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* FantasyGunControl: In Berserk's fantastic setting, where magic can reshape the landscape in a matter of moments and strong swordsmen sometimes end a fight scene on a literal mountain of bodies, the exclusion of firearms from the story is heavily {{downplayed}}. On one hand, just about all armies and navies make extensive use of cannons, to the point where the objective of the first raid that Griffith makes Guts participate in is to set the enemy's gunpowder stores on fire, and he sets his own artillery as an ambush for the enemy. Guts and Grunbeld each have a miniaturized cannon as part of their personal weaponry, and use their explosive power as a devastating trump card against hordes of enemies or powerful monsters, to which can be added Rickert's [[spoiler:portable rocket launcher]] and the miniature bombs he made for Guts. The big caveat that makes the trope still present is that besides these characters, warfare is still universally waged with arrows from massed bowmen and crossbowmen, and even the countries whose large number of cannons suggest the technological capacity to mass-produce hand firearms for their troops continue to rely on old-fashioned archery without a hand gun in sight. The fact that Rickert also invented an AutomaticCrossbow for Guts that fires faster than any gun suggests that bows won't become obsolete any time soon. Miura [[ShownTheirWork showed his work here]], in that historically it ''did'' take a while for man-portable firearms to become prevalent: until rifling was developed in the early 16th century, the main advantage of muskets over longbows wasn't firepower, but ease of training, and bow formations could still theoretically have been competitive until reliable repeating rifles and breech-loaders were introduced in the mid-19th century.
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* FantasyGunControl: In Berserk's fantastic setting, where magic can reshape the landscape in a matter of moments and strong swordsmen sometimes end a fight scene on a literal mountain of bodies, the exclusion of firearms from the story is heavily {{downplayed}}. On one hand, just about all armies and navies make extensive use of cannons, to the point where the objective of the first raid that Griffith makes Guts participate in is to set the enemy's gunpowder stores on fire, and he sets his own artillery as an ambush for the enemy. Guts and Grunbeld each have a miniaturized cannon as part of their personal weaponry, and use their explosive power as a devastating trump card against hordes of enemies or powerful monsters, to which can be added Rickert's [[spoiler:portable rocket launcher]] and the miniature bombs he made for Guts. The big caveat that makes the trope still present is that besides these characters, warfare is still universally waged with arrows from massed bowmen and crossbowmen, and even the countries whose large number of cannons suggest the technological capacity to mass-produce hand firearms for their troops continue to rely on old-fashioned archery without a hand gun in sight. The fact that Rickert also invented an AutomaticCrossbow for Guts that fires faster than any gun suggests that bows won't become obsolete any time soon. Miura [[ShownTheirWork showed his work here]], in that historically it ''did'' take a while for man-portable firearms to become prevalent: until rifling was developed in the early 16th century, the main advantage of muskets over longbows wasn't firepower, range, or accuracy, but ease of training, and bow formations could still theoretically have been competitive until reliable repeating rifles and breech-loaders were introduced in the mid-19th century.
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** The Golden Age Arc draws some inspiration from UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar, with the long-running conflict between the Kingdom of Midland and the Tudor Empire specifically being called the Hundred-Year War. Mercenaries like the Band of the Hawk were historically a significant part of European armies from late Rome through the mid-19th century. Somewhat uniquely, the story seems to be told from the ''French'' perspective rather than the English POV, with Tudor eventually being diverted from prosecuting the war by an EnemyCivilWar sparked by a SuccessionCrisis, mirroring the concurrent UsefulNotes/WarsOfTheRoses.
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** The Golden Age Arc draws some inspiration from UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar, with the long-running conflict between the Kingdom of Midland and the Tudor Empire specifically being called the Hundred-Year War. Mercenaries like the Band of the Hawk were historically a significant part of European armies from late Rome through the mid-19th century. Somewhat uniquely, the story seems to be told from the ''French'' perspective rather than the English POV, with Tudor eventually being diverted from prosecuting the war by an EnemyCivilWar sparked by a SuccessionCrisis, mirroring the concurrent UsefulNotes/WarsOfTheRoses. This gives Midland an opportunity to retake Doldrey and end the war.
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** The Golden Age Arc draws some inspiration from UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar, with the long-running conflict between the Kingdom of Midland and the Tudor Empire specifically being called the Hundred-Year War. Mercenaries like the Band of the Hawk were historically a significant part of European armies from late Rome through the mid-19th century. Somewhat uniquely, the story seems to be told from the ''French'' perspective rather than the English POV, with Tudor eventually being diverted from prosecuting the war by an EnemyCivilWar sparked by a SuccessionCrisis, mirroring the concurrent UsefulNotes/WarsOfTheRoses.
** The post-Eclipse invasion of the Kushan Empire seems to parallel the Islamic invasions of southern Europe, though Kushan is visually patterned more after Mughal India.
