Now, with the latest chapters of Berserk hinting at an endgame, Guts' suffering might finally have an expiration date. That's good news for the fictional character as he's probably held the record of the most tortured anime protagonist since Just how much has he endured throughout Berserk's manga run? Here are the worst things that ever happened to Guts From the moment he was born, Guts' life was already pre-determined for agony.
His mother was hanged in a tree moments before his birth and he was born in a pile of human guts, marinating there before some soldiers found him crying, hence the name. So not only did he not meet his mother but she also died before he was born, as crazy as that might sound.
One could even say that Guts' upbringing was worse than a regular orphan's because The people who found him were neither samaritans nor well-off, but mercenaries who are pretty much borderline bandits. The leader of the band was Gambino who also took the initiative in adopting Guts to make use of him in the future. Unfortunately for Guts, Gambino was a cesspool of issues. He was cruel, unsympathetic, and was never a good father figure to the poor boy.
Guts ended up having a love-hate relationship since while he was harsh to the boy, he also ended up raising him. Still, Guts soon became disillusioned by Gambino's apparent care when Gambino sold him like possession to another mercenary named Donovan. It just so happens that this mercenary was a homosexual pedophile. Hence, Guts was forever psychologically scarred by Donovan and this began as early as his pre-pubescent boyhood days. Guts learned early on how to be vengeful, killing Donovan as revenge and later on, Gambino for selling him out.
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Guts is Griffith's or Femto most important sacrifice. Femto could have killed Guts very easily in the eclipse but he didn't. Femto'd just left Scars Guts' right eye , left arm and insane Caska to Guts. Femto still has human-mind for Guts? So Femto may want his Friend to go up on his level? Or is there anything still left to be done by Guts for Griffith in his life? Opting to stay behind to combat the troll horde to buy his retinue time to escape, Guts, for the first time in a while, is left to his own devices, unmitigated by the need to protect others.
Amid his release of ferocity on the trolls, from the intestines of those he has slain materializes Slan , a member of the God Hand. He lunges to attack her, but is only blocked and restrained by the angel, who, delighted to meet him again, envelops the swordsman inside herself before opening a gaping slash on his chest — all in an attempt to coerce his use of the beherit in his possession.
Slan's abrupt disappearance has adverse effects on Qliphoth, resulting in its instability and gradual collapse. The Skull Knight unveils his Sword of Beherits and with it sends the multiplying swarm of arisen trolls and ogres into the Abyss, thereafter returning Guts to Schierke and Isidro. With the subsequent shutting of Qliphoth and his reunion with the others, Guts realizes after a long interval of time devoid of camaraderie, he once again has people he can call comrades.
While returning to Flora's mansion to report their successes, Guts momentarily collapses to the ground, having acquired an astral wound on his chest from the laceration Slan dealt him earlier.
No sooner after Schierke reveals a sudden breach of the mansion's barrier, Guts' brand begins to bleed profusely; reaching the mansion grounds, the group witnesses the blazing spirit tree as well as a multitude of invading apostles on the premises.
Guts is aided yet again by the Skull Knight, who assists him against the apostles primarily in support of Flora. The two are eventually met by Zodd and his fellow apostle Grunbeld , the latter who proclaims to be, along with the other invading "war demons", a warrior of the Band of the Falcon — a revelation which shocks Guts. Spurred by the violent od of the Berserker Armor, Guts submits to his inner darkness.
Initially gleeful due to having found a presumably worthy opponent in the Black Swordsman, Grunbeld becomes dissatisfied by Guts' weakened showing of strength and decides to eliminate him. With Schierke's aid, Guts is able to narrowly withdraw into the treasure chamber beneath the spirit tree, where his companions clad his injured body in the Berserker Armor. As the fight continues, he begins losing grasp of his ego, becoming enthralled by the immense od of the Berserker Armor coupled with his inner darkness.
Only after Schierke dives into his subconscious mind — wherein she reminds the turbulent swordsman of who he is — does Guts regain hold of his ego. Flora, in a new existential form, then returns to obstruct Grunbeld, paving the way for the group's escape. After nearly a month, having slowly recovered from injuries sustained in his previous battles, Guts and his companions set up residence in a seaside cabin on their way to Vritannis. One night, the Skull Knight appears before the swordsman on the moonlit shore, warning of the influence and toll taken on users of the Berserker Armor, as well as informing him of Elfhelm's ruler, the Flower Storm Monarch , who potentially possesses the power to repair Casca's mind.
