This post revolves around a major Spoiler. The story is well known enough that it should be like spoiling that Samus is female, but Anime is niche so I don't want to risk it.
So only read on if you know all the major Spoilers of the Unlimited Blade Works route.
Spoiler Warning.
I largely thought of this after watching this YouTube video about the subject of fallen heroes.
The brief part about the variation where the Fallen Hero is the main Hero of the story from the future is mainly what I'm referring to here.
Most examples of that Trope are a new story being added in a new adventure of a long established hero. And so, especially when it pops up in something like the DC or Marvel Universe, we know it's just another one of many possible futures. Some of them may be fun enjoyable stories, like Teen Titans: The Future is Now. But the readers will never buy that this has suddenly become the Canonical most likely future and that stories following this are leading to that future. Heck the animated movie adaptation of Superman/Batman: Public Enemies flat out dropped the broken Superman from the future sub-plot because they knew no one would buy it.
The reason why the story of Archer and Emiya Shirou in UBW works so much better then any other 'villain is the Hero from the future' story is because it's not a sequel, it's part of the original core lore of the Fate/ franchise, so much so that removing it from Shirou's story would be like removing Krypton from Superman's. We see what's unhealthy about Shirou's Hero Complex and how it could lead to tragedy long before this twist is revealed. And it's Canon that this is who Archer is even in the other two routes where this plot-line doesn't really explicitly come up.
This is another one of many reasons why Fate/ is now among my favorite franchises.
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