History Characters / MassEffect3PartyMembers

* UpbringingMakesTheHero: He's had it rough from day one, his first memory being that of his planet being on fire. This can make him a {{Foil}} for Spacer Shepard (who had it pretty good and is Paragon-leaning) or NotSoDifferent from a Colonist or Earthborn Shepard (who are even-split/Renegade-leaning and suffered a traumatic experience as a teenager/also had a rough childhood, if not so dramatic). He himself notes that everyone is a product of their time, and that he might have been the wise scholar Liara expected him to be if he had been born in the present cycle.

* NotSoDifferent:
** He's essentially the Prothean version of Commander Shepard who failed in his mission to stop the Reapers.
** Lampshaded when he calls Shepard an Avatar of ''[[TheChosenOne Victory]]'', compared to himself being an Avatar of ''[[RevengeBeforeReason Vengeance]]''.

-> [[LetsDance ''Think you can dance and talk at the same time?'']]

[[folder: Javik]]

* CastingGag: Freddie Prinze, Jr. played an AcePilot-cum-SpaceMarine in the ill-fated ''Film/WingCommander'' film, making the shuttle crash thing even funnier.

* TheNicknamer: It's his way of remembering people; he admits to giving people names when he feels their given name "doesn't fit". Calls Male Shepard "Loco"[[note]]On account of Shepard's CrazyAwesome tendencies.[[/note]] or Female Shepard "Lola"[[note]]When he was a kid, his best friend had a sister named Lola. In James' words: "Older sister. Hot. Tough."[[/note]] in their first talk aboard the ''Normandy''; you have the option of whether to allow him to continue using it. Also calls Garrus "Scars", Liara "Doc", Tali "Sparks", and Javik "Buggy".

* FirstContact: Obviously, as the last living Prothean. Shepard's guards comment that they needed to dust off the regulations regarding protocols for newly-contacted races, which included "assume hostilities".

** On the Citadel, a crowd overhears that Javik is a Prothean. An Asari asks him what hope they have to defeat the Reapers if the Protheans failed. Javik will at first give a speech about how they are all doomed, but with a Paragon interrupt, Shepard can convince Javik to give a more uplifting speech. He'll explain how his people knew all the young races, saw how much potential they had, and how far they have come, and that this gives him hope for this cycle, reassuring the crowd. Speaking to Javik regularly makes it clear he doesn't actually believe much of what he actually said, and only said it because Shepard asked him to.

** He also gets along with Garrus, respecting the later's knowledge of war and history of warfare and in general looks well on the Turian militaristic culture as it closely resembles his own culture. The two trade stories of pointless wars that occurred in their cycle and likely only served to make things easier for the Reapers. He and Garrus basically tutor a young human soldier out of his naivete -- Garrus teaching to respect the enemy, Javik teaching he should be hardening himself for what's coming.

'''Javik:''' This one...wishes he was still frozen in the refrigerator!\\

* ToServeMan: According to him, salarian kidney was a delicacy in his time and hanar were appetizers. He also drunkenly mentions that Prothean food is largely extinct, save for salarians, asari, turians and quarians. He might just be saying things to mess with people, though, since there are [[MirrorChemistry amino acid chirality]] issues with that...

** You can also meet him in the refugee camp on the Citadel having his back tattooed, which of course requires a ShirtlessScene where you can see that Creator/BioWare has not forgotten how to do some very pronounced chest muscles. In ''[[{{DLC}} Citadel]]'', Shepard actually gets to see the tattoo, which of course requires another shirtless scene.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Throughout ''[[{{DLC}} Citadel]]'', especially during the Party.

* OptionalPartyMember: The From Ashes {{DLC}} allows you to recruit him.

* RefugeInAudacity: In ''[[{{DLC}} Citadel]]'' if he's taken along to infiltrate the casino. One of his lines for distracting a guard is simply "You, human. I require your attention. I am a Prothean. What do you think of that?" The guard says he's the fourth one this week, though [[YourCostumeNeedsWork he has the best costume.]] And that's just the most blatant one. He's also the only one who doesn't get a change of clothes -- he's still wearing full armor, his rifle and pistol in the middle of the club.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: He notes that he has an uncle named Sanders, but he's not related to Kahlee. James' original last name was to be Sanders, but [=BioWare=] was concerned there would be {{Fanon}} that Kahlee and James were somehow related. [[invoked]]

* IllKillYou: Javik snarls that if he only gets to kill Kai Leng, then he'll die happy. Let us repeat: Javik has a blood oath to destroy the Reapers, but Kai Leng is the only person he wants to ''personally'' murder. That guy gets a rise out of a 50,000 year old Prothean whose species was not only rendered extinct, but turned into BodyHorror {{Mook Slave}}s.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: The quote above when he questions Shepard's insistence on diplomacy and decency against the onslaught of the Reapers. This is one of the few instances when Shepard has absolutely no rebuttal.

* AMotherToHerMen: She cares greatly for the Talons. Part of it is the Turian ideal of justice and hierarchy.

* SadisticChoice: Near the end of ''Anime/MassEffectParagonLost'', Vega is torn between saving the colonists who are on board on the crashing Collector ship and saving the asari Treeya who coincidentally has the intel on the Collectors from being spaced out. [[spoiler: He chose the latter.]]

'''Shepard:''' [[BondOneLiner Not from this distance.]]

** In ''[[{{DLC}} Citadel]]'', if he's taken as Male Shepard's "date" to infiltrate the casino he'll say afterwards:

** Javik's philosophy is similar to Duncan from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' and Grey Wardens in general: what must be done must be done because the foe they fight is merciless, numberless and implacable.

* EleventhHourRanger: He comes across as one if one takes the entire trilogy into account.