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00:03Welcome to MojoPlays, and today we're looking at the most historically accurate deaths in Assassin's Creed games.
00:10We're looking at any characters who die on screen, not just assassination targets.
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00:31King Louis XVI, Assassin's Creed Unity
00:34The French Revolution was an unprecedented moment in world history, and was always destined to become fodder for an Assassin's
00:42Creed game.
00:49Upon heading to Paris in the 1790s, there was one death we all wanted to see play out, the execution
00:56of King Louis XVI.
00:58While most of the high-level revolutionary politicking is background for Unity, with much of the game following Arno's more
01:04personal story of his romance with Elise, we do go to the King's execution because Arno believes a high-ranking
01:11Templar will be there as well.
01:12In the cutscene, the King is led up to the guillotine, and we hear the proclamation of his execution, which
01:19is word for word exactly what the executioner really did say when Citizen Cappy lost his head.
01:31In the Bonfire of the Vanities DLC for Assassin's Creed 2, which was famously meant to be part of the
01:37base game before it was cut for time, Ezio returns to Florence because the Apple of Eden has fallen into
01:43the possession of a tyrannical preacher.
01:50The big bad in the DLC is Garola Sanvarola, who's been using the Apple to control people.
01:56He's eventually captured and burned at the stake by the public, only for Ezio to leap in and take him
02:02out with the hidden blade.
02:09In real life, he was executed first by hanging, then had his body publicly burned.
02:14So not quite being burned alive at the stake, but he was dead before they set him on fire.
02:20Cesare Borgia, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
02:23Usually, Ubisoft will make a death more dramatic and violent than it really was.
02:28But in the case of Cesare Borgia, they actually made his fictional death far more dignified than his real one.
02:42In Brotherhood, Cesare is finally tracked to Spain by Ezio, who defeats him in a high-octane boss battle.
02:49In reality, while Cesare was on a campaign in Spain at the time, he was set upon by enemy knights
02:55early in the morning.
02:56The knights ambushed him, stabbed him, stripped him, and left him naked to be discovered later.
03:02No! No! No! No! This is not how it ends!
03:08However, we don't know that Ezio didn't do that.
03:11Maybe he did, and Ubisoft just decided not to put that in the game.
03:15But getting the time and place correct still makes this more historically accurate than most deaths in Assassin's Creed.
03:22Pausanias, Assassin's Creed Odyssey
03:24Cassandra journeys to Sparta and soon learns that one of Sparta's two kings is working with the cult of Kosmos.
03:31Of course, but my purpose here is to bring down the cultist king.
03:36She has to investigate to find out which one, but the evidence points to Pausanias, and Cassandra outs him as
03:42a traitor to Sparta.
03:44This is mostly true, with Pausanias essentially deposed by his own people because he disagreed with Sparta's generals over their
03:51warmongering at the time.
03:53Not because he was conspiring with a secret cult.
03:55The outcome is the same though, with Pausanias arrested and sentenced to death.
04:01As of this day, you are exiled from Sparta.
04:13However, in reality, he managed to escape and live the rest of his life in exile.
04:19You can, however, choose to kill him before he goes into exile, though this contradicts history.
04:27To the surprise of everyone, Unity did another bait-and-switch intro similar to Assassin's Creed 3,
04:33introducing a playable character who isn't the main character of the game.
04:37This time, an anonymous Templar working with Jacques de Molay.
04:41What must I do?
04:42Go to the temple.
04:43Take the sword and the book.
04:44Hide them.
04:45They must not fall into the Assassin's hands.
04:47This opening sequence is far shorter than Haytham Kenway's, taking about 10 minutes at most,
04:53but it's a portrayal of a key moment in history, the destruction of the original Templar order.
04:59In real life, the Templars, led by de Molay, were forcibly dismantled and ultimately burned at the stake by the
05:06dozen.
05:07The whole prologue ends with King Philip the Fair watching while de Molay burns alive,
05:12which, as far as we know, is exactly what happened.
05:15I curse you!
05:18Curse you to the 13th generation of your blood!
05:21You can't be cursed!
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05:34March!
05:38Pompey, Assassin's Creed Origins.
05:41You don't actually see Pompey's death on screen,
05:44but Aya spends time with him and his fleet earlier on,
05:47in the only naval gameplay Origins had.
05:50The Demios has beat us.
