Mass Effect: 8 Weirdest Enemies (And What They Represent)

5. Adjutant

Mass Effect adjutant
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Adjutants, as found in the Mass Effect 3 Omega DLC, are Bioware's take on Lovecraftian horror; an enemy defined by their spooky appearance and tentacle-clad faces.

Whilst many games riff on Lovecraft's work as a base point for their enemies - take Hermaeus Mora and the Seekers of Skyrim, for example - Bioware's version is especially gruesome, playing into the writer's own science-fiction based roots with a proper alien species.

Of course, the tentacled appearance is one directly taken from the Cthulu mythos, where Lovecraft's affinity for all things squid-like has long since ruled in writing. Elsewhere in his work, the Adjutant bears some similarity to individual creatures, like the lesser mentioned Ythth Ghuggl’ing - a once-human priest that has been transformed into a vampiric creature that bears glowing eyes and a tentacled face.

The straddling of two species is close to the Adjutant's own mishmashed genealogy, turned from one alien into another at the hands of the Reaper invasion.

Adjutant is also the word for a military official that serves under the commanding officer, an assistant and helping hand to the higher-ups. And considering these creatures are used as infectious devices for Reapers that turn hosts into their own kind, the name makes sense, really.

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