![]() Only for Aleph to say " That is not the name your mother gave you." When they first meet, Adam says that isn't his name. I Know Your True Name: Aleph refuses to call Adam anything other than Alif.he's only incapable of dancing to electronic stuff. Garrus calls it "The Jensen," and "he did it for ten seconds, and Jensen wished to punch his partner in the face for every single one." As it later turns out, in Dosadi. I Can't Dance: Challenging Shepard's dancing skills is Adam Jensen, as shown here.Heterosexual Life-Partners: Him and Garrus, much in the vein of canon's Garrus and Male!Shepard.Even accounting for Udina's distorted views, much of(or at least the most noticeable factions of) humanity consider Adam to be "a walking war crime", despite his actions on Elysium. And if you go far enough beyond the line, he won't even regret it. Good Is Not Soft: He may do his best not to kill, but he's perfectly willing to punch people out or take An Arm and a Leg if need be.Way more than just having gunmen trying to kill him. The Fettered: It actually takes quite a lot to push him to employ lethal methods and tactics.Establishing Character Moment: In the prologue, despite being off-duty, he takes down a ten-Asari bank robbery single-handedly through stealth, offers himself to the last one in exchange for her hostage, then defeats her non-lethally but painfully when she still refuses to see the light.The Dreaded: To this very day, Batarian slavers have nightmares about "The Shadow of Elysium.".Averted with Tartakovsky, who was far enough beyond the line that he didn't feel anything about giving a False Reassurance before siccing Hannibal on him.Dark and Troubled Past: There have been hints that we don't know the true story of his origin.Cursed with Awesome: In chapter 28, Garrus tells him that no one feels sorry for him when he complains about what the augs let him do.In the 2180s, he's the Frankenstein Monster. Cold Sleep, Cold Future: Before Adam went into the Sarif Cache, he could at least rent an apartment in just about any major city.Fahl calls him on it saying that he always, ALWAYS tries to help everyone but is worried of it slowly taking over his life and will eventually leave him a Broken Hero.Sarah Walker: "Jensen, I swear, if she asks you to solve her life's problems I will shoot her." The story seems to enjoy going great lengths to see what exactly he is willing to do for the sake of saving a life. Chronic Hero Syndrome: Jensen will drop damn near anything to save someone in trouble, or punish their abusers.Chick Magnet: Gets Tali, Brea, Aki and Manah all hot for him through his Knight in Shining Armor attitude.He famously rejected the advances of " the Leda twins " - a pair of bisexual incestuous twin asari C-Sec officers and got them kicked off the force for sexual harassment when they wouldn't stop. Celibate Hero: Jensen's Cartwright Curse has led him to eschew romantic advances upon his person.Downside: Well as he puts it, it's murder on his food budget. Cast from Calories: Adam's battery system was upgraded so not only does he not have to eat a candy bar every time he punches someone, but he can use his X-Ray Vision and Invisibility Cloak almost constantly.For all Jensen knows, The Secret Masters scheme night and day to ruin his love life.Fahl = burned at stake by Illuminati anti-aug terrorists.Katrina Sutherland = blown to paste by Illuminati-augmented terrorist.Megan Reed = apparently mutilated and incinerated by Illuminati-augmented terrorists, actually Stockholm Syndrome.Born in the Wrong Century: Adam briefly wonders if he would have fit better as a Middle Ages knight-errant.Do not suggest that Jensen is in any way associated with the Illuminati.But fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to a punching-out. Lawson tries to taunt Adam with his fear of fire in chapter 17.Badass Longcoat: The same one from the game.Badass in a Nice Suit: Briefly becomes this on Noveria due to having to dress up to meet one of Spooky's contacts.Anti-Magic: He seems to have unusually strong resistance to psionics.A century and a half after the events of Human Revolution (most of which were spent as a Human Popsicle), he and Garrus Vakarian are C-Sec's star partnership. A former Detroit PD SWAT Specialist and chief of security for Sarif Industries.
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