05:52Funny how all great men are reduced to food for maggots.
05:55His body is later discovered on the shores of Egypt,
05:59with Pompey having met a grisly end at the hands of the game's main antagonist,
06:03Lucius Septimus.
06:04He's also missing his head, which is true as well,
06:08with Pompey decapitated so that his head could be used to prove he was dead.
06:12No, it can't be.
06:16Where is Caesar?
06:17It's all extremely true to life,
06:20with Pompey likely killed on the orders of Ptolemy
06:22because they thought he was going to try and take control of Egypt
06:25and wrongfully thought that killing Pompey
06:28would secure an alliance with Caesar against Cleopatra in Egypt's civil war.
06:33Pericles, Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
06:36The great Athenian statesman Pericles
06:38was one of the many victims of the infamous Plague of Athens.
06:41The Plague ravaged the city for years,
06:44starting in 430 BC and killed an estimated 25% of all the people living there at the time.
06:52Athens is mine.
06:57Pericles.
06:58In Odyssey, Pericles is actually assassinated by Demos,
07:03using the Plague as a cover,
07:05which certainly adds to the dramatic effect.
07:07Interestingly, the plague remains a mystery,
07:10with scholars to this day debating what the disease may have been.
07:14It was for years thought to have been bubonic plague,
07:17but more recently,
07:18it's been speculated that either typhus or typhoid were more likely,
07:23although there are some theories even suggesting Ebola as a possible culprit.
07:27He was a great man.
07:29Perhaps greater than we even knew.
07:32Rodrigo Borja, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.
07:35Things aren't going well for the Borja family in this scene,
07:38with Rodrigo removing Popel funding for Cesare's military ambitions.
07:42You intend to give me money?
07:45No, I do not.
07:47Then I will use the Peace of Eden to get what I want.
07:51Your help is not necessary.
07:54Here, Cesare rebels against his father after being told he'd eaten a poisoned apple.
07:59He then force-feeds the apple to Rodrigo, who perishes.
08:03In real life, both Cesare and Rodrigo,
08:06usually known as Pope Alexander VI in history,
08:09fell ill after eating dinner,
08:11though the reason for the illness remains unclear.
08:14Most people don't believe they were poisoned and instead contracted malaria,
08:18especially since Cesare was able to survive.
08:21But the place and time of death are correct,
08:24and the suspicion of poison remains.
08:28Oda Nobunaga, Assassin's Creed Shadows.
08:31The formidable warlord was defeated in a coup
08:34known as the Hon'oji Incident during a tea ceremony.
08:38What are you?
08:51While at Hon'oji Temple, one of Nobunaga's lieutenants,
08:54Akechi Misuhida, rebelled against him and attacked the temple.
08:58In the game, Nobunaga is first attacked by Naue,
09:01who blames him for the death of her father.
09:03Yasuke then intervenes.
09:06After all this, though,
09:08Nobunaga commits seppuku while the temple burns.
09:30This is exactly what happened in real life,
09:33with the exception of Naue not being a real person.
09:36Yasuke, his loyal retainer, was there
09:39and was ultimately spared by Mitsuhide afterwards.
09:52The pot-sea conspirators.
09:54Assassin's Creed 2.
09:55There's Giuliano, Lorenzo's brother.
09:59Where is Francesco?
10:01There he is.
10:03Time to strike.
10:04Aaaaaah!
10:05Sometimes, Assassin's Creed doesn't need to take any creative license with historical events,
10:10because the real history is so exciting.
10:13The Patsy conspiracy is one such case.
10:16It began when Lorenzo and Giuliano di Medici were attacked by the conspirators,
10:20something the game reproduces on a mission where Ezio must protect Lorenzo in the aftermath.
10:26And in real life, too, the conspirators responsible were ruthlessly hunted down
10:30and killed by mobs of Florentines loyal to the Medici's.
10:34Your entire family dies by my soul!
10:38Ezio doesn't need to kill all 80 of them,
10:41but he does track half a dozen of them across Tuscany.
10:44And when Ezio kills Francesco, he hangs his body from the Palazzo della Signoria,
10:50which the mobs did do to the conspirators in real life.
11:00Seabrand.
11:00Assassin's Creed.
11:09It's a little difficult to ascertain the historical accuracy of the first game.
11:14Not a lot of written records survive about the biggest figures of the day
11:17as they fall for control of the Holy Land.
