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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game)

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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game)	comment	Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is the sixth main entry and fourth numbered installment of the Assassin's Creed series, released in 2013 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii U, and PC.As usual for the franchise, this game features an all-new Assassin protagonist within a brand-new time period. Unusually, the Time Skip is backwards from the previous protagonist Connor - a first for the series - to the life of his grandfather, Edward Kenway (Matt Ryan), and set in The Golden Age of Piracy. Even more unusually, the present-day story moves forward from the climax of III, where you now play as a researcher working in Abstergo Entertainment gathering "footage" of Edward Kenway's life for the company to use in making their own spin on the story.It was released on October 29, 2013 on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii U platforms, and was later released for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on November 15th and 22ndnote as a launch title for both respectively. A PC version came out on November 19th. A version for the Nintendo Switch came out on December 6, 2019 alongside Assassin's Creed Rogue as part of The Rebel Collection, with all single-player DLC included. It also has a non-canon manga adaptation.The first trailer, released on March 4th, 2013, can be seen here.Soon after the game came out, a DLC campaign was released for it named Freedom Cry. It stars Adéwalé, Edward's Lancer from the main game fifteen years after the events of Black Flag. Tropes for it go on its own page, Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry.Ubisoft would later announce Skull & Bones, a pirate game with gameplay based on the naval combat of Black Flag developed by the same creative team at Ubisoft Singapore. Eight years after the release of the game, a South Korean webtoon sequel will focus on the life of Edward Kenway after the end of the Golden Age of Piracy.Note that due to what happened at the end of the last game, be warned of unmarked spoilers.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_11734fc0	comment	Mission Control Is Off Its Meds: John from IT starts going a little crazy in later present-day missions.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: All around the Abstergo Entertainment office building, you can find sticky notes which contain rambling messages, presumably from someone brainwashed by Juno. Every instance of her name is suffixed with "MAY SHE GUIDE US INTO THE GREY". The Sages from both the past and present – Bartholomew Roberts and John from IT respectively – say something along those lines right before their deaths. Interestingly, another Sage, Thom Kavanaugh, never uses the phrase, presumably since he retained his humanity and prevailed over his First Civilization alter-ego, Aita.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Edward suffers a mental and emotional breakdown after Mary Read's death, becoming a drunken mess for what appear to be several months.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_143e6c8d	comment	Alongside the obvious jump to a new protagonist, this installment marks the end of Desmond as the central character. Although his DNA and memory are used, the new protagonist is a Heroic Mime Player Character who is a simple researcher for a company, rather than a badass hero with a Secret Legacy.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_1467a30c	comment	Unexpected Gameplay Change: Kenway's Fleet is a fully embedded fleet management mini-game with Turn-Based Strategy elements in an otherwise third-person action RPG. Any ship you capture in normal gameplay can be transferred to the fleet to be sent on trading missions across the known world, interspersed with turn-based fleet battles between a maximum of three ships per side. The feature is completely optional but offers access to unique outfits and weapons, treasure maps, decorative objects for Edward's mansion, and tons of easy cash once you've unlocked the higher-level trade routes. Diving levels run on a timer with limited refills and put you up against patrolling enemies you can't defend against because you have no weapons. You also have no armor, making Edward much squishier than players are used to by the time these levels are unlocked.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_14848fa3	comment	Multinational Team: It gets more obvious here than in previous games, since the Assassins there are much more visibly diverse: their Mentor is Mayan, your Assassin contacts include Englishmen, black Africans, and Taino, and the player character himself is explicitly Welsh. Opposite them, the Caribbean Templars are led by a Spaniard and include Englishmen, a Frenchmen, and a minor character who is Chinese.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_159850a5	comment	Warp Whistle: The game lets you travel to any unlocked viewpoint even if you are in the middle of the sea (except if you are in the middle of a naval fight). There are also dozens of boats scattered throughout the map that teleport Edward to his ship.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_17a45ff5	comment	Misplaced Wildlife: Jaguars, howler monkeys, and deer living on the island of Principe.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Players who are curious about Edward's post-game life can read the canonical novel Assassin's Creed : Forsaken, which bridges the gap between IV and III. Likewise, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag the novelization of this game contains Edward's backstory and origins and provides an epilogue for the game.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_1843bf38	comment	In the game, the Templars are still Visionary Villain who aim to blackmail the world to do their bidding. They are also major aristocratic Jerks with Woodes Rogers calling Kenway a "cretin" and Julien du Casse calling him a "filthy peasant" and even Torres for all his token claims against slavery isn't interested in actively stopping it and is a self-confessed plutocrat who looks down on slaver Laurens Prins for his At Least I Admit It stance.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_1871c897	comment	Kirk Summation: The Templar Kenneth Abraham expresses his surprise that his enemy Antó was able to defeat him. Antó spells it out for him:
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: Jellyfish only deal damage if Edward comes in contact with their body; their tentacles are harmless. That's the complete opposite of how they behave in real life since the cnidocytes that deliver the poison are located along their tentacles. Macaws in cages have 3 toes instead of 4.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: A small one, when James Kidd mentions that "there's something in the Assassin's Creed that crosses all Boundaries." A lot of the in-game mission titles are also dropped at some point, deriving from lines of dialogue. The game's subtitle is also dropped early in the game, shortly after Edward acquires the Jackdaw. One of his allies gifts him a jolly roger and says he should "fly the black flag with pride."
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_18da3c47	comment	Underwater Ruins: In addition to your standard underwater caves and shipwrecks, Edward can use a diving bell to explore some underwater ruins in the West Indies Sea, primarily Mayan in origin. Some other ruins in the overworld are also partially submerged.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_1902e67d	comment	I Am Very British: Edward swaps his native Welsh accent for Received Pronunciation when he meets Torres in the guise of Duncan Walpole. At the very end of the game at the Opera, after becoming an English nobleman, he speaks in a very polished tone. Though he lets it slip when he tells his son, that they should leave "this posh gig" and go to White's Chocolate House.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_1904dd09	comment	Julius Beethoven da Vinci: The game introduces the idea of individuals who have the genetics, and thus memories, of one of the Abusive Precursors, Aita. This means that numerous historical figures (and potentially countless unknown persons) have been a variation of the same individual. Most purported Sages are unnamed, but in addition to Bartholomew Roberts and the Count of St. Germain—who play major roles in Black Flag and Unity—they also seem to include the Wandering Jew from the Bible, Jacques de Molay, and (seemingly) David Bowie.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: When you capture an enemy vessel, you can impress some of its crew into your service, and you may further choose to give the crew control of their ship if they swear loyalty to you and join your pirate navy. Considering the terrible conditions sailors were subject to during the period, this would have represented a fantastic turn of fortune for most of them. Amusingly, this results in an instant costume switch for your freshly minted pirate recruits.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: More like "Never Trust a Gameplay Preview." With the attack on Blackbeard's party, the preview video and the actual gameplay differ significantly, including a different opening cutscene and the trail being much less wild. It is highly likely that the trailer footage comes from the PS4/One version gameplay, as the comparatively limited graphical power of the PS3/360 probably could not keep up with the rendering of such high-definition details.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_1bc2e445	comment	End of an Age: At the end of the game, when Jenny asks Edward if they can see any pirates, Edward sadly laments, "No, I'm afraid there's not much chance of that." This is because The Golden Age of Piracy is now over.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: The whole point of mortars is to rain fiery death on hapless targets from afar. The Jackdaw can do this reasonbly effectively once upgraded, enemy Man o' Wars love to spam mortar fire in salvos of 6-8 shots, but worst of all is the legendary ship La Dama Negra. Her mortar batteries are so powerful that getting caught in one of her barrages can take off at least one bar of a fully upgraded Jackdaw's health in a flash, and even more if you forgot to brace. Add to that the fact that her mortars avert Crosshair Aware and the vessel's immunity to broadside damage, and you have one of the most nightmarish Boss Battles in the game on your hand.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_1dad7003	comment	In the Hood: Edward Kenway gets a hood early when he takes them from the body of a man who tried to kill him. Most of his outfits after that also have the hood. Not the two Armor of Invincibility, though. Which makes it amusing when his animation still has him pulling up a hood that isn't there. Almost all the assassins players meet along the way also have hoods. The one exception is James Kid/Mary Read, who talks a lot more and whose ability with disguise is more important to the plot.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: This game and Liberation take this a step further by postulating that Abstergo has formed an entertainment division dedicated to bringing Animus technology to the mass-market in the form of video games and movies, providing streamlined and carefully edited excerpts from the memory-sequences that are researched in their labs. As a meta-joke, the company they hire to deliver these products is Ubisoft, the developer of the real franchise, and Black Flag contains multiple in-jokes and nods as a result.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_1f19f198	comment	Anne Bonny goes from barmaid to pirate, standing as Back-to-Back Badasses with Mary Read while their ship is being boarded by the English. The two women are the only ones to come out of the fight uninjured.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: Partway through the Abstergo sequences, you become a suspect in the rash of hacking and are imprisoned (but still allowed to continue your Animus research). After John's psychotic breakdown over Juno's failure to possess you, he tries to kill you, but is instead shot dead by Abstergo security. The material revealed in his files is sufficient to clear you completely, despite the fact that you are the person who did the hacking.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_225b682	comment	Characters are seen in cutscenes to use pistols as Throw-Away Guns, only bothering to reload them once well out of combat. In gameplay, Edward keeps the same set all the time and can reload all four of them in about three seconds. (For extra fun, the animation looks like he's breech loading all the shells into a single gun, unlike Connor in the previous game who had to load each barrel of each gun he had.)
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_22f6000b	comment	Everybody's Dead, Dave: Near the end, Edward and Bonny lament over the fact that they are virtually the remnants of The Golden Age of Piracy, with Nassau under British control, Thatch, Vane, Rackham, Hornigold, Bonnet, and Read all dead, and they're about to personally hunt down and execute Bart Roberts.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_230d64	comment	In-universe, the marketing is lampshaded by Abstergo, Olivier noting that when they release their product they have to clean up the grit and working-class roots of Edward to make him a "ladies man" and James Bond type... possibly due to the Templars' demeanor in the 21st century based on the Subject 16 puzzles in Brotherhood.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Edward's memorably terse elegy to Thatch, "He drinks damnation." Additionally, while boarding an enemy ship, one of the Jackdaw's crewmen can declare that he and the rest of the crew will "Stand in your bones drinking your damnation." This sounds like badass pirate lingo, but traces its roots to the King James translation of the New Testament, 1 Corinthians: "For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself."note The original Biblical context of this verse concerns those who partake of the Lord's Supper without fully understanding its significance or taking it seriously.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_25a6c734	comment	On the meta level, R-L and Abstergo Entertainment, especially given that they all technically work for the Templars. On the other hand, at least a good chunk of the staff are generally good people. And even those in the know are much more concerned with making profits and some entertainment than whatever their "superiors" have in store.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: The Sages, as reincarnations of the deity Aita. Physically, they look the same, with heterochromia and long black moustaches. They also share some personality quirks: John has Black Bart's infatuation with Juno, his insanity, and his violent streak, as well as Thom Kavanagh's hobby of leaving notes.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_267ce120	type	Dirty Old Man
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: The Abstergo Market researchers tasked with reviewing the various ancestors' suitability for new intellectual properties speculate that Ezio Auditore may have had something of "the old lecher" in him in his later years (supplemented by out-of-context screenshots from Assassin's Creed: Embers). Coincidentally, Ruggiero Ferraro, an Italian diplomat Edward tracks down, with whom Ezio shares a voice actor, turns out to be an old lecher in his own right.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: The Woodes Rogers assassination level has you tail an Italian diplomat voiced by Roger Craig Smith, who longs for the architecture of Florence and its streets, complaining that the buildings of new colonial cities like Kingston and the Caribbean are boring and lame. A nod to the fans who prize the franchise's most popular game. Melanie Lemay takes the Research Analyst up an elevator and talks about putting a trailer together that's exactly like ACIV's launch trailer, with Blackbeard narrating to prospective sailors about working with Edward Kenway. During Edward's Mushroom Samba and the retelling of the Jackdaw Fable, you have to assassinate three targets. One of the random choices they turn into afterwards looks a lot like Abbas.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_272232f7	type	Moby Schtick
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_272232f7	comment	Moby Schtick: You can get an achievement/trophy for successfully harpooning a white sperm whale. In fact, the database entry for the White Whale all but says "Yes, we put Moby Dick in the simulation, because why not?"
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_28104b90	comment	Bag of Spilling: Subverted. Edward steals all of Duncan Walpole's Assassin gear, but his hidden blades are broken, and he likely lost all of his equipment in the preceding ship battle. So, all you start with are your bare fists, money and smoke bomb pouches, two sabres, a snazzy Assassin's outfit, and a letter inviting you to meet with the governor of Cuba.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_29a39f6	comment	Easter Egg: In one of the diving missions, it is possible to activate a cutscene in which a giant squid attacks a white whale. Possibly a nod to Assassin's Creed II, which also featured a giant squid easter egg.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_2a090d00	comment	In a subversion, Abstergo is using the Animus technology to make lame pop culture junk as a cash grab, rather than to broaden our understanding of human history, something pointed out by the internal memos you can read. This is partially deliberate, as they are trying to control the masses, not educate them.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_2af679a6	type	Sidequest
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_2af679a6	comment	Sidequest: The game goes as far as giving the player the opportunity to explore a very large part of the Caribbean to visit numerous islands, in which plenty of collectibles can be found, enemy bases can be confronted and dismantled, and treasure chests can be opened; then there's fishing, exploring sunken ships, doing requested assassinations, etc.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: The Edward Thatch approach to weaponry: his frigate has over forty cannons, and he carries six pistols on his person. Edward's smaller brig does have fewer cannons, but can be upgraded with more, and has additional mortars. Edward can have four pistols with an additional two pistol swords.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_2b9affed	type	Dirty Business
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_2b9affed	comment	Dirty Business: Bartholomew Roberts, aka Black Bart specifically tells Edward to destroy his body after he is killed so that the Templars can't take advantage of what he is to advance their own goals.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: The Observatory, at least in the 18th century. Being able to see where anyone is and what they're doing in real-time just via a sample of their blood is impressive in the 21st century, but in the 18th the impracticality shows, since you'd need to know who that person is and where they are to get a blood sample anyway, and the Observatory's location makes acting on that knowledge with any speed impossible.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_2c20a843	type	Nom de Mom
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_2c20a843	comment	Nom de Mom: Jennifer Scott, Edward Kenway's daughter with his first wife Caroline, decide to keep using her mother's surname even after she reconnects with her father and begins to live with him since she was solely raised by her mother and never even met her father until after her mother had already died. Unusually for this trope, Edward's relationship with Caroline seems to be amicable, and Edward seems to approve of Caroline's choice to honor her mother.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_2cb9b1a9	type	Cool, but Inefficient
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_2cb9b1a9	comment	Cool, but Inefficient: Building a bonfire and a brothel in Edward's Inagua home base lets you hire drunken pirates and dancers for free, but these upgrades are so expensive that you need to hire a total of 140+ groups just to break even, which is more than the average player will use in several playthroughs combined. Still, a combination of Video Game Caring Potential, Money for Nothing and general eagerness to achieve 100% Completion means that pretty much everyone will eventually invest the money anyway.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: Done quite literally in one mission where a captured Portuguese flag is used to infiltrate a restricted area. Disguise is a common theme too with Edward twice stealing a dead man's clothing to assume a false identity.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_2fac1b86	type	Flying Dutchman
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_2fac1b86	comment	Flying Dutchman: Stealthily spoofed in the final Naval Contract mission by the Hollander, the personal Man o' War of the "merchant" that gave out all these contracts. "Hollander" is another term for a Dutchman, and since the guy is fleeingnote or "flying", to use a more archaic term from his many enemies in this mission, it makes him a Flying Dutchman. HMS Prince seems to invoke this sort of image, with its tattered appearence and the ominous fog that perpetually surrounds it.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Downplayed by Adé, who is a very friendly person, but can be scary when he wants to be. Played completely straight with Antó, leader of the Maroons and a 7-foot-tall Master Assassin with a gravelly voice.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_30bf3ff4	type	Beef Gate
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_30bf3ff4	comment	Beef Gate: The level 49-and-above Man o' War ships that patrol the south of the map are there to stop players who venture out of familiar waters without upgrading the Jackdaw, while level 60 pirate hunter ships (which appear at Wanted Level 3) discourage players from letting their wanted level get too high.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_30c40e9a	type	Deconstructor Fleet
