A fan ofMass Effectmade a hilarious video that pokes fun at Shepard’s crew members throughout the trilogy. Titled “Welcome to the Normandy Squad” and set to Blue Suede’s “Hooked on a Feeling,” it features many ofMass Effect’s most beloved characters in humorous edits of various unfortunate situations.
Mass Effectis one of gaming’s most beloved science fiction franchises, featuring an original setting brimming with personality. WhileMass Effect: Andromedadid not live up to expectations, the series remains popular, and many fans are looking forward toMass Effect’s upcoming return. As with many BioWare games, theMass Effecttrilogy owes much of its popularity to Shepard’s squad. The relationships players can build with these characters are amongMass Effect’s main draws.
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Reddit user BardMessenger24 edited the video together and posted it on theMass Effectsubreddit. It has a runtime of 2 minutes and 14 seconds. It features the female Commander Shepard, all of her primary squadmates, and otherNormandy crew members like Joker, Specialist Traynor, Doctor Chakwas, and Admiral Anderson. The video shows most of the characters in an assortment of painful or embarrassing situations, usually but not always involving their death or injury. Each scene pauses on a splash screen showing the character’s name paired with a humorous nickname or epitaph, while the cheery music gives it the atmosphere of a bizarre sitcom intro.
The video opens with a clip from the scene inMass Effect 2’s prologue where Shepard falls into space as the Collector Cruiser destroys the first Normandy. BardMessenger24’s editing is impressive from the start, managing to synch the music with Normandy’s explosions. Many of the clips likewise show crewmembers getting thrown about by explosions or Biotic attacks, falling off or onto things, or otherwise suffering some form of bodily harm. Often, the freeze frame comes at the most embarrassing moment of the character’s misfortune, such as the exact moment before Miranda gets hit in the face by the Shadow Broker’s desk.
Not everyone gets caught in such an undignified position, with a few characters spouting a one-liner before their splash screen. Joker, Traynor, Cortez, and Kasumi are also among the handful who manage to avoid grievous injury throughout the video. The character epithets includeseveral popularMass Effectmemes, such as Garrus’s obsession with calibrations inMass Effect 2, Jacob’s infamous “high risk” line, and Wrex’s overused “Shepard” greeting fromMass Effect 1.
The video also compares EDI to an Amazon Alexa, describes the popularMass Effect 2character Grunt as “My 12 yr old son who likes dinosaurs,” and proclaims Lt. Cortez “The only normal guy on the ship.” Meanwhile, it describes Legion as a “Walking lens flare” and warns that Kasumi might be living in the walls, which fits given her well-established disregard for others’ privacy. Finally, the video concludes by welcoming viewers to the squad and playing a hilarious quip fromMass Effect’s fan-favorite character Wrex.
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