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'''Instead:''' She refuses to listen to Shepard, attempts a PreAssKickingOneLiner, and powers up her biotics. By which point Shepard and squad have already knocked her out of it using ''their'' biotics, disabled her squad's weapons and defenses, and finished them all off with a hail of gunfire.
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** Kaira Sterling is a security officer at Port Hanshan on Noveria. When a firefight breaks out in the Synthetic Insights headquarters, Kaira responds with a squad of about half a dozen. Unbeknownst to her, the CorruptCorporateExecutive had shut the company down because the manager had evidence of his corruption. She gets there to find the dozen or so bodies of the team of cops he'd sent to toss the place looking for it, and Commander Shepard's squad coming out of the manager's office.\\
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** Kaira Sterling is a security officer at Port Hanshan on Noveria. When a firefight breaks out in the Synthetic Insights headquarters, Kaira responds with a squad of about half a dozen. Unbeknownst to her, the CorruptCorporateExecutive in charge of Port Hanshan had shut the company down because the manager had evidence of his corruption.that he was corrupt, even by [[WretchedHive Port Hanshan's]] standards. She gets there to find the dozen or so bodies of the team of cops he'd sent to toss the place looking for it, and Commander Shepard's squad coming out of the manager's office.\\
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** Kaira Sterling is a security officer at Port Hanshan on Noveria. When a firefight breaks out in the Synthetic Insights headquarters, Kaira responds with a squad of about half a dozen. Unbeknownst to her, the CorruptCorporateExecutive had shut the company down because the manager had evidence of his corruption. She gets there to find the dozen or so bodies of the team of cops he'd sent to toss the place, and Commander Shepard's squad coming out of the manager's office.\\
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** Kaira Sterling is a security officer at Port Hanshan on Noveria. When a firefight breaks out in the Synthetic Insights headquarters, Kaira responds with a squad of about half a dozen. Unbeknownst to her, the CorruptCorporateExecutive had shut the company down because the manager had evidence of his corruption. She gets there to find the dozen or so bodies of the team of cops he'd sent to toss the place, place looking for it, and Commander Shepard's squad coming out of the manager's office.\\
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* Kaira Sterling is a security officer at Port Hanshan on Noveria. When a firefight breaks out in the Synthetic Insights headquarters, Kaira responds with a squad of about half a dozen. Unbeknownst to her, the CorruptCorporateExecutive had shut the company down because the manager had evidence of his corruption. She gets there to find the dozen or so bodies of the team of cops he'd sent to toss the place, and Commander Shepard's squad coming out of the manager's office.\\
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** Kaira Sterling is a security officer at Port Hanshan on Noveria. When a firefight breaks out in the Synthetic Insights headquarters, Kaira responds with a squad of about half a dozen. Unbeknownst to her, the CorruptCorporateExecutive had shut the company down because the manager had evidence of his corruption. She gets there to find the dozen or so bodies of the team of cops he'd sent to toss the place, and Commander Shepard's squad coming out of the manager's office.\\
** Kaira Sterling is a security officer at Port Hanshan on Noveria. When a firefight breaks out in the Synthetic Insights headquarters, Kaira responds with a squad of about half a dozen. Unbeknownst to her, the CorruptCorporateExecutive had shut the company down because the manager had evidence of his corruption. She gets there to find the dozen or so bodies of the team of cops he'd sent to toss the place, and Commander Shepard's squad coming out of the manager's office.\\
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* Kaira Sterling is a security officer at Port Hanshan on Noveria. When a firefight breaks out in the Synthetic Insights headquarters, Kaira responds with a squad of about half a dozen. Unbeknownst to her, the CorruptCorporateExecutive had shut the company down because the manager had evidence of his corruption. She gets there to find the dozen or so bodies of the team of cops he'd sent to toss the place, and Commander Shepard's squad coming out of the manager's office.\\
'''You'd Think:''' Kaira would connect the three armed and armored badasses, the leader of which she learned is a confirmed Spectre in their previous encounter, to the room full of dead bodies she walked through to get to them. With that in mind, she would put aside the hostility she's had against Shepard since they landed and just walk away.\\
'''Instead:''' She refuses to listen to Shepard, attempts a PreAssKickingOneLiner, and powers up her biotics. By which point Shepard and squad have already knocked her out of it using ''their'' biotics, disabled her squad's weapons and defenses, and finished them all off with a hail of gunfire.
'''You'd Think:''' Kaira would connect the three armed and armored badasses, the leader of which she learned is a confirmed Spectre in their previous encounter, to the room full of dead bodies she walked through to get to them. With that in mind, she would put aside the hostility she's had against Shepard since they landed and just walk away.\\
'''Instead:''' She refuses to listen to Shepard, attempts a PreAssKickingOneLiner, and powers up her biotics. By which point Shepard and squad have already knocked her out of it using ''their'' biotics, disabled her squad's weapons and defenses, and finished them all off with a hail of gunfire.
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'''Instead''': The villain just fires Traynor and kicks her off the ship, allowing Traynor to aid the real Shepard in regaining access to the Normandy before it can leave.
** The Reapers beginning their next cycle in Mass Effect 3: The Reapers have finally arrived and quickly take Earth, Shepard leaves to get help at the Citadel from the council.\\
'''You'd Expect''': They'd use their usual plan they've had in each cycle and lock out the Mass Relays so they could trap Shepard and complete the cycle with little to no resistance.\\
'''Instead''': They don't do this at all, Shepard ends up stopping them in all but the Refusal Ending because they let him travel the galaxy without any restrictions and obtain everything he needed to stop them.
** The Reapers beginning their next cycle in Mass Effect 3: The Reapers have finally arrived and quickly take Earth, Shepard leaves to get help at the Citadel from the council.\\
'''You'd Expect''': They'd use their usual plan they've had in each cycle and lock out the Mass Relays so they could trap Shepard and complete the cycle with little to no resistance.\\
'''Instead''': They don't do this at all, Shepard ends up stopping them in all but the Refusal Ending because they let him travel the galaxy without any restrictions and obtain everything he needed to stop them.
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'''Instead''': The villain just fires Traynor and kicks her off the ship, allowing Traynor to aid the real Shepard in regaining access to the Normandy before it can leave.
** The Reapers beginning their next cycle in Mass Effect 3: The Reapers have finally arrived and quickly take Earth, Shepard leaves to get help at the Citadel from the council.\\
'''You'd Expect''': They'd use their usual plan they've had in each cycle and lock out the Mass Relays so they could trap Shepard and complete the cycle with little to no resistance.\\
'''Instead''': They don't do this at all, Shepard ends up stopping them in all but the Refusal Ending because they let him travel the galaxy without any restrictions and obtain everything he needed to stop them.leave.
** The Reapers beginning their next cycle in Mass Effect 3: The Reapers have finally arrived and quickly take Earth, Shepard leaves to get help at the Citadel from the council.\\
'''You'd Expect''': They'd use their usual plan they've had in each cycle and lock out the Mass Relays so they could trap Shepard and complete the cycle with little to no resistance.\\
'''Instead''': They don't do this at all, Shepard ends up stopping them in all but the Refusal Ending because they let him travel the galaxy without any restrictions and obtain everything he needed to stop them.
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** The Reapers beginning their next cycle in Mass Effect 3: The Reapers have finally arrived and quickly take Earth, Shepard leaves to get help at the Citadel from the council.
'''You'd Expect''': They'd use their usual plan they've had in each cycle and lock out the Mass Relays so they could trap Shepard and complete the cycle with little to no resistance.
'''You'd Expect''': They'd use their usual plan they've had in each cycle and lock out the Mass Relays so they could trap Shepard and complete the cycle with little to no resistance.
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** The Reapers beginning their next cycle in Mass Effect 3: The Reapers have finally arrived and quickly take Earth, Shepard leaves to get help at the Citadel from the council.
council.\\
'''You'd Expect''': They'd use their usual plan they've had in each cycle and lock out the Mass Relays so they could trap Shepard and complete the cycle with little to no resistance.\\
'''You'd Expect''': They'd use their usual plan they've had in each cycle and lock out the Mass Relays so they could trap Shepard and complete the cycle with little to no resistance.\\
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'''Instead''': The villain just fires Traynor and kicks her off the ship, allowing Traynor to aid the real Shepard in regaining access to the Normandy before it can leave.
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'''Instead''': The villain just fires Traynor and kicks her off the ship, allowing Traynor to aid the real Shepard in regaining access to the Normandy before it can leave.leave.
** The Reapers beginning their next cycle in Mass Effect 3: The Reapers have finally arrived and quickly take Earth, Shepard leaves to get help at the Citadel from the council.
'''You'd Expect''': They'd use their usual plan they've had in each cycle and lock out the Mass Relays so they could trap Shepard and complete the cycle with little to no resistance.
'''Instead''': They don't do this at all, Shepard ends up stopping them in all but the Refusal Ending because they let him travel the galaxy without any restrictions and obtain everything he needed to stop them.
** The Reapers beginning their next cycle in Mass Effect 3: The Reapers have finally arrived and quickly take Earth, Shepard leaves to get help at the Citadel from the council.
'''You'd Expect''': They'd use their usual plan they've had in each cycle and lock out the Mass Relays so they could trap Shepard and complete the cycle with little to no resistance.
'''Instead''': They don't do this at all, Shepard ends up stopping them in all but the Refusal Ending because they let him travel the galaxy without any restrictions and obtain everything he needed to stop them.
