Note that this is not necessarily a complaint. There's just a lot of stuff in the first two games that never have any repercussions in the third.
Doctor Michele. Regardless of whether or not you did her sidequest in the first game, she's there in the third.
The Terra Firma Party. Not like I'm going to endorse a flaming racist when there's a krogan who already pulled a gun on me once standing right behind me and Ashley lost the Virmire Coin Toss, but I was still expecting something to happen here. (There was a newscast in the second game that was left on the cutting room floor.)
The Negotiator. That guy who asks you to buy drugs for him. Granted, about two hours later, the entire political structure of the Galaxy is utterly upended, so whatever treaty he was working on is small beans in comparison.
Everything you did on Noveria. If Gianna lives, you meet her in the second game. If you gave Qu'iin the evidence, he sends you a message in the second game. Now, Noveria is (sploiler alert) right next door to Cerberus Central, and given all the rigmarole you went through in the first game (when you could have just delivered Opold's package to the Administrator and have been on your merry), it would have been nice to see some payoff.
The Negotiation. Depending on whether you were extremely renegade or not, there's one less warlord running around out there in the Traverse. (Incidentally, this was my renegade Shep's epiphany moment: this is what happens to the Alliance's Dirty Little Secrets when they get off the leash. They send other Dirty Little Secrets to clean up the mess. It made her temporary defection to Cerberus that much easier.) Anyway, since the third game revolves around negotiations and whatnot, you'd think somebody would bring up that whole incident where the last time you did some negotiating, you eventually got bored and riddled the other party with holes. (Wow, I made it through that entire entry without an Episode II reference.)
Major Kyle. Look, people, we're letting Jack be a teacher. In a war where no cost is too high, does it make any sense at all to completely ignore the Colonel Kurtz ripoff?
Corporal Toombs. Promised to kill you in the second game. Completely gone in the third.
Talitha, and also Kate Bowman. I'm not going to include Zabaleta or that random gangster from the other two backgrounds, but it would have been nice to have Talitha (and also Kate Bowman) show up. Especially during one of those times when some batarian dirtbag whines about what you did to the Bahak system. (Hell, it'd be kind of funny if Kate randomly shows up during Balak's cameo and snaps his neck, thus preventing you from getting the batarian fleet.)
Helena Blake, and also Fist. Even some random news alert like we got with Rana Thanoptis or Shiala or Kal'Reegar or Aresh would have been better than silence. (I would mention that guy you can save at the beginning of the Archangel mission, but I'm holding out hope that he'll be in the Retake Omega DLC. Where he will die two minutes into the mission in a pointless blaze of glory.)
Vido Santiago. Cut content suggests that Zaeed let him be eaten by a Harvester. Damn you, cutting room!
Sidonis. The other "betrayed one of your squadmates, leading to that squadmate getting half his face shot off and having a loyalty mission all about hunting the betrayer and putting him down" character is likewise absent.
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