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- Ambiguously Evil: Chaldea starts to wonder why Semiramis's so enthusiastic about making chocolates when she refuses to slow down production, despite having made such facilities as a building that can slow down time all to improve chocolate production. It's then revealed that she was evil, but only because the Semiramis Chaldea was interacting with was a fake.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: According to the Dove Reports, the research lab produces 100% Necrochocomancy-approved chocolate and doesn't have them contain any of the following: blood, curses, heretical gods, or aphrodisiacs.
- Be Careful What You Wish For:
- Shakespeare, Hans, Mozart and Oei find out about the Hyperbolic Chocolate Chamber and are excited to work in a room that slows time, but they come out frustrated, because the chamber only works if chocolate is involved, thus, all their creative works must involve chocolate which they find too limiting.
- Chaldea originally helped Semiramis' chocolate production because their usual source of chocolates was unavailable but by the time the Hyperbolic Chocolate Chamber was made, Semiramis' chocolate production far outnumbered Chaldea's demands that everyone got sick of it.
- Beware the Silly Ones: As it turns out, Chaldea has an alarm for a "joke-level threat", which comes in handy when this particular joke-level threat nearly drowns the facility in chocolate.
- Chekhov's Gun: The chocolate fountain. It turns out it was a prison for the real Semiramis, sealed away by her creation, Chocoramis. Foreshadowed in an early Dove Report, which notes there's a "secret" in the chocolate fountain.
- Debut Queue: Semiramis debuts as a limited servant.
- Didn't Think This Through: Chocoramis's plan falls apart because she didn't take into account the fact that even Holy Grails can run out of power.
- Disability Immunity: According to a Dove Report, Chiyome's Orochi is apparently able to harvest the chocomandrakes because snakes can't hear their screams. And somehow also fulfills the criteria of needing to pick them by human hands.
- Easy Amnesia: Christopher Columbus gets amnesia from being hit on the head with a falling cacao fruit. When he wakes up, he starts happily working in the factory and eventually (according to the dove reports) he successfully fights off an Alien Invasion of chocolate lifeforms from the Servant Universe off-screen.
- Mythology Gag:
- The protagonist calls Cú, Karna, Lancer Vlad and Diarmuid to plant Cacao trees and then we see a transparent picture of Yario/Backspear Boys in farm gear to explain why the protagonist called them.
- When Tesla meets Semiramis, he tries to bond with her based on their "shared love of doves" which references the real Tesla's fondness for pigeons.
- One of the Dove reports say that the Amazoness CEO is making a proposal to with Semiramis to sell her chocolate.
- One Dove Report notes that a man with a giant drill who claims to be a dentist has been hired as a guard, referencing how Fergus played an impromptu dentist in the first Valentine's Day event to scare Nursery Rhyme into giving up. Accordingly, chocolate thievery by child Servants decreases sharply.
- Several reports are dedicated to the suffering of the chibi-Nobus being turned into slave labor, mechanized against their will, and exactly whether or not any of this is ethical due to the open question of whether or not they're actually living beings.
- The Dove Reports state that Ishtar tried to steal the chocolate-themed Jeweled Sword Zelretch but failed which calls back Rin using the Jeweled Sword Zelretch in the Heavens' Feel route of the original Stay Night visual novel.
- The last creation to increase chocolate production is Choco Grail-Kun. And just like the real deal, it endlessly spews a tide of hostile mud, and occasionally hacks up a knife.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Sheba was secretly handling the transactions between Chaldea and the Kingdom of Chocolate hoping to gain a profit and have a bath of chocolate, it nearly led to Chaldea being drowned in chocolate.
- Obviously Evil: The research lab's first appearance has Caster Gilles de Rais, Phantom of the Opera and Mephistopheles at night ranting at how much fun it is to sin even though all they're doing is recycling chocolate. They're so evil, Gorgon likes to sleep on their floor due to their atmosphere.
- Perky Female Minion: Downplayed, but the research lab, staffed by several of the more evil or insane-inclined Servants and dedicated to the practice of Necrochocomancy (really just recycling unused chocolate), gets Abigail to act as the head receptionist. Apparently, she's extremely popular in the role.
- The Rival: Like always Edison and Tesla with Tesla actually going so far as to sneak at the dead of night to change the power of the factories made by Edison from DC to AC and Edison fully expecting it. Semiramis is able to take advantage of their rivalry by making a contest to see which current is truly superior by giving Tesla all the same number of factories and resources as Edison and they compete to see who makes more chocolate. The dove reports states Babbage has also joined the competition with steam instead.
- Robot Buddy: Paracelsus creates Mini Paracels which he describes as robots with autonomy but have their function limited to making chocolate. This doesn't stop them from apparently forming their own union of sorts.
- Ship Tease: It's hinted that Semiramis originally made chocolates to give to Amakusa and the epilogue has her give the last chocolate left on the Hanging Garden of Babylonia to a passing by Amakusa with Amakusa wanting to meet again so he can give her his White Day gift.
- Shout-Out:
- Edison makes a movie called "Dawn of the Living Choco", but it ended up a
Box Office Bomb, with the future of "The Toxic Chocovenger" uncertain and possibly scrapped on the cutting room floor. - The Hyperbolic Chocolate Chamber is an obvious reference to the Hyperbolic Time Chamber even having the same function just the chocolate chamber only works with chocolate related works. One of the Dove Reports notes several battle-hungry Servants have considered bringing chocolate weapons inside in order to get the most out of training.
- Blackbeard wrote a best-selling novel called "Do Chocolates Dream of Strawberry Sheep".
- When Mysterious Heroine X Alter heard about the cacao shortage in Chaldea, she went to the Servant Universe and went to a Spacebucks on Totooine to stock up. Apparently, business is so barren on the desert planet she got the chocolate ship by being the 11th customer, and mentions she could easily get a second or third one.
- Edison makes a movie called "Dawn of the Living Choco", but it ended up a
- Start X to Stop X: Cú decides the best way to cancel the deathly singing of the chocomandrakes is with the deathly singing of Nero. And after Nero is too tired to sing, Elizabeth's singing.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Because Jaguarman got caught, Kiyohime started the event because Chaldea's usual supply of servant chocolate couldn't be sold and she traveled far and wide for a replacement until she found Semiramis which lead to Semiramis making so much chocolate that she nearly flooded Chaldea in it.
- What Were You Thinking?: Both Cú and Da Vinci wonder what Semiramis is thinking by mixing Cacao and Mandrakes.
- Year Inside, Hour Outside: The Hyperbolic Chocolate Chamber facility slows down time for those inside the chamber but it only works if the people inside are working on something related to chocolate.
