In AC:Unity the Jacobins were dangerous fanatics taking the Revolution too far… but it turns out it had been a setup from the start, the leaders of the mob manufactured the food shortages that kicked it off because… capitalist democracy is an even more effective mechanism of total social control than feudalism.

(Meanwhile since at least 3 they’ve been playing up the “Templars are on to something when they say Assassin notions of ‘freedom’ and 'self-determination’ are just a cover on thrill-seekers making violent messes of things” angle)

And over in their other AAA open-world franchise, the last 2 Far Cry main series games were about how trying to fight evil and redress wrongs will just lead to bestial violence and self-degradation, how rebels are no better than their oppressors, that a movement fanatical or coldblooded enough to overthrow a tyrant will prove even worse, that nobility has its own charm after all and in combination with competence it’s an alternative worth giving a second look.

Ubisoft plots have been getting hella counterrevolutionary lately.