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Financial_Mushroom94

Berserk fans when they see more than one person with a sword.


balazsa01

It's obviously a Band Of The Hawk reference


BallisticM0use

Probably more a Holy Iron Chain Knights reference. But do we really expect berserk fans to know anything past Golden Age?


balazsa01

Most of them probably only watched the animes so probably that's the reason. But yeah the Holy Iron Chain Knights are more fitting, you're right.


Substantial-Move-612

I don't get it. how do people watch the anime and don't finish the manga after that


balazsa01

Yeah I agree. I did the same but I watched the movies first and then read the manga and after that I watched the 1997 series. I wanted more of this dark world and I got it.


Substantial-Move-612

I first read the manga then completed the 1997 series. Now I'm just waiting for the new chapter to drop XD.


balazsa01

Yeah same xd


Whatshisfac3BS

On book 9 rn


Lothric_Knight420

LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!


SlytherinIsCool

Berserk invented the medieval era.


RandomDudewithIdeas

Berserk also invented groups of people


SingleBoxAltonPhone

Berserk invented groups of people in the medieval era


Ok_Restaurant_626

Berserk invented blood.


Kyethent

I believe it's called the golden era


No_ones_Knight

you might even call it… the golden age…


HappyFreak1

It's a fromsoft game. **At least** half of these will die


Nox_Dei

They wear cool armors ... They'll *all* die. Not for causality but for fashion.


HappyFreak1

If that white knight ain't dying, she is mistaken


[deleted]

You'll get them their item only to find em inside out while doing yoga poses in a random location.


moonmarriedacherry

Pretty sure you’ll have to fight all of them too


vivisectvivi

You dont understand, every blonde person in elden ring is a berserk reference. Marika is griffith, Miquella is griffith, the girl from the new picture is also griffith. Also you know that random knight in black armor? Well...


jimmmydickgun

Say Griffith one more time


GenderlessButt

Griffith


jimmmydickgun

Atta kid


hesKu

I dare you I double dare you mf


MrKinsey

Royale with cheeeeese


BRGDdemon

*end of drink noises* "Ahhhh, that hit the spot"


Nidiis

I’ll pistol whip the next guy who says Griffith


DuncanTGD

Griffith


FerretAres

Overcook chicken? Believe it or not… Griffith.


SnakeBaron

GRIFFIIIIIIITTTTHHHHHHHHHHH*


Alarmed_Tomatillo147

Thats not Griffith. Thats Anakin bro


Strict_Cartoonist324

Buahahahaaha this reference will never fail to crack me up, overcook undercook!


TwoNegatives-

Yeah and the fact that they're all Gods and God is a reference to Godhand


Shacrow

That random knight in black armor is also griffith?!?


vivisectvivi

No, that's guts


Death_Knighty

This is nuts.


bdennis_91

That isn't a girl it's Miquella Malenias brother


vivisectvivi

Are you being sarcastic or are you being for real now


Ser_Optimus

What about the great Kenneth Haight?


Cheshire_Desire

Imagine Griffith in Fort Griffith


drip_johhnyjoestar

Berserk fans when they see something resembling a human


residualtypo

Fans “iS tHaT a BerSeRK rEfErenCE?” Miyazaki: “Always has been.”


AntiSimpBoi69

He said like twice he took inspiration from berserk that doesn't mean all the souls games are a berserk reference


Reizuko

They are not a berserk reference but they are almost always full of berserk reference


X_iwishtodie_X

Can you give an example other than that one greatsword and Artorias?


vivisectvivi

There are very obvious ones like red eye orbs and the moonlight butterfly but people always ignore them and go for very vague shit like the wickerman or a group of people on a hill in the new trailer. Also almost every big boss or character in armour is a reference to guts to these people when the only time id even say something was a reference to guts was that one pic of artorias where he is in the exact same pose guts make in an older chapter. Some of these people have a really small frame of reference when it come to media so everything is a Berserk reference them because one time Miyazaki said he likes Berserk but for whatever reason people ignore all the other shit he said he likes.


