History FateGrandOrder / TropesQToY

** Endless Century Of Ice And Fire: Götterdämmerung - "The Jolly Fellow of the Unquenchable Flame" refers to [[AfterTheEnd the world created]] by an unfinished [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Ragnarok]], where a never-ending winter coincides with the eternal flames of Muspelheim, and the HotBlooded [[RatedMForManly manly man]] known as Napoleon Bonaparte, a NiceGuy who won't give up.

* RedHerring: In Cosmos in the Lostbelt it's assumed for much of the story that [[spoiler: the plot was either masterminded or kickstarted by an AlienInvasion with the name of the main antagonist (in Japan) being the Alien God and the subplot of Subject E, a creature that landed on earth and was picked up and experimented on by Area 51]] It isn't until Lostbelt 7 and the Ordeal Call Prologue that it gets clarified that [[spoiler: The invasion came from Marisbilly's plan using CHALDEAS and that Subject E was ultimately a human misidentified as an alien]]

** [[spoiler:The very first one is King Solomon, summoned before Chaldea even became the gigantic facility it is now, by Maris Billy Animusphere for the Holy Grail War in Fuyuki.]]

* SpannerInTheWorks: One of the biggest reasons the grand plan of [[spoiler:King Goetia]] is derailed is [[spoiler:Roman, aka Solomon]] showing up and [[spoiler:using Ars Nova to erase himself from the Throne of Heroes and thus make Goetia unable to sustain his own existence]]. This was because [[spoiler:Solomon]] was in possession of [[spoiler:the final ring]] due to it being used as a summoning catalyst by [[spoiler:his Master, Maris Billy Animusphere]]. The reason [[spoiler:Maris]] had it in the first place? [[spoiler:''God'' told Solomon to send the ring into the future where it would be needed.]] So, assuming that [[spoiler:"God" isn't the Counter Force in disguise like what apparently might have been the case with the voices Jeanne heard]], the BigBad's plan was derailed because [[spoiler:God]] foresaw what would happen ([[spoiler:but considering this is ''[[TheOmniscient God]]'' we're talking about, that's no surprise]]) and arranged for the right conditions for his defeat, [[spoiler:by allowing Maris to win the Fifth Fuyuki Grail War and establish Chaldea, also allowing for Solomon to exist in the present day to act against Goetia, and also establishing the events that not only allowed the Protagonist and their allies to win in the first place, but also set things up so they have a fighting chance against the ''other'' big threats likely threatening to destroy humanity.]] So, basically, [[spoiler:[[GodIsGood God]] [[SubvertedTrope ain't]] [[TheGodsMustBeLazy lazy]], and He sure as hell knows how to set up a domino effect. Nor does He appreciate gifts he made being used by those who weren't meant to use them, ''especially'' demons.]]

** Solomon, being the GrandFinale of the first arc, drops several major bombshells. [[spoiler: The Solomon that's been acting as the BigBad is Beast I inhabiting his corpse. Mash dies using Lord Camelot to defend against Goetia's Ars Almadel Salomonis. Dr. Roman reveals that he's the actual Solomon, who was summoned by Maris Billy for the Holy Grail War and used his wish to become human, shortly before he uses Ars Nova to remove himself from the Throne of Heroes and remove Goetia's immortality. And Fou gives up his power and intellect as Beast IV to resurrect Mash with a normal lifespan.]]

* TalkingToHimself: Invoked. During the Journey to the West event, Mordred/Red Boy appeals to her mother Nightingale/Princess Iron Fan that the former is the latter son because they have the same voice. Both of them are voiced by [[Creator/MiyukiSawashiro the same person]] indeed.

** Lostbelt 7 changes everything about the current conflict [[spoiler: Due to circumstances from the start of the chapter U-Olga develops amnesia and becomes an ally throughout most of the chapter. Daybit is revealed to also be going against the Foreign God by trying to awaken [[WorldsStrongestMan ORT]] in a bid to destroy the planet before their plan can be completed and reveals that U-Olga is nothing more than another apostle of the true force behind the Lostbelts, The Foreign World CHALDEAS and that whatever their end goal is would result in humanity being considered the worst species in the entire universe. During the battle against ORT U-Olga sacrifices herself to help destroy it and the end of the chapter reveals that ultimately CHALDEAS wanted Chaldea to destroy the Lostbelts and had three apostles of the Foreign God to help them out (Holmes, the Young Moriarty, and the currently unidentified Count,) with the Count now planing on resurrecting Olga as a shell of her former self.]]

