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== P ==

* [[Papa Wolf]]: {{spoiler|''Guts'', in the latter stages on the manga, [http://www.mangakong.com/manga/Berserk/247.256/67 becomes this] towards Schierk}}

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Everywhere. Prominent examples:

** Guts' birth mother died before he was born - via execution by hanging. His birth father [[Disappeared Dad|is never mentioned.]] His adoptive mother, [[Missing Mom|Sys]], [[Disposable Woman|died of the plague when he was very young]], and [[Abusive Parent|Gambino]] - well, [[Jerkass|we know enough]] [[Complete Monster|about his deeds to the boy.]] Guts [[Calling the Old Man Out|eventually calls his adoptive dad out]], [[Self-Made Orphan|though by accident.]]

** Rosine, like Isidro, is an inversion, but on a more diabolical level, as she {{spoiler|[[Self-Made Orphan|sacrificed her parents]] to the Godhand in order to become an apostle.}}

** Princess Charlotte's birth mother died, her stepmother [[Parental Neglect|more or less ignored her]] (who is also dead), and her father {{spoiler|who had previously [[Parental Incest|tried to rape her]]}} is now dead.

* [[A Party - Also Known as an Orgy]]: YES. Beserk has a lot of these, especially of the pagan variant.

* [[Pastel-Chalked Freeze-Frame]]: Berserk is fond of doing this for dramatic moments, usually when Guts is doing something particularly [[Badass]].

* [[Physical Scars, Psychological Scars]]: The lose of his left arm and his right eye serves has Guts' painful reminder of [[My Greatest Failure|what he failed to save]] during the Eclipse.

* [[Pieta Plagiarism]]: The cover art of Volume 13.

* [[Pimped-Out Cape]]

* [[Pimped-Out Dress]]: The Midland royal court has plenty of these.

** Those Vandimion's are pretty pimped-out themselves.

* [[Pirates]]: [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks|Captain Sharkrider]] and his pirate crew are a group of [[Talk Like a Pirate|stereotypical]] Type 1 pirates - only they suck at what they do and Guts and his gang always [[Butt Monkey|take some time to talk shit about them]].

* [[Playing Cyrano]]: {{spoiler|Guts does this with Casca towards Griffith. Also, Judea does this with Griffith towards Casca.}}

* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: Isidro and the two elves.

** Arguably Corkus, as well, and much less slapstick and annoying about it, too.

* [[Pointy Ears]]: A handful of characters, human and non-human, have 'em.

** The fact that Guts' ears, while still human, are somewhat sharper than other humans (the same can be said for his teeth) has led to considerable fan speculation about what exactly he might be. Being born from a dead woman with no known father means anything is possible.

* [[Power of Trust]]: Because of Guts traumatic childhood, he rarely trusts people, [[Hates Being Touched|not even allowing a tap on the shoulder]]. After joining the Band of the Hawk, and learning the value of camaraderie, he slowly opens up to certain members of the band. However, the events of the Eclipse reverted Guts back to his original mistrustful self, possibly to an even greater degree. Puck the Elf eventually earns Guts's trust so that he becomes his first travel companion. During the Conviction Arc, however, he trusts the [[Hot-Blooded]] Isidro enough to save Casca while he fought off monsters, and after that {{spoiler|when he and Casca travel together but he almost rapes her when his inner beast got the better of him}} he allows Isidro, Serpico, and Farnese to come along with him, entrusting them all to help him fight monsters while protecting Casca. He even admitted to himself that under any other circumstance, he would not have let them come with him, but because of the difficulty of fighting demons while protecting someone who was incapable of protecting themselves, Guts was at his rope's end.

** Griffith also displayed a [[Power of Trust]] moment during Guts's first mission with the Hawks by entrusting him with the task as being the rear guard, even though Guts didn't want to be part of the band and was at a high flight risk at the time. The event began to change Guts's way of thinking toward the Hawks.

* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: The anime toned down on the violence as well as the occasional slapstick comedy, and focused more on the emphasis of ambition and friendship (albeit in the negative way) instead of on the series long supernatural plotline in order to give the series a dark, serious, and realistic atmosphere. Some also believe that by omitting Guts's {{spoiler|emotional breakdown from being raped as a child and the Skull Knight's presence when he saved Guts from the Eclipse}} made him look like a stronger person and more likeable to the audience. Despite all this, along with some of the [[Adaptation-Induced Plothole|plot holes]] and [[Adaptation Explanation Extrication|lack of explanation for some scenes]], the fans were pretty accepting of these changes to the anime.

* [[Precision F-Strike]]:

{{quote|--'''Guts''': "''When you meet your God, TELL HIM TO LEAVE ME THE'' '''''FUCK''''' ''ALONE''!!"}}

* [[Private Military Contractors]]: The Band of the Hawk.

* [[Prolonged Prologue]]: Twelve volumes, man. ''Twelve volumes.''

* [[Psychotic Smirk]]: [http://read.mangashare.com/Berserk/chapter-028/page019.html Griffith's]

* [[Public Execution]]: It's practically a form of theatre in ''Berserk''.

 

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