Funny / For Honor

Moments pages are Spoilers Off.

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Story

• What's the Warden's response to being selected for Trial by Combat? "Alright, then." in the most nonchalant way possible.
  • In the next level, the Warden is sent by Apollyon to help prevent an Iron Legion castle from being sacked by the Warborn. By him/herself. They're just as nonchalant about the situation as when they Got Volunteered to Trial by Combat in the first level. Stone's reaction is just as priceless.
  Stone: Blackstone! Where are our reinforcements?!
  (The gate slams shut behind the Warden)
  Warden: I'm it!
  (Stone buries his face into his arm)
  Stone: Is This a Joke?...
  • The game eventually lampshades Warden's confidence - in the mission where you confront Legion deserters, Holden Cross asks if Warden wants back-up and, when Warden says no, mutters to himself "Careful with that ego." Of course, the reality is that the Warden is bringing back up (Stone), it's just that they want to figure out the truth about the Blackstone Legion, and knows he can't do that with Cross, who is loyal to Apollyon, coming along with them.
• Stone, upon seeing another Conqueror among the deserters: "One of us should go home and change!"
• While leading the vanguard into Valkenheim, Holden Cross gets cut off from his troops and the only way forward is across frozen ice that is already cracking under the catapult crossfire. As a Lawbringer, he wears the heaviest armor of any Knight.
  Holden: "It wasn't a good plan, it was just my only option."
  • This can become particularly funny when you get knocked onto the ice by a berserker and duel him... then right as you win, the ice cracks.
• During the Raider's story mode, there's the reaction of his Berserker and Valkyrie allies upon finding out what Siv's clan had done to Warborn prisoners:
  Helvar: "That's just barbaric."
  Runa: "I've seen you take scalps."
  Helvar: "That's different!"
  (The Raider looks ahead, and motions for the rest of his soldiers to stay behind, going forward alone)
  Helvar: "We'll just... wait for your signal then?"
  • During the ending cutscene of the same mission, Stigandr asks what took the Warborn so long to rescue him and the others. Helvar's response: "Finding vikings you hadn't pissed off?"
  • Another moment from the Raider's storyline during the attack on Ragnar. Helvar throws his axes at the door to Ragnar's hall. At the third axe, the door opens and one of Ragnar's warriors pokes his head out. He manages to get out an angry "Who's—" before a fourth axe hits him in the face.
• During Runa's mission to scout ahead of the main Viking force, she needs to find a route to her destination. She considers interrogating some Dawn Empire troops. After slaughtering a few of them, she advances on one poor Mook before the screen fades to black. When we come back, Stigandr has returned to find her standing over the unfortunate soldier's corpse.
  Stigandr: "So. What did they tell you?"
  Runa: *Shrugs* "I don't speak Japanese."
  • This becomes even funnier after learning the entire story is a Framing Device, and that Stigandr had to tell Ayu and Holden about how his friend tortured a guy for information, without actually being able to understand what he was saying.
• Okuma after he and the Orochi watch the Raider and the Warborn get away with all the stolen loot from the Imperial City.
  Okuma: I hate Vikings...
• Momiji's enthusiasm.
  Momiji: (In the middle of combat against the Warborn): "Their armor looks cool!"
  Momiji: (While tricking an elephant inside the Imperial Palace) "Too bad we need that elephant. I would like to fight it!"
  • At the end of latter scene, you can almost imagine Ayu's reaction beneath that mask when an elephant burst out of the gate instead of enemy soldiers. She actually turns around to watch it run off, in a subdued Double Take.
• After finding the corpse of Kizan while looking for Ayu, the Orochi sarcastically asks if he knew where Ayu was.
  • Later, the Orochi casually remarks about how many dead Daimyo are lying around to Ayu, whose casual response can be rather funny given that she's in front of the soldiers who formerly served said Daimyo.

Emotes and Executions

• One of the Shugoki's executions has him hit his opponent in the crotch with his club then belly bumping them in the face.