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'''Instead''': All the galactic empires want a favor before they join the coalition. The Salarians are particularly stupid: they refuse to join the coalition unless Shepard sabotages the cure for the Genophage, out of fear that it will make the Krogan too strong in the post-war Galaxy. They don't realize that without their help, there might not be any post-war Galaxy to speak of.\\
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'''Instead''': All the galactic empires want a favor before they join the coalition. The Salarians are particularly stupid: they refuse to join the coalition unless Shepard sabotages the cure for the Genophage, out of fear that it will make the Krogan too strong in the post-war Galaxy. They don't realize that without their help, there might not be any post-war Galaxy to speak of.\\
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'''Instead''': Allied ground forces attempt to [[ZergRush zerg rush]] the Conduit through an enemy-infested urban area with seemingly no orbital support whatsoever. Many of the troops are killed by AA fire before they even reach the ground. The resulting assault turns out about as well as you'd expect.\\
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'''Instead''': Allied ground forces attempt to [[ZergRush zerg rush]] the Conduit through an enemy-infested urban area with seemingly no orbital support whatsoever. Many of the troops are killed by AA fire before they even reach the ground. The resulting assault turns out about as well as you'd expect.\\
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** The Reapers have invaded the Galaxy, utterly [[ CurbStompBattle curb-stomping]] the Batarians and the Humans in days. They are clearly an apocalyptic threat.\\
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** The Reapers have invaded the Galaxy, utterly [[ CurbStompBattle [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomping]] the Batarians and the Humans in days. They are clearly an apocalyptic threat.\\
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'''You'd Expect''': The allied forces detach a few ships from the battle in Earth's orbit to bombard the city, at least enough to take out the AA cannons and the Reaper Destroyer, which were previously shown to be vulnerable to this very same tactic on Rannoch. The way is cleared for the ground forces to move in.
'''Instead''': Allied ground forces attempt to [[ZergRush zerg rush]] the Conduit through an enemy-infested urban area with seemingly no orbital support whatsoever. Many of the troops are killed by AA fire before they even reach the ground. The resulting assault turns out about as well as you'd expect.
'''Instead''': Allied ground forces attempt to [[ZergRush zerg rush]] the Conduit through an enemy-infested urban area with seemingly no orbital support whatsoever. Many of the troops are killed by AA fire before they even reach the ground. The resulting assault turns out about as well as you'd expect.
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'''You'd Expect''': The allied forces detach a few ships from the battle in Earth's orbit to bombard the city, at least enough to take out the AA cannons and the Reaper Destroyer, which were previously shown to be vulnerable to this very same tactic on Rannoch. The way is cleared for the ground forces to move in.
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'''Instead''': Allied ground forces attempt to [[ZergRush zerg rush]] the Conduit through an enemy-infested urban area with seemingly no orbital support whatsoever. Many of the troops are killed by AA fire before they even reach the ground. The resulting assault turns out about as well as you'dexpect.
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'''Instead''': Allied ground forces attempt to [[ZergRush zerg rush]] the Conduit through an enemy-infested urban area with seemingly no orbital support whatsoever. Many of the troops are killed by AA fire before they even reach the ground. The resulting assault turns out about as well as you'd
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** The Reapers have invaded the Galaxy, utterly [[ CurbStompBattle curb-stomping]] the Batarians and the Humans in days. They are clearly an apocalyptic threat.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The remaining military forces in the galaxy immediately put aside their differences and form a coalition for a united defense against the Reapers.\\
'''Instead''': All the galactic empires want a favor before they join the coalition. The Salarians are particularly stupid: they refuse to join the coalition unless Shepard sabotages the cure for the Genophage, out of fear that it will make the Krogan too strong in the post-war Galaxy. They don't realize that without their help, there might not be any post-war Galaxy to speak of.\\
** The Attack on Earth: The allied forces need to get troops to the Conduit, the only entrance to the Citadel. The Conduit is located in London and is heavily guarded by AA cannons, Reaper ground troops, and a Reaper destroyer.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The allied forces detach a few ships from the battle in Earth's orbit to bombard the city, at least enough to take out the AA cannons and the Reaper Destroyer, which were previously shown to be vulnerable to this very same tactic on Rannoch. The way is cleared for the ground forces to move in.
'''Instead''': Allied ground forces attempt to [[ZergRush zerg rush]] the Conduit through an enemy-infested urban area with seemingly no orbital support whatsoever. Many of the troops are killed by AA fire before they even reach the ground. The resulting assault turns out about as well as you'd expect.
'''You'd Expect''': The remaining military forces in the galaxy immediately put aside their differences and form a coalition for a united defense against the Reapers.\\
'''Instead''': All the galactic empires want a favor before they join the coalition. The Salarians are particularly stupid: they refuse to join the coalition unless Shepard sabotages the cure for the Genophage, out of fear that it will make the Krogan too strong in the post-war Galaxy. They don't realize that without their help, there might not be any post-war Galaxy to speak of.\\
** The Attack on Earth: The allied forces need to get troops to the Conduit, the only entrance to the Citadel. The Conduit is located in London and is heavily guarded by AA cannons, Reaper ground troops, and a Reaper destroyer.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The allied forces detach a few ships from the battle in Earth's orbit to bombard the city, at least enough to take out the AA cannons and the Reaper Destroyer, which were previously shown to be vulnerable to this very same tactic on Rannoch. The way is cleared for the ground forces to move in.
'''Instead''': Allied ground forces attempt to [[ZergRush zerg rush]] the Conduit through an enemy-infested urban area with seemingly no orbital support whatsoever. Many of the troops are killed by AA fire before they even reach the ground. The resulting assault turns out about as well as you'd expect.
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That one is reasonably explained: the mutiny prevented him from ridding the evidence/the guy was clearly pretty insane to begin with. For Kai Leng vs Thane, that's a matter of Gameplay Story Segregation.
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** And again in Mass Effect 2, in Jacob's Loyalty Mission you discover that his father had deliberately not activated a distress beacon while on a deserted planet and instead had turned the crew into his slaves via local food that was mentally damaging them.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Him to realize that sooner or later his supplies of clean food would eventually run out and he would have to activate that distress beacon so he should make sure that his slaves aren't holding on to anything that would incriminate him. At the very least you would expect him to realize this when his food ''does'' run out and he activates the distress beacon.\\
'''Instead''': He not only left untouched a series of log entries at his crashed ship[[note]] that, while suspicious, didn't directly incriminate him[[/note]] he permitted one of his slaves to keep a record that directly stated that he had enslaved them and murdered any officers who got in his way. When a rescue team in the form of Shepard arrives he doesn't even bother to try to come up with a good lie.
'''You'd Expect''': Him to realize that sooner or later his supplies of clean food would eventually run out and he would have to activate that distress beacon so he should make sure that his slaves aren't holding on to anything that would incriminate him. At the very least you would expect him to realize this when his food ''does'' run out and he activates the distress beacon.\\
'''Instead''': He not only left untouched a series of log entries at his crashed ship[[note]] that, while suspicious, didn't directly incriminate him[[/note]] he permitted one of his slaves to keep a record that directly stated that he had enslaved them and murdered any officers who got in his way. When a rescue team in the form of Shepard arrives he doesn't even bother to try to come up with a good lie.
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'''Instead''': Shepard opens the door and starts shooting with a [[EmergencyWeapon Predator pistol]] [[GameplayAndStorySegregation s/he probably wasn't even carrying]], Kai Leng then sabotages their car and causes them to crash, allowing Cerberus to get a head start on the race to the Council.
** Leng himself is equally vulnerable to them at times.\\
'''Overview''': Kai Leng is attacking the salarian Councillor, when suddenly [[HandicappedBadass Thane Krios]] jumps out of nowhere.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Kai Leng to simply [[InvisibilityCloak hide]] and [[AssassinOutclassin stab Thane]] followed by the Councillor before fleeing Shepard and his/her squad. Or, failing that, at least activate his DeflectorShields to [[NoSell deflect]] Thane's biotic and melee attacks and any possible crossfire from Team Shepard should Thane move out of [[GameplayAndStorySegregation friendly fire range]].\\
'''Instead''': Kai Leng decides to get embroiled in [[GoodOldFisticuffs a stand-up fight]] with the sick drell, buying the Councillor time to escape, and costing Cerberus their objective.
** Leng himself is equally vulnerable to them at times.\\
'''Overview''': Kai Leng is attacking the salarian Councillor, when suddenly [[HandicappedBadass Thane Krios]] jumps out of nowhere.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Kai Leng to simply [[InvisibilityCloak hide]] and [[AssassinOutclassin stab Thane]] followed by the Councillor before fleeing Shepard and his/her squad. Or, failing that, at least activate his DeflectorShields to [[NoSell deflect]] Thane's biotic and melee attacks and any possible crossfire from Team Shepard should Thane move out of [[GameplayAndStorySegregation friendly fire range]].\\
'''Instead''': Kai Leng decides to get embroiled in [[GoodOldFisticuffs a stand-up fight]] with the sick drell, buying the Councillor time to escape, and costing Cerberus their objective.
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'''Instead''': Shepard opens the door and starts shooting with a [[EmergencyWeapon Predator pistol]] [[GameplayAndStorySegregation s/he probably wasn't even carrying]], pistol]], Kai Leng then sabotages their car and causes them to crash, allowing Cerberus to get a head start on the race to the Council.
** Leng himself is equally vulnerable to them at times.\\
'''Overview''': Kai Leng is attacking the salarian Councillor, when suddenly [[HandicappedBadass Thane Krios]] jumps out of nowhere.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Kai Leng to simply [[InvisibilityCloak hide]] and [[AssassinOutclassin stab Thane]] followed by the Councillor before fleeing Shepard and his/her squad. Or, failing that, at least activate his DeflectorShields to [[NoSell deflect]] Thane's biotic and melee attacks and any possible crossfire from Team Shepard should Thane move out of [[GameplayAndStorySegregation friendly fire range]].\\
'''Instead''': Kai Leng decides to get embroiled in [[GoodOldFisticuffs a stand-up fight]] with the sick drell, buying the Councillor time to escape, and costing Cerberus their objective.Council.
** Leng himself is equally vulnerable to them at times.\\
'''Overview''': Kai Leng is attacking the salarian Councillor, when suddenly [[HandicappedBadass Thane Krios]] jumps out of nowhere.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Kai Leng to simply [[InvisibilityCloak hide]] and [[AssassinOutclassin stab Thane]] followed by the Councillor before fleeing Shepard and his/her squad. Or, failing that, at least activate his DeflectorShields to [[NoSell deflect]] Thane's biotic and melee attacks and any possible crossfire from Team Shepard should Thane move out of [[GameplayAndStorySegregation friendly fire range]].\\
'''Instead''': Kai Leng decides to get embroiled in [[GoodOldFisticuffs a stand-up fight]] with the sick drell, buying the Councillor time to escape, and costing Cerberus their objective.
