Webcomic / FATE/Last Laugh

The logo seen on every page of Last Laugh

FATE/Last Laugh, or more simply Last Laugh, is a 4-koma Yuri parody web comic of Fate/Grand Order created by Reddit user LadySeraphii on July 23, 2022. The comic is created using MikuMikuDance, and was originally published to both r/fate, and r/grandorder, however, following a rules change on r/grandorder, it is now currently being uploaded to r/fatespritecomics.

Last Laugh follows the shenanigans of Fujimaru Ritsuka and her Servant Saber on the former's absurd quest to collect a harem of cute girls to flirt with. The series also details the daily lives of Ritsuka's other Servants, and the staff that work for Chaldea.

The series is currently sitting at one volume of six chapters with ten episodes each, and an Interlude currently at one episode. Due to the series having been moved to r/fatespritecomics, the author deemed it necessary to start over from the beginning to prevent new readers from getting confused. There are also remakes of the first five episodes in the series.

Archive can be found here.

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This comic provides examples of:

• Abandoned Warehouse: It is heavily implied that this is what Ritsuka's apartment actually is.
• Above the Gods: As stated by the author in the comments of several comics, the Holy Grail, one of the objects that controls everything in Fate, is so scared of Ritsuka that it just lets her do whatever she wants. And she knows this.
• Accidental Adultery: In one comic◊ Rin is seen attempting to flirt with a rather despondent Saber. When asked why Saber wasn't responding to her advances, it is then quickly revealed that this wasn't her Saber.
• Act Break: The Interlude Chapters deal with characters that aren't a part of the main comic. The Interlude takes place in a Singularity that is a possible alternate future for Ritsuka and Saber.
• Action Duo: Ritsuka and Saber.
• Action Girl: Given that this is a parody of Fate/Grand Order, it's safe to say every character fits this trope to some degree.
• Adaptational Badass: In Last Laugh, Ritsuka is shown to be able to take down Servants, like Gilgamesh◊, single-handedly. This is already in conjunction with the feats that Ritsuka is shown to be capable of in canon materials.
• Adaptational Location Change: Instead of being hidden away in the mountains of Antarctica like in canon, Last Laugh has Chaldea stationed in the center of an unnamed city in Japan.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Most Servants in this series are a lot nicer than their canon counterparts.
• Adaptational Sexuality: Every female character who appears in the series are more than likely in a relationship with another woman, ignoring what the character's actual lore states their sexuality to be.
• Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: This series states that Ritsuka and her Servants get paid in Saint Quartz, when it should be Quantum Pieces instead.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Most characters have had their personalities changed to fit the comic, the most egregious example is Ritsuka herself.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Rin and Saber are in a relationship, Mordred doesn't hate her mother, and Morgan le Fay is a single parent who only wants to keep her daughter safe.
• Affectionate Nickname: Master for Ritsuka and Saber for Artoria.
• Affectionate Parody: Despite how often Last Laugh makes fun of Fate, the author is a fan of the series.
• Age-Gap Romance: This is Lancer and ALTER's relationship at first glance.
• Agents Dating: Saber often goes on dates with Rin when not on missions with Ritsuka.
• A Good Name for a Rock Band: The name for the series' own subreddit, One Last Laugh
• A Kind of One: Ritsuka has multiple paradoxical clones of herself in various color combinations.
• A Lady on Each Arm: Ritsuka is seen doing this with Ritsu-PI and Ritsu-PII in the comic There Is Not One Ritsuka That Loves Me◊
• All a Part of the Job: Ritsuka asks, if Chaldea has other Masters besides herself, why she never seems to get days off in To Work, Or Not To Work◊
• Alliance with an Abomination: The Chaldea Security Organization potentially sees its need of Ritsuka as this.
• All or Nothing: Ritsuka's explanation for why she had Lancer killed, and why she attacked Archer. They were both Male Servants, and she only wants Female Servants.
