History MassEffect / TropesMToP

** Mark Meer (the male Shepard) has a noticeable [[CanadaEh Canadian accent]] in some lines. Then there's Donovan Hock, whose accent starts at Afrikaans and mutates into something completely incomprehensible.

* MagicIsFeminine: The asari are another science fiction variant. They are a feminine OneGender Race and the only species in the setting in which all members are [[MindOverMatter biotics]] while members of other species only have biotic powers due to being exposed to elements zero in utero.

* MrFanservice: As per usual in a Bioware game, there are the popular female romances, and very often shipped thoroughly and discussed adoringly on the forums of said company. In Mass Effect the most popular for female Shepard (and only male) was Kaidan. Of course, Garrus was very popular too, but he wasn't romanceable then. The sequel brought a whole multitude of new choices that [[BrokenBase split the fangirls]] between Kaidan, Garrus, and the new kid on the block... Thane. Of course, Jacob was a romanceable figure too; some enjoyed his [[OnlySaneMan lack of brooding angst]] but much of the fandom decided he was [[TheGenericGuy too generic]] [[strike:and [[NiceGuy not troubled enough]]]] and found it not at all romantic that he [[AllMenArePerverts refers to Shepard as a "prize." Behind her back]]. The ensuing fan fiction confused a lot of people who had jumped ship for Thane. After Horizon, a lot of Kaidan fangirls decided to [[DieForOurShip go down with the ship]].
** And then there's the Joker fans... which gets disturbing fast if you're also a Batman fan.

* PausedInterrupt: Unfortunately, often occurs during the least likely times to pause between lines. Usually, the conversations flow pretty well, though.

* NeverMyFault: Many krogan have this attitude about the genophage. They blame the Citadel races exclusively for them being effectively neutered into neutral population growth even after helping defeat the rachni, despite the fact that the krogan were aggressively expanding, overrunning the galaxy, and eventually started to "colonize" worlds that were already under the ownerships of other species. [[spoiler:Some however, like Wrex and Eve, do acknowledge that their actions were partly to blame for what happened, even though they're not happy about what was done to them. If they both survive and you help cure the genophage, they lead the krogan into being more constructive and helpful.]]

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Cerberus has shades of this all throughout the first two games, but they are ''definitely'' this in 3, in which they relentlessly SigilSpam their three-headed dog logo, openly start war with the rest of the galaxy, take their FantasticRacism doctrine UpToEleven, and [[spoiler: are revealed to run concentration camps (albeit their inmates have no knowledge of this until its too late) where they conduct brutal experiments on sapient life]].

** And in the third game we go UpToEleven with huskified batarians, turians, asari [[spoiler:(Ardat-Yakshi specifically)]], krogan/turian hybrids, harvesters and [[spoiler:rachni]].

** Ryder's ship is the ''Tempest'', after Shakespeare's play ("oh brave new world" and all that). And the Ryders themselves, taking their name from astronaut Sally Rider.

** Including Shepard by the time of the second game, which is practically taken to [[VideoGame/{{Metroid}} Samus-esque]] levels where it is questionable just how human Shepard is anymore, particularly if you buy all the upgrades that involve screwing with your biology (namely your bones, skin, and muscles) in fairly major ways. Hammered home when [[spoiler:it is revealed that Shepard is apparently mechanical enough to ''be hacked'']] in the Overlord DLC.

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: The technology is pretty hard compared to most SpaceOpera. Most of it is a logical extrapolation of the properties of the fictional [[MinovskyPhysics Element Zero]].
** Giving it a 4 (drifting towards 3 due to some handwaves and plot devices) on the Mohs Scale. The main big lie is Element Zero, all other technology is based on that.
** However, then there's Project Lazarus, which is hardly explained, if at all. As a matter of fact, if you take into account all the other ShownTheirWork the games like to flaunt, one would almost be willing to conclude that the Illusive Man resurrected Shepard's body by simply ''[[LiteralMetaphor throwing money]]'' at it.
-->'''Illusive Man:''' It's always a matter of resources. We're not losing Shepard.

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Now in two flavors! Get your brutal krogan and disciplined turians while supplies last! The krogan are a particularly brutal DeconstructedTrope example; the trope is then [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstructed]] in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', at least to some extent. Oh, and the newest player on the scene, humans, [[HumansAreWarriors are regarded as these too]], making the more peaceful races justifiably fearful of [[TropeOverdosed trope overdose]].