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Chapter 2 — Cosmos in the Lostbelt

Prologue/December 26, 201X

• During Da Vinci's explanation on the A-Team, she herself admits that "Scandinavia Peperoncino" is clearly a pseudonym.
• The sheer Mood Whiplash of da Vinci's death and return as (Young). She reappears in the exact same Section of cutscenes in which her former self dies, and Chaldea barely has time to even reconcile with the death.
  Da Vinci (Young): Let's just say this is the sheer, unbridled power of a main character! Bit of a shock seeing me again five minutes after my tragic death scene?
• As everyone flees in the Shadow Border, Goredolf has everyone put on their seatbelts before leaving.

Anastasia

• Just after the Shadow Border arrives in the Lostbelt, the Chaldea staff all make a mad-dash for the exit so they can actually see light and stretch. Only a few minutes later, they come running about complaining about how cold it was. Da Vinci quickly lambastes them for just running out without thinking, before making them swear that in the future, they won't do that again. Of course, latter on da Vinci herself goes running outside in a hurry to greet Avicebron and get to work on repairing the Shadow Border before making a mad dash back inside complaining about the cold.
• In order to get enough power to get a summoning system working, the crew settles on using the Ben Franklin method. Mash volunteers to build a kite, promising a stylish, high class result. By the time it's done, the only qualifier for it the characters can muster is "unique".
  Holmes: It is no exaggeration to say that the very fate of the world hinges upon this kite! This may be the most important arts and crafts project in the history of mankind! No pressure!
  • Later Mash volunteers to fly the kite in the middle of a thunderstorm, soon realised the main problem of doing that and consults with Da Vinci if it's safe, Da Vinci ignores it and just tells her to fly it anyway.
• The Running Gag of Yagas, including Paxti, misunderstanding how things in the Proper Human History works.
• An otherwise-serious conversation between Anastasia and Kadoc takes a turn for the bizarre when the Grand Duchess announces her intention to hold a ball. Kadoc argues that Yaga don't know how to dance - but he's not willing to explain how he knows this. Then he realizes Anastasia wants to dance with him, to his absolute horror. Anastasia tries to claim it was just a joke, but she's rather sulky about it, threatening to freeze Kadoc's feet to the ground if he doesn't let her have her way sometimes.
• Goredolf gets annoyed at one of Meunière's comments and orders Mash to go into her Servant form and give him a strong spanking. Mash quickly refuses out of embarrassment and for how wasteful it would be, while Meunière thinks to himself about how overly harsh that is as a punishment.
• One of the Yaga children in the Resistance base calls the protagonist "Little Weakling" as a term of endearment, causing one of the Resistance members to rant at them about how mean that was since, if there is a human still around, that means that humans can't be weaklings. He then threatens to kill the kid, confusing the protagonist enough that Atalante quickly has to elaborate that it was a joke.
• During some down time while traveling to hand out the Resistance's manifesto, Mash asks how the protagonist is feeling. Your options go along the lines of feeling warm, because Avicebron used his Golems to make a wall to block out the cold. This leads to a whole discussion with him about the process of creating Golems, capping off with Billy asking about him using snow as a basis for his Golems.
• Following the above event, the protagonist questions Avicebron a bit, namely about his love of Golems. Avicebron bluntly states he dislikes humans, causing everyone to go silent as he apologizes and tries to backpedal and clarify what he means (namely that he just doesn't like them, but he wants to engage in conversation more to fix that issue). Both Mash and the Protagonist point out that now it will be hard to just chat with him with that knowledge.
• While traveling between locations, Billy remarks on how useful the Golems made by Avicebron are, though he prefers traveling by horse. Avicebron offers to make him a Golem in the shape of a horse, before deciding that he should do it right there and then. Billy quickly tells him not to, and Goredolf chimes in to comment about how this is why he doesn't like being around "artistic" kind of people.
• Goredolf's comments about Avicebron causes Da Vinci to joke that maybe there was bad blood between Goredolf's family and Avicebron, with everyone saying that it likely isn't the case. Anyone who has seen Fate/Apocrypha can attest to the fact that technically speaking, this is both true and false at the same time.
• Atalante's underlings report sightings of a Servant apparently... running around in the snow with no clothes on. Even the serious warrior lady is embarrassed by such a silly thing, while the protagonist instantly guesses it's Roland screwing around again. (Unfortunately, no paladins involved; it's just Beowulf.)
• If you choose to help with tunnel excavation while everyone is building the rebels' second stronghold, Avicebron acts unnaturally excited to work on the mines in hopes that he can get new golem materials from there, rushing ahead to get to the cave. And when he starts to plan out the course of action, he suddenly stops to ask you to take care of the Giant Demon Boars that inhabit the cave. When you ask him to help you out on dealing with the boar problem, he sounds petulant to do so.
  • On the other hand, while cutting down some trees, a D'yavol Tron appears. Salieri hypes himself up by pretending the Demonic Beast is Mozart
• While repairing the Shadow Border, Avicebron offers to attach a drill to the front of the machine, which Holmes declines. He then suggests maybe making the front more fork-shaped, but Holmes shuts him down even faster and harder.
• Musashi's reaction when she sees Billy the Kid? Mentally think he's totally her type. She later does the same when she meets Holmes who's so shocked by her reaction that he fumbles his words a bit.
• There is something hilarious about how nonchalant Anastasia is towards Ivan screaming her name when everyone else is scared out of their mind due to how big Ivan is, Musashi states he is literally mountain-sized, which caps off when she states that the only way to beat him is to kill him.

Götterdämmerung

• The Crypters send an assault force against the Shadow Border to retrieve Kadoc. Said force consists of... Kirei. On foot, with an RPG. While the game itself plays it mostly seriously (he actually succeeds, and somewhat easily at that), the sight of a priest running around at Super-Speed and blasting stuff with a rocket launcher is so surreal, most of the fanbase was in stitches over the scene.
• Goredolf announces his intention to win over Kadoc with his fantastic carbonara.
• Kadoc complains that Billy the Kid (who shot him, or tried to) was insufficiently cool and laid-back for an outlaw.
• Da Vinci reveals a new device she invented while working on a device to stay in touch over great distances: rocket skis for Mash's Ortinax armor. How exactly she managed to get onto the idea of rocket skis while researching comms devices is not explained.
• The kids from the various villages have no tact at all, ranging from Gerda and the other children calling Goredolf fat, to some kids pointing out how buxom Mash is to her embarrassment.
• After fending off the envoys, Good Fellow^note Napoleon slaps the protagonist at the back so hard, they have a difficult time in breathing.
• "Just how many shots DOES it take to break to the center of a great hero's Spirit Origin...?"
• The tense atmosphere of the meeting between Chaldea's crew, Ophelia, and Scathach-Skadi gets pulverized when Napoléon loudly introduces Ophelia as his fiancée, confusing the hell out of everyone involved. Right after his announcement of his new fiancée, Ophelia tries to recover the tense atmosphere by warning Mash and the player about why she cannot allow them to escape...only for Napoléon to point out that she never said "No" to his proposal, causing a incredulous Mash to exclaim that the two of them really are engaged. At this point, a clearly embarrassed Ophelia tries to hastily explain that she thought the proposal was so ridiculous that it didn't even merit a proper answer.
  • Ophelia gives Napoléon a lengthy rejection and seeks permission to kill him from Scathach-Skadi, only for the goddess to say that she would actually support that pairing. And that killing is still forbidden in her Lostbelt.
• Brynhildr's entrance deserves mention. The heroes are fighting some Giants and Seeds from the Fantasy Tree, and in annoyance, Napoleon blasts one into the castle. Brynhildr makes her entrance by killing it out of annoyance, then approaching the party as if nothing had happened.
• While a bit bleak, Sitonai's monologue after the defeat of Surtr has a bit of dark comedy to it, as if saying "Did you really think we would end the chapter with just that?".
• When the player and Mash first meet Gerda, she's puzzled by what kind of animal Fou is, which leads to the following exchange:
  Gerda: Teehee! You're too pretty to be a mouse. Maybe you're a dog? Or a cat! Oh, I know. You must be a horse!
  Fou: (picture actually shaking in shock) FORSE?!
  • Made even funnier once the fandom recalls how Fou actually got used as one during the Babylonia Singularity, by a (shrunken down) Ishtar, none the less.

