History Characters / FateGrandOrderObserverOnTimelessTempleVillains

* UnskilledButStrong: According to Caster Gilgamesh, who remembers well how Enkidu actually fought, Kingu is capable of putting out comparable and potentially even superior raw output to Enkidu. However, he lacks the skill of the original, to the point Gilgamesh compares it to his own Archer self's fighting style, which Enkidu once called out as "wasteful." Its later revealed that Kingu had the Singularities Holy Grail in him, serving as the source of his raw power. That said his Noble Phantasm, Nammu Duranki, looks visually identical to the real Enkidu's Enuma Elish.
* UnwittingPawn: He initially did not know he was just a soul that was never birthed from Tiamat that was put into Enkidu's body as part of her plans. Once he sees the "new humanity" known as [[EldritchAbomination Laḫmu]] and them ripping out the Grail in his chest does he realize he was a pawn [[YouHaveOutLivedYourUsefulness to be discarded]]. Solomon hints this to Kingu's face, cryptically asking if supporting Tiamat is what he really wants, but doesn't discourage the deception since it benefits his plans.

* OutsideContextProblem: Caster Gilgamesh reveals that after the resolution of a Singularity, the world fabricates a new history where ''[[BroadStrokes something]]'' happened to explain any deaths in the Singularity, [[InSpiteOfANail because those people will remain dead in the repaired history]]--for example, mass casualties from a Noble Phantasm being changed to a natural disaster. However, as shown in Ibaraki-Douji's interlude, the Laḫmu were apparently so beyond the normal realm of possibility that the world is instead ignoring they existed at all and is simply resurrecting all their victims.

* OutsideContextProblem: Caster Gilgamesh reveals that after the resolution of a Singularity, the world fabricates a new history where ''[[BroadStrokes something]]'' happened to explain any deaths in the Singularity, [[InSpiteOfANail because those people will remain dead in the repaired history]]. However, as shown in Ibaraki-Douji's interlude, the Laḫmu were apparently so beyond the normal realm of possibility that the world is instead ignoring they existed at all and is simply resurrecting all their victims.

* ButterflyOfDoom: The Lion King was created by a certain event in the life of Arturia: [[spoiler:it is eventually revealed that the reason she came to be was because her version of Bedivere never managed to return Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake. Where the Proper Human History's Arthur died from her wounds, this version did not because she kept Rhongomyniad, which allowed her to survive the Battle of Camlann and eventually become a fully Divine goddess thanks to Rhongomyniad's power.]]

* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler:It is eventually revealed that the reason she came to be was because her version of Bedivere never managed to return Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake. As a result, she kept Rhongomyniad, which allowed her to survive the Battle of Camlann and eventually become a fully Divine goddess thanks to Rhongomyniad's power.]]

* Really700YearsOld: She's a beautiful woman who appears to be in her early to mid-twenties, but [[spoiler:given Bedivere's words "This one thousand five-hundred year journey... all for a chance to stand in front of you again" as well as the knowledge that she's been wandering between different universes after Bedivere's failure to return Exacalibur, she's actually existed for over ''one thousand and five-hundred years''.]]

->'''Rarity''': SSR (5*)[[note]]Display only; character is not summonable[[/note]]\\
'''ID:''' No. 83\\
'''Command Cards:''' QAAAB; (/)\\
'''Alignment''': LawfulGood\\
'''Attribute''': Heaven\\
'''Origin:''' Israel, [[Literature/TheBible The Old Testament]] (11th century BC)\\
'''First Appearance''': Fate/Grand Order\\
'''Illustrated by''': Takashi Takeuchi\\
'''Voiced by''': Creator/TomokazuSugita (Japanese), Creator/JalenKCassell (English)

->'''First Appearance''': ''Literature/ClockTower2015''\\
'''Illustrated by''': Takashi Takeuchi\\
'''Voiced by''': Creator/TomokazuSugita (Japanese), Creator/JalenKCassell (English)

->'''Origin:''' Scandinavia, Germany (Myth/NorseMythology, ''Literature/TheSagaOfTheVolsungs'', ''Literature/{{Nibelungenlied}}'', ''Theatre/TheRingOfTheNibelung'')\\
'''First appearance:''' ''Literature/FateApocrypha''\\

->'''First Appearance''': ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' (as Matou Zouken)\\
'''Illustrated by''': Takashi Takeuchi

->'''Origin''': England (Myth/ArthurianLegend)\\
'''First appearance:''' ''Fate/Grand Order''\\
'''Illustrated by:''' Akira Ishida\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyakoKawasumi (Japanese), Creator/KariWahlgren (''Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot'') (English)

->'''Class:''' Lancer, then Avenger.\\
'''Origin:''' Iraq (Myth/MesopotamianMythology)\\
'''First appearance:''' ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'' (as "Enkidu")\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuuKobayashi (Japanese), Creator/MarinMiller (English)

''Three Knight Classes:'' [[Characters/FateGrandOrderSabers Sabers]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderSabersAToF A-F]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderSabersGToM G-M]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderSabersNToR N-R]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderSabersSToZ S-Z]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderArchers Archers]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderArchersAToC A-C]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderArchersDToM D-M]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderArchersNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderLancers Lancers]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderLancersAToF A-F]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderLancersGToM G-M]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderLancersNToZ N-Z]])\\

''Other Notable Characters:'' [[Characters/FateGrandOrderChaldeaSecurityOrganization Chaldea Security Organization]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderProtagonist Protagonist]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderMashKyrielight Mash Kyrielight]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderVillains Villains]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderBeasts Beasts]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderBeastI Beast I]] | '''Observer on Timeless Temple Villains''' | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderEpicOfRemnantVillains Epic of Remnant Villains]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderCosmosInTheLostbeltVillains Cosmos in the Lostbelt Villains]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderCrypters Crypters]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderForeignGodAndForces Foreign God and Forces]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderLostbeltKings Lostbelt Kings]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderOrdealCallVillains Ordeal Call Villains]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderEventVillains Event Villains]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderInterludeVillains Interlude Villains]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderOtherCharacters Other Characters]] ]]-]]]

* OutsideContextProblem: The Lion King has nothing to do with Solomon or the Singularities themselves, and wasn't summoned by the World or the Grail. She is a currently-existing Divine Spirit from an AlternateUniverse who, sensing Solomon's plan, broke into the Jerusalem Singularity under her own power, converted the Holy Land into Camelot, and got to work driving humanity extinct on her own, [[WellIntentionedExtremist supposedly positive]], terms.

