History Quotes / TheBerserker

-->-- '''Heather Alexander''', "Don't Call My Name in Battle"

->''Don't call my name in battle - it's not wise.\\

Don't call my name in battle - stand away.\\

It never sees a friend, but only foes -\\

Don't call my name in battle - wait the time,\\

But you'll not be surprised to see how much I walk alone.

-->-- '''Tennessee Ernie Ford''', "Sixteen Tons"\

-->-- '''Creator/HeatherAlexander''', "Don't Call My Name in Battle"

-->-- '''Tennessee Ernie Ford''', "Sixteen Tons"

-->-- '''Doomguy''', ''ComicBook/{{Doom}}''

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->''"That happens sometimes. I snap in battle and forget things."''
-->-- '''Kirito''', ''Anime/SwordArtOnline''
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-->-- '''Doomguy''', ''Comicbook/{{Doom}}''

-->-- '''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}''', ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'', ''Supergirl #30''

-->-- '''Hobbes (referring to [[ThePrankster Socrates]])''', ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'', "[[Recap/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeriesS1TVM2HaveYouSeenThisTiger Have You Seen This Tiger?]]"

-->-- ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft: Literature/BeyondTheDarkPortal''

->''"There are people in this world who go about demanding to be killed. You must have noticed them. They quarrel in gambling games. They jump out of their automobiles in a rage. They humiliate and bully [[BullyingADragon people whose capabilities they do not know]]. These are people who wander through the world shouting, "kill me!" And there's always someone ready to oblige to them."''

'''[[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Ogheren]]:''' What the sod is there to know? You get mad, you fly into battle, and things die. It's pretty simple. The hardest part is getting in touch with your rage. We all learn to hold that back. It's why we don't kill every [[FantasticSlurs duster]] who looks at us sideways. You need to shut that off. For some people, being in battle is enough. But others have to think about something. Violence, monsters, [[AristocratsAreEvil nobles]], your wife, whatever.

-->-- The description for the '''[[https://wynncraft.fandom.com/wiki/Scarlet_Veil Scarlet Veil]]''', which amplifies speed and strength at the cost of lowered defenses, ''VideoGame/{{Wynncraft}}''

-->-- The description for the '''[[https://wynncraft.fandom.com/wiki/Scarlet_Veil Scarlet Veil]]''', ''VideoGame/{{Wynncraft}}''

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->''I'll ask of the berserks, you tasters of blood,\\
Those intrepid heroes, how are they treated,\\
Those who wade out into battle?\\
Wolf-skinned they are called. In battle\\
They bear bloody shields.\\
Red with blood are their spears when they come to fight.\\
They form a closed group.\\
The prince in his wisdom puts trust in such men\\
Who hack through enemy shields.''
-->-- '''Hrafnsmál'''

->His men rushed forwards without armour, were as mad as dogs or wolves, bit their shields, and were strong as bears or wild oxen, and killed people at a blow, but neither fire nor iron told upon them. This was called ''going berserk''.
-->-- '''{{Literature/Heimskringla}}'''

->''"[[TheLegionsOfHell They are rage, brutal, without mercy.]] [[PlayerCharacter But you...]] [[OneManArmy you will be worse. Rip and tear, until it is done."]]''
-->-- ''Videogame/Doom2016''

->''"The vast forests of our lands are said to be filled with the spirits of beasts. Sometimes, those beasts join us on the battlefield. Berserkers: wild, free and utterly without fear. They fight with twin axes, but their true weapon is their passion. There is an ancient riddle: what is stronger than steel? Blood is our answer. Blood, and fury."''
-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x2kvuaSqvw The Berserker]]''', ''Videogame/ForHonor''

->''"If you see me comin', better step aside\\
A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died\\
One fist of iron, the other of steel\\
If the right one don't a-get you\\
Then the left one will"''
-->-- '''Tennessee Ernie Ford''', "Sixteen Tons"

->''"There are people in this world who go about demanding to be killed. You must have noticed them. They quarrel in gambling games. They jump out of their automobiles in a rage. They humiliate and bully [[BullyingADragon people whose capabilities they do not know]]. These are people who wander through the world shouting, "kill me!" And there's always someone ready to oblige to them."''
-->-- '''Don Vito Corleone''', ''VideoGame/TheGodfather'' video game

-->-- '''Kharn the Betrayer''', [[MemeticMutation great guy,]] ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''

->''The Blackshields did not attack in a line, but came in a howling mass. This was the Irish way of war, a terrifying assault of maddened men who came to the slaughter like lovers.''
-->-- ''Literature/TheWarlordChronicles'' describing ''an entire army'' of berserkers.