** Roman and Da Vinci had significant amount of ship tease with her attempting to take care of him, often visiting him in the middle of work to remind him to eat, and they basically become the Chaldea crew's surrogate parents. Additionally, Dr Roman gets very emotional (and slightly {{tsundere}}) when Da Vinci gets into some peril in Camelot, and Da Vinci's interlude clearly implies she has feelings for him. Part of this is based on the fact that their [[Creator/KenichiSuzumura voice]] [[Creator/MaayaSakamoto actors]] are married and the two actors are playing an official couple in [[LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners another Type-Moon series]].

** Ryougi Shiki (either one) gets her theme, "Seventh Heaven", from the ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' movie series.

* StarterMon: In addition to Mash, every new player will perform a Starter Summon, a tutorial-type 10-summon which guarantees them at least one out of ten (later 14) available 4* Servant. The original ten Servants were Siegfried (Saber), Chevalier d'Eon (Saber), EMIYA (Archer) Elisabeth Báthory (Lancer), Marie Antoinette (Rider), Saint Martha (Rider), Carmilla (Assassin), Stheno (Assassin), Heracles (Berserker) and Tamamo Cat (Berserker). The Caster-class was notably the only main class not covered by the ten. In JP as of July 3rd, 2019, five new Starter Servants have been added to the Starter Summon pool, which are Suzuka Gozen (Saber), Atalante (Archer), Parvati (Lancer) Helena Blavatsky (Caster) and Nursery Rhyme (Caster). Of the original ten, only d'Eon has been removed while the other nine remain within the pool. With this change, each of the seven main classes is represented by two Starter Servants. 5* Servants or other 4* Servants are not available for the Starter Summon. Random 3* Servants that are neither story-locked nor limited are available for the Starter Summon, thus the player is guaranteed to have at least three Servants in their party when they start out.

* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Shimosa's antagonists all use an afterlife as their moniker, with Lancer "Purgatorio", Archer "Inferno", Assassin "Paraiso", Berserker "Samghata Naraka"[[note]]The "Crushing Hell" of Buddhism[[/note]], Rider "Kalasutra Naraka"[[note]]The "Hell of Black Threads" of Buddhism[[/note]], Saber "Empireo", and Caster "Limbo".

* ThresholdGuardian: Nearly all enemy Servants are this; even ones that supposedly are helping Solomon. Altria Alter (both Saber and Lancer) openly comment that they are a barrier to prove whether the Main Character is worthy of moving forward.

** [[spoiler: Lostbelt 5 is the biggest story of the entire game at the time of the chapter's release, having two full-sized maps in separate panels on the menu for story maps. To cover the entirety of the Lostbelt by splitting it up into two parts. Part 1 Atlantis, and is the desperate war to get through the Ocean with the New Argonauts to reach Mount Olympus, and the second part is Olympus, covering the actual assault and ascent of Mount Olympus while attempting to confront the leader of the Crypters and chosen emissary of the Foreign God, Kirschtaria Wodime. As the protagonist struggles to gain even an inch in the Lostbelt from the second they enter, the casualties are extremely high even with the aid of the Grand Archer, Orion, and they just barely manage to push on to Olympus proper with Wodime having them dead to rights at certain points. In Part 2 Olympus, Vitch is revealed to be a fledging Beast (though not quite there yet), and another prominent character gets their existence erased. The Foreign God is revealed to be the true Beast lurking in the Lostbelt, actually Beast VII, foreshadowed by Gilgamesh in Solomon, and who is called U-Olga Marie. She then wounds Wodime before leaving. Oh, this chapter also confirms the existence of Black Barrel, a superweapon within the franchise, and the Ultimate Ones in ''Fate'' universe.]]

** [[spoiler:Fou explains what he is to Mash in the void:]]

** [[spoiler:Caster Limbo reveals the existence of TheManBehindTheMan who was simply using the parallel version of Shimosa as an experiment for future plans.]]

** The ending of Götterdämmerung, confirming the existence of a certain character in the ''Grand Order'' timeline to greet the player upon [[spoiler:arrival at the Wandering Sea]]:
---> [[spoiler:''Welcome to the Primordial Mage Workshop, the Wandering Sea of Baldanders! I am Sion. [[VideoGame/MeltyBlood Sion Eltnam Sokaris]]. A spiritron hacker who managed to predict and call the end of this world, escaped to the Wandering Sea, and have since waited for your arrival. The final remaining member of the Atlas Institute.'']]
* WhamShot: When the Chaldean finally reveals themself in Lostbelt 5. [[spoiler: It's Doctor Romani... With Goetia's eyes.]]

