But Cole's reference are way more clear, IMO
Meh, only if you know the movies referenced - a few went right over my head and I had to google what he meant. I'm a Transformers fan, so - had I actually read that codex - the references would have been obvious to me.
Anyway, this amused me. Hail Lord Megatron Mage Atronis! 
I didn't pick up on this until the second or third time I read this codex.
At the Tevinter ritual tower in the Western Approach, you can find this codex about the Gate Guardian statues first seen in DA2 and dotting the Western Approach. I won't reproduce the whole text here, just the part that caught my notice.
"And as I walked through the desert, I saw a great armoured figure whose whole form blotted out the sky. At first I took it be no more than met the eye, a simple spiked statue, but as I approached, this deceptive icon transformed into a warrior as graceful as it was massive, its bladed staff leveled at me with energy crackling from its tip. Though my position was hardly optimal (primal magic burned a few feet from my face), I kept my wits and asked this mighty golem to show me mercy."
"This armoured figure spoke with a voice to make the sky quake and the stars scream. It sought magic to keep itself alive, it said, and the blood of the earth was the energy on which it survived. Having knowledge of the dwarves and the lyrium they provided to our mages, I directed the golem to the mage Atronis, who lived in nearby Perivantium, and it left without another word."
More than meets the eye? Decepticon? Optimus Prime? Skyquake? Starscream? And rearrange a few letters from the phrase "mage Atronis," and you get "Megatron."
Pretty sneaky, sis.
As a life long fan of the Transformers it's a great reference. Also Optimus Primal is an actual character he's the leader of the Maximals (the decendents of the Autobots and Primal said that Optimus Prime was his ancestor) in Transformers: Beast Wars the cartoon show was made by Mainframe Animation a studio that was based in Canada.
Bioware has tons of little eater eggs like this in the codex if you look for it.. it dose not mean we will see any transformers its jsut fun to put in for those that take the time to read the codexes
More than the codices. At the fortress wall in Jaws of Hakkon, after melting the ice, we get endless waves of defenders up on the wall, shooting down at us. If we sit there taking potshots at them, eventually one of them will say "your mother was a [something] and your father smelled of [something]"--I can't make out what the whole taunt is, but it's a clear reference to Monty Python and the Holy Grail: the scene at the wall of the castle occupied by the French.
I also forgot that when IDW got the rights to The Transformers as a comic book, TF writer Simon Furman who "created" I guess the IDW G1 Universe had a few Mass Effect references namely Garrus and The Reapers. In the IDW comics Garrus is the name of least at nine prisons that the Autobots use and Garrus-9 is the setting for The Last Stand of the Wreckers a 5-part mini-series that many fans consider one of the best TF comics ever made (FTR I don't think it's the best TF comic but it's a damn good read and worth a look if you're interested). The Reapers are cybernetic creatures that were once WMDs that rebelled against their creators who now want to use their power to wipe all life in the galaxy until The Decepticons and Galvatron wiped them out.
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