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What are you gaping at with your eyes popping out of your head!? You'd think this was your first time seeing a guy stabbing a BFS through the forehead of a giant fog Emperor while riding a bat-winged Minotaur-lion through a lightning storm!

"Screw you. I'm purebred human, right down to the bone. Don't mistake me for one of you freaks."
Guts to Ganishka, Chapter 31, episode #275 ("Attack of the Demon Army")

Examples are sorted in order of appearance.


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    The Black Swordsman Arc 
  • Guts' very first appearance where he kills the unnamed female apostle. It essentially spells out that Guts is ruthless as hell, knows how to put enemies right where he wants them, and is somebody you do not want to piss off.
  • The first published use of the Dragonslayer and later the true reveal of the arm cannon while fighting the Baron of Koka Castle, in which he unloads the thing right in the bastard's face, right before cleaving the demon in half with the Dragonslayer.
  • Guts is traveling with a priest and his daughter when they come across an old battlefield. Due to Guts' tendency to attract violent spirits because of his Brand, the skeletons of the dead reanimate and kill the girl. Guts starts smashing them apart, something that's made easy due to the Dragonslayer being huge enough to act as both a sword and a bludgeon, but it's hard to kill something that's already dead and Puck desperately tries to get him to run.
    Puck: "Why are you staying? It's impossible! There's too many of them...you'll be killed for sure!"
    • And Guts is not kidding. He's been fighting these things nigh on every night for two long years. Even if night after night of fighting demons has taken its toll on him psychologically, there's no denying that if Guts wasn't such a badass, he'd be dead long before this.
  • Guts shattering Zondark's war hammer with enough force that it also breaks his helmet and sends pieces of the hammer into his face.
  • Guts' second fight with Zondark, where it's shown that he's not just an unskilled and powerful brute with a ginormous sword but a master swordsman, wielding the Dragonslayer with the ease of someone with a normal-sized sword.
  • During the battle with the Count, Guts picks up his BFS WITH HIS TEETH, rests it on his iron arm, and then dives in and cuts off the Count's head!
  • Guts's first (chronological) encounter with Femto has him trying his damnedest to kill him, even though: 1.) he's already fucked up from his previous battle with the Count, and 2.) 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.
  • The end of the (chronological) first meeting with the God Hand has Guts quickly reloading his arm cannon and firing it at Femto all the while he's in the sky and phantoms are trying to pull him into Hell!
  • When you read the manga's "Guardians of Desire" arc after seeing the anime first in its entirety, the moment when Femto is introduced gains a LOT of momentum and you practically yell "GRIFFITH!!!" in unison with Guts.

