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    Mass Effect 3

    Game » consists of 19 releases. Released Mar 06, 2012

    When Earth begins to fall in an ancient cycle of destruction, Commander Shepard must unite the forces of the galaxy to stop the Reapers in the final chapter of the original Mass Effect trilogy.

    I have a theory on how Shepard will defeat the Reapers

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    Sackmanjones

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    #1  Edited By Sackmanjones

    I'm thinkin he will pull it off in an "Independence Day" fashion.
    Heres what I mean by that:

    If you remember the movie Independence Day, American Hero's Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum fly up to space and destroy the alien mothership making all the other invading ships much weaker and thus eventually destroyed by the military.  I have a feeling there will basically be a "Mother-Reaper" (possibly Harbinger) that Shepard will have to destroy and this would cause either 1) All other reapers to simply de-activate/blow the hell up or    2) make them substantially weaker than they previously were making it much easier to fight against them

    Again just my theory because I really can't think of any other solution since it took an entire fleet to destroy just one reaper and now there are thousands or millions of them

    Would also like to add that I would like it to be more "creative" than this but it seems quite possible

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    #2  Edited By MariachiMacabre

    Dude no. Don't be stupid. It'll be a dance-off. Each of your party members goes against an individual Reaper and their success depends on their loyalty to you.

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    #4  Edited By BraveToaster

    Well, let's hope that it doesn't play out that way.

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    #5  Edited By themangalist

    IT's the only possible way it'd end don't you think?

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    #6  Edited By EuanDewar

    I doubt Bioware want an ending to their epic trilogy that people can look at and say "Hey, that was a bit like independence Day."

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    #7  Edited By MariachiMacabre
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    #8  Edited By Sackmanjones
    @Axxol:  I want it to play out differently too but I think its quite possible it could be like that
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    #9  Edited By MrWakka

    Yes, but your wrong in the details.


    They will be defeated when Goldblum, who is totally available as a party member in ME3, uploads a computer virus into harbinger, thus causing them to shutdown.
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    #10  Edited By Afroman269
    @MariachiMacabre: Fuck you and your theory. I'll only be 100% on board once Bioware announces DDR dance mats bundled with ME 3 copies.
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    #11  Edited By Sackmanjones
    @MrWakka:  You are correct sir, I even heard a rumor Jacobs whole name is Jacob Will Smith. Connection???
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    #12  Edited By Tuddlesworth

    Jack gets angry and blows up the Chan- I mean the Citadel.

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    #13  Edited By MariachiMacabre
    @Afroman269 said:
    " @MariachiMacabre: Fuck you and your theory. I'll only be 100% on board once Bioware announces DDR dance mats bundled with ME 3 copies. "
    You'll see! YOU'LL ALL SEE! I'LL HAVE THE LAST LAUGH!
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    #14  Edited By napalm

    You're wrong. Shepard will have to stick his cacacho in their piddydiddly and make them wakawaka... and then they blow up.

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    #15  Edited By SethPhotopoulos

    Shepard goes back in time to get the Warden and Hawke to bust a cap in Harbinger's ass.  After the credits are finished and your sent back to the main menu the title changes to Dragon Age 3 and the trilogy is complete.

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    #17  Edited By Tuddlesworth

    Jeff Goldblum has a harem of Asari.

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    #18  Edited By Aronman789

    Well since there is that Ogre figure in Mass Effect 2, doesn't that mean that DA and ME are both in the same universe?


    Thus my theory is that Sandal is involved.
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    #19  Edited By ryanwho

    He'll shoot at a really stupid looking robot until it dies.

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    #20  Edited By Gabriel

    So Randy Quaid voice acting confirmed? 

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    #21  Edited By Aus_azn

    Roundhouse kick. The only way to end any epic story.

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    #22  Edited By Bribo

    I predict a surprise downbeat ending, where the reapers sneak-up on him while he's mining a planet for made-up-element #45 or trying to fuck an alien.

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    #23  Edited By LittleBigJono
    @Aronman789 said:
    " Well since there is that Ogre figure in Mass Effect 2, doesn't that mean that DA and ME are both in the same universe?

    Thus my theory is that Sandal is involved.
    "
    Sandal became the reapers
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    #24  Edited By MrWakka
    @LittleBigJono: 

    You all have it backwards. Dragon Age isn't the past, its the future. Like how star wars was long long ago, but in reverse.

    Sandal is in fact the future of the reapers, all contained in a single unit, and Thedas is earth post-reaper apocalypse. Mass Effect is a prequel to the dragon age franchise.
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    #25  Edited By Slaker117

    He'll shoot at glowing weak spots until they all die.

