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** The krogan and the genophage is a big one. Did the salarians and turians go too far in resorting to biological warfare to stop the krogan? Mordin insists the genophage is not a sterility plague, but merely drastically reduces viable krogan births to within an acceptable population growth to prevent krogan expansionism. However, the social effects of the genophage were so devastating that krogan population growth fell well below that, and by the time of the game they seem on their way to extinction. On the other hand, does the fault lie with the krogan themselves, who not only started the war in the first place, but afterwards remained belligerent and unapologetic, and still prefer violence rather than piecing their society back together? Eve for instance agrees the geophage was awful, but makes a point that the krogan aren't innocent, and they need to change if they want to avoid history repeating itself.
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** The krogan and the genophage is a big one. Did the salarians and turians go too far in resorting to biological warfare to stop the krogan? Mordin insists the genophage is not a sterility plague, but merely drastically reduces viable krogan births to within an acceptable population growth to prevent krogan expansionism. However, the social effects of the genophage were so devastating that krogan population growth fell well below that, and by the time of the game they seem on their way to extinction. On the other hand, does the fault lie with the krogan themselves, who not only started the war in the first place, but afterwards remained belligerent and unapologetic, and still prefer violence rather than piecing their society back together? Eve for instance agrees the geophage was awful, but makes a point that the krogan aren't innocent, and they need to change if they want to avoid history repeating itself. Kesh likewise says that the krogan provoked the genophage by trying to take over the galaxy.
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** The entire batarian race is often hyperbolically declared to be AlwaysChaoticEvil to the point that [[spoiler:over 300,000 of them dying the Alpha Relay explosion is considered a favor to the universe.]] Going hand-in-hand with this is the depiction of Shepard as being ArchEnemy to the entire race, taking great joy in slaughtering them and even being willing to join the Reapers if it means their extinction (especially if Shepard has the Colonist/Ruthless background).
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** The entire batarian race is often hyperbolically declared to be AlwaysChaoticEvil to the point that [[spoiler:over 300,000 of them dying in the Alpha Relay explosion is considered a favor to the universe.]] Going hand-in-hand with this is the depiction of Shepard as being ArchEnemy to the entire race, taking great joy in slaughtering them and even being willing to join the Reapers if it means their extinction (especially if Shepard has the Colonist/Ruthless background).
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** The entire batarian race is often hyperbolically declared to be AlwaysChaoticEvil to the point that [[spoiler:over 300,000 of them dying the Alpha Relay explosion is considered a favor to the universe.]] Going hand-in-hand with this is the depiction of Shepard as being ArchEnemy to the entire race, taking great joy in slaughtering them and even being willing to join the Reapers if it means their extinction (especially if Shepard has the Colonist/Ruthless background).
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** The entire batarian race is often hyperbolically declared to be AlwaysChaoticEvil to the point that [[spoiler:over 300,000 of them dying the Alpha Relay explosion is considered a favor to the universe.]] Going hand-in-hand with this is the depiction of Shepard as being ArchEnemy to the entire race, taking great joy in slaughtering them and even being willing to join the Reapers if it means their extinction (especially if Shepard has the Colonist/Ruthless background).
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** The entire batarian race is often hyperbolically declared to be AlwaysChaoticEvil to the point that [[spoiler:over 300,000 of them dying the Alpha Relay explosion is considered a favor to the universe.]] Going hand-in-hand with this is the depiction of Shepard as being ArchEnemy to the entire race, taking great joy in slaughtering them and even being willing to join the Reapers if it means their extinction (especially if Shepard has the Colonist/Ruthless background).