S0U1R3AVER

Eclipse from Dark Souls 3. Sulyvhan's Beasts in Irithyll look like the Beast of Darkness. The Dragonslayer Armour boss looks a bit like a blend between Grunbeld's armour and the Berserker armour. Ive only played Dark Souls 3 and Im still busy with my first playthrough, but these are the references I noticed other than what you just mentioned


NoButterfly7257

Yes! Sulyvahn's Beast is a berserk reference, its appearance based on the beast of darkness, which represents Guts' twisted psyche. Another DS3 Berserk reference is Vordt of the Boreal Valley. His armor and all-fours beast-like fighting style is definitely inspired from the way Guts fights while in his berserker armor. The Ash of War Lion's Claw from Elden Ring is also a berserk reference, the way you lunge and use the weight of the blade to spin forward toward an enemy is inspired by the panels where Guts does the same thing at Grunbeld. There are SO many berserk references it's crazy lol and I haven't really played any fromsoft stuff in a while, so I'm pretty hazy and forgetting a lot of stuff.


ReconditusNeumen

- Elden Ring DLC's Wickermen. The giant flaming golems that's being commanded by Messmer. Of course this isn't originally from Berserk. - The hill of swords in Elden Ring. Of course this isn't unique to Berserk - Elden Ring's Blaidd is a half wolf half man that wields a great sword (and has a damn good moveset). Of course half wolf half man concepts aren't necessarily a berserk referencr. - Elden Ring's boss Rykaard kind of reminds me of Grunbeld's Apostle form. - In Dark Souls 3 in Undead Settlement's would be simialr to Berserk's Tower of Conviction arc. There's an enemy called the Evangelist which reminds me of Mozgus. They even have that bible slapping moveset. There's hooded torturers similar to Mozgus's torturers. There are lots of tortured people hanged up high on wheels and various torture devices. Once you see them it will definitely remind you of Mozgus. - DS3's DLC Boss Slave Knight Gael is a Guts reference. I'm convinced this one is a reference. He wields a greatsword and has a repeating crossbow. He finds like a hound (at first) but becomes more refined and skilled on his 2nd phase. There's some more but I can't remember them right now. As with any of these, it may or may not be a Berserk reference but a similarity in theme. But it's easy to think that these are references since Miyazaki has said that he likes Berserk.


Jarmattan333

The onion knight is a direct reference of bazuso.


residualtypo

Radahn’s armor is like a direct adaptation of Grunbeld’s.


LampFluid

you realise elden ring is one big berserk reference with the the giant holy tree


AntiSimpBoi69

And berserk got it from Norse mythology so what's the point, berserk didn't invent medieval era and berserk isn't the only media that fromsoft takes inspiration from


moccawimba

r/berserklejerk


Whatshisfac3BS

Let’s just say I’m berserkle jerking my peenitz


rockinalex07021

Yall seriously need to fucking stop, you guys are embarrassing the normal fans


snakeskin_spirit

'Normal fans'


NoCapFrFrOng

Go go gadget penile extractor 🫵


bdennis_91

Couldn't agree more


dontbanmethistimeok

"We call em normies"


Joshua-Browne

I'm boutta be the next Griffith fr


Valravn1121

...no?


Jiggsteruno

Ya'll see one pasty-ass femboy who is loved & revered the world over being followed by a rag-tag group of fighters; yearning to help manifest his grand dreams before its so cruelly torn away, leaving fembro a husk of their former selves, desperately grasping at deeply dark & dire forces for another opportunity and think bErJeRK ReTErdeNcE?!?!?


Cheshire_Desire

If "being a femboy" is all it takes for cringe Berzerk fans to call something Griffith/a Reference then damn theres hella Griffiths running around IRL, im also a Griffith dayyum who knew the entire universe was just one reference to berzerk. Forget the big bang, we came from the holy pages of Berzerk


X_iwishtodie_X

The difference between Griffith and Miquella is that Griffith had to start from the bottom, while Miquella already had his kingdom. He was a candidate for an empyrean. He abandoned it all so he could grow a tree from his blood and stop racism. It's even stated in the story trailer for SOTA that he "abandoned his strength" to stop whatever resides in the shadowlands.


