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• Internet Backdraft: The numerous errors regarding the lore of the Mass Effect universe led to this Google doc, this forum thread on the BioWare Social Network (which reached 456 pages), and this open letter on the ME Wiki. Days after the book's release, BioWare announced that a revision would be made.
• Memetic Mutation: See Narm.
• Narm: Kai Leng eating Anderson's cereal. The inevitable "cereal killer" jokes don't help.
  • Kai Leng "urinating in a vase that he had selected for that purpose". Yes, that happens. In those exact words.
  • Gillian's death. It should be tragic, but there's something inherently funny about the fact that Kai Leng is killing her with a toothbrush.
  • Really, just Kai Leng.
    • Narm Charm: Admit it, as silly as it was, no one will forget Kai Leng: Cereal Killer.
• They Just Didn't Care: See Internet Backdraft.
• Unfortunate Implications:
  • Hendel is straight. No reference is made at any point to him having ever been homosexual. He still gets offed, and pointlessly so.
  • Gillian's autism is only vaguely referenced. It's treated as a "phase" of the kind typical to adolescents, which she then grows out of.
• What an Idiot: Late in the novel, Hendel threatens biotic harm on Aria in the middle of her private room in Afterlife. He's damned lucky all she did was taser him.