Fate/Zero/YMMV: Difference between revisions

* [[Accidental Innuendo]] - Lancer: "You are as good as naked before my spear."

* [[Adaptation Decay]]: Averted with the anime for the most part. It's almost 100% faithful to the source material, and while it quite a few scene-specific changes which could be seen as both good and bad, it leaves out a great deal of Kiritsugu's characterization in the novel-- as an example, just compare the anime and novel's versions of the prologue. Episodes 16 and 17 are generally considered by the novel readers to be straight examples of this, however.

* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: {{spoiler|Ryuunosuke}}'s death in the anime is very different from his quick and brief one in the novel for this reason. {{spoiler|Kayneth}}'s death could count based on your definition of "villain" {{spoiler|but he ''did'' kill Risei}}.

* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]] - ''Fate/zero'' anime? ''That's not by [[Studio DEEN|DEEN]]??'' '''''And to be made by [[Kara no Kyoukai (Literature)|ufotable]]???'''''

** Gilgamesh, unsurprising since this also applies to his original incarnation.

** Disturbingly Caster and Uryuu also get some of this, with some people even declaring the latter to be a ''[[Yandere]]'', which misses the part where there needs to be at least a bit of ''dere'' to balance the ''yan''.

** Kayneth has also received an unexpected fandom from /a/. And [[Pixiv]].

** Kariya is ''absolutely adored'' in both Japan and the West. But especially Japan.

** Ryuunosuke is impressively popular for a homicidal sadist. Apparently, he is loved by the female staff members of [[Ufotable]].

* [[Fan Dumb]] - The influx of new fans that the anime has ushered in have the unfortunate habit of bashing [[Fate Stay Night]] in the midst of their praises of this work. Some of these people have never even played the visual novel, leading this into [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch]] territory.

** Saber x Gilgamesh is also rather common.

** Fate/Zero's anime release has created a veritable [[The Ship Yard|Love Boat]] in its wake, to the point where nearly every character is shipped with at least one non-canon love-interest. As a corollary to the Saber x Lancer ship, [[Ho Yay Shipping|Lancer x Kayneth]] is equally widespread on Pixiv, often drawn by the same people drawing the Saber x Lancer and complete with [[Doujinshi]]. Other popular non-canon couples are Caster x Uryuu, Kotomine x Kiritsugu, Kotomine x Gilgamesh, Kotomine x Kariya, Gilgamesh x Tokiomi, Rider x Waver, Waver x Lancer, and [[Les Yay|Saber x Irisviel]]. You may have noticed a [[Ho Yay Shipping|trend]]. Given [[Blue Bishounen Ghetto|the ratio of male characters to female]], it was probably inevitable.

* [[Foe Yay]] - Kiritsugu and Kotomine, Saber and Lancer.

* [[Fridge Brilliance]] - Iskander's {{spoiler|death scene mirrors his life as explained in the flashback. Carrying on towards a goal he fails to reach, endlessly pushing forward, while everyone behind him lies dying.}}

*** Even worse, later on, when Irisviel talks with Maiya, she hopes for the Fourth War to be the final one... so that Ilya won't have to take her place in the next one should they fail. Her asking Kiritsugu to bring Ilya to Japan is doubly effective because {{spoiler|after the end of the war, Kiritsugu spends several of the last years of his life trying to do that and failed because the Einzberns won't let him, and due to the curse he was too weak to break through their defenses.}}

* [[Ho Yay]] - Kirei and Gilgamesh, Caster and Uryuu (Takeuchi even says that they "should get married already"), and Rider and Waver (who get an official 4koma implying they restored mana ''that way''). Especially since both Rider and Caster are [[Word of Gay|canonically bisexual]], not to mention Gilgamesh's relationship with his friend Enkidu was brimming with homoeroticism in the [[Epic of Gilgamesh|original epic]]. And that Gilgamesh's image song is basically him mourning Enkidu. Berserker and Kariya also have a bit with the brief {{spoiler|blood-sucking scene}} they get.

* [[Iron Woobie]]: Irisviel. The matter-of-fact, almost cheerful way in which she explains that {{spoiler|her body has degraded too much for her to use magic alone, engage in her favourite hobbies, or even ''dress herself'' without considerable effort}} is downright heartbreaking.

* [[Karma Houdini]] - Ryuunosuke, in a sense. {{spoiler|He gets killed by Kiritsugu, but he is so thrilled at the sight of his own blood that it doesn't really feel like actual punishment. It is stated in the novel that he dies with a smile of total bliss.}}