Trivia / Assassin's Creed III

• Actor-Shared Background: Just like his character Connor, Noah Watts has Native American ancestry (in this case, Blackfoot).
• Beam Me Up, Scotty!: Played with when you ride with Paul Revere. Contrary to popular belief, Revere never shouted "The British are coming!" on his Midnight Ride, and the game never depicts him saying it... but one of the first people you alert ends up shouting it to the people in his house after you and Revere pass on the message.
• The Danza: Kaniehtí:io, as portrayed by Kaniehtiio Horn.
• Fake American: George Washington is voiced by the British Robin Atkin Downes with an American accent.
• Fake Brit: Canadian actor Adrian Hough portrays Haytham Kenway, a British Templar.
• Fake Nationality:
  • Subverted. Noah Watts is Native American just like his character Connor though he is actually Blackfoot instead of Mohawk (see Actor-Shared Background above).
  • The Mohawk Kaniehtí:io is played by Kaniehtiio Horn who is from a Canadian Mohawk First Nations tribe.
• Follow the Leader: The re-worked combat mechanics owe a lot to the "free flow" combat style popularized by big hits at the time such as the Batman: Arkham Series.
• Inspiration for the Work: As tweeted by Jonathan Cooper (a former Ubisoft animator) on 2020, the pre-rendered gameplay pitch video for the cancelled Prince of Persia: Redemption game served as an inspiration for their pitch on Assassin's Creed III.
• Technical Advisor: Because the game features Connor, a half-British, half-Mohawk Assassin, Ubisoft hired Thomas Deer from the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center to basically keep them in line. He advised them on what was and what was not appropriate to depict, as well as coached voice actor Noah Watts in the Mohawk language.
• Trailers Always Lie: A portion of Charles Lee's breaking speech ("Even those men you sought to save have turned their backs on you, yet you fight. You resist. Why?") was attributed to Achilles in the Connor Story trailer to emphasize the tension between him and Connor. While they do have several arguments in the final game, their relationship is far more amicable than the trailer suggests.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Aveline was considered to appear in the Tyranny of King Washington content, with the developers contemplating to make her a love interest for Connor.
  • Canoes were seen in early screenshots, presumably meant to work like the gondolas in ACII.
  • The devs played with the idea of letting players scalp their enemies, but realized that Mohawks didn't do so.
  • Judging by his character artwork (which can be found on his wikia page) Charles Lee was originally meant to own a small dog, likely as a nod to the real one's fondness for them. Even as the man himself went through various designs, the little fuzzball persisted but ultimately didn't make it to the actual game.

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