S.I.N.

• Sion and "Captain" spend two weeks creating a facsimile of Chaldea in the Wandering Sea, complete with cafeteria, operations room, and personal rooms for all the survivors. Then Goredolf asks about his room, and "Captain" reveals he made his out of an abandoned warehouse. Goredolf thinks he means that he made it look like an abandoned warehouse and praises him for subtlety, but "Captain" decides he might as well redo the whole thing from scratch properly. Great news for Goredolf, except it means he needs to spend time in a sleeping bag down by the dock while everyone else gets to enjoy their rooms on time.
  • All the images of the recreated facilities are photobombed by "Captain" flashing a V-sign.
• After arriving inside the Lostbelt, the villagers don't take too kindly to the party due to them being obvious strangers. Meunière asks the protagonist to explain they mean no harm since if Sherlock explains, it would make things worse, which offends the latter.
• Later, Goredolf asks where would they find an "angel with a smile cherubic enough" to win over the villager's hearts before everyone instantly looks to Da-Vinci. As she is charming the male villagers with her cute looks, Sherlock sees the women getting jealous and uses the opportunity to also charm the women's hearts. The protagonist lampshades that Da-Vinci is "an angel with a mind of a demon" and Sherlock "does have his looks,if nothing else..."
• As your main allies for the Lostbelt (after Nezha) to fight against Qin Shi Huang, Da Vinci chooses to summon Mordred, Spartacus, and Jing Ke, the former two because they're famous for leading rebellions and the latter because she actually conspired to kill the same emperor you're after. While Jing Ke enjoys the idea of being on the team for that exact reason, she takes offense with Da Vinci's choice of team name of "The Three Rebel Musketeers", and even stops Spartacus (who seems to enjoy the title on his end) from introducing them as such shortly afterward, prompting Spartacus to sulk.
  Jing Ke: No. None of that. Shame on you.
• The Running Gag of Qin Shi Huang deliberately mispronouncing Koyanskaya's name. One of which is "Koyachihuahua".
• After all the clues about the identity of this Lostbelt King, including the fact that they're in China, the player can still conclude to his "face" that he's Julius Caesar.
• Da Vinci decided to test if Qin Shi Huang could overhear Chaldea's discussions while inside the Shadow Border. Having let off a bunch of off-screen obscenities inside the cockpit and suffering no retribution, she proudly states they should be fine.
  Goredolf: *thinking* So that's what all that stuff about old geezers, cyberpunk rip-offs, and eighties leftovers was...
• The Summoning of Chen Gong and Red Hare:
  Chen Gong: ...Well now, where do I even begin. Why do you look like that?
  Red Hare (A horse-headed centaur): What do you mean? How else would Lu Bu Fengxian look!
  Chen Gong: ...What?
  Red Hare: What other Heroic Spirit could possibly be fit to be summoned alongside the great Chen Gong than Lu Bu, the Flying General?
  Chen Gong: But... you're obviously Red Hare.
  Red Hare: Lu Bu is a man among men, and Red Hare a horse among horses! Everyone knows we are inseparable during our adventures! I'm what they call an Innocent Monster.
  Chen Gong: Oh look, a carrot.
  Red Hare: Neiiigh! A yummy carrot!? Where!?
  Chen Gong: Hmm, I knew it. You ARE Red Hare.
  Red Hare: Nonsense. I'm Lu Bu.
• Koyanskaya playing at a High-Heel–Face Turn.
  Fou: Fo, fou! Die in a foire!
• The Chinese forces manage to steal the Shadow Border and attempt to reverse-engineer it. End result: the Duo-Duo Yi-Shan (AKA The More The Merrier), a goofy bootleg tank adorned with a tiger head of all things (there's a flamethrower in there, but still). Han Xin and Li Shuwen think it looks awesome, but pretty much everyone else isn't able to take it seriously, with Da Vinci getting increasingly offended and Qin Liangyu asking if she can just stick with her spears rather than actually drive it, the fight with it plays a BGM usually reserved for the wacky summer events, and it starts breaking down mid-battle.
  Da Vinci: Someone bring me an Anti-World Noble Phantasm this instant!
• The crew finally find the Shadow Border in Xianyang, to their relief it's intact despite Qin Shi Huang ostensibly taking it apart. Da Vinci starts to compliment the emperor for his skill in being able to put it back together, until someone notices a box labelled "Leftover Screws" in the corner. And then she gets pissed again.
• The emperor's ultimate method of conflict resolution.
  Qin Shi Huang: Thus, we will decide this matter by punching you! We shall also permit you to punch us in return!

Ooku

• Goredolf's antics in general. Special mention to his attempt to punch Beast III/L in the face which leaves everyone, especially his target, completely stumped.
• Kiara makes mention that she might get too excited at some points and start disrobing, at which point she hopes the protagonist will act to stop her before it goes too far.
• Kama is found reading the Kama Sutra while complaining that she didn't even write it, yet it's the only thing people remember her for these days.
  Kama: So I guess I'm the god of sex positions now?
• Kasuga claims she inherited the family knack for making the right choice. That the two choices she cites (i.e. her father siding with Akechi Mitsuhide) ended horribly for them is immaterial.
• Kasuga is glad to have Mata Hari and Scheherazade help the party rescue the shogun and the captured members of Chaldea... but she can't help but demand that the two women cover themselves up.
• Kasuga slapping Goredolf in order to break his Brainwashed and Crazy state. To the utter shock and awe of everyone, it works.
• Kiara claims that Kama's plans to spread love/depravity throughout the universe is horrible because it means no one will ever love again for themselves, and if that's the case how can humans shower her, err..., "each other" with love.
• The meeting between the two Beast-IIIs in the epilogue is rather intense and dramatic for the most part, but one funny moment that stands out is when Kama makes a crack about Kiara's age. Kiara, who is currently giant sized and holding Kama in the palm of her hand, just smiles as she starts to close her hand into a fist, prompting Kama to take it back in a panic.