11:20With that said, some are still more correct than others.
11:24Robert de Sabla, for instance, actually died in 1193, not 1191, as the game depicts.
11:30While William of Monteferret died in Lebanon, not Syria.
11:34Seabrand, though, did die in 1191 and in the city of Acre.
11:39I'll take care of this heathen myself!
11:46Unfortunately, like many crusaders, we don't know how he died.
11:51We actually don't know his first name either.
11:53But, because of that, nobody can prove that he wasn't assassinated in Acre's port.
11:58Not without a time machine, anyway.
12:01Seabrand's life is ended.
12:02So it is. So it is.
12:04Marco Barbargio, Assassin's Creed 2.
12:08That's it. Your pistola.
12:10The one you stop the murderer with.
12:12It's as loud as those explosions.
12:14Time it right and you'll walk out of here unnoticed.
12:18Though the most bombastic assassination in Assassin's Creed 2
12:21was flying into the palace to assassinate Carlo Grimaldi,
12:25not only did da Vinci's flying machine almost definitely never work,
12:29but Grimaldi wasn't a real person.
12:31However, Ezio's other Venetian targets, the Barbargio family, were real.
12:37Welcome, my friends, to the grandest social event of the season.
12:41At peace or at war, in times of prosperity or paucity,
12:47Venezia will always have Carnival!
12:51In-game, Ezio uses Barbargio's brother Augustino to plot Marco's death
12:55so that he can take over as the Doge of Venice, which he did.
12:58Ezio is a noble himself, working in tandem with other Italian aristocrats
13:03to track down Marco at a private party and kill him.
13:06However, the dates are a little off.
13:09Barbargio died in August,
13:11while in the game, his death takes place around Venice's Carnival,
13:15which ends on Mardi Gras.
13:17No.
13:20It's too soon.
13:22Robotsphere, Assassin's Creed Unity.
13:31He's the only entry on our list not personally assassinated by the player,
13:36but he still encounters them during the dramatic coup that ousted him from power.
13:40Elise and Arno track him down in the Hotel de Ville with the rebels at the gate,
13:45and we see that, in Ubisoft's version of events,
13:48Elise is the one who shoots Robotsphere in the jaw,
13:51and leaves him to the wolves.
13:52We don't have much time.
13:54Where is your mouth?
13:55I will never talk.
13:58In real life, he was shot in the jaw,
14:02and nursed the injury all night until his eventual execution the following day.
14:06We don't know exactly how it happened,
14:09but most historians believe the story of Robotsphere's injury
14:12was actually self-inflicted in a failed attempt to avoid execution.
14:17Seize him!
14:23Cleopatra, Assassin's Creed Origins.
14:26Through me, Memphis shines as rubies set in gold.
14:33Through me, Egypt triumphs!
14:37Popular myth says that Cleopatra died after being bitten by an asp,
14:42a venomous snake native to Egypt.
14:44But this isn't true,
14:45and in fact, Cleopatra is generally believed to have taken her own life with poison.
14:51Other scholars, however, suspect that she was murdered,
14:54and as her final resting place has never been discovered,
14:57we have no way to know for sure.
14:59All I have is that I am pushed further.
15:02One more attempt to snuff me out.
15:04My queen, rest and remember that.
15:06I do not need rest.
15:07In Origins, Aya, angered at Cleopatra betraying the people of Egypt in favor of Rome,
15:12persuades Cleopatra to end it all,
15:14or Aya will return and finish the job herself.
15:18We don't see the moment it happens, and it's all implication,
15:21but with the context of Cleopatra's imminent death,
15:24it's clear what Aya means.
15:26Everything for which we have worked for so long is now ours.
15:34We have defeated our enemies.
15:37Al-Mutawakkiw, Assassin's Creed Mirage.
15:40Out, all of you.
15:42I am to meet with them alone.
15:44Father, let me stay.
15:47Take him.
15:48In 861, the Caliph Atmukalatiu was murdered by his own guards
15:53as part of a long plot to oust him in favor of his oldest son
15:57after he angered the powerful military commanders he'd come to rely on.
16:01In Mirage, the Caliph is holding an Isu artifact for the Order of the Ancients.
16:07Basim!
16:17And Basim sneaks into the Winter Palace in Anbar to steal it.
16:21In the struggle, Nahal assassinates Caliph,
16:24and his second and favorite son walks in on the scene.
