[Spoilers]My God...how scary is Gilgamesh???

[Daelight]

I will be honest with you and I hope no one will get toxic at me about this, but...I never watched Fate series. I only watched the magical girl spin off and I know some characters/references from YouTube videos I watched in the past. I have seen Gilgamesh a couple of times and he is always calling everyone "Mongrels" and treats everyone like garbage. I can tell he is a prick but at the same time, I have a feeling he actually has some honor and maybe some humanity in him, I might be wrong though, since I never saw the actual shows.

But in the game, I am in the part where I am controlling Altera and just fought with him. Altera is already uber powerful, and she is struggling against him, even if she summoned her White Titan form, I am pretty sure she would still be struggling a bit against him, but he also never went all out on us. Also, he broke in this dimension on his own without someone summoning him??? What the hell? That's beyond OP!

Now, if anyone still is reading my post...what order should I watch the shows? And which shows specifically? I know it's a mess chronologically and the Prism Illya is not in any of the universe of the shows but it felt like it was in the last episodes with everyone main appearing on her show.

Also, sub question :

Are the Fate/Extella games canon to the show? I don't remember anything digital and the games feel like Digimon World - due to codes/viruses etc, rather than a "Otherworld" story with humans, heroes, gods, demons, etc.

Yes, I am confused, and I think I started liking Gilgamesh, hell, even his own music is badass!

[Kojuro]

Yeah Gilgamesh is actually repeatedly called the strongest Servant in the franchise, his treasury holding a copy of every single Noble Phantasm save for some.

Most people start exploring the franchise with Fate/Zero, then Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works, then the Heaven's Feel movies, all by Ufotable. You could also watch DEEN's anime Fate/stay night after F/Z if you can stomach the artstyle as it's from 2006. But I personally suggest starting with the original visual novel Fate/stay night, athough it's lengthy, and only then watching the shows.

Also Extella is in it's own universe called Extraverse (the PSP games Fate/Extra and Fate/Extra CCC (this one doesn't have an English translation), the games Extella, Extella Link and the anime Last Encore) so no, they aren't canon. In fact, the only canon entries are the visual novels Fate/stay night, Fate/hollow ataraxia (the direct sequel) and the mobile game Fate/Grand Order, and everything else is implied to be set in parallel universes.

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The main story's correct order is: Fate/stay night -> Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works -> Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel -> Fate/Zero.

Now you can either play the VN or watch the anime.
FYI, Gilgamesh's most shining moments are in Fate/stay night & Fate/Zero (maybe Unlimited Blade Works too).

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Gilgamesh is also an important character in Fate/strange fake and Fate/grand order Babylonia, but those are entire new stories.

[Daelight]

Thanks to both of you for telling me!

[warlok]

Originally posted by Kojuro:

Also Extella is in it's own universe called Extraverse (the PSP games Fate/Extra and Fate/Extra CCC (this one doesn't have an English translation), the games Extella, Extella Link and the anime Last Encore) so no, they aren't canon. In fact, the only canon entries are the visual novels Fate/stay night, Fate/hollow ataraxia (the direct sequel) and the mobile game Fate/Grand Order, and everything else is implied to be set in parallel universes.

Eh what? FGO is not in the same world as FSN. If Extraverse isn't canon because of that, then so is FGO.
Honestly canon is a wrong word for that. Everything in Nasuverse is canon as long as it doesn't break the rules and even then some things are when directly approved by Nasu.

[naru]

Gilgamesh had a bad rep in the Anime only community until recently when the Fate/Grand Order: Absolute Demonic Front Babylonia anime changed it because of the Fate/Stay Night and Fate/Zero anime.

In Fate/Stay Night he was convinced by the corrupt Grail that modern humanity is just trash and needs to be culled to be decent again.

Fate/Zero is where most of his bad rep came from because it was written some time after the original Fate/Stay Night VN by Gen Urobuchi who is famous of his tragedies. The problem with Fate/Zero is fans take it as a canon representation of the characters while it was officially stated to be non-canon to FSN(basically the event just loosely line up to FSN) and entirely made in Urobuchi's style including the characters.
If you watch the Fate/Zero show after seeing the characters in other Fate works like Extella, Grand Order, etc. you'll see the characters ranging from having a big hit to their IQ to being plainly retarded. It is because Zero was written very early in the franchise when those characters did not have much characterization by Nasu save a few and Urobuchi's style is to give most people a hero's fall plot where everything they believed in a lived for turns out to be dumb and futile so you have Artoria be childishly naive and dumb, Diarmuid is straight up retarded, Kiritsugu a pretentious prick, etc. Gilgamesh in it was a string pulling manipulative ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. In contrast here is the type who just lays back and enjoys the fireworks, if he gets involved it is to get a better seat or a bigger kick out of something like when he trolls a certain person hard in Altera's route.