Post with permission from my friend.

Why does Mass Effect as a setting always gets chosen to be crossover-ed with stronger/OP franchises such as Halo, Warhammer 40K, Star Wars, Star Trek and StarCraft only for it to get utterly and brutally stomped, mocked and criticized so often?

It has gotten to the point Mass Effect has its own trope regarding this trend:

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Fan Works / Butt Monkey - TV Tropes

From a meta standpoint, Mass Effect itself is one of these. Almost every time it is involved in a crossover, its characters are on the receiving end of a curbstomp battle and belittled afterwards.

Personally, any of those Mass Effect crossover fics that have the following tropes below are the worst.

1. Citadel Council is incompetent, evulz and dickish.
2. Turian commanders and soldiers are warmongering jingoists, incompetent, evuls and dickish.
3. Citadel Council deployed the genophage on the krogan, causing a lot of stillbirths and was slowly making the species extinct. Thus, giving the krogan a sympathetic light. [While back in the Krogan Rebellion, they were completely okay of dropping asteroids and moons on colonies filled with millions of civilians.]

Citadel Council refused to help the quarians dealing with the geth.

Citadel Council didn't give the quarians a planet after got kicked out of their homeworld and colonies and condemning them to a slow death by living a nomadic lifestyle. Thus, giving them a sympathetic light. [BEFORE THAT, the quarians were been explicitly told not to continue their research in AIs and look what happened? Other than that, if y'all think those nomads are innocent people who can't do no wrong, think again.]

Mass Effect technology = STAGNANT. NO INNOVATION. AND GETS CRITICIZED.

Citadel Council hates AIs with a passion.

Everyone is racist towards the quarians.

Reapers are easily stomped by an OP faction(s) from other franchise.

Seriously, any ME crossover fics with those tropes will get old really quickly if the story just has any OP franchise crushing everyone from ME 'verse without drama, in-depth worldbuilding and reasonable implications, as well as any development, interaction, exploration and reflection of the characters involved.

For whatever reason, people take a (relatively) well thought-out settings like Mass Effect that doesn't go for ALL DA BIGGATONS! because Bioware doesn't need to make a huge Phallus Cannon to wank their setting. Even then, rather than making most characters in ME as smart, sensible, relatable and three-dimensional only limited by the setting's tech... they make those people brain dead idiots on top of those.

What's worse is the nonsensical made-up wank feats only to justify their favorite characters, organizations and governments from some of the OP franchises. Halo, unfortunately, is the worst offender of all of them.

What the fuck is up with that? The Citadel isn't bad enough to warrant it! Yeah they're annoying, but no more than any other government organization would be in any game and franchise. Why is Mass Effect such a prime target for crossover with other strong/OP franchises?

Is it because some people are so sensitive to the realization that you don't need epic biggatons to wank to in order to have a good universe to set fiction in?

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