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* "So which one of you guys is Goku?"
* Princess Misty...I mean, Charlotte, is pretty recognizable too.
* I was a Sonic X fan back in Middle School, and I immediatly recognized Adon's voice.
* Hidden Depths: Lots of characters, Guts, Casca, Farnse, and even minor character Pippin gets a moment. Probably the biggest would be the manga itself which for the first two volumes seems very much like its just going to be volume after volume of ONLY sex and violence and then...character development, story, questions of morality, and so on enter the picture.
* Hidden Elf Village: 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 isolationist tendencies as an inhabitant of such a village.
* High-Pressure Blood: In SPADES.
* Hilarious Outtakes: Including Griffith's actor bursting into song at hilarious moments.
* His Quirk Lives On: After The Eclipse, Guts adds throwing knives to his arsenal, modeled after Judeau.
* History Repeats: During the Conviction Arc at the showdown at the Tower of Punishment, Casca is caught by Mozgus and is handed over to the mob to be burned at the stake as a witch. All the while, the sun is getting covered up, the tower is crumbling in an uncanny resemblance of a hand, and Guts is once again struggling and fighting his way through hoards of evil spirits so he can make it to Casca in time to save her. Yep. A mock eclipse is happening, and Guts fears that he won't be able to save Casca again.
* Historical Domain Character: There are some examples
* Guts: Gotz Von Berlichingen (1480–1562), a German knight, was the leader of a band of mercenary soldiers and attained the reputation as a Robin Hood 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, 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.
* 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.
* Holding Hands: Daaaah! They're so cute together, Guts and Casca! ... Too bad!
* Intertwined Fingers: And of course, this happens during their love scene.
* Holding Your Shoulder Means Injury: Justified in the case of Casca in volume 8, where she gets shot by a poison dart in the shoulder during her fight with Adon.
* Hollywood Personality Disorders: Insanity seems to be one of the many underlying themes in Berserk with a chunkful of the characters having a range of insinuated psychological problems.
* Guts' personality highlights paranoid personality disorder. Ever since his childhood rape Guts has trouble forming bonds with people, has a hard time trusting them, and always sleeps with his sword.
* Griffith's personality highlights narcissistic personality disorder as he would normally put his interest before those of others, even if he seemed well-intentioned.
* Emperor Ganishka might have started out having paranoid personality disorder ever since his mother tried to poison him, but it quickly became antisocial personality disorder when he became an apostle, since according to him, everyone is out to get him.
* Apostles such as the Snake Baron, Wyald, and the Count show signs of sadistic personality disorder for obvious reasons.
* Farnese's earlier behavior is a candidate for borderline personality disorder as she was seen being sympathetic and professional one moment and then totally out of line and hysterical the next.
* Nina has shades of dependent personality disorder. She is seen being very dependent on Luca and can't seem to function properly without her guidance to an extreme.
* In the eyes of other, Schierke would have schizotypal personality disorder, what with her otherworldly philosophy, her magical getup, and her lack of social experience (and the fact that she actually practices magic). Sonja could count too.
* Homage: The names of the Godhand demons are all references to classic science-fiction books. These books are Destination: Void by Frank Herbet, Slan by A.E. van Vogt, And Call Me Conrad by Roger Zelazny, and Ubik by Philip K. Dick.
* Miura also makes many visual homages to various paintings, including the works of M.C. Escher and Hieronymus Bosch.
* Hope Spot: People think that Mozgus is an angel sent from God. They can only watch him fight Guts who they perceive as evil during a sacrifice and are absolutely convinced that Mozgus will deliver them from evil. Guts then brutally kills him and they all have a few moments of absolute horror before the demons consume them (except a scant few who manage to cluster around his corpse, which protects them).
* And ironically, as monstrous as he might have been, Mozgus was doing a decent job of that. He and his disciples were fighting off the demons pretty well, and even after his death, Mozgus' body is consumed in the flames he was able to breathe, and those keep back the demons from killing the few people who huddle around his body thinking him a fallen angel/saint.
* At the beginning of the Eclipse ceremony, we see Griffith in a moment of hesitation about whether he really wants to go through with this or not, making the audience believe for a brief second that Griffith wasn't going to sell out his friends and comrades. Oh, wait. Nevermind.
* The Hope Spot that got all of our hopes up in a very shitty way was when Guts sees Casca in the hands of demons and tries to rescue her, only to have his arm chomped down on by a demon. Then Femto comes along and starts having his way with Casca, so Guts takes a last resort at saving her by chiseling off his own arm in order to free himself from the demon. Seeing that he's mere feet away from Femto and Casca, it seems as though Guts will at least be able to save Casca from what was happening to her already and kill Femto.... it doesn't happen. And we all know what ensues after Guts gets dog-piled by demons moments after freeing himself from one.
* In addition, Casca briefly regains her sanity at the end of the non-canon Dreamcast game before she reverts to her child-like state.
* Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Luca. She's also one of the few genuinely good characters here.
* Horned Humanoid: Zodd.
* Horny Devils: Slan and the demon-chick from the opening pages
* Wyald and many other male apostles also qualify when they are in the presence of a human female.
* Hot Amazon: Pretty much the reason why Guts chose Casca as his lover, instead of a regular noblewoman who can't fight, since he considers her to be more than just a woman.
* How Dare You Die on Me!: When she thinks Guts got pummeled to death by the Apostle Wyald, Casca goes into a tearful rage and starts slapping the shit out of Guts's face.
* How We Got Here: Most of the Band of the Hawk Arc is one big Flashback leading up to Guts's current circumstances. Basically what happened before everything literally went to hell.
* Huddle Shot: Happens when the group clusters around knocked out Schierke in chapter 268.
* Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Guts and Casca.
* It's not even that she's especially small (being a fit Hot Amazon), it's just that any woman who wasn't a giant herself would look small next to Guts.
* Human Sacrifice: The various pagan cults, not to mention the Sacrifice necessary to become a demon or another Godhand.
* Humans Are Bastards: Justified - it's because that's the only way to survive. Again, life in Midland sucks.
* Also, all demons used to be humans who made a Deal with the Devil.
* Humans Are Flawed: The the source of all problems everywhere in this story is human weakness, not inherent evil. One must keep in mind that a completely rotten person who would love to have some demonic powers to be a more effective asshole would be unable to use a behelith because he doesn't care about anything but himself.
* Human Pincushion: During her Crowning Moment of Awesome, Casca gets shot at with five arrows when the Midland army ambushed the Hawks shortly after Griffith was arrested for high treason. And yet, Casca continued to fight her way through the barrier and led the Hawks to safety.
* Played painfully straight during the beginning of Griffith's torture, where the torturer sticks several large metal needles into Griffith's flesh.
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