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== Recurring Characters ==

 

 

=== The Skull Knight ===

==== Voiced by: Tsutomu Isobe ====

 

 

 

Guts and Casca's [[Mysterious Protector]] is a [[badass]], [[Warrior Poet|philosophical]], [[The Undead|undead]] warrior that also opposes the Godhand. It is not known if he is aware of {{spoiler|the Idea of Evil}}'s existence. He often scares the Apostles into submission and his mere presence was sufficient to make Rosine and The Count flee. He seems to have some unfinished business with Void and often opposes Zodd himself, though none ever had the better of the other. He collects the Behelits from slain Apostles and can cut through reality to teleport to another place with a sword made from said Behelits.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Does this twice. One time upon the Eclipse when he {{spoiler|breaks into the dimensional vortex, fights past the Godhand, cuts his way through the Apostles and snatches the heavily wounded Guts and Casca from Femto's clutches right before he gives them the [[Coup De Grace]].}} The second time was in the Qliphoth where he {{spoiler|interrupts Slan who was torturing and tormenting Guts and gives him the opportunity to free himself from her grasp.}}

* [[Black Knight]]: A rather straight example except he doesn't wear black.

* [[Cool Sword]]: In addition to his regular dentate sword, he owns the Sword or Resonance, which is a sword [[Made of Evil|made of Behelits]] which makes it a...

** [[Evil Weapon]]: Since Behelits are evil entities owned by Apostles to summon the Godhand...

* [[Cynical Mentor]]: Despite giving precious guidance to Guts in his quest, he always points out that there are high possibilities for him to fail epically in the end, which simply motivate Guts even more.

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]

* [[Fan Nickname]]: Skully is a very popular nickname among fans.

* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: He preceded Guts in this game.

* [[Horrifying Hero]]: Wouldn't be too surprising if the people he's saved thought he was the [[Grim Reaper]] taking them over to the other side.

* [[The Stoic]]: What with his face being a skull. Despite that, when angles are played with, he can look angry or sympathetic.

* [[The Undead]]: Despite his massive appearance, it seems like he is nothing but a talking skeleton...

 

 

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The heiress to the throne of Midland is a [[Princess Classic]] example. Not a fighter at all, [[Naive Everygirl|meek, cute and rather capricious]], she immediately falls in love with Griffith [[Love At First Sight|upon meeting him]]. She is the one who helped the Hawks enter Midland's castle so they could free Griffith. She got captured and almost raped by Ganishka not long after her father's demise.

* [[Dark Mistress]]: Rather than a [[Lady Macbeth]], mostly because she has no clue about Griffith's ''real'' nature and is a rather sweet girl otherwise.

* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: Somewhat subverted. Due to her role as Griffith's [[Love Interest]] / [[Meal Ticket]], it is unlikely that she will have a positive impact on the story.

* [[The High Queen]]: Becomes this eventually, now that she's sole heir to the Midland throne.

* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: Oh, ''if only'' she knew...

* [[Putting a Hand Over His Mouth|Putting A Hand Over Her Mouth]]: Played for laughs during her uncharacteristic temper tantrum during the Griffith rescue. ''Everyone present'' excluding Pippin partake in this. Guts suggested that they [[Bound and Gagged|gag her.]]

* [[Shallow Love Interest]]

* [[Smitten Teenage Girl]]

* [[Taking the Bullet]]: During Griffith's rescue, one of the Bakiraka shot a poisoned dart aimed at Griffith, but Charlotte takes the dart. Luckily, since she was the princess (and they were sent by the King to kill Griffith), the Bakiraka allowed her to go in order to get treated.