Yuga Kshetra

• Just after Asha reveals the harsh truth of Kali Yuga, everyone in the cave are enjoying a break eating bananas, with Rama's sprite having him eating one.
• Jinako's introduction as a Pseudo-Servant for Ganesha has several amusing moments.
  • Upon being told they could find a god in the mountains, the Chaldea group go to search for them. How do they find said god? Rama gets tired of the search and sits on a rock, only for the rock to squeal and shout at him, revealing it to be Jinako/Ganesha inside her statue.
  • Pretty much all of Jinako's gamer lingo and NEET habits, as they make it difficult for everyone to believe she's actually a god.
    Ganesha: Worship me... Praise me... Spoil me... Run to the convenience store and get me more ice cream so I can concentrate on grinding...
  • Jinako, on account of being merged with Ganesha, is able to understand Fou, who doesn't respect her in the least.
    Jinako: Hey! Which one of you just called me Indian mythology's sideshow act!?
  • Jinako initially refuses to help Chaldea and goes back in her statue, which somehow has air conditioning and lets her manifest handheld game consoles. Karna's initial solution to get her out of the statue, before physically breaking it, is to ask the protagonist if they know of any nearby stores that sell Swiss rolls.
• Jinako, after a long walk and being the NEET she is, attempt to get Karna to carry her the rest of the way by appealing to the goodness in his heart. Karna, honest as he is, straight up tells her without a ounce of malice, that he would be crushed beneath her weight if he tried that. Only to quickly attempt to reassure her that it would be beneath Ganesha's weight and not hers that would be the one crushing him. Jinako is less than amused.
• Rama becomes increasingly despondent at the lack of Sita in the Lostbelt, to the point where he reasons that Sita being an incarnation of Lakshmi and Lakshmi Bai sharing the name of the goddess means that she is an incarnation of Sita, ergo Rama and her are connected. Lakshmi Bai isn't very amused at this.
  Rama: I'm guessing this is clear to all of you as well, given that her grip on my skull is strong enough the bones are starting to crack... but unfortunately, I sense no trace of Sita inside her.
• The group arrives at a village said to be suffering from a plague, to find them rejoicing at being cured by a mysterious man. Mash gets hopeful that this means Asclepius is a good person at heart. Enter Asclepius, indignant that some idiot went and cured the plague he was studying.
• When Daybit called Peperoncino by his true name in front of the protagonist and their allies for this chapter, Peperoncino does everything in his power to try to deny what they heard.
• One that's both hilarious and cathartic, Tamamo Vitch Koyanskaya holding up a sign, asking for Chaldea to save her from Arjuna Alter. Of course, you oblige. Everyone else is baffled that they're actually going to rescue one of their most loathed enemies. Also, on realizing seeing her in the first place, Goredolf's reaction, word-by-word, is just priceless. Instead of a normal grammar word, he just said...
  Goredolf: Wat.
  • After some discussion, Chaldea reluctantly agrees to take Koyanskaya into the Shadow Border while Goredolf urges them to be cautious due to her seductive nature that she used against him, even going so far as to suggest putting a bag over her head. This leads to a particularly hysterical conversation between him and Meuniere.
  Meuniere: Uh, I'm pretty sure we won't have to worry about that. We all know real well what sort of person she is by now...
  Goredolf: Don't be ridiculous! You're the one I'm worried about the most, Carpaccio! I can tell from the "beta male" look on your face that practically screams "2D girlfriends are all I need" that you'd be powerless against her charms!
  • Koyanskaya doesn't make it a single scene before engaging in Passive Aggressive Combat with Holmes and Da Vinci. The discussion ends with the three of them in silence with only their smiling sprites, barely restrained from violence by their circumstances, and a nervous thought from the protagonist. Meanwhile Meuniere is wondering just when Koyanskaya's Clothing Damage was fixed.
• When Rama takes on Ashwatthama's curse and ends up nearly unable to even stand as a result, Jinako offers to give him a piggyback ride so they can get going. Rama ruefully comments that he feels like he's been in this situation before and accepts that it may be his destiny to receive piggyback rides.
• Karna, on the cusp of being revived to take the fight to Arjuna, dumbfounds Ashwatthama when he decides to take advantage of the timeless nature of the space they're in to train up for the fight, and ropes his old ally into being his sparring partner. Since Ashwatthama is an Archer, his destructive attacks barely do anything. Good thing the fight's scripted for Ash to be unable to lose...

Imaginary Scramble

• One of the first problems the crew encounters is their inability to see what is outside the sub, due to their sonar and other sensors being disabled. The improvised solution is to shoot Osakabehime out like a torpedo and have her origami bats function as sonar to gather data on what is around them, while surrounded by monsters that sense and attack anything that makes too much noise.
  • As you progress through the event, other methods are developed for mapping the outside territory, but to Osakabehime's dismay, it's insisted that they work best when used in conjunction, leaving her as living sonar duty for the entire event. (They're right, too: Okkie is by far the most effective of the sonars.)
  • One of the methods amounts to Lambda using her Leviathans to scout out the surrounding area. From then on, every fight in the Imaginary Sea has a raft of penguins nonchalantly swimming around in the background.
• Fran is summoned right before a fight. After the battle is won, she declares the whole event over and goes off to take a nap. She probably would have gotten away with it if the alarm didn't immediately ring again.
• When Sion and Da Vinci learn that all of Chaldea's Foreigners have been kidnapped (almost: Voyager tried to join in on the fun but was dragged back to his room by Erice) and forcibly turned to serving their Outer Gods, Da Vinci's immediate suggestion is to take a nap and wait for the whole mess to blow over once the protagonist's Magnetic Hero tendencies kick in.
  • Speaking of which, XX also falls to the Outer God's corruption despite not actually being empowered by one because according to XX herself, there's no such thing as an outer universe in the Servantverse. Van Gogh's response as to who was controlling XX?
    Van Gogh: It was the great evil god you know as...capitalism...
• Each of the fights against the epilogue Foreigners has details added to the background of the battlefield based on who is being fought. Yang Guifei's is the most normal, being fiery spirits, but Hokusai's are drawings, Abigail's are childlike scribbles of strawberries, rainbows, and the like, and XX's are banner ads complete with the out-of-genre Saber Wars II battle music. And there are still penguins swimming around the entire time.
• Towards the end, the corrupted Yang was so high on Eldritch Power that she started hallucinating our protagonist as her old Emperor. BB's reaction can only be summed up as "oh boy, this again".

Atlantis

• The prologue features the reveal of the Nemo Series, clones of Nemo who fulfill different functions aboard his submarine. The Nemo Marines introduce themselves, though one wants to requisition a new mop, the one in charge of loading torpedoes wants to trade posts, and the one in charge of the computer room doesn't think taking notes by hand is the best idea.
  • Nemo then introduces Nemo Professor, Nemo Baker, and Nemo Engineer. His descriptions of Professor and Baker are succinct, but he describes Nemo Engineer as cantankerous and likely to throw wrenches at you.
• How does the protagonist and Corday first meet up with Orion? By having him accidentally stop monsters from attacking the two by peeing on them.
• Bartholomew Roberts is first introduced announcing that he's single, all while shooting glances at Mash, who is completely oblivious. Da Vinci isn't and suggests Mash sits closer to her.
  • Bartholomew then tries to suggest Corday grow out her bangs, but she's as oblivious as Mash. When he tries to get Da Vinci to lower her bangs, she refuses because she's already perfect.
• Goredolf at one point insists on giving the party a proper send-off. Unfortunately, he makes a mistake.
  Goredolf: All hams, move out!
  Reaction shot of everyone
  All: (He flubbed it!!!)
  Goredolf: ...... All hands, move out!!!
  • Goredolf then runs off in embarrassment, and when the protagonist and Mash catch up, the protagonist yells out to look behind him. Goredolf initially assumes they're joking, except that there is a Demonic Beast behind him.
• Mandricardo introduces himself with the famous "Are you my Master?" line towards Goredolf, complete with pointing his wooden sword at him dramatically, only for Goredolf to say no to that. Mandricardo is this close to just quitting right there and now as he flubbed the one thing no Servant should mess up, complete with Blank White Eyes that make him look like a GUDAGUDA character.
• After Mandricardo takes out a Demonic Beast with his wooden sword, Goredolf mentions that the only famous club wielders he knows are Musashi and Heracles, which leads the protagonist to speculate...
  Protagonist: Wait a sec... Are you Heracles Lily!?
  Mandricardo: That has to be one of the last things I ever thought I'd hear a Master say! And no, I'm nowhere near as big a deal as that!
• Upon arriving at the Temple of Hestia, everyone in the group is absolutely stunned by the hi-tech interior... except Charlotte Corday, who is "Shocked at how little idea she has about why this is so shocking".
• After defeating Jason in a battle, he has a unique running away animation he uses instead of the standard backstep retreat. Complete with a comical cartoonish gunshot sound effect as he takes off.
• At several points, Mash gets upset at Charlotte's closeness to the protagonist. The humorous part is Mandricardo's general reactions.
  Mandricardo: (Mandricardo wisely assessed the situation, and soon realized he was better off not getting involved.)
• Artemis Nano states that in all the time she's been observing Orion since his summoning, he's done nothing but eat meat and hit on women, and emphasizes it by repeating those two things several times in a row. Orion's only defense is that he's "pretty sure" he's done a bit more than that.
• Nemo comes to the conclusion that since he has the Phantom Spirit of Triton, him and Orion are actually half-brothers.
• The party comes to a point where they're constantly stumbling over unstable ground on one of the islands. Jason mocks them over it and how that would never happen to him...and then he stumbles himself in the middle of his boasting. And then when Mandricardo tries to mock him, Jason just gets ups without missing a beat and spins his stumble into a lesson about how true heroes always get back to their feet despite any falls in the way. And then the enemies show up, and they start stumbling on the ground. And then after the battle is over, the protagonist starts to march onward like a proper leader, only to slip and fall themselves.
• Jason and Corday often bicker, but it reaches the point that even the protagonist calls him out for his mean spirited remarks. Jason's ability to justify anything he says reaches impressive levels.
  Jason: Heh... Part of being a hero is encouraging others to face unpleasant truths.
  Achilles: Don't be fooled, Master. He doesn't mean it. He's just spitting out the first believable platitude that comes to mind.
  Jason: ...Coming up with convincing things to say on the spot is also part of being a hero.
  Orion: You could at least pretend to feel bad!
• The party is forced to stop on Astraea Island after the goddess herself stops them (she tries to be mysterious about her identity, but once she names the island they figure it out right away). When they arrive, they find a giant statue of Astraea, and Jason can't help but draw a mustache and beard on the statue. When an angry Astraea shows up (despite Jason's assertions that she won't know), Jason immediately blames the protagonist, to their disbelief. Astraea doesn't buy it for a second and declares she'll judge Jason for his sins, initiating a battle.
• Orion introduces himself to Hephaestus.
  Orion: It's me, Hephaestus, o god of the forge. The greatest hunter in all of Greece; the invincible Orion!
  Hephaestus: Denied. Orion is not invincible.
• Hephaestus doesn't recognize Orion, so he has Orion face off against an approximation of the greatest hunter in Greece. In other words, Artemis with Orion as a teddy bear. The real Orion is nonplussed to discover the bear is him, and when he defeats it...
  Orion: What the actual hell? That... that was a tiny bear who sounded just like me letting out some absurdly long death wail before just vanishing!
  Protagonist: Th-that was disturbingly vivid...
  Hephaestus: ...Just a little Olympian humor.
  Orion: Well, whoever programmed your so-called sense of humor clearly forgot to run the debugger!
• Paris attempts to insult Achilles.
  Paris: Hah! Look at the big mama's boy! ... Wait. There's nothing wrong with having a good relationship with your parents, is there? Dammit!
• Poseidon's defense system has gone haywire and mistakes everything for Francis Drake.
  Goredolf: How can such a machine make a mistake like this!?
  Holmes: [smiling serenely] It just goes to show that computer bugs can strike anywhere.