** The Golden Age Arc draws some inspiration from UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar, with the long-running conflict between the Kingdom of Midland and the Tudor Empire specifically being called the Hundred-Year War. Mercenaries like the Band of the Hawk were historically a significant part of European armies from late Rome through the mid-19th century. Somewhat uniquely, the story seems to be told from the ''French'' perspective rather than the English POV, with Tudor eventually being diverted from prosecuting the war by an EnemyCivilWar sparked by a SuccessionCrisis, mirroring the concurrent UsefulNotes/WarsOfTheRoses.
** The post-Eclipse invasion of the Kushan Empire seems to parallel the Islamic invasions of southern Europe, though Kushan is visually patterned more after Mughal India.
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* FantasyGunControl: In Berserk's fantastic setting, where magic can reshape the landscape in a matter of moments and strong swordsmen sometimes end a fight scene on a literal mountain of bodies, the exclusion of firearms from the story is heavily [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. On one hand, just about all armies and navies make extensive use of cannons, to the point where the objective of the first raid that Griffith makes Guts participate in is to set the enemy's gunpowder stores on fire, and he sets his own artillery as an ambush for the enemy. Guts and Grunbeld each have a miniaturized cannon as part of their personal weaponry, and use their explosive power as a devastating trump card against hordes of enemies or powerful monsters, to which can be added Rickert's [[spoiler:portable rocket launcher]] and the miniature bombs he made for Guts. The big caveat that makes the trope still present is that besides these characters, warfare is still universally waged with arrows from massed bowmen and crossbowmen, and even the countries whose large number of cannons suggest the technological capacity to mass-produce hand firearms for their troops continue to rely on old-fashioned archery without a hand gun in sight. The fact that Rickert also invented an AutomaticCrossbow for Guts that fires faster than any gun suggests that bows won't become obsolete any time soon.
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* FantasyGunControl: In Berserk's fantastic setting, where magic can reshape the landscape in a matter of moments and strong swordsmen sometimes end a fight scene on a literal mountain of bodies, the exclusion of firearms from the story is heavily [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]].{{downplayed}}. On one hand, just about all armies and navies make extensive use of cannons, to the point where the objective of the first raid that Griffith makes Guts participate in is to set the enemy's gunpowder stores on fire, and he sets his own artillery as an ambush for the enemy. Guts and Grunbeld each have a miniaturized cannon as part of their personal weaponry, and use their explosive power as a devastating trump card against hordes of enemies or powerful monsters, to which can be added Rickert's [[spoiler:portable rocket launcher]] and the miniature bombs he made for Guts. The big caveat that makes the trope still present is that besides these characters, warfare is still universally waged with arrows from massed bowmen and crossbowmen, and even the countries whose large number of cannons suggest the technological capacity to mass-produce hand firearms for their troops continue to rely on old-fashioned archery without a hand gun in sight. The fact that Rickert also invented an AutomaticCrossbow for Guts that fires faster than any gun suggests that bows won't become obsolete any time soon. Miura [[ShownTheirWork showed his work here]], in that historically it ''did'' take a while for man-portable firearms to become prevalent: until rifling was developed in the early 16th century, the main advantage of muskets over longbows wasn't firepower, but ease of training, and bow formations could still theoretically have been competitive until reliable repeating rifles and breech-loaders were introduced in the mid-19th century.
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* HumansAreSpecial: It's implied that all of the magic and magical creatures in the Berserk universe are created from the collective mind of humanity. All magic, monsters, and supernatural phenomenon are created, unintentionally by human imagination. Also, the only ones who seem to be capable of the most drastic alterations and events to the world through the supernatural are humans. All of the members of the God Hand were once human, most spell casters and magicians are human, [[HumanMomNonHumanDad and only humans are capable of breeding with any supernatural creature]] to varying degrees ([[InterspeciesRomance from a sailor who has a daughter with a mermaid]] to [[BreedingSlave Trolls that kidnap village women to reproduce]]). Now imagine the kind of world humans could create if they could collectively and actively control the forces that they normally unconsiously create.
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* HumansAreSpecial: It's implied that all of the magic and magical creatures in the Berserk universe are created from the collective mind of humanity. All magic, monsters, and supernatural phenomenon are created, unintentionally by human imagination. Also, the only ones who seem to be capable of the most drastic alterations and events to the world through the supernatural are humans. All of the members of the God Hand were once human, most spell casters and magicians are human, [[HumanMomNonHumanDad [[HalfHumanHybrid and only humans are capable of breeding with any supernatural creature]] to varying degrees ([[InterspeciesRomance from a sailor who has a daughter with a mermaid]] to [[BreedingSlave Trolls that kidnap village women to reproduce]]). Now imagine the kind of world humans could create if they could collectively and actively control the forces that they normally unconsiously create.
