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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files

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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Lord El-Melloi II Case Files (ロード・エルメロイⅡ世の事件簿) is a light novel series written by Makoto Sanda and illustrated by Mineji Sakamoto and takes place in the Nasuverse, as a spinoff of the Fate series. The series ran for 10 novels from December 2014 to May 2019; currently, they're only available in Japan.A manga adaptation began October 4th, 2017. An anime adaptation produced by Studio TROYCA premiered with episode 0 on December 31, 2018 as part of the "Fate Project New Year’s Eve TV Special". The full anime series, Lord El-Melloi II Case Files: {Rail Zeppelin} Grace Note, began July 6th, 2019. A musical stage adaptation of the first novel had a short tour in Japan from December 2019 to January 2020. A material book was released at Winter Comiket 2019 before wider release in January 2020.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Set ten years after Fate/Zero, Waver Velvet has taken the title of his former master as Lord El-Melloi II and taken charge of the Clock Tower's Modern Magecraft department. However, his rise to "glory" has been compounded by resentment from other magi. Deals made have resulted in debts to be paid and often he is called in to solve problems.These are the Lord El-Melloi II Case Files.A sequel light novel series, The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II (ロード・エルメロイⅡ世の冒険), was announced in December 2019, with the first novel released in December 2020. It takes place several years later, after Fate/stay night.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_11a74598	comment	Became Their Own Antithesis: Inverted. Granted, the alternative was dying themselves, but Waver and Melvin are surprisingly blasé about the people they indirectly killed blowing up the dig site in episode 1, especially since it's implied many of the other diggers are there by force. Contrast with the present-day, where Waver begrudgingly accepts but also abhors how the magus lifestyle often puts innocents in harm's way.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_11bc87bc	type	Comic-Book Fantasy Casting
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_11bc87bc	comment	Case Files official materials state that Rufleus is based off of Christopher Lee's Saruman from The Lord of the Rings.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_15078c47	type	Sniff Sniff Nom
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_15078c47	comment	Sniff Sniff Nom: Waver tests some mysterious powder that Reines found at the scene of a murder this way. She asks if he's insane or was a dog in a past life or something, even though he claims to have figured out what it is by tasting it.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_15e48c8b	comment	Yonkoma: There are several bonus comics in a magazine, with humorous anecdotes like Luvia playing with hand puppets.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_171edb09	type	The Wild Hunt
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_171edb09	comment	The Wild Hunt: The anime has an artificial one which is the focus of episodes 4-5.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: In Type-Moon tradition, Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Material came out some time after the series ended to elaborate on concepts and characters. This particular Material book is notable because part of it was written by Kinoko Nasu himself and goes over important details for the Nasuverse setting as a whole, like the history of the Mage's Association.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_19b6f396	type	Alternate Timeline
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_19b6f396	comment	The series as a whole is one for Fate/Zero and Fate/stay night, taking place long after the events of Zero and starting just a few scant months before the next Holy Grail War begins. Nasu has gone on record that Case Files is directly canon to stay night with no Alternate Timeline hijinks whatsoever, while Zero remains in the territory of Broad Strokes in relation to stay night. Case Files as a work gels with both stories but leans more towards stay night.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: The sequel series doesn't seem to be letting up on the cameos any time soon either: Shirou doesn't appear in person, but he is mentioned by Luvia who says that she plans on using the time that Rin is away from the Clock Tower to lure him over to her side. The very last thing in the first volume is Mikiya (referred to with Shiki's family name, as "Ryougi Mikiya") and Mana from The Garden of Sinners receiving a letter from Touko, setting up for a bigger role in volume 2.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Shiki Ryougi is mentioned by Mikiya during the 2nd volume of The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II and is even referenced every now and then, but doesn't physically appear in-person as it's stated that she's away from home due to personal reasons during the events of the book.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_1ed05659	type	No Hero to His Valet
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_1ed05659	comment	No Hero to His Valet: Although she respects his teaching abilities, Gray is not terribly impressed by her master on a day-to-day basis and finds him to be a bit ridiculous.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_1f19f198	type	Back-to-Back Badasses
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_1f19f198	comment	Back-to-Back Badasses: A piece of official art for Episode 5 of the anime depicts Waver and Kairi doing this. Waver looks nervous though.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_20152e12	type	Real Place Background
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_20152e12	comment	Real-Place Background: The anime recognizably depicts Druid Street, where Waver is mentioned to live in the light novels. His favorite teashop is even a real, recognizable local place, which even seems to do a similar sandwich (the Rustique Brie Baguette) to the one Waver was about to enjoy before Reines ruined one of his life's few pleasures. Naturally, it's been visited by at least one cosplayer. Waver's block of flats also seems to be roughly based on one in the neighborhood, with some details changed.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_21eb1793	type	Muggles Do It Better
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_21eb1793	comment	Muggles Do It Better: Waver is able to hold his own in the cutthroat world of magi despite his own lacking magecraft ability because of his willingness to make use of non-magical methods and technologies like cars.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_2310dacb	type	Dead Man Writing
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_2310dacb	comment	Dead Man Writing: Near the end of the series Atrum (Caster's original master from stay night), who had worked with Waver in an earlier case, sends him information that essentially starts with "If you're watching this I died in the Grail War."
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The first volume opens with Gray recalling how Waver got into a fight with a stray cat, only to later find it injured in the road and so he nursed it until it passed away peacefully. The anime took what was only about half a page of dialogue and turned it into the plot of episode 0. Episode 1 is a Whole Episode Flashback going into how Waver took on his former mentor's title and class, while also showing his life immediately after Zero. The first half of the anime after episode 1 is original material set between volumes 3 and 4, which establishes relevant points from the skipped-over volumes 1-3 and sets the stage for the Rail Zeppelin arc in the second half. The Rail Zeppelin adaptation itself introduces a subplot with Kairi and Luvia investigating who stole Iskandar's mantle at Reines' behest. Luvia didn't appear during this arc in the novels, and Kairi didn't appear in the novels at all. Kairi later recruits Flat and Svin for an assignment; like Luvia, they didn't feature during this arc in the novels.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_234bd900	type	For Science!
