Ragabul the Ontarah wrote...
Why do you reckon the only fights are with the female LIs? How come the male LIs never get into scraps? I know it's not in character for them but you think the devs figured women would find it off putting if say Garrus and Jacob started butting heads?
Maybe. Can't say for certain. Apparently, I heard there are soundfiles on the disk that imply a Mordin/Grunt confrontation. I assume, then, if that is true, that they may have had other confrontations planned that they tossed or didn't make it in.
IMO, I like the idea of these confrontations:
Jacob vs. Thane
Garrus v. Jack
Garrus v. Zaeed
Samara v. Kasumi
Samara v. Zaeed
Samara v. Thane
Mordin v. Chakwas
In
my group I wrote a lot about the confrontations.
Jacob v. Thane: (summary) Jacob discovers that Thane had killed a relative of his years ago as a part of his contract. She was a single mother with children, who ran a charity - an innocent person who had angered the Hanar with her denouncement of their dealings with the Drell (using them as assassins, etc). Jacob asks Shepard to place Thane under surveillance.
Samara v. Zaeed:
This one could be interesting. During Zaeed's loyalty mission, he puts
an entire refinery full of innocent slaves at risk just for his revenge.
That's definitely something Samara would disapprove of - so far as
putting the innocents in danger would go at least.
So, how would
the argument start? Well, Zaeed does have the surveillance thing in his
room. Considering Samara's history with mercenaries - particularly the
"killing" part, Zaeed could very well want to keep an eye on her. And
Samara would want to keep an eye on Zaeed - certainly. So Samara is
snooping around and ends up in Zaeed's room - and she sees that his
surveillance thing is observing parts of the ship, and including Samara.
Zaeed has also acquired a weapon mod that is especially lethal to the Asari.
Zaeed: "I have the right to watch my back, Shepard."
"She killed more of my friends than I can god damn count. An' good people. And she thinks she's a bleeding hero."
So
when Shepard arrives on the scene (the corridor that overlooks the
garage where the hammerhead is stationed, and in between Grunt and
Zaeeds' rooms), Zaeed had been held in a biotic stasis by Samara. He had also been hit by a biotic attack by her, after he discovered her sneaking around in his room.
Samara
notes that Zaeed has a history of being an immoral mercenary (who even
started the Blue Suns, now a slaver group) whose primary motive is money
and revenge. That he puts innocents needlessly in danger. And he is
monitoring the Normandy when regulations are against that.
And
Zaeed says that he knows how Justicars work - they're not much better.
They would kill dozens of civilians themselves if they got in their way.
He'll say that it wasn't he who killed the slaves (if you did
renegade), it was Vido, and they killed Vido. And now that Samara came
in into his room (trespassing)
and nearly attacked him, Samara is just proving his point about her and
Justicars, as well as Zaeed's need to look out for himself.