 

=== Guts and Casca's Child ===

 

 

 

 

 

The child is apparently nothing but a hideously deformed and apparently mindless [[Fetus Terrible]] that is still irresistibly drawn to its parents, like all children. It generally shows up [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|to protect its mother]] and tries to contact its father many times but Guts is [[That Thing Is Not My Child|less than enthusiastic about his tarnished spawn]] and generally lashes out angrily at it whenever it appears. Still, this evil fetus [[Love Redeems|is the one to warn him from the impending danger menacing Casca at the Tower of Conviction]] and it also {{spoiler|appeared to protect its mother from the ghosts summoned at the mock Eclipse of Griffith's resurrection}}. Drained out of all its energy {{spoiler|the child was found by the Nameless Apostle who swallowed it. Griffith then used the child's body to resurrect himself, killing both the Nameless Apostle and the child in the process.}}

 

 

The kid's made yet another appearance on the island Guts and Co. stopped at while fighting the pirates. It's strongly implied that the fetus and the strange boy are one and the same.

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* [[Babies Make Everything Better]]: [[Subverted Trope|He probably would have]] if everything had not [[It Got Worse|gone to crap]] after the Eclipse.

* [[Berserk Button]]: For a being that supposedly has no real thought or emotions, he looks genuinely pissed [http://www.mrsmanga.com/Berserk/133.143/158 right here.] So it goes without saying: don't try to rape his mother. ''Ever.''

* {{spoiler|[[Child by Rape]]}}: Subverted. It isn't born from {{spoiler|Casca's rape at Femto's hands}}, [[Touched by Vorlons|but the experience is what made it what it is now]], even though it is technically Guts's child.

* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Even hideous, corrupted demon-babies love their mamas.

* [[Fetus Terrible]]: Subverted. It looks like one but it never acts as one.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: Moonchild, Guska... The boy has many nicknames but has no official name at the moment.

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}: {{spoiler|Though supposedly evil, the little guy uses the last of its strength in order to protect its mother after expending it, presumably, for an entire month in order to keep Casca safe from danger when she left safety of the elf mine.}}

* [[Infant Immortality]]: Horribly averted and perhaps the most disturbing case in the entire series, since his existence was tainted even before he was born {{spoiler|[[Generation Xerox|not unlike his father.]]}}

* [[Love Redeems]]: Although he accepted a nature of evil in the womb, the child loves his parents too much to actually be evil.

* [[Parents in Distress]]: Always comes to his parents' aide in times of needs.

* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]: He looks like a perfect blend of Guts (skin-tone) and Casca (hair), though his true origins are still enigmatic... {{spoiler|Miura probably thought that giving him Guts' ears would have been a dead giveaway.}}

=== Azan ===

 

 

 

Azan is the second in command of the Holy Iron Chains Knights. An old-fashioned knight who has turned to the cloth, he always speaks of honor and loyalty. When the Holy Iron Chains Knights catch up to Guts, he challenges Guts to a duel, matching the injured Guts in combat. Azan manages to survive the events of the Tower of Conviction and decides to report the events to the Holy See, while Farnese and Serpico follow Guts.

* [[One-Man Army]]: Azan once protected an old man, who was guarding a bridge by himself, against 100 men.

* [[The Paladin]]: Very much so, despite the lack of any holy magic.

* {{spoiler|[[Sixth Ranger]]}}: {{spoiler|For Guts' new companions, having unwittingly become a stowaway on Roderick's ship.}}

* [[Stout Strength]]

* [[Straight Man]]: To Serpico in the Holy Iron Chains Knights.

=== The Beast of Darkness a.k.a [[Hell Hound]] ===

 

 

 

A [[Hell Hound]]-like abomination with a pointy snout and lightning for eyes, the Beast is [[The Heartless|the personification of Guts' hate and blood lust]]. It used to live in harmony with him along the two years during which Guts would seek revenge on the Apostles only to then start acting against him when Guts realizes that [[Morality Chain|there are more important things than revenge to his life]].

* [[Hell Hound]]: Of the portent type.

* [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family]]

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]

* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]: Its primary goal is for Guts to kill Casca during one of his dreams where both converse or during a fit of anger since these are the times where it is the more powerful.

* [[We Will Meet Again]]: Always reminds Guts that it will NOT be out of the picture anytime soon.

