Heartwarming moments from the various Mass Effect comics:
- Mass Effect: Homeworlds has a few:
- Garrus making his Last Stand on Omega, fully expecting his Bolivian Army Ending, calls his father, just to talk. He explains away the gunfire by saying that he's just having some target practice. His father asks if the call could just wait until after he's finished, and Garrus replies that it can't. Too many targets.Garrus's Father: I... understand.
- His father then proceeds to remind him to conserve his ammo, to make every shot count. Their past tension forgotten and his father doing what he can to help his doomed son. Of course, this is when Garrus scopes in on an N7 badge, and realizes that he isn't going to die after all.Garrus's Father: You finish up what you have to do there, and then you come on home to Palaven. We have a lot to sort out.
Garrus: (spots a familiar N7 logo through his scope) Yeah, we do. Thanks, Dad. For everything. I have to go now. Don't worry about me... I'll make it home when I can. The odds just got a lot better.
- His father then proceeds to remind him to conserve his ammo, to make every shot count. Their past tension forgotten and his father doing what he can to help his doomed son. Of course, this is when Garrus scopes in on an N7 badge, and realizes that he isn't going to die after all.
- Tali, on her pilgrimage from the Fleet, receives a message from her father. It's more of the same emotionally distant don't-fail-me that she's heard for her whole life, and she refuses to sit through the whole recording. She ends up using it as a decoy later on, and while she doesn't see the end of the message, we do: Her father apologizing for being so distant, and telling her that he'll be proud of her no matter what.
- As the message continues to play, with her father telling her that she'll make a fine admiral someday and do the Fleet proud, the comic shows various images of her future adventures: fighting in the Battle of the Citadel, facing down the Human-Reaper on the Collector Base, and finally, watching the sunset on her newly-claimed homeworld (the cover also shows her fighting in the battle of London). It really emphasizes how far she goes from the start of the series to the end, and the great things she will achieve on the Normandy alongside Shepard in the next three years. Especially poignant because, with the announcement that Mass Effect: Andromeda is taking place 600 years in the future in a new galaxy, those pages (plus the Citadel DLC) are probably the last we'll ever see of Tali.
- Garrus making his Last Stand on Omega, fully expecting his Bolivian Army Ending, calls his father, just to talk. He explains away the gunfire by saying that he's just having some target practice. His father asks if the call could just wait until after he's finished, and Garrus replies that it can't. Too many targets.
