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** It is also possible to find a planet [[http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Patsayev into which someone carved a message]] complaining about his/her/its life.
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** It is It’s also possible to find a planet [[http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Patsayev into which someone carved a message]] complaining about his/her/its life.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'': The vision Emmet receives when he touches the Piece could just as well have been delivered by a [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 Prothean beacon.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'': The vision Emmet receives when he touches the Piece could just as well have been delivered by a [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 Prothean beacon.]]
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* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': Many of the cryptic comments Cole makes are {{Shout Out}}s to novels, films and other video games, mainly by [[InvokedTrope invoking]] ItWasHisSled including "[[VideoGame/MassEffect3 It always had a soul. The question is the answer.]]"
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* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': Many of the cryptic comments Cole makes are {{Shout Out}}s {{shout out}}s to novels, films and other video games, mainly by [[InvokedTrope invoking]] ItWasHisSled including "[[VideoGame/MassEffect3 It always had a soul. The question is the answer.]]"
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** Purchasing assistance from the Curator Enclave to deal with the Infinity Machine grants your empire the [[Memes/BioWare "Infinite Calibrator"]] modifer.
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** Relic Worlds, in the ''Ancient Relics'' DLC, are {{City Planet}}s that fell into ruin after their creators died out, much like the planet Feros in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''.
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** Relic Worlds, in the ''Ancient Relics'' DLC, are {{City Planet}}s {{city planet}}s that fell into ruin after their creators died out, much like the planet Feros in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''.
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* In the ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' fan setting ''[[https://www.echoesofthemultiverse.com/viewtopic.php?t=1631 A World Less Magical, But No Less Fantastic]]'', the SupermanSubstitute is named [[https://www.echoesofthemultiverse.com/viewtopic.php?p=103707#p103707 Paragon]]. On its own, this is simply the generic M&M term for Superman Substitutes. But the name of his rougher-edged counterpart in the parallel "World More Grim"? [[https://www.echoesofthemultiverse.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1631&p=106092#p106092 Renegade]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'':
** Pause on Zarkon during the opening sequence and try NOT to see [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 Saren]].
** Also, Zarkon's flagship bears a rather striking resemblance to a Sovereign-class Reaper. Parallels can also be drawn from Zarkon's flagship to the mothership of the [[WesternAnimation/TitanAE Drej]]
** Lance's bayard turns into a rifle that looks like it came straight out of Franchise/MassEffect.
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* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'':
** Pause on Zarkon during the opening sequence and try NOT to see [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 Saren]].
** Also, Zarkon's flagship bears a rather striking resemblance to a Sovereign-class Reaper. Parallels can also be drawn from Zarkon's flagship to the mothership of the [[WesternAnimation/TitanAE Drej]]
** Lance's bayard turns into a rifle that looks like it came straight out of Franchise/MassEffect.
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* In the ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' fan setting ''[[https://www.echoesofthemultiverse.com/viewtopic.php?t=1631 A World Less Magical, But No Less Fantastic]]'', the SupermanSubstitute is named [[https://www.echoesofthemultiverse.com/viewtopic.php?p=103707#p103707 Paragon]]. On its own, this is simply the generic M&M term for Superman Substitutes. But the name of his rougher-edged counterpart in the parallel "World More Grim"? [[https://www.echoesofthemultiverse.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1631&p=106092#p106092 Renegade]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'':
** Pause on Zarkon during the opening sequence and try NOT to see [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 Saren]].
** Also, Zarkon's flagship bears a rather striking resemblance to a Sovereign-class Reaper. Parallels can also be drawn from Zarkon's flagship to the mothership of the [[WesternAnimation/TitanAE Drej]]
** Lance's bayard turns into a rifle that looks like it came straight out of Franchise/MassEffect.Renegade]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'':
** Pause on Zarkon during the opening sequence and try NOT to see [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 Saren]].
