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* ''Literature/CaptivePrince'': Damen tends to lose himself in battle and belatedly realize how many corpses he's created. He pairs this with UnstoppableRage when someone threatens Laurent, such as [[spoiler:when the clansmen leader feels up Laurent and when the Regent drops the reveal at the Kingsmeet]].


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* ''Literature/CaptivePrince'': Damen tends to lose himself in battle and belatedly realize how many corpses he's created. He pairs this with UnstoppableRage when someone threatens Laurent, such as [[spoiler:when the clansmen leader feels up Laurent and when the Regent drops the reveal at the Kingsmeet]].
* ''Literature/ChrysalisRinoZ'': The System has various options for berserking, either as a monster or one of the surface races.
** The "Four Blade Berserker" monster automatically goes berserk in combat, as an inherent part of its nature, "increasing its strength but causing it to struggle to tell friend from foe."
** Morrelia has a Berserker class that lets her enter a powerful rage while she can maintain her anger, but leaves her fatigued afterward.
** Sarah has a darker variant in her Asura heart, feeding on ''any'' negative emotion to pump her strength to massive heights, but increasingly robbing her of reason, to the point where she is likely to turn on her allies in a savage frenzy. Once she eventually runs out of targets and calms down, she generally falls unconscious for a while, and [[MissingTime doesn't remember everything she did when she awakens]] -- which she finds quite stressful. A big part of her CharacterDevelopment is coming to terms with her anger and learning to use it without losing herself to it.
---> The heart fed on her negative emotions, her rage, pain and fear, magnified them, liquified them and sent them pumping throughout her body until every inch of her frame was suffused with them. She could feel it now. The pain of betrayal, the anger of broken trust, the fear of losing herself again. She could feel it all echo through every cell of her body until she was drunk with it.\\\
And it made her ''strong''.
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* ''Literature/SecondApocalypse'': Cnaiur urs Skiotha is an extremely unhinged warrior of the steppes. As an ArmouredClosetGay in a RatedMForManly culture who harbors a deep shame in his past, he's a raging ball of insecurity and lunatic ferocity in a desperate attempt to cope. He's prone to {{Unstoppable Rage}}s, bellowing things like, "I am Cnaiur urs Skiotha, most violent of men! Who will murder me?!"

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* ''Literature/SecondApocalypse'': Cnaiur urs Skiotha is an extremely unhinged warrior of the steppes. As an ArmouredClosetGay in a RatedMForManly macho culture who harbors a deep shame in his past, he's a raging ball of insecurity and lunatic ferocity in a desperate attempt to cope. He's prone to {{Unstoppable Rage}}s, bellowing things like, "I am Cnaiur urs Skiotha, most violent of men! Who will murder me?!"

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--->''"Out of doubt, out of dark, to the day's rising\ I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing\ To hope's end I rode, and to heart's breaking\ Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!"''

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--->''"Out of doubt, out of dark, dark,\\
to the day's rising\ rising\\
I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing\ unsheathing\\
To hope's end I rode, and to heart's breaking\ breaking\\
Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!"''

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--->''"Out of doubt, out of dark, to the day's rising\ I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing\ To hope's end I rode, and to heart's breaking\ Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!"''\\

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--->''"Out of doubt, out of dark, to the day's rising\ I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing\ To hope's end I rode, and to heart's breaking\ Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!"''\\nightfall!"''



*** also Aegnor son of Finarfin. He has a somewhat tortured persona as a result, because he has a naturally gentle disposition like the rest of his family: but can fly into rages that terrify Morgoth's troops, and his own, in the midst of battle. His name means "sharp flame" referencing his rages.
** Beorn in ''Literature/TheHobbit'' plays this quite literally, being a "skin-changer" who can take on the form of an actual bear in battle. He wins the final battle by going StraightForTheCommander.

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*** also ** Another case from ''The Silmarillion'' is Aegnor son of Finarfin. He has a somewhat tortured persona as a result, because he has a naturally gentle disposition like the rest of his family: but can fly into rages that terrify Morgoth's troops, and his own, in the midst of battle. His name means "sharp flame" referencing his rages.
** Beorn in ''Literature/TheHobbit'' plays this quite literally, being a "skin-changer" who can take on the form of an actual bear in battle. He wins the final battle by going StraightForTheCommander.
StraightForTheCommander while in bear form.



* In ''Literature/TheWarlordChronicles'', Derfel muses several times about how any man, whether he be a justice loving generous soul like [[Myth/KingArthur Arthur]] or a loving family man like Derfel can transform into a monster in battle, especially when victory seems likely.
-->''A terrible hate wells up in battle, a hatred that comes from the dark soul to fill a man with fierce and bloody anger. I knew that Saxon shield wall would break. I knew it long before I attacked it. The wall was too thin, had been too hurried in the making, and was too nervous, and so I broke out of our front rank and shouted my hate at the enemy. At that moment all I wanted to do was kill... so I ran ahead, madness filling my soul and exultation giving me a terrible power as I picked my victims. They were two young men, both smaller than me, both nervous, both with skimpy beards, and both were shrinking away even before I hit them. They saw a British warlord in splendor, I saw two dead Saxons.
** Also his description of the Irish Blackshields, ''an army'' of berserker soldiers and raiders.

