Saul Shepard, Attorney at Law! Did you know that it is illegal for any intergalactic community to sham you for defending the galactic heart of interstellar civilizations? The Council and its non existant constitution do! Don't fret, when you're in trouble, you know who to call! Saul Shepard, Attorney at Law, we'll defend you, ok?
@dfed324 aw man I really hope the new mass effect has some reference to it, I don't care if it's Shepard or a new character or something, I just need that damn reference.
"This, Admirals, is a half-kilo fecal slug. See the blue glow! Every so often, the rectum of Commander Shepard passes one out. On impact, it converts the eezo inside of it to regular energy with 95% efficiency. In space, that will penetrate even the primary shields of a Heavy Fleet frigate. That means: Commander Shepard is the deadliest [significant cough] in space! ...I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space abhors both vacuums, and making Shepard mad! Once she fires this hunk of ordure, it keeps going 'till it hits the deserving! That can be a ship, or the council aboard that ship. It might arc off into deep space and hit your descendants in ten thousand years. If you keep pissing her off, you are ruining your day, somewhere and sometime!"
@@nicholascordero6600 Imagine the galaxy needing you so much that they literally shoved death a middle finger just to bring you back to solve their problems
I like how when "come on Tali, we are leaving" she actually follows him quietly for a moment, implying that she was already ok with the result if it ended right there lmao
Her dad was dead, the admirals considered her a traitor, and the only way to absolve herself was to paint her father as one of the worst mistakes of their people’s history. She was ok with the result. She knew that she had done nothing wrong, she had Shepard and the Normandy crew, and the only “family” still in the quarians who didn’t consider her a traitor was Ra’an. She wouldn’t have lost a whole lot from exile, and I think she had slowly started to realize that on the way back to the hearing.
"I would like to cross examine this parrot!" "What?! This is preposterous!" "Well it was your idea, but if you'd like I got another bird to show you." 🖕🖕 "I'm going to jail..." "Is it too late to plead guilty?"
@@happylighttales There’s also a different version of this renegade speech check if you did not expose the admirals’ hypocrisy of Tali’s trial before heading to the Lab Ship and before doing the Suicide Mission.
@@happylighttales Tbh, I wouldnt give a damn about the speech at all and after Shepard would stop with his nonsense I would be like "Ok, now that you are done. Do you have any evidence proving Tali's innocence or you have nothing and she will face exile as traitor of the Migrant fleet?" because as much as Shepard's speech was awesome, its also completely irrelevant to the present case. Rael'Zorah also used to be super goody guy BUT look how that turned out. (Maybe I would give her a small ship because she retook the Alarei BUT I wouldnt budge until Shepard presented evidence.
@@Dark_Voice Unless you're a highly sophisticated and charismatic speaker, that could catastrophically backfire. Remember, a captain has just accused you of corruption and pursuit of selfish gains over the good of the Fleet. That, in itself is a very serious charge in Quarian society. On top of all that, Tali is generally well-liked both on the Raya and the Neema, not to mention by her comrades in arms. Being too pushy about the evidence is an uphill battle where you stand more to lose than to gain.
Admiralty: “We are here to convict Tal-“ Shepard: “OBJECTION, THAT IS SOME BULLSHIT!” Admiralty: “Shit, you right. We members of the Admiralty find Tali Zorah’Vas Normandy to be, innocent!” Tali: “How the fuck did that work?!?”
Reminds me of the Renegade line in ME1 where Admiral Mikaelovich comes to inspect the Normandy and he says, “You may be a Spectre to the aliens Shepard, but to me you’re just another junior officer. Show some respect and secure that mouth of yours.” And Renegade Shepard just says, “Normandy’s currently on assignment from the Council, meaning she’s not under your command right now, so respectfully, get out of my way.” 🤣
Can we talk about Chaddus Vakarian, siting and chilling in the background, while his superior officer is just inches away to create a diplomatic/military incident, and basically watch the whole shebang with middle interest. I mean, this position could go with a bucket of pop corn and it would still fit, like "dayum, get them Commander ! Snap !"
Chaddus Vakarian is sitting back and watching the show unfold because this clearly is not the first time he's seen Shepard flip his lid and he's become accustomed to it. Besides, you'd be hard-pressed to find entertainment of this caliber anywhere!
Them messaging each other: "Do we want Shepard as our enemy?" "WHAT!? FUCK NO!" "We do have him here, surrounded." "Do you wanna try the odds?" "..." "..." "I thought so."
I could see that but I like the whole F U to the court and just twist their arms to end the stupid charade they call trial. Also to be fair to Renegade Shep, he uses his outburst to basically show the average quarians that this entire trial is political. It wasn't just a dumbass bravado.
@@happylighttales I did the "rally the crowd" option last time around for the heck of it, seemed to work in much the same way as long as you did the right things by other Quarians earlier in the game. A good bet, I kinda like the Quarians, in spite of some idiot admirals. You have to help Kal'Reeger and that Quarian from Freedom's Progress, if I recall, then you're solid.
Yeah, I did that with my 1st playthrough as FemShep Vanguard. But then I heard this alpha male deliver: "BUT leave my CREW out of your pOLitiCAl BULLSHIT!!!"
