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This is a page about the Heroic Spirits appearing in the [[Visual Novel]] turned [[Anime]] ''[[Fate/stay Stay Nightnight]]''. Contains '''''a LOT''''' of spoilers.
 
* For the Masters, [[Fate/stay Stay Night (Visual Novel)night/Masters/Characters|see this page]].
* For the other characters, [[Fate/stay Stay Night (Visual Novel)night/Other/Characters|see this page]].
* For their appearances in ''[[Fate Hollow Ataraxia (Visual Novel)|Fate/hollow ataraxia]]'', go [[Fate/hollow Hollow Ataraxia (Visual Novel)ataraxia/Characters|here.]]
* For their appearances in ''[[Fate Zero (Literature)|Fate /Zero]]'' and other servants exclusive to the fourth war, go [[Fate /Zero (Light Novel)/Characters|here.]]
 
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The main heroine of the ''Fate'' route. Saber is the Servant summoned by [[The Hero]], Shirou Emiya. Being a Saber class, she excels in many areas of fighting and has a very high magic resistance. She is often considered the best Servant type, but due to Shirou's shortcomings as a Master, she cannot reach her full potential.
 
Saber possesses several quirks for a Servant: For one, she cannot dematerialize into a spirit form like other Heroic Spirits. She was also a participant in [[Fate /Zero (Literature)|the Fourth Holy Grail War]] as the Saber-class Servant of Kiritsugu Emiya, and somehow retains her memories from that encounter despite the fact that she should not be able to. Whereas the former is initially blamed on an imperfect summoning, both are eventually revealed to be {{spoiler|caused by the fact that Saber is still alive: On her deathbed, she pledged a contract with The World to allow herself to enter the Holy Grail Wars as a Servant in exchange for eternal service as a Counter Guardian upon her victory. Thus, her true self is frozen in time moments before her death, and she will continue to reincarnate until she achieves her goal or gives up.}}
 
