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** Dark Sakura is noticeably more sympathetic than in the visual novel here, less of a {{manchild}} and more of a true TragicVillain, displaying much more inner conflict with her actions. She hesitates briefly before attempting to kill Rin, appears somewhat ashamed by Shirou's arrival, and seems genuinely anguished about the suffering she'll have to put him through before trying to consume him. Upon meeting Kirei, Dark Sakura snaps much more quickly when Kirei provokes her and doesn't even compose herself, remaining clearly enraged and emotionally torn, her smile as she crushes Kirei's heart being more of a hollow smile rather than a sadistic one. She also noticeably shows more remorse about killing Zouken and the fact she'll have to kill Rin and actually appears agonized when Saber Alter asks her about Shirou, whereas she explicitly was stated to have asked Saber Alter to kill and bring Shirou to her, indicating here she didn't actually ask much less wish to have Saber Alter kill Shirou.

** Sakura gets a case of this in ''lost butterfly.'' [[spoiler:The movie appears to have set aside the fact that each time Sakura has sex with Shirou, it is slowly killing him. In the visual novel as it was originally written, each instance of sex results in Shirou losing a significant amount of mana to Sakura, which is a serious problem because this causes Archer's transplanted arm to take over more of his body and mind, which a human cannot handle. He wakes up after each session feeling weakened and as if something was taken from him, but cannot remember because of the brain damage accumulating within him. Sakura is fully aware of how much she is hurting him but is too selfish to stop. The movie doesn't imply any of this and opts instead to portray it as [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex a loving couple enjoying themselves]], with no ill effects upon Shirou.]] Even as Dark Sakura, she still has a few shades of this: While in the visual novel, she has no qualms sicking Saber Alter at Illya and having her apparently ransack Shirou's home, here not only does she not do that, spawning Saber Alter when Rider attempts to attack her and even then not having her finish Rider off, but she even ends her fight with Rin in an instant rather than enjoying toying with her specifically because it would have damaged the house when Rin tries to cast a spell at her with multiple jewels.

** [[spoiler:The film shows us more about how the Shadow corrupts Saber by having her be confronted by Saber Alter. With the implications being that it's all taking place inside her mind, this explains more about how the corruption works for Servants, and how Saber's beliefs do get twisted]]. For that matter, [[spoiler:Saber Alter comes across as more of a character with personality and agency, albeit very stoical and emotionless, unlike the game where she was little more than a killing doll]].

This trilogy presents an alternate take on the Fifth Holy Grail War from that seen in ''Anime/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorks''. This time, the story focuses on Shirou's budding romance with his [[SenpaiKohai junior schoolmate]] Sakura Matou, but in the process, he uncovers a dark secret about her and her family that threatens to destroy the world. In this situation, Shirou will have to choose between upholding his ideal of "Hero of Justice who can save everyone" and his desire to protect the girl he loves over everything else.

* ToxicFriendInfluence Shinji enforces this trope full force with Shirou at the beginning of this route. As the movies progress, Shinji loses Shirou's friendship and they become bitter enemies.

The story starts off more or less the same as the previous two routes: at the end of the [[LightNovel/FateZero Fourth Holy Grail War]], Kiritsugu Emiya rescues and adopts a young boy named Shirou, but passes away a few years later, leaving young Shirou trying to leave up to his adopted father's ideal of becoming a "Hero of Justice" who can save all people, despite having learned only some basic magecraft to do so.

** In the climax of ''spring song'' [[spoiler:as Illya enters the Greater Grail to shut it down, she sees someone in the distance and begins running - into the waiting arms of [[LightNovel/FateZero her mother, Irisviel]].]]
** At the end of ''spring song'' during the scene where [[spoiler:Rin and Sakura are trying to revive Shirou; when they travel to a back-alley magic shop to acquire an artificial puppet body for him that has just been delivered, they pass by [[LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners a certain red-headed mage known for creating puppet bodies so flawless they're indistinguishable from real humans]].]]

* RapeAsBackstory: The second movie does not gloss over the fact that [[spoiler:Sakura was raped by her adoptive brother Shinji several times growing up, or that Zouken's grotesque experiments -- which started [[LightNovel/FateZero when she was a child]] -- involved violating her with Crest Worms]].

** The piece that plays during Sakura's dream is based on Aimer's "pluie", though it also sounds similar to ''LightNovel/FateZero'''s "All the World's Evil".

