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In '''''Fate/stay night''''', when a legend is venerated enough by humanity, they can become a [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy|Heroic Spirit that surpasses time itself]]. [[Summoning Ritual|There is a ritual]] where seven Spirits can ally with a Sorcerer MasterMasters via contract and become [[Familiar|Servants]]. This ritual culminates in a [[Melee a Trois|seven-way war]] to acquire the [[MacGuffin|ultimate prize]], the Holy Grail, which can [[Make a Wish|grant the wishes of the Servant and Master who are victorious]]. As [[I Know Your True Name|enemies knowing their true name would give opponents an advantage over them]], it is hidden. Instead, each heroic Servant Spirit is given [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|a Class by which they are addressed]]: [[Meaningful Name|Saber, Archer, Lancer, Rider, Caster, Berserker, and Assassin]]. In addition, each Servant is armed with the mysteries that symbolize their legend -- [[Infinity+1 Sword|Noble Phantasms, legendary armaments and abilities]].

''Fate/stay night'' is a PC [[Eroge]] [[Visual Novel]] created by the company Type-Moon, and is set in the [[Nasuverse]], an overarching [[Multiverse]] franchise which includes ''[[Tsukihime]]'' and ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:|Kara no Kyoukai]]''. The game [[Multiple Endings|has three different storylines]]: "''Fate''", which focuses on Saber, "''Unlimited Blade Works''", which focuses on Rin and Archer, and "''Heaven's Feel''", which focuses on Sakura.

Although [[No Export for You|never released in English]], the game has a [[Fan Translation]] patch made for it by the good folks at [https://web.archive.org/web/20140210062345/http://mirrormoon.org/ Mirror Moon]. The [[Visual Novel]] has been adapted for [[PlayStation 2]] and, while replacing the H-scenes that were in the original game with alternate, non-erotic versions, add some content like new CGs and new musiques. The [[PlayStation 2]] version is subtitled ''Realta Nua'' and you can implement the extra content from this version on your PC version [http://rnpatch.blogspot.com/ with this patch].

* TheA first [[Anime]] adaptation has been created by [[Studio DEEN]], a different company than the [[Anime]] of ''[[Tsukihime|Shingetsutan Tsukihime]]''. It's the ''Fate'' route with some extra material added in to make the series fill out 24 episodes. This is used to give more attention to characters who are pushed to the background in the ''Fate'' route. Some of these are semi-original, like Archer's fight with Berserker, which wasn't seen in the [[Visual Novel]], and some are directly lifted from other routes. For example, an arc loosely based on ending of the ''Heaven's Feel'' scenario was added in order to give Caster, her associates and Sakura more attention. Overall, it basically takes an approach similar to ''Shingetsutan Tsukihime'' but with far less mangling of the story.

* The [[Manga]] adaptation, stillserialized inbetween serialization2006 and 2012, is also based on the ''Fate'' scenario -- although, again, material from other routes and original material are both used. The artist, Datto Nishiwaki, is a big Type-Moon fan, and makes references to other [[Nasuverse]] works in his end-of-volume rants.

* A second [[Manga]] also exists titled ''[[Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya]]''. Unlike the first manga, this one features an [[Alternate Universe]] storyline with Ilyasviel, ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' resident [[Enfante Terrible]], as the main character... oh, and she's a [[Magical Girl]], complete with [[Empathic Weapon|a talking staff named Ruby]]. Ilya has to help Rin recover [[Cardcaptor Sakura|'Class Cards']], magical artifacts with the powers of the Servants. It's starts off as an [[Affectionate Parody]], both of ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' and [[Magical Girl Tropes]] in general, but [[Cerebus Syndrome|gets more serious later.]] Still, it ''is'' very funny, intersperses this with largely random moments of awesome, and is very nearly worth it just so you can catch all the ''Fate/stay night'' [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/fate_kaleid_liner_prisma_illya/v01/c001/34.html references]. This one has [[Spin Off|spun off]] into a franchise of its own with two sequel manga continuations and two anime adaptations as of this writing.

* A [[Sequel|sequel/fan-disc]], ''[[Fate/hollow ataraxia]]'', was released in 2005. [[Lighter and Softer|A much more lighthearted story]] that's mainly character driven, the events focus on the mysteriously [[Groundhog Day Loop|repeating four day cycle]] that Fuyuki City is trapped in, half a year after the events of the first game, and how the daily lives of all the characters are with no war as a backdrop. Although it is a very long way from being completed, a [[Fan Translation]] project is currently being worked on [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20180905100241/https://tlwiki.org/index.php?title=Fate/Hollow_Ataraxia%2FHollow_Ataraxia here].