• All Women Are Lustful: Most characters in the series is this to some extent.
  • This comic◊ has Artoria Lancer causing Saber ALTER to ruin her underwear, simply by "implying" what she was going to do to ALTER on their week off.
  • Tohsaka Rin, another Master working for Chaldea, is implied, in this comic◊ to be the dominant in her relationship with Saber.
  • Saber and Rin often keep Ritsuka up at night whenever they have sex at the apartment◊, much to Ritsuka's annoyance.
  • The first comic in the series has Ritsuka bring up the fact that Saber, in her own legend, temporarily turned herself into a futanari just so she could have a child with her wife.
• Alternate Continuity: This series, according to the author, takes place in a timeline where Rin was the one to summon Saber during the Fifth Holy Grail War, and where Emiya Shirou died in battle.
• Alternate Reality Episode: The Interlude Chapters
• A Threesome Is Hot: Rin seemingly tries to go for this in A Sad Birthday For Frankenstein◊, but fails, her attempting this is later alluded to by Mash in To Love A Flirtatious Battery◊.
• At Least I Admit It: Ristuka doesn't hide the fact that she only joined Chaldea to flirt with cute girls.
• Babysitting Episode: Ritsuka watching TV with Mini Saber in Green Dies In The End◊.
• Badass Family: Rin, Saber, and Mini Saber.
• Battle Harem: Ritsuka's harem is made up of the Servants she summoned.
• Blank White Eyes: Throughout the series whenever a character is physically exhausted, or extremely frightened, they are subjected to this.
• Blank White Void: As the first comic was apparently made on a whim, it suffers from this.
• Cameo Cluster: Due to the artist behind her original design also having worked on several Fate designs, and because there exists an MMD model for her, Ouro Kronii of Hololive EN makes an appearance in a few comics.
• Cameo Prop: Following the events of Everyone Jealous About My Jaunty Crown◊ Gilgamesh's weapon Ea can be seen in the apartment's umbrella stand in several panels.
• Cast Full of Gay: As Last Laugh is a Yuri comic, all female characters that appear are lesbians.^note With the possible exceptions being Medusa [Lancer] and Mini Saber, who are both portrayed as being too young to be in a relationship with anyone.
• City with No Name: The city in which Last Laugh takes place has no known name.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: There are several examples of this trope.
  • Every character has a unique outline color for their text boxes.^note Except for Mash ALTER, who doesn't use text boxes when speaking.
  • The paradox copies of Ritsuka all have a number and color associated with them.
  • Every version of Saber that uses the same model is altered, or colored differently in some way.
  • The Super Sentai reference that is the Mini Brigade◊.
• Common Tongue: As in the actual Fate series, all characters in Last laugh are implied to be speaking Japanese, except for Berserker◊.
• Company Cameo: As a reference to this video, Ritsuka shows off a new box of Reese's Puffs to Saber in Fate x Last Laugh x Grand Order◊.
• Cool, but Inefficient: Ritsuka's team is made up of one Shielder, and several Saber Servants. In the actual game, this is not the best team composition a player can use.
• Coolest Club Ever: Rider ALTER's bar for the various Saber Servants, the Excali-Bar.
• Crash-Into Hello: Mordred and Frankenstein meet as the latter is falling from a higher building.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: In the comic Take The Throne, Usurper◊ it is implied that this is what Ritsuka did to Gilgamesh.
• Custody Battle: Outright mentioned by Morgan le Fay to Saber in Medieval Court Cases◊.
• Differently Dressed Duplicates: Ritsu-PI, Ritsu-PII, and Ristu-PIII all have different color variations of the standard Chaldea uniform.^note This could also go for Ritsu-PIIII, however she is never actually seen on screen.
  • Saber II begins wearing gloves and stops wearing tights to stop being confused with Saber.
• Disco Dan: Ritsuka's apartment is seemingly stocked full of outdated items, to the point where the only television in the main room is a tiny CRT television on her work desk^note She did own a more modern television until Saber accidentally cut it in half
• Divorce Assets Conflict: Morgan le Fay took both Saber's Avalon, and custody of Mordred following their "divorce".
