History YMMV / ParallelRealities

* {{Chickification}}: Tali has to be saved by Shepard twice as much as in the game and overall seems much more dependent on Shepard, as well as crying more often.
* DeusExMachina: Shepard [[spoiler:is prepared to sacrifice himself to activate the final temple that will destroy the Reapers forever. When he gets there, however, he runs into the Illusive Man, who turns out to be half-artician himself. When Shepard proceeds to stab him with Asha Bel, the Oracle says that the half-artician blood in the Illusive Man and the fact that the Oracle herself is a spirit of an artician (thus constituting the other half) will be enough.]]

* MoralMyopia Shepard claims that his race always does what's right, not matter what. Despite this, his allies [[spoiler: Kill EDI simply because she was designed from Reaper technology. He himself kills a Batarian slaver trying to negotiate with him, kills an Alliance soldier for making a threat he was in no position to carry out, and smashes Ashley into a crate when she doesn't want to join him and Cerberus. Keep in mind that he is [[CharlesAtlasSuperPower five times stronger than the average Human and could have easily killed her by doing that.]]]] Pretty screwed up definition of "right" there buddy.
* OutOfFocus: Other characters besides Shepard and Tali are rather undeveloped, to the point where entire recruitment and loyalty missions happen off screen.

* StrawLoser: Anyone who tries to argue with Shepard is doomed to lose and look like an asshole compared to him.

** 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.]]

* 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?]]

* 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.

* 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 being half-artician.]]
** [[spoiler:The thing about the Illusive Man being part Artician was actually due to the fact that humans are, in the context of the fic, imperfect replicas of the Articians.]]
** [[spoiler: Also, during the Mass Effect 3 arc, Sheaprd uses an ability on Balak that involves lasers shooting out of his eyes and causing Balak to feel the pain of all the people that he hurt. This ability was never hinted at before, and it was never brought up again after said scene]]

* 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.

* MoralMyopia Shepard claims that his race always does what's right, not matter what. Despite this, his allies [[spoiler: Kill EDI simply because she was designed from Reaper technology. He himself kills a Batarian slaver trying to negotiate with him, kills an Alliance soldier for making a thread he was in no position to carry out, and smashes Ashley into a crate when she doesn't want to join him and Cerberus. Keep in mind that he is [[CharlesAtlasSuperPower five times stronger than the average Human and could have easily killed her by doing that.]]]] Pretty screwed up definition of "right" there buddy.

* MoralMyopia Shepard claims that his race always does what's right, not matter what. Despite this, his allies [[spoiler: Kill EDI simply because she was designed from Reaper technology. He himself kills a Batarian slaver trying to negotiate with him, kills an Alliance soldier for making a thread he was in no position to carry out, and smashes Ashley into a crate when she doesn't want to join him and Cerberus. Keep in mind that he is {{CharlesAtlasSuperPower five times stronger than the average Human and could have easily killed her by doing that.}}]] Pretty screwed up definition of "right" there buddy.

* MoralMyopia Shepard claims that his race always does what's right, not matter what. Despite this, his allies [[spoiler: Kill EDI simply because she was designed from Reaper technology. He himself kills a Batarian slaver trying to negotiate with him, kills an Alliance soldier for making a thread he was in no position to carry out, and smashes Ashley into a crate when she doesn't want to join him and Cerberus. Keep in mind that he is {{CharlesAtlasSuperPower: five times stronger than the average Human and could have easily killed her by doing that.}}]] Pretty screwed up definition of "right" there buddy.

* MoralMyopia Shepard claims that his race always does what's right, not matter what. Despite this, his allies [[spoiler: Kill EDI simply because she was designed from Reaper technology. He himself kills a Batarian slaver trying to negotiate with him, kills an Alliance soldier for making a thread he was in no position to carry out, and smashes Ashley into a crate when she doesn't want to join him and Cerberus. Keep in mind that he is [[CharlesAtlasSuperPower: five times stronger than the average Human and could have easily killed her by doing that.]]]] Pretty screwed up definition of "right" there buddy.

* MoralMyopia Shepard claims that his race always does what's right, not matter what. Despite this, his allies [[spoiler: Kill EDI simply because she was designed from Reaper technology, kills a Batarian slaver trying to negotiate with him, kills an Alliance soldier for making a thread he was in no position to carry out, and smashes Ashley into a crate when she doesn't want to join him and Cerberus.]] Pretty screwed up definition of "right" there buddy.

* StrawLoser: Anyone who tries to argue with Shepard is doomed to fail.

* Chickification: Tali has to be saved by Shepard twice as much as in the game and overall seems much more dependent on Shepard, as well as crying more often.

* 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 being half-artician
** The thing about the Illusive Man being part Artician was actually due to the fact that humans are, in the context of the fic, imperfect replicas of the Articians.]]

* The thing about the Illusive Man being part Artician was actually due to the fact that humans are, in the context of the fic, imperfect replicas of the Articians.]]

* 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 being half-artician.]]

* IdiotPlot:

** 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]]?

* CharacterDerailment:
** The story goes out of its way to paint the Council as a group of people who are actively trying to bury knowledge of the Reapers, rather than as a group of people that is simply incompetent. In doing so, it actually takes the Councillors’ actions a bit far, [[spoiler:as when they silenced the scientist who said that Sovereign wasn’t geth technology]]. Even worse is that Udina [[spoiler:willingly helps Cerberus while it’s an avowed enemy of the Citadel]].
** Also, the fic makes [[spoiler:The Illusive Man]] a CardCarryingVillain.

* AntiClimaxBoss: Somehow, the fic makes an anti-climax boss out of [[spoiler:'''''Harbinger''''']].
** [[spoiler:Kai Leng]] also counts, given how much of a badass he was built up to be throughout the entire rest of the Mass Effect 3 arc.

* CharacterDerailment: The story goes out of its way to paint the Council as a group of people who are actively trying to bury knowledge of the Reapers, rather than as a group of people that is simply incompetent. In doing so, it actually takes the Councillors’ actions a bit far, [[spoiler:as when they silenced the scientist who said that Sovereign wasn’t geth technology]]. Even worse is that Udina [[spoiler:willingly helps Cerberus while it’s an avowed enemy of the Citadel]].

* FridgeLogic: [[spoiler:How does nobody have a problem with their governing body getting arrested and being basically usurped by someone claiming to know better? Even allowing for the fact that the Council let the Reaper threat spiral out of control, there would still be some dissent against a new governing body just coming in and taking over everything without even waiting for the public to speak first, especially not in the way it was handled.]]
* IdiotPlot: 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.

* PlotHole: A few are left after the big reveal. Of particular note is this one:
** [[spoiler:So the Reapers were created using a scientist who was creating a weapon that could combine multiple people’s minds into one body. But that leaves a glaring question: why didn’t the articians attempt to use alpha energy first? It’s shown that alpha energy has hugely negative impact on omega, and to get the one it would be assumed you’d have to get the other as well. So who decided that the best course of action was to create what would eventually become the Reapers rather than invest in alpha energy?]]
** A non-related plothole refers to how Tali and her mother are on Mindoir, despite both of them being the family of an admiral in the Fleet.

* ThirtySuePileup: The fic hosts an entire parallel reality of [[PuritySue Purity Sues]].

** 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 over the Bahak system 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. [[spoilers: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…]]

** 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 over the Bahak system and tried to warn them about the Reapers]]?