History Awesome / AssassinsCreedII

* Having ''UsefulNotes/LeonardoDaVinci'' as your pal and GadgeteerGenius.

* Creeping around the ceiling and scaffolding of the Sistine Chapel whilst a mass is being said. Let's be very clear here: You are leaping down from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, to assassinate ''the Pope'' IN THE MIDDLE OF HIGH MASS.

* EZIO FIGHTS THE POPE! in a vault beneath the Sistine Chapel, with nothing but his bare hands. Again: a fist fight below the Vatican against ''the freaking POPE''.

** Desmond's response was in itself a Crowning Moment of Awesome. The player has just received the biggest MindScrew of the series, the screen goes black...and, in what is also a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}, Desmond sums it up ''perfectly.''

* Let's just start with the ''amazing'' work by the developers, who recreated [[SceneryPorn gorgeously]] [[ShownTheirWork detailed]], living and breathing Renaissance Italy cities.

* Let's just start with the ''amazing'' work by the developers, who recreated [[SceneryPorn gorgeous]], living and breathing Renaissance Italy cities.

** Desmond's response was in itself a Crowning Moment of Awesome. The player has just received the biggest MindScrew of the series, the screen goes black...and, in what is also a CrowningMomentOfFunny, Desmond sums it up ''perfectly.''

** To reward anyone who pulls it off, the guards hear the kill and leave the room to investigate -- allowing the player to bypass an otherwise-required fight. [[note]] killing him with projectiles avoids the fight and doesn't alert the guards but it lacks the RuleOfCool. [[/note]]

* The mission after you kill Emilio Barbarigo in Venice, where you shadow the other members of the Venetian conspiracy. When they all meet up, they learn about your latest assassination, leading one of them to say,

** First, Ezio puts on some liberated guard armor to blend in with a group of elite guards who are transporting a mysterious package to The Spaniard. When they finally arrive, Ezio stands behind the captain. While he is reporting, [[KilledMidSentence in the middle of his sentence]], Ezio's dual hidden blades sprout from his chest. Then, while Ezio is walking towards the Spaniard, depending on if the player misses the prompt, he either stabs the other two guards run at him ''without even looking at them'', or the Spaniard tells them LeaveHimToMe
** The battle itself, with the Spaniard finally given a name -- Rodrigo Borgia, a huge OhCrap moment for those who know their history and who he was. As Rodrigo fights you, [[spoiler:Ezio's allies show up to help him fight the guards, revealing they're all Assassins that have been watching over and guiding him for years in preparation to join them.]]

* [[spoiler: Ezio's charge through Rome, leaving enormous numbers of the Mooks you struggled to defeat for most of the game dead behind him]]

* Creeping around the ceiling and scaffolding of the Sistine Chapel whilst a mass is being said. Let's be very clear here: You are leaping down from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. To assassinate ''the Pope.'' IN THE MIDDLE OF HIGH MASS.

* Ezio activating the Apple and splitting into five to face Borgia, much like al-Mualim did. Made so much better because you're not in the receiving end of that trick this time around.
* [[spoiler:Minerva]], despite appearing only once. "The rest is up to you, [[spoiler:''Desmond'']]". "What the fuck", indeed.
** Desmond's response was in itself a Crowning Moment of Awesome. The player has just received the biggest MindScrew of the series, the screen goes black...and, in what is also a CrowningMomentOfFunny, Desmond sums it up ''perfectly.''
* The end credits sequence, wherein all that time in the Animus pays off for Desmond, and he finally gets a chance to kick some ass. Lucy even gives him his own hidden blade.
** When Desmond made his "nowhere left to run" taunt at Dr. Vidic.
* The game ending with Desmond wholeheartedly getting back in the Animus...so that by the time the next game rolls around, he'll have all of the skills he needs to ''kick some ASS.''

* The mission after you kill Emilio Barbarigo in Venice, where you shadow the other members of the Venetian conspiracy. When they all meet up, they learn about your latest assassination, leading one of them to say,
-->He struck down Emilio inside his own Palazzo. [[TheDreaded He]] [[ProperlyParanoid could be here,]] [[ParanoiaFuel watching us right now.]]

* EZIO FIGHTS THE POPE! in a vault beneath the Sistine Chapel, with nothing but his bare hands. Again: a fist fight below the Vatican against ''the freaking POPE''. Admittedly he ends up being a bit of an AnticlimaxBoss if you know what you're doing, but the setup is what counts.
** Adding to the above trope, creeping around the ceiling and scaffolding of the Sistine Chapel whilst a mass is being said. And [[spoiler: Multiplying with the help of the Apple Of Eden]] can't be left out of this.
** Let's be very clear here: You are leaping down from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. To assassinate ''the Pope.'' IN THE MIDDLE OF HIGH MASS.
* The BigBad, [[spoiler: Rodrigo Borgia]], gets one in the mission where you tail Jacopo de'Pazzi to the Templar meeting. [[spoiler: Rodrigo kills Jacopo for his failure, then he tells you he knows you're hiding over there (and he's sorry for killing your target) and sends his guards to take you out (at which point Ezio gets a CMOA, mentioned earlier)]].
* Rodrigo gets another after being [[spoiler: taken into the little white scene where Ezio hears his victim's last words, you think thats it, turns out, [[NotQuiteDead no]]. Then he pulls out his epic staff and really is kind of a bitch to beat, even with the clones. Honestly his defiance is pretty cool, considering you've slaughtered your way to him.]]

