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"Idiot Plot" is now Flame Bait. Renamed one trope.
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* IdiotPlot: Let's say there are a lot of instances where the collective IQ of both galaxies drops considerably to allow the plot to run its course:
** Shepard himself knows Tali as a childhood friend, and becomes concerned when she doesn't contact him for a regular chat shortly before the events of the first game begin. For some reason, it ''never'' occurs to him to contact Tali to ask what is happening with her.
** The Mass Effect galaxy would’ve acquitted Shepard a lot faster and been able to prepare for the Reapers better if the Order hadn’t been so insistent on keeping its existence and the evidence they had of the Reapers secret from everyone who doesn’t know Commander Shepard intimately.
*** The fact that the Order attempts to excuse this secrecy with ‘we are the last resort, you must try to convince them yourself first’ (even leading up to [[spoiler: Shepard’s trial on Earth]]) also means they’re stubbornly holding the idiot ball, considering the Order knew that the Council and the Alliance were both repeatedly brushing off Shepard’s attempts to warn the Mass Effect galaxy about the Reaper threat. What were they expecting to happen when [[spoiler:Shepard stood trial on Earth and tried to warn them about the Reapers]]?
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: The general tone of the entire fic is rather hopeful, with the good guys always winning everything with severely limited casualties. [[spoiler:So naturally, this happens when it’s revealed that Shepard will need to sacrifice himself to destroy the Reapers when he activates the final temple.]] [[DeusExMachina Sure enough…]]
** Shepard himself knows Tali as a childhood friend, and becomes concerned when she doesn't contact him for a regular chat shortly before the events of the first game begin. For some reason, it ''never'' occurs to him to contact Tali to ask what is happening with her.
** The Mass Effect galaxy would’ve acquitted Shepard a lot faster and been able to prepare for the Reapers better if the Order hadn’t been so insistent on keeping its existence and the evidence they had of the Reapers secret from everyone who doesn’t know Commander Shepard intimately.
*** The fact that the Order attempts to excuse this secrecy with ‘we are the last resort, you must try to convince them yourself first’ (even leading up to [[spoiler: Shepard’s trial on Earth]]) also means they’re stubbornly holding the idiot ball, considering the Order knew that the Council and the Alliance were both repeatedly brushing off Shepard’s attempts to warn the Mass Effect galaxy about the Reaper threat. What were they expecting to happen when [[spoiler:Shepard stood trial on Earth and tried to warn them about the Reapers]]?
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: The general tone of the entire fic is rather hopeful, with the good guys always winning everything with severely limited casualties. [[spoiler:So naturally, this happens when it’s revealed that Shepard will need to sacrifice himself to destroy the Reapers when he activates the final temple.]] [[DeusExMachina Sure enough…]]
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** Shepard himself knows Tali as a childhood friend, and becomes concerned when she doesn't contact him for a regular chat shortly before the events of the first game begin. For some reason, it ''never'' occurs to him to contact Tali to ask what is happening with her.
** The Mass Effect galaxy would’ve acquitted Shepard a lot faster and been able to prepare for the Reapers better if the Order hadn’t been so insistent on keeping its existence and the evidence they had of the Reapers secret from everyone who doesn’t know Commander Shepard intimately.
*** The fact that the Order attempts to excuse this secrecy with ‘we are the last resort, you must try to convince them yourself first’ (even leading up to [[spoiler: Shepard’s trial on Earth]]) also means they’re stubbornly holding the idiot ball, considering the Order knew that the Council and the Alliance were both repeatedly brushing off Shepard’s attempts to warn the Mass Effect galaxy about the Reaper threat. What were they expecting to happen when [[spoiler:Shepard stood trial on Earth and tried to warn them about the Reapers]]?
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Extreme one with the entire parallel galaxy: is the parallel galaxy really a group of paragons trying to save both galaxies, or is it a ruthless force disillusioned by an encounter with Cerberus that seeks to conquer the galaxy that Cerberus and the others came from?
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** Extreme one with the entire parallel galaxy: is the parallel galaxy really a group of paragons trying to save both galaxies, or is it a ruthless force disillusioned by an encounter with Cerberus that seeks to conquer the galaxy that Cerberus and the others came from?
** Extreme one with the entire parallel galaxy: is the parallel galaxy really a group of paragons trying to save both galaxies, or is it a ruthless force disillusioned by an encounter with Cerberus that seeks to conquer the galaxy that Cerberus and the others came from?
