Avitus Rix was a wasted opportunity

Which looked awesome. 

I've always made Avitus a Pathfinder and I think he does a great job with what is shown of him. He's beaten down by his life as a Spectre (and his mentor going off the deep end) and lost his mate and the person he came out here for. When Ryder convinces him to be a Pathfinder, he steps up and does the job well and really gets into it. He was in my cutscene, during the final battle. 

Now, if you let him become a sad, alcoholic, I bet he does seem extremely whiny and not useful but I've never gone that path. 

As I said, uninspired.

He's just a Mary Sue, only a villain.

I'll take my Max Zoo over a "turian" whelp. Garrus lost 12 bros and still went on to spread fear in the hearts of mercs while trolling their leadership. Those chumps were ragequitting 1v1 opportunities to jump my man Vakarian. But like a TRUE TURIAN™ stuck it out and got over it within a year. Maybe Avitus should take a seat next to the other turian loser Nyreen Kandros. Good thing her cousin's such a badass.

Sorry but no. Being a pathfinder is a choice. (Unlike with ryder.) Nothing says he has to be the pathfinder. His job was to help the pathfinder not replace him. He gets to choose and he is not a robot. He just found out his mate died. The closest person ever to him die. He get to greave like every other person. Hell even masterchief greaved. Even Kratos greave....for years and destroyed most of ancient Greece doing it.

1. He was not stated to be until he found the ark.
2. It's still a choice.
3.and his job was to protect the pathfinder...his words.

Like this disgrace:

Well, Avitus made a bigger impression on me in an episodic role than Garrus did in 3 games in a row. I've liked Saren and those two Turuans (father and son). I like them all being different. I am not big on everyone being a carbon copy, or manly man. I had more problems with Jack weeping mascara over Hepard's shoulder than Avitus needing a "Hey! Do it!" from Ryder. That Turian on Tuchanka did too, and was not any less of a man for it.

You would say that Saren broke? You would probably also say that Tela Vasir broke, right?

While I would say:

Both of them do exactly what SPECTREs are supposed to do (in Saren's case at least until he found Sovereign and was taken over (indoctrinated!)), sure Saren didn't like humanity, but he was an effective agent (a cold blooded killer, sure - but that's what the council wants! They want those agents to act as a sort of Section 31 (note: For those who don't like Star Trek, Section 31 is a a partially rogue black ops division working for the Federation (kind of like Cerberus, just without only being for one species!)) who will do the dirty jobs that the council can't be seen doing (and/or don't even want to admit that they ordered them and they want them to keep the peace when they aren't on a specific assignment (thus you have the authority to say simply kill a mob-boss, someone the police/C-Sec could never touch!)))

As for Avitus:

I respect that he got out before he became someone he didn't recognize anymore (many people don't have that kind of courage!), but I agree with the OP that the character was a wasted opportunity (I'd have loved to have him on my team instead of Vetra, hell I'd have loved to take the other Pathfinders with me from Reka to Sarissa (who I kept on as pathfinder, it's bad enough that the human pathfinder is a rookie! Pathfinders are like SPECTREs, they aren't born, they are forged IMHO (I mean Alec Ryder was a mix of adventurer, scientist and hardenend soldier (N7!)) and thus can't be replaced by just anybody, especially if you are down to the first-in-line replacements already!))

Also his being gay felt tacked on (We've had better gay characters from Bioware! Like Dorian from Dragon Age: Inquisition (who I would have liked as a damned straight character, but at least his sexuallity didn't feel like something they decided on after drawing up the character!))

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He didn't screw up - he tried not going for a frontal assault (something his father, who is a high ranking but unconventional Turian, taught him!) and it bit him in the ass (his troops complain because they kind of wanted the frontal assault, despite that probably causing even more casualties...but it's the Turian way, kind of like Klingons who will fight even when they don't have a snowball's chance in hell to succeed (and might be able to if they do it the "dishonorable" - sneaky! - way!))

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I've seriously always wanted a gay Turian. Preferably one I could romance, but he was cool though.

Avitus Rix has the same problem as several other "aliens" in ME:A - he basically acts like a human. He is a human in all but appearance.

Remember how Mordin told you in ME2 that he dealt with his grief on the way back to the shuttle and was now over it? Here was the opportunity to show how Turians deal with heartbreak, but instead we got a human with mandibles. Yay. I already know how heartbroken humans act.

Also, why would Turians, the supposedly most militaristic race in the Milky Way, develop PTSD in about the same time as humans would?

Unless, of course, you want Mass Effect's aliens to be nothing more than humans with a different paint job.