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| 8 | * DarkerAndEdgier: |
| 9 | ** The story progressively becomes darker with each singularity, as more and more innocent people become caught up in the multiple conflicts with Celts slaughtering anyone who gets in their way, to the Lion King being a heartless tyrant, killing anyone not deemed worthy of her city to [[spoiler:almost everyone in Uruk either being forcibly converted into one of Tiamat's Lahmus or killed by them.]] |
| 10 | ** SE.RA.PH takes on a much darker tone compared to other events and even main story chapters [[spoiler:with the diaries retelling the sordid tale of Seraphix's descent into madness, the DarkSecret of the oil rig itself, and Kiara horrifically killing Servants and abusing the near-dead Master candidates for the sake of her pleasure.]] |
| 11 | ** Shimousa is darker than prior chapters in ''[=EoR=]''. [[spoiler:The Servants in this chapter create mountains of corpses, what with Hozoin's genocide, Tomoe burning people alive, and Chiyome feeding citizens to Orochi. The enemy Servants this time around are simply reanimated corpses with a far more realistic dying sound and the red sky that appears during the climax is because of all the massacres around you. There is also a scene where Shuten plunges her hand into your stomach and plays with your ''intestines'' (it was done to repair your communication with Chaldea, but the narration pulls no punches).]] |
| 12 | ** In part two prologue, the Mage's Association arrives to take back control of Chaldea. A new director is installed after he flat out bought the entirety of Chaldea along with his extremely suspicious and sadistic assistant. The original staff, including the protagonist, are all fired and replaced by those the new director picked, and all Servants were demanded to be unsummoned. Further, the Mage's Association decides to interrogate everyone remaining in Chaldea to figure out what was happening during the last year. There's even a new Church overseer and it's none other than Kirei Kotomine. While all this is going on [[https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/7m21k6/fgo_twitter_is_going_full_evangelion/ the Japanese Twitter and website are all blasting error messages]] [[PaintingTheMedium that Chaldea and its systems are on lockdown and cannot be accessed during interrogation.]] [[spoiler:Then the sadistic assistant and Kotomine reveal themselves to be working with the new antagonists, bringing them over into Chaldea, resulting in a full-on slaughter with da Vinci brutally impaled and the protagonists forced to flee by the skin of their teeth as the one tool that could be used to stop them is forcibly frozen and deactivated.]] |
| 13 | ** While ''Observer in Timeless Temple'' got pretty dark towards the end, ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'' takes it to all-new levels. Right off the bat, [[spoiler:you're stripped of your rank and declared a heretic for breaking TheMasquerade during the events of ''Epic of Remnant'' and the first scenes see you and Mash being ''brutally'' interrogated by the Mage's Association. Then the new villains show up in force and massacre almost every remaining Chaldea official, culminating in Da Vinci being KilledOffForReal (it's explicitly stated that the young version of Da Vinci is a completely new entity, with her own identity and personality, with original Da Vinci's memories).]] The first Lostbelt introduces the dilemma of [[spoiler:people fighting for their right to live and whether it's right for Chaldea to march in and erase them. Add onto that the horrific tyranny of Ivan's kingdom and Servants being no-nonsense for pretty much the entire story without ever letting up results in a very dark tone being established.]] |
| 14 | ** The ''GUDAGUDA'' event series started as a simple gag event "Honnoji" filled with [[JokeCharacter Joke Characters]] and BreakingTheFourthWall, to the more serious "Meiji Revival" where it's mostly humorous until [[spoiler:the protagonists find out why the event is happening in the first place]], to the much darker "Strange Tale of the Imperial Holy Grail" as there are legitimate stakes at play with the need to stop Servants from rampaging and killing civilians [[spoiler:and its ending is the saddest as Okita Alter fades away permanently.]] However, it becomes the same old wacky GUDAGUDA again in its second part. |
| 15 | * ADarkerMe: During the Garden of Order event, many Servants are snatched from Chaldea into [[Literature/TheGardenOfSinners Araya's Ogawa Apartment.]] More than a HatePlague; the apartment amplifies the dark history of each Servant. Fortunately killing the Servant sends them back to Chaldea, restored. |
| 16 | * DarkReprise: |
| 17 | ** ''Epic of Remnant'''s title music has a more melancholy take on the ''Grand Order'' theme, signifying the lingering threats that Chaldea has to mop up. |
| 18 | ** Most of the game's base soundtrack was given a dramatic overhaul for ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'' to carry across the tension of Chaldea having little resources and needing to defeat the powerful Crypters and their Servants of the Lostbelts to save the world. The most notable one is "Humanity's Vow", which replaces "Humanity's Light" but unlike the latter where its use in the first storyline was during scenes of great import for Chaldea and its Servants in the quest to restore human history, is the theme of the Crypters as they discuss their plans to replace human history with their own selected timelines. |
| 19 | * DastardlyWhiplash: DiscussedTrope. In Salem, Robin mocks Hopkins for being blatantly evil and abusive (later being suspicious of him as the main villain of the entire Pseudo-Singularity) by comparing him to a mustache-twirling cartoon villain. [[spoiler:In reality, it's a bit more complex and Hopkins is one of the direct victims of the Demon God Pillar's schemes.]] |
| 20 | -->"The only way he could live up to his image of a bastard Witchfinder General more is if he went around twirling that stupid mustache of his." |
| 21 | * DeaderThanDead: Generally your servants' deaths are a slap on the wrist due to Chaldea being able to resummon and retain the dead servant's memories but there are exceptions: |
| 22 | ** [[spoiler:Roman/Solomon completely erased himself from existence which also erases him from the Throne of Heroes, preventing Solomon from ever coming back.]] |
| 23 | ** In the pseudo-singularity Salem due to the unique boundary field around Salem if any of the servants you brought were killed, Chaldea cannot retain their memories. [[spoiler:Sanson almost suffered this fate if not for Abigail.]] |
| 24 | ** In the third Lostbelt S.I.N., [[spoiler:Spartacus sacrifices his life to protect a village with his spirit origin so damaged that Chaldea cannot retain his memories.]] |
| 25 | ** In Lostbelt 5.2 Olympus [[spoiler:Musashi sacrifices her existence to seal away Lostbelt Chaos. If you have Musashi in your Chaldea, she's nothing more than an EmptyShell]]. |
| 26 | * DeadlyDustStorm: The first obstacle the party runs into when they arrive in Camelot. It cuts off contact with Dr. Roman and impedes their progress. It's deadly even on a meta-level, as the sandstorm animation on the battlefield causes a frame drop that lags the game so much, it sometimes might crash. |
| 27 | * DeathFromAbove: |
| 28 | ** The Lion King uses Rhongomyniad to shoot beams in the sky as an aerial strike towards her target in chapter 6. All those craters on the Camelot map? Those are all the villages she destroyed. [[spoiler: Arash sacrifices himself to neutralize one of her blasts with his Noble Phantasm.]] |
| 29 | ** Servants like Suzuka Gozen use their [=NPs=] to attack the enemy from above. |
| 30 | * DeityOfMortalCreation: |
| 31 | ** The Aztec [[GenderBender god(dess)]] Quetzalcoatl began as a form of alien bacterium that rode its way to Earth on the Chicxulub meteor. Over thousands of years, human belief shaped her and others of her kind into Aztec and Mayan gods, granting them incredible powers over the sun, creation, and the weather to the point of being worshipped as demiurges despite being born from humanity's image of them. |
| 32 | ** Downplayed in the case of the Olympian gods. They are actually enormous mecha from another universe who came to Earth to harvest it. But they ended up settling down on the planet instead, and their interactions with humans led them to be worshipped as gods. This belief and continued interactions with humans caused them to form human avatars and gain personalities beyond what their programming and logic dictated. For instance, Aphrodite was designed as an education robot, but became the goddess of love and beauty. [[spoiler:However, they lost their Aletheian forms during their enormous battle with Sefar 14,000 years ago. The key divergence in the Atlantic Lostbelt is that Zeus forcibly had them combine to defear Sefar, allowing them to retain their machine bodies and continually upgrade them for thousands of years, making them all even more monstrously powerful than they were in Proper Human History]]. |
| 33 | * DeliberateValuesDissonance: While the game generally tries to be cautious with the Servants by giving them more heroic attributes and at times adjusting their backstory so they aren't as extreme as they may have historically been, it doesn't shy away from having many of them maintain views that were natural to their culture at the time they lived but nowadays are very much out of touch. |
| 34 | ** It's pointed out in Salem that Puritans and indigenous people were not on the best of terms at the time and that it would be a terrible idea to send Geronimo there because he would instantly be suspected to be the cause of Salem's troubles. When Nezha is enlisted to join the investigation, da Vinci notes that she'll be presented as a curiosity for the townspeople to gawk at and have to put up with that. |
| 35 | ** Abigail Williams carries some prejudice towards Native Americans both because of the aforementioned conflict and also because her parents were killed in a raid. Though event and My Room dialogue indicate that she's slowly getting over it by interacting with Geronimo. |
| 36 | ** In Agartha, [[spoiler:Columbus states that ''every'' Servant is subject to this, and while the Holy Grail grants each Servant knowledge of the current day, they all actively ''choose'' to follow--or ignore--modern morality. Columbus is one of the latter: slavery was perfectly fine in his day, and he gleefully acts on his true conscience]]. |
| 37 | ** Hokusai doesn't think too highly of most non-Japanese people and refers to them with an old-fashioned politically incorrect term. |
| 38 | ** Shimosa has samurai fresh from the Shimabara Rebellion treat the massacre of [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseChristian Japanese Christians]] as a glorious battle. [[spoiler:The alternate and vengeful Amakusa Shiro begs to differ.]] |
| 39 | ** First Hassan outright refers to the protagonist as a pagan in a My Room chat as they are not of his very specific faith. |
| 40 | ** While Geronimo is content with how America turned out with no intention of changing history, he isn't too fond of the steps taken that led to the present. In the Salem briefing, he doesn't pull any punches in describing the events that led to the death of most of his people. He does notably ask for the permission of Edison (who's also the amalgamation of every US President) to tell the story, Edison complies stating that what happened is a part of his country's history, no matter how shameful it may be. |
| 41 | * DenserAndWackier: The events usually involve significantly more hijinks and comedy than the main story (beating up other servants to get back stolen dango, Elisabeth Bathory hosting a Halloween party, Nobunaga and Okita showing up alongside chibi-Nobu clones, Saber Alter wanting to become Santa and kidnapping you to be her reindeer, etc). |
| 42 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: |
| 43 | ** During Mysterious Heroine X (Alter)'s Trial quest (which, predictably, is a gag event in itself), Space-Agravain invokes the "Black Knight's Black Hand" Noble Phantasm upon X Alter to [[LaserGuidedAmnesia seal her memories]]. One of the last things X Alter manages to say to her mentor is that [[LampshadeHanging this name seems redundant]]. |
| 44 | ** This is fairly common among the servant profiles, especially the earlier ones. For example, see Mata Hari or Romulus: |
| 45 | --->'''Mata Hari:''' The female '''spy''' that was active on the hidden side of the world. Mata Hari lived the strangest existence among all '''spies'''. As a stripper, she conned military officers with her body until she was executed as a '''spy'''. |
| 46 | --->'''Romulus:''' The '''nation'''-building hero that appears in Roman mythology. Born of the war-god Mars and the beautiful princess Silvia, he was raised by a divine wolf. He is the '''nation'''-building king that merged several '''nation'''-states in the Mediterranean to form the cornerstone of the glorious great Roman Empire. The Crimson Divine Father. |
| 47 | * DetectiveDrama: |
| 48 | ** The London chapter begins with investigating one thing: who killed Dr. Victor Frankenstein? |
| 49 | ** Shinjuku's major conflict revolves around finding out who is responsible for running the crime scene in the pseudo-singularity. |
| 50 | * DeusEstMachina: [[spoiler:The Atlantis Lostbelt reveals that the Greek Pantheon were originally machines created by the extraterrestrial Titans in a deal with Gaia. In normal history, Sefar's White Titan destroyed their physical machine bodies, which lead to them becoming human-like in the process. In the Atlantis Lostbelt, the Greek Gods won instead and stayed their cold machine selves.]] |
| 51 | * DevelopersForesight: |
| 52 | ** There's a hidden trait called "Saber-face", given to Altria and her many lookalikes. Certain AI-controlled servants will go out of their way to attack anyone with this trait. These include [[Literature/FateZero Lancelot, who's obsessed with Altria, Gilles de Rais, who's obsessed with Jeanne]], and Caligula, who's obsessed with Nero, who herself is a Saber-face. |
| 53 | ** When a Noble Phantasm needs the lack of something (i.e. Mordred removing her helmet to invoke Clarent Blood Arthur or Altria dispelling Invisible Air to use Excalibur), the game will change the NP animation slightly to acknowledge this. |
| 54 | ** Gawain's Numeral of the Saint skill can only unleash its full power in maps with sunlight, as in lore it can only be activated in-between 9 AM to 3 PM. In any battle without sunlight, it only gives a relatively minor attack buff. |
| 55 | ** Ruler Martha's Waterfront Saint skill gives her more buffs when she's on maps with water in it. |
| 56 | ** Jaguarman's Law of the Jungle skill gives her more buffs if she's in a jungle. |
| 57 | ** Swimsuit Nobunaga's third skill boosts her attack even more in fiery maps. |
| 58 | ** When casting it against humanoid enemies, Hassan of Serenity's [[KissOfDeath Noble Phantasm]] will adjust her position to match that of the target's face (i.e. tall Servants like Heracles and mounted Servants like Altria Pendragon's Lancer Alter version). However, this gets subverted for Edmond Dantes who [[BadassBack turns away from his opponents]]. |
| 59 | ** Certain Servants introduced in ''Epic of Remnant'' have their True Name hidden until you learn them during the story. If you summon them, it'll just display their class name, and they have completely different lines depending on whether you've learned their True Name yet. |
| 60 | ** There are several Servants the player can acquire before their appearance in the main story. Doing so will usually result in different dialogue where they either recognize the player or don't depending on when they were summoned. For example; getting Ishtar from the Christmas 2017 event will have her recognize the player, but the player character won't recognize her, whereas if you summon her after completing Babylonia, the player character recognizes her, but Ishtar doesn't. The same occurs if you summon Qin Shi Huang Di, where he has new dialogue congratulating the player for summoning him if they have not met him in said story yet. |
| 61 | ** In the "Las Vegas Championship Match", normally, during the part where you fight against Rider of the Resistance and Kingprotea, normally you're supposed to attack Rider of the Resistance to trigger his perma-guts buff multiple times before Kingprotea gets annoyed by Rider's laughing and tells him to "Shut Up." by removing his perma-guts buff. Should you try to target Kingprotea anyway (good luck doing that with the massive stacks of HP) and somehow defeat her, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/p1nq1m/so_apparently_the_devs_were_smart_enough_to_know/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share she still activates the perma-guts removal on Rider of the Resistance anyway]], ensuring that the battle is not UnwinnableByMistake. |
| 62 | ** In the "Saber Wars II" event, bringing Mysterious Heroine X (including a support MHX, like the offered NPC support) to the story battle with Berserker Lancelot will cause her to recognize him and end the battle after his first health bar breaks, instead of continuing to his second health bar. It's not a difficult battle either way, though. |
| 63 | ** During the "Halloween Rising" event, BB as Kaguya-hime tasks you with collecting the five impossible relics to remove her powerful defense buffs. If you did the event at Enma-tei, you had to collect those exact relics to save the inn from the Nue's scam, so fielding your own Beni-enma (NOT including supports) proves you already have them and removes the buffs. |
| 64 | * DevilComplex: Oda Nobunaga often refers to herself as the Demon Lord of the Sixth Heaven and fully embraces her CardCarryingVillain status despite being a total goofball. [[spoiler:Later on, the ''actual'' Demon King of the Sixth Heaven shows up to engulf the cosmos in her "love" in the Tokugawa Ooku event and gleefully refers to herself as such.]] |
| 65 | * DisappearsIntoLight: This is what serves as the dying animation in gameplay. |
| 66 | ** Servants still dissipate into a cloud of light when defeated. |
| 67 | ** Shadow Servants and most enemies disappear in a foggy purple cloud when killed. |
| 68 | ** Any enemy killed by King Hassan's NP doesn't have a dying animation; they only drop loot and disappear after the NP animation finishes. |
| 69 | * DistressCall: One from the Seraphix oil rig kicks off the ''CCC'' crossover as the protagonist goes to find out what happened. |
