History Characters / BerserkBandOfTheHawk

* TokenHeroicOrc: Subverted. When you think of "Apostles", they're usually monsters who went mad by crossing the DespairEventHorizon, committing heinous crimes ForTheEvulz. In sheer contrast, Neo-Hawks are much more honorable and disciplined. But in the end, they're still loyal servants of [[DarkMessiah Griffith]], and by extension, [[BigBadDuumvirate the Godhand]].

* {{Foil}}: Strangely enough, he's one to Serpico and Schierke, despite them looking as different as night and day. It's more apparent by the fact that the three of them are among the most prominent members of Guts and Griffith's second party after the two-year time-skip and each of them plays a vital role for their superior.

** Zodd and Schierke serve as their leader's closest confidants, though were forced to join them due to circumstances, and both of them have a strong interest in Griffith and Guts respectively. Outside of their blatantly different appearances, Zodd is only following Griffith because the latter is the strongest being he's fought and mainly follows Griffith around to find stronger opponents, though Griffith only sees Zodd as a useful pawn at best. Schierke develops a crush on Guts but otherwise does acknowledge his romantic feelings are solely toward Casca and comes to see him as a figure to depend on as an ally and friend, and Guts reciprocates Schierke as one of his best companions. While Zodd is clearly the most powerful in Griffith's New Band of the Hawk, Schierke is the only one in Gut's Party who is able to bring Guts back to normal in case he slips into his Berserker Armor state.

* RedShirtArmy: Besides the named leaders, the Band includes a couple of thousand unnamed soldiers who fight and die for the sake of Griffith's dream. Downplayed in that they're more effective than most armies and perform admirably on the battlefield, but whenever disaster strikes or a particularly powerful antagonist appears (Zodd, Adon Coborlwitz, Boscogn) they are still obliged to die in droves while the main characters are protected by PlotArmor.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Zodd prides on his code of "honor" in not fighting the small and weak, but he has no problem at all with allowing his more savage comrades to massacre innocents, and did ''nothing'' to stop Wyald until he endangered the fifth member of the Godhand. He's also content being a loyal attack dog for Griffith, who is about as dishonorable as you can get, and joins in an attack on Flora, a humble and kind elderly woman who Griffith saw as a danger to his plans. Given he's an Apostle though, that's probably the most "noble" you can get.

** Of all people, he has one moment with Guts. After telling how the Hawks lost everything after the day Guts leave Griffith, Corkus tells to Guts not to blame himself. Granted, it has a vibe of "You are not that important", but still.

* ArcherArchetype: Good with crossbows, and especially with the repeating crossbow of his own making that he uses to defend the refugee caravan in episode 332. He's not much of a swordfighter, at least not in the original manga, so he has to compensate.

* ArcherArchetype: Fights with his bow, knows how to hunt and track, and prefers to work alone rather than in groups.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: It is ''deeply'' satisfying to see him rip Wyald, one of the vilest antagonists in the series, into half and litter the forest with his guts.

* DropTheHammer: Wields a giant war hammer that's four feet long and weighs 200 pounds. The story is that when Grunbeld was an eighteen-year-old inmate of Tudor's reeducation camp for Grantian youths, the sadistic warden Sir Abecassis put him and his two friends in an arena against a man-eating Kushan tiger, giving them only wooden weapons. Abecassis also put this giant hammer, which had sat in a temple as a non-functional work of art or votive offering, in the arena as a HopeSpot which would prove too heavy to use. To everybody's shock, young Grunbeld managed to take up the hammer and smash the tiger's head like a pumpkin. As he grew even bigger in the following years, the hammer went from being something so heavy that only Grunbeld could use it, to merely being the only weapon sturdy enough to ''survive'' Grunbeld using it. The effect on the enemy can only be described as "pulverizing".