History Anime / FateGrandCarnival

* AlwaysOnDuty: While Ritsuka neglects the lower-ranked servants that they are always on standby, servants useful in farming like Arash and Merlin have the opposite problem when they complain of all the farming they have to do. Waver, in particular, despondently reveals he is so overworked being always taken out into battles that he's shown to be hospitalized.

* BadBoss: Ritsuka might not be as bad as [[Webcomic/LearningWithMangaFGO Riyo Gudako]], but she's still not a Master you'd want to work under. When presented with a choice to keep either her full paycheck or all her Servants she chooses her paycheck without a second thought, doesn't bother helping Mash when she's sexually assaulted by Orion, puts all her high-rarity Servants in a competition of literal life or death while flat out killing everyone worth 3* or less (with the exception of her personal favorite, Red Hare), kills Cú Chulainn Alter (despite being a 5*) to make sure the Cú Chulainn species goes extinct, and has the gall to act saddened by her Servants dying in a competition ''she chose to put them through.'' Likewise, from even the 2nd trailer, she turns out to be the kind of Master that overworks her existing Servants and neglects the lower rarity ones to the point that Blackbeard led a union strike against her.

** The opening has a brief scene of Ereshkigal streaming before it abruptly cuts off to Dumuzid looking at a banned streaming account. In the Servatube episode, it is instead Osakabehime who gets banned after she goes way overboard with her fanservice when trying to beat Eresh in a popularity contest.

** In episode 2's Laughing Bartender Moriarty segment, Charles Babbage uses his transformation into a steam train for the ''Dead Heat Summer Race'' event as an example of his being treated as an object and not a person.

--> '''Dumuzid: [[PrecisionFStrike Holy shit.]]'''

* PyrrhicVictory: Osakabehime and Ereshkigal start a popularity contest as You- sorry, Servatubers. They are pretty evenly matched for most of it, until Okkie brings out her trump card: she pulls out her swimsuit and starts [[CamWhore camwhoring]]. She wins the contest, and promptly gets her channel banned.

* BadBoss: Ritsuka might not be as bad as [[Webcomic/LearningWithMangaFGO Riyo Gudako]], but she's still not a Master you'd want to work under. When presented with a choice to keep either her full paycheck or all her Servants she chooses her paycheck without a second thought, doesn't bother helping Mash when she's sexually assaulted by Orion, puts all her high-rarity Servants in a competition of literal life or death while flat out killing everyone worth 3 stars or less (with the exception of her personal favorite, Red Hare), kills Cú Alter (despite being a 5 star) to make sure the Cú Chulainn species goes extinct, and has the gall to act saddened by her Servants dying in a competition ''she chose to put them through.'' Likewise, from even the 2nd trailer, she turns out to be the kind of Master that overworks her existing Servants and neglects the lower rarity ones to the point that Blackbeard led a union strike against her.

** In the opening, Jeanne Alter gets fed up with Gilgamesh and burns him. In the hostess club episode, while Gil annoys her, Tamamo-no-Mae interrupts before Jalter does anything, and it is instead Gilles de Rais who gets roasted after criticizing Jalter too much.

* BerserkButton: Belittling Red Hare or even implying that feeding it doesn't take priority over everything else sends Ritsuka into a terrifying rage.
* BigEater: Altria, as per usual. To wit, she spends the entirety of the Olympia Games events on the sidelines eating (presumably all provided by EMIYA considering what one of the boxes is labelled) and only enters the final round at the insistence of the Knights of the Round, but not before devouring a rice ball nearly as big as her head with one final bite. She also claims that the reason she hasn't retired to Avalon yet is because there's no good food there.

** During episode 2, a quick cut shows Sherlock Holmes investigating a chalk outline of the once-again killed Cu Chulainn. TheStinger reveals what happened to him. [[spoiler:Jaguarman got upset about the carnival ending, so she used her Jaguar Kick skill on him, turning him into ATwinkleInTheSky.]]