 

=== Minister Foss ===

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* [[Affably Evil]]: Well, evil may be too strong a word, but he ''is'' a scheming politician willing to murder or make others do his bidding to get what he wants. And he’s very polite and civil in all of his dealings.

* [[Bald of Evil]]

* [[Defeat Equals Friendship]]: Griffith invokes this after [[Out-Gambitted|outgambitting]] him. {{spoiler|When they see each other again for the first time after the Eclipse, Foss kneels down before him in reverence.}}

* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]

* [[Those Two Guys]]

 

== Minor Characters ==

 

 

=== Gambino and Sys ===

 

 

 

Guts's adoptive parents. Both were heading the mercenary band Guts grew up in before joining the original Band of the Hawks. Before finding Guts, Sys miscarried and Gambino agreed to take Guts along since it seemed to be the only thing that prevented her from going mad with grief. Guts lost his adoptive mother a few years later when [[Missing Mom|Sys died from tuberculosis]] right before his eyes.

* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: Gambino put Guts trough relentless combat training practically from the moment he could walk so he would be profitable to him as a mercenary. When he eventually tries to kill Guts, it all explodes in his face since the twelve year old boy is allready a far better fighter then he ever was and Guts kills him in a reflex action.

* [[Hypocrite]]: While training Guts, Gambino has absolutely no qualms against hitting and slicing the kid. When Guts actually succeeds in cutting him, however, he reacts angrily with a nasty slash across the nose.

** Also, there was one time that Gambino gave some ointment to Guts after he slashed him across the nose... Those moments were VERY far and in between.

* [[Jerkass]]: Gambino.

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* [[Mama Bear]] / [[Team Mom]]: Combines the two tropes when it comes to her "sisters-in-arms".

* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: Miraculously averts this, thank god.

* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]: Ultimately with Jerome. Seems to milking out all of the good tropes of the [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]] archetype.

* [[The Smart Guy|The Smart Girl]]

=== Nina ===

 

 

A member of Luca’s group of prostitutes. She is [[Foil|the opposite of everything Luca stands for]], being weak-willed, [[Green-Eyed Monster|envious]], and most of all, [[Dirty Coward|afraid]]. This leads her to do, or consider to do, a number of morally questionable deeds.

=== Jill ===

 

 

 

Jill is a quiet, sensitive girl who lives in a village (which at the time that Guts and Puck arrive) is being plagued by violent attacks from fairies. Her father, Mr. Zepek, is a reminiscent drunk, who basks in the memory of his former days in the military and pays little attention to Jill, while her mother is a more caring and compassionate woman who as well suffers a bit of neglect from her husband. She sets out with Guts and Puck to find her lost best friend Rosine in the forest, despite the many dangers and trials that await them...

* [[Sleep Cute]]: Twice with Guts. First, she curls up next to him while he’s sleeping and falls asleep in his lap. And again after the two fall off a cliff while he was protecting her from ghosts, where she ends up asleep while lying on top of him.

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: She had these dynamics with Rosine.

* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Jill's mom is reasonably attractive for a woman her age, headscarf and all. Jill's dad on the other hand.... [[Running Gag|His head looks really disproportionate]] to say the ''most'' among other attributes.

* {{spoiler|[[We Can Rule Together]]: Rosine offers this to her. Jill says no and ends up almost forcibly turned into one of her Elves.}}

=== The King of Midland ===

 

 

 

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* {{spoiler|[[Dying Alone]]}}

* [[Et Tu, Brute?]]: Calls out Griffith for "betraying" him despite the king's always good treatment of the Band of the Hawk.

* [[How the Mighty Have Fallen]]: He shoves this into Griffith's face at the beginning of his imprisonment.... and then [[Irony|the same begins to happen to him at the same instance]], [[I Shall Taunt You|thanks to Griffith.]]

* {{spoiler|[[King on His Deathbed]]}}: As he {{spoiler|lay dying in his bed}}, the rest of the Midland court was in turmoil about how Charlotte could handle her succession - and the matter of an invasion looming due to Midland's collapsed state.