| 70 | * DividedForPublication: Essentially what happened to Lostbelt #5 as per the Famitsu interview with game director Yoshiki Kanou as the story for this one main story chapter alone had become so insanely long (word count is not specified, but the entire document for the story from start to finish was about 1.6 MB in size) that the writers felt they had no option but to split it so players weren't overwhelmed by the sheer length. |
| 71 | * TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:Columbus]] was one step away from victory in ''Agartha'' before their ace-in-the-hole was sniped away from them by [[spoiler:[[BadassNormal one of his resistance men]], who Columbus tricked and intended to enslave.]] |
| 72 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: AbhorrentAdmirer [[spoiler:Surtr]] is eager to show Ophelia his "flaming sword." |
| 73 | * DoNotGoGentle: The entirety of the Babylonia arc is one for Uruk. [[spoiler: [[{{Seers}} Gilgamesh]] told everyone six months prior that Uruk would be destroyed and every citizen killed. Rather than give in to despair, the citizens rallied a defense force to fight and laugh until the bitter end. While Uruk still fell, [[ScrewDestiny 500 citizens managed to survive.]]]] |
| 74 | --> '''Gilgamesh:''' At that point, I foresaw the future and told my people: "[[spoiler:Uruk will be destroyed in six months. [[YouCantFightFate This doom cannot be averted.]]]]" There's no need to say what came after that. You saw all of it with your own eyes.\ |
| 75 | '''Protagonist:''' The people of Uruk knew-\ |
| 76 | '''Mash:''' And they still fought. They tried their hardest to survive till the last day. |
| 77 | * {{Doorstopper}}: |
| 78 | ** The PDF file for Babylonia's story clocks in at one thousand pages of text. |
| 79 | ** Atlantis and Olympus were meant to be one chapter, but were split in two just to give people time to read them through. Indeed, Olympus's script is ''longer than Babylonia'', with Atlantis being comparable with the other Lostbelt chapters. |
| 80 | ** The amount of writing Nasu had put writing Avalon le Fae is demonstrated with ''nine whole packs'' of paper. The time-gate for part 1 is stated to happen at 30% mark, at which point the script size is already comparable to the previous Lostbelts. |
| 81 | * DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: It's difficult for the protagonist and anyone else from Chaldea to separate the alternate, singularity-summoned Servants from the ones they know from Chaldea or even previous singularities, as they are often identical except for the immediate circumstances of the singularity. The protagonist alone has to separate their feelings for Camelot's Mordred from London's, Agartha's Dahut from Chaldea's Drake, and Shimousa's corrupted Heroic Spirit Swordmasters Shuten and Raikou from Chaldea's counterparts, hesitating on how to treat these villainous incarnations and wondering if there's anything left of the person they knew. Shimousa, in particular, focuses on this trope, as before and after the pseudo-singularity Chaldea's Servants worry about the Master's health, and several of them apologize for their AlternateSelf's behavior. |
| 82 | * DoubleEdgedBuff: Lu Bu, Fergus, and Mori Nagayoshi each possess a skill that increases their attack power at the cost of rendering it nearly impossible to put further buffs on them. This means that any support they do get must be applied before their buff-nullifying skill goes off, lest they be a sitting duck against any counterattacks. |
| 83 | * DoubleUnlock: Spiriton Dresses first needs to be acquired by either clearing specific quests or purchasing them from the store. However, to use them you need to use up materials in the Unlock Wardrobe menu to get full access to them. |
| 84 | * {{Doujinshi}}: The 2018 summer event centers around several Servants creating their fan comics to sell. The game also includes Craft Essences that are based on said comics. |
| 85 | * DragonsAreDemonic: {{Discussed}} between Saint Martha and Siegfried in [[spoiler:the Solomon Singularity]]. Siegfried is left contemplative of possibly negotiating with Fafnir, while d'Eon objects that it was evil in the first place. |
| 86 | * DragonVarietyPack: There are several Dragon enemies, with the first and most common being Wyverns, with Drakes being encountered in later Singularities and Lostbelts. Western Dragons and Hydras serve as sub-bosses, with some specific variations such as Fafnir and {{Orochi}} being bosses in their own right. |
| 87 | * DramaticThunder: At the end of "The Little Santa Alter", Santa Island Mask "betrays" the party (in a really obvious way, [[spoiler:as the protagonist and Santa Island Mask have been working together behind the scenes]]). The protagonist [[Series/{{Firefly}} curses his sudden but inevitable betrayal]] as the snowy background shifts to a background with lightning but ''without snow'' at this revelation to underline how dramatic this is supposed to be. |
| 88 | -->'''Mash:''' "...Um, where did that lightning come from?"\ |
| 89 | '''Santa Island Mask:''' "[[LampshadeHanging Try not to think about it too hard.]]" |
| 90 | * DreamSequence: The start of the first Valentine's Day Event, "Chocolate Lady's Commotion," features the protagonist waking up to a beach with a light mist distorting the scene indicating it's probably a dream. Before the protagonist wakes up from the dream, however, Kiyohime explains that she had [[MundaneUtility morphed herself into chocolate instead of a dragon]] and [[LetsMeetTheMeat is happy to let all 240,000 calories of herself to be eaten]], even if she were cut into pieces to be eaten later. The real Kiyohime coincidentally follows up on this joke in "Chaldea Summer Memory" by offering herself to be eaten; [[BlackComedyCannibalism "I probably taste delicious, like chicken!"]] |
| 91 | * DubInducedPlotHole: In the English version, Archer of Shinjuku deduces Altria Alter's name in part because it would fit a corrupted version of King Arthur but there's no apparent reason how this logic would apply to any other non-corrupted version of Altria beyond explaining the gap between "Artorius" and "Altria". The Japanese version doesn't have that bit due to there not being a need to justify the linguistic contrivance from "Artorius" to "Altria". |
| 92 | * DubNameChange: Certain names and terms differ between the literal translation of ones used in Japan and the official terms used in English. |
| 93 | ** Servants like Edmond Dantes, Jaguar Warrior, and "First Hassan" are originally named "Gankutsu-Ou" (Cavern King), "Jaguar Man" and "Old Man of the Mountain" respectively in Japan. In the First Hassan's case, he is still referred to as "Old Man of the Mountain" in dialogue and the name change was so it would fit in the text space. |
| 94 | ** The "Weak" text appearing on attack cards is changed to "Effective" in the NA version though all other servers retain "Weak". |
| 95 | ** Saint Graph is referred to as "Spirit Origin" in the English translation. Likewise, Blank Saint Graph is now "Unregistered Spirit Origin". In this case, it's due to the AlternateCharacterReading; calling a Saint Graph "Spirit Origin" is equivalent to calling a Noble Phantasm "Treasure Tool" or Reality Marble "Innate Bounded Field". |
| 96 | ** Certain event titles are changed as well upon English localization, for example, the second Christmas event "The Little Santa Alter" was originally named "The Second Generation is an Alter-chan". |
| 97 | ** Trees of Fantasy, the CosmicKeystones for ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'', are referred to as "Trees of Emptiness." |
| 98 | ** Imaginary Number Space is referred to as "Void Space" from ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'' on. This is an InconsistentDub, as it was called Imaginary Number Space in the Babylonia Singularity, and Craft Essences referencing it like "Imaginary Around" keep their names. It also causes a confusing example of name-sharing, as Void Shiki is completely unrelated to this concept but is still called "Void." |
| 99 | ** The Japanese and English versions use different titles (neither an actual, personal name) for the first Chinese emperor: Shi Huang Di ("First Emperor") in Japanese and Qin Shi Huang ("First Emperor of Qin") in English. |
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| 103 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: |
| 104 | ** The first couple of Singularities tend to have their boss fights come with zero gimmicks or Break bars and every story segment has a battle. However, by the time ''Epic of Remnant'' launched, all important boss fights have Break bars with gimmicks to make each opponent unique and not all story segments come with a fight. |
| 105 | ** When this game first came out, there were a lot of Servants that only had two skills instead of the standard three. However, those Servants would eventually receive a third skill via an Interlude or a Rank Up quest, and all servants after launch automatically come with a third skill. |
| 106 | ** Many year one units had skills that seemed more focused on being lore accurate to the character over having real gameplay advantages. For example: Characters with the Charisma skill often had different ranks to them, resulting in different percentages of damage increasing for what was largely lore reasons more than anything (such as Gawain having a lower Charisma rank than Saber Altria). As time went on, the developers started moving away from this approach due to it limiting the power of many units, and many started getting skills with no real story reason for existing, such as Merlin's Dreamlike Charisma being basically Charisma in lore, but gameplay having additional effects. |
| 107 | ** Many events in the early years tied item drop bonuses to using event-related Servants, frustrating players who didn't like that maximum farming efficiency was tied to both CharacterSelectForcing and having the luck to have the event characters, most of whom were in the gacha. This system was gradually phased out in favor of instead giving event-related Servants a damage and bond point bonus, incentivizing their use while not penalizing players who don't have them. |
| 108 | * EasterEgg: Swimsuit Nitocris in her Medjed garb and King Hassan have a chance of popping up in the background of Ereshkigal's NP animation. |
| 109 | * EldritchAbomination: |
| 110 | ** The game is full of these. Besides the Demon Pillars and [[spoiler:the Beasts]], in Salem, we have the trope namers themselves, [[spoiler:the Outer Gods as it is a Lovecraftian horror story, with one possessing Abigail Williams after Räum summons it. An Eldritch Abomination summoning a bigger Eldritch Abomination. Yikes!]] |
| 111 | ** [[spoiler:Then there's the Foreign God, who served as the GreaterScopeVillain that Goetia and the Demon Pillars originally acted against before Chaldea's intervention, with Räum even attempted to summon an Outer God as desperate action to oppose the Foreign God. Although how different the Foreign God is from the Outer Gods isn't clear yet.]] |
| 112 | * EldritchLocation: |
| 113 | ** The titular Lost Room of the second OVA shows possibilities of alternate timelines after midnight if one falls asleep in there. The DVD booklet reveals that there were one too many incidents happening in there and Chaldea called for it to be sealed off. The reason as to why it keeps happening is because it's right next to CHALDEAS so it got affected by its spatial magnetic field and warped time in that room. |
| 114 | ** Singularity F was transformed into one after being ravaged by its Holy Grail for so long. Even after removing the root cause, the inferno still rages on and it's still a Singularity on later returns with monsters roaming about. Altria comments in her interlude that the Fuyuki Grail's curse has tainted the entire land and Lancer Vlad believes there to be something sustaining the fires that need to be destroyed. |
| 115 | * EleventhHourSuperpower: In the final chapter of Babylonia, [[spoiler: Ereshkigal provides a massive buff to the party, and Merlin uses his FertileFeet to help keep the heroes above Tiamat's Chaos Tide, which is represented as being healed as much as the Chaos Tide can do damage.]] |
| 116 | * EliteMooks: [[MechaMooks Mechanical versions of the Camelot knights]] are introduced in "Great Battle at Himeji Castle", each variation having an additional buff that the originals lack. |
| 117 | * EmergencyTemporalShift: The FinalBoss of the Salem chapter lacks the Break Bars used by the other bosses of Epic of Remnant. Instead, time simply resets and she is restored back to full health. You have to deplete her health bar several times over before she finally backs down, ending the fight. |
| 118 | * EndlessWinter: The first 2 story chapters in ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'' feature an Endless Winter each, although the circumstances and response to each were markedly different. |
| 119 | ** In Russia, a meteor crash-landed onto the earth 450 years ago, throwing the planet into a new Ice Age with eternal raging blizzards and storms. The surviving humans eventually used magecraft to fuse themselves with beasts, becoming a hardier race known as the Yaga to survive in the inhospitable climate. |
| 120 | ** In Scandinavia, Ragnarok ended up being far more devastating than the version in Proper Human History, with Surtr devouring Fenrir and striking down all but one of the Norse pantheon before being sealed away. In this case, the endless winter is due to the only surviving deity being the Goddess of Ice and Snow who lacks the Authority to bring about spring, and her power is the only thing keeping the eternal flames of Muspelheim left behind by Surtr from burning away the rest of the land and rendering it all inhabitable. The most she can manage are isolated pockets of warmth and arable land capable of supporting no more than 10,000 humans altogether. |
| 121 | * EnemyCivilWar: In ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'', due to the Foreign God's [[DragonWithAnAgenda emissaries]], Crypters, and Lostbelt rulers all having their own separate goal, at least two of the three being unable to work together in some way happens without fail in ''every'' Lostbelt. |
| 122 | ** In Russia, [[spoiler:Ivan the Terrible's refusal to accept the Foreign God leads to Kadoc and Anastasia forcibly subduing him to pursue their own plans while Kotomine/Rasputin schemes to depose Ivan so he can crown Anastasia as Tsar.]] |
| 123 | ** In Scandinavia, [[spoiler:the situation pretty much implodes on itself after Ophelia fails to manage the diametrically opposed Surtr and Skadi, who were only working together by Ophelia's command and Surtr's imprisonment. Once Surtr is free, he starts attacking Skadi's forces without hesitation.]] |
| 124 | ** In China, [[spoiler:Koyanskaya ends up turning on Qin Shi Huang and Hinako after her forced imprisonment by helping Chaldea take down the Lostbelt. Likewise, Hinako's single-minded obsession with Xiang Yu leads her to disobey the emperor's orders at various points out of a desire to see Xiang Yu not get harmed.]] |
| 125 | ** In India, [[spoiler:Pepe's distaste for Arjuna Alter's wanton eradication of people in the Yuga cycles and Ashiya Doman's encouraged manipulation leads to him allying with Chaldea solely to bring the two down and put a stop to it.]] |
| 126 | * EnergyEconomy: There are two different primary kinds of currencies comprised of magic energy utilized by Chaldea in the game. |
| 127 | ** Quantum Particles/QP for short, which are spiritrons mainly used to power up your Servants. |
| 128 | ** Prisms, which have two different kinds: Mana and Rare. These are crystallized mana cubes that can be traded in da Vinci's workshop for Craft Essences, Embers, and Fou cards. |
| 129 | * EpisodeZeroTheBeginning: The Zeroth Grail: AD 2004 - Tainted City in Flames — Fuyuki. The last threshold before humanity's destruction in 2016, an alternate [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Fifth Heaven's Feel]] where the Black Grail triumphs and corrupts six of the participating Servants. |
| 130 | * EquivalentExchange: At the beginning of the "Oniland" event, if you promise to bring Mash a souvenir, she'll comment that taking objects out of singularities is difficult and requires "magical energy conversion", but she'd love an authentic wooden bear statue. |
| 131 | * EveryEpisodeEnding: Every chapter in the main story ends with an ending text upon completion. |
| 132 | ** For ''Observer on Timeless Temple'', it's "Foundation Restored" to signify the timeline reparation. Beating the FinalBoss grants "Order Complete" instead to signify the ending to the Grand Order. |
| 133 | ** ''Epic of Remnant'' is set apart with each chapter having their own unique ending text; Shinjuku has "Quod Erat Demonstratum" as a means of saying the case is closed, Agartha ends with "Happily Ever After" to fit its fairytale motif, SE.RA.PH is the only one with the standard ending text from part 1, Shimousa has "Absolute Victory" to complement Musashi winning over all the Swordmasters, and Salem has "Conclusion of the Judgement" to signify an end to the trials. |
| 134 | ** Most of ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'' ends with "Cosmos Denial" as Chaldea has ended an entire timeline. The exceptions are Atlantis, which simply ends with "Atlantis Surmount" as Chaldea has only finished one half of the Lostbelt, Heiankyo, which uses Kintoki's signature phrase, "Golden Finish", and Traum, which initially appears to have "Quod Erat Demonstratum" like in Shinjuku before it's warped into "Ex Falso Quodlibet" to reflect how the ending is a MindScrew for the protagonists after the various revelations imparted by [[spoiler:Ruler Moriarty]]. |
| 135 | ** The first Ordeal Call, Paper Moon, ends with "Complex Breakthrough", singifying the protagonist's growing understanding of Extra Classes. |
| 136 | * EvilDetectingDog: In Shinjuku, the dog that the party befriends is a good barometer on how "good" an ally is, even though they all canonically have an Evil alignment. The dog is adopted by Altria Alter (despite her protests otherwise) who names him Cavall II, and he takes a shine to the protagonist instantly. Meanwhile, Archer of Shinjuku gets mildly harassed and Hassan of the Cursed Arm gets outright growled at. Per the trope, the latter is revealed in the cutscene right afterward as the villainous Assassin of Shinjuku in disguise, while Archer has been suspicious since the beginning even after revealing he's the "good" counterpart to the true villain. |
