I'd highly recommend reading the issues yourself, as it's a nice bit of background information, but I'll write up a quick summary about his eyes. He was exposed to a Prothean relic on Shanxi. Despite the fact that others who were exposed to when it activated ended up basically turning into Husks and losing their higher cognitive abilities, he did not change.
However, his eyes were permanently changed and he is able to understand the language that the Husk-like beings now speak. You get to see the more human side of The Illusive Man, what happened to him to engender his pro-humanity stance, and why he believes in it so strongly.
It does not further specify in the comic book series nor in the Mass Effect novels what exactly the impact of this change was, and it is currently part of the mystery of The Illusive Man. The fact that it was a Prothean Relic however, may change your interpretations of his actions and motives. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Do the Illusive Man's eyes mean anything? Seeing that Grayson had become a liability, the Illusive Man dispatched Leng to finish the job.
Leng ultimately succeeded in his task, ending Grayson's life at the Jon Grissom Academy. Leng was forced to escape afterwards, leaving what remained of Grayson's corpse in Alliance hands.
The Illusive Man was not concerned about leaving Grayson's Reaper-altered body behind, knowing that men like David Anderson would be as pro-active as him in preparing for the Reapers' arrival. Also, unwilling to afford a war with Omega 's queen, Aria T'Loak , the Illusive Man used her suspicions of Grayson's involvement in her daughter's death to secure an alliance with her.
Note: This section features material from the first edition of Mass Effect: Deception , which BioWare has acknowledged contains discrepancies with other Mass Effect lore. Once revised editions of the book are released, this section will be updated.
When Gillian Grayson discovers that the Illusive Man is responsible for the death of her father, she embarks on a quest to kill him. Ultimately Gillian, with the help of a biotic supremacist movement known as the Biotic Underground, capture Kai Leng and hold him ransom to the Illusive Man. The goal of their plan was not to get money, but rather to lure the Illusive Man to a trap where he can be killed. The Illusive Man eventually agrees to pay the ransom in person for the return of Kai Leng, one of his best operatives.
When Gillian's group arrives at the meeting point, they see the Illusive Man and the satchels of credits for the ransom. Gillian, unable to keep her composure, summons dark energy and releases a high powered biotic reave on the Illusive Man. To her surprise, it didn't kill him.
Only then does she realize that the meet was a setup and that the Illusive Man was simply present by means of a holo image. Additionally, the satchels of credits were, in fact, only filled with rocks. Kai Leng catches Gillian off guard while she is processing the Illusive Man's deception and kills her. After cementing the alliance between Cerberus and Aria, the Illusive Man dispatched research teams to construct bases on the other side of the Omega 4 Relay to scavenge for Reaper technology.
Unfortunately, a new type of husks called Adjutants being held in captivity in those bases broke free and commandeered Cerberus vessels to begin an invasion of Omega. Though Aria and Petrovsky amassed a fleet to defend Omega from more Adjutants, Ashe, who was imprisoned for defying Aria's authority and fought his way free, called the Illusive Man to confirm that he's ready to start the real battle for Omega.
With Aria out of the way, the station's gangs are unable to mount a cohesive defense. Aria eventually does return by hijacking the Elbrus , Petrovsky's ship, and coordinates a guerrilla war against the Cerberus invaders.
Petrovsky secures victory only when he threatens to order the Cerberus fleet to destroy the station. The Illusive Man's gambit succeeds. With Omega under his control, Cerberus now has exclusive access to the Omega 4 Relay and the center of the galaxy, a treasure trove of Reaper technology and potentially the safest location in the galaxy to weather the Reaper invasion.
While Liara T'Soni uses her influence as the Shadow Broker to find a way to stop the Reapers , the Illusive Man secretly monitors her progress and learns of her intent to investigate the Protheans for leads. Later, when Liara journeys to a Prothean ruin on Kahje , a Cerberus Phantom arrives there before her, kills the site's staff, and turns its defenses against Liara's shuttle.
When Liara makes it to the site and kills the Phantom, the Illusive Man contacts her via hologram. He apologizes for the Phantom's attack, but claims a rogue faction of Cerberus is responsible.
He suggests forming an alliance with Liara to stop the Reapers and that they pool their knowledge, but when Liara challenges him to turn over his research first, he remains silent. Liara concludes he either wants to keep his research to himself or he doesn't have any research to share. Angered, the Illusive Man insinuates she is incapable of running the Shadow Broker's organisation and claims that the criminal underworld think the Shadow Broker has become soft and weak, insisting that Liara needs his help.
Liara points out that he is the one trying to make a deal, advises him to send an army the next time he tries to kill her and cuts him off before he can continue arguing. In , during the Reaper invasion, the Illusive Man appears via hologram on Mars before Shepard and Liara, who were on Mars in search of a Prothean superweapon. He began criticizing the Alliance for squandering their precious time researching the Prothean Archives and reveals his intention to use the information to devise a way to dominate the Reapers and use their advanced technology for humanity's benefit.
Shepard calls his plan insane while Earth is under siege. The Illusive Man, unperturbed, warns the Commander not to stand in the way of his plans, which Shepard brushes off.
Eva was able to inflict serious damage before Shepard is able to disable the synthetic. The Illusive Man's methods became far more direct than those he has used in the past: He orders direct attacks on the other factions in the galaxy, attempts to stop Shepard from recovering a fertile krogan female on Sur'Kesh as well as trying to instigate war between the turians and krogan by detonating a bomb on Tuchanka , orders an attack on the Citadel itself to assist Councilor Udina in taking control from the Council, and backs a project on Horizon known as Sanctuary led by Henry Lawson to study Reaper Indoctrination as well as Husks in an attempt to find a way to control the Reapers.
