While fans wait for the tv series to be released, they have taken to the internet and created some hilarious memes of their expectations
The announcement of the Assassin’s Creed TV series has brought back interest in the memes created by fans as a way to poke fun at the series’ logic. These usually resurface whenever a new game is about to be released, and the TV show’s announcement has seen a combination of the games’ and 2016 movie’s memes showing up.
This is the best way for fans to busy themselves while awaiting further details for the live-action show, which is certain to have a lot of similar elements from the source material. The memes are hilarious, but also point out key details from the games that should serve as a way to recap the series.
The TV series should definitely feature the characters of the Kenway family, whose story was the center of the games in the mid-2010s. In it, Connor Kenway never got the love of his father, Haytham, who didn’t care for anything other than the Templars.
To sum up, this picture is pretty much how their relationship worked. Haytham seems to have adjusted well to the role of absentee dad since he’s been living the part all along.
Fans have always been interested in the idea of Arno Dorian tracking down Shay Cormac for assassinating his father. It remains an unresolved question if Arno ever did find Shay. The TV series can look into this story should the timeline be set in this period.
If the moment in this meme comes to pass, then Arno can very well take inspiration from Scarlet Witch and the way she threatened Thanos in Avengers: Endgame. It certainly applies since Cormac probably didn’t even know Arno existed when he took his father’s life.
The large playthrough of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has made it a game worthy of several memes, but the earlier titles had a lot of potential in this regard too. Up until Assassin’s Creed III, all the protagonists had a clear purpose to their journeys before Edward Kenway came along.
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag didn’t have the straight storyline of Assassin versus Templar, instead featuring Edward’s attempts to get as much treasure as he could, as depicted in this picture. It was only at the end of the story that he joined the assassins, so it’s interesting to see if the TV series will have something similar.
The Assassin’s Creed movie gets a bad rap for the many mistakes in storytelling it brought, but it appears as if the announcement of the TV series has made fans see it in a different light. There aren’t many movies that have so much meme-making potential hidden in them.
Much like the Star Wars prequels, the Assassin’s Creed movie can be exploited to no end, seeing as it managed to anger so much of the fanbase (which has been channeled into comedy.) If the TV series does succeed, expect to see the movie enter the hall of fame for memes.
Some might argue that the Assassin’s Creed games are similar to Game of Thrones due to the combination of a period setting and fantasy elements. What people won’t be seeing in Game of Thrones is this level of flaws in the series’ logic.
Assassin’s Creed II gives players the option to avoid being spotted by ripping off wanted posters of Ezio, going so far as to treat him as a free man just because he took these posters off the walls. It’ll be hilarious to see the TV series try something along the lines of this meme and expect viewers to buy it.
Those who aren’t caught up with the storyline of the video games -- and that’s fair since there are so many of them by this point -- they will need to look at alternative means to do so in order to prepare for the TV series, as there will be plotlines adapted there.
It’s still rather embarrassing to share that one would need to check out the story through YouTube instead of actually playing it since it’s a surefire way of admitting that the games might have been too difficult to complete. Assassin’s Creed fans definitely do like to create memes to poke fun at something like this.
The 2016 movie didn’t dive much into the idea of desynchronizing and instead focused on the Bleeding Effect. The TV series can be the one to tackle the issue of desynchronization, specifically when a character fails a task by a second or two at most.
This has been a frustrating thing for fans, as pointed out in this meme, since it entails restarting a mission when the one second was easily negligible. If this does turn up in the TV series, it’ll be interesting to see how the show avoids this aspect from being annoying.
There are certain games in the series that have had the potential to become movies of their own. The ones that lack in this area are the stories that have a revolution as the backdrop, which becomes too political and sucks away the aspect of the Assassin-Templar fight.
The TV series could do better since it will have a longer time to establish the period setting as the games do. As mentioned in this meme, the games are so good in this area that the younger fans claim to have learned more through Assassin’s Creed for their studies than from their teachers.
A glaring issue in the Desmond Miles Saga was how the main character was shown learning how to be an assassin yet remaining in the Animus pretty much the whole time. This was the case with the movie as well, which is why arguments over why it doesn’t deserve another chance can be seen as valid.
Hopefully, the TV series can find a good balance between the period setting and the modern-day segments to avoid getting a meme like this out of it. It would be a shame if the main protagonist ends up being boring or useless, especially if they’re supposed to be training in the way of an assassin.
Sure, it’s satisfying to complete a kill in the game by sneaking up on an enemy, but the ethical ramifications do have a point as well. After all, the guards are supposed to be doing their job, which involves stopping trespassers -- they don’t have a connection to Templars.
The TV series will need to toe the line in this area, as fans will catch on to how hypocritical it will be of the assassins to kill innocents and then claim they’re doing it for the purpose of achieving peace. This meme, in particular, highlights the glaring flaw in the assassins' logic.
