History Trivia / MassEffect

* MissingEpisode: The Pinnacle Station DLC, which was released with the original Xbox 360 and PC release, has not been included in the [=PS3=] port or the Legendary Edition remaster for the [=PS4=], Xbox One, and PC. The reason for this was due to the source code of the DLC being lost.

* FanNickname: Pressly's known as "Hugs and Kisses Pressly" on the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' forums.

* ApprovalOfGod: Creator/JamesGunn said that ''Mass Effect'' is one of his favorite video game series.

* CharacterSpecificPages:
** [[Characters/MassEffectCommanderShepard Commander Shepard]]
** [[Characters/MassEffectKaidanAlenko Kaidan Alenko]]
** [[Characters/MassEffectAshleyWilliams Ashley Williams]]
** [[Characters/MassEffectGarrusVakarian Garrus Vakarian]]
** [[Characters/MassEffectLiaraTSoni Liara T'Soni]]
** [[Characters/MassEffectTaliZorah Tali'Zorah]]
** [[Characters/MassEffectUrdnotWrex Urdnot Wrex]]

* UsefulNotes/TheBechdelTest: The series passes with flying colors given that GenderIsNoObject. Lampshaded in the "Citadel" DLC: [=FemShep=] and Miranda Lawson have a scene where they go out for drinks and decide maybe they need to be more feminine, only to both struggle to even string a complete sentence together on more stereotypically feminine topics.

* CelebrityVoiceActor: ''All'' over the place. Creator/SethGreen, Creator/AdamBaldwin, Creator/YvonneStrahovski, Creator/TriciaHelfer, Creator/MartinSheen, Creator/ClaudiaBlack, [[Film/TheMatrix Carrie-Anne Moss]]... the list goes on. In fact, it could be said that the in-development movie could very well be made with many of the characters literally being played by their voices.

* MissingEpisode: The Pinnacle Station DLC, which was released with the original Xbox 360 and PC release, has not been included in the PS3 port or the Legendary Edition remaster for the PS4, Xbox One, and PC. The reason for this was due to the source code of the DLC being lost.

** The series also has several ''Franchise/StarTrek'' alumni voicing many characters: Matriarch Benezia is voiced by Creator/MarinaSirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), the salarian councilor is voiced by Creator/ArminShimerman (Quark), Gatatog Uvenk is voiced by Creator/MichaelDorn (Worf), Navigator Pressely is voiced by Creator/DwightSchultz (Lieutenant Reginald Barclay), and Legion is voiced by Creator/DCDouglas (guest starring as Zepht in an episode of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'').

* ChannelHop: Creator/XboxGameStudios published the initial Xbox 360 version of the first game, but Creator/ElectronicArts published all subsequent entries in the franchise, starting with the first game's PC port.

** The series also has several ''Franchise/StarTrek'' alumni voicing many characters: Matriarch Benezia is voiced by Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), the salarian councilor is voiced by Creator/ArminShimerman (Quark), Gatatog Uvenk is voiced by Creator/MichaelDorn (Worf), Navigator Pressely is voiced by Creator/DwightSchultz (Lieutenant Reginald Barclay), and Legion is voiced by Creator/DCDouglas (guest starring as Zepht in an episode of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'').

* [[VideoGameLongRunners Long Runners]]: Fifteen years and counting, with five main games (one as of yet unreleased), eight episodic expansion packs,[[note]]''Bring Down The Sky'', ''Pinnacle Station'', ''Overlord'', ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'', ''Arrival'', ''Leviathan'', ''Omega'', and ''Citadel'' all have two to six hours of single player content with their own stories, and usually new enemies and weapons/powers to go with them. Add smaller bits of single player DLC with less than two hours like ''Normandy Crash Site'', ''Firewalker'', ''Stolen Memory'', ''Price of Revenge'', and ''From Ashes'', and you've got 25-30 hours total of extra single player content with dozens of new weapons, powers, and enemies - enough for two decent-sized expansion packs.[[/note]] two more-or-less independent multiplayer modes with their own mechanics and extensive unique content,[[note]]Four free expansions were released for ''3'''s, adding thirty playable characters, dozens of new weapons, dozens of powers, seven maps, and a new enemy faction[[/note]] a remaster of the first three games, and two IOS spin-offs, with at least one more main game planned for some time after 2021.

