Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013 Video Game)

Mark Bonnar: Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch

Quotes 

• Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : In a world without gold, we might have been heroes!

• Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : Caution's nothing without charisma! For if a man plays the fool, then it's only fools he'll persuade. But appear to be the devil, and all men will submit.

• Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : Are you not loved at home? Are you not wanted by your wives and families and countrymen? How else to explain your government's complete disinterest in your well-being? Hostages for medicines, these were my only terms! And yet, six days of pure fucking silence! So I must conclude that you men are the pariahs of Charles-Towne, and I would profit better by using your organs for chum and your bones for char!

• Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : It's all a big show. Give your quarry something to fear, some hellish thing from a fever dream, and men will drop to their knees pleading for their Lord before all else!

• Benjamin Hornigold : When I look on the fruits of our years of labor, all I see is sickness, idleness, and idiocy.

  Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : Not a sunbeam of difference between here and London, then.

• [after the successful raid on Charles Towne] 

  Edward Kenway : We should quit these waters, Thatch. The governor is bound to muster more soldiers.

  Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : Nah, you go on ahead. I... I got some... business in the north.

  Edward Kenway : You're done, aren't you? Giving up on us? On Nassau?

  Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : Look, lad. I'm late into my fourth decade on this earth. And if I don't find some means to make the fifth a quiet and cozy voyage, I'd rather sink to the Devil's doorstep than call myself cap'n another year.

  [Edward doesn't answer] 

  Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : Ah, we'll meet again, lad. In this world... or the one below.

• Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : We fly no colours out here, but praise the lack of 'em. So let the black flag signal nothing but your allegiance to man's natural freedoms.

• [Edward has just come back up from diving a shipwreck while looking for medicine] 

  Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : Ahoy! Any luck?

  Edward Kenway : I found one crate hidden beneath a school of sharks. Sadly, the elixir inside is...

  [he produces a bottle and pours out a foul green liquid] 

  Edward Kenway : ... quite spoilt.

  Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : Plague and perish! Will we steal medicines now?

  Edward Kenway : Remember the pardon, Thatch. We're to be subtle.

  Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : Says Hornigold, a pirate now too proud to call himself one!

  Edward Kenway : Ah, he prefers caution to cannons.

  Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : Caution's nothin' without charisma! For if a man plays the fool, then it's only fools he'll persuade. But appear to be the Devil... and all men will submit.

  Edward Kenway : And would you be the Devil?

  [Thatch dons a hat with smoldering matches tucked into it and smiles wolfishly] 

  Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : For an audience, aye. It's all a big show.

  [he turns to Bonnet, towering over him, his voice a fierce growl and his appearance terrifying] 

  Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : Give your quarry something to fear... some hellish thing from a fever dream... and men will drop to their knees, pleadin' for their Lord before aught else!

  Stede Bonnet : [cowering in terror]  Oh, God...

  Edward Kenway : [amused]  Looks fine.

  Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : [in a normal voice]  'Course it does. If you can find a quiet way to acquire medicines, tell me soon. Otherwise, I'll handle it meself.