** Dark Sakura has a few shades of this: While in the visual novel, she has no qualms sicking Saber Alter at Illya and having her apparently ransack Shirou's home, here not only does she not do that, spawning Saber Alter when Rider attempts to attack her and even then not having her finish Rider off, but she even ends her fight with Rin in an instant rather than enjoying toying with her specifically because it would have damaged the house when Rin tries to cast a spell at her with multiple jewels.

** As Dark Sakura, she has a few shades of this: While in the visual novel, she has no qualms sicking Saber Alter at Illya and having her apparently ransack Shirou's home, here not only does she not do that, spawning Saber Alter when Rider attempts to attack her and even then not having her finish Rider off, but she even ends her fight with Rin in an instant rather than enjoying toying with her specifically because it would have damaged the house when Rin tries to cast a spell at her with multiple jewels.

* CoitusEnsues: [[spoiler:Surprisingly, and for the first time ever in an adaptation of one of the three main routes of the ''Fate/Stay Night'' series, Shirou is ''actually shown sleeping with his LoveInterest''. In the Realta Nua version and anime series, both the Fate and Unlimited Blade Works routes work around the sex scenes for Shirou to acquire an alternative power source. The second movie, however, takes it further as it keeps the blood-sucking scene that Sakura needs for energy and instead animates the scene from the original novel where Shirou has sex with Sakura of his own free will. At that point in the movie, Shirou has Archer's arm grafted onto him and both parties sleep with one another for comfort and love. Due to this being a movie and one of the darker routes, the scene does not shy away at the last minute and cuts to post-coitus either; we actually see and hear panting, light love making and Sakura's naked body, though her breasts are not shown fully and the audience does not see genitalia.]] Another scene in the movie implies that [[spoiler:Shirou and Sakura]] made love to each other again; this time the audience only sees the aftermath and both of them sleeping naked with one another.

* LaughingMad: Shinji completely loses it [[spoiler:when everyone abandons him during the second movie, due to him no longer being a Master, Rin, Shirou and even Sakura regarding him as a ''pathetic'' "Master", and overall being a sad, ''sad'', '''sad''' human being. [[NeverMyFault He ends up blaming all of his woes on Shirou]]. One scene in the movie shows him going on a temper tantrum, screaming Shirou's name and throwing and destroying objects in his room before laughing insanely. He invokes this trope again as he tries to rape poor Sakura and threatens to tell Shirou about it. He ends up dying for it, the frozen grimace of his mad laughter etched on his face...]]

This trilogy presents an alternate take on the Fifth Holy Grail War from that seen in ''Anime/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorks''. This time, the story focuses on Shirou's budding romance with his [[SempaiKohai junior schoolmate]] Sakura Matou, but in the process, he uncovers a dark secret about her and her family that threatens to destroy the world. In this situation, Shirou will have to choose between upholding his ideal of "Hero of Justice who can save everyone" and his desire to protect the girl he loves over everything else.

** While its implied in the original novel, [[spoiler:Berserker's final battle against Saber, after she becomes blackened, showcases the hero's last stand against her overwhelming might and all of his desperate attempts to kill her before he falls to her sword and then consumed by the Shadow.]]

* BigBrotherInstinct: Shirou goes to great lengths to keep Illya safe from harm during the second movie, despite her trying to kill him in the first. [[spoiler:Even Archer makes sure that not one scratch befalls Illya, which makes sense since he is basically a future Shirou.]]

** Assassin (Sasaki Kojiro) dies when [[spoiler:True Assassin bursts forth from his chest for his "summoning". The camera lingers a bit on his corpse before its devoured by the Shadow.]]

** Berserker's state after being killed [[spoiler:several times by Saber Alter. He's cut in half, burned alive, has his head disintegrated, pieces of skin and muscle sheared off,etc. God Hand allows him to come back every time but the experience can't have been pleasant for the hero.]]

** Despite being a dangerous Servant, True Assassin cannot catch a break when fighting on his own. Lancer manhandles him several times and would have killed him if not for the assistance of the Shadow. Saber slices his arm to prevent his use of Noble Phantasm: Zabiniya, despite being restrained by the Shadow. Rider beats the living crap out of him when she returns as [[spoiler:Sakura's]] Servant. [[spoiler:During the second movie, Archer easily repels the ghoul, with the killer getting his eyes slashed across for his trouble at the end of their battle, choosing to retreat. Archer even calls him a failure of an Assassin, stating that he needs to mount a sneak attack on Shirou of all people just to kill him and calls him "third-rate". Similar to Lancer's battle, the Shadow bails True Assassin out of danger, though the Shadow is the one that finishes off an opposing Servant this time.]]

