History Headscratchers / MassEffect2

** Given how many sexual partners TIM seems to have, I'm inclined to think he's simply screwing with him. I know EvilIsSexy, but c'mon, seriously?! Even in-universe, everyone admits that his eyes are incredibly ''creepy''. In addition, one would think that the secretive head of a terrorist organization would be discreet and not want their face in the tabloids; a likely situation when they're sleeping with 6 celebrities in a week.

** If you sold such a thing on modern Earth? Yes, it would provoke that reaction. [[CaptainObvious But this isn't modern Earth.]] It's a galactic society consisting largely of aliens who, by and large, have a ''thing'' about hating quarians. And they aren't simply a race, they're an entirely separate species who are considered in-universe AcceptableTargets. And in case you didn't notice, Grim Terminus Alliance has a '''massive''' amount of controversy surrounding it in-universe anyway.

** A more likely reason why Legion chose that class is because he took it literally. Demon of the Night Wind translates to DeathBySex only to the asari. Legion might have also noticed that this character has the ability to hack moods to fight on your side. One of Legion's abilities is AI Hacking.
** Except if Galaxy of Fantasy follows the same style/convention as modern games, ''Necromancer'' would be Legion's class. Ardat-Yakshi would be their character's race/species, akin to an elf or dwarf character in a real-life fantasy game. There is evidence to support this: their "most recent boss defeated" is listed as a rachni Blood Wizard: a rachni boss character with a Blood Wizard class. If true, it raises different questions as to why it's a race option but it solves the question of a class revolving around DeathBySex, as not all Ardat-Yakshi are as evil as Morinth.

** Primitive asari would most likely have had that issue. But 1 in 100 among them becomes a psychopath addicted to DeathBySex so they probably culled asari populations until they advanced enough to be able to control population growth

** Alternativly, the trip from dark space to the edge of the galaxy wasn't actually that long, math says it would take the Reapers 9.6 years to cross from one end of the galaxy to the other. It could be that the Reapers were literally asleep and didn't wake up a thousand years ago, instead only waking up more recently. The you again run into the scenario where Soverign wants to capture the Citadel by himself so he doesn't look like a fool in front of the others.

* It is established in the "The Arrival" that the Reapers are about to enter the galaxy. We know that, previously, the Repers were in dark space, AKA, the void outside the galaxy. Now, in ''Mass Effect 1'' we learn that the Citadel was suppossed to bring them back, but due to interference from the protheans, did not. However, we do not know how long ago the Reapers tried to activate the Citadel and found they couldn't use it. I think there is a line in ''Mass Effect 1'' to suggest the rachni war was an attempt by Sovereign to seize the Citadel. That would mean the Reapers were waiting for the Citadel sugnal in the neighbourhood of a thousand years. So, how long were the Reapers travelling back to the Milky Way from dark space? if they left when the Citadel faiiled to work, then Soveriegn's plan would have only shaved off about two or three years from a thousand year journey.

** The lore also state ships need to turn backwards halfway through travel to decelerate, but that has never been shown to happen. If the galaxy looked too far out in that scene to have been reached so soon, that's likely an artistic liberty for the sake of looking good. Canonically they were only so far out in dark space they would have reach the most distant star in the relay network (the Alpha Relay) in the time they started moving.

** In addition, if they didn't have easy access to a relay that let them enter the galaxy, they could easily still make that distance if they are within 10,000 light years of a mass relay. We know this because the Reapers are stated to be able to move around 30 light years a day and do not need to stop to discharge. Six months is roughly 360 days. 360 days at 30 ly a day = 10,800 light years, or about 1/10 the diameter of the Milky Way. Assuming that the Reapers don't have a relay within that range outside of the Milky Way they could be anywhere within 10,800 light years from the edge of the galaxy.

If Creator/BioWare wanted so badly to have Vasir make her ShutUpKirk[=/=]NotSoDifferent speech, she could have made it right off the bat, and ''then'' the player could have chosen their response. I was annoyed by Vasir's ShutUpKirk speech because it felt so orchestrated, with Shepard being forced to act like the biggest possible hypocrite so Vasir could get her NotSoDifferent jabs in. Meanwhile, the player might be sitting there going, "...And? What's your point? I just killed her for getting in my way."

* At the end of Samara's loyalty mission, a renegade Shepard has the choice to let Morinth live and kill Samara. Even if Shepard is completely renegade, how does this choice make sense? A renegade Shepard isn't evil, their utmost concern is still finishing the mission and stopping the Collectors. The only real motivation for choosing Morinth seems to be that she is able to fight Samara to a standstill, which means that (at least in this particular fight) she's roughly as powerful as Samara. But Shepard has also just learned that Morinth is a completely amoral serial killer, who was just about to kill Shepard themself. And there's absolutely no way to be sure Morinth would actually keep her promise, join Shepard's crew and remain loyal to their suicide mission. Since she is, you know, an amoral serial killer and lies all the time, most likely she's lying about this too. So Shepard has to choose between two women who are seemingly equally powerful, one of whom Shepard knows is committed to them and their mission, and one who has every reason to ditch them as soon as she can. What possible reason could Shepard have to choose Morinth, even if they're utterly renegade?

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* At the end of Samara's loyalty mission, a renegade Shepard has the choice to let Morinth live and kill Samara. Even if Shepard is completely renegade, how does this choice make sense? A renegade Shepard isn't evil, their utmost concern is still finishing the mission and stopping the Collectors. The only real motivation for choosing Morinth seems to be that she is able to fight Samara to a standstill, which means that (at least in this particular fight) she's roughly as powerful as Samara. But Shepard has also just learned that Morinth is a completely amoral serial killer, who was just about to kill Shepard themself. And there's absolutely no way to be sure Morinth would actually keep her promise, join Shepard's crew and remain loyal to their suicide mission. Since she is, you know, an amoral serial killer and lies all the time, most likely she's lying about this too. So Shepard has to choose between two women who are seemingly equally powerful, one of whom Shepard knows is committed to them and their mission, and one who has every reason to ditch them as soon as she can. So what possible reason could Shepard have to choose Morinth even if they're utterly renegade?

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* According to this and the next game, Reaper bodies can and do indoctrinate people, even after the Reaper is dead. In ME1, Sovereign is blown up right in the middle of the Citadel, and the galactic community spends the next few years reverse engineering tech from it. At least a few things, such as the thanix cannon and EDI, are apparently derived from some extent from Reaper tech salvage from Sovereign's remains. It seems like this ought to have resulted in the indoctrination of people on the Citadel, as well as the scientists who reverse engineered the technology, but nothing ever seems to come of this one instance.

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** Grand Theft Auto also doesn't allow you to take and beat slaves, either. Grim Terminus Alliance is obviously a game that, like [[{{Manhunt}} certain]] [[VideoGame/GodOfWar other]] games, is built around shock value, controversy, and extremism.