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Soon it goes into Fan Disservice when it became obvious "Rin" is only there for Ayako's blood. Servant Rider's loyalty to her Master and the attempts to keep said Master safe give the impression there's something more than loyalty involved.
Make Way for the New Villains : After spending the previous two routes as the main antagonists, Kirei and Gilgamesh are upstaged by Zouken, The Shadow, and later Dark Sakura, though Kirei ultimately survives long enough to become the final boss. Memento MacGuffin : Sakura's ribbon, which is the first ribbon Rin ever made, and one of the few signs of their true feelings for each other, as opposed to the apparent indifference or even outright hatred that is shown through most of the route.
Moment Killer : At one point, a seemingly sick Sakura begins caressing Shirou while the music from the H-scenes plays Morton's Fork : Played for Laughs. He can pick either, but both choices will have him labeled as a Covert Pervert by the other. If Shirou favors Illya instead, she will enthusiastically hug him and Tohsaka will give him the stink eye and suspiciously ask him why he's going to such lengths to flatter a little girl. Mundane Made Awesome : Shirou meets Kotomine at the restaurant Even if he dies, Shirou has defeated an impossibly powerful Heroic Spirit that canonically not even the Shadow itself could have taken on in a hypothetical straight-up fight.
Notably, "Sparks Liner High" is the only bad end that doesn't explicitly call itself one, instead showing the regular "END" text from the main endings. It's clearly not one of the endings the player is supposed to get, but Shirou is such an absurd badass in it that even the Tiger Dojo doesn't give any grief for losing as the bittersweet "Ever-present Feeling" plays in the background instead the regular theme.
Not Quite Dead : Kotomine grinds Zouken's skull to dust and exorcises him, but he can reform his body later as his soul is kept safe within Sakura's heart. Oh, Crap! They soon go into Oh, Crap! His quest for immortality has caused his body and soul to decay , thus coming up against the problem all Nasuverse vampires face, causing him to seek something better. Paint It Black : The ones corrupted by the Shadow have their weapons and armour turn black and red. Berserker mostly turns a sickly red because his skin is apparently melting off.
The Power of Love : Shirou's main motivation in this route. His love for Sakura keeps him going, even when he becomes so brain-damaged that he forgets her very name. Despite the absurd amounts of magic being flung around in the climax, it's simply a hug from her big sister that finally breaks Sakura free from Angra Mainyu 's influence. Precision F-Strike : Shirou's response to the idea of letting Angra Mainyu be born and wrecking Sakura's life even more in addition to pretty much destroying all of humanity is, "Fuck that.
With Shirou and Sakura teaching Official Couple status, and Rin being canonically bi see Fate Route , fans noticed Rider was very happy to see Rin, and Rin spent a very long time thinking over how "beautiful" Rider is in her casual outfit Sick Episode : There are several between Shirou and Sakura.
On the sixth day, Shirou wakes up with a cold for the first time in his life he's actually low on life energy after Rider fed on him the night before and Sakura skips school to take care of him. Shirou is given the choice to do the same for Sakura that night and the one before.
Both of them, especially the one on the sixth day, are important to avoid a Bad End the next night. Or rather, half of the song plays at first, giving a tense techno beat while Shirou's getting his ass kicked. It's only when he reflects on Sakura and pulls off a frenzied counterattack that the second half of the song plays. Thicker Than Water : The resolution of one of the major plotlines of the route, namely Rin's relation with her sister Sakura.
Throw the Dog a Bone : After two routes of being eliminated first and thought to be a weakling servant, Rider gets to show that she's actually pretty powerful if not being held back by Shinji, and even survive the whole scenario. Kind of inverted by Lancer, when you think of it. In his first route, he had a decent showing. In the second route, he went out with a bang. In this route, he has pretty much the most anticlimatic death and becoming one of the first Servants to be eliminated.
Title Drop : The words "Heaven's Feel" refer to two different things. Illya's dress for the ritual is called the third dress, "Heaven's Feel". The true name of the Holy Grail War ritual, whose real purpose is obtaining the Third Magic, capable of materializing the soul. Violence Is Disturbing : Whereas the first two routes of the visual novel are relatively light and fun, with typical shonen-level violence and only occasional moments of Nightmare Fuel , Heaven's Feel cranks the gore Up to Eleven , and plays it for visceral horror at every opportunity.
