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00:00Do you think I believe a single goddamn word of that ridiculous book?
00:04It's all lies and superstition, just like every other religious track written over the past 10,000 years.
00:11Welcome to Mojo Plays, and today we're taking a look at 10 instances where Assassin's Creed made fun of historical figures.
00:18Spoilers ahead for some of our entries, so consider yourselves warned.
00:22Now let's hope your idea works, because we're nearly out of time.
00:26Listen close, Enzio. You're going to want to fly from fire to fire.
00:30The eight of each one you pass over should lift you back up in the air again.
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00:42Are your men prepared to travel?
00:51Not a problem.
00:53Holy color. I will have a map drawn up for you within a week.
00:56Assassin's Creed Revelations is an often overlooked game these days when it comes to the Ezio trilogy.
01:02But it's capturing a super interesting part of history, that of the Ottoman Empire.
01:07In the game, we get to see a vastly downplayed Manuel Pailaiagos, who in real life actually worked for Galesio Maria Sforza, the 5th Duke of Milan, who was the father of Caterina Sforza.
01:19Ha ha ha! Ah! What the hell is that spell? Apologies, Manuel.
01:27Not only is the history inconsistent with the game, he should be on our side, rather than the Templar's.
01:32Instead of a tragic historical figure, he's reduced to little more than a bumbling fool of questionable intelligence.
01:38While in reality, he was quite pragmatic.
01:42Your dream dies with you, Manuel. Your empire is gone.
01:46Ah! But I am not the only one with this vision, Assassin.
01:52Ptolemy XIII. Assassin's Creed Origins.
01:56Pompey was your enemy, Caesar.
01:58He was my friend first.
02:00King Ptolemy XIII was in real life a very young ruler, and came into power at the age of 13.
02:06He's portrayed in historical accounts as being heavily influenced by his advisor, Pithonius, and he's not exactly known for having been a good strategist or politician.
02:15If you ally with my sister, I will kill every last Roman in Alexandria.
02:20Even still, Assassin's Creed took this idea and ran with it in a way that portrayed him as a somehow even more incompetent puppet ruler than in real life, controlled by the Order.
02:30They take it a step further and turn him into this cartoonishly evil caricature of his real-life counterpart.
02:35He doesn't really seem as powerful as he actually was, instead, solely relying on the spoiled child part.
02:54Ivar the Boneless. Assassin's Creed Valhalla.
02:56Heading to the Viking Age with Assassin's Creed Valhalla, we got Ivar the Boneless.
03:12While he's faithfully depicted as a competent warrior, the game also makes him seem wildly impulsive, comically bloodthirsty, and prone to uncontrolled rage.
03:20While strength and battle prowess were highly valued in Viking society, Ivar was cunning and quite strategic.
03:27The bleeding Puspit claims only a dragon can defeat him. We will soon put that to the test.
03:33It is peace we want, Ivar, not revenge.
03:36Instead, he's portrayed a bit closer to that of a thoughtless brute in the game, acting out nonsensical brutality with comic glee and really feeling more like a joke rather than a nuanced leader.
03:47According to the sagas, Ivar was wise, cunning, and a master tactician.
03:52We are not finished, Eivor.
03:55This saga we have written together, it needs an ending.
04:00Here and now.
04:02Maximilien de Robespierre, Assassin's Creed Unity
04:06Maximilien Robespierre is one of the biggest players of the French Revolution and its reign of terror.
04:22With that, you'd expect him to be a bit more intimidating, which he sort of is in a way.
04:28Unity, however, exclusively portrays him as paranoid and completely detached from reality.
04:34For the sake of gameplay, the game itself features exaggerated events of the revolution, with a generous dose of fiction sprinkled into it.
04:42Where is your mouth?
04:43I will never talk.
04:46Then ride.
04:47Unity suggests that the French Revolution is no more than its reign of terror, which is a disservice to the real-life event which unfolded over a decade.
04:55As for Robespierre, what could have been a really interesting and complex character is reduced to a mere one-note, flat villain character in the game.
05:04I hope you endure revolutionary justice, monsieur.
05:12Charles Vane, Assassin's Creed 4, Black Flag.
05:16Captain Thatch, as I let him breathe.
05:19What is this magnificent muzzle you've cultivated?
05:22Next up, we've got the infamous pirate, Charles Vane, in Assassin's Creed 4, Black Flag.
05:27The real-life Charles Vane was indeed notorious for his volatile nature, but true to Assassin's Creed form, it's greatly exaggerated.
05:35He's shown to be really hot-headed, careless, even mistrustful at times.
05:40I'll take these oysters, you've ordered.
05:44You mad sap.
05:45This island's crawling with food if only you'd care to look for it.
05:48I am looking, louse.
05:51I'll tell you I'm just there.
05:52Of course, if you've played the game, you'll remember the way he went out by descending into total paranoia and madness while stranded on an island.
06:02It's played up to a dramatic and even comical effect, basically turning him into a wild, raving-mad caricature of a pirate.
06:09Or maybe, you just don't have the stones to live with no regrets.
06:19The Borges, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
06:21I know you're there, Ezio!
06:26The Pope told me about you and your little group of assassins.
06:32And this!
06:32Now for a bit of a different entry, we actually have the entirety of the Borges family as they were portrayed in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.