@@JJDvorshak You make a compelling argument, I'll grant you that. Still love me some Femshep though. Also, bonus points for playing as a Vanguard. The only valid option.
Tali's voice actress needs a raise. She sounds so desperate in this scene, and despite that we never see her face emote, it conveys so much emotion. Outstanding move
Havent played the game on english but due to some bug the citadel dlc in me3 played the english sound so i heard the english voices the first time and hell i fell in love with drunken tali 😂😂
@@jaydeleon8094 well apparently she refused to speak the lines for a lesbian romance Dunno if that were part of the contract and i am pretty sure it aint half the lines
*"You're not a real Spectre! Battle of Akuze for Christ's sake? The sole survivor? What a joke. I worked my ass off to get where I am! And you take these biotics and you think suddenly you're my peer? You do what I do because you're a renegade and you can make people scared? I committed my life to this! You don't... slide into it like a cheap pair of Devlon armor and then reap all the XP!"* -Saren McGill
I find it amusing how if you take away the Paragon and Renegade aspects of their respective dialogue choices, both of them amount to the same thing: 'I don't need any evidence outside of what Tali has done for you, me, and the whole galaxy'. They both literally are the same dialogue. Just one is an impassioned yet diplomatic response, and the other is pure 'fuck you and fuck off before I air out this whole room and call my krogan in to clean up the rest'. And if you've done Grunt's loyalty mission at this point you KNOW he'd be in there with his shotgun going 'heh heh heh'.
Because he said what he was thinking. In this case paragon is a polite way and paragon is just straight forward. Renegade in ME1 most of the time is just being an asshole...but in 2 they did it a lot better, i choose by mistake some renegade choices and it doesn't feel like a renegade dialogue, ME3 had the same as 2 but if i don't remember wrong, ME2 was better in that aspect.
To be honest, in ME2 I really didn't like him. He sorta made sense in some ways, but it wasn't till ME3 that I saw him as the only Admiral to make sense out of the lot of them.
@@danielharvison7510 He was basically the only one who sought peace or at least have his people move on and find a new world to settle on, but their culture since their exile was based on their idea of their wayward home lost to them by the great enemy. It's ironically a form of indoctrination that was used to keep the fires of conflict burning bright in the hearts of the Quarians. He saw beyond that but try to forcefully drag your people to change their views when everyone is against you for it, it's no wonder he was so harsh in ME2, Tali's father was 100% for war and Tali was mostly for it too, so he had a rather low opinion of her. Though if you succeed with the trial and the following conflict between Tali and Legion, she sees his views and believes peace is possible as well, so he's grown wiser and more soft spoken in ME3
You know for a fact that Tali is fogging up her visor after that display from Shepard. "Germs be damned I'm getting me some of that tonight!" lol Always my favorite romance option.
Funnily enough, this was the nicest my Shepard had been throughout the entire series. I made it so he interacts with the crew kindly, but he hates talking to other people other than his crew
I love how Shepard is prepared to just leave but when Koris calls it a formal proceeding he turns around, storms back up, and verbally bitchslaps the court
Tali's trial is easily my favorite renegade moment. That goes double if you bring Legion. There's also Tali's follow up comment, "It's been a long time since anyone shouted down the admirals like that...I think they needed it.
I love how being renegade still lets you do things that would be considered the best option, rather then having the only way to get Tali off the hook is to be a good guy. they let you be an asshole in favor of doing the right thing. and that's great!
This is why 2 is my favorite, in 1 renegade choices mostly felt like Shepard was just being a giant prick for no reason. In 2 you get more stuff like this which feels like an actual reasonable choice you would want.
I'm a paragon man (well...i always choose what i would do if i was there and i really go for paragon most of the time) but we can't forget our man Shepard back in 2183 saying "You big stupid jellyfish"
The ones I could fail, I've done that lol. Fun fact, if you save right before going into this room, you can submit evidence to the admirals and see what happens, even beat the rest of the game if you wish, but then just reload the save. Tali gets so fucking pissed at Shepard.
@@WebbanationX What got me able to do it was... sheer curiosity. Sometimes you just want to jump into a frozen lake... just to have a new experience. ... metaphorically. Lol
you can't fail them all, think Jacob Miranda Jack Garrus Grunt Legion Mordin and Kasumi have perimeter points that prevent it so you have to settle for half fails
@@aaron75fy There are only 3 characters I know of you can attempt the loyalty mission with and not get their loyalty by completing the mission. Tali Thane Zaeed Everyone else you automatically get their loyalty. That's 3 of 13. Not even half. That said, it is still tempting to see what the worst case scenario looks like. Lol
God bless save editing. I started the game out with basically half the renegade bar full so Shepard looked basically fully scarred through the game and was "healing up" with time due to my mostly paragon gameplay. But here I did the same. Shepard was pissed with how Tali was treated through that whole ordeal, how they send her to her probable death and how she wasn't aware of her father fate before the trail. I like quarians but ironically my Shepard is more compassionate towards krogans than them. Screaming at them, punching their general in the stomach and so on. Unlike with krogans leaders my Shepard felt about quarians that he will save them despite them trying really hard to effing die.