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_30c40e9a	comment	Deconstructor Fleet: While the series has always shined a light on popular history, Black Flag drastically deconstructs our familiar ideas of pirate life. Rather than fearsome criminals, pirates are mainly ex-sailors and soldiers who turn to piracy because of poor pay, little chance of meritorious ranking and terrible treatment and poor conditions in the navies of the major nations. They are neither evil nor are they The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything. Rather, they practice a form of democracy reminiscent of Union politics and the Nassau Republic was technically the first attempt at democracy in the New World. However, because the main form of income is high seas robbery, the economy in the region falters as a result of their actions, leaving them to struggle for basic living supplies like medicine. Most pirates live in wretched slum conditions in Nassau. Rather than a fearsome pirate of legend, Blackbeard is simply a desperate sailor who in his own words barely survived four decades and is trying to survive the next one. He also rarely kills people, relying on theatrical effects. Most pirates, with the exception of Charles Vane, rely more on reputation and Large Ham displays to get across the message than actual violence. Furthermore, the game places pirates in a larger context of colonialism. The Atlantic slave trade is a far more profitable endeavor than piracy, and yet at the time this game is set, slavery is still legal while piracy is persecuted by the same governments who enable these laws and profit from this cruelty. The game satirizes how history becomes pop culture fodder with Abstergo Entertainment Comically Missing the Point about the memories of the ancestors they seek to exploit. They are more interested in making Pirates of the Caribbean knock-offs than telling true stories. The game also deconstructs some of the classic pirate character archetypes, showing that a reckless Lovable Rogue Wild Card pirate who plays both sides, a la Jack Sparrow, would end up alienating and compromising the people around him, making him The Friend Nobody Likes at best, and The Millstone at worst. Furthermore, The Mutiny, which is treated as a great crime in nautical stories, is merely shown as democracy in action in the game, since if the sailors no longer trust their captain to give them good work and keep them from needless danger, they have every right to depose said captain and choose another. By the way, you're playing that guy for most of the game, until some Character Development.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3114c1e5	comment	Ramming Always Works: As soon as the Jackdaw has been equipped with a naval ram, it provides players with one of their most powerful assets in almost any battle at sea. The fully upgraded ram is capable of one-shotting everything that isn't a ship of the line (frigates and Man o'Wars), and it still inflicts horrendous damage on the latter, often taking out a frigate in two and a Man o'War in three to four good hits. Repeated ram attacks, combined with copious salvos of chain-shot, are arguably the safest (if not the only truly viable) tactic to sink the La Dama Negra, a legendary Man o'War whose stern is its only weak spot. The whole thing gets cranked up to eleven after all four legendary ships have been defeated and the Jackdaw receives the El Impoluto's charged ram attack, which at least doubles the naval ram's already ludidcrous damage. For a case of Hoist by Their Own Petard, several enemy ships can pull this stunt as well. El Impoluto is easily the most infamous example, being the only Man o'War with a naval ram in the entire game, and by far the fastest one to boot. Whatever you do when you fight her, get the hell out of her way when she charges. The H.M.S. Fearless or the Royal Sovereign, the Carribean's resident Dual Boss, will also try to ram the Jackdaw into oblivion the moment one of them is sunk. Enemy brigs can conduct ram attacks as well which, while not nearly as devastating as El Impoluto's, are still one of the most damaging things the Jackdaw can face on the ocean.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_318d4432	type	Tropical Island Adventure
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_318d4432	comment	Tropical Island Adventure: This game is set all across the Caribbean, including the Cayman Islands, Cuba, Jamaica, and the Bahamas, as well as São Tomé and Príncipe off the coast of Central Africa.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_32da548d	comment	Edward's Arch-Enemy, Bartholomew Roberts, undergoes the villainous equivalent and ends up becoming Edward's Always Someone Better as a pirate.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_33310c11	type	Under the Sea
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_33310c11	comment	Under the Sea: Scattered through the Caribbean Sea are designated zones where Edward can swim in search of treasure and collectibles. He has to keep an eye on his Oxygen Meter as well as the sharks lurking around.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_337a0f4	type	TrailersAlwaysLie
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_337a0f4	comment	Trailers Always Lie: This is a rare case when a game comes up with an in-universe justification for this. The entire marketing campaign is ascribed to Abstergo in the modern day portion of the game. From the whole "Pirate trained by Assassins" marketing linenote he basically improvises all of the core abilities and techniques well before knowingly meeting Assassins to his flag when Blackbeard tells him to "fly it proud"note He's not an Assassin yet so there's no Assassin symbol, just the black flag and skull... In-universe, the marketing is lampshaded by Abstergo, Olivier noting that when they release their product they have to clean up the grit and working-class roots of Edward to make him a "ladies man" and James Bond type... possibly due to the Templars' demeanor in the 21st century based on the Subject 16 puzzles in Brotherhood. The "final" Abstergo trailer for the pirates project, Devils of the Caribbean.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_33ca811a	type	Game-Breaking Bug
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_33ca811a	comment	Game-Breaking Bug: The game has numerous aggravating bugs even years after support for it ceased, like Edward getting stuck in scenery or randomly leaving combat mode during boarding actions (which makes him sheathe his weapons and therefore unable to parry quickly), but worst of all is the legendary ships' habit of taking their cash reward with them into the deep upon their demise. Nothing like spending an hour trying to bring the behemoth down, only to see your hard-earned reward of 20,000 reales move out of your reach, and there's not even a way to replay the battle.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_33e78383	type	A Pirate 400 Years Too Late
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_33e78383	comment	A Pirate 400 Years Too Late: John the IT guy, a Sage and reincarnation of Black Bart Roberts. His jeans and hoodie are accessorised with an ornate belt and old-fashioned cameo necklace, and he has a big black moustache. He even speaks in Black Bart's accent in his final moments.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_34dcfc96	comment	Earlier games had Templars actively involved in local politics and doing their best to Kick the Dog and making the place they are in a Wretched Hive, in addition to their usual lust after some Magic from Technology. In Black Flag, the Templars are the most sympathetic and least evil of the Assassin's Creed games thus far with none of them getting any Kick the Dog moment and with them performing their governmental appointments with general competence. This is reinforced by the fact that Edward Kenway's Arch-Enemy for the game isn't even a Templar, though the Final Boss of the game is the Templar Grandmaster, Governor Laureano de Torres. Of course, this is discussed in the game itself when Edward and Anne Bonny talk about why they should stop Governor Torres from getting hold of the Observatory. Once he gets hold of it, The Templars never have to Kick the Dog anymore to get what they want and simply be The Man Behind the Man.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_35a24c16	comment	Geo Effects: Hostile ships aren't the only danger in the Carribean Sea you have to look out for. Heavy storms not only make steering much more difficult, they also spawn additional phenomena like rogue waves or water spouts to make your life miserable. Rogue waves will wash away a good chunk of your crew if you fail to take them head-on whereas water spouts simply deal a crapton of damage if they come anywhere near something with a health bar. There're also strong winds that can pick up anywhere at any time, but apart from throwing you off course for a moment they don't do all that much.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_35a858b3	comment	When Juno declines to possess R-L just yet during the internment in the bunker, John breaks down big time, screaming at the Analyst about why they are "still here" and letting loose a Cluster F-Bomb. The next time we see him, he's completely given up his Faux Affably Evil facade, full bore into Fantastic Racism, and screaming like a lunatic when guards come in to save the Analyst.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_35e3383a	type	Pirate Girl
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_35e3383a	comment	Pirate Girl: The originals, Anne Bonny and Mary Read who for much of the game poses as Sweet Polly Oliver James Kidd. Lady Black, The Rebel, and The Firebrand are present as well in the Multiplayer.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_35e8c2b3	type	Pirate Song
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_35e8c2b3	comment	Pirate Song: The game lets your crew sing various sea shanties while sailing. There are also collectible song lyrics scattered about that unlock more songs.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: The Jackdaw can have heated cannon shot. In real life, heated shot was generally too dangerous to use on ships, due to the high risk of setting them on fire, and was largely restricted to shore batteries. But setting enemy ships on fire is so cool. The naval rams which are so ubiquitous in the game did not play a major role in 18th century naval warfare. While more commonly used in earlier medieval naval combat where a ship's speed was supplemented by oars, the advent of common cannons made ramming an impractical maneuver, as its use involved literally charging into an enemy's cannon-bearing broadside. Ramming would also pose a nigh-suicidal risk to the attacker's bowsprit, the spar projecting over a ship's bow to which the foremast is stayed, as well as several sails important to control of the vessel. Which goes to say, damage to the bowsprit would be a potentially battle-ending calamity. Rams also have the unfortunate tendency to hole a target below the waterline, and it's difficult to capture or plunder a ship that's busy letting the sea in. Acrobatic and Aerial kills don't give much of a score boost in the multiplayer, and are probably the second most attention drawing way to do it next to Contested kills, but they're so badass that it's one of the most common sights in any match.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_38a71f91	type	Platform-Activated Ability
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_38a71f91	comment	Platform-Activated Ability: In certain islands of the Caribbean, there are unique monoliths that are erected next to seemingly-unimportant stone pillars. However, the monoliths clearly emanate a unique energy, so if Edward stands on top of one and then enters through Eagle Vision, he can perform an astral alignment of the nearby stone pillars (and, if close to them, also palm trees) by positioning an arrangement of white outlines in the right position to synchronize them mentally with said pillars and trees. Doing this allows Edward to pinpoint the exact spot of a keystone buried underground, which he can then unearth and collect. Once all keystones are gathered, he can use them to unlock a vault in Tulum that guards the legendary Mayan outfit.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: The game takes it to another level entirely. Past and present incarnations of Roberts are manipulating Templars and Assassins on behalf of a third group, whose purpose is to get the present-day protagonist in a position where their body can be taken over by Juno. It only fails because Juno isn't quite powerful enough yet to do it.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: Brigs carry about half as many resources as ships of the line do, but to loot the full amount you need to board the ship, which is a dangerous and time-consuming business if the target is a frigate or Man o' War. The most efficient way to farm resources, though not the flashiest one, is therefore to focus on boarding brigs while sinking any lone ship of the line that crosses your path. Schooners also sometimes carry impressive payloads and are even easier (and less exciting) to board than brigs. These easily captured ships can also be used to keep your notoriety low, or to convert them into gemstones for Kenway's Fleet.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The game suffers from this not only in the usual sense (The events relived are pretty well recorded) but also because it's a prequel to Assassin's Creed III. Edward will need to live until he has his second child (Haytham), the pirates will not achieve their goal of democracy in Nassau, and Blackbeard, Rackam, Hornigold, Vane, Black Bart, Stede and Mary Read will die before the game ends.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3bce9346	type	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3bce9346	comment	Ragnarök Proofing: The Observatory has clearly seen better days. But for a facility that's several thousands of years old, it's held up remarkably well, with its security defenses and even lighting still functional. Roberts himself lampshades this as he guides Edward inside it.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3cb68bd3	type	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3cb68bd3	comment	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: Edward playfully threatens to cut an adversary's lips off and feed them to him if he doesn't reveal some sensitive information. As it turns out, the historical pirate, Edward Low, did this exact thing to a captured ship's captain who had thrown his gold overboard rather than allow it to be captured.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: What is virtually guaranteed to happen to new players curious about those cute red ship symbols in the four corners of the world map. Even those who know what they're getting themselves into will probably get curb-stomped at least once anyway.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3d897748	type	Do Not Go Gentle
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3d897748	comment	Do Not Go Gentle: The game has the mission "Do Not Go Gently..." in which Blackbeard and company are ambushed by the British and he dies fighting them off.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3e5f74c	type	Take That, Critics!
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3e5f74c	comment	Take That, Critics!: A subtle one has the in-universe front for the antagonist faction panning the idea of a game about Ratonhnhaké:ton, specifically citing his stoic yet angry personality — echoing some real-world player complaints about him — but also claiming that depicting his early years was not recommended either because, "although Ratonhnhaké:ton's early life would be of some interest to our more educated audience, it is unlikely that his story would appeal on a broader scale... being too 'foreign', as it were, to normal audiences."
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: Since you work for Abstergo Entertainment, a front company for the modern-day Templars, it comes as little surprise that they are trying to do this to the Big Bads of all the previous games, under the caption of "Great Minds of History": Robert de Sable, Rodrigo Borgia, Haytham Kenway and Madeline de l'Isle. While Haytham is ambiguous enough to qualify for a pass, the Rodrigo Borgia one is remarkable for its self-delusion in calling him a "progressive, bon-vivant who cared about family values". They even praise him as a man of faith when the Assassin's Creed version of Rodrigo Borgia was an atheist. It's even more surprising given that the modern-Templars are said to view the Borgia's reign over the Templars as Old Shame, considering how he and his underlings abandoned all of the Templar principles. A straight example is Blackbeard. He's shown to be Lighter and Softer in comparison to all his other depictions, deliberately putting on a mask of terror because it keeps him from having to kill people. Of all the pirates of the Nassau Flying Gang, he is the most heroic and competes with Stede Bonnet for being the most likable. Stede Bonnet himself is portrayed as an essentially harmless rich boy who addresses everyone in a polite, chipper fashion, while his historical counterpart was known to torture merchant crewmen who resisted him.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3ea462d7	type	Take That, Audience!
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3ea462d7	comment	Take That, Audience!: You want some more of that poor lad Desmond for your "entertainment"? Here, have his "generously donated" body parts!
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3ec27f76	type	Costume Porn
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3ec27f76	comment	Costume Porn: This installment may have the most gorgeous costume designs yet. From the costumes worn by the pirates (Black Bart, Blackbeard, Mary Read and Anne Bonny deserve special mention), to the cool Assassin uniform, to the sumptuous outfits worn by the Templars. Edward's wardrobe alone is remarkable, featuring various pirate outfits, Assassin robes, and fashionable outfits of the day. Then there's the Templar and Mayan armour - the former is sleek and black and badass-looking, while the latter pairs golden First civ armour plate with ornate, electric blue robes.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: When the Sage is freed by the Assassins, the first thing he does is stab said Assassin in the neck with his own hidden blade. Later he does the same, when Edward Kenway and James Kidd rescue him from Laurens Prins, where he escapes but not before tripping the alarm bell and leaving them to deal with security. When he becomes a Pirate Captain, Bartholomew Roberts rewards Edward Kenway by knocking of a side of a cliff and then sending him to prison to claim a bounty, this after Edward had helped him steal his flagship, a Portuguese Man O'War. His response is a simple reminder that his Pirate Code has no mention of the concept of loyalty.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_40ad4941	type	Sword and Gun
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_40ad4941	comment	Sword and Gun: Edward's pose on the cover art, to some extent in gameplay as well.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Lying is Abstergo's stock in trade. In the introduction to the Sample 17 Project, Desmond Miles is called a "very generous donor". Anyone who knows about the earlier games can see just how far from the truth this is. Abstergo's executives also seek to remove and "correct" those historical points of view which contradict their agenda. They reject Altaïr, Ezio, and Connor's stories to make games because they aren't "propaganda friendly". The naval contracts you get from Milo Van Der Graaff. While he claims to be an "Honest Businessman and Friend" it's clear he's as much of a crook as any pirate and is merely outsourcing his criminal activities through Edward.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_40cbee83	type	Wretched Hive
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_40cbee83	comment	Wretched Hive: Nassau in the Bahamas was a Pirate republic, with elected officials and freedom to vote and initially is shown to be a small shantytowns with thatched houses and a small settlement with wooden support beams but is alive with local colour and character and seems like a cool place. However, in the game we see it get worse when disease and lack of medicine and infrastructure turn it into a slum with rats scurrying around, and people walking on streets in total sickness, which results in the Nassau Pirates Losing the Team Spirit and folding to Woodes Rogers.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Both for Edward's story and the modern-day storyline. Edward is going home to England with a daughter, his future is secure, the Assassins have taken his hideout as their new base and possess the Crystal Skull, and the Caribbean Templars have been wiped out. However, almost everyone Edward has loved has either died or he will never see them again, his wife died while he was away making his quest for his fortune a "Shaggy Dog" Story, and the Golden Age of Piracy has come to its end. Additionally, anyone who has played Assassin's Creed III and/or read the Expanded Universe novels knows that Edward will die ignominiously, and his son will become a Templar and undo most all of Edward's work in the new world. In the modern-day story, John Standish is dead, Juno is still a non-threat without a body, the analyst Player Character is alive, and the Assassins have a lot of valuable data on Abstergo. On the other hand the analyst now knows they are in constant danger of Abstergo locking them up whenever they see fit, there's the chance they'll be found out about their plots with Standish and the Assassins, the Templars have the location of the Observatory now, and all of the analyst's hard work is being rewarded with the knowledge the adventures they lived through are being Flanderized into a cheesy video game to serve as pro-Templar propaganda.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_40ce0222	type	Different for Girls
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_40ce0222	comment	Different for Girls: Discussed by Vidic and Subject One, the descendant of Aveline de Grandpré, in a recording you can find. Subject One notes that his center of gravity is lower, and he can feel the eyes of everyone looking at her attractiveness, and finds the roles society expects of a woman restricting. He is also really uncomfortable with attraction she has to men, and asserts that he is not gay. Another peculiarity he discusses at length is how Aveline's body language during social situations might be a hint that she does think about sex, though he has a lot of trouble differentiating it from his own biologically male tendencies.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_427ca0d0	type	Animal Theme Naming
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_427ca0d0	comment	Animal Theme Naming: Edward Kenway, the grandfather of Connor Kenway (of the previous game's fame), captains a ship called the Jackdaw. As in the Aesop fable, "The Eagle and the Jackdaw", Edward is a common criminal (jackdaw) who pretends to be an Assassin (eagle).
