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* [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]] - Use of ''Time Alter'' causes significant damage to Kiritsugu's body, especially when speeding him up, thus he is unable to go beyond a twofold speed boost {{spoiler|initially. But with Avalon and its passive regeneration factor he was able to go three, and then four times faster, in his fight with Kotomine}}.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]
* [[Dark Messiah]] - Kiritsugu in his Magus-killing prime was described as appearing at battles around the world only at their most critical stages. Combined with [[Necessary Evil]] and [[I Did What I Had to Do]], his ''modus operandi'' is exactly how Counter Guardians (the 'verse's resident Dark Messiahs) protect humanity from itself. {{spoiler|[[Like Father, Like Son]], [[Fate Stay Night (Visual Novel)|indeed]].}}
* [[Dead Little Sister]] - {{spoiler|His childhood friend, Shirley.}} The fact that {{spoiler|his father was to blame for her transformation into a failed Dead Apostle}} hit Kiritsugu hard and paved the path to his cynical standpoint.
** As did the realization that {{spoiler|had he killed Shirley when she asked him instead of running away, he would have not only saved the village, but also allowed her to die as a human}}.
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* [[Perma Stubble]]
* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]] - {{spoiler|"For me, anyway."}} Changed to [[Bond One-Liner]] in the anime.
* [[Self -Made Orphan]] - Killed both his father and his mother-figure.
* [[Shadow Archetype]] - To Saber of all people. While much is made about how Kiritsugu and his servant are at odds, on a fundamental level they share many of the same ideals and much of the trauma they endure comes from the fact that they have been betrayed by their devotion to those ideals.
* [[Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids]] - {{spoiler|But only later in life, after the war. While he was quite cynical before too, it was [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|in]] [[I Did What I Had to Do|a]] [[The Needs of the Many|different]] [[Necessarily Evil|way]].}}
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* [[Used to Be A Sweet Kid]]
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]
* [[Villain Protagonist]] as an [[Alternate Character Interpretation]], he ''is'' using a ''[[Good Guns, Bad Guns|bad]]'' type of gun.
* [[War Is Hell]] - Here's a game. Read random quotes from Kiritsugu and [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman William Tecumseh Sherman] and see if you can tell who said what.
* [[Weapon of Choice]] - His Mystic Code, the Contender Custom.
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* [[Playing With Fire]] - Tokiomi's elemental attribute.
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]] - When it comes to Rin.
* [[Sharp -Dressed Man]]
* [[Smug Snake]] - Tokiomi tries hard to set himself up as a [[Magnificent Bastard]], summoning the strongest Servant, secretly having alliances with both the Church and another Master, and acting servile to Archer despite {{spoiler|intending to kill him in the end}}, all to make him the most likely to win the Grail War. Despite correcting his overconfident, arrogant attitude {{spoiler|after Risei's death}}, he fails to realize the treachery of his Servant and pupil.
* [[Unwitting Instigator of Doom]] - Introduced Kirei and Gilgamesh. Gave Sakura to Zouken Matou. 90% of the bad things that happen in [[Fate Stay Night]] result from this. Naturally, he [[Didn't See That Coming]].
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** [[For the Evulz]] - He thinks murdering women and children is fascinating and "cool".
* [[Freaky Is Cool]] - Ryuunosuke is incredibly happy to be friends with someone who shares his ''unique'' hobby.
* {{spoiler|[[Go Out Withwith a Smile]]}} - {{spoiler|In Volume 3, when Kiritsugu snipes him.}}
{{quote| {{spoiler|''Even though his entire head above the nose had been blown away without a trace, his lips still traced a smile of total bliss.'' }}}}
** {{spoiler|While his head still remains intact when he's killed in the anime, the last expression we see on his face is still a smile.}}
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* [[Dogged Nice Guy]] - So dogged, he still hangs around Aoi despite her being married for several years to and having two children with Tokiomi. And he fails to realize that Aoi actually loves Tokiomi.
* [[Doomed By Canon]] - He enters the war on the condition that Zouken will release Sakura if he manages to win. Needless to say, he's destined to fail.
* {{spoiler|[[Go Out Withwith a Smile]]}} - {{spoiler|Kariya dies with a satisfied smile, comforted by dreams of escaping with Aoi, Sakura, and Rin and starting a family together.}}
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]] - Though he genuinely wishes to save Sakura and help Aoi, jealousy is definitely also one of his motivations. {{spoiler|At the end, his deepest wish is revealed: [[Tragic Dream|to win Aoi's heart, and to be called 'Daddy' by Sakura and Rin]].}}
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: Besides Kiritsugu, Kariya is one of few Masters with a noble goal.
