Gilgamesh (Fate/Stay Knight)

Gilgamesh, also known as Archer, King of Heroes, King of Kings, Golden King, Oldest King and AUO, is one of the main characters from the TYPE-MOON series.
== Charactah Account ==
Gilgamesh is the famous Babylonian king and he has the title of King of Heroes. He is the oldest and most venerable Heroic Spirit. He was summoned using the fossil of "the first snake to shed its skin" as a catalyst, relating to Gilgamesh's quest for immortality. Gilgamesh has no true wish but merely believes that the Grail should be returned to him because everything belongs to him.
Gilgamesh is the most powerful existence among the Servants in both the Fourth and Fifth Holy Grail War and the strongest Heroic Spirit. He is placed into the Archer class because of his main Noble Phantasm, Gate of Babylon. It grants him access to all of the world's treasures that he collected during his life, which include prototypes of other heroes' Noble Phantasms, and he can launch them as the strongest arrows towards his opponents. While he may sometimes choose to wield them as regular weapons, he mainly fights by raining down an infinite amount of weapons on his opponents. The most trusted Noble Phantasms contained within include Enkidu and Ea. While he has numerous Noble Phantasms, none are indicative of his true identity, and the only person through both Holy Grail Wars to figure out his identity without being told is Rider, though Shirou is able to guess after he gives a number of details about himself. The energy of his soul is worth that of hundreds of thousands of souls, and taking him in is enough to fill a partially-full Lesser Grail even while it lacks several other Servants.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Carnival Phantasm
* Carnival Phantasm EX Season
* Fate/stay night
* Fate/stay night Movie: Heaven's Feel - I. Presage Flower
* Fate/stay night Movie: Heaven's Feel - II. Lost Butterfly
* Fate/stay night Movie: Unlimited Blade Works
* Fate/stay night TV Reproduction
* Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works
* Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works Season 2
* Fate/strange Fake: Whispers of Dawn
* Fate/Zero
* Fate/Zero Cafe
* Fate/Zero Remix
* Fate/Zero Season 2
* Today's Menu for Emiya Family
=== Light Novels ===
* Fate/strange Fake
* Fate/Zero
=== Manga ===
* All Around Type-Moon
* Fate/hollow ataraxia
* Fate/stay night
* Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel
* Fate/strange Fake
* Fate/Zero
* Koha-Ace
* Sensha Otoko: A True Tank Story
* TYPE-MOON Academy Chibichuki!
=== Video Games ===
* 300 Heroes
* Capsule Servant
* Fate/Extella Link
* Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star
* Fate/EXTRA CCC
* Fate/Grand Order
* Fate/Grand Order Arcade
* Fate/hollow ataraxia
* Fate/stay night
* Fate/tiger colosseum
* Fate/tiger colosseum UPPER
* Fate/unlimited codes
* Full Bokko Heroes X
* Samurai & Dragons
* The Alchemist Code
== Trivia ==
* When selecting heroes for Fate/stay night, Gilgamesh was chosen as the oldest and most obscure hero that Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi could find in contrast to the well renowned Heracles. While there were other candidates, they liked his strong sounding name and myth. The overall concept of the character was changed very little since his initial conception.
* It is revealed that Gilgamesh's overall design and appearance was heavily based on Gilgamesh from the Tower of Druaga franchise. Nasu "selfishly demanded" that "Gilgamesh must wear a full golden plate armour" during the designing stage, reasoning it to be that Gilgamesh would have needed it to repeatedly challenge some sixty-story building in his era.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Gilgamesh at TYPE-MOON Wiki
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