  • The liberal use of Groin Attacks might be amusing for some
  • Another has him literally sitting on his opponent before bashing the unfortunate foe's head into the ground. One gets the impression the only reason he did this is because he was getting tired of their struggling under him.
  • Another one of his executions involves him resting his kanabo on his opponent's foot before bashing their face with his knuckles, to conclude their struggling.
  • It is possible to spam the Shugoki spinning his kanabo like a helicopter rotor over his head with the right setup. ^note Remap his default guard mode hold-button emote to the tap button emote, set him in top guard from the right guard so his kanabo is on his right shoulder, then start the emote and cancel it halfway through. This will spin the kanabo overhead.
• One of the Centurion's executions involves him knocking his foe down and making a thumbs up and a thumbs down. While on it's own this is amusing, it's followed up by his victim trying to give a thumbs up back before the Centurion gives them a thumbs down and chops that arm off.
  • One of the Centurion's emotes is to stab his gladius into the ground and make a taunt, and then grab his weapon and pull it out of the ground. It gets stuck and he spends several seconds having to struggle to pull it loose again.
• One of the Shinobi's emotes is to twirl his kusarigamas around like a badass... and accidentally stab himself in the shoulder.
• Several emotes, such as the Conqueror accidentally hitting him/herself on the foot with their flail. Or the Shugoki using his spiked kanabo as a backscratcher.
  • Activating one of the Conqueror's emotes repeatedly and quickly will loop the animation at its start and make it look like he's having a round of vigorous and enthusiastic pelvic thrusting. The Raider can also do this in guard mode (though you have to rebind the key to press instead of hold).
  • Many emotes can have similar effects if done repeatedly. The Orochi, for instance, can bounce their hand as if they're watching a lowrider fire its hydraulics.
  • While the Shugoki doesn't have a repeatable emote, he does start doing an adorable shuffle when you switch between left and right stance in guard mode.
  • Emote spamming is acknowledged by the developers here, complete with a cosplaying Orochi throwing flower petals around.
• The AI bots have special emotes available only to them such as a Berserker trying to catch his axe but then dropping it and passing it off as if he meant to do that, or an Orochi mic-dropping his katana.
• Some of the executions can result in some humorous situations. A good example is the Nobushi's execution where she kicks her opponent's head off. She can possibly kick the head over railings and ledges causing them to fall into pits, or even better next to an unwary player. Just imagine fighting, then suddenly some poor sap's head lands right next to you two.
• The Highlander's normal emotes aren't any good for hilarious spamming, but his Offensive Stance's emote more than makes up for it.
  • One of the Highlander's default emote has him stick his sword into the ground before falling on his knees in despair.. and then the sword falls down and hits him on the head.
  • Another has him start getting bored and nodding off... only to nick his neck on the sword's edge.
• Five straight minutes of emote spamming involving both teams.
• The coin toss emotes. While some are straightforward, a few are hilarious.
  • The Lawbringer flips the coin, catches it, and slaps it on his gauntlet to see which side came up. No matter which one it was, he cocks his head to the side as if to admit the other person won.
  • The Berserker pulls out a coin, looks around, and then angrily slams it down as if they're pissed at the player for making them give someone their money.
  • The Orochi pulls out a coin, tosses it in the air, and then slices it in half with their katana.
  • The Nobushi tosses a coin in the air, and then smacks it with her hip toward her opponent. The fandom went a little nuts over this one.
  • The Valkyrie takes the cake: she sandwiches her spear and shield between her arm and torso, then pulls out an entire handful of coins, begins awkwardly sorting through them, spilling them everywhere, and after about ten seconds she finally finds the right coin she was looking for and delicately drops it at her opponent's feet.
  • The Conqueror deserves a special mention. They simply tosses the coin, then hesitates, looks around to check if anybody is looking then hastily picks up the coin they just tossed and puts it back in their pocket. Having risen from the rank and file, they probably know the value of money.