Her true identity is {{spoiler|a [[Gender Flip|Gender Flipped]] [[King Arthur]], Arturia Pendragon}}. She joined the Holy Grail War {{spoiler|to repeat history so Britain could have a better king in her stead, as she thought she only caused her kingdom suffering.}} Her Noble Phantasms are {{spoiler|the [[Wave Motion Sword]] ''Excalibur''}} and the barrier magic ''Invisible Air'', a barrier which makes her sword invisible and can be used as a single use projectile. {{spoiler|Her last Noble Phantasm -- [[Chekhov's Gun|which she seems to have lost]] -- is ''Avalon'', the scabbard of Excalibur that bestows a powerful [[Healing Factor]], a boost in mana when held by Saber, and the ability to negate all attacks.}}
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* [[Action Girl]]
* [[A -Cup Angst]]: Though anxieties do not play up until she actually falls in love with Shirou.
* [[Animal Motifs]]: Saber is often given a lion motif. {{spoiler|After all, the lion is the [[King of Beasts]] in the western world.}}
** She also has a dragon motif, including a dragon-shaped prana source. {{spoiler|Besides, her [[Meaningful Name|real name is Arturia Pen]]''[[Meaningful Name|dragon]]''.}}
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* [[Big Eater]]: It becomes very clear that she happens to like food a lot. Well-cooked food mind you. At one point, remembering the highly inadequate skills of the chefs of her era has her briefly let off a ''killing aura''. However, except for in the [[Anime]], the volume of food she eats is not that great. Food is simply ''very'' important to her.
* [[Broken Ace]]
* [[Broken Bird]]: {{spoiler|Her behavior in the Fourth and Fifth Grail Wars is not actually what King Arthur was like even [[In -Universe]]. Rather, on her death bed, the long suppressed personality of Arturia wishes to save her country while the perfect King Arthur is satisfied with the job 'he' did. Thus, Arturia is sort of flailing about trying to fix things that can not and should not be fixed.}}
* [[Cain and Abel]]: While she may be {{spoiler|a gender flipped King Arthur}} this does not mean that her family was any different. {{spoiler|Indeed, her sister is still responsible for her downfall because she was jealous of her. She appears to have been a magus and created Mordred as a homunculus as a kind of male copy of Saber. Mordred wanted King Arthur's approval but he never obtained it.}}
* [[Chaste Hero|Chaste Heroine]]: A rare female version.
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* [[Hair of Gold]]
* [[Heroic Self-Deprecation]]: Her wish is full of this. {{spoiler|She basically wants to ensure that the legend she comes from never existed in the first place because she believes she did an inadequate job at it.}} Unlike most examples of the trope, Saber tends to shut up about her self-esteem issues unless people specifically push the issue.
* [[Hot Chick Withwith a Sword]]
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Much like her Master, to his relief, though she's not as bad about it as he is.
* [[I Am Not Pretty]]: The second time Shirou comes in on her when she's bathing, she's clearly worried about this for the [[Hot Amazon]] reasons: She thinks her body is too muscular. Readers may raise an eyebrow at this considering that her figure is that of a twig.
* [[I Can Still Fight]]: When attempting to rescue Shirou despite her non-existent mana supply.
* [[Idiot Hair]]: [[Memetic Mutation|Memetic mutation]] turns it into such things as a [[Prehensile Hair|third hand]], an oven timer, and the infamous ''Ahogecopter''. Plus, if by poor luck you pull it off, out comes {{spoiler|Saber Alter...}}
* [[Image Song]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJTwaFrfZP0 "Tooi Yume"] ("Distant Dream")
* [[Immortality]]: Granted by {{spoiler|her Noble Phantasm Avalon}}, although in two out of three routes she doesn't have it, and in the third she doesn't have it for long enough to matter. Either way, {{spoiler|it stops her from aging and gives her an incredibly powerful [[Healing Factor]]. She wouldn't have fallen in battle if she hadn't lost the thing. Which is precisely why some unnamed traitor stole it from her before the Battle of Camlann}}.
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** {{spoiler|1=If Sakura is her master, her stats are all A with exception of Agility=D and Luck=C.}}
*** {{spoiler|The last one makes her a very powerful [[Mighty Glacier]]. During the ''Heaven's Feel'' route, she easily defeated Berserker.}}
* [[Jeanne D Archetype]]: She's unexpectedly a very straight example. She is an expert swordswoman, was born humble, {{spoiler|but became the leader of her people, pretended to be male, and was eventually betrayed by her people}}. It's often the first guess as to her true identity, including [[Fate /Zero (Literature)|in-story]].
* [[Kicking Ass in All Her Finery]]
* [[Knight in Shining Armor]]
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* [[Red Baron]]: {{spoiler|"King of Knights"}}
* {{spoiler|[[She Is the King]]: The ''Once and Future King'', yet.}}
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: ''[[All There in the Manual|Fate/complete material]]'' gives the official romanization for her name as {{spoiler|''Altria'', while mirror-moon's translation gives ''Arturia''.}}
* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]
* {{spoiler|[[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: Saber Alter.}}
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** {{spoiler|[[The Corruption]]: Has been overcome.}}
** {{spoiler|[[Death Seeker]]: Implied in the last [[Bad End]] when she curses Shirou for not landing the final blow.}}
** {{spoiler|[[Dying Asas Yourself]]: In one [[Bad End]] where Shirou manages to kill her singlehandedly (at the cost of his own life), she compliments him on his strength in a warm way before disappearing. Unfortunately, she does ''not'' appear to do this in the normal course of the storyline when she dies}}.
** {{spoiler|[[Elegant Gothic Lolita]]: Her new casual outfit.}}
** {{spoiler|[[Enemy Without]]: [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in ''Fate/unlimited codes'' -- Saber Alter's final fight in arcade mode is regular Saber, who somehow managed to separate herself.}}
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== Archer ==
==== Voiced by: [[Junichi Suwabe]] (JP), [[Liam O 'Brien|Liam O' Brien]] (EN) ====
 
