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• Narita brings in some serious Serial Escalation where every Servant is broken in their own way.
  • To begin with, we have Gilgamesh who's fighting seriously.
  • Enkidu with all A-ranked stats across the board! Word of God from Narita mentions that he was afraid of making them too overpowered and this was the compromise he took to make them less insanely overpowered.
  • Caster aka Alexandre Dumas. His pitiful stats aside, this guy apparently can create Noble Phantasm-esque weapons and supplied them to a police force, making them able to fight on par with Servants.
  • Pale Rider, a Horseman of the Apocalypse (the manifestation of pestilence) as a Servant that completely counters Enkidu.
  • Jack the Ripper. They are a formless Servant that can become anything, read memories and generate multiple bodies and skills to match, making them scarily good at infiltration. They have an advantage against all humans, Servants or not. They can also transform into a giant demon... and if push comes to shove, they combine their Phantasms to generate hundreds and hundreds of demons.
  • No Name Assassin who can use all 18 Zabaniya with her Master as a Dead Apostle!
  • True Archer aka Alkeides/human Heracles. With a NP as the manifestation of his "Twelve Labors" as equipment and two other NPs, one of which is EX-rank. This is his heavily nerfed version after he took a Grail Mud bath; When he was first summoned, his mere presence sent his Master's underlings running for the hills screaming in terror, and the sheer hatred Heracles felt towards Bazdilot as the guy subjected him to Mind Rape changed his Killing Intent from merely scaring everyone in Heracles' presence to straight-up breaking one of Bazdilot's arms from sheer Death Glare.
  • True Rider. Hippolyta with her high physical strength and her NP as a manifestation of Ares, the Greek God of War.
  • Francesca aka Francois Prelati who summoned himself as a Servant.
  • Saber, Richard I, who can name any object as an Excalibur and turn it into a Wave Motion Sword (as demonstrated with a stick) and can also summon his companions from the Throne to help him whenever he needs them.
  • True Berserker is Humbaba - one of the very few monsters to actually frighten Gilgamesh, even at the height of his power.
• One in the backstory, for the history nuts out there: a Noodle Incident in Saber's human life apparently entailed him teaming up with his enemies in the Crusades, Saladin and Hassan i-Sabbah, in order to take down a Dead Apostle together.
• Gilgamesh vs Enkidu's reunion spar. As a "warmup", both immediately go for their best Noble Phantasms - both called "Enuma Elish" - and leave behind a massive crater, both relatively unharmed. After that, they go and repeat their fight from the past that was established in CCC, with Enkidu using their clay to match the Gate of Babylon.
  • True Archer vs Gilgamesh only ups the Cool Versus Awesome factor when True Archer completely makes Gilgamesh and the Gate of Babylon look like a fool. On top of this, True Rider proceeds to punch True Archer and sends him flying with it; this is after Gilgamesh's attacks were ineffective against the latter. Shocking Moments go through the roof at this point, and it's only volume 2.
• A flashback to the time Delmio Cervantes first met Hansa shows the priest, wanting to scare away the boy, threw a coin at an impossible speed at the wooden pillar next to Hansa... who caught it. He was more amazed that it was a silver coin than anything else.
• One of the greatest villainous moments of the franchise: Bazdilot Cordelion. He makes a Dynamic Entry crashing from a skylight, smashing two assassins to a pulp. Without batting an eye, he reveals he just curb-stomped 30 assassins just outside... and just as his assistants turn to begin disposing of the bodies, he headshots four of them, revealing them as magically-disguised killers. Then, after the tremendous strain of summoning True Archer, he has both the stones and the strength to use all three of his Command Spells to Mind Rape a monstrously powerful entity hellbent on destroying him and bending it to his will, even as the shockwaves alone kill his assistants and nearly pulverize the bones in his arm. As horrifying as this is, it's a hell of an Establishing Character Moment to successfully taint and control one of the franchise's most brutally powerful entities without flinching or screaming.
• Sigma, a mere human, fights No Name Assassin and manages to escape.
• Jack's speech before fighting True Archer.
  Jack: O hero who has fallen into thuggery, into humanity! However great a hero you may be! Even if you have the power to destroy the world! So long as your essence is human... you will be hunted by a powerless ‘killer’.
• Saber effortlessly bats away a volley from Gate of Babylon.
• Saber steals one of the Gate of Babylon's swords and blasts Gilgamesh with Excalibur. Though Gilgamesh blocks it with shields, the impact knocks him into the air. Saber then blasts him again and again, knocking him higher and higher into the sky.
• John Wingard is empowered by False Caster. He manages to knock True Archer down with a flying knee, actually hurt him with punches and kicks, then actually scare True Archer by drawing a dagger coated in Hydra venom. True Archer acknowledges him as a Worthy Opponent.