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* In ''Literature/TheWarlordChronicles'', ''Literature/TheWarlordChronicles'':
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Derfel muses several times about how any man, whether he be including a justice loving generous soul like [[Myth/KingArthur Arthur]] or a loving family man like Derfel can transform into a monster in the heat of battle, especially when victory seems likely.
-->''A --->''A terrible hate wells up in battle, a hatred that comes from the dark soul to fill a man with fierce and bloody anger. I knew that Saxon shield wall would break. I knew it long before I attacked it. The wall was too thin, had been too hurried in the making, and was too nervous, and so I broke out of our front rank and shouted my hate at the enemy. At that moment all I wanted to do was kill... so I ran ahead, madness filling my soul and exultation giving me a terrible power as I picked my victims. They were two young men, both smaller than me, both nervous, both with skimpy beards, and both were shrinking away even before I hit them. They saw a British warlord in splendor, I saw two dead Saxons.
Saxons.''
** Also There's also his description of the Irish Blackshields, ''an army'' a renegade army of berserker soldiers and raiders.
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* In Creator/JamesSwallow's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' novels ''[[Literature/BloodAngels Deus Encarmine'' and ''Deus Sanguinius]]'', the Blood Angels are perpetually tempted by their "flaw", the "red thirst", which transforms them into this when they succumb. Stele unleashes it in opponents to be rid of them. [[spoiler:At the climax, Rafen succumbs to this; on the other hand, it does [[SituationalSword unlock the powers]] of the [[BladeOnAStick Spear of Telesto]] for him, and the daemon he fights is shocked to see that the many futures in which Rafen failed instantly vanish. Then the spear protects him. When the dying daemon unleashes it in the other Blood Angels, they terrify their enemies, who retreat although [[AttackAttackAttack they never retreat]], and the spear even, astoundingly enough, lets Rafen bring back his battle brothers who had succumbed.]]

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* In Creator/JamesSwallow's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' novels ''[[Literature/BloodAngels Deus Encarmine'' and ''Deus Sanguinius]]'', the Blood Angels are perpetually tempted by their "flaw", the "red thirst", which transforms them into this when they succumb. Stele unleashes it in opponents to be rid of them. [[spoiler:At the climax, Rafen succumbs to this; on the other hand, it does [[SituationalSword unlock the powers]] of the [[BladeOnAStick Spear of Telesto]] Telesto for him, and the daemon he fights is shocked to see that the many futures in which Rafen failed instantly vanish. Then the spear protects him. When the dying daemon unleashes it in the other Blood Angels, they terrify their enemies, who retreat although [[AttackAttackAttack they never retreat]], and the spear even, astoundingly enough, lets Rafen bring back his battle brothers who had succumbed.]]
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** Touchstone goes into rages that give him frightening power and disregard for things such as physical impossibilities (i.e. trying to hoist up a throne affixed to the floor so he can throw it at someone). He regrets these bitterly, and they are said to be the result of his mother's affair with a warrior from the North. It is revealed towards the end of ''Sabriel'' that this is partly why he was [[HumanPopsicle frozen as the figurehead of a ship for 200 years]].

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** Touchstone goes into rages that give him frightening power and disregard for things such as physical impossibilities (i.e. incredibly powerful feats of magic, carrying someone weighing about as much as him and running full tilt up a hill, trying to hoist up a throne affixed to the floor so he can throw it at someone). He regrets these bitterly, and they are said bitterly. Being a Berserker seems to be run in [[spoiler: the result Royal bloodline, so he would have inherited it from his mother, though whether or not she or any of his mother's affair with a warrior from the North.half-siblings were Berserkers is not specified]]. It is revealed towards the end of ''Sabriel'' that this is partly why he was [[HumanPopsicle frozen as the figurehead of a ship for 200 years]].



** The title character of the prequel ''Clariel'' also has this [[spoiler:as does her mother, Jaciel]], and her rages are explored in more depth; she tries to use various techniques learned from a book on berserkers to try and keep a lid on it, but the wild, unrestrained passion of the berserker rage also gives her a natural affinity for [[TheDarkSide Free Magic]] [[spoiler:that will, eventually, turn her into Chlorr of the Mask]].

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** The title character of the prequel ''Clariel'' also has this [[spoiler:as does her mother, Jaciel]], Jaciel. They both have Royal blood, though are only cousins to the current monarch]], and her rages are explored in more depth; she tries to use various techniques learned from a book on berserkers to try and keep a lid on it, but the wild, unrestrained passion of the berserker rage also gives her a natural affinity for [[TheDarkSide Free Magic]] [[spoiler:that will, eventually, turn her into Chlorr of the Mask]].

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