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* [[Mercy Kill]] - To {{spoiler|El-Melloi}} in Volume 3, {{spoiler|after Maiya perforates him with a [[More Dakka|Steyr AUG]] and Kiritsugu refuses to finish him off}}.
* [[Mistaken Identity]] - Caster refuses to believe that she is not Jeanne d'Arc.
* [[My Master, Right or Wrong]]
* [[Not So Different]] - From Kiritsugu; both are very deeply idealistic people who throw away all their humanity and any semblance of a normal, proper human life to fulfill their ideals, and, as mentioned above in Kiritsugu's entry, share a lot of their ideals at the core and endure a lot of trauma from being betrayed to their devotion to them.
* [[Older Than They Look]] - Saber was around 25 when she died, but due to the fact that she stopped aging once she obtained Avalon, she looks around 14/15.
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* [[Pride]]
* [[Red Baron]] - "King of Heroes"
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]
** [[Hellish Pupils]] - Just in case we needed any further clues that Gilgamesh is not a safe person to be around.
* [[Shameless Fanservice Girl|Shameless Fanservice Guy]] - When {{spoiler|Angra Maniyu gives him a flesh-and-blood body,}} it also leaves him naked. Gilgamesh takes absolutely no issue with staying that way and spends the rest of the scene shamelessly walking around in the nude. {{spoiler|In the midst of a huge fire, at that.}}
* [[Semi -Divine]] - Divinity Rank B; being two-thirds god should make him Rank A, but since he dislikes the gods, his divinity is reduced by one rank.
* [[Smug Snake]]
* [[Smug Super]] - He will never lose an occasion to tell you how much better than you he is.
* [[Spotting the Thread]] - He asks Kirei (who had expressed his lack of desires from the Grail) why he doesn't simply wish for worldy pleasures. Kirei replies that he's never wish for something so "sinful and corrupt". The realization that the notions of "pleasure" and "sin" overlap in Kirei's mind is Gil's first hint that something is ''[[Complete Monster|off]]'' about the man.
* [[Storm of Blades]] - How he uses Gate of Babylon.
* [[Story -Breaker Power]] - His Gate of Babylon obviously, but even more so is the Sword of Rapture: Ea, which is a [[Wave Motion Gun|wave-motion]] [[This Is a Drill|drill sword]] that can rip a hole in reality if Gilgamesh wasn't careful. The good news is, his enormous ego tends to make him underestimate his enemies, and as such he never bothers going all out. The exception of course, is during {{spoiler|his fight with Iskander.}}
* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]] - To Iskander, who he grudgingly respects, leading to a [[Worthy Opponent]] situation.
* [[Ubermensch]] - Though mixed in with a dose of [[For the Evulz]], Gilgamesh in his core appears to have elements of this idea. He is an entity so far beyond good and evil that it becomes a form of greatness in itself, hence it could not be corrupted by the Grail. Also, in his conversations with Kirei, he essentially tells him to stop letting society define morales for him and to find his own goals instead. These just so happen to be a desire for pain and tragedy, but still.
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* [[Mr. Fanservice]]
* [[Mythology Gag]] - Possibly one regarding his death - he dies the same way as {{spoiler|the fifth war's Lancer in Unlimited Blade Works -- ordered to commit suicide by his Master.}}
* [[My Master, Right or Wrong]]
* [[No Pronunciation Guide]] - He's Celtic, after all. Something like "Deermood O'Deena".
* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]] - As he wounded Saber in their first battle, weakening her and rendering her left thumb worthless so that she cannot effectively wield Excalibur, his honor dictates that he's the only one who should properly fight her. His Master is not amused.
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* [[Friendly Enemy]] - He casually suggests that he and Saber have a drinking game and invited Gligamesh to join them when he happened to run across the guy. Until Kirei's Assassins show up, the three of them are sitting around a table, talking about their dreams, kingship and even comparing the quality of wine.
* [[Genius Bruiser]] - He's a LOT smarter that his personality would suggest. [[Fridge Brilliance|How else would he have won all those battles in Real Life?]] After interrupting Saber and Lancer's battle, he's the first to realize other servants were watching too, to name one example. He even has a skill called "Military Tactics."