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_234bd900	comment	For Science!: Or magic, rather. The ultimate goal of magi and magus society, in general, is to reach the Root (which, for lack of a better description, can be thought of the magical equivalent of The Singularity), and most magi are happy to toss away anything resembling a conscience in pursuit of it.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_23a1e2a9	type	Adaptation Deviation
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_23a1e2a9	comment	Adaptation Deviation: Although the first half of the anime is mostly anime-original and presumed to take place between books 3 and 4, some events get shuffled around or occur under different circumstances due to originally involving non-adapted material. In the books, Waver is told by Atrum Galliast at the end of the Iselma case that he has been passed over as one of the two Clock Tower masters for the Fifth Holy Grail War. Since Atrum and Iselma are not in the anime aside from a brief cameo, he is instead told by Reines. The party for Svin's ascension to Pride rank originally took place at the start of the Rail Zeppelin case rather than after. In the novels the Adra and Iselma cases are tied together to Rail Zeppelin by the Big Bad's involvement as an enabler, whereas in Grace Note, although the former technically happened offscreen, the events of episodes 0 and 3-5 are used as leadup for their overarching plans.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_25f33d8	type	Sick Episode
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_25f33d8	comment	Sick Episode: Waver's badly injured in episode 8, which puts him out of action for episode 9 and leaves the other characters to pick up the plot.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: This version of Zepia, who goes by Atlasia instead of Oberon in this continuity, retains his trademark "KATTO" catchphrase. Caules uses electricity magecraft, a nod to his Servant in Fate/Apocrypha, Frankenstein, having electrical powers. One of his spells is even named Crafted Tree, an obvious out-of-universe reference to Frankenstein's Noble Phantasm, Blasted Tree (though it's a coincidence and not a reference in-universe, since Caules and Fran never met in this timeline). In episode 3, Waver gets exasperated and grabs Flat's face and lifts up his body off the ground with one hand in a Neck Lift variant. (Luvia calls this the "Iron Claw") This is a Call-Back to their first appearance in Fate/strange fake. Kairi striking up a good enough relationship with Gray (even shielding her from a Black Dog's attack) will be no surprise for everyone who knows he plays well enough with somebody affiliated to the legend of King Arthur. The Reinforcement spell Kairi casts on the book he's holding to to protect him from the first Black Dog attack creates a neon pattern identical to the one Shirou's produces. Kairi's mention of someone in his family who liked fairy stories is an allusion to his backstory in Fate/Apocrypha. Underneath all the jewels that Luvia decked it out in, the pharaoh statue in episode 6 is wearing Ozymandias's outfit (albeit closer in design to his Third Ascension). The Forest of Einnashe from the short story Talk, a sequel to Tsukihime, appears during the Rail Zeppelin arc. Though to be specific it's a child forest of the one from Talk and not the exact same one. When Waver and Trisha discuss the memory-based mechanics of the Holy Grail and why Waver's dream is an impossibility, she mentions the theoretical case of a unique Singularity or a Reality Marble that would allow Servants to retain their memories between summons. In short, she's describing the Chaldea system. In episode 8, Waver muses on adapting Touko Travel to help escape the Rail Zeppelin. This becomes a Chekhov's Gun in episode 12, explaining how Reines and the real Caules make it to the Rail Zeppelin. During her discussion on Mystic Eyes in Episode 11, Adashino mentions the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception as one of the rarest and highest-level kinds. When Gray chooses to unleash a larger portion of Rhongomyniad's power in Episode 12, it is revealed it also has thirteen seals limiting its power (apart from Add's presence/system) — much like Excalibur Proto. The invocation is even near similar to how King Arthur's playable unit in Fate/Grand Order does itquote "Seal Thirteen, decision start!". In episode 13, Olga Marie muses that if the Greater Grail had met her father's expectations, surely his dream would have been realized... but that is a world and time unknown to her. Waver asks Olga Marie for a ley-line map to check a theory of his, and she produces a device with an interface very reminscent of the Chaldea Terminal from Fate/Grand Order In the Special Episode Gray's big attack includes a pose and zoom-in on her face that's pretty much identical to the iconic shot of Saber using Excalibur against Gilles de Rais' sea creature in Fate/Zero.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_2e6a41e0	type	Gratuitous English
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_2e6a41e0	comment	Gratuitous English: The "whydunnit" of cases is a recurring theme, complete with Engrishy pronunciation. Waver also sometimes swears in English when he's really upset. The manga adaptation will occasionally have characters say short words in English (stuff like "wow", or "phew", written in the Latin alphabet, not katakana), to remind the reader that in-universe that's the language they're speaking.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_2e8ed504	type	Beautiful Dreamer
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_2e8ed504	comment	When Gray catches Waver falling asleep, the novel version treats her reaction as one of curiosity and Add's teasing her to kiss him as just that. Episode 13 has her give Waver an ambiguous longing look instead, so the same comment comes off as less of a baseless joke and more of a tongue-in-cheek observation.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_34c6ed8	type	Don't Go in the Woods
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_34c6ed8	comment	Don't Go in the Woods: This in the form of The Child of Einnashe, spawn of the goddamn sentient Dead Apostle forest. As you can imagine, those foolish enough to think fire was enough to kill it were instead killed via impalement.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_39994bd9	type	Bazaar of the Bizarre
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_39994bd9	comment	Bazaar of the Bizarre: The Rail Zeppelin arc revolves around the Mystic Eyes auction held onboard the titular train. They don't really care about any fighting amongst its potential bidders as long as it doesn't disturb anything related to the auction, and just to make sure the auction can stay interesting, they regularly give away a few tickets every year to bring in new people for their consumer base.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_3b113b7	comment	Waver uses scientific forensics to determine the victim's time of death at the Castle of Adra, similar to when he deduced the location of Caster's lair in Zero. In a display of Character Development, when Orlock calls him out for his reliance on such a mundane technique, rather than being ashamed he explains nonchalantly that it's simply the system that works best for him.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Despite his efforts, Waver will miss out on the fifth Holy Grail War, on top of the fact that it's officially the last Grail War, turning his desire to enter it into a "Shaggy Dog" Story. However, considering the merciless and ultimately corrupted circumstances of the war, this means Waver and his students live to see another day as a result. Ultimately, this is a moot point, as Waver decides he doesn't want to join anyway.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Kayneth and Sola-ui's sudden deaths in the 4th Holy Grail War caused a power vacuum in his family because there was nobody in a good position to become family head. The only candidate, his niece, was neither old enough or skilled enough, so she forces Waver Velvet to be adopted into the family and act as her "regent" until she can take over. She also forces Waver to assume the family's multimillion dollar debts that arose during the Grail War fallout. The other major mage houses don't appreciate a commoner leading one of the most prestigious families, and seek to diminish his influence or even assassinate him. Although Waver has gotten stronger since the 4th Grail War, he isn't all that good of a Magus because he lacks the innate benefits a long-running Mage family would have. In stark contrast to his views before the Grail War, he admits that while training can make one better, it is very difficult and nearly impossible to outright beat a system where "older is better" is the core fundamental rule. At the same time, Waver's more modern look at the world means he can see things that the older, more traditional factions cannot because they are stuck in their old ways. While Waver had the happiest ending of all the Masters in the Grail War, he still saw a lot of horrific things and nearly died several times during it, and is haunted by the loss of his Servant Rider. As a result, he's developed a few Trauma Buttons: he is unable to look at Gray's face because her Identical Grandson appearance to Artoria reminds him of his failure in the war, whenever he is asked about his time in it, he often ignores the conversation because he is fairly sensitive about what happened, and whenever something reminds him of it, like reading about Gilgamesh, he zones out for similar reasons.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_40a533db	type	Guest-Star Party Member