    The Golden Age Arc 
  • 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 firsthand 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.
  • Guts and Casca's first fight. Despite the fact that she lost in the end, it's very impressive because mind you: very few grown men have been able to hold teenaged Guts off in combat for so long, let alone a teenage girl. And he was never holding back, not even after Casca was outed as a girl.
  • During Guts and Griffith's first fight, even though he ends up losing, how 'bout Guts biting down on Griffith's sword and knocking him down a hill where he beats him up?
    Guts: "You talk too much. This is how you use your mouth on the battlefield."
    • Griffith defeating Guts by dislocating his shoulder effortlessly. Especially impressive considering how much more muscular Guts is compared to Griffith.
  • After getting his arm chopped off, Zodd picks it up and smacks Griffith with it. The Abridged Series put it best:
    "Did you just beat him with your own arm? That is hardcore! Seriously, kill me right now, that is the coolest thing that I will ever see!"
  • Guts has the title of the "Hundred Man Slayer," which he earned by single-handedly tearing apart Adon Corbowitz's company of at least one hundred mooks plus his giant brother Samson, in what was deemed at the time as a suicidal assault. And he survives the whole thing while preventing Casca from getting even a scratch on her, cementing his reputation as a supreme badass.
    • Casca also totally kicks ass in that fight. She catches a sword flying through the air, parries, and chops off her attacker's head in one smooth motion, and that's just the start. Even though she almost collapses from fatigue several times, she manages to take down seven guys by herself. She also uses a broken branch to stab out the eye of a guy trying to rape her.
    • As the memory of this event turns into legend over time the number of casualties becomes more and more exaggerated. The last time it was mentioned Guts was rumored to have killed a thousand guys! Funny enough, at this point he could probably DO that, but now he has bigger fish to fry.
  • Casca defeating the dastardly Adon Corbowitz in two moves, even while under the effect of a poison that induces paralysis.
  • Griffith manages to capture the impregnable castle of Doldrey and win the Hundred Year war using only the Band of the Hawk, with no assistance from Midland. To do this he faces the Holy Purple Rhino Knights, Chuder's strongest army, with only five thousand men and a river at his back. He uses Lord Gennon's obsession with him to draw the Tudor army away from the castle, enabling Casca's team to rush inside and defeat the Garrison. Once Guts decapitates General Boscogn and the Hawk banner flies over Doldrey, the Hawks mop up the remaining forces as they flee.
  • 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 Chudor 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.
  • Guts' and Griffith's rematch in the snow proves that in three years Guts has totally surpassed Griffith. The first time they fought, Griffith fenced circles around him and made him taste defeat and humiliation. This time, Guts is completely calm and resolute, while Griffith is filled with Yandere rage yet uncertain whether he can defeat Guts as he is now. It's over in just one move: Guts slices Griffith's blade in half and stops his cut short just at Griffith's shoulder. As Griffith kneels in the snow speechless, Guts walks away from him without looking back.
  • 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 Damsel in Distress most of the time.
  • 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 five crossbow bolts stuck in her. Daay-umn, girl.
    • Her intrepidness certainly doesn't end there, because from that point on, Casca is the de-facto leader of the Band of the Hawk. Even though we don't see all that they've been through in the course of the year, we can only assume that Casca continuously had to avert enemies, keep the remaining Hawks together, and constantly plan for Griffith's rescue. The fact that she's so focused on her duties as a leader and not on her personal well-being shows through he sleep deprivation.
    • ... And speaking of sleep deprivation, friendly reminder that Casca fights Silat when she's pretty much half asleep. Yeah, another battle where she technically loses in the end, but not without an actual good reason and still showing how much resilience and endurance Casca actually has.
"[Guts] You're just like Griffith: your dream is everything; you think of nothing but yourself! You don't give a damn whether I'm around or not, do you?!"
— Casca, episode 21
  • One the most awesome things Casca has said in the series thus far because it displays a phenomenal amount of her character development. It's not only the closest thing to a What the Hell, Hero? speech that Guts was served up to that point, but it was the first time that Casca openly criticized Griffith, something that she would not have done in the past. Her words also ring true, in a pretty creepy way considering what ends up happening to her later in the story as a result of Guts' and Griffith's decisions and actions for the sake of their own goals and ambitions.
  • Guts' Berserker Tears filled Unstoppable Rage 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 lets them in on what's in store for them, Guts 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 his team of Hawks and the way out of the tower.
  • 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, and even blows up a fucking bridge! Not to mention that she and Guts as a Battle Couple 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.
  • Guts' fight with Apostle Wyald. He's nearly dead, and yet still manages to almost kill the perverted Apostle and give him perhaps the ultimate cock-block in order to save Casca.
    • And then Zodd arrives and finishes the fight by ripping Wyald in half.
      Wyald: L-Look, there's no way [Griffith] can be the King! He's going to die!
      Zodd: Then you'll die first!
  • Guts taking on The Legions of Hell during the Eclipse with nothing more than his Unstoppable Rage and a horn he snapped off a monster's head. Then when his arm gets caught in the mouth of one of those demons, he picks up a dull sword and hacks it off at the elbow, all to try and save the person he loved.
    • Although we already know what ultimately happens, the movie adds a few more Awesome Moments for Guts. When he cuts his arm off, Guts doesn't bother hacking all the way through but instead cuts only halfway before tearing the rest off as he pulls himself free. Guts then charges at Femto but is frozen dead in his tracks just as he is about to drives his broken sword into Femto's eye. For a moment, it seems that Guts will now have to witness Femto's raping of Casca within only inches of reach, until Guts slowly but surely overcomes Femto's spell with nothing but his sheer willpower and unfathomable rage. Guts is tossed back by an influx of Femto's power, but the nigh-omnipotent demon god's expression suggests he legitimately didn't see that one coming and realized that Guts may actually be able to harm him if he allowed him to get too close.
      • Watch the reactions of the Godhand while this is happening; when Guts first lunges towards Femto, the other Godhand members are all laughing. Then they stop, because despite their claims that a mere human could never overpower one of them, Guts is still moving towards Femto. Not only did he not see it coming, none of the others saw it coming either. Slan herself seemed mightily impressed.
    • Even though this was overshadowed by horror, it was pretty badass how Casca gave one last stand against the Apostles after Judeau died. Even in the face of death (and worse), Casca did not give up.
      • It's made even sadder in that this is really Casca's last conscious action as the heroic female warrior that she was before the horrors that lead to the loss of her mind befall her.
      • Before Judeau dies, he throws his last knife at the Apostle that just skewered him, which distracts it enough that Casca can kill it with her sword. In the next panel, you can see that the Apostle is now lying on the ground. Even though they were never powerhouse fighters like Guts, Judeau and Casca managed to take down an Apostle in the middle of the Eclipse.
    • Let's talk about what the Eclipse is first. It is, 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 the Skull Knight, but for surviving as long as they did, is a nigh-impossible achievement all on its own.
  • Skull Knight entering the Eclipse has his own moment. As he rushes past Void, he can't help but take a swipe at Void. The Godhand casually opens a portal to redirect Skull Knight's sword back at him... but Skull Knight has already raised his shield to block his own attack, clearly knowing exactly what Void was going to do beforehand.
  • The declaration of war Guts delivers upon surviving The Eclipse:
    Guts: Destiny...destiny...destiny...destiny...SHUT THE HELL UP! How 'bout you save your high and mighty crap for after I've been haunted to death, skullface? Sacrifice? Offering? Destiny? Quit spoutin' out a bunch of cryptic explanations! The point is, this is war! It ain't different from any other war! The last one standing wins! Listen here! I'm beatin' all a' you back down to Hell! Tell those ugly pale-faced bastards for me! If I get hit, I will hit back! Tell 'em leavin' me half-eaten is gonna be the end of you! I'll hunt and kill all those wretched monsters...and all of you...DOWN TO THE LAST ONE! THIS IS...MY DECLARATION OF WAR!

