You won’t ever find a mainstream game series that hasn’t had thousands of memes made out of the ridiculous logic surrounding it, and the Assassin’s Creed games are on the top of this pile. Fans love to poke fun at the more unintentionally comedic aspect of the series, and the memes are there for us to enjoy.
These are all done with a lighter context, so there’s no need to feel as if your favorite fandom might be getting insulted. In fact, if you can get the joke within each of these 10 memes, you can then call yourself a real fan since you’re bound to find them funny.
10 The Best Kind Of Teacher
It’s too bad that Assassin’s Creed wasn’t around for most of our youths, since playing its games is an easy way to ace the History exam. After all, barring the thing about the Pieces of Eden, a majority of the events happening were real.
Of course, we all know there’s no such thing as an actual creed or Templars running about, so separating fact from fiction is pretty easy. For this reason, Assassin’s Creed has turned out to be a better teacher than any we could’ve come across in school.
9 You Don’t Say
On occasion, you’re bound to come across things that are exactly the way it says on the label, but even then it sounds ridiculous. The same thing happened in Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, when Yusuf divulged the workings of a hook blade.
As it happened, there really wasn’t much to it since a hook blade was literally a hook attached to a blade. You can’t fault either Yusuf or Ezio in this case, seeing as Yusuf really was telling how it was, while Ezio feeling as if the answer was dumb wasn’t a wrong notion either.
8 So Much For That
If one were to eavesdrop on conversations between assassins, it wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility to assume these guys were something else. Even their motto doesn’t make much sense when taken out of context, and this meme proves it.
It appears that electricians and assassins are one and the same according to Al Mualim, who points out to Altair that the former profession is the true purpose of the creed. Considering Al Mulaim’s true affiliations, maybe he felt this way even in canon.
7 Every Time
There’s no greater troll in the Assassin’s Creed series than the game itself, as we end up in the present day sequences always at the worst times. This was more striking back when Desmond was the protagonist, being a source of exasperation for gamers.
Without fail, the game would cut away from the awesome storyline in the animus over toward Desmond, and we’d have to play through yawn inducing sequences with Desmond talking to Lucy and the others. This practice still lives on, with Assassin’s Creed Odyssey also having several boring Layla moments.
6 Now That’s A Master Assassin
Ezio has a bunch of cool kills under his kitty, and it becomes even more impressive if you take this meme to heart and assume he could barely see the whole time. The posters for the Ezio Trilogy always had his face hidden, which brings up the question of his vision.
You’d need a whole different kind of training to pull off assassinations the kind Ezio completed, considering he must have been able to see barely above the ground with that hood of his. Maybe that’s why he was considered a Master Assassin.
5 Why Though?
The earlier games had players complete contracts from assassin bureaus, with it being shown that Ezio had teams of assassins all around the world. These missions would result in goods and supplies, but it didn’t make sense since all of that was already available.
Players could make several hundred thousands in florins for Ezio alone, meaning the assassins shouldn’t have had any threat of running out of supplies. This also meant sending teams to far out countries had no point in the first place.
4 At First Sight
There were attempts to make the Templars out to be kind of the good guys during the “Kenway Saga” but it was clear fans didn’t buy this angle. Since then, and before that, the Templars have been treated as disposable enemies only there to be killed off.
Within the game, any sight of a Templar meant you could head off and kill them regardless of the time or place since these were supposed to be the bad guys. And as Ezio had a habit of giving them their last rites, we heard these words a whole lot over the series.
3 Can’t Argue With That
The series has attempted in every game to keep fans away from killing innocents, but these have all failed as killing off NPCs is part of the fun. No matter what the penalty might be, fans always come up with a way to go all GTA style in their playthroughs.
There’s also a good logic among these fans as they argue that killing off every bystander wasn’t against the rules, seeing as it left no witnesses ergo it was like nothing ever happened. Maybe that’s why the penalties to fight NPCs has been relaxed in recent years.
2 Not Exactly The Brightest Idea
While we had our fun making Ezio jump around every building there was and climb whatever peak we saw, it didn’t mean every character in that universe could do the same. However, this kind of logic wasn’t applied and we saw guards patrolling rooftops for some reason.
Even more bizarre was how there were wanted posters in locations no normal person could ever reach. And yet, Ezio was tasked with ripping these posters off in order to avoid being recognized as if frequenting rooftops was a hobby every citizen in the city liked to indulge in.
1 Fallen Glory
It’s not hard to understand why the developers chose to have Assassin’s Creed play out in the past rather than the present, seeing as the latter route would never have made the assassins look cool. Today, there’s no chance an assassin could scale buildings, leading to scenarios like the above image.
You won’t find conveniently placed haystacks nor have the authorities be chill at you committing illegal acts by jumping off tall structures. Even the assassin look comes across as lame when among large groups of people dressed casually. Reality is indeed disappointing, so we’re glad the animus exists in the game universe.
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