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** Another example, this one on part of the player. Late in the game, and assuming he/she took the [[GuideDangIt necessary steps]] to recruit Morinth, she will invite Shepard over to [[UnusualEuphemism meld]] with each other. Morinth is a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] [[HornyDevils Ardat]]-[[TheVamp Yakshi]] and SerialKiller with the ability to control people's minds, an ability Shepard resisted in the past to betray Samara, Morinth's mother. Morinth claims that Shepard's HeroicWillpower will enable him/her to survive the process, despite the fact nobody in recorded history has ever survived an Ardat-Yakshi's melding.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Shepard to decline the offer, what with the imminent war against the Reapers putting enough of a threat to his/her health.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard can choose to meld with Morinth, resulting in a NonStandardGameOver.
'''You'd Expect''': Shepard to decline the offer, what with the imminent war against the Reapers putting enough of a threat to his/her health.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard can choose to meld with Morinth, resulting in a NonStandardGameOver.
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'''Instead''': Shepard can choose to meld with Morinth, resulting in a NonStandardGameOver. In his/her defense, this one is completely on you.
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'''Instead''': Shepard can choose to meld with Morinth, resulting in a NonStandardGameOver. In his/her defense, this one is completely on you.
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'''Instead''': Shepard can choose to meld with Morinth, resulting in a NonStandardGameOver.
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'''Instead''': Shepard can choose to meld with Morinth, resulting in a NonStandardGameOver. In his/her defense, this one is completely on you.
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'''Instead''': The quarians, sensing a chance to completely destroy their old enemy and recover their homeworld, launch an attack with the new weapons that render the geth helpless. While initially successful, the quarians damage the geth's overall cognitive ability, and the greatly reduced Geth Consensus turns to the Reapers for immediate help. The upgraded geth trap the Migrant Fleet inside the Rannoch mass relay so they can't escape, and even if Shepard brokers a peace between them, the damage both sides suffered in the war reduces their ability to fight the Reapers.
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'''Instead''': The quarians, sensing a chance to completely destroy their old enemy and recover their homeworld, launch an attack with the new weapons that render the geth helpless. While initially successful, the quarians damage the geth's overall cognitive ability, and the greatly reduced Geth Consensus turns to the Reapers for immediate help. The upgraded geth trap the Migrant Fleet inside the Rannoch mass relay so they can't escape, and even if Shepard brokers a peace between them, the damage both sides suffered in the war reduces their ability to fight the Reapers.Reapers.
** The Citadel DLC: A villainous impostor pretending to be Shepard has just seized control of the Normandy with a squad of mercenaries.\\
'''You'd Expect''': They would kill all witnesses, ensuring that nobody could report the people inexplicably wearing CAT-6 armour accompanying Shepard, thereby easing the identity theft.\\
'''Instead''': The villain just fires Traynor and kicks her off the ship, allowing Traynor to aid the real Shepard in regaining access to the Normandy before it can leave.
** The Citadel DLC: A villainous impostor pretending to be Shepard has just seized control of the Normandy with a squad of mercenaries.\\
'''You'd Expect''': They would kill all witnesses, ensuring that nobody could report the people inexplicably wearing CAT-6 armour accompanying Shepard, thereby easing the identity theft.\\
'''Instead''': The villain just fires Traynor and kicks her off the ship, allowing Traynor to aid the real Shepard in regaining access to the Normandy before it can leave.
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Leng himself is equally vulnerable to them at times.
** '''Overview''': Kai Leng is attacking the salarian Councillor, when suddenly [[HandicappedBadass Thane Krios]] jumps out of nowhere.
** '''You'd Expect''': Kai Leng to simply [[InvisibilityCloak hide]] and [[AssassinOutclassin stab Thane]] followed by the Councillor before fleeing Shepard and his/her squad. Or, failing that, at least activate his DeflectorShields to [[NoSell deflect]] Thane's biotic and melee attacks and any possible crossfire from Team Shepard should Thane move out of [[GameplayAndStorySegregation friendly fire range]].
** '''Instead''': Kai Leng decides to get embroiled in [[GoodOldFisticuffs a stand-up fight]] with the sick drell, buying the Councillor time to escape, and costing Cerberus their objective.
** '''Overview''': Kai Leng is attacking the salarian Councillor, when suddenly [[HandicappedBadass Thane Krios]] jumps out of nowhere.
** '''You'd Expect''': Kai Leng to simply [[InvisibilityCloak hide]] and [[AssassinOutclassin stab Thane]] followed by the Councillor before fleeing Shepard and his/her squad. Or, failing that, at least activate his DeflectorShields to [[NoSell deflect]] Thane's biotic and melee attacks and any possible crossfire from Team Shepard should Thane move out of [[GameplayAndStorySegregation friendly fire range]].
** '''Instead''': Kai Leng decides to get embroiled in [[GoodOldFisticuffs a stand-up fight]] with the sick drell, buying the Councillor time to escape, and costing Cerberus their objective.
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** Leng himself is equally vulnerable to them at times.
**times.\\
'''Overview''': Kai Leng is attacking the salarian Councillor, when suddenly [[HandicappedBadass Thane Krios]] jumps out ofnowhere.
**nowhere.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Kai Leng to simply [[InvisibilityCloak hide]] and [[AssassinOutclassin stab Thane]] followed by the Councillor before fleeing Shepard and his/her squad. Or, failing that, at least activate his DeflectorShields to [[NoSell deflect]] Thane's biotic and melee attacks and any possible crossfire from Team Shepard should Thane move out of [[GameplayAndStorySegregation friendly firerange]].
**range]].\\
'''Instead''': Kai Leng decides to get embroiled in [[GoodOldFisticuffs a stand-up fight]] with the sick drell, buying the Councillor time to escape, and costing Cerberus their objective.
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'''You'd Expect''': Kai Leng to simply [[InvisibilityCloak hide]] and [[AssassinOutclassin stab Thane]] followed by the Councillor before fleeing Shepard and his/her squad. Or, failing that, at least activate his DeflectorShields to [[NoSell deflect]] Thane's biotic and melee attacks and any possible crossfire from Team Shepard should Thane move out of [[GameplayAndStorySegregation friendly fire
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'''Instead''': Kai Leng decides to get embroiled in [[GoodOldFisticuffs a stand-up fight]] with the sick drell, buying the Councillor time to escape, and costing Cerberus their objective.
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** Kai Leng's special ability seems to be channeling {{Idiot Ball}}s, since everyone who goes near him starts acting stupid:
** '''Overview''': Shepard and his squad are en route via aircar to intercept Ceberus as they move towards the Council members, when Kai Leng suddenly jumps on the roof of their car.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Shepard to start swerving the car to send Kai Leng flying, or make him smack into one of the many underpasses that the car is flying past.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard opens the door and starts shooting, missing every shot presumably due to the high altitude winds, Kai Leng then sabotages their car and causes them to crash, allowing Ceberus to get a head start on the race to the Council.
** '''Overview''': Shepard and his squad are en route via aircar to intercept Ceberus as they move towards the Council members, when Kai Leng suddenly jumps on the roof of their car.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Shepard to start swerving the car to send Kai Leng flying, or make him smack into one of the many underpasses that the car is flying past.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard opens the door and starts shooting, missing every shot presumably due to the high altitude winds, Kai Leng then sabotages their car and causes them to crash, allowing Ceberus to get a head start on the race to the Council.
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** Kai Leng's special ability seems to be channeling {{Idiot Ball}}s, since everyone who goes near him starts acting in ways that often seem stupid:
** '''Overview''': Shepard and his squad are en route via aircar to interceptCeberus Cerberus as they move towards the Council members, when Kai Leng suddenly jumps on the roof of their car.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Shepard to start swerving the car to attempt to send Kai Leng flying, or make him smack into one of the many underpasses that the car is flyingpast.past, and at least heavily weaken his DeflectorShields as he uses them to hang onto the vehicle.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard opens the door and startsshooting, missing every shot presumably due to the high altitude winds, shooting with a [[EmergencyWeapon Predator pistol]] [[GameplayAndStorySegregation s/he probably wasn't even carrying]], Kai Leng then sabotages their car and causes them to crash, allowing Ceberus Cerberus to get a head start on the race to the Council.Council.
Leng himself is equally vulnerable to them at times.
** '''Overview''': Kai Leng is attacking the salarian Councillor, when suddenly [[HandicappedBadass Thane Krios]] jumps out of nowhere.
** '''You'd Expect''': Kai Leng to simply [[InvisibilityCloak hide]] and [[AssassinOutclassin stab Thane]] followed by the Councillor before fleeing Shepard and his/her squad. Or, failing that, at least activate his DeflectorShields to [[NoSell deflect]] Thane's biotic and melee attacks and any possible crossfire from Team Shepard should Thane move out of [[GameplayAndStorySegregation friendly fire range]].
** '''Instead''': Kai Leng decides to get embroiled in [[GoodOldFisticuffs a stand-up fight]] with the sick drell, buying the Councillor time to escape, and costing Cerberus their objective.
** '''Overview''': Shepard and his squad are en route via aircar to intercept
'''You'd Expect''': Shepard to start swerving the car to attempt to send Kai Leng flying, or make him smack into one of the many underpasses that the car is flying
'''Instead''': Shepard opens the door and starts
Leng himself is equally vulnerable to them at times.
** '''Overview''': Kai Leng is attacking the salarian Councillor, when suddenly [[HandicappedBadass Thane Krios]] jumps out of nowhere.
** '''You'd Expect''': Kai Leng to simply [[InvisibilityCloak hide]] and [[AssassinOutclassin stab Thane]] followed by the Councillor before fleeing Shepard and his/her squad. Or, failing that, at least activate his DeflectorShields to [[NoSell deflect]] Thane's biotic and melee attacks and any possible crossfire from Team Shepard should Thane move out of [[GameplayAndStorySegregation friendly fire range]].
** '''Instead''': Kai Leng decides to get embroiled in [[GoodOldFisticuffs a stand-up fight]] with the sick drell, buying the Councillor time to escape, and costing Cerberus their objective.
