Wanted poster

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{{Quote|I've seen posters all across the district. Tearing them down will help the city forget your face.|[[Paola]] to Ezio Auditore da Firenze.|Assassin's Creed II}}
[[File:Wantedposterpazzi.jpg|thumb|A wanted poster of Ezio initiated by the Pazzi]]
'''Wanted posters''' were printed signs found in cities that featured the face of an [[Assassins|Assassin]], demanding for their immediate capture.

[[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]] first encountered them after the execution of his family. The posters prominently displayed the [[House of Pazzi|Pazzi]] family emblem and promised awards of 50,000 florins to anyone who killed or captured the Assassin once he had committed [[Notoriety#Renaissance|socially unacceptable]] behavior.<ref name="AC2">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref>

By tearing down wanted posters within cities, Ezio quickly learned to avoid the presence of [[guards]] while doing so, who were often alerted once they had detected his actions.<ref name="AC2"/><ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''</ref>

Accompanying this, during the [[French and Indian War]], the Assassin [[Aveline de Grandpré]] found need to remove wanted posters bearing the image of her slave persona, to decrease any negative focus of her in the public eye.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]''</ref>

During the American Revolution, the Assassin [[Ratonhnhaké:ton]] also removed wanted posters to reduce his notoriety, or could bribe [[printers]] to stop producing them altogether.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''</ref>

==Trivia==
*Many of the posters displayed in [[Florence]], [[Venice]], [[Forlì]] and [[San Gimignano]] were placed in unusual places, where [[Civilians|citizens]] could hardly see them, negating their intended purpose. However, the posters in [[Rome]] were often placed at ground level and in more crowded areas.
*In ''[[Assassin's Creed II: Discovery]]'', the Nintendo DSi's camera possessed the feature to insert an own photo in place of Ezio's printed face.
*The posters continued to state that members of the Pazzi family would offer a reward even after the Pazzi conspirators had all been killed by Ezio.
*The posters in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' remained the same as the ones in ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'', though the symbol of the Pazzi family was replaced with that of the Borgia.
*If a poster was located on the wall of a [[Borgia Towers|Borgia tower]], igniting the tower would not remove the poster or lower notoriety.
*In ''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]'', just about all posters were posted on street level.
*Contrary to the posters issued for Ezio, in Colonial America, the depicted image would update as Ratonhnhaké:ton grew older and became a full Assassin.
*The message on the Italian wanted posters was erroneously translated, as "morto di vivo" translates to "dead of alive", whereas the correct phrasing would be "vivo o morto" and not "morto o vivo"

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
LL 1 v.png|Ezio ripping away a wanted poster
Aveline-ripping-wantedposter.jpg|Aveline tearing down a wanted poster
ACIII-MostWanted_3.png|[[Samuel Adams]] removing a wanted poster of Connor
Wanted-poster.jpg|A wanted poster of Ezio in ''Assassin's Creed II: Discovery''
</gallery>

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