History WMG / GrandUnifyingGuessesMassEffect

** In Synthesis ending we have Control without the Anti-Spiral King, and all the other is UpToEleven.

* He actually spent most of those two years reading Wiki/TvTropes. But by the time of the game, [=TVTropes=] has evolved into a predatory AI HiveMind, and the Lazarus project was an effort to free the Commander from the Virus. The collector attack was his brain using tropes to react to the traumatic experience of being pluged out of the Troper Matrix, who wanted to hardwire the EvilOverlordList into the Shepard's brain, and conquer the galaxy through him.

* They shed off all organs they did not need to [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife browse TV Tropes]], therefore becoming flying jellyfish with many arms for [[WikiWalk opening new tabs]]. They were never able to fully kick their habit of referring to themselves as This Troper.

[[WMG: On a related note, ''Franchise/MassEffect'' is the ancient history of the ''StarWars'' Galaxy]]

Tying into both "the Reapers are from StarWars" and "the Ilusive Man is an AI." Obviously, G0-T0 didn't die on [[spoiler: Malachor V.]] Instead, he survived and, believing the Republic to be ultimetly unsalvagable, set off to another galaxy -- ours. His primary programming is still to try and save "galactic civilization," and seeing in the Council the same problems as the Repbulic, decides to set up a dictatorship. The only species he remembers from [[StarWars a galaxy far, far away]] is humanity, so he takes over Cerberus ([[MagnificentBastard from the inside, natch]])) and begins to angle for human supremecy.

** Seeing how ''Franchise/MassEffect'' is basically ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' with the setting cleaned up to remove the worst excesses of Star Wars, and that game was concerned heavily with the origin of the earliest known history of the Star Wars galaxy, this one is more insightful than your average WMG.

[[WMG: The Illusive Man is [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic G0-T0]].]]

** As a corollary, the true enemy alluded to in [[Main/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic KotOR 2]] are the Reapers. No one knows where Revan is because he found the original [[spoiler: Citadel]] and accidentally sent himself to the Milky Way.