History Awesome / BERSERK

->''"Screw you. I'm purebred human, right down to the bone. Don't mistake me for one of you freaks."''

* Guts's first (chronological) encounter with Femto has him trying his damnedest to kill him, even though one, he's already fucked up from his previous battle with the Count, and two, simply being near him with his Brand causes him excruciating agony and blood loss. This scene is the very first indicator of just how much of an utter {{Determinator}} Guts can actually be, and is enough to force Femto to telekinetically hurl Guts away. Guts hates the guy ''that much''.

* Fridge-awesome: Guts' first meeting with the Hawks was as an enemy: the castle he was supposed to take was being defended by the hawks and a group of knights. Instead of taking Guts and the mooks he's working with 5 days to take the castle, it took no less than 5 hours. The whole reason Griffith wants Guts is because he saw first hand how unstoppable Guts is in battle. Once he has Guts, the Hawks go from being merely an exceptional group, to one where they can commit the most crazy but practical assault on the enemy, and not lose a single man because Guts is holding the defensive line.

* Griffith's greatest moment comes AFTER he just single-handedly won the Hundred Year War: A group of disgruntled nobles led by the Queen and Minister Foss are planning to poison Griffith and then blame the assassination on the Tudor Empire. Griffith seemingly falls for it, but later, the conspirators find the castle they are in is burning. The queen rushes to a balcony to see what is going on, only to find Griffith, alive and well, standing outside the castle. Griffith calmly explains to the queen and her fellow conspirators that they are the losers, and death on the battlefield does not distinguish between nobility and commoners before the last of his enemies burn alive. Foss, who had taken part in the conspiracy and had acted as Griffith's mole after Griffith kidnapped his daughter, finds himself shaking after the fact. Not because he's worried that he will be executed if anyone ever finds out, but because Griffith is ''just that scary''.

* How about when the Midland army traps the Hawks two to one when Griffith gets arrested and the King charges them all with the count of high treason? Although weaponless and surrounded by hundreds of Midland soldiers, Casca manages to break the Hawks through the barrier and lead them to safety, all the while with ''[[AnnoyingArrows five crossbow bolts]]'' stuck in her. Daay-umn girl.

* Guts' BerserkerTears filled UnstoppableRage upon finding Griffith's tortured, mutilated and emaciated body inside the Tower of Rebirth seriously deserves a mention. The torturer gloats as soon as he locks Guts' group inside a chamber. As he [[ToThePain lets them in on what's in store for them]], Guts [[TalkToTheFist rams his sword through the door and through the torturer]]. And then he proceeds to live up to the name of the series by carving a bloody swath through every last Midland guard between him, the Hawks, and the way out of the tower.

--->'''Wyald:''' L-Look, there's no way [Griffith] can be the King! He's going to die!
--->'''Zodd:''' ''Then you'll die first!''

** Let's talk about what the Eclipse is first. It's, in its most basic form, a Demon infested killzone meant to tear the sacrifices apart to fuel the Godhand transformation. It looks and can be seen to be the very definition of a living Hell...And Guts and Casca '''survive''' this. With a little help of Skull Knight, but for surviving as long as they did, is a nigh impossible achievement all on its own.

* The finale of the battle between Guts and Rosine. She flies up in the air in a pained rage, with him riding her (via the BFS he impaled her with), whips him off, and charges toward him, intending on running him through with her lance-like proboscis. She succeeds; it goes through one of his cheeks and out the other, and he [[NowThatsUsingYourTeeth BITES DOWN ON IT]], using the new-found leverage (and her sudden fearful paralysis) to strike, mortally wounding her, and sending them both plummeting to the ground!

-->-- '''Guts''' to Ganishka

-->-- '''Guts''' to Ganishka, Chapter 37, episode #277 ("Human Bullet")

** Whilst [[RapeAsDrama what Femto does next]] is the utter opposite of awesome, the sheer reverence and nightmarish imagery as Femto is born is a meta moment for Miura in terms of artwork and tension. The sheer dread in both the characters and the reader as Griffith embraces his true evil is a demonstration of exactly why ''Berserk'' is among the top dogs of its genre.

* Chapter 353, [[UpToEleven Ten words]]: Berserker Armor Dog Guts with a mouth cannon and Dragonslayer.