* [[Knight Templar Parent]] / [[Overprotective Dad]]: Pretty much threw the efforts of a century long war away and ruined his own kingdom just to get back at Griffith for {{spoiler|deflowering Charlotte.}}

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Likes to think of himself as this, but the true reason for his violent protectiveness is much squickier.

* {{spoiler|[[Parental Incest]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Wife Husbandry]]}}: He remarked about how much Charlotte began looking like his beloved deceased wife, and then Griffith clued in that he probably kept Charlotte at home and didn't arrange her to be married to a principality of the Tudor Empire for a reason...

* [[Yandere]]: For {{spoiler|his daughter}}. Oh ''God''. Beats even Griffith effortlessly.

** Although it may be that the main reason he killed her was because [[Papa Wolf|she almost killed Charlotte by accident.]]

 

The queen of Midland and Charlotte's stepmother, she disapproved of Charlotte's interest in Griffith and plotted against him.

 

 

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* [[Mauve Shirt]]

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: The anime had his name be "Yurius."

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: To Minister Foss, who goads Julius into trying to kill Griffith by staging a hunting accident. All to ensure there will be no evidence on himself.

 

* [[Defeating the Undefeatable]]: What Guts does by going against him.

* [[Giant Mook]]

* [[Red Shirt]]

* [[Starter Villain]]

 

=== Vargas ===

 

 

Once the Count's doctor, Vargas was one of [[He Knows Too Much|the first to see his true, demonic form]]. His family was captured, tortured and devoured in front of him when they tried to flee the castle. Vargas was tortured by the Count but survived, [[The Grotesque|leaving him horribly disfigured and mutilated]].

* [[Foil]] / [[Not So Different]]: Guts noticed that Vargas has similar wounds to himself (missing the same eye, limbs, family, etc). Guts saw far more of himself in him than he cared to admit.

* [[The Grotesque]]: Horribly disfigured and mutilated after having been half-eaten by the Count.

* [[Mauve Shirt]]

* [[Non-Action Guy]]: Meaner than the usual standard but his condition doesn't allow him to fight.

=== Theresia ===

 

 

The Count's daughter who has passed most of her life imprisioned in her bedroom in the Count's palace.

* [[Break the Cutie]]: Guts finished off what her disfunctioned family started. {{spoiler|May have ended as [[Corrupt the Cutie]].}}

* [[Creepy Child]]: Before Puck warms her up and gives her hope {{spoiler|Least until Guts, her father, and the God Hand take it away.}}

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Last second aversion. {{spoiler|This almost was a [[Moral Event Horizon]] for Guts.}}

* [[Girl in the Tower]]

* [[I'll Kill You!]]: What she says to Guts after he leaves her to deal with her loss.

* [[Morality Pet]]: To the Count.

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: {{spoiler|The last we see of her is her vowing to one day kill Guts.}}

 

=== Lord Gennon ===

 

 

A homosexual and notorious paedophile, he developed an attraction for Griffith, which culminated when {{spoiler|Griffith agreed to sleep with him in exchange for funds to support the growing Band}}. He is often seen to be attended by many very young male servants, no older than being in their teens.

* [[Old Shame]]: {{spoiler|Griffith ''did'' sleep with him but isn't that proud of it.}}

* [[Paedo Hunt]]: Except everybody knows what he does to his servants but no one seems to really care.

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Doldrey was captured only because this moron honestly saw Griffith as the love of his life and he tought the feeling was mutual. Something Griffith was completely aware off and didn't hesitate to take advantage off. When you think of it, that does come off as [[Pet the Dog|a little sad]]. [[Nausea Fuel|(but not too much)]]

 

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: He's pretty gruff and rude in general, but he lent Guts a hand (and equipment) many times at no extra charge, allowed a safe sanctuary for Casca, apprenticed Rickert, and even adopted an orphaned girl.

