User blog comment:JordanaBrewsterFAN/Mass Effect 3 4th DLC./@comment-78.8.158.162-20130119154502/@comment-4967682-20130120082755

"in ME3 Harbinger has very little significance over any other Reaper."

Except no. It's explicitly stated that he's the leader of the Reapers. Yet he says nothing and acts like a complete idiot in his one appearance.

I find the assertion that you can take out any Reaper with a frigate ridiculous, let alone the oldest and most powerful one of them all. Shooting him in the "eyes" wouldn't do anything; if it did, everyone would've just targeted the eyes on every Reaper. As it stands a normal capital Reaper, which is much weaker than Harbinger, needs to be shot in the face with the equivalent of at least 152 kilotons of TNT every five seconds to have a good chance at killing it. And while that's happening, the Reaper is easily gutting one dreadnought and several cruisers and frigates every five seconds. Harbinger alone could probably solo humanity's entire navy with power significantly above that.