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* FantasyKitchenSink: The setting has pretty much everything, especially after magic comes back to the world, not just [[TheUsualAdversaries apostles]] (not to mention how some apostle forms are stand-ins for other supernatural creatures like [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]], [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaurs]], and [[ALoadOfBull minotaurs]]) and elves ([[OurFairiesAreDifferent though they're really faeries]]) and how other apostles seem to have [[LooksLikeOrlok vampiric]] [[{{Dracula}} motifs]]): {{Unicorn}}s, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons and their kin]], more trolls, ogres, [[HellishHorse kelpies,]] [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent gremlin-thingies,]] [[TheUndead the walking]] [[{{Pun}} dead]], sucubi (which are really weird BlobMonster things), [[GhostPirate monster pirates,]] [[McNinja Kushan ninjas,]] [[OurMagesAreDifferent mages]], {{golem}}s, [[ArmCannon low-tech mechanized]] humans, merfolk, telepaths, [[HornyVikings vikings]] at one point in history... oh, and [[spoiler:the evil god]]... [[http://www.mrsmanga.com/Berserk/306/1 You gotta see it to believe it.]] [[TemptingFate What's Miura gonna throw at us next?]]
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* FantasyKitchenSink: The setting has pretty much everything, especially after magic comes back to the world, not just [[TheUsualAdversaries apostles]] (not to mention how some apostle forms are stand-ins for other supernatural creatures like [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]], [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaurs]], and [[ALoadOfBull [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent minotaurs]]) and elves ([[OurFairiesAreDifferent though they're really faeries]]) and how other apostles seem to have [[LooksLikeOrlok vampiric]] [[{{Dracula}} motifs]]): {{Unicorn}}s, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons and their kin]], more trolls, ogres, [[HellishHorse kelpies,]] [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent gremlin-thingies,]] [[TheUndead the walking]] [[{{Pun}} dead]], sucubi (which are really weird BlobMonster things), [[GhostPirate monster pirates,]] [[McNinja Kushan ninjas,]] [[OurMagesAreDifferent mages]], {{golem}}s, [[ArmCannon low-tech mechanized]] humans, merfolk, telepaths, [[HornyVikings vikings]] at one point in history... oh, and [[spoiler:the evil god]]... [[http://www.mrsmanga.com/Berserk/306/1 You gotta see it to believe it.]] [[TemptingFate What's Miura gonna throw at us next?]]
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* TheGreatSerpent: [[spoiler:The Snake Baron is in his giant form and seen wreaking havoc across Midland during the Golden Age Arc.]]
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* {{Gorn}}: Miura depicts all kinds of bloodshed and dismemberment with a level of detail that straddles the line between horror and fascination. To elaborate, it's ''even bloodier'' than all of Creator/QuentinTarantino's films '''''combined''''', is packed the very gills and [[{{Pun}} guts]] with gratuitous extreme graphic aberrant violence that makes ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'', ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII'' and '''''even''''' ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt}}'' look like games made for little children, there's large amounts of GratuitousRape that downright obscene and pornographic, explicit brutality that makes ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}}'' look like a joke, and much, MUCH more. This holds the reputation as the most violent manga ever created, and for good reason.
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* {{Gorn}}: Miura depicts all kinds of bloodshed and dismemberment with a level of detail that straddles the line between horror and fascination. To elaborate, it's ''even bloodier'' than all of Creator/QuentinTarantino's films '''''combined''''', is packed the very gills and [[{{Pun}} guts]] with gratuitous extreme graphic aberrant violence that not only makes ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'', ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII'' and '''''even''''' ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt}}'' look like games made for little children, children but also, makes the Live-Action SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} [[Film/Deadpool2016 duo]] [[Film/Deadpool2 logy]] look and feel more like a SoBadItsGood LiveActionAdaptation of Manga/{{CardcaptorSakura}} as a Sitcom by comparison (and if Deadpool killing so many people aren't that Bloody enough, then think again with how many people and monsters has Guts beaten up to the death), there's large amounts of GratuitousRape that downright obscene and pornographic, explicit brutality that makes ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}}'' look like a joke, joke and much, MUCH more. This holds the reputation as the most violent manga ever created, created in history and for good reason.reason. And not to mention, ComicBook/{{Invincible}} is basically Berserk with Superheroes.
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* HappinessRealizedTooLate: In the Golden Age Arc, Guts leaves the Band of the Hawk because he's decided he needs to become what Griffith would consider a true friend: someone who doesn't cling to another person's dream, but fights to realize their own. Before leaving he talks to Judeau and Casca about how he didn't belong in the Band of the Hawk in the first place, and was like a traveller who stopped to warm himself by their campfire before resuming his lonely journey. It turns out Guts didn't realize just how much Griffith needed him emotionally, and that despair sets off a chain of events that leaves Griffith ruined and the Band of the Hawk about to split up. When Gaston and the raiders come running to Guts and say they want to go with him, Guts has a crushing realization that the Band of the Hawk was his family all along, but now it's too late to undo the consequences of his choice.
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** The first chapter also feature a scene in which Guts is surrounded by a large number of soldiers who take him captive. Anyone reading farther along in the series would realize that it's laughable to think that those soldiers had ANY chance of taking Guts against his will, given his inhuman sword skills. There is no indication in the chapter that Guts surrendered on purpose, and doing that would mostly be out of character for him, so the scene stands out all the more compared to later.
