Mass Effect (2007 Video Game)

Mark Meer: Commander Shepard (Male), Delanynder, Opold, Preaching Hanar, Businessman, Salarian Soldier, Thug

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• Asari Councilor : Commander. Is this some kind of game? Are you calling in a report just so you can cut us off again?

  Commander Shepard : You know it.

  [disconnects communication] 

  Jeff 'Joker' Moreau : That never gets old, does it?

• Mira : It looks like you are trying to restore this facility. Would you like some help?

  Commander Shepard : Oh crap, a pop-up.

• Sovereign : You are not Saren.

  Garrus Vakarian : What is that? Some kind of VI interface?

  Sovereign : Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh, you touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding.

  Garrus Vakarian : I don't think this is a VI...

  Sovereign : There is a realm of existence so far beyond your own you cannot even imagine it. I am beyond your comprehension. I am Sovereign.

  Commander Shepard : Sovereign isn't just some Reaper ship Saren found. It's an actual Reaper!

  Sovereign : Reaper? A label created by the Protheans to give voice to their destruction. In the end, what they chose to call us is irrelevant. We simply... are.

  Garrus Vakarian : The Protheans vanished over 50,000 years ago. You couldn't have been there, it's impossible!

  Sovereign : Organic life is nothing but a genetic mutation, an accident. Your lives are measured in years and decades. You wither and die. We are eternal, the pinnacle of evolution and existence. Before us, you are nothing. Your extinction is inevitable. We are the end of everything.

  Commander Shepard : Whatever your plan is, it's going to fail. I'll make sure of that.

  Sovereign : Confidence born of ignorance. The cycle cannot be broken.

  Tali'Zorah nar Rayya : Cycle? What cycle?

  Sovereign : The pattern has repeated itself more times than you can fathom. Organic civilizations rise, evolve, advance, and at the apex of their glory they are extinguished. The Protheans were not the first. They did not create the Citadel. They did not forge the mass relays. They mere found them - the legacy of my kind.

  Commander Shepard : Why would you construct the mass relays and leave them for someone else to find?

  Sovereign : Your civilization is based on the technology of the mass relays. Our technology. By using it, your civilization develops along the paths we desire. We impose order on the chaos of organic life. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it.

  Tali'Zorah nar Rayya : They're harvesting us! Letting us advance to the level they need, then wiping us out!

  Commander Shepard : What do you want from us? Slaves, resources?

  Sovereign : My kind transcends your very understanding. We are each a nation - independent, free of all weakness. You cannot grasp the nature of our existence.

  Commander Shepard : Where did you come from? Who built you?

  Sovereign : We have no beginning. We have no end. We are infinite. Millions of years after your civilization has been eradicated and forgotten, we will endure.

  Commander Shepard : Where are the rest of the Reapers? Are you the last of your kind?

  Sovereign : We are legion. The time of our return is coming. Our numbers will darken the sky of every world. You cannot escape your doom.

  Commander Shepard : You're not even alive! Not really. You're just a machine, and machines can be broken!

  Sovereign : Your words are as empty as your future. I am the Vanguard of your destruction. This exchange is over...

• Commander Shepard : I need to activate the neutron purge.

  Mira : I'm sorry, but the proper authorization code is required.

  Commander Shepard : [Mumbling]  Uh... Sic semper, tyrana...

  Commander Shepard : [Coughs] 

• Commander Shepard : You think I'm crazy, don't you?

  Urdnott Wrex : Sometimes crazy is the best way to go.

• Commander Shepard : The Council can kiss my ass!

• Turian Councilor : Do you take pleasure from committing genocide, Shepard?

  Commander Shepard : Depends on the species, Turian.

• Conrad Verner : What if you signed me on as another Spectre?

  Commander Shepard : Conrad, I haven't been shot in the head nearly enough times to make that sound like a good idea.

• Turian Councilor : [the council refuse to believe Shepard, despite the truth of his past claims]  I believe there is a saying amongst you humans: "even a broken clock is correct two times a day."

  Commander Shepard : Here's another saying: *go to hell!*

• Ashley Williams : So all we have to do is find this Thorian thing and... woah.

  Commander Shepard : We're gonna need bigger guns.

• Alestia Iallis : [an asari enters the room accompanied by armed geth]  Your mission ends here, Shepard.