| 137 | * EvilTwin: "Alter" Servants, who usually have PaintItBlack and UndeathlyPallor features and reject the philosophies of their counterparts. This installment of the franchise lets them be summoned and recruited by Chaldea. |
| 138 | * EvilVersusOblivion: |
| 139 | ** Chaldea can summon even the most villainous Heroic Spirits and get their help because the main villain of the game is threatening mankind's place in the space-time continuum, and Chaldea represents the last bastion of humanity against this villain. Even those who want to subjugate the world don't want to see someone else do something even worse to it, which is why they help the player. |
| 140 | ** A consistent point reiterated by people who are in the know about the MythArc of ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'' is that oblivion is ''far more'' preferable than whatever the BigBad has been planning this whole time with the bleached Earth. The Chaldean lets the events of Lostbelt 6 play out simply for that reason and [[spoiler:Daybit spends the entirety of Lostbelt 7 attempting to wake up ORT so it can take out the planet.]] It isn't revealed until the climax of Lostbelt 7 that the reason for this is revealed. [[spoiler: While the destruction of the Earth would be a bad thing it would at least be limited to the planet comparatively whatever the end result of Marisbury's plan is would affect the entire universe.]] |
| 141 | * TheExecutioner: Charles Henri-Sanson appears as an Assassin-class Servant for his reputation as an infamous executioner. He initially appears under the effects of Mad Enhancement, turning him into an AxCrazy madman who wishes to execute others so perfectly that they feel nothing but ecstasy when his blade cleaves through their neck. As a proper Servant, he's far more affable, if uptight, and prefers to use his knowledge for medical purposes and to slay his foes painlessly. He also has a certain amount of affection for Marie Antoinette, who he executed in the story. |
| 142 | * ExposedToTheElements: |
| 143 | ** Servants, in general, are resistant to any extreme natural weather regardless of how clothed he or she is due to their nature as familiars. Subverted by Summer Servants who changed to swimsuits to adapt to the summer heat and Altera the Sun(ta) losing her Saber self's Natural Body skill, making her less tolerant to cold and caught a fever, which makes her somewhat loopy as she tries to adjust to it. |
| 144 | ** Mash due to being a Demi-Servant is also unaffected by external temperature. [[spoiler:However, as of events in ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'', her tolerance to cold has weakened due to Galahad's refusal to cooperate in the Lostbelts.]] |
| 145 | ** The protagonist receives a new Mystic Code for extremely cold environments upon arrival to the Ice Age-like Lostbelt of Kadoc Zemlupus. However these clothing are way too light for -''100°C'' environment, especially with the female protagonist wearing a short skirt in such weather. |
| 146 | * {{Expy}}: |
| 147 | ** As usual, [[AscendedMeme Saber-faces]]. As of now, there is Altria herself, her Archer swimsuit version, Saber Alter, Saber Lily, Nero (and Nero Bride), Okita, Altria Lancer [Alter] (and vanilla Lancer), and Mordred (and her Rider swimsuit version). Also Mysterious Heroine X but she is not Altria. [[spoiler: Heroine X confesses that she is Altria in her final profile portion.]] X [Alter] is another one, and Mysterious Heroine ''XX'' is a future and more mature version of Heroine X with a mecha suit. And then there's the [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot gunslinger biker maid swimsuit Alter]]. Altria's VA herself said in a livestream there would be more to come, stating that they'll never be able to stop the Saber-faces. An enemy Lancelot is even programmed to fixate on and relentlessly attack Saber-faces. |
| 148 | ** Jeanne and her alternate selves are also considered Saber-faces in-universe (since Gilles mistakes Altria for her and Mysterious Heroine X mentions she has a slight similarity to a Saber-face). And with the introduction of her [[IdenticalStranger lookalike]] Lakshmibai, Saber-faces now have a subset that fans inevitably designated "Jeanne-faces". |
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| 152 | * TheFaceless: Most humanoid minor [=NPCs=] and {{Mooks}} are depicted without eyes or have their faces covered, one sign that an NPC would be a significant character if their face is properly drawn. Subverted in Gotterdammerung where most [=NPCs=] sans the clone Valkyries are depicted with proper faces. |
| 153 | * FakeDifficulty: The "Road to 7" Campaign introduced Super Recollection Quests, which has the players replaying certain boss fights, with one notable change is that enemies' [[MarathonBoss HP are bloated to extreme levels]]. While it does help encourage some patience rather than simply rushing to defeat the boss in a few turns, sometimes the Super Recollection Quests involve bosses that were ''not'' designed for turtling and forcing the player to rush before it they obliterate the entire party, and the bloating of that boss's HP can result in the player being forced to use 5* with max NP levels to even stand a chance against them, which players may not have due to the gacha system. Qin Shi Huang, Arjuna Alter, and Morgan are especially notorious for this. |
| 154 | * FallenCupid: Kama, the LoveGoddess of Myth/HinduMythology, is portrayed as a "tired worker" who comes to hate her job.[[note]]In the myth, Kama (who used to be a guy) was pressured by the other gods to shoot Shiva, who was busy meditating, with his arrow to make him notice Parvati and then create an offspring together that can defeat a powerful demon. Shiva got angry at Kama for disturbing his meditation and burned him to ashes, then turned him into "Ananga" ("The Bodiless One"). He would later manifest in a girl's body.[[/note]] She believes that LoveHurts and is a low-key sadist who enjoys seeing people fall into ruin because of love. [[spoiler:And, due to them being counterparts of each other, she's also influenced by the demon Mara of Myth/BuddhistMythology, the "demon of temptation" and "enemy of Buddhism". If Mara's influence dominates her, she becomes Beast III/L, one of the "evils of humanity" (specifically, "depravity") who wishes to shower humanity and the universe with her "love", corrupting them into depravity.]] |
| 155 | * {{Fanservice}}: Almost all the [[MsFanservice female Servants]] are either half-naked or end up that way. [[MrFanservice Some guys]] do this too, with several of them becoming or starting shirtless or wearing tight bodysuits. Amusingly, this results in actual fanservice costumes (beachwear, {{Sexy Whatever outfit}}s) covering more area on the guys and gals than their normal duds. |
| 156 | ** ''Fate/Grand Order VR'' gets a special mention for the segment with Mash in the minimalist version of her armor from the [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/fategrandorder/images/2/21/Personaltraining.png/revision/latest?cb=20160401062155 Personal Training Craft Essence]]. The segment involves three different forms of "training" including balancing and bouncing on a medicine ball with [[JigglePhysics everything you may expect]] from someone as stacked as Mash doing so, balancing on a rotating jungle gym of sorts that gives fairly generous shots of her backside, and a basic dance number broken up by her striking three sexy, if not generic, poses. She also tends to lean down during a lot of this, often right next to the viewer as if she's actively trying to invoke a {{male gaze}}. |
| 157 | ** The male Fujimaru gets some in the ''-turas realta''- manga. While he prepares to cook, [[FemaleGaze specific attention]] is given to him stretching in an apron and his butt as he looks for ingredients. [[EatingTheEyeCandy All from Mash's perspective]]. |
| 158 | ** In contrast to the main game, in ''Fate/Grand Order Arcade'' the player can actually see the Servants move around in My Room and in battle. As one would expect, the female characters are subject to JigglePhysics which becomes more noticeable the fewer clothes they have on. |
| 159 | * FantasticLivestock: The people of the Russia Lostbelt farm bicorns for transportation and hunting, as well as training exercises. Due to the environment being a DeathWorld, there's not much else they ''can'' farm. |
| 160 | * FantasyKitchenSink: The [[BeneathTheEarth underground country]] of Agartha turns out to be a hodgepodge of legendary locations from just various folklores, where Shangri-La, the Nightless City of the Han Dynasty, El Dorado, the City of Ys, and even the Undersea Dragon Palace are all miles away from each other. [[spoiler: That's because the entire thing is not real, but a construct born of Scheherazade's Noble Phantasm that brings stories to life. As she reveals this, she also weaves in one last fantasy land, and the entire country [[FloatingContinent takes off into the sky]] as the Flying Island of Laputa.]] |
| 161 | * FeminineLegSwish: Saber Frankenstein's Final Ascension art shows her lying on the beach with her legs crossed and staring at the viewer. The pose is rather intimate, as it makes her look vulnerable and ReadyForLovemaking. |
| 162 | * FictionalCurrency: QP (or Quantum Pieces) are required to upgrade Servants. In-story, characters exchange QP for various goods and services when they aren't being used to power spells or machinery. |
| 163 | * FieryStoic: |
| 164 | ** Karna possesses the Mana Burst (Flames) skill, which allows him to [[ElementalWeapon light all of his weapons on fire]] with [[ThePowerOfTheSun the sun's flames]] through his heritage to the sun god, Surya. Due to being abandoned at an early age, he has NoSocialSkills and rarely expresses what he's feeling on his face, which combined with his tendency for BrutalHonesty makes him appear resentful and bitter. In reality, he's a generous AllLovingHero, which is why he is called the "Hero of Charity". |
| 165 | ** Arjuna, who also possesses the Mana Burst (Flames) skill as well as a bow gifted to him by the god of fire himself. He tries to be an unflappable, cool-headed hero, but his burning jealousy for Karna and constant desire to prove himself makes his BloodKnight tendencies [[SubvertedTrope far more obvious.]] |
| 166 | ** Brynhild is an {{invoked}} example. She possesses the Mana Burst (Flames) skill and ''has'' to forcibly shut off her emotions, especially those towards her Master. Otherwise, she'll start falling in love with them because of their heroic qualities since they remind her of Sigurd, [[{{Yandere}} and the more she falls in love the greater her compulsion to kill them]]. |
| 167 | * FighterMageThief: |
| 168 | ** The "Cavalier" class triangle system works this way. Riders are Fighter (damage focused), Casters are Mage (support oriented), and Assassins are Thief (crit star generating focused or some kind of sabotage). The "Core" classes (Saber, Archer, Lancer) somewhat fit as well, but lack a dedicated "mage" role. |
| 169 | ** In "Super☆Ghouls 'n Pumpkins," the protagonist's party attempts to assemble a basic JRPG party. Their first member fitting this trope was Brave Liz as the red-colored, [[HeroesPreferSwords sword-wielding]] fighter and supposed heroine. Their thoughts immediately go to a healer... and they go through an ImagineSpot featuring silhouettes of Nightingale, Martha, Jack the Ripper, and Charles-Henri Sanson before deciding to just heal themselves. They recruit Robin Hood as the green-colored, bow-using thief and Nitocris as the blue-ish utility mage, and Ibaraki-Douji sneaks into the party afterward as a fighter/thief (as she talks about being a thief so great she was able to build the great Ibuki Shuten Palace on Mt. Ooe). |
| 170 | * FightingAShadow: |
| 171 | ** The Servants who you use in battle that aren't art of the story are canonically not the Servants you summoned yourself, but rather recreations of them from Chaldea a kin to Shadow Servants. The Servants summoned like this aren't always active and might not be as strong as the real Servant, but are still strong enough to support you in battle. |
| 172 | ** [[spoiler: It's mentioned through the story that killing the ''Literature/ArsGoetia'' demons doesn't diminish their numbers in the long run, as they'll simply be summoned back to life by the King of Magic.]] |
| 173 | * FightingClown: Several Servants, particular Summer versions or Santa versions or other parody versions, have a very comedic looking fighting style or have a very comedy-based concept, yet those Servants are often decent or very good in gameplay. |
| 174 | * FirstEpisodeTwist: There are several things the game drops on the player which aren't mentioned in promotional material but are incredibly vital to the narrative by playing through Fuyuki like the world meeting its end before you even finish the prologue, Mash being a Demi-Servant, [[spoiler:Olga dying and Dr. Roman having to take charge of Chaldea]], and Chaldea being bombed at the very beginning resulting in a critical emergency and almost all the Masters put in cryogenics. |
| 175 | * FishOutOfTemporalWater: Like in ''Fate/stay night'', the summoning system Chaldea uses automatically fills them with general knowledge of the modern world and subverts this. They've generally adjusted on the whole though certain concepts like idol concerts and specific fields of knowledge like astrophysics which aren't covered have to be explained to them. |
| 176 | ** Played straight with Mash as she never traveled outside of Chaldea before the game's start, resulting in her having a heck of a time trying to adjust to the multiple places they rayshift to. |
| 177 | ** The protagonist generally seems to just go along with whatever's thrown at them and doesn't bat an eye at all the exotic locales and people they meet. |
| 178 | ** The game, in general, involves ArmyOfTheAges and TimeTravel so there will be at least one Servant involved in a chapter who is completely foreign in both time and place with no connection with another Servant involved like Tamamo no Mae showing up in Victorian London, Li Shuwen in America, and Tawara Touta in the Middle East. |
| 179 | * FisherKingdom: [[spoiler:The Salem pseudo-singularity physically incarnates Sanson, Nezha, Robin Hood, and Mata Hari, and also mentally affects them, Mash, and the protagonist to force them to fit the roles given to the party in the Witch Trials and stop them from looking too closely at certain things. Also, it also weakens the Servants in gameplay by halving their levels.]] |
| 180 | * FixFic: The Fate/Accel Zero Order event is an official one from the original author of ''Fate/Zero'', as the adult Waver Velvet joins the protagonists on a singularity of the ''Zero'' war and tries to make things end better than they did the first time around. Unfortunately, since it's a singularity none of the changes sticks and history remains the way ''Zero'' depicted it, but Waver rests easy knowing that at least in one what-if version of events things worked out for the better. |
| 181 | * {{Flashback}}: Several interludes added after part one briefly establish that they occurred before the Solomon chapter [[spoiler:due to Roman's presence in them]]. They may have been written before the final chapter but couldn't be added until later. |
| 182 | * FlatCharacter: Due to a huge cast, certain characters, especially preestablished Servants before their inclusion in ''F/GO'' who have undergone CharacterDevelopment in their origin work, fall here. |
| 183 | ** One particular example is the original Saber herself, Altria Pendragon, the SeriesMascot: her ''only'' major story role is in a flashback in Camelot. Instead, most of her characterization is filled in by what other Servants say, and ''other'' versions of her, especially Altria Alter who is the StarterVillain in Fuyuki, get more prominent roles. Even Altria's summer version is a FlatCharacter [[CharacterExaggeration distorted into a parody]] who just wants food and comically dislikes Mordred, with much of her depth removed. |
| 184 | ** Altera in ''F/GO'' can be summarized by two things: being a destructive being wielding the war god's sword in serious moments and being a {{Catchphrase}}-sprouting, deadpan character in her many silly event cameos. Her story and character development are in ''VideoGame/FateExtellaTheUmbralStar'' instead -- notably, she first appears in the franchise ''here'' just to advertise that game's release in the same period. |
| 185 | * FlavorText: Craft Essences have additional pieces of lore, exposition, or quotes in them apart from the gameplay benefits. |
| 186 | * FloatingContinent: |
| 187 | ** [[spoiler:The Sixth Singularity turns into one after you clear it. Whereas once you could could see the edges of the land being eaten away by ''something'', after it vanishes all that's left is a landmass that's floating in a white void.]] |
| 188 | ** [[spoiler:Scheherazade's endgame in Agartha is to use [[Literature/GulliversTravels Laputa]] by flying it at a high enough height for people to notice and crash it into the ground, effectively breaking the masquerade by being such a large scale incident, nobody could cover it up.]] |
| 189 | * FogOfDoom: |
| 190 | ** The main threat that London revolves around. It's poisonous, can spawn Servants and [[spoiler: if charged by Tesla's lightning, would consume the entire earth.]] |
| 191 | ** The fog from the Rashoumon event is intoxicating and poisonous, even for Servants. |
| 192 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: |
| 193 | ** An ethereal plain of white grass shows up in promotion as the scenery for the first promotional art and the big battle in the first opening. [[spoiler:It's part of the central area of King Solomon's temple.]] |
| 194 | ** [[https://i.imgur.com/4VCq8MR.jpg One image from the opening of the game]], showing a decrepit ruin, seems to be based on a painting called [[https://i.imgur.com/g1bcIq2.jpg ''The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon'']]. [[spoiler:This not only foreshadows King Solomon will have a role in the story but the Queen of Sheba herself also appears in the game during Epic of Remnant.]] |
| 195 | ** The same animation above also had a frame of [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/443336337450598400/824792505370673152/hmmmm_-_Copy.jpg Fou with horns]], [[spoiler:hinting like the Fou cards used to stat boosts that he can grow further with power into a potential Beast.]] |