    Conviction Arc: Chapter of Lost Children 
  • The finale of the battle between Guts and Rosine in her monstrous form. 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 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!
    • Jumping into fire to kill a swarm of insect-like faux-Elves, dousing himself in blood and entrails to keep from burning to death, intentionally getting his arm impaled on the proboscis earlier in order to get a clean shot with the Arm Cannon...this entire battle is one CMOA after another.

    Conviction Arc: Chapter of the Binding Chain 
  • Puck gets one when he saves Guts from a horde of shadow monsters by fencing with dandelions. Doubles as hilarious.
  • Though the Holy Iron Chain Knights (or "Spoiled Brat Knights," as Serpico calls them in the 2016 anime) are mainly spoiled young sons of noble families, when Guts jumps over Azan and goes straight for their commander, Farnese, a group of them do not hesitate to get themselves between her and Guts, trying to protect her. Though they may have been spoiled and inexperienced, they weren't cowards.
  • Right after this, Serpico stops Guts and saves his commander (and half-sister) with a mere piece of wood which he throws directly at Guts' injured thigh, so that his leg gives out and he runs into Farnese's sword. Bonus points for nobody else noticing it, not even Farnese, thereby causing all the Knights to think she stopped Guts herself.

    Conviction Arc: Chapter of the Birth Ceremony 
  • Guts' greatest second chance revelation in volume 17 is pretty triumphant, as he makes a declaration that he would never lose what is important to him again.
  • And Guts then goes on to make damn good on that declaration during their reunion, by saving Casca in true Big Damn Heroes fashion in the heretics' den, stopping the possessed Great Goat Head from doing to her what Griffith did to her two years ago.
  • Isidro gets his own little moment of awesome prior to this, when he buys time for Puck to get to Guts by holding off an army of cultists using a whole pile of thrown rocks, the first of which puts out the eye of the cultist about to sacrifice Nina.
  • While Isidro is trying to help Casca and Nina escape from the pagans, he jerry-rigs a pulley system but Casca slips through the harness, only to acrobatically land safely on the cave floor below. A small feat, yes, but so impactful - especially considering recent plot developments on Elfhelm - because it's the first hint that on some level, Casca is aware of her surroundings despite her insanity.
  • Serpico challenging Guts shortly after his battle with the Great Goat Head. This gives us a glimpse at his tactical genius, as he encounters Guts at a narrow cliff face, where Guts can't use the Dragonslayer due to the cliff being on his right side and Serpico actively preventing him from drawing it. He's also pretty good with his rapier, actually forcing Guts on the defensive. The only reason Serpico loses the fight is that Guts is able to grab Serpico's sword with his right hand and snap its blade, and Guts notes that Serpico was an even tougher opponent than the Apostle-spawn he'd just killed.
    • When he pretty much loses the fight, Serpico is able to dodge a wave of bombs aimed at him, steal one of Guts's bombs, and detonate it as a distraction.
  • Guts's fight against Mozgus where he yells just before killing him:
    Guts: "When you meet your God tell him to LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!!!!!"
  • Isidro saves Casca from being burned at the stake in the nick of time due to his Indy Ploy in volume 21.
    • Heck, even Puck had a rather badass moment around the same time, when he momentarily blinded two of Mozgus' henchmen so that Isidro could throw rocks at them and have Jerome finish them off when the crashed down. Now that was some teamwork there!
  • At the end of the Conviction arc, Guts and his allies are attacked by the Bakiraka. While the men (and Isidro) manage to defend themselves, Casca, Farnese, Luca and Nina are captured by them and threatened unless they surrender. Out of absolutely nowhere, Azan appears behind the one who held them hostage, announcing his presence, before smashing in his head with his metal quarterstaff. A true knight, indeed.

