->''"If there's one thing I can say about the MERP 3, it's that in all my time [[GameMaster GMing]], totalling about 2 years and about 6 Roleplays discounting this one, most bare successes or failures, this is the ONLY ONE where I can [[GameMaster GM]] it and never stop having fun, whether it be Roleplaying, anticipating, planning... for all the faults the [[GameMaster GM]]s have felt this series has had and time spent correcting those faults, I don't think anyone can deny that MERP 3 has never stopped getting one thing right: never discarding the spirit of fun this series has undoubtedly had from the very beginning."''
-->--Tropers/InfiniteParagon, voicing his praise to the Mass Effect RP 3 Skype Chat on what he feels about the current RP and the relative series as a whole.

The TV Tropes Mass Effect RP, in its latest form is a ship surrounding the crew of the PMC vessels ''Ozymandias'' and ''Hamurrabi'', going around the galaxy for their next paycheck and somehow managing to attract the weirdest of everything as they go. The crew themselves are a strange mix of witty, deadly, funny, romantic, psychotic and a juggling NPC hanar. Enjoy.

The three threads can be found [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=12947668920A80557100&page=1 here]], [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13030656110A46480100&page=1 here]], and [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13212790940A21640100&page=1 here]].

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!!Tropes Demonstrated

* [[AffablyEvil Affably Psychopathic]]: Thresh has this going on, especially in a fight.
* BadassBoast
** Thresh says one as the crew runs from a battle:
--> '''Thresh:''' "I could say that your world will run purple with blood when I return, but I'm scared that the world purple may subtract from the horror that you have every right to feel. Congratulations on scaring a Krogan. Your reward? I'm going to be blunt with you. A brief reprieve from the ocean of doublespeak that your kind drowns in. I'm going to kill most of you. If not with this crew, if not in their fragile lifetimes, on my own terms. Take some pride in the fact that your worthy of my attention, then find a god. Perhaps, If she answers, your bone and sinew will give away quickly to my gentle grip, hopefully before your prayer is done."
** Joe ''tries'' to make one, but gets... distracted:
-->'''Joe:''' "Who are we? Lady, when you're up to no good in the middle of the night, and you hear a Carnifex charging up, that's us. When you foolishly think your files are encrypted so tightly that it would take the Geth a year to crack, only to have them stolen out from under you, that's us. When you're eating breakfast at a cafe in Paris, waiting for your contact, only to see a laser sight on your coffee, that's- DAMMIT!, I left my thermos on the Ozzy. I hope the coffee doesn't stain it by the time we meet back up with them. It was my special-edition Blasto 5 thermos, too."
* BadassCrew
* BattleCouple: Subverted with Kate and Jordan, their positions prevent them from fighting side-by-side as such; She's a sniper and he's normally on point.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A few characters start itching to move out on Dano's mission. As he is explaining that there is about three hours until the raid, the front door explodes.
* BigDamnHeroes: The crew at one point made a rather... explosive last-minute entrance to save Una from an Asari Crime Boss who turned out to be a bit too much to handle for her.
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Uttered word for word by corrupt C-Sec Detective Karis, when trying to manipulate Deimos to do his bidding. It made the crew a little pissed off.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Almost all of the crew has issues - See OnlySaneMan below -, but are still very competent.
* BurialInSpace: How the two RedShirts are buried.
* {{Catfight}}:A lot of the crew started betting on one between Una and Kate. Said fight ended up taking place a day later and getting very violent.
* CaptainsLog: Captain Jeko does this sometimes.
* CaptainOblivious:
** Aiden and Marik having a discussion about tits... whilst there is a firefight raging on outdoors.
** An angry krogan and an elcor bouncer were brawling in a dance club. Jordan walks right up to the bar and orders a drink without even noticing them.
* CallBack: Early on, Amy finds herself in the Med-Bay after getting shot in a raid on Tuchanka. As soon as she is able, she leaves the Med-Bay, in part because of her memory of who had also been in that Med-Bay and why unsettling her alot.
* ChildSoldiers: Used by a biotic cult.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Happened with Ravenor Tarek. His player quit the RP without writing him out, so Tarek went on a mission with his strike team and was never seen, heard of, or talked about again.
** He was later [[HandWave Hand Waved]] out.
* ClusterFBomb: Deimos, who normally utters only mild curses, drops one of these when an ''actual'' bomb goes off outside the Bloody Spoon.
-->'''Deimos:'''Fuck, fuck, fuck fuck fuck!
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Although not a moron, Lucas seemed like a decidedly NonActionGuy-type of person, before developing[[note]]or rediscovering[[/note]] almost unnervingly keen combat talents.
* DeadpanSnarker: Jordan, often.
** Though pretty much the whole crew at least lapses into this at some point or another.
* DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch: Kate often says 'arse' pronounced as such. Problem being that 'arse' is a ''British'' term.
