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** In fact, when {{spoiler|he has mere moments to live, one of the last things he says is intended to remind her of Guts and cheer her up a bit.}}

* [[I Will Protect Her]]: Half of Guts' motivation is to kill the Godhand; the other half revolves around protecting Casca. Guts protects Casca when she was a capable [[Action Girl]] and after he [[My Greatest Failure|failed to protect her]] during the Eclipse and vows to do so from now on,especially after {{spoiler|he rescues her from Mozgus}}). As noted above, you hurt Casca, you '''die'''. Simple as that.

* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: The Apostles. In the first episode of the anime, we first find this out by implication. After the scene where Guts is menaced by the demons, we hear a woman's scream, then immediately segue to the Baron cutting a steak. Given the conversation that follows, we can assume [[Squick|it wasn't beef]]... In the manga, it comes right out and says that he's a monster who eats human flesh, and many references are made of the Count's cannibalistic tendencies.

** [[Child Eater]]

** Azan seems to be one as well.

{{quote|There's only one thing we can do as knights. We are going to protect the people from demons.}}

* [[Knight Templar]]: The Holy Iron Chain Knights.

** Subverted: The order itself is a ceremonial guard composed of young nobles whose parents wanted them to have the prestige of military service minus the risk associated with actual warfare. Farnese was all Knight Templar, however, and often ordered them to mete out some brutal punishment to supposed heretics.

* [[Like a Badass Out of Hell]]: The Skull Knight pulled one of these {{spoiler|upon saving Guts and Casca from the Godhand's clutches during the Eclipse}}.

* [[Like an Old Married Couple]]: How Guts and Casca start acting toward one another after they affirm their relationship.

* [[Load-Bearing Boss]]: When Guts destroys Slan's "Trollguts" manifestation in Qlippoth, the entire cave and all it's monstrous inhabitants explode in a welter of chaos.

* [[Lock and Load Montage]]: [http://www.mrsmanga.com/Berserk/122.132/13 In manga example.]

== M ==

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Well now, the series has Guts for you [[Tall, Dark and Handsome|tall, dark, handsome]] and [[Tall, Dark and Snarky|snarky]] girls and Griffith for you chicks who dig the whole [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] [[Bishonen]] thing. There's some [[Fan Service]] for everybody, [[Periphery Demographic|even for the female readers]].

* [[Made of Evil]]: The Behelits, Berserk Armor and a couple other things.

* [[Made of Iron]]: Guts, who can be beaten to a pulp by a monster the size of an elephant and still be on top form the next day. Averted in the case of Griffith, who ends up crippled by torture.

* [[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context]]: So, while Guts and Casca are separated from the Hawks, General Adon shows up with a troop of mercenaries that he hired to catch Guts. Guts makes a path for Casca to escape, when Adon sends some men after her in order to kill her. When they catch up to her and eventually over power her, the mooks are mad that she was able to kill some of their comrades, so they want to ''thank'' Casca for doing so... [[Murderers Are Rapists|by raping her.]] THEN killing her. Um, okay then.

* [[Man in the Iron Mask]]: {{spoiler|Griffith}}, after he slept with Charlotte.

* [[A Man Is Always Eager]]: Although both [[All Men Are Perverts|he]] and [[All Women Are Lustful|Casca]] are the least sex-crazed characters in Berserk, Guts is shown to be a bit less nervous about initiating sex with Casca {{spoiler|as this is his [[Technical Virgin|first time as well]]}}. And afterward, Guts is shown to be ''very'' eager about making love to Casca a hundred - no, a THOUSAND - more times.

** This of course plays into Guts's [[Heartbroken Badass]] status later, as he is not only desperate for Casca's emotional love, but also her physical love {{spoiler|and his beast within uses this longing [[Near-Rape Experience|for his own desires]].}}

* [[Mega Neko]]: Ganishka's monstrous demon tigers.

* [[Melancholy Moon]]: Every once in awhile, we see Guts staring at the moon, lost in his own thoughts... He Schierke also share a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|moment of heartwarming]] this way.

* [[The Messiah]]: Griffith, though he is more of a subversion (zigzagged at best), since he appears to be a good-willed person who loves everybody and everybody in turn either loves him or willingly follows him, but in truth he's a guy with some issues. This complex is especially seen after his {{spoiler|reincarnation into the physical world}} since he justifiably ''can't'' be a messiah since he is [[Lack of Empathy|devoid of the human capacity for empathy.]] Guts, on the other hand, is an aversion, since he's a decent guy who has also done good, but he doesn't even pretend to love everybody, nor does everybody that he meets love him.

* [[Messianic Archetype]]: Griffith and Guts can both be seen as this trope. Griffith is a dark version of this, in reality being a [[Dark Messiah]] who is also an demonic demigod, as he was "[[Cold-Blooded Torture|crucified]]" but was then "resurrected" in the demonic sabbath of the Eclipse. He has currently {{spoiler|"ascended" onto his throne that is Falconia}}. [[Messiah Creep|Guts is becoming a straighter example as the story progresses.]] He has the unusual birth down, and he is against the populace's belief that Griffith is [[The Chosen One]], and has since gradually begun gathering "[[True Companions|disciples]]" and little by little, people who would have normally been afraid of Guts are growing to admire him. Wanna know what's ''really'' fucked up about this? [[Perspective Flip|See below.]]

* [[Out-of-Clothes Experience]]: Happens a few times in dream sequences and flashbacks, such as when Guts is being chased by his deformed child in the first volume and when he has a nightmare of he and Gambino. Most recent was when the combined force of Femto and the Skull Knight succeeded in [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|breaking the world forever]] by {{spoiler|merging the physical and supernatural worlds together}} and sent [[World-Wrecking Wave|a wave of energy that was felt around the entire planet]], including Guts and the friends who were at sea. [http://www.mangakong.com/manga/Berserk/305/6 This describes the experience well. NSFW.]

* [[Outside Context Villain]]: One of the main reasons why even weaker Apostles and minor supernatural beings are such a threat to humans.

* [[Overdrawn At the Blood Bank]]: Everyone and everything bleeds a LOT. Guts himself is almost constantly dripping blood (especially from his brand), but he never seems to run completely dry. It's occasionally lampshaded when Guts needs to interrupt his battle to patch up, but his blood loss is still pretty unrealistic.

* [[Over-the-Shoulder Carry]]: How Guts kidnapped Farnese at the beginning of the Conviction Arc.

 

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