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Miranda was disliked by allot of ME fans, but equally she was very popular - either you love or or you hate her.

After completing ME2 I was fully expecting her to become a companion in ME3, since not only is she arguably the most important companion in ME2, but should Shepard destroy the collector base with her present, she formally resigns from Cerberus to the Illusive man.

For me, it's not that I didn't like Zaeed, it was that I was indifferent about him - he was rather dull, and didn't even feel like a proper companion. I think it's a bit of a waste to bring him back when there are others, like you say Grunt would be perfect - especially since ME3 is the first game to not feature a Krogan, or Samara, neither are my 'favourite' characters, but I did love them both. That's just be though.