Manhood comes now. It is a day of choices. Like walking through a threshold into your future. Do you understand?
- Antón: Today, we will take a little journey.Diego: What kind of journey?Antón: The one we all have to take.
Far Cry: Rite of Passage is a comic book serving as a prequel to Far Cry 6. It involves the game's antagonist, Antón Castillo, relating the tales of the last three games' antagonists, Vaas Montenegro, Pagan Min, and Joseph Seed, as cautionary tales to his young son, Diego, for his 13th birthday.
This comic provides examples of:
- Abusive Parents:
- It's implied that Pagan Min's father was one, hence why his first instinct upon hearing news of his death is to celebrate.
- Joseph Seed's mother dismissed his visions and would yell at him to stop talking about them, even breaking a dish in frustration. As we know from Far Cry 5, his father was even worse to him and his brothers.
- One of Antón's "lessons" to Diego is to throw some bait at Diego's feet and hide in the shadows as a crocodile traces the source of the smell. He does shoot it dead before it can attack but it's still awful and Diego rightfully calls him out.
- Calling the Old Man Out:
- Joseph gives a variant of this in his youth when he tells his mother that God told him his father has no future, and that all who affiliate with him will be judged in the Collapse.
- Diego snaps at Antón for throwing bait at his feet, almost letting a crocodile maul him to death.
- The Cameo:
- Issue 1 shows the exact moment Vaas sees Jason Brody land on the Rook Islands with his family and friends. Jason is also indirectly mentioned by Antón as being a man fighting the exact same demons as Vaas.
- Issue 2 has Yuma Lau in the background with Pagan Min during important moments in his past. Antón also indirectly mentions Ajay Ghale as being the one who apparently kills Pagan.
- Issue 3 shows Jacob, John, and Faith Seed dying by the hands of the Junior Deputy.
- Continuity Snarl:
- Pagan Min is shown in flashbacks as still wearing his iconic pink suit, bleached-blonde haircut, and clean shave from years later during the events of Far Cry 4. As we see from propaganda posters from the game, Pagan still had his natural black hair, wore a Royal Army uniform much like Sabal, and had a goatee.
- Cutting Off the Branches:
- During Issue 2, Antón claims that Pagan Min was killed by his stepson (Ajay Ghale) in a twist of irony. This may or may not confirm that the decision to shoot Pagan when Ajay has him held at gunpoint was the canon decision.
- During Issue 3, Antón clarifies that the world didn't end as Joseph Seed prophesized; rather, his world ended. His family is dead, as are most of his cult, and the Collapse didn't come. Far Cry 6 supports this as America and presumably the other superpowers involved in the rising tension are completely fine.
- Freudian Excuse: Each villain has one.
- The Ghost: The Junior Deputy is noticeably absent from Joseph Seed's tale, not counting their first-person views of their murders of the Seed siblings, though it's most likely to prevent giving them a canonical physical appearance.
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: Antón uses a piece of meat to attract a hungry crocodile to Diego. Thankfully, he kills it before the unspeakable happened.
- Start of Darkness: Each issue explains how its respective villain turned out the way they did.
- Unreliable Narrator: It's implied that Antón may be stretching the truth concerning the fates of the villains, at least Pagan Min and Joseph Seed's. After Far Cry 6 and the Insanity DLC, Vaas' fate is a whole other can of worms.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist:
- Joseph Seed is portrayed as this, as he always was. He was simply a broken man who wanted to protect people from what he viewed as the coming apocalypse, gaining them passage into Heaven.
- Antón tries to teach Diego a lesson about the power of faith by throwing some bait at his son's feet, attracting a crocodile which almost definitely would've mauled him had he not been there to shoot it dead.
