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* [[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.
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** 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]].
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* [[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!
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* [[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]].
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* [[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.
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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''.
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* [[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]]:
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* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: (Referring to the Dragon Slayer, Guts' '''huge''' sword.)
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'''Bartender''': "Oh gee, I dunno, do you think?"
(Cuts to the outside of the tavern and there is a long beat.)
'''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.}}
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* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: Charlotte's status as [[Royally Screwed-Up]] subverts this.
* [[Evil Plan]]: The "Diet Pill Pyramid Scheme".
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* [[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.
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* [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot]]: Zodd and the Baron answer questions from various users for an episode.
* [[Freud Was Right]]:
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* [[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.
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* [[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]]:
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** And in an unrelated scene
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* [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Griffith.
* [[Made of Plasticine]]: Lampshaded by mooks.
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* [[Sedgwick Speech]]: "Oh, the irony. The ''contrived, hamfisted'' '''IRONY!'''"
* [[Sex Equals Love]]:
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'''Guts:''' "Wow. You ''really'' hate me, do you?"
'''Casca:''' "Yes - I ''really'' hate you."
'''Guts:''' "Do you want to have sex?"
'''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.
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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.
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* [[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?"
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