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** Enkidu's Transformation skill has the clearest "random effect" description. It has a guaranteed chance to increase his Buster attacks, but will also randomly either buff his Arts attacks or Quick attacks, all for one turn.

** The Alter form itself is also subjected to this. Originally, Altria was corrupted by The Shadow, which devoured her and turned her into a darkened version of herself, and it was made clear this was a different and unique form because of The Shadow wanting to use her to achieve its ends. FGO changes what an Alter means entirely; no longer is the form a specific state created by a specific entity, now it's a term for any Servant whose form is twisted against their normal will, or altered fundamentally. As a result, the Alter form is now an excuse for variations of existing characters normally not possible.

*** One of Altria's My Room lines has her reminiscing fondly about [[TookALevelInKindness EMIYA]] while [[LuminescentBlush blushing]], clearly remembering him more as [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Shirou]] from the ''Fate'' route. In addition, while most Servants who have lines for EMIYA Alter are expressing sympathy for him or (in Kiara's case, mocking him), Swimsuit Altria Alter's line can be summed up as wanting him to come with her on a ''date'' to get something to eat.

* SocializationBonus: A friend's support Servant can be brought into battle, though only ones from your friend list can use their Noble Phantasm.

* VitriolicBestBuds: The Knights of the Round Table bicker, squabble and attack each other constantly, but there are no hard feelings on any sides anymore even though almost all of them betrayed or screwed over their beloved king in one way or another. Even setting that aside, Mordred killed Gawain while Lancelot killed his younger siblings.

** Finally, some skills provide additional benefits depending on the terrain type. Ruler Martha gains an attack bonus in maps with water, Gawain gains a Buster buff on maps with sunshine, Jaguar Warrior has bonus star generation on forest maps, and Swimsuit Nobunaga has bonus attack on burning maps.

** Sakata Kintoki's Rider version gives everyone else in this list competition--having a single-target Noble Phantasm that [[JustForPun runs over]] most bosses (especially the Caster and Berserker ones). His skills are all straightforward, so he's also ''very'' easy to use. He's also an SR Servant obtainable for free.

** Lostbelt 6.5 provided a huge WhamEpisode with that chapter's ending. [[spoiler:It gets revealed that Sherlock Holmes was actually the first Disciple of the Foreign God (who subjected himself to LaserGuidedAmanesia), and Ruler Moriarty was sent as a Disciple of the Foreign ''World'' ([[GeniusLoci as in the World's own will]], not the Foreign God). Once Holmes finds out about it, he makes a HeroicSacrifice to ensure that he won't be Chaldea's enemy. Then, after a battle with Ruler Moriarty, the Disciple of the Foreign World shows Chaldea that Subject E was the main cause of the singularity, and explains that the alien has been on Earth for 100 years (despite how David Bluebook's dialogue implies that the alien landed in the year 2016).]]

** Lostbelt 6.5 provided a huge WhamEpisode with that chapter's ending. [[spoiler:It gets revealed that Sherlock Holmes was actually the first Disciple of the Foreign God who subjected himself to LaserGuidedAmanesia, and Ruler Moriarty was sent as a Disciple of the Foreign ''World'' ([[GeniusLoci as in the World's own will]], not the Foreign God). Once Holmes finds out about it, he makes a HeroicSacrifice to ensure that he won't be Chaldea's enemy. Then, after a battle with Ruler Moriarty, the Disciple of the Foreign World shows t Chaldea that Subject E was the main cause of the singularity, and explains that the alien has been on Earth for 100 years despite how David Bluebook's dialogue implies that the alien landed in the year 2016.]]

* {{Tagline}}: "Take back our future."

** Lostbelt 3 provides several shakeups. [[spoiler:Koyanskaya is revealed to be Tamamo Vitch, Sion Eltnam joins the team, the first True Ancestor who isn't Arceuid is introduced, and Spartacus is [[KilledOffForReal permanently erased from Chaldea's roster]] due to his HeroicSacrifice severely crippling his Saint Graph, proving that not even Servants are immune to actual death.]]