* [[Go -Karting With Bowser]] - He holds Gilgamesh to his promise of the two of them finishing off the remaining wine before {{spoiler|facing off in a deathmatch}}. The two were quite cordial and even clicked their goblets before draining them. Waver was surprised that the two got along quite well.
* {{spoiler|[[Go Out Withwith a Smile]]}}
* [[Heroes Gone Fishing]] - He spends his free time, among other things, watching military documentaries, planning world conquest, buying videogames, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and walking around the house not wearing pants.]]
* [[Honor Before Reason]] - In a game where [[I Know Your True Name|the players' names and special attacks are jealously guarded secrets for strategic reasons]], he interrupts a battle between Lancer and Saber using said special attack and then introduces himself by name.
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* [[Redheaded Hero]]
* {{spoiler|[[Self-Destructive Charge]]}}
* [[Semi -Divine]] - Divinity Rank C, being a (possibly self-proclaimed) descendant of Zeus. Comes into play with his battle against {{spoiler|Gilgamesh}} in Volume 4, which allows the latter to {{spoiler|restrain Rider with Enkidu and impale him with Gate of Babylon}}.
* [[Story -Breaker Power]] - That's a guy who has the ability to summon literally hundreds of Servants (yes, with the capital S) to fight by his side. [[No Kill Like Overkill|This is exactly as ridiculously powerful as it sounds.]] {{spoiler|It takes another story breaker power to beat it. }}
* [[Take Over the World]] - His goal.
** Later on, Waver asks him why he doesn't just wish for immortality. Rider likes this idea, because then he can try to conquer the entire universe.
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* [[Playing Against Type]] - In universe, Gilles de Rais was a knight, more suited to one of the more combat oriented classes. It's a combination of Ryunosuke's botched summoning (he had no idea what he was actually doing) and the fact that only one class was left unclaimed at the time that the summoning occurred that results in Bluebeard being summoned as Caster.
* [[Powered By a Forsaken Child]] - Due to it being a central part of Blue Beard's legend and Ryunosuke summoning him as under the caster class this was pretty much a forgone conclusion. By the time he's finished though [[Complete Monster|its more like a forsaken pre-school.]]
* [[Self -Serving Memory]] - The way he tells the story of his death, you'd think it was entirely due to political rivals wanting to plunder his estates and had nothing to do with his murdering children as part of his demonology studies. According to history, he didn't have much of an estate for said rivals to plunder at the time of his death - between commissioning a massive theatrical tribute to Joan of Arc, his occult research, and his love of high living, he was pretty much bankrupt. The only reason he still had lands at the time of his death was because the King of France refused to let him sell any more of them to fend off his creditors.
* [[The Sociopath]]
* [[Squishy Wizard]] - An odd case in that, because he was in life a knight, his physical attributes are greater than a human (he can easily kill one with his bare hands) and he hasn't memorized any spells (he has to keep consulting the book whenever he wants to use one in it). However, compared to other Servants he's still quite weak and his spellbook gives him a separate source of power for spells, meaning while he doesn't quite fit the archetype he functions as if he did.
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* [[Badass]]
* [[The Berserker]] - Duh.
** [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]] - Played with. Although his class dictates that he can't think of anything other than attacking, the Black Knight is more than capable of defending himself and performing complex maneuvers thanks to his instinctive mastery of every kind of weapon.
** [[Cursed With Awesome]] - Like [[Fate Stay Night (Visual Novel)|Hercules]], he gains a stat boost in exchange for his sanity. ''Unlike'' Hercules, an Individual Skill called Eternal Arms Mastership allows him to keep all of his combat prowess. This includes the ability to fight tactically and wield his greatest Noble Phantasm, {{spoiler|Arondight}}, without any loss in skill. And he does it all ''instinctively''.
*** [[Awesome but Impractical]] - Essentially one of the most powerful Servants in the game, but as a Berserker, his prana requirements are on average much higher than other Servants, which is pretty bad when you have a Master like Kariya, who barely qualifies as a magus. To make things worse, Berserker's primary Noble Phantasm, Knight of Honor, also has a higher-than-normal activation cost, which is added to the incredible burden needed to maintain a Berserker-class Servant in the first place.
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* [[Lawful Neutral]] - His in-universe alignment is "Lawful Insane".
* [[Leitmotif]] - ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e6Rog9FK9w "The Berserker"]'' [[Crowning Music of Awesome|Very nice]].
* [[Lightning Bruiser]] - Strength? A; Agility? A+; Endurance? A. Using {{spoiler|Arondight}} and getting a stat boost? Well... '''''[[Story -Breaker Power|fuck]]'''''.