In particular, Shirou's condition through the end part of the route and the way it plays into the final fight is some high-octane Body Horror. Wall Pin of Love : Shirou unthinkingly does this to Tohsaka at school during the fifth day of the route if the player decides to consult with her. Shirou only wants to keep other people from hearing them, but Tohsaka goes full-on Luminescent Blush from his actions.
Her resulting Luminescent Blush is the same, though. Xanatos Speed Chess : Kotomine takes up the mantle. First, send Lancer to investigate. When he dies, use Gilgamesh to get things back on track. When he dies, embrace the new situation and set up Sakura to start eating everyone. Team up with Shirou because he's easily manipulated and have him help to keep Illya safe because she's needed. Destroy Zouken so you can beat True Assassin. Sakura crushes your heart?
Big deal; you'll still make it to the final battle, anyway. Even when he loses, he still crushes Shirou's ideology. You Bastard! Tiger Dojo 30, Superhero in which Shirou decides to let Sakura die in order to protect his ideals doesn't result in this.
Taiga just matter-of-factly points out that the player has reached one possible ending, and Illya calls the player an idiot with a look of pity on her face. Adaptation Expansion : The manga adds a short scene of Taiga in her high school days, Rin taking a shower, and Souichirou Kuzuki's backstory. 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 '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 Shinji's friend In particular, Caster is shown able to do something she was never shown doing in canon by creating a miniature city inside a pocket dimension in Ryuudo Temple and her plan involves using Sakura as the Holy Grail, implying she is aware of a connection between her and the Lesser Grail.
The Unlimited Blade Works anime greatly expands a number of scenes; see the page for details. Age Lift : The Western-released materials come with a disclaimer that all of the characters are 18 or older , despite Shirou, Rin, and Sakura being in their second year in high school — making them between 16 and 17 in the Japanese version — with Saber being physically a year younger. All There in the Manual : The anime touches on elements from the Visual Novel, such as Archer's identity, Illya's parentage, and Sakura's relationship with Rin, without actually providing its own explanations.
This is doubly true for the "Unlimited Blade Works" movie, which will make about no sense as a narrative unless you have already played the "Unlimited Blade Works" route, as it squeezes many hours of gameplay into a two-hour movie. But hey, explosions. All Wishes Granted : The first anime. We're told that the victor of the Grail War can have their fondest wish come true.
Shiro's wish is to become a hero who can protect people. Rin's is to be reunited with her sister, Sakura. Saber's wish is to undo the past where she was made King. By the story's end, Shiro has become a hero without the use of the Grail. Rin was able to save and reunite with her sister, Sakura.
And Saber learns, in the end, to make peace with her time as the King. Also very much a case of Earn Your Happy Ending. The prequel anime is still considered to be the best despite the efforts of the later "Unlimited Blade Works" anime adaptation. Battle in the Center of the Mind : The anime and manga replace the mana transfer sex scene with Saber's inner dragon - the manifestation of her magic circuits - almost eating him to symbolize the transfer.
Between My Legs : At least one shot in every scene involving Rin in the movie is from this angle. Bleached Underpants : The film, manga, and the PS2 version of the game Realta Nua replace the H-scenes that were in the original game with alternate, non-erotic versions, such as Shirou being attacked by Saber's inner dragon. The original anime adaptation alludes to Fate's sex scene with semi-erotic parts, especially Rin's pose with Saber, but otherwise follows Realta Nua 's inner-dragon fight scene.
The Unlimited Blade Works anime does the same as the above, replacing the sex scene between Rin and Shirou with Realta Nua 's magic crest transfer ritual, complete with the magic dolphin from the first Unlimited Blade Works film adaptation.
Bloodier and Gorier : Injuries in the manga are drawn with much greater detail, and there is quite a bit more blood. One example is that although the censored H-scene in the house in the forest is more or less the same as in the anime, Shirou suffers some pretty brutal injuries while facing Saber's internal dragon. The injuries also manifest on his real-world body, which gives Rin a pretty big shock.
Compressed Adaptation : The "Unlimited Blade Works" movie skims over days of story at a time and completely excises most of the exposition, which is somewhat inevitable when adapting what's essentially a long VisualNovel exploding with exposition into a slightly less than two hour movie. The end result is a film with somewhat choppy pacing that's completely incomprehensible to newcomers, but has time to adequately show how epic the fights are.
Disappears into Light : In the second to last episode of Unlimited Blade Works , Saber runs out of mana after destroying the Grail and disperses into motes of golden mana, following the visual novel's True Ending.