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** Warden Kuril, the head honcho of [[TheAlcatraz the Purgatory prison ship]], welcomes Shepard and two other armed companions ([[hottip:who are any of the following: a high ranking operative for one of the most powerful terrorist organizations in the galaxy; a seasoned lieutenant to same; a mercenary renowned for his ruthlessness and extremely high salary; a former C-Sec Officer and one time Spectre candidate who single-handedly held off three of the most ruthless mercenary groups in the galaxy in the heart of the Terminus Systems (INCLUDING the same mercenary group Warden Kuril is a part of), on a station renowned for being the galaxy's WretchedHive for ''three days'' with just a sniper rifle; a master thief so adept at her craft that no one recognises her hacking an advertisement terminal in a public space in broad daylight, or speaking to a woman/man who is both thought dead and renowned as a legendary figure for stopping Saren and the Geth; a scientist who killed people with ''farming equipment'' and participated in mass population control experiments; and a genetically engineered member of a race of BloodKnight[=s=] previously under the care of a big shot warlord]]) on board with aims to kidnap them and sell them off to slavers.\\
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** Warden Kuril, the head honcho of [[TheAlcatraz the Purgatory prison ship]], welcomes Shepard and two other armed companions ([[hottip:who ([[labelnote:who are any of the following: following]] a high ranking operative for one of the most powerful terrorist organizations in the galaxy; a seasoned lieutenant to same; a mercenary renowned for his ruthlessness and extremely high salary; a former C-Sec Officer and one time Spectre candidate who single-handedly held off three of the most ruthless mercenary groups in the galaxy in the heart of the Terminus Systems (INCLUDING the same mercenary group Warden Kuril is a part of), on a station renowned for being the galaxy's WretchedHive for ''three days'' with just a sniper rifle; a master thief so adept at her craft that no one recognises her hacking an advertisement terminal in a public space in broad daylight, or speaking to a woman/man who is both thought dead and renowned as a legendary figure for stopping Saren and the Geth; a scientist who killed people with ''farming equipment'' and participated in mass population control experiments; and a genetically engineered member of a race of BloodKnight[=s=] previously under the care of a big shot warlord]]) warlord[[/labelnote]]) on board with aims to kidnap them and sell them off to slavers.\\
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'''Instead''': He not only left untouched a series of log entries at his crashed ship[[hottip:note: that, while suspicious, didn't directly incriminate him]] he permitted one of his slaves to keep a record that directly stated that he had enslaved them and murdered any officers who got in his way. When a rescue team in the form of Shepard arrives he doesn't even bother to try to come up with a good lie.
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'''Instead''': He not only left untouched a series of log entries at his crashed ship[[hottip:note: ship[[note]] that, while suspicious, didn't directly incriminate him]] him[[/note]] he permitted one of his slaves to keep a record that directly stated that he had enslaved them and murdered any officers who got in his way. When a rescue team in the form of Shepard arrives he doesn't even bother to try to come up with a good lie.
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'''Instead''': The quarians, sensing a chance to completely destroy their old enemy and recover their homeworld, launch an attack with the new weapons that render the geth helpless. While initially successful, the quarians damage the geth's overall cognitive ability, and the greatly reduced Geth Consensus turns to the Reapers for immediate help. The upgraded geth trap the Migrant Fleet inside the Rannoch mass relay so they can't escape, and even if Shepard brokers a peace between them, the damage both sides suffered in the war reduces their ability to fight the Reapers.
** As we learn in the codex, after Sovereign was destroyed, the Turians reverse-engineered it's main weapon and produced the [[WaveMotionGun Thanix Cannon]], a new highly effective heat based weapon that burns through kinetic barriers (a form of shielding used by everyone, including Reapers and that these weapons have been fitted on most of the Turian and Alliance fleet.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Liberal and continuous use of Thanix Cannons which fire molten metal at near the speed of light and can do so reliably and at long range every 5 seconds to more effectively combat the Reapers.\\
'''Instead''': All ships in every battle seen in the entirety of MassEffect3 paradoxically use their conventional mass accelerator weapons despite inferior range and firepower and the incredible threat they face.
** In the so-called 4th ending added by the Extended Cut, Shepard can refuse the choices given by the Catalyst. The [[CompleteMonster Catalyst's]] reaction is to show it's true colors, bellow in it's actual Reaper voice and then declare that "the cycle will continue" despite [[BlatantLies previously claiming that it's cycle was obsolete mere moments ago]]. The stage is set. The BigBad has revealed that everything it has said is a lie, it's Faustian deal has been rejected. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Commander Shepard, a hero who previously has never given up no matter how hopeless the situation to step up and do anything to stop the Catalyst and the Reapers. Finding a way back to the fleet. Informing everyone of the truth. Maybe sacrificing themselves to destroy the Citadel tower the Catalyst may inhabit. Something. Anything.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard stands there with a mopey sad face and gives up. [[TakeThatAudience Everybody in the galaxy dies for rejecting the "artistic" original 3 endings.]]
** As we learn in the codex, after Sovereign was destroyed, the Turians reverse-engineered it's main weapon and produced the [[WaveMotionGun Thanix Cannon]], a new highly effective heat based weapon that burns through kinetic barriers (a form of shielding used by everyone, including Reapers and that these weapons have been fitted on most of the Turian and Alliance fleet.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Liberal and continuous use of Thanix Cannons which fire molten metal at near the speed of light and can do so reliably and at long range every 5 seconds to more effectively combat the Reapers.\\
'''Instead''': All ships in every battle seen in the entirety of MassEffect3 paradoxically use their conventional mass accelerator weapons despite inferior range and firepower and the incredible threat they face.
** In the so-called 4th ending added by the Extended Cut, Shepard can refuse the choices given by the Catalyst. The [[CompleteMonster Catalyst's]] reaction is to show it's true colors, bellow in it's actual Reaper voice and then declare that "the cycle will continue" despite [[BlatantLies previously claiming that it's cycle was obsolete mere moments ago]]. The stage is set. The BigBad has revealed that everything it has said is a lie, it's Faustian deal has been rejected. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Commander Shepard, a hero who previously has never given up no matter how hopeless the situation to step up and do anything to stop the Catalyst and the Reapers. Finding a way back to the fleet. Informing everyone of the truth. Maybe sacrificing themselves to destroy the Citadel tower the Catalyst may inhabit. Something. Anything.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard stands there with a mopey sad face and gives up. [[TakeThatAudience Everybody in the galaxy dies for rejecting the "artistic" original 3 endings.]]
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'''Instead''': The quarians, sensing a chance to completely destroy their old enemy and recover their homeworld, launch an attack with the new weapons that render the geth helpless. While initially successful, the quarians damage the geth's overall cognitive ability, and the greatly reduced Geth Consensus turns to the Reapers for immediate help. The upgraded geth trap the Migrant Fleet inside the Rannoch mass relay so they can't escape, and even if Shepard brokers a peace between them, the damage both sides suffered in the war reduces their ability to fight the Reapers.
** As we learn in the codex, after Sovereign was destroyed, the Turians reverse-engineered it's main weapon and produced the [[WaveMotionGun Thanix Cannon]], a new highly effective heat based weapon that burns through kinetic barriers (a form of shielding used by everyone, including Reapers and that these weapons have been fitted on most of the Turian and Alliance fleet.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Liberal and continuous use of Thanix Cannons which fire molten metal at near the speed of light and can do so reliably and at long range every 5 seconds to more effectively combat theReapers.\\
'''Instead''': All ships in every battle seen in the entirety of MassEffect3 paradoxically use their conventional mass accelerator weapons despite inferior range and firepower and the incredible threat they face.
** In the so-called 4th ending added by the Extended Cut, Shepard can refuse the choices given by the Catalyst. The [[CompleteMonster Catalyst's]] reaction is to show it's true colors, bellow in it's actual Reaper voice and then declare that "the cycle will continue" despite [[BlatantLies previously claiming that it's cycle was obsolete mere moments ago]]. The stage is set. The BigBad has revealed that everything it has said is a lie, it's Faustian deal has been rejected. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Commander Shepard, a hero who previously has never given up no matter how hopeless the situation to step up and do anything to stop the Catalyst and the Reapers. Finding a way back to the fleet. Informing everyone of the truth. Maybe sacrificing themselves to destroy the Citadel tower the Catalyst may inhabit. Something. Anything.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard stands there with a mopey sad face and gives up. [[TakeThatAudience Everybody in the galaxy dies for rejecting the "artistic" original 3 endings.]]
** As we learn in the codex, after Sovereign was destroyed, the Turians reverse-engineered it's main weapon and produced the [[WaveMotionGun Thanix Cannon]], a new highly effective heat based weapon that burns through kinetic barriers (a form of shielding used by everyone, including Reapers and that these weapons have been fitted on most of the Turian and Alliance fleet.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Liberal and continuous use of Thanix Cannons which fire molten metal at near the speed of light and can do so reliably and at long range every 5 seconds to more effectively combat the
'''Instead''': All ships in every battle seen in the entirety of MassEffect3 paradoxically use their conventional mass accelerator weapons despite inferior range and firepower and the incredible threat they face.
** In the so-called 4th ending added by the Extended Cut, Shepard can refuse the choices given by the Catalyst. The [[CompleteMonster Catalyst's]] reaction is to show it's true colors, bellow in it's actual Reaper voice and then declare that "the cycle will continue" despite [[BlatantLies previously claiming that it's cycle was obsolete mere moments ago]]. The stage is set. The BigBad has revealed that everything it has said is a lie, it's Faustian deal has been rejected. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Commander Shepard, a hero who previously has never given up no matter how hopeless the situation to step up and do anything to stop the Catalyst and the Reapers. Finding a way back to the fleet. Informing everyone of the truth. Maybe sacrificing themselves to destroy the Citadel tower the Catalyst may inhabit. Something. Anything.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard stands there with a mopey sad face and gives up. [[TakeThatAudience Everybody in the galaxy dies for rejecting the "artistic" original 3 endings.]]
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'''Instead''': The quarians, sensing a chance to completely destroy their old enemy and recover their homeworld, launch an attack with the new weapons that render the geth helpless. While initially successful, the quarians damage the geth's overall cognitive ability, and the greatly reduced Geth Consensus turns to the Reapers for immediate help. The upgraded geth trap the Migrant Fleet inside the Rannoch mass relay so they can't escape, and even if Shepard brokers a peace between them, the damage both sides suffered in the war reduces their ability to fight the Reapers.
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'''Instead''': The quarians, sensing a chance to completely destroy their old enemy and recover their homeworld, launch an attack with the new weapons that render the geth helpless. While initially successful, the quarians damage the geth's overall cognitive ability, and the greatly reduced Geth Consensus turns to the Reapers for immediate help. The upgraded geth trap the Migrant Fleet inside the Rannoch mass relay so they can't escape, and even if Shepard brokers a peace between them, the damage both sides suffered in the war reduces their ability to fight the Reapers.
