I loved the Mass Effect 3 fan explanation of the ending, tying together why Shepard saw the kid while fleeing Earth in the beginning, then again at the Catalyst while heavily wounded. Of the 3 choices, the red (destroying all the mass relays and the reapers) was the only one where he stopped limping to stand up again.

In Deus Ex Human Revolution, it’s pretty easy to forget the opening cutscene by the time you’re doing shit in China and get told to go to a clinic to fix your implants, in order to stop glitching. Said cutscene shows a bunch of shadowy figures planning how to control everyone with implants.