* WeAllLiveInAmerica: Well, Japan. Even though Chaldea's employees and the Servants they summon hail from all over the globe, they all treat Japanese holidays like Golden Week and White Day as commonplace things to celebrate mainly because the developers and primary target audience of this game are Japanese and subsequently tailor the aforementioned holidays into the game.

*** Beast II simply takes and deals neutral damage to all classes.

*** The Treasured Beast has a double layer of this. The class itself deals half damage to Casters. The only one seen also has a passive that causes it to deal double damage to Hominidae Servants, and take double damage from Demonic Beast Servants. [[GuideDangIt Neither of those traits are used or mentioned anywhere else in the game, and are distinct from the Human, Humanoid, Demonic, and Beast traits]].

* SequencingDeception: The first Lostbelt's opening chapter establishes that 90 days have passed since December 31st and the Earth being bleached for the three major viewpoints of ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'', the Crypters, Chaldea, and David Bluebook. [[spoiler:This is to hide that Bluebook's account given to the player of what happened (the Trees descend, then the Earth is bleached), differs from what Kadoc discovers in Wodime's computer (the Earth is bleached, ''then'' the Trees descend). This creates an irreconcilable difference between the two narratives that serves as a major mystery for the overall story.]]

* SerialHomewrecker: Parodied. Lancelot's myth about being in love with Guinevere and (indirectly) ruining Camelot in the process makes him have a reputation for loving married women (or at least those who already have a lover). Cleopatra in Halloween 2017 event calls him "Sir Lances-a-lot-of-married-women".

* SequelEscalation: The third and final Halloween event starring Bathory goes this way, with three castles to invade instead of just Csejte Castle, two new variations of Bathory, and a more dramatic plot that isn't just about the protagonist trying to get to the castle and resolve the issue.

* {{Shopkeeper}}:
** Da Vinci serves as the default shopkeeper in the game, though she can be affected by the player's progress in the main story, like turning into a hologram when she personally joins the protagonist in Camelot and [[spoiler:being replaced by the younger Da Vinci in the ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'' storyline when the original one is killed.]]
** Event shops (with some exceptions) has the event's featured Servant (usually the reward one if there's any) as their shopkeeper.

** The prologue to the second storyline of the game is not kind to the player (you) and your team. [[spoiler:The Mage's Association forcibly turns off the Chaldea summoning system, banishes all the protagonist's previously summoned servants, sends a whole new staff and a new head to Chaldea (Da Vinci and even ''you'' were fired) and brings in a PMC force to deal with any protests, basically shutting off any means to deal with any danger humanity will face for the time being. Worse, ''Kotomine Kirei himself'' joined the fray means the church is involved in the mess too. Then they get attacked by Anastasia and her army, as both Kotomine and Konyanskaya are collaborating with them to take control of Chaldea, with the onslaught reducing the number of Chaldea's remaining employees from 40 to 8, Da Vinci gets brutally impaled by Kotomine with his bare hands, and the protagonists are forced to abandon the observatory, and the antagonists begin the process of erasing history. Even worse, seven Masters from Chaldea are revealed to be going along with this, with the aims of bringing back the Age of Gods.]] The saving grace is that [[spoiler:Holmes secretly evacuated the servants and hid their Saint Graphs for insurance, da Vinci managed to get a backup body and she brought a backup Saint Graph database along with them so they still have access to their Servants]], but for the time being things will be ''very'' bleak.

** [[spoiler: Lostbelt 5 is the biggest story of the entire game at the time of the chapter's release, having two full-sized maps in separate panels on the menu for story maps. To cover the entirety of the Lostbelt by splitting it up into two parts. Part 1 Atlantis, and is the desperate war to get through the Ocean with the New Argonauts to reach Mount Olympus, and the second part is Olympus, covering the actual assault and ascent of Mount Olympus while attempting to confront the leader of the Crypters and chosen emissary of the Foreign God, Kirschtaria Wodime. As the protagonist struggles to gain even an inch in the Lostbelt from the second they enter, the casualties are extremely high even with the aid of the Grand Archer, Orion, and they just barely manage to push on to Olympus proper with Wodime having them dead to rights at certain points. Part 2 Olympus, Vitch is revealed to becoming a Beast but is not there yet, and another prominent character who gets their existence erased. The Foreign God is revealed to be the true Beast of the lurking in the Lostbelt and is Beast VII, foreshadowed by Gilgamesh in Solomon, who is called U-Olga Marie. She then wounds Wodime before leaving. Oh, this chapter also confirms the existence of Black Barrel, a superweapon within the franchise, and the Ultimate Ones in ''Fate'' universe.]]
** Lostbelt 6.5 provided a huge WhamEpisode with that chapter's ending. [[spoiler:It gets revealed that Sherlock Holmes was actually the first Disciple of the Foreign God (who subjected himself to LaserGuidedAmnesia), and Ruler Moriarty was sent as a Disciple of the Foreign ''World'' ([[GeniusLoci as in the World's own will]], not the Foreign God). Once Holmes finds out about it, he makes a HeroicSacrifice to ensure that he won't be Chaldea's enemy. Then, after a battle with Ruler Moriarty, the Disciple of the Foreign World shows Chaldea that Subject E was the main cause of the singularity, and explains that the alien has been on Earth for 100 years (despite how David Bluebook's dialogue implies that the alien landed in the year 2016).]]