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_40a533db	comment	Guest-Star Party Member: Different characters from across various Type-Moon works join Waver in different story arcs, from famous ones like Olga Marie and Touko Aozaki to the relatively obscure Atrum Galliasta. Most come Back for the Finale. The anime-original content even gets in on the fun with Kairi Sisigou in episodes 4 & 5.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_41d8a845	type	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_41d8a845	comment	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic: This is Waver's specialty; he can analyze and predict magic—who casts it, how it works, what it will do. This horrifies other magi because it is believed that this removes its Mystery and will weaken it more.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_42cfbfc6	type	2D Visuals, 3D Effects
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_42cfbfc6	comment	2D Visuals, 3D Effects: Becomes particularly noticeable at some points, such as the car chase in episode 0, the wyverns pulling Faker's chariot, and the summoned Child of Einnashe in episode 12 which traps the Rail Zeppelin.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_43ae1aba	type	World's Most Beautiful Woman
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_43ae1aba	comment	World's Most Beautiful Woman: The second and third novels revolve around the Gold and Silver Princesses, said to be the most beautiful people in the world. They're not a natural phenomenon; magic is often used to create them.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_4977559e	type	Our Angels Are Different
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_4977559e	comment	Our Angels Are Different: Angels in magecraft are based on a concept and are essentially 'vessels of power', anything that's ambiguous in nature and used for magic. Waver explains that it's the concept of how angelic power works that attracts mages and not their message.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_4977d7b8	comment	Dr. Heartless's partner is one to Iskandar. She's a "Faker"-class Servant who was his Body Double in life, the lightning that accompanies her is red instead of Iskandar's blue, and she rides a dark version of his Gordius Wheel chariot called Hecatic Wheel. She is also one to Gray, as they were raised from a young age to be magical copies of a king, and in the finale Heartless even ends up using Faker to summon Iskandar just as Gray's village planned to use her to revive King Arthur.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_4b0ef86e	type	Advertised Extra
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_4b0ef86e	comment	Advertised Extra: Flat and Svin in the anime. There are story arcs in the novels where they have larger roles, but in the anime adaptation of the Rail Zeppelin arc they're only involved in a subplot towards the end (and sit the whole thing out completely in the novels), so being so prominent in the advertising and opening is this.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_4cf9fe88	type	Clueless Mystery
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_4cf9fe88	comment	Clueless Mystery: Most mysteries cannot be solved by an audience on the lookout for any conventional hints or clues. As Waver reiterates to his students, magic renders the usual questions of "who" (as suspects can be long dead and victims might not be dead at all) or "how" (as there are a multitude of different possible magecraft methods to achieve the same end) moot. Rather, it is the "why" (the motive) that is the key to solving Waver's missions as it influences all the other aspects previously mentioned.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: The end of the Rail Zeppelin arc features a familiar incantation for fans of Fate/Grand Order and Fate/Prototype:
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Gray's hood falling off when she fights in episode 2, revealing that her hairstyle is identical to Artoria's. The novel goes a step further by having this reveal happen alongside her using Rhongomyniad for the first time.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_4e9fe57d	type	Trauma Button
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_4e9fe57d	comment	While Waver had the happiest ending of all the Masters in the Grail War, he still saw a lot of horrific things and nearly died several times during it, and is haunted by the loss of his Servant Rider. As a result, he's developed a few Trauma Buttons: he is unable to look at Gray's face because her Identical Grandson appearance to Artoria reminds him of his failure in the war, whenever he is asked about his time in it, he often ignores the conversation because he is fairly sensitive about what happened, and whenever something reminds him of it, like reading about Gilgamesh, he zones out for similar reasons.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early Installment Weirdness: Granted, the alternative was dying themselves, but Waver and Melvin are surprisingly blasé about the people they indirectly killed blowing up the dig site in episode 1, especially since it's implied many of the other diggers are there by force. Contrast with the present-day, where Waver begrudgingly accepts but also abhors how the magus lifestyle often puts innocents in harm's way.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_4f6d87f7	type	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_4f6d87f7	comment	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Waver stands a full head and shoulders over Gray. She finds this very useful when she needs something to hide behind in awkward social situations.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_51bc8d33	type	The Church
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_51bc8d33	comment	The Church: They serve as a rival organization to The Mage's Association but aren't that prominent in this series.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_5313c266	comment	Bookends: Episode 1 ends with Waver looking out at Iskandar's dream, Okeanos. Episode 13 has him there again as he speaks to Iskandar.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_53287813	type	Girl's Night Out Episode
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_53287813	comment	Girls' Night Out Episode: Episode 6, which focuses on Gray, Reines and Luvia going shopping without Waver or the guys, Waver only appearing near the beginning and at the end.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_538cd85a	type	Strong Girl, Smart Guy
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_538cd85a	comment	Strong Girl, Smart Guy: Waver has absolutely no aptitude for combat, physical or magical. Thus it's Gray, who's a bit self-conscious about not taking to magical theory as quickly as she should, who has to fight his battles for him.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: Waver mentions that the tomb of Alexander the Great is located in Babylon, Iraq, when in real life he was (possibly) buried in Alexandria, Egypt (and prior to that, Memphis). note It should be stressed however that the location of the tomb of Alexander the Great is an enduring mystery in real life and that Babylon is just one of several proposed locations as mentioned by Nicholas J. Saunders.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_598ad6e2	type	Even the Guys Want Him
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_598ad6e2	comment	Even the Guys Want Him: Heine in the first novel, as Seigen is quick to admit.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_5b607875	type	Inconsistent Dub
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_5b607875	comment	Inconsistent Sub: The official subtitles translate the name of Olga Marie's father as "Maris Billy" in episode 13. This is a valid romanization, but the official translations of both Fate/Grand Order and Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia romanized his name as Marisbury. This is odd since all three were translated in-house by Aniplex, so it's not like Case Files had a different company translating it to explain the discrepancy.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_5c446b43	type	Aliens in Cardiff
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_5c446b43	comment	Aliens in Cardiff: The Mage's Association is split up into various small cities and university towns near London, with the action primarily taking place in these cities and the countryside. The only exception is the final arc when all the Lords of the Mage's Association have assembled in London to make a vote and, later on, Waver and Gray have to enter the deep labyrinths beneath the city.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: The anime listing Adashino as a major character gives away a major plot twist in the Castle of Adra, namely that she faked her death early on in the story by using a body double. Gray being a Saberface and wielding Rhongomyniad were The Reveal of the climax to the Adra novel, but the anime and Fate/Grand Order revealed them without too much fanfare. These days they're probably what people know the most about the series.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Adventures picks up a few years after Case Files ends. As Rin is said to be about 20 years old, that means it takes place about 3 years later, in 2007.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_61066d95	type	Fictional Counterpart
