History Memes / FateGrandOrder

* Hassan of the Giant Spoon[[labelnote:Explanation in the 2023 Memorial Movie; one scene has First Hassan surrounded by a group of lesser Hassan/Nizari. One fellow is wielding a scythe, but another nizari's hood behind him makes it look like a giant spoon.[[/labelnote]]

* Hassan of the Giant Spoon[[labelnote:Explanation in the 2023 Memorial Movie; one scene has First Hassan surrounded by a group of lesser Hassan/Nizari. [[https://twitter.com/Pollnareph/status/1685716168584093696 One fellow]] is wielding a scythe, but another nizari's hood behind him makes it look like a giant spoon.[[/labelnote]]

* The toes are sus.[[labelnote:Explanation (LB6 spoilers)]]When it was announced at the 8th anniversary that Altria Caster would be getting an SSR swimsuit variant for the next Summer event, people began noticing that Fairy Altria (as the staff called her now that she was no longer a Caster) had ten toes, whereas Altria Caster was noted in Lostbelt 6 to have lost several toes to frostbite as a child. This immediately led to suspicions that Fairy Altria was a Pretender whose true identity was Aesc/Morgan.[[/labelnote]]

*** Male Swimsuit when? [[labelnote:Explanation]]Similar to above demanding a summer version of a male Servant like EMIYA and Gilgamesh. Starting from 2018, the game would release summer variants of the male characters, but as alternate costumes, not brand new Servants, which kept the meme alive. Of the boys that recieved one, Robin Hood and Edmond Dantes were the only boys to get a swimsuit-themed costume, while everyone else (Gilgamesh, Siegfried, Merlin, Kotarou, EMIYA, Gao Changong, and Sigurd) stuck to casual wear. Odder is their decision to showcase swimsuits for the entire male side of the Round Table in 2019 as cameos, yet still promote them with cardboard standouts and merch as if they were implemented. Chief amongst this is 'Hawaiian Shirt Cu Chulainn', which has garnered popularity since ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'' and even made appearance in ''Anime/CarnivalPhantasm'', and yet [=DelightWorks=] has never bothered to give Cu this alternate outfit.[[/labelnote]]

* Protect your husbandos and waifus from Bart [[labelnote:Explanation]]Because Bartholomew Roberts likes people with [[PeekABangs bangs]], this led to jokes about the protagonist protecting Mash and other Servants (e.g. Fuuma Kotaro) from him due to having this hairstyle. Moriarty and Kadoc join in to protect Fran and Anastasia respectively from him.[[/labelnote]]
** Bart reacting to GUDA GUDA 6 [[labelnote:Explanation]]The event featured several new characters with PeekABangs, causing a fan art trend of Bart getting excited by them and/or upset when the new males were [[WordOfGod confirmed to be unplayable]].[[/labelnote]]

*** Curse of Separation EX/Mad Jealous Rama/Bruh-Mastra [[labelnote:Explanation]]The lore explanation of the above was that both Rama and Sita were hit with Curse of Separation, making them a very tragic pair of StarCrossedLovers that will never be together. And then, Sita actually became summonable... in the Arcade, where there is no Rama. Fans take it that Rama is ''very annoyed'' at his Curse of Separation and continues to curb down his anger and jealousy whenever he sees another HappilyMarried couple (such as Sigurd and Brynhild, who finally were able to reunite and be the happy couple they dreamed of) because he's constantly denied of his chance to reunite with Sita. Because of this, the phrase 'Bruh-Mastra' also gets an increase of usage with this situation, since it's just one letter away from Rama's NP (Brahmastra) and it put the emphasis of Rama's frustration on his separation issues. Furthermore, when several Arcade Servants got included in mobile thanks to the collaboration event... Sita is ''still'' not amongst the included Servants, whereas they had time to include a brand-new Servant, Locusta. [[YankTheDogsChain You can definitely imagine just how further annoyed Rama is for getting yanked yet again.]][[/labelnote]]

* RIP Tamamo / The future is now old hag.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Due to the release of Altria Caster who's now the new premier of Arts support team, many fans began to joke that Tamamo No Mae is either no longer serve its purpose or still be useful as Chen Gongs ammo. It's even made it more hilarious when her alternate counterpart Koyanskaya was released in NA. Gamepress placed her along Caster Altria on EX Tier while Tamamo being demoted to A+ Tier [[https://gamepress.gg/grandorder/servant-tier-list as seen here.]][[/labelnote]]