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**''[[ComicBook/MassEffectInvasion Invasion]]'' comic: [[InsaneAdmiral Colonel Raymond Ashe]] is a Cerberus agent who proves to be far worse than his superior General Petrovsky. Tasked by the Illusive Man to take over Omega, Ashe lets himself be captured just so he can more easily kill Aria's loyalists and stage an invasion, slaughtering swathes of Omega's people while [[FantasticRacism deriding them as "filthy aliens"]]. Preferring to solve any of his problems by killing people and sending his soldiers to die in droves, Ashe reveals his ultimate plan to conquer Omega is by unleashing a Reaper Adjutant outbreak. When [[EvenEvilHasStandards a horrified Petrovsky]] points out this endangers the millions of people aboard Omega, including Cerberus's own soldiers, Ashe brushes it off as "acceptable losses" before trying to kill Petrovksy for his "weakness".
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* CharacterPerceptionEvolution: Originally, a majority of players sided with the geth over the quarians (37% geth, 27% quarians, 36% both) due to the latter race spending the trilogy [[NeverMyFault refusal to consider their hostility to the geth caused them to fight back]], their [[NiceJobBreakingItHero continually endangering themselves over it]], and ''3'' proving the quarians omitted they started and other wrongs in the conflict from their history. By the time of the ''[[UpdatedReRelease Legendary Edition]]'' a decade later, players siding with the geth were far fewer (11% geth%, 9% quarians, 80% both) due to the reveal in ''3'' no longer being fresh and feeling in hindsight the games were whitewashing the geth's actions which FridgeHorror since suggested were far worse than could be deemed pure self defense[[note]]similar space-faring races have populations of tens of billions but the quarians were reduced to around 17 million meaning the geth killed around 99% of them, far more than can be realistically assumed all were willing or able to threaten the geth (the cultural conformity causing nearly all modern quarians to do so only emerging afterward)[[/note]].
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* ValuesDissonance: The romance options in the games have fallen under this, as the #[=MeToo=] movement in the later half of TheNewTens brought unprecedented awareness to the darker nature of power imbalances in relationships, making the fact that Shepard's romance options all involve a commanding officer pursuing those under their rank look in especially poor tastes. While some love interests can evolve to take significant positions of power themselves over time, they're still subordinate to Shepard as far as the events of each game is concerned.
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* ValuesDissonance: The romance options in the games have fallen under this, as the #[=MeToo=] movement in the later half of TheNewTens brought unprecedented awareness to the darker nature of power imbalances in relationships, making the fact that Shepard's romance options all involve a commanding officer pursuing those under their rank look in especially poor tastes. While some love interests can evolve to take significant positions of power themselves over time, they're still subordinate to Shepard as far as the events of each game is concerned.
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** This is a large contributor to the popularity of the [[FanPreferredCouple Male Shepard/Tali, Female Shepard/Garrus, and Male Shepard/Kaidan relationships]]. Because all three were added later in the series, earlier interactions give a strong sense of a friendship developing into more over shared experiences and tribulations. The end result is that all three give the feeling of a trilogy-spanning relationship that is every bit as strong as the Male Shepard/Ashley, Female Shepard/Kaidan, and Shepard/Liara relationships that began in the first game.
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** This is a large contributor to the popularity of the [[FanPreferredCouple Male Shepard/Tali, Female Shepard/Garrus, and Male Shepard/Kaidan relationships]].relationships. Because all three were added later in the series, earlier interactions give a strong sense of a friendship developing into more over shared experiences and tribulations. The end result is that all three give the feeling of a trilogy-spanning relationship that is every bit as strong as the Male Shepard/Ashley, Female Shepard/Kaidan, and Shepard/Liara relationships that began in the first game.
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* HoYay: Unsurprisingly for a Bioware game. [[HoYay/{{Bioware}} Check the company's entry on the page for more detail]]. One notable example would be Male Shepard/Kaidan whose interaction was [[FanPreferredCouple so popular]] that they were made canon in the third game.
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* HoYay: Unsurprisingly for a Bioware game. [[HoYay/{{Bioware}} Check the company's entry on the page for more detail]]. One notable example would be Male Shepard/Kaidan whose interaction was [[FanPreferredCouple so popular]] popular that they were made canon in the third game.
