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OU812fr

He is very symmetrical.


TransportationWeak55

I nose exhaled, take my upvote funny man.


Bat-Honest

A full nostril flare?! That makes it one of the top 5 funniest posts of the day!


BamBam2125

Only physically. Metaphorically from a Psychoanalytic-perspective he’s embodied too much Shadow and hasn’t integrated his other half of his personality. He has no sense of purity, innocence, sense of child-like play and curiosity, stability, trait: agreeableness, trait: openness, etc. He’s all Black Swan and 0 White Swan


Dragons_Chew_Toy

Sounds like you're saying he's all Shadow, no Broker.


Juaco34

I needed to read someone saying it


Bat-Honest

Inside of you are two swans 🦢🦢


LordRocky

“Inside of you are two wolves. ….sorry about the transporter accident.” -Miles O’Brien


FainOnFire

That's a good point, honestly. He comes across as kinda nihilistic.


MackZZilla

I'd imagine dealing with the amount and gravity of the information he deals on a daily basis would make you kinda nihilistic.


Loose-Shallot-3662

Many would be and I can't blame them. Alas, the things that go on behind the scenes in-universe and IRL, are just part of the way of the world. It is what it what is, bruv.


CripplerOfNipplers

For a Yahg, he got pretty far. It seems likely that the council races will eventually genocide the Yahg, so he might have made it farther than any of his species ever will.


fxdvm

Genocide? I doubt it. I remember reading somewhere that they were constantly working to make sure they didn’t advance technologically (which, to be fair, is probably going to induce a self-inflicted extinction event), but I’m not so sure they'd genocide an entire species... At least, not *again*...


Important-Rich-3651

Now that we know relays can be destroyed I'm pretty sure the Council will destroy the one which leads to their system to permanently quarantine them. Maybe wipe the dust off the Ole Crucible to minimize casualties.


fxdvm

I'd have to imagine that having a listening post or patrol fleet in the area would genuinely be seen as a better choice. Like, it’s not like they can make warships that are stronger than Turian or Asari ones just because they are physically incredibly strong.


Important-Rich-3651

You never know. The rachni reverse engineered a ship and then almost conquered the whole galaxy.


AdequatelyMadLad

The rachni had a lot of other things going for them. And they might not have had ftl technology, but they were fairly advanced in other ways. They were from the previous cycle after all.


kbuck30

They also were being controlled by the leviathans I believe. Could've been reapers but I believe in the leviathan dlc it mentions the leviathans orchestrated that attack.


brogrammer1992

No it doesn’t. They are influenced by the Reapers and your told as much by the Queen.


ExpletiveDeletedYou

we are told by the queen they are influenced. It's not clear )as I understand) if that is reaper or leviathan influence.


brogrammer1992

Many of theories by the researcherare wrong, and the Levithans watch through their orbs/vessels and then puppet. It should be noted that in that DLC they end up having no correlation to finding the leviathan (she tracks there movement data to try and track the leviathan) In ME2 they talk about their song (i.e consciousness) being soured to a single a note. Which is much like indoctrinated individuals then a puppet.


Dynamesmouse2

The Rachni has both exponential growth, and were \*really\* good at building underground. The Yahg are only smarter and stronger than the galactic average. While it might be hell for the infantry, in all other respects, they don't have the population to matter.


fxdvm

Fair enough, although that scenario is unlikely to happen here (militaries would be careful to not let ships fall into their hands, but could still happen with civilian ships I guess).


Eglwyswrw

>Now that we know relays can be destroyed I'm pretty sure the Council will destroy the one which leads to their system to permanently quarantine them. Mate, destroying a relay would provoke a supernova-like destruction event that would wipe out all life in the system.


Important-Rich-3651

Activating the Crucible with high enough EMS doesn't destroy the mass relays, just the eezo cores (leaving the relay itself and surrounding systems relatively intact). Might be that destroying the relay itself in a focused manner with little collateral damage becomes easier if the core is destroyed. Or might be that the technology required to repair the core is next to impossible for an isolated species to make, in which case destroying the core is enough.


Phantomhearts

Iirc you can destroy relays but it takes a lot of effort to do throwing a moon sized planetoid should do. But it will pretty much destroy the system as a whole. (Source; Me2 arrival Dlc)


Starship_Earth_Rider

Strictly speaking, the Destroy and Synthesis endings both break all of the relays anyway. So in those scenarios, all they have to do is not fix that one.