* [[The Man Makes the Weapon]] - Due to a combination of Eternal Arms Mastership and Knight of Honor, even something as mundane as a street lamp pole becomes capable of dealing out serious pain to a Servant.
* [[Master of Illusion]] - For Someone's Glory lets him distort and alter his appearance. The full extent of this power is revealed in Volume 4 when he {{spoiler|convincingly disguises himself as Iskander}}.
** [[Power Limiter]] - Volume 4 also reveals that slapping him with Mad Enhancement did this to his "For Someone's Glory" Noble Phantasm. Had he had full use of it, the Black Knight could have {{spoiler|spent the entire war masquerading as other Servants}}.
* [[No -Holds -Barred Beatdown]] - Delivers one to Saber as she was in the throes of a [[Heroic BSOD]].
* {{spoiler|[[The Paragon Always Rebels]]}}
* [[Power Limiter]] / [[I Am Not Left -Handed]] - Like Saber's Invisible Air, the true purpose of Berserker's Noble Phantasms, For Someone's Glory and Knight of Honor, is to protect his identity. Both are disabled and Berserker's full power is unleashed once he releases his third, true Noble Phantasm, {{spoiler|Arondight}}. The difference in power is so massive that Berserker's mana consumption increases ten-fold, to the point that {{spoiler|Kariya's worm-enhanced mana, which would have lasted him several hours worth of regular combat, was completely burnt up in just ten seconds}}.
* [[Red Baron]]/[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]] - "The Black Knight". Back when he was alive, he was also known as "{{spoiler|The Knight of the Lake}}".
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]] - A variation of the usual. His helmet visor is constantly glowing red.
* [[Say My Name]] - His helmet-muffled vocalizations are revealed to be this. {{spoiler|"[[King Arthur|AAAAAARTHUUUUUURRRRR!!!!]]"}}
* [[Secret Keeper]] - {{spoiler|He was a very close friend of Arturia and was one of the few whom knew of the King's true gender. Even during the civil war, he never considered revealing the truth to the people.}}
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* [[Proper Tights With a Skirt]]
* [[Rapunzel Hair]]
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]] - Averted.
* {{spoiler|[[Senseless Sacrifice]]}} - {{spoiler|She dies for nothing as the Grail was already corrupted.}}
* [[Thigh -High Boots]]
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]] - The girly girl to Saber, or to Maiya's, tomboy.
* {{spoiler|[[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]}}
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* [[Action Girl]]
* {{spoiler|[[Almost -Dead Guy|Almost Dead Girl]]}} - {{spoiler|After being attacked by Berserker, she lives long enough to talk with both Arturia - who arrives almost instantly - and Kiritsugu unspecified tens of minutes later.}}
* [[Bob Haircut]]
* [[Child Soldier]] - Part of her backstory, as revealed in Volume 4.
* {{spoiler|[[Died in Your Arms Tonight]]}} - {{spoiler|Played with in that she kept telling Kiritsugu to focus on his objective instead of grieving for her.}}
* [[Friends With Benefits]] - With Kiritsugu in the past, and it's explicitly stated that there's no real emotion involved. Kiritsugu did it as a form of self-punishment, and as a "rehearsal" for {{spoiler|how he'll eventually have to betray Irisviel}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Go Out Withwith a Smile]]}}
* [[Only Known By Their Nickname]] - "Maiya Hisau" was the name on the first passport Kiritsugu made for her. She no longer remembers her real name.
* [[Rape As Backstory]] - Revealed in Volume 4 -- She was raped by soldiers in a war-torn battlefield before she was found by Kiritsugu.
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* [[Daddy's Girl]]
* [[Older Than They Look]]
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]
 
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* [[Cynical Mentor]]
* [[Expy]] - Basically a gun-toting version of [[Kara no Kyoukai|Aozaki Touko]], her design in the anime even resembles the original, novel-only design of Touko.
* {{spoiler|[[Go Out Withwith a Smile]]}}
* [[The Gunslinger]]
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}} - {{spoiler|A botched assassination forces Kiritsugu to blow to smithereens the plane she's in to prevent a zombie outbreak. The anime [[Go Out Withwith a Smile|implies]] that she's at peace with that and knew it was coming.}}
* [[Mage Killer]] - Kiritsugu learns all his gruesome trade from her, especially marksmanship.
* [[Mentor Archetype]]
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