** As we learn in the codex, after Sovereign was destroyed, the Turians reverse-engineered it's main weapon and produced the [[WaveMotionGun Thanix Cannon]], a new highly effective heat based weapon that burns through kinetic barriers (a form of shielding used by everyone, including Reapers and that these weapons have been fitted on most of the Turian and Alliance fleet.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Liberal and continuous use of Thanix Cannons which fire molten metal at near the speed of light and can do so reliably and at long range every 5 seconds to more effectively combat the Reapers.\\
'''Instead''': All ships in every battle seen in the entirety of MassEffect3 paradoxically use their conventional mass accelerator weapons despite inferior range and firepower and the incredible threat they face.
** In the so-called 4th ending added by the Extended Cut, Shepard can refuse the choices given by the Catalyst. The [[CompleteMonster Catalyst's]] reaction is to show it's true colors, bellow in it's actual Reaper voice and then declare that "the cycle will continue" despite [[BlatantLies previously claiming that it's cycle was obsolete mere moments ago]]. The stage is set. The BigBad has revealed that everything it has said is a lie, it's Faustian deal has been rejected. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Commander Shepard, a hero who previously has never given up no matter how hopeless the situation to step up and do anything to stop the Catalyst and the Reapers. Finding a way back to the fleet. Informing everyone of the truth. Maybe sacrificing themselves to destroy the Citadel tower the Catalyst may inhabit. Something. Anything.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard stands there with a mopey sad face and gives up. [[TakeThatAudience Everybody in the galaxy dies for rejecting the "artistic" original 3 endings.]]
** As we learn in the codex, after Sovereign was destroyed, the Turians reverse-engineered it's main weapon and produced the [[WaveMotionGun Thanix Cannon]], a new highly effective heat based weapon that burns through kinetic barriers (a form of shielding used by everyone, including Reapers and that these weapons have been fitted on most of the Turian and Alliance fleet.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Liberal and continuous use of Thanix Cannons which fire molten metal at near the speed of light and can do so reliably and at long range every 5 seconds to more effectively combat the Reapers.\\
'''Instead''': All ships in every battle seen in the entirety of MassEffect3 paradoxically use their conventional mass accelerator weapons despite inferior range and firepower and the incredible threat they face.
** In the so-called 4th ending added by the Extended Cut, Shepard can refuse the choices given by the Catalyst. The [[CompleteMonster Catalyst's]] reaction is to show it's true colors, bellow in it's actual Reaper voice and then declare that "the cycle will continue" despite [[BlatantLies previously claiming that it's cycle was obsolete mere moments ago]]. The stage is set. The BigBad has revealed that everything it has said is a lie, it's Faustian deal has been rejected. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Commander Shepard, a hero who previously has never given up no matter how hopeless the situation to step up and do anything to stop the Catalyst and the Reapers. Finding a way back to the fleet. Informing everyone of the truth. Maybe sacrificing themselves to destroy the Citadel tower the Catalyst may inhabit. Something. Anything.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard stands there with a mopey sad face and gives up. [[TakeThatAudience Everybody in the galaxy dies for rejecting the "artistic" original 3 endings.]]
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'''Instead''': The quarians, sensing a chance to completely destroy their old enemy and recover their homeworld, launch an attack with the new weapons that render the geth helpless. While initially successful, the quarians damage the geth's overall cognitive ability, and the greatly reduced Geth Consensus turns to the Reapers for immediate help. The upgraded geth trap the Migrant Fleet inside the Rannoch mass relay so they can't escape, and even if Shepard brokers a peace between them, the damage both sides suffered in the war reduces their ability to fight the Reapers.
** As we learn in the codex, after Sovereign was destroyed, the Turians reverse-engineered it's main weapon and produced the [[WaveMotionGun Thanix Cannon]], a new highly effective heat based weapon that burns through kinetic barriers (a form of shielding used by everyone, including Reapers and that these weapons have been fitted on most of the Turian and Alliance fleet.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Liberal and continuous use of Thanix Cannons which fire molten metal at near the speed of light and can do so reliably and at long range every 5 seconds to more effectively combat the Reapers.\\
'''Instead''': All ships in every battle seen in the entirety of MassEffect3 paradoxically use their conventional mass accelerator weapons despite inferior range and firepower and the incredible threat they face.
** In the so-called 4th ending added by the Extended Cut, Shepard can refuse the choices given by the Catalyst. The [[CompleteMonster Catalyst's]] reaction is to show it's true colors, bellow in it's actual Reaper voice and then declare that "the cycle will continue" despite [[BlatantLies previously claiming that it's cycle was obsolete mere moments ago]]. The stage is set. The BigBad has revealed that everything it has said is a lie, it's Faustian deal has been rejected. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Commander Shepard, a hero who previously has never given up no matter how hopeless the situation to step up and do anything to stop the Catalyst and the Reapers. Finding a way back to the fleet. Informing everyone of the truth. Maybe sacrificing themselves to destroy the Citadel tower the Catalyst may inhabit. Something. Anything.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard stands there with a mopey sad face and gives up. [[TakeThatAudience Everybody in the galaxy dies for rejecting the "artistic" original 3 endings.]]
** As we learn in the codex, after Sovereign was destroyed, the Turians reverse-engineered it's main weapon and produced the [[WaveMotionGun Thanix Cannon]], a new highly effective heat based weapon that burns through kinetic barriers (a form of shielding used by everyone, including Reapers and that these weapons have been fitted on most of the Turian and Alliance fleet.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Liberal and continuous use of Thanix Cannons which fire molten metal at near the speed of light and can do so reliably and at long range every 5 seconds to more effectively combat the Reapers.\\
'''Instead''': All ships in every battle seen in the entirety of MassEffect3 paradoxically use their conventional mass accelerator weapons despite inferior range and firepower and the incredible threat they face.
** In the so-called 4th ending added by the Extended Cut, Shepard can refuse the choices given by the Catalyst. The [[CompleteMonster Catalyst's]] reaction is to show it's true colors, bellow in it's actual Reaper voice and then declare that "the cycle will continue" despite [[BlatantLies previously claiming that it's cycle was obsolete mere moments ago]]. The stage is set. The BigBad has revealed that everything it has said is a lie, it's Faustian deal has been rejected. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Commander Shepard, a hero who previously has never given up no matter how hopeless the situation to step up and do anything to stop the Catalyst and the Reapers. Finding a way back to the fleet. Informing everyone of the truth. Maybe sacrificing themselves to destroy the Citadel tower the Catalyst may inhabit. Something. Anything.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard stands there with a mopey sad face and gives up. [[TakeThatAudience Everybody in the galaxy dies for rejecting the "artistic" original 3 endings.]]
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'''Instead''': The quarians, sensing a chance to completely destroy their old enemy and recover their homeworld, launch an attack with the new weapons that render the geth helpless. While initially successful, the quarians damage the geth's overall cognitive ability, and the greatly reduced Geth Consensus turns to the Reapers for immediate help. The upgraded geth trap the Migrant Fleet inside the Rannoch mass relay so they can't escape, and even if Shepard brokers a peace between them, the damage both sides suffered in the war reduces their ability to fight the Reapers.
** As we learn in the codex, after Sovereign was destroyed, the Turians reverse-engineered it's main weapon and produced the [[WaveMotionGun Thanix Cannon]], a new highly effective heat based weapon that burns through kinetic barriers (a form of shielding used by everyone, including Reapers and that these weapons have been fitted on most of the Turian and Alliance fleet.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Liberal and continuous use of Thanix Cannons which fire molten metal at near the speed of light and can do so reliably and at long range every 5 seconds to more effectively combat theReapers.\\
'''Instead''': All ships in every battle seen in the entirety of MassEffect3 paradoxically use their conventional mass accelerator weapons despite inferior range and firepower and the incredible threat they face.
** In the so-called 4th ending added by the Extended Cut, Shepard can refuse the choices given by the Catalyst. The [[CompleteMonster Catalyst's]] reaction is to show it's true colors, bellow in it's actual Reaper voice and then declare that "the cycle will continue" despite [[BlatantLies previously claiming that it's cycle was obsolete mere moments ago]]. The stage is set. The BigBad has revealed that everything it has said is a lie, it's Faustian deal has been rejected. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Commander Shepard, a hero who previously has never given up no matter how hopeless the situation to step up and do anything to stop the Catalyst and the Reapers. Finding a way back to the fleet. Informing everyone of the truth. Maybe sacrificing themselves to destroy the Citadel tower the Catalyst may inhabit. Something. Anything.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard stands there with a mopey sad face and gives up. [[TakeThatAudience Everybody in the galaxy dies for rejecting the "artistic" original 3 endings.]]
** As we learn in the codex, after Sovereign was destroyed, the Turians reverse-engineered it's main weapon and produced the [[WaveMotionGun Thanix Cannon]], a new highly effective heat based weapon that burns through kinetic barriers (a form of shielding used by everyone, including Reapers and that these weapons have been fitted on most of the Turian and Alliance fleet.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Liberal and continuous use of Thanix Cannons which fire molten metal at near the speed of light and can do so reliably and at long range every 5 seconds to more effectively combat the
'''Instead''': All ships in every battle seen in the entirety of MassEffect3 paradoxically use their conventional mass accelerator weapons despite inferior range and firepower and the incredible threat they face.
** In the so-called 4th ending added by the Extended Cut, Shepard can refuse the choices given by the Catalyst. The [[CompleteMonster Catalyst's]] reaction is to show it's true colors, bellow in it's actual Reaper voice and then declare that "the cycle will continue" despite [[BlatantLies previously claiming that it's cycle was obsolete mere moments ago]]. The stage is set. The BigBad has revealed that everything it has said is a lie, it's Faustian deal has been rejected. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Commander Shepard, a hero who previously has never given up no matter how hopeless the situation to step up and do anything to stop the Catalyst and the Reapers. Finding a way back to the fleet. Informing everyone of the truth. Maybe sacrificing themselves to destroy the Citadel tower the Catalyst may inhabit. Something. Anything.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard stands there with a mopey sad face and gives up. [[TakeThatAudience Everybody in the galaxy dies for rejecting the "artistic" original 3 endings.]]