** Also, Zarkon's flagship bears a rather striking resemblance to a Sovereign-class Reaper. Parallels can also be drawn from Zarkon's flagship to the mothership of the [[WesternAnimation/TitanAE Drej]]
** Lance's bayard turns into a rifle that looks like it came straight out of Franchise/MassEffect.
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* ''Series/Halo2022'''s first episode features an ADR voice paging Cmdr. Shepard to the Skyllian Response Center, an [[https://www.gamesradar.com/halo-series-mass-effect-easter-egg-commander-shepard/ intentional]] reference at that.
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* ''Series/Halo2022'''s first episode features an ADR voice paging Cmdr. Shepard to the Skyllian Sk''i''llian Response Center, an [[https://www.gamesradar.com/halo-series-mass-effect-easter-egg-commander-shepard/ intentional]] reference at that.
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* ''Series/Halo2022'''s first episode features an ADR voice paging Cmdr. Shepard to the Skyllian Response Center, an [https://www.gamesradar.com/halo-series-mass-effect-easter-egg-commander-shepard/ intentional] reference at that.
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* ''Series/Halo2022'''s first episode features an ADR voice paging Cmdr. Shepard to the Skyllian Response Center, an [https://www.[[https://www.gamesradar.com/halo-series-mass-effect-easter-egg-commander-shepard/ intentional] intentional]] reference at that.
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* ''Series/Halo2022'''s first episode features an ADR voice paging Cmdr. Shepard to the Skyllian Response Center. This is a little odd, given that ''Halo'' takes place in 2552 and the Skyllian Blitz in 2176. It may also be a bit of MythologyGag, given the number of ''Halo'' viewers who felt the show would've served better as a dramatization of ''this'' franchise rather than the one it was actually named after.
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* ''Series/Halo2022'''s first episode features an ADR voice paging Cmdr. Shepard to the Skyllian Response Center. This is a little odd, given that ''Halo'' takes place in 2552 and the Skyllian Blitz in 2176. It may also be a bit of MythologyGag, given the number of ''Halo'' viewers who felt the show would've served better as a dramatization of ''this'' franchise rather than the one it was actually named after.
Center, an [https://www.gamesradar.com/halo-series-mass-effect-easter-egg-commander-shepard/ intentional] reference at that.
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* ''Series/Halo2022'''s first episode features an ADR voice paging Cmdr. Shepard to the Skyllian Response Center. This is a little odd, given that ''Halo'' takes place in 2552 and the Skyllian Blitz in 2176. It may also be a bit of MythologyGag, given the number of ''Halo'' viewers who felt the show would've served better as a dramatization of ''this'' franchise rather than the one it was actually named after.
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* In the ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds fan setting ''[[https://www.echoesofthemultiverse.com/viewtopic.php?t=1631 A World Less Magical, But No Less Fantastic]]'', the SupermanSubstitute is named [[https://www.echoesofthemultiverse.com/viewtopic.php?p=103707#p103707 Paragon]]. On its own, this is simply the generic M&M term for Superman Substitutes. But the name of his rougher-edged counterpart in the parallel "World More Grim"? [[https://www.echoesofthemultiverse.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1631&p=106092#p106092 Renegade]].
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* In the ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' fan setting ''[[https://www.echoesofthemultiverse.com/viewtopic.php?t=1631 A World Less Magical, But No Less Fantastic]]'', the SupermanSubstitute is named [[https://www.echoesofthemultiverse.com/viewtopic.php?p=103707#p103707 Paragon]]. On its own, this is simply the generic M&M term for Superman Substitutes. But the name of his rougher-edged counterpart in the parallel "World More Grim"? [[https://www.echoesofthemultiverse.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1631&p=106092#p106092 Renegade]].
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* ''Series/TheExpanse'': The [[spoiler:protomolecule hybrid]] soldiers look very similar to the Husks from ''VideoGame/MassEffect''.
** Speaking of ''Mass Effect'', the psychic vision Holden gets from the Ring Station in "Dandelion Sky" is very reminiscent of the message that Shepard got from the Prothean beacon in the first game.
* In ''Series/SiliconValley'', Bertram Gilfoyle refers to a character as someone who's "as pointless as the Multiple Endings of Mass Effect 3".