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_42c9f1ec	type	Downplayed Trope
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_42c9f1ec	comment	Downplayed Trope with the Templars. While they maintain a presence in the Caribbean and are reasonably wealthy and influential, they aren't doing nearly as much grandiose scheming as in previous games, having had their operations severely hindered by Assassin attacks. This is why they seek the Observatory, so they will be able to spy on anyone they want. Further, the English Navy is a much more powerful presence.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Edward learns how to use the Hidden Blades by putting on an act for the Templars who think he's an Assassin defector; they want to see his stuff on a training course and he rolls with it. So, through the sheer power of bluff, his sailor's ability to climb agilely ("every finger a fishhook!") and some improvisation, he's become just like the guy he's impersonating. A recurring theme is Ah Tabai telling Edward that he has to earn the outfit he had taken for himself. By the end he does, and he becomes a full-time Assassin. Happens literally and often in the multiplayer, as morphing civilians to look like you is the easiest and most effective way of avoiding detection.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_46b5a2f2	type	Historical Character's Fictional Relative
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_46b5a2f2	comment	Historical Character's Fictional Relative: Subverted. When the character James Kidd first appears, it's directly stated that he's the son of Captain Kidd, if the name wasn't enough of an indicator. The subversion is that not only is Kidd not really a Kidd, he's not fictional and isn't even a man—it's a persona played by the historical lady pirate Mary Read as part of her Assassin activities.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_46f3f271	comment	From Camouflage to Criminal: Edward Kenway was a privateer in the employ of the United Kingdom during the War of the Spanish Succession, but when the war ended it left him without a livelihood, and he turned to plain old piracy.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_47fea76b	comment	Averted in the case of Jack Rackham, the team Butt-Monkey who pulls The Mutiny on Charles Vane but immediately makes his incompetence clear to his crew. After James Kidd outs herself as Mary Read, she becomes the captain with Rackham as her beard and puppet.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: Edward's manor in Inagua; after it's been upgraded, it becomes a pretty white manor, filled with Mayan art, and with a huge, colourful garden filled with tropical flowers, and a guest house because why not. It becomes especially lovely when the skeleton wearing Templar armour is removed.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_486466ee	type	Dual Boss
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_486466ee	comment	The northeast has two man-o-wars, the Dual Bosses HMS Fearless and the Royal Sovereign. They tend to attack in tandem, first attempting to sandwich you between their individual broadsides, and after they pass you, they turn around in front of you, continuing their broadside assault as they get back into position and keep you between their paths. Defeat one of them, and the survivor Turns Red - its cannons all become heated (dealing about twice as much damage), the ship sets itself on fire and switches tactics from long-range bombardment to utterly lethal ram attacks.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_4873d055	type	Use Your Head
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_4873d055	comment	Use Your Head: True to their real-life behavior, the bull sharks that patrol sunken wrecks often hit Edward with a powerful headbutt instead of biting him. This habit is one of the reasons they were given their name.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_4910eb39	type	Distant Sequel
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_4910eb39	comment	Distant Sequel: The game is a prequel to III set during The Golden Age of Piracy, around fifty years before the predecessor's events, following the grandfather of III's protagonist.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The Caribbean sea and islands are gorgeous, if largely inaccurate.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: The camera pans down as a British sailor administers the coup de grace to Blackbeard's neck. Historically, Thatch was decapitated at Lieutenant Maynard's orders after being overwhelmed in battle. The cutscene shows his hat poignantly falling to the deck behind him.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Edward Kenway, befitting his background and profession, won't hesitate to pull out (several) pistols in the middle of a swordfight or a number of other "ungentlemanly" fighting moves. Brutes who catch you hiding in bushes or stalk zones often prefer to lob a grenade in with Edward rather than face him head-on.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The Abstergo emails discussing future settings to explore is a direct parody of the fan discussions of the series as well as the various issues involved in the use of some settings. Indeed much of the present day is filled with jokes and gags about video game development. The game's writers noted that the Abstergo Employee Handbook is modeled on Ubisoft Montreal's which also serves as the model for Abstergo Entertainment. The first time Edward meets Stede Bonnet again, the latter delightedly notices that "the West Indies are a compact place", lampshading the necessarily compressed game world.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_4c123f8a	type	Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_4c123f8a	comment	Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud: Narrowly averted for water spouts - they'll start dealing damage to ships even if the funnel hasn't touched the vessel yet. Their area of effect is still much smaller than it should be, though, probably as a form of Anti-Frustration Feature. These things are dangerous enough as they are.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_4e61fee5	type	Just Like Making Love
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_4e61fee5	comment	Just Like Making Love: The game parodies Monkey Island in a discussion between some guards on the left side of Laurens Prins's mansion, during the mission where you have to infiltrate this mansion.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: Edward has a number of facial scars, but they mostly just reinforce his rough-and-ready personality rather than mar his appearance. Woodes Rogers, on the other hand, has a mass of ugly purple scar tissue, which makes him look very creepy.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_4efce9e6	type	Thematic Sequel Logo Change
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_4efce9e6	comment	Thematic Sequel Logo Change: The Assassin sigil has a skull in it to represent the game taking place during the Golden Age of Piracy, and its pirate protagonist Edward Kenway.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: The subtitles for the game capitalize all nouns as was the written custom during the early 18th century, and spell out certain words such as "awful" in the form of "awe-full" to represent language drift. It was also an homage to Charles Johnson's A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates, the seminal book on The Golden Age of Piracy which served as a main source for Black Flag.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_50d71a78	type	Dual Wielding
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_50d71a78	comment	Dual Wielding: Both swords and pistols are sold in sets, and Edward even receives two Hidden Blades together instead of only one, "As is the custom, (yes)?"note This is one of the first signs that, like in Assassin's Creed III with Haytham Kenway and his companions, something's up with "Duncan Walpole" and his contacts...
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The first time Edward meets Woodes Rogers in-game, it's at a governor's (Torres') home in a dead man's (Walpole's) clothes. The last time it's at a governor's (Rogers') home in a dead man's (Ferraro's) clothes. Edward's first visit to the Observatory has him beat up the native Guardians. His last visit has him saving them. Edward first comes to Tulum from the beach and arrives at the Temple, where he fights off invading Redcoats, Ah Tabai chastises him and tells him he's unwelcome, and he is shown where the Mayan armour is kept. His last visit begins at the Temple, where Ah Tabai forgives him and tells him he is welcome, and ends at the beach where Edward defends the base from the invading Spanish. And if the player has kept up with his Mayan Stele puzzles, this is Edward's first opportunity to get to the Temple and put the armour on... The game ends with Edward at the theater with a young Haytham, the same location that the previous game begins. This one's somewhat subtle. Both the first and last time you're given proper control of a ship (after Cape Bonavista in the first memory and during the credits) Edward's passenger (Stede Bonnet and Jenny, respectively) asks if they'll see pirates during their trip, with Edward answering that it's unlikely.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_548bd053	type	Guns Akimbo
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_548bd053	comment	Guns Akimbo: Although Edward never dual-wields pistols in the traditional sense, he and other pirates can and do carry multiple pistols at any given time, allowing chained pistol kills (with a corresponding achievement for getting a four-kill streak). This is justified historically: as firearms of the day lacked an internal magazine, this was the only practical way to fire multiple shots in a row, and nobody had time or space to reload in the close-quarters combat found on a ship.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_5534431f	type	Money for Nothing
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_5534431f	comment	Money for Nothing: The game manages to solve this problem for most of its campaign. This time around, your ship is a core element of the game, and it costs a good amount of both cash and resources to upgrade. However, once you have turned it into an unstoppable machine of nautical robbery, you only have a handful of man-o-wars hiding in corners of the map to cut your teeth on, and the bank they carry doesn't have much practical use. There are island upgrades, of course, but they are more for the looks and unlocking a few collectibles rather than tuning your main ride.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_557dabce	type	Deserted Island
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_557dabce	comment	Deserted Island: Edward Kenway and Charles Vain get stranded this way when one of Vain's men betrays him.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_55e5b37c	type	Bragging Rights Reward
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_55e5b37c	comment	Bragging Rights Reward: Beating all four of the Legendary Ships unlocks a stronger ram attack. Of course, your regular ram attack, when fully upgraded, is enough to take out most ships in the game anyway, so there's nothing left worth using it on. There are upgrades for your hideout that allow you to hire dancers and pirates for free. These upgrades cost 15,000 and 7,000 reales, respectively, to allow you to save 150 reales every time you hire these groups. You would have to hire and use 100 different groups of dancers just to break even on investing in their building at the hideout. Good luck finding that many uses for them throughout the entire game, even if you're actively trying. Completing all of the assassination contracts unlocks the Pistol Swords. While they have appropriately flashy unique animations and the best stats in the game, they're matched with the far cheaper Officer's Rapiers.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: This phrase is uttered by the "dancers" - they are "well-versed in country matters." Vane slips the C-word into a particularly gnarly threat.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: See the franchise's page.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Mary Read pulls one of these on some guards, so that they'll open the doors. She promptly kills them.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_569a95e9	type	The Teetotaler
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_569a95e9	comment	The Teetotaler: Roberts doesn't drink, in keeping with his (possibly apocryphal) depiction in historical accounts.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_56b5a6b7	type	Nostalgia Level
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_56b5a6b7	comment	Nostalgia Level: The main story features a point where an entire city is a Restricted Zone - basically, if a guard sees you, you have about ten seconds before he'll start trying to kill you. This causes the kind of caution, rooftop-running, and paranoia that players haven't seen since Assassin's Creed, where basically every city had hyper-touchy guards that would kill you as soon as look at you.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_56f6d892	type	Injured Player Character Stage
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_56f6d892	comment	Injured Player Character Stage: Edward slashes his arm on a tree while sliding down a slope, leaving him limping towards his crew on a beach before he collapses of blood loss.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Edward Kenway's quartermaster, ex-slave Adewale, leaves the crew to have his own adventures in a Spin-Off DLC about two-thirds of the way through the main story. You also periodically interact with fellow pirates, one of whom, Anne Bonny, replaces Ade as quartermaster.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_58efc711	type	The Goomba
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_58efc711	comment	El Impoluto, a legendary Level 75 Man o' War and the only ship of its class that mounts a naval ram. The beast is just as heavily armored and armed as the other legendary ships, but unlike them it's extremely fast and agile, capable of outrunning and outmaneuvering the Jackdaw no matter the situation (the only other vessels that can do this are gunships). Needless to say that a wicked-fast Man o' War purpose-built for ram attacks is a very deadly foe.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_5b0a8d6a	type	Racial Face Blindness
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_5b0a8d6a	comment	Racial Face Blindness: Played with in "The Maroon Assassin," a Templar Hunt side mission in which Edward teams up with a black Assassin.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_5b39f849	type	Workplace-Acquired Abilities
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_5b39f849	comment	Workplace-Acquired Abilities: Edward Kenway's skill at free running comes from working on a ship for the better part of a decade by the time he first discovers the Assassins. The need to quickly climb up a ship's masts and across its rigging translates well into climbing tall buildings and leaping across rooftops.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: You'll probably notice of all the reused characters for all the employees and pedestrians at Abstergo, yet the barista at the lobby and the courier that shows up on occasion are completely unique NPCs. That's because they're Shaun and Rebecca from the previous games.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_5b81ca8d	type	Disc-One Nuke
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_5b81ca8d	comment	Disc-One Nuke: If you are diligent in upgrading the Jackdaw and exploring the map, by the time you reach sequence 6 and complete the memory "Diving for Medicines" (which unlocks diving missions giving you access to the Elite Upgrades, assuming you don't have them already by way of the Technology Pack Time Saver DLC, which is a Disc-One Nuke itself) you will have everything you need to fully upgrade the Jackdaw, complete all assassins contracts and naval contracts and the Templar Hunt missions. At the end of which you will have a One Ship Armada captained by a guy who holds dual pistol swords (which fire bullets as a finishing move) and gold-plated pistols which has the best stats and the Templar Armour. There's still half the game left, which is smooth sailing from then on. Happy pirating!
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_5c17c12f	comment	Bribing Your Way to Victory: Just like Assassin's Creed III, Assassin's Creed IV multiplayer allows you to spend real money to purchase Erudito Credits to unlock skills, character customization items, and emblem unlocks before you are high enough level to unlock them naturally. There are also download packs on the XBLA, PSN, and UPlay stores to unlock all skills and/or customization options.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_5c5d0032	comment	Eyepatch of Power: Only Stede Bonnet wears one, the Edward the Legend outfit allows Edward to do this too. Averted though.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_5e7163c9	comment	Alternative Character Interpretation: In-universe, this is Played for Laughs when Abstergo Entertainment's internal market feasibility analysis videos' narrations depict Altaïr as a hypocritical, murderous fanatic with Abbas Sofian as a Token Good Teammatenote complete with suggesting that they seek out an Abbas descendant, Ezio as a corrupt, violent sleazebag who tries to put the moves on the supposedly "impressionable" Shao Jun, Connor as a stoic bore whose early years would be too foreign for "normal" audiences to relate to, and Aveline de Grandpre as a dutiful daughter to Madeline de l'Isle, with all four videos using wildly out-of-context clips from their respective real-world games and Assassin's Creed: Embers. Moreover, at least two other Abstergo Entertainment internal videos confirm that Edward Kenway's doomed to be similarly mischaracterized, and you are tasked with garnering the material with which to mischaracterize him.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_5f410c2c	comment	Blood Is Squicker in Water: Harpooning animals is just as bloody in-game as it is in Real Life, a fact that actually triggered some public backlash shortly after the game was released. Edward being bitten by a shark also spills copious amounts of blood into the sea.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6041e4f4	comment	The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: In an example that oddly works out in the player's favor, Edward is unable to break a Captain's defense without countering one of his attacks first, but Edward's crewmembers have no such restriction. If Edward counters a Captain's attack, but the Captain is attacked by someone else, and Edward attempts to use the Break Defense maneuver, the Captain will forget he's supposed to be keeling over in pain, and will bitch-slap Edward for the attempt as normal.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_60b21fa3	comment	Likewise with Edward Kenway, Adéwalé serves as The Lancer and his Number Two before pulling off a Screw This, I'm Outta Here as a result of Kenway's It's All About Me attitude and his own interest in the Assassins. He becomes a Hero of Another Story in the DLC Freedom Cry.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Devil's Eyes Caverns and the Black Trench don't exactly sound like cozy places for diving. The latter is one of the most heavily shark-infested underwater locations in the game.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_61c3ca7b	comment	Panthera Awesome: Jaguars appear in the game, including black and unique white variants. Ocelots can be found as well, though they're not as hostile.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_61c683d2	comment	While you still suffer desync penalties for killing civilians and domestic animals, your crew suffers from We Have Reserves; any crew lost during a boarding - up to and including swivel cannon friendly fire - is negligible thanks to the ability to recruit replacements. It's even lampshaded in-game; there's an achievement for recruiting a total of 500 crew members called "Cannon Fodder".
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: John the IT guy. Well, for a set value of sanity. Most evident in the stickies he leaves around the office - already really odd behaviour, but it gets worse. The sticky notes make up a pledge of allegiance to Juno, which starts off quite composed, but soon loses grammar, syntax, and finally composure, so towards the end John is simply writing in barely-articulate ranting walls of text.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_62fd5552	comment	Edward learns how to use the Hidden Blades by putting on an act for the Templars who think he's an Assassin defector; they want to see his stuff on a training course and he rolls with it. So, through the sheer power of bluff, his sailor's ability to climb agilely ("every finger a fishhook!") and some improvisation, he's become just like the guy he's impersonating.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6320eced	comment	Gameplay and Story Segregation: In the intro, Walpole tries to shoot Kenway with his gun, only for it to fail on account of just being dunked in the ocean. Kenway, once he gets his own pistols, can swim, get out of water, and immediately fire his weapons. Justified since there were ways to waterproof flintlock pistols to some extent; they just weren't very reliable. Maybe Edward simply takes better care of his equipment. Characters are seen in cutscenes to use pistols as Throw-Away Guns, only bothering to reload them once well out of combat. In gameplay, Edward keeps the same set all the time and can reload all four of them in about three seconds. (For extra fun, the animation looks like he's breech loading all the shells into a single gun, unlike Connor in the previous game who had to load each barrel of each gun he had.) Edward can swim in full gear, but must remove it all in order to do the diving missions, including his swords and hidden blades, which would come in very handy against sharks. It is assumed in most scenes that Edward is wearing Assassin robes with a hood. He will make the motion of raising and lowering it whether the outfit he's currently wearing has a hood at all, or if the hood has a "lowered" animation. Strangely, this happens in Nassau when he's canonically in pirate clothes and cannot change. You can accept Assassin contracts before actually making contact with the leadership, where you're told about contracts. You can also complete the Templar sidequests where you work alongside the Assassins before the same point, yet the Assassins will know who you are. "Stealth bonuses" for raiding warehouses are earned by not allowing any alarm bells to be rung, even if you disabled them and then openly murdered every single guard. No matter how upgraded the Jackdaw is or how well you perform in combat, cutscenes in main memory sequence missions will assume Edward's ship to be as strong as you'd reasonably expect a normal pirate brig to be. In-Story, the pirates are at their strongest at the beginning of the game, with Blackbeard, Hornigold, and the full of Nassau at your back. However, you are at your strongest at the end, capturing fort after fort one after the other with hordes of pirates appearing out of nowhere to raise the black flag and actively defend the immediate area against Spanish or English ships. After the fall of Nassau, you are reduced to being on your own and should not only been unable to capture any more forts, but lose control of any that you did have (which obviously does not happen). During the mission to assassinate Prins, in the subsequent cutscene Roberts shoots the alarm bell to summon guards, even if you had previously disabled the bell. A bit forgivable though as the gunshot probably would have done the trick by itself to alert the guards even if the bell didn't. Edward's only motivation for most of the game is that he can make enough cash so he can set up himself and his wife for a long, comfortable life. However, regardless if you're already swimming in hundreds of thousands of Spanish Reales, he still won't believe he has enough. On a similar note, the crew eventually chooses to abandon Edward to Roberts' mercy because he's been too focused on hunting more esoteric treasures instead of taking ships that they themselves can use to retire from pirating in comfort, regardless of how many ships you've captured and how well Edward treats them. Adéwalé and the rest of the crew eventually mutiny and abandon an injured Edward to Black Bart, purportedly because Edward has spent too much time obsessing about the Observatory rather than standard pirate activity. Meanwhile, the player has probably personally boarded more than a hundred ships, taken over several forts, found tons of treasure, amassed a fleet of several man o' wars, and has tens of thousands of reales. Not quite good enough for them, apparently.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6383a034	type	The Mutiny
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6383a034	comment	The game also defines The Mutiny not as a great crime of treachery but merely Democracy in action, respecting the right of the crew, more or less, to exercise franchise over their captain who, however badass he may be, must rely on them finally.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_63cad64b	comment	Threatening Shark: Sharks, including hammerhead, bull, and great white sharks, are the main enemies in the underwater segments.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_681077c5	type	Wide-Open Sandbox
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_681077c5	comment	Wide-Open Sandbox: The northern Caribbean Sea containing the Greater Antilles is fully sailable and filled with all sorts of locations.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6820e212	type	Giant Squid
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6820e212	comment	Giant Squid: If Edward looks out a certain window at the Antocha wreck for a short while, a cinematic depicting a battle between a Giant Squid and a white whale would occur.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6858aca8	type	Punctuated Pounding
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6858aca8	comment	Punctuated Pounding: As Edward pummels Charles Vane:
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_685d06d	type	Plot Parallel
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_685d06d	comment	Plot Parallel: To Aesop's The Eagle and the Jackdaw which is retold in its entirety in the game.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_68da6712	type	Canon Welding
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_68da6712	comment	Canon Welding: An Easter Egg the Abstergo analyst can find while hacking computers puts Watch_Dogs into the The 'Verse of Assassin's Creed (and likely every other Ubisoft game that were in the game's universe outside of Tom Clancy games developed by the company). Abstergo CEO Olivier Garneau also disappears from the rest of the game because he was later assassinated by Aiden Pearce of DedSec on behalf of the Assassin Brotherhood.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6ac6a56a	type	And Your Reward Is Clothes
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6ac6a56a	comment	And Your Reward Is Clothes: Black Flag is unique for the number and range of alternative costumes. Edward's Assassin robes can get accessory cloaks and jackets; DLC provides more classical pirate outfits like Henry Morgan's Redingote, the Edward the Legend outfit, and Stede Bonnet's gentleman's outfit; you can unlock outfits like the Templar Armour and the Mayan Armour through side quests; and you can craft various hunter outfits. Buying a certain number of prior Assassin's Creed installments on XBox Live, PSN, or Steam, also unlocks the previous series protagonists' outfits. The switch version includes them by default, as well as charcters from later games.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6b5a92dc	type	Uncanny Valley
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6b5a92dc	comment	Uncanny Valley: Deliberately invoked with the Sages' face. Their unnatural blue and yellow eyes are unsettling enough, but in the denouement of the modern-day portion, we're given an up-close look at John's face, with every single blemish, every bit of stubble, being visible and magnified.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6b8b122b	type	The Good, the Bad, and the Evil
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6b8b122b	comment	The Good, the Bad, and the Evil: Breaking from the series tradition of the conflict being only between The Assassins and the Templars, this game adds The Pirates as a third party Wild Card to the mix. And both aforementioned sides have a shared disdain for pirates because they find them lacking in any principles or code.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Edward Kenway means "Prosperous Brave Royal Fighter". His ship, the Jackdaw, has a meaningful name as well. (see Animal Motifs).
