Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood: Difference between revisions

 

 

'''Ezio:''' [[The Good King|That a true leader empowers the people he rules.]] <br />

'''{{spoiler|Cesare:}}''' I will lead mankind into a new world!<br />

* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Leonardo da Vinci. Considering that in the DLC his assistant Salai was around, this could be [[Truth in Television]] since they were rumored lovers.

** Also this exchange with Ezio and himself:

''(cue awkward looks)'' }}

* [[Animal Theme Naming]]: Il Lupo "The Prowler" carries on the tradition.

* [[Badass Back]]: Some of the kill animations.

* [[Badass Boast]]: Cesare, despite being, well, [[Dirty Coward|Cesare]], gives us a pretty good one:

** Doubles as a [[Villainous Breakdown]] though due to the timing and what causes him to say this -- finding out that {{spoiler|daddy's stiffing him for money, didn't tell him about his French ally's death, won't give him the priceless artifact that's been used to support their regime... oh, and poisoned the apple he just ate.}}

** Ezio rushes to the Rosa in Fiore, fearing the worst after an attack... {{spoiler|to find four dead men and Claudia holding a dagger.}}

'''Claudia:''' ''"And I'd do it again."'' }}

* [[Bag of Spilling]]: Justified, as the {{spoiler|the sneak attack on Monteriggioni in the early morning}} leaves him only enough time to put on his pants, boots, a shirt, a sword and one Hidden Blade -- though it's the original inherited from his father, and thanks to [[Leonardo da Vinci]] it also has both the Hidden Gun and the Poison Blade (it is not explained why those are also on Ezio's "new" left-arm Hidden Blade, so they may be the original weapons with a new bracer).

** After Ezio's arrival in Roma, he gets introduced to Bartolomeo's cousin Fabio Orsini, who rents the hideout on Tiber Island for the Assassin Order. Fabio doesn't appear in the game until {{spoiler|the end of Sequence 8, where he arrests Cesare by order of the new Pope he's serving under.}}

* [[Christmas Cake]]: Ezio starts getting a few jabs about his age in this game from people who don't know just how physically fit he is. Considering he's living in an era with terrible life expectancy to begin with, maybe he ''is'' crossing over into what they would consider [[Cool Old Guy]] territory<ref>For the record, in 1499, he's 40 years old. By the end of the game, in 1507, he's 48, so he's definitely up there in years</ref>.

'''Ezio'''(moments later while climbing up a wall): Ugh. My back. }}

** Good thing they don't notice then that how he heavily breathes while navigating the platforming puzzles (i.e. wall-running and beam-hopping)...

** Played straight with the Executioner. [[Shaped Like Itself|Guess what "Il Carnefice" means...]]

* [[Exact Words]]: Cesare really should learn to watch his wording.

'''Ezio''': {{spoiler|[[Loophole Abuse|Then I leave you to the hands of Fate.]]}} }}

* [[Exclusive Enemy Equipment]]: The Heavy Sheath now allows you to carry axes and two-handed swords permanently, but [[Blade on a Stick|polearms]] still need to be taken off of Seekers, and are still dropped if performing Off-Hand actions or sprinting/free-running.

** Fully realized in the final Sequence, as {{spoiler|Ezio goes off alone to hunt down Cesare without informing the Brotherhood}}, disabling your ability to call Assassins in the process.

** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] at the beginning:

* [[One-Woman Wail]]: Present in a lot of the soundtrack, most notably in the title sequence.

* [[Only Smart People May Pass]]: Subject 16's puzzles, especially the last few. {{spoiler|The password to the Temple of Juno requires piecing together information about dates, the Name of God, and the Tetragrammaton.}}

* [[Unflinching Walk|Unflinching Leap of Faith]]: Whenever you destroy a Borgia Tower after the first.

* [[Unflinching Walk]]: Ezio pulls one off following the explosion that occurs after {{spoiler|crashing da Vinci's ornithopter}}, and when he destroyed his first Borgia Tower, {{spoiler|Iacopo de Grassi's}}.

* [[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."

* [[Villainous Incest]]: Cesare Borgia has this with his sister Lucrezia, which may or may not have been [[Truth in Television]].

* [[Villain Song]]: For the Harlequin in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTp2REwC8oo Gamestop commercial], sung to the tune of "Yankee Doodle".

''Before they had a chance to laugh, he took those suckers out!'' }}

* [[Warp Whistle]]: In the form of tunnel entrances around Rome that Ezio must renovate to use.