A familiar image of the FBI characters from Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Siege recently appeared in a not-so-familiar place — as the header image of an anti-FBI article on the website of Libertarian politician Ron Paul.
The same image also appears on Paul's Facebook post about the topic. In both cases, the image from Ubisoft's tactical multiplayer shooter has been cropped and edited to remove any mention of Ubisoft, Tom Clancy or Rainbow Six Siege.
It's some serious subject matter, to say the least (the title of the article in question is "America's Gestapo: The FBI's Reign of Terror"), but the fact that Paul is using an image from a fictional video game to get his point across is creating more than a little comedy to go alongside his doom-and-gloom perspective.
I imagine it's not so simple to find photogenic pictures of FBI agents, which is likely why whoever is responsible for the post took the easy way out and grabbed the image from what we can only assume was a "FBI Agent" Google image search. These agents, however, are ready for their moment in the spotlight. If you've played the game, you'll know that the four characters are Thermite, Ash, Pulse and Castle. Each character comes with unique weapons, gadgets and abilities that make them unique in the intense multiplayer arena that is Rainbow Six Siege.
Readers of Paul's Facebook post know it, too, and the comments on the matter are pretty great.
"Does anyone else hate how someone will use pulse without knowing how to properly roam?" reads one top comment. "Seriously though, his gadget is only useful if you roam."
Another comment takes the humor further by telling a fictional story about a time he invited Castle, an agent famous for his near impregnable barricades, over to his house.
"I had castle over at my house once (sic) time and he had to use the bathroom," the comment reads. "He barricaded himself in and I had to call Ash to help me out. Don't get me started on thermite. Oops I forgot what pulse does cause he's rarely in the battlefield.
Most of the commenters, however, haven't seemed to notice that something fishy is going on with the image. Either that, or they just don't care.