Those who have seen "Heaven's Feel" know that exposure to the black ooze is what turns her into Saber Alter. Dressed Like a Dominatrix : Rider wears a black leotard dress with matching high legging boots and gloves.
Her Weapon of Choice is spike chains that she can wrap her opponents in. She also wears an eye mask. Though, that last bit is justified because she's Medusa and needs to cover her eyes.
If one hasn't watched the anime or read the Fate route, the movie will make little sense. For those who have, they get to see everyone being awesome at the expense of skipping some scenes used to build the route's actual conflict. This isn't normally problematic, but the terminology tends to look very different between versions.
The situation has been getting better ever since Aniplex took over the franchise, as their translations tend to stay consistent with each other and in some cases, reflect Mirror Moon's Fan Translation weirdly accurately.
However, it still applies to the earlier DEEN series, and the assorted manga. Lighter and Softer : The first manga, though Played With. On one hand, it focuses mostly on the rather idealistic "Fate" route, with Shinji of all people getting a softer side and surviving events that killed him in the Visual Novel. On the other hand, it is Bloodier and Gorier and takes some of the darker material of "Unlimited Blade Works" into its adaptation. If a scene has Rin in it, there will be at least a few shots focused on her Zettai Ryouiki for no particular reason.
Off-Model : The film shows almost none of this, although Shinji's "rape face" Evil Laugh looks less like him and more like a character from Higurashi: When They Cry about to do something horrible.
Apparently Berserker avoided Assassin by not using the mountain gate, meaning he just ripped right through the mountain's anti-Servant barrier field. The battle itself left the Temple as kindling and the ground around it gouged with massive scars. And we get to see precisely none of this titanic conflict. Parrying Bullets : In the movie, Shirou gains the ability to deflect many incoming projectiles by Dual Wielding swords for no apparent reason other than Rule of Cool. Pragmatic Adaptation : In various degrees among various adaptations.
So they took "Fate", added a few scenes and events from "Unlimited Blade Works". They also threw in the odd reference to "Heaven's Feel" as well — namely, the revelation that Rin and Sakura are sisters. Some of the romantic undertones between Shirou and Rin are lost, and separate visits to locations in the original get merged into a single, very eventful one wherein things happen for different but more easily explainable reasons.
The manga: Like the original anime it follows the "Fate" route, but takes more material from "Unlimited Blade Works" specifically that after defeating Rider, Caster attacks the Emiya residence and steals the weakened Saber away with Rule Breaker, with events then playing out similarly to that route and including Archer's betrayal, Lancer teaming up with the heroes, and Archer betraying Caster and 'almost' killing Shirou.
However, Saber doesn't make a contract with Rin and Rin reestablishes the pact between Shirou and Saber and between herself and Archer. It also throws in a few references to "Heaven's Feel", namely the reveal that Sakura is adopted into the Matous and is Rider's true Master. If said out loud, they sound almost the same but have exact opposite meanings. Really Dead Montage : The anime has one for Archer, showing images from throughout the series up until that point and even past it The finale also ends with one for Saber.
Retcon : When the anime shows Saber performing the action she regrets the most she's wearing a dress. In the original visual novel she was wearing trousers. Road Cone : With three different story paths, it's only natural that adaptations of the series would leave out some things. Both the anime and to a certain extent the manga are based on "Fate", though the movie is based on "Unlimited Blade Works".
Notably, Shirou deflects both Archer's and Gil's sword-bullets rather than using his own sword-bullets as in the original route. In the anime adaptation he does both. Runic Magic : Lancer can use runes to supplement his immense skill with the spear. A single fire rune, Ansuz, is enough to burn down an entire castle, and he can also use runes to create barriers and force a one-on-one confrontation where no one leaves until either he or his opponent is dead.
Theme Song Reveal : The anime doesn't outright state Archer's identity. However, it does implicitly make the reveal during the last moments of his fight against Berserker, due to the choice of music being a version of "Emiya", Shirou's theme from the VN. You can also accomplish every Tiger Dojo for other bonuses.
Automatic New Game : The game will start up at the beginning of the prologue narrated by Rin until you finish it and reach the main story narrated by Shirou, at which point you start up at the title screen. Blamed for Being Railroaded : Oftentimes, the correct solution is usually the dangerously stupid one. Expect to get chewed out by your allies for your recklessness, even though the only other option usually leads to your demise.
Developers' Foresight : The original release opened up new choices and event flags after every route you completed. The later release, which packages each route as a separate title, also unlocks the choices in a similar manner Gameplay and Story Integration : Although pretty low on actual "gameplay" , the status menu listing all the attributes and information gathered on Servants thus far is justified as being an ability granted to all Masters in the Grail War.
