Threatening to blind that bartender goes beyond the severe physical threat. If you read the codex, Batarians believe their souls leave through the eyes when they die, which is prevented if their eyes are mutilated. Shepard basically promised to desecrate his remains.
Notice how the renegade option at 0:06 is to walk away. This is because renegade Shepard is instinctively distrustful of b*tarians and correctly assumes the bartender wants to poison him.
Its kinda funny how Bioware very clearly means to portray prejudice towards the Batarians outside the Hegemomy as unwarranted prejudice and like the Batarians are persecuted in council space, but they really did a bad job of making them seem sympathetic. Like 90% of every Batarian in the game is trying to kill you or someone else.
Fr, the only somewhat sympathetic Batarian was the Blue Suns guy in Garrus' mission. Man was just trying to do his job and fix a fightercraft, and Shepherd up and tazed him to death. And even that guy was a gangster trying to help kill Garrus.
I wouldn't say it's unwarranted prejudice. These assholes have been stirring up trouble in council space long before humanity showed up. I believe a youtuber described them as "space north koreans" which is painfully accurate.
Thats just natural, if everybody hates you, you eventually learn to hate them, same stuff like slytherin in harry potter. Also the Batarian Hegemony really doesnt give a good reputation to Batarians.
It makes sense when you consider the Batarians outside the Hegemony likely grew up within it and were taught that Humans are conquering monsters who hate Batarians. Think of how North Koreans are taught to think that Americans are literal demons who want to kill them all.
@@levongevorgyan6789 there's the sick Batarian you can save in Mordin's recruitment mission, who changes his mind about humans if you do, and..... Bray in ME3, he seemed pretty chill lol. That is kind of it.
@@rusteddenial453 considering that batarians as a race claim that slavery is an integral part of their culture and refuse to abolish it, are willing to break intergalactic law by weaponizing meteors and destroying an entire planets surface in the meantime and are generally a mixture of pirates, slavers, intergalactic mafia and terrorists at the same time... I think it's warrented.
Didn't see how old this was, expected an AI voice shitpost. Man, Dagoth Ur is hogging all the attention in that department. Shepard has so much potential.
Given how important eyes are to their culture and spiritual beliefs... yep. Essentially, it's a threat to make him undead. Without eyes, the soul can't leave the body. So, you'd be trapped in a rotting inanimate corpse for all time.
1 Batarian tenderloin (1 pound), cut into thin strips 1 tablespoon canola oil (or other flavorless oil that can handle high heat, like peanut) 1 small onion, sliced 1/4 pound fresh snow peas 1/2 sweet red pepper, julienned Hot cooked rice Optional: Chopped green onion and sesame seeds _I’m Commander Shepherd and Sgt Gardner is my favorite cook on the Normandy._
that would also be a prothean delicacy also protheans also will C O N S U M E turians asari salarian krogan thoi' han hanar quarian humans and maybe yhag
@@ZeeNastee pretty much every single batarian except balak's second in command marsh and bray are will shoot whatever doesnt have 4 eyes im surprised you dont get the option to wipe the damn things of the face of the galaxy
You're embarassing yourself by being so concerned about a fictional specie. Batarians aren't real, hating them isn't a crime and doesn't hurt anyone so I suggest you relax and find something else to do.
I know xeno racism is bad, but man, not hating the Batarian in Mass Effect is fucking hard... I think the choice to wipe out a batarian colony or slow the Reapers advance was an easy quick thinking xD
@@Ecthelion842 I dunno, I think Zaeed works better as a human, mainly because of his VA. Plus his scenes in the ME3 DLC if he survives the suicide mission in ME2.
imo Bioware really dropped the ball by making Batarians all but gone by ME3 instead of making them spearhead the Reaper's campaign on Earth, like if the Reapers promised Batarians revenge on humanity or something
Jokes aside, in surprised they didn't give you a Batarian squadmate in ME2 or 3. Would've been an awesome ride hating each other to start then possibly forming a bond as strong as Garrus'
@@KopperNeomanas much as I like Tali, I wish they went for the batarian option. Tali could just not trust Cerberus enough to even just join you while you are working for them.
I'm currently playing a run where I only pick paragon options and paragon interrupts. The only one I didn't pick is the paragon interrupt to save that Batarian during the mission to recruit Mordin. No Batarian is worth my omni-gel.
