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** The episode also ends with their introduction to King Gilgamesh--who wastes no time in declaring he will test them personally with his Gate of Babylon. Quite a significant shift in his very petty incarnation (especially as he appeared in the ''[[LightNovel/FateZero Zero]] / [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight stay night]]'' timeline).

* Episode 18 marks the directorial debut of Nakaya Onsen, key animator of ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'''s famous episode 22, and it ''[[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome shows]]'':

*** Ultimo Tope Patada, the mother of all [[Series/KamenRider Rider Kicks]] combined with the above. She launches herself into orbit and takes on the power of the comet that caused the K-T extinction -- yes, that's right, ''the impact that killed the DINOSAURS'' -- and flies downward at ''incredible'' speed, crashing into Tiamat's energy barrier. In a scene reminiscent of Gae Bolg vs. Rho Aias from ''Anime/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorks'', and with some help from a Command Spell, Quetzalcoatl manages to ''break through Tiamat's defenses.'' All with some of the most impressive visuals of the anime so far, [[UpToEleven and that's saying a LOT]].

** Merlin's also brought an ally with him, the Counter Force's weapon for fighting Beasts -- a Grand Servant. "Ziusu-dra" appears before her, and reveals to her his true identity: the first Old Man of the Mountain, Hassan-i-Sabbah. '''Grand Assassin'''.

** Fujimaru gets a minor one as he powers through Tiamat's Nega-Genesis, the assaults of the Bel Lahmu, though this one counts for the whole team: Ereshkigal sealing temporarily Tiamat at the price of her life, Mash using Lord Camelot to stop Nega-Genesis from expanding, Merlin helping create a way with Garden of Avalon, Fou warping Fujimaru near Tiamat's head at the last moment.

** Being an introduction into the Singularity (and considering the limited options for Ritsuka/Mash), it is understandable that they won't be dishing this out just yet. While they made the effort of fending off the Uridimmu, the stage was primarily set to show off the powers of an (unnamed) Ishtar and the man who introduces himself as "Enkidu"--with them ripping apart the beasts with little to no effort.

** Merlin's introduction (together with Ana), which allows them to disabuse Ritsuka and Mash of "Enkidu's" ploy and then engage him quickly. Enkidu was by no means inconvenienced by this, fighting them on superior terms--which then forces Merlin to teleport them away.

** The opening battle itself is quite tense, with Gilgamesh's onslaught on Ritsuka and Mash (plus a very reluctant Ana) subsequently complicated by the arrival of Ishtar. And while Gilgamesh managed to prevent Ishtar from using more powerful spells, even she almost had Gilgamesh dead to rights with a shot--until Mashu deflected it just at the right moment. Immediately after this, Gilgamesh goes back to overseeing reports like nothing happened, even dismissing everyone at court without a fuss (at least frontally).

** Ishtar, with the help of a Command Spell from Ritsuka, uses her Noble Phantasm, An Gal Ta Ki Gal She, on Tiamat. Unlike the game, where she travels to Venus using a gate she made for herself, she opens a rift in space, ''summoning the planet Venus to her'', before converting it into a massive arrow of energy that she then fires from Maanna, the Boat of Heaven. When the dust settles, we see that it managed to ''blow a crater in the sea floor'' AND it [[OneHitKill one-shot]] Tiamat's Femme Fatale form, which had its own boss fight in the game! And, to top it all off, [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome the entire sequence was animated]] ''[[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome beautifully]]''.

** Tiamat for her part, unintentionally saved everybody's lives by reducing the damage of Quetzalcoatl's DeathOrGloryAttack. Had she not blocked it as much as she did there was a real chance that the explosion would've certainly killed Mash and Ritsuka along with everybody else on the planet much less Uruk.

** Ritsuka gets a minor one as he powers through Tiamat's Nega-Genesis, the assaults of the Bel Lahmu, though this one counts for the whole team: Ereshkigal sealing temporarily Tiamat at the price of her life, Mash using Lord Camelot to stop Nega-Genesis from expanding, Merlin helping create a way with Garden of Avalon, Fou warping Ritsuka near Tiamat's head at the last moment.

** Tiamat gets one throughout the episode as despite being hit with so many powerful attacks and Noble Phantasms, she's still going strong and even to the bitter end could have still powered through and won. In the end, she ultimately only truly loses because [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath Ritsuka convinces her to let herself die]].

** Merlin holds off the Bel Lahmu by summoning ''Excalibur'' He instantly kills one of them with his speed and easily crosses blades with another, and then disintegrates it with a blast from his staff while it was blocking his sword. Remember that the game made clear that this is Merlin's real body, having traveled from Avalon as the barrier between it and reality has weakened enough to briefly do so. This is the living Merlin, not a Servant, and he's more than likely holding ''the real Excalibur.''

** Merlin holds off the Bel Lahmu by summoning ''Excalibur'' He instantly kills one of them with his speed and easily crosses blades with another, and then disintegrates it with a blast from his staff while it was blocking his sword. Remember that the game made clear that this is Merlin's real body, having travelled from Avalon as the barrier between it and reality has weakened enough to briefly do so. This is Merlin at his peak Grand Caster level power and he's more than likely holding ''the real Excalibur.''

** Then, when Tiamat is forced into the underworld and [[OneWingedAngel has regressed to her Jurassic Period form]], she finds herself confronted with the Counter Force's weapon for fighting Beasts -- a Grand Servant. "Ziusu-dra" appears before her, and reveals to her his true identity: the first Old Man of the Mountain, Hassan-i-Sabbah. '''Grand Assassin'''.

** Merlin holds off the Bel Lahmu by summoning ''Excalibur'' He instantly kills one of them with his speed and easily crosses blade with another, and then disintegrates it with a blast from his staff while it was blocking his sword. Remember that the game made clear that this is Merlin's real body, having travelled from Avalon as the barrier between it and reality has weakened enough to briefly do so. This is Merlin at his peak Grand Caster level power and he's more than likely holding ''the real Excalibur.''

** Merlin holds off the Bel Lahmu by summoning ''Excalibur'' He instantly kills one of them with his speed and easily crosses blade with another, and then disintegrates it with a blast from his staff while it was blocking his swrod.

** Merlin holds of the Bel Lahmu by summoning ''Excalibur'' He instantly kills one of them with his speed and easily crosses blade with another, and then disintegrates it with a blast from his staff while it was blocking his swrod.

** Also Gilgamesh for doing an OffhandBackhand against the Bel Lahmu trying to come back for more with his weapons. This incarnation has all the power of his Archer form, with all of his CharacterDevelopment, and [[LetsGetDangerous pure focus on the task at hand, no playing around,]] and it shows.

** First Hassan giving Tiamat a concept of death is shown as him essentially grafting the lines of death on her body.

** For the first time since the Unlimited Blade Works anime adaptation, Ea is fired on screen. And [[PunctuatedForEmphasis it. Is. ]][[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome GLORIOUS.]]

** For the first time since the Unlimited Blade Works anime adaptation, Ea is fired on screen. And [[PunctuatedForEmphasis it. Is. ]][[VisualEffectsOfAwesome GLORIOUS.]]

** For the first time since the Unlimited Blade Works anime adaptation, Ea is fired on screen. And [[PunctuatedForEmphasis it. Is. [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome GLORIOUS.]]]]