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* [[The Abridged Series]]: ''[[Berserk Abridged]]''.
* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: The sword Godo offers to Guts after the Eclipse, capable of cleanly cutting through the blade of another sword and the tip of an anvil in a single swing. A merely ordinary sized sword of exceptional sharpness doesn't suit Guts' style though. [[Wrecked Weapon|It doesn't last a single fight]].
* [[Abusive Parents]]: Gambino goes above and beyond with this. {{spoiler|It even gets him killed.}}
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* [[Action Girl]]: Casca, before... ''stuff'' happened. Subverted by Farnese, who is initially presented as a [[Knight Templar]] warrior, but is just a figurehead for the Holy Iron Chain Knights.
* [[Action Prologue]]: Roughly the first three volumes act as this, depicting Guts ruthlessly hunting and killing Apostles. It introduces story concepts such as the [[Doom Magnet|Brand]] and its effects, [[Our Demons Are Different|Apostles]], [[Artifact of Doom|Behelits]], the Godhand, and [[Our Fairies Are Different|Elves]]. The next twelve volumes of the manga go through an extended flashback explaining how Guts got involved in all of this.
* [[Action Survivor]]:
* [[Adaptive Armor]]: The Berserker Armor.
* [[Adaptation Distillation]] / [[Compressed Adaptation]]: Given the fact that a twelve volume arc is being adapted into three one-or-so-hour long movies, the new trilogy focusing on the Golden Age arc falls into these. With [[The Law of Conservation of Detail]] in affect to save time, a lot of scenes {{spoiler|(mainly battle sequences) were cut out in favor of the more important ones,}} and some scenes were {{spoiler|meshed together with other scenes}} in the first film; hence, it will probably be expected in the upcoming films as well.
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* [[All Trolls Are Different]]: They're '''vicious''' little beasts that look like a [[Biological Mashup]] between a bipedal rat and a pig, with a dose of [[wikipedia:File:Condylura.jpg|star-nosed mole]]. [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080612124723/berserk/images/2/23/Troll.jpg See for your self]{{Dead link}}.
* [[Allergic to Evil]]: The Brand of Sacrifice on Guts and Casca will start bleeding or hurting if demons are near.
* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: In the world of ''Berserk'' there seems to be two "races" under this category: individuals such as Pippin and Donovan have more [[Darkest Africa|African features
* [[Ambition Is Evil]]: Griffith. Enough said.
* [[Angels, Devils, and Squid]]: Being a [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] has allowed all three types of entities to exist in the world of ''Berserk'' in some form or another. There is a ''lot'' of overlap between them, but the Four Elemental Kings are the closest you can get to straight angels, the Apostles and Godhand are the devils, and the more malevolent spiritual entities (such as, fittingly, the Sea God) are the squid.
** The Battle for Windham ends up as a somewhat muddled case of this. Griffith, who takes on an angelic appearance, leads his army of humans and [[Our Demons Are Different|Apostles]] against the now [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|gigantic]] and nearly
* [[Anger Born of Worry]]: Both Guts and Casca do this to each other ''right'' before their [[Relationship Upgrade]], Guts being more irate and Casca being a lot more tearful. But hey - [[They Do]]!
* [[Animated Armor]]: The
* [[Animalistic Abomination]]: The Beast of Darkness, a monstrous wolf that is [[The Heartless|Guts's bloodlust and hatred of Griffith given form]]. It's one of the swordsman's greatest enemies, and wants nothing more than to make him submit to his darkest desires so it can permanently steal control of his body and freely indulge in its psychopathic bloodlust.
* [[Annoying Arrows]]: Played straight and subverted at the same time: the crossbows frequently used by various soldiers generally instantly pierce the armor of and kill other human beings, and while Guts himself rarely gets hit by them, a single bolt to his hand renders him unable to wield his sword two-handed, giving him a significant disadvantage in that fight. On the other hand, the Apostles are simply so large that the crossbows are simply too small to hit their internal organs, though Guts often shoots out their eyes to great effect.
* [[The Antichrist]]: Thanks to the prophecy about the white and black hawks and the fact he wants to kill the person the freakin pope declared as [[The Messiah]], this is ''technically'' Guts. Due to the violence [[Inherent in the System]], this may or may not be a good thing. Or another way to look at it is that {{spoiler|Griffith}} is the anti-christ since, you know, no one is supposed to know that the anti-christ is the anti-christ. Schierke refers to him as the Hawk of Darkness, and she'd know better than most people.
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** Not necessarily - when fighting the apostle Grunbeld without armor, Guts says something to the effect of absolutely needing armor to survive against an enemy of his power. He also credits it with protecting him against the goat-cult leader.
** Not to mention Guts gets some extremely useful armor. Extremely useful in the sense that it makes him stronger. As far as protection is concerned, it does the opposite.
*** The armor is also extremely useful because
*** Technically it doesn't make him stronger only removes the subconscious limit the minds placed on the body allowing him to push himself way, way beyond his limits. Although for all intents and purposes it makes him stronger.
* [[Army of Thieves and Whores]]: The Black Dog Knights were a branch of Midland's military consisting of the kingdom's criminals. They were [[Rape, Pillage and Burn|incredibly ruthless]], and their leader, Wyald, was a [[Complete Monster|real piece of work.]]
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* [[Artifact of Doom]]: Behelits, egg-like items that are direct conduits to the Godhand and allow their possessors the opportunity to become demons... for a hefty price. Griffith's Crimson Behelit, the 'Egg of the Conqueror', is the worst of all.
** The Berserker Armor as well.
▲** Subverted in that while its usefulness in combat is [[Hand Wave|handwaved]] by a magnet in it that lets it help hold a sword his fake arm is actually just a hunk of metal with some weapons inside it—it's not functional as a limb, and he can't control it or grab things with it. Although it's a looong time between when he gets it and when this is explained...
* [[Art Shift]]: Puck and Isidro.
** Also, compare [https://web.archive.org/web/20110806045626/http://manga.animea.net/berserk-chapter-312-page-19.html this scene] with a [https://web.archive.org/web/20100213034417/http://manga.animea.net/berserk-chapter-1-page-9.html typical Berserk scene].
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