight but ''do'' work as radiators, multiple brains, and lest we forget, [[FrikkinLaserBeams lasers.]]

* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: They're basically giant alien squid. Excitable, curious, human-loving, meme-spouting squids.

* BizarreAlienBiology

* InsectoidAliens: They resemble giant ants. Unusually however they're actually very individualistic.

* KillerRobot
* NukeEm

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Kravok appear to use technology and tactics much more in line with Citadel technology, meaning kinetic weapons, no energy weapons, and drive cores that need to be discharged- all hallmarks of Prothean-descended technology, like that used by the Citadel.

* {{Badass}}

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* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: They're big fans of human pop culture, the geekier the better.

* EyeBeams

Descriptions for the major factions and characters in OnTheShouldersOfGiants.