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'''Instead''': The quarians, sensing a chance to completely destroy their old enemy and recover their homeworld, launch an attack with the new weapons that render the geth helpless. While initially successful, the quarians damage the geth's overall cognitive ability, and the greatly reduced Geth Consensus turns to the Reapers for immediate help. The upgraded geth trap the Migrant Fleet inside the Rannoch mass relay so they can't escape, and even if Shepard brokers a peace between them, the damage both sides suffered in the war reduces their ability to fight the Reapers.
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'''Instead''': The quarians, sensing a chance to completely destroy their old enemy and recover their homeworld, launch an attack with the new weapons that render the geth helpless. While initially successful, the quarians damage the geth's overall cognitive ability, and the greatly reduced Geth Consensus turns to the Reapers for immediate help. The upgraded geth trap the Migrant Fleet inside the Rannoch mass relay so they can't escape, and even if Shepard brokers a peace between them, the damage both sides suffered in the war reduces their ability to fight the Reapers.
** As we learn in the codex, after Sovereign was destroyed, the Turians reverse-engineered it's main weapon and produced the [[WaveMotionGun Thanix Cannon]], a new highly effective heat based weapon that burns through kinetic barriers (a form of shielding used by everyone, including Reapers and that these weapons have been fitted on most of the Turian and Alliance fleet.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Liberal and continuous use of Thanix Cannons which fire molten metal at near the speed of light and can do so reliably and at long range every 5 seconds to more effectively combat the Reapers.\\
'''Instead''': All ships in every battle seen in the entirety of MassEffect3 paradoxically use their conventional mass accelerator weapons despite inferior range and firepower and the incredible threat they face.
** In the so-called 4th ending added by the Extended Cut, Shepard can refuse the choices given by the Catalyst. The [[CompleteMonster Catalyst's]] reaction is to show it's true colors, bellow in it's actual Reaper voice and then declare that "the cycle will continue" despite [[BlatantLies previously claiming that it's cycle was obsolete mere moments ago]]. The stage is set. The BigBad has revealed that everything it has said is a lie, it's Faustian deal has been rejected. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Commander Shepard, a hero who previously has never given up no matter how hopeless the situation to step up and do anything to stop the Catalyst and the Reapers. Finding a way back to the fleet. Informing everyone of the truth. Maybe sacrificing themselves to destroy the Citadel tower the Catalyst may inhabit. Something. Anything.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard stands there with a mopey sad face and gives up. [[TakeThatAudience Everybody in the galaxy dies for rejecting the "artistic" original 3 endings.]]
** As we learn in the codex, after Sovereign was destroyed, the Turians reverse-engineered it's main weapon and produced the [[WaveMotionGun Thanix Cannon]], a new highly effective heat based weapon that burns through kinetic barriers (a form of shielding used by everyone, including Reapers and that these weapons have been fitted on most of the Turian and Alliance fleet.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Liberal and continuous use of Thanix Cannons which fire molten metal at near the speed of light and can do so reliably and at long range every 5 seconds to more effectively combat the Reapers.\\
'''Instead''': All ships in every battle seen in the entirety of MassEffect3 paradoxically use their conventional mass accelerator weapons despite inferior range and firepower and the incredible threat they face.
** In the so-called 4th ending added by the Extended Cut, Shepard can refuse the choices given by the Catalyst. The [[CompleteMonster Catalyst's]] reaction is to show it's true colors, bellow in it's actual Reaper voice and then declare that "the cycle will continue" despite [[BlatantLies previously claiming that it's cycle was obsolete mere moments ago]]. The stage is set. The BigBad has revealed that everything it has said is a lie, it's Faustian deal has been rejected. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Commander Shepard, a hero who previously has never given up no matter how hopeless the situation to step up and do anything to stop the Catalyst and the Reapers. Finding a way back to the fleet. Informing everyone of the truth. Maybe sacrificing themselves to destroy the Citadel tower the Catalyst may inhabit. Something. Anything.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard stands there with a mopey sad face and gives up. [[TakeThatAudience Everybody in the galaxy dies for rejecting the "artistic" original 3 endings.]]
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* VideoGame/MassEffect3 gets a bunch of them.
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* VideoGame/MassEffect3 ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' gets a bunch of them.
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The first of these is ignoring that thanix weapons are still relatively rare and thatthe majority of the weapons used by the fleets are still mass accelerators. You can\'t refitentire navies with new experimental weaponry in two years, especially when the new weaponw as developed only months ago. The second point is just whining about an ending you don\'t like.
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'''Instead''': The quarians, sensing a chance to completely destroy their old enemy and recover their homeworld, launch an attack with the new weapons that render the geth helpless. While initially successful, the quarians damage the geth's overall cognitive ability, and the greatly reduced Geth Consensus turns to the Reapers for immediate help. The upgraded geth trap the Migrant Fleet inside the Rannoch mass relay so they can't escape, and even if Shepard brokers a peace between them, the damage both sides suffered in the war reduces their ability to fight the Reapers.
** As we learn in the codex, after Sovereign was destroyed, the Turians reverse-engineered it's main weapon and produced the [[WaveMotionGun Thanix Cannon]], a new highly effective heat based weapon that burns through kinetic barriers (a form of shielding used by everyone, including Reapers and that these weapons have been fitted on most of the Turian and Alliance fleet.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Liberal and continuous use of Thanix Cannons which fire molten metal at near the speed of light and can do so reliably and at long range every 5 seconds to more effectively combat the Reapers.\\
'''Instead''': All ships in every battle seen in the entirety of MassEffect3 paradoxically use their conventional mass accelerator weapons despite inferior range and firepower and the incredible threat they face.
** In the so-called 4th ending added by the Extended Cut, Shepard can refuse the choices given by the Catalyst. The [[CompleteMonster Catalyst's]] reaction is to show it's true colors, bellow in it's actual Reaper voice and then declare that "the cycle will continue" despite [[BlatantLies previously claiming that it's cycle was obsolete mere moments ago]]. The stage is set. The BigBad has revealed that everything it has said is a lie, it's Faustian deal has been rejected. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Commander Shepard, a hero who previously has never given up no matter how hopeless the situation to step up and do anything to stop the Catalyst and the Reapers. Finding a way back to the fleet. Informing everyone of the truth. Maybe sacrificing themselves to destroy the Citadel tower the Catalyst may inhabit. Something. Anything.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard stands there with a mopey sad face and gives up. [[TakeThatAudience Everybody in the galaxy dies for rejecting the "artistic" original 3 endings.]]
** As we learn in the codex, after Sovereign was destroyed, the Turians reverse-engineered it's main weapon and produced the [[WaveMotionGun Thanix Cannon]], a new highly effective heat based weapon that burns through kinetic barriers (a form of shielding used by everyone, including Reapers and that these weapons have been fitted on most of the Turian and Alliance fleet.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Liberal and continuous use of Thanix Cannons which fire molten metal at near the speed of light and can do so reliably and at long range every 5 seconds to more effectively combat the Reapers.\\
'''Instead''': All ships in every battle seen in the entirety of MassEffect3 paradoxically use their conventional mass accelerator weapons despite inferior range and firepower and the incredible threat they face.
** In the so-called 4th ending added by the Extended Cut, Shepard can refuse the choices given by the Catalyst. The [[CompleteMonster Catalyst's]] reaction is to show it's true colors, bellow in it's actual Reaper voice and then declare that "the cycle will continue" despite [[BlatantLies previously claiming that it's cycle was obsolete mere moments ago]]. The stage is set. The BigBad has revealed that everything it has said is a lie, it's Faustian deal has been rejected. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Commander Shepard, a hero who previously has never given up no matter how hopeless the situation to step up and do anything to stop the Catalyst and the Reapers. Finding a way back to the fleet. Informing everyone of the truth. Maybe sacrificing themselves to destroy the Citadel tower the Catalyst may inhabit. Something. Anything.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard stands there with a mopey sad face and gives up. [[TakeThatAudience Everybody in the galaxy dies for rejecting the "artistic" original 3 endings.]]
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'''Instead''': The quarians, sensing a chance to completely destroy their old enemy and recover their homeworld, launch an attack with the new weapons that render the geth helpless. While initially successful, the quarians damage the geth's overall cognitive ability, and the greatly reduced Geth Consensus turns to the Reapers for immediate help. The upgraded geth trap the Migrant Fleet inside the Rannoch mass relay so they can't escape, and even if Shepard brokers a peace between them, the damage both sides suffered in the war reduces their ability to fight the Reapers.
** As we learn in the codex, after Sovereign was destroyed, the Turians reverse-engineered it's main weapon and produced the [[WaveMotionGun Thanix Cannon]], a new highly effective heat based weapon that burns through kinetic barriers (a form of shielding used by everyone, including Reapers and that these weapons have been fitted on most of the Turian and Alliance fleet.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Liberal and continuous use of Thanix Cannons which fire molten metal at near the speed of light and can do so reliably and at long range every 5 seconds to more effectively combat theReapers.\\
'''Instead''': All ships in every battle seen in the entirety of MassEffect3 paradoxically use their conventional mass accelerator weapons despite inferior range and firepower and the incredible threat they face.
** In the so-called 4th ending added by the Extended Cut, Shepard can refuse the choices given by the Catalyst. The [[CompleteMonster Catalyst's]] reaction is to show it's true colors, bellow in it's actual Reaper voice and then declare that "the cycle will continue" despite [[BlatantLies previously claiming that it's cycle was obsolete mere moments ago]]. The stage is set. The BigBad has revealed that everything it has said is a lie, it's Faustian deal has been rejected. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Commander Shepard, a hero who previously has never given up no matter how hopeless the situation to step up and do anything to stop the Catalyst and the Reapers. Finding a way back to the fleet. Informing everyone of the truth. Maybe sacrificing themselves to destroy the Citadel tower the Catalyst may inhabit. Something. Anything.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard stands there with a mopey sad face and gives up. [[TakeThatAudience Everybody in the galaxy dies for rejecting the "artistic" original 3 endings.]]