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** His coloring {{spoiler|that so drastically changed from his past self Shirou Emiya}} is stated to be a side effect of long use of his Projection Magic. {{spoiler|Shirou probably would end up looking like him despite them being a different existence.}}
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Deconstruction]]: {{spoiler|He's a [[Wide -Eyed Idealist]] who naively tried to save everyone he could see. You know, ''superheroes''? You'd end up like this, too, if you found out that your ideal is inherently paradoxical and that everything you've been fighting for the whole time amounted to nothing.}}
* [[Deflector Shields]]: Rho Aias.
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Kanshou and Bakuya.
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* [[The Gadfly]]: Archer continually tests Shirou's, Saber's and Rin's ideals and personalities with jokes and barbs and is at the same time capable of claiming with a straight face that he would use the Grail for "World Peace".
** [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: Once we learn {{spoiler|Archer's true identity, motives and back-story his stated wish for "World Peace" becomes all kinds of depressing.}}
* {{spoiler|1=[[Generation Xerox]]: His foster father, Kiritsugu Emiya, [[Fate /Zero (Literature)|started out wanting to be a "hero of justice" but learned things the hard way, and ended up sacrificing the few to save the many in his actions]]. Like father, like son, so much that ''[[Fate Zero (Literature)|Fate /Zero]]'''s opening description of Kiritsugu exactly fits Archer as well.}}
{{quote| ''{{spoiler|Let us tell the story of a certain man. The tale of a man who, more than anyone else, [[Wide -Eyed Idealist|believed in his ideals]], [[Fatal Flaw|and by them was]] [[Despair Event Horizon|driven into despair]].}}''}}
* {{spoiler|[[Go Out with a Smile]]: In ''Unlimited Blade Works''.}}
* [[Gratuitous English]]: [[Invocation|The activation speech]] for his Noble Phantasm. The Engrish is used in the [[Visual Novel]] as well but is also accompanied by a proper (and quite different) Japanese version that clarifies its meaning.
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* {{spoiler|[[Guile Hero]]: In ''Unlimited Blade Works'', at the very least, he displays profound [[Magnificent Bastard|manipulative skill]].}}
* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Revolving Door]]: In ''Unlimited Blade Works'', he works only and only for himself... And Rin's sake, even if she would end hating his actions.}}
* [[Hero Withwith Bad Publicity]]: Well, more like ''no'' publicity. Nobody has any clue at all who he is. {{spoiler|Both in the time of the Fifth Grail War, because he's from the future, and in his own time, because he rarely spoke to people. Simply going around saving people with no explanation made people very suspicious of his motives. Eventually this distrust culminated in him being executed for supposedly starting a war that he'd gotten involved in and ended}}.
** This is somewhat ''intentional'', however, since his method of fighting involves using a form of magic that is ''forbidden'' by the Magic Association. So, not only can he not tell ''normal'' people about his actions (because magic must be kept secret), he can't tell other magi ''either''.
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]: In Fate against Berserker. Though he absolutely ''mangled'' Berserker, killing him six times before falling himself.}}
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* [[True Neutral]]: [[In-Universe]] alignment.
* [[Unusual Eyebrows]]: Of the kinked type. He and Shirou are the only characters drawn with such eyebrows, {{spoiler|which is actually a rather subtle hint of his true identity}}.
* [[Used to Be Aa Sweet Kid]]: {{spoiler|Again, just like dear old Dad.}}
* [[Weak but Skilled]]: Archer is the worst of the Servants statistically, and depends on {{spoiler|several lifetimes' worth of hard work and experience}} to make up for it.
** This is explained by the [[Visual Novel]] as Archer having none of the "natural talent" that legitimate heroes like Saber or Lancer are born with, or the blessings of higher entities like Berserker's and Gilgamesh's divine heritage; he had to [[Level Grind]] his abilities by living through thousands of battles {{spoiler|both in life and after it}}.
** His projection magic also counted, being the only magecraft in the modern world capable of matching heroic spirits in power output, but at the same time being reliant on his almost inexistent prana reserves. {{spoiler|After [[Deal Withwith the Devil|making the contract with Alaya]], [[Infinite Supplies|he gained prana reserves sufficient for its continuous use]], but it had only happened shortly before his death.}}
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]
 