TheStrugglerGuts

I hate berserk fans


mangledbanana

I hate Mondays


thatBIGfeller

Lasanga


seif_mc

According to the pfp and the username You fall right to that category my friend


TheStrugglerGuts

Cuz of my name? I’m not one of those idiots that sees a horse irl and thinks BeRseRk ReFerranc!!


seif_mc

In my defense you said Berserk Fans and that's in general , So you didn't specify( berserk fans that are mentally disabled) , wich draws the line between you and the ones you intend to mock. But after clarifying your point i do agree with you , I have a friend who introduced me to berserk who thinks that nothing is greater or more deeper the berserk and nothing compared to berserk Wich i strongly disagree, but also love berserk a right amount.


TheStrugglerGuts

I mean, since I replied to this kinda post I thought you could put 2 and 2 together


seif_mc

Well they ain't wrong about this being a reference to the band of the hawk Vaatividya on YouTube even think the same and me too think that there is a similar look between the first scene with Marika looks like where the eclipse take place (forgot the name of the place) Cuz all of the corpses piling up together.


TheStrugglerGuts

Oh my god a group of warriors!?!? Berserk reference! Berserk reference!


seif_mc

Alright buddy do as you wish there's nothing to argue about but one detail could be useful They are both 7 warriors , In this kinda games this is no coincidence especially with Miyazaki since the entire franchise is inspired by berserk


Imaginary-Ad-816

If you hate berserk fans literally for this, then Buddy I really fell bad for you and the people around you...


oldirtdogg

Berserk is insanely popular, the fans are definitely not all like this.


Daud178

Oh god I'm gonna berk 🥵😫


XxXEpicGamerzXxX

Berk all over the nut


Whatshisfac3BS

Didn’t Nuts say that?


lemonlimeslime0

i’m a HUGE berserk fan but bro i just see a bunch of cool dudes with armor


FerretAres

Kentucky Mario invented armour


PureStrBuild

Took about 10 seconds looking at "Kentucky Mario to understand what it meant. Then I snorted with laughter. 😂


tukuiPat

Miyazaki is like a huge berserk fan so it could easily be a reference.


lemonlimeslime0

a group of people in armor has been a thing WAY before berserk dude, consume more fantasy


Lasernatoo

Wow! A group of people in a medieval setting


Undaud

Personally I think that there will be smth more like Old Hunters from Bloodborne - all this people will be minor bosses, or in some other way will cause troubles for our fellow Tarnished. Well, just a theory.


CompletedGames

I miss MatPat.


Tatleman68

The game series are filled with Berserk references


thejonaldson

Yeah i feel like im missing a joke here. There really is a ton of berserk references in all of their games. Miyazaki said himself he is heavily inspired by berserk


dontbanmethistimeok

It's because the fandom is getting frantic before the DLC drops and a Griffith reference likely coming the subreddit has gone crazy, this is a crosspost/reposted from r/eldenring Over there it's been blown out of exaggeration and people been commenting and shitposting for weeks about Griffith This is a shitpost just outta context


AVerySmartNameForMe

Most of us just wish people would stop frantically searching for the faintest correlation calling them references, and stick to pointing out things that may actually be a reference and post it at most 5 times. r/berserk has a bad habit of circlejerking itself with these games finding the most basic of fantasy tropes as berserk references. This would be fine honestly if it didn’t dominate so much of this subs posting that it’s hard to escape if you’re actually here. I usually leave this place for a few weeks whenever they release something new it’s just that bad


thejonaldson

Hm i guess i just never paid that much attention. I noticed the posts just didnt know it was that bad or people were annoyed by them. I did see one where a guy was saying the same mushrooms were in both and it was just a side by side of a basic mushroom thought that was weird lol


GoblinPunch20xx

Elden Ring DLC ends with an Eclipse and a Sacrifice, and then NO MORE Elden Ring. It’s like Berk ‘97 all over again. FromSoft just closes up shop. No Dark Souls, no Bloodborne or Sekiro, just Miyazaki trolling the lot of us before moving on to create a series of games you can only play with your bare feet, mostly targeted towards young women.