The difference is the Krogan Listen when Quarian Admirals don't. Sure, things got hot on Sur Khesh but they stood down when we told them to and ultimately only betray the Galaxy if you sabotage the cure. The Quarians almost killed us over *one ship*. An incredibly good soldier, who potentially saved one of their ships and possibly half a dozen Quarians lives in the last game, who was also is the acting Alliance Attache and possibly Council Spectre. Han'Gerrel is lucky all he got was a gut punch and an eviction, we would have been morally and politically justified to shoot him.
Honestly, *everyone* should be more sympathetic toward the Krogan than the Quarians. The Krogan are willing to fight to save the future of intelligent life so long as you're willing to help guarantee they'll have a future to fight for. The Quarians are so obsessed with reclaiming a mythologized version of their past that they started a suicidal war at the worst possible moment, and you need to actively go out of your way to save them from extinction.
I just did this option in my most recent Renegade playthrough and honestly I love it when Shepherd jumps down the Admirals throats! Then when you talk to Kal'Reegar afterward he's like, "Damn Shepherd! Bout time someone gave them a good talking."
That is *exactly* what it is. Heck, there’s a renegade line that basically says “I let 10,000 innocent people die, including some of the most powerful individuals in the galaxy. For your own sake, I hope you have a better plan than to hope I have sympathy.”
Not gonna lie. When Shepard thrust his hand out, I expected there to be a gun in that hand. Then I hear the way he shoots down the council with a few choice words and I'm like "Naw, he didn't need a gun."
Koris spluttering in complete shock and defeat will always make me happy. I always play Paragon shep but goddamn renegade shep has some absolute badass moments
0:21 I wish there was a Renegade prompt here where Shepard punches and dents the railing in front of the admirals. Just to really hammer the point home.
I loved when the games sometimes gave you the option to do cool Paragon/Renegade shit even when you specialized otherwise. Hitting the lady in the face - twice - in ME3 was the best thing ever, even as Paragon Shep.
I hope the new Mass Effect game has Shepard as the main Portagonist. The connection with Shepard is so good, it's hard to express into words. One of the best characters in gaming history.
My OC watching from the Lucid dream coma: "I like this one. I want to keep him. And if anything happened to him I will kill the galaxy then myself" *Proceeds to repeat watch the Trial*
This is tied for me with Renegade Shepard's response to Khalisa that she disrespects all those who died on the Citadel by trying to use them as a gotcha point. "They deserve better than you."
Technically if this was a true formal proceeding in a court, blasting the judge would probably get you thrown out and a rushed sentence, and technically the "formal proceeding" in the game is actually rather dumb because the Admirals are both the prosecutors and the jury, they intend to find guilt with the defendant and they decide the outcome.
Well they could always just shoot their way out, they’ve shot their way out of crazier shit than that, hard to say how far renegade Shepard would actually go if they tried to stop him lol
Abject! I stand by my defendant with extensive proof with medical records my client had lost his eyes with many other body parts organs and was given augmented synthetics parts for survival and basic body function to live from death clutch of being spaced from a space battle and listed MIA with .001 survival rate.
Saul Shepard, Attorney at Law!
Did you know that it is illegal for any intergalactic community to sham you for defending the galactic heart of interstellar civilizations? The Council and its non existant constitution do!
Don't fret, when you're in trouble, you know who to call!
Saul Shepard, Attorney at Law, we'll defend you, ok?
Love that
That gamerpoop reference at the end is 👌 *chef's kiss
@dfed324 aw man I really hope the new mass effect has some reference to it, I don't care if it's Shepard or a new character or something, I just need that damn reference.
"I'm like a god in N7 armor! LIGHTNING BOLTS SHOOT FROM MY FINGERTIPS!!"
You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He’s done worse, he blames the attack on the citadel on “the reapers”
Paragon: How dare you insult a good woman!
Renegade: AND YOUR MOTHER! AND YOUR MOTHER!
AND YOUR GRANDMOTHERS! AND YOUR GRANDMOTHER’S LITTLE DOG!
As mushu once said you shame your family, your horse, and your horses sheep
@@shirokatta4051 "shame on you, shame on your cow"
AND YOUR ENTIRE EXTENDED FAMILY AND YOUR ABOPTED GRANMOTHER
I WILL COME FOR YOUR THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION
"Tali Zorah, in light of the fact that your Commander makes us pee our suits, we do not find sufficient evidence to convict."
This made me almost die from laughing lol
"Now please tell him to put the portable nuclear fission cannon down."
🤣🤣🤣 Bro had me dying I need to stop watching spoilers
Legendary comment...but. I mean...don't they always pee in their suits? 🤣
Hahaha true!
"Do whatever you want with your toy ships"
Shepard just shit on an entire nation from such a height I thought it was god himself.