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* [[Badass]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: Comparing him to a [[Mythology Gag|dog]] is a bad idea, but heaven help you if you're a traitorous sort.
* [[Blade Onon a Stick]]
* [[Blood Knight]]: A surprisingly non-[[Ax Crazy]] version {{spoiler|even though he himself explained that he can also fit the role of [[The Berserker]]}}. He actually doesn't care about getting the Grail at all; he just wants to fight. Hence his frustration...
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Especially in ''Unlimited Blade Works'', whereas he's shown to love teasing ''both'' Rin and Saber, and he fights for the fight itself.
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* [[One-Hit Kill]]: The entire point of Gae Bolg's activated ability.
* [[One-Man Army]]: Literally. As told in the story of his life he tells to Shirou, he was the ''only'' person able to fight for Ulster due to a Geas on the male populace that he escaped via loophole. And he ''won'' the war, killing thousands of people per day or winning every duel he came upon.
* [[Red Baron]]: "Cú Chulainn" means "Culann's hound". In-game, he's also referred to as "Ireland's Man of Light" on top of this. [[Fate/hollow Hollow Ataraxia (Visual Novel)ataraxia|Caren amuses herself by referring to him as "dog"]].
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Ultimately subverted, though at first he looks like he's playing it straight. He may have quite a bit of bloodlust, but he's actually not a bad guy.
* [[Semi-Divine]]: Divinity Rank B, being the son of Lugh, although it doesn't come into play.
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* [[Spam Attack]]: He has a penchant for rapid-fire spear thrusts.
* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]: A number of people (the artist behind the ''Fate'' manga in particular), have declared him "The sexiest man in the game". Just look at his super tight outfit. It feels like he's wearing nothing at all! Nothing at all! ''Nothing at all!''
* {{spoiler|[[Taking You Withwith Me]]: He kills Kirei after being ordered to kill himself for refusing to rip out Rin's heart in ''Unlimited Blade Works''}}.
* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]
* [[The Tease]]: In "Unlimited Blade Works", he flat out says to Shirou and Rin they're already in love, much to their embarrassment.
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* [[Impossibly Low Neckline]]: Shockingly averted. Looking at it in front and sideways, the dress covers about 80% of her breasts, leaving almost no cleveage. It's only when she is in her animal pose that it looks like the above trope.
* [[Kiss of the Vampire]]: In particular, one [[Bad End]] in ''Unlimited Blade Works'' has her do this to Shirou.
* [[Magic Skirt]]: This applies to almost all ''[[Fate/stay Stay Nightnight]]'' media, but it's worth emphasizing with Rider's [[Stripperific]] fighting outfit.
* [[Meganekko]]: In her casual clothes.
* [[Poisonous Friend]]: {{spoiler|While more or less a good person, Sakura is by far her top priority. In general she's quite willing to do essentially anything for Sakura whether she wants her to or not. Drink blood, kill Shirou, put up with Shinji...}}
* [[Power Limiter]]: Her blindfold, which prevents her from using her [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]. Later on, she gets a pair of glasses similar to [[Tsukihime|Shiki's]], the same ones fashioned by [[Kara noKarano Kyoukai (Literature)|Touko Aozaki]], so she can have a more public appearance.
* [[The Quiet One]]
* [[Rapunzel Hair]]
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* '''[[The Berserker]]''': Well, obviously.
* [[BFS]]: Referred to in-game as an ''axe''-sword, and for good reason.
* [[Blessed Withwith Suck]]: The "Mad Enhancement" ability of the Berserker class increases all their stats in return for taking away their sanity and making them uncontrollable. Being that Berserker is [[The Ace|Heracles]], the stat gains are likely minimal in comparison to the loss of at least one Noble Phantasm and the inability to fight tactically.
* [[Character Alignment]]: [[In-Universe]] alignment is Chaotic Insane, which probably pegs him under [[Chaotic Neutral]]. He lacks the rationality to make moral judgments, but apparently under normal circumstances he would be [[Chaotic Good]].
* {{spoiler|[[Died Standing Up]]: In all three routes.}}
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* [[Restraining Bolt]]: Ilya herself acts as this for him, which says a lot about how powerful she must be in order to keep freaking Heracles on a short leash.
* [[Semi-Divine]]: Divinity Rank A, the highest rank, being the son of Zeus and having ascended to the Olympic pantheon. Comes to bite him back in Unlimited Blade Works where it allows {{spoiler|Gilgamesh to restrain him with Enkindu and impale him with Gate of Babylon}}.
* [[Simultaneous Blade Spam]]: '''Nine Lives''' (Japanese gloss: "Shooting Hundred Heads"), Berserker's second Noble Phantasm, which he can't use it in-story because his class ability [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|Mad Enhancement]] won't let him; the actual Noble Phantasm itself, derived from Herakles' feat of defeating the many-headed, nigh-immortal Hydra with his bow and arrows, was never used by Berserker himself in ''[[Fate/stay Stay Nightnight]]'', {{spoiler|but when Shirou in the ''Heaven's Feel'' route used his Projection magic to adapt the Noble Phantasm for his own use, the resulting "Nine Lives Blade Works" was composed of eight simultaneous slashes from different directions in one instant, followed by a stab to the center, all done with [[Super Speed]]. And each strike was considered a lethal A-ranked blow to Black Berserker}}. The [[Fighting Game]] spin-off ''[[Fate Unlimited Codes]]'' resorted to depicting Nine Lives as butchering an enemy by hitting them ''one hundred'' times in a short span of time.
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: Though most people use the more common spelling of "Hercules," Berserker's name is pronounced in the Visual Novel like the original Greek name "Herakles."
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: {{spoiler|Averted. Heaven's Feel sees Berserker corrupted by The Shadow like Saber, but Black Berserker is blind, lacks his noble phantasm and his weapon, and is slower and weaker than regular Berserker. He doesn't even have an in-game character sheet like all the other Servants.}}
* [[The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort]]: Berserker is completely immune to all attacks beneath "A"-rank and consequently never bothers to go on the defensive except in the most extreme cases. He also has Mind's Eye (the ability to supernaturally sense harm), but can't use it because of his insanity.
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She only wishes to preserve her time with her Master, but to do so she is all too willing to absorb fatal amounts of mana from everyone in Fuyuki City. She also breaks the laws of the Holy Grail Wars by summoning her own Servant (Assassin) to guard her stronghold in Ryuudouji Temple.
 