    Millennium Falcon Arc: Chapter of the Holy Demon War 
  • Guts's second battle with Nosferatu Zodd, about four years after the first — where he's gone from just barely managing to not die, to matching the demonic warrior blow for blow — and forces him to up the ante and go apostle. All without using any magical items, arrows, or even the arm cannon.
  • During the Kushan occupation of Midland, the Bakiraka are summoned to the tent of a Kushan commander. The commander is a complete Jerkass who proceeds to give shit to Silat about how he has failed to capture "just one man" and how it's just "a whim" that the Kushan Emperor is even keeping him employed. Silat was kneeling while being lectured and to accentuate his douchbaggery, the commander is resting his foot on Silat's neck. Suddenly Silat rises upwards as if in anger but instead catches an arrow, meant for the commander. Turns out there is an assault by Midland forces which the commander had totally missed. So the Bakiraka proceeds to decapitate the Midland Knights with their War Wheels and utterly CRUSH the skulls of some, with their Martial Arts kicks. It's definitely Silat's and the Bakiraka's most awesome moment.
    Silat: There are more pressing issues.
  • Post-Eclipse Casca killing 3 would-be rapists just before they have their way with her while Guts is away. As she stands there, naked and covered in their blood, you see her huffing with Blank White Eyes. Guts himself was surprised.
  • Whenever the Skull Knight shows up, things are going to get awesome.
    • One moment in particular was the fight at the spirit tree, where Griffith sent his apostles to go kill Flora. And then Skull Knight comes and basically says, "the fuck that I'll let that happen." Skull Knight may be all mysterious, cynical and junk, and though he has saved countless people, it's here that we see just how much Skull Knight truly valued Flora as a friend.
  • Grunbeld calmly challenging Guts to single combat, before utterly schooling him in a fight.
  • Guts' first use of the Berserker armour: he gets eaten whole by an Apostle who runs outside screaming from the pain he's in, rips the Apostle apart from the inside, the armour reshapes itself to match Guts's inner beast, and then he proceeds to curb-stomp every Apostle he can get his hands on. The resulting carnage was so awesome that Skull Knight and Zodd completely forgot they were supposed to fight each other... and could only watch in awe as Guts cuts loose on Grunbeld, matching him blow for blow and then some.
    • Every other use of the Berserker armor is a mix of awesome and terrifying because everyone in the party knows that Guts is killing himself by using it and is one step away from killing them too.