Olympus

• The Chaldeans' greeting to Olympus is a first-hand look at Zeus's power, when he unleashes a storm of lightning on them, with each bolt said to be as strong as Artemis's cannon. Harrowing on its own, but Goredolf has a unique complaint.
  Goredolf: Oh come the hell on! I've heard of power creep, but this is nuts!
• Chaldea is led to believe that all of the Heroic Spirits opposing Olympus were wiped out, and are thus surprised to find out that Caligula managed to survive. When the Chaldeans bring this up, the A.I.s based off of Tesla, Edison, and Helena admit they didn't tell Chaldea about him because they were going for dramatic effect. Fou isn't happy.
  Fou: Foooooou! Fourons!
• Kirschtaria weirding out Kadoc by describing the Chaldeans' latest achievement as "rock n' roll."
• Each of Tamamo Vitch Koyanskaya's phases as a Beast have skills named after a Lostbelt, which generally gives her buffs to help overpower the party. However, the third one being "Eternal Empire Tayunskapon" reveals that she still has a grudge about a certain emperor's insults, and apparently it's so humiliating to her to bring it up that she stuns herself and completely heals the party, removes any debuffs, and fills up their NP gauge.
• While explaining the Grand Servant summoning, AI Kintoki becomes caught up in the GOLDENness of the situation and just starts saying "IT'S SO COOL, IT'S SO GOLDEN YAAAAAYYY!!" over and over. AI Raikou has to take over exposition because otherwise Chaldea never will get anywhere. An AI version of Fran also briefly attempts to take the role, much to the confusion of the other AI personas.
• After Adele uses Hermes based Magecraft to allow the group to speak to each other telepathically, Musashi quickly takes the chance to talk to Fou in the hopes that this would allow them to understand him. Even telepathically, Fou's speech remains the same, with nobody even being surprised at that point.
• When Chaldea meets Pepe again, the protagonist has the option to call him "Roastbanana Peperoncino". Pepe isn't offended and is even amused by it.
• As it turns out, Kirschtaria was put in a simulation of the Singularities by the Foreign God, and in each Singularity, he was accompanied by one of the other Crypters, and each situation gives Kirschtaria a chance to show how much of a Dork Knight he actually is.
  • In Orleans with Kadoc, Wodime quotes the infamous "We've got wyverns!" line before agreeing with Kadoc about movie clichés, which weirds Kadoc out and ends with Wodime sulking.
  • In Septem with Ophelia, Wodime admits to wanting to meet the Five Good Emperors, especially Emperor Hadrian. Apparently, he also wanted to use the Arc de Triomphe in Orleans to summon Napoleon, despite the fact that, as Ophelia points out, Orleans was in 1431 and the Arc de Triomphe was built in 1836.
  • Wodime relives Okeanos with Akuta, and mistakes her for the "you-know-whats" that can't cross running water. He then awkwardly admits that he wasn't sure what Akuta actually was until their current Singularity, all while dancing around saying the actual words. Akuta ends up calling him insensitive.
  • His time with Beryl in London is more Foreshadowing than anything, but there's a moment where Beryl mentions that his mother hated the Industrial Revolution with a passion as it made home in the woods even more unbearable to live in. Also, Beryl calls Wodime "Kirsch".
  • In America with Pepe, Wodime lampshades the fact they have to cross the North American continent on foot. He really wants a jet plane or a helicopter, while Pepe wants to find and drive a pickup truck.
• After being ambushed by the Dioscuri twins, the protagonist, Mash, Musashi and Holmes run into a gray-hooded man who led them to a secret rebel base. Apparently, Mash seems to recognize the hooded man and Holmes outs him as Kadoc. While Kadoc is a bit pissed that his cover was blown, he's very shocked that Mash can also see through his disguise despite using magecraft.
• How did Caenis ended up aiding Chaldea despite being Wodime's Servant? Goredolf bribes her with croissants. She was so amazed by the sheer balls on a man trying to buy off an openly murderous Divine Spirit with a basic pastry that she laughed about it for quite a while. The croissant was great, though!
• Prometheus-Hephaestus angrily denies being bald.
• Pepe magically sabotages the Caster of Limbo, managing to rattle the insufferable Smug Snake... and sees him off with a merry "Toodles!"
• In a bit of Black Comedy, the fact that the Grand Lancer with EX RANK LUCK still ends up dying not too long after getting summoned. While it was a Heroic Sacrifice, the Lancer Died joke continues.
• A flashback of Caenis's first meeting with Wodime reveals that he showed her the truth about his condition. Except he does it by taking his clothes off without providing any context first. Caenis is appropriately annoyed and demands he puts his clothes back on after he's done explaining.
  Kirschtaria: By the way, I would like to make one thing clear: I am, of course, not an exhibitionist.
• At the climax of the finale, the Foreign God finally descends. The mastermind of the bleaching of the planet, destroyer of humanity, revealed to be the Seventh Beast, and what’s the protagonist’s first thought?
  Protagonist: (She’s so tiny!)
• Muramasa compares the Foreign God's surprise at being attacked by the Sirius Light to "if the eggplant I was having for breakfast suddenly came at me with a sledgehammer."

Heian-kyō

• Ashiya Douman's endgame of fusing with his Pseudo-Tree of Emptiness and becoming a Beast and new Foreign God is played up with incredible gravitas as he boasts of his impeding apocalyptic power...but after a Beat of the heroes staring up at him, the protagonist awkwardly breaks all the tension by noting that aside from the Fusion Dance (which is just him sticking waist-up out of the Tree) and the increased magical energy, nothing's actually changed about him on a fundamental level. Cue Douman's almost panicked reaction at the wind being taken out of his sails, and it doesn't get any better for him when Abe-no-Seimei's letter calls him an idiot.
  Seimei: As I know you won't be capable of accepting the truth on your own, I decided to take it upon myself to explain what a moron you've been.