• Flat versus True Archer normally would be a hilariously one-sided Curb-Stomp Battle in the latter's favor. Unfortunately, he forgot that his stolen Noble Phantasm isn't covered by his A-Rank Magic Resistance. Cue brutal retaliation for the theft of his Servant's Phantasm.
• The being possessing Filia, Ishtar without Rin's personality to make her nicer, doesn't have access to her full power, but is still capable of amazing feats:
  • You know that in in the Babylonia Singularity Ishtar admitted she had somehow lost Gugalanna? She hadn't lost it-it was stolen by Filia across the dimensions for use against Gilgamesh and Enkidu.
    • By the way, this is actually standard behaviour for her in the myth: one of the surviving myths was about her visiting Enki and stealing the physical manifestations of his domain over all aspects of civilization.
  • Upon getting her hands on the physical key to Gilgamesh' vault, she shuts Gate of Babylon down.
• Ayaka, Saber, and the police are attacked by Cerberus. After a brief fight, Saber puts his cultured education to use by talking to Cerberus and pointing out they are not in the Underworld and are not Hades' subjects, so Cerberus should have no quarrel with them. Cerberus actually stops, forcing False Rider to pull a Villain Override to get him to keep fighting.
• John Wingard still has his power-up from False Caster and joins Saber in battling an army of Cerberus created by False Rider.
• When Saber is injured by a Cerberus and flung into a building, Ayaka runs to him, conquering her fear of elevators and the apparition of Little Red Riding Hood in the process.
• Francesca and True Caster show Saber and Ayaka a recording of the Feast of Kings from Fate/Zero, thinking that learning King Arthur is a woman and of her flaws will make Saber suffer a Broken Pedestal moment and break his spirit. Instead, Saber accepts everything he sees, then reaffirms his contract with Ayaka. He proceeds to summon everyone in his Rounds of Lionheart to make a small army to take on False Rider.
• When Tsubaki finally finds out what is going on, Jester tries to tempt her to be the Queen of her dream world, but she decides to be a hero and asks False Rider to let everyone out of the dream world. Her parents decide to cut off her hand to get her Command Spells. Sigma, realizing what horrible monsters they are and that their experience in the dream world taught them nothing, is enraged and shoots both of them with a crossbow to cripple them, saying the only reason why he didn't kill them was because he didn't want Tsubaki to be sad. He then declares to Watcher, "I'm going . . . to destroy this system, the Holy Grail War."
• Tine uses her connection to the land's Ley Lands to fuel magic shields that manage to stop Gugalanna's attacks. When it looks like she only delayed the inevitable thanks to the land being unable to refuel her magical energy fast enough, the Wolf uses one of its Command Spells to power her up saving both of them and Doris.
• Just as Huwawa is ready to deliver a final blow to Enkidu, No Name Assassin shows up and stops Huwawa's arm with her Raving Shadow Flash, declaring that her alliance with them and Richard is still in effect. Not to be outdone, Richard shows up out of nowhere, riding an eruption of water and slashes Huwawa, knocking her down.
• True Assassin ambushes Fillia during her hostile terraforming ritual in order to assassinate her, unleashing his Noble Phantasm: Raving Shadow Flash, which unleashed a withering storm of shadow blades to tear Fillia to pieces. Except Fillia completely negates it by possessing such charm as a fragment of a goddess as to enchant the very rocks, air and laws of physics around her. She uses a flurry of lapis lazuli to ruthlessly pepper True Assassin with holes, utterly ensuring his death, but then Hassan of the Fathomless Rift unleashes his REAL Noble Phantasm: Meditative Sensitivity.
  • And the one who landed the killing blow that send the goddess to the underworld, Sigma.

Others

• The animated trailer for the light novels’ promotion. Just. The Trailer. With animation by A-1 Animation, especially the short memorable battle scene of Jester vs Hansa, and of course, a theme song composed by Hiroyuki Sawano. But let’s not forget this trailer is narrated by Richard the Lionheart, being voiced by Yuki Ono.
• Aniplex released a trailer teasing an anime special animated by A-1 Animation for the Summer 2023, where it starts off with Gilgamesh being summoned before switching to various scenes animated from the novel. One would think the awesome part is Hiroyuki Sawano being on music composition, showcasing the theme song "FAKEit". The truly awesome part is seeing Enkidu and Gilgamesh deciding to "greet" each other with their own Noble Phantasm versions of Enuma Elish, simultaenously. The trailer ends with Saber asking Ayaka the question of the Fate series.
  Saber: I ask you. Are you my Master?