Every master sees it in whatever way would be most comprehensible to them. Shirou apparently finds RPG-like status screens most familiar despite no indication of being a gamer. Taiga and Illyasviel are the hosts and will sometimes gently mock the player or make absolutely no sense. However, they will always throw in a hint about why the player reached this Bad End unless the player did something so stupid Taiga refuses to talk to them.
It's a Wonderful Failure : Extensive bad ends exist solely for mocking Shirou's stupidity, and many Tiger Dojos love to rub the player's choice in his face. Even if you did find the good choice and reach the end without dying, you have to eventually see all those bad endings in order to unlock everything.
The Many Deaths of You : The game gets very Multiple Endings : "Fate" has one True End. Getting the Good End requires juggling around Saber and Rin's affection points. Which you get depends on your Relationship Values with Illyasviel, the whether or not you used another projection in the fight against Black Saber , and in post-True End playthroughs, the final choice you make. There are 40 Bad Ends. However, doing so always leads directly to a bad ending.
The Unlimited Blade Works route drops the pretense of choice altogether as Shirou automatically decides to fight without any player input. Similarly, once you know that Archer is future Shirou all their previous interactions in UBW, as well as in Fate and Heaven's Feel take on a different meaning. Knowing in advance that Kotomine is a villain leads his monologues having a different meaning when he first appears.
Stupidity Is the Only Option : Found in every Type-Moon visual novel — the more dangerous choice is frequently the correct one. The Tiger Dojo sometimes lampshades this: "Go back to the previous choice and try choosing the reckless, immature choice!
Made worse by the fact that you are, almost without fail, scolded by other characters for making the idiotic choices. Alternate Continuity : Possibly with itself. Archer's Mysterious Past is known to at least resemble the "Fate" scenario also followed by the anime, but how much is unclear. Also, Zelretch appears from an alternate continuity in one route, just to say hi. When speaking about this, Nasu affirms: "They're parallel sort of. But if Zelretch was observing, it'd become true, and my feelings on the matter is that I'd rather two routes disappear if one was true.
If all of these became possible at the same time, the other routes would become meaningless. Standard issue weaponry includes magical bible verses and thrown swords. Big Fancy House : A lot of them. The Tohsaka mansion is very big and Rin is already used to people thinking her house is a haunted mansion.
The Matou mansion is even bigger than the Tohsaka mansion and looks sufficiently gloomy to make it abundantly clear nothing good is going on in there.
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Tags: felo-de-se , kamikaze , self-destruction , seppuku , suicide , titles. Phillip books friends. Themis-Athena Lioness at Large books friends. Reese books 32 friends. Kathleen books friends. Harold books 46 friends. Greyweather books 69 friends. Susanna - Censored by GoodReads books friends. Adam books friends. Post a comment ». Dec 14, PM. Um, what if the character almost commits suicude but dosent??? Can i vote? Its called Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson- great book.
Funny you should ask that, I was just about to change the wording to include attempted suicide as well. Feel free to add it. Dec 15, AM. Phillip wrote: "Funny you should ask that, I was just about to change the wording to include attempted suicide as well. Should I put such here or start another list?
Excellent list topic, BTW, --Thom. I'll be interested to see what other books there are in that vein. Dec 16, PM. Curious why Gatsby is such a run-away popular choice. I recall that Myrtle's husband killed himself at the very end, but was there any other discussion of suicide that my fossilized mind can't recall? It's hard for me even to think of Gatsby as a book involving suicide in any significant way, though in fact a suicide of a relatively minor character occurred. I originally meant to stipulate the suicide of a major character, but then again the actions of minor characters can have a major effect e.
Little Father Time in Jude the Obscure and Myrtle's husband does kill Gatsby before shooting himself which is a fairly significant plot development Phillip wrote: "I originally meant to stipulate the suicide of a major character, but then again the actions of minor characters can have a major effect e. The climactic event, Gatsby's murder, does not derive its significance from the murderer's suicide; nor is the importance of Gatsby's death increased one bit by Myrtle's husband's suicide.
The fact that you, Harold, and I are all referring to the character who committed suicide as Myrtle's husband indicates how easily forgotten his life and death are. In saying this, I'm not suggesting that his suicide is of no significance; it has importance because it extends the long list of miserable experiences and losses caused by the Buchanans' selfishness and "carelessness.
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