->''Bodvar Bjarki ploughed into them now, hacking two handed, his only thought to do as much damage as he could before he fell. And now they fall in heaps before him, one on top of another, and both his arms are bloodied to the shoulder, and he felled so many, the dead were stacked all about him. He stormed on as if he was insane.''
-->-- ''Literature/TheSagaOfHrolfKraki''

->''"'''BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!'''"''
-->-- '''Khornate''' warcry, ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} and TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

->''"You have to find a way to make him mad. When he gets mad, he won't even try to hold it in."''
-->-- '''Hobbes (referring to [[ThePrankster Socrates]])''', ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'', [[Recap/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeriesS1TVM2HaveYouSeenThisTiger "Have You Seen This Tiger?"]]

->''"He cleared the ship, helmless and shieldless and hewing about him with both hands..."''
-->-- ''Literature/TheLongShips'' by Frans G. Bengtsson

->'''''"[[CompensatingForSomething TIME TO COMPENSAAAAAAAAATE!]]"'''''\\
'''''"VIOLEEEEENCE!"'''''\\
'''''"SCREW YOU FREEEEEUUUUUUD!"'''''\\
''''''"BERSERKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRR!"''''''
-->-- '''Salvador the Gunzerker''', ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}''

->''Shinji is on his bed, hands under his head, looking at the ceiling. He is thinking about... about how fierce Asuka was in her last battle. He can picture the rage on Asuka's face, as if she was possessed by some demon.''
-->-- ''Fanfic/TheChildOfLove'', ''chapter 4''

->''The way Emma's fighting style can currently be described here is simply unrestrained violence. She's fighting without limitations and without human dignity and considerations in mind. In reality, people don't jump right away to gouging out other people's eyeballs or ripping off bodyparts with their teeth. They can get to that point, but people hesitate before diving into that. It's a similar reason as to why it's easier -- mentally -- to kill someone with a gun as opposed to stabbing them to death with a knife or choking them.''
-->-- ''Fanfic/{{Quicken}}''

->The Red Ring on my fist chose me. It made me part of a team. We seek out injustice and we punch it in the teeth. And it feels good.
-->-- '''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}''', ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'', ''Supergirl #30''

->"Attack" is the only order worth remembering.
-->-- '''Kharn the Betrayer''', ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''

->''[[SealedGoodInACan Wake up I'm a bullet loosed]]''\\
''into the heart of a wretched age''\\
''[[BloodKnight I breathe just to beat and bruise]]''\\
''the evolution of a burning rage''
->''Gonna get mine, get outta my way''\\
''There's gonna be (gonna be)''\\
''Gonna be Hell to pay!''

->''Berserk I'm a brutal fist''\\
''[[OneManArmy Yeah a lone wolf born and bred]]''\\
''I stand on the bones of titans''\\
''[[UnstoppableRage And my wrath is burning lead!]]''
->''Gonna get mine, get outta my way''\\
''There's gonna be (gonna be)''\\
''Gonna be Hell to pay!''

->''Click-click, boom-boom''\\
''[[LightningBruiser Keep rushing and running, running]]''\\
''[[MoreDakka The drumming of the buckshot pumping]]''\\
''[[UnstoppableRage Got molten metal in my veins]]''\\
''Click-click, boom-boom''\\
''Keep rushing and running, running''\\
''[[RoaringRampageOfRevenge A reckoning of lead is coming]]''\\
''[[TheDreaded I'm kicking in the gates of Hell again!]]''\\
''[[VideoGame/Doom2016 Bringer of Pain!]]''
-->-- '''Music/MiracleOfSound''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjIVkl34Vig Hell to Pay]]''

-><[=TearyoureyesoutandEATTHEM=],> sent Satan Girl, not even conscious of her speech. <[=RipyouapartandseveryourINTESTINES=].>
-->-- ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy''

->''"Our long deathless winter has left us numb. Our wasted animal within, ugly and gaunt, hibernates beneath our shimmering beauty. Why do these Warframes stir us so? They burn with our lost desires, lost instincts. Tenno tamed, but only just. Cast and hunted as game. Trapped and tortured, yet they remain... animals.''\\
''"Less than their human seed, gnawing their limbs from the snare, devouring a banquet of suffering, obese with heat and acid... and rage.''\\
''"That is why they will destroy us."''
-->-- '''Valkyr Prime trailer''', ''Videogame/{{Warframe}}''

->Murderlust is all that [[ProfessionalKiller Operative Torq]] knows. Extensive surgical and cybernetic augmentation have raised his strength to [[SuperStrength impossible levels]], his [[BizarreHumanBiology two hearts]] slamming double-time as they force hyperadrenaline compounds through iron-hard muscles. Behind his [[SkullForAHead skull-helm]], the Eversor's lips peel back in a rictus snarl, while his eyes bulge white and wild. [[DeathOfPersonality What personality Torq possessed has been burned to ash]] by the white heat of his constant fury. His world has narrowed to a never-ending war in which he smashes, tears, and butchers constantly in the [[GodEmperor Emperor]]'s name.
-->-- ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}: Assassinorum - Execution Force''