* Chapter 365-366: Upon being greeted with Griffith again, and hearing what poor Casca is being put through as a result of the Brand, Guts goes BERSERK all over again. He manages to keep the armor from taking him over through sheer force of will, but he is more pissed than he's been in a ''long time''. His attacks can't touch him because of Griffith's teleportation/[[SpaceMaster spatial manipulation]], but one of the swings of the Dragonslayer manages to slice off some of Griffith's hair.

* Chapter 365-366: Upon being greeted with Griffith again, and hearing what poor Casca is being put through as a result of the Brand, Guts goes BERSERK all over again. He manages to keep the armor from taking him over through sheer force of will, but he is more pissed than he's been in a ''long time''. His attacks can't touch him because of Griffith's teleportation, but one of the swings of the Dragonslayer manages to slice off some of Griffith's hair.

* Chapter 365-366: Upon being greeted with Griffith again, and hearing what poor Casca is being put through as a result of the Brand, Guts goes BERSERK all over again. His attacks can't touch him because of Griffith's teleportation, but one of the swings of the Dragonslayer manages to slice off some of Griffith's hair.

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->''[[PreMortemOneLiner "Screw you.]] [[BadassNormal I'm purebred human, right down to the bone.]] [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Don't mistake me for one of you freaks."]]''

'''No spoiler tags will be used on this page'''. Examples are sorted in order of appearance.

* [[https://mangadex.org/chapter/27019/7 Charlotte gets one]] in the manga when she completely pulverizes her father's face with her feet after he tries to rape her. Not as awesome as the other examples on this page, but still pretty impressive for someone who's a DamselInDistress most of the time.

* Casca, during the entire Griffith rescue operation. Sure, she had her moments of weakness - and some of the moment got soured when Wyald entered the picture - but you can't say that she wasn't a TOTAL BOSS up until the very end. After months of corresponding with intelligence, she finally puts the operation into motion upon Guts' convenient return. Casca takes up arms, takes the lead, [[http://www.mrsmanga.com/Berserk/059.069/42/ and even blows up a fucking bridge!]] Not to mention that she and Guts as a BattleCouple [[http://www.mrsmanga.com/Berserk/048.058/208/ are in their prime]], having total trust in one another and knowing how to coordinate with each others strengths and weaknesses in order to get the job done.

* [[MyGreatestSecondChance Guts' greatest second chance revelation]] in volume 17 is pretty triumphant, as he makes a declaration that [[http://www.mrsmanga.com/Berserk/122.132/182 he would never lose what is important to him again.]]

** Serpico's BigDamnHeroes moment [[https://mangadex.org/chapter/37555/18 rescuing Farnese from the tiger]] was pretty awesome too.

** [[http://www.mangareader.net/96-1152-16/berserk/chapter-32.html Seen here in all its glory.]]

* A ''very'' subtle and indirect one in the flashbacks Guts sees: we see that, besides Void, the Godhand is different. They can be killed, there is hope.

-> "[Guts] [[NotSoDifferent You're just like Griffith]]: [[TheUnfettered your dream is everything]]; [[ItsAllAboutMe you think of nothing but yourself!]] [[DudeWheresMyRespect You don't give a damn whether I'm around or not, do you?!]]"

* Emperor Ganishka resisting [[GodModeSue Griffith's]] attempts to bring him under control like the rest of the apostles was seriously awesome in This Troper's book.

* During the Boyhood mini-arc, Guts is up against a hulking Bazuso-like tower of a man who is covered head to toe in heavy armor, and nothing Guts can do with his blunted blade is working. So how does Guts gain the upper hand? He pulls a move right out of the ''[[UsefulNotes/EuropeanMartialArts fechtbucher]]'' and puts a ''mordschlag''[[note]]A technique where the swordsman grips the sword by the blade and then uses the weapon like a warhammer with the crossguard acting as the head[[/note]] right into the guy's eye.

* During the Boyhood mini-arc, Guts is up against a hulking Bazuso-like tower of a man who is covered head to toe in heavy armor, and nothing Guts can do with the blade is working. So how does Guts gain the upper hand? He pulls a move right out of the ''[[UsefulNotes/EuropeanMartialArts fechtbucher]]'' and puts a ''mordschlag''[[labelnote:A technique where the swordsman grips the sword by the blade and then uses the weapon like a warhammer with the crossguard acting as the head]] right into the guy's eye.