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_61066d95	comment	Fictional Counterpart: Carnac from episode 6 is the Harrods department store with the name changed, a new interior among other things courtesy of Luvia, and a different history of owners as it's been in the hands of mages for several years. Though, if one looks closely enough at its exterior shot, Harrods' signature text is still there on the awnings with no edits for whatever reason. It was fixed in the blu-ray release.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_61b9028c	type	Sinister Scythe
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_61b9028c	comment	Sinister Scythe: Gray's signature weapon which is actually an alternate form of Rhongomyniad, Artoria's Holy Spear.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: Episode 6, where Reines, Gray, and Luvia are at a department store, clearly had a lot of its budget allocated to the upcoming Rail Zeppelin case episodes instead. A lot of the scenes are just panning still shots.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: The anime shows Rhongomyniad inside Add when he begins transforming into Gray's scythe. It's front and center on the screen, but small and for such a brief moment that it's likely to go by unseen.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_67d90683	type	Fictional Political Party
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_67d90683	comment	Fictional Political Party: There are three political factions within the Clock Tower, all based on how they believe it should be run. The Barthomeloi faction, led by the titular Barthomeloi family which is the most powerful even amongst the Three Great Families, having control over the Faculty of Law and their head being one of the twelve Lords and the current director of the entire institution. They firmly believe that the aristocracy, with their great and long lineages, should control it. Nominally the El-Mellois are allied with them because of Kayneth's beliefs but his death and the way Waver's been running his classroom have put them on thin ice. The Trambelio faction, centered around the Valueleta family, another one of the Three Great Families. They desire a democratic system and for magi to put talent above bloodlines. Not unreasonably, they seek to sway Waver/El-Melloi II to their side (being the best potential poster boy/proof-of-concept of their ideas), despite his nominal affiliation above. The neutral faction represented by the Meluastea which mainly just wants to focus on their research and could go either way; due to the large number of clans who have thrown their lot into this one, this vague position has led to a lot of internal strife with the Meluastea family only functioning as its face because more people flocked to them.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_68da6712	type	Canon Welding
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_68da6712	comment	Canon Welding: The appearances of Mikiya and his daughter in Adventures volume 1 seemingly establishes The Garden of Sinners as a direct part of the Fate/stay night multiversal chronology, as there was no established indication in prior works that the two could be connected (unless one counts Touko reminiscing about her time in the Clock Tower with her fellow students Cornelius Alba and Souren Araya in Case Files volume 2); it'd been previously implied that Tsukihime was the predecessor.note Normally, Fate and Tsuki timelines are incompatible, with Fate/strange fake being a notable exception.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_6a85e9e1	type	Dub-Induced Plot Hole
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_6a85e9e1	comment	Dub-Induced Plot Hole: A pretty minor one that was probably the result of the dub script writer not being aware of the For Want of a Nail regarding Caules. In the original Japanese when Caules is describing how Fiore left home, he never says the name of his family, but in the English dub he specifically mentions Yggdmillennia. The problem is, Yggdmillennia doesn't exist in this timeline - he's just Caules Forvedge here.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_6b2b3b59	comment	Gray being a Saberface and wielding Rhongomyniad were The Reveal of the climax to the Adra novel, but the anime and Fate/Grand Order revealed them without too much fanfare. These days they're probably what people know the most about the series.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Episode 3 has Waver go into London's sewers to deal with gigantic electrified rabbit familiars and shut down a more powerful mage's workshop, all because a side effect of said mage's research had shut down Waver's favorite teashop.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_6d7cd3e	type	Dead Person Impersonation
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: A strange example where the person doing the impersonating is also dead. Faker, the Big Bad's Servant, claims to be Hephaestion, Iskandar's most trusted comrade and childhood friend. She's actually Hephaestion's sister, and was Iskandar's Body Double in life. To Waver's confusion she is not present in Iskandar's Ionioi Hetairoi even though someone as important to Iskandar as Hephaestion definitely would be, which is a clue that she's not who she says she is.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_6ef09297	type	Masquerade
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_6ef09297	comment	Masquerade: Because anything supernatural is literally weakened the more people know about its inner workings or even just its existence in certain cases, the Clock Tower has a vested interest in making sure they can clamp down on any potential exposure to the regular world.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_6f07e785	type	Character-Magnetic Team
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_6f07e785	comment	Character-Magnetic Team: Given Waver's prestige as a Lord and his reputation for having one of the finest classrooms with unique, one-of-a-kind students like Flat and Gray to back it up, his department draws in the attention of various mages throughout the series.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_723606c4	type	Adaptational Early Appearance
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_723606c4	comment	Adaptational Early Appearance: Because of the anime's first half consisting of original content, characters like Yvette, Caules and Melvin are all introduced to the audience before the Rail Zeppelin arc, where they had all debuted in the novels. Trisha also has a silent Early-Bird Cameo, but not a proper introduction like the others.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_756dbd0b	type	Hard on Soft Science
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_756dbd0b	comment	Hard on Soft Magecraft: Waver teaches what is the magic equivalent of the sociology of scientific knowledge, and it is received by many of Waver's colleagues about as well as its mundane counterpart is by physicists.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_75f626a5	type	Nostalgia Filter
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_75f626a5	comment	Nostalgia Filter: Kairi Sisigou implies this is the sickness of most people dealing with the supernatural/otherworldly (such as the Codlingtons' link with fairies, and even Waver's lingering obsession with the Holy Grail War). It's understandable for him to say this, being a Necromancer and all. According to him: Ironically, of course, despite supposedly not knowing Waver's experience/obsession, we already saw Kairi be confronted by this very same obsession and tragic dream—in another timeline.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_794f3589	type	Adaptation Explanation Extrication
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_794f3589	comment	During episode 4 when Wills asks Waver about Hishiri he mentions having a past with her, alluding to their meeting in the first novel where they were opposed to one another.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want of a Nail: Caules' presence in later novels reveals that in the main Fate/stay night timeline where Darnic and Yggdmillenia did not rise in prominence, Fiore ran away from her responsibilities as a magus to live a normal life very early on in her life and Caules became the heir by default. Zepia Eltnam Oberon explains in volume 6 that some kind of event occurring roughly around 300 AD is responsible for him and other individuals like Gransurg Blackmore not being Dead Apostle Ancestors in Fate timelines. The material book reveals that the battle between Zelretch and the Crimson Moon took place during 300 AD, though it doesn't give a hint on what might have gone differently to have caused the divergence. Marisbury Animusphere decided not to participate in the Grail War because he realized the Grail was corrupted and couldn't actually grant wishes, which means he never got the funds to start Chaldea.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Hephaestion/Faker delivers a scathing one against Waver, claiming that for such a Ridiculously Average Guy like him (by mage standards at least), he disgraces Iskandar by being his previous Master, and that he has no right to even claim being his subject (i.e. being counted amongst the Ionioi Hetairoi). While Waver's clearly shaken by this (plus all his issues), it doesn't prevent him from remembering that Hephaestion herself was never even amongst the Hetairoi when it was deployed during Fate/Zero.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: Episode 6 begins with Gray, Reines and Luvia trapped in a Bounded Field, and flashes back to explain how they ended up there.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_859ec5d8	comment	The Fair Folk: The subject of episodes 4 and 5, as the Marburry workshop harnesses their power.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_8605f0c0	type	Promoted to Love Interest