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** The first chapter also feature features a scene in which Guts is surrounded by a large number of soldiers who take him captive. Anyone reading farther along in the series would realize that it's laughable to think that those soldiers had ANY chance of taking Guts against his will, given his inhuman sword skills. There is no indication in the chapter that Guts surrendered on purpose, and doing that would mostly be out of character for him, so the scene stands out all the more compared to later.
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* EatsBabies: Most Apostles qualify for this. They don't care if the one they're eating is an innocent baby. No, they don't. In fact, the fresher and more tender the meat, the better!
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Surprisingly, there are some examples in the otherwise fictional ConstructedWorld of ''Berserk''
** Guts: UsefulNotes/GotzVonBerlichingen (1480–1562), a German knight, was the leader of a band of mercenary soldiers and attained the reputation as a Myth/RobinHood [[JustLikeRobinHood figure]]. In 1504, his right arm was struck by enemy cannon fire and a prosthetic iron arm was developed to replace it. Guts' iron arm, in his original character concept, is very similar to Götz's iron arm kept in the Nüremberg Museum. However, [[WordOfGod Miura stated in an interview]] that he created Guts independently and that he did not find out about von Berlichingen until after several volumes of the manga had been published, so this appears coincidental.
** Emperor Gaiseric: The Emperor Gaiseric alluded to in volume 10 was based on the actual King Genseric who ruled the Vandals' kingdom in Europe in the 5th century. He was famed as a brilliant general who was seen as a threat even to the Roman Empire. In the manga, Gaiseric is said to have created a vast empire, similar to the Romans, that was destroyed by God's wrath. He banded together his small tribe and brought them great fame as a kingdom that exercised its authority in the Mediterranean region.
*** [[spoiler:It is hinted that Emperor Gaiseric survived his fallen empire in the form of the Skull Knight, a recurring character who aids Guts and stands in opposition to the God Hand]].
** Emperor Ganishka: The Emperor Ganishka, working as Griffith's enemy in Berserk, was based on King Kanishka, who ruled over the actual Kushan Empire, a vast empire in India and Central Asia during the 2nd century. He was also a profound Buddhist and adorned his empire with its respective figures and promoted it vigorously. Like his real-life counterpart, Ganishka also decorates his palace with famous Buddhist and Hindu figures, but has demonized them to suit his nature.
** Mozgus appears to be based on Ivan the Terrible, due to his daily routine of slamming his face into the ground during prayer and his biblical methods of execution.
** Guts: UsefulNotes/GotzVonBerlichingen (1480–1562), a German knight, was the leader of a band of mercenary soldiers and attained the reputation as a Myth/RobinHood [[JustLikeRobinHood figure]]. In 1504, his right arm was struck by enemy cannon fire and a prosthetic iron arm was developed to replace it. Guts' iron arm, in his original character concept, is very similar to Götz's iron arm kept in the Nüremberg Museum. However, [[WordOfGod Miura stated in an interview]] that he created Guts independently and that he did not find out about von Berlichingen until after several volumes of the manga had been published, so this appears coincidental.
** Emperor Gaiseric: The Emperor Gaiseric alluded to in volume 10 was based on the actual King Genseric who ruled the Vandals' kingdom in Europe in the 5th century. He was famed as a brilliant general who was seen as a threat even to the Roman Empire. In the manga, Gaiseric is said to have created a vast empire, similar to the Romans, that was destroyed by God's wrath. He banded together his small tribe and brought them great fame as a kingdom that exercised its authority in the Mediterranean region.
*** [[spoiler:It is hinted that Emperor Gaiseric survived his fallen empire in the form of the Skull Knight, a recurring character who aids Guts and stands in opposition to the God Hand]].
** Emperor Ganishka: The Emperor Ganishka, working as Griffith's enemy in Berserk, was based on King Kanishka, who ruled over the actual Kushan Empire, a vast empire in India and Central Asia during the 2nd century. He was also a profound Buddhist and adorned his empire with its respective figures and promoted it vigorously. Like his real-life counterpart, Ganishka also decorates his palace with famous Buddhist and Hindu figures, but has demonized them to suit his nature.
** Mozgus appears to be based on Ivan the Terrible, due to his daily routine of slamming his face into the ground during prayer and his biblical methods of execution.
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* FantasyKitchenSink: Yep. The Berserkverse pretty much has everything, especially now that the magic has come back to the world, not just [[TheUsualAdversaries apostles]] (not to mention how some apostle forms are stand-ins for other supernatural creatures like [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves,]] [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaurs,]] and [[ALoadOfBull minotaurs]]) and elves ([[OurFairiesAreDifferent though they're really faeries]]) and how other apostles seem to have [[LooksLikeOrlok vampiric]] [[{{Dracula}} motifs]]): {{Unicorn}}s, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]] [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons and their kin,]] more trolls, ogres, [[HellishHorse kelpies,]] [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent gremlin-thingies,]] [[TheUndead the walking]] [[{{Pun}} dead]], sucubi (which are really weird BlobMonster things), [[GhostPirate monster pirates,]] [[McNinja Kushan ninjas,]] [[OurMagesAreDifferent mages]], {{golem}}s, [[ArmCannon low-tech mechanized]] humans, merfolk, telepaths, [[HornyVikings vikings]] at one point in history... oh, and [[spoiler:the evil god]]... [[http://www.mrsmanga.com/Berserk/306/1 You gotta see it to believe it.]] [[TemptingFate What's Miura gonna throw at us next?]]
