If you speak to James after the mission at Grissom Academy, he brings up Kahlee Sanders and mentions how his father's last name was Sanders, quickly stating there's no relation.

This is a reference to the original purpose for the Reaper harvesting before Mass Effect 3 was written, and is what the dying star plotline with the Quarians was all about.

In the Codex for the Reapers, it is explained that they were thought by some civilizations to be beings that consumed suns.

But now, Mass Effect 3's Collector's Edition will let Shepard, in the game itself, wear that very same hoodie. In Mass Effect, Shepard wore the iconic N7 armor, which was merchandized as a hoodie.

Creator Killer: Backlash over the game's endings plus other problems, including Consumerist calling EA the 'Worst Company in America' in 20 over the oil and banking companies, ultimately resulted in John Riccitello resigning from EA.

Character Outlives Actor: Robin Sachs finished recording his dialogue for Zaeed Massani in the Citadel DLC a month before its release, and a special multiplayer event, 'Operation: Tribute', was held in his honor.

Casting Gag: The game's Spaceship Girl / Fembot EDI is voiced by known Cylon Tricia Helfer.

Billing Displacement: An unusual instance of this applying to a composer despite Clint Mansell's involvement with the soundtrack being hyped up pre-release, in actual fact he contributed just two pieces to the soundtrack the duo of Sascha Dikiciyan and Cris Velasco were more the game's main composers, with Lair of the Shadow Broker composer Christopher Lennertz also making a return, along with series veteran Sam Hulick.

Based on a Dream: The Graal Spike Thrower was inspired by a nightmare lead gameplay designer Corey Gaspur had about an unstable man chasing him around with a nail gun.

His lines for the Citadel DLC were recorded before his death.

Author Existence Failure: Robin Sachs, Zaeed Massani's voice actor, passed away after the release of the game but before all of the Downloadable Content was released.

Ascended Fanon: Among the other fandom nods in the Citadel DLC, Traynor makes some of the ' squadmate cocktails ' drawn up here, referring to the 'Shadowbrokertini' and 'Full Biotic Kick' by name.

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