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* AssPull: Happens a ''lot''. Of particular note: [[spoiler:the way the Collectors are shoehorned into Tali’s loyalty mission, the fact that the events of the Arrival DLC involved a choice Shepard somehow already made before he ever set foot in the Mass Effect galaxy, Xiltro suddenly gaining a coding error and being unable to ‘jump’ into Shepard’s omni-tool, and the Illusive Man and the Oracle both being able to activate the final artician temple so Shepard doesn't have to.]]
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* AssPull: AssPull:
** Happens a ''lot''. Of particular note: [[spoiler:the way the Collectors are shoehorned into Tali’s loyalty mission, the fact that the events of the Arrival DLC involved a choice Shepard somehow already made before he ever set foot in the Mass Effect galaxy, Xiltro suddenly gaining a coding error and being unable to ‘jump’ into Shepard’s omni-tool, and the Illusive Man and the Oracle both being able to activate the final artician temple so Shepard doesn't have to.]]
** Happens a ''lot''. Of particular note: [[spoiler:the way the Collectors are shoehorned into Tali’s loyalty mission, the fact that the events of the Arrival DLC involved a choice Shepard somehow already made before he ever set foot in the Mass Effect galaxy, Xiltro suddenly gaining a coding error and being unable to ‘jump’ into Shepard’s omni-tool, and the Illusive Man and the Oracle both being able to activate the final artician temple so Shepard doesn't have to.]]
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* IdiotPlot: Let's say there are a lot of instances where the collective IQ of both galaxies drops considerably to allow the plot to run its course.
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* IdiotPlot: Let's say there are a lot of instances where the collective IQ of both galaxies drops considerably to allow the plot to run its course.course:
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* ThirtySuePileup:
** The fic hosts an entire parallel reality of [[PuritySue Purity Sues]].
** Shepard himself is a mix of GodModeSue, BlackHoleSue, PossessionSue, PuritySue, RelationshipSue, SympatheticSue, and FixerSue.
** Teilo is a massively blatant FixerSue for Garrus’ squad.
** The fic hosts an entire parallel reality of [[PuritySue Purity Sues]].
** Shepard himself is a mix of GodModeSue, BlackHoleSue, PossessionSue, PuritySue, RelationshipSue, SympatheticSue, and FixerSue.
** Teilo is a massively blatant FixerSue for Garrus’ squad.
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Not YMMV
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* DoubleStandard/ ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Shepard spends the majority of the story ranting about how evil Cerberus is, yet criticizes people for being hesitant to trust him when he is working with them.
** To an even more extreme degree, Shepard spends almost all of the story criticizing the Council for not doing anything about the Reapers. [[spoiler:This does not stop him and his friends in the other galaxy from sitting there doing nothing when the Reapers start harvesting life from batarian colonies at the beginning of the Mass Effect 3 arc. For the record, they barely do anything when Earth is attacked, merely rescuing Shepard from the planet and killing the Reaper that shoots down the shuttles in the prologue. They don't even contact Earth to warn them that the Reapers are coming, they merely sneak in to rescue Shepard.]]
** To an even more extreme degree, Shepard spends almost all of the story criticizing the Council for not doing anything about the Reapers. [[spoiler:This does not stop him and his friends in the other galaxy from sitting there doing nothing when the Reapers start harvesting life from batarian colonies at the beginning of the Mass Effect 3 arc. For the record, they barely do anything when Earth is attacked, merely rescuing Shepard from the planet and killing the Reaper that shoots down the shuttles in the prologue. They don't even contact Earth to warn them that the Reapers are coming, they merely sneak in to rescue Shepard.]]
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unfortunate implications need citations.
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* UnfortunateImplications: At the end, [[spoiler:the Council is usurped by Shepard’s Galactic Order on the premise that the Council was negligent. Rather than elect a new council from the species that are already there, however, the Galactic Order itself takes control of the galaxy from the Council. [[TakeOverTheWorld Take Over The Galaxy]] much?]]
** Also, at one point in the Mass Effect 1 arc, Shepard gets badly hurt after Tali gets captured. She later cries about how it was all her fault and how she shouldn't have gotten caught. Sexist much?
** Also, at one point in the Mass Effect 1 arc, Shepard gets badly hurt after Tali gets captured. She later cries about how it was all her fault and how she shouldn't have gotten caught. Sexist much?
