Line #10 Trivia/FateZero


1	* AllStarCast: The English dub of the series featured a radically different dub cast compared to what we previously know in the original series, featuring a few cast of actors that fans of either ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', ''Anime/CodeGeass'' or ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' might find familiar.
2	* BreakthroughHit: The first opening theme, 'oath sign' pretty much kickstarted [=LiSA's=] career as a solo artist, and she would later find further success with ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'', ''Literature/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'', ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' and ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba''.
3	* ContractualImmortality: Everyone that ''doesn't'' get killed off is present in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''.
4	* CreatorsFavorite: Urobuchi has stated in interviews that his favorite characters are Gilgamesh and Kirei, and that he wrote ''Fate/Zero'' mainly for Kirei.
5	* CrossDressingVoices: Played straight in the English dub where young Kiritsugu is voiced by Creator/MarinMiller, but averted in the original Japanese version where he is voiced by Creator/MiyuIrino.
6	* {{Defictionalization}}: Thought it would be cool to play a game of chess with Gilgamesh' chess set? [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-06-21/fate/zero-anime-inspires-gilgamesh-chess-set-in-real-life You can now.]]
7	** Though you can't ''actually'' play chess with that set because, as in the anime, it doesn't fit a proper chess board.
8	* TheOtherDarrin: Completely averted in the Japanese version. All the cast members from the drama [=CDs=] reprise their roles for the anime series.
9	** For the English dub, this trope is played straight for almost every character that appears both here and in the anime of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', due to the dubs being handled by entirely different companies. This is especially notable in the cases of [[Creator/GrantGeorge Gilgamesh]], [[Creator/KirkThornton Kiritsugu]], and [[Creator/JamiesonPrice Kotomine]], since the actors who played them in ''Fate/stay night'' are also in the dub of ''Fate/Zero'', but they play different characters. The voices of [[Creator/LiamOBrien Archer]], [[Creator/DavidVincent Assassin]] (who interestingly enough plays Gilgamesh instead), [[Creator/DougErholtz Shinji]], [[Creator/KarenStrassman Rider]] and [[Creator/PatrickSeitz Kuzuki]] in the Deen dub also appear in ''Zero'' as different characters and their original roles were later Darrined in the ''Unlimited Blade Works'' TV series. The sole exceptions are Creator/MelaLee and Creator/StephanieSheh, reprising the roles of Rin and Ilyasviel respectively and would later reprise their roles again in ''UBW'' and ''Heaven's Feel''.
10	* PlayingAgainstType:
11	** Creator/JohnnyYongBosch is best well-known for his HotBlooded [[LargeHam hammy]] [[TheHero hero]] roles like [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Ichigo Kurosaki]], [[Manga/{{Trigun}} Vash The Stampede]], and [[VideoGame/SengokuBasara Yukimura Sanada]]. Here, he is voicing Ryuunosuke Uryuu, an AxCrazy PsychopathicManchild villain who enjoys [[WouldHurtAChild killing children]] [[ForTheEvulz for his entertainment]]. The very fact that he voiced a [[VideoGame/{{Persona4}} similar villain, but a bit tamer]] makes this a little CreepyAwesome.
12	** In the similar way, [[Creator/CristinaValenzuela Cristina Vee]] plays [[GenkiGirl energetic]] sweet girls, now she's playing a tortured little girl.
13	** Creator/MichaelDonovan for playing Zouken Matou. Yes, [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf THAT]] [[WesternAnimation/ReBoot Michael]] [[WesternAnimation/XiaolinChronicles Donovan]].
14	** Creator/KyleHebert as Berserker.
15	* RoleReprise: Creator/MelaLee returns as Rin and Creator/StephanieSheh also reprises her role as Illya. They are the only voice actors to reprise the same character from the [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Stay Night]] series dub.
16	** Also note the [[UsefulNotes/UnionsInHollywood union issues involved]]. The ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' anime and movie adaption aren't contracted to the unions (which is one of the main reasons why Creator/KateHiggins wasn't able to reprise her role as Saber). In this dub, this is obviously a union dub since Creator/KariWahlgren and Creator/CrispinFreeman are well known to strictly work in union-only environment [[note]]Creator/JamiesonPrice is known to work in non-union voice work under the pseudonym "Taylor Henry"[[/note]].
17	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
18	** There would've been a subplot where one of Assassin's personalities, a little girl, got separated from the others and forgot her identity. After mistaking her for one of Caster and Ryuunosuke's kidnapped victims, Waver takes her in. Rider knows what she really is, but keeps quiet out of respect for Waver's chivalry. Waver and the girl bond, but when Kotomine uses a Command Spell to make all the Assassins attack Rider's Feast of Kings, she regains her memory and joins the attack. Waver is devastated by her death, but toughens up and moves on, as the subplot was meant to be a step in his growing up. Gen Urobuchi cancelled the subplot because he thought it gave too much focus on Waver, and would confuse the reader about who the real main character is.
19	** Berserker's original design made him look emaciated. The idea was that his thin, sickly appearance would make his opponents underestimate him, only to shock them when [[MusclesAreMeaningless he demonstrates incredible strength]] [[LightningBruiser and speed]].
20	** Before Gilles de Rais was chosen as Caster, Gen Urobuchi wanted to use a Chinese Xian. The reason he didn't was because Nasu ruled that Eastern heroes can't be summoned in Fuyuki's system ([[spoiler:fake]] Assassin in ''stay night'' was explicitly a case of the rules being broken by Caster).
21	** Toshiyuki Shirai, an animation director, said [[spoiler:the original plan for Lancer's death scene was that he would turn into particles of light and fade away. Then he decided it would make his DyingCurse more dramatic if his body crumbled away while releasing a black mist.]]
22	** Originally, Kariya's brother Byakuya would either not appear or be a brief background character. The scene where Kiritsugu raids the Matou mansion was going to have him simply conclude no one was home and move on. Then Urobuchi thought "there isn't enough violence today", so they had Kiritsugu run into Byakuya and interrogate him.
23	* WordOfGay:
24	** While it's not exactly a surprise to anyone familiar with Alexander the Great and his widely speculated bisexuality, Creator/GenUrobuchi confirmed the orientation for his Fate/zero counterpart when discussing how events would have turned out if Kayneth summoned Rider as he intended instead of Lancer (Answer: Rider would have attempted to bed Sola-Ui ''and'' Kayneth).
25	** The historical Gilles de Rais is widely speculated to have been gay or bisexual; likewise Caster is described as being attracted to both tomboyish women and feminine men.
26	** PlayedForLaughs with other characters in the Afterword/Author's Comments sections in the novels, in which Gilgamesh is jokingly declared a [[MediaNotes/BoysLoveNotes Sasoi-Uke]] while Kiritsugu is said to be [[{{Uke}} the bottom]] to Kotomine.

Context Trivia / FateZero