* OutsideContextProblem: The reason why the Camelot Singularity is vastly different from the other ones. She isn't an ally of Solomon, a being summoned from one of his Grails thrown into time, or a Servant summoned by the Singularity itself. She's a Divine Spirit from an AlternateUniverse that literally wandered into the Singularity and forced herself into becoming the most powerful force within it. The fact that the Singularity itself is even still around despite it normally going away when the Grail is found is a sign of how powerful she is.

''Other Notable Characters:'' [[Characters/FateGrandOrderChaldeaSecurityOrganization Chaldea Security Organization]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderProtagonist Protagonist]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderMashKyrielight Mash Kyrielight]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderVillains Villains]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderBeasts Beasts]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderBeastI Beast I]] | '''Observer on Timeless Temple Villains''' | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderEpicOfRemnantVillains Epic of Remnant Villains]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderCosmosInTheLostbeltVillains Cosmos in the Lostbelt Villains]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderCrypters Crypters]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderForeignGodAndForces Foreign God and Forces]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderLostbeltKings Lostbelt Kings]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderEventVillains Event Villains]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderInterludeVillains Interlude Villains]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderOtherCharacters Other Characters]] ]]-]]]

''Unplayable and Arcade Exclusive:'' [[Characters/FateGrandOrderUnplayable Unplayable]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderBeasts Beasts]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderBeastI Beast I]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderArcadeExclusive Arcade Exclusive]]\\
''Other Notable Characters:'' [[Characters/FateGrandOrderChaldeaSecurityOrganization Chaldea Security Organization]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderProtagonist Protagonist]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderMashKyrielight Mash Kyrielight]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderVillains Villains]] ('''Observer on Timeless Temple Villains''' | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderEpicOfRemnantVillains Epic of Remnant Villains]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderCosmosInTheLostbeltVillains Cosmos in the Lostbelt Villains]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderCrypters Crypters]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderForeignGodAndForces Foreign God and Forces]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderLostbeltKings Lostbelt Kings]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderEventVillains Event Villains]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderInterludeVillains Interlude Villains]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderOtherCharacters Other Characters]] ]]-]]]

''Extra Classes:'' [[Characters/FateGrandOrderRulers Rulers]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderAvengers Avengers]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderMoonCancers Moon Cancers]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderAlterEgos Alter Egos]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderForeigners Foreigners]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderPretenders Pretenders]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderOberon Oberon]])\\

''Three Knight Classes:'' [[Characters/FateGrandOrderSabers Sabers]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderSabersAToF A-F]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderSabersGToM G-M]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderSabersNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderArchers Archers]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderArchersAToC A-C]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderArchersDToM D-M]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderArchersNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderLancers Lancers]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderLancersAToF A-F]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderLancersGToM G-M]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderLancersNToZ N-Z]])\\

'''First appearance:''' ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha''\\

* TheCameo: He also turns up during the Fate/Accel Zero Order event in his decrepit old state, as he would canonically be during the timeline of ''LightNovel/FateZero'', [[spoiler:taking over as the Master of Lancelot after Kariya abandons his Command Seals and the Grail War to care for Sakura]]. [[spoiler:Oddly enough, [[DroppedABridgeOnHim he goes down like a punk immediately]] as Dark Irisviel/Justeaze takes center stage as the actual BigBad.]]

* {{Flanderization}}: An InUniverse example. Thanks to Rhongomyniad making her a Divine Spirit, she became the up to eleven version of the kind of king Altria was in life; a cold and unemotional ruler. Unlike her normal incarnation though, she fully lost her humanity, meaning she becomes a more extreme ruler who lacks compassion, emotions, and human perspective. She still maintains many of Altria's heroic beliefs, but the lack of emotions intensified to the point where she is almost robotic and cold, and her lack of humanity distorted those beliefs in uncomfortable directions for many of her knights.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: The most puzzling thing about her is how she even got involved in the first place. As far as can be gathered, while Ozymandias, the Hassans, Richard III, and each of their respective factions were busy fighting each other, she suddenly appeared in the Jerusalem Singularity, steamrolled them all with the Knights of the Round, and set up Camelot right where the former Holy City stood before beginning her own plan to "save" the human race. The oddity of her presence is further emphasized when observing other versions of the same Singularity, which remains known as the Jerusalem Singularity in both Arcade and [[spoiler:the simulations the Foreign God put Kirschtaria and the other Crypters through in order to earn the right to return to life]].

* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: This happened to both Tristan and Gareth in Camelot Zero, brought on by the weight of their crimes against their fellow Knights, with Tristan being so shaken he was unable to move until the Lion King granted the Gift of "Reversal" to him, while Gareth constantly scrubbed her hands out of guilt, the stress ruining them, before being DrivenToSuicide fighting the Fake Richard Lionheart. Mordred, due to a combination of factors such as Gareth's death, her Gift of "Rampage", and the knowledge she will soon die no matter what happens, is reduced to TheBerserker, attacking various enemy factions with no real care for herself or the lives of her men.]]

''Extra Classes:'' [[Characters/FateGrandOrderRulers Rulers]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderAvengers Avengers]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderMoonCancers Moon Cancers]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderAlterEgos Alter Egos]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderForeigners Foreigners]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderPretenders Pretenders]] \\

'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuuKobayashi (Japanese), Creator/MarianneMiller (English)

->'''Origin''': England ([[Myth/KingArthur Arthurian Mythology]])\\

''Other Notable Characters:'' [[Characters/FateGrandOrderChaldeaSecurityOrganization Chaldea Security Organization]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderProtagonist Protagonist]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderMashKyrielight Mash Kyrielight]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderVillains Villains]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderObserverOnTimelessTempleVillains Observer on Timeless Temple Villains]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderEpicOfRemnantVillains Epic of Remnant Villains]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderCosmosInTheLostbeltVillains Cosmos in the Lostbelt Villains]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderCrypters Crypters]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderForeignGodAndForces Foreign God and Forces]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderLostbeltKings Lostbelt Kings]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderEventVillains Event Villains]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderInterludeVillains Interlude Villains]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderOtherCharacters Other Characters]] ]]-]]]

''Unplayable and Arcade Exclusive:'' [[Characters/FateGrandOrderUnplayable Unplayable]] ('''Beasts''' | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderBeastI Beast I]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderArcadeExclusive Arcade Exclusive]]\\

''Unplayable and Arcade Exclusive:'' [[Characters/FateGrandOrderUnplayable Unplayable]] ('''Beasts''') | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderBeastI Beast I]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderArcadeExclusive Arcade Exclusive]]\\

He belongs to the Grand Caster class. For more information, please see Characters/FateGrandOrderUnplayable and Characters/FateGrandOrderBeasts.

* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: The way Phenex speaks after stopping talking in poetry is to constantly switch his pitch, even mid-word. Da Vinci even jokes that [[spoiler:Goetia]] would get sick of him talking after a while.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In ''Arcade'', the first Demon Pillar appeared in Orleans due to [[spoiler:Amadeus transforming into Nabareus]], when the first one is fought in Septem in the original game.
* AdaptationalWimp: The twenty-two demons as described in the Lesser Key of Solomon all had [[OurDemonsAreDifferent different designs, designations and powers]] from each other. In contrast, all of the Demon Pillars look very similar and are part of a greater MindHive where most of them aren't as distinct from one another.
* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:Zepar, having ultimately been broken by Kiara and reduced to loving her due to her Beast nature, ultimately goes out pleading for Kiara to let him "live" (despite being reduced to just being a presence in her ''pinkie'').]]
* AlternateCharacterReading: The Japanese term for them (''majin'') can be read as either "Demon God" or "Demon Pillar" - the latter presumably being a reference to how they are actual pillars that support Solomon's Noble Phantasm.
* AnimalMotif: Räum, after being separated from the other Demon Pillars, is primarily associated with [[CreepyCrows crows]]. [[spoiler:Specifically, while possessing Randolph Carter's body Räum is able to transform his head into that of a great crow and even transform completely into a flock of crows. In his Demon Pillar form, he is surrounded by an aura of crow feathers. Also, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking he hates cats]].]]
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Andras. His entire motivation was not wanting to die and lose his newfound sentience after the Pillars were separated from Goetia. His singularity was not born of nefarious intent, but of his joining with fellow regretful spirits to create a world where time does not progress. He also develops what really sounds like a VillainousCrush on Hijikata.]]
* ArcVillain: The four remaining Demon Pillars each serve as one for an ''Epic of Remnant'' chapter.
** Bael [[spoiler:cooperated with Moriarty in Shinjuku to get his revenge and in return, helped Moriarty with his plan.]]
** Zepar [[spoiler:manipulated Kiara into becoming his host and turned Seraphix into a pseudo-singularity in an attempt to regain his power, however Beast III-R quickly overtakes him as the main villain and eventually wipes him out.]]
** Phenex [[spoiler:works together with Scheherazade in Agartha as they both have the same goal in mind, to kill themselves once and for all so they don't have to deal with the trauma of dying several times over.]]
** Räum [[spoiler:orchestrated the entirety of Salem's events to draw out an Outer God in hopes of gaining an ally for its plans with humanity and to oppose the Foreign God.]]
* ArtEvolution: Before America, all the Demon Pillars were using the same design and attack animations that had debuted with Flauros. After America, they became individually more distinct with Halphas having a completely different appearance and attack animation compared to its predecessors and by the time the Solomon singularity came out, all the Demon Pillars, including the pre-America ones, have completely different color schemes and unique attack animations.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Demon Pillars are fully capable of being brought back from the dead as seen in the Salomon Singularity, including ones you've just fought before. After they become mortal, however, none of them but Phenex can do this, as after such, Crocell notes Balam, Bifrons, Furcas, Haagenti, Sabnock, Shax, Uvall and Vine being unable to revive and thus using them as fuel for himself.]]
* BalanceBuff: In a weird sense, a ''boss'' is on the receiving end of this; Barbatos' health was quadrupled by four during [[spoiler:the raid on the Solomon Singularity, due to how ''everyone'' was farming him with such ease. It did nothing to help him in the long run, being the first of the Demon Pillars to fall in the battle in a relatively short time given the nature of the event.]]
* BattleThemeMusic: Each Demon Pillar you fight in Solomon's temple represents one of the singularities the protagonists have visited and so each one is accompanied with a battle remix of the singularity's map theme.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Zepar wanted to turn this universe's version of Kiara into a version similar to her [[VideoGame/FateExtra CCC]] incarnation to make her a suitable host. He succeeded in changing her, only for Kiara to then subjugate Zepar and take his power for herself.
* BishonenLine: [[spoiler:Similar to Goetia himself, the Demon God Pillars Bael and Phenex appear as shirtless hunk humanoids after being beaten as "evil" Moriarty and reviving using a corpse respectively. Lampshaded when even the protagonist mistakes Bael for Goetia, and played with since this isn't their final forms -- they revert to a Demon Pillar for the true final fight, meaning this intermediate form was a mere disguise.]]
* BlessedWithSuck: [[spoiler:Phenex retains the ResurrectiveImmortality the Demon Pillars have lost, but now that he has emotions he feels pain each time he dies. As a result, he instigates the creation of the Agartha pseudo-singularity with Scheherazade to become DeaderThanDead.]]
* BodyOfBodies: Concept art for the Demon God Pillars shows that some of their skins are sculpted to look like they are made out of thousands of human bodies, though this aspect is rarely seen in various adaptations.
* BookEnds: Flauros is the first Demon Pillar fought, [[spoiler:and is the last to cease activity during the Solomon Singularity.]]
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Of all the 72 demons of the ''Literature/ArsGoetia'', Andrealphus is both unseen and ''unmentioned'' in the entire game.
* TheCorrupter: The Demon Pillar Zepar wished to create a [[DemonicPossession proper host]] for itself to hide in so it could regain its power. And the person he chose was the AlternateUniverse version of [[VideoGame/FateExtra Sessyoin Kiara]], one who was a kind and sweet nun working as a therapist, and according to WordOfGod, would have become a modern day saint if left on her own. To make her a more suitable host however, he used the second magic to show her alternate versions of herself in which she was twisted and morally bankrupt, including the timeline EMIYA Alter originates from, this being after he spent time suppressing her compassion and conscience and driving her mad with his presence. So after seeing this, the old Kiara effectively died, and in her place was one on par with her CCC self, who then proceeded to [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor break, enslave, and finally devour Zepar herself]].[[invoked]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath:
