History TearJerker / AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag

->[[spoiler:Edward: You should've been the one to outlast me.]]
->[[spoiler:Mary: I've done my part. Will you?]]
->[[spoiler:Edward: If you came with me, I could. Mary?]]
->[[spoiler:Mary: I'll be with you, Kenway. I will.]]

* One of the hunts for a Templar has you teaming up with Assassin Rhona Dinsmore, who eventually helps you lure out Hilary Flint so you can kill him and take his key. However, Rhona is noticeably reluctant to do so, and it turns out that, while on opposite sides, she and Flint were [[FoeYay somewhat in love]] - and he dies in her arms.
* The flashback where Edward leaves for sea is the first scene where we get a glimpse of a more vulnerable side of him as he quietly laments how this is the time where he truly needs his wife's faith and blessing. It's also sad because you can sense that his wife still loves him and it hurts her to do this, but she doesn't want to be his enabler anymore. The fact that [[spoiler: she dies and Edward NeverGotToSayGoodbye]] is deeply sad in itself, more because Edward had finally changed and wanted to do right by her only now its far TooLate. Edward's expression when he gets the latter with the WhamEpisode [[spoiler: that his wife is dead and is survived by a daughter he knew nothing about, is filled with regret, realizing that he failed her.]]

* Even worse in ''Freedom Cry'' than that is the mission where you attempt to liberate another slave ship. You eliminate two of its escorts, only for the remaining one to open fire on the slave ship itself. Then, Adewale goes on board and tries desperately to liberate he surviving slaves, personally breaking their chains and trying to get them out, all while surrounded by the dead and dying. Then, to make matters worse, the ship begins sinking and Adewale must escape, even as the screaming bodies of the ''slaves he just freed'' plummet pass him. He then gets to swim past their drowned bodies to reach the surface, only to end up trying to climb out of the ship, past even more slaves still chained to the deck, many of them struggling and writhing as they're pulled to their inevitable doom. Really, the whole sequence is as horrifying as it is heartbreaking.

** There's also what became of Desmond after the credits of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' rolled. [[spoiler:Instead of a proper burial or even a tearful send-off, Desmond's corpse is found by Abstergo researchers and autopsied on. The man who in a sense saved the world was effectively reduced to a mere footnote by the Templars as Sample 17. It's as if Desmond was able to check out of life, but in the end could ''never leave.'']]

* Finding the remains of the Jackdaw in ''Freedom Cry''. While he has left behind his days of piracy, it's clear Adéwalé is sad to see his old "country" in shambles at the bottom of the sea, only able to salvage the figurehead.

--> "''If you want a happy ending, it depends of course, on where you stop your story.''"

--> ''"For years I've been rushing around, taking whatever I fancied, not giving a tinker's curse for those I hurt. Yet [[LonelyAtTheTop here I am]]... with riches and reputation, feeling no wiser than when I left home. Yet when I turn around, and look at the course I've run... [[EverybodysDeadDave here's not a man or woman that I love left]] standing [[JerkassWoobie beside me]].

* On a meta-level, Abstergo Entertainment for all its vapid surface and ComicallyMissingThePoint PlayedForLaughs jokes highlight the sad part of people taking liberties with history. Eventually the {{Flanderization}} will endure in place of the real thing. People in the game world will remember Blackbeard not in the ShownTheirWork manner we see in the game, as a mostly down-to-earth LargeHam who suffered from ChronicVillainy, but in the parody of ObviouslyEvil we see in Abstergo's phony trailers and Ian [[=McShane=]]'s portayal of Blackbeard in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides''. Eventually, people will remember Kenway or even Aveline or any future ancestor whose game product is released in a {{Bowdlerization}} that twists their real character into something false. Essentially, all their stories are TheGreatestStoryNeverTold. It's one thing to say that history is WrittenByTheWinners and another to actually be on the ground enabling the lie.

* The flashback where Edward leaves for sea is the first scene where we get a glimpse of a more vulnerable side of him as he quietly laments how this is the time where he truly needs his wife's faith and blessing. It's also sad because you can sense that his wife still loves him and it hurts her to do this, but she doesn't want to be his enabler anymore. The fact that [[spoiler: she dies and Edward NeverGotToSayGoodbye]] is deeply sad in itself, more because Edward had finally changed and wanted to do right by her only now its far TooLate.

* The flashback where Edward leaves for sea is the first scene where we get a glimpse of a more vulnerable side of him as he quietly laments how this is the time where he truly needs his wife's faith and blessing. It's also sad because you can sense that his wife still loves him and it hurts her to do this, but she doesn't want to be his enabler anymore. The fact that [[spoiler: she dies and Edward NeverGotAChanceToSayGoodbye]] is deeply sad in itself, more because Edward had finally changed and wanted to do right by her only now its far TooLate.

* The flashback where Edward leaves for sea is the first scene where we get a glimpse of a more vulnerable side of him as he quietly laments how this is the time where he truly needs his wife's faith and blessing.
* The epilogue reeks of this for anyone who played VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII and especially those who read ''Forsaken''. [[spoiler:Despite the game ending happily with Edward and his children, in later years, Edward will die at the hands of Templars, his daughter will be sold off to slavery, and his son will become a Templar.]]

* The flashback where Edward leaves for sea is the first scene where we get a glimpse of a more vulnerable side of him as he quietly laments how this is the time where he truly needs his wife's faith and blessing.

* One of the hunts for a Templar has you teaming up with Assassin Rhona Dinsmore, who eventually helps you lure out Hilary Flint so you can kill him and take his key. However, Rhona is noticeably reluctant to do so, and it turns out that, while on opposite sides, she and Flint were [[FoeYay somewhat in love]] - and he dies in her arms.

* At the end, [[spoiler: when Edward sees his dead friends happily drinking and smiling at him.]]

* At the end, [[spoiler: when Edward sees his dead friends happily drinking and smiling at him.]]

* After [[spoiler:Mary Reed]] dies, Edward [[spoiler:takes DrowningMySorrows to the extent that even the loading screen representation is groggily stumbling about with a bottle in hand.]]

* At the end, [[spoiler: when Edward sees his dead friends happily drinking.]]

* After [[spoiler:Mary Reed]] dies, Edward [[spoiler:takes DrowningMySorrows to the extent that even the loading screen representation is groggily stumbling about with a bottle in hand.]]