History Literature / MassEffectDeception

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: After having used an elaborate sensor suite and multiple-member strike teams to accomplish his goals in previous novels, in this book, Kai Leng camps near a door with a vase to piss in so that he can keep a sniper rifle trained on it.

'''''Mass Effect: Deception''''' is a novel set in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' universe. It chronicles Gillian Grayson's attempt to avenge her father's death at the hands of Cerberus in ''Literature/MassEffectRetribution''. The novel contains many continuity errors, which Creator/{{BioWare}} has promised to correct in subsequent editions.

* BuryYourGays: But [[SuddenlySexuality make them un-gay first]].

* CuttingOffTheBranches: The Citadel Council in ''Deception'' are made up of an asari, a turian, a salarian and a human. Thus, the playthrough where a Renegade Shepard sacrifices the ''Destiny Ascension'', making Udina appoint an all-human Council (as opposed to a still-mixed-species Council for a Paragon Shepard) is invalidated. ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' later confirmed this, as there is no all-human Council in it either, unless it abdicated between the games. Notably the human councilor is ''not'' identified as Udina despite ''Retribution'' implying otherwise, but his actions and personality identify him clearly as such. Nobody's sure why the author didn't name him.

* YouKilledMyFather: Gillian toward the Illusive Man, but there's a few more variations of this as well; [[spoiler:Aria to Kai Leng over her daughter, Kai Leng to Gillian over his ex-lover and Nick to Hendel over his girlfriend.]]

'''''Mass Effect: Deception''''' is a novel set in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' universe. It chronicles Gillian Grayson's attempt to avenge her father's death at the hands of Cerberus in ''Literature/MassEffectRetribution''. The novel contains many continuity errors, in which Creator/{{BioWare}} has promised to correct in subsequent editions.

'''''Mass Effect: Deception''''' is a novel set in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' universe. It chronicles Gillian Grayson's attempt to avenge her father's death at the hands of Cerberus in ''Literature/MassEffectRetribution''. The novel contains many continuity errors, which {{BioWare}} has promised to correct in subsequent editions.

* {{Badass}}: Kai Leng takes this to absurd levels. [[spoiler:He kills the most powerful human biotic in the galaxy ''[[ImprovisedWeapon with a toothbrush]]''. Keep in mind, Leng is a completely normal human (at least relatively so) who just had both of his legs shot, and has to move around with a cane.]] Speaking of which, he also kills a guy with a jump kick, even though it's previously established that he's crippled.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Kai Leng gets two mercenaries to help him steal Grayson's body. He traps one of them in a containment device to act as a decoy, prompting the other GenreSavvy merc to demand payment up front. He complies and kills that merc a few hours later.

* CuttingOffTheBranches: The Citadel Council in ''Deception'' are made up of an asari, a turian, a salarian and a human. Thus, the playthrough where a Renegade Shepard sacrifices the ''Destiny Ascension'', making Udina appoint an all-human Council (as opposed to a still-mixed-species Council for a Paragon Shepard) is invalidated. ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' later confirmed this, as there is no all-human Council in it either, unless it abdicated between the games. Notably the human councilor is ''not'' identified as Udina despite ''Retribution'' implying otherwise, but his actions and personality identify him clearly as such - nobody's sure why the author didn't name him.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Gillian, Nick and Hendel all [[DroppedABridgeOnHim die pointless deaths]], Kai Leng gets away again, the Illusive Man is building an ''army'' of Grayson clones (or something possibly ''worse'') and once again the Council sticks their heads in the sand and ignores Kahlee and Anderson's evidence about the Reapers.]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Gillian, Nick and Hendel]], as noted above.
* EnemyEatsYourLunch: See EvilIsPetty
* EvilIsPetty: Kai Leng plants a bug in David Anderson's house. However, before he leaves, he eats Anderson's cereal.

* IdiotBall: After already losing Nick on the Citadel, Kahlee decides it would be a good idea to let the emotionally unstable Gillian go outside for a spot of fresh air after she's announced her intentions to kill the Illusive Man. Three seconds later she's missing too. The novel does point out this was incredibly stupid thinking on Kahlee's part.
* IGaveMyWord: After one of Aria T'Loak's banks is hit by the Grim Skulls, she lets one of their captured mercenaries go after the merc tells Aria who really killed her daughter. When Aria later confronts the same merc in the Grim Skulls' medical bay, she has her transferred to a hospital, her reason being this trope.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Kai Leng [[spoiler:kills Gillian with a sharpened toothbrush]].

* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: Gillian and Nick, and Hendel as well to a lesser extent. [[spoiler:And they all die for it.]]

