History Memes / Berserk

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZa0Yh6e7dw Guts theme]][[labelnote:Explanation]]The theme that plays during emotional moments in ''Berserk (1997)'', which is Guts theme, turned into a meme which shows [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqCh3OkTRDY manly men getting emotional over the song and starting to cry.]][[/labelnote]]

* ''[[http://imgur.com/a/HRxaD Berserk and his Friends!]]'' [[labelnote:Explanation]]The English title of ''Berserk Musou'', ''VideoGame/BerserkAndTheBandOfTheHawk'', is getting considerable mockery for its awkwardness and making it sound like "Berserk" [[IAmNotShazam is the name of the protagonist]].[[/labelnote]]

* Guts is Franchise/{{Batman}}[[labelnote:Explanation]]The Berserker armor has pointy ears, and when he's fighting with the help of Schierke's control the helmet looks like Batman's cowl.[[/labelnote]]

** [[https://i.imgur.com/ZoAimBI.jpg "Hail Griffith."]] [[labelnote:explanation]]A crossover with the "Captain Hydra" meme which came out of the May 25, 2016 first issue of ''ComicBook/CaptainAmericaSteveRogers'', in which Rogers shockingly reveals himself to have been a HYDRA agent. Fans were in an uproar, and turned the image of Rogers saying "Hail HYDRA." into a meme template which could be dressed up as the main character of any other fictional series saying something that betrays everything they stand for, such as Franchise/SpiderMan saying [[ComesGreatResponsibility "Fuck Responsibility."]] The ''Berserk'' version has the Steve Rogers template turned into Guts saying "Griffith did nothing wrong", the joke being that this would be the ultimate form of CharacterDerailment for Guts.[[/labelnote]]

* Why did they make Casca white?![[labelnote:Explanation]]Casca, who was subject to ButNotTooBlack (or in her case, Not Too AmbiguouslyBrown) in the Golden Age trilogy, appears even more light-skinned in the opening credits and the flashbacks in the first couple episodes, which a lot of fans got pissed about. This turned out to mostly be the result of using a high-contrast bloom effect for some of those scenes, and she looks about as tan as she did in the movies when she is shown in the present, but the complaint still stands that they shouldn't have made her look that washed out in the first images we see of her. The artists actually made her ''substantially'' browner in the opening credits from episode 11 onwards, as if they had finally realized the problem themselves and decided to correct it.[[/labelnote]]

* The True Black Swordsman[[labelnote:Explanation]]Guts shares his [[RedBaron moniker]] with Kirito, the protagonist of ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', which is often panned among anime watchers but nonetheless remains popular. A massive FandomRivalry exists between the two ''Berserk'' and ''SAO'' because of it.[[/labelnote]]

* Why did they make Casca white?![[labelnote:Explanation]]Casca, who was subject to ButNotTooBlack (or in her case, Not Too AmbiguouslyBrown) in the Golden Age trilogy, appears even more lighter-skinned in the opening credits and the flashbacks in the first couple episodes, which a lot of fans got pissed about. This turned out to mostly be the result of using a high-contrast bloom effect for some of those scenes, and she looks about as tan as she did in the movies when she is shown in the present, but the complaint still stands that they shouldn't have made her look that washed out in the first images we see of her. The artists actually made her ''substantially'' browner in the opening credits from episode 11 onwards, as if they had finally realized the problem themselves and decided to correct it.[[/labelnote]]

* Why did they make Casca white?![[labelnote:Explanation]]Casca, who was subject to ButNotTooBlack (or in her case, Not Too AmbiguouslyBrown) in the Golden Age trilogy, appears even lighter-skinned in the opening credits and the flashbacks in the first couple episodes, which a lot of fans got pissed about. This turned out to mostly be the result of using a high-contrast bloom effect for some of those scenes, and she looks about as tan as she did in the movies when she is shown in the present, but the complaint still stands that they shouldn't have made her look that washed out in the first images we see of her. The artists actually made her ''substantially'' browner in the opening credits from episode 11 onwards, as if they had finally realized the problem themselves and decided to correct it.[[/labelnote]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7azRQ1jDx0 Berserk Manga goes on Hiatus]][[labelnote:Explanation]]Miura put the manga on hiatus numerous times, and fans would joke that he was trolling them by announcing a new hiatus whenever it looked like things would get moving again. This meme builds off the already memetic "[[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/card-crusher card crusher]]" video from Tokai University linguistics professor Yun Himonya's late night TV show about making people angry, in which he disrespectfully crushes someone's business card in his hand. The ''Berserk'' version was made in response to the notification in December 2015 that the manga would go on hiatus until summer 2016, superimposing Miura's face over Himonaya's and replacing the business card with a piece of paper labeled "monthly releases". It become something of a FunnyAneurysmMoment due to Miura's death on May 6th, 2021, (especially since he had already been dead for two weeks before the public was informed).[[/labelnote]]

* "Don't lump me together with you [[PrecisionFStrike faggot-ass]] monsters."[[labelnote:explanation]]This is how the Evil Genius scanlations translated Guts' rebuke to Ganishka's assumption that he is an apostle, a bit saltier than the official Dark Horse translation's "Don't mistake me for one of you freaks". Fans seem to love this quote as a case of NarmCharm, similar to Kallen's "Badass Mother" line in the dub for Anime/CodeGeass.[[/labelnote]]

* "Don't lump me together with you [[PrecisionFStrike faggot-ass]] monsters."[[labelnote:explanation]]This is how the Evil Genius scanlations translated Guts' rebuke to Ganishka's assumption that he is an apostle in episode #277 ("Human Bullet"), a bit saltier than the official Dark Horse translation's "Don't mistake me for one of you freaks". Fans seem to love this quote as a case of NarmCharm, similar to Kallen's "Badass Mother" line in the dub for Anime/CodeGeass.[[/labelnote]]

* "Don't lump me together with you [[PrecisionFStrike faggot-ass]] monsters."[[labelnote:explanation]]This is how the Evil Genius scanlations translated Guts' rebuke to Ganishka's assumption that he is an apostle, a bit saltier than the official Dark Horse translation's "Don't mistake me for one of you freaks". Fans seem to love this quote as a case of NarmCharm, similar to Kallen's "Badass Mother" line in the dub for Anime/CodeGeass.[[/labelnote]]

* [[https://vimeo.com/212423274 Careless Griffiss]][[labelnote:explanation]]Given how engrained the {{Sexophone}} trope has become in audience expectations, viewers were rather amused at the soundtrack turning to a saxophone solo in episode 13 while Guts is thinking about Griffith having returned to the world, so a user named heezmagnif only needed to reset the scene to the memetically sensual sax riff from the George Michael song "Careless Whisper" to make fun of the massive HoYay this seems to imply between Guts and Griffith.[[/labelnote]]