** Lancer as usual... and ''more''. The change of phrase to "Cú Chulainn died!" is not just for convenience: ''every'' version of Cú reprises his [[ShoutOut "Lancer died!]] [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark You bastards!"]] routine, even his otherwise totally serious Alter self.
** Orion gets this treatment courtesy of Artemis whenever he tries to hit on any girl but her. Notice that [[Creator/NobutoshiCanna he shares the same VA with all]] [[Anime/FatePrototype but one]] [[Creator/KazuyaNakai Cú]], so [[ActorAllusion his inclusion for the role is most likely not coincidental.]]

* ColdEquation: The premise for the Olympia Games. With so many contracted Servants straining Chaldea's ability to accommodate them all, Ritsuka is presented with two choices: take a cut in her paycheck to support them all, or [[DeadlyEuphemism decommission]] some of them. Ritsuka immediately chooses the latter. Amusingly, aside from Nero's self-inflicted death from losing the swimming event (which she recovered from) and all the Servants 3* and lower who were axed before the competition even began (sans Red Hare & [[FreezeFrameBonus Nobukatsu]] but including Cú Alter), it's indicated that most if not all of the participants made it to the final cavalry battle given the sheer number still left to form teams (including several who had fought in and already lost previous events such as Gawain).

* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: Ritsuka kills Cú Alter because there are "too many Cú Chulainns" around. Keep in mind that he's literally the only Cú left when she says that.

* HypocriticalHumor: Ritsuka's reason of killing Cú Alter is because there are too many Cú's. Anyone familiar with Altria should quickly notice what's wrong with that statement.

** Ereshkigal plays a game of "Real Pop Up Pirate" by stabbing a barrel containing Blackbeard from every direction with her noble phantasm -- much like Gilgamesh did to Cu Chulainn back in the very first episode of ''Carnival Phantasm.''
* KilledOffscreen: Aside from the Cú Chulainns, whose deaths are part of a RunningGag, every servant who are three stars and below in the arena except for two (Nobukatsu and Red Hare) are never seen again, presumably burned into mana prisms like the Cú's [[StatusQuoIsGod --until the next episode, anyway.]]

* PoseOfSupplication: Jalter falls into this once she experiences firsthand how utterly dominated she is by Artoria Lily's purity.

* SocialDarwinist: Ritsuka decides which Servants she'll keep by putting them in a deadly version of the Olympic games, and keeping the winners. Also, only the higher rarity Servants (read:the more powerful ones) can even participate. Everyone else lower-ranked (and Cú Alter) gets the axe immediately. Except Red Hare, who she's already Grailed to Level 100 and keeps off to the side, and Nobukatsu, who somehow averted getting burned and is shown latched onto Nobunaga's back during the Cavalry Battle.

* TemptingFate: Cú Alter thinks he's escaped the ButtMonkey curse after the other Cús get killed off and starts bragging that he's different. Then Ritsuka kills him because one Cú still alive is one too many.

** In episode 1, not just Lancer, but every version of Cú Chulainn is eliminated in one fell swoop. Ritsuka and Mash even say the requisite lines. Episode 2 seem to go without killing the poor man off, but the Oni Cure section shows a chalk line that is clearly of Cú Chulainn, and the Tiger Dojo ends with Jaguar Man punting poor Cu into the distance, with her and Sitonai saying the requisite line.

* {{Troll}}: A deliberately InvokedTrope on Ereshkigal's part as in order to get more views on [[BlandNameProduct ServantTube]], she presses the BerserkButton of a lot of the servants in Chaldea such as making the Amazoness CEO deliver stuff for Achilles, filing Salieri's room with Amadeus merch, forcing Edison to use AC electricity (while making Tesla use DC electricity), and fakes being wounded in front of Nightingale. She also challenged a "real-life pop-up pirate" in the form of Blackbeard all while using her Noble Phantasm on him.

* DarkhorseVictory:

* TheArtifact: Neco Spirits are just as prominent here as they were in ''Carnival Phantasm'', despite the lack of other elements from ''Tsukihime''. To lessen their resemblance to Arcueid,[[note]]who wouldn't show up in-game (albeit as Archetype:Earth) until after the anime's release[[/note]] their designs more obviously parody other ''Fate'' characters.

* TheArtifact: Neco Spirits are just as prominent here as they were in ''Carnival Phantasm'', despite the lack of other elements from ''Tsukihime''. To lessen their resemblance to Arcueid, their designs more obviously parody other ''Fate'' characters.