• Do Not Go Gentle: Archer's battle with Ritsuka. He immediately recognizes Ritsuka as a serious threat and instantly begins chanting to activate his Noble Phantasm Unlimited Blade Works
• Don't Answer That: Both Saber and Mordred plead with Morgan to not answer Ritsuka's questions, she doesn't seem to care◊.
• Don't Wake the Sleeper: Ritsuka's sole reasoning on why she doesn't move when Medusa [Lancer] is using her as a pillow◊.
• Double Knockout: What apparently happened to both Saber and Ritsuka in Don't Worry, There's Always Tomorrow◊.
• Do You Want to Copulate?: Asked by Ritsu-PI to Ritsuka in Good Night, Good Paradox◊.
• Dream Team: Ritsuka, Saber, and Mash.
• Duplicate Divergence: Ritsu-PI. While she does retain most of the same mannerisms as Ritsuka, she seemingly has a different interest in Servants than the original.^note One commenter joked that Kronii, who she mistakenly summoned, was instead a Berserker-class Servant and not a Saber. To which the author agreed.
• Early Adaptation Weirdness: As Last Laugh was just starting out, various elements were present that don't appear in the newer comics.
  • The nametags on text boxes only appear the first comic of the series
  • Ritsuka's apartment changing design after the second comic.
  • Some character models have outlines in some of the early comics.^note This is mostly due to the author forgetting to disable them before making the panels.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Artoria Lancer makes a background appearance with ALTER in 'Tis A Silly Place◊ and 'Tis A Silly Place (2)◊ before her proper introduction in Sabers And Lancers Living Together◊.
  • Jeanne d'Arc is also seen in the background of the above comics before her introduction in Ghosts In The Apartment◊
• Empty Fridge, Empty Life: Saber's reaction to all of the apartment's snacks vanishing in Ghosts In The Apartment◊ invokes this.
• Enclosed Space: If not on missions for Chaldea, the Masters and Servants are seemingly limited to the city surrounding Chaldea.
• Endless Daytime: Due to the models used for the comic, it is always depicted as being mid afternoon.
• Ensemble Cast: Although the comic tends to focus mainly on Rituska and Saber, it does not shy away from showing what other characters are up to.
• Epic Fail: Whatever happened to Ritsuka and Saber before the events of Don't Worry, There's Always Tomorrow◊.
• Episode Code Number: Every episode is titled "Ep-Roman Numeral." before the title name.
• Episode Tagline: Each episode's title is a joking reference to what happens during the comic.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Morgan le Fay does everything she does to make sure Mordred has a happy life after she was summoned.^note However, Mordred finding this too much is what led her to agree to live with Ritsuka and Saber.
• Everyone Must Be Paired: With the obvious exceptions of Medusa [Lancer] and Mini Saber, everyone is either portrayed as, or hinted at, being in a relationship.^note Because Last Laugh is a Yuri gag comic, this is to be expected.
• Fake Mystery: In Ghosts In The Apartment◊, everyone is reacting to the anouncment that someone is stealing snacks from the apartment, only for Mash to see the actual culprit, Jeanne.
• Fake Town: It could be theorized that this is what the town Ritsuka lives in actually is.
• Family of Choice: Mini Saber is the adopted daughter of Saber and Rin.
• Firearms Are Cowardly: Every character in Last Laugh is depicted as either fighting with melee weapons, or their fists.
• First Law of Gender Bending: The author has that this is the reason why Lancelot [Berserker, and Gilgamesh are both girls in this series.
• Flashback Cut: In She Had No Choice◊, this happens after Ritsuka explains that she couldn't stop Morgan le Fay from coming to the apartment. In actuality, Morgan offered Ritsuka temporary use of her maid if she would take her to Mordred, and she immediately accepted.
• Flash Forward: The Interlude Chapters is stated by the author to be taking place inside a Singularity of a possible future of the Last Laugh universe.
• Flawless Victory: Ritsuka vs Gilgamesh.
• Future Self Reveal: In All You Can Eat◊ the reader is introduced to Berserker and Artoria Pendragon, with no explanation on what happened to get to that point.
• Gag Series: Last Laugh is a comedic parody of Fate/Grand Order.
• Yuri Fan: As the author is an avid fan of the Yuri genre, every woman in the series is expected to be a lesbian.