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[[File:cit_fate_stay_night_are_you_my_master.jpg|link=Summoning Ritual|frame|''I ask of you: Are you my master?'']]

''[[The Stoic|My blood is of iron, and my heart of glass.]]<br />

''[[Shell-Shocked Veteran|I have survived countless battles.]]<br />

* [[But Thou Must!]] - Or often suffer horrific, pointless death. ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' punishes the player who choose to play a [[Out of Character]] Shirou.

** A more literal example near the end of the ''Heavens Feel'' route when Shirou goes to rescue Ilya. When he gets there, [[Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like|she refuses him and tries to make him go back]]. You are given three options on how to proceed. They are all the same.

3. Bring Ilya Back }}

** It's even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]]:

* [[By the Power of Greyskull]] - When a Servant uses what's usually their most powerful weapon or distinctive skill -the Noble Phantasm- they shout its name. All Noble Phantasms must be called out to be used. [[Justified Trope|This is explained as being required to unlock their power in the Holy Grail War system]].

* [[The Cameo]]:

* [[Character Alignment]] - [[Invoked Trope|Canonical alignments in the status pages]]. These tend to be points of contention among the [[Fandom]], particularily {{spoiler|Gilgamesh's}}. It's worth noting, though, that they're from the perspective of the Grail, which has a rather... [[Blue and Orange Morality|unusual]] way of seeing the world.

* [[Character Blog]] - For April Fools 2010, many [[Nasuverse|Type-Moon]] characters appeared on "[http://tatari.110mb.com/tmfools/10/ Tmitter]". Unfortunately, it's in Japanese, but a quick visit to Google Translate should give you the general idea if you don't know any. [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.

* [[Character Filibuster]] - Kirei Kotomine is physically incapable of entering and exiting a scene without at least a few dozen pages' worth of [[Mr. Exposition|exposition]], [[Contemplate Our Navels|philosophical contemplation]] or [[Hannibal Lecture|cruel mind games]] in between. Usually, all three at the same time, or at least two out of them at the same time, depending on the length of the scene. He gets called on it after a while. This is justified in the eyes of many by Kotomine's [[Joji Nakata|voice actor]], whose voice can be listened to for hours.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]

* [[The Devil]] - In ''Unlimited Blade Works'', we learn that {{spoiler|Angra Mainyu, the devil in Zoroastrianism, lives inside the Holy Grail and has corrupted it.}} As is explained in ''Heaven's Feel'' and further elaborated upon in ''hollow ataraxia'', {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|it turns out that Angra Mainyu isn't the Devil]] -- he's a Servant whose legend was born of a ritual where a single man was ritually sacrificed to personify all the the sins of his fellow humans so he'd absolve them by being killed. In the Third Holy Grail war, when Angra Mainyu, summoned as Avenger, got killed because he was a horribly weak Servant, the Grail identified him as a human rather than a servant and tried to fulfill his wish. Considering that the Holy Grail is an omnipotent device whose entire purpose is to seek and grant wishes and that Angra Mainyu is the personification of the world's wish for a concrete form of all evil... Let's just say it doesn't turn out well.}}

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

'''Shirou:''' "I didn't say anything about it being pretty -- huh? What did you say, Tohsaka?" }}

* [[Did Not Get the Girl]] - {{spoiler|In the ''Fate'' route. [[Multiple Endings|The only ending in which Saber stays]] is the ''Unlimited Blade Works'' "[[Double Entendre|good]]" ending. That would be [[Bi the Way|Rin's harem, by the way]], as she likes to make perfectly clear.}}

{{quote|'''Shirou:''' {{spoiler|I want to save everybody!}}|'''END.'''}}

** ''Unlimited Blade Works''

'''Gilgamesh:''' {{spoiler|MONGRELS! THOSE SWORDS ARE FUCKING PATENTED!}}|'''END.'''}}

** ''Heaven's Feel''

'''Kotomine:''' {{spoiler|But I'm still evil somehow, right?}}|'''END.'''}}

* [[The Electric Slide]] - Saber does this one during her first fight with Berserker.

* [[Food Porn]] - Ooh yes. If you didn't have an interest in Japanese cooking before, you will after reading the [[Visual Novel]].

** Food [[Gorn]]

* [[Foreshadowing]] - ''Loads'' of it, and in the most unlikely or innocuous places, too. For example, a major reveal in ''Heaven's Feel'' ({{spoiler|Sakura's "training" regimen}}) is foreshadowed in the Mini-Theater you get by completing all Tiger Dojos in '''Fate'.

* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]] - The leading ladies of the different routes exhibit this: you have Saber as melancholy, Rin as choleric, Sakura as phlegmatic, and Ilya/Taiga (in the [[Have a Nice Death|Tiger Dojos]] and, presumably, the cut route) as sanguine.

*** {{spoiler|''Saber x Caster'': Caster likes to [[Torture Technician|torture Saber]] a bit much.}}

*** ''Rin x Random Injured Girl'': Rin just brought this one all on herself.

Tohsaka, um, makes the stupidest misunderstandings sometimes. }}

*** Shirou is quite blunt in asking his best friend Issei to remove his school uniform. And Issei, for his part, was strangely okay with it. Not to mention Issei's general dislike of women...

* [[Mons]]: The Servants are humanoid version. A Master can order his Servant around, can make a contract with more than one and a Servant can continue in the Grail War if he makes another contract with someone.

* [[Mood Whiplash]] - [[Played Straight]], [[Subverted]], [[Double Subverted]] ''and'' [[Invoked]]. Very, very many of the [[Bad End|bad endings]] are [[Tear Jerker|intensely sad]], intensely disturbing, or both. They are then followed by a trip to the [[Have a Nice Death|Tiger Dojo]], which is a completely goofy little comedy segment where Ilya (in a gym uniform, for no discernable reason other than [[Fan Service]]) and Taiga give you hints as to what you did wrong, [[It's a Wonderful Failure|occasionally mock you]], and run their own little [[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine]]. [[Subverted|In fact, the Tiger Dojo is so reliable in this that the extremely few times they're totally serious are paradoxically whiplashtastic]]. For example [[Bad End]] 30 "Mind of Steel", where {{spoiler|Shirou puts his ideal to be a superhero ahead of Sakura's life, and lets Rin kill her}}:

''Ilya'': "......[[What the Hell, Hero?|idiot]]." }}

** [[Double Subverted|And even that is followed up by a whiplash.]]