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_8605f0c0	comment	Promoted to Love Interest: Somewhat. The anime included a lot of Ship Tease between Gray and Waver, as well as generally implying the former has feelings for the latter, but this is all absent in the novels. Scenes in the canonical Rail Zeppelin part of the adaptation were even added to make it so. However, the novels make it quite clear that Gray's feelings towards her mentor are not romantic, and their teacher-student relationship could at best get closer to father-daughter. The author himself notes in the side material that their close relationship isn't romantic in nature.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_874c712f	type	Dug Too Deep
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_874c712f	comment	Dug Too Deep: It is revealed in volume eight that digging great depths underground can lead to the laws of physics being unstable down there because of Mystery and how humanity doesn't have much grip on what lies beneath. The specific case for that volume is about a labyrinth which was dug by a dragon attempting to reach the Reverse Side of the world but died in the process. It was converted into a well of magical resources and foundation for the Clock Tower and the big debate is whether or not to excavate deeper to find more, with the nobles trying to put their foot down in fear of destroying and depleting their resources.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_8cb01d0e	type	Category Traitor
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_8cb01d0e	comment	The Barthomeloi faction, led by the titular Barthomeloi family which is the most powerful even amongst the Three Great Families, having control over the Faculty of Law and their head being one of the twelve Lords and the current director of the entire institution. They firmly believe that the aristocracy, with their great and long lineages, should control it. Nominally the El-Mellois are allied with them because of Kayneth's beliefs but his death and the way Waver's been running his classroom have put them on thin ice.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_8d630561	type	Simultaneous Arcs
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_8d630561	comment	Simultaneous Arcs: The final battle of this series happens on the same night that Shirou summons Saber in Fate/stay night. The act of Saber being summoned gives Gray a power boost while also turning part of her hair blonde.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Episode 8/volume 4: A Servant is somehow summoned outside the Grail War, she's dressed in clothes heavily reminiscent of Iskandar's, and she even has a copy of Iskandar's Gordius Wheel.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_8e20ae0d	type	Child Prodigy
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_8e20ae0d	comment	Episode 13 offers another look at Kayneth, as Waver reflects on his predecessor's beginnings as a Child Prodigy, and sees Waver dreaming of Iskandar at the end.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_8e9cf84e	comment	"Blind Idiot" Translation: Unfortunately the official Aniplex subtitles, while coherent, are often inaccurate. For example, several scenes have the characters coming off much more cold and insensitive than their actual dialogue suggests, while others will have inconsistent or outright erroneous spellings that contradict on-screen text. Each episode also has an English title taken directly from the dialogue, which Aniplex invariably translates differently.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_902ff525	type	Sdrawkcab Alias
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_902ff525	comment	Sdrawkcab Alias: While infiltrating some pirates in Singapore Gray calls herself "Yarg". After their cover is blown (though due to Waver, not because of Gray's alias), Waver tells her to pick something better next time.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_91e9d733	type	Magi Babble
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_91e9d733	comment	Magi Babble: Waver frequently exposits what exactly a ritual is meant to convey right down to the smallest detail, primarily as a means to figure out the culprit's motive and method.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: In a meta sense. This is the first time Mikiya and Mana have been in pretty much anything since the The Garden of Sinners films ended.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_931fc523	type	Back for the Finale
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_931fc523	comment	Back for the Finale: Many of the Guest Star Party Members that participate throughout the series return in the penultimate and final books. Even the dead ones still have a role to play.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_93489cfd	type	Botanical Abomination
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_93489cfd	comment	Botanical Abomination: The Child of Einnashe, spawn of the murderous forest Dead Apostle, appears in the Rail Zeppelin arc as a roadblock for the train. Like its progenitor, it too is a sentient bloodsucking Hive Mind forest and seeks to murder anyone who enters it. Unlike the original Forest of Einnashe, it only spawns once after one of Einnashe's seeds absorbs enough magical energy in the ground and immediately dies after using it all up. They also take on additional elements from the seed's time underground, the one seen in this series adding snow.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: Magus society isn't mired in egregious classism and sociopathy so much as built on it. Waver, who was originally on the bottom rung of the ladder and was shoved into the role of Lord El-Melloi II, is one of the few exceptions to this rule.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_970c790a	comment	The Big Bad, Dr. Heartless, to Waver. Both are obsessed with Iskandar and want to summon him, albeit for different reasons. Dr. Heartless also used to be the head of the Department of Modern Magecraft at the Clock Tower, which is the position that Waver now holds.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: When he realizes he's in a Ten Little Murder Victims situation with a bunch of magi, Waver admits he's tempted to hang himself.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: In regards to Gray's story. The person who started the plan to resurrect King Arthur, and thus the person responsible for Gray's situation, is heavily implied to be Morgan le Fay. The Material book plainly stating that Morgan created Add only adds to this implication. Though how much of a "villain" Morgan was being here is left ambiguous as Waver has no idea why she would get involved with the cult.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: The Big Bad, Dr. Heartless, to Waver. Both are obsessed with Iskandar and want to summon him, albeit for different reasons. Dr. Heartless also used to be the head of the Department of Modern Magecraft at the Clock Tower, which is the position that Waver now holds. Dr. Heartless's partner is one to Iskandar. She's a "Faker"-class Servant who was his Body Double in life, the lightning that accompanies her is red instead of Iskandar's blue, and she rides a dark version of his Gordius Wheel chariot called Hecatic Wheel. She is also one to Gray, as they were raised from a young age to be magical copies of a king, and in the finale Heartless even ends up using Faker to summon Iskandar just as Gray's village planned to use her to revive King Arthur.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_9ce6492a	type	Taking the Bullet
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_9ce6492a	comment	Kairi striking up a good enough relationship with Gray (even shielding her from a Black Dog's attack) will be no surprise for everyone who knows he plays well enough with somebody affiliated to the legend of King Arthur.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_9d6e002e	type	Whole Episode Flashback
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_9d6e002e	comment	Episode 1 is a Whole Episode Flashback going into how Waver took on his former mentor's title and class, while also showing his life immediately after Zero.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Rin says that the big jewel spell she used on Tangere was strong enough to take out one of Berserker's lives, referring to their fight in the forest in Fate route. Waver recalls his conversation with Shirou in the Unlimited Blade Works anime. Reines mentions the time that Luvia and Rin fell off the Tower of London and were saved by Shirou, which was first mentioned in Fate/hollow ataraxia when a Luvia from an alternate timeline called Rin. Wuzhiqi, a Xian, namedrops Yu Mei-ren from Fate/Grand Order at one point, also a Xian. In the second volume Rin laments not having a copy of her family's Jeweled Sword on hand, since she feels powerless going up against Servant-level foes like Wuzhiqi and Bai Ruolong without it.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_9dd84122	type	Occult Detective
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_9dd84122	comment	Occult Detective: Inverted Trope. A normal Occult Detective uses mysticism to solve cases for muggles. Waver uses deduction to solve cases for The Magocracy. He's just as much of a pariah for this, though.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_9e4d7a2a	type	Third-Option Adaptation
