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[[File:s Creed Brotherhood for TV Tropes 4781.jpg|frame|''"The liberation of Roma has begun!"'']]

 

{{quote|'''{{spoiler|Cesare:}}''' The throne was mine!

'''Ezio:''' Wanting something does not make it your right.

'''{{spoiler|Cesare:}}''' What do you know?

'''Ezio:''' ''Che nessuno ricordi il tuo nome.''<ref>(May no one remember your name.)</ref> ''Requiescat in pace.''<ref>(Rest in peace.)</ref>}}

 

Gameplay improvements include a more robust fighting system that allows chaining instant kills together if you don't miss or take damage, riding horses inside the city, and control of larger weapons such as cannons. In addition, multiplayer has been added to the roster for the first time in series history, with the "plot" being Templars in training at Abstergo to think and work like Assassins.

 

 

 

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* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: {{spoiler|"By order of Pope Julius II, I arrest you, Cesare Borgia, for the crimes of murder, betrayal, and [[Brother-Sister Incest|incest]]."}}

** They would have been more equal crimes during the Renaissance, as the Catholic Church was more involved with law making and therefore moral crimes could be civil crimes as well.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Cristina Vespucci, seen only briefly as Ezio's sex partner in Assassin's Creed II, appears in Brotherhood in a series of repressed memories for Ezio, showing her as a much more important person in Ezio's life than a mere "outlet".

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Ezio is even more kickass than he was pre-Master Assassin and is naturally more badass than the novice Assassins he recruits... though at Assassino, those former novices are among the game's strongest NPCs, able to hold their own against multiple enemies—and armed with Smoke Bombs, at that.

* [[Camera Screw]]: Usually you can turn your camera with the mouse, and move Ezio by issuing commands ''relative to the camera''. However in some platforming situations the camera will fixate at a specified angle, which is deliberatly done to give you a clear view of where you're supposed to jump. This in turn leads to situations where the command for "going forward" from Ezio's point of view is now "right", because you cannot turn the camera, and input is relative to it. Especially annoying in situations where you're under pressure, because it might lead to you suddenly jumping in the wrong direction. The PC-version suffers the most from this, because you have no analogue stick to fine-tune your directional commands, and have to very carefully adjust your directions with the keyboard.

* [[Cat Fight]]: Catarina Sforza and Lucrezia Borgia. At first, it starts with verbal insults from both sides, finally culminating with Ezio and Catarina locking Lucrezia into a cell, in which then Caterina slams her head on the jail cell bars.

* [[Chainmail Bikini]]: Averted with the female Assassin Recruits. Their robes, while low-cut, are covered up by adding the chestpieces, and they never show any more skin than that and their faces. As with their male counterparts, upon promotion to the highest rank Assassino they wear slimmer versions of Ezio's attire.

* [[Character Development]]: Ezio's repressed memory missions are like a cross-section examination of the stages of his life. The first is of him as a carefree youth palling around with his brother, the second is of him as a tormented young man out for justice, the third is a more determined and mature, but slightly scarier Assassin Ezio, and so on.

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: The Borgias. ''[[Big Screwed-Up Family|All of them]]''. If Ezio wasn't literally backstabbing them they'd tear each other apart. {{spoiler|In the end that's what happens -- Rodrigo tries to poison the ambitious Cesare, but when Lucrezia betrays the plot to Cesare, he uses the same poison to kill Rodrigo, only to then turn on his sister-lover Lucrezia... after which she tells Ezio where the Apple of Eden is.}}

** The only exception was {{spoiler|Giovanni Borgia the Younger, Lucrezia's son by an Assassin-in-disguise}} because he left home after getting fed up with Cesare, Micheletto and Rodrigo—though not Lucrezia—and ended up {{spoiler|joining the Assassins.}}

* [[Clock Punk]]: Thanks to [[Leonardo da Vinci|Leonardo's inventions]]

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Caterina Sforza.