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Cory Kim, ex-partner to Kai Leng, is a deep undercover Ceberus operator in the Biotic Underground. Her cover story is that she quit Cerberus before joining up with the Underground, which even Leng believed at first.]]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Gillian, oh so very much.
* YouKilledMyFather: Gillian toward the Illusive Man, but there's a few more variations on the trope as well; [[spoiler:Aria T'Loak to Kai Leng over her daughter, Kai Leng to Gillian over his ex-lover and Nick to Hendel over his girlfriend.]]

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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: You cannot outgrow '''autism'''!

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: You cannot outgrow autism. You can learn to control it with time. You can use drugs that help control some of the symptoms. But you cannot outgrow it.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: You cannot outgrow Autism. You can learn to control it with time. You can use drugs that help control some of the symptoms. But you cannot outgrow it.

* CuttingOffTheBranches: The Citadel Council in ''Deception'' are made up of an asari, a turian, a salarian and a human, so either Shepard saved the Destiny Ascension or the all-human council decided to abdicate. Notably the human councilor is ''not'' identified as Udina despite ''Retribution'' implying otherwise, but his actions and personality identify him clearly as such - nobody's sure why the author didn't name him.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Kai Leng, natch. Gotta keep him alive for ''Mass Effect 3'', after all. Don't worry, Shepard will [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice give him what's coming to him.]]]]

* ForgotAboutYourPowers: After having used an elaborate sensor suite and multiple-member strike teams to accomplish his goals in previous novels, in this book, Kai Leng camps near a door with a vase to piss in so that he can keep a sniper rifle trained on it.

* CuttingOffTheBranches: The Citadel Council in ''Deception'' are made up of an asari, a turian, a salarian and a human, so either Shepard saved the Destiny Ascension or the all-human council decided to abdicate. Notably the human councilor is ''not'' identified as Udina despite ''Retribution'' implying otherwise, so this may also be a partial case of ThirdOptionAdaptation.

* EvilIsPetty: Kai Leng plants a bug in David Anderson's house. However, before he leaves, he eats Anderson's cereal

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Kai Leng, natch. Gotta keep him alive for ''Mass Effect 3'', after all.]]

'''''Mass Effect: Deception''''' is a novel set in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' Universe. It chronicles Gillian Grayson's attempt to avenge her father's death at the hands of Cerberus in ''Literature/MassEffectRetribution''. The novel contains many continuity errors, which Bioware has promised to correct in subsequent editions.

* {{Badass}}: Kai Leng takes this to absurd levels. [[spoiler:He kills the most powerful human biotic in the galaxy ''[[ImprovisedWeapon with a goddamned toothbrush]]''. Keep in mind, Leng is a completely normal human (at least relatively so) who just had both of his legs shot, and has to move around with a cane.]] Speaking of which, he also kills a guy with a jump kick, even though it's previously established that he's crippled.

** See the Internet Backdraft section on the YMMV page, but Bioware announced that a revision is coming to correct the many, many errors.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Kai Leng, natch. Gotta keep him alive for ''Mass Effect 3'', after all!]]

'''''Mass Effect: Deception''''' is a novel set in the ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' Universe. It chronicles Gillian Grayson's attempt to avenge her father's death at the hands of Cerberus in ''Literature/MassEffectRetribution''. The novel contains many continuity errors, which Bioware has promised to correct in subsequent editions.

** See the InternetBackdraft section on the YMMV page, but Bioware announced that a revision is coming to correct the many, many errors.

** See the "Internet Backdraft" section on the YMMV page, but Bioware announced that a revision is coming to correct the many, many errors.

''Mass Effect: Deception'' is a novel set in the ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' Universe. It chronicles Gillian Grayson's attempt to avenge her father's death at the hands of Cerberus in ''[[MassEffect/{{Retribution}} Mass Effect: Retribution]]''. The novel contains many continuity errors, which Bioware has promised to correct in subsequent editions.

!!Tropes associated with ''Mass Effect: Deception'':

* ContinuitySnarl: See [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XBpMF3ONlI308D9IGG8KICBHfWKU0sXh0ntukv-_cmo/preview?pli=1&sle=true here]]. Long story short, the novel makes ''many'' errors regarding the lore of the ''Mass Effect'' universe.

* {{Badass}}: Kai Leng takes this to absurd levels. [[spoiler:He kills the most powerful human biotic in the galaxy ''[[ImprovisedWeapon with a goddamned toothbrush]]''. Keep in mind, Leng is a completely normal human (at least relatively so) who just had both of his legs shot, and has to moved around with a cane.]] Speaking of which, he also kills a guy with a jump kick, even though it's previously established that he's crippled.

''Mass Effect: Deception'' is a novel set in the ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' Universe. It chronicles Gillian Grayson's attempt to avenge her father's death at the hands of Cerberus in ''[[MassEffect/{{Retribution}} Mass Effect: Retribution]]''. The novel contains several continuity errors, which Bioware has promised to correct in subsequent editions.

* BuryYourGays: But make them un-gay first.