* RIP Tamamo / The future is now old hag.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Due to the release of Altria Caster who's now the new premier of Arts support team, many fans began to joke that Tamamo No Mae is either no longer serve its purpose or useful to be Chen Gongs ammo. It's even made it more hilarious when her alternate counterpart Koyanskaya was released in NA. Gamepress placed Koyanskaya along Caster Altria on EX Tier while Tamamo being demoted to A+ Tier [[https://gamepress.gg/grandorder/servant-tier-list as seen here.]][[/labelnote]]

* RIP Tamamo / The future is now old hag.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Due to the release of Altria Caster who's now the new premier of Arts support team, many fans began to joke that Tamamo No Mae is either no longer serve its purpose or useful to be Chen Gongs ammo. It's even made it more hilarious when her alternate counterpart Koyanskaya was released in NA. Gamepress placed Koyanskaya along Caster Altria on EX Tier while Tamamo being demoted to A+ Tier[[https://gamepress.gg/grandorder/servant-tier-list as seen here.]][[/labelnote]]

* RIP Tamamo / The future is now old hag.[[labelnote:Explanation]Due to the release of Altria Caster who's now the new premier of Arts support team, many fans began to joke that Tamamo No Mae is either no longer serve its purpose or useful to be Chen Gongs ammo. It's even made it more hilarious when her alternate counterpart Koyanskaya was released in NA. Gamepress placed Koyanskaya along Caster Altria on EX Tier while Tamamo being demoted to A+ Tier.[[/labelnote]]

* RIP Tamamo / The future is now old hag.[[labelnote:Explanation]Due to the release of Altria Caster who's now the new premier of Arts support team, many fans began to joke that Tamamo No Mae is either no longer serve its purpose or useful to be Chen Gongs ammo. It's even made it more hilarious when her alternate counterpart Koyanskaya was released in NA. She along Caster Altria are placed on EX Tier while Tamamo was placed on A+ Tier by [[https://gamepress.gg/grandorder/servant-tier-list gamepress.]][[/labelnote]]

* Intern-kun[[labelnote:Explanation]]The 6th anniversary for NA was especially buggy. First, the Super and Great Success EXP rate increase for Servants were much, much, ''much'' higher than the stated 3x, with Great Successes happening almost every time. This bug was patched out several hours later in an emergency maintenance, though by then most players already leveled their roster. After that patch, players discovered an exploit where they could get [[https://youtu.be/JCTT891Y-SE 10 SQ from each extra mission]] repeatedly. Again, this was patched out in another emergency maintenance, and the extra SQ where taken away from players. The playerbase quickly claimed that the bugs were the work of "Intern-kun" who was either a bumbling incompetent or an unsung hero trying their best to help against the wishes of Lasangle executives.[[/labelnote]]

** Reverse QP Hell [[labelnote:Explanation]]Lottery events tend to give a LOT of QP, enough to overflow the cap and be lost if you don't use as much as you can before the event[[/labelnote]]

* Permadeath.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Within an hour of players finding out about [[spoiler:[=ORT=]/Type-Oort Cloud]] at the end of Lostbelt 7 Part 1 during launch day, a rather infamous rumor spread among the players, saying that Servants that died fighting it will be locked out for the rest of the story nodes due the unique death animation where they turn into green crystals and get absorbed instead. With no way of confirming due to it being the last fight before the timegate, this infamous rumor is debunked for the time being. [[spoiler:While there is a bit of a permadeath mechanic, it's only within the raid bosses against ORT. Other than those raid fights, you can freely any servant you want to even if they died during a fight.]][[/labelnote]]

** Isn’t it sad? Even Draco forgot[[labelnote:Explanation (Spoilers)]]Players noticed that Noah is the ''only'' story-relevant Arcade-exclusive servant to never make any appearance in the Arcade collab ''at all'', barring the event’s Command Support mechanic as Nemo/Noah. In the first days of the collab, Saber Jacques de Molay and Sita made appearances in the story albeit as [=NPCs=], which made fans hopeful for his appearance. However, when the Master’s group reached the flooded Okeanos, a ship appears to give them a ground to stand on''...which turns out to be Drake’s Golden Hind'', helmed by Altria Lancer Alter using their Wild Hunt connection. And later near the end of the collab’s story, there is a flashback to the finale of ''Arcade''’s Lilim Harlot from Beast of Sodom’s perspective. Everything is preserved''...except for Noah’s presence in the scene.'' His lack of presence in the ''Arcade'' collab, coupled with fans’ grievances towards his characterization (see the above memes about him), quickly plummeted him into MemeticLoser status and the resurfacing of his “Grand Jobber” FanNickname.[[/labelnote]]

** Kriemhild is annoyed by being surrounded by people with HeroicSuicide tendency.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Kriemhild's hate towards Siegfried comes from barring her knowing his SelfSacrificeScheme, thus her devotion for avenging him becomes totally pointless. Most fans agree that she acts like Sieg's mom (as above) is to prevent him from following his "father" (which obviously failed already)...while wondering how she'll treat his "partner" Jeanne (whose HeroicSuicide pushed Sieg to his HeroicSacrifice later on).[[/labelnote]]

