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{{quote|''"Beating a dead horse with another dead horse."''|'''Berserk Abridged in hbi2k's own words'''}}

 

 

 

Can be found [http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=442F9290791E856D here].

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* [[The Abridged Series]]: Obviously.

** Not to mention that the God Hand were all voiced by other Abridged creators. ([[Lanipator]] of [[Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged]], Frolegend of Saiyuki Reload Abridged, and the duo of MasakoX & Vegeta3986 of [[Naruto the Abridged Series]])

* [[Affectionate Parody]]: hbi2k clearly loves the hell out of this series. That doesn't stop him from making fun of it in every way possible.

* [[Audience Participation]]: hbi2k encouraged viewers to make a witty one-liner for Judeau's [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment, the winner actually having their line said by Judeau later on, who curses himself for not using that line.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Corkus' complete obsession with murder.

** Although he does have some standards, and prefers the murder of a [[Deadly Decadent Court]] to murder in battle.

* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]: This is why Guts compensates with his [[BFS]]. And goes on a [[Rage Against the Author|Rage Against the Character Designer]].

* [[Bi the Way]]: Griffith, eventually, so the author can make all the [[Ho Yay]] jokes but not have to work around him getting tortured for sleeping with the princess.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't steal jokes from LK's Abridged series or Guts gets very angry.

* [[Blood Knight]]: IT'S MURDERIN' TIME!

* [[Brick Joke]]: {{spoiler|One that went ''cross series'' in Gantz Abridged. Skull Knight actually does show up to help Kurono in the filler chronicles}}.

* [[But Liquor Is Quicker|But Jello Shots Are Quicker]]: Combined with [[Barry White]].

* [[Chess Motifs]]: Charlotte asking Griffith how he sees the other Hawks, and he says that they are (paraphrased) "like those pieces in chess which aren't that useful, but later in the game [[Foreshadowing|you can sacrifice them to bring a more important piece back to live]]" (i.e. pawns).

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Guts varies between this and [[Genius Ditz]] but crosses over into it completely when he believes that menstruation is a myth and women give birth to leprechauns.

Casca: For the last time women can't fly on brooms! }}

** Let's not forget Griffith giving Guts a speech about becoming a [[The Ubermensch|"Nietzschean Superman"]]....only to have Guts thinking Griffith is a ''necromancer''.

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: In the first episode Guts calls the Baron a "filler freak," even though he was actually in the anime. hbi2k has acknowledged this mistake.

* [[Does Not Understand Sarcasm]]:

* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: (Referring to the Dragon Slayer, Guts' '''huge''' sword.)

'''Patron''': "It's his penis right?" }}

* [[Downer Ending]]: Defied by the narrator. {{spoiler|He eventually ends up in a fight with one of the cast who disapproves of the new direction.}}

** More disturbing than that: '''[[Horny Devils|Slan]]''' thinks his dirty thoughts are disgusting. Yeah. [[Fridge Horror|Think about that for a moment.]]

* [[Even Nerds Have Standards]]: Final Fantasy cosplayer Guts finds the nobles [[Naruto|Akatsuki]] LARP a little too nerdy even for him. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Rickert.

* [[Evil Plan]]: The "Diet Pill Pyramid Scheme".

* [[Evil Redhead]]: The Earl of Douchebag, the King of Midland's brother.

* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: The Baron of Koka Castle is given the terrifying name of Phil.

* [[Foreshadowing]]: {{spoiler|Zodd nonchalantly telling Guts that Guts will eventually get to bang Casca; also about Griffith turning into "some kind of freaky lipstick monster" (which ''really'' happens in the actual series). The diet pills mentioned off-hand also come in relevant towards the end.}}

** Not to mention all the references to {{spoiler|the Eclipse}}.

* [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot]]: Zodd and the Baron answer questions from various users for an episode.

* [[Freud Was Right]]:

* [[Fridge Logic]]: If {{spoiler|the finale never happened, where would the first episode fit?}}

** [[Word of God|hbi2k has said]] that he wrote the ending for his own amusement and that the real ending to the anime still happened, because he couldn't find a way to make any of it funny.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Zodd's line after the series ended, as follows: {{spoiler|"but it's like the only time in the history of anime that the demons win. Every other show ends with the [[Big Damn Heroes|Ancient Hero of Bullshit]] showing up at the last minute, wielding the legendary [[Sword of Plot Advancement|Sword]] of [[Deus Ex Machina]] and slicing the hell out of us. Well not this time! This time, WE WIN! Griffith turns evil. Everyone gets raped or eaten or killed. Fuck you. THE END!"}}<ref>Although what he's saying is technically incorrect. Devilman, a manga that inspired Miura, ends pretty much the same way, only with more [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] hermaphrodites. Though he did specifically mention ''anime'' history, and Devilman's anime didn't quite end with the Demons winning.</ref>

* [[Good People Have Good Sex]]: After {{spoiler|making love}} Casca remarks on how someone in the series has ''finally'' had positive sexual experience.... [[Double Subversion|until Guts]] fills her in about his, er, [[Erotic Asphyxiation|choking fetish]].

* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]: Guts in the series is gleefully psychotic. So is Corkus. Though that's not much of a change.

** Corkus changing his rants about entering high society and living the good life to murder, murder being like a fine wine, and '''more freaking murder''' is, though.

* [[Kneel Before Zod]]: Zodd says the line at the end of one episode.

** And again whilst [[Rage Against the Author|beating up the abridger]] for nearly cancelling the show.

* [[Knight Templar]]: Guts, during his stint as a mall Santa.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: And how! (it wouldn't be an Abridged Series if it didn't)

* [[Larynx Dissonance]]: hbi2k plays Caska. This is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in his next series, Gantz Abridged, when Kishimoto initially starts talking with the Caska voice and everyone complains about how horrible it sounds.

* [[Limited Animation]]:

** And in an unrelated scene

* [[Made of Plasticine]]: Lampshaded by mooks.

* [[Meal Ticket]]: Griffith actually calls Charlotte that.

* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Interesting in that, as the commentary points out, there's actually two levels of fourth wall breakage: human characters think that they're in a [[Gorn|gorny]] [[Seinen]] show, while demons know that they're actually in an abridged series of a [[Gorn|gorny]] [[Seinen]] show.

* [[Oh God, Did She Just Hear That?]]: "Oh God, they can hear my thoughts! Don't think about sex! Don't think about sex! * sings the Meow Mix song in his head* "

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] - Guts points out Zodd's human form as this trope: "So...you're actually a ten-foot tall demon-thing who disguises himself as an ''eight-foot'' tall ogre-thing...?"

* [[Pastel-Chalked Freeze-Frame]]: "Holy crap, what happened to the animation budget?!"

* [[Rage Against the Author]]: Zodd versus BA's creator. Zodd usually ''wins''.

** Guts is implied to have beaten up his own character designer (and creator), Kentaro Miura.

* [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil]]: The Tudor soldiers who corner Casca during Guts's battle against a hundred of them show no opposition to killing her... but are absolutely appalled at the idea of raping her. An interesting change in world where [[All Men Are Perverts]].

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Zodd directly compares Guts and Griffith to [[Naruto]] and Sasuke respectively, though Griffith thinks it's more the other way around.

** And it's what makes their brains so smart! With thinking!

* [[Running Gag]]: Griffith's not so veiled attempts at getting Guts into bed.

* [[Sedgwick Speech]]: "Oh, the irony. The ''contrived, hamfisted'' '''IRONY!'''"

* [[Sex Equals Love]]:

'''Casca:''' "[[Slap Slap Kiss|Oh GOD yes!]]" }}

* [[Sorry I Left the BGM On]]: Frank loves his music.

**

Frank: "You said no Johnny Cash. This is Billy Joel!" }}

** Not to mention he was the {{spoiler|DJ at the Queen's funeral and fooled around with the music during the service}}.

* [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: Zod points out that he could kill Guts three times over just in the time it takes for him to talk about it!

* [[Take That]]: "... the soundtrack by Yoko Kanno makes even the most mediocre anime seem great. Why else do you think anyone ever watched Wolf's Rain?"

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Zodd and "Phil".

* [[Thoroughly Mistaken Identity]]: The King of Midland is frequently mistaken for the Burger King by demons and humans.

* [[Training Montage]]: Parodied, naturally.

* [[Tsundere]]: Casca's hatred of Guts is something that's never-ending in its ill-humor.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: One of the things that Hbi2k was gonna do was make the final episodes in the style of [[AMV Hell]]. He doesn't go through it because he felt like it's not [[Grand Finale]] material, however you can see where he was going for his [[AMV Hell]] style in bits and pieces, like Slan's entrance to the song of ''She's A Lady'' with Corkus singing along.

** Speaking of Slan's entrance, each member of the God Hand was gonna have their own theme. However, this only went that way for Slan (and if you interpret it as such) Femto, (which by the way is ''The Hawkman Cometh''). Void, Conrad, and Ubik get their entrances set to ''He Has The Whole World In His Hands''.

* [[Word of God]]: By name no less in the final commentary, hbi2k says that the [[Downer Ending]] happened, and that the other, happier ending was partly for his own amusement and partly due to the fact he couldn't find a way to parody the actual ending [[Squick|without feeling EXTREMELY uncomfortable]].

** A wise move on his part. From what he said in the (non-commentary) opening of the 24th episode, a lot of fans emailed him telling him that he shouldn't parody the ending, and he added that in a way, he agreed with them, since it's a hugely emotional moment. The Downer-est [[Downer Ending]] of all time. No fan of the show would want the end of that parodied, and hbi2k is on that list. And he did what any fan would've done; the Mega Happy Ending. And then follows up with an amv montage of all the bad things that happen jammed into a couple minutes when Zodd rebels. Literally the only way that he could have left the majority of the abridged show's fanbase feeling happy.

** This would be considered [[Double Standard]] since he showed a rather graphic scene from the manga, of {{spoiler|Guts' rape}}, in rather vivid detail and without apparent ill effects.

 

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