* {{spoiler|[[Life Will Kill You]]: Eventually dies of old age.}}

* [[The Obi-Wan]]: Gives Guts equipment and advice, is the only one who can make Guts shut up and think about his action, and to top it off, {{spoiler|he dies in the end}}. May the force be with you, old dude.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Drops a big one on Guts, calling him out on abandoning Casca to [[Revenge Before Reason|blindly pursue vengeance]]. His words are what ultimately make Guts [[I Will Protect Her|change his priorities]].

 

=== Flora ===

 

 

A witch living in solitude in the forest around Enoch. She served as Schierke’s mentor, and provided Guts and company with knowledge about the spiritual world as well as magical artifacts to assist them, including the [[Artifact of Doom|Berserker Armor]]. She was also a friend of the Skull Knight.

** [[You Shall Not Pass]]: Pulls a successful one on the Apostles by conjuring a wall of fire, blocking them off from pursuing Guts and his companions.

* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: When she conjures a wall of flame, she reverts to her more youthful appearance.

* [[Mr. Exposition|Mrs. Exposition]]: She provides information on how magic works in ''[[Berserk]]'', and the [[Layered World|the various layers in the world.]]

* [[The Obi-Wan]]: For Schierke.

 

=== Jerome ===

 

A soldier enlisted in the Holy Iron Chain Knights, Jerome is the [[Love Interest]] of Luca.

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* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]

* [[Non-Action Guy]]: Averted. Though most of the other sons of nobles only enlist in the Holy Iron Chain Knights to get some military notability (and otherwise have little to no knowledge on combat), Jerome is a competent fighter and lends Guts a hand during the mock eclipse.

 

=== Isma ===

 

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* [[Genki Girl]]

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: She claims that her father was human, and her mother was a merrow, but otherwise looks human (barring the [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|aqua-colored hair)]] and has no special powers. {{spoiler|Turns out, she ''is'' a merrow after all.}}

** {{spoiler|But now mama's back!}}

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: {{spoiler|Justified in that she's not human.}}

 

=== General Adon Corbowitz ===

* [[Large Ham]]

* [[Little Big Brother]]: Adon is the little big brother of [[Big Little Brother|Samson]].

* [[Miles Gloriosus]]

* [[Prongs of Poseidon]]: The trident is his weapon of choice.

* [[Running Gag]]: His various battle techniques that have been passed through the Corbowitz family in greater increments of years. And how none of them actually do him any favors.

** [[Stay in the Kitchen]]: Constantly pulls this on Casca. {{spoiler|She eventually shows him up.}}

* [[Villain Exit Stage Left]]: Had successfully evaded death in situations that he blatantly put he and his men in, usually by playing dead.

* [[We Have Reserves]]: Sends wave after after wave of mercenaries (numbering about a hundred in total) on [[One-Man Army|Guts]]. {{spoiler|There are no survivors.}}

 

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]] ( {{spoiler|She never becomes aware of it, but she's the one responsible for delivering a Behelit to Balzac.}})

* [[Plucky Girl]]

 

=== Balzac ===

=== Nico ===

 

 

* [[Canine Companion]]: He's shown having had a puppy once.

* [[Cheerful Child]]

 

== Berserk the Prototype Only Characters ==

 

'''Some general differences between''' '''''Berserk: The Prototype''''' '''and the official story run:'''

* The Brand of the Sacrifice has an alternative design, being more rounded at the bottom.

** Guts' brand is located on his chest instead of his neck and is much more obvious.

 

Don't worry. All of the blood and gore and insinuated rape threats is still present.

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: ''Fricka'' or ''Flicka'' (or ''Frikka'')?

* [[Virgin Sacrifice]]

 

=== Vlad Tepes ===

* [[Bald of Evil]]

* [[Fat Bastard]]: Not to the degree of the Count, we'll give him credit for that.

* [[Named After Somebody Famous]]: [[Sarcasm Mode|Gee, I wonder who.]]

* [[One-Winged Angel]]: His apostle form has the grotesque features of a bat, a bull, and a goat (not unlike Nosferatu Zodd's form, only [[Eldritch Abomination|more ugly]] and [[Panthera Awesome|less awesome]]).

 

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