@@ImpendingApotheosis I mean that's fine, but doesn't change the fact that it would've been good for their race in them not literally just being the worst people ever.
Trust me if a guy tells me to drink poisoned alcohol and he's wearing blood dragon armour (Or call it dragon age armour which it is.) and he threatens to blind me I know he ain't saying an empty threat. 💀
Bro, thanks god but batarians are almost wholly destroyed by reapers, there are some degenerates like you who likes batarians but luckily 99% hates them
@@whocares435-z9v batarians can be nice its been shown a few times, its just their pride, culture and their grudge against humans that holds them back from being nice also you being racist even if it's a fictional race just goes to show your really not that much different than most batarians that are racist to humans, generalizing a whole race with an evil stereotype bc most examples have been that is pathetic and cringe asf, by your logic we should hate all krogan
We all know Shepard would not have made it a pleasant experience to lose those eyes. And that the batarian was gonna die one way or the other. Might as well take the easier way out
From the mass effect wiki "Little is known about batarian religious beliefs. Mordin Solus has noted that batarians do believe in an afterlife. When a batarian dies, his soul leaves the body through the eyes. Treatment of the corpse is considered unimportant, unless the batarian's eyes have been removed by an enemy."
I agree they look cool but they're assholes who keep attacking and enslaving humans. Their primary export is terrorists who try to drop asteroids on planets (their primary import is this asteroid).
Wanna know the worst part about destroying the Relay in Arrival? You didn't get to take any pictures In all seriousness, the writers sorta fucked up the Batarians. Its obvious they wanted to explore prejudice and how it grows, but I can't remember a single Batarian in the entire franchise that we see that isn't a slaver, criminal, racist, terrorist, or all four.
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Threatening to blind that bartender goes beyond the severe physical threat.
If you read the codex, Batarians believe their souls leave through the eyes when they die, which is prevented if their eyes are mutilated.
Shepard basically promised to desecrate his remains.
Based
Shehpard just threatened to kill this man and not even allow him peace in the afterlife
Loathsome dung eater moment
Notice how the renegade option at 0:06 is to walk away.
This is because renegade Shepard is instinctively distrustful of b*tarians and correctly assumes the bartender wants to poison him.
Lol the game is like "You're going to assume that it's poisoned just because the bartender is batarian? I mean, it is poisoned but..."
Its kinda funny how Bioware very clearly means to portray prejudice towards the Batarians outside the Hegemomy as unwarranted prejudice and like the Batarians are persecuted in council space, but they really did a bad job of making them seem sympathetic. Like 90% of every Batarian in the game is trying to kill you or someone else.
Fr, the only somewhat sympathetic Batarian was the Blue Suns guy in Garrus' mission. Man was just trying to do his job and fix a fightercraft, and Shepherd up and tazed him to death. And even that guy was a gangster trying to help kill Garrus.
I wouldn't say it's unwarranted prejudice. These assholes have been stirring up trouble in council space long before humanity showed up. I believe a youtuber described them as "space north koreans" which is painfully accurate.
Thats just natural, if everybody hates you, you eventually learn to hate them, same stuff like slytherin in harry potter. Also the Batarian Hegemony really doesnt give a good reputation to Batarians.
It makes sense when you consider the Batarians outside the Hegemony likely grew up within it and were taught that Humans are conquering monsters who hate Batarians. Think of how North Koreans are taught to think that Americans are literal demons who want to kill them all.
@@levongevorgyan6789 there's the sick Batarian you can save in Mordin's recruitment mission, who changes his mind about humans if you do, and..... Bray in ME3, he seemed pretty chill lol. That is kind of it.
As far as I'm concerned, a dead batarians is a good batarians
Unless it's Bray
Racist gamer moment
Each and every one of those spider eyed freaks deserves excessive after death body mutilation
@@rusteddenial453 considering that batarians as a race claim that slavery is an integral part of their culture and refuse to abolish it, are willing to break intergalactic law by weaponizing meteors and destroying an entire planets surface in the meantime and are generally a mixture of pirates, slavers, intergalactic mafia and terrorists at the same time... I think it's warrented.
@@rusteddenial453 *Based Shepard moment
To be fair every Batarian has tried to kill Shepherd
Except Bray, hes ok I guess.
Except the colonists in the Bahak system.