06:40The ones we see, Rodrigo, Cesare, Lucrezia, they absolutely revel in their villainy in the game.
06:46It's pretty hilarious when compared to real life.
06:49Rodrigo is a scheming, power-hungry, and villainous Pope.
06:53Cesare is extremely violent, incestuous, and utterly ruthless as a warlord.
06:58I want to take! I take!
07:02If I want you to die, you die!
07:09Lucrezia is wicked and manipulative.
07:12If you don't know, that's pretty much taking all the unconfirmed rumors about them,
07:16making up their characters of mostly that, and then turning them up to 11.
07:21With that said, some of it is true,
07:23but a lot of these rumors were part of deliberate smear campaigns by their many political enemies.
07:30You never loved me?
07:31Where is the apple?
07:34Tell me!
07:35Tell me!
07:38Benjamin Franklin, Assassin's Creed 3
07:41You seem troubled, friend.
07:44That's because I am.
07:46Greatly so, in fact.
07:48What's happened?
07:49I was robbed.
07:51The old Balkan file.
07:53Now heading to Colonial America, let's talk about Benjamin Franklin in Assassin's Creed 3.
07:59Franklin was a genius, an inventor, and a statesman, and AC3 acknowledges that.
08:04However, the game also makes him out to be a bit of a horny, maybe even slightly lecherous old man.
08:10He's got the funniest conversation with Hatham where he's basically giving him sex advice.
08:15This sort of happened in real life, but they make it out to be a main characteristic of his.
08:30It's clear they chose to include him mostly for comic relief.
08:33It's a charming and pretty funny take on a founding father, giving more attention to portraying him as a charming rogue rather than an intellectual.
08:42I'll reward you.
08:44Look, I'm not sure if I'm...
08:45It's alright, alright.
08:47If you have the time, hurrah!
08:49If not, no harm done.
08:51Charles Darwin, Assassin's Creed Syndicate
08:54You should not go about frightening respectable gentlemen, young man.
09:00I didn't realize snooping around was considered gentlemanly.
09:03If you've played Assassin's Creed Syndicate, you might have seen this one coming.
09:07It's Charles Darwin.
09:08The man behind the evolutionary theory is portrayed in the game as a well-meaning but rather clumsy and naive person.
09:14He keeps getting into all sorts of problems that we need to bail him out of.
09:18He seems more flustered here, easily started, and, to be honest, a pretty far cry from the formidable intellectual we know him to be.
09:25Don't be so hasty, Mr. Fry.
09:27Many people work at Lambeth.
09:29You wouldn't want to attract unwanted attention.
09:32What was the fun in that?
09:34Not every problem can be solved by blowing things sky high.
09:38Sometimes a little discretion is in order.
09:41The game takes a gentle, humorous jab at the enormous historical giant.
09:45Oh, and thanks to AC's lore, his theory of evolution, at least concerning humans in-game, is just wrong.
09:52They really wrote themselves into a corner with that one.
09:55Thank you for everything, my friends.
09:57Ideas, like people, can only thrive when they're free.
10:04Karl Marx, Assassin's Creed Syndicate
10:07Listen to me.
10:09I have been ordered to keep your rallies off the streets.
10:11No, you must listen to me. The people in this city are in dire need of your assistance.
10:17Following Darwin, we're staying in Assassin's Creed Syndicate to talk about Karl Marx.
10:21The real-life revolutionary philosopher is still portrayed as an eloquent public speaker,
10:26but he seems a bit frantic and sometimes exasperated.
10:29He's a lot less radical in-game than he actually was in real life.
10:34Karl Marx, much like you. I am an activist of sorts.
10:37You've got the look of a man who wants something.
10:39Indeed. You've done more for London citizens lately than any endeavor has accomplished in a decade.
10:45They dumbed him down a lot, and it's curious that we don't learn anything about his ideas or theories in the game.
10:51He's also just so out of place.
10:54If you go by his writings, he should be ideally opposed to the fries.
10:58It's a bit of a disservice to the man.
11:00You've done a great service for the workers of London.
11:03I'm confident the reforms we seek cannot be far over the horizon.
11:07Julius Caesar, Assassin's Creed Origins
11:10You will each be sent for when our congress is concluded.
11:15I wish to hear both Ptolemy's side of the story.
11:19One of the funniest roasts of a historical character that Assassin's Creed has done,
11:23if you can call it that, is Julius Caesar's portrayal in Assassin's Creed Origins.
11:28The game takes one of the most iconic and powerful figures in history and presents him exclusively as an arrogant, self-serving dictator.
11:36Put this into the brazier of the Pharos.
11:39She will accompany me through the city.
11:43Now, let havoc rain.
11:47The game makes him ruthless and manipulative, completely convinced of his own divine right to rule.
11:53They totally swapped around the ideals of Brutus and Caesar too, just to make Caesar seem more evil.
12:00It just takes away from the final mission and is a pretty big waste of potential.
12:06You too, my child.
12:12So, what do you think?
12:14For all its historical accuracy and inaccuracies, Assassin's Creed seems to always have a strong sense of humor.
12:20Did we miss any of your favorites?
12:22Comment down below and let's have a discussion.
12:26We seem to have that in common.
12:29Au revoir, my friends.
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