{{spoiler|Due to the tainted Grail allowing the summoning of anti-hero and villainous Heroic Spirits, her identity is the archetypical witch [[Medea (Theatre)|Medea]] (who got screwed over by Jason in his quest for the Golden Fleece).}}
 
Caster is the physically weakest Servant (apart possibly from Assassin) and relies mostly on her powerful anti-Army magic, her magically-enhanced Master and her skeletal [[Mooks]]. [[Squishy Wizard|She does less well in single combat]]. She also has a Noble Phantasm called {{spoiler|''Rule Breaker'', a dagger which can [[Anti-Magic|dispel any sorceries]] on anything it pierces, including contracts between Servants and Masters}}.
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* [[And I Must Scream]]: Let's just say, agreeing to Caster's proposals are a ''[[Bad End|very bad idea]]''.
* [[Anti-Magic]]: {{spoiler|Her Noble Phantasm, [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Rule Breaker]].}}
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: {{spoiler|Rule Breaker. You have a noble phantasm that can null ''any and all'' contracts, but its a dagger}} meaning she has to get close to her opponent to use it when she has the physical defense of a wet paper bag.
* [[Beam Spam]]: For best effect, combine with...
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*** {{spoiler|Ironically, these two tropes are how she meets her demise in both the ''Fate'' and ''Unlimited Blade Works''. Gilgamesh does it in ''Fate'', and Archer does it in ''Unlimited Blade Works''. [[Storm of Blades|Both use their massive stock of weapons, naturally]].}}
* [[Beautiful All Along]]: She looks very mysterious with that hood. But if you see beyond that, she's... gorgeous. I mean, look at her picture above!!
** [[Carnival Phantasm (Anime)|Carnival Phantasm]] [[Lampshade Hanging|LAMPSHADES]] this completely in the Tennis portion of the Fifth Grail War [[Game Show]].
* [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil]]: She tries this in ''Unlimited Blade Works''. {{spoiler|Her victim? Saber. It doesn't work.}}
** {{spoiler|It works temporarily in the [[Manga]], but Shirou breaks Saber out of it right quick. However, Caster's smart enough to notice this and immediately use a Command Spell on Saber.}}
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** Then again, if you consider the fact that she at her absolute nicest around him it might actually be played straight.
* [[Go-Go Enslavement]]: {{spoiler|After capturing Saber, Caster naturally decides to stick her in a sexy dress while she's tied up with magic and being tortured.}} In the [[Anime]], she puts Sakura in black leather.
* [[Homoerotic Subtext]]: With {{spoiler|the captured Saber}}. She really seems to enjoy dressing her up. ''[[Fate/hollow Hollow Ataraxia (Visual Novel)ataraxia|Fate Hollow Ataraxia]]'' and ''[[Carnival Phantasm (Anime)|Carnival Phantasm]]'' have a lot of fun with this one.
* [[Hot Witch]]
* [[Image Song]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU-OYRRWUcM& "Sasoi"] ("Temptation")
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* [[Load-Bearing Boss]]: In the [[Anime]], her elaborate temple turns out to have [[No Ontological Inertia]].
* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: All the atrocities she committed were just a desperate attempt to prolong her time with her Master.
* [[Neutral Evil]]: [[In -Universe]] alignment.
* [[Pointed Ears]]
* [[Power Floats]]
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** [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Also averted: {{spoiler|Just like real-life Japanese swords, his sword chips and breaks much easier than the other Servants' magical weapons, ultimately leading to his defeat in his final duel with Saber in ''Unlimited Blade Works''}}.
* [[Extreme Doormat]]: Beyond his desire to duel Saber, he has practically no drives or desires of his own. He allows his master to walk over him (although not without a certain amount of snark) and seems to treat his life as expendable.
* [[Face Death Withwith Dignity]]: A big-time believer in this trope.
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: Quite literally. Assassin, unlike the other Servants, is physically incapable of winning the Holy Grail War: Even if all the other Servants killed each other off he'd be unable to move from his summoning spot and reach the location of the Grail -- nevermind that it wouldn't respond to him without his master.
* [[Friendly Enemy]]: Mainly towards Saber.
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{{quote| ''"'All the evils in the world'? Bring thrice as much if you want to stain '''me'''!"'' }}
 
