Summary
- Garrus evolves from a frustrated officer to a mature Reaper expert
- Liara gains confidence and becomes the Shadow Broker
- Jack goes from an angry loner to a caring teacher
One of the best things about the Mass Effect series is the characters. Throughout the games, you meet all sorts of interesting individuals, from villains to heroes to people who fall somewhere in between. Most of them are very well-written, as they have distinct personalities and clear motivations.
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What’s more, several of the most significant characters develop over the series. This is especially true of your incredible companions. Their life-threatening and world-saving adventures with Shepard change some of them, whether it’s their personality or overall outlook on the world. The following characters change the most during the Normandy’s many escapades.
The choices you make during the Mass Effect impact whether characters live or die. This list is based on the idea that they all lived long enough to change.
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Garrus Vakarian
At the start of the series, Garrus is a frustrated C-Sec officer who is sick of bureaucracy. Then, he develops into a ruthless and effective vigilante on Omega.
By the third game, though, he changes a bit. His people see him as an expert on the Reapers, or at least, the closest thing they’ve got to one. His rebellious attitude has dimmed a little, and he’s no longer as gung-ho as he once was. Instead, he seems a bit more mature. Yet, he is still willing to crack jokes and make sarcastic comments, as always. So, he doesn’t completely change.
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Liara T’Soni
In the first game, Liara is young for an Asari, and this is shown in her personality. Despite her obvious intellect, She is a bit awkward, naive, and insecure. She even seems to idolize Shepard in a way.
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Over the next few games, she gains a lot more self-assurance. She makes her name in the information broker world and even becomes the Shadow Broker, making her one of the most significant people in the galaxy. By this point, she is a lot more confident and doesn’t need to idolize anyone, not even Shepard. She still likes the Commander, though.
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Jack
Jack’s childhood was spent as a test subject for Cerberus. She was tortured, forced to fight, and hated by all the other kids for being the ‘special one.’ Naturally, this impacted her mentally as she grew into a very angry adult who neither cared about nor trusted anybody.
However, her time on the Normandy changes her. She begins to become more trusting and transforms into an overall better person. As a result, in Mass Effect 3, she is a teacher at Grissom Academy who assists in training young biotics. She isn’t the most conventional educator, but she is an effective one. Plus, she cares a lot about her students. She wouldn’t have been caring or dependable enough for this role at the start of ME2.
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EDI
No character in the series changes as much physically as EDI. After all, she goes from a holographic sphere to having a full-sized robotic body. Yet, it’s her personality changes that are most interesting. When she’s introduced in Mass Effect 2, she’s a standard helpful AI that does what she’s told and has little personality.
Yet, once Joker unshackles her and then spends time with her, she starts to become more human. She makes silly jokes, asks a lot of questions, and even falls in love. To put it simply, she becomes a real person.
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Ashley Williams
When speaking to Ashley on the Normandy in the first game, you learn two significant things about her: she distrusts aliens and her career is at a standstill. The reason she is struggling to advance in the Military is due to her grandfather being the first human to surrender to aliens, which left a black mark on her family’s name.
It’s up to her to improve her family’s reputation, which she does during her exploits with Shepard. As a result, Ash advances in her career and gets offered the esteemed role of Spectre. Also, her views on aliens change along the way as she befriends plenty of them.
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Mordin Solus
Mordin’s general personality doesn’t change during the series, as he remains a very talkative and highly intelligent scientist. However, he changes his thoughts on the biological weapon known as the Genophage, which makes most Krogan die in stillbirth. Changing his mind on one topic doesn’t sound like a big alteration, but it’s significant when it comes to Mordin. After all, he helped create and spread the disease, which was the defining moment of the scientist’s life.
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At first, he continually defends his decision regarding the Genophage. Over time, though, some guilt starts to creep in, even if he won’t necessarily admit it. By Mass Effect 3, he’s made a complete U-turn, as not only does he create a cure for the Genophage, but he also risks his life to deploy it. In one of gaming’s most iconic quotes, he claims he’s doing the life-risking mission because “someone else might have gotten it wrong.” Yet, atonement may have been another motivation for the Salarian.
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Miranda Lawson
In Mass Effect 2, Miranda is labeled a ‘Cerberus Cheerleader.’ There is a reason for that. She is, after all, the controversial company’s number-one fan. Understandably so, as she feels that she owes both her career and life to the organization and its leader, The Illusive Man.
Her love of the company is one of her most defining traits. That is until she turns her back on them at the end of the second game. She chooses to do what’s right instead of what The Illusive Man wants. That is not something you would’ve ever expected when meeting her for the first time.
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Urdnot Wrex
It would be unfair to say that Wrex doesn’t care about his fellow Krogans in the original Mass Effect game. However, he seems to have long given up on the idea of the Krogan getting past the Genophage and becoming a functioning society. So, he’s committed to the merc life of killing people and earning credits.
Yet, in Mass Effect 2, he’s no longer a mercenary on the Citadel. He is a clan leader on his home planet, attempting to make a better life for his people. It’s difficult, but he works tirelessly in the second and third games to reunite the various Krogan clans and cure the Genophage. In the end, he won’t be remembered as a fearful merc; he will be known as a fearless leader.
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