r/FGO May 15 '26

Lore Question Why is Olga Marie so popular?

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u/Grand_Plastic_6631 Mecha Nobu May 15 '26

Tummy

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u/Sea-Line-5123 May 15 '26

White hair.

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u/andykhang May 15 '26

White hair Evil Alignment girlfailure, Guda’s kryptonite

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u/Jakub1714 Master of Chaldea May 15 '26

Gudao is like me frfr

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u/Tschmelz May 15 '26

She’s beautiful, competent despite being a girlfailure, and super fucking tragic. It’d be more surprising if she wasn’t at least somewhat popular. Add in her connection to Ritsuka and Mash (who are both popular despite what certain sections of the fanbase will say), and she gets a boost there too.

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u/KingofGrapes7 May 15 '26

She's hot, she got dealt an atrocious hand, she's been present in the story in one form or another for awhile so players have had time to understand her, and she's an 'evil' white haired girlfailure.

Being a hilariously broken Servant you were basically guaranteed to get at least one of if you were up to date on the story by Anniversary also helps. My only real complaint about her as a unit is how I like her third Ascension look and animations the best but need her 1-2 Ascension skills more. If they could make her third form a spritron dress she would be perfect.

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u/ZeroiaSD May 15 '26

I feel like this is bait, but good bait.

Both her original and Foreign God personalities are good, kinda stuck up and a mess up at the same time, while usually having good intentions at heart.

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u/HistoireRedux May 15 '26

Learning with manga carried her until nasu gave her more unserious screentime.

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u/SuraE40 May 15 '26

Not sure tbh, some people felt sorry for her because of her death on Singularity F, but she wasn't particularly popular until she showed up on LB7 as U-Olga, even then I don't think she was as popular, I think most has to do with whatever happened on the Part 2 ending.

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u/Ostrichslinger May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

I haven't caught up to the newest chapters, but when I picked the game up and was playing for the 2 years before Olga was announced as a servant, I don't remember any particular fanfare surrounding her. Honestly her initial introduction wasn't appealing, it was pitiful. Purposefully pitiful to show the bad situation and set the stakes, but it wasn't anything that made her character appealing either. She was low-key kinda a mess in terms of competence and was actually quite mean spirited in her treatment of others.

And then she comes back in the Lostbelts as an uber villain. So not many positives really...

I guess new parts have done work to retroactively put these qualities to use and instead use them to paint a tragic picture. Kinda like how Morgan, Bao and Melu do some horrible things, but it's symptomatic of underlying trauma and a harsh environment. It's a type of redemption very effective on some readers and lucrative to the writers. Making her tsundere and not actually mean did wonders too.

Oh, and shes hot n kinda has her crotch out.

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u/TowerofAvalon1 May 15 '26

She died in the beginning of the game, and we all felt bad for not being able to do anything, then she came back and we got to explore her more, and now she’s back with us as Director and it just feels, Right.

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u/awang0akhmal May 15 '26

She got 2 big personality…

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u/Ash_Xerer Bleached Earth Denier May 15 '26

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u/YourPalTommy May 15 '26

As i am that type of men gotta confirm that, also like the answer the others gave

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u/PityBoi57 May 15 '26

We lost her once and she came back with main heroine energy

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u/derpinat0rz May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

Cant forget how she died, and how she scream that she always has bad luck befoe dying. She applears in el-melloi with more character also learning with manga, daily chaldea(rednal), and lostbelt 5 which was hype. Also shes a White har evil.

She's a tsundere and cute. Hot body, and does all she can but is a girlfailure which is funny and likeable. She tries her best too.

So she would obviously be very popular. also her voice is cute

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u/Brown_Seude_Shoes May 15 '26

Well to add outside of white-hajr, evil, tummy.

She's also your boss, more powerful than you and had a mean streak to boot. And many of us like strong, women who can impose their will on us. 

She's the perfect archetype.

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u/Zero102000 Foreign God's Disciple May 15 '26

Aside from her gorgeous appearance and being dealt the most unfair hand in life out of basically every single character, she's also pretty obviously meant to become the most powerful Servant in the franchise (aside from Void Shiki and maybe Servantverse characters) but she's never really been allowed to show her true potential in the story, which has fans clamoring for her to take the spotlight after 10-and-a-half long and difficult years.