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_9e4d7a2a	comment	Third-Option Adaptation: According to Makoto Sanda's afterword in volume 1, Adventures does not directly follow any of the stay night routes but instead follows an original route, and will lead into the dismantling of the Holy Grail that has been discussed on occasion in other works but never properly seen.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_9eb11fac	type	Weak, but Skilled
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_9eb11fac	comment	Weak, but Skilled: One of the bases on which Modern Magecraft works. What it loses in the power granted by mystery, it gains in aggregate from the collective and targeted knowledge of practitioners. Waver himself puts this into practice, having a poor bloodline and Magic Circuits, but able to combine basic spells with his strong analytical skills to great effect. Likewise, not all of his students are from equally prestigious bloodlines, but he has fostered an exceptionally high number of magical geniuses by tutoring them on how to use their specific magecraft to its best extent.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_a15af1f3	type	Sugar Bowl
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_a15af1f3	comment	When Gray recognizes a plushie for a character on an incredibly saccharine children's show, she is very quick to assure the reader she's only heard about the show second-hand, she totally does not set her schedule around it, and she most certainly doesn't want the plushie for herself.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_a2484b0e	type	The Beautiful Elite
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_a2484b0e	comment	The Beautiful Elite: Being as status-conscious as they are, most magi try to project an image of aristocracy at its finest and most beautiful.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Just to remind us that Rail Zeppelin isn't supposed to be the usual friendly train ride, the supernatural manager extracts the sellers' Mystic Eyes with their bare hands. Thankfully, they seem to be capable of doing it without damaging arteries/blood vessels (so no blood is shed), but it still can cause shock to the eyes' owner when done without warning.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_a632f7fa	type	Cool Train
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_a632f7fa	comment	Cool Train: The Rail Zeppelin, a magic train linked to the underworld through ritual and expressly made with the intent of gathering Mystic Eyes. It was created by Rita Rozay-en, though this detail is only mentioned in Mahou Tsukai no Yoru.note It's brought up in that because Touko Aozaki and Lugh did something so terrible that the train got damaged, Rita abandoned it, and Touko got permanently banned with employees looking to kill her on sight if she ever comes near.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_a7382a73	comment	One Imagine Spot in the manga features Waver dressed as The Angry Video Game Nerd.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_a8abe9d1	type	Separated by a Common Language
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_a8abe9d1	comment	Separated by a Common Language: Gray takes note that, despite being born and raised English, Waver insists on using the term apartment instead of flat for some mysterious reason that absolutely has nothing to do with his most troublesome student.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_a95fbce6	comment	Mad Eye: Sir Kay has one.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Waver makes reference to plans to go to Fuyuki City for the next Holy Grail War. The audience knows that he'll never make it in time. Waver says young people yet to discover their paths in life unnecessarily losing their lives is something he can't allow. Olga Marie Animusphere, the person he's telling this to, is notorious for her fate in the Fate/Grand Order timeline.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_af11866	comment	Wizarding School: The Clock Tower is one. Ironically, very little actual teaching occurs there outside of Waver's department, as magi are very protective of their ideas (and also don't believe education does much to improve magical ability). Instead, lecturers usually use classes as a smokescreen to scout prospective research assistants or subjects.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_af5edbff	type	Myopic Architecture
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_af5edbff	comment	Myopic Architecture: In episode one of the anime, Waver and Melvin are locked up in a jail cell with a magic-proofed door. Waver proceeds to blow the hinges out of the walls and push the door open.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Waver states in episode 2 that usually children of mages are seen more as possessions of their parents than people, and we see examples of this throughout the show. Mary was willing to let her father die to gain freedom and Wills' father forced mystical eyes on his son to use as a tool for his workshop.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_b2ffab8	comment	Prestige Peril: Making a working-class, underpowered magus like Waver a provisional Lord in The Magocracy makes him a massive target for Klingon Promotions and political exploitation.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_b40bb08a	comment	Living Weapon: Add, Gray's chatty Mystic Code, which can transform into a Sinister Scythe, among other forms.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_b5e63cc4	type	Shadow Archetype
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_b5e63cc4	comment	Shadow Archetype: The final antagonist of the series, Dr. Heartless, has a similar obsession with Iskandar akin to Waver's, only he wreaks far more havoc in his goal to summon him, unlike Waver who was planning to use the next Holy Grail War to meet him.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_b6203862	type	Interquel
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_b6203862	comment	Interquel: Serves as one to The Garden of Sinners for Mikiya and Mana, as their appearance here is before their own series' Distant Finale.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_b6a13a56	type	Ten Little Murder Victims
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_b6a13a56	comment	Ten Little Murder Victims: This is essentially the plot of Volume 1.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_b99f51b2	type	An Odd Place to Sleep
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_b99f51b2	comment	An Odd Place to Sleep: Waver apparently prefers sleeping on sofas to beds. He also falls asleep instantly while sitting up at one point, and Gray gets annoyed that sleep management is the only magus skill he's actually good at using.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Names in the series vary from mundane like Melvin and Yvette to the more typical Nasuverse fare like Geryuon and Dr. Heartless.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_bdf2a460	type	Tragic Dream
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_bdf2a460	comment	Tragic Dream: Waver was never able to get back into the Holy Grail War and see his King Iskandar again.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_be8416ea	type	Shrouded in Myth
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_be8416ea	comment	Shrouded in Myth: Even in a mystical society, there are some things that are just regarded as flights of fancy for most mages. One such example are the Rainbow-ranked Mystic Eyes, which are the best of the best in terms of abilities, with the only known rumor of their existence being that someone in the Far East miraculously has the ones corresponding to Death Perception.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_bf487e2b	type	Translator Microbes
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_bf487e2b	comment	Translator Microbes: Waver and Gray wear magical translation pendants while in Japan, since Waver only has a very basic grasp of Japanese and Gray doesn't understand any. Ergo doesn't need to bother because he learns languages at an incredibly rapid rate.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_c222dde4	comment	In episode 1 Waver quotes Kayneth's words to him at the docks about the brutal nature of battles between magi when he challenges Barzan inside the tomb, then defies them by Taking a Third Option and fleeing a battle he knows he can't win.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: Jean-Mario Supinerra runs a cooking show that has an eccentric gimmick in the form of fending off zombies while cooking.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_c2c80ef	type	Neck Lift
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_c2c80ef	comment	In episode 3, Waver gets exasperated and grabs Flat's face and lifts up his body off the ground with one hand in a Neck Lift variant. (Luvia calls this the "Iron Claw") This is a Call-Back to their first appearance in Fate/strange fake.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_c335b9ec	comment	Ironically, of course, despite supposedly not knowing Waver's experience/obsession, we already saw Kairi be confronted by this very same obsession and tragic dream—in another timeline.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_c49935fa	type	20 Minutes into the Past
