History Characters / MassEffect1PartyMembers

* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Garrus goes through a ''lot'' of jobs in the series. He used to be a military recruit before he became a C-Sec officer, then joined the ''Normandy'' as a gunnery officer. Then he went back to C-Sec and put his name down to become a Spectre candidate, but instead decided to become a VigilanteMan, before joining the ''Normandy'' as a gunnery officer ''again''. Then he became a turian military officer and led a Reaper task force, before finally joining ''Normandy'' as a gunnery officer... ''again''.

* BarrierWarrior: In the third game, Kaidan takes this a step above standard biotics. His Barrier power is reduces damage until he chooses to dispel it, and Reave reduces damage anytime it hits an organic enemy. Together, they make Kaidan nearly invincible.

* BadassFamily: Liara's mother is said to be a powerful biotic even by asari standards [[spoilers:and proves to be a difficult opponent when the player fights her. Liara's father is also unusually powerful for an asari and once took down a krogan with a head-butt. Liara's paternal grandfather was a veteran of the Rachni Wars and both of Liara's paternal grandparents fought in the Krogan Rebellions, on opposite sides; they killed each other once he found out the truth.]]

* BadassBisexual: He became more badass, both in story and gameplay, at the same time his bisexuality was confirmed.

* BarrierWarrior: Especially in the third game where he has both the Barrier power itself and the redesigned Reave.

* HealerSignsOnEarly: He is conveniently the first squadmate Shepard gets in the first game.

* KaleidoscopeEyes: Normally brown, but in [=ME3=] they turn blue when he uses his biotics[[note]]Briefly when he uses Reave. Indefinitely when he uses Barrier[[/note]].

** He expresses the belief that a lot of humanity's problems are because of people like Udina pushing for too much too soon.

* TookALevelInBadass: In ''[=ME3=]''. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''[[{{DLC}} Citadel]]''.

* TrainingFromHell: In his backstory at a BoardingSchoolOfHorror.

* TheParagon: For his people, should he survive to the second game. Solidly cements this position should the [[spoiler:real cure for the genophage]] be administered under his reign.

* CasualKink: Implied in the relationship between him and romanced female Shepard in the Citadel DLC of Mass Effect 3, in which they roleplay a first date and swap some suggestive dialogue before partaking in a MatingDance.

* MatingDance: He has one with a romanced Femshep in ''Citadel''. Things start off as an {{Adorkable}} tango. Then it gets good enough to draw attention from everyone on the dance floor. Then, well...

* VasquezAlwaysDies: [[spoiler:Potentially.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: An un-romanced Male Shepard or a Female Shepard can allow this relationship, especially once Shepard finds Ashley suffering from a hangover in Mass Effect 3.

* VindicatedByHistory: [[spoiler: InUniverse If you choose to let her die in the first game, then by the second game she had become a martyr and face of the human fight on Virmire. She gets memorials in her name and all of her family's shameful past is forgotten and has been redeemed.]]

** "There's no Shepard without Vakarian."

* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: To be a biotic he was sent to one to undergo TrainingFromHell.

* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Blue Skinned Space Babe]]: [[Pantheon/OthernessOtherCreaturesDemigodsAndQuasideities Goddess of the trope.]]

** BadassBookworm: He is a skilled technician and field medic, which are his official roles in the Alliance.
** [[BadassGay Badass Bi]]: He became more badass, both in story and gameplay, at the same time his bisexuality was confirmed.
** HandicappedBadass: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. The severe migraines and painful static shocks he gets because of his implants don't slow him down any.
** HeartbrokenBadass: Shepard's death messed him up pretty bad. When the Illusive Man tricked him into thinking his grief was all for nothing, Kaidan was livid.

* [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Biotic Training of Horrors]]/TrainingFromHell: In his backstory.

** ScarsAreForever: At that point, Kaidan has had his implant and the matching scars for roughly twenty years.
* [[spoiler:IRegretNothing]]: [[spoiler:His last words if he dies on Virmire.]]
* [[spoiler:ItHasBeenAnHonor]]: [[spoiler:His goodbye if Shepard chooses to save Ashley instead of him on Virmire]].