** The introduction of a single Servant can often drastically change how the game is played and what they value. For example, the game was largely Buster based thanks to Merlin for several years until Skadi showed up as the new Quick support, ushering in an age of Servants built around Quick AOE Noble Phantasms that could regenerate at least 50% gauge per NP. After a few futile attempts to slow or stop this, DW gave up on seemingly embraced it, eventually shifting the game over to Arts instead with Artoria Caster, who enables even more powerful spam NP gameplay because she can do what Skadi does, only much better and with a level of actual sustainability to go along with it. Now putting up Merlin on support is a little bit quaint when most people just want to have their easy three turn spam strategies.
** Building on the changing value of the above for best support units, when units like Scathach were introduced they were considered extremely valuable as boss killers. With changes that have occurred in gameplay since, said Servants have become rather situational or niche at best while instead players have begun to favor units that were heavily disfavored before, such as Lancelot with Skadi or Fionn with Artoria. Of course, gameplay isn't everything, but if you were to try rolling for someone like Okita Souji now ''because'' you wanted a good Saber, people would give you odd looks.

* SpamAttack: The two most powerful supports in the game are Skadi and Artoria Caster, both of whom are built to enable their targets to use their Noble Phantasm several times in a row. This strategy only works on about half a dozen Servants each, but is immensely powerful, particularly for the latter: Skadi NP spam is reliant on the use of the Kaleidoscope Craft Essence, which limits damage output, but Artoria allows for more flexibility by allowing for powerful [=CEs=] like the Black Holy Grail or Sign of Smiling Face, which boost NP damage by 80% for the former and Arts and NP generation by 15% and NP damage by 20%.

*** One of Altria's My Room lines has her reminiscing fondly about [[TookALevelInKindness EMIYA]] while [[LuminescentBlush blushing]], clearly remembering him more as [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Shirou]] from the ''Fate'' route.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Most limited and/or seasonal events are these as the cast takes a break from saving the world to engage in zany hijinks.

* RunningGag: Various events have played Gilgamesh's crush on Altria as one through their different versions. The first Christmas event has Archer Gilgamesh hoping Altria Alter Santa would visit him by writing a letter, Alter and the protagonist instead decide to ignore him. The third Christmas event has Caster Gilgamesh anxious to solve the Sumerian Summer Flu so Altria Alter Santa can visit him this Christmas. Even after losing his memory in the third Summer Event, Caster Gilgamesh still suggests that the protagonist's group make a sequel to their Knight of the Round table AU doujin where the Lion King gets a love interest called the Oldest King.

* ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'':
** Tenma is one of the few characters largely addressed by his given name, but only his closest peers and the managers call him like that at first. As his CharacterDevelopment changes him from a NaiveNewcomer to a key part in the team, all his teammates begin to call him by his given name.
** Tenma and Tsurugi in particular don't start the series on the best terms since Tsurugi is a SEED from Fifth Sector who is supposed to tear the team apart. After his motives are clear and he stops serving Fifth Sector for his brother's sake, their relationship improves significantly. By the time of the Holy Road finals, they are close enough that Tsurugi starts addressing Tenma by his given name.

* ThemeDeck: Premium Command Codes whose effects aren't too situational, generally useful, or obtuse will typically be of great benefit to the Servant (or those associated with that Servant) its illustration is associated with.

* UselessUsefulSpell: As a blanket statement, debuffs are very powerful in this game whenever they work -- some have low success chance or only affect certain targets as a trade-off. However, the recurring victim of ContractualBossImmunity is [[OneHitKill Instant Death]]. Actual bosses and enemy Servants are either immune or practically immune to this effect, making Servants that specialize in this debuff without any damage backing them up much weaker. But even in day-to-day farming, the rarity of an enemy target affects their total chance to die to Instant Death. Bronze rarity enemies have full susceptibility to Instant Death, so the advertised chance of inflicting Instant Death is accurate and Nitocris in particular profits as a class-neutral Bronze enemy sweeper. But Silver rarity enemies multiply this rate by only 80% susceptibility, Gold ones by 50%, and Mini-Bosses or Bosses only have 20 to 1% susceptibility, meaning that a supposed 300% chance of Instant Death could be as low as 3%. Lampshaded by Jaguar Warrior in her Interlude, as she insults Cú Chulainn's Noble Phantasm as an "instant death move that NEVER WORKS!"[[note]]He has a mere 60% Instant Death chance that maxes out at 100% if it's at maximum Overcharge, and since it's single-target players will rarely if ever use it against a Bronze rarity enemy[[/note]]

* Retronym: After the release of Arc 1.5: ''Epic of Remnant'', Arc 1 was retroactively assigned the subtitle ''Observer on Timeless Temple''.