* CoitusEnsues: [[spoiler:Surprisingly, and for the first time ever in an adaptation of one of the three main routes of the ''Fate/Stay Night'' series, Shirou is ''actually shown sleeping with his LoveInterest''. In the Realta Nua version and anime series, both the Fate and Unlimited Blade Works routes work around the sex scenes for Shirou to acquire an alternative power source. The second movie, however, takes it further as it keeps the blood-sucking scene that Sakura needs for energy and instead animates the scene from the original novel where Shirou has sex with Sakura of his own free will. At that point in the movie, Shirou has Archer's arm grafted onto him and both parties sleep with one another for comfort and love. Due to this being a movie and one of the darker routes, the scene does not shy away at the last minute and cuts to post-coitus either; we actually see and hear panting, light love making and Sakura's naked body, though her breasts are not shown fully and the audience do not see genitalia.]] Another scene in the movie implies that [[spoiler:Shirou and Sakura]] made love to each other again; this time the audience only sees the aftermath and both of them sleeping naked with one another.

* PoisonousFriend: Rider, unfortunately, falls under this trope towards her Master, [[spoiler:Sakura. Despite Sakura's wishes not to fight and harm her loved ones, Rider will do everything in her power to keep her Master safe, even if the world ''burns''. This is seen twice in the second movie, where Rider unleashes her Mystic Eyes in an effort to kill Shirou, Rin and Archer when they "threatened" to stop Sakura's out of control powers and when Rider seriously considered murdering Shirou if he went through with stabbing Sakura in her sleep to put an end to her involuntary rampages as the Shadow.]] However, Rider downplays this trope somewhat as she herself is not a bad person and she only goes through with such actions ''because'' she and [[spoiler:Sakura]] are so similar; Rider sympathizes with her Master due to both having such tragic backstories and Rider grows to love [[spoiler:Sakura]] as a person, treating her Master like a younger sibling in need of protection.
** Shinji enforces this trope full force with Shirou at the beginning of this route. As the movies progress, Shinji loses Shirou's friendship and they become bitter enemies.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: [[spoiler:Surprisingly, and for the first time ever in an adaptation of one of the three main routes of the ''Fate/Stay Night'' series, Shirou is ''actually shown sleeping with his love interest''. In the Realta Nua version and anime series, both the Fate and Unlimited Blade Works routes work around the sex scenes for Shirou to acquire an alternative power source. The second movie, however, takes it further as it keeps the blood sucking scene that Sakura needs for energy and instead animates the scene from the original novel where Shirou has sex with Sakura of his own free will. At that point in the movie, Shirou has Archer's arm grafted onto him and both parties sleep with one another for comfort and love. Due to this being a movie and one of the darker routes, the scene does not shy away at the last minute and cuts to post coitus either; we actually see and hear panting, light love making and Sakura's naked body, though her breasts are not shown fully and the audience do not see genitalia.]]
** Another scene in the movie implies that [[spoiler:Shirou and Sakura]] made love to each other again; this time the audience only sees the aftermath and both of them sleeping naked with one another.

** A minor one that helps keep Saber as a strong fighter is how she was [[spoiler:grabbed and corrupted by the Shadow. In the VN, Saber gets grabbed and that is it. In the movie, Saber gets grabbed by it and actually resists, using Excalibur, Mana Burst, and her Magic Resistance to try and push the corruption back. Unfortunately, True Assassin strikes during this, and she allows herself to be consumed]].

** Sakura gets a case of this in ''lost butterfly.'' [[spoiler:The movie appears to have set aside the fact that each time Sakura has sex with Shirou, it is slowly killing him. In the visual novel as it was originally written, each instance of sex results in Shirou losing a significant amount of mana to Sakura, which is a serious problem because this causes Archer's transplanted arm to take over more of his body and mind, which a human cannot handle. He wakes up after each session feeling weakened and as if something was taken from him, but cannot remember because of the brain damage accumulating within him. Sakura is fully aware of how much she is hurting him but is too selfish to stop. The movie doesn't imply any of this and opts instead to portray it as [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex a loving couple enjoying themselves]], with no ill effects upon Shirou.]] Even as Dark Sakura, she still has a few shades of this: While in the visual novel, she has no qualms sicking Saber Alter at Illya and having her apparently ransack Shirou's home, here not only does she not do that, spawning Saber Alter when Rider attempts to attack her and even then not having her finish Rider off, but she even ends her fight with Rin in an instant rather than enjoying toying with her specifically because it would have damaged the house when Rin tries to cast a spell at her with multiple jewels.