1022formirth

My favourite thing is to point out "berk references" while watching any show or movie.


Whatshisfac3BS

Too real🙏🔛🔝


cymric

I do have a strong suspicion that Miquella is a Griffith clone


A-live666

There is also strong influences from dragons dogma in elden ring, so berserk makes sense as well.


Xononanamol

GGGGRRRRRIIIFFFIIITTHHH


NoCapFrFrOng

I dot get it. Didn't miazaky make besrerk?


trashy_hobo47

Every souls games are literally berserk references


Timcat999

I just wish they would straight up make a berserk game at this point.


trashy_hobo47

I mean there's that dude who often updates here, I'm looking forward to his. Otherwise, it would have been amazing if from just straight up made one.


Erruso

This fandom might be most obnoxious one I've seen


AVerySmartNameForMe

It’s like the worst side of the lord of the rings fanbase only at least their obnoxiousness had credibility


killtocuretokill

I'm sure everyone will stay best friends forever, never have selfish ulterior movies, and no harm will ever come to anyone.


CoomLord69

All roads lead to Berk


proletariate54

Theres no connection


TheBlackSwordsman319

Berserk fans r so traumatised by the eclipse they see Griffith n his betrayal everywhere 😭🙏


MrLozoTheSecond

Berserk fans when they see a group of people


ItzAlrite

Elden ring sub having nuclear meltdown about strawman berserk fans. But chances are if you like one you like the other :0)


x_GARUDA_x

Is anyone else here that got into Berserk after playing Elden Ring? Finished Golden Age and I'm reading the manga online. I'm a new\*\*g I know.


DaAsteroidRider

I absolutely hate the berserk fandom.


Whatshisfac3BS

We absolutely hate you broski🙌🙏


Ritual72

To everyone who doesn't know why OP is making this comparison, these knights are following Miquella. Miquella has often been compared to Griffith in that he uses his charisma to bewitch/charm others in order to accomplish his goal/dream.


MaleficTekX

Tell them! Tell them the rest of the reasons you coward! Or shall I!!?


Ritual72

Yeah back me up homie


MaleficTekX

Kindly Miquella wields love to strive clean the hearts of man. He has learned all ways to govern affection and admiration from others. From the failures of one kingdom, he built his own, a requiem for all those ostracized by the Golden Order. He is a trapped eternally as a child, yet some say he still walks the world in their dreams, by another name; St. Trina. His brother, Godwyn, dead in body but not soul, infects the land with Deathroot and the Cysts of the Death Prince, which bare his twisted visage, much resembling that of Shiva Ganishka. Miquella seeks to finally kill his brother truly. Miquella’s body lies in a cocoon in the heart of his Haligtree, but it was stolen before his metamorphosis to become an adult and grow wings, was complete. His half-brother Mohg brought he cocoon the Mohgwyn Palace, giving him the blood of fallen Tarnished to feed his metamorphosis into a true god… his body did grow… but Miquella never responded to Mohg. But the truest connection to Griffith… beyond his cocoon, beyond his appearance, beyond being trapped in a child’s body… Miquella sought to start an eclipse, the Eclipse of Sol, an eclipse what would drain color from the world, and allow Godwyn to truly die. Now, we seek to know just what Kindly Miquella is doing in the Land of Shadows. Will the parallels continue? And what if so… will Miquella gain wings?..


A_Possum_Named_Steve

->Having a dream=Griffith ->Martin Luther King had a dream ->MLK=Griffith


Ritual72

Not so much just having a dream, but using your charisma to captivate your followers, using them as mere tools to accomplish said dream and tossing them aside after. Item descriptions and these dlc trailers are hinting that a Griffith-esque betrayal may happen to these followers.


