User blog comment:James12708/What I expected The Reapers to be when I first started playing Mass Effect/@comment-899316-20120719022938

I have to say that the biggest "I wasn't expecting that" moment for me was when James Vega actually turned out to be a likeable character.

In all seriousness, I was quite surprised when I first learned what the Collectors were doing with all of the colonists. I had assumed that the bugs were using the colonists to build an indoctrinated army or something, but grinding them up to make a new Reaper? Did not see that coming.