@@comicsansseraphim4934 They deserved it for existing. Human supremacy of the galaxy is what it's all about.
@@comicsansseraphim4934 Yet.
Except for Bray, who literally makes note of the fact that he is the single baterian in all three games who doesn't want Shepard dead.
"I'm Commander Shepard, I'm from Mindoir, and I say kill 'em all!"
"I'm commander shepard, I'm the hero of the skilian blitz and I already killed them all"
"I'm Commander Shepard, the Butcher of Torfan, and I say we haven't killed enough yet!"
Would you like to know more?
“Geneva conversation; more like Geneva suggestion”- Commander Shepard
Would you like to know more?
"Look shepard i know you had to kill those 300,000,000 batarians in order to slow the Reapers down."
Shepard," Reapers?"
Sadly we only got to kill 300,000
(To be fair though most of those were slaves)
"Oh yeah, the immortal race of sentient starships allegedly waiting in dark space. I've dismissed those claims."
Actually it was roughly 300,000 that time, but I digress.
“Fuck this, you’re on your own. You racist bastard.”
@@thecircleoft.e.d2121shut up nerd
Batarians: "You blew up one of our star systems!"
Shepard: "Ohh, and I'll surely do it again if you keep raising your voice at me."
I mean, they don't even get to say that since the reapers agreed with shepard and wiped them out 😂
Shep: "Wanna see me do it again?"
Paragon shep makes you feel like an angel. Renegade shep makes you feel like an angel of death.
Boy scout vs psychopath. That's why I usually play somewhere in between. Full paragon/renegade is just too extremely cliche for me.
Both are absolutely AWESOME!!
@@friendlyreaper9012 I go with what I feel in my heart, and that usually means challenging my beliefs
I only take renegade options when batarians are involved.
Batarian apologists be like: "Man, I can't believe the Hegemony forced that poor bartender to poison some guy for the crime of wanting a drink!"
Those “socio economic factors” am I right
Sounds like Ukraine supporters these days.
@@Mortablunt lol wut? You seriously comparing a race of space slavers to people getting forcibly annexed by Russia?
@@Mortablunt not related
@@Mortablunt And Russia supporters sound like batarians, your point?
Didn't see how old this was, expected an AI voice shitpost. Man, Dagoth Ur is hogging all the attention in that department. Shepard has so much potential.
Spider-eyed freaks.
Let's be xenophobic it's really in this year
DISGUSTING spider-eyed freaks.
@@justiceperez3087to be fair only like 2 of them haven't tried to kill us
By proportion, most batarians in the hegemony are enslaved, so that's really who you're insulting
@justiceperez3087 let's find a nasty slimey ugly alien to fear.
I can't get over how species-specific that threat was. I imagine that any Batarian would be scared of the thought of being blinded one eye at a time.
Given how important eyes are to their culture and spiritual beliefs... yep. Essentially, it's a threat to make him undead. Without eyes, the soul can't leave the body. So, you'd be trapped in a rotting inanimate corpse for all time.
And nothing of value was lost
~Shepard after Bahak system
Literally 200 000 slaves in that system: are we a joke to you?
@@nadarith1044 No
Just a statistic.
Known as "acceptable casualties"
@@nadarith1044 Nothing you said was funny to begin with
Just following your example
@@MortSalazar Kinda late, already did that above, following an unfunny 'joke' with another one
1 Batarian tenderloin (1 pound), cut into thin strips
1 tablespoon canola oil (or other flavorless oil that can handle high heat, like peanut)
1 small onion, sliced
1/4 pound fresh snow peas
1/2 sweet red pepper, julienned
Hot cooked rice
Optional: Chopped green onion and sesame seeds
_I’m Commander Shepherd and Sgt Gardner is my favorite cook on the Normandy._
Canola oil is hydrogenated. Are your trying to poison me ?
Masterpiece comment
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A Krogan favourite.
Serve it with a boiled Salarian liver to really bring out the flavour.
that would also be a prothean delicacy also protheans also will C O N S U M E turians asari salarian krogan thoi' han hanar quarian humans and maybe yhag
i hate batarians so much it's unreal
It’s not hate, it’s disgust for the degenerate leeches.
dont we all
I do aswell but the only one is alright is Bray (the batarian with Aria in Omega dlc)
@@bruhgod123 Nope, they're awesome.