* ''[[Fate/Apocrypha]]'', a light novel by Yuichiro Higashide (detailsthat areran stillbetween scarce2012 and 2014, socentering itsaround placea 14-Servant Grail War in an [[Alternate Universe]] where the Third Grail War went differently than in canon isso the events as-of-yet unknown)''Fate/Zero'' centeringand around''Fate/stay anight'' 14-Servantnever Grailtook Warplace. This project was originally pitched as an MMORPG, but never took off; many of the ideas were rehashed for ''Fate/Grand Order''. An anime adaptation by [[A-1 Pictures]] was premiered in July 2017

* A twelve-minute OVA, included in the final volume of ''[[Carnival Phantasm]]'', called ''Fate/Prototype'', showcasing the ideas and designs that Nasu planned to utilizing for his original incarnation of ''Fate/stay night'' as a paper-and-ink novel rather than a [[Visual Novel]]. As of now, there appearsare tobeen bebeing no interestdeveloped in developingthe form of light novels. A prequel story for this continuity, ''Fate/Prototype: Fragments of Sky Silver'', has been adapted in itan anyaudio furtherCD.

* Furthermore, there are threeseveral more [[Video Game|video games]]:

** ''[[Fate Unlimited Codes]]'' is a standard, semi-canonical [[Fighting Game]] for the arcades, [[PlayStation 2]] and [[PSP]].

** ''[[Fate Extra|Fate/EXTRA]]'' is an [[RPG]] for the PSP who takes place [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|in the near future]] [[Cyberspace|inside a large, virtual environment]] known as the SE.RA.PH. It has a sequel/companion of sorts in ''Fate/Extra CCC'' (which sadly [[No Export for You|remained in Japan]]), and an actual sequel in ''Fate/Extella''. An anime television series adaptation, titled ''Fate/Extra Last Encore'' and produced by Shaft, was announced for 2017.

** It also tends to use end-of-volume bonus stories to expand on various scenes, most often for humorous effect; showing the details of the [[Curb Stomp Battle|'duel']] between Saber and Taiga, telling the backstory behind the clothing Rin gives to Saber, a pre-War scene in the archery club with Shirou, Sakura, and Shinji that actually goes a long way towards explaining why anyone on Earth would ''want'' to be [[Smug Snake|Shinji's]] friend...

** Also shown, to a lesser extent, in the ''Fate'' route. {{spoiler|[[Bittersweet Ending|Except it doesn't last]].}}

* [[Artistic License]] - {{spoiler|King Arthur is a girl ([[Word of God]] indicates the sexes of the two main characters -- Saber and Emiya -- were swapped during the development). Cú Chulainn has blue hair and red eyes. Medusa is a purple-haired mythological hero, and uses Bellerophon, the name of the greek mythological hero who rode the Pegasus, as reins for controlling magical beasts. Herakles is a nine-foot-tall monster, Medea has elf ears and a Noble Phantasm with a tenuous mythological foundation at best, and Hassan-i Sabbah looks like a black-skinned freakish cripple without a face. Gilgamesh suffers from [[Phenotype Stereotype]] and wears a full plate, a form of armour that post-dates his existence by almost four thousand years.}} [[Word of God]] establishes that not everything about the Heroic Spirits' backgrounds is true, and some parts may have even been lost to time.

* [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]] - Used by {{spoiler|Shirou on Gilgamesh and it worked quite well. Since both are owners of virtually unlimited weapons but neither are masters of any of those weapons, it becomes a battle of [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]]. Even though Gilgamesh's weapons are stronger than Shirou's, within the boundaries of "Unlimited Blade Works" Shirou can pull out weapons faster than Gilgamesh, allowing him the decisive blow when a frustrated Gilgamesh decides to take the extra time to try to pull out [[Infinity+1 Sword|Ea]]. It really helps that Gil is extremely arrogant and refuse to fight "mere trash" seriously until it was too late.}}

** In ''Heaven's Feel'', {{spoiler|Rider saves Shirou twice in this fashion (first against True Assassin, next against Dark Sakura).}}

** ''Fate'' and [[Anime]]: {{spoiler|Shirou [[Did Not Get the Girl]] but decides that life goes on. Ilyasviel survives, but probably won't live more than a few years (at best) due to her being a homunculus.}}

** ''Heaven's Feel'' [[Multiple Endings|True End]]: {{spoiler|Shirou gets the girl, but hundreds of people have died as a result of him saving her.}}

* [[Body Horror]]:

** Whilst Mana Transfer can be ... [[Deus Sex Machina|pleasant]] if you're the hero, {{spoiler|Gilgamesh}} is [[Powered by a Forsaken Child|powered by forsaken children]] undergoing [[Body Horror]] [[And I Must Scream|over about 10]] ''[[And I Must Scream|years]]''.