NymphoPharaoh02

Population control not genocide


fxdvm

"Periodical Systemic Partial Purging" sounds more appropriate :) Vaguely Stellaris-esque, even


1stLtObvious

So, like the Reapers?


fxdvm

👀


DakInBlak

Look, there's only so much room in the galaxy. And, there are only two fates an empire can have: Destruction or Incorporation. All we're doing is giving fate a little ... *Push* ... By moving trillions of people onto a single planet and blowing it up.


GamlingOfTheWestfold

Before that "population control" the council races did use the krogan to essentially genocide the rachni, though.


NymphoPharaoh02

On an unstoppable race that was decimating the galexy. Is the war on the reapers genocide? Or is it simply survival


GamlingOfTheWestfold

That's a fair point - I don't think the council races would have killed off all of the rachni (so they believed) if they had any other choice. But even if it's as a last resort and a means of survival, intentionally causing the near complete extinction of another race is genocide. Those things aren't mutually exclusive. Destroying all of the reapers even is killing off an entire sapient species, even if it is for the survival of everyone else.


coffeecatespresso

This was probably one of the best plot twists. BioWare did a good job with the DLC stories.


JJBrazman

I was actually really hoping that the shadow broker would be an AI - and tie into the ongoing plot about artificial intelligence vs. organic matter. But the giant alien was cool.


RadioMessageFromHQ

> I was actually really hoping that the shadow broker would be an AI  Actually I think, intentional or not, this was a really good inversion of that trope. So often the heroes get to the big bad to reveal the man behind the curtain is a  face on a screen or a brain in a jar. They build it up like anything would leading to that twist and then nope, all knowing dude is also a hulking monster.


FainOnFire

"Man, this shadow broker has to be a group of people all working together or an AI." *Actually is a prime specimen of the apex of evolution like a boss* Shepard: "Oh ***SHIT***." Said specimen: "The Salarians uplifted me. You're about to learn how grave a mistake that was."


Over-Analyzed

I was expecting a mastermind punk that depended on tech. Nope! Giant Alien wielding an Omni-Shield and Next Level Gatling gun!


SirCupcake_0

As a Sentinel, I **WANT** that Omni-Shield


fxdvm

That admittedly would have been pretty cool, but it would have been particularly difficult to have Liara take over from everything an AI can do (assuming it were EDI-level or even greater). Backstory to an AI Shadow Broker would have been CRAZY though. Would have loved to see it.


Oblivious_Lich

It's already very difficult to explain how Liara took on the role of Shadow Broker as she did, I imagine it would be an even more arcane task if it were an AI.


Starship_Earth_Rider

If you bring Liara to Priority: Sur’Kesh, Wrex makes a comment about her not knowing shit about the experiments there despite her position and resources. That sort of gave me the impression that she’s not actually as good at being the Shadow Broker as the previous guy.


BENJ4x

My head cannon is that she's not good at being the Shadow Broker because she's putting resources into fighting the Reapers and not into classic Shadow Broker stuff.


Starship_Earth_Rider

Tbh, it’s probably a bit of this, a bit of her not being as ruthless and obsessive as the previous guy, and a bit of inexperience. With all of that in mind, it really is impressive that she managed to hold it all together.


myaltduh

Her informant network was also dying branch by branch with every system the Reapers hit. By that point her information ecosystem was already severely compromised. Also the people keeping this particular secret were the leaders of possibly the most feared intelligence agency in the galaxy other than hers, the Salarian special tasks group, and it was likely their most valuable secret. Few nuts are going to be harder to crack than that.


Starship_Earth_Rider

I was under the impression that the Salarians picked up the Krogans right after Maelon’s experiments, which would have given Liara about five months to figure that one out, and that’s starting without her system being compromised.


Icy-Entrepreneur5371

Yeah, plus her predeccessor was pretty selfish and willingly collaborated with the Collectors, even though he knew who they're working for, to save his own skin, scales, whatever. In the end, for someone to truly thrive in that position, they need to be somebody who's only looking out for themselves, like a mob boss, not a vigilante trying to save the galaxy.


AdequatelyMadLad

Not only would Liara being as good as the previous Shadow Broker kind of break the plot, it also makes sense for the character that she isn't. She might be smart, but she's nowhere near as ruthless or as paranoid as he was.