** Medea Lily squishes Haagenti with her magic into something incredibly tiny as the final ingredient for her infinite pancake. He is ''still'' Pancakes as of ~CEO Crisis 2020~; 4 years into the game.
** [[spoiler:Zepar spends much of the end of his life in despair from being perpetually overstimulated and constantly tortured by Kiara before being devoured in a pitiful state and thusly erased from existence.]]
* DarkIsEvil: The original battle sprite for the Demon Pillars before [[LightIsNotGood Halphas]] in America was a predominantly black body, and there's little good about them. In Solomon, Naberius keeps this coloration, while Sabnock takes on a dark-grey color and Forneus becomes a dark purple. Zepar and Glasya-Labolas appear as the original coloration like Naberius, while Crocell appears in the dark-grey variant like Sabnock and Gaap is dark purple like Forneus.
* DefeatEqualsExplosion: [[spoiler:Amy, Andromalius, Dantalion, Gremory, Murmur and Osa are noted to have self destructed.]]
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Even as Roman uses Ars Nova to destabilize the Demon Pillars and render them mortal, several of them (Crocell, Marbas, Valefor, Amon to name a few) choose to go down fighting the Heroic Spirits to the end.]]
* DemonicPossession:
** Each of them manifests by possessing someone, whether the vessel does so willingly or has the transformation forced on them. Ozymandias, however, is able to gain control over Amon by turning it into a Divine Spirit, renaming it "Amon-Ra".
** [[spoiler:Zepar possesses the human Kiara in Seraphix as part of his plan to regain his body and ends up showing her what she ''can'' actually do in another universe. Unfortunately for him, she took those lessons to heart and decided to pay him back for the possession.]]
** [[spoiler:Thanks to his resurrective abilities, Phenex can BodySurf into different hosts, as shown when he's defeated while possessing Scheherazade and simply takes over the dead body of a resistance man.]]
** [[spoiler:{{Averted}} by Räum, who [[GrandTheftMe simply stole Randolph Carter's body]] while the latter's spirit had vacated it for his own reasons. He even goes so far as to say he ''is'' Randolph Carter now.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Focalor, Furfur, Halphas, Malphas, Marchosias, Stolas and Vepar are noted to have "abandoned survival" after Ars Nova is activated.]]
* DevourTheDragon: [[spoiler:Demon Pillar Crocell mentions in Solomon after the collective is disrupted by Ars Nova that he chose to devour his fellow Pillars Sabnock, Shax, Vine, Bifrons, Vual, Haagenti, Furcas, and Balam to power up and [[DoNotGoGentle go down killing as many Heroic Spirits as he can]].]]
* DieLaughing:
** Halphas lets out an EvilLaugh as he's defeated in America and again in Solomon.
** [[spoiler:Bael laughs as he fades away near the end of Shinjuku, fully confident that the protagonist and the planet are still doomed thanks to Moriarty's seventh bullet/meteor.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:Bael wants to avenge Goetia not because he has a problem with him being defeated, but that the protagonist, a RidiculouslyAverageGuy and not a legendary hero or villain, is the one to defeat Goetia. For Bael this was unacceptable.]]
* DualBoss: In Arcade, the boss fight against Barbatos in London, instead of 1 Pillar, its two. They also have two different health bars.
** Forneus is fought alongside [[spoiler:Medea Lily]] at the end of the Okeanos Singularity. [[spoiler:Bael is fought alongside Moriarty in the second to last quest of Shinjuku.]] Glasya-Labolas appears to aid Nursery Rhyme in the Prisma Causeway event.
* EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler:Zepar was willing to instigate a Grail War to restore his body, but even he was disgusted by what Kiara did to the Servants and humans in Seraphix where she continually forced them to suffer for her pleasure. He also looked down on Räum's plan to save humanity by summoning an [[EldritchAbomination Outer God]] into the world.]]
* EvilCounterpart: As Solomon's familiars, they're technically the antagonistic equivalent of Servants. In terms of gameplay, they even come with their own skills, type advantages, and weaknesses.
* EvilIsNotAToy:
** Knowing that [[spoiler:Kiara]] had great influence and power in other worlds, Zepar chose her as a host. [[spoiler:However, it soon found that she was far worse and stronger than it was and ended up enslaved and broken by her.]]
** Given what [[spoiler:Abigail does once the Outer God within her fully awakens, it's very likely Räum would have suffered an unenviable fate had he not been slain beforehand.]]
* EvilKnockoff: The first Demon Pillar the protagonist defeats in SE.RA.PH is commented on as being "off" compared to the others they've faced, as if it was lacking any real intelligence or soul. [[spoiler:That's because it's not a "real" pillar in the sense of being one of the 72 Demon Gods of the ''Ars Goetia'', but rather a creation of Kiara thanks to assimilating Demon Pillar Zepar.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Having accepted that it will die with the regrets of being unable to live, Andras chooses to accept its death at the end of Gudaguda.]]
* FightingAShadow: Solomon resummons them every time they die.
* FinalBoss: Forneus is the last enemy of the Okeanos arc alongside [[spoiler:Medea Lily]], while Halphas is the last enemy fought in America after [[spoiler:Cu Chulainn (Alter) transforms into him.]] Flauros serves as this for Septem as well, with [[spoiler:Altera serving more as a PostClimaxConfrontation afterwards.]] [[spoiler:Agartha's last foe is Phenex, fought no less than 3 times in the final node at that.]]
* FlatWhat: Haagenti's response to Medea Lily admitting that she wants to use it as a cooking ingredient.
* FourIsDeath: Inverted. Four Demon Pillars survived Goetia's defeat: Bael, Zepar, Phenex, and Räum.
* FunWithHomophones: In Salem, Räum finally reveals his true form and chants that the party should pray. "Pray. Pray, prey, prey..."
* FusionDance:
** Although it's only mentioned and not seen in Solomon, [[spoiler:Demon Pillar Gaap mentions that Marbas, Valefor and Amon performed a triple union in order to combine their power and fight the Heroic Spirits.]]
** [[spoiler:Bael is responsible for the fusion of Phantoms in Shinjuku to make Servants capable of fighting the protagonist.]]
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: The eight main Demon Pillars are backed by sixty-four other Pillars, which are mentioned by name by the main Pillar of that battle. Due to the number of enemies, this would require beating only the main pillars that are fought in the battle.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: [[spoiler:The ''CCC'' event is one massive one to Zepar, who saw his banal goal of body restoration turn into a sadistic display of suffering for Kiara's amusement.]]