* {{spoiler|[[Brainwashed and Crazy]] - Saber as of manga Volume 8.}}

* [[Character Blog]] - For April Fools 2010, many [[Nasuverse|Type-Moon]] characters appeared on "[http://tatari.110mb.com/tmfools/10/ Tmitter]{{Dead link}}". Unfortunately, it's in Japanese, but a quick visit to Google Translate should give you the general idea if you don't know any. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121108191141/http://nrvnqsr.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=5782 Beast's Lair] also seems to have translated at least some of the tweets.

* [[Crossover]] - ''[[Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya]]'' features a crossover between ''Fate'' and ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' where Rin summons Nanoha and Fate as her Archers (and [[Brick Joke|Archer is summoned by Yuuno]]).

** Shirou and Saber by virtue of [[Good Thing You Can Heal|outrageous self-healing which can revive someone from the brink of death]].

** Shirou once more by virtue of a [[It Only Works Once|single-use]] revival magic cast on him by Rin.

* [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]]

* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]] - Given how many characters there are, this was always inevitable.

** ''Unlimited Blade Works'': {{spoiler|Rider dies anticlimactically, off-screen, to Kuzuki and Caster}}.

* [[Expy]] - We found some ressemblances between ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' characters and olders Nasu's works. For more precision, see the [[Fate/Characters/stay night/Characters|Characters Pages]].

* [[Fan Translation]] - [https://web.archive.org/web/20140210062345/http://mirrormoon.org/ Mirror Moon] provides a patch to the original game (you have to get the actual game yourself) to fully translate it.

* [[Good Bad Translation]] - One overly-literal fansub had Shirou saying "[[Captain Obvious|People die if they are killed]]" with an ultra-serious look on his face<ref>This is a legitimate idiom in Japanese, usually as a statement about how tough someone is that they won't die even if you kill them, [[Quote Mine|but makes little sense out of context]].</ref> A screenshot of this sub is now a [[MeMemetic MeMutation|meme]] when talking about bad translations and/or [[Engrish]].

** One genuine example of [[Guide Dang It]] is in ''Heaven's Feel'': at one point the player is asked by Rin whether to remove {{spoiler|the Shroud of Martin covering Archer's arm for Shirou to use Projection Magic}}. Beforehand you are told/shown that removing it would practically cook Shirou's brain. Answering "no" leads to Rin congratulating you on your wise choice to not remove it so easily. Answering "yes" has Rin say that you shouldn't be so keen to sacrifice yourself. They decide not to remove it either way, no matter what you choose. Later in the route the player is given a choice of {{spoiler|"Kill Sakura" and "I can't do that"}}, ''unless'' you answered "no" to Rin's question. Then the choice point is skipped altogether and Shirou automatically tries to {{spoiler|stab Sakura, but is killed by Rider.}} Hmmm...

*** ''Rin x Mitsuzuri'' ([[Bleached Underpants|Censored PS2 version only]]): The substitute [[Erotic Dream]]. See [https://web.archive.org/web/20130526221249/http://danbooru.donmai.us/data/ffc143cacc06374d8954d48e70aa0634.jpg here].

** Rin does actually draw the whole summoning circle for Archer, but it's skipped in the [[Anime]] because of the [[Rule of Cool]].

* [[It's a Wonderful Failure]] - Extensive [[Bad End|bad ends]] exists solely for mocking Shirou's stupidity, and many [[Have a Nice Death|Tiger Dojos]] love to rub the player's choice is his face. Note that there is lots of horror in these [[Bad End|bad ends]] - and the occasional ending that actually ''isn't'' horrific is almost startling and a welcome respite... Still, even if you ''did'' find the good choice and reach the end without dying, you ''have'' to eventually see all those [[Bad Ending|bad endings]] [[Hundred-Percent100% Completion|in order to unlock everything]].

** Initially, [[Mundane Utility]] is the ''only'' utility Shirou's [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|magic powers have]]. It really puts his [[Took a Level Inin Badass|levels in badass]] in perspective when you consider that at the beginning of the story, Shirou was using his magic to...repair household appliances.

* [[No Ontological Inertia]] - Well, there is ''some'', but Servants cease to exist if they stop getting mana from, or lose their contract with, their Masters, generally disappearing after a few hours. Minor exceptions are servants with Independent Action (mostly a class skill of the Archer class, though Rider has it as a non-class one), who can survive longer; Archer, with Rank B, can last for three days without a contract, while Rider, with Rank C, can last for one.

*** {{spoiler|Lancer gets back up after stabbing himself due to a command seal order, stabs Kirei, still scares the hell outta (and lightly stabs, for safe measure) Shinji, and rescues Rin. He's [[Killed Off for Real]] after that.}}

* [[Oh Crap]]:

** {{spoiler|Gilgamesh}} gets one of these ''per route'', after juggling the [[Villain Ball]] for too long to notice he is about to get killed.

*** In ''Fate'', this is how he reacts when {{spoiler|Saber brushes off the blast from Ea and is about to cut him in half}}.

