[Vallen Chaos Valiant]

Originally Posted by BetoJR

Now, that's a fallacy. If Shepard didn't exist, everything would simply continue as it always had before and the cycles wouldn't stop. The choices would not have presented themselves.

Originally Posted by Rising Dragon

And the choices proved that Shepard's efforts were futile anyway. Refuse ending is just everyone dies, next cycle people pick a color. No Shepard for them, still made choice.

Yep. In the Refusal Ending when everyone died, Bioware told us that the next cycle would have triggered the three colours just as before. It made zero difference what Shepard did or did not do. Thus he never needed to have done anything.