History Trivia / MassEffect3

* IKnewIt:
** Creator/BioWare forum user screwoffreg accurately described Mass Effect 3's endings word-by-word [[http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/105/index/970146/1 way back in 2010.]]
--> [[spoiler: "There are two endings I wouldn't like for ME 3. One being a random GOD LIKE force that saves the Galaxy or another being that to defeat the Reapers, everyone has to become a primitivist and destroy the Relays, Citadel, etc. Both would make me pretty unhappy as those endings have been done to death."]]
--->—'''screwoffreg''', a.k.a. "the Prophet".
** On the Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer boards, there were various ideas being thrown around for defecting Reaper troops. When the Leviathan DLC emerged, the Leviathan became [[MindControl the most lore-friendly means of doing so]]. Come the ''Reckoning'' DLC, that's what happened with the Collector Adept, though most ideas had the defecting Reapers still be thralls of the Leviathan.

** Silversun Strip in the ''Citadel'' [[DownloadableContent DLC]] has several pairs of off-duty mercenaries and regular troops you can overhear conversations from. Virtually all of them gripe about annoyances and issues in the multiplayer.
** In the Castle Arcade, a turian sentinel and salarian infiltrator discuss weapon and equipment selection for dealing with foes. The turian is rather...[[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer enthusiastic]] about detonating his Tech Armor, while the salarian argues for more [[TacticalRockPaperScissors diversity of tactics]]. The two talk about numerous enemy types faced in the game and what to do about them, and it sounds like [[StopHavingFunGuys a forum argument about how to optimize multiplayer characters]].
** An asari adept and an asari vanguard complain about other biotic-capable races. This includes the drell, pointing out how one of them seems to kick the air for no reason and steals grenades all the time, and humans, who toss singularities way too often.
** A human infiltrator complains to a vorcha soldier about how her squad was unavailable and she was called to a mission immediately, and [[PickUpGroup thus had to hook up with the nearest N7 forces whom she never worked with before]]. She wanted a nice, smooth mission but their unfamiliarity turned it into a train wreck. The rest of the group stood in the open at the top of a ramp, the ex-Cerberus vanguard kept [[LeeroyJenkins racing forward to disable indoctrination devices]] instead of [[InvisibilityCloak letting the infiltrator do it]], etc.
** An N7 Fury talks with an Alliance requisition officer, discussing the new gear she's supposed to get. The officer ends up delivering a Graal Spike Thrower VII, thermal clip packs, and strength enhancers - all useless to a light biotic class such as hers. Meanwhile, the requisitions officer indignantly tells her that she should be thankful and that the Krogan soldiers he's dealing with would love a new Graal Spike Thrower... and then mention how he hopes that they could use those biotic amps he sent them. Turns out the RandomNumberGod-nature of the store is just a hilariously inept bureaucracy managing the supply chains.

** A 'veteran' Alliance soldier and engineer go on a nostalgia trip (reflecting the nature of the game back at release) and consequently complain about how all their allies have shiny new equipment and rather improbable combat tactics (which is what the game has become after a year). Their points of discussion include two N7 characters, the new Armiger Legion turians, and biotic volus.

** Another complaint from the Veteran Soldier is the unfairness of N7 Demolisher's strutting around like a WalkingArmoury.
** The funniest complaint may be about the sudden inclusion of Volus troops and their tendency to toss grenades around that have yields high enough for them to be considered weapons of mass destruction.
** It's not just the multiplayer, either. Drunk! Tali references an infamous forum thread debating what her sweat would smell like (yes, it actually happened). "It just smells like sweat! [[{{Squick}} Why would you even ask that?]]" Shepard references Jack and Miranda shippers, and Joker finally has the nerve to ask how Kaidan gets his hair like that (it's static from using his biotics).
** While scanning Bryson's office for clues the first time in "Leviathan", EDI performs an extranet search on the term "basilisk" for Shepard. Among her search results is a video game enemy that's getting called "overpowered" on forums because of its OneHitKO attacks - a criticism often leveled at Banshees on the Creator/BioWare site.

