History MassEffect / TropesQToT

** Krogans are walking [[TheBerserker Berserkers]], each one boasting nearly unparalleled strength and toughness. Their culture is extremely Darwinian, with the weak culled either by natural dangers or battle, and leaders typically chosen through AsskickingEqualsAuthority. They make perfect infantry and shock troops, but with an unpredictable and unreliable nature. Their extremely long lifespan and [[ExplosiveBreeder high fertility]] meant that they could afford to fight wars of attrition.

** The N7 program is astoundingly brutal. N1 training involves being dropped on an asteroid with minimal food and water, and told to survive, and it gets much, much harder from there. The training is so extreme that even those who wash out of N1 training are shown no shame and afforded respect just for being selected. Those who do attain N7 status are universally respected as the most skilled soldiers humanity has to offer.

** The N7 program is astoundingly brutal. N1 training involves being dropped on an asteroid with minimal food and water, and told to survive, and it gets much, much harder from there.

** The [[BlueSkinnedSpaceBabe asari]] are the most transparent, though Drell and Batarians could pass as more elaborate examples of this trope. Most other species are too different to be placed here.

** Taken UpToEleven in the second, to the point of becoming an AntiHeroTeam. Squadmates include: two Cerberus operatives, former STG agent, escaped Cerberus test subject, tank-bred krogan, vigilante, asari KnightErrant, ruthless assassin, geth expert, [[spoiler: ''geth'']], veteran mercenary, master thief.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: The geth, from having a blood-like fluid spatter when they're wounded, to doing some serious soul-searching constantly to the point of adopting religions, to screaming in pain when they die. Also, Legion gestures when talking to Shepard. [[spoiler:Can be taken UpToEleven in the third game, depending on player choices]].

** The kett of ''Andromeda'' are this trope [[UpToEleven Up To Eleven]]. They draw on all four types, but mostly I and III; they are totalitarian, fascistic expansionists obsessed with genetic purity and eugenics, who use deadly prison camps [[RippedFromTheHeadlines to kill those they deem undesirable]] and unethical scientific experiments. They do so because of [[spoiler:their AssimilationPlot style reproduction]] which they worship and have ritualized, while the kett themselves use imagery and titles taken from real-life religions.

** Kalros. While we don't know thresher maws's total lifespan, ''Mass Effect 3'' implies that Kalros already existed when the krogan nuked Tuchanka 4000 years before the first game.

** A species called the yahg were discovered a few decades before the series began, and an emissary group was sent to make FirstContact with them. The yahg, a super-intelligent and hyper-aggressive species, killed the emissaries and contact was immediately cut. However, we learn in DLC for the second game that one was brought off world and made an agent of the [[KnowledgeBroker Shadow Broker]]. By the time we meet him, he's taken over his boss's old gig. In the third game, we learn that the salarian government considered that [[WhatAnIdiot uplifting the yahg en-masse]] would make for good agents and shock troops.

* SomeCallMeTim: Shows up alllll over the place. Especially with certain races (hanar, salarians) who tend to have fairly complicated names. There's even one character whose FanNickname really is TIM.

* TropeOverdosed:
** '''Before''' ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' came out, the series had '''''THIRTY-FOUR''''' pages, and the ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' main page ''alone'' had over 150 tropes. Again, that's ''before the game was even released.''
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' and ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' now have four different pages ''each'' to cover all of their tropes.
** And now we are up to 29 different character pages, including ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda''.

** And now we are up to 29 different character pages, including ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda.

** And now we have thirteen different character pages.

* TroperCriticalMass: How many times have the various pages had to be split, again?

* TitleDrop: As seen in the page quote, "mass effect" is a physics phenomenon where a form of exotic matter called [[{{Unobtanium}} Element Zero]] can affect gravity and spacetime in controllable ways when subject to electrical current. It is the basis for the technology that makes interstellar civilization possible, and is mentioned to be such. Title drops often occur when the context involves technological applications of the phenomenon.

* TitleDrop: As seen in the page quote, "mass effect" is a physics phenomenon where a form of exotic matter called [[Unobtanium Element Zero]] can affect gravity and spacetime in controllable ways when subject to electrical current. It is the basis for the technology that makes interstellar civilization possible, and is mentioned to be such. Title drops often occur when the context involves technological applications of the phenomenon.

* TitleDrop: As seen in the page quote, "mass effect" is an ability of element zero to increase or decrease objects' masses depending on the polarity of an electrical charge via dark energy. It is the basis for the technology that makes interstellar civilization possible, and is mentioned to be such.

** The Thorian lived long enough to have seen the rise and downfall of the Prothean Empire. By the time of [[Franchise/MassEffect1 it's death]], the Thorian was over 50 millenia old.

** The Thorian lived long enough to have seen the rise and downfall of the Prothean Empire.

* TakeYourTime: For the most part, this is played absolutely straight. Anytime you receive a distress call, are informed of a "desperate" situation, or have been sent an urgent communique about something that needs to be dealt with ''right now'' (like tactical missile launches, falling asteroids, or falling ships), go ahead and ignore it. It'll still be there in five hours. Memorably subverted in one instance in the second game, however: [[spoiler:the longer you wait after the Collectors abduct the crew of the ''Normandy'', fewer of them will be alive when you rescue them]].

** The physical appearance of the batarians.

** There's also Shepard decking the tabloid reporter, complete with Meme: