Mass Effect Trilogy: Mordin Solus Best Moments and Funny Lines

[@S117M4sterChief]

Mordin is one of those people that make you smile whenever he speaks.

[@davids.8509]

and boooy did he speak

[@KlavierMenn]

@@davids.8509 He's Salarian. and a hint that he may suffer from a Salarian equivalent of ADHD or autism: One of his skills is listed as 'Salarian Savant'

[@jackattacktron1000]

No Mordin is the guy who can make you laugh just by being himself.

[@irishspartanstudios]

Ofcourse!Heisf***inghilariousandsodamnadorable!

[@KlavierMenn]

@Josh Fairweather Now, picture such a lifeform... with its equivalent of autism /ADHD.

[@billyz90]

"Ruled out artificially intelligent virus. Unless it's *very* intelligent, and toying with me!" 🤣 Mordin was the best.

[@cjdziesiuta1995]

Wait was?

[@billyz90]

@@cjdziesiuta1995 The trilogy was completed like ten years ago! It's been a while since we saw him!

[@AndrewChumKaser]

@@cjdziesiuta1995 God rest his salarian soul.

[@austinbutcher8106]

Salarians, the result of adhd and photographic memory

[@trevorsmith8950]

1:32

[@servantruler6875]

"Have killed many, Shepard. Many Methods. Gunfire, knives, drugs, tech attack, once with farming equipment." There's a story I wanna hear with that last one!

[@Magrat_Knoblauch]

There actually is! If you play the Shadowbroker DLC, at the end you get the chance to read a lot of additional information fragments regarding the crew and important figures - amongst other things this story of Mordin :)

[@leothewhiteranger]

@@Magrat_Knoblauch The best part is that you also get the Kirrahe mission he was on as part of that.

[@kakashihatake326]

If anyone wants to know it was a pitchfork through the eye which instantly killed a Weylok krogan.

[@lukedeakin7124]

@@kakashihatake326 it's also how he lost his horn

[@crookedclown9499]

@@kakashihatake326 I'd hoped it was a combine harvester.

[@helljumpersargent1008]

You know the first time I met Mordin I thought his way of talking would get annoying...man was I wrong. Almost cried in ME3

[@texteel]

I think I did cry. Mordin, Thane, Legion. At all of them

[@zachariahtri]

I did cry.

[@watcherofmemelords7967]

Had to be him, somebody else may have gotten it wrong.

[@PeferG17]

@@watcherofmemelords7967 would have liked to run tests on seashells....

[@spartangaming1159]

Yeah I just finished the Legendary collection and it was my first time playing all three games and I cried when he sacrificed himself

[@willieoelkers5568]

I like to picture that wherever Mordin is, he's running tests on some seashells.

[@KarmanicMizery]

You are going to give me depression

[@annetteberkin2725]

"Rest. Find your gods. Find someplace better."

[@zenkim6709]

Maybe the Salarian version of ancient Egypt's "Field of Eternal Reeds" ...the Shore of Eternal Seashells.

[@saj2392]

My sister was going to like this video. I stopped her and did it myself. Had to be me; someone else might have gotten it wrong.

[@A_Random_IRS_B0T_]

First reply to a great 3yr old comment.

[@guillercuastico]

Implications… unpleasant

[@blueing4]

​@@A_Random_IRS_B0T_first reply to 1 year old reply, had to be me

[@AwesomeJellyBean]

Mordin Solus: So Don’t Ingest. Shepherd: lmao spitters r quitters and I ain’t a quitter. Mordin Solus: Then perish

[@gaudeamus_igitur5998]

Beautiful comment 10/10

[@austinbutcher8106]

Mordin: tsk tsk tsk........ problematic

[@SirDonkle]

Mordin: *slams hand on desk* My patient! My responsibility!

[@austinbutcher8106]

@Zenolegor mordin: *busts through door * NONONONO DONT INGEST SHEPPERD * stabbs Sheppard with a eppie pin and skitters away *

[@dubbzy92]

Critical mission failure

[@thelaststylebender2741]

Whoever did the voice acting for Mordin really tried to get that Salarian traits. He talks fast unlike some of the other Salarians

[@KILLERMATYCZ]

Feel like that is more of a Mordin trait, than species.

[@Bacxaber]

I think Mordin has the salarian equivalent of autism.

[@Blastia2k]

I believe Mordin is actually talking in English, and not through a translator.

[@fl1ckr145]

@@Blastia2kknowing him it wouldn’t surprise me really

[@Gelatinocyte2]

It's William Salyers - the same VA for Doc Ock from PS4 Spider Man, Yoshida from the Persona franchise, and Rigby from Regular Show.

[@Procket12]

6 years after I first played Mass Effect 2 and I only now, finally get that Mordin gives FemShep his recommendation as a doctor regarding relations between her and Garrus to "spit, not swallow"......

[@rickyray2794]

LOL

[@Loregamorl]

;)

[@In_vocation]

You didn't also stop to think that he says he fucked Aria T'loak?

[@austinbutcher8106]

Don't *cough* ingest

[@dreamydailine]

@@In_vocation WAIT HE DID WHEN-

[@KarmanicMizery]

“Would’ve liked to run tests on seashells” I’ve been crying for 45 minutes

[@TidusX16]

Honestly, I cried the most when Mordin died. He did the scientist salarian song and then just smiled in the end. Just like he finally accepted peace in life.

[@themachoechidnaugandarandy7583]

Well he found Jesus in the end atleast

[@secretbaguette]

Its one of those things I feel compelled to finish every time I hear it.

[@davidbouchard5451]

Weirdly, I didn’t cry at all when he died. I thought I would, but he died well. He didn’t just sacrifice himself, he gave himself peace with his final act. I just felt really proud of and happy for him. Will forever miss him though! Probably the best ME character

[@KILLERMATYCZ]

@@themachoechidnaugandarandy7583 He was equivalent to a Buddhist if anything human

[@206Zelda]

Hearing Mordin sing a modified "Glory Glory Hallelujah" brought the biggest smile to my face! I work in the medical field, so I could even decipher half of what he was saying! Bonus!

[@olenickel6013]

That song got me through my biochemistry exam.

[@EatPlayRepeatAdam]

I was hearing as the old ww2 song gory gory what a hell way to die but yeah what you said works to

[@StrangerForever85]

I sent a Bio major friend of mine in college "Battle Hymn of the Amino Acids" when she had an exam regarding amino acids. She thanked me later after she aced it.

[@Minotaur-ey2lg]

@@olenickel6013 Me too.

[@R0gueM]

I had to send this to my buddy. I knew he’d love to hear that part and it would give him such a good laugh.

[@TheVergile]

best voice acting in video games in a long while

[@unwantedscrub]

It's actually two different voice actors between both games.

[@juandiegocorreaquintero3187]

@@unwantedscrub WHAT?!

[@Darkmage1293]

9:00 - ....Okay. It's RARE to hear something so genuinely written. This really feels like someone, with a large medical background, who liked singing, wrote up their own form of these lyrics to this rhythm. Mordin best character.

[@rottenappleofsociety]

When and where does this happen?? I'm about to do the Legendary Edition on ps4 and I don't want to miss it!

[@gigakubica8793]

@@rottenappleofsociety mass effect 3 citadel dlc

[@sansthedrummer]

The cell division song there actually helped me in med school XD

[@MandalorianRevan]

​@@sansthedrummer You're not the first to say that. There's been many a Mass Effect fan that has talked about how Mordin's song helped them pass their finals/tests.

[@THEFIRST39]

Shepherd: “I’m sorry.” Mordin: “I’m not. Had to be me. Someone else might’ve gotten it wrong.” Me:😫

[@PeferG17]

Funny thing, Mordin says Cerberus should use an ocular flashbang and then in ME3 you get a transcript of an Alliance interrogation of a Cerberus agent who detonates an ocular flashbang.

[@CepbIuLOL]

They listened to his advice

[@Tarrenger]

Still cracks me up that he actually got in bed with Aria and got away with it XD

[@tonystank3091]

Had broken Omega's one rule... in more ways than one.

[@mortymerre]

wait what

[@thesecondromuluan8216]

@@mortymerre Omega's famous one rule is: "Don't f** with Aria." Apparently, he broke said rule. In more ways than one... ;)

[@jacetheboogeyman3797]

It took me this many years to find that out, game still got suprises

[@setakh]

@@jacetheboogeyman3797 Haha you are not the only one XD I just realised it myself hahaha! xD

[@Vellona]

0:53 "bit of a cloaca" that's a new way to call someone an a-hole xD

[@KlavierMenn]

What I love is the 'localization' of the insult. Salarians have a cloaca, since they are amphibians

[@animanera89]

I love that friggin "EXCELLENT" at 1:24 on the weapon thing. Don't know why I find it so funny

[@falcore91]

Ditto that, the sinister joy in his voice did it for me I think.

