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• Chapter 3: "Look, You want to run this job?" "Actually, yes, I do want to run this job!" "Well guess what? You CAN'T. Now get behind cover and keep your mouth SHUT. Your constant yapping is harming my calm."
• Chapter 4: "You were dead, Mister Vakarian..." said the human as he unhooked the cardio-stimulators from Garrus' flesh. "Too soon, too soon! Fist wants you to suffer at least two days, minimum!"
• Chapter 7: "Someone tries to kill you, you kill them right back!"
  • "They'll beat us, hang us, then burn our corpses, and if we're lucky, they'll do it In That Order."
• Chapter 9: There was a Sergeant Reynolds involved in the defence of Elysium.
• Chapter 15: Garrus rolled his eyes. "A shapeshi- oh come on, Jensen! Sounds like something out of a bad sci-phi!"
  "...You live on a space station."
  "...Yeah, so?"
• Chapter 22: The 23-G Bellum Compound turns people into Reavers with shorter life-spans.
• A salarian named Mister Weltall(German for Universe) took footage of Jensen's skycar chase.

• The 108 was built by Shinkawa Heavy Industries. ^note Yoji Shinkawa is the main mechanical designer for the games.
• Bioroids were hypothesised by a Dr. Drago Pettrovich Madnar.
• Adam's daughter was named Sunny.
• The slavers in chapter 20 took an Omar called Drebin.
• Adam pulls "a cord with glowing blue power cells plugged into it like bulbs of garlic on a string" out of a Geth.^note The stuff you get for doing Zandatsus in Metal Gear Rising Revengeance. He does a similar thing to finish off Benezia.
• "I heard he was as strong as a titan and lifted that damned Red Wanzer and threw it into the sun!"
• "Nanomachines, son. ... How did this guy survive a gunshot wound to the head? Nanomachines. How come those missiles exploded spontaneously? Nanomachines. How did that crazy fucker regrow his head and arm? Nanomachines, nanomachines, nanomachines."
• Also, the premise itself; A Cowboy Cop is turned into a Human Popsicle, and awakes in a world that has no place for him. After years of soul-searching, he travels to a giant Space Station where he discovers an evil conspiracy...
• One of the Private Military Contractors under the WTO is World Marshall (sic).

• The Shadow Broker has an asset named Edgar Hein, who is supported by Deep Eyes and is trying to recommend Edward Grey for Spectrehood. The Serpent Rifle is from there too.
  • When Manah escapes from the Normandy, Hein uses High Density Gas to break her fall.
• When Hein describes the 108 Powered Armor, he gives us this bit:

  "It doesn't matter if you're a Commando, a Ravager, a Medic, a Saboteur, a Synergist, a Sentinel or any combination thereof: This suit has everything you need to succeed in any of those roles."

• Manah is being hunted by a Templar Commander named Caim who rides a red Wyvern-type wanzer. He's called the Red Dragon. With him are Leonard and Arioch.
• Two of the unfortunate women kidnapped by the Red Tribals were surnamed Lockheart (sic) and Gainsborough.
• There's a Roegadyn bouncer on Ilium.
• "I am the reinforcements."
  • The Templar have a division called the Crimson Blades.

• In-Universe, Jenkins tries to use the fake name of Riddick. Adam plays along for a short while before pulling the rug from under him by telling Jenkins he's seen the Riddick Movies.
• Shepard's first and middle names are Junko Zayne - another character voiced by Jennifer Hale.
• One of Adam's friends on the Citadel is an Omar named Amnon Kerensky, who greets him by saying, "Dearest of all my friends!"
  • Adam had Amnon build a custom low-tech revolver for him, in case his primary weapon gets hit by an Omnitool attack. Amnon dubbed it "Sasha," regularly providing Adam with Depleted Phlebotinum Shells to "show Sasha (his) love."
• 2050s university student Myron Boone invented Zyme.
  • There is a reference to "ghost-heads", psychotics addicted to being wrapped in a personal cloaking field, which points to both Fallout Nightkin and Homeworld Stealth Fighter pilots.
• An operative Sarah Walker is assigned to the Normandy. For added fun, her namesake was played by Yvonne Strahovski, who's Miranda's VA.
  • Also, Wrex's contact with the Shadow Broker is "Agent Brea", another Strahovski role.
  • A third alias and Strahovski role: Hannah McKay.
• "Whoa there, Dirty Harry."
• A Codex entry mentions Wanzers, Black Hounds and Carrion Crows
• The list of Spectre candidates humanity is putting forth include Nathan Frost, Fei Fong Wong, Yang Wenli, von Lohengramm, Ashley Riot, Edward "Ned" Kelly and Johan Liebert Rasmus.
• Admiral Yan Lo*
  from Project Snowblind
  and the Snowblind jamming particles.
• Cyberpunk? Blade Runner is a must.
  • The gold standard of Lie Detectors are the VK series of scanners.
  • Jensen tools around the Citadel in a Spinner.
• Hein has a book titled Project Paragon.
• Shepard has a Soulcatcher chip.
• Tali's not familiar with human idiom.

  Aki Ross: Penny for your thoughts.
  Tali'Zorah: ...I don't know what that means.

• "It's never just the wind!"
• Sarah's Healing Factor doesn't work if there's glass in the way.
• Manah's analysis of the Protheans is based on their artwork.
• "None of this would have happened if you'd just STOPPED."
• Seraph flying Power Armor
  • "Right. Psionic device. Next Bau will be telling us the Greys are real."
• Shepard's Killer is a non-human who made herself look like a statue, and only moved when no one was looking at her. The Weeping Angels should sue...
• The AIA uses Blacklight death squads.
• Jane is The Sneaky Guy of Native American descent who favors a tomahawk and knife. Only way it could have been more obvious was if her outfit was hooded and she used an Omniblade. In chapter 26 we learn that the Native American was her father and the Briton was her mother, who left her on the father's porch, as well as the father having been killed by a Kenway.
• "Gentlemen! Say hello to my little friend! Her name is Maria! Why Maria? BECAUSE BIANCA WAS TAKEN, OF COURSE! HAHAHAHAHAHAH!"
• When wounded, Brea bleeds a white, milky substance like the human-imposter androids from Alien.
• "Thank you for standing still, idiot!"
• "Those repeating pop-up vids of that... rainbow... pop tart...cat thing was driving the crew loco."
• Saren's sponsors appear as a trio of featureless monoliths.
• Conrad Verner isn't a creepy fan of Shepard in this milieu. He's a creepy fan of Jensen that wears a green leather coat, round sunglasses and goes by the pseudonym "Jake Armitage". He also uses the terminology. It turns out to have In-Universe reasons - he found a pre-Collapse Shadowrun core Sourcebook, mistook it for a history text, and decided to become a Shadowrunner.
  • Also, Chad Dumier is a fan of the Tabletop Game, and has named the WTO's global exchange currency the Nuyen... which makes Conrad mistaking that sourcebook for a textbook somewhat more understandable.
• The Armax Arena on Ilium implemented a system to reward players for flashy kills, complete with names.
• In chapter 28, Spooky mentions Breaching of enemies.