| 196 | ** Mash's level cap increase foreshadows her eventual rarity upgrade in Camelot. |
| 197 | ** "Saber Wars" also lampshades Mash's limited Noble Phantasm level, LeaningOnTheFourthWall as Mash and Altria Lily have formed an "Unenhanced NP Alliance" and the event slowly rolls out to upgrade a Master's supposed level 1 NP Altria Lily (received from the pre-release campaign) to [=NP5=] as she receives training from Mysterious Heroine X. Mash, in turn, receives foreshadowing that her NP is story-locked and will be upgraded later. |
| 198 | ** Later in "Saber Wars", London Singularity alumni Sakata Kintoki and Tamamo-no-Mae meet up again. Tamamo mentions that Kintoki's becoming more American all the time and that's why "Shuten" drinks; not out of desperation, but for entertainment, while Kintoki yells at Tamamo to not call her friend Shuten over or the place would turn into a battlefield. Shuten-Douji, Kintoki's on-and-off-again love interest, debuts a few months later as a Servant in the Rashoumon event. |
| 199 | ** While PlayedForLaughs at the time, E Pluribus Unum has [[spoiler: Mash reveal that Dr. Roman keeps a ring under his gloves. It's later revealed that this is the tenth Ring of Solomon, used by Marisbury Animusphere to summon King Solomon during the Fuyuki Grail War, during which Solomon was able to incarnate as a human, becoming Romani Archaman.]] |
| 200 | ** In Camelot, Sherlock Holmes brings up a very important question in regards to the current crisis. [[spoiler:Why did Solomon choose 2018? Knowing when the protagonist is born among other important factors, Solomon could easily choose a date that could be more advantageous to himself. One of the selectable answers was the idea that Solomon himself couldn't see past 2018 either, something that Holmes himself finds to be the most plausible answer and the most concerning, to say the least. As the Lostbelts chapter shows, it turns out that there was indeed another separate disaster that awaits humanity past 2018.]] |
| 201 | ** In a usual Nasuverse fashion, several events, Servant profiles or My Room lines and throwaway dialogue in the main story heavily foreshadow crucial details like [[spoiler:Ereshkigal being afraid of Fou and baffled by how the protagonist is so casual around it, which could be taken as just another moment of her being silly but it's hinting how Fou is Primate Murder/Beast IV.]] Another notable one is [[spoiler:Cú Chulainn mentioning the "Human Order Reorganization" - a.k.a. the Lostbelts - in every single Valentine's event since the beginning of the game, long before they were even introduced.]] |
| 202 | ** Altera's appearance in this game foreshadows her true identity, a major plot point of ''Fate/Extella''. |
| 203 | ** Babylonia lacking free quests at first foreshadows [[spoiler:that most of the areas will become unavailable when Tiamat awakens and starts destroying Mesopotamia.]] |
| 204 | ** Solomon's Temple is ''filled'' with commentary that points towards future events. At the very beginning, four of the Demon Pillars start panicking and talk about running away. They are the same four that make up the Epic of Remnant. Ereshkigal is from the future and makes references to things you haven't done yet. Ibaraki and Shuten-Doji discuss Magical Girls as Oni, heralding the far off Oniland. Mysterious Heroine X comments on how she hasn't gotten her Season 2 form yet, and alludes to there being Mysterious Heroine Berserkers. |
| 205 | ** Musashi's trial quest, which chronologically occurs after Solomon's Temple, features Mysterious Heroine X appearing as a minor antagonist and warning about a "second and third me" appearing one of these days, foreshadowing two future events: the coming of Mysterious Heroine X Alter and Mysterious Heroine XX (the former coming later that year, and the latter arriving a year after). |
| 206 | ** Shimousa seems out of place considering that it's the only ''Epic of Remnant'' chapter that doesn't involve the remaining Demon Pillars. However, [[spoiler: the ending reveals that Caster Limbo was using it as a prototype experiment for the Lostbelts.]] |
| 207 | ** In Shimousa, Musashi makes an offhand comment that she'd probably get in trouble if she filled the Holy Grail with udon, and then dismisses her comment as nothing. Shimousa, released on the English server in the fall after the Japanese server's summer event, is making a two-year CallForward: [[spoiler:that summer event features a swimsuit version of Musashi, and it turns out that the summer singularity was caused by Musashi eating from a Holy Grail.]] |
| 208 | ** The map for the CCC event is very odd looking- it’s a naked woman falling into the Mariana Trench. BB explains early on that the body is hers, but people familiar with the game BB is from can likely point out a few discrepancies. Namely, [[spoiler: that the map looks far closer to Kiara Sessyoin than it does BB, matching her proportions and hair identically. Sure enough, there’s a third BB map unlocked in the bonus event, and this map looks much closer to the crazed A.I.]] |
| 209 | ** As part of their contract with the Foreign God the Crypters were forbidden from looking into its identity under the threat of death. [[spoiler: The fact that a seemingly alien entity doesn't want it's past looked into even though it should be a dead end strongly hints to how close it actually is to the Crypters as it originates from Chaldea.]] |
| 210 | * FormulaBreakingEpisode: Most limited and/or seasonal events are these as the cast takes a break from saving the world to engage in zany hijinks. |
| 211 | * FromZeroToHero: TheProtagonist is mentioned to be an ordinary boy/girl with an ordinary life, who didn't know anything about magecraft until they're scouted by the Chaldea Organization to be one of the potential Masters (i.e those who control Servants); even as they're detected to have very high Master aptitude, they're noted to be lacking in magic potential. They become the only hope for saving humanity after the BigBad's "incineration of humanity" in the prologue; with limited initial knowledge and resources, they and Chaldea have to stop the BigBad's plans and somehow undo what he did. They're awkward about the whole thing at first, but over time they've become proficient to the point that by the final scenario of the first story arc, the BigBad is finally taking them seriously, and by the time of the interim between the first and second arcs, one of the masterminds of pseudo-singularities is appalled by how an average Joe like the protagonist could beat the BigBad by themselves. |
| 212 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: Some Craft Essences have little background events in their artwork. |
| 213 | ** The Cheers to 2017 CE has Kintoki and Shuten relaxing on a roof with Ibaraki behind them, spying on the couple. Meanwhile, Bathory's stuck flying on a kite. |
| 214 | ** Altria and Shirou are on a date in the same restaurant as Taiga in the Blissful Time CE; Altria has eaten enough to stack the plates high on the table. |
| 215 | ** The BB Shot! CE has female Hakuno chained to a bed with clear distress at her situation. |
| 216 | ** Fran is burying Babbage in the sand in the King, Joker, Jack CE. |
| 217 | ** In the Three Anglers CE, Gilgamesh is [[MundaneUtility using Gate of Babylon to fish]] with three fishing rods. |
| 218 | ** In the "Chaldea Lifesavers" CE, Cursed Arm Hassan is hiding in the water by Nightingale's backside, [[MaleGaze looking up]]. |
| 219 | * FusionDance: Pseudo-Servants are Servants where Heroic Spirits of Divine Spirits use a human body as a vessel for their summoning. The exact details of each fusion differ, but what generally happens is that one of their personalities are suppressed while the other takes control. Notable examples include. |
| 220 | ** The servant Zhuge Liang and Lord El-Melloi II. The two came to an agreement where Lord El-Melloi II would be the dominant personality and has access to all of Zhuge Liang's analytical skill. |
| 221 | ** The servant Ishtar and Rin Tohsaka. When summoning Ishtar during the Babylonia Singularity, the priestess plucked Rin through time to use as Ishtar's vessel. While Ishtar is the dominant personality, their merger was done in a way that Rin's personality influences Ishtar in [[TookALevelInKindness very positive ways]], with Ishtar saying that there isn't any difference between Rin and herself. And due to how their myth works, the same happened to her sister, Ereshkigal. |
| 222 | ** The servant Parvati and Sakura Matou. Parvati ended up only merging with Sakura with her consent, with Sakura agreeing if it meant to save the world. Parvati then only took the positive parts of Sakura to serve as her vessel and notes that her current personality hasn't changed, but is being reflected through Sakura's. However, because Parvati only took the positive parts, the SuperPoweredEvilSide was left empty which was eventually picked up by another Divine Spirit: Kama. |
| 223 | ** The servant Manannán mac Lir and Bazett Fraga McRemitz. They are unique among pseudo-servants as they are roughly a 50/50 split; neither the god or the human drown out the other and instead is a case where the two share a body. They can even communicate with each other this way and can take turns on who's in the drivers seat while the other becomes the "passenger". |
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| 227 | * GameBreakingBug: |
| 228 | ** Around mid-September 2022, there has been an increasing number of players who are ''unable to log in'' to the game, with the app crashing at the featured servant or the title screen. What's worse is that the known fixes has varying degrees of success among the players. Consider that events regularly log you out of the game to reconnect to the servers... |
| 229 | ** Servants with a CE that gives them a Guts buff and do not activate it before [[spoiler:ORT]]'s bar is broken during its raid sequence in Lostbelt 7 who are then killed by the boss after the bar is broken and trigger the guts buff will break the game for not allowing the death sequence to play out. |
| 230 | * GameFavoredGender: ''Fate/Grand Order'' is widely known for its bias being heavily skewed in favor of the female characters, while the plot is usually written towards Ritsuka being male. |
| 231 | ** Female Servants dominate the bulk of high-rarity units, and are more likely to be debuted as such compared to male Servants. |
| 232 | ** Female Servants are more likely to receive alts than male servants, though it's more prominent in the case of seasonal variants in which male Servants are usually relegated to just being skins or making appearances in Craft Essences. |
| 233 | ** HistoricalGenderFlip Servants are always "male-to-female" rather than the reverse. [[note]]If this wasnt the case pretty much every combat oriented Servant ever would be male so this understandable from a marketing perspective.[[/note]] Pseudo-servants that are male Heroic Spirits inhabiting the bodies of female hosts will also always be considered female. |
| 234 | ** Female characters make up a majority of the Extra class servants with only the Avenger class being even with a 4/4 female-male servant ratio. As of early 2021, the ratio of male-to-female servants in the other Extra classes are 3 vs 6 for Rulers, 0 vs 4 for Moon Cancers, 1 vs 9 for Alter Egos and 1 vs 7 for Foreigners, counting the alt for Abigail. |
| 235 | * GameplayAndStoryIntegration: |
| 236 | ** It works backward from the normal interpretation such that the gameplay limitations affect the story. The FGO Material books note in passing that your Servants like Karna and Heracles[[note]]Though not enemy versions[[/note]] do not have access to their other Noble Phantasms, mostly because it'd be hard to program and would be overpowered. However, in Heracles' Interlude, it's shown that the protagonist can't even power his Mad Enhancement properly, let alone God Hand. Then in Agartha, Astolfo can't use his other Noble Phantasms and d'Eon's isn't as strong as it should be. [[spoiler:When the latter two get outside sources of energy, they're able to fight significantly more effectively against Penthesilea's amazon warriors.]] |
| 237 | ** Storywise, it will often acknowledge if you have summoned a Servant or not when you encounter them as {{NPC}}s or enemies; with slightly different dialogue. |
| 238 | ** The ending of the Camelot Singularity very pointedly suggests that the protagonist should gather together Heroic Spirits "with whom you have fully bonded". This is not only a rare acknowledgement of players owning Servants other than just Mash in Chaldea, but is also a gameplay mechanic for the final Singularity -- higher bond level acts as an increasingly powerful passive power-up. |
| 239 | ** In Section 6 Part 1 of the Babylonia Singularity, (Caster) Gilgamesh tags along with the party to get some water and not-coincidentally run into some stone colossi to fight. He very pointedly suggests that [[TacticalRockPaperScissors they're Assassin-class and that he'd have an advantage over them]], a rare acknowledgement of that gameplay mechanic existing at all in the story. And after the fight, [[spoiler:he bemoans the power of the final Spriggan-style colossi, which is suddenly a Rider-class enemy that has advantage over ''him''.]] Another instance in the Underworld involves the party possibly being attacked by Lancer-class enemies, who have the advantage against Ishtar who is Archer-class. |
| 240 | ** The Nero Festival/Battle In New York Exhibition Battles either have Servants use ''all'' of their Noble Phantasms, no longer limited by the three skill slots and one NP slot that playable versions have or are given special buffs that fit their personalities: |
| 241 | *** Heracles has his signature God Hand which revives him twelve times. |
| 242 | *** Siegfried has Das Rheingold to supply him mana, which translates into giving him a full NP gauge at the start of the battle and the Armor of Fafnir, which gives him 200% defense. |
| 243 | *** As Mother of Warriors, Medb engages in a ZergRush, constantly bringing out more soldiers to defend her and wear down the party. |
| 244 | *** Gilgamesh decides to use more than just throwing out weapons from the Gate of Babylon, using his treasures to grant himself special buffs. |
| 245 | *** Spartacus has Crying Warmonger active, which heals him to an absurd level each turn. |
| 246 | *** The First Hassan's regular attacks have a very high instant death rate and he kills each of the Hassan mobs around him fitting his view that all his successors are unworthy. |
| 247 | *** Leoniadas' quest recreates the battle that made his legend where you face him and three hundred Spartans. |
| 248 | *** The Caster of Midrash's quest has her act like a loan shark. |
| 249 | ** Though it was mentioned in her Rider self, Medb is able to charm both sexes. While she can only charm stun males as a Rider, her Saber form can stun both males and females. |
| 250 | ** Hassan of the Hundred Personas will unleash all their collective personalities and try to ZergRush the player with over one-hundred assassin enemies, with Serenity and Cursed Arm joining in to fight as well. |
| 251 | ** In lore, Mordred cannot use Clarent Blood Arthur with her helmet on because her helmet's Noble Phantasm conceals her identity, thus she needs to remove it to use its power. In the Camelot singularity, the first fight with Mordred has her unable to use Clarent because she has her helmet on, and it's only after when she removes it that she will start spamming it. Also, if the player's Mordred is using her helmeted first ascension sprite, she will take the helmet off when using her Noble Phantasm. |
| 252 | ** In "Super☆Ghouls 'n Pumpkins," Ibaraki squares up against Tristan, who mentions gameplay mechanics. Tristan uses his Evade skill on himself (Harp of Healing, complete with a sound effect) which gets dispelled by Ibaraki's Noble Phantasm (and he comments "Oh my...! A Noble Phantasm that removes buffs..."). |
| 253 | ** Within the bond system, how fast a servant can get to Bond 5 is very much dependent on a servant's personality. To keep things simple, genuinely nice servants that are easy to get along with will have a quicker time getting into Bond 5. Meanwhile, servants with more difficult personalities to get along with, and/or have some trust issues will often take a bit longer to get to Bond 5 as usually, they'll need 50,000 Bond Points to get to Bond 5. |
| 254 | * GameplayAndStorySegregation: |
| 255 | ** As far as the story is concerned, your only Servant in each Singularity is Mash and your support is whoever guest-stars in the current chapter; Servants that are brought by the player are completely ignored. In gameplay, it's likely the exact opposite: you can control a team of five non-support Servants, and Mash probably won't be among them at least until the last story chapters due to her growth being locked behind the story. Originally, you aren't likely to use the story support because they're typically lower level and do not have a Craft Essence equipped.[[note]]In subsequent patches, players are given an incentive by giving a higher Friend Point reward for using them (+200), instead of the usual +25 from a friend Support. With the release of Lostbelt 4, all support Servants were retroactively equipped with Craft Essences.[[/note]]. Camelot, the Part One ending, as well as most of ''Epic of Remnant'' do acknowledge the protagonist has Servants other than Mash in Chaldea, regardless of whether the player currently has the Servant or not -- their presence in Singularities is just omitted for whatever reason as players can "summon" and use them in battle willy-nilly even when they're supposedly defenseless without Mash or another guest explicitly with them. |
| 256 | *** Played with in Shinjuku where the protagonist is initially sent to the pseudo-Singularity along with some Servants, but they got expelled by the pseudo-Singularity. The protagonist is left without any Servant until they meet Archer of Shinjuku who then explains that only Evil-aligned Servants can enter the pseudo-Singularity, otherwise they will be forcibly expelled. In gameplay, however, the player can use any Servant in the chapter regardless of alignment, though Evil-aligned ones have a bond point bonus. |