*** In ''Unlimited Blade Works'', when he realizes that he {{spoiler|locked himself into an unwinnable fight by falling in Shirou's pace}}.

* [[One-Handed Zweihander]]: [[Played Straight|Played straight by Berserker]], whose 'sword' is more like a massive chunk of metal with a hilt. [[Averted]] by Saber and Assassin, who use their two hands.

** Servant Caster's {{spoiler|love for her Master, willingness to sacrifice herself to save him, and farewell speech almost make up for the fact that she freely murdered and drained the energy/souls of people throughout the city to [[Love Makes You Crazy|achieve her goals]].}}

** {{spoiler|Archer does this large-scale in the ''Unlimited Blade Works'' route}}.

** {{spoiler|Gilgamesh possesses nearly every Noble Phantasm, but owns/masters just one, and has a second that accesses all the others.}}

* [[Random Power Ranking]]

* [[School Uniforms Are the New Black]] - Rin skipped school to show Archer around the city. Despite being the heir to a rather wealthy family, she still choose to wear her school uniform for this outing.

** Shirou hasseems to ashow problematicthis attitude towards Saber in the ''Fate'' route and the [[Anime]], which has suffered [[Memetic Mutation]]. HeThis in turn leads to him sayssaying some really [[Egregious]] sexist lines and triestrying to do the fighting in Saber's place. Ironically, [[Subverted Trope|Shirou plays with this trope more than he plays it straight]]; his adamant refusal to allow Saber to fight only happens in the route where she's his love interest and it comes after watching her nearly get killed defending him in her first fight with Berserker. In no other route and for no other girl does Shirou use this [[Trope]], and when Saber fights Berserker to a draw in the ''Unlimited Blade Works'' route, Shirou expresses so much faith in her abilities that Saber herself is surprised. In hindsight, it seems less logical that Shirou actually holds this position and more logical that he's trying to invent a reason to keep someone he cares about from getting hurt. It should be noted that Shirou explicitly has a spiritual disorder that causes him to have little to no sense of self and derive any sense of happiness and worth only through helping others. It causes him to put way too much responsibility on himself and refuse to compromise his desire to help everyone. ''Fate'' is the only route where he sees a female lead get horrifically injured so early in and he has a flashback to seeing Saber drenched in blood, barely able to stand and using her sword as a crutch, almost every time she is about to enter a dangerous situation. His initial attitude towards her is pretty blatantly caused by that rather than an actual [[Stay in the Kitchen]] attitude.

** The one character who confirmably has traditionalist views on gender roles is Issei.

** It should be noted that Shirou only acts protective towards Saber if she fights Beserker at beginning and he sees her completely bloodied and broken fighting for his sake. This event, exclusive to the ''Fate'' route, is actually the key event that led into that route.

** In the ''Fate'' [[Anime]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMTIDKVFa4M Kimi to no Ashita (A Tomorrow with You)]

*** "It was no coincidence that we met / For it's a destiny unchanged since long ago."

* [[Troperiffic]] - ''justJust look.''

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]] - The scene in the Chinese restaurant in ''Heaven's Feel''. Only, [[Played Straight|it is played]] ''[[Played Straight|completely straight'']]''. ''And it works'': in a route filled with genuine horror, Kotomine ordering a ''second'' mapo tofu comes across as menacing.

** Kotomine has a pretty good one in ''Heavens Feel''. [[{{spoiler:Start with sending Lancer to figure out who everyone is, where they are and how strong, as he did in the two other routes. Crap, after roflstomping True Assassin he got his heart pulled out and eaten. Ok, uh, well we still have Gilgamesh, and he's pissed about the serial killings going on. Damnit, he got eaten too. Fine, we'll set up Sakura, the monster eating everyone to turn into the gate and destroy the world. Uh oh, the Core of the Grail just got hijacked, time to team up with Shirou to recover it. Oops, True Assassin came after him and humans can't kill Servants with the tools he has. Guess we'll destroy Zouken's body, using my fake heart as a decoy and then drive off Assassin. Woops, my heart was beating due to Angra's energy and Sakura crushes the connection. I am running out of time, since my heart relied on Angra's mud to keep on beating.<br />And, breaking the narration, he still makes it to the end of the path and still nearly unleashes a plan that is in fact much worse than the scale of what he was trying in the first two routes. Plus, Shirou's ideology has been neatly discarded, and Kotomine really hated it]]}}.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]] - Many characters are like this. Surprisingly pointed out in Sakura's case, {{spoiler|but that's for a good reason}}. See the Characters Pages for more informationsinformation.

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]] - [[Trope Pantheons/Personal Appearance|Rin Tohsaka, Goddess of the Zettai Ryouiki.]] Rider also sports some Grade-A [[Zettai Ryouiki]].

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