Avalon le Fae

• Muramasa has been tasked with killing Morgan. A more careful group like Chaldea would try to find allies and determine her weaknesses before attempting such an undertaking. Muramasa's plan was to barge through the front door, announce he was there to kill Morgan, and then try to charge through all of Morgan's defenses to kill her. Needless to say he fails.
• Chaldea meets up with Oberon in town, and he begins showing them around. Every fairy they meet greets Oberon with a warm smile, a happy hello, and a question as to when he is going to repay the money he owes. When they later reach the chapel to meet the local ruler, despite Oberon being acquaintances with them, the group is apprehended by one of the authorities, Coral because the protagonist is a human, and because of Oberon's debts.
  • After the protagonists beat the guards, Oberon starts bragging about their victory, despite Oberon himself not even fighting.
    Oberon: You see that, Coral!? You see what [the protagonist] and I are capable of?! This is what happens when you look down on people for being human or having no money!
    Altria: (Probably not a good time to point out that Oberon was just standing behind them, cheering...)
• Tristan and Oberon get along well when talking about entertaining the ladies, causing Altria Caster to come to this conclusion:

  Altria: Now I see. You're both scoundrels who can't be trusted around women!

  • Tristan even flinches in the background upon hearing it!
• Oberon introduces Altria Caster to Aurora as though it were a Game Show. He gets shoved into some furniture by a very embarrassed Altria for his efforts.
• The events in Gloucester are a downright barrel of laughs.
  • The first thing that happens is Altria Caster beginning to explain what happened the first time she was in Gloucester, which involved scoring a zero in a princess contest, being stripped of her clothes and swearing to get revenge on whomever was responsible if the protagonist doesn't stop her before that point.
  • One of the effects of the area is that perspective is flipped, so small objects look large and vice-versa. The first battle involves fighting a pack of escaped rats that are represented by dragons.
  • The reason the group is there in the first place is because it is said the local auctions are selling the Child of Prophecy, with the description leading the group to conclude it's Mash. Altria Caster is almost giddy at how she can show off her infiltration magecraft to get in to the auction when it's learned they need a ticket to get inside. All she has in response to learning Oberon already had tickets is a Beat Panel.
  • Oberon brought 70 million (counterfeit) molpounds to auction on Mash, but is tempted to bid on an earlier auction for Shakespeare's Dead Manuscript. Da Vinci has to bribe him with a portrait, which he had wanted but was too afraid of looking like a fanboy to ask for.
  • Finally comes the auction for the Child of Prophecy, and at the end of the drumroll it's revealed to be...Muramasa.
    Protagonist: Grandpa!?
    Muramasa of Prophecy: Well excuse the hell out of me for being old!
  • Apparently the auctioneer senses doubt in the audience, and tries to convince the audience he is the actual Child of Prophecy.
    Auctioneer: Even Lady Murian agrees that there's a twenty-no, thirty percent chance that this man is the Child of Prophecy!
    Muramasa of Prophecy (30 Percent Chance): Shaddup! How many times do I gotta tell ya? I ain't the goddamn Child of Prophecy!
  • Then the actual bidding starts, and Oberon discovers Altria's Sore Loser nature. After Oberon is ready to tap out, Altria impulsively beats a ten million bid with twenty million, before preempting the entire auction house and just bids the groups entire seventy million.
    Oberon: (What are you doing Altria!? You don't just lay all your cards on the table at once in a bidding war!)
    Protagonist: Altria's definitely not one to hold back. / That...might not have been a great move.
  • It gets worse when another bidder revealed to be Fairy Knight Tristan puts up one hundred million molpounds, with Altria responding with one hundred and one million, putting up Oberon's land as collateral. Oberon can only protest that his land is barely worth ten million molpounds.
  • Things eventually degenerate to the point that the auctioneer needs to hand things off to Muyran. Deciding to have the two bidders confront each other, she calls them both up to the stage.
    Oberon: Altria, I'm sure this is some kind of trap. It's best if you just stay in your seat. If you go up on that stage, you're going to regret-Um, why is Altria's chair empty?
  • Meanwhile, Mash is in Sheffield, under the name "Anice", given to her by the faeries who rescued her from the Nameless Woods. However, Habetrot soon uncovers that her real name is Mash... because it's written in big chalk letters on the back of her shield. Mash somehow failed to notice this for ten days.
    • It transpires that Habetrot was the one who wrote it, having known Mash's identity the whole time, but you only find this out from Habetrot's profile.
• Da Vinci and Fujimaru confidently declaring they can resist the temptation of Dracae, only for both of them, along with Gareth, Altria Caster, and Red Rabbit to immediately be suckered into jumping in, leaving Muramasa and Oberon to stare after them in dumbfounded disbelief.
  Muramasa: How did you clowns destroy five Lostbelts?
  • What are the things they see that trick them into jumping in? An Altria plushie for Gareth, a huge carrot for Red Rabbit, dinosaur fossils for Da Vinci, and a dozen Grails for Fujimaru after Da Vinci remarks one or two shouldn't be too special. By the time Altria looks, all we get is a short 'Ah...' from her before she dives in. Why does Oberon not get tempted in? A moment later a sign floats by saying “Out of magical energy.” Who’d have thought monsters were cheapskates?
  • The group's celebration after defeating Dracae is interrupted when they all start drowning, having forgotten that they're at the bottom of a river and she was the only thing keeping them alive.
• Pretty much a number of things about Oberon’s Robin Goodfellow form:
  • The reveal of 'Robin Goodfellow' has him remove his helmet which makes a adorable 'pop' sound. When Chaldea sees him looking like this, they all yell at how small he is.
  • Mini Oberon's way of reporting is, as Da Vinci puts it, resembles someone simply showing photos of his vacation than an actual report. He responds by falling asleep on the spot. Da Vinci yells at him to wake up, then he reverts back to normal and apologizes for being The Ditz while in this form.
  • And while already amusing became of how cutesy and ridiculous it looks, the Super-Deformed form becomes SIDESPLITTING when you realize it was VORTIGERN taking that form the whole time. We can only imagine how he felt upon realizing he’d been using such a ridiculous form to get around.
• Pretty much any time that Altria and Cnoc na Riabh interact with each other is comedy gold. Oberon says it best:
  Oberon: Well this is a surprise. I had no idea Altria had a friend she was on arguing terms with.
• Cnoc na Riabh insults the team, saying that a bunch of third-rate losers are the best a low-class faerie like Altria can attract.
  Altria: "Don't you dare make fun of my friends. They're all much more accomplished, wiser, braver, cuter, and grandpa-ish than I am." (Muramasa appears in the background with a very unimpressed expression)
• In a way, Morgan's response to the Caterpillar Wars. 200 years from the modern day in the British Lostbelt, there was a huge amount of Caterpillar Mors that were attacking the country and Camelot. What does Morgan, the undisputed ruler of Fairy Britain who is recognized as a threat to the Foreign God themselves, do? Screams incoherently, fires Lordless Camelot once, says she can't do this, and sits inside Camelot until Barghest killed them all.
• While in an uncharacteristic berserker rage with a matching enraged sprite, Altria becomes very confident in her chances at beating Barghest as she assumes that revealing Barghest's true name would instantly defeat her. It fails since the revelation only strips Barghest of her Tam Lin powers; Barghest herself remains immensely powerful without it and the act leaves her so incensed that she even powers up to continue fighting, leaving the mistaken Altria so embarrassed that her sprite switches back to her comically red-faced sprite.
• After Barghest fails to defeat Altria Caster and the Protagonist in the Autumn Forest, her and Tam Lin Lancelot return to Morgan to report the failure and Barghest's loss of using "Tam Lin Gawain" as a name. Everyone is expecting Morgan to do some sort of huge punishment for this failure, but what does she do? She basically puts Barghest in time out in her own lands and it's worded exactly like a mother chastising her child!
  Morgan: You are therefore commanded to remain in your own lands and reflect on your failure.
• After Oberon unwisely zings Altria's fighting ability, while trying to weasel out of demonstrating his own fighting skills, Altria snaps and declares that she's going to "kick (his) scrawny ass all up and down this field." What's more, she immediately claims the ENTIRE rest of the group (Muramasa, Gareth, Redra Bit, Da Vinci, and the protagonist) for her team and leaves Oberon on his own. The faerie king tries to even the odds a bit by asking Fujimaru to help him out, at which point you can choose which group to side with.
  • If you choose to side with Oberon, the result is a normal fight with Oberon as a Rider-class guest servant, alongside the player's own servants. The enemies will use skills at the start of battle proclaiming their opinions of the situation (such as Da Vinci complaining about being dragged into this and Muramasa admitting that Oberon was at fault).
  • However, if you choose to side with Altria, you still play as Oberon, except he's a Caster-class support servant (which puts him at a disadvantage against three of the five opponents), and since there's no Ritsuka on his side, there's no other servants to aid him and no Mystic Code skills or Command Seals available. The fight only ends when Oberon is defeated, allowing Altria to deliver on his promised ass-kicking.
• The entire sequence of events at Edinburgh is just utterly ridiculous.
  • When first arriving in Edinburgh, Altria psyches herself up to charge straight up to Cnoc na Riabh and fight her... only to immediately deflate when Redra Bit reveals he sent a letter ahead and received an invitation. But as it turns out, Cnoc na Riabh did not expect Altria to actually accept the invitation and thought she would kick in the front gate, and was prepared to meet her with an armed platoon. When she finds Altria did accept the invitation, she hurriedly orders the platoon out of the cathedral's back door.
  • Before learning about the formal invitation, Altria excitedly shadowboxes in public at the prospect of getting retribution on Cnoc na Riabh, which is accompanied in-game by her sprite bobbling then followed by a unique camera shutter animation and a black-and-white freeze frame labeled "EYEWITNESS REPORT! Savage Child of Prophecy spotted shadowboxing in the streets!"
  • Altria Caster and Cnoc na Riabh decide to settle who will be in charge between the two of them with the "traditional" Edinburgh competition, the Valentine Mab Match. That is, a chocolate making competition. The narration even feels the need to pause the story and deliver a footnote stating there is no such tradition in Edinburgh.
  • The judge of the Valentine Mab Match is Devil Caren. No explanation is provided as to what she's doing there.
    Ritsuka: What the what?
  • During the match proper, Cnoc na Riabh is the favorite and starts off strong but Mash's culinary skills leave Devil Caren so impressed that she suspects that the competition has a dark horse, until Altria pitches in with a "secret ingredient" and immediately sinks everyone's expectations, even her own allies'.
    Devil Caren: Word on the street was that Lady Cnoc na Riabh was a shoo-in to win, but at this stage, it looks like the odds may actually be favoring the star-
    Altria: Whoa, it already looks good enough to eat! You really are great at this, Mash! Okay now to add a pinch of my secret ingredient! Yah!
    Devil Caren: Are you an idiot?! ...Ahem. I do beg your pardon. Please, continue to enjoy this, um, unique form of chocolate-making.
    Habetrot: ...
    Redra Bit: ...
    Da Vinci: ...
    Grimr the Sage: ...So we should just run for it now, right?
  • Altria deciding to make her chocolate heart-shaped ends up the deciding factor for her victory over Cnoc na Riabh's elaborate and intricately sculpted, castle-shaped chocolate. Because of Fairy Britain's history, the locals consider the combination genuinely revolutionary, to the point that Devil Caren thinks Altria could be a genius and Cnoc na Riabh herself is so impressed that she gracefully admits defeat then and there; even Muramasa proudly says (even though, as the narration snarks, he had no involvement whatsoever) that with this, Altria finally found her own forte. To the rest of those from Proper Human History, however, the turn of events is just baffling.
    Grimr the Sage: This doesn't make any sense. The castle should've won no matter how you slice it! How did they make that into some kinda feelgood story?!
  • At the end of the competition, Altria's heart-shaped chocolate comes to life and goes berserk. Devil Caren casually declares it a superweapon that threatens the entire world on the spot, just before it shoots her with an Instant Death Bullet.
  • Why did the chocolate come to life? Altria apparently decided that with so many delicious potential magical ingredients being provided, she should use All of Them in her chocolate.
    Cnoc na Riabh: Let me guess: You're the kind of faerie who thinks anything that takes ten minutes at low heat to cook can also be cooked in two minutes at high heat, aren't you!?
    Altria: *while wearing her blushing embarrassed face* (Nods)
• When Fujimaru, Mash, Altria, and Muramasa enter the cave leading to Avalon, Merlin (who can't leave Avalon) uses magecraft to appear before them and explain to them the Lostbelt's history. When he appears, he leaves everyone stunned speechless, causing him to boast about his beautiful form. The catch is, unbeknownst to Merlin himself, his appearance via the magecraft is Fou. Even when he's not around, he still causes trouble for Merlin.
  Fujimaru: "(Well, I'm not gonna be the one to tell him. This is hilarious.)"
• After Chaldea falls into the Bottomless Pit that is the Insect of the Abyss and is put to sleep (except the protagonist), there's something worth chuckling about Oberon Vortigern casually raiding the fridge and giving the food to them. Way to kill the mood there.
• Once the story is cleared and free quests are unlocked, one can challenge the free quests in Norwich. The first two waves both consist entirely of fighters from the Fang Clan. The third wave, however? It has one Fang Clan fighter, yes, but it also has a Spriggan.

