Part of the fun of the Fate series is the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen style way that characters and historical figures from different eras and parts of the world are pulled into the battles through the summoning of Servants.

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Of course, the stories differ a bit in order to fit the needs of the series, and some of them work really well with what we know of the historical figures while others feel like they’re anything but improvements on the stories we love. Here are five great interpretations of historical and literary figures and five bad ones.

10 Best: King Arthur

Saber is one of the best and most beloved characters in the series, and for good reason. She’s brave and powerful, but she’s also a woman who’s learning how to be a woman. The fact that she was King Arthur when she was alive is a really cool choice; there’s no knowing what King Arthur was actually like (or if he even existed) so what’s to say that he couldn’t have been a woman in disguise? It’s a fun take on a legend we all know well.

9 Worst: Mordred

On the other hand, the handling of Mordred felt really strange and awkward. A lot happens to make Mordred happen, and it’s all uncomfortable. First of all, Artoria is temporarily transformed into having a male body so that she can produce an heir.

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Morgan Le Fay, her sister, steals her sperm and creates a child, Mordred, in her own uterus out of it. So essentially Mordred is Artoria’s son and also her nephew. There was definitely some in-marrying happening in medieval England, but not that close.

8 Best: Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar in Fate is a pretty spot-on interpretation of the great Roman ruler. He’s charming, well-spoken, and is easy to talk just about anyone into just about anything. But the best part of this reinterpretation of him is his physique: he’s a large, round man who looks the part of a jolly and powerful emperor, a stark difference from the serious, stoic versions of Caesar that one is expecting from seeing statues in a museum.

7 Worst: Blackbeard

Blackbeard is one of the coolest historical figures ever in that he was a pirate at the height of piracy. He was the bane of every navy’s existence and has the coolest flag associated with him. So seeing him as an otaku in the Fate series was an unexpected drag.

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He’s turned into a joke, instead of being a threatening and intimidating person that would have cut an interesting figure among the other Fate characters.

6 Best: Nikola Tesla & Thomas Edison

This is a little bit of cheating, but it’s impossible to talk about Nikola Tesla without Thomas Edison and vice versa. The rivalry between the two scientists, who were both looking for a means to create electricity, is iconic, and the Fate series has them down just right. In this case, it’s barely even a reinterpretation. Edison and Tesla really have this much beef with each other and were constantly at each other’s throats.

5 Worst: Medea

Medea is a princess in Greek mythology who helps Jason steal the golden fleece after falling in love with him. In the original myth, Medea falls in love with Jason as soon as she sees him and decides to help him so they can run away together.

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But in the Fate version, Aphrodite compels her to fall in love with Jason, essentially taking away her agency. The original story, in which Medea makes a choice based on her own feelings, is definitely the preferable one in this case, instead of someone forcing her to do something she doesn’t want to.

4 Best: Tamamo-no-Mae

Tamamo-no-Mae is a trickster figure in Eastern mythology who comes around to try to ruin and destroy empires and eventually is punished for it. That all sounds pretty fun, but in Fate, she’s instead a deity who manifests in order to learn more about what it means to be human and to feel human emotions. When so many of the women in mythology are tricky and evil, it’s nice to see one representation where they’re just curious about the world.

3 Worst: Medusa

Rider is a pretty amazing character in Fate, despite the pretty crummy hand she gets dealt with her Master situation. But the way that Medusa is represented doesn’t really feel right in this case.

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In Greek mythology, Medusa’s face and snake hair are so ugly that looking upon her can turn a man to stone. Here, Medusa is totally beautiful, with long flowing purple hair, and it just takes away from some of Medusa’s power and the fact that she could harm men by not being beautiful for them.

2 Best: Le Chevalier D’Eon

Le Chevalier D’Eon is a really cool example of how long gender-non-conforming people have been around. In the series, as in real life, Le Chevalier D’Eon is pretty unconcerned with whether or not people think they identify by one gender or the other. They’ve tended in the past to dress in clothes meant for either gender and have been called by different pronouns based on the day. It’s fun to see the way this person who existed long ago seems to fit into society today, still refusing to conform to a gender binary that doesn’t work for them.

1 Worst: St. Martha

It’s interesting to include saints as Servants in general, since they’re general such a peaceful sort, and St. Martha was no different. The Tarasque, a dragon that was giving a French town in which she lived a hard time, was easily bested by her through prayer and hymns, and at no point does she beat it to death. It seems unlikely that saints would take a violent course of action this way, and the reinterpretation here doesn’t ring true.

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