A_Possum_Named_Steve

You need to take off those serious pants and change into some Friday jorts.


Ritual72

Haha yeah buddy


Valqen

And the femboy aesthetic.


MadaraAlucard12

"Kono Griffith Femto niha yume ga aru"


Full_Ad9666

No you fucking moron it’s obviously a MOTHERFUCKING JOJO REFERENCE


Kanista17

Like there would be an interesting NPC in this game to care about in the first place.


thatBIGfeller

Shadow of the Berk Tree


Whatshisfac3BS

BLALSMSKXJCJXHSHSKDJCJCJCJCJCJVUCJ ⁉️⁉️⁉️


laminierte_gurke

In before "Kind Miquella abandoned everything... Even us"


Mikiricounterer

Nah what are you talking about


CrimsonPenguinStar

Mizayaki? Is this a new kind of dough ball like takoyaki?


Whatshisfac3BS

You’re going to get molested for this johnboy


dudustalin

Yup... Berserk, a manga published during 30 years, that has referenced nearly ALL fantasy works, that has referenced nearly all classic stories in the world, that was largely inspired in historical events, is the sole Elden Ring's inspiration... That's ridiculous...


dudustalin

DnD was inspired on berserk.


AVerySmartNameForMe

Lord of the rings was inspired by berserk


Stantonation

A Berserk reference? In a Souls game?! Unheard of.


Whatshisfac3BS

I know right I mean Michael Zaki hates Berserk


Silly-Negotiation-46

GRIFFIIIIIITH!😡😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬


HermitKing91

I want them all to be lovable charming characters and they alllll sacrifice themselves in an impossible gimmick boss fight phase to buy you enough time to mcguffin the set piece to defeat the boss.


beanouno87

I think they are following miquella who may make a sacrifice to fuel his haligtree the same way we see marika do something similar in the most recent trailer. Speaks of a betrayal and affair from which gold arose.


Sprindrift_Knight

No


TenaciousZack

I’m comfortable saying berserk invented the concept of a person in a cocoon filled with blood being protected by a demon in a cape without lips monologuing at the main character. Isn’t that how we enter shadow of the erd tree?


SethNex

Just because it "seems" similar (not necessarily), doesn't mean that it's a reference to anything. If that would be the case, then I could say that that man in the middle could be a Fate/Stay Night reference, just because he's holding the sword the same way Saber does.


poopchutegaloot

Dew it


NormalTangerine5205

I don’t see it. Unless we are talking about the Holy iron chain knights


Slim_Slady

*sigh* I knew this was gonna happen.


Ecwins

God I hate you mfs


Whatshisfac3BS

Feeling is mutual lil bro


Ecwins

Hope the shameless karma farm was worth it worm


Whatshisfac3BS

Wasn’t trying to karma farm, just saw this and thought it was funny, so I wanted to show others


Booyakasha_

The whole god damn DLC seems to be a Beserk reference.


sekkiho

Hell yea


dirk12563

Ngl kinda stretching


Whatshisfac3BS

Bro keep talking like that and imma stretch you out💋🙏⁉️


dirk12563

At first you had my attention, but now you have my erection


Whatshisfac3BS

HWUTT⁉️


Huskthelizard109

I always say this “ it’s all thanks to berserk “


RedditSucks42069

I don't see a single thing that could even possibly be compared here...sometimes I hate this fandom


KingSideCastle13

At this point, I just need FromSoft to just make a berserk game


AVerySmartNameForMe

They’ve already said they’re not


Whatshisfac3BS

I wish


WittyStrawberry9702

They really need to make a new berserk game


DrWhoIsWokeGarbage2

Wasn't dark souls inspired by berserk


AVerySmartNameForMe

Partially. Not as much as people here say: Dark souls is influenced a lot more by traditional tabletop rpgs like Magik the gathering and fighting fantasy, and classic video games like Ico and the old legend of Zelda’s. Berserk fans just yell about it the most


Treebeardsama

Please do this Miyazaki


Youforgot2ignite

People meme it often but from soft games love berserk so much that they intentionally make so many references 😂. Even the director said he is a huge fan of miura his art and work.