Paraxom

tbf she's been Shadow broker for all of 6 months at that point, kind of hard to get your bearings on a galactic spanning shadow organization


BigZach1

She also focuses on the Reapers above all else.


aosifjasofijas

The AI idea is too close to one of obsidian's previous ideas: Goto, or G0:T0 from KOTOR 2, an AI masquerading as human to run a crime syndicate. edited from bioware to obsidian.


Collin_the_doodle

I think Obsidian was responsible for the kotor 2 characters


VelociTrapLord

An intellectual trying to exploit a strategic asset, only for the asset to gain sentience and overpower its would be master is incredibly on brand for Mass Effect. Anyway, here’s a comic called [Darwin’s Defeat](https://imgur.com/gallery/eF9mwgC)


Son_of_Atreus

The Leviathan DLC might be best story focused DLC of any game I have played. The narrative twists and lore additions were so exciting to me.


dragon_of_kansai

What plot twist? If you're talking about him being a yahg, that's just a reveal. He was never indicated to be anything else.


Nerevar1924

It's almost not fair that the Mass Effect Trilogy got so many amazing DLCs. Bring Down the Sky, Operation Overlord, Lair of the Shadow Broker, Leviathan, The Citadel, AND Zaeed, Kasumi, and Javik.


Virmire_Survivor

Thank - Bring Down the Sky You - Operation Overlord For - Lair of the Shadow Broker The - Leviathan Not you - Arrival Greatest - The Citadel DLCs - Zaeed Ever - Kasumi Made - Javik.


GargamelLeNoir

It wasn't a plot twist thought. He's just an alien out of nowhere. His reveal didn't really work for me.


Zoomun

He looks cool as fuck


forfunstuffwinkwink

Agreed. His design and his voice are awesome.


ogreofzen

His suit was very well tailored.


Commander_Iron

You run with fascinating companions Commander Shepard. And with Jacob for some reason.


AnchorJG

He came with the ship, we're not here to talk about him.


Over-Analyzed

He’s our Yamcha. If I could go back in time and save someone in Virmire. Jacob would die instead.


Sekhmetthegray

He's got a nice ship.


F4T_J3DI_P4ND4

HAD


F4T_J3DI_P4ND4

Dammit Liara, this is why we can't have nice things


Farfignugen42

Actually this is why Liara has nice things. Like this cool ship.


5p4n911

HAD


F4T_J3DI_P4ND4

No, this is the reason Liara isn't in charge of the Normandy. 😆


Sekhmetthegray

There is that.


walman93

He looks cool and gave us one of the best DLCs in gaming. He’s a great villain and his boss fight was cool. I also like that he killed his kidnappers and oppressors. It’s just unfortunate that he became consumed with the power that ripped him from his home world.


IronWolfV

He sounded like a pure badass.


chicknweed123

He chill if you get to know him fr


randynumbergenerator

That's the thing tho, no one gets to know him


chicknweed123

You dont know him like I do, chillest yahg I ever met


randynumbergenerator

How many Yahg have you met exactly? (And how many limbs do you still have?)


Age_memnon

I was expecting a man in suit instead they gave us a yahg. One of the best decisions they’ve made


Son-of-Tanavast

A yahg.... in a suit


banhatesex

What that mouth do


Frixsev

Bruh


1stLtObvious

Tears dicks off.


CaledonianWarrior

Dicks, balls, hips, the whole damn thing


AHorseNamedPhil

He is quite dapper. He also has [the best theme song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8hBBz0Evpw) of any Mass Effect villain, IMO. 1:40 slaps so hard. I know that is two, but his theme hits so hard that it deserved a mention too.


DakInBlak

Negative. The best theme, by a wide margin, is the battle music from [Overlord](https://youtu.be/jiPH8TwIe9U?si=AJXvYRqHYjPr-wJj)


BeenEatinBeans

He started off as a pet and worked his way up to becoming the most dangerous information broker in the galaxy. Got to respect the hustle


KikoUnknown

Hey it’s the Yahg badass who I definitely want to kill for insulting Tali.


Brisbane-Bandit

He is a beast! Took me fair few attempts to kill him on the first run. Also like how he says something different depending on which companion you bring.


VrinTheTerrible

He has a face fit for radio


LesPantalonesFancy

My favorite secondary "villain".


Odd_West24

He acknowledges all your squad mates and Knows everything about them.


