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* [[Tom Holt|''Who's Afraid of Beowulf?'']] features Starkad the Berserker, the sweetest, kindest if rather dim hero you'd ever want to meet - outside of battle that is. |
* [[Tom Holt|''Who's Afraid of Beowulf?'']] features Starkad the Berserker, the sweetest, kindest if rather dim hero you'd ever want to meet - outside of battle that is. |
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* The [[Our Orcs Are Different|Koloss]] from ''[[Mistborn]]'' are an entire ''race'' of berserkers. They're used as shock troops by [[The Empire]] {{spoiler|and were in fact originally created for this purpose}}, but in the first book the protagonists don't have to worry about them since they're operating [[La Résistance]] in [[The Empire]]'s capital, and the koloss's blood rage means they can't ''ever'' be allowed near major population centers you want to leave standing. {{spoiler|In the second and third books after the Lord Ruler, who was essentially restraining them telepathically, dies, the koloss start wandering around in hordes and killing anyone they can get their hands on. Eventually the new [[Big Bad]], Ruin, takes command of them}}. |
* The [[Our Orcs Are Different|Koloss]] from ''[[Mistborn]]'' are an entire ''race'' of berserkers. They're used as shock troops by [[The Empire]] {{spoiler|and were in fact originally created for this purpose}}, but in the first book the protagonists don't have to worry about them since they're operating [[La Résistance]] in [[The Empire]]'s capital, and the koloss's blood rage means they can't ''ever'' be allowed near major population centers you want to leave standing. {{spoiler|In the second and third books after the Lord Ruler, who was essentially restraining them telepathically, dies, the koloss start wandering around in hordes and killing anyone they can get their hands on. Eventually the new [[Big Bad]], Ruin, takes command of them}}. |
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* ''[[Discworld]]'': Sam Vimes exhibits some of these qualities, especially in the climactic battles of ''[[Night Watch (Discworld)|Night Watch]]'' and ''[[Thud!]]''. In ''Night Watch,'' Vimes taps into his long-buried rage (that he calls "The Beast") and lets it out as he grabs [[Dual-Wielding|two swords]] and hacks his way through the enemy, described as "he wasn't an enemy, he was a ''nemesis''." In ''Thud!'', he appears to be doing much the same thing, to the point of ignoring a dwarfish ''flamethrower'' being used on him. {{spoiler|Although in that case, it was also a case of [[Demonic Possession|possession]] as he was under the influence of a quasi-demonic ''thing'' of pure vengeance called the Summoning Dark.}} |
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