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* FantasyKitchenSink: Yep. The Berserkverse setting has pretty much has everything, especially now that the after magic has come comes back to the world, not just [[TheUsualAdversaries apostles]] (not to mention how some apostle forms are stand-ins for other supernatural creatures like [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves,]] werewolves]], [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaurs,]] centaurs]], and [[ALoadOfBull minotaurs]]) and elves ([[OurFairiesAreDifferent though they're really faeries]]) and how other apostles seem to have [[LooksLikeOrlok vampiric]] [[{{Dracula}} motifs]]): {{Unicorn}}s, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]] [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons dragons and their kin,]] kin]], more trolls, ogres, [[HellishHorse kelpies,]] [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent gremlin-thingies,]] [[TheUndead the walking]] [[{{Pun}} dead]], sucubi (which are really weird BlobMonster things), [[GhostPirate monster pirates,]] [[McNinja Kushan ninjas,]] [[OurMagesAreDifferent mages]], {{golem}}s, [[ArmCannon low-tech mechanized]] humans, merfolk, telepaths, [[HornyVikings vikings]] at one point in history... oh, and [[spoiler:the evil god]]... [[http://www.mrsmanga.com/Berserk/306/1 You gotta see it to believe it.]] [[TemptingFate What's Miura gonna throw at us next?]]
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* TheGenieKnowsJackNicholson: Guts' FairyCompanion Puck has made more pop culture references than every other member of the cast put together. His notable character impressions include Creator/BruceLee, the Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon, Danpei from ''Manga/AshitaNoJoe'', Manga/{{Devilman}}, Manga/{{Doraemon}}, a Franchise/{{Gundam}} Frame, a Saint from ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', and Yoda from ''Franchise/StarWars''.
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* TheGenieKnowsJackNicholson: Guts' FairyCompanion Puck has made more pop culture references than every other member of the cast put together. His notable character impressions include Creator/BruceLee, the Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon, Danpei from ''Manga/AshitaNoJoe'', ''Manga/TomorrowsJoe'', Manga/{{Devilman}}, Manga/{{Doraemon}}, a Franchise/{{Gundam}} Frame, a Saint from ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', and Yoda from ''Franchise/StarWars''.
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* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: When in ActionGirl mode, Casca has short, cropped hair, but when she goes [[GoMadFromTheRevelation insane]] after the Eclipse, her hair gradually grows out, representing how she shifted from LadyOfWar to TheOphelia.
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* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: When in ActionGirl mode, Casca has short, cropped hair, but when she goes [[GoMadFromTheRevelation insane]] after the Eclipse, her hair gradually grows out, representing how she shifted from LadyOfWar to TheOphelia. [[spoiler: And she cuts it short again after her mind is healed.]]
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** The Kushan Empire resembles real life south Asia, specifically [[SimSimSalabim India]], with some [[ArabianNightsDays Middle Eastern]] thrown into the mix.
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** The Kushan Empire resembles real life south Southeast Asia, specifically [[SimSimSalabim India]], with some [[ArabianNightsDays Middle Eastern]] influences thrown into the mix.
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* FantasyKitchenSink: Yep. The Berserk-verse pretty much has everything, especially now that the magic has come back to the world, not just [[TheUsualAdversaries apostles]] (not to mention how some apostle forms are stand-ins for other supernatural creatures like [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves,]] [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaurs,]] and [[ALoadOfBull minotaurs]]) and elves ([[OurFairiesAreDifferent though they're really faeries]]) and how other apostles seem to have [[LooksLikeOrlok vampiric]] [[{{Dracula}} motifs]]): {{Unicorn}}s, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]] [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons and their kin,]] more trolls, ogres, [[HellishHorse kelpies,]] [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent gremlin-thingies,]] [[TheUndead the walking]] [[{{Pun}} dead]], sucubi (which are really weird BlobMonster things), [[GhostPirate monster pirates,]] [[McNinja Kushan ninjas,]] [[OurMagesAreDifferent mages]], {{golem}}s, [[ArmCannon low-tech mechanized]] humans, merfolk, telepaths, [[HornyVikings vikings]] at one point in history... oh, and [[spoiler:the evil god]]... [[http://www.mrsmanga.com/Berserk/306/1 You gotta see it to believe it.]] [[TemptingFate What's Miura gonna throw at us next?]]