| 257 | *** Again played with in Shimousa as the story support version of Musashi ''must'' be brought to every duel as she supposedly goes one-on-one with her opponent, the camera transition even showing only her on the battlefield, but you can still bring in your own Servants to fight and can even swap her out of the frontline with the Plugsuit Mystic Code. In the beginning, the protagonist explicitly can't summon or use their own Servants either, and when they can, Musashi notes it's much easier for her to fight alongside these Servants. Fuuma Kotarou's presence in the story as a physical Servant from Chaldea drops some exposition, as both Musashi and the protagonist (who has a dialogue option to say that there shouldn't be a difference) are confused on how this is any different from the Servants the player has been using in gameplay all along: It turns out that the protagonist has been summoning the "shadows" of Servants' Spirit Origins temporarily rather than summoning them to participate in the singularity's story in the long-term. |
| 258 | *** This also gets played with in the Ooku event as well. At the start of the event, almost all of the staff and servants within Chaldea got taken away by Kama, and the protagonist was initially left with Kiara and Parvati to help them out in the event. While the player can use any other servants besides two those (as well as other servants they regained along the way), the player can only bring three servants instead of the standard six throughout most of the quests within the event to emphasize the limited amount of servants the protagonist has with them. |
| 259 | *** Played with in Avalon La Fae as well as [[spoiler:thanks to the Lostbelt's PointOfDivergence being [[TheBadGuyWins Sefar destroying every civilization]] (thus resetting any form of human history to zero)]], a vast majority of servants from Proper Human History can not function within this Lostbelt. While a lot of story quests have a lot of CharacterSelectForcing of the servants that can function within this Lostbelt, players are still able to bring servants that shouldn't be able to function within the British Lostbelt without any demerits. |
| 260 | ** Some Servants have amazing in-lore parameters, but lower rarity, and because of that, very weak in-game. Asterios, for example, has A++ Strength and Endurance, and in the story can go toe to toe with Heracles for a time, but he's only a 1*, the lowest rarity available. It also works in reverse, however, such as with characters like Okita Souji, who is one of the best Sabers in the game, but outside of it is laughably weak thanks to being a relatively modern Servant and having magic tuberculosis. |
| 261 | ** Some Servants who ''are'' at the rarity you'd expect for their power level are actually considered bottom tier, such as Altria being the worst SSR Saber, even though she's a strong contender for the strongest member of the class. Void Shiki has it worse despite being one of the most powerful beings in the franchise. Siegfried, despite being an excellent Saber in-lore and also being an SR Saber in-game, is also thought of as mediocre due to his low attack and only real practicality being fighting dragons. Granted, [[BalanceBuff buffs to NP and skills]] can reverse this (Altria for example is considered one of the best SSR Sabers as far as [=AoE=] is concerned post 5th Anniversary). |
| 262 | ** The relationship between how skills and Noble Phantasms work in gameplay as opposed to the story varies. Mash's Noble Phantasm, for example, offers two forms of damage reduction rather than the invincibility that it should, while Okita's tuberculosis actually makes her more likely to land critical hits! |
| 263 | ** Some Interludes claim that the Servant's NP has gained more power, but they don't actually have it upgraded in-game. |
| 264 | ** Not all skills and Noble Phantasms available in the story can be used by the Servants, often because there's only one slot for Noble Phantasms but some Servants have more than one. Some like Mordred and Medusa get around this by having the Noble Phantasm work as a skill instead. So far, only Achilles gets to use all of his Noble Phantasms in gameplay, with three as his skills and the fourth is his Bond Craft Essence. |
| 265 | ** Some Noble Phantasms also work differently compared to how they worked in the original material, this is apparent in Reality Marble [=NPs=] such as Unlimited Blade Works, Ionioi Hetairoi, Aestus Domus Aurea, and Ramesseum Tentyris. |
| 266 | ** Several event storylines have the protagonist interact with several NPC Servants under the pretense that they are those Servants' Master, whether or not the player actually has them. While you might have bronze or silver Servants who are part of the storyline, most players are unlikely to have all the corresponding gold Servants that appear in the event at hand. |
| 267 | ** After Solomon, [[spoiler:Mash supposedly lost her Heroic Spirit abilities and can't fight anymore. But you can still use her in battles just fine.]] |
| 268 | ** In the prologue to the game's second storyline [[spoiler: the Mage's Association has forcibly shut down the Chaldea summoning system and in doing so forcibly dispelled ''all'' of the protagonists servants]]. Obviously, [=DW=] would be ''completely suicidal'' to make this actually happen in the actual game. In order to keep the illusion of them gone for this prologue, they just have the player [[CharacterSelectForcing only use support da Vinci and Mash]] in the same party and no one else. |
| 269 | ** The skills listed in the Materials books sometimes don't match the ingame skills. For example, Merlin's first skill is a unique Charisma variant that also adds 20% NP gauge to the party. Officially, however, he just has a normal Charisma skill. It seems the unique effects are just for the sake of gameplay. Charisma had long been powercrept by that point. |
| 270 | ** [[spoiler: Musashi is an interesting case after Lostbelt 5. After being KilledOffForReal and being erased from all timelines, thusly being unable to be summoned or resummoned, the game acknowledges this by marking her unit container as "DATA LOST". That said, since they obviously can't take unit Musashi from those who have already rolled her, Musashi can still be used in battle. As well, it is still possible to roll Musashi in the gacha, as she hasn't been removed from the summoning pool.]] |
| 271 | ** Saber Gilles de Rais's profile states that he's more famous and thus more often summoned as his evil Caster version. Caster Gilles is locked to the Story Summons gacha after completing the Orleans storyline, and rare even then because there are so many other 3-star Casters; Saber Gilles can be summoned on any gacha at any time, is one of the very few 3-star Sabers, and is a meme for being such a common Servant. |
| 272 | * {{Gashadokuro}}: Oda Nobunaga's Berserker version has a Noble Phantasm where she summons a giant skeleton on fire, which proceeds to do a RapidFireFisticuffs on her enemy. Her Avenger version can summon a more gargantuan version of the skeleton, which has 3 heads and multiple arms. |
| 273 | * GenderFlip: A staple of the ''Fate'' franchise, taken up a notch with the game's huge cast. Currently, the list includes King Arthur, Emperor Nero, Ushiwakamaru (Minamoto no Yoshitsune), Jing Ke, Okita Souji, Oda Nobunaga, Mordred, Gareth, Raikou (Minamoto no Yorimitsu), Pollux (Dioscuri), Merlin from the ''Prototype'' universe, Frankenstein's Monster, Paul Bunyan, Xu Fu, Shuten-Doji, Ibaraki-Doji, Nagao Kagetora, Atilla the Hun, Xuanzang and Kato Danzo. A few subversions include: |
| 274 | ** "Orion," who claims to be this but is really the goddess Artemis parading around as him. |
| 275 | ** Francis Drake, who is implied to be Queen Elizabeth in disguise. |
| 276 | ** Leonardo da Vinci is a man in history, she just chose to manifest with the appearance of the Mona Lisa because it's her ideal form of beauty. |
| 277 | ** Quetzalcoatl, who is either using the appearance of one of the god's human hosts from history or transformed into a female as a result of her association with the planet Venus. |
| 278 | ** Miyamoto Musashi, who's from an AlternateUniverse. She also mentions that Ushiwakamaru in her universe is male. |
| 279 | ** Assassin of Paraíso is blatantly female, so in Shimousa Kotarou suggests that this would narrow down her True Name and identity since there aren't that many famous kunoichi in history. The protagonist lampshades this trope by noting that her sex might not be a huge help here, and looks pointedly at Musashi. [[spoiler:Paraíso herself isn't an example -- she's Mochizuki Chiyome, a woman in life as well.]] |
| 280 | ** Paul Bunyan, who is implied to have been male, but just summoned as female for some reason. [[LampshadeHanging Her profile and summoning dialogue are confused as to why she's a girl.]] |
| 281 | ** Katsushika Hokusai seems genderbent at first glance, although she is actually Hokusai's daughter Oui and the octopus thing with her is the real Hokusai. Oui is summoned with her father as some of his works are actually made by her under her father's name. |
| 282 | ** Kama, who is still the God of Love as he was in life; just took the vessel of a woman to qualify for pseudo-servant status. |
| 283 | ** Like Kama, Sima Yi is officially male who just happens to have a female vessel (Reines). |
| 284 | ** Van Gogh is actually the female water nymph Clytie, who is acting as a vessel for the memories and power of Vincent Van Gogh, as well as hosting the spirit for one of the Outer Gods. While it is implied that all of the spirits are active within this vessel, Van Gogh still explicitly identifies as female. |
| 285 | ** It's complicated in the case of Caenis. While in Greek mythology it's said that she was transformed into a man by Poseidon (making her the only canon GenderBender in the franchise), this version of her is still physically female, implying that this is her form before she was changed. This notion is later contradicted, however, as her profile says it's uncertain whether or not being changed into a man ever really happened to her and her profile lists her as genderless. |
| 286 | * GenreRoulette: Each Pseudo-Singularity in ''Epic of Remnant'' is based on some kind of genre fiction, as noted by Sherlock, as they are [[FillerArc self-contained stories]] with the exception of ''VideoGame/FateExtra'' CrossOver Event [[WhamEpisode SE.RA.PH]], and each follows a type of story wildly different from the next. As part of the roulette, the ending text for four of them differ from the normal ending texts used in ''Observer of Timeless Temple'' and ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt''. |
| 287 | ** Shinjuku: A [[DarkerAndEdgier gritty]] UrbanFantasy mystery that involves fighting against a magical conspiracy with the help of fiction's most notorious {{Anti Hero}}es and Jeanne Alter. Notably, the "Phantom Demon Alliance" is made up of fictional characters and {{Urban Legend}}s. [[spoiler:It's revealed at the end that was all a side-dish to the ''real'' story, an iteration of ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'' within ''Fate''. The ending text is "Quod Erat Demonstratum" because the mystery has been resolved.]] |
| 288 | ** SE.RA.PH: Because Meltryllis is the main character and her thematic motif is the ballet, the chapters are references to famous {{Ballet}}s with a twist ("''Swan Lake'' Returns", "''The Nutcracker'' Once More", "The False-Stepped ''Coppélia''", "''The Sinking (Sleeping) Beauty''"). The romantic nature of these ballets also keys into Meltryllis' arc and ShipTease with the protagonist as it is far and above the most vital part of its plot. [[spoiler:A far more troubled romance is in play for Kiara Sessyoin, who after being corrupted by the knowledge of her other lives in facets of [[TheMultiverse the Kaleidoscope,]] used love to manipulate Zepar and Emiya Alter. Her ultimate goal is to merge with the Earth for the sake of her own narcissistic "love".]] The story also serves as a [[{{Dramedy}} tragicomedy,]] as seen by BB's continuous meta jokes, Tamamo Cat being PluckyComicRelief, and other humorous moments to soften the blow of the final reveal [[spoiler:that even when Melt saves Ritsuka, she cannot come back with knowledge of this relationship, even when she's re-summoned.]] |
| 289 | ** Agartha: It draws ''heavily'' on fairytales and folklore for its plot structure as a FairytaleFreeForAll to the point where even the protagonists are vaguely aware they're in some kind of deliberate narrative. By the end, it's revealed that Caster of Nightless City [[spoiler:has been deliberately creating this mashup to create a new story, the ending of the Mystic for humanity. However, the protagonists take steps to heal her trauma, thus creating a new fairytale for her. "Happily Ever After" is the only appropriate ending text for this story.]] |
| 290 | ** Shimousa: This particular story is dual-sided. Its sections are called "Canticas" and the antagonists have ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming, primarily as allusion to ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''. On the flip side, the WholePlotReference to ''Makai Tenshō'', the historical setting of the Tokugawa period, the emphasis on sword fights between Japanese heroes and villains, and stylized violence makes it clear that this is a ''jidaigeki'' story of samurai. [[spoiler:"Absolute Victory" as the ending text leans the story more towards the latter because it frames the conclusion to Musashi's series of Swordmaster Duels as a grand victory.]] |
| 291 | ** Salem: A horror story with a cross-section between LovecraftCountry and SalemIsWitchCountry as Salem is suddenly engulfed in a mysterious expanse and Chaldea has to deal with a new iteration of the Witch Trials. Notably, while there, the Servants have to put on plays based on fairy tales and nursery rhymes to appease the Salem people. [[spoiler:The former overtakes the latter in scope as Raüm's plans are revealed. However on a character level, the latter remains the bigger focus as an impetus for development and conflict as several of them become involved in trials for purported crimes (witch-related or not) at various points. As such, the ending text is "Conclusion of the Judgment" because the trials are finally over.]] |
| 292 | * GenreShift: |
| 293 | ** The second Summer event goes from a WackyRacing tournament in "Dead Heat Summer Race" to a jailbreak story that ''still'' somehow features racing in "Death Jail Summer Escape". |
| 294 | ** "Murder at the Kogetsukan" is a [[MysteryFiction Mystery Novel]] with technically no Heroic Spirits (Servants are "playing" certain roles which is just the main character's mind trying to make sense of everything) and very little to do with the magic aspects of the game. |
| 295 | * GeoEffects: Some Servants benefit from the type of the current battlefield or stage: |
| 296 | ** In sunlight field stages, Gawain's Numeral of the Saint EX also increases his own Buster performance. |
| 297 | ** Nero Claudius (Saber) has the Goblet of Wealth B skill that also increases her own Arts performance in city field or waterside stages. |
| 298 | ** For other servants benefiting in waterside stages, we have Jeanne d'Arc (Archer) whose Waterfront Saintess (Dolphin) A+ also increases her own NP damage. Mysterious Alter Ego Λ's Noble Phantasm strips Evasion buffs on enemies first, while her Complete Fluidity B skill changes any field into the waterside type for 3 turns. Martha (Ruler)'s Waterfront Saintess B+ increases her attack as well. |
| 299 | ** Jaguar Man's Jaguar Eye A+ increases critical star absorption and generation in forest fields. |
| 300 | ** In Burning Fields, Oda Nobunaga (Berserk)'s third skill also increases attack, Demon King Nobunaga's first skill changes any field into the burning type for 3 turns. |
| 301 | * TheGhost: The VirtualCelebrity Magi★Mari who has been mentioned many of times in relation to Romani due to his obsession with her and more rarely by Merlin. It was later confirmed that Merlin is the one running Magi★Mari’s website, which heavily implies that it’s just him messing around with illusions to masquerade as a girl. Becomes UnseenNoMore when they show a glimpse of her in [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/71fe4441_33cc_4b46_9cc6_377dc758d40c.jpeg Romani’s Craft Essence]]. |
| 302 | * GhostShip: A ship possessed by vengeful ghosts appears in Ushiwakamaru's interlude, preventing her and the protagonists from rayshifting out of the area. |
| 303 | * GlassCannon: |
| 304 | ** The Berserker class does bonus damage to everyone else (except Shielder who's neutral and Foreigner who resists) and takes bonus damage from everyone else (again, except Shielder who deals neutral and Foreigner who deals ''extra'' damage since it's a true counter). This doesn't stop you from trashing enemies before they can attack you, though. |
| 305 | ** The Avenger class. They have high attack and low HP, skills that emphasize attack and they have no class advantages to utilize, barring Rulers. |
| 306 | * TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Ishtar and Ereshkigal seemingly already bickered a lot, but if you have both of them the issue is exacerbated by the fact that thanks to the way they were summoned, they're in a sense the ''same person'' now. |
| 307 | * GodInHumanForm: Divine spirits can't normally be summoned or manifest anymore because of not fully explained reasons regarding the nature of reality changing, but there are a couple of workarounds. None of them let them use their full power. |
| 308 | ** One, they can manifest by using an inferior vessel that bars them from using their full strength or even several of their more powerful abilities. The playable Quetzalcoatl works like this and while it should be the same for Stheno and Euryale, they were actually so weak in life that they're ''stronger'' as Servants and given abilities they didn't even have, such as Euryale's bow. She has no idea where it came from and notes that it should belong to Cupid. |
| 309 | ** Two, they can share a body with a compatible human, which merges their personality. Ereshkigal and Ishtar both make use of this with Ishtar explaining that in her current form, she's about 70% Ishtar and 30% Tohsaka Rin, who is her host. This has a stabilizing effect on her personality. Ereshkigal got the other portions of Tohsaka's personality, leading Ishtar and Ereshkigal to consider themselves to be partially the same person. |
| 310 | ** Third, they can hijack another Servant's Saint Graph, which is like the core of a Servant. This is how Artemis manifests as an Archer with Orion's abilities. Much to her surprise in Okeanos, this bars her from using any of her true abilities or bypassing divine protections. She isn't even as strong as the real Orion because she doesn't really possess any of his skills. |