An Archer-class Servant from [[Fate /Zero (Literature)|the previous Holy Grail War]] who doesn't bother to hide his identity as the famous Babylonian king. Overconfident and full of himself, he believes the world rests in the palm of his hand and is his to rule as he pleases. In the Fourth Holy Grail War, he was the Servant of Kirei Kotomine {{spoiler|(though he was originally the Servant of Rin's father, Tohsaka Tokiomi)}} and sought the Grail in order to cleanse the world of the "lowly, weak humans" that inhabited it, leaving only those strong enough to be worthy of his rule.
 
At the conclusion of the Fourth Holy Grail War he was drenched by the pollution within the Holy Grail, which is supposed to give a Servant a true flesh-and-bone body at the cost of [[The Corruption|their mind and sanity]]. However, Gilgamesh's ego was too strong to be corrupted, and with a physical body he could continue existing in the world. {{spoiler|Whether or not this is true is debatable. It is actually stated by [[Will Not Tell a Lie|Kotomine]] that he only lost his way when the contents of the Holy Grail spilled on him and corrupted him, which makes sense considering his Alignment is in fact Chaotic Good. However, he was perhaps even more sadistic in ''[[Fate Zero (Literature)|Fate /Zero]]'', though he lacked the fixation with unleashing the Grail on the world.}} He collaborates with Kotomine to hide his existence from everyone, and continues on his merry path to seize or destroy anything that takes his fancy.
 