* [[Doomed Hometown]]: Monteriggioni.

* [[Downloadable Content]]: ''The Da Vinci Disappearance'' is set in 1506 and fills in part of the time skip between Sequences 8 (set in 1503) and 9 (set in 1507), adding eight mission memories, two new mini-games, and ten achievements/trophies. The DLC includes an extra outfit previously exclusive to Amazon.com pre-orders (of ''Brotherhood'') and the two Templar Lair mission memories from the collector's editions. On the multiplayer side of things the DLC adds four multiplayer personas, two new match types, and one new map.

* [[The Dragon]]: Cesare Borgia, who takes this role for his father Rodrigo despite also being the [[Big Bad]].

** [[Dragon with an Agenda]]: Cesare wants to conquer Italy, while Rodrigo wants to consolidate the family's political and military power.

* [[In the End You Are on Your Own]]: Invoked when {{spoiler|Ezio goes after Cesare without the Brotherhood}}.

* [[It's Probably Nothing]]: When Ezio is roused from slumber with Caterina due to cannon-firing noises, he thinks this since the men of Monteriggioni had been planning on cannon practice that morning. Then a cannonball goes through his room, knocking over the Armor of Altaïr in the process. It can't be destroyed, not even by ''cannons'' because it's made from super-metal, and Desmond later sees Ezio wearing it after the attack.

* [[Just Following Orders]]: Cristina, in one of the flashback memory missions, tells Ezio to not kill the guards moving his family's bodies because they're just doing their jobs. Ezio doesn't really buy this ("They follow orders ''without questioning--!"'') but he relents to appease her.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: To remind the player that the mooks they're sneaking by might not be [[Just Following Orders]], one of the later sequences has a cutscene of Cesare having his soldiers stab an innocent [[For the Evulz|for no reason other than asking them to save her son]].

* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: In ''The Da Vinci Disappearance'', {{spoiler|after Ezio defeats several of his followers, the Hermeticist leader throws one last follower down to stop him. This not only kills the hapless follower but breaks off part of the stone platform that he's standing on, creating a path for Ezio to climb directly up to him. Ezio had no other way of reaching him before that.}}

* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]: Thoroughly averted. When destroying the War Machines, you need to not only destroy the prototype but also the blueprints, as well as any other prototypes of the same design that may be fighting back.

* [[No Man of Woman Born]]: {{spoiler|Cesare tries pulling this on Ezio. Absent the [[Sweet Polly Oliver|usual loophole]], Ezio just drops him off the wall of the castle at Viana}}.

* [[Not Worth Killing]]: Remember when Ezio ''[[What an Idiot!|spared]]'' {{spoiler|Rodrigo Borgia}}? That turns out to have been a mistake in hindsight, {{spoiler|although in the end Rodrigo is not the real threat. In fact, Ezio's "mercy" caused him to focus on power consolidation to the consternation of his son, splintering their family. So, it was actually a good thing, oddly enough.}}

* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: According to the Heralds, all incidents of petty theft must be reported to the Vatican Office of Complaints, ''not'' the Guard. But according to another message from the Heralds, the Vatican Office of complaints has been closed indefinitely due to the death of its only employee.

* [[Self-Deprecation]]: The depiction of the French soldiers in this game is less than flattering. Ubisoft, the company that publishes the game, is based in France. In addition, the game itself was developed by a Quebecois studio, Ubisoft Montreal.

* [[Sequence Breaking]]: Unlike the Assassin's Tombs in ''AC2'', the Lairs of Romulus have a persistent plotline and are intended to be played in a certain order, but there's nothing actually stopping you from playing them out of order once you've unlocked them all.

* [[Sherlock Scan]]: Senator Troche assumes that this is how Ezio knew that he had been whoring. The truth is much simpler: Ezio owns the Senator's favorite brothel.