* GoodColorsEvilColors: The pillars summoned by villainous characters are summoned in red/black and red/white colors to show their villainous nature. Amon summoned as ''Amon Ra'' by the heroic Ozymandias has gold and blue to signify how it's not villainous in its current state.
* HeelFaceTurn:
** [[spoiler:Alloces and Orobas opt at the very end to shield the Servants from other Demon Pillars. These two in specific are interesting choices to do such, as members of the Gazing Star, the sect that would consume humanity and are pivotal to the human incineration plan: Individually, both are amongst the most benign of them all; Alloces' office teaches the art of astronomoy and liberal sciences while providing good familiars, while Orobas in particular can give true answers of the past, present and future, and is faithful to his conjurer; it's very well possible that Chaldea's goals - to see the past, present and future - were likened to what he was made for.]]
** [[spoiler:Gusion calls off his, Caim and Eligos' attacks after Barbatos, Paimon, Buel, Sitri, Beleth and Leraje fall, instead choosing to converse with the Heroic Spirits until the very end, declaring themselves divided from Goetia.]]
* HellIsThatNoise: The ''scream'' a Demon Pillar makes when using its party-wide attack.
* HerdHittingAttack: All of their attacks hit all members of the party.
* HumanityEnsues: [[spoiler:Once disconnected from Goetia, the pillars all develop emotion. Some kill themselves due to the inherent contradiction of their actions and their new humanity (Agares, Vassago, Samigina), others still believe that what they do is correct and continue fighting the Servants to give Goetia a chance to enact the plan (Crocell, Marbas, Valefor, Amon), a few begin conversing with the Servants, and others end up pulling a HeelFaceTurn and siding with the Servants, allowing themselves to either die shielding them (Alloces and Orobas) or converse with them (Caim, Eligos, Gusion). Zigzagged with Räum, who adapts to and even enjoys living in human society and adopting the trappings of human culture using the stolen body of the Gentleman, but still remains fairly ignorant of the human condition and contemptuous of human beings as individuals.]]
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:Bael and Phenex take on much more human forms when they appear in Shinjuku and Agartha respectively. They still look very demonic with the white scales covering their bodies, lack of several facial features, and several Demon Pillar eyes rotating around their bodies.]]
* HumansAreBastards: Played interestingly. [[spoiler:Unlike the other Demon Pillars who survived the destruction of the Temple of Time, Räum had the easiest time adjusting to his newfound humanity while the other three drowned themselves in various emotions (Bael desired revenge above all else even his own life, Phenex wanted to die for good and take whoever he had to with him, and Zepar was consumed by pleasure due to Kiara). As a result, his heinous actions in Salem are all done with fully-intact sanity and still with the mindset of saving humanity.]]
* ImmortalsFearDeath: [[spoiler:Andras, having gained self-awareness and lost its ability to come back from death with the loss of Solomon's body, fled the Grand Time Temple to avoid its destruction.]]
* InTheBlood: 72 Magi families were chosen by Solomon and genetically imprinted on their DNA to one day become the Pillars. Several families spread out, where the gene lies dormant until the time where their awakening is required. [[spoiler:The Zolgen, Mozart, and Lainur families are Magi families that serve this function for Barbatos, Amdusias, and Flauros respectively.]]
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:Räum, in his guise as Randolph Carter, hates cats; Randolph Carter himself is an AuthorAvatar of Creator/HPLovecraft, a noted cat lover.]]
* LastStand: [[spoiler:Several Demon Pillars undergo their own variations on this during the approaching end of their battle with the Heroic Spirits.]]
** [[spoiler: Crocell, as the last living member of the Chamber of Life, uses his fallen comrades as fuel before he furiously rushes in to fight 'till his last breath.]]
** [[spoiler: Amon, Marbas and Valefor undergo a three way fusion and continue to fight the Heroic Spirits.]]
** [[spoiler: Belial, Decarabia and Seere are noted as amongst the last to fall, followed by Dantalion, then Andromalius. It lastly ends with only Flauros, still fighting until the bitter end, before finally ceasing activity after Goetia's defeat.]]
* LightIsGood: Amon Ra's gold and blue appearance, with bright sand emerging at the bottom. It and Ozymandias are both [[HeroAntagonist Hero Antagonists]] at the point they are fought.
** [[spoiler:Gusion's pure white coloration, in contrast with Barbatos, given his HeelFaceTurn of sorts during the Salomon Singularity.]]
* LightIsNotGood: Halphas has a unique white coloration compared to other Demon Pillars and it is nonetheless one of the deadliest Demon Pillars [[spoiler:having used Cu Alter as the summoning base]]. Amon and Bael have a dull yellow-gold coloration, while Andromalius has a white-gold coloration and Phenex a similar coloration to Halphas. [[spoiler:Andras is golden in the second Gudaguda event]]. Haagenti is a bright pink. Barbatos and Gusion are normal Demon Pillars in stark white, [[spoiler:though it may be subverted in Gusion's case.]]
* LogicBomb: [[spoiler: Agares, Gamigin and Vassago couldn't process the emotions they were exposed to upon becoming mortal, and the paradox of why the Heroic Spirits were fighting them, thusly dying afterwards from shock.]]
* LongGame: [[spoiler:Bael's plan was three thousand years in the making as it perfected Servant-Phantom fusion and plotted out the Shinjuku pseudo-singularity to take its revenge on the protagonist.]]
* MiseryBuildsCharacter: Taken to its logical conclusion by [[spoiler:Räum, who determines that of all things that can possibly force a human being to rise above their current station and achieve true salvation, it is pain and the suffering that results forcing them to confront their "sins" and become TheAtoner before ultimately being better off for it. He thus decides he will force all of humanity through untold suffering to "save" them.]]
* MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning: [[spoiler:Räum is killed at the climax of Salem, but not before fatally injuring Lavinia and ensuring that Abigail's [[EldritchAbomination Outer God]] finally goes out of control with her despair. While she is able to take control of it by the end, the breach has slowly begun to open for other Outer Gods to encroach and attempt to turn others. The second of those infiltrated by Outer Gods, Hokusai, being an attempt to infect the protagonist directly shows that even Räum's death and Abigail regaining sanity has not stopped his plan]].
* NamesTheSame: Exploited by Ozymandias InUniverse, who uses it and his Grail to give Amon of the ''Literature/ArsGoetia'' the identity and power of Amon-Ra of Myth/EgyptianMythology.
* NonMaliciousMonster: [[spoiler:Andras simply wanted to be left alone, no longer seeking a vendetta or higher goal after gaining self-awareness, only wishing to have its own identity as long as possible in a pocket dimension secluded from the rest of reality.]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Zepar lost his body in Solomon, but his consciousness survived. Knowing they would hunt him down, his goal was to restore his body for when the time came. [[GoneHorriblyWrong Too bad he chose]] the wrong host.]]
* NotSoDifferentRemark: [[spoiler:Andras compares itself to Chacha after encountering her and realizing she was like him.]]
* NowWhat: [[spoiler:The four Pillars that survive the final battle essentially have no real purpose now that Goetia is dead, and all four ultimately go their own ways with their own plans: Bael wants {{Revenge}} on Chaldea and the protagonist in particular for Goetia's death, Phenex wants to [[DeathSeeker die permanently]] since it still has its ResurrectiveImmortality but feels the pain of every death, and Zepar and Räum both want to still try and change humanity but go about it in different ways, with Zepar trying to turn Kiara on its side to use her powers and Räum trying to turn Abigail Williams into the host for an Outer God.]]
* NumberOfTheBeast: Flauros has 66,666 HP. The others encountered afterward, however, do not follow this trend, as 66,666 HP would be too easy for the player at the point where they are fought, while 666,666 HP would be far too difficult for the vast majority of the game and a typical player's progression; it's only in Camelot & Babylonia that HP totals in general even start ''tickling'' such heights.
* OpeningMonologue: During the final battle in the Final Singularity, [[InTheNameOfTheMoon each pillar that represents their Throne will announce their name and purpose]].
-->'''Naberius:''' ''(Representing Orleans)'' Active. Active. The nine pillars that govern the Melting Furnace: Zepar. Botis. Bathim. Sallos. Purson. Marax. Aim. We nine pillars know sound. We nine pillars weave song. In the name of the 72 Demon Gods, our luminous torch will never be extinguished!
-->'''Flauros:''' ''(Representing Septem)'' Active. Active. The nine pillars that govern the Information Center: Orias. Vapula. Zagan. Valac. Andras. Andrealphus. Cimeies. Amdusias. We nine pillars obtain letters. We nine pillars obtain phenomena. In the name of the 72 Demon Gods, our research will never be extinguished!
-->'''Forneus:''' ''(Representing Okeanos)'' Active. Active. The nine pillars that govern the Observatory: Glasya-Labolas. Buné. Ronové. Berith. Astorth. Foras. Asmoday. Gäap. We nine pillars smell the scent of time. We nine pillars follow phenomena. In the name of the 72 Demon Gods, we will not allow this aggregation to cease...!
-->'''Barbatos:''' ''(Representing London)'' Active. Active. The nine pillars that govern the Control Tower: Paimon. Buer. Gusion. Sitri. Beleth. Leraje. Eligos. Caim. We nine pillars assist with integration. We nine pillars maintain the terminals. In the name of the 72 Demon Gods, nothing shall stop this integration...!
-->'''Halphas:''' ''(Representing America)'' Active. Active. The nine pillars that govern the Armory: Furfur. Marchosias. Stolas. Phenex. Malphas. Räum. Focalor. Vepar. We nine pillars mourn the flames of war. We nine pillars honor the dignity of the fallen. In the name of the 72 Demon Gods, we shall not allow eyes to be shut away from this truth...!
-->'''Amon:''' ''(Representing Camelot)'' Active. Active. The nine pillars of the Gazing Star: Bael. Agares. Vassago. Samigina, Marbas. Valefor. Alloces. Orobas. We nine pillars that shall build rationale. We nine pillars shall consume humanity. In the name of the 72 Demon Gods, we will not allow ourselves to forfeit this rage!
-->'''Sabnock:''' ''(Representing Babylonia)'' Active. Active. The nine pillars that control the Chamber of Life: Shax. Viné. Bifrons. Vual. Häagenti. Crocell. Furcas. Balam. We nine pillars celebrate birth. We nine pillars praise the union. In the name of the 72 Demon Gods, we pronounce that disdain will never come to this adoration...!
-->'''Andromalius:''' ''(Representing [[BizarroEpisode Events]])'' Active. Active. The nine pillars that govern the Trash Heap: Murmur. Gremory. Ose. Amy. Belial. Decarabia. Seere. Dantalion. We nine pillars bury failure. We nine pillars cause discord. How resentful. How uncertain. In the name of the 72 Demon Gods, this structure will not be closed...!
* OneWingedAngel: The Demon Pillars act as this when the host willingly transforms themselves into one to fight the player, as are the cases of [[spoiler:Lev turning himself into Flauros, Makiri Zolgen turning into Barbatos, Cu Chulainn (Alter) turning himself into Halphas, and Scheherazade turning herself into Phenex.]]
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Most of them resemble a mass of darkness emerging from the ground and covered in giant red eyes/crystals. They are also literal pillars supporting Solomon's ring of light in all eras of history simultaneously.
* OutOfFocus: [[spoiler:Not a single Demon Pillar appears in Shimousa despite it being part of ''Epic of Remnant'' which is ostensibly about the surviving Pillars. This is because Shimousa is a [[{{Foreshadowing}} parallel world and served as a prototype Lostbelt experiment]]. This is also because the second of the four pillars had been dealt with during the ''CCC'' crossover event which was in essence a story chapter in the guise of an event.]]
* PinataEnemy: The Demon Pillars dropped various materials upon their defeats during [[spoiler:the raid on the Solomon Singularity]]. Barbatos became famous for this, as his selection in particular was sought after by much of the active playerbase, especially given the release of Merlin around the same time, and being given the Assassin class helped make him easily farmable using the likes of Illya and Sanzang. Upon the start of the event, Barbatos was singled out by users so fast that he was buffed to be given an extremely heightened amount of health, but ultimately did nothing for it. Upon his death, much of the playerbase ''mourned'' his defeat before dividing and generally taking out the rest of the Demon Pillars equally, though Flauros and Forneus were the most commonly fought from there, both for [[CatharsisFactor additional]] [[StatusEffects reasons]] as well.