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6d786f8e	type	Stock Unsolved Mysteries
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6d786f8e	comment	Stock Unsolved Mysteries: There are pages from the Voynich manuscript in the archives of the game, but interestingly it does NOT state outright that they are of Precursor origin.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6d7cd3e	type	Dead Person Impersonation
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: Edward gets his Call to Adventure when his ship is sunk during a battle with a ship crewed by an Assassin. They eventually fight, the wounded Assassin loses, and Edward finds a note that the guy was going to get a huge reward for showing up in Havana. Not one to waste an opportunity for profit, Edward dons his costume.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6e0898f9	type	Silliness Switch
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6e0898f9	comment	Silliness Switch: The game has numerous "Abstergo Challenges" that unlock cheats once completed. One of these cheats turns the sprites of all enemy soldiers into Rabbids. Another causes characters to say cheesy lines, and yet another causes lightning and Dramatic Thunder to strike every time Edward hits an enemy (including stealthy assassinations).
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8	type	Guide Dang It!
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8	comment	Guide Dang It!: The instructions for the "optional objectives" needed for full synchronization are not always clear. "Disarm three guards and kill them?" OK, but where did you mention having to kill them with their own weapons? Similarly, the requirement that you remain undetected while looking for Hornigold fails to specify that it only applies to the sea segment and one odd requirement for the penultimate mission flashes up briefly at the beginning of the climactic fight with El Tiburón, and only applies to that specific fight sequence, so expect a few frustrating reloads. "Visit old friends", in the mission Suffer Without Dying. The only hint is the 0/2 (indicating that there are two people to find) - beyond that, you are given no indication of where to go. Even worse, the main mission already involves finding two of Edward's old friends. Also, one of the best ranged weapons (possibly best weapons period) is the throwing knife. Even though you can only hold one at a time and can only snap-shot them, they are completely silent and, unlike their previous counterparts, will kill anything (with the possible exception of certain bosses) in a single hit. Nowhere in the game are you told that they exist, let alone that you can only obtain them by disarming agile guards and/or picking up their discarded weapons.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6f0737ea	type	Documentary of Lies
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6f0737ea	comment	Documentary of Lies: By the events of this game, Abstergo successfully creates an industry where they use employees to uncover real history and twist the information they find to make historical, evil Templars look like heroes and the historical, heroic Assassins look like villains. Then they put the information out as movies, video games, television shows, and documentaries, claiming the consumer is experiencing real history.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_6f398193	comment	Behemoth Battle: Watching two Man o' Wars circle each other while exchanging mortar salvos and withering broadsides never gets old.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_70d2bc73	type	Antagonistic Governor
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_70d2bc73	comment	Antagonistic Governor: Governor Laureano de Torres y Ayala and Governor Woodes Rogers. While the former isn't an outright villain, he is the Grand Master of the Templars, and believes only the exceptional should advance in the world. The latter isn't outright evil as well, but is still a Templar and a slaveowner.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: The last scene before the credits has Ah Tabai inform Edward that Woodes Rogers is Not Quite Dead. Cue Edward sailing off to London, his young daughter, Jenny, in tow.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_716d9138	comment	Bar Brawl: Bar Fights can be done in order to recruit more men for your ship's crew.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_721325ee	comment	No Cutscene Inventory Inertia: Averted once again in this game, where your weapons, armor and cosmetic changes are reflected in cutscenes. The scenes still play out like they would with the normal model, though: Edward will still try to put his hood on while using costumes that don´t have them and will try to put his hood down while using costumes that have them fixed.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_724d13ce	comment	Molotov Truck: One of the campaign missions involves the player character teaming up with Charles Vane and Jack Rackham to use a fire ship to break a British blockade around Nassau after it comes under occupation by Woodes Rogers.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_72c04e0d	type	Door to Before
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_72c04e0d	comment	Door to Before: A couple of the pirate dens which can only be entered through underwater caverns have this. The exit is clearly visible from outside but can't initially be reached due to its higher elevation.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: Compared to previous games, Black Flag took a step backward. At first the Templars are seen to participate in activities that, while unsavory by today's standards, were fairly typical for privileged men of the era. (One even chides an associate who expresses disgust at his dealing in slaves, asking how subjugating black men is morally worse than subjugating all men.) Edward becomes a privateer, and later pirate, for the sole purpose of getting rich, and he's point-blank about this to everyone he meets. There are a few lines he won't cross... he reacts very negatively when someone asks if he's thinking of taking of slaving, for instance... but otherwise has no qualms about sacking ships, putting innocent sailors to the sword, and plundering warehouses, like any other good 'n hearty freebooter. When he meets the Assassins (whom he learns absolutely nothing about beforehand), they're portrayed as stubborn, unpleasant, highly territorial recluses. However, through a series of mutual struggles, Edward becomes sympathetic to the Assassins' cause, ultimately adding their symbol to his flag, and learns that the Templars intended to use the Sage as part of a plot to take over the English government. There's also a bit of greying in that some of Edward's pirate friends are more rambunctious than he is, showing that he keeps problematic company. Some of the pirates even defect to the Templars, believing either that the Templars at least would take care of them compared to the chaos of striking out on their own, or that the experiment of the Pirate Republic showed that the world needed the order the Templars offer. So while there are seductive points to these Templars overall, Edward concludes that as bad as he's been, what the Templars are doing is even worse.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_735e71c2	type	Recursive Canon
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_735e71c2	comment	Recursive Canon: This game and Assassin's Creed III: Liberation also exist as in-universe games, titled "Pirates of Nightmares" and "Liberation", respectively, and are developed by Abstergo Entertainment. Supposedly developed by taking data from the Animus and then turning that information into a video game, these projects exist to skew public favor for the Templar's interpretation of history. The actual games themselves paint the Assasins as the good guys so it's hard to tell what the Templars were going for if their own games are more or less on the same trajectory.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: All unnamed NPCs wear colors indicating their faction. Friendly pirates dress in blue "sea clothes", while hostile pirates and privateers dress in black. Soldiers and sailors for each country wear color coded uniforms: English in red, Spanish in yellow, and Portuguese in blue. Their ships, too, are color-coded. Friendly pirates are unpainted, but fly white sails with black skulls. Spanish ships are red and gold, Portuguese ships are green and British ships are (somewhat anachronistically) painted in black-and-yellow Nelson Cheqeur. Royal convoys, regardless of faction, have stark white hulls and Pirate hunters are Red and Black and Evil All Over.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: After not being mentioned all throughout the previous game, "Nothing is true and everything is permitted" is discussed once more, the true meaning of the phrase being pondered again by the protagonist. Bartholomew Roberts has some, too:
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_79a80b74	type	Fair for Its Day
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_79a80b74	comment	The game highlights the pirates as being, from a modern perspective, somewhat more egalitarian than the European colonial empires who they fight against, who combat piracy yet uphold a far more destructive form of theft, slavery. They practice meritorious advancement, have a racially integrated Badass Crew and Anne Bonny, who becomes an in-universe Memetic Badass as the ur-Pirate Girl. However the fact that they are a Dysfunction Junction note "We're not men meant to govern." - Edward Kenway and their income coming from high seas robbery means they are not able to sustain their ideals, with even an initial Wide-Eyed Idealist like Benjamin Hornigold pulling a Screw This, I'm Outta Here.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7ac5c1de	type	Unishment
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7ac5c1de	comment	Unishment: Most of the time, bounty hunters at sea are far more beneficial than detrimental. Their ships are of consistently higher level than their navy counterparts, making them the only ones worth capturing for the Kenway's Fleet minigame. They also carry large amounts of upgrade resources and are particularly reliable sources of the otherwise rare iron. Last but not least, it's very easy to force them spawn over and over again near captured forts for even faster resource farming, as opposed to randomly searching the open sea for worthy prizes. Just make sure the Jackdaw is sufficiently upgraded to survive the constant high-level battles.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7ae4d273	type	Point of No Return
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7ae4d273	comment	Point of No Return: The mission where you go to the Observatory is this. Nothing Is the Same Anymore after that, for one thing, Adéwalé will no longer be your first mate, leaving you first alone in the ocean to do all kinds of pirate activity with no First Mate and then after doing the mission in Tulum you get an Assassin Skull logo as a flag, showing that you have joined them and Anne Bonny becomes your quartermaster and all that's left is one final sequence. That said, nearly the entire map is open till then so you can fully upgrade your Jackdaw into elite and upgrade your hideout by that, and can definitely fight the Legendary ships by then.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: When Edward assassinates Cockram and Burgess, they call him out on his selfish behavior, ending their rant with this trope:
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7bf14666	type	And Now for Someone Completely Different
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7bf14666	comment	And Now for Someone Completely Different: Alongside the obvious jump to a new protagonist, this installment marks the end of Desmond as the central character. Although his DNA and memory are used, the new protagonist is a Heroic Mime Player Character who is a simple researcher for a company, rather than a badass hero with a Secret Legacy. This game marks the first historical Player Character who is not an Assassin throughout most of the story, instead becoming one near the end. Two major DLCs have diffrent protagonists then the main game: Freedom Cry, which has you playing as Adéwalé There's also the Playstation, PC, and Switch exclusive Aveline, which as the name implies, has you playing as Aveline from Assassin's Creed III: Liberation.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech : Edward gets from one from nearly everyone he meets. But the most cruel and resonant one comes from himself or rather his Mushroom Samba where he imagines Black Bart, his Arch-Enemy tell him he never had it in him to be a pirate, and then Woodes Rogers retells the entirety of Aesop's The Eagle and the Jackdaw obviously using it to mock Edward's pride and ambitions.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7dbc1788	type	A Place Holds Memories
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7dbc1788	comment	A Place Holds Memories: In the ending, as Edward is ready to leave the Caribbean, he looks to a table at the bar in Nassau he used to hang around in all the time and sees a vision/memory of all his dead friends drinking together.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7dd72460	type	Gold-Colored Superiority
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7dd72460	comment	Gold-Colored Superiority: Combining this with Bling of War, the Jackdaw's elite weapons are uniformly gold-plated cannons of various bores, and the elite hull upgrade includes many golden highlights, too. Similarly, the game's best pistol set is simply named "golden flintlock pistols".
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7e345221	type	Snowball Lie
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7e345221	comment	Snowball Lie: Edward pilfers Duncan's robes, summons, map, and package to make a quick buck finishing the late Assassin turncoat's delivery. The events that follow see him deeply involved with an massive global conspiracy and ancient hidden war he has no real comprehension of for a significant portion of the plot.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7e5f2db2	type	Talk Like a Pirate
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7e5f2db2	comment	Talk Like a Pirate: Averted for the most part in the game. The pirates in the game speak a variety of accents from Edward's Welsh to Anne's Irish as well as Yorkshire and Norfolk. Olivier does this briefly when he welcomes the Analyst to Abstergo's current prestige project. Played moderately, but Blackbeard does have an accent in the trailer. Justified, as he was a native Bristolian, the region from which this practically-requisite accent originates. The cheat Arr, Matey! makes it so Edward speaks in a deliberately overblown version of this.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Pirates in general are depicted as heavy drinkers. Edward is one such, even in his pre-piracy flashbacks, but apparently manages to avoid full-blown alcoholism. "Calico" Jack Rackham channels Jack Sparrow for his love of debauchery and is never once seen sober. Both in the game and historically, he is captured while he and most of his crew are passed out below decks. Charles Vane tells Edward how his father died of drink before he managed to fulfill his dream of sailing the seas.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7f3be191	type	Impossibly Cool Clothes
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7f3be191	comment	Impossibly Cool Clothes: Outfits that should make stealth, blending into a crowd and/or crazy freerunning impossible are a staple of the series already, but the Crimson Cloak outfit takes it a step further by adding an extremely opulent cape that looks like heavy brocade. Trying to swim in that thing should take you to the bottom within seconds, and how Edward keeps all that salt water from ruining the color is anybody's guess.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7f8fd503	type	Lonely at the Top
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_7f8fd503	comment	Lonely at the Top: Part of Edward Kenway's Heel Realization is from him finally admitting this, or at least verbalizing it. For all the wealth that he's gained, near the end of the game Mary Read passed away despite his attempts to rescue her in his escape from Kingston, his crew mutinies against him or ditches him at least twice, and the end, Adewale — who'd been with him from the very beginning of the days of the Jackdaw — has finally had enough of Edward and leaves to join the Assassins... and when he struck down Ben Hornigold, his former friend turned Templar, he was in no uncertain terms told that he'd be all alone in the world.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8125d8f6	type	Easy Level Trick
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8125d8f6	comment	Easy Level Trick: Chasing down the numerous sea shanty sheets can be a real chore. Good thing then that most spawn only a short distance above a solid surface, so Edward can just let the sheet escape and wait at its spawn point for a minute or so, picking it up without a fuss the moment it respawns. A scant few shanties hover in the air instead, so this won't work with them, but camping as close as possible to their respawn point still gives you enough of a headstart to make the chase significantly easier.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: The reason the pirate republic fails. All of them have wildly different personalities and a range of personal issues. Benjamin Hornigold believes, at least initially, that Nassau can be a functioning democracy and that they can transcend their pirate origins and transform into a legitimate state. Blackbeard believes the same but he has been at it for so long that he can't think of any other form of life and ultimately decides to retire. Charles Vane is a Bomb Throwing Anarchist who sees the pirate life as license to be The Unfettered while Edward Kenway is Only in It for the Money and longs for One Last Job, a score so bountiful that he never has to rob or work again. Rackham has no aspirations beyond his next bottle of rum, while James Kidd is a pirate only nominally.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_82108e3d	type	Attack Its Weak Point
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_82108e3d	comment	Attack Its Weak Point: Volleys of cannon fire may expose weak points in an enemy ship's hull or rigging which can be targeted with your swivel guns for major damage. The Legendary Ship, La Dama Negra, can only be damaged effectively in a few areas due to its armor.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_82384b1	type	Never Hurt an Innocent
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_82384b1	comment	Never Hurt an Innocent: When you sink civilian fishing boats, the game just states that Edward Kenway did not kill civilians without desyncing. Justified in that he only joins the Assassin Brotherhood later. In a later mission, however, Edward has to sneak through an Assassin village without killing any of the Order guards.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e	comment	Rather than a fearsome pirate of legend, Blackbeard is simply a desperate sailor who in his own words barely survived four decades and is trying to survive the next one. He also rarely kills people, relying on theatrical effects. Most pirates, with the exception of Charles Vane, rely more on reputation and Large Ham displays to get across the message than actual violence.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_82a58821	comment	Mix-and-Match Weapon: You can get a pair of gunswords if you complete all assassination tasks. They aren't any more deadly than any other pair of blades in the game, but they do provide for some unique finishing moves, such as stabbing a guy and then using a gun blast to quickly get him off the blade.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_82e351a0	type	Gangplank Galleon
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_82e351a0	comment	Gangplank Galleon: As the game is set during The Golden Age of Piracy, a majority of it is set aboard pirate ships and within Caribbean ports.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_83fb6177	type	First-Episode Twist
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_83fb6177	comment	First-Episode Twist: Edward is not an Assassin for most of the game, instead impersonating an Assassin he had just killed and spends a good portion of his time playing both the Assassins and Templars for his own benefit.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Île à Vache has... cows on it. (It's French for "isle of cows".) Assassinate in Multiplayer. Your goal is to find a target, and assassinate it.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Edward often pleads with the fiery, impulsive Thatch to be more cautious and discreet in his actions... to little avail. Edward is the Blue to the Red of Thatch and Vane but is himself the Red to Adéwalé, James Kidd, Benjamin Hornigold and the rest.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8426d2ac	type	Inherently Funny Words
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8426d2ac	comment	Inherently Funny Words: During the first mission of the Templar Hunt in Nassau, the two guys you're tailing to their hideout are having a blast dissecting the word "smuggler".
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8454f523	type	Superboss
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8454f523	comment	Superboss: There are five legendary ships that you can fight in any of the four corners of the map: The HMS Prince, who will pester you from afar with mortar shots, La Dama Negra, who can only be fired at from behind, The HMS Fearless and The Royal Sovereign, who will surround and double-team you, and the infamous El Impoluto, who uses her greater speed and maneuverability to ram your elite hull armor to oblivion. You win 20,000 Reales for winning each fight, but by that point you've probably bought all the ship upgrades you needed to actually beat them, so it's more of a Bragging Rights Reward. Defeating all five ships gives the Jackdaw the El Impoluto's boosted ram attack, but then again, by that point there's not much left to use it on.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Stede Bonnet isn't given much of a send off, though details of what happened to him can be found in the Animus database and those who've read up on the history will also be able to fill in the blank. During the mission where you escape from British captivity, you can overhear a conversation where the guards talk about Bonnet's execution. Another pertinent example is Anne Bonny, who seems to have been alive and in America in 1782, around the time Edward's descendants were active there. At the end of the game, she's alive and in one piece and remains in the Caribbean while Edward goes back to England with his daughter. Of course, this is fitting with history, as she disappeared from prison after Mary's death from fever, and we have no record of her afterwards..
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_86b21114	comment	Mary revealing that she and Anne are pregnant would have been scandalous in their time. While they are spared the noose for the sake of their unborn children, these two women (female pirates dressed in men's clothes, no less) have just admitted to being pregnant out of wedlock. Goes even further when Anne declares "We'll be up the duff next time you come knockin'!" To modern audiences, this is something of a Badass Boast (with added cute - she's just so eager!), but saying something so brazen (in a strong Irish accent, no less) would have been outrageous in her time!
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_87a42873	type	Ancient Order of Protectors
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_87a42873	comment	Ancient Order of Protectors: The Guardians were native warriors who inhabited the jungles of Long Bay, Jamaica, to prevent outsiders from accessing "the Observatory." Bartholomew Roberts mentions that they were apparently bred specifically to defend the site. Accordingly, the player character has to fight his way through them to get to the Observatory.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_87cc946b	type	Stumbled Into the Plot
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_87cc946b	comment	Stumbled Into the Plot: Unlike most protagonists of the franchise, Edward Kenway simply happened to get shipwrecked next to an Assassin, getting him involved in the titular creed.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_87ce64a0	type	Old Save Bonus
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_87ce64a0	comment	Old Save Bonus: The game gives Edward the outfits of the protagonists of the previous entries in the series for having data of the games on your Uplay account (so it's unlocked even if you're on another platform).