* [[Shout-Out]]: ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' has made at least two major shout-outs to Assassin's Creed (such as Big Boss' ability to perform the Leap of Faith in ''Peace Walker'' and Altaïr's robe ''MGS4''), it's only fair for this game to return the favor. Firstly: {{spoiler|1=Raiden's ''MGS4'' outfit}} becomes a possible costume for Ezio—albeit with Ezio wearing it—if you happen to complete all the Virtual Training missions, which themselves could be construed as a shout-out to the many VR Mission modes for MGS games. Secondly, when you first meet back up with {{spoiler|Leonardo, his voice appears to be coming from inside a modern cardboard box}}.

** Alternately he can throw a Polearm, though those can not be kept like Heavy Weapons can. This is one of the only ways to "elevate" a Polearm, by throwing it at a rooftop guard while Ezio is not in Open Conflict, though finding a well-placed "free-run" to a roof or using a merchandise or ladder will work as well.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: In the DLC, the returning {{spoiler|Duccio de Luca}} publicly insults Ezio's sister as the "whore of Rome" and picks a fight with Ezio ''thirty years after their last meeting'', all because he's got a few ''unarmed'' henchmen on hand. This works out for him about as well as you'd expect. Worse yet, the games assume that Ezio was wearing the Assassin Robes at the time.

** The Hidden Gun is also ''far'' more useful than it used to be due to his having had over a decade to practice with it, and somehow modifying it (before going to infiltrate the Vatican at the end of 1499 in ''AC2'', since he himself didn't probably have time to do so between his return to Monteriggioni and the next morning's siege) to be able to fire using his left wrist alone.

** Also, Claudia has gone from villa bookkeeper, to head of the Courtesans as brothel madam of the Rosa in Fiore ("Blooming Rose"), and {{spoiler|confirmed Assassin after slaying four attacking guards while Ezio is away. Afterwards, she is officially inducted into the Assassins, performing a Leap of Faith and fighting alongside Ezio during the mop-up skirmishes.}}

{{quote|'''Ezio:''' Addio, amico mio.<ref>"Goodbye, my friend."</ref>}}

* [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]]: Lucrezia keeps the key to Caterina's cell here. When Ezio manages to capture her, Caterina retrieves and remarks on it ("Classy.")

* [[Video Game Caring Potential]]: Destroying the Borgia oppression leads to the revitalization of Rome, and eventually ''the Renaissance''. As you progress through the game, the background chatter of NPCs will include statements like "Things are really getting better," and "There will be a special throne in Hell for Cesare Borgia when this is all over."

** In liberated zones you will also have Vigilantes appear, usually near certain guard locations, who will jeer at the guards and grab any guards that try to fight near them, just like in ''AC1''.

* [[Wrestler in All of Us]]: In addition to Ezio still using a chokeslam, Il Carnefice/The Executioner can kill his target from behind by using a standing version of an Inverted Death Valley Driver/[[Kenta Kobashi|Burning Hammer]], and the Blacksmith uses a backbreaker.

* [[Wretched Hive]]: Rome under Borgia rule. It's up to Ezio to clean it up.

* [[You All Look Familiar]]: Purposely invoked in multiplayer for the purpose of [[Paranoia Fuel]]. To maintain this, if a player equips their character with visible customizations, ''all'' of that character's NPC counterparts will match the player's look. ''Somewhat'' mitigated in Alliance, Chest Capture and Manhunt modes as the pursuers and targets are clearly defined—thus narrowing down who is your target but also who your pursuer could be, unless a Disguise is used—but in full force during Wanted and Advanced Wanted.

** Further invoked for any ability which affects characters' appearances, i.e. Disguise ("reskins" the player character into a different character for at least ten seconds), Morph (up to four or six NPCs near the player character suddenly "transform" to match the player character's appearance), or Blender (changes a NPC in a crowd into the same skin as that of the player for as long as the player character stays in that crowd, and as long as there isn't an actual NPC that already has the same skin).

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