Fate:Grand Order/YMMV

• Base Breaker
  • In the rare case from the other end of spectrum, Proto Arthur's bond line is changed to remove the reference to Ayaka. This change causes the fans to accuse DW of pandering Arthur to Arthur shipping fans. Made more jarring in that the other popular male characters' previous relationships, such as Gawain and his wife/Dante and Haydee/Lancelot and Guinevere, are faithfully retained.

• Base Breaking Character: Among the fans who sympathize with Lancelot, Galahad is not well liked for his smug and questionable attitude, with him turning Mash into a jerkass whenever the topic regarding Lancelot is brought up. His status as a Gary Stu, even in his original legend, doesn't help this either.
  • Similarly, Karna himself crosses into this as the writers continue to glorifies his heroic deeds while downplay Arjuna's and invoke his Anti-Hero nature as much as possible, culminating in everyone not surprised that the main antagonist of Lostbelt 4 is Arjuna Alter.

• Author Saving Throw: During the showcase of Fate:Extella Link's servant swimsuits, game's artist Arco Wada was mildly accused of playing favorite due to trailer and magazine showing only the female servants' artwork (the males are only represented by in-game models). The release of Robin Hood's swimsuit costume and Gawain's swimsuit artwork in Grand Order manages to offset this, if only [somewhat partially.

• Evil Is Sexy
  • Ignoring their Eldritch Abomination form, the Beast (Goetia the King of Human, Femme Fatale Tiamat, Kiara, and Kama/Mara) are all very attractive and alluring. This especially holds true both entities of Beast III, the Beast of Desire.
  • Shadow Emiya, the Shadow Servant version of Emiya, is mostly the same as his second ascension except that his skintight suit is partially ripped on both sides of his chest and his midriff, showing off his ripped abs. His personality is also a lot less restratined than his normal counterpart.
  • Archer of Shinjuku aka James Moriarty is a very attractive Silver Fox "Suspicious Old Man in his Fifties".

• Fan-Preferred Couple
  • Mash is probably the most paired character for both male and female protagonist, but the good Dr.Roman is not far behind.
  • For the male protagonist, Gawain is the most favored partner for him, beating even the more well known Astolfo, Dante, and Yan Qing by at least five folds.

• Jerkass Woobie
  • Stheno might acts like a vain and irritating goddess, but various events imply that she believes herself to be inferior to her two younger sisters despite being crowned the World's Most Beautiful Woman, and she actually feels guilty for droving Medusa to the deep end and became Gorgon in the past. She has since been trying to correct her mistakes: being less callous toward her master and humanity regarding love and affection, and learning to be able to protect herself and those she care to lift the burden from Medusa.

• Mind Game Ship : Basically, any shipping of the protagonist(s) with the Evil Alignment servants.

• Reality Ensue
  • Scheherazade's overall Deconstruction regarding her brave backstory: night after night of spinning wonderful tales in order to extend one life for another can drive anyone to an extreme fear of death.

• Ron the Death Eater
  • It's very common in fanwork to depict Proto Arthur as Yandere Bastard Boyfriend of the male protagonist, as a result of him losing everything back in Camelot despite him being its perfect and eternal king. Tropes Are Not Bad, however, as it helps making Arthur much more humane compared to his borderline canon Gary Stu status.
  • Similarly, Edward Hyde is often depicted closer (but still toned down) to his source material, being a pervert who is extremely obsessed with the female protagonist.

• Ship-to-Ship Combat
  • In general, any servants that were previously involved/committed to another master or had a love interest in any installment of Nasuverse (e.g. Nero/Emiya/Tamamo/Gil) are subjected to this.
  • Second to the above, whom each servant should be paired with, between male or female protagonist?

• WTH Costuming Department
  • Minamoto no Raikou's main outfit doesn't show any skin, but features ridiculously skintight breastplate that accentuates her figure. The fact that her summer variation (which is swimsuit) looks more reasonable is pretty jarring.