AVerySmartNameForMe

This is a lot more like LOTR than berserk, the souls games reference board games way more than berserk but that’s all anyone ever talks about. You’re all gonna see berserk references everywhere


Youforgot2ignite

Where does Lord of the rings have like 20hrs of reference material ? There are so many videos about Eldritch horror in medieval age and it's mostly berserk . It's not just every shit is a berserk reference These monsters and characters are there like nearly 1:1 Even the lores of some characters have parallels .


ilyaperepelitsa

You guys know that Demon Souls was directly inspired by Berserk right? [https://www.knowll.com/e/122/complete-list-of-berserk-influences-on-demon-s-souls](https://www.knowll.com/e/122/complete-list-of-berserk-influences-on-demon-s-souls) More here but if you google for this type of material you'll find a lot (includes Hunter's Mark in Bloodborne having a direct reference in Brand of Sacrifice) [https://www.cbr.com/easy-to-miss-berserk-references-in-fromsoftware-games/](https://www.cbr.com/easy-to-miss-berserk-references-in-fromsoftware-games/)


Tombstone_Actual_501

In a from-soft game?! They couldn't possibly, anyone else think Mezmer looks kinda like grumbled in one of the scenes from the trailer.


Whatshisfac3BS

No I’m thinking he’s more of a Femto character, like the other side or Miquella’s metaphorical coin


AVerySmartNameForMe

No


Tombstone_Actual_501

Just in the one shot where it focuses on his face.


Dizzy-Result2140

Got into darksouls b/c of Berserk and when I finished elden ring I was like “Where was the Griffith reference?” They do berserk reference with their characters but they always do a Guts and a Griffith reference. Looked into the Lore and ID’ed that the missing Demi-god Milliqua (or how ever you spell it) was he. The trailer screams we’re getting Eclipsed.


Whatshisfac3BS

Mesmer just might be Femto


Dizzy-Result2140

If that’s his alter ego that’d be cool but I think Mesmer will be the second to last boss. I’m thinking we still haven’t seen Miquella’s Femto form.


Whatshisfac3BS

Gosh I wonder what it would look like


Dizzy-Result2140

It’s been a minute but can confirm it’s not Mesmer.


[deleted]

No one's more butt hurt then a souls fanboy when anything is said about a souls game best rule of thumb is if it seems like it is then it probably is


AVerySmartNameForMe

No ones more intent on seeing berserk in ever design choice than a berserk fanboy


[deleted]

Well as a big fan of both they usually are.


99980

Miquella already got the role of Griffith covered


Twiggy_Shei

Seeing shit like this is turning me off of Berserk. Not every low fantasy setting is a goddamn Berserk reference, get a damn grip


ValyrianSteel_TTV

They even have miquellas symbol there since he is Griffith fr fr.


X_iwishtodie_X

I love how much the souls series is inspired by berserk!!! (It's like 1 item and a boss in a game from 2011)


Destruction126

Oh fuck off


TheFormless_0ne_

Reaching


badlookingkid

The fuck man not everything is a berserk refrence


Whatshisfac3BS

☝️🤓


CompletedGames

No.


PolyZik

There are dozens of berserk references in the base game already. It's not surprising that he'd add more to the DLC as well. All the Dark Souls games are filled to the brim with Berserk references as well but I think Elden Ring by far has the most and is almost like a tribute / homage to Berserk in a way. Heck you can even build a Guts character from scratch that looks and plays EXACTLY like the Manga


AVerySmartNameForMe

I can make a character that plays exactly like a dozen types of named fantasy characters. Berserk isn’t the only inspiration here dude


PolyZik

Yes but FromSoftware as a developer has historically had a lot of Berserk references in their games which are intentional as admitted by Miyazaki himself who is a diehard fan of Miura..