** As we learn in the codex, after Sovereign was destroyed, the Turians reverse-engineered it's main weapon and produced the [[WaveMotionGun Thanix Cannon]], a new highly effective heat based weapon that burns through kinetic barriers (a form of shielding used by everyone, including Reapers and that these weapons have been fitted on most of the Turian and Alliance fleet.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Liberal and continuous use of Thanix Cannons which fire molten metal at near the speed of light and can do so reliably and at long range every 5 seconds to more effectively combat the
'''Instead''': All ships in every battle seen in the entirety of MassEffect3 paradoxically use their conventional mass accelerator weapons despite inferior range and firepower and the incredible threat they face.
** In the so-called 4th ending added by the Extended Cut, Shepard can refuse the choices given by the Catalyst. The [[CompleteMonster Catalyst's]] reaction is to show it's true colors, bellow in it's actual Reaper voice and then declare that "the cycle will continue" despite [[BlatantLies previously claiming that it's cycle was obsolete mere moments ago]]. The stage is set. The BigBad has revealed that everything it has said is a lie, it's Faustian deal has been rejected. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Commander Shepard, a hero who previously has never given up no matter how hopeless the situation to step up and do anything to stop the Catalyst and the Reapers. Finding a way back to the fleet. Informing everyone of the truth. Maybe sacrificing themselves to destroy the Citadel tower the Catalyst may inhabit. Something. Anything.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard stands there with a mopey sad face and gives up. [[TakeThatAudience Everybody in the galaxy dies for rejecting the "artistic" original 3 endings.]]
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** Kai Leng's special ability seems to be channeling IdiotBalls, since everyone who goes near him starts acting stupid:
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** Kai Leng's special ability seems to be channeling IdiotBalls, {{Idiot Ball}}s, since everyone who goes near him starts acting stupid:
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** In the so-called 4th ending added by the Extended Cut, Shepard can refuse the choices given by the Catalyst. The [[CompleteMonster Catalyst's]] reaction is to show it's true colors, bellow in it's actual Reaper voice and then declare that "the cycle will continue" despite [[BlatantLies previously claiming that it's cycle was obsolete mere moments ago]].
The stage is set. The BigBad has revealed that everything it has said is a lie, it's Faustian deal has been rejected. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.\\
The stage is set. The BigBad has revealed that everything it has said is a lie, it's Faustian deal has been rejected. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.\\
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** In the so-called 4th ending added by the Extended Cut, Shepard can refuse the choices given by the Catalyst. The [[CompleteMonster Catalyst's]] reaction is to show it's true colors, bellow in it's actual Reaper voice and then declare that "the cycle will continue" despite [[BlatantLies previously claiming that it's cycle was obsolete mere moments ago]].
ago]]. The stage is set. The BigBad has revealed that everything it has said is a lie, it's Faustian deal has been rejected. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.\\
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** As we learn in the codex, after Sovereign was destroyed, the Turians reverse-engineered it's main weapon and produced the [[WaveMotionGun Thanix Cannon]], a new highly effective heat based weapon that burns through kinetic barriers (a form of shielding used by everyone, including Reapers and that these weapons have been fitted on most of the Turian and Alliance fleet.
'''You'd Expect''': Liberal and continuous use of Thanix Cannons which fire molten metal at near the speed of light and can do so reliably and at long range every 5 seconds to more effectively combat the Reapers.
'''You'd Expect''': Liberal and continuous use of Thanix Cannons which fire molten metal at near the speed of light and can do so reliably and at long range every 5 seconds to more effectively combat the Reapers.
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** As we learn in the codex, after Sovereign was destroyed, the Turians reverse-engineered it's main weapon and produced the [[WaveMotionGun Thanix Cannon]], a new highly effective heat based weapon that burns through kinetic barriers (a form of shielding used by everyone, including Reapers and that these weapons have been fitted on most of the Turian and Alliance fleet.
fleet.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Liberal and continuous use of Thanix Cannons which fire molten metal at near the speed of light and can do so reliably and at long range every 5 seconds to more effectively combat the Reapers.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Liberal and continuous use of Thanix Cannons which fire molten metal at near the speed of light and can do so reliably and at long range every 5 seconds to more effectively combat the Reapers.\\
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The stage is set. The BigBad has revealed that everything it has said is a lie, it's Faustian deal has been rejected. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.
'''You'd Expect''': Commander Shepard, a hero who previously has never given up no matter how hopeless the situation to step up and do anything to stop the Catalyst and the Reapers. Finding a way back to the fleet. Informing everyone of the truth. Maybe sacrificing themselves to destroy the Citadel tower the Catalyst may inhabit. Something. Anything.
'''You'd Expect''': Commander Shepard, a hero who previously has never given up no matter how hopeless the situation to step up and do anything to stop the Catalyst and the Reapers. Finding a way back to the fleet. Informing everyone of the truth. Maybe sacrificing themselves to destroy the Citadel tower the Catalyst may inhabit. Something. Anything.
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The stage is set. The BigBad has revealed that everything it has said is a lie, it's Faustian deal has been rejected. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.
balance.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Commander Shepard, a hero who previously has never given up no matter how hopeless the situation to step up and do anything to stop the Catalyst and the Reapers. Finding a way back to the fleet. Informing everyone of the truth. Maybe sacrificing themselves to destroy the Citadel tower the Catalyst may inhabit. Something. Anything.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Commander Shepard, a hero who previously has never given up no matter how hopeless the situation to step up and do anything to stop the Catalyst and the Reapers. Finding a way back to the fleet. Informing everyone of the truth. Maybe sacrificing themselves to destroy the Citadel tower the Catalyst may inhabit. Something. Anything.\\
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'''Instead''': The quarians, sensing a chance to completely destroy their old enemy and recover their homeworld, launch an attack with the new weapons that render the geth helpless. While initially successful, the quarians damage the geth's overall cognitive ability, and the greatly reduced Geth Consensus turns to the Reapers for immediate help. The upgraded geth trap the Migrant Fleet inside the Rannoch mass relay so they can't escape, and even if Shepard brokers a peace between them, the damage both sides suffered in the war reduces their ability to fight the Reapers.
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'''Instead''': The quarians, sensing a chance to completely destroy their old enemy and recover their homeworld, launch an attack with the new weapons that render the geth helpless. While initially successful, the quarians damage the geth's overall cognitive ability, and the greatly reduced Geth Consensus turns to the Reapers for immediate help. The upgraded geth trap the Migrant Fleet inside the Rannoch mass relay so they can't escape, and even if Shepard brokers a peace between them, the damage both sides suffered in the war reduces their ability to fight the Reapers.Reapers.
** As we learn in the codex, after Sovereign was destroyed, the Turians reverse-engineered it's main weapon and produced the [[WaveMotionGun Thanix Cannon]], a new highly effective heat based weapon that burns through kinetic barriers (a form of shielding used by everyone, including Reapers and that these weapons have been fitted on most of the Turian and Alliance fleet.
'''You'd Expect''': Liberal and continuous use of Thanix Cannons which fire molten metal at near the speed of light and can do so reliably and at long range every 5 seconds to more effectively combat the Reapers.
'''Instead''': All ships in every battle seen in the entirety of MassEffect3 paradoxically use their conventional mass accelerator weapons despite inferior range and firepower and the incredible threat they face.
** In the so-called 4th ending added by the Extended Cut, Shepard can refuse the choices given by the Catalyst. The [[CompleteMonster Catalyst's]] reaction is to show it's true colors, bellow in it's actual Reaper voice and then declare that "the cycle will continue" despite [[BlatantLies previously claiming that it's cycle was obsolete mere moments ago]].
The stage is set. The BigBad has revealed that everything it has said is a lie, it's Faustian deal has been rejected. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.
'''You'd Expect''': Commander Shepard, a hero who previously has never given up no matter how hopeless the situation to step up and do anything to stop the Catalyst and the Reapers. Finding a way back to the fleet. Informing everyone of the truth. Maybe sacrificing themselves to destroy the Citadel tower the Catalyst may inhabit. Something. Anything.
'''Instead''': Shepard stands there with a mopey sad face and gives up. [[TakeThatAudience Everybody in the galaxy dies for rejecting the "artistic" original 3 endings.]]
** As we learn in the codex, after Sovereign was destroyed, the Turians reverse-engineered it's main weapon and produced the [[WaveMotionGun Thanix Cannon]], a new highly effective heat based weapon that burns through kinetic barriers (a form of shielding used by everyone, including Reapers and that these weapons have been fitted on most of the Turian and Alliance fleet.
'''You'd Expect''': Liberal and continuous use of Thanix Cannons which fire molten metal at near the speed of light and can do so reliably and at long range every 5 seconds to more effectively combat the Reapers.
'''Instead''': All ships in every battle seen in the entirety of MassEffect3 paradoxically use their conventional mass accelerator weapons despite inferior range and firepower and the incredible threat they face.
** In the so-called 4th ending added by the Extended Cut, Shepard can refuse the choices given by the Catalyst. The [[CompleteMonster Catalyst's]] reaction is to show it's true colors, bellow in it's actual Reaper voice and then declare that "the cycle will continue" despite [[BlatantLies previously claiming that it's cycle was obsolete mere moments ago]].
The stage is set. The BigBad has revealed that everything it has said is a lie, it's Faustian deal has been rejected. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.
'''You'd Expect''': Commander Shepard, a hero who previously has never given up no matter how hopeless the situation to step up and do anything to stop the Catalyst and the Reapers. Finding a way back to the fleet. Informing everyone of the truth. Maybe sacrificing themselves to destroy the Citadel tower the Catalyst may inhabit. Something. Anything.
'''Instead''': Shepard stands there with a mopey sad face and gives up. [[TakeThatAudience Everybody in the galaxy dies for rejecting the "artistic" original 3 endings.]]
