5 Facts about Guts from Berserk
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Guts had a hard childhood. He was found as a baby near many dead bodies, he entered an army, but the man who looked after him never saw him as his son and sold him to a ****phile for a night. After he left them he joined Griffith, but he also betrayed him and placed a powerful curse on Guts, making him a killing machine and full of hatred.
#1 Guts also bears a likeness to two Norse war gods, Odin and Týr.
Just like Guts, Týr lost his hand to Fenrir, a giant demon wolf, but Guts tried to free himself, while his girl was being raped, but ended up seeing it all and losing his eye and arm. Guts is also reminiscent of berserkers, a group of warriors who idolized Odin and went into furious trances during battle which were believed to be caused by the eating of certain herbs and mushrooms but now is considered to have been caused by post-traumatic stress.
#2 Guts’ name can mean a number of different things, primary example might be Guts’ bloody birth from his mother, or it’s an earthy name that represents the brutal nature of the world of Berserk.
He was found as a baby near a lot of dead bodies. They called him a monster child and believed that he came out of a dead woman. Yet at the end his purpose was slaying demons and monsters, while trying to save those important to him.
#3 Guts is very similar in certain ways to iterations of Michael Moorcock’s The Eternal Champion.
At least one version of the The Eternal Champion (Corum Jhaelen Irsei) is missing an eye and a hand, that is replaced with a mechanical construct while wielding a sword of immense power. The Eternal Champion similarly battles beings of enormous power and extreme destructive capability who are bent upon achieving absolute control over the realms of the multi verse through supernatural means.
#4 Most of the threatening enemies (apart from random lackeys) that challenge Guts are at least twice his size.
Guts is always the one who ends up fighting the boss or the enormous monster. He is always prepared to die, but finds it his task to protect everyone. It could be said that he was trained to fight larger enemies as seen in his sword practices with Gambino, in which he uses a sword made for an ãdül† that would become the basis for other large swords he would wield in his life.
#5 Though much of Guts’ survival is due to his determination and willpower, much of his life has also been littered with instances where his survival was largely coincidental, and as noted by Griffith in their first meeting, borderline miraculous.
Such instances include, but are not limited to his survival as a decoy in one of Gambino’s mercenary operations, when the taller adults who fought with him were killed by arrows or his fall from the cliff after his escape from said mercenaries, in which none of the mercenaries expected him to survive. He subsequently loses the will to live and gives in to the wolves attacking him, but his body reacts and he ends up defending himself from the wolves anyway.
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Guts had a hard childhood. He was found as a baby near many dead bodies, he entered an army, but the man who looked after him never saw him as his son and sold him to a ****phile for a night. After he left them he joined Griffith, but he also betrayed him and placed a powerful curse on Guts, making him a killing machine and full of hatred.
#1 Guts also bears a likeness to two Norse war gods, Odin and Týr.
Just like Guts, Týr lost his hand to Fenrir, a giant demon wolf, but Guts tried to free himself, while his girl was being raped, but ended up seeing it all and losing his eye and arm. Guts is also reminiscent of berserkers, a group of warriors who idolized Odin and went into furious trances during battle which were believed to be caused by the eating of certain herbs and mushrooms but now is considered to have been caused by post-traumatic stress.
#2 Guts’ name can mean a number of different things, primary example might be Guts’ bloody birth from his mother, or it’s an earthy name that represents the brutal nature of the world of Berserk.
He was found as a baby near a lot of dead bodies. They called him a monster child and believed that he came out of a dead woman. Yet at the end his purpose was slaying demons and monsters, while trying to save those important to him.
#3 Guts is very similar in certain ways to iterations of Michael Moorcock’s The Eternal Champion.
At least one version of the The Eternal Champion (Corum Jhaelen Irsei) is missing an eye and a hand, that is replaced with a mechanical construct while wielding a sword of immense power. The Eternal Champion similarly battles beings of enormous power and extreme destructive capability who are bent upon achieving absolute control over the realms of the multi verse through supernatural means.
#4 Most of the threatening enemies (apart from random lackeys) that challenge Guts are at least twice his size.
Guts is always the one who ends up fighting the boss or the enormous monster. He is always prepared to die, but finds it his task to protect everyone. It could be said that he was trained to fight larger enemies as seen in his sword practices with Gambino, in which he uses a sword made for an ãdül† that would become the basis for other large swords he would wield in his life.
#5 Though much of Guts’ survival is due to his determination and willpower, much of his life has also been littered with instances where his survival was largely coincidental, and as noted by Griffith in their first meeting, borderline miraculous.
Such instances include, but are not limited to his survival as a decoy in one of Gambino’s mercenary operations, when the taller adults who fought with him were killed by arrows or his fall from the cliff after his escape from said mercenaries, in which none of the mercenaries expected him to survive. He subsequently loses the will to live and gives in to the wolves attacking him, but his body reacts and he ends up defending himself from the wolves anyway.