Tunguska

• The trailer for the Tunguska Sanctuary event features a shot of an animal nudging Mash's rear, much to her surprise and Da Vinci's amusement.
• Taigong Wang notices that the protagonist is on guard against him, and speculates that they were tricked by a handsome man before. Considering that the last Bishōnen Chaldea trusted turned out to be the world's worst Consummate Liar, who could blame them?
• When Goredolf asks Taigong Wang a question, the servant didn't respond right away; causing Dobrynya Nikitich to tell Taigong that a question was asked to the male Rider servant. When Ibuki-Douji goes on to ask Nikitich a different question, pretty much the exact same thing end up happening with Nikitich and Taigong switching roles in that regard.
• Taigong Wang's Epic Fail in executing his anti-Daji Noble Phantasms. Koyanskaya even calls him a Court Jester!
• The chosen resolution for the conflict with Koyanskaya ends up being to seal her away and send her into space to find a home without humans. Koyanskaya willingly accepts this proposal and gives her farewell speech... which is interrupted by Nikitich reminding her that she's supposed to thank those who do something nice for her.
  Koyanskaya: ...What's your problem, catgirl? What do you think you're doing, interrupting my beauty sleep just before I'm about to nod off? Are you sure this is even going to be a safe flight?
  Nikitich: Say it already!
  Koyanskaya: No.

