half breeds

skeletonmf

Imprisoned for crimes too hideous to be named.
i'm not the biggest anime/manga fanboy, but i've notcied in such series like urotsukidoji, vampire hunter d, la blue girl and ever dragonball, that half breeds are usually much more effective warriors than humans and full demons themselves.

as for gatsu, as far as we know he's merely human. but there's a few things that make me wonder if he's a half-breed of some sort. no one knows who his father is, though they found him as in infant under his mother's corpse. humans and demons alike are shocked by his strength and his abillity not only to be able to lift the dragonslayer but to swing it so incredibly fast and accurately. and his abillity to withstand all that abuse and still be able to hold his own. not to mention sometimes when you get a close up of his teeth it almost looks like he has fangs of some sort. any thoughts?
 

skeletonmf

Imprisoned for crimes too hideous to be named.
hmm. i dont know about half-giant. he's a big guy, but i dont think he's supposed to be that big. pippin towers over him, but who knows. pippin may be a giant too. i was thinking a beast of sorts because of the fangs. kinda like amano jyaku from urotsukidoji.
 

Judo

Midlands finest
And it is still a comic book!

Hey, look at the Tapasa, they can smash an armor... their mother must have been raped by a huge Golem, right?
 

IgnusDei

mmh-hmm good.
and four times, too!

damn, that was one HORNY piece of rock! :D

anyhow, it's nice to explore the possibilities...sure, it's a comic, but let's not allow that to explain away EVERYTHING.
 

DarkBlademaster

Jesus cries when he looks at me.
Well half breeds are usually stronger because they are usually the Hero. Its the only fitting role for the main charecter of the story. He can't be full human, or else he would be lameass and any old human can do such cool stuff, and if he is full demon i guess he would be cool but he probably would be like any other old demon, scrap leftovers for the hero. Its like this thing "Strength of a demon but compassion of a human" kind of thing.
 
His parental backround will probably be a mystery through the whole story, but I do and always will assume he has some pretty good genetic patterns in his body to survive what he does even in a fiction comic. I don't believe anything about a half breed but that concept of his physical well being would have to be true.

I mean he is clearly known for his will power in the series to survive what he has up until now but that doesn't change needing to have a far above average natural strength and ability to survive what he has and continue to in the future.
 

IgnusDei

mmh-hmm good.
hm, speaking of tolkien, you think miura decided to add subspecies of Men in the Berserk Universe...and not be obvious about it?
 
Dwarfes made the Berserker armor so I suppose there were Dwarfes around sometime, they still might be around somewhere like the Elfs. An Grundbel is a Giant, if he and his men are an own type of subrace....I don't know, maybe, I have no time to think about this 'cause I'm at school right now. :-\
 
akikaze said:
An Grundbel is a Giant, if he and his men are an own type of subrace....I don't know, maybe
Grunbeld is an apostle. If you look at most of the apostles we have seen, even in their "human" forms they don't look that human!? So I think before joining the Dark Side, we can't know whether he was that tall or not?! That's why I don't think he is a Giant or something from another species than the average human in BERSERK. :-\
And Guts is a normal human, too. He is just used to fight since he is a child, that's the only thing he's been doing and training for, that's why he is so strong.

IgnusDei said:
damn, that was one HORNY piece of rock! :D
And by the way, a Golem is supposed to be made of clay.
 
asmer said:
And by the way, a Golem is supposed to be made of clay.

Is it? i cant see any dick in the golems created by Flora


skeletonmf said:
i was thinking a beast of sorts because of the fangs.

The fangs i speculate is due to the hatred and anger in him which eventually lead to the evolvement of the Beast...



True enough, nobody know who is the hell is his father, but then Muira say he is staying human... From this statement i can derive he is once human, whether we can consider him as one now is up to u ppl to debate



And yes! It would be interesting if his father is an apostle or even Zodd himself :D
 

skeletonmf

Imprisoned for crimes too hideous to be named.
asmer said:
Grunbeld is an apostle. If you look at most of the apostles we have seen, even in their "human" forms they don't look that human!? So I think before joining the Dark Side, we can't know whether he was that tall or not?! That's why I don't think he is a Giant or something from another species than the average human in BERSERK.

i'm glad you brought that up. remember when wyald, who was a filthy rapist/mysoginist, was killed and he changed back to his human form? he looked like a pathetic old man. he probably wasnt very slick with the ladies and didnt have enough power to be able to force himself on them. perhaps grunbeld was extremely small and was ashamed of it before he became an apostle. anyhoo, grunbeld is definetly not a giant because of his racial backround, and we havent seen any humaniod giants yet, so i kinda doubt they even exsist in the world of berserk. at least not anymore.
 
