Talk:Artoria Pendragon/@comment-26441403-20190522141022/@comment-28209103-20190523033806

Well let's be fair before the advent of FGO there's only 2 genderbent hero on CANON works and 2 in a parody works.

The 2 in Canon is King Arthur Pendragon of Brittain and Emperor Nero Claudius of rome. and the 2 joke Character is Nobunaga Oda and Okita Soji which before FGO is a pure gag character in a gag manga.

In short nobody thought they'll take the joke this far BACK THEN. Nobody thought that TM will be known for genderbending spree (It's not that rare in a lot of Japanese Game mind you) and  joke like Saber face or even  servant universe which only featured ONCE during their april fool day and Koha-Ace to be adopted into proper world.

Hence probably Artoria is the only well thought well planned history genderbent, the rest they did it as they fly.

Well to be honest TM often took their joke as inspiration,, Fate/Strange Fake is april fool joke too