  • The Shaman doesn't flip her own coin, rather she picks one off the ground, stares at her newfound treasure as though wondering what it is and shoves it in her mouth. After deciding the coin tastes terrible, she spits it out in exaggerated disgust.
  • As one would expect, the Gladiator doesn't have a coin to his/her name, so they hold up their shield like a plate to which an unseen crowd starts hurling their money, one eventually finding its mark. One wonders why they don't grab one off the ground.
  • The Shinobi royally botches it after attempting to throw their coin down a-la smoke bomb. Instead of simply using a single coin, they use what looks to be the majority of their purse, after which they panic and quickly pick up as much of their money as they can.
  • The Highlander's coin toss isn't very amusing on it's own, but when you reverse it...
• With ragdolling physics being added to some executions, you can now tell the Knights to take their Crusades overseas.
• The Lawbringer's season 4 execution starts with him raising his poleaxe to perform the coup de grace... only for his opponent to fall dead before he can, prompting him to nudge them with his weapon, and shake his head in disappointment and annoyance.
  • The Kensei's is also worth mentioning with him lopping the person's arm off, then pointing to said person's arm nonchalantly while the other person calmly walks over, only to collapse to the ground from blood loss.
• The Season 5 executions are evenly split between being brutal and hilarious.
  • The Peacekeeper gets an execution straight out of the fight scene in Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls.
  • The Shugoki bops the enemy on the head and then grabs them by the leg and body-slams them, just like the Hulk.
  • The Gladiator starts an execution, but then the enemy gets a punch in, prompting the Gladiator to stop, nod, set the spear down and unload a Megaton Punch into the opponent's face.
    • Even more comical is that the executed enemy will alarmedly raise a finger as if to try and dissuade the irate Gladiator before getting punched.
  • The Lawbringer finds his opponent running away, but no one can escape the law! He catches them by the scruff, and when they hold up their hands in surrender, he promptly shakes his head and then cracks their skull with the hammer end of his poleaxe.
  • And the Warden gets to end him rightly.
• For the special Legacy of Apollyon event, where the player fights bosses from story mode, Apollyon gets a special emote: pouring salt à la Salt Bae. The playable characters can also gain access to an emote where salt is thrown, although only the Knight-faction characters can do it the same way.
• The Warden's beer-drinking emote combined with a Highlander emote, creating a perfect example of comedic timing.
• Not only does the Highlander's Season 7 execution throw enemies off ledges, but the corpse has collision physics and can knock other heroes off ledges too.
  • The Kensei's has them stab their opponent in the chest, and then get punched in the face, with a split second look of sheer offended pride, before headbutting their opponent in a move right out of the Viking roster.
  • The Lawbringer catches a desperate punch, breaks the opponent's wrist, pulls them close, and off-handedly snaps their neck with one arm.
• After months of people making anime jokes and calling the Orochi a "weeb" the Devs decided to give everyone what they wanted with "Rokka No Shi". An execution so over the top that it borders on parody.
  • Rokka No Shi becomes extra hilarious when glitches are used to apply it to other heroes.
• There is something hilarious about the Shugoki performing a Leap of Faith.
• While the Hitokiri is intimidating and all, they were also released with a T-pose emote.
• Deciding a T-pose emote wasn't meme-y enough for them, Ubisoft released a red glowing eyes effect after a Twitter suggestion (they didn't actually force him to pay thousands of dollars, of course).
• Executions on stairways can result in a different sort of beheading.
• Believe it or not, one of the 2019 Halloween executions. Knights kill a vampire with the holy (and stabbing) power of a sharpened crucifix, Vikings stab a werewolf, Samurai trap their monster in a circle of salt before blowing the rest of it directly onto them, but what about the Wu Lin? Their opponent becomes a Jiang Shi and slowly hops towards them, followed by a seal being slapped on their forehead but do they die? Nope, they simply turn 180 degrees and slowly hop the other way.
• The Horserider takes the pony-riding emote spam into a full-on execution.
• Aramusha's "Think Fast" execution has him smash some flammable liquid in his opponent's face and then casually walk away while flicking a match at them.
