Why are there duplicate characters? I know there are two Alexanders. Did they ran out of real life "heroes"?
Fate
Logan Edwards
Carson Miller
Do you kid Alexander versus the one you're used to seeing? Lore-wise some characters fit different molds depending on time and place (such as Lancelot being a Saber if he's not corrupted when summoned into Berserker class) or in monetary cases they reuse their main characters for clapbait to make maximum gachabait (IE Ishtar, Muramasa, all the Seibahs that aren't part of the main VN, etc).
Some of the seibahs are interesting what-if additions that get their own stories.
John Nelson
Which duplicate, the shota one, the Divine Spirit one or the Faker?
Jace Lee
>Why are there duplicate characters?
Nasu thinks if he makes another Rin everyone with throw money at him.
Jaxson Cox
I think the suits are Aniplex make the call and everyone just nods. Nasu doesnt really care cuz of $$$.
Nathan Reed
Why do movie studios make sequels? A popular Servant has a guaranteed fanbase and people will roll for them in the gacha, whereas a new Servant might flop.
Josiah Rivera
>Did they ran out of real life "heroes"?
I know as a fact you haven't played FGO. You possibly maybe could find it marginally entertaining for a microsecond.
Gavin Young
Money. Why would you exhaust yourself writing a new character when you can just make another saberface that you know people will throw money at it even more than the new character.
Caleb Bailey
Most of the clones are compeletely new characters, they just share similar designs.
Connor Howard
broadly speaking, summoning a hero into different classes gets you a different version of that hero. For instance, Archer Gilgamesh is him from when he was a shitty king that only cared about himself and Enkidu and they went around hunting divine beasts for fun and glory, while Caster Gilgamesh is him from after Enkidu's death and his failed quest of immortality where he was humbled and devoted himself to statecraft and being a good leader instead of a royal parasite
Nicholas Green
Wait every Servant has a child version?
Ethan Hughes
>pic
And Castoria?
Gabriel Russell
we'll have a dozen of new heroes after the war within ukr and everyone will gobble that shit up till last drop
Parker King
Servant Hitler when?
Nathaniel Reyes
Am I the only one who thinks that Gilgamesh's and Iskander's designs should have been changed?
I know that Gilgamesh was designed long before Iskander in the Fate franchise but still. Gilgamesh looks more like how Alexander is often portrayed as a blonde twinkish guy and young while Iskander in Fate looks like how Gilgamesh was portrayed in mesopotamian art as a tall, muscular middle-aged bara guy with a beard.
Robert Brooks
My opinion also has to do with the fact that I informed myself a bit about Fate before watching it and I've heard the name Gilgamesh mentioned and I also saw Iskander as one of the characters in the Fate franchise and thought that he was Gilgamesh.
Isaac Russell
It's long stablished tradition in Fate that heroic spirits designs are whatever the fuck the writers feel like doing, logic be damned, and the justification is "history was wrong, this is the truth lmao". See no further than the most popular servant being King Arthur genderbent into a little girl.
Part of it, I suppose, is Nasu and the rest intentionally trying to mislead youbuilds that you don't expect or outfits you can't quite place the origin of so you don't immediately guess the servant's true name. I'll give them that at least.
Well, it's not like I dislike how Gil or Iskandar look anyway, quite the opposite. Iskander could have been somewhat slimmer while keeping his design and it would have worked just as well. There's a pic where Iskandar is the same, beard and all, but with more natural proportions and it looks pretty good, but I can't find it.
Levi James
Asher Long
Just Alexander, Gilgamesh, King Arthur, Medea, Kama (same servantbut morphing) and Jeanne D'arc afair. Lots of but far from every.
Christopher Morales
Most of the time it's what happens when a servant is put into a different class, like Caster Gilgamesh being taken from the legends wherein he turned into a wise old king after his journey for immortality.
Somrtimes it's just fanservice.
There's no REAL reason Iskandar has a little boy version of himself except to appeal to shotacons. He's even a Rider in both versions.
Leo Allen
Genderbending King Arthur was a mistake if they ever wanted their story to be taken seriously. Eroge is lame.