Works with their own Trivia pages:
Main Games:- Assassin's Creed
- Assassin's Creed II
- Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
- Assassin's Creed: Revelations
- Assassin's Creed III
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
- Assassin's Creed Rogue
- Assassin's Creed: Unity
- Assassin's Creed Syndicate
- Assassin's Creed Origins
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
- Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
- Assassin's Creed: Mirage
Other Games:
Comics:
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Western Animation:
Franchise-wide trivia:
- Amateur Cast: Except for a few big names, almost all of the voice actors in the Assassin's Creed franchise are relative unknowns that have little to no acting experience.
- Cash-Cow Franchise: There's a reason Ubisoft is doing this series every year/every two years alongside novels, comics, manga, online websites, mobile apps, board games, merchandise and the forthcoming Netflix shows (not counting Watch_Dogs which may or may not take place in the same universe). Assassin's Creed is the best-selling series in the company's history with 155 million units sold since 2007. This has caused the series, and Unity in particular, to suffer in quality at times. Thus Ubisoft has decided to put in a year break dedicated to developing Origins following Syndicate to avoid another disaster and at the same time avoid overexposure with the movie's release (though that didn't help the movie that much at the time). Ubisoft also decided to put in a year break between Odyssey and Valhalla. Needless to say, it paid off with Valhalla becoming the best-selling Assassin's Creed game of all time. And with the announcement of a three-tiered system to classify Assassin's Creed expanded universe stories, the franchise will continue to expand at an exponential rate.
- Conclusion in Another Medium: Several major plot points of the present day storyline from Black Flag through to Syndicate (Juno, the Instruments of the First Will, the Phoenix Project, the Koh-I-Noor Diamond, Desmond Miles' Sage son) have their conclusion depicted in the Uprisng comic.
- Content Leak:
- Oh, God, where do we even begin here? Let's just say that, in the history of the entire series, which has been going for nearly sixteen years, the only game that did not have its existence leaked prior to its announcement was Assassin's Creed II. Literally every single other mainline entry, from the original to Mirage, has been leaked. It's kind of a tradition at this point.
- Liberation was leaked twice. It was leaked prior to its reveal for PS Vita, then it was leaked that it would be getting an HD remaster for consoles and PC.
- Some of these leaks do tend to get the actual game's name wrong, mainly because the name that's leaked ends up being a Working Title. For example, Syndicate leaked while it was called Victory, and Origins leaked while still called Empire.
- Creator Backlash: Although he is proud of the series as a whole, Patrice Désilets (creative director of the first three games) has apologised for the franchise's role in popularising "Ubisoft Towers" within Wide-Open Sandbox games, while praising Breath of the Wild as a game that does the concept right.
- Defictionalization: Officially licensed props, and fan-made recreations, aside, aside from the fact that it's not spring loaded, The Enforcer
is basically a real life Hidden Blade (and comes with throwing knives as well).
- Fandom Nod:
- Brotherhood has one early on in regards to being able to relive memories, which was in 1, but absent in 2. When Desmond is talking to Rebecca about new features, Shaun pipes up with "Is he gonna be able to relive memories this time?"
- Feudal Japan was one of the most heavily requested settings prior to the announcement of Assassin's Creed: Codename Red. The AC Twitter account acknowledged this.
- Follow the Leader: Assassin's Creed is where the trend of AAA Wide-Open Sandbox games started allowing you to climb towers to unlock the map and see collectibles, much to the derision of the player base who found this repetitive and boring but part of Assassin's Creed's charm. They became less than pleased however when other Ubisoft games, such as Watch Dogs and Far Cry, picked this up.
- Missing Trailer Scene: According to several interviews with Ubisoft, this was done deliberately to avoid spoiling anything.
- The E3 trailer for the first game shows Altaïr assassinating a Templar who is about to hang someone, shooting his bodyguard with a crossbow on the way. Nothing of the sort happens in the game, and crossbows were not available until two games later, in Brotherhood.
- The trailer for AC II shows Ezio chasing and shooting a masked Templar with his Hidden Gun during Venezia's Carnevale. Said Templar only appears in multiplayer, nowhere to be seen in the actual game, although a similar assassination does happen, but with a different victim and very different circumstances.
- Brotherhood's trailer shows Ezio challenging and fighting Cesare head-on in Rome; no such scene occurs in the game, and when you do fight Cesare, your Assassin Recruits are not available to help, and it doesn't occur in Rome.
- Averted with Revelations, whose trailer is the only one to show a canonical scene; in this case it doubles as the game's introduction.
- In the AC III trailer, Connor charges a British firing line head-on and assassinates their commander. This appears to be based on an early draft of the Battle of Bunker Hill, but trying to complete that mission in the fashion Connor did in the trailer is impossible.
- Technical Advisor:
- Ubisoft is known to consult historical experts in the course of developing the franchise in order to keep the games as historically accurate as possible while leaving room for some artistic license in how they depict said events.
- For Assassin's Creed III, which features Connor, a half-British, half-Mohawk Assassin, they hired Thomas Deer from the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center to basically keep them in line. He advised them on what was and what was not appropriate to depict, as well as coached voice actor Noah Watts note in the Mohawk language.
- What Could Have Been: As per Nolan North in a 2015 discussion, the initial idea for the series was that Desmond would eventually appear in a Grand Finale as the ultimate Assassin after imbibing the abilities of all his ancestors and that the finale would have had Desmond going back and forth in time as he becomes an Assassin in the present day. This idea had to be abandoned when the writers realized that they didn't like the direction Desmond's story and characterization were headed. Initially the developers weren't sure if the AC games would be historical themed or conspiracy/science-fiction themed and when it became clear that the historical sandbox was what defined them, made them popular, and gave them a niche they entirely claimed for themselves, they realized that Desmond Miles could never actually fulfill his role as overall series protagonist. Realizing they couldn't figure out a way to fix it led to the setting shift beginning in Black Flag.
