History Funny / AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag

--> '''Roberts:''' (In deadpan tone) A curious Bunch.

* While Edward and Charles Vane are discussing tactics in "The Fireship", Rackham is sitting atop several barrels of gunpowder...[[TooDumbToLive smoking a pipe]].
-->'''Vane:''' (walks over and smacks Rackham around) Bloody hell. You'd raise a cloud here, ya lout? You're sitting on enough gunpowder to blow New Providence off its rocks!

--> '''Rackham:''' Lay off me, mate! [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I'm well chafed!]]"''

--->'''Upton''': You, you are my greatest friend(swings at him) comehereI'llkillyou!

--->'''Edward''': [[DeadpanSnarker Your name's not really James, is it?]]\\
'''Mary Read''': ''(chuckles)'' Not most days!

* Poor Stede Bonnet gets the full Blackbeard treatment in one part of the game, to the point that the entire screen actually gets darker as Thatch snarls in his face with those burning wicks coming out from under his hat. Then:

-->'''Bonnet:''' [terrified as Thatch looms over him] Oh... o-oh God...

-->'''Edward:''' [casually] Looks fine.
-->'''Thatch:''' [nonchalantly, walking away as the screen returns to normal] 'Course it does.

** You could also look at the fact that [[spoiler:Edward Kenway was inducted into the Templar Order ''first''[[note]]even if it was under the guise of the ''actual'' defector, Duncan Walpole, Edward isn't a former Assassin[[/note]]]] so for much of the beginning of the game you're ''once again'' playing [[spoiler:a Templar surnamed Kenway]]... or the fact that [[spoiler:the Templars are ''just'' as prone to self-deception-by-assumption as the player may have been to assume them to be Assassins]]!
* Other than [[spoiler:the attempted Assassin attackers in Havana]], Edward's first subsequent encounter with the Assassins has him [[spoiler:evading Assassin guards on his way to a temple to find James Kidd]]... whereupon he promptly mistakes the Assassin Order for "Monks" of a "daffy Religion".
** For some added laughs, turn on the subtitles during this chapter. [[spoiler:It turns out the Assassins knew Edward was there the whole time and are just humoring his attempts at stealth.]]
* When a certain character reveals their true identity, [[spoiler:she (James Kidd/Mary Read), threatens to castrate Kenway if he tells anyone. She has a ''very'' peculiar smile on her face as she moves out of the frame.]]

--->'''Edward''': [[DeadpanSnarker Your name's not really]] [[spoiler:[[DeadpanSnarker James]]]], [[DeadpanSnarker is it?]]\\
'''[[spoiler:Mary Read]]''': ''(chuckles)'' Not most days!
* When [[spoiler:The British invade Nassau]], "Calico" Jack Rackham makes the understatement of the year as [[spoiler:soldiers land on the beaches and start marching]].
-->'''Jack Rackham''': Well, I'll be hanged... It seems [[spoiler:King George]] has grown tired of our shenanigans.

* Thatch's excited and obviously mood-lightening announcement about his "retirement party" is oddly ''adorable'' for the guy who made it his business to be the scariest guy on sea. [[spoiler:He unfortunately dies a couple scenes later.]]
* Vane's robbing of Edward's oysters when [[spoiler:they're stranded]] while waggling a stick around. Made even better by Edward's annoyed reply that there is plenty of food if he just tried looking. The entire mission is the first time the franchise dropped its historical dimension and devolved into pure slapstick comedy, with Vane and Edward essentially acting like a pair of toddlers fighting for room in a sandbox.

* When [[spoiler:Rackham betrays Vane and Edward, he maroons them on a damaged ship. The conversation between the two is bound to get a few giggles.]]
--> '''Vane:''' I'll gut you, [[spoiler: Jack Rackham!]] I'll open you up, I'll tear out your organs, and string a bloody lute with 'em!\\

* The first instance of Observatory in action that Edward and the player get to see is [[spoiler: [[AntiClimax Jack Rackham mistaken James Kidd for a man while she is chatting with Anne Bonny, threatening to cut him(?) down if he doesn't lay off.]] What sells it is Roberts' reaction:]]
--> '''[[spoiler: Roberts]]''' : (In deadpan tone) A curious Bunch.

* The "Press any button to rattle the [[spoiler: cage]]". Even the UI agrees, replacing all your action commands with "Rattle".
* [[spoiler: Abstergo's final trailer]] is already pretty funny on account of being EntertaininglyWrong and StylisticSuck... but one phrase in particular stands out: ''"Nothing is sacred, and everyone is committed."'' It appears the Templars have been secretly jealous this entire time.

** Amusingly, [[spoiler: by the end of the game, Edward has become an English nobleman.]]

* similarly, the scene where Edward Kenway has been DrowningHisSorrows ends with the transition load screen.... where Edward Kenway is passed out sprawled and moaning against the digital animus background

* As trippy and horrifying as Edwards MushroomSamba is the fact that Roberts is using Bonnet as a stool to sit on is [[MoodWhiplash unexpectedly hilarious.]]

-->'''Edward:''' What, in my Drawers?

-->'''Edward''': [[DeadpanSnarker Your name's not really]] [[spoiler:[[DeadpanSnarker James]]]], [[DeadpanSnarker is it?]]\\

-->'''Upton''': You, you are my greatest friend(swings at him) comehereI'llkillyou!

-->'''Mole:''' And only last week he rounded up a score of his crew and bade us sit in the hold of his ship while he burnt off sulfur and other sickening minerals. We just sat there like it was one of a million pits of hell, and nothing less ordinary.
-->'''Captain:''' Good GOD. What the hell for?

-->'''Rogers''': ...And yet, for all my successes, his majesty has seen fit to sack me! And call me back to England! God bless the fucker!

* Edward’s attempt at an Italian accent while posing as the Italian diplomat at the party.

* Edward’s attempt at an Italian accent while posing as the Italian diplomat st the party.

* A potential custscene, should you choose to lower your wanted level after boarding and capturing a ship, shows Edward and another crewmember recruiting men from the captured ship. Edward is in the foreground, shaking one man's hand- but in the background, you might notice [[FunnyBackgroundEvent one of his crewmembers lifting another (very frightened and confused) man up into a bear-hug.]]

-->'''Edward''': [[DeadpanSnarker Your name's not really]] [[spoiler:James]], [[DeadpanSnarker is it?]]

** It becomes funnier when you learn THAT REALLY HAPPENED. In fact, it was the incident that revealed that "Mark Read" wasn't, as Mary ended up outing herself to keep from getting killed by Rackham.
** More likely, she outed her self to defuse the situation so she didn't kill Rackham in self-defense.

* The in-game Abstergo emails and promos and information on their products are hilarious for being constantly EntertaininglyWrong. There's also the fact that they reject Altair, Ezio and Connor's stories as being not propaganda friendly. One can imagine that in some Assassin afterlife, the three of them are all smug about being too badass for the Templars while Aveline would be pissed off at being made a TokenEnemyMinority for the public.
** What sells it is the really bad American pronunciation of the names by the Abstergo analyst. This leads to gems like "Alltare Iben Lahad", "Enzio Owdeetory", and "Ratonagayden/Ratonatankon".
*** Fun fact: The Abstergo analyst is voiced by none other than Creator/RogerCraigSmith, Ezio's voice actor.