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  • Ambiguous Situation: Of the scout team that was sent to deal with Ashtart Origin, only Sigurd and Jane are treated as having survived the encounter due to Ashtart Origin cursing them with immortality, with the others possibly having been Killed Off for Real due to how Origin Universe works. However, one of Goddess Scriptures reveal that one of the team members of the team was Captain Toshizo, who is apparently alive to this day due to being one of the bounty quests. The relation of the two is never commented on, so how he is still around is a mystery. Compounding matters further TOKIOMI mentions that Toshizo only appears on war-torn battlefields in language that suggests he's something of a myth, making it ambiguous if he's truly alive or some sort of spirit.
  • Amplifier Artifact: The Saber "badges" grant Saber status to Servants who wear them.
  • Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: Ashtart's approach to evil, i.e. paying people in Dislikes.
  • Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: In the first Goddess Scripture tape, the Professor makes mention of the various kinds of particles in the Shining Blue Galaxy that came into existence due to everyone becoming Servants, listing off ether, cosmic dust, Altrium, Elisa, GUDAGUDA, Kykeon, Sakura, and...Velbernote .
  • …But He Sounds Handsome: Lancelot when confronted by Heroine X.
    I'm sure I have no idea who this Knight of the Lake could be, handsome as he sounds.
  • Cerebus Syndrome: While Saber Wars was your standard comedy-based event, Saber Wars II goes wild and decides to actually flesh out the Servant Universe. The events and characters are as zany as ever, but the main plotline is actually quite dramatic, and the gag sci-fi themed Alternate Universe receives a legitimate backstory (as a world where humanity discarded flesh and blood for Spirit Origins as they became a spacefaring race).
  • Compressed Adaptation: It's manga retelling is a Denser and Wackier action-comedy that is chiefly comprised of a massive superpowered starship battle with Space Columbus.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle:
    • Sigurd deals one to the whole party when they invade the Dark Maanna, referenced in-game by how he over 8 million HP alongside an increased DEF against Dragon Trait Servants (which he forcibly imparts on the whole party) and the fight ends at Turn 5.
    • In the finale of the event, you get a preview of the power Ashtart Origin wields as she crushes your party in battle. However, once you complete the side quests, it's your fully powered Space Ishtar that will be the one handing the asswhooping.
  • Darker and Edgier: Unlike Saber Wars I where it was a comedic Star Wars parody event, shit gets real involving the Servant Universe, very zany, yet serious characters and the gag sci-fi themed Alternate Universe having a legit backstory as to how it became the way it is.
  • Debut Queue: Space Ishtar is Promoted to Playable as a limited SSR Avenger. Calamity Jane debuts as a limited SR Archer.
  • Evil Power Vacuum: The Opening Scroll explains that after the fall of the Dark Round Empire, people started to realize that they too could take over the universe if they tried hard enough, leading to formation of organizations like the Galactic Police and Amazones.com, and the rise of Space Shinkageryu.
  • Freak Out: As soon as Ashtart and the protagonist are teleported away and the real Ishtar and Ereshkigal came to find them, they realized that they are not on earth! Ereshkigal freaks out as expected, Mash on the other hand with her eyes still open is frozen stiff and passes out!
  • Gilded Cage: Ashtart sets up the kidnapped protagonist in a guest room and gives them an online shopping budget.
  • Human Sacrifice: Ashtart's initial plan is to use the protagonist as a sacrifice to become the ultimate Saber. Munenori then chooses to bring Ashtart herself to the Goddess Shrine and allows his own life to serve as the sacrifice to awaken the goddess.
  • Last Episode, New Character: In "Credits", during the Maanna crew's revisit to Beyond Texas, Billy is suddenly seen with a redhead cowboy girl who hasn't been seen before in the Fate series. The lack of dialogue in that segment means that she is left as an unnamed cameo.
  • Mundane Object Amazement: The Maanna crew are in complete amazement when you cook them... curry. Apparently making curry from scratch has vanished in the Servantverse.
  • Non-Indicative Name: Heroine X complains at the end of the event that the whole thing had basically nothing to do with the original Saber Wars. She is reduced to a supporting character, Saber Lily is completely absent from the event, and even the previously established plot with Ex and Dark R.O.U.N.D. has already been solved by Heroine X herself as per the title crawl. To put it simply, the only thing that made "Saber Wars II" a sequel to the original Saber Wars is the Servant Universe itself.
  • Precursor Heroes: As stated in the fifth Goddess Scripture, in order to combat the Primordial Goddess in the past and prevent her from destroying the Shining Blue Galaxy, an elite team was assembled, made up of one of the few Masters still left in the universe alongside a team of seven Servants: A dragon-slaying Saber, a siege expert Lancer, a literal starry-eyed Archer, a goddess Assassin from the same time period, a Rider who claimed to be a Berserker, Mister Universe (aka Merlin), and the intergalactic pirate Space Toshizo. The Saber and Archer are revealed to be Sigurd and Calamity Jane, the only survivors who were "rewarded" by the defeated Goddess with immortality until she returns.
  • Put on a Bus: The Chaldea staff are almost entirely absent from the story, as the protagonist is kidnapped from Chaldea at the very beginning and completely cut off from them.
  • Red Herring: All of the Maanna crew suspects that Gawain the Masher is one of the Six Blades due to him being a Saber carrying around six Saber Badges, not helped by the Green Kitchen being so close to Dark Maanna's location. Turns out that the badges he has are the Dislikes he has gotten from Ashtart and he's just a student of Beni-Enma, who is the actual Six Blades member.
  • The Reveal: In Goddess Scriptures 6, that Professor Tokiomi chose to awaken and raise the evil half of the Primordial Goddess.
  • Space "X": Taken to a ludicrous degree in "Saber Wars II" as the protagonist starts slapping "space" in front of the name of almost everything to distinguish them from their regular counterparts.
  • The Tape Knew You Would Say That: "Talkie" is an expository device equipped onto Maanna that is not an AI, and is "simply" playing back pre-recorded messages at appropriate times. But Ishtarin starts to wonder just how many things it has been accounted for when it alarms the crew of local space cats reacting to the curry you cooked up. Though Cosmo Cat Cat's comments seem to imply that Professor Tokiomi did end up getting into a similar situation during his travels and took that into the account while setting up Talkie.

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