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_c49935fa	comment	20 Minutes into the Past: While the first volume released in December 2020, the story is set somewhere around 2007.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Waver gets two Shirtless Scenes, but the first one takes place after he's horribly injured with a nasty-looking burn on his back, and in the second he's tied up with his magic crest stripped from his body as collateral.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Waver steps through a wall to access Singapore's mass transit system for mages, and then the explanation namedrops King's Cross station platform 9¾ just in case it was too subtle a reference. Ergo follows up using Sun Wukong's Noble Phantasm that pins the opponent in space by turning his Phantom Hands into a drill that pierces them and tears open a hole in the pinned space, like something out of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. The title of the first volume is a reference to Blue Man: The Man Who Ate God by Hideyuki Kikuchi, which Sanda acknowledges in his afterword.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_c960826	type	Supporting Protagonist
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_c960826	comment	Supporting Protagonist: Although Waver is the series's main character, the story usually follows the point of view of his personal apprentice, Gray. The anime-original material, however, takes a third-person perspective, and includes scenes where Gray's not present.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_ca3de41e	type	Magical Eye
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_ca3de41e	comment	Magical Eye: There are at least several different kinds of what are called Mystic Eyes, which is rather fitting since most appeared in an auction that focuses on said eyes. The most special of them are ranked as "Gold", "Jewel", and "Rainbow" for their one of a kind abilities and are especially sought after at the auction.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_ce555c91	type	Post-Modern Magik
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_ce555c91	comment	Post-Modern Magik: This is literally Waver's field of study—or rather Modern Magecraft Theory, much of which is focused upon the reconciliation of magecraft with modern scientific theory. The foundations of Modern Magecraft Theory, in which power is derived from arbitrary and selective use of symbols imbued with sociocultural meaning over the holistic belief systems they belong to, are quite similar to the real-life practice of Chaos Magic(k). And like real academic fields influenced by postmodern thought, it's not especially well-regarded by many of Waver's colleagues.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_cec7dac0	type	The Magocracy
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_cec7dac0	comment	The Magocracy: Most Magi in the Nasuverse are sociopaths, and here is no exception. Most of the series is devoted to examining the multiple facets of modern magus society and their politics. Case Files Material mentions that a fair number of magi have wormed themselves into formal governments around the world in order to help keep magecraft a secret.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_d104235d	type	Fair-Play Whodunnit
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_d104235d	comment	Fair-Play Whodunnit: Defied. One cannot use deductive reasoning to determine mage mysteries, i.e. "howdunnit", because how each one operates is based on their individual magic, often to the point of suspending natural law itself in different ways. This is why Waver focuses on "whydunnit" instead.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Considering the nature of magic in Nasuverse, this happens frequently, especially to the culprits.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_d50a5478	type	Unlimited Wardrobe
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_d50a5478	comment	Unlimited Wardrobe: Rather than only having one outfit that they wear for the entire series, everyone gets new clothes for each new case. And not just the main cast, even side characters like Touko and Inorai get a change of clothes between appearances. Gray takes this a step further by also having a new outfit for her appearance in Fate/Grand Order, as opposed to Waver and Reines who use preexisting designs in that game.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_d547fb	comment	Surprisingly Good English: The written English shown throughout the anime is grammatically correct and coherent in what it's conveying, with the only real error being the spacing between apostrophes is unusually large.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: What eventually appears to be the central theme/tragedy of the Marburry Workshop in Episode 4-5—and thus, by extension, its heir Wills Pelham Codrington. Having been made a key component of the Workshop through his Mystic Eyes (and having fallen in love with one of the Fairies it summoned), the only way to heal the breach between the fairy world and the human world would be to cross over. Waver seeks to prevent him, to no avail.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_db71d717	comment	Thanatos Gambit: Subverted in Episode 2; the victim killed himself as part of a plan to become immortal, but the ritual was flawed, leaving him short of his goal, seeking to extend his existence.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_dc2c2968	type	Superpowerful Genetics
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_dc2c2968	comment	Superpowerful Genetics: The capacity for magecraft is tied to a pseudo-nervous system of "magic circuits," the quality and quantity of which are genetically determined. Although these can be cultivated into elaborate networks called "magic crests" and passed on to someone else, such crests are subject to transplant rejection and thus can only be safely transferred to blood relatives. Thus, most magi typically cultivate magecraft less through self-improvement and more through eugenics and grooming heirs to their family's magic crest.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Though the Case Files Material Book describes Gray's feelings towards Waver as strictly master-pupil, Grace Note applies a bit of Adaptation Relationship Overhaul to add heavier romantic undertones. After the resolution of the Codrington storyline in the anime, Shishigou warns Gray to protect Waver from giving into his worst impulses, telling her that Waver "needs" her, which causes her to blush in surprise. In the novel, Trisha demonstrates her precognitive ability by warning Waver to catch Caules' teapot mid-fall. The anime's version of this scene amps it up by having him catch a carsick Gray. When Gray catches Waver falling asleep, the novel version treats her reaction as one of curiosity and Add's teasing her to kiss him as just that. Episode 13 has her give Waver an ambiguous longing look instead, so the same comment comes off as less of a baseless joke and more of a tongue-in-cheek observation. A running subplot throughout the anime is Gray's desire to show Waver her appreciation with a gift, only to be interrupted repeatedly. One of those occasions has her attempt to offer it in response to Waver's despair at not being remembered by loved ones, and at the end she's rewarded for her troubles with a rare heartfelt smile from him and his asking her to remain by his side, causing her to cry in happiness.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_e11b003d	comment	The manga adaptation will occasionally have characters say short words in English (stuff like "wow", or "phew", written in the Latin alphabet, not katakana), to remind the reader that in-universe that's the language they're speaking.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_e1fa8421	type	Dead Person Conversation
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_e1fa8421	comment	Dead Person Conversation: Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald appears in Waver's coma-dream. In it, he's back at his classroom with Waver, serving to taunt the latter (immediately after his issues with Iskandar were badly shaken by "Hephaestion"). Admittedly, he is less malicious and more reasonably-stern, representing Waver's own self-challenges and daring him to strike back at them. A more heartwarming one occurs in the season finale, when Waver, soundly asleep after the festivities of Svin's promotion, dreams of Okeanos and Iskandar awaiting him. Now content and confident, Waver/El-Melloi II demurs, saying he still has his fights to settle.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Several of Waver's students are what keep him grounded.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_e3c20140	type	As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_e3c20140	comment	As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Pick any non-Japanese mage, and there's a 90% chance their name is vaguely European-sounding nonsense.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_e61d9a3c	comment	Clothing Damage: In the manga, being hit by the "song" of the beast of the Castle of Separation conveniently rips Waver's shirt open. He's unsurprisingly kinda scrawny.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: When Gray recognizes a plushie for a character on an incredibly saccharine children's show, she is very quick to assure the reader she's only heard about the show second-hand, she totally does not set her schedule around it, and she most certainly doesn't want the plushie for herself. Lord El-Melloi II refuses to call his home a "flat", instead using "apartment" despite this not being common in British English. This has nothing to do with having emotions regarding the name "Flat."