* FalseFlagOperation: When Kate buys Una a replacement amp for the one she broke, she signs Jeko's name to it.
* FreudianExcuse: Dru's father has one to explain his actions on Noveria.
* TheGamblingAddict: Deimos, at the less extreme end. He is a fan of the poker game Skyllian Five. Later becomes a case of CharacterizationMarchesOn, as he is never seen talking about or playing the game after the early pages.
** Amy is noted to be one as well, although the extent of her addiction has not shown itself to be any more extreme than the other members of the crew.
* GodwinsLaw: Gratefully averted, what with the count of ''two'' German characters and one of whom being incredibly racist.
* GratuitousGerman:
** Any German that Kate uses; {{Enforced}}, since her player does not speak German and confesses to use of Google Translator.
** Also {{Enforced}} for Lucas and his player, with the one time he is ever shown using[[note]]Or rather, translating[[/note]] German.
* HairTriggerTemper: Kate, but she's perfectly calm until she's been pissed off.
* HatedByAll: Danari has been held at Omniblade point by Lucas, received a bioticly assisted punch in the face from Kate, was chewed out by Una, called a fool by Jeko, and his existance didn't even register with the Quarian.
** Although Jeko ''did'' give him a silent gesture of approval when he blackmailed the corrupt C-sec officer, Karis, to bring Jeko an ambulance in exchange for them keeping his previous entrapment of the crew silent.
* HeadTiltinglyKinky: Una's reaction to finding... ehm... "Fanart" of Archangel.
* ICallItVera:
** In a throwback to history, Jordan names his rigged Vindicator rifle "The Bitch."
** He rigs a Shuriken and names it "Calamity Jane."
** Danari has a Stinger VI named "Maria."
** Lucas owned a Widow named "Isabella." See WordOfGod below.
** In [=MERP=] 3, Kardan has a modified Terminator he calls "Akelah"; apparently, he named it after a stripper.
* LargeHam: "Looks like it'll be another field test for MAD SCIENTIST JORDAN! MUAHAHAHAHA!"
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Lucas suffers from this due to the failed assassination attempt that forced him to assume a new identity and have his memories erased.
* LawOfInverseFertility: The one time Captain Jeko, a salarian who has little sex drive, shows any interest at all in sex, he gets an asari pregnant.
* LeeroyJenkins:
** "Dano had already run off to fight the enemy himself."
** Danari quotes the legendary quote: See MomentKiller below.
* LethalChef: Deimos manages to blow up the flash cooker, a feat that he accomplishes about once a week.
* LoveTriangle: Marik and Deimos are both infatuated with Una, who is currently oblivious.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: Well, Macross Throw Massacre. Una's loyalty power sends a cloud of smaller biotic throws at one single, very unlucky, enemy.
* MauveShirt: Kate has her sniper team of [=NPCs=] that mean a lot to her. It isn't too much to assume this would have been Tarek's strike team, also.
* TheMedic:
** Aiden and Marik.
** MERP 3 newcomer Dana will also be taking this role but is explicitly just a field medic.
** To a lesser degree, Danari as well
* MomentKiller:
** When Kate walks in on Jeko and Enosa in bed.
** Also, when Danari interrupts a moment of personal mourning screaming LeeroyJenkins.
* MoodWhiplash: The proven result of going from the shipping webs, mental straight lines and other assorted memes of the OOC discussion to the RP, which is decidedly not lighthearted.
* NoodleImplements: Lucas; "Round up Engineer Morano, Sergeant Braxis, as many concussive grenades and concussive rounds as you can carry, the mass effect field restraints from the Mako and a lot of firepower."
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Dru specifically set out to avert this when planning to destroy his father's research.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: When Danari walks in on Kate "keeping Jordan company", as she put it.
** Although in this case it actually isn't, although Kate's choice of words doesn't really help.
-->'''Kate:''' This is not what it looks like! What does it look like?
* OhCrap: Two sick quarian's separate reactions to seeing a salarian enter the room.
-->'''Malon:''' Being a living lab experiment was bad enough, but Malon knew from the vids that as soon as a salarian gets involved, everything gets worse.
* OnlySaneMan: Aiden. "Am I the only person here who doesn't have some sort of long standing psychological, or personal issue?"
* ParentalAbandonment: Happened to Kate. The truth about that? Remember the facility on Pragia that Jack went through? They ''gave her up to that place willingly without being coerced''.
* PillowPistol: Kardan does this.
* PlanningWithProps: Deimos uses a knife and two thermal clips to try to plan out an attack on a warehouse.
* PleasurePlanet: The crew ended up doing a job on Elysium, a vacation planet. Unsurprisingly, it wasn't without unsavory elements.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: What the crew is.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Jordan's birthday coincides with his player's birthday.
* RedShirt: Two of them die in an attack on the ''Ozymandias''. They only get names once they're dead.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Happens with characters who join midway without a stopover on a planet imminent. Can be more justified on a ship.
** This approach is now planning to be used as a last resort in [=MERP=] 3. See WordOfGod below.
* RulesLawyer: Danari pulls this off marvellously when Karis attempts to leave without getting the wounded Jeko medical attention (And his player included a video with VisualNovel/{{Phoenix Wright|AceAttorney}} music).