* RelationshipVoiceActor:
** Creator/SethGreen (Joker) and Freddie Prinze Jr. (James Vega) previously worked together on ''Scooby Doo: Monsters Unleashed''. On top of that, Green, Brandon Keener (Garrus Vakarian) and Creator/RobinSachs (Zaeed Massani) used to work on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' with Prinze Jr's wife, Creator/SarahMichelleGellar.
** Tricia Helfer (EDI) and Michael Hogan (Commander Bailey) previously worked together on ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003''
** As mentioned above, Dr. Baynar and Dr. Cole are voiced by Nicholas Boulton and Jo Wyatt, who played Male and Female Hawke in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII''.
** Female Shepard's voice actor is Jennifer Hale, who in Bioware's ''Dragon Age: Inquistion'' voices Cremisius Aclassi, sidekick to The Iron Bull-- who is voiced by Freddie Prinze Jr.
** If you have Ashley in your party for when you fight [[Creator/TroyBaker Kai Leng]], you'll essentially end up with [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity Oracle vs. Robin]].

** Originally, Vega was supposed to be named James Sanders (and originally identified only as "Jimmy" in early scripts). His surname was changed to Vega, most likely to avoid having fans think that he was related to Kahlee Sanders. This is {{lampshaded}} in-game; see DevelopmentGag above.

* NamesTheSame: Miranda's father, Henry Lawson, shares the name with an early [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lawson Australian Poet]], which is apt considering the likely origin of the Lawson family based on their accents.

* FanNickname:
** The nameless sniper from the first trailer was called "Big Ben" until he was revealed as Major Coats in-game.
** People on Website/{{GameFAQs}} appear to like calling the boy seen at the beginning of the game, "Vent Boy".
** Phantoms have become "Ninja Bitches".
** James Vega: All of [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 David]] [[Film/SpaceMutiny Ryder's]] nicknames.
** [[spoiler:"[[ShapedLikeItself Prothy the Prothean]]"]] for the [[WalkingSpoiler spoilerific]] {{downloadable|Content}} squadmate. Referenced in-game when Joker insists on calling [[spoiler:Javik]] by that name; [[spoiler:Javik]], true to form, [[TheAllSolvingHammer threatens Joker]] [[ThrownOutTheAirlock with an airlocking]].
** Diana Allers is called "Space [[Series/JerseyShore Snooki]]."
** The [[spoiler: Catalyst ]] has earned the nickname "Task Manager", because it gives you the option of [[spoiler: controlling the Reapers, altering them, or deleting them. In other words [[DontExplainTheJoke CTRL+ALT+DELETE.]]]] He's also commonly referred to as [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Starchild]].
** Similarly, 'Space Magic' for the [[spoiler:power of the Crucible]].
** "Marauder Shields" and "The Three Husketeers", the four enemies encountered on the way to the beam in London [[spoiler: after Shepard gets wrecked by Harbinger trying to [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill bring a starship-grade weapon to bear]] on Shepard, which wind up being the final four enemies you fight in the whole series]].
** [[FunWithAcronyms S.A.V.E]]: All four Volus classes in one team (Sentinel, Adept, Vanguard, Engineer). Takes four {{Lethal Joke Character}}s and makes them into a Lethal Joke Team.
** Any team with four Krogan will usually be referred to as a Quad, after Krogan slang for their four testicles.
** [[ComicBook/IronMan "War Machine"]] for Geth Juggernauts specced around firing out barrages of Siege Pulses.[[note]]Bonus Points for using red and gold or silver color schemes.[[/note]]
** If you play a Hunter Mode-less Geth Soldier with an Acolyte, chances are you will be called the [[KillItWithFire Toaster]]
** After some hilarious and well-written multiplayer guides, the Krogan Vanguard is now the Murder Train and the Krogan Warlord is the Hammerlord.
** The new "retrieval" objective has been dubbed the Pizza Delivery. Lampshaded in the ''Citadel'' DLC, when they're planning the raid on the Archives; Vega gets hungry and orders a ''literal'' pizza delivery.
** "Enforcement gauntlets"? Nooooo, the batarians use the [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Falcon Punch]].
** "Super MAC" for the lead writer Mac Walters.
** Eve was known by the fanbase as "Krogan Princess" prior to the game's release, before her actual in-game alias was revealed.
** Players who had Legion die in the suicide mission won't actually know that the backup is called the "Geth VI" in playthroughs where Legion was never activated or was sold to Cerberus. If Shepard activated Legion, then the backup will be referred to as Legion in subtitles as well. So some players nicknamed it by its CatchPhrase, "We are not Legion", to differentiate it from the original Legion.
** [=ME3=] solidified Anderson's role as Shepard's father figure, to the point where he is frequently called "Dadmiral Anderson".

* QuoteSource:
** ShellShockedVeteran