Assassin's Creed

Representation / casting choices

Main leads (Fassbender as dual Spanish/Irish-descended roles, Cotillard, Irons) fit European historical and modern settings; supporting international descendants (e.g., Haitian, Chinese) match the global Assassin brotherhood premise with no audience-visible forcing or unearned identity-based dominance.

Political / ideological dialogue

Recurring discussion of free will versus Templar control ("nothing is true, everything is permitted") forms the story engine; this is philosophical sci-fi from the games, not modern activist slogans or identity framing.

Identity-driven story themes

Narrative drives on ancestral heritage, personal choice, and ancient war; zero central focus on race, gender, or identity as plot or character engines.

Institutional / cultural critique

Templars depicted as elitist authoritarians suppressing free will for order; critique targets timeless control and domination without modern activist lenses like patriarchy, whiteness, capitalism, or colonial guilt.