Kirei Kotomine

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## Magnificent Baddie

### Allies

Gilgamesh
Lancer
Shirou Emiya(Heavens Feel route only)

### Powers/Skills

High intellect
Manipulation
Bajiquan
Black Keys
Spiritual healing
Marksmanship

### Goals

Find meaning in his life (succeeded).
Ensure Tokiomi Tohsaka's victory in the Fourth Holy Grail War (abandoned).
Kill Tokiomi Tohsaka to gain control of Gilgamesh and win the Fourth Holy Grail War.
Drive Karyia Matou insane (all succeeded).
Kill Kiritsugu Emiya (failed).
Keep Gilgamesh alive by supplying him with mana (succeeded).
Win the Fifth Holy Grail War and help Gilgamesh destroy the world (failed).
Kidnap Illya and turn her into the Holy Grail (Fate; succeeded).
Turn Rin into the Holy Grail (Unlimited Blade Works; failed)
Rescue Illya alongside alongside Shirou Emiya (Heavens Feel; succeeded).
Defeat Zouken Matou (Heavens Feel, Succeeded)
Ensure the birth of Angra Mainyu by stopping Shirou from killing him so that Angra can answer his questions(Heavens Feel, Failed)

### Crimes

Murder
Treason
Mass torture
Mutilation
Kidnapping
Driving to insanity
Mass destruction by proxy
Mass murder by proxy
Attempted omnicide
Psychological abuse
Corruption
Conspiracy

### Type of MB

Dark Priest

**Kirei Kotomine** is the main antagonist of the *Fate Stay/Night* VN and the *Fate Zero* LN. He was a Executor for the church and a Magnus. He was also a master in the 4th Holy Grail war. In the 5th Holy Grail war, he was the overseer meant to be impartial but was secretly a master in that war as well so that he could manipulate the events of the war and who gets the Grail.

## What Makes Him Magnificent?

* Despite his evil nature he is incredibly charismatic and affable. This also does not fade during his villain moments as he maintains this trait, especially with Shirou.
* While he does enjoy suffering it is only because it is the only way he can feel pleasure and feels conflicted about it and does not engage in pointless cruelty.
* He is genuinely tragic has he was born with a flaw that he could only enjoy the suffering of others and spent most of his life fighting his evil nature and attempting to become a normal person. He married a woman and had a child but even this couldn’t fix him so he planned on ending his own life. He did not go through with it due to his wife killing herself in front of him to prove he did care. Despite wanting to kill her him himself he did not take his own life and thinks about her often wondering if he actually did love her, and her death clearly still affects him as he told Shirou not let someone he cares about die in front of him.
* He is a skilled Executor who hunts down magi for the church and was considered first class.
* Due to his self torture, he possesses superhuman strength being able to uproot trees and jump ten meters in the air.
* Surprisingly he is actually a good Priest and will offer genuine advice that is beneficial to the listener.
* He is a skilled strategist during battle able to predict killing intent even being able to doggie bullets before they are fired by predicting his opponent's move. This also allowed him to keep up Kiritsugu who could speed up his speed.
* He created his own fighting technique Super Bajiquan which combines both magecraft and Bajiquan which allows him to reach his opponents quickly, send his opponents flying with a single hit, and even block attack while blinded based of pure instinct.
* He is skilled at Spiritual healing, allowing him to heal others with his magical abilities.
* He convinced Gilgamesh (who is hard to please or convince) to help him betray his master after telling him the truth about the Holy Grail War and to take him as his Master.
* He framed Kariya Matou as Tokiomi's killer without drawing any suspicions to himself.
* He fought the Mage killer Kiritsugu to a standstill.
* He pretended to be an impartial overseer of the 5th Holy Grail War when actuality he has two servants (one which he stole) and was controlling the war from behind the scenes.
* In the Fate Route, he successfully hides his true nature from everyone and kidnaps Illya and defeats Rin while planning to use Illya as a vessel for the grail.
* When defeated in the Fate route he calmly accepts his defeat stating that he had become weak.
* In UBW he has Shinji borrow Gilgamesh to throw suspicion off himself and fakes his own death after surviving Casters attacks.
* In UBW while he is defeated he once again is calm during his defeat and show little emotion.
* In Heavens Feel he plans on having Sakura birth Angra Mainyu partially because he believes it is wrong to deny the birth of something that wants to exist and because he wants to know if something like him was a mistake.
* He manipulates Sakura into becoming susceptible to Angra Mainyu by telling her to listen in on his conversation with Rin and Shirou where she hears them argue over whether to kill her or not, which further corrupts her.
* He legitimately hates Zouken for being a sadistic monster by choice (unlike him who had no choice) and is disgusted with how evil he is.
* He saves Shirou and Rin’s lives and teams up with Shirou to save Illya.
* He fights True Assassin and Zouken one on one and manages to take him off guard by tricking him into using his noble Phantasm which steals hearts(Kirei doesn’t have a heart) which does nothing to Kirei allowing him to use his Black Keys to pin Assassin to a tree, jump ten meters in the air grab Zouken and Exorcise him with Kyrie Eleison.
* He survives having his artificial heart crushed by Dark Sakura and managed to make his way to Angra Mainyu before anyone else.
* Him and Shirou come to an understanding before their fight where there is mutual respect for the other as they are similar in a way.
* He manages to dominate his fight with Shirou despite his opponent being made out of swords which resulted in him hurting his Body every time he punched him.
* He accepts his defeat and declares Shirou the winner of their fight and the 5th Holy Grail War and tells him to go fulfill his wish even smiling when he hears that Shirou will trample over Kirei’s own wish implying that he is satisfied with Shirou winning in the end.
* Unlike most other Fate villains, Kirei stands out for being portrayed more sympathetically, is portrayed consistently as cool and intelligent (unlike other villains like Zouken and Gilgamesh who constantly screw their own plans over) and unlike other Fate villains like Zouken and Gilgamesh (who engage in pointless torture and are rapists) he is not tot much of a baddie as he commits crimes to fulfil is goal which is more overshadowed by how magnificent he is.

## What Makes Him a Baddie?

* He is responsible for many crimes such as, kill his own master, Tokiomi Tohsaka to claim his servant for himself starting the Fuyuki fire (although this was unintentional) using the orphans from that fire as food for Gilgamesh so that he could sustain himself, indirectly causing the death of Kiritsugu, and killing Bazzet to steal Lancer for himself.
* He is willing to unleash Angra Mainyu on to the world so that he can answer his questions despite knowing that he will most likely kill everyone on the planet including Kirei himself.

## External Links

* Kirei Kotomine at the Villains wiki
* Kirei Kotomine at the Inconsistently Heinous wiki
* Kirei Kotomine at the *TYPE-MOON* wiki

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