"This, Admirals, is a half-kilo fecal slug. See the blue glow! Every so often, the rectum of Commander Shepard passes one out. On impact, it converts the eezo inside of it to regular energy with 95% efficiency. In space, that will penetrate even the primary shields of a Heavy Fleet frigate. That means: Commander Shepard is the deadliest [significant cough] in space! ...I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space abhors both vacuums, and making Shepard mad! Once she fires this hunk of ordure, it keeps going 'till it hits the deserving! That can be a ship, or the council aboard that ship. It might arc off into deep space and hit your descendants in ten thousand years. If you keep pissing her off, you are ruining your day, somewhere and sometime!"
@@MoeLaneIII this comment is god tier quality 👌
Officer tenpenny from san andreas
@@MoeLaneIII I hate you. I read that in that lad's voice. Take my like.
Not just a nation. An entire God damn species
Commander Shepard
-Famous Hero
-Technically Undead
-Intergalactic Attorney
This made me laugh so hard 😂
+ his name literally means "HERO" to the Krogan
No technically, he was 100% dead, they just pulled him back,
@@nicholascordero6600 Yeah. UNDEAD.
@@nicholascordero6600 Imagine the galaxy needing you so much that they literally shoved death a middle finger just to bring you back to solve their problems
I like how when "come on Tali, we are leaving" she actually follows him quietly for a moment, implying that she was already ok with the result if it ended right there lmao
Sigma Grindset Shepard
Prior to this scene she basically thought the guilty charge was the right way to go about it.
always present a unified front
She was. She preferred exile over ruining her father's legacy, and she didn't think there's another way out of it
Her dad was dead, the admirals considered her a traitor, and the only way to absolve herself was to paint her father as one of the worst mistakes of their people’s history. She was ok with the result. She knew that she had done nothing wrong, she had Shepard and the Normandy crew, and the only “family” still in the quarians who didn’t consider her a traitor was Ra’an. She wouldn’t have lost a whole lot from exile, and I think she had slowly started to realize that on the way back to the hearing.
"Do you have any new evidence?"
Shepard: "Fuck off."
Judge: Fair enough. Have a nice day.
Succession moment lol
Shepard: my source is that i made it The fhock up!
@@PlebNC Understandable have a wonderfull day
@@PlebNC no it’s understandable have a nice day lol
“Any new evidence?”
Shepard: “I got it right here.”
*whips out middle finger*
"I would like to cross examine this parrot!"
"What?! This is preposterous!"
"Well it was your idea, but if you'd like I got another bird to show you."
🖕🖕
"I'm going to jail..."
"Is it too late to plead guilty?"
Shepard: Twirl on it!
It would be awesome if he said "I have it in my omni-tool" and then the Omni-tool appeared in the form of a large hand with its middle finger up.
@@Rikalonius engineer class specific action.
@@MidnightKingL I got that reference.
The paragon choice is more compassionate while the renegade choice is short and straight to the point
That is why Renegade Shepard is the best lawyer.
You need to be direct no nonsense kinda guy to shut down the bullshit lol
@@happylighttales that why I'm trying to build 50/50 for these moments (it more 90/10 right now but it ME 1 me 2 will change that for me)
@@happylighttales There’s also a different version of this renegade speech check if you did not expose the admirals’ hypocrisy of Tali’s trial before heading to the Lab Ship and before doing the Suicide Mission.
@@happylighttales Tbh, I wouldnt give a damn about the speech at all and after Shepard would stop with his nonsense I would be like "Ok, now that you are done. Do you have any evidence proving Tali's innocence or you have nothing and she will face exile as traitor of the Migrant fleet?" because as much as Shepard's speech was awesome, its also completely irrelevant to the present case. Rael'Zorah also used to be super goody guy BUT look how that turned out. (Maybe I would give her a small ship because she retook the Alarei BUT I wouldnt budge until Shepard presented evidence.
@@Dark_Voice Unless you're a highly sophisticated and charismatic speaker, that could catastrophically backfire. Remember, a captain has just accused you of corruption and pursuit of selfish gains over the good of the Fleet. That, in itself is a very serious charge in Quarian society. On top of all that, Tali is generally well-liked both on the Raya and the Neema, not to mention by her comrades in arms. Being too pushy about the evidence is an uphill battle where you stand more to lose than to gain.
Admiralty: “We are here to convict Tal-“
Shepard: “OBJECTION, THAT IS SOME BULLSHIT!”
Admiralty: “Shit, you right. We members of the Admiralty find Tali Zorah’Vas Normandy to be, innocent!”
Tali: “How the fuck did that work?!?”
Shepard is feared across the galaxy. Fear is a great motivator.
Tali we don't question anything anymore
When in doubt, throw the trial out the airlock.
“Leave my crew out of your political bullshit.” Top 10 Shepard quote.
Which is pretty ironic considering they all get involved in the political bullshit on 3
Shepard is just mad he cannot hang up on them like the Citadel council.
@@guyver441 well he could do it for old times sake
@@guyver441
Could just blow them up. 🤷🏻
Sheps the leader we need right now
When they said "this is a formal proceeding" i half expected Shepherd to say "and you can formally kiss my ass"
I spat my water here man. Good one.