Has a big rivalry (as well as a deadly infatuation) with Saber. His Noble Phantasm is the ''Gate of Babylon'', a portal which leads to a storage of the hundreds upon hundreds of Noble Phantasms that he collected in his lifetime as the king of Babylon. Lacking the proficiency or will to actually wield most of them, he mainly just shoots them at people (hence his Archer class). The only Noble Phantasms in his collection that he can truly call his own are the "sword" ''Ea'', which he uses for his ''Enuma Elish'' [[Finishing Move]], and {{spoiler|his chains, Enkidu}}.
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* [[Badass]]: He isn't called [[Red Baron|King of Heroes]] for nothing.
* [[Badass Finger-Snap]]: The gesture he uses to activate his Gate of Babylon barrage.
* [[Berserk Button]]: He actually has several, which is quite fitting given that his [[Pride]] is his most defining characteristic and [[Fatal Flaw]]. Some relate to criticising {{spoiler|his kingship (Saber and the Fourth War's Rider are good at this), and his superiority (in power and age/originality). Archer really gets on his nerves as a 'faker' that devalues Gil's original/prototypical weapons by reproducing them.}} But by far the biggest button is that pressed by both {{spoiler|Shirou and [[Fate /Zero]]'s Berserker}}. {{spoiler|They essentially steal his treasury - his weapons, the representation of the strength of his historical rule - via their own Reality Marble/Noble Phantasm. And then they use them against him.}} ''That'' pisses [[Fan Nickname|Goldie]] off.
* [[Big Bad]]: In ''Unlimited Blade Works''.
* [[Bishonen]]: Sakura notes that he "looks like a model".
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* [[Chaotic Good]]: In-universe alignment... [[Internet Backdraft|and let's just leave it at that.]]
* [[Conflict Killer]]: In the ''Fate'' route. Caster has just made her first attack and seemingly has the heroes at her mercy. How are they going to get out of this one? Answer: They're not; Gilgamesh is going to drop by and kill Caster deader than dead.
* {{spoiler|[[Death Byby Irony]]:}} See his quote up there. {{spoiler|In ''Heaven's Feel'', he is defeated and consumed by Sakura's [[Super-Powered Evil Side]], the embodiment of "all the evils in the world", Angra Mainyu, when he attempts to defend his territory from the Shadow.}}
* [[The Dragon]]: In ''Fate''.
** [[Dragon Withwith an Agenda]]
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Although he's taken a liking to Saber, in ''Unlimited Codes'' Gilgamesh is outright hostile to Saber Alter because she's corrupted and abandoned her ideals. {{spoiler|He also finds himself somewhat regretting corrupting Saber himself with the grail in his ending, as he likes her best when she's both idealistic and resisting him}}.
** Also his attempt to kill Sakura in ''Heaven's Feel'', although in this case his issue is more with the idea that someone else might ''dare'' to kill his "subjects" (entirely unintentionally, at that...).
* [[Everything but Thethe Girl]]
* [[Evil Laugh]]: ''Especially'' in ''Unlimited Blade Works''.
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: In some ends, despite all his efforts, much like at the conclusion of his own legend, he never gets what he wants.
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* [[Possession Implies Mastery]]: Averted. Gilgamesh owns all the world's treasures, but he isn't particularly skilled with using any of them in melee.
* [[Pride]]: His [[Fatal Flaw]].
* [[Powered Byby a Forsaken Child]]: Because being converted to a flesh in blood body by the grail apparently means that Gilgamesh is no longer capable of receiving prana from his Master or generating his own, Gilgamesh stockpiles prana drawn from the consumed souls of the orphans of the Fuyuki fire that Kirei rounded up afterwards and sacrificed to him.
* [[Pure Is Not Good]]: Let us reiterate: Gilgamesh got ''the concentrated form of all humanity's evils and sins combined'' poured onto him. '''''He didn't even flinch'''''.
* [[Red Baron]]: "King of Heroes".
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* [[Superpower Lottery]]: The fact that he's the King of Heroes and has access to almost every other Noble Phantasms, in addition to his demigod origins, makes him a prime case of this. According to [[Word of God]], Gilgamesh is as powerful as five regular servants combined.
* [[Super Prototype]]: His Gate of Babylon holds the [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Theory_of_Forms "perfect prototype"] of every Heroic Spirit's Noble Phantasm. By [[Nasuverse]] rules (i.e. [[Older Is Better]]), this gives all of the Gate's prototypes one rank in power above the versions that are actually in use.
* [[This Is a Drill]]: Enuma Elish, a drill-''sword''. Complete with [[Everything's Better Withwith Spinning|spinning segments]].
* [[Unskilled but Strong]]: Due to his powerful armor, possessing hundreds if not thousands of weapons he can launch like missiles, a chain that can bind gods, and a sword that can tear holes in reality, Gilgamesh is the most powerful person in the game by a considerable margin. He could easily defeat anything he encounters during the Fifth War just by blasting it into oblivion with his full strength right off the bat. But of course, nobody he meets is ''worthy'' of seeing his full power, and inevitably he gets killed by underestimating his opponent.
* [[Wave Motion Sword|Wave Motion... Drill-Sword]]: Enuma Elish, which lead nicely into...
** [[Word of Dante]]: The sword's actual name is Ea, "[[Purple Prose|The Star of Creation that Splits Apart Heaven and Earth]]". [[Enuma Elish (Literature)|Enuma Elish]] is in fact the activation phrase, but many people get it confused because of the way most [[Calling Your Attacks|Noble Phantasms are activated]]. Also, let's face it: Enuma Elish just [[Rule of Cool|sounds cooler]].
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Pretty much the only way that "[[Chaotic Good]]" thing could possibly make any sense. Frankly, his worldview seems to be "I'm the most awesome being on the face of the Earth, so anything I decide to do is automatically for the world's own good".
 
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His true identity is one of the nineteen ''original'' assassins, Hassan-i-Sabah. His Noble Phantasm -- a form of the Noble Phantasm ''Zabaniya'', shared by all True Assassins -- is the curse-like ''Delusional Heartbeat'', which uses the arm of [[Satan]] himself to crush a duplicate of the target's heart, crushing the real one as well.
 
This incarnation of Hassan-i-Sabbah is different from the one appearing in [[Fate Zero (Literature)|Fate /Zero]]. Go to [[Fate /Zero (Light Novel)/Characters|its own character page]] for that.
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* [[AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle]]: Only at first, when he was still unstable. After devouring {{spoiler|Lancer}} he begins talking normally.
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