* CryCute: Sakura cries tears when she sees [[spoiler:Shirou coming home all beaten up, after she spent so many hours looking for him.]] She sheds them several times throughout the second movie, most notably when [[spoiler:she's crying in Shirou's arms after she runs away from the Church and during their love scene.]]

** The ending to the first movie. [[spoiler:Shirou loses Saber to the Shadow, and is out of the war as a result. Saber is corrupted by the Shadow. Lancer, Assassin, and Caster are killed by True Assassin and then their bodies are eaten by the Shadow. Zouken and True Assassin are still alive and are determined to cause as much grief for our heroes as possible. People are collapsing mysteriously in Fuyuki City ''en masse''.]] The only "good" thing is that [[spoiler:Rider turns on Zouken and True Assassin to protect Shirou]]. Given everything to come, [[UpToEleven it gets much worse]].

** Kirei is immune to True Assassin's Noble Phantasm, [[OneCurseLimit his heart being literally made of living curses]].

** Kirei is immune to True Assassin's Noble Phantasm, his heart being literally made of living curses.

* BloodierAndGorier: Like with the other adaptations made by Ufotable, a lot of the deaths are more gruesome than in the VN. Unlike ''UBW'' adaptation, the movie is much more gruesome thanks to being a movie.

** Also when [[spoiler:Zouken summons Caster]] she appears as a corpse showing where her injuries were when in the VN she was just a black void.
** While the movie skips over the [[spoiler:gruesome and horrifying first-hand account of the random woman being eaten by Zouken's worm familiars, it does show for a brief moment a purse and a shoe covered in blood on the ground...]]
** In the second movie, [[spoiler:any time Sakura and the Shadow show up together, expect limbs and blood nearby. Gilgamesh interrupts her during one of the Shadow's rampages, tears her to pieces with his Gate of Babylon, is amazed when the Shadow ends up healing her and gets devoured for his trouble.]]
** Berserker's body after his battle with [[spoiler:Saber Alter.]] ''Multiple times.''

* MoodWhiplash:
** The hilarious "mapo tofu" scene from the game is preserved in all its wacky glory, with Kotomine delivering shocking plot revelations while eating Chinese food so hot it causes steam to escape when he opens his collar. Because of the movie's condensed pace, it's even weirder than it was in the game.
** In the second movie, [[spoiler:we are treated to Sakura having a dream about stuffed animals in a city-like setting, dressed like a princess. She's amazed and actually shown being happy by interacting with the animals, who explode into candies when touched by her. She picks up the candy and goes to eat it...before we cut to real life and find that the "candy" is actually ''human limbs'', the stuffed animals being ''humans trying to run from her''...]]

** Dark Sakura is noticeably more sympathetic than in the visual novel here, less of a Manchild and more of a true TragicVillain, displaying much more inner conflict with her actions. She hesitates briefly before attempting to kill Rin, appears somewhat ashamed by Shirou's arrival, and seems genuinely anguished about the suffering she'll have to put him through before trying to consume him. Upon meeting Kirei, Dark Sakura snaps much more quickly when Kirei provokes her and doesn't even compose herself, remaining clearly enraged and emotionally torn, her smile as she crushes Kirei's heart being more of a hollow smile rather than a sadistic one. She also noticeably shows more remorse about killing Zouken and the fact she'll have to kill Rin and actually appears agonized when Saber Alter asks her about Shirou, whereas she explicitly was stated to have asked Saber Alter to kill and bring Shirou to her, indicating here she didn't actually ask much less wish to have Saber Alter kill Shirou.

** Sakura gets a case of this in ''lost butterfly.'' [[spoiler:The movie appears to have set aside the fact that each time Sakura has sex with Shirou, it is slowly killing him. In the visual novel as it was originally written, each instance of sex results in Shirou losing a significant amount of mana to Sakura, which is a serious problem because this causes Archer's transplanted arm to take over more of his body and mind, which a human cannot handle. He wakes up after each session feeling weakened and as if something was taken from him, but cannot remember because of the brain damage accumulating within him. Sakura is fully aware of how much she is hurting him but is too selfish to stop. The movie doesn't imply any of this and opts instead to portray it as [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex a loving couple enjoying themselves]], with no ill effects upon Shirou.]]

** When Rin tries to cast a spell with several gems at once, Dark Sakura doesn't waste any time playing with her like she did in the visual novel as it would have broken Shirou's house and instead coldly chatisizes her for attempting such a magic against her knowing it wouldn't be much a threat and summons a ''huge cage'' made from the darkness to end their fight immediately, shattering the gems and effectively downing Rin.