Berserk Abridged: Difference between revisions

* [[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]].

* [[Bland-Name Product]] ([[Artifact of Doom|Behelit]]-O's--The only cereal that [[Shout-Out|stays creepy]], [[Ren and Stimpy|even in milk]]!)

* [[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.}}

* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: Charlotte's status as [[Royally Screwed-Up]] subverts this.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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

* [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Griffith.

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

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

* [[Sex Equals Love]]:

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

* [[Shout-Out]]: Final Fantasy, [[Vision of Escaflowne]], Hellsing, The Legend of Zelda, and Naruto ("X no jutsu" is something of a [[Running Gag]]) to name just a few.

* [[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}}.

* [[Surrounded by Idiots]]: Foss, among the circle of nobles trying to bump off Griffith.

* [[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?"

* [[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]].

** To paraphrase: he couldn't find a way to show {{spoiler|[[Rape as Drama|Casca being raped]]}} [[Dude, Not Funny|and make it funny]].

** 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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