So the Human Reaper

[Muttley]

I never really understood the reason for it. the other Reapers were highly mobile and deadly, the Human reaper would've been limited on what it could do. so why create it? I understand that humans are more diverse in genetics in the universe. but it doesn't account for a reaper. Let alone what would this thing have looked like?

[Lilith]

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they state in me2 that the reapers are constantly trying to update and make new repears but many species dont actually work out , humans happen to be one that does due to genetic makeup. Each species is able to be turned into a husk like how the collectors were created as foot soldiers cause reapers can't get to every spot they dont wanna destory planets just wipe out life and copy dna to remake a new series for the next harvest. Im not really to sure how thats bad writing , and the thing with harbinger he is the first reaper created from the creator race.

Because it's unnecessarily convoluted and brings nothing to to table. What is the difference with this information other than just making humanity the super special people in the universe?

It's bad.

It would be better if the reapers did just make more of themselves with each extinction. It makes sense, its simple and it doesn't prop up one race as more important than the rest. Its supposed to be a galactic effort not "we must protect da hoomans!" They could even keep the collectors abducting only humans, as mordin puts it humans make a good base to start preliminary testing on due to genetic variance.

the problem with your argument is exactly that your making an argument of your opinion when the first post was asking about them having human reapers and why its not a big topic in 3 , a better answer they forgot about it/dropped the idea and it was to late to add to the plot the game was rushed as well and i know i hurt your feelings to bad grow up now im blocking you and unsubscribing to this discussion since the answer is been said im sure youll get hurt by my typed words to and try to report me to a mod cause im mean and scary

[jackhickman999]

The idea is that the human reaper would later be encased into the actual full reaper ship that's how they do it. It's stupid I know. They make a paste of us ram it into a machine shaped like us and encase it into a full ship. Okay boomer.

[ASRIEL]

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I've never seen a prothean looking reaper before. I think it was just something they thought of in Mass Effect 2 and then in Mass Effect 3 they were like....."Nah that's dumb... make them look like the Leviathans."

Collectors. I’m pretty sure EDI hypothesized that they couldn’t gather enough Protheans to create a Prothean Reaper, so they just used them as backup (the Collectors).

Though, funny how the most terrifying Collector troops are the ones from humans, like the Scion and Praetorian. Especially the Praetorian.

[Tr0w]

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Fair enough.
I mean the writers said a lot of things over the years.
Could be true, could be covering just bad writing.
Also a lot of planned stuff was changed between the games even if it was set up previously, like the "Dark Energy" plotline from ME 2 in Tali´s recruitment mission that was supposed to be a main plot element of ME 3 till the lead writer left the team and it was dropped completely.

Who knows.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Let us just agree that the human reaper was kind of dumb.

Iirc the story change was due to the script for ME3 being leaked online prior to release which led to either BioWare or EA management scrapping the script outright and doing a rewrite with only a few months left until release. So no wonder Drew left.

[Tr0w]

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I've never seen a prothean looking reaper before. I think it was just something they thought of in Mass Effect 2 and then in Mass Effect 3 they were like....."Nah that's dumb... make them look like the Leviathans."

Collectors. I’m pretty sure EDI hypothesized that they couldn’t gather enough Protheans to create a Prothean Reaper, so they just used them as backup (the Collectors).

Though, funny how the most terrifying Collector troops are the ones from humans, like the Scion and Praetorian. Especially the Praetorian.

That's not the reason, it's all about human genetic diversity, humans are the special chosen ones. Think about it the Protheans had an empire that spanned the entire milky way galaxy, there were far more Protheans during their time than there are humans during the events of the trilogy, humans have Earth and a handful of small colonies.

[Blackdark]

The human reaper made me think that we'd see reapers of all kinds of shapes and sizes in ME3 but instead they all shared the same 2 shapes.

[St.Absinthe]

Do people even remember any of the dialogue in the game. Humanity isn't just 'more special' than the other races. The Reapers took an interest in humanity because Shepard killled Sovereign in ME1.

Let's also not forget that in Drew's Dark Energy plotline (which he has said was not the final script, but one of many ideas that never got developed), the Reapers are trying to save the universe from the dark energy big crunch, yet doesn't account for the fact that they built dozens of Mass Relays that use Dark Energy and would accelerate the death of the universe.

Yeah Drew, great writing.

[Lionheart 01]

But why did drew go away? Or why didn't they keep track of dark energy anyway?

[Tr0w]

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Do people even remember any of the dialogue in the game. Humanity isn't just 'more special' than the other races. The Reapers took an interest in humanity because Shepard killled Sovereign in ME1.

Let's also not forget that in Drew's Dark Energy plotline (which he has said was not the final script, but one of many ideas that never got developed), the Reapers are trying to save the universe from the dark energy big crunch, yet doesn't account for the fact that they built dozens of Mass Relays that use Dark Energy and would accelerate the death of the universe.

Yeah Drew, great writing.

Shepard killing one drew attention but it's the muh genetic diversity that allows humans to be made into a reaper over other races.

As for the other issue that just means both scripts sucked.

[Tr0w]

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But why did drew go away? Or why didn't they keep track of dark energy anyway?

Well if you spent a good chunk of time writing the script for an extremely anticipated title and then they take it from you and throw it in the bin would you be keen to hang around?

[lumina]

The human one would do the same as the others. I'm not sure I get how that is confusing. The dominant species of every cycle are turned into reapers. Why would human ones be inferior to others?

[Tr0w]

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The human one would do the same as the others. I'm not sure I get how that is confusing. The dominant species of every cycle are turned into reapers. Why would human ones be inferior to others?

Not true, the Protheans weren't turned into a Reaper.

[lumina]

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The human one would do the same as the others. I'm not sure I get how that is confusing. The dominant species of every cycle are turned into reapers. Why would human ones be inferior to others?

Not true, the Protheans weren't turned into a Reaper.

Okay, but it doesn't change the point. That's how reapers are made. Why would human reapers be so much worse than the random other species turned into reapers?

[St.Absinthe]

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But why did drew go away? Or why didn't they keep track of dark energy anyway?

Drew left because of 'creative conflict.' That's the only actual, tangible information given. Everything else is speculation. And like I said, the dark energy plot was never actually written completely. It was an idea very early in pre-production.

[sethac]

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Regardless, the one Reaper per cycle idea, preserving races is the stupidest idea in the franchise besides the Star Child.

Also the dumbest for me is how fast the reaper invasion is in ME 3.
Its literally a few weeks from conquering Earth to them controlling the entire Galaxy and every major race territory.

This part is even mentioned in the codex. The reapers are capable to process 1.83 million humans per day on earth. So they would need more than 10 years for just this one planet.

The protheans were the dominant species in their cycle and had highly populated the whole galaxy. Taking several hundred years of processing is far from illogical.