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* FantasyKitchenSink: Yep. The Berserk-verse Berserkverse pretty much has everything, especially now that the magic has come back to the world, not just [[TheUsualAdversaries apostles]] (not to mention how some apostle forms are stand-ins for other supernatural creatures like [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves,]] [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaurs,]] and [[ALoadOfBull minotaurs]]) and elves ([[OurFairiesAreDifferent though they're really faeries]]) and how other apostles seem to have [[LooksLikeOrlok vampiric]] [[{{Dracula}} motifs]]): {{Unicorn}}s, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]] [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons and their kin,]] more trolls, ogres, [[HellishHorse kelpies,]] [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent gremlin-thingies,]] [[TheUndead the walking]] [[{{Pun}} dead]], sucubi (which are really weird BlobMonster things), [[GhostPirate monster pirates,]] [[McNinja Kushan ninjas,]] [[OurMagesAreDifferent mages]], {{golem}}s, [[ArmCannon low-tech mechanized]] humans, merfolk, telepaths, [[HornyVikings vikings]] at one point in history... oh, and [[spoiler:the evil god]]... [[http://www.mrsmanga.com/Berserk/306/1 You gotta see it to believe it.]] [[TemptingFate What's Miura gonna throw at us next?]]
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** There are subtle hints to the real-life counterparts of various countries mentioned by Serpico briefly in one chapter, as well as clothing choices and character names hinting at nationality. Midland has been confirmed to be the ''Berserk'' universe's version of UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}} by Miura, and Chuder's "Holy Empire" seems to relate to the real German UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire. Farnese and Serpico coming from a fantasy version of UsefulNotes/{{Italy}} (port-based, mercentile, money-lending, seat of the Vatician). Surprisingly, most of the courtly dress rarely worn by by the various protagonists [[ShownTheirWork is quite accurate to the vaguely 15th century Europe that ''Berserk'' seems to take place in.]]
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** There are subtle hints to the real-life counterparts of various countries mentioned by Serpico briefly in one chapter, as well as clothing choices and character names hinting at nationality. Midland has been confirmed to be the ''Berserk'' universe's version of UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}} by Miura, and Chuder's "Holy Empire" seems to relate to the real German UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire. Farnese and Serpico coming from a fantasy version of UsefulNotes/{{Italy}} (port-based, mercentile, mercantile, money-lending, seat of the Vatician). Vatican). Surprisingly, most of the courtly dress rarely worn by by the various protagonists [[ShownTheirWork is quite accurate to the vaguely 15th century Europe that ''Berserk'' the series seems to take place in.]]
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** [[spoiler:Griffith's kingdom of Falconia is looking a lot like [[AncientGrome Rome]] here.]]
** There's subtle hints to the real-life counterparts of various countries mentioned by Serpico briefly in one chapter, as well as clothing choices and character names hinting at nationality. Midland has been confirmed to be the Berserk world's version of Denmark by Miura, and Chuder's "Holy Empire" seems to relate to the real German Holy Roman Empire. Farnese and Serpico coming from a fantasy version of Italy (port-based, mercentile, money-lending, seat of the Vatician). Surprisingly, most of the courtly dress rarely worn by by the various protagonists [[ShownTheirWork is quite accurate to the vaguely 15th century Europe that Berserk seems to take place in.]]
** There's also all of the traces of Scandinavian/Norse mythology about, which makes sense since Denmark is part of Scandinavia. Of course we're talking about the persistence of the berserker imagery.
** There's subtle hints to the real-life counterparts of various countries mentioned by Serpico briefly in one chapter, as well as clothing choices and character names hinting at nationality. Midland has been confirmed to be the Berserk world's version of Denmark by Miura, and Chuder's "Holy Empire" seems to relate to the real German Holy Roman Empire. Farnese and Serpico coming from a fantasy version of Italy (port-based, mercentile, money-lending, seat of the Vatician). Surprisingly, most of the courtly dress rarely worn by by the various protagonists [[ShownTheirWork is quite accurate to the vaguely 15th century Europe that Berserk seems to take place in.]]
** There's also all of the traces of Scandinavian/Norse mythology about, which makes sense since Denmark is part of Scandinavia. Of course we're talking about the persistence of the berserker imagery.
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** [[spoiler:Griffith's kingdom of Falconia is looking a lot like [[AncientGrome Ancient Rome]] here.]]
**There's There are subtle hints to the real-life counterparts of various countries mentioned by Serpico briefly in one chapter, as well as clothing choices and character names hinting at nationality. Midland has been confirmed to be the Berserk world's ''Berserk'' universe's version of Denmark UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}} by Miura, and Chuder's "Holy Empire" seems to relate to the real German Holy Roman Empire. UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire. Farnese and Serpico coming from a fantasy version of Italy UsefulNotes/{{Italy}} (port-based, mercentile, money-lending, seat of the Vatician). Surprisingly, most of the courtly dress rarely worn by by the various protagonists [[ShownTheirWork is quite accurate to the vaguely 15th century Europe that Berserk ''Berserk'' seems to take place in.]]
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: There are some examples
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: There Surprisingly, there are some examplesexamples in the otherwise fictional ConstructedWorld of ''Berserk''
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** Unusual Birth: Guts Was born from the corpse of a hanged woman.
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** Unusual Birth: Guts Was was born from the corpse of a hanged woman.