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_881b90be	type	Bling of War
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_881b90be	comment	Combining this with Bling of War, the Jackdaw's elite weapons are uniformly gold-plated cannons of various bores, and the elite hull upgrade includes many golden highlights, too.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: The Portuguese sailors have accents that doesn't sound even close to Portuguese, sounding more like bad Russian. Anne Bonny, despite being voiced with an Irish accent, nevertheless is speaking with the wrong variant (Irish accents are hugely varied for a country that size. Anne is supposed to have been from Cork but the voice actress doesn't use a Cork accent).
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_895ec17	type	Only in It for the Money
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_895ec17	comment	Only in It for the Money: Abstergo Entertainment's executives, even those who are in the know about the true nature of their company, are more concerned with making money and good products (for certain definitions of "good") than forwarding their Templar superiors' visions. Edward Kenway himself starts out with this mentality, and the game basically chronicles his long and arduous Character Development.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: On the meta level, R-L and Abstergo Entertainment, especially given that they all technically work for the Templars. On the other hand, at least a good chunk of the staff are generally good people. And even those in the know are much more concerned with making profits and some entertainment than whatever their "superiors" have in store. Edward Kenway himself qualifies, as per Darby McDevitt, for most of the game he only cares for money and fame solely so he could have the "good life" and is willing to sacrifice his marriage, his few friendships and risk the lives of his own crew for his obsessions. The game is a long, drawn-out Heel Realization for him. Even after he devotes himself to the cause of the Assassins, he still remains a pirate and makes no apologies about robbing and murdering people by the dozens just to make a quick buck.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_89b8822f	comment	When you finally arrive at the Observatory, pistol shots ring out, completely unexpectedly. It turns out to be Roberts shooting his own men because they would Go Mad from the Revelation of what's inside. Edward is horrified, but has no choice but to follow him.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: John and Juno conspire to have the latter possess the Analyst. May even involve the physical sort, based on your interpretation of John's comments on the Analyst's "tender" body.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Stede Bonnet, who Edward recruited to the Pirate gang of Ragtag Bunch of Misfits is shown to undergo the same procedure, finally being promoted as captain of his own ship by Blackbeard which is Truth in Television.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8b24fe5e	type	JustShootHim
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8b24fe5e	comment	Just Shoot Him: Actually the easiest way to solve chase scenes in this iteration. You do, after all, have up to 4 pistols and each one is instantly fatal to unarmored foes when shot in the back. Most every chase can be completely avoided by quick aim right at the beginning while the target is turning to run.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8b67aba7	comment	Cerebus Retcon: You can uncover notes revealing dark details on Assassin's Creed III: Liberation: the person chosen to relive Aveline's life was a heterosexual man who began to question his gender identity as a result of experiencing the world through a heterosexual woman, and eventually died of a seizure.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	comment	Abstergo Entertainment is a media company who is secretly at the service of an Ancient Conspiracy, tasked with manipulation the truth through medias and their building occupies the spot of the former Montreal Olympic Stadium. Not unlike Deus Ex: Human Revolution's Picus Entertainment, a media company who is secretly serving an Ancient Conspiracy (The Illuminati), tasked with manipulating and altering the truth and is also based out of Montreal's Olympic Stadium.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8e9cf84e	comment	"Blind Idiot" Translation: While the Czech subtitles are actually good, the database entries went rather weird places with localisation, including Desmond Miles being mistaken for a woman, which had some strange influence over what "bleeding effect" possibly could be in the translator's eyes.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Most of the targets you kill have some redeeming qualities or at least believe that they are doing right. There are some exceptions. Duncan Walpole, an Assassin who was pulling a Face–Heel Turn and, whose identity Edward hijacks, is an in-Universe one. The Assassins admit to Edward that he's no loss. Laurens Prins, a Dutch slave trader, is another fellow that all sides admit they are better off without, even the Templars who seek to deal with him directly. There's an Italian diplomat, Ruggiero Ferraro, who eases the guilt of shuffling him off the mortal coil by being a snob and a Dirty Old Man. note The character, voiced by Roger Craig Smith himself, is clearly a spoof of Ezio, whose longing for the architecture of Florence over the colonial architecture in Kingston is an affectionate Take That, Critics! to audiences who pine for Assassin's Creed II
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8fcb5843	type	The Hunter Becomes the Hunted
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_8fcb5843	comment	The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: Pirate hunters are supposed to be hunting you. The problem is that is that the plentiful amounts of metal they carry make them attractive targets for plunder. And their ships tend to be of a higher quality than their Spanish and English counterparts, making them valuable additions to Kenway's fleet. So players starved for resources early in the game might actually welcome the attention. This is a given in multiplayer, since high scoring players are usually given the most pursuers.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_90c018ac	comment	Edward Kenway himself, while surprisingly tolerant due to having shipped with a lot of different people, does once bring up to his Trinidadian ex-slave quartermaster Adewalé the possibility of returning to Africa. Adewalé's response amounts to, "Why would I go back to a place I've never been to?"
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Bartholomew Roberts is portayed as a big believer in this trope; he kills the Portuguese captain who helped him set up a False Flag Operation (quoting the trope name to Edward when the latter asks why the captain isn't on the ship anymore), guns down members of his own crew to prevent them being driven insane by the technology contained in the Observatory, and 'rewards' Edward for helping him find the Observatory by handing him to the British Navy in exchange for a bounty and leaving him to rot in a Jamaican jail cell.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_940a5958	type	Artificial Stupidity
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_940a5958	comment	Artificial Stupidity: Also typical to the games, enemies will not react to sound from low-profile actions and running in close range. Stalking zones also serve as magical hiding places where you are invisible unless someone literally runs into you. Enemies also forget about you within a minute, even if you had just murdered a dozen of their friends, and will merrily patrol past the warm bodies of their former companions.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9446f847	type	Death or Glory Attack
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9446f847	comment	Death or Glory Attack: The "Kenway Broadside". You bait enemies into ramming you, then instead of trying to escape open up with all guns as quickly as you can. It's an absolutely devastating strategy against military brigs... but you have to let them ram you first.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_944d23a7	type	Manifesto-Making Malcontent
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_944d23a7	comment	Manifesto-Making Malcontent: In the present-day sections of the game, the player can find sticky notes scattered around the Abstergo offices outlining the manifesto of the Instruments of the First Will, a cult that worships the First Civilization. It mostly consists of rants about the evils of technology and predictions of the return of Juno. The author later tries to trick the player into allowing Juno to possess them.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_94cc2c28	type	Exact Time to Failure
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_94cc2c28	comment	Exact Time to Failure: You'll occasionally come across drifting ship hulks carrying a bunch of resource crates on deck. Boarding them gives you exactly 30 seconds, counted down by a huge on-screen timer, to loot as much as you can before the ship blows up. Losing track of the target that you're supposed to be tailing for too long will give you 20 seconds to catch back up with them before automatic desychronization. Thankfully, tagging these targets with Eagle Vision helps mitigate this somewhat.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_952d21ec	type	Bus Crash
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_952d21ec	comment	Bus Crash: Stede Bonnet is last seen sailing away, captain of his own ship, cheerfully waving goodbye to Edward and thanking him for his friendship. He is later captured and executed offscreen, and even this is only mentioned by easily missed mook conversation during the prison break, as well as in his database entry; though he still appears at the table alongside the rest of Edward's dead pirate friends.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_955aba87	type	Mook Chivalry
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_955aba87	comment	Mook Chivalry: In naval combat, all hostile actions against the Jackdaw cease the instant you initiate a boarding maneuver, meaning that you can, should you choose, fully repair your vessel in the middle of a pitched fight, then resume fighting the enemy ships who have apparently been sitting at anchor, patiently waiting for you to finish. The Jackdaw is also immune to damage while in port, or indeed any time you are not at the helm. They will fire at Edward though, should he choose to take a non-boarding swim while enemy vessels are around. Combat as Edward averts this: the guards with guns are all too happy to shoot you while their buddies try and make mincemeat out of you with swords and axes. It also sort of happens in the multiplayer, in that several players will line up behind each other to let you finish murdering so they can get to murdering you.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: When Juno declines to possess R-L just yet during the internment in the bunker, John breaks down big time, screaming at the Analyst about why they are "still here" and letting loose a Cluster F-Bomb. The next time we see him, he's completely given up his Faux Affably Evil facade, full bore into Fantastic Racism, and screaming like a lunatic when guards come in to save the Analyst. Woodes Rogers does this after being removed from his post as governor, giving a speech at his leaving party where he calls the King an idiot, resents that his commitment to making the Caribbean a safer place has been overlooked, and predicts a time where he and Torres will witness the British and Spanish empires crumble. Then he walks past Edward's bench and snikt
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9591377d	comment	Edward Kenway himself qualifies, as per Darby McDevitt, for most of the game he only cares for money and fame solely so he could have the "good life" and is willing to sacrifice his marriage, his few friendships and risk the lives of his own crew for his obsessions. The game is a long, drawn-out Heel Realization for him. Even after he devotes himself to the cause of the Assassins, he still remains a pirate and makes no apologies about robbing and murdering people by the dozens just to make a quick buck.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Ah Tabai, the mentor of the West Indies Assassins, had only one son who died before the age of ten. Anne Bonny's child dies shortly after being born.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_95df9d98	comment	Contrasting Sequel Setting: The game takes place in the West Indies during The Golden Age of Piracy. It's a world where it's perpetually summer and dominates by pirate towns, jungles, and the occasional ancient ruin, and everything is clearly in disarray. This sets the game apart from the temperate settings from its predecessors. The game hilariously Lampshades this trope when the Italian ambassador - who has the same voice actor as Ezio - goes on a long rant complaining about how different, uncivilized and barbaric this place is compared to Italy. The modern section is in a fancy office building, which only looks happy and inviting - until you get to the deeper parts of the building and suddenly it's the first game and III all over again.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_96d2ce42	type	In Vino Veritas
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_96d2ce42	comment	In Vino Veritas: Woodes Rogers gets very drunk in a party towards the end of the game after having been called back to England, and as a result he gets much, much more honest than he usually is. And in the same scene...
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_970c790a	comment	Since you work for Abstergo Entertainment, a front company for the modern-day Templars, it comes as little surprise that they are trying to do this to the Big Bads of all the previous games, under the caption of "Great Minds of History": Robert de Sable, Rodrigo Borgia, Haytham Kenway and Madeline de l'Isle. While Haytham is ambiguous enough to qualify for a pass, the Rodrigo Borgia one is remarkable for its self-delusion in calling him a "progressive, bon-vivant who cared about family values". They even praise him as a man of faith when the Assassin's Creed version of Rodrigo Borgia was an atheist. It's even more surprising given that the modern-Templars are said to view the Borgia's reign over the Templars as Old Shame, considering how he and his underlings abandoned all of the Templar principles.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_97aaa7f3	type	In the Blood
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_97aaa7f3	comment	In the Blood: The game reveals that, although Desmond's family history is rather more full than others with traits from Those Who Came Before, the Eagle Vision isn't unique to his bloodline. Some people have enough TWCB DNA that they simply express Eagle Vision traits naturally, while others can learn to do so. Edward Kenway had innate, untrained Eagle Vision but was utterly unrelated to the Assassins before the events of this game. Desmond, with multiple Assassin lineages behind him (including Edward) had to go through Training from Hell to express it.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9875ac5b	comment	Ocean Punk: The Caribbean sea of the early 18th Century is a real-life and in-game example, with civilization scattered across small islands of varying distances that have to be crossed by ships across waters filled with sharks, whales, dolphins and jellyfish.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9a1d239e	type	Been There, Shaped History
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9a1d239e	comment	Been There, Shaped History: This feels less prominent in this game than in the earlier titles, with the simple reason being that there isn't a lot we know about The Golden Age of Piracy and there are many missing details about the early lives, backgrounds and circumstances of historical pirates, both of which are lampshaded by the in-game database. Most pirates were illiterate sailors and left no contemporary first-person records. The major record of the time, Charles Johnson's book note A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates came several years after the period was over. As such the game takes much advantage of this lacuna in telling this story. Despite this Edward does participate in a few key events. Edward and Adéwalé acquire the ship that becomes the Jackdaw in the midst of the hurricane that causes the sinking of the famous Spanish Treasure Fleet which caused a gold rush and a frantic search by sailors for buried treasure and provided much inspiration for later stories about pirates. Edward also witnesses and participates in events like Blackbeard's last stand, Jack Rackham's mutiny against Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold's mysterious death and Bartholomew Roberts' Awesome Moment of Crowning as The Captain and his eventual death.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9a1f23bf	type	Controllable Helplessness
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9a1f23bf	comment	Controllable Helplessness: After being betrayed by Roberts at the Observatory, Edward has to make his way back to his ship, but is badly injured while sliding down a hill and can only stagger. While you control him for the duration, it's obvious that he won't last long. This scene is highly reminiscent of the penultimate memory of Assassin's Creed III. In Sequence 11, Edward falls into a Heroic BSoD and drinks himself into a stupor. During the ensuing Mushroom Samba, you can control his actions to a limited extent, but it's clear that you're in a hallucination and that Edward is really lying on the floor in a tavern somewhere, raving. The scene looks somewhat similar to the experiences of the protagonist of another Ubisoft game, Far Cry 3. When trapped in a gibbet, all Edward can do is rattle the cage and cry out. He uses this to distract the guards so Ah Tabai can kill them undetected.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9aca7084	type	Playing the Heart Strings
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9aca7084	comment	Playing the Heart Strings: Drowns out most of the sounds while a slow, tearful melody plays when you swim back to your ship after Blackbeard's death.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Black Bart Roberts to Edward. Both are legendary pirate captains, both wear outfits filched from dead men (The Princess' captain and Duncan Walpole respectively), both are targeted for their supernatural powers (Edward by the Assassins for his Eagle Sense, Roberts by the Templars as a Sage.), and both are kidnapped by the Templars. To hammer the point home, both are even Welsh! The key differences lie in Roberts' cruelty, lack of honour, and their outlooks on life - Roberts wanting a short and glorious life and Edward a long and easy one.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: We get a glimpse of several characters going through this. Edward Kenway is a mere crew member in the opening mission who becomes The Captain by luck and accident, and one of the most feared (and successful) pirates in the world by the end. Edward's Arch-Enemy, Bartholomew Roberts, undergoes the villainous equivalent and ends up becoming Edward's Always Someone Better as a pirate. Anne Bonny goes from barmaid to pirate, standing as Back-to-Back Badasses with Mary Read while their ship is being boarded by the English. The two women are the only ones to come out of the fight uninjured. Averted with Stede Bonnet, who jumps at the chance to live a pirate's life, but is frankly awful at it, and the Animus database entry mentions that he is eventually captured and executed while blubbering and crying for mercy.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Less of a storyline reveal, and more of a bit of humor. The main designer for the in-game "Black Flag" prototype complains to Abstergo analyst that Edward Kenway's Welsh accent is unattractive and offputting for audiences, and wishes to replace it with a voice like "James Bond." Cut to the ending, and Edward has put on a Bond-like British accent to fit in with the high-society aristocrats for about the same reason. During Edward's "Delirium" sequence, a hallucination of Woodes Rogers on a pedestal speaks to a crowd. The next time we see the real Rogers, he is giving a speech to Kingston high society at a party, and after this Edward stabs him. In the same sequence, Edward swims in the sea, through dozens of drowned corpses. He sees a similar sight when on the hunt for Roberts at Principe. Also in the same sequence, during the argument between Caroline and Edward on the Jackdaw, Caroline is clutching her belly, possibly a signal from Edward’s subconscious of their child. Checking the footnotes shows that underneath her "let's do it, team" attitude, Melanie Lemay has a lot of Templar-friendly attitudes. At the end of the game, she replaces the missing Olivier as head of Abstergo Entertainment, and by Rogue has become a member of the Templars proper. Blink and you'll miss it, but during the hunting tutorial, Edward is collecting pelts for his holsters, while Adewale is the one getting food for the crew. The crew doesn't turn on Edward right away, but when they do, is it a surprise they make Ade interim Captain?