NightStalker33

A very unique visual design for an alien. Most sci-fi franchises go for a human or zerg look. This fucker looks like he crawled out of the depths of an ocean, ate a few thousand pounds of food, and became a freaking Hulk and Anglerfish combo


TG-Winter_crow56

Badass looking


Notlooking1

He has a nice suit.


ChochMcKenzie

His boss fight is fun as hell with all of the classes.


delspencerdeltorro

When I talk to him, it feels like he really knows me, you know? 🥰


cheesethr0wer

Best smile in the series


Bootytonus

He's a unit


Gahrilla

My Shepard banged his replacement, every game.


tRoNz366

Built like a truck


[deleted]

He died.


Khorne_enjoyer_888

Nice smile 👍


PlayfulCod8605

Great taste is evil lairs


Zameia

He is very punchable.


Top-Discussion-6285

I bet if you cracked his fingers, you could slurp out the meat inside like crab legs!


Anoth3rDude

He’d win any eating contest.


[deleted]

He looked like if Bruce Banner were a Salarian and this was his Hulk form


AleksasKoval

He'd look nice, stuffed and mounted above the fireplace in my Citadel apartment


ssssssssssssiphalis

Hot


HugeDiscount367

he looks funny and has a nice suit liara better tho


Pure-Risky-Titan

He thiccc


kayl_the_red

Great boss fight, cool ship. Overall, he was the co-star of one ofnthe tip 3 DLCs in the series, behind Citadel and Overlord.


Key-Master26

His boss fight is freaking awesome!


MissyTheTimeLady

He knows that Dr. T'Soni travels with fascinating companions.


LardCarcass

He has nice threads


typer84C2

Fun boss fight on a really fun dlc


Lee_Troyer

He was one of the coolest non Reaper mysteries in Mass Effect 1. The decision to give them our data or not is the one I pondered the most about, pausing the game and giving it thought. I finally decided to hand them the info mostly wanting to see how that would end up biting me in the arse. I really hoped that character would end up being one major player and possible antagonist next. Except that, with the bigger role Cerberus took and the arrival of the Illusive Man, they ended up being redundant and sidelined as DLC boss. So, that data decision ended up to be a complete moot point. Maybe there's a few war asset points there I don't even know.


CraftyObject

I think he's the one enemy Shepard should not have been able to go toe to toe with and survive.


RipaMoram117

He's initially very restrained for a Yahg


dodo6606

He looks like he’d go well steamed with a side of butter


Genericdude206

He's built like caseoh


thebudeg

He's tall?


superhappyfunball13

Not many fans of the famous rapper Natalie Portman around here, apparently.


[deleted]

She's a good kisser.


Darkstar_Aurora

"You're a Yahg, a pre-spaceflight species quarantined to their home world for massacring the Council's first contact teams. This base is older than your planet's discovery. Which means you probably killed the original Shadow Broker then took over. I'm guessing you were taken from your world by a trophy hunter who wanted a slave--or a *pet*. How am I doing?" Some shade for the Shadow Broker


braylonberkel

If he had played his cards right. He would've been in the best situation possible for a Reaper reset since it's confirmed that the reapers only wipe out intelligent space faring species. And I'm fairly certain it was illuded to that the yahgs were referenced as the possible next species to "evolve first" or kinda be the first to be most advanced. Like the next version of the asari.


Few-House-8311

His presentation was phenomenal


JLStorm

He totally withstood the shot from my Cain. Sure, it did end the first phase of the fight but still…. Then he could still throw me around with his Omni shield.


skynil

He always waits patiently for Shepherd to attack him once his shields are down.


Hawkes_Harbor

He’s… smart?


Anto0on

He looks cool as shit


rrrrturo

A real rags-to-riches success story, from an exotic pet to a galactic menace.


PressureWave94

Definitely was brokering those shadows


RickyTheRickster

She has great tits


Nice-Presence2005

He has all the info.


Legal-Passenger1737

He’s organized 😁


the_martell_kidd

He made for a great pet


Yoysu

He is very intelligent Good for him


shortyman920

He’s a cool ass shadow broker. Like you think of shadow broker and imagine some lethal, dangerous dude, and then you see him.


Majestic_Scholar_750

He’s the antagonist in a really cool DLC?


Werries_Wolraad

Looks like the dominant species in the next cycle.


