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** As a last note, it is pretty much established in the second chapter that children are not safe from the horrors of the Berserk universe.
*** The ''second'' chapter? Try the ''very first'' chapter, which counted a baby among the victims of the Baron's evil rampage toward the chapter's end before the throwdown with Guts. And let's not forget the women and children who were being carted off in the wagon bound for Koka Castle, presumably to be eaten by the Baron, that Guts passed when he first entered the village.
* No page on ''[[Berserk]]'''s [[Nightmare Fuel]] can begin without mention of the way that Apostles are made. It starts when somebody that possesses a [[Artifact of Doom|Behelit]] hits a [[Despair Event Horizon|moment of absolute despair, where he would do absolutely anything to escape his situation]]. When this happens, the Behelit, a creepy little [[Egg MacGuffin|egglike thing]] that has human facial features scattered randomly all over its surface, rearranges those features into a human face. Which then proceeds to [[Tears of Blood|bleed from the eyes]] and start screaming. Then the angles in whichever area this happened start changing and the Godhand, the [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] of the series, show up to [[Deal
** And things only get worse when it comes time for a new Godhand to be born, which happens once every 216 years during what is known as the Great Eclipse. A very special Behelit makes its way into the hands of a very special individual. This individual, a charismatic leader of men, achieves great things during his lifetime, but then things start going straight to hell for him, culminating on the day of the Eclipse when he loses all hope and activates his Behelit. When a Behelit of the Godhand activates, the bearer and everyone currently present with him is transported to the Nexus, a nightmarishly surreal place that to mortal eyes is a scene right out of hell itself. Instead of just one or two victims like is the case with Apostles, the Godhand demand that everyone the Godhand-to-be has led be marked for sacrifice in order to become one of their own -- and instead of just a good number of monsters, ''every'' Apostle in the entire ''Berserk'' universe has gathered for the feast, and comes out of the woodwork to eat everyone alive once everyone is marked for sacrifice.
** During the second eclipse, when Griffith is reborn, it is potentially worse. We see Guts get up after the tower has crumbled into a hand-shaped edifice. He is alone. He looks down. His facial expression changes to awe and terror. On the next page, the refugee camps are shown. With a HUGE Sacrifice symbol made up from all the campfires running across them. I get the chills just by thinking about it.
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** Also, in the very beginning when Guts is fighting the Baron of Koka Castle. First, the Baron loses his left eye when Guts blows his head in half, then he loses his right eye when Guts shoots it with his crossbow during wholly unnecessary but well-deserved torture.
** Serpico stabs a kelpie through the head, and then next page we see its left eyeball dangling from the socket. ''Lovely.''
* {{spoiler|[[God Is Evil|The]] [[Bigger Bad|Idea]] [[The Man Behind the Man|Of]] [[As Long
* Following Griffith's {{spoiler|year long torture}} there's also the utterly emotionless look in his eyes/face.
** When Guts and the Hawks come to rescue Griffith at Wyndham Tower a year after his {{spoiler|capture and torture by the King of Midland}} we see that he is {{spoiler|physically crippled with the tendons in his wrists and ankles severed and his tongue cut out}}. Guts then proceeds to tear out the torturer's tongue on seeing him wearing Griffith's tongue around his neck - "I'm not letting you go to Hell two-tongued!".
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*** 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 From the Revelation|to cause the viewer to go insane.]]
* 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 [[
** 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.]]
* I always find it particularly terrifying that after being reborn into the mortal world, {{spoiler|Griffith}} doesn't actually seem to have changed that much. If anything, his cunning, military prowess and inhuman charisma have increased, making him even more successful than he was before.
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