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    #27  Edited By zityz

    I@MariachiMacabre said:

    " Dude no. Don't be stupid. It'll be a dance-off. Each of your party members goes against an individual Reaper and their success depends on their loyalty to you. "
    Agreed. Something along the lines of this:

      
      
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    #28  Edited By scarace360

    He wont beat the reapers he will die around the middle of the game and for the rest of the game you have to play as the illusive man

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    #29  Edited By LittleBigJono
    @MrWakka: Oooooooooohhhh, thanks for clearing that up for me
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    #30  Edited By Finscher

    Alternatively, they could reconfigure the Mass Relays so that they function as mass accelerator cannons that have a range of a galactic spiral arm.


    There are plenty of plausible options. The ID4 mothership idea is so cliche even Bioware wouldn't touch it.
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    #31  Edited By Red

    Shepard eventually finds the Star Wars Galaxy, and helps destroy the Third Death Star. In turn, he is granted a lightsaber and is taught the force, which he uses to destroy the Harbinger ship.



    In all seriousness, I think you're gonna get a Reaper ship, or have to outfit your ship with reaper weapons.
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    #32  Edited By euryb

    I can see an Independence Day-esque ending destroying the Mother Reaper weakening all the other reapers and by that time you will have the geth on your side. the humans, geth, quarians, turians, asari, krogan, salarians, rachni, and keepers, and possibly a surprise prothean  will assault the remaining reapers destroying them all and the galaxy lives happily ever after.

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    #34  Edited By Make_Me_Mad

    My theory is that they'll pull something out of their asses.

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    #35  Edited By Finscher
    @Red: If you upgraded the Normandy with the Thanix cannon, then it's already outfitted with a Reaper weapon. According to the codex, it was reverse-engineered from Sovereign's wreckage.
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    #36  Edited By Marz

    Conrad Verner will show up and idiotically kill the reapers by accident.


      
      
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    #37  Edited By Creigz

    He's probably going to have to do something to a relay to block them entirely, that or re-program them for farming initiatives....

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    #38  Edited By JerichoBlyth

    So Shepard is going to punch a reaper in the face and shout 'welcome to earth' at it? Like the movie right?

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    #39  Edited By meteora

    Quoting this following post on YouTube:



    The Turian councilor is the only one who can defeat the Reapers. If you let him die in ME1, you're fucked.

    The Reaper fleet is closing in on the Citadel, all hope is lost... then this motherfucker steps out onto a space balcony or some shit, looks at them, and simply goes:

    Ah yes, "Reapers".

    And boom. They all vanish. They're just gone. He disbelieves them out of existence.

    If you watched the video you'll understand.
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    I think Shepard will inadvertently trip over some sort of wire that will cause him/her to fire his/her gun into some crucial piece of machinery  that will cause a Rube Goldbergian style chain of events that ultimately leads to the destruction of the Reaper fleet.  This music will be playing as it happens:
      

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    #41  Edited By TEHMAXXORZ

    I don't think Shepard actually will defeat the Reapers. I believe Shepard is going to die once and for all in some sort of last stand and the Reaper cycle will finally continue. It just feels like he (or she) will die this time.

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    #42  Edited By schlorgan
    @MrWakka said:
    Yes, but your wrong in the details.

    They will be defeated when Goldblum, who is totally available as a party member in ME3, uploads a computer virus into harbinger, thus causing them to shutdown.
    You know what? If that happened, I would be totally okay with it... XD
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    #43  Edited By karatetron

    Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum confirmed as Mass Effect 3 squad members?

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    #44  Edited By the_gallo
    @TrippinBungalow said:
    Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum confirmed as Mass Effect 3 squad members?
    Yeah but Will Smith from Tested oddly enough.
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    With a high enough Paragon or Renegade score Shepard will persuade the Reapers to leave via an intense and dramatic conversation.

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    #46  Edited By defaultprophet

    During Tali's recruitment mission they talk about a sun that has gone prematurely red giant due to dark energy. I will bet Shepard will have to turn Sol into a super nova to destroy the reapers as well as earth.

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    #47  Edited By WoodenPlatypus

    Don't be so ridiculous. 
    It'll go down like this:  
      
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    #48  Edited By DoctorTran

    Oh.. I thought youmeant he was going to fly up their corn hole.

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    #49  Edited By rmanthorp  Moderator

    I think he will punch them to death.

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    #50  Edited By Chummy8

    Shepard BECOMES A REAPER and kills them from the inside.  In a tragic ending, Shepard dies in the end, but humanity surivives..  Blah, blah, blah, human spirit..etc. 

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