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_e6f232a0	type	Fanservice Pack
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_e6f232a0	comment	Fanservice Pack: Touko Aozaki's breasts are much more prominently displayed in this work than they've been in any other depiction of her. Though to be fair, it's her formal attire for a fancy dinner party. When she returns in the final case, she's dressed in a similar outfit to the one she wore in The Garden of Sinners.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_e794cb54	type	Powered by a Forsaken Child
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_e794cb54	comment	The adaptation of this particular story, episode 0, develops this a bit further by turning the cat into an innocent casualty of what turned out to be a botched assassination attempt against Waver. That Waver would go to great lengths to not only capture the culprit, but also to (in the words of his students) "avenge" the cat says a lot about him—in sheer contrast to how many mages treat animals (and as will be later shown, even humans) as disposable resources at best.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_e949dfd8	comment	Something About a Rose: Heine shows off his magical abilities by conjuring roses into his fellow guests' hands, so the manga has some panels of them posing attractively with them. The shot of Waver looking especially pretty with a rose held up to his face shows up again a couple chapters later... probably because it's so pretty.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_ea44cd34	comment	Britain is Only London: Averted; though parts of the series do take place in London, several of the novels take place in other areas of England. For example, the second and third novels are set in the area of Windermere, and the sixth and seventh novels are set in Wales.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_ebb900a7	comment	Resignations Not Accepted: Luvia and Reines discuss this during an interlude in the first novel. If Waver were to quit being Lord El-Melloi II, on that very day, hitmen will get a flood of commissions to kill him since it would no longer be politically inconvenient to do so.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: Waver doesn't recognize Hephaestion; she was not in Ionioi Hetairoi despite the fact that someone that important to Iskandar definitely should be. She wasn't there because she's not Hephaestion. With all the madness happening around him in the Rail Zeppelin case, it takes him a significant amount of time to realise that the "Caules" who has been working with him was actually an imposter.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_ece6f910	comment	A running subplot throughout the anime is Gray's desire to show Waver her appreciation with a gift, only to be interrupted repeatedly. One of those occasions has her attempt to offer it in response to Waver's despair at not being remembered by loved ones, and at the end she's rewarded for her troubles with a rare heartfelt smile from him and his asking her to remain by his side, causing her to cry in happiness.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_edcc813f	type	Fantastic Caste System
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_edcc813f	comment	Fantastic Caste System: One's status in The Magocracy is closely tied to how long one's family has been a part of it, as well as the quality and quantity of one's magical circuits. Waver would normally be relegated to the very bottom of the totem pole if it weren't for Reines' sponsorship.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Trish Fellows appears in a non-speaking role with Mary in episode 2. Jean-Mario Supinerra can be seen on Waver's television in the manga after he returns from the Adra case.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Waver's group merely Projecting a near-perfect facsimile of the Princess of Gold for a few scant seconds forcibly shuts down all Magecraft from anyone exposed to it as they try to comprehend what they're seeing. The distraction lasts for several hours because of the memory of that sight continuing to occupy their minds.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_f33ff01c	type	Adaptational Context Change
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_f33ff01c	comment	Adaptational Context Change: In the novel, Svin graduating to the rank of Pride was the culmination of his personal struggles with Beast Magecraft after fear of losing his sense of self due to the traumatic process of acquiring it. The anime shuffles several events around and omits Svin's backstory, so it's instead presented as a validation of Waver's teaching style.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_f6624c30	comment	After the resolution of the Codrington storyline in the anime, Shishigou warns Gray to protect Waver from giving into his worst impulses, telling her that Waver "needs" her, which causes her to blush in surprise.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_f729e5bc	comment	Sequel Goes Foreign: After the first series took place exclusively in Great Britain, Adventures is in Singapore for the first arc and Tokyo for the second. The ending to the second arc is setting the cast up to go to Egypt next.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_fc9b6be5	comment	Foe Romance Subtext: From Adashino towards Waver, likely out of a desire to annoy him. She offers to dance with him at Adra before he brusquely turns her down, which she blames on his fixation with Iskander. In episode 4 of the anime Waver describes this incident as if it were a falling-out of some kind, and she later attempts to intimidate him in a hands-on manner. The Case Files Material Book describes her as the Irene Adler to Waver's Sherlock Holmes, two characters who are known to have this dynamic in adaptations, but also points out that nothing of that sort is going on between them here.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_fceae121	comment	Alternate Self: This series being part of the Zero / stay night timeline, characters from other Nasuverse series who show up here are this to their original versions (so Caules and Kairi aren't involved in Grail Wars like they were in Fate/Apocrypha, since the outcome of the Third Grail War was different, and similarly the Animuspheres aren't involved in the upcoming Grail War, and so won't be as influential as they are in Fate/Grand Order, since there were four previous Grail Wars).
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_feaf5424	comment	You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: Olga Marie realizes Waver just addressed her using her first names, rather than using "Animusphere" or "the Lord's daughter" as he'd been doing. Waver tells her it's because he needs her in order to win against his enemy.
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Gray tells a story at the beginning of the first volume about why she's loyal to Waver even though by mage standards he's considered pretty much worthless: there was a stray cat which had got on his nerves, but then it was hit by a car, so he brought it home, fed it painkilling herbs, took care of it until it died, and dug its grave and buried it. The adaptation of this particular story, episode 0, develops this a bit further by turning the cat into an innocent casualty of what turned out to be a botched assassination attempt against Waver. That Waver would go to great lengths to not only capture the culprit, but also to (in the words of his students) "avenge" the cat says a lot about him—in sheer contrast to how many mages treat animals (and as will be later shown, even humans) as disposable resources at best.
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