[@SilverSpade92]

Gives me Mandark vibes _Excellent! Ha-ha ha!_ _Excellent! Ha ha-ha ha-ha!_

[@09Santanico20]

Anybody else bawl their eyes out when he sings that "through protein we are formed" song?

[@estebanrosales2148]

An easy way to learn biochemistry

[@arutka2000]

With all the time I spent playing these games, I've never heard him song this... Salarian Scientist cover of Battle Hymn of the Republic. I'd pay for a full version.

[@juleswoodbury58]

just finished curing the genophage so I came here to mourn.

[@dreadpenguinlord340]

First time? It's harsh

[@sebaldscheuringer3046]

@@dreadpenguinlord340 regardless of how often you watch, it doesn't get easier

[@dreadpenguinlord340]

@@sebaldscheuringer3046 Would have liked to study the seashells.

[@sebaldscheuringer3046]

@@dreadpenguinlord340 I almost cried when mordin died... Uff man the feels

[@blockchainballer4542]

First playthrough here. I’m joining the REAL TEARS club 😫

[@Firealone9]

I love how when he points out, "affecting morale" he's just referring to himself LMAO

[@phantommangagirl]

It took me a long time to not cry when hearing Mordin sing “Amazing Grace.” 😭

[@fionnbarrcasey5247]

“Had broken omega’s one rule... in more than one” 😂😂😂😂 Morton you are a legend

[@dreamydailine]

I don't get it but it's an entertaining story

[@tilltronje1623]

@@dreamydailine Omega's rule is to never fuck with Aria. He did that in more ways than one

[@azariah_kyras]

Morton

[@cjdziesiuta1995]

@@azariah_kyras Morton hears a Krogan

[@jacobtebbe4435]

Is no one going to talk about, “Ah, mating ritual, of course.” I would pay money for that to be rendered. Also, I want a Mormon Solus Noir audiobook.

[@john02222]

Yes

[@keoki_kemp]

Mormon Solus?

[@markkiefer3243]

The noir bit was the best!

[@MandalorianRevan]

​@@markkiefer3243 He broke Omega's One Rule... In more ways than one... That line cracks me up every time without fail.

[@Teboski78]

Canonically Mordin is over 50. Given the rate solarians mature & age he’s fucking ancient & has seen it all. He figured out which social inhibitions are pointless & got rid of them

[@RadolusRex]

Can we just stop and appreciate the brilliance of "Business was so bad, if I were a volus, I would have sold my suit."

[@aye_its_sparky7164]

Rest in peace mordin.

[@miguelfernandez3354]

RIP the greatest salarian that ever lived

[@Ajvt-ux4ec]

When I found that datapad in my apartment I genuinely cried

[@izumishion6267]

I wish i had Mordin as my Science teacher.

[@lenakingsleigh]

He is one of my all time favourite characters together with Thane, Garrus and Liara

[@MajorMlgNoob]

No love for Wrex?

[@danielboones7422]

I died laughing at the conversation with Joker

[@austinbutcher8106]

Uep

[@setakh]

Seriously Mordin, Legion and Thane all have heartnreaking story. But you know what? Mordin sacrificing himself at the end made it a full circle. He started it, he ended it.

[@ndbd9drn]

Thanks for the compilation! Been replaying the trilogy after so many years..good memories! RIP Mass Effect, Bioware. Baldur's Gate was my first BW game, played it when I was 7/8, fell in love since then. Ahhhh getting a little teary here. Keep up the good work Jaguar!

[@opticalraven1935]

I liked how Mordin was trying to figure out how to help Joker with his disability.

[@aranyaphoenix]

I started dying at 9:00 OH MY GODS! Laughed so hard I started coughing and couldn't breathe! Busted up and lost my shit again at "learned tricks dirty enough to clog a quarian's suit filter." I'm gonna cry whenever I see a seashell, btw.

[@cygnus1129]

Is anyone in 2020 remembering ME2 and going through a slight Mass Effect depression right now? I really miss this game. Humanity really fycked up when they ruined this.. I need more of this universe in my life.