    Millennium Falcon Arc: Chapter of Falconia 
  • Azan's reappearance in Vritannis is both this and funny. When Captain Sharkrider unwittingly steps on the sleeping knight's face while fighting Isidro, Azan grabs his foot and throws him into the water. He then proceeds to beat up the rest of the pirates to save the captured children, adding in a stirring speech of what it means to be a knight beforehand.
  • Guts and Serpico's duel in the hall of pillars beneath a palace in Vritannis. Serpico shows his tactical genius again, but what makes it really awesome is that afterwards Guts admits that he wasn't holding back. That's right, Serpico fought Guts full on and came out with nothing more than a scratch and wounded pride.
    • Worth noting: Serpico places Guts in a room full of pillars, which makes the Dragonslayer almost worthless. Without resorting to any of his other weapons, Guts still beats Serpico down - to the point that Serpico is forced to admit to himself that Guts scares him. (Incidentally, how'd Guts deal with the pillars? Smashing through them with his sword. Even when the arena is designed to stop him using that weapon, he still made it work.)
    • Serpico seriously deserves credit for having the spine to stand up to Guts, the brains to pick a location where he has multiple distinct tactical advantages, and then impressing Guts enough to let him live after his last minute escape. The fact that he lasted as long as he did, WITHOUT his Magic Cloak or Wind Sword, is a testament to his tactics and capabilities. Of course, Guts gets one as well for winning anyway.
  • Farnese gets hers when she attacks a giant tiger demon at a royal ball with only a silver candelabra. While she may be little more than The Load most of the time, this shows that traveling with Guts has put her that bit above the rest of the inhabitants of Midland.
    • Serpico's Big Damn Heroes moment rescuing Farnese from the tiger was pretty awesome too.
    • The tiger battle that follows has nearly everyone in Guts's crew pitching in. Guts is the primary asskicker of the fight, cleaving through tigers left and right with the Dragonslayer, while Isidro helps out with Godo's bombs and Schierke summons a plant elemental to tangle up more tigers before granting control of her summon to Farnese, who promptly uses it to save Roderick from another tiger, while giving him some pointers on what weapons to use against the monsters. Roderick even skewers one of the tigers to help out Guts.
  • Schierke gets several of these but especially upon summoning a giant fire wheel and then torching alive a whole platoon of Kushan demon soldiers!!! She might be a Glass Cannon but she's still badass for such a frail-looking little girl (aside from Rosine of course).
    • Pretty much the entire battle in Vritannis against the sea monsters, Daiba and Ganishka, which is just one awesome moment after another from Guts, Schierke, Serpico and Zodd. Schierke especially gets points for being able to keep Guts in control of himself while she's trapped in the Berserker Armor with Guts and being able to call on the fire magic that helped the crew against the Kushan demons (see above) while still in astral mode in order to help Guts against the Kundalini and Daiba, essentially turning the Dragonslayer into a Flaming Sword.
  • It bears repeating: Guts surfing on Zodd through the head of Ganishka's astral form, in the middle of a frigging lightning storm! Holy crap!
  • Guts's utterly ballsy telling off of Ganishka, when Ganishka tries to get him to join him against their mutual enemy Griffith, telling him in no uncertain terms what he thinks of the both of them, after already taking enough lightning from Ganishka to kill a normal human at least several times over.
  • Emperor Ganishka resisting Griffith's attempts to bring him under control like the rest of the apostles is a display of pure villainous willpower.
    • Ganishka in general is one of those characters that is so utterly and totally evil that he crosses the line into awesome. From the hammy speeches to the soul-devouring rawness of villainy, he is essentially Darkseid in a turban.
  • Captain Sharkrider's pirate crew, last seen in Vritannis, decide to try their luck and attack Roderick's ship, the Seahorse, which Guts and his companions are traveling on. Cue Roderick utterly humiliating them in a naval Curb-Stomp Battle.
  • Sonia making a Rousing Speech and leading the human members of the new Band of Hawks to aid their fellow demon members fighting Emperor Ganishka's monsters.
  • Griffith and the new Band of the Hawk versus Vishnu/Ganishka and its massive horde of Apostle spawn. Sure, he's the villain, but still! Under his command, regular, human soldiers start fighting alongside the monstrous, demonic Apostles. It really gives you an idea of why everybody considers him to be a Messianic Archetype.
  • Griffith/Femto just got another, when he uses Skull Knight's surprise attack that was meant to kill him to split the abomination that Ganishka had become open and merge all layers of the world! And in the wake of that, his castle, his city of Falconia, rises from the earth, marking both the beginning of his reign and the Age of Darkness.
    • The chapters "Creation" and "Fantasia". Without a single word until the very end, Miura portrays the transformation of the series's universe from Low Fantasy to High Fantasy. And it is glorious.