---> ''I feed on humanity's battles, growth, envy, and regret and use it for my characteristic as a beast to "become stronger than the enemy". The beast of calamity, [[spoiler: Cath Palug]]. In a different time and place, I might have been called [[spoiler:the great killer of primates - [[{{VisualNovel/Tsukihime}} Primate Murder]]]].''

-->'''Goetia:''' As I though, just empty words! You have always been nothing but talk, fool! Just die. I will send you to your death with your own Noble Phantasm.\\

** Samsara of Creation and Destruction: Yuga Kshetra - "The Final Dark God" refers to the [[GroundhogDayLoop endless cycle of Samsaras]] that resets the Indian Lostbelt ever ten days, and the titular Dark God is in fact the Lostbelt King ''and'' [[spoiler:an alternate version of Arjuna that was possessed by his dark side, allowed himself to fuse with the entire Hindu pantheon, and became its [[TopGod top]] [[LastOfHisKind and only]], [[TopGod god]].]]

*** If there is romance between Romani and Da Vinci, [[spoiler: it could also qualify them as [[StarCrossedLovers Star-Crossed Lovers]] given [[HeroicSacrifice What happened]] [[CessationOfExistence to Romani]]]]

** ''GO'' also carries forward a retcon previously put forward by ''Extra'' and ''Apocrypha'' concerning Assassins. In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', the ''only'' people who could be Assassins were explicitly members of Hashashin, preferably one of the 19 "Old Men of the Mountain". Kojirou was "Assassin", yes, but he was extraordinarily unusual because he had been summoned by another Servant and wasn't a true Servant himself. As this would limit the options ''GO'' would have for Assassin-class Servants, though, this conceit has been abandoned entirely and now anyone with proper parameters and a talent for silent, agile killing can be an Assassin; the Hashashin now make up a ''minority'' (though still an important one) of the Class.

*** Finally, several story chapters also include a lot of romantic interactions, such as Hassan of Serenity's massive crush on the protagonist in Camelot and Ereshkigal's similar one in Babylonia (to the point Ishtar teases at a LoveTriangle forming between the protagonist, Mash, and Ereshkigal), Jeanne Alter and Saber Alter quasi-love triangle in Shinjuku, [[spoiler:not to mention Moriarty's plan literally revolves around the protagonist becoming the closest person to him]], and Meltryllis even playing the part of the heroine in the most serious event to date, SE.RA.PH.

*** One of Altria's My Room lines has her reminiscing fondly about [[TookALevelInKindness EMIYA]] while [[LuminescentBlush blushing]], clearly remembering him more as [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Shirou]] from the ''Fate'' route. In addition, while most Servants who have lines for EMIYA Alter are expressing sympathy for him or (in Kiara's case, mocking him).

*** Also during Okeanos, Euryale and Asterios have a BeastAndBeauty type relationship going on, or at least teased at. Asterios is fighting to protect her from Jason, but is badly injured when he attacks your party because he and Euryale assumed you were with the Argonauts. When this happens, she rushes out intending to sacrifice herself for him despite her usual self centered attitude. She's happy to see him again during [[spoiler:their stand in Solomon's Temple]].

** In and after Salem they start shipping the Caster of Midrash and Roman [[spoiler:as they are respectively Queen of Sheba and King Solomon]]. Caster of Midrash is very cutthroat when it comes to money but her demand when working with Mata Hari is that she describe [[spoiler:Solomon's time as Roman (she figured out on her own that Roman is a reincarnated Solomon)]] with a huge blush on her face. Midrash is determined to defeat Raum to ensure that none of [[spoiler:Solomon's]] legacy is being misused. David even asks that Midrash call him father if you have both of them in her My Room Lines.

** PlayedForLaughs in Garden of Order, where MHX is terrified of Saber Shiki due to the latter emitting an aura can ignore the rules of Servant Universe (comical characters can't be killed).