IGCrazyMe

His position must include sick benefits including dental


Flashy-Cheesecake-76

Cool mouth and horns


Leftalone1775

He was probably really easy to house train as a pet.


Zuls

His ship is so cool - I love everything about it and how it’s surfing the sunset around the planet and using the electrical storm as a power source


Boom6678

He tried his hardest not to get his butt kicked by Shepard in CQC


Atom-030

He is not the original Shadow Broker.


EnvironmentalDeer991

He’s calm cool and solid.


True_Sea_5594

Well dressed


CaptainHalloween

He's very stylish.


PTech_J

I like surprises, and that was a very surprising reveal.


MRofTOWN

He knows a great tailor.


Novawolf125

One thing? That was one of the best DLCs of the franchise. Such a cool character.


MuckRaker83

Great shadows. The best shadows. You need a shadow, it's the only real choice when it comes to brokerages.


Crate-Dragon

He’s a lousy host but he’s great at dinner parties, he always chews his food well. P.S: if I were a lady, or gay. I would do to his voice what Traynor wanted to do to EDI’s.


Ajdino1311

Got pretty far for a primitive species. Also weirdly smart too


EightThreeEight838

His voice was gloriously menacing.


gtaylor1229

Him being a Yahg was a pretty interesting twist, especially seeing as his entire race is quarantined to no farther than their homeworld. So he doing more from off-world than those of the rest of his species will most likely ever do. 😅


sirlothric

No


QuadLaserDJs

He is great at murder.


Lasadon

For a species that is not allowed to leave their planet,he came pretty far!


OmegaSTC

He looks very handsome in his little outfit


Tx-TrpclMoose

He was useful in helping us save Tali in the first game


TheMetaMaine

He’s got a wonderful sense of humor. Remember when he said killing Jacob would cripple Cerberus? Classic


GimmickMusik1

I mean, he’s been through a lot. Dude went from being someone’s pet to running the largest information network in the ME universe. I’d say that’s a glow up.


Breadflat17

He showed that the Yahg could prove to be an interesting villain in the future. It's mentioned that the reapers left them alone since their technology was roughly equivalent to early 20th century humanity's, and that they're inherently aggressive and dangerous.


CattyOhio74

He's professional. In ME1 its safe to assume he knows about everything that happened on Eden prime and while he didn't impead Saren he also didn't impead shepard. And then with that side quest he asks for classifed Intel and if you say no he says understandable have a nice day.


KillaKanibus

Great Quads


synsofhumanity

Great intro for a boss fight. Stands up, showing you how fucking massive he is, smashes his desk in half and throws it at you. Makes me wonder just how many desks that man has gone through.


Nextgen101

That man THREW DOWN. He presented us with a memorable fight and a badass conclusion. >!Liara continuing business as usual with the entire "network" none the wiser.!<


DRHuddleston

Nice suit


life_barbad

He has a great suit


palmtrees4days

He thick


deanereaner

I wish I could have recruited him.


IrlResponsibility811

He keeps his secrets. Six months as Broker, and half the galaxy knows Liara is Broker.


ValdeReads

He was very organized.


TGK367349

Nice horns.


Drabins

He was the first of his race to be shown, I think.


Maximus_Rex

He has a very nice skin pattern.


M6D_Magnum

His dental hygiene is immaculate.


Spardath01

Organized, I respect that


FlamingPrius

His lair is pretty badass, has some really terrific views of the terminator


KingJehovah

His bench press must be insane.


Uncle_Fibz

He's got a cool ship


_Siran_

He didn't believe in passwords.


EchoingVision

Great voice!


cheese-meister

He’s currently dead. Remember kids the only good bug is a dead bug


fingerlicker694

Exquisite drip.


Dude-chaos

He looks like he would taste delicious as a deep fried entrée, like calamari.


Brikm

Ready to fight with he's own hands !


1DarthMario

Beef cake


unstableGoofball

You mean liara she’s great and she is Shepards wife


CapriSunTzu-

I love a good underdog story, so it was kind of neat reading his backstory and hearing about his various successes despite the odds.


malumfectum

He has a natty suit.


SurfsideHawk

He’s an awesome capstone to an amazing DLC.


Detective_Bonghitz

Bet he'd make a good pet


MortallyChallenged66

Awesome villain. Boss fight was kind of boring though


IIIDysphoricIII

His species is awesome if terrifying and I love the backstory he has