| 311 | * GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Lostbelt 4 and Lostbelt 5[[spoiler:.2]] reveals one of the differences between Divine Spirits and gods is Divine Spirits' powers are dependent on their followers' belief in them while gods's powers inherent to themselves. [[spoiler:Thus why Arjuna Over Gods is weaker than Lostbelt Zeus as the Hindu pantheon that merged with Arjuna were only Divine Spirits whose powers weakened due to Arjuna's various actions leading to their followers losing belief in them. Lostbelt Zeus, meanwhile, still has his original body in this timeline since he didn't have it destroyed against Sefar and become a degraded Divine Spirit as a result like in Proper Human History, allowing him to continue growing stronger while not being affected power-wise by the deaths of his loyal armies.]] |
| 312 | * GodzillaThreshold: |
| 313 | ** The Earth has been incinerated, forcing dozens of Servants who normally wouldn't be cooperative like Caligula and Gorgon to work together for the sake of preserving the Earth and Chaldea accepts literally any Servant into their ranks for the sake of bolstering their numbers and gaining another ally to help them fight the BigBad. Similarily, Servants that normally wouldn't be summoned during a normal Holy Grail War are able to be summoned, such as Extra classes. |
| 314 | ** [[spoiler:The same goes for the Beasts as they represent such a danger to humanity to the point where ''anything'' seems like a good option after enough time spent fighting them.]] |
| 315 | ** [[spoiler:In Salem, it's crossed once Räum drives Abigail into madness, forcing the Servants there to pull out everything they've got for the sake of stopping her with it barely being enough to calm her down.]] |
| 316 | * GoldColoredSuperiority: |
| 317 | ** All SR and SSR Servants have a gold-colored card background and border shown when summoned from the gacha. Servants below these rarities, with bronze or silver borders, can be upgraded to gold with Palingenesis, increasing their maximum level by five at a time, once their maximum level hits 80. |
| 318 | ** The same goes for SR and SSR Craft Essences which have a gold border on their red backgrounds. |
| 319 | ** Gold battle warnings signify that there will be a boss and that this is more important for the story than other battles. |
| 320 | * {{Golem}}: One of the standard enemy types, they are usually rock or crystal humanoid monsters. Avicebron has his own versions who were mobs in the Apocrypha event. But of particular note is the Crystal CE fight during Advanced Quest Part IV where you fight the Hebrew {{Golem}}; and you have to turn the Emeth (Truth) into Meth (Death) to defeat it. |
| 321 | * GoodMorningCrono: After the initial tutorial battle, the protagonist is woken up by Mash in a hallway. After the protagonist comes back from Fuyuki, they pass out again, and Da Vinci wakes them up and [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] that it's [[GenreSavvy very protagonist-like of them]] to be waking up right now. |
| 322 | * GrandfatherParadox: |
| 323 | ** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. Roman says that any deaths and/or damage that happen in a paradox is undone upon fixing the anomaly. [[spoiler:Caster Gilgamesh in Babylonia reveals this is a lie. Anyone who dies in the paradox stays dead, though history "corrects" the method of how they died. Such as a human killed by a dragon in France might instead be killed by disease or an animal. At the same time, this means any person who is saved is safe. That said should something happen that is so far beyond what the World can accept it might just give up and bring the dead back to life anyway. This actually occurs to people like Siduri who were killed by Lahmu; the world couldn't find a good justification so just retconned it so it never happened in the first place.]] |
| 324 | ** In "Saber Wars", Mysterious Heroine X claims that she's sparing Altria Lily because destroying ''all'' Sabers in the past would result in X never being born, and Lily would be a great progenitor of Saber-hunting Saberfaces, apparently. It's much simpler to believe she's lying and finding a thin justification since [[MoralityPet she's just grown to like Lily]], especially since Lily's goodness has rubbed off so that X decides to spare Nero too despite claiming that they look nothing alike. |
| 325 | ** "Saber Wars" also has another lampshaded discussion of the trope when shortly afterward [[spoiler:Mysterious Heroine Z comes to finish the job X couldn't, almost killing Lily before X [[TakingTheBullet takes the stab]] for her. Z claims that as X is also a Saber, X should've foreseen that another Heroine would appear to kill ''her'' too. Tamamo-no-Mae immediately contradicts her as no one could've foreseen that kind of Ouroboros connection, and Emiya compares it to asking which came first, the chicken or the egg.]] |
| 326 | * GratuitousEnglish: |
| 327 | ** The ''Heaven's Feel'', ''Last Encore'', ''Fate/Apocrypha'', and ''First Order'' Craft Essences have their title written in English in the Japanese version. |
| 328 | ** Several parts of the Japanese UI also have a little English subtitle which goes a long way for helping non-Japanese players play the game. |
| 329 | ** World Faith Domination is said by Edison in English and its initials are also written in English. Other Servants also do this, whether in written text (Shakespeare) or speaking it out loud (Emiya's UBW chant). |
| 330 | ** Kintoki (either version) is ripe with this, saying things like "bare knuckle" or "Golden Spark" because he thinks it's cool. |
| 331 | * GratuitousForeignLanguage: Because of various nationalities between Servants, they sometimes speak in their native language like Blavatsky laughing in Russian and Xuanzang chanting the Heart Sutra in Chinese. |
| 332 | * TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: While there's a bit of a GrandfatherParadox in Singularities as fantastical events resolve to undo themselves, this trope also happens explicitly in the aftermath of the Agartha Pseudo-Singularity. In the end, numerous NPC Agartha Resistance men survive and go home to their families with stories to tell about being kidnapped by women in an underground society and fighting against all sorts of storybook enemies and events... but no one believes them as more than just fantasy. Notably, [[spoiler:it hammers in the fact that Scheherazade's plan to expose mysticism to the world failed.]] |
| 333 | * GroundhogDayLoop: Servant Summer Festival 2018[[note]]in Japan, 2020 in US[[/note]] takes place over a week that keeps repeating, which requires you to farm the event until you win [=ServantFes=]. [[spoiler:...or not as BB never intended to let you leave the loop in the first place and decides she'll just erase your memories to make you and the others keep going. Even after her defeat, however, she reveals she can't stop the loop because of how fused she is with the Divine Spirit Pele and tells them to go fight the "clones" of herself she created to weaken their bond, which is just an excuse to let you keep farming to unlock any remaining story parts, clean out the event shop, and defeat the four bonus bosses.]] |
| 334 | * GuestStarPartyMember: |
| 335 | ** Certain quests (particularly story quests) allow you to bring along a Servant who isn't from your friend list as your support Servant. While some times they may [[MyRulesAreNotYourRules not adhere to the game mechanics (for example, have a higher level than their cap or have more skills than they should at their level)]] They won't be as good as a friend who maxed the level of the same Servant. |
| 336 | ** For "Da Vinci and the 7 Counterfeit Heroic Spirits", Da Vinci is playable as your support but is not available in the gacha. The same happens again when she decides to assist the protagonist and Mash for Camelot. She was finally made playable with her release in the F/GO 1st Anniversary Campaign gacha. |
| 337 | ** Likewise in Babylonia, Merlin and [[spoiler: King Hassan]] are playable as guest Servants but weren't rollable at the time of the chapter's release. Both were later made limited-time only Servants. |
| 338 | * GuideDangIt: |
| 339 | ** There are a few basic mechanics that shouldn't be difficult but take most players a bit of time to notice. For instance, you can roll the Friend Points Gacha for free every day. And you can change the position of your support slot. And you need to go into the "Formation" menu to set up your friend supports, or your only available support will be Mash and everyone will think that you are a {{noob}}. And so on. |
| 340 | ** Servants have [[http://fate-go.cirnopedia.org/hidden.php#nav many hidden stats and traits]] that fundamentally affect how strong they are, but are difficult or impossible to discern using in-game information: |
| 341 | *** There are no numerical values to Skills or Noble Phantasm effects. While higher ranks in the same skill are ''usually'' good, there are exceptions as demonstrated between Mephisto versus Hans Christian Andersen. Noble Phantasms use vague language that isn't consistent between "significant" or "heavy" damage, for example, and the Class of an NP is just flavor. |
| 342 | *** Servant classes are inherently paired with "standard" values for Critical Star Gather Rate and damage modifiers, which affect how viable some niches are. Riders for example naturally gather plenty of Critical Stars, especially compared to the lowest-gathering classes (Casters and Berserker); this makes support Riders like Martha, Marie, and even Ushi harder to use. Two Servants with the same attack value but different classes may differ on real damage -- Assassins and Casters have a 0.9 damage modifier, while Berserkers have a 1.1 modifier, so offensive Assassins and Casters tread delicate ground by being potentially weaker than a generic Berserker (a fate Scathach Assassin generally suffers). |
| 343 | *** Hit counts combined with NP generation per hit and Star generation per hit make the difference between a seemingly strong character and a weak one. Characters are distinctly balanced by these stats -- Emiya (Assassin) has lower base generation stats than typical Assassins as a trade-off to his skillset, Kiyohime and Heracles have surprisingly high stats for Berserkers despite their modest hit counts, and so on. |
| 344 | *** The Attributes system, including the Attribute of each Servant. This system is even acknowledged InUniverse both mechanically and in the story by Emiya's Interlude, for example, but is arcane to anyone relying on in-game information. Basically, there's ''another'' TacticalRockPaperScissors system in play, with Man defeating Sky, Sky defeating Earth, and Earth defeating Man (and a ''much'' smaller sub-group of Star Servants versus [[spoiler:Beast enemies]] doing more damage versus each other). While thematically they may make sense (Mankind are historic human Servants or those of man-made origin, Earth Servants are mythological heroes, Sky Servants are divine or divinely-blessed Servants, and Star Servants are those who greatly affected the fate of mankind ''or'' are extra-terrestrial), there are many edge cases that muddle this [[note]]For example, the franchise mascot, Altria Pendragon, is an Earth Servant like the rest of the Knights of the Round Table in her basic Saber form. When corrupted by the evils of mankind as Saber Alter, she's a Man Servant, but when she acquires Rhongonmyniad, she becomes a Sky Servant regardless of her Alter status (both versions of Altria as a Lancer). Nitocris is an Earth Servant, but she's a historic pharaoh like Cleopatra, who is Man Attribute[[/note]]. Players unaware of this system will miss out on a 10% damage boost and a 10% enemy damage reduction if they match the Attribute triangle; one common consequence is that this explains why Lancelot (Berserker), an Earth Servant, has a little bit of trouble reliably clearing common Hand enemies that show up in Daily Quests, which are Sky Attribute. |
| 345 | *** Certain [=NPs=] and skills depend on Servant traits that aren't visible in-game, which can make Servants that are considered a SituationalSword weaker or stronger than they appear [[note]]Siegfried, for example, excels versus dragons, including those with draconic blood like Altria Pendragon and Elisabeth Bathory, but ''not'' Carmilla, who discards that part of her mythology[[/note]]. The two most extreme cases are Brynhildr's NP, which does extra damage to Servants she likes, and Gilgamesh's NP which does extra damage to most Servants. Both have general trends that can be assumed (Brynhildr's Beloved are Servants who remind her of Sigurd, Gilgamesh's Enuma Elish is ineffective versus most Star Servants), but both have numerous exceptions (Brynhildr's Beloved includes several female Servants, most bizarrely Mysterious Heroine XX but ''not'' any other variant of Altria or MHX, while Enuma Elish is still fully effective versus Scathach, a Star Servant, but weak versus a handful of non-Star Servants who are not from this world). |
| 346 | ** [=DelightWorks=] have been devoted to keeping Aŋra Mainiiu's existence as secret as possible, with his addition to the FP gacha for the ''Fate/Zero'' crossover event only discovered by players after maintenance. When his Bond CE was added, he wasn't listed with other Servants who had their Bond CE patched in at that time. His Interlude also was not officially announced with its upgrade simply listed as a ''bugfix'' for his skill on the website and secretly added along with Enkidu's Interlude. |
| 347 | ** During the second of the three final boss fights with [[spoiler:"Solomon"/Goetia]] in part one of the story, [[spoiler:Goetia will use a skill that gives him resistance to Noble Phantasms. On his first turn, he'll use his NP to more or less instant kill the front row thanks to buffing himself with a huge NP booster that ignores invincibility. What the game doesn't tell you though, is that while he is resistant to NPs, he can still be affected by debuffs. As a result, Servants like Mata Hari and Asterios can weaken his damage and prevent him from buffing himself. Furthermore, if the player has the Memoria of Lunar Mare Mystic Code, they can actually prevent him from using buffs for that turn, allowing their front team to survive the attack. The game doesn't at all convey this to the player.]] |
| 348 | ** Some Craft Essences have wording that can cause confusion. For example; the Origin Bullet Craft Essence says; "Apply Ignore invincibility and apply 35% Special Attack [Caster] for yourself". The way this reads, it sounds like it should equipped to a Caster to do extra damage, but what it really means is that you do 35% more damage to Casters. Craft Essences like those often tend to cause confusion for players as a result, with various guides often rewording them to correctly explain what it does. |
| 349 | ** Each item has a drop rate for it, but the drop rates have never once been actually confirmed by [=DelightWorks=]. Intead, players have pooled their data together to estimate the drop rates for items based on the enemies present, amount of runs, and AP spent per run. Some events or modes have higher drop rates, but these are similarly discovered by players and not factually presented by DW. Its not surprising thus to see players spend a long time farming for a specific item, often getting only one or two of them because of the drop rates being low. |
| 350 | ** Since the release of Okeanos, each chapters Free Quests include one or two extra locations that can be completed, but require completing other Free Quests to unlock. The issue is that nothing in game says how or where except for if the player guesses based on the map and assumes unusual empty areas have one. Since Interludes for characters from the first arc of the story require using Free Quest locations to complete them, this can prevent players from completing Interludes; Mordred's Interlude for example requires unlocking a hidden Free Quest in London but nothing in game hints at its existence and would require simply completing all the Free Quests to figure it out without a guide. |
| 351 | ** The Support List is based around recent logins. That is to say, a Support Servant becomes ''unavailable to recruit if their Master is long enough offline''. Need that MLB event currency CE? You need to refresh like crazy and hope that they show up. |
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| 354 | [[folder:H]] |
| 355 | * HailfirePeaks: The second Lostbelt "Götterdämmerung" is a land of eternal snow with mountains that are on fire. It's only livable in select areas between the two. |
| 356 | * HairColorSpoiler: Sneakily averted! The Bible describes King David as ginger but in this game he has green hair. If he had the correct hair color, [[spoiler: he'd look exactly like Doctor Roman, who turns out to be the real Heroic Spirit of David's son King Solomon.]] |
| 357 | * {{Hammerspace}}: Most Servants go into battle armed with their weapons normally, but sometimes you'll see them just whip something out of nowhere. For instance, [[IconicItem Zhuge Liang's crane-feather fan]] just appears out of nowhere when he does a certain attack animation. But it makes a kind of sense since he's a Caster (also, fans fold). Likewise, Emiya usually carries [[DualWielding twin swords]], but whips out a bow when necessary (justified by his Projection magic), and Sanzang Xuanzang pulls her companions' weapons out to attack. |
| 358 | * HandWave: Defensive Noble Phantasms like God Hand, Armor of Fafnir, or Kavacha and Kundala would be overpowered or difficult to implement, so the playable Servants just don't have them. The reasons given are pretty shoddy, such as not being able to power Heracles properly or Karna somehow lacking pieces of his armor when summoned, so it's just to balance gameplay. However, enemy Heracles in Okeanos does have God Hand, but it's not entirely clear if Karna has Kavacha and Kundala in America. If he did, [[spoiler:it wasn't enough against Gae Bolg.]] |
| 359 | * HappilyEverAfter: Agartha ends with this text befitting its storybook theme. |
| 360 | * HappyEndingOverride: Part II begins with [[spoiler: Chaldea overrun by the new villains, Da Vinci killed by Kotomine (though she has a backup), the timeline once again in danger, and the heroes forced to evacuate the observatory. The only saving grace is that they're in a position to set things right once again.]] |
| 361 | * HarmfulToPetsReminder: |
