Male Captain Shepard is canon?

[777]

I ask those who went through the original parts on the release to answer.
In all the commercials, the BioWare showed a male character, except for part 3, but I do not take this into account.

[Corbae]

No.

[LofLM🇵🇷]

I don’t think so. Sure BroShep was the one on the promo stuff in ME1 and 2 but making BroShep or FemShep canon would eliminate player choice, the very thing BioWare and its games are famous for. IIRC every BioWare game so far had the option to choose between male or female, Dragon Age, KOTOR, Neverwinter Nights etc. The Legendary Edition used FemShep a ton in its marketing, I think partly to make up for the fact that BroShep was featured so exclusively in the marketing for the original games. But imo neither gender is canon.

On the other hand, BioWare released some stats that showed that a majority of players played as BroShep. So who knows at this point, I mean half of the ME fanbase thinks that Destroy is canon…

[Talilover]

Maleshep has the larger playerbase and Femshep has the louder playerbase, neither are canon tho

[valium]

They can always do the Revan thing in kotor 2 and just not mention a specific gender.

[Pepsu]

yep
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lxCXuuykzRo

[Radene]

You know what's the IMPORTANT question? Forget male or female; but is the Infiltrator Shepard canon? Because the class is the important bit.

[Deus Dex]

Yes. Male Shepard is canon. Now and forever.

[Sentiel]

I'd say it's down to the individual.... I mean I like to play modded femshep because I like the view when I'm playing and certain scenes are far more interesting if you get what I mean ;) But for me personally I do consider Broshep to be the canon. Best thing EA can do I think is in any future game that references the original trilogy either have it toggleable when you play as to what Shep is referenced as, or just don't have him mentioned as either....

tl;dr is broshep canon? to me yes, but I think it's down to the individual to decide their canon.

[Apollyon]

First of all, it's Commander, not Captain Shepard. Have you even played the games? Technically, Bioware has kept it open, but most would argue that male Shepard is canon. This can easily be surmised from multiple facts.

- The majority of people play as male.

- Male Shep had an actual model/actor face-scanned to serve as his appearance, whereas the female option was stuck with a generic, in-engine, hideous custom character face and only received a somewhat unique look in ME3, but still not a face scan.

- It's a lot more realistic that a male marine would be able to do and endure all the insane things Shepard does throughout the trilogy than a female one.

- Male Shepard makes for a much more convincing physical threat than female Shepard.

[GlorFindel1983]

Is OP trying to imitate old Pjedilord!?

[Uryon]

There was no doubts male shep was the canon one back then.

[Talilover]

Originally posted by 🕱 Dark Entropy 🕱:

First of all, it's Commander, not Captain Shepard. Have you even played the games? Technically, Bioware has kept it open, but most would argue that male Shepard is canon. This can easily be surmised from multiple facts.

- The majority of people play as male.

- Male Shep had an actual model/actor face-scanned to serve as his appearance, whereas the female option was stuck with a generic, in-engine, hideous custom character face and only received a somewhat unique look in ME3, but still not a face scan.

- It's a lot more realistic that a male marine would be able to do and endure all the insane things Shepard does throughout the trilogy than a female one.

- Male Shepard makes for a much more convincing physical threat than female Shepard.

Meh, while soldier class is the best and my personal canon there's no reason a biotic female shep wouldn't be just as threatening as a biotic male shep

[Mr_Faorry]

Originally posted by Talilover:

Originally posted by 🕱 Dark Entropy 🕱:

First of all, it's Commander, not Captain Shepard. Have you even played the games? Technically, Bioware has kept it open, but most would argue that male Shepard is canon. This can easily be surmised from multiple facts.

- The majority of people play as male.

- Male Shep had an actual model/actor face-scanned to serve as his appearance, whereas the female option was stuck with a generic, in-engine, hideous custom character face and only received a somewhat unique look in ME3, but still not a face scan.

- It's a lot more realistic that a male marine would be able to do and endure all the insane things Shepard does throughout the trilogy than a female one.

- Male Shepard makes for a much more convincing physical threat than female Shepard.

Meh, while soldier class is the best and my personal canon there's no reason a biotic female shep wouldn't be just as threatening as a biotic male shep

In ME1 maybe, but in ME2&3 biotics are a joke and you end up having to physically engage the enemy as if you were playing soldier anyway just with worse guns.

[Apollyon]

Originally posted by Talilover:

Meh, while soldier class is the best and my personal canon there's no reason a biotic female shep wouldn't be just as threatening as a biotic male shep

Thanks for reinforcing my argument. Femshep needs biotics to be seen as a credible threat.

[Talilover]

Originally posted by 🕱 Dark Entropy 🕱:

Originally posted by Talilover:

Meh, while soldier class is the best and my personal canon there's no reason a biotic female shep wouldn't be just as threatening as a biotic male shep

Thanks for reinforcing my argument. Femshep needs biotics to be seen as a credible threat.

Something tells me women in general are threatening to you, lmao