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9d1cc720	type	Barbie Doll Anatomy
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9d1cc720	comment	Barbie Doll Anatomy: Edward Kenway is depicted in flashbacks as having a wide tattoo where both his nipples should be.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: A memo found in the modern day segments reveals Abstergo Entertainment has access to the DNA of all the Animus Subjects, but when Melanie suggested going through Daniel Cross or Clay Kaczmarek's memories, orders came down from on-high telling her not to investigate any further.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9e447c8c	type	Suspiciously Apropos Music
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9e447c8c	comment	Suspiciously Apropos Music: In the final Cutscene of the game, Anne Bonny sings a beautiful version of "The Parting Glass" as Edward Kenway reflects on his failures and how his selfishness has cost him his friends and his love life. Of particular note is that as Anne is singing the verse "And since it falls unto my lot, that I should rise and you should not" he sees his former friends, including Blackbeard and Mary Reed, sitting at a table and raising their glasses in toast.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9e943076	comment	Edward's vessel, the Jackdaw, starts as an ordinary brig but has multiple upgrades which eventually turn it into a dreadnaught of the seas capable of defeating legendary ships and taking on whole fleets singlehandedly.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9fbf8969	type	Cut Lex Luthor a Check
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9fbf8969	comment	Cut Lex Luthor a Check: In a subversion, Abstergo is using the Animus technology to make lame pop culture junk as a cash grab, rather than to broaden our understanding of human history, something pointed out by the internal memos you can read. This is partially deliberate, as they are trying to control the masses, not educate them. In a rare example of the protagonist falling victim to this, it's played straight by money-obsessed Edward himself thanks to the Kenway's Fleet mini-game. It takes most of the game for Edward to take up a higher cause than amassing riches, but by the time he gets there he's likely to command a trade empire that spans the known world, based on an armada of powerful warships that none can threaten and that rakes in cash by the bucket load. By that point the whole "hunt for the Observatory to get rich quickly" thing is pretty much pointless.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9fc04a54	type	Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_9fc04a54	comment	Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Vidic's interview with Subject One gives us our first glimpse of an Animus user viewing someone of the opposite sex's (Aveline's) memories. Subject One is a straight white man playing a black woman in the 18th century, and experiencing sexual attention from men, and Aveline's attraction to men, makes him audibly uncomfortable.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_a00c13e0	type	Awesome Moment of Crowning
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_a00c13e0	comment	Edward also witnesses and participates in events like Blackbeard's last stand, Jack Rackham's mutiny against Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold's mysterious death and Bartholomew Roberts' Awesome Moment of Crowning as The Captain and his eventual death.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_a1e5faab	type	Doomed by Canon
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_a1e5faab	comment	Doomed by Canon: Players could be forgiven for being unaware that everything they do in the game, even if they go for 100% Completion, will be undone in the end, since while some of that is a given due to him returning to England with riches enough for land, finery, and title as per the ending, Assassin's Creed : Forsaken already revealed — hence why his own Database entry in IV does — that Edward dies in 1735, his daughter is still estranged from him, and shows that his son Haytham goes on to become a Templar Grand Master... who in Assassin's Creed III will be killed by his son, Edward's grandson, Ratonhnhaké:ton aka Connor Kenway.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_a3eae597	type	Award-Bait Song
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_a3eae597	comment	Award-Bait Song: Anne's song during the ending. Hits especially hard during the part where Edward sees a vision of all his dead pirate friends sitting together happily. The song is an actual Irish folk song, The Parting Glass.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_a414c3f0	type	One-Hit Kill
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_a414c3f0	comment	As soon as the Jackdaw has been equipped with a naval ram, it provides players with one of their most powerful assets in almost any battle at sea. The fully upgraded ram is capable of one-shotting everything that isn't a ship of the line (frigates and Man o'Wars), and it still inflicts horrendous damage on the latter, often taking out a frigate in two and a Man o'War in three to four good hits. Repeated ram attacks, combined with copious salvos of chain-shot, are arguably the safest (if not the only truly viable) tactic to sink the La Dama Negra, a legendary Man o'War whose stern is its only weak spot. The whole thing gets cranked up to eleven after all four legendary ships have been defeated and the Jackdaw receives the El Impoluto's charged ram attack, which at least doubles the naval ram's already ludidcrous damage.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_a60e3252	comment	Played with in modern times. Abstergo Industries is implied to be doing all manner of ridiculous nastiness by the player's contact. Abstergo Entertainment, however, is primarily a video game company. Doubles as Rule of Funny, as they're using a device which can read the memories of the dead through their descendants for the Mundane Utility of making VR games similar to Assassin's Creed.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_a60f7120	type	Physical God
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_a60f7120	comment	Physical God: The Sages are avatars of the First Civilization "god" Aita. The Sage of the present-day conspires to make Juno one as well.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_a6c69bd	comment	The game actually has two such things, the irony being that on account of times changing, what is a MacGuffin in one century becomes irrelevant centuries later and vice versa. For instance, the Observatory would have had deadly uses for the Templars in the 18th to 19th Centuries, but Abstergo researchers note that 21st Century surveillance technology more or less allows them to the same. Their real interest is...
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_a6e375d4	type	Armor of Invincibility
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_a6e375d4	comment	Edward Kenway gets a hood early when he takes them from the body of a man who tried to kill him. Most of his outfits after that also have the hood. Not the two Armor of Invincibility, though. Which makes it amusing when his animation still has him pulling up a hood that isn't there.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_a71e382c	type	Crystal Skull
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_a71e382c	comment	Crystal Skull: The game has a data file about crystal skulls that you can obtain by hacking a computer at Abstergo Entertainment in the modern-day section. Later, in Edward Kenway's story, a crystal skull turns out to be the Macguffin, as in, the object that makes the Observatory so sought after by the Templars.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_a73c2eaf	type	Expository Gameplay Limitation
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_a73c2eaf	comment	Expository Gameplay Limitation: The game gets a special mention for having an optional objective to indicate that Edward Kenway canonically picked the pockets of several Templars during one of these conversations.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_a80ad52c	comment	Hanging Judge: The judge in Kingston sentences every pirate to death without much in the way of a trial, as was common during the era. At the very least, they do give consideration to women who "plead their bellies" (claim pregnancy during the trial) and delay their sentences until they give birth.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_a868d6e	comment	Version-Exclusive Content: The costume was a preorder bonus for PS3, but was upgraded to a base game unlockable costume on PS4. The PS Vita got Ray of Persia and Glob Cell, the former being Rayman dressed as the Prince of Persia and the latter being Globox dressed as Sam Fisher, earned from beating two of the version's Murfy's Challenges levels (An Architect's Nightmare for Rayman's, Bounce to the Sky for Globox's). There's also Funky Ray; he requires you to have the Rayman Legends Challenge App on Wii U, but you can get him with uPlay units on PS4 and Xbox One, making him exclusive to the eighth generation onward. Finally, there's Champion Ray, who was originally a developer-only costume, but was later made available to VIP members of the community on the PS4 and Xbox One versions; however, like every costume listed above, he became unlockable in the base game in Definitive Edition.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_a8a80e26	comment	Fashion Dissonance: All Sages eventually grow a long moustache, regardless of race or time period. Even among the Maya, who didn't grow out facial hair, and even in the modern era. If that wasn't enough, John is made to look even more of an outsider by adopting elements of Black Bart Roberts' costume.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: There's an interesting example in-universe between Torres and Prins. Due to their differing cultural and religious backgrounds, they have very different views on the issues of slavery and proper business conduct. Prins claims that, as a Spaniard, Torres's historical connection to the Moors has made him sympathetic to African slaves note which is a racist comment that essentially accuses Torres of being Muslim. Torres in turn wonders if Prins's odd behavior is motivated by "Protestant piety" though he's more jocular. Commodore Chamberlane and his squad also dislike Woodes Rogers because of his Templar affiliation, which they consider to be either a sign that he's a "heathen", a "Jacobite", or a "Catholic". Most of the individuals the pirates target work for the powerful European colonial empires which dominate the Caribbean during this period, many of whom work to uphold the brutal system of slavery which underpins the economy of the entire region; Governor Woodes Rogers himself owns several slave ships. In his day, Rogers (and others like him) would be The Hero. Today he's a Hypocrite, considering that slavery and colonialism have become justifiable targets in the 21st Century, and it's not hard to root for the pirates and for Kenway. Mary revealing that she and Anne are pregnant would have been scandalous in their time. While they are spared the noose for the sake of their unborn children, these two women (female pirates dressed in men's clothes, no less) have just admitted to being pregnant out of wedlock. Goes even further when Anne declares "We'll be up the duff next time you come knockin'!" To modern audiences, this is something of a Badass Boast (with added cute - she's just so eager!), but saying something so brazen (in a strong Irish accent, no less) would have been outrageous in her time! Edward Kenway himself, while surprisingly tolerant due to having shipped with a lot of different people, does once bring up to his Trinidadian ex-slave quartermaster Adewalé the possibility of returning to Africa. Adewalé's response amounts to, "Why would I go back to a place I've never been to?"
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ab686f50	type	You All Meet in a Cell
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ab686f50	comment	You All Meet in a Cell: After about an hour or so of prologue in Cuba, the game has Protagonist Edward Kenway taken prisoner and locked on a ship bound for Spain as part of the 1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet. He meets Adéwalé, a fellow prisoner and former slave, and together they break their bounds and use the approaching Hurricane to free a number of other prisoners, commander one of the smaller ships in the fleet and escape just before the Hurricane sinks the fleet. Adéwalé and the others become Edwards crew and the game opens up as they refit the stolen brig as a pirate ship that is used for the remainder of the game.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_abad8e8b	comment	Crow's Nest Cartography: In addition to unlocking land maps through high-altitude viewpoints, you must also conquer massive naval strongholds to reveal portions of the ocean map to reveal locations and collectibles when using the Jackdaw.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: Go ahead. Try to sink the La Dama Negra with good old-fashioned broadsides from afar and see what happens.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ac007f3e	comment	Lady Not-Appearing-in-This-Game: The two buxom women from Edward's bed in the cinematic trailer have nothing to do with the actual game, though they are evoked somewhat by an odd piece of post-completion content whereby Edward can interact with women around his house and have them appear in his bed.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The Jackdaw's crew are clearly freaked out by the HMS Prince and its ghost ship-like appearance.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_aebae11c	comment	Viewers Are Morons: Abstergo Entertainment clearly believes this, all their products and information promos are filled with barely concealed condescension for their audiences. At one point, an in-story Marketing promo discusses the suitability of former Player Character Connor for an upcoming product but feels that the setting is "too foreign", that is a Native American setting in the Mohawk Valley (contemporary upstate New York). Which could also be a Take That, Critics! to the audiences who complained about the previous game.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Duncan Walpole, an Assassin who was pulling a Face–Heel Turn and, whose identity Edward hijacks, is an in-Universe one. The Assassins admit to Edward that he's no loss.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_afc52a86	type	Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_afc52a86	comment	Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Literally. Edward Kenway is an Assassin, a pirate and an ancestor of a contemporary protagonist whose life is being relived via technology. An in-game Abstergo Email discusses how they can do a Ninja or Pirate story but laments how Zombies are ahistorical. In reply, a colleague cites historical basis for Zombies, further feeding fuel to the fire for the crazy directions the series can take.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_affa0e5d	type	Bling-Bling-BANG!
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_affa0e5d	comment	Bling-Bling-BANG!: Getting the elite upgrades for your ship's weapons outfits it with golden cannons, mortars, and swivels, despite this being incredibly impractical for actual weaponry. There is also a set of golden pistols which can be earned for completing all naval contracts. The majority of multiplayer characters get gilded, gem-studded, or otherwise extremely flashy signature weapons as you gain prestige.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b0fb2427	type	Bread and Circuses
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b0fb2427	comment	Bread and Circuses: In one of the hacked conversations, we see a chat log where Olivier describes Abstergo Entertainment's management strategy as being just like this: offer the staff some token form of good cheer and feel-good company while secretly eroding labour laws and overworking them. He even takes the "bread" part literally, suggesting that Melanie should give the employees pain au chocolat breakfasts and "secretly" sneak coffee liqueur.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b23e7ba9	type	Real Is Brown
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b23e7ba9	comment	Real Is Brown: Averted, with the Caribbean portrayed in vivid green and blue hues in sunshine, and even when it's storming, it's hardly dull to look at.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b2c15631	type	"No More Holding Back" Speech
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b2c15631	comment	"No More Holding Back" Speech: Bartholomew Roberts begins his pirate career with one of these, some of which is Truth in Television, including quotations from A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Averted for the most part, as with every other game in this series, but played straight with the pistol swords, which can fire off finishers for a whole galleon consecutively.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b30db865	comment	Space Compression: The Caribbean is compressed to only a tiny fraction of its real world size. It also only depicts Cuba, Half of Hispaniola (the Haiti half), Jamaica and the Bahamas. The lesser Antilles and the Northern coast of South America are completely off the map. These colonies were part of the French Empire which historian Robert Whitaker noted in conversation with specialist Dr. Bryan Glass is conspicuous for its absence in the main game, since French sailors and pirates were a major part of the Golden Age.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b4a947fa	comment	Temporary Online Content: The community challenges for the game are no longer available. Thus, all of the bonus items unlocked through completing those challenges are permanently locked.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b543bac4	comment	Oxygen Meter: In the undersea levels of the game, Edward will slowly run out of air, shown on a meter. He can replenish his air by sticking his head in various pockets of air contained in overturned barrels or underwater caverns, or by simply returning to the diving bell used to reach the sea floor.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b59e09cd	type	Bifauxnen
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b59e09cd	comment	Bifauxnen: James Kidd, aka Mary Read, looks quite masculine even once her secret is out. This should come as less of a surprise if you know your pirate history.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b6203862	type	Interquel
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b6203862	comment	Interquel: The Animus portion takes place between Ezio's and Connor's eras and stars Connor's paternal grandfather. That said, the actual present day Framing Story is a sequel to III.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b6de94d1	type	Executive Meddling
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b6de94d1	comment	Executive Meddling: In-universe. Some of the bits you get from the hacking games involve marketing execs saying why they feel releasing games about Altaïr, Ezio, and Connor would be bad ideas, though they did give a pass to Aveline.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b6e1d40b	type	Acceptable Breaks from Reality
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b6e1d40b	comment	Acceptable Breaks from Reality: Ships sail far, far faster than they are capable of in real life, with the player's brig able to easily clear a nautical mile within about a minute. Even applies in-universe, as the Animus features a 'Travel' speed that's far faster than Full Sail. Also discussed in the Database entry for the Cathedral of Havana; it's admitted that the building as designed is from far too late a period to fit the game, but 'Abstergo' are willing to fudge it as half of the experience they're selling is cool buildings to climb.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b7f832ec	type	Slippery as an Eel
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b7f832ec	comment	Slippery as an Eel: Spotted moray eels can be found hiding in seaweed, and they do attack Edward.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b8a2303d	type	Sea Sinkhole
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b8a2303d	comment	Sea Sinkhole: A glitch can cause the water under the Jackdaw to render incorrectly or not at all, resulting in a steep-sided hole in the ocean where the ship ought to be.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b9e82f09	type	Playable Epilogue
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_b9e82f09	comment	Playable Epilogue: Upon the main compaign's completion, players have the freedom to continue challenges on land, do the story perfectly, or just sail the seas to kill, plunder, and seek treasure.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_bb094e0a	type	Cool Ship
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_bb094e0a	comment	Cool Ship: Edward's vessel, the Jackdaw, starts as an ordinary brig but has multiple upgrades which eventually turn it into a dreadnaught of the seas capable of defeating legendary ships and taking on whole fleets singlehandedly. Blackbeard's ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, is a galleon with forty guns, as its owner proudly proclaims. You get to pilot it in one mission and, while it lacks mortars, those guns do a masterful job of tearing apart anything that gets in its broadsides. The aforementioned Legendary ships are each a Superboss challenge waiting for you at the four corners of the world. Each has its own particular gimmick and all of them are faster and more heavily armed than you.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_bc74ef27	comment	Jennifer's last name is not Kenway, it's Scott.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_bd65fb3d	type	Sparing Them the Dirty Work
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_bd65fb3d	comment	Sparing Them the Dirty Work: Edward does this on two occasions: Edward assassinates Hilary Flint so that his Assassin lover Rhona doesn't have to. When Vance Travers is revealed to be an Assassin turncoat, Edward does the deed of assassinating him so that Upton doesn't have to kill his own brother.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_bfc73a49	type	Shoot the Rope
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_bfc73a49	comment	Shoot the Rope: There's an early mission in which you run around Nassau saving pirates from British soldiers in order to recruit them into your crew. The final pirate you're made to save is about to be hanged; one of the missions' bonus objectives is to shoot the rope to free him.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: When you finally arrive at the Observatory, pistol shots ring out, completely unexpectedly. It turns out to be Roberts shooting his own men because they would Go Mad from the Revelation of what's inside. Edward is horrified, but has no choice but to follow him. Shark attacks in the diving sequences can seemingly come out of nowhere, as can animal attacks while hunting in the jungle. In whaling missions, your prey may sometimes leap out of the water right next to your boat, damaging and possibly sinking you if you don't harpoon them very quickly. Moray eels, who can't even be fought off.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_c3e4b9fd	comment	Final-Exam Boss: All four legendary ships, the optional Superbosses which are placed on the four corners of the game map test your skills in navigation, strategy and use of resources. Each ship, once sunk, yields a loot of 20,000 reales (though the man-o-war tandem reward is split amongst both ships), and defeating all four gives the Jackdaw the El Impoluto's charging ability. In the northwest corner of the map is the ship El Impoluto, a ship packing the firepower of a man-o-war and the speed and maneuverability of a gunship. Its main offensive tactic is to charge straight at you, reaching speeds the Jackdaw could never reach even at travel speed, and ram you into submission. And in the process of getting back into ramming position, its broadsides and forward guns will keep you busy in the meantime. The northeast has two man-o-wars, the Dual Bosses HMS Fearless and the Royal Sovereign. They tend to attack in tandem, first attempting to sandwich you between their individual broadsides, and after they pass you, they turn around in front of you, continuing their broadside assault as they get back into position and keep you between their paths. Defeat one of them, and the survivor Turns Red - its cannons all become heated (dealing about twice as much damage), the ship sets itself on fire and switches tactics from long-range bombardment to utterly lethal ram attacks. The southwest corner features La Dama Negra, a man-o-war whose hull is Nigh-Invulnerable to any cannon fire, barring one particular weak spot at the stern. It also has mortars with no warning markers, and it likes to use them A LOT. To the southeast of the map is the HMS Prince, described by the Jackdaw crew as a ghost ship. The main challenge for this encounter is that once it spots you, the weather immediately takes a turn for the worse, plunging you in the midst of a thunderstorm and severely lowering your visibility. As you struggle to find it, it will bombard you with mortars; get too close, and you'll eat a broadside before it tries to disappear again.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_c54522c3	comment	Ghost Pirate: The ''Deceased Crew" cheat gives the Jackdaw a literal skeleton crew.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_c57b21f9	comment	Global Currency: While other currencies, such as English pounds, are acknowledged in the story, Edward's wealth is tracked in Spanish reales, which appear to be good everywhere. Truth in Television for the period in this case.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: After being marooned by Jack Rackham, Edward single-handedly captures a fishing schooner (probably armed only with his hidden blades), then takes back the Jackdaw with the help of Kidd and Adéwalé.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_c5e42cbd	comment	Cutscene Incompetence: The scene in which the mutinous Jack Rackham has his mooks hold Edward and Vane at gunpoint wouldn't have posed much difficulty had it happened in-game. Same goes for Thatch's death scene.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_c6102eb0	comment	Grand Theft Me: Due to Juno's meddling, in every human generation the Sage appears, due to a special combination of genetic patterns in a zygote that triggers his genetic code to overwrite the child's (destroying whatever person that zygote might have become). As the Sage is the memory-ghost of Juno's husband, Aita, this is also a form of reincarnation.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_c6695a49	type	MÃªlÃ©e Ã Trois
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_c6695a49	comment	Mêlée à Trois: In an attempt to flee from Edward's surprise attack on Principe, Roberts accidentally sails into an open battle between the British and Spanish navies that were pursuing him. Both sides immediately disengage and attack Bart's ship.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: John is calibrating, not fixing. Bartholemew Roberts, at one point, shouts that there's "Nothing like the hot winds of Hell blowing in your face!" That being a line from the Ghost Pirate LeChuck. Roberts also asks Edward at one point, "Have you... have you ever seen the inside of a Jamaican prison, boy? Have you?" One of the assassination side-quests is for a captain called Mancomb Seepgood. A discussion between some guards on the left side of Laurens Prins's mansion, during the mission where you have to infiltrate this mansion, reminds us very much about the sword teacher from The Secret of Monkey Island: The name of one of the missions is Commodore Eighty-Sixed. This also refers to the Intel x86 CPU architecture. During the mission, Kenway even complains about workers 'lagging'. Abstergo Entertainment is a media company who is secretly at the service of an Ancient Conspiracy, tasked with manipulation the truth through medias and their building occupies the spot of the former Montreal Olympic Stadium. Not unlike Deus Ex: Human Revolution's Picus Entertainment, a media company who is secretly serving an Ancient Conspiracy (The Illuminati), tasked with manipulating and altering the truth and is also based out of Montreal's Olympic Stadium. Abstergo has Blume, the company that produced ctOS (which can spy on anyone), pitch said product to them. The title of one of the missions is Vainglorious Bastards, a pun that combines the Mission giver Charles Vane with Quentin Tarantino's film Inglourious Basterds. One of the achievements at the end of a sequence is called "Been Down So Long", a reference to Richard Farina's novel, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. And of course the entirety of Aesop's Fable of The Eagle and the Jackdaw is retold in the game. One of the possible names for a Pirate Hunter frigate is Thriller Bark. Other names include Penelope, Ithaca, and Helen O' Troy, as well as Hornblower and Aubrey The achievement for killing Laurens Prins Death of a Salesman. One of the naval contracts, about destroying false documents, is called Papers, Please. One of the missions is "We Demand Parley." In the modern-day segments, one of the Abstergo employees can be heard saying that their interaction with the IT department mostly consists of being asked to turn their computer off and on again in a pompous tone. The bio for Josiah Burgess in the database includes some staff comments suggesting that, since so little is known about him, maybe they could get away with tattooing a treasure map on his back. In one of the audio logs, Warren Vidic makes an entrance with a sing-song Here I come to save the day! taken straight from Mighty Mouse.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: Blackbeard is attacked by Woodes Rogers' fleet on the day of his retirement party.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: The crew pokes fun at themselves with the Derby Ram shanty.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_c9861848	comment	Video Game Caring Potential: You can pet and feed domesticated animals. You can also go out of your way to save stranded sailors, even when your crew is completely topped off and picking up stragglers confers no practical advantage.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The Analyst. Done to preserve the idea that the player is the Analyst. Lampshaded by Juno, who calls them a "cipher".