** StoneWall: When he's fighting organic enemies, the combination of Barrier and Reave can make him harder to kill than [[TheBigGuy James]], even with the health disadvantage.
** MightyGlacier: Investing in Kaidan's Barrier power, especially without using his default outfit and choosing the evolution to halve Barrier's recharge penalty, significantly slows down his ability to use his powers.

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]: [[spoiler:Depending on your choices on Virmire... and midway through the third game]].

** HealerSignsOnEarly: He is conveniently the first squadmate Shepard gets.

** FanDisservice: In ''Mass Effect 3'' you get to see plenty of [[ShirtlessScene shirtless Kaidan]]--[[spoiler:while he's lying in a hospital bed, with his face beaten in and bruised. Sure, he gets better in subsequent trips to the Citadel hospital, but...]]
** FemaleGaze[=/=]EatingTheEyeCandy: A romanced Shepard takes a good, long look at his rear as they return to the ''Normandy'' in ''3''. This took no time at all to go memetic. [[http://i1192.photobucket.com/albums/aa335/VivaciousDeimos/tumblr_m0fi5zwTfN1r4nc13.gif A random female NPC]] can also be seen checking him out in the intro.

* [[spoiler: DeathSeeker: Has shades of this during the first game. If she survives Virmire, after she says she should have been the one to stay behind, one of Shepard's responses is to lose their temper and accuse her of wanting to martyr herself to restore her family's honor. This seems to snap her out of it.]]

* [[spoiler:IRegretNothing]]: [[spoiler:Her last words if she dies on Virmire.]]
* [[spoiler:ItHasBeenAnHonor]]: [[spoiler:Her goodbye if Shepard chooses to save Kaidan instead of her on Virmire.]]

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]: [[spoiler:Depending on your choices on Virmire. It's also possible to shoot her midway through the third game when Udina turns traitor but it's not too hard to avoid.]]

* [[spoiler: VasquezAlwaysDies: Potentially.]]

* [[spoiler: VindicatedByHistory:]] [[spoiler: InUniverse If you choose to let her die in the first game, then by the second game she had become a martyr and face of the human fight on Virmire. She gets memorials in her name and all of her family's shameful past is forgotten and has been redeemed.]]

* [[spoiler: YouShallNotPass: At the same time as Kaidan's. It's up to you whether she survives over him.]]

* BadassBi: Omnisexual and a more powerful biotic than most Matriarchs.

* DoYouWantToCopulate: While fumbling his way through a romance dialogue with female Shepard, he rather clinically refers to their upcoming get-together as "cross-species intercourse", and [[ThatCameOutWrong immediately feels dirty afterward]] for referring to his relationship with Shepard in such blunt terms.

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* ChickMagnet[=/=]EvenTheGuysWantHim: Garrus attracts the attention of no less than [[LongList Dr. Chloe Michel, Yeoman Kelly Chambers,]] [[spoiler: Tali,]] [[LongList a turian military scout, a turian patron at Silver Coast Casino]] and potentially [[FanPreferredCouple Commander Shepard herself]]. In ''Citadel'', he can get one of the guards at the casino to flirt with him. He receives a ShipTease from Eve and male Shepard. And this is not even speaking of [[MemeticSexGod his popularity]] [[StupidSexyFlanders within the fandom]].

* FreudianExcuse: [[DefiedTrope Defied]]. His backstory seems like the perfect set-up for someone to have a grudge against turians, if not aliens in general, and Shepard can even suggest this at one point. Kaidan pointedly refuses to use his past like that, on the grounds that humanity does not have the moral high ground.
-->'''Kaidan:''' If one ass was enough to judge a whole race, I'd hate humans too.

* ThighHighBoots: Mentioned as a jest in the first game. [[HilariousInHindsight In the third game, she gets her own pair]].

* PoorCommunicationKills: Liara apparently didn't think the rest of the old team needed to know about the events of ''Redemption'', so when Cerberus began leaking information to isolate Shepard from his/her old contacts, Ashley/Kaidan didn't have the information they needed to see through it. This likely comes from her desire for vengeance distracting her from anything else, as even when Shepard does come to see her, she is clearly distant and almost completely focused and hunting for the Broker. [[NeverMyFault She remains oblivious even after the Shadow Broker is dealt with]] [[{{Hypocrite}} and has the nerve to Criticize Kaidan/Ashley for their behavior]].