-->'''Karis:'''If a word of this gets out to anyone, anyone, he can kiss his freedom goodbye.\\
'''Danari:'''Guess again, buddy. Word of this gets out, ''you'' can kiss ''your'' freedom goodbye. See, we can't be prosecuted for any of this because you commited entrapment. Since you orchestrated all of this, and led us into buying weapons we wouldn't have bought without your little plot, we're off the hook, but you are potentially facing criminal charges.
* RunningGag: In the discussion forum, the concept of Una x Jeko.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Kate. She never knew at the time she was killing her own parents.
* ShoutOut:
** [[Film/FullMetalJacket Private Pyle]] is killed by asari commandos.
** Kate appears to have the Shepard VI installed on her omni-tool
** [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan "Out of all the Red Shirts I knew, they were the most red."]]
** "Una didn't know anything about turtles, but Rano could probably tell her all about them if she bothered to ask, especially [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles those who practiced Ninjitsu]]"
** "Oh, look, Cap's been following us, [[VideoGame/MortalKombat9 as close as a shadow... and twice as silent]]."
** Jake, perhaps the most evil, if not most sadistic member [[Film/AClockworkOrange listens to Beethovens 9th]]
** The krogan infomercial on Tuchanka
-->'''Krogan:''' [[Creator/BillyMays Jurdon Gaze here with another great product!]] [[Advertising/TheMostInterestingManInTheWorld I don't always feel like decapitating things, but when I do I prefer the OmniSaw9000.]]
** Joe calling his Omnitool a [[Series/DoctorWho "holo-screwdriver"]]
** An asari-run restaurant on the Citadel is called [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Warmaiden's]].
*** A drell "dancer" at the casino on the Citadel--which the crew visits--is named Karliah, a name she shares with a master thief from VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim. This ShoutOut, however, was not intentional.
** Joe thinks that the Ozzy is named after a character from "[[Comicbook/{{Watchmen}} classical American literature]]".
* ShowerOfAwkward
* ShutUpHannibal: As shown in Lucas's loyalty mission, the crew isn't too fond of winding MotiveRants by villains.
* TheSnarkKnight: Una, although signs show she might improve.
* SpitTake: Kate has one at the Bloody Spoon when finding out the news she's going to be promoted to Captain.
** Danari also has one when he finds out that he's going to need to leave the ship sooner than expected... ''also'' because Kate is going to be the captain.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Danari and Kate have an antagonistic relationship, and despite joining the mission to save her, that hasn't really gone away. They worked together well at that point, and upon visiting the citadel, it became apparent Kate would still not take any jokes from Danari. They worked together during Deimos's loyalty mission... and later on, she trolled him during a poker game.
** Averted with Jeko and Kate; Jeko is going to die within weeks, at which time Kate will become the new captain. Kate has told the anonymous room she wants to make amends with Jeko.
* StepfordSmiler: Jake seems to be this, although it is unclear what type.
* StuffBlowingUp: The whole of Deimos's loyalty mission. HollywoodScience abound on how these explosions work.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: The team tried this tactic against Maria Carver.
* TeamChef: Marik, officially.
** Although, Jake is putting his job under threat.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Jake seems to be heading towards this, when he walked into Karis's house and threatened him with his wife as a hostage.
* {{Troll}}: Joe seems to have made a hobby out of feeding Dru selective misinformation on human [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13212790940A21640100&page=18 customs]] and [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13212790940A21640100&page=22 biology.]] Dru eventually [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13212790940A21640100&page=33 got him back,]] though.
* {{Tykebomb}}: Lucas was raised from childhood to kill.
** Similarily Jake who was raised by his DrillSergeantNasty of a father to become a soldier.
* {{Understatement}}: All the time. And that's an understatement in and of itself.
* UnflinchingWalk: The crew tried this at one point, but failed hilariously.
* UnstoppableRage: Kate, often.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Sekoi'Peroh's opinion regarding his own experiments
* VirtualTrainingSimulation: There is one aboard the ''Ozymandias'', complete with a high-score board.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: There are only two things which scare Karas: Elevators and geth. Guess what show up within days of each other?
* WhyWontYouDie: expressed by Jordan in a fight against a boarding party of seemingly never-ending mercs.
* WillTheyOrWontThey
* WouldntHurtAChild: The crew goes out of their way to avoid killing the child soldiers of the biotic cult.
* WordOfGod: Although Lucas' Widow, named "Isabella" - See ICallItVera above - was simply a name, considering the nature of Lucas' player, it was turned into a [[IncrediblyLamePun pun]] at some point.
*** Said pun, however, was never used.
** While RememberTheNewGuy was a valid method of entry in [=MERP=] 2, it is not being used in the third installment of the series.

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