| 362 | ** During the Shinjuku Pseudo-Singularity, Altria Alter wonders if she should give her dog Cavall II chocolate or an onion as a treat, only for the protagonist to protest that dogs should eat neither of those things. |
| 363 | ** In Lobo's Valentine's scene, the protagonist tries to give Lobo something other than chocolate because he's a wolf. Lobo however has no issue with it; not because he can eat it (he can't) but because he likes the scent for its novelty. |
| 364 | * HealingBoss: The Climax Boss in the Camelot chapter, Demon God Pillar Amun-Ra. In the first fight against him, after you clear half of his health he activates a skill that heals him by 10000 HP in every turn. In the second fight (which follows immediately after the first), he opens with this move, and once he reaches half health he activates it again - bringing his recovery up to 20000 HP per turn. |
| 365 | * HealingFactor: Almost a universal trope in this game. Magic and natural toughness keep everyone going to differing superhuman extents. In Shimousa, it gets brought up a lot: |
| 366 | ** The protagonist is pretty hardy even by human (mage) standards. Warning them to remember that they're still only human, other characters often remark that the Master is MadeOfIron ''and'' recovers quickly, in part due to being Mash (Shielder)'s Master, since she grants them some bonus defensive features such as immunity to poison. In Shimousa, their organs (magic circuits) get ''rearranged'' via a hole in their torso, yet they recover well enough to return to fighting in a few cutscenes with only the help of some meager supplies. |
| 367 | ** All Servants are established to have a significant healing factor unless their Spirit Core is irreparably damaged. Before the party explains Servants to her, the mortal but robotic Katou Danzo points out how odd it is for your Servant Fuuma Kotarou to heal so rapidly, as he was found near death earlier in the pseudo-singularity. |
| 368 | ** The Seven Heroic Spirit Swordmasters exaggerate a typical Servant's healing factor to nigh-invulnerable levels. Heads roll, torsos get obliterated, and still, they return to full strength in seconds until Musashi, using one of Muramasa's demonic blades, finds a way to sever their karma. |
| 369 | * HeKnowsAboutTimedHits: Characters comment about the TacticalRockPaperScissors between classes despite it not being relevant in-story (or at least not reflecting during in-cutscene fights). |
| 370 | * HeadbuttingHeroes: Two of your three main allies in Shinjuku are Altria and Jeanne Alter, who flat out hate each other. At multiple points, they nearly try to kill each other. |
| 371 | * HeadlessHorseman: ''The'' Headless Horseman arrives as [[spoiler: one half of Hessian Lobo, Avenger of Shinjuku. Because the Horseman is more akin to an UrbanLegend than an actual Heroic Spirit, he has to team up with Lobo for the two of them to count as an actual Servant. In the game, he rides Lobo as his mount instead of his classic horse.]] |
| 372 | * HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: The first fight against [[spoiler:Solomon]] is this. Even though you defeated [[spoiler:four of his Demon Pillars, he still oneshots Kintoki, Tamamo, and Shakespeare all at once, kills Andersen a minute later,]] and makes it clear that he sees the protagonist as no threat to him, leaving them alive on a whim. |
| 373 | * HealingSerpent: [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Asclepius]] himself is available in the game as a Caster and, as to be expected, he wields the Rod/Staff of Asclepius, is associated with snakes and provides medical care both in the game's story and in actual gameplay. |
| 374 | * HeelFaceTurn: A blink-and-you'll-miss-it example: During the final battle in [[spoiler: Solomon's Temple, it is casually mentioned that some of the Demon God Pillars switched sides and [[RedemptionEqualsDeath were destroyed]] while protecting the invading Heroic Spirits, rather than fighting them. This comes right after some of the pillars display [[HumanityIsInfectious a sudden deep fascination with humanity]].]] |
| 375 | * HellOfAHeaven: For Nezha at least who mentions that the Heavenly Realm is such a boring place that some would rather go to hell. |
| 376 | * HenotheisticSociety: |
| 377 | ** Medea and Caster of Okeanos mention their patron deity Hecate, whom they worship and derive their blessings and techniques from. Medea explicitly went to Caster of Okeanos to get trained as a priestess of Hecate. Following her Rank Up Quest, Medea also gains a skill called "Blessings of Hecate". |
| 378 | ** Nagao Kagetora is a devout Buddhist who particularly favors the protection of the WarGod Bishamonten, riding into battle and shouting his name as a {{Battlecry}}. Her reputation as a nigh-invincible warrior in the Warring States period eventually led to others calling her an avatar of Bishamonten himself, and she too began to declare herself such. |
| 379 | * HeroicSecondWind: Reviving your Servants when your entire party falls in battle is this, as they revive at full health ''and'' with their Noble Phantasms fully charged and ready to go. |
| 380 | * HeyLetsPutOnAShow: In Salem, the protagonist, Mash, and the Servants have to perform a stage play every day as they are disguised as an acting troupe, each piece written by Shakespeare and Andersen. |
| 381 | * HighAltitudeBattle: |
| 382 | ** [[spoiler: The final confrontation with Tesla is on a thunderstorm above Buckingham Palace]] |
| 383 | ** The final battle against [[spoiler:Tiamat is done on magical flying platforms in front of her head.]] |
| 384 | ** [[spoiler:The battle against the Cosmos Trees which serves as the final battle in each Lostbelt chapter is high above the clouds.]] |
| 385 | * HighTurnoverRate: [[spoiler:The Director of Chaldea as after Olga's death, both of her replacements died after almost a year in the seat. Goredolf seemingly was going to beat da Vinci's record by being gunned down mere days after taking control of Chaldea, but the protagonist manages to save him before that happens.]] |
| 386 | * HistoricalBadassUpgrade |
| 387 | ** For every class, there are a few Servants that represent people who were pretty much entirely normal in life, but in this setting have all sorts of supernatural powers. Mozart, for example, has MagicMusic while Abigail Williams has Cthulhu mythos derived powers. Some upgrades are more extreme than others with writers and spies being particularly low tier while others like Abby have vastly superhuman abilities. |
| 388 | ** Anastasia Nikolaeva Romanova is also one bizarre case in which she is only known for being killed in Red October in Russia and the stories of her impostors. Here, she has a magus lineage which enables her to form a contract with Viy and gain ice powers. |
| 389 | ** It's also inverted with some mythical figures. Strong as Rama, Karna and Heracles may be compared to other Servants, they're still quite a bit weaker than they were in the stories they come from. |
| 390 | * HistoricalBeautyUpdate: |
| 391 | ** Almost a given with virtually all of the Servants (bar a few). Mata Hari, for example, has been given a significant upgrade in the chest department, while Anastasia looks a lot more elegant and fey than her historical counterpart's surviving pictures. |
| 392 | ** Inverted with Caesar, who is depicted as morbidly obese in the game, despite both historical evidence ''and'' Cleopatra's in-universe claims indicating otherwise. He's a bit evasive when it comes to explaining why. |
| 393 | * HistoricalGenderFlip: If a GenderFlip character isn’t based on someone that only exists in the realm of fiction, they’re this. |
| 394 | * HistoricalHeroUpgrade: |
| 395 | ** Villainous figures like Medea, the Minotaur (Asterios), and Ishtar are given revamped backstories where they are much more sympathetic than in popular portrayals, though their bad sides are acknowledged: Ishtar, for example, really will kill all her lovers and Asterios will slaughter anyone that treats him like a monster. |
| 396 | ** Atilla the Hun, Jack the Ripper, and Elisabeth Bathory are downplayed cases. Their heinous deeds remain, but the game presents them as being either not entirely responsible for their actions or at least redeemable. Jack and Liz, for example, are severely mentally ill rather than malicious and Altera, as she prefers to be called, is basically a robot programmed to destroy civilization. |
| 397 | ** Some characters like Karna have had their bad sides greatly downplayed in favor of making them more ideal heroes. |
| 398 | * HistoricalVillainUpgrade: |
| 399 | ** This is acknowledged in-universe for many real-life victims of this trope, through the "Innocent Monster" skill. Innocent Monster is given to Servants whose public perception is warped by rumors spread long after their death, warping the Servant's nature to obey these rumors even if they never actually did anything to deserve them. For example, Antonio Salieri was Mozart's friendly rival and collaborator in life, but because historical fiction likes to blame him for Mozart's sudden death, Salieri has received the highest rank in Innocent Monster and his Servant form has become an Avenger who resents Mozart with his entire being. |
| 400 | ** Solomon stands out, going from a good if flawed man into [[spoiler:the BigBad who is trying to exterminate humanity. This is eventually revealed to be an impostor and the true Solomon was if anything a better person than his historical counterpart.]] |
| 401 | ** Arjuna is altered somewhat to be not quite a villain but is less heroic than his rival Karna. He's arrogant, can be quite under-handed, and is jealous of Karna's natural virtue, while he struggles to suppress negative emotions. |
| 402 | ** While his creation's crimes are presented as largely the same in the novel, Victor Frankenstein himself is somewhat more of a bastard and has seemingly lost the sympathetic traits he had in the book. [[spoiler:He even murders his second creation, Eve, and steals her body. Even though she was everything he was looking for, she wasn't strong enough to defeat the original Fran and thus he deemed her a failure.]] Not only has he learned nothing, which you can argue of him in the book as well, but he's become a murderer himself. |
| 403 | ** Bishop Cauchon never really tortured Joan during the term of her trial since she was still politically liable. |
| 404 | * HollowWorld: The fabled world Agartha is a central location as one of the ''Epic of Remnant'' pseudo-singularities somewhere under central Asia. The area inside is almost exactly like the surface as it's explained that bioluminescent moss which glows at regular intervals to simulate night and day provides all the light needed for everything living there. |
| 405 | * HonestAxe: Spoofed in "Saber Wars". One of Mysterious Heroine X's random Saber enemies as she repairs her spaceship is Siegfried. Siegfried had fallen in a cave, dropped Balmung into the spring, and the goddess Stheno appeared and asked instead which witch did he drop, the older one or the younger one? Of course, he answered that he hadn't dropped either one, so now he's being stalked by Medea and Medea Lily, who respectively act as [[GoodAngelBadAngel the bad and the good angel on his shoulder]], but spoofing ''that'' trope they both just want him to steal the treasure from MHX's ship. Siegfried is framed as a victim being misled by voices in his head who are right there, moments before being blasted away by MHX in the same cutscene. |
| 406 | * HopelessBossFight: Frequent in the last few chapters of the Part 1 story. |
| 407 | ** In Camelot, for Gawain's first battle, after you chip off 100k from his health bar, the game automatically kicks you out. |
| 408 | ** In Babylonia, several bosses will have HP that reaches into the millions, but you only need to wait out a few turns or deal enough damage before the battle ends automatically. |
| 409 | ** In the final singularity, the first fight against [[spoiler:Demon King Goetia]] ends as soon as the enemy uses their Noble Phantasm. He has 1 million HP. If you manage to get it down to 0, he'll just heal up back to 1 million again. Multiple times. |
| 410 | ** Subverted with one bonus area in "Garden of Order". You're pitted against three ghosts with ''6,666,666'' HP, the likes of which blow even the infamous Robespierre Ghost from d'Eon's interlude out of the water - until you realize that your support is the Saber form of Shiki, who sports a OneHitKill Noble Phantasm that can and will take out all of the ghosts in one blow. The fight is ''winnable'' without Void Shiki, it just takes forever to whittle them down to 0 HP. |
| 411 | ** Several battles in the ''Fate/Extra CCC'' event's first chapter have them with them depending on Servants either breaking their first health bar or reaching a certain amount of turns to win the first two Suzuka Gozen fights. [[spoiler: The first battle with Kiara ends after she uses a certain attack.]] |
| 412 | ** The first fight in "Death Jail Summer Escape" is against the Avenger of Shinjuku, who has 570k HP while players must use a level 60 NPC support Servant -- doable for end-game players, but everyone else can simply endure five turns for him to use his Noble Phantasm. The battle ends at this point, but the scene [[HeadsIWinTailsYouLose plays out the same]] even if they manage to win, meaning it was a mostly-hopeless boss fight that can be brute-forced. |
| 413 | ** The first fight against Mecha Eli-chan Mk. II in "Halloween Strike! Demonic Climb - Himeji Castle War" is set up as a Hopeless Boss Fight for newer players. With a passive field-effect doing 500 damage to the entire party each turn, a Break Bar effect, and a total of 650k HP, the "Recommended level" is still only 30, and players only have to survive 6 turns. Similar to the Summer event that premiered that year, experienced players can beat this time limit [[HeadsIWinTailsYouLose with no change to the story]] as Mecha Eli-chan is too strong for the party ([[LampshadeHanging who will whine about the unfair playing field]]). |
| 414 | ** A scripted battle against [[spoiler:Kirschtaria Wodime]] in Lostbelt 5 Part 1 (Atlantis) features massive break bars over half a million HP each, 5 stacks of unremovable buff block on every party member and a Noble Phantasm that outright ''disables'' any of your buffs, making sure that no amount of preparation can block it. And since the battle ends as soon as it is used (and the enemy receives a debuff purge and full NP charge either at last break or at turn 5), your backline cannot finish the fight either. |
| 415 | *** Despite all these measures, one crafty player managed to abuse several obscure mechanics to actually [[BeyondTheImpossible win]]. Even at full charge, the Noble Phantasm cannot be used...if you already kill off all of your units before the enemy gets their turn. Arash and Oda Nobukatsu can use their Noble Phantasms to remove themselves from battle, but cannot effectively be used in the fight. Chen Gong can sacrifice a useful unit, but cannot get rid of himself. Using Arash and Chen Gong, two out of 3 Servants are removed, but using a Craft Essence "500-year obsession" places a curse on the Servant's killer...who, in this case, [[DevelopersForesight happens to be the player's Chen Gong]], who is hopefully damaged enough to instantly die to it. Ultimately, this still doesn't leave the player enough firepower to kill the enemy in time. However, thanks to the fact that Command Spells recharge based on IRL clock, you can keep the same battle running for days and endlessly recharge them. With 13 Command Spells worth of instantly charged Noble Phantasms, you can just barely finish [[spoiler: Wodime]] off. Sadly, your efforts go unrewarded by the game. |
| 416 | ** Final battle of Lostbelt 7 Part 1 against [[spoiler:ORT]] has a "Recommended level" of...[[ReadingsAreOffTheScale EX]]. The enemy's total HP is over 3.5 BILLION, spread over 11 break bars. And to make sure that no sufficiently patient stall team can beat it, it is both debuff immune and fully charges its Noble Phantasm (capable of removing all buffs from your party, adding an NP gain debuff of 200%) every turn. Inability to use your Command Spells during the Lostbelt also prevents any shenanigans like the ones used to defeat [[spoiler:Wodime]] in Atlantis. |
| 417 | * HostileShowTakeover: Many of the events do this. The second and third Halloween Events have various Servants try to wrest Halloween from Liz. Nero Fest is eventually taken over by Gilgamesh (making it Gilfest) which is later taken over by Ishtar. (Ishtarfes, of course.) |
| 418 | * HotterAndSexier: |
| 419 | ** Many of the characters who return do so with more revealing and {{Fanservice}}y costumes this time around, and a large number of the new characters are {{Stripperiffic}}. This also includes ''Medusa'' who was the Queen of {{Stripperiffic}} outfits in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. |
| 420 | ** Swimsuit Servants are for the most part essentially the hotter and sexier version of their normal counterparts, having even more titillating outfits and risque artwork. A very small number of Summer Servants subvert this by covering up slightly more than their normal counterparts mostly because of how Stripperific those were to begin with, such as Ishtar. |
| 421 | ** Given the source material, the SE.RA.PH chapter is this concerning the rest of the game. However, compared to the source material, it's significantly toned down (the Alter Egos are more modestly dressed, [[spoiler: Kiara has a far less explicit Noble Phantasm]], etc.). |
| 422 | * HowWeGotHere: "The Little Santa Alter" opens with a scene of the setting sun in the background of the ocean, as an unknown speaker looks at the waves, reflects on how alive the waves seem, how alike they are to the beginning of the world and the end of all things, and concluding that in the end, they were probably a failure as Santa. This scene is repeated [[BookEnds at the end of the event]], which confirms the speaker was Jeanne Alter Santa Lily, adds context for how she got there, and [[spoiler:subverts the meaning, as while she's sad about being a failure as Santa, she's happy at fulfilling her own wish with her own friends.]] |
| 423 | * HubUnderAttack: Chaldea is attacked frequently. |
| 424 | ** The game starts with the hub area - in this case the Chaldea headquarters - being bombed by one of the BigBad's minions and killing most of the people inside. The only reason the BigBad doesn't attack them again is because he doesn't think they're worth bothering with. |