* PowerCrystal: The second variant of Demon Pillars first seen with Halphas specialize in these, having red crystals around their base, and their strongest attack consists of summoning crystals around the party and detonating them.
* PowersViaPossession: Played straight and {{inverted}}; the Demon Pillars not only grant their powers to their hosts, they can also access the powers of said hosts. [[spoiler:This is a plot point in Agartha, where Phenex while merged with Scheherazade possesses immunity to attacks from [King] Servants. A half-dead Wu Zetian notes she wouldn't be able to hurt him because of this, but when he ends up ejected from Scheherazade and possesses a corpse, he loses that immunity as a consequence and opens himself up to her Noble Phantasm.]]
* PublicDomainCharacter: [[spoiler:Räum spends a majority of Salem disguised as Randolph Carter, one of Creator/HPLovecraft's more famous human characters.]]
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Several of them are mostly black with red down the lines where the eyes are. The other version aren't all black colored, but retain the red lines and eyes.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Each of them has a large number of red eyes with cross-shaped pupils.
* TheRemnant: [[spoiler:The four Demon Pillars who managed to escape the Grand Time Temple's destruction (Bael, Zepar, Phenex and Räum) are all that's left of the seventy-two Demon Pillars and Goetia. Andras is a separate case who already died by the time Chaldea found out about him.]]
* ResurrectiveImmortality:
** [[spoiler:In the Final Order, the eight pillars guarding Solomon resurrect each time they die. It takes nearly every single Servant you've met thus far all working together to subjugate them by killing them over and over. The same is for all the Demon Pillars, as long as Ars Paulina is under their control, they can use it to cheat death over and over again.]]
** [[spoiler:Phenex still has his own version of it in Agartha, which manifests in-game as a permanent Guts buff that restores 100% of his health and is unremovable.]]
* ReusedCharacterDesign: There are two different designs for the Demon Pillars, the first one is a large pillar of darkness covered in large red eyes, while the second instead has red crystals as its eyes. This is apparent when [[spoiler:Solomon summons four of them to fight the player at the end of London, later when Medb summons ''twenty-eight'' of them as part of her LastBreathBullet and for the final confrontation in his temple when the protagonists face off against all seventy-two of them.]] Though as the game goes on, the skins of each Demon Pillars become more distinct to the point of redesign like with Barbatos.
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:Bael's EvilPlan in Shinjuku is that he wants to kill the protagonist for destroying Goetia. Fittingly, he manifests as an Avenger-class Demon Pillar.]]
* SenseFreak: Demon Pillars are spiritual beings and are not familiar with things like physical pleasure [[spoiler:which allowed Kiara to break Zepar after he possessed her, who laments that the pleasure of sex was too stimulating for it.]]
* ShutUpKirk: [[spoiler:When Bael reveals himself in Shinjuku and his desire to take revenge on the protagonist, da Vinci starts to state he has no reason to be truly so hateful and vengeful for the protagonist stopping Goetia's plans before Bael shuts up her with a loud "I know!" He admits that he knows his revenge is petty and won't fix anything that happened with the Demon Pillars' failure, but he doesn't care as long as he makes the protagonist pay.]]
* SixthRanger: Andromalius, as the representative of the various events, appears about halfway through [[spoiler:the raid on Solomon]] as the Saber class Demon Pillar. In the main Singularity, Sabnock and Naberius (whom doesn't even appear in [[spoiler:the raid]] like Sabnock) appear as the representative of Babylonia and Orleans respectively despite never showing up in either of them proper.
* SoulJar: [[spoiler:As long as Ars Paulina is under their control, they can keep coming back to life. However, when Ars Nova activated, they lost possession of it and couldn't resurrect after being made to self-destruct.]]
* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: [[spoiler:Phenex talks in poems and his speaking patterns even affect text boxes as characters randomly change size, position, and color.]]
* TacticalRockPaperScissors: As the "Unknown"/[[spoiler:Beast I]] class, the Demon Pillars are strong against Saber, Lancer, and Archer, but they are weak against Caster, Rider, and Assassin. The Demon Pillars you fight in Solomon's temple manifest as one of the standard Servant classes.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:As he dies, Raum mortally wounds Lavinia in a final attempt to break Abigail and unleash her power. [[DespairEventHorizon It works]].]]
* TimeMaster: In Salem, [[spoiler:Räum has had control over ''everything'' in the Pseudo-Singularity, including the inhabitants and time itself. By the time Chaldea arrives, Räum had already run several simulations of the Pseudo-Singularity, the same seven days over and over again, and in the present each day within Salem is progressing faster and faster. Downplayed in that he only controls this bubble in time, and the world around him is aware, unaffected, and ready to interfere like Chaldea is -- most of his Ghoul puppets are falling apart and he has little time left to manipulate Salem.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler: As the hive mind of the demon pillars falls apart, it is mentioned that Alloces and Orobas chose to turn against the rest, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath and die as a result.]] Caim, Eligos and Gusion declared themselves separate from Goetia and chose to instead converse with the Heroic Spirits.]]
* TooManyMouths: Barbatos in Arcade has giant, alien mouths in place of eyes, making them the first to be completly different from everything else.
* TransformationOfThePossessed: When they manifest in a host, willingly or not, said body is warped into a giant demonic tendrils covered in eyes.
* TheUnfought: [[spoiler:Zepar never gets to personally fight the protagonist, the primary opponent of the SE.RA.PH Singularity instead being his intended "vessel," Kiara.]]
* WarGod: Cu Alter refers to Halphas as the Demon God of War [[spoiler:after summoning and [[OneWingedAngel transforming into him]] at the climax of America.]]
* YouWillBeSpared: [[spoiler:Zepar intended to do this to Kiara after he was done possessing her and was reborn. Unfortunately for him, [[TheDogBitesBack Kiara decided to hijack the plan for herself]].]]

