History Characters / FateZeroServants

* CallForward: Like Cu Chulainn in the 5th Grail War, Diarmuid is also [[spoiler:forced to kill himself.]]

* TokenGoodTeammate: The only member of team Lancer not to be a jerkass or a psycopath.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Iskander wants to conquer and fight, but he still values honor, and wants people to be able to fight true to themselves. When Kayneth ordered (via command seal) Lancer to help Berserker fight Saber, Iskander intervened, threatening to fight alongside Saber against the two on the grounds that not only was it unfair to Saber, but that Kayneth was tarnishing Lancer's pride as a Heroic Spirit.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Rider is the King of Conquerors because the people he conquered would join him willingly, forging a bond between his army so strong that not even death could break it. Rider's exploits also gloss over the incredible amounts of rape, murder, pillaging, and slavery required to expand and maintain his empire in actual history, instead focusing on his vision and the loyalty he commanded from his own soldiers [[note]] That's not to say he was a tyrant, many of his policies, (religious tolerance, allowing local cultures and traditions of conquered to continue unchanged, treating his enemies' families with respect and dignity to the point that Darius III's own mother declared him a stepson etc) were quite benevolent for the time period.[[/note]]. Given other diversions from historical fact, including the difference in physical size between he and the historical Alexander noted by Waver, some fans originally thought he was a manifestation based on the ''legend'' of Alexander rather than the reality, at least until the reveal of [[Literature/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles Faker existance]].

* {{Foil}}: To Archer. Gilgamesh wears shining golden armor and is constantly bathing in the light of the Gate of Babylon, while Berserker wears black armor and is shrouded by his foggy Noble Phantasm. Gilgamesh owns thousands of weapons, yet [[UnskilledButStrong does not know how to use any of them]], while Berserker turns anything he wields into a weapon, with deadly skill. Archer is a servant summoned from the prime of his life, while Berserker is from after his glory days as [[spoiler:a Knight of the Round Table]]. And both are fixated on Saber, Archer because he sees her as an object he must own, Berserker because [[spoiler:she is an old friend who he must die to.]]

Her Noble Phantasms are Excalibur, her signature weapon which she can use to launch a SwordBeam, disguising it with the windy barrier "Invisible Air", and Avalon, Excalibur's sheath, which grants the holder NighInvulnerability.

His main Noble Phantasm is the ''Gate of Babylon'', a portal leading to a [[HyperspaceArsenal storage of all the Noble Phantasms he acquired during his reign]], not to mention [[CoolShip an ancient spaceship from Indian Mythology]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and his wine cellar]]. Lacking the proficiency to use most of the Noble Phantasms, he mainly [[StormOfBlades just shoots them at people]]. His most powerful is the demonic sword ''Ea'', an Anti-World Noble Phantasm that is only used on the few he deems worthy.

* DividedWeFall: WordOfGod claims that Lancer and Kayneth failed largely because they were unable to work together. [[AllThereInTheManual The guide says Lancer's two natural enemies are Kayneth and Sola-Ui]].

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Despite initially refusing to fight for anyone but Kayneth, he buys Sola-Ui's flagrantly empty promise that they would be fighting on Kayneth's behalf hook, line and sinker after she tortures Kayneth into giving up his command seals to her.

* GunsAkimbo: He salvages an [[GatlingGood M61 Vulcan]] from his F-15 after it was destroyed, and uses that as a Noble Phantasm for a short period. Also during his final fight, he briefly fights with a heavy anti-material rifle, and an assault rifle, that he has turned into his Noble Phantasms.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Due to his ability to turn anything he touches into a Noble Phantasm, he can end up here on occasion. During his first fight, he even wields a broken street lamp as a stave.
* ImprovisedWeapon: As stated before, anything Berserker can lay his hands on becomes a deadly weapon, be it a chair, a log or a lamp post. Even a bomber jet.

* LightningBruiser: Strength? A. Agility? A+. Endurance? A. Using [[spoiler:Arondight]] and getting a stat boost on top of all that?
* MagicEnhancement: His Knight of Owner ability lets him convert any object he perceives as a weapon into a Noble Phantasm. His stand-out examples of this are using a cut-down street-lamp as an oversized quarterstaff, and taking over a fighter jet to dogfight and destroy Gilgamesh's Vimana.
* TheManMakesTheWeapon: Due to a combination of Eternal Arms Mastership and Knight of Owner, even something as mundane as a street lamp becomes capable of dealing out serious pain to a Servant.

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: His armour and BattleAura are both jet black, and his visor is glowing red. When he spots Saber for the first time, the grooves in his armor glow red, and his "Knight of Owner" Noble Phantasm turns any weapon he touches black with red vein-like TronLines.

* StrongAndSkilled: This is what makes Berserker such a threat. He's already one of the most physically powerful servants in the war (and flat out is the strongest when [[spoiler: he uses Arondight)]]. But his combat skills are so good that even after losing his reasoning he's still an amazingly skilled fighter as well as InstantExpert with anything he can get his hands on.

* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler:As he's dying, he admits he was beyond proud to serve as a Knight of the Round Table and that he could never forgive himself for betraying Artoria, even when she chose to forgive him, which ultimately drove him to madness. He also claims that all the Knights of the Round Table believed as he did she was the perfect king. Unfortunately, all of his feelings were kept in a monologue, and Artoria believed that Lancelot hated so much that he turned into Berserker, thus she concluded that she was unworthy of being a king.]]

* TheGunslinger: Not counting a few rare exceptions from ''Videogame/FateGrandOrder'', Berserker is one of the few Servants fight with firearms and tactical assault weapons, on account of his unique ability turning them into Noble Phantasms the moment he grabs a hold of them.

* ShadowArchetype: To Diarmuid. [[spoiler:Both are knights that had a falling out with their lord when they seduced said lords wife, which led to their deaths. While Diarmuid seeks to atone with serving his new master faithfully, Lancelot desires to die at Artoria's hands as he believes it's the only way he can atone for his affair with Guinevere. He is essentially what would happen if Diarmuid allowed his guilt over his affair with Grianne consume him.]]