Traum

• When Sion informs that a non-Servant shall be joining them for the singularity, the protagonist has the option to guess that Goredolf is coming along. Due to Goredolf's dislike for rayshifting, the magus ends up giving some Blank White Eyes when the protagonist said that.
• Roland's first appearance has him route Kriemhild's and Constantine's armies, and when his army celebrates, he offers this priceless declaration:
  Roland: LET'S GET NAKED!
• Parts of this story feature Kadoc rapidly realizing what the protagonist has to deal with on a constant basis and becoming the Straight Man to several gags. Some highlights include:
  • Picking up from where Kirschtaria left off in Olympus, Goredolf and Holmes start making more puns about him liking rock music because they're going to be rock climbing. Kadoc replies by telling Goredolf to stop making dad jokes. Goredolf gets offended by this and wonders if he is really that old while da Vinci tells him to shave his moustache to make him look younger (which Goredolf absolutely refuses).
  • Learning that Roland actually likes being naked all the time really surprises Kadoc. Da Vinci on the other hand doesn't seem to mind it too much as she wants to see a "hero's naked body".
  Astolfo: Oh yeah, he wanders around naked sometimes, but don't worry about it.
  Kadoc: Got it. ... ... Wait, naked?
  Astolfo: Eh, you didn't know? I thought Roland would be famous at least for his naturism.
  Kadoc: Yes, yes, he's certainly famous, I know that! But! For real! This and that are totally different things!
  • After Astolfo saves Kadoc and Holmes, they temporarily lost their hearing from Astolfo's noise attacks and can't respond properly. Astolfo doesn't care and just starts dragging Kadoc on the ground towards his ride.
  • Kadoc and Holmes have to sprint after Astolfo because he just forgot the two existed when he rode off on his hippogriff. It turns out they never caught up to him and had to sprint all the way to the Via Regia castle, with Astolfo wondering if he forgot something but decides it couldn't have been important if he forgot it. Holmes is fine, since he's a Servant, though he notes running in his getup was a bit uncomfortable. Poor Kadoc on the other hand slides in, complains that Astolfo definitely forgot something important, and then collapses from all the thirst he's built up on the way. The Nemo Marines recorded the entire thing for posterity.
  • While on missions with Xu Fu and Saber Diarmuid, Kadoc grumbles that they don't need to introduce themselves to the enemy and make a thing out of it. Nor does Xu Fu need to proclaim that Diarmuid's already gonna die even before they fight Demonic Boars!
  • The protagonist has dialogue options to mess with Kadoc on the mission with Don Quixote, first by engaging in Parrot Exposition about Don Quixote by repeating everything Sancho explains to him, and then later by copying Don Quixote's declaration of "Adventure yeah!"
• A Berserker class servant starts off speaking like a Screaming Warrior. However, as a nice nod to how Berserkers being incapable of speech is The Artifact, the other Servants tell him that he can speak normally. He tries to speak in Hulk Speak only for him to be called out on it again before finally speaking normally.
• When Salome asks the other Class Servants "Who do you think you are?", all of them give answers that tells them who they are without revealing their true names. While one Saber servant did try to give out his true name, he gets interrupted by a Caster Servant.
• The protagonist's first proper introduction to Roland has the latter talk with Astolfo over whether or not he should be naked. Goredolf's expression makes it clear this isn't the first time this has happened.
  Goredolf: (A face that's looked into the abyss and seen pink elephants)
• Xu Fu gets extremely annoyed at Holmes instantly putting together an escape route from Zhang Jue's headquarters because she feels it makes her explicit purpose of being brought on as their resident Taoist expert redundant.
  Xu Fu: Ugh! Why don't you just get a Holmes of every Class and settle everything with them?
  Protagonist: Your mind goes to terrifying places.
• Xu Fu hits Roland with a flowerpot when he surprises her, dismissing any possible harm from doing so because he's invincible.
• The protagonist and Xu Fu end up fighting Kiyohime, who offers to make the protagonist a guest of war if they surrender. They refuse, having already been a prisoner of the Revenge Realm, but Xu Fu has an issue with Kiyohime's use of the word "courtesy".
  Xu Fu: Does courtesy here mean imprisoning him/her or pinning him/her up for display?
  Kiyohime: Yes.
  Xu Fu: She actually said it!
• Kadoc comments that not having a Shielder around is going to be a detriment, which makes Mash feel down that she can't join them in the field sooner. The protagonist's response is to start elbowing him in the ribs and step on his foot.
• Along the way to see how this singularity got started, Moriarty requested Kadoc, Mash, and the protagonist to say the password to unlock the staircase. The password in question? Open Sesame. While the protagonist did say it, Mash and Kadoc didn't as all they did was react in surprise at the protagonist saying it.

