Thread:Mediawatcher/@comment-15895329-20140629012502

Since this problem has shown no indication of ending anytime soon...

1. Renegade Shepard is not necessarily dead. If you choose the Control or Destroy endings, Shepard will not die, although for the latter you do need to have a sufficiently high Earth Defense Score or whatever it was called. But he does not necessarily die. That's a part of the game. So I don't know where you heard the "he's confirmed to be dead" from but it's simply not true. The game clearly shows otherwise.

2. He IS sufficiently horrible to be a CM, and I went out of my way to list every single reason as to why. He more than meets the heinous standard. You know, multiple species-wide genocides and all that.  