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* [[Exotic Weapon Supremacy]]: Averted after Guts easily beats Silat, despite his many exotic weapons.

* [[Explaining Your Power to the Enemy]]: Guts is fighting a regenerating demon (an offspring of the Count who possesed a knight who swore to kill Guts after he got his ass handed to him) whose wounds heal as fast as they're inflicted. The demon taunts him by saying that it can regenerate endlessly as long as its head is intact. Guts chops the demon's head in half and thanks it for telling him. {{spoiler|Then the demon's head try to possess Guts. Who reacts by ''smashing it into a wall with his BFS''.}}

* [[Expy]]: Guts. Yes. Think about it for a moment: an aloof, jaded and apparently lonely warrior, [[Covered with Scars]], travelling with two kids, one [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]] and a former leader woman, driven by his desire of revenge on one side and his longing to retrieve the woman he loves on the other side. [[Fist of the North Star|Doesn't it sound familiar?]]

* [[Extreme Doormat]]: Farnese and Serpico respectively, though in both cases it's subverted. Serpico was seen being walked over by Farnese when they're first introduced, displaying a goofy face, no combat skills, and being a bit of a clutz - until it was revealed that he was merely a [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]] with some killer instinct. Farnese appears to become more of a doormat when she [[Took a Level In Kindness|leveled up in kindness]], allowing her father to talk down on her and almost letting her brother manipulate her into marrying his best friend for his own ploys. However, she does certainly have goals and ambition and she doesn't want to be seen as [[The Load|a burden]] to the rest of the group. Her mother is actually aware of this and fore warns her brother that she can't be easily manipulated.

** Then you have the holy iron chain knights who wear fancy armor but are actually a bunch of sheltered rich boys with no fighting skills whatsoever who make other [[Mooks]] look competent.

* [[Go Mad From the Isolation]]: {{spoiler|While being imprisoned in a deep, dark dungeon, his sole human contact being with the [[Red Right Hand|deformed little man]] who is responsible for torturing him for a year}} Griffith wonders if he will go insane - or if he has already gone off the deep end.

* [[Good People Have Good Sex]]: Although they had some slight difficulties in the beginning {{spoiler|what with Guts having some traumatic flashbacks of his child rape and nearly choked Casca because of it}} Guts and Casca are really the only two people who have had good sex in this series (''really'' good sex considering that {{spoiler|[[Intimate Psychotherapy|Guts was relieved of his trauma because of he and Casca's moment]]}}). All other sex scenes in ''Berserk'' have either been [[Squick]], [[Rape as Drama|rape]], or [[Nausea Fuel|squick AND rape...]] Though, a close second would be [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man|Luca]] and [[Nice Guy|Jerome]], but he did still pay her since she was a prostitute on duty.

* [[Gorn]]: Kentaro Miura seems to have a penchant for massive head injuries that borders on the erotic...

* [[History Repeats]]: During the Conviction Arc at the showdown at the Tower of Punishment, Casca is caught by Mozgus and is handed over to the mob to be burned at the stake as a witch. All the while, [[Total Eclipse of the Plot|the sun is getting covered up]], [[Red Right Hand|the tower is crumbling in an uncanny resemblance of a hand]], and Guts is once again struggling and fighting his way through hoards of evil spirits so he can make it to Casca in time to save her. Yep. A mock eclipse is happening, and Guts fears that he won't be able to save Casca again.

* [[Historical Domain Character]]: There are some examples

** Emperor Gaiseric: The Emperor Gaiseric alluded to in volume 10 was based on the actual King Genseric who ruled the Vandals' kingdom in Europe in the 5th century. He was famed as a brilliant general who was seen as a threat even to the Roman Empire. In the manga, Gaiseric is said to have created a vast empire, similar to the Romans, that was destroyed by God's wrath. He banded together his small tribe and brought them great fame as a kingdom that exercised its authority in the Mediterranean region.

*** {{spoiler|It is hinted that Emperor Gaiseric survived his fallen empire in the form of the Skull Knight, a recurring character who aids Guts and stands in opposition to the God Hand}}.

 

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