9) Shay Patrick Cormac
For years, Assassin’s Creed fans begged to play as a Templar. Ubisoft let us see the flip side with Rogue last year, but probably not in the way that we were expecting. Shay is an Assassin turned Templar after learning his old friends were crazy about the Pieces of Eden. And that’s not a bad route to go, admittedly, since it makes sense for longtime fans to go into the Templars with their own preconceived notions of the Assassins along with Shay.
As “assassin” is in the series name, Shay eventually has to go up against those he once called brothers, and therein lies the problem. While there aren’t a bunch of familiar faces that end up in Shay’s kill sights, he does end up killing Adéwalé from Black Flag. If that weren’t enough to make you dislike him, Shay also ends up being worse for the world than either faction; he causes an earthquake in Lisbon that kicks off his defection, then inadvertently another earthquake in the Arctic during the end of the game. Maybe he should be locked away before he destroys us all.