** Speaking of ''Mass Effect'', the psychic vision Holden gets from the Ring Station in "Dandelion Sky" is very reminiscent of the message that Shepard got from the Prothean beacon in the first game.
* In ''Series/SiliconValley'', Bertram Gilfoyle refers to a character as someone who's "as pointless as the Multiple Endings of Mass Effect 3".
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* ''Series/TheExpanse'': ''Series/TheExpanse'':
** The [[spoiler:protomolecule hybrid]] soldiers look very similar to theHusks from ''VideoGame/MassEffect''.
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**Speaking of ''Mass Effect'', the The psychic vision Holden gets from the Ring Station in "Dandelion Sky" is very reminiscent of the message that Shepard got from the Prothean beacon in the first game.
* In ''Series/SiliconValley'', Bertram Gilfoyle refers to a character as someone who's "as pointless as theMultiple Endings multiple endings of Mass ''Mass Effect 3".
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** If you purchase a drink at the Hanged Man, Hawke's drinking animation is identical to [[Franchise/MassEffect Commander Shepard's]]. Hawke also finishes conversations with the bartender with "Thanks. [[Franchise/MassEffect I should go.]]".
** Also from ''Mass Effect'', the upgrade of the revival spell is called Unity.
** Also from ''Mass Effect'', the upgrade of the revival spell is called Unity.
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** If you purchase a drink at the Hanged Man, Hawke's drinking animation is identical to [[Franchise/MassEffect Commander Shepard's]].Shepard's. Hawke also finishes conversations with the bartender with "Thanks. [[Franchise/MassEffect I should go.]]".
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* In the ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds fan setting ''[[https://www.echoesofthemultiverse.com/viewtopic.php?t=1631 A World Less Magical, But No Less Fantastic]]'', the SupermanSubstitute is named [[https://www.echoesofthemultiverse.com/viewtopic.php?p=103707#p103707 Paragon]]. On its own, this is simply the generic M&M term for Superman Substitutes. But the name of his rougher-edged counterpart in the parallel "World More Grim"? [[https://www.echoesofthemultiverse.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1631&p=106092#p106092 Renegade]].
* In the ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds fan setting ''[[https://www.echoesofthemultiverse.com/viewtopic.php?t=1631 A World Less Magical, But No Less Fantastic]]'', the SupermanSubstitute is named [[https://www.echoesofthemultiverse.com/viewtopic.php?p=103707#p103707 Paragon]]. On its own, this is simply the generic M&M term for Superman Substitutes. But the name of his rougher-edged counterpart in the parallel "World More Grim"? [[https://www.echoesofthemultiverse.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1631&p=106092#p106092 Renegade]].
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* ''Series/ThirtyRock'': Frank mentions that the writers used the company credit card to pre-order ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''.
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* In ''Series/SiliconValley'', Bertram Gilfoyle refers to a character as someone who's "as pointless as the Multiple Endings of Mass Effect 3".
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* ''VideoGame/DustAnElysianTail'' has two achievements tied to a sidequest involving a decision of whether to lace an NPC's clothing with poison ivy; fittingly, they're "Paragon" and "Renegade".
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* ''VideoGame/CivilizationBeyondEarth'':
** The achievement for playing a mod? "[[VideoGame/MassEffect2 I'm in the middle of some calibrations]]".
** The [[http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/ANGEL_%28CivBE%29?file=ANGEL_portfolio.jpg ANGEL's quadrupedal, insectoid design]] resembles [[VideoGame/MassEffect3 a Reaper destroyer]], in case you feel like being the vanguard of the other guy's destruction, for a change.
** The achievement for playing a mod? "[[VideoGame/MassEffect2 I'm in the middle of some calibrations]]".
** The [[http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/ANGEL_%28CivBE%29?file=ANGEL_portfolio.jpg ANGEL's quadrupedal, insectoid design]] resembles [[VideoGame/MassEffect3 a Reaper destroyer]], in case you feel like being the vanguard of the other guy's destruction, for a change.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'': The vision Emmet receives when he touches the Piece could just as well have been delivered by a [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 Prothean beacon.]]
