Mass Effect – How Didn’t Shepard Get Indoctrinated?
Massive Gaming Plot holes
The Mass Effect trilogy is once again, a modern masterpiece in gaming, and whilst many believe that the ending to the third game ruined the franchise, it’s popularity can’t be denied. Throughout each game, the playable character Commander Shepard comes up against an overwhelmingly powerful race of sentient space-ships with the power to end all life in the universe.
One way that the reapers are so powerful is with their indoctrination ability, which gradually brainwashes anyone who is in their vicinity for long periods of time. Shepard encountered and fought many indoctrinated individuals on his journey, and even spent a long time in the close vicinity of actual reapers. So why didn’t he get indoctrinated himself?
There have been a few fan-theories surrounding Shepard’s resistance to indoctrination; many claim that he’s simply immune to the influence of the reapers, or that Miranda and the Lazarus Project inserted something to help his resistance to the effects, but this wouldn’t explain how his crew are also unaffected. At the end of the day, it can simply be chalked up to plot armor.
There’s also the really interesting theory that Shepard was indoctrinated the entire time; and there’s a surprising amount of evidence supporting this. If you like the sound of this theory, you can read about it here.
