Nasu's ideas for Zero
>Kiritsugu using guns and Time Alter
>Saber being cucked by anyone and everyone
>Kirei's height being changed
>Three Kings (Artoria, Iskander, Gil) and Grail Dialogue
>Iskander being weakened from fighting Saber, and subsequently defeated during a battle with Gilgamesh
>Nero is basically what Nasu's Iskander would have been like
>Takeuchi had just gotten back from seeing the new Ghost Rider movie and wouldn’t stop going on about how awesome it would be if Saber’s motorcycle could transform (Ep 21)
>It seems that over the course of the Holy Grail War, he tricked an enemy Master, took his lover hostage, blew up a building, and was generally nasty enough that you could almost mistake him for a young Kotomine.
Urobuchi's ideas for Zero
>Nasu pitched Zero to Urobuchi after watching Spiderman II
>Waver's coming of age story
>Kirei's moves being inspired by The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, Bruce Lee, Jet Li, and Tony Jaa
>Iskander's character
>Urobuchi wanted to use a Chinese servant for Caster in Fate Zero, but Nasu said no because he'd be too powerful. So he gave us Gilles.
>Gilles was chosen and created by Urobuchi when he thought Saber's real identity might be Joan of Arc
>Urobuchi was struggling with the Grail Dialogue scene ever since the very first draft proposal
>Kayneth being cucked by Waver, Diarmuid and Kiritsugu
>president of Nitro+, Digitarou, was responsible for picking out and configuring the Yamaha V-Max
>Kariya was a Nasu hero stripped of plot armor, the kind of selfless idiot who always wins...except this time
>He wanted to do more with Female Hassan
>"Kotone" was originally "Satsuki" (changed by Nasu)
>Kiritsugu cucking Saber even more than he did (scrapped by Nasu)
>Waver's workshop raid scene was supposed to have an Assassin that Waver would mistake for one of Ryuunosuke’s victims (scrapped by Nasu)
>Basement scene with Kariya and Sakura (scrapped by Nasu)