# Assassins Creed Assassins Creed is Ubisoft Montreal's action-adventure stealth series that launched on PS3 and Xbox 360 in November 2007, then grew into a full-on internet fandom of parody trailers, parkour tributes, and long-running dev-team roast jokes. Its hooded silhouette, hidden-blade kills, and Leap of Faith into a hay bale turned into some of gaming's most recognizable visual shorthand. ## Overview Assassins Creed is an action-adventure stealth video game series developed by Ubisoft Montreal, first released in 2007[1]. Players take on Desmond Miles, a bartender descended from a long line of assassins who relives his ancestors' memories through a virtual reality machine called the Animus[4]. Gameplay mixes rooftop parkour, hidden-blade takedowns, and open-world exploration across historical cities like Jerusalem, Florence, and Paris[1]. Beyond the games, the series turned into a fandom meme engine. Its hooded assassin silhouette, the Leap of Faith into a hay bale, and the credo "Nothing is true, everything is permitted" turned into recognizable shorthand across forums and reaction images[3]. Character ask-blogs for Desmond, Ezio, and Connor filled Tumblr, and thousands of fan art submissions piled up on DeviantArt[4]. ## How It Spread The Assassins Creed Wiki opened on July 28, 2007, collecting more than 4,900 entries in its first seven years[5]. On November 17, 2010, the /r/assassinscreed subreddit launched as a hub for fan theories, screenshot dumps, and patch complaints[3]. Parody and fan videos pushed the brand into mainstream YouTube meme circuits. On September 2, 2010, Tobuscus uploaded a "literal trailer" for Assassins Creed: Brotherhood that pulled tens of millions of views and over 114,000 comments in the years that followed[2]. On September 3, 2012, devinsupertramp released an Assassins Creed themed parkour tribute that hit more than 36 million views and 73,000 comments within two years[3]. A Facebook page for the series, created on October 30, 2013, drew 9.2 million likes in its first eight months[6]. The franchise also stumbled into meme-worthy controversy. Around the launch of Assassins Creed Unity in 2014, Ubisoft technical director James Therien told the press that adding a playable female character would have required prohibitive extra animation work[1]. Fans latched onto the "8000 animations" quote and mocked it with viral tweets arguing that the swap was closer to "a day or two's work," a joke that lived on in Ubisoft criticism for years[3]. ## How to Use The Assassins Creed template typically leans on visual and phrasal callbacks rather than a single image macro. Common conventions include posing hooded figures on rooftops, editing the Leap of Faith into unrelated footage (dumpsters, pools, awkward office chairs), and captioning stealth-kill screenshots with mundane grievances. The "Nothing is true, everything is permitted" line often gets recycled ironically, and the "8000 animations" quote is a go-to when mocking corporate excuses in gamedev. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Assassins Creed? Assassins Creed is Ubisoft Montreal's action-adventure stealth game series where players use parkour, hidden blades, and an ancestral-memory machine called the Animus to complete missions in historical cities[1]. ### Where did Assassins Creed come from? The first game launched on November 13, 2007, for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, developed by Ubisoft Montreal[1], with handheld spinoffs handled by Gameloft and Gryptonite Studios[4]. ### What does Assassins Creed mean? The title references the fictional Assassin Brotherhood's guiding credo, "Nothing is true, everything is permitted," a line the series repeats across nearly every mainline entry[3]. ### How do you use Assassins Creed? Online, people quote the credo, edit Leap of Faith jumps into random clips, and reuse the "8000 animations" line to roast lazy dev excuses, on top of the parody trailers popularized by Tobuscus[2]. ### Is Assassins Creed still popular? By April 2014, the series had sold more than 73 million copies across 14 titles[1], and its subreddit and Facebook page (9.2 million likes in eight months) kept the fandom active long past the original game's release[6]. ## References 1. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKrtbUinWOU]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/assassins-creed]() 4. [https://www.reddit.com/r/assassinscreed/]() 5. [https://assassinscreed.fandom.com/]() 6. [https://www.facebook.com/assassinscreed]() 7. [https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/assassins-creed]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/assassins-creed Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library