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* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' provides several examples:
** Warden Kuril, the head honcho of [[TheAlcatraz the Purgatory prison ship]], welcomes Shepard and two other armed companions ([[hottip:who are any of the following: a high ranking operative for one of the most powerful terrorist organizations in the galaxy; a seasoned lieutenant to same; a mercenary renowned for his ruthlessness and extremely high salary; a former C-Sec Officer and one time Spectre candidate who single-handedly held off three of the most ruthless mercenary groups in the galaxy in the heart of the Terminus Systems (INCLUDING the same mercenary group Warden Kuril is a part of), on a station renowned for being the galaxy's WretchedHive for ''three days'' with just a sniper rifle; a master thief so adept at her craft that no one recognises her hacking an advertisement terminal in a public space in broad daylight, or speaking to a woman/man who is both thought dead and renowned as a legendary figure for stopping Saren and the Geth; a scientist who killed people with ''farming equipment'' and participated in mass population control experiments; and a genetically engineered member of a race of BloodKnight[=s=] previously under the care of a big shot warlord]]) on board with aims to kidnap them and sell them off to slavers.\\
'''You'd Expect''': that Kuril would require Shepard and his/her companions to disarm, in accordance with standard security procedures for guests aboard prison ships, and to refuse them entry if they do not comply. Or, failing that, that Kuril would scrap the whole "kidnap and sell" plan if unable to force Shepard and company to disarm.\\
'''Instead''': Although Kuril does make an attempt at requiring the party to disarm, when Shepard refuses to do so, he lets them proceed fully armed (including, possibly, with '''TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS''') and then attempts to capture them near a security checkpoint. This works [[StuffBlowingUp about as well as you'd expect]].\\
'''Also:''' He tells Shep and the party what he's up to ''seconds'' before they step into a room that would incapacitate all of them. If he had waited another 30 seconds, he would've had all of them safely captured.
** Another example, this one on part of the player. Late in the game, and assuming he/she took the [[GuideDangIt necessary steps]] to recruit Morinth, she will invite Shepard over to [[UnusualEuphemism meld]] with each other. Morinth is a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] [[HornyDevils Ardat]]-[[TheVamp Yakshi]] and SerialKiller with the ability to control people's minds, an ability Shepard resisted in the past to betray Samara, Morinth's mother. Morinth claims that Shepard's HeroicWillpower will enable him/her to survive the process, despite the fact nobody in recorded history has ever survived an Ardat-Yakshi's melding.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Shepard to decline the offer, what with the imminent war against the Reapers putting enough of a threat to his/her health.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard can choose to meld with Morinth, resulting in a NonStandardGameOver.
** And again in Mass Effect 2, in Jacob's Loyalty Mission you discover that his father had deliberately not activated a distress beacon while on a deserted planet and instead had turned the crew into his slaves via local food that was mentally damaging them.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Him to realize that sooner or later his supplies of clean food would eventually run out and he would have to activate that distress beacon so he should make sure that his slaves aren't holding on to anything that would incriminate him. At the very least you would expect him to realize this when his food ''does'' run out and he activates the distress beacon.\\
'''Instead''': He not only left untouched a series of log entries at his crashed ship[[hottip:note: that, while suspicious, didn't directly incriminate him]] he permitted one of his slaves to keep a record that directly stated that he had enslaved them and murdered any officers who got in his way. When a rescue team in the form of Shepard arrives he doesn't even bother to try to come up with a good lie.
* VideoGame/MassEffect3 gets a bunch of them.
** Kai Leng's special ability seems to be channeling IdiotBalls, since everyone who goes near him starts acting stupid:
** '''Overview''': Shepard and his squad are en route via aircar to intercept Ceberus as they move towards the Council members, when Kai Leng suddenly jumps on the roof of their car.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Shepard to start swerving the car to send Kai Leng flying, or make him smack into one of the many underpasses that the car is flying past.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard opens the door and starts shooting, missing every shot presumably due to the high altitude winds, Kai Leng then sabotages their car and causes them to crash, allowing Ceberus to get a head start on the race to the Council.
** An in-universe example pops up with the Geth Consensus when they are attacked by the quarian Migrant Fleet.\\
'''Overview''': The Geth Consensus is attacked by the Migrant Fleet, which destroys the DysonSphere they were building around Rannoch, and their territory is being overrun quickly. The destruction of the DysonSphere deletes the majority of the geth "species" and thus reduces their collective cognitive ability.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The geth to call for assistance from Shepard to prevent the quarians from overunning them.\\
'''Instead''': Following their emergency survival protocols, the geth seek out immediate assistance from the Reapers, who give them upgrades to their coding to render them immune to the quarians' weapons, at the expense of being enslaved or exterminated by the Reapers once their usefulness runs out. If Shepard points out that the geth made a rather poor long-term decision, Legion agrees with that assessment.
** The quarian Migrant Fleet, in turn, makes its own equally stupid but justified in-universe decision in attacking the geth.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The quarians, aware of the Reaper threat, to direct their military buildup to counter the Reapers, instead of launching into a destructive and costly war with the geth.\\
'''Instead''': The quarians, sensing a chance to completely destroy their old enemy and recover their homeworld, launch an attack with the new weapons that render the geth helpless. While initially successful, the quarians damage the geth's overall cognitive ability, and the greatly reduced Geth Consensus turns to the Reapers for immediate help. The upgraded geth trap the Migrant Fleet inside the Rannoch mass relay so they can't escape, and even if Shepard brokers a peace between them, the damage both sides suffered in the war reduces their ability to fight the Reapers.
** Warden Kuril, the head honcho of [[TheAlcatraz the Purgatory prison ship]], welcomes Shepard and two other armed companions ([[hottip:who are any of the following: a high ranking operative for one of the most powerful terrorist organizations in the galaxy; a seasoned lieutenant to same; a mercenary renowned for his ruthlessness and extremely high salary; a former C-Sec Officer and one time Spectre candidate who single-handedly held off three of the most ruthless mercenary groups in the galaxy in the heart of the Terminus Systems (INCLUDING the same mercenary group Warden Kuril is a part of), on a station renowned for being the galaxy's WretchedHive for ''three days'' with just a sniper rifle; a master thief so adept at her craft that no one recognises her hacking an advertisement terminal in a public space in broad daylight, or speaking to a woman/man who is both thought dead and renowned as a legendary figure for stopping Saren and the Geth; a scientist who killed people with ''farming equipment'' and participated in mass population control experiments; and a genetically engineered member of a race of BloodKnight[=s=] previously under the care of a big shot warlord]]) on board with aims to kidnap them and sell them off to slavers.\\
'''You'd Expect''': that Kuril would require Shepard and his/her companions to disarm, in accordance with standard security procedures for guests aboard prison ships, and to refuse them entry if they do not comply. Or, failing that, that Kuril would scrap the whole "kidnap and sell" plan if unable to force Shepard and company to disarm.\\
'''Instead''': Although Kuril does make an attempt at requiring the party to disarm, when Shepard refuses to do so, he lets them proceed fully armed (including, possibly, with '''TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS''') and then attempts to capture them near a security checkpoint. This works [[StuffBlowingUp about as well as you'd expect]].\\
'''Also:''' He tells Shep and the party what he's up to ''seconds'' before they step into a room that would incapacitate all of them. If he had waited another 30 seconds, he would've had all of them safely captured.
** Another example, this one on part of the player. Late in the game, and assuming he/she took the [[GuideDangIt necessary steps]] to recruit Morinth, she will invite Shepard over to [[UnusualEuphemism meld]] with each other. Morinth is a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] [[HornyDevils Ardat]]-[[TheVamp Yakshi]] and SerialKiller with the ability to control people's minds, an ability Shepard resisted in the past to betray Samara, Morinth's mother. Morinth claims that Shepard's HeroicWillpower will enable him/her to survive the process, despite the fact nobody in recorded history has ever survived an Ardat-Yakshi's melding.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Shepard to decline the offer, what with the imminent war against the Reapers putting enough of a threat to his/her health.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard can choose to meld with Morinth, resulting in a NonStandardGameOver.
** And again in Mass Effect 2, in Jacob's Loyalty Mission you discover that his father had deliberately not activated a distress beacon while on a deserted planet and instead had turned the crew into his slaves via local food that was mentally damaging them.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Him to realize that sooner or later his supplies of clean food would eventually run out and he would have to activate that distress beacon so he should make sure that his slaves aren't holding on to anything that would incriminate him. At the very least you would expect him to realize this when his food ''does'' run out and he activates the distress beacon.\\
'''Instead''': He not only left untouched a series of log entries at his crashed ship[[hottip:note: that, while suspicious, didn't directly incriminate him]] he permitted one of his slaves to keep a record that directly stated that he had enslaved them and murdered any officers who got in his way. When a rescue team in the form of Shepard arrives he doesn't even bother to try to come up with a good lie.
* VideoGame/MassEffect3 gets a bunch of them.
** Kai Leng's special ability seems to be channeling IdiotBalls, since everyone who goes near him starts acting stupid:
** '''Overview''': Shepard and his squad are en route via aircar to intercept Ceberus as they move towards the Council members, when Kai Leng suddenly jumps on the roof of their car.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Shepard to start swerving the car to send Kai Leng flying, or make him smack into one of the many underpasses that the car is flying past.\\
'''Instead''': Shepard opens the door and starts shooting, missing every shot presumably due to the high altitude winds, Kai Leng then sabotages their car and causes them to crash, allowing Ceberus to get a head start on the race to the Council.
** An in-universe example pops up with the Geth Consensus when they are attacked by the quarian Migrant Fleet.\\
'''Overview''': The Geth Consensus is attacked by the Migrant Fleet, which destroys the DysonSphere they were building around Rannoch, and their territory is being overrun quickly. The destruction of the DysonSphere deletes the majority of the geth "species" and thus reduces their collective cognitive ability.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The geth to call for assistance from Shepard to prevent the quarians from overunning them.\\
'''Instead''': Following their emergency survival protocols, the geth seek out immediate assistance from the Reapers, who give them upgrades to their coding to render them immune to the quarians' weapons, at the expense of being enslaved or exterminated by the Reapers once their usefulness runs out. If Shepard points out that the geth made a rather poor long-term decision, Legion agrees with that assessment.
** The quarian Migrant Fleet, in turn, makes its own equally stupid but justified in-universe decision in attacking the geth.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The quarians, aware of the Reaper threat, to direct their military buildup to counter the Reapers, instead of launching into a destructive and costly war with the geth.\\
'''Instead''': The quarians, sensing a chance to completely destroy their old enemy and recover their homeworld, launch an attack with the new weapons that render the geth helpless. While initially successful, the quarians damage the geth's overall cognitive ability, and the greatly reduced Geth Consensus turns to the Reapers for immediate help. The upgraded geth trap the Migrant Fleet inside the Rannoch mass relay so they can't escape, and even if Shepard brokers a peace between them, the damage both sides suffered in the war reduces their ability to fight the Reapers.