[[folder:Professor Lev Lainur Flauros ("Second Singularity: Septem" Spoilers!)]]

* AffectionateNickname: He shortens Olga Marie's name to just "Olga", showing how close he is to her.
* BackFromTheDead: He returns, well and alive, for the Final Singularity. [[spoiler:Then dies again as all the Demon Pillars self-destruct when the temple begins to collapse.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He's introduced as humble and welcoming to the protagonist at the beginning of the game but [[spoiler: as he's revealed to be alive in the Fuyuki singularity when he was claimed to have died during the sabotage explosion, he has Olga Marie killed by throwing her into the CHALDEAS device to rub in the protagonist and Mash's face sadistically to boot and acts very smug towards them in the Septem singularity.]]
* CharacterOverlap: At some point, he rayshifted into the ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'' timeline and he's in the newest Melty Blood manga, having teamed up with the Neko Arcs to construct something. [[spoiler:Before he dies again.]]
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:He's the last Demon Pillar to fall after Goetia's defeat, and he goes down fighting and furiously cursing the Protagonist and the Servants to the very end.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: He's set up as the BigBad, only for him to get killed in Rome, after which Solomon takes center stage as the true mastermind.
* DragonInChief: He assumes the position of Romulus' court mage and ends up doing most of the heavy work in directing Servants to conquer Rome because Romulus doesn't really want to conquer the Roman Empire. [[spoiler:He's also [[TheDragon the agent of the singularity,]] by order of his master Goetia.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:In an alternate timeline shown in the Clock Tower 2015 story, Flauros committed suicide in order to prevent the other two personalities from wreaking havoc upon the world, with an implication that this is what's "supposed" to happen in most realities like the ''Fate/stay night'' one. Unfortunately, this did not happen in ''Fate/Grand Order'', leading to the events of the game.]]
* EyesAlwaysShut: His default expression, though they open in some of his sprites. The few times he opens them, he has bulging FishEyes reminiscent of Gilles
* FaceMonsterTurn: [[spoiler:The Clock Tower 2015 side story indicates that not only was Lev a good person at one point, but also his transformation to Flauros is not at all his choice and that he was outright fated to become it. The main difference between Grand Order!Lev and his {{alternate sel|f}}ves is that he was not able to commit suicide in time to prevent his turn]].
* FailedASpotCheck: [[spoiler:Despite having spent years at the Clock Tower and later Chaldea as Goetia's mole, he was never able to deduce Roman's true identity. Needless to say, Goetia is ''pissed'' about this when the truth comes out.]]
* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler:Implied to be the reason why Goetia's plans never succeed in any of the other ''Fate'' related media, namely the original ''Stay Night'' timeline. By not awakening to being the Demon God Flauros by killing himself, he screwed over Goetia's plans.]]
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Gets vertically sliced in half in the Rome segment by Altera. [[spoiler:It happens again in the ''Melty Blood'' manga, but this time horizontally.]]
* HateSink: [[spoiler:He's the very character that was designated for the players to hate with all their fiber beings, whereas he first murdered Olga Marie in cold blood and [[SmugSnake spent the rest of his time smugly telling how much doomed you are and how much he's going to beat you to pulp]]. Reappearing in the Temple of Solomon and Goetia 'developing' didn't fix his personality for the best either, which is why his first death by Altera was met with much rejoicing, and players made a beeline to kick his ass right after farming with Barbatos to avenge Olga Marie.]]
* HumanityIsInfectious: [[spoiler:He was the first Demon Pillar to truly gain emotions, allowing him to taunt and mock the protagonists while also letting him empathize with Mash's limited lifespan, hence Goetia's attempts to recruit her.]]
* KickTheDog: While appearing to be a quite helpful advisor, this guy's ''true'' evil is made all too clear not only when it's revealed that [[spoiler:he was the one responsible for the sabotage of the Rayshift that necessitated Mash's transformation into a Servant and killed many more people, but ground zero of the bomb was right under Olga Marie's feet. And the incredibly cruel way he kills Olga Marie the second time went a long way toward making him a HateSink.]]
* LoopholeAbuse: [[spoiler:In the ''Clock Tower 2015'' timeline, the original Flauros personality was able to defy the Grand Order's anti-suicide compulsion by causing his own DeathOfPersonality. Because only he was destined to turn into a Demon Pillar, Flauros was able to safely destroy himself while leaving the rest of Lev alive, thwarting Goetia's plans at the very last moment before they could start.]]
* ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler:The true Lev Lainur was a decent man who never intended to destroy humanity; unfortunately for him, Goetia destined him to become the seventy-second Demon Pillar, steadily overwriting his personality with that of Flauros. The ''Clock Tower 2015'' version of Lev recognized what was happening to himself and managed to commit suicide in time; unfortunately, the ''Grand Order'' version failed to do this, and by the time we see him he's fully become Lev Lainur Flauros.]]
* MeaningfulName: In the Ars Goetia, Flauros is the demon that has knowledge of past, present, and future. He created the systems that Chaldea uses to observe the past and future, has three personalities representing those three things, and to reinforce this, he is the host of the demon.
* OneWingedAngel: He becomes [[Literature/ArsGoetia Flauros']] vessel in the Rome segment. [[spoiler:He does it again in the Grand Time Temple and it's revealed that it's part of his DNA to become the host of Flauros.]]
* ScaryTeeth: Whenever he opens his mouth, it's shown that his teeth are jagged and shark-like.
* ShoutOut: His outfit is a reference to Creator/GaryOldman's appearance in ''Film/BramStokersDracula''.
* SmugSnake: [[spoiler:When his Flauros personality rises, all his smiling face with eyes closed and bulging eyes became good enough accessories for how he would always talk about how futile your efforts are and how he'll take you down. You know, despite being the ''first'' Demon Pillar you face.]]
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The official game translation spells his name as Lev Lainur, while the official anime translation spells his name as Leff Lynor. Neither is necessarily an inaccurate way to romanize レフ・ライノール, but it's still inconsistent.
* SplitPersonality: He has three. One that represents the past, one the future, and one that mediates between the two as the present. The third one, Flauros, shares its name with the Demon Pillar Lev can also summon.
* WalkingSpoiler: Well, the sheer amount of spoilered text doesn't imply anything at all now does it?

''Unplayable and Arcade Exclusive:'' [[Characters/FateGrandOrderUnplayable Unplayable]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderBeasts Beasts]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderArcadeExclusive Arcade Exclusive]]\\
''Other Notable Characters:'' [[Characters/FateGrandOrderChaldeaSecurityOrganization Chaldea Security Organization]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderProtagonist Protagonist]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderMashKyrielight Mash Kyrielight]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderVillains Villains]] ('''Observer on Timeless Temple Villains''' | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderEpicOfRemnantVillains Epic of Remnant Villains]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderCosmosInTheLostbeltVillains Cosmos in the Lostbelt Villains]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderCrypters Crypters]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderForeignGodAndForces Foreign God and Forces]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderLostbeltKings Lostbelt Kings]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderEventVillains Event Villains]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderInterludeVillains Interlude Villains]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderOtherCharacters Other Characters]] ]]-]]]