Funny / Anno Domini

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• Anno 1404:
  • In Venice you sometime get quests that require you to destroy Corsair Ships. By that point however you are more often than not allied with the Corsairs which makes it impossible to attack their ships. Solution? Buy the Letters of Mark, which you can get ONLY from the Corsair leader, Hassan ben Sahid.
  • There are the Hilarious Outtakes Credits, featuring all the 3d character sprites and their VA's messing around and generally pretending to be Classically Trained 3d Sprites employed by the developers to star in this particular game.
    • The Smug Snake and Severus Snape-lookalike Guy Forcas, painfully trying to explain that he is actually a really nice guy with a loving family in 'real life'.
    • The Sultan's bearded advisor Al Zahir pretending to be Father Christmas before complaining about all the fake beard hair in his mouth.
    • The cold and calculative assassin leader, proudly demonstrating his full facial acting potential.
    • Your best friend and imperial advisor Lord Northburg fretfully complaining about how he has to look out his little window every few seconds, just to explain to the player that the hemp for the corderies is not there for smoking.
    • Resident Church Militant Marie D'Artois putting on her most angelic Wide-Eyed Idealist voice, praising this game as a 'heavenly exerience for young and old', before quickly going deadpan and asking, "So? Was that enough?"
    • Hassan ben Sahid, the scourge of your waters, giddily asking the makeup guys to re-paint all his tattoos and adjust the fake piercings once more.
    • Wanna-be poet Leif Jorgensen explaining that he wasn't offended at all while playing the part of an utterly talentless individual, and explains that he thankfully isn't one in 'real life'.
  • If you agree to the very first pact that the corsair Hassan Ben Sahid offers you, he says something along the lines of "Your money is in good hands with me", takes your money and starts a war against you. And then the Awesome Music, Red Corsair, starts playing. Depending on the corsair's skill level that you can set up pre-game, this can be anything from a crowning moment of funny to a crowning moment of Oh, Crap!.
• In 2070, if you actually manage to beat the long and Nintendo Hard mission "Power Games", E.V.E. will comment of your success in a fashion that usually separates from her usual monotone voice (which also doubles as a CMoA):
  Opportunity protocol 74.1 successfully completed. Total control over the sector achieved. Activating self-congratulatory tone: "Haha! Nobody will challenge me again in a hurry!"
• Farmers and workers in 1800 speak stereotypical 19th century working class English, but clicking on an undersupplied worker-level production building may prompt the chap to say "We lack the requisite materials!" as accentless as it possibly gets in this game. It's the sheer amount of effort he puts into it to make an impression on the boss that sells it.
• The Creative Closing Credits return in 1800 with a musical variety performance using paper puppets of several characters and gameplay features.
  • Bente, who re-wrote the show's script the night before in order to take it over
  • Archibald Blake, the only puppet to consistently stick to character
  • Von Malching, who spends the entire performance proudly wearing a frilly tutu
  • Old Nate, who unlike everyone else is crudely drawn on a bit of yellowed scrap paper
  • The Number Nine, who thanks to the number's Memetic Mutation status, is regarded as a god