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* ''Series/TheExpanse'': The [[spoiler:protomolecule hybrid]] soldiers look very similar to the Husks from ''VideoGame/MassEffect''.
** Speaking of ''Mass Effect'', the psychic vision Holden gets from the Ring Station in "Dandelion Sky" is very reminiscent of the message that Shepard got from the Prothean beacon in the first game.
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* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'':
** If you purchase a drink at the Hanged Man, Hawke's drinking animation is identical to [[Franchise/MassEffect Commander Shepard's]]. Hawke also finishes conversations with the bartender with "Thanks. [[Franchise/MassEffect I should go.]]".
** Also from ''Mass Effect'', the upgrade of the revival spell is called Unity.
** Isabela sometimes shouts, "[[VideoGame/MassEffect1 enemies everywhere]]!" when the fighting starts.
** One quest has you framing a Templar for various illicit activities. The name of the Templar? [[Franchise/MassEffect Ser Conrad Vernhart]].
** When talking to Seneschal Bran in Act 3:
--->'''Bran''': [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 Do the words "political maelstrom" mean anything to you?]]
** "To hunt the wyvern on its ground is to tempt fate. [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 A terrible risk -]] [[MemeticMutation but the prize...]]"
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': Many of the cryptic comments Cole makes are {{Shout Out}}s to novels, films and other video games, mainly by [[InvokedTrope invoking]] ItWasHisSled including "[[VideoGame/MassEffect3 It always had a soul. The question is the answer.]]"
* ''{{VideoGame/Stellaris}}'':
** Some of the species portraits look like the hanar or yahg.
** If the [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe blue, tentacle-haired cute alien girl]] is not a shout-out to ''Film/TheFifthElement'', it's to the asari.
** [[https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingDetails/comments/bshdvd/in_stellaris_2016_your_spaceship_may_randomly_be A possible random event]] is to have your survey ship struck by passing mass driver rounds ''fired from another galaxy billions of years ago'', proving that [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 Sir Isaac Newton really is]] [[https://youtu.be/hLpgxry542M the deadliest son of a bitch in space]].
** It is also possible to find a planet [[http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Patsayev into which someone carved a message]] complaining about his/her/its life.
** An event chain involving sentient machines begins with the question [[http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Legion "Is this unit in possession of a soul?"]]
** The generic, non-specialized machine intelligences are akin to the geth; an isolationistic, live-and-let-live amalgamation of semi-independent, highly-connected programs that are not individually sapient, but together form a greater intelligence.
** The Contingency is a dead-ringer reference to the Reapers, right down to the black-red coloration and using a strange signal to subvert machine populations to turn on your empire. The "Machine Integration" living standard tooltip also reads "Assuming direct control."
** One of the Holy Guardians' Gaia worlds is dubbed Walled Garden, which is the meaning of the quarian homeworld, Rannoch. (Of course, it's also the meaning of the word "paradise," which was also the intent in ''Mass Effect''.)
** A rare, lategame resource is "Zro," an addictive substance that enhances psionic abilities.
** Purchasing assistance from the Curator Enclave to deal with the Infinity Machine grants your empire the [[Memes/BioWare "Infinite Calibrator"]] modifer.
** A possible random event leads to the player deciding between a blue, red or green liquid to modify their population with. The game even says "The effects are unknown but we are assured they are all positive," a clear [[TakeThat jab]] at the ''Mass Effect 3'' endings.
** Relic Worlds, in the ''Ancient Relics'' DLC, are {{City Planet}}s that fell into ruin after their creators died out, much like the planet Feros in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''.
[[AC:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'':
** Pause on Zarkon during the opening sequence and try NOT to see [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 Saren]].
** Also, Zarkon's flagship bears a rather striking resemblance to a Sovereign-class Reaper. Parallels can also be drawn from Zarkon's flagship to the mothership of the [[WesternAnimation/TitanAE Drej]]
** Lance's bayard turns into a rifle that looks like it came straight out of Franchise/MassEffect.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'': The vision Emmet receives when he touches the Piece could just as well have been delivered by a [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 Prothean beacon.]]
