User blog comment:Newgirl101/Ashley and Miranda/@comment-4485790-20111012094607

Can't tell if more than half the people on this page are trolling or just very stupid...now let me defend my two favorite women in ME.

I liked Ashley. She was a great frontline fighter, but her personality was a bit off putting at first. But, you do have the chance to change her 'xenophobic' views into a slightly positive outlook about aliens. Her spontaneous poetry spouting got old quite fast, but that aside, I liked her quite a bit.

However, I preferred Miranda. Firstly, she is absolutely badass. She's goal-oriented and really determined. If she wants it, she gets it. But, she also has that vulnerable side that endeared me to her. To most of the posters below, are you serious? Miranda 'useless in combat' and 'xenophobic b**ch'? Were you too busy fanboying over tali to even notice anything else? I seriously don't know how Miranda can keep dying on you in combat (she died a total of 6 times over 14 completed Insanity playthroughs, and I brought her on nearly every mission) unless you're utter and absolute rubbish at the game. Because according to stats collected by Bioware, she was the most used squaddie ingame, followed by Garrus. Which bascially means that she's the most useful, otherwise why would anyone use her that much if she weren't?

Miranda was NEVER xenophobic. Working in reportedly xenophobic terrorist organisation does NOT = xenophobic employee. Does working in McDonalds make you a Big Mac? I rest my case. Besides, if she really were xenophobic, she'd speak up against letting aliens onto the ship like Ashley, but she didn't.

Also, for those who think that Miranda is just a whiny b**ch who keeps yapping about how 'perfect' she is, I'm surprised you people even play the game given how much you are blind to. She pretty much hates herself for being created perfect, and she's living with low self esteem about how she's hasn't really earned anything because she thinks she was engineered for it.

As for her loyalty to Cerberus and TIM, if you actually were hardworking enough to try, you could actually twist her loyalty to TIM and Cerberus to Shepard instead. But then again, that's a reward reserved only for the non-lazy guys.

Boys, if you're going to fling baseless s**t at a character, please, at least try to sound plausible. Most of your reasons for hating Miranda are absolutely baseless and it really stumps me as to how biased and facepalm-inducingly dumb you people can be at times.

I honestly couldn't decide between Ash and Miri, so...ME3 LI confrontation, here I come.