Who is the Skeleton King in Berserk?

It is said that Gaiseric – referred to as the "Skull King" due to the skull helmet he donned in battle – forced laborers gathered from throughout his empire to construct a large capital city, aptly named "Midland" as a "land in the middle of nations".
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Who is the skeleton guy in Berserk?

First appearance. The Skull Knight is an enigmatic figure and a self-proclaimed "foe of the inhumans", having waged war against demonkind for a millennium. Approximately 1000 years old, he has vast knowledge of events surrounding the world, as well as remarkable foresight regarding the flow of causality.
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Is the Skull Knight Guts?

Skull Knight's role in the story has been mostly as a parallel to Guts, with his relationship to the God Hand member Void mirroring that of Femto and Guts. For the Skull Knight, losing his kingdom and lover caused him to walk the dark path of revenge.
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Is the skeleton knight King Gaiseric?

Gaiseric wasn't the one who made the sacrifice. He was on the receiving end. He became the Skull Knight, and has been pursuing revenge against the God Hand ever since.
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Who is void and Skull Knight?

Both Void and Griffith are members of god-hand and were tortured before their transformation and Guts and Skull Knight have both wear/worn the Berserker armor. It is not unlikely that Skull Knight is seeking revenge of his own or has failed to take revenge and that is why he is aiding Guts to take his revenge.
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Who is King Gaiseric? ... Berserk Explained



Who is the strongest in Berserk?

The 14 Strongest Characters In Berserk
  1. 1 Idea of Evil. The Idea of Evil is the only entity in the Berserk universe that is above the God Hand.
  2. 2 Void. ...
  3. 3 Griffith/Femto. ...
  4. 4 Slan/Ubik/Conrad. ...
  5. 5 Skull Knight. ...
  6. 6 Ganishka. ...
  7. 7 ​​​​​Guts. ...
  8. 8 Grunbeld. ...
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Can Guts beat God hand?

Now to answer your question: Guts isn't doing much, no. His actions certainly haven't been a threat to the God Hand until now, and even less to the Idea of Evil.
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What is Griffiths power?

Telekinesis: Griffith is capable of manipulating matter. Right after his rebirth as Femto, he was able to crush a group of apostles into nothingness by just closing his hand, and when Guts tried to attack him after he and the rest of the God Hand were summoned by the Count, he sent Guts flying with just a glance.
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Is Griffith Evil Berserk?

Griffith, commander of the Hawks and a member of the God Hand, is the ultimate Lawful Evil character in Berserk.
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Does ZODD respect Guts?

For those who survive their encounters with him, and thus prove themselves worthy opponents, Zodd has nothing but respect. He holds anyone who can harm or even defend themselves against him in great esteem, such as Guts and the Skull Knight.
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Why is Griffith called Femto?

The reason why he's called by his God Hand name on this wiki instead of his human name is because Femto serves as Griffith's evilest self, being an identity that he chose to become, devoid of any humane respect for even the ones closest to him.
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Is Guts stronger than Zodd?

Guts is a heck of a lot "stronger" than he was before, just because of the new armor, but I don't think he'll ever be on par with Zodd. He's one of, if not the strongest of the living apostles.
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Who is Guts father?

Gambino (ガンビーノ, Ganbīno?) was Guts' adoptive father. He was the leader of a mercenary band, taught Guts how to fight with a sword, and gave Guts the scar he bears across his nose. In the manga, Guts received it during a practice fight, while in the anime, he cut Guts' nose on the night he attempted to kill him.
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Who is stronger Guts or Griffith?

Well Guts never surpassed Griffith in alot of great aspects before his leaving of the hawks. He was stronger than Griffith because while Griffith was off dreaming up battlefield schemes and political maneuvering Guts was the one carrying them out for him.
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Who was the first god hand?

Once the guest of honor and his sacrifices appear before them during the Eclipse, Slan is the first of the God Hand to materialize.
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Did Skull Knight sacrifice his wife?

Skull knight activated the behelit and it brought him to the god hands dimension and his sacrifice was the woman he held in his arms, it was the only way for him to reach the god hand and most importantly, void. Void to skull knight is what Griffith is to guts and that woman to skull knight is what casca is to guts.
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Who is the main villain of Berserk?

Griffith is the main antagonist of Berserk. He is the founder and leader of the mercenary army known as the Band of the Hawk. As a mercenary, Griffith fought in the Hundred Year War and restored peace to the wartorn Kingdom of Midland and was once a close friend and ally of Guts.
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What episode does Griffith betray Guts?

Episode 73 (Manga)
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Who tortured Griffith?

The Torturer is a major antagonist of the Berserk series. He was a short, deformed man with a hare-lip and a large bump on his forehead. He also worked for the King of Midland as he was ordered by him to torture Griffith after finding out the latter of sleeping with the former's daughter, princess Charlotte.
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Why did Griffith join the God Hand?

As they foretold, the God Hand formally meets with Griffith during his Eclipse, and more explicitly explain the reason for their audience with him: so that he may join their ranks as the fifth Guardian Angel of the God Hand, for the price of sacrificing the Band of the Falcon, as preordained by causality.
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Is Femto and Griffith the same?

Femto is a spiritual evolution of who Griffith was before the Eclipse. You could say that Griffith's astral form ascended and in doing so, it also transformed. But: The original “identity” of the spirit that ascended stayed the same.
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How was Griffith reborn?

One by one, the Band of the Hawk members were devoured, save for Guts, Casca and the timid Rickert, while Griffith was enveloped inside a transparent egg. He emerged reborn as Femto, a humanoid being with a black, falcon-like helmet and wing-like arms.
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Is Skull Knight an apostle?

Not an apostle. A being of heavenly spheres (a God Hand, namely) can be incarnated into flesh once every 1000 years.
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Does Berserk ever end?

Berserk, the legendary dark fantasy manga from the late Kentaro Miura, will finally come to an end for U.S. readers. Volume 41, the final installment Miura finished before his untimely passing last summer, is set for a November release date.
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How did Berserk end?

Readers get to see a glimpse of Guts and Casca finally carving out a new life for themselves, which is especially refreshing for long-time readers who witnessed firsthand the kind of trauma both characters endured. Casca is essentially reborn with her memory intact and Guts slowly drops his hate for Griffith.
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