Reminds me of the Renegade line in ME1 where Admiral Mikaelovich comes to inspect the Normandy and he says, “You may be a Spectre to the aliens Shepard, but to me you’re just another junior officer. Show some respect and secure that mouth of yours.” And Renegade Shepard just says, “Normandy’s currently on assignment from the Council, meaning she’s not under your command right now, so respectfully, get out of my way.” 🤣
@@docproc144 Seriously!? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@king_mega1670 Yep lol, Renegade Shep has some of his best lines in ME1 imo.
@@docproc144 This was legit amusing to me
The good ole "Get fucked" defense
😂😂😂😂
And considering a certain actress from the expanse is in this scene, „fucked“ is the right word😊
@@chheinrich8486 Ahhhhh, Avasarala~
Court: “Do you have any new evidence?”
Shepard: “Fight me!”
Court: “Compelling evidence, all charges are dropped!”
You miss your chance to say "understandable, have a nice day"
@@chakravartin3356 I wanted to go a different direction than the established meme, but your point is understandable, have a nice day.
@@JustinTK416You didn't have to own him like that 💀
I mean, shep coulda prolly 1v50'd that entire room and won.
@@veryangryduckpl2122 Just in case, I always bring my Krogan baby. XD Kinda hard to fight two murderous savages.
Can we talk about Chaddus Vakarian, siting and chilling in the background, while his superior officer is just inches away to create a diplomatic/military incident, and basically watch the whole shebang with middle interest. I mean, this position could go with a bucket of pop corn and it would still fit, like "dayum, get them Commander ! Snap !"
He knows what's up. Don't in Shep's way. Especially not when he goes Renegade
Chad Vakarian is just enjoying himself. He knows good entertainment value when he sees it.
All he needs is a giant foam finger for him to cheer with.
It's even better if you bring Legion aboard.
Chaddus Vakarian is sitting back and watching the show unfold because this clearly is not the first time he's seen Shepard flip his lid and he's become accustomed to it. Besides, you'd be hard-pressed to find entertainment of this caliber anywhere!
"This is bullshit and you're stupid here's 10 reasons"
"Damn he got us, not guilty"
New age Martin Luther
Them messaging each other:
"Do we want Shepard as our enemy?"
"WHAT!? FUCK NO!"
"We do have him here, surrounded."
"Do you wanna try the odds?"
"..."
"..."
"I thought so."
“Are you fucking insane?! We don’t nearly have enough people!!”
@@Spider-Man2094 And having Master Chief saying that just drives it further home. lol
"Are you crazy?! can't you see the Portable nuke launcher on his back??!"
Commander Shepard was once headbutted by a Krogan. After 3 days of suffering the Krogan died.
@@ToveriJuri I mean technically it wasn't even 3 days. More like 3 hours 😂
Personally, I believe Paragon Shep has the better lines in this trial, or better yet.. rallying the crowd makes some interesting lines.
I could see that but I like the whole F U to the court and just twist their arms to end the stupid charade they call trial.
Also to be fair to Renegade Shep, he uses his outburst to basically show the average quarians that this entire trial is political.
It wasn't just a dumbass bravado.
@@happylighttales Consider playing Ace Attorney then :D If you really liked that scene from ME, you will probably like AA too
@@happylighttales I did the "rally the crowd" option last time around for the heck of it, seemed to work in much the same way as long as you did the right things by other Quarians earlier in the game. A good bet, I kinda like the Quarians, in spite of some idiot admirals.
You have to help Kal'Reeger and that Quarian from Freedom's Progress, if I recall, then you're solid.
Yeah, I did that with my 1st playthrough as FemShep Vanguard.
But then I heard this alpha male deliver:
"BUT leave my CREW out of your pOLitiCAl BULLSHIT!!!"
@@JJDvorshak You make a compelling argument, I'll grant you that.
Still love me some Femshep though. Also, bonus points for playing as a Vanguard. The only valid option.
I’m honestly just laughing at Garrus sitting patiently in the background
He’s thinking about all the calibrations he has to do when he gets back on the Normandy.
He's sitting like a kid waiting for his mom to be done with groceries
@@generaldirtbag9684 Funny thing is, they reference the calibrations meme in MSs Effect 3.
Lol I just played this mission last night and has Samara casually sitting in the background waiting patiently
@@nullhazard7569 Garrus will stop talking about calibrations if Liara stops saying "by the Goddess".
Tali's voice actress needs a raise. She sounds so desperate in this scene, and despite that we never see her face emote, it conveys so much emotion. Outstanding move
The voice actress is Ash Sroka.
Havent played the game on english but due to some bug the citadel dlc in me3 played the english sound so i heard the english voices the first time and hell i fell in love with drunken tali 😂😂
@@healmyvision5941 Drunk Tali is the best.
Didn’t she only do half the lines she signed a contract for because religious problems she seemed to forget about at the signing?
@@jaydeleon8094 well apparently she refused to speak the lines for a lesbian romance
Dunno if that were part of the contract and i am pretty sure it aint half the lines
Better Call Shepard
xD
Lmfao love it!!😂
Commander Shepard: Ace Attorney - Asskicking for all!