While sleeping, they come under attack by crocodile familiars being manipulated remotely by sorcerers afar. Serpico is able to find and eliminate the hidden Kushan spellcasters, but following this success, the group is attacked by a giant makara. Guts engages the beast, only to be overpowered to the point of once again surrendering to the Berserker Armor. With the power of the armor, the Berserker is able to swiftly defeat the beast.
Having dispatched all of his initial targets, the turbulent swordsman turns his gaze toward his companions. Before he can attack, a childlike luminous body appears in his subconscious mind, reminding him they are not his enemies and making way for Schierke to again free Guts from the armor's influence.
Finally arriving in Vritannis, the group begins looking for a ship to sail to Skellig, but to no avail, as most of the city's ships have been commandeered in the Holy See's war effort against the Kushan. Wanting to be of use to her companions, Farnese sets out to reunite with her Vandimion family in the city, who in return offer to provide for all of the party's sailing expenditures as reward for Farnese's safe return.
Curious of Farnese's true desire, and not wanting to lose Casca's primary caretaker, Guts endeavors to attend a wartime ball to meet with her. In their attempt to gain entry to the ball, the group is met with difficulty due to the heavy security on the premises.
Schierke is in time contacted by Serpico via thought transference, who waits for them at the rear entrance of the ball. When they arrive to a colonnade chamber at the rear, Serpico, rather than helping them gain entry, brandishes his sword and engages Guts in a duel — leery of Guts' inability to control himself as a Berserker and believing Farnese to be safer away from the swordsman.
Using the pillar-strewn chamber to capitalize on Guts' impeded movement, Serpico is initially able to hold his own against Guts. The swordsman eventually destroys all but one of the pillars within their immediate radius before subduing Serpico with the falling debris of the remaining pillar in range, thus mostly assuaging the attendant's fear by not resorting to using the Berserker Armor.
Guts and the others enter the ball as tiger familiars begin mauling Vritannian nobles and Holy See officials. At Farnese and Schierke's behest, the swordsman reluctantly stays to help slay the beasts and avert further casualties. He then asks Farnese if she truly desires to return to the aristocracy, to which Farnese jokingly states she merely missed and wanted to briefly revisit her former life. Soon after, the mist cloud of an apostle appears before the partygoers, introducing itself as Emperor Ganishka of Kushan, and making a formal declaration of war against the Holy See Alliance.
To their dismay, the group witnesses a horde of the Kushan's pishacha army upon reaching the port. Through Schierke's summoning of a "god of woe" fire spirit, [89] Guts' controlled use of the Berserker Armor with assistance from Schierke's luminous self , and Serpico's slyphin assistance, they are able to eliminate the pishacha horde, as well as defeat the Kushan leader controlling the beasts, Paramarisha Sen'an'i Daiba.
After Guts is beckoned to join the apostle's cause — having impressed the emperor with his exceptional might and resilience — and defiantly rejects the invitation, the apostles of Griffith's reborn Band of the Falcon enter the fray just as the emperor readies to deal a final blow to the swordsman.
Headed primarily by Zodd, the band members unleash an airborne attack on Ganishka, but to little effect, with the emperor subsequently striking them all down from the sky.
A struck Zodd is sent beelining into a rafted Guts, with the swordsman thereupon resurfacing on the flying apostle's back. Atop Zodd, he forms an uneasy alliance with the apostle and is able to pierce through Ganishka's ethereal body with the Dragon Slayer, forcing the emperor's mist form to dissipate. Following Ganishka's defeat, the exhausted swordsman nearly provokes Zodd into further confrontation by inquiring of Griffith's whereabouts — therefore suggesting his animosity toward the apostle's new leader — before clarifying his disinterest in their affairs.
Zodd, having decided to settle their score at a later time, leaves with the other apostle band members, as Guts and his party board Roderick's Seahorse and set sail for Elfhelm. Having again lost his ego to the Berserker Armor, Guts is pacified by a childlike luminous body. Aboard the Seahorse on the Western Sea, Guts and his crew members bear witness to the sudden transfiguration of the world and birth of Fantasia , which brings about the merging of the physical and astral realms into one global Interstice.