• Raider has a "Raid On Me" signature, a reference to this memetic video.
• For Year 4, Shugoki gets an execution where he literally throws the enemy to the ground and does a jumping butt slam on top of their head, which hits so hard it makes the victim's head vanish.
• The Truce of Wyverndale update added a new set of emotes, which involves the hero breaking out various instruments and start playing until the emote is interrupted. Cue countless instances of players on both sides just stopping the fight to have impromptu jam sessions.
• While the four new executions released at the end of Year Four's first season are mostly respectful, the Viking execution involves the Viking hero sharing a rousing drink with his foe while jaunty tavern music plays. Then the Viking's opponent collapses because of their gaping chest wound, the music dies away, and the Viking shrugs and tosses away their drinking horn.
• Though the Warmonger's emotes tend to be mostly serious and edgy, "Unstable Compound" has her casually tossing a dangerous-looking crystal and then accidentally dropping it. She looks startled for a moment, glances around, and then quietly kicks the crystal away like she's hoping no one saw her drop it.
• "Horkos Grimoire" is particularly amusing, because it mostly consists of the hero in question reading a book, and alternating between interest, confusion, annoyance, and at one point fanning themselves as if they read something particularly spicy. what makes it extra funny is that it's the single longest looping emote, going on for over a minute with these powerful, dangerous-looking warriors making a bunch of confused and curious gestures as they read the book.
• The Pirate's "Pirate's Sanction" execution begins with the Pirate simply trying to execute their victim on the spot with their pistol... only for it to jam to the Pirate's exasperation, at which point they simply Pistol Whip their victim into submission so they can stab them.
• Many of the "Hero Fest" executions have a fairly comedic bent to them:
  • Jiang Jun's Close Call execution begins with him knocking his opponent over and swinging his guandao, narrowly avoiding his victim's nether regions, causing both Jiang Jun and his victim to share a quick laugh before Jiang Jun stabs them to finish them off properly.
  • Highlander's High Feigner execution is a pastiche of his prior High Sender execution where he prepares to caber toss his claymore, then feints his execution before ramming the thing right into his curious victim's stomach, who humorously gestures to Highlander as if asking "Why didn't you throw it?" as they fall over.
  • Shugoki's first Hero Fest execution Wrecking Ball is fat jokes at his opponent's expense taken to the logical extreme. He swings his kanabo in such an unwieldly manner that he spins himself around and falls over, right on top of his victim, killing them instantly. What really sells it is Shugoki awkwardly getting up and looking around hoping nobody saw what just happened.

Other

• Ledging other players is always an endless source of comedy, thanks in no small part to the screaming of the heroes as they plummet to their doom. Lawbringer deserves special mention because of how unenthusiastically he screams when he falls off a ledge.
• Blocking or parrying a Kensei's strike will sometimes result in them (or at least the male) going "NANI?!" ("What?") very loudly in a voice that OOZES disbelief that somehow his strike (very much telegraphed if it was heavy) was blocked.
• "Nope."
• Dying mid-air or splattering on the ground from a failed plunging attack will cause you to crater in the Yamcha pose.
• Certain characters, namely Nobushi and Shinobi feature jumping kicks as part of their moveset. What becomes funny is if they're killed mid-jump kick, causing them to unflatteringly flop to the ground if the killing blow wasn't a heavy attack.
• Some of the ending cutscenes in Dominion can be pretty amusing. From a soldier being thrown off a bridge (Howie Scream included) to someone whacking on a poor guy lying on the ground, trying to protect himself with his shield.
• Fanmade parody of the game of an anime fan playing this game as an 'Anime Edition'
• A bit of a Meta example but the developers mention pulling material from various sources when designing the Shinobi. One of which was of course anime, such as Naruto. Which in a way, makes all the Naruto jokes that were being thrown around accurate. One of the reference pictures given during the Warrior's Den live stream was even Kakashi.
• "That tickled!"