* [[VideoGameLongRunners Long Runners]]: Fourteen years and counting, with four main games, seven episodic expansion packs,[[note]]''Bring Down The Sky'', ''Overlord'', ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'', ''Arrival'', ''Leviathan'', ''Omega'', and ''Citadel'' all have two to six hours of single player content with their own stories, and usually new enemies and weapons/powers to go with them. Add smaller bits of single player DLC with less than two hours like ''Pinnacle Station'', ''Normandy Crash Site'', ''Firewalker'', ''Stolen Memory'', ''Price of Revenge'', and ''From Ashes'', and you've got nearly thirty hours total of extra single player content with dozens of new weapons, powers, and enemies.[[/note]] two more-or-less independent multiplayer modes with their own mechanics and extensive unique content, a remaster of the first three games, and two IOS spin-offs, with at least one more main game planned for some time after 2021.

* FlipFlopOfGod: On the subject of a potential remaster. Bioware has more or less remained silent about the matter, but publisher ''EA'' has gone on record that they aren't interested in remakes... before releasing a 8th gen port of ''VideoGame/BurnoutParadise'' just a few years later.

* LongRunners: Ten years and counting. The series started in either November 2007 with the release of the first game, or May 2007 with the release of the first novel and lore guide, and it was still receiving new content (in the form of MP DLC) by at least December of 2017, with [[https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tech/gaming/639235/Mass-Effect-Andromeda-DLC-BioWare-release-date-Dragon-Age-Anthem plans]] for at least one more main game. Since then the series has had four main games (''1'', ''2'', ''3'', and ''Andromeda''), two more-or-less independent multiplayer modes with their own mechanics and extensive unique content (for ''3'' and ''Andromeda''), and roughly 25 hours of single-player DownloadableContent missions with their own stories. Other content includes 7 novels, 2 GaidenGame IOS titles (''Infiltrator'' and ''Galaxy''), 8 comic book miniseries (rather short ones though), and a straight-to-DVD animated film (''Paragon Lost'').

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Different interviews with writers across the series reveals that many things about the series' overall plot and some bits of lore was more or less constantly in flux and changed around quite a bit as members of the writing team were added or left (most notably the lead writer for the first ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'', Drew Karpyshyn, left around half-way through the production of [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 the second game]] and was replaced by Mac Walters). According to interviews in the interactive documentary about [[VideoGame/MassEffect the third game]], ''Final Hours'', the (quite controversial) ending was not decided upon up until a few months before the game's release.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: Almost example, as Mark Meer ([=MaleShep=]) is married to Belinda Cornish, who voices Rana Thanoptis, the asari scientist who shows up on Virmire and has a minor role in the next two games. Don't forget that, in the first game, [[HarsherInHindsight Shep has the option to ''shoot'' Rana]]. [[spoiler: Turns out she was indoctrinated anyway.]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: At one point, it was going to be possible to [[spoiler:save both Kaidan and Ashley. This was removed when the developers realized no one would want to go on to further games with one of them dead if given the option]].
** When Creator/DrewKarpyshyn was still attached as head writer, the Reapers' motivation was originally linked to the buildup of dark matter in the galaxy from overuse of eezo; hence the strange readings from Haestrom's sun in ''Mass Effect 2'' (see AbortedArc). Their rationale was going to be that the energy can't accrue if there's nobody in the galaxy advanced enough to make it. When Karpyshyn was re-assigned to ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' after ''Mass Effect 2'', the new writers instead went with [[spoiler: the general conflict between organics and synthetics]] we see in ''Mass Effect 3''.

* CashCowFranchise: Four novellas, two comics (plus two free mini-comics), and three spinoff [[IOSGames iPhone]] games, so far.

* AscendedFanon: It was a common enough trope in ''Mass Effect'' FanFic to have ''both'' John and Jane Shepherd as protagonists, usually depicted as a BrotherSisterTeam. What's ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'' got on the character creation screen? Yup. Ryder has an opposite-sex twin that you customize in the same way.

* BeamMeUpScotty: Shepard's flirting can be cringeworthy, but s/he never says "We'll bang, okay?" in-game. That quote originated from a Youtube Poop that mashed together several Shepard lines out of context.

* AscendedFanon: It was a common enough trope in ''Mass Effect'' FanFic to have ''both'' John and Jane Shepherd as protagonists, usually depicted as a BrotherSisterTeam. [[note]] This originated from ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' fandom where two Revans were used as a nod to the Skywalker twins, and a way to have both the canonical male Revan and the fan-preferred female Revan [[/note]]. What's ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'' got on the character creation screen? Yup. Ryder has an opposite-sex twin that you customize in the same way.