Mass Effect: Deception/YMMV

• Internet Backdraft: The numerous errors regarding the lore of the Mass Effect universe led to this Google doc, this forum thread ^{[dead link]} on the BioWare Social Network (which reached 456 pages), and this open letter on the ME Wiki. Days after the book's release, BioWare announced that a revision would be made.
• Memetic Mutation: See Narm.
• Narm: Kai Leng eating Anderson's cereal. The inevitable "cereal killer" jokes don't help.
  • Kai Leng "urinating in a vase that he had selected for that purpose". Yes, that happens. In those exact words.
  • Gillian's death. It should be tragic, but there's something inherently funny about the fact that Kai Leng is killing her with a toothbrush.
  • Really, just Kai Leng.
    • Narm Charm: Admit it, as silly as it was, no one will forget Kai Leng: Cereal Killer.
• They Just Didn't Care: See Internet Backdraft.
• Unfortunate Implications:
  • Hendel is straight. No reference is made at any point to him having ever been homosexual. He still gets offed, and pointlessly so.
  • Gillian's autism is only vaguely referenced. It's treated as a "phase" of the kind typical to adolescents, which she then grows out of.
• What an Idiot!: Late in the novel, Hendel threatens biotic harm on Aria in the middle of her private room in Afterlife. He's damned lucky all she did was taser him.