History Literature / FateStrangeFake

* SuicideMission: [[spoiler: Faldeus sending True Assassin to spy on Ishtar is noted to be basically this.]]
* SuicidePact: Variant is shown in the ninth volume. When it became clear that not only did they once again lost the war but also that Fuyuki's ritual had no future, the Einzbern chose to 'Discontinue themselves' as Prelati speculated. Prelati later speculated the only reason Filia remained active was due to God's Holder's blow destroying her systems, she was unable to properly process the shutdown command.

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A LightNovel and manga series set in the ''Franchise/{{Fate|Series}}'' universe, written by Ryohgo Narita (author of ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'') with art by Shizuki Morii (who both illustrates the novels and adapts them to manga), which began in January 2015 and is currently ongoing. Eight volumes of the light novel have been published as of February 2023.

* BrokenMasquerade: A much bigger focus than in previous installments of Fate/. As Lord El Melloi II points out, the rise of the internet and social media has made it ''much'' harder to keep something as big as a Holy Grail War under wraps and he predicts that the world of magecraft will be [[TheUnmasquedWorld fully revealed]] within the next five years. [[spoiler:It might even be earlier than that, as events during the war seem to conspire towards that end. Saber gets arrested on national television mere minutes after being summoned, which is later uploaded to Website/YouTube; the battle between Gilgamesh and Enkidu is [[DistantReactionShot visible from space]]; and two Masters on the American side, Prelati and Haruri Borzark, both have the explicit goal to use the Grail to reveal magecraft to the entire world]].

''Fate/strange fake'' originated as an AprilFoolsDay prank in 2008, when Ryohgo Narita posted a novella on his website (originally titled ''Fake/states night'') that was seemingly a prologue to a (fictional) upcoming ''{{Franchise/Fate|Series}}'' video game. Although the text was taken down from Narita's site after only one day, the novella was later included as a bonus with the second issue of the ''Type-Moon ACE'' magazine, with an afterword by the author and illustrations by Shizuki Morii. No actual continuation seemed to have been planned, making the whole thing an introduction to a cast of characters who [[OrphanedSeries would likely never be seen again]]... but eventually it was decided that the concept was too good to waste and ''Fate/strange fake'' was turned into a real instalment of the Fate franchise, with the original novella making up the bulk of the light novel's first volume.

* AlternateUniverse: Most Fate titles are alternate universes to each other, but ''strange fake'' is special in that it is a hybrid of [[{{Franchise/Nasuverse}} the Fate and Tsukihime timelines]] with the ability to summon Servants combined with the existence of the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors.

* AuthorTract: Narita must have been pleased he could finally give his opinion of the King's Banquet scene from ''Fate/Zero'' through True Saber. He had to be, considering the events of ''Zero'' shouldn't have any bearings on ''strange fake'' to begin with.

* InSpiteOfANail: Narita mentions in the afterword to volume 4 that ''strange fake'' is a completely different world to ''stay night'' despite the outcome being the same. The most visible evidence of this is the coexistence of the Dead Apostle Ancestors and Heroic Spirits - normally, their existence in a given timeline is mutually exclusive, with timelines that have one not having the other.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: This particular story is this to the ''Fate'' franchise, and the ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'' as a whole. It is, essentially, what happens when you take the entire concept of the Holy Grail War and, per Ryohgo Narita's speciality of telling stories through controlled chaos, you turn it into a gigantic, multi-layered blended clusterfuck where nothing is as it seems, no one is who they appear to be, and very little makes any actual sense.