* Leonardo gets one near the end of the game. When Ezio, Mario, and Machiavelli bring Leonardo the Apple, it activates, sending everyone in the room recoiling from the light... except for Leonardo, who stares right into its heart. It's strongly implied that the Apple overloads all of their brains with information stored in it making them recoil--except Leonardo, who is already so brilliant that having a metric crapton of lost precursor knowledge forcefully pumped into his brain doesn't so much as faze him.

* EZIO FIGHTS THE POPE! in a vault beneath the Sistine Chapel, with nothing but your bare hands. Again: a fist fight below the Vatican against ''the freaking POPE''. Admittedly he ends up being a bit of an AnticlimaxBoss if you know what you're doing, but the setup is what counts.

** To reward anyone who pulls it off, the guards hear the kill and leave the room to investigate -- allowing the player to bypass an otherwise-required fight.
** Or you could JustShootHim ; killing him with projectiles avoids the fight and doesn't alert the guards.

* YOU FIGHT THE POPE! in a vault beneath the Sistine Chapel, with nothing but your bare hands. Again: a fist fight below the Vatican against ''the freaking POPE''. Admittedly he ends up being a bit of an AnticlimaxBoss if you know what you're doing, but the setup is what counts.

** Along the same vein, it is hilarious to get up onto the rooftops and grab the archer. He'll then scream,

* The mission after you kill Emilio Babarigo in Venice, where you shadow the other members of the Venetian conspiracy. When they all meet up, they learn about your latest assassination, leading one of them to say,

* Leonardo gets one near the end of the game. When Ezio, Mario, and Machiavelli bring Leonardo the Apple, it activates, sending everyone in the room recoiling from the light...except for Leonardo, who stares right into its heart.

*** I'll say, this troper actually said his line right before he did.

* Quite a few of the in-game interrupt options, including:
** Ezio gets caught sneaking around a Templar meeting and two guards hold his arms while a Brute approaches with an axe. Ezio calmly speaks to the guards: "I know you are only following orders, so if you let me go I'll let you live." The guard on his left laughs loudly and says, "Did you hear that? He said he'll let us--" Then Ezio springs his hidden blades, catching the speaker in the throat and the other in the chest. (If the player misses the prompt, then Ezio manages to escape their hold but those two guards are able to participate in the subsequent conflict.)
** Ezio puts on some liberated guard armor to blend in with a group of elite guards who are transporting the Apple of Eden to Rodrigo Borgia. When they finally arrive, Ezio stands behind the captain. While he is reporting to Rodrigo Borgia, [[KilledMidSentence in the middle of his sentence]], Ezio's dual hidden blades sprout from his chest. Then, while Ezio is walking towards Borgia, the other two guards run at him, prompting him to stab both of them in the throat ''without even looking at them.''
*** The killing of the captain is required, but if the player misses the prompt for the other two guards, Rodrigo Borgia will simply dismiss them and they'll leave.
* My personal favorite comes from the mission after you kill Emilio Babarigo in Venice, where you shadow the other members of the Venetian conspiracy. When they all meet up, they learn about your latest assassination, leading one of them to say,

** Adding to the above trope, this troper found the moments up to striking [[spoiler: Rodrigo Borgia, who is the pope]], which involve creeping around the ceiling and scaffolding of the Sistine Chapel whilst a mass is being said. And [[spoiler: Multiplying with the help of the Apple Of Eden]] can't be left out of this.

--->'''Archer''': "Let Go Of Me!"

** along the same vein, it is hilarious to get up onto the rooftops, and grab the archer. He'll then scream,
--->'''archer''': Let Go Of Me!!
--->'''Ezio''': OK (throw him off the roof)

-->He struck down Emilio inside his own Palazzo. He could be here, watching us right now.

* Messsing with the guards is always fun. Throw a corpse at them from a roof and jump down to assassinate them as they discover it. Or even better, cut them off mid-sentence as they ask who saw the murder, muttering to yourself "I did,"

--->'''Ezio''': OK (trow him off the roof)

* Lucy gets one at the beginning of the game, when she ''brutally'' takes down two of Abstergo's armed security guards by herself without breaking a sweat. Desmond is right to say "Holy ''shit''!"