History Anime / FateGrandCarnival

* 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.''

%% * WeirdTradeUnion: In the second season Blackbeard leads a union for Servants that are overworked from farming.

** Following ''Carnival Phantasm''[='s=] MagicalGirl show ''Phantasmoon'' is ''Oni-cure'', this time parodying ''Franchise/PrettyCure'' similar to how the former parodies ''Franchise/SailorMoon''. Shuten-Douji takes Arcueid's place as the lead magical girl with Ibaraki-Douji as her exasperated partner.

A special episode aired as part of the Fate Project New Year's Eve TV Special on December 31, 2020. At the end of the short, two full OVA seasons were announced which would be released on June 2, 2021 and September 29, 2021 (formerly August 25th, but it had to be moved back due to production issues).

A special episode aired as part of the Fate Project New Year's Eve TV Special on December 31, 2020. At the end of the short, two full OVA seasons were announced which would be released on June 2, 2021 and August 25, 2021.

** Shuten-Doji has a section where she and Ibaraki-Doji appear in a {{show| within a show}} called ''Oni-Cure'', referencing Creator/AoiYuki being in Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure.

** Shuten-Doji has a section where she and Ibaraki-Doji appear in a {{show|in a show}} called ''Oni-Cure'', referencing Creator/AoiYuki being in Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure.

* 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.

* KilledOffscreen: Aside from the Cú Chulainn's whose deaths are part of a RunningGag, all the other non-5-star servants in the arena except for two (Nobukatsu and Red Hare) are never seen again, presumably burned into mana prisms like the Cú's.

* ThePollyanna: Altria Lily, to the point that she is not the least bit upset after Jeanne Alter burns down the clubhouse.

* MoodSwinger: Despite appearing as his sane Saber self, Gilles de Rais repeatedly switches back and forth between his cool and collected persona and his crazy-eyed madmen Caster persona at the drop of the hat.

* RageBreakingPoint: Jeanne Alter. In the opening, she grows increasingly irate at Gilgamesh until she just [[RumpRoast roasts his ass]]. In the hostess club episode, after spending a crappy night serving annoying patrons and being upstaged by the other hostesses, she has to put up with a flip-flopping Gilles, causing her to snap, sic her NP on him, and raze the club to the ground.

* StalkerWithACrush: Implied case with Edmond Dantes. In the opening, he can be seen watching Ritsuka via OminousMultipleScreens, laughing maniacally all the while.

** Lancer as usual... and ''more''. The change of phrase to "Cú Chulainn died!" is not just for convenience: ''every'' version of Cú reprises his "You're not human!" routine, even his otherwise totally serious Alter self.

* HostessClub: The second episode has one run by Merlin and the Neco Spirits, with the payment being Quantum Piece. The hostesses are Jeanne Alter, Helena Blavatsky, Queen Medb, Tamano-no-Mae, and Altria Lily.

** Following Carnival Phantasm's MagicalGirl show Phantasmoon is Oni-cure, this time parodying Franchise/PrettyCure similar to how the former parodies Franchise/SailorMoon. Shuten-Douji takes Arcueid's place as the lead magical girl with Ibaraki-Douji as her exasperated partner.

* MagicalGirl: Shuten-Douji and Ibaraki-Douji appear at the end of the episode for a spoof commercial of an Oni-cure episode just like what Arcueid did in Carnival Phantasm.

* MadeOfIron: Gawain survives being run through by d'Eon during the fencing match and apparently fought all the way to the end of the Olympia Games, and he then he one-ups himself by surviving being at ground zero of Altria and Nero's Noble Phantasms going off and being launched out of Chaldea.

** Aside of Nero riding the variants of Elizabeth because she just had no friends, it is also a touch-in with Nero's other more nefarious interpretation: Mother Harlot, who was known to ride multi-headed dragon (in this case, the dragon heads are represented by the three Elizabeths)
** Artemis turned Orion into a pincushion of arrows for his habits of 'peeping girls in the water'. While this is pretty in-character for Orion in here, this actually doubles with an incident Artemis is familiar with from her original myth, which involved the hunter Actaeon, stags and hunting dogs. [[note]]Actaeon was the one who peeped into the bathing Artemis and as a punishment, she turned him into a stag, which ended up having him being devoured by his own hunting dogs.[[/note]]

** The original ''Anime/CarnivalPhantasm'' had Gilgamesh comically falling for a domineering Saber Alter and throwing lots of cash and gemstones her way. Come episode 2 of this show, and Gilgamesh is seen comically falling for Saber Alter's polar opposite, Altria Lily, and throwing lots of QP her way.

** And as mentioned above, Altria and Nero. They even go at it in the opening!

* ButThouMust: When discussing how the latest carnival is going to go, Mysterious Neco V's options are chaos... and madness. Made even sillier in Japanese, where the two options [[FunWithHomophones have the exact same pronunciation]] ("kyou"), so written characters have to be put on screen danto make any kind of distinction between the two.

* CharacterExaggeration: Mash in canon tends to apply textbook knowledge and common sense to her situations, but her general inexperience with regular life means she can tend to miss the mark. Here, she's an OnlySaneWoman among the craziness everyone else displays.

** Orion is made a HumanPincushion ''twice'' thanks to Artemis when perving out on other cute girls.

** Tiger Dojo returns, this time as Jaguar Dojo with Jaguar Man and Sitonai instead of Taiga and Illya.

* AnimatedActor: Jaguar Warrior and Sitonai are actually just Taiga and Illya playing their ''Grand Order'' characters. Sitonai has to remind Jaguar to stay in character during the Tiger Dojo segment.