Jeff Moreau

Jeff Moreau, also known as Joker, is a character from the Mass Effect series.
== Charactah Account ==
The pilot of the Normandy. While he is handicapped by Vrolik's Syndrome (brittle bone disease/ Osteogenesis imperfecta), he's an essential member of the team, serving as Mission Control and all-around piloting badass.
Jeff is mostly a funny guy, and a comedic relief, frequently wisecracking and making smart ass remarks. However, he is shown to have a harder side, and it almost comes across as dark humour as his life hasn't been the easiest. In flight school, he was teased for having Vrolik's Syndrome, an extremely rare variation of brittle bone disease, which makes the bones in his legs practically hollow, rendering him unable to walk without a limp. He got the nickname Joker for never smiling, but around graduation day when everyone lost to the crippled kid with the best scores, he was the one smiling. Joker is also full aware of his incredible piloting skills, as well as extremely confident, explicitly calling himself the best helmsman the Alliance fleet has to offer, a claim he backs up time and time again throughout the trilogy.
Joker is an excellent pilot and confident to the point of arrogance, wasting no time in pointing out his prowess to others.
== Appearance ==
=== Comics ===
* Mass Effect: He Who Laughs Best
* Mass Effect: The Complete Comics
=== Video Games ===
* Mass Effect
* Mass Effect 2
* Mass Effect 3
* Mass Effect Legendary Edition
== Trivia ==
* According to the art book The Art of Mass Effect, Joker was originally intended to have a more sickly appearance, due to his ill health.
** Despite Joker's bone condition, and mentioning having to use crutches in Mass Effect, he has shown to be considerably more capable in Mass Effect 2. He can walk somewhat stiffly and even walk quickly with difficulty, and is even capable of handling an assault rifle with little to no trouble. However, both situations were notably cases of extreme emergency.
* Like some other characters in the Mass Effect series, Joker bears a marked physical resemblance to the actor who provides his voice. However, Casey Hudson confirmed that Joker's face was modeled from someone other than Seth Green.
* Joker is the only crew member who is guaranteed to survive the attack on the Collector base. If Shepard is killed at the end of Mass Effect 2, he reports to the Illusive Man in place of the Commander.
* Joker is seen without his trademark hat on only two occasions. The first is when he pilots the Normandy over Ilos to drop Commander Shepard and the squad in the Mako, and the second is during the Collector attack on the Normandy when breaches in the ship's hull force him to don a breathing mask.
** In Mass Effect Legendary Edition Joker still has his hat on during the Ilos combat drop.
* The Hilary referred to by Aeian T'Goni during her narration of events at Tiptree was confirmed by writer Patrick Weekes to be Joker's sister.
* According to level designer Jos Hendriks, Joker's bar story with the asari at the Citadel DLC was originally planned to have 10 minutes' worth of cutscene.
* Throughout the games, Joker constantly makes wisecracks with references to 20th-21st century popular culture.
** During one of the conversations between Shepard and Joker, Joker's chair starts spinning erratically. When he questions EDI, she states that Joker insisted on manual control of his chair. This likely refers to a similar scene in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, which also starred Seth Green.
** When EDI suggests giving her control of the ship to escape the Collectors, Joker tells her "If you start singing 'Daisy Bell' I'm done!" This is a reference to the last moments of the homicidal HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey, itself a reference to the first song ever performed by a computer running speech synthesis software. In the same event, while Joker gives control of the Normandy to EDI, he grumbles about how this will lead to everyone becoming "human batteries" because he "plugged in the Overlord", a reference to The Matrix.
** Joker can say "Sometimes I just get the urge to turn off the inertial compensator and pull a Crazy Ivan" in Mass Effect 2, in reference to the TV series Andromeda and Firefly, which in turn is a reference to a US Navy term for a Soviet submarine maneuver first popularized in the book/film The Hunt for Red October. It is further referenced in Mass Effect 3 when Joker remarked that Normandy SR-2 will remain undetected by the geth unless the crew decides to sing the Russian national anthem.
** If Shepard kills the Rachni Queen/Breeder in Mass Effect 3, Joker will reference the 1986 film Aliens by saying, "You wanna nuke it from orbit? It's the only way to--Ah, forget it, it's probably fine."
** In his story told to a bartender in Mass Effect 3: Citadel, Joker shouts to Cerberus soldiers "You just landed on the island of doctor me!", referencing The Island of Doctor Moreau.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Jeff "Joker" Moreau at Mass Effect Wiki
* Jeff "Joker" Moreau at Heroes Wiki
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