Despite wearing heavy armor, having kinetic barriers that have withstood dozens of bullets in cutscenes, and having medi-gel on hand just in case she gets shot, the bullet goes right through her and she dies a few minutes later. Armor Is Useless: If Shepard is forced to shoot her, they only shoot her once with the Predator, the weakest pistol in the game.Anti-Hero: A Knight in Sour Armor or a Pragmatic Hero.

Originally, she was supposed to have a more explicitly religious conversation where she asked Shepard about what they saw after dying, but this was Dummied Out.

The game never goes into deep detail of her faith, outside of believing in God and her father being in Heaven and that she regularly prays. In the first game, Ashley is the Token Religious Teammate of the crew. Ambiguously Brown: Confirmed by the developers to be mostly Hispanic.Come ME2 and ME3, her work with Shepard is enough for her to finally achieve the ranks she deserves. This is all in-spite of her exemplary test scores. Almighty Janitor: In the first game, Ashley is a lowly non-commissioned officer due to her family being politically blackballed.After the first game, she essentially 'breaks the Williams Curse', either by posthumously receiving medals from the turians or salarians for her actions on Virmire, or by finally getting some good assignments and climbing up past the glass ceiling her family stigma imposed thanks to serving with distinction under Shepard. She reached the rank of Gunnery Chief before we meet her, which is higher than her father ever got, although she says that she had 'crap assignments' until that point.For this, he was considered a General Failure and promptly Kicked Upstairs. In the military, due to being the granddaughter of the only general to ever surrender to aliens, even though he surrendered to spare his men and civilians.She also calls Kaidan 'LT', also a reference to his rank.

Navy crew members commonly use for the commanding officer of the ship.

Affectionate Nickname: 'Skipper', towards Shepard.

This continues in Mass Effect 3, where her skills are mostly focused on dealing damage (as opposed to James, the other soldier character, whose skills are more focused on survivability).

Action Girl: Of all of the characters in Mass Effect, only Wrex can match her for sheer toughness, and no one is as adept with weapons as her.

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