    Fantasia Arc: Chapter of Elf Island 
  • Guts gets another moment when the pirates come back for a rematch after being possessed by the Sea God. They come in the form of ravenous sea cucumbers that do immense damage to the ship and put Roderick's men on the run. So Guts casually marches up from below deck, quietly appraises the threat...and drives off the demons singlehandedly in a Curb-Stomp Battle, snarking with boredom the entire time. Points added for this effectively doubling as a He's Back! moment, with Guts recovering very nicely from the injuries he sustained in Vritannis.
  • Farnese has recently gotten another one with her very first spell, a ward of protection around the ship Guts and company are taking. Schierke's not the only witch among Guts' True Companions anymore.
  • In chapter 326, Guts killed the Sea God. That's right, Guts has officially punched out Berserk's equivalent to Cthulhu!
  • 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 fechtbucher and puts a mordschlagnote  right into the guy's eye.
  • In Chapter 337, Rickert has the nads to slap Griffith in the face. The greatest thing about this is that he's able to walk away afterwards without being assailed by any of the villain's soldiers for doing such an act. Quite the impressive feat, considering how "untouchable" Neo-Griffith has seemingly become since joining the Godhand.
    Rickert: "I was ashamed. I couldn't go with everyone to Wyndham that day, to rescue you. There was a debt I had to pay for not going with my comrades to their doom. Unlike Guts, I couldn't get angry. I couldn't shoulder that burden, all I could do was see him off. But on that hill, the one who forged those swords in remembrance of everyone... That WAS ME! Did you notice? The crest of the new Band of the Hawk compared to the badge of old — the wings are a bit different. I was a soldier led by the white winged Griffith. I am Rickert of the Band of the Hawk. The Hawk of Light is not my commander. Farewell."
    • The speech isn't even hate-filled nor one with malicious aura. Rickert simply looks Griffith in the eye and tells him point blank that he will not throw away his principles in tribute to his fallen friends, refusing to desecrate their memory by following the same man who condemned them all to die.
    • Bonus awesomeness: Locus standing in the background, looking really, REALLY pissed but not allowed to act on it. This, after he tried to intimidate Rickert earlier by showing him the army of Apostles in the arena.
  • Following the aforementioned slap, Rakshas attempts to assassinate him. After being saved by Silat and the Tapasa, Rickert concocts a plan with them to combat the Apostle. He lures Rakshas into a trap and sprayed him with arrows (albeit ineffectually) and modifies the water spraying machine he created into a napalm-like flamethrower which the Tapasa use to force Rakshas into Apostle form.
    • Silat too gets an awesome moment when he battles evenly with Rakshas, even landing a hit. When Rakshas comments on his improvement, he reveals that after Guts defeated him, he learned from his failure and became much stronger. His Tapasa get to show off their incredible skill and finesse in the battle with Rakshas as well.
  • Rickert and company's escape from Falconia is completely epic. Daiba shows up with swarms of snakes and rats to save Erica from Rakshas' clutches, and flies them out on his pet Pterasaurs. Rakshas flies into the air like a bat winged monster and is catching up, when at the last possible second Rickert shoots him out of the sky with a friggin' self-invented rocket launcher. Rickert officially Took a Level in Badass.
  • After so long, Guts and company have finally, finally reached Elfheim.
  • Schierke summoning the giant golem in Casca's dream. When the old wizards called her Flora's star student, they weren't exaggerating.
  • In Chapter 351, Schierke brings forth not only the giant golem, but also the Rotting Root Lord to fend off the incredibly disturbing monsters after them, but when Schierke runs out of fetishes, Farnese brings out a summon of her own from her dream to cover their escape from the nightmarish forest: FREAKING MOZGUS! He proceeds to destroy the creatures in the most hilariously awesome way possible.
  • Chapter 352, Four words: Berserker Armor Dog Guts.
  • Chapter 353, Ten words: Berserker Armor Dog Guts with a mouth cannon and Dragonslayer.
    • Don't forget Flora's spirit reappearing and vaporizing the monster army.
    • Honestly the fact that Guts, no matter what form or plane of existence he's in, is still risking everything to protect Casca is just a whole new level of jaw-dropping awesomeness.
  • Chapter 354. After spending over twenty real time years as a maddened shadow of her former self, Casca has finally regained her sanity.
    • There’s something awesome about not having a hiatus after such a pivotal point in the story, unlike several times before. The audience merely has to wait a whole month to see the results of Casca returning in full form. Simply awesome.
  • Chapters 355 & 356 has Zodd fight a Hydra. And win. He may be serving under Griffith, but Zodd is still not an Apostle to be trifled with.
  • Chapter 359 shows something fans have been waiting years for: Casca back to how she looked and acted before the Eclipse. She’s cut her hair, put on some armor, and is wielding a sword for the first time in a while. And despite the lack of training, Casca can still kick ass. She spars with some Golems and managed to dodge and land blows just as good as she did in the old days. She’s still so good that Isidro wants to train with her. It’s just so amazing to see the Casca we’ve all missed finally back in action.
  • A very subtle and indirect one in the flashbacks Guts sees: we see that, besides Void, the Godhand are all different. This implies that the Godhand can be killed, and that there is hope.
  • 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/spatial manipulation, but one of the swings of the Dragonslayer manages to slice off some of Griffith's hair, meaning that his blade can affect him.

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