Nahui Mictlān

• While the crew is trying to convey just how dangerous ORT is, the best Goredolf can do is describe it like a childhood boogeyman.
• After Mash tries playing Dead Man's Volley with the Foreign God's black hole, the latter assumes Mash must be some sort of tennis-based Heroic Spirit, which leads Mash to mention she wanted to join Wimbledon at some point, before realizing she's still in the middle of battle.
• U-Olga Marie, the ultimate Big Bad of the game that you've spent two and a half story arcs preparing to face... gets amnesia. And as a result joins you as the main ally for the Lostbelt. All of your friends having a near-heart attack as they process this is a running theme for Part 1.
• A lot of funny moments comes at U-Olga Marie's expense. From puking rainbows after having her senses overwhelmed thanks to the environment, freaking out over the impossibility of establishing dialogue with a wild T-Rex roaring in her face and being the unlucky recipient of a punch from a crazed Kingprotea.
• If you're playing through the Lostbelt on Christmas (also the day the Lostbelt released), Kirei/Rasputin's entrance has him wish the Master of Chaldea a Merry Christmas (outside of that, he just says good morning).
• Kirei/Rasputin's facial expression upon realizing that U-Olga Marie is suffering from amnesia is this, either because it's the face of "Not according to plan", or because he inherently finds the whole thing Actually Pretty Funny.
• U-Olga will not use her Noble Phantasm during gameplay, and her NP icon has ERROR displayed on it (think Chen Gong when there are no other servants). However, unlike every other time this has happened, she has some... increasingly whiny comments if you try to make her use it.
  First time: I won't show it.
  Second time: I said I won't show it...
  Third time: Didn't I tell you not now!?
• In a bit of Black Comedy, Tezcatlipoca perfectly shooting Meunière in the head and the heart becomes Hilarious in Hindsight when we learn just where he learned to shoot. When he claimed to be aiming for the other organ each shot, he wasn't joking.
• In order to gain access to the next layer of Mictlan, the party needs to secure an audience with the Dinosaur King and gain his permission. This means they get sidetracked into a soccer, erm, xoqqer tournament for two entire sections. This culminates in the party located in a colosseum with dinosaurs as the spectators while they square off against U-Olga's team of Deinos in xoqqer (represented via the battle system) and a sunglasses wearing Kirei as the coach, all set to a surprisingly cheery tune. The whole thing feels like a skit that would be right at home with Fate/Grand Carnival.
  Coach Kotomine: We're kicking off. Make this match one that will go down in history.
  Coach Kotomine: (After U-Olga Marie's bar is broken) NO! Madam President, GO HOME!
• Before meeting their Xoqqer Team, Mash gives a mini-lecture about all the kinds of dinosaurs in Panhuman History. According to her, the absolute most viscious and dangerous dinosaurs were the Deinonychus; who "could be described as mafia-like." We then go to meet our Xoqqer team; who are all Deinonychus and are big friendly dumb jock types.
• On that matter, the protagonist and Mash's xoqqer team first go up against, of all things, a T-Rex patterned to look like Taiga with their scales the same shade as her hair, an underbelly patterned off her striped shirt, wearing a goofy tiger face hat, and holding the same stick as Jaguar Warrior. This Deinos then doesn't even get the dignity of being fought as that team has absolutely zero defense and allows the protagonists to effortlessly win off-screen.
• After winning the xoqqer tournament, Chaldea finally manages to meet the Dinosaur King, but their disguises are then seen through and they are mistaken for Ocelomeh. The King's main guard Wak Chan then fights most of your group, but as for U-Olga Marie...
  Wak Chan: Your horns are freaking amazing! After this fight is over, wanna marry me?
• Wak Chan also seems to be quite intimidating and dutifully does his orders to get rid of the humans until Vucub orders him to consume their flesh. Wak Chan immediately stops to rant about what a stupid idea that is because meat isn't good for him and how he doesn't like his job.
• Camazotz lets slip that Koyanskaya provided the Ocelomeh with guns, which annoys Chaldea with that revelation even if it does make sense. Rasputin opts to stay silent because his favorite rocket launcher is a quality NFF Services original. Worse yet, Tezcatlipoca (at this point a known Gun Nut) used Koyanskaya's trial period of her guns to reverse-engineer them; Koyanskaya's silence wasn't about not wanting to reveal her involvement with the Ocelomeh, but about not wanting to reveal that she got conned.
• Partway through Rasputin's Infodump on Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca's conflict, the protagonist can suggest they argued over pro wrestling and pistols rather than Human Sacrifice.
  Rasputin: ...Just what kind of Quetzalcoatl have you met? Some relation to Lady Forklift?
• U-Olga Marie puts the Protagonist through a simulation to prepare them for Tlaloc. The story of the simulation... didn't impress them, either being "the Protagonist and U-Olga Marie being too lovey dovey" or "shitter than the shittiest movie they'd ever seen". U-Olga's response is the verbal equivalent of rolling her face over a keyboard.^note No, really. She actually says "okfsjkvhbnuseiovas!?", complete with the Japanese script using the Latin alphabet.
  • Shortly after taking a verbal potshot at U-Olga, the protagonist expresses their sincere thanks to her for the practice session and after she briefly blushes from the genuine flattery, the camera zooms in as she slowly gets closer to Ritsuka before Tepeu promptly interrupts them catching her off-guard. After revealing he had just woken up, he casually states Mash was eavesdropping the entire time.
• Kadoc is shocked that the protagonist has somehow tagged up with Rasputin, Koyanskaya, and U-Olga Marie when they rescue him from prison. Rasputin and Koyanskaya immediately start engaging in Passive-Aggressive Kombat with each other behind Kadoc regarding Rasputin rescuing him in Olympus before just flat-out fighting.
  Rasputin: My, having a private chat, are we? It’s wonderful to see you deepening your bonds with others, Kadoc. I’m feeling rather proud. It seems that delivering you to the Border was worth the risk after all.
  Koyanskaya: Oh my! You were supposed to die on Olympus, but it seems as if you were rescued by a priest! Such a betrayal… and even though you Disciples were such good friends… Were the sacrifices of the late Limbo and Muramasa for naught…? To put it simply, shouldn’t you be slicing your stomach open as a form of apology?
  Rasputin: Miss Koyanskaya, you shouldn’t shed false tears while lying. Regardless of your beauty, it’s unacceptable in the eyes of the Lord. If you hope to become a better actress, you must look into a mirror and face your own ugliness.
  *They start beating the crap out of each other.*
• Kukulkan discovers the wonders of roasted maize with soy sauce. She promptly eats enough for ten people, declares that maize is soon to become extinct from the terrifying techniques that PHH uses to make food taste good, and she'll use her godly powers in order to ensure she can still retain a supply for herself to eat.
• After facing Ereshkigal Alter and Gulganna for the first time, the protagonist comforts Kukulkan that she can go all out and they won't be scared by her power, declaring that they can trust her because she's the same goddess as Quetzalcoatl, and therefore cannot be evil. Kukulkan agrees to go out and show off her Noble Phantasm... but before that, she asks that she and the protagonist do a Mana Transfer. Yes, you just got solicited by a Lostbelt King.
  • The screen fades red for a moment, and Kukulkan appears quite satisfied, declaring that with the Mana Transfer complete, she'll send Gulganna flying with a single punch. Then the screen moves to the side and reveals that Dumuzid was watching the whole thing, and he asks if he can share some of the protagonist's comments to the world as pickup lines. The protagonist isn't impressed.
    Choice 1: I'll tear out all your wool and drop you into Hell.
    Choice 2: I'll hand you over to Ishtar, you know?
• With U-Olga Marie pulling an Enemy Mine to secure Tezcatlipoca's defeat, the Protagonist tartly points out, and Rasputin confirms, that she no longer has a means to awaken ORT in a controllable state — and thus U-Olga Marie has completely undone her own master plan. All she can do is give out a pathetically unconvincing I Meant to Do That.
• Kadoc and Goredolf end up tumbling around in the Shadow Border being thrown around by Daybit's Angelic Artifacts. Goredolf insists that he will go down with his car, with Kadoc baffled at this terrible joke. Both of them are upside down to convey the fact that the vehicle isn't right-side up the whole time. Then Kukulkan shows up and starts shaking it to get it back upright with the poor guys screaming for their life.
• Kukulkan then gets distracted by the idea of a tea party during the critical situation of ORT's possible revival because Goredolf put it in her head as his way of thanks. She accepts and spends enough time to eat at least two cakes. Kukulkan berates herself for being delayed when she sees that the others are going to be eaten by ORT. The protagonist can only express shock that she went to go have tea with Kadoc and Goredolf.
• The protagonist can then demand some of the tea and snacks from Kadoc when they show up to rescue the party from ORT. Kadoc wonders why that would be their first question after getting in safely, but sorry, he just ate all the cheese cookies while Kukulkan drank all the tea.
• The narration's solution to calculating the chances Chaldea has of defeating ORT, since it will vary wildly depending on which Servants the player has? TRISMEGISTUS II, an actual machine calculating the probability, gives the answer "Yes."
• After meeting so many fantastic creatures and beings in various shapes and sizes, the legendary ORT's true body is the classic Flying Saucer.
• The Deinos are persuaded to fight against ORT by the Dinosaur King. They immediately declare that they may not like it, but they should use what NFF Services can provide and start rifling through Koyanskaya's stockpile of weapons. Both Vucub and Koyanskaya are utterly baffled at how quick this turnaround is. Koyanskaya asks if this means that they'll consider worshipping her as their new goddess with how much they're praising her convenience. The Deinos politely decline because they have Kukulkan, causing Koyanskaya to sulk.
• The first genuine action the Deinos have ever undertaken in 66 million years is to remark about how the various given weapons can be improved, which will be done later. One even goes as far as to complain about the Geneva Convention that humanity had to deal with. Koyanskaya was shocked which led to her saying that the Deinos are evolving at light speed and they truly deserved to be called "perfect".
• When the Protagonist returns to Tezcatlipoca's paradise of Mictlampa, they wind up interrupting Daybit teasing Tezcatlipoca for lying about how ORT was sure to destroy the world.
  Daybit: The future you saw faded into phantasmagoria. Those who speak lies ought to be punished, be they god or not. I'll go get Quetzalcoatl. His realm was in the west, if I'm not mistaken.
  Tezcatlipoca: Anything but Birdie's goddamn Macana, c'mon man. My skull's gonna feel it forever. That thing's worse than any hangover, for real.
• Considering how stoic he normally is, it's amusing seeing Daybit be even the slightest bit petty after losing to the protagonist due to only having Tezcatlipoca. He even asks if his Servant couldn't have brought in any followers or chain-summoned Jaguar Man to even the numbers.

Paper Moon

• Kama and the younger Sion, when not dealing with more serious affairs, are constantly a thread away from using violent force to protect the Protagonist from each other. This is a theme for the whole Singularity.
• In an early bit, Sion declares having priority over Kama as she is slightly taller than her. Kama glares at her and quietly leaves the room while the others are talking. She comes back in her ascended form, and denies that anything happened at all.
• The first Master they meet, Ayus as named by her Servant (she had none before), is a sweet girl who is constantly bickering with her Servant Berserker. The Berserker in question pointedly refuses to give his True Name, since this is a proper Holy Grail War where hiding your identity actually matters — but he dropped a few too many hints.^note Kama says he smells like an Indian, Sion points out that "Ayus" is a Sanskrit word, and the Protagonist notes that Berserker has called himself a prince. Most damningly, he had already mentioned Karna earlier in familiar, friendly terms, which not only gives him away as a figure in the Mahabarata but also completely eliminates any chance that he could be a member of the Pandevas. The look on Berserker's face is priceless as the Protagonist, of all people, immediately identifies him as Duryodhana. Da Vinci and Holmes would be proud.
• Duryodhana in general. He's constantly finding pragmatic ways to get ahead, sizes up any woman he meets, always bragging about his skills and royalty, and he apologizes for none of it. He'd be much more despicable if the sweet-hearted Ayus wasn't his Master, sort of like if Gilgamesh had a leash.
• When Kali starts destroying everything, Kama cracks a zinger about how it's time for her to stand up and save the world from the Parvati-face menace.

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