Since its launch in 2007, the Mass Effect series hasn’t been shy in its depictions of LGBTQ+ relationships. However, a planned same-sex relationship for the second game, Mass Effect 2, ended up getting cut after a Fox News backlash to the sex scenes in the original game.
The game did have some same-sex options, but none of these would develop into full relationships. In an interview with The Gamer, lead writer for the series, Brian Kindregan, confirmed that the character of Jack in the second game was supposed to be pansexual, and she even had dialogue confirming relationships with women. “I was trying to chart out the arc of [Jack’s] romance, which for much of the development – it was actually very late that it became a male/female-only