  Ashley Williams : What the hell?

  Commander Shepard : She's surrounded by geth and pointing a gun at us. Shoot her!

• Commander Shepard : You must have had some kind of interesting experience.

  Urdnott Wrex : Well, there was this one time the Turians tried to wipe out our entire race. That was fun.

• Gianna Parasini : You can't bludgeon your way through bureacracy, Shepard.

  Commander Shepard : I can bludgeon pretty hard.

• Commander Shepard : You must have family other than your father. Don't you miss them?

  Urdnott Wrex : You trying to make me cry, Shepard?

• Ashley Williams : That puts a whole new spin on the phrase "drop on the floor and give me twenty".

  Commander Shepard : You still sassin' me soldier? I think you need more physical training.

  Ashley Williams : Tsk. Now, skipper, what will it take to prove I'm in prime condition?

• Commander Shepard : Together we can stop Sovreign. We don't have to submit to the Reapers. We can beat them!

  Saren Arterius : I no longer belive that Shepard. The visions cannot be denied. The Reapers are too powerful. The only hope of survival is to join with them. Sovreign is a machine. It thinks like a machine. If I can prove my value, I become a resource, worth maintaining. There is no other logical conclusion.

  Commander Shepard : You were a Spectre. You swore to protect the galaxy. Then you broke that vow to save yourself.

  Saren Arterius : I'm not doing this for myself. Don't you see, Sovreign will succeed. It is inevitable. My way is the only way any of us will survive. I'm forging an alliance between us and the Reapers, between organics and machines, and in doing so, I will save more lives than have ever existed. But you would undo my work. You would doom our entire civilization to complete annihilation, and for that, you must die.

• Captain Maeko Matsuo : Sergeant Stirling, secure their weapons.

  [the team draws] 

  Urdnott Wrex : Don't try it.

  Commander Shepard : Let's not start a fight.

  Urdnott Wrex : Why not?

• Commander Shepard : [points gun at Conrad Verner's face]  Conrad, you have no idea what it takes to get the job done. This is how a gun in your face feels! It happens to me every day. You can't handle this.

  Conrad Verner : [starts crying]  I thought you were a hero! Hero's don't do things like this! I wish I'd never met you.

• Ashley Williams : [after listening to a message from her sister about how cute Shepard is. Turns around, seeing Shepard right behind her]  Please tell me you didn't hear that.

  Commander Shepard : Afraid I did.

  Ashley Williams : Oh, shoot me now.

• [Shepard and company, trapped in a crumbling mine, confront opposition] 

  Commander Shepard : In case you hadn't noticed, this whole place is falling apart!

  Krogan Mercenary : Exhilarating, isn't it?

• Ambassador Calyn : Pleased greetings: Human it is always good to see your kind. I am Ambassador Calyn. Genuine query: Is there something I can do for you this day?

  Commander Shepard : Why do you explain what you're about to say?

  Ambassador Calyn : Our people communicate less through words and more through scent and slight movements. Plainly: We discovered our vocal expression was not enough to convey the feelings of our conversations to other species.

  Din Korlack : Why do you bother, Calyn? These Earth-clan don't really care about our ways!

  Ambassador Calyn : Remorseful response, Din: You don't truly believe that. And if you do, I am very sorry for you.

  Commander Shepard : Goodbye, Ambassador.

  Ambassador Calyn : Sincere farewell: Good day to you, human. Enjoy your time on the Citadel.

• Kaiden Alenko : Now we have to find... to find...

  Commander Shepard : [sees the Thorian]  That's... large.

• Commander Shepard : It's nice to know where I stand with the galaxy. But where do I stand with you?

  Ashley Williams : About a meter away. Maybe 1.2 meters... sir.

• Conrad Verner : I want to be with you, fighting the good fight, like you did on Elysium during the Skyllian Blitz!

  Commander Shepard : [Pulls out a pistol and holds it to Conrad's face]  This is what the Blitz felt like, Conrad! You like it?

  Conrad Verner : W-What? Please, please don't hurt me! Why are you doing this?

  Commander Shepard : This is how a gun in your face feels. It happens to me everyday. You can't handle this!

  Conrad Verner : [Crying]  I thought you were a hero. Heroes don't do things like this! I wish I never met you!