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* {{Gorn}}: Miura depicts all kinds of bloodshed and dismemberment with a level of detail that straddles the line between horror and fascination. To elaborate, it's ''even bloodier'' than all of Creator/QuentinTarantino's films '''''combined''''', is packed the very gills and [[{{Pun}} guts]] with gratuitous extreme graphic aberrant violence that makes ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'', ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII'' and '''''even''''' ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt}}'' look like games made for little children, there's large amounts of GratuitousRape that downright obscene and pornographic, explicit brutality that makes ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}}'' look like a joke at times, and much, MUCH more. This holds the reputation as the most violent manga ever created, and for good reason.
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* {{Gorn}}: Miura depicts all kinds of bloodshed and dismemberment with a level of detail that straddles the line between horror and fascination. To elaborate, it's ''even bloodier'' than all of Creator/QuentinTarantino's films '''''combined''''', is packed the very gills and [[{{Pun}} guts]] with gratuitous extreme graphic aberrant violence that makes ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'', ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII'' and '''''even''''' ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt}}'' look like games made for little children, there's large amounts of GratuitousRape that downright obscene and pornographic, explicit brutality that makes ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}}'' look like a joke at times, joke, and much, MUCH more. This holds the reputation as the most violent manga ever created, and for good reason.
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* GratuitousRape: Rape happens a ''lot'' in this series, and while the main characters' experiences with sexual assault are for the most part seriously explored, the sheer number of other characters who experience sexual assault as well as how often rape of minor characters is used just to show that WarIsHell and RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil can lead to complaints of overusing it.
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* GratuitousRape: Rape happens a ''lot'' in this series, enough to make the infamous tabletop game ''TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}'' look like a joke, and while the main characters' experiences with sexual assault are for the most part seriously explored, the sheer number of other characters who experience sexual assault as well as how often rape of minor characters is used just to show that WarIsHell and RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil can lead to complaints of overusing it.
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* HolyBacklight: Griffith presents himself in this manner quite a few times, especially after his [[spoiler:reincarnation.]] The stark contrast of [[EmergingFromTheShadows how Guts introduces himself.]]
* HollywoodPersonalityDisorders: Insanity seems to be one of the many underlying themes in ''Berserk'' with a chunkful of the characters having a range of [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything insinuated psychological problems.]]
* HollywoodPersonalityDisorders: Insanity seems to be one of the many underlying themes in ''Berserk'' with a chunkful of the characters having a range of [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything insinuated psychological problems.]]
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* HolyBacklight: Griffith presents himself in this manner quite a few times, especially after his [[spoiler:reincarnation.]] The stark contrast of [[EmergingFromTheShadows how Guts introduces himself.]]
* HollywoodPersonalityDisorders:HollywoodPsych: Insanity seems to be one of the many underlying themes in ''Berserk'' with a chunkful of the characters having a range of [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything insinuated psychological problems.]]
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* HolyBacklight: Griffith presents himself in this manner quite a few times, especially after his [[spoiler:reincarnation.]] The stark contrast of [[EmergingFromTheShadows how Guts introduces himself.]]
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* {{Gorn}}: Miura depicts all kinds of bloodshed and dismemberment with a level of detail that straddles the line between horror and fascination.
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* {{Gorn}}: Miura depicts all kinds of bloodshed and dismemberment with a level of detail that straddles the line between horror and fascination. To elaborate, it's ''even bloodier'' than all of Creator/QuentinTarantino's films '''''combined''''', is packed the very gills and [[{{Pun}} guts]] with gratuitous extreme graphic aberrant violence that makes ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'', ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII'' and '''''even''''' ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt}}'' look like games made for little children, there's large amounts of GratuitousRape that downright obscene and pornographic, explicit brutality that makes ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}}'' look like a joke at times, and much, MUCH more. This holds the reputation as the most violent manga ever created, and for good reason.
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* FalseProphet: After betraying the band of the hawk in exchange for power [[spoiler:and a position among the god hand, Griffith re-enters]] the human realm and poses as a savior for humanity who would "vanquish the shadow that blots out the sun" when he is actually a harbinger of death and destruction. His image as humanity's savior is mostly based on (a) a premonition seen by people throughout midland and (b) backing from the holy see, Berserk's equivalent of the catholic faith.
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* FantasyKitchenSink: Yep. The Berserk-verse pretty much has everything, especially now that the magic has come back to the world, not just [[TheUsualAdversaries apostles]] (not to mention how some apostle forms are stand-ins for other supernatural creatures like [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves,]] [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaurs,]] and [[ALoadOfBull minotaurs]]) and elves ([[OurFairiesAreDifferent though they're really faeries]]) and how other apostles seem to have [[LooksLikeOrlok vampiric]] [[{{Dracula}} motifs]]): {{Unicorn}}s, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]] [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons and their kin,]] more trolls, ogres, [[HellishHorse kelpies,]] [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent gremlin-thingies,]] [[TheUndead the walking]] [[{{Pun}} dead]], sucubi (which are really weird BlobMonster things), [[GhostPirate monster pirates,]] [[McNinja Kushan ninjas,]] WizardsAndWitches, {{golem}}s, [[ArmCannon low-tech mechanized]] humans, merfolk, telepaths, [[HornyVikings vikings]] at one point in history... oh, and [[spoiler:the evil god]]... [[http://www.mrsmanga.com/Berserk/306/1 You gotta see it to believe it.]] [[TemptingFate What's Miura gonna throw at us next?]]