SMITH said:
The troop lead by him are all Giants...
Yeah, but we also can assume that they are not exactly humans anymore. In fact they are apostles if I'm not wrong...
And imho, skeletonmf was talking about Giants as another species, different from the Human one... But maybe you are saying that they were Giants before becoming apostles, that's possible... If you say so...


SMITH said:
And by the way, a Golem is supposed to be made of clay.
Is it? i cant see any dick in the golems created by Flora
What?!?
Before looking for dicks on Flora's Golems, you'd better look for the word "clay" on a dictionnary. Or maybe for the word "dick", I don't know...
 
asmer said:
Yeah, but we also can assume that they are not exactly humans anymore. In fact they are apostles if I'm not wrong...
And imho, skeletonmf was talking about Giants as another species, different from the Human one... But maybe you are saying that they were Giants before becoming apostles, that's possible...
That's what I meant, on his first appearance, when Mule (I think it was him, but that doesn't matter anyway...) saw him, he recognized him as Grunbeld...here's the passage, it's in volume 23:

"I know Grunbeld!
He's the giant that protected a small country to the North from invasion by the armies of Great Chuda for ten years with only three thousand men. Like all people from the north, he has bright red hair, and between that and the way he mows down enemies they called him the "Fire Dragon."
But I'm sure I heard news of his death in battle..."

This is an excerpt from eirais Translation, which can be found on usenet...I'll remove it immediately if he want's me to.

I don't think that Mule is referring to 'real' giants there (The German translation say's "Hühne(nhaft)" which doesn't mean 'real' giants, it's referring to very tall/strong men), but on that panel there you see Grunbeld and to his feet dead enemies, in comparance with even his legs, they're tiny, so he already was pretty huge when he was a human. But if all those "people from the north" are that big, can you say that they are a human subrace already?
 
akikaze said:
I don't think that Mule is referring to 'real' giants there (The German translation say's "Hühne(nhaft)" which doesn't mean 'real' giants, it's referring to very tall/strong men), but on that panel there you see Grunbeld and to his feet dead enemies, in comparance with even his legs, they're tiny, so he already was pretty huge when he was a human. But if all those "people from the north" are that big, can you say that they are a human subrace already?

Yes, me too, I think he may have been very tall, even as a Human, but not a "Giant".
I mean, for example, people from Holland are said to be taller than people from Portugal, but I guess they both are humans, they don't belong to two different subraces!? Pippin, too, was pretty tall, but I never saw him as a person from another species as Guts, Griffith, or Casca. :-\
 
asmer said:
Yeah, but we also can assume that they are not Before looking for dicks on Flora's Golems, you'd better look for the word "clay" on a dictionnary. Or maybe for the word "dick", I don't know...

Wasnt Flora ones clay golem? ::)
 

skeletonmf

Imprisoned for crimes too hideous to be named.
i still think gatsu is a beast of sorts. his inner demon is a beast.makes a little more sense than a giant though. he really isnt that big.
 

IgnusDei

mmh-hmm good.
asmer said:
I mean, for example, people from Holland are said to be taller than people from Portugal, but I guess they both are humans, they don't belong to two different subraces!?

I mean FANTASY subraces, not real life nationalities. like Numenoreans, High Men, the Commom Man, Elves, wood elves, or dark elves What's supposed to set each of them apart are some rather uncommon and CONSIDERABLE differences in their traits. Traits such as long life, great natural strength or high magical affinity.
 

Aconyro

REVENGE!
Wow. All of this from his physical ability and his fangs. Well, there are humans with real natural fangs, it's rare but it happens like humans with tails (stubs). As for his physical prowess, wasn't he trained well and early, hasn't he gathered lots of experience, and he does have business to take care does he not?

Anyway it's more interesting with him being human and still taking on the odds he's against. Now if he was to fight some half-breeds that would be something else. Maybe some half-dwarves or half-apostles (if such a thing were possible).
 
IgnusDei said:
What's supposed to set each of them apart are some rather uncommon and CONSIDERABLE differences in their traits. Traits such as long life, great natural strength or high magical affinity.
Yeah, all such things we haven't seen clearly said in more than 27 Volumes, so why would we assume that there are different fantasy-style human subraces in the BERSERK universe?! There are humans, who become apostles, and then their physical traits are changed to give them "long life, great natural strength or high magical affinity", but as humans, I think they were all the same as any human. :-\
And that the only differences between the different human groups in BERSERK are the same as in real life: some (in the North) are taller, some have darker skins,...

SMITH said:
There had been half crocodile and elephant
I'm not a specialist in magic, but for what I understood, it was full-time crocodiles and elephants. They were turned to Familiars by a wizard (Who might he be? :-\), but they were still crocodiles and elephants, acting like soldiers.
 
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