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9	* ''Series/ThirtyRock'': Frank mentions that the writers used the company credit card to pre-order ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''.
10	* ''Series/TheExpanse'':
11	** The [[spoiler:protomolecule hybrid]] soldiers look very similar to the Husks.
12	** The psychic vision Holden gets from the Ring Station in "Dandelion Sky" is very reminiscent of the message that Shepard got from the Prothean beacon in the first game.
13	* In ''Series/SiliconValley'', Bertram Gilfoyle refers to a character as someone who's "as pointless as the multiple endings of ''Mass Effect 3''".
14	* ''Series/Halo2022'''s first episode features an ADR voice paging Cmdr. Shepard to the Sk''i''llian Response Center, an [[https://www.gamesradar.com/halo-series-mass-effect-easter-egg-commander-shepard/ intentional]] reference at that.
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17	* ''VideoGame/CivilizationBeyondEarth'':
18	** The achievement for playing a mod? "[[VideoGame/MassEffect2 I'm in the middle of some calibrations]]".
19	** The [[http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/ANGEL_%28CivBE%29?file=ANGEL_portfolio.jpg ANGEL's quadrupedal, insectoid design]] resembles [[VideoGame/MassEffect3 a Reaper destroyer]], in case you feel like being the vanguard of the other guy's destruction, for a change.
20	* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'':
21	** If you purchase a drink at the Hanged Man, Hawke's drinking animation is identical to Commander Shepard's. Hawke also finishes conversations with the bartender with "Thanks. I should go.".
22	** The upgrade of the revival spell is called Unity.
23	** Isabela sometimes shouts, "[[VideoGame/MassEffect1 enemies everywhere]]!" when the fighting starts.
24	** One quest has you framing a Templar for various illicit activities. The name of the Templar? [[Franchise/MassEffect Ser Conrad Vernhart]].
25	** When talking to Seneschal Bran in Act 3:
26	--->'''Bran''': [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 Do the words "political maelstrom" mean anything to you?]]
27	** "To hunt the wyvern on its ground is to tempt fate. [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 A terrible risk -]] [[MemeticMutation but the prize...]]"
28	* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': Many of the cryptic comments Cole makes are {{shout out}}s to novels, films and other video games, mainly by [[InvokedTrope invoking]] ItWasHisSled including "[[VideoGame/MassEffect3 It always had a soul. The question is the answer.]]"
29	* ''VideoGame/DustAnElysianTail'' has two achievements tied to a sidequest involving a decision of whether to lace an NPC's clothing with poison ivy; fittingly, they're "Paragon" and "Renegade".
30	* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'':
31	** Some of the species portraits look like the hanar or yahg.
32	** If the [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe blue, tentacle-haired cute alien girl]] is not a shout-out to ''Film/TheFifthElement'', it's to the asari.
33	** [[https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingDetails/comments/bshdvd/in_stellaris_2016_your_spaceship_may_randomly_be A possible random event]] is to have your survey ship struck by passing mass driver rounds ''fired from another galaxy billions of years ago'', proving that [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 Sir Isaac Newton really is]] [[https://youtu.be/hLpgxry542M the deadliest son of a bitch in space]].
34	** It’s also possible to find a planet [[http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Patsayev into which someone carved a message]] complaining about his/her/its life.
35	** An event chain involving sentient machines begins with the question [[http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Legion "Is this unit in possession of a soul?"]]
36	** The generic, non-specialized machine intelligences are akin to the geth; an isolationistic, live-and-let-live amalgamation of semi-independent, highly-connected programs that are not individually sapient, but together form a greater intelligence.
37	** The Contingency is a dead-ringer reference to the Reapers, right down to the black-red coloration and using a strange signal to subvert machine populations to turn on your empire. The "Machine Integration" living standard tooltip also reads "Assuming direct control."
38	** One of the Holy Guardians' Gaia worlds is dubbed Walled Garden, which is the meaning of the quarian homeworld, Rannoch. (Of course, it's also the meaning of the word "paradise," which was also the intent in ''Mass Effect''.)
39	** A rare, lategame resource is "Zro," an addictive substance that enhances psionic abilities.
40	** Purchasing assistance from the Curator Enclave to deal with the Infinity Machine grants your empire the [[Memes/BioWare "Infinite Calibrator"]] modifier.
41	** A possible random event leads to the player deciding between a blue, red or green liquid to modify their population with. The game even says "The effects are unknown but we are assured they are all positive," a clear [[TakeThat jab]] at the ''Mass Effect 3'' endings.
42	** Relic Worlds, in the ''Ancient Relics'' DLC, are {{city planet}}s that fell into ruin after their creators died out, much like the planet Feros in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''.
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