17 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know About Mass Effect
9. Your Crew Was Supposed To Die Storming The Final Reaper
If you kept up with all the hate back in 2012 around why your crew members went from being by your side one minute to walking around an entirely different planet the next - it's because they weren't supposed to be there in the first place.
Instead whoever you chose to accompany you in the final run would die by your side, making their sacrifices a bigger motivation to stick it to the Reapers; instead until the Extended Cut rectified their motivations they just, kind of... disappeared.