Regardless of setbacks encountered, he always writes off the losses as inconsequential, even considering a human of high stature like Udina to be expendable. During the Reaper invasion of Thessia , Shepard discovers a hidden Prothean Beacon containing crucial information for identifying the Catalyst to finish the Crucible. The Illusive Man, having learned about the beacon through the Mars archives, appears once again via hologram and attempts to sway Shepard into realizing the benefits of controlling the Reapers rather than destroying them.
He points out that if the Reapers wanted to destroy all organic life, they could have done so already; he asserts that the Reapers are simply interested in exerting their control over organics, as they have done for thousands of cycles. Ultimately, when Shepard was able to track down Cerberus Headquarters, the Illusive Man was absent for the Alliance assault. Video logs found on the station show that the Illusive Man allowed himself to be implanted with Reaper-derived nanotechnology, with no anesthetic.
He also refused to allow Leng to kill Shepard, whom he doesn't want to write off as a total loss yet. He also reveals that, while he does consider Shepard to be his enemy, he still has a great deal of respect for the Commander and warns Kai Leng to show the same respect.
He later appears before Shepard as a hologram again, and tells Shepard that Cerberus will never be destroyed, claiming it to be an idea, not just an organization.
He then turned to EDI , noting how determined she is to destroy the Reapers. Despite Shepard's advice not to listen to him, the Illusive Man points out she could've destroyed Eva , but instead chose to control her. EDI defends that she felt it was necessary, which made the Illusive Man feel that his beliefs are justified. Vendetta reveals that the Catalyst to be the Citadel but the Illusive Man had already fled there and thus alerted the Reapers of its intended purpose.
Shepard finds the Illusive Man onboard the Citadel orbiting Earth, showing signs of Reaper modifications across his face. Using these upgrades, the Illusive Man immobilizes and controls the motor functions of both Shepard and Anderson. He then forces Shepard to shoot Anderson in the gut to prove his powers. Despite Shepard asking him to let them stop the Reapers, the Illusive Man refuses to allow the Commander to undo his plans of controlling the Reapers.
He claims that he is confident that he can control them, but when Shepard asks him if he is willing to bet humanity's existence on it his resistance begins to falter. He desperately argues that sacrifices had to be made, but Shepard counters by saying that he had sacrificed too much. However, when Shepard convinces the Illusive Man that he is under the Reapers' control and tells him to resist them, the Illusive Man replies that he "tried" before shooting himself in the head. On the other hand, if Shepard chastises the Illusive Man at his lust for control costing humanity the war, he angrily rebuts that notion and attempts to shoot Shepard but is shot first by the Commander instead.
With his last breath, the Illusive Man looks through the Citadel arms and remarks how beautiful Earth is, wishing Shepard could see it the same way. The Catalyst , manifesting as the young boy Shepard saw killed during the fall of Earth, explains to Shepard that the Illusive Man was correct in believing that it was possible to take control of the Reapers; however, he would never have been able to do this himself, as the Reapers were already controlling him.
The Illusive Man's final appearance is in the final decision at the Crucible , where he appears in a vision as the embodiment of the "Control" option. Mass Effect Wiki Explore. Mass Effect: Andromeda. Original Trilogy. Follow He is the leader of the pro-human group Cerberus. The short and more direct answer is that the Illusive Man does not make an appearance in Mass Effect: Andromeda. Like Henry Lawson, the Illusive Man wanted to advocate and protect humanity at any cost.
Sign Up But at the end he played into their hands when he became obsessed with the idea that he could control the Reapers and this lead to him opposing Shepard when he should have helped him instead.
No one can ever tell exactly what he is planning or doing. His eyes, which definitely look "unique" are another way in which he stands out; they are prosthetic, a necessity after he was exposed to a Reaper artifact during the First Contact War. Give yourselves a hand, guys.
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You'll see this guy again if you get "The Sun" ending. He is always working. I am almost positive that the Illusive Man is under reaper control and he is using Shepard to set things up for the final battle.
Just made a tutorial on how to get The Illusive Man's Eyes for your character in Mass Effect 3, and also how to get a hidden casual outfit! Where there are plots, there are sub plots, and even more sub plots under those. He has robot eyes and can get any chick he wants. Forgot your password? The longer answer takes a … Reviews: 1. She eventually started to hate her "father" and tried to kill him.
At all. A charming billionaire '' exactly what he is planning or doing was one of the enigmatic. We knew about him was that his eyes are completely normal, blue eyes thessia the Illusive Man designed. Man seemed to genuinely even personally admire, support and nurture subordinates! This included using the DNA of best soldiers and operatives all around the galaxy to create his Designed and sold by artists anyone illusive man eyes the reapers might have control of the Illusive Man will revealed.
User Info: clayron. User Info: EDMartyr. Not once does TIM do anything that isn't the ends justifying the means. User Info: sandra Why don't Shepard's eyes get like TIM's when you max out paragon then? User Info: ferwind. I thought TIM was an angel in human form yeah his eyes are blue cuz hes paragon.
I actually have no idea, which is why I posed the question. Why is Shepard's eyes are red when he is uber-pecker? And I never even noticed if Shepard's eyes changed when I played a paragon. Hell, I did not notice his eyes were red until I put on the Cerberus Armor and they glowed through the visor.
User Info: Puredogg. Who is TIM? Is that The illusive man's name? Well, that ruled out Bob Give a man a fire and he is warm for one night.
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