->Some negative qualities can reach a pitch of perfection that changes their very nature, and Mr. Tulip had turned anger into an art.\\
It was not anger ''at'' anything. It was just pure, platonic anger from somewhere in the reptilian depths of the soul, a fountain of never-ending red-hot grudge; Mr. Tulip lived his life on that thin line most people occupy just before they haul off and hit someone repeatedly with a wrench. For Mr. Tulip, anger was the ground state of being. Pin had occasionally wondered what had happened to the man to make him as angry as that, but to Tulip the past was another country with very, very well guarded borders. Sometimes Mr. Pin heard him screaming at night.
-->-- ''Literature/TheTruth''

->''"That happens sometimes. I snap in battle and forget things."''
-->-- '''Kirito''', ''Anime/SwordArtOnline''

->Pelinal called out Haromir of Copper and Tea into a duel at the Tor, and ate his neck-veins while screaming praise to Reman, [[TemporalParadox a name that no one knew yet.]] Gordhaur the Shaper's head was smashed upon the goat-faced altar of Ninendava. (...) Later that season, Pelinal slew Hadhuul on the granite steps of Ceya-Tar, the Fire King's spears knowing their first refute. (...) When Huna, whom Pelinal raised from grain-slave to hoplite and loved well, [[MentorOccupationalHazard took death]] from an arrowhead made from the beak of Celethelel the Singer, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge the Whitestrake went on his first Madness]]. [[PersonOfMassDestruction He wrought destruction from Narlemae all the way to Celediil, and erased those lands from the maps of Elves and Men, and all things in them,]] and Perrif was forced to make sacrifice to the Gods to keep them from leaving the world in their disgust....
-->--'''The Song of Pelinal: Volume 3''', ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''

->''"You're seeing red... Time to see more of it."''
-->-- The description for the '''[[https://wynncraft.fandom.com/wiki/Scarlet_Veil Scarlet Veil]]''', ''VideoGame/{{Wynncraft}}''

->''"Heh heh... No, no no no no, none of this fancy 'plan' stuff. All we'll do is just run in headfirst, screaming. Works every time."''
-->-- '''Barbarian''', ''[[https://youtu.be/w-xDdpP3PO8 How Each Class Prepares for Combat in Dungeons and Dragons]]''

->'''[[PlayerCharacter Warden:]]''' Will you teach me about Berserkers?
->'''[[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Ogheren:]]''' What the sod is there to know? You get mad, you fly into battle, and things die. It's pretty simple. The hardest part is getting in touch with your rage. We all learn to hold that back. It's why we don't kill every [[FantasticSlurs duster]] who looks at us sideways. You need to shut that off. For some people, being in battle is enough. But others have to think about something. Violence, monsters, [[AristocratsAreEvil nobles,]] your wife, whatever.
-->-- ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''

->"Let me paint a picture for ya: Take a viking, (a badass in his own right), now put an animal mantle on him and convince him that he has the primal power of a bear, wolf or boar. Now to help convince him of that, let's get him ''really'' hammered on alcohol or better yet, super high using herbal drugs; and you know what? For good measure, lets just strip him down almost naked alongside his self induced hysteria biting his shield and howling like an animal. With some discrepancies, ''that'' is a viking berserker. A warrior without fear, only rage, who's augmented bloodlust was so strong, that should he survive the fight, he would never be emotionally the same again."
-->'''Creator/GaijinGoombah,''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02CDgbKfhrM&t=314s "How British is]] [[VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield Pokemon Sword and Shield?"]]
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->Pelinal called out Haromir of Copper and Tea into a duel at the Tor, and ate his neck-veins while screaming praise to Reman, [[TemporalParadox a name that no one knew yet.]] Gordhaur the Shaper's head was smashed upon the goat-faced altar of Ninendava. (...) Later that season, Pelinal slew Hadhuul on the granite steps of Ceya-Tar, the Fire King's spears knowing their first refute. (...) When Huna, whom Pelinal raised from grain-slave to hoplite and loved well, took death from an arrowhead made from the beak of Celethelel the Singer, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge the Whitestrake went on his first Madness.]] [[PersonOfMassDestruction He wrought destruction from Narlemae all the way to Celediil, and erased those lands from the maps of Elves and Men, and all things in them,]] and Perrif was forced to make sacrifice to the Gods to keep them from leaving the world in their disgust....

->''''I'll ask of the berserks, you tasters of blood,\\

Who hack through enemy shields.''"

->''I'll ask of the berserks, you tasters of blood,\\

Who hack through enemy shields."

Who hack through enemy shields.

-->-- '''{{Litterature/Heimskringla}}'''

-->-- '''{{Heimskringla}}'''

Who hack through enemy shields.\\