[@quarkchild]

Right there with you buddy! Replaying ME2 right now with a ME1 downloaded save just because I don't have time to replay that behemoth, but I can manage ME2 and 3 right now lol. It's been an overwhelming rush of nostalgia from my middle/highschool years! It's crazy how much of this shit is tied to my growing up, each unique scene, dialog, mission, etc. makes me remember something else from that stage of my life. This series was so important to me growing up. It sounds sad, but these characters were some of my only "friends". lmao

[@john02222]

Well I recently found out that thare is a unofficial mass effect table top rpg

[@alayablack9104]

And now the remaster is on pre order

[@cygnus1129]

@@alayablack9104 I *BUSTED* out my N7 hoodie so fast when I heard about the news!

[@matthewslates]

My favorites are the line about the bio weapon and joker's condition

[@izzatijam901]

Lol

[@blockchainballer4542]

Mordin grew on me so much through the series. In ME2, I thought he was gonna be an annoying scientist I’d never utilize. I had no idea he’d become one of my favorite characters in the entire story 😢

[@opticalraven1935]

He's a good man deep down. He struggled with the morality of the Genophage but rationalized. He is complex. I like that about him.

[@RainbowEssence-c3w]

Seeing Shepard tear Mordin apart in his ME2 loyalty mission really hurts when you go back after playing ME3. He felt horrible about what he'd done. I kinda wanna yell at Shepard for berating him.

[@falcore91]

To twist the words of my favorite alien from another series... “Not at all. Mordin entertains a certain romanticism about the past, as calculated and scientific as he might make it sound. If he is the Salarian we all hope him to be then these words and the pain they caused will help him on that path.”

[@RainbowEssence-c3w]

@@falcore91 Interesting quote haha, which series is it from? Perhaps I know it.

[@golfer435]

It's nothing that Mordin doesn't do to himself everyday.

[@naedanger123]

It was pretty grim but honestly I think Mordin needed it, he needed someone else to validate the doubt and guilt he was already feeling, and it made him realise he had to make amends.

[@coolguyjki]

@@RainbowEssence-c3w I know this is two years late but the quote is from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and is close to its final seasons.

[@TheEmpressReborn]

8:22 That's a jaw dropper...

[@Doc41295]

"Need guns. No! Wait! Have guns! Excellent." Ah, finally a game character I can relate to.

[@atharzafeer467]

@1:57 shows the reason why it is important to have science guided by ethics

[@ausnahmenwerfer5570]

6:29 No offense to Thane, but... did Mordin tell Shepard not to lick toads?

[@krisztiannagy8339]

Someone else might have gotten it wrong :(

[@206Zelda]

1:20 One of the best non-cinematic or personal lines from Mordin. It makes me laugh every time and grin from ear-to-ear!

[@sauronsrighthandman301]

"Had to be me...someone else might've gotten it wrong." -Mordin Solus, the very model of a Scientist Solarian.

[@R0gueM]

Perry the pyjack has me howling at work. I’m surprised I didn’t get fired.

[@dilatedbeholder3865]

You criminally missed out one of his best moments: "Objection noted. Now release the female krogan."

[@toastedtoastontoast]

I love Mordin so much. I was crying during the Genophage scene. The fact that you have to be an asshole and lie about the sabotage to get him to snap and admit he was wrong is sad

[@lelouche25]

Love how Mordin calls Khirrie chloacia, then when you read khirries email, he also calls Mordin a chloacia lol.

[@3lli37]

I wasn’t expecting him to start singing Amazing Grace 😭 I’m now in tears

[@portishphonic]

the only character in Mass effect trilogy that I gave a shit about. Hilarious, logical, matter-of-fact, died as a hero.

[@alexhogg5787]

I get why some people praise the big picture quote, but for me, "Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong." I'm in Engineering, and sometimes when you're the only specialist in a particular field around that day, it has to be you....

[@andrewjones3625]

Mordin and Aria?0.o wow good job, and lived to tell about it

[@basedbattledroid3507]

I like the little detail how other Salarians talk kinda normally but Mordin talks like this because of his brain damage (missing horn thing)

[@Kaldortangerine]

Mordin: starts singing Shepard: stunned and confused

[@scottkamps1270]

I would seriously get behind a new TV science series with Mordin Solus. Bill Nye, Neil Degrasse Tyson and Mr. Wizard would have nothing on him! :D FUND IT!

[@MandalorianRevan]

Not attacking... Mating Instinct!

[@lillyrose5428]

No one disliked this video. Everyone loves Mordin!