The crew docks at a remote island for repairs, though they soon come to realize all but one of the island's inhabitants, like Bonebeard and his crew, are in fact transformed human tentacles of the Sea God. When Guts does battle with sea slug extensions of the Sea God, Bonebeard's ghost ship arrives and unleashes its own sea hare tentacles on the swordsman.
Pushed to his breaking point during the struggle, Guts resorts to using the Berserker Armor and annihilates the tentacle swarm, his rage thereafter once again abated by the childlike luminous body from before.
Guts realizes setting sail again without slaying the Sea God will only bring about further complications at sea, and so sets out to do as much himself, with Schierke's luminous self safeguarding his mind from the Berserker Armor's influence.
Reaching the Sea God's den beneath the island, Guts leaps over the Sea God's tentacles and slides down into its stomach. From there, he slices an opening into the Sea God's upper stomach lining and is carried upward toward the creature's heart by its escaping intestinal gas.
The growing intensity of the Sea God's thunderous heartbeat, coupled with the adverse effects of the Berserker Armor and swarm of monsters safeguarding the creature's heart, weigh heavily on Guts, eventually rendering his five senses near-null. As Guts lays immobilized, the song of attacking merrows outside negates the intensity of the Sea God's heartbeat.
With urging and guidance from Schierke's luminous self, Guts musters the strength to cleave his Dragon Slayer into the Sea God's heart, felling the deity. In the darkness of the dying Sea God's body, as Guts begins accepting his impending demise, the childlike luminous body comes to his aid yet again and guides him toward the inner lining of the Sea God's heart chamber, allowing the swordsman to pierce open a puncture for merrows to enter and carry him to the surface.
For their efforts in defeating the Sea God, the merrows offer to escort the Seahorse crew to Skellig. Finally reaching the island of Skellig, Guts and his group encounter several defense mechanisms intended to ward off trespassers, from od-distorting stones to an animated wicker man.
Overcoming these obstacles, they are promptly met by Skellig sorcerers, including archmage Gedfring , who escorts them to his manor in Elfhelm. Eager to restore Casca's mind, Guts immediately requests to meet the Flower Storm Monarch, though Gedfring advises the swordsman and his companions to first rest and unwind from their long journey.
The next day, they are guided through Elfhelm by Gedfring and the archmages' attendant, Danan, to the Flower Storm Monarch's spirit tree palace, where Danan transforms into and reveals herself be the sovereign of Elfhelm. Danan informs Guts she can likely mend Casca's regressed mind by using the "Corridor of Dreams"; however, she requests only Schierke and Farnese's assistance in doing so, voicing that Casca's fear of Guts would only impede the process.
To that end, Guts leaves Casca in the care of the young sorceresses while he and the rest of the party wait out the ceremony. The mere sight of the swordsman triggers Casca's memories of the Eclipse, causing her to scream in horror.
Guts is a master swordsman capable of contending with the legendary swordsman Nosferatu Zodd on equal footing. Ever since he was six years of age, [23] Guts has wielded oversized swords, culminating in his incredible strength and master swordsmanship. Despite his Herculean stature, Guts is notably dexterous and agile in the heat of battle, capable of dodging and countering even the most rapid strikes.
He is a combat pragmatist and versatile improviser, capitalizing on any opportunity available to surmount opposition; on several occasions, he has used children to bait and distract enemies when overwhelmed.
Guts has been a struggler of the battlefield since the raw age of nine, [23] and as such, has had nearly two decades to refine himself into the formidable warrior he is. During his days as a mercenary in the Hundred-Year War, he became famed for single-handedly slaying Tudor soldiers, [6] and even garnered the respect of the legendary swordsman Nosferatu Zodd for being the first human in three centuries to wound the apostle.
Guts' combat prowess becomes so great as to rival the normal forms of the most formidable apostles, allowing him to contend with them on equal footing. Guts possesses an indomitable will which enables him to persevere in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. His force of will is so great that he has unconcernedly mutilated his own body in pursuit of his goals, [51] and let himself be injured in order to create openings and execute counterattacks on opponents. Guts has eluded death many times in his life, largely due to his relentlessness, though many instances have been mere coincidence.
