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* BloodstainedDefloration:
** In chapters 37-38, while distraught after Guts leaves the Band of the Hawk, Griffith breaks into Princess Charlotte's bedroom and seduces her. She's embarrassed to find a couple droplets of blood on her bedsheets when she wakes up the next morning, then after Griffith is arrested the next morning due to them being seen in the act by a court lady, the King finds the blood spots on her sheets and takes it as proof of Griffith's guilt.
** When Guts and Casca have TheirFirstTime in chapter 46, Casca is shown bleeding in one panel during the act. She's also indicated to still be sore down there a couple chapters later ([[DidYouJustHaveSex to the evident amusement of another Band of the Hawk soldier]]), though this is probably more due to the inexperienced Guts not knowing his own strength (he also briefly had a [[FlashbackEcho PTSD flashback]] to his RapeAsBackstory during their first round).
** In the ''Anime/Berserk1997'' anime, the King of Midland sees the blood on Princess Charlotte's bedsheets, and is horrified as he realizes that Griffith has had sex with her.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: All Casca wanted in life was to serve Griffith, both as a warrior and a woman. She ultimately gets her wish in a cruel twist of irony during the Eclipse, where [[spoiler:Griffith rapes her in order to cause Guts great suffering, since she is Guts' greatest weakness.]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation As a result, Casca is driven insane.]]

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: All Casca wanted in life was to serve Griffith, both as a warrior and a woman. She ultimately gets her wish in a cruel twist of irony during the Eclipse, where [[spoiler:Griffith rapes her in order to cause Guts great suffering, since she is Guts' greatest weakness.]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation [[DrivenToMadness As a result, Casca is driven insane.]]



** The most vile example is what Casca and Guts went through [[spoiler:when Griffith horrifically raped Casca during the Eclipse. Not only is she being horribly violated, but the brand on her chest is causing her ''excruciating pain'' during every waking moment, since Casca is most likely the closest ''any'' human has ever been to a Godhand. This is also a very cruel form of torture for Guts, since he's being ForcedToWatch all this happen to the love of his life by his best friend and he can't do a damn thing about it, even after chopping off his arm [[HopeSpot to try and save her]]. And it's made even worse since Griffith is ''[[KubrickStare smiling at him]]'' while he's doing this.]] It's no wonder that Casca's [[GoMadFromTheRevelation mind just shattered after the events]] and Guts [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds virtually hates the entire world now.]]

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** The most vile example is what Casca and Guts went through [[spoiler:when Griffith horrifically raped Casca during the Eclipse. Not only is she being horribly violated, but the brand on her chest is causing her ''excruciating pain'' during every waking moment, since Casca is most likely the closest ''any'' human has ever been to a Godhand. This is also a very cruel form of torture for Guts, since he's being ForcedToWatch all this happen to the love of his life by his best friend and he can't do a damn thing about it, even after chopping off his arm [[HopeSpot to try and save her]]. And it's made even worse since Griffith is ''[[KubrickStare smiling at him]]'' while he's doing this.]] It's no wonder that Casca's [[GoMadFromTheRevelation [[DrivenToMadness mind just shattered after the events]] and Guts [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds virtually hates the entire world now.]]

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* BreakTheBadass: Kind of, but instead of a new villain, [[spoiler:villain to be]] Griffith is the one who breaks Guts... Guts had just come back [[spoiler:from an assasination mission that went horribly wrong, and he ended up having to kill a child, and when he needed some serious emotional support,]] he happened walked in on Griffith and Charlotte talking, where Griffith said that to him, a friend needed to have his own dream, and not someone who simply followed someone else's dream, the revelation that he wasn't Griffiths friend, and the horrible, ''horrible'' timing for this, effectively broke Guts, making him leave the Hawks to go in a self discovery journey so he could be someone Griffith would consider as a friend. [[spoiler:And as we all know, that had ''horrible'' results, since Guts defeating him with ease, and leaving him broke Griffith himself, and then ''it all went to hell'' soon after]].

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* BreakTheBadass: Kind of, but instead of a new villain, [[spoiler:villain to be]] Griffith is the one who breaks Guts... Guts. Guts had just come back [[spoiler:from an assasination mission that went horribly wrong, were he killed both Griffith's rival Count Julius and he ended up having to kill a child, unintentionally killed his teen son Adonis too, and when he needed some serious emotional support,]] he happened walked to walk in on Griffith and Charlotte talking, where Griffith said that to him, a friend needed to have his own dream, and not someone who simply followed someone else's dream, the and that his soldiers, and thus Guts by extension, were ''not'' his friends. The revelation that he wasn't Griffiths friend, and the horrible, ''horrible'' timing for this, effectively broke Guts, making him leave start considering leaving the Hawks to go in a self discovery journey so he could be someone Griffith would consider as a friend. [[spoiler:And as we all know, that had ''horrible'' results, since Guts defeating him with ease, and leaving him broke Griffith himself, and then ''it all went to hell'' soon after]].after]].
* BreakThemByTalking: Aside from the sheer horror of the Eclipse itself, [[spoiler: the four members of the God Hand proceed to [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech throw Griffith's true nature to his face]] as well as to Guts and the members of the Band of the Hawk before ending with the offer to either go back to his comrades, who risked everything to save him, or kill them and cling to his ambition of becoming king.[[MoralEventHorizon Griffith chooses to kill them all]].]]
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* BoobsOfSteel: Though female anatomy is drawn on a plausible level (but it still doesn't protect them from having the most ClothingDamage done to them), Slan presentably has [[EvilIsSexy the largest pair of breasts]], being the most powerful female character in Berserk. A close second would be Casca, who is the series' only genuine ActionGirl.
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* ChildishVillainMatureHero: Used as one of the many aspects by which Guts and Griffith act as {{foil}}s to each other. Guts, for his faults, gradually begins to care about things beyond base survival, and even after the horror of the Eclipse, eventually the meaningless and destructiveness caused by his revenge quest as the Black Swordsman, moving past it to prioritize protecting those that he cares about and finding his own meaning in life. In contrast, Griffith, despite his WickedCultured exterior, is a PsychopathicManchild who refuses to ever move past his initial childish goal of achieving a kingdom even when it's flatly told to him this desire was deliberately inserted into him by the Godhand, is incapable of viewing people outside of their relation to him, and is willing to sacrifice anyone, even those he has grown to care about, in pursuit of it. Interestingly, as ArtEvolution progresses, Griffith is drawn to look increasingly child-like and cherubic despite the fact that he's at least 2 to 3 years older than Guts is.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: This happens ''a lot''. [[KickTheSonOfABitch Guts to the Apostles]], the Apostles to humans, Mozgus to everyone he encounters (because maybe they might have been having some heretical thoughts at some point in their lives), [[spoiler:the King of Midland to Griffith]], so on and so forth.

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* ColdBloodedTorture: This happens ''a lot''. [[KickTheSonOfABitch [[PayEvilUntoEvil Guts to the Apostles]], the Apostles to humans, Mozgus to everyone he encounters (because maybe they might have been having some heretical thoughts at some point in their lives), [[spoiler:the King of Midland to Griffith]], so on and so forth.

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* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Emperor Ganishka [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty holds Princess Charlotte captive after invading Wyndam]], and tells her that she [[spoiler:[[MaritalRapeLicense must bear his son]] even though they weren't officially married.]] The same also goes to The Great Goat Head who wants to "marry" Casca into the cult after she got captured.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Daiba and most members of the Bakiraka clan seem to prefer going barefoot, the former because he's a yogi and the later because they're martial artists and assassins.

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