Sorry Mass Effect Fans, I Don't Get The Garrus Love

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Sometimes it's better to just keep your mouth shut. If you're at a friend's house and they cook you a meal, you bite your tongue and bear it even if it's awful. When a kid is telling you a story they're excited about, you smile and nod through the whole thing rather than push them to the ground and tell them they're being boring. And when there's a popular love interest in a fandom you don't get, you look the other way when fanart crops up. Well, perhaps foolishly, I'll be silent no more. Mass Effect fans, I love you, but I don't understand the love for Garrus.

I don't mind Garrus on a personal level. He's not my favourite squadmate, but I'd understand him fitting that profile for some people. He's in the top half for me, but not much higher. The issue for me is that Garrus is a cop. He's once a cop, always a cop. In the first game, he leaves C-Sec because he feels there's a better way to bring justice to the world, and then when we meet him in Mass Effect 2 he's a vigilante acting out his revenge fantasies by taking pot shots at bad guys. He's enacting violent rage against criminals society has deemed to be less-than-human, less worthy of our pity, as creatures who can be harmed and killed with no consequences. Garrus is still, even without the uniform, a cop.

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As I've written about before, he's Batman. He chooses to punch problems rather than solve them. Garrus could be protecting Mordin in the slums, using his marksmanship for good, but that's a thankless task. You don't get to be Archangel by protecting the weak and the needy. Instead, you need to become a cop. He's terrifically boring in the first game, but then a lot of people are, so