*"You're not a real Spectre! Battle of Akuze for Christ's sake? The sole survivor? What a joke. I worked my ass off to get where I am! And you take these biotics and you think suddenly you're my peer? You do what I do because you're a renegade and you can make people scared? I committed my life to this! You don't... slide into it like a cheap pair of Devlon armor and then reap all the XP!"* -Saren McGill
@@leftoids.are.cringe so show us, that you are real deal! Kill all thresher maws in Mass Effect 1 on foot! And only then we all will believe in this.
Shepard really went like: "Exile? Yes, i exile YOU ALL from Tali, lets go Tali " love it
"This is a formal proceeding"
"Fuck you, and you, and you too"
"Ok, I'm convinced. Clear of all charges!"
I just love shalas "whaat?" That delivery was hilarious and amazing
It really was. She's just completely caught off guard by that response. Amazing what happens when voice actors understand the context of their lines.
You can just feel the “surprise pikachu” energy radiate through her envirosuit when she says “what?”
Love the actress that voiced her as well. If you're a fan of The Expanse, then her voice will be very familiar. if you know, you know. 😉
Garrus looking from the stairs and is like "Damn, now I kind of want to get arrested and have Shephard be my lawyer"
That would be funny
I find it amusing how if you take away the Paragon and Renegade aspects of their respective dialogue choices, both of them amount to the same thing: 'I don't need any evidence outside of what Tali has done for you, me, and the whole galaxy'. They both literally are the same dialogue. Just one is an impassioned yet diplomatic response, and the other is pure 'fuck you and fuck off before I air out this whole room and call my krogan in to clean up the rest'.
And if you've done Grunt's loyalty mission at this point you KNOW he'd be in there with his shotgun going 'heh heh heh'.
Because he said what he was thinking.
In this case paragon is a polite way and paragon is just straight forward. Renegade in ME1 most of the time is just being an asshole...but in 2 they did it a lot better, i choose by mistake some renegade choices and it doesn't feel like a renegade dialogue, ME3 had the same as 2 but if i don't remember wrong, ME2 was better in that aspect.
"Shepard.... Please"
She knows it's going to be a shitshow.
Like a kid asking their parent not to embarrass them.
Tail five seconds later “it’s fun watching you shout.”
As much as I sympathize with Admiral Koris with his efforts to just have people move on from the fucking geth, he gets brutally beaten down 😂
To be honest, in ME2 I really didn't like him. He sorta made sense in some ways, but it wasn't till ME3 that I saw him as the only Admiral to make sense out of the lot of them.
They literally made a mad scientist one of their highest ranking officials! No wonder they lost their world to synthetics of their own creation.
@@danielharvison7510 He was basically the only one who sought peace or at least have his people move on and find a new world to settle on, but their culture since their exile was based on their idea of their wayward home lost to them by the great enemy. It's ironically a form of indoctrination that was used to keep the fires of conflict burning bright in the hearts of the Quarians. He saw beyond that but try to forcefully drag your people to change their views when everyone is against you for it, it's no wonder he was so harsh in ME2, Tali's father was 100% for war and Tali was mostly for it too, so he had a rather low opinion of her. Though if you succeed with the trial and the following conflict between Tali and Legion, she sees his views and believes peace is possible as well, so he's grown wiser and more soft spoken in ME3
ME3 made him my favorite, aside'Raan and obviously Tali.
I like that Shepard in this scene does not makes any favourites. He disses them all.
Tali, get your things! We're leaving! Before this cruddy ship burns to the ground...
Tali get your thigs! We'Re leaving.
Great reference, bro. 👉😎👉
Tali: Yes, daddy.
“Where’s your evidence commander”
“My evidence is that I made it the fuck up”
"My evidence is that _you_ made it the f*ck up"
You know for a fact that Tali is fogging up her visor after that display from Shepard. "Germs be damned I'm getting me some of that tonight!" lol Always my favorite romance option.
Okay, new goal for the Tali Loyalty mission.
Use "the Chewbacca defense"!
Funnily enough, this was the nicest my Shepard had been throughout the entire series. I made it so he interacts with the crew kindly, but he hates talking to other people other than his crew
That was my second playthrough
I love how Shepard is prepared to just leave but when Koris calls it a formal proceeding he turns around, storms back up, and verbally bitchslaps the court
Tali's trial is easily my favorite renegade moment. That goes double if you bring Legion.
There's also Tali's follow up comment, "It's been a long time since anyone shouted down the admirals like that...I think they needed it.
I was so excited to use this option during my Renegade playthrough and I couldn't stop laughing
I love how being renegade still lets you do things that would be considered the best option, rather then having the only way to get Tali off the hook is to be a good guy. they let you be an asshole in favor of doing the right thing. and that's great!
Renegade is not being an asshole, It is about being ruthless
This is why 2 is my favorite, in 1 renegade choices mostly felt like Shepard was just being a giant prick for no reason. In 2 you get more stuff like this which feels like an actual reasonable choice you would want.
I'm a paragon man (well...i always choose what i would do if i was there and i really go for paragon most of the time) but we can't forget our man Shepard back in 2183 saying "You big stupid jellyfish"
As a lawyer, I swear, by almighty god, this is true and correct to my knowledge and belief.