16:27Though no thief was involved with the assassination in real life,
16:30the instability that follows the Caliph's assassination drives much of Mirage.
16:35Run!
16:37Yeah, wait!
16:38Father!
16:41Get that boy!
16:42Charles Lee, Assassin's Creed 3.
16:45You put us down, we rise again.
16:48You end one plot, we forge another.
16:53You try so hard, but it always ends the same.
16:56After decades of conflict,
16:58Connor finally tracks down Charles Lee,
17:01the last Templar on his list.
17:03He pursues him through Boston as Lee tries to leave,
17:06and the two engage in an infamous chase.
17:09And so Lee ultimately escapes and then goes all the way to Philadelphia.
17:23If you don't know the details of how and where Charles Lee actually died,
17:27you may have thought that Lee, gravely wounded,
17:30going all the way to Philly just for Connor to kill him in a bar was strange.
17:34But it's because Lee, of course, did not die in Boston,
17:38but during a visit to Philadelphia, hence the long pursuit.
17:42He wasn't assassinated, though, instead dying of a fever.
17:56Julius Caesar, Assassin's Creed Origins
17:59Out, all.
18:01You will each be sent for when our congress is concluded.
18:06I wish to hear both Ptolemy's side of the story.
18:09Before going for Cleopatra,
18:11Aya has a different famous face on her list.
18:14She arrives in Rome after it's become clear
18:16that Caesar is being manipulated by the Order of the Ancients,
18:20led by Flavius and Septimus.
18:22In disguise, she sneaks into the Roman Senate
18:25and observes Caesar making a speech to his fellow Romans.
18:31Only when Aya steps out of the shadows and assassinates him
18:34do the other senators join in, including Brutus,
18:37as we find out that the senators responsible
18:39were some of the first members of the Hidden Ones.
18:42This is all relatively accurate to how the Ides of March
18:46played out in real life.
18:48The tyrant is dead!
18:49You are free now!
18:54Bartholomew Roberts, Assassin's Creed IV, Black Flag.
18:58My children, how can I not be impressed
19:01by the attention you bring me?
19:03May the best that we do sing praises of the second!
19:07Following Roberts' brutal betrayal of Edward,
19:10he ends up being one of the last targets in the game.
19:13Edward pursues him to West Africa again
19:15when Roberts flees at the last minute.
19:18Edward boards the jackdaw
19:19and begins to chase the royal fortune
19:21with Roberts on board,
19:23eventually getting near enough to enter open conflict.
19:28Fire!
19:29Fire!
19:30Fire!
19:32Fire!
19:32We're ready, sir!
19:33Fire!
19:33He boards the royal fortune
19:36and assassinates Roberts,
19:37who asks him as his dying wish
19:39to bury him at sea
19:40to stop the Templars from finding his body.
19:43A merry life and a short one,
19:46as promised.
19:48How well I know myself.
19:50This is all very true.
19:52Roberts did die during a sea battle
19:54off the coast of Africa
19:56and did wish to be buried at sea,
19:58which he was.
20:00For what's peace
20:01but a confusion between two wars?
20:03Oh, oh, you're a stoic then.
20:06But perhaps I was wrong about you.
20:09John Picairn.
20:10Assassin's Creed 3.
20:15Well, I'll be there.
20:18You did it.
20:19The Battle of Bunker Hill
20:20is one of the most infamous missions
20:22in the series
20:23for its tedious optional objectives,
20:25one of which being to air assassinate
20:27the British leader, John Picairn,
20:29without being detected.
20:31By carefully maneuvering
20:32through the enemy camp,
20:34this is relatively simple,
20:35but requires you to use
20:36one specific platforming route
20:38to reach Picairn on his horse.
20:50In real life,
20:52Picairn did die in battle
20:53at Bunker Hill,
20:54though he wasn't stabbed
20:56by someone jumping from a tree.
20:57He was shot and killed
20:59in the battle's trenches
21:00while leading his men,
21:01rather than standing back
21:02and sending them to their deaths.
21:04But you can shoot him if you like,
21:07you just won't get full synchronization
21:09if you do.
21:10You wield your blade like a man,
21:13but your mouth like a child.
21:19And more will die in her.
21:21Because of her.
21:22Let us know in the comments
21:24which Assassin's Creed events
21:25had you picking up a history book.
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