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* [[Spontaneous Weapon Creation]]: Archer can create weapons out of thin air. It's the same for {{spoiler|his past-self Shirou, who can "trace" various historical and mythological swords, creating inferior copies of them to use in battle}}.
* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]] - {{spoiler|Shirou and Saber in the ''Fate'' route}}.
* [[Start of Darkness]]: The backstory suggests that the Holy Grail underwent this around [[World War 2]], though the consequences don't really become apparent until the events of ''[[Fate/Zero]].''
* [[Statistically Speaking]] - [[Averted]]: The stats of the Servants seem to have little, if any, bearing on their actual abilities. Archer is able to hold off Lancer despite being statistically inferior to him in practically every way, and {{spoiler|True Assassin and Gilgamesh}} get defeated by humans they should, by all accounts, outperform several times over. Although, this is due to the circumstances rather than them genuinely being weaker. Indeed, the only stats that ever seem to come into play are Saber's B-rank Luck and Magical Energy, which allow her to withstand Lancer's ''Gae Bolg'' attack, Archer's {{spoiler|Independent Action Rank B}} and Rider's {{spoiler|Eyes of Petrification}}. Of course, when you get down to brass tacks, the stats honestly ARE meaningless- the game is a [[Visual Novel]], not an RPG and the stats are only there to add flavour.
* [[Stay in the Kitchen]]
** Shirou
*** Amusingly, Shirou also inverts this trope's name; he happens to be [[Supreme Chef|a fantastic chef]], and occasionally can be heard telling Rin and Sakura to get out of the kitchen for various reasons.
** The one character who confirmably has traditionalist views on gender roles is Issei.
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** In the ''Heaven's Feel'' route, "Light and Darkness" (''Hikari to Yami'') plays during the last battle, between {{spoiler|Shirou and Kotomine}}. Or rather, ''half'' of the song plays at first, giving a tense techno beat while {{spoiler|Shirou's getting his ass kicked. It's only when [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya|he reflects on]] [[The Power of Love|Sakura]] [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya|and pulls off a frenzied counterattack]] that the second half of the song plays}}.
* [[There Can Be Only One]] - The very concept of the Grail War. {{spoiler|At least, that is what they want you to think, even if the actual goal of the Grail War is still something really different.}}
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: They pop up in the backstory as the Nazis sent in their [[Ghostapo|own "representatives"]] to the Holy Grail War at one point. Justified in that said war took place around the same time as [[World War 2]] {{spoiler|and that the ensuing bloodbath might have played a role in the Holy Grail's [[Start of Darkness]].}}
* [[Talking Is a Free Action]] - In two forms:
** [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: mostly [[Averted]], but spell-casting is pretty much done at the speed of plot. The notable exception is Caster who has an unfair [[Justified]] advantage, but sometimes the characters can even cast complex spells in less time than it takes for an already incoming blow to land.
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* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]
** Archer's plan in ''Unlimited Blade Works''. {{spoiler|His repeated gambits to kill Shirou and set up either himself and Rin or a Rin/Saber team as the winners of the Grail War by playing Caster, Kotomine and the protagonists against each other are truly inspired}}.
** Kotomine has a pretty good one in ''Heavens Feel''.
* [[Yandere]] - Ilya just loves Shiro to death. {{spoiler|She even kills him, [[And I Must Scream|or near]], in some [[Bad End|bad ends]].}}
* [[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 informations.
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