Except that doesn't quite work, as Asari are clearly the most human shaped of all the major alien races you encounter. If Asari looked like Krogan or Turians to members of that species, the illusion would be dispelled as soon as physical contact was made, as they are blatantly different (wrong head shape, number of fingers etc.). Combined with the fact that only humans and asari could use the same armour in ME1, it is clear that asari are basically human-like.Dreadjaws said:The Asari shouldn't count. The interesting deal about them is that they're "shape-cheaters". They actually look like a member of whichever race whomever's watching them belongs to. They look human-like to us because we're human, to the Turians, they look turian-like and so on.tmande2nd said:Alien space babes:
Making an entire group of aliens "hawt" so that people can get cheap fanservice.
Twileks
Orions
Asari
I dont mind fanservice in works of fiction, but when Captain Dude lands on a planet and the female population consists entirely of bikini models in skin paint with some rubber ridges added to their forehead my eyes roll so hard they hurt.
So there are 2 possible explanations I can think of for that scene in the bar in ME2 (which I assume is the basis for the "shape-cheater" idea). The first is that the writers were stupidly lazy and forgot what the first game had already shown us, and put that scene in to deflect the very trope we're discussing, despite it not making any sense (this is very possible, as I'm leaning towards the idea that the only thing the writer could remember between games was who Shepard could sleep with). The second is that you hear the salarian and turian essentially explaining their own species' 'male gaze', with each species focussing on the closest analogue the asari posses to their own species' secondary sexual characteristics.