@@ZeeNastee pretty much every single batarian except balak's second in command marsh and bray are will shoot whatever doesnt have 4 eyes im surprised you dont get the option to wipe the damn things of the face of the galaxy
The entire cutscene is so goofy. I love it
Shepherd drinking with a helmet on is pretty powerful
Must be a shitty helmet if it couldn't filter out the poison.
Emergency induction port
@@coolwolf506Tali that’s a straw
Shepard survived because he took his drink through his frickin helmet
I want to see a comic of this where it just splashes all over his helmet
@@azzythechristianfurry www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/original/3/32132/1268262-153.jpg
@@safehavenonice6431
Hahaha, that’s great!
he drank it using an emergency induction port
@@bruhgod123 tru
When Shepard kills a Reaper, Geth, Collector or Cerberus troop its for the fate of the galaxy, when he kills a Batarian its community service.
It is unfortunate you don't get a renegade prompt to just glass those batarians in the lobby
it would been hilarious if you had an option to drink this thing again
Vorcha are more sympathetic than the batarians
I got confused between Vorcha and Batarian, so when I blew up that relay I was like "Yeah, take that you rat-faced bastards."
@@ventexovakon2178 Literally 2/3 of the population in that system were slaves
@@nadarith1044freeing them from the embarrassment of being captured by batarians.
@@chimeraofscarlet8610 You mean switching one embarrassment for another
You're embarassing yourself by being so concerned about a fictional specie. Batarians aren't real, hating them isn't a crime and doesn't hurt anyone so I suggest you relax and find something else to do.
I know xeno racism is bad, but man, not hating the Batarian in Mass Effect is fucking hard... I think the choice to wipe out a batarian colony or slow the Reapers advance was an easy quick thinking xD
I wish they had gone with the original rout and made Zaeed a Batarian like they were originally going to.
No way, Batarians are one of my favorite races in Mass Effect. Love them!
@@ZeeNastee yeah, originally he was going to be a Batarian, but they realized how unpopular they are, so made Zaeed a human.
@@Ecthelion842 It was a damn shame. I would have loved a Batarian squad mate, preferably a romancable one.
@@Ecthelion842 I dunno, I think Zaeed works better as a human, mainly because of his VA. Plus his scenes in the ME3 DLC if he survives the suicide mission in ME2.
"Ha ha! the joke's on you! That poison works only on humans."
"You sure about that?"
"Yeah... Oh s..."
Batarian squad mate was a missed opportunity
Every time you watch this video, a Bat*rian dies
Let me watch it again.
im going to force the children in my basement to watch this 1000 times
imo Bioware really dropped the ball by making Batarians all but gone by ME3 instead of making them spearhead the Reaper's campaign on Earth, like if the Reapers promised Batarians revenge on humanity or something
Considering how Cannibals make up the bulk of reaper forcers, in a cosmic way they delivered.
Jokes aside, in surprised they didn't give you a Batarian squadmate in ME2 or 3. Would've been an awesome ride hating each other to start then possibly forming a bond as strong as Garrus'
that was the plan actually in ME2 to have a socially awkward, Batarian engineer as a squad mate but it was scrapped for unknown reasons
@@orionrazilov5994He was replaced with Tali.
@@KopperNeomanas much as I like Tali, I wish they went for the batarian option.
Tali could just not trust Cerberus enough to even just join you while you are working for them.
@@KopperNeomanJacob* Which would've been way better.
The gmod idiot box ruined me, now I can't hear the afterlife music without hearing the "Bill" remix.
Haha now that's a blast from the past
Bilbilbillbillbillbill.
I'm only cool with the baterian that works with aria and I STILL threatened to kill him before
Even though im usually paragon, I always pick the renegade options when it comes to Batarians
Everyday i heard someone said don't prejudice on others, i remember batarian people.
Most of those people are enslaved and we never see those, only criminals
so, uhhh...
Killing Batarians is fun and I should go replay the trilogy to kill more of them.
Batarians believe eye is where their soul leave the body. So if they lose all the eye, their soul will stuck forever.
I'm currently playing a run where I only pick paragon options and paragon interrupts. The only one I didn't pick is the paragon interrupt to save that Batarian during the mission to recruit Mordin.
No Batarian is worth my omni-gel.
This series taught me about Terra Firma, and since then it’s impossible not to play exterminator in Stellaris.