* UnwittingPawn: To the Illusive Man, like so many others. The Illusive Man originally wanted to keep Tali away from Shepard like he did the rest of the original squad. That only changed when her cooperation with Shepard on Freedom's Progress convinced the Illusive Man that Tali was a factor he could control. He then used her to bolster Shepard's loyalty to Cerberus and to gain intel on the Migrant Fleet.

* OneManArmy: [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome It was offscreen]], but Kaidan apparently [[spoiler:fought through Cerberus's soldiers completely on his own to reach the Council during the coup]].

* MightyGlacier: Investing in Kaidan's Barrier power, especially without using his default outfit and choosing the evolution to halve Barrier's recharge penalty, significantly slows down his ability to use his powers.

* FreudianExcuse: [[DefiedTrope Defied]]. His backstory seems like the perfect set-up for someone to have a grudge against turians, if not aliens in general, and Shepard can even suggest this at one point. Kaidan pointedly refuses to use his past like that, on the grounds that he's in his thirties and it would [[NotSoDifferent make him no different from Vyrnus]]. This was probably an effort to contrast him with Ashley, who also has her own personal reasons to be xenophobic.

* IncompletelyTrained: Intentionally so and the reason he's a Sentinel instead of an Adept. He got [=BAaT=] shut down before they could finish training any of the students and had enough residual trauma to turn down the Alliance's offer to finish his training in [=BAaT's=] place. He chose to train as a technician and medic instead.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: One of the main reasons why [[spoiler: the reunion on Horizon goes so badly]]. Shepard seems to be the only one to think it might be a good idea for him to know what the hell is going on. Unfortunately, it was too little, too late since all that left him with were the reports Cerberus itself was leaking to keep Shepard away from his/her old contacts. In the third game, rectifying this is an essential part of getting back on his good side. The player also has the option of [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential continuing to leave him out of the loop]], [[spoiler: which potentially ends in his death because he can't be convinced that it's NotWhatItLooksLike]].

* MightyGlacier: Kaidan's power set in the third game makes him very hard to kill and allows him to cause a lot of damage with both biotic and tech powers, but very few ways to allow him to throw out his powers faster, and his Barrier power slows his recharge times even more.
* MilitaryBrat: Not as prominent as with Ash, but it is still part of his background and influenced his decision to enlist. He likely wouldn't be a biotic otherwise.

* ProperlyParanoid: About Cerberus's attempts to manipulate Shepard.

** He's got some things to say about [[spoiler:Shepard working with Cerberus in [=ME2=].]] He also protests if Ashley [[spoiler:kills Wrex]], regardless of whether it is on your orders.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: One of the main reasons why [[spoiler: the reunion on Horizon goes so badly]]. Shepard seems to be the only one to think it might be a good idea for her to know what the hell is going on. Unfortunately, it was too little, too late since all that left her with were the reports Cerberus itself was leaking to keep Shepard away from his/her old contacts. In the third game, rectifying this is an essential part of getting back on her good side. The player also has the option of [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential continuing to leave her out of the loop]], [[spoiler: which potentially ends in her death because she can't be convinced that it's NotWhatItLooksLike]].

** She was also correct about Cerberus' efforts to manipulate Shepard.

** [[spoiler: Like Kaidan, she doesn't take it well when she learns that Shepard is working for Cerberus in ''[=ME2=]''.]]

* PoorCommunicationKills: Liara apparently didn't think the rest of the old team needed to know about the events of ''Redemption'', so when Cerberus began leaking information to isolate Shepard from his/her old contacts, Ashley/Kaidan didn't have the information they needed to see through it. This likely comes from her desire for vengeance distracting her from anything else, as even when Shepard does come to see her, she is clearly distant and almost completely focused and hunting for the Broker. [[NeverMyFault She remains oblivious even after the Shadow Broker is dealt with]].

** Being Genre Savvy saves his life in a BackStory in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''. He knew immediately Saren was bad news and didn't work for him. Everyone else who did ended up dead.

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Most of his ''Mass Effect 3'' outfits have a helmet for vacuum conditions —- except his From Ashes DLC Palette Swap. The eyepiece apparently overrides it. But of course, he's a biotic.

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Most of her ''Mass Effect 3'' outfits have a helmet for vacuum conditions -— except her ''From Ashes'' version. The eyepiece apparently overrides it.