He is still alive. He contested with fate Though much of his survival is predicated on his sheer determination and willpower, Guts' life has been littered with instances where his survival was largely coincidental. For an unspecified amount of time, he is left to die beneath the corpse of his hanging mother, yet he still releases a healthy cry upon randomly being discovered by Gambino and his mercenaries at a later point. The brand Guts receives during the fifth Eclipse sets him apart from those residing solely in the Physical World ; as a resident of the Interstice , Guts exists "outside the reason of the [Physical World]", giving him a "half-step" over most others in the current of causality.
Guts' brand attracts all manner of evil entities whom he must fend off incessantly if no intervening method is employed. Additionally, when near an immensely powerful demon, such as a member of the God Hand, Guts' brand bleeds profusely and can induce a nigh-crippling amount of pain in him.
The drawbacks of the armor are at least as numerous as its advantages. The primary downside to the armor is a malicious magical od that gives the armor its power.
Combined with Guts' own inner turmoil, if used in a serious battle, the od will overwhelm Guts' psyche, turning him into a feral monster with no ability to distinguish friend from foe.
The only currently demonstrated way to bring him out of this state is with a powerful magical projection into his mind such as Schierke's luminous body or the Moonlight Boy 's interference, which can suppress the armor's od and allow Guts to take conscious control of himself. However, even when under control, Guts is at constant risk of losing bodily functions and even his life due to the armor's suppression of his ability to feel pain. Having been made with the "ultimate steel", [17] Guts uses this enormous sword to cleave through humans and demonkind with ease.
In conjunction with the Berserker Armor, the cutting power of the Dragon Slayer increases significantly. During the Berserker's bout with Grunbeld, Guts is able to shatter the knight's cannon fire-deflecting shield [] and the corundum skin of the apostle's released form. Guts also uses it to mitigate blows by holding the sword level with his body and letting it absorb the brunt of impact.
Given to him by Flora , [] the Berserker Armor acts as the Black Swordsman's last resort against overwhelmingly powerful enemies. The armor's primary function is to allow Guts to override the physiological mechanisms that prevent the human body from using enough force to damage itself.
Functionally, this enhances his already prodigious physical capabilities to an unarguably superhuman level. While utilizing the armor, Guts becomes capable of annihilating swarms of mammoth monsters and even decisively defeating apostles in their released forms. The cannon in Guts' mechanical arm is one of Rickert's inventions, given to him for his hunt on demonkind.
The cannon has a highly effective blast radius, capable of tearing into even the most sizable of monsters and apostles. When unable to use his right arm, Guts instead uses his teeth to pull the cannon's ignition cord, often fooling enemies into believing he has been outdone before blasting into them.
He has also used the velocity produced by the cannon's recoil to blast into one target and perform a reversing slash into another with the Dragon Slayer, effectively eliminating two enemies in a single motion.
This is another weapon Guts receives before setting out on his war against demonkind. He uses the crossbow by attaching it to his mechanical arm and filling its magazine full of bolts, releasing a volley of bolts upon turning its crank. The repeater crossbow is wielded extensively up until Guts' acquisition of the Berserker Armor, at which point its use is seemingly deferred.
However, he does still make use of it against human or humanoid foes on occasion. Having been taught the basics of knife throwing by Judeau , [] Guts has acquired remarkable accuracy and precision with them over the years.
Their effectiveness is dependent upon vital points being hit, being of minimal effect against larger foes; against smaller targets, they are quite lethal. More often than not the knives are used to target the eyes of his larger targets.
These are a later addition to Guts' arsenal. These small, mine-shaped bombs are remarkably powerful for their size, but within a very contained radius, usually only killing targets if vital areas are hit. As such, they are typically used only to slow down or distract larger enemies. Guts has given a number of these bombs to Isidro. In Berserk: The Prototype , Guts originally wore an eyepatch over his right eye and bore noticeably longer sideburns. Personality-wise, the prototype Guts was more brash, cocky and whimsical in nature.
Additionally, the crossbow he utilized didn't attach to his prosthetic arm and his Dragon Slayer also possessed a slightly different design. Guts possessed long hair and a katana in place of his Dragon Slayer in one of his earliest designs. According to Miura, it took him a while to conceive Guts as the swordsman appears today, but upon coming up with the character's current overall aesthetic, he knew he had hit the nail on the head.
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