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* FantasyKitchenSink: Yep. The Berserk-verse pretty much has everything, especially now that the magic has come back to the world, not just [[TheUsualAdversaries apostles]] (not to mention how some apostle forms are stand-ins for other supernatural creatures like [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves,]] [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaurs,]] and [[ALoadOfBull minotaurs]]) and elves ([[OurFairiesAreDifferent though they're really faeries]]) and how other apostles seem to have [[LooksLikeOrlok vampiric]] [[{{Dracula}} motifs]]): {{Unicorn}}s, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]] [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons and their kin,]] more trolls, ogres, [[HellishHorse kelpies,]] [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent gremlin-thingies,]] [[TheUndead the walking]] [[{{Pun}} dead]], sucubi (which are really weird BlobMonster things), [[GhostPirate monster pirates,]] [[McNinja Kushan ninjas,]] WizardsAndWitches, [[OurMagesAreDifferent mages]], {{golem}}s, [[ArmCannon low-tech mechanized]] humans, merfolk, telepaths, [[HornyVikings vikings]] at one point in history... oh, and [[spoiler:the evil god]]... [[http://www.mrsmanga.com/Berserk/306/1 You gotta see it to believe it.]] [[TemptingFate What's Miura gonna throw at us next?]]
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** [[TheCaligula Emperor Ganishka]] is the sadistic leader of the Kushan Empire, who commits depraved acts on a regular basis. While his goal is to challenge the similarly villainous Godhand, Ganishka is destructive and [[StupidEvil idiotic]] about the matter, permitting mass rape to spawn his demonic soldiers, the Daka, kidnapping Princess Charlotte in an attempt to rape her, and attempting unsuccessfully to kill everyone in Midland.
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** [[TheCaligula Emperor Ganishka]] is the sadistic leader of the Kushan Empire, who commits depraved acts on a regular basis. While his goal is to challenge the similarly villainous Godhand, Ganishka is simply destructive and [[StupidEvil idiotic]] about the matter, permitting mass rape to spawn his demonic soldiers, the Daka, kidnapping Princess Charlotte in an attempt to rape her, and attempting unsuccessfully to kill everyone in Midland.
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* HiddenElfVillage: Elfhelm, the home of the elves, witches, and wizards of the world that is located on the island of Skellig might be a straight example of this, but since we have yet to physically encounter it, Schierke and Flora's home in the spirit tree is the closest thing, as both are on the Interstice, locations that are between the natural and the supernatural worlds that cannot be located by normal humans. Young Schierke displays the typical [[NoSocialSkills isolationist]] tendencies as an inhabitant of such a village.
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* HiddenElfVillage: Elfhelm, the home of the elves, witches, and wizards of the world that is located on the island of Skellig might be Skellig. It is a straight rather straightforward example of this, but since we the trope, as the witches here have yet taken many precautions to physically encounter it, Schierke isolate themselves from the world, although they are quite welcoming of Gut's party and Flora's home in the spirit tree curious about them. Another subversion is the closest thing, as both are on the Interstice, locations that the elders of Elfhelm are between the natural and the supernatural worlds that cannot be located by normal humans. Young Schierke displays the typical [[NoSocialSkills isolationist]] tendencies as an inhabitant now actually taking interest in what happens outside of such a village.their village due to Griffith merging planes together.
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* FingerTenting: The jerkwad aristocrats who hate Griffith's peasant guts love doing this in their [[EvilIsNotWellLit dark, shady headquarters]] of cunning-ness. Yes, [[SarcasmMode clasping your hands at your eventual downfall always assures your victory.]]
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** The very first panels of volume one are an RRatedOpening in which Guts is having sex with the unnamed female Apostle, and kills her when she transforms and tries to eat him. Given that Guts is later established to have a lot of hang-ups about sex, and is also very faitful to Casca, a lot of fans consider this out-of-character for him.
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** The very first panels of volume one are an RRatedOpening in which Guts is having sex with the unnamed female Apostle, and kills her when she transforms and tries to eat him. Given that Guts is later established to have a lot of hang-ups about sex, and is also very faitful faithful to Casca, a lot of fans consider this out-of-character for him.
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** Currently, a popular theory within the fandom is that [[spoiler:Puck's persistent interaction with the Behelit is foreshadowing that he will be the next to activate it.]]
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* TheHeavy: [MagnificentBastard Griffith]], aka [[OneWingedAngel Femto]], of the Godhand. While he is not the only BigBad, he is one most directly involved in the plot and serves as the most personal foe of [[AntiHero Guts]].
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* TheHeavy: [MagnificentBastard [[DarkMessiah Griffith]], aka [[OneWingedAngel Femto]], of the Godhand. While he is not the only BigBad, he is one most directly involved in the plot and serves as the most personal foe of [[AntiHero Guts]].
