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[[File:300px-Eclipse2 1553.jpg|frame|Dinnertime for the LEGIONS OF HELL ITSELF!!]]
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*** Did we mention that Vargas is as mutated as he is because ''he'' was partially eaten himself by the Count?
** And then there's Inquisitor Mozgus. who is just as horrible as you'd expect a [[Knight Templar|fanatical religious nutjob with too much power and not a shred of objectivity]] can get. While it's pretty obvious from the start that he's Bad News, his vilest act we see makes him a [[Complete Monster]] of the first order: when a band of starving refugees attempts to steal some of the ample foodstuffs sent to Mozgus and his retinue, he spots among them a woman with a starving infant. When she begs him to feed her child, he gently takes her along to his residence, lauding her courage and dedication. He sends away the child to be fed and cared for, then escorts her to a room while extolling the fact that while her intentions were good, she still has to expiate her sins... And then he opens the door, where we see the other refugees being horribly tortured, and the poor woman is dragged, stripped, and tied to another torture device over her increasingly frantic pleas... Then the door closes. It's as nightmarish as it sounds, if not more so. The horror starts [http://www.mangareader.net/96-1138-50/berserk/chapter-18.html here]
*** Somehow the fact that he quite obviously ''truly'' believes he is doing the right thing makes it even worse. An unrepentant [[Card-Carrying Villain]] like [[Complete Monster|Wyald]] is certainly horrific, but the idea that someone can commit even worse atrocities and still consider themselves a good person is even more terrifying, especially when history has proven time and again that [[Humans Are
* How about Ganishka's method of drawing new soldiers for his demon army? He throws pregnant women into vats made up of stitched together Apostles, their children become monsters and rip their ways out of their mother's wombs, and the remains are given to the newborn for food.
* Trolls from the Qlippoth, whose primary method of reproduction involves forcibly impregnating captured women from villages, with the births of new trolls being every bit as horrific and lethal to the poor women involved as that of Ganishka's demon soldiers.
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** First, we have Princess Charlotte and her old father, the King of Midland. She looks identical to her mother, the Queen, which... caused some problems. Canonically, he ends up trying to rape her, after his rage that Griffith slept with her. The idea of this is ''very'' disturbing, and definitely requires a ton of [[Brain Bleach]]. This alienates her from her father to the point of disowning him and refusing to see him when he's on his deathbed, his health having seriously deteriorated because of the guilt of what he had done.
** Then there's Guts and his adoptive father Gambino. Guts was adopted by Sys, Gambino's lover, after she miscarried, despite superstition that states that you shouldn't pick up a child from a dead body. Several years after Guts was taken in, Sys died of a plague, which was tragic enough because it left Guts without a significant mother figure in the years to come, but it also hardened the heart of Gambino against Guts, [[You Should Have Died Instead|whom he felt should have died instead]]. Despite Guts looking up to him and doing everything in his power to make the mercenary leader proud, including bringing him his part of the pay for every battle, Gambino hated Guts so much that at one point, he sold the poor kid to one of his men, a creepy pederast by the name of Donovan, for three silver coins, which leads to Guts being raped despite his best efforts to fight the big man off. Things between Guts and Gambino come to a head when Gambino, after losing his leg to a cannonball, gets drunk one night, comes into Guts's tent, and tries to murder him, forcing Guts to kill him in self defense.
** And then there's the relationships between the three central characters themselves. After meeting and being defeated by Griffith, Guts moves up in the ranks of Griffith's mercenary band, eventually becoming a commander of raiders, and the two of them form a bond that is very much like brotherhood (or if you're [[Shipping Goggles|that way inclined]], [[Ho Yay|more than that]]). Meanwhile, Casca has been Griffith's trusted [[Number Two]] ever since Griffith saved her from being raped as a little girl. Griffith gradually becomes obsessed with Guts, such that when Guts decides to leave the Hawks after deciding that he's not going to be a part of Griffith's dream, Griffith's thoughts during the resultant duel, about how he would not let him go, are very [[Yandere
* Rosine's little [[Crap Saccharine World]] is fairly disturbing, specially due to the fact that her "elves," who rape and kill each other, are basically [[Kids Are Cruel|still children]] ''[[Kids Are Cruel|playing]]''. When we see the cocoons in which they are transformed, things reach a ''really disturbing" angle when we learn she plans to turn her childhood friend into one of the little bastards; [[Sarcasm Mode|thankfully]] we later see (courtesy of Guts destroying the cocoons) [[Nausea Fuel|the deformed children inside then]].
** The absolute worst part of Rosine's "elven kingdom" is the "Adult attack", where they pin each other to the ground and rape each other with their stingers. Depressing, horrifying, and slightly narmful in a way that produces an entirely new feeling of awkwardness mixed with terror.
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** {{spoiler|Casca's [[Rape Leads to Insanity|current state]] after her rape.}}
*** The nature of insanity is always a disturbing thing to think about, especially in Casca's case. She wasn't reduced to the mindset of a child, but to something ''less'' than a child. A lot of fans like the theory that {{spoiler|the real Casca is in a dreamworld where the Eclipse never happened and she has a family with Guts and she's too content to leave}}, but something from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBuQ6dVwe0o the Dreamcast video game puts me off about that theory.] What if the real Casca is actually in [[And I Must Scream|a nightmare world and she isn't allowed to leave?]] ''And she's been insane for over two years.'' [[Fridge Horror|If this is true,]] I would not be surprised if she just [[Came Back Wrong|came back all sorts of wrong.]]
*** And to add more [[Fridge Horror]] to the mix, just the sheer thought that {{spoiler|Casca was raped by ''[[Satan|the]]'' [[Satan|epitome of evil]]}} is enough [[Go Mad
* When Schierke taps into the powers of darkness and reminescents that when you look into darkness, the darkness looks back at you. And does so in form of [[H.P. Lovecraft|Cthulhu-esque nightmare]]. Okay, it was later revealed to be just an Earth spirit, but his first apperance and build up to it was damn creepy.
** So Miura is a [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]] fan too, eh? I was beginning to think that this series wasn't [[Nietzsche Wannabe|philosophically cynical enough.]]
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