[@outlaw0987654321]

Wait Wait Wait. the story mordin was telling at 13:00. Was the asari he was talking about Aria? The dude FUCKED with aria? LITERALLY? No wonder why aria commeneted that she liked himxD

[@jellofuel]

Perry the Pyjak sounds like an amazing kids show and i wish there was video for it lol

[@majidshahani2437]

title : mordin best moments and funny lines video : every mordin conversation and scene

[@ethancole1697]

I think if mordin did a podcast it would absolutely bang

[@memeem99]

i dont care what anyone says mordin is the best character in mass effect... and i still miss him

[@dmaxcustom]

Don't want to cry. Damn it. Stupid eyes.

[@Badmunky64]

I'll never forget my first run in ME3. I was full blown renegade, but couldn't stand betraying Mordin. I redid the whole Krogen planet level to make sure no one else did it wrong.

[@ChuckNorrisIsNothing]

From proteins we are formed..... -cracks up crying-

[@dualwieldroxas358]

He is running his tests on seashells in a better place, now

[@lucaspec7284]

this is how you make a good talkative character

[@DrRippenShitten]

🎶 From protein we are fo~rmed 🎶

[@nmn5550]

12:32 reference to William Gibson's Neuromancer. Whoever wrote Mordin was a PASSIONATE.

[@trainfan-ks5hk]

Mordin the only smart guy to forget that we already have guns

[@michaeltantibellotti4604]

i love this guy he is a Salarian of fine culture and refinement

[@lancecurry7538]

Watch for bugs; could be planted anywhere.

[@arsalansyed123]

I am so not ready to see Mordin die in Legendary Edition :(

[@Doc_Aspy]

His death is the only time a video game made me cry.

[@MatthewJones-jg4eu]

Killing thanes killer made me tear up

[@Sterling-Cobra]

Neural shock clearly effective. Perry the pyjak also clearly made of flammable material.... any questions I have listened to this eight times still laughing

[@Mark-fc7tu]

Hm. I really loved talking with Mordin in ME2 and ME3. I suppose that's why I never got around to finishing ME3. The prospect of losing more people after that just felt so... daunting.

[@lelouche25]

im on a mass effect binge again, and my god bioware really nailed Mordin. He has to be one of the best-written characters.

[@lollabunny1728]

i love mordin when i play 😍😂♥

[@Arlothed1no]

I wasn't that interested in him during my first playthrough but after finding his datapad in the citadel dlc, he became my favorite.

[@timesweeper9778]

Small detail but I find it nice that Mordin was working on a cure for Joker's condition.

[@kagekiyamitenshi7262]

I feel like Mordin had enough time to make it back to the elevator if he ran for it as soon as he fixed the console...

[@falcore91]

Yeah, that tower was exploding. I don’t think he was getting to a safe distance even if he made it to the ground.

[@MatthewJones-jg4eu]

@@falcore91 even if he did i dont think he wanted to he was so tired

[@hardrockguuy]

1:20 Excellent!!! xD

[@206Zelda]

14:24 That sequence had me in stitches

[@Isaacisaperson4677]

I just learned it was two different actors and I am in shock

[@roguenine9LU]

My second playthrough I killed Wrex off on Virmire when I could have persuaded him to stand down and destroyed Maelon's data just so I'd be able to convince Mordin that he didn't have to die curing the Genophage.

[@kreigguardsman3355]

Someone was listening to Mordin because in the next game a transcript of an interrogation has a Cerberus agent using a ocular flashbang

[@vexjaeger4314]

I HATE that Mordin died.. but at least he got to die doing what he thought was right correcting the mistake he regretted his entire life! I never ever did the evil path. I always cured the krogan, and helped Mordin do it.

[@trevorsmith8950]

12:29 is a subtle Neuromancer reference. If you know, you know!

[@Martialarts9239]

We all already knew that mordin was a badass.

[@aararqaae6451]

I became a wartime doctor at frontline because of that guy Zero condolences

[@imgonnasneezeachoo]

His jingles about cell division and amino acids helped me in college

[@juanpaolomejia1699]

9:59 - 10:22 why did this part make me emotional? Is it because somehow it was connected to his ultimate sacrifice?

[@MacAnTir]

He was indeed, the very model of a scientist Salarian

[@LachnLoad87]

I was today years old when I found out that Mordin is voiced by rigby

[@masha22092000r]

0:10 wait... what???

[@SylviaFey]

I ADORE Mordin so much! One of the best ME characters ever.

[@max99ch]

It's been years since he died. I still feel like it was yesterday.

[@strongindependentblackwoma1887]

i always found this part 5:55 weird....i mean mordin doesn't look so "angry" or/and "serious", now that i think....is because he actually was trying to make a....joke :D