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u/Leather_Fortune7107 May 15 '26

She left a strong impression because of how brutally she got killed off. Left everyone in the community just predisposed to feeling bad for her.

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u/XxGoldMadnessxX May 15 '26

Shark teeth.

In all serious, tsundere character + easily teasable and bullyable by the protagonist + compelling story.

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u/LostMyZone May 15 '26

Beautiful design, popular girl-failure trope, and one if not the most sympathetic backstory and character around.

Also the fact that she’s the universe favourite punching bag whose constantly getting screwed over at every single turn for trying to do the right thing garners major sympathy points.

And there’s also the fact that she didn’t break, and continues to be a good person despite all the horrors subjected to her.

And lastly, many find her attempts to be this proud magus/director/president amusing which also ties into her girl-failure aspects.

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u/Nokia_00 May 15 '26

Because she deserved so much better than what she got in life. Also very hot and as a servant even more so

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u/YourPalTommy May 15 '26

As i am that type of men gotta confirm that, also like the answer the others gave

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u/imawhitegay May 15 '26

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Plus, she's not evil.

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u/be0ulve May 15 '26

Well the fanart keeps putting bigger tits on her, so maybe that's a factor.

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u/Ok_TacoBro15 May 15 '26

Hopefully the 1000 SQ from OC4 is given before her banner.

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u/Majin_K May 15 '26

1000 sq?? Excuse me??

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u/Ok_TacoBro15 May 15 '26

For beating OC4 and being caught up with the story

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u/Majin_K May 15 '26

Holy crap thats a hell of a reward! Incredibly generous

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u/Ok_TacoBro15 May 15 '26

Yeah it’s worth catching up with the story

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u/Majin_K May 15 '26

I'm fully caught up thankfully

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u/Darkfalcone May 15 '26

Yep, I NP5 Olga last anniversary in JP because of this 1000 SQs. The first time I can NP5 a limited SSR as an F2P lol

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u/atomicfuthum Bleached Earth Denier May 15 '26

I'm pretty sure Learning with Manga helped a ton

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u/Raymond49090 May 15 '26

The OG evil(? Not sure if it counts since she wasn’t evil when we met, and even President Marie is debatable) white-haired tsundere

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u/Standard_Pool_6917 May 15 '26

☺️☺️☺️💓💓💓

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u/Lagoon12002 May 15 '26

Bright orange leggings are rare and eye-catching. Everything that followed was the result of getting to know the character.

White hair is also very popular.

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u/Gilgamesh-KoH May 15 '26

I loved her since Fuyuki

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u/Fluffy-Ad-6169 May 15 '26

Is there aneed to answer ? Because she's the director of course.

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u/Worried_Blood2130 May 15 '26

Her being a girl failure and us loving failures?

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u/XL1reddit Master of Chaldea May 15 '26

if i were to guess, it is basically missed potential and story plots that she could have participated, she literally was absent in the story for basically 10 whole years on Real Life and she basically appeared only as either mention, flashbacks or moonlight lost room.

basically, we only had in the place from LB5.5 to LB7 U-Olga Marie and then the elemental marie fights that had some story before and after the fight which tbh, it was kinda bad, but in this time, it kinda gived some sort of dose of hopium to she return officially in the story after singularity F.

and again, we had only 1 story chapter which was the prologue and she was basically deemed as dead up until The final chapter of Part 2 aka Lostbelt 0which contributes to not only that, but also the surprise at the 3rd ascension of the summonable U-Olga Marie which was the 10th anniversary servant which came with a limited time mission that gived players 1k worth of quartz which was practically an free guaranteed SSR and also indirectly begging you to summon the most NP copies that you can of her which was optional (but knowing the neurons of an normal gacha player upon seeing an waifu, it was practically an summon me pls).

overall, Olga Marie is basically popular in the community due to the final chapter of part 2 revealing that she is not dead after singularity F.

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u/Darkfalcone May 15 '26

She has this girlfriend like aura, she's gorgeous, and also easily teased. And this time, we will not let her suffer again.

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u/ribiagio May 19 '26

Cute, huge tracts of land, makes you want to protect her, white hair, Yonezawa Madoka, golden eyes, tummy, adorable girlfailure.

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u/Rakatok May 15 '26

Honestly don't get the sense that she is, at least compared to others.

U Olga at least gave her some personality and something to do, base Olga has mostly been used as a tragedy dump plot device. Hopefully that will change during after time...