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_cbd5e41a	comment	Vehicular Turnabout: The game allows you to do this with enemy ships, as befitting a game set in the age of Wooden Ships and Iron Men. You can then decide what you want to do with the captured ship: break it down for pieces to repair your ship, use it to lower your wanted level, or send it to join your fleet, which operates in the Atlantic.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_cc3e2c0d	type	Mistaken for Foreigner
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_cc3e2c0d	comment	Mistaken for Foreigner: Edward Kenway once asked his ex-slave quartermaster Adéwalé if he'd take his share of treasure from a fort they were about to attack and live like a king in Africa. Adéwalé clarifies that he's Trinidadian and has never set foot in Africa.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_cd30716e	type	Boring Return Journey
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_cd30716e	comment	Boring Return Journey: Given the depths Edward descends to in his diving forays with the Jackdaw's diving bell, and the lack of decompression chambers back then, resurfacing safely would take hours, something the game thankfully skips over in a short cutscene.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_cd336741	type	"Wanted!" Poster
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_cd336741	comment	"Wanted!" Poster: The game ditches the wanted meter while on land—enemies simply stopp chasing you if you hide for a while; but the game does add one in the sea. Sink too many ships in a short amount of time, and bounty hunter ships will come after you.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Despite having a Gray-and-Gray Morality as well the most ruthless Assassin protagonist yet, Black Flag is considerably lighter than Assassin's Creed III which ended on a real downer in both the past and the present. The Animus music is also very light and uplifting compared to the more somber and downbeat moods in the past games. Also, compare the cover art with that of the preceding title: where AC3 had Connor poised to tomahawk an unambiguously British redcoat to death, AC4 has Edward standing above a dead body of vague nationality. All in all, much less provocative.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ce6b54d9	type	Enemy Eats Your Lunch
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ce6b54d9	comment	Enemy Eats Your Lunch: At one point, Kenway conquers a fort where Governor Torres is visiting. Kenway walks in on Torres having some tea. As Kenway makes it clear that he's going to rob Torres and could do far worse, he pours himself a cup of tea (though the scene ends before he drinks it).
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Neither the Royal Sovereign nor the H.M.S. Fearless take it well when their respective sister ship is sunk during their legendary Dual Boss battle. The surviving one will immediately light itself on fire from prow to stern, switch from regular cannonballs to heated shot, shift from long-range bombardment to suicidal (and very deadly) ram attacks in an apparent attempt at Taking You with Me. Better make sure to whittle both ships down to near-death so you're able to deliver their killing blows in quick succession.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d013cd12	type	Lovable Rogue
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d013cd12	comment	The game also deconstructs some of the classic pirate character archetypes, showing that a reckless Lovable Rogue Wild Card pirate who plays both sides, a la Jack Sparrow, would end up alienating and compromising the people around him, making him The Friend Nobody Likes at best, and The Millstone at worst. Furthermore, The Mutiny, which is treated as a great crime in nautical stories, is merely shown as democracy in action in the game, since if the sailors no longer trust their captain to give them good work and keep them from needless danger, they have every right to depose said captain and choose another. By the way, you're playing that guy for most of the game, until some Character Development.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d05cf3f	type	Footnote Fever
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d05cf3f	comment	Footnote Fever: Since Shaun is working as a barista on Abstergo Entertainment campus, the database is done by the Kenway Line Team, filled with wiki-like notes and gossip about old historical figure, and is almost — almost — as funny as Shaun's snarky commentary, filled as it is with Entertainingly Wrong conclusions and vapid marketing lingo.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d1f4d528	type	Treasure Map
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d1f4d528	comment	Treasure Map: You can find and follow treasure maps. Some just have money, but others contain schematics for elite upgrades for the Jackdaw.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d24ed873	type	Developer's Foresight
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d24ed873	comment	Developer's Foresight: Trying to take down a ship that outclasses the Jackdaw? If you can swim over to it and take out the deck crew in hand-to-hand before entering naval combat, one shot from your cannons will win the battle automatically, just as if you'd disabled it in normal naval combat. If you intervene in a battle between Spanish and British ships but only attack one side, the other side will assume you're a friendly privateer and leave you alone. You can't equip a single sword, axe, or musket, but they each come with a complete set of unique kill animations thanks to your ability to steal them from enemies. Like in previous games, you can drop money as a distraction. However, monks won't pick up a single coin, even if you literally throw it at them. Hidden in the game files is a secret audio recording in which "John from IT" mocks anyone who finds it. Like in Assassin's Creed III, if Edward is interrupted while switching weapons or reloading his pistols and performs a counter kill, the kill will be an unarmed beatdown.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d2810345	type	Boarding Party
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d2810345	comment	Boarding Party: The game has even more of this with nearly 40% of the game taking place on the high seas, and not limited to specific missionsnote almost any ship except gunboats and Legendary ships can be boarded by depleting their Hull to the point where any further attacks would sink them, then coming up alongside them (or colliding with them) and initiating a boarding action. This time, the character replayed by the Animus is Connor's grandfather, a pirate/Assassin named Edward Kenway. According to one of the trailers, Blackbeard claims that he once saw Kenway clear the deck of a Spanish galleon by himself without breaking a sweat. Better yet, this is not only entirely, legitimately possible in gameplaynote though you have to either be out of naval combat, run far enough away to exit naval combat, or immediately initiate it after a successful boarding during a one-second window where the ship is treated as not being in naval combat... release the wheel, dive off of Kenway's ship and swim over to the target ship, but possibly even easier than taking on that ship in regular naval combat!
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d38f49f0	type	Ruins for Ruins' Sake
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d38f49f0	comment	Ruins for Ruins' Sake: There are Mayan ruins almost everywhere in the West Indies. Several of them are based on real ruins, such as the Assassins' base of operations at Tulum in the Yucatan, and most of the others are small enough for their non-existence in real-life to be excused by breaking down in the 300 years since the events of the game take place, but some are so large and significant a feature of their locations that they can only have been included for the sake of them, especially considering that the Maya didn't live and build outside of southern Mexico and northern Central America and most of these ruins are found on Caribbean islands.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d3f14c68	type	Jolly Roger
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d3f14c68	comment	Jolly Roger: A variant is used that has a white skull at the base of a stylized A on a black background, combining the Jolly Roger with the Assassins' iconography.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d41832cc	type	Written by the Winners
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d41832cc	comment	Written by the Winners: What your job profile as Research Analyst for Abstergo Entertainment entails. Unearth the raw details of the past, find out how it happened and then send your footage to developers who will make a mockery of history and the lives of past figures.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Of all the Assassin protagonists in the series so far, Edward seems to do the Brotherhood the least favor in preserving their low profile given that he's a notorious pirate who conceals barely any of his weapons (his four flintlock pistols and two massive cutlasses being the most overt ones on his person). Then there's the giant Assassin logo on his flag. Then again, this arrogance is part of why the Assassins plain don't like him at first, and James Kidd doesn't mince words about Edward's "Prancing about like one of us, bringing Shame to our Cause."
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d50e7e13	comment	White Void Room: Subverted in comparison to the previous games, as the memory corridor is now sea green with bokeh sparkles (the latter being similar to III's multiplayer interface, but much brighter). Also justified as it hearkens to the Animus interface in the First game which took place in the Abstergo office. Essentially the Animus of the Assassins favors white (except for the Black Room in Assassin's Creed: Revelations where the colours were inverted) while Templars interface have blue and green.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: When he assassinates Hornigold, Edward accuses him of abandoning the ideal that they were working for. Then Ben points out that the whole time, while he was working for a principle under the Templars, Kenway hadn't been working for any principle, and had only been chasing after his own perceived fortune.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d5dddf0d	type	Mooks, but no Bosses
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d5dddf0d	comment	Mooks, but no Bosses: Although the major assassination targets are all top fighters (unlike in III where many were non-combatants) they are all only on par with Elite Mooks. Only the Climax Boss El Tiburón puts up a genuine boss fight, and even he doesn't have Contractual Boss Immunity and can be instant-killed with a backstab if you can manage one. All of the other Templar bosses have to be assassinated with a One-Hit Kill for full sync, except for Torres, who is a decrepit 77-year-old who can be air-assassinated or thrown off a cliff, sometimes by accident. There are also four Superboss ships in the form of the four legendary ships.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d635e82c	type	Highly-Visible Ninja
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d635e82c	comment	Highly-Visible Ninja: Edward's pirate cloak might meet the color code, but with a giant skull and crossbones emblazoned on the back, it's not exactly inconspicuous. For bonus hilarity, through the Animus interface he can be dressed in Altaïr's, Ezio's, and/or Connor's costumes if you played those games. This is, of course, not what he would have actually been wearing in the memories in question. The multiplayer characters are usually dressed in colorful outfits and war paint. The only thing keeping them from being stabbed on sight is that everyone else has the same outfit.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d6f284a3	type	Anti-Frustration Features
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d6f284a3	comment	Anti-Frustration Features: If you have several hostile ships around you, they'll stop firing at you when you board one to take it as a prize. Same goes for forts if you initiate a ship boarding mini-event near a hostile fort.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d8aae07e	type	Loot Command
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d8aae07e	comment	Loot Command: The game features the same hunting and skinning mechanics from its predecessor, with a bit less justification as the main character is a British pirate. On the other hand, the whale/shark fishing fit the theme well.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d8b3412b	type	The Singularity
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d8b3412b	comment	The Singularity: Referred to as "The Grey", it is apparently Juno's endgame, to use the technology she now inhabits to usher forth a singularity where she will once more enslave humanity.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: By roughly the 1600s, the typical assassin's uniform of white hooded robes should considered pretty strange, yet they aren't.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d99d9918	type	The Captain
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_d99d9918	comment	Edward Kenway is a mere crew member in the opening mission who becomes The Captain by luck and accident, and one of the most feared (and successful) pirates in the world by the end.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_db6230b7	type	Lightning Bruiser
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_db6230b7	comment	Lightning Bruiser: Once fully upgraded, the Jackdaw becomes this. It's faster and more maneuverable than almost any other ship in the game, hits harder than any of them, and can soak up entire broadsides from Man of War-class ships (heavy shot broadsides no less). The only ships that outclass it in terms of sheer stats are the Legendary Ships. Not even Black Bart's Royal Fortune measures up. The Level 60 Man o' Wars deployed by pirate hunters at higher wanted levels technically outclass an upgraded Jackdaw (Level 50), but are easily overcome with the right tactics. El Impoluto, a legendary Level 75 Man o' War and the only ship of its class that mounts a naval ram. The beast is just as heavily armored and armed as the other legendary ships, but unlike them it's extremely fast and agile, capable of outrunning and outmaneuvering the Jackdaw no matter the situation (the only other vessels that can do this are gunships). Needless to say that a wicked-fast Man o' War purpose-built for ram attacks is a very deadly foe.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_dbfe8427	type	Intercourse with You
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_dbfe8427	comment	The Tavern songsnote They are played by a live band in the taverns you visit, "The Trooper and the Maid" and "Blow the Candles Out" are more upfront.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_dc5e5427	type	Renovating the Player Headquarters
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_dc5e5427	comment	Renovating the Player Headquarters: The nature of the game makes your ship the Jackdaw a more mobile version of this trope. Again you can improve it, allowing Edward to use it to collect valuable items such as whale oil and treasure chests. Improving it also allows the Jackdaw to also fight other ships, making travel much easier.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_dde43ab	type	Tattooed Crook
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_dde43ab	comment	Tattooed Crook: Edward Kenway himself and most pirates apparently.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: Every faction in the game, Assassins, Templars, Pirates and royal navies of England and Spain has an angle and their own long-term plans with each side ruining the other's plans. Add a Humanoid Abomination like a Sage who goes From Nobody to Nightmare and everything gets even more tangled. There's also the fact that pirate captains on treasure hunts have to be worried about being mutinied or shanghaied while on land. Good times. Often happens in the multiplayer, such as when a single player is targeted by several others at once.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_debc6687	type	Solemn Ending Theme
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_debc6687	comment	Solemn Ending Theme: Anne Bonnie begins to sing The Parting Glass, accompanied by Edward seeing his fallen friends smiling and sharing some drinks before he goes to see his daughter. The lyrics to the song are at the bottom of this page.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_df11acbe	type	Artificial Brilliance
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_df11acbe	comment	Artificial Brilliance: As with preceding games in this series, guards will search nearby hiding spots if they lose sight of you, and will frequently cover each other when doing so, guaranteeing that you'll be spotted if you attempt a stealth assassination. If grenadiers suspect that you're hiding in a haystack or a patch of foliage, they'll toss a grenade in there rather than endangering themselves by going in after you. If there's an alarm bell nearby, a guard will attempt to ring it when alerted. After a grenade is tossed, all enemies immediately back away from the blast radius. The Spanish ship La Dama Negra, a Legendary Ship, will adapt the use of its mortars based on your current course and position relative to hers. If her stern isn't facing your bow, she will lead her shots to try and force you off-course. If her stern is facing your bow, she will instead launch double mortar rounds to either side of your current course to deter you from turning (and thus aiming broadsides at her only vulnerable point).
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_dfbf8667	type	Right Under Their Noses
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_dfbf8667	comment	Right Under Their Noses: The modern day Assassins (save William, who is undoubtedly too conspicuous even for this brazen plan) have taken to hiding from the international Templar manhunt targeting them by working in the lobby of Abstergo Entertainment — Shaun as a barista and Rebecca as a courier.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: When confronting Governor Torres, Edward threatens to "cut off [Torres'] lips and make him eat them." This is directly taken from the actions of the infamous pirate Edward Low, who once cut off a defiant prisoner's lips, broiled them, and forced him to eat them while still hot.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e1645c04	type	Set a Mook to Kill a Mook
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e1645c04	comment	Set a Mook to Kill a Mook: Berserk Darts cause any enemy hit with them to go berserk and attack anyone nearby. Any surrounding mooks will all focus their attention on the berserked mook, which means the easiest way to take out assassination targets is to just hit them with a berserk dart and watch as everyone gangs up on them. When the berserk time is up, the affected target dies. Unfortunately, berserked mooks will still go for you if they spot you.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e1721fd1	type	Antiquated Linguistics
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e1721fd1	comment	Antiquated Linguistics: The 18th Century Caribbean features a bevy of period and nautical slang with old fashioned locution. The result is that even the language of working-class English and Welsh pirates sounds fancy to modern ears. The letters in the bottle ascribed to Thom Kavanaugh, and one of the collectibles are written in Augustan Era English and for Rule of Fun the Animus mission summaries are also done in the style of Chapter Titles, In Which a Trope Is Described. Furthermore, if you put on subtitles, nouns are capitalised much like in books of this era - Edward might say "We must find our target quickly", but the subtitles will read "We must find our Target quickly", for examplenote See Capital Letters Are Magic below.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e1f59bf0	type	Musical Episode
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e1f59bf0	comment	Musical Episode: Considering the number of folk songs in the game and the numerous ones you listen while piloting the Jackdaw, this is as close as the series will get to "Assassin's Creed: The Musical".