This gives me the sudden urge to do everybody's loyalty mission and fail them miserably for some reason
The ones I could fail, I've done that lol. Fun fact, if you save right before going into this room, you can submit evidence to the admirals and see what happens, even beat the rest of the game if you wish, but then just reload the save. Tali gets so fucking pissed at Shepard.
I've never been douchey enough to betray my homie even in Renegade runs but I really wanna do it now XD
@@WebbanationX What got me able to do it was... sheer curiosity. Sometimes you just want to jump into a frozen lake... just to have a new experience. ... metaphorically. Lol
you can't fail them all, think Jacob Miranda Jack Garrus Grunt Legion Mordin and Kasumi have perimeter points that prevent it so you have to settle for half fails
@@aaron75fy There are only 3 characters I know of you can attempt the loyalty mission with and not get their loyalty by completing the mission.
Tali
Thane
Zaeed
Everyone else you automatically get their loyalty. That's 3 of 13. Not even half.
That said, it is still tempting to see what the worst case scenario looks like. Lol
Love how he drags each of them for filth and they're just like yeah u right
As a Paragon player, I have to admit there are times when the Renegade option is so much more satisfying. This is definitely one of those times.
God bless save editing. I started the game out with basically half the renegade bar full so Shepard looked basically fully scarred through the game and was "healing up" with time due to my mostly paragon gameplay.
But here I did the same. Shepard was pissed with how Tali was treated through that whole ordeal, how they send her to her probable death and how she wasn't aware of her father fate before the trail.
I like quarians but ironically my Shepard is more compassionate towards krogans than them. Screaming at them, punching their general in the stomach and so on. Unlike with krogans leaders my Shepard felt about quarians that he will save them despite them trying really hard to effing die.
Yo he deserved that punch, I do that in every paragon playthrough
@@friendlyfrenzy3498 yeah that fucker tried to blow us up with the Geth Dreadnought
The difference is the Krogan Listen when Quarian Admirals don't. Sure, things got hot on Sur Khesh but they stood down when we told them to and ultimately only betray the Galaxy if you sabotage the cure.
The Quarians almost killed us over *one ship*. An incredibly good soldier, who potentially saved one of their ships and possibly half a dozen Quarians lives in the last game, who was also is the acting Alliance Attache and possibly Council Spectre. Han'Gerrel is lucky all he got was a gut punch and an eviction, we would have been morally and politically justified to shoot him.
To be fair, screaming at the krogans and punching their leaders is a good diplomatic strategy.
Honestly, *everyone* should be more sympathetic toward the Krogan than the Quarians. The Krogan are willing to fight to save the future of intelligent life so long as you're willing to help guarantee they'll have a future to fight for. The Quarians are so obsessed with reclaiming a mythologized version of their past that they started a suicidal war at the worst possible moment, and you need to actively go out of your way to save them from extinction.
Damn Shepard has such sheer badassary. he had such Tenacity in his convictions that he single-handedly shut them down by not even trying.
When I first got to this moment in the game I understood the appeal of being renegade.
I don't care if I'm a paragon or a Middle ground Sheperd. But I always choose this when I get to this part. It's just too dang good.
But if you are a paragon you don't have enough renegade points to do this
@@yogerrry One reason I liked ME3's rep system over this.
@@yogerrry I like to sometimes to be equal on para and Rene. But if I do have the points to choose this I usually do.
Мне нравится, как Гаррус на фоне сидит такой "Вы продолжайте, я тут посижу пока"
А в мыслях: "Блин, я горжусь тем, что работаю под его командованием! Так умыть политиков-изоляционистов - это какие же яйца надо иметь?"
@@hushpool3915 в мыслях только КАЛИБРОВКА
@@darckspace1169 THERE IS ONLY CALIBRATION.
nothing better than Sheppard saying "tali is awesome" and then walking out to get her loyalty and not exiled, plus it's hilarious
I just did this option in my most recent Renegade playthrough and honestly I love it when Shepherd jumps down the Admirals throats!
Then when you talk to Kal'Reegar afterward he's like, "Damn Shepherd! Bout time someone gave them a good talking."
The renegade option in the mass effect games is just textbook "I have a gun and an incomprehensible kill-count, shut the fuck up."
Lol.
That's basically it.
That is *exactly* what it is.
Heck, there’s a renegade line that basically says “I let 10,000 innocent people die, including some of the most powerful individuals in the galaxy. For your own sake, I hope you have a better plan than to hope I have sympathy.”
@@blademaster2390god damn.... that line alone has me interested in playing.
Not gonna lie. When Shepard thrust his hand out, I expected there to be a gun in that hand. Then I hear the way he shoots down the council with a few choice words and I'm like "Naw, he didn't need a gun."
That’s renegade in a nutshell. Does direct psychological damage and ignores armor, shields, and barriers.
"Hi, I'm Commander Shepard, you know you have rights? The codex says you do"
"Tali Zorah, in light of your Commander making us shit ourselves today, we do not find sufficient evidence to convict."
I swear I heard that one guy choke on his own bile in flustered guilt! 🤐
Admiral Korris "And I am glad I wore my brown pants today."
"That's a nice argument Commander, care to back it up with a source?"
"My source is that I made it the fuck up!"
I love Garrus just sitting there in the background like “Can we go home please Shepard?”