* The Lancer Curse. [[labelnote:Explanation]]There are staggeringly high amount of players without a golden-rarity Lancer due to the difficulty of acquiring them, since most of them are either limited exclusives or story-unlocked; to put this into perspective, there are currently at least six gold-rarity Sabers able to be summoned anytime. Some unfortunate players eventually started to jokingly attribute this to Lancers' generally poor luck stat, though some players used this as an excuse to use the longtime fan-favorite Cu Chulainn...''then'' jokingly [[ButtMonkey blame their luck on him.]][[/labelnote]]

** Desire Sensor at work [[labelnote:Explanation]]An in-joke about the gacha's seemingly supernatural ability to spit out even multiple copies of higher rarity Servants the player ''isn't'' trying to get, but not what the player actually wants, leading to the suggestion the game has some kind of "desire sensor" programmed into it to detect results a player wants and prevent them from coming up to keep them spending.[[/labelnote]]

** Such is the fate of Crypters.[[labelnote:Explanation]]An eventually DiscreditedMeme. NTR-ing Kadoc originated from the fact that Kadoc's entire goal was to support Anastasia, only for his version of her to be killed and the summonable one to fall in love with us, leading many to see it as the player NTR-ing him and thinking the rest of the Crypters would follow suit, or to some people, seeing it as a punishment for what all the Crypters did in the Lostbelt Prologue, as many players at that time were still fresh off suffering a brutal PlayerPunch and people usually coped by trying to see this in a BlackAndWhiteMorality manner, with the Crypters needing to be punished for being 'the ungrateful bad guys' and taking away everything the players did for mankind (and Kadoc, being the first Crypter the players faced while possessing an inferiority complex and jealousy against the protagonist, didn't help his case). This died out as the other Crypters were revealed, and players were further hit with just how much of a GreyAndGrayMorality the conflict truly was and discovered the Crypters exuded other honorable and admirable attitudes, as well as avoiding being NTR'd in various ways. [[spoiler:Ophelia died in her Lostbelt and you can't NTR the dead. Hinako is a bit more complicated since she dies, but ''becomes'' a very attractive Servant, and the Servant she's in love with, Xiang Yu, isn't exactly conventionally attractive [[NinjaPirateRobotZombie being a hellish-centaur-robot-creature.]] Peperoncino lost control of his Servant to God Arjuna and has to work with the protagonist to defeat him which is more like God Arjuna NTR-ing him. Kirschtaria abandons his Servant Caenis the moment she failed him for his plans, meaning that he's OK if you NTR him, and later on, his reveal that he was GoodAllAlong is taken as 'he's such a bro that he's OK if you NTR him, including that Pollux (albeit at the cost of NTR-ing Castor)'.]] At the moment, the Crypters are no longer seen as NTR-targets, and people also no longer subject Kadoc to NTR-ing (especially after Lostbelt 6.5 [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap made him much more likable]]), although there's one Crypter who got hit with it [[HateSink deservedly]]: [[spoiler:[[FourEyesZeroSoul Beryl Gut]], considering he stayed as an extreme StalkerWithACrush and continuously hitting on Mash. In this case, the players LITERALLY NTR him by merely defending their favorite kouhai from his advances.]][[/labelnote]]

* Devil Trigger / Maou Nero[[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers)]] At the conclusion of the Arcade collaboration event, Beast Draco unlocks her third and final ascension, in which SheIsAllGrownUp, covered in black armor with a crimson cape, has horns and other draconic features akin to Siegfried, and an ''even bigger'' FlamingSword (at least, one more exaggerated that the one she already had as a Saber). Cue the obvious comparisons.[[/labelnote]]

* Finally, a Kinoko Nasu servant [[labelnote:Explanation]]Due to Locusta implementing mushrooms as par of her design, many joke that she happens to be the AuthorAvatar of Kinoko Nasu himself, who has a MushroomMan as his mascot.[[/labelnote]]

* WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO[[labelnote:Explanation]]In his later Ascensions, many of Tezcatlipoca's battle voicelines are ''very'' spirited and jovial whoops and yells, even when ''damaged''. Most frequent and memorable is his battle cry of "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO", which has proven ''very'' popular among players, with videos or streams containing Tezcatlipoca usually flooded with commenters spamming "WOOOOOOOO" in solidarity. Some amused players have made comparisons to Youtuber [[LetsPlay/{{Critikal}} MoistCr1TiKaL]], known for his own iconic "WOOOOOO!" from one of his videos.[[/labelnote]]