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e21e21be	type	Red and Black and Evil All Over
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e21e21be	comment	Red and Black and Evil All Over: The Templar armour is apparently designed around this principle.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: An in-story example. At one point the entirety of Aesop's Fable, "The Eagle and the Jackdaw" is retold in the game. It very obviously leads to applicability on Edward's own story. Edward admits to naming his ship, the Jackdaw after a "sly bird" he loved to see as a boy. It comes to symbolize Edward's defiant over-reaching struggle to rise above his station, a "Jackdaw who'd have you believe he's an Eagle" or a "pirate who'd have you believe he's an Assassin". Years later, on his retirement, he names his son, who he wishes to raise as an Assassin, Haytham, Arabic for Young Eagle.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e2f7ab99	type	Assassin Outclassin'
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e2f7ab99	comment	Assassin Outclassin': An early story mission has Edward Kenway, impersonating an Assassin who was a traitor (and whom Kenway killed in self-defense), meet with some Templars. During the meeting, they're attacked by Assassins who are after the Templars, but they don't expect Kenway's fighting skills.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e3315e75	type	Scoundrel Code
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e3315e75	comment	Scoundrel Code: Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts' famous code with 11 articles factors into the game. It's pure Schmuck Bait, as it places all power in Roberts' hands, but as he himself notes, he never said anything about loyalty in them.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: Since Edward is the father of Haytham, several of their actions parallel each other in ironic ways. He also has similarities to his grandson Connor. Both of them come in by ship and were tasked by their superiors to deliver something valuable. However, Haytham had this his whole time, whereas Edward stole this from an Assassin. The first few moments of the game reveal the supposed Assassin is actually a Templar. Strangely, Haytham was this originally, while Edward does this for personal gain. Like Connor, Edward develops a lot of his core fighting skills and freerunning and climbing skills from his prior experience as a sailor, similar to Connor who could run on trees and is a capable hunter because of his Native American upbringing and heritage. Both Edward and Connor become The Captain of the Cool Ship. Edward is likewise very Hotblooded and reckless, closer to Connor than Haytham who is an Imperturbable Englishman. This game creates a 3-for-3 of Kenways sentenced to death by hanging and later rescued. Like Connor, Edward is rescued by the Assassin Mentor.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e44a1a70	type	Bounty Hunter
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e44a1a70	comment	Bounty Hunter: Getting too much notoriety at sea will cause pirate hunters to come after you.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e49686	type	The Hero
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e49686	comment	Most of the individuals the pirates target work for the powerful European colonial empires which dominate the Caribbean during this period, many of whom work to uphold the brutal system of slavery which underpins the economy of the entire region; Governor Woodes Rogers himself owns several slave ships. In his day, Rogers (and others like him) would be The Hero. Today he's a Hypocrite, considering that slavery and colonialism have become justifiable targets in the 21st Century, and it's not hard to root for the pirates and for Kenway.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: The Jackdaw is a ship, not a boat. Jennifer's last name is not Kenway, it's Scott.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e5898915	type	In-Vehicle Invulnerability
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e5898915	comment	In-Vehicle Invulnerability: You and your crew members are never injured in naval combat unless your ship itself is sunk. Rather, your crew act as a resource to enable boarding other vessels, so having them all die in the exchange of cannon-fire before boarding would be annoying as a game mechanic. There's also an inversion of the trope: while you aren't at the helm of the Jackdaw, it is completely invulnerable, even if there's a raging battle going on around you.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e5bb2929	type	Super Not-Drowning Skills
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e5bb2929	comment	Super Not-Drowning Skills: Unlike in earlier games, this is played straight for NPCs. Stede Bonnet swims with Edward-as-Duncan-Walpole to his schooner, the pirates you rescue for the soon-to-be-Jackdaw's crew swim between ships (Adewale included), and any nameless bit characters typically just swim to shore after being pushed into the water.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e6630c8b	comment	Gameplay and Story Integration: Edward, upon being stranded on an island with an increasingly deranged Vane and without any sort of armor or protection, becomes much more vulnerable to gunfire.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e680af6f	type	Grief Song
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e680af6f	comment	Grief Song: The ending song of the game, not only in lyrics but even with showing all the comrades who died over the course of the game, drinking peacefully while smiling at Edward.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e7d5124d	type	"Everyone Comes Back" Fantasy Party Ending
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e7d5124d	comment	"Everyone Comes Back" Fantasy Party Ending: As the ship carrying his daughter pulls into Great Inagua, Edward looks at one of the tables where his whole crew is having a good drink and imagines seeing Blackbeard, Benjamin Hornigold, Calico Jack, Stede Bonnet, Charles Vane, and Mary Read among them.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e888fbd8	type	No Man Should Have This Power
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e888fbd8	comment	No Man Should Have This Power: How Edward feels about the Observatory towards the end, and he expresses the same to Woodes Rogers. Though initially he was giddy about it potentially making him and Roberts "masters of the ocean".
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e95acf73	type	Wooden Ships and Iron Men
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e95acf73	comment	Wooden Ships and Iron Men: The game is set several decades before III and has you pilot a pirate ship during The Golden Age of Piracy and features open world naval combat, building on the Naval gameplay. Justified, as the non-modern main character is Connor's grandfather Edward Kenway, a pirate/assassin who is the colleague and equal of the likes of Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Charles Vane and Bartholomew Roberts.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e96faeb5	type	Houseboat Hero
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e96faeb5	comment	Houseboat Hero: Edward makes the Jackdaw his base of operation at least until he takes the island of Great Inagua under his control from an Templar agent.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License – Geography: Many of the Caribbean islands and coastlines are depicted as rocky and mountainous. In real life, they're mostly quite flat. For example, compare Crooked Island◊ in the game to its real-world counterpart.◊
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e9f52c2d	type	Britain Is Only England
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_e9f52c2d	comment	Britain Is Only England: Fairly early in the game, a character dismissively calls Player Character an Englishman. Edward irritatedly retorts that he's Welsh, not English.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ea480f92	type	Simple, yet Awesome
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ea480f92	comment	Simple, yet Awesome: Berserk darts do the previous games' poison attack one better by being usable at very long range and driving targets into a frenzy, attacking their former allies and anyone else in reach and drawing the attention of guards in a large radius. They also don't cause the guards to raise an alarm, making them the perfect distraction. The only drawback is that if the berserk guard runs out of people to kill, he might go after you. It's also not a good idea to use them in the presence of hostages you need/want to save, like in the very mission that introduces Edward's blowpipe.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ea5c413d	type	Biting-the-Hand Humor
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ea5c413d	comment	Biting-the-Hand Humor Abstergo Entertainment, the Templar front present in the modern day segment of the game and up to all sorts of no good is a French-Canadian video game developer based in Montreal. Abstergo Entertainment was literally created by Abstergo acquiring Ubisoft Montreal. Also, in a bit of meta humor, Abstergo Entertainment is listed in the game's startup as the developer, even starting up its own website.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_eabd22f9	type	Achievement System
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_eabd22f9	comment	Achievement System: While all the games in the Assassin's Creed series have featured Xbox Achievements, Black Flag is the first to have an internal set of achievements, called Abstergo Challenges.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: In the multiplayer component of the game, the Buccaneer has a brutal one. As shown here, he swings his hook between the legs of the Puppeteer, getting the point right in her genitals. As she grabs her newly-maimed lady bits and screams in agony, he dumps her over his head, killing her and mercifully completing the contract.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_eb27e576	type	Cartography Sidequest
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_eb27e576	comment	Cartography Sidequest: Conquering naval forts reveals entire regions of the overworld.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: The Travers brothers, Upton and Vance; the latter tries to kill the former to possess his half of a treasure map. Gets a bit heavy-handed when Vance's girlfriend, Jiang Ling, references the story in a bid to get Vance to kill Upton personally.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ebab0a5b	type	Best Her to Bed Her
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ebab0a5b	comment	Best Her to Bed Her: At the end of the game when the Assassins stay on your Island, there will be a female assassin by your bed. When you interact with her she will suddenly run off. If you catch her the scene will transition back to your bedroom with her sleeping on your bed, suggesting this trope happened.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ec7da60a	type	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ec7da60a	comment	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Benjamin Hornigold became a Templar, Mary Read was an Assassin, and Black Bart was a Sage, the "clone" of a precursor god who has reincarnated several times throughout History, always with the same physical appearance and memories of ancient times
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ecc8b108	type	Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ecc8b108	comment	Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!: The in-game Abstergo promos project this image of piracy note "Nothing is sacred and everyone is committed" and Stede Bonnet initially signs up with Blackbeard longing for adventure and excitement. The game plays both angles: a pirate's life is full of freedom and adrenaline but it comes at the price of living in a Wretched Hive like Nassau, having to cope with Chronic Backstabbing Disorder vis-a-vis mutiny and Dysfunction Junction and the vast ocean filled with Everything Trying to Kill You.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Downplayed with protagonist Edward Kenway joined by Edward "Blackbeard" Thatch. But the latter is never simply called "Edward" in the game; he's generally called Blackbeard or by his surname alone, while Kenway introduces him to Adewale as "Ed" Thatch.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ee7ed46e	type	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ee7ed46e	comment	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Earlier games had Templars actively involved in local politics and doing their best to Kick the Dog and making the place they are in a Wretched Hive, in addition to their usual lust after some Magic from Technology. In Black Flag, the Templars are the most sympathetic and least evil of the Assassin's Creed games thus far with none of them getting any Kick the Dog moment and with them performing their governmental appointments with general competence. This is reinforced by the fact that Edward Kenway's Arch-Enemy for the game isn't even a Templar, though the Final Boss of the game is the Templar Grandmaster, Governor Laureano de Torres. Of course, this is discussed in the game itself when Edward and Anne Bonny talk about why they should stop Governor Torres from getting hold of the Observatory. Once he gets hold of it, The Templars never have to Kick the Dog anymore to get what they want and simply be The Man Behind the Man. In the game, the Templars are still Visionary Villain who aim to blackmail the world to do their bidding. They are also major aristocratic Jerks with Woodes Rogers calling Kenway a "cretin" and Julien du Casse calling him a "filthy peasant" and even Torres for all his token claims against slavery isn't interested in actively stopping it and is a self-confessed plutocrat who looks down on slaver Laurens Prins for his At Least I Admit It stance. The driving force of the plots this time is neither the Templars, nor the Assassins, but the Sages, the genetic reincarnations of Juno's lover Aita. Edward Kenway's exploits center around his quest to find the Observatory and the one person who knows how to use it, Bartholomew Roberts. Meanwhile, the present-day protagonist is being guided by somebody working in Abstergo's IT division, who turns out to be the latest incarnation. His goal is to finally revive the recently-freed Juno by letting her hijack the protagonist's body; unfortunately for him, it doesn't work.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ef43c232	type	Downloadable Content
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ef43c232	comment	Downloadable Content: The game is rife with content packs, some of which were bundled together in a digital "Gold Edition": Aveline Pack, an extra mission featuring the protagonist of Assassin's Creed III: Liberation. Black Island Pack, which includes a treasure-hunting mission, an additional ship and armor set. Captain Kenway's Legacy Pack, which includes golden scimitars for single-player and an extra multiplayer costume. Crusader and Florentine Pack, which gives additional ship customization options based on the colors of the first two games. An additional customization pack, Death Vessel, was released soon after. Hidden Mystery Pack, which includes an additional treasure-hunting mission, an additional ship and costume, and extra multiplayer models. Pirates Bounty Pack, which includes additional weapons and relics. Sacrificed Secrets Pack, which includes an additional treasure-hunting mission, an additional weapon/costume and extra relics. The Season Pass, which includes a Kraken Pack (additional ship customization options inspired by sea monsters), a single-player expansion featuring Edward's first-mate as the protagonist and additional multiplayer characters. Several "Time Saver" packs that remove the requirements to unlock certain types of upgrades in the game.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_f005700f	type	Conspicuous Consumption
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_f005700f	comment	Conspicuous Consumption: Both In-Universe and out, adding a guesthouse to Edward's already huge mansion is hideously expensivenote 40,000 reales, more than the most expensive Jackdaw upgrade available while failing to do anything but look pretty (and even that's up for debate, seeing how the building is located in a fairly out-of-the-way spot).
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_f1ca2085	comment	Hacking Minigame: In the present-day segments of the game, you can walk around Abstergo and hack your colleagues computers by playing one of three different minigames depending on what floor you're on.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_f4061d83	type	Capital Letters Are Magic
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_f4061d83	comment	Capital Letters Are Magic: Nigh-every noun in the game is capitalized in the subtitles. This is a Shout-Out to the main reference for the game, "A General History Of The Pyrates". Or to the fact that capitalizing nouns was the style of the time, in the same way nouns still are in German.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_f4fd424c	type	All Your Base Are Belong to Us
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_f4fd424c	comment	All Your Base Are Belong to Us: As the English progress in their anti-piracy campaign, they eventually move on Nassau, offering the King's Pardon to any pirates who wish to renounce their "wicked lives" and the hangman's noose to any who don't. This forces Edward to move his base of operations to Great Inagua. Ah Tabai and his Assassins eventually move there as well after Torres's men ravage Tulum. Thanks to unwittingly selling out the locations of the Assassin strongholds in the area to the Templars while disguised as Duncan Walpole, Edward is recruited to defend them against Templar attacks throughout the main story and several side missions.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_f7d4f121	type	Mushroom Samba
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_f7d4f121	comment	During Edward's Mushroom Samba and the retelling of the Jackdaw Fable, you have to assassinate three targets. One of the random choices they turn into afterwards looks a lot like Abbas.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_f8084d07	type	Society Is to Blame
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_f8084d07	comment	Society Is to Blame: How the pirates see their lot. Bartholomew Roberts sums it up:
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_f863bb6d	type	Battle Trophy
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_f863bb6d	comment	Battle Trophy: Templar smuggler Julien duCasse keeps a box full of Hidden Blades, the trademark weapon of the Assassins, with him as "souvenirs".
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_f87c42d4	type	Video Game Cruelty Potential
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_f87c42d4	comment	Video Game Cruelty Potential: While you still suffer desync penalties for killing civilians and domestic animals, your crew suffers from We Have Reserves; any crew lost during a boarding - up to and including swivel cannon friendly fire - is negligible thanks to the ability to recruit replacements. It's even lampshaded in-game; there's an achievement for recruiting a total of 500 crew members called "Cannon Fodder". Berserk darts in general. Force your enemies to brutally murder their friends and comrades while you sadistically cackle at them from the bushes! Fun! Sleep darts. Usually intended for players to simply knock out snipers or something for a little while, but if you use them on an enemy standing in water they drown immediately. And watch what happens when a player with multiple pursuers finally gets downed in the Wanted mode of multiplayer: after being mortally wounded, they have to suffer the indignity of being literally curb-stomped by a small mosh pit of pursuers. Plantation robbing sidequests are supposed to be stealth missions, but it feels so good to kill every last guard in a plantation.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: If the subtitles are switched on you can hear the leader of the graverobber you are sent to assassinate telling his men to leave no bush unmolested.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_fa7d3dfe	type	Number Two
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_fa7d3dfe	comment	Anne Bonny starts as a waitress in Nassau before attracting Jack Rackham's attention and ends up as Mary Read's Number Two and after her death and Adéwalé quitting the Jackdaw, becomes Edward Kenway's quartermaster.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_fa9cd4db	type	Democracy Is Bad
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_fa9cd4db	comment	Democracy Is Bad: The game highlights the pirates as being, from a modern perspective, somewhat more egalitarian than the European colonial empires who they fight against, who combat piracy yet uphold a far more destructive form of theft, slavery. They practice meritorious advancement, have a racially integrated Badass Crew and Anne Bonny, who becomes an in-universe Memetic Badass as the ur-Pirate Girl. However the fact that they are a Dysfunction Junction note "We're not men meant to govern." - Edward Kenway and their income coming from high seas robbery means they are not able to sustain their ideals, with even an initial Wide-Eyed Idealist like Benjamin Hornigold pulling a Screw This, I'm Outta Here. The game also defines The Mutiny not as a great crime of treachery but merely Democracy in action, respecting the right of the crew, more or less, to exercise franchise over their captain who, however badass he may be, must rely on them finally.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_fbc074c3	comment	In the modern-day story, John Standish is dead, Juno is still a non-threat without a body, the analyst Player Character is alive, and the Assassins have a lot of valuable data on Abstergo. On the other hand the analyst now knows they are in constant danger of Abstergo locking them up whenever they see fit, there's the chance they'll be found out about their plots with Standish and the Assassins, the Templars have the location of the Observatory now, and all of the analyst's hard work is being rewarded with the knowledge the adventures they lived through are being Flanderized into a cheesy video game to serve as pro-Templar propaganda.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_fbd285b7	comment	The game satirizes how history becomes pop culture fodder with Abstergo Entertainment Comically Missing the Point about the memories of the ancestors they seek to exploit. They are more interested in making Pirates of the Caribbean knock-offs than telling true stories.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_fc9379ed	comment	Sidekick Graduations Stick: A theme in the game (drawn directly from real life), where sailors are shown to initially apprentice under experienced captains before becoming legends in their own right. This is also an invoked trope because the Pirates became pirates because the British Navy had a Sidekick Glass Ceiling with low-level officers unable to advance in rank because of social status or nobility. That's one thing the pirates have over those who pursue them. Edward Kenway initially is a mere sailor aboard a crew who first sailed under Captain Benjamin Hornigold and, after getting the Jackdaw, briefly interns under Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge and learns the ropes from Edward Thatch on how to maintain crew discipline. Stede Bonnet, who Edward recruited to the Pirate gang of Ragtag Bunch of Misfits is shown to undergo the same procedure, finally being promoted as captain of his own ship by Blackbeard which is Truth in Television. Blackbeard himself served as Hornigold's Number Two before becoming The Captain and The Dreaded. Likewise with Edward Kenway, Adéwalé serves as The Lancer and his Number Two before pulling off a Screw This, I'm Outta Here as a result of Kenway's It's All About Me attitude and his own interest in the Assassins. He becomes a Hero of Another Story in the DLC Freedom Cry. Anne Bonny starts as a waitress in Nassau before attracting Jack Rackham's attention and ends up as Mary Read's Number Two and after her death and Adéwalé quitting the Jackdaw, becomes Edward Kenway's quartermaster. Averted in the case of Jack Rackham, the team Butt-Monkey who pulls The Mutiny on Charles Vane but immediately makes his incompetence clear to his crew. After James Kidd outs herself as Mary Read, she becomes the captain with Rackham as her beard and puppet.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ff070bbd	comment	Attack! Attack! Attack!: The complete Charles Vane doctrine of naval warfare. He manages a surprise attack against the English fleet blockading Nassau simply by being so crazily aggressive that they don't see him coming. In one mission where the Jackdaw has to track a Spanish ship of the line/man-o'-war, Vane is insane enough to take the 100-gun beast head-on with just a brig (his Ranger) and a pair of smaller ships.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: While Edward is meeting with the Templars for the first time, mention is made of a man named James Puckle who had invented a rapid-firing gun. The "Puckle gun" (essentially a flintlock revolver) actually was invented around the time of the game. In Rogue, you get to finally use them.
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game)	hasFeature	When Things Spin, Science Happens / int_4f2ad444
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wide-Open Sandbox / int_4f2ad444
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wooden Ships and Iron Men / int_4f2ad444
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game)	hasFeature	You All Meet in a Cell / int_4f2ad444
Constantine	seeAlso	Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game)

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