[[AC:Live Action TV]]
* ''Series/TheExpanse'': The [[spoiler:protomolecule hybrid]] soldiers look very similar to the Husks from ''VideoGame/MassEffect''.
** Speaking of ''Mass Effect'', the psychic vision Holden gets from the Ring Station in "Dandelion Sky" is very reminiscent of the message that Shepard got from the Prothean beacon in the first game.
[[AC:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'':
** If you purchase a drink at the Hanged Man, Hawke's drinking animation is identical to [[Franchise/MassEffect Commander Shepard's]]. Hawke also finishes conversations with the bartender with "Thanks. [[Franchise/MassEffect I should go.]]".
** Also from ''Mass Effect'', the upgrade of the revival spell is called Unity.
** Isabela sometimes shouts, "[[VideoGame/MassEffect1 enemies everywhere]]!" when the fighting starts.
** One quest has you framing a Templar for various illicit activities. The name of the Templar? [[Franchise/MassEffect Ser Conrad Vernhart]].
** When talking to Seneschal Bran in Act 3:
--->'''Bran''': [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 Do the words "political maelstrom" mean anything to you?]]
** "To hunt the wyvern on its ground is to tempt fate. [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 A terrible risk -]] [[MemeticMutation but the prize...]]"
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': Many of the cryptic comments Cole makes are {{Shout Out}}s to novels, films and other video games, mainly by [[InvokedTrope invoking]] ItWasHisSled including "[[VideoGame/MassEffect3 It always had a soul. The question is the answer.]]"
* ''{{VideoGame/Stellaris}}'':
** Some of the species portraits look like the hanar or yahg.
** If the [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe blue, tentacle-haired cute alien girl]] is not a shout-out to ''Film/TheFifthElement'', it's to the asari.
** [[https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingDetails/comments/bshdvd/in_stellaris_2016_your_spaceship_may_randomly_be A possible random event]] is to have your survey ship struck by passing mass driver rounds ''fired from another galaxy billions of years ago'', proving that [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 Sir Isaac Newton really is]] [[https://youtu.be/hLpgxry542M the deadliest son of a bitch in space]].
** It is also possible to find a planet [[http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Patsayev into which someone carved a message]] complaining about his/her/its life.
** An event chain involving sentient machines begins with the question [[http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Legion "Is this unit in possession of a soul?"]]
** The generic, non-specialized machine intelligences are akin to the geth; an isolationistic, live-and-let-live amalgamation of semi-independent, highly-connected programs that are not individually sapient, but together form a greater intelligence.
** The Contingency is a dead-ringer reference to the Reapers, right down to the black-red coloration and using a strange signal to subvert machine populations to turn on your empire. The "Machine Integration" living standard tooltip also reads "Assuming direct control."
** One of the Holy Guardians' Gaia worlds is dubbed Walled Garden, which is the meaning of the quarian homeworld, Rannoch. (Of course, it's also the meaning of the word "paradise," which was also the intent in ''Mass Effect''.)
** A rare, lategame resource is "Zro," an addictive substance that enhances psionic abilities.
** Purchasing assistance from the Curator Enclave to deal with the Infinity Machine grants your empire the [[Memes/BioWare "Infinite Calibrator"]] modifer.
** A possible random event leads to the player deciding between a blue, red or green liquid to modify their population with. The game even says "The effects are unknown but we are assured they are all positive," a clear [[TakeThat jab]] at the ''Mass Effect 3'' endings.
** Relic Worlds, in the ''Ancient Relics'' DLC, are {{City Planet}}s that fell into ruin after their creators died out, much like the planet Feros in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''.
[[AC:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'':
** Pause on Zarkon during the opening sequence and try NOT to see [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 Saren]].
** Also, Zarkon's flagship bears a rather striking resemblance to a Sovereign-class Reaper. Parallels can also be drawn from Zarkon's flagship to the mothership of the [[WesternAnimation/TitanAE Drej]]
** Lance's bayard turns into a rifle that looks like it came straight out of Franchise/MassEffect.