He's a really good lawyer.
You should hire him to sue the Pinkertons and make your dreams of Tahiti real :)
As an aspiring lawyer, I hope to make Shepard proud!
I don't think I ever saw this version. And it's the most awesome one.
Man I loved this part, it's been so long. I wanted to make "This is a formal proceeding!" into a reaction image at the time.
There’s still time to make that a meme. With all the arguing going on in the world, the timing is perfect!
DO IT.
And send me a link, please
I'm Commander Shepard and I vouch for my crew, not the political gain of those who use them!
Koris spluttering in complete shock and defeat will always make me happy. I always play Paragon shep but goddamn renegade shep has some absolute badass moments
"Commander Shepard. Do you have any new evidence to submit before the court?"
"You know what date is on this coin?"
"....not guilty."
Coin?
I don't get this reference. Unless it's an Ultrakill one
"Yeah, murmur it up, D-bags."
"Get Fucked"~ Driver Nephi
I love how garrus is just sitting back there just watching events unfold
He needed some Graxen
0:21 I wish there was a Renegade prompt here where Shepard punches and dents the railing in front of the admirals. Just to really hammer the point home.
I like how Garrus is just sitting in the background not saying shit lol
Just an average Saturday night.
I love the spit-stutter Koris makes at 0:28.
I loved when the games sometimes gave you the option to do cool Paragon/Renegade shit even when you specialized otherwise. Hitting the lady in the face - twice - in ME3 was the best thing ever, even as Paragon Shep.
Johnny Depp need renegade Shepard now!
Gets asked if he's got any evidence, basically replies with, "fuck all y'all, I'm outta here." Best lawyer ever
Shepard:
"THE HELMET DOESN'T FIT... IF IT DOESN'T FIT YOU MUST ACQUIT"
I hope the new Mass Effect game has Shepard as the main Portagonist. The connection with Shepard is so good, it's hard to express into words. One of the best characters in gaming history.
Fight like a Krogan, run like a leopard…
You’ll never be better than Commander Shepard
@@Level_Eleven that's funny because I literally named my character leopard shepard 😂
Stuff like this makes me miss renegade options in Andromeda. I miss being a badass...
Shephard: "It's just so easy being evil. And I do it all for free. F**k this court. Tali, we're gonna leave."
Commander Shepard: Ace Attorney
I wanna replay the entire trilogy just to be Shepargade now XD
Dude, thank you for making this video, it made me finally play the whole trilogy. I think i wasted over 500 hours of my life since that day.
Time i enjoyed wasting was not wasted or something like that
My OC watching from the Lucid dream coma: "I like this one. I want to keep him. And if anything happened to him I will kill the galaxy then myself" *Proceeds to repeat watch the Trial*
He just leaves the admirals flabbergasted 😂
Paragon Shepard: befriends all peoples
Renegade Shepard: defends his people
I really wanted him to yell OBJECTION! at least once at the time. XD
I like how Shepherd just calls them out on their bullshit and ends the trial then and there
Makes me wish I had the renegade points to do this lol. The rally the crowd option was pretty satisfying though
yeah im missing game like this.
action + exploration + story + side story + costumization both appearence and mechanic.
Being a badass is always the answer
"When you're out of options, negate the terms of the trial."
0:25 And that's why we all love Garrus: my guy is up there on the stairs, just waiting for the fire to start.
"Well we had evidence, but they ran away when Shepard started talking!"
This is tied for me with Renegade Shepard's response to Khalisa that she disrespects all those who died on the Citadel by trying to use them as a gotcha point. "They deserve better than you."
This is a Formal Preceding…
Shephard: Preceed Deez Nutz…
"I have nothing BUT contempt for this court!" energy
Renegade Shepard yelling at everyone around him is the best :D
I prefer rallying the crowd though I love just basically saying f*ck off to the admirals on a renegade run
Technically if this was a true formal proceeding in a court, blasting the judge would probably get you thrown out and a rushed sentence, and technically the "formal proceeding" in the game is actually rather dumb because the Admirals are both the prosecutors and the jury, they intend to find guilt with the defendant and they decide the outcome.
Well, it is basically a military tribunal. All of Quarian society is under martial law.
Well they could always just shoot their way out, they’ve shot their way out of crazier shit than that, hard to say how far renegade Shepard would actually go if they tried to stop him lol
I love Garrus in the background just looking like he is sulking
man where the hell did good rpgs like this go, the industry really has gone down hill
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous has such moments.
There's a trailer for Mass Effect 4 out now...I think it's hints you get to be Shepherd again.
@@boethia7367 Somebody has never said their face is tired
Just because you don't know about them doesn't mean they don't exist.
@@Level_Eleven That's Andromeda and I hope it's not a repeat.
He's not a good lawyer, he's just literally high.
The red eyes is the only evidence I need
Abject! I stand by my defendant with extensive proof with medical records my client had lost his eyes with many other body parts organs and was given augmented synthetics parts for survival and basic body function to live from death clutch of being spaced from a space battle and listed MIA with .001 survival rate.
This is legit a fantastic speech. This is what I was thinking during the entire quest
Rally the crowd works also like a charm