Worst type of player detected lmao
@@nadarith1044**laughs in crushing your feddy with my own human feddy**
I wish Zaeed was a Batarian. I know he was one of the few interesting human characters, but it would’ve been so good for their race.
Imma be real with you, if he was I wouldn't have a single playthrough where he survives the final mission lol Total Batarian Death
@@ImpendingApotheosis I mean that's fine, but doesn't change the fact that it would've been good for their race in them not literally just being the worst people ever.
@ZappoNinja exactly, it would have been TOO good for their race..
And Zaeed being partially blind would be more significant. @@ZappoNinja
I don’t remember Samara being that salty in that scene
1:30 I like the timesplitters: future perfect menu song here
Gave him a taste of his own moonshine
I don't know why "Shepard is an enormous RACIST" keeps popping up in my recommended but I'm not complaining
Drinks poison
dies like he got shot
Shepard drank his own helmet and blamed the barrender instead
Feels like the only Batarians that don't want Shepard dead are either Aria's men or some of the ones in Mass Effect 3.
to be fair...they didn't sign the geneva convention so everything is fair game
Pretty sure geneva isn't the defining treaty for war crimes in mass effect..
A batarian dead is a happy shep
Put batarians in the femur breaker
Trust me if a guy tells me to drink poisoned alcohol and he's wearing blood dragon armour (Or call it dragon age armour which it is.) and he threatens to blind me I know he ain't saying an empty threat. 💀
Stir fry Batarians in a wok
Their only crime was being Batarian
JUSTICE
All my homies hate all those damn Spider-Eyes
Now if only he could do it to the other three million so and so's he killed.
Shepard isn’t racist but they won’t tolerate assholes (and people trying to kill them of course, but mostly the asshole part)
If it has 4 eyes it doesn't deserve to see the sunrise
They are hard to be fond of though.
All my homies hate Batarians
Love Batarians, hands down one of my favorite races in ME.
one of my male shepherds hates batarians
That music slaps
I really hope in the next mass effect they make the barbarians more sympathetic and hopefully create a really likeable batarian crewmate
Bro, thanks god but batarians are almost wholly destroyed by reapers, there are some degenerates like you who likes batarians but luckily 99% hates them
No i hope we can exterminate them.
"likeable"
So not a Batarian?
@@whocares435-z9v Bray Is a nice dude
@@whocares435-z9v batarians can be nice its been shown a few times, its just their pride, culture and their grudge against humans that holds them back from being nice also you being racist even if it's a fictional race just goes to show your really not that much different than most batarians that are racist to humans, generalizing a whole race with an evil stereotype bc most examples have been that is pathetic and cringe asf, by your logic we should hate all krogan
they screw up the faces so badly in the legendary edition
Damn Batarrer
Being racist is just having a preservation instinct.
Filthy Batarians
ME2 Renegade was the best
Hope it’s just as good if not better in the new mass effect that comes in the future
Yeah 😂😊
so he chose to off himself over going blind?
We all know Shepard would not have made it a pleasant experience to lose those eyes. And that the batarian was gonna die one way or the other. Might as well take the easier way out
From the mass effect wiki "Little is known about batarian religious beliefs. Mordin Solus has noted that batarians do believe in an afterlife. When a batarian dies, his soul leaves the body through the eyes. Treatment of the corpse is considered unimportant, unless the batarian's eyes have been removed by an enemy."
@@lamignat900 that would explain the action.
Nobody said he died. Maybe he had the same concussion as Shepard.
I don't understand why everyone hates batarians they are one of the best looking alien races
GUYS, GUYS, FOUND BATARIAN SYMPATHIZER
@@ms6653 Did I hear lynching sounds?
I agree they look cool but they're assholes who keep attacking and enslaving humans. Their primary export is terrorists who try to drop asteroids on planets (their primary import is this asteroid).
@@comicsansseraphim4934 Oh and humans aren't the biggest racists around? the biggest terrorist organization is cerberus
Filthy xeno sympathizer
Spider eyed freaks
Wanna know the worst part about destroying the Relay in Arrival?
You didn't get to take any pictures
In all seriousness, the writers sorta fucked up the Batarians. Its obvious they wanted to explore prejudice and how it grows, but I can't remember a single Batarian in the entire franchise that we see that isn't a slaver, criminal, racist, terrorist, or all four.