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[Furtuka]

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Other Saber who looks almost exactly the same as Saber except with red clothing and bigger boobs.

[i2amroy]

Well, Saber was based on someone who really lived (though only loosely resembles the legend):

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Arthur is believed to be based on a real historical figure ("Arth" just means "the bear" in Welsh), but he was nothing like the legendary Arthur. The best evidence for this is that before 500AD, the name Arthur didn't even exist, yet a century later, it was quite a popular name for British nobles' sons. The name suddenly appears, and becomes really popular overnight, at the exact same time a "king Arthur" is supposed to have lived.

The most likely candidate for the real Arthur is Cuneglas, since contemporary authors such as Gildas referred to him as "bear". Also, Gildas lists kings of britain and includes Cuneglas (the bear), whilst Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote the exact same list, and included Arthur (the bear), but was missing Cuneglas. Plus a stack of other similar incidents in the life of both Cuneglas and Arthur.

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It's important to note that with everything we've discovered about King Arthur so far that one of the strongest theories is that really the origin of the character is that it was a somewhat mythological figure that, over time, ended up becoming credited with several real acts (which were potentially done by several different people). King Arthur is only barely less mythological than any of the others present.

It might also be worthwhile to note that True Assassin at least steals the name of a real person (though they completely rewrote the entire backstory and he only shows up briefly in the original VN), that of Hassan-i Sabbah.

Nero is the Saber-class servant of Fate/Extra, and looks very similar to the Saber in the other stories (being a blonde-haired, girl clad in almost an identical outfit but with less armor and red instead of blue), but is not the same person as who people talk of when they are commonly referring to "Saber".

[Trapezohedron]

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Red Saber is Nero. Ordinary Saber is Arthur.

Wish King David could have been implemented somewhat.

[USEC_OFFICER]

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What. So there's two Sabers floating around? And nobody thought that this would be confusing in the slightest? _{And why did you specify which one has the bigger chest again?}

[Trapezohedron]

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Technically, both sabers do not have any relation to each other. They just designed Nero as such to put some kind of Red Herring to the series. Both sabers never really met each other, and Red Saber belongs to Fate/Extra continuity while Saber belongs to F/SN - Zero continuity.

Due to the nature of the world however, and servants... it is possible to summon both in the same world.

[i2amroy]

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What. So there's two Sabers floating around? And nobody thought that this would be confusing in the slightest? _{And why did you specify which one has the bigger chest again?}

Hey, there's 19 different "Assassins" (20 if you count the one from F/SN, and like 30 if you count some of the ones from other things like games). And on top of that one of those essentially has the ability of having 80 different versions of himself.

There's a reason why people commonly refer to the characters as their historical/mythological name instead of their class one; the only reason people tend to use "Saber" for Saber is that her actual identity is a big spoiler for much of the original VN.

[Furtuka]

Well in class terms there's a limitless amount of Sabers but as far as "Seibah" Sabers go basically...


...Takeuchi reeeeaaaallly likes that design.

[Trapezohedron]

Lancer of Black is totes awesome though.

[Reelya]

Just watching the last Sailor Moon OVA that I hadn't seen and was reminded of the most disturbing hero ability in the whole series. Especially considering that it's a dude.

EDIT: Watching this great anime movie at the moment that came out in 2012. Artwork is great, giving a Ghibli feeling, but it's not really kid safe (gets pretty gory and has sexual references).

[Leafsnail]

Saber is basically the face of the series so I guess they feel the need to include the same design in all spinoffs, even if it's a different character.

FSN contains exclusively heroes who are mythological or fictionalized to some degree, probably out of respect.  F/Z breaks this rule a bit but still doesn't include anyone particularly recent.

[Tack]

Wouldn't mind a Saber Achilles though.
... Ok so maybe my line of what is too much mythology is a little skewed...

Maybe I'm biased against nonhumans.
And Hercules.
If you wanted a berserker with similar cheese, go Vlad the Impaler.

[i2amroy]

If you wanted a berserker with similar cheese, go Vlad the Impaler.

Vlad has already shown up 3 different times in the overall series, though only one of those was as a Berserker, the rest went with the more predictable Lancer class instead (since he you know, impales things on spears and all ).

[Orange Wizard]

I kinda want to see Napoleon as... I dunno, Rider? His phantasm could be inspiring revolutions.

[Culise]

I kinda want to see Napoleon as... I dunno, Rider? His phantasm could be inspiring revolutions.

Oh, gosh.  I just imagined Talleyrand as possibly summoned as either an Assassin or Caster (albeit in the same way Shakespeare is a Caster).  Specialty would be King of Diplomats, an ability that dispels all Contracts within the Reality Marble...including the one that binds him to his own Master.

[Reelya]

Found another good anime movie tonight, Giovanni no Shima (2014). It's one of those movies set after the fall of Japan in WWII, but it's a different take to the usual ones. Contains a lot of references to Kenji Miyazawa's Night on the Galactic Railroad, so watching the best-regarded anime version of that would add a lot more value to this new movie.