  • In general, the Shugoki's hyper-armor makes for hilarious situations where a big, overweight man manages to survive things that would kill anyone else purely by virtue of being fat.
• The Centurion's Haymaker feat causes his unarmed strikes to do some damage, meaning he can literally punch his enemies to death. Even Lawbringers who are wearing plate armor.
• The Gladiator quite literally has an attack called "Bamboozle." Looks like someone's a worthy match for the Centurion's theatrics.
• Centuri-O's!◊
• If you manage to catch an upskirt shot of the Highlander, there's a red smiley face drawn on his underwear.
• The AI bots have started to get progressively sillier and more amusing names. They include AscendedMemes like "Legendary!" and "V3RS4T1L3" to Lampshade Hanging names like "AnyoneReadingThese" to just silly names like "RedWhiteAndBrew," "CrackingACold1," and "TheBoys."
• The Gladiator will use the corner of their trident as a back scratcher during their idle animations.
• The machinery on the Forge map is an endless source of hilarity.
• The announcer in the Tournament Mode is hilariously snarky, especially when you lose.
  "Glad I wasn't betting on you...."
  "Have you tried the advanced tutorials yet?"
• One of the Aramusha's starting weapon sets is literally named "Edgelord".
• One of the new executions for the Warden is none other than the infamous "throwing your pommel at your enemy" meme. Hell, it's actually named after the meme itself "End Them Rightly".
• Someone on the game's subreddit asked for the developers to include "a cow" in the game. Eric Pope replied by saying he "sent it to the team." Since he says that a lot, most people just shrugged and laughed. A couple of days later....
• E3 2018 revealed a new faction, the Wu Lin, warriors from China who are fighting to earn their place in the new Dynasty. You could say they are "Dynasty Warriors".
• For a while, there was a glitch that allowed a hero's model to be copied over to another hero's moveset, resulting in hilarious situations like the Shugoki running around with the Shinobi's moveset.
  • The glitch can still be used on executions, to hilariously appropriate results.
• One of the questlines added in Arcade mode is that someone is spreading a rumor that you own a tree that can spontaneously grow geese, and you keep being attacked by gullible idiots who want the tree.
  • Another involves you waking up after a drunken bender and fighting off various enraged warriors who were pissed at stuff you did while drunk, including beating one man with a war banner, stealing the goats from a village, and accidentally toppling an entire smuggling ring by burning their warehouse down.
• The Black Prior can parry and pull a Shinobi at max range with Shrouded Bulwark, resulting in a hilarious sight of the Shinobi getting pulled twenty feet through the air.
  • Black Prior can flip anything that isn't a guardbreak. That includes the Zhanhu's grenades.
• For April Fool's Day in 2019, the minions were slightly different.
• For Honor normally uses a singular male Warden model named Larry to display executions outside of the game until he got tired of it and went◊ on vacation for a week (and he, of course, is never without his helmet). For that week, the executed models were randomly from the other◊ heroes wearing◊ a paper mask with a Warden's visored barbute helmet on it.
  • Larry's abuse continues in Year Four Season Two, in which the title screen for the game, which normally features a random hero, instead has Larry standing calm and stoically... right before Astrea impales him with her flamberge and takes his place on the title screen.
• The bot names for Year Four's Test Your Metal include a pile of hilarious jokes and references, such as Gitgudmundr, Over-Nine Tozen, SADPOLLYON :(, Rolling Stone, and Non-Japanese Speaker.
• "How Daubney's Execution Really Went Down."
• The new Year Five Executions just reek of this: both involve your opponent begging you to spare them, then pulling out either a bagpipe or fiddle and starting to play it. Your character gets annoyed by the music and either knocks them over and stomps on their opponent and the bagpipes or knocks the fiddle aside and uses the bow to saw through their opponent's neck.
• The Pirate's reveal trailer is a mostly serious showcase of the Pirate hero and her abilities. Up until she whips out a portable cannon to blow away a Centurion's allies to his amazement.
  • INCREDIBILIS!!!
• Black Prior can flip literal BULLETS.