| 425 | ** After said BigBad is defeated, [[spoiler:the Chaldea Headquarters are attacked again by a group claiming to be from the Mages' Association. The kill count is even higher this time, as the survivors can literally be counted on your fingers.]] From then on, they switch the hub level to the ''Shadow Border'', which is basically a giant tank with living facilities. |
| 426 | ** The ''Shadow Border'', being a mobile base, frequently ends up in the middle of combat. Notable examples include the director once [[BadassDriver outdrifting the Apocalypse]] and the ''Storm Border'' flying circles around [[spoiler:Cernunnos]] while the heroes are on the roof fighting it. And there are a few levels taking place ''inside'' the hub. |
| 427 | ** This trope is also the premise for some events, such as Elizabeth Bathory (the younger version) cursing the Chaldea Headquarters. |
| 428 | * HumanPopsicle |
| 429 | ** This is how the other Masters caught in the explosion in the prologue were saved. |
| 430 | ** In the third Lostbelt, it's [[spoiler:revealed that Qin Shi Huangdi has been storing all famous Chinese warriors at their prime in cryogenics, only taking them out when he requires their services.]] |
| 431 | * HumanResources: |
| 432 | ** In Babylonia, [[spoiler:Tiamat starts producing more Lahmus by processing humans into her system.]] |
| 433 | ** In Shinjuku, the Phantom of the Opera creates his minions by murdering people and then using their corpses to make automatons. |
| 434 | ** [[spoiler: In SE.RA.PH, all the enemy requires is is a magus's magic circuits. The rest can rot.]] |
| 435 | * HumongousMecha: In the Atlantis story chapter we learn that [[spoiler:the twelve Olympian gods of Greece were giant robotic deities created by the Titans, who are in turn implied to be aliens. The Olympians' physical forms died to the [[VideoGame/FateExtellaTheUmbralStar White Titan]] during her invasion of the Earth 14,000 years ago, and their Divine Spirit forms after that battle would come to take on the [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve appearances that their worshipers saw them in]]. Also, their personalities grew more humane over time; the Artemis in the Lostbelt is cold and robotic, while the Artemis that Orion knew was overbearingly loving.]] |
| 436 | * HypocriticalHumor: Mysterious Heroine X proclaims Musashi isn't a true Saber because she uses two swords. This is even though X also uses two swords. |
| 437 | [[/folder]] |
| 438 | |
| 439 | [[folder:I]] |
| 440 | * IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:In the post-credits scene, Da Vinci says that the player's Servants in Chaldea can terminate their contracts and return to the Throne of Heroes now that the Grand Order is complete, but that they care for the player and Mash too much to do so. [[AvertedTrope Unfortunately for them a year later, Chaldea is taken over and the summoning system is forcibly disabled, dismissing all the servants anyway.]] Thankfully, they come back thanks to Holmes keeping their Spirit Graphs in a special briefcase.]] |
| 441 | * IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: Daily quests and event free quests usually has 4 difficulties named "Novice", "Intermediate", "Advanced" and "Expert". However, events with more than 4 free quests names the difficulty levels beyond Expert with any theme related to the specific event like in GUDAGUDA Honnoji where levels are named after Buddhist Hells, while some others replace the standard naming completely like in "Dead Heat Summer Race" where levels are named "Drive", "High Speed", "Full Throttle" and "Overheat" (racing theme) and Part Two's "Spoon", "Shovel", "Drill" and "Dynamite" (jailbreaking theme). |
| 442 | * IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: |
| 443 | ** An unconventional example lost in the English translation; the titles of the main story chapters (i.e: "Eternal Madness Empire", "Divine Realm of the Round Table" etc.) are all composed of six kanji characters. |
| 444 | ** A distinction made between the Singularities, Pseudo-Singularities, and Lostbelts in Japanese is each Singularity is labelled "第[number kanji]特異点", each Pseudo-Singularity is labelled "亜種特異点 [Roman Numeral]", and Lostbelts are labelled "[[GratuitousEnglish Lostbelt No. #]]". The English translation preserves this distinction with cardinal numbers for Singularities and keeping the other two the same. |
| 445 | * IfIWantedYouDead: It turns out there really is a [[spoiler: Magic Chinaman in Kogetsukan, in violation of [[FairPlayWhodunnit Knox's Commandments]]]], however he points out he had nothing to do with the murders, and if he had, he could easily have used his powers to kill everyone, and not the methods used in story. |
| 446 | * ImagineSpot: In "Super☆Ghouls 'n Pumpkins," the protagonists' party think of who they should recruit as a healer in their burgeoning JRPG party. Black silhouettes of [[HarmfulHealing Nightingale]], Martha (who suggests that people heal "through adrenaline and endorphins alone), [[MeatGrinderSurgery Jack the Ripper]], and [[DeadlyDoctor Charles-Henri Sanson]] (who is effective... until [[TheAtoner his grief concerning Marie overtakes him]]) are imagined, each with their own eccentricities as they're supposedly healing people, and ultimately the party give up and decide they'd rather just heal themselves. |
| 447 | * ImmortalRuler: One of the big gimmicks for its second expansion is that every AlternateTimeline is ruled by an immortal all-powerful ruler for at least a few centuries. |
| 448 | ** [[spoiler:Ivan the Terrible ordered his court sorcerers to fuse everyone in Russia with animals to become the monstrous Yaga to survive the sudden Ice Age, with Ivan fusing with frozen prehistoric animals to become the most powerful Yaga. However, his [[SecretPolice Oprichniki]] are the ones running the scenes as he's been secluded in the palace since the fusion.]] |
| 449 | ** [[spoiler:Skadi is naturally immortal as a goddess and is notable for being the only one ''not'' to die in the aftermath of the botched {{Gotterdammerung}}, hence inheriting the position by sheer dint of no other authority around. She's been struggling to pick up the pieces in the ensuing millennia.]] |
| 450 | ** [[spoiler: Qin Shi Huangdi managed to achieve immortality via BrainUploading using ''[[TheFairFolk Zhenren]]'' technology and conquers the entire world in his own Lostbelt, becoming a peaceful paradise]]. |
| 451 | ** [[spoiler:Arjuna is selected by the Hindu pantheon to become the host for all of them, becoming a new god in the process to oversee the cycle of Yugas.]] |
| 452 | ** [[spoiler:Zeus like Skadi is an immortal god but he not only remains in power but has extended his rule to the point of humanity and even the other gods are extensions of will.]] |
| 453 | ** [[spoiler:Morgan is a fairy, and the fairies within the British Lostbelt are given PurposeDrivenImmortality that allows the fairies to live for thousands of years. She manages to take control of Fairy Britain by becoming a tyrant in order to prevent TheFairFolk from having a self-made apocalypse due to their ChaoticStupid tendencies.]] |
| 454 | * ImmuneToBullets: Given Servants' superhuman nature, they can outright NoSell or at least resist bullets fired by any non-Servant being, evident in E Pluribus Unum and Anastasia chapters. Subverted if the one who used the gun is a Servant itself, as during the Anastasia chapter, the Yagas barely harm a Servant with their guns yet Billy the Kid fells two Servants with his gun. |
| 455 | * ImprobablyFemaleCast: Originally not the case in the first few months of the game's release, however as of 2020, the game is currently this with female Servants dominating much of the roster in terms of base game Servants, limited units and alternate versions in the form of seasonal units. |
| 456 | * IncorrectAnimalNoise: PlayedForLaughs by Tamamo Cat, who, despite her name, emits barking sounds like a dog. Then again, her legend thinks she's a fox when she's actually a jackal... |
| 457 | * InconsistentDub: |
| 458 | ** The game's English release uses the widely accepted fan terminology of "Imaginary (Numbers)" to refer to the element that is 虚数 in Japanese for ''Observer on Timeless Temple'', but switches over to calling it "Void" for ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'' while still keeping the first nomenclature intact for no discernible reason. |
| 459 | ** In the original Japanese, Mori Nagayoshi refers to Nobunaga as "Ootono", a respectful term for one's master. The official English release translates Ootono as "Boss" during "GUDAGUDA Final Honnoji". However, in Mori's My Room dialogue, it's translated as "the Great Lord". |
| 460 | ** The term "対粛清" is referred to as "Anti-Purge" in Enkidu's profile and "Anti-Enforcement" in Altria Caster's Noble Phantasm buff. |
| 461 | * IndecipherableLyrics: The main song for the third Lostbelt, "Thest" by KOCHO, features lyrics that are neither Japanese (which is the band's language) nor Chinese (the setting for this Lostbelt being an alternate China), even though the song itself is meant to be a lament. |
| 462 | * InnocentFanserviceGirl: There is a lot of female {{Fanservice}} in this game. Some of the girls simply don't realize how sexy they are. |
| 463 | * InSpiteOfANail: |
| 464 | ** Despite the Fate/Accel Zero Order event creating an alternate ending for almost everybody from ''Fate/Zero'', Chaldea has to correct its nature as a singularity and remove it from the timeline, ensuring that everything will still go the same way as it originally did. |
| 465 | ** At the end of the Salem Pseudo-Singularity, [[spoiler:Raum-Carter reveals that he'd been experimenting with "simulations" of this Salem singularity bubble for several instances now, and by the time Chaldea had arrived, they were several alternative histories in. He notes that while the very first Salem was highly accurate to history (unlike the playable one), humans would cause divergences and different outcomes, large and small, from the moment of Salem's creation even when faced with identical situations. But he notes that one thing remained constant: Abigail Williams was always at the center, even as out-of-time travelers like Chaldea and Matthew Hopkins arrived.]] |
| 466 | ** Despite Lostbelts diverging potentially centuries before they were born it's not uncommon to find the Lostbelt versions of playable Servants that look and act exactly like their Proper Human History counterparts. |
| 467 | * InfoDump: Several Servants are quite knowledgeable about their exploits and past and are happy to provide this knowledge to their Master whenever they want to. |
| 468 | ** EMIYA (Archer) has seen a lot in his tenure as a Servant (and eroge protagonist) and is willing to explain what he knows to his Master. |
| 469 | *** His first interlude suddenly dropping out of nowhere a kind of classification of Heroic Spirits that had never been heard before in the ''Fate'' extended universe; that Heroic Spirits are separated on how their legends are formed. He would describe the last unknown Attribute, a direct opposite of "Star", but got cut off. He has two other lectures during his interlude, one about how the Archer class works and the last one on how a Servant-Master relationship works. |
| 470 | *** At the start of the Da Vinci event, he lectures the protagonist and Mash about Projections and fakes, setting up the theme of the event. |
| 471 | *** He connects the dots between the fake Servants and deduces Jeanne Alter's motivations, explaining them to everyone present. She vehemently denies everything. |
| 472 | ** Orion and Artemis' entrance in Okeanos, while has little bearing on the overall plot of the chapter, is indirectly explaining the mechanism of Jeanne Alter's endless wyvern army and dragons in general. |
| 473 | ** Chapter 4 has one from Da Vinci who clarifies and expands on Attributes and their importance in Servant classification that EMIYA mentioned in his Interlude and Tesla ranted about during his appearance in London. |
| 474 | ** "Garden of Order" has Roman give one about Mystic Eyes, giving a proper eye color classification for [[VideoGame/FateExtra Violet]]'s Crack Ice and talks about various attributes of Mystic Eyes. |
| 475 | ** At the start of chapter 6, Dr. Roman expounds on Mash's past, why she was able to become a demi-Servant and [[spoiler:why she collapsed at the end of chapter 5.]] |
| 476 | ** [[spoiler: Sherlock Holmes gives one on Solomon and Chaldea in Camelot, using his deductions and [[VideoGame/MeltyBlood the Hermes supercomputer]] to put his information together.]] |
| 477 | ** In "Chaldea Summer Memory", when you build certain facilities, the Servants requesting it would give you a small bit of trivia relevant to the building. For example, if you build the cabbage farm, Anne and Mary will give you a lecture about scurvy and how sailors in their time worshiped vegetables and fruits as a symbol of good luck because of their nutritional values that prevent diseases while on board. |
| 478 | * InterfaceSpoiler: |
| 479 | ** Most Servant's True Names are immediately revealed to you as soon as you roll them, revealing the identities of both [[LateArrivalSpoiler franchise veterans]] and newcomers you haven't met yet. Servants that are especially story-centric are usually story-locked, preventing you from summoning them until you complete up to a certain point in the story. But you still have a chance of rolling them during rate-up events, possibly long before you've even reached their debut chapter. The Servants introduced in ''Epic of Remnant'' [[AvertedTrope avert]] this. You need to learn their True Name in the story, even if you summon them from the gacha (it'll just refer to them by their Class name until then). |
| 480 | ** You know the last section of a given Singularity is the last one if the usual Saint Quartz reward is replaced by an item chest (which contains a Holy Grail). The one exception is Camelot, where the Grail is awarded to you before the final set of chapters. |
| 481 | ** Since the support Servant selection screen appears before any pre-battle cutscenes, you may occasionally see an NPC Servant that you won't officially meet until the cutscene plays out (such as Orion in the very first story quest of the Moon Goddess event). |
| 482 | ** The Lostbelts are numbered in the order the protagonist explores them and takes them down. Notably, this means that [[spoiler:the Lostbelt of Wodime, the leader of the Crypters and the most powerful of them due to having a host of powerful allies and game-breaking powers at his disposal, is only the ''fifth'' out of seven to be taken down]]. |
| 483 | ** Typically, the way banners for main story chapters work is by having the first banner star an allied servant or at least one who's introduced early in the storyline while the latter banners would hold the more plot-significant or hidden characters. [[spoiler: The fact that [[ArcVillian Morgan]] was on the first banner of the Lostbelt 6 banners was one of the biggest indicators of her status as the DiscOneFinalBoss of Avalon Le Fey.]] |
| 484 | * InternalHomage: There are many moments like this, as Fate is a massive franchise spanning all kinds of timelines and mediums, but the two most blatant are Waver and his younger self's conflict during the Fate Zero event which follows an extremely similar conflict between Shirou and Archer in Unlimited Blade Works, and [[spoiler: the protagonist and Goetia's final fight where they are reduced to beating the other physically after a fatal wounding to Goetia, like Shirou and Kotomine's final fight at the end of Heaven's Feel]] |
| 485 | * {{Interquel}}: The ''Literature/FateApocrypha'' collaboration event takes place after the final battle of that series but before the epilogue where [[spoiler:Sieg and Jeanne are reunited after Sieg spent [[IWillWaitForYou an untold number of years waiting.]]]] |
| 486 | * ItOnlyWorksOnce: In the mainstream ''Fate'' franchise, most Noble Phantasms of Servants are treated as such since they expend so much mana. In this game, however, it is [[AvertedTrope averted]] because the NP gauges of all servants can be filled/refilled as necessary, making Noble Phantasms spammable attacks as long as you have the skills and resources to do so. The only Servant this applies to is Arash, and this is because [[DeathOrGloryAttack his Noble Phantasm causes death after execution--even if it is high-damaging]]. Lorewise, Jeanne d'Arc has a Noble Phantasm that does this as well, La Pucelle, but she doesn't use it in this game at all, which is probably for the best. |
| 487 | ** [[spoiler: The true Solomon's Ars Nova by its very nature is this because its only purpose is to stop Solomon from being able to impact the present in any form and be removed from the Throne of Heroes as well as anything related to him in that is still active in the modern world.]] |
| 488 | * ItemFarming: |
| 489 | ** Ascension/skill levelling materials have to be obtained through beating up monsters to get a RandomDrop. |
| 490 | ** Every event requires you to grind for the event currency to buy things from the event shop. |
| 491 | * ItsAllUpstairsFromHere: The Setsubun event features the protagonist and Archer Inferno climb a pagoda with 100 (or possibly more) floors. |
| 492 | * ItsTheJourneyThatCounts: In Anne and Mary's Interlude where the party hunts down Captain Kidd's treasure, Mash thinks that his treasure will be useless but the lesson is that the journey is priceless but the pirate duo denies it and it turns out to be a real treasure. |
| 493 | [[/folder]] |
| 494 | |
| 495 | [[folder:J]] |
| 496 | * JackOfAllTrades: Sabers can be considered something of a baseline class in all aspects. Typically, they have a very safe BBAAQ deck, have average NP generation, average star weight, an average attack stat and their hidden damage multiplier are a plain 1.0 compared to the range of .9 Caster/Assassin to the 1.1 Ruler/Avenger/Berserker. Their attack stat is also typically unexceptional in either direction and in terms of skills and noble phantasms they have a fairly even distribution of Arts/Buster/Quick Servants with AOE or ST [=NPs=] compared to more specialized classes like Assassin or Berserker. It's not even that unusual for them to work double duty as backup support units, such as Nero Bride being effective Arts support or Beni-Enma being an all around support unit who also just so happens to have a very strong ST Noble Phantasm. |
| 497 | * JigglePhysics: In ''Fate/Grand Order Arcade'', the female servants do this. It’s more noticeable the fewer clothes they have on. |
| 498 | [[/folder]] |
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